Hello everybody, welcome back to DND 4/4.
I am your DM Tony and join with me today are the other 4 early
game mobs that I see before leaving tutorial island.
Starting with the level 1 Snip snip.
I'm a little crab, Jared. What's going on guys?
Milan reporting in In my level 1 or early game mob would be
Hogger from World of Warcraft. You haven't been alive unless
you've seen a full server of level ones.
Go try to fight Hogger. It is like a raid in itself.
It's wonderful. Hogger.
I hardly know her. Oh my gosh.
And with that, Dan? Hey everybody, my name is Dan, I
play Borem du MO re you bog Fogger Tiffiser and I am the
balm of this podcast. Explain.
If you've never played bomber, man.
The bomber man. Bomber Man one of my favorite
series of all time. If you've never played Bomber
Man, especially Bomberman Party Edition, go play Bomberman Party
Edition. But those little bottoms, the
little orange floating balloons, Yeah.
Oh, man. OK, yo, wait, hold on before we
get to the next one. Dan, you get an inspiration diet
for this episode. You're a.
Snicker. Die her row and die.
Bomber man. 2024. Rules rogue died.
Don't forget inspiration diet. Inspiration diet I just sent
him. Flowing into the past.
Bro, if you know that N64 cheat code and how many controllers
have destroyed doing that cheat code, then all right, I'm sorry.
All right, Alec, what's yours? Yeah, my name is Alec, I play
Caswell Amberleaf and my early game mob would have to be Fizzle
Dark Storm. For those who don't know, it's
almost like the Hogger equivalent but on the Horde
side. Talking World of Warcraft
because Hoggers only Alliance only right outside Stormwind.
Yeah, fizzly men. What about you, Kylie?
Hi, I'm Kylie. I play Vivian.
My early game mob are Slimes from Stardy Valley.
This one's really hard for me, but slimes are great.
I hate killing them. How about you, Tony?
Y'all talking that real early game, not some level 16 elite
mob that you see 10 hours into World Warcraft.
I'm talking the 1st 5 minutes, level 2 Ratata.
All right, those level 2 piggies, OK, early game mob,
those are my choices. Before we do the recap, we gotta
do the rundown. Today's rundown is brought to
you by my man Alec. Alec.
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We only got four more sessions, including this one coming up, so
Oh my God, four more sessions. Yeah.
So don't want to miss it live. Wow, unless he kills all of them
then it's going to end early. I'm on answer my seat.
Fantastic. Now why don't you go ahead and
give this that beautiful. Recap Last time on D&D 404, the
party arrived outside the tower where they found dead birds all
scattered around. While the group was deciding how
to move forward, Mylan decided to bury as many birds as he
could. Kazzle hid so hoof and the cart
in the forest and then they headed inside led by Vivian.
Inside was covered with Moss, greenery and trees with blue
energy coursing through the walls.
We found a spider that disappears into a void question
mark. We also found a self revolving
ish river slash pond where Boram decided to sit down, waste our
time and catch 2 clownfish with bullhorns.
Boram then tries to take them back to the cart when he is
jumped by a spider. In the next room we found a
magical circle, smeared blood, and a shelf of magical potion
bottles. Of course Boram tries to take
some of those along. As we moved into the next room
we discovered a series of traps Indiana Jones style hallway.
We also discovered we're being chased by a large rock looking
creature. Everyone gets past the traps of
course, except Boram with two gnat ones.
Myelin big brain moves, literally stops the traps with
discs and pulls Boram to the group where Kassel does what he
does and heals Boram. That is where we left off Bard.
Play that intro. Disgraced in the heartland, a
star could set things right, manufacture the magical and
return a soul. The light from a scorched,
fractured forest to twilight in Discourse Glen, The rivers that
bleed in the swamp of the Seed and RIP Moors.
Help us conquer the Shadow God with the bright blue.
We'll find where we belong. But what will await us when all
our secrets are gone? This is Castle Amberly for the
Fay Wild. Come along as I explore the
world of Umbrella. Joining me is a not so sneaky
rogue, a child in the form of a dog and a big old Bayou.
Pain in the ass. This is DND four O 4.
Boyos girlow, we peek up session 20.
That's right, we're on session twenty of our second campaign.
Give yourself a round of applause because it might be
your last as we pick up in the midst of combat where a rock
elemental has been chasing you down a trapped hallway, but the
trapped hallway did not activate.
When the rock elemental made its way down the hallway, you saw
its eyes face from blue to purple and back to blue once it
cleared the traps. Mylan, you have saved the
bullfish but you are face to face currently with this rock
elemental as it is only a few feet in front of you.
We just ended it's turn and we are now picking up at the top of
the round on initiative 16 which is both Bow Ram and Mylan.
Mylan, you take priority as you have been the last few turns and
we're going to go ahead and start with you.
What are you doing? As the monster just I think he
tried to smash me, right? You throw.
The rock at you and then try to slam down on.
You perfect. I'm going to use Expeditious
Retreat, which is concentration for 10 minutes when I cast the
spell during this turn and as bonus actions during following
fooling turns, I can use the dash action as a bonus action
and just be like, hang on fish. And he holds his hand over the
fish, grips his feet into the ground and takes off as his
bonus action just past Vivian. So as I push through Beau Ramen
Castle, take a right jump over the bridge and I'm right next to
Vivian where she took off from last episode.
There's a big guy we need to go, and that's my turn.
As we move to bow Ram. A number to run Paladin and I
take a dash action and I can get ahead of Milan about 10 feet.
As you approach the stone spiral staircase that is connected to
this river. As we move to initiative. 4
Kassel as everyone is going past him, I think he will make his
way up the stairwell as well. But is there a way for me to
like hold doing that until Vivian passes me?
Like I want her to go first, but like that's what I want to do.
You would just have to wait until your next turn to let her
pass you. You can't move outside of your
initiative is what I'm saying. OK so I'm going to make a dash
action but I will only dash to the bottom of the stairs and
then I will wait for Vivian to go up the stairs and then when
she makes it up the stairs I'll head on and that is my turn.
We're going to move to Initiative 3, Vivian.
As a reminder, Vivian's still invisible using Bolin's brooch,
and we're only two minutes of the 30 minutes in.
This is a recap. Vivian's going to haul ass up
these stairs and we are going to not only use full movement, but
I'm going to also use my bonus action of dashing, so I'll move
about 60 feet. You move 60 feet up the stairs.
There is enough space for Vivian to go through without impeding
difficult terrain. So just to give you a brief
description because you guys kind of just got to the stairs
really quickly. This is a stone spiral staircase
that goes up into the seemingly never ending dark abyss of a
ceiling. You never have at any point seen
the ceiling of this tower just yet.
The walls just kind of extended fade Into Darkness.
This stone spiral staircase is exposed and it goes up for about
40 feet before the staircase fades into the darkness itself,
in which it seems from your perspective Vivian, as you climb
it seems to keep going upwards. Cuz Vivian would have gone
around about a loop and a half of the spiral staircase.
Yeah, yes. And as you go up, you could
still see into the first floor. You're like kind of on the cusp
going into the darkness, we'll say.
And you can still see the floor, and you can see the rest of your
party at the bottom of the stairs.
So far so good up here, everybody.
And that's the end of her turn. We're gonna go to initiative
one, which is the rock elemental.
See that? It charges forward 30 feet into
the room as you see it breach into the hallway and you see it
just over this bridge. I don't think I ever gave an
accurate description of this room in the last session.
So as the four of you had left that dangerous Indiana gym style
hallway and headed north, you then entered a much larger room
that was actually split from north to South by a beautiful
blue flowing river. Over that river is this very
elegant wooden bridge that looks elephant in construction and
there are two waterfalls on either side of that bridge that
is creating this beautiful stream over that bridge that you
have just crossed or reached. The staircase is another river
that looks like water is falling down the center of the spiral
staircase onto the floor of the first level and then creating a
secondary stream, creating like a third part of the room there.
So this room has a lot more water than the rest of the first
floor. All the sources of water have
been incredibly clear, filled with fish or these like bull
clown fish that you picked up earlier in the last session.
And you see that this place is more vibrant with life the
deeper as you go around the staircase is like little
cascades, different colored trees of blue and green hues.
And the grass that you've been walking on is very healthy.
So on its turn, it's going to make its way into the room
Castle and Mylan. You see it just make it up to
the bridge as it looks at you and it grabs another hunk of
earth as it begins to morph it through its body out of its arm
and shoots another one of these boulder like missiles towards
you. Myelin and Castle.
It's going to hit you because it going to land in your radius.
That's a 24 to hit. You're both going to take 7
points of damage and you are not prone.
It is then going to make another attack since you are both prone.
It is a range attack. It's going to have disadvantage
against you. That is an 11 to miss on both of
you as a second rock launches through his body crashes into
the staircase as pebbles and small rocks land at Bo Ram's
feet. Mylan and Caswell you are both
knock prone as you go back to the top of the round with Mylan
and Bo Ram starting with Mylan. As the rock comes and hits
Mylan, he sees it coming and he braces the bucket of fish kind
of around him so that the fish don't get hurt.
And Mylan's going to use half his movement to get up.
He's going to pick up the two bullfish, put him back in the
bucket that the water is about half at this point now, and he
gives him a look real quick, just making sure they're OK, and
then he starts climbing the stairs to get away from this
rock guy. Let's get going.
Milan and I'm taking my dash action alongside him, just
rushed up the stairs. Both of you make your dash
actions up the stairs and it seemingly goes higher and higher
before you fade into the darkness of the ceiling as we
move to Initiative 4 castle at the base of the stairs.
I'll spend half my movement to get up and then I will use a
dash as well upstairs. As we move to Initiative 3,
Vivian. Vivian's just going to keep
running into this darkness. She's going to go her 30 feet,
and then she's going to use her bone Jack's action dash to keep
going. Because her whole hope is that
because she's invisible, that if anything is to pop up, she can
get a good eye on it first. So she's going to go another
whole rotation around. And we're going to take the four
of you out of combat here. As you ascend into the darkness,
do you hear the rocks thumping and thudding beneath you as you
ascend higher? And then you hear the thuds.
Heavy thumes of its feet begin to fade.
Maybe we won't go out the front anymore.
And be odd to try. Let's hope we can fall down.
Where you at by the way? I'm looking around.
I'm over here, she says in the darkness.
That does not help me. Thank you though baby.
I get the general direction though.
As he's clomping up the stairs. Vivian's going to stay like this
and she's going to be a little bit of a jerk and not tell
anyone. I'll dodge you, don't worry.
I'll let you know if you're getting too close.
Ascending the stone spiral stairs, you travel high into the
dark ceiling that seems to go on forever before you realize you
begin to hear the sound of rushing water like a waterfall
in the distance. Taking the final step, you have
ascended into the next floor. The four of you are standing on
a beautiful blue marble floor island by this beautiful
brilliant clear blue water. The water appears somewhat deep,
however you can see the sandy bottom that is covered in soft
rocks in a vibrant coral reef. Looking out, there are several
small islands that spread throughout the water with no
connection of land between any of them.
The walls of this floor are not physical.
Rather than a long circular waterfall that surrounds you,
the sea feeling of this level is just like the first floor,
extending darkness with no ending insight.
You find yourself on this square blue marble platform that looks
like it's a island made out of Obsidian.
There's waterfalls and water rushing out of its sides and you
see this whole floor is filled with water, but the water level
is not rising. All these islands seem to look
like they're have water coming from them, but the islands do
not raise or lower in any which way.
You can see the bottom and you see these green vibrant Lily
pads spread throughout the water.
You could kind of see everything around you.
You do not see another staircase that ascends higher.
However, you could see where the water from the first floor was
coming from. This might be a dead end, maybe
where? It's the top floor.
We're at the top already. How far down is it to the water?
Like looking at water, it's hard to gauge depth without any
tools. You guessing around maybe 60
feet or so, but you definitely see deeper parts and more
shallow parts. But the the process thing to you
is probably about 60 feet. This would be diving height.
Do you want to know how to swim? I mean, I could scope it out you
like. And Bo Ram will pull a potion
out of his coat. I mean, I won't be a good.
Alchemist, if I don't try my own brew and I'll drink a potion of
flight that I made and you see him back up off and like fall
down off the ledge and then he starts floating.
Wait. You got to, you got to get some
water, the fish. Give me the bucket.
I come back up and grab the bucket from Island and I'll fly
down and fill it with some water.
So as you step off, which direction?
So for everyone's point of reference, the staircase is in
the dead center of the room that you ascended up from.
All these islands are surrounding it, and on the outer
ring is all these waterfalls that you seemingly can't pass.
You don't see anything past the waterfalls, and the waterfalls
are falling, sure enough, from the endless abyss above you.
I go off the southern platform and down to the water and I'll
just scoop up some more water at that level with the fish does.
It look safe. I don't know yet.
And I come back up and I hand the bucket to Mylan.
You keep these guys safe, all right?
This is foresight and this is rodent.
Oh my God, you mean? So we bring foresight and rodent
back, safe and sound. And bow room kind of like flicks
his lab coat collar and starts flying back towards the first
island he sees. Make me ends perception check as
you are loading over the water. It's pretty good.
I believe that's going to be a maybe not a swampy 20, that's a
19. First, in the water, it's
incredibly clear. You do see that there is fish
life. You see more of these fish.
You also see like these pretty big crabs at the bottom of the
ocean. They're just kind of looking up
at you like and you see like their eyes are kind of like
moving in and out and you see that like they're trying to hide
from you. It's like you're looking at a
crabs home and you're looking around.
You see more and more of these creatures on the bottom of the
floor. You start to see these starfish
and almost like what you would find outside in an ocean.
You start seeing all this beautiful aquatic wildlife.
Strangely enough, it is freshwater, not salt water.
Now this is an interesting Biome as Borim steps onto the first
island. When you step onto the first
island, there are these giant Obsidian oar is what the floor
is made out of and what the islands are made out of.
They're only about maybe 15 to 20 feet in total in length and
they're very oblong shaped. None of these islands are just
like circles. They're pick up all these
strange looking features and you also have these very bright,
vibrant purple trees on them. Underneath the big purple tree
on this island you lend about 10 feet away from you is a small
chest. You notice it's just kind of
sitting underneath the tree. It does something.
Wanna found something? Not quite sure though.
Before I touch it, let me see if I have anything about it.
Vivians very worried, so she's gonna position herself to the
South with her bow ready, just in case.
You position yourself in the southernmost part of the island
as you have your bow castle. Milo, what are you 2 doing as
bow Rams about to inspect his chest.
Castle, I feel like it's kind of he feels like he's on
babysitting duty right now, like with Borim off doing whatever
he's doing and Vivian kind of trying to keep an eye out.
I feel like he's tasked with like watching Mylan to make sure
you know he doesn't get hurt or nothing like jumps out and
attacks him since he's like so preoccupied with the fish.
Mylan is now that he's named the fish, he's going to cast, Speak
with animals and start talking to the fish.
Oh my gosh, that was so close. Are you guys OK?
Yeah, we could. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you see the 2 fish go back
and forth to each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then one head butts the other one.
Whoa, nice. That was scary.
So what's the deal with this place?
What's the deal with the dog holding us to the bucket?
Well, you know we saved you. Oh, where'd you save me from?
Yeah, where'd you save us from? You know what?
That's a good question, Butt rap.
Habitat. What are we doing with the fish?
I thought we're saving them. We're going to figure it out
later. Castle thinks to himself.
He doesn't know he's going to kill him.
Oh God thing. He doesn't know.
As he shouts over to Bow Ram, he's gonna look down and see
some crabs and kind of wave and be like hello and then see if
the crabs say anything to him the.
Crabs underwater wave. You guys friendly?
You see bubbles come up, they're underwater.
I must need to get closer. And as Mylan's having the time
of his life talking to animals, I'm checking the chest to see if
there are any kind of traps. Go ahead and make me an
investigation check 11. Seemingly enough, you don't
notice any traps. All right.
Is it light enough where I can just lift it up?
Yeah, I would say it's about 5 feet wide.
It's a small chest, but it's pretty solid chest.
Then before my flight wears off, I'll grab the chest and bring it
back to the party as I drop back down onto the main platform.
Watch it their program. Sorry Dale, you to my left or my
right? I think you're left.
It's my left. I'm next to the rock.
This makes it difficult, but it makes sense.
You stay invisible just in case. All right?
Is there a lock on the chest? You do not see a lock, it looks
like you can open it. All right, let's see.
Maybe we found some buried treasure.
So when you open the chest, you actually see a small box with a
picture of a boat graved on top of it.
The box is about 12 inches long, it's 6 inches wide, it looks
about 6 inches deep, and it weighs about 4 lbs.
You also notice that in the chest there's a little bit of
water in there as it begins to like float in place, almost as
if like the water was intentional with the box.
He be some message in a bottle. Y'all want to give me 10 minutes
and maybe I'll see what it does? Yeah, I mean, I'm not in a rush.
Yeah, I want to stay up here where it seems safe for now.
And Bowen will kind of go lean up against a rock on one of the
corners and take his time. Just ritual casting identify on
this box as he's smoking away. Why you like this close to me?
Well, I want to know what you're doing.
It's going to take 10 minutes. I'm just using my magic to
identify it. OK, well, I like to watch.
While this 10 minutes is going, Mylan uses his 10 minutes of
speak with animals to try to figure out any more about this
cave. And also occasionally bugs.
Bow ram, what are we doing with the fish?
I thought we had to save them. You should have told them what
you were going to do with the fish.
She named them what he named the fish.
They're like his best friends now.
I don't know if I'm going to eat them yet.
Well, yeah, but are you going to keep them forever?
Now we might have to. Huh.
Well, no, you have to. I'm not feeding them.
I feed them, that's fine. Vivian turns off her
invisibility, walks over to Bow Ram, and goes.
You were just going to eat them. That's it.
I was going to bring them back and study them what you're
talking about. Never seen fish like this.
That's what I thought. Hey have.
You guys ever tried chocolate milk?
Here try this. Myelin chocolate, chocolate,
chocolate. He's about to kill those fish.
You just see him kind of curiously pouring a little bit
of milk in before someone probably stops, yeah.
I could definitely grab his arm. No, myelin, don't do that. 10
minutes later, as the identify spell goes off, you find a
magical item, Boram. This item is called the Folding
Boats. The object appears as a wooden
box and can be opened to store items inside.
This item also has three command words, each requiring you to use
an action to speak it. One command causes the box to
unfold into a 10 foot long boat, 4 feet wide, 2 feet deep.
The boat has a pair of oars and an anchor and a mass and a Latin
sail. The boat can hold up to 4 medium
creatures comfortably. The second command word unfold
the box into a 24 feet long, 8 feet wide, and six feet deep
ship. This ship has a deck, rowing
seats, five seats of oars, a steering oar and an anchor and a
deck cabin and a mass and a square sail.
The ship can hold up to 15 medium creatures comfortably.
When the box becomes a vessel, so it's weight becomes that
normal vessel in size, and anything that was stored in the
box remains in the boat. The third command word causes
the folding boat to fold back into the box, provided that
there are no creatures aboard. Any objects in the vessel that
can't fit inside the box remain outside of the box as it folds.
Any objects in the vessel that can fit inside the box do so
how? It looks like we'll have to find
a crew. We got something kind of nice.
What you all say we try this out?
Come on me. And you see bow room, just jump
off into the water. Oh, OK.
Do you think it could hold this Tommy Jumbo Ram?
You got anymore flight potions? He he dives, he like dives.
He has it in his bag of holding currently.
OK, Milan, you got the fish right?
And castle jumps over the edge. Wait.
Wait until I get the boat out. With the what you see jump.
Vivian's going to hold Mylyn back by the chest before he
jumps before it's out. Hold on, Mylyn, one SEC.
Boram and Kazzle, you jump back into the water.
Both of you row me AD 20 and let me know who gets higher.
We got five. Oh my God, I roll the net one.
Kazzle. You are surprised as you feel
something rush between your legs, something large.
You look down, you don't see anything.
Seemingly something invisible has whooshed past you with two
of you splash into the water. Everyone's going to roll me
initiative and castle. You're going to roll it with
disadvantage as you are surprised.
Boram, there's something in the water.
What are you talking about? Get on me.
I was swampy 20 for Boram Castle, got a four.
I got a 718. Starting at the top of the round
is Boram, Swampy 20 Boram. As you look around and you feel
the ripples of the water, something like pushing you back.
As you are waiting the water taking out this new magical item
you found, you feel like pushed a little bit further.
Matter of fact you are knocked 5 feet.
You are displaced as you feel the shockwave in the water and
you see Kazzle kind of spinning in place a little bit.
Something went right by him. Give me a SEC.
I think it's.
Big as I'll use half my walking speed to get back to Kazzle and
I'll take out that box he goes all right let's try it out Rosie
and you see he says a command word and the boat hopefully pops
open underneath him you see the. Box lid opens up and almost like
a jacket and the box goes. You see this 10 foot long piece
of paper come out onto the water and then it begins to fold out
where you now see this canoe and inside are a set of oars.
I like to think it like, goes under the water and shapes under
the water, then pops up with Kassel and Borim.
All right, welcome aboard. I'll be your navigator today.
How you doing? And Borim has like both his arms
up on the side, completely drenched.
What is this, the Jungle Cruise? Let's get out of here.
Where is the rest of them? Yep, good point, Kassel kind of
looks at he goes, wait, with how big this thing is, don't you
think we might actually want to make the bigger boat?
I don't know. Doesn't seem like a a huge room
so. And that's all Barim does on his
turn. As we move to Initiative 18,
Vivian. Can we see the creature from
where we are above? Not see anything.
Vivian's gonna turn back to Mylyn.
Mylyn, give me the fish and go jump in the boat.
I'll bring the fish with me. I feel like I can make the
landing better. OK, if I want to stay here,
here's pretty nice. Nice.
I mean where? We're going to go, I don't know,
but we're going to stay together.
We're going exploring Milan, look at all these islands.
Yeah, what? He said.
Let's go exploring. You don't want to go back
downstairs, so we only can go up.
Milan puts the bucket down. So yeah, Vivian's going to wait
up for Milan to jump first to make sure he's OK and watch out.
So she's just waiting right by the edge to coax him over.
OK, we're going to move to Initiative 14, which is the
mysterious creature as Castle Boram.
You look up from the side of the boat and you you see this pillar
of water begin to take shape as the water itself makes like
almost like a salamander ish head, not quite dragon esque but
making the shape of like a long water snake out of the water
itself. And it looks at the two of you
and it's going to make an attack action as this large creature
swarms over the top of the boat, almost like an arch, going from
one end of the boat over into the other side into the water.
A castle? Yeah.
There's something behind you. No, it's behind me.
Put it back the other way. That is a Nat 20 against both of
them. It's going to be 20 points of
damage. Make me a strength saving throw
or be grappled in this thing. DC-13.
I got a 13 but I I have a Nat -1 of strength.
Castle more than 8. So both of you fell as you are
now grappled in this thing. Get knocked on the boat and you
see the boat floats in the water.
Vivian and Mylan, you see this body disappear almost as if it
goes invisible underneath the water.
But you do see Boram and Castle swirling in place where they
were just snatched up from over the boat.
Oh. My gosh, are you guys OK?
As we move to Initiative 7, Mylan, I'm.
Going to need my fish back. What?
We're gonna stay up here? You can go down there.
I'm gonna stay up here. As I hear 2 grown men screaming
for their lives. I run to the side of the the
edge. I'm going to use warp propel and
grab Castle and I'm going to be like trust me.
And I'm going to fling him 30 feet out of the water back over
to the staircase. Is that a teleport or are you
physically moving his body? If the target fails a saving
throw, telekinetic Propel Instead of pushing it, you can
teleport the target to an unoccupied space you can see
within 30 feet. Tazzle.
Do you choose to fail? Sure, he teleports.
Outside of the elemental. Man, this is like drill but like
in reverse, you know what I'm saying?
You land next to violin on the stone platform, throwing up
water. For his action, he's going to go
over to Vivian and grab his bucket of fish and hold on to
it. Be like your turn.
OK. That's gonna be his third.
Hand off the bucket of fish and you we move to Initiative 4.
Kazzle spitting up some water badly hurt.
What are you doing? So Kazzle would like to look
over at Mylan, put his hand on his shoulder and just say thanks
buddy, I really appreciate it. And I'm going to cast Cure
wounds SO15HP back to Mylan. And then as a bonus action, I
have two potions of healing, so I'm going to go ahead and drink
one of them. So that's 6HP back and that is
going to be my turn. At the top of the round
Initiative 20 Boram still holding your breath.
What are you doing as you are considered restrained?
I don't know if it'll help, but I'll drink my potion that I made
today. OK, So what type of potion are
you drinking? So potion resilience, the
drinker gains a + 1 bonus to AC for 10 minutes and then I will
try to get ungrappled. OK, so you can use your action,
you can use Dexterity or Strength DC-13. 16.
You manage to swim out of it and as you breakthrough it feels
like you're emerging from water while still being in water.
So you manage like to break out of its side and you feel free.
You can wait again and you can use your 5 feet and move it to
you go back up to the surface to catch your breath.
Yeah, as he'll also take 10 feet of flying speed straight up.
Crazy water monster in the water.
And lower men's turn. And we got to go ahead and go
into Initiative 18. Vivian, what are you doing?
I would like to use my action to search, specifically search for
concealed creature objects. When you take the search action,
you make a Wisdom check to discern something that isn't
obvious. The search table suggests which
skills are applicable when you take this action, depending on
what you're trying to detect. Since I'm looking for the
creature, it'd be Perception. Yes, go ahead and give me a
search check. I got a sick.
When you look in the water where Bo Ram was, you don't see
anything. The only thing that was weird
when you saw water move was when it was above the water and with
the second collapsed back into the water surrounding the
island, it seemingly disappeared from sight with a six.
Although you used an action on your turn, it does not go
unrewarded. You do spot something that is
not a creature, however, something shiny you do see to
yourself. As you pan over, you notice
about 40 feet from the island and 60 feet deep Beep buried
into the coral reef, a chest on the.
Floor. Vivian will then throw out the
rope to bow Ram, bow ram, grab on.
She just doesn't want him to go too far away, and at least
there's some sort of a tether to the island.
Do I have to roll anything for that?
Yeah, athletics chick 4A rope is way off and just like, splashes
into the water. I tried really hard.
I'll stick to fighting. As we move to Initiative 14,
which is the water, creatures turn as the water remains still,
there is no movement below you. You not see anything weighed,
not see any ripples other than the water coming from the
waterfalls. Mylan, it is your turn.
I think what I'll do at this point since I see bow ram flying
up above the water. I'm going to try to poke the
beast at this point to see if it will come out and I'm going to
use minor illusion as a can trip and put a version of myself out
in the water. Where's it going in the water?
It's definitely going to go like kind of away from Bow Rams.
So Bow Rams straight to my east. So this will probably go
northeast of where I'm at, and I can cast it at range of 60 feet,
maybe only 30 feet away from me. So right northeast.
I got an idea. So I cast Minor Illusion and put
it to the northeast and a stuffed red panda doll appears
in that area. Move to Initiative 4 Castle.
I'm going to cast Blast. So the three I'm going to cast
bless on is the other 3. So Borum, Vivian, and and then
I'm going to as a bonus action, I'm going to then drink my last
potion of healing. So that's five extra HP and that
will be my turn. Well, I guess before I do that,
I'm going to turn to Mylan and Vivian and just say, OK, so
what's the plan? What are what are we doing?
Should I jump back in there and try to help Borum?
And that'll be my turn. Go back to the top of the round
Initiative 20, which is a Borat floating 10 feet above the
water. Yay.
Flies diagonally 10 feet farther up towards the center platform,
right at the edge. I don't know if I get up at the
edge. I would say you get onto the
platform from there you can kind of like like leap off.
Yeah, you see program fly onto the platform and then tumble
down and roll coffin up, water everywhere, looking completely
just obliterated. Not doing great after that one.
I don't know if I'm going to make it and.
He's being a little dramatic, but he is really, really, really
low. Moving to Initiative 18, Vivian.
Vivian's going to try to quickly throw out her returning dagger
into the water, just to see if that will pique its interest at
all. See if we can see it again.
OK, roll the head with disadvantage. 17.
You see the dagger goes into the water, it floats and then
appears back in your hand. All right, I don't think we
should go back in the water. Yeah, I don't know about that
one. That's going to be Vivian's
turn. You go to Initiative 14 and
nothing seemingly happens. The illusion that Mylan had
created has got ignored temporarily.
I'm going to take the four of you out of combat, but we're
going to keep your initiatives. If it were to come back up to
the South of this little island that you're on, you have this 10
foot long canoe that's floating there seemingly unharmed and
Boram is very hurt. All right, maybe I just take a
long nap. Do you got any more potions on
you? I give you mine, but I had it
already. No, it's OK.
Maybe we just rest a while. I mean, I know we don't want to
go down there, but do you want to go the other way where the
giant rock monster is? That's a good point, yeah.
So you got any more that got juice?
I never thought I'd say this but I think I need some Got juice.
Unfortunately, no. I am all tapped out.
Oh. Gosh.
OK, I guess if you're not gonna hear me, I'll use my own juice.
And trying to get some. Palate and healing, but he he'll
use a bonus action healing word on himself as he gets 7 points
of health back. I used.
To feel bad. But now, oh right, is rain not
really still still there in a bit?
Okay, okay, here here here. This was like an emergency.
What? He takes his Annie, puts it on
Borum and he lays 5 points of lay on hands.
Oh, so you did have it, you just want to wait till I did
something? It was an emergency.
What if something happened that
we wouldn't have a way to help? You me dying is an emergency.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's called medic gaming man.
All right, I feel a little better now.
Has Berm cracked some of his shoulder bones and he's like,
maybe I am. At the very least I can get the
get the boat back and fly around the islands and see if we can
find a way out of you. Which is it of that?
Y'all, yeah. I wonder if we just get into the
boat. The issue she was we were in the
water, right? No, we was in the boat.
It still got us. I just need to grab a real quick
and you see bore, I'm kind of peering over the edge looking
around cautiously scared. You can definitely reach out and
grab the boat as it retracts back into the box and no robot.
And that's his sign to get the the boat back into his arm.
OK, that's not bad. That's not bad.
Vivian's gonna turn to the group and go Should we cut our losses
and try to just buck it out of here?
Thinking that way as you see forum trying to fly is.
Like, I'm out of the flying potion, so maybe it's time we
just get out of here. Mylyn is just playing with the
fish at this point since things are fine and dandy.
Yep, we're all good fish. You're never going in this water
and it's scary in there as he looks at the water.
Give me a second. We'll use a spell slot and you
see him putting some ingredients together on his hand and I will
use a magic action to make another potion of flight, OK.
Yeah, you can do that. Sure.
Why not? Yeah, sure.
Yeah, we're. Going to be leaving soon
anyways, might as well use one of my spell slots and I'll use
another portion of flight and I'll go flying around the
island. Can I just fly island to island,
check in to see like what might be around them before I decide
what to do on each island? Absolutely.
So I'll say you take about 5 minutes to fly upward and kind
of look around. You kind of see each island.
Each island has all these different trees.
The one to your N you see another chest similar to the one
that you bound southwest to the southeast island.
You see that this islands particularly has more trees on
it, however they're more in a circular pattern.
These look like they were placed there intentionally as you get a
bird's eye view. This looks a little more
intentional than the other trees that are just kind of sprouted
about. The other islands seem to be
empty, although have enough foliage and more of these
Obsidian rocks on them. They'll pop down onto the island
to the northeast and I'll grab this chest and bring it back to
the center platform. You grab that chest and you
bring it back to the center platform.
Nothing in the water seemingly looks angry, or you don't see
any creatures as you fly above it.
You feel fairly safe. You take the chest.
You bring it back by opening. It does it look the same as the
one before or I could just pop it open?
It does. It's very similar.
Yeah, I'll do it. Another check for traps I guess.
Go ahead and give me an investigation check.
That's 14 seemingly, so it does not have any traps on.
It looks kind of the same as the last one, at least a little bit.
Well, in a day like today and he pops it open.
You open up the chest and you see that there is a small object
in there in the shape of a ladder.
It is indeed another item. It's a small ladder made out of
silver. It's about 2 foot wide ladder 1
feet tall. So it got 2 feet wide, 1 feet
tall. It has about 3 prongs in it.
That's a big chest. And sure enough, it's another
magical item. Go ahead and roll me an
investigation. A perception check when you
checked all the islands and grabbed that chest. 4.
Yep, all you found was that chest.
No, I didn't see anything else around the island, but at least
it was this. We can do something else about
that other chest. Maybe try and lower that water
thing around and I could try and fly in and grab it real quick.
What you say? I don't know if we have the God
juice to keep us going if we do that.
That's kind of what I'm thinking because.
I'm out of health potions myself.
I mean, we can always come back a different time I guess.
Yeah, I might like to come back here someday, but but now we
best get going. I'm not married to getting that
chest. I've got enough stuff on my.
Own and you see Boreham like strapping the ladder to his back
like a backpack. My look I could get, I mean, we
could get that chest. I guess you'd have to swim 60
feet. That's not the gamble, not the
gamble I want to play today. We could try one thing, Mylan.
You can teleport us. Can you teleport objects?
I've never done that before. I don't think I can, but I can
move objects with this. And you don't see anything in
front of him. And then eventually he tries to
to grab your ladder and shake it with his hand because it's
invisible. His magic hands invisible.
How you doing that? I don't know.
You just want to grab something. And then I go to the bucket and
I try to pick up one of the fish.
Is it over 10 lbs? One fish.
No, it's not. OK, cool.
See, like I'm a fish, I can talk too.
You get crazy and crazier every day.
Milan The fish might not like that.
Be careful. Casl You look at Vivian and you
see these two noodles coming up from behind Vivian.
They have like these little eyeballs at the end of them, and
they blink. Vivian, there's something behind
you. What?
And she whips around. As she whips around, this weird
thing whips around behind her, seemingly escaping her view
casl. You notice this weird floating
jellyfish casl. Are you messing with me?
What do you mean? After a moment, as Mylan is
playing with the bullfish and Beau Ram is tinkering with his
items, he looks up and they catch you in a glance.
What you make of friends with the sea creatures?
What you see, it blinks one eye at a time.
Vivian. You hear a very high pitched
voice from behind you. Huh, teethling.
Wow, I haven't seen one of you before.
And you turn around and there is this floating jellyfish in front
of you, and it has a big old mouth and it's floating at its
angels kind of come out and it looks ethereal, see through.
And it's like just little nubs. It looks friendly.
Vivian stumbles back and goes, What?
What is it? Who are you did?
You travel from the furnace. No.
And it begins to squirm and float around as if it's swimming
in water, but it's floating in the air and it goes up to castle
and it goes like right to its nose.
No, not you. And it goes around you and you
see its tendrils kind of slide across your face as it goes up
to boram. No, not you.
Ah, it pushes past Boram shoulder.
It goes right up to violin goes ah, there it is.
That's what I'm saying. You see, it's.
Tendrils like wiggle with excitement as it looks into
Mylan eyes, but its eyes are very far apart, so Mylan you can
only look at one eye at a time. It's you I'm drawn to.
You. Wow, and it's trying to sniff
but it has no nose. I try to sniff all the time too.
We smell. I try to smell all the time.
You see it pops onto your head and you see that it's Jelly like
noodles kind of fall over your face, almost creating like a
little Jelly wig over you and it begins to like suck up and then
you and if it pops off he goes. A feast I am forbidden to have.
Feast. No, no, no.
But you can't eat fish. No, no, no.
I am drawn to your beautiful mind.
I think he wants to eat your brain.
My own. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hang on a second. Are you with scary guy in water?
Scary guy. I just don't see anyone scary
here. And he goes over the castle.
Are you the scary guy? Castle's hair spikes up on the
back of his neck. No.
You see like one eyes in front of you while the other eye is
wrapping around you. It's not making any contact.
It's just like swirling around kind of look at you in the
corner of its other eye look. I don't know what you smell, but
I'm not taking a bath anymore. Those were not fun.
A jellyfish friend. Why do you want to eat myelin?
Exactly who are you? I am drawn to superior
intellect. Oh, then you're like my brain.
I was going to say, that's why she walked right past you.
What? I've never seen a tiefling here
before. Why are we so rare?
Are you not normally in the water?
Who are you? I mean, I do live here now.
Where'd you live before? Oh, in a dark, dark place far
underneath your surface level. An opening appeared here some
odd years ago and I haven't been able to find it since.
It seems that these waters are quite the maze, but I've come to
the conclusion that I think it just closed, so I am stuck here.
But it's not the worst. Where were you before?
Like I said, dark place, far far on the ground.
Right. I may call it home.
Some people find it dangerous. There aren't many civilizations
there. I was taking a bath in this deep
underground crystal spring. Well, an opening appeared before
me like a rock tunnel. I decided to explore.
I was curious and I ended up here.
It would, I assume, and have deduced some sort of pocket room
that belongs to a very powerful creature some time ago.
You're from the underdog. Yes, I think that's what surface
dwellers would call it. I got a friend from there that
said that out loud. He kind of smiles and lights a
cigarette. Vivian's gonna look around at
everyone and just go like, what do you do with this?
What's going on here? Hey, flying thing, where was
that opening you came from? The opening, well, there's
several here, but the opening I came from, I haven't been able
to find it. It was deep underwater.
OK. But if you're looking to ascend,
I've only ever seen one other creature come here before it
floated, so that strange guardian that is in the water
didn't really bother it too much.
That's. The scary guy.
Oh, that's the. Scary Guy looks at Mylan like
one of the eyeballs is like right in front of you, focused.
It's just staring intensely. Would you see floating around
here? I didn't.
See any how you say faces? The creature points up.
Yeah, at the top of this, what I assumed is a tower.
Its owner. But its owner was slain many,
many years ago. The creature points to the
southwest to the island. With the circular.
Trees above that island, hidden within the darkness, only
visible if you look straight up from the Grove, is a hole that
leads to the next floor. There is a door guarded by what
seems like a very puzzling question but one day, and I've
been here for a few years when it happened, but is I?
This place is my new home now. I heard of dark terrible
violence and ruckus. He was oh vials crashing and it
seemed like boulders were exploding and sounds of wondrous
magic going back and forth almost as if they were like
exploding on contact fireballs and rays and it was like 2
Wizards going back. At it 2 Great.
Magical users and then a creature floating kind of look
like and it points to your hand, bow rim points to your thumb.
It had no face, no nose, no mouth, no eyes, but seemingly a
thumb like appendage with more protruding appendages flew out
of there. Appendages with appendages
kinda. Yeah, it's really weird.
What was that? The end of those appendages?
What you talking about? Nothing.
They were like rounded off. It looked, how do I put this?
The creature like looks at Uber rim and then points to the
shadow on the floor. You see how it's kind of like
oblong. There's no defined definitions.
It's just kind of like a blank slate, but it has your shape.
Well, it was like that that came out of there.
It was wearing like a cloak. It was cloth with like ripped
shreds, but there was no like facial features.
There was no face, no mouth. It was just like an oblong shape
that had escaped. And it floated.
Down and went down these staircases that you ascended
from, and then sometime later, I think years, it came back and it
floated back up. I hid and watched it ascend
through the ceiling from where it escaped.
I heard those terrible noises again and it did not last very
long. The only difference though is
that now it had a sword that seemed to be floating around
with it. Giant sword infused like this,
purple magic. After some time it came back
down. It didn't have the sword
anymore, but it was very bloody and then it left.
I haven't seen it since. Ain't that a story?
I've seen some other people, some other curious figures like
yourselves and gestures to all of you, but once they all kind
of went and awarded a swim, well, the guardian of this floor
swallowed them up as if they knew they were trespassing.
Yeah, I almost got got myself. Fuck, I'm back here.
You need a better way to get around and even that boat.
How did you defeat the First Guardian?
Oh, we did not. Oh, OK, well do.
You have to defeat them first. Is that what you're saying?
No, it's just there to like protect.
But if it knows. You're here.
It's got to wait. When The one down the stairs,
yeah. It's just at the stairs for us.
Probably. Oh.
Vivian, go take a look. What what I mean you're not
invisible. Oh, you're not invisible
anymore? That's right.
I mean, I could go crane my neck but.
Maybe we gotta wait a bit longer than, well, I think.
Wait, you can fly. You take us up.
Don't mind and I can only fly for about two more minutes and
it's done. Not you, the fish.
Oh, I. Know you can't take yours, yeah.
You see that like it goes over to castle and then like tries to
use this Jelly noodle and it kind of like breaks in place and
reforms. I'm not exactly strong enough.
You also wouldn't be the first people to ask that.
I know if you have like a large enough structure could possibly
traverse the water if I bother you, but you know, more
protection the better. So you could try the boat again.
Wait a second, do you know who the other people were who were
here before and what happened to them?
Oh, not personally. Most of them were mean.
They had like chests with them and they had like bags of stuff.
Once they go in the water it all gets like swallowed up.
Actually, now that you mentioned, I did see a nice lady
here once. She was a little rude at first.
Like she came by, she was looking for a way out from the
first guardian, but she didn't have as many items.
She wasn't greedy, she only had one thing.
Oh yeah, just one thing. I look at everyone else.
Or I'm taking it's a huge drag of a cigarette.
I haven't taken anything yet. Yeah, neither have I.
Look at Mylan and his fish. Like grit my fish.
They're now his fish though, not even boring his fish anymore.
Jellyfish friend, another question for you, do you think
the more things we have from the tower the more likely the
guardian is to attack us? Like if we don't have anything,
it's less likely to attack. I don't think the Guardians
particularly care if you take anything.
I have seen people come in, take something and not get attacked
by anything. I think if you try to ascend
higher, it will try to stop you. I know if you have a piece of
the Guardian, whatever's on that floor doesn't bother you.
It hasn't bothered me, but I think it thinks that I live
here. Like it doesn't bother the fish,
it doesn't bother the crab, it doesn't bother the dark mantels
hiding in the trees on the islands.
It's seemingly copacetic with us.
So they think we're from here, we could get by.
Yeah, I guess I haven't thought of it like that.
Yeah, the thing that used to live up there before I guess
died because the giant thumb and back and it sounded like it
killed it. It didn't leave with its sword,
so I assumed he killed it. I have seen other flying things
come through here once in a while to check I guess.
But I don't know. I think whatever owns this place
or original creator kind of seemed like he just it just
never wanted to leave so it kind of made its own Biome.
OK, it's jellyfish. Can you take a rope and you fly
all the way up? If you can't carry us, you could
certainly take a rope, right? You know what, Violet?
I think I I might have an idea. Jellyfish, would you like to
come with us if you promised not to eat Mylan's brain?
Oh no, he's good. I would never.
I saw his intentions. Oh, saw my intentions.
What were they? I see your intentions.
I start reaching out my hand. I mean, my intentions.
I like to eat off. I do love intelligence and I
gain knowledge when I do, but only if they're like bad things,
you know, not good things, he seems.
Good. He's a good boy, and I'm Pat
Mylan. All right.
Everybody, let's rest an hour. OK, what about treasure?
We're going to think about it during this rest OK, I can spend
some time identifying what's on my back.
And then we, we. Make a decision after we yield
up a bit I. Think I have an idea.
I think once we rest up and bow Ram checks the ladder, I think
we should try to boat over to that island and see if we can
take the ladder up the bigger boat.
And if you can focus on steering, I can try to lead the.
Let's talk about it after our rest.
I need a moment and a bow room. Would like to short rest and
it's mouth bag. Are the four of you short
resting? Violin needs to know jellyfishes
name before short resting. I that's a good question you.
Got a name I name you. You want me to name?
You OK? And it like spins in place and
it's jellyfish folds kind of spins like a like a Tutu.
You're gonna be Strawberry. Strawberry.
The things that Mylan supposedly doesn't know words for but then
knows the words for it like blows my mind.
Bob showed him. Bob showed him.
This strawberry milk. Blows my mind dude.
And that's where we're going to end this week's session as we
end on a short rest. Now, how short rest work is
that? You have HIT die.
You can short rest as long as you have HIT die.
You don't have to use all of your HIT die.
Each of you have three HIT die, and you can choose to roll all
three or just roll one of them or two of them.
You can split up however you want.
You roll your HIT die. Every class is different.
You gain that much health back. And then if you have any class
features that you get back on a short rest or the abilities that
you can perform on a short rest, you may do those things.
Remember, you can only short rest if you have hit die to
spend. So if you use all three and the
three of you decide to take a short rest, if you use all you
hit die. You cannot benefit from a short
rest in any means if you do not have any I left to spend.
Can everyone still short rest if I decide not to?
Yes, you just wouldn't gain any benefit.
That's right. You look after the fish.
I'm gonna take a rest. Look.
After the fish, I'll spend my time talking with Strawberry.
Abby, yeah. We'll talk about the after
trial. I think Dandos might know what
this thing is. I've.
Seen it before, I don't really know what it is though.
We won't spoil anything, but does anybody have anything?
Any comments before we get into recommendations in the wheel of
Intros? I hate that we have to wait to
play again. Last week I was so excited and
now I'm equally excited. Things are getting somewhere.
Does anybody have any recommendations?
Yes, Crimson Desert. Go check it out.
It isn't out currently. It actually comes out on
Thursday. It looks like it's going to be
Breath of the Wild mixed with a few other types of games.
It's got puzzles. It's got open world.
Yeah, you. Can fly.
In you haven't played yet. Yeah, I'm so excited for it.
I know it is potential to be game of the year, first night of
the day if it literally by the time this is out, it's been out.
Hopefully the reviews are great. It looks awesome from what it's
said that there's no in game store.
It's just a flat game. Developers are awesome.
It looks amazing. You can body slam people.
That's what I'm going to be doing.
You just run around. You learn techniques off of
people. Just an MMO.
Nope. Single player RPG Breath of the
Wild. Run around, solve puzzles, do
things. Sound like a dev dude.
Oh dude, I've been so excited for this game.
Can't wait. I'm literally gonna probably
take Thursday and Friday. Off next week comes around, give
sucks. I hope it doesn't like the last
game I was like this excited for was Division and I was like
really excited before Division I was like, oh man, it's going to
be everything I want and I was very let down.
So hopefully this one doesn't let me down.
But early reviews say it's amazing if you like Breath of
the Wild that games all. Right, Dan, bring up the wheel.
Man, big thanks to cinder slime for that early games early game
mobs suggestion that we definitely didn't remember to do
at the end of the podcast and insert it right now at this
time, Cyprus Cyprus cyber cyber Cyprus, you're you might be
kidding me. All right, Cyprus, it's about
Helena Marcus. Again, very close.
Cyprus very close. What are we in the next 4 of?
The other 4D20 systems I want to try.
What? The heck?
Any other TTRPG that isn't D&D? Yeah.
All right, everybody give you most drowning.
Goodbye. I'm sorry for recruiting you,
Dan. Wow, okay, I guess I'll go fuck
myself. Sorry, recruiting.
You do, Alex. I forgot for good.
Hope you find your dad. Welcome back to another round of
Patreon shout outs. Y'all Just sit back and relax as
I read out these names. The Bloodshot Bandits are first.
I heard this secret group once assisted some mighty heroes back
in the day when the Christo was trying to take over.
Some people say this organization still works in
secret to this day, but I got to see it, to believe it.
If you do exist, then come by my place and I'll give you all some
magic items. Artemis the fighter guardian and
Cami Jo hunter. Scala, gentlemen and adventurer.
The give gunslinger Alistair Jacobs.
I don't know how to do a British accent, sorry.
Also the Dread Lord drama. The highest of elves.
Master of the finest of finderies this side of Umbrea.
The rogue Changerland. Sly Knock.
Mock Novo's biggest competition. Brandy Woodburner, the wine
wielding wood elf, Glor Knotbreaker the dwarven fighter,
a pony, Lightbringer, Elvin, cleric of Corella, Rithean the
purple armament has entered the battlefield.
And of course Jason all. Next are the City College
alumni. I always wanted to visit and
share notes with the Wizards over there.
I heard they make some crazy good potions.
Across the Everton sea we got Mongol the Yeti giant, Sergio
the retired knight, Punk the Vagabond by David Lachance
Bruce, Charlie Vexchi the gnome sorcerer, and Isaiah Crane the
architect of Tall. And then last but not least, our
hombre heroes. Y'all better stop by to see me
for health potions before you go on adventuring into those
dungeons. I'm looking at you, man with
glass. His Zeus defrost Dragon bone
Warlock Johnny Tah, John Carroll Art the Iron ammo Drown the
barbarian mobster. Cypress Daywin, A capybara.
Circle of the Forest Druid. Any Master of Weapons.
Young Battle Bone, the bombastic Brigadier Barbarian Afork Morgad
The unbroken half giant barbarian Gad the Lizard folk
Room night flick the warlock. Kutensi knows Cajun French
better than me. Bri Carlson, Balasad, Turnerol
the Eldrick nod, Dragonborn, Brom Iron Spud.
The battle out end. I have 4 barbarian with an
unbreakable appetite for glory. Thank you all for joining along.
We always appreciate you adventuring with us.
But until next time I'm going to go make some potions.
Aura Voi.