#so we gotta weekend at bernie's this last chit chat and act like everything's super fine haha yeah

[uselessgaywhovian]

Today on D&D: We broke the seal

first party death, what up!

so we’re trying to get this alliance with some lizardfolk, right?

we’re doin’ some errands and things, we killed a massive gator that was causing them problems, we brought back the massive gator carcass which was apparently good food, our fighter faced off against the lizard queen’s champion and beat him, everything’s going well, we’re making friends and influencing people.

Then we go to the hatchling room, and meet a female lizardfolk whose baby’s not doin’ great. I do well on the medicine check and know that there’s a medicinal flower that will help, and that grows in marshes. The lizardfolk tell us that those do grow around these ruins, but they can’t go there because there’s a terrible monster.

and we’re like “Okay, sure, fine, we just killed a giant gator yesterday, terrible monsters are our jam.” So we go on this fetch quest.

Guess what the terrible monster was.

it was a young black dragon with a drake.

So we’re like “oh fuck, we need to grab these flowers and fuckin’ run” but the fucking dragon gets a multi-attack on our npc ally/translator who we won’t be able to finish this quest easily without and almost fuckin’ kills him. I rush in to heal him so he doesn’t fuckin’ die on us, and then both of us get hit with the dragon’s acid breath, we fail our saves, it knocks us out in one hit.

i failed a death save and all i could think about was that i was gonna fuckin’ die and nobody ever knew i was a pirate the whole time.

but our sorcerer healed us, so we weren’t dying anymore, but then fired off an attack at the dragon. so once it got its breath attack back, it hit him with it. and he failed his save, and took the full damage. which insta-killed him.

we did manage to kill the dragon and the drake, but we’re level 4 and don’t have revivify, so the best i could do was slap him with a gentle repose and hope one of the lizardfolk shamans can help when we get back next session

shit got BUCKWILD.

anyway, can’t wait to see how this shakes out in the RP next week, ‘cause our monk got pretty dramatic about his near-death experience when he got knocked out one time, and now the character that he actually has some backstory connection to for realsies died so i’m sure he’ll be turnin’ on the broodiness.

i’ll need to feel out how Yara’s doin’ now, since she’s now had a new friend die. one of her biggest fears is having friends die, since she’s still not sure if any of her old crew were still in that slave galley when Umberlee wrecked the ship to free Yara. But also like... part out of not knowing for sure if she killed them, part out of not being able to talk about her past with anyone, she hasn’t really grieved for her friends. So she really doesn’t know how to grieve now. Like, as soon as the fight was over she slapped that gentle repose on him and immediately looted the dragon’s treasure and started harvesting parts from its body for trade because paying someone to revive the dead is gonna be fuckin’ expensive. it’ll be interesting to see if Yara’s natural businesslike response to this ends up rubbing anyone in the party wrong.

oh, also on the way to the ruins where all this happened, we saw out on the ocean a naval battle. the ship that won headed toward Saltmarsh of Seaton, i forget which, but that’ll be a fun thing to deal with when we’re done here.