Expedition Untold Ch. 16 - "In the Belly of the Beast" - Talltale Tavern

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Welcome back to the Tall Tale Tavern, the monthly one shot
adventure TTRPG podcasts. I am your Tavern Master and host
Kyle, and we are back for Chapter 16 of Expedition Untold,
joining me at the bar tonight. His friends say only fools rush

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in, but you can't help falling in love with die.
Becca. Welcome, Becca.
Thank you. I'm happy to be here.

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It's great to have you back. Also here, is anyone else still
thinking about how bad Kyles Highway to Hell rendition was in
the last episode? Hashtag never forget.
Scott Hazard is here. Welcome, I forgot.
About It was really bad. It was all I could think about
when I sat down right in the truck.
No, that's great. It's really funny because you'll

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the people listening to this will will not know what you're
talking about because you editedit out and for the last episode.
So it's. It's so fun.
Actually, what I did, I think, is I edited it back into this
episode. Wait, is that highway to hell?

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Triple it. Triple.
It also here. Last but not least, I'm not mad.
I'm just disappointed that you forgot to send me an intro.
It's Brooke. Welcome back, Brooke.
Hi, literally didn't think aboutit until you asked me two
minutes ago. Yeah, I'm not mad, just
disappointed so and. For me and for Namby, that is

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the worst part. That's.
The worst, that is the worst fate.
I mean the worst part is, according to the rules of the
podcast, anyone who sees you in public now is allowed to throw 1
egg at you for forgetting. That's just how.
It works. That's just eggs.
That you're this is a great punishment.
For you. You love them, Crackdown.
Losing it and then. I get free to go can.

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We actually do something else. Now it's unfortunately I don't
write the bylaws. It is eggs.
Yeah, we don't write the. Order to pass it.
Yeah, pre $5 egg per that's thatwas put in place.
So that was actually. That is getting old.
Well, while Brooks in heaven thinking about eggs getting

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thrown at her, let's go back to hell and reopen the book.
Turn to chapter 16 and continue the story of Expedition Untold.
Roll the intro. Previously on Expedition Untold,

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after defeating the Ooze we stepped through another portal
and honestly it feels good to leave the cyberpunk world
behind. Although now we're in literal
hell on a mission to find the Ooze and destroy it once and for
all. But we're together now so it's
much better. We met up with Wick and the
Gales and her Diandra, so so beautiful and smart and talented

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and brave and loyal. She was right there in front of
me and she even helped me bleed.Together with Diandra's awe
inspiring horde of zombies, we faced a demon Prince who made us
choose a person to die. Diandra, with Gail's help, made
the horrible choice for us. We were able to gather some
diamonds around the Arch Devil'scastle and plan to bring the

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person back as soon as possible.But when we stepped out of the
castle and made our way to the river, we were attacked by a
swarm of demons and the raised dead spell failed.
At the end of the fight, our book friends faded away back
into their books. Before they left, we promised
them we'd defeat the ooze and get their story back to normal.

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Diandra said I was sweet. I reminded her of her friend
Barb. It's funny, when I read Wild
Love, Barb reminded me of my sister River for some reason.
Have you read that book? It's really good.
Maybe I'll read it again. But first, it's time to hunt and
ooze. M Tiro Namby and Hugh you 3

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stand on the shores of the RiverStyx, on the docks outside of ex
Chiselotte's castle, alone in this hellscape of hell.
Namby as you had that tried to revivify this soul that that

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this person that resist had killed under your direction.
As you tried to attempt to do that.
Through that process you did lose some of the value of that
diamond and realized that this body had his soul ripped from
him and is unable to be revivified.

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But you 3 stand on the docks andthe book in your hand that
Thwick had given you, filled with pages that will activate if
an ally can come and help you, starts to vibrate a little bit
and one of the pages starts to glow.
Words start to describe themselves on the page quicker
than you can read as you open itup.

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This is much, much more expedient than I expected.
I. Thought perhaps?
It would take a moment for someone to be available.
Should be. I.
Can't remember, do we just burn it?
We read it do. We take it, tear it out.
We. Throw it.
We read it out and throw it. Yeah.
Do we stomp on it? You tear it out, throw it, and
you go to throw it and you feel like you have to throw it into

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the river. Oh oh.
Oh. And so you take the page and
toss it into the river, and it floats on the surface of the
River Styx. And then the pages start to
duplicate and whirl around, creating a portal that grows
bigger and bigger and bigger until a massive portal opens up

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on the River Styx, 50 feet, 60 feet, 70 feet tall.
And then slowly out from the portal, the bow of a ship creeps
through with the words of city and dawn plated on the side.
As it comes into full view, you appreciate a massive ship with
an imposing yet elegant appearance, boasting of a mix of

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polished brass, ornate woodwork,and riveted iron plates along
its side, as well as wings that are folded up on its side.
On the deck is a crew working onthe ship, pausing with wide
expressions as they're taking inthe horrific sights and sounds
of a Vernus. Near the front of the ship, you
see a half elf Bard in a blue uniform.

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Bick, will you please join the table?
Well hello everyone, you made it.
I I know this isn't the best place to meet but we're all here
so this is great. Well, good to see you again.
Not the first time that you're meeting Namby.
Although you don't look how she described you, it seemed like

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you were almost a different person when she describes.
Meeting you. I don't even know what that
could mean. I've always been me.
The ship comes through fully through this portal and the
portal behind it just, you can see there's like blue waters
and, and, you know, and, and vast sky and wind and clouds and

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seagulls flying by. And that portal just closes
behind the ship that is now fully into hell and floating
just ever so carefully up to thedocks on the side of the River
Styx. What a magnificent vessel if it
can managed to sail the rivers of hell.
Truly, the ooze will not expect this permission to come aboard.

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I mean, you'd probably would want to ask the captain.
Captain. Walking out from the back part
of the ship, walking forward is a tee fling woman.
Silvara, will you join the tableplease?
Well, hello, hello. Welcome Ryan, the captain of the

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Obsidian Dawn. That I've heard much about you
and yet know nothing of what's going on beyond what stings.
BIC and William have shared thisis all absolutely crazy and you
are all crazy as well. Having no idea what's going on

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will make you fit right in with this group, trust me.
Yeah, yeah. It's It's wonderful to meet you.
I've never seen such an enchanting creature, but I can't
quite find the words to describewhat you look like.
Perhaps you could do it yourself.
The. Crew the crew on the ship like
like take out this big old gangplank that flops down on the

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on the dock. And so you guys are able to get
up onto the ship and continue the conversation.
But yes, Silvara, please describe what you look like.
So Silvara is a Raven haired teefling, except that you see that
the most defining feature are these sharp canine teeth that

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she has when she smiles. Her eyes are just golden orbs
without peoples, and where you would expect to see the
traditional tiefling horns, she just has these thick scars on
her forehead, right peeking frombeneath her hairline.
She is adorned with a black sleeveless shirt that has all

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these cords on it and attached the cords are multiple shift
instruments for navigation or repair.
You see that across her chest she has a jeweled dagger that is
sheathed across over her heart and on one side of her hip she
has a low slung revolver, on theother side a long looking
rapier. She smiles with those canine

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teeth and you see that on the left side of her neck, she's got
a black sun tattoo peeking over a black horizon.
It's Silvara, right? Yes, Silvara.
Hello Silvara. Thank you so much for allowing
us aboard your ship. My name is Emtero Berstero.
I am a Bard of some renowned andthese are my incredible

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companions, Huguenard Rockbridgeand Namby Pembleton.
And we are beyond honored to have this opportunity to work
with you as we journey through hell to destroy this disgusting
ooze. My dear Emtero, it is a pleasure
to meet you. Your works have become legend

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from where I. Hail.
And the rest of you, this is such a pleasure.
Please come aboard. And she motions.
Her crew scatters about. You see that there are a mixture
of individuals, dwarves, elves, half artworks, and even some
gnomes running about, all wearing similar tunics of black

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shirts. They have their khaki colored
pants and they all have looks like several feet of rope
attached to carabiners strapped around their waists.
Well, thank you for having us. I think having a boat is
probably going to be pretty helpful.
My dear, this is no mere boat. This is a ship of monstrous

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power. Oh, I'm sorry.
A ship? Yeah.
Sorry, I don't. I'm not very.
Yeah. OK.
Ship. Yeah.
Thank you. I'm not sure where to begin
other than it is most fortuitousfor us to have a vessel like
this because I do think that we are all in need of a rest rather
than having to traverse this nightmare realm by foot.

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Especially namby you are, you are not.
You are looking to not be your full self, but I don't know how
to describe the fact that your HP is permanently lowered.
Yeah. 2 levels of exhaustion. Yeah, it's been, it's been a

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rough one. But I don't think we have time
for like a full rest. I mean, we can't wait.
Just for me, I know time is of the essence.
I'm not, I guess I I'm not sure how far it is we need to travel,
if there might be time where we could rest aboard while the ship
continues its path. Yeah.
Wonderful accommodations for ourVIP, unless you would rather

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sleep with the crew. We do have those accommodations
as well, but plenty of place to rest and recover.
We do have a fully stocked larder and a wonderful chef.
And she motions off to this halforc who is not wearing a shirt,
wonderfully muscled, who just grunts in response to her

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calling him the chef. I know another.
I know another green skinned. Jacks.
You know, creature who would love to help cook.
I I could, I could help. Unless Naomi, do you want, do
you do you want company while you rest?

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I don't want to. I mean, I don't want to put
anyone out. I'm fine with whatever I would
maybe I I don't think I could fall asleep around people I
don't know. Nothing against the crew or
anything, but if I'm going to arrest, I think maybe somewhere
a little more private. But I will offer you either the

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quarters that we have below decks.
But if you'd prefer and she motions to the after the ship
and you see the at the ship, it's it's got a small upper
deck. But on that upper deck is one of
the massive guns on this ship. But just below the upper deck
are two double doors and she's motioned towards those double
doors. You'd be welcome to use my

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quarters. Oh, Are you sure?
It would be my honor. Oh, well, I guess before we go
in, how, how far are we going tobe going, 'cause I mean, how
far, how long do we have? I don't know what where we're
going or how long it's going to take.
Hopefully you have a heading. We have a map right that Twit

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gave Twit. Gave us a yes.
So you take out the map. So you take out the map that
Twit had had had shoved to you as and the map.
It is a very well illustrated map of a of a Vernus that has
lots of different like points oflocation on it and then on like

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scribbled on top of it are like thick lines of graphite markings
that Thwick has written on it. That shows the path on the river
Styx to go toward that looks like fairly long distance, but
you look and there's no scale onthis map goes towards a mountain
range near the edge of a Vernus,or at least this edge of this

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map and shows the secret path toStygia that kind of is in that
mountain point. And so you can see that most of
the journey through a Vernus is on the water on the river Styx.
You flip over the map and you can see that there are lots of
words on there. Thwick has has added some
details and some information on the back and some of the one of

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the first things he writes is found this basically this map
drawn by Silvara Silvira Silvicus.
Wonderful map that is somewhat accurate, but there's no scale,
unfortunately, and so unclear onhow many days it will take to

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get to the mountain range. And then on the back you also
see a sketch that's much more inin Thwick's handwriting of the
plain of Stygia. You see like Ice Mountains that
he's labeled, and you see that the exit of the secret exit into
Stygia leads toward a location called the Tower of, erm, URM in

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Stygia. And that route looks a lot
shorter on that part of the map.But there are other
illustrations and things. There's other details that
Thwick has put on the back of the map, but that's what you can
see kind of right off the bat. Savara having kind of leaned
over looking at Intero, looking at the map, and then she's going

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to look around the horizon, any kind of reference point to see
if even the range is in view or to kind of get any kind of sense
of how long we're looking here. Do a survival check.
Going to only be a 10. On a 10 you can see that the

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avernous air is pretty smoky today.
The visibility is not high as the in this area you can make
out where you're at X, there's alot's castle, there's a big X
there and the river kind of has a curve on the map that you
that's a fairly big like horseshoe type turn.
And so you mark that as OK, onceI get to this location, probably

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can understand how far the rest of the distance is hopefully,
but there's no scale to the map.So it's really difficult.
So you have some information there just by looking at the
map, but can't really see in thedistance and understand it
further. Given that we have no sense of
scale, only a direction, and shelooks about being the first time

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I have sailed through hell, you'll excuse me if I spend most
of the time on the top deck withour crew will be manning the
guns and their railings, trying to make sure that we do not have
any unanticipated interruptions.But for the rest of you, feel
free to take what rest you need.We have good quarters and we

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will give you a safer journey aspossible.
I think I may need to join you for a rest as well, Namby I I've
used a lot of my magic up on Diandra's Zombie Horde so I
could do a yeah we. Guys worked really well
together. Somehow we were in.

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Sync. The two of us.
We really connected on our plan.We could just feel what the
other one wanted to do for some reason.
Yeah, I mean I can go try and rest I guess.
I'm going with Namby. I'm think I'm resting.
Can I do my rest in the? Kitchen.
That is how you. That is how you.

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Rest, Becca. Rest Yeah.
Big as they as they're talking, you do notice, you know, notice
a lack of twic being around, which is.
I was going to ask. So good, he noticed.
So I'm going to walk over Is it Silvara or Silvira?

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Silvara is the captain, the Silvira is.
The you just happened to make a random like.
I didn't make it. I didn't make it.
Yeah. So, so I'm going to go over to
Sylvara and have have you seen Thwick?
Has he boarded already? Because he was supposed to be
here, I thought. I have not.

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Yes, I was going to ask you. I'm sorry I didn't introduce
myself to you. What was your name again?
I'm trying to get him to say thefull thing.
I am big pentameter. Of course it's wonderful to meet
you. I'm in Caro Verstero.
This is Eugenard Rockbridge and Namby Pampleton.

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Yes, Dwig was with us, but when the whatever happened that
caused Diandra and GAIL to have to leave, he was forced out as
well. So I am curious how it is that
you are able to be here if he was not.
We don't really know the rules of how it works.
They just kind of poof in and out.
Based on the story pages we have.

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I think they're OK, it's just they're not here anymore.
Well, so I don't quite understand how the book works.
He was kind of the one who knew how it all worked.
Are you sure you don't know where he is?
I think you are being too modest, my friend.

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I am sure that all the time you have spent with Wick has let all
this information sink into your mind.
It's the only way he can communicate.
It has to be in there and I'm confident you will guide us to
victory. I mean, if it makes you feel any
better, he didn't seem worried. He just seemed like he wanted to
give us as much information as he could before he left.

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So I mean, I think he seemed to have a good grasp of what was
going on, even though I don't think we really do either.
I think we're kind of in the same boat as you, but he seemed.
OK, yes, quite literally. But it's a ship.
Maybe it's a ship the same. Ship as you, Yeah.
Did he by any chance say tell BIC to do this next and then say

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a few seconds? Left us a map.
And then set. The bike.
Yeah, I. Think this is with consent?
But he did, I mean, our instructions seem to be to
follow the map and kill the ooze, so it didn't seem like
there was much more that he had to tell.

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So I think as long as we follow the map, you'll be doing what he
would want. The virus looks off to the the
distance, looking at the hellscape, and you watch as she
idly rubs that tattoo on the left side of her neck with her
left hand. William came to us and said

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things were not the way they were supposed to be.
I've lived my whole life feelinglike things were not where
they're supposed to be. And my crew, well, we, we need
to make things right. We're here to get you where you
need to be. I will get our ship underway as
you speak. Feel free to stand here, feel
free to go below. My crew can show you where you

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need to be, and I will be happy to assist in any way.
But she looks up and around. I'm hoping we get some breeze,
otherwise we'll be putting very slow path forward just using the
Arcane engines. Fresh out of ways.

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To make a breeze. Yeah, if only we had a druid.
Yeah, just start blowing. You you go and like check to see
the air and see what the see if there is any sort of breeze
going. I rolled D20I rolled A2 on that
D20. It is pretty stagnant out there

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right now. Kyle, you got to let us roll
those. You can't.
Yeah. We're on the weather, man.
You were all good. For me, I should have done a
Tavern roll for the wind, yes, Yeah.
Do we get advantage if I yell listen to the wind before?
You know, I know how much I loveSnow Day.
Yeah, I mean. No, unfortunately not.

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Savara will call out right. Nick Dalia get that gangplank up
and so two of the crew will run off to get the gangplank pulled
up and they'll unfurl the massive sails to try to catch
what tiny air is there. She looks about goes up towards

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where the the main crew communication is and the
controls for the ship standing there at the massive wheel and
she calls down through a little pipe that looks like a
communication device of some kind.

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Silas fire up the engines and you hear this as the ship slowly
starts to creep forward. Now DM, one of the crew members
is a storm caller supposed to have the ability to help
manipulate the weather? I don't know if it would.
Work though. Here.

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Oh heck yeah, give me a Give me a give me her spell casting,
which we'll say is a we'll we'llgive her a + 3 to her spell
casting modifier and give me AD 20.
All right, No 7. A7 drop she you see Kaira's

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storm caller she she steps forward and starts to try and
manipulate whatever weather is here and looking at the clouds
just gets overwhelmed and like, and there's like a this breeze
that like wafts by the ship and like catches the sails for a
second and then it just goes limp and she hangs her head and
just shakes her head. I'm sorry, I it's I've never

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been in hell before And where's the.
Ship goes. The ship starts to move forward
through the arcane with the arcane engines ever so slowly
through Avernus, and you all areable to grab a short rest for
right now. May I do it in?

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The kitchen and make treats Kyle.
Yes you can. Yes, you, absolutely.
Can rest doesn't give a shit. I hate short rest.
What kind of food is available? What kind of ingredients are
available in the kitchen? DM.
So you go in the kitchen and thechef who is, let's see, that was
the Corac. Yeah, Corac stone fist that the

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half work is in there and he's he's he's grilling up.
They they've got some like burgers going.
There's some fries, some potatoes he's whipping together,
adding some cheese. There's a a a salad option as
well. Looks like some good, like,
hearty food and then there's some like fruit, some like

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delicious fruit that's sitting out as well.
But this is a pretty stocked kitchen that's kind of ready to
go for what they were expecting,which was, you know, hell and
whatever this adventure was going to lead to.
OK, so potatoes and fruit and. That's what he's cooking.

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But you look through and there are all sorts of ingredients.
There's flour, there's there is an oven in there.
He's not using the oven. No, it's too many options now.
I think potatoes and fruit givesyou a lot of a lot of room to
move around. With Yeah.
Well, OK, so these are going to be like little pick me up snacks
and I imagine it's a little well, although Emtero and Namby

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love heat, but it can be a little sweltering and I know
Namby's been extra sad. So, oh, I know what I'm going to
do. Namby's been sad.
So I am going to make a carrot cake with like white fluffy
frosting that I'm going to swirllittle bits of pink through.
And then how do you get? Pink.

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With Liamy. Juice or yeah, say use some
strawberry juice or some shit, Idon't know.
Yeah. There's some.
Strawberry. There's fruit.
Culinary magic. Yeah, culinary, the color and
any magic. And so then I, yeah, I'm gonna
make little cupcakes so that I can hand those out.
So everyone gets a cupcake and three temporary HP by eating it.
Might as well eat it now. Who do you Do you try it first,

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Hugh, or do you hand them out for everybody else to try?
Me, Becca, I never eat the things that I bake, so I think I
hand them out so. That I can.
Watch Faces. Namby, you grab it first and you
take a bite and it tastes awful.It tastes like ash in your
mouth. What's Namby's response to that?

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Hugh hands you this cupcake withthe most genuine now.
This is the meanest thing. He's a genuine thing.
This is like. This is unforgivable, I think
like to roll. Oh boy is namby like resting and
and Hugh comes in and is like here's the little carrot.
Carrot. Yes, that's exactly what

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happens, yes. With the big like eyes even too
looking at you. I think Namby takes a bite,
expecting it to be delicious because it's Hugh's cooking, and
then it starts to go bad, like in her mouth, and she just looks
at Hugh with this look. I.

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Was. Like.
And then she just starts. Crying.
It's just too overwhelming. It's the it's the straw that
broke the camel's back. I'm just like everything is bad
here. I just slapped the cupcake out
of your hand. I don't.
Believe you, Nami. There's no way Hugh Denard could
make something bad. I don't.

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Know that's wrong I. Know you're really.
I know you're really good. It's not you.
It's just everything and I kind of saved that guy and now this
tastes like ash in my mouth. It looks really good.
I don't know why it tastes like this.
What? Beck, you've been handed one of
these cupcakes as well, and you're on the on the deck of the

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ship. OK, I'm going to take a bite of
it and just, I will not hide my disgust.
Just Oh, it's Hugh, right? I thought you were supposed to
be good at baking. Oh no.
I mean, I'm grateful for this food, so thank you I'm.

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Sorry, I just started gathering the cupcakes out and I dumped
them over the side of the ship. I've.
Never been on a ship. Before maybe it's the I'm sorry.
And then I go just like I walk off in the other direction.
You go and return the, the, the plate that to the kitchen and
you see, you see Korak like dumping out all of his like

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fries and like his burger into the trash.
And he's like frustrated trying to make a burger and he like
makes 1 and takes a bite and just like spits it out and he
just throws it on the ground andhe and he just shakes his head.
And you see like there's he takes like a piece of fruit,
takes a bite and just looks likedisgusting inside.
And he said. What the hell?

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What's going on? Must be this place and he then
he kind of tries to come up withsomething else.
I never thought I would miss thetaste of icore.
Do we get temp HP or do you? Get the temp HP.
Yes, you get the temp HP you. You.
Lose 3. More bad I.

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Think. Namby if this is like relatively
early in the rest, she abandons it and and tries to help you
figure out what's going on with the food because she feels
terrible about bursting into tears.
And it's just like, see, I told you it's not you.
Something's going on. The one thing I have.

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You have lots of things, Hugh. It's just it.
We're in hell. Literally.
Yeah. So I don't think you can blame
yourself. Huguenard it it.
I think something about this plane must turn off food.
Disgusting. I mean, you remember in In Hell
Hath No Fury. In the story they had sweets at
the party, but everyone found them disgusting anyway.

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Maybe it wasn't just a trait of the demons.
Maybe it's just how the food is here.
Well, but the the the the cook seemed surprised, right?
Well, yes, but he's not from here, right?
So. Oh yeah, I guess I haven't been
here before. Yeah, you're right.
Well, and you know what they say, nobody goes to hell for the
food. I've heard that many times,

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yeah. OK, OK, I'm going to go lay down
again. Feeling worse?
I feel better because of the temp HP but also worse.
You all rest not sure if you're going to get a you know how long
you're going to be able to rest.You will be able to get a short

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rest right now, Namby as you're sitting there like feeling
awful, you do think about think back to your training and you
know that you have the ability to to prepare the greater
restoration spell. And as you remember this spell,
you know that part of it is thatyou can regain any hip points
that you've lost from an effect like this.

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And so if you were too cares, that spell.
But I only have one fit level spell slot which I lost on
trying to bring that guy back. Correct.
That greater restoration spell also has a diamond requirement
of 100 GP cost of diamond diamond dust is is the is the

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cost of that spell and you are down 15 HPI.
Think right, but I think. It's I'm down 10 total from my
Max HP and then with the short rest I'm at 55 out of 56.
You you because I cast aid on her, which might be why she's
only at 10. I think that you I think that

(35:07):
the thing oh, because it it absorbs some of that temp HP
within the car. So I got a well.
It. Wasn't aid, Isn't I just
temporarily raised? After she lost the thing but aid
raises your Max for 8 hours so. So I last 15 gained 5 back,
yeah. For right now.
Is aid still in effect? It is, right 'cause it's only

(35:28):
it's been. Yeah, it's not.
It's not concentration, so yeah.No, I just meant like that, that
boost that's still good. Yeah, yeah, it lasts for so yes.
You you all get a short rest andthen you feel the boat start to
get a little bit ship. The ship.
Excuse me, yes, the ship. You start to feel like it's

(35:50):
getting a little bit rocky. It's kind of swaying and all of
your like alerts are pretty highright on being in hell.
And so everybody kind of makes their way up to the deck and you
look out and see something. I need someone to roll AD 20 for
a travel. Becca encounter Anytime there's

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a roll, that's going Becca. Aren't isn't like on encounter
stuff? Don't we want low numbers?
I. Don't know, I'm not Adm. 7.
It's hard to say 'cause we're an.
I'll seven that is a low number.Let's see if it's good.
You guys look out on forward on the river.
River's very wide. It's a very, very wide river.

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And you see one of the like big fireballs that like fly across
the sky, right? It flies, makes its way across,
you see another fireball coming from a different direction and
they collide in the middle over the river pretty far in front of
you. They collide and you feel like
winds start to like rotate and move as these two like forces

(36:55):
hit each other and a tunnel a a a funnel cloud touches down on
the river. This tornado of fire starts to
make its way toward the ship andSilvara you realize that you
need to start barking orders to try and avoid this fire tornado
as it's heading straight to the ship.

(37:15):
So Silvara, you start barking orders.
Give me AD 20 roll for your crew.
You asked for wind. This flat D20 is an 11. 11 your
crew starts to get moving. It starts to open up sails, you
start to bark orders. Everyone is going to need to

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pitch in to help avoid this firetornado.
And so for your characters, I want you guys to look at your
ability scores. My advice would be to look at
something that's you're good at and see if you can apply that to
the ship. As ropes are being pulled, sails
are being lowered, everyone's going to roll.
This is going to be a cumulativescore.

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The you're starting at 11. You want to get to 90.
You really want to get to 120. When you're ready, when you have
an idea of what your character wants to do to try and help as
this is happening, go ahead and ask probably the ship captain if
you can do that and, and ship captain or me to see if you can

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do that ability check. And we will go through this to
see if you guys can avoid this fire tornado.
And then it will end with Silvara doing a final
performance check as Silvara's calling out the orders.
Silvara. Is calling out Aria drop the
main sail Baylin hoist the anchor on the port side.
We're going to drop it on the starboard side.

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Everybody heave 2 hauling all these orders out.
Fire Tornado just headed straight toward the ship.
There's a bunch of people like hauling ropes because my natural
inclination is I would use athletics to just scoop as many
ropes as possible and just like hew the crap out of this and try
to like get get things hoisted. Fast.

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Absolutely. Absolutely.
We. Like to give bardic inspirations
to people at this time. Yeah.
Yeah, you can. Yeah.
Yes, Huguenard, Dig deep. Grab these ropes.
Show them your. Strength.
Your cooking may have suffered, but your muscles surely will
not. This will be this will be just
this is like a round essentially.
So you'll be able to do that once that bardic inspiration

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once so. Like in this round.
Yeah, OK. It's already done.
Been done. That 20 seconds.
Amazing. Perfect.
And that's an 8 on the bardic, so that's.
Unreal. You rolled an 8 on the bardic?
Is it AD 8? It is.
It is funny. That's funny at AD 8.

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That's right. There.
So what's the role? 28 That's a 37. 37 We win
already. Are you kidding me?
Incredible. The Hugh jumps into action.
Here's the materials words. You just like whip a a bunch of
the rope around your arm and just pull and whoever's in front

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of of the of the rope just like flies back as Hugh just like
starts manhandling this rope, pulling down these sails and the
ship already starts to move in the right direction.
You just need. To feel good at something.
You're at A4 score of 48. You want to get to 120.
Getting to 90 is decent. OK, I think Namby like jumps to

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the front of the ship and wants to use like her perception
skills to like guide the ship and like where it needs to be
going like in the right direction reception you.
Got this. 19. 19 Excellent role namby you're up at at the front
using your insane perception andyou call out a rock that nobody

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else really saw and are able to like make them make the the
sails move just a bit as you call it out.
Savara you, you recognize that and and the ship just rotates a
little bit further more than it needed to to avoid that rock.
Is this a big enough ship where say somebody who has no physical

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skills really could help by if Iposition myself in the midpoint
of the ship to help invigorate like the back half of the crew
that can't necessarily hear Silvara as much?
So I can use persuasion to like try to get them to like work
together, get up, get by faster,work harder.
You know, like typical in chiro.Captain, is that going to?

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Is that going to help? She was nodding.
So. I it was a yes.
OK, it's a yes. It's a yes 2 of.
The three DMS at the table were nodding.
So, so you go, you go back and and you see, you see Korak like
bringing up some like burgers, like I'm sorry, they're they're
terrible. It's it's there's.
Not anything. I make it so, my friend.

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Burgers are not of importance. We must all work together to
guide the ship through this storm.
Come, follow me. Listen to the captain.
Listen to our words. Excellent roll that, roll that.
Give me that roll. Unbelievable.
A gnat one for a 14. Enhance ability, can I do that?

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This is when we find out M Terryhas a halfling and can re roll.
Those ones, right? He totally misunderstands you
and thinks he's you're telling him to like, try harder making
the making the burgers. So he turns around and goes back
down in the kitchen. No.
You can't just tell people that burgers don't matter.
I'm Tiero. That's some sensitive.

(42:41):
So sorry you were gonna hurt. You're right.
I. Really.
That's. Next time you'll you'll get it
next time. Great.
We're at 81. We're at 81.
Almost past the first threshold here.
BIC. What is BIC doing to try and
help at this point? So BIC is he's been following

(43:04):
all the instructions, trying to see like what are all the
maneuvers being done? And then he, his plan would be
to use investigation, look around, make sure that there
aren't any ropes that are stuck up, anything that was missed by
this coordinated effort. OK.
Is that something that would be helpful?

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I think so, yes. Barry.
Or. OK.
I'm 26. 26 excellent roll. So yeah, 26 you, you notice
that, but as Hugh is like is like wrenching on this rope,

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like pulling this, making sure the sail is going to turn the
right way now that it has the rope had disconnected a part of
the of the ship that had just ripped off when he had like
pulled it. And so you're able to to go and
say, hey, rotate, like step a little bit further this way and
get a little bit better angle. He was able to get a little bit

(44:10):
better angle to pull that sail even full further.
Excellent. That brings you all to 107 and
you want to get to 120. That leaves Silvara up with the
last the final roll. Give us a performance check as
you are guiding this the crew. Silvara looking about calling

(44:38):
out to. The crew calling out to
Camtiero, to Huguenar, calling out to Namby, to Victoria,
saying we've got this pull together, hold tight.
The ship starting to lean hard, some of the nasty water
splashing up. She's trying to encourage

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everybody with my modifier. That's a 20, yeah.
The SIP just turns in, the fire tornado just narrowly misses the
ship and just blazes past. You can feel the heat and the
wind as you pass the fire Tornado.
A gust of wind hits the sails and the ship just starts moving

(45:21):
down the river Styx. Great job guys.
You did it. Namby does the Titanic thing at
the at the front of the ship. For those who happen to look
back, Savara's golden eyes turn a deep, deep, deep Navy and you
see her whispering something, and then it goes back to gold as

(45:44):
she kind of briefly bowed her head.
Cool. The sound is like. 14 as a 22
because the eight that Becca rolled on the Bardic Inspiration
was mine. Those are my points.
The ship is moving now and it the waters seem calm again after

(46:11):
the fire tornado passed. There is a breeze now, some of
the smoke and fog clear or you know, smoke mostly in hell clear
and you can see see in the distance, but you're not quite
to the Horseshoe Bend yet. And right now it's fairly quiet
as you travel on the River Styx headed through Averness.

(46:38):
The next few hours pass pretty uneventfully.
You see some various sights you see on the water.
You'll see these like skeletal tall figures on these, like tiny
skinny boats paddling forward with long oars.
And then you look on the sides of the river and see these like
various fleshy type creatures, just like crawling out of these

(47:01):
maroon, dark maroon waters. At one point you follow the
bend. You follow a bend in the river.
And as that bend happens, looking at the map, you think,
OK, maybe a couple days. You know, so far as you're kind
of referencing where the kind oflooking to where things are,

(47:25):
maybe a couple days, hard to tell, maybe sooner.
It looks like a long trip, though.
As you pass by this bend in the river, you can see in the
distance like a massive battle taking place on the on the
grounds of Avernus. It's you see legions of devils

(47:45):
arranged in squad formations holding off against waves of
demons crashing into them. And as you pass by the battle,
the river continues to be quiet.Looking ahead, it looks fairly
clear. It looks like this and and we're
kind of mid afternoon of you think in mid afternoon of what

(48:11):
it might be here, but of course there's no sun.
It seems like this may be a chance to get a long rest.
Salvaris will be standing at theship's helm, kind of flexing her
back, cracking her neck a littlebit.
She motions for the first mate to come over, who is a Zephyr.

(48:36):
As she does that, she'll walk forward.
Namby, you were at the front of the ship quite a while ago.
I don't know if you'd still be up there though.
I think that Namby might find that to be like a nice spot to
just like, wait everything out. So yeah, she could still be up
there. So you're up there.

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You feel the presence of Savarascoming behind you, and she just
steps next to the ship's railing, looking over it, and
we're seeing the skeletal remains of fish floating in the
water, the silent, stoic skeletons paddling these small

(49:19):
boats. Doesn't say anything for several
moments, and then looks down at you.
Sometimes broken calls to broken.
What's troubling you? Oh well, the most recent trouble

(49:50):
is a demon or a devil. I don't remember whatever one is
supposed to be here. I keep getting confused.
He made us make a purposefully moral slash immoral choice.

(50:11):
That was really hard. And a guy died, and then I tried
to bring him back and we got attacked.
And so I lost my concentration and I couldn't do it.
And then I realized that it was all for nothing because his soul
is already gone. So that's kind of the current

(50:32):
thing, but there's like a lot ofother stuff too.
What's troubling you? She smiles a little bit and
looks at their ground for a moment.
I grew up doing the Man O War asa refugee, begging for scraps,
doing whatever it took to survive.

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I've done many things of which Iam not proud, but they were for
my survival and they've. Or to keep.
My own story going. It's, you know, it's hard
because apparently when we leave, things get set back.
So then it's like, well, nothingwe did matters, but then

(51:19):
everything. But I still have to live with
it. Like it's still in my brain.
So it's hard. I yeah, and she's just kind of
like dumping like just like there's no filter because she's
like, I don't know this person. She brought it up.
I sure. Why not?

(51:40):
It's just like, you know, it's like, does what you do matters
if it all gets rewritten? And then like, but it matters to
me because I'm still a person. I still have to live with it.
And then but then it doesn't matter to those people.
And then like, do you do means to an end?
But then is that the moral thingto do?
Because maybe you should be doing all the right things and

(52:00):
then hoping that the good thingshappened.
But then maybe if you have to dobad things to make good things
happen, is that good? So she's just like, that was
great. Perfect namby brain.
What you just did was. Perfect namby brain.
And then after a while she just goes, sorry, I probably, I

(52:22):
probably talked too long. No, you've not yet talked
enough. Keep saying what is in your
mind. Keep saying what is in your
heart. And always remember that the
evil or the moral choices that we are forced to make are not
choices that are our positions and our decisions that have led

(52:42):
us to. These are the choices and
actions of others that we are forced to react to.
You do what is right in your eyes, and these sacred faiths
will balance that for you. In the end.
Do not lose hope. Can I ask what the meaning of

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the tattoo is that you have? She just smiles broadly.
I served for a long time on the Obsidian Dawn, first as a crew
mate, then it's first mate. This was my first and I imagine
it will always be my true home. So I tattooed the Obsidian Dawn

(53:29):
on myself. It's really good that you did it
yourself. I mean, you must have had like a
mirror or something. It it looks really good.
I think perhaps you misunderstood me, but thank you
nonetheless. Oh, OK, I don't know my brain.
Sorry. Oh, OK, sorry, did.

(53:52):
You say you did it yourself, I think.
Did I mishear it too? Maybe?
I don't know. I think it was worth the
implication that I had a tattoo,but it might have said it did.
To herself, yeah. Oh gosh, oh gosh.
Oh gosh. Kyle took it literally too for
some. Reason.
So yeah. Well, good.

(54:14):
Well, you guys all are able to get a long rest at this point as
this boat sails forth through the first layer of hell.
Everybody get out of D6 because we're going to roll for some
dreams. Oh.
Boy. Real quick, real quick, Kyle,

(54:35):
can I have also asked if there is a cleric on board besides me
who might be able to greater restoration one of my exhaustion
levels away, Although I guess we're going to be here multiple
days. You can, you can ask the you ask
Silvara that and there is not a a cleric on board that has the

(54:55):
ability has that much power to be able to cast that spell.
I kind of figured, but might as well check.
But yes, so everybody roll for dreams.
We are in hell. And so a one through 5 on that
D6 will be a nightmare and a sixwill be a dream.

(55:16):
And so and so we'll start with the book club characters and
when we get to the to Savara andBIC, I'll ask you what your
characters are either having a nightmare about or having a
dream about. And so Hugh, go ahead or namby,

(55:37):
go ahead and roll, roll AD 6A4 A4.
Yes, it's as you doze off in your dream, doze off to sleep,
the dream comes alive and you are back at the university
talking to the AL Blacks. It's asking you again and again

(55:59):
why you won't save your friends.Why don't you save River?
Why don't you save Material's mom?
The boy in the dream is asking you.
Why weren't you nice to me? They continue to hound you for
what feels like hours. This dream seems to not end.
It just goes on for hours. It feels like there's no escape

(56:20):
from it. Hugh, give me AD 6. 2. 2 Hugh
you are in your living room. Your mother and father are
clutching onto each other as an orc in uniform tells you that
rivers remains were recovered near the Serpent Hills after her

(56:40):
unit went missing two years ago.Your father cries as your mother
holds him in your in her arms, and in a rare show of affection,
your mother reaches out her handto you and brings you in close.
Emtero, give me AD 63-A3 Emtero.You stand before the bookcase in

(57:05):
your stepfather's house. Your dying mother is in the next
room over and you go to turn thedoorknob but you just can't do
it. It's just like nightmare where
you you feel like your hands weak.
You can't turn the doorknob and you keep trying and it's just
like you don't have enough forceyour your arm just feels too
weak to grip the doorknob and turn it to get into that room

(57:27):
knowing that your mother is passing in the next room.
The bookcase starts burning behind you and your stepfather
is standing next to you. And he says I learned a lot from
Mel, 10. You are not my stepfather.
What are you doing here? He's look, he's looking at the

(57:51):
burning books. There's a spell called Dream
that he knew allows me to join in on someone's dream as long as
we're on the same plane of existence.
Yes, I know that you're all here.
I know that you're coming for me.
Don't worry, this is just a dream.

(58:12):
I can't alter reality in here unless you know I'm physically
with you and so your actions in here aren't going to result in
any I'm. Not the one who needs to be
worried. You disgusting postural.
I had it. You spit on him.
He doesn't flinch. He's barely even really looking
in your direction. Yeah, I.

(58:33):
Figured. Fucker, he turns and looks at
you and wipes the spit off his face.
Outside of hell, the reality is in chaos.
Stories are changing rapidly with different outcomes every

(58:54):
second. I've seen a lot of realities
now, a lot of different versionsof the same story.
I found one of you where you were able to make it to your
mother's bedside before she died.
She was able to tell you the thing that she don't so
desperately wanted to say to youbefore she died.

(59:16):
If you'd like, I can show you this memory here in this dream.
I'm not interested in any falsehoods that you have to show
me any twisted truths. If you dare to wear the face of
my mother and make her say a word to me, I will pay the pain
that I feel back to you a thousandfold.

(59:40):
So be it, Dream ends BIC, go ahead and roll AD 6.
That was a 2. Was really helpful too.
Fun big dream. He's just partying.

(01:00:00):
Unfortunately, the dream that he's having, he just sees this
kind of dark empty space, doesn't seem to have walls, just
seems to go on forever. And he hears a noise and looks
and he sees this. The Wick is there, and there's
no one else. You can't see anything else.

(01:00:23):
And during the course of the dreams, WIC becomes more and
more concerned, starts screamingout for help, and in this dream,
Dick can't respond. Horrible Sucks you guys are
barking yourself up by trying toscream so loud in the dream.

(01:00:46):
Yeah, you're like, force it out.In real life, it's.
Yeah. I jump out of bed.
Do you guys anybody else jump out of bed?
Yeah, like I am. I find myself in the middle of
the room all the time. My bad dreams are the ones where
I'm trying to wake myself up andI.
Just know it's a dream I keep. Waking up in a dream and then I
wake. Up.
Yeah. Gosh, that's you have that.

(01:01:06):
That's horrible. Yeah, it's horrible.
Yeah, those cycles all the time.But it sucks, yeah.
Yeah, carry it suck, Carrie. Carrie always knew, like when I
was starting a new rotation and like residency in medical school
because like, I would jump. It would be like clockwork every
night before, like going to a new rotation.
I was like up out of bed. Like in the middle of the night.

(01:01:28):
Or trying to smother her with a blanket because I thought her
eyes were burning. You know, normal stuff.
Doing normal stuff. Totally know what they taught
you, good medicine if you're trying.
To. Smother people, The eyes are
burning. You.
You. Cover a month with the blanket.
They won Med school stuff. Yeah, I I say that my recurring

(01:01:50):
nightmare. If I have one, I get a stress
stream. Even now it'll be showing up for
a block exam day in medical school.
Realizing that I have missed an entire semester's worth of
classes and this is the final exam that I don't know anything.
About. Yep.
Still, I love that sometimes. Yep.
It's lovely we. Just had that one a few weeks
ago. My.
Students stressed me out so it triggered one for me and I was

(01:02:12):
like son of a bitch you guys. I need you to care more so that
I can get less stressed. Becca has dreams that she forgot
to make the test. Now it just.
Before, yeah, I have. Had.
That nightmare where it's like 10 minutes and I'm supposed to
be over there already and I'm like.
Fuck, I don't have a. Test do you have?
The night do you have the nightmare where you wake up Oh,
I'm late for school Oh no, I'm I'm I'm out of school.

(01:02:35):
I'm old. Wait, I'm the teacher and then.
Anyways, Silvara, go ahead and roll AD 6.
I got A1A. One handful of nightmares here.
Silvara what? What does?
What does Silvara dream having anightmare about?

(01:02:57):
She's suppressed it for so long.It's not been a nightmare for
many, many years. There's only one nightmare that
she would ever have. It's going back to running
through the refugee cramps when she was cornered by the
teenagers and they removed her horns.

(01:03:18):
And of the UAC officer who came by and used deep speech to scare
them away. And of her tears and of her pain
and of the stabs put on her, on her head where her horns used to
be. But over and over and over.
A terrible night's sleep for allof you, but you do all get a

(01:03:41):
long rest namby your exhaustion goes down by 1 and so you are
now only one level of exhausted.Only -2 guys only minus. 2 Did
you want to prep any different spells today?
Is a is a question you can take a moment.

(01:04:02):
Clarification, Kyle. What cleric vacation, Kyle?
Cleric. Yeah, the yes, Cleric vacation.
So Ray's dead does not work herebecause the cell is already
gone. Like there's no use in even
preparing that. The reason, the reason that you
the the reason that you well it.Did it?
Wouldn't. Thought that is because resist

(01:04:23):
like yeah took his soul like it.Was claimed it like.
He like he took it with. Dead could work.
On like if one of us and. Grist doesn't.
Yeah, as long as Grist doesn't take our souls.
Yes. OK.
Or somebody else? I guess it.
Depends on how big of your of a Dick your DM is.
Right. Yeah, and how big a Dick are
you, Kyle? He's trying to smother his wife

(01:04:46):
so I mean. He's not like I'm kind.
Of like playing the eyeballs, it's.
Fine, not even preparing Ray's dead and just preparing
Revivify. I think that's probably fine.
I mean you just, we need you to prepare greater restoration and
use your fifth level spell on yourself to get your health back
is what I think. You should.
We had this conversation before we went to bed.

(01:05:08):
Are you sure? I'm positive that I think that's
what you should do. We need you in tip top shape.
Maybe if if you're. A potion or a scroll kicking
around and maybe, I don't know. Well, and also we have a day.
I mean, if I'm just going to be sitting on a boat for a day, I
don't need to roll any ability checks.

(01:05:28):
Oh, I'm sure it'll be. Completely.
Benign voyage, yeah. It'll be a totally normal day.
OK, fine. Don't you need?
It for your hit points anyways eventually, so you need it
double right. Oh, good question.
Do my hit points come back on a long rest?
Kyle, my Max. Right, yeah, no.
So they well it comes back to your Max which is not your.

(01:05:51):
Your Max is terminally lowered from what happened unless you.
Cast that greater. Restoration like on yourself?
Basically, yeah. OK, I'm guessing that
restoration. Yeah, OK.
Mamby wakes up, crushes up 100 GP worth of diamonds.
And snorts it. If you don't want to waste the
diamonds, I can make you diamonds if we.
But then yeah, 'cause I can onlymake 180 GP worth of something.

(01:06:16):
And this. Only requires 100 GP so I can
just make you a diamond. Let's do that 'cause then I'll
have three big diamond. Dust.
I just have to crush it like a coke addict.
OK, OK, let's do that. Namby.
Knock on him. Tiro's door in the world.
Well, looking through her bag, Namby finds that there was just
some loose diamond dust in therealready.
And then I burned Favorite. Incredible knock on him Tiro's

(01:06:40):
door. I think it's ridiculous that you
would assume that we were just sleeping in separate beds.
In bug beds on this. Bed.
Yes, you guys are in. Triple.
I'm picturing us all in like 1 hammock.
That's like hanging, you know all.
Right. I have greater restoration of
myself and I am no longer exhausted at all, I feel.
I feel like the namby though as a you're like small sized

(01:07:05):
ringing with with hue. It's like Co sleeping right?
So you got to be careful sleeping next to each other.
You might just roll over and spother you.
I think Namby does that cat thing where she kind of just
blaze like over someone's head. In the just curled around the
bus. Got it.
You guys all get a long rest andthere is breakfast on the ship.

(01:07:27):
And so you go down and you you go into the kitchen and it is
like a mess down there. And, and Korak is down there
like sweating and he just, you guys get in line and you just,
he just like shovels, like breakfast, like mush, like,
like, like eggs and, and, and sausage and stuff.
He's like, it doesn't matter what it looks like.

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It all tastes fucking terrible. And he's just like slamming it
down on your plates as a, as youguys like get it.
And he's like, and he shrugs andhe just looks so visibly
frustrated. Namby waits till everyone goes
through the line and then she goes back up and she goes.
I've learned recently that the IT doesn't.

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Nothing matters actually so in agood.
Way though, give me a charisma way.
Like like. If it doesn't matter, then you
might as well just. Give me a Charisma check.
Give me. The reading from my journal or
something. Wait, just a Big Bang sweep to
the side. You're nothing.

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You're more common with your family than you think, Mandy.
All right. OK, wait, just flat charisma or
my? Yeah, just flat charisma.
No, just flat charisma. Matter.
I have a +0. Minus -2.
Because. Of your.
Exhaustion. Oh -2.
No, I slept and then I got engraved.
The restoration gets rid of. One OK, good.
I think you. Have to choose one of one

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effect. Yeah, you have to choose the
effect. But you have two effects on you.
You have exhaustion and you haveyour health permanently lowered.
Those are two separate things, so.
You have one level of exhaustion.
Yeah. OK, fine, unless you chose to
keep your health low and get ridof the exhaustion.
Well then, well. He's like.
He like it takes him a second because what you said doesn't

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really make sense, but he's like, yeah, I know it doesn't
make it doesn't. Make a difference in a good.
Way right, because it like releases you from the burden of
having to make everything good. I suppose, yeah, that's why I'm
serving it like this instead of making it look pretty.
But I'm yeah. And I'm saying that's a good
thing. Oh yeah.
Thanks sometimes. Thank you.
Thank you. Yeah.

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OK. And she I'm going to keep trying
going well and she leaves. Can he, can you just start like
silently like cleaning up the kitchen, like for him just kind
of putting things back to to tryto remove that stress.
Like Hugh, Hugh feels this to his core and is just going to
start cleaning up the kitchen while eating his ash and food as

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well. But yeah.
Yeah, he notices and you guys, you clean up, you help clean up
the kitchen with him and at the end he just kind of walks by
just thanks. And you, you recognize that as
like a very guy way of saying like, I appreciate everything
that you've done here helping and trying to make me feel

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better and so. He sees.
Is he again an orc? He's a half orc.
Yeah. So in brotherhood Hugh full on
punches him in the shoulder, half trolls down as like as a
aside and then kind of smiles and nods and and and walks out
to join the other. Becky, you have to be careful.

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You might crit on him. That's.
True, good point, I want to say to him.
I want to say to him. Don't beat yourself up, my
friend. If Huguenard could not prepare
edible food in this hellscape, then truly no mortal creature
could. You have done the best that
anybody could have hoped. Namby has sheepishly joined them
and is just nodding her head. This place sucks.

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This. Place does suck, yeah.
Cavaris will walk up with a plate of only half eaten food
and. Spread around a lot.
She she'll look over. She'll look over and say amazing
rituals of trolls still confuse me.

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What? Instant blue face like a blush.
What? Yeah.
Curls in. Right, Captain, Right.
Eddie takes the ditch and takes it over to the thing.
You guys hear a bell ringing andit's like, this is like the

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panic bell from up from upstairson the deck.
And so everybody rushes up to the deck and you see Arya Swift
wing up in the crow's nest, thiself ringing the bell like
furiously and shouting out and like pointing out behind you.
Behind us, in the distance, behind Obsidian Dawn, you see a
flock of spine devils flying straight toward the boat.

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A few of them are holding on to ropes, like they're like pulling
back on ropes that extend down into the river.
And in the river you see this massive, greasy, furry hump that
like rises up out of the river and then dips downward and pulls
one of the spiny devils like down and like it.
It lurches forward and splashes into the river and and the spiny

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devils fly up and soon they're like kind of like flocking all
around the ship. And then a horned devil lands
Thud on the middle of the deck and he's got these big waders on
and he's got these like rainbow sunglasses backwards hat where
his horn comes out of, and he's got a big fishing spear in his
hand and he's missing a tooth. Buddy we got a big 1 today.

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Me and the boys were just fishing upstream for some river.
Demons when this big motherfucker just went right on
by. Who's the captain of the ship?
You just stared at his mouth open accidentally.
Look what's going on. Who's the captain?
Who's the captain? He's like slapping your.
Face. Who's the captain?
Captain. Savara will use thamatergy to

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amplify her voice and in the most hellish pulling from her
tea fling roots. Be gone off my vessel.
Oh, holy smokes. Hey, Oh, you.
Who are you? What?
What? What devil are you serving down
here? My devil does not come from this

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plane of existence, you spineless well playing.
Well, geez. OK, well.
I got a little bit of an issue for it right now.
You got a we got a big ass motherfucking demon down below
those waters, below this ship. And well, yeah, I don't think
you're going to make it very farif we don't figure this thing

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out together. Maybe you talked to Basilstine
yet, my brother? Which one is?
Which one are they? And I point to the other like 1.
Oh, no, he's a mechanic up with the Stiggian docks.
He's up there. He just got promote a pit fiend.
Yeah, you. He's got to clear all these
boats that go through. You talk to him about clearing
this ship. That's what we're actually on
our way to do. Nandy leans over to Hugh and

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Emtero and just goes like, is this like a Jeb and Joe thing
all over again? Well, they seemed, they seemed
more friendly. Oh, this he seems friend, not
really friendly. He's more intimidating than
they. The ship like rocks a little bit
and he goes. Whoa, Holy smokes.
Hey, yeah. Hey, you got any poon on this
ship? What's a poon?

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What, You see your face? Yeah.
Harpoons. You got any harpoons on this
ship? I really like his sunglasses but
I kind of hate him. Can.
You. Tell us his name yet?
Yeah. No, he told his brothers name.
My friend, I don't believe you've introduced yourself.
Hello. I am in Tiro Berstero.
These are my colleagues. Huguenard, Rockbridge.

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Namby, Pembleton. This is big.
Big. I'm sorry.
Could you? What was your name again?
I am big pandameter. All right.
Thank you. And then why am I forgetting
Ryan's character's name? Savara.
Savara. Savara, there we go, The and the
captain of the ship, Savara, whoI think you should perhaps be
addressing with a little bit more reverence, or perhaps you

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should have asked permission before boarding the ship.
Well, as permission, I don't know, maybe she should have
asked permission on this river. Sounds like she ain't clear.
This is Basilstine yet, but whatam I to talk here?
It's nice to meet. You nice to meet you Amtro and
Hugh Man Bird and and Mibley over there.

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Y'all you ever y'all ever foughtA croquette toe act before?
What, so it's just going to sighand go?
What devil game is this? Oh, we ain't playing games.
Here. We're just, we're just humble
fishermen out here in the boat like rocks.

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OK, alright. I think it's getting angry.
We've done pissed it off a little bit.
So we're going, me and the spinyboys, we're going to just try
and stab at it all, hurl a few fireballs at it.
You if you. Y'all want to hit it from the
ship and just kill anything thatcomes out of his goal.
How's that sound? And then rising up from the the
ship on the right side, this biglike just like furry hump like

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rises up and there's this like big like eyes that like like
bloop up out of the water and itlike is right next to the ship.
The spine devils go out and try to stab at it.
Everyone roll initiative. Yeah, before we go into
initiative, I said it while we were all kind of talking over
each other. Can I do an insight check on him
just to make sure he's not? Like do an insight check on him.

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Yeah. Oh.
Sweet. Even with a -, 2, that's a 25.
Yes, You realize in that interaction with the captain,
you did not, there was no attempt to be sneaky or to say,
hey, maybe we should be on this river and we're not, you know,

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with a demon. And he mentioned his Baselstein
brother. You can you can expect that if
things will probably go badly with him at some point if you do
not come up with some sort of story or something that will
allow the ship to keep going on the River Styx where his brother
is sort of in charge. Cool.

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Cool, cool, cool, cool. Cool, cool.
And did we get his? Name.
Oh, my name's Harley. Harley.
Harley. Harley, Harley.
As he's flying away. As he's flying away.
To my friend, it's so loud I canhardly hear you and.

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Then he's like forming a fireball on his hand as he's
going to go like Chuck it at this big, big, big thing
floating the water. Yep.
Did you describe it as being a greasy, hairy, slimy hump?
Greasy, hairy hump in the water,Yeah.
Absolutely did. Very visceral.
Namby, what was your initiative?Yeah, the -2 applies to this,

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correct? Yeah.
Yeah, 10. Q. 18.
M Tiro 6. That's pretty bad.
Silvara, 1616 and BIC. 12/12. Oh no, I don't want to go first.

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I do want you to go first because that means we got damn
it we get your echo. I meant to freaking animate
something before we started fighting, but then I couldn't
tell if that guy was going to bea bro or not so I didn't want to
animate something on him. But yes, you can tell that he's
fully at this point is fully, his direction is fully towards

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this giant swimming demon in thewater.
Him and the spiny boys actually rolled first in their
initiative. So they go 1st and they fly out
and you see him form some fireballs in his hand and, and
just start hurling flames at this giant thing.

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Oh my gosh, he missed every he'sa he missed every single one.
Everybody he miss every single thing.
Wait, no, he got one. Yep, he got one out of three.
He has a multi attack of three. So you see him like throw a few

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flames, like 1 like hits a spinydevil as it's like flying by.
There's like a bunch of them around and just like sears this
this devil and like flies off and and dives into the water
dead. He hurls another one that misses
in the water. And then he fires one that hits
the hits the hump of this thing and does 28 points of fire

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damage is what it would have done, but it seems resistant to
it and he takes about four and it takes 14 points of fire
damage. Damn it, these things are always
resistant to pretty much damn near everything.
Shouldn't you know this? But it's a demon, so that
thing's not from here, so he wouldn't have encountered.
I. Mean even if he has, if he's

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anything like Emtero, a lot of his stuff might just be fire
based. He might not have a lot of other
choices. And we don't know what the fuck
we're fighting, right? Like we don't recognize.
It it's a no. Hairy Hub, he said.
It was a big. Ass.
He's called a croquetoic and is a big ass motherfucking demon
croquetoic 3 of the of these like flying spine devils.

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They've got like they're winged creatures and they're just like
everything is like a a spine that comes off of them.
And they have these these like forks in their hand that they go
in and stabbed and they get it for 22 points.
Three of them go in and get it for 22 points of piercing
damage, which is halved so down to 11.

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And then this beast like after taking it's just you like it
like goes down into the water and then you see this like mouth
come out of the water and hit the ship and try to attack the
ship and it hits and this mouth comes out and it's like grabs
onto the ship and like bites into the side of the Obsidian

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Dawn. And all these like tongues
around it like start to wrap on around the side trying to like
squirm and like hit people on the top of the deck.
Some of the crew move out of theway but it does it's bite attack
on the ship for 98 points of piercing damage onto the ship.

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Crushes it and just like. It's got like 10,000 HP though
right? And like just claws through this
ship after it does that it it it's still kind of like latched
onto the ship at this point. Hugh, you're up.
Are we sinking? No, not yet.
OK. So mechanics wise, am I within?

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Like is it possible to be withinmelee while on the ship?
It's OK if not, but. Yeah, yeah, actually it is
because it's latched. It's like latched on.
You can get. Everywhere is melee all these
like. Tongues are like flying
everywhere. You can see these like you have
these like eyes like open up on top.
Of tongues. Throw food at it.

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Everything tastes. Terrible.
OK, so the first thing I'm goingto do is manifest my echo.
Aw, this is appropriate. So I touched the journal and an
ink BLOB oozes out and forms thebody of a thricrene.
And Thwick is with us. See the form of Thwick and the

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Ink standing next to you with his books, multiple books in his
hands. Savara calls out.
BIC. It's Thwick.
Finally, I'll explain it in a second, but don't get your hopes
up too much. And then I'm going to take the
three attacks between me and my Echo.

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Oops. So 2725 and a 22.
Those all hit OK Classic, all above rare.
Hits, yeah. Yeah, it never happens.
Oh, I don't get the D6AS. Well, 39 damage Magical

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ballooning. Excellent.
Not resistant to magical bludgeoning, So.
So you swing. Into it to what Becca does.
What are you? What are?
You. Yeah, you take a Bone Crusher
and is it? Did you activate any extra

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damage for? It I couldn't this time because
I'd use my bonus action for the echo, so I had to wait for the
other the Crimson, right? You start smashing into it.
It's got like, it's like got furlike all above and at the tip of
its mouth. It's got this big black nose,
like a dog's nose at the front that's just like this like dog's
mouth with like all these tongues and giant teeth.

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And you just smash into the sideof its of its mouth and and boop
it on the nose one time and and then yes, for.
Context Compared to namby, how big is a tooth?
Bigger. This thing in the water, now

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that it's up on the side of the ship, it is wider than the ship.
It is like wider. You don't know how long this
thing is, but you, it, it is huge.
It is wider. If yeah, maybe just a little bit
wider. Do you mean huge in mechanical
terms or? Do you mean much?
Bigger than. Huge, gargantuan, gargantuan,

(01:25:23):
gargantuan size, right? It is so like. 2 1/2 feet with
her ears she's like maybe 4 feet.
She little. Yeah, it is so big and.
Perfect. Yes.
Anything else for your turn to you?
I think that's it, yeah. OK, Silvara, you're up.

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And then after after your turn, you can direct your crew who
will be able to use the guns in the front and back of the ship
if you'd like. So OK.
Out of curiosity, just mechanicswise, would the crew like each
gun be two different entities? So if I was going to use a help

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action, only one of those would get the help action.
Or would you be both Yeah, and be.
And who's up after after them and the turn orders if I know if
I who I can be? Oh yeah.
So turn order will be Victoria and then Namby.
OK. And then I'm Tiro.
I'm Tiro just. OK, she'll just shout out we

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need to talk yet you spiny devils.
And then she will call out to the crew.
Man the guns and looking about. She will have her eyes go dark
Navy again as she uses her canned trip to cast mind sliver
on this gargantuan creature. Cool.

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So I am going to try to slice into its mind it needs to make
an intelligence saving throw. Not intelligent at all, that is
a non natural one. OK.
So a dirty 1. It's not a lot of damage, It

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only takes five points of psychic damage, but it has to
subtract 1D4 from its next saving throw until the end of my
next turn. Nice.
That could be very nice. Just trying to.
OK. So it has a little bit, it's got

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kind of like a 1, so 1D four, it's got to it's.
Got to subtract from its next saving throw and as a bonus
action I will enact my cunning tactics as the ship's captain
and use that to give advantage to the forward gun as they are

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going to try to turn this massive triple barrelled gatling
rotating style cannon on a gimbal towards the main body of
the beast. So I'll give them advantage on
the attack there. Not amazing, only a 16 to hit

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with advantage. That will hit.
OK, All right. So that's 4D10.
Kyle, in theory, if somebody hada spell that they wanted to cast
that has a chance to have no effect on a creature if its
intelligence is too low, would you tell that person if their
spell was going to be wasted? Inside check.

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Can I get a sense of if this thing's intelligence score is
higher than two? You can.
You can do a, You can do a intelligence check.
You can do a do a nature check. OK.
Damn, that was 21 bludgeoning damage. 21 bludgeoning damage.

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That's good. Is it bludgeoning or is it
piercing? From the From the.
These are bludgeoning damage because they're like.
Literal balls of steel. That's a lot firing.
You see Like balls of steel, like hitting it and like also
like bouncing off of it and off of this like hump of this
creature. It is resistant to the budgeting
damage. So what was that you said, 20?

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One or it was 21. OK.
So it's it's going to take 10. And then I'll roll just so the
guys in the back were there doing the same attack without
advantage, only a 14 to hit. 14 does not hit.
Classic DM rolls. So there's go wide.
They're trying to swing it around on the gimbal, firing
quickly and just going wide their shots.

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If you want to give me a intelligence check just right
now, let. Me do it now a nature check.
A nature check, yeah. Oh, thank you.
Virtual dice a 20 or no 18? Sorry. 18 You know that an
intelligence of 2 is like reallylow and you can see this thing
is responding to to to threats. You think it's probably pretty

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dumb, but it'd be a risk. I think it's a two.
Yeah, the thing, it's that dumb.And anything else for Silvaro's
turn. Nope, Silvaro's stay there.
At the helm, yeah. And so let's make sure that the
first mate is standing by her side.
OK, the two like gallon guns arejust like firing from both ends

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of the ship at this point, at this, at this giant croquet BIC,
you're up. So I don't have a lot of
options. I saw the one of the fireballs
hit from the devils right? And did it look like it did

(01:31:13):
anything significant? It was.
You could tell it was resistant to the damage.
Was OK. Well, I like how I asked that.
I'm still going to do it. Good to know though.
Good to know. So I'm going to cast a fireball
at it. It's latched onto the ship,
right? Like onto the side of it.
Yeah. So I'm going to cast this

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basically behind what I assume is its head.
So it's going to hit into the back of its head, but not
ignite. That's my plan.
Cool and. That's a deck safe for it,
right? Yeah.
It looks like yeah, decks of 17.Minus.
The -4. Minus the D4.

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Nice. And and it clearly it's attached
to this ship, so how can it really dodge, right?
I mean. Yeah, I should.
Have like maybe? Let's do it.
Let's do this is let's do a Tavern roll for fun -1 on the
D4. But here's the So the Tavern
roll, it's got to be a What's the deck save?
17. 17, OK, it has a 0 modifier to its Dexterity, so it's got to

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hit a an 18, it's got to hit an 18, fails with an 8, and so it's
going to take full damage. Nice.
Yeah, and I casted that at thirdlevel, so we have 10D6.
Nice that is 30. 30 Any any special way that BIC looks when

(01:32:44):
he casts fireball? No, he's not really thinking
about it. So he just kind of like steps to
the side to make sure he can getbehind the head with it and just
like tosses it. Great, this fireball is.
Going to be as efficient as possible.
Fireball like whizzes past and just hits it.
You see, you see Harley like look back.

(01:33:06):
Oh God damn, we got another firethrower.
Here, keep hitting it. Anything else for your turn?
That will be it for me. All right, Namby, you're up.
All right, similar to what M Terra was asking.
Do I have any idea of if this thing understands common?

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No clue. You would have.
You would have no idea. It's like, yeah, creature.
No, no idea. You could roll a.
Why don't you roll a roll a nature check?
OK. Oh, that's a Nat 20.
But I have. A -. 2 for exhaustion and a + 1

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so it's back up to a 19. That's amazing.
You know that devils and demons typically you know devils speak
English Gracist was a demon. He speaks or not English common
Gracist what is English? What language is that?
Gracist spoke common, but demonsYou would you would know that

(01:34:14):
like a a giant demon out of nowhere probably does not just
speak common on its own, it probably has to be something
that is like pretty intelligent.OK, how hurt does it look like
it's taking damage? But does is it looking bad or
no? It's looking good.
Looking good. It's looking good.

(01:34:35):
Compared to the ship, how's it look?
Right. Yeah, good question.
I wanted to use command to make it drop the ship, but that's not
going to. Work.
Trumpet, Trumpet. Yeah, I'm not going to work, so
I'm going to cast since it's looking good.
A third level guide. It's looking good.

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Let's. See how this?
Good. Or is it looking?
Bad. Is it a baddie or is it looking?
Good, Thank goodness I'm reelingwell with this exhaustion.
OK, 26 -, 224 to hit. Yes, that hits.
And. Noise 6D6 everyone.

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'S just busting out their fun. D sixes, all the D sixes we're
dreaming with D sixes we're damaging with D sixes.
OK and I rolled 2 sixes so 12 + 3 is 15 + 3 more D 615 + 6 is 21
plus another 6 is 27. 27 yes. Radiant damage.

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You channel that energy from Seoul and and that radiant
damage that hits it for that full damage and it like does it?
Yeah, takes the damage as you exceed.
That's. Like it takes normal damage, not
like extra damage. Doesn't take extra damage, it's
taken as much as. It's not vulnerable, OK.
Doesn't that vulnerable to? Radiate anything else to return

(01:36:04):
namby. Am I like in danger of getting
hit by like something like a tentacle or whatever?
No, a tongue. Not at all Tongue.
No, the the tongues are like wrapping around the strip.
They're they're not. They haven't like actually
damaged anybody yet or yeah, butyou're not close to those
tongues. OK, I I will end my turn there.

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Great Mtero. Sick.
Mtero is going to start staring really intensely at this thing
and like the smoke in the air starts to like form into a
really tight dense ball in frontof it and then explodes in a
psychic emanation as he casts synaptic static on the beast,

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which will require it to make ADC 17 intelligence saving throw
as long as it is not two or lower.
As long as it's not too. If it's a creature, that score
of two or lower cannot be affected by the spell.
OK, too done to be affected. It's intelligence is higher than

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a 2. So, So what?
What was the thing that he's gotto do?
He's got to make because he failed.
I assume he's got to make. ADC 17 intelligence saving
through. I'm just assuming.
DC-17 OK, that's -2. Like a 19 or a 20 though.

(01:37:31):
Because it's, you said intelligence, right?
Yes, intelligence. He's got a -, 2 ±2 with the with
with the with the D4. So that's D, literally.
D4 is just. 1. The D4.
Is just one the. First one, yeah.
I hate to OK you wop it. Because.
I thought it was. I thought it was until his next
time it was all saving throws. Great.

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So it has to roll a 19, right? Yeah, yeah.
Roll 19. Here's the tap and roll 7 fails.
Awesome. On a failed save it takes 8D6
psychic damage and also the target has muddled thoughts for
one minute. During that time, it rolls AD 6
and subtracts that number rolledfrom all attack rolls and

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ability checks, as well as Constitution saving throws to
maintain concentration. For a minute.
For a minute, you can remake theIntelligence saving throw at the
end of each of your turn to try to get rid of this synaptic
static. It's a level 5 spell that's from
the Santhar's Guide to Everything.

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I thought you picked it up when you were in the cyberpunk.
Future I know I actually took those ones out of my list
because I hate when I accidentally pick one and get
halfway through reading the spell.
I'm like, fuck, it's about like technology.
This doesn't work. Like OK, give me that psychic
damage. Yes, psychic damage is not
amazing, but 24? It's not 24 takes you like the

(01:39:03):
eyes like blink on it and just it looks definitely affected by
that. So 26 points of damage.
And then as a bonus action, I just will say we've we've got it
on the ropes. You can show it your might and
give you another part of conspiration.
Do the thing. OK.

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We are at the at the top and so Harley is going to whip some
more fireballs at it and he is going to hit all three this time
and so. Yeah, I wish I had just rolled a
little bit higher in the initiative, though, because I

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was like, when Ryan did that, oh, it takes AD 4 away and Kyle
said its intelligence was low, Iwas like, oh, this thing's
fucked for sure. Like on my turn, which it still
was, but it would have been great if it was automatic.
Great minds. He's just flinging.
He's just flinging fireballs at it.
Hits the side of it for 66 down to 33 points of fire damage to

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it and this thing does not like that but it was resistant to it.
The spiny boys, they're going togo and try and.
I would fork to a band called Harley and the Spine.
Boys. And.
I want to listen to that band. The first one goes in and just
like collides with a tongue and just tries to hit and just like

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it's wrapped up in a tongue and just can't can't do any fork
attack to it. Second one hits it for eight
points of damage that was halvedfrom a resistance and then the
3rd 112 points so so 4/4 and 12 so 16 points.
The spiny boys get it for 16 points of damage.

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The this beast unlatches its itsmouth from the side of the of
the ship and just goes underwater and you don't see it
for a second. Goes underwater for a second.
It's like quiet. The waters are quiet everyone's
like standing like wondering what's going to happen and then
in front of the ship you see it rise out of the water and the
entire full body of it crests through the the top of the river

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Styx. You see these massive legs that
are like frog legs. This thing looks like a mud
skipper. It's got this huge like gullet
in front of it. It's like a frog gullet.
It crests up into the sky and slams down on the front of the
Obsidian Dawn and absolutely crushes.
Give me a Dexterity saving throwfor your guy on the on the

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gallon gun, Ryan. See if he survives.
Yeah, it's 10 without a demodifier.
Yeah, he's crushed. He's dead.
As this thing smashes down on the front of the Obsidian Dawn
ship, damaging it. The ship lurches forward.
Everybody give me a Dexterity saving throw.
Savara cries out, and she goes. Ready.

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Deck save, you said. Yes, deck save, don't roll A5 or
less. OK, Hugh, what'd you get?
So originally it was a three, but I used a domino and it
became a Nat 20 for a 21 there. It is OK.
That's what. We call regression to the mean

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for Becca, right? There.
Yes. God bless Indomitable.
Namby. I rolled a net 1 and I have
exhaustion so that's a -2 Oh no.And I do have a Harringen thing
called Lucky Footwork which would let me add AD 4 but I

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don't think that would even helpbecause you said you have to
roll above a 5 so that's not possible.
Oh no, What's your? Deck.
Oh no. Well, my deck save would be a +
2, so technically that brings meback to 0.
But even if I get a four on a four, then that's just a four.
Mt Row RIP. Him.
Tiro's doing great. He got an 18, not a problem.

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OK. He was very worried about Namby.
Bick. 12 for me. All is not very good for namby
it seems like. If I wasn't exhausted, I could
have done it, maybe. And and silver.
Bardic. Got a nine for a 16.

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The ship lurches forward. Hugh, you're able to like reach
out and grab something and so you don't fall prone or
anything. You're able to just stay on the
ship. The ship is tipped forward.
Now it is difficult terrain. If you're trying to go up the
ship at this point, down the ship still normal speed, but now
the ship is tipped like this difficult terrain.
Hugh, you're OK. You stayed up Emtero and Silvara

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the the ship falls forward. You are both knocked prone.
BIC. The ship lurches forward and you
lose your footing and start to slide and you slide all the way
down close to its mouth, it's mouth where it is going to do a
bite attack. NAMBY your small body gets

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lifted from the from the deck and you fall straight down
toward the open mouth of this beast and foom inside the mouth
of this beast you'll be subjected to a bite attack as
well. But you are Everyone else sees
Nabby's body just disappear intothe mouth of this giant thing.
-6 on that bite attack. I will do a minus, yes, we'll do

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that minus the D6. The D6 is a 2, so it's a -2 to
this weapon attack hit for whichit has a + 14.
OK. Great.
That'll be a 23 to hit for both of you, and so you both take 44

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points of piercing damage plus fourteen a + 14 to that bite
attack, and you both take 44 points of piercing damage.
Victoria, you are in its mouth essentially.
Namby, you are gone. It's dark around you.
Oh my God. Got Pinocchioed.
You're inside, Hugh. You are up.

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You said how much damage? 44. 44 OK.
Is anybody down? No, I'm at 22.
Get out of there. Get.
Get. On out of.
There, get on you. Come, sit away.
Come sit. Away.
'Cause we're on the River Styx. Uh huh.

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OK, so describe this mouth to me.
Are we talking? Is it just like?
What that mouth do? You see this open mouth with all
these, it's got that big black snout on the tip of it.
This open mouth is almost the entire width of the front of the
ship. And there's tongues that have
like, splayed out and like are just kind of like flat around it

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and like squirming around all these, like thinnish tongues.
Do I see if I look down? Do I see if I were to
hypothetically just let go and dive down into the mouth, I'll.
Endorse this plan. Fall into the mouth.
Not a fan of this plan. Because my idea is if I could I

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is there a passage that I could just free fall down into the
mouth and then in theory throw namby back up and I would just
basically be in the mouth. Huguenard, I don't know if we
can talk right now, but one of us here can make a flying object
on their turn that can be large.And I'm sure we would all agree
that they would be able to fly namby out of the mouth, but not

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you. So it would be horrible for you
to be the one in there. You don't, Hugh.
Amazing thought. I can't give you any information
on whether or not that is going to be a successful or not.
You can certainly try. It's wide.
I mean the, the mouth by itself is 5101520252025 to 30 feet

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wide. Like it's huge.
There's lots of teeth. So the hole, you know, to get in
isn't, is, isn't, you know, as wide as that, but that's the jaw
of it. Because then I was thinking as
if I'm in there and my echo's here, then we just swap places
and I'm back out. Is this dumb?

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Yes it is because the DM basically told me it was.
I didn't tell you I could give you any more information.
You see Namby into the mouth andit's like you don't you can't
see her like right now. Like looking into the.
You know what? I shouldn't even debate this.
He was well, 1000. Percent.
Straight into the mouth as. Soon as he.

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Sees his his namby go in there so he like just let's go and he
pull on swimmer dives straight down into the mouth.
Make an acrobatics. Check not even question it.
OK. You, I'm gonna let you do that
with your movement and get inside.

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Did you not plan for? This mechanic, Kyle.
Cause the mouth is so wide it's not hard to just dive in and get
in there. You need to make an
investigation check as you dive in.
You're looking for Namby. She's maybe stuck between its
teeth like a kernel of popcorn just wedged in there.
Oh. Goodness gracious.

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Investigation would be a 24. You reach out, you reach out and
you grab onto a furry leg and you grab onto it and it squirms
and claws away from you and thenyou reach out again and find
another like furry leg and you keep searching and swimming and

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and searching and finding and finally you touch like an ear
and you found namby. Ow.
OK, I have her. And as you have her in your
hand, you've got you. You've got Namby in your hand.
There are things squirming all around you, furry things, like

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all around you. OK, OK.
Are. They all so moist.
Does this thing carry into babies in its mouth or something
like? Oh God, this is like fresh
water. What the?
Hell's going on in here? I am going to scoop up Namby and
I'm going to try to like climb my way out with my action
because I know you said I used my movement already, right?

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You. Yes, you can, Yeah.
So you can try to climb your wayout with an action.
It'll be in the Flatix check. You are swarmed by these
creatures around you. This is incredibly hard, This I
I'm going to give this ADC of 25to get out.
Of you got a bardic from me. So I'm a bardic, yeah, and I
have a + 9 to athletics. You can do this.

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Can bardic inspiration stack from different bards?
Yes. Yeah, because I would also give
bardic inspiration 'cause I'm partially in this mouth, right?
But. You can't do.
You have to do it on your turn. Though I don't think.
Yeah. Unfortunately OK.
It's you give the good vibes though, I'll take that.

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Giving lots of good vibes here. I already you said 25 right
'cause I got 16 on the die plus 9 is a 25 and then I have my
bardic. Do I need to use it?
If I know it's ADC, yeah. You.
Yeah. Excellent.
Amazing. You like, grab.
You like, grab on a namby. Immediately you're surrounded by
these like little furry creatures and you're trying to

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get out. You reach out and you grab like
this tooth that's jetted out thewrong way and you can pull,
heave you and namby out of the mouth.
And you're right outside the mouth standing next to Beck.
That was your turn. Namby, you are out of the mouth.
Incredible. Cute.
At that point is amped and axed surges so that I can take all of

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my three attacks like normal. I.
Haven't used. My bonus action yet?
So what I'm going to do is on one of the monsters teeth he
slices his hand intentionally onone of the of the teeth and
smears it on his Bone Crusher and feels something just kind of

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connect as he looks at Namby andhe activates the Crimson right
and is going to do radiant damage on behalf of Miss Namby.
That's. Great.
And then I'm going to do my 3 attacks on it.
Thank goodness I wasn't a screwdriver this time.
I like to use different tools each time, Harold.

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Really trying to find yourself. I really could feel the romance
novel vibe of Hugh there. Very Errol Flynn.
I could picture, I don't know, your shirt like open pirate
diving in with a knife in your mouth like.
Insane. 2926 and 22 to hit. Yes.

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Never below a 22 on those roles.Never below.
Well it helps when you have likea + 10 to hitting.
Like a lapse I do a little plus 14 modifier.
Make it mad. Do I need to separate out
radiant damage versus magical blood?
You do. No, you do not.
Not from the magical. Not magical.
No, nothing. That's 48 damage. 48 Everybody

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else sees Hugh dive into the mouth and drag Namby outset her
down and take out Bone Crusher, slicing his hand on the on the
on on the tooth and Bone Crusherjust like lights up with this
radiant light and you just beat beat beat the, the the front of
this giant beast and it's like taking these hits and it's it's

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it's bloody now. Anything else for your turn?
No, but that might be the turn that I am most proud of and like
all of D&D. It was incredible, absolutely
insane. So Vara, you are up and just
just witnessed a miracle. Not only witnessed a miracle,
but she is seething as she's watching in horror at the

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destruction of her proud vessel.She is thrown the entire deck at
what, 45° angle? What would you say that that
angle is that they're at right now?
It's close to 45, Yeah. I mean, it's close to that.
It's pretty steep. So she's kind of down at the
deck, kind of looking, watching this amazing thing.

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Her eyes just flash to that ghoulish Navy color and she
rumbles in what would sound to anyone else almost like demonic
as she growls. Get the Hells off my ship.

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And she casts ray of enfeeblement.
Oh. Yeah.
So it is a constitution saving throw, though I'm assuming this
thing might have a high constitution however.
What's the DC? What's the?
DC is 16. OK, don't.
Go for it here we. Go Hi Kim failed, but DC is 16.

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It needs to roll at least a 40. Shit, it rolls a nine.
I would have been. So.
Brown. If it didn't though, it's.
OK, so even though it's saved, the target on a successful save
has disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes until the
start of my turn. OK, nice.

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Even with the save. That's awesome.
All attack rolls until your nextturn.
Just just the next. One or the next one?
OK. Yeah.
Then, as a bonus action, she will call out to Bick.
We've got it right. Where we want it.

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Now get rid of it and gives you the help action so your next
action has advantage noise. Cool, your next.
Yeah, awesome. OK, Victoria, you are up and you
are right next to it. You are.
You are within melee of this thing as you are standing on
like a mess of like tongues and in front of its giant gaping

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open mouth and Hugh and Namby have just joined you on beside
you. I don't love most of this so I'm
like looking into the mouth but I'm not fully in the mouth,
right? Right.
Yeah, correct. You're at the right in front of.
It only in D&D can that be said and right make total sense.

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How big is the chasm within the mouth?
It's big. Is there a specific size you're
looking for? Because I can.
Because that would probably. Help.
Well, so. I'm wondering if I can cast a
fireball inside of. Yeah, you can.
Yeah, you definitely can. What's the, what's the you?

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You can, but like, it's like themouth is open, but it looks
fairly deep in there. What's like the radius of a
fireball? What's the, what's the spread?
20 feet. Yeah, you're you 123.
You're, yeah, you're pretty reasonably certain that you can
cast a fireball in there. And you see like this, like
that. You saw like this, like grubby

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looking thing, like, like latching on to Hugh's leg as
Hugh came out and then like dropped back.
It didn't come out, but you saw something else in there.
Hate that? OK, yeah, I'm going to throw a
fireball in there. OK.
So that'll be deck seventeen save.
I don't think it has any disadvantages right now that is

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a. Yeah. 3 fails and as well we
have another Tavern roll to do for something else they say.
That's a good role, but. What was the role?
There was 2 rolls. Something something the the

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giant crocac failed. The something inside fail.
Say fast. But they passed, Yeah, it was a
nice. One, but I don't see that other
thing it's just doing it's. Whatever.
Touched me probably. Maybe, I don't know.
It. Seems like that go and roll that
damage all. Right, so I casted that at fifth
level. And Rd.

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Orderly 31, probably 4 ones on that.
OK, that's 15 points of damage to the Crokek and it's just.
On the inside, like the outside.It is.
It's a demon. It's a demon.
It eats fire for breakfast. Yeah.

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And just a little indigestion tothis thing.
And then? These guys are right.
Yes. You cast the fireball in there
and it explodes and like the fire goes out and you see these
like little like creatures. They're like like little stitch,
like imagine stitch but like grey with like fungus growing on
it. And it's got like a pig face.

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You see them like burning like acouple of them, like crawling
out of this mouth, gaping mouth of this giant beast.
And the fire goes out pretty quick on them too.
So it looks like they're also resistant.
But. Figured.
I mean, they're covered in saliva.
And demon. So I'll give a bardic

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inspiration to Namby and just I give a very hopeful look and
like a nervous. I get that.
Big thumbs up, but his eyebrows are like smoke raising off of
them. Fireball in front of his own
face. And I'm shaking a little bit too

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cool. Namby, you are up and you are
out of the you are out of the mouth.
OK, I look over to Harley and I say, this thing's not from here,
right? Now it's demons from the abyss.

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All right, yeah, banishment. Namby's going to try and banish
this thing. Christmas Save 17.
Hold on one second, this thing. I must say is not charismatic
thus far. It has some charm.

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What's he looking at? What's he looking?
What are you doing, Kyle? And you're, you're looking
you're, you're going to be usingthe 2014 banishment, I'm
assuming? I mean, yes.
OK, because that's the one we used earlier in the campaign.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, OK.
Charisma saving throw. Here it goes.
Tavern. Yep, we got a Tavern roll.

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Charisma. It's what's the what's the roll
it has to make? Save 17.
Save 17. It's got a roll of 16 or higher.
Here it goes. Natural 20 when it matters.

(02:00:55):
I'm going to silvery barbs on that one.
Can you do it on saving? Throws.
Yeah, when you see somebody succeed on a saving throw, you
can do it as well. Silvery freaking barbs.
Silvery barbs. Come on.
Incredible. You cast banishment on it and it

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just it like you can see it's about to like disgorge all of
these like these stretches out and it and you cast it then just
pop it is gone and the ship writes.
Everybody make a Dexterity saving throw.
Oh. God, I'm just somebody on the
end has to get flung. I gave him tarot advantage, so

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you have an advantage on this one.
Thank you, I don't need it but Iwill take it.
Well, I chose you before it was.Banished and Brooke has bardic
from you right now that she can use.
Yeah. Yeah.
And that one's AD 10. Oh.
Sweet. OK.
OK. Damn big.

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So this is Yeah. So let's let's go through Hugh.
What'd you get? Oh, I don't know if I should use
my my bardic. It only lasts 10 minutes, might
as well use it, yeah? OK.
So that's 18. 18 good. Wait, what was the mode of
potential? That's what I was just going to

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say. You get is it?
Bandage temporary No. For saving throws, you get
temporary hit points equal to the number rolled +5.
OK, cool. It may not be AD 10 good.
I mean it gave you some temp H. Nami Pretty.
Good. 19 Thanks Salvara inspiration.

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And that one. Oh, no, no. +7.
And this was a deck save, right?Yes.
Can she get advantage because she like grew up on a boat so
she has really good. Legs.
That's technically a ship thing,but no, not in this.

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Game ship legs. That's a natural one from
Silvara, OK and BIC. Dirty 20.
OK. And is that everybody MTRO?
25. 25 Nice. The ship goes up and, and and

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writes itself. Everybody's able to hold on and
remain standing. You see as Silvara, who was kind
of caught in a moment on one foot, gets kind of launched up
in the air. And it's like this, like
springboard effect launches you and your foot catches on a rope

(02:03:48):
that's hanging off the side of the ship.
And your cat foot catches there.And you are slowly being lowered
down off the side of the ship headed toward the river the the
the water of the River Styx. That's where Silvara is right
now. You probably don't want to be in
the water of the River Styx. Yeah, no, I think I yeah, go run

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and try and grab the rope and then yell you.
If we get back to Silvara's turn, if we get back to
Silvara's turn and nobody's helped her, the start of your
turn, you'll be going into the river 6.
I have a thing I can do if I need to so.
It's going to be the like I guess technically a reaction.

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You you you can probably use a reaction at this point, but you
wouldn't be able to use an action to get out.
We can wait till my turn. That happens.
So that was Namby. That was, yeah, that was your
turn. Vacation.
All of that happened. Do you have anything else?
Do you have anything else for your turn?
That was just my action. I mean, if I can move toward the

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rope to try and bring her up or like to try and help in any way,
I would do that. Is it far away from me?
Yeah, it's boy, you were up by the thing.
You were up by the by the the the guy.
So yes, pretty far. You wouldn't be able to get it.
You wouldn't be able to get there with your movement.

(02:05:22):
Well, let's do you have the rabbit hop thing, though.
What's your What's your movementbe?
Rabbit hop. It's 45 then.
It's so funny. It's 4045 feet away from you so
you can go. You have to do a, an athletics
check to try and, and bring her up, but she's falling down on

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this rope. So you it's, it's not
straightforward easy. You're not going to necessarily
be able to do it. I can't do that on my turn like
I've already used my actions, soI can't do that right now,
right? Right.
Yeah. We'll, but yeah, we'll call
that. But I will be there ready, like
we're going to get you. It's OK.
And then that's the end of my turn.

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Very cinematic too to, I don't know, rabbit bounce across the
ship after. Fan, they're shooting.
Like chasing someone who's flying through the air.
This is good stuff. Hugh, Hugh, you take 21 points
of piercing damage as and you look at your thigh and you have

(02:06:24):
a crossbow bolt into your thigh and you need to make a
Constitution saving throw. The same.
Fucking thing that shot. Me. 26.
You succeed on that. Yeah.
How much damage? I'm sorry.
I don't like this thing. 21 points of of of of piercing

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damage. You see, you look back and you
can give me a perception check. Yeah, 20.
And I'm actually I think decent at perception.
No, it's the flat, so 20. You see, you see this like
hulking form, this large creature.

(02:07:08):
It's like beastly, It's got thislike white face, but these huge
tusks that come out from it's like neck and curl upward.
It's dressed like a bounty hunter.
It's got this big brass crossbowthat it's reloading and looking
in your direction turns invisible and then you see a
splash in the water on the outside of the ship after it

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turned invisible. How far away?
You mean like like right? Next to it, like, yeah, like it
jumped off into the water, invisible.
And Tiro, you're, you are up. Sick fuck.
I don't think I can do anything to that invisible baddie cause

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all of my so many of my stones, yeah so many of my spells are a
creature you can see, which thatreally negates going invisible.
So instead can I get into a range where I can see Ryan?
Yes, yeah, you can. You, because you are further
back, you will have enough movement to get over to that

(02:08:14):
rope and like look down and see you'll be able to get there.
OK, I'm not strong enough to pick this rope up, I have
terrible athletics, but I would like to get there and say.
It was at this moment that Salara revealed their shape
changing capabilities and turnedinto a bird and cast Polymorph
on to Salara. To turn.
Her into a bird so she can fly away from the water.

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Incredible. If you're willing otherwise, you
can make a Wisdom saving throw. I'm still going to try to do it.
To. You.
I might need a wisdom saving throw just to figure out what
just happened how on a bird, butI'm all for.
It what SAP block are you choosing is a It's like God.
I didn't even. Well, you can look it up, but
what? What type of bird are you?
What level can you do? That's a great question.

(02:09:02):
Yeah, I think it's your level upto their level.
I think so like a. Yeah.
It's like their challenge ratingor something else as I feel
like. So it has to be something up
there. I don't know what level, so
don't. Worry I got you.
So var is level 10. Did you like Giant Eagle?
Yeah. Giant Eagle's A level.
Three. Yeah, OK, yeah, we can.

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Yeah. Because I'm looking, trying to
see like what a rock was, but I don't.
Think a rock. I don't think a rock's going to
be a Level 10 challenge rating. Well, a rock is 11.
Here's the thing though, if you would like to, you think back to
birds that you have seen and youremember the bird from Zoonopia,

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the rock which was not a full rock, but a young rock.
And you can turn and you can, yeah, you can turn Silvara into
thinking back to the stories. You can turn Silvara into a
young rock, which is better thana better than a giant eagle.
And so Silvara, you feel your form changing into a massive

(02:10:07):
bird with, I mean, huge is like a huge sized creature that
you're turning into and you've you flap your wings and it's
like this rock with like this black, black and and red
feathers all throughout. And you are the the rope just
just breaks trying to hold on tothis new giant bird Talon, and

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you are free from that. And so anything else for your
turn. Yes, I say oh, as it's
happening, say fly. Be free my friend and don't
panic, it's only temporary and give you bardic inspiration.
So, so far, you turn to the rock, you're free.
And that takes us to the top of the turn order.

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We are out of initiative. The the boat settles down and
the spiny devils land all aroundthe ship.
The ship is not looking good. You can do you can.
You can see that the river is entering the ship in some parts.
It's damaged a lot in the front and the side.
It is taking on water. It looks like a ton of repairs

(02:11:16):
are going to be needed in order to continue on this ship.
Harley lands on the deck and flaps down.
Damn you guys. Are pretty good Fisher vans?
Wow, very good. So right as I was asking
earlier, who y'all with down here?
Can I whisper to Imtero, our persuasive party member, and and

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say he's he's going to be real mad at us if we can't say that
we're here for somebody on the River Styx?
He like his brother, like does the river thing.
I don't know an answer for him though.
I don't know what to say. But then also, Kyle, if you'll
allow, I want to know what the hell this thing is that keeps
shooting at us. Oh yeah, that's a good point

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from afar, that. We can see.
Could I also in the same I know we're not an initiative but like
the same turn like very quickly whisper that to M Tiro.
I want to cast enhance ability on myself to give myself
advantage on perception checks and I know this thing is
invisible but I have it's all mass perception.

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I want to see this thing. See if you can find Sir.
You can. You won't.
Yeah, you can. You can look for this thing in
the water. Great, I want to do that.
Who's got something to say that I can say to this guy?
I don't have a lie. Nothing is coming to my mind.
I am not good at lying. I just want you to know that's
what he's thinking. Maybe just lie and say we're

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with grit. The one that's dead.
Ex. Just a.
Lot. Yeah.
Namby give me that perception check.
Yeah, I rolled with advantage. I got a one and a 19.
Oh nice RA. 28 - 2 because of exhaustion 26.

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You can see it swimming away. It's about, it's about 1515 feet
from the edge of the boat. It's you look in the water and
you can see it swimming because it's like a dent in the water.
I'm sorry, how moving? How far did you say it is from
us? 15 from the edge of the of the
boat, 15 feet in the water. Didn't.

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Make it very far. To.
OK, OK, go ahead. Command is a Wisdom save 17.
It's got a + 6 passes succeeds. Silvery barbs.
Silvery barbs. Yeah, fucking silvery barbs.

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That. And give advantage to Namby in
the same breath. What is that?
Fails. Can I point it out to Hugh and
say get that thing? Can I, Can I, can I do that?
Or like do I have to go try and grapple?
It that's all part of this communication, sure.

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DM as this baby rock or young rock my step lock be able to
like grab onto one of the masks and try to lift a pull the
damaged part of the vessel up out of the water to keep it from
taking on water. You can, yeah, you can try.

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Yeah. So I go ahead, give me, give me
a strength check. I'll pull up that stat block
way. Yeah, well, I'll be fine.
I got it here, but I've got I'vegot rock.
I don't have the. Young, let me, let me find.
Yeah, go to my home brew creations.
Nice. That's the second time tonight
we've made Kyle say you can try you.

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Can try it? All right, well, it said it's
plus +4, and so I saw the bardicinspiration that was given.
It's a 22 at the moment. I'm going to go ahead and use
that bardic. And if this is an ability check,
that means you get to basically roll it with advantage for.

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Oh sweet, it's. Higher of them.
This is an ability check, so I'll take that with advantage.
So I'll take the 8 Sweet. So that's going to make it a 30.
A 30 amazing. Everyone looks around just as
this rock is like lifting the mass of the ship up and the the
boat is like lifting up in the air and it's like draining out

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the water as this. You're just like lifting the
boat up at this point. Incredible.
Whoa holy hell. So like I was saying, which
devil y'all serving down here? So how many spiny devils are
there on the ship? Like.
Harley plus the others. There's three that are close,

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but there's quite a few. There's, you know, maybe 6 more
that are swarming around, like kind of like flying around.
If we're out of an issue on the boat.
Yeah. And you would allow it?
I think Nami would yell like this thing shot at us.
We got to get it. And like give everyone maybe
like another round to like have to answer him.
It's a good call. OK, so he asked that question.

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Everybody roll initiative. OK this shit, motherfucker.
It's a Nat 20. Yeah, he's mad.
He just got shot. Becca has rolled more Nat 20s
tonight than I have in the entirety.
Of the tall tale. Clan.

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Maybe it's up. Hugh. 21.
Mt Row. 7. Seven.
Wow. Garbage.
Namby. 17. 17 You have already done your Well, we're going to
say that you already did your turn by telling people to go

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Vic. A 16. 16 and Silvara. 18. 18
Excellent. Hugh, you are up.
She just commanded this thing tocome back, and you can see it
like turning around in the water.
It will have to come back on itsturn, and that's what it's going
to have to do on its turn. What would you like to do?

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It's 15 feet out in the River Styx.
OK, I am going to command my echo to go out to it and take
three attacks through my echo. OK.
Oh, another Nat 20. So a 30 to hit, a 25 to hit and
a 26 to hit. You can only do one through the

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echo, right? This is how it is and.
I can just do all my so it can take an extra attack, but I can
do all my attacks through it I believe.
But let me double check that word.
Nobody believes me when I tell them until they play with her
and then they believe me. When you take the Attack action
on your turn, any attack you make with that action can
originate from your space or theecho.

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Space, you can make this choice for each attack.
OK, yeah, thank y'all. Where was that, Scott?
Does your is that? Under the manifest echo no
portion of the rules. There's manifesto.
Men on meeting the bottom helpful?
Yeah. Thank you.

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It is immune to all conditions, but it's not immune to an
effect. Interesting.
Yeah, it it it's immune to all conditions, but if it it can
still make saving throws againsteffects.
So echo splashes down into the river sticks.
You need to make a constitute A charisma savings.

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So does it have to be doubted? Can't it just be on it on the on
the guy? How does it fly?
Does it have a fly speed? It can move in any direction.
It says you can command it to move up to 30 feet in any
direction. OK, OK.
Yeah, never mind. It doesn't have to get into the
water. Yeah, so do some attacks on it

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or I think you already rolled the attacks.
Yeah, I got that. That was like a Nat 20 for a 30,
like a 25 and a 22 or something.I don't.
Remember the other day, what's the give me the damage on that?
OK, does it matter between because my bright is still
activated? Doesn't matter between do you
need me to separate radiant versus magical bludgeoning hold?

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Sounds like is everything frozen?
A lot of buffering, a lot of buffering.
No, you can, you can give me youcan give me all the damage.
OK, OK. Casual.
Yeah, so it hits. It's now totally visible.
You see this like just creature that is in the water, totally

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visible. And Salvara, you're up and you
are a giant rock bird. However, I am also looking at
what's happening. I'm going to continue.
Holding up the ship. Holding up this ship, but I'm
wondering if I can still use my strategic mind to still give the

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help action to somebody as a giant rock.
I'm not sure I. Don't think so unless you have
an ability to to communicate through your mind because you
can't speak as the rock. As a rock, so.
She can help by blowing a big gust of wind at just the right
moment. When someone's.
Going to attack. You could do.

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You could hold out action if youwanted.
Well, I have an action that I could do while I'm holding up
the ship if you would allow it as an action.
As a bonus action, I can summon my Tentacle of the Deep.
OK, sure. Go ahead.
That's. Cool.

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Yeah, you can. Hey.
Now so. As I, as the rocket is flying,
holding up the ship, the crew istaking the advantage to rush.
And you see repairs are trying to be, they're pulling out
lumber and they're, they're pulling out the the nails and
screws and trying to repair whatthey can.

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I have my eyes, which are a darkObsidian right now because I'm a
rock. They will flash once again that
that deep, deep Navy blue. And I magically summon a
spectral tentacle that looks sickly and pale and massive.

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It's 10 feet long and it will appear right next to this
creature and I'm able to keep itthere until I dismiss it or move
it about and I am able to attackwith it as soon as I summon it.
Just now. Oh it.

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Is. Now.
So as long as the DM has no questions I'll make an attack
roll and then there are a fix ifI hit so it's a + 8 to hit.
Kyle, do you have any clarifyingquestions?
No plus. What was it?
The plus plus what? It's a.
It's a. Well, the total of it's a + 8,
so it's a 14. Did not roll super high. 1414

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misses. OK, well then nothing happens
beyond this massive tentacle just suddenly appears and takes
a swipe at this creature and thetentacle remains.
So there's just a tentacle out in the in the River Styx now.
There's a giant looking sickly tentacle that frankly, I'm not

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sure anybody would know that Savar had anything to do with
it. It's just this giant, and it
took a swipe, Yeah. Great Namby.
It's your turn, which we are using your turn from before to
start the initiative. Harley flies over.
He's like, well, what are we allfiring at?

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What we got in there Some. Oh, what the hell?
An Orthon somebody. Oh, you want, you've got a
bounty. On your head.
And then he's like, what the hell is that?
And he looks at the tentacle in the water and he's going to
throw a fireball at it. Nice.
Yeah. A fire that in there freaking
demon or something and that's a freaking.
Demon. Rules a 17 to hit.

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So the way it reads, I magicallysummon a spectrum tentacle that
strikes at your foe. So it's spectral.
So I don't know. It's like spirit Guardians where
you can't. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Maybe you just can't hit.
OK, you. Can't hit it.
Yeah, so. So just she like hits the water
and just like like. Splashes right there.
Oh God damn, I guess. You have effect with that at
all, Kyle? No.

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I know it's. Almost like Kyle doesn't want to
hurt the other monster with his monster.
How dare you? I know Namby didn't get a turn
but if he would allow and if notOK could could she yell like no
it's that thing and like point at the thing.
What are you talking about the orthon?
I don't know what it's called. That thing.

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Yeah, it's like, yeah. It's coming for one of y'all.
And BIC, you're up. So I am going to cast charm
person on Harley and his two buddies.
OK. OK.
So it's a Wisdom save of 17. Don't.

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They know if they, if they. Wisdom save of 17.
Here's the tap. Roll 14.
He gets a + 8 to Charisma, so hesays.
Silvery barbs if it's Harley silvery barbs.
Is that Harley? 16 So he saved, Harley saved.

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And how many of the spiny boys? There were two of them.
You said, wait, Scott, was theresomething?
No sorry I didn't. I thought Brian's AC was higher
than 16 but that's mine minus. No, it's 17.
Yeah, 17. Oh, he failed then, I thought.
It was 16. I was.
Confused. I was going to say mine.

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I was like I'm. Sorry I had I heard 16 Harley
fails so. So he is charmed and all of his
funny devils are charmed as well.
What's your plan with that? And and I'm just going to say,
Harley, you that that fishing that we did that was amazing,
right? Was that not one of the best?

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Yeah, Hell yeah. I was sick, but we didn't get
the fish. I don't know where the hell it
went. It happens sometimes though, you
know. Right, right.
But yeah, that was that was thatwas cool, you guys.
Got a nice little. Outfit here if you want to we we
get to the get to the docks, youknow and talk to talk to my

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brother. Well, actually I got some coming
now and you can see off in the distance pit fiend the big Mace,
fiery Mace head in your direction.
There he is right now. We can ask him if we can get
this thing all outfitted and andget you some harpoons on this
thing. You know, actually get some good
river fishing, get some good river demons.
I think it seemed as bad. I think it would.

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Be good. It's usually.
Not good. You see it flying in this
direction. What else do you do?
You talk to him is And he is charmed at this point.
Yeah. So can you help us deal with
this? Whatever this bounty hunter is,
we we just don't need this rightnow.
We're. Nothing against him.
I don't know. He's he's after something, you
know, I don't really like to getin the business of other deep

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devils out here and he's usuallyhired by something or other and
I, you know, I can't really be stepping on any toes out here.
So can't really get involved in that sort of thing.
I. Wonder if it's because we stole
diamonds? We are thieves, yes.
We are thieves. We stole from the dead.
Yeah, we looted bodies. But I'm talking to my brother

(02:27:18):
about getting us all set up withsome some fancy stuff on this
ship. Can you tell him we're already
set up enough and just to hold off what we kind of deal with
this situation over here? Oh, sure, yeah.
I'll tell him whatever you want.You're nice.
Guy keep. Sailing.
Real nice guy. Yeah, we could do and get the
ship off all. Figured out all set up.

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Anything else for your turn? No, that's going to be it.
OK, turn. And Tiro, you're up.
We. Got this guys.
Oh, wait, sorry, I'm sorry. Where's?
The where's the orthon? Yeah, Mtero, your, your
initiative was A7. It is the Orthon's turn.
So Orthon comes up and climbs upthe ship standing.

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Yep. And is just standing in front of
Namby and that's its turn. Mtero, you're up.
This thing's on the ship. Now orders girl.
What's that look like again? Like can you describe it more?
Big. Big hulking beast, large
creature, giant tusks like coming out of its neck and
curling upward. It's got this like, yeah, it's

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like out of his neck and it's got like these like spikes on
its head. It's wearing.
You can see that. It's like white face is a bone
like mask that's like pressed upagainst it.
You can see its eyes go through dressed like a bounty hunter.
I mean like he's got a big crossbow.
Almost like he's wearing like Chewbacca like clothes, right?
Is what he almost it's almost like that look, but he's just

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standing right in front of of Namby.
Looks real happy, right? Yes, very happy rock.
M Tiro, you're up. Sick.
OK, I'm guessing I don't want todrop concentration on the
polymorph if you're holding the ship up right now because that

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might have a bad effect. So I need to maintain that
somebody may have done exactly what I was going to do on my
turn. Hard army in me.
How far away is the pit fiend? Hopefully 30 feet.
I know, I really hope he's within 30 feet.

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Or maybe much much he's. 60 He's60 feet away.
Further, Yeah. I need him close.
Oh, he's so. Close.
That's. The.
Problem. He is 60 feet away. 60 feet is
exactly the wrong distance, Kyle.
Yeah, I know it sucks. The.
Worst distance? You need and yet not.
Far enough I know he'll get hereon his turn now, but I can't get

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to him. That's the worst.
We're high up the African. I don't know.
Can you hold an action to cast aspell?
Yeah. It's just an.
DM Yeah. You can write a spell.
You can write a spell. Right, but you have to.
If the exact conditions of your held action don't occur, then

(02:30:14):
you the spell fizzles and you lose it and you still spend the
spell slot. So you you just have to specify
like. As soon as the Pit Fiend is
within 30 feet of me, I want to cast Charm Monster on the Pit
Fiend. OK, great.
So yes, I will do that. I'll hold that.
And I've already given Hugh a bardic, right?

(02:30:37):
Yeah, I used it though. I finally gave you another one,
but I'll wait. You used it in the attacks on it
maybe? Oh, had you given me one since
then I used the last one I used during one of the deck saves
when the boat. You know what?
Just to be safe, you get anotherone, Huguenard.
Use your strength to subdue thismonstrosity.

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And that will be it for Interior's term then for now.
OK, OK this pit fiend flies to you as you can see it.
It's got these horns that go outand like curl up huge, you know,
bodies large size creature Mace in it's hand flaming.

(02:31:18):
It's it's absolutely on fire, flies end of thud, lands on the
deck. And it is like the scariest
looking thing, like this is the devil of all devils right here,
pit fiend looking at you coveredin grease.
Like he's got like tons of grease on his body.
Yeah. And he's got like this hot coal

(02:31:39):
in his mouth that's just like a hot coal that he's just swishing
around and, and. What do we got?
Here. Well, if he's within 30 feet of
me, he's got Charm Monster cast on.
Him. Go ahead.
Yeah. So he's got to do a Christmas.
Wisdom 17 saving throw. OK, he's got a + 10.

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He calls a natural. 1. He uses legendary resistance.
Go. Big.
Silvery barbs are probably. I.
Don't think. I'd have to let the spell hits
it and and and he tweaks his neck a little bit.

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Thud lands on the deck and the the wood like cracks a little
bit and he sees the orthon there.
He sees everything and doesn't immediately attack as as yeah,
as. Harley's got this big like smile
on his face, but he's you can tell he's trying to, he's taking
this all in. As this pit fiend lands and just

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cracks the deck of the ship, youcan just see the rock.
Just like bolting and frustration.
It's just feathers coming off. It's Ed.
We're back up to the top, which is at the top is Hugh.
Is it bad to wail on this orthonin front of this?

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I don't think so, right? It's all kind of like let.
We've already attacked it in front of it.
It didn't care. Can we just tie him up is?
That the pit fiend. Yeah, well, in front of the
brother of the pit fiend. That's true.
OK, I'm going to does. It break whatever charm you have
on him if he starts beating the shit out of it.
Well, I already I hit him after.The IT does not the command, the

(02:33:30):
command. Yeah, I checked the command, it
is A1. Time thing, yeah.
And it will work. It did.
Doesn't get broken with with thegetting attacked getting hit
otherwise. So it happens and then it is
done. OK then I will take 3 attacks on
it. I already wailed on it so might
as well just keep going. Dig that grave, all right?

(02:33:52):
29A Dirty 20 and a 21. Go ahead and do the damage for
all that. You know things get serious when
all you see is the ears. In the video 48. 48 you slam

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into it and hit it for 48 pointsof damage and it and it goes
down to a knee. It looks really bad.
Anything else for your turn? Oh wait, hold up, hold up.
It goes down to less than 15 hitpoints and it explodes.
You hit it with a bar and it is explosive retribution effects
and it is dead. Everybody within 30 feet of it

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make a a Dexterity saving throw.Who is that?
That's all of you. All of.
Them. That's everybody that's.
Everybody Dex, even the. Rock dex saving throw, not the
rock Rock. You're pretty far high.
You're high up is. This one of those those effects
that does half damage if you pass Kyle.
I'm just wondering if it's worthit rolling for my echo.
I can't tell you that. Oh, for your echo.

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For the echo, do they take half damage if you passed?
Half damage, half damage, so echo's gone.
Echo's gone, yeah. DC is 17, so if you pass it,
great. You take half damage of 15 fire
damage plus 9 Thunder damage. So those are the two damages.

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If you take full damage, it's 15+ 9.
Half damage is 7 + 4. Anybody down 4?
For me, because I'm resistant tofire.
Cool. I am not down.
I have six health points. Thank you.
Thank God you track into. Your health back up to maximum
value. Yeah, I saved.

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I saved on the next save. And orthon just explodes it's
mask comes out and like hits hits BIC right in the face BIC.
You don't take any damage from that.
Wait, I don't. From the from the mask hitting
you extra damage, you take all the other damage.
Oh. Yeah, no, I go down.
I go down hard. Oh, you're down.

(02:36:01):
OK, so, so BIC falls down and heis down.
That is that was whose turn was that?
That was huge, that. Was my turn.
Let's let's if we're if we're let, let me ask a question.
Is anybody going to do anything with Harley or the Pit Fiend

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with their action before we get down to the bottom of the
initiative or because if not, wecan break initiative if it's if,
if anybody doesn't, if anybody has any thoughts?
Sabar would not just attack a pit fiend.
I wasn't planning anything, no. No, definitely wasn't planning
to attack them if anything, justtried to charm again.

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So Orthon explodes and the ship is quiet still.
The Silvare is holding the ship up.
The Pit Fiend steps forward and and Harley's like, oh man, you
should have seen it. We took out a croquet to it.
Well, we think we did it somewhere.
It kind of disappeared on us. But these guys are real good
fighters. They're real good with the with

(02:37:05):
the with fishing and stuff. I don't know where they're from,
but And Pit Fiend looks down andjust and snarls and moves that
coal in his mouth. Who y'all with?
Who's your demon? Who's your devil?
Who's your devil? Can I not answer him and do a
Channel Divinity balm of peace to hop around and give everybody

(02:37:27):
some hit points and. I'll open pick up.
Wonderful. Should I just say we're with X
just a lot? I mean, I think so.
So Beck, you are up. Who's going to speak?
I'm too rough. Everyone gets 10 hit points.
I'm actually pretty persuasive. But my friend, sorry, we are

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here on behalf of X Jizelot. We were guests of his party
fleeing an attack. All right.
And Harley's like, Oh yeah, I know X jizz a lot.
He's helping you out. Give me a Persuasion or
deception check with advantage. All right like that.

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I love the advantage when you get a nine on the first roll and
a Nat 20 on the. Nat 20.
Incredible. Oh my gosh.
Incredible pit Pit fiend looks out.
He's like God damn it, God damn bad.
Mesu never registers any ships around here.

(02:38:34):
Harley we got to we got to really tighten up the the brick
and Amnesius and stuff. This is garbage.
All right, whatever. You guys are registered, you
guys can continue on. And Harley, let's get out of
here. I need your help.
Up, back, up, back into at the docks.
All right? Yeah, well, nice being with you
guys. And And Harley lifts up and

(02:38:56):
takes off the pit Fiend leaves and starts flying away.
The boat is stable. The crew is there and the boat
is just hanging in the air abovethe River Styx.
And you start to look out and around the crew.
You see the crew starting to look at their hands, looking at

(02:39:16):
their feet, and they see the thegolden sure, the bank.
The bank. They start to disappear 1 by 1
as gold. They kind of turn into these
spectral golden pages and leave and you look up and BIC, you
start to see your body kind of start to disappear and you have

(02:39:39):
a moment before you are completely gone.
If you would like to say anything as in your last moments
here. So would Bic's idea of this be
that I'm going back to where I had been from, or that this is
truly the end? You have no idea.
You think you're going back to your own story, but who knows

(02:40:00):
what that is? I don't think my anxiety would
let me think that personally. So big looks at the group and as
his like hands are just going away.
He just pleads like you. I believe you can do this.
Please, please write all of the stories.

(02:40:22):
It has to be you. I am big pentameter, pentameter.
Thank you. And Dick, your body kind of goes
away and you look up and you just hope and pray that this
rock that's keeping the boat afloat is not going to go away.

(02:40:44):
And sure, as sure as anything, the the golden pages start to
take over the wings of the rock.You have a moment if you'd like
to transform back out of it, or drop concentration on the rock
if you'd have like to have a final moment with Silvara, the
captain of the ship. I'm going to drop concentration

(02:41:06):
on the rock, but also be like, It's at this moment that
Emptiero remembered he has an inflatable raft in his.
Pouch. And burn a sheet of paper and
just make a classic like IndianaJones style inflatable raft
appear underneath the three of us where we're standing as I

(02:41:26):
break concentration on Silvara. It's a Salvara will start to to
fall. I'll watch you make this
inflatable raft kind of pop up underneath you on the deck of
the Obsidian Dawn DM. Is the Obsidian Dawn also
starting to have the same pages floating across it?

(02:41:48):
No. OK OK, so I will.
As she starts to fall, she'll misty step poof down right in
front of you. 3 Her body's starting to just flutter away
into the pages and she'll smile and say it's never the end.

(02:42:13):
The old ones will still be therefor us.
And with that, her eyes flash Navy blue one last time as she
blows away in the wind. Namby reaches out of hand and
just tries to She doesn't have time to say anything, but she
just makes eye contact with you in a significant.

(02:42:36):
Way. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, there. Was a connection.
Nothing. Matters.
Nothing matters, because that kind of means nothing.
Matters in a weird way. Don't worry, your life didn't
matter. Everything sucks.
No, no, it's you guys are takingthe wrong point from it.
Nothing matters, but that means that everything matters.
It's just she gets it. She gets it.

(02:42:59):
Amazing, Silvara. You see as your body becomes the
golden pages and goes away and the boat just slashes, splashes
down on the water and is just slowly, slowly sinking in.
What are your threes? What?
What's the plan here? The boat is sinking into the

(02:43:19):
River Styx. You've been warned that you
cannot touch that stuff. You guys jump in the lifeboat?
We've been warned. What?
Not to get in the River Styx. Not to get in the water the
best. So you get into the the the
raft. As the the boat sinks into the
water, suddenly you are finding yourselves in this floating raft

(02:43:42):
in the middle of hell. How long is this pack in the
middle of the River Styx? So this lasts 3 hours, right?
4 hours. Now 4 hours.
Yeah, I I don't think we have the skills to fix that ship so.
It is sunk down like completely.It's like almost all the way
gone. And as you sit there, it just
sinks into the River Styx. You maybe should have asked the

(02:44:03):
pit fiend for help. Do you think we still could?
M Tiro make an arcana check. At least that thing's not coming
after us. Wow, that one.
That's very good. That's a 24.
A 24 you. You know the spell charm person

(02:44:24):
pretty well, and you know that the charm creature is friendly
to you. But when the spell ends, the
target knows it was charmed by you and you look off in the
distance and you see Harley flying back as fast as he can
with a horde of spiny devils behind him.
God damn it, he's best to have to spill on me.
I'm going to get you and he's flying towards you and the book
in your hand starts to glow. One of the pages starts to glow

(02:44:46):
and that is where we're going toend this episode of Expedition
told. I still have advantage on wisdom
checks for an hour. Insane floating in the middle of
the river. Sticks on the on a floatation
boat. The Devil.
'S coming in devil. Comes back.
Oh, this is so good. Thank you so much to our guests

(02:45:07):
Ryan and Brian. Thanks for joining guys.
Pleasure. It was amazing having you guys
here Ryan, excellent job with running the ship.
That was a lot of fun having just you've got to be in charge
of the ship that you've DM before with the cloudy with the
chance of fireballs. So awesome having you guys back.

(02:45:29):
All the listeners. Thank you for listening.
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Join our discord 2. Thank you to Tyler Adelsperger
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