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1:48

princess of elemental evil water. One,

1:52

two, three, four.

1:54

Welcome, princess, to

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the Dungeon Cast.

2:00

Hey Brian. Hey Will. How you doing today? I'm

2:02

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2:08

little soreness people might be able to hear it over the

2:11

mic But I'm mostly

2:13

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2:15

guys so much for being patient with us while

2:17

we scrap together an episode Thank you Brian for

2:19

doing that. Yeah, we're all over it My

2:22

my if only I hadn't

2:24

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2:26

streak would still be strong Which which episode did

2:29

you miss? I'm trying to remember you did

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want an inner. Oh, I did an interview. Yes.

2:33

Yes Yes, the kids the indeed thing. Yeah. Yeah.

2:35

Yeah. I'm sorry about your Iron Man Street. Oh,

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2:39

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2:43

let's say 99 for sure pretty good.

2:45

But yeah, thanks guys really appreciate it

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We're getting to the the PO box

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2:55

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2:58

are obligated per what is in there.

3:00

Okay, you'll see why okay, it's all new

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and surprising to me folks So it's very new.

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Yeah, we I let will be surprised. I read

3:06

some of these We're gonna read the other ones

3:08

that I haven't yet today, but thank you guys.

3:10

Um, let's get to it hail Hydra I'm so

3:12

excited that we're finally doing Marvel stuff. All right,

3:15

we're not doing well. There wasn't oh and there

3:17

is the oh so they know It's

3:20

not just to know there's also an L.

3:22

It's all Hydra Oh old Hydra For

3:24

capital Hydra This

3:27

fortunately doesn't have anything to do with Hydra from

3:29

Marvel Comics or Marvel Studios This

3:32

is all D&D all the way down. Thank

3:34

you And I will remind you and the

3:36

audience that it is year of

3:39

the elemental That's right, and I don't know if

3:41

I've ever mentioned it on this show But

3:44

I love elemental stuff. Oh, I

3:46

really love elemental stuff. Yeah I

3:48

mean my first stand with elemental

3:50

stuff was probably Our

3:53

Last Airbender Golden Sun. Oh And they have a

3:55

part of the last there. Good. Yeah, What I

3:57

was like, Oh the Four Elements Whoa. Yeah. Yeah,

3:59

Absolutely. For me it goes

4:01

although elected to the old Final Fantasy

4:03

games of yeah out of and I

4:05

get my my D childhood but on

4:07

whether it's the base for elements or

4:09

the pair elements of ice and magma

4:11

cause I elements of missed and leaning

4:13

I just love Elements. I think they're

4:15

they're the matic they lend themselves very

4:17

well. die Fantasy adventure or so for

4:19

me personally miniature to research a lot

4:22

of this year's topic already even though

4:24

we're still very early in the year.

4:26

and I yeah I just wanna say

4:28

that I love Element of Stuff I

4:30

love your the elemental same of in

4:32

a big step up it's really cool

4:34

game where in the Dmv side of

4:36

it yes one yet I in a

4:38

lot of a lot of really old

4:40

school first edition Dvd of is very

4:42

elemental and know now so ah, the

4:44

element themselves may be completely neutral and

4:46

even on a line to by nature

4:48

but this is not true of all

4:50

elemental. Some elemental do indeed align with

4:52

the forces of good and or the

4:54

forces of evil. and today's topic topic

4:56

focus is one such elemental and elemental

4:58

that aligns so hard she. Is known

5:00

as one of the Elemental Evil soon.

5:03

her name is or Hydra and she's

5:05

a princess of evil Water and Water

5:07

elemental and as or title implies years

5:10

in fact quite evil. Yeah, okay. I

5:12

get into at work before. I'm sorry.

5:14

Go for what are we gonna review

5:17

going on. So it makes is one

5:19

of the elemental evil as well. Yes,

5:21

so the the lead elemental evils are

5:24

a category of element Elemental called Arco

5:26

Mental, right? Okay, are in there is.

5:28

As far as I. Know there's one

5:30

for each of the form on base elements

5:33

And then there's also cry or next his

5:35

is to I yeah a random a shoe

5:37

and yeah yeah as and he's trying to

5:39

make ice. The fellow man you know and

5:42

more power to my guess. free the go

5:44

wrong, Devry a freeze your car got his

5:46

family be rigour, godlike nephew or somebody right?

5:48

I lay off f really looks like it.

5:51

But anyways, our focus is on the world.

5:53

The water. The unfrozen version. Weiss got an

5:55

hour or hydra. So all Hydra The Princess

5:57

of Evil Water is a powerful Arkham. I'm

6:00

from the elemental plane of water. She is

6:02

known as the Princess of Evil Water creatures.

6:05

Princess of Watery Evil, Mistress of

6:07

the Black Pied, The Crushing Wave,

6:10

The Dark Tide, and The Well

6:12

of Endless English Room In her

6:14

most often depicted states, she appeared

6:16

as a huge cresting wage roughly

6:19

twenty feet. Or six

6:21

meters high and fifteen feet at

6:23

four point, five meters folks wide,

6:25

weighing roughly five thousand pounds, Two

6:27

thousand, two hundred and sixty seven

6:30

kilograms with two eyes like large

6:32

pearls, There's no matter. For pearls

6:34

noted is now proceed to pearls.

6:36

All Hydra had been described as

6:38

endlessly breaking wave of water has

6:40

getting across the ground, furiously churning

6:42

and smashing everything in it's path.

6:44

This huge amorphous blob of liquid

6:46

seems to have almost human like

6:49

features buried within. It's that suggests.

6:51

Like a tsunami. Yeah just click a

6:53

tsunami with a face. Yeah that's scary

6:55

scary scary. It's quite scary. I literally

6:57

I saw cool video with lots of

6:59

different tsunami is over the ages in

7:01

their estimated heights and they have you

7:03

know they'll put it next to like

7:05

the Eiffel Tower Whatever. Yeah ah man

7:07

which I have a very very tall.

7:09

The Eiffel Tower is very tall and

7:11

a have tsunami is taller than that.

7:13

It adds a very horrified pretty crazy

7:15

oh yes there by you so that

7:17

the Twenty four tsunami is nothing to.

7:19

Bally's. As you know that's a very big way but

7:21

it also wave you could surf. Yeah.

7:23

I mean they're always detail. Hydra is

7:26

very survival. I've seen people surface before

7:28

ways gets the that crazy that I've

7:30

seen people needed on them to and

7:32

then migrate knows I agree. Nah man

7:34

that ever told the surfing and disproving

7:36

to get surfing is eve thing I've

7:38

always dreamed of learning to do professionally.

7:40

Oh I've never done it. Why?

7:42

know where silk our we live near the beach

7:44

near enough to the beach it's if though it's

7:46

always been a dream of mine that just never

7:48

followed up on don't go after the rain i

7:50

won't okay that's bad died to i didn't know

7:52

that yeah all the detritus gets pushed out into

7:54

that make me watch him does he have given

7:56

a week or two yeah don't have to the

7:59

rain and protect me one. Protect your nipples. Oh yeah,

8:01

you know I'm wearing the whole suit. I gotta go out and do

8:03

it all the way. I did it the first time I went surfing

8:05

and my nipples hurt so bad. Don't be

8:07

more. I'm kidding. There's nothing more here.

8:09

Nothing more to tell. Okay, let's get

8:11

back to Ojaija. So there are two

8:13

more physical depictions of the Princess of

8:15

Evil Water and they are as follows.

8:18

Ojaija appears in the form of a swirling

8:20

mass of seawater. When it suits

8:22

her though, she can transform into a

8:25

beautiful blue-skinned sea nymph whose gray-green eyes

8:27

swirl like stormy seas. Those

8:29

who witness her in this form are drawn to

8:31

her yet in her eyes they can see power

8:33

and wickedness. Okay, so it looks evil when you

8:37

see it. Yeah, it's like alluring but

8:39

obviously evil as hell. You look strong in a

8:42

bad way. You look strong in a bad way.

8:45

Ojaija surges forth tirelessly and relentlessly.

8:47

She delights in creating dangerous and

8:49

destructive manifestations of elemental water, especially

8:52

in maelstroms and floods. She's eager

8:54

to assert her power by smashing

8:56

any vessel that dares venture into

8:59

her realm and lays

9:01

waste to villages or towns established within

9:03

her reach. Ojaija erodes that

9:05

which she cannot batter down and

9:08

drown. She's patient, retreating into the

9:11

face of adversity, only to return stronger than

9:13

before. Okay, are we gonna get into like...

9:16

is this an ocean-based creature? I know

9:18

it's the elemental plane of evil. Like

9:21

it's evil water. Evil water. Is that

9:23

just all water? Because tsunami implies the

9:25

ocean. Yeah, it is all water but

9:27

yes, she... in the

9:29

next paragraph I say Ojaija prefers

9:31

to remain in or near large

9:34

bodies of water, seas, lakes, rivers,

9:36

sometimes great subterranean pools. But

9:39

when we're talking about the plane of water,

9:41

there's the border plane

9:43

and then there's the deep plane, right?

9:45

And so the border plane is like

9:47

this big open ocean and you'll see

9:49

some islands and stuff and you know

9:51

there might... there's a sky and a

9:53

sun but the water's deep and the

9:55

life is plentiful here. Okay. Then you

9:57

have as you go out further and

9:59

further. further. And

10:01

what this looks like is up for debate.

10:04

I've seen it described a few ways, but

10:06

there stops being a sky, there stops being

10:08

anything but water. Everything is water in all

10:11

directions, and that's the deep plane of

10:13

water. And so she can

10:16

and does roam and exist

10:18

throughout this entire plane of existence. I wonder

10:20

what that event horizon looks like. Yeah, I

10:22

just picture it. The water just must curve

10:24

until finally you reach a wall, right? And

10:26

it's just a wall of ocean that goes

10:28

up forever. But then you can ride, I

10:32

guess, gravity. Gravity would stop you from going

10:34

up. But I don't know. The

10:37

planes, the elemental planes specifically, are

10:39

a place where the rules of

10:41

reality really seem to break. Yeah,

10:44

because I'm trying to picture

10:46

how to describe it to a player crossing that threshold

10:48

if they need to go there. Maybe just a lot

10:50

of waves start rolling in and you get tossed

10:53

under and eventually, no matter how high you go,

10:55

you can't get back. Yeah, exactly. I like that. That's

10:57

actually a really nice transition. Kind of some like

10:59

black pearl stuff. Yeah. And they

11:01

flip the map or whatever. Yeah, they flip

11:04

upside down and they're all under water.

11:06

Down and the boat flips over. Yeah,

11:09

it's been a long time, man, but I know the scene you're

11:11

talking about. And I'm back to

11:13

drawing on pirates. It also reminds me of the 88th and 88th

11:17

and 89th abyssal layers.

11:20

Funny that you bring up those

11:23

layers, or maybe not

11:25

those layers specifically, but it's funny that you bring up the

11:27

abyss because a certain demon lord is going to show up

11:29

today. Hell yeah. Let's keep going. Oh,

11:31

Hydra is a surprisingly creative and wistful

11:33

entity with a rough and turbulent demeanor

11:36

and a passion for life. Sometimes

11:38

though, she is calm and serene

11:40

with the capacity for thoughtful reflection.

11:42

Her foulness temporarily darkens the water

11:44

she passes through, which I'm

11:46

not sure if that means she just smells

11:48

bad or she's just so evil. She causes

11:50

like an evil miasma to follow wherever she

11:52

goes. Okay, you know, I wonder what happens

11:54

when you drink that soup. Don't, don't drink

11:57

the soup bro. Oh,

11:59

Hydra harbors. intense hatred of

12:01

Imyx as he does of her

12:03

as we talked in the Imyx episode. And

12:06

nurses her enmity through constant schemes to

12:08

destroy him. This goal is

12:10

so all-consuming that it sometimes prevents her from tending

12:12

to the needs of her own plane. She

12:15

spends a great deal of time

12:17

hiding in her palace, consulting with

12:19

her numerous water-weird advisors and plotting

12:21

her next attack against Imyx. Now

12:23

I find these numerous water-weird advisors

12:26

who were brought up many

12:28

times across quite a few sources is,

12:31

do you know what a water-weird is? Let's start there.

12:33

So, okay. Water-weards are water

12:35

elementals that usually in my

12:37

experience take on the form of like a

12:39

dragon or a serpent, like a sea serpent,

12:42

just all soupy, just made

12:44

of water. But

12:46

the only thing that makes a water-weird different

12:49

from a normal water elemental in my experience

12:51

is that they're usually bound to a single

12:53

pool of water and they can extend themselves

12:56

out, but only so far and they

12:58

can never leave that pool of water. The water

13:01

temple boss. The water temple boss. The operating as

13:03

a part? Yes, absolutely. Except for that

13:05

one has like that organic kind of like part of it.

13:07

Yeah, it has like a weird. If you ignore that, then

13:09

yes, it's a water-weird very much so. Okay. But

13:12

the thing about water-weards is in my experience

13:14

and everything I've ever read about them is

13:16

they're not particularly intelligent and elementals in general

13:18

aren't particularly intelligent yet she has these water-weird

13:20

advisors and I want to know more but

13:22

they haven't written more. They're

13:25

all chemistry, no composition

13:28

of organic brain matter. Yeah, I'm not

13:30

sure why these water-weards are different from

13:32

other water-weards and smart enough to advise

13:34

a demigod, but they are and that's

13:37

cool and I want to know more

13:39

about them. Yeah, me too. But

13:41

yeah, moving on. So surprisingly, she gives

13:43

little thought to Ben Haddar, the

13:46

good archamental who shares her plane.

13:48

Her single-miter pursuit of Imyx and

13:50

Ben Haddar's indifference toward her ensure

13:52

that the two water-archamentals maintain a

13:55

detached neutrality toward each other. And

13:58

it's at this point that I ask myself, what the

14:00

fuck? fuck is the point of the Archimendals of good.

14:03

They don't do anything. The one who, so

14:06

far we've talked about too, I

14:08

don't even remember the Firewind's name, but Imix beat

14:10

the shit at him and he's basically nothing now.

14:13

Ben Haddar just ignores O'Hoyra. So

14:15

how good is he? You can think of it I

14:17

guess like one of them is

14:19

just doing what fire should do or what water

14:22

should do and the other one is just evil?

14:24

Yeah, right. But it's not really good, it's more

14:26

like a neutral entity? Yeah, they come across, Ben

14:28

Haddar comes across as a neutral entity, but he's

14:30

supposed to be the good

14:32

Archimental of water. Maybe good

14:34

by comparison. He's good by

14:37

comparison. So

14:40

anyways, moving on. O'Hoy just shares the Elemental Plan

14:42

of Water with the deities Blipdulpoop? It's been a

14:44

while. Oh, I got it in one though, did

14:47

you hear that? Yeah, you nailed it. Which for those

14:50

who don't know who that is, that is

14:52

one of the made-up deities of the Kuatoa.

14:55

The Kuja have this whole thing where they make up

14:57

deities and they believe in them so ververently, they come

14:59

into being. Which is how it works. They actually

15:01

have a better understanding of how to do deities

15:04

than a lot of cultures of deities. That's partially

15:06

how it works. I mean it is how it

15:08

works because it does work. Right, yeah, clearly. You're

15:11

very right. So Blipdulpoop is like the

15:13

main Kuatoa goddess. Then

15:16

there's also Iadro and Persana, they're

15:18

not two gods I'm familiar with but

15:21

O'Hoyra does share the Plan of Water

15:23

with them. Okay. And occasionally O'Hoyra comes

15:25

into conflict with them although she lets

15:28

nothing distract her for long and her

15:30

dedication to Imyx's eradication. Right on. So

15:33

O'Hoyra counts Dagon, a demon lord who

15:36

resides on the 89th layer of the

15:38

Abyss, one of her greatest allies. The

15:40

homie Dagon, Fistbump to the homie. Fistbump

15:42

to the homie. Rumors hold that the

15:44

two are lovers and might have sired

15:46

twin daughters. Do I hear Daddy Dagon?

15:48

Yeah. Is that a Daddy Dagon? Deep

15:50

Daddy. Deep Daddy Dagon. Whoa.

15:55

I can't keep making those jokes. Deep

15:57

within O'Hoyra's coral fortress lurks the trio

15:59

of see Hags called the Blue Coven.

16:01

Okay. Although they once

16:03

unsuccessfully attempted to control O'Hydra, she respected

16:06

their tenacity and accepted them as loyal

16:08

worshippers instead of destroying them like you

16:10

would kind of expect her to do.

16:13

The Coven long ago merged into a single

16:15

entity with three distinct bodies, granting it magical

16:17

power and access to dark secrets known only

16:19

to it. And that's really all I have

16:21

on the Blue Coven. Oh,

16:24

okay. One entity used to be three see

16:26

Hags, super devoted to O'Hydra.

16:28

Dude, Hags are strong. They

16:30

get randomly up to some nasty, nasty stuff. They

16:32

are. They are indeed nasty.

16:34

They're the harbingers of incursions and all kinds of stuff.

16:36

Yeah. They get up

16:39

to dirty work for sure. And

16:41

then there's this thing called the Coral Throne.

16:43

So we've talked about genies. There's

16:47

four of the basic types. And in the

16:49

plane of water, the water genies of the merits. Normally

16:53

there is a localized central

16:55

power structure of merits with

16:59

the top merit, the Grand Sultan maybe

17:01

of the merits. I couldn't find more

17:03

information on this. There's a

17:05

little conjecture here. But it called the

17:07

Coral Throne. And apparently

17:10

the Coral Throne traditionally pays lip

17:12

service to O'Hydra, but the

17:14

chaotic nature of the merits and the frequent

17:16

turnover in their leadership make them unreliable allies

17:19

at best. All right. But

17:21

basically from the DM standpoint, it's like you

17:23

could totally have the merits team up with

17:25

O'Hydra or vice versa. You could totally have

17:27

the merits betray O'Hydra and now it's a

17:29

civil war. Fun stuff

17:32

to work with. But yeah, merits

17:34

are naturally chaotic neutral. So yeah, I

17:36

could see them being unreliable. O'Hydra,

17:39

the Princess of Water Evil, lives in the

17:41

ruins of a castle made of black coral

17:43

submerged in a great indigo canyon on the

17:46

elemental plane of water. An

17:48

army of evil water elementals and lesser water

17:50

weirds keeps a faithful watch over her Grand

17:52

Citadel, which they claim was once the capital

17:54

of a great undersea empire conquered ages ago.

17:57

Okay, that's fucking cool. It's pretty neat. Of

18:00

all the princes of elemental evil, O'Hydra

18:03

is the most interested in mortals. She

18:06

recognizes pirates and seafaring raiders as her

18:08

agents, whether they know it or not,

18:11

because they red in the water with blood and

18:13

occasionally drop treasure into her clutches. She

18:15

sometimes spares the very worst of them knowing that

18:17

they will deliver others to her. Oh,

18:20

some lucky pirates are actually just

18:22

like, not knowing agents of O'Hydra. Yeah,

18:24

they might be favored of O'Hydra and not know

18:26

it, or know it, you know, one way or

18:28

another. O'Hydra has

18:31

the largest cult amongst the Archimentals, and

18:33

it's no secret that she wishes to

18:35

ascend to true divinity. The

18:37

large diversity of sea life on

18:39

the material plane helps to ensure

18:41

the surplus of worshippers, and she

18:44

counts Sahagans, Grags, Sea

18:46

Hags, Kraken, Sea Wolves, Eyes

18:48

of the Deep, and

18:51

many other sea creatures among her faithful. Because

18:54

of her cult size, she's closer

18:56

to becoming a deity than the

18:58

other evil Archimentals. She

19:00

commands legions of evil water elementals, water

19:02

grooves, water methods, callers from the deep,

19:04

and as well as a renegade sect

19:06

of Hezrau demons that she lured away

19:08

from D. McGorgon. Shout out to D.

19:10

McGorgon. Shout out to D. McGorgon. That

19:13

is unfortunate. D. McGorgon's not gonna like

19:15

that. No, but Dagan might

19:17

be like, yo bro, she's my girlfriend though, let it

19:19

slide. That's true. Like, hey look. We

19:21

have kids, dude, turn your four eyes

19:23

away on this instance for

19:26

she is deep like me. Indeed,

19:28

yeah. We can all be homies. She's my

19:30

girlfriend. She's my girlfriend, bro. I

19:32

can see D. McGorgon be like, yeah, whatever, fight.

19:34

I don't know, I'll just make some more. I'll

19:36

just make some more. The demon lords don't make,

19:39

I guess they could make demons? They can raise them.

19:41

They can raise them up from lesser stuff, but yeah,

19:43

they don't. The Abyss makes demons.

19:45

Spontaneously generated. And then the Abyss, each

19:48

layer makes, do they come from like the

19:50

depths of the Abyss, or do they come from

19:52

each layer as the chief? Each layer should be

19:55

capable of... Should have some demons. Yes,

19:57

so my Understanding is they can

19:59

both... If regenerate and they also.

20:02

Can be formed from the souls of

20:04

those who and a few the chaotic evil.

20:07

So yeah and it on the pier

20:09

set up the other some gateway between

20:11

the Eighty Nine, Flair and. The.

20:13

Elemental plane of water from what I'm understanding

20:15

from this so there could be the could

20:17

just be demons rampant in the ocean. I

20:19

think yeah there has to be some sort

20:21

of traverse will lead the and honestly the

20:23

surprising as the plane a fire has a

20:26

lot of portals to them and house. Yeah

20:28

so okay said the the plain water probably

20:30

has a lot a portal whether they are

20:32

created by a hydra on purpose or maybe

20:34

they naturally help me. Either way to the

20:36

shy the nova bomb about exactly okay. So

20:39

yeah, Absolutely So now we jump over

20:41

to Fourth Edition More for a Hydra? Neat.

20:43

Ah, mostly because it's tied in with for

20:45

each version of the elemental chaos in the

20:47

for it down pantheon okay arm. And because

20:49

we can have to keep those things in

20:52

mind. We. Will just

20:54

the on. This is just fourth edition more.

20:56

Ah so your favorite, your the top mostly.

20:58

usually your favorite food dude you can talk

21:00

a lot of shit about for you really

21:02

can't and like all even admit that there

21:04

are many flaws and for you. but for

21:06

a lower rocks and I'll carry us as

21:08

it's literally my favorite Dd setting. His fourth

21:10

edition I trust year as well as a

21:12

person that doesn't the in the Lore show.

21:14

Thank you for Easy as the Open Since

21:16

the dawn of time, the Princes of Elemental

21:19

Evil have roll over the swirling chaos of

21:21

creation when the gods were young. The Prince's.

21:23

Expanded the power to the rock far reaches

21:25

of the elemental chaos. Exile

21:27

to their forgotten keeps. After the Don

21:29

more these entities now seek to reclaim

21:32

their last at us through service to

21:34

the elder elemental I which is secretly

21:36

first him or though pirates and see

21:38

captains worship a number of different gods.

21:40

It is the name of a hydra

21:42

that they silently curse when violent cease

21:45

under their ships. Since the dawn of

21:47

time the princess development waters commanded the

21:49

seeds of the elemental chaos and until

21:51

my Laura she is a the for

21:53

ease premier like nature goddess okay both

21:55

of see and of land. Okay,

21:58

I'll nature or nurture all. The

22:00

time ago Armillaria claimed her sphere of

22:02

influence or hydra was the lurking thread

22:04

that within the world's oceans. Like the

22:06

other princes of elemental evil or Hydra

22:08

seeks to unleash the limitless power of

22:10

the elder elemental I For a Hydra

22:12

the strive for powers of thirst the

22:15

she cannot quench since the end of

22:17

the Dawn war or Hydra has remained

22:19

banished to her coral keep which my

22:21

lord cast down into a wide chasm

22:23

in a in a black sea in

22:25

the elemental chaos or hodges agent seek

22:27

a way to release her from are

22:29

sealed chambers. A wide variety of

22:31

element obese and habits the area that

22:34

inside and outside or Hydra keep including

22:36

a crack in the patrol the outlying

22:38

waters, listening to hide your song and

22:40

devouring any interloper to come to near

22:42

the fortress as walls arm or Hydra

22:45

is a princess of elements water who

22:47

force is. Who's forces tears ships

22:49

apart in the seas, smash mountains down

22:51

into dust and drown any who would

22:53

dare claim dominion over the oceans for

22:55

her. Keep in the deepest reaches of

22:57

the element to chaos, she can answer

22:59

services, seek the power of the elder

23:01

elemental I or hi just command over

23:03

water, sir. Well, in combat, she's able

23:05

to engulf and drown her enemies in

23:07

a swirling mass. The area around her

23:09

is as violent as a stormy sea,

23:11

knocking attackers to the ground or indomitable

23:13

will makes are difficult to control and

23:15

combat. as with her elemental servants, magical

23:17

cold can. Freeze her body and make a

23:20

brittle to follow blows. If she's badly wounded,

23:22

she goes berserk, rampaging across the battlefield to

23:24

slay her enemies. That seems like your best

23:26

bet. I mean like how do you fight

23:29

water? everything? It seems like a good a

23:31

good way to go about it. By the

23:33

way, Ah, a fourth edition or Hydra is

23:35

a leveled like thirty three solo creature. Oh

23:37

Sharm because that game go there to level

23:40

thirty. I I'm I believe and we're going

23:42

to readers.block later. But I believe the version

23:44

We have an ear like challenge reading sixteen

23:46

or eighteen years that like that. Okay,

23:49

so I'll I'll be pulling up after yeah what?

23:51

will Take a look what I am I distinctly

23:53

remember the for each version of her seeming like

23:55

whoa, powerful can be at thirty three. I mean

23:57

cause them. A Level twenty one

23:59

through three the is superhero. yeah you're

24:01

basically to a huge are a demigod

24:03

I believe. so like the way it

24:06

works is in fourth edition is you.

24:08

You have heroic here which is one

24:10

to ten which is like you know

24:12

normal stuff normal the high level fancy

24:14

stuff arm and then you get into

24:16

Paragon Tier reaches a Paragon passes like

24:18

a specialty. Like you're not just a

24:20

ranger, your sylvan archer. you know, just

24:22

a fighter. You're a bleed master. you

24:24

know yet? whatever that is. And then

24:27

at Level Twenty one you didn't epic

24:29

and you have. What are called you

24:31

Ever destinies? And all the epic destinies

24:33

are demi god level shit. There's literally

24:35

one called demi God. Seem to be

24:37

a demigod? Yeah, odd years show. Then

24:40

there's Arts Fe. There's Arch Devil. There's

24:42

arts major lot, arches by like. All.

24:45

High High High level stuff and that's as

24:47

becomes very. Characters are not only Eurofighter Blade

24:49

Master but you're also chosen of a Laura.

24:51

Sure Yeah yeah though we've actually done this

24:53

particular bit on the show both have we?

24:55

okay yeah sorry I'm I'm calling upon it

24:57

but my memory have it is so vague

24:59

the I have the required that explanations are

25:02

yeah Level thirty three years it in your

25:04

expected to be a demi god level power.

25:06

In. Order to fight her right Oh hide

25:08

your fights with the violence of the

25:11

stormy seas those the confront her head

25:13

honor quickly engulfed in begin to drown

25:15

on your can call ranged opponents to

25:17

her where she my engulf and drown

25:19

them as well or hydra is a

25:21

master of her element transforming her water

25:23

for me to highly corrosive salt water.

25:25

U E S arm are just followers

25:27

are not organized the way other courts

25:30

religions are on. This is where for

25:32

a deviates from everything we talked about

25:34

before about her like super organize cult

25:36

right. yeah only scarred pirates and workers

25:38

of the disease dare call upon her

25:40

they know that her wrath seats followers

25:42

and unbelievers the like our cultural hydro

25:44

find their homes in the wreckage of

25:47

shoreline fourth the flooded sellers of coastal

25:49

cities and in seaside grottoes a followers

25:51

are all hide your know of her

25:53

thirst for the power to gain in

25:55

the elder elemental i she passes thirst

25:57

onto her most devout followers So

26:00

she's less of a... like

26:03

in 4E, she's not trying to become a

26:05

god and she's nowhere near becoming a god.

26:07

She's just very much a primordial. Yeah, okay.

26:09

And that is what she is.

26:13

Um, unsavory seafarers whisper O'Hydra's name and

26:15

carry her totems under their sea-stained shirts.

26:18

Her followers know she is not one to listen

26:20

to their prayers. She devours whatever and whoever she

26:23

wants to, loyal or not. Yet

26:25

these sea dogs cannot help but admire her

26:27

power. Her most devoted followers take vengeance on

26:29

the gods and their followers and seek to

26:32

clinch their mistress' thirst for power by releasing

26:34

the elder elemental eye.

26:37

Followers of O'Hydra give their enemies over to

26:39

the elemental princess by drowning them in sea

26:41

water. The more powerful these victims

26:44

are, then brought back to life

26:46

to serve... Yeah,

26:48

the more powerful of these victims are then

26:50

brought back to life to serve the elemental

26:52

princess as her knights. So in 4th edition

26:55

she has like a knighthood. Okay. And

26:57

that's probably the most organized faction for

26:59

her. I know, a knighthood sounds so

27:01

like clean and fun and creepy. I

27:03

know, yeah. But this is probably just

27:05

some fucking pirates. Yeah, it's just... Probably.

27:08

Well it's like, the way I see it is it's

27:10

like they're like revenant. They're like

27:12

um, they're like Davy Jones dudes. That's

27:14

literally what they are. They're Davy Jones

27:17

dudes. It's required you have, I

27:19

like the flavor in the second to last

27:21

paragraph here, sea-stained shirts, salty sea dogs. They're

27:23

literally just like, you know,

27:25

they could probably drink ocean water and it's probably

27:27

fine. Yeah, probably. For them. For

27:30

them. Yeah. Don't you try

27:32

it yourself. They just cry out the constant dysentery. So

27:34

that's the end of the 4E, like the 4E specific

27:37

part. I only have one

27:39

final fun, archamental fact left. Ohydra

27:42

Imiks, Yancee Bin, who is the

27:44

evil elemental guy of air, and

27:46

Ogrimosh, which is the archamental of

27:48

evil earth, once pursued a legendary

27:51

artifact known as the egg of

27:53

the Phoenix. This black onyx

27:55

egg shaped object increases the user's

27:57

magical prowess and expands Inside.

28:00

In power as the user discovered how to

28:02

open a further. all of the argument with

28:04

of long coveted the egg and ones made

28:06

a desperate bid to capture it but they

28:08

were thwarted by a cure in aided by

28:10

champions from the material plane. Goddamn adventurer I

28:12

know right or hide. your still actually hunt

28:15

for the egg both to keep it from

28:17

a makes and to use that against him.

28:19

Sure why not is anybody are the others

28:21

about it? I don't remember that and my

28:23

amex i mean that I was there came

28:25

up in all I just stuff so I

28:27

think I think them there was probably a.

28:30

Time where they were all in on it

28:32

and now everyone doesn't care about x abroad

28:34

out several. It'll kind of okay. well that's

28:36

cool. I'll be a hope that would be

28:38

fun for a hydra you know. Obama

28:41

Hygiene. I read it

28:43

sounds go that far to say I hope she

28:45

succeeds I just feel like that some fun like

28:47

I'm glad you get the keep the side quest

28:49

Go yeah see that's the hope of the feeling

28:51

saying lives You think that be the least. Likely.

28:55

One two year old to idea of us

28:57

out when I think that's maybe why she's

28:59

fix. she's like ours Fire like a makes

29:01

I gotta keep of from you know his

29:03

appeal. I got images row like bro Marty

29:05

fire on yeah I know right I if

29:07

I if I just capture it and drown

29:10

it in my infinity the be like I

29:12

did round image themselves. Yeah there we go.

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35:19

O'Hydra. So we're gonna go over her stat block. But

35:22

I'm also looking at this 5th edition official

35:25

artwork of O'Hydra. And

35:28

I gotta say, she's probably like 30 feet tall

35:31

here. She looks not 20. She

35:33

looks fucking tubular. She looks very tubular. There's a

35:35

lot of tubes. Yeah,

35:37

man. Like five people could be surfing in

35:40

five different directions on her right now. Hella

35:42

cresting. There's a guy who's trying to surf in

35:44

her down there. You see him? Oh, and

35:46

he's bodyboarding. He's bodyboarding. He's not doing good.

35:48

No, he's doing terrible. Oh, no, the rocks.

35:50

I just noticed the rocks. There are rocks.

35:52

He's about to be pushed upon the rocky

35:54

shores. Indeed, indeed he is. Damn. O'Hydra

35:57

is reliant on the rocky shores.

36:00

Some earth involved here. Yes indeed although

36:02

she'll never admit it. Let's go over

36:04

stats. Yeah So we

36:06

got a huge elemental of neutral evil armor

36:08

class of 18 natty Head

36:11

points are 324 24 d12 plus 168 chunk speed is 50 feet of Like

36:19

I guess all swimming speed bid there's

36:21

there's 50 feet of land

36:23

movement of land The

36:25

swim speed is a hundred feet. Yes, which is

36:27

a lot which is a lot and should be

36:29

a lot Should be but I think it should

36:32

just be infinity. No, she's got six seconds to

36:34

get to a place. That's true So I'm

36:36

not all water. I think a hundred's good. I think

36:38

I just good and I think 50 on lands good

36:41

I'm happy with the speeds personally is all hydro the

36:43

same Exact molecules of water

36:45

all the time. Great question changing. I I

36:47

think they change out personally. Yeah, they're leaving

36:49

that Merc behind. Yeah their way Sure.

36:52

Well, I just constantly shitting she Yeah,

36:56

absolutely or peeing or whatever it is.

36:58

They do extra extra mente. She's excreting

37:01

Much to try to saving throws strength

37:03

plus 11 Constitution plus 13 and wisdom

37:05

plus 10 We have damages

37:07

damage resistances for lightning bludgeoning piercing and

37:10

slashing from non magical attacks. Why lightning?

37:12

Okay, so well because the idea here

37:14

is that like this is before Pokemon.

37:17

She conducts. She conducts the lightning.

37:19

It doesn't hurt her. Oh Just

37:21

passes through the glass airbender. Yes,

37:23

and I think I don't

37:26

know if she has a grab attack But the way I

37:28

rule is if someone's grappled by her and you hit her

37:30

with lightning It's gonna hurt anybody

37:32

touching the water is what I would rule. That's

37:34

tasty. Um So so

37:36

forgive me here on this one But I

37:38

really feel strongly that bludgeoning piercing and slashing

37:40

damage whether it's magical or not should be

37:42

resisted because she made a fucking water I

37:45

don't know man. Have you ever splashed someone in the

37:47

pool? That shit just goes Yeah,

37:50

I just mean if you

37:52

slash her I don't care if it's with Excalibur You're

37:54

just you're gonna take a chunk of

37:56

water off her. She's she's gonna be fine. Like

37:58

I don't know she's on water she's

38:01

all water yeah I

38:03

don't know I don't know that's you're

38:05

in the weeds here damage immunity is

38:07

acid cold and poison that's right but

38:09

that makes sense yeah it does this

38:12

time it usually does actually that's the

38:15

problem my poison is so weak it's

38:17

so strong until it's not yeah it

38:19

makes combat so long condition immunity is

38:21

charmed to frighten paralyzed petrified poison prone

38:23

and restrained damn can

38:25

you imagine somebody restraining this you need a big you

38:27

need a big ol bucket the

38:29

big a pool okay we'll get in my pool guys

38:32

hold on hold on what did we're gonna tangent and

38:34

I don't care if you cut it or not but

38:36

please don't cut it there is an anime on Netflix

38:38

called delicious and dungeon and I tried to tell you

38:40

about this on alien beer but have you heard of

38:42

this oh no well

38:44

I guess yes I have okay by by

38:47

what you just told me okay it's basic

38:49

I'm not gonna get into the details but

38:51

essentially there's these people trying to get deep

38:53

into this mega dungeon and they

38:55

can't afford food so they start cooking the monsters

38:58

and oh but it treats when they cook the

39:00

monsters it's like a straight-up like slice

39:02

of life like really relaxing like and then

39:04

we do this we skin this and mobile

39:06

and it looks delicious though and the show's

39:08

great the show is very good I'm just

39:10

gonna say that but in the latest episode

39:13

yeah I was literally the latest episode

39:15

they trapped a fucking powerful water elemental

39:17

between two adamantine pots and

39:19

boiled that sucker down hey you could do

39:22

that to Hydra I'm scared of making a

39:24

steam demon you know what I mean well

39:26

and then they made a soup out of

39:28

it and they show

39:30

sounds wild show is incredible dude we got

39:32

blindside of 120 feet passive perception of 14

39:34

she speak awkward

39:38

she only speaks awkward I find that interesting yeah

39:40

we do that like why don't they all speak

39:42

primordial I don't know well if it's for you

39:45

she'd definitely speak primordial but but she only speaks

39:47

awkward which means you can't talk to you can't

39:49

have a conversation with her unless you happen to

39:51

know awkward right yeah challenge

39:53

rating is 18 20k I can you

39:56

know what the languages thing new sub 20 back to

39:58

the languages thing yeah an argument

40:00

for just her

40:03

knowing Awkwen and only Awkwen because

40:05

she's the body. She is water,

40:07

yeah absolutely. I get it. I

40:10

see it. A challenge rating

40:12

1820k exp. We got plus six to

40:14

proficiency bonus and now for the actiony

40:17

stuff. Empowered attacks. Ohydrus slam attacks are

40:20

treated as magical for the purpose of

40:22

bypassing resistance and immunity to non magical

40:24

weapons. That's fair. Innate spell

40:26

casting. Ohydrus innate spell casting ability

40:29

is Charysma spell save DC 20

40:31

plus 12 to hit with spell

40:33

attacks. She can innately cast

40:35

the following spells requiring no material components at

40:37

will. Wall of ice. That's a good one.

40:39

I think that's like a level 5 spell. Yes.

40:43

Three times a day ice storm.

40:45

One time a day storm of vengeance which I don't

40:48

know these spells off the top of my head but

40:50

they sound strong as shit. Yeah I don't know. I

40:52

do the spells off the top of my head but

40:54

I think they're very high level. She's getting the legendary

40:56

resistance three times a day if Ohydrus fails to saving

40:59

throw she can do this. Wall of ice is a

41:01

sixth level evocation spot. She can cast that at will.

41:03

So that's pretty cool. Yeah I'm sure

41:05

it's just a big ol wall of ice that does

41:07

crazy damage to people. Yeah that's what I'm saying. So

41:09

she can control the battlefield. That's fun. Yeah. Being

41:11

able to just control the battlefield on that

41:13

level is nice. Magic

41:16

resistance. Ohydrus

41:18

has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical

41:20

effects. Water form. Ohydrus can

41:22

enter a hostile creature space and stop

41:24

there. She can move through a space

41:26

as narrow as one inch wide without

41:28

squeezing. Imagine where she can

41:30

go if she squeezes. Okay so she can

41:32

stop there and so a lot

41:35

of these features that allow a monster

41:37

to move into a hostile creature space and

41:40

stop there usually say but they take damage

41:42

for doing so. Not in her case. Now

41:45

it would be really cool if she has

41:47

something and it remains to be

41:49

seen because we haven't finished the stab lock. But if

41:51

she has something special she can do it. If she's

41:54

in someone's space you know. Yeah. I mean they should

41:56

be drowning in there if she is. There are rules

41:58

for drowning so I think you just enter. rules

42:00

for drowning in that. Well you should but there's nothing written

42:02

here that says you do but that's what I would do.

42:05

A creature can hold its breath for a number

42:07

of minutes equal to one plus its constitution modifier for

42:10

a minimum of 30 seconds. I think it should be

42:12

less than that because holding

42:14

your breath for one minute it

42:17

can be really difficult for your average person so

42:20

I don't think it should be a minimum of one plus

42:22

I think it should be just a total of

42:25

minutes equal to your con mod or whatever. Well

42:27

this is the PHP yeah I believe so I

42:29

think the PHP is wrong. When

42:31

a creature runs out of breath or it is

42:33

choking it can survive for a number of rounds

42:35

equal to its con mod minimum of one round

42:38

at the start of its next turn it drops

42:40

to zero HP and is dying and it can't

42:42

regain hit points or be stabilized

42:44

until it can breathe again. So it's

42:46

your dying plus. Okay but that's still a

42:48

lot of wiggle room like minutes number one

42:50

or a long time in combat and then

42:52

plus four rounds of combat or yeah two

42:54

or three or whatever. Yeah I mean the

42:57

con is good. Let's get into the actions.

43:01

Yeah multi-attack. O'hydra makes two slam attacks or

43:03

two water jet attacks that sounds fun can't

43:05

wait for that. Slam melee

43:07

weapon attack plus 11 to hit reach of 10

43:10

feet. One target hit

43:12

for 21 or 3d10 plus

43:14

5 bludgeoning damage and the target

43:16

is grappled escape DC 19. O'hydra

43:19

can grapple up to four targets. When O'hydra

43:21

moves all creatures she is grappling move with

43:23

her. That's fun. Water

43:26

jet is a ranged weapon attack plus 12

43:28

to hit range of 120 feet on one target

43:31

it's gonna hit for 21 or 66 bludgeoning

43:33

damage and the target is knocked prone if

43:36

it fails a DC 19 strength

43:38

saving throw. Also pretty nice. And

43:40

then I remember I'mix did this as well but summon

43:42

elementals one per day once

43:45

per day. O'hydra summons up to three

43:47

water elementals and loses 30 HP for

43:50

each elemental she summons. I

43:53

don't like that. I know yeah it's situationally good.

43:55

We do this in that conversation. Yeah situationally good.

43:57

Summoned elementals have

43:59

max from HP appear within 100 feet

44:01

of a Hydra and disappear if all

44:03

Hydra is reduced to zero HP She's

44:07

the queen of water elementals

44:09

She's basically Besides whatever few

44:11

gods live there the most powerful entity on

44:13

that plane and you're telling me she can't

44:15

just summon some water Elementals she has to

44:18

take chunks of her own body to make

44:20

these bullshit Yeah,

44:23

oh, well we the the thing the

44:26

things that swayed you in the image

44:28

episode I believe were this

44:30

this thing is outside of their like main

44:32

area of play I guess it would have

44:34

to be that like and like if you're

44:37

gonna have her in her lair or or

44:39

or in her Domain and there should just

44:41

be water elementals. She doesn't need to summon

44:43

them. Yeah, and that's true You kind of

44:45

need a cap on that at some at

44:48

some level, but not 30

44:50

HP and that's in this scenario also

44:53

What's way to you was that the HP

44:55

output for these water elementals was much higher

44:57

than the 30 they had like I'd say

44:59

that does help me feel better. But like

45:01

having ran Players

45:04

at like level 12 and above there's your 24

45:06

HP ain't shit Yeah, you guys will chew through

45:08

that in two rounds if I don't do something

45:10

about it. Yeah. Yeah, I think you should have

45:13

You know depending on the circumstances and

45:15

if this is your combat that those

45:17

water elementals should start there and to

45:20

have more Sort of

45:22

like what if all Hydra decides it's time

45:24

to flee then let me summon some water

45:26

elementals to go eat up Action.

45:28

Yeah, that's a good that way. That's

45:30

a good usage. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely legendary

45:32

actions Oh Hydra can take three of

45:34

those choosing from the options below You

45:37

know, I Guess

45:40

I'll just it's good to go over this just

45:42

as a refresher for people every time So yeah

45:44

only one legendary action option can be used at

45:46

a time and only at the end of another

45:48

creatures turn Oh, hi, Joe regain spent legendary actions

45:50

at the start of return crush One

45:52

creature that all Hydra is grappling is crushed for

45:54

21 or 3d 10 plus 5

45:56

bludgeoning damage that you gotta have

45:59

this the language Crush that's a

46:01

very surfer. It is I just watched Finding

46:04

me with her kids. Mr. Turtle was my dad.

46:06

You can call me crush. Oh my god Fling

46:09

costs to action to actions

46:11

all Hydra releases one creature She

46:13

is grappling by flinging the creature up to 60

46:16

feet away from her. That's horrifying That's yeah,

46:18

great in a direction of her choice Hopefully

46:20

if the flung creature comes into contact with

46:23

a solid surface such as a wall or

46:25

floor The creature takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage for

46:27

every 10 feet. It was flung which is

46:30

just normal fall damage Although you're not falling

46:32

here. Yeah, it's equivalent to fall damage. That's

46:34

so 66 bludge Mmm,

46:37

it's like I don't know having them grappled is

46:39

nice though, and you're giving that up 60 feet

46:42

far though You you might want

46:44

to fling somebody that you don't want grappled.

46:46

Yeah, and then they start doing it. They're

46:48

doing yeah Yeah, it's like okay. Never mind.

46:50

You're over there. Yeah although

46:53

having the I Guess

46:55

like shocking grasp is a really cool cantrip I

46:57

like to take a lot and it'll give you

46:59

like the ability to escape somebody, you know, they

47:01

can't take reactions That's

47:04

not really gonna do anything here. They're gonna

47:06

resist the lightning. So yeah I mean, there's

47:08

probably plenty of other things you can do

47:10

while you're being grappled that are annoying for

47:12

the grappler Water to acid

47:15

costs all three actions all Hydra transforms her

47:17

watery body into acid This effect lasts until

47:19

all hydras next turn any creature that comes

47:21

into contact with all Hydra or hits her

47:24

With a melee attack while standing within five

47:26

feet of her takes 11 or

47:28

2d 10 acid damage any creature

47:30

grappled by all Hydra takes 22 or 40 10

47:33

acid damage. Okay, this is a super move

47:35

you're aiming for you're trying to grapple four

47:37

of your party members Yeah, and

47:39

then turn her into an acid blob. It's pretty fucking

47:41

cool Kind of like it. It's very close to being an

47:43

ooze and you know how Phil about oozes I we

47:45

like oozes on this show you like the

47:48

elements dragons oozes. Yep. Yep. Yep.

47:50

I like dwarves I

47:53

also like more Elves

47:55

I'm a big elf guy. Yeah, I don't care

47:57

if it's cliche elves rock. Are we doing layers?

47:59

We're doing layers, let's do it. Ojeda

48:03

is native to the elemental plane of water

48:05

obviously. She can

48:07

be found there in the black depths of

48:09

vast seas or enthroned among jagged

48:11

reefs. Ojeda waits for the chance to enter

48:14

the material plane through elemental water nodes. I

48:16

almost thought that said noodles. She

48:20

can encroach through your cup of noodle. Ojeda

48:23

is Italian, she likes to go through

48:25

your noodle tubes into your house. Or

48:29

when called by the proper rituals. Whether

48:31

she is in her elemental domain or

48:33

temporarily occupying a water node, all

48:35

Hydra commands

48:39

the waters around her and she can

48:41

shape them to her will. Layer actions,

48:43

all Hydra can command the waters around

48:45

herself to take layer actions on the

48:47

elemental plane of water or any elemental

48:49

water node such as the plunging torrents

48:51

described in chapter 5. On

48:57

initiative count of 20, losing initiative ties,

48:59

all Hydra uses her layer action to cause one

49:01

of the falling effects. Pools of

49:03

water in the layer surge outward in a

49:05

grasping tide. Any creature within 20 feet of

49:07

the pool must succeed on a DC 20

49:09

strength saving throw or be pulled up to

49:11

20 feet into the water and knocked prone.

49:14

Water within 120 feet of all Hydra becomes murky

49:16

and opaque until initiative count 20 of

49:19

the next round. A creature with dark

49:21

vision can't see through the water and

49:23

light can't illuminate it. So she literally

49:25

is stinkifying the water she passes through.

49:28

She be shitting. A

49:30

freezing fog fills a 40 foot radius sphere within 120

49:32

feet of all Hydra lasting until initiative

49:36

count 20 of the next round. Creatures

49:38

and objects within or beyond the fog are

49:40

heavily obscured. A creature that enters the

49:43

freezing cloud for the first time on a turn or

49:45

starts its turn there takes 10 or 36 cold

49:48

damage. And then we have

49:50

the regional effects so if you get in close, get

49:52

ready. All Hydra's presence in

49:54

an elemental node creates a number of

49:56

widespread effects, bad weather, strong tides and

49:58

increasing aggression from danger. dangerous sea life.

50:01

Violent downpours become frequent within 10 miles of the

50:04

layer. I forgot earlier in the episode to ask

50:06

more about rain. That's

50:08

scary. A downpour

50:11

occurs once every 2d12 hours and lasts

50:13

1d3 hours. Downpours

50:17

are so heavy that creatures moving over land

50:19

travel at half normal speed. Within

50:21

5 miles of the layer, currents and

50:24

tides are exceptionally strong and treasuous and

50:26

ability checks made to safely navigate or

50:28

control a vessel moving through

50:30

these waters has disadvantage. Aquatic

50:33

creatures that have an intelligent score of 2 or

50:35

lower within 1 mile of the layer must succeed

50:37

on a DC15 wisdom saving throw. When

50:39

they enter the area, if the saving

50:41

throw succeeds, the creature is frightened and

50:44

attempts to leave the area, remaining frightened

50:46

while within it. On

50:49

a failure, the creature becomes highly aggressive and remains in

50:51

the area for 24 hours. Holy

50:54

shit. In the law in this state,

50:56

the creature gains advantage on saving throws

50:58

against charm and fear effects. That's a

51:00

lot of nasty fish bro. Indeed. Natural

51:03

springs and mermaids. The minnows. I guess there's no effect

51:05

on mermaids. No, no, they have

51:07

higher intelligence than two so they're safe from this effect.

51:09

Yeah, so it's mostly like fish. It's mostly fish and

51:12

there's a lot of fish in the sea. There's a

51:14

lot of fish. Some of them have sharp teeth. Some

51:16

of them can bite through fucking rocks and coral. Natural

51:19

springs and pools within 1 mile of the layer

51:22

form intermittent pools, intermittent portals

51:24

to the elemental plane of

51:26

water, allowing elemental creatures into

51:28

the mortal world to dwell

51:30

near those points. Okay, that's

51:32

fun stuff. That's kind of fucked up. Here comes a Kraken.

51:35

I guess. That's a big

51:37

old pool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

51:40

Crackens are like the fucking bishops of,

51:42

they're like the harbingers and priests of

51:44

fucking bad shit in the ocean. Bad

51:46

water shit. Yeah. Everyone's got a

51:48

fucking Hydra. Or not a Hydra. Everyone's got

51:51

a fucking Kraken bro. Yeah. Multiple.

51:53

That's like every domain in your evil, like get yourself a Kraken bro,

51:55

what are you doing? At least a couple. At

51:58

least a couple. At least a couple. Cracking

52:00

some you imagine I can

52:02

I'm doing it Do

52:06

I need to read the rest no the rest is just lore.

52:08

Oh, yeah Did that fire? So

52:11

that's all Hydra. I don't remember the image stat

52:13

block But I don't remember feeling as impressed as

52:16

I do with the Oh Hydra step block I'm

52:18

a little bit more impressed here. I think so

52:20

too. It's a little better. Yeah, I like the

52:22

range of attack is fucking sick Yeah, I do

52:25

find it interesting that all Hydra can make two

52:27

slam attacks or two water jet attacks Why can't

52:29

she do one of each? Hmm? Hmm.

52:32

Why not? I mean, it's your game. Yeah Is

52:34

all Hydra legend legacy content now? I

52:37

see this super Probably because yeah. Yeah,

52:39

we got this L here right non-canned

52:41

half of almost everything You know, yeah,

52:43

fivey ever produced his legacy content now.

52:45

I know so weird Yeah, I saw

52:48

them talking about in the discord. It's

52:50

like yeah half of its legacy content.

52:52

Yeah I thought a meme that

52:54

was like hey, they missed something sus, you know,

52:56

how they're the the hados e and all that

52:58

shit They like sure rewrite that stuff. That's not

53:00

legacy content yet. I know but they tried to

53:03

walk it back Yeah, well, yeah, there was

53:05

something else that they missed they like overlooked it

53:07

because it was like ass Like

53:09

wasn't very good. I wish I remembered with that

53:11

before I brought it up I'm saying if all

53:13

hydras in monsters of the multiverse

53:16

and she is not so you your main

53:18

legacy content Yeah, the what's the module they're

53:20

all from? Developmental

53:22

evil or whatever it is of the apocalypse of the

53:24

apocalypse. Yeah. Yeah Yeah,

53:27

well that's what we got for all

53:29

Hydra. Yeah stat block that's the lair

53:31

and regional effects Yeah, thoughts about her

53:33

in general. I don't know I'm more

53:35

on stuck on like I like the

53:37

regional effects for dragons better especially the

53:40

later the you know Yeah, the dragon stuff. Oh,

53:42

yeah, that stuff was I remember reading that shit

53:44

and be like wow, this is tasty

53:46

Yeah, this vans is a very tasty. Yeah all

53:49

the ocean stuff seems to recycle itself Like I

53:51

was kind of getting that that with the crack

53:53

ends and like, you know There's there

53:55

is the ocean water stuff and there you

53:57

have it. Yeah, I believe and like All

54:00

that stuff. I mean there's a lot of

54:02

it, but yeah, just generally they've all got

54:04

it all they have all got it all

54:06

right For the it's attached. It's attached. No,

54:08

that's the McGaughan right? Yeah, I would dig

54:11

into okay They're there. They're fucking married as

54:13

far as I'm concerned. Yeah. All right. Let's

54:15

take a long rest, okay Hey everybody

54:27

welcome to the long rest like I mentioned at the

54:29

short rest if you guys were there and paying attention

54:32

We're gonna start doing the long rest a little

54:34

different. We're gonna do Kind

54:37

of reserve it for more like the fan

54:39

interaction stuff. So today I'm gonna start with

54:42

some Fanmail because I went

54:44

to the PO box after you know A little bit of

54:46

time went by because I wasn't really getting a lot of

54:48

stuff there and then there was

54:50

a lot And we're in March now. So a

54:52

lot of this stuff is from February January. Okay,

54:54

I don't think there's a lot from December Okay,

54:57

that's we're not we didn't miss too much. No,

54:59

no, no, not too much You

55:02

know, I'd gone in December and then I

55:04

think I'd gone early January too But I

55:06

went in February end of February and I was

55:08

like, oh shoot. I should I should more regularly come

55:10

here I forgot that somebody told me that I can

55:12

set up PO box alerts when we get something and

55:15

I forgot to do that Hopefully

55:17

I'll remember this week. We got a lot going on So

55:21

I want to read these postcards first

55:23

we've got two postcards The

55:26

first one that I happen to have in my hand

55:28

Not that it was the first one that came in

55:30

is from the mammoth cave national park It's

55:33

got a picture of what I assume is

55:35

the mammoth cave national the mammoth cave. Yeah,

55:37

it's very cave like yes The

55:40

mites the tights they're all there the mites

55:42

and tights Yeah, a lot of cool formations

55:44

and then there's somebody with a lantern cap.

55:47

Yeah, that's cool Yes, who sent it to

55:49

us? So this is from oh,

55:51

it was addressed to ill

55:54

Lee and beer

55:58

See how the dungeon cast. Oh, yeah You

56:00

know and then our PL box address, which is

56:03

one seven eight four upland, California nine one seven

56:05

eight five It's

56:07

in the notes in the notes of like all the recent episodes for

56:09

the last like two years Happy

56:11

Valentine's Day you two. Here's a postcard

56:14

from the under dark. Oh, yeah I

56:16

hope your quest for the pot of

56:18

potential pillage is going well. Thank

56:21

you for your hard work Matt Stinson. Thank you,

56:23

Matt I hope you didn't fart down there. Don't

56:25

you know you're not supposed to do that Also

56:28

will and this is handy to have this

56:30

card grants plus one on all saving throws

56:32

within the under dark. Oh nice Yeah,

56:34

let's keep that on hand. Yeah, man. I don't go

56:37

to the under dark get often and by often I

56:39

mean I've never been but the day I do I've

56:41

taken that with me I'm bringing a bunch of dryer

56:43

sheets. I'm loading my pants up with them So if

56:45

I do happen fart down there it is

56:48

phased out. They free share Okay

56:52

Let's see We

56:55

got another postcard from Who's

56:58

this Christian Christian

57:02

you wrote your your I think it's Barrera

57:06

Okay, but that's the last name

57:08

I've heard before it's been it was written

57:10

into like these let me see these Morse

57:12

code hashes It was it very much was

57:14

I would say Barrera is

57:17

the way to go Yeah, and I'm sorry if

57:19

we got it wrong Christian, but you did write

57:21

it amongst a bunch of hashtags I

57:24

don't know what that is We

57:26

really appreciate it. I I think this is

57:28

you on the front and like pictures of

57:32

You and all your family or friends

57:34

and stuff like there's people

57:36

dressed up and like there's a there's a picture

57:38

down here with The people with like giant d20s.

57:41

I think that's friggin cool and just all kinds

57:43

of stuff Yeah, so

57:45

the postcard from Christian. Thank you The

57:48

message seemed a little personal so we'll we'll keep that

57:50

off air, but we did read it So thank you

57:52

very much, and then I I

57:54

definitely went towards the end of December to

57:56

the PO box But we got a Christmas

57:58

card maybe even late It's yeah, I

58:00

think it must have because it says December 5th.

58:03

I definitely went like before Christmas.

58:05

Okay, but anyway Merry

58:08

Christmas is a front of it. We got a very

58:10

nice card. See will very fancy. Yeah the tree Will

58:14

and Brian Merry Christmas, I hope this card

58:17

finds you well congrats on wrapping up

58:19

the year of the artifact Whoo whoo, this

58:21

has been my first year with your podcast

58:23

and it has been great I'm

58:26

not really playing at the moment, but I'm trying

58:28

to keep up with the Pathfinder Remastered

58:30

news there are some big changes to

58:32

their home setting to get further away

58:34

from Wizards of the Coast. I Think

58:38

that's great. Yeah, absolutely Elements

58:40

did y'all get any cool gaming stuff

58:42

for Christmas? You should talk

58:45

about it on the podcast if you did. I'm

58:47

hoping for some minis to paint Thank

58:49

you for all your hard work Matt

58:52

Stinson the swords and stereo podcast. Oh

58:54

another podcaster That's a cool It's a

58:56

cool way to go about that The

58:59

card says the the flavor text on

59:01

the card your favorite traditions and happiest

59:03

memories the closeness of loved ones, too

59:06

A home bright with laughter a heart

59:08

filled with joy make Christmas time bring

59:11

these to you Very

59:13

nice. Fuck. Yeah, I'm a nice hallmark or

59:15

whoever wrote that. Thank you Matt Stinson Dean

59:17

American Greek American green I'm glad

59:20

I turned it over to check cuz it says PS Are

59:22

y'all going to Gen Con or Gary Con

59:24

in 2024? Those are great questions. No, no

59:27

No, mostly because I don't have any time

59:29

in my life to do anything has fucking

59:31

fire, bro Yeah, Wisconsin's crazy. I love to

59:34

start going to conventions, but I'm just damn

59:36

book is written. I don't know if I'm

59:38

going anywhere I'm sure Luke would have us

59:40

if we oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely, you know

59:43

As if for anyone that hasn't checked that

59:46

episode out we interview Luke Gygax the we

59:48

did puts on Gary Con Yes, yes, we

59:50

did in rural Wisconsin. Yeah, which is well.

59:52

I mean that's where where they left. Yeah

59:56

My wife's from so really I

59:58

thought she's from Wisconsin, Chicago Her other

1:00:00

her extended family is from Chicago. No shit.

1:00:02

Wow. She was born out here and then

1:00:04

in California and then they moved to Wisconsin

1:00:06

and she was there until she was like

1:00:09

nine. Okay. Yeah, she had some childhood out

1:00:11

there. My wife, Laura We

1:00:13

were wife, Laura. Well real quick to answer some of

1:00:15

the questions I don't think I

1:00:17

got anything gaming related for Christmas, but I

1:00:19

have got a lot of gaming gifts recently

1:00:21

I got a lot like two or three

1:00:23

dice sets from my fiance and

1:00:25

a couple really cool books The

1:00:28

random table books like random traps and

1:00:30

puzzles and stuff like that. Oh, that's cool. So

1:00:32

that that's answer your question there I saw that book

1:00:34

you're talking. I thought it target Oh, yeah And I

1:00:36

got I got a book made by the same

1:00:38

people that focus on traps and puzzles and it's

1:00:40

very good We should do we should really

1:00:43

want to do a traps and puzzles. I'm

1:00:45

down up is down down Maybe we should have that book

1:00:47

as our center. Maybe maybe yeah reach out to the creators

1:00:49

See if they want to do an interview. I would be

1:00:51

super cool. I'm not we're not scared

1:00:53

of you We can do that

1:00:55

we are do that Yeah, people

1:00:58

seem to want to talk about their stuff

1:01:00

on our show. I think that's a good idea. That is cool

1:01:03

All right. We got a long letter here from December 27th So

1:01:06

I guess I missed this one too, but

1:01:08

I'm writing you all from province Oh will

1:01:10

and Brian slash Brian and will writing you

1:01:12

all from Provincetown, Massachusetts At

1:01:14

the other end of route 6 the

1:01:17

Grand Army of the Republic Highway Wow,

1:01:19

that's okay, which used to run

1:01:21

all the way to Long Beach, California until 1964 when

1:01:24

California renumbered a bunch of sections

1:01:26

So now it only runs to

1:01:28

Bishop, California So I'm not sure where

1:01:30

Bishop is I do know where Long Beach is

1:01:32

I my brother-in-law lives there I think Bishop's like

1:01:34

five hours north of us or more. Okay, maybe

1:01:36

maybe it's more like eight hours. It's still across

1:01:38

the country It's fucking far. Yeah. Well, no, no,

1:01:40

it's a road the road itself. Oh the road

1:01:42

the road does go across the country No

1:01:46

Which makes it the second longest road in

1:01:48

America 11th in the world and in that's

1:01:51

in parentheses and then in double parentheses Still

1:01:54

technically the longest continuous in the US

1:01:56

since route 20 has a break where

1:01:58

it passes through Yellowstone NP

1:02:01

in Wyoming. Okay. Sick,

1:02:03

sick, sick. Road lore. Okay, let's go.

1:02:05

Anyhow, in all caps. I was driving

1:02:08

back from my mom's place in upstate

1:02:10

New York yesterday after the holidays passed,

1:02:12

holidays and passed the eight-hour drive listening

1:02:14

to your older episodes, specifically all the

1:02:16

series on Gem Dragons back-to-back in order.

1:02:18

That must be an interesting, because we've

1:02:20

parsed those out. We did. Listen to

1:02:22

those back-to-back must be cool. I know

1:02:25

it's a bit of a throw, and

1:02:27

then the time that goes by in

1:02:29

between each one, I've like forgotten the

1:02:31

stuff. Oh, definitely. Let's see. I

1:02:34

know it's a bit of a throwback, but

1:02:36

I did have the urge to write now

1:02:38

after listening again. In the Emerald Dragons episode,

1:02:40

that's episode 276, y'all made

1:02:42

mention of the 50 State Quarters

1:02:44

initiative. Do we? We must have.

1:02:47

I hate to be that nerd, but I did

1:02:49

get real excited since I had the book and

1:02:51

did end up completing mine back in the

1:02:53

time of 2010. Hell yeah. Then I never thought

1:02:56

about it again until y'all talked about it. Sick.

1:02:58

Memory unlocked. Indeed. That said, I'm actually

1:03:01

writing to put in my opinion on

1:03:03

the lair, not lair, effects of

1:03:05

the Gem Dragons. The way

1:03:07

it is stated when the dragon dies,

1:03:10

the animals it attracted and made

1:03:12

horny, yes, many horny lizards,

1:03:15

returned to normal numbers after one to

1:03:17

10 days. The way y'all were saying

1:03:20

it was that they all have a

1:03:23

seppuku moment or

1:03:25

launched themselves into lava. That very much sounds

1:03:27

like what we would say. Disney did the

1:03:29

lemmings wrong and we should talk about it

1:03:31

more. We should. I think it would act

1:03:34

more as a mass exodus. They all just

1:03:36

wander off now that the inexplicable draw that

1:03:38

lurked in there is gone. I guess that

1:03:40

makes sense. I like my seppuku by lava

1:03:42

better, but you know what? That makes sense.

1:03:44

I think I want to say, I mean,

1:03:46

it's only six miles. That's not an unreasonable

1:03:49

distance for some of those animals to meander

1:03:51

out of in a couple of days, maybe

1:03:53

not the amethyst fish. They're kind

1:03:55

of stuck in a mountain lake through for

1:03:57

horny bastards. I forgot about the Gem Dragon.

1:04:00

That's a salty, that's a salty lake

1:04:02

bro. Very salty lake. Anyhow, I just

1:04:05

wanted to say hello Love what y'all do

1:04:07

and it strangely makes me miss when I had a

1:04:09

longer commute Current

1:04:11

it's like five minutes on foot when

1:04:14

I kept up with episodes more easily I

1:04:16

will say this for folks who who they

1:04:18

primarily listen to podcast on commute Which I

1:04:21

used to be one of these people as

1:04:23

well. I listened to as much podcasts as

1:04:25

I did Before I worked at

1:04:27

home and the way I do it

1:04:29

is I just listen to podcasts whenever I'm doing

1:04:31

chores Me too. Yeah, if I'm doing dishes, I'm

1:04:33

listening podcast if I'm cleaning the house I'm doing

1:04:35

a podcast if I'm making the bed or whatever

1:04:37

cooking. I'm listening to podcast. Yep Eating

1:04:41

lunch laundry sweeping, you know and

1:04:43

watering plants, baby. There we go

1:04:45

feeding my turtle Shout

1:04:48

out to Dima Gorgon. Shout out to Dima Gorgon.

1:04:50

Don't fart in the underdark. Don't fart in the underdark These

1:04:53

little poofs almost like a little weiners if you turn

1:04:55

them sideways pretty sure the farts. Yeah, they're farts for

1:04:57

sure Tebow

1:05:03

spelled like thigh bolt But

1:05:06

they provided the pronunciation for me PS

1:05:08

I hope the route six and quarter mentions sent

1:05:11

y'all on the tangent. Mwah Actually,

1:05:14

it was it was the the horny lizards

1:05:16

the census on the tangent. Yeah, I do

1:05:18

I think I said all I need

1:05:20

to say about the quarters in that episode whatever you

1:05:22

said was said and that's what was said We had

1:05:24

them We had a

1:05:26

my having to yeah. I

1:05:28

loved all your letters. I saved the best for last.

1:05:30

Okay. Yeah, you've been hyping this one up So what's

1:05:32

going on? Well, I let my wife read it first.

1:05:35

Oh, she went to the PO box with me

1:05:37

I was like you can read these if you want to

1:05:39

like you what people say. Yeah, like oh, I'm so proud

1:05:41

of you Oh, sweet. So this is from oh, I won't

1:05:43

read your address. That's for me to know Mr.

1:05:45

Will Stark and mr. Brian old do I

1:05:47

thank you. I rarely say my last name

1:05:49

on the show do but they knew it

1:05:53

They have a PO box 174 Apple, California now Dear

1:05:58

Will and Brian My name is Gray

1:06:00

Freeman. I am sending this from my computer class

1:06:03

in Western North Connecticut. I am 13 years

1:06:05

old in eighth grade. Sorry for

1:06:07

all the curse words. And I am sending

1:06:09

this for a famous person business letter project.

1:06:14

I love D&D and playing. I just started

1:06:16

the campaign where I am DM. Congratulations. Congratulations.

1:06:19

I also love the outdoors and building

1:06:22

robots for the FTC competition. Oh, hell

1:06:24

yeah. We were allowed to

1:06:27

send this to anyone and I chose you guys. And

1:06:29

I am required to ask what technology you

1:06:31

use in your daily lives. Okay.

1:06:35

We want to hit, let's hit that first. Let's hit that. Yeah,

1:06:37

let's hit that while we are here. Daily lives. I

1:06:40

have my cell phone. Cell phone, obviously. He

1:06:42

means for work. For work, yeah. For what

1:06:44

we do for the show. I have this

1:06:46

HP PC that I use for mostly for browsing

1:06:48

but also for writing. And then I

1:06:50

do a lot of video editing on my MacBook Pro at

1:06:53

home. Most

1:06:56

of the recording stuff we keep here at the

1:06:58

studio. I had some stuff at the house but

1:07:00

I hardly use it because I don't really record

1:07:02

there. Yeah. I'm trying to think is

1:07:04

there anything else? That's about it. Not a lot of technology.

1:07:06

Just a couple of different laptops. One is a Mac, one

1:07:08

is a PC. Yeah, we've got. You

1:07:12

do use a lot more. Yes.

1:07:14

So we've got like, we've got our professional

1:07:16

lighting kind of situation that we use for

1:07:18

YouTube. We have a Canon

1:07:20

camera. We used to use a DSLR camera but

1:07:22

those have like. 30 minute limits. Recording

1:07:25

length limitations. Yeah. We had

1:07:27

that option when we first started. Yeah, they worked. When

1:07:29

we first started we used cell phones. Will and I. Yes,

1:07:31

we did. We kind of got this thing.

1:07:33

It's like, okay, if we want to make a YouTube project we

1:07:35

need uniform cameras for our faces. We did. We

1:07:38

had that old LG V20. Yeah, we went

1:07:40

and bought V20s because they had removable batteries.

1:07:42

They did. They did. We

1:07:44

also played a lot of Pokemon Go back in those days when

1:07:46

the removable batteries came in. Yes.

1:07:49

We just slapped those chuckers in, bro.

1:07:51

So aside from the lighting, we've upgraded

1:07:53

to another Canon. I forget the name

1:07:55

of the camera. I'm looking at it

1:07:57

right now. I can go look. Yeah,

1:08:00

it's a handheld and Has

1:08:04

those limitations have been lifted and and

1:08:06

removed for the microphones

1:08:11

Avicii hfg50 I

1:08:14

think the only the reason we got that over a

1:08:17

different one was because it was better in low light

1:08:19

Which I think the other ones are better in low

1:08:22

light. They have low light sensors,

1:08:24

which I think Will

1:08:27

and I had like a lighting issue that we wanted

1:08:29

to hash out And then we'll

1:08:31

like what if we just put this giant light

1:08:33

in the back and I think that kind of

1:08:35

that low light sensor Probably has something to do

1:08:37

with that. It worked. It did

1:08:39

work. Well, I knew it worked better. Yes

1:08:41

There's always room for improvement. There absolutely is

1:08:44

but we're sticking with what we got right

1:08:46

now. Yeah our microphones we started out

1:08:48

with Sure SM57s

1:08:50

now or sure SM7B Yeah,

1:08:55

a more standard, you know, they take

1:08:57

phantom power I've

1:09:00

got an audio interface that the

1:09:02

microphones plug into it provides phantom

1:09:04

power to the microphones I

1:09:06

also use a MacBook 2020 model, which Was

1:09:12

just time to make that purchase We'd been coasting

1:09:14

on a another Mac for a while and it

1:09:16

really needed to upgrade Yeah, although I want to

1:09:18

upgrade this one again because the 2020 models got

1:09:21

some weird stuff Yeah, it's mostly the port the

1:09:23

ports and plugs. It's only got two ports on

1:09:25

one side. It's very strange. Anyway, I Used

1:09:28

an iPad for when we're doing the show. Oh,

1:09:30

I got criticized for like, oh that guy's just

1:09:32

scrolling his phone I'm looking at the

1:09:35

note. Shut the fuck up Damn

1:09:37

dude, I know I can't do anything right. I know

1:09:40

Stupid somebody calls me out for I'm trying

1:09:42

to be more involved with the will saying

1:09:45

Going on huge tangents constantly when I like

1:09:48

the tangents and But

1:09:51

anyways, I've got Yeah,

1:09:54

that's the computer. Well that that was hardware.

1:09:56

Right? Is there any more hardware? That was

1:09:58

pretty much. That's pretty much all the hardware.

1:10:00

I mean I have like instruments and stuff.

1:10:03

Yeah. Oh and then when it comes to

1:10:05

software I use I'm using Final Cut Pro.

1:10:07

Same. I mean I'm on the Google Drive

1:10:09

constantly and we have a OneDrive I'm constantly

1:10:11

using. Yeah cloud-based storage has been critical to

1:10:13

our operation. Oh yeah and then and then

1:10:16

I'm using InDesign for some book

1:10:18

stuff and basically I'm

1:10:21

software for my end. Yeah I

1:10:23

do Logic Pro X for the

1:10:25

audio stuff, mixing and

1:10:27

mastering all that stuff and

1:10:30

yeah I think I mean we've got like

1:10:33

props it's not really like show hardware chargers

1:10:35

like crazy. Yeah I mean I think we

1:10:37

covered it I think we got it yeah

1:10:39

and to continue onward I use a school

1:10:41

Chromebook to do schoolwork and I also use

1:10:43

my phone to listen to your podcast. Cool.

1:10:45

I also listen to FBats and Super Quest

1:10:47

Saga. Hell yeah thank you for importing those

1:10:49

shows. I'm going to buy Starseeker Guide to

1:10:51

Draken Star. Thank you for supporting the book

1:10:54

I'm sorry it's taken so long I'm working

1:10:56

hard on it though. It'll be worth it.

1:10:58

Yeah. The goal of writing this

1:11:00

letter is to show my teacher that youtubers

1:11:02

do write back. My

1:11:04

teacher has never had a youtuber write back so

1:11:06

I want to prove him wrong and he will

1:11:08

give me extra credit. Please write back to prove

1:11:10

my teacher wrong and tell me how. Oh no

1:11:12

how late are we on this? You use tech

1:11:14

in your daily life. Um I don't

1:11:17

think we're super late and I think if this had like

1:11:19

a really stringent time thing it

1:11:21

probably would have been mentioned. Maybe. We

1:11:23

will write back though. Yes. I

1:11:25

choose to write to you instead of anyone else

1:11:27

because I love your show. I also

1:11:30

want to hear my letter be read on air

1:11:32

because that has never happened to me before. Oh

1:11:34

here it is. The second best part of your

1:11:36

show is the Grand Adventures of Illian and Bierne.

1:11:38

The best part is learning everything. Oh well that's

1:11:40

good I'm glad I'm glad you enjoy Illian and

1:11:42

Bierne as well because we have a lot of

1:11:44

fun making it but yes the lore is the

1:11:47

heart of what we do. Yeah that is the

1:11:49

show. I love learning about D&D

1:11:51

and the random facts that I did not know.

1:11:54

When I have the money to and am not

1:11:56

living in my mother's controlled home

1:11:58

I will give you money. Astral

1:12:00

Diamond tier shout out to Dima Gorgon.

1:12:03

I mean only do that if you can

1:12:05

afford to do that We'll greatly appreciate it.

1:12:07

It's the highest tier possible on our patreon

1:12:10

We would we would really appreciate that but

1:12:12

I only do that Yeah, it's feasible for you

1:12:14

where it's much more important that you just support the

1:12:16

show which you were doing in spades So thank you.

1:12:19

Mr. Gray Freeman. We don't want you. Yeah and

1:12:21

sincerely Gray Freeman We don't want anybody going into

1:12:23

debt over the dungeon cast. Yeah, not what this

1:12:26

is about if you can support us you should

1:12:29

I mean, I'll take the astral diamonds. I'm

1:12:31

just saying that for real Yeah, also the

1:12:33

sentiment is received and this was a really

1:12:35

lovely letter. So indeed and we will write

1:12:37

back We'll probably great. Yeah, well, I start

1:12:39

writing back after this collab on this together

1:12:42

But we are gonna send it snail mail to you.

1:12:44

I'm gonna try to get that out tomorrow So

1:12:47

today's March 5th as we record so

1:12:49

March 6th And hopefully

1:12:51

we get this man grays some extra

1:12:53

credit indeed. I was teacher We are

1:12:55

podcasters first and youtubers second and but

1:12:57

we are in fact youtubers fuck all

1:12:59

them youtubers that didn't write those kids

1:13:02

back Yeah, indeed. Maybe they get a

1:13:04

lot of mail and influx of mail.

1:13:06

Who's to say? We don't know their

1:13:08

lives we get just enough mail to

1:13:10

be able to manage it right now

1:13:12

with the help of our Email

1:13:15

support Mariko indeed But

1:13:17

yeah, that was it for the the

1:13:20

PO box mail. Thank you guys so much.

1:13:22

We really appreciate that And

1:13:25

with that we're gonna call it That

1:13:28

okay, so you're about to hear a thing. We're

1:13:30

gonna pre-record and just slap on to a bunch

1:13:32

of episodes So that is that

1:13:34

it for the for the audience interaction portion

1:13:36

of the long rest We'll see you guys

1:13:38

on the other side of the long guys

1:13:40

long. Yeah, dude. Hey everybody We've

1:13:43

got some news for you about the dungeon cast

1:13:45

will do you want to hit it off with?

1:13:47

Star seekers guide to dragon star what's going on? Well, oh, yeah.

1:13:50

Yeah, absolutely So star seekers guide to dragon star the book based

1:13:52

off a super The

1:13:55

space sci-fi campaign that we ran

1:13:57

for three years. I'm still

1:13:59

working hard on it and I wanted to say

1:14:01

thank you to everybody who supported us both on

1:14:03

Kickstarter and the backer kit. But

1:14:05

for anyone interested in backing

1:14:08

us on the backer kit, I wanted to

1:14:10

say that your time is limited. I will

1:14:13

be closing the backer kit on April 1st,

1:14:15

charging cards probably in May. I

1:14:18

don't have the dates 100% on that when it

1:14:20

comes to charging cards, but I will be closing

1:14:22

out the backer kit on April 1st. I just

1:14:24

really want to wrap a bow on this and

1:14:26

again, thank you to everyone who has supported and

1:14:29

yeah, go ahead and get in there. It's

1:14:32

jackandstar.com if you want to pre-order the books

1:14:34

and there's also the add-ons. There's the dice

1:14:36

set and there's the poster as

1:14:39

well as a few other things and yeah, go ahead

1:14:41

and check it out. But just so everyone knows, I

1:14:44

will be closing the backer kit on April

1:14:46

1st. After that point, pre-orders will no longer

1:14:49

be open. Everyone who's made

1:14:51

their order will be getting their book and there

1:14:53

will be no more orders accepted. So there you

1:14:55

have it. So check out Star Seekers

1:14:57

Guide to Drakonstar. That's what

1:15:00

was the website? drakonstar.com. It's based off

1:15:02

of our actual play D&D game, Super

1:15:04

Quest Saga, which we also encourage you

1:15:06

to check out right now. FBATS is

1:15:08

going to be airing again, so

1:15:11

there should be new episodes up. Let's

1:15:13

see, we got the merch store. We

1:15:16

still have, are working on our brand new merch store. We're

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going to call it a game. Let's call it a game, we'll talk to you guys

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later. Hey,

1:16:34

it's Mae Whitman and I play Frankie in

1:16:36

the new Realm Podcast, The Sisters. The

1:16:39

Sisters is about a museum curator

1:16:41

of medical oddities who investigates the

1:16:43

origins of a mutated skeleton with

1:16:45

two layers of bones. Seven

1:16:49

ribs are completely fused

1:16:52

and you have no idea where this

1:16:54

came from? No, she was sent here anonymously.

1:16:57

Mm-mm, not she... They,

1:17:00

maybe? Wait, I've never

1:17:02

seen anything like this. Soon,

1:17:05

she uncovers an extraordinary mystery

1:17:07

that connects her present with

1:17:09

one family's tragic past in

1:17:11

hauntingly dangerous ways. My grandfather

1:17:13

was a journalist back in

1:17:16

the 60s and 70s, he specialized in

1:17:18

strange stories. Who are they?

1:17:22

How are they connected to the skeleton? They're

1:17:24

the same, you'll see. Listen

1:17:27

to The Sisters wherever you get

1:17:29

your podcasts. We dream

1:17:31

about it. We both dream about it.

1:17:34

How often? Every night.