Not Another D&D Podcast - Eldermourne - Ep. 29: Sirenloch

Episode Date: July 16, 2021

The Third Mates attempt to quell a Horror uprising in West Precinct! Fia hatches an escape plan, Henry goes dad-mode on the Necrophone, and Zirk says goodbye. Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to get access to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content!Music / Sound Effects Include:"Underwater" by Scratchikken at Freesound.org. "A Wizard's Tournament" by Emily Axford."Broken Heart Banshee" by Emily Axford."Bonkginya, Fia Bonkginya" by Emily Axford."Drained" by Emily Axford."Spooky Shafts" by Emily Axford."Gunvar" by Emily Axford."Montgomery Manor" by Emily Axford."A Fate Refused" by Emily Axford."Buzzer's Cutters" by Emily Axford."Demi-God" by Emily Axford."Hardwon Takes the Wheel" by Emily Axford."Eldermourne" by Emily Axford.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Ready to go get him in a jacket made of denim. Ah. Oh no wait, did you also have a denim rhyme? Oh no, I actually don't have any denim rhyme. Don't get tangled in those tassels, everybody. And the zippers, that's someone else's jacket. And then, of course, Emily Axford. Okay, now I just really want to pivot and do a denim rhyme.

Okay, I'm going to do my original one, and then I'm also going to do a denim rhyme. Please do a denim rhyme, because I don't do a denim rhyme. Okay, hand of callus, blade of malice, the princess of a popper's palace, fia bulgina, I can't believe you almost pivoted just to a denim rhyme I'm also going to do a denim rhyme blade of venom and dressed in denim fio boginia Okay, pivot better than I prepared This is really fucked up because my rhyme featured both venom and denim so

Wow This is really fucked up because my rhyme featured both Venom and Denom, so... Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't do that. Wow. You know what? We're just gonna go ahead and skip Caldwell this week. I think maybe just skip me this time. Can I just do a pass? Yeah, just pass. We'll just pass him. Uh, no. No, no. We can't do that. This is mandatory. Of course, then we've got Caldwell Tanner. Um, gotta go get him. So we can make the Den, zerk for vein. Fuck.

Oh, dude. You flooded it. You had a chance. You had a chance to pivot. Did you just cut out the like 10 minutes of silence where I think of that though, please? Yeah. Got it. Don't make it seamless.

Yeah, it seemed like he just jumped right in. All right, guys. Let's go ahead and do a little recap. So last time you saw a Vervein Labs go into lockdown after it was discovered that parts of the necrophone were missing. You intercepted quick blast cast Callaway as she fled the scene and she told you

that everything had gone to shit inside. The rich people were all blaming each other for the crisis and they were planning to teleport the lab out of West precinct. You asked if there was another way to get in and she told you about a series of smuggling tunnels beneath the Aereos Estate. Quick blast, then left and Batilda followed with tab, off to find a lust grart to get back up should there be a large-scale horror attack. You headed to the Areos estate and Fiya used Mier's Loves magic money to distract the guards.

Wow, thank you for honoring Mier's Loves the Master. Allowing you access to the seller along the way Hank had some troubling revelations, just looting that his time with Izzy was mostly a result of rebellion, and that his gene jacket might not have been as cool as he thought it was. You ventured into the area of seller and found a secret door. You sent Shank through to investigate where you found the remains of big wrecks and little wrecks, clearly murdered by Moxora and Cain. Following that path, Shank eventually came upon a strange horror,

with a flaming skull who turned out to be Walder Loch Nemore, Braden Kenley's deceased lover from a millennia ago. Walder was not outwardly antagonistic, but was under some form of control and would not let anyone pass the hallway. Shank went back to the others and he formulated a plan after Fiya and Philip reconciled. Over what we don't know, Philip, this kind of dick. That's growth for Philip. He's my dick. That's true.

After Fiya and Philip reconciled, she learned to remove curse and you set forth to face Walder, Zirk managed to get his attention with the painted map that Kenley drew you and Fiya was able to cast the spell and free him from ox or us control. Walder then led you to the room that he was guarding a small makeshift lab. After inspecting a wall of water leading into the lake, you noticed a necrophone at the bottom in a protective bubble. Before you could do anything, the necrophone began ringing, sending the chronic sound waves through the water and awakening strange creatures inside of it.

Fiya dimensioned her and Henry there as the creature swarmed the bubble, and that's where we are now. Ooh, okay. Okay. Situations. So we're in like a little scuba bubble thing. So, Fiya and Henry, you are in this air bubble

with the necrophone. It looks like a high-tech gramophone with a horn blowing and enchanted sound wave into the water. You see a crank to the side of it is moving all on its own. It looks like it was magically triggered or is being controlled from afar

with some kind of spell. You see faces in the water all around you, the strange horrors awakening in the lake. Zirk, you are in the makeshift lab with Walder. You watch your friends from the wall of water and see them quickly become obscured as the water itself seems to come to life and begin moving in strange patterns. Let's start with Fia and Hank because I feel like you guys show up, you see all this stuff, hearts are racing, what do you guys do? Okay, Mr. Henry, do you think that we should just, obviously there is this contraption, we can try to stop it, I've seen it taken apart.

So I actually know the machinery pretty well, but should we just fuck up this fucking protective bubble? To try to flood the machine. Interesting. We got to shut it up somehow. I guess that's my question. Can I do like an insight on this uh earn our conno on this Protective bubble. Yeah, go ahead and make an arcana check. 19 on the dice plus three from my Vidalcan thing plus seven. So that's gonna be 29. Wow. Yeah, you think a dispel magic would certainly do it.

It's just a spell. I do have not learned a spell magic. Then. But you couldn't like, I just attack it with your hammer. No, it looks like it's some kind of spell. Okay, I turn to Mr. Henry and I say, actually, this can only be undone by magic and I do not know the spell. Great. So let's just fuck up this microphone. Let's just try to, let me try to turn the crank in reverse just to see that's a bit on-duz the magic. Sweet, quick little rewind. Go ahead and make a strength check.

You're working against somebody else's arcana. Can I give her the help action? I can, I actually give Mr. Henry the help action. Sweet, Hank, you go to grab the lever and try to pull it in the opposite direction. There's just hands everywhere. Who's helping who? We don't even know. Fias helping you. Do I roll with advantage? 24.

Hank, you pull back against the lever and the magic is too strong and you feel your arm continue to go with it spinning in a circular direction. I'm not doing it. I'm trying to pull it the other way. And you do it here. BEEP. Okay. Can I hit it with the lance? Can I, the guy's arm?

Can I hit it with my guys arm? Go ahead and make an attack action. That's only a 10. A 10. A 10 is not going to do enough to damage it. You slash into it. You see it's got this like big metal carapace surrounded, protecting the parts. and you do not damage it immediately

I think my second attack yeah go for it 16 16 is gonna hit oh my good lord seven damage seven damage okay You do you look like this is having an effect on it. It looks like it's having an effect, yeah. He's starting to fuck up the machine. Hank, you jam the guy's arm into it. You're able to get through some of the metal on the outside, and you hear some malfunctions going on inside of it, but it's still making sounds. I'm going to go into full on dad mode and just be like, Torn this damn thing down.

Action surge. Take two more attacks. Sweet. That is a 14 to hit. That's gonna hit. And the 15 to hit. Both hit. Great. Oh, that's 18 damage on the first.

Wow. Nice. Nice. 10 damage on the second. So it's 28 damage. 28 damage, geez. Fiat, you see, you guys are both trying to wrestle this crank, but you are competing against,

it seems like Moxor left behind some kind of like trigger spell, essentially, where if anybody comes near it or if anybody comes into the lab, it starts going off, so you're competing against her magic. So you guys try to fight against the strength of the spell, you're able to do it eventually just a fuck it and start stabbing into it Hank with the first hit with the guys arm you crack into the protective metal casing You crack it open and you're just able to start stabbing into it you stab into it Eventually you hear the thing starting to slow down

Until it sputters it has been disarmed. Okay, disarmed by the guys armed. Okay, so it is no longer sending out this message. It is no longer sending out this message. The hoars that were awakened are still awake, but each ding seemed to be awakening more, so you have prevented more from popping up, so that's a good thing.

But you guys do see, as you destroy the device, it magically triggers the protective bubble to break. You see the air bubble around you bursts as water spirits begin to swarm you. Zirk, you're watching this from the transparent wall of water when suddenly the illusion breaks and the wall in front of you turns to stone Everybody go ahead and roll initiative. What?

I was turning to water and saying I think they probably got it figured oh no Oh no, it's no not good 18 I rolled a one filthy 20 Zirk you are first you see this wall in front of you suddenly pops up. You saw them destroy it from afar. You also, you saw spirits in the water and you saw the bubble burst. But yeah, you've got this wall in front of you right now.

You are first. Okay. Yep. I will do a big burst with my gun. So wait, I think I might have something perfect for this occasion. I'm going to draw my pistol and aim it at the wall and just unload a clip to try and hopefully create a little bit of a hole that will with the increased pressure of the water create a bigger hole. Yeah, you get the

sense that this is going to be a very thick stone wall. However, you're right on. If you can do some damage to it, it will burst a hole into it. Yep. Gonna reverse Dutchboy this. Don't know what that means. What's Dutchboy? You know the little Dutchboy who sticks his finger in the dam.

Right. Oh. Okay. You never heard of a reverse Dutchboy? I say this to Walder. I, you see, just skull aflame. I never know what you people are talking about. The curse has been restored.

Oh yeah, also this Walder, I have like a big sword. Oh, Walder is going to, Walder is low in the initiative, but he looks, he just starts fucking pounding on it with his fists He's gonna break through it. Okay, certainly cool I'm pretty use I'm gonna use my new ability on my hot cold pistol Called quick draw Yeehaw, which will hopefully allow me to get some extra shots in on the wall sweet Yes, the way quick draw Yeehaw works is you take an attack action and then with a bonus action You can keep shooting until you miss you get a minus one on the attack roll each

Time after the first one and you only add a d8, but you could potentially hit like 10 times I would like to hit 10 times sweet So Zirk takes the first shot big burst of energy go ahead and make it a tackle. Okay My pistol bonus is pretty good. 16, 16 is gonna be enough to do damage, go ahead and roll your damage. Nice, that's gonna be 14 damage. 14 damage, Zirk, you make a crack in the wall

with this big burst of energy, and then you just start devil-made care, charging it up with magical power, and just flicking the trigger back and forth, hoping to shoot as much as possible. Lots of energy bursts begin shooting out. Ah! Yes, yes.

See ya, Hank, I'm coming. Go ahead. You'll be here this at all. You will begin to see like stones coming off the outside and everything, for now you don't. You guys are a hundred feet away under water. In bubbles, I say, we might not be here when you get here. Yeah!

Zerko, go ahead and take your shots. Nice, okay. So the way this works is I'm going to use my bonus action and I'm going to take a follow-up shot, but I have to take a negative one penalty to my attack. Right. That probably won't matter because that's going to take a negative one penalty to my attack. Right. That probably won't matter, because that's going to be a 26, so 25. So just keep shooting until you miss, so we'll count the shots and then we'll do the D8 to the end.

Okay, that's one hit. So next shot, that's going to be, uh, fuck, uh, 16 minus 2, uh, 14. Okay, 14 is not going to be enough to do damage, unfortunately. So, uh, you miss on the, so you get two shots. I happen to when you miss with a bullet. No, it's not about missing. It's about you shoot and the gun kind of overcharges and jam is up. You get two big bursts. Normally you don't get to add your modifier to quick draw, Yehaw, but I'll say on the last shot, it'll always add your modifier

just so you don't just shoot once and lose your once a day thing for nothing. So go ahead and do your damage with your modifier for that one. Thank you, Brian. That's gonna be 12 more damage. Nice. You see that you've put a pretty significant crack

into this one part of the wall. Built of these big stones that if you can break up like one part of that wall, water will start to pour in. These are big tunnels that will take a while for them to flood. You guys could definitely flee through here and they could definitely fit if you can keep doing damage. And Walter will definitely do it on his turn. Will they eventually flood Edgar's basement though?

That's important to me. They will definitely. Yeah important to me they will have to know what Ashley Lake Vodder combined with wine would be wine elemental certainly awesome what the shit in his living room yeah yeah no this is yeah silently vicious to have a vine elemental acid companion this this flooding is terrible for his property value. Awesome. So you can take solace in knowing that. As Tidewood Zerk on initiative 20, the lair action happens.

That's the area. And Hank, both of you guys give me strength saving throws as you feel the water itself is like trying to grab you and choke you, like physically drown you. It's trying to like hold you down. Perfect. 21 for FIA. Passes? Nice.

22 for Hank. Passes. FIA, that is your turn. Mr. Henry, I think we need to just get back into that tunnel. I grab Mr. Henry and Redo mentioned door back. Whoa! Sweet! Oh, you need to be able to see. To Dim. Nope. You can just describe a place. Wow. Okay. That's why. Yeah. Did we come back just like soaked and waterlogged? Oh, yeah

Die wall die Stop shouting it. You see sir. Cerk is going absolutely all out just blasting wall, and you see Walder's just like pounding into the wall. No, we will not lose. More place. This wall is our greatest foam! The wall yields. I spit up the hand of a water elemental, and I just say, Mr. Henry,

is that what the sea is like ever angry and trying to strangle you? I spit up a guppy and I say no it's usually a little more like this. Look at this cute little guy. I you see gonna go to the real big. You see the little guppy lunges for your neck? Oh the dimension door this thing out of here. You see Walder takes his anger that was on the wall and grabs the guppy and just starts punching it into the ground No, I take it. I put it in like one of those little carnival bags Is it attack the bag? It's real pass. I really think that what has been done to it will pass and it's some day

It will be a beautiful pet. Yeah, this is an this is an undead beta fish You see yeah, Walder tried to crush it, but his fists were too big and it just slipped in between the knuckles, and it's fine. I think like a wine bag that was from the wine basement. Yeah, one of his fronzea boxes. He had one box of fronzea.

It just bears its horrible little teeth and tries to bite into the bag. This is my new favorite pet that we have. Oh my God, I run that beta finish. I like put it on like a little bindle. Keep Spoonie away from that thing. So yeah, so you guys are behind this wall now and you know the lake is sentient now full of monsters.

I don't think that we can fight every single creature here. I think we have to get the twilightium and get out of here. That's my wanderer There might be something we could do. It's a man-made lake. I don't know if we could try and train it or like filter the water out via one of the locks, but I don't know we got to get out of here We got to get to the lab first and foremost. I've already there filtering the water out via a lock We just send them into other less fortunate cities. Can we take swings at this wall and let it crumble behind us and flood as we, as we, yeah, try to, try to get some of these guys in at least into the tunnels here?

It's pretty tough. I shot it two times. I don't know if you're going to be able to do anything. to do anything. Fiya swings that are blade at it. Ah, yeah. Immediately just dents your sword. I'll say if you guys are going to- Okay, actually impressive. If you guys are going to take the time to beat on the stone wall, I'm not going to make you guys roll for it.

Between Zurc, Fiya, Hank, and Walder, you guys are able to pound a hole into the wall. You see water begins pouring in, and with it you see like lesser water elementals and water weirds and things like in the water, and water goes, if you wanted to go, now might be the time. Yes, you're going to run, but if you could maybe sort of like direct them towards the vine sellers so that we might make a vine elemental. I would be much obliged.

I will lead them. And he begins running off one way down the hallway. Cheers. Before we go, can we say that while we were taking cracks at the wall, I just wanted to do a quick inspection to see if I can find anything incriminating in this room that might tie Edgar Arias to all of the dark shit that's going on down here. Interesting. Go ahead and give me a investigation check.

That's gonna be another filthy 20. I got some dirty little piggy dice today. Filthy 20. Yeah, you find what Moxora and Kane were using to, because you saw that they were able to kind of use the secret wing of these smuggling tunnels. You find maps of all of the tunnels under West Pre-Sync. And they're pretty obviously emanating from Edgar

Arias' estate, and Hank, you can see that some of the stuff is in his hand, certainly. I look over the shoulder to see which tunnels lead out of the city, and if they any of them extend beyond the city, or just go to a forest that is hidden. Yeah, you see that there's one going to the lab, obviously. And yeah, there's one that goes out of the forest into like an abandoned well that is in like a patch of forest near where the mountains would be to like zelbaldar and stuff. Yeah, if we could send these horrors to like a quarry, a horror quarry, that would be really great.

So I'm gonna see, like, you guys don't have a lot of time to plan. Let me know what you guys are doing. Or else we're gonna have to roll and dissapear. No, I think we need to get to the lab. I think we need, I was thinking for ourselves, for escaping, but we have the steed, maybe this way. Yeah, I think that we just let this room fill up

and we gotta get ourselves to the lab. So it's good. Great. All right, so you guys see, you guys send Walder off in one direction and you guys literally see as you rush through the tunnels and hear the sound of water rushing behind you, you guys exit the side tunnel,

you guys take a right and run down this main hall with the magical torches that were all lit up to light the path to the lab. And as you guys take a right, Walder takes a left and begins heading the other way towards like the Aereos estate. You see the water literally splits as if like sentience, not just water pouring in, but like chasing you as like these like fish like

zombies start to come up out of the water like fish, humanoid zombie hybrids. Did they want their beta back? I clutch my little bindle of my new little friend and I just keep running. Sweet, you can take this fish from our cold dead fingers. We know you're coming for the fish! Brother! The water snakes down the tunnel after you guys as you run. The fish is gnawing on the bag. Should we be worried about that? No, he just wants to go back to the sea. I just, I double bag fish.

We're returning him to the ocean. It's like a thick burlap sack and it's biting through it. This horror baby fish. You will come around on us, this I know. As you guys rush through, This horror, baby fish. You will come around on us, this I know. As you guys rush through, you guys eventually see what you can assume leads up to the lab. You see a ladder leading up to some kind of hatch.

There's the hatch. Okay. Should we resume our classic climbing order? Yes. Yes. I believe it is. Fia climbs far ahead of everyone and I go second. Shank goes below Zirk. Yep, we put me and Bjorn in Shank and then we

just climb right up. Can I just do like a little bit of a visor kind of like making sure I know these soft dresses into tricky magic. Yep. I'm getting a feel for her magic and trying to sniff her out. It has like a heavy incense smell to it. So I'm looking for some kind of magical essence here. Go ahead and make an arcana check. That is a Tvantivon. Feel solid. You would imagine it's not an illusion.

OK, I was more worried about traps, but OK, cool. Let's fucking beat feet and do it sweet. So shank is summoned now. Yeah, below Don't let go of me don't let go of me shank the be your and his cursed It's cursed sir. I like you talk to Zork about the curse. Yep. I'm your burden now. I'm your curse. Fia has been climbing, but then takes her hands off of the ladder, so she's just standing on it to clap. And Grisha ain't comes out. How did you have? That's me.

The core strength is just insane. She's horizontal. He's from sneezing a lot with all the dusty books. Yeah. Insane. You guys climb up. You open the hatch. And guys, go ahead and give me perception or insight checks. You see that it is dark beyond the hatch.

Shout out to the two crew. Oh, 18. I got a 22. Rad. Two crew for Fiya. She's just giggling at shank. Look up. But old man shank is so funny.

So you guys open the hatch and Fiya, you climb up, zerk and hank, you follow behind. The hatch closes behind you guys and you guys find yourselves in a small dark container. You remember being in the inner lab and seeing these giant test tubes with metal grates over them to keep the horrors in. And it looks like the secret path into the lab spits out into one of these giant test tubes and that's where you find yourself now.

It looks like there was essentially like a false one that could hide amongst all the other ones. So you are probably in a pretty good hiding space. You guys also hear loud banging coming from the other tubes like the other horrors or live and trying to get out. Yep, it did its job pretty well. I'll say, Fia, you're distracted by like the loud sounds of banging. You may be feeling a little claustrophobic, but

Zirk and Hank with your perception checks. You hear some voices above all the clanking, above all the metal slamming. You hear Stella Vervein sounding kind of nervous going, Look, look, why do we gotta tie me up we're business associates sometimes deals go bad we gotta roll with the punches you told me to build this fucking thing anyway your mom found the lines arc she's living in it and you hear Carlisle lock no respond, and you hear him go, I did not tell you to give up the parts or the blueprints.

These people are dangerous, and we could have used them. Instead, it's we who were used, and someone is going to go down for it. And after a moment, you guys hear the sounds of like the automatic door going up that you guys recognize the sound. As somebody else is entering the inner lab, and you hear somebody who sounds like a guard go, Sir, your wife is asking about your son. And you hear Carllyle goes, young Carlyle safe and secure in this very lab.

And the guy goes, no, no, the other one. You hear him sigh and he goes, full boy. All right, I'll talk to her. And you hear steps and you hear the sounds of the door closing. Oh boy.

With your perception checks, I'll say they double a sort of insight checks. You guys can imagine that there are a few guards in here. You wouldn't think it's overrun because you probably would have heard more people shuffling or you would have heard more noise other than just the banging. But you know Stella's tied up. You think it's unlikely they'd lever in here by herself. Um, but it sounds like the main kind of player Carlisle has gone. Gosh, Carlisle and Stella deserve each other, don't they? Yeah.

Look, we gotta get out of here before my son tries to make himself a hero. Okay. Well, we need to get the twilight room and then we can get out of here. Okay. Do you know where it is, Mr. Reserve? There's an item cloning machine next to the demystifier in my mom's office. It should still be there. Okay.

Before we go, I'm not thinking straight. I don't know what to do with Stella. So, whatever you think is best, I'll follow your lead I mean I will defer to mr. Henry, but my instinct is she has made her bed here and She will probably find a way out of the punishment somehow, but it may be is not yours to trouble with anymore You're right It's hard. She'll always be a part of who I am, but I think I need to try my best to leave that part behind.

And hey, they're trying to, Zirk, they're trying to pin this whole thing on her. She, she fucked up, but she's not, she's not the only person behind this operation. She got duped. She got set up. She shouldn't take the fall for everybody. I don't think she should get off scot free, but it seems like a little harsh. We can also do this, yes. It is, like I said, it is not my decision to make and I think you should think about what

you need. Thanks, right. We can't just leave her to take the fall for everything, but I say we leave it a chance, but maybe nudge it in our favor. And while we're hidden, when he used the magic mouth spell to narrate a little note, and I put it on the map to Braden Kinley's manner. Okay. And I want to, as we go, give her that and then leave.

Okay, well let me describe, I guess, what you guys see. So you guys do find that there's like a crack in the glass here that looks like it's a door that you can like push through. You guys crack it open and you see, you guys are are in a I'm gonna say by default in a sort of hidden spot. I'm not gonna make you roll stealth checks until you make your moves. You guys are coming up from a secret passage so you are by default a little bit hidden. You guys are off to the side in the corner of the room in the sort of auditorium that leads down and you guys are in the

outer ring at the highest most level on the opposite side of the room from the door And in the middle down in like the pits You see Stella is tied up with three Loch Nemore slash area scards around her. Okay, and she's trying to sweet talk them look look What do you what's your rank cuz I can get you I can get you higher What do you sergeant I can make you a lieutenant are do you charge it? I can make you a lieutenant. Are you a lieutenant? I can make you a captain.

You a captain? Ah! I'll down make you a king! Ha ha ha! Captain Tuking, classic trajectory. Ha ha ha ha! Oh, she's really lost her edge. Um, yeah, I'm really rethinking this plan,

but no, I think... Tell you what, sir. I'm gonna make this easy on you. I gotta ask these guards... Where where the hell Carlisle went. I gotta find out if my son's in trouble. If we end up having to kick their asses, that's gonna be okay for your mom and it's a decision that you didn't have to make,

and it doesn't feel like you're letting her off the hook. I might have to personally ask you guys as a favor to me to kick the shit out of these guns. That's just a quick little trip to go get the Tvileria. I have a way to keep it safe. If you feel confident going alone, I could cast invisibility on myself, but I won't be invisible on my way back. Okay, we'll try to make this quick and we'll meet you on your way out. Here, as Fia goes, I will cast Kat's grace on her to give her advantage on dexterity checks.

My long limbs. I'm a little more elegant. I take out this long stick of magical grease paint and I just draw whiskers on her face. We are delighted. I haven't had face paint put on me since the Reaper Festival. That sounds about right. Sweet. Henry, if you can get me close to my mom, I'll help you take out these guards.

Let's blow up a little steam and see what we can do. I would love nothing more. Sweet, everybody go ahead and roll initiative again. All right. Okay, all right, that's a 17. 16 for free, so I already cast invisibility on myself. You know, I don't know initiative. That's a 19 for Zirk.

So Zirk, you are first. I sneak up from the shadows towards these guards and I'm going to grab a vial of something that looks corrosive off of one of the desks in here. Sweet. Sneak up and try and cast acid splash on two of the guards. Oh my God. Sir, just an insane assassin just shows up

and finds somebody puts a hand around their mouth and pours a beaker of acid on them. All right, so I'm thinking we put them in a sleeper. Oh, sir. This is the great thing about my mom's place. There's always beakers of acid around. What do they have to roll? Oh, two creatures within range that are within five feet of each other. I imagine that applies.

Yes, certainly. Cool. They both need to make a dexterity saving throw. Shout out to the two crew, first one fails. Shout out to the five guys. Shout out to five guys, Ray Burgers. The unofficial sponsor for this episode. Cool. So they're both going to take 2d6 plus five acid damage. Whoa, nice, you might take them out.

These guys are not strong. 12 damage to each of them. Thank you, see. Zirk pours acid over two of these guys, and they both just, oh no! Oh, I'm leaving to the question! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Moving to the question, then.

There's one left. They literally like melt away and drop. Um, two of them are gone. Dead. I turned to my mom. What the fuck was in this speaker? I turned to circle to the one of you. You gotta ask that before you pour it on somebody, Zirky!

You never do that. You never taught me to do that. That's what I think I don't normally pour acid on people. Oh, come on, never. All right, I'm happy to see you. It's nice to see you. Yeah, we'll talk. Good evening.

Yeah, Hank, get over here. Hank, that's your turn. OK, I'm going to come out from the shadows. Can I put Shank right in front of me just to try to really freak this guard out? Yeah. She's the other two guys get doused in acid. acid yeah I guess so he'd probably already be freaking out and now a ghost version of me says to him where is Carlisle Alachnomort

he's in the other he's in the lab he's in the lab he's in the lab man what do do you want for me? Where is his son? The sun's in the sun. What's son man the old one the older one the old one's out man He's out should we melt him should we melt him? Let's not melt him He's in the town man Let's not melt them Run run away before my friend melts you run away Drop you weapon as he turns to Ron. It does occur to you that he's gonna be out in the main lab

Okay, don't run don't run you if you run you're done We got I'm gonna tie him up. I'm gonna tie him up. Yeah, okay, don't run, don't run. You, if you run, you're done. We got, I'm gonna tie him up. I'm gonna tie him up. Yeah, Zerke, don't melt him. Do not melt him. Sorry, I'll say you. I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give it to us.

I'm gonna give it to you. I'll say you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you.

I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. I'm gonna give it to you. So you really just hoping to melt the armor off, but jeez are easily able to tie him up great We will cut over to Fia during the chaos you are able to Invisibly exit the room had they not taken out these guards They would have noticed when you know the door just opened for no reason and somebody was going in and out

Luckily for you it seems like magical spells can be cast inside the lab, they just break when they go in or out of the main lab if that makes sense. They go beyond the barrier. I think as I'm leaving, maybe I say meet me at the steed like I kind of whisper it. And I'll pay you. We just hear guys screaming. Like I kinda whisper it. And I'll pay you. We just hear guys screaming. I'm sure they heard this. Fiat, you see in the outer lab here in the main area,

you see that a lot of people have gathered up. It looks a lot like the crowd at the fundraiser, like people in top hats and surcoats, hoop dresses, like they were all, it seems like a lot of these people were evacuated in the middle of like fancy dinners. Oh, they're here to, yes, I see. Yes, they're like evacuated, like it is packed in here. It is full of people, but you look around and you don't see a lot of like laborers, you

know that there are, you know, people who work at the tavern, people who work at the inn, people who work down at the docks, just like kind of working class people do not look like they were tipped off. But you do see a few people running in from outside and guards letting them in. And this new batch of people,

they're wearing regular clothes like they look like they were maybe dock workers or something They're all like soaked from coming in from the rain as those people are ushered in You see Carlisle lock Nymor pushes past a bunch of people Uh, and he goes Lock those damn doors. We don't have room. The more we change the weight of the lab, the more chances of the teleport failing, no one gets in. And you see, Izzy, Hangsex's wife, is being held back by her father at her Areos, and she's shouting like hysterically. And she's like, he's still out there, Carlisle.

Our shot is still out there! Can I cast message to easy yeah? And say my name is fear Vogueenia, and I will save your boy tell me where he is You see she goes from being hysterical being like held back by her by her father and kind of like Shushed by all the people around her as if if it's ridiculous that she doesn't want Hank Jr. to die or doesn't or cares that Hank Jr. is going to die. I also say just scream out loud where he is and I will guarantee you on the heart of my dear book for that I will keep him safe. This means nothing to you, but everything to me.

She goes from screaming to like a moment of hearing this voice in her head, you know, she knows that magic exists in the world but it's still like strange for her so she still, you know, sits with it for a second, looking kind of shocked, but then starts screaming again, like almost like projecting to you, going, he's still out there. He was going out to the outer edges of town. He was going to the town square, trying to evacuate people. We need to let him in.

And then I say one last thing, and I say, give me something that is important to him, that he will know that I have your trust. What song did you sing to him as a babe? You see, she suddenly bursts into song, and as her father's pulling her back, like, just into like a back office, like pulling her away and Carlisle was like, take her away, she's hysterical! Get a hold of yourself! You hear her singing a C-shanty.

Hank, do you have an old C-shanty that Hank. Do you have an old C-shanty that you had taught Hank Jr. when he was a little kid? Yeah, there's gotta be one. You want me to come up with it off the top? I thought you had written one. A long time ago. Had you not?

I did, but it was sort of a, all right, yeah, no, I got one. You have it. Yeah, so the, the, here we go. Be calm. That's C431 days. Our sales hang limp and the wind don't blow far from home and the docks and the quays eating the rats that we've pulled from the hold. Thanks to illa canry cursed sailor, why wide we bring on this voyage he Ilok Henry wretched omen he shan't be allowed to put to see Henry Jr. Learned the song that the sailors made about me I think Hank you're not there in this moment, but fia

You hear is he shouting this and you get the sense that maybe this was like a playful thing that Hank Jr. and is he would sing to Hank? He's Henry. Yeah. Oh. Okay, if I have to find him on my own, I will use this as proof that his mother approves of his SNS. Yes. And just to be clear, I don't want to make it seem like, like, F Fia you don't get the sense that like oh Is he's actually a great person she actually was just like brainwashed or something. It's like no She's still bad. She just doesn't want her. She just doesn't want her. She's a good guy. Yeah. Yeah, she's a bad person. Yeah, Cersei Lannister

Yeah, she cares about she and hers Okay, so I take this information. I can find young Mr. Henry and then I try to use the commotion of easy to slip into Stella's office. Awesome, you are easily able to do that. You follow Zerks instructions and you see next to the demystifier that you had seen the bell in that printed out all of this info and everything. You see this item cloner that almost looks like a microwave or something. It has this glass screen on the outside and this metal bar where you can pull

at it and open it up. It is this big apparatus. You very slowly crack it open, you reach inside and you feel this large, twillidium gem, like this big stone. Is there, okay, I have a very complicated plan right now. Is there a window in this office? Yeah, there's windows, there's windows everywhere. Okay, and it looks like I'll be able, there's no like force field around this, right? There's force fields everywhere, yeah.

But force field that I can't get out or? Yeah, I'll say with an invisibility, you'll still need to do like a slight of hand or something to not get it closed on you. I'm not going to have my invisibility. Okay, yeah, then you'll have to do a stealth. Okay. But you will have advantage on the role.

I will have advantage. Okay, so what I would like to do is I would like to cast a wrist pocket on I would like to touch the twilight And cast a wrist pocket which hides the item in a pocket dimension sweet So if you have almost like a magician you do like a sleight of hand you grab the twilight in and Disappears into your hands to another dimension and then we're gonna cut back over to Hank and Zirk with Stella. Stella's all tied up in the middle of this room here, and she goes,

Zerke, you came back, you came to your senses, you're gonna break me out! No! What? Hank, Hank, you came to your senses, you're gonna break me out! Yeah, I did come to my senses, that much is true. And I don't know what they're gonna do to you here.

They're gonna bring me to the capital and then they're gonna execute me. Okay, well that seems pretty bad. Yeah. It's the worst thing they could do. I know you've always got away getting out of these things. You're slippery and slying away that I could never be. And I thought that maybe I needed that. I thought that was something I could aspire to, something that I could never be. And I thought that maybe I needed that. I thought that was something I could aspire to, something that I wanted to be, but no. Ma, I'm done with

you. I'm done with you being in my life. You'll always be just a small part of the formula that makes me who I am, but from now, I'm cutting you out. I'm going to give you one more helping hand for all you've done for me and all you've done for us. But if I ever see you again, I'm going to pretend I don't know who you are. And I want to cast rope trick. I pull out this like lasso that's got runes kind of carved into it on these little metal bands. I whip it the air, and basically kind of create like the illusion of an extra-dimensional space, and then I toss the rope up into it,

and I cut her rope and say, you'll have an hour to hide in there, and then what you do next is up to you. And I give her the map to Kenley's place with the magic mouth spell on it. If you really want to help, if you really want to make a change in this world for the better, go here and give this map to Braden Kinley. You should know how to find them already because you've sent a lot of guys to kill him, but just in, here's a quick reminder. You see, she head down, takes the map, and she officially goes,

all right, Turkey, yeah. Yeah. I understand. I know you and me ain't the same. And for what it's worth, I'm sorry, I wasn't different. It's okay. It took me long enough to realize I didn't need you to be different and now I don't need you at all. You see she nods and then she gets a little bit of her swagger back and you see she starts shaking

her finger and she goes, now that's my zirky. He don't eat anybody. And she hops up into the rope trick. The magic mouth spell that I cast, the message that's on it will trigger if she ever goes to Braden Kinley. And it says, this is my mother, Stella Vervaine. She could maybe be of use to you, but don't hesitate to kill her.

If you think that's what's right. Jesus Christ. Hahaha. Zerk tips his hat as Stella climbs into the rope trick and starts walking towards the door. Henry pats him on the back as he does it. You're all right, but Zerk grabs Henry's shoulder and leans on him a little harder than he meant to. And with that, we will cut over to Fia.

Fia, you have just secured the twilightium. What would you like to do? Well, Fia has looked through her spellbook, trying to find a way to make this place too heavy to teleport and she doesn't have any spells high enough to try to counter spell the teleportation. Fiya, go ahead and give me a perception check or an insight check. And by the way, I will say, Fiya, as we cut over to you, you do hear a calm voice over like a loud speaker go 20 minutes until teleportation. God damn it, what the fuck?

18. 18. Okay, Fiya, you are on one side of the lab here and you see that the inner lab in the middle, it's this like big metal box, right? You see on the one side of it, you're not on the other side, so you don't know if there's more to it or anything, but you do see that almost like a fire alarm or something, it has like shattered glass, like some glass was broken to get to it. There is a lever that is down, and there is a scientist there that is holding it down, and there are three I am going to try to mage hands the lever up.

Oh my god. Although this won't be, wait, this won't be, they'll just immediately put it back down. Fia, with that insight, you would imagine it take some time to charge and then you would just go back to the other side of the lever. And then you would just go back to the other side of the lever. And then you would just go back to the other side of the lever. Oh my god. Although this won't be, wait, this won't be, they'll just immediately put it back down. Fia, with that insight, you would imagine it take some time

to charge the whole fucking lab to teleport. Like, there's a reason it's taking a minute. Okay, then yes, I will try to make and the lever up. Fia. I have peek out from a little, because I'm no longer invisible. I have to concentrate on keeping the twilightium safe. I just peek out through the door and try to mage hand up the lever.

Go ahead and give me a Arcona check first to, I'll say this person is, they're holding it down, they're like actively holding it down. Machand usually only does five pounds of pressure, but I will say that you can use your magic to try to overpower this person. Also, they're not actively tensing their muscles and flexing and holding it down. Yes, as the hand can attack, activate magic items or carry more than 10 pounds.

Right, but somebody is literally holding the lever down, so what I'm saying, you are going to do in arcana check against their passive strength. How buff is this scientist? Not very buff, it's Liam. Liam? Don't tell them you have a fish. You know, it's pretty important the job to pull the lever. There's somebody pull the lever out of the other side, but you need both levers to be able to go. And you hear the guards just go, why are you saying this out loud?

Okay. These hands are so slippery, you know it. Only a 16. A 16 better than Liam's passive strength, certainly. You see suddenly Liam's hand goes from lever in down position to lever in down position to lever in up position as he was explaining what he has to do. You begin hearing

Air horns going over the lab as you hear voice going malfunction Station two lever released and you see everyone begins freaking out at Liam. Fia, go ahead and give me a stealth check. With advantage. With advantage? Because of your whiskers. ED, with advantage it's 12. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I tried my best. OK, you see that a lot of the scientists and stuff rush

over and just start yelling at Liam. Like everybody's really going in at Liam. But you do see a couple of the scientists and stuff rush over and just start yelling at Liam, like everybody's really going in at Liam. But you do see a couple of the guards, like the guards that were standing with Liam, are looking around and maybe saw some of the magical energy. You know what? This is good. I fucking run with this because Henry and Mr. Zorke are gonna need a way out. So I make a big fucking fuss and just say, try to catch me if you can and then I jump

out the window I opened And then I and then I whistle for my steed my get off a steed Sweet Yeah, I'm gonna say that you haven't opened the window yet I'm gonna say that you know that opening the window during a lockdown like this would probably trigger some kind of alarm You might even need to physically break a window in fact. I of alarm. You might even need to physically break a window In fact, I'm gonna say you're gonna need to physically break a window. Okay Then I try to hit the window with my thing sweet 22

22 is obviously gonna hit the window Fia, yeah, I'll see I'll say you see these guards go. There's some kind of witch inside that office and you see A bunch of guards begin rushing in as you hear panic throughout the lab. Great, this is good. And then I want to whistle for my steed when I get, did I open it? How much damage did you do?

13. That's not going to do it yet. I will bonus action to hit it again. OK, go ahead. With my war priest. Walsen windows, we are going all out. It's going to be 19. 19 hits. This is a demo crew this episode. Another 14 damage. You smash this one section of the window. You jump out the window into like all of the rain. You see that there are people rushing up, trying to get into the lab like at

the front door. You see your faithful steed gallops up and the lower is a Ted for you. I have a hop on like back where it's really cool. And then all the people trying to rush in I say there's actually an open window here. You see that people start climbing in the open window. Hank and Zirk, what do you guys do? You guys have just finished off these guards inside. You don't know what Fiya has done out there. And we couldn't imagine if we tried. Yes.

I guess we should just go wherever we hear screaming and people shouting about a witch. It sounds about right. Yeah, can we just kind of sneak out of this room and try to wander like down the corridor towards where we- Yeah, I'll say, I'll say you guys open the door. There's this automatic door that would normally, I'll say you guys open it and kind of hide off to the side

to make sure nobody's watching who's coming in or coming out. Mm-hmm. You see it is a fucking mad house in here. You see that all of the rich people are panicking and freaking out. You see guards are fighting with people, trying to keep people out of the window.

That people are trying to crawl in. You hear them going, they're coming in through the windows. They're coming in through the windows. What do you guys want to do? Well, I mean, my priority is getting outside and getting to my son. So I think we'll try and maybe like piece together logically what happened in here.

We probably see if we're in the office, we see the empty item duplicator and we also see a broken window on open window. I'm gonna say you guys are right outside of the door. So you don't see what Fia did, and we also see a broken window, an open window. I'm gonna say you guys are right outside of the door, so you don't see what Fia did, but you do see there's a commotion on the one side of the office towards

where Stella would have been. You see that there are only two guards, like half paying attention at the front door. Zark, let's just make a B-line out this door, but I wanna leg sweep both of these guards, so more citizens can get in as we Great actually can me and Zark just close line a guard on our way up. Yes Would you let me help you with that? I guess we go shove attacks we go from our supportive

Friend arm over arm to just a full-on close line just a double close line. Yeah Tell me that's a nat 20! Whoa! Ha ha ha! Great, I got a fourth thing. Circus fucking on one. Circus did some hard business. Circus full on Bradshaw clothesline from hell.

Just like destroys this dude's neck. Just backflip as he's clotheslined. Hang on. Two new linebackers for the bills, huh? Two new linebackers for the bills, huh? Just back flip as he's closed lined. Hang on. Two new linebackers for the bills, huh? Two new linebackers for the bills, huh? Oh my God, you could be front line and defense. Jesus, you never have to come off the field.

I got a 14. With a 14, I'm gonna say that dude's gonna do an opposed athletics check, but he rolls and at three. So he also fails. Hang, you closed line this dude. He was distracted by Zerks' close line, that's why I wasn't in this good.

Yeah, see is the other dude, do you like a pro wrestling back flip as he's close line? I mean, man. You guys kick open the door. You see a bunch of people from the town begin rushing in and overpowering the other guards that are trying to push them out.

And you hear the sort of lab go back into being operational. You hear it go from being like 20 minutes until teleportation to being like teleportation reengaged, one hour until teleportation. All right. And that's better. Hank and Zirk, you guys rush out and you see Fiya is there with her steed.

Oh my God. Okay. You guys also see that the sea is moving as if it's the ocean like waves and you see as it crashes down by like the docks and stuff, you do see that monsters are coming out of the water and you can imagine terrorizing other parts of the town. Okay, I make my floating disc and I say get on losers. Yes ma'am. Yeah, Henry hops on like a wakeboard. You guys hop on the turns of floating disc.

Fia hits the snake reins. The deer takes off, the deer from hell takes off and you guys quickly reach the town square. You see panic here as monsters from the water have begun to attack. You see water weirds are emerging from puddles in the ground. Murky zombies are trudging out from the lake. You see they've quickly begun destroying buildings and causing panic. You see people running from their homes being attacked in the streets.

There are not a lot of guards out here like defending the people. You can imagine that most of them are in the pockets of the lords who are at the lab. But there are a few doing their best to help people. You see two guards fighting like a minor water elemental as it attempts to drag a woman into the lake. They manage to pull her away as the thing like sinks back into the water and they take off running like towards the lab. You also see riding in on a horse, blowing a war horn is Hank Jr. and you hear him yelling out, get to the lab. Everyone, leave your home. Warhorn is Hank Jr. and you hear him yelling out

Get to the lab everyone leave your home the city is under attack You see people fleeing in all directions including in the distance. It looks like Hank Jr Was able to basically single-handedly like mobilize the People who weren't just you, the richest people in town. It looks like he was able to get the word out to people who were like further out and also like the people in like town square and stuff. It's an organizer. He's an organizer.

It's the Paul Revere of Elder Morn as it were. They're gonna make a statue of that boy. You see that most of the people further away are probably safer because the creature seem to be emanating from the lake But the town square is in a bad position because it's close enough to be attacked and it's home to a lot of you know Laborers and people who work here so they weren't tipped off until like you know just now Mm-hmm, and you see as Hank Jr. is riding around I'll say you guys you guys are hearing all this because he's screaming So you guys are still like a hundred feet away.

You see as you pull into the town square and you see that there are different businesses and stuff being attacked, like there's still people who are kind of trapped and stuff. But you see Hank Jr. is yanked off of his horse by two guards in lock-namor colors. They're about to get asked, it's splashed. And you hear them all screaming at each other.

What are they saying? You hear Hank, Jr. is like kicking under them as the two of them like wrestle him to the ground and he's going, there's still people in those buildings. We need to get them out, that's our job. And the guards are just like your mother instructed us to bring you back and we will bring you back in whatever condition we find you in and you see they go to like knock them out.

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Can I give my initiative to Mr. Hezley? There's two dudes, so you could just eviscerate one. I will say that these dudes roll the net one on their initiative, so they are slow to the jump. And Fiya, you set off on this mission. You don't worry about me. Fiya, you are first. You see these two dudes have wrestled, hang junior to the ground.

OK, I look at Mr. Edgar. And I say, Mr. Edgar, your mother sent me. And then I attack one. Sweet. That is a four on the dice. So that's not going to hit, but I will bonus action war priest to try to hit. Sweet. And that's a three on the dice. I just with both times. Okay. You miss both times. You see these guards are able to get up and they

kind of grab you and start wrestling with Fia. What are you doing? We're trying to get out of here. And then I say, I guess your mother chose wrong. Zerke, you are next. Okay, I see these people all lined up, and I resist the urge to try and tackle them again. And I think I will try and just take aim at one of the guards from a distance and try and just put a dent in their armor with a bullet. Sweet.

Ooh, that's going to be a 27 to hit. Yeah. Oh, and I have a new ability called Quick Draw, which means I get to add a 1d6 of damage, the first time I hit an enemy with an ranged attack. Rad. Awesome. Yeah, big, big charge blast of energy.

I'm saying, I'll say that the logic is that you're gonna essentially charge in between like battles. So like power charge as you shoot into this dude. Yeah, you see the cylinder is like humming with green energy. It's almost like leaking out of it. Like, like little flames are licking the edge. Uh, that's gonna be 21 damage. Oh wow.

We will apply cleav rules here. I'll say you blast between them. The one dude is like on-death store and the other dude's knocked out. You blast him back, falls back, Hank, that is your turn. All right, cool. I guess I'm just gonna come up and say,

my son has a job to do. I don't wanna try to smack this guy, we like the butt of my guys arm and knock him out. And that is a 23 day. 23, he's literally at 1HP, you literally, butt of the guy's arm, crack, break his nose, dude is knocked out, just collapses back.

Heng Jr. kind of stumbles to his feet, feeling a million emotions at once, looks at you like, oh thank God my dad is here. Oh, I'm so mad at my dad. Oh my god, there's horrors everywhere. Oh my god, I have a job to do. And you see, he just kind of is like hyperventilating, goes, there's still people in the buildings.

There's still people in the buildings. We're gonna buy you time. You get them out of the buildings, get them to the lab. All right, I owe you a conversation. It's time to talk later. You see, he nods and he goes, thanks. And you guys see Hank Jr. runs off to go towards one of the buildings.

You see behind you a bolt of lightning hits a gas lamp that explodes. It joins the fire of a nearby building and you see a nearby puddle of water begins sizzling and steaming until a fire-infused water elemental rises from it. Everybody go ahead and roll initiative. We very careful Henry, when you're doing it.

Leave me alone. All right. Don't all the way. It's a good start, that's a good start. Yeah, that was progress. Oh, that's another 8 for initiative. 19. My dice need to come in for a bath, because that is another filthy 20.

Whoa. So I'm going to tell you guys how this combat is going to work. So, you guys don't necessarily have to kill everything. You see that there are kind of monsters everywhere. This is sort of a zombie apocalypse situation. Hank Jr. wants to evacuate the town square. You see that there are six buildings here where it seems like people are trapped inside

by a variety of different horrors. You guys will roll challenges if you decide to go over and try to free the people. You can also flee at any time, but you get the sense that Hank Jr. wants to evacuate everybody. So you see there are three buildings to the west, three buildings to the east,

and then you guys are in the center here with this fire infused water elemental. If you guys want to run to either side, it's 30 feet and then each building is 15 feet apart on any given side. And then it's going to take, you know, obviously if you're all the way over to the east, it takes a long time to get over to the west. That would be a full 60 feet because you're going across the center. My speed goes a hundred feet.

Well, there you go. Just ping ponging. He's that nice. So I'll say that Hank Jr., not great initiative, but you see he goes over to the tavern and sees that there's a bartender and several patrons fighting off horrors with barstools, but they're being overwhelmed.

So he's going even the odds. He's pulling out his rifle to help them. You don't know that he's gonna be able to do it on his own, but maybe he will. At least he's a long-range fighter, so you'll see probably before he gets overwhelmed. Zirk, you are first. You can kind of decide, do you want to engage this fire-infused water elemental, or do you want to just start evacuating people? It's up to you. I'm going to turn to Henry and say, do you want to help Hank Jr.? Do you want to stay here and fight this thing with me? I'll fight it with you. I got an eye on the boy.

All right. We're fighting from range so we can run over if he needs us. Yeah, I'll say Hank Jr. has these things are only like, the buildings are only like 30 feet away. So Hank Jr. just is near you guys. Like, kind of stands behind you guys, pulls out his rifle. It is taking shots at the horrors in one of the buildings. Okay. Well, I'm gonna give you every advantage that I can muster and I'm going to pull out Like a little like Pepto Bismol tab

And I say stick out your tongue. How do you know I had heartburn? I slap it on it, and this is going to give him a D4 to attack rolls and saving throws. Rad. Oh wow, cool. Cool, and I think that's all I can do for this turn. Sweet, at the end of Zerks turn, that is a layer action. I'm gonna need somebody go ahead and roll and encounter check, roll a D20.

I can do it. Okay, 17. 17, that's good. and roll and encounter check, roll the D20. I can do it. Okay. 17. 17. That's good. These guys are not as bad. You guys see a little mud method pops up out of some mud nearby. Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, careful I want to put you in with my little fish. They don't like companions.

And the mud method is going to go ahead and do mud breath. The method belches viscid. Is that like viscid? Viscid? Viscid, I guess is also a word. Mud onto one creature within five feet of it. So I'll say it sees the, it's a bait-a-fish brethren in the bag and throws up on Fia,

and needs to make a dexterity saving throw. Okay. 17 on the die. Yeah, it passes. Meek arms. Okay, I didn't even add, okay, great. Yeah, no, you see the sink throws up. So it's cute, all right.

It's just cute, it's just cute, it threw up. Wow, you're gonna be cute. Blah. You're going in the bag. What you're sick. That is a fiesta. Okay. Fiya Boginia would like to use momentary stasis on this creature. Oh shit. Oh, on the big thing. Not the method. No, on the method. It's so cute. I'm a big thing, not the method. Yes. No, on the method, it's so cute that I'm the gap should it. We're gonna throw a dirt on you. We got another bindle for you. I'm just kidding, I do mean the big one. Yes, of course, of course.

What is it, what is it roll? A con save. Okay. Plus five to con, see what it rolls. That is a literal natural one. Yeah. Woo! There we go.

And with that, I'm just going to assume that Henry and Zirk got off the disc. So I'm going to use my steeds movement to go to where Henry Jr. is. And basically be like, load up the disc. I will bring them. I will bring as many people as you can put. I have 500 pounds that you can put on here.

Oh, shit. And then I will also bonus action, shield of faith, Henry here. Oh shit. And then I will also bonus action shield of faith Henry Jr. Oh, okay, sweet. Yeah, but because I did that now the my wrist pocket is no I don't have the concentration for that anymore. So the toiletium I just like put it in my pocket. Okay, you put the toiletium in your pocket. Cast shield of faith on Hank Jr. Thank you. Thank you for that kindness. He was nervous kind of holding the rifle like shaking a little bit, but kind of shield of faith on Hank Jr. Thank you. Thank you for that kindness. He was nervous Kind of holding the rifle like shaking a little bit

But kind of steals this resolve now that he's with you He was trying to help the people in a tavern. There was like a bartender and several patrons trying to fight off horrors Go ahead and roll me another Encounter check to see who is in that tavern. Romeo D20. Higher the better. 13. 13, that's not pretty high. Bad.

Fia, you see inside the tavern, the patrons are fighting three harpies. These like winged creatures that are all like swampy, looks like they are almost like. Like the errands? Yeah, like flying like they are almost like. Like, flyin' mermaids almost, and they're like attacking the people and screeching. I will say you don't necessarily have to kill every monster

to save the people within, you just need to get their attention. So you get over and you see that these people are being attacked by these harpies. Well, I use my action and my bonus action, so I just scream and I say, hey, harpies, my name is Feele Borginian, I'm a witch. Go ahead and give me an intimidation check for classic war cry.

18 on the dice becomes, oh no, it's gonna be a minus one. That's okay. 17. Okay, I'll say they will do wisdom saving throws to not be to not go for you You see they all fail you see that the heart piece all Walk on to you as soon as the heart piece turn around you see like what are the dudes just like breaks a bar stool over one of them, over one of their backs, and then they rush out. You see like six people hop onto the back. So, Fiya, you successfully evacuate the tavern.

That is five buildings left that need to be evacuated. After Fiya, that is the fire infused water elemental. Momentary status. It incapacitated. Completely incapacitated, so can't even do a move. It incapacitated and has a speed of zero. Rad. You see, just stays still, doesn't do anything.

Just, so presumably Henry will have advantage on all attacks. Yeah, I'm still standing in a low squat. My legs are starting to cramp up because it hasn't been a move yet. After the water elemental, that is another random encounter. You see things are popping up everywhere. Guys, go ahead and roll me another D20. I can roll my gobble.

Yeah. Oh. Nine. A nine. That is a lesser water elemental. You see a kind of wienery looking. It's so hard on yourself, but water elemental. No, no, I suck

Pops out of a puddle Um, he's adorable safe him Okay, he could be the the water for the fish that's put him in a bag How'd you like being an aquarium? The bad don't want it You see a double bag if it helps. You see in addition to the lesser water elemental, you also see a fish folks zombie, which looks like a regular zombie,

but with some fish parts. Like has big gills on the side of their neck, has a big, what do you call that fish app that almost looks like a Mohawk dorsal? A dorsal, they big like fins and things like that wow and are coming out of the water. I'm just going to need some parts of you for spells and stuff for sure. They will not attack until all of them go on initiative 20 after zirke but they pop up on initiative 10 as well. Hank that is your turn.

So as long as Fia has bought me some time, I'm gonna rush to a building and try to help get people evacuated. Sweet, do you wanna go on the opposite side of Fia or the same side of Fia? Why not come here because you can put them on the disc if you are able to evacuate them? Okay, yeah.

Sweet, I'm going towards the disc. Sweet, you go towards the disc. You see next to the tavern is an inn. You see the innkeeper and his family are stuck on the second floor. You see there's an enemy near the door that is blocking them from exiting or from jumping out. Go ahead and roll a D20 to see what that enemy is. All right. Oh tables, tables, tables, uh eight.. That is a good old fashioned water weird. You see what looks like essentially a sentience wave is propped up out of this puddle.

It just keeps crashing into the side of the building. You see this innkeeper in his family are trying to climb out, but the water keeps crashing in and he can't get to it. Okay. So I still have shank summoned from earlier. Yep. I'm going to attack this water weird twice.

That is a 21 to hit. Super hits and a 22 to hit. Super hits. 22 damage total. Nice. You see a bunch of the water disperses. 22 to hit super hits 22 damage total nice You see a bunch of the water disperses just big sprays of water as you slash through it and every time you slash through it It gets smaller Still there but hurt. Okay, anyone have some paper towels I'm gonna unleash shank who has some paper towels

And try to try this guy up. The paper towels are cursed. Not everything is cursed. What about a hanky? Because it sounds like hank, but also it is eco-friendly. Oh, shanky has a hanky. Shanky has a hanky, for sure. And shanky gets a 12 to hit. 12 is going to miss.

Sorry. All right, I guess it's a wave of. All right, I guess use the weapon. Oh, wait, use the weapon next time. Can I add the D4 though? Yeah, of course. Oh, nice. Oh, nice. All right, so that is a 15 to hit.

Hits. All right. So maybe the hanky wasn't a bad idea. 13 damage. 13 damage. Still alive. But a little drier looking at you this thing is going to continue to attack you they all attack on initiative 20

but you see that the inkeeper and his family are able to jump out of the second floor of the inn and they're evacuated and you see my little presence I am fearc laws. They get onto the TensorFlow to disk. That is Hank Jr. Hank Jr. is going to carefully go down to the shop that is below the inn here. There's a fan.

So we're, yeah, ask a question. So we've evacuated two buildings on either the east or the west side. Yes, two on either the east or the west side. Yes Two out of the three on the west side. So Hank junior is with you guys. So is going to go ahead and There's a fancy shop where the glass display has been broken and you could hear like a woman screaming inside is a horror trudge Guys go ahead and roll me a D20 see what that horror is. I'll do it. I'll do it because it's my son it matters I'll do it for your boy. That's a nat 20

Dude With a nat 20 did you prep for your son you prefer your son? Oh for my boy, you see you see there's just like a mud method terrorizing a a a Woman here who was like a worker who was screaming and kind of backed herself in a corner. You see Hank Jr. just head shots it, blows it up, and she runs out and joins. I think the wonders for his confidence,

I'm really glad that happened. HAPPY BOY! You see she runs out and joins the evacuation squad. Next stop, the library! The entire West Side has been evacuated right along. After Hank Jr., that is back up to Zirk. Zirk, you've got around you a mud method and this giant fire infused water elemental

and then the entire east side of the town square Three of those buildings have not been evacuated. Am I gonna take an opportunity attack if I run towards the east buildings? Yeah, but he's just a fucking method. Okay, yeah Yeah, I'm picturing the mud methods look like a gremlins run the wheat gremlins. Yeah, no He looks like a little mud a little mud gremlin. Yeah Let it throw up on you Get out of here get Get out of here. I try and kick him. Is it run? I love him. Cool. Yeah, I'm going to run towards the East Buildings. I take one fist attack on you. Misses big time. Just real slow-money fist.

Oh, Zirk, you run to the East Side. You see that there's a smithy, a blacksmith, and her apprentice are swinging iron hammers at a horror. The smithy is on fire, and they look like they're trapped. Go ahead and roll me a D20 to see who is in the smithy, causing trouble. Who's here? Ooh, 12. A 12 is a marrow.

Oh, 12. A 12 is a marrow. You see what is essentially a walking merman with a trident is just like in a duel with this blacksmith and her apprentice. I really love all these water-themed monsters. Yeah, this is fun. I love a table. A water-horror park. I am going to say my war cry, which is I'm served for vain

Please leave I will take a crack at the marrow and I think I will use fire bolt. I imagine they won't like that red Ooh, that's a 26 to hit hits that's 24 damage 24 damage. 24 damage. Sting looks fucked up, but it's still alive, but definitely you have its attention. How hurt do the the blacksmith and the apprentice look? Hurt, but it doesn't look like the Marrow is going to attack them anymore. It looks like it's focused on you. It's it's it wants to it wants to eliminate the bigots threat.

It doesn't look like that. Once you get their attention, they're not going to kill the people. Okay, right, zombie style. Nice hammer. Nice hit. Thank you. Thank you for shooting this thing.

Sure, no problem. They're going to need that hammer and all of your building supplies to fortify the labs. So you guys better hurry on over. You see, she nods to you, uh, and her, and her apprentice evacuate the smithy, uh, and that building's evacuated. Cool. Huge. Now comes the tough part.

At initiative 20 is the lair action. That's when all of the monsters attack. We also need a new monster. So go ahead and roll another D20. Uh, Emily, you want to do this one? Another 13. That is, this time is four Harpies. Uh-huh. So there are seven Harpees now.

Sophia, yeah, you see, you've yelled, gotten the attention of the Harpees. There were three of them, screeching inside the lower part of this tavern. You see that there's a second level and four more flap down from there. We will start the mud method. The mud method is going to use its speed and run up to Zirk. The first thing it's going to do is it's going to try to see if it can get its mud barf back. There's a method to your madness. Six, it got its mud barf. It's got its mud barf back. Oh, congratulations. Thank you. Go ahead and give me a dexterity saving throw. Is it throws up mud on you?

Okay. That's going to be a 24. 24 passes, or it can't, nothing. Sorry. Zerg pulls out, Zerg pulls out a beaker and perfectly catches the mud barf. Disgusting. Do not drink that.

Why is he drinking chocolate milk? What the, what a time to do? Then seven harpies are gonna fly out of this tavern and take attacks on Fia. Yeah, he's. Let's go ahead and I will just do, I'll do seven claw attacks at once. Fia, what's your AC?

I'm going to shield, so it is actually 23. Okay, only in that 20 hits, so the claws do 12 damage to you. Okay. One manage is to hit you, but Fiya, you are, you throw up an arcane shield. You are slashing at these Harpies as seven of them surround you.

They're all gonna take club attacks now. Again, my fingers, 23. They literally can't hit you unless they hit, again, at 20. Yeah! So Fiya, you literally literally have a protective bubble around you and cannot be hit. It's really good because it was literally my last first

level swell. Then this lesser water elemental is going to make some attacks on Hank, first attack, shout out to the two crew. Lessor indeed. Grabbs you and tries to slam you into the side of the tavern, but just is not doing it forcefully enough. It feels like a nice little sprinkler.

Hey, because weakness is negative self-talk. Oh my god, I could spar with this thing. Hank, there's also a fish folk zombie over here. It is going to take a crack at you. It misses, only a 14-a-hit. It tries to crack you. You block it with the guys arm, then the water weird goes after you. This is basically just like overwhelmed with weenies. You'll never get our fucking fish. I think you guys have not rolled sub 10, which is like where the bad stuff starts coming in. No, you have. I think I rolled an E. Okay,

we got a nine. All right, so here's the bad news. The water weird No, we have. Oh, you have. I think I rolled an E. We've got a nine. All right, so here's the bad news. The water weird just crit. Oh, oh. Hank, you take 20 damage as you are picked up by this water weird and slammed into the side of the tavern like a big wave crashing you up into the wall. And you are grappled.

So you have a speed of zero. I've been tossed in the waves before. Okay. After the water weird is the Merrow who is still alive and is going to take cracks with its trident against Sirk. Natural one of the first attack, misses on the second attack, misses twice. Do you spit into this vial when you have a chance?

Shut up. All right. After initiative 20, Fia, that is your turn. Looking at the battlefield, this one that I have incapacitated, does it look as though it's the most threatening of everything that's on the battlefield? Nothing else is even close. Okay, so I'm going to drive by on my steed who has a hundred feet, so it's doing a... Rad, you literally can get

you can get to completely to the other side of the town square so I'm gonna basically on the way drop basically everyone from the west side off on the way I want to momentary stasis again this fire guy okay so yeah you let off these people you see that a lot of the monsters are pretty slow because they're like zombies and stuff so you see that the people are able to jump off these people. You see that a lot of the monsters are pretty slow because they're like zombies and stuff. So you see that the people are able to jump off and now that they're not trapped inside buildings are able to successfully flee.

So you see that they get away. As you go by to try to get to the other people, this fire infused water elemental, make a con saving throw. That's a 12, baby. Yeah. It is, I have a chronal shift I'm saving for him. saving throw. That's a 12 baby. It is I have a chrono shift I'm saving for him. Here comes the beginning bus.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Forgive me. Bus. And then I'm going to since it's actually pretty close, I'm going to then go to another, another house on the, another building on the east side, one that has, there are two left, right? Yep. Two left. So I will go and, um my steed is going to attack whatever pops up. Oh, Fiya, I will say the Harpies are gonna get an opportunity attack on your steed. They're gonna all get an opportunity attack on your steed.

Unless it does a disengage. It can do a disengage attack. Oh, right, right. Okay, yeah. So it'll do a disengage. Got it. Okay. So then the Harpies do not get an attack on it. Sweet. Fiya, you rush over to a bathhouse. You see the bathhouse is main archway entrance has collapsed. There are cracks through which people can climb through, but there are horrors in the way.

Go ahead and roll a D20 to see what is there. Four. Yikes. Two mud meethas. You see a water leaper, which basically looks like a bat frog with a like venomous tail. This one looks bad. Okay.

I beat my chest and I call it into the night sky. Yeah, I'm going to say that the water leaper is scarier than the harpies. You're not gonna be able to just like, intimidate them, like yell at them to get your attention. This thing is terrorizing the people in here. After Fia's, the fire infused water elemental doesn't get to do anything. Yeah. After that, it's another layer action at initiative 10. Guys, roll another horror

encounter We're starting to add up Shout out to the two crew yikes. That is a full-on water elemental I see a water elemental pop it's so confident in the town is where it looks like it Essentially emanates from the fire infused water elemental that is frustratedly stank still. That is hanks turn. Okay, I say to the lesser water elemental,

you see that guy, he thinks he's better than you, huh? You gonna stand for that? It continues to press you up again. All right, the water weird has you grappled. Okay, oh that's right. So I guess I need to, I can attack from a grapple position, right? You can attack from a grapple position, yeah.

Okay, I'll take two attacks on the water weird. Rad, get weird, that's 17 and a 16 to hit. Both hit. That's 31 damage. Good, good. Good, you finish off this water weird and you do some damage to the lesser water elemental that is nearby Last rate of water. I used to be a body sorrow for back in my day

I'm gonna unleash is I'm gonna unleash Shank as well great with the hang shank with the hanky crit. That is in that 20. Wow. So absorbent for him to wipe this guy out. Go ahead and roll your damage. That is 27 damage. You take out the lesser water elemental. So you are free. Do you want to do anything with your movement?

Yes, I want to run to the building that fiasan. Sweet. So you can only go 30 feet, so you can only get yourself back to the town square. I'll do that swap thing. So I get 45 feet, just a little extra. Right. Something shot yourself. You go ahead, you get close to the bathhouse, you see, Hank Jr. is going to get near the town square, and then just then going to take a shot at the water leaper, Mrs. You hear a big bang, water leaper is too fast, flapping around.

That is back up to Zirk. I am Zirk the water leaper's movement. Okay, lay the land. We've got Henry's making his way towards the bathhouse. Hank, Jr. is at the bathhouse. I'm at the bathhouse. You're at the Smithy, which is near the bathhouse. There's one more area where people are stuck.

There's a place called Trader's Alley, where there's several like trade wagons in an alley, so they're kind of blocked in by other buildings. And you see that there are people who probably live inside their wagons. Not unlike you and your mom probably used to do, are trapped in this alley by horrors. That's a dangerous bottleneck.

And I love bottlenecks. So I'm gonna rush over there, I think. And take a little look to see if I can't scare away some horrors. Go and roll me a D20, see who's there. Knock, knock. Oh, 18. That is just going to be one fish folks zombie. So there's just one zombie there. Few remembers the gills she wants had.

Get over here. I need you to make more ultra-self potions for my friend. There's just one zombie there. Cool. I'll attack the zombie. Sweet. That is a natural one that I have just rolled. Okay. you blast into the air, Mrs. Fishfolk Zombie. There's too much chaos around, continues to take. Think it about the wagons, I'm thinking about the life I had. Continue to terrorize the people down here. After that, that is the layer action,

which means everybody attacks. Mud Method is going to go after Zirk again. Leave me alone. This time tries to punch you, shout out to the true crew. Literally can't hit you. I love this little guy. My friend Hank gave me this, this duster. Leave me alone.

Switch sides, little guy. We'll treat you better. Come live in the double bag. The Harpy screech. Ugh! Go over and try to, uh, seven Harpies to send from the sky and attack Hank. Oh, hey, hey, seven claw attacks.

Knock it off. I watch all these beautiful bird women pack at Hank and think that's how life would fun to go to. Quit it, you buzzards. Hey, what is your AC? What a ladybirds, man. It's 19. Okay, you get hit twice by claws,

once with a crit. Ow. 19 damage total. Oh, fuck me. And then they're gonna take club attacks. It's another crit. There's just so many of them. They crit a lot.

A crit and two hits. 22 more damage, Hank. It's just surrounded by these harpies. How's Hank looking? I'm not great, but I'm okay. I'm okay. There's a fish folk zombie. I wish they didn't have clubs.

That's all I was thinking. Yeah, I felt that too, right? When they bought at the clubs, I was like, Clos are enough, my harpies. They have claws, and then they also are just like, ah!

ah! They also have big sticks and are hitting people with it after the Harpies That is the fish folk zombie there was one that was on the west side there It's gonna take a crack and Hank Jr Oh, but missus here's plus two to AC misses The Merrow is going to run down and take cracks at Zerk. Oh, both miss. The water leaper is going to, that's a good question. So the water leaper is going to just attack. I think the people that are in there. So you see the water leaper, unfortunately, uses its stinger.

You see it stings one of the citizens. You see they drop. Then there's a water elemental. You see out from in front of the fire infused water elemental, another one pops up and it is going to go over and take some slam attacks on Fia. 18 to hit. That's my AC 13 damage.

And then Fia go ahead and give me a strength saving throw. As it tries to well mu you feel the water rush all around you like a whirlpool. Hank, look away. 18. 18 passes. Uh, Fia, You break out of it. You are free of the water elementals grasp. And then there's another fish folks zombie.

What can hit me do at the end of the round is going to take a crack at Zirk. Mrs. They're not that strong. They're just a weaning. After that, that is back to Fia. I'm going to look at Mr. Henry and trust that he's going to save this house because I think I need to the only thing I can really do is continue to try to momentary stasis this fucking fire dude. My shadow and I are running over there with a dish rag don't you worry.

Yeah I will momentary stasis yet again. my final momentary stasis of the day. All right, on time double see if I can roll decent. I hope you don't that's a 15. That is the save but I reach deep in time devil. I say. How dare you. Time devil, my resources Wayne, but I know that you are ever strong. That time is a nine. You see, the game is once again restrained because of the time. Praise you. I am going to have the phantom steed.

It's going to raise up onto its hooves, but actually the reins that make up the snake are going to be what attacks this weird water leaper. Sweet, give them the snakes. Oh, dear, that's an 11, that doesn't. That does not hit. Snaps at the water leaper misses, it's too quick. And that's all I can do.

After Fia, that is the fire infused water elemental. Shout out to Cobalt Press. Sorry, we didn't get to use the ability. It doesn't get to do anything. You know what, it's really mean. There was a part of me, ask your wife that was like, oh, we should really let him see his, like we should really see his cool monster,

but I also was like, we're gonna die if that happens. Maybe, and maybe as a mixed bag, man, we can show you, you can show us a cool monster. Yeah. On the short rest, you can tell us all what he would have done. It doesn't have legendary actions or anything, it's just a different elemental that's slightly more powered. Okay, at www.patreon.com slash nad pod

to see what this thing could have done. Yeah, I'll talk about it stats. After FIA and the fire infused water elemental, that is another layer action. Guys, go ahead and roll me another D20. Is it me? I'll do it. Yeah, go for it.

16. 16. Nice. 1D3 of bone crabs. You see three. Oh, the eye need branch. There's one for each of us. There's one for each of us, Fia.

Oh, Moria sent them. Show up in the town square Moria, I I get off the street go to one knee and I say I pledge myself to you Moria The bone crab is look like they want to grab you. They look like they want to snip you for Moria fear fear wait. I've rubber bands. I've rubber bands hold on after the layer action that tank Okay, we will devour you for Moria later. There's two there's two more buildings that need to be Evacuated one of them has the water leaper in it and one of them just has the one zombie. Okay I'm gonna come running and

Take two attacks on the water leaper. Don't let that thing hurt anyone else Hank you jump into the half collapsed bathhouse. All right, that's a 14 do it at that before oh It's anyway. Oh, that's maybe I'll need the D4 on this other one. It's only a nine. Is there any hope no 14 is this armor class Okay, that is 15 damage 15 damage, okay still looks quite healthy, but you do see that 15 damage is enough, it turns to you. Great. You see that the people inside are going to rush out and this building has effectively been evacuated. The thing that was stopping them is gone. So we only have just the alley to evacuate. Just the alley. Okay, and how close is the alley? The alley is only 15 feet away from you.

So Shank is gonna attack the zombie fish. Just the alley. Okay. And how close is the alley? The alley is only 15 feet away from you. So Shank is gonna attack the zombie fish. Rad, go ahead. Some in Shank right behind that fish. Shank gets a 21 to hit. Hit. Yes. Oh, wow, not that 18 damage.

You rolled a 12 times. 18 damage. This thing stays alive. Zombies often have a lot of constitution, so it is still alive. You thing stays alive. Zombies often have a lot of constitution, so it is still alive. You like slash it. It looks like you got a kill shot and then it pops back up. However, it does look to shank and stops focusing on the merchants who were living back here, and they rush out and you guys have successfully

evacuated the town square. Now it's just a matter of getting out with all of this. Should we evacuate ourselves now? I look to everyone and I say get on Tenser's disc. I am so weak. I have given myself to this fight and I would now like to escape. Mr Edgar. Yes.

Please come with us. You don't have to tell me twice. Yeah, let's get to the lab after Hank that is Hank Junior's turn Hank junior is going to hop on to Tensers Floating disc after Hank Junior's turn that is Zerk's turn First of all the person that the Leaper stung are they fully dead? Is there anything I can do for them dead Zerkana Let's out of sigh and then I guess hop's on the disk so that we can get out of here. Sweet, I will say that there are the two guards that you guys knocked out.

Oh, yeah, I'll go try and drag a guard onto the disk. Yeah, I'll say Hank Jr. does that too. I'll say Hank Jr. grabs the one, you grab the other, you guys use your turns to grab those guys. Thanks for reminding me. Oh, and I'll do, as a bonus action, I'll go ahead and Healing word hank sweet you healing word hank

Top of you top of the round after zirk Lair action guys go ahead and roll another d20 all right. How much did you hear me for zirk? Oh 14? That's a lot and why don't you go ahead and roll me d20 for a horror encounter Six you see a war-fling swarm. These like sealed dogs, essentially. They're kind of cute, but they're also horrors, and they are bite-natchy. They get up a little war from Star Trek.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. So at an initiative 20, they all get to attack. So, once again, a mud method goes for Zirk. Misses. Just be our friend or leave. That is the Harpies turns. They're going to continue going after Hank. Oh, with the claws and the clubs three hits 18 damage All right Then seven club attacks. Oh, I'm down. I don't know. Shit. Shit. Two hits

Six damage, okay, I'm still up after the Harpies a fish folks zombie One of them is just out of commission. He was on the east side can't get over fast enough the other one is gonna take an attack on you misses right That Merrow is going to take an attack on Zirk First one is a hit eight damage on the bite Zirk, okay Clause miss After that the water leaper is going to go after Hank since Hank attacked it. Bite attack, 23. I'm gonna use my Cursid Guy's arm to spread the curse

using my reaction to give an enemy minus 1d6 on an attack. Ooh, okay. And what is your AC? 19. 19? Yeah, 19, yeah. Okay, so I got a roll or higher. Yeah, oh That is a four you see this thing does miss Yes, but then it makes a stinger attack That one is a 20 to hit. Great. That is six damage.

Still up. And go ahead and give me a Constitution saving throw. Oh yeah. 11 on the die. Go ahead and add plus five to that for Flash of Genius. Zerk touches this tattoo and it glows a little bit. Hank, you already passed. You feel yourself resist the poison. Thank you.

Um, after the water leaper, that is the water elementals turned. The water elemental is going to take cracks at Fia. Jesus Christ, not 20. Oh, 24 damage to Fia. Still standing, bitch. Woo! Yeah, stay standing. Wow, still standing.

Still standing. Thank you, God, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, Bone crabs. The three bone crabs are going to go after Zirk. No, they like us. You see these are like us. Little clattering crabs made of bones are going to take some claw attacks. I tried to put them in a terrarium. They try to slit your throat. Big double bag them. I'm trying, I'm trying.

Three hits. Okay. Whoa. Total out of two attacks each twenty seven damage Zerk wow Zerk still up okay after the bone crabs is the um uh warfling swarm the warfling swarm is going to go after Hank uh they are going to oh they only get one bite. But it is a swarm. It is a big fucking bite. So you see they surround you,

these insane-looking seal dogs with no skin, just dripping wet. And try to bite it. I do. Okay. You have to get rid of your potato skins. They smell them. I will not. Matt, Matt,, Matt saving them. Matt two misses

Nice That is the end of that turn. Fia that is your turn. Okay. I am going to I don't have any more momentary stasis Nor do I even want to use it. I'm just fucking booking it for the lab All I have I definitely like I'll you know push Hank and Zirk on to the tensors floating disc and then book it to the lab Yeah, okay, I think I was helping get one of the bodies on there So so you're saying you want to disengage as you're steed Use your action to essentially lean over and grab Hank and Push him pull him back towards the um

Tensors floating disc. Yeah. I'll say make an athletics check to do that. You guys begin taking off. Hank is low in the initiative order and is off fighting something. So you guys fly off in the direction of Hank. 18 on the dice plus seven, 25.

Jesus Christ. Natural athlete. You successfully grabbed Hank. It's from all the sneeze you successfully grab Hank It's from all this need you grab Hank by the collar pull him back onto the tenters floating disc I feel Hank junior and Zirk grab you and pull you on you did good out there and you guys Ride off towards where do you guys want to go? You guys are effectively out of combat none of these monsters are fast enough to catch me as fucking Steve.

Actually, as we go away, I want to try something because I'm a scatter to use it in such a tense situation. But I want to see what it does. I want to see what it does. I want to go away. I want to ring the bell and see what it does. Give me an arcana check. Shout out to the two crew. Okay.

This is why I didn't do it in the battle. Nine plus four, 13. You see, you ring the bell, it doesn't do anything. Can I add my plus five flash of genius to that? You ring it, it doesn't do anything. Okay. Okay, good to know. Yeah, I need you. You gotta ring it like this't do anything. Okay. Okay, okay. Good to know. Yeah, I need you.

You gotta ring it like this. Hold it upside down. We just like, backer over the bell. You just made it a bull, sir. I guess my thought is, I don't know how much you all want to be at this laboratory, but I'm quite, quite injured and I am scared that someone will take the twilight from us if we are seen. That is my concern.

I think maybe we should drop off everyone else at the lab and then make it towards the woods where castaway. That's what I was hoping to do. You guys ride off towards the lab. You see that as you guys get to the lab, there are monsters outside of it, but you see that there are enough guards that they're attacking them, making sure they're not getting near the front door or anything. And you see it emanating with magical energy, and you guys can imagine that you've been gone long enough.

You guys had reset the timer on the teleport, but it was going to go off within the hour. So you imagine there's only like five or ten minutes left, but you do see that there are people still trying to get in. Fia had broken that window and people had gone in there, but it looks like they patched it up or closed it. And you see Hank Jr. hops off of TensorFlow's Flowing Disk with the rest of the survivors who all rush towards the lab banging on the door trying to get in.

You see Hank Jr. turns back and he goes, thanks for your help. Oh, I can take it from here. Yeah, no, yeah, I know you can. Look, buddy, before I go, let me just tell ya, what I meant to say last time, all right? Look, when I skipped town, I didn't do what I thought was best, I didn't do what I thought was right. I did what I knew was wrong. I didn't do what I thought was right. I did what I knew was wrong. I shouldn't have left you. And the reason I did it is because I was too afraid to stand up for

myself and because I didn't, I lost the only thing that was important to me. That's you. into me, that's you. So I'm sorry and I got one last thing to do, but I'm trying to write a better ending for myself and next time you see me, maybe I'll be a dad that's worth giving a shit about. Hank Jr. kinda looks down and you know the rain is hitting his face but you can tell he's like crying a little bit and he goes, it's good to hear you say that. Look, I'm not dumb, dad. I know mom told you to leave. I know how they are. But uh, most of the time they don't want me around either.

Yeah, well, you know what? You got something that I never had. You knew they wanted you in the lab, you knew they wanted you safe, but you stood up and you did what was right and you evacuated to town. You stood up for yourself and you stood up for these people. So, so hold your head up. You did what I couldn't do, but it's what I'm trying to do now. I'm trying to be more like you, boy, all right? He gives you a nod, like kind of very proper,

just one dude getting a compliment from another dude. And then he real quick crashes into your chest and gives you a big hug. That all right, come here. You just hear a gasping sob for a moment, and then he pulls back and he goes, Alright, I still gotta go in there and make sure that they let everybody in, but we'll catch up when all this is over, okay? You'll look me up in the capital, right?

Yeah, hope I find you on there. I didn't name Henry, but I'll check both, all right? You see, he gives you a hug, he steps back, he gives you a little salute, and he goes, I've actually been going by Hank. Not bad, not bad, kid. I love you, Hank. You see, he kinda looks away, but looks happy, and he goes, I know, dead.

And then you see, he runs off towards the lab, and you he starts basically banging on the door, arguing to let the other people in, and you see they finally crack open the door, and all of the other survivors get Okay. Well, hey, Zirk, you got any evidence that you picked up? I produce exactly one evidence. You pull out the map you got of the smuggling tunnels. Can we slide that under the door and try to sew a little discord? Well, we would just give it, be giving it to the people who don't want the evidence to go out. I want to give it to some of the townsfolk so people in this lab start talking and they know what happened.

Can I see if that Smith is still around? Yeah, you see, yeah, Hank Jr. is helping the other people get in, but yeah, you see there's a blacksmith and you run up to her and she goes, yes, can I do anything for you? I owe you my life. My friend's got something for you, and for all the people of Sirenlock. You hand her the map. She looks at it. Well, all right. Once we get to the capital, I'll try to get this into the right hands. I always trust the Smithy.

I always trust anyone with calloused hands. You see, she shows her calloused hands and her and her apprentice enter the lab. And you guys watch Rain pouring down all around you as the entire lab begins to glow purple and eventually with a big flash of force, the entire lab disappears. And as that happens, you see as all these like water weards and water elementals and different zombies and everything are popping up, you suddenly see a bunch of

arrows start going into them as deep folk warriors begin overwhelming them. Blossom! Yes! Glory to Zelmodar! Glory to Zelmodar! Glory to Zilbo Dhar! Glory to Zilbo Dhar! Glory to Zilbo Dhar! You see Luscarar, Tab, and Batilda show up with an entourage of deep folk.

And you see Bluscar holds his hand out and he goes, Come with me, it is time to reclaim Zelbaldar Blood from stone brother blood from stone glory to Zelbaldar And that's where we'll end our session Glory indeed glory to Zelbaldar. Oh, what an app What's fun? App yeah, I was I'm not sure how much those weenies how much damage those wienies were going to do. Were you guys down pretty hard? I was down to three.

I'm at seven. Good for you guys though. I mean, it was almost a wienier roast. I am at three and literally I've used every single spell and every single ability. Yeah. Momentary stasis was huge though. That fucking made me do a ton of damage. Yeah, sweet.

We'll talk about this more over on the short rest. patreon.com slash nad pod that's any ddp od don't sing yet. Ooh, ooh, ooh, but I want two sing Jones. Does anybody like to plug? It's my little brother's birthday. Shout out to him. Happy birthday, my God. Happy birthday, my God. Happy birthday, Mike. Happy birthday, Mike.

Happy birthday, Mike. At the time of recording or at the time of release. Time of recording, actually. So, happy belated. So, happy belated birthday, Mike. I hope you got him something more than this shout out. Yeah, well, I didn't. So.

Wow. Can you ask Mike if you got the birthday cake that I sent? Yeah, oh, he did, but I said it was from both of us. And I'm just mayor. Sure, sure, sure. I would love to plug an essay that my wife Susanna wrote for The New Yorker. She wrote a basically a long personal essay about giving birth to our daughter during a pandemic and the kind of harrowing, hilarious heart felt experience that that was.

It's really, really good and I would love if you would all go give it a read. The title is My Slightly Unreal Pandemic Pregnancy by Susanna Wolfe. It's on the New Yorker. You can just Google it. It'll show up. Have you guys heard of the New Yorker? It's not quite NAD pod, but... Yeah, it's a...

I mean, you might dig it. Yeah, that's fine. Oh, and before we go, we need to tell you guys what we're doing next week. Oh, yes! So, you know, we've been doing last week... Huge update. Off, we've been doing D&D courts usually for the last week of the month, but this month is a five Thursday month.

So we brought in Jasper William Cartwright from three black halflings, is going to DM a two shot for us. It's going to be two episodes. We already recorded it. We already recorded it, so I can confirm it's awesome. It's awesome, yeah, it's really good. I had to say it was such a fucking good time. Yes, it is the band of boobs and Jasper knows more about the lore of Bohumia than we do.

Did it, did it fucking killer job. I think so. Absolutely. Actually, yes, and I got to just play Balnor, which was so fun. I rebuilt Balnor. He built a really good Balnor. I built a new Balnor. We're playing a level 22 shot.

And Jasper fucking killed it. So good. So check that out next week and check out three black halflings in the meantime to hear Jasper's other work. But we will be back next week with that, and we'll do short rests based off that. And then we'll be back in August with new elder mourn. But until then, you could follow us all on social media

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S. Halder Frostbeck, Steelbreaker,, and Matt M. Sellers Assistance, whose job it is to sort the various assets in her lab, normally the ones that can melt human flesh going a special cabinet, but they were in a rush to clock out because they had just scored bills tickets, so they left them on the counter no harm, no foul, as far as I'm concerned. Jordan DJ, Cutter W. Gybe G, Zolo Dolo, and Dylan B. Water Horrors from Murph's Monster Table, who sadly didn't make an appearance this episode, what's even worse as they were all different forms of spooky crabs and they got disadvantage on roles to resist being put into rariums.

Damn it! Shoebert the mushroom Danielle the Dastardly Dame, Andrew M, Beardmandan, and Scott D. Citizens of Siren Locke who survived the zombie, uprising by covering themselves in mud and pretending to be methods. At first the horrors weren't convinced, but then Danielle puked all over water weird and that pretty much clenched it. Danny P. Mixologist Michael McD, Victor T. Balnor's boy Andrew B. and Kevin S. Minions of the time devil who hold people in place when they are stopped by Fia's momentary stasis, also if an enemy rolls a nat one on their saved Annie Pia is allowed to tickle them very nice.

Justin I, Ragnar Faredwind, T.J.M. the Noembarbarian, Elena M. and Traleigh the Cray Faye, scientists who were trying to get their teleportation licenses but failed the exam because they were too distracted by the huge Tupperware of old fish that Liam brought for lunch. Jarrad E. Austin Bonesaw, MR. Danemiel R. Cyborg version of Josh the Cobalt and Octo Lyck. The elder mooring council of dads were planning on awarding Henry the highly coveted, most improved trophy. Nuss, nice hustle, Hank, thank you, good work.

Gage M. Richard X. Machino. Michael L. Sergio Salazar Salaman Sakurai as the Sistwani. Trash the traveler. Siblings of the third mate's horror guppy. They were actually all eaten by said guppy, so technically they are with us in spirit and stomach. Sir Carl, Jory S. Dana G. Azoth Shadows and Caleb L. Bubble Elementals. they are as beautiful

as they are deadly, just one hit from their powerful death ray will await a toddler pop them all. So yeah, never mind. Jack L, flawless whale, temporal, sim, L, nicolacy, and Reese, and S, the Spoonie fan club, called Mooney for Spoonie, who are absolutely livid via did not have the spell slots to cast Dragon's Breath on everyone's favorite tiny servant. Maybe next time. Samuel B. Mike H. Udishimulik, the baby bronze dragon, Matthew E. Colton B. Adam G.

The necrophone company who is building a lot of complaints about service and is likely going to have to reap refund some bills this month. There we go. Me again. S. Mateo, C. Nebadger, Panama James, Cummins, The Bard, and Adrian the Halfling Bard, puddle elementals who were itching to get in on the fight and take vengeance on all the polite folk who put jackets on them so ladies can walk over them. Dan, Scott W, Nikki W, Grace G, and Drew Nasty, and also, C.C. Lulu, the support crew, called a momentary stasis, but a lifetime of regret in which monsters incapacitated by

chronology wizards, momentary stasis get together, and lament all the cool moves they didn't get to do. Barnes & Ador, Michelle O. Timmy R, Jonathan W. The Crock-Waring Warrior, and Lucas B. Wizards who made the Magic Hand spell, it's like Magic Mouth, but instead of delivering a message it just gives someone the finger when it's triggered sounds useful. Aaron S. It's Kevin. Hogfish is above average hog, New York, and Steven C. Henry Jr.'s friends who have actually just started calling him Nickname, because every week he comes in with a new name he wants to be called.

First it was Henry, then it was Edgar, then it was back to Henry, now it's Hank. It's a kid freaking loves nicknames, alright? And we're not standing up for it. K.J. Michele Michael M. Mike K. Karen J. Ekithor 6666. And Nick W.

Bathelementals, undead sentient bathwater that is going to town on nice moms who just wanted some alone time to destress away from the kids. Taylor A. Matthew R. Esmey M. Nathan and Kazmir, the all-knowing, the weapon manufacturer, manufacturers, who sold the Harpies their clubs while they were meeting the Harpies. They said, why would we need clubs? We've already got claws, but as May M convinced them to give the clubs a swing, and the Harpies haven't looked back since yet. They love them. Big bad, Buredo, the Mad, Eric McD, Thrath, Burley T, and Jay Dragonborn. Life coaches for water elementals their motto is just because you're less powerful doesn't mean you're lesser. Jay, the Inopropo, Cody B, Liam D, the Sandran, Ben A, and Felddannis, certified water

weirds. These beach freaks just hang out by the ocean and full scuba gear and flop around in the sand. It is freaky. Dave H. Qualabair, Catherine S, David K, Christian S, And Dustin S. Wes precinct gamers who stayed behind during the horror attack to finish a league of legends match. They might not make it out, but they will go down as Diamond Tier. Keith K. Connor F. The Time Walker Vashguard. Two left eyes and Frankie Koala. Harpy Larpers. These Larpers dresses Harpies and drink harps at bars

while Bards play harps. Wow, that's tongue twister. Big bad John. DPC is awesome. Aston S. Blair the Bug Blair. Bar Blarion. Pork Chop and Chineal M. Owners of the little pet shop of horrors looking for a bait of fish that can bite off your nose. A dog without fur or skin that howls at midnight.

Or whenever it's near a holy symbol, well guess what? We've got the shop for you. Furion Hot Pants, Velasi Raptor, Minnet F Pat El, A Chuta A, and Lauren H. Eldermoren punk rockers, who crowd-surfed the sentient lake. They were absolutely destroyed by elementals, but damn was it punk as fuck. Elias Hawthorn, Maddy Y, Alex H. The Eldest Barry, Evan V. and Ryan S. Why an elemental Psalms. These Psalms can tell the challenge rating of any elemental with a mere sniff and a swig and a slight

swirl and a minor spit. The bone duster Joshua H. Robert Chris, E. Drezel, Brent Lee C. and Micah B. A bunch of guards who saw Fia Mage hand the teleport level but kept their mouth shut so Liam would have to take the fall they really can't take that guy's small talk. Ploups, Carly Ann, Laurie P, Spam the not so skilled gamer, Connor Savage and Russell H. The soon to be scientist of Stella's next lab, what kind of apocalyptic shenanigans these crazy kids are going to get into? You have no idea. Christopher J. Pebblepot, Logan S. Leviathan, DeMey, a bioquart, seven, and Kenny,

own an undead beta fish store. So of course you want to consider that the regular beta fish seem to live forever. So there's not actually much that differentiate uh, you know, from your standard shop, Remington CD, Thrill of the Fright, Sullivan H, Everett P, Sidney T, and Alex C, wine elementals who are literally drunk with power. And when they attack you, it actually just feels like you're getting more and more hungover. It's very dangerous. Jesse DLR, the Element God, Lindsay W. Champ Wild, Vailin Sprite Pepsi, and Carlin Sea, Garzoo all opted to give Liam the job of lever holder. He assured that he knew exactly what to do and spent a lot of time explaining what he was doing, only to fail when it counted most.

It must have been those greasy fish. Fingers. Anthony S. Tristan C. The Loose But of Two Scoos, Jake Matthew J. Scripts Scripper, and Michael S. The Bone Duster, Tensers Floors floating disc borders who watched as horrified town folk were evacuated past towering waves of mud in extreme jealousy because they would have loved to serve those horrific waters. Noah, Wyatt B. Estelle, ghost, rogue creed, and Daniel N. Guards who fought their pals, who found their pals,

melted by acid and have sworn to exact revenge. Careful coming after Zirk, though folks, he just has more acid. Baron S. S. Souashan's romance partner from the Baronies, Mr. Dude's Guy, conflicted DM Justin LB and Dandy. Puddle elementals that look scary right up until you realize how cute it is when a child jumps in them. That's adorable.

Jennifer R. Clifton A. Richard G. M. Barber and Marcos P. Patron sitting at the tavern being attacked by horrors, but those themes are just going to have to wait, because Clifton A is still working on their beer. Pup Kalish learns the balance, Drew and Dakota J.P., Pogos the self-proclaimed Faye Prince, Tracy P, and a very big bet, 91. Mud Muppets, who just ate a handful of soil tums, and have finally stopped puking now they're just making tiny little burpsounds and it's honestly cute as hell. Scrumpey Bogpipe, Nes O's, Aakari, R, Holly, Anthony A and Leah C, Lusk-Rars Archers that just ran from the woods attacking horrors after

leveling their foes, these warriors made a beeline for the crumbling bathhouse. You gotta get a You gotta get a soak in. You absolutely do. Thank you all.