Liveblogging Dungeon Masters campaign 2, episode 6 - Duke of the Dunes!
Having so much preshow fun in the chat. I love the live chat.
Oh my god sickly baby spirit dragon wyrmling from Evermeet. Cadmus, you're now a father. They're from places like Myth Drannor and Netheril, too.
Misfit the spirit dragon wyrmling!
Sailor: "Look at that little misfit…"
Cadmus "That's its name. Misfit."
Cadmus: "Hi Mom, nearly died, Misfits saved me, found a dragon, I understand you more than ever. Love you guys. Sailor says hi."
Cadmus' Mum: "Like attracts like. I raised a dragon."
@wingsy-keeper-of-songs has the amazing suggestion that maybe she's being literal, and Cadmus is actually a Draconic Sorcerer? He does have a lot of Fire-based spells, and the very first spell we see him cast? Alter Self.
Li'l P and Sailor are so fun together <3
Cadmus: "How do you guys know each other?"
Rabia: "We've lain with each other, if you must know."
Neil: "As I'm taking some water, I just *SPITTAKE*"
Sailor is not having this lover's tiff between Sapphira and Rabia.
Rabia is infodumping. The Phaerimm made the Anauroch, attracted by the giant catastrophic magic nuclear accident that was the Fall of Netheril. The barrier is there to stop them from eating all of Faerun.
Sapphira was abandoned as a baby by her parents. I'm her parents now.
Jasmine/Rabia: "She takes all of your money, counts it out slowly, puts it in her bag. 'You know, if you do end up saving the world, and you don't die in the process, you can't be mad if I come looking for you. You'd be a very easy target to rob, I think.'"
Sapphira: "I would be disappointed if you didn't."
Jasmine/Rabia: "And it's almost as if it hurts her to say it: 'Hope you don't die out there.'"
Mayanna: *smiles*
Rabia: "…But also if you do it'll be your own fault because you're completely incompetent and an idiot."
Sailor: "You know, I don't know what's going on between y'all, but that lady is too big for her britches and then some."
Sapphira: "She's a survivor, and I think that does something to you out here."
Sailor: "Maybe. You might wanna cast one of them spells over your heart for a while."
Thank you, Joseph, your understanding of the situation is… very interesting :')
Joseph. Are you still naked.
Li'l P: "I actually can't read."
Jasmine: *LOUD SILENCE*
Sailor: "…All this time you've been pretending you can read."
Li'l P: "I haven't been pretending :)"
Reduced Li'l P in Joseph's lap :')
Joseph: "THE FLUMPH!"
Li'l P: "…The what?"
Joseph: "Your future!"
Li'l P: "…blank face."
Joseph: "…The blank mind is a pure canvas :')"
Sapphira: "I'm sure they say that in your order :')"
Li'l P to Joseph: "- and you seem like a powerful……….. wizard?"
Cadmus: "You came back and helped me, we're friends."
Joseph: "…Oh. I don't think I've ever had one of those."
Li'l P: "I'd like to climb on your back and give you a hug."
Mayanna: "The way she hugs is so stressful."
Li'l P has a +3 to INT and she is refusing to use it. Love that for her.
Sailor and Li'l P specifically asked for Sapphira to be reassigned to a different team?? Sapphira is distraught, Li'l P is lying badly and obviously, but gets sincere and says she maybe thought Sapphira wasn't a good match but she really likes her now! She's really powerful! Also it was Sailor's decision!
Given that Sailor has been in Ninth Quill for so long, and fairly prominently given how friendly he is with Cadmus' mother, I wonder if Sailor knew Sapphira's reputation and faltering magic, and wanted to keep her out of the Anauroch to protect her? He knows how dangerous it is out there, more than any of the others, and he doesn't want to lose anyone else.
Sailor's Windskiff is completely destroyed ;_; It's been his since he was a kid.
Full scene because Neil and his teary eyes ripped my heart out again:
Cadmus: "Who's this belong to?"
Sailor: "S'one of my siblings. But, uh… well, she and me used to kick up the dust somethin' rotten across the sand dunes. And you kinda remind me a li'l bit of her, so, uh - I thought, y'know, you've been away from your Mom and that, well, just thought it might bring you some luck, y'know?"
Gnarly: "…I don't feel like that was yours to give away."
Cadmus: *wordlessly offers the wristband to Gnarly*
Jasmine/Gnarly: "She takes it from you. 'I think she's kinda tired about with everyone talkin' about her like she's dead.'"
Sailor: "You know I'm kinda tired about not being able to make amends for what - what I've done. You don't think I've tried? You know how long I've been out here?"
Gnarly: "That's not how you make amends. You don't make amends by runnin'. You make amends by staying and looking at what you've done. Hell, you're still runnin'!"
Sailor: "I like to think of it as exile. Right? The black sheep of the family? Well, that's me!"
Gnarly: "You know I never felt that way about you."
Sailor: "Didn't you? 'Cause, you know… just got to feelin' after that that maybe… maybe it's safer for people not to be around me so much."
Jasmine/Gnarly: "Gnarly looks at the shattered remains, picks the sail from it, the only salvageable part, and as you walk away, she just said, 'So I'm just supposed to stick around and fix your mess again? Is that my job now?'"
Neil: "Sailor kicks a rock and almost stumbles a little bit, stops, and just carries on walking."
Gnarly/Jasmine: "'Some things that are broken - well, maybe they should just stay broken.' And she angrily takes the sail and flies up."
Betsy is back in working order. Gnarly and the Windskiff are gone.
Me in chat: "Can we crowdfund to give Sailor a hug?"
Cadmus, like twenty seconds later: *gives Sailor a hug*
Cadmus: "When we're done, if we survive all this… can I spend some time out here with you, learning how to surf the sand?"
Sailor: "Hell yeah."
Cadmus: "I'd love to… weave the wind?"
Sailor, softening: "Weave upon the wind."
Hey, that 1 HP from Mending might just help!
Cadmus, handing a bottle to Li'l P: "This is really good rum - *whispers* I stole it from my Dad."
Rabia left a gift for Sapphira - a magic dagger that compels the target to name itself.
Jasmine, rolling for side effects: "Oh… wow, that's kinky."
For every hit, it gives her a harmless flash of pain, and now she's thinking more like Rabia / hearing her thoughts. Wow :')
Cadmus made a flag!! "MISFITS - and Young Joseph." Young Joseph has a sad. "Young Joseph is not cool, is not hip…"
Sailor is being a consent king, and Joseph is now a Misfit <3
Off into a fallen city of Netheril aboard the repaired Betsy!
Four-day journey onboard a smallish ship together, huh?
Man I hate it when gravity randomly reverses.
Dang, Sailor and Li'l P take thirty points of Psychic damage from a magic storm. On the other hand, they now all have telepathy?
Pink sparkle moss! Li'l P and Sapphira take Radiant damage and are blinded. Glitter moss!
Cadmus: "I shoot out a Fireball to dissipate it."
Neil: "Firebolt or ball?"
Christian, laughing: "Firebolt."
Neil: "Just so we're all clear!"
Christian: "I shoot a Fireball and we all die."
Oh god figure cloaked in red who's been following them the whole time… and episode end!
