Nerd Poker - S4E49 Battle of the Battered Fish
Episode Date: August 16, 2021Up against a major waterway, the Castaway Cuties are forced to reckon with an entire army of Gillaxian fish bastards, more heavily armored and evil than any encounter with them yet. And since there's ...a few hundred of them a mile or so away, hopefully this won't take very long...
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Hey everybody, I'm Brian Pouss. Comedian, writer, actor, nerd.
I've been playing D&D with my friends for a long time.
I decided to do a new podcast where we play Dungeons & Dragons in my very own dining room.
With my wife, kid, and my noisy dogs.
So meet my friends...
Sarah
Kev
Dan
Clay
Chris
Now it's time for another episode of Brian Poussaint's Nerd Poker.
Season 4.
Hey, everybody.
I'm Brian Poussaint.
And you're not.
You're listening to Brian Poussaint's Nerd Poker.
Episode 4 and also 9. 49. let's get into it man my friends
are here look at them they're delightful yeah chris hey man let's get into it let's tear this
shit up we're about to change some things dance here too man what's Oh, you know what? I'm ready to throw down.
Let's mix it up a little.
See what happens.
Oh, there's Ken.
Hey, buddy.
I'm fixing to fuck up some D's and D's.
If only Blaine was here.
Oh, there he is.
Hey, Blaine.
Hi, Hall for Mystic Pat.
Hi, Brian.
Hey, pal.
If only Sarah would come and save the goddamn show as usual.
There she is.
Bro, bro, bro, bro, I'm here.
Bros, bros, we're doing this.
We're doing this tonight.
Bros, bros, get ready.
This is going to be a good one.
I can feel it.
If only we had an engineer who knew what was up, you know,
and had a dog that never left his side.
Oh, there he is.
Oh, shit.
Good news, sweet children.
Hey, Sam. Hey, there he is. Oh, shit. Good news, sweet children. Hey, Sam.
Hey, Robin!
Yay.
Robin got beat up by another dog, and I almost had to kill a dog owner.
I almost had to.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, we almost.
It was almost nerd poker assemble to go fucking.
I will John Wick over anybody's dog.
Like, really?
You still can if you want.
I'd really love to see you ride a horse through town shooting.
With a tie on.
That's going to be so good.
I've never laughed so hard in my life is when that horse started killing people.
And John Wick 3, that was, oh my God.
You laughing at ultraviolence is one of my favorite things
pre-COVID.
When the what started killing people?
A horse.
Really thought you said
whore and it seemed so out of
character. No, no, no.
I was like really surprised.
Dan, wow, that's just for Dan.
There's a scene in a stable.
There's a scene in a whore There's a scene in a horse stable.
That makes more sense.
A horse stable?
Oh.
No, a horse. And these horses,
he uses them to
just annihilate these guys. He lines
these guys up and they just get kicked.
I gotta see these movies, man. They get kicked to death.
Have you seen none?
I've seen none of them. Wow, yeah, get on that. It's good. Yeah. They get kicked to death. Have you seen none? I've seen none of them.
Get on that. It's good.
They're enjoyable shit.
You should see Pretty Woman.
I just watched the making of that thing.
Pretty Woman?
Yeah well Netflix has this
you know the making of all these
your favorite movies.
I barely know that movie but I will still
I will still watch
a making of about a movie I've never
even seen it doesn't even matter
because I love documentaries
it's Corraldo
let's see the making of
I saw that
yeah well there's
a whole movie about it
I know yeah what's that thing called
that's fucking crazy
my best friend oh was a whole movie about it. I know. Yeah, what's that thing called? That's fucking crazy.
My Best Fiend?
Oh.
I forget what it's called.
I think My Best Fiend is about their relationship.
About Herzog and the actor.
And they filmed... It's about them
during that shoot.
There's a lot of shots of Herzog just saying
amazing stuff about nature and dreams
highly wow thank you i just watched slap me i'm a stinker about the making of slappy and the
stinkers and it was insane what they went through and that in the in the the jungle and the desert
it was ridiculous sorry i didn't mean to sidetrack you guys. Just watch it if you can. Slap Me, I'm a Stinker.
Is any of it real?
What we were saying
was, but not what Dwayne was saying.
Yeah, I just was like, is that a real
movie that he's...
Slap Me, I'm a Stinker is real.
Is it?
Yeah.
Is this real life?
Has its feet in a lot of pies, yes.
I just watched Stank Me, I'm a Stonker.
It's Elon Musk's new movie about
how to invest in GameStop.
It's pretty exciting.
Wait, Sloppy and the Stinkers is a real movie, guys.
I know, so Stank Me, I'm a Stonker.
There's no way of knowing.
It stars B.D. Wong. I mean,
yes, there is a way of knowing, but I just
had to Google it. I thought you were
tricking me, but then I saw
it stars B.D. Wong,
a real actor.
Oh, wow.
And Jennifer Coolidge, Bronson Pinchot.
Okay, it is a real movie, I see. Nice.
Some of you didn't know either.
I have no idea.
I really thought it was a make-a-mole.
I thought you guys would know.
Does Jennifer Coolidge talk slow in it?
Yeah, how fake drunk or real drunk
is Jennifer Coolidge in this movie?
At any point in time.
Well, you know,
speaking of drunk, I like to get hammered
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Dan
I'm more of an ability score
kind of guy myself
Oh Dan You and your homonyms It's a little humor I'm more of an ability score kind of guy myself. Oh, Dan.
You and your homonyms.
It's a little humor.
Speaking of humor, what do you say, you guys?
We talk about what happened.
I'm doing it.
Last time on Nerd Poker, the cast awake.
Everyone loves that I put a glowing baby face up.
It's really getting a great reception here.
The Castaway Cuties are locked in combat with Galaxians.
We bring you to the battle already in progress.
So, yeah, you guys are fighting a few warriors,
two shamans, and a wizard.
And when I say a few, it's actually kind of a painful amount of them.
It is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Seven warriors.
So we've got ten Galaxians.
And you feel like there's over a hundred nearby.
So this feels a little dicey.
The smoke is starting to clear.
The group of them have just been smashed by a level two fireball that Nathan cast.
And as it parts, you notice they're all still standing, unfortunately,
but they all did take a significant amount of damage,
particularly, you think, the wizard in the back center.
I just want to point out, at the end of my turn,
after I launched that
fireball at them i cut to the right i use my movement to move 35 feet i'm trying to get some
cover behind there's a big palm tree that me danny and jelf seems to all kind of be heading for
cool cool uh right now 2d is sort of left alone on the beach while everyone else ducking.
They'll be fine. He's a tank wide open.
What's the worst that could happen?
All right.
Well, then now that you're done, Nathan,
we're going to see some action from the bad guys.
Finally, they're going to go in a row before to do so.
Because to do you did roll pretty low.
I'm sad to say.
First, a couple of arrows are going to get launched at Jelf.
So, this is going to be
sort of a clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk
as the two bow guys
drop a couple
and reload
and
that's a miss
what's
your AC gel? 15
great
that is another miss
and
a miss 3 misses all aiming for gel 4 misses that is another miss and three misses
all aiming for jump
four misses
four arrows go sailing past you
four misses for jump
thank you whoever's drawing a hammer
on the map
doesn't look like a dick
at all
definitely doesn't in the slightest.
What's being drawn on the map?
It looks like one of them playgrounds.
Doesn't really look like a hammer.
No, it looks like Thor's hammer.
Kind of.
And it's like teen tight out orders.
Yeah, it looks like a ghost on a pedestal.
So, yeah, those guys fire and um you did
I didn't do it
no one's fucking with Sarah
I don't think Sarah drew a hammer
look at her face
look at her face
I'm barely
so then
yeah those guys
fire arrows two of them sort of put So then, yeah, those guys,
fire arrows, two of them sort of put, or I'm sorry,
three of them kind of put their shields up.
There's just massive.
Oh my God, you guys.
Jesus Christ.
If you're listening at home,
somebody drew a wiener on the map
and it's crazy.
These guys are crazy to play.
It's a really big wiener.
Get from messing up my hammer.
All right, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It was super
interesting.
I'm a thing.
Oh my god.
It's actually very square.
That was a little unsettling. I'm sorry.
Brian's writing docking.
Alright.
What was I doing?
I don't know.
Jesus Christ. this map is a mess so
three of the warriors
screenshot this
somebody screenshot this
I got it
stupid how old are we?
Twelve altogether.
I'm disturbed by the pubes all the way up the shaft.
Yeah, that's not good.
Yeah, it's a little...
It's not?
That's not normal?
The green ones, or...
Well, you didn't do any of them, to be honest.
That wasn't me. I didn't do that.
I didn't. Mine was hairless.
How do I erase it?
Yeah, sorry, Dan.
You don't. It's gone straight to the Library of Congress.
Jesus Christ.
Let me see. I'm tired.
Time.
Yeah, well...
Guess who else is?
I think I can slowly
do some of this.
Nope. Weird.
I, uh...
I can only erase the hair and some
of the word Dokken.
It's not due to glitch.
I don't think that's it.
I really think it's a glitch because I selected
what is still there. Well, at least you're not going to be able to get
past that wiener and attack us.
Yeah.
Okay, I got it.
I got it. I took it off.
I took it off.
Cool. There will always be a time
D.O. to remind us.
No. Okay. There will always be a time D.O. to remind us. No.
Okay.
So, we...
Thanks for listening, everybody.
It really means a lot that you're here with us.
All these visuals.
Somebody keeps drawing, and it's...
Imagine we're just playing
at a table and
somebody I've got all my dwarven
forged like pieces out and it's
this elaborate scene and all these 3D
figurines around and somebody's got a sharpie
out and they're just drawing
cocks and band names all over the expensive
dwarven forged stuff
so
I three of the the expensive drop for stuff. Cops and band names. So, uh, I...
Ugh.
Three of the seven
warriors drop their shields and sort of
take a defensive stance in front of the
casters. Two of them, however,
are going to rush
Danny,
who is the closest.
So,
the first guy is going to take a couple of hacks at you, Danny.
What is your AC, sir?
16.
Great.
This guy misses both of his swings.
Great.
And then this guy is going to run in and give it a shot.
People are now trying to drop seeing things on the monsters,
and it's not working because
I then moved the token out of the way.
This one's a hit and a miss.
So he's going to roll his damage.
What's his damage?
I'll tell you what's his damage.
You take 16 points of slashing damage as this guy actually gets a pretty big swipe. These guys are heavily
armed. They're much more heavily armed
than the group that came with the
shaman on the beach lo those many
episodes ago up at Mega Lake
Pangadon.
It looks like they sent out
the big guns
and by big guns I of course mean
the giant thing that was just on the
beach.
And that is going to do it for there.
Are you referring to the huge wang that Sarah drew across the beach?
Yeah.
You started it with ruining my hammer.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I have no access to the map because I'm a good person.
It doesn't track. It's still true. It's still true. Jesus. I have no access to the map because I'm a good person.
So does it still true? It's not true.
She's.
You know, save me, please.
OK. And then I'm going to have
something happen that you guys can't see in the turn order.
Like secret.
Well, they're secret.
Secrets are no fun.
And then we're gonna have these guys in the back start having some fun.
One of them casts, it looks like some sort of spell that causes the three warriors in
front of them to glow for a moment.
Ooh. Um,
and another one is going to,
uh,
try something fun and gliding.
I am going to need,
no,
it's not,
I'm afraid it's not that it's not bungee jumping.
It's not a water slide. It's nothing
you'd expect to experience at Wisconsin
Dells, which is what it appears we're at right now.
This beautiful beach. No. I'm going
to need
Danny and
Jelf to roll
a dexterity saving throw.
You got this, guys.
17 plus 4, 21.
Wonderful.
What you got for me, Danny?
You got pretty good dex.
What you got?
What you got?
All right. So, Jelf, you're going to have this damage. What you got? What you got?
All right.
So, Jelf, you're going to have this damage.
And Danny, you're going to take the full brunt, unfortunately.
You all see arcing from the back this enormous,
I don't know how else to put it but like you see these like shards
of crystallized
ice appear in the
air above
the three casters
and then all of a sudden it does this arc and it
just kind of like goes like up and then
really fast smashes
down on everybody
um and that's gonna be a familiar number uh 26 points
of piercing damage wow uh halved for jelf that's 13. oh my god we're all gonna die 26 for danny
uh how many hit points you got left, Danny? That's it.
I'm tapped out, guys.
You're down?
Yeah, I'm negative one.
All right.
So you're not dead.
You're going to be doing on your approaching turns death saving throw.
26?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
26 and 16, that's
42 points, right?
I only had 41
hit points.
Okay. And yeah,
the tree
that Danny
was next to just sort of like
cracks and the top half of it falls
over. Does not hit Danny,
but you're gonna to obviously see Danny
sort of drop to a knee and then collapse.
And the trees laying across the beach like a big some sort of
you describe with the tree line across the beach.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like like part of it's kind of like like bigger and more.
There's like two coconuts at the bottom and then.
Yeah.
And then and then like coming out
of the coconut area there's like this
trunk
Oh, I see what you did there
Ah
Jump in the line too, won't you
Let's see, we're gonna
now have
one more
spell happen
We're not quite done.
Nathan, I'm going to need you to make a wisdom saving throw.
Wisdom saving throw.
Okay.
Seven total.
All right.
You, uh, you see one of the casters flick an arm up and your spine goes completely straight at the same time as his gesture.
And it feels like there is ice going through your veins.
You are now paralyzed.
Oh, wow.
Interesting.
Okay.
Yeah.
Uh, at the end of your turn,
you can make another wisdom saving throw.
That'll do it for them.
Tootie, you're up.
Okay.
So Danny's the only one who's down right now?
Danny's the only one down, yeah.
And Nathan's paralyzed. Okay.
Let's see.
I was going to cast aid and I wonder if that would help
Danny who's down as well.
Aid
bolsters your allies with toughness and resolve
adds five hit points
to three of
the people I choose.
Yeah, that should work.
You have to get within 30 feet to move.
Great.
Are you going to go up towards those giant letters
that spell fart that someone just wrote across the beach?
All right.
Well, I'm going to try to get in range of these three guys,
Danny, Jelf, and Nathan.
I'm going to cast Aid.
Yes, you are definitely within 30 of Jelf and Danny.
And yeah, yeah, Nathan. So they each get an extra five hit points.
Cool.
Ooh. We'll make a note of it. Danny, you're prone. You're lying on your back. Danny and yeah, yeah, they each get an extra five hit months
We'll make a note of it Danny you're you're prone you're lying on your back, but you do sort of
Wake up and you have five friends
friends
And then can I dodge out of here or do you have any movement? You just moved 10 feet.
How many more feet of movement
do you have? 30.
Okay.
Total, let's see.
25 feet.
So another 15 feet.
So I will go
where they there about.
Does somebody have Boots of Speed?
Wait.
That's Sarah.
But she keeps them all to herself.
You have to attune to them.
I'm happy to share them. I don't know.
I think we had to attune. I could be
wrong, but I thought that was the deal. I think
you did, yeah.
Uh, alright. And now we've got cospia who's
gonna swim farther out and then jelf jelf you're up oh uh uh hey which of the which of those magic
users looks like the one that i need to shoot in the head the most.
So there's sort of three of them and there's one in the middle
that looks a little different
and they're the one who casts a giant ice ball
that smashed Danny nearly to death.
I'm going to shoot him in the head
with an exploding arrow.
All right.
With a 23. That's's a hit so your damage seven plus the 14 for one
and then I'm going to shoot him again
how many points of damage did you just do
uh
it was uh
oh jesus
it was 14
I think you did say 14
okay
how would you like to see that wizard
oh I'd love it I you like to see that wizard? Oh, I'd love it.
I'd like to see him go,
hey guys, did you ever see the movie Scanners?
And then they'll look at him and go, no.
And then he'll go, check it out.
And then his head will explode.
And then the other two guys will start discussing
how much better practical effects are than CGI.
Yeah.
All right. much better practical effects are than cgi yeah all right well he you know sort of makes a very pointed statement and uh collapses dead so that's a great that's a great reference honestly i'm
impressed that he he knew that much about pop culture and was suddenly able to speak common
after uh seemingly very i'm just glad he's dead.
Yeah, I fired the second arrow
into the sand near my feet.
Where do you actually
fire the second arrow? I rolled a two.
Oh, yeah,
you sure did. Great
description.
Next, I'm sorry, do you want
to run anywhere? Oh, yeah, I'm going to try to get behind. I'm going to keep moving over here. I'm sorry do you want to run anywhere oh yeah i'm gonna try to get behind
you see i'm gonna keep moving over here i'm sorry i'm now just drawing on stuff
i noticed some of you are putting a lot of your focus on drawing nonsense images on i'm getting
over here race line yeah i feel like it's the most focused we've been in an episode in a long time. Oh, I just
learned how to erase stuff.
Yeah, click it. If you click
it with the arrow and then you can delete it.
It'll select it, but only the stuff
you drew yourself. Okay, cool. There we go.
Apparently
I didn't draw the fart.
So, there you go. Okay, I'm over behind
the tree and I shot an exploding arrow at the guy.
Cool.
Uh,
roll your,
uh,
yeah,
you're done.
Um,
but you'd be ran over by the,
the,
the tree that's mostly fallen,
but there's still like half a trunk left that you can sort of hide behind.
That'll bring us to Iva.
You're up.
Okay.
So that middle guy is gone,
but there's still one,
two,
three,
four,
five,
six,
seven, eight. There's still one two three four five six seven eight
there's still nine people here yes okay so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna use the um the cutlass
that has prismatic spray because it it's a 60 foot cone and everybody inside that cone is going
to be affected okay or it's it's going to have to roll.
So, I mean, I'm just reading the spell for Prismatic Spray.
Tell me if that's wrong, Dan, because that's what I remember is that it has three charges.
Yes, X-Dirty saving throw.
That the Cutlass, I mean, has three charges of Prismatic Spray.
Mm-hmm.
I don't know if Danny is actually still where he is in the map.
If he is, unfortunately, I can't get to the guy next to him,
but I'll include the guy here, if you can see.
So everyone in this, behind this zone.
Does that make sense?
Yes.
Okay.
So that is either eight or nine of them that I'm going to get.
And according to the prismatic spray spell,
eight multicolored rays of light flash from your hand i assume from the cutlass
each ray is a different color and has a different power and purpose i can use this right because we
i attuned this was the point is that i attuned to this well here's what here's the trick it's a 60
foot cone yeah um i just measured it oh yeah i'm just trying to, I'm just trying to see if they're too far away.
Oh, I see.
From me.
Yes.
Is that what you mean?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Well, I could just...
Because it's a 60-foot cone coming out from you,
and you're pretty far away.
I was thinking a width of a cone, but...
I mean, I'm just...
Yeah.
There's like a standard cone shape that it uses once...
Okay, well, I'm only...
All I have to do is run up 20 feet,
and then I'll just use the cone on all the guys in the back, I guess.
Okay.
If that works.
The cone on the guys in the formation?
Yeah, if I can't get all of them, then I'll get...
There's five of those guys.
So if I can't get...
I mean, I would love to get everybody,
but if i can
only focus it on one then i'll just do those five six no seven one two three four five six seven
guys uh you can potentially nail all of them i'm gonna try to do that then okay um okay so hopefully
that we're not forgetting something about this thing. And if we are, sorry.
I got it a long time ago.
Okay, so then each creature in a 60-foot cone
must make a dexterity saving throw.
For each target, roll a d8 to determine what color ray affects it.
All right, we've got success for the two casters
and one of the warriors and fails for everybody else.
Okay, so I don't know if you
do that or I do it, but...
You do it. It's fun that way.
Um, oh.
Okay, but
there is half as much damage on
successful saves, it says.
So they're still
hitting their...
Alright.
So you have to tell me who like you tell me who the person is
I guess so okay
so uh
let's just do one at a time warrior on the far left
who's got a crossbow bow
oh I should probably get her an actual die
okay so I'm gonna roll a d8
each time so here we go
um d8
that guy what does that mean to everyone oh oh weird
um so that is a seven so he gets hit with a violet on a failed save the target is blinded
it was this guy who saved or failed. He failed. So he blinded.
Revved up like a deuce.
And then must make a wisdom saving throw
at the start of my next turn.
Successful save ends the blindness.
If it fails that save,
the creature is transported to another plane of existence
of the GM's choosing and is no longer blinded.
Wow.
Wow.
That's a very specific form of blindness.
Yeah.
Let's go to the next warrior.
Okay, next guy is...
He gets hit with...
Ooh, okay.
Oh my goodness. Okay, he gets hit with special.
The target is struck by two rays.
Roll two more times. Whoa!
Holy smokes.
I was saving this for something, you know,
special, and then I was like,
well, we have three chances to use it, so I don't want to
not get to use it at all.
So it's a three and a
seven. So seven we just did. That's another guy.
That's the blinding.
Violet. And then three
is yellow. 10d6 lightning
damage on a failed save or half as much
damage on a successful one.
Okay.
That was a
successful or? That was a
fail. Okay, so
that guy's gonna take
on top of the blinding, he's
also going to take
34 points of damage.
Jeez Louise.
How would you like to see that one die?
I mean, I feel like he...
I don't know.
I'm too...
He exploded from lightning, right?
He went blind and then he was... Oh, okay. You know what? He goes blind and then he's like, I can't know. I'm too. He exploded from lightning, right? He went blind.
And then he was.
Oh, OK.
You know what?
He goes blind.
And then he's like, I can't see anything.
And then the lightning strikes him.
And for one brief second, he's like, oh, I can see again as the light permeates his eyelids.
And then his whole body explodes into atoms and dust.
Wow.
This is going to be utter chaos.
The rest of this episode is probably going to be you describing the
psychotic hallucinatory
violence that's happening
I like that that began with Sarah being like
jeez I don't have any ideas oh wait
I have it
I have a sword that casts
the movie Mandy
so then
situation okay
then we've got the caster in the back says everyone attack so it's like a John Wick situation okay um
we've got the caster in the back
says everyone attack
will you please roll an eight-sided dice
okay next one this is another
three so that's
okay so he takes half as much
damage on 10d6
wow
it's
it's
what the hell is going on I love it 10d6. Wow. It's so hard.
What the hell is going on?
I love it.
10d6. Sarah, you should draw
dicks all over the map every episode.
Okay, so that was 37 points,
so he takes whatever that is.
What the hell?
Jesus Christ!
How would you like to see this shaman die?
I guess he is going to charge up with all the lightning
and then he's going to lift his...
Is he holding a staff or anything?
Yes.
Then he's going to hold his staff in the air as he's being like lift his is he holding like a staff or anything yes okay he's gonna like then he's gonna like hold his staff in the air as he's being
electrocuted and it's gonna like shoot a beam of light like Luxor in Las Vegas
like straight up at the sky and then he's just gonna collapse into a pile of
ashes all right and then we're gonna go for the guard in the front middle.
Let's roll his eight.
Okay.
He got five,
which is 10 D six cold damage on a failed save or half as much.
Yeah, it succeeded.
So this is going to be halved.
Please.
Are you sure that I'm doing this right dan because it does
seem insane but i go okay yes i knew this would happen eventually it's exciting to see when you
chose to do it okay so 25 points halved how would you like to see this guy who succeeded uh die he die. He had 10 hit points left. He's gonna He's gonna, I guess, just
turn into solid ice
and then his friend next to him
is gonna turn to him to be like, are you okay?
And he's just gonna accidentally brush his hand
against him and the guy's just gonna shatter
into like a million tiny ice cubes
and fall to the ground. Alright, and
let's have the next guy in the front row.
You failed.
He's just watched his friend explode
and he's just,
he like looks at you in terror
as a beam of light rushes towards his face.
That guy got a three,
which is lightning damage again.
10 ds.
Give him the Luxor.
Here's the thing.
This guy has more than 10 hit points.
So there's a chance if you roll all ones that he'll live.
What a story.
30.
Oh, how would you like to see this guy die?
Oh man.
Okay.
I'm running out of ideas.
Luxor, you got a classic!
I can't read you something I already did.
No, no.
Okay, this guy is going to...
He's going to light up from the inside
and his eyeballs are going to start to glow
and his ears are going to start... Beams of light are going to come out of his ears and then his eyeballs are going to start to glow and like his ears are going to start like
beams of light are going to come out of his ears and then his
eyeballs are going to explode
out of his eye
sockets and then his
body is going to burst into flames.
Wow.
Noted. Are we halfway
through? Alright.
We are, we have two
left. Let's roll for the caster in the back
who succeeded his saving throw.
Caster in the back?
Okay.
Oh, he got it.
Okay, so let's see.
Hopefully we get something there.
Okay.
Okay, this is a new one.
This is red.
The target takes 10d6 fire damage on a failed save
or half as much damage on a successful one.
Ha ha!
Oh boy, let's see what happens in his neck of the woods.
Okay.
38 points of damage, so half that.
How would you like to see this one, Dex?
Oh my god.
Chris, I'm throwing that to you,
because I can't keep killing people like this.
Yeah, he starts dancing as fast as he can,
and all of his clothes come off,
and everybody goes, oh, look at your boobies.
Look at your wiener.
Look at your asshole.
And he's so embarrassed that he dies.
Where was the fire?
Firing his heart.
On fire with embarrassment.
Okay, I'll take it.
Oh, no.
You're getting real hung up on this fire thing.
I didn't know Billy was going to come and take it over,
and I'm so glad he did.
Oh, good.
Last guard who failed and is off to the right there.
Last one? Okay.
Yes.
Here we go.
Man, this die really is into the lightning damage.
Oh, boy.
My god in heaven.
Well, he failed, so let's just see what kind of damage.
I mean, he's a warrior, so he must have so many hit points.
Okay, this one is...
Oh, oops, I did the wrong one. Sorry, guys.
Come on,
lobies. Come on, lobies.
Low numbers, low numbers.
34 points of damage.
How would you like to see this guy die?
I don't know. Ken's calling this one.
From calling on years of horror movie
experience, Ken Daly is going to bring calling on years of horror movie experience.
Ken Daly is going to bring us,
bring us home here with the final death.
What's the source of this death?
What kind of lightning once again,
okay.
Lightning is going to hit his eyes,
which pushes them back into his head,
out his nostrils into his mouth.
And he chokes on his own eyeballs.
All right.
So the entire bunch of these guys just is being utterly annihilated as you
swing the cut list out and these lights of magic.
The last couple of guys are absolutely terrified.
They're standing over Danny, who they almost knocked down.
They saw 2D kind of breathe some life into him, but they look like they were
about to just start hacking
at him while he was down, and now they're like looking over
their shoulder like,
they're not fleeing, but boy, oh boy,
the tide sure has turned.
And we're going to bring things
to Danny. Danny,
you are lying down prone.
You got a couple of hit points, and there's
two fish warriors standing over you.
Yeah.
Well.
Nah, I could attack prone,
but no, I'll pop up and attack the closest guy.
I'll do that.
The thing where they, I forget what it's called, but it's not a key up or something.
I feel like that's a call you make out loud, but no.
feel like that's a call you make out loud but uh no uh the thing where agile people can kind of pop up with with just their feet oh kip yeah like yeah yeah like agent smith in the matrix yeah yeah
exactly yeah suddenly rise up on your what did you call it chris kip yeah yeah Is that Jackie Chan move? So yeah, sure.
It isn't a Jackie Chan move.
That guy does everything. Yeah.
And then I will
hack away at somebody with the short sword.
Whoever's closest.
Great.
There's two of them right in your face, but there's one guy, I guess,
who's a little bit closer. Yeah.
Let's see it.
Attack.
First one is not a hit.
All right.
We're looking for 17 on these guys, so I'm going to use a key, though,
a key point and do a flurry of blows.
OK.
19 plus five.
That's a hit.
Roll your damage. Yeah.
Just four.
Okay.
You definitely hack into him, but he's going to go ahead and survive this one so far.
Boy, oh boy.
But he's, you know,
he's still pretty tough. He's not taking a ton of damage yet.
We're going to head on to Nathan.
You're up.
Nathan saw Danny drop and then come back up,
but he's sort of like horrified by that.
Everybody else to the north is dead.
Is that right, Dan?
It's just the two guys in front of Danny that are left?
Yep.
And that's sort of hill
where you heard uh noises right but i just mean i mean sort of immediately on our map in front of us
the only two that we see are those guys okay so nathan's actually going to charge and go one two
Two, three, four, five, six.
So he's basically coming up right behind Danny,
and he's going to pull out that dagger that Princess Caspia gave him,
and he's going to be like, Danny!
And all of a sudden, like, his eyes are going to roll back,
and instead he's going to be like, stay away from my friend!
And he's going to
whip the dagger
of venom. There are two
guys there. Which one's more hurt?
The one that's kind of
right north of
Danny.
Sorry, Nathan's going to throw the
dagger of venom at that
guy.
It is an 18 plus 6, 24 to hit.
That's a hit.
So for dagger damage, it's a D4 plus 3.
I rolled a 2.
So 5 points of dagger damage.
But then also because it's this special dagger of venom, once a day, I will use it now.
This thing is coated in poison or venom.
I'm going to invoke that.
And so the creature must succeed on a DC 15 constitution saving throw.
Okay. Okay, so this guy has got a plus one to his constitution.
And can you see what he rolled there, Chris?
Do I see it?
No.
Did you roll it on D&D Beyond?
I missed it.
No, I rolled it on my phone.
Oh, that's a one.
Uh oh.
It sure is.
Okay, so that's fun.
So that character is now poisoned for a minute
and it's going to take 2D 10
poison damage.
Oh my gosh.
Just drop it.
It's going. All right, I'll roll this one twice. Oh, one and four. just drop it it's gone
alright I'll roll this one twice
one and
four so sadly only
five points of poison damage
but the creature is now poisoned
for one minute
alright
and yeah he goes,
he's not dead, but he's like grabbing at the dagger,
like struggling to pull it out of his chest.
Then we're going to come around.
Everybody do a perception check.
Hmm.
13. 13 17
20
17
everybody who got over a 15
is going to hear this
Danny how'd you do alright yeah a few, is going to hear this. Uh, Danny, how'd you do?
All right.
Yeah.
I think a few of you then will hear this sort of just like,
kind of noise as if something with very strange kind of foot patterns is
stomping up the hill.
One,
one being two beings hard to tell.
When you say up the hill, where are? Two beings? Hard to tell. When you say
up the hill, where are we in
relation?
It's a hill that sort of
separates the beach from the jungle.
It's kind of this
little hill that the guys
came up over. So from behind
the bad guys.
Yeah, and it obscures sort of
the depth of the jungle a bit. So behind the bad guys
and just on the other side of the hill, about 100 feet
away, you're hearing this is sort of...
Yeah.
And then we're going to come round
to...
Let's see, take them out of
the turn order because they just died a horrible death.
And 2D, it's you.
Who's left?
Those two guys who were standing over Danny are both still up.
I'm going to get...
I'm going to range.
Up there.
Okay.
I'm going to cast...
I can actually reach them. I'm going to cast... I can't actually reach them. I'm going to cast Sleep.
Alright. I'm going to cast
Beyond them to make sure I don't affect Danny.
Great. Sleep, they do
what saving throw?
I don't see a saving throw.
This spell... Oh, you gotta roll 5 and see how many hit points.
I will do that.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Oops.
1, 2...
What the hell?
Sorry.
You just went haywire.
I'm going to find out how many points this sleep is for.
Sorry, I don't know how many dice I got.
Okay.
One, two, three, four, five.
16.
Oof.
Ooh.
All right.
So let's see.
How does this work when it's split between people?
It's going to be...
Yeah, you see the weaker guy to the right with a dagger,
and it's just kind of going...
And land on the ground,
but the guy on the left just sort of sees it happening.
He knows he's now got a lot less protection.
Anything else for you this turn
are they more than 10 feet away
they're like exactly right well my uh glaive can reach 10 feet so i'm gonna attack with my glaive
holy shit all right uh the guy who's asleep for the guy who's up. Great.
No, that is what is within ten feet.
We'll attack first, right?
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, you know what?
He's not no like, look, if I pull the ruler out, if we're being honest here,
he's not in one.
He's one square. Okay. Being in range? He's one square away from being in range.
Do you have any movement left?
Yeah, then I can't really do anything.
Okay.
He's just out of reach of your glaive.
You could hit Danny.
No, I would never do such a thing.
Okay.
Two to you can't move five more feet?
No, I can only move 25 feet.
Cause I'm a little guy.
Like me.
Okay, so then we're gonna come around.
Princess Cosby is gonna swim farther across the river.
She's making pretty good time.
Jelf, you are up.
I'm going to jump over this tree here
and attack the guy who's standing
with a short sword.
Great.
16
plus, so 20.
That's a hit.
1d
6 plus 4 piercing.
6 plus 4, 10. 10. maybe six plus four piercing six plus four ten ten
that's ten on that guy
how would you like to see this guy die
can I have him do
the thing where he holds up one of his fish fingers
and goes up oh hey I was just
before you and then
just right through the throat
and he goes
and then he collapses on
the ground into some uh panko crumbs and uh i fry him up and he's delicious oh he's breaded
delicious wow gross oh and then uh and he's uh uh since that other guy next to him is prone can i
just kind of do like an elbow drop with uh my short sword into his throat you can try uh you're gonna you're gonna roll with advantage he's asleep no sleep's an automatic
success roll your damage uh that was a 20 anyway and then uh my god so double this
five plus four so 9 eighteen on a sleeping guy a sleeping fish how would you
like to see him how would you like to see i mean is there anything you'd like to to add to the fact
that you were sort of elbow dropping a sword into a sleeping fish sitting on a jelly i'm gonna be uh
i'm gonna cut to cut to his cut to his fish dream where he's like swimming towards a big castle and there's like bubbles of candy and stuff.
And then all of a sudden this big hook comes down and I'm dressed sitting on it, dressed like a worm.
And I shoot him with a shotgun.
Oh, gosh.
And then he doesn't wake up.
Right. Just as he just as he's about to wake up he's like i've discovered a new form of weapon and he disappears from existence um so iva you see
just these beams rocket out of your cutlass and annihilate these guys you see your your other
friends just sort of cut down the
last remaining guys you see all the bloodshed you're feeling you're feeling pretty good but
you've got this sort of thing in the back of your head where you're like oh right there's a weird
sort of stomping noise coming up the hill what would you like to do um i would like to... I can hear the stomping noise.
Oh, yes.
Myself.
Okay, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to
click my boots of speed heals together,
and I'm going to hustle stealthily up to the crest of the hill
as best I can to see what's coming if I can.
Okay.
You are going to
probably want to roll a stealth check.
Are you trying to hide kind of at the top?
Yes. Yeah, yeah. Cool. Put your
token where you're going to end up.
Yep. And
roll a stealth check to hide.
20.
Great. You
peer over the top of the hill and you see the demon that you remember from the Temple of Dagon that was being awoken,
that you all snuck past with this huge serpent tail, sort of in an S shape, slamming itself up the hill.
This thing is about 30 feet tall,
and it doesn't quite see you peering over,
but you just see this slime dripping from its open maw,
which is kind of quivering back and forth
as its body shakes up the hill.
And on that note, we'll have to find out
how that plays out on the next episode of Nerd Poker.
Hey, Sam, what do you think happened today?
Hey, everybody.
On episode 49, we are drawing hammer dicks on the map.
But when we're not, we're fighting Galaxian bros.
Some of them are glowing and something made of ice shards hurt us.
Danny got tipped over and Nathan got paralyzed, which is not ideal for someone who hops around.
Blaine removed a wizard's head and Iva had a blinding and exploding and freezing
and eye socket flame and embarrassing boobies and eyeball choking party.
Nathan did some adorable poisoning.
Tootie swung some glaive and Jelf breaded a man.
And we all learned that the real magic hammer is the friendships we made along the way.
Anything you want to plug down?
Yeah, sure.
Definitely look and see if I'm either complaining about the state of the planet or talking about show dates that I'm about to do on social media, most likely Twitter and Instagram.
You can also go on Netflix and watch the dragon Prince and learn about the
tabletop role playing game that I will have coming out later this year.
And yeah,
that'll do it for me.
Brian,
what are you up to?
Tour dates,
BP,
Brian,
same.com.
And then,
uh,
merge there too.
And,
uh,
just doing standup and hoping to get something else going awesome uh blaine
oh uh stacy keach and i are going over to vietnam we're base jumping into the uh
san duong cave world's largest cave i'm excited i've never pace jumped before or been to Vietnam. Wow. That sounds amazing.
I'm worried. I'm just
worried that I'm going to plunge to my death.
But yeah, I don't want to say it out loud.
Not saying it out loud.
Oh!
Whoa. Don't jinx it.
If I say it out loud, it can't really
happen. Plunge to my death.
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Hey, everybody.
I'm dry, though.
What?
What?