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[30.6s] of Zone of Truth.
[31.8s] Yeah!
[33.4s] I found myself face to face with this man riding the dragon.
[38.1s] I begged for my life and he agreed in exchange
[42.6s] for information on other settlements
[45.5s] and that's where I was going tonight
[48.3s] to meet him and tell him about you showing up.
[51.8s] Where could they be?
[53.1s] GAlydindin comes forward and says,
[54.4s] "'Yeah, yeah, dude, there's probably a couple
[56.3s] of waterfalls in that direction.'"
[58.0s] I want to go now.
[60.6s] Perhaps we wait until morning.
[62.9s] You guys all head to bed?
[65.2s] Flint, starting on your chest,
[66.8s] something you didn't notice to this point is dragon scales.
[70.5s] You feel like you're looking through somebody else's eyes
[74.5s] and Borg begins talking through you.
[76.9s] I think we are becoming what's known as one.
[81.8s] What do you mean by one?
[82.9s] If they're not taken care of in time,
[87.2s] the host disappears.
[89.5s] How am I going to tell the group about this?
[91.7s] Maybe, yeah, task at hand
[93.0s] and then kind of put it next on the list.
[95.1s] All right, we start off in the direction
[96.6s] in which he had told us.
[97.9s] The waterfall is about 30 miles.
[100.9s] Help!
[101.8s] You come upon this woman on the ground
[104.5s] and she has her leg trapped underneath a tree.
[107.6s] Let's all get in there.
[109.5s] Let's all go try and move this tree.
[111.6s] Heroes at last.
[113.4s] And the woman picks flowers from her hair
[115.8s] and then twists her fingers to weave them into garland
[118.3s] as she lays a garland around each of your necks.
[121.4s] You begin to hear the waterfall off in the distance.
[125.1s] You notice that there are thin spider web
[128.1s] and you look up into the trees
[129.8s] and you see what looks like seven giant spiders
[133.5s] and jumping down behind you, three Ettercaps.
[138.9s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[140.6s] We are a fifth edition actual play podcast.
[142.8s] I am your dungeon master, Russ More
[144.8s] and with me today is Karla Johnson.
[147.2s] Yay, first out of the gate.
[149.1s] I'm Karla, I play new Laura Moonbrook.
[151.0s] And Tom Laird.
[152.9s] Second place is the first loser, damn it.
[156.2s] Yeah, I'm Tom, I play Flynn Firebeard.
[158.9s] I like these sayings.
[159.9s] Okay, Amy, go.
[161.1s] I'm Amy More, I play Thea Amastasia
[164.2s] and Fridge versus Human.
[166.8s] Fridge will win every time.
[169.2s] I wanna hear the story.
[170.2s] We have not heard it yet.
[171.6s] This is anticipation.
[172.5s] It's not an epic tale.
[173.9s] I've been on the edge of my seat this whole time.
[175.9s] I'm sorry, the anticipation has been up there
[177.3s] but it's not an epic tale.
[178.6s] Russ was putting beer into the fridge.
[180.1s] I was also putting things into the fridge.
[182.0s] He lifted a beer case over my head
[185.9s] or what I thought was over my head
[187.7s] at the same time as I was getting up
[189.2s] and I was like, I'm gonna move out of his way.
[191.4s] And as I stood up really quickly for some reason,
[197.6s] I hit my head on the handle of the freezer.
[201.2s] Oh God.
[203.0s] I hit my head really hard and I was like,
[204.5s] I'm gonna throw up and I felt really dizzy
[208.2s] but we had things to do.
[209.2s] We were going to Russ's sister's.
[211.2s] So I go into the bathroom to do my hair
[213.2s] and I'm straightening my hair
[214.4s] and I part my hair and I go out
[215.9s] and then I look and it's all bloody.
[220.4s] The fridge took a chunk out of my head.
[222.6s] Oh my God.
[224.2s] I've been like off and on like dizzy
[227.4s] and kind of not feeling the best
[229.2s] and I think I jarred my body really hard too
[232.0s] and now I just have like aches just all over.
[235.2s] So fridge versus human.
[238.2s] Fridge wins every time.
[240.5s] I'm sorry, Amy.
[241.3s] I'm sorry to hear that.
[242.7s] And now my headset, my headphones hurt
[247.4s] where they rest on my head
[248.6s] so I'll be constantly adjusting them.
[251.0s] So good.
[251.8s] So how are you guys doing?
[252.6s] Yeah.
[254.4s] Not concussed.
[255.9s] Not concussed.
[256.8s] Yeah, totally fine.
[258.2s] Good.
[260.6s] Just me then.
[262.4s] So Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[263.8s] We've got a great community going on over there
[265.8s] and we're on our way to our second goal
[267.9s] which you can help us reach.
[270.0s] Whoa.
[271.4s] What's our second goal?
[273.0s] When we reach a hundred dollars a month,
[274.9s] we give away either Xanathar's Guide
[279.0s] and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
[281.7s] which is the new book coming out
[284.1s] or you can get Rise of Tiamat
[287.3s] and the Hoard of the Dragon Queen adventure modules.
[290.2s] The ones we are playing through right now.
[293.6s] Very cool.
[294.5s] But if you win and you get those,
[296.6s] no spoilies, please.
[299.4s] Yes.
[300.3s] I'm gonna say.
[301.1s] I don't wanna get any Facebook messages
[303.1s] of people being like.
[304.4s] Do this.
[305.2s] Hey, dumb dumb.
[306.6s] This is what you're supposed to do.
[307.5s] You guys have been so bad at this.
[308.9s] Hey, dumb dumb.
[310.7s] Like we know, we're not that good at it.
[312.8s] We're having fun though, God.
[316.6s] We should say that in game in anger.
[318.2s] Everyone we're trying to help in favor.
[321.2s] We're just playing a game here.
[322.6s] We're just having some fun.
[324.2s] Just messing around, it's fine.
[326.1s] The end of the world is a game to you.
[328.0s] That's what really matters, right?
[329.6s] Whether we win or lose,
[330.7s] just that everyone has fun on.
[332.9s] Yeah.
[333.8s] That and the orange slices at halftime.
[336.2s] Yes.
[337.7s] Exactly.
[338.8s] Yeah.
[341.0s] Didn't play youth soccer, Russ, come on.
[342.7s] No.
[345.3s] Sports.
[346.9s] Those are very emphatic, no.
[349.8s] Impressive.
[350.6s] Yep.
[351.4s] Sports are on this side.
[352.9s] Yeah.
[353.7s] Music and role playing is on this side.
[356.0s] Well, Amy, where is our sports podcast
[359.4s] that you're hosting?
[361.4s] Don't do that.
[362.2s] I wouldn't be good at that either.
[363.6s] I mean, I'm bad at this one too.
[364.7s] Heck, if I can do a sports podcast.
[366.9s] Carla's idea, you have to do it together.
[369.3s] Ah.
[370.1s] It would be me and Carla going,
[371.5s] a lot of sports thing is happening right now.
[373.4s] They're sports thing really well.
[374.6s] And now we throw to our guest, Tom,
[376.0s] who actually knows something about sports.
[377.4s] Tom, go.
[378.3s] Who actually knows quite a bit about sports.
[379.1s] Sports Corner, all right.
[380.8s] Yeah.
[381.8s] Sporner, no.
[383.4s] Or Sporner.
[384.2s] Sports.
[385.2s] So.
[386.0s] All right.
[386.9s] I like that second one better.
[389.2s] So if you join us on Patreon,
[390.7s] we won't have Sports Corner.
[392.0s] We promise.
[392.9s] But we do have a Gook Hang
[394.0s] on the fourth Tuesday of every month.
[396.4s] Yeah.
[397.2s] I love Tuesdays.
[398.7s] We can talk about sports on that Gook Hang.
[400.5s] Like up to date.
[401.3s] Oh, that's true.
[402.2s] Up to date sports scores.
[403.9s] And.
[404.7s] Absolutely.
[406.1s] Statistics.
[406.9s] And then there's the bonus episodes,
[408.4s] the dungeon side scrollers.
[409.8s] We're going through a sweet adventure
[411.4s] DM'd by Tom Laird.
[413.0s] Which is.
[413.8s] Oh, hey, that's me.
[414.8s] Pretty, pretty, pretty good.
[417.8s] It's real fun.
[418.6s] It's hilarious.
[419.4s] It's real fun.
[420.3s] So you wanna go check that out.
[423.4s] And that's really all I got.
[425.6s] So fuck it.
[426.4s] Let's play some D&D.
[427.4s] Yeah.
[428.3s] Yay.
[429.4s] Which there's a design for a T-shirt
[432.0s] in the works for that.
[433.7s] Coming soon.
[434.6s] I want that T-shirt.
[436.4s] Soon.
[437.4s] I wouldn't feel like I could wear it out.
[440.1s] Oh, like I need Addy up from school.
[442.7s] Yeah.
[443.5s] I assume it'll have like an asterisk
[446.2s] or like a thing, right?
[447.8s] Yeah.
[448.6s] That's how I want it to be some sort of.
[449.4s] The profanity will be like the big F
[451.6s] and then like the at symbol or whatever.
[455.1s] Yeah.
[456.9s] But yeah.
[457.8s] So we'll figure out what that looks like.
[459.2s] Coming soon.
[462.2s] So you guys find yourselves in the middle
[464.0s] of a whole bunch of spider's webs.
[466.6s] From what you assume,
[468.0s] you can hear the waterfall off in the distance.
[471.5s] You think you're, I don't know.
[473.4s] You're a little bit away.
[474.3s] So you're within earshot of the waterfall.
[476.5s] So we'll just say that.
[478.0s] And you're surrounded now by three Ettercaps
[481.2s] and seven giant spiders.
[484.8s] Yay.
[485.6s] Roll for initiative.
[486.5s] Woo hoo.
[487.9s] 16.
[489.0s] Six.
[490.1s] 14.
[491.5s] Oh wait, 15.
[492.4s] Cause of my bonus.
[494.6s] I was wrong.
[495.8s] Six.
[498.0s] Is the, all right.
[499.2s] Flint, you're playing Thaddeus.
[501.1s] Oh, right.
[501.9s] Yep.
[502.8s] And who's playing Flammokins?
[505.2s] Russ?
[506.0s] I'll play Flammokins.
[506.9s] Well, I can play Flammokins.
[509.2s] We can talk about what you guys do.
[511.2s] 12.
[512.6s] 10 for Thaddeus.
[513.9s] Spiders get to go first.
[516.0s] So they drop down a ways from the canopy of the forest.
[521.5s] They are going to shoot their web down.
[524.0s] Each of you get shot at by one of the spiders.
[529.0s] So that's one, two, three, four, five.
[532.5s] So we'll go down initiative order here.
[534.5s] Nularaaaa, that is going to be a 12.
[538.3s] Against AC?
[539.6s] Against your, yeah, attack to hit.
[542.2s] It's a ranged weapon attack.
[543.5s] So that's against your AC.
[544.8s] Okay.
[545.6s] That does not hit.
[546.5s] I thought you were telling me 12 damage for a second.
[548.2s] I was like, come on.
[550.8s] I haven't even done anything yet.
[552.5s] No, no.
[553.4s] You missed.
[554.2s] And you're not allowed to.
[555.1s] Flint, that's a 21.
[557.9s] Do I have any resistance to web-based attacks?
[561.0s] I don't know.
[561.9s] You picked your feats.
[562.8s] Did you go web-based on this one there, spider boy?
[566.9s] Pretty sure it did.
[569.2s] Nope, nope.
[570.0s] Okay, so you are restrained by webbing.
[573.1s] As an action on your turn,
[574.9s] the restrained target can make a DC strength check,
[578.8s] bursting the webbing on a success.
[582.5s] The webbing can also be attacked and destroyed.
[586.9s] But it's immune to psychic damage, just so you know.
[589.7s] Okay, I'll keep that in mind.
[591.3s] For all my psychic attacks.
[592.9s] Flamikins Kins is a 17.
[594.6s] Oh yeah, that hits her.
[595.6s] All right, she is also restrained.
[597.4s] Thaddeus is a 20.
[599.6s] Yep. Jesus.
[600.6s] He is also restrained.
[603.5s] Thea is a 13.
[606.3s] Not good enough.
[607.7s] Not good enough, even without your shield.
[609.2s] And then there are two more that will attack Nulara
[614.3s] for a 21 and Thea for a seven.
[617.8s] Well, it's all fucking you, Thea, so.
[619.0s] So Nulara is also restrained.
[621.5s] I got you guys.
[623.8s] So that's all the spiders.
[626.4s] And that's all they get to do right now.
[629.4s] So Nulara, it's your turn.
[631.0s] That's all.
[631.8s] Okay, so I'm restrained and, sorry, on my turn.
[635.8s] I have to.
[637.6s] As an action, the restrained target
[639.6s] can make a DC strength check, a DC 12 strength check.
[644.3s] Strength check, okay.
[646.2s] That is a 12.
[648.4s] So you burst from the webbing
[651.2s] and you're not restrained anymore.
[652.6s] Great.
[653.5s] I guess that is my movement or?
[656.7s] No, that's one of your attack actions.
[659.0s] Okay, great.
[660.0s] Remember how I already had my sword out and on fire
[663.1s] because we were like burning the.
[665.1s] We were burning the.
[666.3s] Because we were not into the things.
[667.8s] Okay, perfect.
[668.7s] So I will take my second attack.
[671.8s] And so are they still a ways away?
[674.4s] The spiders are right above you.
[677.8s] They're out of reach, but.
[679.4s] Okay, and then what about them Ettercaps?
[682.0s] They're coming at you from where you were coming
[684.8s] and they're within 15 feet closing in on you.
[688.8s] Okay, okay.
[689.6s] So that's obviously within my movement.
[691.4s] So I guess I'll attack one of those.
[693.5s] Okay.
[694.9s] So that is a 23.
[698.2s] Against the Ettercaps.
[699.3s] Oh yeah, 23.
[700.8s] Okay, that's 17 damage.
[704.0s] Nice.
[706.8s] I guess that's my second attack,
[708.1s] but Donny maybe will fly up
[711.7s] and try and like chomp on one of them Spideys.
[714.4s] Sure.
[716.6s] Oh my God.
[718.1s] Oh my God, you guys.
[718.9s] Let me just like, he definitely chomped it.
[722.2s] It's been so long since Donny actually hit anything.
[724.2s] I can't remember what his plus is to his attack roll,
[726.8s] but Donny got a 21.
[730.8s] Whoa, Donny.
[731.9s] Donny.
[732.8s] Does that hit the Spidey?
[734.0s] Yep.
[735.2s] It's amazing.
[736.1s] Get ready for not very much damage.
[738.0s] Sorry, he's just a little guy.
[741.2s] Five damage.
[744.2s] And he has to do a con saving throw.
[748.2s] Sure does.
[749.5s] Come on Donny, put this giant ass spider to sleep.
[752.2s] This will be the best thing.
[754.5s] It's a five.
[758.4s] 11 savings throw five or more.
[762.6s] The target falls unconscious for one hour.
[767.7s] Nice.
[768.7s] Yeah.
[770.4s] Now we need two guys to come and pick it up
[773.4s] and like gently place it or like fluff it
[778.0s] like a blanket.
[779.8s] Like a small child.
[780.7s] Like a toddler.
[783.6s] Honestly, I don't remember if this has ever
[785.8s] actually happened before.
[787.0s] Maybe once before he put someone to sleep.
[789.1s] So it is similar to the sleep spell
[791.1s] I think in our other game where he's unconscious,
[795.7s] he's been poisoned, but if someone shakes him awake,
[800.7s] he will wake up.
[801.6s] So he's not like in a coma or anything.
[803.6s] Or does like physical damage to him.
[805.8s] Yes, yes.
[807.1s] So Donny right now, like, I don't know,
[810.4s] has a boner.
[811.2s] He's so excited.
[812.3s] Like how did this happen?
[813.1s] Donny's like fucking moonwalking all over the place.
[815.4s] Seriously, like that is a giant, giant spider.
[820.3s] It's amazing.
[821.5s] I'm very proud of him.
[822.8s] Way to go Donny.
[823.8s] All right, sorry, I'm just trying to find
[825.6s] hit points here.
[826.6s] It's okay, I was just talking about Donny's boner.
[828.2s] It probably wasn't flying.
[830.6s] It was great.
[831.6s] You are really missing a lot there.
[834.8s] Flint, you're up.
[836.0s] All right.
[837.8s] You are restrained.
[839.4s] Okay, I guess I should roll to see
[841.0s] if I can get out of that first off.
[842.8s] Yep.
[844.5s] That is a 19 plus all my bonuses.
[847.4s] So I think I'm good.
[848.6s] You bust free from said webbing.
[850.9s] She wants to break free.
[853.8s] Can you let me know like what's in front of me Russ?
[857.7s] Yep.
[858.8s] Your friends?
[859.7s] Like where are all these spiders?
[861.0s] Are they above us?
[862.2s] Spiders are in the trees.
[863.4s] Except that one that fell down.
[865.1s] Except that one that is now sleeping on the ground.
[867.1s] Nobody's at it.
[868.4s] Or unconscious rather, not sleeping.
[869.6s] Leave it alone.
[870.4s] Leave it alone.
[871.8s] So you got three other caps.
[872.6s] Put a giant glass over top of it.
[874.8s] Flint, you were in front.
[876.3s] So you are the farthest from them.
[878.6s] But you can still make it there.
[881.9s] They're, yeah, you're probably about 30 feet out.
[884.6s] Okay, and the guys above us in the trees,
[888.3s] how many of them are there?
[890.2s] Six up in the trees, one unconscious on the ground.
[893.5s] And are any of them within like five feet
[896.2s] of the other ones?
[898.6s] And how high up in the trees are they?
[901.1s] They're probably about 15 feet above you.
[904.6s] Okay, perfect.
[905.4s] And any like clumped together?
[908.0s] No, they're pretty well spread out.
[911.8s] What are you looking for?
[912.8s] What do you want to do here?
[913.7s] I know, I can't wait.
[915.1s] Well, I'm thinking it's what time I-
[916.1s] What kind of vertical leap does Flint have?
[918.5s] I use that lightning breath.
[920.6s] That's just sitting in my chest waiting to be let out.
[924.1s] Oh yeah, remember you can do that?
[925.9s] It's been a long time since the lightning breath.
[926.8s] What's the, what's the, the cone or range
[930.8s] or whatever on that one?
[932.2s] The lightning is five by 30 foot line.
[935.6s] So that's why I asked if any of them are within
[937.3s] like five feet of one another.
[938.7s] You could hit possibly three of them
[942.9s] shooting up and straight into the trees there.
[946.5s] Well, let's do that then.
[948.2s] Okay.
[949.5s] The save you have to make Russ is a 15
[952.3s] and it's a dex save.
[953.9s] Dex on my spiders.
[956.8s] Dex on the spiders.
[958.6s] I haven't been there before.
[961.4s] Dex three.
[963.8s] So the one, two, three.
[967.6s] So that's eight, 17, 16.
[971.2s] So- Okay, so two of them save.
[973.5s] On the fail is three D six
[975.3s] and the other ones are half of that.
[976.9s] Okay.
[977.8s] I'm crying, trying not to laugh at Tom's.
[981.0s] Four, three, seven and six is 13.
[991.9s] And I guess that's my second attack.
[993.8s] So I will just chill there.
[996.5s] Well, maybe I'll move in front of everyone
[998.4s] but not all the way to the Ettercaps.
[1000.7s] So Nularaaa is engaged in combat with the Ettercaps.
[1004.0s] Oh, all right.
[1005.4s] Yeah.
[1006.2s] Then I'll just go a little closer
[1007.1s] but not all the way there.
[1008.2s] Okay.
[1009.3s] Got it.
[1010.2s] Flamikins, you're up.
[1011.9s] Well, let's just fucking do it.
[1013.5s] Light them up.
[1015.6s] All right.
[1016.5s] So Flamikins.
[1018.9s] You just tell me what Flamikins does
[1020.1s] and I'll act it out for you.
[1021.0s] Yes, yes.
[1021.8s] Okay.
[1022.6s] This reminds me of a time when it was on a ship.
[1026.6s] And there was not spiders specifically,
[1029.4s] but it was rats.
[1030.7s] But there was that super cool dice game
[1033.2s] that everybody understood.
[1034.2s] Oh man, we had just finished playing.
[1036.4s] They didn't even let us finish the dice game.
[1038.1s] I mean, it was like one of those,
[1039.6s] it went on for like six days,
[1041.7s] one of those kind of dice games.
[1043.4s] Yeah.
[1048.3s] Okay.
[1049.2s] She's going to use infestation.
[1053.6s] It's an instantaneous attack
[1056.2s] where a cloud of mites, fleas and other parasites
[1060.4s] appear around a spider that I choose in the air.
[1063.9s] I don't care which one they're all kind of up there
[1065.7s] except for the one that's on the ground, right?
[1067.0s] Yeah.
[1068.2s] And so they must succeed on a constitution saving throw
[1072.0s] or it takes two D six poison damage
[1077.0s] and moves five feet in a random direction.
[1079.9s] Okay.
[1080.7s] And I choose that by rolling a D four.
[1082.0s] Yep.
[1083.5s] So constitution.
[1085.1s] That's a five.
[1086.3s] Okay, well the damage is only four
[1088.6s] and I roll a D four.
[1091.2s] So north it goes higher, let's say.
[1094.2s] South it drops lower.
[1096.6s] Okay.
[1097.4s] And then east and west.
[1099.4s] So. Sure.
[1100.6s] North is one, south is two,
[1102.8s] east is three, west is four.
[1107.1s] East, so it moves five feet eastward.
[1111.5s] That spider is over here.
[1113.9s] A little bit to the other.
[1115.8s] Just a little bit, just shifts over.
[1119.1s] It makes a scurrying noise as Flammican screams out.
[1123.5s] Take that, bugs, take those bugs, bugs.
[1127.9s] Bug bitch.
[1129.6s] The old bug bitch.
[1130.8s] Bug bitch, fuckers.
[1132.6s] Oh wait, hold on, sorry, pause.
[1135.0s] I'm allowed to use fury of the small
[1137.7s] with an attack or a spell.
[1140.1s] And the creature size is larger than yours,
[1142.5s] which I'm assuming giant spiders are.
[1144.8s] They are large beasts.
[1146.8s] So I'm a small creature.
[1149.0s] The damage equals your level,
[1150.8s] the extra damage equals your level.
[1152.3s] So plus 10 damage.
[1154.0s] Nice.
[1155.0s] Ha ha.
[1156.3s] Okay.
[1157.2s] Okay, yeah, what do you got there, Thaddeus?
[1159.3s] Oh, he should probably roll
[1160.8s] to see if he can get out of those spider webs though.
[1162.8s] If you want, I mean, he is restrained.
[1165.6s] Oh, well, I guess it doesn't matter.
[1167.1s] I'm not going anywhere.
[1168.4s] Do you want me to tell you what restraint does?
[1171.0s] Does it make me more like susceptible to hits?
[1173.9s] Yeah, attack rolls have advantage and moves.
[1178.0s] Oh, crit 20.
[1179.7s] Okay, so yeah, you're out.
[1180.9s] Yeah, is the Ettercap that Nulara is fighting
[1184.9s] like do I have a clear line of sight?
[1186.5s] Nulara is a little bit in front of Thaddeus
[1189.6s] and the Ettercap,
[1190.7s] but there is a clear line of sight to another Ettercap.
[1194.9s] Okay, let's go for the other Ettercap then.
[1197.3s] I'm going to use my cantrip of fire bolt.
[1202.3s] Okay.
[1203.2s] And I'm going to hurl some fire at him.
[1205.4s] And since I'm a level 10 character,
[1208.3s] oh no, it's level five that I get the bonus
[1210.5s] and level 11.
[1211.9s] Well, it's a 2d10 anyway.
[1213.6s] Yeah.
[1215.2s] So that's a 17 and six, so that's 23.
[1217.9s] Yep, that'll hit.
[1219.6s] All right, get ready for 2d10 damage.
[1222.9s] Nine and 10.
[1225.9s] Damn, good rolls.
[1226.7s] Thaddeus.
[1228.5s] Is Thaddeus moving anywhere or is he dead?
[1232.4s] No, he's going to stay stationary right there.
[1235.7s] The you're up.
[1237.3s] You're going to love this.
[1239.6s] Yeah.
[1240.5s] I like that grand Amy.
[1242.6s] I'm excited.
[1244.6s] Thea is going to cast conjure animal
[1248.4s] and she is going to conjure eight wolves.
[1252.9s] Oh my God.
[1253.8s] Hold on.
[1254.6s] That's a lot of wolves.
[1255.4s] It is a lot of wolves.
[1256.3s] Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.
[1257.1s] Because my wolves are medium beasts.
[1259.7s] They're only a challenge rating of.
[1261.3s] You got to keep track of all eight of your wolves.
[1263.0s] I need a pencil and a paper.
[1265.5s] Didn't plan this one out, did you?
[1266.8s] I'm not keeping track of eight wolves.
[1270.0s] Can I ask you a personal question?
[1271.9s] It's a personal question of Thea.
[1274.2s] Oh, yes.
[1275.0s] Did you conjure wolves
[1276.8s] because you're hoping Delaine's going to happen along
[1279.7s] and be like, oh, she's so wolfy.
[1283.3s] She's so. Yes.
[1284.7s] Okay.
[1287.6s] I'm hoping, you know, it stops by.
[1289.6s] So why not just practice being a little bit wolfy,
[1293.4s] a little extra wolfy.
[1295.0s] Little extra wolfy.
[1296.0s] I like it.
[1296.8s] I like it, Thea.
[1297.7s] Thanks for letting me ask you that personal question.
[1300.4s] No problem.
[1301.6s] Are you like yelling me that in battle?
[1303.2s] Like, Thea, hoping Delaine comes along?
[1308.3s] No, be like, shut up, Nulara, shut up.
[1312.1s] Just fight.
[1312.9s] It'll be like in the Lord of the Rings
[1314.2s] when Legolas and Gimli are counting up the orcs
[1317.6s] that they're killing.
[1318.7s] Instead, she'll just be like,
[1319.8s] are you summoning wolves to get a date?
[1322.4s] Yep.
[1323.6s] Sure am.
[1325.0s] Trying, girl, trying.
[1326.3s] Ettercaps are going to attack some bitches here.
[1329.8s] Ettercap on Nulara.
[1332.4s] We're the bitches, I know.
[1333.9s] Wait a minute.
[1336.5s] Oh, that's not very good.
[1337.8s] So that's a seven.
[1339.4s] Perfect.
[1340.2s] One going for Flint is an 18.
[1345.8s] What kind of attack do they make?
[1347.3s] Magic.
[1348.3s] No, I don't know.
[1349.4s] Like, is it a bite?
[1352.0s] Is it bludgeoning?
[1354.0s] It is using its web garrot.
[1356.4s] So it's going to be bludgeoning.
[1358.5s] Okay, yeah, 18 will hit.
[1360.0s] Yeah, it will.
[1361.3s] So you're going to take.
[1363.0s] Well, if it was slashing, it wouldn't have hit,
[1364.7s] so I had to make sure.
[1365.8s] It's true.
[1367.0s] You're going to take only three bludgeoning damage,
[1370.8s] but.
[1372.1s] In the butt.
[1373.0s] You are grappled.
[1376.8s] In the butt.
[1377.6s] In the butt damage.
[1379.5s] Usually, Thea gets the butt damage,
[1381.0s] so this is good.
[1382.0s] Someone else.
[1384.4s] Yep.
[1385.5s] But you are grappled.
[1386.6s] And because you are grappled with a web garrot,
[1389.3s] you can't breathe.
[1391.1s] Oh, that's fun.
[1392.0s] And the Ettercap has advantage
[1393.5s] on attack rolls against you.
[1395.1s] So the final.
[1395.9s] Is it just because it saw my lightning breath
[1397.6s] and was like, I gotta shut that shit down?
[1399.4s] Makes sense.
[1400.4s] Right?
[1401.4s] So Thaddeus is also web garrotted,
[1404.8s] because that's a 20, not critical.
[1407.5s] So Thaddeus is going to take five bludgeoning damage,
[1411.5s] and he is also grappled and cannot breathe.
[1414.8s] Okay, now how can we solve that situation of breathing?
[1419.6s] Well, there is an escape DC.
[1423.1s] Okay.
[1423.9s] I'm assuming on our turn though?
[1425.7s] On your turn, yep.
[1426.8s] Okay, yeah.
[1427.7s] So Nulara, you're up now.
[1430.6s] Back to the top.
[1432.0s] Okay.
[1433.6s] Then I will continue to attack that Ettercap
[1436.2s] that I was attacking.
[1438.8s] That was, that is a 30.
[1442.7s] Surprisingly doesn't, doesn't hit.
[1448.4s] Oh no.
[1450.3s] Like I said, it was a magic.
[1452.5s] Yeah, yeah.
[1454.0s] Just kind of iron man did out there.
[1456.5s] Yeah, no, that hits.
[1457.6s] Fuck, that hits.
[1460.4s] Okay, so that is 12 damage on my first attack.
[1464.4s] Yep.
[1466.1s] And second attack is a 27.
[1471.6s] I'm going to assume that hits five, seven, 11,
[1475.3s] 13 damage on that one.
[1478.8s] Donnie, just like feeling so pleased with himself,
[1483.9s] so pleased with himself,
[1486.0s] is gonna try and chomp another Spidey.
[1489.0s] Do it Donnie.
[1489.8s] He's not gonna do it probably,
[1491.2s] cause that's a 13.
[1493.0s] 13 does not hit.
[1494.1s] Okay.
[1495.8s] Can't win them all buddy.
[1496.8s] We believe in you still.
[1498.4s] Flint, you're up.
[1501.6s] You are grotted, grappled and not breathing
[1505.5s] at the hands of an Ettercap.
[1507.1s] Like my beard isn't even providing me
[1510.3s] some sort of relief from the grot.
[1512.1s] It snuck it up underneath the beard.
[1514.3s] Oh.
[1515.2s] Yeah.
[1516.3s] It's impressive attacking.
[1517.6s] In real close, real tight.
[1519.5s] Okay, so what am I rolling?
[1523.2s] Like. Good question.
[1524.1s] Strength, con, wisdom?
[1526.4s] Please don't say wisdom.
[1527.4s] Wisdom, definitely wisdom.
[1528.9s] How do I get out of this?
[1530.9s] No, you gotta make an escape DC.
[1533.9s] Just roll a D20.
[1535.4s] Oh, okay.
[1539.0s] 14.
[1540.2s] 14, you get out.
[1542.0s] Yeah.
[1542.8s] So the grapple ends,
[1543.7s] you have your breath rush back to you
[1546.0s] for holding it for one second.
[1547.4s] You're very out of shape.
[1549.2s] That was tough, that was tough.
[1551.2s] I require a lot of oxygen,
[1552.7s] so, well, I'm going to turn around
[1557.8s] and swing my axe into this Ettercap.
[1561.0s] Several times.
[1562.1s] Do it.
[1564.1s] It's a crit 20.
[1565.4s] Nice.
[1566.6s] Doesn't hit, surprisingly.
[1568.0s] Ah, man.
[1569.4s] These Ettercaps are out of control.
[1571.6s] All right, so that's gonna be 4d10 plus,
[1575.9s] what's my damage for this, two?
[1578.0s] Four?
[1579.2s] I have to scroll down, sorry, one sec.
[1582.8s] Okay, 4d12 plus four, whew.
[1586.6s] Okay, here we go.
[1590.0s] 33 damage.
[1592.0s] Fucking A, dude.
[1593.3s] Okay, second attack.
[1598.0s] That's a 20, but not critical.
[1600.6s] Yeah, that will still hit.
[1602.9s] 17.
[1604.5s] You tell me how you kill this Ettercap.
[1608.4s] After my rage-filled first attack
[1612.2s] with the criticalness,
[1614.2s] I see he's a little worse for wear
[1616.8s] and I chop him right in where his hip
[1620.1s] and leg meet up and just sever his leg
[1623.4s] and the artery that goes with it
[1624.7s] and he goes down in a heap.
[1627.9s] I will find some blood spurting sound effects.
[1631.1s] Excellent, perfect.
[1632.6s] Yeah.
[1633.6s] I mean, it was good foley work.
[1635.0s] Thank you.
[1635.8s] If I can't find anything better,
[1636.8s] that's what I'll use, but.
[1637.9s] Okay.
[1638.7s] Okay, you're good there, Flamikins, you're up.
[1642.4s] All right.
[1645.1s] Let me flip to my page in my book.
[1649.4s] Okay, well, she's got all this stuff.
[1651.4s] Okay.
[1652.3s] She's got a lot of stuff.
[1653.1s] She's a sorcerer.
[1654.0s] It's just wild.
[1654.8s] It comes to her.
[1655.6s] It's just like I'm feeling the power.
[1659.6s] I love this NPC, by the way.
[1662.2s] Oh yeah, she's great.
[1663.3s] This reminds me of a time when I was on a ship
[1667.3s] and I had my spell choked out.
[1670.1s] Yep.
[1671.0s] What else happened?
[1673.2s] I was ready to go when my turn came up.
[1678.7s] Fuck off.
[1679.5s] And I murdered the fucking.
[1681.4s] I'm gonna acid splash the DM.
[1683.0s] Cracking.
[1683.9s] I mean.
[1684.7s] This is like some excellent meta commentary
[1687.5s] from Flamikins.
[1688.4s] I hope Amy takes way longer.
[1689.8s] This is amazing.
[1691.3s] Okay, I'm going to, Flamikins conjures up
[1696.4s] a bubble of acid.
[1698.2s] Choses one of the spiders, like in the middle.
[1703.9s] Because there's a.
[1705.0s] One of them right over top of you.
[1706.4s] So it splashes down on top of you.
[1708.8s] No.
[1709.7s] Just checking.
[1712.0s] I'm thinking as both an NPC and a DM here.
[1714.5s] It's just trying to make sure everybody gets damaged.
[1719.0s] Thanks.
[1719.9s] Anyway, she throws it up and makes sure
[1722.1s] to hit a creature.
[1725.5s] To hit a creature within five feet of each other.
[1730.5s] She wants to hit two.
[1731.3s] She's trying to hit two with this bubble.
[1732.4s] Yeah, sure, you can do that.
[1734.8s] The target must succeed on a dexterity saving throw
[1737.2s] or take 2d6 damage.
[1739.9s] This didn't work out well for them last time,
[1741.8s] I don't think.
[1743.1s] Yeah, but my damage roll was stupid too, so.
[1746.6s] Right.
[1747.8s] Gotta hit those stupid rolls.
[1748.9s] Stupid rolls.
[1750.7s] Okay, giant spiders have the.
[1754.7s] So you're trying to hit two.
[1756.6s] So that's a 21 and a 22.
[1758.2s] Okay, fine.
[1759.0s] They don't get any damage.
[1759.9s] No.
[1760.7s] Boo.
[1761.6s] It was a good try.
[1762.6s] We heard that great song from Flaming Hits,
[1764.5s] so it was worth it.
[1765.8s] It really was worth it just for that.
[1767.6s] Guys, this never happened to me before.
[1770.9s] Thaddeus, you are grappled and not breathing
[1774.7s] for five, for nearly five seconds at this point.
[1778.1s] Super tough.
[1779.4s] All right, I should probably roll
[1781.4s] to get out of that then.
[1782.7s] Yep.
[1784.2s] 18.
[1785.2s] That'll do her.
[1786.7s] Excellent.
[1787.6s] He shimmies free from the Ettercap's grot.
[1792.3s] Perfect.
[1793.6s] I'm going to swing my war hammer
[1797.0s] into the Ettercap that was strangling me.
[1800.0s] Sure.
[1802.0s] That is a 23.
[1805.6s] Sweet, eight plus two is 10.
[1809.5s] Wolves, you're up.
[1811.8s] Ooh.
[1813.5s] That's what they say.
[1815.3s] I'm going to get four of the,
[1818.3s] there's two Ettercaps, right?
[1820.0s] Ettercaps.
[1820.9s] Yep, one in front of Nulara
[1823.3s] that looks like it's being beaten up pretty good
[1826.0s] and one on Thaddeus, which is less beat up good.
[1829.6s] Well, we are going to go,
[1831.2s] I'm gonna split the party.
[1832.5s] I'm gonna say you four
[1834.0s] and I point over to Nulara's Ettercap
[1836.7s] and I point you four over to Thaddeus' Ettercap
[1842.3s] and the first four,
[1845.4s] I'm gonna go to bite because that's what they do.
[1847.9s] Okay, so the first one gets an 18.
[1850.4s] Yep.
[1851.4s] 15.
[1852.3s] Yep.
[1853.6s] 16.
[1854.4s] Yep.
[1856.1s] Two.
[1857.0s] Nope.
[1859.8s] It was such a drop off.
[1861.3s] All right, so then for damage for those.
[1867.2s] So is this damage for all three?
[1870.1s] We'll see how good it is.
[1872.6s] Sure.
[1873.4s] Okay, so Ettercap gets four damage.
[1877.2s] That's six damage.
[1878.2s] Four, five, six, so six damage.
[1880.5s] Ooh, plus 10 damage, so 16.
[1884.8s] Plus nine damage, so that's 25 damage.
[1889.6s] That Ettercap is pulverized, shredded, dead, gone.
[1897.4s] They're not eating it,
[1898.2s] they're just ripping it apart
[1899.3s] because these Ettercaps look gross.
[1900.6s] Ettercap everywhere.
[1902.1s] All right, how about that second Ettercap?
[1904.3s] Second Ettercap.
[1908.0s] 12 plus four, 16.
[1909.7s] Yep.
[1911.2s] 17 plus four.
[1912.7s] 12.
[1913.6s] Nope.
[1914.6s] 18.
[1915.4s] Yep.
[1916.3s] All right, so same stitch.
[1917.4s] Even if you roll all ones, it's dead.
[1919.0s] Yes!
[1919.8s] Ha ha ha ha!
[1922.1s] The tear it apart with the ferocity.
[1924.2s] So the eight wolves come in
[1926.1s] and swarm these two Ettercaps
[1927.8s] and just churn out Ettercap meat.
[1933.0s] It's just flying everywhere because these are.
[1936.8s] They've been put through my wolf grinder.
[1939.3s] And I look up to the spiders and I go, you're next.
[1942.3s] The spiders see this and flee into the trees and run away.
[1947.5s] That makes me feel very gross.
[1950.1s] It's a pretty solid plan on their part.
[1951.8s] Because I know they're still out there.
[1953.2s] I know, it's like when you see
[1954.1s] a really, really big spider in your house
[1956.2s] and it's like, and then you don't see it,
[1958.8s] it's so much worse.
[1960.2s] Like you go to get something extra heavy.
[1962.7s] To smush it with you.
[1963.6s] And then it's gone.
[1964.7s] And you know it's still in the house
[1966.5s] and like, it's watching me right now.
[1969.3s] Well, those university textbooks
[1970.8s] have to be good for something.
[1972.2s] Yes, they do.
[1973.6s] Okay, so you guys,
[1975.0s] dispatch of the Ettercaps and the spiders
[1977.7s] and you still have a little ways to go.
[1980.6s] Well, let's keep going.
[1981.8s] My wolves are coming with us.
[1983.8s] How long do you get to keep your wolves for?
[1986.2s] That is an excellent question.
[1988.3s] I get to keep my wolves. Forever.
[1990.4s] Forever, they're just part of the-
[1991.2s] Forever, they're mine, they're my family.
[1993.7s] I get to keep these wolves for up to an hour.
[1996.4s] Okay.
[1998.1s] Yeah, so you continue burning your way
[2001.0s] and slashing your way through the webbing.
[2004.6s] After about another hour, you come to-
[2007.8s] My wolves go, pfft.
[2009.4s] No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
[2010.7s] It's not an hour.
[2011.6s] It only takes you about, I don't know,
[2014.7s] 15 or 20 minutes to get to the-
[2017.0s] Ha ha ha.
[2019.3s] Ah, that was funny.
[2021.6s] And then you trip and you break some potion or something?
[2024.8s] I'm not sure.
[2025.6s] Ha ha ha.
[2026.5s] Things go real bad for you guys.
[2027.6s] That fight went well, but shit.
[2031.4s] You break your ring of holding.
[2033.1s] You wanted this.
[2034.2s] What is it?
[2035.1s] Ring of spell.
[2036.1s] My spell holding.
[2037.4s] Yeah, you broke it, sorry.
[2038.3s] It's just a ring of spell.
[2039.1s] Yeah, smashed it.
[2040.1s] Now that you remembered you have it, it's gone.
[2042.9s] No, you come to a large clearing
[2045.4s] where there is a lake at the base
[2048.5s] of what looks to be an approximately 100 foot waterfall.
[2053.2s] It's beautiful, you guys.
[2054.6s] It's beautiful, it's majestic.
[2056.5s] The surface of said lake is obscured
[2060.9s] by an emerald green haze.
[2063.2s] And all around there, it looks to be a worn down
[2068.3s] kind of pathway of sorts
[2072.4s] that goes all the way around
[2074.2s] up to where the physical waterfall is.
[2078.3s] And it is, I should remind you about the time it is,
[2081.5s] it is now just past sunset.
[2085.8s] So it is nighttime now.
[2089.4s] What do you want to do?
[2091.0s] I don't mind fighting at night.
[2094.4s] Well, I can't see in the dark,
[2095.7s] so I'd prefer not to fight at night.
[2098.3s] I also prefer not to scale behind waterfalls in the dark
[2102.1s] if that's what we're gonna be doing.
[2103.8s] I know that's the lame answer,
[2105.1s] like I'm tired, let's have a sleep.
[2109.5s] But Nularaaa is not at her,
[2111.0s] it has no dark vision or anything, right?
[2112.6s] So definitely is not at her best in darkness.
[2117.2s] That being said, if you guys are all like keen to go,
[2119.8s] we can keep it rolling.
[2122.2s] You can camp outside.
[2124.6s] She gets first dibs if Delaine shows up though, I'm just saying.
[2129.6s] Oh, damn.
[2133.2s] Do we, we don't see any like creatures or movement?
[2139.4s] There is, seems to be no creatures or movement.
[2142.5s] I mean, I know there's a fuck ton of spiders
[2145.1s] in the woods, but-
[2145.9s] Yeah, you know, aside from the spiders that you hear
[2149.2s] just their eyes glaring at you from, yeah.
[2152.3s] Just, no, what is it?
[2153.4s] Skittling around.
[2154.5s] Skittling around, lots of skittling.
[2159.2s] But yeah, if you guys wanna go, like, I don't know,
[2161.9s] convince me.
[2165.6s] I don't wanna make you do anything you don't wanna do.
[2168.8s] Well, no, but we can wait.
[2170.8s] It would give, it would give Delaine extra time
[2174.4s] to hopefully catch up
[2175.4s] because having one more person fighting with us
[2177.4s] if we do happen to find this dragon.
[2180.8s] We are going to fight a dragon, that's true.
[2182.7s] I mean, the dragon does take off at nighttime though,
[2186.2s] correct?
[2187.7s] True.
[2188.6s] Yeah, it could just see us out here in the clearing.
[2190.3s] And I don't wanna go back in there with those spiders.
[2192.5s] That's all I gotta say.
[2193.5s] I assume we are going to be sneaky.
[2197.8s] Hold on, I feel like I have some sort of skill
[2200.3s] where I'm good at-
[2203.9s] It's called pass without trace.
[2205.3s] No, it's not that.
[2206.2s] It's something else that I got that is,
[2211.6s] um, yeah.
[2213.6s] I have a skill called hide in plain sight,
[2216.0s] so I am good at camouflaging.
[2219.1s] Yeah, so what-
[2220.1s] I don't.
[2221.0s] How I picture hide in plain sight works
[2223.0s] is mid conversation, every once in a while,
[2225.3s] Nulara just fucking disappears.
[2227.3s] No one knows where she went.
[2229.4s] She was just tired of people at that moment
[2231.7s] and was just like, no, I just-
[2233.1s] Ghosts into the background.
[2236.8s] But it gives a plus 10 to Dex
[2239.6s] if I don't take an action.
[2241.4s] It's just camouflaging basically, right?
[2243.4s] Like I could spend a minute using the things around
[2246.0s] to hide the things.
[2247.2s] So in theory, we could probably have a low key camp.
[2251.2s] And in fact, saying that the dragon escapes at night,
[2255.2s] we don't actually know that it is behind this waterfall.
[2258.0s] It's not a bad idea to chill down here
[2261.0s] and see if it flies out.
[2263.3s] That's true.
[2264.1s] Right?
[2265.1s] I just didn't want us to miss our chance.
[2268.4s] Me too.
[2269.2s] Could one of us go and just check it out,
[2273.9s] do a little recon?
[2276.0s] You tell me.
[2277.8s] Thea would like to go ahead.
[2278.6s] Thea's got dark vision.
[2279.8s] She could wild shape into something,
[2284.3s] fly up behind the waterfall,
[2288.4s] see what's going on.
[2289.9s] How high up is the entrance?
[2291.8s] Is there an entrance behind this waterfall?
[2294.3s] I want to say yes,
[2295.6s] considering there's like a worn path
[2298.2s] behind the waterfall.
[2299.6s] But maybe this cavern is lit with braziers
[2303.8s] or torches or something.
[2305.9s] I like this fly up and do recon thing.
[2308.0s] Remember you used to do this all the time?
[2309.6s] You were like turning into rats
[2311.0s] and sneaking in with it?
[2311.8s] Little rats and geckos and stuff.
[2313.4s] Yeah, I remember that.
[2314.2s] I'm getting back to my roots.
[2315.9s] That seems like a good idea.
[2316.9s] And then we'll have a better idea, right?
[2318.5s] If it looks like, shit, yeah,
[2320.5s] and they're all sleeping.
[2321.4s] Let's fucking go, right?
[2323.3s] Yeah, let's kill them in their sleep.
[2324.4s] I like it.
[2325.3s] Exactly.
[2326.1s] I have no problem with that.
[2327.2s] They've been burning villages and murdering, so.
[2329.9s] Yeah.
[2330.8s] Okay.
[2331.6s] Also, I would love to run in,
[2332.9s] like if we're able to run in right now,
[2335.1s] if it's a good situation,
[2338.5s] I'd love to be able to run in with my wolves.
[2342.4s] Exactly.
[2343.3s] But if it's too high up, who knows?
[2344.5s] Yeah.
[2345.7s] But you can like suss the path and stuff.
[2347.9s] I dig this idea.
[2350.0s] Okay, so I do that.
[2351.5s] I will.
[2352.5s] What's the range on your wolves?
[2354.7s] 60 feet. 60 feet.
[2355.6s] I can get them to come with me
[2357.1s] to the base of the waterfall and then I'll fly up.
[2361.2s] Okay.
[2362.0s] And look in the, if that's.
[2362.8s] Sure.
[2363.7s] Well, like, well, if that is within range, sure.
[2366.7s] If not, I guess I will just have to say goodbye.
[2371.1s] Sure, no, they can come up as close to the entrance
[2375.5s] as you want them to go.
[2377.6s] It is a pack of eight wolves.
[2380.3s] And when you're trying to be super sneaky.
[2383.5s] Wolves are super stealthy.
[2386.0s] I'm gonna make you roll for them
[2387.2s] if you're getting them super close.
[2389.0s] Plus four to stealth.
[2391.2s] Okay, so Thea is going to turn into,
[2396.0s] she's going to wild shape, into an owl
[2399.6s] because night vision, hello.
[2404.1s] Almost silent wings when flying, yes.
[2408.6s] Snazzy little mortar board hat, yes please.
[2413.7s] Being able to turn my head all around,
[2416.0s] constantly asking one question.
[2418.5s] Spitting up most pellets.
[2422.4s] This is the life.
[2423.8s] So I turn into, I think first we just,
[2428.5s] I turn into an owl and I send four of my wolves.
[2432.2s] How big is this lake?
[2434.7s] Cause I would like to send four of my wolves
[2436.7s] on one side for it.
[2437.7s] Cause I mean, a pack of eight is going to invariably
[2440.2s] be a lot more easy to spot than four wolves
[2443.1s] slinking along in the darkness.
[2445.6s] They're black wolves by the way.
[2446.9s] Didn't say it before, but I wanted them
[2450.1s] to be extra scary.
[2452.8s] So the lake itself is about 150 feet across.
[2457.5s] The, it narrows to about 45 feet on either side
[2461.1s] of the waterfall though.
[2462.6s] Okay, so it kind of comes out.
[2465.6s] Is it too far?
[2466.8s] Are they going to disappear in the middle?
[2468.2s] Well, at one point they're going to be
[2470.0s] 145 feet away from you.
[2471.6s] So yes.
[2472.4s] Okay, then all of us will go together.
[2474.9s] Rule for stealth ability.
[2478.0s] Yeah, so just do one.
[2480.6s] Yes, plus four.
[2482.2s] So that's 13.
[2484.4s] So how close are you going before you turn into an owl?
[2487.5s] I turn into an owl immediately.
[2489.2s] Okay.
[2494.0s] Hey there, I'm your dungeon master, Russ More.
[2495.8s] Thank you for joining us for episode 36
[2497.6s] of Dumbgeons and Dragons titled Knock Knock Anyone Home,
[2501.2s] part one.
[2502.3s] Couple quick notes about this episode
[2504.0s] because we did a couple things different than usual.
[2507.6s] First, Tom, Carla and Amy added new feats
[2511.1s] to Flint, Nularaaaa and Thea.
[2513.4s] And normally with feats,
[2515.1s] feats are different features that characters can get
[2518.3s] to have different improvements in different skills.
[2522.1s] And in normally in D&D 5E,
[2524.1s] you have an option as you move up in levels
[2526.4s] to either take an ability score modifier at specific levels
[2529.8s] or take a feat.
[2531.5s] And this could have happened twice for the characters
[2534.1s] but we didn't do that going through.
[2535.9s] And knowing that they're going
[2537.0s] into some difficult storytelling,
[2539.5s] I had them add those two feet options
[2542.0s] and then going forward,
[2543.6s] they will have the option
[2544.6s] at the regular levels like normal.
[2547.2s] We will be releasing a public bonus episode
[2549.6s] where we talk about this in the future
[2552.7s] on our Patreon page.
[2554.1s] But right now I have to hold on to it
[2556.5s] because we also talk about some elements
[2558.8s] that we recorded out of sync with our current story.
[2561.4s] So there are spoilers in that content
[2564.2s] and I know what's happening over there, geez.
[2566.9s] Okay, I just wanna again,
[2568.2s] give you the details from our friends
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[2666.9s] with part two of Knock Knock, anyone home?
[2669.9s] You and your pack of wolves go up
[2678.3s] and you come right to the edge of the waterfall
[2681.8s] and you fly in behind and there is an opening.
[2686.0s] Are you going in?
[2688.3s] Sorry, so there's an opening.
[2690.4s] So it's just waterfall and same level as the ground,
[2694.1s] just a cave.
[2696.7s] There are no steps up and in.
[2698.8s] It's just.
[2700.0s] Yeah, it's a bit up and off the ground.
[2702.4s] How many feet up?
[2703.8s] Steps to get up there?
[2705.5s] No, it's a straight cliff, but it's only 15 feet high.
[2709.6s] Okay.
[2711.9s] Yeah, I fly up and in.
[2714.3s] I kind of perch on the edge.
[2715.6s] I don't just fly in, I fly up
[2718.0s] and like I'm just a little barn owl,
[2720.4s] just like, I'm tired and I need to rest
[2723.8s] on the edge of this serious cave.
[2726.4s] Behind this waterfall.
[2727.8s] You land there on the edge and you look
[2729.7s] and you see a steep slope that descends down
[2732.2s] from the cave behind the waterfall
[2735.9s] and it goes and bends around a corner.
[2740.7s] Do I see any torches?
[2742.2s] Is it just darkness?
[2744.1s] There are no torches.
[2746.0s] How far in can I go before I get too far
[2749.8s] from my wolfies?
[2753.6s] Right now you are about 20 feet from them.
[2758.1s] So you could go another 40 feet before the spell would.
[2760.1s] I go to my max.
[2761.8s] I go 35 feet because I want a little buffer.
[2766.3s] Yeah, you fly down this slope a little ways
[2770.2s] and find a rocky cliff to kind of perch on
[2773.3s] and you can see down in that it opens up
[2777.2s] into what looks to be a larger area,
[2779.4s] but you can't quite see all the way around the corner
[2781.7s] without going any further.
[2783.3s] And again, no lights.
[2784.9s] No torches or anything.
[2786.6s] All right, I fly back.
[2791.0s] Okay.
[2792.0s] Quiet.
[2793.2s] Naturally.
[2794.4s] So you fly back to your friends
[2795.6s] and your wolves follow you.
[2796.7s] Yep.
[2798.0s] And I just spend the next hour snuggling them
[2800.1s] and stuff, like I turn back into a human.
[2805.0s] What have we done before when we go into these dark,
[2809.7s] like certainly this is not the first time
[2812.1s] we have been in a dark place that New Laura can't see in.
[2817.0s] I just hold onto somebody.
[2818.5s] Yeah.
[2819.3s] You usually light up your sword
[2820.6s] is what you usually do.
[2821.5s] Yes.
[2822.9s] It's not really that sneaky though.
[2825.9s] I mean, Donnie can see in the dark
[2828.1s] and can like talk to me telepathically,
[2833.6s] but he also flies, right?
[2835.3s] So he isn't really gonna be that helpful.
[2838.7s] I think that's what you've kind of done in the past.
[2841.4s] I think so too.
[2843.6s] But yeah, typically I guess I can just like
[2845.3s] light my sword because we're like trapped in a dungeon
[2848.1s] or something, it's not like we're trying
[2849.4s] to be like super sneaky.
[2851.4s] Yeah, someone already knows we're there.
[2853.2s] Are you guys just kind of standing
[2854.8s] at the edge of the lake or are you tucked away?
[2856.8s] Give me your, what's your...
[2860.8s] Yeah, I think we were like near the edge of the woods.
[2868.5s] Like, you know, we're trying to be sneaky.
[2870.3s] We don't like have a fire or anything.
[2871.8s] We're just chilling, quietly chilling.
[2875.6s] Thea flies back and tells you what she didn't see
[2879.9s] more than anything.
[2881.8s] And as you guys are kind of discussing of, you know,
[2884.5s] how to get Nulara to see,
[2887.5s] you hear a padding of feet coming up behind you.
[2894.2s] Son of a bitch.
[2896.0s] Just kidding, I don't say that out loud.
[2897.2s] That was out of character.
[2899.8s] It might be Dane and his wolf.
[2902.4s] Here's hoping, here's hoping.
[2904.6s] Yeah, so you turn around and you do see Laska
[2907.8s] come up behind you.
[2909.3s] Yeah, Laska, are the wolves still there?
[2911.2s] Are they like, are they like playing?
[2912.8s] Like, ha, ha, ha, ha, you know, like dogs do.
[2917.4s] You know, you know how dogs play.
[2919.8s] Yeah, I think, I think they, they, you know,
[2923.4s] they're like very well behaved.
[2924.9s] They sit and they wag their tail.
[2929.1s] I assume Laska is like dominant
[2931.8s] because isn't she gigantic?
[2934.4s] Isn't she a giant wolf?
[2935.3s] Yeah, these wolves are just kind of like.
[2937.2s] Yours are just standard.
[2938.8s] Think dire wolf.
[2939.8s] Yeah, that's what I thought.
[2941.5s] Yeah, Laska comes up and says,
[2946.6s] we meant to meet you, but we got ambushed
[2951.6s] by the dragon and Delaine is in there now.
[2956.0s] Oh shit.
[2956.8s] In there?
[2959.6s] Yes, yes, in there.
[2961.4s] I point to the waterfall.
[2964.9s] Yes, he's behind the waterfall.
[2967.2s] Was he injured when they took him?
[2969.8s] Yeah, he was beat up quite a bit
[2972.1s] and carried off by the dragon
[2974.2s] and the man with the dragon.
[2979.6s] Well, that didn't sound like the end of a sentence.
[2982.3s] I thought you were about to tell us something
[2983.7s] about the man with the dragon
[2985.3s] and the man with the dragon.
[2986.9s] I was like, I had my pencil points.
[2987.9s] Taken off by the dragon.
[2989.2s] The man with the dragon tattoo.
[2990.7s] With the dragon.
[2992.4s] And the man.
[2993.4s] What is that?
[2994.6s] You're working.
[2995.4s] It's a wolf.
[2996.7s] It's talking, but it's not gonna have
[2998.4s] complete proper sentences.
[3002.2s] Okay, that makes sense.
[3004.0s] Man and dragon take Delaine.
[3007.0s] Wolves know common.
[3007.8s] Yeah, but I am speaking very good.
[3011.0s] I'm a wolf.
[3012.0s] Yeah, he speaks common,
[3013.8s] but he just isn't really a good talker.
[3016.1s] Common is right.
[3017.9s] That's fine.
[3019.8s] You mean Academy Award winner common?
[3022.7s] Yes, always.
[3027.5s] Was it just the dragon and the man
[3032.2s] or who else was with them?
[3034.3s] Sub question, when did this happen?
[3038.8s] This happened about a day ago.
[3040.2s] We were doing some recon at some other settlements
[3045.1s] and we had come within range of one
[3049.0s] that hadn't been attacked yet
[3050.7s] and we were ambushed by just the dragon
[3054.4s] and a man riding the dragon.
[3057.1s] There was no other horde that has been said
[3060.1s] to have come along with the dragon.
[3064.8s] What kind of attacks did the man use?
[3068.0s] Were they magical or?
[3069.8s] The man didn't really use any attacks.
[3073.2s] The dragon did most of the fighting.
[3075.8s] Okay.
[3078.3s] You guys want to kill a dragon?
[3080.2s] I mean, yeah.
[3082.5s] What else did I come along for?
[3084.2s] Holy shit.
[3086.3s] Flame beacons, just a sec.
[3088.6s] I would like Thaddeus have a spell.
[3089.4s] Does Thaddeus and Flame beacons have a little more?
[3092.0s] Yeah, don't.
[3092.8s] I keep forgetting.
[3093.6s] Thaddeus has a lot of spells.
[3094.6s] What are you looking for?
[3095.8s] Something that can make me see in the dark.
[3097.8s] Thaddeus might have dark vision.
[3101.2s] Oh yeah, and like can him and Flame beacons see in the dark?
[3104.2s] Cause I find.
[3105.2s] Thaddeus can't, but.
[3106.9s] Flame beacons.
[3108.5s] He doesn't have any like true sight
[3110.4s] or anything to help him see.
[3111.7s] Thaddeus has what's called dark vision spell
[3114.6s] which he learned from Grancis' book of spells
[3119.1s] that he now has equipped.
[3122.5s] Oh yeah, there it is.
[3123.8s] Oh look at that, magic.
[3125.4s] Imagine that.
[3127.3s] So yeah, he could cast two of those
[3129.0s] and still have one third level spell on himself
[3132.5s] and Nularaaaa.
[3135.4s] Yeah, he might as well cast those.
[3137.8s] Do you want to though?
[3138.6s] Like if we're going in
[3139.4s] you might want to save those spell slots
[3141.1s] to fight the dragon.
[3142.6s] Fia makes a very good point
[3144.3s] which is that we're going to fight a fucking dragon.
[3148.1s] So how much is that sneak attack
[3150.2s] really going to benefit us?
[3152.8s] Well. Maybe not that much.
[3154.8s] If we can do a bunch of things at once
[3157.3s] it might benefit us a lot
[3159.1s] because you guys still have those like crazy
[3161.0s] dragon killing arrows, correct?
[3163.8s] I do have some.
[3166.0s] So I mean like if we can launch a bunch of shit
[3168.7s] all at once.
[3169.8s] Is that how it works? That could be real good.
[3171.7s] Do we all get a sneak attack?
[3174.3s] Well there's no technical sneak attack thing
[3177.2s] unless you're a.
[3178.9s] A rogue.
[3179.8s] A rogue.
[3181.7s] So no, like you would have,
[3186.5s] you would use stealth to be sneaky getting in there
[3189.4s] and you may have like a first go at initiative.
[3193.4s] Right.
[3194.3s] But it wouldn't, yeah.
[3195.7s] Okay, well I guess it's up to Thaddeus
[3197.3s] because it's his spell, so.
[3199.3s] Laska has the dragon left for the night
[3202.5s] because we know that the dragon leaves for the night
[3204.5s] and Laska says no, no the dragon hasn't left yet
[3207.0s] but he usually pieces out in like about an hour
[3209.7s] he checks his watch.
[3211.2s] Yeah.
[3212.9s] It's a punctual watch.
[3214.6s] Yep.
[3216.0s] We know there's watches in this universe, right?
[3218.4s] Well if there's trains there's gotta be watches.
[3220.8s] Because otherwise how does a conductor keep time
[3223.0s] in a schedule?
[3223.8s] Exactly.
[3224.9s] It's true.
[3226.9s] Well I don't know, do you guys wanna
[3229.8s] like hunker down out of sight for an hour
[3232.0s] and hope the dragon leaves
[3232.9s] and then like sneak our asses in there
[3234.6s] or do you wanna just like go on in?
[3237.4s] You know if we wait an hour,
[3238.6s] sneak our asses in there, heal Delaine up,
[3241.8s] lie and wait, you gotta come back.
[3244.6s] Yep, I like this idea.
[3246.3s] However, once the dragon leaves,
[3248.9s] whatever devastation is caused is on us.
[3252.7s] You guys know that he likely leaves at night
[3256.8s] to go meet with.
[3258.6s] Oh right.
[3259.6s] Yeah.
[3260.5s] Yeah, he wasn't doing attacks at night, right?
[3262.4s] He was just going to meet with Galen.
[3265.3s] Oh yeah, but his night.
[3266.7s] Oh right, Galen is the lift operator.
[3269.1s] He's the pulley man, yeah.
[3271.3s] His night's gonna be free though.
[3274.0s] Because Galen is not.
[3275.7s] True, but he still has to fly there.
[3278.6s] It took you guys all day to run there.
[3280.1s] So he will be quicker to get there and back,
[3282.6s] but yeah, we will still have time.
[3285.1s] Then let's wait.
[3286.0s] Yeah, I like this plan.
[3287.7s] Let's wait, let's have a,
[3291.0s] that's not even a short rest.
[3291.9s] Let's just rest and go in when the dragon leaves.
[3299.1s] So you guys hunker down and hide away
[3302.0s] while your wolves disappear.
[3304.4s] Yep.
[3305.4s] I pet each one of them before they go.
[3307.2s] Approximately an hour later,
[3310.8s] you hear a loud flapping of wings
[3316.5s] and a bellowing roar emit from behind the waterfall
[3320.9s] and a large green dragon comes out
[3325.0s] bursting from the waterfall,
[3326.7s] water spraying everywhere with a dark figure on its back
[3331.0s] and it flies off into the night.
[3333.1s] Music
[3349.8s] Music in today's episode was by Kavin McLeod
[3351.9s] of incompetech.filmmusic.io.
[3354.6s] Can you show me a picture of an Ettercap?
[3356.2s] Yeah, I'd like that too.
[3357.9s] Yeah, what is an Ettercap?
[3359.4s] While you're doing that,
[3361.1s] turn the light on, it's getting dark.
[3362.9s] You can literally just show us a picture.
[3364.7s] I know, it's like, all right, we have video,
[3366.8s] I can do this.
[3367.7s] Oh Jesus.
[3368.6s] Oh Carla, are you okay?
[3370.0s] I think Carla didn't detach herself
[3372.0s] from her microphone
[3373.6s] but she left her computer.
[3375.8s] Guys, I hope it's died.
[3380.8s] Carla, are you okay?
[3383.0s] She was trying to make Amy feel better
[3384.3s] for her concussion.
[3386.2s] That's an Ettercap. Oh my God.
[3387.4s] Oh, that was amazing.
[3389.2s] Well done, Carla.
[3391.2s] Are you there?
[3392.1s] I am here.
[3392.9s] Fury of the Small.
[3394.6s] I have that too.
[3395.6s] Yeah, it's like-
[3396.5s] Just in case you're wondering, just personally.
[3398.2s] Like I, Carla Johnson,
[3400.4s] like feel that to my soul.
[3405.5s] A spell name has never spoken to me so deeply
[3409.6s] as Fury of the Small.
[3411.6s] Carla's next character will be a goblin.
[3414.2s] The smallest character possible.
[3416.3s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.