Queenie

Queenie is going to turn towards number one, and cast her Hunter's Mark on it, because it should be 60 feet away, based on the web.

Okay, so I would have had to have been 60 feet from that spot.

And so I will use my bonus action to Queenie Hunter's Market with my honeypot. Shit. And then I am going to. Oh, actually, you can be here. And then I'm going to use my fey bolts as my action. and I rolled two, so I have two fey bolts to use.

Yeah, so I get to attack with that. Sorry, it's been a while.

I get two of these now, yeah.

19 to hit.

Two 19s to hit.

So, it does... 15 points of damage.

And it's my turn?

There's nothing left though, right?

I am unaware of whether there's anything else that's going to happen, so I am going to give the help action to Barnabas.

I'm going to look at them attaching themselves to the front of the ice sled. reach back into my honeypot and fling more webs at them. It's a 20 by 20 foot cube, so it should be able to get all three of them. And I'm going to turn to Taishan and go, light them up, buddy.

And that will be my turn.

They need to make dexterity saving throws to see if they're restrained or not.

Nope.

Yeah, that hits.

They're restrained.

Yeah, he's still in web. Let me read it, just to make sure.

I'm going to cast. It's just not restrained, so it doesn't have to make a save to walk out of it.

Yeah, they're each going to take 44.

Six is going to take nine points of fire damage.

Yeah, unless you want me to roll for all of them together.

Seven for number... Four? Sure.

Ten for five.

You sound like, what's his face from the TV show?

I'm going to rush to the, seeing what Scrim pointed out, Queenie's going to rush to the what's it and use her action to ramp us up a notch.

Yeah, I don't have anything I can do with my bonus action, though, unfortunately.

Which one twist?

Ha ha ha!

I don't think I can get to tell you Shen anymore. Hey. So. Yeah, you can. You have a rabbit hop.

No, that's okay. I'll use my action to do it. I used my action last time. I'll do it again.

I think everybody but Scrim is tied to it.

I think Queenie would notice that Scrim seems to be lost in his own thoughts and she wouldn't want to intrude. Yorneir has a task at hand. And so she would venture out a little bit further, knowing that sometimes beasts will wander and get lost. And that with how cold it is, if something died out here, it should still be salvageable.

Do you have any way of... Does the troll look like it weighs more or less than your near?

How, like, roughly how much? Less than 500 pounds?

I realize I can carry up to 500 pounds.

And so she would just use her ranger senses and the help of her bees to... see if she could find anything at all.

Okay.

So then... Oh, this is really difficult, because if we just leave Tyshen down there, there's no way he survives this.

If it barely makes it, it's going to decapitate him.

Do Titian and the troll look like they weigh more than 500 pounds combined?

Okay, I will use my bees to pick up Tyshen and hold him aloft in the air, bring him back to the boat. That would be my action to do that.

Well, he's not going to be on the surface. He's basically going to be just above it to keep his weight off of the boat. I'm also going to use my bonus action for my bees to lift me 10 feet off of the boat, and I'm hoping that having the little bit of weight off the boat will be enough to get it over the edge.

I believe my bees have a carrying capacity. Yeah, Gathered Swarm.

Yeah, it's a big bee's hand.

They could grab our wolf for sure. I don't know where it is on here, though. But if you believe that they could carry the wolf, I would have the bees swarm around it and carry the wolf back.

How much do you think Direwolf weighs?

Just give me one moment. They might not be able to carry it until 10th level. They can carry 250 pounds right now at 5th level.

Oh, my God, yeah, their punches are, like, the hardest.

Welcome to Legends of Avantris. I'm Queenie, and you're listening to Icebound. Here's what happened last time.

Yeah, same to you.

yours i think we could keep fresh for fresh fish and stew and things um with this i figured if y'all wouldn't mind helping we can tear it apart we can take the bones and use those to boil down for a nice stock for that fish make a stew all kinds of other things um the meat i was thinking we could

It was flash frozen, so if we could find some kind of way, maybe we create out of the ice itself some way to dry out this meat, we could make some jerky that'll last us a while. Save a little bit for the stew, too.

If it makes you feel better, I have two platinum pieces on me, and they're yours if you want them. No, no. No, I'll carry them, but I'm saying let me get out of here.

I don't know. He's got a point though. If there's a major city here, well, whatever this place could call a major city. If there are people, we just met someone that had teleportation magics. If we meet powerful magic users that can do stuff like that, have the way to get in and out of your car easily, things that we don't have. They might use currency.

The dragon. Yep, that's true. And if we come into contact with her again and we don't have any gold or any... powerful magical items to give her, she might not take as much favor in us as she did the last time.

I was going to say, that is not the reason you dumped those coins, though, Scrim.

Why are you bending over? No, you're out of your mind! Stand up!

Yeah, I'll be all right.

Two candles?

Why wait 16 hours for one day?

Sure.

You want me to go in there and do it inside?

You should probably go inside a little bit.

Well, it's right here in my character sheet.

Which is my favorite terrain.

I would, as I reach the entrance, I would... get down to the ground and place my ears upon the snow and look around. You see the ears kind of like darting this way and that, almost like a little antenna just trying to pick up sounds and things. The bees are making little cones to amplify my hearing.

as I use primeval awareness to see if I can sense any aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, phase fiends, or undead present within six miles.

Okay. All right, check number one, done. You ready to go inside the darkness?

What happens if you choose to perceive if you don't have dark vision? Sure. You can't get worse than disadvantage.

Well, no, I know you can't see, but perception can be hearing.

any life in this place at any point, trying to kind of suss out what it would be.

I'll do survival. Do you want me to be disadvantaged because I'm blind?

26.

Oh, wow.

All right, Scrim, if you want to go back and let the fellas know that it seems to be safe for now, I'll continue to look around, see if I see anything, and wait for you here. Are you afraid of walking out there by yourself?

Yeah, that's more than enough time for something to sneak in.

Yeah, you didn't really need to be here for this. But would you rather hang out with me or have Yornir telling you you're not worth anything?

Oh, well, I think he's all right. Yeah, I mean, he's okay.

He can be a bit like... We could be thriving. We could be 30 flirty and thriving. That's right. Yeah.

Is that rude to ask a guy?

Were you ever a baby or Goblin's baby? Yeah, I mean, there were hundreds of us. I don't know why. I just kind of imagined you popping into existence exactly as you are right now.

I am.

So did we do the right thing or the wrong thing? Was that supposed to happen? Did that already happen? Is that gonna happen again?

I think we're good, and you know, my shouting didn't draw anything in. There are... Aberrations, Celestials, Dragons, Elementals, Fae, Fiends, and Indead present somewhere within six miles of us, but not in this tunnel within six miles. All right. At mile marker seven, though, there could be a door, a mundane door, with a mundane lock.

Think about all the things that you've said to Scrim. You said that he's worthless, that he can't, he's never going to accomplish anything.

You say this in your sleep.

I'm not helping.

Scrim and I already did the work by coming in here by ourselves.

No, I'm kidding.

Every single bee has a little drink.

What is that? Mead, right? It's honey. They're all drinking some mead.

Is it like the tunnel in Charlie and the Chocolate Shop?

Queenie's standing at the back. The bees are just kind of flying against the wind. She's just kind of standing there like George Washington at the front of the boat. She's very excited. The wind in her fur.

Oh, shit, I knocked you.

Have we gone six miles yet?

Yeah, I'll use Primeval Awareness again to see if I can sense anything.

Looks good so far, Yorneir.

You just need to calm down, buddy. All right.

Yeah, that's telling you to slow down. Probably like one notch or clinker.

I don't think it's a bad idea to look around.

You would think that, but then we found that house that had all of those candles that burned for eight hours, so we might find something that they didn't pick up.

Yeah, I'm coming with you. I'm coming to help.

We got rations on us? We got anything? I know my pack's empty. Won't have that sledge anymore.

We're going to play ten candles. And is it, like, just hanging there by, like, a nail? Or, like, how is it held up?

If I remember this place correctly, there was nothing out here to hunt.

I would walk up to it and then, with my... What is it? That's not one thing that I can do.

Yeah, my bees. I can't remember what it's called.

Yeah, but I can fly, basically. Writhing Tide. I gain a flying speed of 10 feet. Oh yeah. More than enough. I can hover. So I'd like to get close to it and inspect it further.

Do one twist. 18 for Survival. That's really good.

Oh shit.

I am going to take it, if I can.

I'm not sure. Some weird green bone triangle snowflake thing. I'm going to take it to Yornir and see if he knows anything about it.

Charming?

Okay. Yeah, I mean, if you like it. It's not my decor preference. I'm much more of a farmhouse type girl. But if it's, you know... What?

Oh, no, I don't know what else to say.

You want it?

Can I ask your near about it first, and then you can have it?

Okay. Well, I love how positive you are, Scrim.

Yeah, you've been doing a great job, Captain, in that ship thing.

But who else is going to pull it but you?

We'll talk to you when we wind up. How many candles did you get?

I mean, you have a way of looking through somebody's floorboards.

I've noticed. You want to go talk to the rest of them now?

You go first. All right.

And then you hear, when I say your, you say near, your. Near. Your. Near. Your.

Scrim really likes interior design and he was feeling like it might hold up the place a little bit.

All right, well, we can get it out of here.

Do we know what kind of bones these green bones are? Is the green natural, can you tell?

I mean, you can tell they're giant bones by looking at them. Look at how big they are.

Yeah, I know, they're real big.

These are your bones?

Oh, they're giant kin bones. You should've just said that in the first place.

No, I checked for magical properties. It ain't Roman.

Yeah, we should take it.

No, it ain't from him, that's what I said.

Yeah, you like it? I'm so glad I could help you with something.

Is that something that could happen? I... Neil's really nervous.

Oh, I don't swallow eggs. I ain't no lizard.

It looks very dead, I'm assuming.

Still alive, boss.

What's the chance we're headed to a troll city?

You don't know that? We just hung out in Ogre City.

I know. Maybe we shouldn't have put this thing on the ship. Have you checked your butthole lately?

Yeah, of course there is. Daisy's got fire in her soul.

The ship didn't kill it. We're just assuming it's a bad thing. We don't know. Those ogres weren't mean. What if this troll just happened to be checking for sounds, not expecting the ship to be running, and we killed an innocent thing? We did. I didn't kill it and it sounds hungry and kind of mad.

I'd be shocked if she went back to her people. I think... I think we'll meet her again. I think she'll be different. But if anyone can do it, I think it's Daisy. And if she can, she died the way she wanted to.

I see what Yornir is thinking I'm doing, and I take the wand from my honeypot and I use web to coat, to make a layer of thick honey web between us and this troll thing. That's flammable! I know, if we need it. But it should hopefully prevent him from getting to us, and it lasts for an hour.

Well, I don't think it would be a waste of time to stay here just a little bit longer. We were rushed last time we were here, and we were afraid of that tower that's gone now. You're a fisherman. And there may be fish beneath this ice. I know ice fishing is a thing. We can find a way to cut a hole in this place. We should start this journey with something fresh to take with us.

I will cast, no I can't because it's concentration. I'd let the other one go. For more web. I need everyone to roll for initiative. I'll use First Strike as a reaction.

So we get an advantage on our side.

We can't take much, but it's at least better than what we got.

I got 13. 13.

We may not find beasts, because it's dead of winter now, but we may find fish.

Yeah, so it's a matter of whether it's already stuck to the web or not.

It would have had to have rolled a dexterity saving throw for every turn that it was clawing at the web.

So it is going to take 2d4 fire damage for every five foot of web that it is touching, which because it's large, that's two. So it'll take 4d4 fire damage.

The webs are flammable. Let's just read this together.

Any five foot cube of webs exposed to fire burns away in one round, dealing 2d4 fire damage to any creature that starts its turn in the fire.

Troll number one will immediately take 12 points of fire damage as the webs burn away.

Oh yeah, it can use its action to make a strength saving throw to get out.

No.

I mean, my AC is 17. Did I say I was raging?