Thank you. Welcome to Beginner's Luck Christmas
Special. How are we all doing? Can I get a cheer
from everyone, please? Cheers! It's going to
be our Christmas special, folks. So, first and
foremost, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and
Happy Kwanzaa to everyone out there. Merry Chrysler.
And Merry Chrysler indeed. I am Larry, the DM
for Bigger Than Luck, a D &D podcast, and I am
accompanied by my players, which are, take it
from the top. It's me, Bella. I play Annie, the
Goliath Artificer. And up next. I am Robert,
and I play Gordar Sevrok, the Draconic Sorcerer.
Last but not least. I am Avia, and I play Raynor,
the Bard. Okay. Okay, there, there, there, there,
there, there, there, words. I certainly do know
them. And I do have a question for you three.
And just to change it up a bit, since it's Christmas,
I do have a question for you guys, for you three.
The question for this episode is going to be...
What was the question again? Wait a second, I
got it. If you were to give a gift for the other
two of your, for your little group here, what
would those gifts be? And what would your favorite
Christmas carol would be? First and foremost,
we have Annie. I've never really given any gifts
out to anyone before, but if I did, it would
have to be handmade by me. For Raynor, I would
give him a custom -made hat that is secretly
a bag of holding. And for Godar, a never -ending
floating ball of snacks for the little snake
girls on his head. Oh, that's cool. That means
so much to me. Very much. And Christmas Carol.
Ah, right. Never really liked them, but... Rockin'
Around the Christmas Tree was always in my house
as a kid, so probably that one. Very good. How
does the bag of holding hat work? Does he put
it on and just sink into it? It's like a magician's
hat? I imagine it's a magician's hat. Yeah. That's
how I imagined it as well. But now that you say
it, would it go through his head if he put it
on? I think there would be a threshold. Hindsight
2020. It never got tested. He's a present, and
he's gone. Lightsaber into the earth. Yep. Oh
no. It's okay, we'll fine tune it later. Godar?
Yes. I like to get specialized gifts for each
person that I think they would really enjoy.
So for Raynor, I noticed that he always wears
that really gaudy hat i i think it needs a little
bit of accessorizing so i have gotten him a a
golden hat pin something just to give it a little
bit extra flair it's got a long needle with a
tip with a metal feather and embedded into that
is a couple emeralds i think that would really
help uh bring him a bit more class um his wardrobe
needs it and for annie i think It's difficult
to get a present for someone who builds everything
she wants. And I don't want to just give her
gold. That seems boring and not so interesting
as a present. But I have no... What I did get
her is a couple bottles of a drink that I love.
It's called pulque. And it is made from a fermented
agave. I think a night when she's working, something...
a little bit, um, a little bit, just a little
nightcap at the end of a working day, just to
get her going. Something different that she normally
hasn't tried. I think, I think that would be
quite good. That's really nice. Both of them
are great. I love the idea of a golden pin on
a hat. I'm, you know, you guys know I'm a hat
guy. Yep. I'm also a lapel pin guy. And like,
to me, that's just like really, really cool.
And, oh, I don't think you got away with it,
but Christmas Carol. Oh, I totally forgot. We
never got carolers at my place. I think it was
because the gates were always locked. But we
did hear it on the crystal radio and... One of
my favorites, mainly because it was a little
crude and my father would never allow it to be
in the house. But Rupert the Red Reared Rakshaksa.
It is... I absolutely... It is about this cat
man with backwards hands making deals and one
day he got caught and got quite the red re -end
from Santa. Okay. That's your favorite carol?
Well, it is quite crude and, you know, we don't
celebrate much of Christmas in my home. Interesting.
It's quite funny. Alright, and lastly we have
Rainer. Yeah, okay, that's a hard one. I've never
really given gifts to anyone. For Annie, I thought
of... she's always in her room so i figured that
now that it's getting colder i made her this
giant kind of like woolly hood thing and i was
just like she could wear it and stay warm i don't
know if almost kind of kind of like a show you
would say like A gingham shawl? See, what I would
call it is this amazing concept. It's an oodie.
Oh, okay. I would be giving her that. And for
Gordar, I'm not sure if... I heard that snakes
are cold -blooded, so I'm just going to give
them beanie with, like, little bits of things
kind of sticking out so that they can stay warm.
That's cool, too. I would like little... pockets
where they can rest yeah a little bit but like
little see that little things out and that way
i can save money by not you know by just knitting
it all quickly oh okay and lastly the uh christmas
carol so i love christmas carols just mostly
because they let you get into the door they are
they have their guard down and then you can sell
them on something better so usually what i do
is i start with a christmas carol like jingle
bells or something right and then i would twist
a little bit and say speaking of i've noticed
that you're not in a really big christmas kind
of mood so how about we like spice this up we
make some proper decorations i have some decorations
here for you that you can that we can sell i
yeah like stay in a christmas mood A carol that
turned into a perfect scam. I was hoping them.
Awful. Oh my god. A door -to -door salesman that
is using Christmas carols to get their attention
and keep them there to begin with. That's great.
That's diabolical, dude. Being Christmas and
everything, and for this episode, it's not going
to be a current continuation of the tale that
you have all been listening to. It is literally
our Christmas special. So sit back and enjoy,
and we're going to jump right into it. Unless
anyone has anything else to say before we transition
into the next scene, say it now or forever. Oh,
you motherfucker. Now I gotta think. Now I gotta
think of these things. Okay, so Gimble would
most definitely get any etching tools. She would...
Oh, she. Not she. Sorry. Gimble would get...
Gimble would get any etching tools. She would...
get a he why do i keep saying she he would get
uh gordar what would he would get i think he
would procure what he would believe to be a very
fine wine of what he would have learned from
the university and lastly for rainer he would
have gotten him a handmade gold pouch that's
what he would have gotten for the three of them
what are you guys gonna give gimbal Since you
threw it on me. Block of cheese. He does love
his cheese. He does love his cheese. A bed which
looks especially like a mousetrap. Standing there.
It's apparently really good for your back. I've
heard that it really helps push it and reset
it back into its original position. Or in half,
I can't remember what the salesman told me. He
was wearing a weird hat. Okay, what would Rainer
get him? He wouldn't have thought about giving
Gimble a gift, so he scratched quickly as they
were giving their gifts. He was scratching in
a note. One free favor, redeemable later. I imagine
Gimble's like... And Rainer, this is for you.
And he hands you like a gift and you open it.
It's like a, you know, that handmade coin purse.
And then Rainer's just like, ah, yes, gift. Of
course, I have one for you, Gimple. Yeah, just
give me a minute. Turns around. Yeah, turns around,
writes. All right, perfect. Let us now transition
into the episode. The air is warm and comfortable.
Hamlet walks around the manor at Briar Rose,
lighting candles, hanging tinsel, preparing the
tree. As the three of you are sitting in the
living room around the tree, enjoying an eggnog,
all cozied up, a great... Rest from what you
normally would be experiencing out here in the
expanse. You can see the windows along the manor.
You see the outside streets, which is not of
Briar Rose, but of Edgewater. Snow falling gently
down the streets. You can see people walking
by with their horse carriages, whether you're
having hot cocoa or eggnog. thing seems to be
peaceful for once. What are you all wearing?
It is rather cold this time of year. Have we
opened our gifts already? I don't think, it's
not Christmas Day yet, no, but it's leading up
to it. Okay. One could even say that it is currently
Christmas Eve. Haha. Okay, so Annie can't wear
Reino's hoodie that he got her. I think Annie's
just wrapped up in, like, the thickest blanket
possible. You're all sitting by the fireplace,
and it is crackling. Nice wood that is burning.
You can see stockings hanging by the fireplace.
There's four there. One for each of you, and
there's one that's for Gimble. And Gimble's one
is already stuffed, like, with, like, candies
and, like, little toys and such. I think Gora
would be in, like... like a fluffy gown with
like fluffy slippers. The little girls each have
like a little fluffy little beanie. Oh no, they
have the sock snakes. Have you seen those? Where
like people knit little like socks for their
snakes. Each of them have like little those that
comes with like a little like snake hoodie with
like little fangs. That's so cute. Over their
heads. I've seen those. He's sitting there with
a big cup of hot cocoa or some hot drink. Steam
wafting from your mug that you hold. Raynor is
going to be kind of looking at Gordar. He's wearing
a hoodie, something that's just warmish, and
then he's wearing his normal pants. He's just
kind of looking at Gordar, and he's just like,
ah, great. He had to have that already. Oh, tomorrow's
gonna be so disappointing. It's so good. Look
at him. He's so smug in it. Oh god, it took me
so long. Okay, that's fine. Should I sneak in
one of those letters I put into Gimbo's one?
No, no, that's too much. It's a hat on a hat.
Okay. Oh, God. And what the heck is this? Who
drinks eggnog? Oh, this is not ending up a good
day. Hamlet? Hamlet? You see Hamlet just sort
of appear before you or next to you. Oh, my God.
Sir. Right. Can you give me something that is
better than this? Like, bourbon? Bourbon sounds
good. Whiskey? I can most certainly do that for
you, sir. Yep. And you now see that is no longer
eggnog, and it is now bourbon in your little
mug. Great. As he kind of sips, and he's just
side -eyeing Gordar's hat thing. It has a citrusy
twist to your bourbon, almost like an orangey
taste to it. Yeah, this is good. As you're all
taking in this moment of reprieve, resting and
glad that you are not out there, Gimbal, down
by the tree, you can see him now placing gifts
under the tree. And just by the door... Where
you're all sitting. The door, not bursts open,
but gently opens. And you see a head peek through
a door. Not just a head, but first a beak. Then
comes the full head and the plague doctor mask.
You would all recognize the face. Well, not seeing
the face, but you do recognize that it is Glimmer.
Hello! And she steps in and her outfit, while
still maintaining its color of black and purple,
it is somewhat festive. She is a top of her head
wearing, you know, the Santa hat, but black.
Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you are finding
some great time to relax this evening. Yes. She
slowly takes a step towards the three of you.
Well, happy holidays to you too. Happy holidays
indeed. It's so great now that we've killed God
and now we're just here to chill. No, I'm joking.
It is a wonderful time. It's just great to be
surrounded by you. Friends and family and...
Family? Oh, I did not even consider the fact
that you all consider yourselves family. Oh,
no, I was talking about the girls. Oh, I see.
Well, I would ask that you all put down your
cocoa, your bourbon, or whatever it is that you
are drinking. Get rest, for my brother has sent
me to send you somewhere else. Great. Somewhere
outside Medusia. So you will all be having a
wonderful Christmas. Oui? Mission? We're already
on a mission. Well, think of this as a little
extracurricular activity. And is there extracurricular
pay? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Think of this as
payment in itself. Hamlet! And then you see Hamlet
appear before her. And she's now whispering,
kind of like in a low voice, kind of whispering
to him. I would require you to procure me these
particular items that we would need for the...
Well, I'm sure my brother has already spoken
to you, so. And you see her slip him a note.
Time to get changed, guys. Chop, chop. That was
just comfy. You all take your time to get changed,
and you're all dressed in what you're all, your
regular, no, well, what would be a modified version
of your adventuring gear for the call? Hmm. Interesting.
Um, I think Gordos wouldn't have changed too
much in the fact, but only in just the material.
Like it's gotten thicker. It's gotten like lined.
Like, so he's still got like the, the flowy coat
and probably is no longer showing his arms. They
are covered. Yeah. Long sleeve. Be sure you wear
something warm for you will be going somewhere
that is very, very cold. I hate the cold. You
see, like, the girls are, like, even snuggling
up closer. It does not do well for us. What's
everyone else look like? What are you guys wearing?
I'd like to imagine that it's not that different
from Annie's usual attire, just same as you,
Godard, just very, like, just thicker, more lined.
I think she just has, like, a turtleneck undershirt
and some kind of cape. Oh! I was thinking like
a massive long coat, like a winter long coat.
Yeah, winter long coat, but more cape -like looking,
I guess. Okay. Something that flows with the
cold wind. Sorry, I just had a thought. Yeah,
go on. For some reason, I pictured Raynor just
walking in with one of those hats, the one with
the flapperies. You know, those, like, what do
you call those winter hats that, um, when you
think of Canada? You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
The ones with, like, the fluffy part that cover
the ears. Oh, right. Do you know what it is?
The ear protectors. Yeah, the earmuffs. Yeah.
It's kind of like it's kind of roundish square
and then you get those flaps that are just coming
down. For some reason in my head, I just picture
Rainer wearing it. And that's all that Rainer's
wearing. Yeah, nothing else. Just that you have.
But what would Rainer be wearing? I think he's
wearing his regular pants. He's wearing like
snow boots because he's just expecting that he
has to do a lot of walking. And he's wearing
his regular shirt. But on top of that, he's got
like a zipped up. like a zipper hoodie kind of
situation he's wearing his normal hat but you
can see that he looks really grumpy because he's
like ah this is gonna get cold and you can see
gimbal as well ready to go uh he has really dressed
for the cold and remember his diver suit it's
almost kind of like that it's like a huge puffy
gore -tex jacket snow boots as well and he's
got like the Russian hat you know that big tall
one that fuzzy sort of like and he's got like
that big backpack and he's also ready to go so
guys he's taking you guys he's coming along too
great does he need to come along Ah, the little
one doesn't necessarily have to go. However,
it does look like that he is all dressed for
the occasion. Aren't you? As she leans over and
pats his head, the hat on his head, which is
a light tap, but she does it so aggressively
that it falls, like it falls down and covers
his eyes to the point of folding his ears. Yes,
well, you all look nice and snug. So, if you
will kindly follow me. And she leads you to one
of the rooms in this manor. And it is an open
room. There is no furniture in here. The floorboards
look like they have not been cared for in a long
time. There is a chandelier that hangs low. A
few candles are lit. At the far end of the room,
you can see that there is already a cauldron
that is currently brewing. And just in the middle
of the room, you can see a painted on the floor,
a circle with all these magical runic symbols
upon them. Lines intersect here and there. You
can see symbols such as the moons and the stars.
And you can see Glimmer walks in with her regular
stride as she heads towards the cauldron. Good.
Good. So, go ahead and step upon the circle for
me, the four of you. Before I send you off to
the north, outside of Medusia, somewhere where
it is a little colder, my brother has told me
that your assistance is required with Santa Claus.
She says almost with some venom in her voice.
Excuse me? You held me. Can I opt out? Unfortunately,
no. Means I had to have a bit of a beef. Yes,
well, it would seem that you and I would have
something in common. Great, let's go talk about
it. Let them deal with it. Unfortunately, no.
And as she's yapping, you can see her reaching
into this bag and you see her pull out a small
lizard, which she then rips in half and pops
it into the cauldron. Is that all of you, please?
All of you? So you will be heading to Santa's
workshop and you will be helping him with whatever
he currently needs. Apparently it is crisis mode
up there. Digs in the bag. She pulls out a couple
of eggshells and she dumps it into the cauldron.
And as the eggshell drops, there is a reaction
where it bubbles furiously at this point. Wait,
are you telling me that Santa Claus is real?
Are they stupid? Of course Santa is real. He's
not just a figure of childhood imagination and
wonder? Listen, miss, and you see her again dig
out into the bag. And this time she has a candle,
which is all black, which she then lights and
then dumps it into the cauldron. Do we have to
drink that? No, no, no. It would be nothing as
cold as that. And she's like staring. But Santa
is real. We have all known this. Well, most people
do anyway. And I hate the man. I absolutely hate
him. That is why I absolutely hate the man. She's
like staring at this pot. I'm confused. If you
ate him, then how is he still alive? I'm very
confused by this. Despise. I do not like the
man. Why didn't you just say so? I certainly
did. She's like staring at this pot. Now, make
sure that you will assist him and he will ensure
that all of you will return here once your task
is complete. Are you all ready? No, you gave
us far too little information. Before you could
finish your sentence, she swings her arms forward
with her wand as this cauldron immediately flings
up to the air as it engulfs, not engulfs, sorry,
but sprays all over the four of you. You get
this burning sensation upon your skin and you
can see now, as you feel this burning sensation,
It is not painful, but you can feel hot. And
you see the lights on this circle itself on your
feet beginning to form around the circle and
the symbols. You see it turn green, red, white.
And you're now beginning to see this whiff of
snowflakes beginning to dance all around you
as the heat begins to... Envelop your entire
being, and in an instant, it is cold. You now
feel your feet afoot in snow. It is dark. That
was quick. Okay. Where are we? That was unusual.
I don't know. Oh my god, I wasn't dressed for
this. This is awful. Why are you only wearing
a hat? Renny! You are so cold. I'm just going
to get to the workshop, please. You look around
to where you are and not too far away. Like you're
surrounded kind of like in like wooded area.
Snow is deep. You can see trees upon you. Pine
trees. And just to the north. of you, you can
see a huge gate. You can see lights upon the
gate, which are red and green. Red and green
as it turns and spins. I think that might be
it. Looks like it. Ghost state 1 -7 just falls
over in the snow. Okay, that's not great. Can
you lift us? Take us to the sweatshop, please.
Oh, come on. All right, really quick. Annie takes
off her coat and gives it to Raynor. Poor dude's
shivering and can't tell if he's about to turn
to an icicle. Oh, wow. You can see that Gimble
is, the snow is up to his hips. Oh, the snow
is rather thick. As he's trying to wade his way
through the snow. Struggling. Yes? Do you want
to be carried? He looks up to you with that doughy
eye. Equivalent to... What was that movie? The
Shrek movies, kind of like a puss in boots sort
of thing. That sort of looks up to you, but doesn't
say anything. Is he really doing it like Donkey?
Yes, like... Sure. Yeah, yeah. Come on. And he's
almost carrying him like... What do you call
it? Like princess style. Yeah, okay. As you're
carrying... gimbal princess style he sort of
cozies up to stay warm uh upon the way you're
holding him so i guess your chest and he's almost
in like a fetal position just nice and warm and
cozy as the three of you now trek towards this
gate that you can see with this mass high wall
of 15 feet And as you're walking through this
pine wood woods, you hear a oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh. And the trees to your left are now shaking.
You hear movement. Oh, goodness. It's another
monster coming to kill us. No monster, you hear,
as you see a huge hand just push aside some of
the trees. And you can see this huge, rotund
individual standing at about 14 to 15 feet, all
dressed in red. The Santa hat, of course. A beard
that reached down just to his... Huge belly.
Hello, it is I, Santa. Holy shit, you're real.
Well, of course I am. And you're so large. Of
course I'm large. As he pats his belly of just
how big he is, being proud of his size. That
doesn't make sense. How did you end up going
down my chimney? Tapsy's nose. A little magic,
my boy. Oh, I didn't realize Tapsy's nose. That
magic could do that. Magic indeed. Now, Annie,
Gorda, Raynor. Is that little Gimbal? Of course
you know him. Yes. I didn't think you'd come.
It is good that the twins have sent you. I do
need some assistance. I had just recently awoken.
And the workshop isn't... Well, up to par, if
you will. It would seem that my kind have been
recently busy. Cropping up here and there. As
he's stepping... His step. is like four, five
steps for you guys. And you're having trouble
sort of keeping up with him. He's getting there
a lot faster and he stops for a brief moment.
Oh, forgive me. I sometimes forget of just how
slow you little ones are. Come along. I am trying.
Sludging just through the ice. So cold. Yes,
it is very cold. And you see... What did you
mean by your people? There are more of you? No,
not particularly like me, but my kind. Old ones
have always been around. As he's speaking, you
see, and walking, you see him pull out a pipe,
which he brings to his mouth. And you see a little
click of his finger, which then lights this pipe.
As he's taking breath in and blows out smoke
from the pipe itself, you're all beginning to
feel warm. It is not as cold as you're feeling,
but your feet are still a bit cold since... trudging
through the snow. Yes, my kind. That's nice.
The old ones. I don't believe that you people
these days worship some of them. As he's trudging
through. Most of them should be asleep. I myself
are only awake this time of year. But most of
them should be sleeping. Sleep. Yes. Until eventually
you reach the gate and as you reach this gate
you see this huge concrete wall that seems to
surround the complex. The gate itself is this
metal, made of metal. Santa's head is sort of
just on par with the lights that you were seeing
earlier. And you can see along this concrete
fence, there are vines and such that have grown
over it. Those are certainly new. I wasn't here
before. Can everybody please give me a perception
check, please? And he rolled a seven. That's
a 19 for Gorda. And eight for Raynor. Okay. Gorda,
as you're looking at these vines in which Santa
had mentioned, there's something odd about them.
You can see parts of these vines almost like
these roots that attach itself to the concrete.
And you can see these vines have a particular...
When the lights spin, they have a particular
sheen to it, and it's almost... slimy flesh.
And you're not sure on its colorization, but
it's a mix of green and deep purple. You have
an interesting way to decorate your place, Xander.
What exactly is that? As I said, that is something
that wasn't here before. And that is certainly
new. I have no clue exactly what that is. And
that's why we're here. As you see him reach over
the gate. And you can hear him reach for something.
And it's a, you know, the metal lock. You hear
it clunk. And he opens it. He pushes the gates
open. of this metal gate which pushes through
the snow. Through here is my workshop. As he's
taking a step. And you can see as the four of
you enter this gate, he turns around and he closes
the gate. Before you, you can see a... Just a
plain old little cot, well, not little, but a
cottage, a cottage setting with lights, candy
cane on the side, very gingerbread house -esque
sort of look. And if you recall the fence that
runs along and the vines and everything, you
can see that now here on the ground, There are
trees and plants that are very similar, which
is almost fleshy, like green and purple, almost
like an infection that is spreading upon the
ground. And you can see some of it. Some of the
tendrils seem to be caught on the side of this
gingerbread house. Oh, it seems like whatever
this is is infested quite deeply. Yes, that is
the problem, and I fear that someone has come
after me. It runs very deep. I arrived here not
about a few days ago, and I found the place like
this. I dare not venture forward. Without any
assistance, I could not make any contact with
the inside. So, I will be accompanying you four,
and you will help me and deal with whatever all
this is. Yes? Great. I suppose so. You couldn't
have done it yourself? Not at all. I fear...
Whatever it is that is doing this is something
that I'm very unfamiliar with. And I will not
risk going in myself. And he has that, like,
thousand -yard stare. Like, it looks like he's
staring into the gingerbread house. But looking
deeper, you can tell it's just like, we call
it Vietnam War flashback. That's the best way
I could describe it. Okay, where are the test
dummies? Again. Come on, Gimbal. No test dummies.
No test dummies, Rainer. Think of it as an adventure.
A jolly adventure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We get what
the deal is. Don't even sell us. We're already
here. As he reaches into his coat. And he pulls
out. A ring of keys. And. As you now approach
this gingerbread house. It isn't as small. As
you think it. As you have been led to believe.
It is huge. It is to accommodate his size. So
the door itself as well. It is about 20 feet
tall. And you can see. In putting the key into
the keyhole, he pops it open. The door opens.
And as the door opens, lights just begin to turn
on within the room as he steps in. How long now?
We'll find out what it is that is causing all
this here. Does the gingerbread house smell like
anything? Oh, give me perception. That's a 16.
Yes, it smells sweet. Well, the initial smell
that you do get, you get the smell of sweetness,
you know, cookies and creams and gingerbread
and all that. But amongst that smell, you do
smell something foul. Very acrid. The smell of
blood. The smell of metal. And... It's not as
assaulting as the sweetness, but you can smell
it there. There's a mixture of it, which makes
the smell somewhat unsettling. Ugh. You said
you haven't visited this place in days? Well,
I... Generally not here at the workshop I sleep,
my lord. Right. It... Hmm. I don't think this
place has been cleaned. It smells... There's
an underlying bad smell. Inside here, it is an
empty room. You can see just a few tables and
chairs around. And in the center of this room,
there is a railing. No, this here is the lift
to the lower grounds, which is where we would
need to go. And you also see now that same sort
of viney viney plant, flesh plant thing now clearly
green and black and purple coming through the
windows. and you can see tendrils of it sort
of build up and almost grow towards this platform
which Santa had just pointed out. Sorry, did
you say they're growing from that platform? No.
Oh, they're going into. Yes. That's unsettling.
It most certainly is. I fear for my workers.
I have not heard anything from them since I have
awoken. And, well, I fear the West. How many
workers do you usually have here? Hundreds. Hundreds
upon hundreds. And, um, just so I get a better
image in my head, what do these workers look
like? Are they, like, the size of me? Are they
the size of you? They wear little pointed hats
and sing cheery tunes. That. They are very small
indeed. And he points at Gimbal. One. Their kind.
Okay, a bunch of Gimbals. All with pointed hats
and smiles and cheers. A bunch of positivities
indeed. As he steps onto this platform. And you
can hear his boot as he steps onto the platform.
That. Big thud on metal. Come along and we'll
go to the lower levels. Coming. As you all take
your step onto this platform, the huge crank
switch just on the right side of this platform,
Santa pulls and this platform begins to descend.
First, it... was very uneasy as you can see as
it first struggles to go down but as it begins
to pick about maybe five feet it now begins to
descend as normal you also spot those tendrils
break as the platform lowers they snap And along
the walls, you're beginning to see these same
sort of veiny tendrils now attached to the walls.
And as the lower you get, the more prominent
these veins are. In about two... Some of the
broken ones that are on our platform, Goddard's
going to get his little dagger out and stab it
a little bit and cut into it. Oh. Okay. As you
poke towards this piece of vine, this fleshy
vine, you try to cut into it. And what are you
using to try and cut into it as this elevator
descends? The dagger. The dagger. So you lean
down and you're trying to poke at this thing
with the dagger. And with the shaking of this
platform itself, you're not so sure. But you
think it's moving. Um, oh, oh, uh... Is it moving,
though? Or is it just the vibration of the platform
that's making you miss? I, uh... Um, I'm not
entirely sure, uh... Annie? Hmm? I, um... I swear
I tried to, uh, to cut this thing, and I... It...
Might have moved? I'm not too sure. We're shaking
around too much. You're better with tools than
I. You want to give it a go? I mean, what's wrong
with it? It's just a piece of plant, right? I
just... Something to grow like this is unusual.
And we've dealt with other magical, unusual things
out and about. Wouldn't it be better if we know
more? Maybe not yet. And Annie kneels down, grabs
the little tendril and throws it off of the lift.
It's a small piece, just about maybe two inches.
And as you pick this thing up, give me a perception
check. Oh, okay. It's not exactly small. I'd
say it's quite large. That's a four. As the two
of you are having this discussion, Rainer. Yes,
hello. Santa just turns to you. Is everything
okay, my boy? You don't seem too happy. Yeah,
I'm finding now that you're real. And then now
I'm also recollecting all of the Christmases
I've gotten where I've just gotten coal. So,
yeah, this is quite... The interesting meaning.
Yes, well... Forgive me, my boy, but you haven't
exactly been on the nice list for a very long
time. Oh, right, right, right, right. It's always
on me, right? Always been on the naughty list?
Hey, you're the one who has a bunch of trapped
workers. Maybe you should put yourself on the
naughty list this time. Mm -hmm. Perhaps we should
watch our sharp tongue, my boy. Though I will
take your advice to heart. Good. He cranks the
switch and the platform stops. And as the platform
stops, you can see now that this is A wide open
room. A factory, almost, with conveyor belts.
You can see workshop tables and you can see blood.
Oh, this is quite a nice workshop. Oh, God. You
can see corpses. You can see bodies, and you
can see this familiar vine that you had all examined
previously. Wrapping around some of the bodies,
you can see parts in corners where there's malignant
growths of flesh and leaves. The lighting here
is red, like an emergency light. Um, wait, I
think we just found your co -workers. Yes, it
would appear that this is why I could not make
contact. As he steps off the platform and is
beginning to examine and looking at all the bodies
around, you can see some of the bodies where...
The growth had taken over some of these individuals,
and you can see almost tumor -like growths on
shoulders. In one of them, where the growth is
on their face, the eye had grown to such large
proportions, and you can see different smaller
eyes on the side of that main big one. You can
see some of them with torn ears. And you can
see, again, the vines continue to grow all throughout
around the conveyor belts, the tools. The light
flickers. And you just hear Santa sigh. Just
quickly, is... Because Annie's still carrying
Gimble. Is Gimble, like, asleep? Or is he trying
to look around? I think Gimble now as well is
on his feet at this point. It is a lot warmer
now compared to what it was outside. When you
say it grows, is it grown? Or is it still growing?
The vines. Give me perception check. Oh no. If
I may ask as well... The cluster of eyes that's
around, like, the big bulbous one. Are those
eyes, like, following us? Or are they, like,
still and, you know, deceased? They're dead.
They're dead eyes. Okay. God, I was going to
have the dagger and do the light cantrip once
again and just, like, light up in an area. Okay.
So the lighting situation's a lot better now.
I rolled a 13. Okay. With that 13... You're looking
around as you're stepping through this factory
floor, and you're looking at these vines, and
you're looking at these tendrils that grow, well,
that seem to have grown upon the ground, upon
the walls. You can now see with your light, you
see now sheen, a particular sheen not only on
these growths, but also along the wall and the
floor where the blood glistens. And you see some
of the vines almost growing. Um, everyone, I
don't mean to alarm you, but these vines are
still alive and they are moving quicker than
what normal vines do. Um, I don't think we should
stay down here for long. Oh, great. Brainerd,
as you're also moving around, you step closer
to one of these bulbous -y, fleshy tumors. And
as you pass them, you hear from it almost like
a very light sloshing sound. Yeah. Suggesting
that... Whatever this thing is, it is alive.
Oh, great. Great, great, great, great. Guys,
this one's still alive. Where? She instantly
pulls her rifle. This one over here. Don't worry,
buddy. We're going to put you out of your misery.
Where Raynor is pointing, you can see this growth
along the wall. where you can see the vines descend
and veins that are like, almost like web. And
you can just see this fleshy pulp about four
feet high from the floor, stuck on this wall.
And it pulsates, it undulates, and you just hear,
as you get closer, you can hear like sloshing
and almost like a heartbeat. Ugh! Points, aims,
and fires. How far are you from it? I don't think
she would have moved closer to it as soon as
she asked where and Raynor pointed. It's just
immediately point, aim, and shoot. Okay. As you
point, you fire. The thing explodes. And as it
explodes, this goo, this eye core just blasts
throughout the whole, well, in its immediate
area of green and purple. And, uh, Raynor, give
me a dexterity saving throw since you're standing
relatively close to this thing. That is fair.
I did think you were going to do that. 18. As
you point this out, Rainer, and as you see Annie
take the shot, you know exactly what she's doing
and you just had enough time to get yourself
out of the way and not get any of that on your
personage. And as this, as it rings, there's
a ring in this room from the shot that you had
just made, Annie. And there's silence. And with
that silence, you're now beginning to hear chittering.
And you're hearing very low voices. Well, not
voices, but more like moans. And you can now
see, just all around you, a lot of these bodies
are beginning to rise. You can see the vines
and the veins of that green and black that is
just wrapped. You can see the tumors and growth
that are upon these corpses are now beginning
to pulsate. And I want everybody to roll me initiative.
Bruh. Oh no, I don't like it. I don't like it.
I don't like it. Okay, Gorda got an 18. Perfect.
Raynor got a 6. Even perfect. And he got a 5.
Okay. That's not perfect, is it? I should probably...
Huh? Everything else is perfect, but that's not
perfect? I was hoping for a 1. Stay on, Brand.
Let's get Santa in here as well. Santa. Yay!
We're going to kill Santa with this. And we take
over his workshop. What kind of weapon would
Santa have? A baseball bat shaped like a candy
cane. I was thinking a candy cane shaped thing.
I was thinking like a mace, but the end is like
a toy sack. Oh, that's good. That's good. Okay,
so. As you're all beginning to hear these low
moans and you see the rising of the former employees
of Santa Workshop, you're now beginning to see
a mass amount of these creatures beginning to
move towards you. And just on the far end of
the room, there is a glass room. Like, it's part
walled and then... So imagine where, like, a
foreman would be. Like a manager would be. Right?
So you're getting that vibes. As all these creatures
are now moving towards you, you see the light
in there flicker on. And then you can see two
heads pop up. Gimbal -like. One that is grey.
and one that is golden brown, wearing pointed
hats, and they're now all waving. Santa! Santa!
And with saying that, Gordo, you are up first.
Hello. So how many of these things look like
they've risen and are starting to come towards
us? As best as you can tell, you cannot count.
There is a lot. As in there is a lot. If you
recall, Santa did say that he had hundreds upon
hundreds of employees. They're all in this room.
You don't know if they're all in this room, but
there is a lot. There isn't enough time to sort
of count them individually is what I'm trying
to say. You have a few of them in like clusters.
There's like a group of like six of them. and
then you can see like some of them where it's
just like one or two individuals but there are
at certain points there are there's like clusters
of them by conveyor belts and by workshops and
such well santa i hope you have insurance um
as i'm going to use my bonus action to uh use
innate sorcery so the crown lights up the it
Because of the abruptness and the magic, it burns
away. The little hoodie beanie thing that he
had just burns away. And he has the various crown
snakes going off. And then he's going to, at
second level, cast Dragon's Breath. All right.
I'm going to say that you can get a huge cluster
of them. like usual rather than like breathing
out fire it's like the the waves are just like
intense magical energy and it is going to be
in uh poison damage so more like caustic and
like melts away the flesh you so anything within
that range needs to make a dexterity dc 15 saving
throw please and if anything happens on a uh
on a success uh success just takes half damage
all right go ahead and uh roll me the damage
and describe to me what this looks like Let's
say you get about 12 of them. Okay. In this 15
-foot cone, all of them in there take 14 damage,
half if they succeeded. And pretty much it's
just a... As the jaw unhinges and then the magical
energy comes from him, it starts to burn and
corrode anything it's touching. um and starts
like to like fester a little bit so like in that
cone as it bursts out uh anything organic kind
of like burns away that little bit like a like
a chemical burn and then anything that is like
like the tables and chairs and stuff just get
like there's like white burn marks inside like
up on them so what does it look like when you
destroy these things oh they're melting they're
just like chemical burning it's melting you hear
the cries of pain as these things die with this
chemical burn and do they oh i will say with
this particular burn you can see now that not
only does it burn these former mouse folk it
melts them and you can see a puddle of flesh
as this this your magical breath goes forth.
You see these, what did I say, 12 of them? Melt.
And as they melt to the ground, you can see their
blood of red, and you can see more of that greenish,
purplish ichor that comes out of them, that oozes
out of them, and it begins to spread onto the
ground. And you can see... You know that sea
creature? I don't know what it's called. It's
like some kind of worm, and when you press on
it, you can see it shoots out this vein. It's
supposed to be its stomach. It's kind of like
that, where you see this now spreads, this veiny
spread across the floor from where they once
were. Knock. I know that's really hungry. It's
called a proboscis worm. There you go. That.
So you see that spread all out in that particular
cluster. As Santa has spotted the two little
mouse folk in that room, he turns to the rest
of you. Quickly, we must run to the next platform.
And is there anything else that you're doing,
Gimbal? Gimbal. Gordar. Oh, please. Just because
our name starts with G, we are nothing alike.
Heeding Santa's words, he's going to, I guess,
run towards that platform using his 34 km speed.
All right. Let's just say that you're almost
halfway across this factory floor. Sorry. Okay.
My apologies. Sorry. Actually, he steps on someone.
I hope your health insurance covers that. I'm
sorry. And now as Santa has called that out,
you see him as he's turned, as you run, you see
Santa now raise his hand as you see this almost
white magical tendrils wrap around his arm, snowflake
beginning to dance all around him and a huge
sword forms in his right hand and you can see
frost upon it and you see him immediately take
this huge swing on a huge cluster of them as
the blood and ichor splatter everywhere as he
cuts down he mows down like uh eight of these
things quickly now we must get to the next platform
as he's trying to charge forward uh raynor yes
with the blast that had just happened behind
you you now see about three of them like just
now heading towards your way their movement is
slow and almost bone cracking if you will the
way they move it's like their bones break and
reform and you can see the body contorts in particular
ways that you never thought a body could contort
and you see one of them as it's approaching you
It almost looks like it is growing in size as
the bone, yeah, bone sort of shifts and changes
within its body. With their very slow movement
towards you, they're both taking this swipe.
You now see... With their hands, like the smaller
one, its arms have grown to a particular length
that drags across the ground and its hand itself
has now become this massive claw as it tries
to take a swipe at you. But because of its slow
movement, it does not take any purchase upon
you at all. The one that has grown particularly
taller, its arms too have grown. very long and
it tries to take a swipe at you as well using
both its claws and misses as well Annie just
by you you can see the one with the big eye and
the multiple of eyes you now see it you now see
it rise up upon others and you can see about
four of them now approaching you same uh same
sort of motion contour uh contour the body contorting
here and there you hear the cracking of bone
and with one of them you can see that there is
a growth that had just come out of its back with
dust definitely looks like it is made of bone
uh they move towards you and they're going to
take a all four of these guys are now also going
to take a swing at you i'm sorry did you say
all four of them yes i did with their very slow
movement you see them as you sort of whip around
and the one with the eye you can see it it while
it is wide open it seems to grow much larger
in size the eyes and the smaller eyes and the
size aside does the same thing where it opens
up and it looks like it's growing larger and
larger the left shoulder of this thing you see
growth a tumorous growth that just comes forth
and an eyeball just opens up and you see the
other ones sort of bend backwards where you can
see bones come out from its back and now it's
kind of spider leg like where it's now moving
towards you and with the slow speed that they're
moving you think you can get away then immediately
they all sort of dive at you one at a time with
great speed you managed to dodge two of them
But then the eyeball one, as it goes for a hit,
hits you. And you can see now, as that arm comes
around, you can see all these eyeballs on its
arm. And as it makes contact with you, you can
see some of the eyeballs burst. And you can see
sort of like these pus sort of like just blowing
out everywhere. So that first one, you're going
to take five points of damage. This is all moving
so bloody fast. Oh, my God. Good. No! As the
other one, as you feel this hit from eyeball
man, you can now see the bone, the mouse bone
from your right. You now see that the flesh upon
its face has melted off and it's almost like
just a skull of a mouse. And it also takes a
swipe at you and you're going to take an additional
four points of damage. Why do you do this to
me, man? Why? What have I done? Also, ah! Okay,
Raynor, you are up. So those three are in front
of him, correct? Yes. How far are they in front
of him? Two of them now are in melee range, and
one is just about five feet away. I see. Two
in melee range. Raynor's kind of just panicking
a little as he's saying this, and he's seeing
Annie getting attacked by a large amount, and
he's like, okay. Where is Gordar? Gordar's a
little ahead. Okay. This is not good. This is
not good. You just see him run towards the platform
that Santa had pointed out. Okay. So he's going
to use Tasha's Hideous Laughter on both of the
creatures within melee range at second level.
Okay. And what save do they need to make? So
they need to make a save of... I believe it is
15. As what does this look like? So he's just
going to be like, you guys are so much uglier
than Gimble. And he's really, really, really
ugly. As his words kind of like materialize from
his mouth and almost for a second go into their
head as they start shaking a little. If they
succeed, then... They fall kind of on the ground
and start laughing. So with these two, they start
to shake, as you suggest, and they begin to laugh.
And it's a jolly laugh, but almost warped, gurgled.
Their regular joyous laugh has been corrupted
in a way. and you see them they they're giggling
and they're laughing as they're slowly not backing
up but where you think it's an immediate drop
from laughing it's almost in slow motion as they're
slowly sort of falling down laughing and with
the final laugh they both explode and just on
your face you're now getting pieces of flesh.
These vines. Again, that sort of black, purple
and green eye core on your face, on your person.
And you can see now just what remains are their
legs and they just flop down. Are you doing anything
else? There's one more kind of near him, right?
That's correct. So he's just going to look at
them. He's covered in this goo as he kind of
lifts up his hand and he is going to attempt
to make a telekinetic shove. Okay, cool. So he's
going to lift up his hand and he's just going
to push them away as much as he can. He's attempting
to push them away with his mind. And that's a
DC 10 strength. How far do they move back? Five
feet. Five feet. Okay, I kind of just see like...
Raynor raises his hands, Jedi style, where he
pushes back this thing as it slides across the
floor five feet away from you further. So he's
now about ten feet away from you. Do you do anything
else? I book it towards wherever Gordar is as
much as I can. Perfect. Okay. It's my turn. Do
you see Gimbal now take a roll? And he's running
across this factory floor towards Santa. Annie,
you are up. Yep. So I'd like to confirm there's
four things surrounding Annie? Just two within
melee range and the other two are still a bit
far off. Okay. Do you know how far off? About
10 feet. About 10 feet. Okay. And since Rainer
is where now at Gordar's ranged and gimbals at
Santa's. I can assume that they're away from
Annie, like, say, 15 feet away? Yeah, most definitely.
Okay, great. So Annie's going to aim down sight
her rifle. Sorry, yep. Down sight aim her rifle
towards the floor as she casts Thunder Wave and
shoots towards the floor. Cool! So, kind of new
thing. You kind of see... thunder how do i describe
it not thunder but you see lightning uh strikes
line her skin as it goes almost down her metal
arm as it sort of just like travels downwards
it enters the rifle's barrel and it spirals along
itself as you just hear like this wearing of
energy from within uh the rifle itself when she
shoots when she points and shoots at the ground
um it lightning strikes down and then you just
hear like a rumbling as it's grows and grows
and grows into that 15 foot cube. Awesome. Now,
tell me what the spell does. You unleash a wave
of thunderous energy. Each creature in a 15 foot
cube originating from you makes a constitution
saving throw. On a failed save, the creature
takes 2d8 thunder damage and is pushed 10 feet
away. On a successful one, the creature takes
half as much damage only. So they don't move.
I want you to go ahead and... Paint me a picture
on what it looks like as you decimate these four.
I would imagine that the lightning travels up
their feet, and as soon as it hits any part of
them that is flesh, you hear just a thund on
each of their limbs as they just kind of explode.
Cool. All right. Are you doing anything else?
Running away. Good. Very good. Running towards
the manager's office. Yes, perfect. So with the...
I'm going to say as these things explode with...
Eyeball guy, as the lightning courses through
its body, you can see each eyeball beginning
to pop and burst through its body. Bone guy,
like with its bones, they just shatter and blow.
The other two with their tumors as well. You
can see explosions upon their tumor before they
actually all blow up itself. You're yourself
now. You've gotten some of this bloody eye core
all over you. Oh, yuck! Gordar, you are up. Go,
go, go, go, go, go. Still going forwards. So,
is the... Where the other rat folk are, the elves,
are they... Is it like a... There's like a staircase
that goes up to like the above... There's like
a mesamine platform where they're in a building,
or... Yes. Okay. Yes, that's correct. Is there
anything between me and up to the top now? Let's
say that's just a few more that is now congregating
closer and closer between you and those stairs.
As Gordar is moving towards it, he's going to,
once again, using my action, I'm going to breathe
out the acidic poison. Perfect. Those that are
in front of me. DC 15 dexterity saving throw,
please. Alright, you can see a cluster of them
beginning to melt just like before. Are you doing
this like a running thing? Yes. Ah, beautiful.
So that's 16 points of damage this time around.
Yeah, awesome. So I imagine as you're running
through you're blowing your breath like side
to side sort of thing to try and capture as much
as you can. You can see a whole cluster of them
about maybe about... about eight of these guys
just beginning to melt again and you can see
these these growths that are just forming on
the floor and you can see it spread onto the
conveyor belts and such uh some of them you see
that they are moving closer towards you and you
see that as they try to take a swing in you and
such they too begin to melt as you're moving
closer and closer towards the stairs and you
are now maybe about 10 feet away from the stairs
themselves. Is there anything else you'd like
to do? That's it. Gorar is freaking out. A lot
of the energy and stuff is actually coming from
the girls. They're the ones who are doing most
of this right now. He's kind of freaking out
a little bit. Now with Santa, Santa is up. You
see him with his huge icy sword and you see him
pick up Gimbal, right? With one hand and you
see him swing the sword. across an area, and
you can see the blade almost chimes with little
Christmassy notes in the air. And you see now,
as he takes that swipe, there's this frost that
just travels across before him. And you see now
this pure ice, I guess it is. Ice and cold just
goes forward and you see it slice several of
these creatures, these former employees, in half.
Some of them that are quite close to Santa. You
see some of the blood now begins to speckle around
his legs because he is rather big. And he begins
to run forward as well towards where Godard is.
Annie... Rainer, as you're both running forward,
I want you to just go ahead and both give me
a dexterity saving throw with a DC of, let's
say, 12. Annie rolled a 15. Rainer got a 7. Okay.
So, Annie, some of these things now you can see
the mutation upon the former employees. Some
of the changes are beginning to grow more rapidly.
You can see two of these as they're moving towards
you. You can see two just almost vibrate. and
then just stick to one another to become one,
and you now get this two -headed one coming towards
you. They, with four arms, swipe to your side,
but completely missing you as you're running
towards the staircase. Rainer, you see one of
them now running towards you, and you see the
same sort of vibration as now this one running
towards you. The other ones, as they vibrate
as well, they... merge with this one single one
and you can see that it has formed several different
legs upon this person and you can see faces and
such and it's now moving a lot faster and it's
going to take us and as it takes a swipe at you
you can see a multitude of arms maybe about three
or four on its side where it takes a swipe and
you're just going to go ahead and just go ahead
and take six points of damage from me please
but you're still running along. And I'm going
to say, let's see if this one, you can see a
cluster of them now heading towards Santa and
Gimble. And you can see maybe about 20 of these
things are now just trying to climb upon Santa's
leg. And you can see them, some of them are like
merging. into one as it's trying to grasp onto
santa and you can see now them tearing away at
his boots and his pants you see some of them
are beginning to sort of uh trying to dig into
his flesh and you can just see santa sort of
like kicking them off trying to kick them off
as best as he can as he's running rainer you're
up so in front of rainer is that creature Or
behind them? I would say it's more to this side,
but closer to behind. Okay, and it's about five
feet still melee distance? Yeah. Ah, great. Raynor's
going to take Dissonant Whispers. Awesome. He's
going to be kind of looking at them as he's going
to be... Focusing entirely on like the negative
thoughts that were in his head from before as
he's just Innately just kind of focused entirely
on them And did they have to throw a save or
what was for dissonant whispers again? So it's
a dc 15 wisdom saving throw Okay. Thank you All
right, so go ahead and pop me that damage please
that's 15 damage all right, so what does uh describe
to me how it how it decimates not only uh well
yes there's one particular creature just on your
side here so Rainer's focusing entirely on like
all of the annoying negative things he's heard
as he's just kind of like looking at this creature
and just the creature itself is hearing this
like overlapping sounds of people just kind of
whispering and then it starts getting stronger
and stronger as it becomes like a high frequency
kind of noise and it's just ringing in their
ears as they start bleeding from like their nose
and their mouth. Cool. You see the upper torso
of this thing just sort of slump back where its
legs are still holding them in place. Mm -hmm.
So it's still up? It looks dead, but the legs
are still moving. Okay. Do you do anything else?
I'm going to use that telekinetic shove again
and just push it as far away from me as possible.
You see it slide across these... The extra legs,
you can see at the bottom... Some of these legs
at the bottom, they're actually... hands? and
it looks like it's trying to claw across the
floor, and you can hear almost like scraping
up against metal as it gets pushed back 10 feet.
So with my remaining movement, I'm just going
to try to book it as close to the tower as possible,
or the upper floor thing. Great. So you're moving
forward. Gimbal is currently with Santa. Annie,
you are up. Okay. And there's that big, monstrous,
ugly thing chasing me? Yeah. Great! Um... Oh,
the two... The Siamese twin one. Yeah. Unfortunate.
Disgusting. Don't like that. So... Annie's going
to quickly, like, turn around. And moving her
rifle to her right hand throws her left arm as
if she's throwing a baseball as she casts Scorching
Ray. Rolling to attack. Yes, please. Can I use
my luck feat and change that roll? Is that how
it works? Wait, let me double... Sure. What did
you get first and foremost? So, unfortunately,
that first roll was a nine. Okay. Wait, I'm sort
of side -eyeing you, Larry. Did a nine hit? let
me take a look no it did not okay yep i'm gonna
use my lucky feet and redo that roll does the
16 hit that definitely hits great okay so what
i've never seen you cast this spell before so
what does this look like yes so um when annie
is throwing her arm forward uh there's like a
little what do you call it, like sparks in her
hand that kind of, like spark rocks. They just
start going as it gets louder and it grows. And
then as she throws it forward, the sparks, they
become tiny balls, balls of three. And they just
follow each other as it flies over to the target.
Cool. And you clearly decimate this thing. Okay.
So with the damage of... Seven. Yep. You decimate
this thing. How does it look like as your scorching
ray makes contact? So when the three individual
balls make contact on the target, on the twins,
rings of fire just start pulsing and growing
from those three individual points as it covers
the individual completely. And the rings, like,
they burn into the skin, flesh and clothing as
if making like a permanent imprint. As this,
as it makes that imprint upon the creatures,
one of its chests, I suppose, you now see it
begin to catch a flame as it is now burning.
You can see pieces of it beginning to limply
flop down. And with a fleshy sort of sound as
it drops to the ground. And again, the same thing.
You can see... You can see the vine... Oh, not
vine, sorry. The veins sort of grow out. Are
you doing anything else? It's like a parasite.
She turns back around and she sprints back to
where she's going. There was only that twin...
creature that was chasing Annie. Yes? I mean,
you're essentially all surrounded. You can see
one just behind Rainer where it has a limper
body, but you can see the multitude of legs still
running behind him. You can see also a few of
them still clutching onto Santa's legs. Okay,
hurling the other two at those on Santa's legs.
Okay. So go ahead and just give me the damage
for that, please. Okay, so the first thing of
damage is four and the second thing of damage
is eight. Perfect. So as you hit two of these
things that are on Santa, you see them fall off
and are now beginning to burn. Are you doing
anything else? Running. Just running. Everybody,
please give me a perception check, please, with
a DC of 18. And you got a 15? I rolled a natural
1 for a 2. You're blind. Okay. Raynor got 16.
Okay, just too short on that one, unfortunately.
I'm too busy slipping around in all the muck
as I'm trying to get up the stairs, just slipping
and sliding, and it's messy. Yuck. Gordar, you
are up. I'm slipping and sliding up these stairs.
gets the top i look down what am i observing
am i now that i'm up higher am i able to see
a horde oh lovely um see a horde is anyone who
seems to be in particular trouble from this angle
like at the moment you can only see santa kind
of struggling and you do also see rainer not
too far off just being chased by legs With a
limp body just atop of these legs. Okay. I am
going to cast Chromatic Orb. The pointer and
ring finger come out, little beads. Going to
shoot towards one near Santa. And I'm going to
cast that... Potentially, let's have a look.
I'm going to do that at... Second level. Let's
try and get as many bounces as possible. Let's
see. Sure. So, take advantage. That is a 26 to
hit. That is a definite hit on all your targets
down there. Thank goodness. Come on, give me
doubles. Yes, there's doubles. Okay, so 10 points
of damage for the first one. Poison. As these
helixes get thrown out, it collides with the
first one and then bounces off towards the second
target. That's a 24 to hit. That definitely hits
as well. I'm waiting for you to say it doesn't
hit, and I'm going to be very scared. Oh, it
doesn't bounce again, unfortunately. For 17 points
of poison damage on the second target. Okay,
I'm going to say that it bounces off the remaining
that are attached to Santa. And what... Sorry.
What was the type of your orb that you've just
cast? Poison. Okay. So as it's bouncing off,
you can see now these lumps of flesh are falling
off at the back of Santa as it's beginning to
coagulate and melt upon the ground. You now see
Santa as well. As he's running, he aims his sword
just behind him as this thin, ice beam just shoots
from his uh shoots from his blade itself and
it is hitting legs uh you see legs as he's running
towards you rainer like with the body that you've
killed it's just flopping basically as it runs
and you hear the thumping of all these like hands
and legs trying to chase uh chase you begin to
slow You hear the thumps slowing and you see,
as you just quickly look behind you, you can
now see it frozen in place. And now Santa is
up on the stairs with you, Gordar. There's so
many of them. Rainer, Annie, I just want you
both to give me an athletics check, please. With
a DC of 12. 18, baby! Very nice. Eight. Not so
nice. Annie, I'm going to say that you've made
it to the top of the stairs. Rainer, you are
at the bottom of the stairs. And now you can
see just as you're about to make your step, you
can see a few of them now have grabbed you. And
you can see some of them of bony, just bony features
where... Almost it creates like an exoskeleton
on some of them. And now that you're up this
close and you look back and you can see maybe
about six to eight of them just grabbing you,
right? You can see a very thin film or string
that seems to run on each and every one of them.
And you see this thin string. They all almost
look like puppets. Okay. That's not terrifying
at all. And I'm going to say that it's your turn.
So they're in melee. They're literally on his
legs, right? Yeah, they're all clasping at you
as best as they can, trying to stop you, trying
to grab you. Renner's going to take out his dagger
and just make a slash towards these strings.
Beautiful. Go ahead and just give me a Dexterity.
Dexterity ability? Yes, please. Unless you have
something like Sleight of Hand. I have Sleight
of Hand. Then I'll let you use that. Okay. That
was a nat 1 plus 5 which is 6 Okay, I'm going
to say with the swipe of your dagger you've But
because of what is happening right now in this
very moment, you're unable to keep your hands
steady. They're now just grabbing onto your chest,
grabbing your arm. You manage to take a swipe
on a few of these strings that are there. And
some of them you've noticed have like sort of
gone limp on one side. But it isn't enough. You
climb up a few of the steps. You get a quarter
way through the staircase, but they're just holding
onto you, trying to grab you, trying to drag
you down. You can still try to move if you'd
like. Yeah, he's going to try to basically run,
even if it provokes opportunity. I'm not going
to say it's going to provoke attack of opportunity,
but you will be moving at half speed. Okay, yeah.
So he's going to use all of his movement to get
as close as possible. So that's 15 feet. Yes.
So you're now halfway through this staircase
with these things trying to grab onto you. And
you look back and you're now seeing this mass
of horde of gimbal -esque creatures. The last
thing he's probably going to try to do is just
use that telekinetic shove and try to push one
of them away from him. Oh, you definitely...
Any time you... At this point now, because of
the mass amount of number of them, you push one,
which is basically just replaces another one.
It's... They're beginning to, like, climb over
each other and such. Oh, that is terrifying.
Okay. Yep. Annie, you're up. Uh... So... I imagine
Annie's, like, looking down, trying to figure
out where everyone else is, and she just sees
Rainer in this poor situation. She... Takes her
rifle and takes aim and tries to shoot this cluster
of limbs. Does a 17 hit? Most definitely. Perfect.
Yay. Damage. Okay, that's nine damage to the
cluster of limbs. As you take aim and you take
a shot at one of them that is grabbing Rainer
and hopes to slow this horde down and help Rainer
get up faster. You take a shot. You can see your
shot. penetrate the skull of one of them that
is grabbing rainer as that shot travels taking
out a few more that is behind him but to no avail
because as these things fall over and as their
body sort of hits whatever it is it's hitting
you can see it now beginning to sort of uh be
absorbed by whatever whatever is alive and whatever
Um, you've hit is now being replaced by even
more of these, uh, flesh, vine, bone, eyes, creatures.
I don't like that. I don't like that. Gordar.
Until everyone's up here, he's just gonna keep
blasting. Um, okay. I'm just gonna release another...
Little dragon's breath. Are there any within
15 feet of, like, a cone? No. No, okay. So, Raynor
is 15 feet away from you, and then the horde
is behind him. So there's nothing up here at
the moment. Okay. Goddard's going to turn his
attention then to the door, and... Is there a
handle or something? Santa, help me, please.
How do we get in there? As you're saying this,
you see Santa open... Well, not open, but he
punches the door into the manager's office, right?
Door flies back and he calls for the other two,
both speaking with Gimble's voice. Santa, you're
alive! The whole panicky sort of Gimble -esque.
All exactly like Gimble. And then you can see
them now talking to Gimble and they're all having
a conversation, completely forgetting about the
horde. It's like, oh, I'm Gimble. Oh, I'm Stimble.
This is not the time, any of you, unless you
want to be, I will throw you down there to shut
you up permanently. Oh, we need to get the door
open and you see Jingle jump on, did I say Tingle?
I can't even remember. Up on his shoulder and
you can see him now beginning to push on this
keypad. And now this door opens and it presents
you with a platform. Quickly, we must all get
to the platform. And are you done with your turn?
Goro's going to walk in. Okay. All right. So
I'm going to say it's Santa. Santa is going to
haul you now onto the platform quickly as he's
taking... Two steps down the stairs, still with
sword at hand. You see him grab you, Raynor,
with one of his hand as he lifts you, and he
swipes. He swipes just, you think he's going
to swipe at you, but he swipes just at the bottom
of your feet as all these flesh, and he yeets
you up onto the platform as he runs. i'm going
to say that's the end of the combat as you're
all onto this platform you now see uh tingle
and jingle Panicking pushing onto these panels
pulling pressing buttons pulling levers and you
can now see this horde as it's now moving closer
closer towards you and you see you hear the familiar
gimbal style panic as they're trying to get the
door closed and You can see now this horde just
as the door closes hits it and you hear a large
thud And you're all in the platform all safe
Santa, you see him with his sword at a ready,
just opens palms and the sword disappears with
that whirl of cold air and snowflakes. What the
hell was that? Exactly what I was thinking. Why?
Yes, I myself would like to know what had happened
here. Jingle, tingle, take us lower and tell
me what had happened. You see them pull more
levers, press more buttons. We're going to take
a break. Oh boy. So, we'll see you guys in a
few moments. Hey, guys. Look, there's not going
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nothing silly this time around. I just thought
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little bit as it slowly fades out. And goodbye.
Oh, Merry Christmas, Mrs. Akhmanik. No, a bit
too late for that now. No, we got it! We got
it! We got it! We have it! I don't know. I don't
know. It just didn't make the effort. Mr. Editor,
please. Good night, Mr. Suckmonic. Merry Christmas,
wherever you are. Who? Who? Who? Is she still
alive? And we are back. With everything that
had just occurred, with everything that you have
all seen, Tingle and Jingle are working on the
platform. Maybe about a minute, and it takes
a stop. And you see now, as this platform descends,
you're in this large area once more. Same size
as the factory floor. But the setup here is different.
You can see rows of tables and chairs. You can
see a few vending machines at the back. You can
see doors that lead out to elsewhere. And the
lighting in here is actually quite nice. You
can see... Jingle and Tingle and Gimble walk
off the platform, followed by Santa. Jingle goes,
this is our break room and also our domicile.
And you see them descend down the steps. And
as the three of you follow, you can see here
that Also here, this place has been infected
as well. You can see the vines. You can see the
webbing, that greenish -purplish webbing across
the floor. Not the floor, sorry, the walls. You
can see the tumorous flesh sacks here and there
upon corners and such. And you can just see Tingle,
Jingle, and Gimble get a cup of cocoa. And they're
like sitting down now at like just one other
table. Both Jingle and Tingle shaking. You see
just Santa just standing there. Um, little ones,
um, what happened here? We don't... rightly know
a few few weeks ago single single came back from
outside found a flower it was a really pretty
flower he said it'd be nice to give to santa
and he left it at santa's office But then a few
days after that, Jingle became sick. He was a
bit sick, but he just kept working. And then
everybody started getting sick. And then two
days ago, a lot of that. And you see Jingle points
at the walls. He points at the vines. Just took
over the place. Some people were taken by vines.
I don't even know where everyone else is. And
Tingle is like crying at this point now. And
because Tingle is crying, Gimble starts to cry
too. I don't know why I'm crying. Draenor is
going to whisper to Gordar really quickly. Do
you think it's a thing with this species that
they all... have some sort of inkling to run
towards danger and do the stupidest thing possible.
At this point, I would not be surprised. Great.
So, it's a flower in the Santa's office. Annie,
as he kind of notices Annie, looks like she was
about to say something. Where did you get this
flower? Or where did Single get the flower? He
said, being so much, he said it was just... Just
found it out in the woods when he was collecting
some material with the rest of the group out
there. Okay, and where is Santa's office? It's
at the lower levels. Cool. Just a moment. When
I was down there and I saw a lot of them kind
of crowding around me, I kind of like hesitantly
kind of looked towards Santa. When that happened
I Saw that there was some sort of like string
attached to every single one of them a string
mercy It appears that they're like puppets I'm
not entirely sure like when I slashed one of
them their sides went kind of disattached or
went limp so This isn't good. I don't think so,
and now we're in the center of it all. Um...
How much do you love this place, Santa? This
place has been here for thousands upon thousands
of years. It is my bastion. Ah, well, I think
it might need to go like the... The old gods
and, um... We burn to the ground and die because
I... We can't let this go elsewhere. Is there
another way out of this place? Back up. And also...
That would be one. And the other would be down
at the lower levels at my office with my reindeers.
Oh, I don't want to see what happened to the
reindeers. Yes. Well, I still have the bomb.
So... For the first time ever, I think... I want
you to blow something up. But we do need to get
out of here first. Judging from your terrified
face, I don't think you actually want me to.
No, no, no. I do. I want what everything is here
is to be gone. I'm just a little concerned by
the fact that sometimes you're in... Vengeance
don't exactly work the first time, and I don't
want to be in here when it goes off. Need I remind
you I have been in prison for 30 years? I'm a
little bit out of practice. That's perfectly
fine. It is normal to be a little impotent when
you're getting back into things. It might have
been a little while, and I'm going to shut up
now. That bird guy, could we ask him for help?
Uh, is he still alive? You know him, Annie. Um,
the one that, like, said he was a better version
of you. Coppernickel. That guy. Maybe we could
ask him for some help, because, you know, usually
his things work. Like, he had that big sniper
rifle last time. You see Annie's eye twitching.
Hey, Santa, can you bring them along? He's, like,
definitely just kidding. But he's just like trying
to agitate Annie. You see Santa disassociated
from your conversation. And he's looking both
at Tingle and Jingle. Has my brother been here?
And you just see the other two shake their head.
I see. I'm sorry, Reiner. What was it that you
said? I was saying that what would you prefer
us do? This is your place and we have different
measures of what we can do, obviously. We have
a bomb that may or may not work. We have a...
A reindeer escape plan, and we have an escape
plan from above. This is your home. This is their
home. So, what is it that you want to do here?
Tengul, Tengul. I want the both of you to look
around this floor. See if you can find any other
survivors. See if there's anyone left apart from
the two of you. As much as we can, I wish that
we could preserve this place. But if worse comes
to worse, then we would have to take it down.
And Christmas will be cancelled. We can't cancel
Christmas. Not Christmas. What about little Timmy?
Who's Timmy? Oh, just a little scam. His father
worked for my father. Oh, okay. Okay, so we...
probably don't want to blow this place up just
in case but yeah okay annie do you think you
could make something that would eradicate this
sort of thing to eradicate a place such as this
not yet but if i could if i could possibly find
something to make the bomb even more powerful
and destructive some kind of oil or flammable
gas it could work my dear annie the closest thing
i could think of is perhaps the propulsion fluids
that we use for the sleigh but generally these
things we do not keep here apart from the fuel
that could work Fuel is generally flammable.
Hmm. I don't like the idea of Christmas being
cancelled. Nor do I, my dear, nor do I. What
if you contain it so that it would only affect
the plant and the vines? Some sort of flesh -seeking
targeted bomb? I bet Coppernickel would know
how to do that. Take too much time to alter.
Yeah, it would take too much time for it to make
itself. If we wanted to destroy the plant itself,
the quickest way would be to inject it with something.
Okay, well, either way, we should go down there
and see what it is. Maybe Gordar would have an
idea. Like, use magic or something. It could
be, potentially. I think going down would be
the best. If we find out where its roots are,
the... origin point. We might be able to destroy
that and cause the rest to die off. We can only
hope that's the case. Well, not really feeling
very jolly and full of the holiday spirit, but
let's hope we don't become a spirit. Let's go.
Yes, hopefully we can become the heroes of Christmas
instead. Gimble. Yay! Heroes of Christmas! I
don't think my brother is behind all this. Oh,
yeah. He wouldn't go this far. Santa, you have
a brother? Of course. I give out gifts for the
good kids. And he hands out the calls and beatings
for the naughty kids. Any side eyes, Rainer?
Yeah. Yes, I do believe you all know my brother,
Krampus. Yep. None of this. Yes, I do feel sorry
for you, Raina, that you've had several visits
from him. Yes, I have. Yes, very well. Let's
head to the lower levels. This Christmas isn't
looking very jolly at all. Ho, ho, no. Are you
kidding me, Annie? Just trying to, and she wiggles
her fingers, lighten the mood. You see Santa
ascend the stairs and steps onto the platform.
As you all moving forward, slowly heading up
to the staircase and ascending it. You now see
the vines and veins around this place grow at
a rapid pace. Along the sides, along you, but
not touching you. You can hear now those fleshy
bulbuses in the room, in the break room, echo
that same familiar sloshing and beating of heart.
Does anyone else hear that? Oh, that's nice.
It's like it's alive. I do, yeah. It's like...
It's like rhythmic. Like a... What is that thing
called? The thing inside you that makes... A
heart. That one. Oh, don't say that. I don't
like the sound of that. It should not have a
heart. I'm guessing... Perception check, please.
DC 12. Is that for all of us? Yes, please. Annie
got a dirty 20. That's a 10 for Gorda. 12 for
Raynor. So, as you are now ascending the steps
with your footfalls echoing in the room, you're
hearing this beat that is coming from the break
room below. And you listen closely. And it's
not exactly a heartbeat. It's rhythmic. It is
the rhythm of jingle bells as you step onto the
platform. This is not a heartbeat. It's a musical.
Maybe we should blow this place out. Oh, I do
like musicals. Maybe hear it out for a second.
Do you like Christmas carols? Not particularly
Christmas carols. I like musicals. As you all
step onto the platform, you see Santa pick up
Gimble. And he sort of carries him over the panel
switch. And he just whispers to him. You see
him whisper something to him. And Gimble nods
and then takes a breath. With eyes closed, you
then begin to see him start pushing buttons,
pulling levers and everything. As the platform
churns for a moment, it ascends and then stops
and then you see him pull more levers and it
begins to descend. Okay, that's... Gimbal, what
are you doing? As the... As the platform descends,
You can see several different rooms as it's going
lower and lower. You see a room where it has
just crates upon crates. Indiana Jones style
where it's just all these crates. Another floor
you can see where it's trees and snow as if it
were outside. But you see the roof of this floor.
And it descends even deeper and deeper. And eventually,
as the platform descends down, more and more
of these vines and veins are ever present. And
there's so much of it. And as it lowers, as the
platform lowers, you are now seeing all these
lights and bookshelves. a huge table as it descends,
a huge chair. And you can see that just beyond
this platform, there is the level that it's at.
It also lowers down and just beyond that sub
level, you can see a sleigh. You can see stables
for each of the reindeers. And just beyond that,
you can see a giant Well, a great circular opening,
which seems to slope upwards. And the platform
hits the ground. And just upon the desk, you
can see a small flower pot. Maybe about 30 centimeters
in diameter. And you can now see these vines
that are now growing out of it, which has now
been attached to the walls, to the table, to
the floor. You can see now that same greenish
purplish webbing that is now across this room.
Upon that pot plant, you can see these gigantic
leaves that have grown out of it. Each one the
same size of each of you. Various large green
purple leaves. And sitting in the middle is this
large bulbous flower. Well, there it is. So are
we incinerating it or what? I would like to,
yes. Alright. Santa, do you have any sentimental
attachment to this flower? It's not like anything
I've seen before. As he steps off the platform,
and as he steps - So you haven't seen this flower
before? No. You see him walking closer and closer
to his desk. I wouldn't be going touching that.
You've seen what it's done to your people. No,
not touching. Looking. And you can see now a
lot of the vines. You're hearing it snap all
around you. And you can see Gimbal hurriedly
hops off the platform as a lot of these vines
now are wrapping on the platform itself. And
is slowly beginning to crush it. Yep. Oh, that's
not good. That is not good indeed. Give me a
perception check, everyone, please. Let's say
it's a DC of 15. That's a 4 for Annie. 13 for
Gorda. 12 for Raynor. You see or hear nothing
out of the ordinary apart from these plants.
As you're all examining this room, you do hear
hoofs on the ground. Presumably the reindeers.
Well, at least my reindeers are okay by the sounds
of things. What is exactly he turns to face?
The four of you. What is exactly your plan for
the plant? To incinerate it. That one. That sounds
like a good idea. As he says this, you see his
face in his veins black. Uh -oh. You see him
fall to his knees. Begins to cough. You see now
the torn cloth on his legs. You can see growths
coming from it. Oh, that's just great. And almost
in an instant, a lot of the vines coming off
the ceiling and the walls come down, grabbing
Santa with a large ho -ho -ho. Roll for initiative.
Okay. Alright, yep. What do you mean, no, no,
no? That's an 8. That is a 4 for Gorda. A 14
for Raynor. As these vines just wrap into Santa,
you can see now those... uh like the proboscis
thing we talked about wrap onto him and you see
it come to his eyes and mouth as santa is being
raised and with a big divine snap Santa drops
with a huge thud and you see him raise his right
arm and you can see again that familiar snowy
frosty air that wraps around his arm but this
time those vines and tendrils grow as the sleeve
bursts and rips as the muscles grow in this tumorous
way. You see eyeballs now being grown upon his
arms and his frost sword forms in his hand and
he squeezes. You see those same veins. Upon his
shoulder, you can see now vines shooting out
from his shoulders as it wraps around his arm
and onto his hand and onto the sword itself,
onto the handle. Okay, that's terrifying. How
do you guys want to do this? And you just hear
his voice. Grasher! Prancer! And you hear the
clip -clop. And you hear the maze of reindeers.
And you see two hop up from the sub -levels.
Two reindeers. Well, what was once reindeers?
With bone for an exoskeleton. You see one of
them. Six legs. Both of them have scorpion -like
tails. As Santa takes his sword and swings to
the three of you. And you see that ice now coming
towards the three of you. Go ahead and three
of you give me a dexterity saving throw, please.
Dexterity saving throw. Annie got a three. I
think you're muted, Rob. I was. I got a four.
Yay! I'm gonna die. That's what I do. Rainer
got 25. Fuck you. Seriously. Okay, that is good.
Someone's gonna be allowed to tell the story.
So Rainer, go ahead and take six points of damage.
Okay. Gordar, Annie, take 13 points of damage.
Cold. Owie. Oh, God, that hurts. And you see
Santa turn around, has his back to you. And you
now see the flower is now actually on his back.
The pot plant, as he moves, is now empty. And
there are now vines are now on Santa's back.
And this huge bulbous flower is now upon his
back. And he now begins to move towards the back
of this room, towards the sleigh and the rest
of the reindeers. Must spread the seed. And he's
moving forward towards that area. First of all,
how do we want to do this? I suggest we... Target
the flower and try and lock him down. Do not
let him leave. He spreads this. He spreads this
and Christmas is not the only thing that will
be ruined for everyone. Oh my god, I'm going
to be in the Krampus list for the rest of my
life if this happens. Think about it this way.
If you save Santa now, you will forever be on
his good list. I think. Good. Okay, I have an
idea. As you say, you have an idea, Rainer. One
of the reindeers goes charging straight for you,
Annie, as with its horns, you now see its regular
reindeer horns, yes, but each tip now you can
see that they're tiny little claw hands now charging
towards you as it swivels its head and is going
to... Shield. let's see how much uh what it is
first before you cast your shield it's a total
of 14. would have hit if it weren't for the shield
perfect so you see it try to gore you uh with
your shield once more a chunk of the the wall
here comes down and is shielding you from the
attack and as it tries to gore you the body of
this thing turns around and you can see the scorpion
tail tries to dig into you and that will be the
tail as it swipes uh as it swipes its body and
the tail pierces through that piece of wall,
that piece of concrete that you pulled for your
shield, shatters your shield completely as the
stinger, the scorpion -style stinger makes contact
upon your shoulder. Giant ancestry reaction thing.
That's fine. I just want to show you all this.
Why? So you're going to take 20 points of damage.
Oh. That's quite a lot. So... annie doesn't even
get a chance to react to this because she's down
by negative four oh uh just fyi that was a 20
it was a critical and you can see it right there
so a total of 26 of us your ac would have broken
through your shield so eddie's down Fuck you,
seriously. Me? It's the dice! You're gonna let
Christmas die, man. You're rolling too many natural
20s in these sessions. I don't know if it's the
dice. Hey. Look at that. You're fudging it. I
went and showed you guys. You fudged it. There
is an ability to fudge this and you're fudging
it. Your Christmas present is a pair of rigged
dice from me where everything's just gonna be
a natural one. Okay? This ain't fair. And with
that, we have Raynor. You see Prancer immediately
just dashes towards Annie. Annie conjures up
her shield for the first attack, but then the
tail whips back, piercing that concrete, shattering
it. And you can see Annie now. for a brief moment,
just hang off its tail, its scorpion -like tail,
as it tosses Annie aside and Annie goes... Raynor's
going to quickly notice this as he kind of turns
in her direction and bonus action healing word.
Okay. So that heals for... It heals for 11. Annie,
you... In a moment, you feel yourself going down.
Your head is... reeling you look at this thing
that was once a reindeer you blink you're you're
almost passing out and then you just see it lower
as if you're being raised and then you feel your
body hit the wall as you're being flung you land
and just as about just when you're about to pass
out You feel a tingling on you and you're healed
for 11. Oh good, she's alive. As he turns back
to the action and he's going to use a fairy fire
on the creatures in front of him. So the reindeers
and hopefully trying to get Santa into that kind
of bubble of 20 feet. Cube? Okay, so you can
get Dancer and Santa. Okay, that sounds good.
And the flower. Yeah, so you're gonna see, like,
for a moment he's just like, oh, I really don't
want to do this, this is really gross. As he
kind of, like, closes his eyes, like, covering
his eyes, and then releases them to show, like,
a light. That kind of, a purplish kind of, like,
um... thing just kind of comes out of his eyes
and covers that entire zone with purple lights,
so They have to take a dexterity saving throw
off I believe 15 Okay, Santa failed Dancer also
failed So once he's done that basically anything
from that can't benefit from invisible and attack
rolls against it have advantage if the attacker
can see it so Gordar or Annie were to see it
so with the remaining movement he can he's going
to try to get as far away as possible if it doesn't
provoke opportunity okay now you can move uh
more to the side away from wherever Annie is
at the moment and backwards uh away from Prancer
speaking of Prancer Pranza is now going to attempt
to charge towards you, but you're far enough
where it's now still just basically charging
towards you. Annie, you are up. You're a bit
dazed at the moment, but not too far from you.
Maybe about 15, 20 feet is Dancer. The one that
had just scored you. You can see another 20 feet
away to your left. You can see Prancer with his
multitude of legs running towards Raynor. And
you can see Santa with his back towards you.
And you can also see the flower on his back.
Damn, that hurt! She clicks her left hand and
she creates her Eldritch Cannon. As her magic
action. Cool. Okay, and then she uses her bodice
action to activate the cannon as a force ballista
to push the reindeer back. Sure. The one coming
towards me is Prancer, right? Yes. Yeah, okay.
No, Dancer. Dancer, okay. Okay. The cannon with
its legs just... uh turns just a little bit to
face dancer and uh a wave of force comes out
from the cannon uh going straight for the reindeer
uh can dancer please take 12 points of force
damage and does it push him back as well yes
uh five feet away all right so dancer has been
pushed five feet back gordar you're up i'm sorry
santa i'm going to activate innate sorcery once
again and then i'm going to uh pointer ring finger
uh going to cast a chromatic orb at second level
and i'm going to be targeting the flower on his
back i'm going to do fire damage awesome so it's
attack with advantage oh i was really hoping
for a crit there unfortunately not for a total
of 22 22 definitely hits As the helixing fire
fangs fly off towards the flower. That is 25
points of fire damage. I rolled really well.
Holy wow. And I rolled two fives. So is there
anyone within 30 feet of Santa? Yes. Santa himself
and also Prancer. Oh, no. Sorry. He charged forward.
How far away are we from Santa, actually? I can't
remember. You know what? I would say that the
reindeers are within 30 feet. Okay. It's going
to bounce towards... What was the one? Dancer.
Dancer's the one that is after Annie, and Prance
is the one that's after Rainer. And as the helix
in fire smacks into the side of the flower, splits
off, and then curls like heat -seeking missiles
back towards Dancer, does a natural 20 for 20...
For a 27 hit. Very good. This is going to be
some damage. That's 40 points of fire damage.
Let's go! On Dancer. As your chromatic orb goes
towards Dancer, correct? Yep. So that's the one
that is targeting Annie. Go ahead and describe
to me what it looks like as it takes out Dancer.
it does bounce again which i'm going to be attacking
prancer i want to see if if it destroys this
then i'll describe what it is if not then oh
sure because give me attack advantage please
i did it again i did it again holy that okay
there's no more bouncing after this that that
is the maximum i can do um That's 33 points of
fire damage for Prancer. Okay. So go ahead and
describe to me how you take these two down. Let's
go. Yes. So just you get like those little flashbacks
of like him with Christmas and him and it was
never a big thing in his family. It was a very
hushed occasion. His father didn't like celebrations
or loud noises in the house. So Gordar and a
couple of his siblings would have their own little
things in the gardens where they would give each
other little things they've made or baked together
and that kind of stuff. And it's those little
flashes of potentially everyone losing those
kind of memories that he holds dear and keeps
him going. He throws out this helix that... the
fangs that are spiraling smacks into the flower
and then as the two fangs separate become the
heat -seeking missiles they grow three times
in size and just curl back and just incinerate
the two deer in front of these comrades very
cool as it incinerates them puddles of flesh
are now beginning to form to where they once
were. The flesh congeals and hardens and become
this malleable thing as once again those vines
just spread across the floor. Godar, go ahead
and give me a dexterity saving throw, please.
Oh no. Come on, nat 20? That's a 2 for a 4. Okay.
As you take out these things, a moment of victory
is just within your grasp. And just within a
flash, vines from the ceiling, from the wall,
just come. As quick as you can even think of
it, just begin to pierce you like spears. And
I want you to go ahead and take... 14 points
of damage. Ooh, that's a heavy one. Oh, damn.
As these spears come down, like, all at once,
so fast that you didn't even see it coming, then
you see the vines pull out from you as they slowly
recoil. God, I, like, fall to his knees. Spitting
up blood. Santa taking notice of the death of
Prancer and Dancer. Dancer and Prancer turns
around. On Vixen! On Cupid! Hoofs again. And
then you see two more reindeers pop up. No, not
two. Sorry. One. With two heads. Aww. It got
worse. It's so much worse now. Why? This particular
one, both Vixen and Cupid, doesn't have the same
bony exoskeleton very gaunt now you can see no
more fur you see the leathery skin sheen it is
its skin now green and purple You can see its
rib cage, and upon its back, it has wings of
flesh and a thin membrane in between, like bat
wings. And as it lands on this level, it stomps
its hoof as the wings spread open as it rises
up onto this room, and it is now 15 feet up the
air. They fly now. Santa aims his sword towards
you, Rainer, and does a 15 hit. Cutting words.
Okay. So, you can see ice begin to form on the
blade. You can see snowflakes again just wrapping
itself around this sword as a fine, thin beam
Still hits. Shoots forward. Shoots forward. Okay,
that is very unfortunate, sir. I know. And I
want you to go ahead and take 15 points of damage.
Big, big one. As Santa turns around, again, beginning
to slowly move towards the lower sub -level.
Everybody please give me a perception check,
please. That's a dirty 20 for Annie. 10 for Gorda.
6 for Rainer. Annie, with the ring, your head
is still kind of ringing of just being thrown
across this room, up against this wall. You could
hear something. And you're not sure, but it's
almost like claw on metal. It's not the hoofs,
but there's a slight echo coming from the chute.
What is... Metal? Metal? Raynor, you are up.
Okay. He's really hurt right now. He's just kind
of like really struggling as he's just... As
he's going to... cast aid on gordar and annie
at third level oh damn which and what does this
do aid will increase their hit point maximum
and hit point duration for about um and like
about eight hours so it's basically healing but
increases their hit point maximum for 10 okay
there you go thank you very much Very nice. He's
gonna, like, start coughing up blood as he kind
of forces, like, things as he looks at Annie
and with his, like, hands kind of, like, reaches
out as he puts, like, a gun thing and whispers,
like, kind of hesitantly, um, go -go Annie as
he gives them bardic inspiration. Alright. And
with that, Vixen and Cupid up in the air. Its
noise is unearthly. It is not a reindeer's cry.
It is warped. It is just really gross to hear.
And you can see now it spits flame from its mouth,
its nostrils with smoke. And... It begins to
spit flame on each of you. So the first one towards
Annie, that is a 14 versus AC. It hits. Okay.
And the second one goes towards Gordar, which
is a 13. That does not hit. And lastly to Raynor.
Which is a total of 16. Hits. I'm going to try
again. Cutting words. Sure. He's just going to
mumble something under his breath, just hoping
for it being enough. He's like, you're not even
a real looking reindeer. And that's a minus eight.
Very good. So that would be 16, so it's a total
of eight. Yeah, so he saves now. Annie, I want
you to go ahead and just take seven points of
damage. Fire. As Vixen and Cupid just shoot out
these balls of flame towards the three of you.
gives off this neigh as it sort of rises up slightly
and then swoops down. Boom. Right in front of
you, Godar. Face to face. Clip clop. And it spreads
its wings almost like a peacock showing you its
size and almost in a taunting manner. Annie,
you're up. Mm -hmm. Okay. So I just want to clarify
something. That, metal clanking noise that she
heard that was coming from the chute that's correct
and is the chute made out of metal yes perfect
uh annie takes her rifle she aims it at the chute
itself as she casts heat metal okay is heat metal
can you just read the spell for me please The
heat metal spell. Choose a manufactured metal
object, such as a metal weapon or a suit of heavy
or medium metal armor that you can see within
range. You cause the object to glow red hot.
Any creature in the physical contact with the
object takes 2d85 damage when you cast the spell.
Until the spell ends, you can take a bonus action
on each of your later turns to deal this damage
again if the object is within range. Okay, what's
the range? 60 feet. Okay. Alright, I'm going
to say it's within 60 feet. As you take your
shot, you all hear a ding! A bullet hitting the
metal. And from where you all are, you can see
that this chute is now beginning to burn red
hot. And you can see it glow. And all of you
here are... And a few tumble. Go ahead and just
roll me that damage, please. That is 10 fire
damage. Okay. Not as impressive as Gordar's 20s,
30s, and 40s. Good on you, but also... Critical
hits. I'm pretty mad about it. Do you want to
do anything else? She still has the cannon activated
as well. She uses her bonus action to command
that cannon to go into flamethrower mode and
make a move against Vixen and Cupid. Okay. Is
it a cone? It is a cone. Where are you positioning
it exactly? The cannon is next to Gordar, facing
Vixen and Cupid. I've learned from last time.
I've learned from last time. Okay. All right.
So you need to make a ranged attack with that,
correct? I believe I do. It's a saving throw.
Ah, okay. So what's the saving throw on that?
On the flamethrower? Yep. What's your saving,
your DC, spell DC? Spell DC is 14. Okay. All
right. Is it dexterity? Yes. Because this two
-headed reindeer, Vixen and Cupid, is basically
putting on a performance for Godard, it rolled
a total of five. Great. Okay, let's roll that
damage. That is 12 fire damage. Perfect. You
said the Vixen and Cupid are performing for Godard.
Do you mean performing as in, like, a mating
thing? No, it's just... Everyone went through
my head. That's wild. Turns around, starts shaking
its ass. It's doing a peacock right now. It's
spreading itself. It's trying to intimidate us.
It's just trotting around in a circle. This is
turning into a different kind of nightmare. All
right, Godor, you are up. Gordar is going to
in with the flames coming over kind of like ah
hot um thanks Annie and he's going to uh dash
to the side so there will be an attack opportunity
as he's leaving the attack range of Vixen and
yep other Frankenstein Franken -deer Franken
-deer So it's going to, as you're trying to move
away, its wings come down, still on fire at this
point. And through the flames, it rears its head
and takes a swipe at you with its antlers with
a total of, oh boy, 24. 24. Unfortunately, that
does hit. Yes. Okay. Go ahead and take seven
points of damage. Oh, no, sorry. Ten points of
damage. Should have stuck with the seven. As
it slices through, he kind of like staggers that
little bit, but is able to get out of its range
as, once again, he's going to aim towards the
flower. We need to destroy that flower. And he's
going to level one, Chromatic Orb, fire at the...
attack with advantage that's a total of 21 there's
a hit and that's going to be 15 points of fire
damage and it doesn't bounce alright he's going
to just keep moving as far as he can away from
the deer as well so however big this room is
he's just going to use as much as he can gimbal
yells out As he's now at some corner and you
see him undoes, he takes off his backpack. I
came prepared this time. And you see him rummaging
through his bag. Everybody give me a dexterity
check with a DC of 10. What is Gimble doing?
Dexterity save? No, check. Annie rolled a 12.
I got a 17. Rainer got 18. wonderful so as gimbal
is digging through the his bag and he just yells
out to the three of you catch as he tosses uh
you can see three bottles that he has tossed
to the three of you uh uh you all catch it okay
and he yells out i brought healing potions thank
you gimbal it's the only good thing you've ever
done It's been five years, but you're actually
doing your worth. Thank you. Hey, we said thank
you. There's no need to be upset. Okay. Santa
pays no attention to the three of you as he now
continues to walk forward. He's getting closer
and closer to the sub -level edge. Raynor, you're
up. Is drinking the potion an action? Ah bonus
action. Okay bonus action I'm gonna drink it.
Okay so why don't you go ahead and get uh 13
HP back. That is quite a lot. You can kind of
see that he's kind of more like his wounds are
starting to heal as he just kind of gets up and
He throws his dagger as close to Santa as possible.
I'm guessing that Santa's still within 60 feet
of him. Yeah. Yeah. Throws his dagger at it,
and he's going to cast Cloud of Daggers at third
level. Sure. And there's no check for this or
anything, if I recall correctly? That's right.
So go ahead and give me the damage for that as
well, please. 11 damage. Okay. He's got it, like,
aiming for Santa's back where that flower is.
Yep. And that gets rid of... Are you also hitting
Santa? If it hits Santa, it hits Santa, but he's
mostly just aiming for that flower. Okay. Sure,
I'm going to say it does hit Santa. All right.
It is now Vixen and Cupid's turn. As the flame
is engulfed him from your construct, Does the
Construct have HP and an AC? I think it's AC's
like 10 or something, right? Armor class is 18.
Hit points is 5 times your Artificer level. So
that means AC 18 with HP of 15. Alright. You
see... You see Vixen and Cupid as it takes all
this flames. It reels back. It raises its forefront
hoofs. And it's going to try and bring down the
construct. Because of the flame, you see it trying
to bring down its hoofs, its four front hoofs,
banging down onto the ground, but completely
misses it with a total of, well, with a natural
one. So that is certainly fun. Good. Rainer,
can you just, just for the hell of it, just for
fun, just, just for fun, just give me a dexterity
saving throw, please? Just for fun, maybe he
doesn't have to, it should be fine. 17. Okay,
alright, so, as you take this potion in, Again,
quick as a flash, these vines come down at you.
But you saw it coming as you dodge and weave
out of these vines out of the way, trying to
stab you, though some of them do make purchase
upon you, hitting you on the leg and perhaps
on the side. So just go ahead and take six points
of damage. That's not fun. As the vines slowly
recede once more, very slowly. Fails his concentration
roll. Oh, no. Cloud of Dagger ends. Okay. Godot,
you're up. Slain up, like, against the wall,
just like... No. And is, once again, Chromatic
Orb, Fire. While he's moving towards Santa, like,
stumbling, like, he's going to try and hit the
flower. I need to stop this. That's a total of
23. Yeah, that's definitely hit the flower. 15
points of fire damage. And how far away is Vixen?
Away from Xenoth. About 20 feet away from you.
Cool. It bounces. Great. I rolled two sixes.
Great. That sounded semi -sarcastic. I had to
double check with your face. I'm like, you know
what? Fair. That's a 22 to hit. Most definitely
hits. And that's an extra 14 points of fire damage
to the Frankendere. Okay. Describe to me what
it looks like when you take down Vixen and Cupid.
Oh, there's nothing fancy. It just hits it in
the square of the back, and then you see the
cindering hole just starting to burn it up before
the fire ends, but there's enough damage that
it just falls to the ground. You see... And as
a bonus action, I'm quaffing that potion. Okay.
You will gain 16 HP. You're now hearing... The
rebound was kind of accidental. It wasn't even
on purpose. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is now very
clear. You can hear tumbling in the chute. You're
hearing a voice that is... Almost crying out
in pain, saying, ouch, oh, hot. And with that,
it is Santa's turn. Turns around real slow -like
to face the three of you. Ho, ho, ho, ho. The
three of you are on my naughty list. and it is
time I know you don't mean that to dispense the
pain takes a few steps forward and then you can
see almost with great speed charges and as he's
charging he takes that blade and he swings it
forward again with that arc and you can see this
15 foot man it's just like and you can hear the
boom boom boom of his foots uh foots of his foot
hitting the floor as he's coming closer and closer
and he swings that blade that arc now that cold
icy uh icy charred thing is now coming towards
the three of you everybody gave me a uh oh no
sorry i need to roll for that not the dexterity
Okay, so that is a total of 15 for everyone.
It doesn't hit. Okay. It does hit. Cutting words.
Okay, give me the cutting words. Let's hope for
the best. I'm just going to do that. Minus three.
So it's a 12. Oh, saves. Yeah, I said 15, so
it's a 12 now. Yeah, saves. Okay. So. The both
of you just duck in time as this huge ice thing
flies across the air. Annie, not quick enough
to be able to make it, you see it just hits you
across the chest, and I want you to go ahead
and take 11 points of cold damage. God, that
hurts. And she collapses to the floor. Okay.
No. And with that, Santa is still charging. You
hear a voice again that... And a final thud.
What the hell happened to this place? I know
that voice. You can see a figure that rises from
the ground, almost ape -like, and goat legs,
broad shoulders, as tall as Santa, with dreads
hanging off its head, and with a beard. Very
much akin to Santa's as well. Holding a sack
and also holding a bundle of sticks. Hello! As
you can hear him moving forward. Rainer, you're
up. Oh my god, that piece of shit. Oh, you fucker.
I'm gonna die here and I have to see him. Rainer,
I'm here for your beating. Can you beat Santa
first? He's kind of being an asshole. I don't
even know why you're here. Look at him. You're
gonna get a real fine beating, boy. But, like,
what about him? Does he not see what's happening?
Not yet. Oh, my God. He's gonna be like, oh,
well, if I'm gonna die, then... He's going to
cast as bonus action healing word again on Annie.
Okay. Oh, come on Annie. Just drink the potion.
And that heals for eight. Oh, did you forget
to drink it your last turn? I forgot to drink
it. Still holding on to it. Yeah, so he heals
for eight and then he just starts screaming.
Drink the potion! In her defense, she didn't
have the potion yet. It was between her and my
turn. Okay. And then, on his regular action,
he's going to... He's going to cast Tasha's Hideous
Laughter. At Santa. Sure. And the DC is? So it's
a DC 15. He's doing it on both Krampus and Santa.
Okay, so is there a range for this? So because
I'm doing it at second level, he can attack two
people. So usually it's one. Oh, it is 30 feet.
Okay, so it's not going to reach Krampus, unfortunately.
Okay, so yeah, then it's just going to be Santa.
Sure. You see Santa, as he's moving quite fast,
charging towards Annie, stops on his tracks with
the sword at hand. and he goes down one knee
using the sword to support himself up slightly
but he's down and he's just laughing and it echoes
throughout this whole room that jolly laugh now
almost gargled and corrupted it sounds like a
scratched record player are you doing anything
else? that's all he can do All right. Annie,
you are up. Write the potion. Okay. Pops it open,
takes a swig. Okay, that's a bonus action. You
will heal for... Oh, very good. A net one. You
get 18 on that. Oh. Oh, that feels good. All
right. Back to... Is that Krampus? You don't
know yet, but you do certainly hear his voice.
I should mention, as Santa goes down and is trying
to get him, get support from the sword itself,
you can see the flower on his back has actually
grown. And you can see vines now growing all
over Santa from the flower itself. Does it look
like damage at all with all the hits I've been
giving it? It has looked like it has taken damage.
However, this flower, now that you're seeing
it up close and on this angle, it is this bulbous
bit, right? It has a mouth. I don't like it.
All right, what are you doing, Eddie? Oh, that's
not great to look at. And she's reached into
her bag and she takes out the bomb. Interesting.
She snaps her left hand, lights the bomb on fire,
and throws it towards Santa's back. Okay. Rob,
you're first. Everybody, give me a dexterity
saving throw with a DC of 18. Is everyone in
a five -foot radius, though? No, this is the...
Oh, no, this was a different bomb. Yeah. That's
right. Uh -huh. I'm going to use my inspiration
to re -roll that. Sure. Oh, yeah, I have inspiration.
I can re -roll that. Natural 20 for a 22. Oh,
fuck. Nice one, Rob. Was that a dexterity saving
throw for myself as well? Everybody on this level.
16. Okay. Can she use her Bardic Inspiration
to add to this? Yes, she can. Yay! So Bardic
Inspiration's just rolling another d20, is it?
And then putting that on top? D8, okay. D8 and
just add it on top. Okay, so that Bardic Inspiration
roll resulted in a 4. That is a dirty 20. Alright.
Annie, go ahead and roll me 8 d8s, please. Okay.
I just saw Rob's eye twitch. I'm getting PTSD,
bro. That's fireball damage. 31 fire damage.
All right. There is a blast, an immediate heat
that you all feel, which reels you all back.
Throwing you off your feet, almost you're blown
away, if you will. So those who made their saves,
please take 15 points of damage. That hurt it.
Raynor is down. Everything now is on fire. Well.
almost everything the desk where the pot plant
once was is ablaze the bookshelves uh with tomes
and tomes of books is now a flame there's certain
parts of the wall with the vines are now also
on flames some of the fleshy bulbuses are beginning
to burst all around you uh with that pop and
squish and that as that rhythmic jingle bells
you're hearing is now some points stopping and
repeating uh you're all getting a moment of tinnitus
as this ring You can barely hear or see for a
moment. You see Santa still sort of there. And
you can see the silhouette of Santa down on his
knees, holding on to his sword. And you see the
silhouette of the flower upon its back. As for
a moment, you can kind of, as best as you can
tell, a maw has opened up and then closes. And
you can see the vines going wild. upon this silhouette
thing and you can see it almost it looks you're
unsure what it's doing but all these vines are
flailing upon santa goddard did that do anything
ow it did something um and he's going to get
himself back up to his feet seeing the vines
and the tendrils coming off santa still it's
still not dead how much fire do we need And once
again, I'm going to Chromatic Orb. Sure. Vantage,
give me a third 20, please. Unfortunately not
for a 17 to hit. But that 17 definitely hits
the flower. And that is, it does not bounce.
It is 12 points of fire damage. And Gordar is
just there kind of like staggering and barely
holding himself up. That's the end of his turn.
You hear a voice. It isn't Santa. It isn't Krampus.
But it kinda sounds like Santa. And you just
hear... Must spread the seed! The seed have to
spread it! Everywhere! Mine! And you hear a thud
on metal. And... You now, just beyond the flames,
you see this hulking creature with a man face
and beard, much like Santa, with a sack in one
hand and a bundle of sticks on the other. Rainer,
where are... What the hell is going on here?
First of all, are you causing trouble for dear
old Santa? Rainer is down. He can't respond.
He's gone. I... I know you're here! As he charges
forward and you see him raise the bundle of sticks
and is now wailing on the flower. I thought you
were going to say wailing on Rain or at least
unconscious. Yeah, he's dead. He's like dead.
He's like beating his thoughts. I know you can
see me, boy. You're getting better with your
acting. Don't pretend you're asleep! That won't
work on me again. As you can see, as you see
Krampus beginning to wail upon this flower over
and over, you hear that voice. And in that silhouette,
you can see that voice again. It is coming from
the flower as you hear the owls and oohs. Ow!
Ooh! No! You see it opening and speaking. Okay.
So is... Sorry, Raynor, are you down? Yeah, he's
down, like zero. Okay. So he has to make a death
saving? It's not your turn just yet. Okay. And
when you do, it would be a private roll. Yeah.
As Krampus is wailing upon the flower on Santa's
back. uh the silhouette uh the flame begins to
dine down and now you can see santa at fault
you can see all these vines that are just wrapped
up on his body and everything and you can see
that there are uh more vines are wrapped up around
his arm and he stands up and he faces krampus
Oh, dear brother. And the voice is now mixed
of Santa and this thing behind him. He's back
towards the rest of you. And you're now seeing
this thing speak at the same time as Santa. And
you have been very naughty. And he swings his
blade at Krampus. And you see, as the blade comes
up, it slashes Krampus across the chest, and
he's going to be taking some damage. Raynor,
give me that little old, that little old death
saving throw, please. Okay. Annie. Mm -hmm. How
are you feeling, Annie? Are you still up? She's
still up. Okay. And she's excited that she finally
threw something that exploded. You're reeling
back for a brief moment with such closeness to
the proximity of this explosion. You look around,
the flames dying down. You can see now Krampus
in his full glory, just as big as Santa. And
they're now toe -to -toe at the moment. Gordar,
how is Gordar looking? He's barely holding himself
up. You can see Gordar barely holding himself
up. And then you look at the further end. You
can see Raynor just not moving. You also see
Gimble down. Gimble's down as well? Yeah. Oh,
shit. What to do? What to do? Throw another fireball.
He didn't do the job properly the first time.
Finish him off. Oh, man. Sorry, Raynor. And she
tries to jog over to Raynor, touches his shoulder
and casts Cure Wounds. Okay. His breath is shallow.
You get nine points. Sorry, nine HP back. Correct
me if I'm wrong. Do they still remain unconscious?
No? Okay. Raynor, it's almost like a jolt. You
blink and you see Annie over you. Sorry, not
sorry. Everything hurts. Ow. Gordar, you are
up. Gordar, and he's like half kind of looking
around, just like, oh, goodness. He's going to
see Annie run over, heal Raynar, and then he's
going to see the unconscious rat boy next to
him. oh no no no if he dies we die no no no um
and he's going to run over as he does the wounds
and everything um is just you see from inside
just like a like a green energy kind of wash
over him and some of that uh those wounds start
to close as i'm going to oh never mind i just
realized i'm out of second level spell slots
i can't do that Don't mind me for saying that
I'm gonna go over and I'm going to one of the
little snakes upon his head They're going to
I'm gonna cross down next to Gimble and one of
the girls are going to bite him in the neck and
I'm gonna cast spare the dying. Oh cool Very
cool as the adrenaline as the venom is keeping
his heart beating Can you the adrenaline? Okay,
that's now pumping through system, right? So
he's now stable at 0 HP and will not continue
to roll to die unless he keeps getting hit with
things. Alright, awesome. And I think that is
an action. I do have something as a bonus action,
but it's the turning sorcery points into spell
slots, so I'll do that myself while you continue.
You can see Krampus now fighting Santa. brother
what the hell are you doing no and he's like
trying to smack santa back with his bundles of
stick you can just see him flailing away at santa
and santa in return is trading blow well not
trading blows but he's swinging his sword towards
krampus and krampus is also going to be taking
some damage and so santa raynor you are back
up annie standing over you You see Santa and
Krampus going toe to toe. Your eyes are a bit
bleary. And you hear a voice. I have to spread
the sea. The joy of the world. Me everywhere.
And that voice rings at the same time with Santa.
It's almost in unison. What do you do? He's going
to kind of look in a direction. of what's around
and he's going to notice Gordar kind of kneeling
and he's going to cast healing word as a bonus
action on Gordar mostly because Gordar is the
only one doing massive amounts of damage that's
uh 17 health points very nice oh my goodness
that is amazing thank you so much and with his
action he's going to look at the flower and he's
gonna cast vicious mockery okay what does vicious
mockery do so it's um a string of insults laced
with enchantments that anything that can see
or hear within range has to succeed or take 1d6
psychic damage and get disadvantage he's just
gonna be saying like Oh, this talk of seed. Oh,
that is so gross. You are so gross. Go ahead
and give me the damage, please. That is five
damage. All right. So as you hurl this insult
at the plant and it crying out, what was the
insult again? You are so gross. The seed talk
is disgusting. Like, come on, man. Okay. gross
gross what do you mean by gross it you see the
flower you see these vines come undone from santa
itself and the flower flops down to the ground
and is now moving its way towards you rainer
i'll show you gross i'll show you gross as it's
moving closer closer and you can see this thing
is big like huge and its mouth is huge and it's
coming towards you and it's almost like a kind
of like a venus fly trap that looks like a flower
and you can see rows upon rows of teeth in its
mouth as it's charging towards you and it lands
and presses onto your body it wraps you with
its vine and ah show you gross boy and then as
it opens its mouth It takes a. It takes you in.
And takes a bite. And you're kind of just like.
His legs are now just hanging off. The maw of
this thing. And it turns towards you Annie. As
you're now just standing there. With this thing
facing you. This huge flower. With vines. Going
nuts everywhere. And as. It has Gordar, sorry,
not Gordar, Raynor in its mouth. Raynor slowly
plops out. You can see saliva tears in his clothes
as he lands just by your foot and this thing
falls back. Gross. You see Santa fall. To the
ground. The vines everywhere begin to drop and
turn to dust. The vein, that blacky vein, all
recede. The tumorous flesh that are attached
on the wall, those that haven't bursted, shrinks
ever so small. And there is a calm. Santa on
the ground. Rainer, you feel gross. You're covered.
That is disgusting. Oh my god. Oh my god. Clean
yourself up. Snap your fingers. She snaps her
fingers and casts Prestidigitation to clean up
Raynor. He's like clean, but he's like covering
himself up. Fatal position. My clothes are gone.
Oh my god, you didn't get any on my coat, did
you? You mean the coat that's torn and ripped
into shreds? Yes. Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Man, that was such a good coat. Fuck! Is it dead?
Did we kill Santa? Yes, or maybe. A few hours
have passed. Annie, you are down the stables.
You are now surrounded by several other gimbal
individuals. You are creating... reindeer robots.
You can see there's a few remaining reindeer
alive and well. Goddard, you are with other gimbals.
You seem to be managing some of them at the workshop
level, telling them how to make these toys as
fast as possible. Rainer, You're in recovery.
And... You're on your back on a bed. And just
by your bed, you have Krampus reading you a book.
Oh my god. Are you gonna beat me up after this?
Lucky for you, you've made it on the nice list
this year. What? Really? You are on the nice
list. So, and then you see, but all that can
change in the next, oh, few hours or so. Oh my
God. Of course it can. All I needed to do was
kill Santa, apparently. You can all hear Santa's
voice throughout the compound. thanking the three
of you for saving Christmas. And hours pass,
and all four of you now are by the sleigh, back
here in Santa's office, with a huge sack at the
back of this sleigh. Your mechanical reindeers
are all ready to go. Now about I take you all
for home. On that thing? Of course. Um. He's
going to lean in towards Inna. Um, a lot of her
things don't tend to work the first couple times.
Are you sure they're going to be okay and we're
not going to just fall out of the sky? I'm sure
it will be fine as he taps his nose. I might
need some of that for this trip, yes. Okay, and
he clambers upon. There's a basically a backseat.
ready so santa's in the front and this sleigh
it is a marvel of uh ingenuity annie even you
are impressed it is not just a reindeer that
pulls this thing you can tell just by the design
of it there is some form of uh uh propulsion
system that allows it to travel up into the air
you can see um that there is some sort of side
ejection on the bottom of the sleigh, that something
may come out. Gimble happily jumps onto the back
seat, and he's now waving, Goodbye! Goodbye!
And you can see all the other Gimble -like others,
they're all waving. And just down here, Raynor,
just before you get on, you see Krampus standing
there as well. You may have been saved this year,
but I might see you next year. So chin up. Chin
up. Be a good boy or not. Because if you're not,
you're going to get a right spanking from me.
With a big smile from his face. I hate you. Feelings
mutual, baby. Santa, can I go home now? Are we
all ready? Everybody on board? I've always wanted
to go on something that flies like this. Gordos
is a bit excited. So, as you all... Oh, Godar,
I heard you. As you all align this sleigh, you
see now, just in front of Santa, there are...
buttons and gizmos and levers and such and everything
and he begins to pull them one by one pressing
buttons you're hearing beeping and whirring and
then you're hearing the jingle jangle of little
bells and the sound of uh the uh sounds of christmas
truly is in the air and with tradition Ondasher,
Ondancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner,
and Blitzen. And you hear a whirl, and you feel
almost like this heat coming from the back. You
hear, and like jets. You see the mechanical reindeer
stop for a brief moment, almost going to fizz
out. And you see a little from Santa, a breath,
which then goes around the mechanical reindeers,
the ones that he have lost. And you can see the
ting ting of the snowflakes and they work. in
true Marvel fashion. And it goes forward through
the chute and it picks up speed. And traveling
up this chute, it's going faster and faster.
And you shoot out just like a rocket through
a hole and through a mountain. And you are up
the air, way up high. And as the sleigh dashes
across the air with the reindeer, with the four
of you in the back, Merry Christmas. and to all
a good night yay yay oh man happy holidays everyone
hope you guys had fun with that i'm not gonna
lie when you when you said um buttons and levers
and switches i thought those were the new names
for the ones that were lost and now turned into
robots That would be cool. On button, on switch,
on lever. I wish I thought of that. On gizmos.
It's pretty dark. It's pretty dark that he renamed
the fucking robot ones the exact same names.
He's tied to tradition. How many generations
has he just gone through? Best not to think about
it. Best not to think about it. Keep that wonder.
All right. And with that, let us all say goodnight.
And goodbye to everybody and see you all in the
new year. Bye. Bye. Bye. Happy holidays. Good
night, Mrs. Akhmanek, wherever you are. Merry
Christmas. Except for you. I don't wish you a
happy holidays. I'm coming after you. Make sure
you comment. Not even on Christmas?