[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hello everyone.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome once more to Reckless Attack a fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am as always your GM Nathan and I am extreme serenity today.
[SPEAKER_04]: Very chill like smooth undisturbed water.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like a waveless lake.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like a lake that has no waves upon it, I am chill, I am utterly unflappable.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we, the players, are here to ruin that.
[SPEAKER_02]: We bring the flaps.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, you say that, but I think you all will be experiencing the flattening.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't like this metaphor.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am GM Nathan, and across for me is
[SPEAKER_06]: Hi, everyone.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm David, and I never go first.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I play Cascarine Brightmean, the dormant sorcerer.
[SPEAKER_06]: And Cascarine has not seen an arcane storm before, or has he actually?
[SPEAKER_04]: He might have.
[SPEAKER_04]: He knows of them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you definitely know of them that usually aren't around cities super often.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have potatoes in Chicago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've heard of them.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is Cascins.
[SPEAKER_06]: First time experiencing one.
[SPEAKER_06]: And uh, that's pretty neat.
[SPEAKER_06]: And to my right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hi everyone.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm Jonathan and I play checkers.
[SPEAKER_06]: The Grum Druid.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it's just a frog pals, mango and junior.
[SPEAKER_06]: And checkers is really feeling like an intern at his first day of work.
[SPEAKER_06]: When he shows off, I'll fry it in shiny and then the building just sets on fire.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he's like, I don't know what to do about this.
[SPEAKER_04]: To make it worse, technically you're not a new intern.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're like new CEO.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: You actually have all the responsibility.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is technically your fault.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Your own org chart.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll see how things go.
[SPEAKER_06]: And to my right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, everyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Sophie and I play Valesca Carter.
[SPEAKER_02]: The human asterisk, the cleric, asterisk of the Arkana domain.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, well, like, guest grain is like, okay, cool, neat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great scientific opportunity upon us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_06]: Stormtreaters.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Too bad I don't have a pickup truck with four augurs to just hunker down in during this arcane storm.
[SPEAKER_04]: I get reminded a lot of how recently you guys have watched and rewatched the Twister films.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think love.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't like natural disaster films.
[SPEAKER_02]: I fucking love Twister.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I, again, I was passing no judgment.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just like, you guys, every once in a while will just be say something hyper specifically, definitely from Twister or Twisters and like, oh, yes, pretty into that film across the tail for me.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hi everyone, my name is Steve and I play solo of Estern in the Dragonboard Monk.
[SPEAKER_08]: Who is excited to tell you all about how his life got flipped turned upside down.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'd like to take a minute so just sit right there and we'll tell you how we ended up in a skyship in the air.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know what you think about that one.
[SPEAKER_06]: Actually, just since David went.
[SPEAKER_06]: Also, I still haven't known you gave Steve a little bit more to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got I've got to choose him first every time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Or you're going to get that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I will also remind you, checkers that mutiny is still on the table.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: That would be a good time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's the one you want to do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Actually, I welcome this opportunity.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's something we would like to mutant right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: That would be very welcome.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, I'm going to go throw myself in the brig myself.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that's somebody else to take over.
[SPEAKER_07]: Captain Dorgers.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad that you and last Steve slash self because the predicament that you all find yourselves in is one that is I guess technically familiar to self in that you all
[SPEAKER_04]: in your glorious new sky ship have been traveling for like a day in a hat or no not even i think it's literally day one as i recall it's the evening of day one and it was uh... smooth traveling is really good just got to pop around got to meet some of your new crew mates got to explore the space all that good stuff just as everyone's probably about to you know wind down for the night chill out some uh... some some alarms start going off
[SPEAKER_04]: And so you are looking down the bow.
[SPEAKER_04]: We'll say looking down the bow.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a ship term of an arcane storm.
[SPEAKER_04]: Something that you personally have survived previously, barely.
[SPEAKER_04]: And something that the rest of you again certainly are familiar with, but may or may not have experienced.
[SPEAKER_04]: And definitely know it's not something that you just
[SPEAKER_04]: walk out into or save, fly a ship, out into if you have to.
[SPEAKER_08]: When you're not as a child, go out and jump into puddles during an arcade storm.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_04]: Less your feet turn to frogs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Kind of deal.
[SPEAKER_04]: As a reminder, this is just a roiling ball of magical energy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Weird stuff can happen.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is almost like a wild magic occurrence.
[SPEAKER_04]: all sorts of strange things are on the table and there it is in front of you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can you remind me actually how big is it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Like is there any chance we can go around it or are we just like plummeting straight into this thing?
[SPEAKER_04]: So a whole segment of the sky.
[SPEAKER_04]: is a circular fall of light.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can tell everyone's while when the various colors of lightning are flashing around it that underneath it is this insane, almost liquid cloud movement such as its waves and speed of rotation.
[SPEAKER_04]: to answer the second part of your question of, is there any chance that we can maybe not steer into this thing?
[SPEAKER_04]: You all are looking at it, and it is large, but it is not upon you yet you're not in it, and it's not taking up the whole sky.
[SPEAKER_04]: Captain Silvertooth says something strange is happening.
[SPEAKER_04]: I see one of these I know well enough to leave it alone, but I've been trying to correct our course for some time.
[SPEAKER_04]: It seems to be getting closer.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like it's trekking us.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that would ascribe a higher degree of thinking to something technically natural that I'm not comfortable acknowledging.
[SPEAKER_06]: Captain, what are the odds the sky stalker can survive something like this?
[SPEAKER_04]: If I were offering my knowledge, he says kind of looking over at admiral captain checkers.
[SPEAKER_06]: You just see admiral captain checkers actively ripping up his own oil charge.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, what do you think Captain Livingstone?
[SPEAKER_04]: I can try my best to fly us around.
[SPEAKER_04]: That being said, that one's not behaving like any I've seen the like of before.
[SPEAKER_06]: And Kasquad also looks around to what the, the, the, the tims and the joes are doing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are there any of them that are on deck?
[SPEAKER_06]: Are they, like, running to below deck like this?
[SPEAKER_04]: Thus far, everyone is standing on deck.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: No one has been issued any orders.
[SPEAKER_04]: The crew is there, both members of the bones in there, all of you guys are there.
[SPEAKER_04]: And interestingly, making her first appearance since you guys have taken back off, Simone is here, the electrical mama.
[SPEAKER_06]: And is the storm like this roiling like electrical cloud in the distance or is it like I'll be experiencing a different weather as we're kind of flying forward and unable to pivot away from this thing?
[SPEAKER_04]: Unfortunately right now it is the same.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is still the beautiful, oh man, cool night that you have been experiencing for multiple hours now.
[SPEAKER_04]: But ahead of you, unquestionably, is this giant orb of menace.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is certainly bigger than when you looked at it even a few moments ago.
[SPEAKER_06]: Somehow that's so much worse.
[SPEAKER_06]: Admiral Captain.
[SPEAKER_06]: Captain?
[SPEAKER_04]: What say you?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do we try to run?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do we try to fly around or through it?
[SPEAKER_04]: What would you have us do?
[SPEAKER_05]: And we're not going to get away from it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I say we batten down the hatches and charge right in.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you say that, he gives the faintest little link of his eye patch eye.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then, wheels around on the rest of you.
[SPEAKER_04]: The crew, the guilders, the bones, everyone.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, you heard him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Crew, you know what to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: Guilders, make yourself useful.
[SPEAKER_04]: Find a problem and solve it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Simone, he looks down at the giant roiling snake that is at his feet, says Abiz.
[SPEAKER_04]: And she, immediately, goes straight for the main mast and coils up it and goes straight to the top above the crow's nest at the top of the whole ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: What a good call.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, you heard him.
[SPEAKER_07]: If they've got a problem, you will solve it.
[SPEAKER_04]: The rest of the crew has spread out around the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: They clearly have some pre-assigned roles that they know to kind of take during these sorts of situations.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was not one of the situations Val knew to ask about what, how to be helpful.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, that was definitely one of those of like, we'll get to that on date two or three kind of discussions of like, all right, cool, now that we have the org chart, let's divvy up these tasks accordingly.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is hitting just a little before that part of your orientation as part of shit people.
[SPEAKER_04]: All you guys need to do is just solve problems.
[SPEAKER_04]: Make sure you don't die, which is a problem.
[SPEAKER_06]: So you've been doing that for nine levels.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's pretty good at it, by this point.
[SPEAKER_04]: Again, Captain Livingstone knows how good you guys are.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'd collectively not dying, and so he's like, you guys just have like cart blanche to figure out how to keep us all afloat and or alive.
[SPEAKER_04]: Everyone has sprung into action.
[SPEAKER_04]: People are moving.
[SPEAKER_04]: The captain has now walked over to the helm and is already, as you guys feel, your center of gravity shift has already started just absolutely hauling on the wheel, trying to turn it, trying to get it a little bit along the side of this storm.
[SPEAKER_04]: But you can see, it is far too late.
[SPEAKER_04]: Because this huge thing now blocks out,
[SPEAKER_04]: the entire Western view of your field of vision.
[SPEAKER_04]: And now you can all feel arcane power humming off of this thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: And there's a moment where you feel both that and the stillness of the night air before you are plunged into chaos.
[SPEAKER_04]: And with that, it's role for initiative.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_08]: Skill challenge, baby.
[SPEAKER_08]: That was the same inflection you used when you said, and that is where we're gonna end this episode.
[SPEAKER_07]: Checkers with a ten.
[SPEAKER_07]: Casquid with a ten.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_07]: Self with a six.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_07]: Really?
[SPEAKER_07]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, rolled y'all.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ball with a two.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is a skill challenge, guys.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're gonna have to have some better dice than this.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, listeners, you all know a little bit of how we do our various skill challenges here at Reckless Attack.
[SPEAKER_04]: This one, though, has a little extra twist to it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Because an arcane storm is inherently a very chaotic, strange, ever-of-holving situation.
[SPEAKER_04]: Anything can happen.
[SPEAKER_04]: And so, there's gonna be small problems thrown in that are gonna be all randomly rolled for on a table that I have created.
[SPEAKER_04]: You all are plunged into darkness.
[SPEAKER_04]: The lighting here is both a blessing and a curse, because you're able to see well enough, but it is because of how frequent the multi-colored lightning bolts are coursing all around you, or that are lighting the deck of the sky stalker.
[SPEAKER_04]: In here, it is hard to hear.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is as if you are wearing earmuffs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Something about it is just oppressive to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: At the same time, you are all filled with this energy.
[SPEAKER_04]: And almost nervous hyperactive energy, where there's just something going on that is more than adrenaline.
[SPEAKER_04]: A adrenaline plus is course in through you at the moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: A hyper caffeinated.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is the Panera super caffeinated lemonade?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, you're talking about.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can they have a drink that killed a guy?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now we've got it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And now we've got it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Reckles attack branded.
[SPEAKER_04]: And there is a fraction of a moment where you're all aware of these feelings, aware of your body, aware of this disorienting display of lights and power when a bolt hits the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: The whole thing rocks, but it seems the ship is holding, it's stable.
[SPEAKER_04]: until you start to see slowly sprouting, but growing quickly, trees growing all over the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: And these things are growing at an exponential rate.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can feel that as they start growing, the ship starts to rumble.
[SPEAKER_04]: as all of this extra weight and aerodynamic pressure is being put on the whole.
[SPEAKER_04]: And trees are sprouting up everywhere across the deck.
[SPEAKER_04]: And that is just the first of what will be many problems awaiting you.
[SPEAKER_04]: checkers.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is your turn.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can either start dealing with these various trees sprouting out or of course do any number of things to ensure the safety of your crew and or the ship itself.
[SPEAKER_04]: We are looking in total for nine successes for you hit five failures.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I don't want this first turn to look too much like a regular turning combat, but I do have an idea of what I want to do.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mango is going to grow to large size.
[SPEAKER_06]: Great.
[SPEAKER_06]: And what I want him to do is start trying to grab and push and essentially just try to remove as many trees as he can.
[SPEAKER_06]: Love that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Given that how big and strong he is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Definitely.
[SPEAKER_06]: At the same time, I'm thinking that Captain Livingstone is holding at the wheel trying to get the ship turning the direction that he wants.
[SPEAKER_06]: But it's difficult.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I want to cast the spell enhance the ability on Captain Livingstone so that he gets advantage on his strength checks.
[SPEAKER_06]: So at least I want to do an athletics check, but I also want to give Captain Livingstone a bonus.
[SPEAKER_04]: I like both of those ideas a lot.
[SPEAKER_04]: Here's what I'm going to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to give you an admiral captain's action.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you can roll a athletic check for Mango.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I will give you an additional role, which will count towards success and failure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I will make that maybe I could do a spell casting check.
[SPEAKER_04]: I could do some sort of a charisma, e, e check.
[SPEAKER_04]: Whatever you feel is most appropriate.
[SPEAKER_06]: I will take the spell casting check.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: It seems reasonable.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, so mango's gonna try and shove one of the trees off of the bridge.
[SPEAKER_06]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_06]: That'll be a twenty seven to shove a tree off.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is a success.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to go mango.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's a big boy.
[SPEAKER_06]: He has no problem just hoisting a tree and shoving it off the bridge.
[SPEAKER_02]: Arms, sleeves, a forest.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: You all hear cracking of wood and probably at least for the members of the crew.
[SPEAKER_04]: There is a moment of horrific panic because that is not a good sound when you're on a ship, but clearly it is all part of the plan.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you, Admiral Captain.
[SPEAKER_04]: Second, Admiral Captain's action, please.
[SPEAKER_06]: And for this one, I'll make a roll with my Spell modifier bonus.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: Twenty six.
[SPEAKER_06]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that one was good.
[SPEAKER_06]: So Captain Livingstone finds himself filled with energy filled with the strength of ten men as I cast in hand to build it.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can hear him just he just as he is his rippling biceps are just heaving the wheel of the boat as he's trying to turn against the craziness of this storm.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cascar and bright man, your go.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have such a dumb idea.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's not a kill challenge, baby.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's where you're for it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I kind of, I'm imagining this arcane storm is just made of, you know, it's like pure magical energy, like untamed impossible.
[SPEAKER_06]: But Cascran wants to try and control that to some degree.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm kind of imagining because Cascran is so in tune with the elements, he might have a little bit more of like resilient than me, rich person.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm wondering if you could basically like tank a lightning strike and redirect and filter the magical energy into the ship to like improve propulsion.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, what I love about this is that this occurs to Cascran, mind is racing, trying to come up with solutions, thinking outside the box.
[SPEAKER_04]: And in this exact moment, you see up on the mast, Simone is struck by lightning, and a huge bolt of energy goes through the mast and into the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: and does exactly what you're talking about so you know it's possible you know maybe you can do it so either what I'm hearing is either you can use this first one to go up and start climbing or I'm fine with you just like ascending being up there or just standing out and kind of the middle of nowhere being like
[SPEAKER_04]: Bring it storm.
[SPEAKER_04]: Come to me.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think I will head up to the front of the ship.
[SPEAKER_06]: Where the the talking plank that we found in a fix to the front of the ship is and I will Titanic.
[SPEAKER_06]: Bring it storm.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think constitution, I think spellcasting modifier would also make some sense there because you're kind of channelling or, you know, or charisma for that taunt.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, worst case scenario.
[SPEAKER_06]: Double mids to the storm, just like get wrecked.
[SPEAKER_06]: Seems reasonable to me.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna do constitution.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is a seventeen.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is a fail.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_06]: As one crispy castman come right up.
[SPEAKER_04]: You go up and now that you guys are inside of the storm, you cannot see any edges you are totally invalid.
[SPEAKER_04]: and things are picking up all around you.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is chaos incarnate.
[SPEAKER_04]: Casper and you go up and you try to essentially attract and direct some of that arcane energy to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's kind of cool like you're almost trying to filter the energy through you in a productive way, but this thing just absolutely punches you.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then you're feeling a little crispy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: When?
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm rolling a D-six here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Something happens.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cascran.
[SPEAKER_06]: Am I tree now?
[SPEAKER_04]: You.
[SPEAKER_04]: You come to.
[SPEAKER_04]: You realize you blacked out for just a moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: You look around you and at your feet and all surrounding you.
[SPEAKER_04]: On the deck is a purple flame.
[SPEAKER_04]: The deck is on fire.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, Vaseline is your go.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh boy.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so we've got trees sprouting and we have a fire.
[SPEAKER_04]: We have trees sprouting, we have a fire and a myriad of other problems that I'm sure exist literally anywhere in the ship.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: I believe, and Jonathan, you'll have to help me out here.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mango still has a large container of water.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's correct.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm a large barrel, large water.
[SPEAKER_08]: Large barrel, large water.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, is there more water than there?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to say yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I'll take it.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is a possession, so it would also potentially expand the same volume.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm fine with that in a way that I know might bite me in the butt at some point unforeseeable in the future, but that's fine for now.
[SPEAKER_08]: In that case, is there a stopper or something on it?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's a stopper.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to pull the stopper out, just shout towards Mango.
[SPEAKER_05]: Spread the water on the fire, spread the water on the fire.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then I will use shape water and move the water from the barrel out onto the floor, onto the deck where castes where the fire is burning purple.
[SPEAKER_06]: Cassis is like stock dropping wrong.
[SPEAKER_04]: Which is probably a little effective in that word largely made out of stone and possibly armor.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I think yes, like a cell modifier seems very reasonable.
[SPEAKER_08]: How about we use survival to try to determine where the flame is going to be spreading to next, and then kind of using that to, yeah, I actually water in that.
[SPEAKER_04]: I actually super dig that as you're preventing the spread of the fire trying to keep it contained.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I dig that.
[SPEAKER_06]: What about survival to try to help pass when it's around?
[SPEAKER_04]: You have to roll survival.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, but you can't, because I'm doing it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so survival it is.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, that's a thirteen?
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, big fail.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, uh... We, we joked before about failing immediately, and uh, two out of five.
[SPEAKER_06]: We got, uh, seven successes to go, because I got two.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, geez.
[SPEAKER_06]: Good, good luck, Admiral Captain Checker.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm holding this ship together.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: No pressure, Sophie, but can you bring us up to a positive average as it is your turn?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, sure, it's extra.
[SPEAKER_02]: Val, a lot's happening, and the first problem she saw were the trees.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like, got us all this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It came in as a ticket queue.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're sinned first off.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Val, seeing Mango rip them up is like,
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't do that, but I can call in some friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Val is going to run towards the forest growing on the ship and cast spirit guardians and bring a horde of lumberjacks with her to all attack the tree.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I dig this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to ask for a, will say maybe a religion or a connet chair.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: How muscular and or shirtless are these lumberjacks?
[SPEAKER_04]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are in no way shirtless.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are very muscular, but they have full hat, the helmet that also is your protection and eye protection.
[SPEAKER_02]: They got those like chaps on, so they don't get splinters when they're cutting down the tree.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're prepared.
[SPEAKER_08]: They are a lumberjack and they're okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll do a religion.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm gonna use my inspiration because I just, I can't.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can't.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is a failure.
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_02]: I rolled two, twelve.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh-oh.
[SPEAKER_04]: So all of these spectral library are two.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have it.
[SPEAKER_04]: All of these spectral lumberjacks.
[SPEAKER_04]: My brain could not let go of the word librarians.
[SPEAKER_04]: All these spectral lumberjacks start swimming around you and they are, they're making progress.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're chopping into the wood, but it is not fast enough as these things are growing at an, again, exponential rate.
[SPEAKER_04]: And again, another big shutter goes through the entire ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you hear some bad sounds, creaking of wood, some snapping, some nails busting loose.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm gonna roll.
[SPEAKER_04]: Two more times.
[SPEAKER_04]: Two more bolts hit the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: You all feel a horrible tingling sensation in your extremities.
[SPEAKER_04]: As if they have been asleep and are now waking up and all the circulation is coming, except times four.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's extremely, extremely uncomfortable.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just take me down with the ship now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cascar, you look down.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it the fire that is burning off my nerve ending?
[SPEAKER_04]: Is this something else?
[SPEAKER_04]: Everyone looks down and cannot see their arms or legs.
[SPEAKER_04]: They are invisible.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I see my torso?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you're still standing.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you're holding something, you're still holding it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just your penises.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're invisible now.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're now in an episode of The Venture Brothers.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is like halos like big head mode.
[SPEAKER_06]: But torso only.
[SPEAKER_04]: Only torso's.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then the second strike hits.
[SPEAKER_04]: The light goes on.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the light turns off.
[SPEAKER_04]: And in the darkness, you see red eyes surrounding the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: Another flash.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it seems like scores of flying worms are surrounding your ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: Each of them have a huge, open, beat, mouth, big, curved horns, like a demonic bull.
[SPEAKER_04]: And again, fiery, red eyes.
[SPEAKER_04]: In this moment, Captain Livingstone shouts out a curse, so profane.
[SPEAKER_04]: that even on our explicitly rated podcasts, I dare not repeat.
[SPEAKER_04]: In this moment, you are all filled with a feeling that is familiar to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: A feeling you have, I'm sure felt many times since then, since... Warms in safety?
[SPEAKER_04]: Alas.
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, there is a warmth to it.
[SPEAKER_04]: But you haven't felt it with this intensity.
[SPEAKER_04]: Since that day, you've ventured outside of the walls of Agmar for the first time, and encountered
[SPEAKER_04]: a smoke monster that stoked feelings of anger and rage inside you all.
[SPEAKER_04]: You all are a little stronger now, little more willful, but you feel something in your chest trying to prod you.
[SPEAKER_04]: But luckily you all are ninth level adventurers now.
[SPEAKER_04]: And so, while you can't be influenced in that way, boy, there's a lot of angry worms around this boat now.
[SPEAKER_04]: Admiral Captain Checkers.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: There are trees all over your ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's fire all over your ship and also your your castron.
[SPEAKER_04]: There are spectral lumberjacks all over your ship and now your ship is surrounded by something.
[SPEAKER_06]: What would you like to do?
[SPEAKER_06]: So question.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm trying to feel really upset.
[SPEAKER_06]: Everything is targeting my ship.
[SPEAKER_06]: Does seeing self and his ring bring me any comfort.
[SPEAKER_06]: I will say mechanically.
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: But you know what always makes.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think probably everyone feel better in a crisis situation is remembering self is here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_06]: So you are not afraid.
[SPEAKER_04]: mechanically.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: And just turning around, I'm noticing that Mango is really starting to freak out of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, first our limbs went invisible.
[SPEAKER_06]: His limbs are also not understand.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like he's very intelligent, but like it's it's an animal intelligence.
[SPEAKER_06]: So just having his limbs disappear while he's ripping trees out real tough situation.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then on top of that, the large group of worms flying around, it's a lot for a poor man.
[SPEAKER_06]: So what I would like to you do is animal handling to try and calm mango down and keep him on task And this will be with advantage Thank God the first one was a four twenty six for animal handling that is a pass and for my admiral captain action That was the first round.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dang first round.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, okay, okay, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh last
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so what do you what do you say to mango in this moment or is it just like that shared connection that you guys have you are sending just good vibes to be like hey My arms are gone too.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's totally fine So I'll speak to mango in kind of a low quiet tone just that something that he can hear Underneath all of the chaos and this will be specifically in frog So checkers speaks frog and hopefully hearing his language in a nice common tone well reassure mango that everything's gonna be okay
[SPEAKER_04]: Mango, uh, self, I think you are still up near or on mango.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can also feel a big inflated frog breath and a whatever the frog equivalent of is as mango chills out just a little bit remembers.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, I'm a part of this crew, too.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got a job to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cascar and Brightman.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: So remind me, is the ground around me on fire or is cast put on fire?
[SPEAKER_04]: I leave it to your personal interpretations, but at least the ship is extremely on fire.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Unfortunately, I don't think that can do anything.
[SPEAKER_04]: And that is fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: You do not need to solve that exact problem.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can be like very least you can move out of the fire.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got other shit to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: Someone else.
[SPEAKER_04]: Someone who has water powers can maybe address this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to keep moving.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, Cascran knows that eventually the fire will consume the ship.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I think the worms are going to get us before it does.
[SPEAKER_06]: And Kasgren is going to run out of the fire, he kind of like brace himself and search charging away from the fire.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he is going to make his way below decks.
[SPEAKER_06]: And as soon as he gets there, he hears like the rumble and the shouts of people, you know, going about doing crisis-based ship things.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he's going to run towards where the cannon is on.
[SPEAKER_06]: He sees the secret on the way, he sees the burn, he back and then become with him.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he's going to try to get everyone there coordinated and starting to fire these cannons at the horde of worms all around us.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would like to make a charisma check in order to try and convince everyone to try bolster their morale in these trying times and coordinate them to get these cannons operational.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am actually going to give you advantage on this.
[SPEAKER_04]: This was a secret mechanic that I wasn't going to tell you guys about until it came up.
[SPEAKER_04]: But the members of the bones are helpful in very specific circumstances.
[SPEAKER_04]: Usually there's going to be like oh yeah like if you're down there and you want to patch up a whole quick or like hold something up do something physical they could help but also I would say like hey guys things are really serious I need you to focus up and if members of the bones show up to help you do that
[SPEAKER_04]: I think that maybe you could offer a little bit of extra advantage.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you can take one of the two advantages that the members of the bones will allow in this particular skill challenge.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can I make a persuasion check?
[SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_06]: Fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Neither of those are the die that we told you to use.
[SPEAKER_06]: With advantage, that is a seventeen failure.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh man.
[SPEAKER_06]: What does this even look like?
[SPEAKER_04]: They trip as too much chaos.
[SPEAKER_04]: It just what it is is that you give these orders and there's so much chaos that they do start moving to the cannons and the various weaponry under deck, but it takes them just long enough to get organized that
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not as effective as it could have been, had they really hopped into it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And now, other things are being unattended to.
[SPEAKER_04]: Shoot.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is four failures.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is this something I could use the coin for?
[SPEAKER_06]: The lucky coin.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, what does the coin say?
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, it's just one D-twenty roll.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, is it after the roll?
[SPEAKER_04]: I believe it is.
[SPEAKER_04]: A million percent it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, fantastic.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do I still get advantage?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think, yeah, that's usually how five of you mechanics work is that you get a re-roll on the thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Cascar is like shouting orders.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's, you know, saying things all of a sudden he has this intuition in the back of his head that like, these are not the right words.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he changes tactics.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he's going to try and roll again.
[SPEAKER_02]: David, you better change it to fucking die.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm using two completely different sets of dice.
[SPEAKER_06]: One of them is a good one.
[SPEAKER_06]: One of those is a good one.
[SPEAKER_06]: I rolled an eighteen on this one last time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is a nineteen.
[SPEAKER_04]: A six.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_06]: If you guys say there's a failure, I'm just gonna flip this table.
[SPEAKER_04]: DC is nineteen.
[SPEAKER_06]: Jesus, that's bad.
[SPEAKER_04]: But that brings you guys into the positive.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_04]: What might be the first time since I think Jonathan went essentially.
[SPEAKER_06]: I started us off strong.
[SPEAKER_06]: Look where you got it.
[SPEAKER_06]: All I took to get here was two advantages and rolling again.
[SPEAKER_04]: Rolling four times.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: One of them finally at the right mark.
[SPEAKER_04]: Still, you're able to rally these people just enough that rounds start firing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: And again, these beams of essentially fire get shot all around and you start to hear beastial sounds of pain as these lasers essentially start arching and cutting into them.
[SPEAKER_04]: And at that, a couple of things happen.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to roll again.
[SPEAKER_04]: First, at this provocation, the creatures, while this initial attack, cut into their numbers.
[SPEAKER_04]: At this, they charge the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cascran, you are under deck.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm imagining there's some amount of poor holes and that sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Many have been closed in this moment, but these creatures start bursting in
[SPEAKER_04]: and trying to wiggle their way through.
[SPEAKER_04]: They don't quite fit, but they are pushing with a ferocity to get in.
[SPEAKER_04]: And what you hear repeated over and over and over.
[SPEAKER_04]: Many voices saying the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: More fuel for the glorious war.
[SPEAKER_04]: and these voices echo throughout the entire ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: For those of you who are still on the deck, something changes.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it takes you a second to realize that everything feels a little wobbly up here.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you look down through your translucent legs, and you see
[SPEAKER_04]: that all of the wood is now dirt and grass instead of planks.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are probably just below that castron and you can see above you being held up by the usual braces and wood and metal is a thick bit of dirt and roots sticking down through it.
[SPEAKER_04]: While your characters wouldn't know what happened, or maybe wouldn't be able to parse what happened until afterwards, just in case you all die, I'm gonna tell you this now.
[SPEAKER_04]: The deck and the ground below you have switched places.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: Selvastulin, trees are growing, trees are spreading.
[SPEAKER_04]: By the way, the deck is grass now, which is pretty flammable, and creatures chanting about a glorious war.
[SPEAKER_04]: are convening on your ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: What would you like to do?
[SPEAKER_08]: So one of the potions that Etrus gave to us was a mealite potion, which basically drink that and you glow for about an hour providing light.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, you're gonna shake yourself up first.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_08]: And then I am going to attempt to rally the deck hands and inspire them to work hard.
[SPEAKER_08]: We can get through this.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'm essentially going to say to them, actually, I'm not going to say it to them.
[SPEAKER_08]: I am going to just kind of say as in a chant to myself.
[SPEAKER_08]: There is no deckness, so powerful that a single light cannot show the way.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, give me a check.
[SPEAKER_04]: And because you're using a consumable, I will give you advantage on this.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: But also do note all of these creatures can also see you and may make your life a little harder in the long hair term.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's what the dodge action is for.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, here we go.
[SPEAKER_08]: So that's a three.
[SPEAKER_08]: However this is an eighteen plus seven.
[SPEAKER_08]: It becomes a twenty five.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thank God.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is a success.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pulling a little head.
[SPEAKER_04]: Bless you, Carter.
[SPEAKER_04]: Should have popped off.
[SPEAKER_04]: What would you like to do?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Val will see these worms, see them show a little bit of intelligence and like trying to get through this ship and have some tactics.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll think back on all the other aberrations in first ones that we've encountered because these worms have used the company model for fuel for the glorious war.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she wants to know how they'll act in the rest of this battle.
[SPEAKER_02]: So she will use Arcana to help figure that out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I cast guidance on myself?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, last, I don't believe so, no.
[SPEAKER_04]: We haven't had a good guidance.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, a lot.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, a lot.
[SPEAKER_06]: Many here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'll make it in Arcana, check for that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Twenty.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is a certificate.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey Starbuck, thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are watching, you are trying to, again, you're trying to, essentially identify this thing and trying to figure out what is how it's working and that's sort of deal.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you can tell that these are coordinated and that the way that they're chanting is very coordinated.
[SPEAKER_04]: If not a swarm, maybe some sort of a hive mind, something like that, and they are just going to keep throwing themselves at the ship until none of them are left.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is their vibe?
[SPEAKER_02]: Val will shout into the swirling storm.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're a hive mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: We can defeat them as one.
[SPEAKER_04]: Something happens.
[SPEAKER_04]: Another flash.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh boy.
[SPEAKER_04]: I have some extremely good news for you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't like the way you said that's still.
[SPEAKER_02]: I still nervous.
[SPEAKER_04]: The trees are gone.
[SPEAKER_06]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_06]: Good job, mango.
[SPEAKER_04]: The trees are gone replaced by a lot of the damage is still present, even with the suddenly replaced sawd that is just there on your deck.
[SPEAKER_04]: Also another bit of good news.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can see all your appendages again.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that effect is all is over.
[SPEAKER_04]: Actually, technically I have a third piece of good news.
[SPEAKER_04]: Again, flash of light, darkness, flash of light.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can see your hands, but something is different about you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you cast pass without fresh?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, it's just the body swap episode.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would never waste it on a skill challenge.
[SPEAKER_04]: I thought about it not having.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm immediately just thinking hot dog fingers.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_04]: Again, I said it's a very good thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hot dog fingers are good.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are all wearing your favorite outfit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey!
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-Al-
[SPEAKER_04]: But when you look down at what you're wearing, something about it, just screams, yass.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we'll dress that in a moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry Nathan, do you know anything about your players?
[SPEAKER_02]: We need to pause this skill challenge for a forty-five men.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, we need to describe what we're wearing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sixty-actually for each of us have fifteen minutes to talk about.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very true.
[SPEAKER_04]: Take a moment as I describe the other thing that happens at the top of the round round three.
[SPEAKER_04]: At least we're not naked.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sweet for yourself.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: This soil's feeling a little loose.
[SPEAKER_04]: You start hearing a couple of creeps, a couple of groans, and one of the masks snaps off.
[SPEAKER_04]: Unable to support its own weight in the now unsteady structure of the grass.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not the one with Simone on it, was it?
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: However,
[SPEAKER_04]: That is gone.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you all are starting to hear other parts of the ship, start to rumble and come apart and crack, including your main sale.
[SPEAKER_06]: So at this point, Mango has finished the job of removing the trees.
[SPEAKER_06]: He has stopped dropping and rolling on the purple flames, just wriggling around in the mud in the grass right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Checker's looks up, looks down.
[SPEAKER_06]: What is he wearing?
[SPEAKER_06]: And he finds himself wearing this long, glorious gown with a huge train behind him.
[SPEAKER_06]: And a large, brimmed hat with a scale model of a mansion sitting on top it.
[SPEAKER_06]: He doesn't know where it's from or what it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: But he feels good.
[SPEAKER_06]: He feels right in this outfit.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so he picks up the train of his gown and starts waddling forward.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he notices that the mast is trying to come apart.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know if this will do anything, okay?
[SPEAKER_06]: But what I'm thinking is, I want to use my blessing of the hateful turtle ability, and summon the large jaws of water to clamp around the main mast and keep it stable instead.
[SPEAKER_04]: Very cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep, I dig that very deeply.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that would be in nineteen.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is, once again, exactly the DC.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: What does it look like?
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that's an epic moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: You gotta at least give it a little, a little pizzazz there.
[SPEAKER_06]: So checkers is waddling across the deck of the sky ship, now covered in mud and grass.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he pulls out a rock out of nowhere, chucks it at the top of this main mast that is threatening to break off in the force of this arcane storm.
[SPEAKER_06]: And all of a sudden out of nowhere, these thick, large, leathery jaws of our turtle just come out of nowhere and grab onto the mast, steadying it.
[SPEAKER_06]: And, looking around in the chaos, checkers can only think of only one thing to say.
[SPEAKER_05]: Kenjuven!
[SPEAKER_05]: Get up here, this instant!
[SPEAKER_06]: Where did that come from?
[SPEAKER_05]: Who's Kenjuven?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's Kenjuven.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cascar Brayman!
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Cascar was below decks, directing people to fire on the worms.
[SPEAKER_06]: All of a sudden, he feels himself being bound like his arms and his legs are just shoved right next to him as if he's being wrapped in something and he falls to the floor.
[SPEAKER_06]: He suddenly notices that's very warm and cozy where he is right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: And his perfect outfit is one of those minus three degree sleeping bags, like the mummy sleeping bags.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it's made of materials that just don't exist in rixia.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're like, perfect polyester and cotton and down fibers and just like, you need to get this to a scientist to study for the next ten years.
[SPEAKER_04]: It will advance textiles for centuries.
[SPEAKER_06]: And only Cascran's face and like the beard are showing from this perfect cocoon of warmth.
[SPEAKER_06]: And as he's looking up, about to fall asleep.
[SPEAKER_06]: Castran sees that the fire is starting to like, you know, there's like parts of maybe the fire that he can see from down here.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm kind of assuming he knows where this kind of is.
[SPEAKER_04]: What I'll also say is that you can both see mud start to drip.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, a little bit from the watery jaws, but also you can now see embers of grass blades start to funnel down off of the ship and cascade as it all goes up in this purple fire.
[SPEAKER_06]: And now, Kasgren in his worm phase is going to riggle himself up so that he's standing on his feet and he's going to curl up into a little ball.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's going to scoop forward until he's right underneath the kind of burning patches of grass and using athletics and his muscular legs and his years of heavy squats.
[SPEAKER_06]: He is going to propel himself upwards like a bullet in attempt to push the dirt break the soil away from the ship and remove the fire.
[SPEAKER_04]: At a hundred percent a million percent.
[SPEAKER_04]: Would you like to have a member of the bones?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, also help eat you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to ask the seeker to give me a lift.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_06]: and I'm gonna hop in their hands and then they're gonna jump and they're gonna throw me.
[SPEAKER_04]: The Seeker O-Baze with almost startling lack of hesitation.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is a perfect soldier turns immediately assumes the position.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can take your second of two advantages from the members of the bones to help you bust through the fiery sod above you.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is a natural twenty.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: And look at what dye that is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, look at what dye it is, David.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you see it as a seeker, just pearls, castred, this perfect torpedo bullet of blue and red and purple patterns of synthetic fabrics that make this perfectly warm, mummy sleeping bag.
[SPEAKER_04]: And fireproof.
[SPEAKER_06]: And fire, extremely fireproof.
[SPEAKER_06]: burst through the bottom of the deck, and suddenly, dirt and flame is spread throughout.
[SPEAKER_06]: These chunks of earth are just flying ten, twenty feet off the side of the ship, and Cascran comes to a stop.
[SPEAKER_06]: As he comes up, falls onto the deck, and then
[SPEAKER_06]: Rolls over to Mango with his face up and the beer just hang it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gosh, I'm a manager.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's such like an anime but like Steven Universe style.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is like animation of Cascar and just bursting forth in his sleeping bag.
[SPEAKER_02]: Spitting perfectly around.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's a beautiful sight, purple, glinting, and... Do we argue it like inspiration?
[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't do that far, but I was just like bolstered by it, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: There's definitely a moment where he's like, she's spinning up, the dirt fly out, and there's like, he's like hovering there in the air for a second, huh?
[SPEAKER_06]: Before he comes back down.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: And the grin with the sparkle off me.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_04]: The fire is out.
[SPEAKER_04]: With a natural twenty, there is no more fire.
[SPEAKER_04]: Checkers, you definitely get the sense in this moment that boy, if you had not been holding the main mask, a dwarf launching himself up through the deck.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe would it destabilize things?
[SPEAKER_04]: But you're there.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's all taken care of.
[SPEAKER_04]: Good job.
[SPEAKER_04]: Things are doing great.
[SPEAKER_04]: A one, two combo.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna roll twice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is not good.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the context of this entire sequence, you guys are constantly still being bombarded by all of these flashes of arcane energy.
[SPEAKER_04]: But throughout, Simone up top,
[SPEAKER_04]: has actually been hit multiple times with fees and actually it would be worse if Simone weren't there with both kind of electrical and magic resistance essentially.
[SPEAKER_04]: Another flash right above checkers.
[SPEAKER_04]: And this whole time, Simone has been weaving, going up and down, almost like taking bites at the electricity.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, kind of in the way that a snake does and just latching out and hitting it with things to absorb it some of the times.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then she goes totally still.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you see,
[SPEAKER_04]: coming down the mast at increasing speeds and across the watery jaws of the turtle spirit you have summoned ice which has frozen your watery jaws shut as frozen the mast but also you all see is now spreading across the ship
[SPEAKER_04]: Now, my reaction wasn't just that, obviously that's no good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe slow you down, makes footing a lot harder, that sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: But another flash, and in the background of all of this, you've heard the sounds of a roaring inferno of fire.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you know, that is the sound of the engines of the fire elemental below decks, forcing its power through the ship and all of the mechanical magical warings going on.
[SPEAKER_04]: And no matter what, you've been able to still hear that as a comforting white noise in the background.
[SPEAKER_04]: Until now,
[SPEAKER_04]: Something is struck the ship and you don't hear that sound anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: You all start to feel a lightness in your stomach as the ship tilts forward a little bit.
[SPEAKER_04]: starts descending down to the ground with no engines no sounds other than the sounds of battle and chaos and sails flapping in the wind
[SPEAKER_04]: Currently, you all have eight successes out of nine and three out of five failures.
[SPEAKER_04]: You really hold it back for everything there.
[SPEAKER_04]: But this is all going to be wrapped up in one to three rolls of the dice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Self.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're falling.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: The whole ship is falling and you are being swarmed by horrific worms with beaks and horns and a desire to rip you apart.
[SPEAKER_04]: First of all, very important.
[SPEAKER_08]: Selv's clothes have changed.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes indeed.
[SPEAKER_08]: So now, Selv is actually wearing a jet black ghee.
[SPEAKER_08]: except for these patterns of silver dragons that are actually moving along his clothing.
[SPEAKER_08]: And so they are flying and kind of twisting their way up his arm like around his neck down his chest down a leg and they just kind of like flow in this pattern.
[SPEAKER_08]: These two silver dragons almost chasing each other around his ghee.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then he kind of looks down and notices that and just goes, not the weirdest thing that's happened today.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to move as quickly as I can to the engine room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Am I currently getting swarmed by creatures?
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Big time.
[SPEAKER_08]: Then I would like to acrobatics my way to the engine room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm kind of giving a survey of what's going on.
[SPEAKER_08]: I dig that and see if I can either do something to resurrect, heal the elemental light, the thing on fire again or see what's there that I have to work with.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Give me a roll.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Acrobedking.
[SPEAKER_08]: Fourteen.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is a failure.
[SPEAKER_04]: You guys see self, try to be line to below deck.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he starts to get picked at by these creatures.
[SPEAKER_04]: And they are taking big bites out of you and your sick new geek, fortunately.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: But immediately, self is, self you are like, bloodied.
[SPEAKER_04]: And just as five or six of these things, just start swarming and dive bombing you and picking at you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Bless you, Carter.
[SPEAKER_04]: It all comes down to this role.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want this.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is past or fail.
[SPEAKER_04]: And so goes your role, so goes everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hate this so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: Val will make a beeline for the engine room.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when she gets there, the glass dome that's usually blowing with a fiery energy is
[SPEAKER_02]: just blue cloudy gray and she almost thinks there's no light coming from it at all but can see a tiny flicker under this thick layer of ice.
[SPEAKER_02]: she can't see the fire element so she's going to cast aura of vitality which causes healing energy to radiate out from herself and this looks like her class speaker shield in both hands saying a quick prayer and then kind of
[SPEAKER_02]: moving her arms out as this energy kind of radiates outward with it and hoping to get the fire elemental some regained hit points as she does this.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you want to shine?
[SPEAKER_04]: So are you thinking like a medicine?
[SPEAKER_04]: Medicine.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's see if it works.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's too.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_04]: Does anyone have anything?
[SPEAKER_04]: Tears.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, hold on.
[SPEAKER_02]: I pull out the rubbing of a world fact from my inventory that I got the first time we found a speaker.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: The pious.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it tells me an ancient ritual to removal of time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it gives you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was specifically a fire animal in an engine.
[SPEAKER_02]: So.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're all gonna chat in this moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am into this idea not just to take video on you because we literally have been talking about that for like multiple weeks now to be like oh yeah we have this thing we should maybe do this and Do you remember anyone at the table do you remember where we found this piece of lore of world and knowledge?
[SPEAKER_06]: It was on the way to the Seeker's Cave, but it was like in a ruin somewhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Was that on the Seeker's Cave or was that the first, when we were going with the fortunate, and we found that this actually makes more and more sense as I say, and we found that temple that had exploded out and was just hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: And all of the ruins on there were so burned.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had to make a perception check to find anything to read.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is the rubbing of... I think that is true.
[SPEAKER_04]: So what I'm going to tell you is something clicks in your brain in this moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the reason that it clicks in your brain is a couple of fold.
[SPEAKER_04]: First, you're looking at the elemental and you're trying to pump healing energy into it and nothing is happening.
[SPEAKER_04]: And now you are starting to be lifted up off the ground a little bit, because you're starting to free fall.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are trying desperately to rack your brain of any information on elementals that you have, and there just isn't a lot of scholarship on that at Rixia.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's very few.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the only thing that you pull is checkers is recent discussion about elementals.
[SPEAKER_04]: and there's rituals in this sort of thing, and just enough things slot into your brain.
[SPEAKER_04]: Remember this obscure piece of information.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it all slots, and you hadn't quite figured out what it meant yet, what it was, and you realized that the place that you found that bit of knowledge was a temple to a saint, an evil saint.
[SPEAKER_04]: Who, in fact, was very into fire and explosions.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're not exactly sure the details of what happened to potentially destroy this temple if that's even connected, but things slot in and you realize, okay, I might actually, by combining these two pieces of information, be able to stoke the flames of this fire elemental, so to speak.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, by I-I-M,
[SPEAKER_04]: rewarding you for doing the things that all GMs hope their players do, which is use magic items that they were given, probably seventy episodes ago, and engaged therein.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can take a reroll and you can have advantage because this is a big thing that you are potentially sacrificing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now could I interest you what I could see this being a history check?
[SPEAKER_04]: I can even do a religion check because you, this is based off of both a saint and a ritual as prescribed to you by checkers.
[SPEAKER_04]: Or, you know, something along those lines.
[SPEAKER_04]: What are your thoughts?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll do a history check.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: You have advantage?
[SPEAKER_06]: You're guaranteed to take us home with this.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's going to be good.
[SPEAKER_08]: So right.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's what you say.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right now, right now.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right now you're looking at approximately fifty five percent chance of success.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got a beautiful gal waiting for me in Agmar.
[SPEAKER_06]: She can't wait to see me again.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just one last mission.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going home.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then after this, you can retire.
[SPEAKER_04]: Look at that close-to-state.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cascar is about to retire.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Blast day on the force.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just a moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mom, I'll let her.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seventeen.
[SPEAKER_04]: You all start to fall.
[SPEAKER_04]: And that is where we'll pick up next week.
[SPEAKER_04]: See you next time.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Or, you know, something along those lines.
[SPEAKER_06]: What are your thoughts?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll do a history check.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I thought Nathan, I thought you're going to say, could I interest you in a double or nothing?
[SPEAKER_06]: I, I, I, I considered it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think there's, there's enough drama.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Take it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely stacked on this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I could offer.
[SPEAKER_04]: I have an idea of a double, nothing.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you'd like to make it a double or nothing, or if you're just like, no, I would just like to have advantage to not have a catastrophic failure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what a double I know anything that is because you can't stack advantage.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, no, well, that's true.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I would lower the DC, but it, you, it gets much worse if you fail.
[SPEAKER_04]: Much worse.
[SPEAKER_04]: But it also gets much better if you stop the right place.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm still waiting to hear what Val's wearing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am too stressed.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll be able to describe it at the top of the next episode of you guys survive.