The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 52 - Tendril Mercies

Episode Date: May 24, 2016

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This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast. This is bad. This is very, very bad. Finding themselves in the shadow of a terrifying creature. Oh no, Skid, no! The heroes will be divided. And by the way, Galabras, your entire party has left you there. I know, yeah. Everyone backed up.

And Troy will smite all who oppose him. Natty 20. Natural 20. Natural 20. Natty 20. Natural 20. Natural 20. And Troy will smite all who oppose him. But Lork will not go down without a fight. Lork, you see your good buddy Galamros. Your friends are dying and dropping like flies. And the belt, Rags' belt just starts to glow blue with magic. The adventure continues. Who knew the Vault of Thorns was going to be tough and weird?

Right now. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to episode 52. I am especially thrilled to celebrate our one-year anniversary with our listeners who've been with us since episode one. Incredible. To celebrate our paper anniversary, I will personally mail out a handwritten haiku to any listeners who email us at glasscanonpodcast at gmail.com with the subject line, Barren haiku, within 24 hours of this episode's release just be sure to tweet us pictures of them once you get them at glass cannon pod on twitter or share on our facebook page do it even though i won't be able to see them as i've been blind for what seems like forever it has been pretty harrowing to be a blind gunslinger in a demiplane of thorny death, and I have to admit that I was bereaved beyond words when it happened. I couldn't even speak

until the next episode. My heart sank, and I'm still worried about death sinking her cold, steely teeth into my helpless dwarven body, mercilessly robbing me of the heroic, teeth into my helpless dwarven body, mercilessly robbing me of the heroic guns-a-blazing death I deserve. But let's be honest, there's no way any of us are going to go out in a dignified way after seeing Benverine and our dear, strange Gormley fall to their deaths. And coming to terms with this has let me relax quite a bit. The pressure is off now that I can't really defend myself. I'm trying to have fun with the fact I have to make acrobatics checks to move normal speed or else I fall flat on my face. It's

all a game, which has been made very clear to me with all of your kind words and notes of sincere concern about Baron's blindness on social media, it's been a huge help. But if you all are having fun with it, I guess I will too. I think that's important to keep in mind during any game. You have to try to have fun no matter what happens. It certainly beats staying on the Chellish Devil, stable mucking for rag. Well, let's get along little doggies and see if Baron finally bites it in episode 52. Tendril mercies. A blind gunslinger and a deaf magus walk into a bar.

That's all I got. I feel like that's your big open slide. We're not even in a bar. Walk into a greenhouse. A horrifying, a greenhouse. A horrifying horrifying greenhouse. They'd be really efficient actually

because anything that the mage just couldn't hear Baron could say he'd be like oh yeah I know what she wants. And then anything

that Baron couldn't see. We need to make some buddy side adventures. That's the opposite of efficiency. Well

self-sufficient. It's also the Well, self-sufficient. It's also the opposite of self-sufficient. I would say ultimately effective. Okay, that's fine. I'll agree with that. Ultimately effective. I like that. These have been some crazy episodes.

Who knew the Vault of Thorns was going to be tough and weird? Oh, you mean, yeah, the Demiplane? Bizarre pocket dimension populated by uh druids and monsters oh man you guys walk in little twig jacks come stabbing at you shoot thorns you open the floor bloom door giant bridge with no handholds lorca these lurkers in light uh try to do their worst but uh you end up killing one of them and one of them leaves baron blinded for what is it now four episodes three episodes yeah something like 17 episodes this is the fourth episode this is the fourth episode of baron being permanently blinded

uh so then you uh walk into the next room meet up withwiga, the last surviving member of the Council of Thorns from the original group. Outside of Silverman. Outside of Silverman. She agrees to join you, but unfortunately it's been centuries since she's really used her magic other than trying to communicate with her lost

brothers and sisters. And so she isn't super effective, unfortunately. You then walk into the next room and have the most harrowing combat in 50 episodes against a giant fey dragonfly known as an ultramarine chaser. The battle's intense. We all assume at the end of one episode that Baron has been dropped to his death. He actually survives. But then, very quickly, Benverine gets bitten, lifted, and dropped to his death. And then

Gormley, typical Gorms, frontline fighter Gorms, flies in the face of the dragonfly, gets bit to unconsciousness, and then dropped to her death. The party spends a night in quiet vigil,

peaceful prayer over the bodies of their fallen allies. Sitting upon the ground and telling sad stories about the death of witches. That old tale. And then you guys make your way across that lily pad

thing again by saying, fuck those lily pads, climbing down, walking across the shit, climbing up. Then you enter the bottom floor of the greenhouse. Long story short, Lork finds a bear. The party finds a magus. you tie up and subdue the lurker in light that has now not only blinded Baron the Gunslinger, but deafened your new companion, Della the Magus. And just when you think you're ready to question it and try to get it to dispel the magic,

this appears in front of you. Oh, that's gross. Oh, my God. Check out the tumb. Oh, man. This is the Georgia O' o'keefe museum it does kind of like georgia o'keefe yeah big old purple maw 10 uh mushroom head four tentacles this thing how much space does it take up like in in like radius basically it's so huge uh it's 15

feet all the way around oh my my God. That is so huge. Yeah. And so let's, this is something we suck at is threatened squares for large and huge and maybe eventually the colossal creatures, a creature like this that takes up 15 spaces all the way around threatens with its natural. It doesn't have a reach weapon,

it threatens 5, 10, 15, 20, because it has 15 feet of reach. So it threatens all of those squares. So take all your five footsteps you want, you're fine. Anything else, attack of opportunity. You want to do a full withdraw, you're probably going to incur three or four. It is huge. It is a huge plant. And you mean that literally, right?

Like the word huge. Yes, the word huge. Right. Now, here's the thing. This lurker in light that you captured. Sorry, I just stepped on Skid's cord. The lurker in light you captured is the closest creature to it, and you're trying to keep this thing alive to dispel the thing.

It's all tied up. That thing is ten feet away directly in front of it. Right next to the creature is Galabras. Behind the creature is a deaf Della, and to the left of Della is Lork the Orc. Roll for initiative.

Deafness affects initiative. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't even think about deafness condition. I got a minus four to initiative. Is that it besides the 20% mischance? Is there anything else? I mean, I don't know.

I mean, I know if I have perception, if I'm listening from hearing it, I can't get it. Right. So, let's see what I get. Wouldn't have mattered in the end. Oh, Jesus. Joe, you got a natural 20, right? On your initial? Go fuck yourself.

A natural? One! One! Alright, so, Baron, who's got the highest initial? 17. I've got 20. 20 for Natural One Alright so Baron Who's got the highest niche 17 I've got 20 20 for

Blind Baron Della what'd you get Six Okay I want to take odds On this Who wants to bet That Baron gets his sight back in this fight

Or not What do you think the odds are Zero You think it's zero No I think it's I think it's closer to like 20% that Baron gets his sight back in this fight or not? What do you think the odds are? Zero. You think it's zero? No, I think it's 25. I think it's closer to like 20%. I think actually strategically it would be important to see if we can make it happen in the fight.

No, I agree. Couldn't agree more. I'd say the odds are like this. If Baron gets his sight back, someone's going to die. Oh. What? Just because of trying to make it happen is going to be so lethal to the party. That's what I'm, but I don't know. But everything's going to be. Oh. What? Just because of trying to make it happen is going to be so lethal

to the party. That's what I'm, but I don't know. But everything's going to be lethal to the party. Just being here is lethal. Yeah. Mark, what's your initiative?

Three. Three. And Della, you had a six? Six. Galabro? 17. 17. And Baron, you got a 20-something?

20. 20. Okay. What about Helimerum? Della, I'm sorry. One more time. What'd you get? Six. okay. What about Helimirum? Della, I'm sorry, one more time, what'd you get? Six. What about Iwiga? And yes, Iwiga is going to go first.

All right. Iwiga distract her. Round one for him. Now Iwiga backed away when her attempt to grapple this thing was successful, but then it immediately wriggled out. Thankfully for Galabras' command spell, he was able to submit, and then you tied it up.

I don't think I made that clear at the end of the last episode, but you did say that you tied it up. Iwiga, knowing that this creature is enormous, is going to shoot a lightning bolt at it. It hits for four points of damage. I wonder if it has resistance also. Does it appear to have done any damage? It appears to have done damage

okay alright good to know we know that oh fuck oh did you really mean that well I just thought I was like yeah Gormley has the lightning bolt was that accidental yeah well yeah

sorry I will remember you. Baron? Is there any reasonable way that I can move in a way to shoot blindly towards this person with 50% concealment? Well, yes. The problem is you're going to take a minus four because they're all within melee. Okay. Well, that's The problem is you're going to take a minus four because they're all within melee.

Okay. Well, that's not the biggest problem. And then it's going to get a plus eight to AC. Well, that's not true. We're not in melee. We can't attack yet. We don't threaten it. Oh, it's not considered a threat even though it threatened.

They have to threaten each other. Ah, I see. Okay. So, no, it would just be a, it'd be tough, but if they yelled at you like, Baron, aim this way. But this is all difficult terrain. Yeah, you would have to... I think you'd have to move more than 10 feet

to get out of shooting through us, meaning his plus four cover. Well, I wouldn't know which way I was moving. Right. Right, because she left you. So I'm going to roll an acrobatics check to see if I can move 10 feet this round instead of five. I mean, you're not stupid that you can't hear where the action's going,

so you can move towards the action. You can move 20 feet. No, not with difficult terrain. Oh, right. Half and then half. Everything's difficult. It's a quarter. So I'm rolling to do 10 or 5 feet of movement.

Remember, if you fail, you fall. I rolled a 9. Total? total yeah you fall on your face Oh trips trips over the bramble well that's probably the best thing you're just like good gunslinger's dodge guys I did Gunslinger's Dodge. Galabras. You need to join Chang-Chang, join Chang-Chang. Give this man a new base.

Yeah, you need a base. Yeah, give me a new base. Papa's got a brand new base. And I'm going to swing the also giant-sized hammer of Uskar at its fucking face. Alrighty. 17? 17? 17 misses.

Wow. Oh boy, it is now its turn. I am so terrified. Attack number one. Couple things are going to happen. Yeah, let me guess how many attacks this thing with all its tentacles has. Oh, sweet Nelly.

Where do we even begin? It goes to bite Galabras. Bite, okay. The maw first. I wonder if it has swallow hole. It might. It might very well have swallow hole. Galabras is giant, so that...

Whenever you hear the word maw, you have to worry about swallow hole. Yeah, but it probably wouldn't be able to swallow me because I'm big. Oh, right. You're enlarged. 28. Yeah.

Hits Galabs for 14 points of damage. 14 points of damage. Nine points of damage. And will attempt to grab natural 20. I'm grabbing. It bites Galabras. Did that change your plan of action for next round? For this round, Galabras?

Bites Galabras, lifts him off the ground, pulls him with the grab towards his mouth to put it inside. And it doesn't matter that he's enlarged. It actually does matter. That means he is eligible.

As long as you're one size category smaller, you can be swallow-hole. Wait, so like a man could swallow a halfling? Halflings are still medium, though. Well, men don't have the ability to swallow whole, but like... Yeah, but if they did, like... But it goes large, huge, right?

What? Yeah. Large, huge, yeah. This is silly, and I'm playing the rest of this episode under protest. Well, for example, the swallow whole ability says it allows you to swallow one size category smaller. Just move on. It's pulling you towards its mouth. It does one size category. So just move on. It's pulling you towards

his mouth. It does not do its tentacle attacks, though. Della. Oh, so I'm right now. I'm in. Oh, my turn. Oh, my.

If Dell takes a five foot step back, that does not provoke, right? You can't take a five foot step because of the difficult terrain. Correct. All right.

I'm going to magic missile it. Magic missile. right you can't take a five foot step because of the difficult terrain correct all right i'm gonna magic missile it magic missile that's 4d4 plus four 20 fail chance let me roll that first roll up got it 39. barely nine points of damage oh jesus 4d Four D4. You have four ones. Yeah. Nine. No, three ones. Three ones and a two.

Sorry. You were way off, Skid. Way off. You were way off. Nine points of damage. And that's my standard action. And then I will attempt to move back 10 feet, and I'll roll the acrobatics to avoid an attack of opportunity.

Okay. It's against its CMD. Just straight up CMD, right? Not plus 5. Correct. Natural 20. 27. You're all right. You only moved him back 5 feet, though.

I did. So move back 10. What? He said he wanted to move back 10 feet. 10 feet. I was in the outside. He only threatens three squares. Right, okay. 10 feet. He only threatens three squares. So you just barely,

even with a natural 20, get out of its range of an attack of opportunity. Lork. Lork is going to grab this little winged fuck and try to carry him back to Baron.

I like that plan. Carry him back. A.K.A. Go fuck yourself, Troy. Carry him back. I love that. A.K.A. Go fuck yourself, Troy. Take your attack. So how many attacks? Take it! Is this one?

Yeah. Well, yeah. Can I grab this little thing without a problem? Yeah. Now, this is my question, where it's got Galabras in its mouth. I don't think it can take it. Does it have tentacle attacks? Yeah.

I would think so. I think it can still do the tentacles, but if it was holding in one tentacle, it can't attack it can take it. Does it have tentacle attacks? Yeah. I would think so. I think it can still do the tentacles, but if it was holding in one tentacle, it can't attack with that tentacle. That's what I would think. Multiple natural attacks. It will do a tentacle. Now, hold on.

Grabbing this thing is not an issue, you're saying? Picking the little winged creature. I'm going to call that a standard action. That's just easy. For you, this thing weighs 15 pounds. So I grab it and I move out of this one threatened square. It gets an attack by the chain.

It whips its tentacle at you. Eight. Yeah! There we go. Misses, and then I move 10 feet out. And this is why you do crazy things, even if it doesn't seem right. Because the rolls could be low. Bear.

Bear. Bear. I'm going to look at the bear and just say, stay, for the moment. Okay. Everybody roll a perception check. Except for bear. 25. 13.

21. Galabras, 25. 13. 21. Galabras, you feel it get stronger. At the end of the round. The bear? No. Cool! The huge plant, like it was healing itself. Oh.

Something that you, of course, Galabras, would understand. You feel a healing energy regenerating it. Well, how come its heal energy works in this place? You know, this place is so backward. This place is dumb. This must be a good place. Yeah. Iwiga told you there's some evil shit that's not getting here. Yeah, but how come it's able to kill themselves?

Whatever. Iwiga goes back to Baron and uses her standard action to lift him up. Oh, nice. That was very nice, but probably misguided of you. She pushes you back down. No. And now it is Baron's turn.

Lorik, did you yell anything to Baron on the way? Yeah, I said, I'm bringing it back. Hold still. I'm going to get this thing dispelled. If it kills all of us. Alright, I'll if I know that this thing Like Troy said it would. Can you get to me within

your next turn? Don't need to. Okay. It's a ranged thing. You can dispel from range. I'm going to hold my action to see what happens with the honey nut cheerio all right galabras you are trapped in the maw of the beast all right so can i have an attempt to break free or what uh yeah absolutely um decent 17 Yeah, absolutely. Deesa? 17. Calabras just... And by the way, Calabras, your entire party has left you there.

I know, yeah. Everyone backed up. Lork grabbed a fairy and ran away. Woo-hoo-hoo! Woo-hoo-hoo! Look what I've got! Wow, you've really got a wrong interpretation of that event. It is its turn.

It goes to maintain the grapple and as you all figured out, if it maintains the grapple, it immediately swallows Galabras whole. It maintains the grapple. Over 30. A couple things are going to happen.

Galabras immediately takes more bite damage 15 points of bite damage as you enter its disgusting mouth and then you have to roll a fortitude save

this is bad this is very very bad good thing I didn't roll a natural one or anything oh no no it swallows Galabras whole and Galabras you just feel a burning all over your body

you take five more points of acid damage and you are paralyzed for eight rounds. What? You guys see Galabras get eaten. Giant Galabras gets eaten. Giant Galabras

eaten. So is that the acid damage that bypasses DR, right? I believe so. Unless you have DR acid. Yeah, it bypasses DR, right? Yeah. I believe so. Unless you have DR acid. Yeah, it bypasses DR. And that paralyzed thing, that is not common with Swallowhole. So that's something special to this creature, I think.

All right. I'm going to have the corner store. Anybody want anything? Yeah. I'll take a Budweiser. All right. I'll be right back. Okay.

Della. Troy, you're doing a really fantastic job of just knocking us off one at a time listen i didn't write the adventure all right della seeing this vanishes okay so della vanishes like cast invisibility the spell vanish vanish. Well then, roll 20%. I'm going to roll it. Oh boy, she's like... 45, got it. Yeah, got it. All right, so Della...

She's going to charge in and get a right... Cannot charge. Not really charge, not Pathfinder charge. Right, just your... Joe has put Galabras's mini on top of you. In the stomach. In the stomach of the other. So Della, standard action, goes invisible.

And so... And it moves into melee range? Moves into melee range. And can you move... How many feet can you move? 15. Okay. So she gets within five feet of the creature,

but she's not right next to it. Gets within five feet and doesn't provoke because she has vanished. Right. Lorik, you see your good buddy Galabras. Your friends are dying and dropping like flies. And for all you know, Della just planeswalked out of here. Right.

See you guys. I don't like this group. Right. And Galabras is a young kid too. Right. Lork, what do you do? I need to know from a mechanical perspective if this thing being tied up is going to hinder its ability to possibly dispel the magic on him. If that has anything to do with it.

No. Dispel is... I don't think you have to do somatic shit to dispel. Well, you probably do, but we could have said that his legs are wrapped up or whatever. Fuck it. That's not going to be an issue, right? Okay. How long does command work?

Just the one round. If you untie it so that they could untie him up and then intimidate it yeah so that's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna say um you see that blind creature over there you fucked with the wrong dwarf you cure that blindness right now or you'll find yourself dead i don't know i got nothing what language are you speaking oh that's very interesting uh fey i got i'm common man it understands comments here all right and it should know by the way before he rolls that he could kill it and let that other thing

kill everyone else it doesn't matter to him like it doesn't matter that this giant guy could kill everyone yeah no i mean like what i mean to say is it should get the idea i'm just not very clever in the moment saying what lork says but it gets the idea dispel this thing or you die not like oh cut your head off like slow painful awful death. Let this dwarf see. Bottle cap? Bottle cap? There are no bottle caps. Troy is not given a bottle cap in literally. I didn't get a bottle cap for dying.

I don't give bottle caps for character deaths. Maybe if you protected your fucking allies, I'd give you a bottle cap or two. All right, here we go. Intimidate check. 20. Nice. Adjusted. Alright, here we go. Intimidate. Intimidate check. 20. Nice. Adjusted. 20. Nice. Okay. It looks

up at you. Giant eyes. Like a fly's eyes. Looks at you. And you sense great fear in its face. And all of a sudden, Baron regains his sight. Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah, buddy! That little gamble paid off. Woo, baby! Bear's turn. Oh, man. Bear's turn. All right.

Baron's turn? He'll hold for this round. Okay. Now, I'm assuming you untied it and intimidated it. Why? A lurker. He'll hold for this round. Okay. Now, I'm assuming you untied it and intimidated it. Why? A lurker. Well, if it was required, then yes.

Whatever was required. I didn't want to drag that down. It did cure Baron's blindness. Bear holds. I want to hear. Bear holds. Round three. Iwiga. Iwiga.

You're invisible, bro. Gone. Maybe you didn't see that. We did see it. We think you went to another plane. I'lliga's. You're invisible, bro. Gone. Maybe you didn't see that. We did see it. We think you went to another plane. I'll be back in a minute. Iwiga looks at you, Baron. You can see.

Good. I'll get back in the fight. And she lighting bolts. It hits. And she's helping out. Seven points of damage. There we go. Uh, okay.

It is Baron's turn. For the first time in 52 episodes. Oh my god. You must be blinded for a round. Come on. It feels like the first time. Feels like the... So I can only move ten feet.

Uh, so I'll move 10 feet towards the creature. And I am 60 feet away? 80 feet away? 30. 30 feet away. So that's only my first range increment. So I'm going to pull my pistol out. Oh, boy.

Watch him misfire. So I'm going to pull my pistol out. Oh, boy. Watch him misfire. And I say, in the words of at Boo Day, Rob Day on Twitter, dying ain't much of a living. And I fire at this guy. Dying ain't much of a living.

It's true. It's very true. Do these guys all use one-liners? Hey, Rob Day. 26 against regular AC. Yeah, look at that. 26 against regular AC. With my fire bullets, which I reloaded. All right, it hits.

Yeah, it does. It's going to be so good. Oh, the damage dealer's back in town. 12 points of damage. Oh, man. Two of which are fire. The damage dealer's back in town. 12 points of damage. Two of which are fire. And I free action reload another fire bullet into my gun. I will tell you that you just ended its regeneration.

Oh, it's a troll. By doing fire damage. There were two things that could end its regeneration. One was bludgeoning. If Galabras had smacked it, two was fire. So that's good. Huge opening move for old Baron, not blind no more. Galabras, unfortunately, paralyzed. You will take six points of acid damage.

Oh, man. while inside the stomach. Three points? You saw VR? No, that doesn't apply. Della is invisible, so it begins walking forward. Now, here's an interesting question. If it just keeps moving forward, we talked about this.

It needs a feat. It has to have the overrun feat. Okay, but if it wanted to keep moving forward wouldn't it notice that there was someone there or like what has happened do I just keep I've got to move around oh because she's invisible

I'm sorry you have to bump into it yeah you would bump into it and then she would know exactly where it was and have a 50% missed chance to attack the square okay so it attempts to keep moving forward and feels you there and since it has moved,

technically that would not be a five foot step because it tried to take its second movement. So it goes. It can't do a five foot step. Right. So it goes to just bite you 50% mischance. Oh boy. This thing might be eating for two tonight.

I'll roll the mischance. labrador was just the appetizer? I'll roll the mischance in front of you Seventy Four Here's the bite Natural twenty Are you kidding me? Dude that die has to go

No That die I'm stealing it Five episodes I'm stealing that die Natty twenty Fucking flush it Natty Twenty to confirm.

15, 26. Yeah. Is it named? It is not named. Oh, okay. But it is a- Max damage? Double damage.

Double damage. And it will attempt to grab. Dude. Dude. Shit. 26 points of damage to Della. Good lord. And it will attempt to grab,

and it will grab Della in its mouth and pull it towards to take a bite. I'm still invisible. Okay. Technically, yes. Yeah. You are. You are. So Galabra. technically yes yeah you are um so galabra's turn galabras is gonna have no idea that another person is in the belly with

him because he's invisible until an invisible shape lands on him i just wanted to point out one thing real quick joe you were absolutely right when you said that troy was a garbage dumpster fire of a person i don't i don't remember using those words exactly you said that troy was a garbage dumpster fire of a person i don't i don't remember using those words exactly you said that you said that all right so one of my options escape artist escape artist uh dimension door uh yeah and you're deaf so you're uh i mean escape artist is my best thing So let's see what happens Roll Fuck 12 Cotton it's mom Lork

Do you need to know what happened It ate the labris and now it's about to eat Della I become un-invisible Della becomes visible Trying to wriggle out Uh I am Do you want to run around with some more fairies Della becomes visible. Trying to wriggle out. I am... Do you want to run around with some more fairies? I am going to...

You know what? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm going to kill this thing. Why are you sorry? Because he's deaf, but I don't know that. It doesn't make any sense to me like why would you waste the time killing it when the thing just ate two people

what why would you waste time killing it wouldn't you just turn around and attack the tree because if i let this thing go then it can attack us it can blind me it could it could fuck up this combat and like i can tie i can spend an action tying it up but that doesn't make any sense i agree with why wouldn't he just slit its throat with Brynja's dagger? I agree. Just whoosh! Slit its throat. Coup de grace. Unless Skid has an idea.

I was just going to say, if it's a sure shot to tie it up, then you only spend one turn dealing with it instead of however long it's going to take to actually kill it. I can't coup de grace? It's not tied up anymore. It's not tied up, right? You had to untie it to intimid kill it. I can't go to grad. It's not tied up. It's not tied up. Right. You had to untie it to intimidate it.

Oh, that's right. Well, if you, if you think that story-wise, it doesn't make any sense for me to slit its throat and kill it, then I will spend around tying it up. Yeah.

I mean, I think the greater threat is the creature. Well, no fucking kidding, but, but you're not answering the question. Like, can I coup de grat or not?

No. Then I'll tie it up. That's the round. Okay. kuda grout or not no then i'll tie it up that's the round okay uh yeah i i'll allow that if you're gonna spend your round doing that you uh successfully grapple it grab it tie it up and it stays tied up and it is bear's turn um yeah he'll just stay where he is bear still learning the ropes of the green i keep saying stay stay because what i want to do is i know I'm telling Baron this, we need to fall back into the trees and shoot this thing from range. Galabras, for the last couple rounds, you felt it regenerate, regenerate.

This round. We can probably save Galabras. You do not feel it. If we stay alive. Regenerate. I doubt I perceived that. I doubt very highly that I knew that was happening. Iwiga hits it for six points of damage with a lightning strike.

Minus four to hit? It's an automatic. Can I do a perception to see how much damage it would take? It's a lightning arc. You just need two points to... Oh, that's cool. So I'd like to do a perception to see if it took as much damage as I would think it would versus a lightning strike after seeing so many of them.

We already did that, right? Yeah, yeah. It got hit by four points and it got damaged. That's not good? Okay. It is Baron's turn though. It has taken 25 points of actual damage. Baron's going to retreat back to the large trees which have the so small

trees have the cover thing. Remember, you can stand on a space with a tree and get a plus two. So that's a plus two to what? Well, right now you have cover, so... It's cover, so it's... You get plus two to your AC. It also can't reach you from there, so... Okay, so I'm going to fire

at it one increment out of my initial range. This is the gelatinous cube all over again. Yeah, absolutely. Only way, way, way more deadly. I'm going to rapid shot this guy. Okay. you can't you moved okay i'm not gonna wrap so one shot that's fair but it's plus plus four to its ac so minus four to my roll so i only get a plus seven just keep your roll keep your roll keep your roll the same because the invisible creature you don't know and then mine it plus four to its AC that is a 28 against

touch AC no against regular regular yes sorry well and then so 26 against regular see okay and I add four to my AC yeah it hits yeah god jesus just by the skin of your penis 20 points of damage wait wait what about fire that's it so the six is fire six is fire that matters oh no i'm sorry i'm sorry let me redo that let me take that over six points of fire damage seven points of regular damage and five points of regular damage, and five points of additional damage. What's, what's that damage? So that is 18 points of damage.

Okay. I really apologize. I'm glad you took that back. I'm glad you took that back. God, I hate you guys. Uh, all right.

Galabras takes more acid damage in the maw of this creature. In the maw of this creature. In the maw of this creature. Five. It's five. It is equal to six points of acid damage. This thing is just eating paralyzed Galabras alive. It has, I was going to say it has Gormley in its mouth. Because I looked at Matt's beautiful face.

But no, it has Della in its mouth. I'm in a tentacle, aren't I? No, mouth. It ate Galabras and then it mouthed you. Listen back to the tape. Plenty of room in that belly. It was going to eat me. Right.

It couldn't eat me on that turn. No, it's thinking about doing it now. But instead. to eat me. Right. It couldn't eat me on that turn. No, it's thinking about doing it now, but instead it's going to eat you. Attempts to maintain the grapple. This might actually be close because I'm thinking, oh, Gormley had a lame CMD, but

let's see. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it grappled you. 30-something. You've let's see. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it grappled you 30-something. You've been swallowed whole. Oh, 2d6 plus 7. I rolled two ones. Oh, there you go. So you take nine points of bite damage. Then you take three points of acid damage.

And now you need to roll a very, very important. Because you can cut from inside there if you pass this save. Yep. You can cut from in the stomach. Fortitude save. 19. Yeah. You are inside of it and not paralyzed.

Yeah. Cut your way out. Cut Galabras out, too, while you're in there. The bite didn't even do that much damage. The acid, you feel burning on your skin, and you kind of wish you were still back in a tree, so you feel at home. All right, Della, you're up. You're inside of it.

So what can I do? What can I take? You need a slashing weapon. I have that. She do a full attack action? Can I cast? All right, here is the description for Swallow Hole. A swallowed creature keeps the grappled condition, while the creature that did the swallowing does not. A swallowed creature can try to cut its way free

with any light slashing or piercing weapon. The amount of cutting damage required to get free is equal to one-tenth of the creature's total hit points. Whatever, I have the AC for that. Or it can just try to escape the grapple. No, I think it has to cut its way out. Chop it out, baby. But I can't cast spells or anything.

I just have to try to chop my way up. Yeah, you're still grappled, so... So I have an AC for it. I have an AC for its gut. You have to break your way up. I have an AC and a hit point, so you have to hit it for an X amount of hit points, and you will cut your way free.

All right. And I will say that the body of Galabras will come paralyzed, limping out as well if you do so. I'm going to spend an arcane point to give myself arcane accuracy. Okay. Here's the thing. You're grappled, so you take a... Don't you take a minus two to your dex?

Does that have any effect right now? I don't think you take any strength penalties, right? Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure you can attack as normal with one hand and that's what you're trying to do all right so you're giving your arcane whatever trying to cut through go for it 13 fail god damn it so della you're inside oh you take a minus four to your decks so you definitely move. I missed. Lork.

And you take a minus 2 on all attack rolls. I knew there was something. Is that true of what I'm doing with that specific ability? Yeah, it has an AC like anything else. You're trying to slash your way out. You could slash your way out. So dude, it's minus 4 to your dex and minus

2 to attack. So it's probably minus 4 to attack for you. Because of the dervish, you're getting So, dude, it's minus four to your dex and minus two to attack. So it's probably minus four to attack for you. Total. Because of the dervish, you're getting the dex. Because you're using dex. I've got a headache just thinking about it. I mean, if I had known that, I don't know. Yeah, if you would have known you were going to be swallowed whole by a plant.

No, I'm saying if I had known I was going to take the dex damage, I thought it was specific to the ability that you could try to slash. Lorik, you spent last round tying up the lurker in light. It is slip in front of you. It's just fucking cool. Two of your friends. A new friend? Maybe not a friend.

Who knows? Maybe there's a love connection there. We'll have to see. Galavrish, your old buddy. You've been with him since day one of True Now at the Hope Knife Ceremony. He's been eaten.

Can we do a round table for what we think he should do? No. I trust, I trust. I am going to... It's hard as I can throw. Let I trust. I am going to throw. It's going to get out of. I'm going to drop this creature here and I'm going to move into tree area and quick draw

my bow and fire at this guy. Quick draw. One attack. Fire. And I'm going to fire a flaming arrow. Hell yeah, you are. good thing we split that up and i'm going to uh do a deadly aim which is uh gonna make it tougher to hit and i i worry that this is gonna be a problem because this thing obviously has very high ac uh all right here we go I think it's a bad idea Miss Shit No more deadly aim

Alright bear Attack Bear's gonna Bear's gonna stay Keep it bear Alright you're He's just gonna get eaten What's the fucking point

Just to end his life Yeah He's gonna stay Round Five Uyghur She's only got a couple of these lightning arcs left. Max damage.

Does eight points of damage to it. Nice. All right. She's got to move. She's got to move out of Baron's way. Right, okay. Which she would do. Baron would tell her to move out of the way.

Right, Baron would say, move up, move up. So she moves but stays on the fringe and she doesn't want to get in its shit. So she stays away. She's in front of, Baren is behind this big tree in the middle of the greenhouse and she's in front of it,

but to the side, just vroom, vroom, vroom. Using the tree is the other thing to arc the lightning over to. So the tree is getting splintered each time because she has to use lightning arc. You have to aim it between two things. So she's using the creature

and the tree behind her. So it's blackening the wood. Hitting the snake. Wow. Ditched a crazy damage. And now it's Baron's turn. Baron blows the smoke off the top of his double barrel pistol.

Aims it as carefully as possible at this monstrosity and pulls one trigger followed by the second trigger. That's if the first one doesn't misfire. Great. And it's regular AC. 16.

And that's regular AC. That is a miss. Second shot. First shot. Miss. Baron! That is a miss Second shot Miss Baron I thought you could see Baron is not back in town If the invisible creature didn't get

Swallowed and bring him back here I could hit him Talk to your DM Galabras takes four points of acid damage And And Della takes Talk to your DM. Galabras takes four points of acid damage. And Della takes eight points of acid damage. Oh, Jesus. Guys are just burning on the inside. Is this going to be our first episode with a one-shot character?

Yeah, maybe. It has a lifespan of one episode. We haven't even cast her yet. I know. She was a red shirt. Some no-name. Some no name. It begins moving. Thank God.

No, no, no. Move towards. It moves. It has one tentacle attack at Lork. It could not reach with its mouth from there. Tentacle at old Lork. Natty 20 natural 20 tpk tpk honestly i think that we really need to like examine that die i'm not i'm not even kidding let's do it on air next saw water glass saw water glass let me see if i

confirm that oh you know what 15 to confirm does. Does not confirm. Does not confirm. Let's make that a video special for our listeners. Nine points of damage, and it will attempt to grab. 28. Oh, yeah. It does it with the bite as well as the tentacles? Yeah. Same difference?

Yeah. But you are a little bit farther away, so it's going to take longer to get in its maw, but you are currently grappled. Okay. Can you do me a favor? Can I drop my bow when it grapples me? Come on! You got it, buddy.

All right. You're going to die in it. I know, exactly. Give me something. Bear? Why does bear run up maybe bear should run up and grab your bow well now i'll tell it to attack since i'm in imminent death okay uh territory so everyone's clear galavris has been eaten della has been eaten

lork just got grappled and baron can't hit the broad side of a barn right it is going to charge on the other turn it's going to do a charge attack. Can't charge in the vegetation. Oh, it can? No. Can't charge. Is that a thing? Even through your speed or whatever? Yeah, in this particular forest. If it's difficult to run, you can charge. But where it's a small creature, I said before, everybody gets 27%

concealment. It has 20% concealment because it's below the mist. The mist is like 350. Oh, you haven't been rolling concealment. It's really just for small creatures. Are we in dim light by any chance? No, it's the the mist the mist is like oh you haven't been rolling concealment it's really just for small creatures are we okay are we in dim light by agents no it's the brightest light uh uh in the world uh okay so in the demi plane so bear will move up and attack okay he'll incur won't he he'll he'll take two twice well actually he'll do acrobatics well here's the thing let's see if it has multiple attacks of opportunity. No, you can't do attacks

of opportunity against a creature that has concealment. Actually, you know what? That might be cover. So, it's definitely cover, but I don't know if it crosses over to concealment. I think you have to do, like, full concealment. Anyways, it fumbles on the attack of opportunity. There we go. There we go.

Draw it out. Draw out some stakes. Does it have combat reflexes? It does not. It has multiple attacks. Does it matter? No, it's an attack of opportunity. I wasn't using my multiple attacks. I wouldn't confirm the fumble. It is a fumble.

This one's called Not the Weak Point. Your enemy's armor takes 1d6 points of damage you don't have any armor no armor you take 1d6 points of damage and cannot use that attack for 1d3 rounds oh yeah that is huge bear's first attack does six points of damage on accident two points of 1d6 excuse me does two points of damage on accident. Two points of, one to one D6, excuse me, does two points of damage to this thing. By the way, it's called a tendriculus.

Oh, yeah, I've heard of these things. Like ridiculous tendrils. A tendriculus does two points of damage, and it can't use one of its tentacle attacks for three rounds. Oh, excellent. Now all rounds. Nice. Not the weak point. Well, I would say it couldn't use any tentacle attack for three rounds. Oh, excellent. Now, all rounds. Nice. Not the weak point.

Well, I would say it couldn't use any tentacle attack for three rounds, but that's just me. It's a tentacle attack, but whatever. Right, on a full round action, it could do bite tentacle now instead of bite tentacle tentacle, which is huge. Okay. Okay, so that tentacle basically, bear steps up, attack of opportunity, and the tentacle breaks. So it cannot do the second half attack of opportunity. Bear makes it all the way up. All right.

He will bite. I hate calling him Bear. Ooh. 22. That's a hit. That's a hit on the bite. There you go. Bear.

What do you say, Bear? Six points of damage. Whoa, Bear. Nice. Max damage. See you later, Benverine. Yeah, exactly. Benver who? No, later, Benverine. Yeah, exactly. Benver who?

No, I love Benverine. All right, bear. Round six. This is insane. Iwiga moves into the cover of the giant hollow tree that's opposite the hollow tree that you guys came into the room on. Okay.

So she has some element of cover, and she's using that tree in the same way she was using lightning arc I think she only has one of these she has two of these left so she's going to use lightning arc five points of damage on it and the tree just gets singed with

lightning hits this thing takes five points of damage it is not long for this world but it could still kill two characters barren this thing is a lot closer to you now May even be five foot step away from up Oh, you can't do a five foot step But talk to me, Baron

Baron is going to Mathematically, I think he has a better chance With two normal AC rolls Where he is versus one touch AC roll by taking the move step. So he is going to stay where he is. He's going to, unfortunately, waste some of this fire ammo.

You only got so many left. Yeah, I only have, to be honest with you. I think you should move five feet up because you're missing, like you're saying, we give a limited amount of this fire ammo which if you miss this thing it's gonna be all natural armor and then next turn like every round now you're gonna be able to use touch all right all right i'll move up you know what this guy is being dissolved inside of this thing so i'm gonna take his advice literally della and galabras are being dissolved della is

not they're being digested yep that's what's happening and i have two grit points left okay so you step up it's not a five foot step that's a 10 i'm gonna get i've been a not only fire i'm gonna blow the smoke off the top of my pistol one more time. First up close and deadly in 17 episodes. Up close and deadly. Fire bullet. Touch AC against. What is this thing called? Tendriculus. Versus the

worst name Paizo has ever thought of. I think it's great. Oh! Oh my god, it's a misfire! Oh my god, it looked like it was on a double digit It was sitting on its edge It was on a 12 Oh my misfire Baron

Baron You guys think gunslingers are Overpowered so Because that shit happens all the time Oh my god Just FYI Galabras takes 11 points of acid damage. Holy shit.

And Della takes 8 points of acid damage. Della's unconscious. Della is unconscious and dying. I'm coming back as another magus because I just spent all this money. I'm Smella. I'm from the Shadow Realm. I'm her sister. I'm also looking I'm from the shadow I'm her sister I'm also looking for my mother

Now here's the situation Bear It should just be her identical twin It should be 17 Identical twins Bear is directly in front of the Tendriculus And one of its tentacles is completely Fucked up for three rounds thanks to Bear

The other tentacle is Grappling Lork. That's why we didn't get rid of it. It's still Grappling Lork. So the first thing it does, it goes to bite Bear. 24 to hit Bear. That hits. I'm going to do Boon Companion to lower the damage by half. Boon Companion.

All right. So it would have been 11 points of damage, so you take five points of damage. And it cannot grapple you because you're two size categories smaller. Oh, nice. Okay. It will attempt to maintain the grapple on the lork just to. He's three size categories smaller. Yeah, three.

Yeah, he can't. Definitely can't. Now it's just going to tend to. Wait, wait, wait, wait. This one was two size categories smaller Right, I meant to say three Like there's no way he's going to be able to So three, got it

I'm having a little fun here So it's going to attempt to maintain the grapple on Lork And if it does, it'll just deal tentacle damage Squeezing Lork I don't think it's going to maintain the grapple You get a plus five to maintain Twenty-three Why do you tease us like that? I rolled a three on the dice You get a plus five to maintain 23.

Why do you tease us like this? I rolled a three on the deck. CMD 22, and that's with a gladiator belt. So the tentacle just squeezes you eight points of damage to Lorik. Eight points of damage. It's not awful, but it's still awful. And now Della, you're unconscious. Unconscious. I was going to say, Della can cut her way out.

Della, roll a constitution check to see if you stabilize yourself. Not that it matters, because you're going to take damage next turn anyway. 17. 17. What's the DC to stabilize you? Joe? It's, uh... What?

Stabilize yourself. It's 10 plus the number of points below zero you are? Yes. Then I stabilize. Stabilize. As if it matters. Now let's just talk this out. What is your constitution?

14. And how many points below zero are you? Seven. Seven. So if you take... So you rolled a 15 on the die or higher? I rolled a 15. Yeah.

But if you do not kill the Tendriculus by the time it does acid damage, it's doing 2d6 damage. All it has to do is 7 damage, and you're dead. No pressure, guys. Lork, then Bear, then Iwiga, then Baron. Oh, God. You got four chances. Lork, you're up.

Please kill it. I want to kill it so badly, and I think I can now that I'm close enough. I think that Galabras gave me great advice, actually. Because it's touchy. Alright, so Lork is going... You got the touch. So Lork is going to... Wrapped up in a tentacle. Rage. Yeah!

The belt, Rags' belt just starts to glow blue with magic. I hope it flows through into Lork's Falchion. And he's going to take it. And he's just going to scream and cut down at this tentacle. Minus two to hit. And he's going to do a power attack.

He's just going all in. Cutting right at the tentacle. Still grappled. Natural 19! Oh my goodness! Confirm that shit! Confirm that shit, Lor! Come on, Lor. Come on, baby.

Does not confirm. Son of a bitch That's double damage No it's not Only the natural 20 It's a natural 19 Ugh Well it's still good damage It was a power attack

Hey you just needed to hit Oh and it's a raging power attack Yeah yeah It's no joke Um He does 19 points of damage Woo

Lork steps up with a falchion And just like Hits it right on its tongue And then shoves the falchion in And it dies Holy shit Kills it Has no more regeneration

And it dies Oh my god The bodies are still trapped inside Okay so Lork is going to He's going to say stay And then he's going to try Lork is going to just try to start like literally Cutting into the body

Roll to cut into it Do I do an attack roll or what is it Attack roll I'm going to do another Power attack But not minus two this time because i'm not grappled anymore natural 18 critical threat yeah you hit it so do i do any crit stuff or should i just roll damage oh that's a critical threat yeah roll to confirm the crit it has an ac the body uh that's 19 to confirm confirmed nice nice do i take a card do I just do double damage? Just a damage to the trunk of the tree to let these creatures out.

34 points of damage. You splinter in half. Wood goes everywhere. And you just see the badly burned bodies of Galabras and an unconscious Della. All right. I want to try to like, can I wipe acid off them? I don't care if I take damage. I just want to like try to get that shit off.

I'll do a heal check on Della. Okay, do a heal check. I have heal as well as a ranger, so let me know if it's relevant. 22. 22 heal check on Della. Della is dying. I have a potion of cure moderate wounds.

You're not sure he's not sure. Oh wait, you're not unconscious. You're just paralyzed. Galabras's eyes are open but he's not moving. It doesn't take a genius to know he's paralyzed. Alright, so I'll just like wipe this shit off of him and pull him out. I would love it. I'll potion. Well, he's got healing powers. After a few

moments, Galabras starts moving around. Jesus Christ. I immediately grab my holy symbol and channel. Nine points for everybody. I wake up, but I'm still pretty, pretty hurt. Oh, my God. That was amazing.

Holy shit. Are we six level yet? I'm deaf. She goes, I'm deaf you guys before I'm more current work is going to do the same thing to that creature with a channel and intimidate I'm gonna age your intimidation six more points for everybody oh thank you thank you I'm still pretty hurt. The wig didn't take any damage. Gormley had some potions on her. Did you guys

take them with you? Let's deal with this lurker in light. What do you want to do with it? I have something I want to do if they fail. Okay. I'm going to aid your intimidate check. I want to intimidate it to attempt to get it to dispel the deafness off of Della.

Roll intimidation check. Can I roll aid? I hope you fail. Do you have a point in intimidate? Oh, do I? Oh, so you get up in its face too. You're just like. I can still speak.

I learned how to speak. Yeah, she does. Yeah. That's very insensitive. I don't understand. You don't lose the ability to speak when you lose the ability to hear. But you just lost it two seconds ago. I've been speaking for

17 years. Hundreds of years. Try to aid. That's a 12. You just need a 10. Plus two. 21. 21.

It looks at you. It says, what will happen to me? What will happen to me if I dispel this? We'll let you go. I say, we'll let you live. How can you be trusted? You killed my sister. How can you be trusted? You killed my sister. How can you be trusted?

You just killed that creature. You will kill me. I lay down the holy symbol of Torag that I have been hiding underneath my duster

that is the link between my last living member of my family and I. And I put it in front of her. Or him? Her. This is a him. Alright, a him.

I will help you if you let me go first and let me fly. First? No. Where are you from? Why are you in this place? Why are you attacking us? We're no enemy of nature.

It is my nature to attack all those who look as if they will attack me. But if you let me free, I will dispel. Can't. Dispel, and you will never deal with me again. Sense motive, sense motive. Yeah, this is a perfect time for sense motive. I can't hear him, so I'm not going to bother rolling. Natural 20, sense motive, 24.

Six. You genuinely believe that this creature is in fear for its life and will do what it says it just wants the security of knowing that you'll release it first and then it will dispel all right i'll release it then baron it's telling the truth the creature's afraid we'll let it go this new creature we have met is better served by being not deaf than our concerns about having this thing in the world. Oh, I'd still let it live. That's the only thing I make clear before I let him let it go.

You untie it. And by now, you know, after this conversation back and forth, the glitter dust is worn off. So by the time you untie it, it's completely invisible. But you see, as it starts to float away, you can see its wings floating 20 feet, 25 feet away, 30, 35 feet away. And it says,

Beware the vault of thorns. And Della hears it. We'll see you next week. That's a good one. That was a good one. Well done, Troy. we'll see you next week that was a good one well done Troy you're here Outro Music