WEBVTT 00:00:02.410 --> 00:00:04.750 Hey, Pants People. Just wanted to take a brief 00:00:04.750 --> 00:00:06.969 moment before the episode to say thanks for listening 00:00:06.969 --> 00:00:49.729 and thanks for being our friends. Enjoy. recent 00:00:49.729 --> 00:00:51.890 event of the Morning Jewel, where Jules Roche 00:00:51.890 --> 00:00:54.590 had publicly stated that Tythos had never been 00:00:54.590 --> 00:00:57.869 destroyed. Footage of a briefly returned Zebulon 00:00:57.869 --> 00:01:00.469 seemed to corroborate this argument. Since then, 00:01:00.509 --> 00:01:02.450 Arthas has made very clear that his findings 00:01:02.450 --> 00:01:05.549 were not at fault, and that some other explanation 00:01:05.549 --> 00:01:08.349 must have led Zebulon to an incorrect assumption. 00:01:09.069 --> 00:01:11.609 After all, the fall of the Sapphire aside, many 00:01:11.609 --> 00:01:13.569 witnesses saw the storm over the city growing 00:01:13.569 --> 00:01:16.349 in power and nearly ready to tear the very towers 00:01:16.349 --> 00:01:20.180 of Cerule apart in its fury. Still, the fires 00:01:20.180 --> 00:01:22.019 have been lighting the souls of the public, and 00:01:22.019 --> 00:01:23.620 many theories have come forth around the truth 00:01:23.620 --> 00:01:26.359 behind the Tythos tragedy. Though, in the hopes 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:29.180 that these theories bring, there is also a deep 00:01:29.180 --> 00:01:32.879 -seated fear. For, if Tythos had indeed survived 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:35.939 the storm, so did the Storm Eye, who brought 00:01:35.939 --> 00:01:38.500 its fall. Ever since the aforementioned interview, 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:40.879 signs of Ozanushi Kato have been rumored across 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:43.799 all our worlds. I should say that none of these 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:45.939 have been proven true, and many have been proven 00:01:45.939 --> 00:01:49.480 false, a result of a panicked public. In the 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:51.939 wake of this, I need to mention that Atash, as 00:01:51.939 --> 00:01:53.640 well as the speakers of their ancestors, have 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.480 not changed their opinions on the matter. Ozanushi 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.840 Kato is gone, and he ain't ever coming back. 00:02:00.939 --> 00:02:06.260 But I've got his letter. That was before. That 00:02:06.260 --> 00:02:10.680 was before all that. Yeah, I mean, he's gone. 00:02:10.819 --> 00:02:13.060 He's gone. Got that letter. Means nothing. But 00:02:13.060 --> 00:02:16.539 why would the narrator bring up a letter if he's 00:02:16.539 --> 00:02:19.020 gone? Because the narrator doesn't give a shit. 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.120 It's early today. I was over there. I was listening 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.620 to a YouTuber I really like. And they were plugging 00:02:25.620 --> 00:02:29.960 in the video their tabletop podcast. And I had 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.669 a thought like, oh, cool, yeah, but... There's 00:02:32.669 --> 00:02:34.710 no way I can listen to another tabletop podcast. 00:02:34.930 --> 00:02:37.770 And then that just broke my heart. And I'm really 00:02:37.770 --> 00:02:40.069 sad because suddenly it hit me. I was like, oh, 00:02:40.169 --> 00:02:43.789 no. Oh, no. I live and breathe this. And even 00:02:43.789 --> 00:02:47.870 I'm like, oh, there's too many. All day, every 00:02:47.870 --> 00:02:50.150 day. There's been too many for too long. Oh, 00:02:50.210 --> 00:02:52.389 it hurts. It hurts to admit. Like, you know, 00:02:52.430 --> 00:02:55.689 it's just, it's, it's, but hey, we're doing it. 00:02:55.689 --> 00:02:56.949 We're doing it. You know what the special part 00:02:56.949 --> 00:02:59.740 is about Fantasy Pants? What's that? We have 00:02:59.740 --> 00:03:02.199 friends like Meg from The Hungry Familiar. Ooh. 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.740 And Meg wanted to ask us a question. Okay. But 00:03:06.740 --> 00:03:08.800 she didn't get it in time for Unzipped. Well, 00:03:08.819 --> 00:03:10.340 she has to wait until the next one. Sorry, Meg. 00:03:10.659 --> 00:03:13.580 No. Some friend you are. Nope. Not happening. 00:03:13.580 --> 00:03:16.439 We're doing it now. It's a mini zip. It's a mini 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:18.840 zip. I like it. All right. Half down, gentlemen. 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:20.939 I have a zipper this time. I'm not wearing pajama 00:03:20.939 --> 00:03:25.080 pants. Okay. We did it. Meg wants to know, what's 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.659 the best way to make eggs? And bonus, can you 00:03:27.659 --> 00:03:32.060 crack an egg one -handed? Oh. Crack an egg one 00:03:32.060 --> 00:03:34.460 -handed. All right. Let me just step out here 00:03:34.460 --> 00:03:37.419 real quick. Yeah. I can crack an egg one hand 00:03:37.419 --> 00:03:40.639 with both hands. I can go through a case. Both 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:42.960 hands tied behind your back? Yeah, that too. 00:03:43.180 --> 00:03:46.639 Yeah. I've done this for a long time. Eggs are 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:48.580 my specialty. They were. I'm a little rusty now 00:03:48.580 --> 00:03:50.180 because I don't do breakfast these days. I used 00:03:50.180 --> 00:03:53.680 to be breakfast, prep, cook all the time. That 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:55.580 was kind of my jam. I've been cracking eggs with 00:03:55.580 --> 00:03:58.520 two hands since I was a wee lad of nine. Damn. 00:03:58.949 --> 00:04:01.629 Yeah, baby. As far as best way to make them. 00:04:01.990 --> 00:04:03.949 Now, I like to make omelets because they're fun 00:04:03.949 --> 00:04:06.689 to make. But as far as eating them, I'm an over 00:04:06.689 --> 00:04:08.750 easy guy. Okay. You know? Over easy. Because 00:04:08.750 --> 00:04:10.710 of that yolk. Yeah. Okay. So how do you make 00:04:10.710 --> 00:04:13.430 it? Make an over easy? How do you make it? What 00:04:13.430 --> 00:04:15.050 do you mean? How do you make it? You fry it. 00:04:15.509 --> 00:04:17.329 You just fry it. You flip it and boom. Okay. 00:04:17.410 --> 00:04:19.050 It's an over easy. A little butter in there or 00:04:19.050 --> 00:04:21.430 are you an oil guy? I like butter. I like butter 00:04:21.430 --> 00:04:24.610 on eggs. Oil, you know. And I like to, you know 00:04:24.610 --> 00:04:26.769 what? I'm a crazy man. I flip my eggs in the 00:04:26.769 --> 00:04:28.649 pan like an omelet. I do over easies. They never 00:04:28.649 --> 00:04:30.790 break. Yeah, because you're a pro. Because I'm 00:04:30.790 --> 00:04:32.709 a genius. Because you're a pro. Yeah, baby. All 00:04:32.709 --> 00:04:35.350 right. All right. Give me your lame answer. I'm 00:04:35.350 --> 00:04:41.050 a few steps down from David. In all things. In 00:04:41.050 --> 00:04:44.949 egg cooking things, at least. Sure. I can crack 00:04:44.949 --> 00:04:47.149 an egg with one hand, but I go so slow and I 00:04:47.149 --> 00:04:48.529 get so many eggshells in there that it's just 00:04:48.529 --> 00:04:50.370 not really worth it for me to do it that way. 00:04:51.029 --> 00:04:55.009 I don't have that much practice. The way I like 00:04:55.009 --> 00:04:58.600 to cook eggs is I like to do... Sort of like 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:01.379 a frittata, like a bake sort of thing. I do this 00:05:01.379 --> 00:05:05.100 most weeks for breakfast. I'll crack like six 00:05:05.100 --> 00:05:07.439 eggs, put it in a square, sort of like a pie 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.680 plate. You know, put some veggies in there, some 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:13.139 bacon or sausage in there, and bake that bad 00:05:13.139 --> 00:05:16.639 boy for 25 minutes. Cut it into four squares, 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:18.220 and then I've got breakfast four out of five 00:05:18.220 --> 00:05:20.439 days for the week. So I just got to scavenge 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:23.620 for one. Nice. That's my way. All right. Not 00:05:23.620 --> 00:05:26.519 bad. Not bad. All right. What do you got, Jeremy? 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:31.560 I use butter and crack it into the pan. One -handed, 00:05:31.620 --> 00:05:34.139 two -handed? Two -handed. Okay, all right. Two 00:05:34.139 --> 00:05:35.540 -handed. I ain't got time to practice that shit. 00:05:37.259 --> 00:05:41.560 And then I put a lid on it because that helps 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:45.579 it. Oh, you're a sunny man. Yeah, but with like 00:05:45.579 --> 00:05:48.699 a little layer over it. A pink sunny. It's a 00:05:48.699 --> 00:05:51.800 little foggy. Yeah, I hear you. I hear you. Exactly. 00:05:51.980 --> 00:05:54.600 Okay. Sunny with a side of mist. It's like sunny, 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.339 but without the boogers. That's how they make 00:05:57.339 --> 00:06:00.100 eggs in Silent Hill. What? Huh? Everything's 00:06:00.100 --> 00:06:02.860 a little misty. Oh, I get it. That fucking shit, 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:08.019 dude. Fuck. All right. That's it. We're going 00:06:08.019 --> 00:06:09.660 to end off with that. That's our opening. Hey, 00:06:09.660 --> 00:06:12.399 man. Silent Hill's good stuff. Those games were 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:16.670 terrifying. Everybody, so when I was a kid, everybody 00:06:16.670 --> 00:06:19.670 was playing Resident Evil. And me and my brother 00:06:19.670 --> 00:06:21.610 were sitting there playing Silent Hill. I think 00:06:21.610 --> 00:06:24.110 Silent Hill was scarier than Resident Evil. I 00:06:24.110 --> 00:06:27.550 am a coward and I don't play horror games. I 00:06:27.550 --> 00:06:29.629 played Metroid Prime and the GameCube and I like 00:06:29.629 --> 00:06:31.209 walked away. It was too scary. I had to come 00:06:31.209 --> 00:06:32.930 back when I was like five years older. Yeah, 00:06:32.949 --> 00:06:36.670 I played Mario and Donkey Kong until PS3. Too 00:06:36.670 --> 00:06:39.610 scary. Too scary. Can't do that. Yeah, that is 00:06:39.610 --> 00:06:45.250 an angry donkey. Oh, Steven's on fire tonight. 00:06:49.589 --> 00:06:55.750 Much like your eggs, you hack. Oh, shit. Okay. 00:06:56.709 --> 00:07:01.389 Guys, we are in the midst of a complicated situation. 00:07:02.430 --> 00:07:05.970 Let me get some Fantasy Plus going here. Give 00:07:05.970 --> 00:07:08.290 me that sound. Loved it last ep. Gonna love it 00:07:08.290 --> 00:07:10.209 this ep. My song's picked out for the next two 00:07:10.209 --> 00:07:15.220 episodes. Oh, yeah. We got here. Yeah, baby. 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:18.279 Yeah. That'll do it. That's a mood right there. 00:07:19.259 --> 00:07:22.639 Allow me to recontextualize, really explain our 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:26.100 situation, because in the chaos, you've gathered 00:07:26.100 --> 00:07:28.060 a little more intel, you've learned as we're 00:07:28.060 --> 00:07:31.199 pushing forward in time. Earlier this evening, 00:07:31.339 --> 00:07:34.079 while the Golden Bay tourney at the Tidepool 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:39.360 Arena was at hand, Sahuagin? Sahuagin? I think 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:42.439 it's Sahuagin, actually, and I hate that, so 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:45.360 there's Sahuagin. I think so. The D &D Beyond 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.560 little voice guy said, Sahuagin. And I was like, 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.899 no, you're wrong. You're official, but you're 00:07:49.899 --> 00:07:52.240 wrong. How are we going to say it? Sahuagin. 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:54.920 I don't care. Sahuagin? I like that. Sahuagin. 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:58.699 Sahuagin. I like that. Anyway, Sahuagin. Fish 00:07:58.699 --> 00:08:06.220 people. Sharkos. Where was I? While the tourney 00:08:06.220 --> 00:08:09.120 was at hand, Sahuagin forces suddenly attacked 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.079 the eighth pool deep in the turtle's territory. 00:08:11.880 --> 00:08:14.220 They moved, it seems, through the forests and 00:08:14.220 --> 00:08:17.800 thick marsh, avoiding river patrols, and assaulted 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:19.519 the eastmost village of the Eighth Pool in an 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:21.740 attempt to kidnap as many sacrifices as they 00:08:21.740 --> 00:08:23.420 could. You know, that's their whole goal. They 00:08:23.420 --> 00:08:25.259 attack the turtles so they can take turtles back. 00:08:25.500 --> 00:08:28.160 They want to impale them upon the teeth of their 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:32.200 god, the Maw of Garniacs, this dead, giant sort 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:34.480 of mouth that lingers at the very bottom of their 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.929 territory in the deep sea. They want to drive 00:08:37.929 --> 00:08:40.450 turtles onto the teeth and let them bleed out 00:08:40.450 --> 00:08:42.110 into the mob because they believe if they feed 00:08:42.110 --> 00:08:44.190 their god enough, this thing will come back to 00:08:44.190 --> 00:08:49.590 life and lead them to triumph over all of Noari. 00:08:50.129 --> 00:08:51.889 So that was their goal when they attacked the 00:08:51.889 --> 00:08:54.470 eighth pool. However... The shell guard was quick 00:08:54.470 --> 00:08:57.070 to react to this, not caught as off guard as 00:08:57.070 --> 00:09:00.669 the Sahagin expected. Perhaps Blanche, you had 00:09:00.669 --> 00:09:02.549 already kind of set some extra patrols out there 00:09:02.549 --> 00:09:04.870 thinking this might happen. They are crafty. 00:09:05.009 --> 00:09:07.210 They knew about the tourney. They might have 00:09:07.210 --> 00:09:08.629 gone and used this as an opportunity to attack 00:09:08.629 --> 00:09:11.750 the sort of back ranks. And so Master of Offense, 00:09:11.750 --> 00:09:14.190 Galt Shavak, rallied the nearby shell guard and 00:09:14.190 --> 00:09:17.649 broke the Sahagin assault, driving them away 00:09:17.649 --> 00:09:20.549 into smaller squads into the forests and marshes 00:09:20.549 --> 00:09:24.820 around. One Sahagin, a champion in their ranks, 00:09:24.899 --> 00:09:28.159 managed to escape. However, taking his small 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:30.700 squad and a group of five captives and piercing 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:32.960 through the defenses that held the Sendine River. 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:35.500 This means that this champion escaped the turtles, 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.460 but is now forced to take a longer path back 00:09:38.460 --> 00:09:42.200 to the sea. But he has captives, and he is on 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.740 his way to their territory. Meanwhile, Golshavok 00:09:45.740 --> 00:09:48.620 traveled down the pools to the Golden Bay, where 00:09:48.620 --> 00:09:51.039 he delivered the news of the attack and requested... 00:09:51.560 --> 00:09:54.360 reinforcements. The Svahagin have not entered 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:56.340 a full retreat and continue to skirmish with 00:09:56.340 --> 00:09:58.200 the Shellguard amidst the back room of the pools. 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:00.460 Master Svahagin worried that without backup, 00:10:00.700 --> 00:10:04.159 the Svahagin could themselves rally and manage 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:07.279 to take even more lives, take more captives, 00:10:07.299 --> 00:10:09.019 more of them breaking through their lines and 00:10:09.019 --> 00:10:12.539 escaping. In a moment of disagreement with Blanche, 00:10:12.620 --> 00:10:15.059 Jean ordered Svahagin to the larger battle to 00:10:15.059 --> 00:10:17.039 lead the Shellguard reinforcements into the best 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:21.350 possible positions. He then offered up our party, 00:10:21.450 --> 00:10:24.429 Blanche, Chester, Jules, and John himself, as 00:10:24.429 --> 00:10:26.009 a potential strike force to catch up with the 00:10:26.009 --> 00:10:29.909 champion and free the captives. There was some 00:10:29.909 --> 00:10:34.629 contention following this between our blade singer 00:10:34.629 --> 00:10:38.090 and her pupil. We're going to push a little farther 00:10:38.090 --> 00:10:41.970 in time. Those forces off in the Golden Bay, 00:10:42.070 --> 00:10:44.509 whatever units could be spared, have left leaving 00:10:44.509 --> 00:10:49.000 a shell. of what military force used to be here, 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.879 until Harlan Burnshadow and the Silent Verse 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:54.399 arrived to bolster their ranks against any potential 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.580 Sahagin attacks here as well. But there are reinforcements 00:10:57.580 --> 00:10:59.559 going. Galjavalk has led them. They are pushing 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:01.320 out now, and perhaps you can even look out to 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.299 the bay and you see a number of mantas filing 00:11:03.299 --> 00:11:07.820 away, swiftly moving around the coast, around 00:11:07.820 --> 00:11:10.000 the bay, towards the rivers that lead up the 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.200 pools. I have a map of this too. I'll go over 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:14.919 that a little later. Where are we going to open 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:19.940 this? is upon the stables that stand at the edge 00:11:19.940 --> 00:11:22.840 of the bay. Perhaps on like one sort of wing 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.120 of the sort of mouth where it opens into the 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:31.139 sea. We see this long barn -like building, stone 00:11:31.139 --> 00:11:34.639 built, that lines along the coast. A number of 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:36.899 gates kind of opening out into the water from 00:11:36.899 --> 00:11:40.000 there. And this is where the mantas of the royal 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:43.259 family and their guard are kept. The primo stable. 00:11:45.450 --> 00:11:49.509 Manta stable. I'm going to say that here we see 00:11:49.509 --> 00:11:52.629 Jules, Jean, and Chester waiting just outside 00:11:52.629 --> 00:11:57.090 on a dock nearby as Blanche Trudeau is overseeing 00:11:57.090 --> 00:11:59.990 the saddling and quick maintenance checking of 00:11:59.990 --> 00:12:03.129 the mantas that are to go on this journey. Now 00:12:03.129 --> 00:12:05.850 I will ask this. How many do you intend to take? 00:12:06.370 --> 00:12:08.090 Blanche and Jean are trained in this. They can 00:12:08.090 --> 00:12:12.539 ride these things. know how to handle them are 00:12:12.539 --> 00:12:14.840 you going to take two and take two passengers 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:17.620 on each one or do you want to take four potentially 00:12:17.620 --> 00:12:21.399 have uh you know these are war warbred mantas 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:23.100 they know to follow the ones that are like the 00:12:23.100 --> 00:12:25.759 the designated charge leaders uh i think it'd 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:28.259 be possible to take two take four mantas total 00:12:28.259 --> 00:12:30.600 give jewels and chest of their own they won't 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:32.000 really be able to control them very well but 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:34.120 they'll be able to just like follow along okay 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:39.440 um i mean that makes the most sense right Probably. 00:12:39.539 --> 00:12:42.500 Take four. Probably. If you're separated, that's 00:12:42.500 --> 00:12:43.840 where it can get a little risky. I'll have to 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:45.580 have animal handling checks or these things could 00:12:45.580 --> 00:12:50.559 go a little out of control. If Jules or Chester's 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:54.340 manta are separated from either Blanche or Jaune's 00:12:54.340 --> 00:12:57.440 manta, you mean, right? Yes, yeah. So if we stay 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:02.539 in that two and two formation, at least, I mean, 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:04.860 hopefully we won't get separated, but judging 00:13:04.860 --> 00:13:08.899 by that comment. Maybe it'll happen. There's 00:13:08.899 --> 00:13:13.120 risk. There's always a risk. Yeah, I think that's 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:17.440 probably the best go. Okay. Blanche is saddling 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:20.659 for Mantis, taking care of matters inside very 00:13:20.659 --> 00:13:23.480 quickly. But in this brief moment, the party 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:27.059 is split up. Jules, you have noted that ever 00:13:27.059 --> 00:13:29.320 since the meeting and all the way down, you know, 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:31.960 on this trek down here, as Blanche was firing 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:34.919 off orders to whoever she could see, Jaune pretty 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:37.370 much doing the same. They did not talk to each 00:13:37.370 --> 00:13:38.850 other. They did not look at each other. They 00:13:38.850 --> 00:13:42.210 had very little to do with each other. There's 00:13:42.210 --> 00:13:46.669 an obvious tension there. As Blanche moves away 00:13:46.669 --> 00:13:48.889 and steps out, Jean stands by her side, very 00:13:48.889 --> 00:13:53.950 quiet, until he finally just, I, um, I suppose 00:13:53.950 --> 00:13:57.509 we should talk about all this, Jules. You'll 00:13:57.509 --> 00:14:00.470 realize when this is done, I have to stay here 00:14:00.470 --> 00:14:06.600 in the Golden Bay. You do. What you know in your 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:10.639 heart to be the right thing to do. And I got 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:15.820 your back. What I know? Damn. If only it was 00:14:15.820 --> 00:14:22.480 so simple. Father has done something terrible 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:27.159 to Blanche and possibly to you. Both of you. 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:30.919 Deserter Chester as well looks up, curious. It's 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:32.600 too much to discuss in our current situation. 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:36.419 I do not wish to overstep on Sir again, but... 00:14:36.419 --> 00:14:41.059 Ozanushi Katsu had sent a letter to her, asking 00:14:41.059 --> 00:14:44.139 for help in stopping a great tragedy. Father 00:14:44.139 --> 00:14:46.159 replied in his stead, declining his request, 00:14:46.259 --> 00:14:51.179 and... And soon after, Tithos fell. This is why 00:14:51.179 --> 00:14:52.980 he stepped down and why I must take his place. 00:14:53.059 --> 00:14:56.440 It's hard to explain, but honor is the lifeblood 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:00.000 of us turtles. Our base guard, Kondorala, watches 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.940 us from the ocean floor. judges us. Every year 00:15:02.940 --> 00:15:05.480 she gifts us with the golden tides and the bountiful 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:08.539 harvest that follows them. John. Jules, we need 00:15:08.539 --> 00:15:10.620 these gifts to trade with Zinda to feed our people, 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:12.519 to arm ourselves against our enemies. I... John, 00:15:12.659 --> 00:15:16.440 you don't have to explain yourself. You do what's 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:21.639 right. All right. Then I must stay. I believe 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:25.220 if I had not come back, Kondral would not have 00:15:25.220 --> 00:15:27.980 sent the golden tides this year. Father had... 00:15:27.980 --> 00:15:31.539 He has overstepped his place. He has shattered 00:15:31.539 --> 00:15:35.740 our honor. And so I cannot say no to this. It 00:15:35.740 --> 00:15:37.779 would dishonor my house, the entire bay, if a 00:15:37.779 --> 00:15:41.879 new Montelio does not rule. My people will see 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:44.120 great misfortune should Condorella be displeased. 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.919 It's so funny, I've spent so much time fretting 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:49.059 over my choices, over doing what is right, only 00:15:49.059 --> 00:15:52.220 to have Father strip our choice away from me 00:15:52.220 --> 00:15:55.360 in the end. You've always known what's right. 00:15:56.659 --> 00:16:00.059 Embrace it. Have I? I... When I saw the letter, 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:04.500 Jules, I took it for myself. I ran from Sir. 00:16:04.860 --> 00:16:07.799 I tried to hide it. You were scared. It was still 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:11.639 wrong. I hurt her, too. In a time when she needed 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:17.320 me. Damn it. You guys will be okay. Maybe. He 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.019 turns away from you here, kind of looking out 00:16:19.019 --> 00:16:21.759 towards the sea. I feel like something catches 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:24.000 in his voice. He tries to say the next bit. I 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:28.460 think Blanche will not be staying here. With 00:16:28.460 --> 00:16:33.419 us, after all of this. I, um... Please, keep 00:16:33.419 --> 00:16:36.980 an eye on her for me. So I can certainly handle 00:16:36.980 --> 00:16:39.639 herself, but... I think she'll need a friend 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:42.159 going forward. And you're the best friend I know, 00:16:42.779 --> 00:16:47.259 Jules. Please, make sure she's alright. Of course. 00:16:48.179 --> 00:16:52.899 Of course. Just like this long moment. And then, 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:55.899 after the long moment, Jules turns his head out 00:16:55.899 --> 00:16:58.970 to the bay. I am going to go farther than I bet 00:16:58.970 --> 00:17:02.870 at the pale moonlight, though. If you're staying 00:17:02.870 --> 00:17:07.029 here, you can't do shit about it. I'm going to 00:17:07.029 --> 00:17:08.970 miss the pale moonlight so much. Jules looks 00:17:08.970 --> 00:17:13.250 back over, gives John a playful nudge, and pulls 00:17:13.250 --> 00:17:19.549 him in for a hug. Shut the fuck up. His arms 00:17:19.549 --> 00:17:21.789 wrap around you tight. You're one of my best 00:17:21.789 --> 00:17:24.930 friends. I'm getting in on this. Hey, come here. 00:17:25.009 --> 00:17:35.289 I'm in. You too, Jules. You changed me. Thank 00:17:35.289 --> 00:17:41.430 you. And you me. I think we hear the sound of 00:17:41.430 --> 00:17:46.809 swishing waves as around the edge of this dock, 00:17:46.869 --> 00:17:49.609 coming out from one of these gates, we see four 00:17:49.609 --> 00:17:53.970 manta rays. In formation, Blanche riding a top 00:17:53.970 --> 00:17:56.950 one at the start, a little saddle hanging, sitting 00:17:56.950 --> 00:18:00.150 on a saddle, maybe standing upon it with these 00:18:00.150 --> 00:18:03.990 sort of foot rests, big leather, what do you 00:18:03.990 --> 00:18:07.730 call that thing? Pommel? Reins? Reins, I like 00:18:07.730 --> 00:18:10.049 that one. Reins. Leather reins in her hand as 00:18:10.049 --> 00:18:13.990 she's weaving away, turning it towards you. I 00:18:13.990 --> 00:18:15.950 think Jean's eyes brighten as he looks over. 00:18:16.710 --> 00:18:20.970 No, Inalda. Oh, it's been so long. You see this 00:18:20.970 --> 00:18:23.829 snowy white manta. You get the reference, they 00:18:23.829 --> 00:18:28.430 don't. Yeah. There's a snowy white manta ray 00:18:28.430 --> 00:18:30.450 sort of slides up before him and he just kind 00:18:30.450 --> 00:18:35.049 of like squeeze with some glee. Then, good to 00:18:35.049 --> 00:18:38.650 see you, Gav. The manta kind of reaches down 00:18:38.650 --> 00:18:40.609 to where Pet says it reaches the edge of the 00:18:40.609 --> 00:18:45.869 dock. I'll ask, Blanche. Your manta, the manta 00:18:45.869 --> 00:18:47.569 of the master defense, must be another pretty 00:18:47.569 --> 00:18:51.170 special one. Does it have a name? Does it have 00:18:51.170 --> 00:18:55.430 any unique characteristics? Yeah. I'm going to 00:18:55.430 --> 00:18:59.529 guess that defending the Golden Bay from these 00:18:59.529 --> 00:19:06.670 Sahagin, whatever, has taken a toll on Blanche's 00:19:06.670 --> 00:19:11.869 manta. He's been scarred, chewed up, and spit 00:19:11.869 --> 00:19:17.789 out. And that's how he got his name, Chew. Chew? 00:19:20.230 --> 00:19:22.650 Roanald and Chew, and somehow that just feels 00:19:22.650 --> 00:19:28.390 so right. A couple of standard, cool gray mantas 00:19:28.390 --> 00:19:31.250 slide up behind. Who's those? Chew's gonna ride 00:19:31.250 --> 00:19:36.089 Chew? Don't even. You get your own manta. Doesn't 00:19:36.089 --> 00:19:40.789 get a name, because it's just a manta. That's 00:19:40.789 --> 00:19:44.009 manta four. Manta four. Chester, you've got manta 00:19:44.009 --> 00:19:46.509 six. Why didn't we get, like, you know, like... 00:19:46.539 --> 00:19:48.839 Manta 5 is out. All right. That makes sense. 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:51.819 He's defending the eighth pool. That makes sense. 00:19:51.900 --> 00:19:56.019 Hey, no. He's probably good at that. Everyone 00:19:56.019 --> 00:19:58.619 sort of climbs on. It's probably a very strange 00:19:58.619 --> 00:20:00.539 feeling, Jules and Chester. These can slide over 00:20:00.539 --> 00:20:02.579 and you're kind of like slowly stepping out and 00:20:02.579 --> 00:20:05.140 they're kind of wide bodies and, you know, moving 00:20:05.140 --> 00:20:07.559 over this sort of slippery skin. These things 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.599 are huge. It's gigantic. Probably like, I don't 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:13.099 know. 10 feet wide sort of thing. As you're kind 00:20:13.099 --> 00:20:15.319 of moving into the center of their backs, you're 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:16.779 standing up on the saddle, grabbing the reins. 00:20:17.980 --> 00:20:21.119 Just a really weird feeling as they kind of move 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:23.920 within the water. But they're trained well. They 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:26.640 don't jerk. They don't try to toss you off or 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:29.660 anything. They're gentle, gentle creatures. I 00:20:29.660 --> 00:20:33.720 think Jules, he just comes up to it first and 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:35.740 just stands there and stares for a minute. He's 00:20:35.740 --> 00:20:38.299 nervous. But then I think he just tries to play 00:20:38.299 --> 00:20:41.750 it cool and just... Struts right on. Yo, Jules, 00:20:41.829 --> 00:20:43.309 can I misty step onto him? That'd be pretty cool, 00:20:43.390 --> 00:20:46.210 right? Don't waste your spell slot, Chester. 00:20:46.470 --> 00:20:48.869 Fine, all right. Don't waste my slot. Damn it. 00:20:49.089 --> 00:20:51.289 Just climbs on. You can't use anything except 00:20:51.289 --> 00:20:53.890 for in combat. It's all about preserving resources, 00:20:54.250 --> 00:20:56.490 Chester. All right, yeah, I get it. I get it. 00:20:56.890 --> 00:20:59.069 Climbs on. Clearly not, because that's like the 00:20:59.069 --> 00:21:00.630 fourth time you've asked. That's just really 00:21:00.630 --> 00:21:03.269 cool, man. Yeah, I know. I can teleport once 00:21:03.269 --> 00:21:05.130 a day. It's even cooler in the fight. Almost 00:21:05.130 --> 00:21:06.690 as if I couldn't teleport. Once a day is too 00:21:06.690 --> 00:21:09.849 little. Blanches in like. Special operations 00:21:09.849 --> 00:21:13.509 mode. And she puts on her goggles of night. Holy 00:21:13.509 --> 00:21:16.849 hell. That is awesome. I forgot about that. Yeah. 00:21:17.630 --> 00:21:20.809 Eyes of minute seeing can go in the bag for a 00:21:20.809 --> 00:21:23.690 little while. I forgot. It's dark. It's quite 00:21:23.690 --> 00:21:27.789 dark. Ruh -roh. Never mind. Forget I said any 00:21:27.789 --> 00:21:30.950 of that. You're staring out into the night sky, 00:21:31.089 --> 00:21:33.480 you guys. Jump onto your mantas. I'm cutting 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:36.559 it. It's not night. We didn't remember that. 00:21:36.579 --> 00:21:40.900 John doesn't have dark vision or anything. That's 00:21:40.900 --> 00:21:46.960 going to be great. We leave at dawn. God, there's 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:51.319 sacrifice. Where are you even going? Hop on your 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:55.970 mantas. You begin to slide out. It's a Jean Blanche 00:21:55.970 --> 00:21:57.710 kind of, I imagine you're in a form, you know, 00:21:57.710 --> 00:21:59.849 sort of square formation, Jean and Blanche in 00:21:59.849 --> 00:22:02.049 the front, Chester and Jules in the back on mantis 00:22:02.049 --> 00:22:08.509 four and six. And you push into the bay. Now 00:22:08.509 --> 00:22:10.009 I should mention that the luminous and algae 00:22:10.009 --> 00:22:12.990 still coat the top of the water. It still shimmers 00:22:12.990 --> 00:22:16.869 with golden light as you glide across it. Though 00:22:16.869 --> 00:22:19.369 blood and danger awaits the end of this short 00:22:19.369 --> 00:22:22.150 journey, you find yourself swept away in a surreal 00:22:22.150 --> 00:22:27.099 beauty. Stars shining above radiant waves. You're 00:22:27.099 --> 00:22:31.700 just lost in this moment of transcendence. That's 00:22:31.700 --> 00:22:34.299 how we get away with not needing dark vision. 00:22:35.640 --> 00:22:37.220 I'm also thinking it would be really cool if 00:22:37.220 --> 00:22:39.279 we had a painter with us that could paint jewels 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:42.640 against the night sky. The Midnight Prince at 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:47.119 Midnight. Oh my gosh. This would be a scene to 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:50.539 see. Dude, the Midnight Prince at Midnight is 00:22:50.539 --> 00:22:54.309 such an emo band name. Midnight Prince and Midnight. 00:22:54.829 --> 00:22:58.529 Yup. That's going to be my side project. Yeah, 00:22:58.549 --> 00:23:02.690 there you go. The beautiful sad part's over now. 00:23:02.730 --> 00:23:08.349 Now it's scary time for scary music. Shut up. 00:23:08.369 --> 00:23:12.089 Scary podcast. Scary podcast. You come. Turn 00:23:12.089 --> 00:23:14.869 the lights out. Soon enough to the open mouth 00:23:14.869 --> 00:23:17.250 of the Golden Bay where the algae abruptly cuts 00:23:17.250 --> 00:23:20.279 off. leaving you pushing over waves that feel 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:23.099 just bleakly dark. The blackness of the ocean 00:23:23.099 --> 00:23:25.460 at night has never felt more apparent as you 00:23:25.460 --> 00:23:28.940 leave the golden waves behind. But you push on 00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:31.480 to the west, shooting out into the sea from the 00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:34.299 edge of the Golden Bay. You will need to travel 00:23:34.299 --> 00:23:37.579 nearly 14 miles to reach the Sahuagin territory. 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.539 It might not be night when you get there. Let's 00:23:41.539 --> 00:23:45.170 say the tournament ended at sunset. as the sky 00:23:45.170 --> 00:23:47.650 was deeply red. Our scenes that followed pretty 00:23:47.650 --> 00:23:50.630 much happened right afterwards as night set very 00:23:50.630 --> 00:23:52.789 early. So we're going to call it about 9 o 'clock 00:23:52.789 --> 00:23:54.970 as you're hitting this sort of edge of the bay 00:23:54.970 --> 00:23:59.589 moving out, right? I think that works. 14 miles. 00:23:59.730 --> 00:24:01.289 I say a manta could probably go about 2 miles 00:24:01.289 --> 00:24:02.869 an hour, so we're going to say about 7 hours 00:24:02.869 --> 00:24:05.670 to reach your goal, if that's your goal. We'll 00:24:05.670 --> 00:24:09.950 get to that. We'll get to that now because the 00:24:09.950 --> 00:24:11.750 Sahagin territory does not need to be your destination. 00:24:12.650 --> 00:24:15.750 You have some options here. You can try to cut 00:24:15.750 --> 00:24:17.809 the Sahagin off at the mouth of the Sendine River. 00:24:18.150 --> 00:24:20.289 If they already reach the open sea, though, it'll 00:24:20.289 --> 00:24:22.690 be much more difficult to catch them. They'll 00:24:22.690 --> 00:24:24.789 have the luxury of traveling underwater. The 00:24:24.789 --> 00:24:26.490 turtles will need to surface at least once an 00:24:26.490 --> 00:24:28.509 hour to be kept alive, but it'll be hard to catch 00:24:28.509 --> 00:24:30.650 those brief windows where your foes do actually 00:24:30.650 --> 00:24:34.089 appear. But the Sahagin territory is rimmed by 00:24:34.089 --> 00:24:37.309 a ring of shallow water, with many spires of 00:24:37.309 --> 00:24:40.049 stone protruding from the sea. Here, they'll 00:24:40.049 --> 00:24:43.170 be more noticeable as they try to pass. You know 00:24:43.170 --> 00:24:45.470 the direction they are traveling from. If you 00:24:45.470 --> 00:24:47.990 beat them to their territory, to this rim, in 00:24:47.990 --> 00:24:51.450 wait and ambush, you may yet catch them. This 00:24:51.450 --> 00:24:53.410 will be the most sure way to find them, but also 00:24:53.410 --> 00:24:55.410 the most dangerous, as you'll be committing to 00:24:55.410 --> 00:24:58.990 a battle just outside their kingdom. In the midst 00:24:58.990 --> 00:25:00.369 of this shallow ring, the water becomes much 00:25:00.369 --> 00:25:03.049 deeper, and the maw of Garniacs, known to the 00:25:03.049 --> 00:25:05.349 turtles as simply the maw, rests at the bottom. 00:25:06.069 --> 00:25:07.869 That's where they're bringing the people. That's 00:25:07.869 --> 00:25:09.809 where shit's going down. There's going to be 00:25:09.809 --> 00:25:11.450 scouts circling the perimeter. You know there 00:25:11.450 --> 00:25:14.079 will be. Many more warriors lingering just inside. 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:18.420 Hopefully, the Sahagin forces at the Master Defense 00:25:18.420 --> 00:25:21.720 Shavok, Offense Shavok, and the Shell Guard are 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:23.819 skirmishing with the 8th Pool, has pulled away 00:25:23.819 --> 00:25:25.660 enough of the Sahagin forces that you'll be able 00:25:25.660 --> 00:25:27.539 to escape without notice. I say that word different 00:25:27.539 --> 00:25:30.759 every single time. It's so hard. It's just a 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:34.579 weird word. Perhaps you could find a way to catch 00:25:34.579 --> 00:25:37.519 Sahagin on the open sea, far from both of your 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:39.869 territories. But they will likely travel beneath 00:25:39.869 --> 00:25:41.829 the surface if they can. It will be very difficult 00:25:41.829 --> 00:25:44.349 to spot them. Maybe you could find a way to grab 00:25:44.349 --> 00:25:47.009 their attention to lure them into a trap? I don't 00:25:47.009 --> 00:25:50.549 know. The beauty of it is, I don't have to know. 00:25:50.990 --> 00:25:54.609 Because this is not my story. It's yours. How 00:25:54.609 --> 00:25:57.349 do you want to play it? Okay, so on the map, 00:25:57.390 --> 00:25:59.890 it's basically a triangle between the Golden 00:25:59.890 --> 00:26:03.769 Bay, the mouth of the Sendine River, and the 00:26:03.769 --> 00:26:06.960 Maw. Yeah. We can travel from the Golden Bay 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:09.359 up to the Sendine to try to cut them off at the 00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:11.240 mouth. It's very unlikely that you can find a 00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:13.839 way to get real fast to get up there. It's a 00:26:13.839 --> 00:26:16.140 long journey for you, and it's possible, though. 00:26:16.220 --> 00:26:18.539 Yeah, so then we're chasing them through open 00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:22.259 water. And they could be beneath you without 00:26:22.259 --> 00:26:23.799 you knowing it, unless you have scouts, a way 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:26.079 to scout in the deep sea beneath you. Right. 00:26:26.700 --> 00:26:31.089 What about if we kind of... Do a middle ground 00:26:31.089 --> 00:26:34.450 thing and try and meet them further out from 00:26:34.450 --> 00:26:38.289 the maw, kind of in the middle. Well, then it's 00:26:38.289 --> 00:26:42.470 like finding a needle in a haystack. That's true. 00:26:43.190 --> 00:26:45.529 We've got some magic users here. You guys got 00:26:45.529 --> 00:26:47.049 any cool magic that can help you find that needle? 00:26:47.509 --> 00:26:49.809 Oh yeah, I got the spell of find anybody within 00:26:49.809 --> 00:26:53.250 a 14 mile radius. I mean... There's probably 00:26:53.250 --> 00:26:58.369 a spell for that. There's something kind of sort 00:26:58.369 --> 00:27:03.660 of... I put into the ring of spell storage that 00:27:03.660 --> 00:27:11.240 Jaune has locate object. Whoa. Let me pull up 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:15.200 locate object so I can read it and not get it 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:18.099 wrong. Describe or name an object that's familiar 00:27:18.099 --> 00:27:20.160 to you. You sense the direction of the object's 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:22.640 location as long as that object's within 1 ,000 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:25.099 feet of you. If the object is in motion, you 00:27:25.099 --> 00:27:27.799 know the direction of its movement. The spell 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:29.839 can locate a specific object known to you as 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:32.039 long as you have seen it up close within 30 feet 00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:35.079 at least once. Alternatively, the spell can locate 00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:37.140 the nearest object of a particular kind, such 00:27:37.140 --> 00:27:40.099 as a certain kind of apparel, jewelry, furniture, 00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:43.799 tool, or weapon. The spell can't locate an object 00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:46.119 if any thickness of lead, even if the sheet blocks 00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:47.420 direct path between you and the object, blah 00:27:47.420 --> 00:27:49.519 blah blah. They always put lead in the spells. 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:52.920 Are these, like, are these dungeons, like, lead 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:55.400 -lined? There probably are. There's always something 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:56.940 about lead. Some lich somewhere is like, oh, 00:27:56.940 --> 00:27:58.720 they're not getting me with Locator. There's 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:03.220 no way. Yeah, I've got a lead -lined sarcophagus. 00:28:04.019 --> 00:28:06.799 So I was hoping to, like, save that in my back 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:09.220 pocket, but I feel like it's such a big part 00:28:09.220 --> 00:28:11.900 of our planning. That's pretty damn cool. It's 00:28:11.900 --> 00:28:13.720 only within 1 ,000 feet, right? 1 ,000 feet. 00:28:14.180 --> 00:28:16.380 It's a detector. Yeah, that's almost a quarter 00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:18.460 mile. It's pretty big. Yeah, yeah. If you're 00:28:18.460 --> 00:28:20.319 above them, you'll... I mean, if they need to 00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:21.779 surface regularly, they're not going to want 00:28:21.779 --> 00:28:23.750 to go too deep. They've got to keep those turtles 00:28:23.750 --> 00:28:25.950 alive. They want them dead when they want them 00:28:25.950 --> 00:28:28.190 dead, and no time earlier. It's also a matter 00:28:28.190 --> 00:28:31.789 of figuring out, actually, if we get to that 00:28:31.789 --> 00:28:34.569 point, if we're actually ahead of them or behind 00:28:34.569 --> 00:28:37.450 them. Right. Because chances are we're going 00:28:37.450 --> 00:28:39.450 to have to go a direction when we get to around 00:28:39.450 --> 00:28:43.089 that area. Let me ask this. Do you know of an 00:28:43.089 --> 00:28:46.009 object you could locate? I mean, I'm going to 00:28:46.009 --> 00:28:49.410 guess that, you know, fighting them however often... 00:28:49.980 --> 00:28:52.599 the tortles fight the sahagin they'll at least 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.180 know something of their apparel jewelry tools 00:28:56.180 --> 00:28:58.740 or weapons oh i should make you roll for this 00:28:58.740 --> 00:29:00.980 but that's a pretty good point i mean they have 00:29:00.980 --> 00:29:03.960 a history of fighting each other it's a really 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.200 you've you've been leading these fights right 00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:09.940 okay uh well jean has not because the ring of 00:29:09.940 --> 00:29:12.299 spell storage i mean blanche could take it well 00:29:12.299 --> 00:29:14.900 but then she'd have to attune to it but i'm still 00:29:14.900 --> 00:29:17.539 sure that That Jaune knows what their weapons 00:29:17.539 --> 00:29:19.500 are like. Yeah, Jaune would be aware. There's 00:29:19.500 --> 00:29:22.059 probably one hanging on the wall somewhere. Trophy 00:29:22.059 --> 00:29:26.359 of war. A champion leads this group, and you 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:28.400 would know the champions of the Sahagin are like 00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:31.740 their most powerful fighters. Very likely this 00:29:31.740 --> 00:29:36.630 one would wear armor. crafted from, like, interwoven 00:29:36.630 --> 00:29:39.490 clamshells, almost making a scale mail of sorts. 00:29:39.710 --> 00:29:42.349 It would wield a spear probably topped by a very, 00:29:42.410 --> 00:29:46.289 like, a reinforced and sharpened conch with a 00:29:46.289 --> 00:29:49.750 cha. Did we ever, we never confirmed that. I 00:29:49.750 --> 00:29:54.130 am 110 % positive that it's conch. I just don't 00:29:54.130 --> 00:29:56.950 think so. I think it's conch. It's not. You wanna 00:29:56.950 --> 00:30:00.410 run this game? It's conch. I'll conk you on the 00:30:00.410 --> 00:30:06.130 head. Anyway. You could use locate object to 00:30:06.130 --> 00:30:08.329 find these things. You feel pretty certain. You 00:30:08.329 --> 00:30:12.230 could locate this champion. You know their ranks 00:30:12.230 --> 00:30:16.549 enough. You know. You know. So with that in mind, 00:30:16.670 --> 00:30:21.650 what's your plan? Conk shell. It's conk shell. 00:30:21.710 --> 00:30:23.410 Wait, what did it say? Then movies and books 00:30:23.410 --> 00:30:25.930 that I've read, or movies from books that I've 00:30:25.930 --> 00:30:28.509 read, are wrong. Did it say books? Books always 00:30:28.509 --> 00:30:32.369 say wrong. I've only ever read the word. That's 00:30:32.369 --> 00:30:36.400 too good. You can't. No. I was just like, ridiculous. 00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:38.839 The power's gone to his head. Nope. There's a 00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:42.079 specific movie that I remember watching. I don't 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:46.480 remember the name of it. In school, where it 00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:49.539 was conch. Don't worry. In this world, the Golden 00:30:49.539 --> 00:30:51.319 Bay, it's conch. Sorry, I'm erasing this from 00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:53.660 Fantasy Man's universe. All of it. All talk of 00:30:53.660 --> 00:30:59.420 conch. I'll conk you on the head. Where are you 00:30:59.420 --> 00:31:04.319 buzz nuts going? What do you think, Jeremy? That 00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:11.059 gotcha? Buzz nuts? You know what? You know what? 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:12.640 Fuck you, Steven. Take a button, Jeremy. That 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:14.799 was funny. What? That was funny. You get a button. 00:31:14.819 --> 00:31:17.059 Steven doesn't. Yeah. What? Because I know how 00:31:17.059 --> 00:31:19.059 to say conk? No, because Jeremy laughed at my 00:31:19.059 --> 00:31:22.740 joke. You said buzz nuts. I'm petty tonight. 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:24.259 I don't give a shit. You said buzz nuts. I'll 00:31:24.259 --> 00:31:30.920 take it. Oh, my God. I don't like the idea of 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:33.819 trying to head them off at the outlet. I don't 00:31:33.819 --> 00:31:36.700 either, but I like the idea of going to the mall 00:31:36.700 --> 00:31:40.039 less. Yes. Well, that's what I'm wondering if 00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:42.680 we should just try and go in between. Yeah, I 00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:45.099 mean... Yeah, but then we're in open ocean. Open 00:31:45.099 --> 00:31:47.920 ocean means there's not likely to be scouts from 00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:51.140 them. That's my main thing for going there, is 00:31:51.140 --> 00:31:52.720 we might be out of the range of all the scouts. 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:54.740 It's hardest to find, though. If you have a magical 00:31:54.740 --> 00:31:57.140 way of potentially... fixing that, you know their 00:31:57.140 --> 00:31:59.819 route. You could try to ambush them somewhere 00:31:59.819 --> 00:32:01.839 along the route you expect them to take. You 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:03.859 have a quarter mile range when you decide to 00:32:03.859 --> 00:32:05.920 cast this spell. You could math it out, try to 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:07.559 get the right timing. For ten minutes, sure. 00:32:07.819 --> 00:32:10.079 Ten minutes is rough, but like, hey. I mean, 00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:12.599 so we're at least in agreement that we're not 00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:15.299 going to the mall. I would rather not go to the 00:32:15.299 --> 00:32:19.390 mall. Same. Same. Shit. It's tough. Ten minutes, 00:32:19.450 --> 00:32:21.130 there's going to be a die roll about it. It's 00:32:21.130 --> 00:32:23.549 going to be a fortune die. Well, yeah, and then, 00:32:23.609 --> 00:32:26.269 like, what happens when that doesn't go well, 00:32:26.410 --> 00:32:28.910 and then we blow the spell, and we sit there 00:32:28.910 --> 00:32:31.190 for ten minutes, and we're like, oh, man, nobody 00:32:31.190 --> 00:32:33.009 showed up. Okay, I guess let's go to the Maw, 00:32:33.089 --> 00:32:35.190 and we get to the Maw, and they've already passed 00:32:35.190 --> 00:32:37.450 through that outer perimeter, and then they're 00:32:37.450 --> 00:32:39.509 on spikes dead. I will say, you'll be faster 00:32:39.509 --> 00:32:41.170 than them. They have prisoners. It's going to 00:32:41.170 --> 00:32:43.990 slow them down. You're a small squad of badass 00:32:43.990 --> 00:32:46.930 manta rays. If you do pass them, you can probably 00:32:46.930 --> 00:32:50.039 catch them up. pass them again. Okay, okay. Did 00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:53.460 you say we could catch up to them? You just said 00:32:53.460 --> 00:32:56.279 we could catch up to them? If you hit them in 00:32:56.279 --> 00:32:57.759 the middle, you could probably, you would assume, 00:32:57.799 --> 00:32:59.559 turn and try to catch them if you missed them 00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.160 while using detect. Yeah, but we wouldn't know 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:04.599 that we missed them. Yeah, I mean, again, it's 00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:06.059 going to be a lot of risk. I'm just saying the 00:33:06.059 --> 00:33:07.839 fact that we could catch up means we could probably 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:10.720 go to the outlet, and then if we don't catch 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:12.460 them there, we can catch up to them on the water, 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.259 potentially before the maw. If something slowed 00:33:15.259 --> 00:33:16.859 them down, it's possible you can catch them right 00:33:16.859 --> 00:33:18.920 in the river outlet. If something slowed them 00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:21.359 down. Again, it's going to be another... Basically, 00:33:21.460 --> 00:33:22.640 whatever you're going to do, there's going to 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:24.920 be fortune die rolls. And then you get a little 00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:26.480 more difficult depending on where you decide 00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:29.900 to head them off. I'm just saying, if we go to 00:33:29.900 --> 00:33:32.779 the outlet, we can still catch up to them if 00:33:32.779 --> 00:33:36.200 we miss them. Yeah. We've been doing this for 00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:37.759 way too long. The chance of us catching them 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:40.619 before the maw is probably pretty decent. Right. 00:33:41.019 --> 00:33:43.480 I can't imagine we miss them by that much. Yeah. 00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:47.059 Okay, let's go to the mouth of the Sendine River. 00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:52.200 Okay. The edge of the Golden Bay. That is 12 00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:56.660 miles, just about. So six hours by Manta? Probably 00:33:56.660 --> 00:34:00.460 12 miles. Sometimes the miles thing on Roll20 00:34:00.460 --> 00:34:01.980 can get a little weird when you go diagonals, 00:34:01.980 --> 00:34:04.160 but... Right. Yeah, I'll say about six hours. 00:34:04.900 --> 00:34:08.139 Now, they would have gotten a decent, decent 00:34:08.139 --> 00:34:11.000 head start. They got away. Galshbuck are the 00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:12.760 news. He came to you. You suited up. You went 00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:15.719 that way. But again, they have prisoners. They 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:19.780 escaped a bloody battle. A lot of stuff is going 00:34:19.780 --> 00:34:22.239 wrong. The Sendine's not an easy place to move 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:24.679 through, especially with a fucking shark, which 00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:26.960 I will say your reports tell you they have a 00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:29.659 shark. It's how they're pulling prisoners away. 00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:38.820 Okay. And you blast into the sea along the coast. 00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:42.280 shooting across the rivers that lead to the pools, 00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:46.659 across the sandy beaches, towards the mouth of 00:34:46.659 --> 00:34:50.219 the Sendine River. I'll ask during your journey, 00:34:50.380 --> 00:34:55.599 is there any conversation? My initial thought 00:34:55.599 --> 00:35:00.199 to that is no. Yeah, Blanche isn't in a particularly 00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:03.440 chatty mood. Yeah. I realize that makes for bad 00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:06.119 role play. No, this is fine. Well, I mean, I 00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:08.599 think, and Jules is the same too, I think. I 00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:10.659 think they both have the same mindset in this, 00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:14.579 in that they're on a fucking mission, and they're 00:35:14.579 --> 00:35:18.019 going. Yeah. And that's it. And Chester follows 00:35:18.019 --> 00:35:20.960 whatever Jules does. He's picked up on a lot 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:23.559 of his mannerisms, and I think he's the same. 00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:26.179 Yeah, he knows when it's time to... He doesn't 00:35:26.179 --> 00:35:27.300 like to shut up, but he knows when it's time 00:35:27.300 --> 00:35:30.079 to shut up. Yep. And Jaune, I think, looks more 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:31.699 regal than you've ever seen him before, staring 00:35:31.699 --> 00:35:35.800 forth, mouth set. I think you see him look, he 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:38.539 glances towards Blanche a lot, like he wants 00:35:38.539 --> 00:35:42.039 so badly to say something, but knows this is 00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:46.380 not the time. There may never be a time. I want 00:35:46.380 --> 00:35:50.679 a character image of this. Yeah, for real. Four 00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:53.940 manta rays going across the ocean on the night 00:35:53.940 --> 00:35:58.219 sky. Yeah. I love that. Who wants to roll me 00:35:58.219 --> 00:36:00.820 a D100? I did the last one, and it didn't fit 00:36:00.820 --> 00:36:03.590 through the Guns of Heaven. I can roll. Before 00:36:03.590 --> 00:36:06.690 you roll this, is there anything you can do to 00:36:06.690 --> 00:36:09.829 increase the speed of your mantas, or will it 00:36:09.829 --> 00:36:12.610 take the six hours to reach? Increase the speed 00:36:12.610 --> 00:36:15.130 of the mantas. You might not have anything in 00:36:15.130 --> 00:36:18.969 your pocket. Just carry us. Catching them here 00:36:18.969 --> 00:36:21.929 is a speed game. Other places, it's going to 00:36:21.929 --> 00:36:23.829 require different things, but this is all about 00:36:23.829 --> 00:36:28.110 getting there before they do. No, I don't think 00:36:28.110 --> 00:36:31.320 I have anything that will. Get us there faster, 00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:37.699 unfortunately. Okay. God, this... Okay. Do you 00:36:37.699 --> 00:36:40.000 have any specific numbers in mind for this that 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.760 you're going to share, or am I just going to 00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:43.679 roll it and you're going to... You need a 16 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:46.820 or higher. Oh, okay. No, sorry, sorry, sorry. 00:36:47.019 --> 00:36:49.920 Sorry, you need a 15 or lower. My bad. 15... 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:51.519 What? I'm going to do it that way. I'm thinking 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:56.539 of me as the... You need an 86 or higher. 15 00:36:56.539 --> 00:36:59.730 % chance. Holy shit. Of catching them or of missing 00:36:59.730 --> 00:37:01.489 them? To catch them at the river. Holy shit. 00:37:01.630 --> 00:37:03.550 At the mouth of the river. It's a long shot. 00:37:04.230 --> 00:37:06.030 But it doesn't mean you failed. You can still 00:37:06.030 --> 00:37:07.869 turn around and catch up to them. That's possible 00:37:07.869 --> 00:37:10.789 too. Okay, but how are we going to know that 00:37:10.789 --> 00:37:13.590 we missed them? Yeah. Good point. Also, you little 00:37:13.590 --> 00:37:15.889 devil not divulging this information before we 00:37:15.889 --> 00:37:17.849 made the decision. I told you it was a slim chance. 00:37:18.389 --> 00:37:20.630 It was a rough one. 15 % is really fucking slim. 00:37:20.869 --> 00:37:24.610 Yeah, slim. Okay, I mean... Fuck. They got to 00:37:24.610 --> 00:37:26.530 make calls. Maybe they didn't get there already. 00:37:26.849 --> 00:37:28.800 Maybe they're still coming. Shit, that's very 00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:32.539 slim. I bought that myself. Yeah. All right. 00:37:32.579 --> 00:37:39.960 I guess let's see what happens. Dude. What? It's 00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:44.320 an 85. What did I say? 86 or higher? 86. Oh, 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:48.239 no. I said 86 or higher, didn't I? That is amazing. 00:37:49.139 --> 00:37:53.599 That is amazing. All right. I didn't think we 00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:55.139 were going to get it anyways. No, no. I want 00:37:55.139 --> 00:37:56.380 to give you something here, actually. That's 00:37:56.380 --> 00:38:00.920 cool. You reach the river itself. You reach the 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:03.800 mouth where it meets the open sea. What? Wait. 00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:06.119 What madness do you have in mind? You said 86, 00:38:06.219 --> 00:38:10.860 but then you said 15 % chance. Yes, right? Isn't 00:38:10.860 --> 00:38:15.219 that 85? I think because when 100 counts, it's 00:38:15.219 --> 00:38:19.260 86. Shit, this is important. Figure it out. I'm 00:38:19.260 --> 00:38:22.920 pretty sure 85. I'm pretty sure that's 15 % of 00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:26.429 them. Pretty sure. Right on. 100 minus... Well, 00:38:26.449 --> 00:38:30.849 but the thing is it's 0 through 100. Is it? So 00:38:30.849 --> 00:38:32.690 that's... Right? I don't think there's a 0 on 00:38:32.690 --> 00:38:35.550 that. Yeah, there is. If there's a 0, then that 00:38:35.550 --> 00:38:37.909 would be 15%. If there's a 1, then it would not 00:38:37.909 --> 00:38:40.949 be... Wait, I don't know. I think if... Just 00:38:40.949 --> 00:38:42.869 pause it for like a second. Yeah, pause this 00:38:42.869 --> 00:38:44.070 shit. Give me a second. We'll figure this out. 00:38:45.250 --> 00:38:47.230 Are we called wizards? Are we called Harvard? 00:38:47.710 --> 00:38:50.789 We called everyone. We called NASA. Oh, hold 00:38:50.789 --> 00:38:52.429 on. Actually, MIT's returning my call right now. 00:38:52.610 --> 00:38:54.710 I just got the voicemail at first and they were 00:38:54.710 --> 00:38:59.679 like, Oh, they're saying, hey, you're stupid. 00:39:00.500 --> 00:39:05.400 There's not a zero on a D100. How dare you? I 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:07.199 don't know why I thought there was a zero on 00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:10.699 that. That's a legit thing. I don't know why 00:39:10.699 --> 00:39:12.739 it's an 86. You're too kind, Jeremy. You're too 00:39:12.739 --> 00:39:15.679 kind. Because you're right. Like I said, 15 or 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:18.800 lower gets you 15%. And I don't know why, but 00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:20.940 the opposite of that was like 86 or higher. That's 00:39:20.940 --> 00:39:25.400 14%. You're right. That is 14%. I'm dumb. Unless 00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:27.179 I'm not dumb and I was right the first time and 00:39:27.179 --> 00:39:29.579 now I'm dumb. Well, then we just all sound dumb 00:39:29.579 --> 00:39:31.059 and then fine. We're in this together. Great, 00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:34.159 yeah. I had meant for it to be 15%. Editor Jeremy 00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:37.000 here. This time I brought the guys with me, Stephen 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.800 and David. Both here. David, what's up? All right, 00:39:39.820 --> 00:39:44.559 pants people. Just, we, we know. Okay, we know. 00:39:44.659 --> 00:39:49.300 We know. 80... 86 or higher is 15%. 85 or higher 00:39:49.300 --> 00:39:52.519 is 16%. We know. We figured it out. Our dumbasses 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:55.320 eventually came to... NASA did us wrong. NASA 00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:57.119 threw us off. We went to the wrong people. Well, 00:39:57.179 --> 00:39:58.460 that's the thing. We went back to the drawing 00:39:58.460 --> 00:40:00.260 board. We consulted a couple of fourth graders 00:40:00.260 --> 00:40:08.460 and they helped us figure it out. Oh, no. Oh, 00:40:08.460 --> 00:40:11.599 so yeah, we're stupid. We're really... We're 00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:13.480 like twice big stupid. We're twice big stupid. 00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:16.940 It's pretty bad. I hope you're still listening. 00:40:18.659 --> 00:40:21.380 Obviously, we're proceeding as if they'd passed 00:40:21.380 --> 00:40:23.519 the roll because we did already, you know, this 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:25.579 is two episodes later, we're recording this because 00:40:25.579 --> 00:40:27.440 that's how long it took us to figure it out. 00:40:27.500 --> 00:40:32.099 Figure out how stupid we actually were. So, yeah. 00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:36.400 But I think it's been fun, you know, the falling 00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:41.170 out of this. What happens next is fun. It's fun. 00:40:41.269 --> 00:40:44.050 It's good. It's terrifying, but it's very fun. 00:40:44.730 --> 00:40:46.829 The most important thing, though? Don't at us. 00:40:47.829 --> 00:40:54.090 We know. Guys, we learned something. Yes. We 00:40:54.090 --> 00:40:56.130 learned something. What did we learn? We're idiots. 00:40:56.409 --> 00:40:58.250 Yeah, and we're never. No, I knew that. Ever. 00:40:58.369 --> 00:41:02.630 I knew that. Rolling percentile die. Again. Back 00:41:02.630 --> 00:41:04.949 to the show. I was just going to walk away from 00:41:04.949 --> 00:41:06.469 it because I was like, oh yeah, you know, with 00:41:06.469 --> 00:41:09.250 the zero, it's like, it's like the, it's like 00:41:09.250 --> 00:41:10.989 the roulette wheel. You know what I mean? It's 00:41:10.989 --> 00:41:14.090 like, it's always in favor of the house. Your 00:41:14.090 --> 00:41:17.510 house got an 85 actually. That's crazy. The odds 00:41:17.510 --> 00:41:21.349 of this scenario happening. Oh my gosh. It's 00:41:21.349 --> 00:41:27.289 about 15%. No, it's 1 % actually because it's 00:41:27.289 --> 00:41:36.650 a number. You fool. All right, I'm back. I'm 00:41:36.650 --> 00:41:47.650 back. I cannot believe that this happened. Utterly 00:41:47.650 --> 00:41:52.530 shocking to me. 15%. I thought. No way. I was 00:41:52.530 --> 00:41:54.110 like, I was sitting there. I was like, man, I 00:41:54.110 --> 00:41:55.969 feel like we already made a decision, but man, 00:41:56.050 --> 00:41:58.409 this is some bullshit being like, okay, you got 00:41:58.409 --> 00:42:01.889 a 15 % chance. I was like, all right, well, let's 00:42:01.889 --> 00:42:03.849 just, let's just fail this and then figure out 00:42:03.849 --> 00:42:06.690 how we're going to catch up or something. So 00:42:06.690 --> 00:42:10.469 I certainly was not expecting that. You are gliding 00:42:10.469 --> 00:42:13.309 along the coast. As you get close to the Sendai 00:42:13.309 --> 00:42:15.590 and you stay. A little closer to it. I think 00:42:15.590 --> 00:42:18.230 at this point, the sandy beach is gone. You're 00:42:18.230 --> 00:42:20.110 kind of moving along sort of a rocky sort of 00:42:20.110 --> 00:42:22.369 cliff ridge as the terrain beside you begins 00:42:22.369 --> 00:42:25.570 to rise and rise up. Where the Sendai sort of 00:42:25.570 --> 00:42:28.230 carves its niche into it. Around the corner ahead, 00:42:28.349 --> 00:42:31.809 you're looking out. You can see where the water 00:42:31.809 --> 00:42:35.190 funnels out into the open sea. You're staying 00:42:35.190 --> 00:42:37.980 close to the cliffs. You're staying tight. So 00:42:37.980 --> 00:42:40.440 they don't see you when you see them. Oh my God. 00:42:41.400 --> 00:42:46.320 Just jutting out of the river. You see your foes. 00:42:46.739 --> 00:42:49.019 I think as we're approaching Blanche keeps looking 00:42:49.019 --> 00:42:50.820 off to the right. She's looking out to the open 00:42:50.820 --> 00:42:54.360 ocean. I don't think Blanche thinks that we're 00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:56.940 going to catch them at the mouth. Yeah. I think 00:42:56.940 --> 00:42:58.559 she's like, this is the first place we need to 00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:01.320 go, but then we need to find evidence that they 00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:03.179 already passed through and we got to chase them 00:43:03.179 --> 00:43:05.960 down. If you went to the maw, you're waiting 00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:07.980 for hours. Right, exactly. You wouldn't be caught 00:43:07.980 --> 00:43:11.880 by every scout they had. Like, they must have, 00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:15.119 you realize something had to have happened. They 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:17.280 had to have, like, come across some fallen tree. 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:19.360 Something went wrong. But, like, there's a chance. 00:43:19.420 --> 00:43:20.820 You knew the Sendine. You're thinking about the 00:43:20.820 --> 00:43:22.599 Sendine right now, this time of year. It's rough. 00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:24.519 You know, we haven't sent the workers out to, 00:43:24.539 --> 00:43:27.179 like, clear it up yet. And the Sahagin probably 00:43:27.179 --> 00:43:29.269 don't know that. So as they're going down, like, 00:43:29.309 --> 00:43:30.730 maybe you had this in mind, or you were fact 00:43:30.730 --> 00:43:33.070 -listening your strategy, like, oh, they'll slow 00:43:33.070 --> 00:43:36.170 down significantly. There's a chance, but just 00:43:36.170 --> 00:43:41.989 a chance. Holy shit. So let's talk brass tacks 00:43:41.989 --> 00:43:45.690 here. What's their setup look like? Let me describe. 00:43:47.309 --> 00:43:49.710 See a lot of things as you look out from your 00:43:49.710 --> 00:43:55.070 kind of obscured place of approach amongst the 00:43:55.070 --> 00:43:59.309 cliffside. You see... As before they dive into 00:43:59.309 --> 00:44:00.590 the water, they're still kind of staying up top. 00:44:00.949 --> 00:44:03.909 They haven't really moved to go down yet. And 00:44:03.909 --> 00:44:07.150 so you see five turtles tied hand and foot connected 00:44:07.150 --> 00:44:09.750 in a line, gagged and blindfolded and pulled 00:44:09.750 --> 00:44:13.250 along by a 12 -foot long hunter shark under the 00:44:13.250 --> 00:44:16.849 champion's command. You see that six swahagin 00:44:16.849 --> 00:44:19.690 surround them in a fish -shaped formation, three 00:44:19.690 --> 00:44:22.289 in the back arranged like a tail fin, two in 00:44:22.289 --> 00:44:26.969 the side, like a side fin. Nice. Yeah. At the 00:44:26.969 --> 00:44:29.570 head of the line, sort of leading, riding atop 00:44:29.570 --> 00:44:33.150 the shark, actually, is the champion. Sir Huag 00:44:33.150 --> 00:44:35.909 and I should say are green -scaled, piscean humanoids 00:44:35.909 --> 00:44:38.190 with hungry mouths filled with rows of razor 00:44:38.190 --> 00:44:41.269 -sharp teeth. Fins run down their back and jut 00:44:41.269 --> 00:44:43.349 out from their faces and arms and long tails. 00:44:43.769 --> 00:44:46.250 Though generally scantily clad, they do tend 00:44:46.250 --> 00:44:49.489 to armor themselves with reinforced shells. Most 00:44:49.489 --> 00:44:51.829 wear polydromes fashioned from a sharpened conch. 00:44:52.670 --> 00:44:58.449 Conch. Conch. Shut up, Steven. You can see that 00:44:58.449 --> 00:45:00.190 the champion wears a full set of armor, woven 00:45:00.190 --> 00:45:02.429 together clamshells, as I said before, as a form 00:45:02.429 --> 00:45:04.869 of scale mail. A battle skirt of seaweed and 00:45:04.869 --> 00:45:07.610 long, spiraling shells. He looks to be male, 00:45:07.789 --> 00:45:10.889 with a hulking figure and a long, deadly, shell 00:45:10.889 --> 00:45:14.210 -made spear. You have tussled with these foes 00:45:14.210 --> 00:45:17.769 before, Blanche. Probably many times. I think 00:45:17.769 --> 00:45:20.909 you've maybe faced a hog and champion full melee 00:45:20.909 --> 00:45:22.949 a couple times before, but I don't think you've 00:45:22.949 --> 00:45:24.929 ever fully defeated them. They've battled the 00:45:24.929 --> 00:45:27.210 draws, they've been... quick attacks during larger 00:45:27.210 --> 00:45:31.690 confrontations. You know they are a brutal society, 00:45:31.869 --> 00:45:34.269 the Sohagin, driven by bloodlust and only holding 00:45:34.269 --> 00:45:36.809 respect for strength and viciousness. Their champions 00:45:36.809 --> 00:45:38.909 are few in number, and they are the very best 00:45:38.909 --> 00:45:42.369 hunters of their ranks. Many years ago, before 00:45:42.369 --> 00:45:44.570 your time as a master of defense, Jaune's mother 00:45:44.570 --> 00:45:47.289 fell to one of their spears. She was a warrior 00:45:47.289 --> 00:45:49.849 of great honor and renown. Even she could not 00:45:49.849 --> 00:45:53.250 hold up against one of their ilk. Incidentally, 00:45:53.309 --> 00:45:56.179 and side note, that... That particular champion, 00:45:56.320 --> 00:45:59.960 now known as Baroness Tyralia, now rules over 00:45:59.960 --> 00:46:02.519 the Sahagin as a whole, following that victory 00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:05.739 over the Totals, that pristine sacrifice that 00:46:05.739 --> 00:46:09.219 was made. You see these foes now, slowly moving 00:46:09.219 --> 00:46:11.300 away from you. You recall about their rear. They 00:46:11.300 --> 00:46:13.420 don't notice you yet. They may have yet closer, 00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:15.400 but you may be able to get the jump on them. 00:46:15.780 --> 00:46:18.000 How do you want to proceed? I will say they are 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:22.619 about 100 feet. off the river moving away soon 00:46:22.619 --> 00:46:24.579 they'll probably dive down and they'll be harder 00:46:24.579 --> 00:46:27.260 to keep up with them at least harder to catch 00:46:27.260 --> 00:46:30.480 them but right now because you're all the fucking 00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:35.239 85 can we like reflect real fast on how stupid 00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:43.250 that whole thing was it's amazing Everyone who 00:46:43.250 --> 00:46:45.130 can count to 100 has already stopped listening. 00:46:45.309 --> 00:46:48.070 Yeah, no, we lost everyone. They're like, you 00:46:48.070 --> 00:46:49.309 know what? David's right. There are too many 00:46:49.309 --> 00:46:54.309 D &D podcasts. This one? Not worth my time. Doesn't 00:46:54.309 --> 00:46:57.489 have a solid control on percentiles? I'm out. 00:46:57.769 --> 00:46:59.590 I mean, it's what you look for. It's the first 00:46:59.590 --> 00:47:03.550 thing you look for. Oh my goodness. Okay. So 00:47:03.550 --> 00:47:08.650 how much distance is between the hostages and 00:47:08.650 --> 00:47:11.940 the Sahagin? Let me answer your question. With 00:47:11.940 --> 00:47:14.760 a new map. Okay, map. There we go. Sweet. Wow. 00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:18.800 So much detail. I should mention this is not 00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:22.940 drawn by Rochelle. It's just a blue. It's just 00:47:22.940 --> 00:47:24.800 blue. So I was like, I can handle this. And it 00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:28.420 still looks like shit somehow. Oh, that's... 00:47:28.420 --> 00:47:31.400 You see what I mean? Yeah, that's very... The 00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:33.579 turtles tied in a line attached to the tail fin 00:47:33.579 --> 00:47:35.739 of the shark. The Sahagin are fully surrounding 00:47:35.739 --> 00:47:37.780 them. They're like in the center. I hate that. 00:47:37.860 --> 00:47:40.800 Yeah, that's pretty not great. It's a bad situation. 00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:42.639 Now, you know, the Sahagin aren't like other 00:47:42.639 --> 00:47:43.980 foes you fought. They're not going to be like, 00:47:44.059 --> 00:47:46.199 ooh, back away, we'll kill the turtles. They 00:47:46.199 --> 00:47:48.579 want these turtles alive. They'll want you alive 00:47:48.579 --> 00:47:50.659 if possible. Because the more they sacrifice, 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.440 the better off they'll be. That's what they want. 00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:56.579 Yeah, so if this formation is like a hangman 00:47:56.579 --> 00:47:59.960 stick figure, the hostages are like the body. 00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:03.480 Ooh, good no. Nice. With three making the legs, 00:48:03.559 --> 00:48:06.440 two making the arms, and the shark and the champion 00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:09.460 making up the head. So my first quick thought 00:48:09.460 --> 00:48:12.219 with this is that we need to detach them from 00:48:12.219 --> 00:48:18.380 the shark. Yeah. My first quick thought is to 00:48:18.380 --> 00:48:22.780 get rid of the three on the end. Because we're 00:48:22.780 --> 00:48:25.260 coming from basically below the legs, right? 00:48:25.420 --> 00:48:27.219 We're behind them, you said? Yes, you're behind 00:48:27.219 --> 00:48:31.630 them. Right behind. I think Blanche can do maybe 00:48:31.630 --> 00:48:35.289 some big damage there. Okay. An opening salvo. 00:48:35.570 --> 00:48:39.309 Okay. What do you think about the possibility 00:48:39.309 --> 00:48:44.230 of Blanche doing that while somebody goes and 00:48:44.230 --> 00:48:49.329 jumps to, if they're able to get there, jump 00:48:49.329 --> 00:48:53.010 to the last tortle in the line? Because then 00:48:53.010 --> 00:48:58.050 that person can potentially go up the line. And, 00:48:58.090 --> 00:48:59.630 like, disconnect them as they go up the line? 00:48:59.849 --> 00:49:04.369 Yes. I'm thinking that we're probably... Like, 00:49:04.369 --> 00:49:08.150 maybe an invisible Chester. Oh, see, now you're 00:49:08.150 --> 00:49:11.130 talking with invisibility. Yes. All right. All 00:49:11.130 --> 00:49:15.570 right. Question, though. Can you make Chester 00:49:15.570 --> 00:49:17.710 and Amanda invisible? Because Chester can't swim 00:49:17.710 --> 00:49:19.829 that fast. Right. That was my next question. 00:49:20.369 --> 00:49:23.510 Chester, if we can get close enough, I can make 00:49:23.510 --> 00:49:26.429 Chester invisible and he can misty step. Onto 00:49:26.429 --> 00:49:29.670 what? Onto the turtle. And just kind of ride 00:49:29.670 --> 00:49:33.210 the line. Honestly, that is so Ocean's Eleven. 00:49:34.769 --> 00:49:37.269 Invisible Chester standing on the back of this 00:49:37.269 --> 00:49:41.670 turtle, reaches down, undoes it, and like leapfrogs 00:49:41.670 --> 00:49:45.030 up the line. That is so insane that it just might 00:49:45.030 --> 00:49:46.170 work. He'll start cutting when he gets to the 00:49:46.170 --> 00:49:48.090 second to the last turtle because he doesn't 00:49:48.090 --> 00:49:50.409 want to be stuck, you know. He'll go to the next 00:49:50.409 --> 00:49:52.849 turtle, cut behind him so that he still stays 00:49:52.849 --> 00:49:55.440 on. Kind of like, oh, what was that movie? There 00:49:55.440 --> 00:50:01.840 was a movie. Ocean's Eleven? No, no. I don't 00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:04.500 know if it was called Everest, but I remember 00:50:04.500 --> 00:50:07.059 I was traumatized by this opening scene. It was 00:50:07.059 --> 00:50:09.920 like a family, like a father and a couple of 00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:13.159 his younger daughter and son. And they were like 00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:16.239 ice climbing on Mount Everest or something like 00:50:16.239 --> 00:50:19.340 that. And it was the son and daughter in the 00:50:19.340 --> 00:50:21.840 front of the line. I know the movie. then the 00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:23.739 father was the third and there were two guides 00:50:23.739 --> 00:50:26.500 behind them. Yes. And the line like started to 00:50:26.500 --> 00:50:28.500 break loose and the daughter and son were holding 00:50:28.500 --> 00:50:31.159 onto the wall and the father knew that he had 00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:33.480 to like, so he cut his line on top, you know, 00:50:33.500 --> 00:50:35.519 above him and the three of them. And I was like, 00:50:35.579 --> 00:50:39.119 Oh, I'm still, that wasn't a vertical limit. 00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:41.739 I don't honestly, I know what you're talking 00:50:41.739 --> 00:50:43.679 about though. I know exactly which one. Roll 00:50:43.679 --> 00:50:46.559 for initiative. Hey, David, what are these four 00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:48.199 things that appeared in the bottom corner? I'm 00:50:48.199 --> 00:50:50.940 like slowly trying to build the map with Mantis. 00:50:50.940 --> 00:50:53.099 Oh, that's ours. Okay. You're talking and I'm 00:50:53.099 --> 00:50:55.119 not. Steven had a lot of things. I'm excited 00:50:55.119 --> 00:50:56.400 to re -listen to the episode so I can hear what 00:50:56.400 --> 00:51:00.380 he said. Because I'm building the map right now. 00:51:01.139 --> 00:51:02.380 I wasn't sure where you were going to fight. 00:51:02.460 --> 00:51:03.500 So I wasn't sure if I was going to add Spires 00:51:03.500 --> 00:51:04.719 to this thing, if I was going to add Mantis to 00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:06.659 this thing. It's all improv -y, so just give 00:51:06.659 --> 00:51:08.159 me five minutes. Yeah, whenever you're ready. 00:51:08.260 --> 00:51:11.739 Whenever you're ready. All right. And we're back. 00:51:11.780 --> 00:51:13.800 Yes, Stephen, that was Vertical Limit. Yeah, 00:51:13.860 --> 00:51:17.000 I saw the scene, and I'm either thinking of a 00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:19.780 different movie, or there's like a Mandela effect 00:51:19.780 --> 00:51:25.000 sort of thing going on, or I just created a false 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:27.559 memory for myself. No. One of those three things. 00:51:27.559 --> 00:51:30.739 I don't know. They have the opening scene that's 00:51:30.739 --> 00:51:33.179 not icy, but a lot of the rest of the movie is 00:51:33.179 --> 00:51:35.719 icy. I don't remember where they went to. But 00:51:35.719 --> 00:51:39.440 there also weren't guides behind them in that 00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:41.559 scene that you're talking about. That you showed 00:51:41.559 --> 00:51:45.139 me. And I remember. Maybe you're Mandela affecting 00:51:45.139 --> 00:51:47.059 it. Like, you just have a different memory. You're 00:51:47.059 --> 00:51:48.619 in a different timeline than all of us. Yeah, 00:51:48.679 --> 00:51:50.599 probably. Like, I don't remember anything about 00:51:50.599 --> 00:51:53.699 that movie except for things like that. Huh. 00:51:54.659 --> 00:51:57.219 Anyways. Anyways. Let's kill these fish guys. 00:51:57.340 --> 00:51:59.400 I'm still sitting back. My headphones were off 00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:02.940 until just now. I'm still doing stuff. Okay. 00:52:04.460 --> 00:52:07.159 Here's how this is going to work. You are approaching 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:10.920 from behind. I'll say when you get within, oh, 00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:13.659 40 feet of the scouts, they're likely going to 00:52:13.659 --> 00:52:15.159 notice you. Unless you can find a way to hide 00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:17.599 yourselves. You could go underwater and try to 00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:19.960 get close. If it's going for long, Jules and 00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:21.900 Chester have got to hold their breath. But if 00:52:21.900 --> 00:52:23.539 they're above water right now, and they still 00:52:23.539 --> 00:52:25.159 are, you might be able to catch them that way. 00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:27.880 Once you get within those 40 feet, if you don't 00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:30.599 obscure yourselves in any way, shit goes down. 00:52:31.179 --> 00:52:34.110 We're going to roll for initiative. And... They're 00:52:34.110 --> 00:52:35.389 going to notice you. Things are going to happen. 00:52:35.969 --> 00:52:38.469 Real quick, you have mounts in this combat. Let 00:52:38.469 --> 00:52:40.449 me explain what that's going to look like. On 00:52:40.449 --> 00:52:43.650 your turn, your mount will go on the turn. It 00:52:43.650 --> 00:52:45.989 shares a turn with you, right? You can decide 00:52:45.989 --> 00:52:47.369 if you want to go first, the mount can go first. 00:52:47.489 --> 00:52:50.389 They do have an attack. They have a move speed 00:52:50.389 --> 00:52:56.059 of 40 feet. They have 26 HP. I'll tell you that 00:52:56.059 --> 00:52:58.900 right now. 13 AC. These are not super tough, 00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:01.000 but they're just more made to get you around 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:05.119 so you can get in close and strike. They have 00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:06.880 a charging sort of ram maneuver they can do. 00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:08.079 So if you run towards something and hit them 00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:09.860 with a ram attack on the same turn, they take 00:53:09.860 --> 00:53:12.079 extra damage. They just like to ram. They beat 00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:15.059 things up. That's how it's going to go, basically. 00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:17.079 When you get to go, you can decide if you want 00:53:17.079 --> 00:53:19.159 to go, they want to go, you move with them, you 00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:20.940 can jump off of them after they go, and you can 00:53:20.940 --> 00:53:22.219 do an extra movement that way if you want to 00:53:22.219 --> 00:53:25.199 abandon your manta. For Jules and Chester, your 00:53:25.199 --> 00:53:27.300 mantas, as we said, are trained to follow the 00:53:27.300 --> 00:53:29.820 leads, so if you want to do something different, 00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:31.679 if your manta wants to go a different way, you're 00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:32.840 going to need to roll an animal handling check. 00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:35.559 Jaune and Blanche have training on these things. 00:53:35.559 --> 00:53:37.019 They know their mounts. They don't need to roll 00:53:37.019 --> 00:53:39.300 that check, but you guys do. Otherwise, the Manta 00:53:39.300 --> 00:53:42.420 will default to follow behind the one that's 00:53:42.420 --> 00:53:44.719 leading it. In Jules' case, it's going to be 00:53:44.719 --> 00:53:46.139 Blanche's. In Chester's case, it's going to be 00:53:46.139 --> 00:53:49.480 Jaune's. Sidekicks stick together. Heroes stick 00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:52.179 together. That's what the Mantas want. All right? 00:53:52.300 --> 00:53:56.880 Okay. Okay. Okay. You are crashing down the waves, 00:53:56.960 --> 00:54:00.719 pushing through quietly, quietly, moving up behind 00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:04.530 these Sahuagin. What do you want to do to kick 00:54:04.530 --> 00:54:08.829 things off? Well, as we're moving up, Jules will 00:54:08.829 --> 00:54:12.170 get as close to Chester as he can, reach over, 00:54:12.349 --> 00:54:17.469 touch him, cast invisibility. Okay. And say, 00:54:17.510 --> 00:54:21.469 you know what to do. All right, yeah. Apples 00:54:21.469 --> 00:54:24.849 to apples? The old skinny? I'll figure it out. 00:54:27.530 --> 00:54:33.400 Thanks, David. We know each other well enough. 00:54:35.739 --> 00:54:38.559 99 % of the situation, Chester knows what to 00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:43.780 do. So to confirm for the listeners, yes, he 00:54:43.780 --> 00:54:45.320 is going to go invisible. And then when we get 00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:49.039 close enough and in range, he's going to misty 00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:53.579 step onto the line of turtles. And while invisible, 00:54:53.860 --> 00:54:57.440 go up the line, cutting him loose. Apples to 00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:02.460 apples. Sure. Hell yes. Chester's got his. Move 00:55:02.460 --> 00:55:07.300 in mind. Yeah, I'll say it's not going to proc 00:55:07.300 --> 00:55:10.719 the removal of invisibility. They could still 00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:12.219 potentially notice Chester because he's not going 00:55:12.219 --> 00:55:14.639 to be using hide actions each round, but it would 00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:16.300 be hard for them to notice him. If you cause 00:55:16.300 --> 00:55:17.960 distraction, it might be impossible for them 00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:22.400 to notice him. So, okay. Chester vanishes. You 00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:24.980 get closer. Anything else? I think that's it 00:55:24.980 --> 00:55:27.579 for right now because we're not within 30 feet, 00:55:27.639 --> 00:55:29.579 correct? Not yet. Not until we start combat. 00:55:29.739 --> 00:55:32.469 So that's it then. Okay. Blanche, you're leading 00:55:32.469 --> 00:55:35.690 this thing. Jean looks to you. Doesn't say a 00:55:35.690 --> 00:55:37.449 word because this is not a time for speaking, 00:55:37.550 --> 00:55:40.530 but he nods to you. There's something in his 00:55:40.530 --> 00:55:45.070 eyes, this hope, this look of, we might not come 00:55:45.070 --> 00:55:49.150 back from this, sir. And he smiles. Blanche is 00:55:49.150 --> 00:55:52.630 going to draw her sword. I don't know that I'm 00:55:52.630 --> 00:55:54.789 going to use it, but she's going to cast Bladesong 00:55:54.789 --> 00:56:01.110 anyways. And... Ringing out over the waves. And... 00:56:01.289 --> 00:56:07.409 Quietly, she'll say to John, I'll soften them 00:56:07.409 --> 00:56:11.989 up in the back. You know what to do after that. 00:56:12.929 --> 00:56:18.110 Cut the reeds. I... You'll figure it out. Yes, 00:56:18.110 --> 00:56:22.630 sir. We'll do this together. All of us. We're... 00:56:22.630 --> 00:56:28.690 Smiles. We're unstoppable, aren't we? She's gonna... 00:56:28.690 --> 00:56:33.500 Can I get a button? No, screw you. She's going 00:56:33.500 --> 00:56:36.659 to put her, she's going to drop her reins and 00:56:36.659 --> 00:56:39.119 adjust her position and raise her arms out in 00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:41.139 front of her. And in response to Jaune, she'll 00:56:41.139 --> 00:56:45.639 say, well, that remains to be seen. But luckily 00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:52.099 we have some element of surprise here. And the 00:56:52.099 --> 00:56:57.159 water beneath those back three, Sahagin begin 00:56:57.159 --> 00:57:05.599 to. What? What? What? And a tidal wave rises 00:57:05.599 --> 00:57:12.440 up as Blanche casts tidal wave. Holy fuck. A 00:57:12.440 --> 00:57:14.840 wave of water crashes down on an area within 00:57:14.840 --> 00:57:17.019 range. The area can be up to 30 feet long, 10 00:57:17.019 --> 00:57:20.619 feet wide, blah, blah, blah. I need those three 00:57:20.619 --> 00:57:23.760 to make a dexterity saving throw. Holy shit. 00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:31.869 That is okay. Okay. That is amazing. Let's do 00:57:31.869 --> 00:57:40.789 this thing. Three rolls. All decks. I'm guessing 00:57:40.789 --> 00:57:45.929 two fails in the pass. 94, 98, 98 team. Oh, yeah. 00:57:46.110 --> 00:57:49.510 I thought you said 94, 98. No, I heard 90. I 00:57:49.510 --> 00:57:51.750 was like, you're rolling the wrong die, sir. 00:57:53.090 --> 00:57:54.949 You don't know what my monsters can do. Yes, 00:57:54.989 --> 00:57:58.079 the four and the eight both fail. The 18 passes. 00:57:58.380 --> 00:58:02.679 Okay. So the two failures will take 48 bludgeoning 00:58:02.679 --> 00:58:08.199 damage. Whoa. The save will take half as much. 00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:10.679 This is a new spell? This is a new level three 00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:14.880 spell. Damn. And the two who failed will also 00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:16.599 be knocked prone. I don't know what that means 00:58:16.599 --> 00:58:19.300 in the water. Probably nothing. I think it means 00:58:19.300 --> 00:58:30.489 nothing. Not great rolls. 18 was the full damage. 00:58:30.849 --> 00:58:35.349 Oh, my God. Wow. So, 9 for the passer. That's 00:58:35.349 --> 00:58:41.690 not great. No. That was, I think, a 5, a 4, a 00:58:41.690 --> 00:58:44.630 3, and a 6. You guys reached about... Average 00:58:44.630 --> 00:58:46.510 -ish. Where I put you on the map, you're about 00:58:46.510 --> 00:58:49.789 40 feet behind this back line. As you glide in, 00:58:49.789 --> 00:58:53.070 you get in the spot. You reach out. The waves 00:58:53.070 --> 00:58:58.420 turn. You're... screaming as the waves sort of 00:58:58.420 --> 00:59:01.079 come down upon these jogging, bludgeoning them. 00:59:01.219 --> 00:59:03.559 Two of them go sort of swirling off in the water, 00:59:03.599 --> 00:59:05.440 looking really bad. The one in the center kind 00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:07.760 of guards against it, spins around, sees you. 00:59:08.780 --> 00:59:12.360 Tortoise! Tortoise and humans! They are attacking 00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:16.840 us! And everyone turns their way. The shark in 00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:20.239 the front, the leader, turns towards you and 00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:25.440 faces you with a big, toothy grin. Roll. Four 00:59:25.440 --> 00:59:29.519 initiative. All right. Oh, baby. That was pretty 00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:30.860 much all I got. I'm not sure what I'm doing after 00:59:30.860 --> 00:59:36.960 this. That was one hell of an opener. Like, you 00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:38.719 guys are doing amazing. I thought I had more 00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:40.639 scouts than you guys. I did not think you'd catch 00:59:40.639 --> 00:59:44.099 them like this. This is ridiculous. Natty, 19 00:59:44.099 --> 00:59:49.159 for Blanche. So that's a 23 initiative. Damn. 00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:54.500 Okay. Plus zero for Jean. So that. Is an eight. 00:59:54.679 --> 00:59:59.900 Womp womp. Can you fix his hit points in... Did 00:59:59.900 --> 01:00:01.619 you do Chester? No, I haven't yet. I'm going 01:00:01.619 --> 01:00:05.340 to do Jules first. Jules first. Didn't go all 01:00:05.340 --> 01:00:09.579 the way through. Didn't go all the way through. 01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:14.000 Need some heavier die there, my friend. Bar my 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:15.940 die. They're pretty heavy. Get your die away 01:00:15.940 --> 01:00:18.559 from me. That's a 16 on the die plus one for 01:00:18.559 --> 01:00:22.880 17. You guys are... Slaying it tonight. Chester. 01:00:25.260 --> 01:00:30.019 Ooh, 18 for Chester. That's really good. Okay. 01:00:30.019 --> 01:00:31.719 I'm really glad because I wanted him to go high 01:00:31.719 --> 01:00:35.099 up. Oh, I can't believe it worked out this way 01:00:35.099 --> 01:00:40.360 because I rolled a 21 on my champion here. Oh, 01:00:40.380 --> 01:00:42.400 fuck. And even that's not enough to keep up with 01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:44.900 Blanche Trudeau when she is on a fucking mission. 01:00:45.019 --> 01:00:47.280 Hell yeah. Waves crash down. He turns back and 01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:49.579 smiles. And then a little bit of spike of fear 01:00:49.579 --> 01:00:51.219 enters his eyes as he sees Blanchard already 01:00:51.219 --> 01:00:55.059 blasting towards him in the moment. What are 01:00:55.059 --> 01:00:59.500 you doing? It's very Jaws -y, isn't it? The song? 01:00:59.659 --> 01:01:01.400 I like it. I like the way it looks. It's like 01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:05.840 the sharks. The shark people. Yeah. Yeah. I love 01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:13.719 it. Blanch is going to move up within, I want 01:01:13.719 --> 01:01:19.110 to get within 15 feet of this first. Sahagin 01:01:19.110 --> 01:01:23.489 here. That one looks bad. Okay, that's 20. Ooh, 01:01:23.510 --> 01:01:27.070 a pinch more. And I'm just going to go a little 01:01:27.070 --> 01:01:31.469 basic here. I'm going to cast a cantrip lightning 01:01:31.469 --> 01:01:37.010 lure. Ooh, okay. So I need a strength save from 01:01:37.010 --> 01:01:39.170 you, or you'll be pulled 10 feet in a straight 01:01:39.170 --> 01:01:44.449 line towards me. Ooh, gnarly. All right. Ooh, 01:01:44.610 --> 01:01:49.110 that is going to be a 18 on that. Oh, that is 01:01:49.110 --> 01:01:53.329 a pass. So I don't think anything happens. No 01:01:53.329 --> 01:01:57.730 damage? No damage. Oh, God. It was strong, but 01:01:57.730 --> 01:02:00.289 they're ready for you now. Yeah. You come in, 01:02:00.309 --> 01:02:04.909 you blast out. This guy just kind of holds against 01:02:04.909 --> 01:02:08.550 it, does not get pulled, does not take damage. 01:02:10.090 --> 01:02:12.070 Lightning Whip kind of hits him and he yanks 01:02:12.070 --> 01:02:15.000 it away. All right, I'm going to have to rethink 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:21.139 a bit of this strategy. So that's it for Blanche, 01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:26.019 actually. It's my turn now. With 80 feet of movement, 01:02:26.320 --> 01:02:30.980 my shark is going to double... Yeah, got to do 01:02:30.980 --> 01:02:34.480 the double move. Double move up to get just outside 01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:40.119 of your range, Blanche. Yikes. Yikes. Just blast 01:02:40.119 --> 01:02:42.000 through the line, blast past towards, moves up 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:45.820 to you. stops. I do have a question about this, 01:02:45.880 --> 01:02:49.659 and I hate this because this could only work 01:02:49.659 --> 01:02:53.920 out bad for us, but if he's attached to the front 01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:57.719 tortle... Oh, right. Good thought. They're coming 01:02:57.719 --> 01:03:00.019 with him. You know what? You're so good, because 01:03:00.019 --> 01:03:02.639 I just assumed that he was just like, oh, I'm 01:03:02.639 --> 01:03:04.300 going to let go of this, and I wasn't even... 01:03:04.300 --> 01:03:06.000 I was just going to let it happen. No, you know 01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.860 what? I like this a lot. I hate it because it 01:03:08.860 --> 01:03:12.679 doesn't work in our favor at all, but... I'm 01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:14.880 going to do this because I also don't like that 01:03:14.880 --> 01:03:16.300 for me because I want to move all these tokens 01:03:16.300 --> 01:03:20.500 on the map a hundred times. And honestly, I just 01:03:20.500 --> 01:03:21.719 going to slow this guy down. He doesn't want 01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:23.380 these guys on his, on his shark. He's going to 01:03:23.380 --> 01:03:25.820 battle. He has to use an attack. I'm going to 01:03:25.820 --> 01:03:28.360 use one of my three attacks to slice through 01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:30.800 the line. All right. Okay. Three attacks. You 01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:34.619 heard that right. You heard that correctly. Oh 01:03:34.619 --> 01:03:37.019 boy. And this thing whips around and moves towards 01:03:37.019 --> 01:03:41.019 your sails across. Kind of standing upon it, 01:03:41.039 --> 01:03:46.900 this soggy look. She's looking all cocky. How 01:03:46.900 --> 01:03:52.460 brave of you. I am Spearmaster Malar, champion 01:03:52.460 --> 01:03:56.400 of the Maw of Garniacs. I must say I am impressed 01:03:56.400 --> 01:03:59.900 for you to deliver yourself so kindly to my god. 01:04:00.900 --> 01:04:05.340 Omni just smiles, leaps off of the shark. He's 01:04:05.340 --> 01:04:06.900 going to drop down right next to you in the water. 01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:08.619 He does not need that. You know what? He's going 01:04:08.619 --> 01:04:11.139 to jump. That should be easily within my range 01:04:11.139 --> 01:04:14.400 of jumping to get onto your manta ray. Right. 01:04:14.480 --> 01:04:18.039 Oh, fuck. Yeah, he just jumps off. You know what? 01:04:18.099 --> 01:04:19.900 I'll do a slippery manta ray. I'll do a quick 01:04:19.900 --> 01:04:22.579 athletics check. Your name won't soon matter, 01:04:22.659 --> 01:04:25.519 as it will soon be forgotten. Ooh, that was good. 01:04:26.119 --> 01:04:31.960 Thanks. That was good. David, button. What was 01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:35.599 my intention? I didn't hear what you said. I 01:04:35.599 --> 01:04:39.280 was. Trust me. That was pretty good. That was 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:41.420 pretty good. I'm not going to give you a button, 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:44.199 though. That's not your why. Because you have 01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:48.059 a different reward of sorts coming. You say this 01:04:48.059 --> 01:04:54.599 to him, and he just kind of frowns. He leaps 01:04:54.599 --> 01:04:58.579 over, lands upon your manta, spear slides out. 01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:03.619 The tail goes out with a natural one on his head. 01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:09.369 Oh, my God. He slips off the mantle. He splashes 01:05:09.369 --> 01:05:12.610 into the water. He's prone on the manta. He's 01:05:12.610 --> 01:05:16.510 prone on the manta. He falls on the manta. I 01:05:16.510 --> 01:05:18.489 wasn't hoping for it, but I'll take it. He just 01:05:18.489 --> 01:05:21.849 looks up at you. He's just like, oh, fuck. And 01:05:21.849 --> 01:05:22.650 we'll call it there.