No Gods No Masters | Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode | Episode 20

Summary

Episode Summary: "No Gods No Masters" | Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode | Episode 20

Hosted by Amy Vorpahl with Cast Members Jason Nguyen, Danielle Radford, and Dan Casey

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Overview

In Episode 20 of Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode, titled "No Gods No Masters," Dungeon Master Amy Vorpahl guides the players through a high-stakes adventure where three monstrous minions find themselves thrust into leadership after the mysterious disappearance of their necromancer master, Unzoog. Set in the chaotic environment of Fitfiddle Delve, the episode showcases intense combat, strategic decision-making, and dramatic character developments as the minions navigate treacherous challenges to carve out their own destinies.

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Scene Setting and Initial Choices (00:00 - 05:10)

The episode begins with Amy setting the stage in Fitfiddle Delve, a dungeon on the brink of volcanic eruption. The players introduce their characters:

• Dan Casey as Fibs: A skeleton wizard with a mysterious connection to a tree.
• Danielle Radford as Busy: A skeleton bard/rogue on the verge of death.
• Jason Nguyen as Tippy: A goblin artificer deemed "very lucky."

Key Decision Point: Euthys, a benevolent spirit, offers the minions a choice to either restore all their spell slots or regain all their hit points.

• Busy chooses hit points to ensure survival.
• Tippy opts for spell slots, valuing magical prowess.
• Fibs faces a dilemma: With only four out of 26 hit points remaining and limited spell slots, Dan Casey humorously navigates the choice, ultimately selecting to restore his spell slots (05:00).

Dan Casey (Fibs): "This is the hardest choice I've ever had to make." (05:00)

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Confrontation with the Yesterdusters (05:10 - 12:17)

As the dungeon begins to collapse, three Yesterdusters—a human wearing a circlet, a dwarf, and a gnome—appear in the Fatekeeper's ritual room. They confront the minions, leading to an immediate combat scenario.

Combat Highlights:

• Tippy employs cunning tactics by casting Sanctuary on a nearby tree, protecting Fibs from attacks.
• Busy uses her Disguised Self ability to impersonate Unzoog, attempting to deceive the Yesterdusters.
• Fibs transforms into a giant constrictor snake, adding chaos to the battle.

Amy Vorpahl (DM): "Euthys flies off. She's going to go ahead and unshackle your feet on her way." (05:31)

Danielle Radford (Busy): "Cruisefully..." (various timestamps during actions)

The encounter results in severe damage:

• Kathy (human Yesterduster) is fatally burned and ultimately dies in the magma.
• Taganuk (dwarf Yesterduster) is pushed into the magma by Fibs and meets a grim end.
• The gnome Crandall narrowly escapes death with assistance from the minions.

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Volcanic Eruption and Airship Rescue (12:17 - 85:12)

As the battle intensifies, Fitfiddle Delve erupts like a volcano. The ground shakes, magma flows, and the dungeon's exits become perilous as boulders and lava threaten all inhabitants.

Key Events:

• Fibs adeptly navigates transformations between his snake form and his skeletal wizard self, using telekinesis to manipulate the environment.
• Tippy showcases ingenuity by creating a flamethrower-like device, “Flame Tippy,” enhancing his combat effectiveness.
• Busy continues her deception, now fully embracing her role as Unzoog to manipulate the Yesterdusters.
• Crandall remains a non-combatant, providing comic relief and occasional distractions.

Climactic Moments:

1. Kathy's Demise: After enduring relentless fire damage, Kathy succumbs to the magma, prompting a dramatic shift in the battle dynamics.

   Danielle Radford (Busy): "All right, Crandall, play it cool." (14:39)

2. Airship Intervention: As the volcanic chaos peaks, two airships—Stag's Horn and Mischief—appear overhead. Racing against time, the surviving minions are rescued, albeit some still face perilous falls into the magma.

   Amy Vorpahl (DM): "At the top of round five, you hear in the distance of a ship, an airship that you're used to." (74:00)

3. Heroic Rescue:

   • Tippy is magically transported to the deck of the Stag's Horn by Euthus, a guiding spirit.
   • Fibs performs a last-ditch effort using Vortex Warp to pull Tippy to safety.
   • Busy and Crandall are saved but face their own challenges, with Berutha meeting her end in the magma.

4. Final Stand and Recognition: The episode culminates with the surviving minions being hailed as heroes by various factions of Tsundarosa. They deliver impassioned speeches, reinforcing their commitment to fighting the Scythe of Irelia and redefining what it means to be a "monster" in their world.

   Dan Casey (Fibs): "People of Tsundaros, we come from all different walks of life...We choose life." (90:49)

   Danielle Radford (Busy): "As was so beautifully stated by Fibs..." (91:40)

   Jason Nguyen (Tippy): "All my life I've had to deal with things that are bigger than me...I propose a new Goblin game as your champion." (92:28)

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Conclusion and Legacy (85:12 - End)

The episode concludes with the minions gaining widespread respect and forming alliances to combat looming threats. Their journey sets the stage for future adventures, emphasizing themes of unity, resilience, and redefining one's identity beyond monstrous origins.

Danielle Radford (Busy): "We are the obligation to ourselves, to Sundaros, to stand and fight." (91:40)

Jason Nguyen (Tippy): "Without my gun, I wouldn't be as confident." (85:57)

Final Thoughts

"No Gods No Masters" masterfully blends narrative depth with dynamic gameplay, showcasing character growth and strategic prowess. The episode highlights the transformation of the minions from mere servants of evil to heroic figures rallying diverse factions against common foes. With emotional farewells, heroic sacrifices, and the promise of future battles, the episode serves as a pivotal moment in the Goblin Mode campaign, leaving listeners eagerly anticipating the next chapter.

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Notable Quotes:

• Fibs on Decision Making: "This is the hardest choice I've ever had to make." (05:00)
• Busy on Disguise: "We're the yes to dusters." (06:44)
• Climactic Speech by Fibs: "People of Tsundaros, we come from all different walks of life...We choose life." (90:49)
• Tippy's Reflection: "Without my gun, I wouldn't be as confident." (85:57)

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Key Takeaways:

• Leadership Through Crisis: The disappearance of Unzoog forces the minions to step up, showcasing their individual strengths and collective resilience.
• Strategic Combat: Players employ a mix of magic, deception, and unconventional tactics to overcome formidable foes.
• Character Development: Each minion undergoes significant growth, from near-death experiences to heroic status.
• Epic Conclusion: The episode wraps up with a grand recognition of the minions' efforts, setting a foundation for future adventures and alliances.

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For those who haven't listened, Episode 20 offers a thrilling blend of strategy, storytelling, and character development, embodying the essence of immersive tabletop role-playing. It's a testament to the creative prowess of Amy Vorpahl and the engaging performances of Jason, Danielle, and Dan.

Transcript

[Dan Casey]

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[Amy Vorpahl]

Hello everyone and welcome back to Sagas of Sundry Goblin Mode. I'm your dungeon master, Amy Vorpahl, and with me, as always, are your minions of mayhem, the Terror Squad, played by.

[Dan Casey]

Hi everyone. I'm Dan Casey. I play Fibs, a skeleton wizard who may or may not be a tree. Right now I am.

[Danielle Radford]

Hello, I am Danielle Radford. I play Bizzy Busy is a skeleton who is a bard, Rogue multiclass who is very, very close to dying.

[Jason Nguyen]

Also very true. Hey, I'm Jason Nguyen. I play Tippy the goblin artificer who is apparently a lucky, lucky boy.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Perfect. Yes. And with that, it is now time to part the veil of reality. Folks, we're getting right into this because we are no longer sitting around a table with beautiful scenery around us and feeling really good and energetic. No, no, no. We're actually at death's doorstep in dire straits because we are in fitfiddle delve. And in front of you all are the three gallantlings who tore you, who rent you from your home, the yester dusters at the very beginning of the season. We have a human, a dwarf, and a gnome. The human is wearing a circlet. The gnome is wearing a ring that you notice right away. And not only are they standing Right in front of you in the Fatekeeper's ritual room. Unzoog has just left. Euthys and Tippi are strapped and shackled to the painite crystal, and the entirety of Fitfiddle Delve seems to be on the verge of exploding into what volcano? You do hear some klaxons and bells ringing out, shouts and the running of dwarven feet as they try to exit. Along with them is the pitter patter of the fleshy demon folk, all trying to exit as well. Some of them are actually climbing up the room where you're at, which is now open to the daylight hundreds of feet above the room that you are in. The Fitfidadel ritual room is 100ft high. And then several more hundred feet up is where the exit of this daylight is. So that being said, Tipp, you actually have your arms free. Other than that, Euthys is still shackled. And Pakara, she actually only has one hit point left. The yesterdusters look at you and they're smiling and they say, oh, another adventure. You know, I think I remembered all three of you. You were running for your lives. And then Gnome says, that's right. And I think I remember that you fell into a trap and we heard some screams, and I think we just assumed you were dead and moved on. But here you are, larger than life. It will be good to finish before we roll initiative. Euthys is going to unlock herself now that she's got all of her spells back. And she says, I know that I would be of help here, but I need to serve as many people as I can. So I believe I must help save the dwarves of Fitfettel Delve. Before I go, I think I would like to just give you a little luck. And she's going to give you the option to either restore all of your spell slots or restore all of your hit points.

[Danielle Radford]

Hit points. Oh, that was fast.

[Jason Nguyen]

As your champion, I want my spell slots back.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You get your spell slots back.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Busy. It sounds like you wanted.

[Danielle Radford]

Jeez. I think it is in all of our best interest, unless we want me to be a pile of bones the whole time for me to get my hit points back.

[Amy Vorpahl]

All right, your hit points are now at full. Same for Picara. She doesn't have any spells, so she's doing hit points fibs. What is your choice?

[Dan Casey]

This is the hardest choice I've ever had to make.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Really?

[Dan Casey]

Yeah.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Where are you? Where is your hit points?

[Dan Casey]

I have four out of 26 hit points.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Damn. Okay, and what about your Spell slots.

[Dan Casey]

I have three level one slots and one level two slot left.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh.

[Dan Casey]

So I don't know if I should live dangerously or if I should live deliciously.

[Jason Nguyen]

Let the dice decide, brother.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah. All right. Okay. 1 through 10, I will do HP. 11 through 20, I will do spells. All right. Spells it is.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Spells. You get all your spells last night? I have a plan.

[Jason Nguyen]

I have a plan.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And with that, Euthys flies off. She's going to go ahead and unshackle your feet on her way. But she floats away and begins assisting all the dwarves in their evacuation. The dwarf goes, it's the Jesterdusters back again. And the human goes, it's a shame this will happen very quickly for you. Everyone roll initiative.

[Jason Nguyen]

All right, try this again. All right. Yeah.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, did anyone get a 16 or higher?

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes, I got a dirty 20.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Dirty 20. Okay, you're gonna go first. Anyone get an 11 or higher?

[Dan Casey]

Yes, I got A 15. Sorry, fiftrean.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And then six or higher.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, I got a nine.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Busy. Perfect. Okay, so they unsheathed their weapons and looks like they're gonna move forward and attack you. They just popped out of the port behind the ritual table. Busy you are Underneath. There are still some skeletons alive. One skeleton is alive with you. You also have Crandall. And there are two skeletons still at the top. But they have no master at the moment.

[Danielle Radford]

Right.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Just keep that in mind. Tippy, what would you like to do?

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, so where are they relative to me? How close are they?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Pretty close. Yeah. Within. Yeah. 10ft away.

[Jason Nguyen]

And how close am I to the tree?

[Amy Vorpahl]

The tree's right on top. I mean, yeah, it's.

[Jason Nguyen]

And I'm unshackled now. Yeah.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, you are.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, before I do anything, I turn to the Yesterdays and I go, you know who you're fighting for, Even what you're even doing here?

[Amy Vorpahl]

We're doubly hired by Unzug and the Saeed. Don't even worry about it.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, well, you're hired by a geek. His name isn't even Unzu. It's Kordare Babelbrook. How do you feel about that?

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's not the best name.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, lame. Absolutely bummer name.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I don't know what you want me to do about that.

[Jason Nguyen]

Stop working for him and work for me.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay. I thought that would work somehow.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

As I'm saying all this, it's really a distraction for me to get close to the tree and sort of stealthily touch it with my hand and cast sanctuary on the tree.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Nice. Okay. You felt the warmth of Sanctuary before with Berygnius?

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes, I sort of plopped it 66 remembered and sort of found my own artificial way to do it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Cool. So what does that do for Fibs?

[Jason Nguyen]

So basically, with my free hand, I kind of just scribbled no touchy on the tree. And what that does is anybody attacking Fibs needs to roll a wisdom save or else they have to target something else.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, amazing.

[Jason Nguyen]

He's completely protected. Unless he makes an attack of his own. But he's not protected from area of effect spells.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, awesome.

[Jason Nguyen]

So that's going to be my action. And for my bonus action, I want to. I wanna. I want to try to disengage and run as far away from them as my full movement speed away from them as I can. So basically I'm.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You can get close to the entrance of the room, no problem. And you don't need to disengage because you're not in combat yet.

[Jason Nguyen]

No, I'm not in combat. So I can just move without having to do that?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

[Jason Nguyen]

So then as my bonus action, I want to move first and then I want to hide using my goblin ability, Nimble Escape. It lets me hide on every bonus action or disable.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, awesome. Yeah. Go ahead and roll a stealth check just to see. But other than that, you're hidden. And then it is the gnomes turn.

[Jason Nguyen]

And with the luck stone, I roll three times every check. Right?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Every D20 roll.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes, every D20 rolls. So three times and take the highest one. The highest will be. It'll be 18 total.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. You feel very hidden. You're actually really. If you're dashing, you're like, right at the entrance of the Fatekeeper's ritual room where you had entered ages ago.

[Jason Nguyen]

So, yeah, essentially I distract them. I cast my spell and as I'm running away, I try to make it seem like my voice is fading away. I'm like, yeah, you're really working for the wrong guy.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It is now the gnomes turn. So really they just see the skeletons.

[Dan Casey]

And you and just a large birch tree there.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And a large birch tree overturned. It's really who they're going to be attacking, really is Tibby. Because busy is underneath the ground at the moment. Yeah. Okay. So he's going to, as you're running away, just like cast this ray of frost at you searing cold and does a. Dang it.

[Jason Nguyen]

My favorite words.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Dang it. Very old does it.

[Dan Casey]

People are just inclined to say it when they enter Fit Fiddle Dell.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. Dang it eight. Eight? Doesn't eight fast?

[Jason Nguyen]

Absolutely not.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No, absolutely not. Okay, so then the dwarf, what she's gonna do is can she reach you? If you're dashing, then she cannot get to you.

[Jason Nguyen]

And she can see me?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, she can. Oh gosh. Can she see you?

[Jason Nguyen]

Can she see me?

[Amy Vorpahl]

That is a good 18 on the Stealth. I think it would be passive perception. And no, there's no way. Eunzook was not clear that the birch tree was an enemy. So that's interesting. Unzuk, who are we supposed to get? Where are these people? There was a skeleton and a goblin and another. But all I saw is a goblin and now I don't even see him. Okay, she's just kind of mucking around the room looking at stuff. She sees the skeleton, you know, she's going to try to attack that skeleton. One of the dwarven skeletons that were raised. Why not? That's crazy. Give me one second.

[Dan Casey]

Go check it out upstairs.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I did not even think about this. Okay, so she's going to try to shoot her crossbow at one of the skeletons. Nice. That is going to hit no problem. And she does six piercing damage to that skeleton. Great. Oh my gosh. Okay. And then it is Kathy's turn. She's the human Kathy. Kathy.

[Jason Nguyen]

God. Kathy.

[Dan Casey]

I the darkness.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And she says, don't get down about it, Berutha. We'll figure it out. We always do. But we're the yes to dusters.

[Dan Casey]

Rutha Kathy and Taganook.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Toganuk. Yeah.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. So she actually can dash just like you. And she's gonna dash after you. Let's see if she does try to find you and see if she can. Let's see. That's a wisdom. She gets an 18. Was that your hide bonus? Yeah, yeah, your hide.

[Jason Nguyen]

Checking me to be a stealth check.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Great. Yeah. So she does find you and she's going to swipe at you with her dagger. Does a 19 hit.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, great. So she's going to do seven points of piercing damage to you.

[Jason Nguyen]

Seven points.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, seven points of piercing damage.

[Danielle Radford]

Seven points.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Now it's fibs. And then busy. And then Pekara.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, so out of fibs trunk, a familiar looking shape emerges. A terrifying little phase spider the size of your average melon. She sneaks up behind Taganook and says terror and blasts him with web.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. Okay, Toganuk, we're gonna see if you can save. What's the DC on that?

[Dan Casey]

That is a DC12 strength check.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Absolutely not. No, no, no. Okay. Taganuk is restrained. He can still take actions, but yeah, he has a lot of, lot of disadvantages there. He's completely webbed. And yeah, Luff does say terror. I did it once to unzoog and you'll get the same treatment from me. And Taganook is blasted with the web and just struggling in place to try to get out of it, but he is restrained. What does Fibs do?

[Dan Casey]

Fibs wants to hold his action until someone approaches within five feet of the tree.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

And I don't want to give it away because I think it'll be more satisfying, but you may have an idea of what I might be up to.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Exciting, exciting, exciting. Hikara's turn. She's nearby. She took the full hit points. What is she going to do? Well, she saw you run away. Yeah, she might follow. No, she's going to just attack the gnome while he's there. And webbed. All right, let's see. She's going to actually. She takes out her sphere that she has and holds it out and it casts the 15 foot cone of fire right on that webbed gnome.

[Dan Casey]

Let's go, Picard, let's go.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So he needs to make this DC12 dexterity saving throw. He does not. So he takes a lot of fire damage. Okay. So she clocks Tippi running away and she goes, well, I bet he's fine. He always is. And then she just says, take this, Luff, I've got your back. And does just a hell of a lot of damage to this web and the gnome inside of it. The webs are flammable.

[Dan Casey]

Webs are flammable.

[Amy Vorpahl]

They will burn away. They have five GP at the next round, but not right now. And he's on fire. He's surrounded by fire. So on his next turn, he will take some more fire damage as he's enwrapped in that. Okay, so that's Picara. Look busy.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, so busy is still downstairs.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, you hear all of this?

[Danielle Radford]

I've heard what's happening. And so I'm just like, all right, Crandall, play it cool. I'm going to use my charm to cast disguised self. I'm gonna disguise myself as Unzug and I'm gonna put on me somewhere where everyone who works with us would know it, but the yesterdusters wouldn't recognize it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay?

[Danielle Radford]

That same banner image that Fibs made for the Goblin Games of Luff.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

And so I'm going to disguise myself as Unzug and come upstairs.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So tell me about this because you have a feat now.

[Danielle Radford]

I have A feat now that we have gone to level. So my feat is actor, which gave me a plus one in charm. And I now have advantage on deception and performance checks. If I'm trying to pass myself off as a different person, I can mimic the speech of another person or any sounds made by other creatures that I've heard.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Wow. Amazing. So this will be very different disguised self than Fibs Trident.

[Dan Casey]

So I'm one.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. You disguise yourself. You look exactly like Unzoog, minus the little brooch of Luff's seven guns and a clipboard that you've got on your person. Okay. Yeah, you can just do that also. Brunzug, it's you. You're back. Crandall is completely fooled.

[Danielle Radford]

Crandalled, dude, good.

[E]

Act like you've been here before.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I will, my lord. I mean, yes, Busy, of course it's you.

[Jason Nguyen]

Unzuke's having a flashback. Oh, yeah.

[Amy Vorpahl]

What's he seeing?

[Danielle Radford]

Additionally, Busy's gonna make it look like she's got the luck.

[Amy Vorpahl]

All of those things you're just able to do. You are a super actor. You have all your props. Awesome. That's your action. You can move. And I go upstairs, and you go upstairs. So what you see upstairs is a tree that somehow isn't closing off the trapdoor.

[Dan Casey]

Is that also.

[Amy Vorpahl]

But it is a huge tree, 40 foot tall, just falling over, taking up a lot of space. You don't see Tippi anywhere. You see a couple of skeletons and all three of the yester dusters.

[Danielle Radford]

Busy's gonna turn to the yesterdusters and.

[E]

Go, I see that you have achieved the goals I have set for you.

[Danielle Radford]

Busy opens her hand and shows that she has the fake luck stone.

[E]

Thank you very much for your contributions. Please send the invoice to your usual places and you may leave. Fitvidil.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Kathy goes. Oh, well, we haven't quite finished off this last task that you set for us.

[E]

Leave that to me. It would give me so much pleasure.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Mm. Okay, so she's going to. She's. No. Okay, so she says, well, if you say so. And you were going to give us the luck stone, Was that it?

[E]

No, I've decided to keep the luck stone.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So we're just done? Yes.

[E]

Thank you. Great work, everybody. I'm calling it. It's an early off day. Just go ahead and enjoy the rest of the day with your families. You'll get paid your four hours, but.

[Danielle Radford]

As there is no more work to.

[E]

Do, there would be no reason for.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You to be here. Okay. So, I mean, you can see Kathy's just, like, confused, like, okay, and I guess we'll just get paid by the scythe and. Well, it's been an honor working for you. And Berutha's there, and let's see what she thinks. Berutha's on board Taganuk. However, Tagenuk is a sorcerer, and so.

[Dan Casey]

He'S also on fire.

[Amy Vorpahl]

He is on fire and he can't move. I don't believe you. I can't see, but it doesn't sound right. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Well, he's gonna say, unzoog. Why all the theatrics of leaving through a dimension door when you're just going to return from the depths of the basement?

[E]

Needed in the basement.

[Amy Vorpahl]

What was it?

[E]

I had to go and get something that is important part of our plans. And there is a man down there who has betrayed me. And I wanted to make sure he was down there for further punishment at a later time.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And you hear a crown go. It's true. I'm being very punished right now.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, my God.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Trying to help out. Yes.

[E]

And he sounds like he's being punished, but maybe that he could dial it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, the gnome's gonna roll a perception check. Actually. Actually, does he check against me or against Crandall? Oh, yeah. That guy doesn't sound punishing because he's a sorcerer and because Crandall's just a real idiot. Natural 20. Oh, my God. For your insight. But it is versus your deception.

[Danielle Radford]

And I do have. Okay, I'm gonna take my advantage. Cause I didn't like that roll. And what did you get?

[Amy Vorpahl]

I got a natural 20.

[Danielle Radford]

Damn. Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

So that's a 16.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, 16. I will say, while he's on fire, it's gonna be really difficult to understand him, but he is clocking that you are not who you say you are, but he is.

[Jason Nguyen]

And how does he say.

[Amy Vorpahl]

He's screaming on fire. Yeah, how does he say. He says. What does he sound like?

[E]

Oh, what do you think is a man?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, he sounds like. So that's going to be difficult, but I'm offended. I'm going to say Kathy and Berutha mightn't skip their next turns. Okay, excellent. Busy. Absolutely insane. Picardy went. Now the environment actually has a turn, and the ground is shaking underneath you. The lava is growing up from the ground and it shakes the tiles underneath you, breaking it into stone slabs. It hasn't risen all the way up yet, but you can tell that these stone slabs, some of them are falling below you. And the other ones you're able to ride on. I guess the tree itself is going to come in contact with the magma and it is going to take some damage. But you're a tree. You have a lot of hit points. I'm going to say you don't have any of the.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah, what's my H tree?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Your H tree. No threshold, but 100 hit points. Okay, 100 hit points. You are vulnerable to fire damage. You are vulnerable to fire damage.

[Jason Nguyen]

I want weakness.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You have the regular immunities, like you can't be poisoned, stuff like that. But you're absolutely. You are vulnerable to fire damage, but anytime the magma will touch you, that will be 2d6 fire damage. But let's see if you all stay on your slabs, at least for now. So everyone roll a dexterity saving throw. Every saving throw I'm going to have you do is a DC13.

[Jason Nguyen]

DC13. No big deal.

[Danielle Radford]

Dirty 20.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Dirty 20.

[Jason Nguyen]

Perfect 17.

[Amy Vorpahl]

17. So you're able to stay on your slabs. Like the ground is rearranging itself underneath you, but you find a nice solid chunk of tile that you're able to stand on. Fibs. 2d6 damage. As a tree, that is going to be 6 damage. You take 12. 12 fire damage. Let's see if these other guys are gonna do. Okay. No. No. Yes. Okay, so Kathy and Berutha are each gonna take six fire damage. 2D6. I think I said no for them.

[Dan Casey]

You said three.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Did I?

[Dan Casey]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, I heard three.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so they're taking their damage, but they're able to find a slab anyway and stand on it. Takanuk is standing on his slab as well. That's the magma rising. We are at the top of round two. And that matters because I am tracking the marked. The marked's arrival, Tippi.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, so can you refresh me on everybody's geography?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. You and Kathy are at the entrance of this enormous room, about 50 foot radius and 100 foot tall too. The dwarf is engaged in combat with a skeleton and other skeletons left alone. Unzoog is present, but, you know, it's busy. Crandall has made his way up. Oh, God. Crandall's gonna be on your slab. Sorry. Yeah, sorry. Fibs is a tree and burning. The gnome is in a web and burning. I think that covers everybody. Oh, Luff is fine. Luff is with Fibs and shooting webs at gnomes.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, so the best part about Eldritch Cannon is I can use a spell slot to bring it back.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Eldritch Cannon didn't die, though.

[Jason Nguyen]

Only it did die.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Eldritch cannon didn't. No. Robotippy died.

[Jason Nguyen]

No, no, it was the Homunculus. No, it was the Eldritch Cannon.

[Amy Vorpahl]

The Eldritch cannon shot the blast.

[Jason Nguyen]

That's why its little eyes went bling.

[Dan Casey]

Blink.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, awesome.

[Jason Nguyen]

Robotippy's still around. I just have not used Robotippy yet.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Well, I'm glad you're keeping track of it. Okay, so your Eldritch cannon.

[Jason Nguyen]

So I take my action to quickly whittle a new gun, thinking about what I learned in the Goo realm and really bringing my imagination to fruition. And slowly but surely the eyes blink again. But it looks a little bit different. It's not the same Gun Tippy that used to exist. Now it has little angry eyebrows on top. And this will be a new type of Gun Tippy. And I'm gonna call him Flame Tippy, because now it's a flamethrower.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my God.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, and now with my turn, I've summoned it, and with my bonus action, I'm going to shoot Flame Tippy at, you guessed it, Cathy.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And what am I rolling? A Dex saving throw. Cathy's pretty dexterous. That'll be. Ooh, a 21.

[Jason Nguyen]

21. You still take half. And that's gonna be 2D8 of fire damage. So that's. I rolled two eight. So you take eight damage.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Eight damage. Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, plus my proficiency bonus. So that's 19. So half of that is nine. Nine.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, great. So Kathy's just stabbed you with a dagger, and then out of nowhere, you just have this insane gun that's semi sentient in your hands that just like Pekara did, just blasts her with fire. She's able to do a fun back roll and dodge, but she does get in the range of some of the flames that come out of that. Amazing.

[Jason Nguyen]

You have your gun back and she's not on fire or anything, right?

[Amy Vorpahl]

No, no, no. It's magic fire.

[Jason Nguyen]

So question about the tree. If the tree gets a heal, does the tree heal or does the fibs heal?

[Dan Casey]

My inclination was that it was going to be hit troints, and then I would go back to.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Right.

[Jason Nguyen]

Like a druid. Like a hp.

[Dan Casey]

Like my HP pool restores when I exit the form.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Well, y'all don't know that yet. Yeah.

[Dan Casey]

So look, as a wizard with an 18 intelligence, that is my reading of the situation.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That is true.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, so Gun Tippy is going to go ahead and and shoot at the same target I was shooting at. So I'm Gonna do a force strike from Robo Tippy at Cathy.

[Amy Vorpahl]

All right. Yeah, shoot Cathy.

[Jason Nguyen]

The homunculus being an extension of sort of Tippi. Does the homunculus get the lucky stuff or no?

[Amy Vorpahl]

No.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, that's fine. So then that's gonna be.

[Dan Casey]

Its reaction?

[Amy Vorpahl]

No.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, well, does a.

[Amy Vorpahl]

What else. What else you got there?

[Jason Nguyen]

Does a 15 hit.

[Amy Vorpahl]

How many other gadgets? F15 does not hit.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, all right, so gun.

[Dan Casey]

It's a Gatling, so run for scimitars.

[Jason Nguyen]

Robo Tippy whiffs flame.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Tippy hits Character sheet. I'm going to set it on fire. I know. Artificers are cool. Oh, maybe when I die. All right, Fibs, your turn.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, since no one had come to fibs yet first.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, no one had come to fibs, but the gnome is really close to you.

[Dan Casey]

Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Dan Casey]

Well, this is great.

[Amy Vorpahl]

This is great.

[Dan Casey]

So here is what Fibs is going to do in this order first. Oh, I forgot to roll to see if Luff recharges.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Luff recharges.

[Dan Casey]

Luff says, terra for all. And she turns her attention away from Tauganuk towards Kathy, who she sees is attacking her. Unky Tippy. Oh, yeah, and she's pulls up that gat that he made for her and blasts with webs.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, webs. Kathy, you're gonna need to do a strength saving throw again.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, wait, so it's an arranged attack then she can make a strength check to be unrestrained, to not just be restrained.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so go ahead and roll a hit. Okay, we've been doing web all the wrong way.

[Dan Casey]

Or maybe that's a natural one.

[Amy Vorpahl]

A natural one. Okay. Sorry, Luff, you didn't hit. I'm not used to so many people needing my resources. I'm not getting tired, but I am getting angry. Getting a little cranky there? Little cranky, Little hungy.

[Jason Nguyen]

Need a nap.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Or a human smoothie.

[Dan Casey]

You can drink Kathy later.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, there's a Kathy right in front.

[Dan Casey]

Of you, so just paint a picture for me. There's magma by me. If someone were to come by me.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, so Fibs, in this tree form, he's just thinking to himself, come a little bit closer. Come just a little bit closer. And Fibs manifests a spectral version that seems similar to his mage hand, but it's completely invisible. And it appears behind Taganuk. He is telekinetic now, and he pushes Taganuk towards him and the magma.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my gosh.

[Jason Nguyen]

Was that your feet or what was that?

[Dan Casey]

I took the telekinetic feet.

[Jason Nguyen]

That's so awesome.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my gosh. And he is restrained. So is that an attack?

[Dan Casey]

The target must succeed on a strength, saving throw dc14 or be moved 5ft toward or away from you.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, all right. So he has a plus zero.

[Dan Casey]

I'll say.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And you rolled a two. All right, so he's pushed.

[Dan Casey]

He is shoved five feet forward and hopefully directly into the magma.

[Amy Vorpahl]

He is in the magma. He is in the magma. No problem at all. So he's going to take 2d6 of fire damage. He's still restrained. That's 10 fire damage. This gnome. Y'all screwed this gnome up, so.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, no.

[Dan Casey]

As that happens, he hears erupting from the trunk of this tree. The canopy rustles, and he hears a voice say, you really ought'em be more careful. You never know what kind of snakes are in the grass.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my God.

[Dan Casey]

And using an action, fibs turns into a giant constrictor snake for his eyes.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my gosh. Okay. Yeah. The tree that has been taking up just many square feet of this room just shrinks into a very large constrictor snake.

[Dan Casey]

A huge, constricted snake.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Huge snake. Oh, gosh. Okay. Even worse. That means you're 15ft by 15ft.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Still slightly smaller than the tree. But Tognoc's in the magma. Like, he's restrained. He's in a web. He's burning, and he's kind of screaming. What happened?

[Dan Casey]

It's a simple use of the staff of Robert.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. That was amazing. Okay, so that was fibs busy. It's your turn.

[Danielle Radford]

I'm gonna turn back to the yesterdusters.

[E]

And go, oh, it looks as though your friend needs to get out of here before things get bad. You might want to take him when.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You do in Kathy says, oh, yes, that will be the very next thing I do is get him out of this magma. You wouldn't be able to help us, would you, Unzoog, our employer, who we've done so much for?

[E]

Yes.

[Danielle Radford]

So then, busy as Unzoog walks over to the gnome, and then, while trying to make it look like she's trying to heal or do something as Unzug.

[E]

Oh, this is such complicated magic.

[Danielle Radford]

She takes the ring off of his finger.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

Without them being able to see it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Without them being okay, so sleight of hand.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, Gosh, that is 21.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just turn and they go, unzuk, Are you so merciless?

[E]

Oh, my darling. Didn't you recognize that when you began walking with me? Now is your last chance. Take your friend and leave. I cannot promise what will happen. And I am here to tear this down.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Wait. Are you threatening us? If we stay, you're going to serve us the same fate as our gnome.

[E]

Do you want to find out if.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You are on the side of these skeletons and goblins? That's what we will sing throughout the realm.

[E]

I am on the on the side of Unzug.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Persuasion. Persuasion. Persuasion.

[Dan Casey]

Also, pay no attention to the giant snake.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes.

[Danielle Radford]

Seriously? Well, maybe they think the snake's with me. Remember, it's Misty ass.

[Dan Casey]

That's true.

[Danielle Radford]

Fifteen.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Fifteen. She says. We're the Yesterdays and we never leave a man down. You'll have to go through us if you're going to just let Tahganuk die.

[Danielle Radford]

I still have an action left, right?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, yes.

[Danielle Radford]

Tight. So with the action that I have.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Your bonus action was taking the Ring of Sigbrida. Which actually is really pretty good.

[Danielle Radford]

What's that ring do?

[Amy Vorpahl]

What's that ring do? Okay, okay. It does require attunement. But I'll just tell you. Now, when you're struck by a melee attack, you can either ward yourself by sacrificing your own hit points to increase your AC a maximum of plus 5. Or when you're struck by a melee attack, you can deal necrotic damage to your attacker. Equal to half of the damage dealt. Very similar to what the painite stone was able to do.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. But it does require attunement.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It does require attunement.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, so I'm going to cast dissonant whispers.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[E]

I have given you the opportunity to leave unharmed. This is your final warning.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And that's to Kathy.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah.

[Amy Vorpahl]

All right. We hate Kathy. Got it. Got it. So I'm gonna save a wisdom saving throw. That's a seven. No way.

[Danielle Radford]

Nope.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. And so then that is 3D6 psychic damage.

[Jason Nguyen]

Wow.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Poor cat.

[Dan Casey]

My brain.

[Danielle Radford]

That's nine.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Nine damage. And then I have to run away from you.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, you gotta run. You gotta go.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And I just have to get as far away from you as I can.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, you just move as far as your speed will allow.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, great. That'll happen on my turn. It's Picara's turn.

[Jason Nguyen]

She did her burning blast.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, she already did. Yeah. So let's see. Let's see if she can do that again. Recharge. It does not recharge. She's just going to go and stab the gnome. He looks like he's looking worse for the gnome somehow. Okay, she misses him. But mostly she's just Trying to not get magma on herself. So she misses. It is the magma's turn.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, no.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Busy. Ah, magma. Bizzy, will you roll a D6 one? Okay, a one. So the magma rises. You're rising up through this chimney flue that you've found yourselves in. And you're up many feet, about 40ft in the air. Now everyone's on their magma slabs. You have not left the room just yet, I'm saying.

[Jason Nguyen]

No, I was in the room.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah. So everyone is actually able to be on a magma slab, but you have no access to the exit at this point because everything's rising in the air. But everyone's on their slab except for the gnome. I don't know if he's gonna make it, but he still could be removed. As it rises, the magma bursts up. It's like little shoots of fire that burst up. So everyone make another dexterity. DC13, save to stay on your slabs. Picara. Yes.

[Jason Nguyen]

Problem.

[Dan Casey]

Bad news for Snake, actually.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It looks like Kathy and Beruth both do not stay on their slabs. Damn Picaria does, though.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, great.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Anyone else?

[Danielle Radford]

14.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Perfect.

[Jason Nguyen]

20.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, perfect.

[Dan Casey]

That's a four for old snakey boy.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, a four. Yeah. So every one of those people, you're gonna take five points of damage. And you're gonna have to spend your turn getting back up on your next turn.

[Dan Casey]

Okay?

[Danielle Radford]

And Crandall's still on mine.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I'm not rolling for Crandall anymore. He's gonna stay alive the rest of the time.

[Jason Nguyen]

Crandall's legendary action.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's.

[Danielle Radford]

He's just knowing what ass to kiss is.

[Dan Casey]

No, you don't wear it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Well, he's a non combatant, so I'm just. He's got some hit points in case he takes damage, but other than that, not combat.

[Jason Nguyen]

He did throw an ink pot. I'm just saying.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, he did. He did cause a distraction, all right. He did something.

[Danielle Radford]

It's the most heroic thing he'll ever do.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Tippy.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's your turn.

[Jason Nguyen]

So they've fallen.

[Amy Vorpahl]

This is the top of round three now.

[Jason Nguyen]

So they've all fallen off of their slab? Yeah, they came into thinking they'd whoop ass. They've just been set on fire.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Webbed, mugged.

[Jason Nguyen]

And then they've all fallen into the magma.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And tricked by. Yeah, tricked by thinking that. Well, I mean, look, they would have attacked, but Unzuk was there and. Yeah, look, they have not been rolling well, but they are pretty powerful beings. Or maybe this is just poetic justice because you have Come so far from the episode one when you encountered them.

[Jason Nguyen]

You hear a weird, like, silent conversation between flame tippy and tippy and. Yeah, I mean, that's brutal.

[Danielle Radford]

But.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, no, go for it.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah, whatever.

[Jason Nguyen]

Whatever, man. Yeah, that's kind of sick of you, but okay. And so flame Tippy sort of waddles with its weird little chicken legs, waddles up to the edge where Kathy is and puts out a hand to save Kathy. Right.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

And I want Kathy to reach for the hand.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Jason Nguyen]

I want their little fingertips to touch, and I want the eyes to almost settle from being angry to, like.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Aw.

[Jason Nguyen]

And then I want it to blast fire into Kathy's face. So that's going to be a Dex save. And maybe.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I don't know if they have.

[Jason Nguyen]

Do they have disadvantage for trying to swim out of lava?

[Amy Vorpahl]

No, we're not going to disadvantage.

[Jason Nguyen]

Well, they have to make a deck save.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Look, it's not like water. They're not like, off. They're more like standing and their ankles are burning. Yeah. They have some seconds to try to get back. Yeah, they just lost their balance, stepped off. The magma isn't. It's more plasma than it is liquid. Okay. Oh, natural 20. So she does somehow.

[Jason Nguyen]

She will still take off.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. Jump out of the way of this cannon because she has learned a lesson standing in front of a freaking flamethrower.

[Jason Nguyen]

8 and 7. Oh, my God. 15. Plus my proficiency is. That's going to make it 18.

[Amy Vorpahl]

18. So nine damage again. So this evil, evil little booger, like, as far as she's concerned, she's a gallantling. And this little machine, she thinks she's going to get help from it. It retracts and blast him one more time. I mean, Kathy's never felt so much heat in all of her life.

[Jason Nguyen]

How's she looking?

[Amy Vorpahl]

She's still alive. Like, again, these are hardy adventurers. However, her skin is blackened, her hair is singed, her eyebrows are gone.

[Jason Nguyen]

Great.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. Not great. She's not looking great.

[Jason Nguyen]

So flame tippy just blasted Kathy. Kathy sort of dodges out the way, still takes a little bit of fire damage. And I walk over to Kathy and be like, I'm so sorry about him. He's just absolutely the worst. Here, let me help you out of that lava. No one should go that way.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Deception, she's not a complete idiot.

[Jason Nguyen]

Great, that's gonna be.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, yeah, you roll. Three.

[Jason Nguyen]

Three. So on the third one, thank God, Deception's going to be 16.

[Amy Vorpahl]

A 16. No, that's not gonna be enough. Yeah, she's not gonna take your hand at all.

[Jason Nguyen]

It doesn't matter because I was never gonna help her. Tippy goes, psych. Goblin gun Blaster. Goblin gun. Point blank.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, well, let's see if you hit.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay. Darn a hit. Let's see. That's three rolls to hit. You get the luck stone. That's a luck stone.

[Amy Vorpahl]

The luck. I know, I know. It's a good magic item.

[Jason Nguyen]

And that's going to be 24 to hit.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, that'll hit. That'll hit. Dear God.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, so it's gonna be seven plus four, right? So that's 11 plus one from the scope. So that's 12 and plus one from repeating shot. And that's 13.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Amazing. Okay, this one hits her. I mean, like, this woman is bleeding. She does have burns on her skin. Some of her leather armor is dissolving around the heat and the magma and the smoke, and you just shoot her right in the gut. I mean, it is point blank.

[Jason Nguyen]

And Tippy at this point, screaming, he's just like, does it hurt? Just like you hurt Maxwell?

[Amy Vorpahl]

And she goes, oh, please, please. Look, we're just trying to leave now. We're not even trying to. Did he say please?

[Jason Nguyen]

Did Maxwell beg for his life?

[Amy Vorpahl]

If he did, I do not understand him. He's an ooze. He doesn't have any languages.

[Jason Nguyen]

He had feelings, even though they were problematic and old timey.

[Amy Vorpahl]

What, are you trying to teach me a lesson right now? Yes. In the midst of a volcano erupting.

[Jason Nguyen]

Hundred percent.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Taganuk is going to try to get his butt onto a slab. The webs themselves have dissolved. Thank God. At this point, I think he can just climb onto the slab. But he's near. Who's he near?

[Dan Casey]

A giant snake, perhaps.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Giant snake?

[Dan Casey]

That might incur an attack of opportunity.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I think that. Yeah, I think if he's going to get himself back onto the slab, he's no longer restrained. This poor gnome looks awful.

[Dan Casey]

He's about to look worse.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so he's gonna climb back onto the slab and he can just do it. But I will say that 100% incurs an attack of opportunity.

[Jason Nguyen]

Go for it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Constrict your snake.

[Dan Casey]

That's a natural 20.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Damn. Okay, dice that dicey roll using my bite attack.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, man, what's that going to be?

[Dan Casey]

So that's going to be 46. What? Okay, that is 19 points of piercing snake damage.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, no. Okay. Oh, no.

[Danielle Radford]

And he ain't got his rang no more.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. As he climbs back on, he's just an easy Mark at this point and you sink your teeth right into his torso. He's a smaller creature, so your fangs just kind of. They hit stone. They go all the way through him and they pull out and he's just left with gaping holes in his torso. It's going to be hard for him to actually stand up. He's still alive, but he's like, oh, what have I done? Unzuke, help.

[Jason Nguyen]

He's barely hanging on.

[Amy Vorpahl]

He's barely hanging on. So.

[Jason Nguyen]

My familiar, I'm just gonna say Robo tippies holding his action.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

And he was just waiting to see who's been hurt bad the most. So he sees he's doing a little robot scan. Cause he's, by the way, can fly. He's 30ft in the air. You gotta read the sheet speed. 20ft. Fly 30ft, by the way.

[Danielle Radford]

Dance 10 looks 3. Let's go.

[Jason Nguyen]

He's flying in the air like. Like a drone. And he sees Tiger being bitten by a giant snake. He also wants to fly down and extend his hand like it's the same exact trick.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. And tug it in. He goes, umzoong, is that you?

[Jason Nguyen]

And he goes. And even though the robo tippy can't speak, he gives a weird, like, wrestling, like, it's over for you. And blasts Takanuk square in the face with his force strike.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Let's see if he does. Takanuk does have an armor class.

[Jason Nguyen]

So does a 16 hit.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It does hit. Yeah.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, so that's gonna be.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, no.

[Jason Nguyen]

That's gonna lose six points of damage.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, six. Ah, yeah, that's not quite it. Yeah, he does get blasted in the face. I mean, look, he's missing an eye. His innards are pouring out of the holes that the snake made in him. He's standing up, but he's still alive. He might get to do something cool next. It actually is his turn. So what's your move?

[Dan Casey]

So.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh my God, what is he gonna do? What is he gonna. He's talking to. He's so. So.

[Jason Nguyen]

And does he take magma damage at the start of his turn or the end of his turn?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Well, he's no longer on the. He's no longer in the magma. He got bit by a snake, but that's right.

[Dan Casey]

Look at straight up snorks, dude.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Actually, what he is going to do is not that impressive. He's going to misty step to Berutha's slab and hide behind her. And no one is really around Berutha right now, except for the skeleton. And it is Berutha's. Turn. Okay. She is going to launch herself at Tippi the Goblin. No, but she does. Oh, she has an athletics, so I'll be honest. She got. With the athletics. She has plus five athletics, so she can't. She does get an 11, but I don't think that's gonna be enough to wait. She. No, that's not gonna be enough to get her. She's not gonna be able to gain her footing. I think she's gonna be able to. No, she doesn't. She falls into the. There's no way she rolls into 11. She got. Ah, ah, ah. Okay. So she's actually looking the best out of all of the yester dusters, but she lands a little bit short and is in the magma. But eventually is going to be able to get back onto the slab with you. She's right next to you. And I guess that means she's also next to Cathy. And I guess that also means she leaves poor Toganuk open to attacks. It's Cathy's turn. She's going to swipe at you with her rapier twice.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay. So you could try.

[Amy Vorpahl]

She sure is.

[Jason Nguyen]

She got out of the lava.

[Amy Vorpahl]

33. You're right. No, she needs to climb up. She needs to climb. Climb up. Okay. Okay. She is able to get up onto the slab. Yeah. You can take a reaction for a.

[Jason Nguyen]

No, definitely. I'm going to shoot her again.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You can. An opportunity attack. Must be a melee attack.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, opportunity attack. Must be a melee attack. Pistol whip. Yeah, I'm gonna try to pistol whip her as she comes up and that's gonna. Oh, I wrote three times. It doesn't even matter. So 19 plus.

[Dan Casey]

Just the regret in Amy's face every time you remember your old. Three times. He's incredible.

[Jason Nguyen]

The Luck Stone. It's 18, so 18 to hit.

[Amy Vorpahl]

18 to hit. It does. It does.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, so that's gonna be. What would be the damage for pistol whipping somebody.

[Amy Vorpahl]

We'll say it's similar to a dagger. So 1d4 plus your strength modifier. Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

That's a minus one. So it'll hurt a little less.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, just 1d4 then. No, you're not going to. Minus one on.

[Jason Nguyen]

That's three damage.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Three damage. Okay. And it's piercing damage. Okay. She already is bleeding, burned, no eyebrows. So, yeah, you're just able to stab her. That being said, she is up on the slab with you and she is gonna make two rapier attacks and you better. Yes. Okay, so does a 22 hit?

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, it would if I didn't just Cast shield as a reaction.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You can't. So you can only have one. One reaction. And you took it to do an opportunity attack. I gotta take the damage. I take the damage. How many freaking. Okay, so the second one does not hit. The first one does hit. Okay, how much do I have? The Lux field.

[Jason Nguyen]

I can't get past my force field.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Take it. You're damaged like a good little goblin.

[Jason Nguyen]

I don't wanna.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, I bet you don't. Okay, nine piercing damage as the rapier does slide right into you.

[Jason Nguyen]

And you do start bleeding.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Finally. Okay, so that's Kathy. Fibs.

[Dan Casey]

So Fibs must slither his way up to the slab.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, yes. He's gotta get back on the slab.

[Jason Nguyen]

So what do I gotta do?

[Amy Vorpahl]

That is a. It's a DC13 dexterity. He's a snake. He's a snake.

[Dan Casey]

All right, that's a 17. So 17, you're back on. He slithers back up. Hiss. How far away is everyone from Fibs? Is there anyone within, like, 10ft?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Toganuk would have been, but he missed his. Stepped away. We've got Beruth and Kathy over there. No.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, how far from the edge is Taganuk?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Like, from the edge of death?

[Dan Casey]

No, no, from the edge of the slab.

[Amy Vorpahl]

He's not on your slab anymore.

[Dan Casey]

No, I know you say he's, like, within 30ft of me.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I would say so. And also.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, how far from the edge of the slab?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Well, each slab is 10 foot by 10 foot. So he's in a corner.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, so the snake imagines with his little snake brain. What if I had a hand? And it's just like, a snake body with a little hand for a face.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Wait, can you cast spells as a snake?

[Dan Casey]

This is telekinesis. It's a feat and a bonus action. I am not casting a spell. I'm just built different.

[Jason Nguyen]

I love it.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I love. Hurts us. Okay, okay, okay.

[Dan Casey]

So you see a little psychic outline of a snake, but instead of a face, it has a hand. And it sneaks up in front of Tognook and goes, boop. And tries to push him off the slab.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No.

[Dan Casey]

DC14 strength, please.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You got it. Okay. Come on, Toga Nook. I'm kind of rooting for this guy. Okay, so an 11 on the die.

[Dan Casey]

That does not.

[Jason Nguyen]

That doesn't clear.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's not enough. Not enough. Not enough. Yeah, he has a plus zero strength. So, yeah, you take your snake, your reptilian snake with a humanoid arm that.

[Dan Casey]

Boops him instead of the snake face. It's just a Hand.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, the snake face. Imagine my arm.

[Dan Casey]

Imagine my hand, but with a snake body instead of an arm. Oh, okay, so just like slither, slither. Because they don't have hands. It's what he dreams of. He's a snake.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, he's a snake. He loves.

[Dan Casey]

He's like ties to make history.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And you do. You just pop him one. And he was already, like, completely out of it, and he just topples right into the magma. Look, he had two scream. He had two hit points.

[Jason Nguyen]

Does he suffer?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. He says no, the youngest is for life. And he does fall into the magma. Yeah. Oh, I rolled two sixes on those. He only had two hit points left. And Yaltaganuk is down for the count. He sinks into the magma on his turn, and just his one hand is left as it sinks. And he does a thumbs up. A very joyful gesture for the yester. Dusters eternally.

[Danielle Radford]

That was for me personally.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

Toganook, you hear the snake say, ashes to ashes, dusters to dusters.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So good. So good. Busy. It's your turn.

[Danielle Radford]

Where are Kathy and Berutha?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Berutha?

[Jason Nguyen]

They're both with me.

[Amy Vorpahl]

They're both on Tippi's slab. Yeah, it's a crowded slab over there.

[Danielle Radford]

Damn. Okay, so, yeah, once again, I'm going to say if you.

[E]

You have a method of getting out, this would be your chance. Look at what happened to your friend.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Undo.

[E]

He's hit another.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, no. Unzoog. You switched sides so fast. You're not even threatening the other guys. You're just threatening us.

[E]

Because they already know they are done for.

[Amy Vorpahl]

They don't look so done for.

[E]

You already know you are done for.

[Jason Nguyen]

I'm done for.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I have no will to live.

[Dan Casey]

Hiss.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It just seems as though you're helping them.

[E]

I am not helping either of these people.

[Danielle Radford]

And so, as a bonus action, Busy is going to turn to Tippy. And as Unzuous say, you are nothing.

[E]

But dust beneath my feet.

[Danielle Radford]

And she raises her hand up, making it look as though I am casting a spell at Tippi. I'm actually going to be. It's going to be a dart that's going to hit Berutha, and then I'm going to do my sneak attack and get a second hit.

[Amy Vorpahl]

First thing is, you're going to roll a sleight of hand, or I will say this is Master Deception. So instead of sleight of hand, you can do a deception roll.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, then I will do a deception roll, which means I get advantage. Thank God. Ooh, thank God. And that is a natural 20. And with my deception, that's a 26.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, my God.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, okay.

[Dan Casey]

The snake is convinced you are casting a spell.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, the snake, Everyone is. Okay now. Rolled a hit.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

They really believe you?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. Just means they're not gonna be a cheap. Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

That's a 15.

[Amy Vorpahl]

A 15 to hit. Berutha. Oh, that's not going to hit.

[Danielle Radford]

That isn't gonna hit.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No. These are some heavily armored. That sucks. But also, how does it feel? Yeah. But the good news is. So that the sleight of hand or the deception roll means that they're not going to attack you now.

[Danielle Radford]

They still believe that I was trying to attack Tippi.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes.

[Jason Nguyen]

Now I kind of. I think. Cause you missed and I'm like, undoug.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. What's going on?

[E]

Oh, look at all of the pain. He can't even concentrate and understand what's happening to him.

[Amy Vorpahl]

All right, Unzug. You're all good. In my book, this. That's all it took, Just one attack?

[Dan Casey]

As long as you didn't hit me with exactly one dart.

[Amy Vorpahl]

One dart. Busy. Pekara. Where was she?

[Jason Nguyen]

She was on the slab next to Fibs. Cause she did the. The burning hands. Oh, that's right.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That's right.

[Jason Nguyen]

On Taganok.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, well, she does have a gun, so she's gonna.

[Jason Nguyen]

You better believe she hasn't.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You better believe it. Okay, so she's gonna try to attack. Who is she attacking?

[Dan Casey]

Not Tuganuk.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Actually, Kathy does look the worst. So she's gonna go for the easy shot, I think. Come on. All right.

[Jason Nguyen]

Two in the back, babe.

[Dan Casey]

One in the chest.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Six plus six. A dirty 20.

[Jason Nguyen]

Perfect.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so she does six damage to Kathy and she says, dippy, this one's for you. Woo. That's how her gun sounds. Oh, that's how her cute little gun sounds. And she smacks Kathy right in the leg and does six points of damage. It is the magma's turn. Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, gosh.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Busy. Will you roll a D6, please?

[Danielle Radford]

Five.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so the magma does raise up. But it's not just that that is endangering you, actually, the walls are crumbling around you too. And gems are falling, that type of thing. So, everyone, you're gonna roll two dexterity saving throws. The first dexterity saving throw. You're trying to get out of the way of some boulders that are falling on top of you. Oh, yeah. Taganuk's dead. Cathy saves first.

[Jason Nguyen]

Dex save is 21.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, great fibs.

[Dan Casey]

Four for the boulders.

[Danielle Radford]

16 on both.

[Amy Vorpahl]

16 on both. Okay. So no, no, don't roll the second one yet. But no, no, that's good. We'll keep that. Okay, so for the boulders fibs, you're the only one taking all the damage. You're gonna take seven damage. Everyone else takes three bludgeoning damage. Wow, that really sucks for Kathy. Kathy's on her last legs, just so, you know, like, and really it's just some, some stones have, like, bruised her in places that were already burned. Now, second dexterity saving throw. With all the stuff falling from the ceiling, you're going to be trying to. To stay on your slab again.

[Jason Nguyen]

So no probs. That's gonna be a 22, 21, a 16 natural 20. Oh, crap.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Y'all. Kathy is trying to dodge, but she's just getting pummeled with even. Just small pebbles. And as she's trying to dodge, she loses her footing, falls into the magma, and the last bit of her that is sentient and has consciousness burns away as she is engulfed in the magma flames. Kathy is now dead and being swallowed.

[Jason Nguyen]

Who has the circlet?

[Danielle Radford]

Kathy does.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, Kathy does.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, where's the circlet?

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's on her head.

[Jason Nguyen]

Is it in the lava? How fast is she going?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, so no, I would say she's not sinking. Yeah, it's not like water. She's not fully taken down. So, yeah, I guess you would have one turn to try and grab it from her. The only thing these NPCs are good for is their magic items. Perfect.

[Jason Nguyen]

Well, correct.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So Brutha made it okay, but Kathy didn't. She took 11 fire damage. So we are at the top of round four. And at the top of round four, you hear in the distance of a ship, an airship that you're used to. There are two airships. One is the stag's horn, one is mischief. And you don't see them yet, but you hear them flying above the caldera hole at the top of the chimney. The marks are here. Pekara says it worked. It worked, Bissy. It did, babe.

[Jason Nguyen]

Can you contact them? Is there a way you could talk to them?

[Amy Vorpahl]

No. Okay, you're fine. No, they just come and follow the whistle. I don't.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, I know.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It's all right, Great. So actually, at the top of the round. Tippy, you're up.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, so first things first. Robo Tippy, I want him to fly down to melting Cathy and grab the circlet off of her head.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, I think he's just able to do that.

[Jason Nguyen]

And then I want him to fly over to Unzoog and Drop it on Unzoog's head.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You now have the circlet of ministara Rani. Circlet.

[Jason Nguyen]

I'm gonna say I double move. So that'll be his turn. He won't attack. And now I grab flame tippy, and I point both my guns at Berutha, and I go.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Say it, ye star Dusters, for life.

[Jason Nguyen]

No. The right answer was sorry.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, okay. Okay. So you fire your gun and your eldritch cannon.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, Both of them? Both of them at once, for sure.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. Great.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, so the eldritch cannon goes first as the bonus action. You make the Dex save.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, I do make the Dex save. Golly. Ooh. Night stand 18.

[Jason Nguyen]

All right, they'll take half damage from the flames. You'll take four damage.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

And then I'm shooting with my gun. Okay. See if one of these is a crit. Nope. Oh, that's gonna be a 24 to hit.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, that hits.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, 11 damage.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. She looks burned and bruised and bloody. And she goes, what in Tsundaros lore is a goblin doing with a gun?

[Jason Nguyen]

Good question.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, awesome. Tiffy, Berutha's turn. Is she on the slab with you? I cannot remember. Yes, she is.

[Jason Nguyen]

Berutha's on the slab with me.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So she can finally, finally do what she was born to do and make a couple of warhammer attacks. And she pulls out her big Warhammer and takes two swings right at you. So does a 13 hit? No, no. But this does. Does a 24 hit?

[Jason Nguyen]

It would if I didn't take a reaction. Now to cast shield. So. So Tippi, preparing for battle on his level up, has learned the artificer ability shield. And it sort of looks like him just holding his breath. And this, like, weird, like, green aura kind of just pops out from him and just. It looks like it's made of goo and protects him for a turn and gives me plus 5 to my AC.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So 24 doesn't hit.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, it still hits, but it looked cool.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, it's really cool.

[Jason Nguyen]

I'm gonna. I'm gonna stand by that choice for a whole turn up.

[Dan Casey]

The warhammer just smashes through the goo.

[Jason Nguyen]

It's like, slowly going through the viscous goop, but then it makes its way.

[Dan Casey]

Through the slow hammer penetrates the shield.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so you take 10. Okay, 10. Bludgeoning damage. Tippi. Why did I be Kathy? Oh, cross out Kathy. She's dead. Fibs.

[Dan Casey]

And then busy fibs eyes this wretched yester duster beating on his friend. And in his snake form, lunges a Giant, huge constrictor snake lunges for Berutha with one word on its mind.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Constrict. Amazing. Okay, so you're gonna have to leap across to this. This is gonna be just an athletics check. Okay. As with everything in this fight, we'll do it at DC13, right in the magma.

[Jason Nguyen]

Brother, brother, Brother. What have you done?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Flown too close to the sun?

[Dan Casey]

That's a six.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so you are short. You do fall short. You fall right into the magma. Yeah, sorry, you're gonna. Oh, man. Only three fire damage on.

[Jason Nguyen]

Stop saying oh, man.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No, I mean, look, everything's been going so well for all of you, but, yeah, you're not able to get there. You leap across. You're in the magma. That is your what? Your movement. I suppose, I guess you could still take an action, but you're not going to be able to move this turn. You're going to be stuck in the magma at the moment.

[Dan Casey]

Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Dan Casey]

Well, how far away am I from Verutha?

[Amy Vorpahl]

I mean, you leave.

[Jason Nguyen]

She's huge.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Maybe. Yeah, you are huge. So five or ten feet away.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, it's a cool thing that I reach 10. I haven't reached 10. So instead I go for a little bit of a bite.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. Okay. Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

That's horrifying. Extremely volatile.

[Dan Casey]

I don't think this hits, though. That's a 14.

[Amy Vorpahl]

A 14 does not hit.

[Dan Casey]

Damn. Okay, and then as my bonus action, I think you come to me and I try to push Berutha with my snake telekinesis.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my gosh.

[Dan Casey]

Telekines.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Telekines. Okay, so That's a strength.

[Dan Casey]

DC 14.

[Amy Vorpahl]

DC. I've got a plus three. And I got a natural 20. Natural 20.

[Dan Casey]

This ability's busted.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I know. I regret things.

[Dan Casey]

I asked you for input. You said you should do this.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I definitely did. I really think that's where fibs should go. But me sowing, me reaping the difference between y'all at level three and level four is as it should, though. Gigantic.

[Jason Nguyen]

As it should.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. So, anyway, I miss you. You're in the lava now. You're gonna need to use your movement to climb onto a slab for your next turn. But busy. It's your turn.

[Danielle Radford]

And Bertha is still on the same slab as Tipi.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Jason Nguyen]

Don't forget you have the circlet and the ring now.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, but they need to be attuned, right?

[Amy Vorpahl]

They do need to be attuned. Are you attuning to any of them?

[Danielle Radford]

I'm going to attune to the circlet because of my bae.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Interesting. So.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, so that's where.

[Amy Vorpahl]

On your turn, you're trying to do all these actions and also attune to the circlet. You take 13 psychic damage. Oh, my God. As the circlet is lined with sapphires on each quadrant, and the sapphires grow needles and stick into your head.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. So as you're tuning, that just happens. You're not attuned to it yet, but.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. But I still get my regular turn.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You absolutely get your regular turn.

[Danielle Radford]

Gorgeous. Okay, so I'm going to. I'm just gonna use one of my darts, and I'm gonna go after Berutha.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. All right. And yep, still narrow. Tippy. So that's a sneak attack, which gives you that extra D6.

[Danielle Radford]

So does a 13 hit?

[Amy Vorpahl]

A 13 does not hit.

[Danielle Radford]

Damn. That doesn't hit. So instead, as a bonus, I'm going to cast Bardic inspiration on Tippy.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

Nice.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

As if you needed more power, I'm gonna drop the pretense by now. Cause it no longer really seems to matter. And she's already. I'm assuming she already saw that I tried to attack her, right?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, Berutha with the dart. Sure. Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

Cause I didn't do it sneaky.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I just did it regular. Yeah. Unzu just looks like a real piece of garbage. Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

And so I'm going to just Bardic inspiration. You were like.

[E]

I wish that you were like the son I've never had. I meant it when I said that you did a good job in the Goblin Games.

[Jason Nguyen]

Even though Tippy knows it's busy. Tippy goes really emotionally. Like, really affects him. He feels inspired.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, sweetheart. Go, go. Big tip. Oh, big tip. Okay. You are inspired, tippy. That'll be a plus D6 for you. And that is Picara's turn. She's gonna get her gun out. Danielle, will you roll a D6?

[Danielle Radford]

Well, I don't know what it is. Just say it's five. I don't know.

[Dan Casey]

This is boulders falling down.

[Amy Vorpahl]

This is bad. Yeah. This is boulders falling down on you. We're gonna make two dexterity boulders. Thirteen saving throws. That is a. That's right. So Berutha does not make it.

[Danielle Radford]

What are they?

[Amy Vorpahl]

D.C. 13.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

20.

[Amy Vorpahl]

30.

[Jason Nguyen]

20.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Gosh.

[Dan Casey]

That is 14 for snakeylies.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, 15. 15. Perfect. Y'all take six points of bludgeoning damage. Berutha will points. Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, me too.

[Jason Nguyen]

Well, yeah. Tippi pointing his guns. He looks really menacing. And he looks up and he goes, really? And a rock falls on his head. And he is knocked out.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, no.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, no, no, no, no.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, sweet. Okay, that also hits Picara. Now everyone make a save to see if you can stay on your slabs.

[Jason Nguyen]

What happens when I'm unconscious?

[Amy Vorpahl]

You start making death saving throws.

[Jason Nguyen]

But I don't need a roll to stay on the slab.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No, you're just on the slab. You're right. You fell down on the slab and it hit you.

[Dan Casey]

18 for old snakey boy.

[Danielle Radford]

Yep, 14.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Perfect. Everyone's still on their slab. It is raising higher and higher. You're about at this point, 150ft higher than you were. You're up the chimney. Now it's going to be just a matter of time before you're blasted through the roof. It is the top of round five. At this point, as you look up, you are able to see that these airships are above you. Tippi make a death saving throw.

[Jason Nguyen]

So before I do that, I'm going to have my homunculus.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Do they stay up when you're dead? I don't know that they.

[Jason Nguyen]

Look, it doesn't say. But what do you want?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Absolutely not.

[Jason Nguyen]

Got it. That's fair. You know what?

[Amy Vorpahl]

I'm being fan. I'm not a fan of.

[Jason Nguyen]

Why did I say what do you want?

[Dan Casey]

What about my drone strike autocannon?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Does that survive that?

[Jason Nguyen]

Why do I say what do you want? Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No, no, no.

[Jason Nguyen]

I'll make a death saving throw. No big deal. I roll three times. This is. Oh, crit on the third time. So it's two saves.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Two saves. Two saves for life.

[Jason Nguyen]

You're about to wake up.

[Dan Casey]

Don't wake daddy style.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, it's Berutha's turn. She's gonna crossbow the snake. Come here, snake.

[Jason Nguyen]

Leave the snake alone.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No. Plus three is gonna be an 18 to hit the snake.

[Dan Casey]

Ah.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And an 11 to hit the snake.

[Dan Casey]

A hit and a miss.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, this is gonna be 10 piercing damage. 10 piercing damage as your crossbow slams into your side.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, the snake still waggles its tail like Dikembe Mutumbo's like. No, no, no finger at the end though.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, perfect. And it is fibs. And then Bizzy's turn.

[Dan Casey]

Fibs tries to leap up to get back on the platform.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, that's right, because I'm a snake. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dan Casey]

And I'm not on the platform.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, yes. Real quick. That's the Dexirty 13D6.

[Dan Casey]

Well, you know what? Sometimes you snake some and you bake some.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You're back on it. You're back on it. But you just took A little too long. And you take seven fire damage. Ow. Ow. Ooh. Ooh.

[Dan Casey]

Eef. Okay, Snaky. No likey. And then I bear down on Berutha and try to constrict her.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, do you have to hit first?

[Dan Casey]

Oh, you better believe I do.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

Okay. Does a 16 hit?

[Amy Vorpahl]

16 does not hit.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, I'm no giant snake doctor, but I would assume I get two attacks being the stupendous sized snake that I am.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No, no, you do not get two attacks.

[Dan Casey]

Well, what I do get is telekines, brah.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Gah. Okay. And then I'm gonna.

[Dan Casey]

I'm just so frustrated as being this big ass snake and unable to effect any meaningful change.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so I save.

[Dan Casey]

I don't roll. But I just did. Anyways.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. I save plus three, and that's a seven. So Berutha's pushed off. She takes some fire damage. Takes five fire damage. And she is still alive. But she's in the magma, just burning. Busy's turn.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, so she is in the magma. What do I got? What do I want to hit her with now that she's dying? And that's fun for me? I'm going to do a dart. I'm going to see if I can hit her with a dart.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, throw your dart.

[Danielle Radford]

Six doesn't hit.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Six doesn't hit. Six doesn't hit. It is Picara's turn.

[Danielle Radford]

Oh, before I go, I am gonna turn to Picara and go like, you got this. I believe in you. You have been so good this entire time. You are so good at saving people. I just wanted to say that. Okay. Anyway, sorry.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, that was so nice.

[Danielle Radford]

And then give her bardic inspiration.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, you're a born leader.

[Danielle Radford]

Cause I get two of them now.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, she's not gonna waste her bardic inspiration on that. She got a three on the die. And it is the magma's turn. Okay. Oh, no. Oh, yes.

[Dan Casey]

She didn't destabilize.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Give me a.

[Dan Casey]

You should talk to her about this when you wake up.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That's true. Well, she's not on the same slab. She would have to walk over there. But roll a D6.

[Danielle Radford]

That's a six.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, interesting. Everyone is going to get tossed and thrown by the magma. Oh, my God. Fibs. Which block are you on? You're on it.

[Dan Casey]

I was on the one that Berutha was just on. And I presume that's the one that Tippy's on.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, Berutha, Tippy, fibs. Unzu's on another one. I mean, Bizzy We've got Picara on a different one, and those are the only people who are alive.

[Jason Nguyen]

And Crandall.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

And Crandall.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Crandall's gonna just be with Bizzy. So you're all gonna be tossed and thrown onto a different slab as the magma starts getting a little more wave to it. So everyone roll a D6.

[Jason Nguyen]

D6. That's a five.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, Tippi, what'd you get? Busy. Four and then fibs.

[Jason Nguyen]

Two.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, fibs. And then Veruth is gonna get a four with Bizzy. Okay, great. Okay, so here's the lineup.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yeah, what's the lineup?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Fibs. You're on your own platform now. Tippi, you're on your own platform. And Busy and Bruth are on a platform together.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, dang.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That's kind of all that happens. You're moved up a little further. And that's the top of round six. At the end of this round, it does look like things are progressing faster and faster. And the volcano's gonna blow.

[Dan Casey]

Okay, how high above us are the airships?

[Amy Vorpahl]

They're about 50ft.

[Dan Casey]

They're 50ft above the top of the chimney. And how far away from the top of the chimney are we?

[Amy Vorpahl]

150Ft.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, okay, so they're 200ft above us.

[Amy Vorpahl]

They're 200ft above you. Thank you.

[Dan Casey]

That's all I needed.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay. I love these. Tippy, make a death saving throw.

[Jason Nguyen]

Let's go. Okay. Three times. That's going to be a success. That's my third success. So I stabilize.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You stabilize. Perfect. Berutha. Berutha is going to finally attack. Busy. This is two Warhammer attacks. Let's see. Does a 15 hit? Yep. Oh, does a natural 20 hit?

[Dan Casey]

Sure does.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my God. Okay, this is gonna be three dice of D10. That is three. That is three. So six and four is 10. 10 plus one. And then another one is 12. Bludgeoning damage right to your face.

[Danielle Radford]

Busy becomes a pile of bones.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, no.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, no. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay, you're gonna get blast of this volcano as a pile of bones. Interesting. That's Berutha. Fibs. Yes. Berutha is not looking good.

[Dan Casey]

And you know what? She's about to look even worse because a big ass snake is coming for her.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Awesome. Okay. I thought I expected. Get over to her slab.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah, there we go. Dirty 20.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Dirty 20. You'll do it. You're on there. No problem.

[Dan Casey]

Now giving her the big old bite chomp of a life. Christ. Sorry, man. Freaking Christ.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Much better. Oh.

[Dan Casey]

Unzoog.

[Jason Nguyen]

Dang it.

[Dan Casey]

Done it again.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

Dang it, dang it, dang it.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, dang it.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, dang it.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah, I totally miss. But then I just think to myself, there's always another way.

[Danielle Radford]

Bush.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh my God. Okay, Berutha, let's see baby strength saving throw. A 20. A dirty 20 that's hanging on busy. You're a pile of bones, but you're at one. So I'll let you do whatever you want to do.

[Danielle Radford]

Then I am going to cast cure wounds on myself.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Awesome.

[Danielle Radford]

10 points.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Perfect. But you do still look like a pile of bones.

[Dan Casey]

You would have to come out of pile of bones to cast.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, you have to come out of pile of bones to cast because otherwise.

[Dan Casey]

It'S like you're under fame.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, well, it's freaking Berutha out.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. And Berutha is on my slab.

[Dan Casey]

She's currently engaged with me.

[Danielle Radford]

What can I do? As a bonus, there's no real hiding. How do you hide if I.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Unless I will let you instead of hiding. If you want to. What do you want to do to Berutha?

[Danielle Radford]

Well, what do I want to do to Berutha?

[Amy Vorpahl]

What do you want to do to Berutha?

[Danielle Radford]

What I would want to do to Berutha is either, if you will allow me, I would do a sneak attack since she's engaged with him at push her off the platform.

[Jason Nguyen]

She's engaged with fibs.

[Amy Vorpahl]

With fibs.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah. Since she's already engaged.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Danielle Radford]

I would just sucker push her.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I want you to sucker push her. So I'm gonna do another strength saving throw and see if she gets sucker pushed. She gets a 14. This is gonna be an athletics check for you. Cause I'm not saving against a spell or anything.

[Danielle Radford]

That's only a six.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Dang. Dang it. Okay. All right. But you are back together. You do look menacing. She's surrounded by a snake and a really evil looking barred rogue. But she's still up for Rutha. However, Pekara gets her line of sight and is just going to take a shot. Let's go. Yes. She hits four.

[Jason Nguyen]

1D 10.

[Amy Vorpahl]

A 23. Yes. 1D 10. Come on, Picara. A 10. That's enough. Pakara with the.

[Jason Nguyen]

She really did put two in the back. She hit her last time.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And Pakara shoots Berutha to her death. She falls off the slab, burns, and sinks into the magma. She's not wearing any magic items. Don't worry. And that actually gets us to the end of the round. She did not go to stabilize you.

[Jason Nguyen]

Not at All. But that's okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah. But it is the magma's turn. The magma is just going to launch you out your body. Tippy Fibs as a snake. And Busy and Pekara and Crandall are all flying in the air. The two airships are around in one round. We're gonna see how many of you it can actually catch. Both of them. See you flying out the stag's horn and Mischief. We've got Chav and Dupper and Mischief. And we've got Smelleril, Fug and Plixie in the other.

[Dan Casey]

Look, it's that guy who's just made the circles.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Help me.

[Danielle Radford]

Circles.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And as you're knocked out of there, is there anything you two who are alive would like to do to prep? You can tell that these airships are going to try to catch you.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah. I mean, I have my plan, but it's sort of based on what is.

[Jason Nguyen]

Going to play out.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Dan Casey]

Because what I want to do would necessitate doing something on a turn.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, great. So let's keep it in turns and. And this is what the airships are gonna do.

[Jason Nguyen]

I wish I was awake alive.

[Amy Vorpahl]

So they're gonna drop their ladders to the people who are alive. Y'all are a little bit separated. So it's gonna be 1, 2 and Picaris, 3 and Crandall. Yeah, yeah, and Crandall. But they're gonna drop their ladder to busy. The other one is going to clock that one of you is unconscious and try to do a really crazy maneuver to catch you. But this is going to be at disadvantage because it's really wild. This is going to be mischief. So it is going to be a little more wily disadvantage. So a 10. So it's not going to catch you.

[Jason Nguyen]

So I'm free falling.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, you still aren't free falling.

[Dan Casey]

We're still free falling up though, right?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, you're still going up.

[Dan Casey]

We haven't reached the apex.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Reached the apex yet. You're just launched out and it was just going to try to to nab you. I'm still not wasn't able to do that. Top of the round, Tippy. You're stabilized. Ruth is dead. Fibs, what would you like to do?

[Dan Casey]

Fibs. Giant snake flying through the air surrounded by bodies. And Magma is just panicked out of his reptilian mind until he remembers you're not a snake, you're a skeleton. And at the apex of his propulsion, he is going to think the command word of the staff of Roll Bear and turn back into fibs. And at the apex of his height. Can he see the deck of any of the ships? Can he see?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. Yes. One of them. The stag's horn.

[Dan Casey]

Fibs does not reach for any ladder. He instead looks at Tippy, at his unconscious body and starts to channel, remembering how Unzoog made it look so easy to open a dimension door, remembering how easy Gagongan made it look to open a portal. And he begins to warp space around Tippy's unconscious body and casts vortex warp to place him on the deck. Safe and sound as Fibs Wow begins to fall.

[Jason Nguyen]

No.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my God. No.

[Jason Nguyen]

Somebody heal.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay, does that just happen? Is there anything you need to roll?

[Dan Casey]

There is a constitution save. But he can choose to fail in myself.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, I can't. And he's not even going to do that. Okay. We have Tippi safe on the deck of the stag's horn, but Fibs is now falling without a ladder in sight. Busy. It's your turn.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay. They threw me a ladder.

[Amy Vorpahl]

They did.

[Danielle Radford]

How close am I to this ladder?

[Jason Nguyen]

Close.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You could just reach out and grab it.

[Danielle Radford]

Ok, so I'm going to reach out and grab the ladder.

[Amy Vorpahl]

This is going to be an athletics check for you to hang on to it to make sure you can grab it.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

With advantage because they're doing it for you.

[Danielle Radford]

11.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That's not going to be enough. That's not going to be enough. So Fibs and busy are going to fall. Pakara's also falling. Does Picara have literally anything? No, but y'all are all still again, like at the apex. The ships are going to try again. Tippy, you're all set. So that means that the mischief is going to throw down another ladder. Stagtorn's going to still hold out the ladder for you and they're going to make a choice between you and Picara.

[Jason Nguyen]

So question. I get dimension door onto the deck of the Staghorn. Does anybody check on my body? Does anybody stabilize me at all? Does anybody come over?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, we'll do that in a second.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, great.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Picara's falling. We'll deal with Crandall in a little bit. It is the top of the round, so yes, someone is going to awaken you to shake me just some medicine a little bit. You get one hit point and you're up.

[Jason Nguyen]

I quickly look around to. To survey what's going on. Trying to. I closed my eyes and we were in a lava hell and now I open my eyes and we're on the deck. Of a ship, and I quickly.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You're on the deck of a ship and lava is flying at you. Ladders are being thrown. People are dodging around this magma. Your friends are below you, Fibs busy. Pekara and Crano, and it looks like they're in danger. Yeah, I mean, this all happened so fast. So they're at the apex. They will begin falling very soon.

[Jason Nguyen]

I want to hold my action to see what happens when these two finish their turn. Hold my action.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That's good, because it's fibs turn and Bizzy's turn. If y'all want to grab the ladder, you can do so with advantage. DC15.

[Dan Casey]

That's an action, correct?

[Amy Vorpahl]

It is an action. Okay, so you're not gonna do that, or are you? It is your turn.

[Dan Casey]

Fibs sees that they threw him the ladder and is like, no. Okay, no. And you see the energy crackle around his hands again as he looks at Bacara's falling body and then looks at the deck and deposits her right next to Tippy.

[Amy Vorpahl]

You're alive. Oh, good, you're alive. They got you.

[Jason Nguyen]

I quickly embrace Bacara, give her a quick smooch, and I go, my friends. I need to save my friends.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. Yes. All right, everyone, Cheb Dapa, what we got going on?

[Jason Nguyen]

And so as I'm like, figure out how to save them with the ship. And then I look over the edge, and do I notice that fibs just did not go for the ladder again?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, for sure. You see it all.

[Jason Nguyen]

I dive off the edge and I go, I hope this works. And my little. I turn into a were bird and just spearhead dive, beak forward towards Fibs.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Jason Nguyen]

Holding onto the luck stone with all of my might.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, awesome. So you're gonna head down to Fibs, and, yeah, this is gonna be an athletics check to see if you can even look. You're a little baby goblin, but you might be able to grab him and hover down, but you might not be able to fly.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, that's fine. That's fine. I just gotta slow the fall. Okay, that's cool. Thank you, Luckstone. Thank you, Luckstone. So what is this?

[Amy Vorpahl]

DC15 Athletics.

[Jason Nguyen]

DC15 Athletics. Just made it. Just made 15 with a 15.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah, yeah. You. You are sacrificing yourself Fibs for all the goblins in your crew. And unfortunately, this one goblin dives off beak first. It's terrifying. Like, the wings are flying out of his wings and diving down. The wings are pushed all the way back. It looks like he would not be able to parachute Out. But at the last minute, these tiny little wings are able to parachute out. He grabs ahold of you with his goblin arms, goblin humanoid arms. And your fall is slowed a little bit. But it's pretty chaotic as he's just dancing around the wind.

[Dan Casey]

Can I have Luff try and create us a tether with her webs?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes. Yes, you can. Yes.

[Dan Casey]

It's time to save your uncles.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, so Luff comes out and she's still within your ribcage fibs. And she tries to fire at the nearest ship. But she does get to hit, doesn't she?

[Dan Casey]

Yeah. Plus five.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Plus five. Okay, 18. Come on. She rolled 19 on the die.

[Dan Casey]

Amazing.

[Amy Vorpahl]

She creates. She does create a row. She's kind of held in between your ribs and holding on, it is very unclear how long her web will hold. How long Tippy's ears are going to be flapping enough to hover you. But for the moment. For the moment, this does seem successful, but busy.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, the ladder is right by me.

[Amy Vorpahl]

It is right by me. Okay, so I'm gonna go for a ladder vantage. Dc15 athletics. Not enough. 14.

[Jason Nguyen]

Oh, my God.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Dc15 of us. 14. A14. Okay. Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

I'm really tired. I've been acting all day. Have you tried acting all day? It's, like, more difficult than any other job in the entire world.

[Dan Casey]

Is Crandall.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Crandall alive? Crandall. Is Crandall alive? Look. Yeah. Let's see, let's see. Okay. He is gonna need to make a similar save, but he's got no bonuses, so he rolled a 17. Damn. Crandall. And a 12. So, yeah, he's got no bonuses, but he was able to hang on for dear life at the end of the other rope ladder. Now it is Pekara and the ship's turn.

[Dan Casey]

Can I take my reaction after seeing miss the ladder?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, you can.

[Dan Casey]

Fibs just sort of like realizing that everything's going south. Plucks from the side of Tippy's head of feather and casts feather fall on Tippy, on busy, on Luff and on himself.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Not Crandall. No, Crandel's fine.

[Dan Casey]

Crandall's fine. He's on the ladder.

[Amy Vorpahl]

He's on the ladder.

[Dan Casey]

On Crandall as well, just for the sake.

[Jason Nguyen]

We get five.

[Amy Vorpahl]

We get five minus one.

[Jason Nguyen]

Whatever Krando's like.

[Dan Casey]

Oh, ladders are weird.

[Jason Nguyen]

Now.

[Amy Vorpahl]

How long does featherfall last?

[Dan Casey]

One minute.

[Amy Vorpahl]

A whole minute? Okay, great. So everyone, you do feel the lightness of a feather being able to save you at least from falling. But when you Fall, you still might land in hot magma. So the goal of Pekara and the ships is to still get you up into the ships. Pekara's gonna do something a little piratey. She's panicked. She's gonna harpoon you.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And try to harpoon you.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Because the ladder just is not working out. And hopefully she can hold onto the harpoon and pull you back in. But let's see, she might kill you.

[Jason Nguyen]

In the harpoon through Busy.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Jason Nguyen]

No, that's awesome.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yes, that's what she's going to do. So this is going to be an attack roll. Plenty of range to hit, but lots of damage if she does. Okay. What does a dirty 20 hit you? Yeah, it does. Okay, you're gonna take 3d10 damage.

[Dan Casey]

You can't turn back into bones. 3d10.

[Amy Vorpahl]

15. Oh my gosh. You take 19 points of piercing damage.

[Danielle Radford]

Yeah, I'm just bones now.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay.

[Danielle Radford]

I just immediately busy, like, goes from what the? And then just do, do, do, do, do now. So it's just bones lightly wafting in the wind.

[Dan Casey]

Not even a bone pile because you only get that once per.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, yeah. Not a bone pile.

[Danielle Radford]

So, yeah, I'm gone.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Okay, but you're not dead dead. You're just.

[Jason Nguyen]

You're making saves now.

[Danielle Radford]

I'm making saves now?

[Amy Vorpahl]

You're making saves now. Fine. The harpoon has gone through you and so now you're swinging kind of. How far are we from where?

[Jason Nguyen]

We're swinging from this.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Every once in a while it'll pass by you. It's going like the rope and the wind and everything. Yeah, you're kind of wrapping. Sometimes touching, sometimes not. But it is tippi. It is your turn.

[Jason Nguyen]

And then fibs, as we're just floating, I grab my luck stone and I think really hard. And in my head, I'm trying to commune with Euthus and being like Euthus, your champion needs you. Help us, please.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That friggin works.

[Dan Casey]

Yes.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, my God. Okay, Youth. Ruthis is pulled directly to her champion. She does one look around at what is going on and she first looks at you. I'm still your champion, I promise. Yeah. She recognizes you. It's okay. But you're in a canoodle with the skeleton fibs and the spider loose, and she is able to pick you up and deposit you on the ship. She does take a look at Busy, who she does recognize, but does just look like bones. She restores you to health. She does get you to one more hit point and is able to bring you back onto the same ship. As everyone else. The one with Pakara and Chab and Duper, she just flies in. No problem. No problem. Y'all are all.

[Jason Nguyen]

Can't believe that worked.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Yeah.

[Jason Nguyen]

Swear to God, that wasn't gonna work.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No, that's.

[Jason Nguyen]

I was out of options.

[Amy Vorpahl]

That is what she's there for. At least for now. She says I must save the other dwarves. But in the meantime, feel free to call me. Just keep yourselves out of trouble.

[Jason Nguyen]

Thank you, Euthus. Do what you must.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And she's off to the races. You are now out of combat. The ships of the marked have saved you. Everyone is at least conscious, but worse for the wearer for sure. And Chad goes, all right, where to? And Pekara says, what do you think.

[Jason Nguyen]

We go to Maya Finn before anything happens. I pull busy and fibs and Luff into a big hug. And tears streaming sort of from Tippi's eyes, he's like, I thought. I thought I was gonna lose you guys. I thought I was gonna lose everything.

[Danielle Radford]

Hey, I meant what I said. I am really proud of you.

[Jason Nguyen]

It's not me. It's the stone. I have this luck stone.

[Danielle Radford]

Okay, but like, you got the luck stone?

[Jason Nguyen]

No, it's kinda like the gun. It's like without this, I wouldn't be as lucky. And without my gun, I wouldn't be as confident.

[Dan Casey]

It was always you.

[Danielle Radford]

It's always been you, the gun and the like. That's great, but it's always been you. And Bizzy just like takes his head in like her bone hands and is wiping his tears off and is like, it's always just been you.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Tips.

[Jason Nguyen]

You know what? I think it's more than me. It's always been us. And in that hug, just for flavor, Robo Tippy comes to hug the group, but only hugs.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Bizzy's like.

[Danielle Radford]

If these sockets could cry.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And Louf hugs each one of you at the exact same time from the middle, with each leg wrapped around each one of you.

[Jason Nguyen]

And the quietest and the softest maybe Tippy's ever been. He just whispers very serenely, terror, terror, terror, terror. Now let's find out where that idiot babblebrook went off to. And I'm like, fibs, can you SCRY once more?

[Dan Casey]

I can give it a shot.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Fibs. As you're scrying, you see Unzoog in a plane of existence that you've never seen before. It is dotted with small lights. Could easily be the night sky. It just doesn't seem like it is. Like, in the ethereal plane, he's not really. He's just floating. He's got a really determined look in his eye, but it seems that he's heading towards a really, really enormous fortress in the distance.

[Dan Casey]

Does this remind fibs of where he saw Arsena disappear to way back when?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Mm, yes. Okay, he's in the Astral plane. And the ships take you to a landing in Mirefen. Seems like Ulfrid has negotiated with the goblins and have been allowed to camp nearby. Some suspicions. But everyone has heard of what has happened at Fitfettel Delve. It is ruined. All the gems are gone. When you do land, you see some people that you recognize. You see Gagongin, but he's in the shape of a water elemental. You see zombies, the imp from Ordinal's lair who helped you out in Nakreka. You see Va'dul the Wereboar. He's actually got a red headed female dwarf on his arm. And you see Ulfrid and all the goblins. Gagongin is explaining things to everyone about what the Scythe of Irelia is up to. That they were heading to Fitfetledel. But now that seems thwarted. And he is unclear what's going to happen. But he's convinced that this will be a battle. And it does seem as though everyone is going to join an alliance against the Scythe of Irelia. But as you land and come off of the ships, you make your way through the crowd humble. As you all are keeping a little bit back, Gagongin points to you three and gestures for you to come to the stand. The goblins are making way for their goblin hero. Everyone who has known you, the imps, the marks, everyone is making ways for you. And there are whispers as you just hear. All the factions of Tsundaras who have recognized you. All the ones that you have helped ever since you left Unzug's lair are filled with respect and admiration. And you hear some joy too. Like oh, you know those guys? Yeah, I know them. Oh that's great. Oh, they did this. They did this. And you hear the whispers of how you defeated a construction in Wretched Cove. How you stood up to the Scythe of Irelia already. How you saved the dwarves from the demons and from the volcano. How you helped the obligation in Earnedkr Fathom. And how you really made a chaotic name for yourself in Nakbraka and through a great rager. And as you move up to the stands, everyone is in as youthis bigger than you've ever seen her, larger than life does come down behind you and you are cloaked in her cotton candy pink graces. And everyone just feels a lot of hope. You hear Gagongan say you are the face of our fight now, you Fibs. Your promise to yourself, it was to destroy the scythe. Busy. You merged the gap between what one would call a monster and a gallantling. And Gagangan goes to Tippi and says you the goblin hero, but also the only real true champion of a Sundara that is still on our plane. Yuuthas. You found her and she chose you. Is there anything you would like to say to this group of people who come together for one purpose?

[Dan Casey]

People of Tsundaros, we come from all different walks of life. Realms, dungeons, swamps, biomes, plains of existence. But we are here for a common cause. We choose life. We choose not to let this pathetic little death cult wreak havoc on this land. We choose not to let charlatans try to deceive and steal their way to godhood. We choose not to be monsters, but to be ourselves. We don't just have an obligation. We are the obligation to ourselves, to Sundaros, to stand and fight.

[Danielle Radford]

As was so beautifully stated by Fibs, this fight is bigger than any one of us. It doesn't matter if you are what one might call a gallantling. It doesn't matter if you were someone who was a fiend. It doesn't matter. Anywhere from Nakbreca ruling to the beautiful plains of Clear, we are all of the same validity as we go and take care of Unzuk so that we can build a better, brighter future. And in the meantime, we will not forget to celebrate what is precious with the occasional keka that becomes a rager.

[Jason Nguyen]

All my life I've had to deal with things that are bigger than me. I used to take all the problems in the world, all the fears, all the anxiety, all the hate. I used to wear it on my back. Goblins, humphrumps, crest monks, sinclairs and julingtons. Mush trumps and bus flogs, Sludge paws and slime grins, Slambers and snuggle warts, bug bottoms and bubble butts, Yorts and gum trunks and hurfla durgs. And you, Butterfly, who holds the morning, you might never.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I can't believe we didn't get a mention. The Fummy Crust.

[Jason Nguyen]

The Fummy Crust. I was afraid I was gonna say something offensive, mentioning your name or your.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Champion the whole time.

[Jason Nguyen]

Yes, the Fummy Crusts. And you too, the Fummy Crusts. If you stay inside and you wear your packs of self loathing and doubt, you'll Never find love. And I look to Pekora. You'll never find family. And I look to my two friends. And you'll never find a reason to cause some God dang terror. And I spin my pistols in the air and I shoot three times. So I propose a new Goblin game as your champion. First one to hunt down an unzoog claims the title. What say you, Goblins?

[Amy Vorpahl]

Thank you.

[Danielle Radford]

Nuts.

[Amy Vorpahl]

Oh, it's crazy. Yeah, I'm gonna get me an unzoog. Where are we gonna go? Let's get an unzoog. Imma get five unzoogs.

[Jason Nguyen]

Okay, calm down. Slug. Pause. Slug. Relax.

[Amy Vorpahl]

And Bakara looks over at you and she goes, oh, Tippy, you know I care about you so much. But what do you say if we never go on a real date? What if we just go on adventures together?

[Jason Nguyen]

I'd love that. Because can I tell you something? I've never been on a date.

[Amy Vorpahl]

No. And with that, that is where we will end this episode and this season of Sagas of Sundry Goblin Mode. Thank you so much for tuning in. And while this story might be over, the adventurer story still lives on because they still have an enemy in Unzug and an enemy in the Scythe of Irelia. However, they have changed all of Tsundarosa's mind about what a monster truly is and what authenticity really means. On that note, that's it for Sagas of Sundry Goblin Mode. Sagas of Sundry Goblin Mode is a Geek and Sundry production made in partnership with Realm. I'm Amy Vorpahl, your dungeon master. Danielle Radford plays Busy Jason Wynn is Tippi, and Fibs is played by Dan Casey. Goblin Mode is directed and produced by Graham Ehler Sheldon, executive produced by Dan Casey. Story produced by Rin Ayler Sheldon and Shawan Edward, with creative producing by Adam Murray and editing by Matt Caron. Our theme music is composed by Alex Winkler and our production coordinator is Tara Goldsboro. Platform support and logo design provided by Alison Mattingly, with additional writing support from Rin Ayler Sheldon, Dan Casey and Amy Ratcliffe. Audio recorded by Jim Funicelli and social media support from Lee Travis. Additional production support from Alex Niknajad, Patrick McElroy and Grant Semayoa. Visit Geek and Sundry on YouTube or geekandsundry.com for video versions of Sagas of Sundry Goblin Mode.

[Jason Nguyen]

Terror on 3. 1, 2, 3.

[Danielle Radford]

Terror.

[Dan Casey]

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[Amy Vorpahl]

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[Dan Casey]

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[Amy Vorpahl]

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[Dan Casey]

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[Amy Vorpahl]

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[Dan Casey]

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[Amy Vorpahl]

We love movies and we come at.

[Danielle Radford]

Them from different perspectives.

[Dan Casey]

Yeah, like Amy thinks that, you know Joe Pesci was miscast in Goodfellas and.

[Amy Vorpahl]

I don't he's too old. Let's not forget that Paul thinks that Dune 2 is overrated. It is. Anyway, despite this, we come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites.

[Dan Casey]

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[Amy Vorpahl]

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[Dan Casey]

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[Dan Casey]

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[Amy Vorpahl]

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[Dan Casey]

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