Legends of Avantris - Icebound | Ep. 27 | Rule of Might

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

In the frozen city of Argentholme, our heroes engage in a deadly contest for power and recognition. Should they survive, they'll prove themselves to the Princess of Wrath and forge their own position amongst the brutal tribes of Drakkar.   Gain access to an exclusive campaign, Shroud Over Saltmarsh, over on Patreon: https://legendsofavantris.com/patreon The Crooked Moon, a folk horror supplement for 5e, is available for preorder! Get the Crooked Moon at: https://thecrookedmoon.com/ Watch more D&D adventures in the world of Avantris live on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/legendsofavantris Check out our merch store: https://shop.legendsofavantris.com  Join our community on Discord: https://legendsofavantris.com/discord Watch our many campaigns on YouTube: https://legendsofavantris.com/youtube  All other links: https://linktr.ee/legendsofavantris   Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/9kcyQbLcNUg?si=DfxTWtAl3adj9tVJ

Welcome to Legends of Aventress. I'm Queenie, Miss March if you're nasty, and you're listening to Icebound. Here's what happened last time. Is anybody dead? Sound off. Tech alive. You're in Arjun home. What has happened? What has happened to my beautiful tavern? We made a minor miscalculation. What do you bring a ogre here for? Strange creatures you have in your company. I understand why you did not bring them to. the giant step, but when you get back to the Legion, you'll find me at the Grub Shack. You look down the street and but following the voices out in this direction, you can see this gliding, massive dragon seemingly towards the gate that you crashed through. Towards the gate that we crashed through? Yes.

Oh, wow, that's like that. No, no, I haven't seen anyone that matches those descriptions. And they had an ogre with them, you say? I am afraid I can't be of any help. We can't, there's nothing we can do to repay you. You've helped us out and, and... He offered to watch TACC. TAC will be safe.

I'm gonna pay him back anyway. Gotta make up for all the awful things we said and all the stuff he did for us. I don't know how we're gonna get all the way over to... He called it the accursed glade. Alright, it looks like we're doing this. Open all of the pens. Okay. All right, my friends.

My crew, O'SRividers of Ogerton, all you have to do is claim the freedom yourselves. We go from town, from city, we leave? You do not belong in these pens. We are going to fight for Oger Man and the Land. We demand a parlay with the Princess of Wrath. They are not part of your tribe. We are the tribe of Ogerton, and we demand equal place in this horse. in this horde of wrath that she says called forth here.

She transforms just 30 feet above the ground into a humanoid creature. And you see her cold, pale blue eyes look upon you. A cold, pale blue lips, her beautiful features as she turns and takes you in. In the heart of night where the boundary between second and third day of the third month blurs, your path leads you to the giant step,

territory claimed by the formidable Stormfist Legion, a tribe of Goliath's whose fealty lies with the indomitable Princess of Wrath. This district, once the proud domain of Silver Dragon War, now bears the weight of its new masters. Elegant and artful architecture has been reinforced with stone and metal supplanted by fortifications and utility. Streets have been widened and straightened, towering walls of rough-hewn stone

and circle watchtowers and feasting halls and well-worn training grounds. The air carries the cold, clean scent of the winds of Dracar and the warm, earthy tones of hearth and forge. In this bastion, you find yourselves driven to reclaim the freedom of the old, Oghurs you've come to call allies. United and purpose, you stand ready to fight with those you seek to liberate.

Yet, before threats could turn to the clash of metal and magic, the chief Goliath's urgent call of his warning horn pierced the knight announcing your presence to the city of Argentholm and to its ruler. From the zenith of her keep, the silhouette of the princess of wrath cleaved through the night sky. In her descent, the world seems to hold its breath. The temperature plummeting in reverence, or perhaps fear of her presence. With a primal grace that belies her monstrous form, she lands.

Between you and the Goliath Legion, transformed in a cascade of shimmering ice and assuming her human guise. A vision of dread, beauty, and cold majesty. The princess of wrath stands before you. now. Moonlight and torchlight illuminate her tall and commanding stature. The fabric of her gown, a garment seemingly intended only for the privacy of a royal chamber, clings to her like a second skin. Even in the haste of her awakening, the Princess of Wrath exudes primal magnetism. Her skin nearly glows like freshly fallen snow. Her piercing blue eyes gleam with power. Her form a teasing

a hint at the strength and force that thrums beneath. In this moment, the Princess of Wrath is the embodiment of pursuits that haunt the dreams of warriors and poets alike. Immediately upon her arrival the entirety of the Goliaths facing you drop to one knee and near unison. The percussive sound of their movement expands outward like a shockwave. Even a good number of the ogres beside and behind you submit and fall. Their freedom hangs in the balance, but in this moment, so may your very lives.

What happens next is up to you. What are you all doing? I believe, just so we can maintain game state, that Grimnear was kind of like the, the big fucker in charge of our little band. Yes. Yeah. Okay. But she just, she hasn't even turned yet, right?

So, like, is... Is she a statement? In there, like, she lands, she turns, she looks you over, and then she returns her gaze to the kneeling Goliath, who have all lowered their head and reverence for but a moment. But when she turns and looks at you, that is the moment that I'm asking. Do you bow? Do you do anything? I do, I literally, I will not speak initially. I will not initiate any kind of words to her. I will stand there and with my grim determination. nation, and looker in the eyes. And I'm sitting right next to him with my anger held. I'm not me like.

Standing next to your ear. Exactly right. You hear the voice of, and remind me, Grimnir is the name that you understand to be the chief? Because I have two names. No, that's your name. Oh, thank you. Thunderfist form. That's my Goliath.

Stornfis. I believe that Ty Shen and I had been up in the upper level of this, this like, pen slash thing. You're still on the second floor looking down. We're at the window. Okay. So I wanted to just, we're still there then. Cool? Yep.

Yeah, all right. Where's Queen? I think I was standing next to you in Barnabas. That's what I remember as well. You hear the princess of wrath speak down to the chief. You may rise. Korovac and he stands immediately and you see the others start to begin to ascend in this moment what seems to be the trouble she asks and Korovak these these intruders they

attempted to to steal the ogres look look at what they are doing to our people and she turns I believe I know these people I recognize them from before winter. Yes, Great Dragon, we have met before. You look different. It has been some time. You sentenced

our captain to death. For you saw as clearly as I did that he would not survive the land. That's right. I remember very clearly. You were the ones trapped in the ice. at the southern peak of the Witherlands.

Yes, we are. And now we hope to parlay with you. We have a common enemy, and I believe we have a shared goal. Where are your companions? There were five I left there on the ice. They are still present. And she looks up and, are you attempting to?

endeavoring to hide in this moment I see her because I probably we probably can't overdo the conversation I'm not seeing her like look up to where we are I would know I would immediately like duck down below my hat would still be sticking up above like the little point I would immediately try to like get away from her gaze but my hat would be sticking above up yeah you might see way I have a like stream drags me down get down princess this is absurd they have attempted to to loot. They've intransrated our district.

They are trying to break free the ogres. They are dangerous thieves. There is no thieving going on here. You cannot lay claim of ownership to the ogres of Ogerton. That is why we wish to parlay with you, Princess of Wrath. You deemed us worthy to live on the ice. all those months ago, and we have traveled across this harsh and desolate land. And we claim our own tribe to stand in this great horde you have assembled,

not to be chatteled to the Stormfish Legion. You petition to become a tribe here. Aye, we do. They are not meant to be vassals to Golias. Or anyone. These are no vassals. Have you been treating them as such? No.

No, we feed them. We give them shelter. We train them in the art of war. They are part of the tribe. When we found them, they were abandoned in a land, a destroyed city. Not hospitable, not ready for life. They were kept in this building. This is no more.

than a bar. You're treating these ogres like livestock. I'll say that to the Goliath. Corvac looks taken aback but determined and grim. He stares at you with his one good eye, and he spits on the ground. These were the best accommodations we can make for such short notice.

This number of ogres we would have bid them homes. Her royal highness, queen of wrath, may I speak? and I'll bow my head to her. Queenie, is it not? It is. It's nice to see you again. The same grace that you gave us when you saw us wandering in Dracar and found us to be capable of taking care of ourselves in this land,

would you do the same to these ogres? If they do not want to live here, if they want to venture out in Dracar on their own and they believe themselves capable of finding their own home and their own lands, would you offer them that same kindness that you offered us? I do agree with Barnabos here. What they have been provided is not a true life.

They are subject to these people, and they are not being treated fairly. You may have found them, but I believe that you should offer them the right to choose and let the land decide. I cannot offer them this choice. And Things are different now.

I cannot offer you this same choice. There is an enemy coming, a war. They would be in danger. Anywhere here, but our home, you understand. Yes, I do the same way we were in danger the moment that we step foot on this land. Dracar is dangerous. Whether there's a war coming or not, this land is not forgiven.

We need everyone to weather the coming storm. But the best fighters are the ones that come willingly, yes? I'm glad I threw down the gauntlet and challenged you to survive. You have demonstrated great strength in lasting this time. That is true, and we are all incredibly strength.

We're all incredibly powerful. And if you force us to stay here, I'm sure we will fight. but we will not fight our hardest. And those warriors that Dracar carved will not be the best warriors they could be. But if we are given the choice to fight alongside you, someone we choose to respect, then the warriors that Dracar has forged

will be the most fierce warriors you've ever seen. That is a choice you do have. She takes a moment to think about it and consider. Tell me, where have you been these past few months? I don't know. I'm a simple farm girl from Yona, but all over the lands. It seems that you've been quite busy. In just the past day, stall is destroyed.

A market interrupted? Oh yeah. Was this not you? I'm gonna lean to Tyshan, and I'm gonna be like, Hey, can you hear anything to say? I'm not getting any of this. Should we open the window? I don't know.

The way she looked at us, I don't want to draw her eye or... Well, maybe there's something we can do. She hasn't attacked yet. It's possible she's their reasoning with her. What do you think? I think we open the window. If anything, if something turns, we have to be ready to help. Shrack!

Broken! We're just like... Oh! The shattering of glass breaks the tension. Come down from up there. And you hear the princess, uh... the princess shout out. Okay, all right.

Do what she says. We scramble out, but I stopped shy of standing behind you or near Barnabas. You have heard our offer. The five of us and the ogres of Ogerton and the humans, all of the survivors from that ruin city, are all one you know you tribe that wish to stand at your side against the coming threat. Let us do it on our own terms. Let us do it as free men and women.

You may do it as a tribe here. I will consider this petition seriously, but I am not going to entertain the possibility of freedom. You swear fealty to me. Being your subjects is not part of our pilgrimage. We have the same goal, but we can achieve this goal. By being allies, not subjects. You have the artifact that we have been quested to obtain.

I can pledge. can pledge to you if you give us the artifact that your kingdom could not be destroyed by the threat from beyond and that your kingdom may grow and remain for if you do not your kingdom will meet the same fate as every other kingdom in the world destruction let them come they cannot take the artifact from me nor that is mine I took it and I'm glad I have it you would forsake everything you've built your arrogance will lead to your doom I have seen it in the ruins you think throwing a few bones around just tells you what

it's going to happen. I rule this land. I rule these people. Tens of thousands of lives are under my guardianship, under my wing. I am not going to go down. I will fight. I will survive. Now, if you wish to stay here with me and become my loyal subjects, then I will consider a path forward for you and these ogres you care so deeply about. But the hexature armament is off the table. That is solely mine. I am actually what I will say, a look at her. And how do we play in your plan if we were to join you? If a war comes, then fight by my side. I have already defeated one. I'm confident that we would be able to handle together any threat.

After all, you're so strong, aren't we? Yes. This is why we have been set on this quest. This is why fate has led our paths to where we stand right now. We are strong. If you continue your path, do you really believe all you need is what you have accomplished thus far? The kingdoms you have mastered here and the artifact? I don't feel very much like being interrogated in my own home.

But I will entertain your question. Yes. Yes. And I have so much more that I can do. So be it. We will have to construct a pyre. Arrangements are to be made, an initiation ceremony to welcome you. However, I cannot just take the ogres back.

No. What I did when we found them and the kindness of Korabak, that would be a cruel for me to renege on my initial command. You've been missing for months. Perhaps if you deal in terms of strength, do you not? Why don't we challenge the Stormfist Legion to them? Yes. Yes.

A fight. A fight. What? Aye. Corvac. Perhaps save all these lives. You invoke a ancient ritual here

as though you were a true Dacharian. I am no true Dacharian. I am happy to fight. That much is clear. I'm happy to kill if it means that all of the poor souls

that barely survived the doom that came to you. to Ogerton. Do not live like cattle in a barn. Why wait? We're right here, aren't we? And if we win, what does that mean for the ogres? They will remain with the Stormfist Legion. And I will deny your petition to become a tribe. You'll have to leave. Or perhaps you can find some other banner. So if we win, we don't save the Okers is what you're saying. Oh no, if you win, you win the guardianship of the ogers. And the humans. No, no, they're under my wing. We'll start right here and right now.

Oh, you've got to be kidding me. For the survivors of Ogerton. Bonobus, you lost your damn mind. So eager. We will challenge you in the pit. And he points to the massive domed building that is at the center of the giant step. Pit? What do you mean, Pit? You have a pit? This is gonna get out of hand. You wanna stop this. What will we be granted if we are to lead the ogres as a newly formed Legion?

You will be granted a name, a banner. You will be granted my protection. We will find you home here in Argent Home. and we will prepare together. I have one additional request. There's a human. She goes by the name Daisy. We would like her.

Not all of them, but just her. If she is here, that is. If she is under your protection, if she was found with the rest. And regardless, even if she wasn't, if she is anywhere in her car, we would like for her to be held protected under our banner. She is one of us.

I do not believe this human is with the others in my keep. But I can tell the ivory clutch to look out for them. What should they look for? And I'll describe Daisy in the best detail that I possibly can. The bow that I made for her that I strung for her that's on her back. The last clothes that she was wearing. scar on her throat. Where is the ivory clutch?

Busy. Thank you, Corvac. Yes. It would be a pleasure to bring more of her kind under my wing. She was last seen headed south from Overton.

And you accept the possibility that months have passed? She may If she is like the others, have perished in the ice. Yes, we do. Dracar is a dangerous place, is it not? We do. We do.

But she is spunky. She is strong. She is much more like us than even she realizes. We can do it. I believe she can too. And I just want your confirmation that should we survive this, she is included in that deal. She would be part of, she would be beneath our banner with your protection.

Who will be your protection? champion. All you single combat? Yes. Yes. Who is your champion? Carnivac, the Unbroken! I volunteer to kill this guy.

Oh, my money is unpart of us. You're making a big mistake, buddy. This is going to be good. Don't stop this. Don't stop this at all. All right? Let this ride. Yornear, do you think you could take him? I believe I could end this man's life, yes.

Princess, what is the nature of this ancient rite? This is a combat arena, and within we settle many debates. Nature of the ritual is, as Barnabos said, a single combat, unarmed to the death. No magic. Only strength. Barnabos, do you think you could take you? I think I can take this. I think all of us could take.

take this guy look at him. He's a kind of coward that keeps people in Barnes. I think even Scrim could take him. You're crazy. The guy's four times my height. And probably weighs like ten times when I weigh. You won't have to, Mr. Stabascotch. Now who's the one with hubris?

I'm confident. Well, hubris is not something Barnabos has ever left. But before we do this, I asked you a question and you still have not confirmed. Before we agree to anything, I want the terms to be clear that we know exactly what we get if we win this, when we win this, because I'm sure that Barnabos will be the victor. Your own house, a banner, land, the ogre people, under your guardianship with you, and this one soul, Daisy. Make a persuasion check.

Is it before I roll that I have to twist? Or is it after I roll? Before. I'm going to do three twists. Just, well, I mean, what is my persuasion? Probably. My persuasion is only plus two. Yeah, so now it's plus five.

That's a plus five. Three twists. You heard of your... Right, three twists are good, right? That's great. I think that's totally fair. It's not. It's okay.

Eleven. That's okay. The humans are very special. to me. I can grant you these other things, but this Daisy belongs with her people, and she belongs with me. Well, she's a crafty young lady, son, and you'll never find her. So, sorry about that. Perhaps she'll turn up. We are under no, um, we're under no responsibility to swear ourselves to you, correct? Oh, yes, to earn any of this, you must earn the right to the ogres by defeating Korovak. And you must swear fealty to me.

Anything less, and we would have a different conversation, I think. Can we have a conversation in the barn, and then we'll let you know how we'd like to proceed? Please, I'm not cold. I'll wait here. I wouldn't think so. May we? before we make decisions about our lives. Oh, none.

Yeah, turn into the barn. Go back to the barn, I'm freezing my ass off. I'll keep an eye on Corvac, is that his name? He keeps his eye on you. We must accept the steal. You make your way back inside of the barn and you reach a point where you feel you can whisper without earshot. The five of you sort of have to pass through the ogres as you transition.

as you transition. And those of you look behind, either at Korovac, who is clearly enraged by this turn of events, not just in the infiltration that you managed to pull off, but in the possibility of his authority being challenged. And you watch as the Princess of Wrath turns are back to you and begins to address him and a few others, clearly very high up within the Legion.

The five of you find yourselves on the other side. The ogre's looking down dumbly at you, sort of looking around. They stand there until you see Mannyus also walk up. Mani. What do? You know, it's right. We got to do this. I was just really hoping Daisy was here. She's not foolish enough to get caught by these people?

She was surviving on the ice even when she met us. She could live on the line for years. But that doesn't mean that one of the people in her, I want to say, um, ploy will not find her or spot her. She has people in the air on the ground. Someone eventually will find Daisy and she will not be protected by us. Wow. And now I fear that she knows Daisy's important to us, at least to me, and she could be used as a weapon. A bargaining tool.

If that happens, we'll kill her. Daisy? No, the princess. You're a little reckless. I am not ready. If all we have to do is kneel to this. But what does it mean when we kneel? I do not want to give up my freedom.

Oh, you know, and she said that if we lose, we leave. So if it's certain death that we wander away and die in the wilderness. We will not die in the wilderness. But if we are just so... If we see, you do realize that if you lose, you're not losing. I'm fine with that. You're not gonna fucking lose. Come on. I'm not going to lose. I'm going to win. I'm going to see the light leave this Corvac's eyes. I've been in dozens of pit fights. That's not the most important thing right now, Barnabose,

whether you're gonna win or not. The most important thing is that we are offering to this, to this dragon that she can call on us and we will do her bidden. That freedom that you fight for, we are offering to give it up. I think that if we say that as we are able to leave if we want, I'm happy to kneel. I'm happy to follow their rituals as long as I have the choice to leave. And so do all the overs and so do the rest of us. That's what you think you have the choice.

We will clarify. You can clarify all you want, but we're making it. an agreement here and I know maybe I'm the only one who've had experience with the Faye. But the moment you make a deal like this, you risk a lot. You may think we have choices going forward, but the moment we kneel, we might lose many of the choices we hold so dear to us. We set out to heal the scars that are on this left, to bring your car back from the brink. to turn away from your news vision. We can't do that if we're puppets of the queen.

We can't do that on our own either. I'm willing to miss it. I know. I don't know what we do, but I don't think we should be so quick to kneel before her and swear ourselves to her. When I was granted visions on the new year, the triad presented me. me three paths that we could accomplish our goal. Three options. One was to fight her and kill her.

The other was to sneak and take, but the third was two. ... ally. I have no issue allying with her. But we are not becoming allies. We are becoming her slaves. That was no not in your vision. We will have land, power, and control. We will have the ogres, and I have not wanted to upset you, but it is very unlikely that Daisy still lives. I'm not stupid.

I know how difficult this land is. She should not factor into this decision. There is nothing for them to find. I think she should the same way. If Scrim were out there in the middle of nowhere and I was certain that he had met his doom for there is no way Scrim could survive alone anywhere, let alone Dracar. I would still factor him into my decision. And Daisy's alive.

Let's be real. Come on. I warned her that if she came with us, it would likely mean her doom. Aye. It was the fate. Our own fates, our own paths, to prove to car that whisked us away from her,

leaving her alone, and while she is skilled, winter has come. I believe, born on the boats should take this fight. I believe we should take the land and take the the titles and take the colors, take the banners, whatever it is. Take the ogres under our wing, just like the humans are under hers. And then I will consult the ruins. And the triad will show us the way.

And I, I know I will win. I know I must fight this. My lover is here. She is with us. So far from the sea. I believe in you. I have faith that Bonobos is going to win. And I'm a part of this deal because my soul has already claimed to horrific damnation for all of eternity.

So let's one more deal. Throw it on the pile. I'm in. I believe in you too, Barnabos. I think we do it. I believe Boron the Boas may win. His faith will decide. But if you lose, I will make sure that I... guide the rest of us

onward. Man, it's a shame that I can't save this gold anywhere. If I could bet on this all of it, all the house, right on Bonobos. You're going to win, buddy. You're going to rip this guy's arm right up. Beat him with it. Beat him with his own arm. Come on. It'd be awesome. Give him a show. I will.

It's not going to be pretty. I haven't been in a pit fight in a while. I may be an old man, but I feel I feel her with us. Queenie. Yornear. If you care for Daisy, if she still lives,

taking this deal and born the boast winning, is the best chance that Daisy has to live. No. Our fate, no. I don't agree with that. I think it's the best way for you to justify this choice today. This is the easy choice, let's be honest. We give up our independence.

We give up the only thing that we've had since stepping into icebound, stepping into Dracar since being icebound. And that is our ability to choose for ourselves no matter what this awful place throws at us. We give that up today. And that's easy because we will have land, which I don't care for. I have land back home. home. We'll have the ogres and that's great. But when she calls upon them to die for her war, we lose them anyway. When she calls upon us to fight and do her bidding, we must do it. So what are we

really fighting for? That's my fear. But... Ms. March, you know that I care for freedom above all else. I think you are deep in your blood, lust right now and your sights are set on destroying that man out there. I think this situation is perilous and I think a decision has to be made and I think that it does not matter in this moment what I think. What else would you have us do, Queen? Secundus is on his way. He's simply dazed behind us. We have no idea where Daisy is. Maybe I'm a fool. And the Princess of Wrath stands right outside this door. Yes, and maybe I'm a fool. But I say we challenge the Princess Array. To single combat? No. Her against us, she knows she's a dragon. She knows that her against one of us

would be idiocy. But do I think that all of us together could take her? Yeah, I do. And if I'm going to die for this place, I'm going to die in a blaze of glory, not as a puppet or a minion of that woman out there. But if this is the choice that you've chosen, if you would rather fight that ogre, get some land and bide your time and wait to see what happens, then by all means, I love y'all. And it's a vote. I say, we do what you would like to and I'll support you. I'll even make you a little sign, Barnabose, it says, go, go, Barnabose, go. It is not a vote. I am on this pilgrimage Because I was set on this quest by Mahmood and the Triad. However, this, we all must make our own decision.

We are as one for now. But if you believe that you would like to leave, perhaps there is a way we can negotiate for this. However, I do not believe that fighting her as we are... Oh, I don't mean today. Then win. We could negotiate it. But regardless, as I said, if this is your choice, I have agreed to go along with you,

even if it is not what my choice would be. You will not convince me, however, that it is the right choice. I do not tend to convince anyone of any one. of anything. All I do is see what is. I will accept the combat

for the group unless anyone has anything else to say. I thought Barnabose was going to be our champion. I will accept it with Barnabose as our champion, yes. I mean, I think in the short term we watch Barnabas rip this guy a new one. You know, we buy ourselves some time.

Nothing is saying that we can't fight her or steal this thing at a later date, it gets us closer, all right? And it buys us time. Well, we can swear filthy all we want. What does that mean? It's words. Right? When Barnabos wins, it allows us to move freely around here. That's right.

And if we decide differently, should we fight her? Should the wins change and we want something else? We can do that if that ends up being the truth. But now, this feels like the path to... path to all else. But if we choose to swear our fealty, then we're swearing our fealty. We can't fight her. For she is our leader. We have agreed. And this queen of rat is a beast of nature, a beast of the land. Yet she wants to play queen and ye she wants to hold court. This is against her nature. And it is this playing politics

that will lead to her doom. I can see it. She might not be the first queen, princess, or ruler otherwise to get a knife from the back. My goal is to survive. I was set on this quest because if I fail, great doom will come to Mahmuth for more. And so, I will do what it takes to continue. Shall we continue? I will turn silently and I will walk back out. As you turn, Manny looks down. Manny confused, no fight. There will be a fight, man, Manny.

I will be a champion for all the survivors of Ogerton. We'll get you out of this barn. We accept the terms you have set forth. have set forth, and Barnabos will be our champion in the sacred combat. I so hope that you would. Follow me, and we'll make our way into the arena. She turns and runs her hair, hands through her hair, and you can see now that flying above her are very, very small shapes. They are starting to start to start. around the top of the hippodrome.

And it takes you a moment to realize that these look like, from a very far distance, cobalts. None of the cobalts that you've ever experienced so far on your car are winged. But these happen to be. And as you cross through the entrance, this threshold, you pass underneath the massive gates of the space. You can see that ogres and Goliathes

and Goliath alike are also pouring in through one side or the other, but following you, the princess seems to be leading you directly into the arena. As you cross through the threshold, you can see these massive tiers built out of timber and metal and stone. You can look down, and this is a huge, open, airy space. The diameter of of this arena must be 200, maybe 300 feet. And the walls are perhaps 40 or 50 feet tall to breach the sort of sandy pity ground. This is not an open air arena either.

You note that the entire dome seems to make a ceiling, seemingly to protect from the harsh winters of Rekar, keeping this space available for combat all times of year. And you continue to walk through. and down into the space passing these enormous braziers, which, no, no, I always fucking psyched myself. I psyched myself out. I say, yep, yep, these enormous braziers, yep.

Big fan. Right, both hands, you gotta learn how to do the, anyways. How many hooks? You, braziers? Braziers. Braziers. Braisiers.

Brazier. Like Azure? Yeah. Apparently I can't make this sound. Brazier? Brazier. Brazier. Brazier.

Like Frazier Crane. Brazier. Brazier Crane. Brazier. Brazier. I did that just for you. We're good. I was actually.

This is the Fiddlestra. Oh, my. And you can see Goliaths have poured in. There are huge sected, sectioned off spaces within the tiered seating, within this massive Colosseum or Hippodrome or arena that you walk into, and not all of the sections are being filled. It's the middle of the night. Only a contingent of Goliath seemed to be filling one side, but you do not expect more

of an audience other than them and the few hundred ogres that you had found in the the farm woken up, ready for battle, and are now following to see just where this next part of our story takes us. The other feature that I'll describe in the arena that's meaningfully important is the sides of these walls. As you look down into the space, you can see that jagged metal spikes push out from the side, but they are huge. These look like stalactites, but you imagine that each one is like an arm sticking out maybe 8, 10, 12 feet long before tapering off to a deadly sharp point. The princess leads you to this spot and turns. I'll be watching from my viewing box here. This podcast is brought to you by our Patreon.

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And don't forget to snag all the extra goodies like dice, miniatures, plushies, a tarot deck, and more. Thank you. You're standing in a hippodrome that war, that dwarfs the one that you fought in in Ogerton. This is city scaled and it clearly can handle thousands of participants, viewers, and has an arena sized to match. The stands, the actual tiers of seating,

are slowly being filled by lookers on. People who have awoken, perhaps initially, because they were told that there was going to be a fight. But now that is both true, and the context has changed very much. A death match, a single combat between a champion of strangers from outside of Dracar, outside of the city of Argentholm, and Corvac, the Unbroken, the chief of the Stormfist Legion. The Princess of Wrath turns indicating,

where she will be watching from a box about halfway up, the various tierage you can see is sort of round ledge, for lack of a better term, almost like a private viewing box that you would see at the Super Bowl, right? And the, she turns to you, anything else before I enjoy the entertainment. Is there anything left to see? She walks up and she puts a hand on the side of your face and you feel this

sudden drop of temperature get pulled away from your skin. You are used to cold temperatures and this is somehow more frigid than plunging your hand into ice, somehow more frigid than picking up said ice and pushing it against your face. You worry almost for a moment that the stinging, burning sensation of hypothermia will immediately kick in before she removes her hand and says, I suppose not. Good luck. I hope that you'll be joining my flock soon.

And she turns and starts to walk, slowly, gracefully, up the steps. You hear a voice behind you. I lead you to gate. And turning behind you, you can see not one of the guards that you passed, not one of the, uh, uh, uh, close inner circle of Korovac, who seems now to be missing entirely. You haven't seen him since he started making your way to the hippodrome.

This is another Goliath, and he seems to be standing there to invite you down to however it is that you get into this arena, the five of you. Is it not like, is it not obvious? I think you've done. And he leaves the way. It's something that you're not. you would have been able to find, but it is not obvious. You wouldn't, there aren't no ladders

to climb down the side of this combat arena. And you can see that there are large gated entrances that would lead into the center. And presumably, he's taking you down, down, down underneath the stands in order to get there. All of us are going to the arena, we're not going to expect. All five of you are invited.

And he leads the five of you down through those stairs. And once you reach the, the, the, He sort of stands there, looking ready to activate a counter lever that seems to activate the gate. All right. Potimos. Look at me. Nice. Spent a lot of time around illegal boxing rings, pit fights, all sorts of stuff, all right. I know you've done the same. And I know you don't need me to say this. But you got to win. Don't toy with them. to mess around

and him quickly please that's what I am doing this I'm not doing it for the audience there doesn't need to be a single soul watching

these Goliaths don't have the true spirit the ones that I've known alright then I won't say anything else good luck good luck Mr. Stabascotch see you on the other side

if I don't make it Good luck to all of you. And I will... I'll take one last puff of my pipe. And I'm going to basically hold it and look around and say, I suppose all you need to leave my things. We'll watch over them, Barnabas.

And we'll make sure they stay safe, don't worry. You're coming back, so you'll get them back soon. Mr. Sabrescotch, you can take my pipe. Oh, I look forward to giving this back to you. Barnabose Mr. Yorne here I know I do not need to say this but stop at nothing

to survive we don't have magic I can't break the rules and I will pick up my shell out of where I keep it and I will just kind of look at it at me so far from the sea and I'm going to

gaze into it and hold it up to my ear one potentially for the last time. As you move it and turn it in your hands, you see that opalescent shells shimmer and you feel like you can almost see your lover in it.

You see it as clearly as though you were looking through the bottom of the ocean. And when you pull it up to your ear, you can hear the waves. You can hear the surge, the sound of not just

the surface of the ocean, but of the depths themselves, and you hear her voice. It tells you exactly what you want to say. It's as if it reads your mind, always knowing the right words in the right order come to you, and relief comes just after. You're right. Would one of you hold on to this for me, and my flask?

I'll hold on to him for you. Thank you, Ms. March. And this is... If I die, you can uncork this and drink it. It's liquor. It's good luck. Made with pineapples. It's rum. Would be our honor to drink it, but with you,

you fight for righteousness, and you've always let your spirit guide your fists. Okay. He doesn't stand a chance. Now you have to live? Because we are gonna talk about that. that that you've been holding out for months? I didn't want to say anything because I knew you'd act like this.

You son of a bitch. Yes. Queenie uses the bees to create a little treasure chest. It opens up and she puts both the shell and the rum into it as watching a scrim as watching it. The bees form a little key and lock the chest. And then the little bee key goes into her honeypot. I will lean down almost kneeling to get at Queenie's eye level.

I know I don't need to tell you this, but don't let Scrim get to it. I wouldn't, I promised you. And Queenie will run over to you really quickly and just jump up and give you a huge hug on your neck. I'll give you a good hug. You're going to be all right, you know. I know, Miss March. We'll do it for the ogres. And no one will live in a bar.

We can't do this with that. No one will be livestock. Not anymore. You gotta come back to us, Marnibose. I will. I promise. Knock them dead. Literally. Literally, yeah.

I've got my good luck. I've got my Seabird. Um, do I get the sense that any kind of buffs would be uh, would be sort of deemed cheating?

Make a... Oh boy. Is this a mock gara? I mean, for all kids, so. This is a pretty cool. I'll listen, I'll listen to the role here. My mind immediately went to sort of insight in terms of like, reading how Princess of Rath inferred no magic.

Yeah, I think that's very great. Speaking of Aurora Boria. Oh, yeah. That is a steamed ham dice. Really? Oh. This time of year, centralized entirely at this table. Mikey is presuming that I'm able to like,

I'm a fish guy, so me having claws would not be. Like, that's not magic. It's inherent to your nature. It's inherent to my nature, yeah. You wouldn't tell a wolf it can't bite. 24. 24. You get a sense that she meant spellcasting

in the sense of spellcasting, magic in terms of illusion or that sort of thing. Whether or not an innately magical feature would be frowned upon, no, no. So if you are magically strong, if you have the ability to perform a dragon's breath, then that would totally be within the rules of the... Though I understand that actually there's some debate as to whether or not dragon's breath is magical. For the purposes of this conversation, innate abilities don't count. whether or not you could pass off something as an innate ability

because it's not being cast within the arena, even with a 24, feels like something that you'd have to risk. Okay, but I get the sense that if I start, like, chanting a spell while he's fighting, that they'd be like, what the fuck's going to? Like, get that guy out! You do get the sense that that would be a violation of the spirit of the rules.

That strength and raw brutality in the arena is what the... is going to be enforced in terms of what sacredness there may be with this ritual. And you also are cognizant of the Goliath who's standing 10, 15 feet from you at the entrance to this arena, at the gate underneath the stands where you currently find yourself. I will approach Barnabos, and I will say, the fates, the weird, and the triad will see you through. And if I may, I know to reach into my pouch and scrap like a little bit of soot or like some sort of like face paint, right?

In the name of Onum and under one eye I'll draw a little triangle. in the name of Oden and in the name of the land and I'll draw on your forehead so you have sort of a triangle of triangles you are blessed this day

and I'll nod and I'll step back Mr. Yorne here I thank you and I know you may have red hair but you've been nothing but good luck on this voyage thank you I will kind of give everyone a nod and I'll walk out to whatever arena. You give a nod to the Goliath and he, with a great amount of effort, pulls down a metal lever and you hear the clanking of metals and all of a sudden the criss-cross gate of timber and bolted metal starts to lift up and you start to walk out into the arena. the brassiers are on fire and illuminating the entire space.

You're welcome. Stop it up and roll! Call me firechitz! The braziers are already warming the space. You don't need the warmth. You have your natural triton abilities to remain warm even in the colds, dark depths of the sea. But it brings in a... insane light as shadows play against the tears, the stands. You see the spikes seem to almost

move underneath the energy of this fire, and you begin to walk out, not seeing your foe just yet, but it's a giant arena, as I said, 200, maybe 300 feet wide. Underneath your feet is hard pack, a combination of very, very fine dirt and sand. But it almost feels like that. It's like stone underneath your feet as you start to make your way out. At the same moment, as you are all watching Barnamos, duck underneath the gate and face this next challenge, Second Goliath arrives.

I am to take you to the Princess of Rath. She has requested your presence in the box. All right. All right. Follow me. And he signals to the other Goliath who pulls the lever into a second position and you watch as the gate that was rising up begins to come to a close.

As he leads you down underneath the arena itself in the direction of the Princess of Rath, you are taken into almost like a catacombed area. You get a sense that there's these rafters above you. You see silt this same sort of sand coming down here. from the ceiling as you're walking down and through. And it's another few minutes of walking as you are led by these two Goliath into a larger room, what clearly looks like a sort of a prep room.

Is it getting colder as we go down or potentially warm? It's difficult to feel if there are temperature changes. It is still Dracar. And I haven't been enforcing things like, Constitution rules, even though it is sub-zero, because when you've eaten, when you've had shelter, when you've been adjacent to fire, even though it's negative 10, negative 20 degrees, very, very, very cold, perhaps even colder, you have enough recharging of your batteries in my mind for you to narrowly miss those until we get to more serious weather conditions. So when you're walking

down a few stairs and then ducking down underneath this arena and making your way, you don't You don't feel a tremendous drop in temperature, to answer your question. You make your way into what is clearly like a prep room for champions or gladiators, people who are prepping. There seems to be armor and pieces of leather and garments and weapons of all shapes and sizes. You can see big spiked malls on the wall. You can see big hammers, a variety of different shaped swords. This is, all of this is being not sharpened, but sort of handled by another group of Goliath that you run into in this space. And then you hear a click.

Behind you, the two Goliaths have closed a door. And one of them looks at you. You shame us. You shame us by infiltrating our space, by tricking us, by trying to steal from our chief. And you can turn and you see realizing that there are two others here, these are the two guards that you initially met. You will pay for you this. You are not under the protection of the Princess of Wrath just yet.

And pulling out what looks like a clay pot, throws it down onto the ground and it explodes, bursting into smoke. I need the four of you to roll for initiative. Oh, my. This fight. I'm going to use my reaction to cast. first strike so you have advantage on an issue. Let's fucking go.

These guys, they made a huge mistake. Hold your rolls. They zigged when they should have zagged. Oh, these guys are right now. We'll be back. Boned. Because we ain't in the mackeroa. It's nothing but heating up down here.

It's gonna say, we're gonna to have the guys. Oh, your sports ball team is from a slightly different geographic bringing than my sports ball team. You deserve to get off. Barnabos, you are standing there on the surface of the arena, and you watch as more and more ogres, fewer trickle in and take their seat on one side of the arena. There are many, many, many different empty seats, but there is a large contingent of Goliaths who all seem to be eagerly sitting on the edge of their seat.

From above, you can see that there are rafters, openings in the... in the surface of this ceiling. And inside, there are these white-winged cobalds who are swooping and flying down and making their way to the viewing box where you can plainly see the blonde hair of the Princess of Brathe, her stature still so dreadful and yet majestic, staring down.

She no longer seems to be wearing the gown that she was initially confronting you in. She seems to have made a change just for the occasion. And she stares down looking at you. And on the other side, Corvac, seemingly walking towards you slowly, patting his hands with some of the picked up sand from the floor of the arena. She raises her voice and yells out,

and it echoes within this huge space. Warriors of Drakar, we gather for a trial as ancient as the ice that binds these lands. Here strength reigns supreme. It is the currency of our survival, the only truth in a world shaped by strife. Two champions enter the sands of our arena for the right and responsibility of guardianship for the ogres who came to us not more than a month past. As is my right and my pleasure.

I bestow upon each of you a gift. It is a tradition when resolving disputes in this way to invoke the Colossus' embrace. embrace. Now, show me your strength and your will, and she raises her arms out wide next to her, almost like a wingspan of a dragon, before they clap together, and you were hit with a sudden drop in temperature. A huge blast of cold wind hits your face. It is as though you are sailing the coldest sea voyage that you could possibly imagine, and frost covers the entire surface of you. You look down, and the heat of your body is already starting to melt that frost as you realize that the floor of the arena

is getting farther away. Your hands are starting to get bigger in relation to your muscles as well. Your muscles coil underneath you and you, almost like serpents, nodding around your shoulders and you feel a huge surge of strength. You grow large and larger, and you grow larger, and larger, 10, 15, 20 feet tall, and you watch as KoraVak seems to be growing the same.

The two of you, mighty Tyson, Titans, you realize this is not a 200-foot arena. You are in an enclosed space with another 30-foot titan. Barnabos versus KoraVac. I need you to roll for initiative. Oh! This shirt seems to be so pisty-miss-missless. A giant kaiji battle with Barnabos! First roll to fight natural 20.

Hey! Your advantage too. Gora Vax, but I'm not. I'm not part of that fight. He has been within 15 feet of me to be advantage. Oh, is that a, no. Bavarians are advantage. I just wanted to see.

That's true? Yeah. I'm 23. I'm gonna get you to tell me how to play a a sorcery right now. Okay, I got it, I got it. 23? We're gonna need to do the housekeeping

of creating some arenas, so let me do this. Let's fucking go, please. Let me roll for an initiative here. Okay All right Initiative for everyone Except for Barnabos 20 to 25 or it's a higher

29 29 what in the ass She's hopping mad I rolled a natural 20 Ohlly 15 to 20 19 17 17 19 17

Where is Yep okay And I'm going to assume that Yorne is fewer than you. You did advantage us, did you? I did. Yeah. Oh, sorry, Marine O'R. Striles.

I got a 16. Okay. Full casters, folks, it's a challenge. I would say for the first round, you are under the surprise condition. Yeah. Oh, that's pretty fair. Come on.

Very fair. Which I think is a condition. I don't know. Surprise round. That's how things work in fucking Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition. No one's going to yell at me for that. The condition means in the first round,

you don't go. Yeah, you just don't take an action. Right, right. Which means you can have a varied amount of surprise because there are creatures' classes and races, I think, that have, like, you can't get surprised as a thing? Yeah, something like that. You are all shocked when you hear the breaking sound of ceramics

at your feet, and all of a sudden there's this almost ignition. You shield your eyes from what is a bright light, a very bright light of fire, and worry for a moment that there's going to be some sort of a bomb, But instead, you just see this hissing sound almost as whatever material is in here gets hotter and hotter and sprays choking gas out in almost all directions, like a smoke bomb. It has this almost light lavender quality to it as it hugs the air and chokes the entire space in this dense, thick fog-like substance. You go from a very clear dark torch-lit room to almost a foggy day. You can barely see visibility-wise from one side of the room to the other,

but the Goliaths are already on top of you. For the sake of mechanics, if you attempt to cast a spell, you'll have to make a concentration check first, otherwise the spell casting fails. And it's just to use the spell slot. You will still lose the spell slot if you attempt to do it. to do it, and the DC for all concentrations moving forward, even if you are successful, is 15, not 10. Good thing I just cast Brulible Blade.

I'm gonna have to punch them. So, let me just quickly go over here for a moment. Okay, one is gonna go to Taishen, nine is gonna go to Yorne. Nine is going to go to Yornear. Two is going to go to Queenie. Seven is going to go to Scrim. Oh my God. Eight and three are going to go to Queenie and Scrim respectively.

All of them are wielding these weapons that I described earlier. Maces and war hammers and hard hitting items. But the four in the back, they've pulled different weapons off the wall. You can see they're standing next to a large supply of javelins. Oh, dear Lord. Are there any animals in the room? Make a perception check. I'm here.

You're an animal person. Uh, perception. 13. 13, you feel very confident that there are no animals in this room. All I'm doing that. 26, you get the info that it is not correct. There are so many rats. Just throw your rock out, and there's going to be an animal.

All right. One is, we're not all these, dude. They're storing shit. They're storing shit. Okay. One definitely misses, but this is against you, Tyshen. But its second attack hits, I believe. That's going to be a 23 to hit.

That hits. I'm letting him down. That is, that is. Okay, just checking. I mean, you might use some weird shit you're gonna get. No, I don't even think of that. 15 points of bludgeoning damages. You're smashed by this war hammer.

Oh. You're near, you are also going to experience experience two quick strikes. The first is 21, and the other one is 18 to hit. Yeah, those both are it. That's going to be 11 bludgeoning damage and 15 bludgeoning damage. The number two is going to attempt to hit Queenie.

That's going to be a miss and a hit with 20 plus. Yeah. Okay. You are going to take 17 points of bludgeoning damage, That's going to be on scrim, that's going to be, one's gonna be a natural 20, and the other one's going to be a 25 to hit. Um, I, no, even if I shield a natural 20,

still get that right, yeah, he's still giving it. I'll take it. I'll allow it. The first hit, the natural 20 is 25 points of damage. And the other one is minimum damage, 10. I'm sorry, nine. Nine is blood, 25 and nine. What?

It was a crab. And a javelin is going to come at you, Taishin. Okay, this guy's gonna just be cool. That is going to go wide. It's getting foggy already. Number four is going to take a crack at Queenie. That's going to be a 16 to hit. Misses.

Okay. That's going to be a number six is going to take a crack at Yornear. That's going to be a 17 to hit. Yeah, that hits. Okay. Oh, screams to be. in front of me, does that count as like half cover, full cover? I mean, only if you hold them up.

No, no, no, I'm 6.8. I wrote for you, Cid. Yeah, just chill. I wait 225 pounds. That's gonna be 13 piercing damage for you, Yoraneer, and we're gonna do, and the other one goes wide, it goes through your hat, and you hear it goes, just behind you.

And the hat gets taken off my head and just like pinned to the wall. Exactly right. Oh, God. Ah! Your hat just leaves your head. The hair goes. You're disgusting combover.

Oh, no. Now it'll have to be. I have a full head of air until that happens. And that is what's happening. Let's get to the top of that round before we rejoin Barnabos and Kerouac. Queenie, you may go. Oh, my God.

Okay. This is no good. I would have moments to ask my friends a question, I'm assuming. Moments. Yeah. Do we want protection or should I take out, remove some of them from combat?

Have we seen these abilities before? Or is new? This is no. I would. Cast wall of bees around us. What do? I create a wall of whirling, flailing, grasping, magical human arms.

Wall of peers. It doesn't say human arms. Don't eat human arms. I didn't change it from something else. I didn't change it from something else at all. That says bees. That says bees, you liar. Why would you lie?

You get out of this table right now. God! Shit. I read it to them beforehand, and Andy looks at me, he goes, I will give you anything to take that spell. I don't care what happens tonight. You take that spell and you use it and you read it to Derek. You try to do something nice for a friend.

You try to give them something B-related. It was just a spell. human arms the whole time. Why are we showing the human arms? Well, I look at it's baked man. Tight guys, legs, take bees tall. To be fair though, the bees have arms, they just aren't human.

But yes, so I'm gonna create a, because it says that I can do a circle. So I'm doing a circle around us. It will encompass all of us. It is 10 feet high and 5 feet. thick and we are all heavily obscured. Oh, shit. That's Florida ceiling.

You are heavily obscured, visibility-wise. But I have to roll to make sure that I guess it. You Oprah Winfrey, B. This is this protective column of- All of our arms are just clueling. You are surrounded by this cacophonous sound. You have to- Natural 20.

This is the Faye Wild version of Carl Bees. Oh my God. You're both in the ass. Yes. Carle bees. Good, guys. So good. Yes, so we are now for 10 minutes,

heavily obscured behind this wall. Now, from these guys are really around us. Yes, they cannot get to us. The people who are consumed by the wall, read me the rest of the, it doesn't say, it doesn't say, well, it says any creature attempting to move through the wall, take 66 piercing damage, and must make a dexterity saving throw or be grappled.

Until the grapple ends, the target is restrained. At the start of each of it turns, it takes 3D6 piercing damage. Okay. You manage to squeeze the magic out. You can feel the suppressing quality of this smoke. Whatever herbaceous, bitter smell that's accurate in your lungs getting into your system, you know that you are very fortunate to get this out, but you are able to successfully make the use of this magic,

and your bees are there at your side, ready to protect you and your friends. friends. Okay. Wait, so if we're in it though, right? We're in it. So are we gonna take the damage and be grappled? No. It only if we try and move through the wall.

I'm presuming that the wall... So we're essentially in a turret. I'm presuming that the wall is like a column right here. We're in the donut. It's to keep these guys out. But it's to keep them out and from not being able to attack us. These guys are being consumed by the bees and I will, I will treat them as though they are moving through.

though they are moving through it when they're cutting sparks. Oh, that cool. Thanks, Derek. Oh, we weren't expecting these. We're expecting bees with human arms. That doesn't make any same. She's right. What the fuck?

Okay. I have to make a constitution saving throw if I'm going to cast a spell, but it is specifically for maintaining content. This is the same as maintaining concentration on that spell, because I do have advantage I make those constitution saving rolls.

But if this is not to maintain the concentration, like to get the spell through, I'll just roll straight one die. What's the feature you're using? Resilient con. Oh, you have advantage on concentration check. Yeah. Well, Brazilian con is your proficient in consent.

Whichever one is the one that gives you the fucking- But you have an elders invocation which gives you advantage on concentration checks. I get checked. Capital C concentration. The way I ruled, the way that I wrote the magic item that they threw down, it is forcing a concentration check to make it. So your advantage. So because I'm using the same language unit, I would say we keyworded it and you can map it. You can hook into it. Okay, and the concentration check on here will be the

Just just beating a 10 like because there's no damage right like it's a 15. It's a 15. Thank you. That's the part that I missed. Is it a saving throw or is it just a con? It's a concentration check and I am just adding my plus four to this Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna attempt to cast a spell. Um So let me see if it works and then I'll describe what happens. I'll tell you what I'm doing. Great. It doesn't work That's my turn. Oh God Do you do anything else with your turn? B o I don't know any else my turn. I can't move anywhere What's your plus? The car? You got like two five or on the webbing I rolled a 10. Oh Devastating. Oh God that's freaking brutal. That's heartbreaking

I should have plused at least one or two I think about it. I will also So, yeah. Slip my mind. I'll plus three on the, on that's why. Yeah, I'll plus three. I should try 10 hungry. Yeah. I thought, oh my, I'll plus three.

I'll roll for a spell. I'll just roll once with my plus a con. What do you get plus three? Okay. Okay. Because you're using three twists, thank you, chat. Three twists, thank you chat. That's a 20 to cast.

Um, um, and I'll say our friend is up there fighting for the freedom of an entire race and you're attacking us because of your pride and I will

from my mouth erupt a plume of fire that'll blast out into the room and I'll spread it with my hands and I will create a massive wall of flame that will cut off this you guys in your wall

from fucking Jesus This section right here, just like... I've been trying to use Wall of Flame on Felix for years. You've finally found a good way to do it. So a massive... I mean, I don't know how big the room is per se, but it's a... You're plenty. Yeah. It's huge. It's like 60 feet, 20 feet high, foot thick.

Oh, it's 20... wait, it's 20 feet in diameter. Oh, or a ring wall. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't change the shape of it. That's what I do. Yeah, that's really cool. Let me just check. You can't see what, oh, there. Sorry.

I got fire tokens. In fact, the monsters you're fighting are just flipped over fire tokens with numbers on them. That's very fun. Because I definitely remember to make tokens for this session. This is my wall of flame. And now, so I want to cast a second spell. Would you like me to re-roll the con?

The moment you do, the smoke is consumed because it's flammable, All of the oxygen is pulled us out of the room and you're killed instantly. Everyone is dead. No, I'm kidding. Oh my God. Sorry, everybody. Let me just, the wall appears.

Each creature within its area must make a deck saving throw on a failed save. A creature takes 5 to 8 damage or half as much on a successful one. That's if they are in the wall or adjacent to the wall? When the wall appears, each creature within its area and it extends out 10 feet from its frontal. Oh, shit. That's a fucking... thick wall. Yeah.

It's a lot of 15, holy shit. These guys have to stay for the rest of the life. So 9 and 10 see this flame and they get consumed by it. Would they have to make dexterity saving throws? They have to make dex saving throws and take 5D8 on a failed save. Oh my gosh. The highest was in 11. The highest was in 11.

I'm sure. That's a dummy thick wall. That's a very dummy thick wall. That's a very dummy thick wall. I posted a picture canonically of the B wall. of the B wall in a thread. I changed the spell so that you can refresh so that you can read it properly now.

It now is bold and italicized humanoid. I sure you didn't. I wish you had. I did. Oh, well it's not, at least I'll refresh the page. From the wall, these two will take 27 points of fire. That's a lot. 10 and 6?

10 is correct. 10 is correct. You and I don't know it are. That's going to be 26 fire and 26 fire. Neither of them save. They are consumed by the flames and you can hear their screams

as they are. Are they dead? They're just screaming. They're just screaming. These guys are going to have a lot of it. Do you want me to re-roll con if I want to make a second spell cast? You've already cast one spell,

so I believe you, I believe You can only use a cantrip at this point, but you can endeavor to. I'm a sorcerer, Derek, and I can quicken spell using sorcerer points to cast an action spells a bonus action. That's very sexy, why don't you go ahead and try? And you have someone to teach you

how to play sorcerer. Look at that. Look at that. For 47 hours. Wow. All you have to do is this one thing. Only 47? You only 47.

That's it. Wow, that's amazing. But do you want me to re-roll it? It's anytime you can cast a spell. Yeah, that's true. So, we roll it. 12 16. Concentration is you have plus 6.4.

That's the saving. Yeah. Con is just plus two. You said a concentration check is a saving here. That's a constitution saving. You said just a flat con. I said concentration check because that's what I wrote down here. A concentration check is tastely a savior. Oh, so you do add your proficiency bonus.

Okay. So you get plus. Well, would that change what it was for you? No, no, no. My saving there was plus four. Oh, okay. He's proficient, but it's cons like plus. I'm not proficient.

Oh, so you didn't take resilient. No, that's, yeah, we, I said the wrong. I see. You had the right answer. I thought you was plus two. You succeed. And I will cast at it. That means you cast the first spell on hard mode.

Yeah, I mean, I thought it was out of plus two. I will cast scorching ray. which at a fourth level and I'll summon these orbs of fire and blast out. Are they attack rolls? They are attack rules. You'll be disadvantaged. Just put it out there. Oh, you know.

There's two additional arrays. So it's five arrays, so I'd have to fold at any time. Come on. Well, I don't know if the A C is, that would be a Dissie. Right? Yeah. That'd be 14 to hit the first one. I miss this. Okay. That's... That hits.

Oh, nice. Okay. 16. So I'll just go around the ring. I'm going to shoot five times. We'll go. 7, 3, 8, 1, 2, 1. Yes. Our vision of them of spirit is just one way. It doesn't say. All targets behind the wall are heavily of spirit. heavily interested. So you can't, you can't see them, but you can't see them.

They can't. That's 21. So I'll hit, I'll hit seven and two. No, because we're behind my wall is what is what is that's. The guy. The guys are stuck in. And 17. That hits. So I'll hit seven to one. I'll hit seven to one. He's just the two and zero. There's a wall around us between us and them. They're like in the bees wall. That's a good question. I would think because we're like right there and sort of like, Being within five feet, you could see them and staff. Seven takes ten points of damage. We're heavily absurd.

Which one? Seven. We'll take ten points of damage. And two, oh, two will take eight points of damage. Eight. And one will take seven points of damage. Seven. So you only hit three? I have three. Okay. You are launching these orbs of fire.

I like to think that you punched one and then jumped up and did like splits and from your feet. came the other two orbs that hit the, you know, something really badass and martiality like that. And a few go wide, but you can hear the shock of fighting powerful magic users as yourself, even from trained veteran fighters like these Goliaths. Your Nair.

Before you're nearer goes, we have a question we'd like to ask. We are heavily obscured. From them. Obviously from them and from here, and from these guys. Can we see them, though? I don't see how we can justify making can get a two-way mirror, right? Like, they, if it's heavily obscured looking in,

why wouldn't it be heavily obscured looking out? The- Like, don't change any of Taishan's turn, depending on how you roll, not just moving forward. Heavily obscured is one moment. Well, I rolled a disadvantage on everything. Yeah, yeah, so it's definitely, yeah. I didn't know you did that.

Well, but that's because this guy and this guy are like that melee range. Yeah. So no matter what even if. Oh, I thought I was rolling disadvantaged because they were all in the wall. You're all in the wall. Either way, both would give you disadvantage.

Is it disadvantage? I believe so. That's heavily obscured if you're blind. It's an unseen attacker, right? It's sort of how you rule it. Or if someone's invisible, you can still attack them and it's disadvantage. It's not super elegant in terms of 5E.

Yeah, I would have like the plus or minus AC. I'll have to think about that spell, especially the humanoid arms. However, I'm going to say that this is a thick wall of being, bees that are... Bees... That are endeavoring to essentially swallow the majority of your attackers. And you might have to take disadvantage for...

Even though they're literally being stung to death at this time. You're near. You're up. I will... Being bludgeoned to death, it's very clear that they mean to kill us. And so I'll turn to my friends and I'll say, kill them all! And I'll raise my staff and like Katara style from my water skin. and water will shoot out, and like dust will raise off the ground.

It'll swirl and swirl and swirl, as all of a sudden you see it almost coalesced into different chunks of rock hard ice, as the spell says, and centered about right here. One, two, three. Do you have to be able to see it? Nope. Okay, good. Okay, good, okay.

I'm gonna center right about here, and I am going to cast. You succeeded on your check. I need to make the check. I'm still, I want to- You will endeavor to cast. Well, I'm casting it either way. I use this best lot.

That's fair. And so I would like to use several points, if that's okay. Do it. I'm gonna use three. Yeah, that's fine, thank you, chat. We've got a lot to use. Thank you, Chad.

We have, I used dozens. If you didn't. Scum forgot we had them. We have dozens to use. There you get. 14 plus the- Yeah, it's 50. Yeah, okay.

Then, so the spell, let me read it. It is called Ice Storm. A hail of rock hard ice pounds into the ground in a 20 foot radius and 40 foot high cylinder cylinder. Set it on a point within range. Each creature in the cylinder must make a deck saving throw. A creature takes 2D8 bludgeoning damage

and 4D6 cold damage on a failed save or half as much than a successful one. Hailstones turn the storm's area of effect into difficult terrain until the end. of your next turn. All right. Let's go round the horn. Tell me who's making the save.

Eight. Eight's making the save. And what is the DC? The DC is 17. And the save is... Dex. Dex. 16.

13. Three. That's three. Six. Five. It's five. Which one's next? Sorry.

So eight, three, and six failed. Five. Fail. Four. Fail. 10. Succeed. Okay, so 10 succeeded, everyone else failed.

I am going to roll the damage real quick. A lot of damage. It is 4D6. One, two, three, four, and it's 2D8. Um, one, uh, that's not a more near die. Should I be picky right now? I'll just do it. Fuck it.

So, uh, so as I'm going to do it. So as I sort of raise my staff, this swirling hail storm will, it'll explode outward almost in and help them all. Mm-hmm. 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Is that everything?

22 points of damage to everyone except 10, who takes 11 points of charge. Right, 11. Can you give me the numbers again? 8, 3, 6, 5, and 4, all take 22 points of damage. Jeez. Okay. And then 10 takes 11 points of damage.

Uh-huh. Okay. And as, once I put my staff back down, I'll sort of lean, because I just took half of my health and wounds. I'm now bloodied. Uh, part of the, you know, with all of this hail going on, the hail and snow will sort of sort of shimmer over me as I go invisible as well in the way. go invisible.

Start of the round, I'm immediately going to have to deal with the wall of bees for everyone surrounding Queenie and her allies. How does that work again? Dexterity, well, so first, they will all take 66 piercing damage. Just automatically. Can I have some D6?

Yeah, please. 22 points of piercing damage they will take automatically, and then they need to make a DC, a deck saving throw. One moment. Oops, that's, you can read you the numbers. Let me just quickly do some math here. It's very fast, quick math for sure.

Uh, jip-joo, that's gonna be there, that's gonna be there, that's gonna be, okay. Now. And then they all have to make dexterity saving throws. Okay, I'm just gonna roll for the, No, that's not how that works. What's the DC? 17.

One succeeds. 12 fails, so that's two fails, three fails. We need to find some way to mark them. I have them here. Okay. Seven, eight, nine, I'll roll. Seven, fails, and succeeds, so nine succeeds. So nine succeeds.

All right. So they are grappled, and at the start of their next turn, they'll take 3D6 piercing damage. One and nine are going to step out of the beats. Because they are not grappled. They manage to roll out of the way, and they take five feet step backwards

and start looking to the weapons on the wall very quickly. Seeing that you guys are inside of this, they're just going to throw the weapons that they happen to have on their on hand into the space to see if they can hit anything. So number one is going to throw his warhammer and that's going to be at disadvantage. So that is going to miss.

And for his, oh, they're not going to multi-attack because they're arranged now. And then number nine is going to do the same thing at disadvantage and that is also going to fail. So you just hear these weapons fly forward and they just hit the bees and are carried away and out by the net of bees that are protecting. The B-Chads are like, yeah, like, totally not even going to hit them through this, okay?

Now we're going to do the wild, stinging, swinging attacks of the ones that are adjacent to Scrim. At disadvantage, that's going to fail. Second attack, that's going to fail. Next to two attacks, we have Scrim, disadvantage, that's going to fail. That is going to be a 15 to hit. I have 17 to 18. Okay. And against Queenie, that's going to be a,

I think that hits 23. That hits, yeah. Okay. That's going to be 11 points of bludgeoning damage to you. And then the next one at disadvantage, that fails. Next one of disadvantage, that's going to be 20 to hit, dirty 20. So that's gonna be 16 points of bludgeoning damage.

To who? To you, Queenie. Oh, okay. Sorry, I'm rolling for concentration because it's concentration. Oh, okay. So you said an additional 16? Yep, and those are the conclusion of the Goliath who are in melee range.

10 and six are going to back out of the wall of fire. Do they take damage just because they started their turn there? I think they do. It might be ending. Let me stay honest here. When it appears they take damage, one sign of the wall selected by you, I guess spelled down is that sign.

to each creature that ends its turn within 10 feet of the outsider inside the wall. A creature takes the same damage when it enters the wall for the first time on a turn, or ends its turn. They rush out. So they jump passed through it. Yeah, they rush out of the flames, patting themselves out, clearly singed if you could see them through all of this chaos. However, they have a general sense of where you are,

and so they're going to all make javelin attacks at disadvantage. That's going to fail on scrim. That is going to hit on Yornear that's going to be perhaps because you're so tall 14 points of piercing damage. It's the javelin sticks into you, Yorneur. I'm also invisible. I don't know if that matters. I rolled at disadvantage of these random attacks. What was the hit to him? 14 damage. Oh, you're right. I see. It was 22 to hit. What's your A's 16? I think. Is that right? Yeah, that's right. That's right. It hits. Okay.

It has some square than that. The next javelin flies wide, and the next javelin against Tyshean is going to be a 18-to-hit. That's his ace. Oh, so I meet it and beat it, right? That's how that works. Unless you want to do anything about it.

15 piercing. And that is the conclusion of their turn. We transition now to the top of the arena. The part of us? Yep. As soon as the clap sounds and you realize the enormous size of your new form, you are drenched by, I'm sure, seawater, and turning, you realize that Caravac seems ready for you. He's standing in almost in like a warlike state, almost like a trance. He's looking down and looking up and looking down

and then looking up and you get this tremendous sense of concentration. He almost looks at you with an expected come and bring it attitude, but he says nothing except breathing heavily. What do you do with your turn? As I'm getting larger and larger as SeaWong, is covering me in barnacles and all sorts of sea life. My arms will shift as well as my legs because I grow two huge crab claws and I'll boom that.

Ah, you brought me in here and you've unleashed the Kraken. I am the sea monster. I am Barnabos Dreadwake and I will kill you as I thunder forward and lunge with giant crab claws. And I'm just going to make three attacks on them. Reconesly. Okay, and now these are technically unarmed strikes, but you're using your crab claws, correct?

They're not, they're natural weapons. They're natural weapons. Natural weapons, technically, mechanically speaking. Okay. That's one. What is the dice size of that? A D6. Because of your increased size, each of them is going to be a D12.

Let's go. Nice. Uh, let you know, they're all 19s. Wow. natural 19s. Whoa. So, um, 12s. Oh, geez, oh geez. I should have warned you know ages ago, but I'm running 18 combat. Yeah. Okay. I just gotta find my 12. Why'd I do this to myself? This is so crazy. It's just crazy. Oh, not bad, not bad. 17, 17, 23, plus 24. That is 47 points of slashing damage.

Wow. As I snip into him. Did you roll a hit? Yeah, they rolled 28. Okay, yeah, you're fine. I presume. 47, you say? 47, you say?

Okay, and that's for natural flashing damage? Natural flashing damage? Yes. Okay. Actually, no, magical. Magic slash. I'll hold on to that. Okay.

That's very cool. You dig your claws into both of his arms and sort of slide back for a moment on, he slides back for a moment on the sand. But even as you crunch in and you try to either sever muscle or tissue or bone perhaps, it is like slamming into a stone pillar. And he turns, and he pulls away from your claw's grasp and comes back up with an uppercut.

Advantage. Oh, yes, that's correct. The first is going to be, thank you. The first is going to be a 23 to hit. That'll hit. The second, because he's using multi-attack, but I'm going to cram all the damage into flavor for the purposes of, yeah, the next one is higher,

and the next one is also higher. So all three of those are going to be, that's going to be, that's going to be, that's going to be 53, non-magical bloodshunding damage as he shrinks down and flies up with a fist that feels like a brick you get clobbered right in the in the jaw and the fight is on since it's going to take a million years to go back and simulate this let's simulate a few more rounds back to your turn yeah no bad we're not good enough

we'll be a pet I'm presuming yeah That'll be a hit. That'll be a hit. That is gonna be. When you win this, you can crab rib. Oh. 23, 29, 29, 253 points of flashing damage.

Woo! You clean him half. You push and push into him. And again, even though your hands are claw, literal bone manifestation, that come out of you. Each time you hit you hit like that, it's kind of like hitting something extremely hard

with a hammer, and you feel this vibration going up your arm. It is like punching stone. You are doing some damage, but not nearly as much as you expect. And I'm going to use my bonus action as my hands return as their claws, and from my back, that will be spiked tentacles that grow.

Oh, okay. He's going to race around you to Andy's side. Exactly right. And as your tentacles emerge, he's going to slide around on the slippery sand and then race forward, grabbing you by the waist, managing to actually barrel hug you as wide as your belly is. And you suddenly are starting to, it's starting to dawn on you.

You are fighting somebody who's physically stronger than you are. And he pushes and pushes and pushes. I need you to make a strength contest. Athletics or strength? Um, your trick. 19. 21. He pushes you 15 feet into the edge of the arena.

And all of a sudden, as you slide, you take... Let's do both of these. This is bad. You take... 18 points of piercing damages, all of a sudden you feel something slip like a dagger into your back, and you realize that you are being pushed against, and he is starting to press his advantage against you. That was one of his multi-attacks, and he'll attack again as he continues to drive his elbow in. Could I know the actual total of each attack?

Yes, you may. The first one is going to be a 19-to-hit. I'm going to whip up one of my tentacles and attempt to bury it. And with that, I am going to roll the D8. And that will make, it'll still hit. Okay. It'll still hit. The next one is going to be a 16 to hit.

That misses. That misses. So I will roll damage for these. As he drives in 14 points of bludgeoning damage of bludgeoning damage as he pushes against you with one elbow attack. It's your turn. You're not mechanically grappled. I was just wrapping my arms around you for the purposes of flavor and the attack. Here to die. There's still something I had got to do. As I am going to, it's my turn. I'm

going to use my bonus action to that tentacles will sink back in. As I get my claws back, I'm gonna make two attacks. Or three attacks, rather. Oh, come on. Little hit. That'll hit. Nice. Uh, and then

15, 19, 19, 43. Ooh. 43. Wow, you're consistently doing just an absolute fucking buttload of damage. Three attacks at advantage, feels pretty good. I'm going to move, if I can move,

I don't know if I'm impaled on it. No, you're, you, you, you'd be able to slide off of the spike and endeavor to move. Boot. Boop. I am just getting on the other side of him. You slip around to the other side,

and he matches you in almost a dance. He pushes some blood away from his own mouth, and he's staring at you with his one grim eye. You see death in this eye, and you're starting to understand why Korovac is called, the unbroken. They, he may be an undefeated champion and the reason why he would be warlord and chief of a warlike Goliath tribe such as the Stormfist Legion.

He, um, uh, looks down at you and he goes, that's too bad. He won't escape this arena alive and he rushes forward and gives you a ruthless headbut. Or at least he intents to. I cannot carry. So you can just, it's 17 as the AC. Uh, the, one moment. One moment. That's going to be a natural 20.

And that's going to be a 20 million to hit. Oh, you need to know. It's going to be a 29. Oh, you don't need to know anymore? Okay. He lunges forward with his head, and you're able to pull back just in time, but he's too quick.

He jabs you once with his wrist, and then crushes you in a bear hug. Again, this time getting your arms in between his, and he tenses, his muscles absolutely like pushing out and bulging, almost exploding out from underneath his skin as he reaches in, and neither will he are friends. And you take. This is awful.

Not us. This is awful. Poor Barnabos. I'm definitely gonna get bloody from this attack. I'm gonna get fucking beef train. Okay? He didn't even worry about it. He's a meat train.

Yeah, he's a meat train. It's strange. Bormone both has no bothers. Are you getting any damage reduction from these? Oh yeah, it's halfed. Okay. It's all halfed. But still, I mean, I'm still a lot of damage.

Still a lot of damage. I mean, you're fucking dead. This guy can't fight the rage of the motion. I don't know why, but something, the way you said that, reminded me of Polly Shore and insane man. Like a fucking cake, dude. You take 63 of non-magical bludgeoning damage. I'm bloody.

And we'll pause it bloodied as we come back to the, the top of the round, shifting back over to Queenie, Scrim, Tyshen, Yornear, and Friends. I'm assuming it's my turn. Yeah, you're talking. I'm going to attempt to use my bonus. Well, is this, is something's an item, does it count as a spell? What do you mean? My honeypot allows me to put up essentially hunters back.

No, it's not suppressing features and abilities. It's using a spell slot that triggers the concentration. So, I am going to. to put up, no, I'm not going to, because that would drop my concentration. It gets too tricky to rule stuff like that. Well, if you look at the Tasha's feature, that just makes the hunter's mark not a spell as well. That's right.

So I would presume it would act the same. Man, it's been a while since we started Icebound. I believe that she has a variant of Hunter's Mark as her innate ability. Yeah. That's what I was trying to remember. No, it is. I don't think, it didn't, it didn't used to be, I don't think so.

to be, I don't think so. But it says in here requires concentration in the wording that Derek wrote. Oh. Never mind. I thought that it wasn't. I thought we had talked about that, but it does say maintain concentration. So. But it's still not a spell. Yeah, but I'm not going to drop my concentration on the wall of these. So I'm just going to turn towards one. And being so short, I'm going to shoot between Tyshen's legs and a launch. Two arrows at number one. Disadvantaged. 23 for the first hit.

Yep. They're a C-16. And 22 for the second hit. And that's just 2D6. Okay. Which ones are you targeting? Number one. Okay. Oh, both of these. Yeah, yeah, I go for it.

Are your D8? I try and collect one. Great. 16 points of piercing damage. To number one? Yeah. I can do math. And that's my turn.

Very good. Scrim, you're up. Failing to cast a spell that Scrim was trying to channel his inner magics and choking on this horrific smoke that's in the air, I would like to attempt to cast another spell again, because the spell doesn't require me to be able to see. So at least three. I was gonna say three. We'll look three. Thank you, Chad. What's your plus four? Yes, it's plus seven total. And I'm rolling with advantage again. Okay 17 plus seven is 24. Oh, hell yeah. Let's go. Let's go. Be caught off by surprise. The first spell kind of like sparks and fizzles in his hands. I'm not he's not holding the brutal blade. I'm holding the brutal blade and

scrim redoubles after getting beaten and bruised and says, come on, come on, you have to work, you gotta, you gotta work. And in this moment, this dark mist begins to pour out from his hands. In fact, it might be hard to even see with the rest of the smoke that is in the air. It's chaos in here. And I'm going to cast draining mist. Great fucking choice. So the only one that won't be hit, I think, is number one, because it's a 15-foot radius.

Wow. I love this spell. Yeah. Yeah, so enjoy. The mist begins to pour, and I need 97, 3, 8, and 2 to make Constitution saving throws. All right, 978, 3, and 2. 97382, yes. Okay, let's go bottom up.

My DC's 17. Two, it's a con saving throw, you say? Yes. Succeeds. Two succeeds, okay. Three, fails. Okay. Seven, fails.

Okay. Sixes, okay. Succeeds. Okay. Nine, fails. So nine, seven, and three, we'll take 15, 29 points of damage, necrotic damage.

Nine, seven and three will take 29 necrotic. And then I heal, five, ten, fifteen, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five temporary hit points. as this horrific dark mist pulls their life force from them and into me. They're open wounds being what they are. They're covered in stinging welts from the bees

that are surrounding them, and you pour salt into those wounds. All of a sudden you watch as droplets seem to get pulled directly out, turning into its own kind of swarm and begin to pour towards you. They don't entirely reach you. They turn to shadow and you feel suddenly nourished. wounds themselves closing.

Okay, and then I don't have a bonus action that I can really do. So I say, ah, that's the ticket, much better. And then that's the end of my turn. How much do you? Everyone's like. 25 temporary hit points. Jesus, that's quite a bit.

It's the max that I can get. I'm from the spell. Tai Shen. Um, as you do that, before you go, Before you go, Taishin, let me just quickly do some math here to pad up the pieces here. Oh, okay, okay.

And then, that's going to be, I need to have a secondary math DM over here who does this while I'm flavoring everything. I feel that. Can we get that on that, Jamie? You have anyone out there that wants. Of the ones that you've been fighting, three is, but a thread.

He did die. Of mortality. He did not die. I needed a death there. I really needed one of them. I'm sorry. Tyshen, you're up. Starting off, seeing how everyone is taking hits and all these enemies are still alive,

I will punch out two juts of flame, but this time, instead of orange, red fire, golden fire. And I will twin out cure wounds at Queenie and Yorner. Nice. Third level. Hell yeah. And... Fucking huge. It's...

What is it used to me? Oh, oh. Well, actually, I think, hang on, I have to roll it to keep my concentration on a wallfire. Because I think you hit me. Oh, yeah. Big money. Cool. It's 15.

Oh, roll it. Just checking. Just checking. I want to make sure that D.C. is 15. Oh, yeah. No problem. 20. 20.

To, for the cast. So I will roll. This is to heal both Queeny and your. Nice. Big money. Not bad. Yeah. 813.

18. 18 points of healing. Nice. As the golden flames will kind of almost. As the golden flames will kind of extend out to the two of you to the two of you and as it wraps around you, it almost coalesces into like these golden dragons wings as you feel the warm wrap around you.

Aw, thank you, Joshy. That feels nice. Of course. Stay strong. And I will quicken another scorching ray. Okay. At third level. And once again, roll to do it.

I'm gonna dread this. You're a son of a bitch. Alright, there's only natural 20. That's okay. Oh my god Brutal. Oh Yeah, well that was a time of dread. Okay, that was a time to tread. Okay, well, dreaded. A time to dread is my favorite source. A time to dreaded, yeah, I love that fun of a natural 20. Very well-dreaded sir. To a two, Derek, you too, cap. That's it. My turn's over. Damn, damn. My turn's over. Life can be hard sometimes. You're nearer, you're up. You're near up. You're near. I hear what you're streaming in the distance.

Totally changes everything I was gonna do. If he critz me again, I'm fucked. I do a quick animal check. Any animals in the room? Make a perception check. It's disadvantage, though you're heavily at everything. Oh yeah, yeah, it's just a perfect. Everything's heavily obscured.

There's bees a wall of fire. There's a huge number of bees in the room. I don't know if you count those as animals. No, I don't. No. They're magical creatures. There's summons. Um.

May spirits. I guess I can't really see anything. So we're literally in this column of swarming bees and we can't see anything else. Everything's fucked. We're all back to back. Is this still gone? But they're all disadvantaged on us.

It was a one time blast, which I just learned. I thought it was like a permanent storm. Yeah. It's difficult terrain with that. It's a big ass spell. Is your stone out and have an animal? Yeah, I can. Yeah, I was trying to think of a cool animal

to do for that. A little wiggle. I do the way up. P. We're all dead. We all die. Un-falling. Oh, what are falling.

We're all, we're both falling. We're . An additional layer flare. I know there's a lot of chaos surrounding all of you, as Rich Plans' turn. However, even among the cacophonous bees and the sounds of screams, your shouts to each other as allies and the sounds of the Goliath attacking you,

saying things, shouting, you can still hear these massive pits. Yeah, just like earthquakes. And you're watching as sandy silt falls down and these massive blows strike directly about it. What the hell is going on out there? Yeah. It's almost like war drums. There's ice chips that are falling from the ceiling.

Oh, God, oh, that's got me there again. Yeah. Um, cool. You'll be reaching Dodge action in 30 seconds. I will say, uh. Because I'm beat up and we're surrounded and I'll say, I do not wish to call on you like this, but Oden, oh father, we need your help.

And mechanically I'm throwing my Jasper stone and you'll hear this flapping of wings. As clapping and flapping and flapping, you will see a giant raven. Flap in and material. as I start to shift and transform into another giant raven with a pair of giant ravens on the battlefield. Caca!

Each one missing an eye, their heads turn in unifans. And with the glowing, icy blue emanating as... We just dealt with ravens, Rich. I know, I'm sorry. This is relevant to his back story. into his back stories. He's really cool. I'm saying I'm traumatized.

It's very cool. Is there a large token anywhere? Yeah. Two large tokens, actually. Oh. All the trolls, Shrek is behind you. We have so many trolls behind you, Rich. What's the other one?

I'm here as a raven. Where'd you throw this one? This one I would throw back here, if I can. Just like chuck it. I have this image of the stone flying in the flame. All of a sudden the bird emerges on the other side, predatorily. It's gonna attack five.

Corn, corn, corn, corn, mine. And I will like lift off from where I am, and I'm just gonna go back in the, I don't know. Oh, what Raven sound like? They like crows. They like crows. That's more crow. Is that more crow?

That's more crow. I can only do crow. I can't do ravens, I guess. The words that's used in the soyat is like, I use my action, but it's, I am a raven. I'm a raven. That's me.

11. I thought they said never more. They did that too. You're absolutely right. They say never more, but sometimes when the mood is right. It is a 16 hit. That's on five.

That is on five. That is on five. It's going to rip in with its giant raven talons. You picked the least injured of all of them, fortunately. The raven, you know? I can't see, you know.

It's just a, I basically, I commanded it to just fucking kill you. I'm just remarking at the coincidence. It's remarkable. I'm trying! It is worth commentary. But are you in the bees now because you're so large? Yes. Probably.

What, bee? Oh, I'm definitely a bees. Yeah, you know. Oh, God. My raven butchets. My raven butchings are being stolen. Oh. 60s, grab all your feathers and just de-feather you instantly.

Take 25 points of you. points of piercing damage upon getting large. Oh, okay. 25 points? Yeah. Bs. I can't believe I left in humanoid arms. That's fucked up.

Oh, that's the wrong thing. Yeah. They're not even stinging you. They're just... It's supposed to be literally like a wild white. They're yoked. It's like that scene in back. Oh, it actually is double attack.

Look at that. Did you take the 25 damage? Did you take the 25 damage? Okay. Ten. So the talons are going to do. to do 13 points of damage, and the beak is going to attack, and that hits as well.

That's going to do six points of piercing damage. Chapers. Six points of piercing damage to number five? Yeah. You need to make a dexterity saving throw or be grappled by the bees. Could I fly and hover above my friends knowing- It goes all the way to the wall.

No, no, but if I want to top, yeah. Mechanically, could I think to be like leap into the air so that not like I'm being clipped by bees? I think you would know enough about your abilities. Yeah. Okay. Should do that and you would be 10 feet up. Yes, let's fucking go. It's extremely reasonable.

Oh, so. I think that's very reasonable. What a benevolent DM. I think that's much better than you taking 25 damage. You wouldn't put yourself into a wall of bees if you could help it? I don't think so. I'm like, oh, I'm like a giant arena.

I'm like a clipped by bees, but I'm like part of it. They're punching me. Just use the bucket trip to get up the wall. Just speed run this bit. The speed run this bit. You voted on King Hippo. I voted on Mighty Tyson. Mr. Dream. New York said Mighty Tyson, accidentally.

I did? I did. Mighty Tyson. Instead of what? Mike Tyson? No, I forget what you were saying. I don't think I said Mighty Tyson. No, you didn't say.

Why? I can't remember a lot. It was like, what your Reno was getting. You said, Mike Tyson. Chat. Yeah. Oh, Titan, Mighty Titans. We will turn into Mighty Tyson.

Yeah, yeah. Oh. You said Mighty Tyson. Everyone's got a plan until you punch him in the face. All right. Okay. Done. The monsters will relentlessly, fearlessly continue to

addempts to kill you. Two, three, eight, and seven will take seven points of piercing damage from the bees as they are grappled. Okay, two, three. Three and seven. Okay, three dies. Eight. Damn it. And seven.

Yeah, I gotta get the killing blow. I was so close, which wasn't enough. That's gonna be this, and that's gonna be this. Okay. They are becoming accustomed to the bees now. They're no longer flying around. You can watch as these bees are crawling on top of them, stinging them, falling off in order to only to be.

be magically replaced by more bees, and yet they are ignoring them and continuing to swing inwards. One and nine are going to make javelin attacks against first Tyshen at disadvantage because of the heavy obscurity. That's going to miss, and then Raven ear. Raven ear? Raveneer's okay.

Again, that is going to be a 15 to hit. Oh, hold on. Robineer. That hits. And so that's going to be 16 points of piercing damage, as the javelin goes straight through your bird form and sticks into the timber ceiling above you. Then we're going to get at disadvantage two attacks

on Taishan. That's going to be a natural one. That's going to be a 21 to hit. That's very cool. It's going to be 13 points of bludgeoning damage as a warhammer through a wall of bees, slammed into you like a sledge hammer. We're gonna do two at disadvantage against Queenie.

Miss, miss, miss. That's going to be two disadvantage against Scrim. That's going to be 15 and a... Something, that's 21. I'll allow it. You will allow it for 15 points of legend and damages. Also a mace flies in, smashes into, you can feel cartilage crush under the weight of this blow,

and they are still swinging. I'll very quickly do the javelins that are flying through. That's gonna miss. Number five is going to take a large battle axe and attempt to stop the raven from attacking him. He's going to, oh, these aren't at disadvantage. Those are just two attacks, and that's a four and a three. So that's done.

Four is going to javelin in towards Queenie. That also misses, and 10 is going to javelin towards Taishen. That is going to be a 17 to hit. Oh, well there it is and that is the monster's turn. How are we feeling everybody? Should we top the round here or should we should we Barnabos over here? We got to Barnabas. Let's Barnabust. Yeah, Raven takes firewall. Oh, because it's close. That's within 10. Yeah, the four names. That's like a four and yeah Roll it up. You can't roll it up.

Let me just see you go up. You have to make a Raven save. Oh, how do I make my Raven save? What is a Raven save? What does a Raven save? On the side of the wall scene. Well, his plus to Raven saves is 42, so. Yeah, it's deck 17. That's deck 17. I think your wall of fire is very similar to my wall of humanoid arms. I think I pass. He has to make a deck 17.

Roll very low. Okay. You'll think half. What are we doing? My raven's taking fire damage. Oh, yeah. Because it can't fit. Oof-da.

So much for rolling low there, buddy. Which team are you on? He's like, nah, gna, gna, gna, gna! Oh, so he's Australian. 30 points of fired damage. Okay, so 15. Fentimate! I.

NAR! NAR! You are released from the bear hug, and the surprisingly nimble for his strength, Carrowback jumps backwards. You can see where you've pummeled him, where you've gone in with your claws. Those wounds are bleeding, but this guy is relentless.

is relentless. I rolled natural 20 for the first attempt. Oh, okay. Let's fucking go. Gotta give it up. Critical, don't forget. Voodlec. Uh, 18.

18. 18? Yeah, 18. Does that hit? That hits, that 18 and 18 is the AC. Two attacks. And then a 20. So that is all this, I'm gonna roll as roll all the damage.

Well, do crits push him back? No. No. 10. They probably should. 12. That's the first one. 12. Oh man, I rolled terribly. 12. 18.

But 18. Actually, I'll just have the damage. 18 plus 24 is 42. 42 points of damage. I rolled very terribly. And then because of that, I can use a bonus action to make another attack because I credit. Yeah.

I mean, couldn't you technically just string these along forever? It's limited by bonus action. Oh. That's a limiter. That's smart. That's good game design. Okay. And then that is going to be.

Well, if only he were a crow, he could have been called Crowa. If he was from the same island as Toa. Oh. 16 points of slashing days. damage. No. As I am, I'm feeling it. I am bloody.

Like if he cribs me one more time, I am down. And so I am just, I'm not even speaking, I'm just looking at him and I am just filled with anger as I'm just kind of. You are lashing out and taking chunks out of him. You know that he's hurting too. He's bleeding, there's a flap. coming down from the top of his head of his own forehead.

It seems to be going into his eye, making almost a tear. But even despite these gory details, he is a man of will. And he seems to be completely ignoring the pain and going in with full strength after full strength after stroke, full strength. He looks at you and he looks up at the sky. He roars like this, and he punches his wounds.

He punches his wounds. He punches his wounds. And he seems to punch the blood from stop bleeding, and you mechanically understand that he is healing himself with a bonus action, a once-per-day feature that I've given this particular creature. Oh, no. Oh, no. He looks invigored by this, but it uses his bonus action.

to do this so he won't be able to benefit from all of his attacks. He instead goes in for a sweeping leg kick. I need you to make a dexterity saving throw. Okay, I'm gonna add five to this. I'm adding five. That's, I'm not enough for you. You gotta hit yourself. Dexterity saving throw.

That is going to be a 16 plus five is a 21. A 21? Yep. One moment. Ooh, I think you might have got him. Yes, you succeed. You are able to, despite the dizziness in your head, the pain and bruising around your body,

you are able to step back and just underneath one of your legs. You feel the sand hit the bottom of your bare foot. And it's your turn to go. Caravac reassumes this position, ready to grapple or attack. You're not sure which. Natural 20. Oh, let's go. Timely.

Oh wow. I don't think that hits. Oh no. Wow. 14. Nope. To be fair, you've been killing it, man. You don't understand.

I'm using by bonus action to make another hit on him just because, you know, I've got a crit. Okay, that'll hit. So it's still three. Nice. I'm gonna roll the brutal critical first. It could be, it's a lot better than the first one. So that is nine.

That is 15 and then 15, 25, 37, 37, 37, 37, 61 points of slashing damage. Damn, okay. With three hits. Huge! He, despite his roar, for the first time you're starting to hear, and he races around you again using surprising speed. He flips to the other side and endeavors to push into you.

He rams into your waist and tries to push. Go ahead and make a strength or athletics check. You're faster than you look. I'll give you that. Come on. Oh, oh, 22. 24. Wow.

He pushes you back the 15 feet using this part of his replaced multi-attack and you feel the same piercing sound crunch into your back, taking 17 points of. of piercing damage as he pushes into you. He makes two more attacks. How many attacks did you do last round? Four.

Three with my crab and then the bonus second. Oh, this was at advantage, so 24 to hit. And with his two other attacks and 25 to hit, he's going to. When do we erupt out of the ground? If I can kill this guy with one of us. Well, we're a little pre-on. We just, we just, we just,

also if we do manage to get out, he's gonna be 400 feet tall. and then he'll stomp on us. Yeah. He's only got six at one. There's only one person in his campaign, I want to stomp on me. Same.

Oh, guys. I should have used two. I just five twists. That's my best. And it is secundice. Puts on my manure stomping boots. Yeah, we should be burning all the twists. Yeah, that's my bad.

Remember the number 24 for me. I'm having trouble doing bad. 24, 24. Jack Bauer. And 19. One moment. You're taking half damage from all this. 43 points of damage.

As he once again uses that same effective elbow maneuver if he crunches in and crunches in. You can hear the gasps from the crowd, the cheers. You can hear the sounds of the ogres. They are yelling. You're not sure what the sound is, but you're looking into the stands and you're not seeing your friends in the.

in these moments of pain, you're not seeing them, but instead blinded by rage, the seawater refreshes you, and you pick back up, endeavoring to survive this terrible ordeal. Your turn? My turn? Oh, shit. Okay, I don't take him out now.

That's it. I think we need to twist every single one of these attack ones. You don't really miss once? Yeah, he's only missed once out of like, 24 tags or something insane. But yeah, I mean, if we, I mean, I mean, every single one needs to hit, right? Yeah.

Can you just damage? Like, can you just push it? I mean, if we have enough, we're gonna put out 15. We have a ton, right? Or maybe we can do a few on each? Let's do three on each. Three on each? A very thoughtful.

Yeah. Let's do nine. Do nine. Thank you. Cheers. That'll hit. There we go. Three outage.

20. That'll hit. I need a crit! No crits, but I got three. It's okay. It's okay. All that, all hit. Well, if you kill him, you get an extra bonus action.

That's true, I actually do. I'm going to write his HP down right here on this car. Oh, God, God, I'm so nervous. God, I'm so nervous. Oh, could be worse. Could be worse. Okay. 12 plus 12 is 24 48 points of slashing damage

I didn't want to do this oh let's fucking go that's close that's a race of the bottom I will be impaled and I'll be looking around and I will see that there's this Goliath in front of me and I think about all of the Goliaths that I've known think about the my my history and my past and the meals that I've shared, the hunting that I've done, the dancing that I've done, these memories that have come back since the mind flares unlocked that captain's chest in my memory.

You don't, you don't deserve to be chief of anyone. And I am just going to basically try to give him the snip all the way up. And then with that, While he is double over, I will attempt to, for my first attack, and double over, grab him around the head and give him the old sniff around his head. You run your claw up his chest,

creating a huge gash opening like this, and he looks down dumbly as he starts to see his own attention, and it's just enough of the distraction that you need in order to wrap both of your claw hands around his neck and pop like a Pez dispenser. His head flies, A massive head, a thousand pound head off of a 30 feet Titan will land like a boulder crashing into the sand,

blood spilling out in all directions, immediately soaking the ground and floor the hard pack, and it rolls until finally coming to a stop with just a dumb look out into the crowd. You hear the sound of both cheers and silence as the Goliath Stormfist Legion immediately shuts the fuck up. shuts the fuck up. You would have gotten earlier.

I know. The body hits the ground and the head start to slowly shrink back to their original size as the boon very slowly begins to drain out of them like water from a balloon. Top of the round, let's get back into the action. Meanwhile, we're our room that's literally on fire. Killing football. Yeah. They fucking deserve it.

Oie! Oie! I am, once again, just... I was born 30 miles from you! I'm just gonna shoot through Taishan's legs again at number one. 26 for the first hit. Natural 20.

It becomes a 15. What's there, you see? 16. Okay. So one hits. And who are you attacking? Number one. Okay.

Number eight. Oh, no, no. No. 10 points of damage. 10 points of damage. You make your attack and you continue to, I think, maintain concentration on the bees walls. You've been doing this the whole time?

I'd forgotten if it was concentration. Yeah, it's concentration. I wrote for all of them, but I didn't get hit last round. Very good. Any of your turn? Scrim. I have no more spells. I will, in one quick motion,

Ha ha ha loose the brutal blade in a swirl of smoke it will pop in in my hand and I will make two attacks at number seven but a disadvantage Very good. I pass my turn Ta-chin We're fucked Seeing seeing that the walls of bees is still up and that's heavily obscuring us And the The only thing the wall of fire is currently doing is burning You are burning

I will drop concentration on the wall of fire, dispersing it. I will then, I will once again, twin spell. Let's fucking go. I will twin spell and say to Scrim and Queenie, except the gift of the dragon, and cast Dragon's breath. I will! At a fourth level, which will which will give you the ability to breathe dragon fire

Which as a I have to then concentrate on that. Oh, let me do this thing first Oh yeah, give me two give me two points just in case really pretty bad I got you famed Mace you're leveling up this is a bad ass me in suspense here What would you say is that a nine or a six? I actually don't know check the opposite side of the die The opposite side is a 12? It'll be somewhere. It should add up to 21. Which is it?

Oh, it's a nine. It's a nine. It's a nine. So the base is right here and the point is the top. Okay, okay. So you can take the two. Okay, okay. It's all good.

That's like a 17. Oh gosh. Okay, I can cast the spell. And let me make sure how the sorcery points for this so I don't cheat. Nose said exactly the most thinking. He feeds him the spicy curry from SuperSmart's brothers, bra.

The JPEG that drops of the plate of Japanese curry. It's like, it's like, it's like, 20 pixels. No, they drink the fire blossom tea. That's it, it's what? And twin spelling out, you both gained the breath of dragon fire at a fourth level. Which means that you can...

Yeah, what's the... Is it a deck-saving deck? In their edge one, will they create... It's fire, firebreadth. A 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area has to make a deck-saving throw. taking 3d6 on a failed save or half as much on a successful one when you cast it as well third level or higher the damage increase by 1d6 for each

slot so it would be 5d6 what is the deck how is the decks check determined is it based on our spellcast DC or yes it's mine yours it should be a deck 17 beautiful and that is my turn they should be the same either way well done Thank you. That's an action. You're near. That is an action. Yeah, so it's a bonus action for me to cast it. It's an action for you to use it.

I think. It's always confused me, but we'll do, do another D20 that's not. We'll do beak talons. Beak talons both hit for me. Beak talons again for all other, they all hit. So the, uh, beek, talons, heels, males, heels. Meals, heels, tails, something, something.

Feathers, beek, talon, feathers, caw. We'll roll both beaks. I can say caw. Oh, no. Five, six, twelve points of piercing damage for the beaks. This is all five. Oh, sorry. That was, um, that was for five. Yep, yep.

And then I'm swooping down to attack seven, who's like right next to me, and sort of on the border of the wall. Okay. And then five, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, fifteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, one points of damage number seven.

Killing him instantly. Damn. What was the other one that I'd kill? Three. Thank you. That's my turn. They are all gonna go in. Very quickly.

Two and eight are gonna take 11 points. I promise to kill eight and thank you for letting me know regarding number two. Okay. So eight's dead? Yep. Okay. Can you move eight off?

Can you pull eight off? Yep. Thanks. Wow. Okay. Let's go with ranged attack against Your Honor or not disadvantage. That surprisingly hits.

That's going to be 13 points of piercing damage, a range of attack against Tyshanna at disadvantage. You will see it hit me as I flashed with blue light and I fall to the ground. Oh, 10 feet, no, no crash me, no crash me, no grasp me, no grasp me! If that matters.

Nine, five or ten feet. Everyone ever would. Oh, did five die? The one that Yornear was? No, five is still alive. Tyshanan 19 to hit. I will cast a shield and an explosion of flame that once again is golden and coalesces in kind of like an enveloping dual wings of a dragon. Come around me, you'll see my AC mechanics.

One, three, two, twenty, three. Nice. The javelin that would hit you. This burst of sudden kinetic fired just barely misses and hot eye. and barely sings into you as it as you dodge. Then that's going to be a disadvantaged attack on Queenie, disadvantaged attack on Taichin, and disadvantaged attack on scrim.

15? No. Not in close, baby. Disavantage on Queenie, man, disadvantage sucks. This is a giant rate. A natural one in a 20, that's hilarious. Number five is going to take two. multi-attack against the Raven. That's going to be a bagillion to hit,

and that's going to be, oh, yes, they both hit. So that's going to be 12 points of bludgeoning damage, and then 13 bludgeoning damage. And he's just smashing into this thing with a mace like a baseball bat. And that's the conclusion of the monster's turn. How much damage did it say? 12, and then for the first attack,

and then 13 for the next one, wasn't it? My raven took damage too, right? That's the damage is down. All of that was the raybacker. It explodes into not blood and viscera, into a flurry of snow. No. We just drove it.

But now before turning into some sort of a ray gun. Peeo, pooh. Oh, I love him. He's very Wallace and Gremitt. Is your fire breath considered, if I use it, it's a spell? Or is it because you already cast a spell?

No. Now that you have it as an ability, I will not make a concentration check to use that. Queenie, you're up. It's gone to you. I'm gonna turn towards number two, and I'm gonna let loose the fire of Hell's. I'm dragging Hells.

You do so. Number two. Does he have to make a dexterity? Dexterity, 17. 12. It's 5E6. Oh, it's 5.6. I think you just fry them.

Six. 14 points of fire damage. Okay, that kills number two. Go ahead, take him off the playing field. Get it, you. And I have two attacks per action. Does that count as only one attack? The fire grass?

The fire action or read the spell. Oh, yeah, it's probably not an attack. It's a bonus action. But I think you might be right that. I know that one's a bonus action and one's an action. Okay. The creature can use an action. Yes.

Exhale energy of the chosen type of a 15-book. So there's an action for the... Sorry, I led you astray. No, that's okay. That's my turn. Scrimblow. If I attempt... Don't call me.

That's all right. If you, if I attempt to walk through the bees while I be grappled. If you fail your deck saving throw. It's just a straight-up deck saving throw. It's not like athletics or acrobatics. No, but you will immediately take 66. Piercing damage.

60s, I can... I can listen to that. My problem is my deck's saving throws. It's not really good. It's against DC-17. Yeah, that's not that's a problem. I mean, if I can squeeze around Yorneur, I can blast number nine, but that's about it. You can blast through his legs.

I would say also you can't end your turn in another creature's space, right? But like we, we, you could difficult to rain get underneath, uh, uh, your nears crotch area. Yeah. Do a little fire blow and then, and then back out. All right, I'm just going to go. I'm just going to hit nine. Dex savings 17.19. You probably hit the

it's a cone. It takes time to flare out, right? 16. Amazing. They have terrible decks. This is a fantastic move. 5D6. 5D6. Oh.

Okay, not great. That's 12 plus 5. 17, 19 total points of fire damage, and then I'll basically slip back to where my spot is. To number nine? To number nine? Yeah, number nine. Thank you. That's my turn.

Hi, Shedd. I will... How's... Invite to you like a quick landscape and I'm just... I mean, I guess just these guys are... They're really like... heavily obscured. Yeah, everyone's heavily obscure. Just randomly fired.

Yeah, I just randomly fired. Oh, no. Everyone's looking pretty rough, that's what I will say. Exactly. There are no... There are no wrong answers, right? Yeah. There are no right answers.

Dissing out. All right. I will cast scorching ray at a third level and once again flare out with these balls of fire erupting from my moose. I move forwardly and kind of like spin my legs and almost an axe motion as these cartwheels of flame will lick off and well like that ass. Yeah. That's what you can't happen. That's a workhole.

16, 16, 16. Okay, now all that happens. And I will rule for each one at a third level. It is, I believe, four hits. Yep, four hits. So I'll do two on nine, two on one. And it's disadvantage. Is that what we said?

Yeah, you're making a great attack. I am absolutely. I'm good. You're good, bro. So the first one will hit down. Golden. Second one on hit nine. Roll like hot fire.

Keep it up. One, third one on hit one. Can you do it? All four? At this is hedge? No. That counts. That counts.

That counts. You take the table. Intimidate the dice. Intimidate the dice. It's just to intimidate the nice. It's like, what is it? Not Yonzi.

What's the... Touble. Trouble. Trouble. Yeah, please. I don't mean. They're yours. That's still pretty insane. Three or four there. So it would be two. Two for each. This will be on nine. Pretty good. Seven, eight.

That's pretty good. Hey. 13 plus five is 18 on number nine. 18 on number nine is gone. He's dead. You killed him. You've murdered a man, Tyshen. Yeah, fuck. I'm gonna look at spell. I don't know what I can do. And the number one will take 11 points of fire damage. Also killing him terribly.

Which one, number one? He's almost like sickles of flame. Yeah, number one and number. And just bake them, just fucking cut him in half. I mean, which one's the one you just killed nine? Yeah. Nine and one? Nine and one? All right. See you now.

Gorn here. Your turn. Um, oh, boo. Are you yorn to be wild? That was cute. It's okay. I like that one a lot. So, like, realistically. I don't have any clue what's going on over here.

No. How do these bees last? 10 minutes, or, yeah, I think it's 10 minutes, until I dropped them. I would have been dead by now if it hadn't been to the bees. No, I mean, it's, they're good bees. What good bees is? What can I say? They're very good bees.

You're just push through the bees. That's what I was gonna do. They do, they do like a fuck to the damage, they do, they do that 8 million damage. But, if I do, freedom of movement, do I become... immune? Probably to the grapple, but not to the damage. Did you teleport?

Turn into a bee and then just be like, bees don't sing, man. I'm a bee. I can't teleport. It's an elandron thing. I am going to, you will, I'm going to, I'm going to,

I'm holding my staff, but I'm going to do this and a snow will sort of flurry in my hand and they will turn into a snowball. And I'm just like, oh. Hoo! I'm just gonna chuck a snowball.

Just blind lane and see my head on that guy. Oh my god! That's pretty damn good. That definitely hits. Yeah, that definitely hits. That's fucking amazing. I check a snowball at this guy and cast him. Which guy?

Yeah, I love hail. I don't know. You pick and make it random, yeah? I mean, it's just like, you know, he's just like... I'll roll a D4. I'll roll a D4. I'll get on one of those. Oh. Oh.

You hit four. It does one D8 bludgeoning damage. It needs to make a constitution saving from. Yep. It's pretty good. It passes. So I do 6 damage. You do great. What the fuck? And then he gets hit by a snowball.

Um... That's it. Weird. I can definitely math. Okay. Uh, there... there are... They're going to, there's no longer a wall of fire, they're staring at a tornado of bees. And- I'm sorry, they're actually wriggling human arms.

You're an efficient bear off the down. They're just small arms that look like bees. Exactly right. And they've still got a shitload of javelins behind them and out of frustration, they're just assuming that you were inside of this massive thing, they're just gonna start chucking. The wall behind us is like a porcupine

of fear ends, like just seeing a wall. Too many bees. It's like hero. Yeah. Scrim, 17 to hit. Son of a guy, you made it. I got you? You got me.

Really? 17's my army. Oh, very nice. And I can't catch you. That's a nice AC. That's going to be 15 points of piercing damage to you. That's going to be... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Is this a new round? Well, no, it's the end of the round. Yeah, you had your turn and then this, but like, we've done two of these since... When they came back here. I catch you. I catch you the last time. When they attacked, so you haven't gotten your reaction back here.

Oh, I haven't gotten it back yet? No. Because they went. Right? And then that's the end of the round. We went and then he came. Yeah, but you'll be your reaction until you go again. But he did.

So, I think he would have had his reaction back. He had a whole turn again. Because they went. They went and they did he cast shields. And then we did all of this and now we're back again. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's my. I know it's Scrim's turn.

I don't know. I'm getting. You're fine. Yes, sorry. You have your reaction. I say something like bathing in the golden dragon. fire. And I, the Golden Flames were in Circle Scrim. What do you mean?

And he will enjoy a improvement on AC of plus four. That's enough. That is enough. I take back my 15 damage. That's mine. My head of whites. Get back in there. Hell yeah. A dirty 20 that hit you. Oh, that misses. My AC's 47. Life can be really hard sometimes.

13 points of piercing damage to you is another javelin flies in hitting you and then falling to the ground around you. That's the conclusion of their turn. Queenie, at top of the round, you're up. I am going to look towards four and I'm going to fire an arrow at four. That's going to be, yeah, 29 to hit. You hit.

Putting the range in Ranger. Eight points of damage to number four. Okay. And then I'm going to attempt to hit him again. Okay. And I miss. Okay. Scrimbo.

Sorry, I admit. No, it's fine. I was just saying, you know, I don't care. You call me scrimbo, scrimbleau. Scrimble, scrimble. Okay. It's your turn, scrimmaling a dingon. That's a good one, too.

I'm going to attempt to just make, Eldridge's blast attacks at this advantage, I guess. Okay. And you can also randomly choose the target if I managed to hit. Ah, son of a gun. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Disadvantages just so brutal.

You twisted these. No, 16 hits. Yeah, that's good. Who were you fighting at? I fire in this direction, so if you want to randomly say who it hits, that's fine. You hit number five.

Fuck, good. Um, one D10, plus five. Nope, just two. Um, he has three help. Wow. Oh my God. Fucking brutal. Taichin.

You won't keep us from our friend any longer. It's time to end this. And one more time, I will lob out a massive blast of flame. As it strikes centrally, the wall of fire will once again cut them straight across directly in front of them. At now a fifth level. Roast them. Dealing, fuck all. How much damage?

What is this is crazy, right? Give me five. Just a minute. Give me the damage range, like minimum, general, like, average. What are we rolling here? It's 68 when it begins. And then if they attempt to move through it, if they end their turn behind it.

It would be doubled up. So on average, it's 27 damage. Okay. And they have to make a dexterity saving throw, or it's half? And he's got to pass the con check. I got to pass the con check. You put the fire out and you haven't even passed the con check? That's very optimistic.

I do want to make a point, though. Give me five. I think it's really amazing that you learned how to play sorcerer after that awesome episode. I would like to go out on record that said I've spent every sorcery point that I have. What? I've activated the avatar state. There you go. I really can feel the power.

It's obvious. Okay, sir, this happens for sure, I think. They all have to roll when the wall appears each creature makes a deck-saving throw. We're rolling a disadvantage on this, right? Nothing like. Oh, I thought we've been, didn't you roll twice? 10, fails, I'm advanced. Six, fails, five fails, four succeeds.

Four's about the fucking cut. But four is the one who's gotten the least hurt of all of this. He's the only person who has any chance of surviving this, depending on what you roll. Oh yeah, this is good. Oh, fuck. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is it more than 30 damage?

This is, no, it's not, but it could be. Hang on, there's something I can do, there's something I can do. He says, wait, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, trying to convert back in points, you can, you can, I can, but I have to convert a spell slot. Yeah. Does that take a- And does our- There's a bonus action.

You're good. I can use your sorcery points to get additional spell slots or sacrifice sacrifice both logs to be an additional Holy shitty, I'm not playing you do it. Okay, okay, everybody. We're fucking, oh wow. Now, that makes it dangerous. I sacrifice two.

First you learn how to read. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay. It's still enough to empower your spell. Okay, I have to, well, so it's one, all right, they gives me two sorcery points back. Yep. And I'm immediately spend them on empowering the spell,

and I'm gonna sacrifice two of them to re-roll the damage die. So take your back. I'm so proud of it. Yeah, this is... If we could just one shot them, that would be great. I've mastered the elements a thousand times and a thousand lifetimes and I will do it again. Better. Okay.

Nine, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-two. I almost added this. 22, 27 points of fire damage. 5D8. How do you want to do this? Hey! Hey, let's fucking go. I want to, I'm mad.

I'm giving you, I'm giving you three HP for the, for four because it's just silly. He's, he's gonna be caught in a nightmare fire. Yeah, they're dead. I, uh, got him. He takes three damage from convection. Yeah, we can get to him. He steps, he steps on a beak. Yeah.

And it gets a leg, it falls into the fire. Ty Shed is, is mad. We've been separated from Barnabos, our, friend who in my perspective is up fighting for his life fighting for the freedom of all of the ogres doing everything he can in a brutal one-on-one battle to really set the tone for what the rest of our lives are going to look like in this space and we're being cut off by these absolute fuchs not on my watch um and i will explain like i'll take an absolutely deep breath and you'll see my my chest and my stomach almost like in gorge uh and then i will just

explode out a massive blast of flame as it arches through the air and just as it strikes the ground explodes, flames just lick out all towards the enemies, just envelop up them and it crawls up them and just scorches them. When it lands, it swims out like a wave and for a brief moment that Goliath realized the wall of fire has gotten closer. They hear your roar and they They instinctually back up, but the wall is behind them. They push into metal and stone, but they cannot escape the heat of the flames, and this wall of fire ends their screams quickly. Holy crap!

The sound of booming and crashes above you, like a wardrum, has also ceased. All you can see in front of you is the surprisingly silent flickering curtains of fire that Taishan has summoned. You're all hurting, breathing heavily, and you know that a good amount of time has passed. You have no idea what has been happening above or with your friend Barnabos, but you have managed to hang on to your buried lives. You have grown familiar and accustomed to this feeling with your allies at your side.

You look around and the chaos of battle is strewn, strewn all about you. And looking into each other's eyes, you can see that, like yourselves, there are injuries, wounds, sweat, some teary eyes from the adrenaline of combat, but everyone seems to still be whole themselves and alive. The four of you, breathing heavily,

are, find yourself in the quiet of this space underneath the combat arena. What do you do? We need to get back up. I don't hear anything. It was unbelievable amounts of noise and crashing and now there's nothing. We are wounded. And there may be more.

They have turned on us. They could betray Barnabot says they did us. It's true. Can you unlock the door? Yeah, I'll try and I'll run up to the gate that they locked. Is it a normal door or is it a large gate? gate, does it have a lock? It's a large door, and it does not seem to be locked. When as soon as you pull it, it swings wide open.

I'll try. I'll try. And it goes, and I swing it to the wall. Ah! Go! It was unlocked! Scrim, great work, let's go! I put too much into it! There's no time! Leave it!

Leave him. You're on your steps over the struggling body of screen. I roll over the pugilis. This is the big one, this is it. Yeah, I can't jump. The four of you race back, retracing your steps, up a few flight of stairs, left, right, left, right, and then eventually you find yourself walking through the archway of the door that leads into the tunnel towards the gate. You race up to the, you race up to the door. the gate and you can see through the crossed beams of this massive, massive portal that, uh, the scene that lies before you.

Barnabas, you have begun to diminish. As immediately after the combat, which only took a few minutes, really, the, um, the Boone, the Colossus' embrace, uh, has been. begun to fade, just as it did much more quickly for your defeated foe. And what are you doing when they finally are able to peer through the beams and stare out into the arena? I will have pulled my soul off this bite before I just like, ah! As you string, it's like, slowly split to do.

There's too much blood. You can't get off of it. You can't get off of it. Your hands are wet and sick. That is so hard. No! No! What happens if I shrink? Oh, God!

Holy shit! Oh, God, you just touch you clean enough. You're able to get away from the spikes towards the center of the arena. And I look for the Princess of Raff if I can see her on her terrace. You can see and hear her. She is standing at the front of the balcony of the space that is her viewing box, and she He is clapping. I will look at her as my hands will turn back to normal as I, as my rage drops and my

transformation drops. And I will, I'll look up at her and says, It's done then. We have our freedom and the freedom of the ogres. Spread the word. Corovac died. Barnabos and his companions are under the protection of the princess. Tomorrow, tomorrow evening, they will be initiated, and Argent home, our home, will be the same home as theirs.

A new tribe of Dracar. Does the crowd react? The Goliaths are not cheering. They're not clapping. They are looking down at their defeated chival. and there's quite a bit of whispering commotion going on as they are looking back and forth, trying to gauge what comes next

for the Stormfist Legion. The Princess turns, and with a few gestures, you can't hear the words, but you imagine what she is saying as she's conveying, spreading the word. Flight, a winged flight from, the cobalds at her side immediately take off and they start flying up through the holes in the ceiling of this domed hippodrome and out into the city, presumably to share the news.

Looking around for my friends. You look, and it's at this point that one of them has engaged to the gate, and you can see the same gate that you had come through is lifting up, and you can see very plainly the four of your friends have not just been watching from that tunnel through that portal. No, we're covered in blood. Blood and honey. Blood and honey.

Sponsored by the horror film, Blood and Honey. Oh my God, we're in this episode, Icebound Blood and Honey. That's really fucking good. I'll look, and I'm horribly wounded. I am dinged up, gashes, completely crushed. as I will look and I will say,

what do you do to them? The princess leans over the balcony and looks, she takes one step and another and stands right there on the edge of the railing before jumping. What should be a 50-foot drop from her vantage point, before she even drops five, however, she warps and twists in an inch.

shimmering shower of ice. She assumes her dragon form, glides down to the battle arena, and again drops the form just a time to land into the arena onto the hard pack. And races forward. She yells out. And she turns and you look and in the crowd, you can see a younger,

Elias, but very, very evidently the brother, or at least some relation to Korvac. And he is racing forward. Yes, my princess. She just points and gestures towards the fore of you. You were betrayed. Your brother? Yes, as you say, princess, as you say. She jumps and again in the same twisting motion, she ascends.

the 50 feet at an angle and immediately reaches him at the bottom of the tiered stair. And you watch as her huge white dragon talon wraps around him before shrinking back into its human hand and pulling him up. This is very evidently a relation, a sibling of Korovac. He is similarly well built. And even in her human form, he is holding against

against her. She is completely still, and it was deception. He dishonored himself. It was not the Legion. We knew none. And he starts to turn blue right around here. Let us hope that you show more wisdom than your brother. You aren't the new chief of the Stormfist Legion,

and I would hate to see you end up like him. And she drops him. They are under my protection. Hear that? They are under my protection. The Princess of Rath's word is law. You have earned, and she turns to the five of you, your place.

You've earned the guardianship of the ogres. And you've earned a home. Welcome. I'll nod deeply. Are he strong enough? After all that, after what you did to our captain, after what you made me do to him, are you not entertained? Korovac was one of the better fighters I had seen in centuries. I would say that you are strong enough to join me.

With our own banner, our own land, our own place at your side. What about those ogres who would wish to live? would wish to have their own freedom, find their own fate, their own fortune, their own destiny outside of Arjunolm. It isn't safe. Dracar is under a terrible threat. Perhaps we can talk more of freedom when we are no longer at war. And talk more.

I would hear of your journey here. I am sure we have much to discuss. We do. Rest. My ivory clutch will be back shortly to show you to your new homes so that you can heal and prepare for your naming ceremony. I will think of a good name. You do that. And I best consider the freedom, war or not before you ask us to kneel. I need you all to make a perception check. Ooh.

I definitely fail, but I will look. 9. 22. Inpros. It's WISD. We're in. We still got the idea. I'll lot.

A 14? 14 as well. 14? Not bad. 24. You're near? Nine. You are all focused on the pretext.

You are all focused on the print. Princess, Taishen and Scrim, as you are looking, in the periphery, your upper periphery, you get a moment where you look up and you see the flicker of a shadow. A white cobalt, perhaps passing through the rafters, there's no more movement, but you're momentarily distracted. When your eyes are back down, the Princess of Wrath has turned and has started to make her way up the stairs towards one of the exits. I'm going to finish my sleep.

Thank you for the entertaining evening. I look forward to our assembly tomorrow. Most of the city will be there. Don't miss it. And she walks eventually fading, not fading, but out of view from your vantage point, presumably to go outside and transform to a place where she would be able to return to the biting bastion, the castle, the keep.

Oh my God, Bonobos, I'm so glad to see you. You look like hell. Speak for yourself. You look terrible. Yeah, well, we got jumped. Ten of them. Those bastards, they lowered us into a room and they jumped us. Well, I killed their chief.

Yes, you did. We received the same hospitality, then. Well done. It was close. I was overconfident. Queen's right. He was a lot stronger than I thought. A lot stronger than he looks.

Maybe I'm just getting older. Does she have any assistance or like, you know, vassals or servants or anything? Running around where they could turn to to be like, where are we staying? Oh, you can see that from the reception box, uh, yeah, uh, from the reception. area, there are white cobalds without wings who have made their way down and around the stairs,

and then eventually you can see them open up another gate on one of the other cardinal directions of this arena that you find yourself standing in. The Goliaths are following Vornar's orders, and they are clearing out from the arena, effectively leaving you with a handful of these white cobalds and they run up to you. We are to show you the district that you can make your home. Yes. It is empty now. Many of our brothers and sisters, they are stationed at where we found the ogres.

Please lead the way. We could certainly clean up. It is on the other side of the city, directly south, between the Deep Delve and the Cursed Glade. Then we must gather the rest of our king. Word is spreading. These ogres and the others that are spread across the city, I understand, are already starting to also be guided by frost hammers like us. but it's not delay. We are wounded and tired.

I'd like to... Is Vornar... Does he come down? Vorn... Vornar once released turned to establish his new authority with the Goliath. The body has then left

unceremoniously in the center of the arena. And the crowd of Goliath has effectively cleared out. not see Vornar. Vornar. The cursed glade. That's the one the superver told me about. Nym.

Nim, Rodel. Oh, of course. Nim Rodel. Yes. Nimrodel told you that his people, the Shadow Vale, Kabbal. They called that their home for the most part.

Yep. So it seems that wherever you're being in. In my curse town is. In adjacent area to the, Perfect. But you've not heard the district name the deep delts yet. Yay. All right. I went out of the super hurt.

And I would say that you return the items that Barnabos no longer had on his person in order to engage in unarmed combat. You have to go back to get the anchor leaning on the interior of the portal, but you're led that way. And these white cobalds start to transport you, convey you out of the hippodrome through the streets of the giant step. And to a common street, one that will allow you to make this wide range around the donut that is Arjun home over the course of the next hour or so, you would reach your destination. But as you are reaching in and pulling out the items that you have, Queenie of Barnabos,

and you reach into your pocket to pull out the pipe. You recognize suddenly something that is in your pocket that wasn't there before, a small piece of parchment. Yeah. Oh. What the hell? And you start to walk your way down the beaten cobblestone path says you make your way outside. So I just notice this is in my pocket.

Yep. I will, I'm reaching for the pipe. I give you the pipe. and then I go back in my pocket and I'm like, wait a minute, what? What's wrong with your Savascoach? How many people around us that are not us? I would say that there's eight or nine

white cobalds that are supposed to be your escort, but they're scattered around. They mostly are just waiting for you, almost sort of like, we're guiding the way, but if you stop, we'll stop. Oh, I'm twisted my ankle. Give me a moment. Oh, you're not, need help.

Okay. Again. Again. Again. Again. It's probably from the door. Again, here. Oh, weird, it's better now. All right, we can continue. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That must have been. Come on, everyone. We'll fight. No, it's fine. You know, old injury. Will, very, just put it into my clothes.

Okay. And continue. You find a home fort in your cloaks or in your, um, uh, garments and you begin to walk. You're tired. You had a day of rest during daylight and that was what nourished you, restored your abilities, your innate magic returned, but just one encounter with these fierce Goliaths as tricksy as it might have been has you reeling again and ready to hit whatever bed you may be led back,

uh, led to. Do you discuss anything as you continue to make your way through the night city? Um, I would kind of, uh, you know, in a weird, like you guys know the script is weird, right? So he's a little weird, he's a lot, yeah, yeah, yeah. But even still, you notice the scream is kind of acting a little like, like a little extra anime.

Ah, yeah. Well, as soon as we get back to where there's a comfy bed, I, I could just, pass out but I really really am gonna I gotta go for a walk I gotta get some fresh air been a crazy day I mean look at us we look brutal ah I just want to see the bed I want to know where it is yeah I want to get lost and then I want to go for a walk just a walk I got to clear my head we gotta do it soon I might lose my mind what I'm gonna do the fuck are you talking about just gonna go for a walk a walk a walk

Good to clear the senses, but after the day we've had. I hope you enjoy your walk. You'll come back and tell us all about it, yeah? Oh, I'm not going to make you. I'm not going to make you long with me, but I think we should do it. Wait, I'm sorry. You asking me to come with you or cash in. All of us, especially you.

May we get in private, please, and to our quarters, because we need to rest. But I just want to see them. I just want to see them and I want to go for a walk. You want to just look at the beds and then go for a walk? The beds are there and go for a walk. We are going to rest, thank you. I am not in the mood to walk, Mr. Stavisga. I mean, if you really want someone to protect you

while you're walking, I'll come with you. That's what it is, that's what it is. And Barnabos, I really think you're gonna wanna go for a walk. I mean, considering the fact, I mean, to be fair, Scrim does have a point. We thought we were getting escorted up to see the princess, and we were jumped by 10 Goliath, so I don't necessarily think until we have that,

That a meeting thing or whatever, the initiation that we're really safe here. So if Scrim needs us to accompany him, it's not really going to kill us to go in a walk. We almost died. The sky will be blue or the snow will be colder and brighter. Scrim restrain yourself. Can we take a bath first? I'm covered in blood. Why would you want to take a bath before the walk?

We're probably going to get all sweaty. I'm covered in blood in the ashes of our enemies. You know how he is on a walk. He starts running around. shaking his butt saying, you're not gonna catch me, and then one of us has to chase him. And then we all get sweaty, chasing scrimmed through the streets before we finally catch him

and drag him back to the room. That is true. As you're having this conversation, you're passing back through the marketplace. It's a more direct route than what you had to take as you were sneaking in the city, but you recognize some of the milestones. And passing through, you eventually reach

what you can only assume is the edge of the district. of the Deep Delve, unlike the quarters of the Goliath district where they had very much refashioned the architecture to meet their own aesthetic desires. These buildings look largely unchanged. They are very much of the make, that sort of elegant strength that you've come to associate with the silver dragon born that came before, the ones who originally built. this place. And the windows are all dark. It seems almost lifeless. You pass this area guided by your cobalds and eventually they reach a street indicating that this is your street. This is the street where the ogres are being led and you can even see some are being guided into various

buildings and homes. Presumably this was originally the home of more Frosthammer. like themselves. But with that population now having moved to where Ogerton was, it's an empty street, empty buildings, and they've been made yours by the word of the Princess of Wrath in addition to her protection. You choose a building and you find yourselves inside your own home. A beautiful space with that same shared architecture, the hearth is already going. seems that the welcome mat is being rolled out for you. As soon as I take a step in, I look around, this is great, and I try to turn around and leave.

You turn around and you can see two Frosthammers are standing there with their spears. Can we help you? Yes, by getting out of the way. Scream, it is time to go for a walk. What? It is time to go to bed. I come down, we've had a long day.

Hey, you, little Frosthammer guys, can we I think I want to walk. We've had a long day. We're beaten up by your people. We will protect you. Oh no. We got it. You saw what he did to that big old Goliath guy, didn't you? You don't want that to be you next, right? We have been asked to make sure that you are safe. Oh yeah, definitely. We will keep you in sight. You walk ahead. Scrim, I tried. We are turning in for the night. Thank you. I hate to admit it. Good day. It will be a long night. We will watch. Damn, I didn't think they were gonna...

Stuck toast like glue. What's going on? Where did you get this? Give me it, give it, get it, get it, get it. You may read it. What do you mean read it? You may read it, and I'll turn it to a... It's my note!

You gave it to me. What? Only you can read it too. I will explain. I'm the owner of the note. What does it say? If you give it back. I'll give it back.

Spin it up! Drop it, drop it, drop it, drop it. It says an hour southwest. I knew she was still alive. But I didn't get my pocket. It was in my pocket. Holy crap. Is this some sort of trick?

I'm gonna all baby. I'm gonna tell you a secret. Us Rangers can communicate with small beasts, Grim. See any rats scuttering about? Maybe a bird or something? No. Were you looking? No.

All right then. It might not be as scary as you think. I'm just astounded. I'm so happy that she's alive. All we have is this note. Is it her signature? Can you tell? I mean, it certainly looks like something Daisy. Actually, have we ever seen her right before?

Sending letters? No, no. Didn't they send written messages? Yeah, from the vassal setting. Would we have seen any of those messages to be able to compare their handwriting? Huh. I don't know if you've seen Daisy's handwriting. I don't think so.

But we didn't account for every minute and second of all of the things. I would say that it would be nearly impossible. But if you wanted to make an intelligence check or some relevant intelligence check, To make a deduction, then I would allow the roll. Introse. Oh, yeah, this is her writing. I'm sure. It's her writing.

She's alive. She wrote that, and somehow she managed to put it in my pocket. Well, you would know you were the one who's the most close to her. How would she get this into your pocket? I literally just explained that. Little rats, creatures. I am... I could, I could slip any of you guys a note with my bees.

Daisy and I aren't that much. different. I'm like... You're like dying. I'm like the cat with my. Yeah, I would not do it so hot. It's like, I don't give a fuck who's out there.

And Howard... And I would... How would fuck them? What is it like? It's the meme where it's like, oh, he just got a new note. And then, like, you were going to lose a comet, Bartlett, but it's dying. This isn't about him.

It's not about him. Let me ask you a series of questions. Oh, me? Any of you? Oh, all right. Did we announce our intentions to meet or reunite with a human name Daisy? And we announced to who?

Yes, we did. Did you have this note in your pocket when we did this thing? I don't know. I was retrieving the pipe for Barnabos and it was in that pocket. I think I would have known if the belt was in there when I put the pipe in my pocket. If you're talking about all hours ago before the fight, I don't think so. And after we announced our intentions to reunite with the human name Daisy, this note appears in your pocket. Maybe.

I suggest we get some sleep I look at a very part of those. Oh my gosh. Oh my God, is a greeting? I mean, we could always send out a small group of us to check. We don't need the big guy to come with us. We don't even need you to come with us if you want to stay here and protect him.

It could be a covert ops mission, the int bros and me. It's a trap. We don't have to get so close. We can get close enough, see if we spot her, we can't spot her, and believe me, if she's there, we'll spot her. We just come back. We need to be careful. I know.

We thought we were safe, and we were attacked by almost a dozen Goliaths. And barely survived. We were betrayed at the drop of a hat. I know, and I said in that barn, I didn't trust any of it. We need to survive. I know. but I also want to protect Daisy. So do I.

Then let me go. Well, you mentioned that she could use critters to get a message here. Scrim is a master of the arts of tomfoolery. Slight of hand. And I wave my hand and from between my fingers, like, 10 gold coins appear, and then they disappear. I'll tell you what Ang does the, the air whistle thing? I don't know how someone could have slipped it on onto him without him knowing.

But if you believe that she could get a message to us in that format, do you think that you could do the reverse? Instead of us potentially walking into a trap, you could send a message. I didn't take that spell because I was informed I had to take wall of humanoid hands. As much as I... Who told you to do that your option for a wall of humanoid. You know what hands are send critter by the hell? Ranges every time.

Ranges are foxed. And so as much as I could and I can technically, but unfortunately on this day I cannot. But in the morning you could wake up perhaps. No, because I ain't a warlock. How is it? Manny. Oh, well, the morning.

Oh, you're all right, you're cool. Come in, come in, come in. You ducks in. through the door. And then I put my head out and I looked at the cul-bole. I'm like, bang! I slammed the door. I'll have.

We were just going to bed. I agree, Queenie. I hope more than anything that she's alive and that this is a genuine note. But we are wounded, especially one of those. I'm fine. It's just a bit of... It's only gotten pale twice. From the back all the way through, run through.

Tyshen's draconic font is depleted. We are weak. Let us sleep, and then we can hopefully reconnect with her in the morning. You help ogres, and suddenly this massive bear hug picks you up your near and again goes into you, a scrim. Mani has clearly come here to thank you.

And when he is done with his hugs, He says, thank you. And he turns around and starts to make his way. Back out. Make sure that the ogre settle in the buildings and that they are safe. Mani, sleep in bed tonight. Before you go to sleep, yes.

Just make sure your people are well. You can walk about the city as you'd like. If you wanna get your own meal, your drinks, or explore. You don't have to stay in any here. No more pens. No more pens. Tomorrow we train to fight. Yes, good.

We have a lot of work to do. I forgot you were all a bunch of librarians and priests and stuff. Oh, no. Library. Wow, that's concerning. On the equivalent of Sundays. Are there enough? Sorry.

Are there enough bedrooms for each of us to have one? Or like how they're in sounds? Yeah, for some reason I'm picturing like a townhouse. Like this is a very nice like a two-floor area. There's no basement or anything like that, but there's a kitchen. And you've clearly been put up in one of the much nicer villas, for lack of a better word.

This is not as luxurious as the faux luxury of Ogerton. But it has a very quaint charm, and is spacious enough, especially for just the five of you. This would have been a family home for a wealthy silver dragon born some centuries ago. Good night. And Manny goes to find whatever home makes sense to him at that time. The door shuts behind him. I want to find her as much as anybody else does. But she's made it this fall for this long.

and a few more hours over night shouldn't make a difference unless she leaves I'm with Ms. March I don't think we can afford to let a night pass when we've told her and the princess has sent

her clutch on wing to find her to keep an eye out for her well you're certainly not going anywhere well you take one more step you're going to believe out I'm not stealthy either I don't need much I could take scrimm I can go myself. If this letter is genuine, then she is not far and she is well. She's not going to

leave the second she finds us and she's not going to die overnight. You don't know that. You don't know who could find her, what could happen. And if we are wrong or if we are found then we all die. Then let me go by myself. I'm not asking to get you in danger. I'm not asking to get scrim in danger. I'm asking to go find my friend. To not risk one more night as something happened to her. Not after what happened to her sister. Do we know how easy it is to get out of the city period? That's a good question. No. You are familiar with only the walls of the giant step district. But you entered through the tunnels through the mountain into the marketplace,

and you have no idea what the perimeter of a city like this might look like. Is it cliffs of ice? Is it totally open where the city limits simply diminishes in settlements and structures until you can walk out into free wilderness? There's only one way to tell, it's to go. I think. Or to ask. Small folk

You're near if you can Turn into one of your beasts The three of you Won't be detected Tysha and I don't know how stealthy you are And also being a golden dragon morn It might be too much of a rest I wouldn't want to leave you anyway

At Barnabose I could use some tea I only fear that Tonight We're under heavy watch If you go Even if it is genuine and she is there.

I can do this on my own. You run just as much a risk of bringing the princess's forces to Daisy. And she's already said that if she finds her, she has no safe bastion except to be claimed into the princess's direct castle.

And that doesn't change whether she's alone in the mountains or with us. But they're watching us. And I'm sure they're looking for her. and she is less than an hour away, according to her note. Unless it means she's an hour southwest of, we're deep in a cavern system. If she's an hour southwest, once you get out in the mountains,

she could be very far away. Yes. May I please have my note back? I started on a potter, too. Thank you. And I stick it back on. The night draws on, and the questions of how to,

to deal with this new piece of information. The promise that you've made to the Princess of Wrath swirls around in your minds, everything else that you have on top of that, the weight and burden of what brought you here to Dakar in the first place, is dizzying. And you sometimes address it head-on, other times talk around it, and other times try to avoid the topic entirely over the warming tea of Taishan. Sorry, just whenever we have a moment. You look down and you realize you're staring at the leaves at the bottom of the cup. And the night is getting long.

May I see the note. May you join me. Me? All of you. We're right here. I would like to see if this note is genuine. So join me in a ritual of the old faith. Sure, that.

You enjoy short rest. If you have a way to do that, yeah, absolutely. Let's throw it. I'll take out a bowl, a little bowl. And I will take some kindling, and I will put it into the bowl. And there's maybe a couple twigs that I have on me. And I will take some flint and tender

and just get a very small fire. I will take some incense out. If any of you, have a memory of daisy, or perhaps a something of hers. May you please present it as part of this ritual? I can offer just the memory of the time we met. She struck down the... the woodland animal we were hunting.

Or Queenie did. It's muddled now, but we greeted her with Scrim's classic greeting from new friends. As you were speaking these words, you put the two images together. They look very similar, but that was not when you met Daisy. That was when you met Honey. I mean... ...Ahm, I'm sorry. You met her at the entrance to the Elven home that eventually burned down,

knowing that you would have to deliver, not knowing that she was in there, for one thing, but also realizing that you'd have to deliver the news of her sister's death. and she was peeking up through the window. I think of that memory only to recall the time we had to tell her that her sister died. Jeez! And that's the memory I offer instead. I'll reach into my herbalism pouch and I'll throw in some herbs and the fire will grow a little bigger. And different incense and sort of fragrances will start to sort of spread through the room.

Anyone else? I don't have anything physical, but the memory that I have is... The memory that I have is I've learned a lot from all of you, especially Barclos, and the importance of freedom. And that's why I had one of those ogres, take one of those chain winks, and turn it into a loop. I thought it was kind of symbolic of taking the chains and turning it into your own thing, reclaiming it for your own. And I gave her that loop, and she put it around her neck. And that was a nice moment. She smiled.

She looked a little confused at first, but she smiled. And that's a memory that I hold dear. I'll add some more herbs and the fire will go bitter. I have the memory of when I gave her her new bow with a string that was fashioned for her, the pieces from her sisters, and how she'll always be able to carry honey with her every day. That's the memory I carry of her. I, after the doom that came to Overton, days that followed, we taught her out a roast about, bore how to season it and how to prepare it, carve it. She wanted to learn how to be able to

prepare a feast for her kid. She was natural. I remember when we told her of her sister's death, she did not shut down. She did not crumble away. She did not wither like a f... Daisy. She... Wanted to survive. And this is who she is. And I'll take the note. And listen I'm about to pass the neck to scrim, but I'll throw it into the fire. And I will whiff... into it. Then I will sit back. I will peer into the weird...

The way I have never done before. Daisy. If you are alive, show me. I will look to cast Scrying. Super scribe because you repeat the shit. She needs to make a... I'm hoping that all affect the DC. But anyway, she needs to make a wisdom saving throw. The save modifier is...

Wait. The target must make a wisdom saving throw, which is modified by how will you know the target? And the sort of... The target knows you're casting the spell. It can fail a saving throw voluntarily if it wants to be observed, but it's not. So her role is subtracted by five. because I'm familiar with her.

And then minus four, because we have a possession or a garment as part of the ritual. Sorry, you're gonna have to give me this in a minute. I need to find her stat block. So if we're doing like magic from the Northmen, are we gonna take a bunch of drugs, get on all four is barking far on each other. Ooh.

Don't tap me with a guitar. Yornear's definitely a hallucinating, right? And he's, when he entailed this smuged. He's sort of communing with the weird. Just because I think, you can just cry too much and it becomes cheesy, so I want it to be like a more impactful thing that I'm gonna just gonna cast every other day. Man, hold on.

But you can. It's on your character sheet. It's my character, guys. It's on your fucking. Interesting. Okay. So she needs to make a wisdom saving throw. Okay.

And it's minus nine. And it's minus nine. And now, I don't know if we probably twisted it. Let's talk about scrying. If you were scrying on anybody, what are they wisely saving against? Like, how does this happen in the world of magic? Um, basically, at least how I'm viewing it, right?

Is that the weird, or sort of the lore of the weird is that it's sort of like this, this essence, this magic, the force that just connects everything, right? And so Yorneur would basically be trying to peer through the weird and try to locate the person that he's seeking. And so I think the idea is that, you know, wherever she would be, just like constitution can happen while you're unconscious, right? It's this sort of inherent power of the mind that can stave off this, this sriying power. or the power of, you know, you're near's ability to sort of peer through the weird.

So I'm basically trying to break that so that I can find her. Okay. In this sort of natural web. You are... So she would have this feeling of, like, intrusive being watched that she was trying to push out of her mind. Is that what she is...

Like, I'm trying to think about what Daisy is actually endeavoring to do. Like, is this a natural... No, no, no. She's not consciously doing it. She's not, okay. Yeah, it's basically just her, just like in when you're unconscious and you make a constitution saving throw,

you're not thinking, oh, I'm gonna. What's your DC? My DC. It's like 16, 17, 18? 17. 17. And she has a minus 9. Yeah, come on. Minus 9.

She fails. I don't have to roll. I open my eyes. She physically cannot pass. And they are both gloat. with almost like this purple, or this light blue sort of incense smoke. And mechanically, I create a sensor near her,

10 feet away, and I can look through the sensor magically as long as she's on the same plane of existence as me. She is. And I can watch her for 10 minutes. You feel an instant transportation almost as your sight in your eye your eye shifts. What is normally murky, perhaps even blind,

suddenly opens up and you can see more clearly through it than you can through your uninjured eye. And you don't even have a sensation of flight. It is like pulling back a drape of reality as all of a sudden you are looking at the side of a mountain pass, a path on the side of the mountain There are trees thin at this altitude, but there are trees of fur and other... Why do I always forget tree names when I'm trying to do my descriptions?

Um, Christmas trees, fuck, pine, spruce. You can see these, you recognize the flora instantly, and you peer through this, and very quickly you realize that you are following someone who is moving quite quickly. The sensor has to continue to move forward. And there's this not pleasant moment where your stomach has to lurch just a little bit because you are catching up with somebody

who is jogging, moving at a good clip. Yeah, it stays within 10 feet. Exactly, exactly. And so as you are following, you see a figure in the night. You see a cloudless, under the cloudless moonlit sky, you are looking and following a recognizable shape. shape of who you can only presume to be Queenie.

But Daisy. Okay. But. But. She's gone. Her furs are the same, what you recognize, from the last time you saw her from what you can tell, perhaps a little bit more banged up,

worse for the where. You recognize the bow that's strewn back behind her back. You recognize a few satchels. But more importantly, you recognize a helm. helm. Almost a head piece of armor.

And moving even closer in with your sensor, you are trying to get a sense of what this shape is, for it looks alien and strange to you. You cannot make out what is the nature of this helmet, for lack of a better word,

when the sensor has to stop because the figure stops. And turning, you realize the figure stopped to look back at Argentholm. You've been traveling away. You've been traveling southwest to wherever the destination indicated in the note is. And you are, however long or far into this journey, you're not sure. But Daisy turns. And what you see is what is clearly the harvested bone of some creature.

And... Where her face would be, you see these almost insect-like eyes. You can see the jaw almost grinning and bone like that. She's made other adjustments to her armor, and she turns for a moment and peers back in the direction of Arjun Home before turning, getting her breath and continuing forward. Unremarkable 10 minutes passes other than these details

that you are taking in, soaring around with your sensor, you've seemingly caught her as she is making her night travel back to wherever her shelter is before the sensor fades and blinks out. I like my eye going, you'll see. I'm sort of like swaying almost uncharacteristically. Very Northmen, right, where these stoic guys

take all these drugs and they're like naked and working. I'm not going that crazy, but I'm just sort of kind of swaying and maybe chanting under my breath. and singing that song that was a bad ass song that was just playing. Dude. Yeah, that was fucking awesome, not all that. And you'll see almost like a single tear rolled down my face. And I'll snap out of it.

She lives. What? You saw her? No way. The note was hers. It allowed me to find her. She is taken care of herself. I knew she'd make it. She's even more skilled than when we were.

skilled than when we left her. Yes! Yes. I did not want to hold on to hope. But she is gifted. More than I realized. We need to find her before the clutch does.

We do. But I implore all of you. We must rest first. I do not want us to make an emotional decision in the cut down in the nature. night. If all of you do want to go, then I will follow. But I will allow you to make the decision. I'm trying to be the mature one, you know. Shocking, I know. It is. I want to go. But I know that Barnabos can't take 10 feet away from this place. He's going to

kill over any second. That was a ship term. Can you get her all go? We can't all walk through these streets with all these eyes on us. Tomorrow night we're going to be busy and who knows what's going to happen after. Who knows if she'll stay, who knows if she'll go. But right now we know where she's at. I can get her. I don't you trust me. I may not have been able to say, I can save her.

If you wish. I could take maybe scrimm. But even then it becomes more dangerous. You will take scrim. I cannot protect you scrim. Protection. We just gotta move quick. We'll move quick. You will hinder me.

Because in that terrain, I'm not, I won't be impeded by it like you will be. And then just leave me. We'll figure it up. You can ride my bees. Ah. If you trust them. Eh, whatever you say goes. I'm gonna make myself. Eggs.

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