 So You guys leave the shores of Satya aboard the Nadoho gear with Captain Dozen at the helm and a hearty crew Managing the ship the salty wind of the sea Brushes on your faces as you head out towards Nuba sky and the mainland of Elinthe There you are And right there get dozen on there. Yes Fritz you were well acquainted with this crew and you're fairly familiar with them or at least well acquainted with most And although the rest of you Are fairly new to this and you get a few introductions to a couple of them And like a couple of crew members actually ask for autographs the orcish man in the back over there Asks you to carve your name into his cutlass I do mind the biggest I give my John Hancock on this cutler. Oh hell yeah Thanks so much. I can't wait to hang this on my in my bedroom anything for a fan Thanks, and then he winks at you boss Like holds up his hands like an anime villain in cackles yes My subjugation grows Oh boy and after you make a fair way it's out to see dozen lets a helmsperson take the wheel and he kind of goes up To address you all All right, we should be making our way to the mainland by sundown today It's quite the wobbly path ahead of us So I hope you're strapped in for probably the most fun sitting around and waiting you've ever had a careful Note to get too excited I Exactly how long is this gonna take Several hours. Yeah, I'm afraid can't speed it up. We are full sail, but the wind seemed to be calm this day If there is an empty barrel word, we'll find it and just rest Yeah, there's probably one like nearby that you could move I don't know some of the supplies Maybe some of the cannon balls into another one that it's not I'm on top of one I just put cannon balls on the floor and I slink into it See somebody else like the dwarf up here. Just like she just grabs it and puts it in the other one Just like smiling shaking her head They'll be closer to the cannons that way I Have a question just Kind of a general question if you wouldn't mind. Oh, yeah speak away I've I see there's a lot of cannons and Crossbow type mechanisms is is should we be worried at all about what's out here on the sea? Oh, maybe a passing caution I would say you are very important figures now being the pilgrims of satia and holding the dragon's heart with you I do hope you have the dragon's heart with you. I yep and Yes, much as satia has its own problems It's full of honest folk the people of the mainland and he leans in and puts kind of cups a hand over his mouth they Ain't too fond of looking out for each other or as generous in As the people in satia if I'm to be frank a lot of them in the mainland like to look out for themselves and Some of them desperate as they are willing to do a few desperate things they get more bandits out there than we do in satia And some of them take to sea Farron Pirates Aye pirates You think anyone on our boat would try something like that. Oh, no I've known this crew for as long as I can remember a few of them I've been sailing before they were born and he looks over at Fritz and has a little Oh Weird to think of I No worries you ain't got nothing to fear from this crew But uh looks around it slinks back in his barrel I it's not It's not unrealistic to expect if not pirates then the odd angry You know seafarin creature, but just a warning shot or two usually gets them back into the depths whence they came They're usually just hungry. They see a big thing They think it's got food as sometimes some of us seem to throw things overboard Instead of waiting until we dock and then you can see that one human is just kind of like whistling while he swaps the deck Littering I swear Anyway, you've got nothing to fear besides you handled yourselves pretty good in the tournament as I saw So if we do run into to anything, I'll be happy to have you at my side The tournament wasn't in the ocean I Think layer is just like white knuckled on the banister of the boat It's like trying to be cool about it, but kind of not having anything resembling sea legs at this point You see that Dozen easily notices, but he's just kind of like shaking his head and chuckling to himself But is there anything else I can do for you lot in the meantime flip up the beds get some music going I know the big guy over there knows a few tunes on the bongos that could keep you entertained for an hour or two Snacks under the deck if you get peckish, you know, I've got a list of new jokes I've been meaning to try out for talent night and the whole crew just groans Didn't know talent night run that by me. There's that's something that happens aboard the ship Hey every week, but we can make an exception for you I'm afraid I don't really have any specific talents At least I I'm not saying I don't have any talents, but none that I believe are worthy of it or performance worthy I would say well lucky for you. My friend talent night is not about being good. It's about being awful together That's what adventure is. I thought oh, that's reassuring Those and cannot sing at all Hey, I can say I didn't say I could sing good to a death cat Hey, if all we're gonna be doing is singing in Salem, can I get my tauts early? Hey, I can go and get them for you And you last saw you let no looking a little bit more green than usual And I don't just mean the decorations around your hair. You're gonna be all right. No, I'm good Everything's totally fine. This is nature, and I'm good at nature. So we're fine. Thank you All right, then I'm gonna go below deck and see what I can find I and he kind of walks down the stairs To go find some snacks for you word He specifically asked for a taut, which if anyone doesn't know that is a daily ration of whiskey and water I didn't know that I mean I totally And if you have any tater tauts if you Take it up with a cook throw them in the air fryer I take out my pillow that I have in my possessions that I don't remember stealing and I put on some slippers that I also stole Chill out in my barrel I just can't get over how unsafe it would be to have a deep fryer on a ship No, it's an air fryer Much better hook it up to their generator Which they have of course They have a war for it so I wish they do yeah, so these tokens they are shorthand for basically what race they are you see the Dark gray like non-descript one. That's a human this Smaller brown one that is a gnome. This one's a dwarf. This is a black dragonborn and orc and a war for it Yes, good. I if you have a mini war dump that any of our characters would know what are warforged in this world war for in this world for like a long long time ago like Before the founding of the basically like unified alliance that all the different kingdoms have which would be year zero Warforged were made to as you can guess wage war and some of them most of them in the past were Basically just no different than a machine that followed orders and a construct But some of them have as some people refer to Woken up and gained sentience not all of them have but a lot of them are just remnants from old warforged factories created to Fight you know battles and stuff, but so there could potentially be like some terracotta soldiers just waiting somewhere Yeah Yeah, most of these they usually like to take their names from like the first thing they notice when they wake up ie persimmons, you know, oh I love I forgot. Yeah It was just so gorgeous you overlooked it. Yeah, I just saw her beautiful soul. I wasn't paying But yeah, usually any warforged that are walking around they are ones that have woken up and gained their self-awareness sentience and sapience and have Basically like any other people Very cool. Nice But yeah, you've got quite a few hours before you reach the mainland So you have some downtime if any of you wish to you know hang out amongst yourselves talk with the crew stuff like that Belt overboard. I might I might manage my spell list a little I'm gonna I'll lean up against the is this the barrel that you're by word. Yeah, I'm yeah I'm on top of a barrel. That's the mast, but yes, these circles are the mast I'll lean up against the barrel that I like like sit on the ground just back against the barrel that we're sitting in and I'll take out my book Thought I put it in something lost lost in a drift. Oh That's my that's my romance novel Yes, I'm reading the book I've already I've already looked at the I know we had this conversation previously I've already looked at the the cover and the blurb on the back And I I'm taking it upon myself to familiarize myself with the contents of the book Although I understand how you think it's not completely necessary It's my money. I spent on the book. So that is what I choose to do with it. No, I can respect that Buck I have a request that you are not allowed to judge me for Can you read that aloud? I Guess I I just started the book. I mean if you want nothing else going on right now, I'm just waiting for a time I don't feel good Yeah, of course Sure, I'll read all it can read a lot. I don't want to be too loud because of course there are people that are Working and I don't want to bother so I see Don't I've not yet, right? I don't believe it's gonna be saucy, but let me just here. I'll start here Let's get into it. Yeah. I just starting early. I see chapter one lost and so I was Moving about the deck of the ship Wait, and then do you want me to just do you what you wish me to improvise the lost in the drift You think would be good. You can improvise if you want I can come I forget what you Said I forget what you said it was yes The premise was an old veteran airship captain has basically retired and is trying to find more new purpose in his life Before he runs into one similar in a similar situation where they team up to try and find a new purpose A new meaning a new calling before they find the new calling with each other And you said this is a good one right the good one. Yes, it's pretty true It's pretty now. We have standard you can you can predict where it's going But it's like it's not trying to do anything original, but it does it really well, you know It's like a 50k slobber. Yeah, you know they get through the only one bed adventure and the yeah Did you say this was an airship airship? Yes, it has a tasteful fade to black scene as well Okay, all right one. So we're not finding all our synonyms for heaving bosoms in such like no need for that There might be no They're subtle. Ah, yes chapter one lost I looked out of the sunset and You'd think that I had the beauty of the majestic reds and Wonderful yellows would be lost on me as someone who has seen the sunset from the decks of the ship Thousand have you been on a boat before? Yeah, I've been I've been on it not a not an airship, but I've been on a boat before yeah No, wait, is it about an airship? I didn't Well, I learned that from I'm cutting in I'm cutting in I thought you were the narrator for a second Well, I'm reading I believe from the perspective of the yeah, it was just so convincing at that go ahead This is why books are worth the trouble. Why thank you word. I appreciate it So the let me see where I lost my place here Sunsets and in times before off here we go from the deck of the ship the Kings mill was its name and it was What's a Kings mill was its name There's an old ship had been through Countless can you change the name to the boss's mill? Sorry, do you say you want me to change the name to yeah like the boss's mill You know, I think maybe the authorial voice of the author might be a little bit, but I doubt it's too important So sure the boss's mill. I don't have a pen. This is gonna be I want to remember this hold on Maybe you should write your own version Word, right? Right my handwriting isn't good. Got little talents. It's not easy Yeah, labor Fritz are you guys listening to this or oh of course I'm eavesdropping am I involved in this Do you realize everyone's kind of got a near out right now? I have not moved but you guys are quite loud It is true. Some people are listening and they're like, oh come on continue Word is in the barrel So I'm just trying to be loud enough so that my voice carries over the sound of the ocean for him to hear it Okay, that's why I'm not trying to be loud because I need an audience or want an audience Okay, the the name of this ship was the boss's mill It was an old ship. It's seen many a travel many a journey And as I look down at the wooden floor boards and then back up again at the at the large I assumed Joe it would be like a is it like a blimp kind of ship. I don't know I don't want to get the war. You know what I say you can take whatever liberties you want and I'll mold There was It could be whatever I looked up at the The fabric of the blimp above me I noticed a worn spot Right at the right is where the ropes and the the hitchings met the side and then I looked down at my hands the calluses That had warned themselves on those ropes specifically And as I look back at the sunset it made me think that this might be the last sunset I see aboard the boss's mill I Was starting to think that maybe my time as a ship captain was over There wasn't a much like an internal monologue or is he gonna fight somebody this guy is taking a sweet time to get anywhere Yeah, he really is he's just reflecting I think I think it's is I understand that there's supposed to be a bill I'm not even through the first paragraph. You can see and so I think Like a couple chapters forward see if anything okay, hold on hold on You hear footsteps coming up the stairs and it's dozen. He's got a few spirits with him and like Kind of wrapping of cloth. Oh, but you're gonna miss the slow burn. It's a bunch of people die Kids these days don't they don't know how to be patient to let a story come out I like that one especially the part where and the whole crew goes whoa I'll go back and read it myself if it's just for the purpose of entertaining each other through the port Listen, come on that build up It sets up a lot of important character development That's gonna pay off later and you're doing yourself a favor if you just sit there and just listen for a little bit All right, look narrative description of a situation is not character development. That's world building It's gonna keep doing that, you know true as that may be I promise you it's gonna be worth it later on if you Just be a little patient This is just me or is hearing a book much slower than reading it I Wouldn't know I read it out as I as I read it so that's my only I read every other word By the way, here's this we do have a little bit of rum down there a little bit of snacks Here you go. He gives you like some to some jerky sticks. Yeah, what's available? So it's basically like dried rations cool gourmet Yeah Settles me down a little bit Well, what buck is reading this out later on fritz are you guys doing anything specific or you just like listening in? I'm trying to figure out the the life hack for not getting Seesick, it's like all right. Maybe if I watch the horizon that'll work. No, that's not helping Maybe I close my eyes. Oh, that's worse. I'll rub your back like Actually, you know what later on you can give me a constitution saving throw with Ah shucks Let's see if I can figure out how to do that. It's 17. All right Hey, you feel your breakfast coming up a little bit, but thanks to fritz is patting you on the back You're able to keep it down and feel a sense of normalcy. Oh Thank goodness And you can see that the orc that you signed is cutlass is just like are you all right? Do you need? Yes, I'm something No, no, I why is there something for feeling Gross about being on water I don't know, but I've got a little rat friend if you would like to see him Yes, he reaches into his pocket and you hear a little bit of squeaking and he pulls out and true to his words, there's a little teeny rat and You can see that it's like a little bit soaked as well and he he's it's eating like a cracker Off-board kind of at the docks was swimming for his life when I picked him up I don't know where he's from, but he's with me for now might drop him off when we get to newbies sky. I See May I see the rat? Oh, yeah, of course any hands him over You can speak with animals, it's a little it's a little scrungly. Yes, you can speak with animals What do you say to the rat? Hello, I trust you are an expert at ocean faring travel. Do you have any tips for a new a new participant in sailing? You can see it's munching on the cracker just Good food No, I almost drowned. I don't know how to swim. I See We have much in common little friend You are very Bear-looking rat. Yes, I expect I would be Do you have hard bread like this that big green rat gave? Not on me Continues to munch on its own cracker Fascinating Would you like to speak to the rat? Rat rat rat You see the rat is almost finishing off its cracker as it looks at you fritz and then it immediately H evening and just jumps out of Laira's hand it goes to hide in between the barrels bird bird bird bird Has this rat ever seen a cat before? I feel strangely offended Yes, but not me is there something wrong with my cat likeness You are a very good cat. The orc pointing its fingers together. Oh, I think you're pretty intimidating. Oh, well, thank you. I give really good screeches. I'll tell the rat. I would trust Fritz with my life and she will certainly pet you well. Better than I could. Give me an animal handling check. Oh no. With advantage because you can speak to the rat and it can understand you. Nice. Just skitters a little bit out from between the barrels. Good bird. Yes, many birds are good, especially this one. Not snatch me out of the ground and fly to nest to feed the horrible birdlings. I don't believe she has a nest or horrible birdlings. So you are safe. It skitters up close to you Fritz, kind of by your feet and sniffs it and skitters up your leg and just goes up to your hair and just kind of kneads it a little bit. Hmm, good bird. I guess it likes feathers. Diplomatic relations have been established. I have a rat in my head, life is complete. Excellent, we're really getting the hang of this. Yes. Yeah, and that distracts you at least for a moment from the rocky waving of the ship that you are on. Then let's see, the ship goes on. It's a nice time for a bit. You read more of Lost in a Drift and I assume word gets more impatient at all the build up that's the laying, the foundations of the story and the characters. It does take quite a while. It's like talking levels of over description. Really? Yeah. My God. And as you are sailing out, the ship actually starts to list just a bit from side to side more than it normally does. And you can see that Dozen is like, whoa, steady there girl. We bump into anything. Is this normal? Typically sometimes it's just, often the seas are not this little antsy with how calm the skies are. Then, boom, something hits the ship and it shakes as if you had just bumped into something. And Dozen calls out, rotten roots, what was that? And then the whole ship goes quiet for a moment. Everyone is still for a few seconds. Dozen calls out to the crow's nest, hey seagull, where'd that come from? And the crewmate in the crow's nest shouts back, nowhere captain, I don't say nothing. Dozen looks befuddled and just kind of looks around. Nimi to scout. Hi Fritz, you do a little bit of scouting. Fly around the ship, see if you can find something. Checking for damages. All right, you fly around and you can give me a perception check if you wish. Yes. The skills are in alphabetical order. There it is, yes. Fly around and you can see that, like below the surface of the water, you can see that something, there is a cannonball lodge in the side of the ship. It hasn't punctured all the way through, but someone fired something at the ship. I guess I'll scream break in the hole. Hey crew, get below deck, fix that break. And you can see that a couple of them go downstairs and you can hear shuffling around. And with that such a high roll as well, you can see that there's distortions under the water as if there's something there. Four of them, but there's nothing. It's as if there's a bubble in the water. A large bubble. Like something invisible is depressing the water. Yes. Perhaps. I see. I'll put it back, like something's a bit, like something's a foot, dozen. Something bad. I don't know yet. Then as you say that, boom, the ship shakes again, bobbing side to side and dozen calls out to the crew, oh, hands on deck, fasten the cannons, check the lifelines. And you can see the crew starts to get together and I'm going to need everyone to roll initiative for this is going to be a skill challenge. Oh, boy. Boys, why is Ladd you stuck to her on there? Wow, that's my best roll of the game so far. Oh, wait, I rolled intelligence, I'm so like, roll it. That's okay. It's my brain to find. We're all doing so well this time. Yeah. Except we don't know what to do this time. Don't say that. Why did you say that? Sorry, sorry. I'm just glad to be back on familiar terrain, sort of. So this skill challenge, something is attacking the boat. You will use your skills and abilities to discover and or stop what it might be before it does more damage to the ship and potentially delay your travel with three successes of which Fritz, because of your such high perception rule, you will already have one. You will discover the source of the attack, but with three failures, the source will become clear by itself but at a hefty cost to the ship and potentially the crew. So let me rearrange everybody in the correct order. So first off is word. Oh, boy. I think word is going to bolt out of the barrel and that any command that the captain gives relating to the ropes, I'm gonna use my, what's the rogue ability that I get where I move super fast? Cunning action. Cunning action dodge. Or rather dash. Acrobatics, just to dash. To basically, there's no way that I'm walking on two feet on a boat, so I'm scrambling all legs, trying to climb up everything and just help fasten whatever needs fastening if that is acceptable. Oh yeah, oh right, yeah. With that, yes, you're climbing around, you climb on the ropes that head up to the mast like a freaking fast old spider going around fastening the ropes, making sure everybody's lifeline is around their waist and tight and that nothing short of a kraken is going to pull them overboard. Yeah, there's a terrible, like my waist hurts with how tight my lifeline is. So with that, I will also say that the lifeline will prevent you from going any further than let's say 80 feet away from the ship. No, that's too much. So if you, because I'll say that it's tied to this mast here, so that, you know, like if you're knocked overboard, you'll be dragged beside the ship, but you won't be lost at sea. And that's one success, you have two successes. This might be a short skill challenge. Layra, your turn. Yes, so I haven't done much spell reshuffling, but in the interest of us being on a ship, I did swap out one of my cantrips for shape water, which allows me to freeze a five-foot cube of water that ended up freezes in an hour. I would like to use this to plug any holes those cannonballs make in the hull. Oh, okay, well, that's not gonna be a thing that requires a roll at all, because that's a spell that just does a thing. So, yes. And it's a cantrip, I can just keep doing it. Yes, you cantrip, you plug one hole and the hole that Fritz had called out and it just shoosh shoosh shoosh iced over to completely seal it, and yeah, that's gonna be three successes. All right, well, fast skill challenge, and you do so. Nice. And as you do, you're able to endure whatever it was that attacked you so that the attackers essentially give up and they reveal themselves. And I give you a sec to show them, selecting all. It's not destruct order. And as you can see, there are several boats with cannons that rise up out from underneath the surface of the water, they reveal themselves as they seem to have been using some kind of cloaking magic of some kind. They reveal themselves and you can see that there are four attack boats kind of all surrounding the Nadoho gear and Dozen, on one of them, you notice that it is being led by a hobgoblin woman with ragged bindings, a scruffy short hair wrapped in a bandana and decorated with jewelry. And Dozen notices this, leans over to the side of the Nado and jeers at her. Paola, and you guys encounter Paola the Rattler. Whoa. Go, Paola. Oh no, she's hot. Oh no, they're all hot. They're all hot, stop it, Joe. And the hobgoblin calls out, ever a nice day to see you, old man. Apologies for the warning shots. I just heard that you were carrying some high value cargo this afternoon and we'll be taking it off your hands today if you'll be so kind. Get the page on the cargo. Maybe we give it to them. I think there's a mix up here. Word, get back in the barrel. Okay, I'll go back in my bag. Where are the cargo? I think there's a little mix up here. Value cargo is us. Fritz, Fritz, why would you tell her that? She calls out, oh, we know, darling, we know. I knew it. And what exactly do you want us for? I'm glad you asked. All these artifacts and dragons, you know, they're very important to a lengthy and I intend to take that burden off your hands and sell it to the highest bidder. And so if you would make this job a whole lot easier for me, I'd be very grateful. Interesting. DM, you might need to rule how entangle works in the ocean. Oh, shit. Give us one second to discuss so we can come peacefully. Of course, but if any of your crew makes any sudden movements, I'm afraid you'll have a lot of holes to patch up. All right, does anybody have a fake amulet? How do you sell a person? We don't need to get into that right now. Oh, no, we don't. I think we're going to do. I want to throw word in the barrel at them. I think that that... I would not like that. How about we call that plan C? That plan Z. Wait, that one worked in SpongeBob. Plan F. All right, if we make it through plans A through E, we throw word back. No. And you can hear a shot fired. The ship doesn't shaker a little bit, but you can see that Paola is carrying what looks to be a flintlock pistol and fires it in the air. Tick, talk pilgrims. All right, excuse me. I'm going to go to the front of the ship. Can I go, can I follow? You may. With the barrel in hand. Yeah, with word in the barrel. With word in the barrel? Okay, word, make a stealth check with advantage. Come on. Stealth, bam. Okay, you are pretty well hidden. You feel like if anybody took a second look at you, they could probably see, but it's kind of hard to see at the angle that they are, kind of low down there. So probably pretty hidden. I'm clinging to the lid. Okay, Leira, you go to the front of the ship and you can see Paola. And she is holding the flintlock pistol, kind of pointed in your direction. And you can see that the rest of her crew as well, they're like hands ready at the string of the cannons pointed at the ship. Yeah, I don't know what entangle does in the ocean, but in the interest of scientific inquiry, I would like to find out. Okay, I can let you know so that, okay, all right. Cause I wouldn't want you to make like a, okay. So how- I'm not making any sign that I'm doing this, if I can help it. It doesn't say it has a verbal or somatic component. It doesn't entangle. Well, hold on. It says components verbal and somatic, but it doesn't specify what they are. Anyway. Maybe I'm just sort of like looking back at like, Buck is just kind of like, oh yes, how interesting. Anyway, full. Okay. I always like trying to subtly cast a spell being like a stealth check. Yeah, I would say so. Cause I think that is something that a sorcerer gets. If you're trying to do it without, because people cast spells in this world, so they can notice like familiar gestures. So if you do want to do it stealthily without them noticing, I'm gonna need a stealth check. Great, I have plus zero on this. Hooray. 16. And before this happens, I assume Buck and word, you had a plan you wanted to do as well. What was your plan? I have a plan to stay in this barrel. Oh, you're gonna stay in this. I was gonna throw the barrel at one of these two. Maybe we can do that after we do my plan. Okay, yes, I was just wondering in case you wanted to do something at the same time. I didn't know what Lara's plan was, but I want to be able to throw the barrel. Yeah, yeah, sorry. I didn't mean to say that you don't do that, right? I just wanted to see if there was anyone who wanted to do it like at the same time or something, or if you would like to do it by yourself. Okay, so, yes, you whisper a few words, move your hands a bit, and you can see that Paola has a little smile on her face, but then it's too late before she notices what your hand gestures behind your back are doing, and she is about to save fire and the entangle immediately wraps around her entire boat. Locking down the cannon attached to it, and locking her down, and I'm gonna need everyone to roll initiative once again. Again. What's the radius of that spell? Let me, yeah, she's big. Is it like 20 foot radius? It's a 20 foot, it's a 20 foot square, but it's a 90 foot range to cast, and then it's a 20 foot square. So we'll just go roughly like, let's say that. Yeah. I am curious where the vines came from. Yes, well, it's made of wood. How would you like a flavor, it actually? Well, I was sort of curious whether it would like grow out of seaweed in the ocean, or if it would grow out of the wood in the boat, but I don't think I had an assumption over which it would do, so, you know, whatever. Spell flavor is up to you, friendo. Oh, well, the thing is the ocean's a new environment for me, you know? Oh, so you don't know, and you were just like hoping that something. I don't know what's gonna happen when I cast it. Okay, okay, so I didn't know if you had a specific idea of how you wanted it, but if you're gonna, if you wanna give me the leeway, I can describe how it happens. Of course, DM choice. So being that the ship is made of wood, you can see that pieces of it sprout out into branches and burst out from this kind of tempered wood that by all rights should have been sealed and long complete into the structure, but somehow spew out and wrap around the people on it. Well done. Interesting. So, yes, let's see. I'm gonna need, yeah, word and fritz as well to roll initiative. Charthi? Yeah. Make sure your token is selected, and I'm gonna roll initiative for them. Nice. Okay, so first up is Buck. You can see that this ship is, this boat is entangled. You can see that they're struggling and that Paola is struggling to give the order and kind of the other people are panicking a little bit as to what to do, suddenly, because they're like, oh, fuck, is my ship going to do that? It's not outside their own possibility, but I can't do them all at once. Can I get here and then chuck word? The word barrel, I guess I don't know which one I want, which side do you wanna go to? Neither, I wanna stay in my barrel. I, wait, you're gonna stay in your barrel. It's just your barrel, it's gonna be chucked. The barrel's moving. I'll chuck him at these people over here. Word and a barrel. You plant, I say, plant F and then I, no, raise the barrel over my head and then I try and hit these people with it. All right, give me a strength check. It is an improvised weapon. You chuck the barrel like Donkey Kong down into the boat and into this guy. I'm gonna need you to give me a fuck. I wasn't anticipating to think of what the damage died for a cobalt in a barrel was today. Cobalt in a barrel, cobalt in a barrel. Let's do, yeah, let's do a D8. There's probably bar fight rules for something like that, right? Just one D8? Yeah, that's pretty heavy, because normally, yeah, it's your strength score. One D8, okay, you throw it, it bangs into this human's face, and you can see that you've caused him a nose bleed. And word, you are in the barrel over here. They seem to still think you're some barrel and they're very upset at you, Buck. The audacity that you would just throw this barrel at them. This boat's going down. I have, I have 20 feet still, or now 15 feet still of movement. Can I jump, I guess I can try and get in the water. You could try and jump on the ship if you want. It's up to you. Before I do that, allow me to draw one of my cards and see what, as I start my bonus action, I am gonna rage. All right, let's rage. Let me, so I don't have to remember how to do this to where it shows up on the thing. I think it's this. Lyra, I gave your entangled little flowers. Oh, nice. Thank you. That actually might change things a little bit. So, my hammer, big blind, begins to glow, and I can now, the way that I understand this work is I essentially can just throw my big hammer, because it's light and thrown, even though it's a two-handed weapon, and I can throw it, and then it comes back to me. Wow. It just zipped back in your hand. Respawn. Yeah, so the range is, so the range is 20, so I should be able to hit either of them with it. We'll be all nearing it. Yeah, we're no, so I actually don't have to leave the, but I don't have my action. I can't, I don't have my action. Yeah, I'll, with that in mind, Lyra can, I don't know if Lyra can handle these, I assume she can handle these people by themselves, but I'll stay where I am for now. Okay. So on my turn. Next are the pirates' turns. You can see that Paola is like struggling, what the hell's, come on, why are you standing there for? Fire! And you can see at the command, these pirates, are you going to pull the string on their cannons and fire on the ship? Boom, boom, boom, boom! Three of them fire off as this one cannot, as it is locked down by the entangle, and the ship starts to take damage, breaking through the hull. And you can see that a few of the crewmates as well kind of go to their weapons barrels to pull out their weapons. And you can see they've got their spears at the ready and Dozen is going to hop down from his wheel and he's gonna pull out his flintlock and start taking shots at the pirates. This one, this water genasi, takes the barrel word, lifts it up, heavy barrel, and they're just gonna chuck it into the ocean. You are now afloat. That's a lot of opportunity though. That is an attack of opportunity. Do you wish to take it with advantage since you are attacking out of stealth? Absolutely. Please please. I am going to swing at him with my fire dagger. Yeah. Oh. I get it. 19 and I deal an additional 1D4. Let me just roll that on Google real quick. Oh, okay. I got a two, so let's just go with that. Oh, okay. So that is six plus eight plus two. So this poor water genasi unbeknownst to them, they pick up the barrel and are about to throw it and on the way as they let loose, you just like immediately an arm just lashes out from the barrel, cuts them, and they're, ah, what the hell? And yeah, you just sing them real bad and they stumble backwards. They are knocked out by just that one slash. Nice. Dang. That can happen to your boat too. But you are still afloat in the water. No, shit. As you slash them as they were chucking you. Okay. Uh, yeah. And that is what happened. You can see the boat is taking heavy damage. Let's see. Oh, wait, Paula needs to do a thing. She's gonna try and get out. She fails. She's gonna use her action to try and get out. She gets out, she pulls out a cutlass and starts tearing to shreds the vines around her. But that is going to be her turn. You can see that her smile is now a gritted frown, gritted just here. All right, Leira. There's no way to treat your own boat. Let's see. Poof. I wanna keep the ship afloat. I'm gonna use another shapewater cantrip on the nearest cannonball wound, I guess. Damage to just seal the hole. Yes. You do so. Yeah, it's enough. Yeah. And I'm assuming the other two are at the back of the ship, so I might, I'll move towards them so I can try and seal them up on my next turn, too. All right, I'm going to draw the seals with little circles to indicate where you've sealed them so far and just to remind myself that they have been sealed. Oh wow, my movement is bad. I'll get there eventually. And I'm still holding concentration on the entangle because I figure that'll at least slow down whoever this is we're dealing with because it makes her boat difficult to reign. Yes. Fritz, your turn. Okay, I think first of all, I'm gonna use my movement to kind of be in front of Leira. Because I want to protect them because I know they're the one with the stuff. But they don't. Yes, exactly. But I'm still gonna take a precaution. Sure. You know what? I'm gonna use my crossbow to target dudes over here. It's not letting me ping. Are you clicking and holding? These ones. Yeah, there we go. These ones. Okay, yes, you're gonna use a crossbow? Yes. So the water genasi is knocked out. All that's left is the human. Okay, guess human. So sorry. You fire it and you can see the human is still taken aback by the word in a barrel and just guide. I don't know where. Lands handling. Well done. Anything else you wish to do? I'm just making sure if there's anything else I want to do. I think I'm good right now. Okay. Sweet. Word, you're floating in a barrel. I exit the barrel. I'm gonna try and climb up the side of the boat and claim it as my first belonging on this journey. I'm going to, I think just swipe at the dude. Okay. He would totally know that I'm there so I'm just going to. Yeah, you got sneak attack on the last one since it was at advantage but not this one. Yeah, well I mean just in general I don't have advantage. Yeah, of course, yeah. And this one you swipe but then he notices you, he pulls his own cutlass and he parries it out of the way. Oh Jesus. Oh, so cool. You better leave this one. And you're going to make me smell fry? Little alligator eyes peering over the side of the boat I'm cleaning. This is mine. No matter what. We'll see about that. I guess we will. I'm like standing there like pushing boots just ready to duel him. One couple. Buck, your turn again. I'll take out my big blind which is like my huge mace which is now glowing and I'm able to very like kind of toss it in my hand and I'll take it and just kind of sideways throw it so it's spinning so I can get some bludgeoning damage. And then I'll try and hit this guy right here who's by the cannon. Let me roll. Ooh, not enough. You throw it and it goes wide and kind of knocks into the wood of the boat a little bit but then bounces back, right? You can call it back to you. It re, at the end of my turn, it reappears in my hand. Ah, it reappears, okay. Or at the end of the current turn, I don't know if that's my turn or... I don't know if it matters. Yeah, I don't think it matters. Yeah, all right. Dang. I don't want to necessarily get close. Or didn't I both roll twos, huh? I will stay where I am for now. Yes. Okay. And I don't have anything else that I want to do. So I'll end my turn. Next to the pirate's turn. The elf tries to pull the string on the cannon anyway but it's stuck on the entangled vines. And you can see that Paola just like curses under her breath and she just takes a rope to throw at the top of the ship. Yep, it wraps around. She like swings over, climbs up and she is going to take a stab at you, buck. With her dagger. It's nothing personal. She takes a stab and she is gonna stab you. And I need you to make a constitution saving throw. Uh-oh. Oh, you're fine. Okay. Hot dang. You will take three, i.e. one piercing damage from resisting it because you are raging. Heck yeah. And you have resisted something as you notice that the dagger she has coated with a bright green liquid. That's probably fine. And you can see that the other pirates they're reloading their cannons. So that's what they're going to do this turn. They're going to take an action to reload so they don't fire on the ship. However, their shipmate, their boat mate is going to try and climb on the ship including this Tabaxi who scurries on up and is going to take a shot at Dozen and it hurts them real bad. They take their flip lock and hits Dozen and he hits them in the side. This tiefling is going to hop on the boat and he is going to run and try and shove this human overboard. Hey. And he does so. He just runs up and does like a sparta kick and kicks the human off. Luckily the human is attached to the lifeline so he is safe for now. But he is being dragged behind the ship in the water and the tiefling notices the rope and has an idea. This human is going to try and attack you word. Ooh, and he's taking his cutlass and swiping and swiping and swiping and nicks you pretty good a few times. And you are going to take four slashing damage. You gotta pay for that. The crew though, you can see that the orc is like, no, Captain, don't worry, I'll help you. And he goes to go and like just start swinging at the tabaxi. The tabaxi is too quick. This gnome is going to try and take a shot at the human. The crew is just rolling really bad today. This human is going to try and take a shot at the elf and does land it. And Dozen is going to clutch at his wound. He's gonna go and try and take cover behind the barrels and he's gonna try and wrap some medical supplies around his wound. He seems badly hurt. And this dwarf is going to try and turn one of these cannons over here and load it. And that's their turn. Layra. Great. Okay, let's see. I have 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Great, that's all of my movement. Bonus action. I'm gonna bomb of the summer court to Captain Dozen so he gets one D6 healing. Ooh, wonderful. Let me just, I think that might work. Ooh, you can see that his breathing slows a bit and he is a little calm down and he gives you a nod, a knowing nod. Awesome. All right, that tiefling is 40 feet away from me, which is good, because I have a lot of things that are 40 feet range. Yeah, we're gonna try an ice knife. His bomb of the summer court is not a spell. It's a thing, I drew it. It's a feature, yeah. So I believe I can just, yeah. Let's see, how did that do? Ooh, all right, DC 13, let's see. Ooh, he fails it, so he takes the full damage. You throw your ice knife and it lodges into him and it shudders a little bit. And he stops looking at the rope that he was getting ready to cut and it looks instead at you. Good, that's one piercing and four cold, so yeah. Let's see, that was my movement action, bonus action. Yeah, I think that's my whole turn. And I haven't been damaged so I can still hold concentration on the entangle. Nice, Fritz, your turn. Okay, I'm going to, I'm gonna jump up onto this box. Like doot, doot, doot. And hi, lady, sorry, um, crossbow. Ooh, it's gonna go a little wide as she dodges out of the way, like just a slight tilt of her chest to the side and it goes past her. Not really much else I can do, that is the life of a ranger and end of turn. Word, your turn. You can see this human is very badly hurt now. Oh yeah, I pull out my second dagger. I was trying to be nice, but you don't deserve that anymore. And I'll make my first attack. And my second, my offhand attack. Let's see, we're rolling. Oh my gosh. Wow. We rolled too well on the initiative. The universe is balancing itself out. You go, Red, remember earlier when you said we were rolling really well and I said, you're gonna jinx us. Well, Shucks. Both daggers as you swipe and swipe, he ting ting parries both with his cutlass. All right, well, I'm afraid of you. I'm gonna do something else. And I scurry past him and I try and set up the cannon to move it over toward this boat. Oh. Yes, you give me a strength check. Yes, I have an idea. Okay. Or athletics, if you so wish. Yeah, let's do athletics. Yep, you put, it takes a little bit to do it, but you turn it and turn it and it's faced at the other boat. And you can see the elf is like, no, no, no, no, no. You'll loss. This poor guy. I assume I can't fire it on this. You use your bonus action to offhand him. Yes, I did. Yeah, you did. Sadly, no. Cool. Next. It's my turn. Buck. Well, I'm only good for hitting stuff, so let's hope we get to run and go get any keys. Hey. Wow, that's hefty. That's a hefty blow. That's a chunky one. All right, and oh my gosh, you hear a crunch as you hit her in the side. And you knock the smile right off her face. Not only that, DM, because of the feet that I have, I can move her five feet. Are you gonna knock her off? Oh, I'm gonna knock her off the boat. This is the problem with trying to do the swashbuckling, you know, both of you balancing on the beam thing against someone with a big fuck off hammer. So I will, can I knock her over on this side? You most certainly can. Does she need to roll anything about that or you just get to move her for free? I get to just move her for free if I hit her and do bludgeoning. Wow, that's pretty good. Yeah, you just bat her off the side. And she's like rotten ropes into the water and you can see that she just boom, boom, boom against the side of the hull a little bit. So we are moving. We are moving, yes. Okay. I'm gonna, I still have my movement. I wanna go try and take care of some of these other boats. So I have 40 feet of movement. Why am I so slow? Fritz, I don't know if you can take care of the boat but I'm gonna head towards the back so I'll go here. Wait, is this something you want me to do? Cause you're running by, you can communicate it to me. No, I trust you. That's a lot of trust. I don't know what I'm doing. I see, you got this Fritz and then I, and then I'll end my turn there. Okay, next to the pirate's turns, this elf is gonna try, he's gonna use it to action to just get out of the vines. And he does so, and he pulls the string on the cannon and it fires again on the ship. You can see it's shaking and you can see the ship is actually sinking just a little bit. You gotta get back on that freeze water. And this guy is, this human is gonna look at you word. Hey, get off of that. And he's gonna try and shove you. I need you a contesting acrobatics or, or athletics of your choice. My greatest foe. Oh no. It's okay, he rolled on that one. Yes. He goes to shove you. But he slips because of the rocking of the boat that you two have been doing and he falls prone. I like Latin pointing a lip. This Tabaxi is going to swipe at the orc. Yeah, cuts him in the tendon and like snakes around him. And he kind of falls to his knee. The orc is prone as well. The dwarf is, has the cannon loaded. So they are going to pull it. It doesn't hit the other boat. It just kind of lands in the water a little bit. This tiefling is going to run up to you later up. Yep, come at me bro. And he kind of leaps and does a little combat roll as he lands on the ship. And he is going to throw two daggers at you. Oh, very impressive. Oh, they both land into you. That makes sense. My armor class is 11. You take eight damage and I need you to make a constitution saving throw. Certainly. Let's just do the con save first. That's bad, I guess. You are poisoned. So, what is poisoned to mean? It's not damage over time. It's like disadvantage on skill checks. Attack rolls are skill checks, yeah. Yeah, so you are poisoned, so you will have disadvantage on attack rolls and skill checks until you can get it cured. I'm going to be a rules butt here and say that she is concentrating on a spell. She is, you are, yeah, I forgot about that. So you need to make a constitution save and beat, he dealt eight damage to you. So 10, you have to beat a 10. Yeah, you're fine. Your vine is still concentrating. Okay, great. DM, now might be a bad time, but I forgot to say that when I did the attack earlier, it would have done an additional two extra damage because of my rage. Ah, yeah, so two extra damage here, I'll mark it down. Yeah, so 17. No, that's good, sorry. Thank you for letting me know. No, the math is important. This halfling is going to fire the cannon, another hole in the ship, and this elf is going to fire the cannon, but then doesn't and is pulled overboard by something. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, gosh. Always a bigger fish. Next, play me off of here. Yes, okay. All right, let's see. So many options. It takes an action to seal up one of the holes with the shape water, and I kind of don't want to do that right this minute. Instead, I think, okay, yeah. Yeah, okay. I would like to walk my way over to, come on, five, 10, 15, 20. Yeah, I think that's within range. What's the range on that? Let me just check something. Range self, ah, okay, I need to get a little bit closer. Um, I would like to say, I'm afraid this voyage is about to become unprofitable and cast Thunder Wave at this smaller boat. Oh, Thunder Wave, all right. It emanates out from you and just ruptures a little bit of the boat, shaking it, and let's make a saving throw for this. Half fling. Ooh, he makes it. Is that a good oo or a bad oo? He makes it, he makes the save, so he only takes half damage, and I assume Thunder Wave pushes things as well, yeah? Yes, on a failed save, creatures push 10 feet away from you on a successful, they take half as much damage and isn't pushed. However, unsecured objects that are completely within the area of effect are automatically pushed 10 feet away from you. Does the boat count? It most certainly does, and you push the boat and it gets pushed like this. Yes. Pointed away from the ship. There we go, that's 10 feet. And you can see the half, the halfling is like, ooh, just like wobbling as the ship is forcefully pushed away from you. I figure if we can make this not worth their while, they'll probably leave. Oh boy, I'm out of first level spells now though. Let's see, so that was my action, my movement, and I'm going to bonus action bomb of the summer court. Can I do that to myself? It says a creature you can see within x number of feet. Yeah, you can do it on yourself, I'm pretty sure, what that means. Sweet, I would love to do that then. Yeah, I think it would say a creature other than you, if it couldn't, all right, well done. All right, thank you. Next is Fritz. Okay, well I'm first of all going to turn to these two, the elf and human and say under deck, like they need to go repair, like go, go, go, go. Okay, they nod and take you at your word as they do know you well and they trust you and they are going to run under deck to fix the ship on their turn. But I will also use shape of water to hold ourselves up a little bit. I cut you, sorry, don't, you know, perish. I don't have the way to cast it. Shape of water, I think it's only in a five foot cube. Oh, are they not, yeah. It's a five foot cube but it has a range, hold on, do you want me to just cast it in so you can? Yeah, it's got a range of 30 feet but it's a five foot cube. So the area of the water is only five foot cube, so one square. So you can use it to seal the breeches. You can also, you can move five cubic feet of water out of the hold if you wanted to but you know, one thing at a time. Would I be able to be in range to patch one of the holes up? Yes, absolutely. Then yeah, I'm gonna patch that hole up. Yeah, okay, yeah, you patched the second hole that the elf made. I just gotta wait for them to go repair it. Yup, seals up the hole, less water is sinking into the ship. Good, good, good. And then I'm gonna use some of my movement to kind of get higher up in the air. All right. Because before it was kind of just scutting and hopping I'm actually gonna go back to flying. All right, nice. Next. Oh, wait, are you, are you done? I think I'm done. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm done, I'm done, sorry. Word, your turn. You have the cannon aimed at the other boat. I do. I have an immediate issue I have to deal with so I'm going to use, you said it's gonna be a bonus action to pull the cord? Yes. Okay, then I will stab at him with my dagger. He is prone. So you have advantage and... Stop moving. No! Chris, Chris, Chris! Will you stab at him? Boss, boss, boss, boss. Boss, boss! Do you actually, like that is enough attack to kill him if you still wish. I will certainly take his life. Okay, you stab him, and he's dead. Wow, first kill of the campaign. That's what you get for blocking like three of my attacks and then I tug on the cord and I blow up the other boat. Yes, you blow up the other boat. It immediately just shatters into splinters and the elf is lost adrift at sea. Let's see how much damage they have. Wasn't he already dragged overboard? No, that was the elf up here. Oh, that's good, great. Everything's coming up us. This elf is still up, but you can see that he is completely dazed and just in the water now and this boat is completely destroyed. Oh, I can stop holding concentration on that. And yeah, anything else? Two for one, double kill. Double kill. Oh, triple kill. The boat's gone. Goodbye, flowers. Goodbye, flowers. Pentakill. Garage sale, oh yeah. What's that? Kilimanjaro. I don't know. Kil-tacular. I like when you get a spree with the Spartan laser, he goes sunburst. Killie spree. Anyway, anything else work? I think that's your bonus action and your action. Do you want to move at all? Mm, I tugged it. I am going to go and try and I'll start to lift this guy up and I'm gonna just shove him out of the boat. Out of the boat? You shove him out of the boat, just roll him out and you can see something sucks him into the water as well. Death to every pirate but me. That's it. Yeah, he did not sink at a normal rate. Something pulled him under. Okay, I will not be touching the water. Buck, your turn. Yeah, let me just, I can hit him from there actually because I have go-go gadget. Boatbear arms. So I will go here and then I will try and hit him with my, with big blind. Mm, not enough sadly. You go and he is dodging and weaving out of the way, it's a very agile pirate. That's fine, I think that's all I want to do, so end my turn. Okay, next are the pirate's turns and you can see that the Tabaxi is just gonna leave the Orc B and he's gonna look for the captain and he sees him and he just picks him up by the scruff and he's gonna try and grapple him and he succeeds. The Tabaxi has grappled Dozen and has him in a headlock and just holds him here, pointing a pistol at him. Oh, great. Holding him hostage. Next, the tiefling is going to close the distance with you, Buck, and going to attack you. Fair enough. Ah, not enough. You are able to parry some of these blows. These two are going to go below deck to go and fix the hull and Paola, just struggling after being knocked off the ship, is going to climb back up. You can see her hair is frazzled. She is real beat up and bruised and this halfling is gonna try and steer his boat but he gets sucked under. Shoo. And this elf you see gets sucked under. Shoo. And suddenly. We're out. Something else enters the fray. As you can see that some of the boats are missing the crew, you can see that Paola notices this as well and she looks a little bit shocked. Where? Where's the crew? And as you guys are fighting, the ocean goes silent and still and out from the waters spew up a familiar foe. Oh no. It's the blot. Oh my God. As they rise up and shoot out of the water landing on the ship, including some geysers, as you know them, things that fire spews of dark energy. The typical blot blobs as well as one very tall human. Humanoid blot form with one glowing red eye. Oh yes, the blot has arrived and it seems to have appeared from under the surface of the water and hopped onto the ship. They seem to have been the ones that have been pulling people overboard for whatever reason and there's a large humanoid blot like creature on the ship that is staring directly at you, Leira. Oh, what? You got the heart. I guess that might be it. That is their turn. They have spent the turn getting on the surface and word you can see that there's a couple by you as well. Yeah. Leira, your turn. All right. What I would like to do is just move myself, 15, 20, 25, and then I would like to use my shapewater cantrip to lift the water that that last crew member is in out of the water. So maybe he can like pull himself back on board along the rope without it being too much of an issue. I'm gonna say that's very clever use and you do so like he will have to basically do stuff on his turn, but you pull the water towards the boat and he will be able to climb back on board on his turn. Awesome. I just didn't want him getting dragged under or the boat getting dragged under by him. Yeah, you just hear it. Thank you. No problem. Okay, so that was action movement. Don't have many useful bonus actions. Actually, that's not true. I'm going to use my bonus action to shift into my slightly more cat-like form and get six temporary hit points. Ooh, nice. And also more movement because I feel like this is bad. All right, so that was movement action bonus action. Probably gonna need it. That's my turn. Very good playing around the poison. You haven't had to roll a skill check or attack since you got it. Being a spellcaster is fantastic. I just pointed stuff and things happen. Fritz, your turn. A bunch of blood is on board now. Yeah, I've noticed that. I'm gonna do what my character's most likely gonna do. Sorry, word. I'm gonna go help those in. Yeah, fuck. So I'm gonna go over 35 feet. Let me just double check what that was. Let's go. That's 35. Hold on, wait. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Um, 25 feet to fly just off the board here. And I am going to use, what was it? Technically, because we're moving forward and Fritz is flying, do they move faster backwards? That's a good question. I'm gonna say yes. I say you double your movement speed when flying backwards because the ship is going forwards. Ooh, okay, cool. I... Are you still going to bonus action dash? No, no, no, I wasn't going to bonus action dash. Oh. That was only, that was only 25 feet there. I'm going to use gust of wind and it covers these two up to, wait, is this two square? So that's 10 feet. Towards the tabaxi. I can't put it in chat, but I can copy and paste what it says. If you would like. Pretty much, I'm trying to blow the gun out of their hand. They have to roll a strength save check every round or they will get pushed back. You're aiming it so that it only hits the tabaxi and not dozen yet. Yep, because that's exactly why I moved here because it's only 10 feet. Ooh, yeah, you push and they just like poop, poop, poop, topple over the gun, like next to the orc and they are forced to let go of dozen. And the orc just says, hello, friend. And he just cracks his knuckles a little bit. The tabaxi is going to be prone since he was just knocked over this chest high wall and tripped down and the orc waves at you. Thanks, friends. Okay, I have, you said my movement gets doubled. What is considered that way? So if I'm moving the way from that. Yes, since the ship is moving forwards. Basically I get 60 feet of movement. That's great. Woo! Okay. Well, you already moved 25 this way, yeah? Yeah, I know. So you have essentially 10 because five. Okay, okay, I'm glad I now know how this works. So it's not just a double check. It's not just when I'm dashing. As long as I'm moving down the ship, my movement gets doubled. Yes, but you could also dash and then have 120 moving speed away from the ship that direction. But you'd have to catch it. 120 if I have. If you go that way. If I use my dash, because my dash gives me an extra 30, right? Yes. Okay, don't know where 120, I'm not good at math. Okay, I'm going. Right now you only have 15 left. But I just used an action so I don't have an action. Yeah, not good. You have movement though. If you wish to move at all. Like you can move anytime you're in your car. I will move 15, I will move that extra 15 feet. Flying your, what is it, 15 feet in the air? I'm like perched up on the, like I've grabbed onto the cannon. Next word, you're surrounded by two blot. They better get off my boat. I'm gonna target the little one with the flaming volcano head. I'm gonna see if I can squash him first. So I'm just gonna do, what is it? Two weapon fighting. Bam and bam, ooh. That first one is enough, believe it or not. These things are glass cannons. As you stab into it and it like shatters, like it's made of glass. And the pieces fall into the water and sink into the abyss below. So you do have a second attack since you only needed that first one. Oh, I think I would have probably, I would have used the off hand to try and attack that guy and I would have gotten the same role so I'm not gonna cheat out of that. So let's see the severity on that net one. Oh, that's a net one, that's right. It is a net one. I didn't notice. Very noble of you. It's up to you. Okay, you go to stab at it and it's just like, it's not that bad but like, you go to stab, your hand slips a little bit and you get it at a bad angle and you're just like, hand goes into a gloopy blot and it burns a little bit, a little hot but you pull it out before it actually starts to hurt. I'm not a fan of that. Do I take like one damage or something? No, you don't, you're fine. The severity role was not bad enough of a severe thing. Okay, I will then like, just shake my hand, stand on top of the corpse that I have defeated and just turn at the thing and like, give it a smirk. It's not sticking around for another six seconds. You're very determined to get this boat. It's mine. I want it fair and square. You return. Between a rock and a hard place. I'll say to the tiefling, please don't make me regret this. We have bigger things to worry about and then I'll turn around and I'll try and hit the blot behind me. Give me a persuasion check as well. Mm-hmm. Oh, he needs persuading, hey. Flip the coin. 13? All right, you say this to him and the tiefling just like tilts his head a little bit. We'll see where it goes. Ugh. God, now I just wanna hit him with it. Mm-hmm. Oh man, I'll still try and hit the blot. Okay. The one that's like near me. About bare arms. Yep. Yep, that's gonna be enough. You splat, just... The thing splats a little bit. Some of it kind of gets on you. You can feel that it's just a little like warm, like it doesn't burn you, but it's like a little hot. The little blot goop. And you see Clive. The one hit, what's up? Because I've made a melee attack, the mobile feature allows me to disengage or to move without incurring any... Oh, attack of opportunity? Yeah. Okay, you wish to move? I do wish to move. All right. So, I wanna come over here, I wanna come back with Leira, and I'll put myself in between this thing and Leira. Nice, all right. And that would be... Oh, it doesn't matter. I was gonna say, oh, I did an additional two damage to the thing that I killed, but it doesn't. It's extra dead now. Yeah, so that will be my turn. All right, next are the pirates and blot turn. So this humanoid blot is simply going to walk towards you, Leira, and pays no mind to anything. And it absorbs what's left of this little blotling that was splattered by Buck, and it goes into it and continues. And you can see the tiefling looks a little bit unsettled, and he is going to take his cutlass, and he's going to go up, and he's gonna take a swing, and it gets stuck and sucked in, and it sucks his arm. No, no, no, no, no. And it starts to suck him, and he's just kinda now looking very desperate and reaching out, help, help, help! Calling out to you, Buck. We'll see where this takes us. Demonstating. Thanks for taking the bullet, Lieutenant Wharf. All right, let's go. And this one is going to attack you, word it's going to spit a few bits of blood at you. Oh no, it's like nothing. It can't even get it up today. Just, and you just take like a step back, and it just lands at your feet. You hear it sizzle a little bit as it lands on the. I swear, if you put a leak in my bowl. The tabaxi and the orc are both going to get up, and the tabaxi is going to try and cut up the orc again. Ooh, no, it doesn't, the orc. Oh my God, the orc just grabs the tabaxi, by his shoulders, lifts him up, holds him above the ship right here, and drops him into the water. Oh! You're going in the timeout ocean. I don't know how well a cat can swim. And this human is going to climb on up on account of being held by Leira, and he's going to try and make it below deck for safety. He's running this way. And Dozen is going to take out his cutlass and going for this blot. You stay away from my crew. Oh heck yeah. And he's going to cut this one pretty good. He doesn't completely destroy it. And you can see that as her crew is diminishing more and more palas, like, what are you doing? Go after the heart. And then immediately you can see that there's one blot latched onto her leg starting to pull her down. And she grabs onto the side. She's hanging on for dear life. She's not able to take an action this turn. But she is like latched onto the edge. And now as for the blots, these geysers are going to fire. This one is going to fire at you Fritz. A beam of energy just blasts into you Fritz, you're going to take. Five force damage as it kind of bashes into you. This beam of arcane energy. This one is going to do the same at you Laira. It's going to fire at you. All right. And yes, it blasts out a beam of energy at you just as with Fritz. And you take four force damage. My temporary hit points. This one is going to try and skitter away from you Buck as it is a ranged attacker. You have an attack of opportunity. Where's my big blind kill? Oh, whoa. Killed. Just killed. That's what you did. It tries to skitter away, but you catch it on the way out. Just this one is also going to aim for Laira. Oh, come on. I'm just a little good. It goes a little wide lucky for you. It just a bit far. And this one is going to crawl to the front of the boat and it's going to fire at the Tabaxi in the water. Oh, rip bozo. Yeah. Rip bozo as it fires at him and jumps on him and pulls him under the water. Oh, no. And this dwarf is going to pull out their own cutlass and slice at this one. And it kills it. Just one hit. All right. Sweet. Okay. All right, Laira. Yeah. Okay. A lot of things happening. I'm going to pull out my dagger and my scimitar. And I'm going to just any day now. And I want to take a whack at that thing with my scimitar. At disadvantage as you are poisoned. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Be patient with me. Okay, let's see. Is it going to automatically do that? Or, let's see, hold down. Control, I think. No, control. There we go. Did it work? No, it did not do it. All right, hold on. I'm working on it. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, let's just do that. Okay. Okay, an 11 is not going to hit this thing as you swipe it almost pings off it like a solid object. Okay, well, I do have, apparently, two-weapon fighting. So I think I can use my bonus action to try and take a swing with my dagger. Yep. You won't be getting the dexterity bonus for the damage. That's okay. I'll just roll it twice again. Okay, a 16 is enough. And you stab at it and it just shatters into a bunch of little hard pieces before the hard pieces turn into a goop and like a liquid and sizzle on the wooden floor. That's disgusting. Okay, that was some of my movement, my action, my bonus action. I'm going to move back behind Buck. Just feel safer, you know. Very well, Fritz. Yep. Do I make a bad decision? Yes. I heard yes, okay. Because I'm moving down the boat, I get extra movement. So I'm going to basically... Goodbye, Fritz. No, hey, hey! I can't hear you! I'm going to basically lie over to this guy and basically drive by grab on to him. Oh, you're gonna help him. All right, when you do so, an athletics check to try and pull him out. Okay, that's in your skills. What? With a blaster? Hey, well, maybe the blot rose really badly. Maybe the blot rose really badly. Why did you say what you said at the beginning? Why did you say what you said at the beginning? Maybe the blot can't roll back. What did you say at the beginning? Why? You tug and pull, but he's still stuck and he's screaming in agony. Please, please! I'm trying! You do pull him out, but it's just his torso. No, oh, why would you say that? Oh, hilarious. Everyone's favorite joke. I take it bad. It's too easy. Been watching too much Jojo, I'm sorry. Anything else you would want to do, Fritz? I'll say that can be a bonus action. Oh, that was a bonus action? Sure, yeah. Can I use an action to try again? You know what? Yeah, why not? Come on. Get some politics again. You have athletics again. You pull him out. Better. Comes out with so much force that you pull him like that just against like you skid along the floor boards. And you can see that like the clothes on his body have been singed and like they have been like completely worn off and like torn and burned like. And you can see that his skin is like as if he had been dipped in a pool of acid. And you can see there's burns all over it. He's shattering and grasping and he's just under his breath. He's like, thank you. Thank you. All right, and that's end of my turn. Next word. I've had enough of you. I'm going to do the same thing again. Oh, yes. That is definitely going to be enough. You stab and it just splatters into a little. And you are now the only one on the boat. My boat. And I like just whip it off of my little normal dagger. Yeah, I actually since I still have my move in bonus action, can I does this thing have a mast? It does. It's back here. See, oh, OK, it's a steering. It's a little steering thing as well. Yeah, I'm going to go over here and like raise the sail or lower whatever is giving me momentum so that I can like very slowly just kind of bump into the boat and maybe slide off to the side. Yes, you can do so. And it just like bump into it and I'll not move those tokens because I'm lazy. OK, I'll push him out of the boat as we start to move. Slow your own boat so that you can go down the side of the ship that way. Yeah, it makes it about there as your momentum. OK, down. And you can see as well that Paula right here, you can see on her leg is a blot pulling her down and she is just like calling out to you, go help. You're a pilgrim, right? You help people. Oh, I don't know if it's too much for my turn, but I will like grab. I think I do have a rope and I will toss it to her to just see if she can grab it and maybe pull herself up. OK, helpful. You talk to the rope and she is going to do that on her turn. All right. Look at her turn. Fritz, keep Layra safe. Here we go. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Now, I think this would be a perfect time to roll the can I can I use the coin coin on an attack roll or no, you can. Yes, any day. Oh, boy. You might want to. I don't want to I don't want to backseat game, but you might want to go, go gadget, bugbear arms attack and I think it's I think it's going to come up to get me anyway. But yeah, I forgot that I had I forgot that I had that. Technically, I could just throw it at this thing because that's what I was thinking. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, I don't want to get well, my well, that's my thing is I don't want it to get to Fritz and this thing in its next turn. So I am going to put it between one boy. I'll stay here. Screw it. Let's do this. Come on, your role on the sacrifice, my dude. All right, lady, two. No. No. Oh, it's fair enough. You better pull another out. You bugbear arms with your your mace, you go to to hammer into it and it gets stuck just like the tieflings cutlass. And it starts to pull you in. But what I will say, can I let go of it? Because by the feature I have when I'm raging, it's going to appear in the at my hand. You can let anyway. And your bugbear arms are long enough that, yes, OK, you can let go. Good feature. Well, by my point is, is the the weapon is supposed to return to my hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you can. Yeah, of course, like it starts to sink into it and you let go of the weapon knowing that it will appear in your hand at the end of the shoot. So how much? I've probably if I went from here, I'm just checking how much I used. So like 30, 30. I'll just I'll still put myself in between Fritz. OK. And this. Guy, that's five more for you. I was the is the blot and pirate singular turn. This boat is going to run out of this. I haven't been keeping track of this boat, but this boat has not had someone to help it. So it just kind of falls behind with a lot. Wreck that poor little blot. And you can see that this one is going to continue over here. Here. And it's going to fire at actually, who goes first between the blot and the pirate? I think the pirates go first. So the crew. So this dwarf is going to pull out a musket since they are by the weapons barrel and fire. Yep. And this blot's dead. And they're going to go run below deck where it's safe. And Paula is going to try and pull herself up with that rope. Oh, she can't. She's struggling. And she's just clutching and she's just calling out. Dozen, dozen. And dozen is just like sighing by the tree. And he's going to cut down this blotling. Yep, he does. It's blotting instead. So all that's left is the humanoid. And the humanoid is going to come up and lean down its head next to just right in front of you. What's a glowy eye buck and it glows a bright crimson. I need you to make a wisdom save. Oh, wisdom save. Well, you stare deep into its eye and you see flashes of imagery of your own life passing before you, all your failures, all of your mistakes. And you are paralyzed for the turn. One of those core memories might involve word. Also, this orc is going to run below deck. And so is this human. And it is going to continue to walk past you. What's up, Buck? I was going to say, do you want me to describe some of the things that I would see? Yes, go ahead. I would love that. Montage. So like from Buck's perspective, there are, there's like, it's him and it's like him passed out. Like it cuts from him passed out in a like a gambling den. And then he's awake and there's a, hold on a minute. I have to check something really quick. Check the notes on the tragic backstory. I do have my notes. There's a, there's a tiefling woman inside of a bakery and he's holding her hand and then it cuts and there is a an Asimar woman who's helping him out of the, out of the dirt on the ground. She's clad in armor. And then there is a fur-bulb woman who is sitting across from him with a deck of cards and she's frowning. And then it cuts to his perspective and he's working in a field in Satya. And that's, and then all of a sudden there is a, there is the golden, a golden light. And he can see the cards, the white cards and he's reaching out to a humanoid figure bathed in golden light and then he's paralyzed. Ah, this is some AMV stuff right here. That is the vision that the audience sees in dramatic irony as the characters do not see that aside from Buck. Yeah, that is the exact definition of dramatic irony. Yes. Hey. I use it the proper way and the large humanoid blot just like walks past you, Buck, up the stairs, fritz you have an attack of opportunity as it passes you by. I am going to... Javelin. Javelin? Throw this Javelin at it. Bro, that's Javelin. No, you had no Javelin. All right, you chuck it. I have three of them. Yes, nice. You chuck it and it lands into it and it just like stops midway as it pierces into it. You do do the damage, but then it stops walking and twists its head to look at you. No. Ow! Laeora, your turn. Oh, I don't like this. Oh, I don't like this at all. Well, I don't really like seeing it chew its way through my team. So I'm going to... Let's see. Just making sure. Just making sure the specs on this. 15 feet, right. Okay, 10, 15. Yeah, that would work. I'm just going to go here and I will cast Thunder Wave at a second level. Oh, you're going to try and knock it off the boat? Going to try and knock it off the boat. And if not, I'm going to try and do a hefty chunk of damage at it if I can. Let me just... Five, 10, 15. So that's basically the cube I would like to affect. Yes. And does it go away from the point of impact or do you direct where it goes? 10 feet away from me. From you. By the spells effect. Okay. Then yes, away from you. And it fails. I suppose I could have... Oh, good. It fails and you knock it over the boat and it's like trying to clutch onto the side. Like you can see this thing moves faster than something of its size should as it frantically starts reaching its hand out to latch onto the boat if they're able to do it. Yikes. Okay. And it's not and it's swept off by the sea. Okay. But the only thing left now is... Pirates? Howler and the tiefling, the two pirates that are left. Anything else you wish to do, Clara? Well, that was my movement. That was my action. Yeah, I'll set my bonus action for now. So let me just mark off my second little spell slot. There we go. Yeah, I'm all done. Fritz? Okay. You say they've got a rope or are they struggling to hold onto the rope? They're struggling to pull themselves up with the rope. Me, like with Paola? Paola, yes. Yeah, Paola. The tiefling's down for the count. He's just, you know, be dramatic. I'm just, yeah, I don't think he's going to touch me after I helped him. At least Fritz would believe the good in people would do something like that. Yeah. We care about Paola. I've got it covered. I like her. Okay, I will trust, okay, word? I'm going to shout out word me. Do we want to just get the fuck out? I'd appreciate it. Okay, word, can I trust you to get back on the boat pretty quickly? Oh, I see where this is going. Uh, actually, can you come in and grab the rope for me? That I want to tie this rope to the rope? I cannot get that far. I know, I mean, they are mostly done fighting you, so I'm going to say initiative is over, the encounter is over. All that's left is Paola is struggling and she needs help. Okay, then yeah, on my turn, I was going to cast Floating Disc. Oh, uh-huh. Which appears within 20 feet of me, so I'll have it appear like right, oh, come on, like right here and I'll tell her to grab onto it. And because the boat is moving backwards, it has to stay within 20 feet of me, so it will, like, impossibly push her toward me. Oh. I see, yep. I love this. I broke the carriage with this spell once. Oh boy. It's plain what I was going to think of doing. Oh yeah, please. Yeah, I was going to use Gust of Wind on the sails to get us the fuck out before that thing catches up. Okay, so word, you give her the Floating Disc and she hops onto it and with not much to hold onto with the blot since before it had the ship, now it has nothing, it's just hanging onto her leg, it drops into the ocean as it's pushed aside by the hull and just as that happens, Fritz, you Gust of Wind into the sails of the ship, propelling it forward quicker and you guys escape the blot. This boat falls behind though. Oh yeah, yeah. I will raise the little sail here so that we're going as fast as we can up next to the ship and then since the big ship is moving faster, if we fall behind, I will ask that Fritz use my rope to anchor the two ships together so we can trail this one. I can always fly and get ya. I'll say you do have the boat word, don't worry. Okay, we're getting the boat word. For as long as you can keep it. Yes. I'm gonna hide it under so many palm leaves. And as things die down and like things calm down, you got the two, Dozen basically has the crew tie up the two and put them in the center of the ship and he just crosses his arms looking at Paola, Paola the Rattler. She and her ilk have been on my ass for years until she disappeared some months past. I had hoped the absence meant that she threw in the towel but I guess she was just biding her time for the next job. Am I still paralyzed with it? No, no, no, with it over, like after all it's done, you would have recovered like shaken out of it. It was only for one turn. How long am I poisoned? Uh, your poison lasts like an hour, so. Oh, great. I can hardly tell the difference between this and how I felt earlier. You are like constantly holding back that saliva that comes before throwing up. Just, whoa. It looks like I'm being really stoic but I just know that if I open my mouth, bad things are gonna happen. Yeah. And you can see Paola just looks real upsetty spaghetti at this whole ordeal. She looks like her pride has been lost and she is not making any eye contact with any of you. Look, you know this was all kind of your fault, right? Oh, that'll sure her up. She stares daggers at you. What's that supposed to mean? I'm making just a genuine point that you decided to attack us and this was the result of your attack. You know, that's the cause and effect of this situation. I'm not saying that this is a prominently negative thing for you, I'm just saying, you know, to reconsider how you conduct yourself. She shakes her head a little bit. Well, you have something invaluable to me and so many other people, you don't even know what you have. Oh, we're gonna get a lot more than what we have right now. Would you care to enlighten us? She just like turns to you, Leira, you are in a unique position right now. You have power over the lords and dragons of Elinthe, all because of that stupid title you got. They'll listen to you. Oh, sure, a big old happy family in Satya you got there, but in the mainland, they gave us no hearty welcome and generous handouts as they do to you. We gotta fight tooth and nail to be heard. So why don't you just make things a little easier on all of us, give me that and I can hold them for ransom. Yeah, I got a better idea. It sounds like we have a lot of power that you don't. So why don't you just become an ally? You know, listen to what we have to say and benefit from the clear authority that you don't want us to have. What have we shared it a little bit? Give me a persuasion. All right. And you can see the tiefling is like, you know, there's no reason why they have to be nice to us. I'd take his offer. Oh yeah, no, the opposite of this proposition is very bad. It involves cannonballs and rope. Whoa, whoa. The tiefling just goes, yeah, I don't think we're in a position to negotiate. Yes, I'm afraid we only have room for one morally ambiguous criminal on this trip. She sighs and just does some raspberries. All right. Well, that was easy. So what now, you're gonna turn us into the guards? Oh, should we? No, I don't think so. No. It's good to have someone with a recognizable name like Paula the Ratler on our team. If she can put together a bunch of lackeys, then she can put together a bunch of other lackeys, but maybe if she does what we say, they'll do what we say. She narrows one eyebrow. Are you recruiting me? You only have two options in this situation, sweetheart. Where do we bring her with us? Can we not bring her with us, please? Oh no, like she'll stay in the area, do whatever she wants, but if we stop by, it's, you know, we need assets. Ah, networking. Yeah, I mean, is there a weird, obviously you understand that we're going to New Best Sky. What is it that you exactly you can offer us? Because I'm still not convinced we shouldn't just throw these two overboard. Do you realize how valuable? They kind of look at each other. The tiefling's just like, well, you saved our lives, you let us live. I don't see why I couldn't offer you the same thing. Good luck convincing Paola, though. She holds grudges. I don't know that she'll be able to let this go, big as her ego is. And then she just elbows him. Sorry, I always wanted to say that. You were always a pain in the ass. Now she has every right to hold a grudge because she was someone who was able to put together a crew like you, come out here and do something like this. A little misguided, but it's more than other people can do. And I like that. Game recognized game. Yeah. You're a pretty good boss yourself. Maybe you keep conducting your business. Your generosity, as it were, just continues to upset Paola. She is infuriated at the words you're saying, but it's making sense to the tiefling. Oh, that's good. I don't think I'm getting through to you. I kind of walk up to her and make a similar face to the one I make in the actual art. What kind of language do you speak, Paola? She just rolls her eyes a little bit. I speak the language of helping the little guys. And you are just another cog in the machine perpetuating this nonsense. Oh, I'm sorry. Is the salvation of the world too highfalutin for you? Listen, the lords of Elinthe are preoccupied with keeping their precious tree that they ain't got a single wit for us common folk. Sure, all this, save in the world, all that, everything is funneled into the tree that they ain't even bothered sharing any of it with us. They're obsessed with that tree and everything about it. They don't even wanna share a little bit of help for us at the bottom. Whatever the tree does for the land, if it means that we at the bottom still have to fight tooth and nail for even a single leaf of its bounty, I wouldn't bat an eye if it burned down tomorrow. I suspect you'd change your tune the day after. Yeah, did you not just see what was on the boat? She shrugs her shoulders. Doesn't make much different in my daily life. I personally couldn't disagree. But if you look at the situation, my friend, it is us who has bounty over the tree. We basically are here determining its fate. And then there's people that look up to us. And we were little people just less than a week ago. So maybe you stick on our side and we understand where you're coming from. We start to level the playing field as we go. If you can help us, you can help us. If not, I hope you have somewhere you'd like to go when you die. Ooh. She sighs reluctantly. Fine. We'll join your crew, whatever it is that you got. But mark my words, if you knew where I came from, you'd know. Ruled by Lord to ruled by Blot, makes no difference to us. I couldn't disagree more. Oh wait, agree more, I got that wrong. That's incorrect. All right. And the tiefling just kind of nods his head as well. And it seems as though they look subdued. Dozen, can I free the tiefling? Yeah, he seems all right to me. I'd keep an eye on Paula though. Oh, she's not friend yet. And I'm just gonna do the tiefling with my friend and I untie them. Yep, he kind of rubs his wrists a little bit and extends a hand. Adrienne, nice to meet you. You're a lot stronger than you look. I mean, yeah, all in the legs. Thanks for that. And hey, Nu, what should I call you? And he looks over at word. You got a title you prefer? Me? Yeah, we just kind of called her captain and all that stuff, but. Well, I don't know. I guess if I were to think of something on the spot, you can call me, I don't know, I guess the boss. Boss, I like it. I do too. Well, Captain Dozen, boss, if I may, I would like a new set of pants. And Dozen's just like, right this way, and brings him below deck, and then goes back to the helm to captain the ship, heading back towards the mainland, as you initially planned. Well, that was incredible. So what is your plan with Paula? She has agreed to join your lackey group word, but when do you wish to free her, if at all? Oh, I don't think she has any authority right now. First situation is getting my boat seated, because I know that recruiting her, and having a small escape boat right next to us, is just a recipe for disaster. Right, you can keep her tied up, just like to the mast or something. I don't wanna do that though. I think I will, first off, I'm gonna need Fritz's help to tie my rope to the front of this boat, and then tail it behind this boat, just like with an anchor. Where do you want it? Just wherever it stays. I'll probably have you tie it to the mast, that would make sense. All right, that's easy. And then, wait, how long does that last? Oh, it only lasts an hour. I will go back and I will cast Unseen Servant, and I will give it my bell, and if anyone comes near my boat, I want it to ring that bell as constantly as possible. Yay! All right. And then I'm gonna go and untie her. No hard feelings. We can talk about this a little further later. I didn't mean to be so harsh, but you know, situations are a little tough. You did attack us. I can't resent you for that, but, you know, it's contextual, oops. She walks up to you, crosses her arms, and tilts her head a bit, so you do know what it's like to struggle. You have no idea. Well, I look forward to seeing how you deal with those struggles. Just watch me. She just kind of walks past you, just gently bumps you with her leg, kind of disrespectfully, and moves below deck. I'm gonna get a drink. Word, like, stands there genuinely thinking about, like, the actual struggles that he's gone through, and is just kind of stunned by memory that he doesn't like. So he just kind of looks off for a bit. Whoa, two angsty flashbacks in one episode? Yeah. It's almost like they put thought into these characters and why they act their way. Wow! Anyway, a few more hours pass, and you do hear the bell ring once word, but it's the orc, the orcish man with the rat pet. And he's just like, sorry, I just wanted to admire this new boat that you got, and I wanted to show Rat Friend. Is that still in my hair? Hold on. No, they were not still in your hair. No, they escaped. I just didn't say, because there was a lot going on. Yeah, I was a bit occupied. Sorry, the Rat Friend. The rat squeaks a little bit. The animals went down 10 minutes later, so. Look at that. I'll talk to the unseen servant, let it know, like, that this guy's okay, and then I will ask him, like, look, if you see anyone touching my boat or touching that rope, either give him what for or let me know. He salutes you. You got it, boss. Thank you, my friend. It's spreading like a plague. Yeah, no, he already called him boss when he got his cutlery signed, to remember? Oh yeah. Where it was the blot all along. Is that the thing? He's kind of got the energy of somebody who calls everybody boss, though, you know? That is true, a little bit. It's such a wild ride for me because it's such a British thing. Yeah. What's your name, man? My name's Storrig. It's nice to meet you. Nice to formally meet you a second time, too, Storrig. Kind of, I'll put it to you. He just nods, and yeah, he seems very satisfied that you now know his name. Yay. I have them under, in my ally's notes, under the word ocean in all caps. Ocean allies. Yeah, ocean ally. Can I call everyone together at some point before we, like on the rest of the journey? Yeah. The rest of the group? So, we need to. Sorry, real quick, before we do that, I want to use the mending cantrip to permanently mend those holes in the hole. Yes, I assume you are helping the crew patch up the ship over time. Well, because technically I can only do two of those ice plugs at a time, so it's good we didn't use that too much. But, yeah, the mending cantrip, I can just do as many times as we need. Okay, I'm gonna need that on my little boat, too. There's some acid. They hit it. I'll put it at the bottom of the list. I'm gonna mend my boat. It sinks in the meat. The boss. It's still tied to the ship. We aren't gonna lose it. It's the boss mill. That's the boss mill. The boss mill. Oh. I didn't have something I wanted to bring up. I don't know why you gathered us, but it's just a little note. I realized that my deck is something a little special, and I was trying to come up with a name for it, because you've got, you know, your big hammer's name. And I kind of split between something like dragon tooth, or just calling it negotiation. Then I'm open to suggestions. Negotiation fits quite well. Negotiation is rather cute. I like the negotiation. I mean. I can say I'm gonna use a little bit of negotiation. It's like a keyword. I don't know if I wanna call it a little bit of negotiation, the dagger, but maybe just, yeah, all right. Cuts to the point. It really does. Cuts straight to the meat of the question. Why are we here? What's up? I don't know. I just think, look, we're gonna be heading into Nubiskay, and it's a pretty wild town. And I just think if we're gonna be there, we need to make clear. I think what's become clear to me about this entire ship journey is, there are gonna be people after us. And not just people, but clearly there's something going on with the block. I've never seen anything like that happen. I don't know if you saw what happened to me, but that thing looked into my eyes and paralyzed me with my own failings and misgivings to memories that I really didn't wanna have to deal with. It can do that. Was that one of the little ones, like the one with the little lava on top? No, that would have been the giant one with the glowing red eye that was trying to kill, well, I think the one after labor. There was a giant one with a big eye. Oh yeah, see me a little bit apart from the fight. Yeah. Oh my God. Do they get bigger and bigger just always? Maybe we'll find out. I don't wanna see one that's like the size of like a hippo or something. Yeah, that's kind of my point. That we're gonna have to make sure we stick together as closely as possible to the extent that it's possible while we're doing this, because if- That's a fair point. God forbid another group of assassins comes and tries to take the hearts or the block comes out of nowhere. I just think it's something that we need to be more careful about. Have you been to Nuba Sky? It's where I'm from. I was born there. I'm actually a little embarrassed that I didn't know that. I don't like to really talk too much about my life prior to Satya, but yes. I can respect that, but is there anything we need to know, like going in? Well, I'm pretty sure I would be familiar with the dragon, wouldn't I, Joe? Yes, you would know, let me pull up my notes. You would know who the dragon there is. I believe it's a, I don't wanna say it without. Yeah, no, hold on, let me find my notes. Yep, you do know that the dragon, that's not the correct notes one second. Technical difficulties. Am I wrong in saying it's a gladiatrix? Gladiatrix, yes, it is a gladiatrix. Her name is Cecilia the Great. She is a minotaur. She often performs in the gladiatorial coliseum that Nuba Sky is best known for. Is that just like a gladiator dominatrix? What is that? No, it's a female gladiator. It's just a female gladiator. Oh, the feminine form. That's like an occupation, okay. Yes, she is the dragon of Nuba Sky, but she also performs regularly in the coliseum. And that is where a majority of the tourism that happens in Nuba Sky, it's a place of a lot of merriment and joy. A lot of people go there to retire a lot of the time. It's kind of a party, city. A lot of gambling. Probably some gambling. Probably some gambling? I mean, it's a fast-moving city. And the dragon, Cecilia the Great is, I mean, I can't imagine, I should be clear. I kind of stay away from the, I always sort of stayed away from the coliseum, sort of a tourist trap if you ask me, but I know she performs there. And I have to imagine that it's going to be involved some sort of fight that would be pretty difficult. And she's not a kind of person that I would want to get involved with, is all I'm saying. Didn't we already do like exactly that? Yes, I suspect we'll have no choice. We fought an old man in his pajamas, and this is a, he just happened. Well, he had a headband that was also an owl. He just kind of happened to want to fight us, I think at the end. And he, and again, this is a person whose job is to fight. And so, I just, I'm not trying to intimidate anybody. I don't know exactly what it is she's going to want us to do, but it's, like I said, it's, there's a lot going on. And so, it's easy, I know firsthand it's easy to get distracted there. And so, we just need to keep our heads on a swivel, I think. So basically, we got to bring everything we got to this one. I think that's going to be that way for pretty much all of these trials, but yeah. Yeah. That pirate said that having the heart would give us power over these political leaders. I don't particularly understand what you meant by that. I think it's just like a general sway. I don't think there's any actual, like magic power. Dozen waves his hand, it's just hogwash that she's been sniffing her own farts really. You're down the path that she is for so long, you start to believe things that most of the time aren't true. Consider in what little she has, I have known of her struggling past. She believes anyone with any bit of sway must be the second coming of the great tree's descendants. Maybe she's not too wrong. He shrugs his shoulders. Maybe you are the ones who are called pilgrims after all. And that comes with it, a little degree of respect from people and understanding that it's your job. You're the heroes of, the champions of Satya. Do we just get called pilgrims from here on out? We're outside of Satya now. I know, but we're still the champions of Satya. I thought you are, but unfortunately, the rest of the provinces don't think too highly of Satya. We're usually the black sheep when it comes to any sort of family reunions as it were. Really? All right, then next up we become the champions of Nuba Sky. Here's to hoping. I just don't understand what the tree has to do with her grievances. I think it's just like a magnet for emotional discourse. It's just, oh, there's a bunch of problems in my life. Let's look at the one thing that causes problems. Dozen sighs a little bit. So projecting. I can't help but agree with her in some kind of way. Even Lord Candela can sometimes be stuck up to her own frills, so to speak, and some of the really struggling folk in even Satya go completely unheard and instead fall back on some kind of disgust and crimes indicate that's using them like tools. And all I can do is pray for the gods to change that. In more desperate shoes, I can see myself doing similar things and probably that I'd normally give the stink eye to otherwise. But you'd never do that, Dozen, you have me. Come on. He chuckles and shakes his head a little bit. Ah, that I do, Fritz. Like I am up and down, like in a promising way. It's like, oh, maybe I can use this man. He looks over to you, Laira. You just got to understand, girl, that sometimes people do stupid, illogical things when they've really got nothing left. But why would they have nothing left? He shrugs his shoulders because certain people aren't using their power responsibly, I guess. It's also a matter of perspective. Everyone's always got something, but sometimes people don't know what they got. And that lets you take it away from them. I'll drink to that. Yeah, speaking of drinks, let's maybe get something to... It's been a stressful two hours. And yeah, after a few more hours, the ship makes its way closer and closer to the mainland. Just rearrange my tabs a little bit. And you see the shore approaching you and with it a crowd of people anticipating your arrival. Bands are playing music to a company that cheers and some boats are sent out and kind of assessing the damages to the ship. Dozen lets a few of them on board and gives them the rundown about what happened with the other boats, kind of escort the ship. What's up? Quickly, is anyone else still injured? Oh, I had like one day. Dozen. I'm fine. Oh, yeah? You doing okay? I'll be all right. They'll admit me to some healers. No, not to worry. And they'll help you as well if you need some and they can provide any healers needed. I just figure we should look presentables. I think that was Paula and the team went down. I took a bit of damage. Yeah, he tells them the situation and they kind of go below deck to assess the damage as well and take care of people as best they can. Okay, I'm gonna bomb at the summer court a D6 healing into Fritz and I'm gonna do one for me as well. Does it mean any heal? You don't wanna take the healers from the healers on board? Oh, the healers on board I'll do. Yeah, sorry. Oh, we have healers on board? I just figure when we arrive in town we should probably look like we know what we're doing. Oh, we get a free, so are you free healed full health now? Yes, you're free healed full health so you don't need to use the bomb on the summer court thing. Oh, thank goodness. Okay, perfect. Yeah, these people are escorting you to the shores as the ship comes out to meet you guys as it's very clear that the ship took some damage on the way. I've been mending everything. Yes, of course. And then as some more time goes on just a few more minutes you guys arrive and the ship is pulled into the docks of Nuba Sky. Whoa. Once again, the art courtesy of Angel, Halfheart XI on Twitter. Oh, pretty. Wow, thank you, Angel. A little green. Yep, and as the ship docks and drops anchor the crew starts to unload cargo and Dozen approaches you all specifically Fritz. Let me, Captain Dozen, where is he? Dozy boy. There he is. And he comes up and he looks up at you Fritz. Well, kid, I guess this is goodbye for a little while. Deliveries are going to be a lot less fun without you around. I mean, I know my sea jokes are some pretty, pretty good ones and they come close, but the crew has a hard time recognizing my genius. And Dozen looks out to the ocean and leans on the side of the boat for a bit. And he looks back to you Fritz. I know I ain't ever considered planting roots. You know, I never considered planting roots in one place for long enough to have a family, but being on the ship with his crew, it's very clear to me now that I've already made one right here on the Nado. And one tear starts to roll down his cheek. And I guess that's why it's kind of hard to see my little shit bag taken or leave for the first time. You get out there, you save the world and most of all you make it as bright and loud and obnoxious and wonderful as you are. The world could use a little bit more of that. I want to tackle him and I like pick up hug him and I'm like, remember no crying only when seafoam hits your face. Well, I've had enough seafoam for quite a few years now, so I think I've earned it. And you squeeze him and as you put him down, he just wipes the tears from his face and he puts his hands on his hips. Well, what are you waiting for? Me to break into song? Might not be the best idea, but... I go on now, enjoy the festivities and give that gladiatoria so open for me. Look after the place for me. And you head across the gang flank onto the Baskian docks right ahead of you and you are finally on the mainland. Welcome to new Baskai. That is where we're gonna call today's session. You better look after seafo, I swear.