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Hey Pants People, just wanted to take a brief

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moment before the episode to say thanks for listening

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and thanks for being our friends. Enjoy! like

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Brynhild Raeleth, a .k .a. Brynn the Lumberjill.

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Once a simple lumberjill from the Tigers of Moor,

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the wood elf Brynn has always wielded a fearsome

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strength, drawn from her role as a totem warrior

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of the polar bear. Notable for her platinum blonde

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hair, shaved to the sides and tied in a tight

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braid, she can also be recognized by her polar

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bear pelt cloak, the fur of a treasured companion

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from her youth. Brenna's known to wield a great

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axe called Stercona for cutting trees and enemies

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alike. And for those villains that tend to keep

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at range, Brenna's deadly accurate with her hand

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axes and javelins. Now, her origins are a thing

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of legend on more and on many other worlds as

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well. One day, while she was away on a timber

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harvest, outlaws struck her small village. The

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families were robbed clean of all valuables,

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and their homes and remaining resources burned

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to ash. Brynn's outrage upon returning home was

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terrifying to behold. Joined by the offspring

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of the very bear that she wears on her back,

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Brynn wasted no time in tracking these criminals

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and chopping them down. But what really fooled

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the legend was what happened after the bloodbath,

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when Brynn and her companion returned to her

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broken village and got to work single -handedly

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cutting down the lumber to rebuild. Weeks of

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working non -stop to save her people from the

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coming winter chill. Nowadays, despite her sudden

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fame and luminary status, Brynn tends to keep

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to the forests of Moroth, defending the defenseless,

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and training a new generation of warriors. So

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ne 'er -do -wells, best beware when they travel

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through the trees, as they may find themselves

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cut down faster than they can say, Timber. Shit.

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Oh boy. Thank you, Cassie! Oh, Cassie! Nice,

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that's awesome. Thank you, Cassie! Finally got

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a chance to get some luminary spotlights in here,

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and yeah, Cassie was the first... If you know

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Cassidy, if you go to Nerd on Nights, you certainly

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do know Cassidy. She's been to, I think, almost

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all of them, which is crazy. She's from the search

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and rescue world, which is amazing. Knows Stomp

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and the gang. But yeah, yeah, it's a great time.

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Great time. Damn, that's cool. Badass character.

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Come join Rime of the Frostmaiden. Join our Icewind

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Dale game. And meet Cassie. Meet Aspen Swiftpaw,

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the Haringan Ranger, actually. Ooh, that's a

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cool name. Yeah, it's very cool. That's a real

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cool name. It's very cool. Yeah, it's a good

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time. Last time I threw two grells and a hook

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holder at the level two party, and it got expectedly

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very spicy. People were a little surprised that

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I went there. But it was a good time. It was

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a good time. They lived. Trust your players.

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They lived. Trust your players. I'm going to

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trust you guys. I'm going to trust these players

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tonight. Anyway, I don't know about that. Oh,

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my gosh. Yeah, this is going to get gnarly. Where

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were we, gentlemen? We were drowning. I think

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only one of you was drowning. Akio the Akita

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was drowning. Drowning for basically the entire

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episode. I mean, this water weird. In the water

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where you find it, these things are... Brutal.

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Yeah. That invisibility makes it so hard to strike

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home and so hard to get away because I get advantage

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on all my attacks from in the water. It's honest

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bullshit. But I love it. You know what else I

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love though? This is something I loved. And I

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know there were mixed feelings on this afterwards

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from the Steven department here, but I think

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Steven. Had a pretty cool sort of arc last episode,

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right? Crispin Dubois, as we know, was chosen

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by Shirley because Crispin is very, what's the

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word here? Pragmatic, right? You are someone

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who looks for the greater good. And in that moment,

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I love that Crispin was dealing with this kind

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of crossroads. Do I let Akio die, focus on the

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larger prize at hand, keep myself vital? Because

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as you see, the main threats are here. Just got

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here. They just got here. And that moment of

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uncertainty, that's a character arc. Come into

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the choice to drop your bear form, sacrifice

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the HP shield that gave you, take on your giant

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octopus form, dive into the water, into the dangerous

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territory, and use your last wild shape. Yeah.

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Into a form that is really kind of suboptimal.

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That was cool. But that was a choice. That was

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Crispin deciding just this once. Maybe I won't

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do the pragmatic thing. Maybe I won't do the...

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what feels like the best end game. And I'll do

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something that feels good now. I want to give

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you a button for that. Ooh, baby. Oh, these moments,

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nice character choices. These like, like moral

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quandaries. These are the things that are going

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to make people love your characters. So they're

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more sad when you die in two episodes. Oh, so

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we got two episodes. Hey, you know what? Hey,

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okay. That's me trusting the players. I trust

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you might live for two episodes. I don't trust

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you more than that. Oh, man. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm

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really curious how we're going to pull this off.

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Well. I'm like, I think Akio is like potentially

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one round away from dying. It's interesting because

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really what it comes down to now is drowning

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mechanics. Yeah. Which I forgot to look up. Oh,

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cool. So he pulls up right now. Okay. That is,

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you know, I guess you would have expected this

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because it does make sense, right? Drowning,

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each round is six seconds. You don't drown in

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12 seconds, right? No, I wouldn't think so. The

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block for the water weird, and maybe this is

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why it's CR3, specifies that when it has somebody...

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The tower is drained, and the water weird tries

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to drown it. It says that. That's what it does.

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It grabs someone, and it tries to drown it. They

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wouldn't specify that if that wasn't the intended

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actual way the creature works. But drowning something

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takes minutes. I believe it's a minute for each

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con level, basically, that you have, or each

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con bonus you have. Whatever the case here, we're

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not going to hit that tonight. What I'm going

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to do instead is this. Here's my win condition.

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I'm dragging Akio away. I'm dragging him out

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to the ocean. If I leave the map and go out to

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the ocean, we'll see. Maybe we'll let Dyson know

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whether or not he drowns. One way or another,

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though, he's gone. He's leaving this field unless

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you can stop this from happening. And I'm already

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halfway there. So that is the way we're going

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to resolve drowning. Sound good? Cool. Cool,

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cool, cool. Yeah, I like it too. All right. And

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with that, let's get some fancy plus going. There

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she is. Oh. Let's reset the scene. Dresden Kellig.

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Crispin Dubois in the form of a giant octopus.

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You two are running, Dresden is on the rim of

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the sort of pool here, rushing across tile as

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Crispin splooshes through the water in this octopus

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form, charging towards Akio, who's about halfway

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through the pool, being pulled towards the channel

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that leads into the sort of tide pool there,

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into the sort of open sea just outside. The tendrils

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of his water wheel are dragging him, and he's

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sort of gripping, trying to do what he can to

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scrape against the floor, the tiled floor that

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has sunk ten feet below the surface. But nothing

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is working. He's being pulled and pulled. His

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only solace is that the echo just hovers in the

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water just beside the water weird, having just

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struck some mighty, mighty blows. This thing...

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It's weaker now. You can feel this current, this

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churning current that makes this thing's body

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has lessened. The current is less strong. It's

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smaller. That form is smaller. Less tendrils

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are reaching out, but it's still vital. It's

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still strong enough to pull this dog away. While

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this is all happening, we see dark clouds creeping

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across the sky. A surge of wind howls in from

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the cord of discipline. A bit of thunder booms.

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not from the Shrine of Storms now, not from the

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innermost sanctum, but from outside, coming from

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the direction of the conquered jewel of Kameno,

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the world you do not see. We see the gloominary

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pirate captains, Crimson and Azure, have stepped

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down and charged into the fray, but not towards

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you, not towards the water, rather towards the

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zappies that surround the apparatus of the crab

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that they... arrived here in you watch maybe

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like you vaguely see as you're moving them charging

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glaives come flying out moving so fast so terrifically

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powerful uh swinging through the first of these

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zappies two glaives x cut it and explode into

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a shower of sparks if you remember these things

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have death throats uh that were the reason they

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were so dangerous way back in the opening bit

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there um you hear the captain sort of grow growl

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as the creatures, sort of these death throes,

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rack their bodies, sparks, singeing them. The

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people inside the apparatus scream. But we're

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not focused on that now. No. Now we focus under

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the water. It's Akio's turn. Okay. Akio is, once

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again, going to try and escape. Okay. So here

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is Athletics. Oh, my God. It's a five. Okay.

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Fuck. I just, like... Okay. You rolled that gemstone

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dice again? No, I'm done with that gemstone die.

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I went through a little more than 1 ,500 rolls.

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You just said it so casually. It's not crazy

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to do that. Yeah, it took me days. It actually

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did. This is true shit. Yeah, I'll save you,

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like, all of the math, but... Basically, instead

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of a 5 % chance of rolling on each side, I came

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up with a 7 .1 % chance of rolling a 1 and just

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a 3 .8 % chance of rolling a 20. And there's

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a bunch of bullshit like that kind of throughout.

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So as much as I love my wife and the wonderful,

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magical gift that she gave me, I'm probably not

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going to use those die anymore. So what you're

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saying is... Rachel killed Zebulon. Oh, my God.

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That's a bold statement. Hey, you made it. Hey,

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I might tell her you made it. So Kyo does not.

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Does nothing. He doesn't he doesn't able to fight.

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Is there anything else he can do? Oh, well, that's

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his action, right? That would be his action.

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Yeah. So all he has is reactions. OK. All right.

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He just. struggling, trying so hard to reach

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in, unable to make a move. If only somebody built

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him with bonus actions. Have you used second

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wind with him yet? By the way? I don't think

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you've used that today yet. Okay, so we just

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took a look. There actually is a bonus action.

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I thought it was a little weird, so I had to

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stop real quick to check. For some reason, I

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have Akio pulled up as well in my combat tracker,

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and I did give Akio second wind. which might

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be useful here. It did not make it to your sheet.

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I don't know why the bonus action did not make

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it to your sheet, but there is that. You don't

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need to use it now. Obviously, you get one time

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that you can do it before a short rest. It's

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1d10 plus 6 HP back. I mean, now is the time,

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because this thing has done 9 hit points before,

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and Akio's at 10. That hit point is scary, yeah.

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Yeah, so, yeah, I'm definitely... Oh, but that's

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an action, though, right? Or no, you said it's

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a bonus hack. Yeah. Give me the sheet, damn it.

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D10 plus who? Plus six. Six plus six. Not bad.

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Yeah. I was like getting to the point where I

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was like, man, this guy might not last another

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round if it's a big hit. So the extra 12 makes

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a huge difference. That is. So Akio just under

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the water. I think there's this moment of like,

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Akio remembers lines. Thinking of that, the line

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before like, Master taught me to be patient or

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off. I must wait. And looking up, seeing the

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images of, maybe he sees like the giant octopus

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swimming his way. He sees like the sort of broken

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above the sea, you know, the water image of Dresden

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moving towards him. Sees the echo and decides

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this moment to trust. To wait. Stops fighting.

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Let's go. Takes a deep breath. And allows some

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sort of innate recovery to occur. So for future

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rounds, is that his only bonus action? That is

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the only bonus action. Okay, so I'm not going

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to worry about bonus actions anymore. Everything

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else looked accurate on your sheet. Okay. Okay.

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With that, it's the water weird. And all I'm

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going to do here is move. And this is where things

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get gnarly. Yeah. Because I get to go 30 feet.

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Take that dog with me. I get my opportunity,

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though. You do your opportunity. Yes, I do. This

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is bad, because if he moves again... I have to

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hit this. You've got to hit this. I have to hit

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this. You've got to hit this. He begins to leave

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your range, pulling Akio. Although, before this

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actually happens, real quick... What? Something

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we had discussed that wasn't... We brought up

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last time, and I actually just forgot about it

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until just now. You asked me if you'd done enough

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damage that I might consider going for you. What?

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Yes, because you did, like... A bubble of damage?

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Yeah, you said, like, you said, like, you know,

00:14:44.169 --> 00:14:45.889
you did enough damage that he might, like, look

00:14:45.889 --> 00:14:48.110
at me now or target me now. And I think that

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actually there is some... There is some merit

00:14:50.149 --> 00:14:52.419
to that, because as a creature that... It's supposed

00:14:52.419 --> 00:14:54.259
to drown whatever it grabs. It also wants to

00:14:54.259 --> 00:14:56.600
preserve itself. And you have shown yourself

00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:58.659
to be a far larger threat than this bumbling

00:14:58.659 --> 00:15:01.460
dog that can't do anything. That rolls fives

00:15:01.460 --> 00:15:03.559
all the time. So I will allow a dice roll here.

00:15:03.580 --> 00:15:05.039
I want a chance roll that we're going to do.

00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:11.679
D100. I'll give you a 30 % chance. 33%. One third

00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:14.820
chance. Don't do percentages anymore. Just say

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numbers. Let's be very deliberate. Yeah. 33 or

00:15:18.580 --> 00:15:23.679
lower. 33 or lower is a pass. 33 or lower is,

00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:27.259
yeah, good for us. That means it'll go after

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the Echo. You're right. We don't do that. We

00:15:29.500 --> 00:15:32.419
have the high number. 67 or higher. I think this

00:15:32.419 --> 00:15:36.519
is accurate. 67 or higher and to not have it

00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:38.799
go for the Echo? To have it go for the Echo,

00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:42.080
we say 67 or higher. If it's lower than 67, it's

00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.059
going to keep pulling it to you away. Yeah. Okay.

00:15:45.220 --> 00:15:50.080
I think that's reasonable. Okay. Before I know

00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:51.980
the results. Actually, never mind. Didn't make

00:15:51.980 --> 00:15:54.799
any sense. It's going to say, use a button on

00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:56.139
this. And I was like, no way. You know the results.

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Never mind. 53. Okay. So. So now you got to hit.

00:16:03.500 --> 00:16:08.740
Button. Oh. Save that button for this. That makes

00:16:08.740 --> 00:16:11.679
sense. You can stop this thing from moving. You

00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.419
can shut this down right now. Come on. Got a

00:16:14.419 --> 00:16:22.470
giant octopus coming right at it. Mm -hmm. 26,

00:16:22.710 --> 00:16:26.129
bitch. Oh, man. Yeah, nice. 19 on the die plus

00:16:26.129 --> 00:16:29.090
7. Disadvantage on a minus 2. You're still...

00:16:29.090 --> 00:16:31.809
No, no. It's disadvantage on a minus 2. You rolled

00:16:31.809 --> 00:16:34.690
twice off of that, didn't you? I did. Well, the

00:16:34.690 --> 00:16:36.169
first one was 19. All right, we'll go with that.

00:16:36.169 --> 00:16:38.009
Yeah, we're fine. First one was 19. Second roll

00:16:38.009 --> 00:16:39.649
was 10. We're good. It would have been a straight

00:16:39.649 --> 00:16:41.570
anyway since I gave you the button. Oh, okay.

00:16:41.690 --> 00:16:43.389
We'll go straight. It wouldn't have been... We

00:16:43.389 --> 00:16:46.210
got it. We saved the wedgie. Hell yeah. With

00:16:46.210 --> 00:16:50.409
that flat roll. Hell yeah. Okay. Okay. I'm really

00:16:50.409 --> 00:16:52.690
glad the dice were... Rolled that way, because

00:16:52.690 --> 00:16:56.950
the second roll was a fucking 10. Yeah, that

00:16:56.950 --> 00:17:01.549
is zesty. Yeah, that was close. You hit. Go ahead

00:17:01.549 --> 00:17:03.669
and give me that damage. You just see this thing

00:17:03.669 --> 00:17:07.190
move. The echo is not... After this barrage of

00:17:07.190 --> 00:17:10.130
strikes, this thing tries to sort of cower, move

00:17:10.130 --> 00:17:12.089
away from you. The echo is not fucking done yet.

00:17:12.430 --> 00:17:16.470
Slides in again. Damn. On a 1d8 plus 6, I rolled

00:17:16.470 --> 00:17:22.000
a 3. So does 9. Nine damage. And it's halted.

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And it's halted. That's the big one. Yeah. Strike

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out, and this thing just freezes. It tries to

00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:28.960
move, and it's almost like a water round. It's

00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:31.500
rigid. Cannot move. This thunderous sort of force

00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:36.180
surrounds it. Akio stops mercifully from being

00:17:36.180 --> 00:17:38.740
dragged. This thing is now lingering sort of

00:17:38.740 --> 00:17:40.680
on the edge of the pool, but it stopped just

00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:42.640
as it was about to leave your range, and it cannot

00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:47.460
move. Sweet. Oh, man. That was my movement, huh?

00:17:48.170 --> 00:17:52.069
I already got stopped. Honestly? I'm going to

00:17:52.069 --> 00:17:55.569
attack you now. Because I have my attack. It

00:17:55.569 --> 00:17:57.190
doesn't make sense not to. I could keep trying

00:17:57.190 --> 00:17:58.849
to drive this dog, but you just stopped me. I

00:17:58.849 --> 00:18:00.309
have to make a move here. I have to do something.

00:18:00.750 --> 00:18:02.430
I mean, it makes no sense for it to be like,

00:18:02.509 --> 00:18:04.170
I'll ignore the guy that literally just stopped

00:18:04.170 --> 00:18:06.289
me from moving away. I have to go for you. Before

00:18:06.289 --> 00:18:09.009
roll was to see if I could even get the AOL at

00:18:09.009 --> 00:18:11.930
all. You know, if I just go for you. You landed

00:18:11.930 --> 00:18:14.700
it. I think this is where it has to go. Akio

00:18:14.700 --> 00:18:18.200
feels the tendrils move away as they launch towards

00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:23.740
the Echo. 15 to hit? No. Oh, sorry. Advantage.

00:18:23.819 --> 00:18:30.079
Oh, fuck. Less than 15 to hit. No. Dude, the

00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:32.059
Echo was kicking my ass. It just moves around,

00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.480
darts in the water, just kind of Matrix -style,

00:18:35.579 --> 00:18:38.839
sort of swimming. These things go around, does

00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:42.440
not quite land. Dude, I love that. It's like...

00:18:42.840 --> 00:18:45.940
Two different translucent beings. Yes. Yeah,

00:18:45.940 --> 00:18:47.039
dude, seriously, yeah. That are tangling with

00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:48.839
each other. It's such a weird, big, magical,

00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:51.920
you know, face stuff. And to make it even weirder,

00:18:52.059 --> 00:18:54.839
here comes a giant octopus. Crispin Dubois, what

00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:59.140
are you doing? Yeah. Now that Akio is loose,

00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:02.220
like, the whole giant octopus thing is like,

00:19:02.339 --> 00:19:05.000
hey, you're still cool. Yes, it's still very

00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:06.200
cool. This thing's got to go down, because if

00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:09.240
it realized the echo is an echo, it might just

00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:11.690
go for Akio again. Yeah. And Akio, you know,

00:19:11.710 --> 00:19:14.690
I still get AOOs. Like, I can do nasty, nasty

00:19:14.690 --> 00:19:17.490
things. Yeah, that's a good point. Okay, so let's

00:19:17.490 --> 00:19:19.430
see if we can put this thing down. Giant octopus

00:19:19.430 --> 00:19:23.349
is going to use its tentacle attack. Slides up

00:19:23.349 --> 00:19:25.750
right next to it as it's trying to leave the

00:19:25.750 --> 00:19:28.069
pool, and tentacles wrap out. Tentacles versus

00:19:28.069 --> 00:19:31.529
tentacles. Watery ones versus fleshy, weird ones.

00:19:31.869 --> 00:19:35.180
Natural one. Oh, my God. Natural. Oh, my God.

00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:37.500
How many natural ones have been rolled in this

00:19:37.500 --> 00:19:39.539
fight alone? Natural one. You didn't roll disadvantage,

00:19:39.779 --> 00:19:48.880
did you? No. Okay. Okay. God. Oh, it hurts. I

00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.759
believe it was Andrew that brought the idea of

00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:56.930
horse hair kelp. Horse hair kelp? What? So there's

00:19:56.930 --> 00:19:59.410
like a little bit of horse hair kelp just kind

00:19:59.410 --> 00:20:02.589
of slides into the water. Weird. It just blurs

00:20:02.589 --> 00:20:05.230
right into your octopus mouth, your beak, and

00:20:05.230 --> 00:20:08.109
you're choking on it. Like a hairball. Oh, God,

00:20:08.230 --> 00:20:11.430
I can feel that. A horse hair ball. Oh, man.

00:20:11.450 --> 00:20:13.329
Horse hair kelp ball. Poor Crispin. I'm sorry,

00:20:13.490 --> 00:20:16.069
dude. Hey, you know, these things happen, I guess.

00:20:16.250 --> 00:20:18.809
I'm sorry, Crispin. Crispin, hey, the thing is

00:20:18.809 --> 00:20:20.109
you're still there now, which means you also

00:20:20.109 --> 00:20:22.029
get that AOL if I try to make a move again. Now

00:20:22.029 --> 00:20:24.490
there's multiple people, and you don't get this

00:20:24.490 --> 00:20:27.109
advantage because you have a swim speed. Yes,

00:20:27.109 --> 00:20:30.609
okay. Speaking of Andrew, real quick. Yes, that's

00:20:30.609 --> 00:20:33.170
right. Do you want me to do it? Yeah, you do

00:20:33.170 --> 00:20:34.630
it. I'm talking too much. Okay, that's fine.

00:20:34.930 --> 00:20:38.589
Yeah, so Andrew pointed out to us something that

00:20:38.589 --> 00:20:42.990
we overlooked, which is that when Crispin is

00:20:42.990 --> 00:20:46.180
wild -shaped, You know, he can't use spells or

00:20:46.180 --> 00:20:48.980
anything, but he does still get access to his

00:20:48.980 --> 00:20:53.099
class features, one of which is unarmored defense

00:20:53.099 --> 00:20:57.700
since he is a barbarian. So while not wearing

00:20:57.700 --> 00:21:01.480
armor, Crispin's AC equals 10 plus his dex modifier

00:21:01.480 --> 00:21:03.720
plus his con modifier plus any shield bonuses.

00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:08.440
So the way that we have not been doing it. or

00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:09.680
the way that we have been doing is we've just

00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:11.819
been taking the monster sheet and just saying,

00:21:11.859 --> 00:21:13.900
oh, okay, that's AC 11. Great, let's go with

00:21:13.900 --> 00:21:17.440
that. But in reality, I should be taking that

00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:22.759
AC and adding the dex modifier and con modifier.

00:21:22.900 --> 00:21:26.460
So now the giant octopus instead of 11 has a

00:21:26.460 --> 00:21:30.220
13 AC. Hell yeah. Might save your life. Yeah.

00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:35.119
Hell yeah. Octopus in the mix. And now Dresden

00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:37.660
Kellegg. The flesh and blood version. What are

00:21:37.660 --> 00:21:41.180
you up to? Fuck. He's going to move as close

00:21:41.180 --> 00:21:45.539
as he can to the fray in the water. He's not

00:21:45.539 --> 00:21:47.500
going to go in the water. His echo's still there.

00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:49.940
He doesn't need to. Hell yeah, you move up and

00:21:49.940 --> 00:21:51.619
you're basically right, stay on the pool right

00:21:51.619 --> 00:21:54.220
beside your echo. Yep. Kind of overlooking the

00:21:54.220 --> 00:21:55.799
entire thing, looking down into the, you just

00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:57.519
see like all this weirdness happening just below

00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:59.980
the surface. The water's sort of shaking and

00:21:59.980 --> 00:22:02.940
bubbling. Hell yeah. And then his echo's going

00:22:02.940 --> 00:22:05.720
to just do what he's doing. Hell yeah. He's going

00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:10.180
to keep trying to chip away at this thing. Disadvantage.

00:22:10.900 --> 00:22:13.299
That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And minus two.

00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:20.779
And minus two. Does a 15 hit? It does. Oh. It

00:22:20.779 --> 00:22:24.480
actually does. Oh, man. This echo. Hell yeah.

00:22:25.059 --> 00:22:27.839
What's Crispin even doing here? For real, four.

00:22:28.019 --> 00:22:31.599
He plays him with a second echo. Sorry. For an

00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:35.500
additional 12 damage. Dude. This thing is getting

00:22:35.500 --> 00:22:38.920
wrecked right now. You slide through and you

00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:41.759
feel like a massive current, like jet, just burst

00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:44.039
off of it. Slide out of the surface, bubbles

00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:47.640
blasting out that you can see on top, Dresden.

00:22:47.700 --> 00:22:49.960
This thing is looking very, very bad. All right,

00:22:49.980 --> 00:22:51.299
we're going to go for the second attack then.

00:22:51.460 --> 00:22:58.420
Oh my gosh, this is crazy. Another 15. No fucking

00:22:58.420 --> 00:23:03.359
way. Suck it. You're taking all of the mojo Steven

00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.599
lost. This has not been my combat. This has not

00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:12.160
been my combat. Holy shit. For an additional

00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:15.680
10 damage. Nice. Describe what it looks like.

00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:18.420
Oh, thank God. When you kill this water weird.

00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.220
Ooh. Okay, going back to two translucent beings,

00:23:22.460 --> 00:23:27.880
I think Dresden commands the echo into the water

00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:31.319
elemental. And just starts swirling it around.

00:23:31.940 --> 00:23:35.779
And then the water just dissipates. And the Echo

00:23:35.779 --> 00:23:38.000
is just left standing there. Hell yeah. Eknato.

00:23:38.180 --> 00:23:42.640
I love it. Eknato. Damn it, David. Just burst.

00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:45.759
This water just bursts apart. Ikio slightly sort

00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:47.579
of turning around towards it. Sword finally out.

00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:51.359
Realizes there's nothing to face. Sad Octopus.

00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:56.079
Sad Octopus. Poor Crispin. Hey, honestly though.

00:23:56.539 --> 00:23:58.400
Octopus is really cool. Octopus is super cool.

00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:00.859
It's so cool. I kind of can't get out of the

00:24:00.859 --> 00:24:04.519
water, though. Damn it. Hey, at least it's here.

00:24:05.500 --> 00:24:06.880
I was going to say, we should get out of the

00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:13.680
water soon. Getting all pruney. Shit. With that,

00:24:13.819 --> 00:24:19.039
Akio kicks from the ground, blasts into the surface.

00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:26.230
I sort of pan over to you, Dresden. Thank you.

00:24:26.990 --> 00:24:32.650
I do not care for baths. Swims over to the edge

00:24:32.650 --> 00:24:35.069
and tries to sort of climb up. Can Dresden just

00:24:35.069 --> 00:24:38.150
give him a hand out? Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You

00:24:38.150 --> 00:24:39.710
just like reach down or you grab like, you know,

00:24:39.710 --> 00:24:41.190
probably like a collar on his arm or help him.

00:24:41.529 --> 00:24:46.710
Start shaking off. You're soaked. Wet dog smell.

00:24:46.950 --> 00:24:49.690
I would say you smell like wet dog. I am wet

00:24:49.690 --> 00:24:55.759
dog. Probably see a burbling sort of. of water

00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:58.279
as the octopus sort of breaks the surface a little

00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:00.720
bit. Uh, or do you just stay in, do you just

00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:04.500
wallow in shame and the deaths? No, Crispin is

00:25:04.500 --> 00:25:08.500
staying below the surface. Okay. Hell yeah. Uh,

00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:11.660
Crispin below the surface, you see like a, you

00:25:11.660 --> 00:25:13.700
know, almost like a, uh, on the other side, like

00:25:13.700 --> 00:25:16.400
a fireworks display kind of going off and you

00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:19.990
guys watch as. the two pirate captains just swiftly

00:25:19.990 --> 00:25:21.910
move over and they're just carving. I'm going

00:25:21.910 --> 00:25:23.670
to say because of your strategy of sort of pulling

00:25:23.670 --> 00:25:27.529
back and this put Akio in serious danger, but

00:25:27.529 --> 00:25:29.710
it was still a very clever plan. And because

00:25:29.710 --> 00:25:33.029
of that, I'm going to have these forces resolve

00:25:33.029 --> 00:25:35.069
their dispute because there's no reason why they

00:25:35.069 --> 00:25:37.640
wouldn't. I've already calculated the damage.

00:25:37.740 --> 00:25:42.180
You just see the glaives carving through these

00:25:42.180 --> 00:25:45.539
electric creatures, explosions of sparks, more

00:25:45.539 --> 00:25:48.440
groans of pain. You see seared flesh on these

00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:51.579
pirates. You see the... Actually, as they're

00:25:51.579 --> 00:25:54.960
fighting, you can see as their brown cloaks billow,

00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.500
there's already shallow cuts, maybe already somewhat

00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:59.720
healed and regenerated, but there are cuts all

00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:01.799
over them that look somewhat fresh, probably

00:26:01.799 --> 00:26:03.700
from the blades of the guard they had dealt with

00:26:03.700 --> 00:26:06.359
before this. You even see that the upper ass

00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:09.539
itself looks to be in pretty bad shape. And this

00:26:09.539 --> 00:26:12.480
is just added to by these death throes and the

00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:15.359
attacks of these zappies as they carve through

00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:18.940
them. Can you remind us, or from this distance,

00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:22.279
how big are the death throes? The death throes

00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:26.960
are... Like, there's an AoE, right? Yes, there

00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:29.400
is an AoE effect. AoE effect, I believe it's

00:26:29.400 --> 00:26:34.509
five feet. Okay. Crispin's going to... stealth

00:26:34.509 --> 00:26:39.049
up to this area. Oh, shit. And hide. Before he

00:26:39.049 --> 00:26:42.490
does, he'll stick a little tentacle out of the

00:26:42.490 --> 00:26:44.950
water when Dresden has his attention. He just,

00:26:44.970 --> 00:26:47.269
he wags his tentacle back and forth like a no,

00:26:47.329 --> 00:26:50.609
no, no sort of kind of just indicating like,

00:26:50.730 --> 00:26:54.329
wait. Yeah. And we'll find our time. Oh, yeah.

00:26:54.670 --> 00:26:58.130
Dresden sees it. Hell yeah. Give me a stealth

00:26:58.130 --> 00:26:59.549
check, actually. I do need a stealth check from

00:26:59.549 --> 00:27:01.549
you. Yeah, that's cool. I've got advantage on

00:27:01.549 --> 00:27:05.829
stealth checks while I'm an octopus. Dex. So

00:27:05.829 --> 00:27:10.130
not fantastic, but... Oh, you have a plus five

00:27:10.130 --> 00:27:13.569
just to out this as under skills. Oh, yes, there

00:27:13.569 --> 00:27:19.210
it is. Okay. Then 19. Okay. That will beat my

00:27:19.210 --> 00:27:22.970
passive. So he's just... You said the pool is,

00:27:22.990 --> 00:27:25.670
what, like 10 feet deep? Yes, yeah. So you're

00:27:25.670 --> 00:27:27.950
like, what, sliding up against the wall, basically?

00:27:27.950 --> 00:27:30.029
No, he's not against the wall. He's 20 feet from

00:27:30.029 --> 00:27:32.420
the edge. Do you like shift color? To like the

00:27:32.420 --> 00:27:33.759
same color as the tiles. Totally, yeah, exactly.

00:27:33.859 --> 00:27:38.299
It's so cool. It's so cool. I can't even. As

00:27:38.299 --> 00:27:41.960
you go in this stealth mode, squish down, you

00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:43.740
can hear like, I think like with your octopus

00:27:43.740 --> 00:27:45.400
senses, maybe you can hear a little better the

00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:46.819
voice that travels through the water. So maybe

00:27:46.819 --> 00:27:48.700
you can hear what's happening on the surface

00:27:48.700 --> 00:27:52.019
as you're listening in because that's cooler

00:27:52.019 --> 00:27:54.099
for me. Yeah, well, and also, yeah, I would imagine

00:27:54.099 --> 00:27:58.140
that whatever senses he has, he would just kind

00:27:58.140 --> 00:28:00.099
of be able to realize what's going on up there.

00:28:00.500 --> 00:28:04.160
Hell yeah. Having this moment of pause, too,

00:28:04.259 --> 00:28:06.940
I think as they sort of fight, as light sort

00:28:06.940 --> 00:28:09.619
of lighting up the area where these flashes of

00:28:09.619 --> 00:28:10.940
sparks are looking there where the guards are.

00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:15.920
Dresden, what's your passive perception? Only

00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:19.660
an 11. 11. Yeah. I think that's enough to at

00:28:19.660 --> 00:28:22.920
least know... You still don't know if the guards

00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:25.819
are dead or alive, but you do notice, I think

00:28:25.819 --> 00:28:28.559
even from afar, you can see some of the cloth

00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:31.119
parts of their armor has been scorched. burned

00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:33.720
away but also it looks like they're covered with

00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:36.380
a sort of thin layer of like frost like patches

00:28:36.380 --> 00:28:39.299
of frost uh i don't like that yeah that's fucked

00:28:39.299 --> 00:28:41.740
up i won't tell you whether they're dead or not

00:28:41.740 --> 00:28:45.579
so this this this crab tank thing yeah i guess

00:28:45.579 --> 00:28:48.500
is capable of fire and ice or something jesus

00:28:48.500 --> 00:28:52.920
christ uh touch if i believe oh no it's the it's

00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.349
the captains One captain has, yeah, because their

00:28:56.349 --> 00:28:59.450
names are red and blue. I also believe Hitokori,

00:28:59.589 --> 00:29:01.450
the ship, means something like frost and burn

00:29:01.450 --> 00:29:05.150
or fire and ice. Okay, sure. Oh, my God. Speaking

00:29:05.150 --> 00:29:08.089
of the captains, as, like, this sort of blast,

00:29:08.210 --> 00:29:09.990
the zappies goes out, they don't immediately

00:29:09.990 --> 00:29:13.369
look to you. You just see, like, one of them

00:29:13.369 --> 00:29:17.180
stops, kind of. Hooded face looks up towards

00:29:17.180 --> 00:29:20.480
the sky, eyes sort of narrow. See, like, with,

00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:24.259
like, tan skin, long, sort of dark hair. Aye,

00:29:24.380 --> 00:29:28.720
there's a storm coming fast. A bad one. Is this

00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:31.660
the work of the Shrine, perhaps? Turns to the

00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:35.039
other. Brother, we best be brief here. And you

00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:37.039
see, like, the other one moves over and just,

00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:39.140
like, sort of kicks out at the mechanical, like,

00:29:39.140 --> 00:29:41.099
like, like, a couple of fierce, like, ping, ping,

00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:44.359
ping, kicks towards the, the apparatus. Just,

00:29:44.420 --> 00:29:46.859
like, just says, Where's this treasure your contact

00:29:46.859 --> 00:29:49.339
told us about, huh? I don't see anything of worth

00:29:49.339 --> 00:29:51.960
here at all. I think your contact lied to us,

00:29:52.019 --> 00:29:54.460
I think. And if your contact is a liar, we don't

00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:56.079
need to hold back from killing anymore, now do

00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:58.779
we? Let's take them out, brother, turns. Let's

00:29:58.779 --> 00:30:02.720
take them all out. All of them. No, the first

00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:05.079
one says, kind of raising a hand or a finger.

00:30:06.099 --> 00:30:11.519
No, no, let's, let's not. Do not be hasty, brother.

00:30:12.539 --> 00:30:15.619
Then eyes turn across the pool towards you. Dresden,

00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:19.400
you see one of the Zoni kind of steps up towards

00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:21.859
the edge of the pool, looking to address you.

00:30:23.220 --> 00:30:26.900
I'm Captain Arger, and this is my brother, Captain

00:30:26.900 --> 00:30:32.500
Crimson. You are a Luminary, aren't you? Yes.

00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:36.920
You are new to the network, relatively unknown

00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:39.579
in the role, but you are a Luminary, and you

00:30:39.579 --> 00:30:41.920
just so happen to appear here mere minutes after

00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:44.400
our rather pointless assault on this shrine.

00:30:45.049 --> 00:30:47.049
An interesting coincidence, don't you think?

00:30:48.109 --> 00:30:52.089
Brother, what are you getting at? Parley is what

00:30:52.089 --> 00:30:55.289
I'm getting at. I'd like to call for a parley.

00:30:55.849 --> 00:30:59.970
Will you speak with us, luminary, rather than

00:30:59.970 --> 00:31:03.130
immediately drawing blade? And he even, like,

00:31:03.150 --> 00:31:05.390
he, like, pulls up on the part of his, like,

00:31:05.390 --> 00:31:07.710
cloak, and you see those same sort of scars and

00:31:07.710 --> 00:31:10.920
wounds. You see, we've come through a difficult

00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:13.140
battle with the Shrine Guard, as well as with

00:31:13.140 --> 00:31:16.880
these strange elementals here. Surely, you're

00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:20.920
also worse for where I can see it. So why bother

00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:25.119
fighting at all? We can be accommodating. Wouldn't

00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:28.859
you rather leave things bloodlessly? Dresden

00:31:28.859 --> 00:31:33.799
doesn't say a word. He slowly raises his right

00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:41.809
arm and gives him the finger. I think, honestly,

00:31:42.049 --> 00:31:49.509
you just kind of... Well, I like the enthusiasm.

00:31:49.650 --> 00:31:51.990
It's not a no, at least. We're fighting these

00:31:51.990 --> 00:31:54.609
guys. Sholay asked us to kill them, didn't she?

00:31:55.150 --> 00:31:59.170
Exactly. And I know Dresden's capable of that.

00:31:59.809 --> 00:32:01.690
Right? I'm not mistaken, right? Sholay asked

00:32:01.690 --> 00:32:03.710
us to kill them? She specifically said they have

00:32:03.710 --> 00:32:06.660
to die, which in itself is kind of weird. The

00:32:06.660 --> 00:32:08.539
question is, do you want to, like, engage in

00:32:08.539 --> 00:32:10.880
a combat immediately or bide your time, maybe

00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:12.759
learn information? Like, you also are here to

00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:14.940
learn information. She only wanted you to investigate.

00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:18.079
And we also remember hearing the voice of Sho,

00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:22.220
like, coming from the crab. Yes. I think, actually,

00:32:22.299 --> 00:32:24.259
on that note, I will say, like, I think he doesn't,

00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:27.500
he's almost, like, taking you as, like, you didn't

00:32:27.500 --> 00:32:29.799
attack, so that means probably it's okay. Right.

00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:32.779
I thought it was funny. Like, he likes the defiant

00:32:32.779 --> 00:32:36.140
attitude. Okay. So he just turns and says, Singer,

00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:38.619
where did you come out from that thing? Points

00:32:38.619 --> 00:32:41.539
to the apparatus. When parley is called, all

00:32:41.539 --> 00:32:44.339
weapons should be stowed, and that thing is a

00:32:44.339 --> 00:32:47.680
weapon. Fuck. And you see like a, like a, like

00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:52.900
a, like a, like a, what? What are you talking

00:32:52.900 --> 00:32:58.220
about? You, you can't possibly mean to. I'm not.

00:32:58.700 --> 00:33:01.359
asking singer the other one moves up to it again

00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:04.400
just out and rips open this hatch from the back

00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:06.859
of it and just like yanks something out and you

00:33:06.859 --> 00:33:09.779
see what looks to be a single being a single

00:33:09.779 --> 00:33:14.619
person uh a person that looks like a sort of

00:33:14.619 --> 00:33:19.339
black feathered humanoid bird uh you can roll

00:33:19.339 --> 00:33:21.559
you can't see anything yet so you wouldn't be

00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:24.309
able to roll it i think you could sing He said

00:33:24.309 --> 00:33:26.069
he's 20 feet away in the water. Yeah, they're

00:33:26.069 --> 00:33:29.269
at the base of a pool. It's an octopus. You don't

00:33:29.269 --> 00:33:31.589
think octopus can see 20 feet? You failed your

00:33:31.589 --> 00:33:33.549
history checks before on the voice. You can roll

00:33:33.549 --> 00:33:35.369
a history check, but also like Crispin. He's

00:33:35.369 --> 00:33:37.430
got new information. Crispin in particular can

00:33:37.430 --> 00:33:43.690
also roll a nature check if you want. It's only

00:33:43.690 --> 00:33:49.130
an 11 for Dresden. 14. With an 11, all you know

00:33:49.130 --> 00:33:51.289
is you're like, ah, I've heard of these before.

00:33:51.369 --> 00:33:54.539
This is a Kenku. And it did mention that there

00:33:54.539 --> 00:33:58.059
was a crew of Kenku that was the sort of crew

00:33:58.059 --> 00:34:04.059
of the Hitokori. Nature 14. You probably don't

00:34:04.059 --> 00:34:07.279
immediately attribute this as a known sort of

00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:11.920
attribute of Kenku's. But as you see like the

00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:14.539
hazy sort of waterlogged, you know, sort of image

00:34:14.539 --> 00:34:17.699
of this black bird thing, you think about the

00:34:17.699 --> 00:34:21.039
voices you heard. And the penchant for many sort

00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:23.119
of natural birds to be able to use voice mockery.

00:34:23.300 --> 00:34:25.559
And you realize it's only ever been one creature.

00:34:25.860 --> 00:34:28.340
It's mimicking voices it's heard, and that's

00:34:28.340 --> 00:34:31.360
the way it speaks. And then it hits you. That

00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:35.800
means this thing heard Sholay's voice. You remember

00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:38.039
it sounded like sort of distorted in some weird

00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:42.840
way. And I think in this moment, it strikes you

00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:44.360
that distortion's like you've heard before as

00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:46.800
well. Oh, on the stones? It's the distortion

00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:49.409
you hear over ascending stone. Interesting. Yes.

00:34:49.670 --> 00:34:51.929
So is Sholay trying to cover something up? Or,

00:34:51.929 --> 00:34:56.469
like, yeah, did she send them here? I think you

00:34:56.469 --> 00:35:00.329
see, unless you stop them, Azure will continue.

00:35:00.849 --> 00:35:04.489
Yeah. I think sort of gestures sort of widely

00:35:04.489 --> 00:35:07.269
around you, big sort of grand arms in the air.

00:35:07.750 --> 00:35:12.389
You see, Luminary, I have information you might

00:35:12.389 --> 00:35:15.670
want to hear. As a Luminary, I imagine you hold

00:35:15.670 --> 00:35:18.469
a vested interest in catching criminals, yes?

00:35:19.130 --> 00:35:22.429
Despite our status here on Omizu, we're just

00:35:22.429 --> 00:35:27.030
minnows in these waters. And we can offer you

00:35:27.030 --> 00:35:31.889
a shark, one that swims in your own waters. I'm

00:35:31.889 --> 00:35:34.650
sure Mr. Atash will be quite pleased with the

00:35:34.650 --> 00:35:37.949
evidence that we're going to bring forward. Might

00:35:37.949 --> 00:35:42.130
even pay or pardon us. You see, we're only as

00:35:42.130 --> 00:35:44.789
notorious as we are due to the information we've

00:35:44.789 --> 00:35:48.130
been fed. A mysterious contact that speaks only

00:35:48.130 --> 00:35:51.909
through our Kenku friend here. You see the other

00:35:51.909 --> 00:35:54.389
one, Crimson's hand sort of rests dangerously

00:35:54.389 --> 00:35:56.449
sort of on the Kenku's neck. It's almost kind

00:35:56.449 --> 00:36:01.150
of like shudders at this very firm grip. Unfortunately

00:36:01.150 --> 00:36:04.409
for this contact, we have been sorely underestimated.

00:36:04.829 --> 00:36:07.949
I have been keeping a keen eye on these transmissions

00:36:07.949 --> 00:36:10.110
and on the trails of information that have been

00:36:10.110 --> 00:36:13.429
leaked to us. And I believe I know exactly who

00:36:13.429 --> 00:36:17.849
this contact is. Quick point of order. Yeah.

00:36:18.329 --> 00:36:22.349
Is the Kenku on the map here? Oh, not yet. And

00:36:22.349 --> 00:36:27.670
I also want to clarify, when I measured the 20

00:36:27.670 --> 00:36:30.949
feet, I measured it from the corner of the square

00:36:30.949 --> 00:36:38.309
pool. So where Crispin sits, he's 15 feet. There's

00:36:38.309 --> 00:36:43.460
two squares between him. And that fellow right

00:36:43.460 --> 00:36:46.500
there. Okay, we'll say that. This one's actually

00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:48.679
going to be like a little bit. Of course he is.

00:36:48.980 --> 00:36:50.989
No, I'm just kidding. Well, I have a different

00:36:50.989 --> 00:36:52.769
reason why I'm doing that. You'll understand

00:36:52.769 --> 00:36:55.489
eventually. It's not something to do with the

00:36:55.489 --> 00:36:57.269
one around you. But there's a hand on the Kenku

00:36:57.269 --> 00:36:59.929
who's like sort of the one named Crimson is sort

00:36:59.929 --> 00:37:01.510
of staying behind. You see this one just kind

00:37:01.510 --> 00:37:03.590
of like looks like it's almost shaking. Eyes

00:37:03.590 --> 00:37:05.550
kind of like a little bulgy, a little twitchy,

00:37:05.550 --> 00:37:07.289
almost like they're twins, but they couldn't

00:37:07.289 --> 00:37:09.409
be more opposite. One looks to be, again, like

00:37:09.409 --> 00:37:11.210
Crispin, very pragmatic, wants to just talk,

00:37:11.309 --> 00:37:14.710
wants to take things in a slower, more methodical

00:37:14.710 --> 00:37:17.000
direction. The other one... Just wants to leap

00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:18.679
in and do violence. And this is the one that's

00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:23.260
holding the Kenku as his brother speaks. Yes,

00:37:23.260 --> 00:37:26.980
it may sound crazy, but I am quite sure in my

00:37:26.980 --> 00:37:30.820
suspicion. Looks to you. Looks deep into your

00:37:30.820 --> 00:37:35.440
eye. Speaker, surely brass of Anchor and Sengar.

00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:39.800
That's the puppeteer that pulls our strings.

00:37:40.420 --> 00:37:46.670
The Kenku. What? It can't be! Silence! kind of

00:37:46.670 --> 00:37:51.949
firms the grip on him. I suspect, perhaps, this

00:37:51.949 --> 00:37:55.389
is the same for you as well, Luminary. You do

00:37:55.389 --> 00:37:58.550
take on missions for the Speakers, right? And

00:37:58.550 --> 00:38:02.210
your timeliness here is quite suspect. Speaker

00:38:02.210 --> 00:38:04.590
Shourei must have decided to cut our strings.

00:38:05.230 --> 00:38:07.369
Whatever she wanted from us, we must have given

00:38:07.369 --> 00:38:10.289
her. I'm sure she thought the Shrine Guard would

00:38:10.289 --> 00:38:12.170
weaken us enough to give you an easy capture,

00:38:12.329 --> 00:38:16.340
Luminary. Or would she prefer... Us to be killed.

00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:20.400
Either way, she was wrong. We're warred from

00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:23.039
our battles, and the magic here seems to be interfering

00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:27.179
with our natural regeneration. But still, we're

00:38:27.179 --> 00:38:30.679
not so weak as we could be. Were we actually

00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:37.739
human? Shit. Hold on. Are they rolling bluff

00:38:37.739 --> 00:38:40.940
checks right now, or deception? They want to

00:38:40.940 --> 00:38:43.059
intimidate you out of a combat. It's kind of

00:38:43.059 --> 00:38:44.599
like, if you were passive insight, honestly,

00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:46.920
just give that up. They're basically like, we

00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:48.679
don't want the trouble. We're just done. And

00:38:48.679 --> 00:38:50.980
I think actually as a part of that, the Kenku

00:38:50.980 --> 00:38:54.219
whips around looking surprised that revelation.

00:38:54.699 --> 00:38:56.760
Even the Kenku didn't know this. And the other

00:38:56.760 --> 00:39:00.559
one just kind of, brother, are we going to? That's

00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:03.820
right. There is something our contact does not

00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:07.219
know. A secret we've been keeping from everyone.

00:39:08.219 --> 00:39:11.570
Likely the reason she underestimated us. But

00:39:11.570 --> 00:39:15.829
I grow weary of tricks. Brother, let's reveal

00:39:15.829 --> 00:39:22.489
ourselves at last. Really? Yes, finally. Yes,

00:39:22.489 --> 00:39:26.969
brother. And you hear just like a, mixed with

00:39:26.969 --> 00:39:30.809
a, as beneath their cloaks, these two bodies.

00:39:31.460 --> 00:39:35.000
Expand, growing, growing to near 12 feet in height

00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:38.079
and getting way to thick layers of muscle. Crimson's

00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:41.920
tan skin shifts to a hue of deep red while Ajur's

00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:45.239
becomes a light blue. Teeth snap into jagged

00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:47.300
points. Eyes blinking into a dangerous yellow

00:39:47.300 --> 00:39:50.239
light. Hands become claws that reach around to

00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:54.000
the shafts of their now massive glaives. The

00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:58.360
Kenku singer screams, No, it can't be. You're

00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:06.170
Oni. Oh no. Oh no. Transparency is finished with.

00:40:06.550 --> 00:40:10.849
Let us be plain and blunt. The three of us are

00:40:10.849 --> 00:40:14.230
going to climb back into our apparatus and make

00:40:14.230 --> 00:40:18.449
our way back to our ship out in the bay. You

00:40:18.449 --> 00:40:21.630
can do whatever the hell you like here so long

00:40:21.630 --> 00:40:24.389
as it does not involve following us or getting

00:40:24.389 --> 00:40:29.630
in our way. Either this Or we kill you. Yes,

00:40:29.690 --> 00:40:33.570
kill you. Our no -kill agreement with our contact

00:40:33.570 --> 00:40:40.289
seems to be at its end now. The choice is yours.

00:40:41.710 --> 00:40:43.550
Oh, actually, real quick, before you make a decision,

00:40:43.630 --> 00:40:45.130
let me just, to make this as scary as possible,

00:40:45.190 --> 00:40:48.010
let me change the tokens in the map. That's why

00:40:48.010 --> 00:40:51.650
I moved those guys right in. Token layer, look

00:40:51.650 --> 00:40:54.090
at these fucking awesome things. Steven, I know

00:40:54.090 --> 00:40:56.110
what you're doing. Yeah, you realize this is

00:40:56.110 --> 00:41:00.369
a hard, like, I mean, let me ask you guys now.

00:41:01.030 --> 00:41:03.230
What puzzle pieces have come together? Do you

00:41:03.230 --> 00:41:07.409
understand why you're here now? Well, I mean,

00:41:07.449 --> 00:41:11.150
we don't know how long Sholay has been feeding

00:41:11.150 --> 00:41:13.449
them information or if this was a one -time thing.

00:41:13.750 --> 00:41:16.150
Like if Sholay just got in touch with these guys

00:41:16.150 --> 00:41:20.010
and said, yeah, go here and steal this. I don't

00:41:20.010 --> 00:41:23.269
know why Sholay would want these guys dead. Give

00:41:23.269 --> 00:41:28.690
me a... I think... He said it, though. Like,

00:41:28.690 --> 00:41:31.309
she used them for something, and now she no longer

00:41:31.309 --> 00:41:37.570
needs them. And they know enough. They were brought

00:41:37.570 --> 00:41:40.030
here, specifically. Oh, maybe just because they

00:41:40.030 --> 00:41:42.170
figured out it was Sholay. But why were they

00:41:42.170 --> 00:41:44.550
brought here, is the question. If Sholay wanted

00:41:44.550 --> 00:41:47.289
them terminated, why here? You're thinking about

00:41:47.289 --> 00:41:49.590
this. Oh, sure, yeah. Does Sholay know that this

00:41:49.590 --> 00:41:53.389
world is going down? I think you... have a pretty

00:41:53.389 --> 00:41:55.230
high insight, and you know a lot about Sholi

00:41:55.230 --> 00:41:56.650
at this point. You've worked with her a fair

00:41:56.650 --> 00:41:59.630
bit. You share a mentality with her. And it kind

00:41:59.630 --> 00:42:02.090
of starts to lock into place. Sholi was very

00:42:02.090 --> 00:42:04.090
clear about wanting you to investigate the Shrine

00:42:04.090 --> 00:42:05.750
of Storms. She wanted to know as much as she

00:42:05.750 --> 00:42:07.989
could, but the Shrine of Storms is sacred ground,

00:42:08.190 --> 00:42:10.269
wholly off -limits to anyone that's not, like,

00:42:10.269 --> 00:42:13.030
fully allowed to be here. How do you look into

00:42:13.030 --> 00:42:15.030
a place like this, when you're someone as important

00:42:15.030 --> 00:42:18.329
as Sholi, without drawing suspicion? You stage.

00:42:18.590 --> 00:42:21.019
Oh, okay. It was just a way in. That requires

00:42:21.019 --> 00:42:23.320
luminaries to come in. Yeah, so if we just happen

00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:26.059
to be there and there's a robbery going on, it's

00:42:26.059 --> 00:42:27.780
like, okay, now we have like, quote unquote,

00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.840
probable cause or whatever to go in. This whole

00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:32.900
thing, you realize she has been feeding them

00:42:32.900 --> 00:42:35.119
information in order to give them the ability,

00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:39.159
the notoriety and the strength to come in here.

00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:41.679
Sure. But she didn't realize that they were much

00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:43.940
stronger than they seemed. So to collect information,

00:42:44.300 --> 00:42:46.789
we don't need to kill them. But if we don't kill

00:42:46.789 --> 00:42:49.070
them, then they will escape knowing or at least

00:42:49.070 --> 00:42:51.349
thinking that Sholay was behind it. She very

00:42:51.349 --> 00:42:53.809
much wanted them dead because she was worried

00:42:53.809 --> 00:42:58.250
about that. Yeah, we can't not kill them. And

00:42:58.250 --> 00:42:59.650
this is a hard thing. They haven't killed anybody.

00:42:59.789 --> 00:43:03.210
Holy shit. But they know too much. And they might

00:43:03.210 --> 00:43:06.170
kill you. So this is where we already had that

00:43:06.170 --> 00:43:10.139
last choice. That moral quandary for you, Crispin,

00:43:10.139 --> 00:43:12.739
and for you. I'm glad this one's yours because

00:43:12.739 --> 00:43:16.860
Crispin's underwater as an octopus. You can let

00:43:16.860 --> 00:43:19.320
them go. And then you see more success here.

00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:23.500
But what consequences? That being said, all that

00:43:23.500 --> 00:43:26.900
being said, Stephen, I think I know what you're

00:43:26.900 --> 00:43:29.360
thinking. I'm just in a good position. I know.

00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:32.320
In case shit goes down. I know. So Dresden will

00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:36.440
look over the water. The gaze, the camera zooms

00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:39.820
from one side of the pool over the octopus to

00:43:39.820 --> 00:43:45.179
Azure, the blue Oni. Steven, you ready? Oh, fuck.

00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.300
Oh, my God. No, I'm just, we just got to get

00:43:49.300 --> 00:43:51.599
it started. Hey, let's fucking fight. And Dresden

00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:56.500
puts up both hands and gives two fingers. One

00:43:56.500 --> 00:43:58.619
to each of them. One to each of them. Oh, shit.

00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:02.659
The last one alone in the back. Screeches out.

00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:05.739
We roll on for initiative? Is that what it is?

00:44:05.780 --> 00:44:08.159
Roll for initiative? Yeah. Quick draw? I think

00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:14.679
so. Fucking roll for initiative! Ooh, baby. Dresden

00:44:14.679 --> 00:44:22.599
is a 20. 16 for Accio. Oh my god. What? 7 for

00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:27.880
Crispin. Man, I really didn't want that. I had

00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:31.039
the first combat open still. I wanted higher.

00:44:31.639 --> 00:44:35.099
Keep in mind, so it's 20 and 7, you said? Uh,

00:44:35.179 --> 00:44:38.980
7. Yeah, what did I say first for Akio? 16? I

00:44:38.980 --> 00:44:43.199
think so? Sorry, I had to open the other combat.

00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:44.639
I was like, oh wait, I'm still on the first combat.

00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:47.079
I'll roll them separately here, because there's

00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:51.480
only two enemies. Okay, so we know that this

00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:56.099
Kenku isn't gonna join the fray? Oh right, actually,

00:44:56.119 --> 00:44:59.440
I forgot that Kenku can do the cool thing. What's

00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:02.420
the cool thing, David? I mean, I'm guessing get

00:45:02.420 --> 00:45:03.579
back in there. What's the cool thing? That's

00:45:03.579 --> 00:45:05.360
what I wanted to keep him from doing. That'd

00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:08.639
be a pretty bad thing if that happened. And I

00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:10.300
had even thought about saying, like, I wanted

00:45:10.300 --> 00:45:15.179
to, like, ready, which I know isn't a thing in

00:45:15.179 --> 00:45:18.300
5e, but if the Kenku, like, started to move towards

00:45:18.300 --> 00:45:20.880
the apparatus, I wanted to try to attack him.

00:45:21.420 --> 00:45:26.099
Too late now. A quick draw. That moment, that

00:45:26.099 --> 00:45:29.340
flash, two middle fingers, a roar from the other

00:45:29.340 --> 00:45:32.309
side, a scream. Everyone goes for their weapons.

00:45:34.030 --> 00:45:38.030
The first to draw is Dresden Kellig. Ooh, boom.

00:45:38.710 --> 00:45:41.610
We're really far away. Yeah, you're on the other

00:45:41.610 --> 00:45:42.969
side of this pool. All that I'm going to be able

00:45:42.969 --> 00:45:45.929
to do is really move. Yeah, but I mean, like,

00:45:45.989 --> 00:45:48.550
we have a choke point. Yes, well, here's what

00:45:48.550 --> 00:45:52.409
I'm thinking. I'm going to command my echo. I

00:45:52.409 --> 00:45:55.289
can't move my echo. Oh, I'm going to be controlling

00:45:55.289 --> 00:45:58.360
him. Give us control, David. Give us control.

00:45:58.619 --> 00:46:02.619
My character. It's all yours. I'm assuming that's

00:46:02.619 --> 00:46:06.099
all within range. I need control of... You can

00:46:06.099 --> 00:46:08.619
go even further. I need control of Dresden. What?

00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:12.400
How's that possible? How's that possible? Oh

00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:15.199
my gosh, you don't. Hey, God. It's my character

00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:18.099
now. So actually, what's going to happen is I

00:46:18.099 --> 00:46:20.579
guess I don't need to move. Okay, I'm going to

00:46:20.579 --> 00:46:23.980
move my Echo kind of as far as he can go, which

00:46:23.980 --> 00:46:26.679
is right there. Oh, yes. Yeah, it's far from

00:46:26.679 --> 00:46:30.400
you. Cool. And then the real Dresden is going

00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:32.880
to teleport into the Echo's position. Oh, shit.

00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:36.139
That's so smart. Oh, that's so cool. Wait, but

00:46:36.139 --> 00:46:38.880
now you're away from Accio. Huh? Now you're away

00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:40.920
from Accio. I'm pretty sure they switched places.

00:46:41.679 --> 00:46:45.500
So my Echo's still there next to Accio. Yeah,

00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:48.099
it swaps places. I love this image. So my Echo's

00:46:48.099 --> 00:46:51.840
next to Accio. Echo flashes. Dresden takes the

00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:55.360
spot. Moving. I'm so confused. Because if you

00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:56.860
get in trouble, there's no way that Accio can

00:46:56.860 --> 00:46:58.840
go help you. Because there's the water. I'm just

00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:00.880
standing right there. I'm not doing anything

00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:02.960
after that. Okay. You said choke point, and I

00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:04.659
put a man on the choke point. Oh, I was talking

00:47:04.659 --> 00:47:08.239
about that 10 -foot gap there between the water

00:47:08.239 --> 00:47:10.880
and the wall. Oh. I mean, they have a ship, though,

00:47:10.940 --> 00:47:14.030
so wouldn't they go out through the water? I

00:47:14.030 --> 00:47:16.710
mean, is this ship big enough that these 12 foot

00:47:16.710 --> 00:47:18.949
tall things can get in there? You realize, look

00:47:18.949 --> 00:47:20.769
at this. I actually changed this. I should say

00:47:20.769 --> 00:47:22.610
a little bit. The apparatus normally can only

00:47:22.610 --> 00:47:24.389
hold two people. I actually made this one. It's

00:47:24.389 --> 00:47:26.329
usually a 10 foot. It's 15 foot in this case

00:47:26.329 --> 00:47:28.610
because it actually holds three medium or small

00:47:28.610 --> 00:47:30.949
creatures. You see they can shape change. In

00:47:30.949 --> 00:47:32.829
their current shapes, they couldn't fit in there.

00:47:33.210 --> 00:47:35.070
If they were smaller, they could probably squeeze

00:47:35.070 --> 00:47:38.150
in. So in this current form, it's like they look

00:47:38.150 --> 00:47:41.369
like they've committed to do or die. They'll

00:47:41.369 --> 00:47:44.199
kill you and then they'll leave. Yikes. But that

00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:46.599
Kenku getting back in there could be nasty. Another

00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:48.860
combatant on the field. This one in an armored

00:47:48.860 --> 00:47:51.139
suit. I mean, I think that's it then. I think

00:47:51.139 --> 00:47:54.699
I'm okay with that. Hell yeah. I think. In a

00:47:54.699 --> 00:47:59.059
flash, Dresden appears. Weapon in hand. The Marfil

00:47:59.059 --> 00:48:02.739
pigman war pick. You are moving. And that would

00:48:02.739 --> 00:48:06.179
be me. Oops, hang on. They're, I just realized

00:48:06.179 --> 00:48:08.360
they're backwards. I got Aja in the back, Crimson

00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:13.690
in the front. And that's going to be Aja. Now,

00:48:13.690 --> 00:48:17.809
I'll tell you, these are not fully powered Oni

00:48:17.809 --> 00:48:20.190
stat blocks. They've been through some fierce

00:48:20.190 --> 00:48:23.070
fights. The guards are not pushovers. I've used

00:48:23.070 --> 00:48:24.869
some very powerful spells. I've used some other

00:48:24.869 --> 00:48:27.530
things to take these guards out. And I've lost

00:48:27.530 --> 00:48:29.849
some HP, both from them and from the Zappies,

00:48:29.889 --> 00:48:32.949
which I calculated before this. Okay. So. Good

00:48:32.949 --> 00:48:36.650
to know. This isn't a set sure loss, but still.

00:48:37.510 --> 00:48:40.289
Still. Still pretty yucky. It's going to get

00:48:40.289 --> 00:48:44.039
gross. So let's start. What the fuck? I just

00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:45.760
saw they could fly? That's crazy. Why can they

00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:48.380
fly? Oh, shit. That's awesome. What? I just saw

00:48:48.380 --> 00:48:51.480
that. I'm like, oh, they can fly. Come on. Wow.

00:48:51.699 --> 00:48:54.260
I didn't even know that. Yeah, shit. They can...

00:48:54.260 --> 00:48:56.679
We're so going to die. Yeah, now we're going

00:48:56.679 --> 00:49:02.420
to die. Yeah. Man. Oh, let's see here. If I can

00:49:02.420 --> 00:49:05.539
do that, then maybe I can take all my movement,

00:49:05.619 --> 00:49:09.420
but I can fly into the water, sailing across

00:49:09.420 --> 00:49:11.260
almost like... You see this thing moving? It's

00:49:11.260 --> 00:49:13.829
almost like footsteps. This massive creature

00:49:13.829 --> 00:49:16.190
running on the water runs right up beside you,

00:49:16.250 --> 00:49:22.289
Dresden. You're going to regret that, Luminary!

00:49:24.230 --> 00:49:26.690
I'm going to make some attacks. I'm going to

00:49:26.690 --> 00:49:29.449
attack you with my glaive. Oops, sorry. I got

00:49:29.449 --> 00:49:31.849
a roll on the... David! I know! I was doing so

00:49:31.849 --> 00:49:34.670
good! Hey, we get a button, right? No, you don't.

00:49:35.329 --> 00:49:41.670
It's the first attack. It's an 11. Fucking hell.

00:49:41.849 --> 00:49:45.389
What? Two misses. Nice. That's great. Yeah, that's

00:49:45.389 --> 00:49:49.449
great. Oh, yeah. That's 11 and a 13. So, yeah,

00:49:49.469 --> 00:49:51.429
two. I mean, I don't have a slow. There's a bad

00:49:51.429 --> 00:49:54.269
roll. Oh, fuck, yeah. These two slides in, but

00:49:54.269 --> 00:49:57.610
you just weave out of the way. Ting, ping. Blade,

00:49:58.110 --> 00:50:02.130
like war pick meets this fucking glaive blade.

00:50:03.409 --> 00:50:07.309
This thing is just like trying to overpower you

00:50:07.309 --> 00:50:10.480
at the water's edge. But that's. Wow, that's

00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:15.300
it. Okay. That's Akio. Okay. Akio has pretty

00:50:15.300 --> 00:50:22.079
good movement, right? 40 feet. So Akio will move

00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:27.420
up to the corner here. And I'd like Akio to toss

00:50:27.420 --> 00:50:33.179
one of his thunderballs. Ooh, shit. Okay. Yeah,

00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:37.809
and I would like it to hit not Dresden. Hold

00:50:37.809 --> 00:50:39.389
on. Is there something else I can do? Maybe I

00:50:39.389 --> 00:50:43.949
can wait for them to group up. Yeah, I think

00:50:43.949 --> 00:50:45.909
it might be good to wait for them to group up,

00:50:45.969 --> 00:50:49.250
but I don't want to just move this round. I want

00:50:49.250 --> 00:50:51.329
to try to get some damage out there. So, sure.

00:50:51.949 --> 00:50:54.670
Okay. I'm going to try to... Where do you want

00:50:54.670 --> 00:50:56.269
to throw it? Because if you throw it outside

00:50:56.269 --> 00:50:57.409
of Dresden Ridge, you could also potentially

00:50:57.409 --> 00:50:59.730
knock this thing back, correct? Do you want to

00:50:59.730 --> 00:51:02.840
throw it, like, sort of north? of Dresden, so

00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:04.800
it would knock this guy away from Dresden, sort

00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:06.980
of towards the water, but like slowly down towards

00:51:06.980 --> 00:51:09.340
the Echo and towards Akino. If I can get that

00:51:09.340 --> 00:51:12.539
angle on it. Yeah. Okay, so he's just going to

00:51:12.539 --> 00:51:14.719
throw it over Dresden's head. Sure. All right.

00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:16.139
I think with something like this, as long as,

00:51:16.179 --> 00:51:17.579
I think it's 30 feet range, you could get over

00:51:17.579 --> 00:51:19.579
Dresden's head. 60 foot range, actually. Yeah,

00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:21.780
you're fine. Damn. Akino's a good boy. You can

00:51:21.780 --> 00:51:23.440
throw a ball. He's just going to lob it up and

00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:26.179
over. Yeah, so try to knock him out of Dresden's

00:51:26.179 --> 00:51:28.360
range to give Dresden the AOO. I wouldn't do

00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:30.000
the AOO because it's force movement, but it's

00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:32.119
still just like a... If it knocks them prone,

00:51:32.219 --> 00:51:34.739
though, they would fall. Oh, into the water.

00:51:34.900 --> 00:51:36.280
They would sink into the water, which could be

00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:40.360
interesting. Okay, yeah. Let's go for it, then.

00:51:40.699 --> 00:51:44.039
Okay. That's a save for me. So he would just

00:51:44.039 --> 00:51:48.239
kind of, hold on. This time, I'll save you. You

00:51:48.239 --> 00:51:50.360
know, reaches back, grabs one of these thunderballs,

00:51:50.460 --> 00:51:53.159
and he yanks it out with his mouth. It goes flying

00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:55.500
out, lands kind of in the spot, like sort of

00:51:55.500 --> 00:51:58.500
just goes over your head. You're sort of locked.

00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:01.269
Your blades are locked with the oni. Hits the

00:52:01.269 --> 00:52:06.389
ground. Tink, tink, tink. A sound wave blasts

00:52:06.389 --> 00:52:09.230
out from this thing just out of your range. But

00:52:09.230 --> 00:52:11.389
actually, in this case, it would actually land

00:52:11.389 --> 00:52:12.989
in the water right beside it when this happens.

00:52:13.030 --> 00:52:14.349
It would bounce off the thing, land in the water,

00:52:14.429 --> 00:52:18.070
blast this Oni. You see Dresden just bend down

00:52:18.070 --> 00:52:20.150
a little bit like an action star just bracing

00:52:20.150 --> 00:52:23.469
himself in the explosion. Hell yeah. But I'm

00:52:23.469 --> 00:52:24.889
looking at it. You guys don't look at him. Do

00:52:24.889 --> 00:52:27.030
you know what the DC is for the save? Because

00:52:27.030 --> 00:52:31.230
it's not on. Because this is just a paper. Oh.

00:52:31.369 --> 00:52:32.929
My goodness, you're right. I never actually put

00:52:32.929 --> 00:52:35.409
the DC to that. Yeah, it says it's a con save

00:52:35.409 --> 00:52:38.210
for the Thunderwave spell. I'll just attribute

00:52:38.210 --> 00:52:39.849
it now. But we're going to say it's a DC 14.

00:52:40.630 --> 00:52:42.570
14 seems like it's a powerful item. 14 seems

00:52:42.570 --> 00:52:49.130
good. So it's con? Yep, it says con save. Okay,

00:52:49.170 --> 00:52:50.750
no, that does pass. Sorry. Trying to make sure.

00:52:51.090 --> 00:52:53.849
My con is higher than, yeah, I have proficiency.

00:52:53.989 --> 00:52:56.869
So con actually does pass with a 15. Okay, so

00:52:56.869 --> 00:53:00.389
half as much damage. I think at second level,

00:53:00.489 --> 00:53:04.809
I believe it's 3d8. Yeah, okay. It's a good opener.

00:53:11.059 --> 00:53:15.920
16 total, so 8 damage. 8 damage. Solid. Just

00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:19.019
kind of also sort of brace itself. It's like

00:53:19.019 --> 00:53:21.000
foot splashes into the water and it's like trying

00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:23.340
to keep itself sort of levitating. Kind of creates

00:53:23.340 --> 00:53:26.619
a wave as the foot pushes down in, but it stops

00:53:26.619 --> 00:53:33.300
it from sliding. Looks towards Akia with a snarl.

00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:40.440
Damned beast! Leave the shrine at once! Hell

00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:43.980
yeah. That's Akio's turn? That's it for Akio.

00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:48.019
Okay. The second Oni. I mean, I guess I just

00:53:48.019 --> 00:53:50.860
need to start moving that way, don't I? I know

00:53:50.860 --> 00:53:53.460
what I'll do. I won't attack this turn. I'll

00:53:53.460 --> 00:53:56.099
just spend my entire turn moving. Because I can't

00:53:56.099 --> 00:53:58.980
get in range anyway. But he's going to fly over

00:53:58.980 --> 00:54:02.760
the water and come up right next to Akio. What

00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:08.980
did you call us? You pup! And that is my entire

00:54:08.980 --> 00:54:10.380
turn, actually. I can't do anything else. I just

00:54:10.380 --> 00:54:16.139
want to get over there. Okay. With that, Crispin

00:54:16.139 --> 00:54:20.460
Dubois. What does Crispin think this Kenku's

00:54:20.460 --> 00:54:22.960
intentions are? Can you read his body language

00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:26.780
or anything? Give me insight. Actually, your

00:54:26.780 --> 00:54:30.239
passive insight's really high. It's going to

00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:33.219
break towards the apparatus. Okay. Crispin's

00:54:33.219 --> 00:54:38.219
going to move five feet closer. Hmm. Do I pop

00:54:38.219 --> 00:54:42.239
this now, too? Sure. Let's pop this now. Let

00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:44.420
me give you one thing, actually. This might change

00:54:44.420 --> 00:54:46.420
what you do. It's going to move towards the apparatus.

00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:49.719
You have a really high insight. At least high

00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:52.519
enough that I think you'd catch this. It's scared

00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:57.860
of the Oni. It might not fight. It might take

00:54:57.860 --> 00:55:02.219
the apparatus and leave. I mean, I really want

00:55:02.219 --> 00:55:04.059
to take you at surface level for saying that.

00:55:04.570 --> 00:55:06.789
You also were told to kill everyone. You can't

00:55:06.789 --> 00:55:08.309
say this thing is going to be, this Kenku is

00:55:08.309 --> 00:55:10.730
going to, you know, they didn't actually threaten

00:55:10.730 --> 00:55:13.050
Sholay. I was going to say, did she say that?

00:55:13.250 --> 00:55:16.789
Did she say kill everyone or the two pirates?

00:55:17.050 --> 00:55:18.809
She said kill all the pirates. All the pirates.

00:55:18.829 --> 00:55:22.670
All the pirates. Okay. Oh, man. Okay. If we're

00:55:22.670 --> 00:55:25.170
going to, if we're going to, you know what? Yeah.

00:55:25.210 --> 00:55:26.789
If we're going to kill these pirates, then let's

00:55:26.789 --> 00:55:28.489
kill all the pirates, I guess. I don't know.

00:55:29.909 --> 00:55:32.989
So the way I'm seeing it is that I don't think

00:55:32.989 --> 00:55:36.650
Crispin can really, uh, allow the chance for

00:55:36.650 --> 00:55:39.510
this thing to get back into the apparatus. If

00:55:39.510 --> 00:55:42.789
he, if Crispin sees it moving towards Crispin's

00:55:42.789 --> 00:55:46.190
going to, uh, have you ever seen a buff octopus?

00:55:47.230 --> 00:55:52.269
Oh my God. Yes. Oh, that's so cool. Raging octopus.

00:55:52.670 --> 00:55:58.409
Full buff Squidward. Yeah, exactly. And. Oh shit.

00:55:58.469 --> 00:56:02.719
That's so amazing. muscular, like, bulging tentacles.

00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:09.159
So stupid. Damn. That's a 24 to hit this guy.

00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:12.420
Yeah, yeah, that's easy. The tentacle just slaps

00:56:12.420 --> 00:56:13.739
out. What's it look like? This is your first

00:56:13.739 --> 00:56:15.280
time acting. No one knows you're there. This

00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:17.940
Kenku just turning away from the water towards

00:56:17.940 --> 00:56:21.340
the apparatus. What do you do? The water, like,

00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:24.650
sort of, like, starts to roil and bubble. And

00:56:24.650 --> 00:56:27.170
maybe the Kenku, like, looks down at the water

00:56:27.170 --> 00:56:29.849
real fast. And before he can even react, this

00:56:29.849 --> 00:56:32.530
tentacle just shoots out and grabs him around

00:56:32.530 --> 00:56:35.650
the chest. Oh, yeah, because he's now grappled.

00:56:36.090 --> 00:56:45.789
Oh, no. No, no. What is? No, please. 14 damage.

00:56:46.929 --> 00:56:50.710
This is crushing. Bludgeoning. Bludgeoning. You

00:56:50.710 --> 00:56:53.210
just got to hear this the last word. We did our.

00:56:55.899 --> 00:57:03.019
Please, don't! Unconscious and dying. Huh, okay.

00:57:03.639 --> 00:57:07.380
Well, then we've got two or three rounds to see

00:57:07.380 --> 00:57:09.599
what happens, I guess. I don't know. Do you just

00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:12.079
drop the body? Yeah, Chris is going to set it

00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:14.039
down and the tentacles... Broken on the side,

00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:17.119
tentacle retreat. Do you want to move? Yeah.

00:57:17.559 --> 00:57:21.760
He's got 60 feet of swim, so he's going to move

00:57:21.760 --> 00:57:24.860
into... He's still under the surface of the water,

00:57:24.940 --> 00:57:26.780
but I don't know if that's going to count as

00:57:26.780 --> 00:57:29.320
flanking with Dresden or not. Yeah, it will.

00:57:29.420 --> 00:57:33.000
Okay. Yeah. Then that's that. See, the last thing

00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:35.039
we see is the tentacle reaches out. This king

00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:39.760
goes to move, and this buff tentacle breaks this

00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:43.239
body, cracking bones. The body sort of just drops

00:57:43.239 --> 00:57:47.440
silently down. No more voices ringing out from

00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:51.880
that throat. No breath. Soon to be, the tentacle

00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:54.880
retreats in the water. Tristan, you blast across

00:57:54.880 --> 00:57:57.079
this water, and as we see you moving towards

00:57:57.079 --> 00:57:59.340
the fray, towards your allies, locked in battle

00:57:59.340 --> 00:58:02.920
with these vicious Oni, we, like, stare down

00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:05.260
at the surface of this water, where we see a

00:58:05.260 --> 00:58:08.119
reflection of the sky as tendrils of black clouds

00:58:08.119 --> 00:58:11.800
begin to swirl in together, forming the vague

00:58:11.800 --> 00:58:16.039
shape of a cyclone. And we'll call it there.