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Monster Analysis: Frost Worm (Eiselcross)

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Monster Analysis: Frost Worm (Eiselcross)

Thanks to @bkh_gallery for this art piece!

Frost Worm

  • First Encounter Appearance: 1-39 Omens

  • Encounter Appearance: 2-117 The Tortoise and The Dare

  • Armor Class 18

  • Speed 40 ft, Burrow 30 ft

  • Immune to cold damage

  • Vulnerable to fire damage

  • Suggested Average, Max HP: 264, 416

  • 97 damage taken

Snow Hare

  • Encounter Appearance: 2-117 The Tortoise and The Dare

  • Armor Class 13

  • Speed 20 ft, Burrow 5 ft

  • Suggested Average, Max HP: 1, 3

  • 1 damage taken by Fjord

Tortoise

  • Encounter Appearance: 2-117 The Tortoise and The Dare

  • Armor Class Unknown

  • No damage taken, left alone on a frozen pond while magically reduced in size

It’s a snow bunny! It’s a tortoise! It’s... A frost worm!

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Media References and Puns of 2-117 The Tortoise and the Dare

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Media References and Puns of 2-117 The Tortoise and the Dare

Thanks to astrolunos for this art piece!

Leave it to the Mighty Nein to turn a life-threatening scenario into a casual winter sport.

Media References

  • (0:05:11) Sam: (singing) Wake me up… Marisha: (singing) When December comes. (“Wake Me Up When September Ends” by Green Day)

  • (0:28:45) Sam: These hands! Liam: *singing* Are not my-- (“Hands” by Jewel)

  • (1:04:51) Liam: They’re always after me lucky charms!

  • (1:07:50) Liam: Obviously reality around there is a little wibbly-wobbly. (Doctor Who)

  • (1:10:56) Matt: ...full on Naruto running down the hallway…

  • (2:07:27) Travis: *singing* Addict, insane! (“Breathe” by The Prodigy)

  • (2:40:47) Various: Rudy! (The Cosby Show)

  • (3:03:21) Sam: Just imagine Blue Man Group holding chicken.

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Stats of Narrative Telephone: Two Brothers, One Coast

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Stats of Narrative Telephone: Two Brothers, One Coast

Thanks to @krzyart​ for this art piece!

I don’t think I’ll be able to look at glizzies the same way ever again.

Want a reminder how past stories went? We also maintain our Narrative Telephone page for stats across the full series, and you can read our stats per individual story by scrolling through our Narrative Telephone tag.

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Monster Analysis: Black Pudding (Aeor)

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Monster Analysis: Black Pudding (Aeor)

Thanks to astrolunos for this art piece!

  • First Appearance: 1-05 The Trick About Falling

  • Encounter Appearance: 2-116 Under Timeless Ice

  • Armor Class 7

  • Speed 20 ft, climb 20 ft

  • Blindsight 60 ft, Passive 11

  • Immune to acid, cold, lightning, and slashing damage

  • Reaction: splits into two with half health if receives slashing or lightning damage

  • Suggested condition immunities: blind, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, fright, and prone

  • Suggested Average, Max HP: 85, 130

  • 185 damage received across all puddings

Oozes have no sense of self or self-preservation, and are driven solely by a desire to consume. This makes a very aggressive entity that is also very easy to hit and fairly easy to manipulate… provided you know not to announce your presence to them.

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Monster Analysis: Ice Crystals

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Monster Analysis: Ice Crystals

Thanks to @RubyDianArts for this art piece!

  • Encounter Appearance: 116 Under Timeless Ice

  • Armor Class ≤ 18

  • Speed Unknown (flying)

  • Blindsight 60 ft (attracted to body warmth)

  • Immune to cold and poison damage

  • Vulnerable to fire damage

  • Estimated total HP: 57

Even the most learned mages have yet to understand the extent the strange magic of Eiselcross permeates and affects the area, including its climate. The Mighty Nein haphazardly stumbled across one such side effect: floating embodiments of elemental cold that sap any source of warmth to a subzero equilibrium.

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Media References and Puns of 2-116 Under Timeless Ice

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Media References and Puns of 2-116 Under Timeless Ice

Thanks to skaadshotn for this art piece!

A5 may seem chill from the outside, and you might get a cold reception at the upstairs party. Slide down to the lower level, that’s where all the magic happens. There’s also pudding!

Media References

  • (0:02:32) Matt: Our second sponsor for tonight is Hocus Pocus the game. [...] to stun the Sanderson sister and stop-- sisters-- or stop their sinister plot. Laura: There's three of them. Matt: That's what I said! [...] Travis: Black flame candle. [...] Marisha: I had such a crush on Billy. [...] Sam: Sarah Jessica Parker’s so good! [...] Marisha: My lucky rat’s tail.

  • (0:03:54) Liam: With the Looney Tunes humor, too.

  • (0:03:58) Matt: I still think she was better in Flight of the Navigator.

  • (0:34:26) Matt: We’re talking The Descent.

  • (0:35:31) Ashley: Oh long Johnson. Oh don piano. (meme)

  • (0:37:29) Liam: There’s a void in a crack in a wall in the bottom of the sea. (“There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea”)

  • (0:57:04) Taliesin and Travis: *singing* The leader of the pack. (“Leader of the Pack” by The Shangri-Las)

  • (1:00:51) Marisha: Go full Sia.

  • (1:02:12) Marisha: Up in here, up in here. Liam: *singing* Up in here. Travis: *barking* (“Party Up (Up in Here)” by DMX)

  • (1:14:33) Jester: *singing* Go to sleep, little spider, don’t come and attack us! (to the tune of “Lullaby” by Johannes Brahms)

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Monster Analysis: Allowak Yetis

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Monster Analysis: Allowak Yetis

Thanks to @hjensen_k2 for this art piece!

Yetis

  • First Appearance 2-75 Rime and Reason

  • Encounter Appearance 2-115 Fetching Fables & Frosty Friends

  • Armor Class 12

  • Speed 40 ft, 40 ft climbing

  • Darkvision 60 ft

  • Immune to cold damage

  • Suggested Average, Max Damage: 51, 78

    • Yeti 1: 49 damage taken

    • Yeti 2: 0 damage taken

    • Yeti 3: 77 damage taken, 21 knockout blow by Caduceus

Gestaf, Abominable Yeti

  • Encounter Appearance 2-115 Fetching Fables & Frosty Friends

  • Armor Class 15

  • Speed 40 ft, 40 ft climbing

  • Darkvision 60 ft

  • Immune to cold damage

  • Suggested Average, Max Damage: 137, 198

  • 165 damage taken

Shortly after the fall of Aeor, a yeti named Allowak was impaled by a crystal monolith from the fallen city. The crystal preserved his body, and the yetis who touched it found their primal rage subside and intelligence enhanced. The enlightened yetis created a sanctuary in secret to protect both themselves from Eiselcross’s natural threats, as well as protect the crystal from anyone who would seek to take it.

The Mighty Nein had faced wild yetis before. Without this previous experience with the more feral kind or Dagen’s knowledge of the Sanctuary, it’s possible that the encounter would have ended in the much more usual bloodshed.

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Media References and Puns of 2-115 Fetching Fables and Frosty Friends

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Media References and Puns of 2-115 Fetching Fables and Frosty Friends

Thanks to @viridializard for this art piece!

Media References

  • (0:02:03) Sam: On, Depardieu! On, Disneyland Paris!

  • (0:03:11) Travis: But we got a shout out to Gerard Depardieu.

  • (0:22:02) Matt: It’s a Rorschach test with less ink.

  • (0:22:35) Fjord: I feel like you have an Etsy shop waiting in the wings.

  • (0:32:58) Matt: Like Sonic the Hedgehog, arms crossed.

  • (0:38:47) Matt: It’s Everclear.

  • (0:45:52) Dagen: Just a bunch of dwarfs singing about what they had for breakfast, what they had for lunch, tales of mysteries to the north. They had beautiful voices, but they wouldn’t shut the f*** up. One day, we got ambushed, they got torn apart. I was the only survivor. [...] I just feel bad for the poor halfling they dragged along. [...] Fjord: You remember where they fell, or if that halfling had anything around his neck? (The Hobbit)

  • (0:46:48) Yasha: It’s crazy how those mountains up there look so misty. (“The Misty Mountains Cold” from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

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