Session 44 Summary

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1. Sev is sailing on the Amber Wave ship, keeping a distance of about 500-600 feet from the rest of the party's ship.
2. Sev is currently invisible, appearing as a large glowing ball of light. He rolls initiative to burst onto the deck of the other ship.
3. Sev rolls a 19 for initiative. The others also roll initiative.
4. Sev runs onto the deck past someone and throws his torch off the side of the ship, breaking invisibility.
5. Sev makes a stealth check to keep moving across the ship, getting a 24. He moves another 40 feet.
6. On the party's ship, an invisible light comes from below deck. Two shadowy figures are seen doing something to the sail.
7. The party rolls perception checks. They hear breaking glass on the deck at the base of the mast.
8. The party rolls initiative. Lucian gets a natural 20 (26 total).
9. Lucian starts climbing the mast towards the shadowy figures. He makes an acrobatics check.
10. Lucian climbs 20 feet up the mast, about 8 feet below the figures. He dashes and stabs the closest one, doing 7 damage. The other figure is within 5 feet.
11. After Lucian is Sog's turn, who rolls a 12 initiative. Then Daruk with 19, Elle with 18, and Alair with 3.
12. Daruk considers throwing a handaxe but doesn't. As a bonus action, he transforms into a bigger cat form.
13. Daruk investigates the broken glass to see if there is any liquid or smell of alcohol, but rolls poorly (3).
14. One of the shadowy figures, Joel, mutters something and the sail in front of Lucian lights on fire.
15. Joel then says "You're on your own" and disappears. The second figure is still there.
16. Elle uses the ewer to shoot water at the remaining figure. He makes a DC 13 Strength save but fails.
17. The water knocks the figure off the mast. He takes 10 bludgeoning damage and is now prone on the deck next to Alair.
18. It's unclear if Sev sees any of this occurring on the other ship. He steps into a new area below deck.
19. Sev tries to determine which direction the ring is located using his compass. He moves stealthily trying to get above it.
20. Sev ends his turn still below deck. The DM asks for perception checks from the rest of the party.
21. Alair notices but is unsure how to put the spreading fire out. Elle has the Create Water spell prepared.
22. Elle wants to use Create Water to extinguish the sail fire. The water will fall as rain in a 30 ft cube.
23. Lucian slides down the mast and attacks the prone enemy with advantage. He deals 20 damage, killing him.
24. This is the first time Lucian has killed someone. Alair stabilizes the enemy with a healing spell instead.
25. Daruk ties up the unconscious enemy to the mast as a prisoner.
26. Sev is still below deck and hears people hurriedly moving around and a voice telling them to hurry. It's very dark.
27. Sev contemplates his options, like casting Fireball, but is worried about hurting himself too. He has limited visibility.
28. Sev says "A ring for a hand" out loud. From behind him, a voice replies "The hand of the king."
29. Sev also hears the same phrase telepathically in his mind at the same time. There seem to be two different respondents.
30. Sev only has one ring to give. The telepathic voice tells him to give the ring to the person on his right.
31. Sev holds out the ring to his right. A hand grabs it. Sev asks the voice who they are imprisoned here.
32. The voice replies that no ship could imprison them, they are just here watching. Sev asks why they are in this region.
33. Sev's vision goes dark and he feels like he no longer has a physical body, just his thoughts. The voice says they will be safe there to talk for a few moments.
34. The voice, who Sev determines to be the Watcher/King of the Rings, says he is interested in Sev since he sought him out.
35. Sev explains he is just a messenger asking about Gladys for someone else who has information he needs personally.
36. The Watcher provides Gladys' location in the mountains of Dornir but is no longer obligated to answer more questions freely.
37. Sev hears a whooshing sound over his head and ducks on the Watcher's advice. Sev asks if the Watcher is an angel or devil.
38. The Watcher claims to just be an observer. Sev asks if answering his questions will endanger Rickle who gave him this task.
39. There seems to be no contractual issue with the Watcher revealing who originally brought Sev in as a ring-bearer. It was Rickle.
40. The Watcher explains there are many Ring-bearers. Presenting a ring and having it accepted obligates the receiver to do a favor. The ring is then passed on.
41. Sev realizes he is now bound to do any favor asked of him by another Ring-bearer. The Watcher has many rings so likely doesn't owe any favors.
42. Sev tries to gain more information about the conflict he is involved in and the factions like the elves and the "Royal Corps".
43. The Watcher provides some context on the different motivations at play but is generally vague and impartial, saying he only observes and knows but doesn't intervene.
44. Sev asks about the origins of the Bonereach area they are in. The Watcher says it predates him and has always been there.
45. Sev asks about a giant disembodied hand of a god. The Watcher clarifies it is 30 feet long and will likely be arriving soon.
46. Sev tries to persuade the Watcher into directly helping his quest to defeat an evil necromancer. The Watcher declines, saying he must only watch with minimal influence.
47. The Watcher warns Sev that he has been noticed by enemies on the ship. He offers to return Sev to his body.
48. Sev asks how likely it is that he dies when returned. The Watcher says it's a decent chance, though not immediate. Sev could survive at least 6 seconds.
49. Sev requests to know why his family was framed. The Watcher says to bring him another ring and he will answer.
50. Sev suspects his family may have been targeted to get to or manipulate the Watcher. The Watcher dismisses this theory.
51. After a couple minutes in real-time, the Amber Waves ship has turned to pursue the party's ship. They start firing cannons.
52. The party debates options to flee or fight back. Turning to fight risks the ship. They have one swivel cannon. The sails are damaged.
53. The enemy ship has oars and is closing distance to about 300 feet. Captain Al says they won't be able to escape at this rate.
54. Sev still has not returned. The party grows anxious and considers firing on the ship themselves or ramming it when it gets within range.
55. Daruk goes below deck to look for a severed hand in Sev's bag. He finds the hands. The prisoner Jerry becomes distressed seeing them.
56. Daruk considers freeing Jerry but decides to throw one of the severed hands overboard as a distraction or call for supernatural aid, since they are in the Bonereach.
57. The enemy ship continues to gain on them and land cannon hits. Captain Al prepares the crew to turn and ram the other ship for a final stand.
58. Sev remains missing as the two ships maneuver into position for a direct confrontation. The party urgently awaits his return.

In summary, the session involved Sev infiltrating an enemy ship alone, the party's ship coming under attack by fire and foes, an extensive conversation between Sev and the Watcher about the rings and broader conflict, and finally a naval battle with the party on the defensive as Sev's whereabouts and fate remain unknown. The session ended on a cliffhanger as Captain Al turned the ship to ram the pursuers.
      

Session 44 Original Transcript

Well, you can die or escape.
It's really your choice at this point.
Is that an elf?
It's generic.
Generic elf.
It's either an elf or some kind of mutant.
I can't quite tell.
You either have no ears or elf ears.
Seb has regular ears.
Oh, let's see.
Because you said he had a headband.
That means you're a half elf.
You can't have a headband without ears.
Oh, we get a map this time.
Yeah.
So there are stairs going up here to the next level.
Oh, and the camera angle gets the map also.
Oh, wow.
Oh, does it?
So clear enough.
How clear is the map, Zane?
Yeah.
Can you make out characters?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
And clearly.
Yes, yes, that's what I'm looking for.
Wait, this is stairs?
These are little...
Like, it would be really nice if we could set up some sort of ceiling-mounted camera.
Okay.
Yeah.
But you could tell, like, if I'm, like, this many people... If we're too scared to drill into a wall, I think we're too scared to drill into a ceiling.
Oh, but we could get that stand from the other room.
Don't you own this house?
But it's scary!
I'm gonna be careful.
I don't like cake dude.
He's scary.
Yeah, I think this is fine.
I think this is fine.
Oh, cool.
Good.
All right.
So we left off with no problems whatsoever.
Nope.
Nope.
I'm so dead.
Sev is having a little trip on another pirate ship sailing through the waves.
Oh, this is pretty far while still keeping Kieran in control.
Ooh, nice.
Is that better?
Is that more visible?
Yeah, kind of.
Yeah, so he's on the lovely, the amber wave.
You guys are all
Over there, about like 500, 600 feet.
Across the waves.
Definitely way too far away for the ship to possibly see you.
Or more importantly, it is out of what Captain Al has assured you is normal cannon range.
Normal cannon range, yes.
At least his cannon's range.
I'm sure they come standard.
We have the best cannon.
The best cannon.
Only the best.
It's an notorious hunting ship.
Yeah.
And Sev is currently invisible.
And by invisible, I mean a large glowing ball of light.
This is all part of plan.
Watch, watch, my first move is gonna be great.
Susan's not gonna go.
He's now going to roll for initiative as he bursts onto the deck of the ship.
This is like the most important roll.
Like if I fail this, I'm just screwed.
You could go wrong.
Hey!
15, all right, you have good dash, right?
I do, that's 19.
19, all right!
I have a chance, I'm not dead.
19, that's cute.
Oh, oh, oh!
16 and 3.
As long as they don't have plus 4.
Should have prepared Gifted Alacrity, but I did not.
Wow, that was a 19 for you?
That was a 19.
Where's everyone else?
They definitely have a larger crew, presumably.
There's at least two people downstairs and a cat, which could be the same size as our crew.
Probably.
By how much?
Okay, I'm asking as him.
Does it sound like it's larger?
Yeah.
It's much larger.
It's huge.
Yours is about... Oh, so it's three squares by three squares.
It's about 50% larger than our ship.
Wait, weren't there people in the location I'm currently in too?
In here?
Yeah.
No.
Oh, cool.
You ran past someone who's somewhere around here.
Eh, I don't want to have them there on the map anyway.
All right, and it will be your run, Seth.
Excellent.
Run.
I will run here.
How dark is it, by the way?
It's bright light where you are.
Oh, well, bye.
Your torch.
That's true.
And I will throw my torch off the side of the ship.
Oh, exciting.
All right.
This is on the deck, right?
Like, we're outside?
Yes.
Yes, this is the main deck.
So does the torch become visible as soon as you throw it?
I have no idea.
The torch was already visible.
Well, like, the stick part of the torch.
There was a glowing, like, sourceless light.
Yes.
That's now been sourced.
And then a torch appears and then flies off the ship.
You do that.
Excellent.
Congratulations.
They cry in alarm as you appear.
This one's saying, here comes another one.
And can I have to make a stealth check to keep moving across the ship?
Sure, you can do that.
I'm ready.
That would be 24.
A 24?
Okay.
Okay.
But I love him.
I have decent stealth and proficient.
I have decent dex.
No, I just have proficiency in stealth.
And then I'm going to...
make my way... Is there a limit if I'm trying to be stealthy how fast I can go, like, as some ratio of my speed?
I'm imagining it being an action equivalent.
Like, it's not like taking the hide action, basically.
I take the hide action, which for me is actual action, unlike the only other characters that ever take the hide action, which is always a bonus action.
Okay.
And then I've progressed 10 feet, and so I still have another 40 feet of movement left.
Why go down the stairs?
The stairs are right there.
But why do I want to go down the stairs?
I thought the guy was there.
Wait, are you going to blink?
I blink!
I can blink anywhere I want to, right?
Like, I might as well get from standing by the stairs.
It's more obvious than standing somewhere out of place.
Because there's probably a locked door there, too.
Yeah.
I like this.
I like this.
Everyone else give me a perception check.
Oh.
There is no blinking today!
12... 11... Oh, snog.
Plus, beyond these stairs, I can blink through the other door and claim all the treasure.
You would never expect it.
I see a sourceless light come out from below the deck of our ship.
Um, yeah, uh, Alair.
Uh, Perception?
Um... The cleric should be good at this.
Wait, if they actually send people to our ship, that would be ridiculous.
How'd they send people to our ship?
We send them to their ship.
Should we find our minis?
You should find your minis.
Oh god.
Whoa!
You just threw me.
You're not careful, I'm gonna end up without a head soon.
I think these two can seem about comparable.
It is, it is.
So I'm sure the ones below deck are the same as theirs.
That's the swivel cannon?
Yes.
Who are we missing?
Allure.
Allure.
Where the heck is he?
Also, did I see any cannons below deck?
Are you below deck?
No, when I was below deck.
No.
Yeah, see, there's only one cannon.
I'm sure that's, I'm sure there's nowhere else cannons could be.
I'm sure you saw the whole below deck while you were there.
Oh, by the way, which way does my, if I turn my compass, like rotate my compass, which way does it point?
I do believe we're all looking that way.
Like here?
In this direction.
Oh, so this way.
Yes.
Okay, okay, okay.
All right.
Reception checks.
Everyone over a 12.
A 12 aura.
As you hear a not-so-great stealth check, coming from the top of the mast on your ship, actually, is a... Is it coming from...?
Okay.
The sound does not come from that.
The sound that actually comes is the sound of breaking glass on the deck at the base of the mast.
And if you look up, there are two shadowy figures who seem to be doing something to your sail.
Whoa.
Oh.
Hey.
Everybody roll for initiative.
Hey.
Let's go.
What does this insert be?
Oh!
Natural 20.
Well, 19 plus dex plus charisma.
26.
Oh, shit, we're so good!
This is the highest initiative I've ever done!
Instant reaction speed.
Yeah, I have a thing that lets me add my charisma to my initiative.
Oh, the natural 20, which is a minus one.
It's like a
Alright!
Let's go, we're doing great.
Well, time to start practicing for getting into the circus, I guess, at some point.
Because I'm gonna climb this mast.
Yeah, I- I- I will the very good initiative, but I have an axe.
Take it down!
I'm sure.
That's what axes are for, tall wooden things.
Uh, Sog?
Uh, twelve.
Okay, I've got Sog with a 12.
Daruth?
Uh, 19.
Uh, El?
18.
O'Lear?
Wow.
Three, right?
Three?
Three.
Great.
At least it's not like the others.
Which one?
Uh, 26.
Like, 18 million, right?
This one?
26.
Might as well be.
Alright.
Alright, um...
So we begin the round with Lucian.
I start climbing the mast.
How tall is it?
Yeah, give me an acrobatics check.
Yeah.
10 plus... 10.
20.
10?
What the heck?
You're more acrobatic than I am.
I have expertise.
I'm a literal acrobat.
I think I'm going to give you 20 feet of movement up the mast.
You're about 8 feet below them.
What do we look like?
Oh, it's dark.
Dash.
Oh, I can dash as a bonus action.
Wait, y'all have darkvision.
Can I do that?
Are there light on the deck?
For purposes of climbing the mast?
He's like, as written, Dash increases my movement speed, but this isn't movement speed.
Okay.
I dash and then I stab him.
The closest guy.
Okay.
You said there were shadowy figures?
What do they look like?
I assume just like cloaked.
They look like people.
Okay, they don't look like literal shadows.
They're smoke monsters.
How much light is there for those who have lesser eyes than I?
Let's see.
The sunset... It's going to be dim light.
I think you can see outside.
What was the glass that broke?
The glass that broke?
Oh, I don't know.
It's way down there.
But there was a short... I didn't pass it all the way up.
No, there was a bottle that landed on the... Is it on fire?
It's not on fire.
It's gonna be on fire real soon.
Does it not look on fire or is it not on fire?
It's not on fire.
Does it smell like alcohol?
I don't know if I'd catch that.
Or if I'd even know what a Molotov cocktail is.
Surely you would know what the smell of alcohol is.
I wouldn't know what the smell of alcohol is.
And you know alcohol can be lit on fire.
I'll give it a perception check to see.
Okay.
Seven.
Sea breeze is really hard over here.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm gonna stab the closest guy.
Sure.
If I see that shit go up in fire, this shit's going up in fire too.
Eight plus seven?
Fifteen?
That'll hit.
Okay.
Okay.
Now I want to fireball the ship.
What am I doing here?
Is the other guy within five feet of this guy?
Yeah.
They're only on top of each other.
Okay.
I need a d6.
How did I get here?
Yeah, I don't... I mean... Dimension door.
Wait, is the other guy within five feet of me?
I mean...
Yeah, there's not like a lot of space for you guys to spread out up here.
Okay, okay, okay.
Then that's three plus four damage, seven.
Okay.
No sneak attack.
How much total, sorry?
Seven.
All right.
Yeah, he didn't like that.
Hurry up, Joel!
Joel.
But then...
Yeah, so after Lucian comes... Why does he speak like the professor?
There's only so many voice actors in the character.
How long does it have to be reused?
Do you think climbing could be athletics?
Or is that acrobatical?
I think it depends on if there's a ladder.
If there's not a ladder...
I feel like it has to be acrobatics.
I think it's going to have to be acrobatics.
I mean, isn't there a rigging?
A rope?
I think a rope.
A rigging is a rope, right?
Yeah, but you could also have the nice net stuff if the ship is big enough.
No, that is on this ship.
Okay, we get it.
It's on the other ship.
Okay, I think just acrobatics make sense.
Oh, boy.
Okay.
I... We need to teach you about the idea of a bow.
It's clear.
Do you not have any range?
I have one handaxe.
Yeet it.
I thought you gave me a magic handaxe.
Never touched your hand.
Yeah, I thought about throwing my knife here, but then I was like, well, if that goes somewhere, then... Too sad.
Yeah.
I'll do it with my... Straight up.
It comes from the sky, right?
It hits the edge of the map.
So, I can get a little bit closer to them.
Do you want a potion of blood?
Actually, um, I... Okay.
Actually, no.
I can do useful things here.
Okay, bonus action.
I get big.
You know the drill.
Wooden spikes come out of my head.
I become Big Cat.
It's always been wood.
It's bone.
I did build it at first because I was a tree person.
Retroactively, because now I'm not a tree man.
And while big, I get down on the ground.
My eyes are bigger now because I got big.
I got on the ground.
I'm going to try to do a...
perception check of like if anything like around the glass is there like any liquid anything that feels is that investigation i feel like it's investigation well i probably shouldn't have done that but you know you live you learn that's gonna be minus one for me um three
so good yeah so um what exactly are you looking for i'm just like i see glass shatter i'm like this has to be oil this has to be like i'm thinking like things you're gonna set up by oil alcohol like any like smell feel like slickness of a yeah the problem is you can't find anything you keep pushing this tar out of the way to figure out
Also, someone should really clean up the deck with all this tar, it's really moving away.
I assume that was an action?
Yeah.
Okay, so that's my turn.
I can't do much useful until we... Yeah.
Primarily petroleum.
If someone can knock them down, then maybe I can do something.
What's our ship called again?
Wendy.
The Wendy.
Wendy.
No, just Wendy.
Wendy.
Wendy.
All right.
After Daruk...
is Joel.
Just write down his name.
All right, Joel is going to...
Yeah.
So Joel mutters something under his breath and suddenly you can see better.
Oh boy.
I can see better?
You can see much better.
Actually, maybe worse.
As the whole section of sail in front of you lights up almost immediately in flame.
Cool.
Looks like he's on the mast.
He is on the mast.
And then Joel...
uh says well you're on your own and disappears oh is the second shadow figure still here oh yes okay cool just joel disappears just joel disappears uh and then oh um i pull out my jug and i point it
You can't put oil fire out using water!
What's an oil fire?
Yeah, I mean, it's not oil fire, the sail is on fire!
Is there an attack role associated with this?
Uh... DC-13 strength saving throw.
No, I'm aiming at the other guy.
Oh, you're trying to push the guy off.
I thought you were trying to put the fire out.
Both!
They're in the same area!
Two birds, one big water.
Geyser.
Is that a 13?
Yeah.
Oh.
Plus 11.
Okay.
Uh, Strength saving throw.
Yeah, that's not the strong suit here.
Um... It takes fall damage, I think.
Easy.
Yeah.
He's a K, right?
1d4 bludgeoning damage.
Got him.
1d4 plus 2d6?
I think it's going to be 3d6.
Oh, he's dead.
One shot.
It's a lot of ones.
It's a lot of ones.
And a five?
Yeah, that's ten.
Ten bludgeoning damage.
He is now adjacent to the nest.
He is now adjacent to the nest.
No, sorry, that's Lucius.
Oh, a grandma mini.
He's prone, too.
Absolutely prone.
He hit off an ass by a leather jacket.
Oh, it's by a fallen, and I can't figure it out.
Okay.
Do I see what's happened?
Give me a perception check.
Famously wise.
Yeah, I mean, you notice.
It appears that you have chucked your torch over and it's gone.
I shouldn't have thrown it so hard.
What was I thinking?
Oh, yes, your massive strength.
Okay.
Um... Do I see any characters suddenly teleport into the ship?
Do you see any... No.
Cool.
Um...
They're probably just reminding you what you should be doing, right?
Yeah, we've been waiting over here for like... Hurry up!
Like 45 seconds.
Look at this smoke signal.
Is it dim light now?
It is dim light.
Okay.
So, what I'm going to do is... I'm worried it's going to be dark light beneath the deck and I'm immediately screwed.
I only have one torch.
Had one torch.
So, the best move is probably just to try to, like, trace down the direct direction, be like, it's right below me, and teleport straight down.
Okay.
What if I enter the cage?
That would be very distressing.
Just blink back out.
Swap with pigs.
Sure, the cage is, like, some kind of way that prevents him from teleporting away.
Fair, fair, there we go.
Okay, okay.
So I'm gonna do that.
You could also just be stuck in the cage with the King of Rings.
That would be a perfect chance to... I just hear the message.
Okay, I'm gonna try to follow the direction, so I'll be rotating my compass, trying to figure out the direction, trying to remain stealthy the entire time until it's, like, right below me.
Okay.
Where do I end up going?
Yeah, um... Give me a continued stealth check, I think, as you keep moving along the ship.
That is 23.
Okay.
I'm just gonna follow here, here, to here.
Looks about right.
Right there.
Mm-hmm.
I think I just, do I just end my turn?
Is that the only else I can do?
That might be the move.
Yeah.
Fireball the ship and then really, really hope that Blink activates.
I think I just end my turn.
Okay.
And then really, really hope that Blink activates.
Yeah!
All right.
Shoot a fireball at the ship.
What was I thinking?
All right.
We didn't say we couldn't kill the king of the rings, right?
We just have to tell him a message?
Yeah, Octo's giving the message.
Okay, okay.
You give him the message and give him the ring, and then he's going to tell you where the guy is.
Wait, he's helping with diamonds?
I thought I just...
He tells you where the guy Rickle cares about is.
So then you can go tell Rickle.
So then Rickle can tell you where the guy you care about is.
Oh, it's so simple.
I thought Rickle cared about where this guy was, not this guy.
Absolutely.
36. 36.
um yeah you're back in the uh mindless land of zombies pushing around aimlessly it's always the same standard you know gray sky someday roll 100 or 99 or whatever's more appropriate you should roll 100 and you really
The elf's turn.
What languages do you know?
Common and halfling.
But also, I don't think I'm on the right plane to hear him be saying.
Ah, in that case, he says, no, I don't know.
And he, I suppose, will disappear as far as we're concerned.
He doesn't know I'm here, hopefully.
Yeah.
I mean, you don't have, this is just.
I don't know if this is happening.
Yeah.
Um, cool.
So that takes care of that.
Uh, then we have, uh, he's.
Yeah.
Then we come to, uh, you want, you want, oh, Sonic.
There we go.
Oh, a song.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, you have advantage.
She's prone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, we don't have a sod.
Can I have a... That's sod.
Oh, is that sod?
It's always been sod.
A hand for a king.
Yeah, sorry.
A ring for the hand of a king.
Yes, and I just say the first part, and then he says the second part.
No, he says the first part, and you say the second part.
Oh, that's true.
That's what he did to us when we saw him the first time.
He said a ring for a hand.
Yeah, and then we didn't know what to do.
And then I say the hand of a king.
Yes.
The hand of a king, I think.
The hand of a king.
The hand of a king.
And then I have a ring to give it, is that right?
So 10.
No, it's the hand of the king.
It has to be melee.
It is the king.
Oh, oh.
Yeah, only melee.
Okay.
Yeah, so disadvantage is 10.
And then I say, here is a ring, and I want to know where the dude is.
Okay.
Okay.
What's the name of the dude we're supposed to figure out is where he is?
Hmm?
Is it...
Where is the... Start with a J. James.
The guy that Rickle wants to know about.
Hmm.
There's all my notes.
I don't know if we know.
Are you sure he asked you to tell us?
Where's the guy who Rickle wants to know about?
Rickle definitely asked me to do something and I would definitely remember what it was, even if Kira has forgotten.
You definitely know.
You are under contract.
You just gotta pull out the contract and look at it.
Ah, you get the physical contract?
I don't know, I assume, you know normally when you sign contracts that each- You get a copy, right?
Yeah.
I pull it out, frick, it's dark in here, I can't read the book!
I hope that that guy has dark visions to show him the contract!
Just ask the other invisible guy on the deck to pull out his invisible torch.
Uh, and then a lair.
I thought he was muted, but the video was just the same.
What?
Can you hear me?
Yeah, you're good.
Yep.
So the current situation on your ship is your mainsail is on fire.
There were two people taking care of that.
One has disappeared out of existence, and the other has been knocked off by a geyser of water and is now laying at your feet.
Yeah, literally at your feet.
They set our ship on fire.
Lego made a D&D set.
And it's $360.
Yeah, I know.
But you can use the little pieces as minis.
I can throw my spells.
It's the right size.
Do you have put out fire?
What just happened?
The window just fell over.
The window fell over?
Like, one of these things just fell over?
How does that happen?
I'm going to go check that out.
How do you know that just happened?
I can see all the way down the hall.
What do you mean the window fell over?
Oh, you know, it's like when it just... I'm sorry, what?
It's definitely just fallen off.
Welcome to home ownership.
What the fuck?
It feels like when the DM speaks and the passenger just doubled down on it.
Like, yeah, the window fell over.
Like this.
I felt a breeze coming from that window all the way.
No, I fell over like the best ones except for you.
No, no, no, that way.
The tree form is still fine.
It's not destroyed.
What?
My tree form?
My love, when I'm listening to this, everybody else's voice goes away, except yours.
Oh, I see, I see.
It's the important thing.
are people eating the snickerdoodles oh my god people like those yeah i like them i know you like them but i don't like them i just don't like peanut butter oh one of my hottest food takes peanut butter i know it's weird and we did not
buy them any of the other times.
So I was like, whatever else you get, get peanut butter and something else.
I don't hate peanuts in things.
Wellington is definitely one of the peanut butter capitals of the world.
There's an entire Wellington-specific peanut butter brand, which is now sold in America.
That's how big it is.
Wow.
Figs and fogs, if you see it, start in Wellington.
They put out all the best flavors of peanut butter, like smoke and fire made with Manuka smoke and chilies.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
If you find what you consider to be high quality paper, I'll try it.
I'll be down.
I've not yet found paper butter that I enjoy.
I have to text our neighbor.
Our neighbor's been noticing a bunch of little things she didn't like about her apartment that have been not functional.
And she's been kind of worried about it.
And we're like, it's probably fine, but her window's
And then the window fell over.
So there's these little things that clip on it.
Yeah.
And I guess these were just never actually...
Good.
Locked into place, so it just... I think I opened it.
It's pretty cool.
Maybe I opened it in a way that left it, like, unlocked.
Did you do anything with these?
Yeah, I pulled them that way.
You don't need to do that.
That's to take it out.
So that you can clean it.
I thought I couldn't lift it without pulling those things.
No, no, no.
It's just a tight window.
Yes.
Oh, what?
Did this reset?
Uh, he froze, and then, yeah.
Uh, which door is your bathroom?
Um, second one on the left.
Second one on the left?
Hi, we lost you.
Not this, not counting entry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's like... It's open.
Alright.
So, um...
A dark clad figure has fallen at your feet.
They're a little wet.
And there's an on-fire sail.
Yeah, the sail's also on fire.
Would be nice to not have it be on fire.
Do you have remove fire spell?
Remove fire?
Create water.
Cure fire.
You do have create food and water.
Can you create food and water on top of the sail, putting it off the fire?
And barbecuing the food on the sail?
Is that a thing?
I feel like it's like Cloudy and the Chance of Meatballs, like, fried, like, something falls down and the sail goes down.
Problem solved.
Wait, no, I have, I just have, I have straight up create or destroy water.
But did you prepare it today?
I'm gonna check the window- Given that you already had- Cause I also opened that one and I probably also fucked with the tabs that supposedly remove the window.
He's frozen.
Oh shit.
Oh, creator to destroy water does not create as much water as create food and water.
But it can create it in the form of rain, so you could put it out, although to be fully fair, I'm not really sure why we're not supposed to prepare create water when we already have create food and water and we're on a boat.
Create water does specifically say falls as rain in a 30-foot cube extinguishing exposed flames.
The perfect thing to use here, except that you'd have to have thought of preparing it.
To be fair, we are on a ship and we could be afraid of fire.
Why am I losing my network connection?
Winnie people?
I doubt it.
Yeah, no, I mean, my notes are all fine.
My browser's fine.
It's not Safari.
It's all in connection.
Hello, we're back.
My laptop keeps disconnecting for some reason.
I have Creator Destroy Water.
Creator Destroy Water.
Oh, I just... What are you doing?
I did a keyboard shortcut on the wrong window.
And you refreshed.
I went to the previous page.
We're doing great.
Sorry, Cincy.
I accidentally went to the previous page in the wrong tab.
You were saying?
Yeah, I have Creator Destroy Water.
I think that one's objectively better in this case.
Yeah.
It specifically says it extinguishes flames.
You have it prepared?
The question is, do you have it prepared or not?
I just created 30 gallons of water.
I do.
Yeah, I do.
I mean, I've never used it.
I know I have it prepared.
Maybe you always have it prepared as your cleric.
Like under your domain?
No, I don't think so.
Like clerics out there just drinking some water.
I think it's possible that you prepared it while we were in that area where the water was yucky.
Ah, I never unprepared it.
Every day you're like, I'm too lazy to choose.
That's actually true.
Yeah, so lower level.
So maybe you just never unprepared it.
Or like, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, if you prepared this one, go for it.
Put out exposed flame.
When you prepare spells, do you consciously decide on all the spells, or do you just make the changes from what your previous day was?
I guess it's the second one.
Maybe you're just too lazy to remove it.
It's... Yeah, you gotta, like, write notes and whatnot.
Unlike you, I don't know spells.
What?
You know spells!
That's what we're doing!
Alright, so we're creating some water.
We're creating water on...
So this is a... It says you create up to 10 gallons... No.
The water falls as rain in a 30-foot cube within range.
That's the move.
Okay.
We are directly under the sail.
If you dump a bunch of water on a boat, does that make the boat sink?
No, there's something... Yeah, so that's what I'm going to cast.
Okay.
The...
area is going to be roughly on top of the sale, I guess.
I'm not evolution smart enough to suggest that.
And there's an empty space within the liquid and the liquid rushes to fill that empty space.
That's how the Mantis stream makes like sonic beams underwater.
What are you proposing with cavitation?
So you destroy ten, it's ten gallons, I don't know how much that is, but you destroy water underwater next to the ship and then the water slams into the ship.
Ten gallons.
Okay.
Yeah, but like deep enough.
That's a lot of water pressure.
It depends how deep it is.
And we're fighting in submarines later on when you said to destroy enemy submarines.
That will bring us back around to... Lucian.
Yes.
Okay.
Proposal.
I cast Grease directly on top of the... Can I climb back down and stab them?
Sure.
I'm gonna do that.
Do I need to dash?
Or can I slide down faster than I climbed up?
I think you can just slide down.
Yeah.
Okay.
Attack.
Advantage, I believe, they are from.
Oh!
Oh, that is good.
That's a 19 plus whatever.
Yeah, level 10.
And then sneak attack.
Do you want to just roll in this one so you don't have to keep squishing your computer?
But honestly, using Grease as a fighter suppressant since rolling in Grease is not flammable should be great.
13?
Yeah.
16 plus the dex.
16, 20.
20.
Yeah, the glitter's so good.
Okay.
You slide down the mast and loom over the prone figure.
He looks up at you.
You scallywag.
And then you kill him.
Always wanted to be called a scallywag.
Alair, you specifically would feel the light from the sky slipping away.
Cool.
Are you angry about that?
No.
I've never killed someone before.
Oh, yeah.
You've never killed someone before?
No.
You've never killed a person before.
It's true.
Alair, this guy's hurt.
You're so cute.
Wait, wait, never mind.
Can I quick load?
Are you asking Zeke one of his lives?
This guy?
Gotta make up your mind, it's slipping away.
No, it's a random dude.
He tried to set a boat on fire!
Although we could question him.
I'll recycle his corpse, it'll be put to better use.
Question for one, where is the king of the rings?
And Seb comes back, I spoke to the- I think the corpse isn't really an issue here.
I'm trying to figure out- We can use his hand.
Brilliant!
That is not an idea Lucian suggests.
Oh yeah, he's hurt.
Take his hands off.
So, what is our- what exactly is our plan here?
Like, are we gonna- at this point, are we gonna kill everyone on the pirate ship?
No, we are not near the pirate ship.
No, Seb was gonna kill everyone on the pirate ship by setting it on fire.
Yes.
Not everyone.
Everyone- King of the Rings is gonna be dead now.
I'm very sorry, one of the important characters is just gonna drown.
You can do that.
Uh, alright, I need a call alert.
Let him die?
Okay.
I'll take him.
What?
Okay, no!
I love it.
Okay, I have not killed someone yet.
Alright, Lucian has been saved.
Lucian is an oopsie.
He's actually, he is conscious with one HP.
You still have a second bonus action attack.
Finish him off.
Bonus action, knock him out, though.
Is he dead?
Quick kick to the face.
Freeze.
No.
Yeah, give me an attack.
No.
You panicked again.
Oh.
Oh my god!
Yeah, he's out.
I think he slides across the deck a little bit.
Just kick him.
Okay.
After Aleutian is Daruk.
Ah, helps.
Is shit still on fire, or are we good?
I think it's still on fire.
No more fire!
This is great.
Well done.
What the fuck is Sev?
Joel vanished.
The other pirate.
So?
He might still be on the ship.
Someone who can fit below deck should check below deck.
I don't fit below deck right now.
Okay.
Shake your ass and just... I don't do anything.
I have nothing to do right now.
As far as I can see.
Alright.
He made man the cannons, prepared to fire on the enemy ship.
Um... They're too far away, that was the whole point.
Yeah, no, I'm gonna, I'm gonna... Okay.
Um... What's up?
Okay, I reappeared below deck.
Uh, you do.
Um, it's dark.
Uh-oh.
Uh, you do, uh, you do hear, uh, so you can't see, um, you do, what do you... Wait, wasn't it your turn?
Um... Wait.
The smell down here... Is it Elle's turn?
I had mixed them up earlier.
Okay.
It was 19 and 18.
Okay.
Um, it should have gone this way.
Um, the, the air is a little bit stuffy down here.
Um, and you hear, uh, a lot of grunting, um, and a lot of, uh, it sounds like wood hitting on wood.
Oh, and there's a voice telling everyone to hurry up.
It's fully dark?
Dude, is that a single person on this ship human?
You got any light?
You do up to 10 feet, right?
It's up to 10 feet?
Yes.
The ship is not that deep, though, right?
It's a big ship.
I was wondering how many levels there were, and the ship itself, I guess I don't know how many levels it has.
It could have multiple levels.
Yes.
This ship has one level of portals.
That's about as much as I know.
At least I don't believe that.
I don't know.
Oh, you can't see the... Yeah, that makes sense.
If he was right below you, if you're not on him, then he has to be still below you, right?
You can't be precise and sort of do one of these things to make sure he's not... Yeah.
If you hit him, then... He's just going to touch.
If you feel someone... Maybe if he just grabs your arm, then you're like, oh, there you are.
If you touch someone, you gotta feel the top of their head to see if they're bald.
That's the only way you can tell.
It's not just some random guy and they're like, oh, excuse me.
I don't know why you're doing this.
I'm really tempted to just cast Fireball to blow everyone up, but I should not copy to that.
You wanna make a light?
It really would.
Yeah?
Fireball!
Really?
That's the move.
Surely there are less destructive ways to make light.
But the problem is, if I make light, all I'm going to do is break my invisibility and attract attention to myself, and I'm just standing there being like, so.
But if I cast Fireball, at least I'm distressing them at the same time.
If anything, it's better to cast a slightly smaller version of Fireball.
But I don't think there is.
I think Fireball is the size of, like, a third of this ship.
Yes.
Also, Fireball could just outright kill me, given that I have 26 health and its average damage is 28.
Hmm.
That's true.
But I do have absorb elements and a decent dex save.
The point isn't to cast fireball on yourself.
Yeah, well, I sort of thought that before.
The ship is large, but fireball is even bigger.
Yeah.
So the alternative options would be
probably to make some light, which... Can you do that without a torch?
So, I have a spell, which makes a purple flame.
And so maybe I just do that.
What if you switched with Higgs and had Higgs look for you?
I can't communicate with Higgs this distance.
Ah.
But you can switch, right?
So if I switch with Higgs... And then Higgs notifies you if she sees a... I'm never within... I could unsummon Higgs and resummon Higgs, which would be two actions.
And then it's another action to see through Higgs' eyes.
No, no, you switch with Higgs.
Higgs is like over here.
Higgs notifies you.
How can Higgs notify me?
The eyes.
She can tell you when the creature goes.
Oh, eyes on.
So she's like, hmm, that thing is... What was it?
Was it even human?
I don't think it was human.
No, he is an aberration.
I see an aberration.
And then you'll be like, oh shit.
Higgs will be like, I see three elves.
You'll be like, no, that's not it.
But Higgs would not be invisible.
Higgs would not be invisible.
But Higgs would be dead.
Suddenly a small dead owl shows up.
That's not sus.
You swap back and you're locked in a room again.
Or they just kill Higgs and then it's over.
No, it's time to take a stand.
Invisibility's been great so far, helping me avoid some things, but I think that putting Higgs at risk isn't worth it.
And I still have Blink active, and so Blink will hopefully make me take no damage if I'm lucky this roll.
Hopefully.
So... Uh...
How would you roll me if I used, like, Green Flame Blade to, like, oh, I guess my Purple Flame Blade, my own personal version of Green Flame Blade, free skin for Purple Flame, to light some of the wooden fire in your body?
This is like that scene in Star Wars where you see the lightsaber appear in the darkness.
I mean, like, pretty much.
But we're the good guys, right?
Like, it makes a doubt of Purple Flame.
Because the exact... Like, I kind of feel like it was just, like, whatever the flame that appears is the flame that gets seen.
Yes, I know.
But can I use it... I mean, when I cast this spell, I obviously break invisibility.
Because I cast a spell.
But can I use it to, like, the floor on fire?
I don't think it's going to be a guarantee that it catches on fire, but I would give it a chance.
Let me...
Let's see.
It's a leap from the target to a different creature.
I light myself on fire.
Perfect.
It's a perfect plan.
So you could... I would give it a chance, but it's not going to be a very high chance.
In the same way that, like, if you, like, walked up to it on the floor and you, like, dropped your torch and then you picked it up, like, the floor is probably not on fire now.
Uh-oh, damn, you're the only thing we said not to do.
I mean, I do have absorb elements and a decent dex.
I could take very little damage and everyone else could just die.
How do you know they're bad?
It's a room full of prisoners.
Yeah, that's what it is.
It probably is.
I guess the first thing I'll say out loud is... Does he have to say it to me or am I supposed to say it to him?
He says it to you.
I mean... Yeah, I don't know.
He says it first and then you reply.
But if you say it to him, he'll know, right?
No, you were definitely told you approach him and offer him the ring and say a ring for a hand and then he replies the hand of the king and accepts the ring.
And then you make your request and then he replies.
I will say...
A ring for a hand.
That's dramatic.
Yeah.
There's some... Shut up, Steve!
Are you proposing right now?
There is...
There is a response from immediately behind you, over your left shoulder.
The hand of the king.
And at the same time, there is a voice that speaks only in your head, not through your ears, that says... Shit, what is that?
Take your time.
The hand of the king.
Is it two?
Wait, what?
Wait.
Because this guy...
He's never spoken before, right?
He only speaks telepathically, I think.
So who's the guy?
He definitely knows all languages and cannot speak.
So it's two different people who have said a hand of the king.
Yeah.
Okay.
But you only have one ring.
Who you choose?
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Uh-oh.
So...
I don't actually know that the Seeker points towards this guy.
The Seeker points towards the reason Lucian's family was framed.
Which is probably this guy.
But two different people said... Yes, okay, no.
So it points at that, but when we followed it the first time, it pointed at the King of the Rings, right?
Well, it pointed at the cave that...
It pointed at a telepathic guy who is not necessarily the king of the rings.
It's possible the guy who speaks is the king of the rings.
And we've just assumed that the telepathic guy is the king of the rings.
This is the king of the rings.
Do we know that?
He's got rings.
He does have a lot of rings.
That's true.
That's fair.
Do we not know this?
I think we know this.
I can't remember exactly why.
We've never been explicitly told this guy is the king of the rings.
But no, I agree.
I think it's the telepathic dude.
The telepathic guy has to be it.
He has lots of rings.
Do you know if he's able to understand... Have you previously told me he's able to... You were that guy.
Were you able to read people's minds?
If I just spoke in my head... I could communicate telepathically, yeah.
You can communicate to them?
It's two-way.
Well, you might not... No, it says languages, telepathy, so yes, that's two-way.
But he did, right?
Yes, but he might not know who to carry out.
That you can... I mean... I mean, it depends, like, how did we communicate with Lucian when he was in Ringfold?
Because I think it would be the same, right?
If we just spoke to him?
I used telepathy, I think, during that.
I mean, you're only able to, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, so we would have talked to Lucian in Ringfold.
So I guess I will try to...
Like, the telepathic speaking would be familiar to you.
I would try to think towards the person who thought in my head and be like, which direction are you?
That's not important.
Oh, it is.
You need to give him the ring.
I have a ring to give you.
Are you on my right, left, front, or back?
Front and back aren't
Why can't you just tell him what you wanted to tell him?
You don't have to give him the ring.
I don't know.
What would I recall?
I was supposed to present the ring towards him.
He was supposed to take the ring, I think.
To your right.
I will take a ring and try to push it towards my right.
Wait, that's what he hears in his head?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Okay.
Interesting.
You stick out your hand.
And another hand grabs onto yours.
Oh, that's creepy.
Does he even have hands?
He doesn't have hands.
He has lots of rings in his hands.
This is no fact.
According to this, he has no hands.
That's a mystery, Jack.
Yeah.
In your mind, what is your need?
Okay, I have a need, which I definitely clearly recall.
I've been on this quest for a while.
What's his name?
I'm supposed to ask... Do I know exactly who he is?
Like, am I supposed to be asking that?
Um, so, uh, at this moment, um, you... Give me a wisdom save.
Uh-oh.
Yeah, let's go!
You're a strength.
Oh dear.
I'm just gonna be possessed.
You're a wizard.
You're good at this.
No?
Yeah!
Yeah, let's see it.
Oh, you have proficiency.
I have proficiency, so I have plus two.
Oh, you're fine.
I'm sure it's only DC, what, 18, 19?
Watch as I roll an actual 20 on this dice.
17.
That's not awful.
That's not terrible.
I'm on a roll.
Or not.
We'll see shortly.
You feel the precise request that Rickle instructed you to give almost just kind of burst out.
You can control it a little bit, but you definitely know exactly... These are the words I am contractually obligated to say.
Perfect.
Also, I'm realizing, the King of the Rings... I think didn't we say previously that we thought the King of the Rings was evil?
No, we don't know that at all, right?
Like, all we know is that the King of the Rings... Chaotic neutral.
I don't know, but we thought you were on the side of Sev because of the King of the Rings, but this is not the case.
You're on the side of Sev because of the Shadows of Power.
But you have no idea what the King of the Rings is.
And the reason why we know this is because Sog is on the side of Sett as well, even though Sog turns into Daruk, who's on the opposite side.
So definitely the Shadows of Power, which is what actually did it, not being him.
Yeah.
Makes sense.
So we know the Shadows of Power is a devil, magic, whatever.
Well, I mean, it could have been the Shadows, it could have been whatever the fuck the dragon did.
Yeah.
Like, we saw a lot of magic in that.
There's probably the Shadows of Power.
That has to be Nightcrawler magic, there's no way.
Okay.
Um...
I control the urge to speak what comes to mind, and instead think it at the creature who's currently holding my hand.
Cute!
It goes to take the ring from your hand.
I have to let it have its way.
I imagine you give it up.
The creature Gladys...
Ula seen in the mountains in Dornir.
Okay.
What is that?
Do I know where Dornir is?
Uh, you've heard of Dornir.
It's one of the big cities up in, uh, the giantion there.
Okay, excellent.
Um...
Put it in the sun.
No.
Fireball sunset.
I should ask a question for you, right?
I think that's going to bring us to the end of the round.
That's fine.
It's very fair.
Wait, may I?
No.
It has to be 11 up.
It's 11 up.
Damn.
Nothing's going on, right?
It seems...
Uh, the, the main thing going on, um, the, uh, Captain Al is, uh, instructing, uh, two of his crew to assess the damage done to the sail.
Eee, that's true.
A quick visual inspection.
Is it, like, like, bad?
Like... Give me a vibe.
Yeah, yeah, vibes.
What is vibes?
Just give me a d20.
We'll vibe it out.
Okay, we'll vibe it out.
We'll vibe it out.
Six.
It's not that, like it was only on fire for like two seconds.
It's still up there.
It hasn't like fallen down.
We're not stranded in the ocean.
We shouldn't die.
Yeah, I, uh... You could die less horribly.
Yeah, exactly.
It's making it hard to run away from a giant hand, though.
We're not going to run away from it.
We're going to kill it instead.
Yeah.
I thought we were going to appease it, but we could also kill it.
Actually...
If the sails are no longer as fast as if they ran away from the ship, we're just screwed entirely.
The ship just comes at us.
What's the plan to be escaping?
You just sink the ship.
I have to, right?
Yeah, I thought that was the plan the whole time.
Fireball, fireball, fireball, right?
That's all four.
Yeah, of the two people who are definitely evil.
They're definitely... Definitely evil.
One of them's chaotic neutral.
I should probably release him before I fireball the ship.
As the king of the ring is holding his hands.
I think I'm not doing anything.
There's nothing to do, right?
I'm probably... Are we gonna do... I guess maybe the question for this boat right now is are we gonna do anything with this guy?
I think we need to tie him to the mast.
Okay.
Then he has to be set on fire.
Yes.
It's only fair.
Yeah.
Who's gonna tie him?
I'll tie him.
Yeah.
His responsibility, he did kill him, and then un-kill him.
I didn't kill him.
He didn't die.
And then punch him.
That's one to come.
We're rolling really well tonight.
Yeah.
Great, that guy's tied.
We're done with him.
Good.
Great.
Cool.
Going back over to, I guess that kind of calms things down for here.
Did you have a turn?
I didn't do anything.
Okay.
Where's my seagull?
That's a fair point.
Probably still circling the ship, right?
Yeah, I would think so.
Not for now.
I told you to go look for the ring guy.
Don't think you found the ring guy.
Hasn't found him yet.
Okay.
I think that's going to settle things on this boat for the next, maybe at least, you know, like, few rounds.
Yeah.
Okay.
I imagine...
We had a couple days to get here, or at least a day.
How long?
A day, right?
It's been two days.
Two days.
So at some point, I probably asked you, like, what things would you actually want to learn from this King of the Rings dude?
Ah.
Why?
Why?
A clever question.
Nice.
Why was my family framed?
What is your last name, by the way?
Lucullian.
Lucia Lucelian.
Pretty good.
I like that.
So I have two.
The Lucelian family of Hale.
Of Hale?
Yes.
No, H-A-L-E.
No, like what you do when you see someone else named Hale.
Interesting.
Um.
I guess I will attempt to think at the King of the Rings.
While I'm here, I... Who have you on the line?
While I'm here... Why are you imprisoned on this shit?
If you answer, I may be able to help you escape.
There is no ship that could imprison me.
Then what are you doing in the Bone Reef region?
I am watching.
Okay.
Didn't he literally tell you guys to help him escape?
No, he said a ring for a hand.
He did nothing about trying to escape?
No.
He said, a ring for a hand, and we said, a hand with wine!
Like, he was in a cage, he did not seem interested in leaving the cage.
Charles Xavier has this special, spatchy thing that allows him to telepathically see everyone in the world.
This is his cage.
He has one of those instead.
Maybe.
Maybe he's just one of those tinfoil hat guys, like, gotta build a parody page around me to protect my mind.
Why?
You should duck.
Can I try to duck?
Yeah, absolutely.
Give me a dexterity saving throw.
Sixteen.
Okay.
Uh, you definitely react quick enough.
Uh, there's a, there's a whooshing sound as, uh, something goes over your head.
You can't see, I guess.
Thanks for the advice.
Thanks.
Uh, why is this?
It's probably framed!
Oh, he doesn't know.
The wrong King of the Rings?
It was the other guy?
My family was framed for smuggling magic items into hell, supposedly.
I mean, it's possible that he is the reason, but he doesn't know.
Like, he's the reason, he's not the cause.
Yeah, maybe he smuggled magic items in, and then people were like, that family, and then like... Oh, like he... He was smuggled in?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Is he the magic item that was smuggled in?
I don't know.
Well, like, people did something to Misha's family to get to him.
Ooh, to get to answer my questions, too?
We'll be... It seems to just know where everyone is, right?
Like, I could just... Screw, screw... I'm gonna join the Google Meet call.
Okay.
Run them from here.
Hopefully this works.
Yep.
Brilliant.
All right, okay, I can hear him.
Yeah.
There he is.
Look at him.
It's so weird.
Put him in his pocket.
You're muted.
I'm used to it screaming.
That's fine.
No, you don't want to unmute yourself until you leave because it'll scream.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's true.
That's so weird.
I can hear everyone's voice twice.
Yeah.
I'm doing my own.
That's weird.
Weird.
Weird.
Weird.
Weird.
Weird.
Weird.
Weird.
I was supposed to ask.
Is it selling those people nearby me who are like trying to kill me?
They don't seem to see you.
They can't see them.
No one can see.
No.
Do you... Can you hear me?
Yep.
Yes.
Cool.
Do you know who...
a black magic user who uses his magic to raise armies of undead might be.
Wherever he most likely wants to be, I would think.
Well, that's true.
That's probably fair.
Why are you aboard this vessel?
Why are you?
To talk to you.
You've come a long way.
Talking to you is very important.
I'm considering lighting this vessel on fire.
Is there anything that I can do to help you to avoid the possible destruction that follows?
What about the other guy that knew the catchphrase?
Why this ship?
Because there's a bunch of people aboard it who seem to want to kill me, and other people who are my friends.
I thought they couldn't see you.
But they can see my friends.
Are your friends on this ship?
No.
But they can still be seen.
Uh-oh.
Do you know what the hand might be?
There are many hands.
The biggest one that might be near us.
I've heard it's like 20 feet long.
Is it?
That's what I've heard.
I see you don't mean one of the hands of the king.
How many hands of the king are there?
I only have two.
Why are you called the King of the Rings?
I keep them.
What did the ringless fuck you do?
What you have done.
Are you not a ring bearer?
As a ring bearer, what am I doing?
They have noticed you.
We must go.
um and uh with that uh you find yourself um well i'm screwed uh you find yourself you're just noticed haven't you always wanted to be noticed yes you seem to be nowhere at all you don't have a body at this moment you're just thinking
It seems like you're just in your mind at this point.
Frick.
Great.
I like how your mind is completely empty.
We'll be safe here for a few moments.
You interest me.
Thanks.
Well, thank you.
What about me interests you so much?
That you found me.
That you needed to find me.
To find out about...
Gladys.
Why is Gladys important to you?
Because Gladys is important to someone who knows things which are important to me.
Ah, you're a messenger.
Yes.
Ah, never mind.
You're not interesting.
Oh no!
I think that's not entirely fair to myself, because I'm after other things too, which I also seek from you, if, of course, you would answer them.
It depends.
I'm no longer bound to answer anything.
I realize.
I'll just say that.
I actually realize.
You say that, but you don't realize what?
I can revise my response to the question.
But he probably reads my mind, right?
So he knows that I don't actually understand that or why, but just we're going along with it.
Yeah, yeah.
Sure, sure.
There is a fight between angels and devils.
Are you an angel or a devil?
Oh, I'm just a watcher.
I think he would not be satisfied if I said to watch.
I was going to say if you see it, to watch.
I love listening to you and then realize which book you're ripping off.
I think it would be more fantasy time.
I'm slowly figuring out which book he's writing.
would understand.
No, I am sure you would not understand.
Is there any information which I could give in return for information that you have?
I'm interested only in knowing why you're doing what you're doing.
There is... Watching is easy.
Understanding is different.
There is a person out there.
A man who has killed hundreds and will kill more still.
I want... He's the person who cursed me to be who I am today.
I want to kill him.
Remove his threat from the world.
You don't seem cursed.
Checkmate!
No, no!
Magic's evil!
We just learned that!
It's canon!
You don't know that!
We didn't tell you!
Well... I appear to...
I think at this moment, in the middle of a void of nothingness, talking to someone called the Watcher, Seb is probably going to start rethinking why exactly.
How does he convince someone who doesn't seem to have an idea of much that what he does is evil?
Maybe Seb wonders himself if what he really is doing is evil.
Am I really not cursed?
There's nothing external affecting you.
Except me.
Perhaps you are cursed.
Oh no!
Well... Would you...
help me achieve my goal of killing this person regardless?
Even if he did not curse me, whatever a curse means in the first place, his death would still be doing the world a great favor, I am sure.
Why would I owe this world a favor?
I have no idea.
Checkmate.
But if you're interested in observing the world, maybe it would be a better story if your young hero has helped in his quest to fight evil.
That must be fun to watch.
Interesting.
What does that mean?
The Watchers try to influence minimally where we can.
I don't think it would be my place.
And yet, uh, you do influence via ring bearers.
Is this true?
Time to get another ring.
Why are you on board this particular ship?
They seem to think that they are in control, and that's interesting.
Do you know what they're trying to do with you?
Most likely continue what they have been.
What are they doing with you?
They are looking for a way to turn any power into their favor.
Huh?
Do you know who they are?
Not the full extent.
I know many of them, but not all.
Are they from Lesser Halivik?
The elves?
Some of them.
Who's our giant flaming person called?
who the flame is i have watched one by that name you know what they're trying to do i am i have not seen them here for a while i do not know are they here i heard they're coming then that must be what they're trying to do
The Watcher clearly has a very objective stance in the world.
I understand what it was and what it is now.
I cannot make predictions about the future.
That would require understanding, and I only have knowledge of.
Predictions of the future is subjective.
Okay.
Are the Royal Corps working with the elves, the they you speak of?
They are collaborators, but they are not the same motivators.
Do you know who the motivators are?
Of which cause?
Found the different causes.
What, there's multiple things going on in the world at the same time?
No.
Is there anything else that you want, which I can give you?
It seems unlikely.
Nope.
Fair.
Well, in that case, I have to- Are you aware of the person who tried to take a part of your power a couple months back?
I am.
Do you know why his family was framed?
I do.
Oh.
What?
Wait, so he doesn't know your name, but he knows you?
He's at her second power, I guess.
Will you share why his family is framed?
Will you die on this boat?
I hope not to.
Huh.
Then by sharing this, I would let it get to him, and then he would be influenced.
And that is not what a Watcher does.
What if you promise not to tell?
Pinkie swear!
I know the answer, but I will not tell you!
Alright, I'm just like, oh cool, now what?
What?
What did you say, Alex?
Oh, you said that's cool, bad.
Well, I don't know it yet.
So he's unwilling to influence anyone.
He's from another place, and he watches this world because that's what he does.
He knows lots of things, but only willing to give this to certain people.
This isn't people who give him rings.
If I were to find another ring to give you, would you be willing to tell me?
That is how that works.
We need another ring or we need to come back?
Do you care about what kind of ring you were given?
Do you have a ring?
Was there anything special about that particular ring?
What was special about the ring I gave you?
I made it.
Ah, shit.
Was it a magic ring?
So, how many rings have you made?
Your introduction as a ring bearer seems to have been lacking.
I'm sorry.
That's not your fault.
What was the name of the person who brought you in?
Wait.
Will this endanger Rickle in any way?
Is there always a check?
Is that part of my deal?
Part of everyone's deal, I think.
Were you not part of that?
It's part of everyone but Allaire's deal, but if Allaire goes against it, you all have to go kill him.
Nothing seems to be immediately preventing you from just saying the name.
Oh, okay then.
Uh, Rickle was the person who brought me into this important ring-bearing business.
But maybe he left some details out.
There are many details.
It is complicated.
It is not complicated.
You're just simple.
Do you want to try to share those details with me?
Did he just call you basic?
Simple.
Simple.
There are many who have the rings.
When you present the ring to another bear, you give them the phrase, as you have done with me, and to accept it is to accept without restraint to do whatever is necessary for the asker.
In doing so, you acquire their ring, and then you may ask a favor of your own to another.
That is all.
Should you be in need of help, you may ask another for help.
If they are a ring bearer, they will take the ring and they will help you.
If someone asks you a favor now, you will do it.
So if anyone asks me a favor, I now must absolutely do it.
If they give you a ring, right?
If you accept the ring.
You have to accept the ring.
You can say no.
So if someone gives me a ring, I can now have this ring and it gives me power to ask another ring bearer for a favor.
Does it have to be anyone or just a ring bearer?
It must be a ring bearer.
Someone that understands what the fuck is going on.
So the fact that you have the most rings that anyone has ever seen probably indicates you don't ask them on a favor.
I have all the favors I want.
I see.
How do I use that?
Do you make more rings or is there only a fixed number of rings that you've already made?
Can you purchase a ring from him and then give it back to him?
I make rings as I feel appropriate.
If there are too many, it will be too influential.
able to watch people who have the rings i don't usually watch them usually you'd be surprised often they find me and they tell me useful things darn that's true in exchange for what i mean i'm just trying to exchange for something they need
You needed to know about GLaDOS.
I don't know who GLaDOS is, but now I know where they were.
Where were they?
The mountains.
Dornir.
Dornir.
How is that spelled, by the way?
D-O-R-N-I-R.
Now that I've given my ring away, I guess I'm no longer a ring bearer.
Is it possible to get another ring, possibly from you, the maker of the ring, so I can become a ring bearer once more?
Until you decline a request, you are still a ring bearer.
It's until you decline?
Oh boy.
I see, so I am a ring bearer.
Yes.
And if someone asks me and presents me a ring, I have to say yes.
To stay a ring bearer.
I see.
And if I say no, I'm no longer a ring bearer.
I guess.
And being a ring bearer gives you literally nothing.
How are ring bearers different than just people who walk around?
I don't know.
They're not.
That's why it's not so influential.
I see.
Because it doesn't stop you from accepting yet another ring and becoming a ring bearer again, right?
I have a ring bearer.
Currently, apparently.
Yeah, I mean, if you say no once, you can say yes again.
It's not like... How would they find other ring bearers?
Besides yourself, of course.
Often they find you.
Do you give like... Sometimes they call out in the dark.
Who was the person who also answered out loud rather than in my head?
A ring bearer.
Oh.
What?
There's two ring bearers in this ship.
It was him and the other guy.
And you.
There's three ring bearers on this ship.
You can ask if the other guy's got any rings, but he didn't ask you, so you can't force him to offer you a ring, right?
I could try to let him out, though.
Huh?
I could try to let him out, though.
Yeah.
Shinzira, are you saying something?
No.
Oh, okay.
I saw you moving your mouth, and it kind of looked like you were speaking, but it was muted.
I'm chewing food.
Yeah, I realize.
Is there any other questions?
I'm not.
that I would remotely ask in this situation.
Because he's a person who has unlimited information which is able to affect the world.
So there's not many extra questions we can really ask him, right?
Non-consequential ones would be fine.
What is my middle name?
He's told you many things.
I don't know how you know about the secret organization of ring bearers.
And we knew he was head of a secret organization.
Now we know what it is.
Yes.
We also know the people on the ship are trying to use his power, but he's like, yeah, no way.
Yeah.
I hear your hopes, but I really don't care.
Will you be annoyed if I light the ship on fire?
I will watch.
Oh, guess he doesn't care.
One last hopeful question.
What in the world is the bone wreath?
Do you know why it was made?
Ooh, that's a good question.
It was here before me.
It's always been here.
Oh, shoot.
Yeah.
Are you aware of a giant 20-foot-long hand that may be the severed hand of a god?
No.
It is 30 feet.
Where is it?
Is it coming towards us?
It tends to.
Was.
Will be soon.
Well, thank you so much.
You have been both useful and useless.
I hope to interest you more, and if you ever want to become someone who makes the world more interesting, I'm always here to provide help to, to make events something, a better story for you to watch.
I knew you wouldn't understand.
Oh, shit!
It's not my fault I like interesting stories.
Boring stories are, well, not very interesting.
Okay, bye!
Yay!
Nice to meet you!
How long are you intending to keep me in here?
Would you like to go back?
If I were to go back, would I likely die immediately?
No, it would be several seconds.
More than six?
Are you confident I would die?
I don't know what you can do.
Seems like a bit...affecting.
It's not very Watcher of you.
I think you have a decent chance of dying.
Would you tell me why a certain person I was referring to earlier had his family friend left, Frank?
Oh, shit!
Bring me another ring, and I will tell you.
Sounds like a plan.
We're not coming back here.
No.
Why not?
We cut all out...
Al is not going to take us out again.
We have betrayed his trust by setting his ship on fire.
We didn't set his ship on fire.
His ship has been set on fire because of us.
We betrayed his trust by not telling him we were going after his ship.
He can buy two new ships.
That is true.
This was a good point.
So we're going to take a break from that little sideline.
So that has been happening in relative real time.
Back to our boats.
Um, I'm going to die in a couple of seconds.
What is this?
Uh, so the, um, the status of the sails, uh, has brought about two things as two of the crew have gone up and looked at it.
Um, one it's nothing catastrophic.
Uh, it should be able to continue sailing.
It'll be a little bit slower.
We don't want to put too much tension on it or we do risk ripping it, but it should be okay.
The other thing they notice from up there is that the amber wave has turned.
Oh, right.
The what?
We're heading away from it.
The amber wave.
It is the name of the other ship.
We want to run away from the other ship.
And... I would be concerned about that.
I don't think... Oh, a lair.
You've got great eyesight.
It turned towards us, I assume.
It is turning towards you.
Yeah.
Oh, wait, what's your...
What's your darkvision range?
Uh, 60?
60?
Cool.
Daruk has 120.
Oh.
I don't think that's going to get you enough detail for anything else other than it is turning towards you.
Well, that's bad.
Okay, we are going away.
Away.
Maintain distance.
Maintain distance.
Maintain or increase distance.
Um, abandon Seb is what I'm hearing.
Well, Higgs is here, right?
That is true.
We do have Higgs.
Definitely.
Definitely.
You can definitely teleport right to here.
Is Higgs still blindfolded?
No, right?
No?
I would imagine not to go fly over to the... Yeah.
That's a fair point.
Am I aware of what Higgs is looking at?
While I'm in my weird, I'm about to die realm.
About to die realm.
No, you would not be.
I'm screwed.
Meanwhile, I'm over there, like, passing my, like, cloak over, like, Higgs's eyes and back off.
Like, trying to, like, morse code signals.
Yeah, no signal is coming from Higgs right now.
About two minutes go past.
And the most notable thing is that boat got closer.
It is definitely closing ground.
As it angles towards you, you can, I think Captain Al would be able to sort out that they're rowing.
They're rowing.
In addition to these sails, they are also rowing.
Can we be rowing?
That's pretty cool.
Why is that cool?
These most sailing boats don't also have rowers.
Oh, is that true?
They're rowing fast.
Do you have oars?
Do you have oars?
Just some of the gusts.
Ah, shit.
We can geyser the sail.
Wait, no, you can't.
Does the geyser push back on you?
It's unclear if it does.
It comes from an extra-dimensional space.
And then you don't land back on the boat, then your momentum is good.
Yeah, the water's coming from an extra-dimensional space.
It's fine.
If you cast a spell, Gust, over and over again, you would make the ship go faster.
Do you have any wind spells?
When you geyser, you don't have to strength save against you getting thrown back.
Precisely.
Seems fine.
It would break the sail, probably.
You can geyser the boat.
Huh?
Like, go to the back edge of the boat and just point it at it.
Wait, but you just said it doesn't push you.
What?
It doesn't push you holding the thing, but the water that comes out pushes the boat.
It's worth a try.
Wait, so you're supposed to dangle it over the side of the boat and shoot geyser at it?
If it does push you, then you just push- aim it off the back of the boat.
What's the problem?
This is fair.
Wait, can I- so you- What is- Your head goes to the side, it's going forwards, it's pushing the boat, it's pulling you.
But there's no backwards force.
I mean, basically you're just breaking Newton's, like, like, no laws of physics anymore.
Conservation of invention is gone.
Momentum's just in a different plane.
Momentum is in a different plane.
The other plane gets farther away.
I have no advice.
I'm in a weird thought realm.
Probably moments from certain death.
I can cut up their sails if they get close enough.
What? !
so the cannon's closed.
Yeah.
Another minute goes by.
Sev has not yet returned.
Can I still contact my seagull?
I don't know how that works.
I don't think you have telepathic control over it.
It obeys verbal commands.
Yeah.
I don't think you're able to actually control it at all.
There is a loud boom in response to your call, and a cannonball falls about 40 feet short of the boat.
Uh oh, we got a guy in the plaster.
Your faithful geyser, having filled up many a pit before you,
It doesn't seem to be making any noticeable improvement on your speed.
How do we sail faster, Captain Al?
Well, uh... How close are we?
Close.
About 350 feet away.
Gotta pull the sails tighter, Captain Al.
If we do that, we lose them.
If we don't, we lose us.
Someone give me a 1d6.
We should turn the ship around and ram them.
Let's sink both of our ships.
Two.
Well, uh, where's, um, where's Mr. Severian?
With his plans.
He'll come back.
We hope.
Shhh.
Higgs is still here.
But Higgs wouldn't vanish if I died anyway.
If he is a, if he'll end up where that owl is.
I think he is the owl, doesn't he?
There he is.
I love just his, if he does still think Seb is the owl, he just saw Seb be like, I have a plan.
I'm going to do all this and this and this.
Then he turns into an owl and sits there.
Like the whole ship starts approaching, Seb's still just sitting there in owl position.
Surely he's seen both of them at the same time now.
Probably, right?
Yeah, I think he's mostly just choosing not to engage with that situation.
Should've asked the guy less questions.
How are you gonna know?
How was I supposed to know that the obvious thing was gonna happen?
They were clambering around getting the oars ready around you, they almost hit you!
How was I supposed to know?
I need to learn dogfishing this spell so badly.
Another minute goes by.
This time, I believe... Nice.
We make first canning contact.
No!
The way I'm understanding the situation is you are moving straight with the wind, and they are pursuing.
Can we fire the cannons back?
I don't think we have any cannons in the back of the ship.
We could... Can Daruk detach the front cannon and point it at the back?
Hey, Daruk!
You were fast!
You're muted.
You're muted!
Muted.
Muted!
intense hello so sev talked for way too long and now their boat is following us and seb hasn't come back yet and we're trying to run away but the ships are kind of the sails are kind of damaged so we're slower now and they just made first cannon contact oh they hit us yeah they just hit you're not naturally damaged yet
But you are in range.
Can I uncannily dodge on behalf of the ship?
That ship is uncannily bad at dodging.
You can find a way to extend the mirror image spell on the cloak to the entire ship.
That would be cool.
I take off my cloak and put it on.
You like wave it out there?
I attach it to the sails.
You could attach it to the sails.
They make a stronger sail.
You could use a regular cloak for that, though, I think.
Magic items tend to be prone to breakage.
I'm gonna keep this.
Thank you.
All of you guys leap onto the small boat, the dinghy that we have, which I believe we have, and then sail to the other ship.
Oh yeah, it's right back there.
And then board the ship and attack them and kill them in melee combat.
That's not a terrible idea.
It might be able to sink us on the way there.
That's a bad idea.
You just wait there.
You all jump into the water, and you all have water breathing, and then once you're close enough, you destroy the ship.
What's the distance between us and them?
About 300 feet.
Cannon distance.
I mean, at this point, we can't keep running, right?
We have to face them.
So we might as well go straight at them.
Well, that's...
Because, because we're...
The more we try to run away, the more shots they have at us before we can engage with them.
Yeah.
So we should just turn around and go at them.
Basically, it all depends on how long you think it's gonna take before Sev stops doing whatever ridiculousness he's currently up to.
I mean, how is Sev gonna help?
Even if you come back here, that's not helpful.
No, but all I have to do is go and destroy the ship.
Like, if I just fireball the ship, like, 30 times.
Or, I guess, seven times.
Yeah.
That was the original plan that has not been executed for minutes.
Yeah, so we might as well fireball the ship ourselves.
If we turn around and get it within 100, 180 meters of their ship, not meters, feet,
I can fireball it.
Fair.
Yep.
I think that's the plan we go with.
Seb hasn't done shit yet.
Assume Seb dead, fireball their ship.
Seb's corpse lies in the ship that will soon be sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
This is why we were sure Seb was gonna die.
We're just gonna finish him off.
Thankfully- Wait, so where is Seb now?
On the boat.
Or not on the boat.
Your boat or the other boat?
No, he's in his mind.
I'm safe in my mind.
I'm thinking really hard about things.
I was called simple multiple times.
Actually, only once.
Wow.
Savage.
So we turn around and head right at them.
How long before we're within 180 meters feet of their boat?
He basically just had a long mental chat with the king of the rings.
Are you asking Captain L?
Yeah.
If we do it right now?
If we do it right now.
We'd be lucky to turn around in time.
Shit.
Then you just drop the sails.
You'll slow the ship down and let the ship catch us up.
We are a smaller target.
And then you just fireball them.
Does that work?
If we stop now, Wendy's not going to make it.
What do you propose?
I propose that we go with the plan that kept Wendy at a safe distance.
Well, we were at a safe distance until things started approaching and we were supposed to be able to go away from them.
I don't have any spare hands, right?
What do you mean?
Like, we just, like, threw a hand in the water.
Would it summon... The hand?
The hand.
We actually have a bag of spare hands.
I have a bag of dead hands.
I'm gonna go look for his bag of hands to throw one into the water.
Sure.
Um...
A sacrifice of sorts.
Yeah, um, so you go, uh, let's see, your stuff have been stored, um, on the lower deck.
Um, the, uh, you find this bag, um, the, what else is, um.
You should release Jeremy.
Wait, you actually physically cannot release Jeremy?
Jerry, Jerry is down there.
Change his name.
Jerry is, uh, currently wearing, um, some manacles and a gag, um, and it looks generally uncomfortable.
Um, yeah, you find the bag of hands.
Hey, Jerry.
Take a hand and go out.
I picked the idea, like, this cannon of fire has been a hit.
Hey, Jerry!
Um...
Does Jerry know about the bag of hands?
I don't think he would unless you were like, look, I got a bag of hands.
Cool, okay.
I go up and throw it off the back of the ship.
The whole bag?
No, one hand.
One hand.
I went down to grab a single hand.
I did not bring the whole bag with me.
Oh, interesting.
You didn't bring your whole bag?
Yeah, so you pull the hand out of the bag.
Um, and Jerry, uh... It's much less comforting.
It wasn't comforting in the first place, but it's much worse when it's, like, a hand that's, like, saws, like, rotting flesh on it than when it's, like, a skeleton hand with a sword attached.
Yeah, this one's just somehow more dead than the other one was.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, when you pull the hand out of the bag, um, Jerry starts, uh, kicking his legs around and...
So we're in danger.
And if this does what I think it might do, I think we might have better odds of surviving.
Bye!
Are you sure?
Okay.
I have told you that Jerry is the person who told me about all the information I have about the hand currently.
Yeah, but he also does magic, and if we un-gag him, he can do magic, right?
But he wasn't trying to do it until he took the hand out of the bag.
But to be fair, it's up to you what your choice is.
Seth is not there.
Seth is being an idiot.
Yeah, you take a hand.
And Captain Al knows stuff about the hand stuff, too, right?
That's what Jerry does.
Yeah, you take a hand from the bag.
Can we?
Minor illusion in the water to make it look like something's approaching.
I think minor illusion can't move, yeah.
But the water is moving.
That's true.
Without a reference point, something statically in the water could look like it's moving.
What I really, really want to have, this is the perfect time for this, would be Wall of Force.
Wall of Force, you just cast a plane of force in the water, the ship sails straight into it, cut right in half, sinks.
That would be great.
We have not high enough level for that.
Okay.
Yeah, you chuck a hand into the water.
The best I can do is a tiny one.
Before I chuck it, I do want to ask Captain Al, what...
Do you think what would happen if I were to throw this hand into the water?
It might lighten the load just a little bit, but I don't think I'm going to do it.
Okay.
I yeet the hand off the back of the ship.
Sure, do that.
Okay.
Wait, can I ask you a question?
Yes.
Are we still in the water that has the hands?
Yes.
All the bones.
Yes.
We sure are.
Just check.
I thought so.
Just check it.
Yeah, they're... I'm concerned.
Yeah, over the course of the next minute, two more cannon shots come in.
One splashes down to the left of your boat.
And the other one does hit.
There's some...
The captain yells at one of the crew to go down and try to make sure that you're not taking on any water from the damage.
You have a plan?
No, my spectral mind can move 300 feet away from me.
It just takes a little while.
We were moving.
If I just summoned it and we kept going, at what point will the other boat get within 120 foot of the head and the mind?
It wouldn't be too long.
Brilliant.
Do it.
We'll set that up.
Do it.
Okay.
I hope that we don't die.
Yeah.
About as you're doing that, the captain, who feels like they're in charge here?
I'm going to give it to Jabruk, I think.
He's the tallest.
He is the tallest right now.
Am I eating the hand?
No, I eated the hand.
I eated it already.
Jerry had a lot to say about that.
He had nothing to say about that.
He actually spoke zero words.
Well, this has been great.
Any other plans before we make a last stand?
Here's the plan.
Boom, fireball.
Can we do that yet?
Sorry, it's hard to hear.
What did I just do?
Yep.
The question that's mostly directed at you, although the whole group can hear it is, well, we're not going to make it running.
They've only caught up.
Any suggestions before we make a last stand?
After we make a last stand, I'll be ages.
How far is my mind?
I think Elle, you got this!
Can I fireball them yet?
Not yet.
Oh boy, we wait!
Can you fireball the cannonballs in midair?
With an incredible dex save.
Can I firebolt the cannonballs in midair?
Um, all right.
Somehow I feel like those won't have the momentum or explosive power needed to stop a cannonball.
Oh, that's right, because it's just force.
All right.
After a moment, Captain raises his voice to make sure everyone on board can hear.
All right.
Bring the stern around.
Prepare to be rammed.
And that's what we'll pick up next session.
Okay.
Yay!
Where is he?
I don't know where he is.
I think he's close.
I think he's in front of the Italian Cultural Center.