Timothy (DM): Welcome to shadows, a prophecy, a D&D real play podcast, where we will find out what it takes to become a hero, face our darkest fears, and pull ourselves out of a pit of despair.
Shadows of Prophecy is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast with violent themes and adult language listener discretion is advised.
With us today to traverse through adventures of loss and tragedy, we have myself, Timothy, as our ambivalent DM, Chris as everyone’s favorite soft-boy, Salvador Salterose, and Russel as a beefy army ship chef, Paavu Skywalker, and Ian as an utterly discernable pirate, Arnold of the Sea.
Join us as we enter the Shadows of Prophecy.
Prologue: A Word Unravels
Chapter Two: It Came from the Deep
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. Rage, Goddess sing of rage, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds and the will of Zeus moving toward its end. Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds them all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap them all. She entangles one man, now another, those who are homesick most for the places they have never known. Come, Friends, all must die. Why moan about it so? But I digress, for it is time to pause a moment in this grand charade to meet the next hero of our tragic tale, a handsome young Tiefling, his heart yearning for all the world may offer.
A warm sea breeze, wets your brows and salts your lips. As the strong odor of fish set out to dry in the bright hot sun fills your nostrils. This may be the last time you hear the cheer of the port for quite some time, but for a moment, the calmness allows your mind to stray. The calmness is quickly punctuated by the booming calls of the steward, standing at the gangway onto the S.S. Prodigal. "All aboard recruits, the S.S. Prodigal embarks and 20 minutes and not one single Lolligagger will hold it up. Please have your papers ready form a single orderly line, prompt and tidy now!"
Chris (Salvador): Oh gosh. I hope I have. I hope I have my papers. I, I, as Salvador ruffles through his big old knapsack and I have them!
Timothy (DM): Yes, you do.
Chris (Salvador): Um, well with that, I hoist my pack over my shoulder. I, I give another hug
to my dad and I uh, I turned to walk up the gangplank
Timothy (DM): As you are walking away, you see the expression on your dad's face. One of the rare moments where, he's expressing sadness, is that a
So, you make your way up to the ship, where there is a table sitting, right in front of the gangway.
The steward is sitting there collecting papers. You hop in line quickly to make your way up to the front. The steward holds out their hand to collect your papers.
Chris (Salvador): Here you go. Hopefully it's all, uh, all you need there.
Timothy (DM): All right. Uh, I have a Salvador Salteros, cleric of Tao, age 23, birth place Forenza yep. This all checks out. All right. Salvador proceed to the galley where you will be briefed and assigned.
Chris (Salvador): Thank you very much. And he wanders past the table and towards the, the hold.
Timothy (DM): So you board the ship, and you follow the rest of the boarding crew, down to the galley. The low ceiling forces you to duck under the beams so as to not hit your horns on the beams, above you, as you all crowd into a cramped galley with 30 or so other recruits, and some of the kitchen crew behind the counter . It's difficult even to hear one's own thoughts above the racket, captain Boulderdown, whom you remember from the recruitment stand just a few weeks ago, stands on a crate in front of the room. All right. All right. Settle down, everyone. Welcome to the S.S. Prodigal.
"My name is captain Helena Bolderdown, and I will be your very reason for existence over the course of the next three months. Everything you do will be because I tell you to do so. Everything you see will be because I show you everything you hear will be because I said it, do I have myself understood?"
Chris (Salvador): Yes, ma'am
Timothy (DM): Oh right. We will arrive in Polos Bay in approximately 15 days, according to ship captain Reuval please see the steward at my left for your weekly assignments. I'll be in my cabin, not to be bothered mind you preparing for embarkment. I wish you all a pleasant day as we will become very familiar with each other in the coming months, do not disappoint. And with that, they stepped down from the crate in the front of the room and stomp out. You hear a door closing, down the hall. And the steward with clipboard in hand, starts making their rounds. Eventually she arrives to you.
Chris (Salvador): What can I help you with
Timothy (DM): uh, your name
Chris (Salvador): Salvador salteros,
Timothy (DM): Salvador, Salvador? Uh, yes. I have you, doing inventory, for the first week. You can make your way over to the kitchen. They'll they'll they'll, assist you.
Chris (Salvador): Well, thank you very much. I'll head over there.
Timothy (DM): And as you do, so,
Russel (Paavu): You see Paavu, who's quite large, even for Goliath standards. He's a portly gentleman, the large Buddha belly, and stands slightly over eight feet tall. His dark gray stone- like skin that's completely covered in dark red, tribal tattoos. He has wide square facial features and pale blue eyes. He's technically wearing chainmail, but I like to think that he still has his upper body exposed, so he can show off his like muscles and his tattoos and stuff. And then some sort of leather harness to hold his great Cleaver instead of a great sword. He uses both for fighting and for cooking. You're welcome. , he also has a really thick, sturdy leather belt that he has a cast iron pan, a cast iron ladle, and some other cooking supplies attached to– Cause you never know you need to whip up some grub at an emergency. Oh, and then he also always carries around a large, rat skull. That's his favorite Stu bowl
because it has it that that snout is good for gripping with his giant banana hands.
Chris (Salvador): I I look up to Paavu and I said, well, why? It seems you're a pretty accomplished, uh, with, a cooking…
Russel (Paavu): Oh, yes. Goliaths can make food out of anything.
Chris (Salvador): Well we're, we're definitely gonna need you on this ship. I, uh, i, I don't, I don't know what we're going to be dealing with in terms of, uh, food around
Russel (Paavu): Mostly stew
Chris (Salvador): Well, that's, I'll be interested to see what your, you whip up.
Russel (Paavu): Really, anything can be a stew if you think hard enough
Chris (Salvador): if you apply enough heat and let it sit for a long enough time then. Are you going to inventory to
Russel (Paavu): no, yes, no. Uh, by the way, the name is Paavu
Chris (Salvador): Nice to meet you. I'm a Salvador Salteros
Russel (Paavu): Most people just call me Paa, though
Chris (Salvador): Paa
Russel (Paavu): welcome aboard.
Chris (Salvador): Good to be here
Timothy (DM): Days pass into weeks. as the old mildew written boards of the ship become familiar to you, the once overwhelming crowd of soldiers and crew each now have a name and a story burned into your mind. Some have become good friends while others, you have learned to keep your distance from, but throughout all of this time, captain Bolderdown remains just as stern as the moment you met her and your daily chores have left your hands, calloused and your joints. sore. In a moment of respite. You find yourself in the galley, sitting at the bar with your good friend Paavu. Ecentric at first you've bonded over many an ales since you boarded,
Russel (Paavu): and currently Papa was drinking his ale out of his rat skull.
Chris (Salvador): Oh man. That's a multi-use tool. Yeah.
Russel (Paavu): Sustainable, No?,
Chris (Salvador): I, yes, I suppose so it's a, it's a renewable resource,
Russel (Paavu): I guess. I've never thought of it that way. I mean, if you kill them slow enough,
Chris (Salvador): how big of a rat skull are we talking
Russel (Paavu): Uh, as big as it can be.
Chris (Salvador): It's like the size of a dog's head or okay. Well, man, that's
Russel (Paavu): like a dire ads go.
Chris (Salvador): Gotcha. Well, you know what, uh, cheers to surviving another week.
Russel (Paavu): Cheers.
Chris (Salvador): clink,
Timothy (DM): a sudden jolt of the boat threatens to knock you off your stools. As you hear the commotion of boots and yelling on the deck above you, which brings us to Arnold.
You stand on the bow of the ship as the wind whips across your face. A salty mist sprays into the air with each crash into the waves below.
Behind you, the captain barks orders, sending your crew mates into a frenzy along the riggings and cannons. Along the horizon, you see the Everfear ship you've been tracking. As you put the brass telescope to your eye, you can see the ship has made a hard turn to port
All right. So you two down in the galley, um, have just experienced this like jolt as the ship makes a hard pivot.
Russel (Paavu): Rosemary and Thyme!
Chris (Salvador): Oh man. I hope he didn't run into anything.
Russel (Paavu): Oh, let's go check. Also for flavor. Can we see that Paavu sitting on three stools that he's wrapped together?
Chris (Salvador): To be tall or no? Cause oh, to–
Russel (Paavu): support his fat ass. Yeah. Yeah. He got a dump truck.
Timothy (DM): All right So you, uh, scramble up out of the galley onto the deck. And you can see the pirate ship on the horizon, immediately becomes apparent what is going on.
Uh, you hear the captain, barking orders at your crew. Everybody is on deck and they are going about, um, uh, rigging, not rigging all the sales, but doing all of it. Do you know the ship stuff things
Chris (Salvador): at their battle stations,
Timothy (DM): at their battle stations. There are ballistas that are being prepared. The sails are being turned, and everybody is in like high commotion, high Oh yeah, roll initiative.
Chris (Salvador): Do you want to roll?
Russel (Paavu): Oh no, I should have rolled.
Ian (Arnold): Okay. Uh, 16.
Chris (Salvador): got a one.
Timothy (DM): Oh yay .What does Arnold look like?
Ian (Arnold): Oh, Arnold. Um, so on it looks like at first glance a human until you like, like for all intents and purposes, he looks like a human, unless you look right by his hair. And you can see what you'd imagine are half Elf ears. Right. So something in between but like Arnold has one of those faces that you are like, I know this person. Right. But you don't, you don't know, you don't know. uh, he sort of dressed in what you did like normal seamen's garb. So a tunic and pants, but has a bandana and a Cape that are both, um, uh, the both seem sort of like traditional pirate garb. If you look a little bit closer, they're like weirdly made of silk and you're pretty, you'd be pretty sure his Cape was a sheet. and around his uh, around his Chest is a bandolier that if you take a close look at that, it is just a rope and he's tied various items that he needs into them and probably has no way of getting them
Chris (Salvador): One intimidating figure.
Timothy (DM): I, know.
Ian (Arnold): yes. Matey here. do you have a question for me, Arnold, of the, sea,
Timothy (DM): Are you there with the telescope and bring it here? So I may view the ship.
Ian (Arnold): Aye. uh, Arnold runs over. All right, here we are. I think the ship is over there. Captain
Timothy (DM): Now go manual station,
Ian (Arnold): R I yes. What, What station was that? Again? Maybe the point, If you can,
Chris (Salvador): And competent.
Ian (Arnold): This is a new ship. This is a new ship for me. I just you know, you pushed me up a while ago. So I don't know what you might be saying. So just point to the thing you need, you need me to go to–
Chris (Salvador): I didn't get the, the onboarding packet
Timothy (DM): Do not bother me with your little nuances! Go see Schmitty!
Ian (Arnold): arrrrr
Timothy (DM): Oh, no.
Russel (Paavu): We got this in the bag with how dis-functional that ship is…
Chris (Salvador): they might be fast, but we are –
Timothy (DM): All right. So, uh, you go to see Schmitty, um, that's like the steward of the pirate ship, but like the person who usually tells people what to do is like the left hand of the, uh, captain. Um, and they, uh, quickly brush you off and just tell you to go find a ballista or something.
Ian (Arnold): Aye…I will…will do, um, uh, Arnold walks over to a mast and just tries to pretend like he's doing something. He thinks that's a
Timothy (DM): So the pirate ship starts to pursue the Imperial ship that has turned hard towards the port, hoping to make their way into the shallow waters before the pirate ship can catch up. So what do you guys want to do?
Russel (Paavu): Ask the captain for orders?
Chris (Salvador): Where's Captain Boulderdown?
Russel (Paavu): Oh,
Chris (Salvador): We look to the captain!
Russel (Paavu): Holy Saffrons, that’s not good!
Chris (Salvador): Oh, it looks like a pirate ship.
Russel (Paavu): Yeah, I think that's right. No, I think it's a trading vessel actually.
Chris (Salvador): Alright. Are you sure about that?
Timothy (DM): All right. So, um, as the Imperial ship, uh, turns to port, you realize that you are going against the wind. Um, it will greatly slow you down. And as everybody sits with anticipation and tension, the pirate ship begins to gain quickly upon you.
Ian (Arnold): Fire all our ballistas and catapults!
Timothy (DM): All right. Um, and that is when the pirate ship fires upon you, make attack rolls with the weapons that you got.
Russel (Paavu): how many weapons?
Ian (Arnold): four
Chris (Salvador): we got 2
Ian (Arnold): Alright. Ballistas up first.
Russel (Paavu): Um,
Ian (Arnold): that is a 16,
Chris (Salvador): well, yeah, that hits.
Ian (Arnold): And then that's 3d10 worth of damage. That was 18 and then 27 damage.
Timothy (DM): All right. So a blister rips through your sales, you hear the tearing of Candice as it begins to collapse under its own weight, tearing down and further slowing your ship
Ian (Arnold): next ballista at your sails. Uh, I rolled a one.
Chris (Salvador): you lose!
Ian (Arnold): and then the two– what is a manganell? I don't actually
Timothy (DM): it's like a catapult
Ian (Arnold): Okay. Let's just, okay. then catapults, which are going to shoot at your hull. uh, and that is a, 19, to be–Ooh, 5d10 sheesh, twenty seven! One more catapult shot.
Ian (Arnold): Uh, 15
Chris (Salvador): hits.
Ian (Arnold): Oh, really? Your ship sucks. Um,
Russel (Paavu): it really does. It’s not meant for this.
Timothy (DM): you basically have the same ship except the pirate ship has more weapons.
Chris (Salvador): so it will sink faster because it's heavier
Ian (Arnold): 27.
Timothy (DM): And then the ship begins to shake us two missiles tear through the hull. Make dexterity saving throws to keep your footing.
Russel (Paavu): Fortunately, I'm very dextrous. That’s a two.
Chris (Salvador): Oh my God. I got a one
Timothy (DM): The force of the missiles throws you off your feet. As you, uh, are prone on the ground. You scramble back up and get back to your stations.
Russel (Paavu): That's it? We don't sink? Okay.
Timothy (DM): no, you just fall over–
Chris (Salvador): yeah, we just fall over.
Timothy (DM): They hit the hull,
Chris (Salvador): I, I shout to some, some people are standing on the, on the side load up that load up that, uh, ballista
Russel (Paavu): right away. So if I poverty just picks up a giant boast of bolt by himself and Griggs it bag,
Timothy (DM): and fires.
Chris (Salvador): I should use a different dice, unless you want to roll, you roll for one. I'll refer the–
Russel (Paavu): I'm going to use the mangonel. No, I'm going to aim for the ha the, the, the helm. Woo. I know, right. Uh, 25 to hit.
Chris (Salvador): And I got a 17 to hit.
Ian (Arnold): the, if you're shooting at the helm, You missed the helm. It's
Chris (Salvador): Yeah.
Timothy (DM): So the mangonel.
Ian (Arnold): If you only roll tens, we won't be able to turn
Russel (Paavu): the goal.
Chris (Salvador): That's the goal. You're just going to crash into the, into the
shore
Ian (Arnold): and then I'll have to roll a new character as your ship sails off.
Chris (Salvador): You'll jump into the ceiling. Wait up.
Ian (Arnold): I
Russel (Paavu): That's a lot of twos, 12, 13.
Timothy (DM): So missiles coming from the Imperial ship skin, the helm of the pirate ship, not enough to knock you off your feet, you barely feel a thing.
Russel (Paavu): take that you see grandmas
Timothy (DM): and the ballistic slams into the water off the front of the ship.
Chris (Salvador): Miscalculated that trajectory.
Give me another one.
Ian (Arnold): Just to describe what Arnold's doing during all of this.
He's like going around to the people shooting, and sailing and like patting them on the back and using Lots of pirate language . You're a good scallywag for throwing in that old, terrible ship. He is doing a good job. and that's, That's all he's doing. He's just walking around and patting them on the back, tell them to do it. Great.
Timothy (DM): Over the last couple of days of being on a ship, you've just barely managed to stay under the radar and enough that people haven't called you out. But everyone is confused to shit. Every time you show up.
Ian (Arnold): I am Arnold. of the sea. Good job.
Timothy (DM): All right. Let's say one of the pirate ship
Ian (Arnold): Uh, they're going to continue shooting. So the two ballistas, um,
will again, shoot at the sales. So first of all, let's set the sales That is a 22. So that's going to hit for nine damage. And the second blissed at the sail.
Chris (Salvador): Misses
Timothy (DM): All right.
Chris (Salvador): It's a bird,
Timothy (DM): Another ballista tears through a tattered section of your sails
Ian (Arnold): And then the catapults are going to feel shoot at the helm So first,
first catapult. Ooh, that is a 20.
Timothy (DM): All right. Yeah, there are
Ian (Arnold): 10d10. Give me one
Chris (Salvador): No
Timothy (DM): 10?
Chris (Salvador): why are you doing this to us?
Timothy (DM): I don't think I've ever seen 10d10 rolls before.
Chris (Salvador): to destroy our home. because the average is 50
Ian (Arnold): 49! 49!
Chris (Salvador): battered, but we still have one hitpoint.
Timothy (DM): All right
Russel (Paavu): my God.
Ian (Arnold): That was one of the catapults. So you got one more catapult, one more catapult.
Russel (Paavu): the captain on the helm? Is that what the captain does?
Chris (Salvador): Can I do anything?
Russel (Paavu): horribly, like,
Chris (Salvador): can I use wrath of storm? Um,
Timothy (DM): What is wrath of storm?
Chris (Salvador): no, they have to be in melee range, with me, but it's like if it, if they hit us with an attack, then I can use my reaction to do a thunder attack
Timothy (DM): Okay. Well, so this pirate ship is like gain and real quick on you all. Now you're taking water. The ship is slowing down. You're still fighting the wind. You're being pummeled with missiles and ballistas, it looks like the end is near and the ship is ready to board you.
Chris (Salvador): Okay.
Timothy (DM): Um, what was the other,
Ian (Arnold): let me do it
Timothy (DM): yeah,
Russel (Paavu): Does the damage carry over to other parts of the ship?
Timothy (DM): Uh, all right. So go for it.
Ian (Arnold): it's enough!
Chris (Salvador): You just tore the hull. It is obliterated.
Russel (Paavu): all all right–
Timothy (DM): So two more, two more missiles slam into the ship, hitting the helm, where the captain has been barking orders and you see a massive explosion of what splinters people screaming. And as the dust settles, the captain has gone, uh, do another dexterity, saving throw.
Chris (Salvador): 20.
Timothy (DM): Alright Paavo again, with the impact of the missiles, you are thrown off your feet, but Salvador is able to catch you.
Chris (Salvador): Oh, man.
Russel (Paavu): How, what is your strength?
Chris (Salvador): uh, My strength is actually pretty good. I have a
Russel (Paavu): can you catch a 400 pound, eight foot tall, man?
Chris (Salvador): I can at least prop you up.
Timothy (DM): Yeah, yeah. Catch you as you're stumbling about,
Chris (Salvador): Okay. Yeah. I'm not like a damsel in distress, but I can at least like catch it by the
Ian (Arnold): tipped And He just like put out two arms and you just tipped back, in a,
Timothy (DM): as your ship is being torn, asunder, the captain gone your entire crew in disarray and the pirate ship is just. Nearing, you see the plank boards coming down from the sky clambering on to the deck of your ship as the pirates start to charge across the board box.
Russel (Paavu): Breton hold your ground is their equivalent of like flares like HIPAA.
Timothy (DM): I mean, there's, there's, uh, clerics that can shoot up players.
Chris (Salvador): Uh, I just saw one in the store room. I'll go grab one.
Timothy (DM): or that–
Chris (Salvador): I don't think I have a spell. I can, oh, I have sacred flame.
Timothy (DM): sacred flame prestidigitation anything
Chris (Salvador): I I'll do sacred flame and I'll shoot up.
Timothy (DM): All right. You shoot off a flare up into the sky of magic, sacred, flame flair,
Chris (Salvador): Hopefully they can
Timothy (DM): hoping that somebody comes to your assistance. Um, and everybody roll initiative.
Russel (Paavu): Um
Ian (Arnold): 12
Timothy (DM): 12, all right. So the pirates are charging across the boardwalk, uh, and they, they pull out their seminars and they start slashing at you. You, one of them swings down with their Symitar Swings down with a Symitar and slashes you across the shoulder for three slashing damage. Salvador is able to Perry one away, uh, as Pabu takes another hit for five slashing damage.
Russel (Paavu): I am going to use my reaction called stones endurance to try to shrug off that five.
Timothy (DM): All right.
Russel (Paavu): And I do
Timothy (DM): Heck yeah,
Russel (Paavu): it
Timothy (DM): just a minor flesh wounds.
Russel (Paavu): goes and takes his muscles and pops it out.
Timothy (DM): All right. Probably what are you doing?
Russel (Paavu): so there's three.
Timothy (DM): Yeah.
Russel (Paavu): Do you have, do any of them look particularly scrawny
Timothy (DM): there's four, but one is just hanging back.
Russel (Paavu): alright uh Pabu will take his giant Cleaver and tried to hit the one in the middle. Does uh, does a nine hit?
Timothy (DM): it does not.
Russel (Paavu): Pabu sad. That's my third.
Timothy (DM): All right.
Russel (Paavu): Oh,
Timothy (DM): All right, Arnold, what are you doing?
Ian (Arnold): uh, Arnold is going to cast minor illusion to make it look like he got tangled in some rope.
Chris (Salvador): pretty convincing.
Ian (Arnold): someone left this rope around here. What are, y'all doing?
Timothy (DM): It's out of the corner of your eyes, uh, Sal and Paavu. You see the fourth pirate battling a tangle of rope still on the pirate ship.
Russel (Paavu): How, how did they near the sink? Us,
Chris (Salvador): obviously that one has some ins that, that, uh, to give it a station that has right now, I don't know. Um, I want to, which one of these folks looks the most menacing?
Timothy (DM): Uh, I mean, that's what they look like. Oh yeah.
Chris (Salvador): I'm going to, I'm going to turn to the one, uh, that is closest to the edge of the ship. I'm gonna say you should just get out of here, go take a dip Or I, it's, I cast command on him and say swim. And it–
Timothy (DM): What's my save,
Chris (Salvador): the save is 12, it's a wisdom saving throw.
Timothy (DM): they fail.
Chris (Salvador): So,
Timothy (DM): So one of them stops dead in its mid swing turns on point and dives into the ocean below,
Russel (Paavu): that's a new trick,
Chris (Salvador): you know, it's, uh, it's got its uses. Um, uh, it's pretty short. So hopefully it takes them a while to clamor back up.
Russel (Paavu): I'm sure he'll draw between the two ships. So he's probably dead.
Chris (Salvador): Oh no, Oh,
Timothy (DM): I
Russel (Paavu): I
Chris (Salvador): hope he can swim. or I'll know he's going to get crushed. Whoops. Oh, geez.
Russel (Paavu): New trick
Timothy (DM): All right. So these two pirates are going to, again, try to slash at the two of you. All right. all right. So they are, uh, you are. You are in melee combat with these two pirates, they are swinging their swords and a flurry of blades. Um, as Salvador, you get a slash across your left arm, just enough to break skin for, uh, three slashing damage
Chris (Salvador): they don't prepare you for this in school.
Russel (Paavu): I would hope not.I know. Get hit.
Timothy (DM): No
Chris (Salvador): is a stone, baby.
Timothy (DM): as Paavu is able to, uh, step back out of the way.
Chris (Salvador): As, a, as, a, whenever I get hit, I can do a reaction and they have to do a dexterity saving throw against the 12, I guess.
Timothy (DM): uh, they rolled a, uh
Chris (Salvador): Okay So yeah, they pass
Russel (Paavu): launch was not very nice. And I slammed my Cleaver at the one or swipe my Cleaver. The one that hits out does the 16 head
Timothy (DM): 16 does it?
Russel (Paavu): come on, double sixes. I have great weapon to fighting. So every role, the two, and that is nine points of damage.
Timothy (DM): Oh right. You slash right into their chest. Blood is pouring out.
Chris (Salvador): You're really enjoying this. Aren't you?
Ian (Arnold): how’s the broader fight going?
Timothy (DM): yeah, the, the fight is pretty much stalemate at this point. It's hard to tell which side is doing better. However, Salvador, Paavu give me a perception check.
Chris (Salvador): So 12,
Russel (Paavu): 11.
Timothy (DM): Uh 12 and 11. All right. So you see at the helm of the pirate ship, there are two cloaked figures and a black smoke swirls around them. All right.
Ian (Arnold): I don't notice this. This?
Russel (Paavu): It's probably your boss.
Timothy (DM): are familiar with these people. You know who they are. They are the people who, um, are paying your captain to be tracking the ship in the first place.
Ian (Arnold): Got it, Got to get uh, I'm not having a lot of luck with this rope.
Chris (Salvador): man. Salvador is slightly, he's finally caught off guard the media battle to look at these guys. He's just like,
Ian (Arnold): It's actually, it's actually gotten worse. So it started around his waist and now it's like up by his arms. It's very confusing.
Chris (Salvador): oh, that poor guy. If he, if he weren't trying to kill us, then I'd, I'd feel bad for him. Um, I'm just gonna try to take out a pirate number in front of me. So let's see how this goes. And I'm using my, I have a perimeter, which is basically my battle axe. That's going to be a 15.
Timothy (DM): That’ll hit!
Chris (Salvador): Perfect. 2d10. and that's going to be eight points of slashing damage.
Timothy (DM): Alright. You slashed into the other pirate again? Uh, it's a deep mortal wound.
Russel (Paavu): just mortal? so you mean dead?
Chris (Salvador): it's it's a
Ian (Arnold): mortal wound means you're dead.
Timothy (DM): grievous. Oh, okay. It is a deep grievous wound.
Ian (Arnold): I was excited for a second. I was so happy, So happy for you guys.
Chris (Salvador): You can do your–
Timothy (DM): Alright in retaliation to more flurries of blades, come down on you, both, uh, as Salvador, you get slashed again across the cheek for seven points of slashing damage.
Chris (Salvador): As I am slashed, I yell, STOP!!!, and they have to do another dexterity savings
Timothy (DM): that passes.
Chris (Salvador): So he, he shouts and he tries to conjure this wrath of storm around him. And he, uh, falls to the deck of the ship.
Russel (Paavu): No little one.
Timothy (DM): You see the residual energy of static building in the air around him, and then it dissipates as Salvador falls unconscious. The last thing you see, Sal, is a cyclone, a black mist, going up from the cloaked figures at the helm of the pirate ship towards the sky.
Russel (Paavu): Sorry, I'm trying to think of a spice or an herb–By the power of Tarragon, I will slay you! and I attack the one…does a 10 hit?
Timothy (DM): No, it does not.
Russel (Paavu): I'm just so distraught.
Chris (Salvador): We shared so many drinks.
Ian (Arnold): So there's a black cyclone forming on my ship.
Timothy (DM): Yes, there is.
Russel (Paavu): Oh, that's not good.
Ian (Arnold): It seems concerned
Timothy (DM): Yes, there is. And almost everybody is caught off guard, including your captain. Um, but the cloak figure is that you have been, uh, joining the crew for the past couple of days, they must have arrived just before you did. Um, don't seem concerned at all, which would track obviously.
Ian (Arnold): uh, all right. Um, uh, Arnold does not like black cyclones, so he's gonna, he's gonna move and not do anything, I mean, so he's going to walk across to the other ship. So are there, like, if I, by the, um, the helm that's been destroyed, he's going to look for a place to hide.
Timothy (DM): Alright. Alright.
Ian (Arnold): sneak over.
Timothy (DM): So you stumble across, well, not stumble, I guess.
Ian (Arnold): Arnold probably, well, I don't know, probably stumbles. He's never crossed a gangplank
Timothy (DM): Okay.
Chris (Salvador): Yeah. Can you, can you cross it while you're all tangled? Do you,
Timothy (DM): It's pretend tangled
Russel (Paavu): it's an illusion
Ian (Arnold): just disappears as he runs.
Chris (Salvador): I see
Timothy (DM): So Arnold quickly scampers from the pirate ship onto the Imperial ship and searches for a place to hide. Roll a Stealth. All right. Uh, so you find a barrel at the edge of the, you find a barrel out the edge of the hole in the hole, holding the whole hole in the hole, um, and you duck behind it, uh, watching the rest of the fight into make a death saving, throw, Sal
Chris (Salvador): 17.
Timothy (DM): All right. It'd be weird if you died.
Chris (Salvador): I, you know what that was, that was a possibility the last venture,
Timothy (DM): It would be really weird if you died. Since we already recorded a session that happens after this one.
Chris (Salvador): I mean, they could, somebody could always just stabilize, You don't have to, you can kill whoever you want to go.
Russel (Paavu): Uh,
Timothy (DM): Alright, seeing only Pabu the two pirates turn their attention to you. Um, and you're able to Parry off most of their attacks except one that hits you across your thigh.
Russel (Paavu): Aarugh!
Timothy (DM): four, three slashing damage. The sound effects are so helpful.
Russel (Paavu): You'll also regret that! What in the Saffron Hells is happening over there?
Timothy (DM): Look over there!
Russel (Paavu): What am I doing? I'm going to use my bonus action, uh, to do second wind. And that's six health. I recover full health cause we're level one. So he just goes – uh– and he feels better. I should've made a barbarian. Uh, I'm going to swipe at the injured one with my cleaver and try to leave him.
Timothy (DM): They're both pretty injured, but yes.
Russel (Paavu): Uh, 24
Timothy (DM): That'll hit.
Russel (Paavu): Those are both Jews and I get three-year-old both. Oh I didn't add my strength modifier till the last one. Oopsie. That's 15 points damage. Can I, can I just cut his head in half and–
Timothy (DM): Yeah. So you swing your Cleaver, just charging into this pirate. Um, pushing him up against the side of the ship, splitting his head in
Russel (Paavu): And then I want to kick them over
Timothy (DM): and you kick him over the side. And as you watch his body tumble into the water with a splash, you notice a dark shape moving beneath the ship. It's massive in size.
Russel (Paavu): Can I, roll to identify Kraken?
Timothy (DM): Yeah, give me a, give me a nature check
Russel (Paavu): joke's on you. I'm proficient nature for whatever reason
Chris (Salvador): to know what you can cook
Russel (Paavu): 23! Kraken?!
Timothy (DM): You have heard the tales of the thing from the deep, never seen it before, but this immediately strikes your memory. Who are these people and how have they summoned it?
Russel (Paavu): Kraken?!?!
Timothy (DM): The black site clone spins around in the sky. As you feel both ships shake with the force of the waves of eight tentacles bursting from the surface of the water, they crash down on the ship, tearing it in half, make a dexterity saving throw.
Russel (Paavu): KRAKEN!!!
Timothy (DM): And that is where we will put a pause on today's story. Thank you all for joining us for a plunge into the abyss. I hope you all enjoyed this episode of Shadows of Prophecy. Join us next time to find out what becomes of our unfortunate players in this most dreadful act.
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