Mayday Plays - Ashoka Precious Cargo: Ep. 2, "Contracts and Bargains"

Episode Date: March 12, 2021

A less than ideal departure from Tengu Atoll leaves our heroes to get acquainted adrift to their final destination. But a quick stop in the Rokewood for provisions has Rad sending out nasty vibes, and what does he know about this Storm? The truth awaits you in this DnD Homebrew Short Campaign. This episode contains profanity, violence, and references to drug/alcohol use. CAST OF CHARACTERS • Aaron - Trig • Allegra - Xauti • Amanda - Snuvall • Caleb - Anchor • Eli - Dungeon Master • Zakiya - Kenny • Sergio - Rad MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS • Post Sound Supervision: Sergio Crego, Eli Hauschel, Allegra Shivers, • Mixed: Eli Hauschel • Dialogue Editorial: Jossue Mendoza • Original Music: Aaron A. Pabst • Soundstripe (soundstripe.com) MAYDAY ROLEPLAY LINKS • Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/maydayrp/) • Twitter (https://twitter.com/maydayroleplay7) • Mayday website (https://www.maydayroleplay.com/) • Patreon (patreon.com/maydayrp/) • Twitch (twitch.tv/maydayroleplay)

Ashoka Precious Cargo is a D&D homebrew campaign with violent themes and adult language. Viewer discretion is advised. Aloha kakou friends, happy Friday, my name is Eli and I am your dungeon master. I'm Aaron A. Papst and I am Trig. I'm Alecra and I'm playing Shodi. I'm Amanda and I'm playing Snoovole. I'm Caleb and I'm Anchor. I'm Sergio and I'm playing Rad the Sea Turtle.

I'm Zakiya and I'm playing Kenny. Welcome back to Mayday Roleplay. In our continuation of our homebrew campaign, Ashoka Precious Cargo. We want to give a warm shout out to those who subscribe to us on Patreon. Your contributions allow us to grow and expand and we are now on Twitch. We have awesome things in store like Aaron at the sheep farm. Sergio leads us through Irons for an Eye of the Storm and Lake teaches us about some heroes you should know about. We got a couple of one-shots as well as a three-part debrief of our first campaign,

Delta Green Doom to Repeat, which are now available on VOD and wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to like and subscribe and tell a friend about us. We'd love to share our stories with you. And if there isn't anything else, why don't we continue our story? Dear diary. My day today was pretty fucking great. I arrived at the island town known as Tengu Atoll after receiving a mysterious piece of paper. Something that I sometimes like to refer to as a letter.

Summoning me for a very important mission that only I am capable of carrying out for the city's elderly and frail leaders who can't do anything for them fucking selves. Of course, I didn't really care about the mission, but I'd assume that I'd get easy access to the leaders to shoot them in their faces. Too bad everyone in the place seemed to lack them so fucking much. You can't shoot people if other people lack them. Honestly, I don't even remember the leader's names. I don't really pick up on people's faces.

I just see a target where most people would see ahead. Then I show up and find out that they expect me to work with five other people. The audacity! I kill alone! Anyway, their names were read. One of them claims to own an anchor, shoddy, Kenny,

and, um, Snowball. Yeah, that's right. I only remember their names because one of them was a turtle, a serpent turtle, and I respect that. Anyway, the leaders were like, you have to carry this little lady to a non-existent island full of people called Ales.

And I was like, sure, easy. I'll get it done before breakfast. Then Kenny was like, the little girl's got to sign this contract. And I was like, what? And she was like, yeah. And I was like, what? Then the city exploded.

And we were all like, what? And then Rand was like, surf. And I was like, whoosh. And all the ships were like, boom. And there were bandits wreaking havoc. And then I was like, not today. And then I told everyone, I got these guys. Then I was like, twang, bang, whoosh.

And then those guys were like, we're dead. And I was like, license to kill. Then I tried to tackle a ghost. And shouty was like, not the kid. And then anchor was like, bam, whack, bad ghost. And then we were like, run. And we're on a boat now. Fuck you.

Yeah, new precedent has been set in partial. You guys make it out of the opening that exits out of Tengu at all into the dark of the evening. And eventually as you navigate out back into open sea, the steady clinging fog elopes around you as you guys kind of disappear. You guys in the back can hear the continuing cannon fire of what you assume is the bandits

that are still raiding on Tengu at all. But eventually after a while, it just becomes quiet and silent. Sea is calm, unmoving. And you will all six, including Varan, are alone. Varan has finally stopped crying and eventually has kind of tuckered herself out. And she's kind of now just nestled in your arms, shoddy.

I'll kind of just asleep with her face is kind of like just still a little wet and just covered in like dirt and debris. I'll kind of just awkwardly hold her and not, I'll like move like I'm thinking about putting her down and then realize that that's going to be bad and she'll probably wake up. So I'll just lean back against the side again

and do that a couple of times and be like, all right, I'm just going to stay here. Good work. I didn't do anything. She just got tired of crying, I guess. More than I could do. Sure. Since we're all here and we're out on a boat

and there's water all around us, could I cast something to keep us all safe? Please do. Absolutely not. No, please do that. Please do that. Okay. I just wanted to make sure I didn't want to cast something on you

without your permission. That felt weird. And I'm going to cast water breathing on everyone. So it hits, I think it hits everyone. Yeah. Ten million creatures. So all of us, including Buron, and it lasts for 24 hours.

Sick. Roll me a d20. Your lungs all filled with air or with water. The boat explodes. The water breathing attracts the cracker. It's an eight. I'm good. Rad has finished helping anchor

and has made his way to the back of the ship and is looking at Tengu at all. And after a few minutes kind of turns around and says, I don't know, guys, I feel really bad leaving all those people behind. They're going to be most persecuted by those dudes. Well, they said they wanted the girl. Maybe they're just going to chase after us.

I don't think either of those options is particularly good. Either way, we have to accept the fact that we've been given a mission and we have to carry that through. We have to hope that someone else has been given the mission of protecting that island. If it is their time, it is their time. If the island's even fucking there.

What do you mean? They said it doesn't even fucking exist. What if we just got set on what would commonly be referred to as a wild goose chase? Eli, did one of us receive a map previously? Yes, somebody did manage to grab a map on their way out. That's fortunate. Yes, whoever it was that talked to the dying otter man

has to charge us. I think it's Kenny. Yeah, you have the map. You only had to kill a man to get it. I did not kill him. He died. You were complicit. No.

Wait, who died? He refused. The otter fellow. Oh. I like that dude. Because Kenny wouldn't help him. No, people die when they are killed. Okay, he refused to sign my contract

and I couldn't heal him. Speaking of which, I would love for everyone to do that now. And she starts taking a copy of the contract, ripping it and casting Mending to duplicate the contract and pass it out to people. That's incredible. And what's the catch? Do you like own our soul after we put our name on this here paper?

I don't care about your souls. I just want you to be decent. Follow-up question. Do you have to be able to write to sign the contract? That's a good question. No, you can sign it with claw prints, paw prints, blood. It doesn't matter. You just have to sign it.

Okay, I take a crossbow bolt off of my waist or off of my leg and I stab it into my thumb and then I just smear blood across the bottom of the contract and hand it back to Kenny. Is that acceptable? It is. Thank you. She talks it into the white box that she carries. Rad signs it in a way that makes humanoids comfortable.

He's seen them do it before. He just kind of does a couple of swirls on the page. But then he says, just in case Kenny's not around, I can do a little healing and you don't have to sign anything for me. I'll hand it back to her. She's going to look at you pretty sternly now. I know who Matt's favorite healer is.

That's all good and fine, but it's important to remember who's licensed, who's qualified. Now, the mandate is good, but who has revivified at the end of the day? Oh yeah, I can't do that. That's true. Yeah, thank you. Yes. I mean, personally, my go-to healer is a bottle of whiskey. I think Anchor takes out this very dramatic rubber ink stamp

that he has among his stuff on his belt, on the kidney belts, and then he stamps it in and it has the same sort of iconography that's on the tapestry around his waist. He says, this is a pledge of the ballast. It means that you and I are locked together for the rest of our lives. I look forward to our partnership. Okay, thank you. Kenny. And then he slaps his hand on your shoulder.

And he looks like he's trying to put his forehead to your forehead. I lean over, I lean over the snowball and whisper, do you think this guy needs to tone it down a notch? He is coming off quite intense. Kenny's gonna keep leaning back as far as you keep coming with your forehead. She's gonna keep leaning back. And just take the contract and just tap your hand. This is part of it, I promise.

This is important to you that this happens? As important as the contract. Okay, then she leans forward, but just like a tap and backs up. Thank you. And I go back to steering the ship as I'm sure it's, you know, veering left and right now that I don't know how the ships work. You have the oar locked, so it's going in one general direction. Yeah, of course I have the oars locked.

Fucking idiot. The mast, it's down, the oars are locked, and the boat moves. We've been drifting for the past 20 minutes. Tokyo Drift! Oh, now I know what I want to do. We're Tokyo drifting sometime in this whole, like, I don't care where, but we're Tokyo drifting on this thing. While all that's been happening,

Shodi has pulled out a piece of charcoal and very carefully and very slowly has been writing their name. And it still looks like chicken scratch, but it looks like they're putting a lot of effort into trying to make it look nice and like an adult person signed it. Here you go, thanks, I guess. Yes, thank you. She's going to fold it and put it away.

Snoovo's going to raise her hand, like, above the contract to, like, it looks like her fingers are touching the letters. Okay, so she can read it in her way. She's going to turn to and be like, anytime if I decline this, will you promise not to save me? Can she file a do not resuscitate? And I'm going to just keep staring hard. Well, we can add that to your contract if that's something you prefer.

Sure, and she takes it back quickly, puts down what you just said and gives it back. I will go ahead and use my little claw to just, like, etch my name in. I'm going to my spooky chart and I'm adding one point. Once some Snoovo finishes, Rad is like, oh my God, I forgot, there's someone else I need you to heal. And he whistles and this female sea lion leaps out of the water and lands on the deck of the ship and just has, like, two eyes

looking in different directions and her tongue sticking out. She just kind of flops up to you and Rad takes a, he says, this is my most trusted companion, Paunch. Hey, Kenny, I found that guy you killed. No, you can't kill Paunch. He's unkillable. But anyway, I'm going to take, like, some ink, some, like, squid ink that I have in a pouch and I put it on her paw

and I have her sign to got to keep her safe. This is so cute. Okay. I think actually Kenny's having a hard time not saying this is so cute also. It's incredible. That's fine. Okay. Say hi, Paunch.

She's just going, oh, oh, oh. She's going to hold their hand out towards Paunch, like they want it to come sniff their hand and make, like, I don't know if that's what you do for sea lions, but can I, is it friendly? Oh, she's friendly enough. Yeah. You want to say hi?

That's never good. Yeah, but I don't want to wake the baby. I can say hi later. It's fine. It's fine. Yeah, I think she would just basically, like, flop her head over to the side and look in your direction. I'm going to walk up to Paunch and look to her and go, does she shake? She'll probably, like, try to bite your balls or something.

Wow. I see. Paunch, it is good to meet you. I am Anker. Yeah, she just makes some seal noises. Good to know. And then she'd probably just find a sunny place and start sunning on the deck of the ship.

She knew Paunch was just going to keep Paunch and just be like, you stay over there. Well, if anything, you should be pretty smooth sailing from this point on, right, guys? She's going to go south. I think that. I mean, now that you've said that,

I can almost guarantee that it's not going to be. Yes, that's not how these things tend to work. No, I doubt it. I think we should stay vigilant. It's also like the middle of the night, I guess, huh? I've had a couple of ships sink in the middle of the night. It's not cool. A couple of ships?

It sounds very not cool. If you guys are like, you can take a rest and I will keep watch for a little bit. Good, yes. We should establish a watch order as soon as possible. I'm feeling pretty jazzed after that, so I can stay up, I guess. I wouldn't make a quick rest.

I'm a bit hurt. I don't. I don't do watch. But if there's a problem, all you got to do is say, shoot. And about point two seconds later, there's going to be a bolt flying. Now, I can't guarantee that that bolt is not going to be aimed

at one of you, but odds are, it's going to hit whatever it is that's the problem. Yeah, you can go rest in the bottom of the ship, dude. Take it easy. That's fair. He has a control issue, don't you think? Quite a bit, yes. There's actually no bottom to this ship.

It's just the platform. But there is a small, like, hut area that you could probably tuck yourself in. If you like, there may be a blanket of some sort, maybe some fabric inside of the hut there. I can't remember what I keep in there. All right, there I go. So who's doing the staying up all night thing?

I'll sit around if that's all right. I'll stay up with you, Rod. I plan on getting some rest, but, you know, in some time I'll wake back up and check the oars, but I'll be sleeping at the head anyways. I'll find a place, like, towards the back of the ship, just kind of keeping my out towards Tango, that's all. I'm actually going to go to the very, very front,

the bow of the ship, I believe. And if possible, I'm going to sit on, like, the railing with my feet kind of dangling and, like, just kind of take very deep meditative breaths and look out the front. Well, look. This ship's too small for a crow's nest, right? Yeah, unfortunately.

So, yeah, it's just the platform. There's a small hut. I mean, you can sit on top of the hut if you want. Yes, please. It's a top-flat surface. Yeah, Kenny will go on top of that. Shorty's just going to lay down where they are. They don't want to move because the baby fell asleep on them

and they don't know what to do about it. So they're just going to kind of, like, lean back until they're flat and they have one giant hand resting over Baran's back to make sure that she doesn't go anywhere. So, Eli, if I was trying to stop for supplies at, like, the most populated island or the hit spot closest to us,

where's, like, the Westfield Mall? Yes. You are on the border isle, so there is about... There is another island about a day's away. If you want to keep pushing forward, you could go into the Rokewood where there is the hub island of Odesca, which is the pork city that you could go to,

or there's a couple just smaller residual islands around that main island. I think Odesca works for us. I think we can make way for Odesca unless you guys have ulterior motive. Yeah. Did anybody kill a man in Odesca or something? I need to know about it.

Well, Triggs is asleep. Well, Triggs. We'll find out soon enough. I guess we will find out when we get to him. It will be about two days to get to Odesca on your current path. Yes, I'm fine with that, if everyone else is. Yeah, I think that works.

If anyone goes into the hut during the night, you'll see Triggs huddled up in a corner with his hat over his face, and he has one of his crossbows in one arm, like it's a teddy bear, and his army has a porcelain dragon. Dude, beautiful. I think while we're on watch,

Rad would not be able to have the attention span to just spend the entire time looking backwards, so he'll eventually make his way back to the front of the ship, which Nubal is, and just awkwardly start conversation by saying something like, you got cool eyes, dude. Reminds me of, like, Sifo.

Okay. Nubal kind of stutters, or generally was just like, whoa, okay, I don't know how to respond. I guess I just didn't... Thank you, I guess. I only follow it now, but can you see? Are you, like, blind?

Yes, in a traditional sense, yes, I am blind, but I can... How do I describe it? I can see vibrations. So, every time something makes a noise or a sound, it bounces off objects. So, I'm blind in your sense,

but not completely blind. Whoa. You know, I think I kind of get what you're saying. It's like, when I'm, like, really, like, in a turn, you know what I mean? I'm, like, going into a wave. It's like all the sound goes away, and I'm just, like, feeling the vibration of the ocean.

Like, I get what you're going at. You're instinct. I can see you're definitely... You're not like the others, just saying, and that intrigues me about you. Well, I'm not a human, if that's what you mean. Well, I got that. Definitely got that.

But you have tremendous power. I felt that earlier when you were shifting all the water. That was quite impressive. Oh, you saw it? I thought I was alone. Yeah, you know, it's just something I can do once in a while. It was definitely impressive.

I haven't seen something like that. You think that's impressive? You should see my surfing. I have to admit, I've never been surfing before. Dude, you've never curled a wave? No. Dude, next chance we get, you and I, we've got to go and hit the beach, man. Hit dog control.

I will admit that I've never done that before, and I don't know. Maybe, possibly. Well, we can start simple. The first task that any surfer has to do is the guy to go out and the guy to make their board. We'll find a good piece of wood and we'll cut you one just like I have.

I'm going to, even though I can't see the way he wants it, I can still kind of see the board. I'd be like, what is that made out of? Just the best wood and I'm knocking on it. I'm knocking on it to make noise so you can kind of feel the vibrations of it. Am I allowed to touch the board? You can doth hold the board.

I'm going to pick up this board and feel the balance and see the girth of it. Feel like it's full of it. Chill. You're starting the fan fiction for them. A turtle and a dragon. It could happen. I'd be like, that is a...

I've never seen a surfboard this close before. Perfectly battle some, all right? I'm going to twirl it up in the air and then catch it and I'm going to grace it, like, pass it back to it. That is quite him. That's impressive, dude. I'll take it from her.

Just know. All right, well, I guess I should get back to my watch. I'm going to watch... I'm going to just scan him as he walks away. I'd be like, I'm not sure about him, but kind of, maybe. Rad, you're preoccupied with the waves in the ocean that you don't see much.

Same for you, Snowball. You scan out. It's very foggy and misty. You don't sense anything. It seems that everything is calm and quiet. And the night continues on. Are we switching watch or are we... Are you and Snowball...

No, eventually I'll need to rest. I'll take one. I'll take watch, second watch. I will eventually also need to rest, but I would like someone to take my spot, so I'm going to keep going until I get relieved. I can take your spot. You're going to have to wake me up,

but I can take your spot. Yeah, Kenny and I can... Shodi, as you're getting up, you see Rad go to punch and lean against punch, like a pillow, and it seems like Rad is talking to the punch as he's falling to sleep. Oh, that's fair.

Shodi's going to sit up real careful with Baran, and then that adult thing where you have to hold a kid with one arm and wriggle your arm out of your backpack, and then switch the arm you're holding the kid with and wriggle your arm out of the other backpack. They're going to pull it around, and they're going to take out one of their old cloaks and cut it into strips,

and then loosen all the straps, like the backpack straps on their backpack, and make a space that Baran might fit in and tie a little baby Bjorn's seat. Like a swaddle type thing? Yeah, like side panels and a seat so that they don't have to have full-on, like one hand to hold the kid

and one hand to hold a weapon. They have two hands free, and the kid can sit on their back or their front, whatever. But just in case we have to run again, Shodi's going to make a fucking baby Bjorn. Before that, as Noval will see this, it literally kind of helped tie the knots. Thank you.

Baran just nicely nestled. She surprisingly hasn't woken up from all the motion and commotion, but she's cradled in, and now you have your hands free. Is she okay, do you think? She's just slept? Is she hurt? Is she alive still?

Oh my God, is she alive still? I'm going to move my hand in front of the child's face, put my finger under the nose, feel the breathing, move my hand. You feel breath underneath her, and you also see like her hair is kind of just kind of tussling and moving, like there's wind and stuff like that, but she's nestled and just kind of like shifts a little bit.

I'm going to also reach into my side satchel, and I'm going to purposely give four days rations over. This is for you and the child, just in case. Oh, thanks. I'll put it in my backpack for her to eat later at some point. I shouldn't wake her up to eat, right? I feel like she's asleep. I should just leave.

I think that's like the rule with children, like don't wake them, unless there's like an emergency. Okay, I'll do that. Oh, we're in charge of a whole little creature, like her life, and I don't even know you people. For now, this is not permanent. Oh yes. No, no, no.

No. No. No. Okay, bye. She's going to walk away from the child. Bye. Great. And Shodi's going to pull whatever was left of their cloak

from like the strips that they pulled, and then like try and take a piece of like, I don't know, string or twine or something out of their backpack and squinch up like a ball part of it at the top and then tie the twine around it so it looks like it has a head and like give it a little bow. So that Buron kind of has a teddy bear again. It's not an actual teddy bear.

Roll me a performance check. Oh, God. Okay. Well, my charisma's not bad. My charisma's actually good. That never happens. I got this. I want a teddy bear.

I got 20. No. It's a natural one. No. I got D100. What? I didn't get your magic. Here I was thinking, how would Jenny get away from it?

Gonna kill the kid. Okay. The kid to a literal time bomb. 60. 60. You're like focused on it. You're trying to like make this doll and it's just not quite like. I got big hands.

You got big hands and it's like not coming out in the way you want and it's kind of stressing you out and you kind of start growing a little more frustrated and frustrated over the fact that like the more you twist and twine it, the less it looks like a doll. And eventually it just like all of a sudden you just feel this pent up like surge of energy fill into you and then you feel very nauseated as all of a sudden you just vomited a giant slug onto the neck.

Can I like turn my head so I don't get it up for a while? Yeah. You turn on the side, but you just hear this like splat onto the thing as this giant slug. It's like two feet. Two feet. Now on the question. How close is that to my feet?

Real quick. Are you still there? I was kind of walking away. As you're walking away, you feel like the splash of like a little bit of stuff on the back of your heels. I'm going to growl really intense and fire is going to come out of my nose really. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. It's just a slug. I vomit sometimes. I'm not going to put my finger up like that finger, not the middle finger, the finger up that says one, that's like the one you never want from your mother.

I'm going to go away and just... Okay. I have a thing about my feet. Sorry. I'm sorry. They're lovely. They've got lovely feet. I don't know if that's weird.

I don't mean it in like a creepy sexual way. I've heard people talk about it, but they're just nice feet. They're useful. You've done a good job with them. Stop talking. Okay. Just walk.

I'm going to like get very, just trying to take, just sludge it away to the other side of the boat. Furious. The commotion's loud enough for anybody else to kind of pick up on. Yes. Is that a thing that you do normally? Regular thing?

It's not always vomiting slugs, but it happens sometimes, yeah. Can you not control your magic? Most of it. So that's a no? Well, most of it. It's not all the time. I don't know if it's going to happen.

It's just happened sometimes. It's not my fault. Or maybe it is my fault. I don't know. Give me the warning next time. I don't know if I can, but I'll try. All right. Well, I'm going to pick the slug off

and throw it off the side of the boat. Yeah, you do. It's easy enough. Kenny, are you up now for a watch? I can't come back to sleep now. Oh, no. Oh, no. Wow.

Do you want to, I see that you strapped the toddler to yourself, but they're pretty durable. You could just flop them down on the ground. Don't. Well, I can just put her down if she wants to wake up. You could just untie it and let her fall. Oh, no.

That's one. Three feet. She's fine. Well, I'm pretty tall. I feel like if she fell. That's true. I don't know what I'm talking about. Okay.

She's going to be real gentle and they're going to like really carefully put Varan on the deck and like hover just because they don't really know what to do about it. You can just, you can just let her be there. She's going to be okay. I mean, unless she's a sleepwalker, then we are all. Do they do that? Well, sometimes, but we'll find out, right?

It's late enough for us to find out. Wait, but it just sleeps and then wonders. Some, some of them do. It's fine. How do you know all this? Do you have children? No. You know, not about that.

But I was one myself. I was too, but I don't, I don't know this sleepwalking. It's, it's a, it's a small thing. It might not happen. It's just sometimes it's, it's not important. Um, I, okay. Um, I actually wanted to talk to you about something that happened earlier today.

Um, I, I broke one of my rules when I helped the, the win the man and he did the spooky thing with his eyes. And it was like, what? And we had to stop it because of the baby. Right. We're just going to consider that. So if anything inquires as to when that happened, just say after you sign the contract.

Does that make sense? Um, sure. You didn't heal me though. You just stopped me being afraid. Yes. It's an umbrella thing. It's just what, what is defined as healing and being helpful in general could be.

You could say what I did was the form of healing, like a psychological therapy, believe it, you can achieve it sort of way. Yes. Is all your magic controlled like that? No, no, I, I killed those people super easy. No contracts. Just helpful magic then.

Yes. Why? Convenience. It's easier when you have a backup plan for plan B. Just in case. Not everyone likes being healed. Contracts don't seem very convenient though. That seems like a lot of effort to do something that's good.

I mean, maybe it's an extra step, but it's, it's better than the alternative. What's the alternative? Oh, wow. Uh, you have a lot of questions. Well, I've, I've not learned much. I'm trying to better myself or something. I don't know.

I just want to know things. I like talking to people. Uh, we'll just, we'll just say chaos. I think that's something we're both familiar with. I do know chaos. That's true. Um, well, I will try to remember that. What, what would be asking?

Did you read the contract? Well, sort of. I read bits of it. I, um, I can't read. Okay. Terribly well. It takes me a while. Then that's, that's fine.

It's just my, the golden lady, the person I work for with, I would say with, it's about equal. When you think about it, um, we just have an agreement and to violate that would be unfortunate. Well, I'm sorry if I made anything difficult for you. No, it was just, it was my decision. All right. It was, um, keeping the child safe and everyone else.

But I think that's enough feelings talk so we can stare at the toddler and stare at the ocean. Uh, sure. Great. Here, and I'm going to pull out my little like, my taffy that I have and I'm going to pull it in half and offer half to Kenny. Kenny takes it.

Yeah. This is for eating. Yeah, yeah. It's, it's great. She's getting you. I'll chomp it. I'll chomp the other half. We both share your taffy and, uh, continue to look at, uh,

the ocean and see as you guys carry on. Eventually the night stretches into day as early dawn begins to break in the, in the east. It's about six-ish, seven o'clock. It seems that the, the fog has kind of cleared up and now you're just looking at pretty much open sea. The wind is also picking up around as well and the sea is starting to kind of bob and weave as, uh, as your ship

kind of raises and lowers with the tides. It's a pretty nice day. Looks like a, it's going to be a clear, clear for the most part. Yeah. As soon as the sun comes up, Brad's going to get up and then he's going to go swimming with, uh, uh, punch for like an hour and then come back.

Okay. Okay. Anybody else? Don't forget you can breathe underwater so you can swim with her. I can breathe regardless, but thanks. Sorry. Sorry.

That makes sense. So it works when you are eternal. I think as soon as the sun is up, I'm back at the, at the oars. They're unlocked and I'm, you know, I'm the one sort of sailing us through, um, and going through the tapestries seated under me as I'm just kind of getting us towards, uh, Rokewood.

Yeah. If you turn the oars and you started heading east from your direction and the way towards the Rokewoods. Ah, I'm awake. Fucking hell. How are you? Is that how you wake up every morning? Most every.

Sometimes there's a bolt in the bow and sometimes there's not. There's some notes you're awake. Who do you tell? Who are you announcing it to? Usually when I wake up, there's bad guys. Oh, I'm sorry. It's okay. They get what's coming to them.

And you're one to judge others? I'm the only one to judge others. What gives you the right? Why are you special? Because I've seen bad people before. I show up and I ask people if the people in charge are bad. And if they say yes, I kill them. Oh, interesting.

And then naturally that makes more bad guys want to come after me. Which is why I usually wake up like that. I know you've come full circle, I see. Yeah. That snowball is not really liking this guy and just kind of just like nods along and just walks to the other side. Buron is awake as well. She's kind of rubbing her eyes and stuff like that.

She's kind of like looking at all of you a little confusingly. But eventually you can hear like her stomach just kind of like starting to growl. And she's just sitting there trying to wake up. I'll pull out some of the rations that Kenny, or not Kenny, Steve all gave me. And I'll break one of them in half because I think it's too big for her. I know she's four. Shodi doesn't understand.

To you, she's this big. She's getting the ties to me. It might be a little bland, FYI. Oh, no. I'll be part of it and show her and be like, mmm, yummy. And I'll hold it up. Yeah. She takes it and she kind of eats it,

but she kind of makes a sour looking face at it. And she kind of doesn't like it. And she doesn't. She kind of just throws it on the ground. I'm sorry. Ryan's going to come over and pick it up off the ground and start eating it and say, hey, Shodi, you know, if you ever had some trouble talking to the kid, I'm pretty good with kids.

And I could probably talk to her in her language if you ever needed it. All right. Well, we're all in charge of her. I'm not the only one. I just picked her up the first time. I think I just, I'm not trying to. Yeah, but don't kids lack imprint on people? No, those are traditionally animals.

And there's a difference. Hmm. Actually, does she know our names? I don't think she knows our names. Let's introduce ourselves to her. I can do that. All right. Rod, you go first.

All right. So Rod's going to take two kind of larger seashells that he has kind of like, you know, take some off of his necklaces and he hands one to Baran. He's going to cast comprehend languages and he says to Baran, Hey little dude, you know, we're going to take you somewhere safe. And we just wanted to introduce ourselves. My name's Rod and that one's, you know, just kind of go through the names of everybody. Yeah.

She's got the shell in her hand and she's kind of looking at it. And then she finally just kind of just says hi. Yeah. Yeah. If you speak into it, I can hear. She's like kind of like amazed by it. And she's like, you can hear me? You're like, yeah, I understand you.

She kind of looks around and she's like, where's, where's soul? She's asking for the matron. She's asking where's soul? I'll like take my hand away from the seashell. Is that the... She's not that she just got her leg broken, but we can't tell that to a kid, can we? I don't know her. She's gone for now.

She had to think about it. Gone? Okay. Just tell her the truth that she got hurt and we're just taking her to her new place. She just had to stay up behind for now. What is that? The truth? Sure.

We don't know. That wasn't my understanding. I don't think she died. She just had a broken leg. Well, my understanding is that even if she didn't die, she was never going to see the kid again. It's as close as the truth is we can get without you. I mean, dudes, by this time she knows something's wrong. We've been arguing about what to tell her.

We tell her that she is gone and that we are taking her to a new place. So little dude, and I'll go back to the seashell. I'll say... Um, soul's gone to the big beach in the sky. She's gonna be... I know her friend and having a good time and maybe you'll see her one day. She doesn't... She looks like really confused.

She doesn't quite understand what you're saying. It's probably for the best. But she eventually just... Yeah, but she eventually is like... Okay. Okay. But we're gonna keep you safe and we're taking you to Algernon, I think it was called? She says the word, again, Algernon.

And she's like... The secret islet. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah. You're gonna be okay, okay? So if you need anything, just tell one of us, alright? She nods and first time kind of smiles a little bit. And she's like, okay.

And she's just kind of now just continuing to play with the shell and just look at it. She seems okay with it and she's not fussing about it. She's four. I think I screwed up, you guys, but she seemed okay. You did well, Brad. It seemed comforting. I mean, waves are always comforting to me, so I just thought... It's okay.

The big beach in the sky, it was good imagery. Yeah. It was a lovely image. You shouldn't be upset by that. It would make a good painting. Do you know how to paint? I know how to finger paint. It's good.

That's good. Women need that. I'm gonna go to Anchor and be like, just like, do you know where we're going? I'm just like, get away. Yes, I thought it would be wise if we stopped in the Rokewoods to find some supply points. I figured it's a long journey ahead of us. I thought we'd like to eat for the entirety of it. Then we'll get back on the channel and make our way for the Lost Island.

The Rokewood? That's where you want to go? Unless you have some other idea. I figured it was the closest place to resupply. Yeah, I guess it's fine. Yeah, we can go to the Rokewood. As long as we get on our way. I mean, I really just want to help this girl and kind of get her on her way, you know what I mean?

Of course. We could attempt the journey as we see fit now. We could get back on the channel if you think it's wise. But I just want to make sure we have enough food for the journey. Well, I mean, if it's just food, me and Punch, we can catch us fish all day, dude. I need to stop. I'm out of, well, I'm nearly out of what I like to call my secret sauce. Without the explosives you used.

Here, do you want to try one? No. It's real fun. So it takes about two days to get to Odesca. If that is the island in the Rokewood you intend to travel to. Anchor, rule me a survival check if you're running the helm. I have a dirty 20. Easy enough.

It's easy travel for most of the day. It's about new niche. Can two people rule me perception checks? I have 26. 23. I want to have Snooval kind of like go ahead and wash her shoes that are still crusted over from the night before, like leaning over the water. She's trying to clean off her shoes and dirt from that.

Sure. The winds picked up since the morning as you push into afternoon. Your chisels are really kind of bobbing up and down. There are waves kind of being made out in open sea. Shoddy and Trig kind of look on in the like residual horizons surrounding the circumference of the ship. And you do notice that there are dark clouds rimming around on the horizon as like there's a possible storm on the back end.

With such high perception checks they probably also like scan the bobbles twice and seen Rad visibly getting less and less friendly and more and more nervous. Trig takes his hat off turns around to the rest of the group and says storms are coming. It's waiting for it. The storm is far enough out of the way where it could turn but it's still on the residual horizon.

But you are getting some back end of it as the wind has picked up and the waves are moving. Shoddy as you're kind of still looking out on the sea and stuff like that you notice something kind of moving through between the waves like a couple forms kind of shifting through. Can I look can I can I go to the side of the boat that's the closest to wherever it is and kind of yeah you you walk closer to the edge kind of lean over as you kind of see like a pod of maybe like four or five forms is kind

of jut between underneath your ship and it seems they're kind of traveling alongside. Can I can I motion for Veronica dolphins. There's dolphins eventually you guys kind of like dip down into like a crest of a trough of wave and you're going up again and as you guys as you kind of go over that lip those forms kind of jump out of the water and what you see is not dolphins but they're humanoid looking they have the fish tails but they seem to just jump out through the waves and back into the water.

I know what that is. You can roll a nature check. Can I also roll a nature check? Sure. I have a 17. I have an 11. Shodi you you don't quite know what it is you have in your time of traveling across the sea have seen things that kind of lurk about in the water things with

tails even humanoid looking creatures you know that they they exist. Snavol you know a little bit more as like around your island these type of creatures tend to kind of habitate in some of the coves and areas you know that they be merfolk they're just simple humanoid sea people that traverse through the various channels some of them are nomadic some of them actually like nest and hub out in specific residual islands these things would just be passing through using your boat as maybe a little bit of shelter or just to see what's going on another one kind of jumps out of the waters kind of like

looks and sees as you kind of dives back down they're aware of your guys's presence but they're just tagging along on the boat as you guys continue on your way wave one of them like gives you a wave as well as they dive back down in the water but they're just playing through the waves in the end this open sea and stuff like that right you do notice that the waves have kind of picked up and are kind of like cresting and troughing alongside the ship and a little bit further out the way are we there yet still have some time about a day's right okay that's fine did you see the people the people that were

swimming oh the merfolk yeah yeah they're pretty good boogie boarders did you see you saw them though yeah they're all over the place I've seen them before they're cool I was surprised you didn't get in with them I know I think I'd rather just us get to where we're going so we can go you know I mean I'm just really worried about broad you know sure can I roll do I wait that seems sketchy as fuck yeah you can you can roll an inside check if you want to oh this Sergio you can roll it doesn't matter it doesn't matter what you roll I'm getting rid of this guy oh my god he's gonna turn into something

it's in time out to my mug and it's in time out oh my god here we are do not blow do not blow I'm doing my best I'm 79 Romeo Romeo D6 five um you're like staring at Rad like something something about what he said or the way he said it or the tonality of it kind of like sparks something worrisome in you in you as you kind of like disperse a little bit of a surge but nothing looks to have happened whoa you okay shawty yeah yes like sparks like flew out of your ears yeah I'm sorry that is kind of cool are you alright

yeah yeah I'm fine I didn't touch you or anything right I don't think so is the little is the little dude alright I'm gonna like pick her up and like turn like turn kind of like laughs at this sudden like being lifted up in the air she kind of like stretches her hands and she's like kind of enjoying it alright I'll do it again because you laughed and it was cute I don't know if this is okay to ask but do all go live shoot sparks out of their ears um no actually not that's too bad that's too bad I'm gonna go to Kenny be like can you give something they look a little unstable

I don't have anything for that I I couldn't even begin to try to diagnose what that is perhaps we could try the nitroglycerin I mean the sparks lead me to believe that that would work very well see because there's sparks in there and there's sparks in here you put the sparks together and then blame them wouldn't that just make the sparks bigger though there's no way to know for sure I'm now motivated to try to diagnose what that is can I just hold you a once over to show to you please uh yeah roll me a medicine something I got that 13 you go you go through the the general checks and stuff like that you knock

something out on their knees and they they kick it kick out um they seem to be fine physically show you you think the little dude will be safe with you if you keep sparking off like that I don't know maybe maybe someone else should take her and here and I'll pass I'll pass her off to Rad and like sequester myself in a corner yeah Rad is just as if not more uncomfortable holding the child I don't think she can breathe under water so she can't hang out with me for too long um I can't breathe fine she can I'm gonna be like uh I think Trey will make a good dad in a hand it off

alright here we go do you lack explosions little lady oh dear god nope snooble is gonna just scratch that child up absolutely not nope she's laughing but she has no idea what you're saying Mark takes that child away not even a glance just gives it to Kenny

Kenny takes the child and puts her over her back like a like like a sack of clothes and like bounces her around and hopefully she's having fun but just continues about her business with this child over her shoulders I hate to suggest this but maybe we let her walk around the ship as she sees fit she can walk she can walk she shrugs the child off hopefully she lands on her feet

oh no are you not seeing like cats you literally just shoulder check brah brah but as she like as she kind of tumbles to the ground she eventually just stops and she starts to kind of levitate off the ground she's not she's like moving like like her legs around like she doesn't know what she's doing but she's stopped

many of you who know of Genasi especially those who are from Oda now know that Genasi's possess different types of abilities depending on on the element they have many Air Genasi's are known to be able to levitate or to fly in some way but eventually as she's just kind of flailing a little bit she kind of finally like drops down on the floor but not as far as Kenny shows it i guess i guess that solves what element she is do all kids do that

no only the special all uh rattled kind of tussle her hair and say little dudes like a like a little mini sorcerer kind of like me she kind of laughs that she looks up at you as he says something in uh in eris but you don't understand her yeah i'll comprehend languages stuff anymore knowing this group that's probably going to save her life she eventually gets up and just starts walking around the ship a little bit

as you guys are kind of convened and and together anchor are we there yet uh i believe if we were there you would see a large island why are you in such a hurry uh i just i just want to get her on her way you know i really i've gotten real emotional about this girl you want to spend more time with her well i believe we're gonna have a lot of time traveling

it's probably gonna take a while to get to this alginom so what what difference does a quick stop over in roque would make i mean you saw the storm i mean you know it'll be bad to sail in that storm but think about how sick the waves are gonna be rad i know all about how sick they're gonna be and it's killing me that i'm not surfing them but i really think it's best if we just leave the roque wood as soon as possible he does bring up a good point

the storm does look bad there's something here you're afraid of i don't know if we were to stay in roque wood for the extra day we may even skip the storm altogether how far away are we from roque you were off about about a day a day and a half it's noon right now i'm not gonna argue with the captain if you want to wait around the day i'm sure it will be fine

oh let's not use that word captain don't throw that around i think the captain's right we should definitely stay there for an extra day if we can i agree with the captain does anyone not agree with the captain i agree with the captain

we don't have to use this word agree? captain i'd please stop aren't you like part of like a secret society of captains no the order of ballast has

surprisingly very little to do with sailing it's a part of the job not a prime directive what is it? his prime directive is anchors so you're the only captain i am anchors i am not a captain

we are not using that word if anyone else would like to be captain rad you expressed power with the mast you could be captain dude i'll be captain captain rad captain rad

i pronounce you in charge of so now we got two captains i'm gonna need a vice captain if you don't mind two captains are better than one i give up just refer to rad as the only

source of captain on this ship i have no interest in that okay co-captain but doesn't co-captain mean like equal? so why would we not just call them both captains? please i pick if you just call me

anchor right we'll be there in a day at some point when i feel like the rest of the group isn't looking i'm going to approach the kid with one of my crossbows

and i'm gonna point it out to the ocean i'm just gonna kind of be like you wanna and i'm just gonna point out to sea and kind of like hold it down for her and see if she wants to fire into the ocean oh that is not a good idea i mean she looks up at you

and she sees the shininess of the crossbow and she's kind of interested you kind of like show her it and do let loose do you wanna know how? i mean she seems like just curious

do you wanna see this? she takes it she takes it or does anyone see this shit? can i try to see this? am i doing perception or are they doing perception to notice me trying okay

i feel like no this is like yeah that's a natural fucking 20 i definitely see this shit oh yeah you see this i got a dirty 20 you both just like almost at the same time just kind of just look in that general direction

like a feeling of something was wrong you look over and you see that triggers and put a crossbow crossbow on her hand you see that little spiky thing down there you had to go ahead and put your finger on that and curl

and i show her how with the other one yeah you'd like take her hand put her finger around the trigger and you're kind of like helping her point it out at the ocean i'll let her pull the trigger on her own are either one of you run eventually just let

sluice the thing and she kind of pushes it and you hear the bolt loose out into the ocean and eventually the little splash of it hitting the water hold if me and snoball are close to each other i'm just gonna put an arm on her shoulder and just say wait this out

alright now we're gonna try something a little more exciting in a big lawn red stick with a little green thing trailing off it comes off and i put that into the bow i can't see it i'm gonna go ahead and do the most okay i'm gonna flick my shoe and hit him in the head with it

master role 2 roll a tag for it it's not gonna be super hard oh it's d4 that's even better it's a one yeah so as you pull out the stick and you're about to put it into baron's hands

and baron's kind of like reaching out and giving that hand sign like i want to grab it the shoe just comes and smacks you right across the face as you stop as the shoe kind of just like flops down on the ground and i say thank you and i continue putting the

dynamite into the crossbow i'm going to step in very quickly and be like if the shoe did not get it across do not do this and just take the dynamite away alright we're firing another arrow and i put that arrow into the

crossbow and i'll keep trying to teach her how to fire the crossbow as long as she's having fun doing it she's kind of having fun for a while as you kind of just let her loose off maybe like two or three every single time she like lets loose and she hears

the sound of the bolt go her hair kind of just like puffs up and thrills out and stuff like that she's kind of like excited and unsure of but she eventually just like starts laughing as it's like oh it's okay as her hair kind of settles down well most everyone seems distracted

with this thing rad is going to approach punch and he's going to as quietly as he can whisper to punch auntie could you do me like a really big favor and like could you just like go distract him for like a day

tell him there's someone really cool to the west or something and he will pull you back could you do that for me punch kind of like cranes its neck kind of like closer to you and whispers that's a lot to ask rad

but I really like these people and like we don't have any kind of real precious cargo I'm just worried he's going to want me to like do something that I don't want to do right now but honestly once you haven't delivered in months and he's starting

to take notice especially with the ipad I have a feeling that this like adventure I'm on is going to totally nag me like totally awesome magical things that I'll totally bring back I just don't want these people to know right now please auntie

I was always your favorite I hate when you use that line I'll try as punch just kind of flops off and then jumps into the water as she goes down you kind of see this like greenish ethereal glow as it kind of darts off

into the depths where you can't see her anymore he just like breathes kind of a sigh of relief knowing that there's a chance you might be able to keep things quiet are we throwing dynamite again? hmm

well I tried but apparently I'm the only fun uncle around here how many sticks of dynamite did I take from him just so I just one I got two more in the jacket just one you do realize you're wasting your ammo

well that's what it's for it's for exploding who am I to deny it of its existential rat nope nope I'm done with it nope

you're a little too much for me you're a little too much for me right now I'm gonna go over to Rad you know people tell me that a lot I'm going to Rad Neval's gonna go to Rad where did uh punch go? I think she got hungry and she's kind of

went to go eat she knows she's kind of alone or sometimes have you been thinking about that board what kind of would you gonna make it out of I suggest something light that was just assuming wood is wood oh no dude there's all kind of

just like every weight is different every wood is different dude I mean you're not wrong I won't deny that uh sure how about we'll go when we stop over we'll look for some wood how's that and you can tell me

which one to make my board with Rad suddenly like kind of gets um like a little like a little solemn and he's like you seem like a real like righteous dude you know like what if you were in a situation

where like someone wanted you to do stuff that you didn't really want to do but you do it because it helps you your like family you know what I mean would you keep doing it I I mean I'm a little different for me because I've never really

had a family I've had but I've never really like developed a family oh that makes sense I think you should get a family like as soon as possible they're sick they go surfing with you they party with you

I don't think you can just like get a family that's from what I've observed traveling around you have to be born into one as far as I know uh I don't know about that I mean I know lots of people that I like enough to call a family

you can be part of my family if you want you just got to meet them I mean that is interesting I'm never I didn't know you can find a family or is that how it is I think you're gonna find some family real soon dude well that's very

gracious of you I won't deny um can I think about that that's it seems that's that that can't be answered just on a on a whim I feel like I have to think about that for a minute sure yeah yeah yeah and regarding your problem

I feel like just remember you all your choices are up to you as long as you is how you see fed as long as you can make peace with it you just got to do what you got to do it's my choice

well yet well at the end of the day we're all judged by our actions that's the thing once it doesn't matter like once you cross over whatever you need the final judge you just have to stand by it I suppose but

what if what I'm doing is both good and bad at the same time it's just a hypothetical you know we don't have to talk about it anymore I'm gonna go I'm gonna go now I'm gonna watch you I'm gonna watch as he leaves and I'm gonna be like I'm not gonna follow I'm just gonna be like

kind of contemplating all of what he said to me and could roll me a survival check if you're still in the helm yep never leave it's a 18 even though the waves have gotten choppier and choppier a little bit

you're still holding steady to the course and you're continuing along the way the day continues on and it's starting to get into like five six o'clock as the the sun is starting to work towards its way to setting Shodi while you're

looking around on the on the ship you end up finding a fishing pole that's kind of tucked away in one of the compartments on under the hut I'll take it and go as far away from everyone as I can and try and fish

okay roll me a survival check please let there be that one Shodi I'll just break five five you take it and you kind of throw it out into the water as you kind of hear the whizzing and eventually the small

plot nothing seems to to happen as you're just sitting there holding it time goes on about an hour or so and still nothing you can try one more time if you want to I'll try and keep my calm and like take a deep breath and try again yep roll me another

thirteen not much better as you're just continuing to wait and stuff like that you kind of brought it back in a little bit and as you continue pushing away you kind of let it release and it kind of drifts out as eventually you get a bite

as the bobber goes underneath the water and your reel just starts to pull reel out and you hear the whizzing of it I roll me a d100 it's a crack it's an eight I got excited about it cause I was like in DeltaGrey about to success and I was like 16

and I was like no wait wrong game wrong game come back and get it roll me a strength check all my dice have betrayed me today I don't know which one to use a strength check close your eyes and grab one

I mean it's the same as you kind of take a step back for a second you just pull really hard on it and out from the water onto the deck is the squid little hefty squid

tentacles are kind of moving it shoots a tentacle at you to attempt to slap you but it's not you're too tall of a being as it just kind of like slaps out he's angry at you Shony but it's just there wiggling around

you do know that you could we could eat this if you want that's a good catch you cut it without bait we could also use it to catch something bigger if you like I'll defer to you captain don't call me that

well I was talking to you and Rad the captains should I have said captains if you like that's more appropriate it's just a one word and it's directed at Rad as my first corrective I order you to chop that squid up and save a piece for me

and we'll catch something bigger so you're gonna attempt to kill it this is why I don't play like as many video games because one game told me to kill a bear and I started crying and stopped playing make sure you you pull the beak first because

almost nothing will eat that beak it's indigestible so you'll have to you'll have to wrench it with your fingers then pull as hard as you can they don't really cut easy because the tendon is so strong there so pull as hard as you can I can't just blow fire on it

I'm just gonna stab through it is that the noise it makes they do it to stay kind of strong you stab into it and eventually the tentacles just kind of like throw out and it eventually just falls dead

it's okay big dude it's just the way of the ocean I can cook it if you like I'll give you some pieces to cook and I'll give some pieces to fish with I'll go back and take like two or three pieces and go fish with them

any big piece I'm just gonna kind of like breathe my little okay you should try casting out farther if it's close enough to the boat the waves that we created keeps all the fish away okay I'll try

again roll the survival check nine why nine it takes a minute but eventually again it bobs under and goes down into the depths roll me a d100

63 it takes a minute roll me a strength check at this point now that it seems obvious that this is like becoming priority of like food for people Rad will probably be hanging around helping or he can 16

again with your with your Goliath strength you just yank on the back of the reel and this giant mahi mahi size fish a very large fish kind of jumps up on the deck at your feet Rad sick that's a good one

do I know if it'll feed everybody it's big enough I think between the squid and that will be enough to kind of get you guys by today now technically this is enough for everyone but there's always a bigger fish well we shouldn't waste it if we've made it miserable already

I don't know it depends on the metal of the fish or do you think they're up to it Rad I don't know you might be able to pull it off I don't know I don't know if I'm impressed I feel like you're trying to give me the new the type of spite I would never challenge you

on spite only on talent and I haven't seen it yet well that's not true I fished a couple times I don't fish regularly though I'll try one more time here's this fish and I'll pass it off yeah alright I'll take another piece of the squid that I

haven't checked out no no not just a squid no I know I mean no what I'm not gonna get the hole no way I don't have to do anything if you want to do it

you can do it I've got a fish for everyone to eat I kind of want to alright I'm not gonna catch anything bigger without the mahi-mahi now I'm gonna do it out of spite fuck you so you're gonna hide

put the squid back on there good that's an 18 yeah you throw it out and yeah roll me a T100 oh that's a DM voice if I've ever heard one

86 I mean yeah perfect what does that number mean it's gonna be a big fish dude oh no what tiger bullshit shark are you about to pull off

dragon turtle that's it roll me a string alright let's go what's on your line is big even heavy do you have anything

20 30 20 no it's already 19 I was looking at dex 19 you are just pulling and reeling and like you get a good rhythm where you kind of like let it go a little bit but kind of reel it in you're pulling it back

eventually like you pull it and you feel something kind of bump up against the bottom of the hole it's definitely bigger you can't pull it any further seems that it's almost like

underneath or attached to the bottom alright captain this is where you go in now rad is going to stick his head see if you can stick his head in the water see if it's fire as well I thought the rain you'd have no head now oh no

roll me a constitution save what does that mean 16 as you stick your head underneath the water and you're trying to see where you're like trying to find where the line goes

you're kind of almost underneath the hole and you're looking but you don't quite see something but all of a sudden you kind of feel this like sensation kind of come over you as like you feel like your skin is kind of starting to harden but it eventually kind of

just fades away as you're able to kind of steady yourself but you're you're tracing the line and the line seems to go underneath the hole to like almost the opposite side like it's left the water not that it's left the water because

your head is sticking under but you see that the line is kind of underneath one of the rungs and it's like going towards the opposite side of the ship as if like whatever is on the line has like swam underneath the boat I'm going to stick my head out of the water and say

I think we should cut the line and just stick with the mahi mahi you're the one that wanted a big fish I stood my head under water and I felt like you was trying to turn me to stone something bad is happening dude just cut the line and I'm going to start working on trying to cut it and he runs to the front of the boat and he's like

what do I do with these I'll pull one of the dashes out and just cut the line easy enough you cut the line and the fishing rod snaps back everybody roll me a perception Big 7 I have a 21

15 yeah I got a 15 too you guys kind of like stop for a second as red startling news kind of Jess you're wondering what it is or where it is you kind of fan out across the ship

and you're listening you're looking around showdy you hear kind of something kind of swishing like a little breach of the water on the side of the ship that you're on as you hear kind of like a scratching or a scraping like something's trying to get up on top

of the hole but it seems to kind of slip back down underneath in the water as you hear a small splash I'm going to wave my hand and point at the side where it was and see if we hear anything else Snowfall

as you approach showdy and you're kind of standing next to them you kind of dip into your senses as you're trying to feel out something and eventually you feel a largest creature lurking underneath the water

Anka do you have that gust stone with you of course it's on the mast we need it just about everywhere so it stays with us I think you should activate it now okay I'm really sure the motor's already running no no whatever you

need to do to get us out of here faster do it now I'll try and you know punch the oars you know use all my strength to try and get us moving fast and I know the gust stone's probably already on but if I can get an overdrive I will for me a survival check

Trig takes the three sticks of dynamite he has left and starts rolling a depth charge I have a 22 you look at the wind and around you and though the gust stone was primarily the source of what you've been using you look and you can see that you could probably adjust the sails

enough to catch it to kind of add a little bit more speed with the current wind as you go and take the pulley and you adjust the sails it starts to kind of tilt you guys are starting to move faster away from what

snowball is feeling underneath your ship as you kind of as you as you start to move you feel this like bumping and scraping off the bottom of your hole as whatever this whatever this is is close to the surface I'm gonna

kind of get over my being upset or from earlier and like go back over Viberon and just not not necessarily pick her up just like be hovering to protect her I run to the back of the ship and I have my role

of three dynamite sticks waiting and I'm waiting to see if the thing is continuing to pursue us or if we're losing it I'm going to go to the side of the ship where the sort of like exit would be the opening up into the ocean I'm going to take some

rope off of one of the sort of bindings off the side railings I'm going to tight around me as tight as I can you know double knot sailor's knot whatever I can do to make sure it's tight as fuck and then I'm going to drop into the ocean to see if it's still following us

you have a lot of breathing still it's still up everybody's on the ship kind of listening and waiting to anticipate whatever this is perception check as you're holding this depth charge in your hands as you're continuing to look you

one the first thing you hear is a splash as you look back and you no longer see anchor on the ship I look awkwardly at the dynamite in my hand and I'm like well fuck now what do I get to do but as you like to do that and you look back and the ships kind of moved on

about ten feet now and continuing to push away you do see like a fin of some kind kind of breaching the water a little bit it looks like it is attempting to pursue anchor as you are under the water you're trying to look for this creature roll me a constitution saving

natural 20 plus 7 is a 27 you don't feel anything as you're just continuing to look in search and you kind of see a bit of the form of some creature looks like it's continuing to at least follow the ship

I think I kept three pizzas I think there was one that wasn't cooked is there enough for me to wrap up this bundle of dynamite with okay I'm gonna start cause you saved some for food just in case I'm gonna start rolling up a big old

bundle of shark bait with a nice juicy dynamite core does that track okay oh yes it tracks for a long time run back to the back of the ship

I assume it's still following us yeah you can still see the fin it's like lurking it's like stalking you guys more than trying to aggressively attack you alright lunchtime buddy and if no one is gonna scream any objections I'm gonna start striking the dynamite I'm gonna light it

I'm gonna put a nice long fuse on it so it'll go off after you know it's on like a delay hoping to get the shark to swallow it and then I'll just kind of casually chuck it out behind us and cross my fingers I'm gonna take out my war club and just play defense

like it's fucking baseball or something I'm gonna smack this thing if it gets close to the ship I'm gonna take Baran as far away from the back of the ship as I can show to you you pull back towards the back of the ship as where you pull yourself up from underneath the water

and ready yourself for anything and intrigue just chucks the depth charge into the path of this creature and for a second you see just the fins dip underneath as that depth charge

eventually starts to sink and you wait and you're just wondering if it's gonna go off and for a second like it just passes and you think it's just not gonna looks like we got ourselves a dud the water stop it

and then it explodes as you just see like just a boom as like water just like cascades up and just like covers over this ship a little bit of all your wet and there's little bits of chunks of meat and food and

and other stuff from whatever this creature was okay so it's for sure gone this thing was exploded problem solved okay cool Baran is in Shodi's arms and she's just going boom

boom yeah boom do I have enough footage on my rope to get out there with a strong swim and collect the meat whatever's left sure yeah we can do that I should be able to see

you know whatever salvageable I hope 23's easy enough you find pieces of like part of this creatures like legs some chunks of meat and stuff like that enough to feed you guys since you gave up the mahi mahi and I think

I did not give up the mahi mahi I only cooked part of the squid I was I made a point to say fuck you were keeping the mahi mahi to the boat so so yeah between that you have some squid you have some of this creature and you have mahi mahi I have no idea what the fuck

this thing is you can roll me a nature check all I know it was worth using up the last of the night good this is where we get into the intelligence checks I have an 8 which minus one is a 7 as much as you know that

there are just many types of strange and mysterious creatures that just live in the depths of Ashoka you're not quite sure what it is but it was big from what you gathered from the debris that you collected it was fairly large

okay I see him like trying to figure it out and Rad's like I think it was a dire shard how to fit in everything I climbed my way back up into the ship as hard as that is with the still moving ship and everything

once I'm back up on the ship I go over to Jody and I drop the every piece of refuse down at their feet almost on them and I go here's your kill I don't think it's my kill we worked together for it you were the fisher

but I didn't pull it up you got the shark to swallow the explosives well we did it together either way we got dinner together that's nice is that what we were doing that for I thought I was blowing up our shells

I think we were just messing around but we did find dinner on the way well it's a nice side effect then good job everyone is the fishing rod okay besides a cut line yeah the rod is intact but the line has been severed

so there's unless you have anything to replace it there is nothing to really use like to cast with it would I have anything on the ship for repairing it roll me an investigation check see what you got left

that's a wet hot six as you kind of look through the various compartments and stuff like that it doesn't appear that you have any any lines or any hooks left damn I'm sorry

that's okay I fixed this thing more times that I'm happy to report I made it myself it's a great show it works really well thank you okay you guys start preparing this food again to pass it around a bronze just

eating a large piece of fish and just kind of stepping her face and she's enjoying it and eventually it starts to trickle on into the late evening you can still see the dark clouds of that storm that's kind of tracing the horizons above you is a very open

and clear skies it's just scattered with various parts of the stars and the nebula and the moon's about half full and just a faint glow that kind of passes along this dark sea is there anything you guys want to do before starting to take

watch for the evening as I feel water breathing come to an end I'll cast it again roll me a d20 please don't fuck me okay it's fine easy enough you cast it at some point I'll approach anchor and say

dad I mean captain how are you how open would you be to some modifications to the ship? yeah I've been traveling with the raft for quite some time I'm fond of it I made it myself but

I always think that modifications are important to any project I guess it's more of an addition more than anything else what are you thinking something wonderful and it's a surprise but just tell me it's okay will it blow up

my ship it'll blow up things next to your ship okay oh lord great I'll start planning immediately just let me know if you need anything built I'm good with my hands good to know

that I'll scurry back off to the to the hut and I'm gonna start tracing things out in my head what have I done exactly Kenny's gonna go back to her spot on the hut roof and take out one of her

gold coins and if she has like a match something small to light she's gonna light it as long as she can and hold a coin and try to recap everything that's happened as quick as possible until the match burns down sort of her like

alter time and that's just as long as it goes Baran's got some charcoal in her hands that she's found in Jodi's bag and is drawing on the sides of the raft wherever she can that's very pretty very good

better art than I could do I agree I'm gonna go across the ship from where she is and I'm gonna cast Minor Illusion and just make like a tiny version of Sol just like floating in the air

no oh boy let's put it three fucking times we'll need to do 100 oh my god I that's some condition right there don't blow up this ship

this is now the fourth time you've had an option to blow up my ship 76 trombones I'm so good what the fuck before we get into that because of your previous one now that the night has kind of

settled you notice that your eyes are glowing in the dark as well as the veins in your body so you're kind of glowing a little bit like a like a glow stick

that's amazing as you're imagining the image of that matron's soul you're kind of stuck on the word soul sun fire you're thinking about it and thinking about it eventually this small ring

fire just starts to burst around you and it's now burning a hole into the ship put it out I'm gonna stomp on it I'll start kind of using a trench coat to try to tamp it out between all of you you managed to get it before

it starts to do some damage but there is a significant ring five feet around of burn damage into this side of the ship on the platform and part of the hole it's okay sometimes I spontaneously explode too maybe you should just like not do anything for the rest of the night

Shodi Shodi looks like they're just fucking close to tears and they immediately go back to the corner they were sitting in earlier do I have anything for repairing the boat on the boat doing that investigation check you didn't see

much a lot of your compartments are empty I mean there are other pieces of the board you might be able to use to repair it there's not enough damage done to it it warrants like full repairs but you know you do have a burn on the side of your ship well let's add it to the list after a few minutes

rad's gonna kind of realize his comment may have made things worse as opposed to better when it comes to Shodi so he'll eventually you know find his way over and say I noticed you like collecting shells like me yes they're gonna like wipe their face really

quick I do I like shells a lot here and I'll pull some out and just kind of put them out in front of rad and not look at him yeah those are cool what do you think about maybe trading sure that sounds fun I'll present one of them that's

kind of unusual looking like you wouldn't necessarily find it on a shore and I'll say I found this one like a hundred meters below in a trench you want it I'll take it for that pink one there yeah that seems like a good trade I found this one when I got off the first ship I was on

the first thing I saw I thought it was really pretty so here let me trade yeah I'll make the trade and I didn't mean to make you feel bad earlier when I said the whole thing no I don't I don't blame you it's not it just it does seem like

you're kind of like not totally in control huh on some things I have a lot of control and on everything else I've got no control I appreciate you what about that well

what could how long have you been able to do all your magic me oh well well since I came of age I get my powers because I'm like I'm from a tribe of sorcerers that like you know one person from the tribe

gets the power and they're called the herald and then they go you know to bring cool stuff back to the tribe and that's where I get my powers from does it come from inside here is it something outside like like Kenny um it's inside it's definitely inside

do I believe you can roll against that if you want 17 I roll the 16 so you're actually spanking I mean yeah I'm clearly like dodging yeah I feel like you're lying to me

but you're lying for a good reason or maybe not a good reason for a reason you're not ready to talk about yet so I won't tell the others but if you feel like talking about it uh

wow you like really called me out there well I mean sometimes lies are good you know they like protect people maybe so I promise it's not a lie that's gonna I don't think it's gonna hurt you I understand lying

I understand that lying is useful I can't pretend that I don't I'm not trying to make you talk about it or anything I just wanted you to know that you don't have to lie if you don't want to it's easy for you to say you don't know what I'm lying about

well sure I don't look uh how about this if it ever comes to it and you guys might be in danger then I'll stop lying okay all right I'm gonna go look at the waves now all right have fun

who's gonna take first one I'll take first one I'll take first one the evening starts to just wind down as things settle in Baran finally curls up on the floor somewhere and falls asleep um here you shoddy I assume everybody else

is eventually heading off to sleep uh anchor and uh it's an evolve roll me a perception check 14 I have a 10 red as you settle in for the night and fall

asleep you kind of drift away you're standing on the raft and you're kind of looking out at the sea as if you were taking a watch eventually you see Jess the greenish ethereal glow of conch as it eventually

surfaces eventually her form just kind of transcends into a familiar form of your aunt as her spirit is now staring upon you so it's a total like you she has a much wider shell that kind of has this net that's kind of cascaded

on the back of it um and she looks at you with kind of uh a worried expression and she says to you I tried but he knows you're here and as you're looking at her

because you're standing above the ship and she's still kind of down in the water you see a form breaching in the water a shadow that seems to kind of grow and expand what looks to be a jaw of some kind and eventually

it's just taking over the size of the ship and it's just wrapping itself around as you feel and know that that familiar presence of keppa as eventually the jaws screech around the ship

you just feel the swallowing of water and rushing as the ship just gets pulled into this void and eventually you're just suspended and you're just kind of floating there the ship is gone all of your friends even little baron is

just gone and you're just in this straddled in this void you start to make out in the distance the familiar large head of this dragon turtle and it's looking at you and its jaws just kind of wide and open and just looking and staring at you very very hard

look I think he's kind of saying to himself this is just a dream eventually you hear a voice deep and moving through the pulsing through the water like a whale of some kind just like the sound of his voice

as you hear the words in draconic I know you're here in the purple hey how are we keppa yeah just you know coming on by looking for treasure you know the usual thing that the herald does you know

I know but I just haven't found like a really really worthy ship to bring to you you know I'm just kind of waiting until that really sick treasure comes across pauses for a second as you kind of just feel this like

tremoring movement through the water as you as you hear this roar of some kind of the anger that is felt by this being eventually it settles and he says to you bring me the ship that you want

in the cargo that you're carrying there's nothing there's no words dude it's just a bunch of like weirdos and little girls in the game guttural even more intensely it's kind of like shaking you through this ocean as he does not like your hands

yeah I think if you know I know what I need to do to get at least out of this moment and so I just kind of bow my head and say the herald obeys eventually you just feel the rushing and the moving of the tides of water as you just pop out of this dream snowball and anchor you guys

have been just on the ship just patrolling as you're just more focused on continuing to push you and the rest of you forward towards the nearest island but snowball as you kind of eventually wander out to the platform

and looking out to the open sea you can kind of feel the pressure around you shifting as your like smell just kind of starts to heighten as you feel that something is changing in the weather around you

you kind of look up and stuff like that and you're noticing that the clouds are starting to really pull in and the waves are starting to get unsettled and more choppy and the wind is starting to pick up and the sail is kind of now fighting as anchor starts to feel

the tension of the settling of the ocean and as you're kind of putting that together eventually you just hear the gasping of rad as he has you dream and you just hear something in the air and what you see is a black bird with red eyes

flying across the sky towards the storm as you kind of see some residual lightning in the back and trail ends that kind of presents kind of contrasting on the back of it you want me a nature check or a religion check

I have a 13 you've heard many stories about the barbarians of wall raven and the deities that they worship one of the deities is a deity known as tararoc he's the god of storms, he's the god of fertility and warfare

is highly revered as one of the heads, the pantheons of the wall raven barbarians one of the things that is noted of them is these birds known as storm birds they're kind of servants kind of acolytes of tararoc and it is often said

that where a storm bird goes a storm does follow here it's wailing cry sailing off as it disappears into the storm clouds and you start seeing lightning kind of picking up as the sea starts to get very heavy and very choppy and very storm like

I'm going to rush over if anyone's in my way I'm going to like jump over them or what not I'm going to rush over to anchor and it would be like we have a massive storm coming our way yes it looks like we're going to hit it head on is there anything that you can do to get us through this faster Saifah

I just have to take special close attention to the boat watch the waves pick the right ones outside of that we have to weather it do I see any rope nearby yeah I mean there's various stacks of ropes that are

used for the ship that are kind of scattered amongst like the hut and the platforms and stuff like that grab on to that I'm going to wake the others maybe we should we need to tie ourselves to the ship a little bit better to keep us from falling out you're welcome to it's your choice

you know sometimes it can be a little jarring if you've never been to sea like this I generally don't like to stay and see it too long well you're not going to enjoy this and I'm sorry I can see that I'm going to go ahead and just start grabbing ropes I'm going to actually start waking people up could you wake the captain

I'll want to know about this I'm going to go to okay I'll go to Radino I was just like I was the captain you're the captain I'll go to Rad, Rad he's like tossing and turning I'll gently

Rad Rad just I won't like hurt him but I'll just keep shaking till he wakes up when you shake me like the second time I just scream awake and grab you and just scream what's up dude a storm's coming we need

your co-captain needs you oh yeah sure yeah I'll help you with that you start to see raindrops kind of starting to trickle down as you're kind of looking up at the sky seeing the storm that has seemingly just pulled in out of nowhere

what's the story number two I thought we were going to skirt it for whatever reason it came right on top of us it looks like we're going to have to weather this storm for the night are you up for it yeah I can help you right there at the mask you keep the sails

afloat and I'll keep us on course all right could you chip on everyone else while I take the wheel for a minute sure yeah just want to make sure everyone's tied down you know of course I pick myself up and wrap the tapestry around my waist and I go down to help snub all

wake everybody up once I find myself alone in the in the front or with the what's the wheel yeah the oars I'm going to turn the ship in the direction that I know it's that it needs to go now

but I'm going to cast hallucinatory terrain and what happens is basically all around the ship it looks in the direction that everyone else wants to go but I'm going the direction that I need to go and I think it lasts for 24 hours

as anchor is waking people up slowly issuing instructions about the storm and what we need to do to bunker down and get ready rad casts this spell as the terrain slightly alters for a second as he turns the ship

around but it turns into the same storm like weather but just in the same direction as he is now setting you guys off of course I think to wake them all up I do that weird like parent or dad thing where they stand

over you and tell you wake up do you wake Trig up yeah it's Trig first I got plenty and I make sure to try and grab the crossbow so I don't fucking die Trig good evening there's a storm

I see did I shoot somebody in the face you almost shot me sorry I was just walking out oh Kenny sleeps with two gold coins on her eyes oh my god

she's like starfished on top of the hut yeah I'm going to lift them two gold coins of we have a storm coming wake up and then I'm going to put the gold coins back on her eyes thank you so much thank you

so she's going to like finish sleeping for like two minutes and then get up and start doing stuff she hits the snooze I'm going to go over to Xiaodi or Xiaodi and wake them up same way same way just

ominously standing over there's a storm why are you ominously standing over me yes I need you to take the child and go to the hut and you should probably stay there okay yeah all right I'll load her up

in my my would-be baby yarn could you tell her if she wakes up that I'd like the inside of the hut decorated to keep her occupied and I'll take from my pack I have like a series of like oil paints

and I'll give you the collection over too I'll help her distract herself with that I do know how to paint I've sailed before do you need extra hands I think you're better

with the child than the sails and that's not discounting your sailing that's complimenting your relationship all right I've done very little for her just all right yes I can do that let me know if you need

anything else is she still asleep for now there hasn't been too much of a puzzle but you've managed to pick her up and kind of push her into the hut and she's sleeping next to you all right captain

captains incorrect that's okay they're wrong voice captain this is your opportunity to be right I'm very confused because you're telling me one thing and everyone else is telling me another thing I feel like this is also a discussion we could have later

right captains I've been in a few storms we have a few minutes before we die here I'd just like to reiterate I think the person who has the label should be in charge of the label right you don't want me to go calling you like Goliath

right maybe that's not the best metaphor just like you're a captain okay I'm gonna go steer the ship good luck captain the rain's starting to pick up as you step out onto the platform

Triggs, Naval, Kenny what are you guys doing before you know that thing kids do when they're on a school bus and they try to surf in the middle of the school bus oh no that's what I'm doing yes I do Triggs just happy to be here

Kenny's gonna make a decision herself like in front of the hut she's gonna try to protect the first client and make sure everyone's in sight in case she needs to regulate but she's in front of the hut Rad, if you don't mind

they'll take over the oars and maybe you can do that trick you used in the harbor yeah totally dude yeah I can steer us even faster in the direction that we need to be heading yeah yeah perfect we'll be there in a couple of hours if we're coming

I'll spend my last spell slide to cast control water and need the ship using the water around us faster in the direction Naval's gonna make sure that Triggs is tied to the master something like there's a robot

I'm just tying everybody to some part of the ship I know someone's gonna die I just got a feeling I'm just tying everybody up as quickly as I can does anyone know a storm song? storm, storm, storm now to storm

and it's happening and we're on the ocean rain, rain, go away maybe my inflection was wrong that was a joke even I did not pick up on that sorry rad

and anchor I have an 18 storm, storm, storm noise I have a 19 plus 4 23 for the beginning part of this the storm is making the ocean very uneasy and there's

a handful of waves that come rolling over you guys but between you anchor and rad you're both able to kind of navigate between and trying to keep the ship above it's really starting to just push you guys up and down as you guys

are kind of getting really unsteady Trig, roll me a dex roll me an acrobatics check since you're over there fucking intentionally trying to jump that is gonna be a 17 while everybody is either bunkered down or is focused on

navigating through this Trig is just having time of his life as you dip down into the trough of a wave and you're going up and as you're going up he just like jumps up in the air I mean it just like allows him to just get just a little bit more gravity on it as he just jumps down and that's what he's

doing for the beginning part of this but the new rad am I doing it right? Trig should bottle the rain water it's good luck for storm water whatever you say captain dude don't call me that right now my hands are using to collect that

rain water laughing even though the rain is starting to get heavy and it's dumping Trig is just out there collecting rain water with his hands just above his head and in between that jumping between the waves and stuff

Radden, anchor, roll me another survival check Kenny, snowballing I just want to go around and cast guidance on everybody I'm just going to I have to actually touch them so I'm just going to take a little walk around the boat cast guidance I have a natural 20 which is a 24

nice dude I have a natural 20 plus 14 wow I don't know what's going to happen oh my god that's what like a 1 in 400 chance feel like we

touch people we've turned into one creature you guys I'm Brad red core half a turtle there's a tsunami the ship is riding the waves

between the both of you you guys spending so much time at sea and being on the waters and navigating with this ship it's almost like effortlessly you're just riding these waves you know exactly where to go and what to do as you go over one wave

and go down another Kenny roll me a dex roll me an acrobatics check to see how dexterous you are as you're slowly tapping guidance on everybody as the ship is very time five yeah

one of the waves is very large and as you guys are going down there's just that bit of gap of where you like all of a sudden you feel lift as you're just suspended for a second and then you just slam hard on the ground and you you land on your side

as you tried fun ain't it no she starts like army crawling to everyone to finish testing guidance Eli I have a question is the wind blowing across my face in the direction that I would expect

it to do expected to be given the direction that we're traveling in I'm like what do you what do you mean like like are we going like like do I know that we're supposed to be going like with the breeze and now I feel like we're going to the side of the breeze for me

an investigation check which for trig is pretty high on an intelligence roll eight the wind is is just kind of blowing all it almost seems in all directions it's very hard to tell exactly where it's going everything seems fine to me

this is all really a perception check showdy are you doing anything with with baron in the in this hut I'm probably just still humming storm storm storm I have an 18 an 18 as you're kind of on the platform of the ship

and you're just racing yourself the waves are just tossing you back and forward and it is keeping you in steady you eventually feel something the feeling of like electricity generating around you you can sense like the hairs on

on your braids starting to kind of like what can I do do I know what's about to come down on me you feel the charge of electricity like I'm just going to be like

can I just do a warning as you're figuring out what to say all of a sudden you just hear a crash and just a large bolt of lightning that just kind of cracks the sky but it just it hits over and strikes the front part of the

mass of your ship as you hear an explosion and just fire erupting as rad as you're holding on to the pulley that holds that sail together all of a sudden it just goes loose as it's no longer anything attached

to it as you can see that part of the mass and the sail has kind of deflated a bit or it's just like moving rapidly with the wind and part of the rope has been severed on the top of the mass I'll run at it I'll run at it I know how to fix things and I'll run

at it and I'll try to patch it up as best I can okay we'll be a straight intelligence check do you know how to build stuff I do I have proficiency with tanker's tools so intelligence yeah okay yeah intelligence with your tanker tools I'll give you I'll give

you advantages because you're using your tools okay so that with advantage that's gonna go ahead and be well that's gonna be a 14 you assess the damage and you see that a lot of what

the problem is is that the lightening the mass seems more or less intact though it looks like it's on the verge of breaking there is a small bit of fire damage that is kind of around that area in parts of the platform kind of been splintered and broken from this

lightning the most important part of it is that the rope and the line has been kind of slightly severed so you reach out to it and try to grab it and try to find a way to kind of bring it together as you're trying to reconnect it so that the sail can take wind again is it just like the rope got severed and I just need to like lash it back

together type of a deal yeah but as you kind of pull it together you realize that the rope is just a little bit too short to each other as part of it has been kind of destroyed as you're just kind of holding it like piece to piece wait can I can I do that can I just try to use my own weight to keep the sail intact

like can I just like hold try to keep holding it together for as long as I can you can roll you can roll me a strength check or athletic check and see how you fare to that he is like basically near me within 30 feet maybe

like I have I have mage hand I would maybe like just give him that little bit of extra strength yeah you cast your your mage hand and and as trick as you're you're holding on to it and you can feel it like slipping through your fingers and just before it like let's go you go and like try to

reach it again and as you do that this nice little glowy hand just wraps around your hand at the same time as you guys pull it you're able to kind of keep the rope steady if you're going to attempt to keep doing this we'll have to keep rolling strength check it's a miracle I can keep doing this all day

but rad you feel the you feel the tension coming back to the line and stuff like that as this as the sale has picked up the wind again both of you roll me survival checks and Kenny and snowball roll me I call out to drink yes but that's what the rope is for

my hands are a little busy nine on perception nine on perception six I ruled a 21 on survival I got a 90 yeah it's a little bit more tension between it now with the way that the sale is being held together by

trig but you guys are both able to continue to make it work but as I was going to say the rope that was wrapped around me can I is that still oh I was about to say I'm still attached to it you're still attached to it all right I'm going to start on tying it so I can

give them all as you're in tying it you're you're not able to kind of pay attention to what's going on around you and even you Kenny as you're trying to pull yourself up you you're not noticing what's going on around your world or your circumference rad and anchor as you guys get over this last

wave you realize that you guys are kind of dipping a little bit deeper than you have been and as you guys are kind of holding on to the pulley and the oars you see some lightning kind of crack across the sky and it kind of illuminates on the

back end this giant wave it looks like it's way too tall way too large and it might be too big for your ship to go over I think everyone should abandon ship dude I think everyone should just get out can't you cart the waves

I've already burned that spell dude we'll be fine charge out and head on I'm going to start ripping like untying everybody fast because if we're going we don't want to be dragged around Anchor's a better sailor than I is there

something we could do that doesn't involve losing this ship you could try yeah totally okay is there anything I could draw to memory or roll for pull me history check it's a 17 with a minus one you've been in situations

like this before where waves are sometimes too big you think that it with enough speed you could probably push yourself over this wave if not you could just try to at least go front and vertically as to not

cap allow your ship to be cap size as you can hopefully maybe ride the wave up high enough to get around it those are the pretty much the only two options we need to go as fast as possible we need more speed behind it I think we can make it but we have to go faster I need something anything and I start

ripping the fucking horse as much as I can um Trig starts blowing on the sail and yeah he does I mean I had control water on I think it lasts for 10 minutes so I don't know if it's still

on but if it is I would just use it to make the ship move a little faster yeah we're within 10 minutes you can feel that the water is slowly pushing or like draining away so you might have one little burst left can this work I know this is weird

for a step of when I can use like a dash to go twice as fast can I get behind the damn ship and push it using the key to help the move faster you can if I cast

waterwalk on you oh shit there you go now we're thinking I could just use my key point right there and just use that is this what you're gonna try to do yes um okay

I have two spells for you Kenny's gonna run seeing what Snow Wall is going to do and cast waterwalk she's also going to cast enhanceability um and what are you doing you're running okay I can either run or push because technically I basically

double my speed okay then we'll put some strength on it then then we'll use full strength so you roll with advantage on strength checks I'm amazing oh and give you the same awesome

nice okay okay well fun what we're just as confused as you are we're just as confused as you are we're problems

yes well that's what I'm saying like because Dash I just need to know I like it I'm not saying wow wow I'd like to if we get to this point if this happens if we crest

the wave obviously we're gonna have a lot of lift on the other side because we're going crafty I would like to position the rudder all the way to the right so that the ship pivots in the air and then lands horizontally down the wave to hopefully soft

in the blow and also Tokyo drift that show let's go roll me a strength check as that requires more of strength than survival and snowball roll me a strength check as well for your

push with advantage sure showdy what would you like to do as well uh hearing that we're trying to get more speed showdy would like to go to the back of the boat and cast the wave off about it to get us in with this great

so don't mop me I'm just gonna keep holding this tail together oh the trick's gonna fucking die should we roll me a strength check I already rolled I get a nine he's just like

on the deck right he's not in the air yeah he's kind of suspended between this this sail and stuff like that he's not like all the way up in the air but he's like off the ground like stretch like he's like stretched across if it's possible to climb

trig and cast mending please that would be great roll me a strength check the climb scale him by the way with advantage I had a 23 23 for advantage

uh a 23 23 9 if I cast under wave at a higher level it pushes further or will it just fucking die you can roll it at whatever level you think

might help you we'll go in the middle of the road we'll do a second we'll do a second level I agree we're already committed to this that was a nice 10 perfect 10

nice perfect 10 rad was there anything you wanted to do alongside anchor I'm just keeping the ship going Kenny you run up to where trig is and you start to climb him he's very

wet and slick from the rain and the sea and it's a little hard for you to do it but you manage to at least get up around his shoulders as you see this like mage hand and him just like holding on for dear life as you're seeing that it's like he's about to slip from it but before

it just snaps out of his hands you do manage to kind of mend it as the rope twists together and and secures itself back in place snowball and before uh as Kenny crumbles away from you and she's like giving you all of these abilities you

immediately jump out onto the ocean and what you you think for a second like as like your feet lift the ground and stuff like that you're gonna just dive straight into water but eventually you just find purchase on like what feels like solid land but you can feel

under on your feet just the water just feels wet on your feet but you come there's a little growl there it's a little annoying but you kind of like settle that and use that as the momentum as you kind of put your hand on the back of the ship and you just start running and you just start

pushing it it seems to on some level make the ship just go a little faster as you're just pushing it hard as the ship is starting to ride up the face of this wave rad is holding the the uh the sail as

secure as he possibly can anchor you just decide to just slide all the way across as far as it goes and you just rad just watching him just push into it and just turn it as you see the ship is starting to slide just a little bit on the side of

this wave but between the momentum anchor shifting the or and between some of the balls push it doesn't seem that it's quite enough as the as the wave is starting to crest but show T you realize and you're you kind of peek your head out

and you just notice all of this is going on and you see the wave and you see how it's curling and it looks like it's just about to clap down on you you just rush out to the back of the ship and you just kind of take both of your hands and bring them together as you cast thunderclap we'll meet

a d20 it's an eight what would happen I don't know show you crack both hands together as this giant hole just shuts out from around you like it it goes

everybody feels it as it just rattles everybody but it seems to just push you guys even further is like just as you do that right you have just enough energy in your control water to curl back the bit of the wave as you guys manage to jump

over this large fucking wave nice yeah fam I feel like that's where we should end today you