Session 45 Original Transcript
As long as their ship to be the ship that's going to sink first, they have to keep our ship intact.
So by destroying their ship almost entirely, it forces them to board us and for us to be safe as a result.
Or else they drown too.
If you can't beat them, invite them over.
All right.
I believe we left off last time with Captain Owl's suggestion.
to stop running.
No, Al, keep going.
You've been hit a couple times, and things are not looking great.
No, Al, I forgot I can do fireball.
Keep going!
Are you sure?
If we turn now, we can at least get a few shots off the side, off the port, before they get to us.
If we keep running, they're just gonna catch up.
We keep running.
A few shots are not gonna be anything against theirs.
And they're not, I don't know if they were still shooting at us.
Yeah, busy at the cannon front.
You sure?
Let's go.
Yeah, 40 with it.
All right.
Let's see.
You continue for.
Let's hope we don't block Seb with this fireball.
Yeah, let's see.
Seb, give me a 1d10.
A 1d10?
Excellent.
A die we never use.
That would be a three.
A three.
Excellent.
Yeah, let's see.
Okay.
So over the next 30 seconds, the ship, the Amber Wave, will give off a nether shot heading in your direction.
And let's see.
Nice.
Oh, it's a natural 20.
No!
Oh.
All right, great start guys, great start.
Not a great start.
Am I jinxed?
Oh no.
Oh no!
I'm pretty good at this thing for cannons.
I mean... And we all die.
And yeah, um... Can I shoot them yet?
Time to climb the mast of the sinking ship for the second time.
A, uh...
Let's see, yeah, that shot definitely hits, you can feel it reverberate through the ship.
Pit, go down and help Remy.
The captain instructs one of the crew to go down.
There was already one who was going to check on the previous one.
This one definitely might be worse.
Did we talk about freezing that?
Or is that L who's going to be occupied momentarily?
Okay.
Can't do fire and ice at the same time.
I'm going to go down and see if I can help.
Ooh, you're going to go down?
Yeah, I have an axe, like what the fucking way you did.
Okay.
Yeah, I mean... Yeah, why don't you go ahead and give me a perception check as you go down to see what's what.
Is that DLC?
Yeah, it's DLC.
That's a decent...
With an 11, you go down, you're with Pip.
No, sorry, Pin.
And the... There's a very substantial hole sitting just above the waterline.
at the moment.
Oh.
Is someone else down here?
I just went down first.
Yeah, so Remy had gone down earlier.
Penn, you're going down with Penn.
This is what you see.
Where's Remy?
He was down here.
Alright.
Is there any... So looking out the deck,
Is there any, like, wood or beams that don't seem structural?
Like, if that makes sense.
Like, if I was strong enough, say I'm strong enough to try to do a big giant monster that can, like, tear off and, like, try to, like, patch up this hole.
Um... There's not, like, a lot of decoration going on.
Sure.
Um... Not decoration, but, like, I don't know if there's, like,
Like, paneling between, like, this room.
I don't know.
Is there anything that I see that I can... Anything vestigial that I can take off and put on?
Yeah, you just came down a set of stairs.
You could just take one of the... Honestly, yeah.
Can I take one of these?
Hey, one of... Yeah.
Yeah, I'm gonna...
Should I get big?
I'll get big for this.
I have two more uses of big today.
Okay.
I'm sure it'll be useful the next minute.
I get big, and I try to tear up one of the steps.
Give me athletics.
All right, that's going to be with advantage.
okay okay that's not terrible that's a play that's 19.
19 19 versus the rickety stairs yeah um it just oh yeah up it goes all right so i'm gonna try to um put that next to hole you're not you're not nails down here oh they're they're in the plank you just
I'm sure he's reacting totally normally to the, to seeing me grow three sizes.
Yeah.
Um, he looks concerned.
I think this is the way we're going to go with.
Um, it's not the first time he's seen this.
It was a hot, like two minutes ago.
Yeah, I guess.
It's, it's an acquired taste.
Okay.
Okay.
I assume your clothes also grow with you when you do that.
Yes.
No.
I don't just like Hulk.
I now have shorts on.
Let's see.
What's fireball range?
We're getting close.
You're like 150.
No, but I sent my mind.
I dropped that a while ago.
It's heading towards their ship.
We're moving away.
That's true.
Okay.
Okay.
let's do i think my mind i think we hit fireball range okay okay i'm gonna aim at there's a cannon on the deck right uh there is there is a cannon on the prow of the ship i don't want to hit the prow that's boring i think i want to go for the sails
Is the reason we don't incinerate their sails?
Yeah, I'm incinerating the sails, hopefully.
Karen said as long as we don't.
Wait, why not?
We need a boat to get back?
But I guess that we're shooting fireballs at their ship we're not trying to save.
No, we need an owl boat to get back.
We can make sails out of ice, right?
What?
No.
What?
But the whole... Our sails are currently in a good enough structure to get us back, assuming we don't have to go top speed, right?
That's true.
I mean, the whole we use their boat to get back was because we initially thought that the only way to do this is to just ram them, but we're not doing that.
To get rammed by them was the...
From your guys' perspective, right, you know that the boat has oars, and you can see how many oars it has.
And that gives us at least some indication of how many people we'd have to kill to take that boat over.
That's a lot.
This is a lower bound.
You have 12 oars, you said?
Or like each person has one row one or on each side of the boat I can't imagine them rowing would be
I don't know how fast rollers work, but that's what they use in the Polynesian Wars.
If we destroy one side of the oars and they can't use the oars anymore without turning in circles.
Yeah, but we can't aim at- oh, we can aim at the side of their ship because your mind just kind of floats and can fire from a different angle.
They're using oars and sails.
They're using both.
I just don't think of- is a fireball at some oars gonna break him?
I think Fireball is the thing that's going to limit them.
Fireball the sail.
Right?
The sail is surely pushing them more than the oars are.
Is this true?
I don't know.
I feel like oars are pretty fast.
There's a reason people don't go all the speeds.
I also feel like the sails go all the way up.
They don't do it because it's very labor intensive to do that.
So they'll get tired at some point and we can keep going with our sail.
To be fair, you also probably could shoot off two fireballs.
So we could just fireball everything.
It's true.
Yeah.
We can start with the sails.
No, Korra blurs out the answer before it gets to why medieval ships had oars in addition to sails.
Oars are also useful when you don't have a lot of wind and you're navigating a port.
In this world.
I don't know about the real world, but... Oh, this one.
I was going to say that.
Oh, all right.
So oars, yeah, oars let you move in any direction at will.
It's a very cat-colored cushion.
Mechanically, that's 10 feet per round.
That is a very cat-colored cushion.
It looks like a big Eevee.
It does look like a big Eevee.
10 feet per round, the oars?
That's not much, is it?
We also don't know that right now.
We see oars, we see a sail, and we see them going kind of fast.
Burn their sails, because they burned our sails.
Test for test, bitch.
are mostly for maneuverability when trying to ram people which is exactly what they're trying to do yeah but it's not the speed which is what we wait what level we just knew i guess there's 86 that just looks like a lot of night i guess eight is a lot of dice oh sure okay oh god what level are you casting this fireball regular what are you fireballing okay because it's third level and i don't have four fellas so we're fireballing the sales the current took my watch
the sails.
I see two sixes there.
I mean, to be fair, regardless of what we fireball, it's going to at least slow their sheep down, right?
Yeah, it's just sort of what's the better choice, I guess.
So this book, Hovering Above the Waves,
Uh, from it shoots out a beam, uh, of red light, uh, that goes up, hits the sails, flares into a large, uh, a large flame where you can see really clearly the ship.
Um, okay.
Let's see.
Uh, in that brief, uh, flare, uh, you see one why it's called the Amber Wave.
Um, the copper on the front of it glows red with the light.
Ooh.
Um, and, uh, you do see, uh, a few people, uh, on the deck of the ship.
Um, it looks like two, two people.
Um, and then the flare of the light goes up.
Well shit.
So did it destroy the sails?
Don't the sails catch fire?
The sails certainly do not look as though they are on fire.
Do they have something on their sails that makes them not like that?
I'll turn the ship around!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay.
We can do something.
Well, now we go for the horse, I guess.
I guess.
From 60 feet, you can probably see this ship relatively clearly through your mind, right?
Can you see through the book?
Am I 60 feet?
Is the mind 60 feet from the thing?
Oh, you're right.
It's 150 feet away currently, right?
Yeah, assuming I... Yeah, this is the first time to find one.
I guess your doctor's normally 60 feet to the book, never mind.
Yeah.
All right, we'll move to the next round.
And I believe the ship continues to gain.
It's now 100 and... It was 150, now it's 120 feet away.
Oh.
Okay.
Wait, from the mine?
From you.
Oh, okay.
I can just bring it back.
Alright, that was one sick-ass round.
Wait, presumably we can get the very least fireball people on the deck.
It's true, yeah.
If they have some kind of magic which is stopping fire from being bad, does it apply to them too?
I don't know.
Oh, so give me that one more time.
10.
Welcome back.
Oh.
Let's see.
Just in time to get one more.
Oh, I'm back.
Half a set of points.
There you go.
I was kind of scared with that 10.
I'm like, 10 could be a very bad thing.
10 kind of goes towards you.
10 is precisely the time when it is decided by the King of the Rings to return you to your self, I suppose.
I think that you had invisibility on.
And that is still under effect.
You have not lost your concentration on that spell.
Good.
Or else I'd be very dead.
Yes, you find yourself in the dark.
Oh, shit.
Don't die.
What do I hear?
Um, let's see.
Uh, you hear, uh, um, there's some, there's some general cursing.
There's, um, some grunting.
There's, uh, a lot of creaking.
Um, and there is, uh, most notably, uh, someone calling out a pace, um, for the rowers.
Kill the pace maker.
Yeah.
I mean,
easier done with sight.
But so there's oars.
How long was the ship when I was on it previously?
How long was it, like the length of the ship?
I was on board.
Yeah, 120 feet is about the length of the ship.
OK.
So this room is probably more than 20 feet long, which I think means I can fireball it safely without killing myself.
Yeah.
That's good news.
If you think about it, that kind of has to be the case, right?
It can't be that small a room.
Well, I've had a job which was to fireball the ship, and best as I know, that's still what I'm doing.
Like, two minutes late.
I wasn't that away for that long, right?
It's like, in your mind, the time doesn't pass or something, I swear.
Fireballs outside the ship, fireballs inside the ship.
I will, like, slowly step backwards as far as I can.
Presumably, I was— So previously, like— No, wait.
What direction was I facing?
Towards— So there were two voices.
One of them was, like, directly, like, in front of— Behind me, which would be, I guess, close to the front of the ship.
And one of them was, like, to my right.
So I go towards what I believe is the front of the ship.
Okay.
You go about two steps, and you bump into a post.
Something along the lines of a post?
Does it feel like a wooden post?
That would make sense.
I think so.
I think so.
That would make sense, I guess.
They don't have to sort of stand in there.
I have been below deck in video games in which I'm pretty sure there have been a mass-like column in the middle of the lower decks.
Divinity, you've played that game too.
I didn't notice the mass at the bottom of the ship.
What are you on about?
There's just columns in the middle.
There's columns in the middle that are vaguely masks, like these masks are columns.
Does it sound like there are people roaming behind me?
To both your left and your right.
Okay.
So I will use the mask, assuming it's a mask, to kind of try to walk around it and then keep walking backwards.
Um, yeah, let's see.
Give me a perception check.
I'm good at this.
19 minus one.
That's 18.
The highest perception check Seth has ever rolled in his life.
That's not bad.
With an 18, you definitely perceive through the sense of touch that you are feeling your way around this post and you are touching.
That's going to be a face.
And I'm going to have everybody roll for initiative.
Everybody.
Thanks.
Whatever Seb did put us into initiative.
Thanks, Seb.
Guess Seb is doing something.
20 for me?
Not 20!
Wait, no, no, no.
It's not 20.
It's 18.
Wow!
I'm 20.
Yeah, because I don't have plus anything.
I have 13 minus 1.
11 plus 7.
Hey, Elad, do you have any way to, like...
Make it rain.
We have a lot of gold, we can make it rain.
With water!
Everyone's initiative.
Oh, is it 20?
18.
18.
12.
12.
Oh, song.
14.
14.
Allaire?
15.
And Sev?
18.
15 plus 3.
Okay.
I'm also 18, but I'm plus 7.
Oh, sure.
Okay.
Oh, I believe you were going to start this round.
Hey, Laird, do you have any way to make it rain?
I think he's demonstrated that objectively last session.
Putting out the fire.
Creating a destroyed water doesn't really make it rain, does it?
It does.
That's one of the facts.
That's pretty good.
What's the range on that?
Oh, 30 foot cube is this area that it rains.
What's the range?
um range is 30 feet as well okay what do you want to do i wanted to coat the deck with water and then lighting it and then oh lightening it and then we just have everybody i guess it's not like a big enough we haven't created a big enough fire anywhere never mind what what do you need
I was saying, if we create a beginner fire, shouldn't that see the cloud?
See what cloud?
See the cloud?
Oh, I don't think we can make rain that quick.
Yeah.
That's fair.
And if we have 7th level spells, we can just, like, cast Passwall, which is 5th level, like, through the floor of their ship, and then they just sink.
With a 5th level spell, you should be able to instantly destroy the ship using a Wall of Forest.
That's also true.
Look, we're not even level 7 as characters.
We're not even level 7 as characters.
Trying to figure out, there's nothing I can do with that rain.
Does it look like they're, how many turns will they hit us?
They're about 120 feet, four rounds.
Four rounds, we have time to build a shape water iceberg squish.
My other option is to fire bolt something that can catch on fire.
But it seems like nothing's catching on fire.
I don't think it's going to work.
I don't think it's going to change anything.
I think if you fireball, it should be to incur maximum casualties.
Which is not a bad idea.
Why did the sail not catch on fire?
Oh, man.
Can you code it with some, like, fire-resistant... So it went a bit blazed for a second, right?
Was it on fire?
There was the light from the fire spreading out over the affected area.
It just didn't catch.
Okay, I see.
So it didn't look like it was on fire and then got put out.
It just seemed like it did not catch fire, really.
Okay.
The spell does say it catches fire flammable objects.
Because the sail is not flammable.
Yes, the sail is just not flammable.
Is it magically unflammable?
Yeah, that's the question, right?
Do I know of any way to make fabric unflammable?
Give me an arcana check.
I'm pretty sure inflammable things are also flammable.
Yeah.
just a level of sufficient yes if the cells were in if there was a way to make the cells inflammable and inflammable means the same thing as oh not 20 oh wow let's see um you look really deep into your into your thoughts on the way that the spell that you cast affected the area um
And the best you have is that it didn't see, like, it wasn't... Nothing in the sails even indicated that there was, like, any reaction to the fire at all.
It was, like, it was completely unaffected by your spell.
Anti-magic sails.
Is anti-magic sail a thing?
I cast anti-magic sail.
Can you just, like, throw a torch at them and that's not magic?
Maybe.
No, but there was fire in the area, right?
So it couldn't be at the automatic zone, not that we know that those things are there.
How far away is the ship from us right now?
120 feet.
Maybe the sails just have evasion.
Why don't we just try to evade?
I think we should try to fire arrows, like, flaming arrows at the sail.
I can't.
If only we had a ranger.
Sugg has a bow.
Yeah, Sugg has a bow.
They're all dead.
That's it.
Game over.
Can I see the holes the oars are coming out of?
I suppose.
Sort of.
You can see where they are.
The boat is coming towards you, so you can see that's where it's coming out of.
Give me the boat.
I'll take the shots.
I don't have a boat.
Sock has my boat.
Why does Sark give all the bows?
Is that your bow?
Because I gave it to him!
Oh, I forgot that was your bow.
No, no, the magic bow isn't his bow.
Oh yes, he has the magic bow.
The harp bow.
Yeah, but the harp bow only makes music.
It still works as a bow!
It's also a bow!
Your bow is just a regular bow, it doesn't make music!
Yeah, I'll tell you that.
But I assume he gave it back.
Yeah, but I was thinking, does it give any extra range or anything?
No, no, I mean, you probably got your bow back when Sog got his bow.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
I will... Oh.
It's my turn?
I think?
Yeah.
I don't know what to do.
I might just, like... You don't have to do anything.
I can shoot... Firebolt randomly.
Sync to their battleship.
I will simply shoot a firebolt at somebody on the deck.
A firebolt?
Just a regular old cantrip.
Yeah, go for it.
Yeah, cool.
Oh, right, I have to make an actual roll for that.
It's a 12 plus 7, 19.
Yeah, that makes contact.
Nice.
Guys.
What is that?
It's 2D whatever now, 2D10.
10s.
D10s.
Okay.
Nine.
All right.
We're doing well, guys.
Yeah, we're winning.
Okay.
Okay.
That's L. That brings solution.
The only ranged weapon I have is the dagger.
Chuck it.
No.
You don't have a smoke bomb?
Chuck it.
Nope.
Didn't fit in my inventory.
Oh my god, you're the worst.
I've never had a bow or anything like that.
He's too obsessed with carrying his fucking dragon claws.
No, I did have a bow at one point.
I had a bow at one point.
What'd you do with it?
Swapped it out for 100 platinum probably.
I think that's a pretty good deal.
No, it's not.
Why didn't you buy a bow the last time you were in the place with Shops?
These damn platinums, I tell ya.
I...
Point my sword at the other ship.
Menacingly.
Menacingly.
You'll be swimming with the fishes tonight.
And then I'll, like, turn still and be like, I always wanted to say that.
Always in those pirate books.
All right.
Brings us to Siv.
You have the initiative on this one.
But how will they swim if they're dead?
Nice.
Okay.
So my hand went around and hit someone's face?
Yes.
Yes, it did.
They'll be sleeping with the fishes.
Yes.
It seems that you are on opposite sides.
They'll be sleeping with the bone hands.
Does he make any noise when I hit his face with my hand?
Oh, yes.
He cries out in surprise.
What the fuck?
I'll say, excuse me, and then I will activate, as a bonus action, I will activate my Blade Swarm, which does not break invisibility because it's not a spell, or an attack.
And then I will say, just passing through and then attempt to move further backwards towards the front of the ship.
Yeah, I mean, do that.
Excellent.
And then I kind of move forward somewhat slowly with my arms in front with the intention of going as far as I can towards the front of the ship.
Okay.
The room's not... I will stop when my arms hit something.
Yeah, you make your way all the way up to, it seems like you're standing just in front of the person calling out the cadence.
Excellent.
I will then turn around and cast Fireball straight down the center of the ship to explode 20 feet in front of me.
These are my wand of fireball.
It has seven charges.
Are you casting this in the direction of the person calling the cadence or in the opposite direction?
So my understanding is, so here's the
towards the front of the ship because I teleported straight down from the front.
So I move backwards a bit.
The person in front of the cadence is apparently here behind me, like the very front of the ship, and I'm going to fireball up this direction.
Gotcha.
So that floats 20 feet in front of where I'm currently standing.
Okay.
Yes.
And I will probably use...
recharges?
Wait, I shouldn't use all seven, so if I were to get a cat... Wait, but this is kind of the optimal time to use it.
He's hitting like 16 people with fireball or something, if they're all in that radius.
Yeah, but they're all like slaves and regular humans with 10 health probably.
If so, we've solved our ore problem.
The best of seven's knowledge, they're all terrible, bloodthirsty pirates.
And he can't see them, so he can't see the... He can't witness the war crime he's committing.
So you are pointing... If you use all seven and break my wand, I would be so mad.
I only break it if I roll a natural one on the d20 after all.
I would be very mad.
She repeats.
Extra mad if you roll a natural on the d20.
Okay.
So you are aiming this 20 feet out into the dark.
And I will use three targets.
using three charges do it excellent do i roll damage uh yes all right let's go oh boy three is a line how much is that it's uh
For one charge, you have the third level version, and you can increase the spell slot by one each edition's charge.
So it's like 12d6, I think?
I think it's 2d6 per level.
Is it 2d6 or 1d6 per level?
It might be 1d6 per level.
1d6 seems... Yeah, 10d6.
That's 32.
You did two more damage for your two extra dice.
Okay, okay, okay.
It's okay, Sev's not as practiced at casting fireballs.
That's true.
Meanwhile, it's like the only thing I do.
He can only cast it with training wheels.
So this is effectively a fifth level fireball.
Yeah.
Excellent.
Alright!
Watch it explode in Sev's face because he forgot a pole right here.
And then he would die because he does not have enough health for his level 5 roll.
I already did the math.
I have absorb elements ready and prepared.
It's physically impossible for me to die to a single fireball with a dual max damage.
What is the save?
Fifteen.
Everyone's failing, I think.
I've gotten two ones.
Just as long as you kill them in an asymmetric way, the boat should slow down.
From our side, we'd see a other side, and then... Okay, that... Yeah, um...
Carnage.
Carnage is how I will describe the scene.
Did you see it?
Sev sees a bright flash and sees what he did.
Yeah.
You see a really exciting scene that's really clear for a moment.
Just for one brief moment.
Where you have two aisles on both sides with eight rowers hauling on the oars.
There's...
No, you're not looking at him.
That's fine.
There's the guy behind you calling the cadence.
There's the guy whose face you just slapped on your way past.
Who is in the act of pulling out his whip, looking around to figure out who it is who needs to be put back in line.
At least one man.
And then, so the...
And the room that you're in, so it goes back.
There is, it looks very out of place, the cage that he was put in.
The King of the Rings is there.
It's empty, notably.
But only for a moment before it is filled with the flames of a physical fireball that leave people unhappy.
Uh, there's a, there's a brief moment of, uh, screams of surprise and then of pain, uh, and then, um, after, after it clears out, uh, there's, uh, only a few remaining voices, um, muttering.
Success?
Success.
Yay?
Uh, does anything catch fire at all?
On the ship?
Uh, or just anything, like, uh...
Like, it doesn't have to be, like, physically, anything flammable captures fire in the air.
Lanterns.
Roaps.
Let's see, anything that would count in here.
Gunpowder for the cannons.
Gunpowder.
They keep their storage down here and all just, the entire ship explodes?
I mean, are the ores, yeah.
Okay.
There's no room for the cannons next to the ores, they would have to be on a different floor.
Or a different room.
No, there is... This goes around corners, doesn't it?
It does, yes.
Ooh, okay.
Yeah, let's see if we can see it exit the areas on the side.
The ship's not 40 feet wide, right?
So you can, like, see, like, fire scoop from the sides.
Yeah, do we just see sort of a bright flash from... Yes, absolutely.
Where the oars once were.
Al goes, can I hit those?
And then... Oh, I guess Seb...
At least was alive.
Yeah, yeah.
There's a level below you.
There's another, there's a level below you with a set of stairs going down.
It does seem, so there is sustained light coming from down there now.
Oh.
Yes!
He's like, yes.
Time to go downstairs.
I'm not visible, obviously.
I think this ends your turn.
Do you still have blink time?
That's for one minute.
I think I talked for much longer.
Yeah, you talked for a while.
Blink has run out.
How much light does the light behind the spares give?
Does that want me to see it all, or is it still pretty much dark?
Where you're standing is still dark.
About 10 feet around the entry, I'm going to give dim light, and then once you go through, it's probably bright light down there.
Like you can see it, you're just not in it.
Okay, how far away is it?
15 feet from where you're standing to get into the light and then 25 feet to get to the opening.
Okay, cool.
That's good.
Does that light illuminate anyone?
For instance, the person with the whip?
The person with the whip is down.
Yeah.
Easy.
There's a few people moving around on this side.
You'll be fine.
His only skill is counting.
That's what he was hired for.
Probably.
I bet you're right.
I bet you're right.
Okay.
After Sev, that brings us to...
A lot of dead people.
Alar!
Um... Everything's far away.
Uh... And then... I don't really know where... No.
I can't even see anyone, so I can't do anything for them.
Um...
Um, I can try to... How far away is the ship now?
115?
Uh, 120.
It's like... But that's for a single target.
That's not gonna work.
Okay.
Alright, screw it.
I'm gonna start shooting...
Flaming Arrows at the other sheep's sail.
Okay.
Yeah, give me a back roll.
Well, that's not gonna hit because I got a two plus whatever.
Yeah, that one's gonna hit the water before it actually gets to the boat.
Yeah, I got like two plus seven probably, so nine.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I blame the bow being a short bow, not a long bow.
It's too small.
Yeah, I'll just go around and check if anyone got hurt from the cannonballs and stuff, I think.
OK.
Did anyone?
Yeah, you make your way down the stairs.
You'll need to be a little careful.
One is missing.
Yeah, the situation behind, so Daruk is like holding up what must have previously been the missing stair against the last split.
Give me a perception check.
Let's see.
12 plus perception.
19.
19.
Excellent.
So we've got Daruk doing that.
We have...
Uh, Pin, one of the crew, um, is, uh, crouched over, uh, Jerry, uh, who we left tied up, uh, down here.
Oh, Jerry!
Oh, no.
The sacrificial hand.
Yeah.
Uh, Pin will call, uh, hey, uh, uh, yeah, someone give me a, uh, hand, maybe?
A hand?
We have lots of hands.
Um, yeah, I'll, I'll go check up on, on him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, so with, uh, with your quick, uh, your, your quick eye for, for the medical state of people, um, yeah, Jerry's, uh, throat has been cut.
What?
What?
What?
Who cut his throat?
The invisible guy.
Presumably he's still on our ship.
Oh, he disappeared, he didn't teleport, disappeared.
Jerry's brain is dead.
Oh, Jerry's dead.
But in what way?
His throat has been cut.
His throat has been cut.
Oh.
Um.
We're so stupid.
Someone in Spears was like, I almost teleported back.
They're a mess.
Wait, so there wasn't?
You're on your own now.
Well, now you can do something, we should.
I did not catch that alert.
Would Allaire be able to figure out the guy that we thought teleported didn't actually teleport?
I don't know.
What do you think?
This is a fair point, actually.
Shouldn't Allaire... How far away is Jerry?
Because Allaire can feel people's souls going away within some distance.
That's true.
Is Jerry still alive as a result, but barely?
Is he dying?
I'm gonna say he's dying right now.
I'm gonna say this is the moment.
Oh, no.
Can I heal him?
Sure.
Yeah, I'm gonna heal him back up.
Let's see.
He gets back up with, like,
13 HP.
What did you use for that?
Cure Wounds.
Did you already use your action?
Yeah.
You did already use your action.
Oh, true.
Okay, in that case, I'll just use Healing Ward.
Same thing.
Okay.
Same thing.
Well, yes, but... That's all you need to stop people from dying.
Yeah.
Uh, he's gonna get up with eight HP.
Eight HP.
All right, Jerry is back in the game.
Uh... Okay, so someone slit his throat.
Mm-hmm.
Um, the rest of the crew is, I assume, like, the ship's crew is busy figuring out the whole cannon... Yep.
...messed up ship situation.
Um...
I don't think they have any reason to cut his throat.
Definitely not one of us.
There must be a third party on the ship.
Yeah, on that thought... Why would they shoot us if they knew one of the people was on the ship?
I mean, I think it's like a two-pronged attack.
That's gonna be... Make sure we die.
Does a 25 be your AC?
Yes.
This is for Durek.
Despite my chunky 21, that does hit.
Am I going to be assassinated?
Are you going to try to hit my 70 HP threshold?
Yeah, I'm going to need a constitution saving throw.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, plus 8.
But also, I don't like shit, so... Oh, that's 23.
23, okay.
So you're going to take 5 piercing damage as you feel a stabbing in your side, and you're going to take... That's a lot of rolls.
22 halved.
Okay.
16 damage total.
Alright.
Yeah.
Um...
Yeah.
Do I see this?
You hear me.
Yeah, you hear it.
Okay, I'm going to scream at the top of my lungs as loudly as possible.
Enemy on the ship, likely invisible.
Yeah, when you turn around, he's definitely not invisible.
Because then he's going to sprint up these stairs.
He runs away from me?
Yes.
He trips on the missing stair, right?
Okay, I just scream, enemy on the ship, so that people above the deck know.
Can I take an opportunity to have Rosie dash in?
Uh, let me check what he has.
Oh, I missed this.
Oh, I am sorry.
Actually, he does a second attack.
Or just attack has extra damage.
16 additional additional damage.
Not halved?
That is not halved.
Alright.
That is part of the piercing damage.
I am about half health, guys!
That was a... That was a sneak attack.
There's 32... Those two batteries break or something.
Yeah, you do get an opportunity attack as he runs out of here.
Can an opportunity attack be a grapple?
That's a good question.
Um, you cannot use an opportunity attack for ground.
Yeah, I think it's, yeah, because it's a special attack and it's not a melee.
Wait, actually, no, no, no, no, no.
I can do a thing here.
I, I have, I have abilities.
Um, I would like him to make a, uh, let me double check if it's wisdom.
Um, I'm pretty sure it's wisdom.
This will be after he runs though, right?
It's the end of his turn.
The, oh, at the end of his turn.
Yeah.
If he leaves your site before then it doesn't work.
True.
It is my reaction.
So I have to choose one or the other.
I'm gonna hit his ass.
Why not?
Seven, actually.
I guess we are not in view of the sky, unfortunately.
That is true.
We just locked that up.
Yes!
So true.
I'm the master of my own fate.
Okay, so that's going to be 1d6.
That's two.
Plus...
Yeah.
He is going to run up the stairs.
I'll give him a dex save to get past these now slightly more difficult stairs.
It's a natural 20.
It turns out he takes the stairs two at a time anyway, so it was just in stride.
Where he will then run up the stairs, take the two steps he needs, and then jumps over, derailing off the boat.
Oh!
No longer on the ship!
into the sea.
Uh, that brings us to Daruk.
What?
He jumped into the sea.
He's swimming back to his ship.
Is he swimming back to his ship?
What else is he doing in the sea?
We look over, like, what is he... Oh, sorry, Saw.
That's true, a black flag can just jump off the ship.
Saw should go.
Just hold on to the sign until you no longer detect an incline.
Um, I think Saw is going to take a note from, uh, from our friend, uh, from Alair.
Um, and try to just shoot a flying...
I think the heart goes along though, right?
Yes.
Okay.
So that should be within normal range.
Let me make sure of that.
It's 120 still, right?
It's 150 range, so okay.
A beautiful harp plays in the distance, and that will be a 20.
I should get ahead of myself.
What is his bonus on this?
Notes.
Oh, I guess it's 17.
17.
A 17.
What are you aiming for?
The sail, vaguely.
The ship.
Yeah.
He saw there.
Give me a damage.
Give me a damage roll.
Okay.
All right.
1d8 plus 2.
8?
10?
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
It looks like it hit the sail.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
I did it.
Maybe the sail is vulnerable to piercing.
What?
Did it hit the sail?
With the longbow.
Did it cut through the sail?
Is there a hole in the sail in the shape of an arrow?
Do you use a flaming arrow?
It's a flaming arrow.
I presume that will be rather ineffective, but you know.
It's been announced it's been taken out with one flaming arrow.
I don't know if you can answer this question, but does it seem like the guy who just ran away can run faster than I can run?
So like the way he runs kind of looks like the way that like Lucian or Sev might run.
Fast.
Also, he jumped into the ocean.
Yeah, I know.
I think we're trying to decide how angry Daruk is.
You're fighting on a barbarian.
Breathe, Daruk.
Barbarians and attitude.
It's true.
They have the rage.
It basically plays my big form as... Yeah, you can't really go big mode without going kind of barbarian mode.
Yeah, right.
Alex likes playing non-barbarian barbarian characters.
I like playing characters that are emotionally driven.
He's going to at least run up to the railing.
We're going to run up.
Where'd he go?
Where'd he go?
I'm gonna look over.
Mm-hmm.
Ward, do I see him?
Yeah, he's, like, ten feet off the side.
Is there a rope nearby?
Like, sort of some... I don't know, there's ropes on ships.
I don't know how ships work.
Um... There were ropes downstairs.
There's no, like, loose rope up here.
Okay.
Um, there's some that go up to the sails.
Don't distract me.
I will not distract you.
Um...
I'm trying to make this make sense so badly.
I'm going to have to go with this round.
I'm going to grab a rope and start tying it to the railing.
Okay.
Okay.
Oh, and I am going to use my second, not my second, the other thing.
Oh, yeah, it is the second one.
It's about 1d10 plus 6 HP.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, are you still invisible?
No, I'm very much visible.
Excellent.
When I use a wand, I am casting a spell.
As much as I really, really wish it was an activate magic item, which wouldn't count, it is not, from what I can tell.
Yeah, no, it definitely says you cast a... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I looked that one very hard because I was like, can I just run around casting spells while invisible?
The answer is no.
Even so, if you... Yeah, your position would also still be known.
Like, we did just shoot a beam of light from right in front of you.
I mean, the difference is whether or not he gets advantage when it's attackable against you or not.
Yeah, but fear not.
You've been found.
So I'm back at the 52 HP, so I'm...
HP 2.
Non-zero HP.
You'll have to see.
Uh, yeah.
So, uh... Let's see.
Mmm... 12 isn't gonna break your AC.
Ha!
I actually live!
Yeah, um... He's, uh... He's taken aback, but there are two wild swings of a club from behind you.
Um...
Well, now we know where you're at.
You're going to have to be a lot faster than that.
The clubber, sir, says.
He's destroyed.
Vicious knocker.
Yeah.
Let's see.
That will bring us to the end of that round and to our next round.
where we will start.
The ship only makes 20 feet this round, unfortunately.
So it's now within 100 feet, which is the perfect distance.
As two things start to happen, if I can find my tab.
One, the wind on the ship changes.
Um, for, for you guys, I don't think Seth would notice this one.
Um, so both ships had been going, the wind had been going, um, kind of with you guys, then you turned and I was like mostly parallel, not like, oh, sorry.
Somewhat perpendicular, like 60 degrees this way.
Um, as the other boat draws closer, uh, the wind is now fully aligned with the direction of your boat.
Um, Wait, is that headwind or tailwind?
Uh, it is a tailwind, a pushing.
It's pushing us harder?
Yeah.
Oh.
That's good.
I mean, their sails are more intact than ours, and now them not having their oars isn't really as much of a downside.
Yeah.
The other thing is with this newfound wind, you hear, Sev, you also definitely hear this one too, some form of chanting.
It sounds something like this.
Well, from, like, yeah.
I did not pick that up, but I'm sure it sounded awesome.
It sounded like creepy-ass throat singing, basically.
Yeah.
Like the guys in Dune.
Yeah.
Was it just the Dune sound?
I honestly couldn't tell you.
It sounded like the guys in Dune, yeah.
Who sang that?
Yeah, so that's definitely coming from the other ship.
For Seb, it's definitely coming from Pop.
Oh, okay.
Time to take him on.
Yeah, and that'll bring us to Elle.
Oh, that's not great.
Is it anyone on the deck of their ship?
There were people on the deck of the ship and they used their turns to not be so visible.
Okay, that's fair.
Okay.
Out of character, I will note that
There's clearly a storm saucer aboard the ship, which would explain the strange behavior and also make a lot of sense.
It sounds like there were multiple people chanting.
Doesn't it sound like there were multiple people chanting?
So one guy with many throats.
One guy was really loud.
Yeah, I don't think you can tell.
We can't hear the chanting, right?
Oh, we do?
Oh, we hear it?
Oh.
The guy in the water.
I can hit him.
Good idea.
I don't think there's anything I can do about their boat.
Unless I... lightning it.
100 feet long!
I don't even know when to hit.
You call lightning through an object, right?
Probably not.
Unless it's conductive.
Then maybe.
Then maybe.
Is anyone touching the proper front piece?
What spell is this?
Lightning bolt.
I mean, you don't currently see anyone on the ship.
When the ship is all metal, it's just the front piece?
Yes.
Is this wind a magical effect?
Can I dispel magic the strong wind?
Or is the magic effect not on the wind?
You could try to dispel the wind.
I don't know what to tell you.
It's not really a spell?
Uh, I don't know that you would have any means to know.
I don't want to waste my spell spots.
I don't know how I got to know it.
But nothing else is useful.
I mean...
Apparently, in old versions of D&D, lightning bolt bounced off of walls.
I know, right?
And if it passed through an enemy multiple times, it would trigger multiple times.
That's fine.
You could also hit your own party members or yourself.
That's still true.
That's wild.
Unless the wall is a conductor.
I guess I just Firebolt the guy in the water.
Unless there's something better to do?
I think you only have three uses of casting a spell through your mind.
I'm not casting it through my mind.
Oh.
He's right there.
Everyone is right here.
Everyone is just chilling.
But yeah.
Everyone's within range of things and stuff.
13.
13 is not going to do it.
You can't judge the waves, right?
No.
Shooting fire into the water, not marrying a man.
Okay.
After L is Lucian.
Okay.
I don't think there's anything I can do here.
Maybe we should start shooting ourselves out of the cannons.
The problem is our cannons are not pointed at them.
Time to turn this shit!
Why are we considering Tom and Jerry strategies suddenly?
Um... I shake my sword at the other ship again and shout, shiver me timbers, I guess.
I don't know.
This is why the bone sword left you.
Yeah.
Me timbers have been shivered.
Shivered.
Um... So...
What do I do?
I think that… Do I have a good chance to actually, like, do anything on this shit?
Like, I'm kind of scared.
Like, that voice, I can hear that voice very clearly coming from above me, right?
Oh yeah.
And you just push the water.
Yes.
Well... I think I will...
use my last use of a third-level spell, and cast Blink a second time.
Okay.
It's a good defensive option and also gives me a chance to escape the ship, if need be.
And then I'm going to... Am I more scared of running into the fire below me or running onto the deck where I hear the voice coming from?
The voice is coming from somewhere above you.
And from their perspective, it's definitely coming from the ship 100 feet away.
Okay.
Well, in that case, Noah, can I see the stairs going up to the top of the ship?
Yeah.
I'm gonna run towards those stairs, taking an opportunity attack on the way.
This time for sure.
I dodge out of the way with my superior reflexes.
You literally just walk away.
Okay.
I go up to the deck of the ship.
I have 80 feet movement speed, so I'm just going to go up as fast as I can.
Yeah, it's going to take you 35 feet to get to the deck of the ship.
Do I see anything?
Yeah, you've got some dim light here.
You've got
At the prior of the ship, there are two people who are getting the cannon ready for another shot, but are also doing it on their hands and knees, not having a great time of it.
That's one problem going on.
There's an arrow off to your side that's stuck into the ship.
pretty much the same as you were before the two people at the front of the ship are the same two that you saw when you like sprinted by um and the sound is definitely coming from uh one of the upper decks on the back of the ship maybe he's a captain you should murder that person in your sleep in his sleep when you went by
Wait, the captain was a dragonborn?
Dragonborn, yes.
What color were they?
Sorry, I... Oh.
Oh, no, you had light at that moment.
I didn't have that.
You did have light at that moment.
That one was brown.
I don't know the types of dragonborns.
Nor would we, probably.
Is it brown and more of a coppery or brass color?
More coppery.
Makes sense.
The boat is copper.
Yeah.
Well, I guess I can kill as many people as I possibly can on board the ship at the moment.
Too bad I don't actually have the ability to cast or do any attacks or anything.
So I guess I will… Is there any kind of cover on the ship anywhere?
Not much.
Back behind?
Pretty flat.
Yeah, it's an open space on this area of the main deck.
There's two masks.
Oh look, it's Zach.
He's alive, he's not dead.
I will... How far away are the people who are standing trying to reload a cannon?
25 feet.
In that case, I will move a bit closer to the ship's railing and then end my turn.
Okay.
Yeah.
Cool.
Give me a Dexterity saving throw.
Oh.
Oh, goodness.
Oh, wait.
Before I do that, can I first roll to see if my blink activates?
No.
No.
That would be a 11.
An 11.
Ooh.
That's not great.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, I don't know.
Maybe you were just unusually clumsy, but, um, you, you get your foot tangled, uh, in a coil of rope near, near the side of the rally.
Um.
There is no blinking.
Yes.
So you are currently grappled by that piece of rope.
What?
Oh no, the rope's grappling me.
Yeah, I mean, like, it's holding on pretty tight.
If I had a snake.
Yeah, that'll bring us to... I don't think it's a normal rope.
I have no idea.
That'd be cool.
That'd be cool, but it would be cool.
Um...
Let's see, that leaves... If the ship is alive, then that sail is being worn or carried and therefore doesn't catch on fire.
Is it being carried though?
Just because it's alive?
It's worn!
It's worn!
It's like a hat!
It's cloth!
It's being worn.
It's cloth.
Is the cloth part of the ship?
Cloth is clothes.
It's cloth!
It's in the name of the thing.
But that means I could lightning bolt the ship.
Yeah.
Then... Yeah, no one needs to worry about becoming through the ship.
Just hit the ship.
So... The ship is secretly a ridiculously huge mimic.
That'd be awesome!
A mimic that's a boat.
That's pretty cool, actually.
It just goes around eating other ships.
That's a pretty cool concept.
That'll bring us to one of the crew at the front of the ship who has now noticed you and is going to pull out his rapier.
He's gonna make an attack on you.
Finally, a duel.
Yeah, you know, a nice friendly duel on board this fine vessel.
I'm so dead.
He doesn't get that.
Okay, that's fine.
That's 50-50.
Up the wrong 50.
14.
Really?
I'm even tied up by the leg here and you still can't duck me?
17.
Oh, okay.
You need to be faster than that, too.
Okay, okay.
Ah, damn.
Yeah, uh, Alara.
You don't even have to make me use my magic.
Maybe now I can try and help Sev a little bit by attacking the people on deck.
Let's see, it does look like there are now two people you can see on deck.
Right.
I'll cast Guiding Bolt at one of them.
Wait, are you... Which one?
Which one are you guiding, Bolton?
Let's see, there's... They're about similar stature.
One is wearing... It looks like a pretty weather-beaten leather jerkin.
He's holding some kind of sword.
The other one looks like he's trying to kick some rope off his foot.
He has this very, like,
And his clothes, they look a little baggy in a way that they probably shouldn't.
They look vaguely seafaring.
Yeah, it's like the right genre.
Kind of like Renaissance fairy a little bit.
So they look fancy, is what you're saying?
Yeah, they look fancy, but in a way that someone probably just charged way too much money for no reason.
Oh yeah, that's definitely our boy.
Okay.
The other one.
That's an attack roll.
That is a 13 plus seven, 20.
Okay.
What is the damage?
46.
Nice rolls, okay.
That's fine.
11, 3, 14, 14, and then 18 damage.
18.
It appears, Sev, that you've insulted him so hard, he's begun to glow with anger.
Finally, there's a light in front of me.
I can see through it.
You're on the deck.
You're welcome.
Cool.
So after O'Lear, we move on to Sog.
Alright, Sugg is going to... Sugg is going to see Daruk rather distressed looking down at the dude in the water and be like, well, good target as any.
Yeah, do it.
This one's closer.
Take aim at the man who dared attack his dear Daruk.
Oh, that's a good one for 22.
Uh, one to hit?
Yeah, that'll do it.
Um, and that will be, uh... What are you doing, Sam?
You're shooting?
Shooting.
I can't draw yet, so I'll be shooting then.
So, one, plus... two?
Nice.
I think, um... Three.
Three whole damage, yeah, three whole damage, ah.
Three.
You know, it's like, hit a little water first really slows it down.
Yeah, yeah!
But it was a good shot, you know.
Okay.
Um, after Sog, uh, because that guy, um, who will continue, uh, his efforts to swim, uh, back towards the, back towards the boat or his, his original boat.
Okay.
Not this boat.
All right.
Seems worse.
Um, true.
All right.
Um,
Do the hands seem interested in your boy, the guy who jumped overboard?
Give me an exception check.
25.
24, sorry.
The hands... So before, they were all kind of moving...
Maybe more than they feel like they should have been, but all kind of randomly and independently.
They're now moving in unison.
Though that's not specific to where he is.
That's a general sense.
Oh.
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't know what that means.
Which way are they moving?
Which way?
I think they're just sort of waving in unison now.
Alright, I'm going to...
Get a rope.
Okay.
Throw it over like, look, you're not going to get back to your ship.
I'm going to take you down as soon as I can.
So you can either stay down there and drown like a coward or come up here and fight me like a man.
Or that one.
Try to persuade?
Yeah, go for it.
I know it's probably very high DC because I'm probably not the most enchanting fella.
You're also very
But is he a man?
Busy man, that's right.
He lifts up his mask.
I am no man.
Yeah, he looks back at you and then carries on.
Yeah, he checks out.
All right.
Feel your own fate then.
Okay, and that, I think that's my time.
I don't know.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, that's going to bring us to, uh, that's the end.
That's the end.
That's the end?
What?
World Movement Initiative?
Right.
Cause I, I have a 12 initiative and I'm the last one.
That's kind of crazy.
Yeah.
Um, so the boat makes another 20 foot gain on you.
Um, it's now 80 feet away.
Um, and, uh, uh, Garold.
Garald.
What is it?
You know Garald.
We love Garald.
He makes the best jokes.
Garald calls out to the captain.
Hey, captain, I can see the end of it.
The end of what?
The reef?
The end of the reef.
Good.
All right.
Let's keep going.
Fish.
I don't know why we need to get out of the reef, but let's go.
Like, that's not the most immediate danger.
Speaking of the most immediate danger, the other thing you'll hear, Daruk actually has a really, having just looked at the situation, the hands underneath your ship, yeah, they begin to come up.
Oh, I don't like that.
Are they just going to look the ship?
What about their ship?
It's like 80 feet away.
I don't know that you can see that.
And you can start to hear the scraping of hands.
Oh, I don't like that at all.
I don't think you're supposed to like that.
That'll bring us to... I have to guess someone is summoning a particularly large hand, right?
Perhaps, yeah.
We hear suspicious, loud chanting.
The hands are coming up towards our ship like,
Yeah, that all makes sense, man.
Thankfully, we have a bag of hands and a full Jerry, who was recently still alive.
Alright, chuck the bag of hands in!
We already chucked it in earlier!
So, the guys that were loading the cannon on their ship, where are they getting gunpowder from?
Is it like a barrel?
I don't think you can see that.
In that case, do you think these hands are susceptible to lightning?
Not me.
As much as anything else.
By lighting the water, I might kill that guy that's also swimming away.
What happens when lightning strikes the ocean?
Two birds, one lightning bolt.
I don't know, you don't go on the ocean all that often.
It conducts electricity, right?
It should just...
And zap everything in its area?
I think the energy probably dissipates in some way.
So would it hurt for a radius of... Probably.
That's my guess.
I don't actually know the physics of it.
Probably.
Presumably.
Probably.
The thing is, the lightning bolt stems from meat.
Well, actually... Yeah, lightning can kill fish in the nearby area when it strikes the ocean's surface.
But it spreads out across the surface rather than penetrating into the water.
Ah, shit, the hand's in the water, though.
No, they're coming out of the water.
They are all still in the water, though some have- It can electrocute stuff within a certain radius of the surface.
And our ship is for sure wood, right?
For sure.
Okay, so if we electrocute the water, we should hit all the hands that are scraping the boat.
Suck it into fuel dynamics again.
The surface of the water, is that along the air or along the contours of the water?
There's only one way to find out.
It is up to you if you want to.
I mean, it's not a bad idea.
It's not a bad idea.
Two?
It's not a bad idea.
I could also do it as a fireball and replace the damage with lightning.
Oh.
What?
That's probably...
I think that's more attractive, probably.
That's kind of epic.
I mean, it's the same amount of damage, just a different shape.
Wait.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lightning.
I just think in terms of, like, now we have a guaranteed radius of damage.
That is true.
Instead of, like, a line.
Yeah.
Like, if the DM rules that...
you know, the radius of damage is, like, not very large, and we have one line in this plane of hands that are bad, but, you know, we have a radius, and that's not nothing.
My face is frantically googling what happens when it hits the edge.
No, I'm already sure about that.
I'm talking to Sandy.
Oh, okay.
Right, right.
So, if I pick a point in the water to cast the lightning fireball at,
Imma do it.
Imma do it.
Imma pick a point in the water to cast a lightning fireball at.
Okay.
And hopefully that point... Oh, shit, no.
Wait.
Will that lightning hurt our ship if we hit the ship?
I don't think lightning hurts the ship very much, I would think.
You would think wood is resistant to lightning, Danny.
I think so.
Lightning breaks trees, right?
but only because the trees are attached to the ground yeah if they were flying trees they would have been fine yes it's true is it is it true i don't think it's true weird to me but i don't like it's trees because the trees are ground this guy would know try not to hit the boat too much okay but i do want to hit
Like, if the tree had a metal casing, the tree would be fine if it was struck by lightning.
But I don't think it being touching ground has anything to do with it.
So we're casting a fireball.
Yeah, we're casting a lightning ball.
It's a lightning fireball.
We're casting a fireball that does lightning damage?
Yes.
A lightning ball.
Okay.
Lightning ball.
Yeah, so the way I'm going to roll this one is it will follow the same trajectory as a normal fireball would.
So it can go up to the surface of the water, then we'll make contact with that.
From there, and the radius of a fireball, will emanate electric currents.
So it can go 20 foot down?
Yeah, I think so.
Okay.
Alright.
Does the ship immediately seem like it's been affected?
I don't know, gotta roll for damage.
Oh, good thing I have 8d6 prepped already!
Cause all my slots do 8d6.
If it ain't broke.
That die is on its side.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Um, that's, uh, okay, that's five, that's 10, that's 15, and this is 10, so 25.
25, okay.
Yeah, um, the, uh, hands no leaky.
Um, uh, several, uh, a bunch of them seize up, um, and then fall down, um, back below.
Uh,
You know what, there is no longer the scraping of the hands.
Okay, great!
For the first time in the session, we've succeeded in doing a thing.
Success.
We've accomplished a thing.
Great.
Okay, lightning bolt works.
That's the first time I've used that ability because I don't have any common two spells of the same level
All right.
Lucian.
Okay.
Captain, now I think that's all the pirate catchphrases I have.
Give me something to do.
Lucius has been yelling at Lucius.
I'm not accomplishing much here.
The wind's been picking up.
If you can add some extra support to the sails, I think we can try to use it.
How do I do that?
Pull his rope.
Pull his rope.
Let's see.
Do I just grab a rope and pull?
Pull tight?
No, you've got to stitch the burnt ends together.
Do you know how to sew?
Do I know how to sew?
Rich kids.
I got people for that.
The women probably learned embroidery, but he did not learn to sew.
But you could figure it out.
How hard can it be?
You have dexterity.
Yeah!
You string to connect two lines.
How hard can it be?
I don't have a needle.
Surely Al has a ship repairing needle.
Trenton pulls out a sailing needle.
Which is basically a needle.
But it's like... It's like a hefty needle.
I take the stuff he gives me and I climb the mast again.
You're gonna do a thing, goddammit.
Do I need to roll something?
Yeah, it's definitely one of those.
So it's sailcloth!
Yay!
Okay, do I need to roll something?
Yeah, give me a straight dexterity check.
This looks like a regular needle.
Seven.
Seven.
Yeah, so the sailcloth, it turns out, is, like, thick.
This needle's, like, also thick.
You can keep working on it, but you haven't made enough progress yet.
Okay.
Can I use a bonus action to keep working on it?
I don't think so.
I hide as a bonus action, I guess.
I maybe should have been doing this, but I don't think it mattered.
Okay.
All right.
We have each one on the sale clock.
Uh, Sev, we're back to you.
Um, you are currently, uh, your right leg is grappled.
Um, and there is someone who's, uh, only moderately competent with a weapon in front of you.
So there's really no danger here, I suppose.
I feel like I'm fine.
Well, I was going to try to escape this bit, but it seems that everything's perfectly safe.
So instead, it's time to take him on.
And I will cast Shadow Blade.
It's a second level spell.
I'm actually using up all my spells.
I can't believe it.
You've been on a hell of an adventure.
Yeah, he's been doing shit on his own.
Yeah.
My deepest apologies.
That's fine.
I got to show catchphrases.
Attack the guy in front of me.
Yeah, do it.
You have a vanish.
He is Glover.
Oh, he's Glover!
Yeah, Guiding Wolf.
Yeah, so he can roll a 2.
That's more like it.
Hey.
47, 21.
That will hit.
Thank you.
Good Guiding Wolf.
That will hit.
Okay.
Um, and... I'm making this a... Wait, I'm still grappled, though, so I can actually use that.
It's like a full check to escape grapple, right?
Yes.
Well, in that case, I'm probably going to use a... I'll do Booting Blade, I think.
Okay.
Wait, unless I can do Purple Flame Blade and also try to have it spout and hit the rope.
Yeah, you can do that.
I don't see why not.
I think the rope is taking an active play here.
Purple flame blade with the rest of the flame going after the mimic ship.
That will be 8 psychic damage plus additional 6 fire damage for 14 damage in total and 7 fire damage against the rope.
Okay.
Yeah, the rope is singed.
Nice.
Is that?
Oh, no.
No, actually, sorry.
The rope is not singed.
That was my mistake.
The rope is being worn or carried.
Abundant fire damage.
Well, in that case, I will slash it a second time with my rest of my attack.
Also, without advantage, also a 21 versus AC, which I think that's a fixed.
Yep.
This time for 15 more second damage.
Okay.
That's a 29 damage, and I'll see.
See, you're slow too.
You really need to get yourself together, and then hopefully I'm going to disappear awesomely.
I rolled a third 14 and vanish.
Wow, that's pretty bad.
Give me a percentile dice check.
23.
23.
You, 23.
23.
You find yourself on the edge of a
In front of you is an old man on a raft.
And he looks at you and says, you're on the wrong side.
What?
And then we will move on to... This is in the blink.
Yes, this is in the... Oh, okay.
He's in front of a black river.
There's an old man on a boat who looks at him and says, you were on the wrong side.
No one's ever talked to you in there before, right?
No, the reason why is because we were inside the... Oh, the box.
The box that prevents people from accessing us, but Vlig actually takes me there so I can talk to people for...
Six seconds.
Yeah.
Sorry about that.
Yeah, that'll bring us to a lair.
Why do you want to kill Jerry?
I think they just killed someone and he was an easy person to kill because he was tied up.
That's possible.
Oh, it's also possible Jerry may have been part of this crew in the past.
He said he'd been to the Bone Reef before and if their chanting is summoning the hands, then... I don't think he was just an easy target.
I don't think he was just an easy target because there were other crew members...
Uh, below deck, no?
Yeah, there was another one.
Us?
Us, Jerry, what do you know?
There was a guy that disappeared.
And we still haven't seen the other guy, so he's probably also dead.
Yeah.
There was a guy who went below deck first.
Can I look for the other guy?
There was two guys, one of whom you almost killed and is now tied to the mast.
No, there was a crew member from our ship who went below deck when the cannonballs hit the first time, who seems to have vanished.
Yes.
Or we just haven't looked for him and he's just like to the side of the stairs.
That's my best guess.
Yeah, he's probably... Can we look for him?
You can definitely look for him.
Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
You can probably ask Jerry what in the world's going on with the hands.
Oh, Jerry's seen the hands before, yeah.
Jerry is still gagged.
Yes, notably he is still gagged.
We'll ask him, but first I'm gonna look for the other guy.
Yeah, do you mean investigation?
But Jerry could also tell you where the other guy is, probably.
Maybe.
Oh, shit.
That's going to be a 14.
A 14, yeah.
It's not a big area.
He's kind of a big guy.
He was just thrown behind two barrels.
Okay.
He appears to be knocked out.
He's unconscious.
He is not dead.
Oh, interesting.
Okay.
Okay, so see, like, he wasn't outright killed.
He was just knocked out.
Yeah.
Jerry was killed.
Yes.
Yeah, so they must have had a particular reason to go specifically after Jerry.
Okay, I'm going to go talk to Jerry then.
Yeah.
I'm going to take off his gag.
I'm gonna first look him in the eye and I'm gonna say, well, by now it should be clear that there is no way back for you.
People are willing to kill you outright.
If it wasn't for me, you'd be dead right now.
So I really hope you're willing to just simply talk to us and tell us the truth and nothing but the truth without resisting.
Does that make sense to you?
Not if it makes sense to you.
You need to just swear on this magic book, please.
Okay, good.
I'm going to take off your gag.
Don't panic.
Don't throw feet.
Don't start resisting.
You are not in a shape to survive an attack from us right now.
So don't try anything.
And I'm going to take off his jacket.
Water.
Water.
Yes.
Yes.
Create water in his mouth.
We all had this the whole movie.
Yeah, okay, I'll give you some water.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm gonna give him the six seconds this round to get himself together.
Okay.
Okay.
We will rejoin that conversation in a moment.
Sog.
Sog.
Um...
Sugg, I think, will... Are there any moving hams in the water still?
Or are all the ones, like, in proximity?
The ones within the 20-foot radius that we're hitting.
Makes sense.
He's going to try to shoot one of the hams that is, like, the closest it is outside the radius of the thing.
Do it.
Um, with an, with an 11.
So, uh, he runs into two challenges.
Uh, most of them are several feet below the water.
Um, so the arrow kind of hits and it loses, loses all steam.
Sure.
Um, and then it kind of drifts down.
Um, and then one of the hands grabs him.
I don't like that.
He's going to throw it back at you.
Yeet!
Anything else?
Uh, what is the, what is the, the guy who stole the water?
Is he, is he J.H.
Lewis?
He's making excellent progress getting back towards his vote.
It helps that he's going and they're going and you're going.
That's true.
Alright, so what can different people do?
I hope you sew.
Do you know how to sew?
Yeah, basic things.
How big do you grow when you grow?
I'm large now, so I'm not sure I want to... Can you just reach the sails?
I'm nothing that big.
I'm...
I would say I'm increasing from like 7 feet to like 11 feet.
I don't know.
And then you reach up.
I don't know.
How tall are these sails?
The last time we had to go take care of the guys who were upset.
11 feet is probably like higher than this ceiling right now.
That's pretty tall.
That's your reach?
It's 11 feet?
I don't know.
It doesn't say.
It just says large.
Daruk starts at 7 feet.
about dish maybe we'll understand yeah so i think if daruk i don't think you can do it standing you would have to jump to do something okay but like you could jump up and reach and lucian could like grab something like that would be that would be about the right height
Yeah, unless you have like a special ship sewing needle that has like plus one or something.
Plus one.
Here's what we're going to do.
Absolutely.
So part of the challenge.
So that's what I'm trying to do.
Yes.
So you've got like one hand holding onto this mask.
It's very awkward.
It'd be much easier if you could just stand comfortably.
Oh, I told you.
So you just like have your hands up here holding onto his ankles.
You're fine.
Yeah, that's my turn.
I think that gives you all the flexibility.
That definitely gives you advantage on this next go.
Hell yeah.
And that brings us to... You're gone.
Shame.
Yeah.
Let's see.
The next round comes in.
The other ship makes up another 20 feet, so it's now 60 feet away.
And as you have moved over this next patch, the hands have come back up again.
Sure.
Let's see.
So it looks like you have about four rounds.
No, four rounds will put you on the edge.
Five rounds to get past the edge of the reef.
Um, okay.
Remaining, including this one.
But the ship will be there in three rounds, right?
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
If we fix the sail, will we go faster?
Yes.
And if we damage their sail, they'll go slower.
So that's the... Their sails are immune to damage, like the entire ship.
They're immune to fire!
You haven't cut them with a knife yet!
Or a sword.
A blade, perhaps.
That'd be so good.
That'd be pretty good, yeah.
Yeah.
No one has that spell right.
I have one dagger.
I think Lucian makes a cloud of daggers every time he fights.
Except they're short swords.
What is a dagger but a short sword?
His short sword is my dagger.
It is my turn.
I will be sad because I'm running out of spell points.
Can I see anyone on deck?
So there were two of them who came up, did some things, and then they're both
Well, one you saw go down.
The other is gone.
There's nothing to do.
There's nothing to do but shoot a firebolt at their cannon.
Could I make it explode?
If it already has gunpowder inside.
Probably not, but if you did, that'd be badass.
You could try.
I could try.
All right.
Fuck sure, let's go for it.
I'm gonna take a picture of her sitting there.
What's the A to C on the opening of a cannon?
It could be the opening or it could be the fuse, right?
Which one are you going for?
Actually, no, you don't want to hit the fuse.
Let's just hit the opening of the cannon.
Okay.
Wait, but then if you light it... That's true.
Both ways are dumb.
It would just make the cannonball come out.
Both ways are dumb, yeah.
Hopefully there's no cannonball inside, actually, because then it would just block.
I feel like it's unlikely that there's going to be a cannon...
that has gunpowder packed inside and no ball.
And no ball.
No, that's stupid.
And even if there was, what is it going to do?
Unless you, like, corked it somehow.
Yeah, I was thinking we could block the cannon.
Yeah, yeah, get a little mage hand over there.
I'm sure that would work.
It's a shape-worn ice cube.
Right behind the fire button.
No, no, to block the cannon.
I mean, can you get the water up there?
Shape water, move the water up there, then shape water, freeze it like an ice cube.
Honestly, that would just stop them from firing at us.
I guess they've been fired at a couple rounds, seems like.
Yeah, 30 seconds is a long time once you hit actual rounds.
Yeah.
Like, that would stop them firing at us if you just, like, corked that with some ice.
With an ice cube?
Yeah.
Right?
It's not a terrible idea.
I don't know if I can move the water like that.
Yeah, that was my thought.
It's animate at your direction.
I don't know if that's the way to actually move the water.
How far away are they?
60 feet.
Let's shoot it, guys.
It's 30 foot long.
We have one trick in our bag.
One thing.
If I just aim it at an angle, could I make it go 63?
Yes.
Yeah, what was the parabolic arc here, right?
Can you really get that?
Aim it so that it exactly hits the front of the cannon.
Yeah.
I think 63 is going to be stretching out.
Okay.
Okay.
How about this?
Wait, did you say I could see the guy that's not stuck?
No, he went back.
Can I hold an action for when he stands back up?
Absolutely.
Should I just shoot him?
What if I cuss?
What if I cuss?
Okay, what if I cast Enemies Abound on the guy when he stands up?
What would that do?
It might get him to attack the other guy that's helping him load the cannons.
Because Seb disappears every round, possibly.
So when Seb's gone, he'll have to attack his only friend.
That's not a terrible idea.
Better than a cantrip?
Wait, how many more skulls do you have, though?
This one's a wand.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, why not?
So... Yeah, what could possibly be better?
Okay, that's why I'm holding that action.
Okay.
After L is Lucian.
Alright, so try again.
So, so good.
So, so good.
Okay, that's a 10 on the first one.
That's on its side.
It was like between 12 and 10 and it landed on 12 this time.
So 12 plus four, 16.
16.
Yeah, that'll help.
Go, go, go, go, go faster.
Blow into the sails, the rook.
Okay.
Very big lung capacity right now.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Have a diaphragm.
Let's see.
That'll bring us to Seth.
Before I blink back into existence, can I ask the strange man on the boat if he has a name?
No, I don't think so.
In that case, I'm back.
Oh, that shit.
I will move towards the center of the vessel.
I'll teleport 10 feet towards the center of the vessel, which I could see.
I look around.
What do I see?
Yeah, so you look around.
It looks pretty much the same way it was.
The guy who came up to you has now gone back to the cannon.
Okay.
And...
or any ropes lying on the ground?
There are several ropes strewn about.
Ropes?
There's not one right where you think you are standing.
There's not like a coil sitting there on the ground anymore.
I don't like it.
I don't like it.
What is that?
What is that?
Is it like no mystery rope?
I think the rope is totally... Okay.
I will...
Run forwards towards the people who are trying to load the cannon, attempting to avoid the ropes on the ground.
Okay.
Yeah.
You get that.
There's two dudes.
Both of them are crouched down?
Yes.
How close are they to each other?
They are next to each other.
Excellent.
that I will say, you didn't think I was gone forever, did you?
And then I'll take my sword and flash a purple flame blade at the guy who I was catching previously.
He's no longer glowing, and it's also dim light, so I should probably manage to be attackable.
That would be a 19 plus 7, 26.
That's good.
For 13 psychic and 1 fire damage, 14 damage in total.
And the second guy was also hit by a fire for 8 fire damage.
For 8?
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Does the one I keep attacking look damaged?
Oh, yeah, he's not doing great.
Okay.
Well, I guess I'll take my second shot at him as well.
For, with advantage again, 17 plus 7, 24 versus AC.
That hits.
For 12 more target damage.
still not down uh he's not down yet this guy's a lot of health um i will take uh 20 steps backwards avoiding opportunity attacks um okay yeah um yeah at the end of your turn um the so the cannon on the front of the ship yeah it turns around and shoots at you oh
This is not shooting our ship anymore.
Yeah, I call this progress.
This is... Welcome to the ship.
Oh, thank fuck.
Did I not instantly die?
Probably not.
What's your AC?
I have shield if need be.
Yeah, 17.
What?
Sorry, he rolled a 4.
I was like, oh, fine.
Good lord.
No, you're fine.
You're fine.
Everyone's fine.
Can we destroy the cannon?
That's a good question.
Wait, so 17 does not hit?
17 does not hit.
Everything is fine.
I have 19 AC.
I have 19 AC.
I personally have shield, but that means he hits me if he rolls like 10 or above, even with shield.
Yeah, it's not.
Okay, I'm just checking.
I'm just checking if there's something.
Okay.
I'll give a 50%.
The ship is alive!
No, the cannon ball does not damage the ship.
It flies past you and off the side.
I gave it a 50% shot.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, damn.
It's actually a giant mimic ship.
I'm ready.
I'm ready for it to be a giant mimic.
Um, that will bring us to, oh, yep, that's the end of, uh, Seb's turn.
So, Oler.
The ship is the real pirate captain.
Uh, like, I will roll for blink once more.
Three.
There is no blink.
Okay.
Uh, Oler.
Um, I'm gonna continue the conversation from before with Jerry.
Yes, Jerry.
Jerry.
Um,
Okay, we have a lot to talk about, but for now, you need to tell us anything you know about these hands that are in the water.
Is it here?
Is it here?
Is the hand here?
Are there tiny ones out in the water?
Out under the water, you mean?
What?
Are they under the water?
Yes.
Good, good, good, good.
We're close.
We're close.
You need to tell me every single detail you know.
I'm not asking if we're close or not.
We don't have that kind of time.
We don't have that kind of time.
Where is the other one?
Where is, um, um, um, Zavarian?
Why do you need him?
He promised me.
Whatever he promised you, you need to tell me first what's going on.
We need to appease the hand when it's here.
I need to be the one to do it.
I already took care of it.
I throw a hand in the water.
You're in the sails!
Yeah, I'm not actually there.
Wait, so he's giving his hands freely?
That's nice.
What?
Look Ma, no hands.
Have you seen it yet?
We haven't seen a giant hand yet.
But I can hear it.
It's only a matter of time.
Okay, what are these hands?
What do you know about them?
What can they do?
You need to tell us now.
The hand?
It can do anything.
No, not the hand.
These hands.
The tiny ones.
The reef?
Yes, the reef.
Oh, yes, the reef.
They support the hand.
They hold the ships while it comes.
Oh, that's what it's doing, holding it in place.
Yeah.
To lift it up out of the water.
I don't love that.
I don't love that.
Maybe the hand doesn't actually swim.
Maybe it's just carried along by lots of small hands.
You know, that's an interesting theory.
Um... Okay, and how, like, why does it have to be you?
He promised.
I know more about the hand than anyone.
I should be the one to do it.
Why are you willing to go so far to take this risk?
You're here.
That's fair.
You brought me here so I could do it.
Untie me so I can do it!
Is he offering his hand?
Well, I guess, uh... I don't have much of a choice.
You do.
No choice at all!
You have a lot of a choice.
Well, if he wants to chop off his hand, why not?
We tied him up for a reason.
We tied him up because Seb lied and said he rebelled.
You'll stay here until we notice the big end or whatever it is you're looking for.
Don't worry.
You'll stay here.
I can't go anywhere on this ship anyway.
Come on.
You're not dying.
I'll probably put the gag back on.
No, I can feel it.
I'll need to tell you what's going on.
You need me.
Okay, then tell me what's going on.
Once we see a hand, it's going to give a signal.
And that's how we know how many hands we give it.
What exactly is the signal?
I can't, I could show you if you would untie my hands.
Is there extra pieces, actually?
Can you describe it?
You have to count the knuckles.
YOSHIHARA COULD SHOW YOU, IT WOULD BE SO EASY!
How do you count the numbers?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 62, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 62, 63, 62, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62, 63, 62,
I'm not untying your legs.
Yeah, so the thing about untying is that they're not tied, they're handcuffed.
So we need a key, okay.
The hand.
No, you're handcuffed by my handcuffs.
Just put a handcuff on the hand.
Simply cut off the hand and then you'll be uncuffed.
And then we're good.
I think I would have told people what the word is to release him because I don't want to hit things on people.
I think I told people that I thought he was going to be very useful when the hand comes because he knows about the hand and that's why I have him on the ship.
And so I think I would have told people that you need to say emeralds to release him from the handcuffs.
I see.
Okay.
I'm going to tie up your legs.
Because you only need to show me the signal And we'll take it from there and Bear in mind your throat was slashed.
You were practically dead and I healed you I appreciate it, I do!
I assure you that if you try anything funny anything at all You will die on the spot, okay?
If I don't do it, we'll all die.
Alright, good.
Emerald.
Alright.
The downside with the handcuffs that I'm realizing now is that once you release someone from them once, you can't bind them with it again because they know the... It picks a random word every time.
Oh, it's a different word every time.
Okay.
I'm gonna... I'm gonna... What's it called?
I'm gonna firmly grab his upper arm.
And basically so that if he tries anything funny, I'm gonna cast Inflict Wounds immediately.
Okay, okay, I like it.
Okay, now show me the signal.
What is the signal?
So, so, the hand will come out of the, this is the water, you see?
And the hand comes above, and it will hold up a number of knuckles.
Not fingers, not fingers, no, knuckles.
And you count the number of knuckles that come above the water.
And that's how many hands you must give it.
I see, so, the number of hands it needs changes from time to time?
Well, I guess it's time for you to come with me and face the rest of my party.
I'm gonna bring him to Daruk and Elf, I guess.
Come on, come on.
Alright.
This guy.
I've never met this man in my life.
And we're like, oh!
So we have seven hands left, which is, you can show more knuckles than that on your hand.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's see.
Walks out, Daruk holding Lucian, El's still crackling the lightning.
Let's see.
After a lair comes Sok.
Sok.
He's gonna...
shoot another hand he doesn't like this at all is there are there any that are like climbing like climbing the ship that are sort of yes okay he's gonna try to shoot one of those yeah it rips that hand right off the side yeah it does yeah yeah yeah
Nice shot.
Alright, and then we have... You're still on the show.
The one who's doing rather poorly is going to...
Throw his sword at you.
That's what he's going to do.
Yeah, he's going to throw it.
Ten.
It was on 18 for a second.
That is ten to hit.
I dodge to the side.
Yeah.
Come on, guys.
You're making this too easy for me.
Yeah.
And then he's going to run back down.
He goes over to the down below deck.
Wait, when he stood up to throw his sword, do I cast... Oh, absolutely!
Uh, he stands up!
Nail him.
It was, uh, enemies abound, so... And that's a what save?
Oh, uh, good question.
What save?
Could it be a dex save?
I don't think it's a dex save.
You're so ready to roll that die.
Nah, you gotta know beforehand.
Not giving.
Okay.
Okay.
Seb is an enemy.
So is that other person.
So how does that mean it's a bound work?
It means you consider everyone else.
Equal chance between the two of them?
I think Enemies Abound doesn't specify how targets are chosen, it just says you can... No, it says whenever the affected creature chooses another creature as a target, it must choose the target at random from among the creatures you can see with invasion, attack, spell, or ability.
And if an enemy provokes an opportunity attack, the creature must attack.
Yeah.
Okay.
Eleven or higher, he still goes for Sev.
Otherwise, he'll go for the other one.
He swings so wildly at you, he actually aimed at the other guy.
Fortunately, a 10 to hit is still not bad.
And seeing himself surrounded by enemies now, not knowing who's who, he runs below deck.
There's more enemies below deck.
Maybe he can kill the sorcerer guy!
Yeah, that leaves us with the other guy on deck.
He's just been like this... He's just been almost stabbed by this guy!
Well, he's not... I wouldn't say almost.
Hmm...
Yeah, let's see.
That would be ideal.
That would be great.
Yeah, let's see.
He's going to look at you, Sev.
Well, I see you're tight then.
And he's going to cast a spell at you.
I'm gonna need a wisdom saving throw.
Wait, I'm actually just screwed immediately.
Okay, okay, okay.
Wisdom saving throw.
You got this.
I do not want two wisdom saving throws.
I actually rolled a natural 20.
Okay.
22.
Are you okay?
One and two.
Unaffected.
Yeah.
Bye.
He probably sees fear well in my eyes for a moment, because I feel my mind under attack, and then I resist it and look somewhat surprised.
You need to do better than that to get me.
Okay.
That will... Oh, did we do... That leaves us with Daruk.
We're just waiting on Daruk at this point.
Oh, sorry.
Daruk chose the wrong time to go.
Daruk, what you doing down there?
He's just like holding me above his head peeing on the deck I guess Welcome back
Yeah, there's not anything else apparent and beneficial for me to do right now.
The tear is partially repaired, but it's not fully repaired.
None of the hands are far enough up the ship for a vaccine, right?
Okay, then I don't know what well that would do.
Do you have any range?
No, I have none.
Everyone needs to get a fucking bow.
We should just hire some archers to, like, follow us around and shoot things when we need things to be shot.
Yes, actually!
And carry your platinum?
Yes!
Okay.
We're knights, we're RPGs.
And that will bring us to the end of the round.
Half my pay.
Yeah, you have yours.
Over the course of this round...
So through your partial repair of the sail, you're able to make better headway progress.
However, you're also being dragged back by the hands that are still grabbing off the bottom of your boat.
So that brings us down to about the same speed you were going before.
Okay.
I'll fix it.
It's on my turn, isn't it?
I'm after L. Yeah, which puts us at... You're about four rounds away from getting at this rate of getting out of the bone reef.
um you are uh 40 feet now away from the uh the amber wave um and we can see the hand are the hands holding on to it does it they're holding them to us um can we see that from this distance yeah give me a perception check
Let's go.
What if they were?
16?
16.
It doesn't look like it.
That's interesting.
Okay.
That's real interesting.
That's real interesting.
Okay.
Yeah.
But the other thing while you're looking, it's hard to pay attention to exactly the hands on there when there's this, like,
Big, rainbow-y glowing.
Oh no!
Alright, here we go!
Oh boy.
The hand is near.
There's a rainbow glowing hand where?
Off the port side.
Hand home!
Is it just kind of comes out of the rest of the head?
Or do you just kind of see rainbow glowing-ness under the water?
You see kind of rainbow glowing-ness.
Do I see it too?
That is fun.
Oh, my God.
I'm not even sure you can see your hand at this point.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that's the hand.
It's like pitch black.
I can't see anything.
It's like a surprise.
You can't see anything.
You're just unable to notice anything at all, ever.
Yeah.
Oh, I believe he's trying.
Hmm.
Did the lightning help at all with, like, stopping the hands from holding onto the boat?
Yes, it completely cleared the hands last time I used it.
And then you move forward, forecraft, and... Exactly, yeah, so not really.
It allowed us to go about one ship length.
Yeah, which is not that useful.
Unless I can jump underwater and aim the lightning in a line that breaks all the heads at 100 foot.
awful idea.
I mean, but then you need to get back on the ship somehow.
We'll give you a rope.
There's already a rope hanging all the time.
It's ready to go.
Yeah, I already tied a rope to the railing.
I'm sure the hands will not mind your presence.
Don't worry about actually putting myself on the rope.
That's true.
I could take it.
Yeah.
No, I can't.
I can't take max damage because I don't have resolve elements.
Yeah.
But if I die, it will just pull me back up, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think this is a good idea.
No.
No, it's probably not a good idea.
It's not 100 feet to the edge of the reef, right?
Hmm?
How far is it to the edge of the reef?
It is 100 feet.
That's the length of a lightning bolt!
It could drop me in the water!
If you die, a Lurker can save you.
That's what I was thinking.
Wait, no he can't.
He's used two of his three deathstakes, did he use one?
No, he used one on me.
Wait, no.
He used one earlier.
When did they reset?
They reset daily?
Yeah.
Yeah, so if he gets one more death state, he just dies instantly.
When were the two?
One was on Jerry.
When was the first one?
When you killed a guy and it was like, oh, that fucked up.
Oh, yeah.
Don't you regret that now, Lucian.
Yeah, you should learn.
Don't be empathetic towards people.
Don't kill guys you're not trying to kill.
That's the lesson.
If it isn't the consequences of your own actions...
Oh, no, I'm stupid.
I put the mind in the water.
Yeah.
Do that.
Why are we debating putting me in the water?
Your whole thing is you can cast from places you're not at.
No!
It's okay, we're letting out Billy.
I hope so.
Yeah, we're finally learning how to play our characters two years in this campaign.
Just in time to wrap it up.
Well, I haven't had the mind for that long.
Alright, we drop the book in the water.
Okay.
And we lay the book in a line from us to the edge of the reef.
You see Elle say, Hey guys, I got this.
Throw the book in the water.
Well, the book slowly floats into the water.
Oh my god.
Yeah, give me a... What is it?
It's... What are you doing?
It's a dex save.
It's technically a dex save.
It's a dex save from all the hands, I think.
But there's water.
That's conductive.
Yeah, there's water.
Can you dodge lightning when you're in conductive water?
I don't think so.
Give me, give me an attack.
Uh, the damage roll.
50 20s.
Alright, so we're gonna have all ass.
That's a lot of twos.
Some fours?
Okay, so that's a pile of 10.
9.
Wait, that's a pilot.
10.
24.
24.
That is... That is definitely enough.
That covers...
Some of the hands in the way.
Well, it was conductive, so all the hands in the way.
Yeah, it's conductive, so it radiates.
Yeah, there's definitely a central path that has been annihilated.
There's still some on the edge that will have some effect, but it'll definitely be much less than it would have been.
Okay, no, it's good.
It's progress.
The hands are a little stuck to the ground, right?
No, they're floating, right?
Then we have Lucian.
Fix, fix, fix, fix, fix.
And with advantage?
Yeah.
16.
16 plus 4, 20.
Alright.
I think that will finish repairing the fail.
Alright.
Yeah.
You're a very fast sower, I'm very impressed.
How far can you throw someone, Daruk?
Pretty far.
If the other ship gets close and stuff needs backup.
Might be a good plan to have.
It's like giving him life.
I mean, you're big.
You're huge right now.
Large.
I'm large.
What?
I have a potion of flying if you want it.
What?
use consumables you know how many potions i have in skyrim i will let you guys know when we get to like the final scene of the last thing and then we can all are you sure are you are you sure you you're ready to continue once you pass this point there's no turning back
Also doesn't work, I literally told everyone how many days left they had until the campaign was going to end.
In my campaign, exactly how long they had.
They would use their 9th level spells, and a certain Alex never used a single 9th level spell in the entire campaign.
But you don't know if going through that thing was going to be the end, or if it was more... The opportunity never presented itself.
Also, it was not the best 9th level spell.
There were all these other spells that were like...
Mild and less effective.
It instantly freezes every single person in the entire combat, and there are multiple combats with many enemies in them.
It has been so awesome.
You know, dude, maybe I'm a hoarder, okay?
I don't claim to be logical.
I don't claim to be rational versus.
All right.
Sev, we're back to you.
You did not get annihilated by a cannon.
Good.
Well, I have to wait until the end of my turn before I figure out if I get annihilated by a cannon.
Yes.
No, no, but previously you did not, so you're still here on the boat.
Bam.
Okay, um... I think you're going to get annihilated by a cannon.
You should probably swash.
I didn't catch that.
Oh, this boat's kind of scary, to be honest.
Yeah.
Swap with Tiggs.
I mean, the ship can't reload its own cannon, right?
They have two guys trying to do it.
This is fair, actually, but maybe the ship just hates me particularly.
What's it gonna do?
Get you on another rope?
Ooh!
You just blink out of it.
So, the ship did just shoot you with the cannon.
Yes.
Does it look like, from what I can tell, probably badly, that, like, gunpowder is, like, flowing into the cannon to, like, reload itself?
No, it doesn't look like that.
It doesn't look like that.
Invisible gunpowder.
Invisible gunpowder.
Materializes inside the cannon.
Obviously.
Yes.
That's the only thing.
Well, in that case, I'm going to charge forward at the wizard.
so the cannon actually has special cannonballs that have their own gunpowder built within like they have like a sort of like casing the gunpowder built in and just like strikes the casing exploding that makes no goddamn sense that would never work coming from the blacksmith here okay yeah do it i run up and i attack him with my sword do it
Oh, okay.
I'm packing the wizard beside the cannon.
Oh, okay.
I thought there was no one left there.
Wait, you're the wizard beside the cannon.
I'm also the wizard beside the cannon.
That's true.
How much was it?
Sev?
I think we keep speaking at the same time.
Oh.
Twelve?
Twelve.
Yeah, 12's not gonna do it.
I was so sure I heard 23.
I'll attack with my second attack.
I rolled a 3, a 4, a 2, and finally rolled a 17.
Okay.
Oh my god.
I thought I was gonna say 1.
Yeah, that'll work.
That will be... 13 psychic damage.
13.
And I will tend to leap on top of the cannon.
Interesting.
Okay.
Yeah, give me an acrobatics check as you're perched on top of this thing.
Natural 1.
Natural 20.
Hey!
Oh, shit.
Okay.
Okay.
That's pretty good.
Riot on Cowboy.
Yeah, okay.
can't shoot me at the top of the cannon now, can it?
I learned this trick from a certain snake before it threw me onto the ground that ate my mouth.
Yeah, um, we're gonna get to- so, is that the end of your turn?
Yes.
Okay.
Um... We have to make a blink roll, don't I?
Uh, the cannon's definitely gonna try to throw you off.
Um...
It's... Oh, it can do this.
Yeah.
This is going to be a contest against your acrobatics, which I can't imagine.
That one.
The cannon stares to its barrel.
It looks to the left.
It looks to the right.
Yeah, he's gone.
Fires at the wizard next to him, right?
And yeah, that will leave it with your... Your blink?
Blink.
I don't.
I got a ten.
A ten.
Excellent.
After seven, there's a lair.
Jerry, at this moment, is completely beside himself.
Joy?
Excitement?
Excitement seems right.
With my cloak on, I am also very often beside myself.
Where are our hands?
You made so many puns today!
Quick!
Where are the hands?
Uh... Do I know where the hands are?
Do I know where the hands are?
I knew where the hands were, you know where the hands are.
There's the bag of hands.
It's the mysterious bag Seb was carrying.
and I top off all of their hands.
And one's already been thrown in the water for some reason.
Hopefully we don't need more.
Does that one count?
We have to go back and get it.
No, thank you.
Wait, just grab the hands that are climbing up the ship.
Here.
Don't think those count.
You can do the guy that's coming tied to the mast.
We can take his hands.
Yes, yes, I guess that's nine hands.
And then we can take Jerry's hand.
It's 11.
Wait, isn't Jerry the guy that tied to the mast?
No, the guy we, uh... There are two assassins who came off the roof.
Oh, yeah.
You're gonna have a hard time getting his hands through because he rolled a natural 20 on tying those things together, so... There are as many as 12 knuckles on these fingers, and so we currently have... Does the thumb count?
That's a good question.
What if this hand has more than five fingers?
What if this hand has more than three knuckles per finger?
That's such a creepy thought.
A giant hand with a bunch of little knuckles on it.
That's a really disturbing image.
I don't like that.
Do we know what the plan was with the hands?
Yeah, we give them to the hands.
Bring me the hands!
I need them!
No, but didn't Sev have, like, a separate plan with them?
No, I think it's just... The plan was to protect us from the giant hand.
Yeah, sort of chuck him overboard and be like, here I am.
But my plan specifically was to ask Jerry what to do with the bag of seven.
I think we let Jerry go.
Like, let him go, you mean just let him do his sacrificial shit?
Well, I don't know, like, like, Seth really wants to talk to the hand, for lack of a better word.
Um, but, Consume a part of the hand.
Consume a part of the hand.
It's like, okay, so, the deck of the, like, the other ship is only 40 feet away from us, right?
Yeah.
So, they're like,
In talking distance, I can just ask Sev.
It's true.
It's true.
Yeah.
He's probably fairly visible.
Oh, he's on the part of the boat closest to you, perched on again.
Ah, there we go.
Sev!
Gary here says it's time for throwing hands.
Wait, what?
We're gonna throw hands.
I don't see anything.
What are you talking about?
Oh, that's terrifying.
Where?
No, over there.
I have no idea.
This guy is beside himself.
And it's a rainbow.
I got one of my perception checks.
Is the fucking thing over there?
I can see stuff happening over there.
I'm gonna let him do his thing.
Grab the bag of hands and pull over back.
Yeah, okay, fine.
Uh, I'm gonna ask one of the crew members to do it, because I don't want to let go of Jerry.
Okay.
Yeah, Garl will do it.
Alright, once the bag of hands are here, I'll give them to Jerry.
Okay.
Um, excellent.
Um...
Jerry will open the bag, look inside.
I hope it's enough.
And that will bring us to Sog.
All right.
Um, I think Sog... Pretty good.
He's taking that shot another moment.
See, she's freaked out right now.
Um...
He's throwing real well, that's 21.
That's gonna buy you another foot of movement.
Alright, let's go.
Let's see the damage first.
Oh!
Seven plus two.
Nine whole damage.
That's like more damage than he's done on all the other hands combined.
Yes, indeed.
Alright, and then we have... And then we have Dirk.
Yes.
I'm gonna put Lucian down.
You're gonna put Lucian down?
What?
Wait, you're up there, right?
Yeah, but they're just like, I'm gonna put him down.
I'm gonna throw hands.
I'm gonna take him behind the shed and, you know.
That's true.
Yeah, give him a little beshy.
I'm gonna lower you to the ground.
I'm six feet below where he was.
And I'm going to... I'm gonna stand real close to Jerry.
And if he...
tries to throw in the hands without our explicit permission, I'm going to prepare a grapple.
Okay.
I'm going to be ready to tackle him to the ground.
Okay.
If he does... I get how explicit we have to get.
Like, if he tries to give the hands without the explicit authorization of... Okay.
I'm going to say Sev.
Okay.
Okay.
Seb's kind of far away, but Seb can talk.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Seb, you're calling shots from the other boat.
Seb is a known expert on the giant glowing hand.
Look, man, I don't know, like, how do you give the hands, like, you're the one that wants to eat the hand.
I have no idea how to eat it or do something else with it.
Like, eating was the only thing that came to mind.
I guess the word was consume.
I think if...
If Jerry tries to throw the hands, can I just say prepare the action and be like, if at his, how supposed do I have to be in my trigger here?
Yeah.
Okay.
At a certain point, Jerry is doing something that seems more erratic than my comfort level.
I'm going to tackle him to the ground.
Okay.
You tackle Jerry to the ground.
Okay.
Um, cool.
And our last, uh, actor- I- I do get all this shit from our ship.
I think you should make me move over here.
I think you're gonna start going down real soon.
Let's- the hands are close.
Yeah.
Um.
Sure.
Yeah.
Uh, on that note, uh, our last character of the round is our, uh, mage by the cannon, as opposed to the mage on the cannon, who will use his move to attempt to shove you off the cannon, uh, off the ship.
So this is a shove attack.
I need to figure out what it's contested by, because I believe it's a contest.
Oh, goodness.
That feels like a good start.
It is a contest.
Where is it?
Shove.
Either knock it prone or push it away.
This replaces one of them.
Same size.
It's an Athletics contested by an Athletics or Acrobatics.
Same.
Well, I still might not necessarily beat a natural 20, but because I have Bladestorm and I have a benefit on Acrobatics,
I got my own natural 20.
Take this!
Wait, for real?
Oh my god!
19!
19 and a 20!
I rolled a second time just for fun.
27!
Oh my goodness.
Fine.
Fine.
Reverse unify you got there, friends.
Fine.
Yeah, you... You ride the cannon.
Wow, that was incredibly impressive.
But I'm even more impressive, I swear.
I don't know.
I do think you should get over here soon.
Yeah.
Um, that will bring us to the end of the round.
Um, you make much better progress this time.
Yeah.
Uh, so you were making, uh, there, so that puts you, uh, 60 feet from the edge of the reef.
Mm, okay.
Um,
which is much better than the progress you were making.
And that would put them, they only gained 10 feet, so they were only 30 feet behind you.
And at the beginning of our next round, the hand begins to rise from the water.
It's about 30 feet off the port side.
If we just hold it down, it can't show that many knuckles.
Well, of course.
Oh no!
Um, and we will discover how many knuckles rise next time.
Okay.
Alright.
Yeah, what the fuck does consume mean?
I don't know.
I thought you had this down, Kieran.
I thought you had this down pat.
Jerry told me that the hand was the hand of a dead god and I could get its knowledge and I got a part of it.
I'm not sure how does it get its knowledge, but
I thought you were gonna eat it.
I don't know.
Yes, eating it was the only proposal, and I think Elle proposed that, and so I didn't have any better ideas, so.
My plan was to ask Jerry, that's why I brought Jerry along.