Session 9 - Sam

The group discusses their recent experiences and plans for the future. They also prepare to enter a cave and encounter a screaming woman. They come up with a strategy and use magic to light up the woman. Okay, I am going. Yeah, that's right. Sorry, so remind me what exactly I remembered. Give me, can you tell me what's like, give me some memories or themes like that I might have seen? Okay, the horse is confusing because I thought there was like a humanity theme building, but also a horse. Oh gosh, like me. Okay, I'll try. Do I still have my F hand in the hungry hole? Okay. No. The hungry hole, that's what I thought, yeah. Yikes. You have to wedge it in there. Use lotion for that. Yeah, I think we should take him now. If this door is not opening, we shouldn't leave him here. Been better? I mean, I'm alright. I got hit by lightning, I don't know how I'm supposed to be feeling. I'm definitely shocked. That's very true. What's your secret, little guy? Have you seen this door, little guy? Never mind that, buddy. Okay. I'm pretty sure we're keeping it. I mean... Huh. I mean, Sarah, you got swept away with him when the mountain collapsed. Where did that take you? I don't know. I mean, we all survived. Well, wouldn't that be a tiny solution? I don't know. I don't know. Grenope, if you will. No, I said Grenope. And I was hoping Christian was the only one who heard me. No, I didn't, but it was a little too close for comfort, wasn't it? Hey, Idaho, buddy, Idaho, Idaho, I got this. Sarah, I'll believe Hope's dead... Sarah, I'll believe Hope's dead when I see her body in front of me and we can bring her home. Until then, we keep looking. I kinda, I, I, I didn't really, I didn't die, die, I was pretty close. Oh, but I'm supposed to call you Serafina. So, sorry, we're not on nickname basis. You're worried about me dying, but Sarah is a step too far. This is where we're at as friends? Okay, this is great. Well, it used to be what I called you too, but I guess not anymore. And if you feel that strongly about it, you got it, okay? It's fine, Serafina, you got it. I didn't say it did. Oh, and whose fault was that? You ignored every single one of my letters. I sent dozens. I didn't get any. Wow. I sent you... wait. It must have been the Guild, it must have been the... Where did you send your letters? Wait, did you send them to the address I gave you when I first arrived? Oh, God. Well, that makes a lot more sense now. I didn't get any of your letters, okay? And you obviously didn't get mine, so... Well, I'll take an apology whenever then. Yeah, okay, fine, well, I'm sorry. And the door opens and Hope jumps out! I don't know who else it would have been! They... No, no, they must have been intercepting them at the inn I was staying at when I first got into town. They... this is so like them. They kept me working for them for years with these false promises and never delivered. And I... I mean, I used to think so too, but things got pretty ugly before I left. I mean, who can say? You know, they never even mentioned them. I don't know why they would... I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, it's... Yeah. Do I have to do one for everyone? Okay, how does this work, Idaho? Well, I'm not gonna say that, but I'll say something nice. Okay, I haven't done this in a while. Serafina, it was really nice of you to bring me back from the lightning bolt that just happened. I appreciate and recognize your commitment to my ongoing safety. Shut up, Idaho. Idaho, you are recklessly willing to throw down your life for any one of us, sometimes when you don't even have to, and that's very good and nice of you. And Mordred, buddy, you, friend, you got the druid on your side, and that's cool. I gotta give you a compliment there that you walked back your previous commitment to him, so good job. We can build from here. Yeah, that must be it. That must be it, yeah. That's it, man, yeah. No, it's okay. It's good. You didn't know. You didn't know any better, so now you do. It's good. All right. Idaho, you were right. I feel better. That was good. Oh. Oh, good, good. That's awesome. We got a ghost to kill, right? Let's do that. All right. Okay. Take the lead, Mordred. Thanks. Yeah, well, maybe one day we can find all those letters, hey? All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. I was going to bring them up whenever you next corrected me on your name. So... It took you a long time, by the way. I've had that planned for like a month. You have not been correcting it, yeah. Okay. Now, are we doing... Is this passive perception? Okay. That's a 17. With disadvantage. Fucking yeah. I have... I have superior darkvision. 120 feet. 120 feet, just saying. I am. No, I don't think so. That sucks. Mm-hmm. Okay. So I throw my arms out. I go, everybody stop. There's some symbols here. Thieves marks. Yeah, this one says danger. That one says loud. And that looks like light, but it's crossed out. I don't think so, Idaho, buddy. But why don't we start by putting that torch out? Hey, can we do that? Can we start by putting the torch out? Yeah, you're going to have to hold hands with Mordred, probably. Great question. Serafina, how do you... There it is. Not in that one, a dirty one. Can you completely see him do this? Idaho, what are you doing? I'm... My hand is limp. Someone's holding it, maybe, but maybe... I'm just going to lean to Mordred. Mordred, you can see, right? Oh, okay, you're good then. I'm going to let go of his hand. Yeah. We know. That's why you're going to... Yeah. Well, the good thing is you can do that without seeing, so you may need to. And if it comes to that, we'll call on you. I think we should... Yeah. Noise or loud, yeah. I don't know exactly what that means, but I guess we should be prepared to make noise. Does anyone have any thunder magic? Well, that might help. I know you can get loud. Right on. I guess, why don't we go in quiet? Mordred, you're the one that wants to reason with her. Why don't I go in with you? You stay just outside with Idaho and bring them in if things get noisy. Does that sound all right? Idaho, you good to stay with her? Yeah, I mean, I promised him that I would follow his lead on this one, so no big deal. Yeah, he's good. Mordred, shall we? That must be really tough. Yeah. All right. I'm going to take a real good look around. I guess, first, I kind of want to hide and stay out of sight. Being stealthy, good. Okay. Sure. And so, yeah, just going to examine the surroundings as closely as I possibly can. That's a 14. Hmm. You see that, Mordred? Those are cultivated. I don't see any sign of them, though. Yeah. I'm hearing the screaming get louder and louder. Okay, I'm going to grab Mordred by the arm and say, okay, come on, we need to talk to the others, and shuffle back in there. Guys, I just had a realization. It's not so that we make noise. It's because she's going to make noise. We need to fill our ears. Well, she's already screaming. It's really loud in there. I don't think it could hurt. I mean, you're a paladin. You're tough. Maybe you could go without. Would you like me to put you on a leash? Like a little harness? Well, I don't, but we could make one. We've got rope, right? Oh, God. Just, I was making fun of you. Just stick with Seraphina. Okay, well, that's excellent. Nice. Respect. I like all of that. Before we go into the cave, I'm going to grab a candle out of my bag and ball out some wax and shove it in my ears. I offer it around to everyone if they want some. Spiders have ears. Yeah. Not like we do, but they can sense sound. They also don't have legs like we do. They're still legs. No, come back. Oh, my God. He's already gone. Wyatt. The commitment. The commitment to the bit. Let him cook. No, come back. That's good content. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Well, I'm going to creep right up to the entrance and try and get as good of a look into the cavern as I can. See if I can spot the source of this screaming. Yes, you may. 22. 22. 22. 22. 22. Okay. I'm going to creep back to the rest of the group. I'm going to say, guys, there's an incredibly long woman in the room up ahead, and no one can hear me. I'm going to gesture at Mordred to pull his earplug out. That's right. There's a long, sad woman in the room ahead, and you said you wanted to try and reason with her. Do you want to have a peek? She's very sad and incredibly long. I'm going to vote that we keep Idaho back a little bit. He's kind of blind, very deaf, and loud. Just for a moment, I'll signal if things start to go sideways. For now. For the record, out of character, what I'm trying to avoid is them having to do stealth checks before combat starts. That's it. Maybe that's metagaming, but... Okay. I'm going to go back to the rest of the group. 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Yeah, well, I'm anticipating this will take me out of hiding anyway. So I'm going to stand up out of the shadows and reach my hand out and speak my trigger word, leshlak, and off it goes. And we see her react. I'm going... I believe I'm using intelligence, right? Remind me how this works. I can't remember exactly how I'm supposed to... Oh, and the spell tab is not there. No, there's nothing there, which is weird. I maybe never... That's what's confusing is it's a racial ability, so I'm not sure how it calculates. Right. I think we did, but it doesn't... I have the same modifier for each, so... Okay. So it'll be 8 plus the modifier is 2 is 10, and then... What was the other component? Yeah, so it'll be total of 12. DC is 12. Okay. Excellent. I'm sorry. I was going to use a bonus action to try and hide again. And I'm at least partially obscured, right? Am I... Yeah, I'm in dark. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. It does. They're just temporary hit points is what they are, right? What? Okay. Okay. Yeah, I just thought it was temporary hit points, but I guess they're classified differently. That's okay. It's the same thing, basically, yeah. It is better, yeah. Hell, yeah. Awesome. Okay. Okay. Yeah. No. No, that's true. Have you ever met a baby that's capable of running a multinational corporation? Because unless you have, they're not like babies. And eating your heart right out of your chest. Yeah. They're multi-talented. Real renaissance babies. Okay. Okay. No. Can I clarify something? Does she have a debuff on for being illuminated? Well, but that's the effect of the spell. But I mean, as a creature, like does the light have any actual effect on her or is it just making her angry? Obviously it caused her to summon a baby army, That's a noticeable effect, eh? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. 40 feet? You know, from 20 feet up, too, you get extended distance, right? Doesn't it? There's elevation rules for jumping, isn't there? Sorry. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Oh. Ouchy. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. The weeping mother? Mother? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Feels like it should be mine. Okay. Um. Um. Um. What do I have on this lady right now? No, like, how is she standing? She's facing me. Away from me. It does. Um. Yeah. So, anyway, I'm just going to go for a spot that's as close to her, like, her jugular as I can go. And I'm going to fire away with my bow. Oh, Christians. So I'm going to step out from hiding and fire my bow at just behind her ear, near where the soft spot is at the edge of her jaw. That's right. That's 22. I assume so that's 15 damage with my sneak attack. She's mad. Oh, I'm hiding again. Quick, quick hide. 28. Oh, that's a nat 20. Roll. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And you. Okay. Okay. Um, does that matter? You have to say it. I don't know if she has to hear it. I don't think so. Yeah, you just have to be able to see them. You just have to be able to see them. That's it. Okay. Okay. 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