Liveblogging Dungeon Masters! Innsmouth Interlude, episode 2!
Solus is now a paper jellyfish :') Poor li'l Solus. He is not digging it, and Crem tries to reassure him.
Neil: "Crem is a good friend and a terrible partner. Really, friendzoned for life is the best way for him."
Jasmine: "Aww, Crem!"
Dev: "Wait, you're trying to hit on Solus? o.O"
Neil: "No, just trying to boost his confidence!"
Mayanna: "He's like, tapped into that but he's not -"
Christian: "He's in the Cremzone."
Crem: "Oh yes, they call it the Cremzone. I'll always have your back, but I'm a disaster on a date :')"
Love Neil using his glasses as a prop pipe.
Poor Eloin is not dealing well!
Eloin: "I saw an eye. It was beautiful. I was beautiful."
Crem: "I saw an eye too. Beautiful is not the adjective I would use."
Strangely-sheened, oddly-dimensioned metal monoliths with perfect geometric forms at the top are a great omen :') Columnar basalt but make it eldritch.
Oh boy, Eloin rolls a 25 on his deception roll to try to get to the stars to, uh, feast.
Oh wow, the monoliths are made of bismuth. …Yeah, bismuth looks pretty eldritch.
Eloin, you keep those eyes in your sockets, young-old man! …That pop sound effect was diabolical.
Dev: "I don't want to kill him, but sometimes you've got to!"
Neil: "Relationship advice by Devora Wilde!"
Dev, after everyone has taken damage with her Thunderwave on Eloin and the monoliths: "I'm doing pretty well :)"
Jasmine, as Wes heals Eloin's eye: "Strahd bless first responders, man."
Crem: "This group is mad as a box of frogs! What's wrong with all of you?" GOOD QUESTION.
NPC eating raw shrimp. Do not eat the raw shrimp. (Unless you're Joe Baker, I guess?)
We get a sea shanty from Neil! <3 He earns a Heroic Inspiration! Chat promptly explodes with delight.
Dev, on a picture of an Aboleth: "He looks pretty friendly to me :)"
Zora being recognised on-sight as a priestess sounds. Like a danger.
Crem, surrounded by books: "I just got a mental semi."
Table: *cackles*
Dev: "That's going in the book."
Neil, hastily: "I don't say that out loud!!"
When the chat gets distracted by cross-title ships and I become an ✨ influence ✨ for one of the polls:
Dev finally gets an inspiration point!
Whoa, big-ass Cthulhu painting on the wall!
Zora confers with Wes as the only trustworthy one at the moment. Man, the alliances that rise and fall at this table…
Tarokka time! These cards are so cool. Jasmine draws the Horseman for the focus of their journey - death, the end, destruction, defeat, loss. Mayanna gets the Missionary for their past - hubris, confidence, and self-assuredness that leads you to the horseman if you don't shed those traits. Neil draws the Torturer for the one who aids them - they need to experience pain. For the future, Christian draws the Traitor. One of them will betray the others. As for what stands in their way, Dev draws the Darklord. Dagon opposes them. Who's Dagon? I assume Dagon is significant. Well that sounds horrifying!
Aaand cliffhanger for a short li'l episode!
Anyway, my wild theory for this interlude: Solus is a raven who now takes the form of a jellyfish. Crem is a newly-turned wereraven linked to Solus specifically. Cthulhu is defeated/temporarily appeased via Crem turning into a werejellyfish. Let Neil play an eldritch abomination.
