Sass and Circumstance

By Ryan Harrison

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July 16, 2022Episode 46 - Eight Legged Giants
00:01:12 - Recap

00:06:23 - Discussing what to do next?

00:10:00 - Discussing with Misfar and Fikri about moving forward.

00:17:36 - We are marching towards the Totem of religious significance. There is some chittering with puncture marks on the ground through the grass, branches are broken and trees are pushed aside.

00:22:36 - We go away from the creatures but it does begin to rain quite heavily. We hit the totems; a large clearing (size of a small park) with 5 totems. Four seem to be humanoid creatures with tusks, the fifth seems to be a large bird with its wings stretched outward. The same bird figure as what

00:26:36 - In the clearing it looks like the clearing ground is maintained by an intelligent being or force.

00:29:45 - Going into the clearing; we cannot

00:36:53 - Trying to find more information in the clearing and Rosebud does not have any recognition of the creatures, they had 2 eyes instead of 1.. The bird has 4 eyes, large vulture like, very well painted (multicolor) though is muted by the rain. There is a crown

00:39:42 - Geth investigates the flowerbed. When looking there is a more well-tended flower bed. The flowers are specifically 'birds of paradise' and spell out something in giant.

00:45:03 - Geth records whatever is on the statues and the flower bed in an unknown giant language.

00:50:15 - Nothing else of note in the clearing, we head towards the hole in the ground marked 'do not enter'.

00:53:12 - Geth makes a Dex save.

00:56:25 - Giant spider is seeing Geth caught in the web; trying to spit webbing at Oma.

00:59:49 - Rolling for initiative.

01:05:55 - Geth gets attacked but teleports out of existence.

01:11:00 - Jewel and Rosebud get reeled into the canopy above.

01:15:27 - Geths turn, teleports Jewel and Rosebud out of the tethered grasp.

01:24:22 - Jewel's turn; cutting the webbing of both of them & now is free; also cutting the tether for lavender.

01:29:10 - Oma has the large spider ahead of her; taking swipes at it with advantage. Taking cracks at it.

01:33:14 - For booterfall! Oma crunches the spider in front of her.

01:36:00 - Rosebud breaks free of the

01:38:54 - Lavenders turn; escapes the webbing through attack action. Jewel, Oma, Rosebud, Lavender all get emboldening bond.

01:49:54 - Lavender gets webbed, dragged into the hole. Rosebud then gets cocooned again. Attacking Jewel fails.

01:55:33 - Geths turn, trying to figure out what to do next.

02:00:33 - Firebolt fikri spider and rosebud fire.

02:03:06 - Jewel hitting the spider on her turn. Then running towards the other party members.

02:08:02 - Oma misty steps up to the tree and smacks at the spider.

02:14:02 - Rosebud's turn, sacred flame on the spider.

02:22:55 - Lavender turn

02:23:47 - Break time

02:39:12 - Back to the game

02:43:58 - Attacking geth with spider, no poison damage.

02:47:58 - Lavender is webbed again!

02:53:05 - Geth fireballs; killing the two spiders taking rosebud and geth away in the canopy.

03:01:11 - Jewel is trying to get geth and rosebud out from the spider

03:04:36 - Casting spells

03:06:49 - Lavender's turn. Finishes off one of the spiders, attacks another.

03:13:49 - Lavender has a swarm of spiders attack him. Then gets attacked by 2 larger spiders.

03:19:39 - Geth's turn, dash to the hole.

03:23:39 - Jewel attacking the spider and takes it out.

03:26:23 - Oma finishes the last main spider.
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3h 36min
July 09, 2022Episode 45 - Cabin Gathering
00:01:59 - The door opens - elderly bald man full of tattoos

00:04:11 - Old man offer's tea, and Geth checks for illusions (none-detected)

00:07:24 - Introductions - Makisig

00:11:02 - Description of the old man's house. Has writing of the local shimmering isles.

00:15:03 - Stranded on the isle as well. The giants seem like a rumor only.

00:20:32 - Talking about how has he survived? Rosebud checks the area & also steals 4 of the mango treats

00:25:21 - Rosebud notices cold and heat runes for the cold box and the

00:29:35 - Rosebud purposefully marches over to extra room and opens the door as Geth and Makisig are discussing his life. It seems to be a bedroom. There is a bed, a staff, small totem of a bird, and not much else.

00:34:07 - Makisig and Oma discussing pleasantries.

00:39:15 - He is taking far too casual for us to not be concerned

00:43:30 - We should avoid the staircase

00:48:27 - Discussing old parties that came to visit Makisig, there was another Myria worshiper that came by.

00:53:09 - The hydra (Tarzan and Jane) is something to be avoided. The pink mists are there regardless of where you go. If you swim out; you will swim back in just as likely.

00:57:09 - Left the isle before the pink mist; and has not left since.

01:08:18 - Leaving the

01:12:07 - Talking about Myria and going to the

01:16:27 - Talking about the staircase and where we go next

01:22:11 - End of session
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1h 27min
June 25, 2022Episode 44 - Jumping Lily
00:02:44 - Introductions and description

00:06:01 - Animate objects

00:11:56 - Talking about Levitate to get perspective on the island.

00:16:52 - Rolling for perception - on lights for checking what direction lights might be on the island.

00:21:26 - Jewel talking about squeaks when caught. Then talking about Constructing Datu

00:28:00 - Spell prep - Hitting all party aid lvl 4 (+15 base), Fikri & Misfar coming with us. And Squeaks.

00:34:37 - Doing watches in the night

00:37:39 - Rosebud gets created - Datu creates. We wake up and

00:41:05 - We wake up in the morning, discussing what happened over the night.

00:44:06 - Discussing from the quartermasters map, entire beach has been mapped out but not everything in the interior has been mapped out.

Interior has 5 marks with X which dictate the remains of a town.

6 landmark notations.

Rock formations setup by sentient individuals 'Upper right corner' north west

The rock formation seemed to be relatively close to all of the signs of civilization that they found. (Could be the center of the civ)

A lake inside the interior 'dead center of the island' directly north

The lake forced anyone trying to enter the lake out through magical means.

A hole in the ground 'Do not enter' 'slightly to the right of the beach and up of where we are' North east

Noxious gas that came from the hole and poisoned some of their crew.

Totem that says 'religious significance?' Not that far from the rock formation north east

Large humanoid, crew thought it was a giant with a head dressing not familiar to them. 20 feet tall.

Drawing of an animal head. 'Hydra - avoid at all costs' North west

There is a note in the journal about a swamp and losing several lives

Staircase 'need more information, did not get far' Closest to the lake, on the right side 'east'

Seems to be a manmade staircase that just goes down, they stopped after a couple hours. Signs of warning on that one where they need to prep more for a extended trip.

00:55:41 - Discussing where to go next; closest one is the hydra.

00:59:39 - Has the giant lost the boot?

01:09:11 - Oma performing a religious check for Bootarfual trying to get some guidance. There is many boot images, water and

01:16:54 - Geth asking Fikri about the giants, and how we can get their help. Maybe they have changed.

01:22:41 - Break time.

01:49:37 - Back from break.

01:53:14 - Rolling for survival and stealth. Jewel find foraging signs.

02:00:39 - Group decides to follow the hoof paths. Discovers large boars. We circumnavigate them and avoid a fight, instead continuing to the lake of the center of the island.

02:04:07 - We approach the lake. There are Giant frogs, a giant puma in a tree. We see a log cabin in the distance and there is a fishing net and no visible boat.

02:08:58 - Ryan / Geth steps away

02:30:24 - We are trying to make it to the cabin

02:35:29 - Geth saves Oma from hitting the water over the via Telekinetic shove.

02:43:26 - Rosebud and Geth end up essentially turning this Lilypad into a boat. Rosebud just barely manages to help keep lavender and Misfar from having to start over.

02:48:15 - Lilypad adventures away!! Over. We performed

02:54:14 - Discussing the log cabin & getting on the deck. The party gets onto the log cabin, onto the docks. We get ready to approach this house.
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2h 58min
June 19, 2022Episode 43 - Hairy Ape Situation
00:01:15 - We go into the intro, just finished recovering from the wurm attack.

00:03:46 - Oma(DM) talking about the wurm, then also talking about the boats in various states of decay.

00:07:03 - Discussing what to do with Rosebud

00:10:41 - Lavender checking into the crew

00:23:06 - Cutting through the wurm, cutting it up and attempting a detect magic from Oma

00:28:38 - Trying to find the ring; not really having any luck.

00:36:22 - Finished harvesting the Worm. Followed by attempting to harvest ship parts to repair the boat.

00:42:27 - Lavendar finds various books on a ship (we are in the 529 year, and this is a diary from the year 312), Geth finds a scroll case that he picks up to check out later.

00:45:07 - Fikri talks about the year 312, *Recant they did not see this* its about when Paraty began exploring around the shimmering isles… The diary talks about trying to set off but they hit fog and just get turned around.

00:48:13 - Lavender still looking for stuff in the diary/journal, looking for coordinates. Charter from Paraty to explore some of the shimmering isles. They hear about a special island (a couple coordinates) and they narrow down from a range to a more specific location.

00:54:40 - Bringing the wood back and Rosebud fabricates all of the wood to make it work well with the boat repairs.

01:03:59 - Adventuring into the jungle, we have prepped AID on Fikri, Misfar, and Jewel. Mage armor on Geth.

01:07:00 - Jungle wilderness - almost no sound, but we eventually hear ruffling of shrubs in the distance

01:15:08 - We fail the group stealth check near the GIANT APES. Lavender knocks a bunch of coconuts onto OMA and the other groups, there is a cacophony of coconut noises

01:21:17 - Initiative roll all around.

01:26:53 - Break

01:43:33 - Resuming, Jewel Eldritch Blasting it.

01:53:08 - ??

2:00:14 - 8 hit (1 was crit)

02:03:25 - Lavender turn

02:06:16 - Rosebud turn

02:08:14 - Combat with the APE, Geth gets hit with a boulder.

02:13:32 - Jewel - Hexing the giant ape and hitting with claws

02:20:08 - Oma trying to get near Geth

02:24:10 - Lavender Turn

02:29:58 - Lavender doing some dope monk shit to get into flanking

02:33:55 - Jungle fight is over -

02:37:11 - Finding coconuts

02:43:47 - Collecting all coconuts

02:47:50 - Large vultures and large hornets off in the distance further from our location.

02:52:38 - Looking over the book with Lavender and Geth, checking out the Diary.

02:56:13 - Talking about the owners of the Diary and the ship names. They found a unfinished map with a rough outline of what we imagine the island might be itself.

03:00:06 - The final journal entry.

03:02:25 - Coconut warriors were made by Rosebud & given to Geth, nesting so that 10 x turn into 2x very sharp and

03:08:52 - Discussing the books we found on the ship. Ships ledger, can see there was trade goods originally but changed to a exploration vessel.

03:13:25 - Ending the session
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3h 17min
June 11, 2022Episode 42
00:01:20 - Rosebud bhamphs Tulip back.

00:04:00 - Giant sand worms revealed by Oma

00:08:14 - Discussing sand worm tactics

00:15:04 - Oma throws the metal, Geth begins to knock on the metal & Rosebud casts heat metal on the object.

00:23:11 - Finished discussing worm tactics

00:30:10 - Ballista sneak attack

00:35:55 - Jewel hit the creature with a ballista shot, Rosebud continues to fire everything and we keep doing more damage

00:41:45 - Repeat the tactics; does not quite work out

00:49:32 - The shake and rumble occurs and the worm bursts out of the sand. We all attempt a dex save

00:59:07 - Finished discussing NPC and ship actions

01:05:21 - ???- recheck

01:11:18 - Geths fights the worm, binds it.

01:18:20 - NPC turn

01:22:26 - Worm is going towards Jewel

01:31:54 - Nameem is saved by Oma using some paladin lay on hands

01:34:10 - Rosebud making it closer to the edge

01:38:53 - Jewel attempts to make the creature follow her, then tries to

01:43:25 - Lavender attempts and succeeds in getting Osmar up with a healing word, then goes over and

01:47:48 - Tasha's mind whip finishes it off with Geth. - it finishes it.

01:50:48 - Worm battle comes to an end
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1h 54min
June 05, 2022 Episode 41
00:04:08 - Fikri the librarian discussing that the isle of the giants might be The island of Uurasalym
00:06:59 - Lavender makes friends with Nameen as well as the other sea elves.
00:09:25 - Lavender attempts to help Nameen in a way with teaching the way of the astral arms monk skills
00:12:16 - Find familiar component roll(7 higher level and 7 lower level component!!)
00:20:58 - Discussing about Rosebud / Tulip getting a spy session on our 'forced crew'
00:25:02 - Jewel talking to various people via SENDING
00:29:04 - Oma and Geth discussing between each other - her Order (The Watchers) get involved whenever it is needed, mission,
00:37:01 - Talking about the sea elves, then finishing up our 'down time' activities.
00:39:25 - Rolling for weather and rolling for survival.
00:49:04 - Talking about metal / crafting / for Rosebud
00:56:53 - Mass rat Exodus
01:14:34 - Finished shopping, heading into the weather
01:16:25 - Break in session
01:34:54 - Loosely joining to resume session, Wez is back!
01:41:34 - Push on the final leg of our journey - Describing the island of Uurasalym
01:47:28 - Fog rolls in, we all make saving throws. Everyone falls unconscious except for Oma, who tries to rouse us all from our magical sleep
01:51:00 - Lesser Restoration does not work
01:55:09 - Failing Dex check to make the sails work, but seems to get some luck and gets another attempt to fix the sails.
02:00:45 - Oma patches the hole in the ship and rushes to the top again, there is another shutter and
02:05:50 - Everyone wakes up - disoriented. We have hit some kind of black sand wall in the middle of the ocean.
02:10:04 - Lavender is looking for other people that might have fallen into the water.
02:13:43 - Nameen is discovered and gets raised by Lavender; all of us are accounted for. Rosebud gets SMACKED by Oma to wake up.
02:18:21 - Geth slaps the rest of our crew with a good slap. We discuss what happened, the pink fog is gone, there is about 100 feet of
02:25:06 - Discussing what to do, patch the boat, investigate the beach (which rosebud is excited about)
02:34:45 - Geth asking Fikir about the lore behind the island of Uurasalym
02:40:01 - Heading off the side of the bridge
02:44:42 - Datu gets eaten by a sand worm.
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2h 50min
May 28, 2022 Episode 40
00:03:52 - Short rest
00:07:12 - Identify the jugs in the underground obelisk , they are alchemy jugs
00:13:56 - The Aboleth creatures were capable of long term tasks but not goals.
00:20:49 - Rosebud discovers a backpack
00:29:53 - Leaving the area and going to whale oma
00:36:13 - Whale smashing obelisk - explosions and destruction
00:51:46 - Leaving the salt mines
00:55:39 - Discussing the information with the lorekeeper
00:59:46 - Discussing the sister and brother monarchs looking to investigate how far the Aboleth did for damage
01:05:47 - Going to the palace again and explaining WTH we did to help with the current adventure we have
01:14:09 - Finishing conversation with lorekeeper about elves and librarys between oma and Rosebud
01:21:28 - Discussing with the sister queen and brother king to get rewards and a official seal and a bunch of other junk!
01:29:07 - Leaving to the boat.
01:36:14 - Taking a quick break
01:55:26 - resuming the game - Jewel is having a dream
02:01:55 - The dream has a massive creature - focusing on Jewel
02:06:14 - Jewel awakens from a dream and has the whole party of concern
02:11:53 - Oma goes on deck to come back for making tea, but throws up on the journey. Rosebud and Oma discuss what happened to Jewel in her dream.
02:16:30 - Offering some Valerian - herb mimics catnip.. Rosebud is looking to commune with their god Myria
02:22:02 - Discussing Commune questions
02:31:44 - Rosebud casting commune to ask Myria some questions about jewel and our quest
02:38:10 - Commune ends, we discuss the outcome of the questions.
02:49:45 - Rosebud finishing the sculptures and attempting to resummon Tulip, also the lorekeeper Fikri comes to the ship to communicate
02:57:08 - Fikri - asking to join our party in our adventure to the isle of giants.
03:06:11 - Discussing the research party staying on the boat
03:12:10 - Finished session.
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3h 14min
April 30, 2022Episode 39
00:03:39 - Began session, monologue.

00:07:20 - midway through Lavenders turn

00:08:18 - Rosebuds turn

00:10:43 - Whale-Uman - Psycic damage

00:19:05 - Almost failed whale concentration check

00:23:14 - Whale Geth - now ensorcelled.

00:28:17 - Oma - Watchers Will

00:32:57 - Discussing retcon

00:35:58 - Retcon - Geth is not a whale any more, he failed the save,

00:38:34 - Jewel freaking out and lashing out, taking out

00:45:01 - Lavender gets hit, then layer actions occur. Oma

00:49:02 - ??

00:50:57 - ??

00:53:26 - Geths turn - Magic Missile + BINDING spell.

01:01:37 - Red scum no longer restrained

01:04:21 - Oma turn - SMITE, then CON save.

01:08:37 - Fate token - Paladin - but actually PALADIN DISEASE RESIST - Then Tail smack to Oma

01:13:00 - Oma taking another tail after Jewel gave a few smacks

01:19:03 - Lavender makes a barely able save for intelligence.

01:20:09 - lavender smacking down but the thing is still standing.

01:23:09 - ??

01:29:53 - Polymorph Oma

01:33:27 - Rosebud getting a smack down - saves concentration check

01:36:04 - Rosebud gets diseased and attacks

01:39:00 - -14-18=-32 damage to Lavender. Whale Oma gives a few smacks to the Aboleth.

01:43:08 - Jewel is giving a few pot shots but Revives Rosebud! Then rosebud gets tail smacked again.

01:46:43 - Ten Minute Break

02:00:40 - Back from break

02:03:34 - Geth gets hit by

02:27:31 - Lavender takes out blue dude.

02:12:52 - Rosebud is up, but vomiting for 1 round. Jewel has 3 rounds.

02:17:06 - Geth attempts to save Rosebud and

02:25:04 - Whale Oma gets hit - Enslave attempted. Failed due to fate token.

02:25:55 - Accidental click

02:29:14 - Whale Oma- EATS THE ABOLETH then tail smacka on the unbound

02:34:05 - Jewel attempts to get in close but is still vomits

02:40:04 - Discussing the layer actions or lack thereof due to line of sight… Also Lavender goes

02:45:08 - Rosebuds turn -

02:48:27 - ???

02:52:40 - Rosebud getting hit.

02:57:26 - Whale Oma is wiping the board with eating them all. Jewel is still super sick.

03:02:16 - ??

03:06:26 - Layer Action -

03:12:21 - Lavender turn finish - Geth turns

03:15:46 - Enemy creature turn.

03:19:48 - Discussing Aboleth's turn

03:28:37 - Whale is no longer a whale.

03:30:45 - Oma coming out - SMACKDOWN on the Aboleth - FINISH IT

03:33:56 - Lavender turn

03:39:08 - Magic missile finished turn by Geth

03:41:51 - Finished combat, Rosebud is alive.

03:44:21 - The smell of smoked meats fills the air

03:47:21 - Discussing between the party

03:52:17 - Discussing more from Rosebud, Geth, and Oma.

03:56:40 - Oma disclosing more planar details of her boon and curses for her paladin order. Discussing how they will be completely removed from all planes of exitance.

04:01:52 - Discussing further. Planes, angels, demons, it creates absence.

04:08:20 - Why are you still travelling with us? - Apprenticeship.

04:11:21 - Talking about our next plans.

04:15:12 - Finished the session.
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4h 17min
April 24, 2022 Episode 38
1. 00:01:23 - Exposition
2. 00:04:12 - Restore balance - Jewel is trying to talk her way out of this situation with the king and queen.
3. 00:08:16 - Geth and Jewel continues to discuss the situation with jewel.
4. 00:11:12 - Looking at us nervously, sister and brother queen has too much
5. 00:13:48 - Oma attempted to convince the king and queen
6. 00:15:42 - ??
7. 00:20:15 - Wez rejoined us.
8. 00:26:49 - Excusing ourselves, asking for an escort to the boat & back.
9. 00:31:53 - Rolling persuasion to try to convince Lorekeeper Fikri al-Ishak
10. 00:37:35 - Retrieving our crewmates, setting off our
11. 00:42:05 - Short rest - retrieve Mantra and Osmar, going to the
12. 00:48:27 - Jewel is grumbling about
13. 00:51:16 - ??
14. 00:54:45 - Tainted helmet - tossed overboard
15. 00:56:37 - Answering a god religion roll for Oma;
16. 00:59:24 - Answering in the form of a jeopardy question -
Quick break.
17. 01:22:53 - Returning to the game
18. 01:30:04 - Discussing what our plans are for the Aboleth battle
19. 01:40:18 - Prepping in the cave entry.
20. 01:45:23 - Traversing the salt-heavy mines. Stealth attempted throughout the tunnels. There are some slimes /scum in the tunnels as well.
21. 01:51:44 - Mucus on the bottom, avoiding
22. 01:57:21 - Breathing in the water, ingesting it, begin to feel a little queasy. We sneak into the lair as best we can.
23. 02:06:50 - Combat ensues. There is an intangible creature - it is an illusion.
24. 02:16:14 - Searching for the Aboleth - unable to easily locate this creature.
25. 02:24:31 - Continuing to pursue the presence of the Aboleth
26. 02:28:42 - Oma manages to push past
27. 02:32:33 - Lavender strikes out and there is a puff of movement. Geth
28. 02:38:58 - Aboleth attacks Geth, who teleports.
29. 02:43:41 - Oma attacks the Aboleth, for which the bubble pops but it is not a real Aboleth
30. 02:47:43 - Jewel attacks one of the water creatures and almost appears to take it down.
31. 02:51:05 - The Aboleth attacks jewel with some kind of mental energy, Rosebud attacks the water elemental to give
32. 03:01:42 - Whale polymorph for Geth - unable to locate the Aboleth.
33. 03:14:04 - Jewel finishes attempting to slash greatly at the water elemental, but it stays up. Some of the
03:19:45 - Aboleth has been attacking from above, coming through as though it was attacking and trying to stay out of the
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3h 24min
April 09, 2022Episode 37
00:06:42 - Deann is under attack and went down

00:16:08 - General combat, hit Lavender, Geth,

00:19:55 - Geth's turn

00:28:43 - ??? Cannot recall ???

00:45:45 - Nobles turns trying to flee

00:48:13 - Oma death saving throw, followed by the enemy team.

00:59:30 - Jewel damaged but does not save. - one of our allies dies as well.

01:04:08 - Rosebud heals Oma,

01:08:57 - Guards turn. Takes out one of the enemies and

01:17:43 - Jewel

01:23:08 - Lavender finishes a few people off.

01:32:47 - Rosebud under attack

01:37:09 - Geth hands rosebud the diamond

01:45:41 - Jewel attacks Rosebud, followed by Oma

01:59:25 - Break time - 10 minutes

02:16:34 - Back, Oma goes over and pumps 20 hp into

02:20:45 - Enemy attempting to take out Rosebud

02:22:05 - Craig's recording stopped, restarted, and spliced the voices recordings together.

02:25:20 - Enemy is attempting to take out Oma, 2 x death saves.

02:30:45 - Cannot recall????

02:36:20 - Geth attempts to

02:40:00 - Jewel snaps out of it.

02:44:00 - Jewel takes

02:50:00 - Lavender raises Oma and attempts to take down the

02:52:00 - cannot recall???

02:54:45 - Oma finishes off the current

02:56:30 - Rosebud raises the brother kind and sister queen

02:59:24 - Finishing the game, discussing the aftermath.
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3h 2min

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