In our last episode, the party fought a giant tarantula outside of a giant humanoid skull. After the battle was won, they followed Spike into the cave within the skull's mouth. There, they spotted a strange crawling fungus and learned about its lifecycle. Our adventurers today are David, who plays Ichabod the Wizard, What are you doing?
Kieran, who plays Waylon the Barbarian, I have biology spirit man. Theron, who plays The Druid. Maybe they'll stop attacking the town if we're friendly enough. And our DM Hazel.
They're making a face at me. Welcome, fellow travelers to Legends of Chill. So you continue onward. Yeah, there continues to be a decent amount of fungal growth on the walls, but you do not see any further moving fungi.
Sad. And by this point, you guys have walked a while and you're probably getting tired. Okay. Is there an area where resting can happen?
Or are we in like a tunnel? You're still in a narrowish tunnel. You guys could definitely lay out in the open tunnel. You could probably find a place to set up the tent if you wanted to.
That seems like the plan. Let's do that. You guys saying any kind of watch or are you just going to bed? I'll take the first watch as a creature.
I'm sorry. I'm not going to watch. I'm not going to watch this. Yeah, first, second, third, I think we will go with.
And then as a ritual, cast alarm. I'm going to be a spider, which I remember now is because it has dark vision and blind sight. You're only a spider for an hour then? No, for a number of hours equal to my love home.
For four hours. So about a watch. Yeah. And I'll, um, I will throw out those berries.
Okay. Day, your watch is mostly uneventful. Okay. Except about halfway through it.
You get this weird buzzing sensation in one of your legs. Buzzing? Yeah. Like, something's vibrating.
I will investigate. What do you mean buzzing? Like something in the ground in my life? Or something in my legs?
Or like something is going like this to me? How hard do you transform? Does your stuff become part of your body? Or are you carrying it?
When I turn into a spider, it becomes my body. Okay. Yeah. So that's what I think it is.
Yeah. It feels like something that you're carrying is vibrating. Oh, do I think it's a phone call? I got this.
If I think I'm getting a phone call from the hags, I will untransform and take it. So you pull the finger now out of your pocket and it's vibrating. I will say hello into the finger now. Oh, hello.
You're still alive, are you? Still. Still kicking. Great.
Anything interesting happening? Are you almost there? I don't know if we're almost there. We discovered a new kind of fungus and I give her a detailed description of the fungus and it's life cycle as I have seen it and describe all the sketches that I've been taking.
Fascinating. Did you taste it? No. I wonder if it has any interesting properties?
I mean, it walks along the ceiling. Well, once you get to the center of the forest, maybe we will be able to go out and find out. Maybe. Did you want something?
Did you just want your fingernail back because he thought we'd probably be dead by now? Basically. Okay. Well, we're fine.
Okay. Well, goodbye. Goodbye. I'll now tell you how I finished my watch as a human.
All right. So you finish your watch. The other two, I'm not going to make you do rolls or anything. You also finish your watch.
And everybody is nice and well rested in the morning. I tell, think about the second watch, right? I tell them about the call from the hags. Mm.
It sure is nice of them to stay in touch. Daily calls to see if we're dead. All right. Daddy.
Hello. Hello. You talk to them. I don't want them to.
I mean, next time I think that we could just say we're still alive. Leave us alone. How are you? We're doing it.
I'm just mind your own business. So Spike Jones, did you further down the tunnel? I was like perception checks from people. 18?
Okay. 14. 11. I thought it was wrong.
No, that's right. Sorry. Carry on. Ichabod, you started picking up this slightly sulphurous smelling scent day.
You also smelled that. And in front of you in the tunnel, it looks a little hazy. Okay. I point and I say probably not good.
Hmm. Well, can you think of anything that would cause that, the sulphurous? I can't. Maybe they can.
She can't either. I'll try and make her check. I'll try and make her check. Oh, more.
19. How does it know more about nature than the druid and the farmer? Well, we do have a sheltered life. We could totally kick his ass about weak fields.
Let's see. You remember reading this book about mining and the stories of miners going in and while digging it or coming across these patches of toxic gas. Oh good. That ended up being released.
Usually anything with a dime pretty quickly. Mark I'll go check that out. But it's not a canary. Do I think that I could like safely burn it away or that I would cause like a big explosion or something?
You are unsure based on your previous role. Okay. I mean I bring up the concept to good role like about it as well. Without knowing what type of gas it is, I don't think it would really know either.
Though it is not in a is not heavily contained which would increase explicit potential. So it might just be a small fireball. If I cast a pressed vegetation to create a puff of wind, does that disperse it or just swirl it around? That's a small wind.
So actually it is a very version. It disperses it around. Okay. It disperses it a little bit in front of you.
But not too much. Do we have any kind of view as to how far this is? Does it look like it's a contained area or does it look like it travels for some distance? So you see an area of about 30 feet before the tunnel curves again and all of that is filled with gas.
You're sure how far it goes? Okay. I have several ideas that would require me to take the time to switch out a prepared spell, whatever that is 10 minutes. I could cast protection from poison on us.
That's a good one. Well I think I can only cast one person actually. So who do we like the most? Well I mean we could cast on somebody that could investigate how far it goes.
I could cast this wouldn't necessarily be pleasant but I think it would work. I could cast a warding wind which would put a strong wind all around me and you two could hide in it. It would all be like in this difficult terrain that you get blown about but it probably would disperse the stuff. Or I could try casting gust of wind which would blow it possibly just further down the tunnel.
I don't know. It says it disperses gas or vapor so I could cast that. It's not a very useful spell other than situations like this. So I would have to switch it out but I can do any of those or we can do some science first.
Honestly I like the idea of the warding wind. Okay. What effect does it have on people who aren't you? So a 10 foot radius around me and it moves with me.
There's wind. It deafens me and all creatures in the area. It extinguishes unprotected flames but your light spells would be okay. The area would be difficult to rain so we'd have to move slow.
And if anybody tries to attack me they would have disadvantage. And it would keep the gas away from us because like you're in that area. How long is it last? I concentrate on it for up to 10 minutes.
It's a nice long one. Yeah. I'm reluctant to go with gust of wind just in case we're looking at a considerable distance or if we just wind up relocating it to some space ahead. Okay.
So did you get her talking all the way now? Yeah. Basically. I want to get rid of fast line of tracer hold person though.
Hold person. Yes. So okay. So it takes me however long to do that.
I think that it's basically DM rules. But then I'll cast warding wind and we will stagger our way down through the gas. Okay. So you guys begin walking through the gas.
This bubble of wind around you. You go around the corner, around another corner. You've lost four minutes. Five minutes.
And we're still seeing the gas. Okay. I don't know if we would walk seven minutes. How many times can you?
Does the car to continue twisting and turning or can we see a head how much farther we go? It continues twisting. Turn it any time I spread our head. Okay.
I think that probably at the five minute mark, I motion that we should turn around. If it seems like it's just going to keep going. We only destroyed the shoulders. It's up to you.
Well, in a up to you motion. Like I don't know. Okay. You recall.
Okay. So you guys turn back around and you end up restarting. Uh huh. We did it.
I mean we learned something. Yeah. I wasted a second a little spell if that's fine. How many does it do?
Two, three. You go for half an hour. Yeah. I'm not trying to load it up now.
Yeah. How long does protection from poison last? Hours? An hour.
I don't have to concentrate on it either. Just last. The difficult terrain would definitely worked against us. So a person could just boogie down there and see how far it would be.
Who's the most able to boogie? Me. Okay. I mean you're also the most capable alone.
Also true. So we're sending Waylon alone at least 15 minutes away from us. Okay. I'm willing to spend the slot if we think that that's the best plan.
I have a better idea. Okay. Oh, it's gonna be so bad. So all that does is you have advantage on saves against being poisoned and have resistance to poison damage.
That's an important part. Yeah. It doesn't make it go away though. It just caps everything.
Okay. And I have a plus five constitution safe. That's better here. All right.
All right. So Waylon is strolling into the toxic cloud on his own? Yeah. Okay.
I need Waylon to make a constitution saving. Okay. That advantage. All right.
14. 14 does not succeed. Congratulations. I'm like in the process of getting out paper so that we can play hangman while we're waiting for him and then we just see him go like, so normally how this works is you take one poison damage per minute that you are in the cloud.
So you will take one poison damage per two minutes. Actually, I said that wrong. It's usually two minutes. So one one damage for four minutes.
Okay. That's not too bad. Turn into anything with the mean poison. So how far are you walking down here before you turn back?
Is it the last for an hour? Half an hour at a brisk run like you know, double move at least like that's not like as far as I can. Okay. And do you have the normal 30 feet of movement?
Yeah. So 60. Half an hour you get to the end of the guys at double movement. Oh, that's good.
So sweet. And then I book you back before I even see what's on the other side. So every four minutes you take a point of damage. So 60 divided by four.
15. Okay. I'm just thinking about a clock. Oh, that makes sense.
So 15 points of the poison damage. Okay. That looks extremely killing. Yeah.
But you'd only tell you half of it. Oh, wait. No, you would get the total 15 because it's every two minute. Well, I can cast the spill again once more, but you wasted your time.
You didn't waste every use yours. Yeah. I didn't have a way to call you. We should follow that.
Can you send? I don't know. I don't need something. Yeah.
Okay. Why does nothing immune to poison? Why are we not doing this? Giant poison is snake.
Not an easy poison. Come on. No, spiders are either. No, stupid.
The scissor creatures are bringing us low level characters, but come on. So I come back to the point it doesn't seem too bad. But, you know, it did take half hour to get to. I could turn into something faster.
That would help you. Yeah. Trying to force us to make it right. Could I?
I don't know. I'm not sure. I don't know what the CRN forces. So if we at double move, if we don't have resistance, it's 30.
It's 15. I only took half because of, well, I took a total 15 because I took 30 and 30. Yeah. It was in 15 minutes.
I said, okay. All right. So, you know, theoretically, we won't come back. Yeah.
So, you're right. And if you had resistance, you'd still probably take 15 because I failed to save. You're probably fail. Thank you.
You failed to save with a 14. Yeah. You can roll about that. Okay.
So I could turn into a horse. That's not a whole bunch faster than a person. It's only 40 feet. We probably save us like one hit point.
Oh, riding horses are 60 feet. Are they? Challenge one fourth. According to roll 20.
Okay. Well, that would be twice as fast. So yeah, I could definitely do that. So that's another option.
This roll 20 doesn't have hunger. What's the, uh, it's a constitution safe? It is. Okay.
What's the worst constitution? Oh, plus one. All right. Better than hard.
No, that's fine. That's fine. So yeah, you could carry one person that way. Right.
I can carry one person that way. We would go twice as fast. And the other person, I can use my last second level spell to give them that resistance. I mean, obviously we might want to take advantage of that, but I might have another option as well.
I like that sound, but what? Polymorph. I feel like he would use it on himself. If he uses it on himself and you change into a horse, then one can ride what he changes into.
And I bet you I can find a CR4 that moves like a bad out of hell. Well, actually, no, he probably want to cast it on me because then it would be a CR4 instead of a CR2. Well, I was looking at if I didn't need to carry somebody to help them, I was going to turn into an eagle because they're fast. And I am just kind of ignoring that, you know, Mark on and the hand are both kinds of creatures and we take poison damage.
Undead things don't take poison damage. I know that. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
Mark on. Mark on. Stop. I think.
No, I usually put that at the top. So I guess not. But I feel like I could find. Polymorph doesn't have that beast restriction.
Right. Exactly. That's what I was thinking of. I feel like I could find a creature that had a fast move and immunity to poison.
And then Mark on could cast it, could use it on himself, protect himself with poison. Let me just see if I can come up with anything here. Cargo oil. Poison immunity flies to be at 60 and it's medium so we can carry someone else.
Pegasus. No, wait, that doesn't have immunity to poison. That's dumb. It's a celestial.
I mean, it would still. I like the idea of pulling orving into a rug of smothering. I mean, if we just haven't turned into a Pegasus, he's even protected from the poison just by having the extra hit points. That's a good point.
And those have a fly speed of 90. Yeah, I think you're right. Pegasus is the best man. So day turns into a horse.
And Mark on is like, I can do better than that. Yes. Look, I have that. Two horses and two riders.
See all the other side. Horses are going to take damage, but it won't matter. Right. So you guys are taking you and I seem to carry in Wayland.
Probably. It's more important to take less damage. I fear Mark on a curious but you're fine. Yeah, that's it.
We're all friends here. You and Wayland take half of 15. Okay. Not for doing another say though.
If it's half of 15, I would still be a horse. So I'm not even going to count. 22. 22 makes it.
So you are immune to the effects of the poison for half an hour. So you take no damage. Oh, okay. I'm glad I didn't have in the first time because you would have gone through it.
I'm like, this is fine. Nobody deal. Come on, save. Ichabod's con save is 11.
11 fails. So you're quick flight down the tunnel. So that's 180 feet a turn. It was a so that it's 90 feet.
So that's a third of 15. So five damage. That's how I'm doing the math anyway. That's fine.
Soon enough about right to me. So five damage doesn't matter damage. No damage doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.
I think that it'd be at six points as a horse still. So a mad dash through this house of cloud. And you are through. It's half an hour.
I don't know how long Polymorph and I can be a horse for four hours. I think Polymorph is one or whatever. You have a horse and a Pegasus for a little bit. If you want them.
When Mark on puffs back into himself, I like nang. After the horse. That was fun. There was a moment where it seemed like it was getting a little close to being math, not a game, but kind of cut better.
That's what I like though. Okay. So you guys continue onwards. Is Mark on staying a Pegasus for as long as you can?
No, once we got out, I'm gonna say come on back and Mark on will change back into his original form. You're staying a horse? I'm saying a horse unless it gets too small in here for it to be a horse comfortably. Is Lately going to continue riding here?
If you would like to. Yes, yes, you were more noble as need. So a mummified hand of horse. The hand's gonna be riding on my head.
Pointing. Two people and a fairy dragon. Talking to a bar. As I'm using as that would be.
Another invisible bar. You continue onward and you get to a section where the cave takes a sharp turn down. It is very steep but the past does continue onwards. I stop being a horse.
Okay. Will we be able to make our way down or is it nearly vertical? It's very steep. You probably have a good chance of slipping and falling down.
How far down is it? We'll say it goes down further than how far does the light spell go? I think it goes 20 and 20. Yeah, it goes further than that.
So you can't quite see how far it goes. It goes beyond the range of your light style. Is it a hazard or is it like difficult to rain that we're gonna have to be careful on? It's a hazard.
Okay. You do think that you might be able to walk on it but it would be difficult. I think this is not day in my head telling me to slide down. I don't know what you're talking about.
It's not like this section of my notes is labeled slide. That's the bottom of the slide is the problem. I was looking to see if I had anything special I can use but I think we just take a nose high. Maybe you should say it on Texas.
Mark I can fly. I'm gonna ready in action. If I slip and start to slide down, I'm gonna break that statue. Great.
I'm very excited for this. The rest of you are just walking down? Certainly not in front of Ichabod with this plan. Okay.
Who's going first? I'll go first. Okay. I'll get the statue.
All right. So make a I think it's a dexterity save. Well if it is I failed it. Less than 15.
Yes. All right. You start sliding down. Whoo.
I'm gonna strike a cool pose before I stand. All right. So you're in a cool pose. Your stone.
Yes. And you have bunny ears. I think maybe not. No.
Because it's actually just that bunny ears. So you are stone and very resistant to damage. Right. Okay.
So Ichabod immediately loses his body and starts sliding down. And then you see him smash the statue on his chest and he just becomes stone and slides down. Makes a nice memory for weight and problem. Do we hear him lands like fairly nearby?
Post-traumatic statue. He just freezes up. You do. You hear you see a few rocks.
It's a flute. I'll just slide down the slide like carefully. Like I'll sit at the top like a four-year-old and slide down. I'm just going to make me a deck save for them.
Um six. Six. Not a very controlled slide. Yeah.
So. Do you get in there and you slide down to the bottom and it was rougher right and you thought it's going to be. I need you to make me another dexterity save throw at disadvantage. That too is probably going to be that.
Yeah. The second one's a natural 20. So three. You slide down and you see a statue wailin.
It's actually Ichabod. You see something like a vine. Uh just used to wailin being a statue. Fair.
Fair. You see him in a small stream that is at the base of this. You land on dry land but you also get hit by a rock for one point of damage. Twelve.
Twelve? Fills. Well. So.
Get a bolt. Onto the stone floor. You slide down. It's you're doing better than day.
Um you're still rocks are breaking loose behind you and when you get to the bottom one slams into the side of your head and you take six once in a minute. Zero is bigger than days. You are down at the bottom of this slide. The tunnel here actually has a little bit of light.
There are a little bit of violinism like in growing on the walls. It's a bit bigger to then where you were before and there is a small screen running through the cavern into the distance and you see the statue of Ichabod just kind of partway into this little stream. I currently have five wounds and so I'll wait five rounds while I'm healing and once I hit zero I'll use my action to lead the statue forward. Okay.
You leave the statue for and you are you kind of fall backwards because you're not as rigid as a statue and your feet are in the water. Men to do that. Dumbly. 33 hit.
One of the talks of cloud. Do you have the heel of the spear? I have 35 hit points. As you ask this I need you to know I have 35.
Yes I have a heel of a spear. You can have 10 tips. Oh no you had to even feel bad about it. Look buddy.
You're fine but I guess if you're by the complaint. That was a big rock. But tank. Still arguing his case.
You have no case. Okay anyway. Ichabod as you're feet leave the water. You see this largest white fish come up and it just kind of leaps up and tries to latch onto your toes.
You can see that it has very sharp teeth. Can I see it from here? Is that something attacking him? Probably 21.
You do see it. I say hey stop it. To the fish. To the wizard.
It has landed back in the water by now and it does not respond. Alright. So I'm now out of the water. I'm gonna scan the area to see if I see several of those swimming around.
You do. They seem to be quite prevalent in this river. You see one of them root into the ground and it seems to find something and it latches onto it and soon you see a little bit so the blood starts to flow through the water as it eats whatever it is. It eats it quickly so it's kind of hard to see.
Can I try a nature check to see if I've ever heard of the cat? Not bad. 19. Yeah you've heard of fish like this.
You don't know if it's exactly the same because the ones you know of aren't white like this but it seems to be very similar to a quipper. Okay. Dang come here for a second. Take a look at these.
Okay. They're quippers. Oh they're alino quippers. Cute.
Okay tell me about the fish. And 18. Ooh I had a 19. I'll start lecturing her about the fish.
Okay. You start lecturing me about the fish if you had three. I would. Yes I would just tell you other stuff.
Oh well you know of course you know about their blood frenzy. They go crazy when there's blood in the water. They just attack everything. It's so scary.
And also you probably didn't know this. I mean you do a lot of nature stuff but they can breathe underwater. I think I knew that one. In fact I can only breathe under water.
Yeah any other questions you have just let me know. They have one hit point at AC of 13. I'm not sure what that means. I think they're very vulnerable to damage.
I even so waiting to use that statue in a weird way. I'm finally gummy. I'm just just a bear for wailing. Spiders statues.
I mean it's pressing all your bodies. It's rude. Anyway there's a nice source of delicious fish if you want any. I mean I do have a fishing tackle but they're kind of gross.
Probably out of eggs so I don't know cave fish though. You guys might be hungry but I don't know if it's going to be worth it. Do we want to try a cave fish? I want to try a cave fish.
I'm not sure that I've tempted enough buttons to keep trying. You don't want to use your fishing tackle or anything? Yeah. Are you proficient in it?
No I just have it. It's not I don't think it's an official tool it's just something on the adventuring gear list. Yeah well let's double check. That's what that's worth.
I think you're stuff. I wrote another two that's like the role of the night but nine. They're not they're not biting you're always fighting me. So you guys are continuing on?
No. We don't have to go in water right? No you have to go in water. You guys continue on following the river and as you go you see these uh looks like it's some kind of a bioluminescent fungi that's growing in like these groups of tubers.
Like these groups of tubes that show up. Tubes. And sometimes when the path narrows. However the first time happens the path is narrowed a bit and you're getting closer to them.
And what does them shoot? A spout of water. Let's say they're like, why is this actually in the lead? No.
So this plant just suddenly hits you with a spout of water. Practical joke plants. Right up your alley. Okay.
I'm going to wipe it off my face. All right well watch out for that. Was it like nice normal water? Didn't hurt or anything?
No. No. Not pain water. Is it a jig?
It's a whole separate. It'll take a second to kick in. They consider doing stuff like that. They didn't.
That's when it's going to go spider. Mark on top. That's cool. And Mark on top goes and he flies down close to the plants and they start shooting out and sprays of water into the air.
He comes by and he does it closer past. And you see one of the jets hit him but it doesn't look like water this time and Mark on takes two points of acid damage. Oh Mark on. What sorry.
One of the mushrooms sprayed acid instead of water. Oh and Mark on. Don't get too close. I'm flapping around.
Was there any differentiation between the one that sprayed acid versus the ones that have been spraying water or do they look exactly the same? They look exactly the same and actually before when Mark on was further away from it it also sprayed water. That was when he got closer. Oh I say that's great.
That's it. I say. So we'll try and keep our distance I guess. Yeah Mark can just say here.
I am tempted to huff with Mark on. I haven't breathed as much as I can to my face. Just try to help. I'm wearing the tintalowent night.
And that's when you're watching. Give us a heads up. It's a hop of night tonight. I'm dropping some euphoria breath and I'm reading that book.
Wow look at these formulas man. Wait what the dirty one. No. I can feel the words.