Icebound Ep. 9 | Hardcore Survival D&D | Fear Overwhelming
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Death is certain! Confronted by the cursed monstrosity of these lands made manifest, can our heroes survive to see another sunrise?
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Nikkie might be twisted and relentless when it comes to her Twists if Dread in Witchlight, but Derek using them on a Death Save is absolutely brutal. I love it.
spoilers bro
" I am the fury I am the small!!!"
Best line
Skrim is so quotable.
@@KojatheNinjaWolf yes, definitely
I read that as I am the furry lmao
@@-0UTR4G3- So did i
Mace to Andy: "Bro, welcome to the ground"
I can't 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Would have loved for barnbos to wake up in the flippers of jolnir walus and thought he was in his arms of his lover until he came full to
I love how Derek relaized he was DMing to TPK the party and went "Oh I'm gonna be very gentle now"
When did that happen?
To be fair, there was an obvious way to kill it, considering one of the characters main abilities is fire and they were on a sheet of ice. They could also attempt to damage the ice its standing on. It's probably for the best he went easy, but this is on them, so they didn't all die.
I had a DM who was proud that he threw an enemy that took out our party almost instantly during the first session. The worst part is, it was just some random npc with a bounty. There was no solution, because even when the players split up and sprinted away, the random npc somehow had enough movement to catch up to all of us.
My point is, if you throw an enemy like this at players, try giving them a creative solution. Also, i wanted to vent about a horrible DM.
Around 1:35:00 I think
Pulling punches could have been avoided entirely before the encounter even started. This monster has stats equivalent to an Adult Dragon, CR15ish. Suitable for a challenging level 10 fight. Still, good on him for realizing this before it was too late. Made for an intense fight, regardless.
that death whistle Derek keeps blowing catches me off guard everytime and is creepy AF I love it so much and want one
I was on the edge of my seat this entire episode, terrified we were gonna lose barnabos and skrimm
This episode is the best example of "the dm is wining". The dm never likes to win. They love to give a chellenge for their players to over come. This is the dm realizing the dice said "this is the hill they will die on"
Yeah dms who work hard af on a world and story, Derek’s case from my understanding was at least a year, as he said pandemic. They want them to experience the story and to keep them engaged it has to be dangerous not deadly.
i think i heard he said 2 years
The stress of listening to this and worrying about these characters I love so much is more than I can remember ever having
When they jumped into the water, It reminds me of when my family played a prank on me with a small still lake that we swam in in a state park once. It was super hot that day so we all went swimming, and for one reason or another I showed up a bit later. They had already jumped in the water and told me it wasn't that cold, I was a little suspicious because of the way they were acting, but I was way too hot to care so I cannonballed in. It was absolutely freezing and for what felt like eternity, I could barely move from the shock of the SNOW MELT that it was. I eventually swam back up and after getting used to it for about a minute, I got out of the water. And only now do I realize, thank god I'm a good swimmer
The stones are so cool!! Derek looked so happy watching everyone 😊
I've been binging this campaign, I absolutely adore it and Skrimm's character gave me the inspiration to write again.
THAT SAID, HIM THINKING "the chase would finally be over" HAD ME YELLING. SKRIMM N O
They should do a Oneshot called "Nicebound" where the Seabird never died and so everything goes fine. The entire journey is over in 1 session
17:18 you die in Avantris you die in real life
36:40 Derek confuses Gricko and Skrimm
1:01:49 "I can only miss with a natural one.. and it is not a natural one"
1:22:16 "get fucked"
1:47:31 "I DID SOMETHING"
2:04:50 Mace can't figure out his class
2:35:30 "are those chessex die?"
2:46:09 Wario bbeg
3:57:09 Jornir uses Vicks vapor rub
I aas so stressed i only have a few timestamps 😅
2:28:12 "How would you like toooo..." into the clapping and then Derek saying "continue your turn"
This moment was so good too lmao
i know this is late but "I too play diddy kong racing" from mikey at 17:03 caught me off guard so badly in the middle of getting ready for combat 😭
I almost cried when I thought that barnabos almost died, I did cry when he was ok after
I like the production work that's gone into this. Well done. 👏
Thank you for the kind words! Derek did a banger job on the intro!
@@LegendsofAvantris He did a banger job on more than the intro. This is excellent, and it owes a lot to him.
I like that Andy's defense is hitting Rich. That makes me laugh so hard.
Sameee 😭😭😭
I kept playing that over and over again 💀
He does that all the time 😂, that's why they always sit him next to Richie or Mikey
Nikkie: "it's hunter mark.. It's the only thing I'm good for apparently"
Derek: "Thats right"
totally a burn
@@porkchop4401Freezer burn?
@@bluenette4696 😆
Ouch! 👀🤣
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just FYI, as a person who was born and raised in a place where these temps are common in the winter, at -35F assuming no wind, dry exposed skin will freeze in 30 minutes. but once wind hits 10MPH that drops to 10 minutes, at 20MPH it drops to 5. being wet dramatically accelerates that.
SPOILER
After the battle, Skrimm would pass out from hypothermia within about 5 minutes and would die within 10 to 15
Yeah there’s aspects to these hardcore runs I’d hate to see implimented. Like rainforest, disease and poison was be insane, if I ever play and DM or make a world I’d probably have some ancient totem places players can rest, revive, or teleport new characters. Cause I think having aspects of fear and hunger would be fun but you’d die so much that yeah there needs to be something as the campaign would be you better with knowledge and knowledge is gained through experimenting which easily or likely leads to death.
SPOILER
Well, Skrimm had recently gotten Cold Protection as a weird side effect of being re-alived (along with needing three times as much food to keep from starving), so he'd be fine. Otherwise seeing him shed layers of clothes after being in a river in negative temps and not shivering at all would be....concerning.
Meanwhile: no idea why Skrimm's ears haven't fallen the fuck off from all the frostbite that should have formed around his metal piercings on day 1 in Drakkar....
My running theory is that a Wizard did it.
@@sdwa8742 Skrimms got the worse end of it in this campaign, he was down 2 death rolls after Mike and mace laughed when Barnabos killed him. But I think they forgot cause Derek said he was only down one death save.
Yeah there’s aspects of survival I don’t see implemented but I think that’s due to who the players are, a couple being chaos players who don’t care there’s death and encourage Derek to kill them. So he probably realized that early and backed off since he worked on this story for years and figured they’d TPK themselves let alone the environment
Several years ago our temperatures reached -60° with the wind chill, and the weather sent out an emergency warning saying that if we went outside without proper head covering our eyeballs would freeze in less than 5 minutes. While watching this campaign, I just keep thinking "These guys must live somewhere warm 😂"
@@GameAnGrogyes definitely 😂. Also I'm sure Derek was trying not to immediately kill them after having to soften the damage of the beast over something they couldn't really control
People dying, himself casted into hurling water, unable to hear a thing- Taishen feels ecstatic and fures off a fireball in all the motion around him! No way lmfao
my heart actually did hurdles over this episode 😭
Same, it was a really great episode
Derek: "There's something of a bonfire nearby"
Me: "Ah yes, the burning courps thats near by is surounding them with warmth
The wat Derek delivers the line "ehat memory appears before your eyes* is bone chilling. My heart was beating so fast during the episode.
Yeah it was great, I also really liked maces idea of turning the camera on, blowing the death whistle and saying roll. To start, that would have been hard af.
Skrimm trying to get a shiny rock was giving serious toddler energy it was hilarious. Also phew thanks for not dying everyone!!! Wendigo fights are hardcore.....😅
45:22 Mace: because your care..
Derek: "silent".... Okay...
Chessex I remember the line where Mikey said in sarnax voice Clayton may of gotten his blood line cursed, but that chessex is no joke
Insanely cool monster and combat directed by Derek. You did an insanely incredible job!!! Mikey you killed me with your final stand moment Barnabos had after seeing Skrimm died. The moment between Taishen and Jornir going over the waterfall also had my heart breaking in half. I feel for Nikkie in having all these bad rolls make the attacks null and watching all your friends go down one by one. It's stressful!! But you got some great shots in eventually.
Love this group a lot, and this episode really showed the difference in tone among campaigns. Once again, amazing work coming up with this Derek. Incredible and captivating
I have never been more stressed watching this episode. Wonderful storytelling by Derek, I'm absolutely horrified by the possibilities of what magic revived Skrimm and Barnabos.
2:37:48 ok thank god. Nikki was really being infuriating, overstepping the DM, gleefully celebrating her own party members potentially dying, and Mace finally told her to chill. I like Nikki, she's hilarious, but she really got on my nerves this session like wtf was her problem.
Honestly, same.
At the beginning: Please hurt Skimm. I love my favorite to hurt xD
All throughout: OMG PLEASE NO. STOP. HE'S HAD ENOUGH. PLEASE DON'T KILL SKRIMM HE'S MY FAVORITE.
At 3:45:24, Mikey's pronunciation of "agate" is correct. (EDIT: See comments, initial timestamp was wrong. The spot when Mikey says "a-gate" and Derek "corrects" him to "a-gah-tay". "A-gate" is correct.
No. No it is not.
@@mentaya11 My timestamp was a few seconds off; thanks for catching that. To prevent further confusion for people reading this: the spot when Mikey says "a-gate" before Derek "corrects" him to "a-gah-tay". "A-gate" is correct.
@@DeadGators Yes, my apologies. I just went to the timestamp and heard the wrong pronunciation. Later, I saw someone talking about his right response and recalled that he had, in fact, used the *right* pronunciation at a different time. Sorry I jumped on it too rapidly.
You're all good! If you hadn't commented, I wouldn't have realized the timestamp was off.
isn’t it pronounced like ag-git?
This episode was pure stress, man! 😵
aaaa, one of the hardest and best parts of dnd is balancing the hard and desperate moments. you can tell when players are down on hope, when someone has lost interest and sees it as a net loss, but derek is so good at building everything back up again afterwards!! agh, the slow reveals and the slow gain, the quick losses followed by worthwhile gains… it’s wonderful.
i love this group. the balance of knowing when to goof off, knowing when to stop, when to start, this is so good. honestly, your content is on par with dimension 20! you all may not be professional comics / improv artists, but your dnd play sure matches them. hell, even surpasses in certain ways :^ hehe
So excited for the mammoth and the lights to come back up, absolutly psyched
I feel like nikki just realized they were all gonna die and was like lets hurry this up XD
Nikki selling out her party at every turn XD lol
‘Are you in the party or what?’ Derek doesn’t want it to end, I don’t think many DMs make a story over possibly years. As Derek said he’d been working on it since the pandemic. But it has to be dangerous to be engaging, and the dice decide if it’s dangerous or deadly.
I get she knew she had a potion, but to encourage more to fall than she should was reckless, and that’s all she’s been this entire campaign. I like her a lot, and her character is awesome, but rushing to get stabbed and possible start a fight is wild.
@sleepyproduction7166 That one player seemingly sabotaging the party at critical moments is incredibly frustrating at the time, but those make the best moments to reminisce about. Some dynamics can't be understood just from watching unless you're physically at the table riffing off each other, even for a live-play.
Players arguing over mechanics is often misunderstood as one person just shutting another person down, but they're actually both trying to work out some compromise so the player can bring imagination to life in a way consistent with the game rules. It's as much a part of the game as rolling the dice
If you missed it she kept referencing do they/we roll a d100 now, it was bugging me because I was like wtf is she talking about and when the waterfall came and them in free fall is when they would end up finally rolling said d100 just goes to show that they were all pretold that they would be going over the waterfall in this episode and to just continue with the flow of the fight rather than genuinely seek a way off of the river.
This also kind of bugged me because before the results of the fall I was thinking to myself does the dragon save them, does some random magic user save them, how are they going to possibly survive this. Oh they went splash after a 200ft Fall, that's 20d6 fall damage even if you hit water which would most certainly mean death for all of them. But I shrug it off cause some DMs will wave fall damage into water or entirely.
@@piemaster1922She wasn't asking about a waterfall though. She was asking if Taishen and Jornir needed to roll a d100 to see if they get crushed by the ice flows. And she kept asking again and again even after Derek said that no, they don't need to, it was only twice per round, yeah...
I can't wait for part 10!
Chapter 10 just dropped today! ua-cam.com/video/9myrHqB9ES0/v-deo.html
"Are you in a party or what?" My question exactly😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hu boy, my heart stopped for a moment with Daisy 😮💨
2:37:30 thank you Mace, Nikki was super super anti party this session and someone finally said something
I'm imagining this terrible monster as some cryptid disaster baby between Siren Head and the Cleric Beast from Bloodborne
Cleric beast is from bloodborne tho...
@@theredking7084 You're right, my mistake
I was SO SCARED! YOU evil lovable amazing DM! Shame on you!
Taishen wanting a trophy is funny considering they already have a Wendigo Heart from the cabin boy.
EDIT: and then ofc he remembers a moment later lol
"they're the size of...gosh, what's a good, common, every-day object that everybody could relate to..."
"softball?"
:"baseball"
"maybe an orange?"
"no, it's the size of a cat skull"
God I LOVE this campaign. You - Derek - are a fiendish, but incredible story teller
Again, very late to the convo, but
3:47:36
Im a little surprised Jornir didnt suggest scraping together as much of the Elder Wendigo's ashes/dust and throwing them into the river, just for a sense of finality, of closure. It may have done nothing (kinda like Robin Williams' "Jumanji" when they threw the game in the river), but still, that feeling of finality wouldve been so cathartic.
Y'all this episode has me so anxious I might throw up! I'm pretty sure Dereks goal was a TPK. If a DM has my character fight a Wendigo imma straight up leave and find a different campain.
I mean.. and at level 4! 👀👀
Such an intense episode a lot of fun
The relieve I felt at the end was very very real.
I know I need to stop reading the comments ahead of time but I can't stop 😂 that being said, I can already feel my heart absolutely shattering and I'm so excited for it. Derek is a fantastic DM and I'm really excited to see what awful, horrible, evil, grueling things he has set up for the party to endure next
don’t worry, we’re all guilty of it! it makes it even better when your like “wait WHAT happens in this episode?!”
Really love this HC dnd series so far, but good lord: The backseat DM'ing, even in jest, is just so much added noise to an already incredibly intense and stressful encounter. Ya'll may be amazing DMs in your own right, but you are all currently players. Let your DM actually DM, please.
well, who needs sleep cos i'm sure not gonna get any after this episode. my god that was so intense. Brilliant work everyone.
0:57 once again, wonderful music! Fits perfectly!! What is it called?
10:50 WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT😨😨 THATS SICK
12:28 “Is everyone feeling good?”…..”No.”….”Great😃” I fucking love this group so damn much 🤣🤣
17:31 ANDY WIHT THE GUN LOADING SOUND EFFECTS, OMG 🤣🤣
36:48 omg🤣 that’s the best thing ever
40:19 yaaa that’s now canon
40:34 “Prepare to meet god” ok, that’s it, that’s the new name for this spell
59:59 🤣🤣 the dead speak???
1:02:19 aaaand Andy went straight for the Deez nutz joke, we think alike😌
1:13:19 SKRIMM CANT CATCH A BREAK😭😭
1:14:10 Omg poor Taishen🤣🤣
1:25:19 tbh Nikkie, me too😃 and people are gonna start shipping Jornir and Taishen(and I’m here for it👍🏼)
1:36:02 ….yes, I started saying “BEES BEES BEES” don’t judge me🥲
1:36:19 there is bee damage??😨
1:43:44 Poor Taishen, let the boy rest😭😭
1:46:20 I fucking love Andy’s success screams!!
1:47:21 HAHA GET FUCKED WENDIGO!!!
1:47:32 “I DID SOMETHING!!” Barnabos is proud😌
1:50:30 omg, I never noticed that!! Omg, that’s so cuteeee!!!!!
1:53:33 if my mom was home she would be sooo confused why I just scream “YEEEEES”🤣
2:21:22 Nikkie always does that and I love it🤣
2:22:24 I thought Jornir said “I love you” and I may or may not started fangirling😃 (please don’t judge me🥲)
2:28:19 Andy yelling “you’re a scum bag!” at the Derek scares me cuz Derek has the power to kill Skrimm and (most likely future husband) Barnabos
2:35:00 Ok, now he’s just playing into it🤣🤣
2:44:36 ok I think this is appropriate to say now, but, I think Taishen has a crush on Jornir(Yes, that is kinda a Queenie quote but switched names🤣🤣)
3:42:02 “A white one”™️ that’s now a Trade mark
I hope it’s okay, I have some extra time stamps I’m going to post as a reply so that people looking for them can find both sets at once
Some additional timestamps (and spoilers)
0:57 the intro music is Nordrhaf by Dreyma
4:15 Everyone’s life flashes before their eyes.
6:38 there is no running. Time to roll initiative.
16:30 Walrusnir
17:40 rotate the flows
20:00 Hello beastie - the mystery of what a sperm is grows. Accidental intro screen. Barnabos is slashed.
23:35 Queenie tortures the wendigo with bees and hops away.
25:45 Bodies beneath the ice are trying to crawl out. No one can hear Queenie say this.
28:00 It drinks Walrusnir
29:00 Taishen Scorches Ray
32:00 Great news, the wendigo heals in real time.
35:25 I whip my tail back and forth (and get brutalised by the wendigo)
37:19 Skrimm calls on his patrons power for protection (Blur)
40:25 Walrusnir casts Tusks
47:00 The wendigo is terrified of the water
50:00 it retaliates.
52:55 Can I touch you? Yeah you can ;) Fire damage prevents the wendigo from healing.
1:04:00 Barnabos is beyond bloodied, Skrimm laments his lack of healing
1:07:40 the wendigo evaporates before it can go into the drink
1:11:05 the sound of a waterfall
1:16:45 death saving throw.
1:18:51 a rule 5e known only to Derek and Chris Perkins
1:22:00 Andy has to issue a formal apology
1:30:21 30 lashes for Taishen for sleeping on the job
1:37:08 The wendigo rendigos Barnabos
1:40:40 Taishen twinspells a L2 Cure Wounds
1:43:15 Barnabos would prefer 30 lashes actually.
1:51:00 Camouflaged by violence
2:00:00 The wendigo knocks Barnabos down and Nikkie bays for blood
2:03:40 cure wooooounds
2:06:00 Taishen goes down after saving Barnabos
2:08:00 Skrimm gets eaten from behind.
2:12:05 Skrimm’s fate
2:14:00 Barnabos is good. Jornir learns what has happened to Skrimm
2:15:00 Every tooth you lose singalong (shouldn’t have gone on this cruise)
2:18:30 a very expensive healing word for the swear jar
2:19:00 Jornir takes Taishen into the plunge pool (high stakes rescue operation)
2:24:50 Barnabos sees what has happened to Skrimm and decides not to follow Jornir
2:26:50 you can move more if you want to, you can leave your friends behind 🎶
2:29:50 Barnabos stands alone before the wendigo and it feasts.
2:32:30 Bargaining for DM fiat
2:36:00 Taishen is dissociating on autopilot
2:39:40 The waterfall takes its cut
2:43:30 Taishen and Jornir fall together, fuelling the fires of Ao3 for months probably
2:46:00 Wario is that you?
2:47:00 Jornir and Queenie emerge and his beloved Taishen is right there
2:48:20 no sign of Skrimm, Barnabos or the wendigo - or Daisy?
2:50:20 Rescue Walrusnir
2:51:40 Queenie knows the wendigo is alive and in the pool
2:53:35 a small body by the shore
2:55:25 in denial, Queenie administers a potion to the eviscerated Skrimm
2:57:11 Jornir finds Barnabos
2:58:00 Jornir is horrified
3:04:25 Barnabos finds his shell
3:06:20 Where is Daisy?
3:07:00 Barnabos and Skrimm are hungry; they lost the sledge.
3:08:50 it’s time to flee or fight
3:10:40 Skrimm strips in a -33°F (-36°C) blizzard and feels invigorated
3:12:30 the windigo’s end (undead fortitude)
3:17:50 time for a bonfire. 🔥
3:20:33 high risk trophies 🏆
3:22:40 Skrimm and Barnabos are still hungry. The wendigo’s corpse thrums with magic. And so are Barnabos and Skrimm
3:26:45 on second thoughts, best burn it. 🔥
3:29:45 five frozen hearts glow in its chest
3:33:00 Big Bee Hand 🐝 🤚
3:52:30 Barnabos finds the anchor - and Daisy.
3:56:50 trauma care with homemade Vick’s Vaporub
3:58:20 Dawn finally comes
4:00:19 Jornir believes the triad saved them.
4:01:38 is it Secundus? Is it a dragon? No, it’s a special mountain. 🏔️
4:02:33 Level 5
4:03:37 the class feature everyone wants (Jerry you’re a fucking genius/Derek’s favourite advert)
I started witch light, space jam, and this, and this one has consumed me. The others are light hearted, and I feel like I’m going to need it after this.
And I don’t get the whole Derek is trying to kill them stuff, he worked really hard on the story, and world of the campaign, as in where and how they’d go. He doesn’t want to kill them off, he has a story to tell. But if there wasn’t challenge then it wouldn’t be hardcore.
The difference is dangeous, and deadly.
I can’t wait to catch up and get the patreon.
From end of episode 7- to now at work people came up like ‘you ok you seem like you’ve seen a ghost or something.’ Nope just and insanely great story. From everyone they’re all doing great.
I think a solid summary was given by Derek in this episode. (paraphrased) "I wrote it like a devil now I'll DM like an angel"
@@mentaya11 yup, I got to that part too, and I even seen him stream Minecraft and talk about the possibility of turning it into a book. He said there’s a lot of stuff they didn’t get to do or things changed because of their decisions.
But I will say I went to stardust rhapsody after this campaign, not as light hearted as the intro made it out to be.
Wendigos are my favorite folk horror monsters. I love seeing them get justice here.
No kidding. I Start crying when they foud Daisy alive
Glad to look through comments and see 8m not the only one that found Nikki unbearable this episode. Been gritting my teeth to try and get through this epic encounter
1:41:00 clipping for my own personal reminder. Please can someone like this comment after a few hours, and does Anyone have the time for the first time Queenie was being strangled (but the smothering Pelt didn't get her AC)?
I just got caught up to this from the last couple of nights and not once did I think to myself, "Oh hey, I want to listen to a horror story campaign before bed."
Love the direction the story has gone, by the way, the creepy and chilling atmosphere(no pun intended) while implementing a Wendigo is phenomenal. I wonder what other horrors Derek has cooked up for the group.
Also the reactions from the group when they're still in danger...
Andy - God damnit
Mikey - *Gricko "Auh!"*
Mace - The hell?!
Richie: Oh no...
This group is too great.
Nail biting, leg shaking, fist throwing, cheer yelling, wincing, worrying, cheering, a gad dam roller coaster.
43:36 Tabaxi has Claw attack? If so, then a Tabaxi with a Spear has two ranges in which an Attack of Opportunity might trigger? That's goofy. Agree with Nicki and Derek
Was the wendigo confirmed to Quartermaster Clemens or did Mickey make that up for flavor and that just became canon? Either way, I am loving this campaign.
Well, I never heard it confirmed by Derek, but it's a solid guess. Appears at a similar time to the first, we know potentially 2 others are out there that recently did the same things the boy did and close to them, and Derek made a comment about how young the wendigo was. I forget the exact quote, but he mentioned how strong it had become in so short a time. This indicates that the wendigo was created recently and we know at least one of the other 2 would have been formed recently and near here.
It was mentioned in the previous Avantris and chill, Mikey mixed them up but the beast was actually Garcide, as Derek forgot to mention that the wendigo was missing toes on one foot. He also pulled back the veil a bit in that chill session and mentioned that if they had decided to run from the cabin sooner they would have gotten lost and have eventually stumbled across the body of Clemens that the Garcide wendigo had picked clean. Gnarly stuff!
It's now Avantris canon that goblins all make deez nuts jokes 😂
Taishen is my fav uncle :D anytime he gets hurt its great, give me more stress that uncle iroh may die.
The joy in andy's face when he was making fun of mace for not understanding his class was priceless 😂😂
3:15:34 Ok.
I haven't seen an explanation for why the crew is alive yet, so I'm just going to say it here and now.
This. Made. My. Stomach. Drop.
Maybe DM Derek is just saying "Oh, the windy-bro can do that thing, so be caaarreeeful!" but my brain immediately jumped to "OH MY GOD SKRIMM AND BARNABOS HAVE AN UNDEAD FEATURE!!!???"
I'm sure I'll be proven wrong but WHOO-BOY the conclusions are jumping right now.
EDIT: Time stamp correction
Pretty disappointed with this ep.
Im not gonna peddle more negativity about behavior in this ep but completely took me out of what is one of the most interesting campaigns I've seen.
I understand being disgruntled and having an off day but Derek seems to have worked really hard on this and hes genuinely an engaging storyteller and its kind of a let down.
That all being said we are all human and aren't infallible, I love you guys and your content. Ive only found you guys recently but its nice to have found DnD content where I feel like im in the room at the very least.
Why does Nikki have such a vendetta? What did these guys do? 😂
Have you seen their Faewild campaign? I dont blame her lmao
Watch Once upon a Witchlight, they're 56 sessions into a campain that people have done in 5 😂
That intro music fills me with dread and excitement every time!
Wow. Just.... Wow
This ep was AMAZING.
3:49:16 skrimm are you feeling ok?
Omg, omg….Not Barnabos. Man, fuck, I cried.
I am confused. Why is nikkie actively sabotaging the party?
it seems that she was just upset due to having a bad session and bad rolls- she isn’t usually like this and while annoying, we all have bad days! the series is still def worth a watch!
@@nyx3698 Oh, I know she's usually nice. Love her DMing in the witchlight series. And before this episode I liked her playing in Icebound too (Especially while they were on the ship). I am glad to hear that it's not for the entire rest of the icebound series that she does this, though.
Why do Mace and Rich always flirt with each other in-game 😂
I love all of them and how they are playing and telling the story together, but I find it kind of distracting, that Nikkie is sarcastically giving DM instructions like "it's disadvantaged"
It is very irritating and I'm often not sure, if she is serious or joking
It doesn't seem like sarcasm. It seems like the guys were just playing and she didn't feel like sitting around. Her characters usually make weird rash decisions when she gets impatient
For the last few episodes, as i've been binging them, it's felt like Nikkie has a lot of "making interruptive remarks" for the sake of interrupting, since they're usually not met by any reactions from the others, things like "I'ma dive into a spear" are also just really weird for a 15Int character in a serious survival story, and then the stuff in this session kinda felt like sabotage
It's a thing I've been noticing the past few episodes and it's very distracting and keeps taking me out of this amazing story that Derek's doing 💭
@@JohnSegway-RainingLamppost she appearently has very severe adhd so I'm just going to pin it on that, all the more respect for the guys for dealing with it so well. Knowing that it's only the random unprompted sex remarks out of nowhere that bother me now.
@@wanderingraven Absolutely fair
Is it me or should this episode should be called. Oh Nikkie has nothing to do time for her to play rules lawyer lol
Yeah I noticed she was backseat DM’ing a lot. Like that one moment where she was telling Derek to have the Wendigo to go after Skrimm instead of who Derek intended. It was sorta annoying but I still enjoy her presence nonetheless.
This episode was so intense!! Great job everyone! I was on edge the entire time and trying to figure out how they were gonna get out of there!!
However, I do agree with the comments mentioning how... rude Nikki was being this episode. :/ Sometimes those side comments are needed, or entertaining but not this time around. Iunno.
The witches in the chats like "yaaas crystalsss"
I was like wtf...the HEART is the proof, why do they need a trophy.
Does Nikki back off of the backseat dm-ing in future episodes or is this just a thing?
I haven't seen past this but I think it was just a bit for this episode? Super annoying tho. Usually I love Nikki but she really got under my skin this ep
@@icarisk7013same. Unbelievably annoying. I assumed it was because she was having a bad session so decided to be an obnoxious pain in the ass instead.
She has a few moments that was odd as a player, rushing the stranger and getting stabbed in a hardcore survival, the memory aura where kind of told everyone not to interact with others memories but Derek asking everyone everytime he probably wanted to have someone change it so maybe it affected the future or something cool. And then this. Mostly I really like her and her characters, and I get what you mean.
He worked hard on this, and from one comment he worked over the entirety of the pandemic on it. He doesn’t want to kill everyone off he wants them to survive to the end.
I do, I comment every episode ‘I still hope they win the race and find the one piece’
Idk if you've watched passed this, but I really hope you find out (and I really hope it is yes backing off happens). I also hope it is the same for how much talking over or cutting people off happens. A lot of cool descriptions or serious moments were cut off this episode, and it took me out so I hope it smooths out.
4:00:30 following Jornirs Reply is my new favorite Andy/Skrimm face
its only like ..... 42 more hours of content... for this campaign....
When Barnobos and Skrimm died I was In shock, When they came back I was confused and when they said they were hungry my heart dropped, I now live in fear
NOOO I DIDN'T EVEN ENTER COMMENTS AND GOT SPOILERED BECAUSE OF A UA-cam FEATUREEEE
@@neverg0nnag1vey0uupsame here🙄 killin my vibe
@@neverg0nnag1vey0uupsame :(
Spoiled
yeah, this was not fun ..
I don't get all these people complaining about Nikke this episode, i actually loved her being an absolute agent of chaos
THIS people keep being mean to nikkie it makes me so sad as someone who also has adhd alot of people are being rude about some things that are adhd traits
@Freshieroleplays
From their perspective she was actively working against the party trying to get them killed
Or that's what I pieced together from the comments
@@DrakeKnight99 I get your point, but all of that was during other people's turns (she was reminding Derek of like additional damage and stuff he forgot to inflict on the party) I'm pretty sure she never worked against the party in character or like sabotage them during combat
They didn't die??? I'm hoping there is some kind of significant reason that isn't just a mcguffin. The real risk of dying is what makes survival campaigns meaningful.
2:30:51
In my head "Oh my god Nikki SHUT UP! Why are you trying to kill your fellow party members???? 😂"
The sound of the death whistle ☠️
Fkin Barnabos🤣🤣🤣 “I didn’t hear no fuckin BELL!!!! 👏👏👏👏
Dude, Jornir can summon that wendigo they just fought. Oh god.
I think Queenie should've had disadvantage on her ranged attacks because there was an enemy right next to her. Also, Hunter's Mark is concentration, she should've been rolling that. OH, and Mage Hand has a weight limit of 5-10 lbs or somethin, which I'm pretty sure Skrimm would've been over... even if she was just trying to stop his body from floating further?
I get the fight was really tense and all but idk, it felt wrong seeing Nikki get away with all of that while also screwing over the rest of the table :/
Excited to watch this 🤩
4:17 Barnabos
4:51 Jornir
5:23 Queenie
5:42 Skrimm
6:08 Taishen
20:16 Barnabos' transformation is always so damn cool
25:45 Daaamn
34:15 🏹🟢
36:40 Derek mixes up Skrimm and Gricko 😂
1:22:12 😂
1:39:13 Barnabos gets downed
1:46:10 go Skrimm 🔥
1:47:23 Skrimm: "And I strike with the fury of the small." 👏👏
2:01:08 Skrimm casts shield
2:06:28 Taishen gets downed again ;u;
2:08:38 Skrimm gets downed ;u; they're going down one by one
2:12:22 😭
2:20:15 JORNIR TAKES TAISHEN AND THEN JUMPS INTO THE UNDEAD INFESTED ICY WATERS
2:25:23 When Barnabos finds out
2:30:28 😭
2:56:00 👀👀👀
2:57:13 Jornir finds Barnabos
2:59:06 👀 Skrimm
3:00:38 👀 Barnabos
3:21:21 Descriptions
3:25:30 Damn LMAO
Oh my goodness, my stomach is turning
When talking about dragging taishin away, you could have used a bonus action to shove him away 5ft.
2:18:19 Nikkie is so snippy… He just wants to figure out his turn!
Lol Nicky being a rule lawyer, but a state lawyer, while everyone else is representing themselves xD
Came for Witchlight, stayed for Icebound
Wby is skrimm allegedly gay for barnaboo and eaten from behind
i get so caught up binging these that i forget to like each and every video xD BUT camouflaged by violence is sucha great emo band name xD
What was in the coffee this episode😂😂
"I didn't hear no f*ckin' bell" Barnabos is a legend
It's still crazy to me that the two, probably, the two oldest characters who have been killing things and saving lives for like 100+ years are only lvl 4 meaning their lives up to ep. 1 meant nothing in strengthening them and only NOW are they doing anything lol
How did Daisey last 15+ min in the water? sus...
so experience from more mundane things like medicine, studying, and the like grants such a small amount of xp that its possible for someone who does just that for a few centuries could take them maybe to level 4-5. but also there are rules for level degradation so long periods of inactivity or no meaningful progress could result in levels going down. jail stints being a possibility too. also suspension of disbelief. let the story be.
@@mythrilshard1 But that's my point Jornir was actively doing things, he was actively saving lives, learning herbalism/druid stuff, being a damn folk lore for his area but, like 1 month in a rock mine depleted his skills all the way back to lvl one? Either he wasn't actually doing anything for the last like 100 years or he had some sort of power wipe when they were put in jail.
Same thing with Barnabose, he's been actively hunting sea beasts, tracking and killing some of the most dangerous monsters in the water but when the campaign starts he's only lvl 1 Barbarian meaning all the beasts he's killed were as dangerous as a kitten or something. So each monster must have only been like 1-5 exp each for him to be hunting for as long as he was and still only be lvl 1.
Potentially sure, it could be there was a long stretch of time where nothing unique or challenging happened, hell, its possible there was a power wipe. But why focus on it rather than just enjoy the role play and story being told?
@@mythrilshard1 Who said I wasn't?
i think i’ve responded to a comment of yours like this before, but still. this is a game. it would be unfair if 2 characters started out as a higher level than the rest. they would sweep through things, and this is a hardcore survival campaign so it’s meant to be difficult.
they still have that experience before this journey, but that wasn’t part of the game so they don’t gain XP from it.
the XP isn’t an actual thing the characters KNOW they gain, it’s the people playing the characters who know that their characters gain xp. looking through the eyes of the character themselves, not the people playing them, they don’t know they’re part of a game.
it’s getting harder and harder to explain this, but basically, events before this were not part of the game so they don’t gain XP from it, events since the start of this campaign are a part of the game so they gain XP.