The Glass Cannon Podcast - Gatewalkers Episode 71 – The Hanky of Sweet Wind

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

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dense fog hangs. Deneji stands up in front of the boat. What is that? What do you think it is? These bubbles of the water. It starts to provoke this vision that you all see standing before you is a glowing gateway. Remus, you look and you see Barnes, and you see Zephyr, Yick, Buggles. Standing in the distance is Sakawatchi, silently watching all of you. And now you're back on the boat, and the bubbles have turned into figures,

pirates, little wielding weapons coming directly at you. The adventure continues... now. I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better

I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better I'm gonna be the one to make you feel better So I had a dream last night. I'd become pretty decent at remembering my dreams as of late because I'm like dry January. That's a written rule. Dryest dream anyway.

That's lucid dreaming one. Try it. Dreaming, dreaming when you're not drunk, going to bed when you're not fucking I really remember all my choosing to go to sleep instead of blacking out. Waking up on the couch. Where's my wife?

And I had a dream. You hear this? Who's the president? I had a dream last night that I was I was in an improv class, which sounds like a nightmare because I had to watch the improv class from the dream. It was a dream. The teacher had split up the class in half. I was out there with the first half of the group.

I don't know what the basic of the improv is that you all have one leg. And so – This is your sober dream? Everybody's just kind of hopping around on one leg or some of the older people are like just – they're dragging their other leg because they can't balance on one leg. That's what I remember from the dream. And I think the idea – the first half of the class was doing this. The idea is that you couldn't really say anything.

You just had to kind of gesture to each other. I had like two gestures. One would be like, oh, welcome. We both have the same melody. Or the other one being like, what are the odds? That was kind of like, oh. I was like, you too? Yeah, you too.

What are the odds? That was pretty much the same. That was the same. I don't know what the teacher was going for with this, but those were my two things. I just kind of went back and forth. And then for the second half of the exercise, you could say something, but I don't remember what it was, but we were all out there and we were all just like standing on one leg. And I don't know what the goal of this exercise was, but we're all kind of like

hopping there looking at each other and there's like 20 of us. And I said, so is this your first convention too? And they all laughed and yeah, so I'm hilarious in my dream. So you dream of being hilarious? I dreamed of being hilarious, but I woke up and I remembered every single detail of that. Did you wake up giggling? Did you laugh yourself awake? That was a good line.

That was a good line. Have you guys ever laughed yourself awake? It's very weird. It's such a weird feeling. You laugh in a dream. You giggle at something in a dream, and you're like, huh. My dreams are all nightmares. I would say my dreams are much more terrifying and dark

than that. You guys OK? You should do Dry January. It sounds like he's having a great time all nightmares. I would say my dreams are much more terrifying and dark than that. You guys okay? You should do dry January. It sounds like he's having a great time. Well, I just had a nightmare the other night that I remembered vividly. It was one of those nightmares that I woke up

and I had to like feel my surroundings to ensure that that wasn't the truth. Yeah. I was like putting my oldest child to bed. I'm gonna ask before you get into it, which is a question I feel like I'm gonna ask you a lot today, do I wanna hear this? It I'm gonna ask you a lot today. Do I wanna hear this?

It's not sexual. Oh, okay. But it's weird. A rare non-sexual nightmare? I'll tell it quickly because I... I wanna hear about this. Well, because usually I know it's a nightmare and I just like, get over here.

You dip into your psyche. It's not sexual. It could have went that way, but I told my wife the next day, she goes, that could be a TV show. So I was putting my oldest son to bed, but I was back in like the house I grew up in and the room was in a different part of the house.

My wife was putting what seemed like eight other children and people to bed. When I told her that, she was like, that sounds like our life. I was putting him to bed and I saw something moving on the wall. I went to go look and at first it looked like a bug, but then I realized it was a paper cat. And the cat was like a drawing that was moving in one dimension along the wall, but it was alive. And I tried to-

One dimension? Yeah, because it was flat. Two dimensions. Two dimensions, yeah. I was going to say, that is a real nightmare. Yeah, it was a lie. Conceive of that. But it was this paper drawing of a cat, but cut out, moving along the wall.

And I went to grab it and I hit what I thought was the wall and it wasn't and it like squealed. I was like, what the hell? And then I found an idol of an oni. You know the Japanese like demon, the oni? And I realized we had brought that into the house. And so I went upstairs to try and explain to my wife and my mother, we shouldn't have brought this oni. Your mom was there too? Yeah, she was there too. And now we're upstairs to try and explain to my wife and my mother, we shouldn't have brought this oni. Your mom's there too.

Yeah, she was there too. And now we're upstairs in a different house. Our excursion to darkest Japan. We shouldn't have brought this. It was like a white bowl that had the face of an oni, but the round part of the bowl was like the arms of the oni. So detailed. And I said, we really shouldn't have brought this demon bowl into the house because pictures are coming to life.

Good advice. Pictures are coming, the children's drawings are coming to life. And then I looked on the baby monitor and Archer was waking up on like the baby monitor that we use for Evie. I said, oh, let's go, let's go get him and make sure that that paper cat isn't there.

So my wife walks downstairs with me and we walk into the room and she's already in the room. And I say, wait a minute, I thought you were coming with me. And she's like, what are you talking about? I've been here the whole time. And then I turn around and Sam walks into the room. And I'm like, and it was so realistic.

I was just like, wait a minute. And they're like, hold on. I was just upstairs with you. And the other one is saying, I've been here the entire time. And now it's not about Archer anymore. It's about these two Samanthas. And I'm like, so what's going on? And one of them says, it's OK, and hugs me.

And hugs me with, like I'm laying down. She's like hugging and her face is turned aside to me. And then I look at the other one and the other one is turned into like a rat and has like a rat's face. And I said, oh, Sam, this is something wrong. And I realized the Sam that's hugging me is holding me down. I'm like shaking telling the story and I realized this is all part of the demonic stuff. Neither of them are Samantha.

She's like holding me down and I have to like push my, push her away and get to the rat and then I start killing the rat. It was intense. That was my, that was my dream. I did, I did have some whiskey before bed. So I said dry-ish. This sounds like Delta Green.

California sounds. The whiskey dreams. Yeah. In the beginning there are. I was gonna say when you started, it took a, it took a turn, but I think I was the beginning counts. I think I'm sorry to hear about David Lynch. Oh yeah.

I had a David Lynch nightmare last night. Were you also drinking whiskey? Cause that's when they get mad. You know, that could be, cause I was thinking about Lynch all day when I heard the news and that could have been, maybe it just got into my psyche. It sounds Lynchy. It was very Lynchy.

I just remembered this. What was yours? Is it like? It's nowhere near as detailed as that. It's good. I was reading this, I've been reading this video game book. And so in the nightmare, I was playing a video game that was a like a Lynchian video game, right?

So it was like a surreal horror video game, but I was also in it. So it's almost like it was like a video game, but it was VR. And I remember it almost like kind of like a dead space elevator. I don't know if you remember dead space, but it was like this big industrial elevator and I had to go in and hit this button and the gate closed. It was like, gong, gong, gong, gong, gong, gong, and it started going down and there was all these like supplies supplies and lockers in this elevator. And it was just grinding down these floors. And then I just knew inherently that I couldn't, that the elevator would never stop going down

until I opened every locker. And there was this music and this feeling that something was in one locker that was going to leap out of me when I opened it. And I'm just like, I hate this game. I hate this game. I hate this game. And I opened a locker and it was empty.

And it was like, go to the next one. Open it and it was empty. And nothing ever came out of it. But the main horror that I kept feeling, and the very David Lynch thing about it was like, I just want to stop playing this game, but I can't. I'm not allowed to stop playing this game for some reason. And I woke up last night, just in the middle of the night, and was like, that was so weird.

That was so strange. I was in this elevator. It's bizarre. Most of my scariest dreams, I don't have a lot of nightmares, but most of mine are like as a movie. I am watching it happen and I'm like not, I'm not even in it, I'm just witnessing things happen. How do you have sex with the participants?

I'm watching, I'm really voyeuristic, I just really, I'm into that. She likes to watch. I like to watch. We've learned a lot today. Don't have a lot of sexy, actually in fact I have anti-sexy dreams. I'll like try to hook up with someone

and they're like no thank you. But they're polite. All of my dreams. You have polite non-sexy dreams. Nice to the boys. I don like, no thank you. But they're polite. All of my dreams. You have polite non-sexualities. Nice to the boys. I don't want that from you. A hot celebrity. This is neither the time nor the place.

And I am not the person. I'm like a hot celebrity dream, sex dream. And they're like, I actually don't want to have sex with you. I'm like, OK. And that's my whole dream. But that's a nightmare. For scary dreams, though, I just watch it. And I'm not involved. And I don't know the people. It's as if I'm's a nightmare. For scary dreams though, I just watch it and I'm not involved and I don't know the people.

It's as if I'm watching a movie, but it feels as if I'm there watching something happen. I've witnessed a murder in a dream. There was someone on a pontoon boat once in the marshes of Florida or something. Somebody was holding someone down in the boat and murdering them in the boat. I was on land watching. My heart was boat and I was like on on land watching and I was just My heart was racing and I was like, oh my god. Oh my god. They're they're killing that person They're killing them and there was nothing I could do and then I'll wake up or I'll watch myself swimming in the ocean getting attacked by a shark and

I'm watching it and I know it's me and I'm like dying and I'm just like They're dying. They're dying and then I'll wake up and I'm just like, they're dying, they're dying and then I'll wake up and I'll just be like, well, that was weird. I have no control in my dreams. Some crazy disassociation. Yeah, like I don't, I can't take any, take any action, but you, it's even scarier because you guys are like fully doing the thing. Yeah. And sometimes I lose a dream a lot. So sometimes even in the throes of a dream,

I'm aware and I start trying to drive the car and usually that ends the dream. But this one with the two Sams, I woke up and I was just like touching her. And just big rat face. Are you awake? Are you awake? Are you awake? My nightmares are like video game related.

Where like it feels like I'm in the worst video game that you would want to live in. And I'm like killing stuff and like, you know, it's like zombies or just like dead things. And yeah, I wake up and I'm like, God, this is my life. And then for like 20 minutes, I'm like, wait a second. That's not my life. I don't have to do that. Oh, that's not my life. Oh, great. Got to wake up and kill all those zombies in space. Wait, no, I don't.

It's good. do you dream? Yeah, I rarely remember my dreams anymore, but I used to lucid dream a lot when I was a kid. I remember when I was a kid, I read an article in Cricket Magazine. Oh wow. Oh yeah. Do you remember Cricket Magazine?

I loved Cricket. We have the three and under version from here. Oh cool, I didn't know it was still around. Cricket's that like highlights? Yeah. It's like the step up to highlights. It would be found in the same pediatrician's offices as a highlights magazine.

Same dentist. I think it's Baby Bug, then Cricket, then Highlights. Yeah, Baby Bug, wow. Yeah, wow. Yeah, shit. But yeah, it's like a little, it's almost like a digest kind of magazine for kids. And they have little like sort of Sergio Aragonese

like strips like at the bottom featuring Cricket and his friends and everything. This big black bug. But I read an article in there about lucid dreaming. And that got me thinking about it. And that got me lucid dreaming. I was just like, I had full control over my dreams for about like two years or something.

It was great. You can train yourself. It's like you draw an X on your hand or something and then you stare at it a certain amount of time. You look at your hands. And then in the dream, if you see the app, you can. I don't know what I did recently. Recently all my dreams, like I kind of know I'm dreaming.

And then I can start driving. But you don't wake up. I don't wake up. Yeah. You have to train yourself not to wake. Because usually as soon as you say, this is a dream, you just wake up instantly. What if your brain's like, the jig's up.

We're calling it. Right, exactly. What if right now is a dream? No. I mean, that's. Brody, just put like this in the background. I think it's more like a, definitely, I think it's definitely a nightmare.

I guess we'll find out right after this break. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Eric from Norse Foundry sent me some cool dice that I brought. I think I'm just gonna take all my dice and throw them in the trash and start with these new ones. Thank you, Eric. All those Norse Foundry dice you have, you're gonna take those and throw them in the trash? Well, you know, I just, I'm rough with my stuff. I'm rough with chairs, as we all know, but I'm rough with my stuff. I have like the, my split the party ones that have the D20 on them. These are still nice

You should like auction them off for charity or something Actually throw them monetize that shit. I mean, they're not all chip Some of them are actually good. These are the Red Sox ones that Eric gave me last year But the d20 on that one, I think is chipped and then I've got a prototype died this one crushes It's killed. It's killed a couple of you See, it's got a little chip on the 11. He just looked at you. He looked at me.

He looked at me when you said, a couple of cities. It's killed a couple of cities. A couple of you, and then he looked at me twice, like back again. I'd like to be nicer with my things, but it's hard. Yeah. Nice. Nice things. Are you gentle with your things? Yes. I sit gently. You're not gentle with other people's.

I wish you had to make the same comment. Oh, God. I wish we could cut to a flashback of like breaking Matthew's dice Give me a break I haven't shipped a single die on my own You're a gentle soul Now that was a die-on-die situation. That was the only guy rolled your die little die-on-die That was a die on die situation. That was the, that's not like I rolled your die. Little die on die action. You rolled your die on mine.

My die onto your die by accident. My die came out of it unscathed. Well, we might see some dice rolls today because you guys have leveled up. Yeah! What level are you all now? Five. Five alive.

It's a nice one and two. That is a nice one. Juice tackle. Let's talk about, before we talk about the events of last episode in this, this like vision or hallucination or reality that you experienced. Maybe it was a dream, maybe it was a nightmare, maybe it was all too real. Before we get into that, let's talk about this level up. Level five, what is a level five Ramu look like?

Ramu! Did you take a new dedication? No, I didn't. No, you a new dedication? No, I didn't. A new dedication? I didn't. A lot of it's about ability score upgrades. And I decided to, I thought about putting a point in constitution and then just decided not to do it.

So I was like, no, he's kind of like a sickly-ish guy, always has been. So like, even though that would be good to get some more HP at this level, I'm not going to do it. So I focused on wisdom, charisma, intelligence, and dexterity, which is nice. You get another trained skill, which is fun. And I, what did I train that I hadn't trained before? I think it was nature. I think I did not.

Oh no, I had nature. Oh, I don't remember which one I trained, But I do remember that I got an expert level up, and I put that in religion. He was actually not an expert in religion previously. Oh, that's cool. Really? That's nice. Wow.

It was a pure Watch McCall party optimization decision. Because I think it's time for you to actually be trained in medicine. I mean, shockingly, he actually is already an expert in medicine, despite the results of his procedures. And then the thing I'm most excited about, though, is you get an ancestry feat at fifth level. There's a human ancestry feat that is just phenomenal, called Clever Improvisor.

Oh, yeah. You son of a bitch. My god. Did you take that? It's the greatest feat. It's the same. I took the same one. I was like, how could anyone not take this feat?

It's probably the greatest feat in the entire game, like of any class. Clever Improviser? It's the greatest feats the same I took the same one. I was like, how could anyone not take this feet? It's probably the greatest feat in the entire game Any class clever improvise it's amazing. He used what skill for like multiple things you get your proficiency bonus in Every skill minus one that you're not trained in minus one If you're fifth level if your fifth level and you can't get into your fifth level Yeah You can get you can get untrained improvisation at third level as a general feat. This human fifth level feat is you get that feat, which is anything at minus 1,

and you can do any trained action of any untrained skill. Even like traps? Yeah. I could set traps. I could pick a lock right now with Remius. I mean, if you look, if you scan down. So a trap that has a requirement of at least trained, if you're not trained in stealth,

you can still do it. Maybe not. Okay. It says you can attempt trained skill actions even if you are untrained. I don't know if it means- That sounds to me like you can. A lot of times though, those things are really less about trained because you can't even disable a device unless you're trained.

So it's kind of like, usually those things start at expert. That's very cool. But? So it's kind of like, usually those things started expert. But that's very cool. But yeah, it's so cool. When I look down my skill bonuses now, I mean, I don't have a single one under six. And most of them are not under plus seven. So like any skill, I could just roll, which is especially important for knowledge.

Yeah, I mean, and there's some classes like Clark, I'm assuming, that you don't have a lot of skill proficiencies out the gate, like Rogue does. Yeah. So this is. It kind of takes a while to get there. But now I'm assuming that you don't have a lot of skill proficiencies out the gate like a rogue does. Yeah. It kind of takes a while to get there, but now I'm there. And if you combine that with my, the focus spell that I get through my deity through Grhastha, it's scholarly recollection.

So I can basically roll twice and take the better result once, you know, with a focus point on a knowledge check. So like before I was kind of limited to nature and religion. Those were my primary trained monster knowledge skills, but now Arcana, occultism, any one of those, you know, I could do it in. And so, yeah. Did you get some new spells or new spell levels? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But we'll see that as well. Okay. But did you get a higher level?

Yeah, third level spells unlocked. How many? Two? Two. Two spell slots at third level. Okay, very cool. Can't wait to see those be misinterpreted soon. Yep. So Barnsie now I feel like a thaumaturge has lots of access to skills. Yeah, more so than a clerk. I mean, but it's not an intelligence based class. So you only get so many. Okay. So I took I took clever improviser as well because I saw it was there was another cool one. So I took Clever Improvisor as well, because I saw it. There was another cool one, but I was like,

how could anyone not take this? Yeah. Especially like, I feel like I have a rogue, I'm feeling the rogue slot-ish of the party. You're a bit roguish personality-wise at least. Thank you. Yeah, so I bumped up intimidation to expert, because I figured, use that third action. And I have intimidating glare, so I can do intimidation to expert because I figured if we get, use that third action.

And I have intimidating glare so I can do a little demoralize. The big thing for athometers at level five is you get a second implement. So right now the mirror is my first implement. So I have chosen the second implement. Okay, and now the mirror, it has the thing that it does. The other, this other implement, do you make it up

or it's written as like you get a brooch and a brooch allows you to do X? Exactly. Is that okay? And then both of them level up. So when you hit seventh level, they gain new abilities. Get out of town. That sounds fun.

It is fun. And the one I chose is very fun. Is it a hanky? It is a hanky. How did you know? Yes, it is the hanky. The hanky of wind. The hanky implement.

It's in the book and everything. The hanky. The hanky implement. It's in the book and everything. The hanky of sweet wind. It's cool. So basically you're allowed a, the effect is you can use both of your implements at the same time. So you're allowed a free action to basically switch implements. So you, when it would become relevant. Okay. But so you're basically wielding both and you use whatever becomes. Nice. Oh, so that's there. So level five is a real nice jump. It's juicy. It's a juicy jump.

Good for you. And then I got, I- You get spells? I forgot all about you. No, I have, well I have a spell through the Oration Sky Sage. Or you again? What's your name?

Oh right, the Sky Sage. Talitha, right? That's just rude. I've been holding up the implement that did her in and then bragging that. And then I bumped up strength, so I'm up to a plus four on strength, DEXCON and intelligence. So I get an extra language, which I haven't picked yet.

Oh, I should ask, what languages do you all speak? Cause I probably would learn one that you know. I only speak like two of them. What are they? Common and Elvish. Common, Elven, Draconic, Tengu, and Vudrani. Well, Tengu? I'm waiting on, I have another language to pick too.

I pick, I have Common, Goblin, Halfling, and Elvin. I guess I would take Elvin, right? I took Elvin with the level up. Did you take Clever Improvisor? Yes. Okay. I think I just have Common and Gnomish. I'll take Elvin. That's, maybe we were just like, we were like, you read? Yeah, I felt like that wasvisor? Yes. Okay. I think I just have common in Gnomish. I'll take Album. That's, that's, maybe we're, maybe we're just like,

we were like, you're good. Yeah, I felt like that was what made sense. Yeah. Okay. Nice. Great. Let's talk about old Zephyr, one of the originals. Zephyr poo.

From this show. Zephy poo. Zephyr do. Level five is fun for monks because now my unarmed strikes are expert strikes. So any strikes that I make that are in the brawling group, which is strikes with my fists, if I crit, I get like this critical specialization.

You have to like roll a Fortitude save, I think, and if you fail, then you are slowed one until my next turn. So that's pretty cool. Okay. I also get perception expertise at fifth level. So now all my saves are expert and perception, I'm expert in. So that's very nice.

And you can see invisibility to some degree as well. And then I sat down today and I was like, I know how I'm leveling up. And then Joe was like, did you know that Clever Improvisor is the best skill feed ever? And I was like, mm, but now two of you guys took it. So I'm either taking Clever Improvisor because.

It's human only, right? Because you're a half elf. Can you do it as a half elf? She can take all human. Clever Improvisor because I'm not trained in deception, but a trained action in deception is faint. And I feel like that could be fun with like martial things. And you can only do it when you're trained.

So I could do that. Or I can put one of my ability scores in intelligence and then train it actually, and then choose the ancestry feat that I was gonna originally take, which is Forlorn, which is an elf one. Watching your friends die fills you with more worse, more worse, more worse.

More rose. No, more rose. Let her do it. Let her do it. The only way she'll learn. Out the side of my face. Lame. Lame. Let her do it. Let her. See the only way she'll learn. Out the side of my face. Blame. Blame.

Let her do it, it might be funny. Say that with your mouth. I say it with my head. Morose? Morose. Morose. It does have like a row, morose. Mowage.

Watching your friends die and age fills you with. Mowage. Morose. Morose. I've now forgotten the correct way to say it. I don't even know what the word means. You're literally doing the, I can pay you in blocks. Mow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow mow-wows. I'm an immortal. I'm immortal. And being mow-wows protects me against harmful emotions, I would get a plus one circumstance bonus to saving throws against emotion effects. Oh, you're like Gen X.

And if I succeed, it's actually a critical. You're like Gen X. That's Gen X trade. Let me ask you this. Is it between that and this clever, I mean, that is zapper to a five-year-old. That's a dead ex trait. Let me ask you this. Dead ex can't be hurt. Is it between that and this clever, I mean that is zapper to a fight. It fits story wise and I feel like if we ran into things in the future that had that, I would kick myself if I didn't take this so I might.

It's also so true to the story and character. It's one of those things where it's like- Yeah, like you have lost a lot of friends and you are being pretty moose about it. Moose. Very moose.ose about it. Very moose. Very moose. Very moose. Very moose. Very moose.

Shut up, you guys. I'm so tired of watching my friends die. Well, that's cool. Now let me ask you this. Can you, you have some downtime-ish here on this boat, this journey, wherever the hell you're going. Can you retrain out of your bow if you wanted to, to like better be able to use your fists? Because that might be something, even if it's not as a glass feet, right?

I don't see why you couldn't retrain. If I did that, I'd have to retrain my first level class feet of monastic archer stance. Yes. Something to think about if you wanted to do that, because it seems like you've been using your fisticuffs a little more recently. Just throw that out there if that's something you wanted to do. Like behind the curtain, I did make Zephyr to fill in a ranged role in our party when we first started.

And if I'm not filling that role and doing other things, then maybe it would be worth it to just redo that. I bet you everyone on it to just redo that. I bet you everyone on the internet would love that. They are not watching. Does anyone else do range now? I do. I mean, Oh yeah, you do range. You do a little range. Yeah.

Very extremely ineffective. You miss on a couple of lighting bolts. Searing lights. Yeah. I've had a few bolts from God just miss, go astray. Yeah, something I take about. I hate when God misses. It's a terrible aim. You don't have to decide that. You're more of a reader.

You might be. How much of a laser ray shooter. Turns out I already had Elvin, so I took Goblin. Figured maybe he'd talk. Now you guys can talk on the side. We can talk on the side. That's fun. What does the Kula Khan speak?

Yeah, what does the Kula Khan speak? Yeah, what does the Kulakan speak? Well, that was the thing. I was going to take that language. It's like- Is it made up? Yeah. So, Matthew can't take it. Well, no, I do speak Goblin. It's not in his character sheet.

I speak Goblin. Sure, sure. The Kulakan speaks another language. What is that language called? I don't know. It would be handy to speak that language. Coolacanee. Coolacanee. Coolish. Coolie Coolie. I also realized, Matthew, I have a fey as well. I can speak fey. I forgot. Because I'm fey-touched. I spake fee. I spake fee. I spake fee. I spake fee.

I spake fee. I spake fee. I spfee. That just gave me a flashback to that language thing when you were a child. It's from... You scared that out of me, Fee. Are you talking about the backwards word with the Pig Latin? Nope, she's got something else going on. That commercial for learning languages for children and it was the drawings.

Is it Hooked on Phonics? Hooked on Phonics?ics? Hooked on phonics? Is it hooked on phonics? You'll be reading like never before. Reading open, so many doors get hooked on phonics. I think that was just about learning your current language. Yes. Yeah.

Phonics isn't another language. And the girl's speaking French. She's like, she's like, is it babble? Yeah, l'enfee. What? And the way that you like jibber jabbered sent me back there. Rosetta Stone? We've got to look this up. I don't even know what to look up. What's it called, babble? Yeah, the Muffi. What? And the way that you like jibber jabbered me, sent me back there. Rosetta Stone? We gotta look this up.

I don't even know what to look up. What's it called, babble? I think the thing we can take away from this is that Kate thinks French is jibber jabber. Jibber jabber. Wow. That's right. So you're trying to say jim-a-peh?

Cut all the jibber jabber. Are you saying jim-a-peh? What is it? Muzzy. Muzzy. Muzzy! I think you met. Oh, because Muzzy speaks French.

Yeah, I think, I don't know. Muzzy. Who's Muzzy? Yeah, Muzzy teaches English to children as young as two. Oh my gosh. And up. And other languages, right? I guess.

Muzzy. It's like a cartoon. A dog or something? It's like a big guy. Wait. No. Muzzy in Gondoland is a, no, that's something else. I've never seen that thing before.

Well. I don't like that thing. I think we've learned nothing. What is your eighth character leveling up with? Yes, let's take it to Gic. Con. Con? Constitutive.

You live forever. Con. Yeah, so I get an Ancestry feat, ability boost, skill boost, and then also spells. It's not a huge, huge one. The spells are really helpful getting third level spells. It's pretty huge. It's pretty huge.

There's some good ones. I think you guys will like what I picked. But the Ancestry feat, I'd like to hear from the Peanut Gallery for once. The best one I think for me is called energized font. I can as one action focus my mind more quickly and I can regain a focus point with just one action to cast my spells that need focus points. How many focus points do you currently have? Three.

Not all my spells need focus points. Does that mean you also have three focus spells? No, I have... All your spells are focused? No, not all of them. My focus spells are like my muse bard spells specifically so it's like courageous anthem counter performance lingering composition Oh, yeah him of healing my regular bard spells are not focus related. How can you do that action? once a day

Once per day, okay the other one that sounds interesting and this is a little more, I don't know, bard-esque, snow white-esque. But it's... Famous bards. Snow white. I can't. Famous Disney bards. She's more of a ranger.

She's more of a ranger. She a famous Disney bard? She sings so much. Just because she whistles while she works. They all sing. The dwarves whistle while, are you kidding me? That would make every Disney character ever a bard. Exactly. You think Snow White's working in the mines? I think she's while she works. They all sing. The dwarves whistle while are you kidding me? That would make every Disney character ever a bard. Exactly.

You think Snow White's working in the mines? I think she's a ranger. She doesn't whistle while she works. She doesn't do shit. She literally sings this song. She came down in a bubble, bro. What movie are we talking about? What are you talking about?

Are you talking about Wizard of Oz? Somebody get a music video with Wizard of Oz? Somebody get her a Muzzy subscription. All right. You can hear animal sounds as conversation instead of unintelligent noise, so I can talk to animals. Nope, the other one. That one, that one.

Let's do the other one. Let's do the other one. Are we voting? Are we voting? But in my mind. You're not even doing that in Baldur's Gate because I found it so exhausting. Hear me out, hear me out.

I did also put my skill increase into survival. So now I'm an expert in survival, which I think makes sense character-wise. But we're traveling. We're in these unknown lands. Troy's your GM. Troy's my GM. Trying to remember, Troy's my GM.

Now you can do a song like, I'm a survivor. I'm an expert in survival. Thank you. That's quick. Expert in survival. You would do really well in my class Thank you. That's quick. I'm an expert in survival. You would do really well in my class. Yeah.

Just do that. He dreamed about it. I've dreamed about it. That's tonight's dream. A nightmare. Just suck all your friends. Just do this. Just do what?

Bang your teacher and make you watch. What? She likes it. Wait for a second. What? Look at her watching. He's going to invade your dreams. That's gonna be my new nightmare.

You have to watch, because as we established, that's what you do. You do, you're there, and I have to watch. Oh, god. Beautiful dream. I'm not afraid to text people when they're in my dreams, no matter how weird the fucking dream is. So if you're in my dream, 7 a.m., you're getting a text,

like, hey, last night was fucked up, I just gotta let you know what happened. Why'd you have one leg? You had one leg and you're in a front glass. One leg banging everybody. You say just do the Helvetica, the boring version? No. Font, font, font, font, font.

I can't do my comic sans. And then you gotta remember once a day over the course of many episodes. You can't go wrong with Helvetica. I could have gone with Fey and- The vanilla ice cream, the fuck. I wanna let you know. No, it's the course of many episodes. You can't go wrong with Helvetica. I could have gone with Feyen. The vanilla ice cream, the funk. I want to let you know. It's the one that's everywhere.

You try to go a day without using Helvetica. You won't move far in the city. Subway. Say one thing. What are you trying to say? The font monopoly. Focus points. That would mean you would have to have used three

in a single combat. Because you can refocus. In 10 minutes outside of combat. This is for focusing in combat. This is like I'm running out of spells. It just won't happen often either. The other things that I can do, I can look through this list again, but like razzle dazzle.

That's one. I don't know what that is. Sounds fun. This is an ancestry feat? Yeah, they're all gnome feats so like razzle dazzle for a weapon I could like blind a creature with like the shininess of a weapon I don't use weapons that much are the two options you gave us your two feet fives. Yes for your ancestry. Yeah, yeah I think he's talk with them. Just talk with animals Yes Use okay Just talk with animals. Just talk with animals. Fun. Do the other one. Yes.

Use, okay, so two people side talk with animals. You can talk to Chucky now. I'm gonna, I'm gonna. It's such a gnome thing. I know, I'm trying to, I wanna do gnome stuff. We're about to, we're about to. We've had a lot of fun with it in Legacy of the Ancients. Yeah. We're about to.

I can speak with animals as a gnome. That's true. Yeah, but Skid. Oh my God, I. Yeah, but skin enjoys that and creates fun. You know what? We're about to never see a single animal in this world ever again. You can also force him to do something he doesn't wanna do, which would be really fun.

I'm gonna choose animal illocutionist for now. Letman Law, you know, after this, you know, whatever. We'll see. After you talk to the first animal. After I talk to the first animal. You'll be like, all right, I guess I'm not gonna do this. You will not see a single animal the rest of the season. I will trust you.

And if you do, they will be bloodthirsty and trying to kill you. The woods are eerily quiet. I will also warn you that if he does give in. Not a fish. No. If he does give in and you wanna have a little bit of a taste of what you're getting into,

just check out the Insect Sp spies episode of Giant Slayer. Oh my god, yes. Oh yeah, this is the issue. Troy doesn't give us information, so the fact that I would. Arms. Two legs. Five arms, two legs. Not only was it painful to listen to,

they gave us the accurate information. They lied. He's not going to help us is the issue. He's going to deliberately deceive you. I'm going to say, which way should we go, you know, animal that's lived here your entire life, and you're going to be like, I'm fucked up. I just moved here. Yeah. From the Grove of Tears. We'll see.

You're trying to find my way around. We'll see. Good day. I'll keep this in mind. There you go. I'll choose that for now. I'll see. Good day. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! I'll keep this in mind. There you go. I'll choose that for now. I'll keep this in mind.

I'm going to make it just useful enough until the lemon law passes so that you're locked in. Then you're dealing with that. We're going to have some fun with this. I'm sure we will. Yeah, and then some spells. So those will come up, hopefully, during this combat. Spells!

Skid, talk about the new Buggles. I took, well, for my Ancestry feat, I took Vandal. Ooh. It's a goblin feat. Vandal? Vandal. Vandal. Oh, Vandal. It's basically, like, if I'm attacking, like, a trap

or an unattended object, I ignore the first five points of hardness. And then it also is ordinarily, it gives you thievery trains along with it. I already did have thievery trains, so it allows you to choose another skill. I took a deception, a, uh, I got my new focus spell or, uh, the not focus spell, the, um, damn it, signature spell, signature spell at third level. I got third level spells. My signature spell is fireball.

So that's, oh, that'll level up with you. Do you have a couple to choose from or it's just like fireball? Uh, no, that's the one that, that I one that I get with oscillating wave, I think. Wow, oh god. And then the spell I chose is to share invisibility. Shared invisibility. So I can just, it's a concentration spell for 10 minutes and I can share it with basically the whole party. Wow. It's a combination for me. So it's I can share it with basically the whole party.

Wow. It's an emanation for me. So it's like if we could all say it all. Invisibility sphere. That's not what it's called. But yeah, that's yeah. Yeah, like the remaster maybe version. Yeah, probably.

Yeah. Oh, wow. That's very cool. Very, very cool. Nice little level. Good for getting into places. Yeah. And then we'll break shit.

Yeah, I could break anything in there. Fireball doesn't mess around in 2A, and I assume you get to heighten it as you level up. That's what the signature means. Yeah. It heightens automatically. Well, I can. So you're going to do cold fireball and hot fireball.

I guess so, yeah. That's so cool. Yeah. Yeah, fireball. It's a killer. She's a killer. Cool. I found this nice map here on Foundry.

I want to just show it to you guys here. A little map of the area. Ooh, that is nice. Obviously, we were using the interactive Galerian map, which is like the Google map of Galerian, but this is a nice, sort of a better indication of where you are. So you see Winter Break Bay. You see where Skywatch is. And then obviously, Mendev is

over here to the west. You got New Meria to the south. Now you can get a better sense of where Brevois is and Iobaria, and you see where the frozen north is just to the north of Mendev and this giant lake of mists and vales. And remind me, we made it to Winter Break Bay. Yes. Yes. Yeah, you made it to Winter Break Bay, and it seems like you are going to continue heading along this coast, this southern coast, going to Mendev. Yeah.

Until you hear differently from Sakawatchee's dreams. I just read this town Chesed as cheesed. Cheeseed. Yeah, cheeseed. Cheeseed. We have to go to Numeria. We have to stop at Cheeseed. We have to get those curds that they sell everywhere.

Ooh, squishy. Should we just stop in Numeria and just get a bunch of guns? Just get a bunch of laser guns? What's stopping us from just stopping over just getting a bunch of robots and laser rifles? Hiring some androids just like be the like, it would be the front line for us. You do have some options, but... But that's not one of them.

That's not one of them. All the gun stores are closed. It's a new ruler of the land. No animals and no guns. They signed an amendment. I do love that all the high-tech stuff is effectively contained in Demeria. What a great job. However they do it, containing all that stuff

into one principality on this planet. I think it was an adventure, honestly, to get some weapons and get out. I feel like in the history of it, there was some sort of alien crash there for that technology. I mean, it's all inspired by the expedition of the barrier peaks, the old module.

That's the inspiration of it is like that. Is it Iron Gods? Is that the event? Yeah. That AP is that event? That's the first one I think in the Pathfinder 1E canon where they started to deal with extraterrestrial. That was the one before Giant Slayer. Yeah. We were looking at it.

We wanted to do more of a classic. Yeah. Dell was running it actually. Dell was running it for a while. I saw it in a couple sessions. Yeah. It's running it, actually. Dell was running it for a while. I saw it in a couple of sessions. Yeah. It's cool. Very cool.

Well, as you're sailing through here, you've got four members of a Sakawatche and three of his buddies, Anuma, Uli Kuk, who is the navigator, and Deniji. Obviously, Pamak, sort of the chronicler of the group, was found dead outside of the walls of Skywatch along with one of the members of the Smiling Wolves torn to pieces by a dragon-like creature that you decided not to mess with. And so, Sakawatchi has been grieving. It seems like there was a romantic relationship there. Maybe they were betrothed and decided to put that aside to follow Sakawachi's quest here, the quest of their tribe to save both the Aratakis and perhaps the world from this great

evil. And so, throughout the journey so far, since you've left Skywatch, Sakawachi has been sort of sitting in his grief, Uli Kuk doing his best to navigate these waters. At the end of last episode, you saw these bubbles on the water and then the bubbles started to rise and began to overtake the vessel. And you were all transported back in time to this shared vision where all of you, along with some of the members of your group that are now deceased and other members you couldn't even make out their faces or perhaps did not remember, standing there staring up at a Ayudhara. Looking off in the distance, you see Sakawachi standing there watching you all looking at

this gate and you all step through. As you step through, you come out of this vision, this dream, this memory, and you see these pirates coming up over the sides of the ship. As these pirates begin to climb over the sides of the ship, each of you realize, because you're still coming out of this moment in time, you realize you can almost see through them to the shore beyond, to the forest beyond, they're translucent. They're drawing falchions and dirks and raising them above their heads about to strike you closing in and then the world goes black one more time. Zephyr, you feel a cold touch upon your cheek. First it feels like a hand, a very cold hand caressing you in this darkness, but then you feel it again and again and it feels smaller

than a hand. You open your eyes and you're on the boat. You look around and you see everyone else including Sakawachi and his companions, either asleep on the boat or slowly coming to like you are. The boat is just sort of drifting aimlessly downstream. You look around and you don't recognize your surroundings. I don't know how much you were paying attention to the travel, but it seems like the boat has just sort of been drifting for you don't know how long.

And there is a light snow in the air, and that's what's landing on your face. As each of you come to, you feel this same snow. Are we all sitting? Are we bound at all? No, we're kind of like coming to. We're moving through the, we're still in the bay. Yeah, well we don't know. The boat's kind of like sideways and going down. Can we see the Daniji?

Can we see the shore? You can see the shore, yeah, it's still, it's sort of further away than it was when you originally passed out. Dineji! Dineji! Wake up! What? We're adrift! What is happening? Let me wake up LeCouc. Did I fall asleep? I don't remember laying down.

Do we remember the, like, the vision or the dream we had? Absolutely, yeah. Ah! Just bubbles? Pull out a knife. Yeah, I look around, like, can I do a perception check to see if I see we had? Absolutely, yeah. Ah! Just bubbles. Pull out a knife. Yeah, I look around, like, can I do a perception check to see if I see any pirates? Yeah, absolutely.

Ooh, 90, 19. Ooh. For a 28. 28, you don't see any other ship, any sign of pirates. Don't worry about being attacked. Gate. Pirates climbing the side of the boat.

Were we drugged? I saw the same thing. I saw that too. Saw it as well. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Saw it as well. What were we being attacked? Pirates climbing the side of the boat. Were we drugged? I saw that too. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you see... We were all together. Did you see that? Did you remember that?

Zephyr's like patting herself down right now to make sure she still has all of her belongings. Tales like you do. Is the environment different than what we saw? Or is it the environment's the same? It's just the pirates are gone? You still seem to be on this river, this lake. But like when we woke up, nothing changed around us for the vision except for there being no pirates.

Right. Okay. Yeah, you're just at a different portion of the lake so you don't know how long you've been out. I feel like I lost time. Yeah. Uli-Cook is the navigator? Yeah. You're just at a different portion of the lake. So you don't know how long you've been out. I feel like I lost time. Yeah. Um, Hooli-Cook is the navigator? Yeah. Okay.

Is it still daytime? So, um, Hooli-Cook, have we lost time? Have we lost location? Yes. And Hooli-Cook is like trying to like swing the mast around, try and get the boat. I'm looking at the stars to try to gauge or any kind of landmarks to gauge where we are. Yes. I don't know. Does anyone? I do a survival. Yeah, I'm gonna do a survival check

to see how much time has passed. Okay. I'm gonna try out my clever improviser and do survival too. Should I do survival or like aid someone in survival? You can aid someone and get higher. All right, I'll aid brother Amy. I'll aid Buggles.

Natural 18. So critical. Nice. A 12. So critical. Nice. A 12. Get a plus one. Oh, I forgot. I intended to train survival, but I didn't. So just roll your own.

Oh, can I roll again? Also a 12 isn't a plus one, right? You need 15. Oh, do you need 15? Can I roll again? No. But I think you rolled pretty well, right? I hit my head when I fell.

27. All right, so I will say that you get the sense that you've been a drifter anywhere from an hour to two hours. Oh, jeez. That's not that bad. That is bad on open water. As long as you can see the coast. We're also on a lake.

We can see the coast, but is it the right? The big lake. Is it the right coast? He asked the brave crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald how bad it is to be lost on a lake. Do any of you have knowledge of this area, have knowledge of the lake of Mist and Veils? I can roll on it.

Yeah, I've never been. It looks to you, Barclay. I'll do S circle or minus two. 24. I'll do S circular minus two, uh, 20. For you remember somewhere in your studies, uh, reading about the history of the area. And there are reports of these gas bubbles in this area that have been known to, uh, cause hallucinate hallucinations, the sailors, to sailors and have gone as far as to make some of them completely lose themselves, go mad.

A lot of people thought that this was just some sort of rumor when sailors don't come home or if they come home changed. But now you see for yourself that there might be some truth to these rumors. It's all right, everyone. We just got a little high. Have we all saw the same thing? Yes. How's that possible?

It was hallucination. Produced by these gaffers. Two coincidental bonds for all of us to see the same vision. Even if the gases, they must have unlocked something we already knew. Yes, there was. Same as the memories. Yes, there was some memories.

Yes. I felt it felt like a memory. What about the pirates? We're all there. I don't know what the pirates are, perhaps. Solos that have lost their way due to these gases. I don't know any of you. I don't know you, Sakawatchi.

You were in my dream, memory, whatever it was. Did you see what we saw? I did. I saw you all standing in front of that Ayudhara, but I have no memory of this. And also, it's my understanding that all of you walked through a gateway, and that's how you got your mark and these powers. I never did anything like that. I never lost time. You don't know for sure. It's possible. It's possible that you don't remember. Anything's possible, but I feel like I would know the people. I was around people all the time. They would have told me if I disappeared for a month or a week or even a few hours.

Perhaps time works differently beyond the gates. It did feel like more than a hallucination, though. It felt like a shared nice memory. And the pirates climbed the walls of the climb, the gunnels of the boat. I knew it was this boat. That hasn't happened. Do you mean the gun whales? That's what my people call them.

That is how it's spelled. Yes. I also pronounce all the consonants in through. How would you do that? Throu-ga-ha. Throu-ga-ha. Throu-ga-ha. Throu-ga-ha.

That is how my people pronounce it. Throu-ga. Throu-ga. Throu-ga. Throu-ga. The only way out is throu-ga. Throu-ga. Throu-ga.

Oh. Is that a bit, could that be a vision of the future? The only way out is Tharuk. Tharuk. Tharuk. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Could that be a vision of the future? Oh, I had not thought of that. Wait, wait, wait, wait. You, the Exeggcratia, you see the future. Yes, it doesn't exactly work like that. Could our shared- Be uninitiated, perhaps?

Could our shared presence within the same bubble have affected what we all saw together? Maybe your abilities colored? Yeah, usually my abilities are things that I am trying to activate myself. I look to the stars, I try to read something in there. Yes, sometimes I enter a trance-like state, but this was different. This was caused by an external force. Interesting. was different, this was caused by an external force.

Interesting. Well, what's most important, whether that's the future or the past or memory or not or dream, we have to make sure that we're still going in the right direction. It's snowing now and I don't know, I can't see. Well, the coast is on our left. We must be going in the right direction. We are headed west, right? Coast is to the south. I'm the navigator and I agree with his assessment.

Who said that? Uli-Cook. Okay, sounds so much like Sakawatchi. Yes, Sakawatchi sounds like this. You're right, he's a little higher. He's a little higher. And Deniji sounds like this. Eyeline, eyeline, Sakawatchi.

Anuma sounds like this now. Anuma. Anuma can go back to bed. I didn't see a vision at all. Oh, Anuma sounds like this now. Anuma can go back to bed. I didn't see a vision at all. Oh, Anuma. Is that psycho watching? Yeah, that was psycho. That was really cool. Maybe we should set up a watch

so we don't fall asleep again in tandem. With my knowledge check on the gas bubbles, is there anything, any stories how to prevent? Can you see them before? Get off the lake. Get off the lake. Yeah, I mean, it seems to be something that's located specifically in this area,

so getting out of this area would be good, but you'd have to travel over land. And like put a fashion, a mask or something. It might help, but it's certainly nothing you've ever read. If it was something that you ingested that you breathe in, you do remember before you shared that there was like this sweet smell in the air. You all smelled this oddly sickly sweet smell.

So maybe it is something you ingest. Maybe we can wear like a little mask. Yeah, I'll suggest that we kind of make a ersatz mask and tie it around our faces. We can wear a little mask. Yeah, I'll suggest that we make a ersatz mask and tie it around our faces. Denege says, you know those masks don't do anything. And Sakowitza says, shh. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Now. Not now. Denege's death slots up. And then Ulykia comes in. Ulykia's got some interesting ideas. Well, if it's well fitting.

Yeah. I agree with Deneri. Anuma! You're not helping. Um, if our only choice is to just move through the only way out is Tharuga. Tharuga. Keep moving as quickly as possible.

Tharuga. Are the winds good right now? Favorable? It's kind of a nice snow. The weather, I don't know if you snowed in New York recently. We've got a ton of snow up in Westchester. And I always feel like when it snows, it's warmer out. Like you go out, it could be 15 degrees, but it just feels. It insulates.

Yeah. It's too cold at once now. I'm out there in flip flop shoveling. It feels so nice. So. Science. Do do do. It's like coming down. It's like landing on top of the lake and it's pretty.

But as the day wears on, now that Uli Kuk has sort of righted the ship, the snowfall does start to get heavier. And after a couple hours of traveling, you know, it's getting later in the day, it's starting to get darker. It's not nightfall yet. You still have time. But you can see that Uli Kuk is getting concerned and he says, I defer to the group here. We are still miles to the next port town, according to my maps. I can try and push through and maybe we'll reach

one of these towns later in the night or maybe it would be better to just go to shore, but I don't know how safe the area is here. We just like drop anchor offshore? You could, yeah, we could do that as well. You know, to be option, to be option, to be option. To be option. To be honest is what I meant to say. None of these options are really great. There isn't really a safest option. I don't know much about

these towns. But this storm seems to have come out of nowhere. I don't know how long it's going to be. Pamuk would have been helpful. She knew whether this is like, Pamuk would have been helpful. She knew weather. This is like... Do you know these waters? No, I've never traveled them. I've read about them. But no, I don't. I think the safest bet is to get to land if a storm is coming. We should make it camp. Being at sea is boring. Well... It's the greatest dangers that we could be bored.

Do you want to go down the galley with me see if we can find something to do? True threat. Kick, drink maybe? Oh, I wouldn't mind a drink. Yeah, warm us up a bit. Should we head to the galley while we go to shore? Maybe grab a bottle?

You guys got this, right? I don't know how to navigate. Do we have a galley? I thought we had like a canoe. Rescue rowboat. It's like a boat, it's got rooms. There is a below deck. And some stuff down here.

That's decent little ship. I imagine it's like storage kind of though, like you kind of like hunch over underneath and sit down, load the ground. I didn't realize that. Taking my meals below decks. Yeah, I'll be down below deck. Okay.

Dick and I are gonna go below deck. I've got some cards in my bag. Oh hell yeah, let's go. You know how to play skull and bones? No. Okay, I'll teach you. Yes. I just made it up? Yeah, it's a game I made up.

When I'm by my lonesome and normally play with one person, I guess I could make up new rules to play with too. I learned it from a rabbit. Who is that? Who is that? Who is talking? play who do I learned it from a rabbit Troy is doing what's in Gix head oh thank you I didn't realize that with that's what Gix's inner voice sounds like and then she also says them out loud I learned it from a

rabbit yeah you may not have been aware that you're co-playing this character we're someone who has a deep respect for bards. I'm just going to play your inner thoughts right now. Like many GMs, he's telling you what your character thinks. Yes. And does. You know what? You don't go below deck. Oh, okay.

You don't go to below deck. In fact, you fall off the ship. Boom. Let's go to shore. Olekuk says, alright, I can try to, these winds are. All right, good luck, I go downstairs. See ya. Downstairs. These winds aren't great, and then suddenly, as he tries to right the ship towards the shore,

the snow squall seems to triple in intensity. Oh jeez. All at once. Hubert actually gets blown back and starts rolling and hits his head on the back of the ship. He blows off the ship and hears a splash. But you do hear... Could save him.

After the thud of Hubert hitting his head or whatever, you hear wood snapping from the direction of the mass. You hear that wood sound. Do you have that queued up? The sound of wood snapping? Wood snapping? No. Yeah, like a big break. So just you hear that sound and suddenly as you're pushing, as Ulu Cook is trying to push to shore, not only does the river become this complete whiteout, but now you can't even see each other. You open up the door to go below deck and you turn around to look for Zephyr to like maybe grab Zephyr's hand or grab the door frame. You don't even see Zephyr. This whiteout surrounds you but you're breathing at the same time and as you breathe you ingest this sweet smelling air.

Don't breathe it. Don't breathe it. Put on our masks. You put on your masks and you get this lung full of this crisp cold sweet smelling air. So the masks don't do anything? The masks don't do anything. Shit. I think if anything this podcast has shown you. It's a statement.

Against bubble gas. Against bubble gas. Against hallucinogenic bubblegassed! But as you inhale this and as you can't see each other in the white out, your minds or your bodies or your spirits are once more whisked away from the present moment. But unlike last time, there is no glowing gate inside. Instead, your group, your party, is somewhere very cold and very desolate. All of you, that same group from before, may be different. Maybe there's some other members you can't quite tell because there is snow just like there is on the boat and you're trudging together through an arctic waste in the middle of a snowstorm. What?

And you all feel compelled by some unseen force to move toward an unknown destination. If there's one thought in your head, you feel like you must go to this place that you don't know where this place is. You look down, each of you, and in each of your hands and in the hands of your companions, some of you can see them, some of you can't, and the snow, you're all holding a rope. The ropes are secured to the end of a sled that trails behind your party. And if you look back towards the sled you see there is a large creature or something underneath a tarp. You see the outline of a body of sorts but it is a

large body completely covered by this tarp hidden to you under this canvas but you see the outline of a body and you look up and forward once again and there's Sakawachi standing at a distance too far from you to do anything but watch as you all pull this sled urged towards some unknown destination. Sakuwachi! You call out, Sakuwachi does not respond. Where are we going? Looking ahead, you see in the snow

a black spire on the horizon. And as it comes into view, just as quickly, the spire, like, cracks in half and resolves itself into the mast of the ship that you are on. The crunching snow beneath your feet yaws and rolls, and in that moment, you're all back on the ship. The sail is flapping wildly, but it's fallen're all back on the ship. The sail is flapping wildly but it's fallen to the bottom of the ship. The mast is broken in half. The wind is whipping the sail and although this vision, this shared memory has seemed to

subside, the blizzard outside has worsened significantly. The gunnels are all coated in ice. Drifts of snow are piled by the doors, leading to the below decks where you're going, and the lake churns with these big choppy waves that are rocking the boat. The most pressing matter, however, is as all of you look past the broken mass, you see this figure emerge at the front of the boat. A figure made of ice that seems to be emerging from the Tempest itself and landing on the boat. And we'll be back right after this. Oh my God, what the fuck?

Emerging from the Tempest, this figure alights on deck. Roll for initiative. Okay. Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll for initiative. I'm assuming I'm just perceiving at this point. Yeah, everybody's perceiving at this point. But here's, well, I'll tell you in a in a second couple things. First of all, Roll for Initiative always sponsored by good old Norse Foundry. But this combat is going to be sponsored by this sweet map.

Oh, come on with this. I love the snow. Animated snow on the map. Look at us. And look, I got everybody there. I got Sakawatchi, Anuma, Deneji, and Ulikuk. Why am I in the front? This is awesome. Yeah. But you're always in the front. I mean, I'm nice.

We're counting on you. You can arrange yourself any way you want between the broken mast and those boxes. You're behind some boxes. If you want to use that sort of area, do you know what I'm talking about? I was contemplating the gunnels. Anywhere in that box you can put yourself so please arrange yourself anywhere there. Let's go around the horn here and I want to show you a couple

things. First here is here's Ulikuk. Oh yeah, Inuit sunblocker. Yeah. Those are so cool. Um, but no head covering. Just worried about the eyes. Well, Tilly Cook, maybe he's used to a colder climate. Yeah. Here's Anuma. Hi everybody! Okay. Dave.

Both of them are more handsome than you made them sound. I'm so attracted to this man and I wish you would do a different voice. I didn't realize I was on this boat with Todd. You're sorry! This is how I talk. I can't help how we talk. You guys sound weird to me. If I knew they were all hot, I would have invited them to cars.

Who's this? It's Deniji. This is Deniji? Deniji's also hot. OK, also very hot. Pamiko's the hottest of all. Oh, no. She perished for it.

We could tell. Cost her her life, right? That's what We could tell. It cost her her life. Right. That's what we were all thinking when we got her head. We were like, aw, she was the best looking one. That's a real check. She was the hot one. That was the hot head.

That one always dies first. What a shame. It was one hot head. Alright, so. It was much bigger. I thought it was a glorified robo. Yeah. No, yeah, it was huge.

I love this. I thought we were all like, all together. I thought we were a big boat. Yeah. This could be a season up below Dex. Oh yeah. I love this. Yeah. I thought we were all like all together. This could be. This could be a season up below decks. I know. Why I went below decks. Here's the creature. Oh. Here's this creature that looks to be made of pure ice that has just like emerged from the Tempest or maybe you pulled it from your memory into this world but suddenly it is there. Now a couple things about the snow. It is truly a blizzard outside.

So whatever you got on your initiative, take a minus two. Minus two to all visual perception checks. A creature further than 15 feet away is concealed by the falling snow. There are strong winds. You will take a minus two penalty to ranged attacks and a minus two penalty to auditory perception checks. Any torches that may have been lit on the boat have been extinguished. On top of that, the boat is rocking from these waves and if you want to

to move across the vessel you have to roll a balance check, basically acrobatics, check to balance as you Any movement. Any movement. Standing aboard the boat you must balance to move across the pitching vessel And I have the DC here. Let's get into your finish minus two. Where are we? Okay, haven't done this in a while. Zephyr. Natural 20.

Oh! So with the minus two, it's gonna be 27. 27 still pretty sweet. Question. Yeah. Remember earlier when you were like, do you want to redo any of your class feats? I do have a backup in mind. Does that apply now?

Oh, how convenient. If it was an archery contest encounter, would you still ask me? No, I was going to ask you either way. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. If you, if you feel like you want to do it, let's let's fucking do it. It's the end of the world.

As we know. Wait, how long has it been? Since we left. Yeah, how long have we been in the It's the end of the world. As we know it. Wait, how long has it been since we left? Yeah, how long has it been in the boat for? In about a week. In about a week. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Okay, all right, it makes sense. You could've been like, you know what? I'm tired of this bow.

Snap it. Throw it. Exactly. This bow. Fuck this bow. All right, so we'll talk about that in a second. Wow, that's fun. Ramios, oh, I rolled for you, I got a nine.

Wanna keep it? Yeah. second. Wow, that's fun. Ramios. Oh, I rolled for you. I got a nine. You want me to keep it? 21. 21, okay. And then, Buggles? 20. 20. Buggles?

How about Gnome Bard, as I have you listed here after nine of them. What did Gnome Bard get? Gik-Mug. Got a 26. Gik-Mug. Gikome Bard get? Gik-muck. Got a 26. Gik-muck. Gik-muck. Gik-muck. Gik-muck.

Hi, hi. Bard's. Bard's got a natural one. So that minus two is a real. So it's a negative four initiative? Wow. So a total of an eight. Oof.

Okay. I just updated your character name to Bard's. It's been the Amicus. Yeah, well it goes to vaults the first time. When I was prepping it, I just updated your character name to Barnes. It's been the amicus. Yeah, it goes to vaults the first time. When I was prepping, I said, you know, I really should update this. And so I did. All right, so it is Zephyr's turn. Once I go read this to you, rocking ship creatures standing aboard the boat must balance to move across the pitching vessel. So just keep it in mind, if you open up the acrobatic skill on perhaps archives of Nethus which I like to use from time to time you'll see the balance skill is somewhere. Balance is basically you have to succeed at the check to move at half speed. Okay. And if you crit you can move

up to your speed. So it basically treats everything as difficult terrain on the success. Piles of snow. But it is an action. It is one action. It's your move. It's your move. If you fail, you can't move. If you critically fail, you fall.

So I know what she wants to intend to do. I'm assuming I have to roll the balance first. If you intend to move. Yes. If your first action is move, let's balance. First action is intending to move. Whoa, imagine this boat's fucking. Let's balance action is a matter this boat's bucket balance is so bad. The weather effects mod that I have a 19 19 is a success success. I can move half speed, which is if it's 35 is gonna be 15. Yeah,

around strands D 17 and called 17. Did you say it rounds D? Yeah You want to have more efficient episodes around I don't care for D we got some rounds D some purple stuff Measuring moves up, take off the measuring, moves up 15 feet. All right, now where it's within 15, it's no longer concealed to you. It's just the smoke, this like cold air. And so we've been on the boat for a week. Zephyr's been below deck with Gic, or alone,

or with other people quite a bit in the galley you said you were bored going through the cupboards cupboards maybe you're talking to this you got we were spending some time with the knee G yeah we're drinking Gigi um hey what's with that bow says to me G one day in this flashback she's been in her cups um did you take what did you Oh. You see her get into a stance. Oh my god. Or maybe she's just off balance on the boat. You can't really tell.

Wow. Wow. It takes an action. Wait, what is it called Tavern Brawl? What is it called? No. Drunken Monk. Drunken Monk.

Oh my god, she's taken to the bottle. Stumbling faint. No wonder she's- Stumbling faint. No wonder she's so mohose. She's self-medicating. It all makes sense. Wow. You had to add. You had to add. Medicating. Medicating.

So yeah, she gets into that stance and I've got one more action here. I've got one more action here. And again, once again, you are within 15 feet. So it is not concealed to you, but it is concealed to everybody else. So it's a flat check if you want to attack from range with minus two. Well, I can't attack from range because I'm using my fists. You're using your fists. Yeah. Getting into this stance is the second action.

Yeah. So you can either close on it or do a knowledge check. Yeah. Getting into this stance is the second action? Yeah. Alright, so you can either close on it or do a knowledge check. Yeah, I feel like... You need a friend? Tia! I feel like I want to do a knowledge check. I've got nature, occult.

Nature, occult. I'm not sure what else would be good. Okay, nature's good. Nature's real good. Nature. Uh, 19 again. Nature's good. Nature's real good nature 19 again 19 no, no, you don't know what the hell's going on here. What is this thing some sort of elemental Something else. Mm-hmm. I yell back to you guys. I can see it from where I am I have no clue what this is and you're just like yelling through the snow

and it's like the boats rocking. Oh, this is chaotic. I love it. Chaos. Careful when you guys move. The perfect setting for Gikmak. Gikmak as you're standing there, a squirrel. You notice a squirrel sitting on the barrels covered in snow.

A squirrel? Just sitting there shivering. She screams, stOW AWAY! And she grabs it by the throat and throws it off the ship. And it says, NOOOOO! And only you hear that. The rest of you just hear,

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH- And Gic has a- SQUEEEET! Gic has a stomach drop realization. I can talk to animals? And she throws the squirrel off the ship. What does it say? Two actions left. Uh, no- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH? I can talk to animals? And she throws the squirrel off the ship. What does it say?

Two actions left. No. What is it? Actually, that was just one action left. That was very generous. A grab and a reposition. A grab and a reposition. No, Gic hears this from Zephyr, and she yells out to everybody, because like, Sakawatchee,

everybody's like a little further too. She says, well, hands on deck! And she's going to give her courageous anthem as she yells out. So everybody is gonna get plus one to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saves against fear effects. What kind of bonus? It's a morale, errr,

I believe it's morale. I don't think that's in the remaster. Oh, is it not courageous anthem? I can't remember, I don't think it is. Status bonus? I think it's just status item. Status, status. Status.

Status bonus. Alright, everyone gets a plus one status bonus. Yes, to attack rolls damage and save specifically against fear effects. Okay. That's the auditory penalty we're taking affecting our ability to hear the song at all. We're not taking an auditory.

Oh, it's a spell, right? We are taking an auditory penalty. No, we're taking a visual. It's a penalty to perception for auditory things But you don't have to roll a perception to hear that so I'd say story-wise you can hear it through the wind And she yelled really loud story-wise So that's one action and then second action I

Looking at this creature not knowing what it is, I'm not gonna take any chances. And Gic is going to hold her hand out and you see like, it's weird. It's like her hand is almost moving in slow motion with everything going on the boat rocking, and I'm gonna cast slow on the creature. And I would like you to make a saving throw. Four to two. Ooh, Kessa Kestrel right now it's concealed.

Ah, can you remind me? It's not targeted so I mean it is targeted. It's targets one creature. It's not an attack roll so. Targeting with a spell counts as a DC5. Yeah. Oh really? It does now yeah.

Oh that's stupid. Play for a page 400. So DC5 or you lose the spell. Well that's a stinker let's stupid. But for a page 400, like, 45 or you lose the spell. Well, that's a stinker, let's see. I Googled spell against concealed, and the AI overview said, the world concealed is spelled C-O-N-C-E-F. Thank you. Stupid AI.

It's an adjective that means... I failed, so I lose this battle. You failed? What did you roll? A three. Oh my penis. Of course that happens every time with concealment, so? What did you roll? A three. Oh my penis. Of course that happens every time with concealment.

So don't make me roll concealment stuff. And we'd have a fun game. I'll tell you. I don't know why they made that change. That's stupid for spells. That's stupid. A creature that you're concealed from must succeed at a DC five flagellate

when targeting you with an attack spell or other effect. So I'm also concealed from it. I didn't say you lose a spell spell or other effect. So I'm also concealed. I didn't say you lose a spell. But I guess I guess do I lose a spell that you casted the spell and missed essentially, like, or did I concealment look for it? Can't find it. I don't know the rule, but I think that that's the rule. Makes sense to me. Well, what's the point of concealment?

I mean, take a look at it. That's where how I rule it for now. But if you can find different, let me know and you keep the spell. I'd love to just lose the actions and not the spell. But okay, so that would be the two actions, so my turn's over. Okay. It is the creature's turn.

This thing, those of you that can see it or can kinda half see it, it like burrows into the snow beneath its feet and just appears right next it like pops up next to Zephyr and Barnes with Jeepers comes up like a video game character well I guess I don't have to worry about balancing now no no unless it moves again and then it is going to do a, uh, ice claw on Zephyr. We get a good die here. Ice claw on Zephyr.

24 to hit. That just hits. Is that a melee strike? It is a melee strike. Good to know. It's an ice claw. Good to know Nice claw Nice cloth making sure the traits you take 20 points of slashing damage and Persistent cold damage

Feels like walking around in the city to 1d6 persistent cold. Yeah, it's pretty cold here in New York It feels like four degrees today is what it says on the weather app. It's pretty cold. It's crazy Feels like four degrees today is what it says on the weather app. It's pretty cold. It's crazy It has one action left it will do an attack on Barnes. I'll add that persistent to you in a moment there Zephyr Second attack on Barnes is a natural 20 We're back, baby, it's been a few apps since we've done some combat 28 points of slashing damage. Okay always forget, is it the Persistent Double? I don't, well, it depends on the ability.

I don't think so. I can't remember. We'll look that up as well, but you will take Persistent Cold. That could have been a lot worse. But that is its turn. It's Brother Ramius's turn. Oh my God.

This is a horrifying situation. I think Ramius is gonna start by doing a knowledge check. I gotta figure out what this thing is. Yep. How to find it. Nature or Arcana. It does not double. It does not double, thank you.

Nature or Arcana. Benefits you gain specifically from a critical hit like the extra damage died from the fatal weapon trait aren't doubled. That's what I thought. I appreciate you looking that up. No thanks to anybody else. You're welcome.

Okay. Added some persistent cold effects on Foundry Virtual Tabletop to Zephyr and Barnes. And you wanna do a knowledge check. So I'll tell you the best knowledges are gonna be arcana or nature. But if you wanna roll something else, you can. Did you read about it in your Bible?

I did. He's gonna speak a short prayer and say, Agrahastha, give us the benefit of your knowledge. What is this creature? And I'm gonna use Scholarly Recollection. So I'll roll twice and take the better result on this. Now, by the book, you roll it. This is what we call knowledge.

So roll twice and take the better result. It's a plus 11. Okay. You know this is a manifestation of the blizzard itself. It is a creature known as a manifested blizzard. Is there something specific you'd like to know or do you want me to give you? You tell me. One thing I'd like to know, man, I think I just think the answer is so obvious.

God. You know, immunities, weaknesses, I think, I just think the answer is so obvious. God, you know, immunities, weaknesses, weaknesses are gonna cover. Worse save. Powers. Abilities, the powers, that would be so important, right? I mean, we saw an ice claw, we know persisting cold damage. The way it moves.

You know what, I wanna know, oh. Oh, this is interesting. What do you wanna know, oh, this is interesting. You wanna? I'll go with, I'll go with special abilities. Special abilities. Special features. Any of those. All right, I'm gonna give you the one that- There's an audio commentary.

Director's cut. This is the one that'll be most relevant for you. Special features. I like special features. I like chapter headings. This is the one that will be most relevant for you. Special feature. I like chapter headings. Director's commentary. It has a reaction known as Shattering Ice. If you deal physical damage to it with an attack,

it does like a 5 foot emanation aoe damage. That you can try and like avoid with the reflex save, but it could be bad. And not a death, a death burst. Not a death throw, no, it's like anytime it takes physical damage, it has a reaction. So you can burn that, someone might wanna burn that reaction early in the round so that the rest can close on it.

It's kind of inevitable if you're all gonna use, if a lot of, more than one of you is gonna use melee that you're gonna trigger this reaction. Can I ask one more thing? You can. Is it immune to spirit damage? It has this bonus against physical damage. I can- Is it immune to spirit damage?

No, it's not. Okay. All right, then I will, next two actions he's gonna reach out and heal Barnes. Oh. Heal Barnes. Okay. Okay, okay, okay.

I'll get you that number in a minute, but it's gonna put you to full almost certainly. Boggles turn. Why would you say shit like that? Because the number is so high. You're about to roll. Yeah. Oh, you did you do this spell okay? No, no, no battle medicine Wiggles it is not can lock it in it is not concealed to you because it's 10. So you're up 28. Okay?

Buggles is going to try Does it have cover from me with the I? I'm gonna say no. Okay. I could be mean, but it's hard enough. Okay. Then. You're little. Buggles is going to do an ignition.

Interesting. Ignish, that reflex save. What did you say? Heaped to fire. And fresh out the kitchen. This blizzard monster That's got to be a mess 16 yeah

Then he's gonna raise a shield okay shield up for bugles parts Okay, first thing I'm going to exploit vulnerability that was cold by the way It was cold damage. I was using cold damage. Yeah, cuz it missed Smart That was cold by the way. That was cold damage I was using. Cold damage? Yeah, cause it missed. Interesting. Nice. Smart. Interesting. Smart.

22 on the exploit vulnerability. Okay, this is a knowledge check. Essentially, it's all it's two things. Okay, that's a success. Okay, great. That is terrific. So I learned its highest weakness. Fire.

Shocking. Oh my god. Who would have guessed? Really? I'll do it. Fire five. Then as a separate knowledge check, is that giving me anything that Joe didn't know? A success on it?

It's lowest save is reflex. Okay. Great. Okay. And then we are, Zephyr and I are not flanking. But I'm gonna, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna. Oh yeah, okay. I'm just gonna, I'm gonna swing with the Kukri. Okay.

20 to hit, 30, 20. Don't forget your plus. 20. From the Courageous Anthem. Yeah. Got it. No. Yeah. Got it. No. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't think so. Okay.

And then Barnes is going to tilt the mirror and he will appear. The second Barnes will appear. Do I want to do that? Barnes E2? No, I'm just gonna move. Okay. And forget you gotta roll

I'm assuming I'm assuming that Zephyr is gonna hit it. So I'm gonna take a step. Okay, you have to balance first up No, that's fine. Okay, I can make it bounce step out of the range of the shattering ice. What are we doing? It's a lot of confidence Zephyr is gonna hit it. I assume you will maybe I will I can't I can't imagine you not hitting Let's see what happens. Can't even imagine. It's top of round two and it's Sepp's turn. So the cool thing about this new feat, stumbling stance,

is that you hit me and that sucks. But now you are off guard to my next stumbling swing strike. Oh. Yeah, so with stumbling stance, if you hit me, you become off guard. But if you don't hit me, then I can gain a plus one circumstance bonus

to a faint check. Oh, very cool. Which would do the same thing. I have a win-win. So I get like two chances to become off guard. All right, so it's always better to get hit because I don't have to roll anything. You're just gonna, I'm gonna be off guard.

All right. So flurry of blows. Watch me in the ice. With my fists, okay, there's a lot going on here. So I also have stunning fists. All right, be off guard. All right. So flurry of blows. Punch me in the ice. With my fists. Okay, there's a lot going on here. So I also have stunning fists. All right, so off guard. Starting to feel pretty powerful.

I'm starting to have fiery fists. I know. Well, they're, so that one's a 19 for the first one, which is a more 20 with the plus one. No. Second one is a 23. That's a hit. Oh, there you go. All right, so Fist, please roll a Fortitude save.

Okay, I'll do it. Also, you were off-guard for both of those. Yes, I know. Fortitude of 32. You're fine with that. That's unreachable on a natural 20. So 1d6 plus 4, it's gonna be six points of damage with my fists. Six points of damage with your fist, okay. That's only one action. Gloria blows, one action.

You have a stretching rune on your handrails? I mean, no, it was on my longbow, but like, do we have someone on the boat that can like do runes? Like I think that's a bit much. I think Deniji is quite well versed. If you don't ask the answer is always no Kate.

Right. Why do I do that to myself? I don't know. So I'll just roll this again. You missed 100% of the shot. I'll just roll this one more time. Is that what you're saying? So over the past week you have decided you've to Deneji and struck up a relationship.

You guys started drinking together. Maybe this is what led you down the path that you're on right now. And at one point, Right before you snapped the bow in half. Yeah. You're like, put this in my hands. Put it in my hands.

Put it in my hands. Hold this, I suck at the bow. This is put this in my hands. I suck at the bow. And pierce my ears. I'm so mostful. All right, so we'll say that you have moved these runes This is put this on my head. So get a bow. Pierce my ears All right, so we'll say that you you have moved these runes to your hand. It does cost some money, but Yes, ooh max damage. So what did I say? I rolled a two of the so tell me what this is now This is a ten ten more. Yeah, okay, so sixteen total okay fine. So that's three of blows

Okay, so my first action. Wait, did you hit on both attacks? No, just the one. So you just rolled a damage dice twice. Not the bonus. Not the bonus, you don't double the bonus. And you do get the plus one to damage though, from me. She already packed her damage.

You guys, I'm just a girl. Whatever you rolled the first time, I think you just had six, right? Just a lot of math, a lot of numbers. You rolled a six? I rolled a two and a six. Yeah, so I think you just add the six. So not 10.

But then did you count her plus one? Yeah, on the second one. On the damage. So 23. No, on the damage. On the damage, no. So just add one more to damage. Okay. Seven. Seven.

So that's seven plus five. Instead of... Got it. So 13 total. 13 total damage for that one hit that we hit. Sorry, sorry. There's a lot of new stuff. Sales of Tuia through the roof after this episode.

You're the one who opened the box when you're like, do you want to change your feet? I'm just trying to help. Actually, yeah. I'm just trying to help. All right, so with my second thing I want to do, she's going to do inner upheaval. And she's, or no, to do inner upheaval.

And she's, or no, not inner, harmonized self. So she's going to gain 16 hit points because you weren't able to heal her last time. And because she hit it, she knows that there's going to be like some splash damage. Yeah, that's happening. That'll actually trigger before you do that. So before you give yourself the 16, let's get into shattering ice.

Shattering ice. Because Bawin's moved away, this will only affect you. Go ahead and give me a basic reflex save. Reflex. 19, I keep rolling 19s. 19 is a fail. So here's the thing, you take nine points of piercing damage and you're also blinded for one round.

Oh my god. That starts at the end of my turn? Or does that start like now? Starts right now. What would be amazing right now? A bow. It's some ability to deal ranged damage. He pulled out the exact enemy that a bow would be amazing.

No, because when you're far away, it's concealed. It's true. And except, yeah, we're on a boat with limited space. She's gotta get real far away to get her full. We're on a boat, motherfucker. We're on a boat, motherfucker. All right, so even though she's blind, she's still going to perform Harmonize Self on herself

with one focus point, so that heals her 16 points. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. So that's two actions. Third action. Oh, oh, the map. I'm blind now. I can't see anything. She's going to have to roll through this.

So cool when you're blind like you guys can stay at home like everything is just globs. You can kind of hear people on the back of the boat. Like I think that's Denicci and I think that's the enemy. I don't know which one to attack. She's going to attempt to move wait, I thought you were blind! Sorry? Too much blood. Too much blood.

Oh wait, I thought you were blind! She's gonna attempt to move 10 feet away. Okay. I know I have to roll. I was gonna move 15 feet, like, back, but in case someone does, like, if you do blast, I wanna perhaps be in it. Okay. Can you do blast I want to perhaps be in it okay um gonna give me an acrobat shit you should you should do this in your

slip athletic or acrobatic that's 25 okay yeah success you slide back there no prob of course let's see give me a flat check for this persistent cold damage 11 You will continue to take persistent cold and you'll start off by taking two. It's a persistent cold. Rolled automatically and found a virtual tabletop. I found a virtual tabletop.

I found a virtual tabletop. Kick butt. Okay. I should have done this the first time. Still getting used to the action. New t-shirt that says that for all of you. I should have done this the first time. I'm still getting used to the action. Your t-shirt that says that for all of you. I should have done this the first time. I'm gonna cast Courageous Anthem again because it only lasts for one round. As a free action, I have my lingering composition

where I roll against my performance with my performance to determine the DC. And if I get a crit, then my competition can last longer, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I rolled, I crit, because my performance is high, so I'm casting it again, because it runs out this round. Now it'll last for four rounds. I should have done that first, I forgot about that.

Did you succeed on the roll? Yeah, yeah, I rolled an 18. That's funny, because like in one-E you just did it, right? You were like, if you have that feat, it just lingered for eczema. Oh, you tell me. Now you have to roll a... You tell me. It says, ba-ba-da-ba-da- says, if your next action is to cast the Cantrip composition duration,

attempt a performance check. The DC is usually a standard difficulty DC of a level equal to the highest level target of your composition, which is for my allies. But the GM can assign a different DC based on the circumstances. It should be like a DC 21. Yeah, I think it is. I was basing it off my DC. Or DC 20. My DC, which is 21. So I crit on it, cause I got an 18. Interesting.

So you're gonna use the focus spell lingering composition. So yeah, you can. Can I have a plus 13 performance or more? Plus 11. So why is that a crit? Don't I crit? 18.

It's 29. 28. 29. Oh. Well what's the DC? It feels weird to have such a high DC for my allies. I could understand if it's like a damage thing. The DC is usually a standard difficulty DC but level equal to the highest level target of your composition. Of my composition, which is my allies. And you're on level 5 so that'd be DC 20. Because it also has a positive benefit even on a failure. That's why, because it just determines.

DC 28, so I'll never, I will never. Is it DC 28 or is it DC 20? No, no, no. It's like DC. It goes level DC, spell rank DC. Level for five is. No spell rank in here. It's R, R, R.

So it's DC 20. 20. So then I do, no, then I don't, because I get a 29. Right. So it's three rounds. So three rounds. not because I get a 29 right so it's three three and I'd give it to you if there wasn't already this auditory problem now but yeah so three rounds three rounds okay so everybody's continues to get the plus one on your attacks and damage just remember that so that is one action okay who's the most hurt Barnes or that's not for now I felt better so like 15 Zephyr, I'm gonna do Hymn of Healing then,

which is, I'm singing, I don't know if this is, should I talk about another concealment? So hold on a second, we were talking about this earlier. So now if you do that, you are now out of focus points, right? Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

That went quick. Yeah. But normally you wouldn't forget to do it on the first, the lingering performance on the first thing. No, I would have had one more, yeah, focus point. Do you want me to roll a concealment? No, no, no. Okay.

Kip Bump, Kip Bump, Kip Bump, Kip Bump, Kip Bump. Kip Bump, Kip Bump. You. He's sending money to Hammer. And this is, this is heightened now too. Seren YouTube rave with Hammer. It's gonna come knocking on our door in a minute. You gave 26 cents to Fensie Hammer this time.

He's like, yes. You get fast healing six, and when I first cast the spell, you automatically get the six temporary hit points, and most likely, unless something terrible happens, I'll keep sustaining this, so each round you're gonna get, like, six temporary hit points. So...

So each round I just get... that fast healing is only temporary hit points? The fast, no. The fast healing six, you get that. Okay. Every time I cast or sustain the spell, you get temp hit points. So immediately you get six temp.

No. Right now? Yeah. Right now. And you have fast healing six and if I sustain the spell like the next round, you'll get another temporary six and another temporary, each time I sustain it.

But you have fast healing six no matter, for six rounds. So there's like a second pool of you get fast healing six and then you have this second pool of temporary hit points that is like, it's gonna go away the second you stop. Exactly. Three rounds basically. Exactly. When does the fast healing six start?

Now. Now, so I also get six regular hit points. I believe so. It says the target gains Fast Healing 6, period. When you cast the spell and the first time each round you sustain the spell, the target gains six temporary hit points. The beginning of my turn. OK.

Yeah. Cool. And that is, again, the end of my. I haven't moved once, but I just got to get these spells off. Well, here's the good news. It's coming to you. Wham! It burrows underground, pops up right next to you. Yes

So listen, this is all very new a stumbling stance. I just I know people are screaming I actually get 1d8 bludgeoning damage on my fists It says it in the stance not on my fists instead of 1d6 six. Okay, so it's two more for you Okay, two more damage. That's fine. I'll take it. Wait for you okay two more damage that's fine I'll take it wait wait a minute I hit once you could have still rolled the same you could have still rolled a six did you roll a new die you automax I? It's not that it's right or wrong. Because I assumed you just rerolled it and told me the difference. Did you know I just said plus two?

I think that. Why would you just leave it as it is? Why would you just leave it as it is? I think you should keep it as the six because you could roll really bad on that D8. I guess so. OK, well, whatever. We're having a good time. Well, Institute it's starting next round.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Next round. Forever. Forever. It was so funny. The second you said it, I just looked over at Skid and he looked at me, and we were just like. You're not even joking.

What? I know too, but I'm not a fucking snitch. I know, Matt. Should've said it. Here comes the bomb. How about, look, one Gekmach. I don't like this singing. Hello.

Says the manifested blizzard. I don't like your singing. 22. That just hits. Just hits. You're gonna take. Poopy kaka. Manifested Blizzard. I don't like your 22 Just hits you're gonna take a total of poopy caca You're gonna take it 14 points of slashing and persistent cold and then the second attack is gonna be on brother Ramious Let's get you involved 14 point slashing and 14 points persistent. No, I'm gonna tell you you're gonna take a 1d6 persistent and then 17 on rain. Oh miss Ramious. Yeah okay all right so good good bad run for me and now protected by the

light of God himself. It's nice because you won't take that persistent um it is Ramius's turn. That is very nice all right oh man it's bad being right up in the this thing's business. Sure is. Also at least it's not concealed to you. I might cleverly improvise acrobaticsing out of here. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. Clever girl. Yeah, pretty good timing for that.

Shit. I can't stand next to this thing. Yeah, I'm just going to go with it. I'm not going to overthink it. Are you all right over there? Don't stand so close to Steve. What just happened? I dropped some dice.

There are dice all around everywhere. You like to throw stuff, yeah. Was it on camera? Is his name Steve? No. It is now. I don't wanna stand so close to Steve. He starts to, oh, this is dangerous.

I don't wanna get out. I'm gonna be starting to move out of range of Zephyr and then just not even see her in the blizzard, which is not a good thing, but she'll come back to me. He's gonna attempt to balance out of range of Zephyr and they just not even see her in the blizzard, which is not a good thing, but she'll come back to me. He's going to attempt to balance out of there. Keep in mind it has its reaction back too, if anybody tries to fuck it up. Wait, the reaction is the burst of speed? Yeah.

Okay. Let's see. Hey! 22! You're all right? Okay, phenomenal. Regular, so you can move half speed. Yeah, and I can't remember if I...

Oh no, I'm slow. Okay, so he's gonna move 10 feet away from the creature. And then he is going to, once again, summoning the protection of Gruhastha, but this time he's gonna go on the offensive. Let's see. of Gruhastha, but this time he's going to go on the offensive. Let's see. He is going to cast spiritual armament. He's going to draw up from just in his belt, in his rope belt basically is a sheath dagger.

So he just sort of like pulls his hands up in this spiritual dagger like rises up out of the actual dagger and then just fires across at the creature and this is why I was asking about the spirit damage okay yeah so this isn't physical damage so it won't trigger the reaction yes exactly so here's a Oh, dude! 27! Hit. Nice. Hits! Wow. Okay.

Any saves from me or anything? I don't believe so. Okay, just straight up damage. Just straight up damage. Spirit damage. Spirit damage. I have a separate spirit damage pool. Time is money.

Yeah. You said, cut out like two syllables there. That's a whole other business you could found. Spirit damage. 15 foot deep. It's all linkedin baby this is awesome all right here we go this is the first time using so for Jim it goes in and it does seven points seven points of spirit damage okay any bonuses from Gekman well it's a spell attack role so I guess it would be a plus one damage and damage damage Yeah, so 28 wouldn't be a crit. That's irrelevant, but the damage is an eight. Okay, got it sweet And that is your turn. That's my turn. That was two actions. Well, I guess now you of course very wisely

Failed on a cold ignition. He will now be using fire So So yeah, I now the the coolucada emerges and it's icy like the surrounding weather and so to start off with, I'm going to do a Psy Burst, but I'm gonna use the Mind Shift trait to change the damage from mental damage to cold damage. So I'm going to need a- Why? Because that won't hurt him. No, but then it'll allow me to do ignition with my spell i see

okay so so i'm going to uh so that won't hurt you at all right right okay yeah so you just want to not now want it yeah i'm just like boom so just like refocusing and then like a feat you get at later levels that allows you to not have to burn it possibly is there through them or something you'd think right because it seems so like such a hindrance yeah it's a real pain in the ass and I don't care for it I mean I guess it's especially bad against a creature that happens to be me it's a room it's remarkable how many we've had yeah in this campaign yeah like specifically cold immune or fire and fire immune and it's like yeah, just yeah

I wish didn't there wasn't there a whole thing where you're always dealing fire damage It's just cold fire as opposed to it's instead of no It's like well my fire spells are like turn into cold spells like it's they do different energy changes the energy I'm adding removing energy every time. It's like yeah All right, so now with the, like the fire and cinders start sweeping around me and pop, do another melee ranged ignition. Pop goes the weasel, goes the weasel.

Oh no. 14. Damn it! Our goals? Firstry, I love this beautiful die. It is gorgeous. Not at the moment. It does not love you. By the way, I want to say again, we didn't get to say it earlier, this is Norris Foundry for all your red man number generating needs. needs. It just starts playing as soon as you pull out the bat. That's fun. Mike Tyson. Barnes, take us home. Glint the mirror, another Barnes appears behind the creature, flanking. Okay. Plus one status bonus. Flanky McBarnes. Status? Mm-hmm. So it doesn't stack with the courageous anthem? It's the courageous anthem. Oh, you're

adding, okay, I was like, I got confused. I was like, flanking is minus, puts him off guard. Farnes you guys? By the way, how cool is the map here? You see Ramius underneath the mask. I can't see anything. I'm blind. You can't see shit.

I'm blind. Okay, there we go. That is a 33 to hit. Oh, wow. With the flanking, that is a crit. That's a 33 to hit. Oh wow. With the flanking that is a crit. Yes! Yes! Double damage!

Crush this thing and then step away. And add your plus one to your damage. Thank you. Big math. It's gonna be 32 points of damage. Critical specialization effects is you take a knife specialization. Target takes 1d6 plus item bonus to attack.

Hold on, I need to read the whole thing. Oh, you get persistent bleed damage from this. 1d6 persistent bleed. My ice guy does not bleed. Does your ice man bleed? Does the bleed ice? And I am, sorry, I am- He's bleeding water.

I'm actually, I mean. It's like spraying water everywhere. It's like, ah! Ah! Ah! It instantly freezes and molds back into its body. Just spikes. This counts as fire damage, by the way.

Oh! Oh! Because of the exploit vulnerability. All right, so that would double on a crit. You said what, 32? No, it's got a weakness number, right? You said weakness five, right? Yeah, weakness five, so it just takes five. So it's just another five, yeah. Okay. Oh. Damn, it's which it's got a weakness. You said weakness five. Yeah, we just take just another five. Yeah, okay

Let's call it 64 points Like 37 roughly right? Yes, okay, did you count the bonus from Scooby-Doo? Yes, okay She's definitely more like scrappy. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. What does scrappy do sound like hey? Which is kind of annoying voice right? He's kind of like a piece of shit He's always cursing Fucking I'm going to go in and boy scooch that ass you wrote it off! Get out of my face you fucking stoner! Piece of shit uncle! I'll kill you!

My god! I'll fucking kill you! That's Scrappy Dough, alright! That's Scrappy Dough, remember? No, I remember! I think Scrappy's evil, guys! I think he might be! Is he Joey Lamotta? I fucking kill him!

I fucking kill him! I fucking kill ya! I fucking kill ya! I fucking kill ya! I kill anyone in my cell! Choking on that fucking ass gun! Fucking jock! I'm going to kill Francis. I'm going to kill him. Is he dying? He's dying.

Did you take your reaction? Yes, thank you for reminding me, cause I was laughing. Give me a reflex save, Gekmuk and Buggles as well. Did you take your reaction? Yes, thank you for reminding me because I was laughing Give me a reflex save, Gekmuk and Buggles as well and both Barnes. I don't know if they both roll their own So when one of you moves does the other one move? Yeah, basically we're mirror. It's cool, Matrix style. Until I move out of the square. Okay. I surely fail with a 14 You critically failed in fact. Oh Which is gonna be especially worse. I'll get to that in a 14. Okay. Mm, you critically failed in fact. Oh. Oh my God. Which is gonna be especially worse,

I'll get to that in a second. How did you do? 27. 27 is a success, so half damage. 29. 29 is a success for half. Okay, so, oh! Oh, you're gonna take 22 points of damage

and you're blind for three rounds. Whoa. Man. muck and Buggles will just take five points of damage and no blinding Oh my gosh two versus five See, this is the thing. I was gonna spend my action I was gonna spend an action to step away to get ten feet away to then do the ignition But I had to spend the action to refocus on the cyber boost. The oscillate. So then... Shibashibashibashibashibashi.

Blind. Okay, third action then. You're blind. The... the southern, the southwestern barns. The southern barns? The southern barns is going to take a five foot step, the other one will disappear. The other one will disappear, okay. Uh... well I'm gonna move that one then, because it doesn't like when you will disappear. Okay. Well, I'm gonna move that one.

Because it doesn't like when you do that. Okay. Now give me a flat check against the persistent cold damage. Natural seven. You'll take another two points of cold and stay cold. As we go to the top of round frosty three stay frosty Zephyr. You know that reference reference? Yeah, stay frosty Zephyr rusting you know that restaurants reference yeah stay frosty she does know this movie I know she knows this movie yeah so you want that movie stay frosty plus six I was like a beer thing I get a plus six circumstance you've only seen so many movies like Florida choose from the Wizard of Oz so many movies we all know. Say Frosty.

That we all love. We all love. That you saw. That you also love. Okay, they're giving it to her. Elf? Yep, it was elf. It was definitely elf.

So they say. So you have plus six? So they say an elf. So they say an elf when he's driving the sleigh. Yep. It says, stay frosty, Santa. Stay frosty, Santa, and then he jumps out of the car. He said, I like to keep this close. How would you lie to me? Gotta get killed at Central Park Rangers. Frosty Santa

Another line from this movie is game over man game over Alright, let's go a little more like how about uh you're not you ever the most obvious one get away from her you bitch I Was not talking Harry Potter you guys and do drugs at these movie nights? Well, she says that. Kate didn't say it was a movie. She says that to the evil lady. She said, get away from my daughter, you bitch. That's right, that's not what I said. So, I'm kind of right.

Give her like the name of the movie in something. How about I just give you the name of the movie. I was just giving the name of the movie. Yeah, can you just tell me? It's Aliens. I was about to- Did they say Frosty? Yeah.

Yes, I was about to say. Look out for that alien. Skid has met the actor who said those in Moral War. I met Rico. He got the autograph. He said it, he wrote it on the thing, on his picture. It's okay. You are blind.

Yeah, I'm blind. I was just looking up the words of that. That will go away at the end of this turn. Do you think that I need vision in order to smack my hands? No, not at all. No, they're hidden to you. They're hidden to me. So, they'll be a big old flat check.

What I would love to do, if I could, if I don't waste my turn, is to be able to move up to the creature and strike. Okay. So, moving up, I'd need to... Get new acrobatics. It'd be difficult terrain for me. Would you have to do a perception check to

to know where they are for them to become? You'd have to seek. I hope not. You'd have to do a seek action, right? You have to do double because it's moved since you last saw it. Right. And you basically have double difficult terrain here because you're blind and it's a pitching ship. It's a tricky situation. Very, very tricky. Yeah, if it hadn't, I mean, the thing is you don't know what to move. So you kind of have to start with that seek. Yeah, start with the perception check for sneak, but I take a minus four to it if I'm blind.

Yeah, and on top of that, a minus two because of the- The auditory. Yeah, so it's a minus six. So let me know if you could- This blindness is like, it just takes you out of the- It really makes the game- I would assume

It's they don't stack right minus six. You take the worst I'm too perception penalties That's good point, but you she rolled poopy. I yeah rolled a natural six. Okay. It doesn't say what the penalty is Yeah, this is a very Strong winds trying to like I Don't know it's from the hit. It just kind of like, like blinded me. Yeah. The ice like got in your eyes. Yeah. She's trying to see through the snow, but she has like ice in her eyes.

And she can't see like all the shapes look the same to her. She can't tell which one is which. So I'd like to prepare. There's to prepare, I guess, these two actions. Respect the boxes, too. Respect the boxes? Can't just walk through the boxes. There's also a broom on top of the box. Yes, respect the broom as well.

Could use that. Yep, it provides broom. Well, I'm not gonna move. Can Barron say a curling? Cause I'm definitely not gonna be much help with this. That's a perfect opportunity. Guys, if we survive, we should clear the deck and curl. We should. We need a morale boost.

Little team building exercise. If we survive. Look what these boxes here. Attack the box with all forever. So since I'm not gonna move, I don't know where it is. I feel like she would just kind of like brace herself for if it comes up to hit her again. So I'd like to prepare if it comes up and strikes me,

I wanna be able to strike back. I like that. With flurry of blows. Okay. I like that a lot. In my mind, what you're actually doing is just like, in your drunken stumbling stance. My stumbling stance that I'm still in.

Like you, I don't know if you guys can tell yet, cause like it still is like a boat and we're kind of going with the waves. So do we think you're, what's she doing? Do we think that you're drunk? Are you drunk? We never made it down to the galley.

Okay. True. She's just been drinking on her own at every free second of the day. I've been getting drunk and wrestling with everyone. She can stop anytime she wants. Give me a flat check. What are you doing? I'm retraining!

I'm a fan! Shut up! It's hard work! I'm a professional mildner! Try to punch me. Try to mildman. Try to punch me. Try to punch me. Try to punch me. Try to punch me.

I'm serious. Hard as you can. That's what we've been doing down there, just like punching each other. Hit me, hit me. Hit me. Hit me. Flat check, natural 20.

Okay. Hey! All right, so you take two points of persistent cold, you're no longer persistently cold, and you're no longer blinded. I'm no longer blinded, and then also with this fast healing.

I get six points back. And then the temp input. Temp. Are gone on my turn, but yeah, pretty much now, yes. I get six more. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing.

Give back. And now the temp is gone. Okay. That feels good. I'm not gonna sustain it, cause action economy. All right. I am going, I need to move away.

I need to get away. I'm going to- Wanna get away? Wanna get away. I want to get away. All right. I'm gonna move diagonally away. Can I tuck like under the sail?

You can, just give me an acrobatics check to make sure you can even do that. Okay, that's where I would like to move. Yeah, tuck under the sail. Sail, as I mentioned, one of them is on the deck, but this one is still up. Okay. I suppose it's gonna need some repairs

while you guys are curling. Acrobatics, 23. 23, yep, you can move half speed. Okay, so I'm gonna move to just under the sail getting away from this ice guy and then It looks like get almost like is breathing into her hand, you know when you're cold. Yeah doing like that So she's doing something you see like talking. I don't know and then she just like whips an invisible ball at this ice creature.

And what it is, is it is like compacted sonic energy that she released from herself, the magic, and then formed it into a ball and hurled it. So I am going to attack you with Percussive Impact, which is a spell. A little sonic damn? A little sonic damn. A little son damn? Son damn? A little which is a spell. Sonic damn? A little sonic damn. A little son damn?

Son damn? A little son damn. Steven, Steven son damn? A little son damn. A little son damn. A little son damn. A little son damn. Matthew really did like that one.

Matthew loved that one. I actually enjoyed it. Same number. So that's gonna be 24. 24, it is not concealed to you because you're within the 15 feet and that is gonna be a hit. Yeah.

Huzzah! Okay. Huzzoo. So you're gonna take four D8 bludgeoning and one D4 sonic. This could be nasty depending on how you roll. You wanna let one of your friends roll? What? No. Just quickly add these.

Maybe. You should say them all out. What's it called? Sonic Boom? 13, 14, 15 Sonic, or 15 Bludgeoning. Okay, 15 Bludge. And then it's called Percussive Impact. It's a max of 48. And four Sonic.

Four Sonic. And that wasn't a critical success, yeah, no, okay. So yeah, you just see like the wood splinters around and it's like a low frequency. A box explodes. Box explodes, low frequency like doof. Barnes has just wiped the ice out of his eyes and then a thousand splinters.

Oh fuck! I wish I had the looney Kook school goggles! And that is the end of my turn. That's the end of your turn. Okay, was that physical damage? I mean, you can't use his reaction button. Yes. Yeah. Okay. He gets his reaction back on his turn, which is right now. Wait, just a quick question, just so I know.

Do I get the benefits of my own? I do, myself and my allies. So 20 plus one to the damage. Okay, so another point of damage. So that thing kept going? The courageous anthem is going for the three rounds. Okay, so that keeps going. I did my lingering. Great.

All right, it is the manifested blizzard's turn and poor Buggles is standing right there. First attack on Buggles is going to be a 22 to hit. That's a hit. All right, so Buggles is going to take 14 points of slashing and persistent cold. And then it will do a second attack on Buggles, which is borderline crit town, but the map may save you 31. Not a crit.

Okay, good. So that is gonna be another 17 points of slashing. And then it will burrow underground and come up right between Ramius and Anuma. What did you just do to him? You shot him? Ice Cloth. Did you do that from 15 feet away? No, no, it's right next to Buggles. Oh, I see. He's under the mass. I didn't see him. Buggles, Buggles!

Got it. And then came up right between... You're flanking, bugles. Got it. And then, phwoom, came up right between, uh, you're flanking, Ramius, right between Anu and coming to the back of the ship against these, uh, Sakawatchi's crew and of course Hubert there who I've added to the map. At the back, Buggles now taking persistent coldness. Brother Ramius' turn, oddly enough. Oh, it's so cool.

I'm pounding him. So I can't see Ramius because he's not on the sail, but if I click on his square, sail becomes transparent. Isn't that great? Yeah, that is cool. Pound review, DT. I can see myself. I can see myself. What do you got?

How is he with the fists? Terrible, so I think he's just gonna... You know what I wanna do is punch an ice monster. Man, this is tricky. We've established you can step back without rolling the acrobatics. That's an action. And then you'd better action spell. Alright. If you're gonna keep that going, that's great. I'll do that. So he'll step back five feet kind of towards towards Buggles and then he will fire off

that dagger again at the creature. That's great it's just permanently translucent for me. Nice. That is a 29. That's a hit. Nice ice so he'll do another oh 15 points of spirit ice okay, and then he will As much as I hate to do it he's going to one action heal buckles Okay, so move attack one action you one action heal Sorry, man That's why I don't do it ten points of you odds. That's that's more than twice what I had. So oh my god Okay, and it is Buggles turn Okay

Yeah, this is uh, yeah this really sucks. It's a permanent concentration. I'm gonna do, maybe it makes sense. All right, so is he is concealed from me? No, as long as he's within 15 feet, he's not concealed. And I think he is exactly 15 feet away. Concealed from, you know, Barnes and Zephyr. Barnes is gonna call out you to hold. Concealed from, you know, Barnes and Zephyr. Barnes is gonna call out to you to hold. I will hold.

Because I can do nothing, but I could give you guidance maybe, or aid you. Oh, well actually this is the cool of Khan, so I don't think he listens. Playing true to form. He doesn't listen to cowards. No. I'm the only one.

I quit it. I quit it and took some ice shards in the eyes. And splinters. And splinters, that was flavor. So I'm gonna do, again, the remove damage from my side burst. Does no, so he's immune to cold. Immune to cold. And then I'm gonna do a fiery frostbite instead

fiery? failing on all of my attack rolls frostbite so, uh, I am... please give me a... oh it's a 4-2, fuck ah, it's not reflex? no, yeah, give me 4-2 23 That's not reflex now. Yeah, give me a for dude 23 okay, just a regular regular success, okay

That's good. It was this it was the same fire damage seven looks like a one 44 three ones and a 2. Yeah, okay, so. So 2 points of damage. Yeah, no, it's 5 plus 4 points of weakness. 5 points of weakness? 5 points of weakness. Okay, so 10 points of damage.

Plus 1. 11 points of damage. Okay. so 10 points of damage. Plus one. 11 points of damage. Okay. Because of the weakness to fire. Describe your kill. Yeah! Oh, bubbles! Or the cool-a-con, I should say.

The cool-a-con. It only did exactly what he needed to do. Yeah. So he hears this instruction from this lesser form, this lesser being. That would be Barnes. Shout it out. That's Barnes.

Bubbles wait! And he like, And he switches the aura around him from ice to fire and back again, and he closes this cloud of cinders, snaps shut on it as it melts it into a puddle on the deck. Yes. Some of you are still suffering from persistent cold damage, but the major threat of this manifested blizzard

is out of the way as the snow falls, forming drifts on different parts of the boat. All of you remember the sled, the creature, the tarp, the black spire. And just like in that vision, you all watch as Sakawatcheeachi is looking at all of you strangely. And we'll see you next week. I'm Scrappy Doo! I'm Scrappy Doo! I'm Scrappy Doo! I'm Scrappy Doo!

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