Thank you. And welcome back to Beginner's Lock,
the D &D podcast, a D &D podcast or a tabletop
podcast or whatever this may be. I am your host,
Larry. And if you look up chronic depression
in the dictionary, you'd find a picture of me.
I'm also followed by my players. Let's take it
from the top, shall we? That was really concerning,
Larry. Hi, I'm Bella. I play Annie, the artifice
of Goliath. Hello, my name is Robert and I play
Korda Sevrok, the Draconic Sorcerer. Hi, I'm
Avia and I play Raynor, the Elf the Bard. And
that's what you look like. Yes. And as always,
before we do begin, before we do get into that
recap, I do have a question for our, not our
players, but the characters themselves. So what
would be a few items on your... bucket list take
it from the top annie um i know i never really
was one for bucket lists but if i had to think
of any i guess right now it would just be to
remove and study the color see how it works um
see the potential of the crystals that i have
in my bag but But the biggest thing on my bucket
list, which I've had since even before I went
to prison, was to arm an entire military. That
is very interesting. Did not see that coming.
Okay. What about you, Godar? Well, it's slightly
less concerning than the one before me. I haven't...
I never really needed a bucket list. If I wanted
it, I'd normally just... go and get it and within
a couple days father would either approve or
not and then I didn't care but um I've always
I've read novels about getting up on a skyship
and traveling across the blue yonder I think
that would be amazing to find new civilizations
and things long forgotten and just be free of
everything it would be and just feeling the sea
breeze going through your scales, it would be
amazing. There was one other thing that... I
would like to find my mother. I still don't really
know her, so I think that would be quite nice
to figure out who she is and get to know her
a little. Okay, and lastly, Raynor? To be honest,
Gimble, I didn't think I'd get it this far. That's
a difficult question. Maybe sleep with a celebrity?
Oh, hey, yo. Find... Build a house and pay someone
to build it? I doubt now, honestly, Gimble. Why
are you asking these questions? What about you?
Oh, to finish this field guide. And maybe...
I don't know. Get paid. Oh, Gimble, you're thinking
too small. You're thinking too small, Gimble.
Think, what do you want to do with, like, the
pinnacle of your life? This is the next couple
years. How long does your species last? Five
years? Six years? A few months. You have plenty
of time. We live to 60 the most. God. Oh. Really?
With your survivability and walking in front
of danger, that's not a your people thing? I
don't know what you mean. As he tightens the
rope around his arm. I want to be a hero just
like you guys. A great hero who fights the evil.
We're not heroes. You guys, I'm my heroes. Well,
he is dumber than I thought. I think we might
have to read his field guide before he releases
it properly. And with that, we're going straight
into the recap. The undead dragon soared above.
Its vociferous voice boomed and resounded through
the forests. Searing blue flames coated the shaking
trees, withered and rusted plates of armor rose
from the ground below. Their blades pointed ahead
towards the group as the old souls within called
to battle. An agonizingly long and painful encounter
left our group dejected, with Godar clutching
their wound and everyone else condemning Gimble
for his lack of survival instinct. The scent
of iron and a sight of red left our compatriots
weary. Phantom hands rose above the river's surface,
clawing at any body of flesh or object that came
close enough to its bed. The flow of limbs almost
devouring Annie's rifle impelled our group onwards
and away from its snatching metacarpals. After
a worrisome encounter with a putrescent two -headed
deer and stumbling upon a guano -filled cave,
the group could finally find rest between each
other's night watch duties. With what should
have been the end of incessant tribulations came
odd and dangerous cues of warning. Sounds of
rattling chains, floating orbs of light, and
a cold presence unknown, their night of terror
is not quite finished yet. Raynor is going to
kind of take a look at this thing, and he's going
to open his mouth. What does he see specifically?
You see... You feel these cold phalanges just
almost digging into your shoulders. And this
being before you is of grey and green. You see
shackles upon their wrists, chains almost covering
its entirety. A hoard over this face, a gnarled...
decomposing face uh as best as you can tell it's
a well it once probably was a woman that's fuck
me that's a ghost what what what ghost girl's
gonna whip around The both of you wake up from
Rainer's scream and just where you would think
Rainer is sitting, you see this figure that is
almost hovering off the ground and it almost
seems to impose and engulf Rainer himself. What?
Oh, that's not good. That's not good. Annie?
What? What is... Oh, fuck. Annie, as you say
fuck and you look, you see this thing turn its
head towards you. I want you to go ahead and
give me a charisma saving throw, please. Yeah,
get them, get them. Oh my god. So that's a seven.
No, that's not what he asked. He was supposed
to be higher than that. What happened? I don't
control the dice, man. We know from last session.
Okay. Raynor, the cold grip upon your shoulders
relent. You see its body turn swiftly towards
your companions, and it goes straight towards
Annie. It goes past you, Gordar, and you get
an immediate chill upon you. You feel quite heavy
for a brief moment as these chains also follow
through your body. Annie, you see... this thing
now straight towards you and before you can even
say anything you feel a cold chill that is um
entering your orifice you through the nostril
and a mouth very cold feeling hold on I said
nostril and mouth. You didn't have to go there.
You made it weird. I was listening. It is a legitimate
way. Yeah, if you had just followed through normally,
it would have been fine. You insinuated it. I
was trying. No, that was me trying to think of
a word. You feel a cold chill. rises from your
nostril, your mouth, and your ears, and blank.
You see darkness, green flames. Godar, Raynor,
Annie speaks to the both of you. You must help
me, in Annie's voice. Um. Are you seeing what
I just saw, Rayna? Um, yeah. I figured that she
was old and it was her time. It was probably
a Grim Reaper, that's what it is. Um, but...
Help you in what way? I have lost my child. I
am your friend. No, you're in our friend. We
don't know you. My child. You must help me find
my child. What are you... What do you mean, find
your child? Have lost my child. Okay, well, did
you go back to where you found them? Or where
you lost them? Maybe they're still... Where did
you lose them? Help me find my child. Okay, you
need to give me information. As Annie's voice
echoes through this chamber a lot louder than
what you're used to, or you did not think that
Annie's voice could get this loud. That was loud.
You need to give us information if you want us
to help you. And why do you need to possess our
friend to do so? Just talk to us. Maybe they
can't talk to us. They don't have, you know,
vocal cords. Oh, at least now. And his arm raises
and points towards the end of the cavern. You
see these motes of light begin to project beyond.
It's deeper into the cavern, right? Yes. Okay.
What do you want to do? Well, there's only one
way to do. We don't have a priest, so I guess
we have to go resolve this dead person's anguish.
Okay. Gordor is going to pick up the rope. Come
here, Gimbal. That's Ren's forearm. Ties it.
He's still asleep. Hey, spirit person, would
it be fine if we could still work with Annie,
considering you don't know her things? She would
be more useful to find your child. Annie, you
find yourself in this vast void of darkness and
The floor seems to be wet and sticky. And not
too far from you, an apparition forms of a woman,
perhaps in her late thirties. Hello, Annie. Hello.
You must help me. With what, exactly? You must
help me find my child, my son. You want me...
to help you find your son. I hear the bombs.
I hear the explosion. Okay. Many are dead. How
old is your son? Can you describe your son? She
approaches you step by step. Well, what appears
to be step by step, but her feet just hover over
this inky black void of ground. oh that's not
creepy at all and she spreads her arms and her
fingers outstretched almost towards you and you
see these lights just spring forth from her fingers
as it shoots out into the abyss and you're beginning
to get visions and you're seeing a battlefield
You're seeing one young individual who's fighting
in this war. You see them overrun. You see a
dragon. Then you see men running into a cave.
You see men hiding. Great. And then blood. More
blood. Okay. Is it this cave that they possibly
ran into? Or... Silence. Um... Was your son a
soldier in the 100 -year war? Hello? Do you want
to answer me? Silence. She just stares... She
just stares at you in stark silence. And then
just behind her... Almost like a television screen
blinks on. And you see Rainer. You see Godard.
You see Gimbel being dragged by Godard. And it
seems that they are standing at the... where
you had all slept. All right. Look, one more
thing. Could I at least get a name? You know,
of yourself or your son. Silence. Lady, you're
not really giving me a lot to work with here.
Oh, that's just great. So, you don't know your
own son's name? Forgotten. Do you remember anything
about your son? Unclear. Forgotten. Again, these
lights project upon her fingers. You see the
young man once again, auburn hair. You can see
a scar on his cheek, on his right cheek, from
just the side of his eye all the way down to
his lip. All right. Okay. I only have that to
go on. All right. Thanks for... Giving me something
to work on, lady. I'm just gonna head out now.
And she's going towards the weird TV thingy.
As you're moving towards the the TV thingy you
hear her voice just as you're approaching and
you are stopped on your tracks. Find him. Or
I take you. Wait, what? As you say that, you
turn around slightly and you find all these chains
now begin to wrap around you and hold you in
place and tighten you. Rainer, as you say, as
you ask if your friend could be free from all
this because they could be useful, the voice
does not respond. Great. Annie, you come to,
you've gone through the screen. and you find
yourself with your companions once more. All
right, so we have to find this ghost's son. Why?
Because if we don't find her son, she takes me
instead. I see. Wait, what? You see, like, Gordar
was behind you with, like, a frying pan about
to, like, smack you across the back of the head,
thinking that you're still - Don't even think
about it, Gordar. Oh, I was just scratching my
back. Have you ever tried this method before?
It's very handy. What's this about a ghost? That
weird apparition thing that you guys saw. It
asked me to find her son. But the thing is, she
doesn't even know his name. Can't seem to remember
it. The only thing that she showed me was that
he had auburn hair and a scar that goes from...
his eye, down to his lips on his right side.
Okay. That's all I got. That's not exactly a
lot to go off. Do we know... I hate to say this,
but if this is a ghost of someone, there's normally
someone who's died a long time ago, right? According
to the storybooks and stuff? That's what I'm
thinking as well. She showed me visions of his
face, but also visions of a battle. One with
a dragon. I mean, he's probably dead. Been for
many years. What about the battle scene that
we had encountered when we went to Briar Rose?
Those people that were fighting each other on
the Eternal Battlefield. Maybe he's there. That's
what I was thinking too, but then the other vision
showed a few soldiers coming into this cave.
And besides, those soldiers on that battlefield...
When we interacted with them, they didn't seem
to interact back, just went around us. I see.
I think the most important question is, are you
going to get anything out of this? Because, like,
you've got a detriment, but it has to be a benefit,
right? You didn't ask. Okay. Do you think you
can go back in there and figure it out? I'm not
exactly inclined to go back inside that weird...
Plane of existence. Oh, so it was a plane of
existence. Mine was white. What about yours?
Uh, I don't know. Dark room. Dark cave, I guess.
With inky black floors. Very sticky. With green
lights, I guess. Lanterns. Flames. I don't know
what you would call it. Okay. I see. Can we please
not make this a habit of being possessed by things?
I don't particularly want my turn to come around.
Oh no, it will come around. Well, I truly hope
that it doesn't. I share enough with the girls.
I don't need anyone else. My bet is Red Room
for him. On episode 14, Godara gets possessed.
Oh no, nightmare. Annie, you feel a... As you're
talking to your companions, you feel this weight
on your wrists, and you hear a clinging of chains.
The both of you, Rainer, Godard, you now see
these shackles form on Annie's wrists, and you
see that there are chains attached. I'm sure
that isn't an ominous sign at all. Yes. Did you
have them before? I did not. Seems that these
are a welcoming gift in whatever cult I have
been forced into. Neat. Ugh. Cult? That's a leap.
What? I don't deal... She just woke up. Relax,
Gimble. I don't deal with demons. I should not
be dealing with ghosts. Man, why do I have to
deal with this? You know ghosts aren't real,
guys. I have had it with you. He just woke up
and you gotta give him some slack. How many times
has he said this doesn't exist and we've literally
proved him wrong? Yeah, that's why we ignore
him. This little rodent is living in denial.
Speaking of denial, we should probably get moving
because we don't want to see what you look like
when you're chained to the floor. I don't think
I could lift you. Very certain Gordar couldn't,
and, um... Don't even say it. What? Gimble? What?
If I find out that rodent has super strength,
I will scream into the void. You see Gimble trying
to lift you, Annie, on one leg. Like, grabbing
onto your right leg, trying to lift you. No,
no super strength. No, she's just heavy. Don't
worry about her. Let's go. I'm not even going
to dignify that with a response. What was that?
Let's just go into the cave, get this over with.
You lead the way. Are any chains attached to
anything, or are they just weighing her arms
down? They're just weighing her arms down, so
they're about a foot of chain each side. Oh,
it's an actual physical chain. Yes. Go ahead
and give me a survival check within this cave.
Could Raynor help because he has darkvision?
Sure. So you get advantage on that. Okay. Okay,
that's a 17. Great. So, the four of you traverse
deeper into the cavern where the motes of light
ends, and you come at this almost like a fork
on the road. The cavern splits into two. I'm
sure on which way to go. You... Take a brief
moment to examine the area to see if there's
any indication of where any possible signs of
life would have turned. And your best guess in
terms of the markings on this cavern wall, though
old and faded, you best guess that it is to your
left. So you take this left, and you continue
onwards about a good 20, 30 minutes, and you're
beginning to see signs of, well, not signs, but
you're now seeing here and there a cluster of
bones. Not many, and bones of varying species,
if you will. Humans, dragonborns, some animal
bones. And I want you to go ahead and give me
another survival check, please. This is still
with advantage. Eleven. Okay. All right. So as
you continue on this cavernous path, you see
that it slightly opens up a bit more. Wherever
you... Despite on how deep you are here, there
is a crack up on the ceiling of this cabin. More
of a hole where some light seems to be streaming
in. You can see as this light streams in, there
is moisture on the ground and there is moss and
some grass that seems to be growing within this
cabin itself. Here you find that there are still
some of these And you are now presented with
four pathways ahead beyond this opening. Great.
Four ways to go. Alright, so we could do this
the easy way or the hard way. Easy way is each
of us go into a path and try to find something.
Hard way is we all go together and do it one
by one. I don't think we should split up. And
have Gimble go on his own. That sounds like a
terrible decision. And you're possessed and possibly
just black out at any time. No thank you. It's
not like I can go anywhere and Annie's going
to wave around her arms with the chains attached.
Cling, cling, cling are the chains? Well, yes.
If you get into trouble, can't help you. And
vice versa. This makes no sense to split up,
no. Hmm. All right, well, which one are you guys
more inclined to enter? Let's take a look. And
he kind of steps forward, trying to look at each
route to see how far it might go. Like if he
can see anything in the darkness. Why don't you
go ahead, everybody here, give me an investigation.
That goes for Gimble too. And he got an eight.
Goddard didn't really investigate. He pulled
out his little gaming set, pulled out a four
-sided dice, rolled it, and just points, that
one, because I got a four. Raynor got 18. Oh,
beautiful. Gimble got also a four, and he is
playing with Goddard with whatever set this is.
Oh, don't touch my dice. No. Is it this way?
No, it's the pointed up of the four. Why would
it be the bottom? That makes no sense. There
are multiple numbers. No, okay. Gora's just going
to pick up his dice. Okay, so last time I let
you touch my things. No. Rainer, as you're examining
this opening, this cavern, and you are taking
a look at... You're taking a look around. You're
seeing these bones, these lidded bones all across.
You're now beginning to notice some sort of markings
along the ground. And you can see that it is
leading to one of the pathways, which is the
foremost right one. Foremost right one. So he's
going to kind of repeat that loudly. Foremost
right one. See, guys? Oh, what are you doing
with dice? Um, nothing. He puts it back into
his pocket. Um, yeah, I think that is a good
idea, yes. Yeah, I had a girlfriend that was
a geologist. So, I think it's this one. Oh, okay.
What perchance is God I was walking for? What
happened to this? Do you still keep in contact
with them? No. We've gone to a rocky place. It
was rough. Like the mountains or... Yeah, it
was like a mountain. Okay. You're hiking or...
Yeah. But it's just completely oblivious to what
you're saying. That's not important. What's more
important is that this is the route that probably
has the most markings. So we can go down this
route. That being said, Annie, you should probably
walk in front just because the ghost sense might
lead you somewhere. Right. The ghost sense. See?
You get it. And she's still waving around her
chains. Hey. He puts a hand on your shoulder.
It's okay. I've been there. Being possessed is
hard. I'm surprised you can reach my shoulder.
I can't. I'm on tippy toes. It's really hard.
Can you, like, bend down a little? Just this
once. And she bends down slightly. There you
go. You know, you can talk to me if you have
any issues with this. Like... I'm never doing
that again. Good. That's okay. Let it all out.
What, aren't you my therapist now? No. It's just
that if you die, we die with you, so... This
is kind of making the most of the situation right
now. You need to kind of be strong right now,
yeah? Right. And she just takes off straight
into the right -hand -most tunnel. I think it
worked. Annie's head is kind of drooped down
and she's like shuffling forward. Not very confident.
As you're moving along this cabin, deeper and
deeper, it's getting darker and darker as you're
losing the light from the previous cabin that
you were in. Gordos is going to pull up his little
dagger and cast a light. Perfect. So you now
have some form of illumination as you continue
on. It seems to wind down and you feel a slight
incline. Decline, sorry. A slight decline going
down deeper. I want you to go ahead and everybody
give me a perception check, please. And you got
a 16. That's a 15 for Gorda. 22 for Raynor. I
think it's a dirty. As you're beginning to descend
down, you smell something foul in the air. It's
the smell of rot and filth. Does it smell anything
like the prison? No. Not like a prison at all.
But very dirty, very stinky. The smell of death.
More bones are now beginning to litter the way.
as you descend down here. Ugh. Yuck. Raynor is
going to whisper to Godar. We should probably
be a little wary. See how there's only bones
here? That means something would have eaten them,
or, um, worse. Godar is going to cast the message
spell, and you hear in your head the sneaky,
extra sneaky version of his voice. Um, yes, I
think so. I am a little worried about Annie being
possessed, and if it's dragging us down here
to eat us, then we should most definitely be
ready. Yep. That's going to be rough. We're going
to die here. Great. Along with the foul smell,
the cavern walls are getting tighter and quite
Very enclosed. Annie, you now have to sort of
lower your head of just how tight this place
is. There is moisture and it is very slimy and
sticky. As you're slowly descending in this slow
decline, water has now begun to You've reached
a point where the water has pooled in this area
and it is not flooded, but maybe just about 30
centimeters deep of water. You see debris here
and there floating in as you wade through this.
Well, not weigh, because it's only 30 centimeters.
But as you're sloshing your way through this
water, the cavern gets tighter and tighter. And
now more bones, dirt, and water. And at this
point now, the water is knee -high. Annie, you
really have to crouch down now. You're almost
at the same height as your companions. Gordar
Rainer. there's a slight having to duck your
head down as you proceed on. You continue on
for the next maybe five minutes, and it leads
to now this, another opening. And you can see
stalagmites and stalactites in this cavern. No
light, except the light that you're streaming
with. Gordar. You can see water and you can see
bones scattered throughout. And you're just at
this sort of, you're at the precipice of this
opening in the cavern. Alright, so this cave
is of death. It stinks of high heaven. Well,
it's not too high heaven. Gordar is like covering
his face with like a cloth. It's nasty in here.
It's not nice at all. What do you see? He's holding
his nose. Um, stalagmites hanging from the ceiling.
And... Would you believe it? More skeletons.
Everywhere. Lovely. Is it the one you want? I
don't think so. Gimble just started puking. Oh,
very good, Gimble. Yes, add to the lovely smell
of this disgusting cave. Constitution saving
throw from everyone, please. Annie got a 15.
That's a 10 for Gorda. Raynor also got 10. Okay.
Annie, despite hearing Gimble throwing up last
night's meal. You keep it together. Renner, Gordor,
you're at the precipice. So you know how it kind
of slightly rises up and you're just like...
That's what you're experiencing right now. That's
so gross. Can we just use prestidigitation and
just fix all of this? That'll work, right? Let's
try it out. And Annie's going to click her fingers.
and cast Prestidigitation to clean up whatever
is causing the smell, particularly of Gimble's
vomit. You clean up the smell of his vomit, but
with the sheer size of this cavern, the area
of it, there isn't enough time for you to actually
cleanse this whole place. So you're getting those
moments of clarity, of cleanliness, but then
it once again gets overwhelmed by the already
putrid smell within this place. Gorda is going
to get that piece of cloth, going to get into
his little backpack, and he's going to pull out
a very tiny little spray vial of perfume. Oh,
perfect. And he's going to spray the cloth and
place it over his nose and just hold out the
bottle for the rest. It's quite a lovely smell.
Vanilla, elderberries, and some lily of the valley.
If you are... It's not toxic, I think, to you
lot. It's not to me, but we'll see. Yep. Can
you spray it on my wrist? A little spray. It
very much smells like... You realize this is
why Gordar actually smells decent. He's been
reapplying perfume every week. Not bad. Could
you spray it here? He kind of offers his shirt
a little. He does so. You see Gimbal now has
taken out his helmet from his pack. And he's
like wearing the helmet and he's trying to stuff
his clothes within the crevices of the helmet.
So he's got this diver suit helmet on currently.
That's a smart idea. You know what would be smarter?
Having a rebreather, which you don't have. He's
just like shaking in the spot, trying to hold
his breath because he's kind of staunched up
and he's trying to stand still. gimbal come here
and he's kind of like well where they're like
it's stuffed in he's just gonna like pull it
forwards open up and just spray it right in the
nose that's still better it'll probably sting
for a little bit but at least it shouldn't be
as bad oh he just bumped into a wall bang oh
do not spray near the nose may turn blind our
bang It's just going between the cavern walls.
And he's turned around and she keeps trudging
through whatever disgusting liquid is at her
feet. As you step forward to enter this opening,
this cavern sector, you immediately drop. And
you find that the water is now on your abdomen.
Now we're going to drown. Okay. Be careful over
here. Looks like there's a very deep drop. Might
want to take care of Gimble, actually. I can
see that. Now's a probably good time to mention,
I can't swim. She throws her head back slowly
as a sudden realization of, holy shit, you're
useless. Alright, you really don't know how to
swim. I lived in the Narrows. It was a prison.
What do you want from me? I was in an actual
prison. Shut your mouth. Yeah, but you're tall.
You don't need to swim. It's a very useful skill
to have. I wonder if there's anything that's
floating. Do you know how to swim, Goda? Well,
yes. I was taught when I was young. Great, you
had a dad. Yeah, that's good. I'm not going to
touch that. Well, yes, my father was, you know...
Even though people might say other things about
him, I think he did quite an amazing job on me,
I think. Right. I'm not going to touch that.
Do you see any planks? As you're wading through
this water, Annie, about 30 feet beyond, you
can see that there are sections of this cavern
that isn't submerged in water. There's one part
to your right where you can see there is a mass
bone pile. And as you get deeper into this cavern,
you can see another stream of light that is coming
through from the ceiling of this place. Very
little. Very little of it. And the other parts
where it's not submerged in water, also bone
piles. Right. Okay. It doesn't look like there's
a lot of areas where it's not sunken in. Also
not a lot of things that can float. Hang on.
Just wait. Just real quick. Gordar, Raynor, are
you still at the entrance or have you gone and
jumped in as well? God hasn't jumped in, but
he's next to the edge. Okay, so you're both still
at the edge? Mm -hmm. Just wait. Go ahead. Annie's
going to go over to them and kind of go through
her bags, and she finds a rope. All right, just
each of you hold on to the rope. I'll guide us.
As you're speaking, I'd like you to give me a
strength check, please. Okay. Oh, no, sorry.
Strength saving throw. Okay. Oh, boy. Seven.
Okay, so... As Annie approaches the both of you,
now pulling this rope from her pack, beginning
to extend it to the both of you. Annie, you feel...
You feel something grab at your legs and you're
immediately pulled under the water. The both
of you, you see Annie immediately just go down
as she's holding this rope, trying to hand it
to you guys. And you see her just into the water,
being pulled down. Annie! And Gordo's going to
dive in. You dive in, and we're going to take
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back in. Speaking of diving, Gordar, you went
and dived right in. What are you doing? When
I dive in and I open my eyes, what am I seeing?
Is this deep? Because there is very little light
that is coming in in this room. Yes, that's what
I was about to ask. So you can see now that there
are parts of this cavern where you can see where
Annie was standing, where the water was abdomen
height. But there are parts in this cavern floor
where it deepens. And not too far away from you,
you can see Annie being dragged by something
away. uh what are you doing it so it's like in
drag she's getting like dragged just straight
down like into like a pit cut like yeah so there
are like pockets of holes i guess you can describe
them and you can see her now being dragged down
into one of them uh god ours and then just like
lets out like in surprise of bubbles of air and
then is going to um cast alter self on himself
um pretty much it uh you see like his fingers
kind of like grow webbing in between it uh he
gains uh the scales on his neck kind of like
filter and like uh split as gills start to grow
as he gains a swim speed and can breathe underwater
um and then he's just going to dash towards well
not dash because abuse my yeah i'm just going
to get swim as fast as possible after annie okay
uh rainer what are you doing rainer is kind of
looking towards all of them and he's going to
be like oh great uh go gimbal do you want to
go down i don't want to go down um you see uh
you see gimbal motioning the So he's just going
to put his hands up and he's going to go, go
Annie, as he gives her bardic inspiration. Do
you need to be able to see her to be able to
cast this? Anyone that can hear or see me. Okay.
Annie, real quick. I want you to give me a perception
check with disadvantage. I just want to see if
you can hear. DC will probably be a 15. Perception
at disadvantage. Oh, that's a 12. To the best
of your knowledge, Rainer, you had given her
body inspiration. Okay. Unfortunately, Annie,
no, it did not reach. You do not hear anything.
Do I remove a charge for that? I'm going to say
yes. Okay. So, Annie, all you can hear is your
own sort of muffled, well, not muffled, your
own bubbly, goggling voice. being dragged across
the, well, through this water. You, in the sheer
panic, you've let go of your rope as it rises
up in the water and you're being dragged into
deeper into this, deeper into the cabin floors,
I guess. Rainer, go ahead and give me an athletics
check to chase after her. You mean Gorda? Because
you said, you asked Annie to listen out for Gordar,
and then you said, you swapped it. This episode
is the scuffed episode. Gordar, go ahead and
give me an analytics check to check after Annie,
please. Okay. Do I get advantage because I have
a swim speed? shore yay i need it oh boy that's
only an 11 you swim through the water with great
ease uh but you're whatever is dragging annie
seems to have a lot more strength and a lot more
speed than you uh greater ease in navigating
the waters you yourself while used to swimming
uh would this be like the first time he would
have done something like this with the gills
and the or do you think he's done this before
um it's probably the first time he's doing it
with this but all it does is just boost what
he already knows how to swim underwater so he's
got a swim like he's with dashing that's 60 feet
of movement like he's moving fast underwater
it's just this thing is moving faster than him
i guess okay Let's jump back to you, Raynor.
Mm -hmm. Anything happening at your end now?
Like you're both panicking with Gimble. What
do we do? What do we do? What do we do? What
do we do? What do we do? Gimble, quiet. I'm thinking.
How far are they away from Raynor? You can't
tell anymore. They're underwater. It's too dark
in here. You can only see this light that is
coming from underwater, which is, you can tell,
is Gordar, which is moving. uh moving towards
the left and it seems to be this uh the light
begins to sort of dim and shrink it would have
dimmed really quickly because it's only 40 feet
max and he's got 60 feet movement so it's just
it'd be gone oh so that's more than um he can't
do anything uh he's gonna just use dancing lights
and just kind of like conjure these like glowing
orbs, and then he's just going to try to send
them far down to see how far they are down to
hopefully try to light up their path. Okay. Go
ahead and give me a perception check, please.
Six. Okay. We'll get back to you with that six.
Annie, go ahead and give me a strength saving
throw, please, with disadvantage as you're being
dragged in the water. That's a three. So. You
feel the clutches upon your ankles, and you feel
now the grip loosen for a brief second, but seem
to now grab you on your thighs and now on your
torso, and the grip tightens, almost digging
into your skin as this thing is trying to pull
you even deeper. Gordar, go ahead and give me
another athletics check with advantage. Do I
still see her? Or is it kind of like, is it like
a tunnel that's like weaving? It is a tunnel
that's weaving underwater. Okay, so I'm seeing
like remnants of like the bubbles. Yes. And that's
really, that's all that's helping. Okay. Athletics.
It's only a six. Okay, that's with advantage,
correct? Oh. That's a nine. You're unsure if
you're catching up or not, though you... do know
that it is this way, considering it is the only
way through. You did see Annie get pulled down
this particular hole, and you're just trying
to get there as fast as possible. Rainer, as
you send these motes of light down into the water,
you can see now the... The sections on where
Annie was standing and where she was slightly
walking. And you're beginning to see now there's
several different holes, if you will, that lead
deeper into the water, most likely into the cave
as well. And as you're trying to focus on these,
on what you can see down there, you now... I'm
beginning to hear the rattling of bones. Is the
rattling of bones coming behind me? Ahead of
you. Ahead of me? You look up and amongst the
piles of bones, one of the piles of bones, the
one to your right, you now see a humanoid figure
just sort of rise from the pile of bones. Leathery
skin. skin sheens with the small light that is
coming from the ceiling and also from your dancing
lights and now that you see this figure you can
see at least two more of the same but curled
up almost they look that blend into the stone
but now you see that same leathery skin that
sheen that light is just reflecting off it and
you know that that is not stone okay he's going
to kind of hope he's going to try to use his
dancing lights to kind of keep them at bay hoping
that because they were in a cave the eyesight
would be bad annie strength saving throw please
disadvantage oh man 12. So you begin to struggle
now, unsure if you can hold your breath any longer.
You punch, you kick, you shake as this thing
is dragging you and it relents for a brief moment
and you've broken yourself away and you begin
to swim back to whence you came, but then you
feel the immediate grab on one of your ankles
once more. Gordar. Athletics, please. Advantage.
That's a 15. You're picking up speed and you're
weaving through this tunnel and now ahead of
you, you see Annie. You see Annie fighting off
this thing. You're unsure on exactly what you're
looking at. With Annie thrashing about and with
this thing clutching onto her. it's hard to tell
on what it is but you see annie break away and
she's now moving closer towards you but then
that thing just grabs her by the ankle once more
and it's now trying to drag her even uh even
further you are relatively close now you're about
15 feet away from her all right um did i have
to use that dash action to get to this i'll give
you an action okay um gordar is going to uh put
out his uh pointer and ring finger the little
beads and he's going to cast uh chromatic orbit
this thing and use uh lightning oh cool fangs
to go into crackling lightning and then just
zip through the water towards this um that's
first level and i am not in my innate sorcery
so that's a flat roll unfortunately it's only
a nine so I can't imagine that casting a spell
underwater would be the same as casting it normally.
It is a bit difficult to cast this spell once
more, though this thing has noticed you cast
this spell, aiming straight for it. It sees the
bouncing of the, I guess, your spell through
the water, and... It breaks away, letting Annie
go as it moves, as it swims on its own further
into this cabin, this tunnel. So Annie is currently
free, but let's just go back to Rainer. That
thing that you are trying to keep at bay in hopes
that it does not move. The other figures that
you can see at least. Two or three that you can
see has not moved from where they are. And they're,
your best guess, they're probably asleep. But
this one that had awoken from the pile of bones
dives into the water. And you can now see it
heading towards you. And it is going to go ahead
and leap at you. And I want you to go ahead.
Let me see here. You see as it's swimming towards
you, it lunges towards your feet in hopes of
to try and drag you down. And that is going to
be a 14 versus your AC. I mean, he's cutting
work. Okay. What does that do again? If you could
just run that by me. It uses a supernatural wit
to sap the confidence or competence of any others.
So basically I'm going to use a bardic inspiration
die. I roll it and then that reduces their roll.
All right, perfect. Go ahead and roll me that
cutting word die for me, please. So it's minus
four from their roll. So it would be a 10. You
see these. You see it swim towards you and it
lunges towards your feet to try and grab. And
because you are able to see this thing and you
are aware that what it's most likely going to
do, you kind of just like take a step back. No,
sort of thing. Is there anything you'd like to
do? I'm going to cast Dissonant Whispers on it.
All right, go ahead and do that for me, please.
So they have to do a DC 15 wisdom saving throw.
Or take 3d6 psychic damage. If they succeed,
they take half as much damage. All right. Go
ahead and give me that damage, please. They rolled
a 7. That is 13. They also have to take reaction
to get as far away from me as possible. If they
have reaction. So you see, as you've... done
your spell and the room rings with the it echoes
the whispers that you conjure and you now see
it sort of turn back and begin to swim backwards
and then you see it descend down one of the tunnels
Annie you have now been freed from this from
the clutches of this thing and you see Gordar
15 feet ahead of you. That thing now that has
grabbed you is swimming away behind you. What
do you do? What is the thing that was chasing
after Annie? You could not tell what it was.
Oh my god. Well, Annie's going to immediately
swim towards Gordar and even swim past him if
she can make it. Okay. Go ahead and just give
me a flat athletics check to try. Oh, probably.
Can I give her the help action by dragging her
along with my swim speed? Sure. So now it's just
a flat athletics check, please. That's a three.
You're slowly not passing out as of yet, but
you're now feeling the because of the. Because
of how quick you were dragged down, and how much
oxygen was released from your lungs, you're finding
it difficult to swim through, and you're now
slowly beginning to pass out. Goddard's going
to cast Message, so you hear, Annie! Annie! And
he's going to grab your bag of holding, open
it up, and just, like, try and, like, push, like,
point, get in, get in. Get in the bag! She's
going to try and lift her heavy arms, hold onto
the bag, and just pull herself into it. God,
I was also just shoving her in. All right, well,
that's a bit worse now. Whoa, you're fucking
drowning. Get in the bag. Get in the bag. Get!
Water is now streaming into the bag of holding
as you're now also trying to get in the state
that you're currently in. It isn't very wide.
With your size, it is very difficult to squeeze
yourself in. And since Gordar is helping you
try and get in, just give me a flat dexterity
check, please. See if you can wriggle your way
into the bag. Nat 20. Very good. Okay. So you
look at the mouth of the bag. And you're trying
to assess whether you can go in this or not because
you know your size, you know your frame. And
you figure with the delirium that you're currently
experiencing, you think you can make it. And
you go in arms first to making yourself as thin
as possible. And as you go in arm first, Godard
is assisting you with his hands upon your waist,
trying to push you into the bag. And it gets
caught upon your hips for a brief moment. And
one push and water is beginning to stream in.
Instantly closes bag. Yeah. So as the water is
streaming in, you instantly close the bag. God,
I was just going to grab the bag and then just
hook it over his back and then just swim as fast
as possible back up there. So while she won't
have the full 10 minutes of oxygen in there,
she should have enough to keep her alive. And
he's just swimming as fast as possible, not looking
back, just going as fast as possible right now,
trying to get back up. Sure. Raynor. That thing
has descended down into one of the holes and...
With the whispers that echoed upon this chamber,
you see the other three figures now begin to
rise and is now all eyes on you. Okay. How far
away are they from me? 30 feet. And what I'm
going to do now is going to get everybody to
do a... What's the word? Initiative. Okay. Can
we get that one more time without spreading it
out over like 30 seconds? And with that, can
I just please get an initiative roll from everybody?
Cool. Including Annie who's in the bag? Yes,
please. Okay. Get in the bag. Explodes out of
bag. What did we all get? Annie got a 15. Gora
got a 7. Raynor got 14. Let's just go ahead and
start this out. So one of these leathery skinned
creatures, Raynor, you see now beginning to swim,
dives into the water. With your motes of light,
you're able to see where it's going and it's
heading straight towards you with great speed.
As it swims, it leaps up into the air and is
going to make an attempt to grab you. So does
an 18 hit? It does. Okay, so you see this leap
towards you as you're trying to back away. Gimbal
as well is backing up with you and this thing
leaps up from the water as it takes its claws
and it brings it down across your chest. So I'd
like you please to take... Let's see here. Go
ahead and take five points of damage from me,
please. And now this thing is, as it takes these,
as it slashes across his chest, you see this
thing that is hulking before you that stands
at least a foot taller than you, crouch down
because of the area that you're currently in,
this tight space, and its body shines. It sheens
with the wetness, the... It had just gone through,
and you see these large claws for its hands,
and you see no visible hair that should be there
but isn't. Its humanoid -like face, skin gone
from the side of its face where you only see
its teeth, rows of sharp teeth, and it opens
its mouth and it... produces this large tongue
very venom -like and it almost as if it wants
to lick you in a way yeah annie go ahead and
give me a constitution saving throw please that's
a 12 okay so in the state of delirium you've
gotten in here you are in this void this empty
space this starry empty space uh the colors of
purple and deep blue and you almost kind of i
guess you see stars in this pocket dimension
that you've never ever been in before as you
float aimlessly you can see just uh water sort
of like just floating you know how water floats
in space how it And then you see all randomly,
you'll see a few of the items that you've had
in your bag of holding just float across you.
You are in this eternal space and you are unsure
on how long you can hold, but you, is there anything
you'd like to do in here? Honestly, I don't know
if there's really anything to do in here. I think
she's just going to try and find some way out.
I guess if there's like a door or like a, what
do you call it? Like a flap of fabric that's
kind of just floating, maybe? Give me a perception
check. Perception check. 11. All right. We'll
come back to you on your turn. Raynor, you are
up. You have this thing just before you. Raynor
is going to use Tasha's hideous laughter on it.
Okay, cool. He's gonna see it and he's just gonna
be like, good god, you're ugly. And go ahead
and just remind me what that does. So it is a
spell that any creature that I can see within
range makes a wisdom saving throw. On a failed
save, it has prone and incapacitated conditions
for its duration. During that time, it laughs
uncontrollably if it's capable of laughter. And
it can't end a prone condition on itself. So
at the end of each turn, you get to re -roll,
or if it takes damage. It rolled a 17. Flat.
Unlucky. It's now, as you cast the spell in hopes
that it takes effect, and this thing steps back
for a brief moment, and it begins to... cackle
As its tongue whips back and forth and it now
Begins to step forward. Oh, no, I was kidding.
I was kidding As you're looking at this thing
staring at this thing and backing away From a
distance, you now see that other figure dive
into the water. Gordar, you are up. Action and
movement to dash. So 60 feet of swim speed going
up as fast as possible. You eventually reach
the top of this tunnel. And as you ascend upwards,
you just see right next to you a creature that
dives. And you are now side by side. you see
this tightly fleshed fleshy thing again you notice
that this creature upon his jaw have no skin
with his exposed teeth this one has elf like
ears and you notice that it has these huge claw
like hands as it now soothes now is swimming
alongside you as it notices you and sort of turns.
Okay. That's concerning. Mm -hmm. It is. So,
Raynor, this thing, as you're saying, I am kidding.
I'm joking. Please, sir, do not approach. I do
not consent. It's just a prank, bro. It's just
a prank. You see, as it's laughing at you with
its... It dives forward and lunges towards your
jugular as it tries to take a bite. And does
a 16 hit? Cutting words. Cutting words. Go ahead
and roll that for me, please. one oh there's
a 15 hit it does as you try to use your uh cutting
words to get away from this thing you reel back
and it lunges for your jugular but only biting
your shoulder it it almost tears at your flesh
as you can feel the tea it's teeth and fangs
and incisors dig into your skin you now feel
its tongue trying to wrap around your arms and
it pulls back and you can see blood dripping
from its teeth and jaws as it continues to laugh
and as it laughs it takes a swing at you with
its claw uh hold on guys uh so does a 24 hit.
Does. Okay. And it is a critical. Oh, so it will
make it no matter what. Before I give you the
damage, I want you to go ahead and give me a
constitution saving throw, please. Three. You,
this, as it laughs with your blood streaming
down. its jaw it takes a swing at you with its
massive claw cutting across your chest uh you're
going to take five points of damage okay and
as the claw makes contact and rakes across your
chest you feel the sharp pain of it raking there
it but it almost burns and you now you're slowly
unable to move you feel more stiff and as you
try to move even further you cannot your eyes
dart back and forth unable to move or say anything
and you are now currently paralyzed which means
that uh the condition will end the end of its
next turn okay target has the paralyzed condition
until the end of its next turn So when this creature
acts again, at the end, you will no longer be
paralyzed. Annie, you are venturing in this void
space, trying to find some sort of exit. And
you see, with all the water that is floating
about, not too far from it, you can see like
a crack. a breach in this void of space. Mm -hmm.
All right. And he's going to try to float towards
the crack, trying to investigate if that really
is the way out or if it's just an anomaly in
the bag. You go forth and air swim in this void.
going past the floating water, just sort of like
pushing it out of the way. And you examine this
crack, this tear, and there is nothing like it
anywhere else within this void, this starry,
purpley, deep blue void. And your best guess,
this is most likely the exit. Okay. Um, can Annie
stick her hand out there and feel what's on the
outside, if it's still water or if it's, like,
air? Just her flailing right arm, just trying
to gauge what the hell's happening outside. We'll
get back to you. So, Raynor, you are currently
paralyzed. So this means he loses a turn, correct?
For being paralyzed? Yes. I'm going to say yes.
Okay. Now, this creature that is alongside you,
Gordar, as it's swimming and as you rose from
the tunnel, it turns its body to sort of face
you as it's swimming. And it's going to go ahead
and dive towards you as... you're swimming along
you're taking a back for a brief moment to what
you were seeing and you feel the bag that you're
now carrying you feel a hand just come forth
and it's slapping about and it's like now hitting
you upon the chest and it's waving and everything
annie as you stick your hand out into this breach
you feel wet you feel water and all this water
is now like gushing through the breach as you're
trying to flail about. As this creature comes
towards you, Gordar, you see it unhinges its
jaw, and it's going to try and bite you. Gordar's
just slapping back at the hands as he swims.
Get back in there! What are you doing? It's been
like... 40 seconds gets back in there. As you're
flailing about trying to get this hand back inside
the bag, this thing just dives towards your jugular.
You can see its jaw opened up so wide and it
just chomps as it misses you. And as it misses
you, it does this spin where it takes its claw
and tries to claw you across the chest. And it
turns as you're trying, as you're flailing about
trying to get Annie to put her arm back inside
the bag. The claw misses you. Very, the way he's
like moving in the water is still very like serpentine.
Like when you see snakes in the water, it's very
much of him just like weaving and like, and just
like, but also just like frantic. which most
definitely helped you as you're trying to uh
as this thing attacks you uh goddard is going
to ignore this creature not seeing that and he
is trying to get out of the bag and he's going
to go towards uh the edge where uh we jumped
in okay so so with 30 feet i get back there uh
but there is an attack of opportunity Okay, so
as you're trying to swim away and get away from
this thing as Annie's arm is flailing about.
Okay, so this one is a total of 23 versus AC
as you're trying to swim away. Jeez. Yeah, that
does hit. Okay. Before I give you the damage,
why don't you go ahead and give me a constitution
saving throw with a DC of 10. That's a 17. The
claw that just rips upon your side, the opposite
side of wherever you have the bag, and you're
just going to take six points of damage. Is that
slashing damage? Yes. Okay. And I need to do
a con saving throw, which is the DC 10. I have
advantage on that. Oh, I rolled a natural 20
and a one. So a natural 20 for a 25 on the concentration.
You're good. 20 and a one. Holy wow. You, as
this thing claws you on your side, you're taken
aback for a moment, but you managed to just slip
away and reach the edge of where you were once
standing as you pulled yourself up. onto the
ledge uh annie you are now feeling air you're
no longer feeling water water is no longer flowing
through uh you pull yourself up onto the ledge
and you stand up gorda and yeah you just see
beyond you about 10 feet ahead of you this thing
just almost crouched because of the height of
this uh this tunnel and you can just see gorda
just beyond him oh sorry You see Raynor just
beyond him. I am messing up so much today. I
apologize. So you are now up there. Yeah. He's
going to just like splatter up, dragging himself
up, just throwing the bag to the side. Just let
it go. Splatter. She'll get out in a second.
And Gordar is going to. pointer and ring finger
and do a uh sorceress burst at the creature in
front of uh reyna sure go ahead uh i am going
to use my bonus action to uh activate innate
sorcery um so i get advantage on this as the
crown uh very much looking like some kind of
underwater weird monster now that with like the
gills that the web feeds like the the more like
slim like physique and then just the crown of
just like the snakes um okay so as you're doing
this you can just hear gimbal as his voice echoes
in this tunnel and you can just hear him going
ah what do i do what do i do what do i do shut
up as um uh does the and it's going to be uh
uh electricity um Lightning damage, that's it.
23 to hit. That most definitely hits. Unfortunately,
I didn't roll an 8, so that's 10 points of lightning
damage to the creature in front of Reno. And
he's going to use the rest of his movement to
move halfway there. As you hit this thing, it
makes contact and it turns around real slowly,
Resident Evil style. And you see, again, the
exposed teeth, lack of jaw, and you see this
tongue just sort of slowly creeps out of its
mouth and it looks at you and it gives that laugh
once more. That gargled laugh. Have you ever
done something and then instantly regretted it?
That's me right now. As you say the instant regret,
you hear a splash behind you. And another one
of this leathery skinned creature is now at your
behind. And you hear that splash and you feel
this thing just lunge towards you. And it's first
going to try and take a bite out of you. Can
I take a moment? And... It's my second crit of
the game. So... We need to weigh your dice. You
crit way too much. I pray to the dice gods. And
I... Just before this session, I'm like, please
allow me to kill them. Please allow me to kill
them. I want you to go ahead and take... 18 points
of damage. As that bite upon your shoulder, the
teeth really digs in to your shoulder and you
can feel the teeth breaking skin and it pulls
away with your blood just oozing from its mouth
as it takes a slash at you as well. Alrighty,
I succeed on my concentration throw. Perfect.
With a 13. Guys, you're not going to believe
it. You're joking. You are not going to believe
it. You are not going to believe it. But... It
is a telegram. With a total of 24. No. No. Just
give me one second. Okay. I don't know what's
happening. The silence is so deafening right
now. All I can do is I hope you roll low. I want
you to go ahead and also give me a constitution
saving throw, please, with a DC of 10. Well,
I succeed that with a 23. That's good. And then
you're going to take an additional eight points
of damage. That's not good. As this last one
slashes into him, you see from these two, um,
just in like, uh, strong hits, just crushing
into him, uh, more or less just falls to his
knees, barely holding himself up with one HP.
You see this thing slowly now as you struggle
to sort of stand this. thing almost tries to
circle you but there isn't enough room to circle
you so it sort of slightly weaves and it's just
moving closer and closer the one that was in
front of you sees you goes down almost going
down and then is now face to face with you Raynor
turns back around knowing that it's no longer
in danger and in your current state all you can
do is stare upon this thing as you can feel while
unable to move you're you still have some of
your senses about you and you can feel and you
can feel gimbal grabbing on your leg trying to
pull you as best as he can but he can't move
you too well but he's trying and he's like i
don't know what to do i don't know what to do
and he's clearly panicking uh this Rather than
using speed, this thing just takes a few steps
forward, step by step, real slow, and then immediately
bites down onto your neck. And as Gimbal is pulling
you, this thing tries to bite to your neck, and
Gimbal pulls hard enough where you fall back.
on top of him and this thing completely misses
his bite and we're going to say it is now Annie's
turn Annie you can feel the ground as you're
flailing about you're a bit um dazed with all
the water that was rushing in moments ago but
you seem to be able Air is now coming through
this. That stink, that stench, that awful smell
is now wafting in this crevice. Okay. Alright.
Gotta get out. She's gonna try and army crawl
her way out of the bag. Sure. Just give me a
dexterity check, please. Dexterity check. Why?
Two. Okay, you struggle and I'm going to say
that you managed to get yourself halfway out
with one arm. The one that you were flailing
with is out. And now the mouth of the bag of
holding is like from your other arm to the side
of your chest. So you're partly out and you look
around and you see one of those leathery things
just there to your left. It's back to you. And
then you look to your right and you see another
one with its back to you. And you can see Gordar
just sort of like go down for a brief moment.
I'll allow you one action with disadvantage being
partly in the bag. As she grunts and screams,
she clicks her left hand, which is still in the
bag. and she casts shatter and the point of the
spell will be in between the two monsters that
are approaching goddard okay so you're definitely
going to get that one creature and by your best
bet it's you're currently unaware of the one
underwater but i am going to say that you will
hit that one as well so go uh so they need to
make a constitution saving throw is that correct
That's correct. DC of 14. Okay, so tell me about
this spell first of all, and then what it looks
like. Okay, so a loud noise erupts from a point
of your choice within range. Each creature in
a 10 -foot radius sphere centered there makes
a constitution -saving throw, taking 3d8 thunder
damage on a failed save or half as much on a
successful one. Okay, and what does it look like?
So... Right in between the two monsters, you
will see a very broken sphere that has very sharp
spikes sticking out of it as it just spins frantically,
but also grows in size as it reaches that 10
foot radius. Cool. All right. Awesome. Just go
ahead and roll the damage for me and I'll do
the constitution saving throws on these two things.
All right. Please, dice gods. What is the total
damage? Total damage was 11 thunder damage. And
this is, if I recall correctly, this is a loud
noise, right? Yes. I imagine that it rings throughout
this whole cave, cavern area. The sound bounces
off the wall and you can see this one particular
one that is facing Gordar reels and almost is
affected by this noise and it is almost drowning
it. And you see it begin to bash his head up
against the cavern wall with the noise ringing
upon its head. And as it continues to bash its
head on the cavern wall, you see it drop to its
feet. Okay. That's one. And you are unsure about
the other one. Rainer. Some feeling is now returning
to you. You can feel gimbal upon your back and
you can feel mobility once again return to you.
It is now your turn. So he's going to kind of
look down and notice that Godara is on his like
knees. He's kind of like reeling with her and
he's just going to like try to like stand up.
But he realizes he really can't right now. as
he casts my bonus action, Healing Word. So he's
going to cast it at 3rd level. So that should
heal for 6d4. That's 4, which would be 14 health.
Very nice. Thank you very much. Yeah, so he's
humming a tune that he remembers very vaguely
as he sees a creature in front of him. And he's
going to use Dissonant Whispers again at second
level. As you're humming this turn, this creature
is now also beginning to somewhat hum it along
with you as if familiar to it. And it needs to
make a wisdom saving throw. DC 15. All right.
So go ahead and do the damage for me, please.
So that is 10 damage. So what do these whispers
sound like? They're insults. They're insults.
They're words of things that Raynor has heard
all his life, just concatenated in his head to
emulate from him. Okay, so you see this thing
slowly is going to be descending upon you as
it wishes to feed on your flesh, and it crouches
down even closer. and as you begin your whispers
you see the creature pause for a moment and it
looks to its left looks to its right and you
just hear it go as it's snapping its jaws its
tongue licking the air and it's going to take
that 10 points of damage and is there any other
conditions when they fail the save If they fail
to save, they must... If it can, it has to use
its reaction to get as far away from me as possible,
using the safest route. Can't exactly go past
Gordar or this half -person in a bag, so... Thank
God I was on his knees against the wall. It's
not exactly hard to go past him. I can't... Okay,
so... You can't... If you move through another
creature's space that isn't a friend, it counts
as difficult terrain. all right so sure this
as it's looking left and right trying to discern
of where the sound is coming from it's gnash
gnashing is that correct gnashing at the air
as it licks the air itself and he turns around
and almost tries to scamper along the wall and
moves and almost knocking you over Gordar and
you see it dive into the water and from the water
from the water you see as it dove in The one
that had chased you in the water, you see now
this one is slightly different from the others.
Its head is slightly bigger. It has those elf
ears. And it looks at you, Gordar. And then it
looks at you, Annie. And it looks at you, Raynor,
still just down on the ground. And seeing you
as prime target, Annie, it rushes past you, Gordar.
So if you'd like to make an attack of opportunity,
you can do so. Lashes out with his little dagger.
And very weakly smacks into the ground with a
10. So as it's weaving its way past you, you
try to swing at it with your dagger, but unfortunately
does not make contact as it immediately dives
towards Annie upon your free arm as it takes
a bite out of your free arm. Shield. So. That
is a total of 19 versus AC. It does hit. You
can shield if you want. And does it block it
completely? Oh, man. That sucks. Because it adds
five to AC, doesn't it? It does. And it would
have missed. So it would have missed. It would
have missed. Okay. So what does your shield look
like as this thing lunges towards your arm? So
it looks like a stray piece of rock has just
flown into place. Oh, okay. Yeah, and then it
just kind of appears right in front as if it
was... How do I put this? As if it just flown
there and then just stopped in place immediately.
Okay. All right. Perfect. So the way I see this,
Gordar, as it passes you, you can see this thing
as it... unhinges its jaw once more and you can
see this massive maw as it's coming towards you
and the stone that you've brought forth to shield
the bite you see it take a chunk out of this
stone as it's biting it and it crushes it in
its jaw as stone scatters all over uh as he does
that it tries to go and swipe you just on the
wherever you are exposed, whether you're on your
stomach or your back. Are you on your back or
are you on your stomach? I imagine that she's
on her stomach. Okay, so it's going to, as it
crushes that stone, its claw comes down to try
and break your back. Oh, God. Hey, it's a decent
reaction, though. So that is also a 19. 19 hits.
Okay. Uh, go ahead. Are you going to use another
shield? Yep. Shield lasts for a whole round.
She doesn't need to use another one. Because
it's a reaction, right? Yeah. Yes. Oh, sorry.
My mistake. It lasts until the beginning of her
next turn. Yeah. Sorry. My mistake. Okay. So,
as it takes, uh... it takes a swing at you this
your shield another piece of stone a piece of
the cavernous wall just comes down and protects
you and you can see its claws just rake across
uh well goddard you see its claws rake uh across
this stone as you can see sparks flying okay
you are well protected lucky lucky and goddard
you are up goddard is going to look at this creature
uh and i'm he's going to say the word halt as
he casts command call upon it um so it's a first
level uh it's it's not concentration that's nice
uh dc 16 wisdom saving throw please and if it
succeeds i'll tell you what it does awesome so
you're targeting the one that just lunched at
annie yes That is a one. Oh, okay. I saw you
worried there. I thought you rolled another natural
20 and you were doing that noise to me. I was
like, god damn it. So, on its turn, the target
doesn't move, takes no actions or bonus actions.
It is... technically just stunned for the turn
okay can't do anything so it's next turn it can't
do anything awesome so you see this thing rake
that stone and you make the command of halt and
as you make that command of halt it sort of tries
to straighten itself up however with the height
of this thing so it's still kind of only still
hunched over and that is going to be his turn
kind of just like now just like laying up against
the wall just like hit breathing heavily just
like uh that one is still swimming away does
it need to make any sort of uh save or anything
like that again nope it can come back now oh
okay so yeah i don't think it's like it has to
bleed does it no it just says it has to just
try to get as far away as possible it's not a
yeah it's not a mind control thing it's just
for that you use your reaction to run and then
you can You hear a splash of water once more.
Gordar, you take this moment of reprieve, stopping
this one thing, but then the one that had just
passed you now rises from the water slowly and
is now looking around. You see it eyeball, it
eyes you as it licks its lips. And in the chaos,
in the moment that you've had to have to breathe,
as it's rising, you hear that slushing of water,
you see it rise, and then you see it slowly move
towards you as it quickens to try and bite you.
That is a, sadly, a... What is that? Three versus
AC. oh sadly um after the two natural 20s i don't
think so that is uh perfectly fine and i'm glad
it doesn't hit so as you panic for a brief moment
and it lunges as it takes a bite and his head
uh head like just hitting the cavern wall where
you were sitting and turns around and tries to
swing at you with its claw i think at this point
like gorda is like rolling yeah like he like
push off the wall and it's just rolling on his
side like across the like very small like uh
tunnel so imagine a dive towards you like bang
hits the wall and then turns around seeing you
trying to roll and then swings at you yeah yeah
uh that is a 14 versus AC. It does not hit. He's
a little bit too fast for it. Perfect. As he
continues, hits the back end of the wall and
is facing the creature just like, as he's like
trying to pull himself back up. As you're rolling,
you actually hit the legs of the one that you've
halted. So within this tight space, there isn't
a lot of room to move, but you've just, now you're
there and it looks at you as it misses and it's
almost. What would it be doing? It looks at you
and it's like tongue -whipping back and forth.
Okay. You're an ugly one, aren't you? Annie!
You are up. You are halfway through this bag
of holding. Would you like to try and get out
first? I think so, yeah. She's going to try and
climb out further. Okay, so go ahead and give
me a... Dexterity check. This one will be fairly
easy because you're already halfway out. So just
a DC of 10. All right. Okay, 17. Perfect. So
why don't you go ahead and describe to me on
how you complete this ejection from the bag of
holding. Oh boy. So Annie's right arm is already
out. Half of her chest is out as well. She's
just going to try and... uh use her right arm
and maneuver her left shoulder out and then she
brings out her left arm as well uh and from there
it's just like shimmying off a pair of pants
at the end of a long work day like easy peasy
just take it off throw the bag away although
she will pick it up later she's up she's uh crouching
she's done she's out of the bag And as you're
now out of this bag in this crouch position in
front of you, you can just see this leathery
creature just almost hunched, stuck still. Okay,
I'm just going to move away from you. Goodbye.
And she's going to walk around it. Walk around
it towards Gordar? Maybe not towards Gordar,
but behind this leathery monster. All right,
so you're going to go step backwards towards
where Raynor and Gimble is. Raynor still down
currently on the ground with Gimble. So let's
just say you've taken her about five feet away.
Five feet away. Is that still considered melee
range? I'll say you're just outside melee range.
Okay, perfect. If she can, she's going to now
bring out her rifle. All right. go and fire away
at this thing oh man please hit man any any needs
a w okay dirty 20 you take aim at this creature
unmoving uh it is a surprise that you're finally
going to be able to hit something that with your
rifle uh considering that it isn't moving so
it's great for you thumbs up uh go ahead and
give me that damage exactly target practice oh
12 points of damage you take aim at this thing
you wanna tell me how you finish this guy off
oh wow okay all right so uh just after annie
is done sneaking around it says back is facing
her she cocks her gun aims it uh right at the
nape of its neck because it's hunched down once
she's out there she pulls the trigger bullet
goes straight flying towards it and you just
see the bullet skitter and scrape against the
skin of the neck as it almost tears itself open,
doing the final blow at the back of its skull.
It falls back. Judging from your position, so
it's going to fall backwards on top of Godara.
That's fine. That one is down. Anything else
you'd like to do? How's Raynor doing? He is down
in the ground. Okay. Too bad for you, buddy.
Annie doesn't have any healing spells prepared
today. Unfortunate! It's fine. So Annie's just
going to go over to you, Raynor, and just pat
you on the head very awkwardly. Am I dying? You
might be. I'm sorry. I hope you go out peacefully.
As you say, am I dying? It is currently your
turn. Okay, so the only one left is in front
of Gordar, right? That's correct. How far from
Gordar? Like, would you say 5 feet? We can say
about... Oh, it's 10 feet away from Gordar, but
for you it's about 20, 25 feet away from you.
20, 25 feet. Okay. He's going to throw his dagger
trying to aim for behind the creature as he does
cloud of daggers. Oh! So you go ahead and toss
your dagger. You see it fly through the air.
And Addy, you watch him throw the dagger and
you see it completely miss its target. And it
now... just floats right there behind this creature.
Go ahead and give me that damage. That's 13 points
of damage. You now begin to hear the familiar
whir, whir, whir, whir, whir, whir, whir, whir,
wh is cutting across this creature, making it
mincemeat as blood and flesh just fly everywhere.
It is decimated. Silence falls before you. You
have a moment of reprieve. That was not nice
at all. Oh my god, Godar. And he's going to try
and shove the body off of Godar. Thank you. I'm
so sorry. This is fine. I'm glad that you're
alive. Just lays on his back, just breathing
heavily. The girls are just like curled up around
his face and neck. I have to say, smart move
for my bag of holding. I could not have done
that myself. I tried. It'd be the end of the
time where he's losing concentration because
he's just so hurt. The web fingers split back
and the gills grow back. It becomes a bit more
not so slimline. Is Rainer okay? He seems alright.
Right? I might just have a little nap here. I
got you, Raynor. You feel Gimble hugging at you,
Raynor. Yeah, Raynor's a little uncomfortable,
but he's just like... He genuinely is a little
shaken. The fact that he was almost gonna die
and Gimble was the one that saved him. He's just
like... He kind of pushes you off lightly and
he's like... Gimble off lightly and he's just
like... Thank you for saving me. As he stumbles
over to Godar and uses healing word again. Slightly
hear Gimbal weeping. A quiet weeping. That is
18 health more. Oh shit. Damn. Okay. What are
we doing? Are we going back? Are we going further
in? Or one of those creatures that... It sounded
like you needed Annie out. At this point, I'm
not sure if we even went the right way. Everybody
give me a perception check, please. I swear to
God. Annie rolled a five. That is a 19 for Gorda.
15 for Raynor. It makes sense, Annie, that you
did not notice, for you hear a voice in your
head. The spirit, the woman's voice, simply says,
My son, my son. Raynor, Gordar, you hear movement
in the water. And you see just at the end of
the cavern, a figure rises. You see the head
come up with auburn hair. And you see leathery
skin that sheens and shine with all the light
that is in here. You see very similar to the
creatures that you had just fought. But this
one seems to be different. Seems to have remnants
of its clothes, its armor that it wears. And
you also perceive a scar. on its face from the
eye to its to its lip and it ascends up onto
the water and it it bites at the air and a tongue
comes out licking the air and looking at towards
your direction and that's where we're going to
end it what oh we found your son and he's undead
he's gonna eat our faces i are you why do you
always do this why do you always have to end
it on a cliffhanger dude big cliffhanger keep
you wanting more keep you wanting my dear sir
we are going to need to weigh your diet yeah
that was incredibly two sessions in a row you
have been natural 20 the hell out of it Can you
swap your dice with Annie? Because we need that
pendulum to come back the other way. Seriously.
Annie has been so... I'm sorry, girl. Useless.
Oh, my God. She needs... Feels good to be king,
baby. All right. Say goodbye, everyone. Goodbye.
Bye. See you in Table Talk. See ya. I hate you.
Oh, and goodbye, Mrs. Akhmanic, wherever you
are. Or is it goodnight? Goodnight, Mrs. Akhmanic,
wherever you are. She's already left. She's still
here somewhere. She's already knackered. And
we're back! Ah, how do we all feel? Fuck you.
Seriously. Why are you so mean to us? You're
so disrespectful. It's a bit of a... I think
this episode, personally for me, I think has
been our most scuffed episode. Just with a lot
that has been happening, but... Well, luckily
for the listeners, they're not going to know
that. Unless they release the rough cut. no we
are not releasing the rough cut i am going to
edit this and make it sound oh man but i'm glad
you guys got him yeah i'm glad that was whole
the moment you got dragged under i was freaking
out i was like i straight up thought annie was
gonna die like whether it be by you know loss
of breath or like the constraints uh tightening
of whatever it was that was holding her like
i was fully expecting to bring up like a new
character sheet and just be like all right new
character time to roll the stats i completely
i'm not even gonna lie i completely forgot alter
self gave me like a swim speed and all that kind
of stuff until literally like 10 seconds before
my turn and i was like yeah go go holy shit i
think yeah i think for me definitely that was
a two highlights for me would be that where annie
is being dragged by this thing and then also
as well with one of the creatures rising from
the bone. I can just picture both Godar and Gimbal
just seeing this thing coming up from a pile
of bones. You mean Raynor. Oh, Raynor. This is
what I mean. This is what I mean. How do you
get them mixed up? They're so different. I think
it's just today. Like, one of the reasons why
this episode is so scuffed, like... I've done
that several times today on this particular episode.
But yes, when Rainer and Gimble sees this thing
just rising from that pile of bone was such a
cool thing for me. And I think I enjoyed that
combat a lot. I'm not normally a big combat guy,
but it was interesting. I did very much like
rolling a few 20s. So yeah. Only you. I had one
HP. Oh, geez. One HP. Then you were like, it's
an eight. And I was like, I had nine HP. Oh,
this is not scripted, I swear. That's my air.
Like, I was just like, please roll low, please
roll low, please roll low, please roll low. Oh
my, that was so close. Here's your reaction.
I did really well with my concentration checks,
thank goodness, because the moment getting hit
underwater, I'm like, if I lose Alter Self, oh
boy. This is going to go bad really quickly.
And then just like, and then not getting stunned,
which is, oh uh what are they paralyzed yeah
from these things from the claw attack yeah jesus
christ and then i i love that reina was doing
his own little battle before you even get there
just like yeah yeah he was on his own for a bit
oh poor reina how do you feel about your life
being saved by gimbal that is something that
i don't know how he would react i think he's
genuinely just like oh wow uh how do i process
this i mean even it was pure accident like but
the because it was a mess and i'm like how do
i describe this being a mess he cannot move and
i'm like oh wait i did say gimbal was tugging
at his leg trying to pull him so he pulled him
in which was so which was perfect for me and
i'm like oh that's so good but yeah uh this episode
this this particular session it was this was
all improv i yeah it was all improv this one
because the ghost that turned up was from a random
table that i did have and again um i didn't want
it to just be a straight combat with a ghost
i thought that i wanted to make it a bit more
interesting than this so i figured oh what could
a spirit want and so all these thoughts were
coming to me and i'm like oh yes When everything
started to click in my head, I'm just like, yes.
Bones, teeth, tongue, and the blood. Oh, it was
just, yeah, I enjoyed it. So I hope you guys
had fun. Yeah, it was a very fun session. You
don't tell them that this was an improv lesson.
You plan everything. Everything is materiously
organized and planned. And if there are inconsistencies,
it's because of... our eyes and our ears we are
an unreliable narrator not you cut that cut that
everyone cut everything i said rob cut that improv
bit but yes i really liked um just the dynamic
of the group because they still are kind of reeling
from each other like they're still a little bit
hesitant But, like, this session, they were just
like, hey, we're gonna die, but we still have
to look out for each other, and I really like
that. The moments between, like, Raynor and Annie,
even though Raynor pisses it off, she's still,
like, head pat, and he's still, like, shoulder
pat. Like, I've been there, too. Don't worry,
possession's not that bad. The shoulder pat scene
was hilarious, because in my head, I was imagining
Raynor just, like, on his tippy toes, but also
trying to get that extra height just goes off
of one foot. So he's really trying to reach for
it and then she just gives in and then just leans
down. That was like a really good visual in my
head. And also how Godard just grabbed Annie's
bag of holding and just told her to get inside.
Brilliant. I didn't even think about that. That
was so good. It's a plan that he said before
because he would have like, he's from a rich
side, you know. Who doesn't have a bag of holding?
Yeah. Like... His favorite purse. Why would you...
Like, because they all have, like, tiny purses,
but, you know, they want to have a lot of money
on hand. They don't have a credit card. True.
So it's just, like, a ton of money in a tiny
purse because it's fashionable. Yep. So, like,
he knows of, like, where people have, like, you
know, stretched them and, like, gotten their
plus ones into parties and, like, stuff like
that. So, like... He's like, I know it lasts
a little bit. Get in the back, get in the back,
get in the back. So good. I thought it was really
nice also that when he got to that place, he
immediately attacked the person that was on Raynor.
And I was like, that's neat. Because even though
he's not on the best terms with Raynor, he's
still going to be like, yeah, I'm going to still
look out. And Raynor's still healing him. Just
like, hey. He's the person who's saving us all.
He may as well. Because Annie can't hit anything.
Jesus. Hey, she delivered a killing blow. I don't
think this is the first kill, but this is the
first kill in a while. In a while, yes. Don't
kick the Goliath while they're halfway out of
the battle. I think after this, he'll be like,
good job, Annie. You've done one. I think I like
your concept of shield as well where it's just
using stuff that is around you so I did imagine
a chunk of the cavern wall came off like it just
became part of your spell which is really really
cool I like that how do you feel being in the
bag of holding uh Interesting, actually. I like
how you described it as being blue and purple
while having a starry sky. That was sick. Except
I read the description of how big the bag of
holding actually is. And, you know, let me get
it. This bag has an interior space considerably
larger than its outside dimensions, roughly two
feet square and four feet deep on the inside.
So I'm imagining, like while you imagine that
she was like floating in there, I like that visual.
But I was also thinking with the literal description
and she's just like, what do you call it? Like
hunched over, clutching her legs just in there.
Like, okay, what do I do? What do I do? And then
there's just like guano seeping over her neck
and like onto her clothes. I was imagining that
as well. And I'm just like, dude, Adi's not going
to like this. Like she's, she's livid right now.
That's why she was so silent in there. Cause
she was like irritated. So for me, like the way
I've always pictured bags of holding is when
you open it and you look at it, it just looks
like a regular bag, but then it opens. if once
you've put something in there it opens up an
interdimensional space a different dimension
essentially and i always pictured like it's just
this void and i like that imagery of it just
being this void out somewhere and you just see
the objects that it's a pocket dimension and
you just see all the stuff that you have put
in here and it's just floating about so i do
i forgot that you had guano i would have mentioned
you see a floating floating chunks of guano if
i had remembered that i would have mentioned
that as well but for me i uh For me, in terms
of Bag of Holding, I think that's how I like
to imagine it and describe it. Yeah, it definitely
makes more sense for this world, especially.
Yeah. Had a lot of fun, guys. That was a good
chaotic session. Yeah, very chaotic indeed. We'll
see everyone next time. This is time for a second.
Oh, well, maybe we can talk about it openly,
but after this episode, we are going to... Can
I say it? We are going to dance. Primarily me.
I'm going to take my shirt off. Unfortunately,
none of you are going to be able to see it except
these three. So, in saying that, goodbye, everyone.
Bye -bye. Bye. See ya. Goodnight, Mr. Suckmonic,
wherever you are. Please get out of the water.
You can't swim forever. You will drown. I don't
think she's making comments.