Eek! A Leech! - Episode 116

Scylla has seen something truly terrifying, and neither foe nor ally is exempt from the throes of her break in sanity. With the party exhausted, their efforts split and a true terror seconds away, will they even see their second hour in the swamp?

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Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition playthrough of Out of the Abyss adventure module, written by Wizards of the Coast.

Dungeon Master: William Johnston
All NPCs: William Johnston
Artomis Star Caller: Andrew Walker
Sephel: Brendan Proal
Scylla: Sam Conklin

AUDIO:
Ice Cavern | Tabletop Audio
Latin Electro #10 | Dmyra
Cosa Peluda | Dmyra
Endgame | Tabletop Audio
Blackberry's Hedge | Secret Jane
Nerbuldar | Ambient Mixer
And Darkness Grew Like a Tree | Doctor Turtle
Night Sky | Jar of Flies
Kevin Macleod | Air Prelude
Kevin Macleod | Dreams Become Real

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about it I however was not listening that's valid after you and I'm I'm going to have to talk to you after the podcast as well about microphone etiquette and perhaps we just make you like three feet away from your microphone every time you do an intro from now on yeah the whole is not working we're gonna get Betsy to come chain you a specific distance away from you man thank you yeah you're gonna have to make a whole new character that's just like carrying around chains on their wrists and legs to cover the background noise all right here's for the super quick recap I'm going to try to keep it super quick you guys launched into combat with a horrific Hydra uh very quickly getting in there and saw down two of its heads whittling it uh away at its health bar um it got a couple of licks off on Vlad but not too much on the earth Elemental andilla while the rest of you were kind of taking up positions the uh spiritual weapon was summoned by Artemis trying to get in there for a couple licks but the Hydra was able to retreat deep into the water where most of you could not reach it uh where it was able to regenerate a couple of heads um given it giv it some more attacks and a little bit of Health uh Sila you directed your Earth Elemental to get down in the mud you kept after it as well and now this Earth Elemental is grappling with this Hydra trying to drag it towards the shore however you were enlarged you launched yourself to the other side because the Hydra got um enough hits on Vlad to send him to the ground um you administered a potion and as you did so you noticed uh over the course of this time a large amount of vibrations and movement coming from the Northeast when you dipped your head into the water to look you saw a just dark massive wave of leeches coming towards you with the shadow of a gargantuan figure behind them you have gone insane after failing uh a sanity check getting some short-term Madness to which you must attack the nearest creature for the next 10 minutes and unfortunately that closest creature is Vlad who is just opening their eyes again after that potion has taken effect jumping right into it it is the earth Elementals turn and so for everybody listening and or watching now that Sila is in this kind of panicked fearful condition which I'm sure we'll hear more about um the Earth Elemental is no longer bound to them because she cannot concentrate however this beasty um more more just confused than anything uh is going to let go of the Hydra but is going to slam it twice because you know what there's a big beasti in front of it and it don't like it uh wow starting off strong with a natural 20 okay crit buddy rocky rocky rocky rocky Max that damage boy so uh 23 points of bludgeoning damage to this Hydra wow uh with the first swing second swing that's a natural 19 it's definitely a hit that is 16 more points of damage and it just like beats down on one of the heads that is rearing towards it to try and Scar into its Rock like skin and then on the second one it just slams in grabs that head and rips it right off uh holy smokes okay the Hydra um for those of you that can't see it because it's still in the deepest part of the the water um you just see more blood and actually this HED bubble up to the surface very quickly of the Hydra and a flurry of activity just mud BL uh mud water silt just mixing in there and we are at the top of the order and the Very significantly large creature that silic could see[Music] moves and it is beginning it is about two turn away from getting into the midst of this fight however a couple other things happen um Brendan can you make me a dexterity saving throw for Vlad please for Vlad mhm okay dexterity save he does have a slight bonus to this uh which die do I trust not to kill him which one indeed tense moments tense moments uh 18 okay he does not incur any damage as this weighted net flops FES out from the north and lands around them however I need them to now make a strength check as this net is beginning to tighten around them uh just flat strength not Athletics or anything uh you can make it Athletics I mean it's it's the same thing essentially yeah it actually is since he doesn't have any he's not he's not a full-fledged character uh that's a 13 okay this weighted net all of a sudden comes flying over Vlad shrinks up around his body and he just gets yoed into the bushes to the north and you can just hear this what and then Vlad is gone from sight into the bushes to the north oh no Sila I need you to make it dexterity saving throw it would be my honor will thank you Sam I'm so beat this [ __ ] this is a 19 19 okay even in your your state you just see this like large blackish Brown Ball come flying towards your head and you just manage to flick reflexively and it goes Sailing by you and splashes down into the water um sael I need you to make a dexterity saving throw oh I'm going to crush it absolutely crush it okay see what I said it it was true so yep yep 13 a brownish black ball hits you in the face and you are now blind minded for the moment great not ideal I think I saw Vlad oh God yeah you you raise your hand up to your face and you realize that just this giant ball of mud has been flung into your face from where you're not exactly sure but it is all over you now uh temporarily blinding you great uh all right it is star caller's turn Okay um I can't really see what's going on under the water I saw vat get yed um and I hear seel cry out so I'm going to um move back towards theel and the healing spel Mo moving towards the center of the island I am um going to move into that healing Spirit space um and you remind me well how's this work do I use the bonus action or is it instant upon like getting the area uh let me bring the spell up but I'm pretty sure it's once you enter the area um yeah until the spell ends whenever you or a creature you can see moves into the spirit space for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there you can cause the spirit to restore 1d6 hit points to that creature no action required um yes so I will let you roll your own healing there thank you three okay and I believe believe sael got one right charge of so that's to my okay so it has two more heals before that spirit is gone just to keep everybody aware and honest okay uh and then I'm going to I can't see any enemies so what I'm going to do is I'm use my action to just grab a hold of seel and I'm going to move him back towards the center of the island um cuz he's just been blinded um and he does kind of need to be able to see that is an important part of my character a lot of people forget that yeah yeah yeah um and as I'm kind of jostling it him back is it possible at all for me to try to wipe some of the schuts out of his eye sure I'll let you do that as a bonus action cool got something you got something right let me that just a little smch see weird does Artemis just do like that big cat that they abely and it's just rough and it hurts and you're probably it's your Undead eye and it's just like God why does it feel like sandpaper why do I know what that is aremis like spits on the ground I didn't like it either but now you can see um I don't appreciate you I don't know what just happened we've been assaulted what thank you Sherlock but like it's aell I should have left you in the mud uh I think and that's my action bonus action um this turn of just trying not to die before I have a chance to do something that's a great turn can both both of you seel and Artemis make me perception checks okay ooh that's a terrible number not even going to waste a uh knowledge on that eight oh you're not no cuz even a Max roll wouldn't do [ __ ] oh dirty 20 I see stuff I'll let him see stuff okay emis from the tree to the southeast of you and the like bushes and small vegetation around it you hear some movement in rustling it sounds like small movement in rustling it's like smaller creature is there possibly two hey who is there show yourself uh and there is nothing in response all right is that the conclusion of your turn uh I I'll just hastily whisper to the fell I think we may be surrounded uh that's all I got skis I don't think that makes our odds any worse than they were all right it is V's turn who can see Sila like half in half out of the water at this moment and she she actually calls across the water to Sila uh she goes Sila Sila are you all right I will slay Deon I will not run today here ooh ooh how red flags red flags I like sael and star were like back to back and then they like slowly turn and look at each other like oh no yeah vasana like immediately looks back to the two of you and is like is De gon here what what the [ __ ] no you you you would know if Deon was here I believe has lost the plot that's not a sensible sentence red flags right uh what do we do about that survive okay hyra though a moment figure this out focus on the Hydra we'll figure it out okay and she she's just going to try and take like a pot shot into the water where most of the thrashing is happening um she would technically hit it she's going to have to roll percentile though 84 so she hits okay we're going to do a little bit of damage here to the Hydra uh oh that's a wrong damage ey she manages to do 12 points of damage to the Hydra uh and it is looking rough ruff ruff under that water all right uh that is V's turn sael you are up uh so he's he tells vasana I'll figure something out as him and star caller sort of share that uh that look he turns back to Star caller how do you feel about getting in there and figuring this out I am not a strong swimmer but you yes yes you put me where I need to be he puts his hand on his shoulder swimming is not required and I'm going to Vortex warp star Coller across to the island in the space where Vlad just was you can move him 80 feet holy I can move him 90 ft nice okay all right that's so yeah that is is I'm certain this won't end badly yeah that's second level uh and he is willing so yeah he's going to teleport 90 ft over to the island next to Sila and then okay she is very large up close uh do I want to reveal some of the area to emis that they can see better around them uh and then I am going to uh return to the Shoreline here next to V uh and I am going to drop concentration on enlarge okay so Sil is going to return back to regular size I just I don't know why but I pictured in my head the freaking Transformers transforming[Laughter] out uh all right wow interesting plays guys uh is that the end of your turn there sael that is the end of my turn Okay so some back and forth on the island emis is now 10t away from a now regularized Sila and it's the Hydra turn who now free of the elemental but does want to live oh boy it is going to take six attacks on the elemental because that is what it's in front of it and it hates it currently quite badly uh oh actually no it would sense the other object or creature in the water so I'm going to roll a perception check to see if it becomes aware no that's a natural to it is unaware of the large very large creature coming so on the first hit it is a wow yeah 26 to hit so that's going to hit that Elemental so one hit I'm just going to roll all my hits to now and then we'll jump for natural 19 natural 16 nine so that's a Miss three so that's five the six one misses so three hits on this poor poor Earth Elemental it's a lot of let me tell you guys it's a lot of d10s if you ever use a Hydra just remember you need all the D all the d10 know I'm kind of fine with the big things killing each other in the water K fight K fight so lots of math pause for edit or we'll just like keep making fun of how slow you are yeah because my basic math skills is it's it's a lot okay it's all right right you got a lot of dice uh it does 34 points of damage to this earth Elemental that's something so that gets it down to 86 hit points if I'm doing no 96 hit points I believe if I'm doing my math right 20 NOP yep okay it is 86 all right so that Earth Elemental and the Hydra are effing each other up however it has lost ahead so immediately at the end of its turn from that stock two more heads erupt so it has uh yeah eight eight heads now and a little more Health yippee absolutely insane uh all right is there like a maximum for Hydra heads or you could you literally have like a 30 head [ __ ] monster just walk out of that that swamp you know I think they answered that that question in that beautiful animated story called uh Hercules by Disney where uh you know he ends up winding finding like 100 Hydra heads at once yeah that's awful hate that yeah I don't see I don't see you know like a limit to this thing currently so you know that's just that's how love that uh it's vlad's turn can you make me another strength check at disadvantage please at disadvantage okay because he is now currently restrained and out of view gotcha yeah I can do that ass and a natural 20 uh but that's a 10 okay so Vlad is still stuck and some things are happening it's now Sila's turn and Sam you you mentioned something to me earlier that I would freaking love for you to describe to like everybody right now what's going on in Sila's head yeah uh so Sila she's seen this creature and it's uh obviously caused her to go slightly insane but when she saw it and she was lucid it reminded her a little bit of deeon and now this is like for silla she doesn't see what's going on around her she sees herself in the dark Lake fighting Deon and everything around her is just a a piece of dayon a tentacle something and um it's not fear that she's feeling well she's afraid but she's wielding her fear and she's not allowing it to make her run yeah so go ahead sorry is is it sort of like you're just seeing Deon like this is the situation you're in now or is it sort of like a PTSD situation where you're like back in your city as Deon was toppling I literally said PTSD to will yeah yeah you mean Brendon Brendan I didn't I didn't ask that well in our chat I said P[Music] well no it's it's it's awesome I I very much picture for for Sila like the trees are the crumbling sections of your city yeah you know coming down around you and both like the Hydra in the elemental and now Artemis in front of you are just like either the the Lesser minions of deeon or just its incredibly large tentacles trying to surround you it's it's a great image and I love that you sent that because I wanted everybody to hear that too I was like good amazing I I love that fantastic uh well-informed imagery that's going to spell our demise 100% 100% so Sila looks like the nearest creature to you is Artemis no it's Deon it's ston yeah so you're going to whip out every damage dealing ability you can on deeon right like that's what do just okay cool I'm already there will yeah it's too bad you didn't you know multiclass into a paladin so you could just unleash some smites right now because those aren't concentration I know oh I would like to bonus action rage oh okay sure yeah absolutely you can have that you know what take it as a action you know yeah right I will say I think starer has an insanely High AC so I might not have hit him here um maybe but if Sila thought she was gonna hit deeon she would make a Precision attack so that is Jesus Christ yes so that is a character uh seven plus 7 is 14 + 12 is 26 wow yep that does it plus 12 it's a good die it was a good roll right and I'm really sorry Andrew but before this combat started I had chosen to imbue my Blade with ice oh no oh I was there for that yeah you get I was there for that you getting that CA burned baby but I mean emis also has armor of agius on so some of that ice is going to come right back too that's 22 points of slashing that's a biging just the slashing there's no cold in that role oh I'm sorry some of that was cold that would have been five points of cold was some of that it's all a say you will take 10 points of cold damage okay 10 cold on me I am resistant so it will be five oh that tentacle Just Hits back reflectively in your mind the depths of Deon calls forth for you I will take my second attack now oh my God yep hey do you have an action action action surge I don't I used it a bummer dude I'm just kidding uh but that's another 26 to hit 20 26 just like a little too high though oh I'm sorry that should be another six damage I didn't add my modifier or my ring all right oh take it into account okay well that's Max that's 18 damage is Max Andrew is going to die uh well Andrew's unconscious oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] bro and I I pictur this cuz I was imagining star car is just standing there and he doesn't he doesn't Dodge cuz I was really hoping she's going to hit like a 23 and like a shield but it didn't happen so he's just like s what are you f what are you [ __ ] oh[ __ ] uh And he as he falls he looks back at sael yeah you would see this you would look across with no you [ __ ] sent him there figure it out and then just watches him get creamed bro I feel so can you imagine though just like this great image of like emis goes down trying to help a friend and Sil is just standing there raging and like watch the fell be like no and Sila just like Madness Hulk style turns towards the fell you have felt the ice of my blade yeah I think she's H very satisfied with herself well a a tentacle of Deon Falls yeah the the Deon killing machine that is Sila still has movement and the nearest Deon to me would be the Hydra M correct I don't see anything else yeah I mean unless you want to unless you want to finish the job on emis and stay there actually actually make me a perception check make me a perception check I mean you can do what you want in character I'm just saying for the moment roll me perception I rolled a 10 on perception here's what I'm thinking before you tell me what this means mhm she knows that like to kill deeon is like it's a huge fight each of these people is a tentacle if the tentacle is unconscious and down she's moving on great thank you for telling me in character perception um you see about 20 ft away from you just underneath the first boughs of this tree directly north of you there are some bushes there you see what looks like one of those bushes start to move in a weird kind of way and in your mind it would look like another tentacle of deeon starting to emerge it's not the nearest quote unquote tentacle but you see another one beginning to emerge there for everybody else something camouflaged in the in like a ghillie suit of sorts is moving out from the bushes and it's small uh it's not the closest and it's also not in my natural habitat I'm going for the Hydra okay so you swim you dive down in you move 15 feet and this probably this Hydra right now I wonder because it is the largest creature here if this would either look like a tentacle or the face of deeon to you oh it's got a ton of tentacles it's the face it does hell yeah and then what does the other creature look like when it comes in we'll find out when we get there uh it's now the Earth Elementals turn who is still kind of toe to- Toe with this Hydra and it's going to take two slams on it first slam uh Miss uh actually a 14 total so it is a Miss second one that one's going to be a hit so this Hydra is going to take 28 plus five damage let's go uh oh jesz I'm Crow not great nine points of pling damage on that hit um Sil it to you you would see like deon's not looking good in your eyes it's quite weakened to you see blood and gore moving through the water but it is still roaring in a whirling Mass uh all right we are back up now at the top of the order and the gargantuan creature casually moves 40 feet um and now safel and vasana can see up here that there is like like all of these are you pinging somewhere I I ping to the Northeast a little bit on the map there I'll keep pinging till you kind of notice it everybody who's on Roll 20 sees it not showing up there we go how about now there it is okay yeah sorry I was on the wrong layer that's my my bad you can see that there is like this almost like crescent moon shape of Darkness like moving forward and along the surface of the water you can see these little black things like jumping in and out creating this Ripple and splashing and you can see that it's leeches but just behind it you can see this Dome of water just like building up and kind of cresting over this gargantuan creature that you can see that is like amiably moving towards the Hydra and where you believe Sila could be now however that little figure that looked kind of like a bush starting to move comes forward and grabs the unconscious form of Artemis and begins dragging them back towards the bushes um some like creepy cannibal I K fresh kill um that was easy uh safel and vasana they both hear rustling from the tree that large tree to the southeast behind you and you see three of these small Gilly suited up like Reed covered creatures up here and they have like these masks and you can just see like little eye holes and you hear like their muffled voices they're like run get back from the edge of the water no uh and that is their turn star caller death saving throw my friend uh got dice for that 19 very nice very nice all right uh it is saa's turn um she sees this creature is like sees emus getting dragged Away by a similar one across the waters she looks to efel and goes I I'm not sure what to do Sila's in the water and we've got the Hydra and whatever the FR that thing is over there can you do anything to restore her to her senses I short of getting her unconscious or getting her her closer to us possibly I don't entirely know what afflicts her um Cella is going to look like watch the body of Artemis get pulled into the bushes see these little creatures to the southeast and just drop Dr his head and turned to vasana get back to the bushes now I go and she like shakes her head and she starts to retreat backwards 30 feet but she like immediately like kind of turns around and she's like what are you coming I'll be there and it is your turn says deuces Sprints it teleport yeah he's like I've been saving this spell yeah suckers I can't see anything in the water right now like I can't see the Hydra I can't see the elemental I definitely can't see Sila behind the Hydra you just see Bubbles and blood in that one floating head that is beginning to drift away a little bit so you have a real relative idea of where they are but no you cannot pinpoint them okay I want to try to pot shot a scorching Ray into the water just to try to weaken something in there um okay H yeah we we did it a little weird last time it was like a percentage roll to see if it hit or something yeah but now that there's potentially shoot at least one creature in front of the Hydra in the water sure um all right roll your to hits okay uh I'm rolling this at uh I need to mark that spell slot third level higher okay I'm GNA I'm GNA fire this at I need to conserve at second level so it's going to be three Rays all right okay so this is three to hits first one is a 22 okay uh second one is only a 14 okay third one is a 25 okay on the first one uh roll me a D1 100 26 and above you hit the Hydra 26 and above 15 okay uh second one roll me a the same thing 26 and above you hit the earth Elemental 49 okay so roll your damage on that one for me uh eight eight points of uh fire damage okay and then the third one 26 and above you hit the Hydra okay 31 okay wow o uh 10 points of fire damage there very nice very nice uh Sila in the water you just see this bright light comes searing down and Pierce through a bit of degon and deon's looking So Right For the Kill right now uh all right and then I going[Music] to I'm going to run as far back as I can back to this tree okay that is my turn it's the hydra's turn it's now got two fig figes near it and it has eight heads and it can't regenerate at the end of this turn nope its first head is going to strike out at Sila uh that is a 14 for a 22 to hit oh yeah that hits that hits okay that is 15 points of piercing damage that was Max second one is going to be on illa natural 16 for a 24 to hit yep that is 12 points of piercing damage you still up oh yeah okay all right third head is coming for you I'm so I'm having oh that's right yep uh natural 19 so definitely going to be a hit uh you take 10 points of piercing damage fourth head is going to come at you and I like I keep going back to this Deon image because it's perfect it's just maw after ma coming to bite down on you ripping into you um all right that one is a Miss for sure with a natural six fifth head is going to go after the Earth Elemental Miss six head after the elemental natural 19 does 11 points of damage to the elemental um and it is now looking really nervous as it can see one creature it's hardly fighting with but Sila you're smaller and squishier so it's going to take the Elementals are resistance to those as well yes no I'm mocking some stuff uh all right it's going to take its last two hits on you because it's now going to try to work a path out of here uh seventh is a miss and that last one is a hit that is another 10 points of piercing damage I'm up uh and now I need to roll a perception check for it natural 20 on the perception check unbeknownst to like anybody but Sila it's a tension like you can you see like deon's head SL this hydra's head turned to the Northeast and for all of us the Hydra just begins to panic and uh it is going to attempt to flee so Sila you're going to get an attack of opportunity and the Earth Elemental is going to get an attack of opportunity if Sila kills it while she's mad we still split XP right we'll see are we allies 26 to hit absolutely a hit what we got to kill one thing in this fight can can the elemental go first sure uh no that's a natural three so it's missing okay uh not great uh that's going to be 12 points of slashing describe your kill of dayon let's go Deon deeon is just slapped out with eight different tentacles and then it looks at me and I see panic in its eyes it's not looking at me but I think it is and when it's panicking and goes to flee she turns and just slices right where the big eye would be and then I think she also reaches out with her hand to like grab some of it and just yank uh ands ooh I like that I see that as being one of the heads was pointed at you and you just managed to like get up in through its M and it was just weak enough that you detach that head and that's what you've grabbed onto and that's your trophy you have one of these heads in your hands uh all right however you see the Earth Elemental and you see that wave of leeches in the gargantuan creature to the northeast of you um it's now vlad's turn Okay vad is now unconscious Sila oh yeah some stuff's happening uh or technically I guess I should roll for it here so let's see they [ __ ] puming him to sleep goz go sleep go sleep go sleep go sleep goep is not a fan yeah no he's probably fighting back and like he's like trying to attack them he is he is trying to like burn and Claw and bite his way out um does a 23 hit him I'm rolling decently well tonight yeah yeah it [ __ ] does he's a worm L he [ __ ] does he's a [ __ ] child 10 points a damage on the first one does a 26 hit your toddler I can totally see in the future when I have a kiddo and like all of you are here for a birthday party it being D and D themed brenon just rolls some inflatable Dy and is like oh a 26 hey Will does that hit your baby and just Chuck it at my child gonna [ __ ] stop your kid[Laughter] Johnson oh God I can see it too all right is Vlad still awake yeah he's still awake all right second hit natural 19 so that's another hit yeah it hits sure uh that's another 10 points of damage yeah he's asleep he's asleep now okay Vlad is officially unconscious is is he unconscious and dying non he's not unconscious and dying he is just unconscious great Sila it's your turn you have slain Deon maybe but now I wonder how this changes in your mind as you see this Earth Elemental but this even more gargantuan figure heading in your direction Deon has brought their infernal allies and I will beat them uh and I want to go after that which is closest which is the elemental okay and unfortunately I'm getting very close to the party yes yes indeed the rest of the party that you haven't merked yet taking him down I'm probably not going to well he'll take full damage from my attacks cuz they are magical but yep he's going to be a a hefty Beast for sure he he really is um okay I'm going to take my actually bonus action and view my blade okay and it zips ice so we're like we're all on the page that there's no way Sila leaves this combat conscious like there's no like not even it's going to happen like it has to happen just like alive yeah um she's going to be the one the the leech King gets here is appropriate for you to have said that as I rolled a not one oh no my first attack trap card Jinx attack I would say where Sila is too you're now at the point where you're in the shallows so like through the branches of the trees in the growth saell and vasana could like just start to make you out through that growth as well and you're just going toe to- Toe with this Earth Elemental I don't think that hits either either uh it's a 12 nope I uh I said I didn't think it hit can I make it Precision go for it 12 + 5 is 17 that's exactly a hit damn I'm going to 17 down um you just go ahead and clear the board for us I'm working on it where was this Sila come on no Sila was basically merked most of the alligators last time okay so this I mean yeah Sila has done most of the dirty work in this like three layer combat mhm 23 points of piercing and Five Points of cold damn God damn yeah this Earth Elemental got [ __ ] up uh yeah you you cut into it with caliburn part of its arm freezes and then just like crumbles off in this large chunk okay right but this turn that is that's your turn for the moment it's the Earth Elemental who's going to slam you the [ __ ] back you can try uh well not going to happen that one that's a natural three you been there man Jesus that's rough buddy yes it's not it's a natural 20 oh uh okay y'all remember the scene from Avengers when uh the Hulk Smasher uh Iron Man armor just puts Hulk through the ground oh yeah yeah so it's so it's two 28 maxed Brendan uh well you roll the the 2D eight and then you add 16 yeah okay that's what I that's what I thought I was just double Che and then plus the modifier that's 26 points of damage bludgeoning damage to S you still you still up are you still okay yeah I have the damage guys still please I don't know if that's a good thing anymore you've been taking shots all right that's the Earth Elementals turn and we are now up at the top of the order been getting yed oh dear bye Sila we'll remember you in therapy seal is once again going to be the only surviving member hey Artemis is potentially okay eaten by rat[Music] people oh it's a well it's a swamp they're probably muskrats all people are terrifying will play but they hold hands while they're cracking your skull you all turn as this gargantuan creature in this water closes in on the form of the hydro who is like some of its heads are beginning to float to the surface and you see that large kind of like Dome dip down and then erupting from the water amongst all heads that are bobbing there is just it these squiggling masses of leeches as they start to collect and almost completely block out all the exposed parts of the Hydra until this truly massive jaw comes up from underneath and clamps around the Hydra and it gets sent up into the air where you see this massive monstrous Twisted crocodilian figure where only half to maybe a quarter of its body comes in out where it then crashes back down into the water and you can just hear this sickening crunch as you hear the hydra's body begin to split when that happens the three small figures nearest safel and basana one of them comes up to you and is like retreat Retreat back into the bushes hide yourself we shall try to retrieve your friends and what like they're saying this to vasana as well what do you say in response before they continue the rest of their turn she is not herself you will have to subdue her first we can do that quickly hide and two of the two of the figures begin sprinting forward and are going to get to the trees um you can make a uh nature check sael okay I will do that okay I'm going to burn a knowledge on this okay 3020 he remers last time he hid underneath the stairs you remember his cowardice you see or realize that it is a couple of goblins or a few goblins that are in these Gilly disguise suits that Sprint forward and are now like closing in on Sila okay uh they are both going to throw Nets at you Sam um I just need to double check here uh do I know anything about the creature that I saw jump out other than just it's a giant [ __ ] crocodile from what you could make out in that Split Second it looks absolutely crocodilian but you have never seen something of that nature in that proportion like gotcha you've read of dinosaurs you have seen astral creatures that would explode people's minds if they had even considered it but a crocod a crocodile of in like the perhaps half or quarter that you saw being 40 feet in just that section you're like no effing way no effing way no um all right Sam I need you to make dexterity saving throws two of them tell me the first and then the second the first is a nine okay so that's a fail the second is a 16 okay the 16 succeeds the nine fails you are now wrapped up in this net and it is like closing around you you're probably going to succeed on this I need you to make a strength check or Athletics I have Advantage because I'm raging y sure do that's why I was like you're probably going to succeed on this 26 yep and 12 so you are not pulled away and it probably feels like to you that a tentacle has wrapped around you and is trying to like pull you away Oh's going to MC the poor Goblin people try save us uh actually you something has been cast on you you do not need to roll fair enough you I get it you are stabilized you're you've been touched um the goblin people are pulling us into the bush isn't touching us run run away s you should K is that David Bowie I see one of them better be named David I it's it's gonna be now yeah you can call him Bowie Goblin King David Bowie here's the Goblin King it all makes sense it really does um V sees Sila struggling against these goblins and she runs forward and she is like s come to your senses please and I can see it just like you're foaming at the mouth truly monstrous in your own right fighting back against them so she does what she feels is something of a mercy and she reaches out her hand I need you to make a wisdom saving throw and the healing spirit all of a sudden disappears as she does this she cast disintegrate kills you Mr St I feel so good that is a fail wild friend she casts mind Spike and you are going to take 38 psychic damage oh no you don't have that this is some[ __ ] you take 18 points of psychic damage well she's a lucky [ __ ] cuz I had 18 hit points left damn so you're at zero you're just straight unconscious straight unconscious okay Sila is unconscious the Goblins have her uh Cel it's technically your turn what do you do if anything or do you continue to hide do I see Sila go down yes you see Sila's form in the net just splash down into the little bit of water that's there I third level Vortex warper next to me done let's go out of there um all right do you do anything else in that moment uh I'm going to retreat as far back are there bushes around this tree like it's yeah you are like in the thick of it all you got to do is like Crouch down to give yourself a bonus to hiding here I am crouching down and I am pulling Sila's body in with me okay Vlad is unconscious Sila you're still unconscious and now dying roll that next round oh is my death save okay mhm you can't really non-lethal a mine Spike three uh that's a fail headache headache yeah uh it is the earth Elemental turn good luck dud who just sees this gargan crocodilian creature and is going to go to slam it twice poor [ __ ] man that Elemental is going to suck to pass later level that's a that's a natural two and a natural eight both of which do not break through the armor of this creature of course um God this is one of those creatures they make memes about like does a 30 hit no no yeah you all of a sudden see the form of the earth Elemental um I'm going to double check this with rolls but I'm pretty sure it's got it in hand here yeah and okay yeah just beat the Earth Elemental by one you see the Earth Elementals body all of a sudden erupt from the water and go flying towards the east about five 35 feet and just splash down uh and I need to roll damage for that that's a lot of damage I don't like the river King you know I think be passed on this Quest it takes 36 damage I didn't roll fall damage uh yeah that was enough that the Earth Elemental sinks down and crumbles into dust and then slowly coming up from the water you see this large Twisted scarred crocodilian head I want you guys to picture Godzilla essentially as it's starts like standing up on its H like hunches its legs you see one arm raise out of the water and where it would end in a crocodilian hand you see its warped and twisted into this like blade like arm while the other is now longer and more like a human hand and Claws and you can see in its mouth is one of the hydr heads which it just flicks up opens its mouth closes down upon and swallows and then you see it's to like shake and you see its skin beginning to split as these multiple fissures erupt along its back and sides as multiple large leech heads begin to grow from outside of its body and then it opens its towards the coast of the island where the Goblins is and opens it up and you see emerging from inside of its gullet like you see this a massive another leech head just come out like a parasite and then multiple leeches begin emerging as it unleashes a breath weapon at them and I'm now going to reveal the token of the river King e take a look at that for you guys thank you God just streamers of large leeches just launching towards these Goblin bosses um those are the tokens that I chose here vasana and sael because you can see this creature actually let me check the radius uh distance on this no you're both Out Of Reach you do not need to roll sanity checks okay you see those goblins just get immediately covered in leeches and are just like like did any of you guys see the King Kong uh the original remake like in the early mid 2000s where the guys are like in the insect Valley and are getting actively eaten by the Giant Leeches yeah that's essentially what's happening multiple limbs are being devoured and can I choose to avert my gaze yeah 100% you can bury my head in the bushes and listen to the screams go quiet as that's uh as this happens we're jumping down to basana who is immediately running back and like dives into the bushes with the three of you the one Goblin is that's with you guys is like do not do not move nothing do not speak do not go in to the water not a problem so vasana just sits there and hides seel it's your turn what do you do uh okay do I still do I still have a potion I uh I do I do I have one so you administer it to Sila I have one regular healing potion I'm going to administer it okay so max that what is that eight hit points uh 10 10 nice Sila you are awoken as this bottle leaves your lips and like everything comes to mind to you SEL do you say anything to her in that moment considering the situation that you're in I I mean he's carefully watching but we he's hoping because of like historical evidence that falling unconscious snapped snapped her out of it but he's like watching her eyes watching her facial expression he is like keeping an eye on anything but he's just holding his fingers to his mouth please I need you to be you I need you to be quiet Sila it's your turn what do you do am I can you confirm that I am no longer you are no longer uh affected by your shter Madness Co yeah that potion hits her her lips it disappears and I think I think just biologically it's kind of like gasping it's this big like beon and she like wakes up you are safe s stay down you can hear that Goblin beside you there yeah I think she will definitely stay quiet but also look around like are we in a bush and then you would hear like the splashing in the the screams to the north of illa and like through the the leaves of this this tall uh grass here you would see the horrible form of the river King just up on its hunches moving towards that large leech like appendage coming out of its open maw um uh then I will uh I would Second Wind okay I don't know that that looks like anything I think it's just like it's probably like an adrenaline rush that's how I've always pictured second Wing like you see this and you're like holy [ __ ] fight or flight is coming in and it's like am I going to have to fight again and it's just like you're amping yourself up again okay yeah she uh she sees the creature feels that adrenaline rush and I have 11 more HIIT Point okay uh that's it let me ask everybody something here starer you are healed for 12 hip points and you are surrounded by these ghilly suit covered goblins who are immediately like rest you with allies please please and it's just like masks with these holes and you can see their little yellow eyes underneath you can see Vlad who is unconscious beside you now released of his net but there's a couple that had like were holding clubs uh and you can see like they had to knock him out in this moment what do you do I feel like he's takes a big deep breath um but realizing that he is not dead um he will pull up his hood uh and slink further into the Shadows um over near Vlad um and the only thing I would like to check is is is is he still like breathing or is he is is Vlad stable or is he also in a Vlad is stable he's clearly just been bludgeoned enough to be knocked unconscious but not dying and the uh the Goblins around you are like he would not quiet down we must be silent did not enter the waters or he will find us star will just nod and like kneel next to Vlad um his hand once again on Dawn Edge as you all sit in silence hiding yourselves you see those leeches from that breath Devour the Goblins that had been trying to assist Sila but the river King then kind of retracts SL swallows that almost secondary head back down into its throat and then turn like turns towards the water where the rest of the hydris carcass is and then like almost gulps and that head that leech head comes out from inside of its M latches onto the Hydra and like retracts it towards the larger crocodilian maw and then it dips into the water and you can see it's be beginning to swim away until unless anybody says otherwise it will continue to swim away unless anybody takes any actions against it yeah let's kill it no I'm chilling okay so you all wait until like a good 10 15 minutes at the urgings Of the Goblins until one of them finally like they are like stay here we will communicate with our friends if your other friend is alive and they creep out and same to you Artemis one of the figures with you comes out and you wait another minute or two and then you feel them creeping back into the reads and it's hard to disting them but they appear and they go the king is gone your friends are safe who are you and we'll catch up with you guys next time oh boy boy howdy I didn't think that was going to work out very well look at us uh just like us here at the man table the s crew always comes out on top now speaking of the mic table if you enjoyed this episode please rate or review um those five 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