Nerd Poker - Episode 78 - Melted Sand That Walks

Episode Date: July 21, 2020

The Ice Five have always been fans of entering mysterious caves, and as cautious as they were, they're still a little stuck. Luckily one amongst them was built with some extra options back at the fact...ory. 

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey everybody, I'm Brian Pussain, Comedian, writer, actor, nerd. I've been playing D&D with my friends for a long time. I decided to do a new podcast where we play Dungeons & Dragons in my very own dining room. With my wife, kid, and my noisy dogs. So meet my friends... Sarah Kev Dan
Starting point is 00:00:41 Clay Chris Now it's time for another episode of Brian Possehn's Nerd Poker. Season three. Hey, everybody. It's Brian Possehn. You're listening to Brian Possehn's Nerd Poker, episode 78. Deja vu.
Starting point is 00:01:00 Feels like we've done this before. All my friends are here. We did. Sarah. Yo. Ken. Ciao. Chris. Sarah. Yo. Ken. Ciao. Chris. Hi. Dan. Hey. Blaine. Hey.
Starting point is 00:01:12 And then the upper left, Sam. What's up, Sam? Hello, sweet children. Hey, Dan, you got any people you want to thank? Let's get this moving. I do. Forgive me, folks, but we had a little tech goof, so I'm going to do these nice and efficiently. Thank you. Natural
Starting point is 00:01:27 thanks natural 22. If I have to explain I'm sending money to the wrong. Thank you. Model skeleton. Thanks. Thank you. Dorian Eric Osei. Thank you. Thank you. Matt Carter. Thank you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:01:43 Thank you. Rando Cardrissian. Thank you. Thank you. Throck Morton. Thank you. Thank you, Matt Carter. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Rando Cardrissian. Thank you, Throckmorton. Thank you, Justin Milan. Thank you, Lord, I reckon. Thank you. Thank you, Hans Edelman or Hans Edelman, depending if you're Lando or not.
Starting point is 00:02:00 Thank you. Darth Gibson was his name. Oh, thank you, Stephen Terrell. Thank you. Thank you. Darth Gibson was his name. Oh, thank you. Steven Terrell. Thank you. Thank you. Just Rob. Thank you. James Gilley.
Starting point is 00:02:11 Thank you. Moist on his own petard. Thank you. Steve Wilchester, Tonerfield, Ville, Evan, hi,
Starting point is 00:02:17 how's an org extraordinaire? You can say that again. I will. I'll say Steve Wilchester, Tonerfield, Ville, Hanvin, have a house is an org extraordinaire. Again, You can say that again. I will. I'll say Steve Wilchester, Tonerfield, Vilhanvin, Havahas,
Starting point is 00:02:25 and Orc Extraordinaire again. And when he goes out, the people, they shout, hey, what is your name? And you say, thank you, TikTok's Copper Clock Cock. Ding, ding. And thank you, Pepperbert.
Starting point is 00:02:38 Thanks, Pepperbert. Thank you. Good on a sandwich. And now, Blaine, who is that brought to us by? Oh, that was brought to you by Palladino's D&D Night. You're going to get all the best bands
Starting point is 00:02:52 coming up like Bigby's Clenching Fish, Imagine Dragons, Elvin Bishop Chain, Fairies Wear Boots of Speed, Cleric Clapton, and Dexterity's Midnight Runners. All the Palladino's D&D and D&ity's Midnight Runners. Oh, the paladins. D&D and D&D and D&D and D&D and D&D. Oh, I'm glad we had to re-record that intro.
Starting point is 00:03:10 That made it all look better in the last episode. Great. Holy shit. Blaine passed out. I think we lost Blaine, though. Blaine's dead. Now there's a callback that I made to his original joke that is not going to make any sense at all. Oh, my God. You guys.
Starting point is 00:03:24 We can only hope. A lost intro to 78 will live on only in going to make any sense at all. Oh my god, you guys. We can only hope. A lost intro to 78 will live on only in Blaine's become a puppet. Now he's got his puppet going. I really can't wait to we have to go record episode 79, so first let me say what happened last time on NerdPoker?
Starting point is 00:03:40 The Ice Five lifted the back of a metallic dragon skeleton and unveiled a secret cave behind the lair of the dragon they had just slain. Once going inside, they discovered a hall with magical torches. What is this? Oh, a fake wall in the back of the hall. Let's send Gus in. Uh-oh, Gus is trapped in a vertical shaft that goes down half a mile and ends in a secret chamber filled with glowing blue crystals. Will they touch the crystals? Will they get out of this cave they shut themselves in?
Starting point is 00:04:11 We'll find out now after a brief guitar riff sound. On that note, I have just told you where you are and how you got there. What would you guys like to do as the Ice-5 stands at the precipice of a fake wall, Gus, exploring below? Chris, would you like me to recap a little what Gus saw down there? Sure. So it's about a half mile vertical shaft.
Starting point is 00:04:38 When he went through the invisible wall, he could no longer get back the way he came. There was nothing but four walls all around him, so to speak, but it was more of a cylinder. He looked up and there was another sort of ceiling of rock. He went down about half a mile and he found a chamber littered with bodies that looked like they had fallen down the half mile vertical shaft after going through the fake wall. There are crystals in this chamber.
Starting point is 00:05:04 We haven't gotten too much into the detail of it yet but you had definitely spoken of a theory that maybe you i think you even almost did dismiss and bring back gus and then you had him explore so i'm not sure if you want to what you'd like to do next with gus and then we're gonna eat on the crystal why don't i actually start everybody with the perception check? And can we get some, how about the devils on horseback? That's like the bacon wrap dates, right? Can we get some of those for the table? Oh, that sounds delicious.
Starting point is 00:05:32 I'll split a wet salad. Oh, yeah, but we don't do refills on those. Okay, that figures because I got a 12. 17 plus. 18. What'd you get Sarah? 18 17 plus what my friend Brian nice
Starting point is 00:05:54 you know who hates a wedge salad? who's that Brian? Jerry Duggan thinks they're against God like he flips out he just doesn't think it's a salad he goes it's a fucking piece of lettuce With blue cheese and onion on it It's bullshit
Starting point is 00:06:09 Well a salad is pieces of lettuce It's the best salad I totally called bullshit on it He's like that's not a fucking salad He's arguing with the form He's like that's not tossed Is a tuna salad a salad? I think so.
Starting point is 00:06:27 I think egg salad's a salad. Interesting. It says salad. There's smoosh-em-ups. I got a 16, by the way. So glad we lived to see Brian get angry about salad rolls. I know.
Starting point is 00:06:42 Oh my god, don't mess with Brian and his salad. I know, Mike. I'm getting hot in it. I can. Oh my God, don't mess with Brian and his salad. I know, Mike. I'm getting hot in it. I can't wait for our Patreon episode where Brian runs us through the salad adventure. I'm going to join
Starting point is 00:06:52 the sneeze guard. You can roll up a salad character. If you ever redo Forrest Gump, I'm the salad guy. Oh. Salad guy.
Starting point is 00:07:02 Laugh is like all the sizzler. I just want to know what you're going to get. Shrimp salad, chopped salad. I want to know what you're going to know what you're going to know i want to remind everybody nobody hates wedge salads more than vader salad because he blew up his death star uh so let's see yeah uh i believe the highest we got was brian with a 20 i don't know if i heard chris uh gus and i each got 20s oh fun well that's good so dark there everybody's kind of hanging out and you're just sort of like mulling over what tiktok is telling you about
Starting point is 00:07:33 what's down there and uh you and tiktok both kind of look over your shoulder you you think you hear sort of like an like an evil wailing cackle through the other side of the stone door that you shut behind you. Gus is kind of just looking around and he notices the chamber. None of the bodies down here look like they quite made it to the crystals. They all look like they're kind of reaching for them. Some of them are dead. Some of them just look like the body's shattered when they hit the ground some of them look like they maybe used like a feather fall spell that was canceled out at some point because they were like mostly preserved but like that's yeah it's brutal down there nobody yeah nobody nobody looks like they survived the fall it looks like at some point like you because there's such different states and it's such a long vertical shaft, he's like, okay,
Starting point is 00:08:26 maybe some people got halfway down and then like, so vertical shaft is a bad vertical mother. What you talking about? Vertical shaft. Is a Martha Mon laying at the bottom of this? Yeah, a Martha Mon
Starting point is 00:08:42 folded in half. All his loot taken. An impossible zigzag of a human being i believe blacky green uh looted all the good stuff of him but uh yeah so the just folded like a luggage folded like an airport damn it sorry gazzardo steps on my joke again come on that's what i get i'm pokey i haven't had i completely missed it uh what else was i gonna tell you about gus i was gonna tell you something about gus and then uh delightful riffs so yeah i heard the noise but yeah and like he's he most of these
Starting point is 00:09:22 people do look like they were commoners of some kind there's no like super adventury looking guys although like a couple people have like staves or walking sticks and like simple swords and one guy's clutching like a piece of paper oh gus boss maybe you should grab that paper ah okay do you want me to read it or you want me to what do you want me to do can you read it if it's a if it's a like a magic scroll with him reading it activate it or could he just read it and be able to tell what it is
Starting point is 00:09:53 so he kind of like reach he like lands his little body goes we and he like sits next to the corpse he goes as he tugs it out of the corpse's hand rigor mortis having grabbed it the body looks like it's about a month old and so he tugs it out of the corpse's hand, rigor mortis, having grabbed it, the body looks like it's about a month old. And so he plucks it out. It's not a scroll.
Starting point is 00:10:10 It is a formal letter written in sort of like fine handwriting. The Appent House Forum. I would love it if TikTok could read us this letter. I'm going to go ahead and paste it to you. Oh, okay. Chris, what's your preferred way of receiving a letter? You can just put it in the chat. Text it to you or put it...
Starting point is 00:10:33 Yeah. I'll put it in chat and everyone can read. Cool. This chat drop brought to you by Neutrogena Toothpaste. It's clearly the best way to keep your teeth clean with the power of acid. Newt G Toothpaste. Dan. Oh my. Chris has been waiting for the duration
Starting point is 00:10:52 of the toothpaste commercial. Oh, look at that. Alright, you want me to read it out loud? I think you should for our dear listeners. My Lord Jeff That's a G-E-O by the way. My big goff. My Lord Goff. It was most wise of you to relent your wealth of 690 gold,
Starting point is 00:11:11 your 20 acres of Hawbelly property. Oh, yeah, that island back there. And your security contracts to our most honorable clan. It is now your time to ascend. Oh, shit. Head east over the river and into the Vanzervale Hills. You will find a gnome named Shivitz
Starting point is 00:11:29 who will take you to the Glen of Riefus and the home of the Curse of the Lakes, torment of Donkeyland himself. He will know your name, Geoff. He will escort you into his home. There, deep in his private residence, you will find metacelized remains
Starting point is 00:11:45 of one of our ancestors. Pray to Zedagog, and he will give you the strength to lift this statue. Pray you do, the torment of Donkeyland grows hungry when he smells the weak sweat and flounder. Should you make your way into the passage beyond, make haste. At the end of a hall, you
Starting point is 00:12:01 shall find the eternal life you seek. It is only one touch away. Blessings from the north of Acula! Whisper of a hall, you shall find the eternal life you seek. It is only one touch away. Blessings from the north of Ocula. Whisper of the Abyss, King of the North Sea. Is Donkey Land even open? I know Donkey World is, but you have to wear those masks. They're opening later. Welcome home. Downtown Donkey is open.
Starting point is 00:12:24 Donkey Land closed, right? I'm going to Donkey Land Adventure because you can drink. Were you about to give us TLDR? No, I just got sad about the world. Wait, how did you stop being sad long enough to have a different feeling? You know what's great about COVID? It enough to have a different feeling? You know what's great about COVID? You know what's great about COVID?
Starting point is 00:12:49 You can't go to SeaWorld anymore. I like how you yelled that. SeaWorld was fucking awful. I'm glad that place is closed. Also, King's Dominion. So, it looks like basically like people paid or were forced to pay them money and everything. And then he was like, here's a long journey that you take to get eternal life. And then the journey ended here.
Starting point is 00:13:21 And then they just fall down a pit. Yeah. The Barrow Steps dragons were running a real fuck you camp. Oh, you want to be powerful like us? Cool, give us everything that's cool and then walk down this death tunnel.
Starting point is 00:13:36 So we should go there, right? This is here. The Curse of the Lakes, Torment of Donkey Land, I assume is the dragon we just killed. Does that sound right? You did discover that yeah yeah so is there though crystals wouldn't the crystals aren't they a form of of weird eternal life or are they or are they some sort of borg assimilation thing i think they are but he does say make haste at the end of the hall you will find the eternal life you seek so it's then and then like people would run through the hall and
Starting point is 00:14:10 then just fall down a pit inches away from the eternal life that they sought yeah if somebody was strong enough in theory if you survived and touched that thing it would turn you into some kind of very damaged into some kind of very damaged but some kind of beholder thing maybe maybe one of those other got out somewhere does not seem like it though because Zetagog seemed to be running the murder
Starting point is 00:14:35 shop isn't that how Brian's mom got turned into a beholder maybe she fell down the pit you actually know. We know the statue. That feels familiar, too. That's the metal dragon skull. You took the skull.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Oh, right. That letter basically explained what we got through. Letter explained the scam. But it doesn't tell us where the stuff is. It's probably with Havocula. Oh, yeah. It looks like he gave it away at the beginning oh yeah he'd already like given his money to havacula and it also means somewhere
Starting point is 00:15:10 in haw belly and potentially other places there are lands properties let's call them bases run by the barrow steps dragons and their minion fuckers just good know. If we'd gone to Hawbelly, we probably would have heard this guy's backstory. It would have been like, oh, Lord Jeff went on an adventure looking for, you know, eternal life. Yeah, if you did the Skyrim thing and broke into his abandoned house
Starting point is 00:15:35 and went through all of his fucking drawers. And now if we go back and try to do it, there's gonna be a weird bug in the game and we'll be in some loop because now we can't. It won't be nighttime anymore. The town guards will ignore you, yeah. Yeah. Sure. All right. there's gonna be a weird bug in the game and we'll be in some loop because now we can't all right well i mean i i don't know if you guys want actually do you want to do anything with the crystals or do we just want to we're hearing something behind us uh yeah a couple a couple
Starting point is 00:15:57 seconds ago before the letter was read to you you heard what sounded like a couple people heard like distant cackling through the rocks uh Why don't you all do another perception check? When you say we heard cackling, is it safe to say we heard a voice? It's hard to tell through all the rock. I mean, it was a loud, like wailing cackle. So it sounds like it. Remember that dragon was coming? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:19 You never saw, you know, much of him. But there was that purple giant fairy dragon named Hamph, who was buddies with this guy you killed. 17. I rolled shit. I got a 17. Gus got a
Starting point is 00:16:37 23. 15. 7 and 4. Thanks, Sarah. I got a 20. 20? Not natural natural 16 and a four okay well uh for just a moment dr uid you you feel the ground shake beneath your feet before everybody else does i feel the sky tumbling down a tumbling down we should get the fuck out of here ski daddle. Yeah, let's do it.
Starting point is 00:17:06 I'm setting a timer. What would you guys like to do? All right, let's get out of here, but there's going to be a dragon waiting for us. Let's scram. Right. Or we can, just as an alternative, I can bamf us to the Feywild.
Starting point is 00:17:25 Hmm. That much. We'd still have to make the journey. Hmm. I can use the portal. I can use it once a day. So in theory, we could go to the Feywild travel for a day and then whenever we want, we don't know what's going to happen with time,
Starting point is 00:17:39 but I'm going to be fine. I think, didn't we, didn't we kind of discuss with Gus that as long as we had Gus as our guide, we would be able to sort of navigate safely? I think it was, I just think it was that time passes differently there, I thought, or no.
Starting point is 00:17:53 I'm looking at Dan, but he can't tell because of Zoom. Yeah, I'm just keeping an eye on the clock here. No, no, no, I know. I just meant like, there's no way to, I realized asking a question now to a person is complicated. So doesn't time pass it does but to chris's point yeah he thinks gus is like an anchor like uh penny was for desmond unlost so basically if you guys go got it um well you know maybe if you partook in other people's intellectual properties more often besides
Starting point is 00:18:20 the the three you like or whatever the fuck no yeah i watched two seasons of that and it was i watched two episodes and i was out um i watched all of them i read the last one a whole bunch i like when the plane blew up i did go to wikipedia to read what happened but talk about lost for a while the lost cast uh so we are going to go to the feywild does that does everyone want to do that or do we want to i are going to go to the Feywild. Does everyone want to do that? I'm going to need everybody to do a dexterity saving throw. Oh god. Shit. Too late.
Starting point is 00:18:55 Saving throw. Ooh, shit. I rolled a one. Yikes. Do you want me to roll some, Gus? A one. 21. Natural 20. Plus your bonus, yeah?
Starting point is 00:19:13 Oh, yeah, I have a bonus. So with the bonus, five. Oh, no, my buttered toast! 19 plus six. 17. Ooh. Okay. Yikes. Nice.
Starting point is 00:19:35 Everyone who beat a 15, you can have this. You take 32 points of bludgeoning damage as the cave begins to collapse around you. Large rocks start falling. 21. Stay wild.
Starting point is 00:19:51 Who botched? All right, I'm going to need you to roll 100, please. Ow! I have a small table. I don't really need 100, but I figure let's roll 100 for fun. Okay. Your arm is pinned under a large rock that falls, cracks out of the ceiling. Who sees TikTok get his arm crashed?
Starting point is 00:20:15 Right now, the chamber is still shaking a little bit, but several large parts of the tunnel itself have collapsed, and all but a couple of the magical torches are extinguished as they're crushed in these rocks. So we can't... Who failed the dexterity saving throw? We couldn't have gone... We have to wait for Gus to fly up
Starting point is 00:20:38 anyway, so we couldn't have gone... You all sort of slam yourselves up against the wall and avoid most of the rubble. Let's not get the rockble. But he's big. So we got a big one landed on his arm. I'm not taking any damage because of my shield master evasion again. Good. Okay.
Starting point is 00:20:51 Can I? I make a little umbrella of my shield. Can I amend that thing? Can't I just make, can't I make Gus just appear next to me? We don't have to physically wait for him to fly. Cause also he couldn't fly through the wall. Yep. You're basically getting under your shield and it's all just...
Starting point is 00:21:07 Do you have to dismiss him and then recall him or how does that work? I guess, yeah. This is sort of the first time we've done it. Can he dismiss him if he's not there? You could, sure. Yeah, do it. Do it quick. I pride the... We figured out how to do it do it quick well we i pride the we figured out how to do it it's a dismiss it's it's it i can just do it can you tell them to meet us meet us in a round
Starting point is 00:21:35 take a round off most most things like this yeah it's just like i do the six second oh man yeah you don't take 12 seconds seconds. I dismiss him and then someone else. Whoever has the strength. You have higher strength, I think. I have 16. Oh, no, you're not a Burberry. I have 16. I have a plus three.
Starting point is 00:21:53 Who wants to lead it will give you advantage. Wait, Blaine has a 16 strength? Where's that been? I have 16 too. It's just in one arm. All beefy boys what the shit yeah it's weird that's why i make well that well when my wife left me i spent a lot of time at the gym i will first of all i just want to i just want to say absolutely where has that been blaine could have probably used that multiple times during this campaign. Second of all, I will remind, I think everyone, Blaine definitely remembers this.
Starting point is 00:22:32 He rolled so high on his stats. I had a bunch of high rolls too. That's why I worked with him to give him this wild magic roll he has to do every time he uses magic. He's basically handicapped by his magic because he rolled high. Wow. Doctor, you're jacked. I had a bunch of high rolls too looking at mine but yeah somebody let's dig this guy out i'm so used to not being strong that i forget that this guy is strong that's what dnd is for it's not true at all every time a car is on top of me i ask blaine to come over and lift it off of me. That's ridiculous. Oh, man. I'd be over in a half an hour. I got a thing.
Starting point is 00:23:07 Hey, you know, how did they reinforce his spine and pelvis? Did they replace his whole skeleton? Because if you picked up an engine block and you were bionic, it would just tear your arm off, right? No. Just his arm and his legs and his eye. And his eyeball. It was bullshit.
Starting point is 00:23:22 Yeah, you'd have to. I mean, it would be cool to be the $6 million man, but you would also have to be a... It also made him go really slow all the time. Did you ever see the pilot, the pilot movie for the $6 million man?
Starting point is 00:23:34 Where they didn't do the slow motion. When it aired. They would speed him up to make him look like he was moving really fast and it just looks stupid. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:41 It's in the opening. They slowed him down. His running in the opening is from the pilot. Anyway. Anyway, sorry. Lift. It's in the opening. They slowed him down. His running in the opening is from the pilot. Anyway. Anyway, sorry. Lift that rock. Lift that rock.
Starting point is 00:23:50 Anyway, this is some podcast. Oh, I'm sorry. I was drinking vodka out of this glass. So, yeah. Who's figging lead then?
Starting point is 00:23:56 Queep? Yeah, I'll do it. Okay, Beefy. Roll with advantage. That's a 21. Ooh. Oh, with advantage? Let's go see if I can get more.
Starting point is 00:24:04 Yeah, 21. Yeah, you, with everybody's help, managed to slide it just enough that uh tiktok you get your your arm out come on it's not it's uh it's it's stiff but yeah i'll say no permanent nerve damage or anything thank you ice five now let's get the fuck out of here. It is now like a lighter earthquake. It's still dark. Portal. I'm portaling it. Yes? Are we waiting for Gus or is Gus back? Gus is here.
Starting point is 00:24:34 While you guys were doing that, TikTok was basically with his other arm waving and using his command words to dismiss and resummon Gus. So Gus appears. Hey! He never rests. Hey, boss. I have a produce flame cantrip just in case nobody can see.
Starting point is 00:24:50 I have a glowing hand. I'll produce fart and you can work it out. Do some Victor Borges stuff. We can work it out. We can work it out. I don't know if you all have to touch me or if we have to do a circle. Dan, does it matter? You don't know. Let's link arms like Wizard or if we have to do a circle. Dan, does it matter? You don't know.
Starting point is 00:25:05 Let's link arms like Wizard of Oz. Oh, a prayer circle like Madonna. Just to be safe, maybe everybody put a hand on me just in case it has to be. I don't think it does. But boy, would it suck if me and two people I was touching disappeared and nobody else did. I love Ken's reference for a prayer circle is Madonna. Like pre-show? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:29 Well, she does that, but also so do Christians. A lot of people do prayer circles. Whatever. I don't know about that stuff. That's all religion. It's coming backstage after the show. This has to be a good one. I think we should all get behind him like in One Step Beyond.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Peace be with you. Well, Chris said he wants everyone to lay hands on TikTok. So yeah, let's do it. However, yeah, just to be safe. I'm grabbing his yonkle.
Starting point is 00:25:54 There's fan art of that. That's why I'm grabbing it. Oh God. All right. And then, uh, I love party all over portal, portal,
Starting point is 00:26:03 portal. All right. So, uh, and then uh i's lemon party all over portal portal portal all right so uh you guys all see a part of uh tiktok's shirt start to expand oh uh and and the buttons start popping off of it and plates sort of push aside and his rib cage appears to be opening up. What? You see the insides of his chest. There is glowing blue sparks around parts of the metal and wood and like muddy kind of material inside his chest. And the blue sparks start to coalesce
Starting point is 00:26:45 and then they burst outward in a bright light uh I'm gonna need everybody to do a charisma saving throw do we want to fail this throw Dan he won't tell us I got a 17
Starting point is 00:27:07 you guys hear my dummy said it while I was drinking that water 19 5 natural plus 3 am I doing 1-2 natural 1 plus 3 great job natural 20
Starting point is 00:27:19 yeah you too TikTok and Gus I got a natural 20 Okay. Yeah, you too, TikTok. And Gus? Yep. I got a natural 20. I'm seeing what Gus's bonus is. You make me feel. Gus got a 15. Great. So everybody, you see everybody TikTok sort of get pulled into your chest.
Starting point is 00:27:43 Their form seems to shrink and their, their body seems to warp as it becomes small enough to fit into the beams of light coming out of your chest. And suddenly you feel your own body start to collapse and it sort of implode inwards towards the light. Yeah. What in that? Oh,
Starting point is 00:28:04 you all wake up in a cave. The cave is dark, but there is shimmering pink and blue light everywhere. Did you scream the whole time it's happening, like in Galaxy Quest? Yeah, absolutely. If you could just Sam Rockwell this one dark there, that would be great.
Starting point is 00:28:23 if you could just sam rockwell this one dark there that would be great uh i i hope your your your unique quick time audio uh locally picked up that screen because zoom cut out yeah i got limited uh a little a little out of the mic so you all wake up in this cave there's there's sort of like uh crystalline sparkles that are of course very different from the blue sparkles that Gus just scouted at the bottom of that pit it seems you're in the Feywild those of you who failed to throw and got under a 10 you are unconscious
Starting point is 00:28:55 that's me does anybody need healed or good berries or anything I'm going to pick up some good berries or are we healed in the in the feywild we should is so we're all like stirring but queeps just lying there right correct wings akimbo did you roll for guess yeah he got a 15 great okay can we wake him up or is he is he injured or just sleeping he's's unconscious. He's not sleepy. He's not like, it's not like Betty by time for creepy, but like he's, he's out. Oof.
Starting point is 00:29:29 Can we try? Yeah, I can give it a shot. So we give him like a couple of slaps. Yeah. I use my, my clerical medicinal skills to awaken him. Roll medicine check. Sure. I never get to do this.
Starting point is 00:29:44 And it's. Cracks the smelling salt medicine check. Sure. I never get to do this and it's... Crack some smelling salt. 19. Hey! Yeah, he very slowly comes to. Queep, you feel dizzy as hell like you banged your head on something in TikTok's ribcage. Kakaloya? Sorry, I had a foot-long sub
Starting point is 00:30:02 in there. I'll say. You need to chew more. I was so hungry. Can we get some good berries from the doctor? Yes. All right, while you're good-berryed up, why don't we get, there's been several of these this episode,
Starting point is 00:30:22 another perception check. Oh, my goodness, perception. Perception. Perception. 15 good berries and I could do a cure wounds on somebody. Sweet. Only 10. Okay. I got a 22.
Starting point is 00:30:36 Gus got a 16. Damn. Perception? Yeah, boss. I got a 10. Not so good. Doctor, can I take five of those good berries? Yes, boss. I got a 10. Not so good. Doctor, can I take five of those good berries? Yes, of course. That's what I will do.
Starting point is 00:30:52 I got a 13. I got a 14. Okay. So, most of you guys don't notice this. It's dark. You feel like it's nighttime outside, although none of you really know't notice this it's dark you feel like it's nighttime outside although none of you really know much about the feywild and you're not sure how days even work here
Starting point is 00:31:11 tick tock you notice your eyes kind of focus quickly uh the cave is about as long as you think rafisia the dragon's cave was uh if it didn't have that sliding rock door um there's no uh opening or continuing hallway there's no magical torches it's a very plain cave um it ends about the same place that the false wall was on the cave you just came from and it opens up about as far away as rafisius cave would have opened up you see there are trees not that dissimilar from the trees you left they're kind of in the distance you know outside the mouth of the cave at this point you you're you're a little bit far in the cave um the the main thing you notice though is that this tunnel is straight it doesn't have sort of a bend or a crook in it the way rafisia's cave did so it's a little different um it's strange how everything feels like 50 different geographically and you notice
Starting point is 00:32:11 two long legs kind of lumber past the cave outside yeah legs of one ofs of what? Lamb? You don't know. Giant. But we're in the Feywild now. It's too far away. The cave mouth is like, you know, 300 feet away. So it's too far away to really like gauge what these long legs are. But you can tell the mouth of the cave is probably about 10 feet high. And you only see this thing's legs.
Starting point is 00:32:43 And they're very spindly. But they're just spindly but they're they're just sort of like barely visible as they go just walking by they go past does it seem like that weird watcher thing we saw at um when we were by the river where sam i can't tell you'd have to do something to get a better look at it right now it's too far away do we want to should we secure the cave first? And just make sure we're safe in here? And then what? Rest?
Starting point is 00:33:09 Or do people need to? Yeah, it could be a nice rest. I think we're all hit. Yeah. I got pretty shook up. I'm down to about a third with my hit points. I'm at 25. Okay, so maybe we want to do a long... Yeah, maybe we want to do a long rest in here? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:27 I have a cure wound. It's really down. I need 33. I'm at half or less than half. Do we care about time? If we long rest, that's essentially a day. I know we were kind of in a rush to get to the mountain.
Starting point is 00:33:45 I'm all for taking a long rest. I just want to remind everybody. We have healing potions. I mean, we can do that. Yeah, I don't need to. I didn't take that much damage because I kept using that dexterity. But if other people, it's less about the healing. And for some people, it's the spell slots.
Starting point is 00:33:58 I don't know how Blaine is doing on that. I'm okay-ish with that. I could do a rest and a recharge of everything i think all right well we just have to decide i mean first i have to do do we not have healing potions we can't get our i have two slots back you do but uh i will tell you the style of your guys's play is usually to save those healing potions for combat when you're out of spells and stuff like that. I don't have any.
Starting point is 00:34:31 I do have a thing called Second Wind, which I could take right now. I think it's more about if we long rest, then everybody gets everything back. But if we want to keep moving, then I have a thing I can do where I can boost my hit points. Let's rest. i don't know what the what the time factor is so tick tock do another perception check for me another one yeah
Starting point is 00:34:51 oh bad um just me 12 yeah uh no one else everyone else is aware there's there was something moving past the end of the cave but you see you see out of the corner of your eye while you're talking to everybody uh just some movement again in the cave at the mouth of the cave there's something out there it's too tall to get in hopefully there's something it's i we all saw something move i saw another thing move maybe something yeah when you when you go to focus your eyes it's you don't you can't quite make it out again again it's 300 feet away and it's a it's a 10 foot mouth of a cave so like it's so small in your vision you know it's it's hard to keep to like lock your eyes on a moving
Starting point is 00:35:32 object well then we should then we should probably just take the opportunity to rest hope this thing goes away if it doesn't then we can figure out you know rest with people on watch does it seem like that thing heard us portal in like does it seem as though that thing is moving past intentionally moving past the mouth of the cave because it knows something's in here uh you're the only one who saw i do an insight check tick tock inciting
Starting point is 00:35:55 okay uh 20 not natural it seems that it either heard you or it's looking for something to come out of the cave. Hmm. Maybe we need
Starting point is 00:36:12 to boost ourselves and then deal with this thing because there's a thing out there that's not going to go away. Right. But all the more reason if we're going to boost our... If it can't get inside and it's just waiting for us to come out, we as well heal oh they can't get all our spells back and then sure is that true we can't get it it's too big right right you can't tell why don't we sneak
Starting point is 00:36:35 it would come in already i assume maybe interesting assumption oh yeah yeah okay uh let's fine go sneak and look at it gus do you want to go take a little quiet, very careful, not leaving the cave, but closer to the mouth of the cave to get a look. See at this thing. Okay. I can do it. Well, maybe Gus might recognize what it is, right? Because he's as a farewell. That's what I was thinking.
Starting point is 00:37:01 Sure. Yeah, he's willing to go do it. Don't go out. Just get closer to get a look at that thing. Right. Why don't you do a stealth check for your friend? Why don't you do a stealth check, Dan? Oh, sorry.
Starting point is 00:37:17 I didn't mean that, Dan. Oh, I'm turning into something. He got a 14. Okay. Fun. he got a 14 okay fun so you know he's kind of like trying to sneaky sneak and he keeps stopping like he's trying to get closer it doesn't work and you know he Like he's trying to get closer. It doesn't work. And, you know, he gets like about halfway there and he mind speaks to you and says, Oh boy, I don't know if I can get much closer.
Starting point is 00:38:05 I see legs though. What kind of legs? Look at those legs. Do you recognize those as feywild legs? Yeah, kind of. They look lizard-y. There's like kind of yellow feathers coming out the backs of its legs. Big bird. But the legs are like a dark blue.
Starting point is 00:38:25 So I can see the feathers a little bit, but I can't see more of it. It's probably really big. Like a dinosaur thing. And it can't get in here. It's pacing back and forth. Then let's go at Hellsing's theory. Okay, come back.
Starting point is 00:38:43 All right, he wiggles his way back. Like his little butt. Like waving its tail at the entrance. It's adorable. It's like watching a cat walk around backwards trying to get a bag off his head. Back that joke up. They're doing that outside right now.
Starting point is 00:39:06 Has anyone ever taken as long to decide if we should go to sleep Yeah I thought we were just Kind of hanging out and waiting Why don't we just put somebody on guard I'm full REM I'm out I mean I'm not saying this is correct But I think that it's a choice So let's just make one
Starting point is 00:39:23 If that's the one No Darkter's already asleep And he sleeps just make one and if that's the one you know then you can no Dark there's already a sleep and he sleeps in the nude and he's making it weird but he's already he's in heavy REM but it's weird for everybody else definitely have inherited
Starting point is 00:39:37 some of those barbarian traits oh okay okay so we all go to sleep except for TikTok question mark I can do i can do my passive rest thing yeah great then uh you're all gonna do this for what is that 15 days long rest long rest so eight hours and gus can sit with me if he wants. I will. All right, so why don't you do a perception check for the first sort of shift there?
Starting point is 00:40:10 Copy that. I wonder if this is going to... Is this rest? It's too late now, but is this rest going to affect us if there's a weird time shift like interstellar style while we're in the Feywild? But I don't care.
Starting point is 00:40:24 I mean, I need my hit points. Why don't you do an insight check, Dr. Wood? 13 in perception. It's got an 11. Yeah, you're not sure. You do think it's sort of up to Tick Tock and his tether to your original dimension. What did you get there, Chris?
Starting point is 00:40:42 13. Gotcha. Don't get much of a view of the thing at the mouth of the cave although it is a bit unnerving because sometimes an hour will go by with no movement and then you'll see the legs again oh that thing's hungry so you know it'll it'll have short bursts where it'll walk back and forth a few times and then it'll seem to be gone for like a while. And then all of a sudden there it is again. Um, also,
Starting point is 00:41:09 uh, you notice, you know, it's still kind of bright in here from all the sparkling off of the rock. Like the rock absorbed the light. Um, am I glowing? No. What's glowing the the rock surfaces in the cave the same light that came with the portal the thing i described when you first came in the the rock seems to have like
Starting point is 00:41:39 yeah pink and blue oh i see okay glitter in it i guess everything's made out of this. It's still there, but it's bright. So even though it seems like it's maybe dark outside, the cave is almost lit. Interesting. And casting a light outside. Okay. A dim light inside and outside.
Starting point is 00:41:58 It's not so much. You get used to it. It's weird, though. The Feywild seems like a oddly lit place. Why don't you go ahead and roll a perception check for the next quote unquote shift? Round
Starting point is 00:42:12 two. Twenty three. All right. Well, that's a lot. So you're going to notice a lot. For one thing, you notice Darkthroat sleeping in the nude, turning over his dick, kind of flops around in the air, and you wish you didn't see it. You also notice a little more about the weird creature walking back and forth.
Starting point is 00:42:37 You do, at one point, see a tail that's kind of parallel to the ground. Like a lizard tail? Passed by. Yeah, it seems like a feathered kind of lizard-y tail. Dino bird. It must be real big, though, if you can only see below its hip. It's an apotropa. Don't know what that word was.
Starting point is 00:43:00 It's dinosaur talk. Were you trying to say Archaeopteryx? Sure. Because those are small. It's a flightless bird with hairy feathers. I saw hairy feathers open for... Clams got legs. ...Harry Cuomo.
Starting point is 00:43:11 So, like, the... Thanks, Ken. You get a little detail, see more yellow feathers, you see more dark blue, leathery reptile-like flesh. And, yeah, not much of its belly or anything like that it's just this big thing kind of pacing um you hear some rocks sliding at one point you think maybe this thing is touching the cliff face outside you're not sure why and uh with the 23 you also notice the sparkles on the rocks seem to be slowly coalescing around the party as they sleep the rocks seem to be glowing brighter around
Starting point is 00:43:46 everyone else and so i'll after after now that it's been like six hours you just notice like the rocks that are farther away from you don't even seem to be glittering at all at this point but like a 10 foot radius away from the party the rocks are glowing rather brightly oh jesus well that's so it's just we get we give off some sort of otherworldly energy that lets everybody in the fey wild know that there's something here like sort of celestial antibodies something is it is it coalescing in the same way towards gus yeah i mean you're all kind of close to each other right yeah i'm just wondering it's like 10 foot 10 feet away from you the whole party it's bright the glittering on the rock it's
Starting point is 00:44:29 brighter than it was a moment ago and the glitter seems to have moved off the rest of the cave hey gussy move like five feet away from us i want him to be just separate enough to see if the energy is coalescing around him as well in a separate pool all right do a perception check uh 21 nothing seems to happen yet but you do you do notice how weird it is to see him outside of the sort of circle of glowing glittering rock he seems less well lit than everybody else all of a sudden. That might be the doctor's theory. Okay. Yeah, it just applies to us because we're not from the Feywild. Maybe. One more little... Maybe it's like a fairy fire
Starting point is 00:45:14 or something. Four hour shift? Well, that'd be... That was two shifts, wasn't it? Hmm. But people are learning spells too, so Some of them stayed up four hours to learn spells. We didn't say that we were doing 12 hours.
Starting point is 00:45:31 Oh, wait. I thought we were doing eight. Oh, you're right. Okay, so we're doing eight. Okay, never mind. That's fine. You have to be at the airport at 10. Alright, yeah, so we tell everybody that thing's out there. It was doing something on the rocks. So if we exit,
Starting point is 00:45:45 be careful. Cause maybe it was trying to make like a little cave, anything. And the energy in the fate wild seems to want to let everybody know we're here. Cool. All right. So what's the first thing?
Starting point is 00:46:03 Should we go fight this lizard thing or at least like stealthily check out the edge of the head of the tunnel we could use the cave as an advantage I know Brian always wants to use that Star Wars trick that we used on the moon
Starting point is 00:46:20 too where you like tie the legs together right and the thing falls over oh yeah last season yeah yeah so we could try that right this thing has long tall legs again the atat it's actually an empire yeah i just get so sick of these star wars all right so everyone's favorite line from star wars just quoting it does that mean we need to get a rope in the hand of our friend in case we want to end up trying that? Yeah, it's right around.
Starting point is 00:46:52 It'd be you or Gus or maybe the both of you. I'm afraid I know birds. What about bird busters? You want to try it? Yeah. So are you, are you leaving your spot in the cave to head closer to the mouth of the cave?
Starting point is 00:47:08 Everybody or a couple of people? What are you doing? I think we need to do it and then we're ready to attack it. Yeah. If, Hey, if, if Gus doesn't set off the,
Starting point is 00:47:16 the, the pink detector, can we stay in the back of the cave? Have Gus just do like some sort of kamikaze rocket out of the cave. See what this thing is like, wait until it passes or something, fly out really fast, take a look at it and then fly back into the cave and tell us exactly what's
Starting point is 00:47:34 going on. Maybe you could lure it or give us an idea of what we're up against. Does that make any sense? First of all, I saw a pink detective open for pansy division in San Francisco, but then I thought pink detector was a, it was a pink detector. Yeah it was a great name um yeah so he can kamikaze out there and get a look that's a good call and as we move around the cave well we don't want to i think
Starting point is 00:47:59 though we had a thing about with gus and his list and we don't want to like be like the word kamikaze has certain certain associations. We don't want to put him in danger. I think you want to add something to my list. Gus Gus, I don't want to put you in danger anymore than any of us are in danger. Thank you. I almost forgot about the list. Can you read me
Starting point is 00:48:19 one more thing from your list? The next thing on your list? Oh, yeah, we haven't gotten into the list in a while. I want to hear the next thing that was from your list. The next thing on your list. Oh yeah. We haven't gotten into the list in a while. I want to hear the next, what was the next thing that was on the list? Uh, let's see. The last thing we talked about on my list is you will suggest I go to my certain death hypothetically.
Starting point is 00:48:33 So it feels like it is my idea or that I am complicit in my own death to some degree. Would you like to hear the next thing? Yes. So this is what I wanted to go back there, but yes, what's the next one? Uh,
Starting point is 00:48:42 we actually, I started saying this and you cut me off. If you like, I could do one after this too okay do two okay there's a lot more uh the next one was when we talk to someone there is a 65 35 chance that we are going to stab them in the middle of the conversation i think those odds have actually changed for the better since i actually put that on the list. Would you like to hear the next one? Yeah. The next one is we don't kill some people.
Starting point is 00:49:08 We stab. It's sometimes better to stab them repeatedly and then ask for favors. One more. One more. That was the arch major Vanderbilt. Yeah. Okay. The next one is tick tock is from a race of death machines.
Starting point is 00:49:24 My third album. I could do this all day, but I know we have stuff to do. Can I tell you two more? Yes. The next one is TikTok sometimes carries me funny. Like I'm doing it wrong? No, just funny. Like you're holding this junk when
Starting point is 00:49:44 you don't need to or something oh sorry it feels strange oh you should tell me I thought I was helping you old frotter mandated reporter this is uncomfortable okay what's the next one can I read you two more no
Starting point is 00:49:57 now I want to hear more about this one more at least this weird touch. The next one is, TikTok loves me. Oh no. Can I read you two more? No. Yes. Two more.
Starting point is 00:50:16 Yes. Okay. No say on my own show. Okay, the next one is, I once hid in Sourboy's robe. He smells like caves under there. You motherfucker. Pretty good. Did I read you two more? Why is it always two?
Starting point is 00:50:32 I was only one. You only read one. There's so many things on this list I get lost in numbers. Guys, this is like my kids. Can I have another peanut butter sandwich? You've had enough. You've had enough truth today, Gus. And then they throw up everywhere. Okay, we're yeah okay we're saying that to me with potato chips in your mouth okay just so you know there's sure a whole lot more on this
Starting point is 00:50:51 list all right we'll come back to it great here i go kamikaze style is what you want me to do like a safety rocket a rocket that fires fast so what do you want me to prioritize not slamming directly into this thing or or going fast go fast just just go out quick take a look at what it is uh and come back and tell us what it is so that we can sort of get a plan together how big what it looks like all right what seems to be if any any recon you can get on it but try not to be seen but fly out quick and see what you can see. Right? All right. Let's get an athletics and a stealth check from Gus.
Starting point is 00:51:31 All right. Let's do stealth first. Stealth. And because he's flying, I'm going to go ahead and give him advantage on this because he's not creating as much noise as any of you would if you were trying to run out. 21 for the stealth. You just see him zip. Athletics to
Starting point is 00:51:54 try to clear whatever might be outside. Not good. That would be like a 6. Alright. You see Gus zip. Are you looking through his eyes or are you looking through tiktok's eyes yeah yeah i'll look through his at the last second you just see this big thigh go and he clocks his head into it he's still up okay um what happens if he dies in the feywild we don't hear the list
Starting point is 00:52:39 oh so who knows what happens if he dies in our world he comes here what happens if he dies in the feywild does he die die well what happens next is he backs up he flies backwards a little bit and he sees what looks like a very very very large bird except instead of a beak it has a toothy maw the whole thing is covered in bright yellow feathers its belly is an exposed green uh and blue leathery flesh and it just sort of cocks his head and looks at what just slammed into its leg and opens its mouth and roars you see a secondary mouth extend from the back of its throat and roar more get the fuck out of there
Starting point is 00:53:29 oh my god make sure you say hamana hamana hamana holy shit let's get a dexterity saving throw from Gus oh my god you're giving me the heebie jeebies uh 15 okay uh You're giving me the heebie-jeebies.
Starting point is 00:53:47 15. Okay. What is Gus's armor class? 13. Okay. So this thing misses. And he manages to not hit the cave as he flies backwards into the mouth of the cave. However, as this thing misses, it cocks its head right level with the cave.
Starting point is 00:54:23 And it just sort of like with its main mouth open, its secondary mouth just starts reaching into the cave and snapping and it shoves its head in. It's going to try to bite gus again god gross can we can we react can we do like cast something on it can we murder it coming in yeah basically uh this attack uh i don't i think this would all just be like what you guys haven't said you're walking towards the cave yet you all said you were waiting for him to kamikaze and trying to get a view of this so you're about 300 feet away um you can start charging down there but uh unless you've got a spell that can go 300 feet you're out of luck i do if you've got a ranged attack also you could do uh i will just go ahead i'll let you know uh this monster did not manage to hit him good um but it was close and he's flying backwards uh let's have everybody
Starting point is 00:55:18 roll for initiative don't tell me what it is right away i gotta prep the map right does it look like the uh does it look like this tongue could keep going if it needed to or does it look like it kind of got extended as far as it's gonna get looks like it got extended about as far as it's gonna get uh but it's but tiktok you're noticing it's extending a solid 10 feet out of its own mouth. I got a 15. Okay. Cool. Wasn't ready for that. So hang on. I'm going to stop.
Starting point is 00:55:47 Oh, you told me as soon as I could. Oh, I actually said, don't tell me. Oh, I thought you said, tell me as soon as you can. I have to get it done for me. I got a 14. That's why I tried so hard.
Starting point is 00:55:56 Oh boy, oh boy. This really went to shit fast. Guys, he doesn't want to know yet. What'd you get, Brian? I'm not telling. Seven, four, sixteen. I'm sorry. It was my fault. I was trying to do a good thing
Starting point is 00:56:10 and actually what happened instead was that I did a bad thing. What'd you get with your rules this time, Sarah? I was trying to help. I won't do it again. I love that. Leave Zoom apologize listeners if i said that
Starting point is 00:56:29 they should just go you'll know if i'm no no i'm sure you didn't okay um no one else misheard only me in my ears okay uh the best part is like when i get flustered like numbers don't work anymore i've been actually having a hard time with numbers i have everything i i don't know i think like i just read one thing about covid and i just like i can no longer use that part of my brain um but uh 14 for how seen would you get i believe it was a 15 yes wonderful I felt like you weren't going to tell me for a second no no no I was just trying to remember please I'm trying to do a good job now and make everyone proud of me oh god
Starting point is 00:57:13 oh my god patting you on the head oh dear lord doctor thank you sir tiktok what did you get I got an 11 doctor what did you get? I got an 11. Darkthroat, what'd you get?
Starting point is 00:57:28 I'm last. 10. Okay, and I feel like you were about to tell me, Guzzes. If you want, I have it. Please tell me. Three! Yike. Hey, whoever kills it has to say, I said no tongues.
Starting point is 00:57:45 Is that a good thing to kill it with? I'm trying to think of like, how do you want to see this thing die? You have to say, I said no tongues. Stick around. All right. So it sort of arches its back down and it starts scooting in the tunnel.
Starting point is 00:58:02 It doesn't fit very well, but it's really trying to get, it's really trying to get one more bite at Gus. So it's going to take another bite at Gus. How about tongs for the memories? Aw, rolled a nine. Tooth around. Right?
Starting point is 00:58:24 Yes. Did I do it right um it is now halfway uh shoved into the tunnel and uh looks like it's slowing down a little bit uh Halcine you're up oh wow just get stuck and die here so is
Starting point is 00:58:39 how close is Gus to it right now Gus is about like right in front of its little extended eel mouth that's coming out 10 feet in front of its own mouth. Okay, because I want to cast something. I don't want
Starting point is 00:58:55 Gus to get hit by it. So um, okay. Well, I assume you're running 30 feet towards. Yeah. This spell has a 300-foot range, so... Okay. I guess I'm running and yelling, Gus, like, move! Come on!
Starting point is 00:59:14 And then if I feel like he gets... It's going to have a 20-foot radius, so as long as I feel that Gus is outside of the radius, then I'm going to cast it. Okay. Okay. I feel like if you get 30 feet in i'm just gonna have you do uh an insight check to try to miss gus okay okay should i just do that then
Starting point is 00:59:39 you gotta beat it you gotta beat a 10 and if you can't beat a 10 then you're gonna be unsure i didn't okay you just don't feel like you can see it enough because it's still between 250 300 feet away all right well i mean i'm not gonna risk it because i especially because i don't know if gus is gonna die so i guess i'm gonna hold my action until gus is out clearly out of range and then i'm gonna going to cast a spell. Can I do that? Yes. Okay. Sounds fun. Creep, you're up.
Starting point is 01:00:15 Oh, I will fire my crossbow. I'd like to see you try. Oh, I will try. What's the range on that crossbow? Let's see. Fifth bow. No, no, I'm sorry. That's the cost.
Starting point is 01:00:32 Where's the range out here? Oh, 100 to 400 feet. All right. So you might be able to do this. Well, I rolled a 20. Hey. Nice. Beautiful. That is a 20. Hey! Nice. Beautiful.
Starting point is 01:00:46 That is a hit. All right. So that is... 6 times 2. So minus 12. All right. Don't you get a bonus? It's a crossbow.
Starting point is 01:01:06 Don't you get your dex bonus on that or something, Creeper? It's raging. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. Yes, so it should be 15 total. I just, because I just bonus it once, right? Yeah. Not double the bonus. No.
Starting point is 01:01:21 Yeah, you double dice, but not the pluses. Correct. And now I attack again, yes? So it's 20 or I just double points? You don't attack again if you get a 20. You have to rage to do that. Got it. All right.
Starting point is 01:01:40 That will bring us up next in the turn order to Darkther. Nope, I am incorrect. It is Dr. Wood. Ooh! Oh, really? Yeah, you got a 12. And is this thing, like, just sort of, like, trying to bite us? By Gus, he's...
Starting point is 01:01:59 Trying to bite us? Yeah, Gus is a couple hundred feet away from you guys. And is it... Does it look like it's going to retract anytime soon and then try to do it again? Or is it just sort of flopping around like an anaconda? Right now, it is shoved in going, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang at Gus.
Starting point is 01:02:15 It could change tactics soon, but it's only been a few seconds of this. Okay. I don't want to... I can't really... I'm just going to charge it. I'm just going to try to get at it. I can't throw anything at it without without hitting gus at this point okay you get 30 feet closer uh
Starting point is 01:02:31 queep you're up no not queep wow i'm really beefing it on the turn order uh tiktok you're finally up um i will uh start like hal, I will start running towards the down the cave hallway, I guess. Do I notice while I'm doing that, does the floor light, is it like Tron? Like, is the magical energy kind of following
Starting point is 01:02:57 us as we're running? Do a perception check, please. Perception. Perception. Fifteen. Okay. a perception check please perception uh 15 okay so uh you notice it's still kind of pooled around where everybody was sleeping however the party members who've started to run away from it you notice they're emitting a glow but it's still glowing back where we were. Has that glow subsided? Not too much.
Starting point is 01:03:28 We're leaving a trail. But we're glowing? Yes, you are glowing. We are. Bodies are glowing. Yes. So we just have some sort of some permanent fairy fire on us while we're in this dimension. Or maybe because of me. Because it's the glow that came
Starting point is 01:03:43 with me. Pretty. I wonder if it helps us. It's like a brand. Or maybe it's armor or some magic thing, because you came through the portal. I don't know what the fuck. We're probably in trouble.
Starting point is 01:03:58 All right. I'll run the 30. I don't know. I don't think I can come into range. You said it's 300? Yeah. Okay, so I will dash. I'll just go 30 and then another
Starting point is 01:04:10 30 on my movement. Just trying to get to Gus. Cool. Oh, hey, can I throw long strider on myself? That increases my rate by 10 feet. It lasts for an hour. I can just make myself super fast.
Starting point is 01:04:29 Yeah, sure. Cool. Instead of just running. Sorry, Chris. I didn't mean to. That dash reminded me. Oh, okay. Great. It's been a while since we heard about Longstrider. Well, sit down. I ran into him the other day
Starting point is 01:04:44 at Yankee Doodles we were sitting six feet away from each other watching Buster Scruggs finally right now oh yeah I love Buster Scruggs it's so good we're making our way through slowly pretty dark pretty dark stuff but in the in the
Starting point is 01:04:59 I think it's the second to last one the one with the caravan we're only like two thirds of the way through. She's in the second to last one, the caravan one. She's in the trailer too, but my friend Taya Lux, who was the voice of Lolth in the last campaign.
Starting point is 01:05:18 Oh, cool. You see her briefly yell at her kid for playing with a stick or something uh in that movie uh yeah keep your eyes peeled for lolth uh she says like what are you why are you playing with that stick stop doing that and then uh her part is done um but she's in a coen brothers movie how could you argue with that there's just gonna be uh dargther turn and uh gus turn on this turn order hey dark what are you up to these days oh uh aren't we close to okay cool i was gonna try to finish the turn order all right we could we could talk about it for a few minutes and then just pick it up next time no i'm running then
Starting point is 01:05:58 how far away are we but 300 feet all right yeah, okay. Well, I'm trying to get there as fast as I can and stealthily. Great. Oh, stealthily. Well, hugging the wall and hiding. You're glowing and yeah. Not a lot of cover, not a lot of ways to stealth. Yeah. But you're running towards the action.
Starting point is 01:06:19 And TikTok, what would you like Gus to do? I want him to... I don't like that this thing tried to take a cheap shot, bite at him. So even though he's flying away, he has a stinger on the end of his tail. Uh huh. You can take a cheap stinger shot on his nose.
Starting point is 01:06:39 I don't want to sting him in that fucking ugly mouth is what I want. Roll to attack. All right. I hope we're about to see Lil Gus butt stinger a fucking fairy dinosaur in the nose. 15. Pull up his
Starting point is 01:06:57 AC. You needed a 15. Yay! Let's do this. Yeah. Stings him right in his gross mouth. Ooh. Does the maximum six piercing damage. And the thing must, the creature must now succeed a DC 11 constitution saving throw. This is going to be funny.
Starting point is 01:07:20 Oh my God. It rolled a two and it's bonus to constitution is 3, so it got a 5. Dan, that thing is now poisoned. If it fails by 5 or more, did it fail by 5 or more? What did it need? An 11. So, did it roll under? Oh, it got a 5, my
Starting point is 01:07:38 dude. Oh shit, Dan. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the target falls unconscious for the same duration. Awesome. How long is it poisoned? How long is it poisoned? The saving throw.
Starting point is 01:07:57 Oh, poison. Unconscious for one hour. So it falls unconscious for one hour or until it takes damage or another creature uses an action to shake it awake we can eat it in an hour on that note the giant tyrannosaurus sized feathered lizard shudders and goes and collapses completely corking shut the cave uh hey sam hi sweet children what do you think happened this episode first off thank you for asking oh you're welcome uh in case you doubt my review of this game that everything is
Starting point is 01:08:32 doors even tiktok is a door today we went to the feywild where we took a rest uh and i have a question about rest um when we stopped does the game continue like if like if someone found us they could just come up and put their hands in our mouths or something while we're sleeping? Well, you know, Chris's character Tick Tock was on watch to try to stop people from sticking hands in everyone's mouths specifically. But he does it instead. Sarah went rogue and answered Dan's questions at her own whims.
Starting point is 01:09:01 We're all glowing like the water does in Long Beach one week every year. And then sweet, sweetus helped us out oh yeah that was the most efficient use of gus's offensive abilities that we have seen in this 70 some episode campaign uh anything you want to plug dan uh i'm on streaming things with my comedy please buy it to remind yourself of what live performance was like uh gimme metal i'm every tuesday grandpa's metal stash uh join uh it's a lot of fun and then uh grandpa metal my album, and the videos are available on YouTube at PosainTheBand is my channel.
Starting point is 01:09:51 I think that's it. Hmm. Cool. Anything Blaine going on with me and Stacy Keech? Me and Stacy Keech are running the Toyotathon in Cerritos on Thursday.
Starting point is 01:10:08 We're the Grand Marshal, so we'll be out front. Is that a hands-on Toyota, too? Do you have that contest going on? No, there's a trampoline thing, like a slam dunk contest. And if you can get over a car and then get get the thing i we're not supposed to talk about it all right i just hope nobody gets hurt me too anybody else thanks for listening thanks for listening to another episode of nerd poker you can follow us at patreon.com slash nerd poker and, and you get bonus episodes from there.
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