Alright Podlings, Nix here... and Tagk's there, and when I say 'there' I mean way up there in the
slutchy embrace of that giant mud boil.
We're in a mud pit surrounded by limestone crags in the woods.
I'm lashing out with me mechanical claw, Tagk's got his shortsword and there's an animated
rock in the thick of it
that seems to light the mud boils even less than we do.
It keeps bashing away at the big beefy.
Anyway gotta go my mate's in trouble.
Catch you later, yeah?
Nix, Nix, Nix! I'll get you out!
So Tagk is now grabbed and hoisted, but the little rock sees this and just goes a little
bit like Fudgie might do.
And just bashes at the base of the giant mud boil.
Nice.
Oh, he's rolling good isn't he?
That little thing.
19.
That's a mean rock.
Two, another two points damage.
Good stuff.
Right, Nix.
Right, I think I'm gonna have to get me magic on.
Right, I'm gonna use a witch bolt.
Cool.
I'm gonna leave the mud boil - the weaker one that I was dealing with - and turn my attention
to this one that's got our Tagk.
You don't mess with my mate.
Nix, Nix, Nix, Nix!
Doom, Doom, DOOM, DOOM!
DOOM!!!
Alright.
I'm get the hint.
It's been a while since I've used this one.
Tagk's watching you going through all your pockets, you know, drawing out lumps of sulfur
and salt and it's all landing on the ground, cogs and gears, half-eaten
sandwich.
I'm looking for a particular thing.
It's me twig.
Where's me twig?
There's loads of twigs everywhere, you fool!
They're not the twigs I'm after.
This is no time to be picky!
Nix pulls out a small, burnt by lightning wooden twig from his pouch.
Cool.
Holds out his mechanical arm and lightning starts forming around.
Sparkling.
His mohawk is a sparking orange.
Do you see one of those like, erm, those Tesla arcs of energy jumping over the spikes?
Yeah.
Fantastic.
It like starts leaping out.
Witch Bolt: a beam of crackling blue energy, or orange energy in this case, lances out
towards a creature within range.
The big, big mud boil.
On a hit, the target takes 1d12 lightning damage.
Oh my word!
And on each of your turns for the duration, you can use your action to deal 1d12 lightning
damage to the target automatically.
Wow.
That's amazing.
But I've got to hit first.
Yeah, okay.
We need a box of doom.
Box of...
DOOM!
This should be a Mr Biscuits roll, but he's still in training.
It's 14 to beat.
Oh, one!
Is this an advantage roll?
Yes it is!
Phew!
Use the different, use the other, well that one.
I'll use the big purple one.
So we've got to beat a one.
You want to get 14 or more don't you?
Right. Eight!
Oh, so the lancing arc of lightning darts out from the twig and hits a tree branch beyond
the mud boil's head.
The tree branch has crashed into the ground, but it doesn't hit the mud boil.
Oh, darn.
Tagk's screaming pauses.
I'm not sure what you were trying to achieve there.
I just give them a bit of a shrug really.
Well, it looked very impressive.
Right, where was I?
DOOM!
Okay.
What are *you* trying to achieve?
BREATHING!
Right, mud boil is going for Nix.
Gets all 18.
Whoa.
Is that?
Yeah, that'll do it.
Yeah, and so he's going to one point of damage.
Right.
It's a mud slap.
Gets slapped across the chops with a big, muddy fist.
That didn't feel good.
Tagk can't do anything, I don't think.
Stuck.
Can they try and do a little like breakout strength check?
Oh yeah, good.
What's his strength?
Minus two.
A-ha-haa! He's not in the best position.
No.
He ain't no barbarian.
Right, so over 10 he needs.
16!
Yes!
Even with his minus two.
He does it.
The advantage of being very small is that you're also very wriggly.
And he manages to wriggle and the mud boil's, tentacles try and recapture him.
But Tagk manages to scramble and he lands on the ground, well he lands in the mud.
So he's just going to scramble away a bit and pick up his sword and be ready for next
time.
Cool.
Right, the wounded one is had enough of getting his own back on his mate and he's turning
his attention back to Nix now.
And he's going to do his mud slap again.
Going for the other cheek.
So he's just accidentally hit his friend, and his friend then tried to hit
him.
So, you know, give him the option of just seeing whether...
they start laying into each other.
Start laying into each other, yeah.
They're not very disciplined.
No, no, I think we'll say if he rolls five or under, then he's going to lose all interest
in Nix and Tagk until hit again.
And he's just going to go for the other one.
One?
One.
Okay, so after having been nutted by his fellow, he sends a really low sweep of mud to undercut
about where the knees would be.
So he's got to get the 12, which he beats with 12 and he does two damage.
And that's.
Nix is just going to be like championing him on.
Oh yeah, yeah, come on.
It's mud.
It does.
And he kind of, he sweeps out the base of the mud boil and it's almost as if not connected
to the ground anymore.
All the mud above it just kind of loses all its animation and just flops to the ground.
And that one is gone.
But now it's big boss guy.
Oh, I don't like the look of this one.
He's going to move closer to Tagk and he's going to do a big mud slap.
But misses.
Yes.
I think Tagk just kind of ducks, flings himself.
Excellent, Tagk.
Stay slippy.
And then it's the stone.
It's just going to keep on going.
The stone's rolling hot.
14 to beat.
Oh, sorry, Mr. B, I got you.
Nat 20!
Nat 20.
Yes.
Amazing.
So it's another.
You get a double damage.
Double damage.
Critical hit.
Brilliant.
So that's four damage.
It's looking quite hurt now, actually.
Is that the big one?
That's the big one.
Right.
Basically the little stone has been chipping away at this massive mud boil.
The little stone is most valuable elemental of the fight.
It swept you away and it grabbed Tagk.
Might be a new party member.
Small stone.
Small elemental stone.
It's really sweet.
It's back to the top.
It's Nix.
Right.
I'm going to lay into this big boil.
Let's get Lancing.
You leave my friend alone.
13.
It's 14 to hit.
Oh no.
No, got nothing else.
I need to think about just sticking to my magic.
It's my strength.
Never mind.
Nix, he swings his claw, but it just kind of slides through basically and the mud boil
is just like, doesn't really seem to take any damage from it.
Yeah.
Got you.
Right.
Tagk.
He's ready to have another go.
He's going to go for, well, he's going to go back for the one that grabbed him, I think.
Right.
The big one.
Yeah.
That's the one coming after him.
Yeah.
He swings out his short sword.
Doom 14.
That's...
18!
Yes.
So he hits, which is.
No one puts Tagk in a corner.
Five.
Plus Dex.
Seven points of damage.
Yes.
Okay.