Legends of Avantris - Icebound | Ep. 9 | Fear Overwhelming

Episode Date: August 30, 2024

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Welcome to Legends of Aventress. I'm Coiny and you're listening to Aspound. Here's what happened last time. The beast it hunts us. There are a tremendous number of undead animals in this woods now. Oh Jesus. They are all dead. What? All dead. How is that possible?

What do you mean? We don't know how these curses work. We tried to avoid them, but her voyage was doomed from the beginning. And it feels like it's right outside the door. And it is. There is a slam. Right at the front door. I'm going to kill some monsters!

Everyone there is an exit through the shit hole. Let's get some provisions and move. What the fuck does that mean? Your body is moving without your control. Very calmly walks over to the wall, picks up the lamp, and hugs it, throwing this oil-filled lamp

directly at the feet of Yornear and Barnabos. It shatters. exploding in flames, it is time to run. Yeah, I mean, when you say it like that, you know, you have point. You saved our lives. Oh, yo, you. I suppose there's no way but forward then, and I'll just point off into the darkness. Where'd we go?

Morning doesn't seem to be approaching. This is not right. There should be light. Right, you think it's about that time? It should be dust, guess. But how long it has been, I'm certain of it. This whole place has cursed that... If it should ever happen.

that we should find running water. True to her word, we're in the middle of the river. We'll be able to see it coming for quite a ways. Through the darkness, you see what is very obviously a mature version of what you initially encountered when rolled and transformed.

It is directly in front of you. And when it skids to a stop, seeing its prey, it looks up into the darkness of the sky, and screams once again. That the scream shatters the entire space. No longer are you standing on a frozen river, but the entire river shatters in all directions

and begins to swim forward. You are on a ice flow, down a rapid river, experiencing the horror of the Wendigo, ready for its next week. It is the night before winter's eve. In all directions, save for the third severe snowstorm that rages around you, there is darkness. Standing now on a great frozen river, you recognize how truly alone and lost you all are.

Both banks completely shrouded from view, the sky is veiled by gusting, turbulent, violent, ice, and snow. The events that brought you to this place fade as you gaze upon that which hunts you. Before you now, the terrible, monstrous, dreadful vision of a monstrosity stands poised, nearly ten feet tall in its vicious posture. Nightmares would shrink from its malevolent force. Gray skin stretches taut over its enormous muscled frame. Four wicked antlers twist out of its shuddering skull. It arches its back and screams at the sky in seeming delight for the coming means.

A veritable banquet before its cursed, empty, cavernous eyes. No breath is visible as it howls. Only three baleful and bloodied skeletal jaws. The shriek is over in an instant. All goes silent from the pain and you feel your ears pop. The river ice you stand on shatters and breaks free. What was a stable, frozen water course, suddenly releases from its jam, and the already slick surface rocks and

bumps and grinds and turns under your feet. The thick layer of ice breaks apart, and the rushing water underneath immediately begins carrying you down its rushing current. Everything is muted, echoey, soft, as though you've been submerged underwater. The sudden shift pulls you all off your feet and you fall hard to the unyielding floor of ice. Cold, deafened, scared. Your minds momentarily retreat into yourselves and your lives flash before each of you. Barnabos. What memory occurs to you in this moment? I think back to being a young Triton on my first tide hunting ship, sea monster ship. And I think back to how scared I was when I encountered my first sea monster.

And despite its massive size, dwarfing this creature, it still is even close as terrified as what's before us. Yornear. What memory occurs to you? Yornear thinks back on all of the blight and sickness that he's seen in his long life in the moot animals rotting away from within, plants crumbling and dying, but all of that felt natural. It was sort of the natural way as he looks at this thing that seems of nature, but is so unnatural. Queenie, what memory flashes before your eyes? The image of honey being killed by one of these things, and knowing that, looking towards her sister and knowing that this is the time for justice. Scrim.

Scrimm thinks back to the moment that he was the most scared that he's ever been in his entire life, which is right before the quill touched that parchment paper, and he began to sign his name and thinking, well, if I'm to fall here and be devoured, then maybe the chase will finally be over. Teng Shian. I think back to the first morning I woke up and couldn't find Mali. And when I set out into the forest and came across the crossing, the first crossing to jump across.

And I feel like I could always see it in my head and, you know, peering in into blackness and almost feeling like it's extending miles out in front of me, like impossible. The five of you stand reliving these moments. You land on the ground, reliving these moments, and then look up and are snapped right back to reality. Adrenaline fills your veins. You feel it pumping in your heart. There is no flight.

Could this be your end? Everyone roll for initiatives. This could be Arlen. That is the answer to that question. Yes, this could be. Don't fuck me, Kimma. Don't fuck me, Kimmer. Here we go. Oh, boy.

You know, that's really impressive that you did all that, because I feel like, honestly, you could have turned the camera on, blowing the whistle and then, like, roll. All right. It's going to talk to I do to you people. 20 to 30, perhaps. 22. 22. Nice. 15 to 20.

17. Not this guy. He's got two goblin thumbs and didn't get 15. Two, you got green thumbs, two of them. That's right. Oh, thank God. 10 to 15? 9.

12. No, sorry. Still not me. Oh, sorry, I got 17. 17. And Daisy got 11. Sorry, I'm rolling for her hit points. Okay, I think I have everyone.

Barnabas, what were you? 17. Queenie first, Queenie? What was Queenie? It also 17. Okay. So, may I go first, Queenie? Huh?

May I go before you be with got 17? No. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'm last. Scrums last. And then after Tyshin is...

Something horrible, I'm sure. I'm getting my 3D20s. Daisy. So Daisy goes here. Yeah, it's me as. All right. You may add efficiency to... I'm going to take a little extra time to get geared up here for one moment.

Yeah, please. I mean, I do because I'm a hair and gone. Can I just, um... Darway? Gloomstock might as well. Guys, thank you right in this moment. Thank me. Oh.

The paint of tie shot? Yeah. Duh. It's real sloppy, but if we're going to look at him, you can't. I mean, I couldn't even done that. It would have been one coat all the way around. It's extremely sloppy. Yeah, you should look at Jericho. I just like, that's my best effort and that's a disaster.

He's literally one shade of brown. Wait, Farrell Instinct, maybe as a beast, maybe only I get it. Let's take a moment. Put yourself where you want to be so long as it is on the central ice flow. Do we know where the beast? What's up? Way over here. It's fine if you want to.

I think that would have been like. Shall we all, shall we all quickly pause here? Oh. Can I mat moot it? Yeah. Yeah. Pardon me. That was a burp.

Oh, what the fuck. Oh. Ha! Can we just for a second? Yeah, you guys see it? Holy smokes. This is what we're fighting tonight. That is amazing.

Look at this. Jesus. Wow, what a great paint job. You want to look at it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you for your guys rich in painting. A million percent of my great day. For the varnish that you provided that makes his hands look especially cleany and like actually bloody and reflective.

Speaking of fresh. It's got two total... Where did you fuckers put my varnish? Oh, it's right over here. Okay, cool, thanks. I know where it is. It's got two, like, separate, entirely complete deer skulls that form the mouths. Yeah.

That's fucking insane. That's fucking horrifying. Yeah, but, like, they form that they come together, like a clam. Oh, my God. You dropped it. We lost two horns, and it actually... I didn't realize that's what you actually made it look better after... After, um...

How did you want to, like, look in there? My name you repaired it. Yeah, I repaired it. My name was Nikki. I'm kind of every antler. Yeah, our patrons are we're getting into the patronage. Hang out. It fell from the top of the bookshelf, is how far it fell.

And it landed head first. And I was like, honestly, I think, I didn't know what she was talking about. She didn't tell me what it was. It was crazy. That you were paying something, dropped it. And there it is. Okay.

That's it. Oh, Jesus. Everyone's settled. Everyone feeling good? No? Great. That's what I want to hear. You're near. Top of the round. Let's go. Oh my God. It's right in there. I'm doing a description.

You stare up. Bear in mind you are all prone in terms of the D&D condition. And you are all deafened in terms of the D&D condition. And you are all on difficult terrain. What is that mechanically? What does that mean if you're prone on difficult terrain to stand up? Do you have a quarter of your speed? I guess it would be a quarter to stand up, yeah. Yeah. Or half and half? No, you'd use half of your movement, to move across difficult terrain.

Actually, I don't know. To stand up. I don't. I'm just going to say that it's going to be half to move and half to get up. I'm not going to combine them. Okay. Yeah, because that'd be three quarters to stand. So you would cut it in half to stand and then half, and then you can move half of what the remainder is. Exactly right. Jesus.

I can move one square. Oh, God. You're lying on your back, Yornear, and you are steering up wind and snowy is blowing in all directions, coating your clothes, getting into your eyes and face, but you can still see, but 15 feet in front of you, this towering monstrosity bearing down. It is clearly still finishing its howl.

Fuzzily, you are trying to make sense of this situation and think, how do you survive? How do you save your friends? How do you get out of this place? I am going to, I guess, get up and use half my movement, presumably, because I'm prone. I will stand up, I will see the score and knowing that there's, you know, and we're all a little, at least I'm pretty beat up.

I say, Mahmuth, we need you, now, protect us, regenerate us, and I'm going to summon sort of an icy blue, almost like a spectral mammoth visage. Not quite like an actual mammoth, but this sort of, it's hard to tell what it is, but it's almost like, like, like it has a mammoth head and it's sort of this ethereal spirit that is of a mammoth and I will cast a healing spirit as a bonus action. And for everyone at home,

or for everyone here, rather, we're at home. Until the spell ends, whenever myself or a creature I can see moves into the spirit space for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, you can use the spirit to restore

1D6 hit points to that creature. No action or question. It can't heal constructs or in debt. The spirit can heal a number of times people to one pluser spellcasting modifier. After the healing that number of times, the spirit disappears. I can also move it as a bonus action. So I will put it, let me find a D2 here. If you want, I can give you one of my beans. A bean would be, actually it may be a little more visible. Totally up to in here. I also like the color of the token. Yeah, it's nice. Yeah. So I am going to to, I think I'm going to place it here for now.

So we have to choose to use it? Yeah, is it difficult terrain? All of the ice is. All of the ice is. All of the ice is. Okay. If I happen to be a walrus, would it be difficult terrain? Yes.

If I happen to. I would say that it is ice, it is snow, it is moving on rapids. Bear in mind, this is not floating along gently along a thing. It is rocking up and down, back and forth. It is colliding with other pieces. It almost feels like you're on a ship's surface again during a storm of great proportion. Ice is very dangerous.

It has a taste for blood like it knows it killed a ventras once and it thirsts for more. Is that the conclusion of your turn? No. So then I will move this way diagonally to step into it. Heal, and I'll roll the healing. Then I will step this way to join my brother-in-arms Barnabos, and I will turn to Daisy.

And I will say, whatever you do, stay behind me. And you'll see sort of my form glow, bright light blue, and my form will shift into a large walrus. And I don't have a walrus, I don't have a walrus miniature, but I have this sort of fluffy brown thing that is walrus-like. Yes! So I just imagine this is a wall.

I too play Diddy Kong Racing. And that is my turn. Nice. Oh, let me roll. Okay, you do that, and you turn into a walrus. It's appropriate that Nikki was not sitting here because when you turn and you say, whatever you do, stay behind me.

She might look at your moving mouth and hear... She is definitely... You're all deafened. Oh, wow. Nicky's there too. It's not just Queenie. I might die in real life. If you die in this game, you die in real life.

Yeah, this is Chibonji. No. Five initiative counts from Yornear to Barnabot's occur, and so we are going to rotate the floats. Five additional amounts. And I'm going to ask everyone to start participating in the map manipulation that's going to be required for this outrageously chaotic space. Oh, wow.

So, for each initiative account, you see I have have these pips on the exterior of the main flow here. Oh my God. So I would move it. One, two, three, four, five. And all of these, everyone just give them a little twist. We're gonna start doing this between each of the initiative counts until these turns.

Because of the chaos that is happening in the rapids that you are flowing down. So these little hashes move like one square, but five times? Is that what you were doing? Twist the whole board? I'm twisting the whole board at its anchor point, at its center point. But I'm twisting it per pip.

So you see those purple pips on the exterior? Oh, one inch. Effectively 15 degrees. Okay, got it. Because it's 24 rotations to complete an entire round. Okay. So the other ones, as they get pushed, just feel free to jump in and turn them as you feel as appropriate.

Okay. That being said, that happens. the and one quick question this river is flowing this way correct? Yes I put those arrows to give you an indication that we are flowing from my left to my right

towards you both, away from you both just to give you a sense of some directionality. Which we as characters don't really know what that means yet. What's that? We as characters don't really know what that might intend. You as characters can look down at the rushing water and go oh I guess we're going sort of this way. We're like careening in a direction. Like carried, that is correct very much. Also, Yorneir, make a Constitution...

One moment. Do I have it written down? This is very epic soundtrack for what is essentially... It's a ability check. A... A con check? Yeah. I'm a save. It's against Defend.

So it's not a save, just confirm. That's correct. Okay. That's a nine. It's a nine. You can enjoy that nine. Enjoy that nine. We've turned the board. Barnaboth, you're up. I'm going to look at it as,

and not able to hear anything that's around, and I'll just clutch my anchor and I'll say, Hello, Beasty! As I say that saltwater splashes on me, barnacles grow as I get a little bit larger. My head gets taller and elongates a little bit, and some of my skin turns rubbery gray as a huge sperm whale tail grows from,

my spine, and I'm going to smash into him with my anchor. Fuck yes. So you're basically a sperm whale version of the street sharks. Yeah, basically. That's my intention. What am I doing here? Which die am I using? Okay, I'm doing, do I get two attacks at this moment?

No, I don't think. No, you can go. I'm going to be wrong. I'm going to be recklessly attacks. I'm going to recklessly attack. I don't think you're going to hit. Do you have the one that has the battle map? I'm switching back and forward.

You shouldn't. Well, just to even have it on the screen, though. Don't you have one that has it on the screen? Oh, I need to get up, and I'm going to move forward. I just leave it on this one. Okay. You race up to this beast, and it is coming down from the high of its scream, and looking at now a walrus, and this strange transformed tritonelioring.

transformed Triton. I get a 13. Misses. Yeah. Oh, boy. That's okay. It's going to be a good one. That's all I can do.

And it should have happened at the beginning of your turn, and it should happen at the beginning of all of your turns until this condition goes away. Roll a constitution check to see if you can unpop your ear. Oh. No, I said. Check or saving throw? Check.

Oh. No. What does it check mean? Just like the stat? You just add the stat at the top. At your stop, exactly right. It would be Queenie's turn,

but it is going to reach up with its huge ice claw that is one arm and immediately slash down and attempt to hit Barnabas. I had advantage. Thank you. Because I recklessly attacked. That was ill-advised. That's definitely going to hit.

I'm not going to tell you how hard, but I am going to roll for it. It actually is important for me to know what number you do. I rolled a 26th modified. Yeah, it's fine. I'll let it stand. I'll let it stand. I'll let it stand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it does. Smack rolls. It's going to do 10 points of flashing damage. That's, okay. And it's going to do four points of cold damage. Four points of cold? Yep. Okay. So you're going to do that as well. Yeah, thank God.

That's nice. That's nice. Thank God. Now is a question. Is there is balance of cold? or is it just difficult terrain sort of represents? Difficult terrain is how I am representing the shifting ice flows, and unless I decide narrative later, that might change. I was to say for now.

Yeah, yeah. You look up at this beast and you attempt to slash at it, and it reels back, and then with one quick swipe, it scrapes across your chest. It doesn't do as much damage as it thought it would, but you are clearly now grappling for your life. Queenie, you see this all happen. You see Yornear turn back to you, say something.

And with deafness and dark, is in all directions, what do you do? So I roll the con at the start of my turn. Yeah. You said? Yes. Good for you. I forgot.

No. And so I am from the ground. I am going to open up my honey pot and fling my wand and just cover this thing in honey and bees. Okay. Okay. Okay. I believe that's a form of torture in some historical ways. Yeah.

And then I'm going to use half of the best. my movement to stand up. Yeah, yeah. So I have 15 movement speed. No reaction. Could I use my movement speed to get on that ice flow behind us? You can attempt the jump. And we talked about jumping rules.

It takes 10 feet in order to jump your full amount of jump, which would be equal to your strength score. 10? 10. So if you took 10 feet to get up to that point, then you could jump. 10 feet and potentially make it across. Could I...

You have a rabbit. You're a rabbit. But I am out of my hops. I'm out of hops and spell slots, basically everything. When I was evaluating the character sheets, I was like, Nikki's going to need something to do. Here's the lady of silence. So, yeah, so could I do that?

Is that 15 feet? You can certainly make the attempt. Cool. I would like to do that. So basically you're going like, here, here, Yeah, totally. Should be good. Okay. I will, in my judgment, say that you will not need to roll to make the jump. That is a short enough gap, a short enough distance. But when you land, you're going to need to make an acrobatics check.

It's like Pokemon. Don't be Pokemon rolls. If you blow the DC-10 out of the water, you are able to land and keep your footing without falling prone. You look at the water rushing down, underneath you. Make a perception check for me. Ooh. Ooh. I like this one. Uh, 25. 25. As you jump, you look down and you realize that underneath this ice,

there must have been some kind of battle or some thing. You can see quickly a hand, a skeletal hand pass by. You can see a face, uh, disappear underneath the ice flow. scratching. You can see these creatures are underneath the water and now broken apart are trying to climb out, having been animated by the necrotic force. Shut the hell off. The one to go in, Specter! Great. Okay, so with my action then, I am going to fire a attack at him. Hit me. Put me down. I miss. She'd say so. Oh, sweet heavens. I do. I rolled a two. Wait, hold on, so they're in the water, but Yorneur doesn't know that there's in the water. No, no.

And nobody can hear, so I can't tell you anything. I'll scream it out. There's something in the water. Just look down, I swear it. I see it. The dead things in the water. Oh, fuck. And I'm like, ooh.

Make a perception check to make sure to see if you hear Queenie. Anyone who wants to. I fail. Well, even if we're deafened? The deafened condition is that you automatically fail. Oh, okay. I got a 402. I would try.

Okay. One. Very cool. Two, three, four, five. Oh, no. I need somebody to make another five rotation pips on the ice flow in the center, and everyone just grab some ice flows and start shifting them around. What is it?

One pip. Two, pip, three, pips, four, P. Fell Pipp. Fell Pipp. What a threat. Music to my ear, I mean, a horrible trad to me. Oh, we're losing queen. Oh, no! That's fine, let's just stay.

She's a sniper mode. She can just leave her now. Sniper mode. Okay, it lashes out, and this time it attempts to bite down onto the head of this Walrus creature that suddenly occurred in front of it. that's going to be a 22 to hit. My AC is nine, so it barely misses.

Nine! I feel the war is this would be very agile. Oh, wow. Minimum damage. You take eight points of piercing damage, and as it attempts to drink your blood from your veins. Gluttonously and greedily, Oh, no.

You take... You might be in a little bit of trouble. It's about to age. You take nine points of necrotic damage, and it seems to be nourished by this damage. Of course it does. I haven't done any damage to it, so... That's the conclusion of its legendary action. Tysha, you're up.

I'm still walrus. Uh... I think... I think my body would respond before my mind would even catch up, like muscle memory would kind of kick in, and my palms would go out and they would... of light, but I would think I'd be as close to about as catatonic as you could imagine in this scenario. Like, I don't even think I'm like my mind's functioning right now.

You basically black out, but you're still in fighting spirit. Right, yeah. And I'm just going to cast a second level scorching ray. Love that. And just... It's pretty metamad. Yeah, it's not very good for this, I don't think. I remember stepping in my thingy heals you 46.

Oh. So don't forget. You do see a magical thingy appear, and you're not sure what it does, but you see Yorne or walk past it, and one of the wounds, a scratch on his face, almost like a wipes away as if, um. Oh, I don't even know that. It's easy to deduce what happens when you walk into that matter. Okay, okay.

Yeah, it's easy to deduce. Oh, wait. You probably can't get there, though, is the problem. Yeah. I can move one square. Yeah, there you go. So I can stand up. Get a little closer.

Oh, that feels pleasure. I don't want to go closer to him, though. We're not going to go here. How close I have to be to it? Touch the space. It's going to be hard. It's going to take me a couple. Oh.

What's the con thing? To see if you unpop your ears. Oh, yeah, yeah. Constitution check. 11. You push against your ears, but you have bigger priorities right now. You rush into battle and you attempt to, wield the natural magics

that exist inside of your body, gifted to you by Foucho. Okay. And... Thanks. Well, fuck. A 16 to hit with scorching her eye.

That misses. I believe you roll for each beam. Let's twist it. Oh. You do. We only have five. We only have five twists. There's going to be a saving throw. Oh, three rays of fire. And a second level, you may have boosted it to four.

I can't recall. Yeah, you get to add a ray per. extra level. Okay, okay, let's go. Let's go. 25 to hit on the second. That hits. And not great. Not great on that one. I mean less than the first. 14. And so four. So you do hit with one of the scorching rays. Do you have a fourth ray? Yeah, he should. Okay. At second level, it should be four rays. Oh, no, it's second level. No, using a spell cell. Oh, if it's the base level. I think you were taking Rob Cass. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Well, I was using, it's a second level. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Our apologies. Listen, I don't know what I'm doing. I was confused. Yeah, we're telling you how to play your character.

Get in here. Get in here. Everybody. It might be weak to fire? I doubt it. Oh, it's about to take, I'm about to find out. It's about to take seven damage. Seven damage.

Let's go. It takes all seven a better. Hey. We're eating up. We're warming up here. It's okay. Yeah. We're getting a little,

little loosened up there. It doesn't look at me, though, does it? No, it hits by the fire, and it's clearly so focused by the monster's foes right in front of it. You can see that it takes some of its flesh away. Immediately it starts to almost look like it's forming over. That's the conclusion of your turn? Yeah, that'll be it. I believe that it's Daisy's turn.

Yes, it's Daisy's turn. Okay, Daisy is going to use half her movement to stand up. This is her whole, not her whole world because she's not deaf, but all of a sudden everyone's silent and she's able to communicate whatever she needs to do through very quick hand motions should you need to. Perfect. Oh. She is going to move 15 feet towards this ice flow. She stands up and that's her rest of her movement. Oh.

Because she takes 15 feet together. Oh, God, yeah. And if you want to move her 15 feet, then that's her full movement. She's there. So she's going to do that. and then she is going to, does she get to perceive? She can perceive if she wants to.

Because she's right next to the water. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she looks into the water. Her perception is 16? With a 16, she looks down and she sees a hand grab onto the ice and then just as it's the ice flow rocks, it gets pulled under and it gets clipped on the chin.

It is clearly some kind of totally skeletal submerged a creature underneath this water. Using her hand code, she will motion to everyone that there are dead things active in the water. Okay. Everyone make a

perception check. Oh. I got an 18. 19. Which is unfortunate because I'm going to fail my next role. Perception 22. 19. 19. 13. And Queenie.

Queenie. He's already seen it. Queenie's already seen it. I would say that it would be very hard because you're all focused in this direction. Yeah, look back, but only scrim. As you're still on the ground, starting to figure out, you look over, and she's winning underneath the ice flow. She's doing this, and she does a motion that she's done a couple times that says to you, undeth. Okay, I perceive that. I'm not sure I understand. And she will take out her long bow, and she'll fire two attacks at the Wendigo. Terrific. Oh.

Her sister's long bow that she recovered from the lodge, she pulls from her shoulder, and she pulls back, aims one arrow, and immediately releases the second. 17 misses. The other one is a 21. 21 hits.

So I need to roll at least an 11 on my die. It's an 18-bishop. Seven piercing damage. Seven piercing damage is seven piercing damage. The arrow lodges in. into its back and immediately sticks up and out, and it just continues to roll, as if undistracted by what should be pain in its undead body, doesn't register, but it does damage.

Is that the conclusion of Daisy's turn? That's the conclusion of her turn? It's going to, once again, it snapped its head and attempted to bite into the Walrus once successful. It's scraped across Barnabos' chest. And then it's coming back with the other arm now and slashing down into Barnabos. That's gonna be a 22 to hit.

Thank you, tanks. I am going to whip my tail around. I whip my tail back and forth, and I'm going to attempt to block it by rolling. Oh, sorry, I should have remembered what dye was. I'll put my damage die down for a moment. Just for a moment. Come on.

No. I may have an 18 AC now. Oh, I see where you're doing. It's a pair. You could have, but you roll me. Yeah, I roll the one. Okay. Oh, boy. Okay.

That's gonna be an additional 13 points of flashing damage, and it's going to be an additional six points of cold damage. Oh, 32. And then. Thank God I resent all this shit. Oh, have Daisy make a constitution check. The DC is 19 for this round. Uh, no. Grim, grin, you are feeling your namesake as you are grinning and grinning. That's my name.

That's Grico's last name. for goblins. Wow. How dare you? That's what I mean, man. Who the fuck is Grim Grant? He sounds like an asshole. Wow, I just went to a goblin place.

Puppie God! I'm so sorry. Oh, my love to say that, I'm so sorry. Scrim. Cust, can't say if there a start? Yep. 15, 19. 18, unfortunately.

So I still can't hear. Did you roll an 18 and then add your... I rolled in 4 and I had 14 and I add 4. As I'm standing up, I'm looking around, I'm seeing what I'm, Daisy is signing. And I'm thinking to myself, no, no, fuck, no, not like this.

I didn't sign up for this. Okay, wherever you are, whoever you are, if you're there, I need your help. And I will use my bonus action to cast Hexblades curse. To use Hexblades curse on this creature. And if everyone wasn't deafened, they would hear potentially the baying

of a creature in the distance. They all make perception checks and they fail. But anybody looking at me will start to see that there's almost a smoky texture surrounding me as I cast blur. It's a concentration spell, and it is going to use one of my spell slots. It is an action.

And my body becomes blurred, shifting and weaving to all they can see me for the duration, which is one minute, contrary to up to one minute. Any creature has disadvantaged attacks against me, and an attacker is immune to this effect if they don't rely on sight to attack or if they can see through illusions with true sight.

Okay. And then I will basically, because I can't hear anything, I'm saying all this way louder than I think that I am. And I will scream as I charge at the creature, and I can only move seven and a half feet. Because I only have 15 feet. Oh, because you use your bonus action to use Hexplay's curse, right? No, I mean, I stand up. That puts it at 15. Aren't you a goblin? Can't you use a bonus action to dash? Oh, well, I don't have that.

I only have 30 movement. So I'm 15 to stand up and then have to move to seven and a half feet. That's my turn. That's what I got. It's a good turn. Let's advance the rotation of the flow and additional 10 notches. Oh my God. One.

We can see everything there. Coming with us. Oh, that's actually, oh, that's a creature. Ooh. But you don't have a walrus mini for this shit? What a hack of a Druid. Imagine not having a mini for every form you can possibly be. I'm gonna try to do that for Greg.

Top of round. Everyone is still death, correct? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's go with an additional six notches on the turn, because that needs to get us to your near. This thing is spinning around.

There is flurries of snow, huge knuckle-sized snowflakes falling in all direction, twisting around you. And you can feel these lurches as you are clearly the ice floe is going over rocks and feeling like it's speeding up. The actual snow, as flurrying as it is, is starting to be pulled in a direction almost as the current takes to you. Who knows where. You're near. Let's go. I will look at him with my walrus face.

I look exactly like the walrus from Diddy Kongra. Yeah. That makes sense. Try again and see if you can beat my time. Yeah, I sound like this. Hey, guys. So I'm purple. I'm a purple walrus.

And I will use the incredible spell of tusks. Oh shit. Tuscts. Power to me. Powered Tusc. So I'm using the action of Tusks. You're going to dig in to the spirit that has transformed into this malevolence. So actually, I'm going to move here to keel again.

One, two. Can you move closer to me, you bastard? Hold on. Give me a second. Oh. So I use it again to heal. I use it again to heal, and I failed my attack. Yeah.

And then I will use my bonus action to move the spirit. Oh, thank God. Now, move it there so that it's more central to everyone, except Lady Silence. We can pass through it, right? It doesn't take up like space or anything. Correct, you can stand on it, you can pass through it. What is the Wendigo's range when you've taken an opportunity to?

I'm assuming he's, yeah, what's his size? I'm assuming I can hit it from there because we don't have a round base. He's large. Large? Yeah, he fills four squares. I'm gonna be short. I think just short. I'm sure it would be like here.

Yes, Exeter. And so he would hit, yeah, he'd hit that corner. That's a good point. So he would have taken an opportunity. He could have taken, oh, he could have taken an opportunity attack. He has his reaction. He's going to get a 13 to hit. That hits.

Only a walrus could that hit. I was like, what? 16 points of piercing damage and seven points of cold damage I'm not resistant to cold damage I'm not resistant to cold damage I don't know that's why I was surprised that's what I was surprised

oh no let me see how much I heal do you heal from tusks I would heal as I I would touch it as he hits me right so I'd get the healing or no I would say let's subtract it from the amount of damage that I just did okay so

rather than so So he didn't have moved. Probably not. That's how I feel like to have Lephyka all of them is time. Is his range 10? Is his range? Does he have reach?

He does not have reach. So he only has five foot range? That's correct. Oh wow. So then, well I guess I used up his reaction, so that's fair. So I'm going to go get healed now. So I am going Oh, he has an icy claw reach. My apology. Yes. Technically, yes. He would have

his bite is five feet. I was thinking of bite. Okay, but he used icy claw. So he wouldn't have... He used icy claw. But if it has reached, I never got out of his range with icy claw. Then undo the damage. Okay. Would he bite me? He can't bite you.

Well, he would be able to bite. Well, it depends on how you rule the attack of opportunity. Yeah, how does that work, actually? It's when you leave its reach. You have to leave its reach. And so if his reach is... And so he left the reach of bite. So I'll re-roll...

Literally, I just have to roll a one. That's interesting. So what... Yes, you left the reach of bite, but you left the reach of bite, but you left the reach of bite, you didn't leave the range of the monster, which is the range of its longest attack. That's kind of what I would agree with that assessment. So if he never left the range of his claw attack,

he doesn't get an attack of opportunity. It wouldn't think, oh, he's getting away. Okay, so as well, what I would say. 16 plus seven. Okay, I didn't take the damage, so I'm just gonna heal two. And that's my turn. That's D&D folks.

That was very well judged. That was important, because obviously every hit point's gonna matter So you back up as a walrus, you enjoy magical healing pool for a moment, and then you lunge forward Tusk style. Yeah. Like a Tuscan. Oh, so cool. I'm working Tusk are. Yeah, that's what I was thinking about. Wow. Okay. Did you Tusk? Yeah, I missed.

I know. Okay. It's my turn. It would be your turn except for the fact that it has one more legendary action left. Oh, no, no, no. They don't refresh. until it's turned. Until it's turning out. And I did attempt a legendary action. Yes. So it's out.

Do you want this five more? I do. Thank you. Please be my spin master. And now it's your turn. Also, it occurs to me, if you are deafened as your neer, does that condition transfer to your wild shape?

Should. I would think so. So you still do need to make a constitutional. Check. Check. I'm so much. Ah. And actually it's lower

because I'm a walrus, so I need to use the walrus's constitution. 10. Not even close. But the DC is now lower because of... We're naturally healing.

Because it's getting easier to hear. Because you care. All right. The Arnhobos, you're up. I am going to just slightly back up. I mean, I'll just dip my tail in there. Boop. And then come back in.

I'll heal myself. after my turning. I don't know if you can reaction. I'm going to recklessly attack because I am pissed. So how long is this claw reach? His claw reach of 10 feet. Okay, so if you dip into that space, you're outside of his, you've gone 15 feet. No, just to touch it. All he's going to do is touch it down. Oh, so. You know us to an adjacent square, not into the square. Gotcha. Then yeah, you don't have to move at all.

You feel this warming, healing pool. You feel your, your wounds, uh, blows and stop hurting and bleeding. It's a remarkable sensation. Seriously, one closer, right, to be in melee range. There. Oh. I think. You lift up your anchor. I'm going to swing in. Either way, yeah, you'll need a back to five feet. I think that should hit. Thank God I recklessly attacked. That's going to be a 26. That's good. That hits. And now that we've experienced our first round with this creature, the malevolent spirit is AC-18. Okay. Okay. That's doable. That's doable.

Can I get out of dry arrease? What? Uh, yeah. I'm actively getting that chills here. 13 points of bludgeoning damage. It's because ice bound. All right. It's because we're icebound.

I need to actually have a calculator up hilariously. I am also. A calculator? What are you that for? Not a good sign. Get that out of here. You don't need a T-I-89? I need it.

I am also going to to try to push him off the ice flow. Because I hit, a bad idea. Because I hit him with Crusher. And so I'm going to just move him back five feet. So I'm just gonna keep, boop. He does move back five feet. I don't know if it's possible.

And his hooves scrape against the surface of the ice. It is clearly terrified. It has as much fear of the water as you have of it. and it is resisting with all of its might as you push with the edge of your anchor into the river as best you can. And it is scrambling like a wild animal against your motion. Well, that changes things.

Oh, look who's afraid. And that's my turn. There's no way this is a humanoid, right? It's a spot an undead creature. This is a creature, not a humanoid. It's gotta be an undead and without any twisting or not it is Queen's turn. I am going to...

Don't turn. No, we don't turn. Queenie will face him because I'm turned around now. Oh, yeah, I'll turn around. These Isles are knocking into each other and suddenly you find yourself quite a bit of ways from the creature. But I don't think, is that 30 feet away? From the beast? No, no way.

That's 30. Yeah. That's 30. Okay. So ranged attack with all of the wings. all of the wind and commotion being what it is. I believe that your bow is 31.20. I don't know.

That's way more than that. $1.50, $600? $150 with $600. You're fine. So I am going to use my longbow attack. No. Even as an archery? It's plus nine.

That's all I've got. And I, you know, if I roll it, That's 15. It's like a fitty-fitty, you know. So, yeah, no, that's what time. Do you do anything movement-wise, screaming-wise? You're just watching and attempting to hit this thing. You lose an arrow.

And one of these arrows that you've crafted yourself and many times your survival wife disappears into the darkness, probably disappearing into the waters of the river. That's going to look like five turns of the flows. It is now its turn. And I need to roll this just to see. It doesn't. And then, right, okay.

It looks down and it is ready to feed. It thinks that, given how that, the fact that you've pushed it, you can imagine that it is quite, quite angry. It is going to go all in on Barnabot. Which looks like a delightful sushi to him. 14. 14 misses. 20.

I'm going to whip my tail back and forth, and my AC is now 24. Yes. As I smack it out of the life. Is that until your next round? No, no, so it's a parry. So I just parry that attack. You whip your tail up, and it is about to slash down,

and you smack its hand away in the last moment. So your AC is still what it was? It's just for that attack. No, it's just for that attack. One attack? Yeah. So it does an 18 hit? Yes, it does.

Okay. It bites down. Somehow expecting the Perry It bites down and Garbo's just going to die? Like 13 piercing damage Okay And 10 necrotic damage

And it feeds on your blood Jesus, okay So parry the bite makes that. That swallowing action You can see it Almost Brightened from unddeath What was like

Gaunt stretched skin Seems to be made and whaler and firmer and slicker and better from the nourishment that it experiences feeding on you as it bites down and pulls away, tendons, bloods. Oh, that's the heel too, okay. Very cool, I need a pair of the bite. Okay, good to know, good to know.

And that's gonna be. Its turn. Is it poor, more? No, that was his turn. That's gonna be the conclusion of its turn. Let's look at an additional three point of turning in the chaos of the ice flows. And then it's going to be... Push those more than that way.

I mean, you know, it's all going to crash because they're grinding against its screeching like metal. Yeah, you guys are doing the right thing. Make sure that they're really turning those ice flows as they twist. Oh, yeah. Tishin. Okay, okay, okay. Okay. Okay.

That's all right. I'm fine. One. She's in the best one. best to she's like safe yeah if I have 15 till those things start going on the can I hear is this fine yeah you can be like 17 through it no but I'm well I found a 15 movement that's like 17 square and you're gonna adjacent to it too so you can I'm trying to this square specifically oh yeah yeah yeah you're good

okay okay um hey can I touch you yeah okay thank you all right so I will blast out with another scorching array. Thank you for reminding me. You did fire damage to it, didn't it? Uh-huh. Yeah. It did not heal. Oh, okay. I thought it did you. It's like a troll. Okay, I got a little something special. Oh, then I'm going ape shit. Let's do this. Just you guys be adjacent to me. I'm gonna me. I'm scared. I'm just scared. I'm just the damn thing. I'm so far away. Okay. So I, you know, I power up. Uh, and I try and hit another scorching array.

You again channel that same energy. At this point, you're just lobbing ray after ray after ray of white-hot fire energy. 24 for the first beam. 18, I believe. That hit. Lance. Oh, thank goodness gracious.

Here we go. That's a great balls of fire. 12, okay. That's okay. Two for three, two. Two for three, two. Sparks, Nightmare sparks in the instance. an insane light you're all seeing in the darkness and snow that is billowing all around.

Like a firework, it goes off, it hits him and smokes against him. It's starting to scream about the pain of it. 13 flame damage. That does good work. And I will also, let me see. Just kidding, I'm trash. I got nothing. Steak. And I'll also like swirl away. with for just a second with a golden flame. And I'll use, I'll use two sorcerer points

to transition my elemental burst to a bonus action and cast elemental burst at a quick and spell level. Let's go. And shoot at a quick and just like, that's what that's there for. Yeah, exactly. You're starting to really push now and you're thinking about what Fuzzao wanted you

to learn in exploring the world. it feels it feels right to to be pouring yourself into this moment to try and and your friends to try and survive yourself I'm on twist your second level now no no no no no no no no no I got plan from my only have one more second old spell slot and I get it's a twump it out come here we go oh-hoo 21 max good money all right all right all right all right all right these guys one's piercing and one will be flame damage

oh almost equivalent I don't know right yeah three and four so seven yeah but three well three is piercing four is flame or the other way around thank you

if like it's resistant it is not resistant to or immune or vulnerable to fire damage so it just it just happens at the same amount is piercing Let's do one pip of rotation.

Oh, just one little... Just a tiny little rotation with everything. And then we're gonna daisy it up. Come here. Daisy's gonna move two more feet towards the edge. Just that little... Cut a little bit. Oh, boy.

Yeah. And she's going to make two attacks against it. Oh, my apologies. Barnabos, Queenie, and Taishen. Did any of you guys do your constitution? I did not. I failed. I failed. Yeah. Four. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're not doing that. We're not doing great. My ears get worse. She missed both of her attacks, and she also failed her constitution saving throw. She's terrified and losing arrow after her arrow and pulling them from the quiver. but with the amount of crashing around her

and how unstable this is, there's no, she's not fine purchase, let's say. That's going to be the conclusion of her turn. Two more notches on the pip. Oh. Scrim. Yeah. I'm sorry, Grim Grim, right?

Yeah. Grim Grim. Con check. Fail, 10. Okay. If there's any way in hell, my 15 feet somehow magically gets me to him, I'd like to make an attack. If not, I'm going to Eldridge blast him. So I'm going to leave that up to you, Math Wizards, and you let me know whether I can physical attack or I'll just blast.

Two and a half. I'd say you can get here, but you're still not in melee range. Oh, shit. Okay, I'm going to fire off a smoky. Are you going to take that movement, though? Oh, yeah. Okay. I have to get closer. But I'm not with a melee range so I should not be disadvantaged on myel. You take a step and you slide five feet. You take another step and you push another three feet forward. It is difficult to walk on. I don't know. You are making your way closer and you can see. Everyone is in solidarity joining together. It is flashing and biting in all directions.

And as I use up my movement, I steady myself and the smoky kind of mists around me actually emanates in my hand and blasts forth an inky tendril of the peatish magic. Damn. Smells like sulfur. Ha! That hits.

It's 17. Is it? No. Now it's 18. 18. Wait, what? I plus seven. And unfortunately, I get plus two to damage rolls not to hit with the X-Plan's curse.

So I am just trash. You release it. It's a tree with splinters. A splinter yet in your eye. You're blind and deaf. You're hundreds of feet away from a tree. You launch this red, insane. Yeah, no, you're hundreds of feet.

Yeah. It soars out. Multiple. Imagine a firework The movie Titanic disappearing into the night's, the night water. It's nice. It's a starry sky. Well, there's no star of sky. It's just

chaos snow in all direction. It disappears. That's the conclusion of a turn. We need eight pips. Eight pips. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Eight. Everything is twisting around all of you. You're spinning and attempting to deal with this monstrosity.

It is attempting to stay on the ice flow just as much as you are, but clearly raveniffs for your flesh. And the dead rise. Oh, no. And the dead rise. Four, sudden skeletal beings emerge. The raging torrent of snow around you flies in all directions, and it's getting faster. It's getting faster. You are at the top of the round.

six pips on the rotation of the flow. We just did eight. There's another six. It's getting jammed up. Yice. And it'll use its last legendary action to attempt to crush and bite into can it reach a bite attack on the walrus?

Is that five feet? Can it reach an icy claw? I. Like you reach a claw on the walrus, yes. It'll reach down and I can clorris the wallress. I can only miss with a natural one and it is not a natural one. Got him! So, yeah.

Oh, hilarious maximum damage. So that's going to be 18 points of flashing damage and an additional seven points of cold damage to the wall wrist as it reaches down and swipes right at your, at your throat and you feel this cut deep in your Walworth's body. Derek basically just told you that that had an 80% chance of inflicting you

with D's. D's nuts! I felt that. D's nuts. Let's see if I proct to Lickma. Exactly. I'm sorry to inform you that you have Ligma. How much damage total?

That's going to be 18 plus 7, 25. Derek. said that I felt that in my walrus body. I'm like, oh, keep it a game. Dude, how much health does your walrus have? Oh, oh, oh, you mean oh. You can your ear.

What? No, no, no, I'm out. Oh, oh, oh, oh. He pops into Fearbol mode. Well, that's like a whole bunch of free health, though. Yeah. Which is why people argue that an arched druid can not be killed. Because it is a huge, ultimate.

A level have a damage. A level 20 druid can just go back and forth and back and forth. That's going to be your turn, Yornear. You are still a walrus, I assume. No. No. Are you kidding? Oh, you got zamped? You got zamped? Well, Zamp your mini. Oh, yeah. Shloop. So you take the remainder over. He cuts into this walrus so hard that you see a magical pop. And what twisting blue energy had warped Yornear into a wallrish.

Why don't you move the pro baby? And suddenly reshrinks and creates the form of Your Near very much. Make a constitution check. The DC is now 15. No. And now it's your turn. Yikes. Okay.

Well, how's this Bornebo's looking? Well, you can't communicate. I'm very bloodied. I'm beyond bloodied. I'm looking. Very rough. There's a, there are harpoon marks in my whale tail and a bit of irony.

I wish I could heal you. I appreciate that, thank you. I don't have that ability. Um, not there. I'm gonna go, I can't do everything at once. Can't be everyone wants people. All right, come. Oh, you can heal people, can't you?

That's right, so I'm gonna go this way. And I'm going to use my healing speech. My healing spirits. To heal your spirit. The spirit rise. Is you even making the necessary concentration or is it not concentration? Yes, I have. Okay.

Oh, wow. Succeeding. And then I will touch myself and I will cast cure wounds. Ouch, I touch my soon. And that will be my turn. Queenie. Five more pips.

Yes, sure. Oh. Five. More pivs and find more pigs. And that looks like it really, really dislikes this creature that's done so much damage to it of the creatures that have done damage. It's going to swipe down with its icy claw. Icey claw, it's a natural one. It's a natural 20.

Oh, on who? On Barnabas. I might be out here. But it's a claw, so I'm resistant to all of it. That's true. Do you have a Perry thing? I can't parry 90. 20.

You can say, parry this, bitch. Parry this, bitch. Will you survive this if you could parry the fight? That's gonna be 20 points of flashing damage. Oh, 20 points, okay. So 10. Sweet Lord. You're bold.

Sweet baby, we just. I haven't even had chance to really attack yet. It's so slippery. And it's going to be eight points of cold damage. Okay. You're off. And I'm out. I have three hit wounds left.

Oh. Oh. Oh, gosh. Quay-Sir. Alive isn't dead. That's for sure. Is it my turn? Didn't you're just going?

Barnabos's turn. Just getting. Barnabos. I can't use my racial spells while I'm raging, right? That's bullshit. Really? I thought we rule. I don't know.

I don't know if we ever ruled that. Anyway, I'm just going to smash them. What kind of rule is that? Is it literally saying, in rage? You can't. Yeah, you can't cast spells in rage. Okay. Well, it's a mechanic for the range of restriction.

Yeah. Okay. Hey. I don't make a little... I'm going to hit him. I'm going to... Nice work here. Uh, two plus... You need some life steel.

That's what you need. Yeah, I do actually have life steel if I was able to... If I chose the bite, maybe I should have done that, actually. Uh, so that is four plus five, nine, plus two, 11 points of bludgeoning damage. Oh, nice. And he's going to be pushed back five feet. feet, so I don't know if he's able to cling on,

or I don't know what he does there, but, and then I'm going to use my movement. Can I get past Scram like this way? You keep knocking him out of my range. You can get close. Is he gonna, is, I don't know if he's in the water. He's on the end. Scrimal tank. You're able to continue to drive and push him in.

You're slashing and it doesn't matter how much pain you're in. and you are pushing through that agony and just trying your very, very best to down this fell creature, and it reaches the edge, and it starts to slip. Afraid to get wet. It rolls a natural one, and it starts to fall into the water,

and it disappears over what you see as the edge of the ice flow, and evaporates in some sort of twisting, shrieking motion. It pulls itself apart, and it turns into, what appears to be almost like black, dark fog. Even in the darkness and cold winter storm, it disappears and evaporates. You can remove the mini from the... What a hell?

Man, I'm so helpful. He really dared break down. Oh, sorry. Yeah, yeah, it's super fragile. Oh, no. But it looks like it's about to hit the water, but before it even touches the surface of the river, it clearly had some instinctual ability

that it uses its reaction in order to achieve and evaporate. It can't touch the water. It has to like get away. It had to like mystify itself. Wait, what was that? I'm not going to limp over. Oh, you're like that of this, Span.

I'm gonna go here. Excuse me, Mr. Stavis coach, Mr. Feuerblossom. I was gonna do something really cool too. Okay. Just spilled coffee out of my comp headnuck. Wouldn't it be cum feed? What? Come feed.

No, comp head. If you spilled it. See? O. P.H. P.A. can be com feed. No, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, come pet. Oh, got it.

Queenie, you watch, and you are keeping a bead on this thing, even as the colliding ice flows shake you, you are watching, and you can see Barnabose in its bestial form, slam into it and take a hit, slam into it and take a hit. He is clearly, perhaps the loser of, so this was just a one-on-one, but he is able to pull.

push it over the edge and you have a moment of optimism, a positive feeling of celebration as it nearly hits the water and then evaporates and disappears. Now it's your turn. I have my bees on it. Let's adjudicate that after you make a constitution check, DC-15. Natural 20. Do you heal? Natural 20.

It's in this moment that your ears pop and... Oh, fuck. I need some chewing gum. So after Barnabos heals from the spirit, you see it sort of sugar away. Wait, they nerfed it? They only have that couple times. They only have six charges.

Oh, that's new. You still last a full minute. Can we do my turn? Yeah, sorry. You can hear the crushing ice, and you can see suddenly that there are what appear to be dragon-born skeletons pulling themselves up and over and onto the ice flow.

One, managing just at the last second to grab onto the ice flow and start to pull itself up. It is readying itself for what clearly is some sort of an attack with no weapons on it, barely any armor, a bloated pure skeleton from underneath the water, managing to pull itself from this necrotic energy. In all of this, as you are looking around, hearing the snow, hearing the screams for the first time of all of your brethren, you also hear in the background of all of this a very strange sound. Son of a bitch. A waterfall. Oh, no. Very faint, but it's clearly approaching very quickly.

And in this moment, you do what? So I have my bees on the Wendigo thing. So I should know where it's at. Yes. You are correct. I don't want to do anything with it, but I would like to hone in on its location. Just see like yellow bees.

Well, I have a, have a kind of. with them. It's not the mist that you follow, but the bees are clearly tracking something. And it is winding, winding, winding around and starting to come towards the side where you can see that not just Daisy is, but behind your near. It looks like it is about to re-capit and capitulate. What's the word I'm looking for? Re-re. A beer. Corporealize. Corporealize.

Re-corporialize. That's all right. Just on that side of the bank, on the bank. perhaps 10, 15 feet to the left of Daisy. Okay, cool. Now, I'm going to yell out to Daisy and let her know that. She's deafened, so she doesn't hear it. Yeah, I know, but I'm doing it anyway.

And then I'm going to take my bow, and I'm going to fire it the one next to her. I don't know. I'm calm. With a natural one. That's my turn. Let's twist it. No, sorry. It is the creature's turn.

I think we're going to need them for the one. Oh, yeah. and the one to go. There's gonna be some saving throw that we're all. I just don't want her to literally get one shot, is my concern. If she does, she does. That's life out of here in Drak. It is the creature's turn and it re-emerges,

suddenly reforming in smoke, and it appears 15 feet next to Daisy. Like looking at her? Let me actually place it myself. Yeah, please, I'm gonna drop it. I just got to the other side of the guy's book. We're like Roebuck up Kingcramp fight. Yes!

I didn't hit him once. Yes! That was the funniest thing. The entire year. Son of a gun! So he's in these four squares. Yes, that's good. He re-emerges and is clearly hungry for Tyshen.

He races forward, and he's going to go in with his attack. No, whoa! Yes! I'm in range! So does he want to get 10 feet or five feet? No, he doesn't want anything at all. He has his full movement. This would be cool, I guess.

He can reach him, does he want to get full melee range up to five feet? He wants to bite. He wants to get it. He's hungry. He's always going to get into bite range if he can. I'm going to just move him here. So that's a little clear. Oh yeah.

Tyshan. That definitely hits. Okay. That definitely hit. Okay. And that definitely hits. No, well, hang on, what? You might just be bored here.

Unless you have shield. Do you shield? What are the rolls? So that a curiosity? Um, the lowest I rolled was the 13, which would be a 24. That's close. That's pretty high. That's pretty high.

I'm all over with you. I don't think you have 19. Hang on, hang on. You're on. It's a CR3-13. Because you need, well, no, even then it's meat or beat, right? So it's like you can't, you got that 20. Yeah, shield's not going to help you.

Yeah. Yeah. I'll let it happen. Yeah. 13 flashing damage. 13 slash damage. 13 slash damage. Okay.

We just have one round to tie shen here. Wait, 13 and then six on top of that? Yeah. And that's the whole thing? Yep. And then for the bite, 10 piercing plus seven necrotic. Okay. And it feeds on your body enjoying that seven to its ability. How much is the third attack do?

The, I wrapped everything into the one I see, into ice. Oh, okay. That's good because I'm dead. Oh, you're unconscious. Yeah, if there was more, what kind of hand was? Yeah, no, the bite took him down. You fall prone. Yeah.

The last thing you see is this being suddenly materializes in front of you is it's lumbering 10 foot tall full form. And the first hit, darkness, blackness. You've been deafened. You've been staring around. Embarrassment. You've been punching and attempting to do anything. to attempt to stop, but it wasn't enough.

And in this moment, you fall. You're lucky that it's snowing so much because that was really pathetic. That is a terrifying amount of you right. Light where you're going. Like imagine beating on this thing. It just comes out, you swipes at you, and then nothing.

Yeah. I can't feel any fear anymore. I'm dead. So you're going to start making death saving throws. But that's the conclusion of its turn. And you did hit it with fire damage, so it does not heal this round. That looks like

boop-po-po-po-po-po-po-p-five pips on the rotation. Yes, sir. Got plenty of time. We got nothing but time. And it's actually Taichens' turn. So how do we do this? Everyone covers their eyes. Everyone except for Nicky gets to see what happens because you're all within

five feet of Tyshen, right? Oh. That's right. Yeah, we're all huddled right there. Okay. So, Nikki. And there's nothing else special about it. We homebrew at that in icebound. He has to give a thumbs up for success, a thumbs down for double thumbs down for a critical success or failure.

And this, if he actually die, dies. Twisted thread. Dreading on a death thing? Are we allowed to do that? You're the DM? You're the DM? He used it. She used it.

Damn it. I mean, we don't know. We don't know. Okay. That's the conclusion of Taishen's turn. One pip on the rotation. Daisy, you're up. Daisy, okay.

Daisy is going to use her movement to hop onto that ice flow. Potentially, I'm taking an opportunity attack, but at least. And then she's going to move towards the middle of it. It's going to take that attack of opportunity. Can you move towards the middle of the ice flow? Yeah. I don't know, if she only has like 30 degrees, she's like one one. She needs to land first. She needs to make a DC-10 acrobatics saving throw and... She slips.

Oh. Um, it gets a 14 to hit. Uh, her, yeah, that hits. Oh boy. I think you should twist the acrobatics. If she's done, right? She just lands prone. She just lands prone.

She just lands prone. No, it's no fall off. It's no fall off. Oh. Oh. Gotta gain her footing. I will make a different role if there's a chance that you could fall off the ice flow, or if you get pushed off the ice flow for whatever reason.

But the rules is written in Dungeons and Dragons is if you are jumping into difficult terrain, there's a DC-10 acrobedic saving throw, otherwise you fall prone. Really? She falls under a-up. I had no idea of this, man. Welcome to the Ph.B. DMG. That being said, the undead dragon-born does have enough ability to slash at her,

Perhaps this is why she loses her fitting because it hits and it does maximum damage. She takes seven bludgeoning damage, scraping across the back of her legs just as she leaves the ice flow. She's going to eat hip points. She's okay. She's a little beefy. She's all right. She's no commoner. She's going to be just fine.

Two hits. That being fed. I got a legit one shot. That's the conclusion of Daisy's turn? Yeah. No, she still has her attacks. Okay. So she is going to take her multi-attacks at disadvantage.

She is prone, but she is going to shoot at the one to go. Perfect. So, yeah, the first one hits. And then so the first one hits. So she will do... Nice. And she can make a Constitution saving for her to check to see if she...

Her ears. Eight piercing damage. Eight piercing damage. That's all bad, actually. Not bad, honey. I mean, Daisy. Boom. She stood up. 14. No, she didn't.

She can't shut out, sound up. No, she made those. She fell after the fact. And she is not popping her ears? 14. Just barely. She can feel the sound coming back and the rushing water, but she doesn't get anything more than that.

Let's do two pips of the rotation. Taking a flight when you have a head cold. Scrimbo. Uh, con check. Yep. Uh, 20. I can hear. I can fight.

I can sing. Just like Queenie, you suddenly hear the sound as a sound emerges in your ears. You can hear the screaming of everyone around you. You can hear their words. You can hear the screaming of the Wendigo. It snarls and its yips as it takes damage. And underneath is this current of sound that seems to be growing closer. I hear it, but I'm much more concerned about my friend Tyshen, who has dropped to the ground.

I will use 15 feet of movement to kind of get on the side of the Wendigo over here. And swinging with all of my might, I swing the brutal blade, and I pray to whatever D&D gods are out there, particularly R& Jesus. Let's go for a 19 or 20. I just want to hit, actually. No, no good. Completely a mess. It's a 14. Yeah, you do. That's my whole turn. That's all I can do. I feel you on that one, Andy. Not doing all.

I've missed every single turn. We're just warming up. First half. Every single turn. When you attempt to dive in with your blade, it turns, and it has refreshed its legendary actions. I lose my footing on the ice and I miss. If it's attacking me, it's disadvantaged. I'm blurry. Oh, yeah. But I'm screaming.

I got two twelves. You get fucked. And with a 23, it did. Wait. He rolled two 12s and has a plus 11. I would like to formally remember my retract might get fucked.

That was rude and impolite. I apologize. I would say my tail. You were saying it to yourself. Yeah, it's exactly right. I meant scrim, get fat. You take 10 cold damage, and you take 16 piercing, slashing damage

as it rakes its nightmare ice ice- 26? Yes, and it rakes its nightmare ice claws across your face and in the body. Sick, okay. With that, I spit up a massive amount of blood. I mean, it's just red mist. It's like anybody, Tai Shen's covered in my blood,

Anybody close by blood everywhere. I mean, it doesn't look like a goblin body could hold that much blood. Gross. Dashing the ice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the surface of this particular ice flow would look insane. It would look like cherry icy. You know, it's rough.

It's rough. That being said, eight. I'll never eat cherry ice. We already did the eight pips, right? You boss. Six more pips to get to the top of the round. He likes strawberry too. And the dead move in.

Oh no. Dead speed. One creature is going to take a swing at Queenie. That's going to be in 11 to hit. Misses. Misses. The other creatures are going to move in. One's going to get on Taishen.

I'm sorry, on scrim. Yeah. Roger. That one is going to get to the scrim. That one is going to get to Yornear. It is a difficult terrain now. It is difficult terrain and that movement is 30. So they can't get it actually they can't get to scrim.

Oh, it was 26 damage, so I have to roll a 13 or better. Yeah, it can only get to the next square over. This one? Yeah, because right there. But that one can get to Barnabon. It was two types of damage. That one can get to Barnabot. Yep.

Two sources of damage. So, hold right, it was 10 and 16. So I rolled twice, but get 10 on each. Seven to hit. Oh, but it's not. It's one attack. It's not just two forms or not. No.

It's just one. Either way. Either way, I got a natural 20. So I maintain my blurt. Yep. Good. Hell yeah. Hey. All right. We're at the top of the round.

Yeah, really help there. The DC for deafness lowers, and it is your near turn. I'm going to roll. I'm no longer roll, so I have an extra 12. To what? For the con save? Oh, no, the DC is 13. 13.

Oh, 13. That we dropped by two. What? 19, 17, 15. We're in the fourth round. What? I thought it was going to drop by five. Oh, wow. I will reach down and touch Tyshen, who's bleeding out. I thought you were going to say something else. Touch Tashen.

Not just Tush Tashen. I think I need to do it in a second level, because otherwise first level is not going to be anything. Yeah. I mean, you max me out. I'm gonna push some punching bag. Oh, it's not your time yet. And I'm gonna put my hand on your chest, and you'll feel this kind coldness as your conscious returns.

And we'll roll for that. Oh, the icy grip of death is this come. Oh shit, but we have special. Can I drag him away from? Oh. Are you unconscious? No, I'm not. Okay.

You're not shocked. I don't know what you're asking, but it's your answer. Am I able to drag Ty Shen away, or would that be an action? It's an action to drag people. Isn't it? Yeah. It would take an action and then you would,

it's not a free object interaction. It's an action to, like, grapple a creature. But to, like, grab a willing creature, then, like, pull him away. Yeah, because you're essentially giving another person movement on a turn when they don't have movement. It's hard. Yeah.

It's however you want to rule. That's fine. And then let me just check my bonus actions. This is dire, this is dire, dire, dire do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Can one grab a PC and drag them? I'm sure you can. When you move, you can drag or carry the grappled creature, but your speed is halved.

Oh, is awkward. When you move, you can drag or carry the grappley with you, but your speed is half. So you have to use your action to grapple. I won't have to grapple them. Okay, that's fair. So I won't do that. But I will. Am I in melee range of this fellow?

You're in ice-cloth. No. You are 10 feet. away from that fella unless you have 10 feet. So I guess what I'm saying is if I back up, will I trigger... Did he get his reaction back? He did get his reaction back. And he hasn't used it yet. He has not used it. And if I back away, will that trigger an opportunity attack? That's what I'm asking. It might. Okay. I will stay right there.

And as a bonus action, oh God. You know what? I... No, no. No, I'm healthy enough right now. It's fine. So I'll roll the health and pass turn. Past your turn? Just stay within 10 feet. I don't know if he has a legendary action still. Otherwise it's my turn.

It's five pips of rotation. Oh, 17. Oh, that's pretty good. Hey, for me. That's pretty good. That's more than half of Tysians. How do I get out of it? You just put help healing.

healing. I'm just thinking. Yeah. This is, this is bad. I can breathe. It's going to go in for a bite attack on

Scrim. Tyshen. Who can't bite attack? Strim. Tishan. It sees Tyshen. It sees Tyshen as down. And as hungry as it is, it knows

that it isn't a fight. And so I think it's going to go for scrim. Disadish. Was it a trucey? It was a 13 hit. Are you adding 11 to that?

No. That's the whole mouth. Then it misses. Now you can get fucked. I think it's a dirty 13. I stumble. I have the massive blow. I'm bleeding.

But somehow this thing, I see it. And I duck. It goes over my head. It misses barely. And you're terrified, horrified by the strength of this thing. Tell me about it. You've never in your life been punched like this. And that will look like we just did the five pips.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Barn, burn, burn, burn. Burn, burn. Burn, bad. I'll stumble forward not being able to hear anything as I'll just look down. You didn't get the DC-15? Oh, let me actually roll that.

Bad boy. Oh, Khan, yeah, I got 15. Okay. You can suddenly your ears pop and you can hear the screaming and you can hear the the gasping nightmare breath of the creatures, these undead dragonborn around you. You can hear the screeching of the Wendigo, the blowing of the wind,

and you hear what is clearly growing ground swell, a water swell of sound that is coming in the direction of the current. I would be focused on this thing. I looked down and I'd say, laying down on the job, Mr. Fliar Blossom, that gets you 30 lads. before the mast and I would just smash as I just walk past him as I'll pop open my health

potion that I have as I am going to down it yeah I never it's been on my fucking notebook and I downed it I never added it to D&D beyond it's been in my notebook so I should have added it and I the minion should get an opportunity attack on you though oh yeah you should yeah yeah down it and I'm going to smash into Does the minion hit before you take your potion? It does hit before he takes the... We'll see. 19, he's gonna, I mean, he's...

He's a minion. What is he gonna do? He's five blood-jitting damage. So two. I'm gonna roll. Wait, what did he roll? It's so funny. You were at three, right?

What did he roll? No, no, I was at six. I was at sex. Imagine. That'll be a natural 20. To hit? Yeah. To hit, to hit my...

Are you going to do your feeling? I would very much like a natural 20 bit right now. I'm going to heal though. This guy, he's not looking bloody. Is he, is this a, oh, this is that? Yeah, that's the standard one. Plus four. Plus four?

Plus four. 44 plus four, yeah. Not bad. Could be worse. No, that's not bad at all. So eight, ten, eleven, thirteen. So 13 healing, thank God. There it is.

There it is. You pull out this tiny little bottle and you crack the cork. It feels ancient against your thumb because of how long you've had this on your person. It's important to your mouth, and as soon as it does, the rejuvenation. Breath fills your lungs your lungs, your muscles feel sturdier, and you feel your wounds close and the pain evaporate. And as I smash my anchor, he gets pushed back another five getting away from Tyshen.

I believe I have enough movement to get here. and I'll step forward. If that pushed it out of the reach of anybody, they may take an opportunity attack. Oh. I don't think it did. I was on my side to nod. So he's just like sliding.

That's one of the fun benefits of crush. Well, unless Ty Shen... Let's be cool, dude. Let's be cool. Oh, like, no, no, I'm within 10. If you're awake and you have it a reaction, which you would, you could take a disadvantage attack against it. Got disadvantaged him with squirems and something.

Forching, right? No, but you can take an attack action. You need warcaster. Do you have the warcaster feet? No. Probably not. I mean, I don't know. Probably not. You need a boorcaster. I use that. I usearnex so much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's really nice. But he's not going to be in close range. Oh, yeah. That's the thing. So if you want to try see him out of, I don't know, like get him with the Yeah. I mean, I use my natural claws. I use my claws. Yeah, I don't want to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I was going to say you'll turn into a win. I don't want that. Yeah, I don't want that. That noise. Get out of here. Hey, guy. All right, chump. Malee, did I ever tell you about the Wendigo?

It seems a good time. 21. That hits. 21. Okay. This is me the most damage I've done all game. 1d4 minus 1. That's not true. I think you did 13 or later. 24 minus 1.

Oh. Let's go. Let's go. Four? Oh, four damage. Four sligh out. It was actually got more damage in scrimm. Yeah.

Oh, wait, you already done that. And now you have a natural 20 that hits, right? Yeah. Oh, yes, that's right. I've not rolled that. Yeah, I've not rolled that. Uh, and you'll see that I knock him back as I smash into him. Uh, his bones will crack and, uh, all attacks until the end of my next turn are advantaged. Oh! Okay. Against them. Is that a crusher? There's crushed. I can't miss. I cannot fucking miss. Come on.

Good, here we go. Oh, wait. Well, can I roll this advantage just in case I hit at 20? Because he moved back. I guess technically, yeah. Yeah, I guess technically, yeah. Fitch that 20. Yeah. I mean, this, come on. I'm going to be very gentle now.

The, no, no, it's awful. It was almost there. 20, 23 points of bludgeoning damage. 23 points of legend any damage, yeah. I'm going to have to get out. Jesus. Don't sound shocked. Mr. 32 points.

Ah, yeah. Mr. One shots, the sorcerers, the spell catch. Sorry, that was a fourth level 40. Yeah. Yeah, that's meaningful. How was it looking, by the way? Can we tell? It wasn't looking bloody at all before, and then he hit him in the 23, so at best... No, no, it's...

He's under half. It's absolutely covered in blood. It's horrible. It's not even blood. That's the problem. It's looking bloody, but it likes it. It's bloody as fuck. As you smack into it, it is losing skin.

Perhaps the anchor gets chipped away, an antler gets chipped away. It's still looking... Okay. Terrified. I'll just knock off the end where I glued back on. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That flies off in the end.

Yeah. Oh. That's your turn, Burnhamov? Yeah. It has no more legendary action, so Queenie, you're up. Oh, thank God. Yay. I am going to look at it and do the only thing I can do and fire an arrow at it.

And they'll start a minute. You're advantaged. Oh, yeah, you're advantaged. All right. I hit. Let's go. Let's go. Bees.

Can you push him with bees? Oh, what? Can you push him with birds? Yes, I can. Oh. Come over bees. This is a beehive. Nine piercing damage from the arrow.

And then actually, I'm not going to, yeah, no, I think it does do B damage as well. Sorry, just a second. They call me bees. No, I won't do that. It needs to make a strength saving throw. And it'll do two more piercing damage from the honeybees. Just the 22 strength. Okay, well, so nothing happens.

But it still takes two damage. Oh, it takes two? An additional two. On top of what it would be took. Bees are swarming around it and getting into its body and starting to make work in there. And you think that there's going to be more work to be done as the turn ends. It's turn. I mean, this is the thing of brute force.

It reaches down and it slashes against the closest thing that it can find that's standing. And Barnabos did such a tremendous amount of damage. I mean, oh. Natural one. Let's go. Twist of dread. That's a hit. And that's a hit.

What was the bite? The bite was... Does that hit? I presume it was a bite hit. The bite was a natural 15, so it was a 26th to hit. Oh. Can you get up there? What diet? I cannot get to a 26.

What can Tycher? How far away? Five feet. Yeah. No, no, no, how far from a 26 are you? I can... If I roll max, that would be a 55. So if I...

If you get a 22nd, then he'll still, if I could get plus 1 and so... If you roll a 7 or an 8, and Tychen uses his ability to... Scows the golden... Oh, is it? ...then you could... Then you could get out of it. I mean, it's worth a try. Yeah.

I mean, he's my reaction. It's worth a try against the bite. What else do you need to reaction? If Taishen's willing to do it. Wait, can I, is an opportunity attack a reaction? This is his turn. But when I opportunity attacked the boss, that was a reaction. That was a reaction, yes.

Oh, so there's no way to do it. Yeah, I should save that four points of that. Yeah. I mean, no. Yeah. What was the claw tag? So I don't know. I don't remember anymore.

Never. But it was higher than a 15. Okay. Then I'm just I'm probably down. Probably. 13 slashing damage. That's six. 10 Necrodite, sorry, cold damage. That's only one hit, though. There's one hit coming out. You're fucked.

And then the bite is... Low damage. 12 piercing damage. Next. Not necrotic, he doesn't have a necrotic. And eight necrotic damage, which he healed. So it was a lot.

Are you down? I'm down. It was over 20. It was like, oh, God. Oh, good. Not long. Okay, here we go. And it gets its legendary action back.

My tail. And it gets its reaction back. And that is the conclusion of the of this nightmare monstrosity, this embodiment of winter and hunger, starvation, and greed. We need to move five pips. You're still advantage, though.

I know. His armor is so crushed, even though I'm unconscious. I need a big hit. I need a big hit. Tai Shen, you're up. Oh. Okay.

So you should probably stand up first. Yeah, I'll do one of these. Give it the old shuffle. And then maybe get out of dogs. Actually, if you move, you take an opportunity attack. Yeah, he just got his reaction back. Fuck.

I certainly wouldn't move. Yeah, definitely don't. No, I mean, I would stay fast. Maybe it was kill me. Can I go right? Oh, I almost work that. Can I go right behind Barnabos? So he has reached?

Well, right, but I'm within 10 feet of him. Yeah, so. So I get shipped over one square. He's still hit me. Yes. Yeah, so I wouldn't take. You can get in this square here. Okay.

And Barnaboses and all sort of crowded up here. Oh, God. Okay. Do not break. I'll say, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I stand up, coughed blood onto the ice, so it looks just like a double cherry mixture slush. It's snow cone.

And one last time, I will call upon the power of the gold dragon flight to twin a second level spell of cure wounds. Oh. Not what I thought you were going to say. I was going to say originally, but now it's what I'm going to say. That is amazing. And so I'll shine with the glory of the golden dragon flight,

and then just like push out and touch scrim and touch. I think it's touch. Yep, it's touch. Yeah, touch scrim and touch Barnabose and punch golden flame into them. You strike a pose that allows you to touch both at the same. time and then thinking hard about how you would normally cast this, you channel Fuzau's

wisdom. So it's 2D8 plus four. Let's go. Do you guys roll that? I think you roll it all right. And you roll them separately. Oh, shit.

Yeah, right? So it isn't consumed two spell like slots. I just copied the spell. Oh, okay, maybe it's just one. I don't know. you know if you were doing damage I don't know twice yeah Quirgin spell but I don't know I'd have to see what it's a twin spell so spells level we'll roll it if it's high then we'll keep and if it's a low we'll rerull it

decide who you're healing first uh all right well sorry scrim okay okay because he's had the scrimper's it's with the low one out of the way we'll take it 11 I'll take it that's still 11 11 11 and rerroll for barnapose yeah But you're twinning this spell, but it's still two spells. I'm out of instant death range now. Oh. No. 11. Well, plus 4 and 15.

15. I'll take it. Yeah, I can't be like instantly. I can't actually survive a hit. He can't. He'd have to crit and have to roll very hot. To like one shot. Oh, you mean like perma. Yeah, alright.

Cause like I only had five hit points. So he could in theory have one shot. Oh yeah, absolutely. Like actually kill me out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now it's a little harder. That's it. That's my turn. Cous, coos.

I'll come back. You know, Barnabos, you would get at least 30 lashings. I would prefer 30 lashings to this. The creature, oh, it screams into the night's sky. Doesn't scream in the same, like, echoing, billowy way that deafened you initially,

but it screams up, excited about the challenge of this particular meal. And it looks around. Seeing what it saw, it takes a swipe at Taichet. And that's going to be a 15 to hit. I would miss. We're getting a little bit of luck here. By the glorious.

Natural four. We're getting a little bit luck here. Oh, God. I thought the next word is here is 20. Nope. Oh, God. That's its legendary action. Just put me to bed.

Tuck me in. And that's the conclusion. of its action, Daisy, you're up. She's going to stand up. Yajee. And she's going to move, like, one space, two spaces. Yeah, basically right there. And then she is going to fire both of her shots at the one to go.

Evamined each. Well, great. First one's going to miss. Oh, no. No way. Yes. Her to hit is. Her to hit is plus four.

Oof. Okay, so she's not like that. She has a 25% chance to hit. And so it's going to do damage. Their damage is not very big, so. Oh, cool. Don't get excited. Wow.

A three, three piercing damage. Hey, every little... Yeah, every... It's starting to look like a porcupine on this side. It gets pelted every time that you or Queenie actually hit it. I did. I rolled a one, and it's plus two. She's done gesturing. She's not making any move.

All she's doing is just attempting... And she hit his creature. She passed her con And suddenly ear Earing Ear hearing She's able to hear Neat

Oh I didn't Yeah 8 pips of the rotation Jesus Keep them moving All of them swing them around Top of the round That looks like the creatures now

One is going to attempt to hit Queenie No it's my turn first Is Scream gets to go I am after Daisy. I skipped your turn. It's okay. I forgive you. This is the iron.

I forgive you. If you die. This is Ogrimar from. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to bonus action rapid quaff my potion. But not in that order. Just like, you know, I'm going to go and set out the dice. I am tears are streaming out my face, blooded all over the place.

All against my better intuition and judgment, I double. And I strike with the... Advantage. 1920, come on, come, come, come, come. Go! Okay, okay, you crush your veins. Okay, so I need to borrow two D-Force.

Oh, here's one. I'm using Fury of the Small as well for an additional, for an additional four damage. You double that too, don't forget. You double Fury the Small. I don't think it's a dye. No, it's just... Oh, you have four.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I have crit with the brutal blade, I may re-roll any number of these dice that I want. And I must keep the second roll. Let me just keep you down the way. Force. Better.

Slightly better. That's going to be 8, 12, 15, 15, 17, 17, 18, plus 5 is 23, plus 2 is 25, plus 4 is 29. And I strike with the fury of this small. for 20 damage. What's damage? That's you.

That's a big fuck. That's a chunk. You are seeing this creature swing down and swing down, scrape with its insane three mods, chomping and destroying your enemies. Everybody's using all kinds of magic surround and you pull out the brutal blade. And you go up and you get right into the inner thigh.

You're able to dig in like a chainsaw. And then I hear it. 11, 12, 13, 14. Nice. One, four. It's amazing. God, I love Crusher. Do you know I should do that.

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Okay. Remember that as you are yelling to each other over the course of this round. I'm not going to talk to anybody. The sound of that watery, rushing sound is getting louder and louder and louder. And yet, there are still these undead dragon board who are going to take their actions. One is going to go into, I don't know, I'll have to do this. Music. gonna serve

Queenie Yeah Does a Doesn't eat hit No All right And I think one can get into

Scrim Dispish Oh man that's really important It still hits But it was a natural 20 Oh my God Weiner beat He wants your supple gobbling damage.

Five bludgeoning damages. It slams down into you. As a nightmare hand. If I hadn't been healed all those times, that would have been exact sense. And the other one can get to Yornear. One can get to Yornear and one can get to Barnabos. Oh, no.

Okay, let's do Yornear now. That's absolutely going to... Well, the Barnabos is technically where his faces, so he's not here. Yeah, he can still get to me. He can still get to him. He can go there. Okay.

And that definitely hits. You're going to take. And it'll be advantage in Maribos. Two bludgeoning damage. I'll fish for the crit. It doesn't. So two bludgeoning damage. So you take one bludgeoning damage, I think.

Not you. Oh no, no, no, no, bridging. You're not raging. No. Right. Wait. Oh, you're not unconscious. No, no.

Not anymore. You were at advantage, right? Yes. Okay. I did fish with the crit, but I rolled in 18 to get. I just, I'm a creature of chaos. That's fine. I love that about you.

They wild child, right? That being said, we need six pits of rotation. This is getting. Crushing. We'll be smashed to atoms. And in this moment, I think that we're going to go with a bite attack of legendary action against scrim. Yeah, disadvantaged. Oh, wait, wait, actually, hold on. I need to roll my concentration saving throw. We are twisting this. And I'm good. Okay. So if you draw it. Well, it is blurred.

It is a disadvantage. Does a 16 hit? I sent you to me a suit. I talk again. I just keep moving. I don't know what else to do. I just keep moving. Perhaps it's your small stature and it's great height. It is reaching down with these huge lumbering arms, but you're able to nimbly move around the way. I'm also mostly red against the background of red. And you're starting to feel a little camouflage by the violence. That's the end of your... Yeah, that's my new band.

Thank you. Camouflage by violence is a good. flush by violence is a great way to think. That's a great like emo name from the early 2000s. Yeah, agree. A man from yorn. That this is me. I've never been so angry in my life. I am born free never before. So do I feel like there's enough kind of ice and snow on top of the ice that I can form a snowball? A snowman? It'll be a little white.

shifting around and yeah, it'll be a little pink. And there's enough snow in the air almost for how severe the snowstorm is that you feel like you could grab it out of the air and toss it if you needed to. Here in check, did you pass? Oh. No.

The DC is dropped. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's 11. It's eight. Fuck. Fuck. What?

You have plus zero to your con? Who? That plus three. Oh. That's a five. So as this is raging around you, You're still just hearing. Ah, no, no, yeah.

Um, is everyone still really bloody as fuck? No. I'm very bloody, yeah. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I have 15 hit points. Getting on one of these ice flows was the best choice I've ever made. I'm slightly unbloody. I just feel like this would be a really good time to do this.

Do it. Let it rip, brother. What would you do on your do? I'm going to lead down, and I'm going to pack a snowball really tight. Mm-hmm. I'm missing, please. If you can't Now's the time, and I'm going to chuck it. And as I chuck it, it's going to swirl with Arctic magic and hopefully collide.

It's already 18. It hasn't been. It's tough to do. It's advantage, right? Yeah. It is advantage. Yeah. Come on, I just need better rolls.

Can I twist it? I feel like this is like, it's a spell slot. Yeah, this is your finishing move. your finishing move. Come on. That'll 20. Make a con saving throw for you. I would be happy to. I can't wait for him to blow it out of it.

He gets a three, Clayton shows up. I'm here. Clayton joins the battle. He rolls a nine. He rolled a nine. He has a plus 12. 21. Okay. Well, I tried. Plus 12?

Well, and he also has legendary resistances, too, so there's no way. That's true, man. He does not have legendary reasons. That's pretty good. What is it meant to do? I start the balance because you're level four. Why did you have to roll to hit on something that's a save?

It's both. It probably does look at damage. And then if you hit, if you'd failed, he would have been stunned for an entire. Oh, okay, there you go. Oh, that would be in a insanity. And if we were like, if you were stunned, then we go off the waterfall, you know.

Yeah. I forgot there was a waterfall. Are you still dead? 12. Oh, I'm still dead. You didn't know. No, no, 12 points of damage. Yeah.

12 points of damage. damage. I'm blissfully unaware that there's an impending waterfall. Okay, it's starting to get rougher. You are able to wield this snowball. It's not a snowball. This is a baseball of ice, and you whip it forward, and it crashes

against the frame of this nightmare creature, and you can see a good chunk of it disappears into the night. Is that snowlocks? That's hail. It's a custom. That's an ice-bound canter. It's like the wizard's name's like

I thought you were saying snail locks. And I'm like, so I was imagining an ice snail. Okay. I am going to stand and I'm going to say, Oh, stand there. And I'll say, oh, you killed plenty bigger base than you! And I'm going to rage, and I'm going to,

not a crit, but it does hit. And that is going to, I'm going to once again go back into whale form. Okay. And- Was you using your second range? I'm using my, yep. No, my third, that is my last rage. Oh.

I used one at the cabin, I had forgotten. So I'm going to do this, do this, blah, blah, blah. Another double two, double one. It's going to be seven plus two. It's going to be nine points of bludgeoning damage. And he's going to be knocked back five feet. And that's it. No movement, nothing else?

else? I'm actually going to just move here so we can't get to touch out. You crush into it with your anchor and you're able to dig into its shin bone and it's weakened by it. That is the conclusion of your turn? Yep. All right, let's move five pips.

I should have done that before Barnabas. You don't have to make constitution checks anymore. You're safe, right? Yeah. Then it's Queenie's turn. Actually, it's going to take a legendary action. It'll take a legendary action. it'll take its last legendary action and for the shin kick it'll go into Barnaboth with a icy claw

that's going to be a 29 to hit. 15 slashing damage and maximum damage to double sixes on the 2D6 cold damage 12th cold damage. Queenie you're up. I think I'm just dead. I'm going to fire off a narrow

and the no that's return it's twisted no not for arrows okay you don't think no every hit we got a gap oh yeah that's what I'm saying I mean I think we're down to five or six no it's lower than that I think right we got a couple yeah I think yeah yeah yeah I think we do twist it what's your plus the head my plus to yeah let's look good every never to attack. You can knock in a bow. I can't because my DC is 14.

Well, maybe he'll get a natural one. He won't. I missed. I rolled a natural two. Switch your dice. I've been switching between them. It's not like I'm only used the same die. Holy cow. Two more pips of rotation.

Boop, boop. I'm getting all sorts of. I'll eat some over here. Let's just re-shift. They're all traveling together. Yeah, yeah. I just share all the time, it starts to build up on the right.

But pushing the spikes up. It's like, you know. It would get all jammed up. I mean, it's like, you know. Okay, okay. There we go. I should beat the terror. It's trying.

Fury! I am the small! That being sad. Got a little white head of there. I think that all it can do is going to Barnabas for its first dicey cloth. That's going to be a 14 to hit. Oh my god. Not enough. It's got more. 25 to hit. I'll have to use it here, unfortunately.

And I need to hope that the other one misses. Yeah, no, that's legit. So 25, so I need to roll. A max roll? Oh, no, I can't get a 25. No, I can't. I can't beat it. Well, then we'll see if you either.

Hold on, hold on, yeah. I can get 25, but you're out of your dragon stuff, right? I know, but you walk forward so you're not, it's only within five feet. Oh, yikes. Yeah. Okay, well, here. So I can't, I can't, I can't without,

without Taichens. I think. 13 points of flashing damage. Oh, yeah, I'm down. And nine points. of cold damage, but that doesn't matter because you're at zero. Seeing that you are down, is it within five feet of any other creature? No. Not five, no. It's within ten of me, but not five.

Make him prone, and as soon as he goes down, when to go is going to move on and go to touch to this. I can't. He's caught up in his hook. You can't go anywhere. I don't think he would. I think he would bite him. He's caught up in his harpoon. I think he would bite Barnabos because that's what he's done in the past. What's he gonna do, do like a little, is he gonna do a little easily climb? He just like, he just steps over. We know we're barrow or whatever. He just steps over Barnabos.

He would probably go to Scrim instead because Scrim's right there. He types of biting to scrim. Yeah, a discussion. Oh wow, yeah. Okay, the first was in modified 20. 20 to hit. I used my last ball star. I called Shield. You see this creature.

IAC is now 23. Slash down Barnabon. Barnabos and seeing Barnabos drop down to the ground, bloodied. You can see bones on Barnabos and it clambered over the body of Barnabos and it starts to come down with three massive maws. Clamping down and they stop. And they hit this invisible bubble. It sees a red sheen of magical energy, but you just see the mouth and the actual, like you can see it's uvula's as. as it is attempting to grapple down and it is horrifying.

You can hear, right? Yes. It is screeching and screaming and growling and, and, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Unhappy. And I'm like, I'm holding it my hand as a shield myself and it's just on the bubble. Uh, you've not felt this way since, uh, encountering Graveyard Jack for the first time. And that'll be the conclusion of its turn turn.

I need here. Yep. Yes, and I need five pips of rotation. Five, two, three, five, Tyshen, you're up. Five, one, two, five. One, two, four, five.

Out of spells. I think I would. Constitution check. Oh. Nice flows. No. The answer is no. Nah.

You're still blind to all sound. Blind death. can't hear a thing. You know that there's crashing around you. You can hear that undercurrent, like you were submerged underwater. You can hear people. You can hear screaming, but you can't make out the noise of it, but you still know that you need to fight. Your turn. I, once again, is Barnabos still like under the one they go? Yeah. So, you remember, believe, like, five. I'm probably like right here. I'm probably right here.

I'm probably right here. Yeah. I said I don't want to like break them any. Good plan. So seeing seeing Barnabos go back down, I think I've rushed over to him or I mean,

I think he's still right next to me. And I would I would knock him with another golden dragon punch. Oh my God. And hit him with that with that cure wounds. Let's go.

I am all out of my own golden energy but I well actually hang on hang on I I know this I know this me do the math let me do the math you're out I don't know what I'm really sad can you convert I was honestly kind of pathetic wait wait do you even know how to read no so I'm in there's super little I mean there's so many pins I'm kidding um being such a dick to me so I'm sorry you're a sorcery pansy and additional the camel still going my donut with migraine the camel is still going I'm still drinking out of my comp bed mug I see that I got nothing left you ever come back

up I can't rage pretty tapped yeah I'm spent it's too complicated it's too complicated I'm too dumb now I'm too I'm too I understand it he can't put on his glass it's too You wouldn't understand. So if you're dead, I can't do basic math. Yeah, I'm gonna see her for the next 10 minutes trying to figure out what the hell that even means. I know this is a children. Oh, oh.

Max. You redeemed yourself. You've redeemed yourself. Yeah, thank God. One tooth. 12. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Your charisma modifier should be plus. Five, right? Dude, I don't know. I mean. Just look at your stats. I'm plus four. Yeah, I don't, that's something that.

I do this every time. Every time I do this stuff, you're like, you've messed it up, you dumb idiot. Do you use the array? Yeah. You know what, it's fine. If you took like a feet. Oh, I took the golden dragon feet. They probably gave one.

So I didn't take a, I didn't take a bump to. Yeah. I didn't take stats. I took the feet of the golden dragon. Okay. So you're- Which is like, that's the heel and that's the imbument of the, yeah. What a great fucking feet. Yeah.

So that's the AC bump and that's the heel. Totally. And that's me. It's gonna attempt to ice claw, you Tai-Shen. No. 24 to hit. I hope I-Tishen. Thanks, Sandy.

Yeah, I got you. Whatever that was. I'm gonna allow this one. I'm allowed to. 15 flashing damage. And 10 cold damage as it dates into you and to rise to cross your body to Tai Shen. See you, buddy.

Yeah. Light will God as I fall on the ground As I fall on the ground in slow motion A will A few golden blossoms

leaves I do this with tea leaves As I drop slowly to the ground Oh again Sweet sweet floor I've missed you so tenderly You fall You're still aware of your surroundings

It's not complete darkness You hit the ground and you know that you are struggling against death. Shit. Shit. I can hear the bait. Daisy. What's Daisy got?

Well, nothing really. So she is going to do two attacks into what's his face. Are they at advantage? No. No? Just asking. You gotta go after me? No.

She's zombies are. No. hit and I'm assuming that 16 doesn't hit and neither does 12 so she misses both of her attacks and that won't be her turn. Difficult to rain. She can't do what she needs to do. That's going to be the

conclusion of her turn. Yeah. I'll spend another legendary action to dig into let's go scram again. Disadvantage and my ACs 23. And I'll see you in there. No, they see axes. No, they'll attempt to bite. Yeah.

All right, the first one is a 12, which is a 23, which can't possibly hit, right? No, it meets. Meeter beat. So that hits. Okay, so the second one needs to be higher than a 12 in order to be successful. It's also a 12th. So. My shield puts.

Yeah. And he takes a big bite of my gobblest. There's plenty of room on the ground. The Mexico eats me from behind. You can see that spring has been eaten from behind. It eats me from behind like a group. I like groceries. 18 piercing damage and 11 necrotic damage.

I'm down. Can you down, uh, Tyshen as well? I can. I'm already down. Oh, no, I'm not. No, that's Barnabot. I'm done. 18.

Zero. Wait, you said that was 18 plus. That was 18 plus and then. It's okay, I don't remember. No, no, no, no. And then 11, 11 necrotic, yeah. I know because I wrote it down, because that's how much he heals for as he enjoys your various bits and pieces.

My goblin ass. He loves your goblin ass. That was my turn. He's like when you come home from the groceries, and you've got all the bags and you're like shuffle them all into your elbow, and he's like walking into the... Okay, anyways. It's your turn.

I'm no longer blurry. I'm now crystal clear to this creature for the first time since... It suddenly realizes what a delicious sushi you could be. you couldn't be. Hex Blake's curse is not a concentration. Correct. So that will just last a minute regardless if things go my way. Death saving throw. I'll close my eyes. Oh, do I have to roll one?

It isn't your turn yet. Oh. I need to close my eyes too. Oh. Oh, and you too because you're on. I'm dead. I can't see it. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Done. You can now reveal your eyes. Reveal your eyes. I love what Winnie said. The party was not okay. We were not prepared.

For those of you who can hear, the rushing sound of water is getting louder. It's starting to sound like it's right around the corner, just around the river bend. Beyond the shore, somewhere past the seas. Sure. And life goes on, for however long it might go on.

Top of the round, that looks like, eight-pips rotation. And on dead, Dragon Board is going to attempt to swipe into you, Queenie? Yeah. It's going to get a natural 20. Yeah, that misses, unfortunately. Yeah, I'm a rabbit.

I'm from the Faywild, so I can't be crit. That's how that works. A crit is a natural one. You're going to take six bludgeoning damages. It slams against the back of you. And then who else have we got? We've got one on Barnabos, I think. Yeah, you're advantaged because I'm on the ground.

And are you also dying? No. Okay. That's going to be... Tysia's last act. I got two 12s again, unbelievably. So 15 to hit? 15 does not hit.

Unbelievable. And then that's going to be one on your near, I think. Where's the other one? It's on me. It's on me. Yeah. There's one on me. There's one on Yorneur as well.

Oh yeah, he's hiding back there. I can't. I couldn't see one on Barnabos, one on me. We've got four. We already got one on me. So let's do Yornear first. Okay. You're up, right?

That's my turn is next, yeah. 19 to hit. He also means you're alive. That's going to be seven bloodsening damage. That's going to be seven bloodshunding damage. I'm amused to bloodshunders. Holy! Instead of being a disadvantage, you're in advantage.

Natural 20. I'm a man. immune to bludgeoning damage. To who? That's an automatic. It's an automatic crit. It's an automatic crit. That's two death saving throws?

Two death saving throws. Yeah. For who's scrim? What do I need to tell you? A hit is an automatic crit. Or should have everyone like close their eyes or something? Close your eyes if you're not within five feet. Done.

All right, actively. All right. My heart's racing. And Scrim being down as he is, this silver dragon born, undead creature slamming down into his body, you can see that it is just shifting now, looking very, very, very

rough. That's going to be the... It's like a bag of loose meat. Like a burlap sack full of vegetable soup. Oh. Is the inside of your flesh green too? You're up. We might find out. Um...

Are, is Barnaboo's conscious? I am. Covered in blood. I have 12 hit points. I can't rage though, so I'm absolutely fucking useless. I'm absolutely fucking useless. How did we get here? It's partially my fault of saying that the zombies were shivers.

You've invited their eye or her. You know, it's just another day that ends in life. Jesus. What I will do. I will do. Who's next? You're Queenie. And then the boss.

Oh, geez. Well, do something. Barnabose is good. Can I try to perceive if scrims alive? You can. That's in the rules. That's in the rules books.

Yeah, I can do it at range, right? But I have to make a check. Yeah. That takes up your action. No, what? And now I finally roll high. That wasn't like, okay. But the rest of us can't know.

Correct. That is a 24. Rehide your eyes. Reemerge your eyes. Does it use an action? No. It doesn't say, I just remember we talked about, like, you can perceive it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll always be like someone with a high medicine has invested in choosing that as a skill and wants to roll high. and I want to reward that. So seeing someone from a distance and being like, oh, they're okay versus not. Clearly their head is severed from their body. I'm not in pieces yet. There are so many teeth on the ground. Too many teeth.

You can only lose seven. Too many teeth. No, there's eight teeth on the ground. He's done. Every tooth you lose is lower to your death save. Every tooth you lose. Oh, look at the... That bruise.

Oh, that's so good. I don't know how to go from there. That's amazing. We're going to collaborate on that. Take your time. It's a Friday. We got all night. It's Friday, and I'm not in a snappy fight mode,

so like tactical meta, however you need to with the exception of the rules about dying. And take your time. Your life you will lose. Shouldn't have gone on this cruise. Pleasure cruise. It's all difficult to raise, so we can't even like... This is a great turn.

We can't even like go very far. No. We're trapped with a giant monster. What do I get being a Landruid? Do I get anything? No, being a Landrid sucks. Don't I get like... You get a turn that you could use right now.

Yeah, I know, but I just really need to make sure that this is good. Well, I have one thing I can do on my turn, so. Unleach the bees. While you're mulling over it. Thank you for giving me, ladies silence. Emeris. I can't imagine. You don't know if I'm sitting there this entire time.

I shoot an arrow. So can I get a sense of exactly like where everybody is? Yeah, exactly where they look. I'm that right there because this guy was on me here. Oh, you're here. Yeah. Stand everybody up. It was shifted one this way.

Please be careful with that. You know, one or the other, but I'm right there. Yeah. And I'm here. Yeah. So when you, when you knock people over, put their base in the spot that they're standing. Really, really we should have prone minis.

I tried to do it. Yeah, we should replace minis with like a, like some kind of a death token or something. Yeah. You are dead. But if we just always know. Well, we can do the beans. Do you have beans?

Oh, yeah. I got so many beans. But here's the thing. I love beans. If we always know that the circular base is in the square they were standing, then it's fine. Because then we always know that. Yeah, I guess if we just move them off the map like that. We have bases for the icebound creatures, too, because we made those before we were using minis.

I'm sorry, what? We have. Oh, the tokens that have our faces. Yeah, I know. I'm pretending like I didn't understand what he said. Which is hilarious because he's actually listening to me. That's a great idea. I didn't know that.

I took you serious. I know you did. Oh, I didn't know. What a liar. The gaslighter strikes again. It was helpful in me. It is I, the gaslighter. Okay.

Can I run something? This guy is in this space here? You've run out of time. We're moving on. Barnabose. It's your turn. And that's the end of your turn. I'm going to heal.

I'm going to bonus action heal Tyshen. What? No. With healing word. Oh. Oh, what's the word?

I don't know. The word doing his legs. Don't fuck. That's true. Oh, shit. We're going to die. We're going to die here. And I, so you go up three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

I'm going to go here and here. I will like to use my action to pick up Tyshen. And because I move ten feet, Can I jump my strength score into the water? Oh. Into the water? I love where your head's at. Into the water.

But you can't, because you can't move with someone on your turn. What? No, you can't. You can grab them. I'm using my action to grapple. Oh, then yes, you could totally do that. Yeah.

You're diving into the water. Not to the next ice flow. You're diving into the water. Yeah, I'm gonna heat this up. I just want to make sure that I understand your intention. Yeah, into the water. If I can make it to the ice flow, You know that there are like dead dragonborns in there.

Nah, not once we get in. Let's bring him up. No, he's a friend in the water. One more to the pile. Yournier is gonna take his odds in the water. So what I would say is you can see that there are two Rangers that have taken their chance on other ice blows have been fine.

I'm with you on this. As soon as he can start flying around and miss and there's no one else to eat, and he's going to like, he's going to like, the second roll in, God! He's going to start. It's gonna be the forsaken.

Yeah. Oh my God. I love it, dude. I'm ready. You don't have to roll and we don't have to worry about the rules for jumping. You just hop into the water

with Tai Chen because you used your action to grab his body and jump in. And I will shout to Barnabos. If you can, get scrimed. And I can't hear that, but I'm hoping that someone can hear him.

We're going in. Here we go. Oh, I feel so. so much better. Oh, no! Keep in mind, your boots, your mittens, your coat, all water water long. Yeah, and I'm deaf. I don't even know it's half.

And you should immediately take the cold damage. I'm gonna suck in. You're now in freezing ice cold water. Hey, listen, let's not get caught up in the my new show of it all. You probably can't breathe. He doesn't have that prepared. The cold weather. Look at him.

Look at this. The cold at disadvantage because it's wet now. As soon as soon as he hit the water. It's cold. cold shock response. At disadvantage, yeah. Let me, let me just pause on them past you. What if I just firebolt my own body?

It's not your turn. You just die. Yeah, that's fair. It's like trying to light a big lighter underneath frozen water. You have to pass this. I am the devil on the DM shoulder. That's my job.

Wait, what am I doing? Con safe? Hold well. At disadvantage because it's water. No. Damn it. Oh, yeah. Oh, you did fine.

Listen. Yeah, you did fine. Talked 10 with built for the icy water as a lifespan. That doesn't sound right. It's unbelievably refreshing. You think as you're being pulled by your near and you're kind of thankful for the circumstance

and he jumps off of what is a four or five foot thick block of ice and into the water, you think, is this going to hurt? What's going to happen? And as soon as you hit the water, you steal yourself. And you realize it's cold. It's very cold. You are going to strike. with this cold, but it almost reinvigorates you.

It pumps your blood full of adrenaline, and you are okay. You are not stunned for one minute. You are not. You got them, though. I got you, maybe. One of you. This was maybe your best idea. You jump into the water.

Do you want to do anything else when you're turning around here? That's it. I'm done. I'm out of everything. So that's why it took so long. I was trying to like math it all out. Yeah, it's fun. We got nowhere to be. Give me five pips of rotation, everybody. Oh, no.

Would that crush us in the ice float? Yes. You're dead now. You're smashed between two ice floes. As that turns, that's important. One moment. You're getting meat right. You're coming out like, like,

I'm totally in salsa on the other side. Here's the problem, right? The ice floes are moving this way because they're really heavy floating on top of the water. Something in the water is going to move much faster. You guys are going to zip. You don't know about water speeds. Your Honor and Taichenne rolled D-100.

Oh my God. What the hell is that? You take a zero and a double. You take your tens. So you can roll these two. These bad boys. A single and a double. Well, I have these. Yeah. So this one and this one.

Yep. Okay, let it rip. And we'll tell you what you got. And then the double one are the 10 increments and the single digit. This one? So that way if you got this and this, that would be Got it. Okay. And if it's all zeros, it's 100.

Oh, no. 44. Oh, 36. So that is 36. If you had rolled a 33 or lower, you would have had to roll bludgeoning damages. You are crushed by the ice flows in between these spaces, but you're both okay. The flows move away, and you are taken by the current. Snow is falling all around you. There are still small blocks of ice around you, but you are not crushed by one of these giant Close.

Thank you, Winnie, for that fantastic Titanic quote. I'm telling you, water that cold, like right down there. It hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body. It's when Rose is trying to commit suicide. Let's watch Titanic later, Winnie. Let me tell you, this Wendy gets claws is like a thousand and one knives, all right? Try to hit you right in your goddamn face. All right, I have one more legendary action and I am going to use it.

Cup of T-Fling. I love that. Welcome, cup. Fancy a couple. Can I make a bite attack on Biden apartment? Yeah, of course you can. You mean you're a lapsly allowed to use a dungeon mask? No, I'm in reach. Yes, sir.

Oh yeah, I'm right next to it. I have 12 hit points left. You're basically in him. 13. Oh! Oh! Your turn. Please, please, please, please, please, please.

I'm gonna look over and see how scrim's do it. Oh, yeah? Yeah, look. Yeah, look. I'm gonna be, I'm gonna look over, and I'm just, I've been kill 8,000 times. Make a medicine check. I've had a whale tail rip out of me. He's got to make the medicine check first.

He's got to make the medicine check first. Yeah, I'm in the goddamn ice flows. Medicine, actually not pretty bad, 21. 21, hide your eyes. Let's tell them what's happening. Okay, unhide your eyes. I'm gonna look and I'm gonna say, oh, hello, Mr. Yoroneer and Mr. Farblossom.

I hope you find fair winds and following seas. Oh, no. You're mine, Beastie. And I'm going to just recklessly attack. Yep. Well hit. Uh. I didn't hear no fucking bell.

Uh. That'll hit. That'll have. This was America. I thought this was, I thought this was for car. I didn't hear no bell. That's just a car. This ain't good.

Your damage rolls. I'm so sorry. Can we twist it? Oh, my God. No, you can't. We wrote it down in the shit. Eight points of bludgeoning damage. Beautiful.

And I'm going to knock him back five feet. This way, I guess. Yeah, he's looking rough. He's looking real rough. And I'm going to walk over this way. One more if you want to, ready? I'm gonna stand right here. You can move.

I'm gonna stand right here. You can leave your friends behind like you're near a Tyshev did. Because if your friends don't jump in the water, then they ain't no friends of mine. At least I'm going to die near the water. I'm going to spit blood. Is he a legendary actioning? No. We're gonna do two pips on the ship.

Why? Uh-oh. Are you guys going to get crushed again? There are no two picks between the aborn and a boats. We're free. Oh, we're not doing that. No, we're not doing Pips. Just leave it.

Just leave it where you had it. It's Queenie's turn. My apologies. My apologies. My sincere apology. Queenie, let's go. I do hit, okay? I hit this time.

And I'm not going to try and push him. I'm going to use, I'm going to use it to do extra damages. There's my D8. Those dice are so beautiful. It's crazy. Even from over here, they glow. They are really pretty. Um, I know how to do damages.

1, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 2, 2, 3, 3, 24 points of damage. Oh, huge. That's huge. 24? Yeah. Why don't we twist any other than that? How would you like to continue your turn? Because I'm not the...

You're a scombeg! You a scombeg! There's a special place in this. The nine hells people who got that. That was very rude. I wouldn't like to continue my turn because that's it for me. 24, we're twisting all queen is a 10th.

He's still hurting. He's actually starting to stumble. There are 14 arrows on this side. There's crushing blows on this side, and he's not getting nourishment. He's not getting food. He's not getting the things that he needs in order to, and he's being prevented from regenerating,

he's starting to look pretty rough. All right, now we can move two pips. Two pips. And then it's his turn. Ha ha. Goodbye, Barnabose. 20 The Druids and more of a Wendigwent to Gwent. Did somebody say quent?

Because you're in the water, I need your Nier and Tishen to make an additional D-100 rule. Let's pull this. I'm nowhere near these Ices. It's a representation of it. It's an imperfect representation of what's actually happening. 55. You're both fine.

Easy money. That's going to be the conclusion of Queenie's turn and the Pips, so it's its turn. Brinibus, with only one target, you stare at a creature of nightmares. It opens its three maws. slashing down at you like a rabid animal. 27 to hit. 11 slashing damage. 10 cold damage.

I'll look up as this is happening. You're not raging because you take a full man. Yeah. I will look up and as is looming over me. I will say, I took Clemens, it took all this for you to be able to land a punch. do it. And he will just claw me.

He claws you the first time, and that takes you out. That takes him out. He claws the second time. Gets a natural one. Wow. It doesn't expect you of the creatures that it has fought. So sturdy and so... He's at advantage, you know.

Oh, yeah. Because... 27 again. Which is an automatic trick. I don't think everyone needs to close their own. eyes, it eats, it starts to feed on the body that is Barnabos. That is the conclusion of its turn, Tyshen. That's it.

I drown. He's in the water. I mean, I don't know, yeah, what do I, what do I, what do I see? What do I do? How does it, like, am I, like, in a current? Like, am I just, like, getting fucking swept away? I'm just to hold it. The ice floes and Barnabot and Yorneer and yourself are moving along with the currents of the water.

At this point, it is 40 or 50 miles per hour strong. This is a rapid. You can feel underneath your feet occasionally rocks are lifting up and smacking into the back of your heels, but other times you feel like you're completely treading water. It is cold, but you've managed to steal yourself. Looking up, these ice flows, they're four or five feet thick. So in order to get up and onto the ice flow, it is like grabbing something. Imagine if you were in a pool.

Imagine in real life you're in a pool. And if the actual edge of the pool wasn't just where the water line was, but was a full foot or two feet up. Grabbing that and pulling yourself up would be a challenge. If I catch the edge, I'm not pulling myself up. And it looks sharp and icy and broken and shattered. There's flurrying snow in all directions, darkness in all directions, screams in all directions. What do you do? Do I see a horde of undead brethren that I could rally to my cry?

Give my ideas. What are you doing? What were you going to ask? I was going to ask him if he's tall enough where you could see him line of sight and still shooting from the wall. Oh, that's not. Oh, no, no, no. Can I rally a Deiasex Machina? The top of this creature. Right, right, right, right.

Back to my question. Even as it starts to scoop down and it's clearly eviscerating your companion. Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Can I rally a Deiasex Machina of a thousand undead? You cannot. Damn, okay. I'm handcuffed by the rules of dungeons and dragons.

I'm handcuffed by the rules of dungeons and dragons. I wrote this like the devil. I will DM like an angel. But I can't break the rules. I'm not going to do that. Is that what this is? Yeah, no, no. I hear you say it at all, but like, yeah.

I've been surprisingly generous. I'm kidding. I'm teasing. I'm kidding. Okay. So we're above the water, though, not like getting sucked down. No, no, no, no.

You're not being pulled down. And looking around underneath you, it seems that whatever a hoard of bodies. With a steel chair. Whatever, whatever, grouping of skeletons were being animated far, far up the river. And a few of them managed to grab onto the ice floes and are now evil in their way.

They're not underneath you now. They're not underneath you now. Okay, okay. All right, okay. May I roll to beat my deafen? Okay, I attempt to hear once more. Absolutely, and it's DC 11. Don't embarrass me.

There's water in there now. There's water in there now. What? Who? Did somebody say tea? All right. This is called gallows human. In the bear hug that he's,

yore and ears, warm embrace behind me, I opened my mouth and in one last attempt, I summoned what strength I have, and I should. out an elemental blast that arcs through this guy and will attempt to land. Oh, he's got me wrapped up, you know? I mean, no, no, no, no. I'm super into it.

Yeah. No, I like, breath style. You like, you hawk a dragon loogie and flame flies in your mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get it, you get it. Yeah. Okay. Are there two six dice over there? Yeah.

No. These are not. This is not. This is not. This is not. This is not. No, no, no, no, no, no. Chessax right now.

This is a Chessix. The Chessix, if you want to Spamroll, I have a burn in hell. I haven't rolled these yet. I don't roll these yet. This is a metal dice. Do it. Do it. Do it.

That's bullshit. Tell it to Caprice. Take my breath away. Oh. 25. That has to hit from the water. Like a border. And Pessel.

Yeah. Jeez. It's rind that ass. All right, so I'm gonna do bludgeoning first and then fire damage. Oh. Seven bloods, okay, okay, all right, all right. And eight fire. Eight fire.

15 points of damage. Yeah. So 15 points of damage, almost absolutely masks, max for the elemental burst. From out of nowhere, you're being hugged by your neer. He is murmuring in your ear. basically unable to hear himself, but trying to communicate anything, all of the things that he's been trying to see this entire. We're both dying.

Do nothing but heal. Burst. But filled with, what's the word for what motion you're filled with in this moment? As you spray this, this fire out of your mouth. Catatonic. You're just, you know, I'm not sure I'm alive. You're in shock. I think I think my body's operating on the spirit of Fugia alone.

You feel that. a lot spirit and it fills you and you like this and it smashes into the side of the face and one of the skulls crashes away only two remaining. It is looking pretty terrible from this blow, but not dead. No, of course not. It's gonna look a lot.

Daisy. Well, we gotta move the flows. They gotta take damage. One flow pit, please. Oh, only one. Yeah. Roll your D-100s. Is it one-pip?

That's nothing. There's nothing. That's nothing. Daisy. Well, they don't have to roll their D1. Chill out. Do they have to roll their D1? Are you in the party or what?

It was only twice per round. Oh, okay. At the top of the round and then at the center. I'm melting the ice around this when I shot the elements. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Daisy is going to go ahead and attack the thing. Get revenge.

Oh, yeah. Well, this was a fire. not a 15, so don't get excited. But this is an 18, so one of them does hit. Okay. But once again, don't get excited because, yeah, she does no damage. I'm very exciting. Four piercing damage.

Oh, that's enough. It sticks into its back. It's starting to look even more porcupine-like. Porculine. I love porcupines. Porculines, yeah. Porcupine is what I would have gone. Give me two more pips of rotation.

Gotta go fast. Oh, no. Scrim needs to rule a death saving crow. That's right. Everybody close their eyes. I guess, except for you guys, you already know the outcome. Oh, yeah. You can look, I suppose.

Well, actually, I guess not. No, I think you would have to close your eyes because you're not close to me anymore. Oh, that's true, yeah. So go ahead, close your eyes. Okay, that is the result. Yeah, I'm done. Okay.

And Scrim, that's the end of your turn. Let's move. That's correct. Hips. Eight pips? So do they have to roll a D-100 now? No. Stop.

I love being an agent of chaos. Me too. Queenie, you have been beset upon by this weird dragon-born entity. Watching your honeybees. You've been watching Daisy. You've been watching all of this chaos.

You've been trying to fire arrow after arrow. It's almost impossible in this darkness and the snow. And as you approach this situation, the sound behind you, the rushing sound behind you is impossible to ignore. Turning around, you realize that you are watching the other ice flows that are ahead of you disappear. And there is nothing beyond it.

It is like the water, river. stops and comes to a complete curtain. It's not even stars. There's snow all around you, and you realize that you are about to go over the edge. Yeah. I guess another turn of text. Daisy makes this next revelation.

Yornear, Tai Chen, you similarly see the ice flows bouncing and grinding around you. suddenly reach a peak and disappear, and you realize only in the last final moments that you are going to go over an edge. What distance that edge looks like is impossible to say, but there it is. You watch Queenie disappear over that edge. You watch the main flow that you've

all been combating on that's covered in gore and viscera, suddenly start to to turn and pull over the edge of this waterfall. The, for lack of a better word, Wendigo, disappears. You can see it scraping into the air. You can see the two bodies of your friends, Barnabos and Scrim, also disappear. You can see undead dragon-born screaming and scraping up.

And you are the last to go over along with these giant chunks of ice. suddenly disappearing over into an abyss. Queenie, you suddenly realize that there is no thing to stand on as the ice floe dips underneath your feet and you look down and you do not see a ground or anything. It's just darkness. You fall.

What are you thinking in these last moments? As the stomach pulls into your chest and you feel gravity. release. Fuck. Okay. Roll a D-100 for me. 57. Very good.

Everyone else needs to make that same D-100 roll, including Daisy, by the way. Tyshen, Barnabas, sorry, Yornear, what are you thinking as you slip over

the cascading waterfall that you have come to? in a short time. Can we attempt to do anything as we're going on over that you're bad at lines with? Mechanically you don't have like an action or anything along those lines. Barabas and I need to hold you 100? Yep.

Okay. You can't just find out where your dead bodies land? I would think like see like I think I'd be thinking going over the edge like falling with Barnabas. I think I would turn. Be like like no not like we're trying to come so far tried so hard, and I would try and, like, wrap my arms around them and, like, extend a shield

to the two of us, which mechanically I know that wouldn't happen, but I'd be trying to protect him with, like, Golden Dragon. Do you feel the grasping arms of Taishen around you, and you can hear his words in your ear as you start to go over the crest of this waterfall? I will be holding Taishan. You can really... Tai Shan. And with that, it doesn't in action, my item says as long as I just speak their name, I can use one of my

tusks to give someone temporary HP. So I would like to do that. It's not much. It's not going to protect us against the horrible Wendigo attack, but maybe in fall damage, it might help. And would I be able to do that? I give it to you. I can't hear what

he's saying, but I know how he's making me feel. Try a man. How did you slip and you disappear into the vapors, the mists of this waterfall. And all goes dark for all of you. And I think now is the time for us to update the game state and remove the battle map and start to figure out where you land. Do these any kind of specific, like, can we just like take these all away? Just don't set them on fire.

Barnabose, what did you D100? 49. Yorne. 86. Queenie. Oh, you already got mine. 57. Yep.

Daisy. 21. Rim. 35. Paisian. 77. Okay. That's the power of world.

It is. Yeah, let's move some ice floated chunks out of the way completely. Ice squunks. You can stack them on top. of here. Let's pull the when to go off the battle round here. Drop that. I'm gonna just end you. The final boss. Wario. It really does have a rotten day.

Thanks, Floreo. That would be the final boss for a Faye one. It's Lurio. It's Warrior with a steel chair. He didn't need any help from Wario. We needed that. Warrior, what are you doing here in Jakar? He also has a bite. Orible abomination.

Please present the hexature omiturometer. Armamen, the hexagonal armament. The hexagonal armament. You're near him. Poor dear. I'm trying to take this seriously. He's so good. The waterfall crashes.

You don't know how far you fall, and you are terrified that you will land in the plunge pool of the waterfall, hitting rocks, or hitting into ice, or where the Wendigo is, where these creatures are, where your friends are. and submerged underwater for a brief period, you start to swim out, and you're able to pull yourself up to get breath again. And it's still impossible to see in all directions, but there is a bank just five, ten, 15 feet away. You're able to swim over and you are able to coughing,

find yourself at the bank of this space. looking around you turn and you can see Queenie Queenie is there too she has also pulled herself onto the bank and she's able to

and she's still also recovering from this terrifying experience Tyshen is not but five feet behind you able to find your way to the bank there's no sign of Scrim

Barnabose or of this malevolent creature looking around in the immediate vicinity. What about Daisy? What are the three of you doing? Um, I'll look around.

Are you okay? I can't believe it. I will be alive? You are alive. I don't believe. I don't believe scrimmin. Barnabos made it. Well, we don't know until we find their bodies.

We got to find Daisy. We got to find Scrimm. We got to find Barnabose. I'm going back in that water if I have to. I want to look up, like, is there still a roaring river? Does this feel like a natural place to me? Like, does it follow the same laws of a waterfall and how I would see it in the fjords of home? Completely natural.

I won't even make you roll. This was a tall waterfall, and it fell of what appears to be about 200 feet. and you can see that there's rocks, but more importantly, the ice flow has created a bit of a mound in the center of this plunge pool, and there's still water shattering and pouring down against it. The sound is almost deafening. I'm not going to continue to play it because it would be extremely annoying narrative play. However, you could see that it would have been very easy for a body to. to smash into one of these ice flows. By the gods of Ventris,

the three of you have managed to slip through that space and are now on the bank of this pool that's around as it continues to rush and then continue down to who knows where. Where is the beast? What happened to the monster? I'm not particularly worried about where the beast is right now. I'm worried about where my friends are.

Can you turn into something that can swim through that? Yes, we need to go out of the beast days. We'll worry about finding the beast. You get in there and find our friends. You jump in as a walrus. You see him twist and shift a blue flash of light, and he dives into the water, and you immediately start making your way towards this hill of ice

making an investigation check. He just shifts into the aquatic form for, Druids. But awkward animation. I think that's a 8. We are hot fire tonight. Rock next time.

Yeah. The circus is so valid. You rush up to the first bank of ice flows and you start to swim around. You start to make your way. You don't see anything on the surface. You dive down. And as you dive down, you realize it's

to take a while for you to go and look through every nook and cranny. Queenie and Tyshanna, I need you both to make a perception check. My bees are still on the one to go, so I should know where it's off. Oh. In case you're wondering. It's Hunter's Mark. It's literally the only thing I'm good for, apparently. That's right. So Hunter's Market just, you just know. There's a range. Yeah. Yeah. You can feel a deep rate. You can feel a deep rage underneath the plunge pool. A buried hunger that is scraping to get out, surrounded by

its own phobia, surrounded by water, trapped and attempting to scrape through, scratch through, and release itself. It can no longer use its instinctual magics to free itself. It seems... like Fury Manus Fest. The bees, even underwater, are crawling in and around its body,

just trying to give you that same, that sense, that parody that you enjoy with your Fay Friends. And they're doing a good job of it. You can tell that you have some time before it might release. Oh. What?

Before the Wednesday. You might release? Yeah. Before the Wednesday. Feary manifests itself Continently Is able to free itself It's watery prison

So that's what I can sense Thanks to my be freaks We need to Here I'm going to hand you my potion What? I don't have a potion Did you both make the perception check That I asked you to do?

Oh no I didn't 21 21 No Tishen you are offered A healing potion by Queenie and then looking over, she's quite short, as you recall.

And you look down, but over her ears, you see on the other side of the bank form what looks like the body. Did we just send... Did we just send... Did you want this potion or not? Yes, thank you. I'll take the potion. Did we just send your inner into the water

where the beast is? And also there's a body right there. What do you mean there's a body right? Hold on one question at a time. Let me deal with body. And I'm gonna turn around. As soon as you see the, here, Tai Shan's words, you turn. And you can see it looks like a small body.

It looks like a body floating against the bank of the river as it's being pushed. And it's starting to turn and make its way down. It does. I am going to cast my mage hand. And I'm going to, which looks like a swarm of bees that turn into a hand. And they are going to zip over and grab onto him and try and keep him. from continuing down water just for me to get out there

and help start driving him in. And whatever this small body creature is, very likely scrim, you're able to stop him from continuing to be pulled down by the current. So I'm going to rush straight over there with all of my bunny speed. You rush and you are able to see scrim.

He's plainly apparent. Touchy, touch, touch. Come on, we got to get him out of the water. Can I rule to not be deaf anymore, actually? Oh, that faded along with the Undead Dragon born. Okay. Is it Scrim, do you think? Yeah, I'm looking at him right now. Oh.

Let's get him out. Yeah. I'll run over. Give me that potion back. Okay. And I'm going to pour the potion in his mouth. You pour the potion in the Scrim's mouth. Yeah.

How's he looking? It's my potion. I don't care. I don't know medicine. I don't give a shit. I'm going to try and save my friend. Yeah, that's fair. I'm just wondering.

You make a medicine check? Yeah, but I'm going to pour the potion in his mouth regardless. You do that. The potion is expended. Remove it from your inventory. And then I'm going to just do anything? 16. Scrim looks bloodied, torn apart, eviscerated,

and you're kind of shocked and horrified to see Queenie's actions as she takes this small vial and pours. I'm like holding scrim in my arms. I'm like, it's going to be all right, buddy. Don't you worry. I have a queenie's got you. It's going to be okay. And I start feeding the potion and I'm like rubbing his neck. It's going to be all right.

Just, you know, give yourself some time. Just hold on, Tashi. It's going to be okay. We got to give him like a minute or so for it to start working and then Yornear will be back. And he can, you know, Yornear can do a lot with magic, you know. So it's going to be okay. I've got you. And I'm just going to hold him close to me.

I'm going to start walking. Breath fills scrims lungs. An impossible. choking breath, he seems beyond the pale of death as something brings him back to life. Look at that. Zero. Zero HP, one HP? One. I thought we were going to need, I thought we were going to need Yorneur for this. Scram! Scram! How are you feeling, buddy? And I'm just going to give him the biggest hug.

And in this moment, Yornear, it's when you're twisting around as a walrus, you're able to find under a chunk of ice, but loose. You see deep underwater, the floating body of Barnabos. I'll immediately swim down and bite him gently if I can, like on his arm. It seems that you could chunk away at the ice, perhaps, with your tusks. And are able to eventually pull free the body and start to swim up with him to the surface of the plunge pool. You're able to start to looking around, not on that bank, no, over here. Snow is still coming, pouring down, but you're able to very slowly tug the massive form that is Barnabos to the bank.

And that is when you arrive to find Queenie thanking the gods of Evantris for the breath that Scrim is clearly intaking now. You just pull up? Mm-hmm. Yorna, quick, out of the water, the window goes in the water. Get them out. You stop being, you stop being one of those weird water horses. Hurry. Sort of unwilling, because I really don't, this is my last use of this,

and it's extremely useful to be able to return to a wall run. Yeah, that will shift back. Yornear, can you come check on Scram? I look over at Scrim with absolute fucking order. I gave him a potion, Yornear, and I, I thought that maybe you'd be able to help when you got here, but he started breathing. What? I gave him a potion, yeah.

It was, I only had one, though. Does it live? What do you mean does it live? Scream, do you speak? Am I, I, I have one inch pubit in my conscious, or am I, like, basically just act completely out of it? What was the last thing you saw? The last thing I saw was my shield breaking and being sad. You got a crash.

A crash of an experience. For you, no time has passed. Suddenly, you're choking and you're on the bank of this pool and Queenie is hugging you. You can hear your and ear screaming. Something impossible to describe has kept you from falling over the waterfall of mortality and dying.

You are somehow alive and not undead. Am I alive? Yes, Grimm, I got you. I gave you my only potion. It's not possible. What do you mean? What do you mean it's not possible?

It's clearly happening. Tends to our friend, that I'll motion to Barnabos. You want me to tend to him? And I'll just turn, and I will... I'm holding strip. I'm going to basically to try to... I'm, I'll go to Barnabos. I'll go to Barnabos.

I'm going to be like, I saw what that beast did to scream. I know, but I gave him one of those magical potions and now he's breathing again. That is not how it works. Can you go give Barnabos that other potion? The one you had? Yeah. Let me see if I have it. What was the last thing you remember? I was taunting Clemens.

and I got my shit knocked out of me. He just fucking wrecked you. You remember losing the fight. And in this moment, suddenly you don't know what you would have expected, perhaps

waking up in the arms of your lover. Or perhaps waking up in some of the tales of the afterlife that you were told as a Triton child, as compelling as those tales can be. But instead, You wake up and you are on the bank of some pool.

Cold, but 1 HP, conscious, capable of thought. As hurting and as weak as you feel, you are aligned. I'm in. Not bad. Not bad. Both he's going on. I don't know why you're being such a day, and our friends are fun. I'm sorry I'm screaming in your ear scream you just relax buddy and I'm just gonna reach

down and try to take scream from you how are you full what are you doing and I'm gonna like turn him and I'm gonna like try to look at his wounds I want to like I'll like you know maybe hold them by I don't know what clothes are still I'm gonna stand I'm gonna stand up I'm gonna punch you in your in your cat she deadlies you high school style what are you doing can you at least talk to us? How am I here? We know that the beast

reincarnates or resurrects dead things. Not as they were, but there's undead trolls. Well, he doesn't look like an undead thralls. He doesn't have those blue eyes, does he? I will determine this. Remember, you don't have to be so mean about. They're all friends.

I would like to medicine, check, thinking that, I don't currently believe that, I believe that this is a horrible way to go, Trey. Are you looking for undeth? I'm looking for on death, sort of how I could tell that the owl, even though it moved like an owl, I could tell that it was dead. Okay. I want to see if it's, I want to see the owl.

Is this like the owl? It moves like scrimm and sounds like scurran. But does it feel that sense of uncanny? You can make a nature check or a medicine check or a religion or arcana check. There's a Venn diagram center target. here that is meaningfully important. I think that it touches all those things. 20.

Looking at him, he is on the edge of death very clearly and is clearly in need of rest, recuperation, medical healing, and magical healing. He is a slap in the face away from falling over the waterfall of mortality, but he does not have the signs of unddeath that you have seen so much over the last 48 hours. You've seen this impossible monstrosity. You have seen the dragon born in their form. You've seen the animals, the beasts that somehow had died by the dozens in the forest and had approached to you. This does not look like an animated and filled with undepath scrim. It looks like a weakened and hurt scrim with a 20.

I will reach and try to find my shell to see if it's still intact. Where do you keep it on your person? I keep it like probably on my side, like kind of in the netting and with all the other stuff that I keep as well. You reach down and you don't have to see it, but you're able to cup the shell and it immediately gives you that sense of comfort and love. You did this, my lover. I know it to be true.

I do not sense on death on you, scream. I've been a lot of pain. So, Your Honor, you think they're healable? We can help them.

I can see more wonderful that's cool for what I have left. I probably have a process that you told me that the monster still is like five minutes.

Why you got to be such a big manny? Ripping him out of my arms and stuff. Not much time. has passed and you can feel shifting. You can feel like

an inverted horror. The same joy you would feel feeling a chick cracked through its egg for the first time in the nature of the forest that you grew up in, that you were trained in as

a ranger. As opposed to that joyous moment when it finally breaks free, you can feel the Wendigo is starting to make progress in its shell. It's going to break out soon, and I'm going to be completely honest with you. We could run, but it's going to find us. I don't know what choice we have, but you keep fighting it.

Luckily, we've got everybody back now. Do we have? How much time? Can you sense how much time we have? Not much time. Did you find Daisy when you were under there? Good question. You did not see Daisy.

your investigation ended when you grabbed Barnabos and pulled him to the bank Well, it's time to finish this. That's What like to do, my lover? Let's not see these She's a smart one though I think you know She's probably fine, right? I mean Scrim and Barnabos are fine Even if they're a little wounded

Can you do something? something to help scrim. He's going to start trying to drink everything. We have to focus on healing them. We get them back up and I didn't. You have anything to eat? I don't. Well, it's just all in the water.

I'm not in the water a lot. I mean, it's waterlogged rations. I don't care. I'm hungry. I will place my head and I have a scrim's chest and I will healing touch. I'll reach in, take out some

soggy dried fish out of my clothes, feed it to Barnabos, and as he eats, try and heal him with pure wounds. Barnabos is right. I could use some to that. That actually sounds pretty good. Yeah, we got to get him something to eat. Just anything that we might have. Yornear, do you have anything in your pack that you can feed scrim?

I don't carry rations on me because I'm small. My rations were still on the slage. which is at the house oh yikes I'm gonna walk over to Bornevo

all set scrimmed down I'm not a queenie if you can you know I'm so sorry and I'm gonna I'm just gonna rush over to scrim

and give him a big hug I'm so glad you're not dead yep I'm sorry no it's okay you're gonna have to deal with it though yeah

thank you for help you're welcome you feel drunk I feel hungry Oh, all right. I can't believe I'm here. I don't know if it's fair to say I split the ration in half or give him half, him the other half. That's true.

You want to scrimmed? You want some ancient ashti area on there? There we go. Tishan barra. Thank you. Thank you. As soon as you handed to me, I don't hesitate. I begin to consume it as completely as I can't.

In these first five, 10, 15 minutes that you're reunited, you're eating, you're recovering. You're trying to take a practice. perhaps a short rest even. But you can feel that energy, Queenie. It's coming. It's not going to be another 45 minutes. It is right around the corner.

And as much comfort as these luxuries bring, flight or fight. I'm going to touch Barnabas's shoulder if he's not much, but hopefully help you get you on your feet

and I'll also heal you for healing touch. Oh. Nice. Damn. 12. I will, as you do that, I will take one more. I will have finished eating, lit my pipe with some magically dried pipeweed. And I'll just sit there and I'll blow a huge billow of smoke.

And I'll sigh and I'll put it down. And I'll just grab a harpoon from my back. Let's finish this. I don't think we have any other choice. We could stand at the water's edge and it seems to be weak in the water. We could all surprise it as it comes out. Charge it with one giant group.

Attack. Can we stand the cold with the water again? We won't go into it. We're sitting around here on the edge. I would rather, while it's still, under the water, trapped, that this put it out of its misery from a distance. While you're telling everybody this plan, I realize that my clothes, the stuff that we took from the house is crazy waterlogged and heavy. I just begin to take it off. Yeah. And I'm stripping

it off as I'm listening to you describe this, this plan, throwing it on the ground. It's freezing. Negative 33, 35 degrees Fahrenheit. And as you are pulling things off, it feels warmer as you take off each item. It almost feels invigorating

to be out and insane in this cold temperature. And you celebrate the fact that you are ready to take on the challenge of what's to come. Oh, man. I'm going to be feeling this for a while, but I like what your idea is. We can do this.

We can do this. Do I see Scream like shivering at all? We can do this. Does he look cold at all? He looks like he will be cold soon, but is burning with the heat of inspiration for what's to come. I attempt to summon the brutal blade. It appears in your hand with that issue.

You can see that Scrim has, There's never been one to take on a great amount of work or responsibility, but for whatever reason on the banks of this pool, he is alive with energy. How good are you throwing that thing, Mr. Staviscaut? It'll flip my harpoon around to a throwing grip. I thought his last name was Grim Grim. Well, I got a few arranged tricks up my sleeve. I'm not done yet.

I'm clearly still here. It's in this moment that you feel And you can all see actually Ice flows shift Even though there are chunks still coming and swimming down In this huge cascade of ice crystals Vapor and water At the bottom of this waterfall

You can see that something is clearly clawing and creeping its way out And it crawls swimming Starting to make its way not directly towards you, but towards the bank, perhaps 30 or 40 feet away, starts to pull itself up and out of the water. And does that feel like where my bees are? That it does feel like where your bees are.

That's it. That's the wind to go. We got to go now. It's going to 30 or 40 feet away. 30 or 40 feet away from where you're currently standing with a blizzard effectively upon you. you can start to see this lumbering creature start to make its way out of the water. It's truest fear, and it is regurgitating water. It is weakened.

It is clearly struggling, not looking for food, but for escape from its own horror. And now if it gets close, swim to the other side of the river. No, and if we can, I'm just gonna frost-bite it. I'm gonna- I'm gonna throw my harpoon. It starts to pull up and around. It hasn't even looked to see you. And you can see water pouring from its eyes, from its mouth down, like drool or like spit.

It is wet and slick, and its skin is starting to peel off in sheets. And roll for attack. Are we running up to it? Everyone's just throwing stuff. Do you just like to do it? It's too distracted to care if you do a melee or- Is it's AC changed at all? It's AC, it's still 18.

Okay, I miss. Hoo! It needs to make a con-same. 30-20. Oh, what's the... I'd like to run up to it to do... 19 con-save. My thing, and I'm gonna hit it with a...

...shocking grass. Shocking grasp for 24. Hit, hit. Miss. Miss. Passes. Passes. Hit.

Roll for damage. Six. Not bad. I'll take it. It's better than zero. Eight. Piercing. Take the first four rounds of my combat.

Three lightning damage. There's a really, really great D&D feature called Undead Fortitude. where a creature that is undead gets hit by damage and then if it's reduced to zero hit points, it'll be backed up to one if it can roll a constitution saving throw well enough over the damage that you guys have done. Oh shit.

Well, considering how low that damage was. And it's pluses 12. The DC starts at a level plus the damage. It's not just the damage. so it's not DC6, 8, and 3. Oh, okay. DC3 with a plus 13. Serre.

Barnabus, what do you... You throw a harpoon at? I'm throwing my harpoon that I have. You throw the harpoon, and it lodges through the ribs, and it struggles forward. Tyshen. My was a run-up and with a crackling claw, like, grab onto whatever its closest extremity is and just electrocute it while it's covered in water.

You grab onto it and it is charged with energy and it pulses for a moment. Before struggling forward and it starts to turn towards you. It starts to wake up to the fact that it is still in a fight. Smoky and red, inky black tendril of magic. Blast into it. As it turns, you manage. to hit it right in the eye, goes off like a firework, and it slumps over. It falls still now against the bank. Never, ever would breathe like this, but it is stiller than any undead creature.

It seems to be gone. Did we do it? I don't know. I mean, it doesn't seem to be moving. Ashley, you're next to it. Careful pie shem. It doesn't seem to be breathing, but everything else so far has come back to life around here. Even our furs. I feel like we should burn it.

I grab another harpoon. I'm with Barnabose on this one, and I'm going to let an arrow fly and hit it with another arrow. Make an attack on advantage. You set to the left there, Mr. Foyer Blossom. Hits.

It's a natural 20. Let's fucking go. Let's go! 11 points of damage. 14 arrows. The bees, the harpoon shunk into it, and Tyshen, you're amazed that they miss you because you're right in front of it. And on either side, these attacks immediately go in to the body of the Wendigo. It just gets hit, and unmoving looks more damage than it was before, but just as the...

as it was before. I hate to suggest wasting resources, but if we need to, we can use one of those bonfire candles and burn the hell out of this thing. We should destroy it entirely, so nothing can come back. Nothing can rise up, and... I think it's a pretty good use of a candle, if you ask me. I agree. What...

I think back to the first... or the Cabin Boy, and what happened when we killed him and the heart. Did he like automatically shrivel? What happened? Oh, yeah. Do I remember? He's like, he's like,

he's like, I don't remember out to be on that. He like, he like, he definitely melted a little bit and then like, like, kind of dusted. He like, I don't recall melting, but I will say. It's like, ice claws melted and like,

yeah, I thought he like shatter. It's dust. Yeah. Those kinds of qualities are happening now. Okay. Oh, okay. So I am, this feels like when This is Garcci?

Clements. This is Clements. So he feels like he's meeting the same thing. Yes, he's coming to rest. Should he be left alone? Who knows what to say? But you were smart enough to burn the body of the Wendika the first time. You should go out of the kids. I'll dig through my pack and I'll pull out one of the candles.

Not many left. Is anything about it intact? Like, for instance, does a claw look whole? This is where the melting starts to come in. I do want to check the tapes. My goal would be, so we set out originally. If you're asking, can you, like, harvets anything from this creature? Can you pull anything off of its body?

Specifically, what I would think would resemble a trophy of a kill of an el-lewinda, yeah. We came to get this like Griffin thing, right? And this is so much worse. I'm looking for a provable, like a provable kill. You look at it and there's four antlers. There's the skull, the, the, the, now just two, but an impossible, a menagerie of mouths connected to an impossible throat.

It has two small arms in addition to its larger, huge arms that it has been swiping and clawing with. There's material there, should you want to use it. Yorner, you're good with bones. Maybe we should take something from this, if not to prove that we felt this beast to what was once our allies, potentially to ward off any lesser creature from attacking him. That's something we can hang as an emblem of a greater kill. Is there anything you think you could keep with us? I don't want to keep you from your trophy, but I worry that it may be more harm than good

than any peace or disabomination. Tysh, I'm sorry, I didn't interrupt. Do you have any more rations? I have one more ration. Oh, yeah, that'd be great if you wouldn't mind sharing that Mr. Firebloss. Can I have that? Oh, you've got to learn out of share, to learn out of share, Mr. Savasgotch. Fine, fine, fine, fine.

And the last one, it's just so good. I don't have any. I mean, I smoked the fetch, so it's by right mine. We didn't get any of that stew. Ah. Now, with all the voles. Oh. I threw all them voles into the fire.

Maybe we can all split it in just a little bit. We haven't, except for that, please. I'm sorry, what are we talking about? There are my eyes and my right eye. My blank eye will flash like blue. And I'll cast detect magic to see if I can see any... The bones, right, the bumps. Any aura on either of them.

Without question, the body is still thrumming with magical energy. The one of the go is? Yeah. He's looking at these guys. I mean, wouldn't you get an aura of magic from any caster or a creature like Barnabot? What?

Is there like a skull over their head? Like do. Adi-da? Yeah. Yeah. A big red X or something. I'll ignore this and I'll walk over to the Wendigo and I'll put my foot on its skull

and pull out both of my harpoons and I'll try to wash off all of the goop and I'll put it back in the netting. You're able to do this? And I'll just kind of look at it and say, Clemens, you died out you lived, being a coward. I'll present you with the candle. There you go.

That's a 28th one out of the 36th that we started with. You handled the heart of the first one. Do you think you could, and that was, that saved us the first time around. Do you think, I don't want to keep anything either. But. Oh, you're saying there have been goodies in its body. Well, maybe it's, maybe it has an even more powerful heart. They could, they could cast protections for us in the land.

Is it not even worth checking? Oh, burning it will uncover anything similar, just like it did with Coombs. I think Coombs got eaten by an eagle or something. That was the cabin boy. I can't remember his name. Um, Coombs. Coooms was talking away to the highest. That was with Mr. Stonebridge. Stonebridge, whatever. What the fuck his name was?

Roland Stonebridge, Mr. Stonebridge. Yes. Coombs got pulled off of clip and fell a thousand feet into the water to his death. That's how good to go. That's pretty terrible. You bring up a fair point. I would like to, if you want to keep a piece of this skull and plur, the malignation, we could, but we would have to keep an eye on it.

It is strumming with magical energy. Tyshaan and Giornir, as you're having this debate and thinking through the implications of what it would mean to keep a piece of this monstrosity, make a religion check. Wait a minute. Where's the girl? We don't know. Seven. I didn't see her in the water. I'm hoping that just like the three of us, she landed safely and maybe made her way to the other side of the bank. and she's precocious, she's probably all right.

15. With the 15, you feel even more strongly that keeping any piece of this creature would, because of its regenerative qualities, ultimately result in its reemergence. What? What? Fuck. Oh, second. Forget everything, I said.

I'll defer to your judgment. I know nothing of the land. So I'm like, I'm taking out the head. hatchet about to like, my, my, my, my, uh, my hatchet about to like, bring off an antler. And I get this weird feeling that's just this sense as if it's like, Mahmood speaking to me. Um, no, no, every piece of this creature should burn. Every piece. Oh, wow. Then that settles it. Also, Taishen, seriously, give me some of that food, man. I almost died. I could use something to eat.

Yeah, we almost died. Fine. I'll tell you out on our last ration, split it and toss it to the two of them. Ah, thank you. Agent Estuary? Yeah, that's right. No, no, it's over here.

Can we focus on burning? I mean, we might be ice now, but I'm not a savage. A horrible creature. I light the candle and see if I can, like, hold it to it. And it's a burning. I would try, I would also try. My thought was to kind of mimic the guy from the, from before. I would try and remember some of his motions and just basically,

use control flames to spread. As soon as you apply control flames to the bonfire candle, the light ignites the body. And you can put out the other candle for me

with this top here. It smells good. The skin and flesh of this undead creature ignite. And the, yes I know, thank you. The bones start to emerge from the fire.

It goes up despite the fact that it was just submerged in water like dry kindling. And it lights the area. And for a moment, the five of you stand around in silence looking at what was such a fearsome creature. Not long ago, so sad and so defeated in its final moments. having been crushed by the waterfall, by the ice, by itself in so many ways, and through your perseverance in this space, light illuminates each of your faces. You can look into the faces of your colleagues, your friends.

I need everyone to make a perception check. Oh, boy. Whoever has the highest wins. I like playing this game. It's always fun. 11. T, 12. 18.

You're near. You're looking for a very specific thing, and you see it right away. In the chest cavity, not one heart, not two hearts. The other organs are also malformed, multitudinous shifting, multiple stomachs, and insanity of intestines. Five hearts glow in the bright of the... fire and they still look like frozen artifacts in the space of this just as you just as you were able to pull out the the heart that you still have on you from the from the body of Roland after he had transformed this creature as advanced as he had

become in such a short time had five and you look down and are able to see these glowing coals like embers pulsating cold, hot, impossible to say, but you're the one who spies it first. I'll just take a step over to the river and just dunk my arm in and get it like just sopping like cold. And I'll just reach in quickly and try to pull them out. Remembering that the other one, that the heart itself was cool despite it being in the fire. I assure you it was quite cool. It does not burn you.

It does not cool you. It feels like touching ice, but it is, Unlike touching the water, dunking your arm in the water was somehow more chilly to you than this experience. And you're able to pull out these artifacts, and pretty soon all of you are able to look bundled in your ear's arms at five... What's a good... Softball?

Fist? Baseball. Like the size of a fist, smaller than that. Like the size of a cat's skull. These are small and and and and and and why can't I hold all these cat skulls. It's like an orange. You see that he's pulled these items out. And you remember that Yorneur did this previously with the other Wendigo,

that this was something that actually saved your life when you were in the lodge. It feels like forever ago, but that's what you see. That works out. They feel they hold the same power. Yes. They do. They'll look different. It's like a little chaos emerald thing going on.

Are they all complicated? They look identical. They look identical. But unlike the heart that you got from Roland, these feel like you could crush them and find something inside. What? These look. Like they could be destroyed as if there were something inside.

Do you want my bees to do it? To destroy the, these hearts. Well, I'm just worried that if you do it with your own hand, that it could hurt you in some way, and my bees can make a hand, a bee hand, if you will. Maybe big bee hand? Yeah, big bee hand. It's pretty good.

I don't know if there's dangerous. So what you're describing is I sort of feel the sense of like, do I feel sort of drawn to break them? Yeah, I would say that unlike the initial heart, which was felt hardened and ice-like, and is still sitting in your pack, you could compare them. This one, you'd be able to squeeze as hard as you wanted, and it would remain unbroken. these are flaking. They feel like a snowball. Like you could actually just sift it away if you were to move your hand like so.

I'll place one down in front of Queenie. I'll do so. All right. And I'll cast my mage hand. Go pick it up and have it. A swarm of bees grab and reach and pull up the artifact. Do they do the crushing work?

Yep. They do it. Do you like jazz? Oh, do I get to crush it? Oh, wow. Or do I just get to open it? You get to open it. It's just a package.

Queenie! It's a present. Do I read the back? Inside, as you pull the ice away, is something un-ice-like, something impossible. You find a small stone therein, and you are shocked that... It resonates with your very spirit. It seems as though it unlocks something within you. And you feel a tremendous amount of power therein.

Do you want me to read this? Not now. Okay. If you want to, however you want to do it, I'm not going to prescriptive this, but you are able, you all watch this as Queenie crushes this, and then from the ice as it falls away. the bees will bring it over to me.

The bees bring it over to her and it lands in her palm. And she's cold. She's got something in her hand. It looks like a small stone. Look at this. A strange artifact. How does it feel, Quinny? Cold.

But not dangerous. No sense of power or boon from it at all? Magical. My bees like it. You can see that the bees are kind of swirling around it. Do you feel a connection? do it. I do. All right, you and I don't want one. Give it to me. Give it to me.

I don't want to wait. Give me one. I want one. I want one. Give it to me. Yeah, I think you should give them one. Should we break them all with it? There are five of us and five of them, and I think it's oddly strange that this one chose me. I agree. It may be fate, but let me test our theory, and I'll take one and I'll crush it. You crush one in your hand, and sure enough, just like Queenie, You find something uncrishable therein. The snow falls away from your skin, and you look in your hand and you see a small stone.

And it shocks you how familial it feels. Well, don't keep them off for yourself. Come on, give me one. I want one. This feels intended for me. Wow. Does it feel safe? Should we all break them?

Does it feel safe? I think it does. The God of the world says it feels safe. I'll pass one. Yes. Maybe there's booze in mine. Hi, Shen. Barnabas, can I borrow a harpoon?

There you go, man. Don't cut yourself. What kind of stone is your name is mine? Oh, there's a rope. Oh, why didn't you warn me? The feeling of warmth covers you all. not because you're breaking the stones, because there's something of a bonfire nearby.

And there's a silence. Even in the rushing sound of the waterfall, as you look at these stones crushing in your hands, you don't feel cold. You feel hope for the first time in such a long time. You feel fortitude, and you look at the stone. It feels like the fear that you,

you experienced is trapped inside of the stone, never to return. And I guess now is a good time for us to talk about what's in the stones mechanically. Yeah. Probably got. I'll go first. So I got Desert Jasper as my stone, which is pretty cool. And I got Courageous Host. Though you've never lacked courage, this stone serves as a strong reminder of the bravery and daring you know it will take

to complete your journey. This item does not count against your inventory capacity. While this stone is on your person, you have advantage on saving throws made to resist the frightened condition, and you gain the following benefits. Your bee swarm, Magehand, is emboldened by your unshakable courage in the face of danger. You can use a bonus action to cast and control your swarming bee spirits, and you may target creatures in addition to objects.

At fifth level, your emboldened swarm can lift and move creatures or objects from a distance. A creature can attempt to resist this movement by making either strength or dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. The target can be moved vertically, horizontally, or both, but cannot be moved beyond your range. In addition, the range speed and strength of your swarm increase at fifth level and increases at each further level divisible by five. Fifth level, 60 feet range, 30 foot speed, 250 pounds strength.

Holy shit. And it increases 10, 15 and 20. That's amazing. Yeah, it's amazing. That's so cool. Damn. Thank you. It really is big B.

It is. When you made that punch, when you made that punt, I wanted to jump out of my fucking seat. That was Mike. I just wanted to scream into the heavens how fucking good that was. What a fucking hilarious fun. It's a big V-Hen.

It's a big V hand. A shamanic verb. Oh. The horrors you've witnessed serve as a powerful reminder of the force of nature. And you now possess a stronger understanding of how to call upon those spirits to assist you. This item does not count against

your inventory capacity while this stones like a person. you have advantage on a frightening condition. Starting at fifth level, you can use your wild shape to transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as one. Oh, wow. At 10th level, you can transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as three. Whoa, 15th level, you can transform into a beast with a challenge rating a five. And 15th level, you can transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as seven. Wow.

Oh, wow. Very cool. That's like way over the jury cap normally, right? I think so, yeah. Holy shit. Damn. It's a little, it's a slightly less but still. still relatively on par with Moon Druid.

Right. Yeah. Well, thank you. That's amazing. As a bonus action, you can expend the use of your wild shape feature to transform the stone into the shape of a beast I've seen before, appearing in a square adjacent to you. If the space where the creature would appear is occupied by other creatures or

objects, or if there isn't enough space for the creature, the stone doesn't become a creature and use the wild shape is... And the use of the wild shape is still expended. The summoned creature has the chosen beast statistics except for any legendary or layer actions. This creature's friendly to me and my companions. It understands language and obeys your spoken commands. If you issue no commands and defend itself, it takes no other actions. The beast exists

for the same number of hours typically for your wild shape allows or until it falls unconscious, drops to zero hit points, or dies. When this happens, the creature reverts into a stone again, which must be recovered. While the stone is transformed, you cannot wild shape yourself. So I get a little like it and sort of wild shape the stone and something ahead of the summit east. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That is cool. Yeah.

Or do you want to go? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Please. Yeah, he's the live one. Uh, yeah. I am a demon. What's your stone? Fortitude.

Oh. Yeah, you got a cool last. Oh, yeah, read your one. A white one. Picture Jasper. Oh. Oh, does it say here?

Yeah, he goes a white one. He said it's a white one. It's course. Yeah, hell yeah. Kind of a stone, do you have a white one? Yeah. Duh. You have eyes?

Fortitude. Looking upon this stone, you are reminded of Fugiao's words. Fortitude to overcome fear. And you realize he did not mean escaping fear, but instead to acknowledge it and look deeply at its source. Fear cannot prevent death, certainly, but it can prevent life. Oh, why. This item does not. count against your inventory capacity, advantage on saving through is made to resist the frightened

condition, and you gain the following benefits. At fifth level, you gain a plus one bonus to AC. At 10th level, you gain a plus two bonus to AC. At 15th level, you gain a plus three bonus to AC, and at 20th level, you gain a plus four bonus. You're never going to die ever again. Holy shit. He's never going to get hit. That's amazing. They keep swinging for 23s. They're going to find me. That's worse. That's huge, though. Yeah. That's huge, though. Shield better. Oh yeah, absolutely. Well, and also just the golden dragon skills.

Everything. Everything. Yeah. Spitting straight facts. Go for it. I got Argonite. Oh. Which has these really cool variations of blue and white bands through it, different, you know, shades of blue.

Very cool. Sanguine strength. Holding this stone exerts a powerful pool on your heart and mind. Some nameless power kindles within you. The center of doesn't account through inventory, frighten condition, yada. At fifth level, the stone can store up to third level spells. At 10th level, you can store up to fifth level spells. Holy shit.

At 15th level, you can store up to seventh level spells. And at 20th level, you can store up to ninth level. That's insane. The stone can only hold spells that you do not have prepared and can only store one spell at time. If you learn or prepare a spelled store within the stone, it is expended without effect. When you are targeted by a spell or a spell-like effect, unless the ring just touch, you may use your reaction to attempt to absorb the magical energy.

It may not use this ability if the stone already stores a spell like effect, or if the magic exceeds the level of the spell the stone can store. Make an ability check using your spell casting ability, the DC equals 10 plus the spell's level. If the effect is spell-like, the DM will choose the level. On a success, the spell is absorbed by the stone, the effect is negated. On a failure, you are automatically hit by the spell and fail all saving thrones. Oh, you're a gambler. I said it at the beginning of this session. You can cast the spell stored in the stone.

The spell uses the same slot level, spell save DC, spell attack bonus, and spell casting ability of the original caster at the moment the spell is stored, but is otherwise treated as if you cast the spell, meaning that I would expend the spell slot to do so. No, no, no, it won't cost the spell slot. It means, like, as where you're standing or where... Gotcha. The spell cast from the stone is expended and no longer stored, but then freeing up space.

That's incredible. That's a blue maid shit. I love that. That's amazing. That's fucking incredible. And it comes with a gamble, but it means you can absorb some really fucking shit. I'm excited.

I'm extremely excited. Only you weren't dead. If only I wasn't dead. Oh no. I got the Turretella agate. Is that you pronounce that? Agate. Agate.

Which is really cool. This is a fun one is because it was the, this is from the shell of the Turretella snail. from billions of years ago. And so the fossils have been entirely replaced by Agon. And that's what this is. This is kind of a sea show, yeah. That's the ocean rock, right?

Yeah, I know, it's very cool. Unfathomal resilience. Having faced true fear, you now know that even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the ocean, the bottom of the sea is calm. Though the storm may raise, the deep water sway and gentle rhythm. Below, there is no storm. And then the same effect, as far as frightened in what you call it,

at fifth level, you know, your hit dice are not expended on a roll of an 11 or 12. At 10th level, your hit dice are not expended on a roll of a 11 or 12. At 15th level, your hit dice are not expended on a roll of 9 to 12. At 20th level, your hit dice are not expended on a roll of 8 to 12.

Damn. So I can do you a heal? Yeah. So he just, heal up, baby. Take an hour to yourself, heal up? That's amazing. That's huge. I like the popcorn dice

where like if he rolls the first hit dice and it's a 12. You just keep going. Keep going. See if you can streak it. See if you can streak it. That's badass. Jesus.

That's so cool. So cool. Thank you, Derek. Thank you. Do we get to keep these stones? Yeah, they're yours. And they're from Kimma. Oh, great.

Oh, great. Thank you, Kimma. Thank you, Kimmer. She sent us that during the actual, like, last time we got a big package, remember when I got a DM. Oh, wow. Lots of GM goods.

So I've been. sitting on these forever. Thank you, Kimma. Thank you, Kim. I'm gonna keep mine in my dice bag, so I always have to be in me too. It's been a pleasure. I'm gonna use mine for my rituals.

Oh, man. Thank you, Kimma. The body of the malevolent spirit that attempted to feed on you that was so powerful, that took over the crew that became a manifestation of so many evils, burns to crisp, burns to dust at the bank, at the bank of this waterfall pool.

And you find yourselves all standing, sitting, looking at each other, looking at these stones, trying to come to grips with how close you came to truly shuffling off your mortal coil. What are you doing? I think I was really sitting down to reflect. I'd like to take the harpoon.

borrowed from Barnabos and just kind of like, like hang up my clothes near the bonfire a little bit and try and dry them out. Some of the stuff that got really wet when we're under the water. Okay. Because you're near a fireplace situation, I'll say that you can do that and then like immediately huddle down and keep warm. It is crazy freezing. It is the night before winter. And it is negative 30, negative 40 degrees at least. The fact that you were wet would make that band go lower, but for whatever reason, this particular bonfire is just doing the work of keeping you warm.

Those that are feeling well enough should join me in looking for Daisy, where the least signs are. I'll help you. And the three of you will stay here? No, you should check the water. I need to go find me anchor. Well, you know me. Alright, fine. At the very least, I'll collect some firewood. How about that? I can keep the fire going for now on my own relatively easily.

I won't wander far, I'll just pick up a few sticks and I'll bring them back. Come on. It's all right. Why don't you accompany scream? Okay. As long as we don't go far, I can manipulate the bond. bonfire from a pretty big distance trust me I don't want to go far just trying to be helpful yeah we'd be helpful together yes of course yeah we teamwork we're a crew still after all and that oh I guess this is all that remains this is all

that remains of our crew besides us I guess that hadn't really hit me yet But I guess you're right. It was their fate to meet their end in this line. Oh, yeah, that merchant shouldn't have killed that seabird. Jim, you remember that moment on the dock. You were the closest one to Barnabos in that moment as he punched the merchant who had grabbed a albatross by the neck and cut it clean.

You remember his words, better to be in prison than what's to come from this act. He's starting to realize that however he might feel about Barnabos's words at any moment, he was right in that moment. Ha ha ha. Don't go too far, Barnabos. Stay inside.

I'm just gonna poke around the ice chunks. Look for me, anchor, and hopefully I don't find the young lady. I hope I don't find her. Look, and then, like you said, nobody's going any very far. Just holler if you need us. We'll all meet right back here. All right. Let this go. I'll, uh, here, if you want to post up a few of my art brooms,

and I'll help try to like make a little bit of the, yeah, yeah. And just use it for drying stuff, and then I'll dive in and look around for my anchor, which I presume fell from the ice flow into the, into the water somewhere. Make an investigation check. And then also look for, um, honey. Daisy. Oh, wow, Natty 20. Uh, investigation.

Not the intelligent, though. Uh, where the fuck is an investigation? No, with a Natty. 21. I don't normally like crit skill check. Yeah, 21, though. Fucking less. Not too bad.

Um, you, you get there and you are able to find your anchor. It is not underneath the plunge pool. You don't have to worry about the terrible currents that are, um, that exists just as the water of this tremendous amount of river hits the, hits the, it's, it's, to be fair, this is like a Niagara Falls style like river. It's huge and wide. And so you're swimming through and getting through the ice flows and going deeper than anyone's gone before. And it's behind the waterfall that you're able to find a small intake. And it's here that you do not only find the anchor, but you find a body.

I'll swim forward and I'll grab my anchor first. And lift it up and able to use my swimming skill to be able to propel myself despite holding an anchor. And then I'm going to go swim to the body and see who it is. You swim to the body and it is face down. You grab its shoulder and pull and it's what you would expect. it's Daisy's face. I'll grab her as gently as I can. Maybe I'll put my anchor in my netting.

And I'll grab her as gently as possible. Maybe a medicine check. I'm actually rolling pretty well right now when I need it. Special medicine checks. Yeah, medicine checks. 18. You grab her and you expect to pull her up and over your shoulder to take her to the others. and help, you know, give them what's needed,

to ask them to help. But when you grab her and pick her up, this girl is warm, and you can feel the breath in her lungs, even though she is unconscious. Oh, wow. Oh, shit. Oh, I'm going to scream out.

I found the young lady. She's alive somehow. And I'm going to basically grab her as tightly as possible and in whatever route is fastest to get to yornier and the rest of the my friends, as well as keep her as dry as possible, if that's possible. You keep her over the shoulder. You're able to tread water. Okay.

And even though you go underneath a section of the falls that's a little thinner than the rest, you're able to keep her lungs outside of the drink, and you were able to get her to the bank very quickly. you're able to lie her down. She's next to the fire. The rest of you are able to hear his word. This is Daisy. She's still alive. And putting her down, you can see.

Her lungs lifting. And even though she clearly needs a night of rest, she is still unbelievably alive. This is miracle after miracle. And I want to kneel down next to her laid out. I want to sort of, you know, see how she's doing, just sort of,

you know, checking her vitals and get a sense of, like, how much vitality she has. I'd also just roar up the fire closest to, like, the section,

just make sure it's like, you know, kind of manipulate. Do its work? You are able to, uh, a burn additional fuel to make sure that it's extra toasty.

Make a medicine check. Oh, yeah. 17, easy. Um, she is unconscious, unconscious, but she is, um,

not on the verge of death. She fell into the water and hit the water hard, but she's not drowning. She's at no risk of death. She needs a good night's rest and warmth and food when she wakes up, and she might be right as rain. But only because she didn't land on the rocks. Fate saw her through against all odds. This is incredible. She wasn't part of the group that killed the same.

sea bird. We should make hemp. We should keep her warm. And I want to like, you know, I have an herbalism kit. I haven't really used it too much, but I would have had just like herbs and nothing mechanical per se, unless you want to make a ruling, but like all the various little medicines

and tinctures for like headaches or applying a bomb to a wound. You take a head on and you apply it directly to the forehand. Put some big space. Vicks is fucking great I don't know shit

It's fucking awesome These tough acting to act You're like Athletes foot like A lot stomach Diorita Yeah yeah So yeah

So yeah I'll sort of take out my mortar And pestle and some just sort of like wooden Almost like wooden jars that I have Just some various weightments and things And kind of rub it on her forehead And just sort of tend to her so that she is comfortable and, you know, so that I can help her, you know, so that she makes it through the night. You do that, and you're all starting to feel the exhaustion of the day hit you.

It is hard to do what you're doing. What you're doing is very generous act because it would be so easy to not get out those tinctures and not take the time that it would take to give someone the best chance at life that you are giving them and just go to sleep. But you're blown away when you're starting to be hit by the light. As the snowstorm starts to clear above you, the sky is itself brightening to early morning. Not the sun in the sky, but the indigo shades.

of light emerging around the forest around you, the bank of this water pool, the surface of the waterfall itself, it is starting to become mourning. And you are exhausted, hurt. You've not enjoyed a long rest, but whatever impossibly long night you were experiencing because of the curse of this malevolent spirit has ended. And the fact that it is slightly brightening and no longer storming feels like the most positive breath of life that you could imagine.

What day is it? It is the day before the beginning of winter. Okay, so it's not midwinter yet. It is not midwinter. That's the name of the next session. It's not Midwinter is the name of the next session. It is Midwinter's Eve.

I believe that Triad is watching over. So you're saying we did something right? I'm saying that you're fortunate that this all happened on Midwinter's Eve. It is our holiest holiday.

I see no other way besides divine intervention but we are alive and he's mourning and we should rest Queenie's alive or not me obviously Queenie's alive

Yeah, Daisy's alive We have her Yeah and she's actually part of the most on her Yeah She didn't hit the rocks when she went over She's like fine Oh thank God

The five of you experienced Intense release there are moments of silence, there's moments of almost chattering, and you know that you need to have a good long rest. Maybe that's what you'll do today because the weather is brightening. It is clearing up. The sun is coming out, and the opposite direction of the waterfall, there's a shape. You've all seen this shape before. The dragon.

Present the hexagonal armament. It is the mountain. You see it and you know it from the many memories that you've shared. Not a day's walk away. That is the manifestation of Vicar. There's no other way of saying it. That is a place of power. And filled now with renewed enthusiasm,

you are ready to embark on. the next arc of your journey. That's where we'll close tonight's session. Got it, Yonah. Oh, wow, yeah. Are we level five? And you're level five. Yeah!

I had a feeling these wouldn't have happened if we weren't level five, but you never know. I get two attacks. Or four attacks if I am crabcloths. I get two attacks? No, you just won't double the dice though. Really? Yeah.

Oh, that's incredible. I get a 30. implication. You do? That's pretty good. You do, so you can choose the double attack if you want to. Oh, that's the, that's where I see. See the choosing. But still, I mean, okay, okay, okay. Managed character and levels.

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