Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya

and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth

hi i'm flynn oma march trial

and i'm your dm ethan welcome to venture

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forth

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previously you all had traveled to the

town of blackpool and searched for

answers about these crystals that you

guys have been traveling with um

you guys had heard that they had

possibly come from

a warehouse over here from march and oma

they had a bit of a scuffle it seems

over

in blackpool and um that was where the

crystals were originally discovered so

you guys

headed to blackpool to discover a pile

of ash

where the um warehouse used to be

and digging through the wreckage flynn

had an uh

interesting encounter with an old

dwarven man who seemed to

know things about the future and be sort

of a fortune teller

um he pointed flynn to a tavern

sort of down on the opposite end of town

and after you guys had

talked with the barkeep there she had

told you guys that you could stay for

the night and

sort of rest and and catch your breath

before you guys headed

to a secondary warehouse just outside of

blackpool where all of the

things that had been salvaged possible

clues as to the origins of these

crystals

um had been moved to once the original

one burned down

you guys left the town of blackpool

after uh some of you had a good night's

rest others of you

um did not uh but you guys

left the town of blackpool and began to

wade into the swamp

um the the air is thick and damp and you

guys

smell rot and mildew just about

everywhere and

even as it becomes daytime you guys

can feel the day is starting but you

just barely can see any

sunlight coming through this canopy of

trees overhead

you guys hear frogs croaking and you

hear insects buzzing all around you

and as you guys continued walking shraya

you spotted a

cloaked figure dashing about

100 feet maybe 200 feet away from you

guys um

running parallel to you after a little

bit of investigation you couldn't really

find out

who it was but you guys came across this

deep black onyx staff stuck in the mud

with

five golden rings surrounding it

after approaching it you guys felt this

deep gong in the back of your heads and

some of you took some psychic damage as

these golden rings dropped from the

staff

and made their way into the mud

around you the mud began to boil and

rise

up and create these constructs out of

mud and

and twigs and dirt and as they began to

form and solidify even more you guys

began to notice

that they took some very specific shapes

um one of them took the shape of a

drow woman who is standing there very

regally in in these very nice um

robes that she's got draped all around

her you see

another one forming around you guys a

little goliath

girl who has a lot of features very

similar to march

um and just this little inconspicuous

goliath girl

um you see another one that's formed

that

is um the visage of farlane

um who you guys had encountered uh not

a couple days previous you see another

one forming that

is a young elven woman who shares some

similar traits

to melloroo cardinal you can notice sort

of the the long

ear shape is very distinct and the the

hair comes down

in a draping that's very similar to

melloroo

you see the last figure bubbling up and

and forming out of this mud

and it seems to be that of a human man

um a short goatee some

some short hair sort of ruffled in in a

a messy pattern and he's got these long

regal robes on him as well as these

forms

solidify in the mud they begin to lunge

towards you and i'm gonna have you guys

all roll

initiative oh boy

okay that that one's going out

that's what's done for the day okay um

well let's start with that one kellick

uh that is a six six

okay uh next up march

uh 13.

try what did you get i got a five

five not too strong today

guys ten ten yeah keeping it below

fifteen

and flint oh i think i'm gonna break

that uh because i got a 23.

okay so um as these creatures uh

bubble up and and take these solidified

shapes now

a lot clearer as to what their forms are

you see them lunge towards you flynn

what are you gonna do you got the first

reaction

kate caitlyn what

and i'm gonna look around at the other

ones what can i try and discern what's

going on like i just saw these rise out

of the ground

and solidify and they look like the real

thing right um yeah just devoid of

any color it's it's this sort of like

dark

gray almost sick looking mud it's not

like a vibrant brown where

things grow out of this dirt it's like a

it's like a gray that's devoid of all

color

um do i know if this is some kind of

spell that i've heard of or

magical effect um

yeah make an arcana check

okay

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ooh uh seven

uh seven uh obviously not the real thing

um obviously constructs made out of

mud and dirt and twigs and that sort of

thing um

obviously not the real thing not exactly

sure where they came from though okay

it's it's probably from the the staff

and the gold rings and all of that but

you

nothing beyond that right oh that's

right there's there's that there too

um the one that's closest to me uh can

you describe

i can't really tell what it looks like

yeah so the one closest to you has taken

the form of

a uh very regal looking drow woman

in um possibly some ceremonial robes all

right um and they

they are running to attack us um

i wouldn't even describe it as running

it's it's more just like sloshing in the

mud

almost there they're the bottom half of

their legs and their feet are

lost as the mud is just dragging along

with them

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um i'm gonna go hit it i guess

i'm gonna go hit the one that's uh

closest to me i'm gonna go up and

okay with the spooky side of the sword

so that's yeah that's uh it's ten feet

away from you so you can easily run up

uh make an attacker all right all right

um is a

shortsword uh 19 to hit

uh 19 definitely hits yeah roll your

damage

uh 12 points of piercing damage

nice

guys what are we doing with these

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right and as you uh drive your sword

into it

um you can see like the mud sort of

caves in and it almost

slows and just stops the creature for a

second

it doesn't really have any sort of

reaction

to it like a normal living thing would

it truly does just seem like a construct

uh flynn is that the end of your choice

okay next up

you guys see

in front of you the older

human man um rushes towards you guys

and you can see as he moves towards you

he begins to move faster and faster and

faster and

his body almost begins to sink back down

into the mud before it then

rises up right in front of march and

rising up is going to attempt

to uh throw a punch and sort of an upper

hook

right at march so march

that is going to be

a 16 to hit no sir

i don't know you no go away

okay um it is going to take a second

swing a second punch at you

that is gonna be that's gonna be a seven

to hit so that's not gonna hit either

um as it just uh rushes up and this this

mud sort of is just sloshing at you and

even though it doesn't hit you as the

punches are swinging around

some of the mud becomes loose from its

uh from its arm and just sort of

splatters

across your chest and face um

with that march it is your turn you get

retaliate if you'd like remembering you

still have oma on your shoulders

[Laughter]

do something about it do something about

it um

really quick just for my record now it's

a bad time to cover your eyes right

yeah yeah almost just like sorry um

just so i have a better understanding uh

you're saying there's a drow woman

there's a mini goliath farlane melloroo

and then human man is that correct

um not specifically meloru but yes

someone looks like

okay yeah yeah just i just wrote down

yeah you got it okay okay

thank you um and i assume that i am

facing

this mud situation

that is happening that just tried to

punch me correct

yes so standing it right in front of you

is just like a it looks like an old man

who's just been

caked in mud um

okay uh i do have one

on my back

[Laughter]

um i'm actually i'm gonna take my

warehammer and i'm just gonna try and

make a swing at it at this dude

um and then okay i will say

your attacks currently are gonna be at

disadvantage

okay with a child's legs draping over

i hate to do it but i'm not a child i

gotta say

god how dare you throw her throw her out

obviously it was like can i throw home

projectile

oh my goodness um

um if i don't attack and i

move am i is he gonna have a chance

to attack me then he will have an attack

of opportunity yes

and then i'm still just gonna try and

mess him up with my warhammer i might as

i might as well give it a try

right might as well go for it yeah roll

roll to attack let's see what happens

and we're saying this is at disadvantage

correct

that yes that's okay

that is 14.

uh 14 hits

nice um

this is gonna be a dumb question but

when you're never mind no

sorry i was gonna ask if you're at

disadvantaged and do disadvantage

for damage is that the dumbest question

you've ever

that's just to

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no once you once you actually make

contact then the the damage is is full

uh yeah roll your damn okay that's six

blood today

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six bludgeoning nice and i suppose that

if i wanted to

again if i wanted to move he's gonna get

an attack of opportunity on me

yeah probably ah okay

you never know he might he might choose

to not take it

um i'm gonna just

what i wanna do almost which is gonna

not be the best thing because it's gonna

turn my back to this dude

i just wanna kind of like it like in a

way i wanna like shift

to see everyone in my

parents so let me rephrase this i don't

necessarily you can definitely do that

without without moving yeah like i want

to be able to like see and kind of

take in these muddy

things and try and just for sure

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yeah you can you can definitely do that

without moving but i also want to

be slightly looking at the mini goliath

with just

wonder about my face and that is it and

then i'm done okay

awesome um with that

um the drow woman seeing flynn rush up

um not having really taken much of a

reaction to

being stabbed um is going

to try and punch you oh my gosh i

thought you were going to say it was

going to run away from me

it raises up its two arms and as you as

you look at its arms it sort of

balls its hands into fists and you can

see some more mud

like moves up its body off of its

shoulder down it's

down its arm onto its fist and his fists

sort of enlarge a little bit as it

takes two swings

let me see what those are going to be

right

first one's going to be 11 to hit uh no

that doesn't hit

and the next one is going to be a 17. it

just hits

just hits okay

that is gonna be eight points of

bludgeoning damage

as the first uh the first fist swings

and misses

and then the second one uh just hits you

with sort of a side

jab um threat

all right um with that next up is

oma you are on top of march's shoulders

i'm below a tree the map

yes you are if i stand on march's

shoulders

can i reach the tree limbs uh yeah yeah

also you can reach some of the bottom

branches yeah okay i

would like to um having seen

a human man covered in mud

but not a human man um take a couple of

swings

at march um

i'm going to stand up on march's

shoulders

i'm going to scream cat like what are

these things

and i'm going to reach up and jump

to try to reach the limb right

above my head and swing myself

around it and on top of it okay uh you

can make an acrobatic

check for that

14 a 14. uh yeah you swing up there

um it takes a little bit of effort but

you get up there just fine and you sort

of plant your feet down on this stable

branch as

as you are now up there um

okay do i have another action or has

that taken my entire action

that has taken i'm gonna say that's

taken your entire movement um that has

not taken your action or your bonus

action

okay um i would like to

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um oh there's so many creatures

but i don't know what they are yet um

i want to hold i want to hold a fire

bolt until kellogg tells me what they

are

okay and i will hold it to aim for the

closest

one to me at the time that i get that

answer

okay awesome

um that being the end of your turn next

let's see the young elven woman

who looks like melloroo um is going to

rush up right next to this old man

and he's also going to make a couple

swings at march so rude

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that first one is going to be an 18 to

hit no

i hate you uh that one is going to be a

22 day that'll do it

that'll do it okay

that is gonna be five points of

bludgeoning damage okay

i'm just going to kind of go and

sort of like bring my hand away like

but it's mud march

ow and actually interesting enough

um as it's sort of swinging at you and

as it sort of clocks you with this

this one punch um you notice it's like

yeah

it feels a little bit tougher than mud

and you look down as it pulls its fist

away

and it seems to have like coalesced a

couple of rocks onto its knuckles to

sort of give it a little bit more

punching power um

but that is going to be the end of its

turn next up

kellick what are you going to do um

is my uh uh the text magic spell

still active remind me when you cast

that

uh i cast it uh pretty much once we

arrived

at the uh staff on the ground

to identify what kind of magic it was

oh yeah for sure for sure uh yeah it's

still up

um can i detect it sunk the the thing

disappeared but

is it can i detect something from it is

there is can i

follow that trace yeah so the golden

rings sort of

fell down the staff disappeared into the

mud

and the staff disintegrated um from the

top

down and with your detect can you detect

the location of magic items i can't even

see them okay um

it's blocked by one foot of stone one

inch of common metal

a thin sheet of lead or three foot of

wood or dirt

three feet well these things are not

three feet thick so

you do suggest that you do um pick up uh

five distinct magic signatures from each

of these

um it seems that each of the the rings

are still

intact and within the chest of each of

these

observing this looking from one to the

next to the next

i'll i'll look up atoma in the trees

uh and say uh they're connected to the

staff

to the the rings from the staff there's

some kind of uh

a combination of the the the whatever

magic was in the staff the the summoning

magic

and and the earth around us

so they're bad and kill them do we have

to kill what's inside of them

they're they're objects alma they're

they're made of mud so it's not killing

them destroy them alma

got it all right oma you're releasing

your uh

fireball okay there's a different one

closer to me right now

yeah so the young elven woman uh rushed

up and sort of

placed herself in between you and the

old man so now she is the closest one

so you can make that as well okay

go for it

uh 21 hits yeah

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one point of fire damage okay

nice take that

well nice shot anyway

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i don't know if this is doing anything

actually as you say that um you look

down and

you can see where your fire bolt hit it

hit it

square on the chest but that fire

seemed to harden the mud

and sort of zap the moisture away from

where it was and sort of create this

this sort of harder shell of mud

right there on that shoulder i don't

know if that's bad or good

you don't know yet

um and uh i still have an action

uh yes you do can i where can i see

where the

um the ring is in the uh

in the draw woman uh mud monster

um yeah you can you can detect it's like

just square in her chest uh

i would like to uh approach it and

attempt

to reach in and grab it

okay um all right you

are running up i was like

trying to throw them oh okay hi

i'm gonna have you make a strength check

for me

my best challenge you can do this

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that's the seven so as you run up

you uh you charge it this thing and you

try and plunge your hand

deep into the chest of this and um

your your hand reaches forward and sinks

about a quarter of an inch

deep and just is not reaching in any

further than that

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and you are not able to access it i will

look into this things eyes which i

uh what is that what does its message

look like

um it looks like a uh just a regal drow

woman um

yeah what is the what is the actual

expression um expression completely

blank

from you coming up and attempting to

reach into it with flynn having stabbed

it there doesn't seem to be any sort of

reaction um apart from the mud moving

around

in response to these attacks

unsettling that's my that's my turn

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okay that is the end of your turn um

next up

the one that has formed to

look like far lane um is also going to

run up

and it is going to run

up and it's going to stay sort of 15

feet away from you guys

and it is going to um

sort of come to this halt and it's going

to sort of sink a little bit deep into

the mud and it's going to reach its

right hand

down into the mud right beside it and

you see

it it uh rears its shoulder back

and it follows through from the mud down

below and it chucks this

massive rock from beneath the mud

and throws it up at shrine

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so shrei you are flying and all of a

sudden you see this this rock being

hurled in your direction

um that is going to be oh that's going

to be a seven to hit

all right oh no that's

off that does not you uh look over and

you see this this

mud creature that sort of that that's

got the resemblance of farlane

and you look over and just in time to

see this rock being hurled at you and

you're you're able to dodge just out of

the way

i mean it looks like you why would you

do this to me

all right um next up uh shraya you get

to uh

say something back what do you what do

you want to do i

look down at the resemblance of farlane

uh from this level of being in the in

the sky

and looking down uh can i recognize

this creature as friend or foe

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it just hurled a rock at you um probably

probably not friend

so uh yeah you um you see these things

it doesn't seem like they're angry at

all

there's no there's no real expression

it's just simply attack

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so i'm going to make my way uh

over head of the

being that resembles farlane uh and

i'm going to mutter under my breath

oh what's up it's evening right i just

just

time check um it's it's actually

uh just oh it's noon it's just about

noon yeah you guys had left blackpool in

the morning and you guys had uh

had headed out traveled for about half a

day okay um

having seen i suddenly get this burst of

confidence

as i watched this i would have seen

almost fireball right

yes so my mind uh traces back to

uh having meditated with alma by the

fire

in our last uh hours in addersfeld and

in my mind uh i think back to the

words that she told me and the uh

and i start breathing very deeply and

close my eyes

and a remembrance of every tiny little

spark and flame

uh comes rushing through my body almost

as if the dna

of fire itself is suddenly like

shooting out into every cell in my body

i reach under

uh my wing and i toss my

uh i toss my

staff up into the air and in one motion

with my other hand

i sprinkle the staff i sprinkle it with

the lava

dust uh the hardened lava dust component

that i got at one of the magic shops

and as i do uh it and as i mutter

uh bildurya rain fire upon this imposter

uh the staff turns into a flaming blade

and i'm going to dive down and try to

drive this flaming blade

into that mud

up creature i'm kidding okay so yeah you

uh you fly down make that attack

all righty easy hit

oh [ __ ] oh no pretend to be his friends

as cool as that was you swoop down you

swing

um and uh this thing like sort of

uh just turns its shoulder like nothing

dramatic

it simply does precisely the movement to

get out of the way nothing more nothing

less

and then it sort of sloshes back into

place um once you

finish yourself all right i'm still

holding the thing

and now i guess i'm in front of it all

right

um what spell was that try uh that cap

is specifically

flame blade and it lasts about 10

minutes

plain blade okay awesome uh next up the

last of these mud creatures do not go

yet

um the little uh mini march

uh the mini goliath girl um she is going

run past this tree and she's going to

run over towards where flynn and kayla

are

and she's going to run up and flynn all

of a sudden right behind you

you hear this slosh of mud and as you

just look over your shoulder

you see this goliath girl uh taking two

swings

so that first one is gonna be

that's gonna be a twenty-two i'm gonna

use my reaction to

raise my hand up and cast shield as the

barrier

goes up uh okay even though that doesn't

that's not enough but i said it so i did

it crap

[Laughter]

it looked cool but it still hits

so you turn around you see it you throw

up the shield and right as your arm is

moving up

um her fist just swings and crests

right over the barrier that you're

forming and clocks you across the face

the little goliath girl is still bigger

than flynn

she is a goliath so she is she is

actually a pretty good size

um that is going to be four points of

bludgeoning damage as uh

this uh fist hits you right across the

face

that second one is going to be

a 21 to hit are you kidding me yeah

it still hits the shield up exactly hits

with shield up cool that's going to be

another four points of damage

oh i'm a threat i'm a threat

okay so that was uh yeah eight points in

total

yeah got it

all right um so you guys all in combat

with these mud monsters

flynn and kellick you guys look over at

the drow woman standing right in front

of you

and you can see she's sort of um sort of

half lopped off

in the torso from where flynn had uh

driven his sword into it

and you would see you could see that

there's there's a bit of damage there

but as you look you can see

the mud begins to coalesce back into its

form

and it begins to vibrate and shake and

drops down back into the mud completely

disappearing from

hey and after a second or two

it pops back up again from the mud as

it's boiling

but then in a space right next to it the

mud begins to boil even more

as it duplicates into a second

drow woman does it still look like it's

injured or does it look fine

it looks like both of these have

healed a little bit but they're neither

of them are at full health

um they seem it seems like the

duplication has

healed them a little bit um but not to

their full capacity

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okay that is that um

notably the one that looks like

the young elf and the one that looks

like the old man

uh they took their damage but they are

not

uh duplicating they're not duplicating

or healing

so next up top of the order does the

flint does the duplicate

it doesn't have a ring though in it

right does the does the ring

duplicate the ring has duplicated

you now sense a sixth uh

a sixth uh magical presence coming from

the chest of this other creature

well great there goes shield as it fades

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man i tried i just shake my head

disapprovingly

and i see the duplication and i'm like

oh man

and i pull my uh sword up and i rub my

fingers together and they turn red as

the red tattoo glows

i rub them across the the sword

as it uh sparks and lights the sword of

flame and this green

wreath the flame and i'm gonna come down

with an attack on on one of the

uh drow uh that duplicated

um the one that's closer to me okay okay

the one that's closer to you

um yeah so they they both sort of sunk

down it's at this point impossible to

tell

even if there is such thing as an

original at this point

um so yeah you you uh swing at the one

right in front of you stab it yeah um

all right it is a

good roll uh total of 20.

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uh total 20 hits yeah okay so this spell

um normal effects okay

uh so now that they're five feet next to

each other um

i roll damage for the original which is

ten points of piercing as i poke it into

that one

with the with the fire on the blade i

then

kind of raise my hand up and grasp it

and it's just in the middle of the air

i just use my hand to kind of like wave

towards the other enemy and you see the

fire

um jump off of the blade and strike into

the other

uh duplicate uh the other drow as that

one takes

uh some fire damage okay it takes

spell casting modifier

which is something

two i think it's i think it's two yeah

so it takes two points of fire damage

as the as i like wave my hand over

towards that one and you see the fire on

the blade disperses from it and just

crashes into the one right next to it

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all right and um as you see this this

fire enveloped the form you see

um in a very similar fashion to the

other one though you probably couldn't

see it from this distance

um the the mud begins to harden

around its shoulder where it was just

hit by the fire and you can see this

this hardened mud then begin to crack um

as it looks probably

a little bit less stable and you you

probably did a little bit

more damage than uh than you would have

done normally an answer interesting

um question for you i'm not sure if this

is something i could do can i

accent surge and do another

green flame blade i could just do it

again right

again i can just use that action to cast

it again

i believe so unless anyone wants to

correct me

yeah i'm gonna rule that right now and

i'm gonna say yes

that's gonna be that's gonna be my rule

yes i don't i don't i definitely don't

know any different yeah i think it's

just a full action okay so yeah um with

seeing that i'll be like oh

fire good and uh

i'm actually i'm gonna aim i'm gonna i'm

an action search so i take a few quick

breaths

and i like regain my composure i'm gonna

come down uh and try and stab

uh the one i'll run my fingers across

get the flame back on the blade and i'm

gonna go for an attack on the one that

has the hardened cracked

uh clay i'm gonna try and stab at it

with the sword

okay go for it make it happen flame

blade again

um and that is really good that's

uh 20

three twenty three yeah a twenty three

hits so i'll do damage

that one that just took the fire damage

that's max that's huge

uh that's thirteen points of fire damage

to the

um piercing damage to the one that i

just hit with the fire

and then i will again take my hand and

then just

kind of thrust it towards the other one

and that one takes two points of fire

damage as the fire leaves my blade and

crashes into that

okay awesome um that was

i'm sorry that was two points of fire

two points to the one that i originally

hit last year

yeah once again that uh that fire seems

be you know enveloping its torso you can

see it it's beginning to crack and

almost chip away at this point and uh

after that i kind of dropped one knee

with with my hand on my

on my on my knee and just kelly use

fire and i slow my breathing

and stand up as like how second went and

that's my turn

okay um all right next up

is uh the old human man

um yeah he is going to

he's just sort of gonna like slosh

around and

not leave your radius march but just

sort of slosh to the other side of you

and just sort of get into this flanking

exactly

position um with you march so

that first attack is going to be a 15 to

hit

no no sir and

that's a natural one on the second one

so uh yeah once again the first swing it

actually makes contact with you but

it's easily absorbed by your armor and

you just sort of shrug it off and then

the second one swings and completely

misses as you sort of

take a parry step back and uh it

completely misses you

next up uh march um really quick i

healed 12 points from

the second one just in case

okay okay so this is fun

[Laughter]

um oh my goodness

okay so i'm flanked by these these two

fun looking

peoples yes you are

um but the entire time that this has

happened

i have not really kept my gaze

off of even even when old man was trying

to try and punch i've not really kept my

gaze off of a

mini mini ski mini goliath over there in

the corner

um so

i'm gonna kind of come back to reality

for a second

uh after having this guy

trying to punch me basically and

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can i establish that uh

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this is this is still swampy correct

yes this is very much swampland

okay so if i

it's not what would you like to do march

i don't know

my question is is that obviously this

isn't

the okay i'm gonna word this because i

realized that i hadn't

discussed it like let everybody else

know about it but

the thing

that shraya had given march at the ship

would not work here is that correct

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it would yeah then i'm gonna do it

um and it and it also would not affect

alma just so you know because she's up

in the tree

um so then this is what i'm gonna do i

am going to

she's my regular warhammer

and i am going to take out

the other war hammer that shraya had

bestowed upon me

and at that moment

sort of swing around my head and

i would like to smash my berserk hammer

into the ground

yeah um watch out for the trees

okay awesome so i'm gonna make some

strength saving throws for these guys

since it's my first time using it you're

gonna have to fully walk me through this

okay so

um yeah so what is your

strength modifier

four okay well they both fail yeah

yes so um as you s as you lift this

thing up and you

slam it down into the mud around you it

creates this

shock wave around you and the

old man and the uh younger elf

um are pushed back five feet and are

both knocked prone as you can see that

their uh their sort of mud forms

slosh back into the mud and they have to

take a second to try and

get back up and sort of reform

themselves um but you have

pretty much cleared a path around you

okay

um i don't necessarily

want to go anywhere or do anything um

i just wanted to at least push them back

so i could

breathe for a second um and then the

only other thing i want to do

is just call to flynn and caleb

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what kind of like to kayla but both to

both of them really like

what the hell are these things also

flynn just a heads up

she's dead so she's not real just a

heads up

and then that's my turn wait i i'd allow

caleb to respond to that if you would

like to some creation of foul magic

use fire i don't have fire

we'll do that again that was pretty cool

okay noted thank you all right

um march that being the end of your turn

oh actually would you like to move or

would you like to stay away

um i'm very now that you have these i'm

very torn um but um

i i mean i'll go just

five feet to the left so i'm still

within 10 feet of alma

but just slightly okay

yeah literally right there awesome okay

um with that being done uh next up

the both of these drow women

um are in front of kellik and flynn and

in front of you guys

they both in perfect unison try to punch

uh one and the other um

so for that first attack on both of them

uh flynn that's a seventeen hits and

kellick that is a seven

that does not hit okay so flynn you take

seven points of blood damage

and then on that second one

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when that is a 12 misses

okay and kalec that is a

21. yeah that'll

[Laughter]

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that is another seven points of

bludgeoning damage

as these both things um they throw a

right and a left in perfect unison

i hate you but that was kind of cool

always was a tough lady you know her

alright next up uh oma in the tree

i'm gonna run and hop the tree limbs

over to um over to the fallen

alvin looking one

okay and i want to it looks like it

looks like

she has fallen kind of not necessarily

in the mud

but on like the or is that still mud

yeah there's it's it's all pretty much

mud but there is a little bit more of

a kind of drier patch of grass sure i

won't like sink

into it this if i drop down no okay i'm

gonna drop down

next to her okay and that

location that like center part that's

kind of burnt

and crispy i want to pull my fist back

and punch as hard as i can into it

okay uh okay roll your attack punch it

that is um a 24 to hit

yeah 24 for sure hits okay

seven points

of bludgeoning okay

and i'm going to do a second punch yeah

go for it

fourteen that hits

and that is eight

eight yes

okay um as you drop down and you just

laying punches into this thing um you

can see

uh where your firebolt had hit sort of

on its chest going up into sort of

the area in between its neck and his

shoulder you punch right in that area

and by the time you're done punching the

shoulder is completely disconnected from

the neck there is a

uh pretty much a fist-sized gap

going across the the chest do i can i

see into it can i see any kind of um

ring inside of it um you

just barely see the sort of the outer

crest of one of these rings

okay um

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i realized i didn't do those at an

advantage even though she was prone so i

just rolled again to make sure none of

them were natural 20.

okay yeah but none of them were um

how much movement do i have left i am

going to say

that moving through the tree is

your movement speed is halved so i'm

gonna say that's 15 feet of movement

okay i want to go around the tree bark

so that when if she gets up soon

i'm hiding behind the tree okay um

yeah you're basically right at the tree

trunk so you don't really need to

um move too far just to to get around

there

um awesome next up

uh this elven girl who you had

just punched um sort of sloshes up

out of the mud and uh sort of tries to

to kind of shake it off as best as it

can

um are you specifically did you try and

hide

i i don't think i'm able i can't take

like a bonus action to hide or anything

okay but i'm gonna say like in action in

activity yes i was i was trying to

you know go behind the tree and and make

myself harder to find like on the

opposite side of the tree yes okay yes

perfect correct

so um out of sight out of mind it no

longer cares about you so it is going to

run

towards march

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thanks mark dumb creatures

this thing runs back up towards you

and it's gonna take another two punches

i blow raspberries

actually um seeing

your position what it's gonna do is

um it is going to attempt to grapple you

so you can see it runs up towards you

i'm gonna need

a uh dexterity saving throw from you

or me from march

i don't know why i thought you were

talking about

i was like i was like upon all my

blowing raspberries out and it's like

and i'm back

not a chance not a chance

um dexterity same thing yeah 17.

uh you do not succeed um so as this

thing uh

rushes up and uh

a bear hug um it

takes you with it a little ways as it

sinks down into the mud

and sort of reabsorbs itself into the

mud just to drag you down

as your feet are pulled down into the

mud um

and for the next round your movement

speed has been reduced to zero

fun i like this

okay next up um that is its turn

next up kellick so dm

yes the spell creator destroy water

says uh 10 gallons of water in an open

container

within range i was hoping you did not

have the spell prepared

can i yeah go ahead and do it

just get it over oh he's social it's

okay tm

yeah i want to destroy all the water

within these

these creatures within our uh sphere the

two

the two drought dupes and the uh the

little goliath girl

yeah okay um so i will uh

i will uh as i as i look uh through the

the veil

i will grab one of those tethers and

pull open the gap

and allow this silvery

uh spectral ash to pour through

and say and flynn you would feel

a sensation of the the the air

changing temperature and uh texture and

probably like you would taste something

metallic

uh as as the uh the water is removed

from this area within

okay um so all of it's it's all of the

water in 30 feet

yeah it's it's 10 gallons 10 gallons

okay so i'm going to say that

that is worth two of them okay two of

them

they're mostly dirt if these were water

creatures i would say one

but these are mostly dirt so i'm gonna

rule two

um so they're just completely destroyed

right the two

uh synchronized swimmers in front of us

nice okay so

now i have to determine how much damage

that does to them

okay so um as you see all of the

moisture is just

pulled and zapped out of them they sort

of shrink in size a little bit

and the um their their exterior just

becomes completely hardened

and withered um they have the

uh pretty much they're they're

incapacitated for the next round um they

cannot do anything

and uh their ac has been reduced to zero

i look at flown inside i can't do

anything with fire

well that worked i just struck out here

as these things just completely freeze

up and stop moving um

and they they just look like two statues

right in front of you

okay next up

is the one that looks like farlane

um all right this thing is in

just focused on shraya um uh shreya

how high off the ground are you uh i

would say about

at the very most as i plunged it down

like five feet i'm very close to the

ground trying to drive

when i tried to drive this blade into

the into the creature that's right yeah

you did a melee attack okay

um so yeah it is going to pretty much

just try and

reach up and swing and take two uh two

punches at you

all right that first one is going to be

an eight to hit and the second one is

going to be a 20.

the 20 definitely hits yeah okay

um and as you can see uh it's punching

up at you

the first one you sort of just tuck your

legs up and

sort of just get your legs up out of the

way as you're still hovering above it

um and then the second one you can see

as it swings around it sort of uses the

momentum

of its swing to pull more mud into its

arm and sort of elongate its arm just a

little bit just enough to

actually swing out and punch you um that

is going to be

six points of bludgeoning damage

okay um that's gonna be its turn next up

shraya

unfounded creature uh you will know my

might this time

and uh as i rear back um

whip around from the blow of the

uh bludgeoning i just took i'm going to

rear back around

and drive um put take

both my hands on it grip extra tight and

then just try to swing

straight through this thing the torso of

okay yeah i'm making a tackle all right

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there's a 16 hit a 16 right yeah

that's gonna be uh

3d6 fire damage so let's see what that

does that's a lot of paper

uh that is a total for a total of

12 points of fire damage okay

nice very good

big hit it's fire too that messes them

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dehydration does too

effectively

all right um okay that being done

um yeah

you guys look around and you can see a

couple of these things

um the one that looks like farlane

the one that is a

younger elf and the two drow

um you could see that they all sort of

shake and like attempt to reabsorb back

into the mud

um but the the pieces of them that have

been hardened by the fire will not allow

them to be

reabsorbed back into the ground um

and as you look over to the old human

man

oh no he

completely absorbs back into the ground

oh no oh no

and bubbles no and steam as he is then

duplicated

all right um flynn what would you like

to do you've got these two

mud statues right in front of you and

you've got a uh

a young goliath girl in the back oh man

do they look very brittle

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um they do they look very pretty

i want to do stupid stuff

um do it but i'm a little i'm

a wee lad okay screw it i'm gonna try it

i'm gonna

move uh down

so i'm like in

in a line with the two drow

so i'll use my movement and i think i

take an opportunity attack from

um mini march

uh yes you do that's going to be

a nightmare that'll do that'll hit how

much damage am i taking for this stupid

idea

that is six points of bludgeoning okay

i'm a threat um and uh

i would like to uh i guess

i don't know maybe it would be better if

i run so now that i'm out of range with

that one

these ones seem like they're frozen in

place i feel like i should be okay to

move

down a little bit so that's

so i'm gonna move down like i'm gonna

take a five feet back and then i'm just

gonna basically

run at this one and try and push it

into the other one to make them collide

and hopefully break

i don't know what you want me to roll

for that but um

i'm gonna i'm gonna have you roll an

athletics check yay i have a negative to

that

and um with my run my run up would that

give me

i'm saying with the ac being reduced to

zero i'm gonna say you'll have advantage

that's how that translates there that's

what i'm gonna say

um so yeah as you bull rush this thing

20.

natural 20. so you take a stance you

sort of you dig your back foot in

and you get your arms ready and you push

off and you sprint

and you shoulder check right into this

first

uh mud creature it doesn't even react as

it shatters like glass

and as you push through the first one

was a lot easier than you think like

that that was pretty easy to get through

and you sort of trip and as you realize

oh you're still going and you crash

right into the second one as both of

them are completely obliterated

and then i tumble and i get back up i'm

like whoa caleb did you see that

and to think you were afraid to come

into the mud in the first place

i'm amazing and i look at the other one

bill's character lad

caleb he is now a mud monster covered in

mud

okay look right in front of you drops

not only flynn but

a couple uh a pair of golden rings

um that's my turn i would like that is

your turn

okay um the old human man

e is going to oh no

one of them is going to rush up to march

the other one is going to rush up to

shraya

and okay let's get the the guy that's on

march

1st uh that's a natural 20.

oh no

so that is going to be

13 points of bludgeoning damage

on the first attack

second attack

um no you're not because you are sunk

down in the mud

uh the second one is going to be a 15 to

hit which i believe misses

correct um you can crouch in pain

if you'd like to do that i use my

reaction to cry

tears are freezing um

next up uh the one that uh try it comes

over to you and you are hovering

off of the ground but it's still um like

as it's moving towards you mud coalesces

at its base

and forms up and around its legs and

towards its hips

as its legs elongate so it reaches up

and its torso

comes up to meet your level and it takes

two swings oh no

no no what kind of magic is this that's

terrifying that's going to be

a 17 and an 11 to hit

uh the 17 one does hit yes okay

that's gonna be seven points of

bludgeoning damage

okay that is

their turn next up march

yeah [ __ ] this guy she's mad now she's

now she's mad she has been so focused

on mini march

and she's definitely now she's just mad

so i am going to go ahead

and i'm gonna i'm gonna do it again i'm

gonna take

that reserve hammer and try it again

and do another woohoo

in this

around my head and try and slam it down

to the ground

that's the uh that's the power word yeah

it's gotta be that it's superficial guys

okay um so can you remind me what that

that dc is again what's your

strength modifier the dc is eaten and

the strength is

four and then my proficiency buttons

where's that oh there it is two

okay so that is going to be a 14

that they have to beat that is

a 13.

and that's uh

they both get knocked back five feet

once again

they're knocked prone

um and you could tell that they even

though they are expressionless they are

probably

getting tired of being knocked on their

butts

kind of like like on their muddy but

breathing heavily just

covered in mud i'm gonna look over

flatting out i don't know what you did

to the other two but

[ __ ] these guys i don't like them and

their little mud thing

then we should do more of that to the

rest of them

okay uh and march as as you knock this

thing back and even with the

berserk hammer um knocking some of the

mud back you feel

uh the mud being then pulled away and

sort of the the grasp that was on you

on your legs uh being pulled away you

are now free free to move around nice

um okay next up

the drower dead oma

what would you like to do same same same

um except this time i'm going to

she's back prone again so i'm going to

run up to her

and um i want to try to pry the ring

free from her

muddy body okay um because it's still

exposed

you did when you went up and you punched

you were punching at the

the dried pieces of at that point it's

like dried clay

um you you walk up and you notice that

section is still

missing but you have punched away all of

the

the dried um mud and it is now

fully it's it's mud form once again

oh it hasn't healed or anything um but

you just cleared it of that

okay in that case you can still reach in

and grab it

it's still visible um just that those

dried parts have been punched away

no i i don't need to do that in that

case i will

um stay where i am and

um take a deep deep breath

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and put both of my hands out in front of

towards the woman um

attach my thumbs

and yeah fire is good right flick yeah

do fire

as i release um

uh a cone of fire yeah

okay you know

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so uh is that a the deck saving throw

but she's prone

that disadvantage

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which is good because that first one was

very high

good for you not good for me just

uh that is a seven on the deck fails

nice

so i will roll my wild magic and i have

yes please oh dear it's been a while

since i cast a spell it has been a while

we know what i have to beat i will say

anything since it has been a while

um it just beat a one as long as you

roll above

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and that spell was cone of fire um it's

burning hands

burning at level two yeah that is such a

good smell gonna hurt burning hands

oh really good

that is 20 points of fire holy

man so you just full-on

like flamethrower this thing and it's

just it's just pouring on the flames

and as you sort of pull your hands back

and and the flames begin to clear

was there ever even a body there

all you see all you see is just this

burned grass that just this little swamp

grass that has been coming up

um burned grass and just this

clay that has been dried up of all of

its moisture

and in the the middle of it is a golden

ring

i'm gonna walk forward and pick up the

ring um but i'm gonna look up at marge

and say

marge um maybe it absorbed

into the mud i don't know is there gonna

be two now

um i don't and i'll hold the ring i

don't think so

alma i mean no

uh is the tree on fire i really

really can't deal with a fire right now

is the tree okay

the tree's fine i was aiming okay down

oh goody okay

okay there's like i'm just like in such

awe of like what

alma has just done and i was like that

was pretty cool

hope the tree doesn't light on fire um

was that the one that looked kind of

like melloroo

yes so flynn will just have like a

moment of just

kind of like looking as it gets

disintegrated basically from the other

side

and then shakes out of it and gets back

into the fight

okay all right um

and next up the elf is dead

um kellick kellick you've got flynn

who has tripped right in front of you

you've got the two rings on the ground

and you've got

a young goliath right at your back

how big are these rings sorry just uh

like they were halos around the staff

but now are they like

like bracelet size rings um hip size

rings

uh yeah quite a bit bigger than a

bracelet i would say

like um the the diameter of

like the gold itself is

probably about an inch but then the

diameter of the ring

is about half a foot oh

wow wow interesting um can i collect

them

uh will it consume my action to collect

the rings off the

free action to pick the rings up i will

do that

scoop them up uh and then i'm going to

uh um circumnavigate

uh this little goliath girl to put

myself in between

uh her and uh human

human mail okay uh a

ohm and then i will uh

uh once again uh

uh destroy water

you are at the perfect angle to do that

[Laughter]

yeah okay so um the uh

young goliath and the old man um

completely dry up their speed becomes

zero they

look like statues and uh their ac has

been dropped to zero

right on uh and i'm happy with yourself

[Laughter]

yeah now that they're

dried up i will step back five feet

so clear the path nice okay

and they do not get a tax of opportunity

because yeah

and next up is how to make your dm sad

just so sad um uh next up is the one

that looks like

far lane that one

is it's gonna continue swinging at

shraya

try it that is going to be a 23 to hit

oh yeah yeah that that got me and that's

also going to be a 16 to hit

uh also gets me okay oh

no bird would be okay you will be okay

five points of bludgeoning damage

on the first attack how many five mr

burns okay

five and that's gonna be seven points of

bludgeoning on the second

okay so it's seven and what

seven and five seven and five okay

twelve total

yikes wow okay mr bird

all right shraya what are you gonna do

the visage of farlane

like touches something in my heart and i

have this kind of like longing wince

as i activate the gem

on the brazier and

uh through the heat of the fire or

whatever i whisper

or whatever it takes to activate it i

clench my fist or

whatever it is and i rear back around

and uh i whisper uh

sandy to the shadows for good

and then i uh take one more uh take a

slash another slash at its midsection

with the flaming blade make an attack

roll

what does this bracelet uh that is a 18

to hit that hits

yeah and then that is a total of

damn uh another 12 that's 12 points of

fire damage

okay um as you swing through this thing

you see the the flame on your blade um

as you swing and as you're carving

through the flame

almost precedes the blade as it hardens

the mud

um just in time for your your blade to

actually hit it

um so as you're swinging through it's

like hardening the mud

as well as shattering it as you're going

through um as it completely breaks and

falls apart

in front of you um and this golden ring

falls out and falls to the ground now my

question for you is would you

like to use the gems ability oh yeah

yeah i'm using it okay um

awesome so um alma would be able to see

this

uh everyone everyone will be able to see

this

as none of you guys are really in melee

with anyone

um you guys look over and you guys see

shraya destroy this thing the golden

ring falls to the ground

and as it does

there's just a little like bit of

energy just a little bit of a sparkle

there where the creature used to be

and shraya reaches out and the gem on

his

bracer glows as he grabs that little

flicker of light

and you can see that light then consumes

over his hand

and consumes over all of his all of his

body just giving him this this

slight slight glow as he grabs this

sparkle

out of the air and try it you may

uh now roll a d4 to get some uh

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three hit points that's awesome oh okay

very good as you uh yeah you reach out

and

before this creature's life essence

returned to the earth you were able to

just snag a piece of it and and steal it

for your own

i suddenly feel much more at home in

this one

okay man i was waiting for that okay

um next up

after schrei's turn um the

young goliath is now

not able to move so next up is flynn

[Music]

[Laughter]

advantage yeah athletics check that was

a three

okay okay okay so

17 because minus one fret

okay and i run through them no

okay um as you run through let's see

where

this guy's at okay um

you run through and you completely clear

through um

the oh as i'm running through the first

one

sorry marge

and just say to myself say very very

loudly she's already dead she's already

dead she's already dead

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okay that's dark um so uh yeah flynn you

you plunge through the first one

and um you're just able to reach the

second one as your body sort of falls to

the ground and

one of its legs completely breaks away

it's not completely collapsed

um but it it is just barely hanging in

there

um as you can see at this point it's

sort of starting to regain some of its

its

moisture and and its mud it's not fully

back yet but it's

it's beginning that process so i'm at

like right next to it um

you are on the ground right next to it

if i would be able to just move up one

um so i'm a little bit farther away from

kellic yeah you could you could have

i'll i'll just be there and then uh

that's my action and and movement right

yes uh that is my turn okay

um next up

so one of these old men is

[Music]

going to um he is going to

uh the one that is now all dried up that

flynn took the leg off of

um he is going to you see the the mud

around and begin to

to bubble and boil as it begins to

encase his form once again

um not duplicating him but just sort of

trying to get rid of all of that dried

mud as it uh

um forms back up again it does still

look very damaged from where flynn took

the leg off but it is now able to move

again

um that is going to be its action and

it's going to

choose to stay where it is

the second one is going to take a swing

oh shraya oh boy are you looking bud

doria give me strength

that's a 21 to him oh no yeah that hits

and that's a 12 to hit that second one

does not hit

[Music]

that is gonna be four points of

bludgeoning damage

uh that that takes me down to one hit

point

oh my gosh is that like

do i you're so you're you're still up

okay um

but yeah you got one hit point

[Music]

ah all right um

okay next up march

[Music]

damn it okay

i would like to

run up to shraya as close as i can

okay and um

[Music]

i'm going to go ahead and i want to be

next to shraya

if i can be oh yeah yeah for sure yeah

perfect just there

um and i'm going to have an internal

debate as to what i want to do and

i'm going to go ahead and settle on

reaching out my hands to touch

shraya um i would like to touch his wing

specifically okay and um

get him i want to do uh lay on hands

essentially

yeah nice and okay how much how many

points are you giving i'm gonna go ahead

and give him uh seven

nice okay try it add seven hit points

[Music]

and then

[Music]

um i would like to do

a bonus action

[Music]

okay what's your bonus action i would

oh god i've never done this this is fun

this is fun this is fun guys it's fine

i'm okay

um from here i would like to

uh try and do uh

sanctuary i'd like to cast sanctuary on

trial

no way that's sweet okay it's a bonus

action

it says it is yeah i believe sanctuary's

a bonus

okay awesome um yeah so uh

what does sanctuary do you ward a

creature within range against attack

until the spell ends any creature who

targets the worded creature with an

attack or harmful spell

must first make a wisdom-saving throw on

a failed save the

creature must choose a new target or

lose the attack or spell

the spell doesn't protect the worded

creature from area effects such as the

explosion of a fireball

okay nice nice so huge okay awesome so

i'd like to do kind of like like like

try and sort of swirl my arms around and

very rustically having clearly not

done this in quite some time until it

finally sort of

swirls around and uh casting sanctuary

on try it and then

i just want to focus myself

on the other is this a duplicate

um this is one of the duplicates okay

then i'm just which one of you

is the original yeah there's really no

way to tell which is the original

i just want to be facing him is all and

then that is it

um oma what would you like to do i want

to scoot myself

um in between both of them

okay but like the same distance i like

back one

sorry like in a triangle

okay a little bit more no that's

probably good actually

that's pretty good um

and i want to

kind of look back and forth between them

and i'm gonna say

you're not real but i'm gonna find you

and cast

um okay so if it's a cone

geometry time

and it goes out from me

for 15 feet it won't hit trial or flynn

that are on either side of them

if i'm five feet from them correct

if i'm five feet from my yes with the

geometry of it

i'm gonna say if you take one more step

back you would be able to hit

both of them without hitting shraya or

okay i'm going to take another step back

because i have the movement that's i

think that's true

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

yeah wow that that was set up perfectly

man this is the time as a dm where i'm

like oh if i just move them

yeah we had some we've had some real uh

geometrical success

yeah that's fine time to get at the

protractor okay

what are you casting um

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i'm gonna use

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quickened spell first and expend two

sorcery points

one second yep

two sorcery points first and then i'm

gonna cast

um this as my action

and then i will have one more spell as a

bonus action okay

so um please

uh deck save for me for burning hands at

level two or both of them

oh geez this is

that is a 14 and an 11.

the 14 saves okay and i believe still

so that's the one near flynn half damage

okay so flynn's

oh um i have to roll above a two one

moment

i did

not as good this time that's eight

points of damage and four for the one

that's halved

okay so because it is fire it is

still up to eight nice

okay and then

i'm gonna boom boom

that with a second one this time at

level one okay

above a three nice i saved

very good and

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seven points of damage and what four

for the halved okay oh wait they

probably have to save again they have to

say

i was gonna say that's the same spell

yes yep okay that's a five

and a nine both fans so seven okay

uh and and both of them crumble before

your flame

as it uh engulfs their body and uh

two more rings fall to the ground heck

yeah

i'll find you yeah we're now out of

initiative

as all of the creatures have been

destroyed

um and as you guys look around you see

oma i believe you have one of the rings

uh and i believe

the rest of them are still laying there

on the ground

kellic has two of them i have two kellek

has two of them i bet i'm going to reach

down and pick the one up from

i would like to reach what i did that i

would like to reach down and pick up the

one from the duplicate that was in front

of shraya

okay there are just as a note

um they're all exactly identical um

and there are seven of them as there

were five originally and two of them

duplicated

i'm gonna reach into my pocket collect

the other ones and kind of go over

towards

pull out i'm gonna reach into my pocket

and pull out a small pendant

[Music]

and just kind of squeeze it between my

fingers

rub it a few times turn it over and then

put it back in my pocket

okay uh i would like to

look at this ring and try and understand

the nature of it is there anything on it

that would

i don't know uh have i encountered

anything like this before

or um make an arcana check

that is a 12th uh 12.

um looking at this thing uh you haven't

heard of anything like

specifically like this it looks like um

most likely

the rings are what conjured um

conjured these things um and the staff

might have just been

a holder for them um but uh

yeah as far as you can tell these were

constructs without

conscience um that came from these rings

the rings are also

no longer um they're no longer radiating

that magical energy

they're now completely non-magical alec

why are these here

we're in the middle of nowhere i don't

know a child

some being has

uh some quarrel with us it would appear

well maybe it's just like just like an

alarm

maybe anybody who stumbles upon it would

would trip it

why would an alarm take the shape of

people we know well when we got close to

it i felt a little tingle

maybe maybe that's when it it kind of

got information from us maybe it would

have just taken any shape

um i look at the place where the two

drow women were

disintegrated by flynn's charge

i hope you're right alma

is there anything around i mean what

could it be if it were an alarm what

could it be an alarm for

maybe there's something here um

uh i'm gonna look around uh is our

cloaked uh observer

anywhere in the in the vista anyone who

wants to make a perception check may do

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14 18.

17 for flynn uh

11 for calico

okay um for those of you who rolled

above

a 15. um you do see

just in the the line of where you guys

were going

um if you guys weren't stopped by this

this staff

um in that same line you do see a

hooded figure standing there completely

still

in between the trees how far away

about a hundred feet

i see him over there is anybody else

flynn do you see him

yeah do we go for him now

i just uh what do you see that

person i think try a mention

i can see him in the trees about 100

feet away

maybe he has something to do with this

if not it's it's too much of a

coincidence to let her to lie

well let's just go ask him then before

we just go ask

random people in swamp i just want to

confirm that everybody here recognized

one of these mud creatures as somebody

they know or once knew

or had known correct

oh yeah that's all

yes then yeah we have to go talk to him

we all recognize him yeah every everyone

yeah we all know fairly

um flynn how how are you doing are you

okay um yeah i'm fine

he you know kind of stumbles but

i like stood up and yeah

i'm don't worry about me i'm i'm great

you look like you could use a hosing

down though you're a little

muddy yeah that's why i wanted to be

carried but apparently

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you know what never mind i'm gonna start

walking towards the figure i'm going to

i would like i would like to go with

flynn but

i would like if possible

just be slightly ahead of fun

we're like at like even pace but like

literally like a step ahead of him

yeah i'll uh i'll travel behind uh same

i'll follow behind with

with kellic okay so let's see

just for my reference alma and caleb are

in the back

march is up front with flynn just behind

and try are you where are you

i'm gonna be in between um and we're

we're heading toward this thing right

yeah um as we as we start toward it

uh i'm i'm going to say um we don't know

what this being is capable of

and uh as i feel the roots of the earth

uh pulse up through my legs and then

sprout out my hand

um uh ten uh good berries appear in my

hands and i give each of the party

members

uh two of them uh each and then i

consume

uh four myself yeah like what do these

i don't they're tasty both of them

i'm gonna eat yeah i'm going to swallow

it i don't

shut up i'll eat them i don't think i

need these

do you want them hold on to them

no what do they do uh tastes all right

not fat they make me feel better they do

uh they they make you uh

full and they also restore one hit point

uh per bear you eat

nice okay so you guys are all walking

towards this uh

cloaked figure i gently put the berries

in my pocket

i try not to smoosh them

right okay so as you guys uh walk up

approaching you guys get closer 75 feet

50 feet 30 feet

it is completely unmoving besides the uh

the slight sway of the cloak in the

breeze

is it facing us it is facing you you can

see it at this distance do we see

any kind of like face or figure or is it

possible that we're now able to tell

that maybe it's just

a cloak um you

cannot determine from this distance it's

like a very it's a large

cloak with the hood coming down well

below where you would be able to see the

face um the the arms of it extending

well beyond where any hands would can we

tell from this distance like height wise

what it's at

like is it um

uh yeah just shorter than you march

okay just shorter than you um taller

than caleb shorter than march

okay big keep going

yeah like maybe maybe maybe they need a

good berry

oh there as we're approaching i'll call

out

okay um as you guys approach you get

20 feet 10 feet away and as you get

about 10 feet away

the cloak completely falls as if no one

was ever even

wearing the cloak um as it just falls to

the ground completely

from behind you guys um out behind a

tree

you hear a couple footsteps walk out and

you hear a voice

that says you know i always find it

interesting how when people say wanted

dead or alive

and they give the same price for both

dead and alive i

i always wonder why why even bother

with the alive part that that's that's

just what

i wonder about i don't know just a

thought

what do you think uh can we see who this

person is

look around look who is this

and look at this individual

as you guys turn around um you guys see

large half work um this

half orc has got um slicked back hair

um just dark dark black um

hair you can see uh his his yellow eyes

these bright

yellow eyes um you see he's wearing a

brown vest

um uh that is over

a uh a loose black shirt that comes

about to elbow length

um he is wearing um just

some some simple leather pants and you

can see

around his waist is a belt with

a myriad of items of different shapes

and sizes none of which look like swords

hammers or or anything of a specifically

weapon type variety but um

probably a lot of magic items um

oma and march you guys see down sort of

on a

thigh holster you see a

black and gold dagger that's affixed to

his leg

um this black and gold dagger you guys

recognize

as the symbol sort of

of someone within hollow guard

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do either or do i recognize this

individual or have i seen this

individual

any time before you don't recognize this

individual no

[Music]

neither does that hi there and who i am

i'm gonna i just want to look at him and

goes and who

would it be that possibly wants us alive

or dead

trying to play a little bit like naive

in a sense

oh well hollow guard of course

[Music]

i'm sorry i have been very rude my name

drek um i believe i know who all of you

are

um please make make yourselves

comfortable

that must have been a a terrible fight

we're fine must have taken a lot out

we're fine track

[Music]

what do you want oh well if you'll find

if you wouldn't mind and he um reaches

into one of the pouches on his belt

and um sort of pinches together some

some green emerald dust and pinches it

and rubs it in between his fingers and

says a quiet little incantation

into it and then reaches out for the

ground as

a wood tree stump emerges

from the ground and sort of apparates

into place as he walks over and

and just very calmly sits down on it he

said i have i have traveled

quite a distance to come and find you i

i hope you don't mind if i rest my

legs oh sure

rest away you don't mind if we just

leave

then right while you're resting gather

your wits about you

oh that uh um unfortunately that is not

something that

you would be able to do at the moment um

my question to you is basically whether

you would prefer

to be returned to hollow god dead or

alive

and i believe at this point that offer

extends

to the drow the halfling and the

aerocochra

at this point as well what do they want

what does the hollow guard want with

them

well they uh seem to be your companions

at this point in whatever journey you

all are taking oh you know just

traveling along the way just kind of

caught up i don't even really know who

they are yeah we just found them

maybe you know about an hour before i

just went down

well i can't recall their names actually

um but anyways but you know you know i

just um you've got to have better things

to do than hunt us down i mean really

i can't imagine what value i would be to

anyone

um i must admit you are not all my

typical prey but i am being handed

a sizable amount of gold um uh

uh an amount of gold that i frankly

cannot turn down

um how much gold is that i'm sorry what

exactly do they want with us

[Music]

um you have oh how do they say it

uh seen too much i believe is uh

is how they would put it huh

have you seen too much

like do you even know like what if i

told you everything and then now you've

seen too much too

[Music]

well that's the thing i don't believe

you even know everything

so you already have seen too much

well in a manner of speaking yes

so how come you get to live

well i get to live because those

crystals you all are carrying

um those are what's called the my

friends

oh what's called on my friends they're

more associates or companions if you

will

but um yes at this i bristle and

and like assume a defensive posture

[Music]

can i look around and see if i see

anyone

in the trees surrounding us or is it

just him

um yeah make a perception check

[Music]

eight no you don't see anything in the

trees all right i'm sorry

the crystal is called uh my friends

or the crystal is uh my friends

do you see how i'm a little confused the

articles make me a little confused here

which one is it i i apologize for any

miscommunication

um the beings

trapped within the crystals um are

people who

i have a vested interest in keeping

alive

[Music]

so if we just gave the crystals to you

all would be forgiven well yes and

no um i am going to take the crystals

whether you

want me to or not that's not really part

of the question

uh the main question is whether you

would be

you would prefer to be killed here or uh

executed

uh by the hands of um more uh

civilized people over in hollywood

obviously i would prefer not to be

killed

clearly um i'm sure there's some

agreement we can come to where i get to

you know continue living

on past 12 and you

get your crystals

[Music]

i believe that can be arranged now we're

talking

how can that be arranged

well um the first step would be just

handing me the crystals

and what's the second step after that

well the second step is me simply

turning my back

and letting you all leave

[Music]

and that's for sure gonna happen after

we give you the crystals you're not just

gonna tell me that and then kill me i

guarantee it

i would like to tell if he's lying to me

yeah go forward

no terrible um

nine seems like a straight shooter

oh man looking at looking at this guy dm

is he what kind of armor is he wearing

what's he

what's his what's his kind of like

stature i know he's quite large

but is he um studded leather um

uh you can see no weapons on him

apart from the items on his belt

um oh he does have the dagger on his leg

um and uh yeah he just seems to be

like very trim you know he's he's a half

work so he's got a big build

um but he seems you know very athletic

in that build

um but right now he's just sitting on

this stump that he's conjured

looking very comfortable

seeing as we're to die anyway no we're

not gonna die

we're gonna live we're gonna give him

the crystals and we're gonna live

i don't uh not sure i uh trust that

that's the case here

i was worried about that

[Music]

also

greg uh certainly you must be aware of

the danger these crystals

pose to by my eye to everything

everywhere we have encountered something

from these crystals

uh dangerous frightening things have uh

oh so you've seen what the crystals can

then i mean you can only imagine

then what i'm capable of

if we're to die anyway as i suspect uh

is your interest you might uh

indulge us uh in uh

a better understanding of what's going

on where were you and one of these

crystals sir

i don't see the harm in divulging

a bit of what had happened um

i was never in the crystal i was the one

who

escaped fortunately um

and uh my companions were not so

lucky and when did that occur

when were they physically put in these

crystals

well me and my associates had

um traveled a bit along the border of

calder

attempting to find um i believe he was a

lieutenant

in the army of calder he was the

son of a locksmith we were looking for

his father but we could not

what i'm gonna i'm gonna pull my i'm

gonna pull my

um my lock picking set from my pocket

okay march yeah march do you think it's

the same one

that we were looking for that they were

looking for hologuard sent us to find

them too

um you know i'd like to tell you no

but there was a a locksmith who

um we could not find and so

we went to the next best thing which was

going to be his son who was a

lieutenant in the army of calder um

unfortunately uh lieutenants are

well kept within the castles of

calder and we were overrun

um a bit of our plan went awry and

the team that we were a part of um uh

sort of fell apart uh we hadn't been

working together for too long

um and so we fled

and some of my team were captured

and i was the only one who was let go

now i assume

that what had happened was after they

were captured they were kept in these

crystals and being transported somewhere

and after those crystals were being

transported

within kaldur it was up to hologuard to

reacquire

those crystals and from there i assume

that's where

your entanglement with them began and he

looks to you oma and march

he said i assume that's where your

entanglement began in

collecting these crystals back from the

nation of kaldura and returning them

to hollow guard whoa

if you weren't you know much of a team

to begin with why uh

why such lengths to retrieve them well i

have been told

that some of the members of my crew

were very valuable to sort of

a religious sect up north i

i don't know they who they were but they

were sort of seemed to be in a cult of

some sort

uh they were um always praying and

talking about uh the end of times and

and

the starting of new things and and a

rebirth and and they just kept chanting

about

uh red wolves and things of that sort

and that's where we're gonna end session

[Applause]

we're going to call it right there what

no we can't call it there well we're

going to

yeah just drop a red one you can't just

yeah

that's in the

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for listening and we can't wait to see

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