Episode 138

This is Episode 138 of Dice, Camera, Action.

Summary

Episode 138 - The Scarlet Marpenoth

The Party

(Holly) Strix - Tiefling Sorcerer

(Anna) Evelyn - Human Paladin of Lathander

The adventurers had tracked the kids to a submarine owned by Jarlaxle. Strix and Diath freed the kids from their bonds. They came upon a central area where gnomes and drow were lurking. Strix declared that she and her allies were pirates.

Nice Pirates

The gnomes look genuinely scared. Paultin is in the hallway near where Strix is. An automaton wielding a rapier approaches him in a threatening manner. He convinces the nimblewright to leave him be.

Evelyn comes in to the bridge area and tells the gnomes and drow that she is commandeering this vessel. The submarine decouples from the ship above it. Water starts to pour in. The heroes realize that the nimblewright left the hatch open.

Paultin is in a hallway that is filling with water. He wants to cast animate object to shut the hatch. The hatch is unable to close because of the force of the water. Paultin joins the group at the bridge and spots a dragon in the water outside the vessel.

Evelyn tries to recruit the nimblewright to help her get the hatch closed. It stabs her for 15 points of damage. She runs over an tries to shut the hatch. Anna rolls a 23 on her Strength check, but it's not enough.

A drow wizard tries to cast a spell, but Strix tries to counterspell it. The counterspell fails and the drow fills the bridge with a cloudkill spell. Diath and Paultin fail their saving throw and are choking on the poison gas. The gnomes die and float in the water. As a gnome dies, it pulls a lever and the vessel start to go down.

Strix ends up pushing buttons on a console. An alarm goes off throughout the vessel. A drow rushes Diath and stabs him for 5 points of damage. Another drow stabs Strix for 6 points.

The Flood

Elsewhere, Squiddly spots a diving suit. It is airtight. He whispers to the other kids, "OK. We're going to pile into that suit." Jenks is in the torso area, Simon and Nat are in the legs. Squiddly gets on Jenks.

Evelyn tries again to shut the hatch, but the water coming through is too strong.

Diath tells a drow that everyone is going to drown. It says, "Not me."

A drow casts lightning bolt on Diath and Strix. Strix counterspells it.

A gnome voice speaks through an intercom, "I can't help but notice that we're going down!" The gnome tells Strix how to make the vessel ascend.

Strix casts passwall underneath the feet of the drow wizard, hoping to dump it into a hole and then turn off the spell. The drow leaps out to the way as it forms. Water erupts through the hole and begins to fill the area.

The vehicle hits something and tilts.

Diath spots two drow who were charmed by Paultin. They are trying to activate a bilge system to flush out the water. The kids, in the diving suit, slide into the room where the adventurers are and sink to the bottom window. Squiddly spots a shimmering reptilian dragon swimming around in the briny depths. He also spots a shipwreck which the submarine might have just collided with.

Evelyn continues to try to shut the hatch, but is unable to make it happen. She begins to cry in frustration.

Jarlaxle is on the aft section of his ship, looking at bubbles in the water. He tells his crew, "I think I may have underestimated them."

A drow casts darkness, but Paultin counterspells it.

Strix tries to dispel her passwall and fails. The water rises and merges with her tears. Her hat starts to float away. She swims after it.

The drow pull a lever and are able to steer the submarine in a safe direction.

The kids, in the diving suit, try to swim up. Paultin casts animate object on the diving suit. The suit is able to swim up and rejoin the group.

Evelyn Is Drowning

Out in the hall, the nimblewright stabs Evelyn two more times and drops her. Her body washes into the main room where the other heroes are. Her heavy armor sinks her right to the bottom. She makes her death save. She makes it, but also takes an automatic failure because she is drowning.

End of Session.