[Marvin's Game]Episode 2: A Water Level That Doesn't Suck

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Just go to patreon.com/theencountertablepod? Yeah, dude. patreon.com/theencountertablepod or you know, you can just go to the episode description. Huh. That is easy. Can we get back to the show now? I mean, yeah, I guess. The encounter table is an exclusive podcast meant for adult listeners only. If you're underage, we won't tell you mom. But we could because we know her. Intimately. Yeah, you fucking nerds. What's up, while you bitches, bros and non binary hose and welcome to the encounter table. What the fuck? A D&D real play podcast about four unfortunate individuals taken, not you know, Liam Neeson style, but still from our world and thrown into the world of dungeons and dragons. That one. My name is Baron and I play Dex Turner. Her hex blade, swash buckling, mom's f**ker boy who has Preston's mom in his phone as Preston's mom. He actually doesn't know her name. Yep, he doesn't know her real name. He thinks her name is Preston's mom. Is that how they met? It was like a parent teacher conference or something and she introduced herself to you. She's like, oh, I'm Preston's mom. You know Preston. Dex went to the parent teacher conference for Preston's school because he was like, oh, I'm going to school. So like, he just tried out that school. I'm a little too young for this school, but he did meet his girlfriend there. So that was good. How romantic. How long have they been dating for? Well, I said that he turned 18 like a week ago. So let's just call it five days. Okay, that's pretty sad. That's fair. For like, for legal reasons, not long. I am joined by Luke Godfrey. What up guys. Luke Godfrey. I play Scott Travis, the gamer boy druid who is very surprised by how well everyone in the group is taking the fact that they got kidnapped essentially. Well, maybe Travis spent more time in the real life instead of on his switch. He'd be more prepared for these social interactions. Shut the fuck up. Says the sheltered rich kid. I was just ready for it. And maybe if you spent more time in the real world, bruv. Maybe if the rich kid would spend more time with his mom, he would know that she's dating someone with his age. That is not a valid excuse that is not a valid reason. What we are doing. It's okay, Joe. There's a little nothing you can say. You already want to know. I don't. I'm going to give you all shit. Speaking of the devil, I am also joined by Joe LaJoy. Yo, yo, yo, what up gamers. It's Joe, Joyce in the house. What the fuck. Excuse me, air horns and the radicals. Wow. Hey guys, what's up? I play Preston Adley. What? What is going on? I'm just looking at this intro. If I find my kid in the future, stored in shitty cocaine, I'm going to make him finish all of it. You sit at the table until you're finished doing man. Joseph, you get back here and finish your cocaine right this instant. Mom, I had too much math for lunch. I could smell colors, Mom. It's not right. No, my teeth. What am I thinking now? It's falling out. Oh, wait. I'm just hallucinating. Where's my hair? Yeah, kids. Don't do drugs. It's bad. I'm also joined by Jordan Maka. What? What? What do you say? I said I'm joined by you. Jordan Maka. I thought you said, unless it's from Jordan Maka, am I a drug dealer now? Yeah, Jordan's got the best. Well, that too. That too. Yeah, Jordan offers you drugs. Take them. Hi, I'm Jordan Maka and I play Clarissa, the stereotypical high school mean girl who loves to stir up trouble and instigate people specifically moms, but that's just her. Hey, I find her so great. As a great now. You know, something about getting people riled. That was very amusing for her. I think I know another character that likes to stir up moms. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah, also auto's here. Yeah. I sound it. I had something planned for it today too. Oh, boy. I'm gonna do something a little different. I'm gonna do something a little bit different. It might be really bad. I might get a noise complaint. We're gonna deal with it and you know what? Cross that bridge when we get there, okay? Good morning, the encounter table. My name's Ottawa. You're DM for today. Now, grab those dice. Yeah. Fuck. Warm up those dice. I'm trying to favor snack. Let's fucking go, bitches. No, that was bad. That was bad. I don't like that, but that's fine. I'm going home. I'm going home. I'm back to memory starting. I'm going home. I'm going home. I hope that you'll be there. I'm going home. I'm going home. I'm going home. I'm going home. I'm going home. I'm going home. Hey, little goblin guy. You want to pass me that guitar? I'm an oax, thank you. Same thing. Fucking tourists. It's a fucking loop, man. No, it's not anything like snatches it from him. Yeah, clear his throat. Wets his a whistle. And he goes, uh, this one goes out to my stepson. Uh, we've been in the same vagina under different circumstances. So, uh, here it goes. Preston's mind has gone. Preston's mind has got to go and on. Preston, can I come over after school? After school? We can hang around at the festival. The festival. Can't wait to see your mom after this trip. I'm fucking your mom. Did she give my text to this the lower set of action? Probably not. Now I know that we're living in a fantasy. But she's dad's always at work and your mom really likes me. Preston's mom has got to go and on. And she's all I want and I've waited for so long. Preston, can't you see that your mom is a baddie? I know it might be wrong, but I've been fucking Preston's mom. Oh, Preston's mom has got to go and on. She's all I want and I've waited for so long. Preston, can't you see that I'm a stepdaddy? I don't care if he's wrong. I've been fucking Preston's mom. Oh, I've been fucking Preston's mom. Oh, Preston, can't you see that your mom is a baddie? I don't care if it's wrong. Cause I've been fucking Preston's mom. The thing, the song he turns back towards the crowd of people. He's like, thank you. Thank you. But eaters. That's not I'm not associated with him. He's a saint. He's a very a knife in his chest. I'll help you hide the body. I don't know. Something that I saw really spoke to. Yeah, same. It's about my girlfriend. I give a dead look over to Calurissa and I'm like, are you serious? Yeah, are you serious? What do you mean that resonated with you? Are you fucking his mom too or something? Please say no. Please. Clarissa, is your girlfriend's name also Preston's mom? That would be quite a coincidence. Also, that's not my mom's name. Shut up, Preston. I don't know about moms, but sugar daddies. Is your boyfriend's name Preston's mom? How old are you? I'm uncomfortable this conversation. Let's just keep going. Some people just like it when guys buy girls a bunch of gifts. Nothing else, huh? Nothing else attached to that? Just guy buying girl gifts? Yeah, it's like Christmas. Oh, it's like Santa. Oh, okay. There's snow. It's lovely. So, Anna, remind us. So, like, where are we again? We're in some sort of cave. You are just in front of a cave outside of the city. It is full of water. It is called the Emerald Grotto. I didn't bring my bathing suit. Hi, Emerald Grotto. My name's Dex. Splish splash. You're about to be taken off. Do I hear that? Oh, fuck. I rolled a tube. I rolled 17. All right, with that being said, as Elder Usru says, you may begin. Your party is the first to bolt straight into the water. Oh, oh, we're just doing, okay, okay, fuck it. I, um, I, I, right off my sweatshirt and dive in. Sure. Or wait, no, we're supposed to drink that water stuff first, right? No, fuck yeah. Oh, thanks. All right, yep. Nope. I drink that first. I would recommend drinking this. Take your life for the next hour. He takes a quick moment to take off his clothes, fold them up, like, put them like nice and dry area. Then he drinks the potion and jumps in the water. Wait, sorry. Are you by ask naked right now? Fuck. No, no, no. I can't have another naked naked. I'm sorry, so as Dex, as Dex completely strips down into his nothing, um, into his nothing, the crowd, the crowd of God gave him the crowd of men, women and children on look in horror. It looks just like the lollipop. We're as the turns to the crowd. I'm selling magnifying glasses. Is anyone interested? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Yosus. Dex also joins the-- No, that's a funny joke. No, no, no. He's back. Sorry, guys, but you're not getting a free show today. And she takes it, she takes the potion like a shot. Oh, my gosh. There's a show. Pressure is going to take off his ass. I said it gently now. And then drink his potion and jump in. Just the ass got. Fuck off. All right, so what the-- Yeah, I jumped into the water first, I'm pretty sure. Uh, your whole party followed. All right, so the entrance of the grotto is a narrow cavern that leads to a murky pool of water. What do you wish to do? Uh, can I investigate the water as I'm like running towards it? Sure. [singing] Uh, that is a 7 plus 310. This water? Can I get you guys to make a perception check for me? 18 plus 4 or 22? Good enough. All righty. So you are able to deduce that the cave continues below the water line. Yeah, we kind of fucking figured that. Well, they get in the fucking water, dumbass. I literally said like five times now that I jump into the fucking water. Yeah, I know. And you're like, oh, you got to run down this cavern first. And now you got to make a perception check first. Let me fucking jump in the water. Listen here, dumbass. Get in the fucking water. I'm in the water. [laughing] Okay, I'm in the water. What now? The light that trickles in from the grotto's entrance is blooded out by thick patches of kelp that fill this underwater chamber. The tops of the kelp fronds brush the ceiling. But between the stalks you can spot a glimmer of light coming from farther ahead. All right, I'm gonna swim as fast as I can towards that light. All right, roll. Is everybody gonna go towards that? Yeah, Kristen does not want to be left behind. Roll an athletics check. All of us feel like we're in the water. Could I do acrobatics? No. That seems more appropriate for swimming. Yo! Pass. I got 19. Pass. I got 9 plus 110. Athletics is 15. Pass. All right. Woo! You successfully get through the kelp because it's kind of very dense. Just like Preston. Sorry. [laughing] Get in the way. Silvery moonlight filters in through a gap in the caverns stone ceiling ahead. You can see the clouds through the grotto splits into two tunnels. One to the south and one to the east. Is there a difference between the tunnels other than their directions? No. Can we communicate underwater? Yeah, you can talk to each other. Oh, we can talk to each other? Yeah. Oh, shit guys, what's up? [laughing] Should we go east or south? How are you guys doing that? Are you guys doing that? I'm not going off to do that. I'm going to use the base. I'm starting something to use. All right. Yeah, it sounds good. Interesting. The wall is ceiling and floor of this chamber covered in a bioluminescent algae. Which means a faint, bluish glow that dimly lights the white cavern. Two large jagged stone pillars, also coated with algae, stand on an offset ends of the chamber, surrounding the far pillar in front of the exit from this cavern. It's a thick patch of bone white seagrass. [laughing] Sorry, what? I'm not going to touch it. You touch it. [laughing] Hey. God, it's so good at it. I'm like. I know I can't do it. Mine is so fine. I just just like. Preston just looks at you too. He's still too scared to open his mouth at neurotic. Oh, that's fair. Is it like a dead end then? Or. No. Okay, so we can just keep swimming. If you wish. Just keep swimming. Yeah, that's what's going on in his keeps. The sky's head is the song just keeps swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. [humming] [humming] All right, so. You're just going to swim down the tunnel a little more. Why do you keep asking that? Like, it's like something bad is going to happen. Because I want to be sure. Preston, Preston, shall, Preston. Yeah, get it. I'm going to roll a perception check on this fucking car. Preston, shall, Preston. He wants to swim. The grass is even in the fucking tunnel. I thought we were going in the fucking tunnel, not Preston. Scott. I'm so fucking confused. Okay, I just keep swimming. I just keep fucking swimming. To the tunnel. All right, the tunnel opens into a cavernous space. Raised of moonlight, shining through a wide crack in the ceiling, which sits ten feet above the water level. One side of the chamber is covered in a crumbled and muddy remains of a landslide. As you swim into this area, Ripple's course through the water. As more rocky debris begins to slide toward you. Can I get you all to make a decks check? Decks saving thrill. Okay, decks save thrill. Eleven. Nine. Fucking hey. 18 for decks. An eight. You add your ability modifier to this, right? Yeah. Yes. Please do. Eleven. Nine. Nine, Michael. That's an eight total. Oh. Okay. The feel it. They feel any atmosphere around. Oh, too. Oh, give me a second. Got some. Just to clarify, decks got an 18. Okay. Okay. Pass. Good for you. No, real quick. I just need a. Gods of D&D. Please don't allow a TPK today. Thank you. What? It's not fucking second episode. I wasn't talking about here. Already so. Is it real combat? Yeah. How are we going to die? A rock falls on Preston's face, crushing his skull. It's certainly killing him. That's a slap in the incense. That's a slap. You said a rock. Wait, you're saying a rock. I mean, I mean, pebble tiny, tiny pebbles, the size of sand. As you, as you continue to swim, the ripples agitate the earth more and more before a hole before the north wall collapses in on top of all of you. I'm sorry. What? No. You heard me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. All of us. Yes. Dex, you're going to take half the damage. But all you are taking damage. Oh, okay. Oh, my God. I'm going to go ahead and need you guys to take 10 points off your health. That's not bad. Pussy shit. Oh, okay. Pussy shit. Okay. I'm a sorcerer. Pussy shit. Dex. Dex. You can just take five off. Hey, how's everybody doing right now? I'm at a crisp. I'm glad we started this a level three because holy shit. Yeah, that would have killed me. Yeah. That would have killed me. Unfortunately, when the north wall collapsed to kind of blocked off an exit that you know of. All right. See what I can do about this. So how many open exits do we have? Can we roll perception? You can try perception. Hey. That means. There's water. Water. What? Okay. So what ways are open that we can see? Roll investigation check. Eight plus three. So what? 11? Yeah. Oh, good enough. All right. So you are able to find that that collapsed wall didn't completely block your exit. There is a bit of exit left for you. Is there an is it like enough room for us to go through? Yep. All right. Cool. Guys. Come on. Real quick. Who is the one that started the underwater talking thing? Me. I think it was the absolute. Go ahead and give yourself a point of inspiration. Nah. Fuck yeah. There we go. I will. I will probably take it. Is everybody here familiar with what inspiration does? Yes, but can you explain it for the podcast? Absolutely. I would love to. So a lot of people use different rules. I'm going to tell you my rules. You can have one inspiration at a time. So it's basically if you have it or you don't. And if you have a really, really bad role or you have a really important role, you can decide to use your inspiration to re-roll once. Oh. Oh, so yours is a re-roll. Yes. Okay. Okay. Now does that expire? No. They got a pretty good shelf life. Oh, cool. But you cannot stack them. You can only use it once before you exhausted it and you need to earn more. Okay. Thank you, auto. Of course. I really like your real plan. It's doing great. Well, yeah, auto. Is there a way we can explain that in canon or? Yeah. So as you hear a booming voice come overhead. You're fun to play with. I guess I let you. I'll let fake bless your once to your choosing. But after that. You have to impress me more. Scott's just like, what the fuck did our Google? Preston Shroud. I keep swimming. Alrighty. A school of tiny fish. Oh, I don't know. We figured out how to talk under the water. Big, little, little, little, little. Excuse me, sir. You are interrupting my narration. Clinton. That was so perfect. Their body shimmering in the dim light swirls information like an undulating silvery pillar. Hey, guys. I think I can talk to them. I got a feeling about this. Yes, Scott's going to go up to the fish and he's got this feeling in his stomach. You can't really get over like he feels the sort of Kindredness to these animals and he's going to cast speak with animals. Did you say you're gonna approach the fish? Yeah. How close you get? Like within, you know talking distance or what's the range on the spell talking distance the fish? Oh, it's a self range Okay, so yeah, I don't go anywhere. I don't I don't need to go any closer to them. I say the fuck oh Spelt that I cast on myself. I gained the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the derailleuxion The knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited to their intelligence, but at minimum beasts can give you information about nearby locations and monsters including Whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day You might also be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor for you for you at the DM's discretion Okay, what do you want to say to them? I'm not gonna do the voice for this because I'm talking in fish voice because fish speak underwater all the time Hey guys You come here often that fuck I don't know to say to fish the fuck you think down. That's my house. What are you doing here? Wow, whoa, whoa, hey, hey buddy. It's okay. I'm sorry. We're just we're just passing through we're lost. We're trying to get out of here Uh the way you came Domaz that's kind of blocked off. Did you see the landslide that just happened? Did you fucking break my front door? I didn't touch your front door look. Do you know another way out of here or not? Fuck go ahead, but keep your fucking distance bitch. All right. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay Fucking asshole real quick. We can't understand what he's saying, right? Oh, yeah, you just hear a bunch of like bloop bloop bloop bloop Sturts shit like that you see I'm gonna look at Dex impressed and I'm gonna like gesture to be like look at this guy fucking arguing with a fish Okay, I don't like guys the fish say that we can pass, but just don't go near them fuck I'll start coming up with like a some kind of fish joke But never mind. There's two swimming This room's pretty dark, but you can see a silvery light dances along the walls of this underwater cave The water here is a little warmer and a gentle current pulls you towards the crevice in the south wall that emits shimmering golden light Proudling around the cave's pillars is a massive shark a gold amulet hangs from a thick rope tied around the shark's body And a silver spear protrudes from its side Prussian starts looking around like why I had like to the group It kind of like gestures like finally like at the shark You're just like throwing his hands at it really no there's a shark over there guys, but he's not saying that She thinks the movement will probably attract the shark I was gonna say yeah has the shark noticed us You're just outside of this cave you're kind of looking into it Okay, while we're game planning I'm not gonna do the thing just because we're gonna talk a lot Okay, uh game plan. Yeah, what the fuck didn't say anything about a shark I mean I used to go like fishing with my dad and shit way back in the day And like I've handled fish before and like reef sharks and some octopus is I'll talk to pie I'll talk to Whatever but like I've never handled like a shark shark before this is this is oh Dex calls out to the shark Well, can I can I you can I roll dexterity point at it. Clap his mouth shop before he can speak sure That is a 13 total No, cool. So he's like hey you fucking Eat my ass any cast hex blades curse What are you Are you mad winning a fight what the fuck do you think you're doing? Ha how does exploit how how does that work? Okay, um you gain the ability to place a bale full curse on someone as a bonus action choose one creature You can see within 30 feet of you Uh the target is cursed for one minute the curse ends early if the target dies you die or you are incapacitated until the curse ends you gain the following benefits You gain a bonus to damage rolls against the curse target the bonus equals your proficiency bonus Any attack roll you make against the curse target is a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20 If the curse target dies you regain hit points equal to your warlock level plus your charisma modifier minimum of one hp point Okay, so yeah, how does uh How does Dex like do that for the first time like canonically? How does that feel or work? Um, it gets a tingling sensation Right right he thinks about Preston's mom Ah he he screams at the top of his lungs And just kind of actually yeah, that's what happens. All right. We'll do it in your voice. That was a really good underwater voice I love how it gets more bubbly as you scream We're doing this little goddamn it What's up all you cool gamers and teens? It's Baron and Luke from the encounter table Do you remember when pit bull rhymed Kodak with Kodak? Hmm how about when T-Pain rhymed mansion with Whisk Kansen? Pretty revolutionary, right? You know what else is revolutionary? dubby What the fuck is dubby? Oh, you know just the hottest new energy drink that all the cool teens and gamers are drinking duh Okay, I don't know about that dude Uh, I always get jittery after drinking energy drinks not to mention all the sugar and all those the ones that are marketed towards gamers I don't I don't get it. They're all chalky and gross and I don't know I don't like them Well allow me to introduce you to your newest addiction dubby I'm talking zero calories. I'm talking zero sugar. I'm talking zero jitters or crash I'm talking zero bullshit like dies artificial colors and chalkiness like okay I've heard a lot of claims from these other energy drink companies saying We're not chalky Fuck G-Fuel shut up stupid dumb baby that needs a diaper Dumb baby fucking dumb stupid baby G-Fuel that needs its poop diaper chains Cut down cut down you're right No, I'm not coming them in fucking fuel. No, they don't have flavors like galaxy grenade right which is watermelon guava and lime Oh my god, they don't have a dragon aid which is dragon brew with pink straw Beary lemonade baby. They just there's literally no downside to making the switch I mean, okay, go get it dragon aid does sound pretty badass not gonna lie I mean I've been addicted to mountain dew for the past few years now and I've been trying to find like a substitute for it It's been it's been kind of hard Baron. It's been kind of hard work. And I uh we're kind of quiet or some of this stuff Where can I get this Well Luke, let me tell you since we are professional dungeons and dragon aid players You can actually get some at w.gg and use code and counter that's W dot gg with code and counter E and C O UN T E R use that code at checkout and you can get 10% off of your order or you can just click the link in the episode description So go get you some w dot gg. Oh, I get it like like like gg Like good games like like you know like like like the people like the kid like the cool kids say No, no like uh Google Gaga, which is what fucking champion says let's get back to the show You're a twat by the way. I do not appreciate that war crime. All right. I'm gonna need everybody to go ahead and roll initiative Oh Baby made an oopsie All right 25s and 20 20 to 15 Me 16 for now I go 17 Okay, so it's Scott Preston Dex Then the shark. Yes, then the shark. Oh my god. We actually yeah, I'm the door now. Oh hell yeah, we need to get the hit Yeah, it's up for Jordan. Oh, yeah, that's fine. So how many of you are under 22 hit points? Everyone except for Dex Gods a dnd please don't let them be a TPK today. All right Oh, I'm saying that You're gonna need it but it doesn't have to be this way. Oh, I need to find my d30. You're what? What? I'm sorry a d30 um, what's not it's there's a sign for every way we can fucking die Pick your poison. What are you doing? I don't know Dex. What are we doing? Fighting a shark dude. This is a fucking action comedy drama podcast. All right I think you should happen around here. I'm doing my fucking job. Okay, we have to sell dubby sales All right, we have to give people to buy this fucking energy drink that we're part of it I'll try to get this shit to that dude. I can't do that if we're fucking dead But if we kill a shark we can be like thanks dubby for helping us kill this All right, but if we can kill this shark I'd scot Scott Travis will look in the camera and say and it was all thanks to dubby wing and in the background You see pressing just crushing can after can't right in with it But no, it does no cancer. It's the energy drink powder. Oh Straight okay. What I do What I do actually don't cut that out I take cans of shittier energy drinks. I dump I dump out the piss. I dump out the piss. That was inside him right I open up the top I put in the dubby energy powder I mix it up. I put the cat back on and then I drink or you could just mix it into the water that we're literally swimming in That's what that's what I was gonna say since we're all drinking dubby before the boss fight can we get like advantage on something? Scott your turn. Shit. Okay. I guess we're doing this fuck. Okay. Okay So Scott sees Dex rush in and then everybody else rush in and he kind of has a bit of a panic attack He's like been you know in the ocean before and it wasn't always a pleasant experience He fun fact about Scott he gets very Uh, what's the word? What's the opposite of claustrophobia when there's like an endless nothingness of ocean? Oh like huge open space. Yeah like space like a phobia of like really big spaces Like that's why he gets when he's in the ocean and that's he's sort of getting a similar feeling now except for there's actually something to be scared of there now And so as he panics he is going to glow with this Starry energy as he goes into his starry form. It's my subclass druid feature Um, okay, uh my starry form I gain the ability to harness the constellations power to alter your form Okay, yeah, this whole this whole thing's based on the constellation. So I guess yeah use the astrologist I suppose To an extent Um as a bonus action you expend a use of your wild shape feature to take on a starry form rather than transforming into a beast Wall and starry form you retain your game statistics But your body becomes luminous your joints glimmer like stars and glowing lines connect them as if a star chart has formed on your skin This form sheds a bright light and a 10 foot radius and a dim light and another 10 foot radius beyond that Uh the form lies for 10 minutes it ends early if it's dismissed no extra required Or if you're incapacitated or die um Whenever you assume this form choose one of the following of the constellations to glimmer on your body. Okay, so When uh you see all these light constellations and stars glow on my body you see the form of an archer Uh take place on my chest Um when you form the archer uh when you activate this form as a bonus action on your subsequent turns Uh you can make a range spell attack curling luminous arrows at the target um When one creature 60 feet in front of you on a hit the target takes uh one to eight radiant damage. That's my bonus action I go I go super saying You're gonna need it yeah, honestly and then beyond that I am going to Cast moon beam on the fucker oh shit a silvery beam of pale light shines down in a five foot radius And a 40 foot high cylinder centered on a point within a range Um until the spell ends a dim light fills the cylinder when a creature enters the spells area for the first time On a turn or starts its turn there. It is engulfed by a ghostly flame that causes searing pain It must make a constitution saving throw or it takes 2d 10 radiant damage And if it succeeds it's half that Okay, so I need to roll what? Constitutions saving throw yes, okay. I roll the what's the DC? Uh, that's a good question. What's my DC? It's a DC 14 he fails, but just barely No, I When it becomes his turn he's going to take Nice 19 damage on his turn. All right Whoa, and that is the end of my turn. Okay, and once you all said that was a lot that was a lot of you're doing So you did 19 damage to all this turn? Yes. Okay, but you didn't do your bonus action thing I did my bonus action thing. Yes, I'd say it takes up all this action to go super saying and then in my next turn I can do the arrow things Okay, gotcha. Preston. How would you like to I mean? That's not very funny. Wow, okay, Preston Preston's toolkit at the moment isn't Is the strongest but I think canonically Preston's really just gonna like hit back so like just all the tabletop and experience he has You think back all his old characters and how they were just like so cool under pressure and like they fought preasters like this all the time And he's just gonna like stick his hands out like point them like like palm out like at the shark and like just like It's kind of like really hard and like he like he's like And he's gonna cast magic missile that's short. Oh baby. Oh By that's some guaranteed damage right there. I gotta I gotta make sure I don't Die it doesn't guarantee your life however Yeah, sure you know what Want me coke? Uh, and so yeah all three of the darts you're gonna hit that and so it's a one d4 plus one force damage to the target I'm casting it first though, so it is just um just one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Um, so let me roll those diggity dice Uh, that is 12 damage total. So it was yeah 9 plus 3 because there's three different um three different little missiles and The each add plus one force damage already 12 chunky Chunky damage got you he uh he looked at any sort of fucked up yet All right blood. He's seen worse Oh Is that the end of your turn Preston? Yes, and Preston's gonna like he opens his eyes when he realizes that there's like there's like something shooting out of his hands And he sees just like Very like arcane purple-esque just like almost like Arrow tip shapes like shoot out of his hands he sees three of them and they all just like Like they circle and they kind of swarm and they're like bomb into the the shark And he's just like he's like stunned can't even he doesn't know what to say He's like he's been he had dreamt about being like Like a wizard be of the use magic and all the time he's played like he'll play with that game So this is kind of like you fork even in such a crisis. Okay. He's riding pretty high right now. I guess I would say okay Just don't forget that Dexas fucking his phone Shut also my Also the um I am a wild wild magic sorcerer Just just in case because I mean one of the features is that it says every time once we're turning after I cast the sorcerer spell You can make me roll d20. Did you do that? No, so it's like it's um, I think you have to profit this way. Yeah The DM can have you rolled a d20 immediately after you cast the sorcerer spell first of all higher If you roll the one roll the wild magic search they have a great magical effect So every turn I cast like a first of all higher spell you can just be like yeah roll Okay Sounds good. I'm not gonna do it right now Just because I've had really bad things happen Do you want to a little bit I have to roll one the odds aren't great. All right do it Okay, I'm gonna 60 or five I'll be so cool if it counted up though every time you fail I just want all of you to know right now if he rolls a one he has to roll a d100 on this table And if he rolls a one or a two he casts fireball on the party Oh, listen, there's some really fun options on there. Oh, fucks. I guess fireball. We're in the water. Oh, yeah Do it for real. Hold on hold on hold on. There's there's a lot of there's a lot of cool options on it like oh Okay, I won't tell you I'm actually let's keep it nice and secret. I agree decks your turn buddy Uh, can that shark see me? Oh, it's saying all of you It can see you did go screaming up to it. So I'm gonna use a bonus action to hide Roll a stealth check. Oh Oh hot mother. Let me add my monofire Does a 19 suffice auto no it doesn't Oh You were so cocky about it too. How I rolled a net 20 Oh, you have to roll against that Yeah, the roll perception. Oh, yep. Okay. Want to try anything else? All right, we'll never mind then uh decks. Yeah What are you gonna try bud? Well While decks is swimming towards this thing He just looks at the eye of the shark and he's like My second kill my god and his hands grow hot Not warm, but like burning hot and The heat is like in his palms and then quickly it just Boof like spreads throughout his fingers to his fingertips and when he looks down On each finger it's like a six inch claw made of this like vanta black It's like what the fuck no light is seen in these claws and he's just like oh no I'm a fucking furry I'm a fucking freak Dig his claws into this shark's eyes. Oh, okay roll for attack. Oh, this is real Now did we say that these claws were a rapier? Yes, that's Yeah me and Brandon have been playing these cool stuff Woo What's your role? Oh, you're your fuck dot. I'll give you a second. Let me add this up. What's your role? You're your fuck fuck you said he rolled your fight talking to god That's 25 baby you rolled a 25 what was your natural level three 19 plus it and because of the thing that is a critical Oh my god, so you get to roll double for damage Yes, kill these bitch. I don't think it's good as guy, but It's that's a good. I think it's got it. I'm blinded to deates plus because of the Hexblade curse. Oh, that's right. Oh my okay. Oh Jesus. Let me figure this out. Okay. I'm just gonna to deates first All right, so 11 on the 2d8s. Okay, so now I add the The damage bonus. So does the bonus that Hexblade curse gives me is that on top of the normal modifier? Yes We'll say we'll say it is until I figure out. Oh my god. Okay, so 11 plus 6 so 17 Plus oh Plus another six so 12 plus 11 23 not bad god not damn. How do his eyes feel? Oh, he's blind Fortunately, he's still going strong though. He's pissed. Don't get wrong. He's fucking pissed You hear him screaming in agony thrashing around He is not a happy camper dex whispers in his ear Next time I try to hide it's gonna work you fucking bastard It's the most aggro rogue I've ever played. I don't know why you really? Oh my god. Are you gonna do anything else? Um, I don't have any more bonus actions. Do I? I don't care. It's your character dog. Okay, then I'm done already So let's see who he's going after wait Before you even say anything, I'm gonna specify dex is writing him like a bull. Okay Um Clause and eyes you haven't taken the claws out yet. I'm gonna rat it to me this bitch So it can't really see but it is charging it is charging full steam ahead at Clarissa. What's your armor class? Oh 18 oh Can I pull back on his eyes to make him swim up? Okay, okay, so we can't hurt her I have a fucking shark mech now. I'll accept it. So as you pull up Varing just above Clarissa's head slamming the shark Into the cave wall right at two. We bitch right above us. I'm gonna say auto. Yes Not to backseat DM or anything, but shouldn't he make a roll or something? Luke shut up. I was rule of cooling it dog Okay, that's fucking cool. I should have made him. Yeah, I should have made him do a prep for that too But I don't care teacher. You didn't give out the homework yet. You mean with that being said Hey Clarissa you want to do something? Yes Go ahead. So Clarissa is just so fed up at this point With the situation of getting stuck in this game getting stuck with these buffoons And she just wants to go back home to her pink Luffy luxurious bedroom and not do anything, but no she stuck underwater What dudes we got a fucking furry ride to shark we got Someone shoot and missile that their fingers. So she's just like hard core fed up with everything at this point And so she needs a way to take out her anger. So she's gonna pull out her war hammer and She's just gonna start Swim charging at the shark and she's gonna swing good to slay night team to hit Yeah, that'll do it Poor damage. Would you say about this shark be at a problem auto shut up shut up shut up Yeah, I was gonna say he's been very nice so far. He's been really nice You fool this is only his first hole You made a mistake boy but wait there's more but as she hits the shark She makes eye contact with Dex and a second surge of anger brushes through her As she realizes the only reason why they're in a situation is just pure cheese and add her someone decided to swim Head first at a shark screaming. So she is gonna get an action surge Oh she's gonna swing at it again at the shark at the shark. Yeah, okay 22 to hit that's gonna hit With a five for damage that brings it back to Scott so with Dex on top of this thing and Clarissa right next to it. I'm assuming I shouldn't move my moon beam over to it because that's still going right now technically Is it a cone of effect? It's it's a five foot cone like it's a five foot beam in the cone hit Dex Okay, yeah, no, I don't want to do that. All right, so I drop I drop concentration on the moon beam. I look over at it And I think at this point I realize that I'm like glowing with the starry energy and I'm like oh shit Okay, okay, what the hell um, okay, it's a video game here in a video game um um And as he goes he like shoots his hand out to like try and do something with it And as he does this um a flash of light streaks towards the uh A flash of light streaks towards the shark as I cast guiding bolts Um, I'm gonna make a range spell attack on a target on a hit this bitch is gonna take four d sixes of of radiant damage And uh the next attack roll Yeah, yeah, that on top of that the next attack roll made against this target before the end of the before the end of my next turn It has advantage on it. Okay, go ahead and roll for attack done holy shit. Okay, um Yeah, this I did not fuck around while I was making this character All right, uh, it's plus six to hit Oh seven plus 11 to hit unfortunately you're gonna miss shoot That's okay as I stated before in my archery form I can use a bonus action to try to hit with the range of text spell So I'm basically gonna do the guiding bolt again, but it's gonna be a lot less powerful That's fucking too What I'm gonna go ahead and guess that that does not hit Oh, man, I thought I was gonna do something cool there. Okay, it's not like cool. That's my turn I think it's because you didn't hit me. Oh, yeah, that's what it is I have asked it and like the starry bolts just kind of like flying everywhere and didn't hit the target at all And then I was like Like turned back to the look at you like the fuck noise did you just make it and they were like no, I'm not doing that shit Sorry, can we get that in underwater version please? And then as soon as like those bolts come out of me, I'm like Preston you want to do something useful for once? I did I did 12 damage last time think I'm gonna save I think I'm gonna save a spell slot and I cast mine sliver on The shark. Okay, I don't want to burn all my spell slots. Oh, yeah, I gotta keep tracking my spell slots. Don't I? Yes, you do So my sliver is drive a disorienting spike of psychic energy into the mind of one cruise you can see within range The target must succeed on an intelligent saving throw or take one d6 psychic damage and subtract 1 d4 from the next saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn I'm damn so you have to roll an intelligent saving throw and you have to be I believe 13. Yeah, it'll be 13. Does a nat 20 work? Ah sucks, but I mean I guess you really want it too. Yeah, I can't Holy crap. We started this off super strong and now we're just sucking Thresh impression is had he's like this shark is such a such a butt face and the shark doesn't know What a butt face is nice try son like the negative the negative mental energy just like goes right over its head Just a little shark head. It's dumb fat stupid shark head You should try that insult next time Oh my god, I thought I was just thinking suppressant like just like squeezes Just like closes eyes and punches and spits and he's like what's like he's trying to take poop kind of And he like opens eyes like do to do anything Don't know oh Is that all you got Preston? Yeah, that's my turn Decks you're up Okay, hey, what are those fish that like swim like they're like suction to a shark called Remoras right? And the Pokemon same river yeah, Ramores. Yeah, there's a called remoras. I think so yeah. I'm gonna do that wait what so Decks you're gonna suck his face what? Oh, he's a bonus action to hide and he's gonna like just like head on like shinny around to the underside of the shark Okay roll a strength check a contested strength check Strain yeah, you're trying to grab no, I'm trying to like hold on. Yeah, I grab him You try and hold on to it He is a slippery shark. He's gonna be hard to hang on Yeah, no you slip right off The four minus you slip right off Fuck it, hey But am I still here? I'm sorry minus two Yeah, my strength score is a seven dog Yeah It's like the definition of a dumps that Holy shit, he's a rogue though, you know, yeah, I didn't expect that be having to do strong shit to hide on a shark You trying to grab on to him But am I hidden though? I mean you can't see me right he's blind. He can't see anybody. Does that mean I count as being hidden? Sure, do you damn attack? Good, I'm about to do this bitch. I'm gonna talk to this bitch go back with the claws Plus six to hit so 22 yes cool. So it's 14 plus 10 so 24 damage to his underbelly Nice he is not doing great. He's bleeding pretty bad. Would you say he's But bloody yeah, I'd say bloody. Oh baby. That's fucking go. Oh Already it's a shark's turn. Oh Shit, there's nice. Don't you guys it's going after decks Oh, I think I mean he's blind though. That's expected you can uncanny dodge you'll be okay. You can feel you gutting him though Yeah, that's not gonna do anything Uncanny dodge don't you don't have to worry about it. Wait. He missed again. Yes I'm really no Because he's blind I'm really going with this bitch. That's fair But I feel like if you can like shark smell blood really well, right? I guess Have you guys been injured by this shark? No Why am I trying to help it Yeah, no Joe I rolled a four and I rolled a 17 do not help damn Yeah, okay, it's fair. Sure. No, I'll shut up. I mean we've taken damage all right Do you want to die? So do you all want me to die? You know decks did get hit by a rock. I bet he has an abrasion so shut up. Let me get by with this Yeah, I mean I bet we're all pretty scratched up right now. It was all bletching damage Oh my god. I'm gonna I'm gonna fly to Michigan to fight you Luke Alrighty so it is clear as the sin. All right well So this Clarissa has a ton of different types of things she can do She she's gonna swing her war hammer at the shark again Six not gonna hit no it's really not sad Scott oh yeah, you're turned. Oh goody Let me see if I can make up for my shitty turn left probably not okay So we're gonna try this we're gonna try the same thing again Scott kind of takes a breath. He's like okay. Okay. Okay. You got this Just fucking aim. Damn it And then he just like ironman esque blasts another star out of his hand as he casts Guiding bolt once more. Okay. That is okay and eight plus six this time. That's a 12 It is not to 14 to 14 Fuck okay, we're gonna go with the archery attack now Another two Fuck these guys guys are going in dice jail God damn it. That's my turn. That's a Preston Preston do me a favor Don't be useless What I did something. I did stuff the first turn god. No, I think that was more of a jab at me. Oh it was Wow Still that's not very nice. Whoever you are talking to me from nowhere Everywhere same time. All right. We're fighting a shark. What am I doing here? Let's see uh well, would I held my hands out and think shot out of them that was pretty cool I think we're just gonna do that again. You see the cast magima so okay. Let me roll some before really quick Six or three nine more damage hill. Yeah, so all that sharp That's it nothing else. Oh, oh, oh you've got what's coming to you. Oh, uh wait a minute. What is that feed? You'll see shock or shock or Dex is gonna hide again Can we just assume that you're hidden because he you know Can't see is blinded. Oh, yeah duh All right, then uh Dex is going to Oh, he's gonna yell uh sneak attack. He's gonna try to swipe a slash at it with a fucking one with a one with a one That's you scream sneak attack you just smack a wall good job, buddy. Oh We're all very impressed with you. I meant to do that. All right. Hey Preston Dex like kicks the wall one more time for good measure Yeah, I'm not a I'm not even rolling to see who he goes after Oh, why? I shot fucking this all that it. Yes Oh, sharks a little bit mother fucker. Hey, I was you know what I was I was so am not 20s are great I see But I didn't roll that Don't you just love it when I give you guys her text wait, okay, well, what did you roll humor? I want to know because like so without the modifier Because I'm not gonna tell you that I really okay, okay, all right, cuz I my AC is pretty damn well. It's not great. It's not Every character I've ever played in D&D has shays Maybe that's cuz you're squishing your leg while me I am but I also like playing spell casters They're usually not very durable No, they're not already uh Clearser You're trying right well, let's see they can maybe she'll probably hit it with her warhead. I got him Wow a classic a staple yay, we love that ones uh-oh You're you're not gonna hit him yeah, I don't know if that needed be said, but you're not gonna hit him yeah Scott I fucking swear hit him please Okay Whoo new dice new me What's fucking do this Oh, so I'm quiet that my friends is a natural fucking It doesn't oh my god He's an AC of 35 Okay, so uh So yeah this time uh Scott takes another deep breath and then as he goes to aim he sees like within his eyes Like as if it's a fucking video game. He sees cross hairs And he's like oh my shit aim with these instead of my hand Then he locks on and fucking blast him with a guiding go West off go Let's see One Three okay Oh, that's lousy six damage for the first one Well that and uh the next person who attacks oh guys with him. Hey, it's pretty good. So is that all you're doing? So now we're gonna go uh nope. I'm gonna use my bonus action to do the archery thing like good shoot off another star at him That's another eight Fucking three eight so far whatever oh wait. No, no, it was a natural 20 size double. So that's 12 damage Let's 12 damage total 12 radiant damage. All right Whatever I did something this time. I'm happy good good job. You did a little bit of damage Hey Preston. Yeah, do something You know, I think Preston's actually starting to feel a little um Little like Vigorated for the fact that everyone else is kind of getting in on that shirt. No, we're getting off close in person So I think what Preston's gonna do is gonna pull out this little little cimitar He's gonna start swimming towards it. He's going to a temp He's going to a temp To the tap Somebody gave a nerd a muck tonne and everyone watch out What if I said I got a 17 Then I would say sorry buddy. I guess what I guess you hit okay. Oh Stop it while you were all out talking to girls. I was busy studying the blade the blade Oh, and I rolled fucking minimum damage. What a what a sad cruel world one plus three is a four Literally with those four d4s I rolled three ones and a three yeah Have that the beast Yeah, and it just like he like just nicks it he hits it but it nicks like like a paper cut Did you see that guys? I hit it without magic Your mother and I are so proud of you Still fuck ahead you Look what you made you made me sweat you made me sweat this shock and you both made me sweat just now. I never sweat Your mom's sweet Okay Mother Fucker. Yeah, it doesn't matter what my modifier is it really doesn't Yeah, it's not gonna hit it's really not nothing it matters what my modifier is Okay, then he's gonna use he is a bonus action because he still has those To do bum fuck nothing because I don't think I can do anything with it Okay, so good yeah, no, I just whipped oh Fuck I just I Interesting okay, so this is how it's gonna work I've been keeping a map of where everything is right right? Mm-hmm Scott is the farthest one away Correct it's going after Scott which means What I'm uh-huh. Oh, how am I gonna do this lots of opportunity attacks yeah, yeah, okay I pressed and make an opportunity attack. Oh, I see you beast. Are you afraid of my blade? And he's going to try to attempt to hit it and go with this sword. Oh, it's a fucking 19. I'm the best ever How you roll one damage fucking bitch in a ditch. Oh, let's go eat damage 5 plus three are you okay? Okay? Concepts for listeners. I have like 400 dice and it's spilled every single fucking one of them That's hot. He's spilling dice like we're spilling this thing's blood baby. I will spill your blood motherfucker My blade All right, sorry what what you do how much damage you do I did eight Okay, I've done a considerable amount of damage this thing I'm having a press I thought pressing would get his shape buddy and next is Clarissa swingy swings swing time as you do Swingy swing your swing. Oh, yeah, the Clarissa classic baby For cooler glilla Clarissa club to the head 22 to hit Ruler damage nice Three Okay, anything else Actually, no for optrinetacks you don't get bonus yet. You let them act Decks All righty, let me roll before you even try to describe what he's gonna do Okay, now we're talking 6 so 23 does that work I suppose so cool But okay, so you know have you ever in like a backflip underwater yeah heck yeah. Who am I kidding everyone's done that shit Um dex does one like so pricingly fast But like while he's doing it the claws retract from his fingers and extend from his toes And he fucking like jaden smith karate kin kicks this day like on the head okay And roll for your damage. Oh my god another eight are you kidding me already so The dying shark slams into the stone pillar in the south under the cavern the pillar cracks under the force Teeters then crashes down against the south wall the wall fractures and collapses revealing a passage a wash with golden light Let's take that way Real quick Decks takes a tooth. Sorry what Decks takes a lot. He takes a tooth from the shark. Okay. Um, do you want to take anything else? Isn't there a weapon stuck in it? Yes, that is there. Oh, yeah, there's a spear what else is very Fucking important that I told you about the anulet around its neck. Oh my god. Yeah, that yeah, he grabs that he grabs that too So do you wish to collect the spear eyeball and amulet? Yes, yes, awesome What's up everyone? It's Baron and Luke from the encounter table and we just wanted to drop in and see a huge thank you to our friends over at bus sprout Oh, yeah, dude I remember when you first came to me with the idea of starring the show and we were super pumped but You really had no idea where the hell even start with a podcast? Yeah That's pretty important, huh? 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That was incredible. Yeah, I saw that dude. You were shooting missiles and shit and fucking I know Yeah, I'll admit it was it was Pretty impressive at the way you spoke your hammer. I'd be you were like And you bam. I didn't know you could do that. Yeah, you were a fucking natural. Yeah, what can I say? Dex you did all right. I don't want to talk about it. Whoa buddy. You okay? Set it on a talk about it. God. Why not your claws were awesome dude. What is wrong with you? Someone fucking fucking furry here fuck You guys get cool spells and I get claws It's nothing to be ashamed of yeah, like literally you're the only one that cares. Yeah. I mean you are in a realm where people have horns and tails Just pretty funny to me but We're heck hey, we're so we are accepting of all kinds just not first That is not true Don't listen to them Don't listen to them. The just teasing him sticking up your stuff daddy I I use shape water to push clear so away from us I just like I just like splash water towards you and we're underwater But what it does is it actually creates a tiny current it just takes you away Don't forget I know how to swing a war hammer Oh, that's why you're going farther away from us All right fix it Felix we get it you're good with the hammer All right enough winding let's get out of here already wait while this swimming dex is gonna like try to like get closer to scott be like Was it actually kind of cool though wait what? The fucking close Was it kind of cool? I think so I was really paying attention oh I'm kid I'm kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding I gotta get some jokes in every now and then I'm actually okay is fine He just swims away yeah Scott like catches himself laughing with dex and he's like this is weird. This is weird You stole a lot like I'm dildo for me I mean yeah it was it was it was cool I guess I was all right he gives him the plus and boost boots look just like Don't fucking don't fucking do that you made it you made it weird you made it weird It's so weird I I was I just happened sometimes I don't know what the problem is I had this like weird affinity like I hate water and I want to eat fish a lot Damn this whole time we run water and I missed like the cat in the water joke fuck All right, yes, we swim we swim on onward the cramped passage bends upward until the tunnel becomes vertical Golden light radiates from the upper end of the shaft you emerge in a glowing air filled chamber The water environment gives way to a cavern dotted with trees and pools of water The walls are covered in vines of green ivy interspersed with colorful flowers part of the cavern is open to the sky And the middle of the cavern is a sphere of pale light surrounding crystal pedestal upon which rests a golden pendant attached to a fine golden chain Thanks runs and grabs it okay Oh Too late too late we want The light around the pedestal phase is a spectral figure in the form of a male human rises from the amulet Oh shit he is dressed in leather armor and a tattered red cape and wears a shield His face is framed by curly brown hair and bears a melancholic melancholic expression He pleads I'm imprisoned. Please help me Suddenly the ground vanishes beneath your feet and you fall tumbling through a vortex of golden light you fall deeper deeper Shhh Then suddenly stop the golden light subsides and you find yourself suspended in a pitch black expands You feel water brewing you a vermillion light appears in the distance illuminating the melancholy warrior Who is shackled to the ground by disgusting strands of fleshy crimson substance He raises his gaze to the heavens and sobbingly chokes out moonweaver. I beg of you Guide those with the power to save me to the sight where first I prayed to you He looks around in his eyes settle on you Oh gods there you are My name is elixion. I'm lost in the darkness long ago I prayed to the change bring her in the heart of the temple of evil. I beg you Take my juliend elixion's voice is the last thing you hear before you pass out you awaken to the rival standing above you Trying to rouse you from your slumber They all look concerned You've done nothing to wrong them so the field no reason to wrong you They shake you awake and as soon as you come to they ask What happened? What we just found you laying here dex is clutching the jewel in his hands Oh Fuck you guys okay I think so I just had the craziest try head. It wasn't a dream dude. That was weird. I was like to another game inside of You you awake where you were you awake in the room where the The amulet was found and the and uh the uh Alex Alexian was that his name? Yes. Is he he's he not there anymore? No, where did that guy don't go? What dex kind of like looks up at the rifles like back at scott like don't Don't say anything I don't know I grab I grabbed this medallion and we kind of just Past out it was kind of weird right guys? Yeah Maybe I was a dream yeah, yeah, it was really weird It wasn't a little weird He kind of like scratches his head and he's like does that mean we win? That's not the emerald eye. Did you get that one? Like I've never seen that medallion in my life But we felt oh, wait you mean you mean this one you pull out the one from the shark So you're victorious well it was a race well ran and well You you have triumphed over us and we wish you the best But I've never seen that before we just we almost fell a surge of energy flow throughout everything and We came here and found you unconscious. It must have been a booby trap or something. Yeah Well, I mean yeah, there was like this blue light like when I grabbed it But I think that was just what knocked us out. Maybe it was like some kind of trap. I just didn't you know Roll a perception check as we say in the biz Well, I mean congratulations on your victory. Should we just like get out of here? Like you have to bring that to elder ushrew to receive your winnings Yeah, yeah, good idea. Yeah auto remind How do I remind me again who who were the rivals? All right, so they're names. I remember vaguely. Yeah, it's fine There's five of them in total. I will say right now you're in good standing with them cool So a yo jabe a humanoid ranger But she is human on though. No, she's a water genocidal sorry Dermott word her a cleric goblin Galsarid our death a drow elf wizard thing Irvin waste walker the cocky arrogant human and Maggie keen eyes the Suppressively intelligent ogre dex is gonna take the amulet that showed like the vision of a lexicon in it He's gonna try to like put it on but like backwards and make his hair cover it so that whenever they go out there that nobody sees it Oh, that's smart, okay, do you need to do me to like roll anything to like hide it or is it just fine? No, it's fine cool I forgot he was naked. I was gonna put under my hoodie, but no fucking naked so I'm gonna use my hair to hide it for now So as you and the rival party make it back To the town I presume that dex you put your clothes back on Yeah Okay, you're greeted with elder ushrew declaring you the winners of this use festival americ you are the champions of merit the ecstatic crowd surrounds you and offers Congratulations once the crowd dies down and people begin to leave ushrew asks the characters a hand over the emerald eye Do you do so? Yeah, you are given 100 gold pieces of peace hot damn Wow You think the champions of merit weren't gonna be rewarded good point He's giving you an invitation to stay at night at the unbroken tusk in free of charge of course Oh, do you accept? Yes, uh gladly. Yeah, I'll take it as you all head in you're each given your separate room hot meal cold ale We get to drink in this world. Yes Dex is like getting a hammer Auto like on a scale from one to 20 how good or bad is this ale to a 18 year old who doesn't drink Say in 11 because you're too cool to notice and like it doesn't taste great But also this is like mystical hops and shit like it's not your everyday ale Okay, I mean it's not bad, I guess for apple juice Okay, can we like the okay, uh group, group, uh, group, uh, and I like find a table for us to sit down at Preston walks up with a huge mug full of water Where did you get the water? It's a bar. I just asked they had the water on tap. Oh, I mean it wasn't on tap It was from a well in the back, but Good you made some poor soul go get water from a well I was thirsty and the water from the trial was salty and it dehydrated me Okay, can we talk about that thing that happened there at the end with the with the dude oh the weird dream sequence Yeah, the weird dream sequence Yeah, that like that unskippable cutscene that we just had earlier Yeah The one that took a long time I tried holding circle when nothing happened No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you got to hold like X some pretty sure Earlier you Xbox you Xbox do Xboxes of circles. I don't know. No. My name is Dex Scott. I didn't say what you're okay never mind Um something about a moon bringer moon weaver I think he said and he needs to be like saves from something. I don't I don't the guy's name was um Alexian and he was like praying to it praying for us I don't oh It was it was more like he was praying to this moon weaver thing and like that Just like trying to keep his voice low because he doesn't want people in the game the bar hearing him. Yeah But like he was praying to like send Like people to help him But then he saw us right? Yeah, he was like, oh thank god your year whatever How can you expect this to save him if he doesn't even tell us where he's at? Doesn't he or make any sense maybe maybe he doesn't know all I know is this is all just still so fucked up Scott Scott this is a game right? Yeah, it's it's a game that That fucker that got us trapped and here constructed so like all of this is just his stupid imagination Okay, it's just like that's fine. That's fine. Nothing about this is fine You're good at games right? I mean yeah like video games and shit. I don't I mostly play like RPGs like the ones that you don't have to have like what's an RPG uh role-playing game They're they're ones that like yard more open world and you have like more role-play choices rather than actually being good at the game That's kind of why I play them. Oh, I love all page A's yeah That my favorite type of game. Yeah, I mean too. Yeah, this may be an open-world game But I'm pretty sure we just got a pretty definitive fucking storyline with this elixir guy. I mean that's fair I guess we maybe we should ask around figure out no no no no no. no no. no no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no who the moon-weaver is? I mean that's what you normally do. You get information from people. yeah, but so, okay I don't fucking know this nerds shit. okay but like, everybody you talk to in the game is typically played by the guy running the game right. oh sh*t you're right we can't like you know let him know that we're onto him. he's probably watching us right now. he's like a god or whatever could be. he could be. what was that guy's name again? hey uh Preston you you you you knew what his name was right you knew the guy? oh uh oh the shopkeeper? yeah you were like talking to him when we ran into you. no I never really caught his name but we were having a fascinating discussion about figurines from the late 1980s. what's so funny? it's not funny it was good. the virgin sorry had a coffee. so this elixir guy he seemed to be in trouble. but he he wasn't like following suit. you know what I mean? what do you mean? wasn't what? why was he why was he why was he chained up? all these other characters that this Marvin guy is fucking playing. they're not chained up. so what did this guy do that got him chained up? oh Marvin it was Marvin right? yeah. maybe that's what happens if we don't get the game. that's what I'm saying maybe he's not like these other NPC things. yeah he's he's an important NPC. what's an NPC? non-player character. yeah. so if he's praying to this moonweaver thing don't you think the moonweaver would be something like separate from Marvin? maybe I don't or maybe that's another character that he created or like a god that he created. he's like a god above the gods or whatever. I don't know. maybe but maybe you're onto something there Dex. uh maybe we should ask around about this moonweaver. that might be uh safer. hear me out hear me out. the elixir guy was praying to the moonweaver right? yeah. but if he didn't know where he was maybe the moonweaver doesn't know where he is either so he can't hear him. what if this Marvin guy is the moonweaver weaver oh god. well I think we would know right? once we talk about his game. I'm sure he'd want to be a part of it. he probably thinks of himself as a god if he can send people in this stupid world so it makes sense that some of you praying to him right? I mean that's fair. okay look we need to focus. we need to we need to we need to game plan from here. we need to figure okay what what do we want to try and figure out more information about either this elixir guy or the moonweaver or what? i feel like we probably shouldn't ask around about elixir. i mean if he's he's shamed up for a reason yeah that's fair. even if he is like a good guy if these imp- imp- imp- imp- he's don't think he's a good guy then it's probably not good to affiliate ourselves with him. right. let's let's let's let's think about who we can trust here. there's the other team they seemed kind of cool. yeah the village elder he seemed all right. i mean he gave us a bunch of gold. what about the lady that made all the pies? those are pretty good right? i mean you're not wrong. she seemed pretty hosp- hosp- hospit- hospital. hosp- she had good hospitality. hospitable. hospit- thank you thank you. what? Scott looks kind of at decks like shops that he knew that. what? i read the dictionary. it's my favorite book. okay um yeah maybe maybe she knows something too. i mean it never hurts to ask. there are a lot of people around. okay well probably from all types of life. but it definitely could hurt to ask right? it's not as if we have much to lose. it's a we don't figure it out because stuck here forever or b we die because we ask the wrong people. and then we lose everything essentially. prestin. clorissa? yes. have you ever like played any RPG game or like watch Lord of the Rings or anything or like fantasy related? i've played Pac-Man. okay well uh Scott. yeah. you know what's in every fucking village in like any fantasy setting ever? what? churches. oh shit. i say tomorrow we need to find and jolice try to find a church of this moonweaver thing. that's actually not a bad idea. i would think like the priests there would be more trustworthy than like the government of this village right? uh i don't know about that. yeah like nine times out of ten when it comes to media priests are normally the bad guys. okay that's media and i don't i don't watch faking news Scott. i get another beer please. like when it comes to entertainment things like movies and shows and i just are two us games. okay yeah fair point. but that even if we can't trust them, they should at least have information right? if they're worshipping this thing and praying to it. yeah i mean yeah if we can find a church maybe that'd be something to go with you. so if we go in pretending to be i don't know like converts or something like new to the religion. have you guys ever heard of Mormons? they're like socialists but the wives. oh my god. no is that another video game reference? Scott looks over at Clarissa. like what the fuck? no no they're from this uh they're from this Broadway musical called the book of Mormon. sounds kind of boring. i am surrounded by it's oh my god. well if but listen okay if we go undercover as like bible fumpers tomorrow it next episode infiltrate them and try to learn so shit. i mean i used to be part of a church back when i believed in that kind of stuff. that sounds like a lot but i don't want to unpack right now. oh my god. also we should all be in the same room tonight. i'm just saying uh what? well the fucking are the people that were going against saw me with the weird amulet. you think they didn't fucking say anything and they put us up each in separate rooms? dividing conquer dude i'm not doing that shit. what the fuck are you on about dude? there's one bed per bedroom dude that's how ins work. i'll stay for the floor i don't care. i'm not no no i'm sleeping in my own room. dex like kind of slowly looks over to Preston like no no no i was sleep outside before i shot a room with you. okay i do see where he's coming from though. i mean maybe i was gonna suggest like we pair up but like i don't know that seems awkward too. yeah. dex heard the term pair up and kind of just like trots back in like wait wait wait wait wait no no no no no no no i'll go with scott. what? and so i'll pair up with scott. no please. i'm out trust Preston or dad please. please i am i am i am ex. yeah dex looks over to Preston like father's son bonding time. i can't take it. come on my slush. let us go to my room. i will remember this wetch. you'll be there too. oh i'm going back to let me start and i'm going home. back to let me start and i'm going home. i'm going home. you'll be there too. hey thanks for checking out this week's episode of the encounter table. if you would like to listen to this show without any ads have access to all episodes of the table talk show. check out some one shot's many campaigns and loads of other goodies. you should totally check out our patreon at patreon.com/theencountertablepod. that's patreon.com/theencountertablepod. we're actually running a stretch goal over there right now. if you the audience can get us to 50 patrons we'll put out a stranger things it's et steven king esk many campaigns titled kids on bikes. that yours truly will be the emmings so you know you'll get a chance to see myself baron yim. you'll get to see auto plaza player. it will be like kids and it's fun. it's a lot of fun. trust me. but not only that. if you subscribe to our patreon you too could be just as cool as el karchu kittie miamia 78 z voice russian pandas 78 9 and des wiliams. i gotta give a quick shout out to the amazing artist that did the character art for this campaign. mica dude you're a fucking legend. oh my god like so insanely down to i'm just insanely impressed and every time i look at it it's just like oh i love it so much. you can find his tiktok and his instagram in the episode description so be sure to check him out give him a follow tell him we sent him. please please please help us out with this by dropping a review on iTunes, drop a five star rating on Spotify, because you can and share this with your friends if you liked it. hit us up on twitter at e-tablepod. check out our tiktok at the encounter table. enjoy our discord as i said earlier all links are in the description so just check there. you'll find it. i'm i'm faking you. you can send us your questions, artwork and all other submissions to the encounter table podcast at gmail.com. my name is baron and i play decks, loot godfrey, play scott, jolah joys, plays Preston, jorda makeup, plays florissa and our DM is Michael auto. if you're a music enjoyer check out my stuff baby at baron that's b-a-a-r-o-n wherever you listen to music. i just don't throw a little shameless plug in there but without further ado the encounter table episode three f is for friends comes out July 20th wherever you get your podcasts fix. all right thanks everyone. love you. you know how funny it would be if like i just started speaking with a british accent all the intros and like non-character stuff so people would think i'm a british guy doing an american accent. hello everyone and welcome to the encounter table my name is baby. why is so good? oh i watched a lot of harry potter as a kid baby.