Session 46 Summary

1. The party is on a boat near the edge of a reef, trying to appease a giant magical hand by offering it severed hands.
2. Jerry, an NPC, wants to make a deal with the party. He has a bag with 7 hands in it, but 14 are needed.
3. The party discusses how many knuckles the giant hand might have, jokingly considering the possibility of it having 20 knuckles per finger.
4. They realize they're close to the edge of the reef but not quite there yet.
5. The party notices a box near the giant hand, but they're unsure if they can grab it.
6. Lucian is fighting a pirate on another ship that's about 40 feet away.
7. The party recaps their situation, mentioning that the giant hand pointed at their boat earlier.
8. They discuss whether Jerry would become a nice god if he ascended, concluding that he probably wouldn't be kind to them.
9. The party acknowledges they may have made a mistake in helping Jerry and consider the possibility that he might become a god.
10. They worry that Jerry, with his knowledge of the party, could be more dangerous as a god than the giant hand itself.
11. The giant hand rises from the water, and the party counts the number of knuckles on its fingers, which totals 14.
12. Lucian rappels over from the party's boat to another ship 30 feet away to fight a pirate and collect more hands.
13. Lucian successfully makes the acrobatic leap to the other ship, landing just below Sev's feet.
14. Sev is on the ship's cannon, which seems to be sentient and hostile, trying to shove him off.
15. Lucian greets Sev and suggests he step off the unstable cannon.
16. Sev believes the cannon is the safest place to be, despite its attempts to fire at him earlier.
17. Sev attacks the pirate in front of him, dealing significant psychic and thunder damage, leaving the pirate limping but still standing.
18. Sev tells Lucian to finish off the pirate and chop off his hands, while Sev himself goes below deck to find more hands.
19. Below deck, Sev finds six dead bodies and two injured individuals.
20. The hatch above Sev closes unexpectedly.
21. Elle casts Minor Illusion to create an illusory blocky shark to distract the giant hand underwater.
22. The party discusses the effectiveness of the illusion, considering that the hand might not have eyes to see it.
23. They debate whether creating a block of ice would be more effective than the illusory shark.
24. Elle freezes the water around the severed hands, creating an ice block to prevent them from sinking.
25. The giant hand rises out of the water, pointing menacingly at the party's boat. It seems to demand more hands.
26. Jerry pulls out a ruby-hilted dagger, attempting to cut off his own hand as an offering to the giant hand.
27. Daruk considers letting Jerry proceed with cutting off his own hand, believing it won't impact Jerry's combat abilities much.
28. Alair grabs Jerry, pins him down, and demands an explanation for his actions.
29. Jerry insists that he needs a piece of the giant hand and urges the party to bring their boat closer to it.
30. The party realizes that their boat is moving at full speed towards the edge of the reef, rather than approaching the giant hand.
31. Daruk grabs Jerry, cuts off both Jerry's hands, and throws them into the water as an offering along with the 7 hands in the bag. This makes 9 hands total.
32. Daruk shouts to the giant hand, apologizing for Jerry's actions and hoping that the offered hands will appease it and grant them a second chance.
33. The party discusses the possibility of cutting off the prisoner's hands who is tied to the mast, but some members are hesitant to do so.
34. They consider the ethics of cutting off hands and debate whether it's necessary for their survival.
35. Lucian enters the ship he swung over to, finding a man with glowing orange eyes attached to/merged with the ship itself, chanting.
36. Lucian approaches the chanting man, noting that the chanting has gotten louder and faster.
37. Lucian attacks the ship-merged man but his sword bounces off, doing no damage.
38. The ship-merged man gestures, creating a gale-force wind that blows Lucian off the upper deck, causing him to fall and take damage.
39. Lucian lands on the main deck, prone and dazed.
40. Sev proposes swinging down on a rope from the ship to attack the giant hand with his magic spear, hoping to slice off a piece of it.
41. Lucian agrees to help Sev with his plan and ties the other end of Sev's rope to the ship's mast.
42. Lucian dives off the ship towards the party's boat, hoping Daruk can catch him.
43. Lucian successfully jumps off the ship and swims towards the party's boat.
44. Elle freezes the hands in a block of ice so they won't sink.
45. Daruk throws unnecessary weight and cargo off the ship to increase their speed and chances of escape.
46. The giant hand grabs the ship Lucian and Sev are on, crushing/biting into it.
47. Sev, hanging from his rope, falls with the collapsing ship.
48. The party's boat manages to speed past the attacked ship, progressing towards the edge of the reef.
49. Underwater, Sev swims to the giant hand and stabs it with his magic spear, but doesn't do much damage.
50. Sev attempts to slice off a piece of the giant hand's flesh using his greatsword and the booming blade spell, dealing some damage but not severing it completely.
51. Skeletal hands rise up and attempt to grapple Sev. Despite his efforts to break free, they grab hold of his foot and drag him towards the giant hand.
52. The giant hand crushes Sev, but at the last moment, he uses his ability to magically swap places with his owl familiar Higgs.
53. Higgs is crushed by the giant hand, sacrificing itself to save Sev.
54. Sev reappears on the party's boat, alive but emotionally distraught over the loss of Higgs.
55. The party's boat speeds away, leaving the reef as the giant hand continues attacking the other ship.
56. Sev attempts to re-summon Higgs but realizes the owl is truly gone.
57. The party comforts Sev, acknowledging his bravery and efforts in fighting the giant hand.
58. Daruk reassures Sev that they're proud of him and that he's safe now.
59. Sev expresses his frustration and disappointment, feeling that he's lost everything and failed to gain the power he needed to defeat their cloaked nemesis.
60. The party reminds Sev that they still have each other and that as long as they're alive, they have a chance to grow stronger and fight another day.
61. Alair slaps Sev, telling him that he should either jump off the boat if he wants to die or help them escape if he wants to solve their problems.
62. Sev argues that he needs the power of a god to defeat the cloaked figure and that this was his chance to obtain it.
63. Daruk comforts Sev, acknowledging the loss of Higgs but reminding him that they haven't lost everything.
64. Lucian confirms that he spoke with the King of the Rings, indicating that their mission was somewhat successful in gaining new information.
65. The party discusses the need to get back to shore quickly and regroup.
66. Elle awkwardly comforts Sev, unsure of what to say but offering support.
67. Daruk suggests they have a proper funeral for Higgs once they reach land.
68. Sev remains quiet, processing his grief and the events that transpired.
69. Lucian and Alair discuss the importance of allowing Sev time to heal and come to terms with his loss before trying to teach him any hard lessons.
70. The party levels up from the experience of escaping the giant hand, gaining new abilities and strengths.
71. They discuss their future plans to continue growing in power in order to eventually defeat their cloaked nemesis.
72. Sev acknowledges that he's not strong enough yet, but with the party's support, he believes he can keep fighting and improving.
73. Alair offers to teach Sev how to properly wield a greatsword in the future.
74. The party agrees to hold a small funeral for Higgs, recognizing the owl's sacrifice and its importance to Sev.
75. As they sail back to shore, the party takes time to rest, recover, and plan their next steps in their quest to save the world from the cloaked figure's impending threat.
      

Session 46 Original Transcript

You have a wildly small imagination for what this hand can do.
It has so many knuckles, I'm ready to put 20 knuckles in each finger.
All right.
Yeah, can someone give a summary of the things going on?
We don't know how many knuckles are above the water yet.
We're really close to the edge of the reef, but we're not quite there.
Yeah.
Oh, the box is there.
Can you grab the box?
I fight a pirate on a pirate ship.
The other boat is 40 feet away.
It was like 40 feet away.
Yep.
The philosophical boy hands were trying to keep us in the reef, and they were like, 50 feet away from the edge of the reef?
Maybe?
Um... And now... Oh, and that guy... Jerry?
What's his name?
Yeah, Jerry wants to talk to you.
Jerry wants to deal with you.
Yeah, yeah.
It's very emphatic right now.
Apparently, Soph doesn't have a plan.
I thought Soph had a... I have a plan.
Most importantly.
Look at your ass on this boat.
Jerry's gonna become a god.
And he's not going to be a nice god to you or us.
Just saying.
There was a slight issue where I guess you're right that because Jerry has more knowledge of us, if someone was going to become a god, it's going to be him.
But, yeah.
You think if Jerry became a god, he'd be nice to us?
No.
We kind of got him for days.
I helped him ascend.
I'll become this right-hand man.
Guys, I think we made a big mistake.
Yeah, that sounds like about where we're at.
Yeah.
Who needs AI to sunrise?
All right.
Yeah, so we're going to pick up with a hand rising from the water.
Yes.
Does this show up?
I can't.
I can figure this out.
I have the technology.
Oh, yes.
That's like readable.
Excellent.
Oh, are we?
Knuckles.
Oh, no.
What?
It's definitely the number of knuckles, which may or may not be the worst.
You just have your number in mind.
Exciting.
This is great.
This is great.
Oh, God.
We have seven hands.
Slightly rotted hands already, right?
So under seven is where we want to be.
Nine is doable.
Plus two is the raw.
It's a d12 plus two.
Okay.
You're counting knuckles in the thumb?
Ridiculous.
You don't know it's a thumb.
Maybe it's an AI-generated hand.
There's another finger here.
You know, there's like a thumb and a couple of those fingers around.
Is that a 12?
That's a 12!
14 knuckles!
Oh my goodness.
Great!
Does the one I already threw, does the hand I already threw count?
There's only one way to find out.
You guys need to come over to the ship as fast as you can because there are people on the ship I'm currently fighting whose hands we could donate to the hand.
Right, so, so the water... If you just throw people in, does that count as two hands?
Or does it have to, like, top their hands off?
Or does it count as four hands?
Like, does the hand distinguish between, like, feet and hands?
If we had a monkey, would that count?
Would they actually have hands?
Yeah.
Like, hands on their feet.
Sorry.
All right.
Could you actually roll the...
He did actually roll a stone.
You know, sometimes it's not up to me anymore.
That's why I was saying, I feel like if Nathan did that on his own, he knows we would be like, ah, that's ridiculous.
But he has a funny way of doing things.
All right.
So in the dark, the shiny hand appears.
It begins to rise from the water, waves rippling out from it.
It raises up two fingers, three fingers, four fingers.
The whole hand rises above the water and points at the boat.
Elsa, just get on the other boat.
Wait, our boat specifically?
Your boat specifically.
Well, shit.
Let's just get on the other boat.
Jerry.
Jerry.
Abandon ship.
Jerry darts over to the edge of the boat with his bag of hands, shaking it off, holding it over the side, not dumping things out, but holding the bag there.
And he's calling out frantically, yes, yes, come on, come on.
And that's where we'll start the round.
Oh, fuck, we're still on the initiative.
Absolutely we are.
I gotta grab my phone.
Okay, okay.
So the way I see it, we have seven hands, and we need to add two more from our captain.
That's nine hands.
We have seven.
We have seven hands currently in the bag.
So all we need to have is another five hands
Which, I think, I'm dueling one person now, and he has two hands, so that's two done.
We still need to have three more.
So one person almost kills below deck, so we can grab him and drag him out on top of his hands.
There's two more.
We only need to have one more hand.
And if Jerry wants to become a god, I'm sure he's willing to trade a hand for the opportunity.
All I'm saying is you actually need to get over to my boat fast to get some more hands.
Ooh, I killed a bunch of people below deck.
That should be pretty easy, actually.
Yo, you did just smite, like, fucking, like, people there.
Yeah, yeah, there's a bunch of people below deck.
Yeah.
We're great.
We're fantastic.
We're fine.
How many hands can you chop per round?
Watch that be the contingency that we haven't heard yet.
Yeah.
Yeah, no problems.
Lucian, you're up first.
How far is the other ship from this ship?
You have 30 feet.
How far can people jump in D&D?
You have strength times 10.
Fuck.
My strength is not good enough.
I think this is your strength score.
I can jump 11 feet.
How far can Daruk throw me when he is big?
Don't worry, I won't tell the elf.
Wait, how far?
I don't know.
I'm still in big form, aren't I?
Yes.
In big form, I would probably give you an athletics check and I'd give you half the distance in a feet.
I think that's about what I would give.
Half of the athletics check.
Okay, so not 30 feet.
All you have to do is a 60.
But the boat's coming, but then you're leaving.
Yeah.
If I swing on a rope from the sails, does it seem like I could make that leap somehow?
It would take a pretty tough acrobatics check, but, like... Because I think I'm currently on Daruk's shoulders, like, up... Like, patching up the sails is what I was last doing.
Yeah.
If I recall correctly.
The height of the sail would be large enough.
Like, 30 feet's not that long, right?
Like, I can imagine it happening.
Like, you, like, swing this way, and, like...
How about I give you a push, right?
So you're just, like, up there.
There's not really a way to, like... I'm, like, swinging and you, like, push me.
I, like, pull you to one edge of the ship and then... This sounds, like, up to me.
I will attempt this.
I will attempt this.
Lucian sees this giant hand and is terrified.
He...
grabbed a hand from that bag earlier he knows there are not enough hands in that bag so he is gonna go try and help sub and get off the ship that is being pointed at um so is it just acrobatics with advantage uh yeah i think so okay
Okay, I should be able to do this.
I do have plus 10.
Okay, first roll's a 19.
Okay.
Second one's a 7, so 29.
Come on, dude.
It needs to be 30 to get 30 feet.
29's just not there yet.
I feel like this is a, you're holding on to the edge.
Yeah, I think, uh, so you, um...
You fly through the air.
There's no other word for it.
And you land.
I became a trapeze artist.
With your hands holding on to the railing at the prow just below, just where the, just under Sev's feet, actually.
Excellent.
Bea, what is this?
This is very important.
There we go.
Yeah.
Oh, you took it off.
I thought we were all pirates.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah, so I'm just holding onto the railing?
Yep.
Okay.
Is that my turn, or would I be able to bonus action dash to get up?
I'll give you bonus action stuff.
Okay.
Can I just get up with that?
Yeah.
Okay.
Need a hand?
You are now on the deck of the Amber Wave.
I say to sub, need a hand?
He's got it quick today.
I think five, actually.
Let's do it.
Um, Elle, that brings us to you.
Is it me?
Oh, shit.
I don't know how to do that.
Does that look doable to me?
Can your magic do that?
That doesn't look very doable.
Oh, I want to see.
So, are we ditching?
Are we leaving?
Are we going?
I think you're trying to get more hands.
I mean, there's only one hand on this ship.
Can we get our ship to, like... Michael and Amber are already dead.
Can we move the ship to, like, the Amber way?
Like, move our ship instead of running away from it?
All right, Captain Al, let's go at the other ship because I think we need to jump over it or something.
Um, what?
We need to turn...
We need to stop.
Wait, the M.O.A.
is still coming at us, right?
How far are we from the end of the reef, right?
If we get to the end of the reef, we're probably safe.
At the pace you're going, you've got about three rounds to get to the edge of the reef.
Ah, shit.
Okay, maybe we should keep going.
We should get to the edge of the reef.
But Lucian just abandoned ship, so I don't know what the fuck we're doing.
I mean, presumably we're looking for more hands.
You got one?
He's got two.
Do I have hands?
Yes.
Am I gonna sack myself?
No.
No, I don't actually.
See, you only need to have one hand to cast spells of any kind, except for the burning hand spell, which requires you to hold your thumbs together when casting it, which requires you at least have two thumbs.
This is rules as written.
I'm not getting rid of my hands!
Sir, I'm a doctor!
I need both of my hands!
don't know what's going on you can like do a one-handed suit to write that that's fine this is not an action movie actually i'm pretty sure it is an action movie i will admit my grandfather was a surgeon he was proud of the fact that he could tie a uh like
not like a bow with uh only one hand inside a matchbox behind his back so i think one hand is all you need what the heck uh and and and he stole my and he stole my one so i don't have anything okay um um
Can you minor illusion some hands?
I guess.
Did Jerry check how many hands were in the bag?
Jerry has made no effort to look inside of that bag.
He has seen me take a hand out, though.
Jerry, how many hands do we need?
It wants 14.
That bag's got seven.
It's got what now?
Five.
Yep.
Wolf!
What do?
Where is Severian?
He's on the other boat!
I'm trying to collect hands!
There is a prisoner on the ship tied to the mast.
Cut off his hands.
I don't want to cut off his hand, it's gross!
And I don't have anything to cut off his hand with!
Because I gave him my dagger!
Your sound's clearly not right enough, at least for me.
Wait, you can't hear me?
No.
We couldn't for a second, I can now.
Oh.
For just the moments when you were screaming, we couldn't.
Maybe I went too high-pitched for Dan's mic.
Don't sound like human Sam.
I was saying, I didn't have anything to cut his hands with, even if I wanted to, because I gave him my only knife.
Oops.
Sounded like a dagger or something?
Yeah, I gave it to Sam when he let his sword run away.
To the lotion.
So I gave him my dagger.
Huh?
You gave it to the lotion?
What did I say?
Yeah, yeah, sorry, I can't.
Everything is Seva's fault now.
You've got a sewing needle.
A ship repair needle.
No, I don't.
You have a ship repair needle.
I didn't take it with me.
I swung on a rope.
I just don't feel comfortable cutting off people's hands.
But are there any dead bodies downstairs?
Yep.
Sure.
There's that one crew member in a barrel.
No, they weren't dead.
They were just knocked out.
Oh.
They are just knocked out.
That's true.
No one's dead on this ship.
No, we didn't kill anyone.
After that one dude jumped in the water.
God damn it.
The guy in the water, that's two hands already.
Like, that's an offering.
He was thrown off this boat into the water by himself.
No, by himself.
But he was thrown in.
Off of the boat.
That's all Anne wants out.
Yep.
Okay, well, I don't want to cut off anyone's hand.
I'm gonna go downstairs and try to wake up the guy who's knocked out.
Is he fine?
If we need to abandon Schiffer, he probably shouldn't be knocked out.
Yeah, give me a medicine check.
Medicine?
Oh, yes.
I am smart.
I am not smart.
I am 14 smart.
Yeah.
Yeah, you wake him up.
Okay.
Uh... Uh, hi.
We need hands.
Not yours.
But... Do you happen to know if there are any hands on this boat?
Yeah.
Like... Like chicken hands.
Chicken?
I don't know.
Is Cap'n calling?
Chickens don't have hands.
It's the same construction!
All hands on deck.
Oh shit, that's good.
I'm... Do you mean hands?
What?
Do you mean... It's here?
Yes.
And apparently we don't have enough hands because...
Uh, serve prepare eight, and Lucian through one, up one.
Higgs has four hands, right?
So he's gonna, he's gonna, um, crawl further behind the barrel.
Four hands.
What'd you say?
Oh, he's, uh, cowering in fear of crawling further behind the barrel from once he's started.
Okay, I don't think crawling behind the barrel is gonna help you here.
What's in the barrel?
What is in the barrel?
In the barrel... 14 hands.
In the barrel is... Oh, cannonballs.
Shoot the hand.
It doesn't seem like a wise move if it says... Have you been taught how to use the cannons?
You just put the ball in, and then you put gunpowder in, and you light the gunpowder.
That's the wrong order.
Oh, it's actually really important that you don't do that.
You do it in the opposite direction, in the opposite order.
Wait, for some reason I thought you loaded a cannon from the back.
Like, you put the ball, and then you put the gunpowder, and then you put the lid, and then you light the gunpowder.
This is what happens when you don't have proficiency in martial weapons.
Okay, maybe I think these balls are too heavy, so I'll just go back upstairs.
I like the idea of Ellen going down, being like, you need to have hands, you need to have hands.
This barrel, maybe it has... Maybe.
Cannonballs, not hands, never mind.
All right.
That'll bring us to... Seth.
Okay, so Lucian's right in front of me.
From where I am, have I noticed that there's a head?
I'm gonna say that Lucian has made you aware of the situation.
Oh, what the frick?
The head's already here?
I had no notice!
Okay.
Wait, the ship's cannon thing is still sentient, right?
What?
What?
Remember the- there's the- I forgot- Lucian has no idea that's what's been going on.
He's just like, hi, Sev.
It's probably fair.
Wasn't Sev on the cannon?
Yeah, Sev is standing on top of the cannon.
And it's trying to shove me off, and I'm like, balancing.
Yeah, maybe you notice that as you swing over, that I'm like balancing off of the cannon, just trying to shove me off.
Maybe you should step off of that, it seems unstable.
Actually, I think this is the safest place to be.
It tried to fire at me a moment ago.
I will say that I think the best move is to attack the person in front of me, let's be honest.
Yeah.
I'll take a good swing at the guy in front of me.
Yeah, go for it.
It's dim light, right?
It is dim light.
That would be a 15 plus 7.
22 versus AC.
That definitely hits.
13 psychic damage and one more thunder damage.
So 14 damage, and I'll attack a second time.
Okay.
For 23 versus AC.
For 17 more psychic damage.
So a total of
17 plus 14, 31 psychic.
31 damage, one of which is thunder, in case he's resistant to thunder.
Yeah, ooh, that does not go well for him.
He's still here, but he is limping, to say the least.
Okay, Lucian, can you finish him off and chop off his hands?
I'll get the ones below deck, and then I'll rush off down to where the hatch is and tell you below deck.
Okay.
Yeah, you've got like a million movement.
You can make it downstairs.
Yes.
Can I see anything?
There was fire, which was below the deck.
There is fire still going below in the deck below on the second deck down.
Does that help me see anything in the area?
It's going to give you dim light around 20 feet around the patch going down.
Do I see any bodies in that area?
Oh, yes.
There are, you can definitely see six, looks like definitely dead, and two injured.
Select.
Cool, that's my turn.
Okay, okay.
Oh, I have to roll for Blink, I believe.
Right, so before your roll for Blink goes the ship,
Um, the, uh, hatch above you closes.
Oh no.
That's good.
Uh oh.
And then I roll for blink.
Come on.
One.
No.
All right.
No blinking today.
There is, there is no blink.
Um,
Let's see, then is Jerry's turn.
Jerry has eyes only for the hand at this point.
Although Daruk had something to trigger if Jerry did anything that felt concerning.
So with one hand holding over the side, Jerry has got the bag of definitely not enough hands.
His other hand behind his back pulls out a ruby-hilted dagger.
I'm going to let this happen.
Okay.
He's going to offer his own hand.
I'm going to let that happen.
I'm not scared of him for, like, myself.
Okay.
Or probably the other crew.
He doesn't look like a particularly menacing fighter, right?
He's just some guy.
You could sneak on him, and that'd probably be the end.
Alright, I'm gonna let that happen.
Okay.
Okay.
Um, Alair.
Um... You need to remove the guy's title of ass hands.
We need to have those hands.
Chop them off.
I don't have any to chop it off.
I don't think you took the Hippocratic Oath, so I think it's fine.
What?
Uh... Actually, I didn't think that you did.
That's true, he did.
Yeah.
I don't have anything to cut it off.
I thought... I thought Daruk would have something to cut it off.
I have an extra hand axe.
A hand axe?
Bro.
You came prepared, Daruk!
I can take care of Jerry.
I'm the one grabbing him by the wrist.
Not my turn yet.
Yeah, I'm gonna leave the cutting off your hands part to Dharuk.
I think I'd be more concerned about what Jerry is doing with the whole dagger thing.
I'm gonna ask him.
It's like very loud and kind of panicked voice.
Uh, what the hell are you doing?
What is your plan right now?
Bring it close.
Bring it close.
Why?
Just bring it.
Bring what?
He said bring close.
I assume he means the boat to the hand.
Yeah.
No, the boat is going at full speed towards the edge of the reef.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I don't think I can do anything useful here.
So I'm going to keep keeping an eye on Jerry and keep my hand firmly on his upper arm.
Yeah, that's all I will do.
Yeah, then to Rook.
Okay.
You want to kill with the cutting off arms part?
First, Rook, how many hands you got over there?
None yet.
How many perspective hands in the near future?
I see two in front of me.
All right.
Okay, people, that means we're still five hands down.
He's going to raise his own hand like, look, it's one hand less, the bottom of the sea for us.
Now, maybe Sam's going to plot a miracle for me from below that boat over there.
But if it gets dire, I think fair is fair.
I've done a lot of work here.
Can I roll persuasion for everyone else on this boat?
Persuasion to do what?
That if it's like moments of cut off your hand or we sink to the bottom.
Like if a hand is actively crashing down on us.
It's better than death.
Yeah, absolutely you can do that.
I'm taking this for the NPCs on board.
Yes, yes.
But then to be fair, Daruk has a shield, which you can attack even if you don't have a hand.
That was my thought.
It's actually not going to impact my combat that much.
What are these logics?
Can't the shield slide off your wrist if you don't have a hand?
I can do it for persuasion.
I'm a flaxen, so I can figure something out.
Uh, 12, yeah.
Okay.
Just permanently attach the shield to your wrist.
Bolt it on?
Yeah, bolt it on.
Like, it's a shield prosthetic.
It's just like, you, like, screw it on, and then you have a shield, and then you take it off, and then there's a shield.
Okay.
And then he, he says, when I was under stress, only for, like, the Jerry and Alair meaning in here, like, I hate you, sir, but...
It's okay.
Sev said he had a plan, right?
He claimed he had a plan.
I think we're a full, like, 20 minutes past when that plan was supposed to have finished.
Oh, boy.
All right.
Sog.
Sog has hands.
Sog.
That's going to be his turn.
My god.
Actually, no, no.
He's going to take a shot.
I'm really appreciating these last moves of his hands.
He takes a shot at, uh... at, uh... He'll handle the small hands.
You just take care of the other one.
The boy is nervous.
That was a 4 plus 3 is 7.
He's not in a great headspace right now.
It's not going to do it.
All right.
Oh, and then there's the guy on the boat in front of you, Lucian.
Yes.
Unfortunately, his favorite target that he's incredibly proficient at hitting has run away.
So it's your turn.
Oh.
I attack, I guess.
Or is my turn to be attacked, you mean?
Yeah, he is attacking you.
I thought you were just saying he's just not taking his turn.
I get to go ahead and hit him.
I was like, oh, okay.
No, that's 17 to hit.
17 does hit.
Oh, okay, wait, no, no, no, no, no.
Do I have Mage Armor on me right now?
Uh, yeah, sure, if you wanted to.
Okay.
If I wanted to.
Like, if it was... If we were doing the whole, like, Icastration, I don't know, you and me every morning still.
I thought you got your own armor.
I have mirror image.
I guess I check if that hits first no matter what.
If it's mirror image, shouldn't you roll to determine if you hit me versus a mirror image now?
I check mirror image first.
Let me remember how it works.
So I have three images?
Two.
Two.
I have two.
Um...
Yeah, so d20 first.
If it's an 8 or higher, it hits a duplicate, I think.
12.
So 12 hits a mirror image.
And then the AC is 14, so that destroys it.
Okay.
He strikes out where you totally, definitely were.
Yeah.
But makes no contact.
Curses to the Latvia, he says.
And then he turns and runs.
I don't think I can let him run.
Yeah, you get an opportunity here.
He doesn't have anything.
Oh wait, he also takes 2d8 thunder damage if he runs.
That's not going to slow him down.
That's 13 thunder damage.
Jesus Christ.
Work him down a little bit.
That is 11 to hit.
11 does not hit.
And he is going to dash off back into the pavilion on the back side of the boat.
You can't let him get away.
You have to keep his hands.
I feel like if I walk in there, it's going to be the scenario where I barge in and then there's four guys with their swords pointed at me.
Volusion's probably going to do it anyway.
All right.
That'll bring us all the way around.
The boat has progressed closer.
It is making excellent progress, not impeded by the hands.
The...
uh amber wave uh continues to close distance uh it's now 20 feet away um and the hand uh comes up to jerry so as the so the hand uh reaches out um you never see the it never like comes out although there's always like forearm in the water um as it comes up
and takes hold of the bag that Jerry is offering.
As it does so, Jerry is going to take his free arm and make an attack against the hand.
What?
Do it!
Do it!
Take the hand!
What?
Wait.
Oh, fuck.
That's true.
Jerry has a 25.
Ooh.
Um...
Yeah, so Jerry's plan is going swimmingly, except that the dagger gets caught in the hand.
It does not slice through.
It gets stuck.
Help him out, Daruk!
Help him out!
As soon as that happens, the hand lets go of the bag and plunges down into the water.
Fuck.
I did not expect that.
Uh, pollution.
Does the bag plunge down or does the hand plunge down?
The hand plunges down.
It does not take the bag.
Jerry is left there with a bag, no dagger, and is looking incredibly upset.
I'm going to chase after the guy that swung at me.
Yeah, do it.
You sprint across the deck.
So there's a door that he went through.
Oh, it's actually a door.
No, it's just a doorway.
There is no door there.
So I can see before I go in.
Yeah, I think you can.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, so you get to the doorway looking in.
Give me a perception check.
10 plus 1, 11.
Yeah, it doesn't look like anyone's here.
He can't really dash that far, right?
Isn't it like 40 feet across the deck?
45.
I bonus action dash if needed and keep going.
All right.
As you go into the...
Doorway.
What do you, you're inside.
Yeah, you're in here.
The room is about 30 feet wide, 20 feet long.
There is an open hatchway with stairs going down.
And there is two staircases on either of the back corners going to level up.
There's various tables and chairs, or tables and stools in here.
Where is the singing coming from?
The singing?
There's the eerie chanting that is coming from up.
Guess I'm going up.
Okay.
How much movement do you have left?
How much distance have I covered?
It's 45 to get across from the front of there to this area, and then it's another 20 feet back.
So it'd be 65 feet to get to the stairs going up.
Okay.
No, I'm only dashing once.
I'm not just dashing fully ahead without having an action to use at the end of that.
So 60 feet total.
Okay.
If you still have an action left, you can try to dash up and down again if work comes to work.
Sure.
I'll dash and poke my head out.
And do I see anything?
Okay.
So you're like darting up the stairs.
Yeah.
I'm looking.
Cool.
So give me a perception check for the second floor.
Five.
Five.
Five.
It looks fairly similar to the level below.
There is another level going up, which is the top.
There is, as opposed to several smaller tables with stools, there is one massive table in the middle.
On it is pinned a number of charts, and that's what you get with a five.
Okay.
That's my turn.
Okay.
Are you staying up there, or are you going down?
I don't see anything, so I don't see why I'd go back down.
Okay.
Are you fully in or are you on the stairs?
I'd say if I didn't see anything, I would go all the way up the stairs.
Okay.
That's great.
Give me a deck save.
Okay, I'm good at these, right?
Okay.
I believe... 19? 19?
Nineteen.
Okay.
You pause to catch your breath in this room here.
The chanting is coming.
It's louder now.
It's still above you.
The floor, which felt very solid running along it, suddenly gives way under your feet.
You roll to the side quickly as a large hole kind of falls through right where you were.
Awesome.
It's a mimic ship, I swear.
okay that's my turn yeah um oh uh do i see the hand anymore or is it gone wait nathan can i retcon a thing real quick it's okay if not i forgot about a thing what's your thing
As a reaction, can I use my rune to redirect that dagger strike to me?
The one to the hand.
Oh.
I don't think so.
I think that would have had to been caught at the time.
All right.
All right.
I think you had given Jerry the knife you thought was going to be okay.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Sorry, go on.
But the way I see it, the hand is no longer a problem.
It's vanished beneath the waves.
What's the worst it can do there?
You're above the waves.
And look down and see the sparkly rainbow hand.
Oh.
I'm going to look and see if I can see the hand beneath the waves.
Absolutely.
Give me perception.
Oh, no.
Okay.
Oh.
Twenty-two.
22.
Oh, yeah.
So you look down.
It is useful that the hand does continue to glow while underwater.
It has positioned itself directly under your boat, palm up.
Oh, no.
Guys, that's not good.
Abandon ship.
Abandon ship?
Captain Nile, I think we should abandon ship.
Yep.
The hand.
So he's given it the hand.
It'll be fine.
Who's given it the hand?
Oh, it's not.
It literally... It didn't take the bag of hands that we already offered.
It was just angry.
It was about to.
So close.
You're telling Captain Al to abandon the ship?
Yeah, I'm doing tell him that the hand pointed at our boat.
Uh, but there's a lifeboat, right?
There's like a little dinghy?
Yeah, there's a dinghy.
Can we start lowering that down and getting in it?
You can certainly start that process.
Get in and cut the ropes.
Everybody bend and chip!
Um...
Give me a persuasion check.
Oh, boy.
What's my persuasion?
Plus one.
Thirteen.
Thirteen.
Yeah, the captain's face.
He doesn't... The captain's face is very set.
He doesn't look at you at all.
He's staring straight ahead.
We're gonna make it.
See?
The captain is confident.
So should you.
Captain always goes down with the ship.
Just slow down the hand a bit.
Like, I don't know, lightning gonna go around or something.
The other hands didn't like lightning.
Hold hand.
Hold hand.
Fast friends?
Hold.
How far down is the hand?
Uh, it is, uh...
It is just above some of the layer.
No, that hasn't been cleared out.
So it's just there on its own at this point.
It's about 20 feet below the surface of the water.
I don't have anything.
We don't think the head, the head didn't have any eyes, did it?
It didn't look like heads.
No, it's a head.
You have no way to damage it at all?
Like what, shoot a fireball at it?
It was under water, so ideally something that would water damage it.
Maybe you can create tubes of ice to slow it down.
could create a cube of ice below our boat in the hand's head.
That's so stupid.
But it's actually like the best I can do right now.
Oh boy.
Well, I could cast enemies abound at the hand.
I could attack all enemies within reach.
Yeah.
Which are all the little floaty hands, right?
Oh, I like how it's going.
There's like a lot of enemies.
I think we should still try to salvage this, guys.
I think we should.
We're not going to win.
So what are we doing?
We should kill the hand.
Imagine how much XP we can get if we kill the hand.
I think we should try to scrounge up the hands.
I think it's already, it hasn't even checked how many hands were in the bag.
Yeah, I think we're kind of screwed at this point in terms of giving it hands.
Yeah, I kind of agree.
I'm going after the chanting.
What do you ask Jerry?
Maybe he knows if you just drop the hands in, will it be appeased?
Jerry, is it too late to give the hand more hands?
Jerry is the one who tried to attack and why do you trust him still?
That was the plan.
It should have worked.
What do you mean it should have worked?
How would you know?
I thought it would just take a small piece.
Jerry.
Jerry.
Jerry.
Jerry.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
We got like two turns, right?
We got like 12 seconds, so we're at the edge of the reef.
Surely, it's fine.
It's fine.
It's fine.
If we slow it down for like one turn, we're safe.
I cast Minor Illusion near the hand and have like a very blocky-looking shark attack it.
Okay.
Okay.
A very blocky looking shark?
Because it can't animate.
Minecraft shark.
Okay, just like a really big cannonball falling down on the head.
The very big cannonball appears in the head.
Okay, five foot.
Wait, isn't making a block of ice, which is five foot diameter, better than making an illusionary object, which is five foot diameter?
No, because ice floats!
You can make a block of ice and then it hits your phone!
It's shield.
It's a shield from the hand.
It can't see through ice.
An illusion of 14 hands.
Maybe the hand doesn't like touching cold things.
I feel like illusions are going to go off.
So that since the hand is moving this way, a block of ice hits the hand as it comes up.
What's the move we're going for?
Are we doing cannonball or are we doing ice?
We'll do cannonball.
It seems safer.
We're doing cannonball.
Okay.
Wait, I don't think the hand can see.
Yeah, I don't think the hand can see.
We're doing ice ahead of the hand and hopefully the ice will hit the hand and the hand swims at the same pace as the boat.
Okay.
Okay, we will see how this plays out.
What we gotta do is make a very heavy, fast hand that just lands into the other hand and breaks it.
Sev, I believe that brings us to you.
How many hands can I chop off in an action?
If you just line them all up right and do it in one swing.
You have two attacks per standard action.
I do, yes.
I feel like I would give you two.
Okay, same.
difficult question then.
Like, as far as I know, we're still trying to use the darn hand.
So clearly this is what Seb would be doing.
As far as he's aware, Lucian managed to actually take out the guy who has two hands that was almost dead.
So that would be two hands right there.
We already have seven.
Two more from the guy tied to the mast whose hands should be chopped off already.
So all we need to have is three more hands.
So, I think I start chopping hands.
Yeah.
Okay.
I chop off two hands of the nearest person.
Okay.
Hopefully you're not using Shadow Blade, right?
No, I have a backer for this.
Okay.
Did you just say you have a backup for these kinds of things?
I have a dagger.
Like, I have a rapier, but a rapier is... You have a dagger for the kinds of things like chopping off people's hands?
Yes.
I mean, Daruk is wandering around with a handaxe, like... Yeah, yeah, you pick up two hands with an action.
Excellent.
Um... Yep, that's my turn.
Okay.
Okay.
Um...
Can't reel along the boards.
Does a seven break your AC?
No.
Okay.
There's some light rolling of the ship.
It's nothing dramatic.
There's some light rolling.
But almost as if the ship must have heaved over, one of the oars comes flying past and hits the side of the ship in your general vicinity.
Oh, my God.
Nice try, ship.
And then I'll roll the sweat.
Three.
What the frack?
Excellent.
Uh, Alair?
Um... I'm gonna jolt, uh...
uh jerry away from the edge of the sheath i'm gonna pin him down on the floor and i'm gonna ask in a very heated voice what the hell was that what did you just do i i needed a piece of it well now it's gonna get a piece of all of us how do we resolve this how do we salvage this and ask if there's any way to still get a piece of it i i
I don't know.
I suspect it'll be back.
Is it going to be back in a good mood?
Is it going to accept hands?
It has to.
Sev, did you cast Water Breathing on us?
Yes.
Okay.
That's something.
Grounding is not an issue.
Okay, well, grounding is an issue for our NPCs.
I have to have another chance.
What do you mean you have to?
Tell us, do you know for sure if it's gonna be, if we can appease it with hands again or not?
Not with this vote.
So you've doomed us all to death?
No, I've made it back several times.
Has he sunk multiple ships attempting to stab it each time?
So you have failed multiple times is what you're talking about.
Only because the crew stopped me.
This time should have worked.
Okay, I'm going to knock him out.
He's the only person who did anything.
We need to understand why his dagger works and how we can make it work better.
Like, see, if the hand's coming up, the dagger is still stuck in it.
What...
like, chunk.
We should be able to take out a good chunk of it.
Wait, actually, that's a good point.
I'm going to ask him, what was that red dagger?
What's so special about it?
It's just enchanted.
It should cut through anything.
So it should cut through anything, but it missed a gigantic hand made of flesh?
It didn't.
I didn't miss.
It got stuck.
I think it's a strength problem.
Jerry is not as buff as he thinks he is because he hasn't had any food or water for a week.
And whose fault is that?
Oh my god.
So here is the new plan, which Seb would definitely propose if present.
The hand comes up around the ship.
The dagger is still in one of the fingers.
Daruk goes over and just chops off the top of the finger.
Well...
If the ship goes down, we should at least have a piece of the god hand.
That's all I'm saying.
I'm sure you would love to have it.
I think if the ship goes down, we should at least all be not on the ship or on this ship instead.
You mean the ship that's trying to kill you?
Is that trying to kill me?
What do you mean it's trying to kill me?
You have perceptive nature.
Lucian has negative one intelligence.
I have zero intelligence, plus zero.
I have no negatives.
Only average intelligence.
Lucian does not know about negatives.
Average intelligence?
I know about negatives.
Negatives are dead.
Rich people think that is good.
I'm gonna very angrily
say to Jerry, well, maybe when you come to a mission like this, you should explain all the details to all your crewmates.
I'm gonna then slap him, I'm gonna push him towards the middle of the deck from the edge, and then I'm gonna look to the captain, I'm gonna say, Captain, if you're not willing to abandon your ship, how do we get out of here faster?
He doesn't respond.
He doesn't?
What is he doing?
He is... Oh, you can see my hand.
I'm going to walk up to him.
I'm going to grab his colors.
I'm going to shake him really hard.
I think I'm going to cut your turn there.
Okay.
Okay.
After that... Oh, that brings us to Daruk.
So, in my giant form, will you give any more to my weak distance?
I have 16 strength.
Mm-hmm.
I'm big.
Yeah.
So you can replace the standard leap with a athletics check for like an exceptional thing.
And you would definitely be, your big gives you advantage for that, right?
Yes.
Yeah, I think that's how it would work out.
All right.
So I go over to Jerry.
I grab him.
He's on the ground, right?
Yeah.
Is it one chance per boat?
Is that how the hand works?
Whatever hands for each boat.
I don't... No boats have ever been given a second chance.
I don't think.
I caught his hands.
I'm going to need an attack roll, I think.
In this situation.
I love this
You just fell off my lap.
That's going to be a 25.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'll give that to you.
And I'll take his hands and sack of hands over to the edge of the boat and yell down to the hands.
Hand gone.
This traitor in our mission does not speak for us.
I hope you will find these gifts well and give us a second chance.
I'm going to drop all now nine of the hands into the water.
Okay.
This is not enough, but soon I will send more your way and I'm going to try it.
I don't know if I can see, but like hold an act next to my hand.
Okay.
My turn.
Okay.
He walks up next to me with his dagger.
We stole a prisoner tied to the mast.
Take his hands first.
That's not how Druid works, dude.
He has a very traditional sense of fairness in these things.
He has a very good voice.
Which began with Jerry.
Jerry was the issue.
He doesn't have problems with fucking up Jerry right now.
Well, cut off Jerry's hands then.
He did.
Oh, I missed that one.
You cut off both.
Jerry doesn't need his hands.
Is he okay?
I'm going to give the rest of the crew a very pointed look right now.
Is Jerry dead?
Yeah, let's see.
Is he dead or is his hand less?
I cut off his hand.
If he dies, he dies.
Because he has like one HP.
Yeah, he probably did.
Alright, he probably did.
Or did, did it actually heal him with a spell?
I think he was healed slightly.
Uh, I think he was, he put a healing ward, and I think he got back like, uh, let me see.
Was that like eight?
For some reason, seven is in my mind.
I thought it was a lot.
I thought it was eight.
Uh, no, he got,
Okay.
Eight is not terrible.
I mean, with a Daruk attack.
It was an attack.
It was a hand cut.
There's a difference.
It wasn't going for his vitals.
That's his hands.
Non-lethal damage, you could say.
Yeah.
Allaire has not felt him die yet, I think is where we'll sit up.
Okay.
Great.
Okay.
Right, and the crew.
You had a... What was your persuasion earlier?
13.
Wait, wait.
No.
Whose?
Yeah, well.
Um... It's not gonna work for Captain Al.
Remy's under... Remy's still below deck.
Um...
When I look around, I also look at... I also look at Alara now.
You get... You get garled.
Okay.
All right.
We need five more hands.
We have three.
I look very pointedly at Alara.
No.
No way.
There's a prisoner with two hands.
Wait, is that prisoner from our crew?
Or is that from the other crew?
No, we... The guy who tried to kill us by... By setting the boat on fire.
Okay, okay.
Okay, I'm gonna look at O'Leary and say, get the hands from below deck.
Do it!
Below deck?
The guy's tied to the mast.
Oh, is he?
I'm gonna use the mast to help, like... No, no, no.
There is one guy hiding below deck.
Then there is... That was my confusion.
Yes.
Uh...
Blur.
Good man.
Get who's head?
Prisoner.
How about I go get the guy below deck and then... There is no guy below deck anymore.
He jumped into the water.
There is a crew member below deck.
There is a crew member below deck.
I'm gesturing towards the prisoner who tried to take our ship.
I see.
The order of the group is enemies first,
then him, then everyone else.
We would have probably made it out of the reef by now if they hadn't set our ship on fire.
Well, here we are.
We also would have got fucked up if I hadn't remembered my room at the time.
Okay.
I'm going to... Okay.
Actually, I'll do it in my action.
Okay.
That brings us to the top of... Oh, no, it doesn't.
There's one more person.
You can break up your two actions between two different people, right?
Like, sorry, two attacks to do with people, right?
I could have extra attack.
Forgot.
I have about level five now.
Oh, I put that in your getting the two hands from him.
Oh.
Yeah, it's one hand per attack.
I do have action surge.
This is tricky.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, luckily it's up to the lair.
I'm going to take action surge.
Prisoner's tied up, right?
Yeah.
Very well.
I believe with a natural 20.
All right.
Okay.
Wait.
That makes seven plus two plus two.
We need one more, guys.
We have seven hands.
We just topped off two and two more.
We need 14.
We need three more hands.
No.
Mine and Sog's.
We're both willing to.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
Like, from Daruk's perspective, it's this or that.
Yeah.
That's it.
That's what we got.
I think it's too late.
Well, OK.
We'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens.
We still have a turn to see what happens.
Yeah, yeah.
We still have a turn.
But to finish the round,
Give it 11 hands.
19, Lucian, against your AC.
Okay, let's see if it hits a duplicate.
An 11 or higher hits the duplicate.
It's a 16, so it does hit the duplicate.
I now have no duplicates.
Okay.
But you do have a very keen sense that the guy who ran away has snuck up the stairs behind you.
It was very sure with his advantage he was going to nail the swan.
That's a pair of hands right there.
All sub can see his hands everywhere he looks.
Okay.
Yeah.
So to begin our next round, the hand, I think, makes the most notable move as it raises up beneath your boat.
It takes hold and your entire boat shakes as it suddenly is lifted above the surface of the water.
Is this the attack rule?
Yes.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
This is cheesed up as fuck.
Can I use my cloud rune to have the effect happen to a different creature?
Oh!
Wait.
Oh, the bow!
Okay, when a creature you can see Sorry, sorry.
When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you is hit by an attack roll
Can you use your action to choose a different creature?
The other boat is a different creature.
Within 30 feet.
It's within 30 feet.
I'll tell you to become a target of the attack and use the same roll.
Come on, baby.
Is the ship a creature, though?
The other ship is certainly a creature.
It's certainly a creature.
I think we're all creatures.
We're all being attacked.
Come on, dude.
I think this works.
Yeah, here's what I think happens.
Here's how it goes.
For just a moment, you can feel the hand make contact with the hull.
The whole ship shakes as it starts to raise up, and then suddenly it splashes back down into the water, and you find yourselves behind the amber wave, which is now being raised up into the air by the hand.
I will do this as a transposition of the ships.
What?
What?
Okay.
Yeah, that's how that's going to go.
Sure.
Yeah.
Go, go, go, go.
Lucian, I believe you start.
You are suddenly, you feel an upward acceleration.
Well, sorry, you two.
I apologize.
I am going to, how far would it be to get to the next floor?
to get to the next floor.
Yeah, where the chanting's coming from.
You just came up here, so that's... I use 90 feet of movement from the front of the ship to wherever I am now.
It's gonna be 30 feet from where you are to get up.
To, like, poke your nose up onto the top floor.
I am going to do that.
Yeah, the chanting has taken on a different tone.
It's still chanting though, right?
Yes, it has accelerated, I think is the best way to put it.
I'm going for that.
Okay.
Do I, I assume I take an oppie?
I will take an oppie.
I am not going to disengage.
I'm focused on one thing right now.
Okay.
I assume I feel the boat lurch as we get lifted up out of the water.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
You're also throwing forward a little bit.
You've lost all forward momentum.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
16?
16 is my AC.
How do ties work?
I think that hits.
Okay.
Oh, because you're out of your... You've used your 2.
Yes.
Unless I have a main.
if we were still doing that or not.
Yeah.
I mean, I just, I would assume I just did it and then there was a short rest earlier in the day that I used my half game recovery to do it.
It's going to be...
Also, as a note, if the hand hasn't taken the things that have fallen down from our ship, someone probably should go down and try to pick up the bag of hands and Jerry's two hands before they sink entirely beneath the waves, because that might be a lot of hands.
The hands come back for a second to shuttle our ship.
Like, yeah.
Yeah.
17 slashing damage.
Okay.
And I'm going up the stairs.
Okay.
Yeah, you poke your little nose up onto the top deck.
My nose is a normal size, thank you very much.
Give me a perception check.
Nat 20.
Nice.
Okay.
I was so ready for another shit roll.
Yeah.
So at first glance, it seems like there is a man behind a massive steering wheel.
With the little you know about the ships, it doesn't necessarily make any sense for a steering wheel here, but it is.
The man, though, is not...
Not a humanoid in a way.
He doesn't seem to be independent of the ship.
The planks that make the floor appear meld upwards into forming this shape.
Oh, you're in front of him.
You come up on the front corner here.
So you can see his face has two glowing orange eyes.
And the mouth from which the chanting comes is also glowing orange.
Is it a dragonborn?
It does not look like a dragonborn.
How far is he from me?
15 feet.
Okay, bonus action dash, and I'm going to attack him.
Okay.
All right.
16.
16.
Lucia's going to get killed by a boat.
Calling it now.
Oh wait, could I have used my Uncanny Dodge to halve the damage from that Oppie?
I forgot I had Uncanny Dodge and that's how it works.
I think so.
Okay, I'm gonna do it.
Does damage round down or up?
I don't think it rounds up.
Okay, so 17 is 9 damage?
Yeah.
Okay, and I have no reduction.
So does 16 hit?
16 does hit.
Okay.
So I'm going to ask you a question.
Does this count as sneak attack?
Because I have sneak attack if there's no other creature within five feet of me.
But the ship is maybe a creature, but the ship is maybe not another creature because he's kind of melded with the ship.
You get sneak attack in this situation.
Yeah.
Okay, okay, so that is 46 plus dex.
Two.
Five, six, ten plus dex, 14.
Not the best rolls, 14 damage.
14 damage.
Yeah, you hit him, and your sword seems to just bounce off.
Doesn't even leave a mark.
Okay, well, I'm out of actions and bonus actions, so I guess that's my turn.
Yeah.
So we're still in a room inside the ship, right?
This isn't like... You are no longer in a room.
Okay, this is the top.
Okay.
Do I see the Wendy behind us, presumably?
Yes, you do.
And below us, presumably.
It's like down.
Yeah.
Okay, this is not good.
That's my turn.
That's going to be, give me a strength saving throw.
Me?
Yes.
Okay.
Oh no, oh no, oh no.
It was a 15 and then it fell off the side of the folder on my desk that I landed on and became a five, so five.
So the creature at the wheel, hardly even seeming to take notice of you, takes one of his hands and then makes a gesture like this.
And suddenly a gale force wind pushes against you, pushing you off the edge of the platform.
Oh, shit.
You know, you're probably safer there.
Off the edge of the ship?
Off of here.
The wind is blowing forward, so you are blown off of the top deck and you're going to fall onto the main deck of the ship.
Never mind.
I fall onto what?
Onto the main deck of the ship.
That's so far, though.
Can you fall?
Can you try to fall into the water?
I believe that is... What's ten feet give you per... It's something per ten feet.
Eight six.
It's quite low, I know.
Polyamory's just been very high.
Yeah.
Can't even break a leg.
That's going to be 3d6 for 12 bludgeoning damage.
Okay, I used my reaction on the right damage source, I guess.
Does Uncanny Dodge use your... I used my reaction.
Yes.
In theory, you would recharge your reaction, but also this isn't an attack, so you can't have that.
Oh, is it?
Okay, this is the next turn, so I have my reaction again.
But you can't use it because this isn't an attack.
Yes, this is true.
That's also true.
Yeah, you can't use Uncanny Dodge on fall damage.
You fail to avoid the deck of the ship.
Yeah.
Okay.
And I do believe that means you are going to start your next turn prone.
Yeah.
Great.
So the reason why the ship doesn't catch on fire is because it counts as an object that's worn or carried?
Is that the only thing?
Yeah, that's what I said.
I don't know what to tell you.
The sails, at least, are being worn or carried.
So it's very clear.
It says worn or carried doesn't light the fire.
The entire ship is either worn or carried or just a creature.
Yeah, yeah.
Or not flammable.
There's a lot of ways it could not burn.
Uh, Sev?
Er, no, Al, actually.
Huh?
Uh, it's your move.
Right?
Wait, the bag of hands, the bag of hands which was just thrown on the board, it's probably just floating there.
We need to stop it from sinking to the bottom of the ocean so that we can use it again when the hand comes back for us.
No!
The can isn't coming back for us!
I mean, it's right in front of us now, isn't it?
Like, what's our plan?
Uh, hopefully it will destroy the amber wave and we can just keep going.
I'm not jumping in there to get the bag of hands.
Use your magic, like make ice underneath it and it like floats up or something.
I guess.
Oh, did my previous ice block slam into the hand at any point?
Oh, that is a good question.
Uh, the...
Uh, no.
Okay, that didn't work.
Ice is not very useful.
What can I do?
Save the nine hands!
I mean... Eleven hands.
I feel like we're gonna have to reuse it because we already threw it in and it's already counting, right?
Also, I think it's no longer counting at all because it's just trying to destroy our ship, so... I would argue that the hand hasn't counted it if it still exists.
I feel like it absorbs into the hand or something.
I couldn't hurry to get it back.
I guess so.
I can't do anything else.
What are you doing?
Throwing the hands out?
Yes, I can uh... I can... I can... Can I freeze the water around the hands that are falling down so that it's an ice block with hands in it?
Oh... It says provided that there are no creatures in it and I don't believe they are creatures anymore.
Fine.
And it flowed up!
We got an ice block.
A hand iceberg.
Yeah, we can have that.
Okay, cool.
That's my turn, I guess.
Captain, I'll keep going.
You're going to get to the edge of the reef.
But maybe don't go so close to the head.
Although maybe we should get close so that Lucien and Sev can get back.
Yeah, speaking of Sev, um, maybe out of commission for a moment.
Oh no.
Maybe time to get some water.
Ugh, I'm thirsty.
BRB getting hydrate or dihydrated.
Cloud Run is so good.
Cloudroom is so good.
Cloudroom's great.
It's my favorite cloudroom yet.
I am really hoping that it does not realize that it has the wrong chip now.
Really hoping that it does not realize that it has the wrong chip now.
Like, how far back does that put us?
It puts us like 25 feet back.
No.
I mean, you have like
You have transposed positions with the ships.
Your ships are, like, 100 feet long.
Yeah.
Like, that adds how many turns do I have escaping, assuming the same page?
Two.
She has the moon right there, right?
She has not chased it.
Right.
We have, like, four turns.
And then she sees the moon while I'm doing this.
She chases the moon and ignores the fish.
Yeah.
Okay.
Saved.
Just in time for my turn.
Okay.
So, wait, what happened?
Did Elle end up doing anything?
Elle has iceberg-ified the bag of hands.
Yes, okay.
I think they had us all objected.
Yes, okay.
Fine, fine, fine.
Okay.
I'm going to first pass you that.
It's not in front of you guys because we saw places.
Someone go pick it up because it won't be me.
How do you un-icebergify them?
I tell the iceberg to stop iceberging.
Okay, okay, so... I'm not sure you can do that.
So, let me see.
First off, what I'm set as a way out is that hand-wise, he counts seven, Lucian has two, he has two, and then there's two on the ship, and worst comes to worst, we have one more hand.
From, like...
Gary or someone else.
And so we'll probably have roughly enough hands at this point.
Accelerated upward rapidly.
Yes, which is very suspicious.
So I think with that in mind, I'm going to take my two hands and I'm going to try to open the hatch above.
Yeah, give me a athletics check.
15 will get you the door open.
It's heavier than it seems like it probably should have been, but... Okay.
I will push the door open and run on top of Dak.
Asa!
Lying on the ground?
Oh, we froze.
About 30 feet away, Lucian lies, looking like he just fell out of the sky.
Kind of just looking up, dazed.
The ocean beside you is lower than you remember it being.
The chanting has changed.
It's much faster now.
There is a dude up there with glowing eyes and a glowing mouth who made very strong wind happen and pushed me off the top deck.
I think he is the ship, maybe?
He's attached to the ship.
Or the ship's attack soon.
Are you telling me the ship is worn or carried and that's why I have fireballs instead of fireballs?
Wait.
Has the hand grabbed the ship?
I think it's grabbed the ship we are currently on.
And the Wendy's behind us?
I don't know how that happened.
I'm going to run to the side of the ship.
Do I see like...
the fingers of the hand?
Yeah, I think so.
The hand's mostly below water, but you can tell that there is glowy rainbow down there.
Wait, do you see the dagger?
Or no, I guess the top of the hand's not underwater anymore.
I don't think you see the hand directly, but you see a glowy rainbow.
Wait, so is the hand above the water or not?
The hand is under the ship.
I see, but the ship is being lifted up.
Yes.
Are any of the fingers, like, poking out of the water?
I don't... Not that you... You cannot see the hand directly.
I see.
I mean, can I see it, like, as an object slightly above the water, or is it, like, because of the side of the ship?
Like, the ship is, like, 40 feet wide, and the hand is, like, 15 feet wide.
Oh, it's fully under the water.
Under the boat.
There's like, boat.
And there's like, hand.
And you're like, here.
You do see glowy rainbow lights, but that's it, I think.
My network's being weird.
Or is my network's being weird?
Oh, that's fine.
Yeah, but everyone else disappears from me for a second.
OK.
I'm going to tell Lucian.
I made a drawing of the situation.
Oh, that's not where my camera is.
Yes.
Hey, Lucian.
The way I see it, this is the perfect chance.
Can you help me affix a rope to the mast?
And I can hang down the side of the ship.
I have enchanted spear, which should allow me to cut through most objects.
I slice off a couple pieces of the hand.
We have the knowledge of a god.
This is our chance.
Let's do it.
Are you kidding me?
You look the most against cutting the
I mean, I don't see any other options right now.
I have two more hands, but I think that's enough.
Like, I tried to attack the ship, the guy chanting, who is either controlling the ship with the chanting, or he's just controlling the ship by being attached to it, and he's controlling the hand with the chanting.
And I can't do shit to him.
He's controlling the wind with the chanting!
I don't know if that's the case...
He sped up the chanting.
I don't think the wind changed when he sped up the chanting.
The wind blew me off when he did this.
His hands control the wind.
I think... So we should donate his hands.
Kill that hand.
Do whatever.
Stab it.
I don't know.
Is that something you can prepare if I tie you next turn?
So my thought is that I have a rogue.
And... Wait a second.
Now, that's not going to work.
Worst comes to worst, and I'm falling in the ocean, I can always use my rope trick to affix the rope to a point hovering in the air.
But I've done this in particular to return to the surface.
So I think I tie myself up with the rope.
And then on your turn, you tie up the rope to some object.
And then I leap off the side next round with spear in hand to stab at the hand.
So, you said you did trapeze in the circus before, right?
I did, absolutely.
Have you ever considered, like, the potential applications of rope trick as part of that act?
Where you, like, swing off one rope, make rope trick appear, swing off that rope, and then catch the other rope.
Is that a ritual?
It's not a ritual, no.
What I do is an action, and I can do it three times.
So I could try to rope trick and rope trick rope.
And he went, yeah, I think it's actually, it's actually a fair point.
Like I did do, I was an acrobat and this is exactly the kind of acrobatic stuff people would do in an acrobat troupe.
Exactly, exactly this sort of thing.
You just swing under a ship that's above the water.
I'm well prepared for this.
So I will try to,
what this is, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Go ahead and give me that dexterity check.
Sounds good.
Okay.
14 plus 4.
18.
Okay.
Okay.
Is this... This is a rope that you have with you?
Yes.
I have a rope always on me because I have to have a material component for a ribbon hook.
Okay.
Okay.
Um.
Oh.
What happened?
I don't know.
Sensei's disconnected and reconnected?
Yeah, yeah.
Hello.
Yeah, I see you twice.
We have a frozen Sensei in a... In a video with Sensei.
Hi!
I guess my question is, what kind of action does it take to tie a rope like this?
i think it's generally going to be an action i see one second um this raises a somewhat concerning flaw with my plan namely that i have blink actively cast on
So I can end blink, but I think that's also an action to do.
You can dismiss this spell as an action.
Okay.
So... 50% of the time.
It's failed me many times.
Well, I've already tied myself up on how I thought of this, so I guess I'm going to cross my fingers I don't blink.
Before your blink, actually, our friend the cannon is back.
Well, it can't hit.
It has disadvantage attacking me because I'm prone.
That's true.
Which is why it will go for self.
Uh, no.
21 to hit.
Oh, no.
21 to hit.
The head of the ball flies straight at me, but I'm just that fast, and I raise a shield between my AC to 24.
Okay.
Okay.
That's a lot of AC.
Damn.
The cannonball.
Well, the cannon at this point is rather frustrated.
Okay.
And now we will save the blink.
Deflected the cannon with my shield.
I got a 7.
Yet again, blink fails me, but in this case, successfully.
Okay.
Um, after Sev is... numbers work.
Uh, Alec.
Um, right.
I was gonna go grab, uh, Captain's collars and then... Yeah, that's where we were.
...shake him and say, um, Captain, we've been given a second chance.
How do we get out of here quickly?
I think he's doing what he can.
Get rid of all the weight we can.
All right.
Throw Jerry overboard.
Quick.
Yeah, you do feel, you do feel, this is something that should have happened at the top of the round.
You do feel Jerry slipping away.
Unfortunately, I already saved someone.
I'm not going to see who can't.
Okay.
He will pass.
I have like one or two.
I can't really afford.
Okay, make sure that you get us to the end of the cliff.
I'll go and see how much weight we can reduce.
This is the last chance we have.
We're not gonna let it slip.
and i'm gonna run off and i'm gonna try to like gather the rest of the crew and start you know throwing unnecessary cargo off the board okay yeah um yeah i think you can get uh you can get um garold is very interested in no longer losing an arm
I'm gonna, as I'm, like, going through the, as I'm going to the boat, the boat, or the ship, and starting to, like, grab stuff, I'm gonna shout at the crew, uh, if you value your life, value your life, and want to get out of here, help me throw everything unnecessary off the boat.
Okay.
Yeah, they're into it.
There we go, that's what we need.
Fuck this hand business.
Nice.
Uh, cool.
You're working on that.
Uh, Daruk.
Oh, uh, well, I showed Jerry overboard.
Definitely.
Loved that guy.
No, don't know!
Without Jerry, we don't know how to use a piece of the hand.
He's dead, bro!
He's dead!
You can prepare the spell Speak with Dead to know his secrets.
He's not thinking about that right now.
Yeah, he's gone.
Fuck that guy.
Huh.
Is everyone just throwing stuff overboard?
Okay.
All right.
uh how far is it from like relative ship to water uh six feet oh okay uh so probably from the deck like from where you're standing sure but so i'm going to just try real quick to take a rope actually their ropes around on the deck and just sort of try to rappel down real quick
Grab the hands, throw them up, and like myself up.
We are now once again in possession of the hands.
I don't think they'll be useful, but... You've already prepared a rope for them.
Oh, I have, because of the guy.
Yeah.
Okay, yeah.
So I'm going to try to pull them out.
Yeah, and then get those back.
I assume that the hands are like minimally enveloped in ice and not like... Massively.
Yeah, I think as the ship passes by, you can recover the floating hands.
Oh, okay.
Perfect.
I think that'll be my turn, probably.
Okay.
Everyone else is trying to get weight off the ship, and you're starting to pull stuff back in.
Okay.
And Sog.
Sog is helping everyone else get barrels from under.
from under and whatever and throwing weight off more in that process.
Okay.
Yeah.
I think that will bring us all the way around to back at the top.
So you're now making excellent progress.
The hands in the water, the skeletal hands,
uh, don't seem to be bothering your ship at the moment.
So you're not slowed down by them at all.
Um, you can certainly convince yourself that the weight being thrown off the ship is probably helping.
Um, and, uh...
And most importantly, your only realistic reference point, which was the Amber Wave, is now static.
So you are gliding past, no problem.
At this point, you're about even with their ship.
The captain has brought you to the port side of that ship as you pass by.
Let me make sure I get this right.
Yeah, so the...
The ship seems to, the amber wave specifically, seems to fall suddenly several.
Oh boy.
As it looks as though the hand must have punched a hole in the bottom of some sorts as the ship falls around.
But then the ship violently like crushes inward several times repeatedly on the hand.
The fuck?
So what happens to Seven-Eye?
Like a mouth opened up on the bottom and it went chomp, chomp, chomp on the head?
That's a pretty good description of it.
Wait, wait, wait.
What?
Wait.
The ship crunched?
I thought the hand was destroying the inside of the ship and the ship was collapsing inwards.
No?
It's hard to tell the two apart.
No, like, is the ship, like, breaking?
Or is the ship going like this?
So, like, I think that any description where the hull of a ship goes like this, breaking probably applies.
Okay, okay, okay.
But also... Chomping back together.
Sorry, you froze there.
What did you say?
What did you say there, Nathan?
You froze for me.
The... I'm not sure that you would have a strong distinguishing feature between...
Has a mouth appeared on the bottom of the ship, or is the ship trying to seal itself around the hand that has punched the deck?
No, because the visual I had was the ship kind of just imploded, which means the deck that I am on no longer exists.
No, except for the bottom of the hull.
The rest of the ship is intact.
Okay.
That's fine.
Okay.
The ground underneath you is shaking a bit, but I think laying on it, there's no harm.
There's no risk of you falling any further.
There's no risk of you falling.
Oh, thank you.
I thought the wall looked a bit more discreet than it is.
Oh.
You've got like a hole in your hull, something like that.
Good visual.
Visual way, yeah.
Thank you.
The, let's see.
I think you do see,
that there is two people on the main deck of that ship over there.
Definitely, definitely ready to do something.
Lucien.
Wait, two people on the main deck of... Oh, they see us ready to do something.
Okay.
Wait, so is the plan to swing down and attack itself?
Is that what we're doing?
That is the plan.
This is our chance.
What do you need me to do?
You need me to tie you to the ship?
I am tied to the rope currently, so that will support me.
So I can use both my hands to stab at the hand with my magic plus one spear, which hopefully will chop through the hand.
Is that like a two-handed weapon?
Yes, because the spear is so good at chopping.
All I need to have is a magic knife.
Unfortunately, I don't.
All I have is a magic spear.
Do you want a dragon claw?
Would that be useful?
I don't know if it's magic or not.
This spear I have is enchanted.
Plus the idea of swinging about and stabbing at a large object.
Is that my spear?
No, it's just a random plus one spear that I have.
Because for some reason I'm carrying all of your magic items.
lands, in case you were wondering.
Okay, wait, so what part do you need me to play in this?
So, I'm going to swing down, I'm attached to the rope, so I use both my hands and the spear, but the other side of the rope is not attached to anything.
So I simply need to have you to somehow secure that, so when I swing down, I just don't move off the side.
Okay, yeah, I tie the rope
No.
Go for it.
Do I need to roll something?
I'm not exactly sure how the best way to secure the rope is.
Should I roll?
Mm-hmm.
What am I rolling?
I think it's Dexterity with Proficiency.
Okay.
Um...
19.
12 plus 4 plus 3.
Okay.
No, tie it up, no problem.
Okay.
And that's an action, I assume?
Can you also fix yourself in some way?
That's what I was wondering.
Like, can I also tie a rope to me?
Oh my god, hello.
Where did you come from?
What were you saying, Kieran?
Oh, I was going to be saying, because the problem is the ship appears to be doing random things, so if you tie it to the ship, maybe the ship will just, like, break in a way to attack.
But to be fair, if we, like, tie it to the mast, it's possible the ship's unable to sever the mast without it, like, popping off its arm or something.
So maybe it's safe to tie it to the mast.
Yeah, I think it'll probably be fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Presumably the ship is unable to change its own topology without being damaged first.
And so if so, the mast itself would have to shrink down to be small enough for the rope to fall off, so it's probably safe.
Unless of course something came to try to chop the rope off, which would be very annoying.
Regardless, it might be a good idea to tie yourself to it too if possible.
Um, I don't think I want to tie myself to the ship.
I think ideally I would use a second rope to just get down to our original ship, which is adjacent to us right now.
And it will very soon be in front of us.
Um, can I do that?
Or is it like an action to tie Sev and that's it?
It's going to be an action to tie Sev.
Okay.
In that case, I think I'm just going to jump off the side of this ship onto our other ship and try to catch a rope attached to our mast or sails.
Oh, boy.
Is that a thing I can try?
How high up are we?
Okay.
How high up are we?
You can definitely get most of the way.
You'll probably land a little bit short in the water.
You're about 20 feet above the surface of the water.
Okay, so that's not terribly high.
I just fall from 30 feet, I believe.
I can do that again, kind of.
I have 18 health.
um i can survive 2d6 um i just need to find a way across um and i don't suppose there's a rope attached to the master legacy i could swing on to give myself extra speed in that direction nothing immediately convenient okay um
Another option is I stand right next to the cannon such that if it shoots at me, it would launch me onto our ship.
But that would probably also kill me.
It probably would.
So I don't think that's the move.
It blows Bitfity onto the ship, successfully getting your corpse back.
We were trying to get way off the ship.
I just got a dead body out, now another one comes on.
Okay, uh, what can I do?
Because I fall into the water, I don't know if there's anything I can do to get onto the ship from the- Or, I could swim.
I can use the rest of my movement to swim and, like, hold onto something.
Maybe.
I don't know if I can swim fast enough to catch up to the other ship.
Um...
Anyone have any ideas?
You're trying to jump in front of our boat.
Isn't Daruk still hanging off the edge grabbing hands?
I can't reach the Wendy.
Yeah, but you're just short of it, right?
Yes.
You can jump at it, and then Daruk can maybe grab you as we go by.
Like, how is she... Oh, like...
How close to, like, the surface of the water?
Like, can you just reach out and grab me?
Is that a... No, because there's a rope hanging down that Jeruk was on earlier.
Yeah.
I could probably... I don't know what side of the boat that was on, but I could probably rappel down.
It was the worst thing with a hand.
Okay, I think I'm jumping into the water.
As far... What?
I was going to ask, do you have any magic weapons?
Like, a magic dagger or something?
Only thing I have is the dragon claw.
You let it walk away!
I somehow feel like the bone sword would not do much against the magic hand that controls bone hands.
It's hand against hand.
Like, I feel like they're probably on the same team, if anything, and my sword would attack me for trying to do that.
sword hand in as an offering extra hand yeah so I'm just gonna basically run to the front of the amber wave and jump like getting as much distance as I can get and then okay jump off towards our ship and get as close as I can and use my dash to also swim as close to it as I can okay um hopefully lining myself up to be picked up by Daruk yeah
Give me acrobatics.
This is going to be the most spectacular dive you guys have ever seen.
19.
9 plus 10.
Plus 10 is nice to have.
It's an 8.5 out of 10.
Isn't it a 9.5 out of 10?
No.
A 19 out of 20.
9.5 out of 10.
It's not linear.
Yeah.
And you swim.
As long as the Wendy doesn't veer off course, you should probably be fine.
With some help from Daruk.
Don't veer off course, guys.
Why would they do that?
Yeah, don't hit me with any of those things you're throwing overboard.
Drop a cannonball in his head.
Um, then we've got... It's me, it's me.
Oh.
It's me.
Uh, is Daruk still on the rope, or did you already get off it?
I don't know, that's a good question.
I went down and I picked it, like, through, like, got a hand to move it more, or on more, I guess.
In my round, was I also able to get up?
I would have.
Yeah, I think he would have gotten that.
But if I see a Lucian in the water, I can come back.
So I don't have to worry about Lucian right now.
I can probably get him.
But I also have nothing else to do, so I'm going to go downstairs to that barrel of cannonballs and start getting the cannonballs out the window.
Oh no!
Yeah.
Their way, yeah.
That's not the window that Lucian's at, right?
No, no, you're good.
Okay, I don't want to be dropping them on his head.
Okay.
Lucian, a lair.
Yes.
Do I have a turn here at some point?
Why, what?
Oh, you totally do.
I messed up the order.
We'll get back to you after a while.
I think I'll just continue getting things off.
OK.
Yeah, there's not much I can do here.
OK.
There's a decent supply of fresh water on board.
Do you keep it or yeet it?
Yeet it.
We have create food and water.
Well, I'll put some more dyes in this case.
10 gallons of clean water, is that... Yeet it, we have guys... True.
I have create or destroy water, I have... We have plenty of ways to create water.
Yeah, I'm gonna... Fuck it, I'm gonna yeet it.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh, we'll come back to Sev.
Lucien has tied you up and jumped overboard.
Excellent.
So the way I see it, the hand's directly underneath the boat.
All I need to do is leap overboard into another ship to swing under and get the hand.
Yeah.
So pull it out.
I have a spear in one hand.
I kind of like your dragon tooth idea.
I have my own dragon tooth, so I'll try using that hand.
Maybe dragon tooth are particularly sharp.
It feels fitting, the kind of thing that I would
Yes.
You truly do have a death wish, don't you?
I think this is the perfect time to get ultimate knowledge or power or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, go for an attack.
Can I make an acrobatics check or something?
Or should I?
I think the way this plan is laid out, even if you were a rock, you would swing down and run into the hand, so...
Can I make an acrobatics check so that I can use my momentum to help me with the attack?
So it's not just like me hitting it, like me like... Yeah, I would give that acrobatics to try.
Okay, okay.
I want that simply because I have advantage in acrobatics in my four.
I remember 12 and 11, so 19.
19, yeah, I'd give you advantage with that.
All right.
That was a nine and a 17.
And I believe I have plus two because I'm not proficient in spears and it uses my strength.
So 19, that's why I wanted that.
Having never wielded a spear in his life, he jumps off the side of the bone.
But a 19 hits.
Okay.
I managed to slice off a piece of flesh.
Give me a damage roll, and we'll find out.
Okay.
Six.
Six.
You definitely stab it.
Wait, was that a d8 or d6 that you're using?
Oh, good point, it's a d8.
You're right, because I can do it with two hands.
That was a
have been less than six it could have been less than six yes yeah uh with the six you definitely you definitely hit it um you you've stabbed into it i don't believe that you have managed to slice off any piece of the hand as of yet i even got a second tap you can like swung one way now you're swinging back actually wait a second smash that
It is a one-handed attack with my spear.
Because if I make a two-handed attack, then I have to break Blade Saw because that's broken by two-handed attack.
So take the first roll of six damage rather than the second roll of six damage.
So the way I imagine this is you jump off the side, you swing down, you've got your spear going in, and you make the stab with advantage with all your momentum coming into it.
And now you have hit it, and now you're mostly hanging there.
And you can hold the spear, and you could stab again.
You, like, carve out, right?
Spears have a little, like, dagger at the end, a little bit there.
Is there a way I can rather than, like,
It's the way I can try to carve rather than just keep spazzing at it until I hope something comes off.
So... Traditionally, it's piercing damage.
You can try.
I look towards the official VFB picture, which definitely has a...
Shark bit at the end.
That's the piercing part.
Yeah, but also, it has an edge.
It has an edge, you know?
I think... I think if you're going to try to use the spear in a non-stabbing, and not a stabbing, but more of a cutting-type motion, I think you can make the attack.
I think that your damage is going to be reduced slightly.
I don't think it's going to be a weapon.
So I do have a great sword, which would do more damage.
if I pull out a greatsword, maybe I could use that to try to slice it off while balancing the spear.
Or a great bladesaw.
And also not sure if I would have picked.
But what's your thoughts on that?
Would that, like, do better?
Oh, actually, another question is, how tough does the hand appear to be?
Like, did the weapon have trouble, like, piercing it?
Specifically for the purposes of if I could use a different weapon.
Any other weapon.
I could probably do more damage.
Um, the hand appears to be incredibly tough.
Um, your spear barely, barely got the tip through the, through the flesh.
Um, there's certainly not a standard.
Gotta boil it to soften it up first.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Well, I think I lose blade song.
But in theory, I could just activate it again.
I have a bunch of activations.
My vote attack does nothing.
And attacking it with my spear, pulling it out, just means I no longer attach the hand anyway.
So I'm pretty sure pulling out a greatsword and trying to attack with that is my best move.
So I will attempt to use a greatsword to attack that.
Yes, I will take the rogue.
Plus one magic greatsword.
That's about it.
Okay.
That's the best I got.
And... I'm gonna try using Booming Blade.
Maybe additional thunder damage will help, like, concussively shatter something slightly.
Okay.
And I will make an attack book.
Eighteen!
Oh yeah!
18.
Okay, plus one, plus one, because I have plus one strength and it's a magic weapon.
That's a 20.
Okay, a 20 does hit.
This is gonna work, this is gonna, I mean, it's gonna work before I suddenly die.
Dude, I cannot believe you.
Five, two, seven, plus one with the strength, plus one with the magic weapon, nine slashing damage.
Should I add the d8 thunder?
Yes, you should add the thunder damage.
One.
A little rumble.
Was that ten total?
Ten total.
It dies.
It crumbles.
It just completely disintegrates.
Yeah.
It hasn't completely severed, but there is now a nice little flap of skin.
Just careful.
No!
Don't eat the hand!
Does it bleed?
Or is it just rainbows all the way down?
Does it bleed?
Oh, it oozes green.
Oh.
It's poisonous.
Yeah, you use purple color for poison.
Okay, I'll take that.
As a bonus action
I think I reactivate Blades.
Okay.
Okay.
That'll bring us back to Daruk.
Sorry.
Oh god, what am I supposed to do?
Lucian.
Sorry, I thought I... Okay, I can send that.
I go...
Okay, Lucian, I'm big.
I just want to grab your hand and toss you over.
And come back up.
I think I lost count because I forget I've never reached the end of my large form before.
I think this is my last round.
Impressive.
Okay.
Yeah, it's giving 10 rounds, right?
Ish?
Yeah.
How did you guys get behind us?
What?
How did you guys get behind us?
Oh, well.
Clouds.
Clouds?
Don't worry about it.
I'll explain later.
Now, get all the way off this boat.
I'll start, and I swing back down, which presumably I way more would admit.
So, you know, he has a little remove play.
Yeah.
OK.
I think I'm going to help get water and shit off Ward, so we can talk things over.
I don't know what else I'd do right now, honestly.
OK.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's about it.
OK.
I imagine Sog is doing the same?
Yep.
Yeah.
So that puts us at the next round.
So Wendy has pulled solidly ahead of the Ember Wave at this point.
you can see the edge of the reef next round you're gonna shoot out of here no problem um the hands continue to give you no no issues whatsoever as they surge around the the amber wave um which is where things start getting dicey
So in response to this weird situation with the hand stuck in the hole, the hand is going to retract sharply, pulling down into the water, breaking out from the hole, which I think is gonna leave us with a ship falling on top of Sev.
I'm gonna need a dexterity saving throw.
i think so can i hold i'm trying to hold myself onto the spear yes the spear is not gonna hold i see okay then well i guess this is what i make the next step so the hand's like here right and the ship's like here like the ship falling is like
So I should hit the walker at the same time as the ship does, right?
More or less.
So I hit the walker on the ship.
It's not like I'm standing here with a ship falling off my head.
It's like I'm standing here.
You're going with it.
The whole thing's going down.
This might be where I just die.
You very well could.
This might just be death.
I'm ready.
I'm ready.
It would be a glorious death.
No, please don't die.
That is a 15.
A 15.
A 15 is sufficient to give you half damage.
That's all I could possibly hope for.
We could hope for no damage, but like, yeah.
You got this, uh,
This has certainly gone kind of poorly.
That was a handful, I thought.
36 halved.
We're alive.
I need help.
Fortunately, you can breathe just fine down here.
I can.
Let's see.
And this is going to put you starting this round under the ship.
The hand is now about 15 feet below you.
And you are at the, oh, this is dicey.
You're at the bottom of the hull of the ship, which
has sealed itself up currently.
It is not taking on water.
Good.
Yeah.
At this point, I'm imagining everyone on the 1D is just focused on going.
All right.
So we will focus this round on Seb.
It will be glorious death.
You don't have dicks, can you?
The boat falls and is like, well, got a good run, D&I.
Okay, well, I have 40 feet movement speed, so I'm going to swim down to the hand where I last stabbed it.
I'm going to go for it.
Oh, he won't give up.
I don't think he wants to give up.
Go home.
You have a swim speed.
I do not.
I think it's like nominally, it's like half or something.
Yeah, so I'm thinking I have 40 feet.
No, I have 50 feet.
So even if I'm at half the speed, I should be able to get under 15 feet before that happens.
Yeah, no problem.
Go after it.
Plus I can breathe, so it's all part of the plan.
Yeah.
Actually, when the hand moves, it takes thunder damage.
Does that help dislodge any equipment?
That's true.
It will take thunder damage.
Will I roll?
Absolutely.
I'm going to say perfectly average is nine.
I rolled a one followed by an eight.
It's like how I calculate average.
Okay.
It sure took it.
Me versus the god of hand isn't going very well.
Can I sit down and try to find a location where I was like stabbing at it previously?
Yeah.
Is it possible for me to make another attack?
I don't see why not.
Sounds good.
Do I just make two greatsword attacks at it?
Uh, you can.
I'm double checking, uh, the underwater combat rules.
I don't think it's very good.
I think it's specifically beneficial to traditional underwater weapons.
Oh!
Could a spear be better?
Um, daggers, javelins, short swords, spear, and trident.
would all be able to operate normally.
All other weapons would be at disadvantage unless you have a swimming speed.
Well, good thing I have a spear.
I really need a dagger.
I really need a dagger.
Okay.
Well, I'm going to stab at it with a spear.
Okay.
Batch rule one.
Excellent.
Oh, my.
You have two attacks, right?
I have two attacks.
14 plus one plus one is 16.
16 is not going to do it.
I see.
Oh, my.
Well, I guess I swim as far away from the hand as I can.
Yeah, the hand's going to take an opportunity attack.
Oh, maybe, no, it can't, I think.
Does your ability prevent that?
It does prevent that, but make an attack against it, it can't.
Okay.
I should still be attached to the rope.
Wait, maybe I, or the rope.
Let me check how much the rope takes.
Rope.
Let me see.
The... Okay.
And then a damage.
The rope did not make it.
Okay, okay, okay.
You're still attached.
There's a rope.
Oh, there is a rope.
I have to wait for my actions.
That's, that's, that's, that's, okay.
Well, I will try to, um, simulate that.
Okay.
Towards the surface, uh, trying to remain within 25 feet of it.
Um, also realizing I still have blink going, but I didn't roll it last turn.
I'm gonna imagine I just failed it and the ship fell on top of me and it was easily in damage.
And so,
That'll be my fault for not rolling blink, but do I still get a blink roll this turn?
I think so.
Three.
Three.
Okay.
I'm dead.
I'm dead.
It's over.
I am going to need four acrobatics checks.
As the little hands rise up around you and all attempt to grapple you.
Oh boy.
Oh no.
Oh boy.
Nice.
The first, I make each with advantage because I have Blade of Sun activated.
Because I attack with a one-handed spear rather than a two-handed, so let's be honest.
The first one is 7 and 14, plus 7, 21.
That's a 21 against a 15.
The second one was a 9 and 19, so 26.
Against a 12.
The higher, I forgot the lower one, but the next one is 18 plus 7, so 25.
Against a 24.
Pretty good.
Against a 21.
Last one is 16, high afters 9.
That's against an 18.
Dang.
So the skeletal hands.
You thrash against many of them, but they outnumber you a few too many to one.
Um, one securing a hold on your left foot, uh, and it drags you down, dragging you back towards the hand.
So good.
Um, and that'll bring us to the hand.
So the hand is going to, uh, it, it moves towards you and almost a gesturing motion.
And then it lunges in.
And it gives you a nice hug.
Nice.
With a 29 to hit.
Oh my god.
I thought what you could do about that.
All right.
Now with it in your grasp, with you in its grasp, it is going to crush down on you with a power that can crush ships.
You do have, at this last moment, the opportunity to exchange this hit against you with eggs.
Oh no!
Baby!
You see from underwater, the pup has died.
You dead or Higgs dead?
Honestly, yeah.
It's me or Higgs.
Like... Yeah.
I think I have to switch places with Higgs.
Alright.
Oh no.
This is gonna do shit to Cessna.
It's gonna have to go to therapy.
And, uh, still with the, uh, with a, uh...
With an uncharacteristic spear in hand, Sev appears back on the ship.
You know, it was a dead bird.
It was our dead bird.
No, it was Sev's dead bird.
Even though we spent three days with it without Sev.
We don't need it.
Did we make it out?
The wind being wide out as the amber wave and the hand continue to do battle back over the bone reef.
I hope they kill each other.
Wouldn't that be nice?
That would be great.
That's a fair point.
So how is Seb?
I think the first thing I'd try to do is try to unsummon and resummon Higgs.
I don't know if Higgs is attached to, like, am I going to summon the pulp of an owl?
You unsummon and try to resummon Higgs.
There's nothing there.
All right, be Higgs.
All right, be spoiler Higgs.
Rest in peace for real this time, hopefully.
Hopefully.
He's dead.
He's not dead.
He's un-undead.
We thought you were gone.
Juke runs over to you and, like, picks you up off your feet and, like, holds you up like a little baby, you know, like, from under the arm.
Like, how'd you survive that?
We thought you were gone.
I thought I could do it.
Haven, you're here.
So close.
You were close.
We're proud of you.
You did well, friend.
But you're safe now.
We live to find another day.
I lost Higgs.
Oh.
Oh, Shale.
I'm sorry.
Well, I think we better get out of here fast and not waste the chance that Higgs gave us.
That's a good point.
That's a very good point.
It's not true.
Higgs died because of me.
I thought I could do that.
So close.
It's fought valiantly.
You have to understand that.
If I had a piece of that hunt, I... No, Seb, that's not the lesson.
The lesson is... I could have killed it.
No!
Seb, Seb, Seb, you tried hard.
Maybe we'll come back at some point.
Maybe we'll fight some more people and we'll get stronger and come back.
But right now, today's not your day.
All right?
After all of this, what have I gained?
Nothing.
I'm gonna- I'm gonna walk up to- No, I'm serious.
This was not a good idea.
I'm gonna walk up to, um, Steph.
I'm gonna slap him with the back of my hand.
No, be careful.
No, it's fine.
I'm a doctor.
I know how to slap nicely.
Why do doctors know how to slap nicely?
Um, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell him, I'm gonna tell him why you have, what you have gained after all of this.
You've gained another chance to live and fight another day.
If you're so intent on- Can I try to catch, uh, Elair's hand before I slap Sev?
Now we can slap.
I think he gets it off.
I think it's sufficiently uncharacteristical there.
Yeah, all right.
I'm going to, yeah, like what you gained is the chance to live and fight another day.
You want to die and just waste the chance that pigs give you?
Go jump right off this boat.
I don't mind.
Well, if you don't...
And if you want to actually solve the problems that are at our hands, then grab something on this boat.
Help us get out of here quickly.
As long as we are alive, we'll always have a chance to get stronger and come back and do what needs to be done.
But do we have the time?
Like, for all we know,
The cloaked figure is out there about to destroy the entire world.
This was my chance.
I had the chance to get the power of a god on my side.
If I had that ability, I could win.
I could beat him.
And I lost Higgs.
I've lost everything.
If you think we're short on time, then don't get there.
I got it.
The only reason to come here was to get knowledge of where the clone figure was.
I can get that.
I can get that.
But I can't kill him.
He's too strong.
I have to get rid of this power.
There wasn't enough.
I can grab the setup and like kind of squeeze it.
Like, shit, we haven't lost us.
We haven't lost everything, okay?
Sorry about here.
We'll find another way.
We have each other, all right?
That's sweet.
But did you get to talk to the King of the Rings, or?
I talked to the King of the Rings.
Oh, okay, so mission success.
Okay, so then we just changed something.
This wasn't for nothing.
New details will hurt, of course.
But don't let her die in vain.
I think this is the last thing that attached me to
my life before all of this.
I'm sorry you lost your owl.
But you know, it's kind of, no, I just, I won't, I won't say it.
It's fine.
Like, do you want me to say it?
Like, she'll glance.
I can say it right now, Elle.
give him like an awkward pet we have a bedroom okay we can discuss king of the rings and what we are gonna do next later we need to get out of here fast
We're beyond the reef, right?
You're good.
You are.
You are beyond the reef.
You are heading back to shore.
Yeah, I think we're in the clear.
I still want to get to shore as fast as we can.
Hilaire is not in the clear, and so we are on the land.
I feel like a cat now is still just like, you know, white knuckled to the... Yeah, no, he's... So we... So... Now...
Need some rest.
Heel up.
Continue the fight tomorrow.
So, you're brave.
You're strong.
You'll do better in the future.
Don't beat yourself up over it.
You did much more than I did.
That's for sure.
Well...
I guess, I guess I've never lost before.
I mean, we won again and again, against over-loving them.
This is the first time that I just, it wasn't enough.
Well, you know what they say, that you learn much more from your failures than your successes.
So let's, let's take a lesson from this and, uh,
and use that for tomorrow.
I think for now, I've seen you better.
So let's get you down and we'll think about what to do once we're back on land.
Well.
I guess if I'm going to be from this is that I'm not strong enough.
And I thought that I could.
Yes.
Your whole your whole journey the past few months have been to get stronger.
Not stronger from this.
Even though the failure got stronger.
Get back to land will get it stronger and then.
Go back to the ground we've been doing for all these
I think getting that hand, cutting into that hand would have been really difficult.
Yeah, so you did good.
I thought you were gone.
It's incredible that you made it back.
Maybe you can teach me how to actually use a greatsword at some point.
I'd be happy to.
I would be happy to find a way to get those hit points to little
A little bit more up there, so you're a bit more resilient in the future, perhaps.
Maybe even a shield.
Maybe even a shield.
He doesn't need a shield.
Like a real shield.
Not like a real shield.
Not what I'm imagining.
Okay.
All right.
Are you calm now?
Have you calmed down a little bit?
I'm not going to calm down for a while, but I'm alive.
And you're right.
That means I can't fight another day.
Good.
I don't know how many more days we have left to fight before whatever the flame manages to do, but at least I'll be there fighting.
Good.
If that's the case, then sit down.
Let me patch up your injuries.
Sit down?
Maybe we should have, like, a little funeral for Higgs.
For reals.
Yeah.
Yeah, we should.
Did we do it last time?
There's nothing left at Higgs.
We don't need the body to have a funeral.
Oh, we can... It's a funeral on the sea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Say some last words.
Yeah.
Oh, uh... We have a few days on the water, right?
Yeah.
Okay, all right.
All right.
I think we will end the session there.
The good news is escaping the hand of a god is a lot of XP.
We will all level up.
See, you're already getting stronger, so... Yeah, I'm getting stronger by the day.
Can I say that as we get back to shore, like, Daruk will...
Two hands.
I thought I was fully ready to cut off a hand.
I was like, we're going to one-hand this campaign from now on.
Let's go.
I'm going to make a little box, like a little box just out of like scrap wood, you know, holes in the shit, whatever.
And I'm going to like put it on the water and like, you know, do like a flaming arrow onto the thing to, you know, a true Viking funeral for our lost son.
I think Sev will be quiet for quite a long time in this voyage.
He's normally obviously very chatty.
Perhaps too much so, but not for the next couple days.
I'll keep an extra eye out to make sure that he eats properly and whatnot.
I will at some point take
the rest of the group not set aside.
I think this is an open for some hard lessons, but can we wait for some time before we try to get those communicated?
Yes.
Before what?
Well, I think it might be a good moment.
for the whole maybe don't go off on your own and try to, you know, do something crazy like, you know, attack a dog.
But let's, you know, keep it supported until, you know, he has a few days to, you know, figure out what things he's feeling.
Didn't we tell him that exact thing earlier?
Well, sometimes.
Sometimes.
events happen that can make one more willing to receive such information.
And I feel like maybe with the very unfortunate passing of Higgs that we can try that message again.
See if it sticks this time.
Just don't be too hard the next couple of days.
Just play it out.
I'll leave the talking to you.
You're his long-term, long-time friend.
I think you'd be a better candidate for this.
I will simply make sure that he recovers from his injuries and fatigue.
I appreciate that.
That was really sweet.
I think that'll end it.
Oh, hell yeah.
Oh, boy.
I cannot believe we made it out alive.
I forgot about, I forgot, wait, so what, I thought you had to use a bonus action to... It's a reaction.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Normally it's a full action to switch, or we can do it as a reaction in response to one of us taking damage.
I'm only able to do this as a reaction to Higgs taking damage and I take the hit, but I can also do it vice versa, except I would never do that because it would kill Higgs.
And that's just what I did.
Never would you do that.
I kind of thought we were going to lose that this time.
I kind of thought you were going to get stuck with a dead owl.
I mean, the best plan I could think of is just, I don't know, keep him alive?
with my ability, but that's all I can do.
No, you already used two.
If you use the third one, you die instantly.
No, I used one.
No, you used two.
You used two.
Yeah, the guy who was on the mast, you stopped... Because we still have that guy on the mast.
I guess that's good for interrogation.
Yeah, Lucian killed him, and you saved him, and you also saved Jerry.
Oh, Jerry, right.
If you were going to try to save me, I'd
You would just die instantly.
Fuck, Jerry.
Fuck, Jerry.
Here I was thinking that Jerry knew what was up.
His best plan was to stab at it with a dagger.
It took a great sword.
He could get a chunk of flesh almost off.
Well, he was a great, great sword.
Maybe, yeah.
Jerry's plan wasn't foolproof the whole time.
No, he seemed so convinced.
He seemed so convinced.
Well, all in all, we did manage to successfully complete the primary goal, which was to talk to the King of the Rings.
The secondary goal of getting the power of a god was unfortunately not yet achieved.
Yep.
That significantly hapers my plans to take down our cloaked nemesis.
Oh yeah, while I'm here, by the way, Nathan, do you think we'll have a chance to level up a second time before the end of the campaign?
So... I don't want to give a committal answer, because I don't really know what you're going to do now.
For all I know, you guys are going to go back, hire a new boat, and go straight back at them.
Like...
Pirates.
I'm ready.
I think it is unlikely unless you guys decide you want to go hard XP hunting.
It's hard XP hunting.
For example, you might hire a boat and go right back out.
Oh, wait.
We do still have those hands.
Yeah, but we don't have a crew willing to go back there anymore.
And it's preserved in an ice cube.
The crew being
Be grateful if this crew doesn't take us to the shore and then threaten to fucking kill us or something.
Why would they kill us at shore instead of here?
Should we set watch at night?
Should we put these people through?
It's just... Yeah.
Also, unrelated, earlier someone mentioned the decanter of endless water, and I noticed that it can make salt water.
And salt has a price in the player's handbook at 5 copper per pound, and 1 gallon of seawater has about 8 pounds, like 8.7 pounds of salt.
Oh, shit!
So, per action... Wait, something's not right in that number.
one gallon of water no no 30 gallons of water has like 8.7 pounds of salt sorry so per action that's 43.8 copper of salt that you're producing we have to sell it you you have to like boil the water away
And then sell the salt, I guess, and not ruin the salt economy by making too much salt, I guess.
You make the seawater, and then you destroy the water.
So also, unrelated to this, if you really wanted to do this, you don't need the decanter.
You just go boil seawater.
So ignore me.
This one weird plot twist also gives you infinite salt.
This works in a world that has no oceans.
Or far from the ocean.
Or far from the ocean, that's true.
Salt's probably a very luxurious, like, spice in places far from the ocean.
Are you guys running low on platinum coins or something?
Like, I'm sorry, do you not have enough?
It's what, a thousand platinum per... a thousand copper per platinum?
Is that right?
What are the ratios?
Something like that.
10, 10, 10.
It's 10, 10, 10?
Yeah.
Okay.
10, 10, 10, 2.
So it takes 23 actions to produce a platinum this way.
A platinum worth of salt.
And, yeah, and then you have to, like, get the salt.
Yeah.
For a 10.
Is it 10, 10, 10?
I thought it was bigger than that, actually.
I think that's not quite right.
There's an Electrum in there at some point.
Oh, that's true.
Alright, I need to sign off.
Bye!
Okay, see you guys.
It is 1 to 1,000, apparently.
See you guys.
I was like, guys, it's free money.
And then I was like, wait, we're literally in the ocean.
How is a copper going to help you?
We have thousands of platinum.
No, 23 actions.
That's what?
Two minutes?
20 minutes?
Two minutes.
To make the water.
Yeah.
But also we have to boil the water.
Yeah.
That's hard.
Maybe, yeah.
We don't have like stoves.
It's fireball.