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All Alone in the Ooze

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Slime. It's a

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mixture of copious copies of

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cold brew, sulfurous syrup, fire

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retardant foam, salted brown

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sauce. One

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pour of this percolation, you'll finally

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find time to listen to that

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pseudo-podcast you've been meaning to check

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out. Previously our adventurers were

1:25

incarcerated in an ice dome with

1:27

a familiar frost giant thanks to some

1:29

hags named Shyvie and Skitch. After

1:32

a bitter cold bout with the blizzardly

1:34

behemoth, the party found their way to

1:37

freedom in part thanks to Shyvie. She

1:39

sent the party to the surface with

1:41

Frost Giant in tow, but now are

1:43

hedged in by a horde of

1:45

hagglings. Cobble a cup

1:47

of coffee, let's engage in our elamorous

1:50

escapades. Hello

1:56

everyone, I'm Gustavo Sirola, the dungeon master of our future party. I'm

1:58

gonna hit our four players with an arrow! No! Da

2:01

da da. I don't know what that was. Sweet

2:05

girl playing warm up question is, what

2:08

allergies does your character have? If none,

2:10

what allergies would they pretend to have?

2:13

We all know if you don't have allergies, you pretend to have them.

2:17

I have an allergy that will

2:19

surprise no one. Well,

2:22

hello I'm Barbara Dunkelman. I play Elgavon

2:24

Brass, the half elf vampire barbarian, as

2:26

we all know and love. And

2:29

Elga, she has severe allergies

2:31

to garlic. Oh.

2:34

I mean, I know that I

2:36

cannot go to Italian restaurants because

2:39

they make, they pre-make their sauces at most

2:41

places and so they can take it out. That's

2:44

a real sad, sad state. Yeah.

2:46

Oh my god, I noticed one that actually has a real life garlic

2:48

allergy now. Yeah, me too. Now I'm questioning.

2:51

I know we have a good friend who has an

2:53

allergy to onions and garlic. Yeah. And

2:55

we went out to dinner with them last night and every time we go out to

2:57

dinner they have to like explain to the waiter that they can't

2:59

eat food. I'm sorry, I'm the day of play. Wow,

3:02

that sucks. That's sad. Yeah, that is a

3:04

bummer. Yeah, I know. No, I'm thinking about

3:06

it for my real friend. Am

3:09

I the minute? yeah

3:12

I'm real. Your chips work for him. Am

3:17

I your work daughter? Is that how it goes? You're

3:20

okay. I'll just go ahead and go.

3:23

Hi, I'm John Reschner. I play Metis

3:25

Conficius. He's an Eric Cochrane ghost monk

3:27

and as a ghost I don't have

3:30

any allergies. I don't actually even have

3:32

to breathe. So it's

3:34

not exactly a problem. But when I was

3:36

alive, I do recall an allergy I did

3:39

have. Oddly

3:41

enough, allergic to yeast. Oh,

3:44

that is quite ironic. It

3:46

was very odd, but it's ironic that

3:49

once I passed on and became a

3:51

baker in my afterlife, I've really used

3:53

it quite a lot. Wow.

3:56

It went away? I guess it did. It

3:58

did. It pulled back the curtain on. reality

4:00

didn't you have a gluten allergy that went

4:02

away I I was told I had a gluten

4:04

allergy I I don't even know how

4:07

gluten allergies go away but you

4:09

just wonder you had like medication for

4:11

it right yeah hi I'm Chris Damaris

4:13

and I played Barney Barney and

4:17

so many bubbles in your throat on that one how

4:20

many allergies does Barney have well let me get

4:22

out my notebook like

4:25

the guy that they went and did like

4:27

the little like exam and every little dot

4:29

reacted oh that was me when I was

4:31

a kid oh yeah that's

4:33

not surprising at all well

4:36

there's grass this

4:39

old and then and then

4:41

obviously acorns obviously and then and

4:44

then I'm also

4:46

allergic to asparagus

4:48

and I didn't

4:50

know Chris has a page above his screen

4:53

where he googled list of allergies oh Barbara

4:55

Barbara you didn't even tell me that I

4:57

know that's on his screen now

5:00

because we have accountability on Chris's laptop

5:02

screen into the madness I just recall

5:06

constantly seeing him looking up flowers in

5:08

our last camp I think that's enough

5:10

we've learned

5:17

a lot about Barney you know I always

5:19

carry a pen so yeah okay I wouldn't

5:22

suggest sticking

5:29

that into your upper thigh but you

5:31

know it never works for you all

5:33

right let's get this show on the road coconut

5:36

I also forgot oh yeah yeah yeah introduce

5:39

yourself you goon oh hey Blaine

5:41

Gibson I'm Chip Haney T fling Rogue Six

5:43

um and I'm not answering this

5:46

question I'm

5:54

on to you dungeon mister I'm a professional

5:56

assassin and if I were gonna kill somebody

5:58

I'd find out what they're allergy was

6:00

all right you're not gonna boom flip this

6:02

on me cuz you know you find a

6:04

guy with a peanut allergy you stuff a

6:07

payday bar and almond joy

6:12

is there not an almond joy

6:15

what kind of nuts it is all about the almond

6:17

brothers no

6:25

comment I don't want to really see

6:27

what you're actually just like mimics that

6:29

are my enemies can use this against

6:31

me but I will say that cheese

6:33

does make me farty and bloaty from

6:35

time to time yeah

6:38

I get that's right wait why are you not sleeping

6:47

wake up in the middle of my to go pee pee

6:49

sometimes I find you up in trees what are you doing up there

6:52

you're you're you're you're you're lactose

6:55

intolerant is

6:59

unfortunate considering your your accent there

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I love Wisconsin cheese the Wizards

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up there in Wisconsin they make

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the best cheese the Wizards of

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Wisconsin that's the ones before

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Yeah, we learned that Blaine doesn't know someone loves him

8:17

unless a stranger gives him six dollars. Yeah, that's the

8:19

truth I have to give him six dollars every

8:21

month Yeah, I paid Blaine six dollars to not be my friend. Yeah

8:23

Wow yeah, and he's still your friend No

8:34

matter what the court orders Levels

8:38

of murky green water obscure the way

8:40

for a moment but then clears revealing

8:42

an underwater tunnel within the cluster of

8:44

roots a few moments of swimming and

8:52

Adding a sharp shiver. Thanks to damp clothes

8:55

All around is the inside of a

8:57

putress at tree with blackened bark Glimbers

9:04

from an exit to the south To

9:06

the opening his way to an unfamiliar

9:09

village out a village of

9:11

rotting and decayed hobbles on every This

9:14

must be covered or and before

9:16

long out from the hobbles called

9:18

little girls matted hair and warm dressed

9:20

in filthy rag Huge

9:22

speaking whispers to each other cocking their heads

9:24

in curiosity They

9:27

sniff the air the wrong observers fell along

9:29

the ground Everyone

9:42

go ahead and they roll for initiative, but oh

9:44

no no no no no I'm gonna I'm gonna

9:46

give you guys a choice you can you all

9:48

can either roll perception or survival checks up to

9:50

you guys Mmm,

9:53

I just kind of want to do survival because you know

10:00

I'll go survival as well. I

10:02

did a 23 on survival. All

10:04

right. Yeah, 20, 25. The

10:08

chip sticks around and see what's up and then

10:10

everybody else runs away. 18 is pretty.

10:14

Everyone rolled really good. The worst roll was Mattied

10:16

with a 15 on survival. Those

10:18

are all really solid rolls. So, you

10:20

know, this is a very disturbing scene

10:23

with this, you know, all of these,

10:25

um, these children scuttling at you in

10:27

an unnatural movement. Scuttling. I

10:30

picture like crabs. You know,

10:32

scuttling. Gus has never seen

10:34

a child. Yeah, they've

10:36

settled. So, you know, you're

10:38

very quick to gain your bearings and you know

10:41

that heading south would be most

10:43

likely a dead end because of the river. Okay.

10:48

Blocking the way there. So your best bet would probably be

10:50

to head north towards the city's closest border

10:52

walls and to start trying to head there for safety. We're in

10:54

a tree? You

10:56

came out and you're like on solid ground. So

10:58

it popped out. You went into like tree roots,

11:00

swam underwater a bit, popped out and now you're

11:03

on solid land. Okay, so we're at this village.

11:06

And so what you're describing is, so

11:08

the direction towards Parrish is north. North.

11:12

And we are being approached by

11:14

a horde of little demon

11:17

witch children. That are not elga. Hey,

11:22

I'm not a demon witch woman. What

11:24

sound are they making? Uh,

11:28

Now take that Micah and duplicate it. Uh,

11:34

everyone go to Rollin' Isida. Don't make

11:36

us fight these children. No, make us fight

11:38

them. Finally

11:41

someone your size. Sixteen. Sixteen.

11:46

That's a nine for our non-fresh speaking. Eight

11:48

for Elga. Parishian

11:50

speaking. Like plus two? I

11:54

think they rolled the same initiative. How do we roll off if

11:56

we get the same thing? You know,

11:58

just your deck. Oh You

12:02

both have the same deck mine's the same we just

12:04

have chip go first because of Rogue,

12:07

I just can't believe that the cleric and the rogue have

12:09

the same day Let's the face

12:11

decide does that mean the cleric has really

12:13

good dexterity the rogue has really bad dexterity

12:15

I'll call me. It's the latter no go

12:17

each of you roll up roll a d20.

12:19

Yeah, you're tall off Hey,

12:23

all right Barney goes first. Sorry What

12:31

are we doing? All right, so we've

12:33

we've kind of had encounters like this before

12:35

where every round people are going to Make

12:38

skill checks to overcome You

12:41

as you try to escape this unnerving

12:43

horde of children coming after you are

12:45

some of the obstacles little girls We'll

12:48

see you can be amazing This to

12:50

me is always like the D&D version of the

12:52

lava level of the Aladdin Nintendo game You

12:55

just if there's a wall of something behind you that wants

12:57

to kill you get to the right side of

12:59

the screen So

13:01

everyone can you know when it's your turn

13:04

to act that's what we rolled in this before you can

13:06

make a skill check Okay to whatever you want to overcome

13:08

the obstacle in front of you It's really kind of free-form

13:10

whatever you want to do and you'll let us know what

13:12

we have available to us Yeah, this

13:14

is anything you want right? It's just pretty much whatever you

13:16

want whatever kind of skill or yeah Yeah

13:24

No one did jazz hands That's

13:27

no millennial guys. Oh wait,

13:29

this is D&D jazz. It's got one Z and it looks

13:32

like that Did

13:36

you know in Japanese it's jazz He's

13:40

been doing her do a lingo I

13:42

learned that last night and

13:44

Roku is rock With

13:46

sheer speed and quick thinking Barney you

13:49

instinctively act first You and

13:51

the party are swiftly being surrounded by a horde

13:53

of haglings on every side except for the decaying

13:55

tree behind you What do you do?

13:58

And Chris had the same look at his face

14:01

that I had in my head which

14:03

was neither of those things you described

14:05

Barney describe party this is

14:07

an unusual situation maybe it

14:09

triggers an old memory or something I

14:12

do feel compelled to mention to

14:14

everyone that if a

14:16

party member wants they can try to help

14:18

you don't do it once during this during

14:20

this per turn or just like this whole

14:23

in general and during the sequence and

14:25

then you will have you make a role

14:27

as well and you know whether it might

14:29

be advantageous could also be disadvantaged with

14:32

that survival check we determined that what

14:34

West was the way north north was

14:37

Paris was Paris and that's

14:39

where we're headed and and and where

14:42

they from us they're closing fast

14:45

at this point they're probably let's say

14:48

50 feet away is a Chris really quick

14:50

is Paris where we're heading because I know

14:52

that we were we were we were gonna

14:55

escort the person cold yeah we're gonna start

14:57

the person but that's no longer mission

15:00

but are we going back they double-crossed right do we

15:02

want to go to parish well we

15:04

want to get away we want to get away from

15:06

little little little ladies girls

15:08

little girl just to clarify I've

15:11

been trying not to correct people

15:16

but I feel like I'm gonna get blamed if

15:18

people don't understand the correct geography here so you

15:20

all you know crossed this water crossing okay this

15:22

is what you came out from in front of

15:24

you as Coven or if you remember you were

15:27

trying to cross this river previously from the south

15:29

and then you couldn't get through the bridge correct

15:31

so the nearest city wall is to the north

15:33

to the going north doesn't take you to parish

15:35

but it takes to the city wall that you

15:38

could ideally put between you and

15:40

the Hat okay we want

15:42

to go north yeah it sounds like it yeah

15:45

I was just making sure I know for it had someplace else

15:47

we need to go yeah I mean if you want to have

15:49

a moment of chaos this is your moment that

15:51

goes out all right all right I

15:54

want to cast I think

15:56

skill checks well let's see what

15:58

he's got in sight When

16:02

you cast a spell, you present a gem

16:04

used as a material component and use any

16:07

number of creatures within range that can see

16:09

you. Each target must succeed on a wisdom

16:11

saving throw or be charmed by you until

16:13

the spell ends or until you or

16:15

your companion is doing harmful to it. While charmed in

16:17

this way, a creature can do nothing but use its

16:20

movement to approach you in a safe manner. While

16:22

an infected creature is within 5 feet of

16:24

you, it cannot move but simply stare greedily

16:26

at the gem you present. At

16:29

the end of each of its turns, the affected creature

16:31

can make a wisdom saving throw if it succeeds, then

16:33

it is. I feel like he was about

16:35

to say, I rest my case, Your Honor. And I

16:37

rest my case. Very sick.

16:39

So can I have a gem? What was

16:41

the check? Wisdom? Wisdom of 17. What

16:44

about the material component? Do we have that? Damn,

16:46

I have a gem. Dang it wrong, I hate

16:48

it. A gem worth at least 50 gold pieces?

16:50

At least 50 gold pieces. I think I also

16:52

have one too. I actually do. I

16:55

have two. Aaron, you need me to donate one. Supposed to go to

16:57

Carol though. I have blood stones that are 100 gold pieces. Oh

17:00

yeah. But if anyone has a 50, I'll give me. That's

17:03

right. Well you're not using it up, are you? Or is that? Do

17:05

I use it up? Is it a material

17:07

component? Yeah. Oh, okay. Anyone has

17:09

a 50 one. I don't. I'll just use my 100.

17:12

How wise are these haggling? Sorry, I'm

17:15

rereading the spell real fast. You don't

17:17

have insight greed memorized? You

17:20

know the classic D&D spell, insight greed. I just want

17:22

to use it. I have gemstone that's worth 50 gold

17:24

pieces. So I'll use that one. 50

17:27

little girls. In my head, what Barney

17:29

is doing is he's doing the monologue

17:31

that What's His Face? Sheen does in

17:33

Wall Street. Just talking about how good

17:35

greed is. So the range

17:37

on the spell is 30 feet. So

17:40

you would have to wait a little while for them

17:42

to close in a bit. Or Barney could

17:44

run towards him. I'm going to run

17:46

north to the center of them. No,

17:49

they're to the south of us. Yeah, they're to

17:51

the south. And we want to run north. You

17:53

want to. So we're essentially trying to outrun them.

17:55

Sounds like Barney wants to sacrifice himself in hopes

17:57

of inciting greed amongst a bunch of little guys.

18:00

I guess so! I guess so! I guess so! I

18:03

will tell you a story, Bonnie! I guess

18:05

I should have read more about the range

18:07

of this spell. Chris is not fully reading

18:09

a spell? But that's what

18:11

I do! Or listening. I like this.

18:14

I'm all for it. I

18:16

think the stinker starts biting at your pants, tugging at

18:18

you, trying to keep you from running directly

18:21

into danger. I pick up stinker

18:23

and say, no, no, let

18:26

him cook. I... yeah, so

18:28

I... You move 20 feet then to

18:30

get closer to them? I guess so, because I'm committing to

18:32

this. Bonnie, leave me alone!

18:35

I love the indecision and the decisiveness. I

18:37

guess so, because I'm committing to this. He

18:40

wants to commit, I appreciate it. Alright, let me

18:42

make some saving throws over here. So it's DC

18:44

17 Wisdom. Their

18:46

Wisdom saving throw is minus one, so I need 18

18:48

or better to make this. Oh, okay. Making

18:51

a bunch of saving throws. What's the time

18:53

of day? Oh, you just did a lot. You

18:56

did 20. He

18:59

just rolled 20 dice. I mean,

19:01

there are probably 20 little girls. Well, we

19:03

now have learned that. Like, we'll save you.

19:05

Five of them safe. Okay, so... Making a

19:07

quick note. So about 15 are now enthralled.

19:11

Enthralled by Barney. And so they

19:13

should now be walking in

19:16

a safe way to you, but then five

19:18

are now still running like zombies from 28

19:20

days later. Whoever

19:23

asked what time of day it is, I'm sorry. It's

19:25

like, let's say late afternoon, early evening.

19:28

But yeah, so Barney, you raise your gem. What kind of gem

19:30

is it, by the way? It's a gem worth 50 gold piece.

19:33

What kind of gem do you want it to be? I want

19:35

it to be a purple one. Amethyst.

19:38

I'm gonna ask him to name a purple gem. I'm

19:41

here to help my friend, okay? That's what I'm

19:43

here to do. I'm deleting it from my friend. I'm

19:46

here to help my friend get murdered by the

19:48

remaining five hagglings who are not... I'd

19:50

slow the word haggling. I'd be no night deleting the

19:52

gem from my inventory. Okay, you're deleting it. So you

19:55

hold up... I saw your inventory

19:57

recently. Let me see if I can help you. What kind of

19:59

gem was it? Again, Chris, tell

20:01

me an amethyst. Okay. You hold

20:03

up an amethyst worth 50

20:05

gold pieces. He said he'd never

20:07

heard of an amethyst before today. He said that with

20:10

mild confidence. I'll let you know. You

20:13

hold up an amethyst worth 50 gold pieces into

20:15

the air and it's almost

20:17

like hypnotic to most of

20:19

the haglings. They begin staring at it wide-eyed

20:22

in wonder. So you're basically like Dr.

20:25

Grant in Jurassic Park with the flares.

20:27

Yeah. You

20:29

just throw it into the woods. Nope. He's got to hold

20:31

on to it. I got to hold on to it. So

20:33

I got that in one hand. So now we have a

20:36

Girl Scout troop chasing after him. They

20:38

might not be chasing, but they're definitely following us.

20:40

Well, there's 15 that are following and five that

20:42

are definitely still chasing. Okay. Give it to me.

20:44

So all we got to do is take care

20:46

of five haglings. Yeah. Yeah. I'll punch five little

20:49

girls. And only

20:51

five, right? Is this Din Light? Are we

20:53

in Din Light? He wants to float. Let

20:55

him know if he can float or not.

20:57

It's late afternoon or evening. Sure. Yeah. It's

20:59

Din Light. So now I use the remainder

21:01

of my movement to float back 10 feet

21:04

up into the air towards the party.

21:06

The what is it? Twilight? Steps

21:08

of night as a bonus action. When you're in

21:11

dim light or darkness, you can magically give yourself

21:13

a flying speed equal to your walking speed for

21:15

one minute. I like this.

21:18

I'm flying. Yeah. Floating.

21:21

Let me ask you a question. Do you still have to

21:24

be holding this gem up the entire time? I

21:26

think. Yeah, because they because then when they come

21:28

close, they have to be within the safe. I

21:30

get away. Yeah, they can only they stop with

21:32

them by people. They follow me. It's just burning

21:34

going. What's the duration of it? Yeah,

21:36

I think it's 10 minutes. How long do you hold

21:38

a gym? So on your very old role

21:40

for strength. He just puts in his mouth. I

21:43

like how Chris just make stuff up.

21:45

It's concentration up to one minute. I

21:49

added a zero. I

21:52

used some rough math. So, you know, with all

21:54

of this happening around you, you know,

21:56

what kind of skill check would you want to do to

21:58

try to evade the five remaining? I'm flying.

22:01

Haglings. So what's that, acrobatics?

22:03

Yeah, okay. Yeah. Make us

22:05

an acrobatics check. Which one's the more strength-oriented one?

22:08

That would be athletics. Athletics is strength. Yeah.

22:11

That's a 10. Sure it's not a 1. You added a 0 to

22:13

it. I'm sure it's not an 11. Got

22:16

it. You're very

22:19

focused on trying to maintain

22:21

the situation, trying to exert your control over

22:23

the 15 haglings that you

22:25

are able to affect with greed. With

22:28

the other 5, just close ground quicker than you're expecting

22:30

as you're taking to the air and a few of

22:32

them manage to lash out at

22:34

you doing a little bit of damage. Wow. How

22:37

much? Let's see. I

22:39

mean, it's gonna be, it's gonna be, you

22:41

know, 25% of what would have happened if all

22:43

of them had a suitcase. Yeah. Yeah,

22:46

you take 12 points of claw damage.

22:48

I'd imagine haggling damage would be them just kicking him

22:51

in the shin, you know, like a little girl to

22:53

an old man. Now they're like reaching up to a

22:55

floating man and they're like scraping his feet and ankles.

22:58

Horrifying. Yeah, you know, as you're floating away there,

23:00

yeah, like John said, they're scraping at your shins

23:02

and your ankles and just trying to claw you

23:05

down. They're trying to grapple you and pull you

23:07

to the ground, but you managed to float away

23:09

before they're able to pull you down to their

23:11

level. We're gonna need to get some, you know,

23:14

antibiotics on those stretch marks. Those little girls, they're

23:16

boogers all over their fingernails. That's dirty. That's

23:18

gross, Barney. That's ages. For you

23:20

to steal a little girl's booger and nothing.

23:23

Yeah, you said just you picking your nose.

23:25

I have a question. Yeah. Now,

23:27

this fell. They're interested in this jewel. If

23:29

I was to throw it, would they chase

23:31

the jewel or they say you need to

23:33

be holding it? I think let me reread

23:35

it. That's what I was. Contact

23:38

continues to imbue it with magic. Yeah.

23:41

Yeah. Okay. Anyway, that's what

23:43

I did. I feel like at this point now,

23:45

because you have that they have to follow us.

23:47

So it's like, well, we lost them. They'd still

23:49

be falling for the next minute. Yeah, you got

23:52

60 seconds. So I

23:54

can turn. You know, the raglings seem

23:56

to be somewhat distracted and split up at this

23:58

point. And so. Just

24:00

for a moment a gap opens up amongst the

24:02

horde. It's pretty narrow But you

24:04

know there seem to be had other additional haglings

24:06

that are joining in pretty To

24:09

the rooftops waiting to pounce on you What

24:15

do you want to do is there any sort

24:17

with Barney's weird Greed

24:20

thing is there any visual component where if

24:22

they break eye contact with that thing then

24:24

it loses its effect Or is it more

24:26

of like a they get hit then then

24:29

like don't don't attack the one It

24:32

doesn't say anything that they need to maintain Line

24:35

of sight with it But I would say if you break

24:37

their line of sight they would probably not be happy and

24:39

we try to restore their line of sight based on the

24:41

spirit of the Spell so I

24:44

have I have darkness which would basically just I

24:46

was gonna cast it like amongst the little girls

24:48

and hopefully that buys Us some time. That's good

24:50

side of us for a bit. I think that's

24:52

a good one. Okay. Well, then I'm gonna do

24:54

that I mean, I'm gonna use darkness because how

24:56

big is that magical darkness spreads from

24:59

a point you choose within? Range

25:01

to fill a 15-foot radius sphere for

25:03

the duration darkness spreads around corners Vision

25:06

can't see through this darkness

25:09

non magical light can illuminate it Also

25:12

cast it on him It says well It says

25:14

if you point the point you choose is an

25:16

object you are holding or one that isn't being

25:19

worn or carried The darkness emanates from

25:21

that object and moves with it That

25:23

doesn't necessarily mean I could cast it on one of those dumb

25:25

little girls and then she's bringing darkness with

25:28

her Right, that'd be pretty like

25:30

pretty grim looking Well,

25:34

we we wouldn't see nothing Yeah, I

25:36

don't I don't see any reason it

25:39

couldn't be there's nothing that explicitly

25:41

says it has to be an inanimate object

25:43

but just to remind you, you know, it

25:45

is darkness and Everyone

25:47

would be obscured by it. Not

25:49

everyone. What do you mean? You mean

25:51

like we wouldn't be able to see through it. I can see

25:55

Magical dark. Yep. Oh wait. It's

25:57

a creature with dark vision can't see through

26:00

darkness unless you have and non magic can't illuminate

26:02

it so do you have some sort of special

26:04

Oh non magic can't what is the things I

26:06

thought I had something that made me be able

26:08

to see through like stuff

26:10

like that now I love how Matti is

26:12

just the player version of no

26:14

but an improv no

26:17

I will know because like you have flying so

26:19

you could just like peace out of everything I want

26:21

to yes and and help go

26:24

through walls yes cast darkness and and I

26:26

could see through it yeah this is a

26:28

creature of dark vision can't so no vision

26:30

Matti has an ability called astral sight yeah

26:33

that's what it was which means you can

26:35

you can see normally in darkness both magical

26:37

and non magical to a distance of 120

26:39

feet they have to cross their

26:42

eyes in order for it to work though yeah and John

26:44

has to do

26:46

it in real life yeah it's for

26:48

concentration so yeah so just like that's

26:50

just a heads up that only Matti would be

26:52

able to see okay well that's good good do

26:54

it and I'll go get the cleric yeah yeah

26:57

okay strikes again

26:59

yeah and determine if I could cast it

27:01

on like one of the people when I

27:04

okay I got get a cast darkness on

27:06

the warden still a little girls don't the

27:08

most bored yeah and this is one of

27:10

the ones who has been involved like wordy

27:14

is like with a D where you and

27:16

I'm like do they have more like

27:18

one so so just to fit so at this point

27:21

in my mind there's three different distinct groups

27:23

of haggling yeah they're the ones who are affected

27:25

by greed the ones unaffected by greed from

27:27

that group and then there are the ones who

27:29

are now appearing on rooftops as well ready

27:31

to pounce on you those are horrifying so where

27:33

are you targeting this like which group probably

27:35

the ones that aren't affected by Barney's weird

27:38

little Jimstone Jimstone that are still

27:40

pursuing us because they're the most

27:43

current threat the ones that attacked him yeah

27:46

yeah and also theoretically the ones that are

27:48

on the rooftops not stuff that that hopefully

27:50

this provides some sort of a barrier all

27:52

right yeah it's like a reverse flash bangs

27:54

you pick the warden of

27:56

those five and cast darkness on

27:58

on them I'm gonna pick the

28:01

ugliest, wardiest, wherdest looking little

28:03

one. That one right there! Hahahaha!

28:07

You know, magical darkness sprouts forth,

28:10

obscuring 30 foot diameter,

28:12

50 foot radius sphere from

28:14

there. Ah, my eyes! Oh yeah, Barney's in there

28:16

too. Oh, what's your flight speed Barney? My

28:19

flight speed? Yeah. It's the

28:21

same as my walking speed. So you moved 20 up,

28:23

how much movement would you have left to fly away? Okay,

28:27

so you are in the darkness. Okay. Ah,

28:29

my voice, Barney! Oh,

28:33

I'm afraid.

28:38

Is there any kind of

28:40

skill trick you want to make to assist Barney or

28:42

to try to distract or fend off the hagglings on

28:44

the roof? That was the

28:46

parameter that got set for this whole thing was like,

28:48

do something, we'll do a skill check. He does a

28:50

spell, he does a spell. I'll

28:54

pick up a pebble off the ground and throw it at

28:56

Barney's last known location so that he knows which

28:59

direction to go to. Okay, make like

29:01

a range to... No, no, we want

29:03

a skill check. Make a, we'll call

29:05

this a acrobatics check. You're trying to

29:07

hit this. Oh, I like acrobatics. Here

29:10

we go. That's a force bar! It

29:12

makes sense. Nice. You

29:16

throw the rock into the darkness where you're

29:18

pretty sure Barney is and the rock goes

29:21

in and just swallowed up by the darkness and

29:23

you don't hear it hitting anything. All right, gang,

29:25

let's get at it. Well, we'll say

29:27

it's kind of demoralizing that you didn't hit Barney despite

29:29

the fact you were positive where he was. So we're

29:31

going to say you have disadvantage on your next skill

29:33

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right. So Mattid, two of

34:57

your compatriots have, you know, thrown their hats into

34:59

the ring, approached this conundrum in very different

35:01

ways. Time is running short. You know, the

35:03

hagglings on the roof start figuring out what you guys are up to

35:06

and start trying to form a blockade between you and the

35:08

wall. It's up to you to try to pave the way. What

35:11

do you do? Okay, first, Mattid will in fact cast

35:13

Visage of

35:17

the Astral Self, which is a bonus

35:19

option, which does give me Astral Sight.

35:21

So I can see everything through the

35:23

darkness. Like your special eye.

35:26

And so how far, if Barney, how far did he

35:28

run towards? He ran 20 feet towards them, but

35:30

then he flew 10 feet back at a diagonal.

35:32

So he's 10 squared plus 20 squared away from

35:34

you. Oh,

35:40

the square root of 10 squared plus

35:42

10 squared. We were here. He went this

35:45

way and then this way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

35:48

He is 20. He's 20. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I gotcha.

35:50

A is 20, B is 10, find C. Wait,

35:53

A is 20, B is 10. So

35:56

20 squared. I

35:59

know. Yeah,

38:00

you know I saw black everything went black

38:02

and all of a sudden a glowing like

38:06

winged creature is carrying me away Yeah

38:10

While you're holding your glowing amethyst, but it's yelling

38:12

at you in The

38:16

spectral visage covers your face like

38:18

a helmet or mask What's

38:21

fun is that this can be cast with arms

38:24

of the astral self? So I

38:26

think that's even cooler where I have because in my

38:28

image when Mati does that it's a

38:30

bunch of wings and they're glowing and then I have

38:32

a helmet that's glowing and so yeah Angel

38:36

I think right Barney's like tonight.

38:38

Oh my goodness Be

38:44

not afraid let's go this way and I

38:46

grab him and then so I'm an angel I'll

38:50

let you make the choice here whether you think that's

38:52

more of like an acrobatics or a strength check to

38:55

grab Barney and then Fly away in the other direction.

38:57

I would like to chain mail. I would like to

38:59

do an acrobatics check All right, just

39:02

just a rounded off three acrobatic checks in your

39:04

little game of doing checks 24

39:07

Oh finally someone passes it so

39:10

you know you dive in there grab Barney

39:12

and Pull him away Another

39:15

20 25 feet beyond where the party was

39:17

Oh closer to the wall. I yell at

39:19

Barney drop the gem Why

39:25

We're trying to get away from these

39:27

little girls and you literally have something

39:29

that it's attracting them so drop the

39:31

game But it's making

39:33

15 of them no people but they will

39:35

still follow. That's what they do. They're going

39:38

to keep following They're going to follow us

39:40

anyway. I know so don't make

39:42

it so that they follow us the matter what you

39:44

gave the enemy a homie You're

39:54

standing right next to me, what are you doing? I

39:56

do another check where I kick this gem out of

39:58

his hand Yeah, you make

40:00

like an unarmed strike to try to knock it out of the

40:02

fence. I'm gonna do that Yeah,

40:12

we would say that would hit Barney make

40:14

a dexterity saving throw to see if we're able to hold

40:16

on to the gym as Mati tries to swat it out

40:19

of your hand Barney you can do it I

40:22

just like in her party conflict 19.

40:25

Yeah, I would say yeah Cuz

40:27

you hit it, but he makes the deck safe to

40:29

try to hold on to it and that is a

40:31

that's a good That's a really good save. He's

40:33

able to you know, hold on to the the

40:35

jamming Stinker

40:39

starts running around growling at Mati because from

40:41

his perspective he thinks Mati trying to hurt

40:43

Barney Does the attack the attack was my

40:45

action? Yeah, okay. I can attack him again

40:53

We're doing this I have two attacks

40:56

Yeah, we'll say that hits the gym Barney make

40:58

a safe to hold on to the gym again

41:01

But she the angel just keeps trying to steal

41:03

the gym Barney

41:10

uses his old man reflexes Feed

41:17

these haggling a Barney I like

41:19

that you are dangling him and

41:21

at this point They've had enough time to probably group up and

41:23

they're all just like Okay,

41:27

I will admit I don't think the best strategy

41:32

He was committed going

41:35

first All

41:38

right, that's my turn.

41:40

Well Elga for better

41:42

or worse This is where

41:44

we're at It's up to you now to try to

41:46

help the party up and over the towering

41:48

wall that you all have drawn close I have

41:50

closer they did this wall now and how tall

41:52

is the wall? Say you're pretty close to the

41:54

wall. These are the city walls of parish. So

41:56

they're really tall I believe with the first

41:58

time you all came up to the walls I said they were

42:00

a hundred feet tall. 60 feet

42:02

tall. Was it 60? OK, so really tall. Are there any

42:05

ropes or anything hanging down that we could see? Make

42:07

me a perception check. I think I only remember

42:10

that because she cast her climb

42:12

thing. And it was just more than it, right?

42:14

More than her walking speed with her climbing speed

42:16

because it's only an 11. Well,

42:19

you found a bucket of long sticky

42:21

nails. The finger kind, not the metal

42:23

kind. Oh, yucky. OK. Oh. It

42:26

took me a while to think. Yeah,

42:30

we all heard the gap. Elga,

42:33

maybe you can broker a piece. You know, you

42:35

speak their language. Creepy little girl. You

42:38

could talk to them. I can't hear

42:40

you. We're saying that to each other. I can't

42:42

hear you. I'm so sorry I can hear you.

42:44

I'm like, you're not standing right. I'm looking right at you.

42:46

Do I have? I broke. I do have rope. It's 50 feet.

42:49

OK. I want to run

42:52

towards the wall. OK. I

42:55

don't know if that would be a check of any sort. Let's

42:57

see where this goes. Oh, just tell me everything you want

42:59

to do. We'll figure it out. I would like to run

43:01

up the wall with my climbing and

43:04

throw 50 feet of rope down the wall

43:07

for my party to grab. OK, I'll

43:09

tell you what. Why don't we tag team

43:11

this then? OK. If you want, you can

43:13

start running to the wall. And I don't

43:16

know if you remember Lewis is with you. Lewis

43:18

can like give you a boost. But you

43:21

can do it. Lewis, OK, with us.

43:23

Remind me because I've instructed Lewis to

43:25

come with you. Oh, nice guy. Yeah,

43:27

yeah. I can remember why he was

43:30

aiding. Yeah, he could cradle his hands and you could like

43:32

step into it and he could like toss you up or

43:34

like give you a boost to get up on top of

43:36

the wall. I'll let him do that just to make him

43:39

feel useful. So I could do it by

43:41

myself. It's a little bit longer

43:43

than your climb, isn't it? Oh,

43:45

yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I was

43:47

suggesting it just to give you that extra little

43:49

little bit of distance you need. Is it giving

43:52

God? Yes, I'll go 50 feet up the wall

43:54

and drop my rope. OK, so in that case,

43:56

make again, let's just round it out. Make an

43:58

acrobatics check. All right. see if you're able

44:00

to stick to landing. That's

44:03

a- that's a- I'm critical failed.

44:07

36 with my plus one. That's a one. I

44:09

don't have any inspiration die so I don't think

44:11

I could do anything. I'm out, Lewis.

44:13

Just shove- You're elegant.

44:17

He tries to boot you up and he's

44:19

trying to boot you horizontally straight face first

44:21

into the wall. Oh my god. We are

44:23

nailing this like a bucket.

44:26

Well could I- Yeah we'll say that,

44:29

you know, Lewis initially redirects your energy

44:31

the wrong way into the wall and you

44:33

take seven points of bludgeoning damage from hitting

44:35

the wall. Oh, Jesus Christ. But he feels

44:37

bad about it. So he picks you

44:39

up, you know, by the- by the scruff and then tosses

44:41

you up to the top of the wall. The top of

44:43

the wall? Yeah. Okay. Now

44:46

dash away. And then I don't know if I'll be able

44:48

to do this just based on physics. But

44:50

could I somehow tie some

44:53

rope to my axe? And

44:55

like- Yeah. I throw the axe kind

44:57

of midway point on the wall so that they have some

45:00

stuff to climb up to. That's cool. That's cool. So

45:02

down? Yeah, because I'm at the

45:04

top of the wall. Yeah, you could do like almost use of

45:06

the rope, you know, to like swing

45:09

the axe down, embed it in the wall

45:11

and then toss the rope beyond from there.

45:13

The axe is a scarab also. It acts

45:15

as a, what's it called, boomerang as well.

45:17

Oh, you can recall it, right? Yeah. Oh,

45:20

that's cool. So I will try

45:22

to do that. Yeah. Is

45:25

there like a- Flooded?

45:28

No, like a throwing attack roll you can make for that. Oh.

45:31

I mean, I have unarmed strike. Well, axe and

45:33

scarab is a thrown weapon as well. Yeah. Just

45:36

the hit DC? Yeah. Just

45:38

do that. Yeah.

45:43

So you're able to like attach it to the rope and then toss

45:45

it down to the wall, make it stick, and then, you know, have

45:47

the rope go down. Okay. Alright,

45:50

your turn. Stop fighting each

45:52

other now, giggy jabs. Just

45:55

climb up the wall, please. Well, now guess

45:57

that's the roll individually for 47. little

46:00

girl. Yeah, so you know, you all begin

46:02

closing the distance on the wall. And as

46:04

you're getting close, you know, Louis

46:06

continues helping you, tossing you up

46:09

to the rope, which Elga has put down to

46:11

help you climb the wall. All the while, you

46:13

know, using one arm to help you and the

46:15

other arm to knock away any haggle as they

46:17

get close. Louis, sacrifice themselves

46:20

or does he start yelling, hold the door?

46:22

Oh my God. Then, you know, after the

46:24

four of you are safe at the top

46:27

of the wall, Louis clambers

46:29

up and pulls himself up alongside

46:31

with you atop the wall and the

46:33

sheer exertion of the combat and this

46:35

escape forces Louis to fall unconscious. On

46:38

top of the wall? Yeah. He's safe. Could

46:41

I check on him? Yeah. You can make

46:43

a medicine check. Louis, please don't

46:45

be dead. 16. Oh yeah. It

46:48

looks like he's exhausted and

46:50

hurt. You don't think it's

46:52

enough to, you know, mortally wound him, but

46:55

perhaps he's just in need of a little bit of

46:57

recovery time. Chip puts his hand on his forehead and

46:59

says, Oh, he's cold. Definitely

47:02

not running a fever. Oh, well, you're

47:04

actually chip. You pull your hand out, you know,

47:06

to touch Louis to see his temperature and I

47:08

die. And yeah, your entire

47:10

arm freezes off. Oh my God. I'll

47:13

get a new metal one. You noticed

47:15

that the Haggai that was given to

47:18

you begins to glow with like, it's like

47:20

glowing with a green light. Okay. And then

47:22

suddenly, you know, it gives a blinding flash

47:24

of light and you know, kind

47:26

of kind of blinds everyone very temporarily.

47:28

Everyone, everyone make a,

47:30

an Arcana check. I thought the Haggai was

47:32

a communication device. Seven, nine.

47:35

Yes. Asterisk. 14. It's

47:37

like a drone. I think we established it was

47:39

like the rainbow six siege drone. 15. Barney

47:43

and chip. You get

47:45

vague glimpses of cobwebs and

47:47

dilapidated wooden floors. Okay.

47:49

I'm confused now. What the Haggai is. Elga,

47:52

you receive a vision

47:54

of vignette, depictions

47:56

of pencils desks and a

47:59

chalkboard. Oh no, and

48:01

I can go. Did

48:03

you study for your test? Uh,

48:05

no. Matid,

48:08

you have a vision of a

48:10

close-up visual of a tall, lanky

48:12

scarecrow-shaped individual with a blazing jack-o-lantern

48:14

for a head. Are these

48:16

all, like, night- or nightmares? Yeah, I thought the

48:19

hyggei was like, I throw it out and then

48:21

I can, like, connect with it telepathically to see.

48:23

Is it casting us visions, like, or is it

48:25

connected to other eyeballs? Are we

48:27

seeing through other hyggeis? Are we seeing in

48:29

our- this all in our head? Yeah. I'm

48:32

making our kind of check, Chip. Oh, thanks. Yeah,

48:35

you've never dealt with one of these before. I- I- I-

48:37

I- I- I bang it a couple times, can I do

48:39

another arcana check? No. The

48:42

blinding vision dissipates and everyone's eyesight returns.

48:44

You appear to be at a junction

48:46

of an icy dirt road that splits

48:48

off to the northeast and west. Oh.

48:56

You all look behind you and Lewis the hulking

48:58

frost giant has vanished. Instead,

49:00

in his place is a wisened but handsome

49:03

man with pale skin and salt and pepper

49:05

hair. He's wearing a ripped and

49:07

bloodied wool and gray coat holding a tattered

49:09

cane. The- the alchemist?

49:11

The alchemist? I- I

49:15

know where that is. I've seen

49:17

that classroom before. It's not all for

49:19

me. Just- just now that

49:21

he's been around. You thought so? I

49:24

told the bunch of bricks here, alchemist. I realize

49:26

you all have a clue of questions. Yeah. But

49:29

time is a thing. Oh my gosh. If

49:31

someone could please help me up, I can

49:33

lead you to that. I'll

49:36

help you up. Can I help him up? Yeah. I

49:38

feel like half the dialogue with the alchemist is him

49:40

telling me to shut up because there's no time.

49:42

It- it takes for seconds. You can

49:44

give me the spark notes there, bud. Barney

49:47

leans over and helps the alchemist up and

49:49

he- the alchemist begins hobbling toward the east,

49:51

leaning heavily on his cane. He's always running.

49:53

He's always going. I promise. Once

49:56

we arrive, I'll have time to explain everything.

49:59

Just tell me I'm the way winner. It's right over here. I

50:02

can see it. I

50:04

can see it. You

50:06

can see it. You can see

50:08

it. I am

50:10

also into it. You should give yourself

50:12

an inspiration to everything. Yay! You

50:16

want to use my walker? He's not

50:18

an inspiration dice gachapon. Okay, I think

50:20

that's already happened. After

50:22

about five minutes, the road veers off

50:24

to the left into a small valley

50:26

banked by frosted trees. Five minutes to

50:28

complete silence. He just saved you.

50:32

A weathered wooden sign dangles overhead from a

50:34

slanted post. It

50:36

reads, crew under me. This is the

50:38

place. What are

50:41

you, Dallas? Please be. With

50:45

a thought, the alchemist clumps to the ground, his eyes slowly

50:47

drooping. Could I put him on my shoulder? Yeah,

50:50

but before you do that, he's mumbling a little bit. Like,

50:52

almost in his sleep, maybe? It's

50:54

this curse. I

50:56

can... His

50:58

head leans against the crooked

51:01

post and his eyes shut. Hm, curse. It's

51:04

like Lewis, his... Jekyll

51:06

and Jekyll and Hyde? Well, yeah.

51:10

Oh, maybe. I thought

51:12

for maybe they were like, swapped

51:14

with each other. Hey, the alchemist's

51:17

real name? It was... I

51:20

know this. Robert?

51:24

No, that was his son, wasn't it? Henry is

51:26

his son. Henry is

51:28

his name. I

51:30

think Robert was his name. Burton

51:32

Lewis. I was trying to see if

51:34

there's any play on words. You know

51:36

that purple liquid that made you dream? You see people's

51:39

dreams? Yeah, yeah,

51:41

Nyquil. Are you

51:43

talking about from the first campaign? No, it

51:45

was this campaign. There was some purple liquid

51:47

in a cave. Oh,

51:49

oh. Yeah. It was in where you

51:51

all found the dragon. Yeah, yeah. And

51:53

it made... It showed you what? People's

51:55

desires, right? Or what

51:57

did it make? It showed you their dreams, visually,

51:59

right? You get into the fact that you

52:01

bottle some up. Yeah purple drink. Yeah. Well,

52:03

what about it? Are you asking a question? It

52:08

made you do you see their dreams

52:10

right? Yeah. Yeah, let's give them

52:12

the SML see what he's doing about ah If

52:16

you give him the drink, we'll

52:18

see what he's dreaming. Yeah, that's how it works,

52:20

right? Correct. I Have

52:22

no idea why you asking me. All right. I

52:24

do it. I give him I give him some

52:26

purple dream some purple purple dream It's a purple

52:28

drink from

52:30

Houston You

52:33

uncork the bottle that you had saved from

52:35

your time with the drag on yeah And

52:38

you open up the alchemist mouth and pour

52:40

it in let's see what he's got Penis

52:42

at the alchemist drowns everyone

52:44

make an arcana check everyone. Yeah, are

52:46

we really doing this? Are we are

52:48

we done this 10? 21

52:52

let me see how far three

52:54

18 matches the rug from below us

52:57

Six You're you

52:59

know, you see his dreams like

53:01

begin to coagulate and form into

53:03

a vision You're able to to

53:05

see and you see, you know

53:08

visions of the alchemist wife

53:10

and his son sitting at home Francesca.

53:12

Yeah, Frank. Yes. God. I'm in

53:15

Henry. Yep And

53:19

They're sitting at a dinner table all laughing

53:22

without him. Well, it's POV. It's a

53:24

dream. What was the joke? What we laughing at there's

53:26

having a good time. It's hard to make out. Everyone

53:28

was laughing when the dream started Well,

53:31

I thought this movie would be more exciting. Yeah, I

53:33

think we came in midway through We're

53:36

outside of the school correct

53:38

and and like he claims the school Right right

53:40

the school that we all saw in our vision

53:43

brought on by the hag guy. I think it

53:45

was just in my vision No, well,

53:47

yeah, I mean yours was the most coalesced

53:50

version. So you're you're buying a mine was

53:52

the most coalesce I saw the scarecrow. You're

53:54

not actually outside of a school. You're you

53:56

remember you're by a like a slanted post

53:59

with a wooden sign on it and

54:01

it said what on it crew under me

54:04

looking at it can you smell that you

54:07

know what it means yeah sleepy hollow okay

54:10

oh don't me what oh

54:13

yeah what describe the building we're

54:17

in front of it it's not if it's like a house

54:19

so this was just you know a wooden signpost but you

54:21

know you can look down the road here

54:23

and you see there's a handful of quaint buildings made

54:26

of stonework covered in snow a

54:28

lot of the structures have fallen to ruin and the whole place

54:30

is probably somewhat abandoned it

54:32

looks like and it seems like over

54:34

time these former homes and

54:36

businesses have either been looted or you

54:39

know lost to you to the

54:41

elements okay i

54:43

say we should get the uh

54:45

is the alchemist and add to

54:47

this uh building as a volunteer

54:49

firefighter fireman whatever i know

54:53

the proper way of carrying a limp uh

54:55

human body also from my days as an

54:57

assassin you gotta dispose of the bodies so

55:00

i thrust him over my shoulders and i carry him

55:02

in the firefighters carry all right

55:04

okay i offered but never mind i

55:07

know i do recall that make a friendship yeah

55:09

it was like yeah yeah

55:12

roll off to see who gets to carry

55:14

the body everyone wants my jam let's fight

55:16

over his body okay can i kick that

55:18

gem i think it

55:21

goes away after a minute okay we passed a

55:23

minute because five minutes it took to get to

55:25

the uh yeah i also realized my

55:27

gym didn't go away it didn't get consumed it

55:29

doesn't get consumed no it only gets consumed if

55:31

it says if it gets consumed and it didn't

55:33

get consumed so i keep my i think using

55:35

it to activate the thing consumes not

55:38

i looked up not

55:40

hey not that's a point that just

55:42

not i looked up

55:44

according to chris yes very true i rolled a 14

55:46

on strength by the way yeah you're able to uh

55:49

pick them up and toss them over your shoulders be

55:51

a shame if i bounce his head on something for

55:53

not talking to us everyone make

55:55

a perception check i

55:58

perceive that alchemist has crappy dreams Nose

56:02

fast, am I right? Barney's

56:05

just jealous because the Alchemist remembers his family. Burn.

56:10

Oh, that bird. That shut deep. Let

56:13

me know if there's any healing potions for that bird, Barney. Matid

56:16

and Barney, you both hear

56:19

what appears to be, or what you think is

56:21

like the sound of a horse winning in

56:24

the distance around a corner. What does that sound

56:26

like? Robbo. Oh,

56:28

he exploded. There's a

56:31

horse in the distance towards the building or behind

56:33

it? Yeah,

56:42

in the midst of the buildings. And

56:45

what you described that I saw with

56:47

the hag eye was

56:49

a scarecrow-like creature with a

56:52

jack-o'-lantern for a head. Correct.

56:54

A blazing jack-o'-lantern for a head. Where was that? I

56:57

just want to point out. That was in my vision, or my

56:59

perception check of the hag eye. What you got, Barbara? This

57:01

place is called Sleepy Hollow. Yes. Alchemist

57:04

is falling asleep. We might fall asleep. I

57:06

think he's asleep because of the ordeal. The

57:09

exhaustion. Did he pass that? Not

57:12

that this place is called Sleepy Hollow.

57:14

I mean, that's a possibility. I'm just

57:16

going up on the logical projection of

57:18

like he collapsed and... Maybe

57:20

this is where dreams are made. Yeah. It's

57:23

really sad. This is a really sad dream place. Can

57:25

I do an arcana check to see if Sleepy Hollow

57:28

is absolutely names? What

57:30

are you checking for? Just see if... There's like a sleep spell on it

57:32

or something? Yeah, like if he has like some person... I

57:34

would call that a history check. Okay. Well,

57:37

yeah. Okay. Yeah,

57:39

I'll do a history check. Do you want me to? Yeah. History

57:42

modifier. Plus one. Twenty.

57:44

Nice. Oh, okay. Everyone

57:47

make a constitution saving throw. No. Oh,

57:49

my gosh. Even the

57:51

person who figured it out?

57:53

Yeah. Eleven. Eleven. Twenty-two.

57:56

Fourteen, but if I fail, I have a

57:58

backup. Now, you all are tired. You

58:01

don't think that it's necessarily connected.

58:03

Okay. Okay. Okay. He's good. He's

58:06

playing. Do I think it's connected

58:08

with a 22? No,

58:10

no, no. You think

58:13

it's just a coincidence. You feel very fine. You

58:15

don't feel tired at all. I'm a pull out

58:17

my spirit of Superior Baker and approach towards the

58:19

sound of the horse. You walk down

58:22

a little bit into these dilapidated buildings in

58:24

the midst of this ghost town, I guess.

58:28

And the horse is tied up outside of a

58:30

stone building leaning against a leafless

58:33

tree. And it's strewn

58:35

with frostbitten ivy. The

58:37

foliage partially covers a wooden sign overhead.

58:40

And you're going to make me read French, aren't you? You

58:42

want to send it to me? I'm tired, my dude. Do you want to

58:44

send it to me and I'll read it? Yeah, we can pitch down Barbara's

58:46

voice to make it sound like you're a scus. Yeah. So read it in

58:48

your best Gus impression. Oh,

58:53

good. Good. And you

58:55

look at the, you know, you move some of

58:57

the ivy aside to uncover the sign and the

58:59

sign reads a coal on those me a

59:03

cool school of sleep. Probably sleep. Sleep

59:05

school. Do I feel

59:08

like Blaine should be asking this, but do I

59:10

recognize this horse? Oh, yeah, you

59:12

don't have you don't want your horse girl to to

59:15

inspect it and figure it out. Like I'm

59:17

sitting next to the horse girl. So but

59:19

a beautiful mane on that one. Can

59:21

I see if I recognize you

59:23

make a wisdom check? What's a

59:25

horse check? Uh,

59:29

15. Yeah, you

59:31

recognize this as being the

59:33

headless horseman's mare. And if

59:36

I can ask one more question, the

59:38

scarecarlite creature with the jack-o'-lantern for a

59:41

head that I saw is that the

59:43

horseman? Very possibly very recognize

59:45

that pumpkin very very

59:48

very likely very well could be teaching

59:50

at the sleeping school. But this is

59:52

all dilapidated, right? Yes. And like is

59:56

there a door? Yeah, there is a

59:58

door that is closed. Frostbitten

1:00:00

ivy is

1:00:02

this in a cold temperate zone all of

1:00:04

parish has been that yeah frostbitten It's very

1:00:07

cold. So is it like winter is this

1:00:09

like is this an unnatural cold? Like

1:00:12

a like a chill down your spine when a ghost

1:00:14

test Regional

1:00:17

okay, I was just saying like

1:00:19

if this is unusual for this Parish

1:00:22

that way from the beginning. Okay, and

1:00:24

I'm still wearing shorts I wonder why they

1:00:26

need school to teach you how to sleep here.

1:00:28

No, is it is there door in front of

1:00:30

us? Yeah, there is a front door that is

1:00:32

closed. I kicked the door open Somewhere

1:00:37

someone told me kick it open make an

1:00:39

athletics check 15. That's

1:00:42

what you needed Yeah, you uh kick

1:00:44

the door and you know, it resists

1:00:46

a bit But it slammed open really

1:00:48

loudly shaking the building a bit and

1:00:50

disturbing the ivy knocking off some of

1:00:52

the snow and the frost from it

1:00:54

Bring my I like since I'm very

1:00:56

flexible. I bring my leg to my

1:00:58

face and I blow it like Y'all

1:01:05

want to go see the gun show yeah, right. Yeah

1:01:09

Trinity does that in a matrix the kick someone and

1:01:11

then they just like wind it. Yeah, that's what I

1:01:13

do What

1:01:17

was seen was that? Yeah, I think

1:01:19

he kicks the agent. No I don't

1:01:21

know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Does

1:01:24

this unnecessary flourish with his leg? Oh

1:01:26

fully necessary my dude. What do we

1:01:28

see anything inside? Yeah, it

1:01:31

appears to be a classroom.

1:01:33

That's overrun with frost

1:01:35

and ivy There's two rows of desks

1:01:37

most of them are toppled some wooden

1:01:39

shelves. Does it look like the best we saw in

1:01:42

the dream or vision? Make a

1:01:44

wisdom check. Hey make an

1:01:46

educated In

1:01:51

blood no You wake up

1:01:53

Chris. No, this doesn't look familiar to

1:01:56

you Elga, but in addition to the desks There's

1:01:58

also a large table and a chalkboard on

1:02:00

the north end of the room, which is the back of the

1:02:02

room, on the opposite from where you are. And,

1:02:04

uh, can we try to see what it says on

1:02:06

the blackboard? If anything, the chalkboard? Do you want

1:02:09

to walk up to it or you'll try to

1:02:11

read it from where you are? Because from where

1:02:13

you are, it's about 70 feet away, roughly. Uh,

1:02:15

I want to try to walk in. I stopped

1:02:17

a little barbarian. What? Can

1:02:19

I check for traps? Let's

1:02:21

see if it doesn't support the education

1:02:23

of young women. Wow. Wow.

1:02:26

It's messed up. I mean, I guess I

1:02:28

do. I only rolled a six, so... Yeah,

1:02:30

you know, there's no traps. All right. It

1:02:33

is close, it's clear. Go ahead. That's it.

1:02:35

That is pretty sweet. Yeah,

1:02:37

you walk up, you don't have to walk all the way

1:02:39

to the, you know, the chalkboard. You walk about halfway.

1:02:42

Let's say you're in the middle of the classroom and you're able

1:02:44

to see what's written on the chalkboard.

1:02:46

The chalkboard's covered in dust, but it has a

1:02:48

list of names scrawled in a few rows. Adrian,

1:02:51

Braum, Stop. present.

1:02:54

Knickerbocker, Baltus, and Ichabod

1:02:56

Crane. Oh, I know that

1:02:59

name. Ichabod Crane. Do any of the names look

1:03:01

different or like underlined, circled, anything

1:03:03

like that, or is it just a list? Just a

1:03:05

list. It's not all like in one list,

1:03:07

it's just in a couple of rows. They're just like spread

1:03:09

out to a row. So it's

1:03:11

like Adrian Braum, Hans Knickerbocker, Baltus Ichabod

1:03:13

Crane. We've been going to all of

1:03:16

these places in grotesque. Remind

1:03:18

me, who's the monster leader of

1:03:20

Parrish? Headless Horseman. Headless Horseman.

1:03:22

Headless Horseman is the leader. And so that

1:03:24

would be presumably if we're going to pull

1:03:27

from our own understanding of these characters, that's

1:03:29

Ichabod. Ichabod Crane

1:03:32

is a fictional character from the tale of the Headless

1:03:34

Horseman. Killed by

1:03:37

the Headless Horseman. Does he? Or

1:03:39

it's like ambiguous, I think. In the legend of Sleepy Hollow.

1:03:41

Okay. Thank you. Okay.

1:03:44

Adrian Braum,

1:03:46

Hans Knickerbocker, Ichabod

1:03:48

Crane, Knickerbocker, Sock'em Bop'em,

1:03:50

Sphenix, I

1:03:53

don't want to do this. It's not as hard as Sphenix. Just try.

1:03:56

No. Okay. Don't

1:03:58

make that. Okay. I

1:04:00

mean gonna take about green on social media for

1:04:02

it's and. Ah

1:04:05

things dragon if you treat as

1:04:07

earthy post about as that three

1:04:09

during pod. Okay so out of

1:04:11

the protest and this is just

1:04:13

a been accused like classroom. Nothing

1:04:15

special about it visibly. Gone.

1:04:18

Into depends on what your definition, especially

1:04:20

by the haunted. can I kind of

1:04:22

magic? Yeah, why not? Alexa Blaine are

1:04:24

saying something and Shark yelled over his minute.

1:04:28

We do that were all very

1:04:30

excitable. For the

1:04:32

war game and do Al Jazeera America. Yeah

1:04:34

yeah, that's detect magic. And then I walk

1:04:37

in and a cat thirty foot radius of

1:04:39

I'm like it within the thirty foot radius

1:04:41

detecting. So you walk in I presume to

1:04:43

the center of the classroom where Helga. is

1:04:45

that where you get most of the classroom

1:04:48

covered His about seventy five, thirty feet wide

1:04:50

and about seventy feet. From. The

1:04:52

door to the chalk board? Yeah, I'll

1:04:54

make sure I'm also. Within.

1:04:56

The chalk board. Are you making radar noises? Why

1:04:58

do this? Is

1:05:02

the center of the classroom where you put the pressure

1:05:05

plate were that activates the trap gusto. I would have

1:05:07

been out already step there so he would. I would

1:05:09

have gone off at. Through

1:05:13

to a stomping on the grounds

1:05:15

and. Yeah,

1:05:18

you do detect some magic coming

1:05:20

from behind the table, but ah,

1:05:22

the northern end of the room.

1:05:24

close to the truck. Barney. That's

1:05:26

the magic and knowledge. And what

1:05:28

kind of magic do I feel?

1:05:30

Enchantments? As it all by

1:05:32

not that good Incentive: somehow I'll

1:05:34

go in and spectacle hang out

1:05:37

of the naked eye educated guess

1:05:39

go to inspect disenchanted, ask or

1:05:41

what follow the in sentiments. Are

1:05:45

you follow your sense of detect magic

1:05:47

up to the desk and you realize

1:05:49

that it's not coming from the desk

1:05:51

itself with coming from the floor behind

1:05:54

the desk? Oh and you look over

1:05:56

and you see The Horseman and Katrina

1:05:58

both fair trial stand. No. Way

1:06:01

now Katrina in of ours been were

1:06:03

in the pub in the tavern that

1:06:05

unless we saved Katrina from Louis yes

1:06:07

and so they remember they were like

1:06:10

dating and stuff on Iran or they

1:06:12

were they were at their. Flirt

1:06:14

and they were talking aggressively. Press.

1:06:19

And so aggressively enough per got. Sad

1:06:21

to say several things to get us

1:06:23

to leave them have a another thirty

1:06:26

each other's in at every. ah are

1:06:28

they were they doing? I did a

1:06:30

better. not really. I had hiding. Were

1:06:32

they hiding her? The employee? look what

1:06:35

would you sacrifice? Katrina holding her head

1:06:37

and moaning a little bit odd. The

1:06:39

opera of our soldiers on like C

1:06:41

holding an Aussie to and like this.

1:06:44

Yeah yeah her she got her head

1:06:46

in her hand. Plan: yeah. The horseman.

1:06:48

Is prone on the ground a sleep like

1:06:50

slight on the facts. got a headache or

1:06:52

now she looks up at you Are Barney

1:06:54

as you approach it says. Oh thank

1:06:57

god Six year I was trapped here. The

1:06:59

horseman brought me here in a it's asked

1:07:01

me why I was able to fight them

1:07:03

off that he hit a set of a

1:07:05

table. it hit me in the head and

1:07:07

say why Nazis and maybe. The insects

1:07:09

and can I. Speak. Proceed

1:07:12

economic and I want a seizure of a

1:07:14

spell. Well. I want to see this

1:07:16

house is feel like I'm as as as out on us.

1:07:18

To me that he would I would be

1:07:20

an infant. Check what you're a little friend

1:07:22

Elgar As against him on his cock say

1:07:25

that hundred and sized town in up the

1:07:27

idea. How got set thirty lord. That's

1:07:29

a pretty good robot you have bar on.

1:07:31

I was inside Aladdin Buffalo Buffalo the

1:07:33

quite hapless eleven on it and I just

1:07:35

i just recognize guess his tail but

1:07:37

he doesn't know I'm I'm like what it's

1:07:40

a crazy world tell me about your

1:07:42

off I can't wait Oh god what I

1:07:44

do be because I'd a modest plus

1:07:46

three to the had the staff of candor

1:07:48

but I had to take I had

1:07:50

to get rid of that to acquit that

1:07:52

other armor. Alright do strap so. must

1:07:55

also way to double check on naturally high

1:07:57

roller yeah yeah yeah yeah worth of an

1:07:59

applicant With a plus 11 is a bit. Yeah, I

1:08:01

was surprised by it too Plus

1:08:04

eight so that was a 27 great. That's great

1:08:07

Yeah, you think that she's hiding something

1:08:09

and as she's talking to you You

1:08:11

know stinker's been nipping at your your

1:08:13

heels this whole time Barney You know

1:08:15

he gets low to the ground looks

1:08:17

at Katrina and begins growling But

1:08:22

Barney doesn't like this dog I just I

1:08:24

don't this dog is just I

1:08:33

Cast Mati does

1:08:35

zeros their spear right up

1:08:37

on Katrina. I am my

1:08:41

alchemist at her This

1:08:45

thing's loaded all right. Yeah, I'm on your back. Yeah,

1:08:48

I think Tonight

1:08:53

threat don't be like I

1:08:56

have cast and it's cool this so I could cast friends

1:08:59

Okay, why don't I deal with this lady

1:09:01

and you guys leave the building? Something

1:09:12

deep inside of her has been

1:09:14

brewing for a long time. Okay,

1:09:16

okay. I'll tell you the truth

1:09:19

the truth is Fly

1:09:24

out from her hands hitting all four

1:09:27

of you Well now

1:09:29

hold on now, what kind of roles do we got to do

1:09:31

here? There's no really Yeah, we

1:09:33

sit. Oh really yeah So

1:09:37

it's like quick attack the Pokemon Barney takes three

1:09:39

points of damage Now

1:09:45

can I use my Missile

1:09:47

ability that work on magic. I don't know

1:09:49

it's called a missing not No,

1:09:56

I can't idiocy

1:10:00

can he dodge I

1:10:02

do have to do a roll yeah let me live so 1d 10

1:10:04

you reduce damage by

1:10:09

20 so you reduce it to zero so you

1:10:11

can if you want you can spend a key point to

1:10:13

make a ranged attack and basically like

1:10:16

redirect that missile so yeah here I'll roll

1:10:18

for that 17 it may not be a

1:10:20

lady someone named Katrina

1:10:26

it could be an individual

1:10:28

who is either actually or

1:10:31

pretending Katrina 17 yeah

1:10:33

the hips and damage

1:10:37

and they perfect

1:10:41

on both those right was amazing way to

1:10:43

go with you also I did an uncanny

1:10:45

dodge oh I'm so sorry dude okay don't

1:10:47

worry about it are you able to do

1:10:49

that as a reaction yes okay

1:10:52

dodge when an attacker that you can see

1:10:54

hits you with an attack you can use

1:10:56

your reaction to have the attack against

1:10:58

you you have the damage then we

1:11:02

Katrina winces in pain as people from her

1:11:04

bag a small head with huge ears large

1:11:06

gray glassy eyes and a long snipe nose

1:11:14

small head eyes glow with green and

1:11:16

the horseman's bone body rises from the

1:11:18

floor the letter and I also believe

1:11:21

in a completely green please

1:11:25

save me for me to handle

1:11:27

as you meet madam the horseman on

1:11:30

feet is green favor if you just

1:11:32

told you all everyone rolling 17 they

1:11:35

told I'm glad you

1:11:48

guys waited five you

1:11:57

when an attacker that you can see hits you with the

1:11:59

attack you Use your reaction to

1:12:01

have the attack damage against you to

1:12:03

have it. Ooh, la la ha ha

1:12:05

ha What did I say?

1:12:08

He's that right? He just wasn't he wasn't

1:12:10

it's a TV or a che lve that L

1:12:12

does a lot of heavy lifting Have

1:12:14

I can hear the L look at my mouth Matid

1:12:20

you're you know as a monk you have quick

1:12:22

reflexes you're able to redirect this magic missile Yeah,

1:12:24

you have these potentially two enemies in front of

1:12:26

you. What do you want to do? I

1:12:29

want to do something I want to try something that I

1:12:31

haven't got to try yet It might not work out, but

1:12:33

I want to push a button. I haven't gotten to this

1:12:35

before. Oh, I'm gonna cast

1:12:37

possession on

1:12:40

Katrina Possessions you're possessing the

1:12:42

possessed or one humanoid that you can see

1:12:44

within five feet of you must succeed on

1:12:46

a Christmas saving throw Or be possessed by

1:12:48

you you then disappear and the target is

1:12:51

incapacitated and loses control of its body You

1:12:53

now control the body, but don't deprive the

1:12:55

target of awareness Is

1:12:58

that that's a ghost ability right? It's a ghost

1:13:00

ability. I feel like you could

1:13:02

I'm not alive neither is but It's

1:13:05

a low. It's a low check though. I'm just doing this cuz I

1:13:07

just want to see it's a low check It's

1:13:09

charisma saving throw 13. Okay. Let

1:13:12

me roll that bad roll Seven

1:13:16

got plus six and I'm gonna

1:13:18

say probably not No,

1:13:20

that is plus three I

1:13:22

so I've haven't done this because I just haven't

1:13:24

had the opportunity to it and it's such a

1:13:26

low check of like what's the point? Yeah,

1:13:29

you I guess it's like if

1:13:31

I had to visit well, how do you envision

1:13:33

this happening? Like you touch? It's a touch you

1:13:35

touch you don't like go into the body. No,

1:13:37

it's yeah That's what it is that then I

1:13:39

disappear and then I'm in

1:13:41

control. I'm driving Katrina. Yeah,

1:13:44

you I'm John Malkovich in the trick, Katrina

1:13:47

Punching You

1:13:49

you know go up to Katrina use your

1:13:51

possession ability put your hand on her you

1:13:54

fade out from everyone's You know vision, but

1:13:56

then you pop right back as you were

1:13:58

before what? You you

1:14:00

don't you don't think despite her appearance you

1:14:03

think that maybe Katrina is not a humanoid

1:14:06

What I don't think I

1:14:09

think she's an enchantment. Oh Okay.

1:14:12

Well, I Learned something by

1:14:14

doing myself. No, it's good. We get

1:14:16

data. This is good. Okay, believe

1:14:18

it or not That is I think I think that's very

1:14:20

helpful to know. Yeah, okay, so she's not

1:14:22

a humanoid not a humanoid See

1:14:24

and you think they're right. Well, there

1:14:26

was an enchantment. I detected Well, you

1:14:28

know type of magic you detected. That's

1:14:30

what it yeah, right. Yeah, he detected enchantment

1:14:33

magic Okay, how long has it been

1:14:35

since we were running from the haggling

1:14:37

not terribly long? We'll say 15 minutes

1:14:40

I mean, she's clearly controlling the headless

1:14:42

horseman with the head that's in her

1:14:44

head right head. That's in her hand Then

1:14:48

what could it be original head what doesn't

1:14:51

oh Is

1:14:53

the head his original head? That's

1:14:55

what I was thinking. Oh Maybe

1:14:58

couldn't you described it as long

1:15:00

ears? Yes long nose.

1:15:02

Yes, that's Ichabod Ichabod crane He's

1:15:04

got a long nose. Did you know

1:15:06

that Ichabod crane in the story of Sleepy Hollow?

1:15:09

courted a woman named Katrina Did

1:15:13

you know that Johnny Depp gasps No,

1:15:16

you know, it would have been a what's

1:15:18

her name Wednesday Adams. What's that? No

1:15:27

Reaching okay. Sorry. I asked about the time thing

1:15:29

to see if my astral self was still pro

1:15:32

Minute spell I think you picked the right

1:15:34

number so I couldn't have that however My

1:15:38

turn is not over Since I

1:15:40

can do a bonus action pick an

1:15:42

arm between one and two between one

1:15:45

and two Yeah, wait does it have to be a

1:15:47

full no picking arm between one and two around number picking our between

1:15:49

one and two Come on be rational

1:15:52

I Throw

1:15:55

your phone. I'm doing heads or tails. I

1:15:57

can't rip those I think I was a

1:15:59

tail. Okay. I casper scenario

1:16:01

was an internal haunted you ask

1:16:03

yourself a flurry of blows. Remedy

1:16:05

for a bus and excited to

1:16:07

do to unarmed strikes on where

1:16:09

you don't Katrina on The Horsemen

1:16:12

On my get. Katrina and her.

1:16:14

First. One is twenty one Maggots

1:16:16

do nine magical slashing damage mine

1:16:19

okay cause my feet are magic.

1:16:21

You are lashed out with your

1:16:23

foot do when I pointed am

1:16:25

it's and then I like that

1:16:27

again with a twenty six that

1:16:29

his and support Katrina yeah eight

1:16:32

more damage for total of seventeen.

1:16:34

Semi lay the my this week

1:16:36

time off to seen his head.

1:16:38

Then we have the headless horseman

1:16:40

Jacqueline ahead and eight about said

1:16:43

we get all the heads. With

1:16:45

scramble around I'm avoids the a off his head

1:16:47

all the way down their throat. And

1:16:49

then they said said now we have again

1:16:51

on had their files. To

1:16:54

save us at the top of the episode

1:16:57

but obviously really went through the water your

1:16:59

candlewood of extinguished for years and Minecraft. Winter

1:17:03

and how's it.effect know, mocked and now now just

1:17:05

got a little ball of wax. The my Tales

1:17:07

and Karen are a little time. Under

1:17:13

the authority. And no, Preference

1:17:16

for know: Barney Europe you spry

1:17:19

quick old man. Wait, no folk

1:17:21

V or something like to. I

1:17:25

have. I wanted to

1:17:27

make one of those a stunning strike. Okay, What?

1:17:30

I have to do When you hit with a

1:17:32

melee weapon attack, you can spend one ki point

1:17:34

to make the targets done until the end of

1:17:36

your next turn if it fails a con saving

1:17:38

throw Dc fourteen on Dc okay, plus three on

1:17:40

that for need Eleven or better on his well

1:17:42

might as well and I do have advantage on

1:17:44

his wife. Are familiar. With

1:17:47

the the matter old free Twice as

1:17:49

as You As sands. And

1:17:51

whatever like would have. What did I

1:17:54

do understand? What does that mean? I

1:17:56

don't know. Have done. Creature is incapacitated,

1:17:58

can't move, and can speak only. All

1:18:00

really and automatically fail. Strength addict. Thirty

1:18:02

saving throws, attack rolls against the creature

1:18:04

have advantage or it speaking faltering remain

1:18:07

fire like how I talk he had

1:18:09

found only theodicy were at a death

1:18:11

is that assists and I feel like

1:18:13

that was a good turn. I'm proud

1:18:15

of my triumph and an amateur. It's

1:18:17

done. It on

1:18:19

our time. Have it figured

1:18:22

out not a humanoid hit twice

1:18:24

in my feet under. Very good.

1:18:26

Can I grab the head? Barney?

1:18:28

It is your turn. Oh look

1:18:30

could discern. Look at the think

1:18:32

of them on your little whiteboard.

1:18:35

Or thirty microbes is not mine. Is

1:18:38

my death or are you want to

1:18:40

grab the say I want to grab

1:18:42

the head out of her hands like

1:18:44

a that is a kebab. yeah I

1:18:46

think the head with we keep hot

1:18:49

potato ha ha. You make a ticket.

1:18:51

To break the spell is tearing

1:18:53

capacities the great so she can't

1:18:55

move. so said that were drunk

1:18:57

your make a unix. Are

1:19:01

you worried more feasible forever? The

1:19:03

have it when Chris with merged

1:19:06

into the microphone Do. Can

1:19:09

try to figure it out them as they

1:19:11

never i love you make your like a

1:19:13

job or to free. Or

1:19:16

disagreeable pull out for her advantage

1:19:18

said to be district check out

1:19:20

his. Name was also he was it or not

1:19:22

is or what kind of our parents added. may I

1:19:24

may I use. My

1:19:26

toy story line our use it for

1:19:28

forty not a famous oh my bad

1:19:31

with the modified to so the idea

1:19:33

into my love for to to be

1:19:35

a twelve photo viewer. Just try to

1:19:37

grab the head but you just can't

1:19:39

seem to get a solid grip on

1:19:41

it. Can I? Can I do something

1:19:43

to help when you meet with depends

1:19:45

what you would you mean Can I

1:19:48

use my bonus action to do mates

1:19:50

hand and post. With me so

1:19:52

it I agree hands American to

1:19:54

that. I think ahead. highways minus and pounds.

1:19:56

he. says adding there and mean i had

1:19:58

at were passing jerry maguire Is

1:20:00

that Jerry McGuire? The human head weighs 15 pounds. Does

1:20:04

anybody else know that? It's a weird quote. You know

1:20:06

what? We're a wealth

1:20:08

of unnecessary information from old movies. I'll

1:20:10

allow it. This podcast could be comedy,

1:20:12

fantasy, and movie trivia. I did see

1:20:14

a comment where someone was like, do

1:20:17

they make references to old media throughout

1:20:19

the whole show? Old?

1:20:22

Well, Jerry McGuire ain't exactly current cinema. We

1:20:24

have a lot of young listeners. Oh, I'm

1:20:26

not saying like, they were just questioning like,

1:20:29

is that what they do? It's like,

1:20:31

yes. Yeah. Right. It's

1:20:33

not the point. Yeah. So

1:20:35

the only thing I would say about that is normally when you

1:20:37

want to try to assist yourself, you declare that before you do

1:20:40

the action. Yeah. Like it's kind of,

1:20:42

okay. Kind of like it in my opinion, like when

1:20:44

I would play, that's kind of like cheating. When you

1:20:46

try something, it doesn't work. And then you try it

1:20:48

again. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

1:20:51

Yeah. Can I tell

1:20:53

why this incapacitated creature? Because you

1:20:56

rolled a bad roll. Yeah. It

1:20:59

has a very firm grip on

1:21:01

the head. It seemed like the head

1:21:03

was unmoving altogether. Okay. All

1:21:06

right. It's just how the D&D works.

1:21:08

You got to roll the dice. Was that my action?

1:21:10

To pay the price. That's how the price

1:21:12

levels. If you want, we could say that was your bonus action.

1:21:15

And if you, you couldn't do your

1:21:17

mage hand. So it's your action. Try

1:21:19

harder. Or, you know, hurt her. I

1:21:22

like to imagine Barney said he's going like, no, because that's

1:21:24

speed for the head. Really. It's

1:21:26

like, yeah. Just holding the head up.

1:21:32

Can I cast sleep on

1:21:34

the headless horse? Yeah. Oh,

1:21:37

wait. Is he currently still enchanted

1:21:39

even though she's done? Yeah. Yeah.

1:21:43

Is it not concentration or anything? Yeah.

1:21:46

It depends on the spell being used. So

1:21:48

yeah, you want to try to cast sleep on the

1:21:51

headless horse? Yeah. It really would

1:21:53

ruin. It's fun. If in the

1:21:55

first turn I completely incapacitated the entire fight. Yeah.

1:21:58

Gus hates it when I do that. I know, but we got to. Oh,

1:24:00

that act inside your sheath Which

1:24:07

one I want to fight Katrina See

1:24:10

what happened. Can I do my bite of

1:24:12

sucking on her? Yeah, I guess I gotta

1:24:14

get up closer to her It's five foot

1:24:16

reach, but you get advantage Okay,

1:24:19

she's sent

1:24:21

Slotho 16 a hit But

1:24:25

I do should I do another one just to see yeah, just if you get

1:24:27

an app 21 yeah, good thing you

1:24:29

did that. Yeah that yes, okay

1:24:32

and then the bite of sucking so

1:24:34

it's a melee attack that

1:24:37

does 1d4 piercing damage and on a

1:24:39

failed constitution save the creature takes 1d4

1:24:41

necrotic damage and you regain half of

1:24:43

that as HP and mine

1:24:45

is actually it's 2d4 on

1:24:48

my sheet at least Nails

1:24:50

up she got oh my and

1:24:53

I I had did 11 Wait,

1:24:55

so that's just from the bite itself. That's not the necrotic damage,

1:24:57

right? That's the Sorry,

1:25:00

I'm super confused over here. So yeah 11 points of piercing

1:25:02

damage from your bite And I have

1:25:05

to make a constitution safety throw. Yeah, you

1:25:07

know what that DC is 15

1:25:09

all right. I got a plus 3 so I need a 12 or

1:25:11

better 14 successful

1:25:13

say So that

1:25:15

stops the necrotic damage correct, but the 11 points

1:25:17

of piercing damage I like that me up for

1:25:20

success here. Oh cuz they've been attacked. No cuz

1:25:22

they're within five feet. Well, I am too and

1:25:25

then That

1:25:27

was an attack party. We're actually all

1:25:30

surrounding the woman. Yeah, but I'll go

1:25:32

you know I'm gonna

1:25:34

bite her again. Okay A

1:25:39

melee attack and you get to attack. I

1:25:41

love it. Oh, I'll gun her kisses I'm

1:25:45

gonna use my inspiration. No, you get the

1:25:47

advantage. Oh, I do think they're stunned until

1:25:49

their next my next turn Okay 24 believe

1:25:51

it or not. Okay. Yay doing And

1:25:55

then another constitution saving throw 15. All

1:25:58

right But

1:26:00

this one he's gonna roll back. Nah, I'm rolling again, yeah, like a 5. You

1:26:02

guys also don't see what I'm doing, just so you know.

1:26:05

You just see me, like, up close on her. You look

1:26:07

away. That is a failure. Okay,

1:26:09

cool. Necrotic damage! Let

1:26:12

me see here. I don't know how much

1:26:14

she gets. I think it says 5d8. I

1:26:18

thought it was just a d4, wasn't it? I think it's just a d4. The

1:26:22

length is different. Yeah, I see 1d4 necrotic

1:26:24

damage. It says damage dice for your bite

1:26:26

ability changed to 2d4 when you reached 5th level.

1:26:28

2 damage for your bite damage. Yeah, I just don't

1:26:30

know if it's the same for necrotic. Okay,

1:26:33

I'll just do a d4. Just

1:26:35

for you guys. Alright, I appreciate it.

1:26:37

That's a 2.0 product damage to add to

1:26:39

that. 2, thank

1:26:42

you. What is this woman? Can

1:26:45

you tell from the taste? Make a

1:26:47

wisdom check, Elga. You've drank a lot

1:26:49

of blood in your time. Yeah, I know

1:26:51

what I'm drinking, Sprite or Dr. Pepper.

1:26:53

That's right. That is a natural 20.

1:26:55

It's a full-bodied red from the valleys

1:26:57

of Parrish with hints of oak

1:27:00

and cedar. What year? Yeah. You

1:27:04

did your two attacks. I have one more rage

1:27:06

left. Fire at

1:27:08

that. And I'll say this, the

1:27:10

head of the horseman is going to attack us. I'll

1:27:13

rage. The horseman is next and then chip and then

1:27:15

Katrina. Yeah, I'm going to rage as my bonus action.

1:27:18

Just put it out there while we are

1:27:20

definitely beating up on this stunned woman. Cool.

1:27:23

And that's going to be me. So I'm currently raging

1:27:25

now. Okay, taking the

1:27:27

form of... Taking the form

1:27:29

of, thank you, Matisse, for reminding

1:27:31

me I'm going to take this form of...

1:27:34

Tail. Tail. I like that

1:27:36

tail. She's a big fan of tail. Excellent choice. It's a

1:27:39

good cartoon. I used the reaction. And

1:27:43

that tail's like, you need to do our secret handshake with

1:27:45

your tail. One and a two and one

1:27:47

and a three. That's a tail shake. Mikey,

1:27:50

you can insert the sounds of

1:27:52

like, a flesh clapping against each

1:27:54

other. The horseman rears back, drawing

1:27:56

his flame blade high. What? Bringing

1:27:58

it down on Elga. Morsman

1:30:00

knocking him slightly off balance the commotion

1:30:02

rouses stinker who wakes up from his

1:30:04

sleep great and then While

1:30:07

that's going on. I move quickly

1:30:10

to pull out my arm blade of

1:30:12

blur bling on Katrina and Because

1:30:15

I have so many party members that are within five

1:30:17

feet. I get to get a sneak attack Okay

1:30:22

What's her name? Stabilize

1:30:24

unstable eyes paralyzed yeah Oh, no, you don't

1:30:26

let him sorry fun game will you time

1:30:28

like games all right go for it? Okay,

1:30:34

well I first rolled a 20, but if I'm at an

1:30:36

advantage, then that is also a and don't worry about it

1:30:39

20 20 that hits all right, so that's seven

1:30:42

points of damage plus I

1:30:44

do three all

1:30:46

right, and then The

1:30:49

sneak attack gives me an additional

1:30:53

Seven yeah, you unload a Flurry

1:30:56

of blows onto Katrina with

1:30:58

your arm blade of blur bling. She's just

1:31:01

full of holes yep Is that it I

1:31:03

did use my bonus action to sling the

1:31:05

nutty professor off my back so Wanted

1:31:09

to play somebody help yeah, I don't think I have

1:31:11

anything else. I think I just

1:31:13

yeah Maybe I maybe

1:31:15

I can try to Wake up

1:31:17

headless horsemen. I don't know Come a

1:31:19

little fluff maybe yeah, maybe while I'm

1:31:22

like hitting with my tail in the

1:31:24

little little little With

1:31:26

my tail that gets everyone out of yeah,

1:31:28

yeah Okay,

1:31:31

so it's Katrina's turn if that didn't work

1:31:33

who is darned who is stunned? Yes

1:31:37

However before your eyes. It's unbelievable.

1:31:39

She changes for you no longer look. I

1:31:41

believe it like a Like

1:31:45

a fetching woman instead perform changes to

1:31:47

that of a hag she

1:31:49

has purple pock skin Blackened

1:31:51

hair she's dressed in a frayed shawl

1:31:54

She looks at you with anger in her eyes

1:31:56

then both her and the horseman out

1:31:58

of existence Like

1:32:00

going invisible or tell up like

1:32:02

if or can we tell They got

1:32:05

knives up to them. You can make a If

1:32:07

you want all you can make a wisdom check do

1:32:09

it all of us. Yeah. Yeah, why not? Come on

1:32:11

gang all together now 17

1:32:16

7 Nat 20 23 don't worry guys. I got

1:32:18

this one Excellent, but not

1:32:20

a fail Matid and Elga you don't

1:32:22

think this is just invisibility She has

1:32:24

shifted herself and transported herself and the

1:32:26

horseman to another plane of existence She

1:32:30

is still there you should attack her immediately Elga

1:32:37

you you feel like something's in your bag

1:32:40

my bag You have

1:32:42

a bag something's moving around in your pack. Yeah,

1:32:44

okay I

1:32:46

guess where you pulled your rope out of oh, yeah Elga

1:32:49

opens it up you open up

1:32:51

your bag and jock burst out of your bag

1:32:54

What happened? You've got a piece of paper in

1:32:56

his mouth. Did I read the paper? Yeah, he

1:32:58

drops the paper to the ground and it unfolds

1:33:00

in front of you. Uh revealing it to be

1:33:02

the sky chart We

1:33:04

found that at that museum thing I think a

1:33:06

while ago. Okay, it's labeled There

1:33:11

were complications cooking in the eclair What

1:33:14

does it mean? It means hidden

1:33:16

temple of ecclesiastical monks Jock

1:33:19

pounces on the sky chart and boom

1:33:21

an enormous purple portal opens up above

1:33:23

you all You see and feel

1:33:26

your body's fall to the ground Or

1:33:28

at least as you have bodies it's bear to

1:33:30

me floating in the air jock looks

1:33:32

up at you all the ceiling No,

1:33:35

hurry. I know what i'm doing Your

1:33:40

spirit tore up into the purple portal I

1:33:54

Want to know what Sorry,

1:33:57

let's make a real body. We left

1:33:59

her of a corporeal body. Find

1:34:02

out exactly what that means on the next episode

1:34:05

of Tales from the Stinky Dragon. What the heck.

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1:35:49

had a carnival where Chris had a kissing booth.

1:35:51

There was a kissing booth where people had to

1:35:53

pay him to not kiss them. Yeah, he made

1:35:55

a lot. A lot of money. That's not a

1:35:57

joke. He actually left the day with like... like

1:36:00

20 bucks yeah you don't want