Episode 22 - Rell-y Rough Situations

Intro
Natalia: No he came back. He did come back, for a second. Boston: You only saw me for like, a minute max, and then you left. Natalia: I wish I coulda gone. Boston: *inaudible* a shot glass, and that was it. Natalia (laughing): Real play. Real play. Matt: Hello and welcome to Celestial Expanse, a real play D&D podcast set in the Celestial Expanse universe, my name is Matthew, and I'll be your DM for the night, playing with me today is Ben as Rell... Ben: Hello. Matt: Jason as Theran... Jason: What up. Matt: Rebecca as Martle... Rebecca: How does a man cut his hair on the moon? Eclipse it. Matt: Oh. That hurt. Rebecca: Good. Matt: Boston as Juniper... Boston: I got left behind for a seviper down the road. Natalia: What? Matt: What? Jason: No idea. Boston: As in, I've just been left so my man could go catch a pokemon. That is all. Matt: Oh. Boston: Fucking pokemon go. Rebecca: Gotta catch 'em all. Matt: Mhm. And Natalia as Z. Natalia: The ceiling, Theran. The ceiling is up. Matt: Wow. Rebecca: That took a minute to sink in. Matt: I keep forgetting Natalia is a big fan of dad jokes, and bad ones at that. Rebecca: Oh this is wonderful. Matt: And that only took four takes guys! Natalia: Woo! Rebecca: It was fine. You did great, bud. Natalia: You got through it. Matt: It's all Jason's fault anyway. Jason: What? Rebecca: Yeah. He's always messing up everything. Jason: Something like that. Matt: So, how's everybody doing today? Natalia: Good! Ben: Yeah. Natalia: I had trash bags fall on my head, - Rebecca: Oh no! Natalia: I had, ah let's see what else happened when I went to get a drink. I had trash bags fall on my head, I had one of the drinks fell out of the little six pack thing and - my toe, and then I went to get glasses and one of the glasses knocked over in the cabinet and almost fell and broke, and then I almost fell and tripped over my feet on the way back to the couch, so I'm having a fantastic time! Matt: And most of this will probably be cut out. Natalia: Aww, Matt.

Episode Description
After taking the deal with Pirate Captain Iming Aldarina to get a full tank of gas, we see the Crew falling through the atmosphere of Sucheon where things don't go as smoothly as expected.

Summary
Z lands several kilometers away from the main party. Rell crashes, emerging very badly injured and shaking with panic. Everyone else lands in a forest clearing. Theran contacts Z, who saw Rell go down less than a kilometer from her, so she heads west to find him. Rell looks at a map on his computer where he can see the others' locations, and sees Z coming towards him. He waits for her, staff out, jumping at small noises. Z shouts his name when she reaches him, scaring him further, but then he calms down. Rell changes his soiled pants, and both groups go to reunite. Rell sees little red lights floating around the forest. Theran notices the red lights are moving at about humanoid walking pace, 10 to 12 feet off the ground. They disappear whenever someone looks directly at them, so Theran hides behind a tree and sees a creature looking at Rell as if he is prey. He attacks it, and it runs away. The rest of the group sees it as it's shot: a large, grotesque creature covered in spikes with dark, angry eyes. Then it, and the arrow piercing it, seem to shimmer out of existence. Martle heals Rell.

They continue on, and Theran, Martle, and Z set off a trap, but manage to avoid being smashed by falling logs. More of the huge creatures emerge from the forest, and the episode ends with the beginning of combat.

Memorable Quotes
Jason: Stay on target. Rell, stay on target. Rell: *hyperventilating*

Matt: Now Rell. Ben: Uh huh? Matt: You're having a bad day, bud.

Natalia: Gonna sneak up behind him... Jason: The man has shit himself enough, really?

Natalia: Z is gonna look at where it disappeared, and then look at Rell, and look Rell up and down, and be like, "I know what it was looking at." And walk off. Jason: Wooooow. Matt: Wow. Ben: Rell looks more panicked than before.

Natalia: Z jumps in front of Rell and goes, "Don't worry! I'll protect you!" But really Z's just offended that it looked at Rell and not at her cause she thinks she's way more delicious.

Trivia

 * Ben rolled a nat 1 on his dex check to land the havoc pod.
 * Rell took 8d6 fall damage from the havoc pod crash for a total of 30 damage, leaving him with 7 hp.