Jess: Hey and welcome folks and fiends to a very special collab.
Puffin: Hey hello, welcome everyone, ahh-
This is Puffin and Jess
Hey
Hey
Puffin: And together we're gonna' be doing some drawings.
And I'm gonna be given Jess some drawings some
uh, monster ideas and she's gonna be drawing 'em. And she's gonna be doing the same for me.
Jess: And I'm gonna give him some too.
Puffin: Yeah!
Jess: And it'll be great. And they're gonna turn out horribly.
So perhaps some somewhat obscure creatures ,maybe not.
Maybe we understand them, but we just wanna be stupid. But-
We're just gonna be having' fun drawing some... stupid monsters. So-
Puffin: Yeah!
I don't think they've caught on to the fact that this is the second time we've done it,
'cause we lost the first part.
Jess: I don't think so.
No! They weren't supposed to know!
*laughs*
Naw! They weren't supposed to know!
Puffin: They weren't?
*laughs*
Puffin: Okay...
Puffin: Alright, I'll give you the first one.
Your first one is going to be flail snail.
Jess: Oh, that's...that's a good one.
Jess: For your first one is gonna' be Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
Puffin: A wolf- Okay...
Jess: Yep. That's the name of the monster.
Puffin: I am- *typing*
Jess: N-Nope don't look it up!
Puffin: I'm not looking it up. I'm actually just gonna write it out. Yeah. There you go.
Puffin: Okay Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, now I'm gonna start writing it-
Puffin: *laughs* "DON'T LOOK IT UP."
Jess: DON'TLOOKITUP!
Jess: Oh oh, should we also be mean, umm-
We can also tie in this other thing too, where we give each other a color that we have to work with-
Ummm.
Puffin: Alright. *laughs*
Jess: If you want. Or you can just draw with that color.  You don't have to like- You don't have to do the whole thing in that color.
Puffin: Yeah, sure, I can give you a color.
Jess: Give me a good color. *laughs*
Puffin: So we'll go with a greenish blue kind of that- that in between green blue color?
Puffin: I don't know what its called! I'm sorry!
Jess: Teal? You want teal?
Puffin: Okay, that one. We'll go with that.
Jess: Okay, I can live with that you can have-
Burnt Umber and you can look it up.
Puffin: Alright, Burnt Umber. I will look up Burnt Umber.
Puffin: Ahh. Wait a second, Wolf in the Sheep's Clothing.
Let me think you're trying to trick me there. It looks like a sheep
So... looks like a turd. A turd with the ears?
*laughing*
Puffin:I don't know what sheep look like uhh-
Jess: Sheep? They're just like - You draw a cloud and you put a face on it and some legs
Puffin: But, Wait a second. This is a Wolf in the Sheep's Clothing. So he's gonna have like you can see it's like a vest
So I'm gonna give him just gonna have like that v-neck and then it's the thing coming down. He's got the zipper.
Jess: Oh God, he's got the turtleneck.
Puffin: Yeah, it's gonna be the turtleneck
Jess: It's got... I don't know how I want to incorporate the flails and like- they'll be just like multiple that he's holding.
I suppose maybe it's like a humanoid snail. Maybe it's like a buff snail
He's like rocking rocking a six-pack, but but yeah, um, but yeah,-
Puffin: But anyway, actually yeah
Just talking about D&D in general and like how you got into D&D and like how long have you been playing it for?
Jess: I umm, actually came into D&D late in the game.
like kind of on the tail-end of 4th edition, but not really. I got introduced with it and then-
But you but you you've been doing it longer than I have though.
'Cause I came back I came back to the fold, 'cause I was able to do it again after
After ahh- *laughs*
you know not being able to like find a group, but thanks to the magic of the internet and roll20s is a godsend.
Puffin: Yeah, it's it's it's really nice
It's pretty wonderful because it's like if you are into this hobby and you don't know anyone else who plays
And if you trying to get into it, it's like it's like nigh impossible. Actually one of the guys who got me into it
Actually he got into it and he was like really fascinated by because they watch Acquisitions Inc.
So then he recruited like all of his friends who played board games with him. He's like guys
You have to play this with me. It's awesome. It's called Dungeons & Dragons.
Jess: And it's... it's flipping amazing!
Puffin: It's freakin' Amazing
Jess: It's like trying to like talk and like rub your belly at the same time
Puffin: No, I didn't realize how hard this was gonna be with
Jess: Dude. This is the challenge man
This is a sexy snail
Puffin: I'm sure it's beautiful
Jess: It's a bard snail. We didn't know. He multi-classed
Monster's can have classes - don't don't judge
I dunno, I'm curious though like
'Cause like with my first video. It was a lot of
lot of forbidden romance...
But uhh- I'm curious like how how often does your group like try to romance npcs?
Puffin: There are some who hit on everyone and then some who don't do it at all and
It just depends like which player I have at the table.
Jess: And is it always a bard or is it just usually a bard?
It does not depend on the class like it's just like sometimes it's the Paladin. It was like, "Don't worry
I'll save you wink wink."
Jess: Wink wonk.
Puffin: There was one actually I had to do we were role-playing through a divorce a while ago
because one of the characters got divorced
Jess: So they got married and then- Who do they get married to? One of the characters?
Puffin: They had gotten married actually in their backstory and they had fled away from their husband and
Then the we had an entire plot-line of them going back to town to resolve that.
Jess: Marriage is just hard enough man.
Puffin: I know
Jess: Do you really have to role-play that out too?
Puffin: It was like- they took it very seriously like we had to go through the whole performance
and everything and my character was interested in like maybe
kinda like spamming it or something, or like-
Like disrupting it. Like, "Oh, oh my god," and the players were like no... Because it was like it was very heavy
Jess: Oh my gosh...
Oh no, he's probably done.
Puffin: Actually, what's funny was that I I got part way through and I'm like I'm getting close
But then I realized like- I'm drawing the legs wrong.
And so now now I'm going through like, a bunch of different legs trying to figure out which one the wolf would actually have.
Jess: Oh my gosh.
Puffin: It's probably not even a wolf.
Jess: It's like those dog legs they go backwards
I don't know... Words and anatomical words
That I totally know because I studied them. Yes
But yeah-
What do you find that you have the most trouble drawing in general?
Puffin: Wolves would be the number one.
Jess: Its like dangit' you picked the worst thing...
Puffin: Probably for me the worst-
yeah, I think animals I think I think a lot and actually it's funny ironically, but it's like
If it's like a physical object like a clock or something those are easy, but like with animals
Probably the newest video. I had to draw a bunch of animals, but it was- there was a lot
I mean, they didn't even turn out that well and I had to do multiple.
Jess: I liked your aboleth.
Puffin: Yeah thanks! He's just a giant circle with tentacles coming out like it was the easiest-
Jess: Yes that's what they are, so its okay!
Jess: Do you find yourself looking at reference to help you?
I mean like that's I mean whenever I'm like, "what is this animal?"
I got a like look up reference even though I can't look up reference now. I want to look up reference for a snail. So bad.
Puffin: Yeah. I actually I have to look up references for
For yeah, anything any time of drawing something that's like new.
Or I just don't have a good image in my head. Like for example a mansion I had to draw, and I was like I-
Jess: You were like, oh no why...
Puffin: I kinda know what a mansion looks like... Kinda. You know-
Jess: oh man. And I had to like draw a like the map the world map for like one of my campaigns
on Roll20 and it was like
Why are there's so many buildings?!
And I wanted to cry...
So any kind of city map just makes me cry 'cause it's just it's like so many boxes and it's just like oh
I hate, I hate like- really like I said environments involving buildings
like how we didn't discuss on the other take
about
Faces and emotions being hard to render sometimes.
Puffin: Oh, yeah, cuz it's like so much is conveyed in the face.
Jess: Oh God, It's because that's what people people look at whenever they're watchin the stuff.
Puffin: We we interpret
Like we'll even look at inanimate objects and see faces in them
Like we're hardwired to do that.
Jess: And whenever it's just a little bit wrong. It's like uncanny valley
It's just like oh, yeah
Puffin: It looks hideous like even if it's just slightly off
Like even if you're someone who's casual and you don't know what's going on, like, you know, if it's wrong.
Jess: You know it's like oh that's that's not - Urk.
Jess: But if you're drawing a monster then that's 'A' okay.
That's probably why we chose to draw Monsters because if they turn out like poop its okay.
Puffin: Alright, I sent you my image
Jess: I'm scared to look though. Wait, I'll look though. Real quick-
Oh! He's beautiful!
Okay, I'll send you what it actually looks like.
Puffin: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing interesting...
Jess: Somehow, Yeah that's what it's supposed to look like.
Yeah, I'm almost done with the flails snail now,
Puffin: Yeah, snail with the flails!
Jess: Yeah boy!
Jess: It's just kind of like he's he's he's got them them guns
Jess: To just smash 'em and you're not gonna mess with that boy.
Puffin: Oh, yeah. Definitely you see him coming, he could bench you
Jess: He could just like suplex a building, you know, it's just like yeah
Jess: This is the the flail snail but like you reversed his defense with his strength stat is just like-
Puffin: Do you even lift?
Jess: Do you even lift, bro?
Jess: Well that was a good trial run...
Puffin: Alright, Round one.
Jess: Yeah, you wanna give up get the next one?
Puffin: Okay. Let me let me look up the next one
Ehh, I'll try this one
Sunset Raptor
Jess: Oh, that sounds fun. I don't know is it like
I wonder if its like-
An actual like like dinosaur Raptor or if it's like Raptor as in like a bird
Puffin: Do you want me to give you any hints or something?
Jess: No! I wanna figure this out.
You on the other hand will... let's see I think I'll do the the Roving Mauler
Puffin: Roving Mauler.
Jess: Oh and color. Let's see-
Let's go with a nice ochre.
Puffin: Ochre, okay.
Jess: Ochre. O-C-H-R-E?
Ochre!  I've never said it out loud before I always just see it on the like the tubes of paint.
Puffin: Okay now for you a
Random color generator-
Random give me a random color, please.
Uhh. How about
Purpley blue?
Jess: Uhh? Periwinkle?
Puffin: Yeah, we'll go with that. That- that's a color...
Jess: Yeah!
Puffin: Exactly! That's exactly what I had in mind. You've passed my test!
Okay Roving Mauler.
Jess: Okay so, Sunset, okay. It's not gonna be a sunset color, but that's okay
All right. So the roving mauler
Okay, the roving mauler. What it does is it has these giant wheels that he's on and he's got these two fists
They used to smash his people and his head's a big hammer
Jess: My monster is a-
It's a raptor. It's gonna be ah, I'm so so not sure whether it not- I'll do both
I'll do a Raptors head and a bird body. It's good. Muah, velociraptor head. It's gonna be beautiful
It's it's secretly. Um, like the sunset name is just a ruse and
it's actually like
Puffin: I waits until it goes to night
Like you think it's the sunset Raptor and you don't know when it's gonna strike because you think oh its not sunset
It can't strike me now.
Jess: What if sunsets just his name and he's actually like a rapper. It's Sunset the rapper Raptor
and he's got he's got an open mic and if he don't-
Appreciate his music then it's just like game over man
CR like a thousand.
Puffin: Oh, yeah, definitely
He's not gonna start anything, but he'll definitely finish it.
Jess: How's yours coming?
Puffin: Well, I mean I have this batch insane
Trip with a giant hammer running around smashing things. So it's like yeah, this is you know, it's like because it's not a-
Jess: Its level one party material I feel like.
Puffin: Yeah, this thing is not level one this is like CR thirty thousand murder you in your sleep
Jess: He's gonna leave you with so many curses
it's gonna be like curse of the hammer and it's like you're never gonna get that stain out of your face
We never realize how hard it would be to draw and talk at the same time.
I don't know how people do it like people do streams
Puffin: I'm going to like Commission someone for my artwork to like dub over it.
So what's gonna happen-
Is you're gonna have me drawing and then you're just gonna cut to the final. It's like perfect
Jess: And its like -Its gonna be like The Mona Lisa. It's like this the Roving Mauler.
It's it's perfect. Look at it. Look at it and it's glory.
And I'm just like, how did he do it?
Puffin: Its literally the Mona Lisa, like people aren't gonna figure it out
Jess: I'm almost there. It's got all these feathery goos and it's like
Favorite things to draw? I do like birds.
Hence the name Jackdaw.
Puffin: Birds are pretty cool.
Jess: Birds are cute. I like how you draw your Kenkus. They're so cute
Puffin: Thanks.
Jess: Their little beaks.
Puffin: With their little beaks, they're so cute, and they got kidnapped.
Forced into slave labor.
Jess: OHNO
Puffin: They got left out of the video...
Jess: Aww, the bird butler...
What happened to the bird butler?
Puffin: Oh no, he's totally fine. He wasn't used to activate certain traps or anything like that anyway
Jess: Oh no!
Jess: That's how you lose pets... My DM for a tomb annihilation we're right now we're heading into the tomb and
He made an ultimatum,  can't bring your pets in there. You just can't-
You can't use them for traps!
We have this cute little like cat and it's like no, we're not gonna have them be a smear on the wall.
Puffin: Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of pets meet untimely demises.
Jess: Alright.
Oh my gosh he's adorable!
Puffin: All the monsters are got da mad eyes. They got the angry eyes.
Jess: He got the mad eyes.
Puffin: They're angry. Da angry eyes.
Jess: They're so angry. Yes!
Jess: I love him.
Jess: And okay. There's a sunset raptor that's non sunset colored, but that's okay.
Puffin: Actually what's funny is
Puffin: *typing* So what's funny is you actually drew him pretty close just in terms of but basically what happens
Is that the sunset Raptor is a mixture between a peacock and a raptor and so it has that full plumage
It looks like a bird.
Jess: Oh, so I was like right?
Puffin: Yeah, yeah you were correct in making it look like a bird. It's big thing is sure
Jess: I wasn't sure. I was like
oh, I don't know which one to pick so I'll just pick both.
See it's a sunset Raptor but it's just its tail got like got plucked.
He had he had a support his kids in a different way by starting his rap career.
Puffin: Oh, no, good luck
Go with your dreams little guy. You probably killed a bunch of people. He's probably already killed people.
Jess: This is what yours is supposed to look like. It's beauteous.
Puffin: Oh wow
Ehh, pretty close. Pretty close.
Jess: And I don't know yeah, there's no words for this
You got pretty close... Yeah. I mean-
Puffin: Actually, what's funny is that when it's called the mauler the fact that it's like a lion or something because lions maul people and
then five legs coming off of it like I bet if I had actually thought of that like oh
I'm gonna draw a lion's head and then put five legs coming off of it
They'd be like naw that's stupid.
Jess: They were drunk.
Puffin: No, that's what they did.
Jess: Not enough butts.
Alright what's next the list?
Puffin: I got a think of that next one
Jess: Let's go with the Senmurv
Puffin: Senmerv. Alright, I'm thinking. Okay. I haven't heard of it. So it's like Senmurv, Senmurv.
We also gotta get a color...
Ah yes the Senmurv, of course the fiercest of foes. This is of course
I'm going to assume that every monster you're giving me is like plus a billion
CR
TPK level
monster
Okay, let me look over here, alright I gotta think of a good one, okay
Simurg?
Jess: So what is it Simurg?
Jeez, okay. Yeah, I have no idea. I'm completely in the dark this time
Or oh, we got to give each other color.
Puffin: I'll give you a color greeny yellow color,
Jess: Okay
Let's go with let's go with like a nice like nice deep blue.
Puffin: A nice deep blue. All right
Jess: Yes, I couldn't come up with a fancy color. Yes.
I'm gonna make it like obnoxiously blue, blue
Senmurv
Simurg
Jess: Yeah, we got two S soundings- Senmurv and- Simurg
Wait do we have the same? It's almost pronounced the same...
Puffin: wait a second. Oh god-
Did we accidentally pick the same thing or just been-?
Jess: Did we? Did we now?
Puffin: Actually what's funny is I'm going to try and draw the Senmurv.
Jess: Yeah like- exactly.
Did we pick the same one?!
Oh god, we might have just spelled it wrong. Okay our interpretation
I'm just gonna go off of the wall and I'm gonna do whatever the Senmurv was supposed to look like
Puffin: I'm thinking the same thing. All right.
Jess: I'm thinking it's kind of like I don't know it is because I have a
Gross swamp color, um that I went with with the green yellow
Um that looks like puke so I'm going with like a swamp monster
Puffin: Okay,
Jess: Maybe like kind of kind of a little bit like like a troglodyte
But like maybe maybe actually cute maybe this one like turned out cute.
Puffin: Yeah, all of my things are cute! Just kidding.
Anything is cute. If you just draw it adorably for me personally
I'm thinking I'm actually what I'm thinking is it's like
Someone died in a bunch of blankets and it's spirit got possessed by the blankets and now the blankets are coming attack
That's that's gonna be my enemy.
Jess: Okay.
Puffin: Evil blankets.
And they're running away. They got the people. Watch out, its a Senmurv! Ahh!
So afraid!
Jess: This one is the the alternate universe where the Simurg is like
Aww! Its a Simurg! I wanna pinch its cheeks!
Puffin: Actually, so I have a funny story so um one of my friends they were going into this dungeon they met this dwarf there
They were like, "hello there," and they were talking to the dwarf and
They're like, "huh? This guy's been down here for like a thousand years just by himself
just this one dwarf and
They're like "no look we can't," like some of the players want to fight him or something and they're like no look we don't fight him
and it's like why? It's like, " you don't  fight someone if you don't know where it poops
Okay, that's like a first thing they teach you at Paladin school."
Jess: Oh my god.
How does a beholder poop?
Puffin: That's why they're scary!  You don't know! They don't know where they poop!
Jess: Maybe they just dream of the poop and it just happens...
Jess: See see this is what they need to add to these monster manuals, man. They need to ask like where they go to the bathroom
You know, their full range.
Puffin: Yeah, and there's the size of their poop the consistency
We need to know this for the Rangers like we gotta have percentile tables
Jess: Roll for poop.
Because what will happen is it's like okay your friend gets eaten and it's like okay he got eaten and you got to get
The part out of him, you know, so it's like is he gonna be in one piece?
Is it gonna be a lump or is it gonna be broken up?
You know like we need to know this thing for the resurrection like I I'm surprised they don't have like the Supplemental book
Has not come out with the details
On this kinda thing.
Jess: It was bad
Like we had to come up with something like because I don't know why every so often only we will roleplay like small details
we're role-playing how to like like during like a campfire session like how each character pooped and
This was the same session with the tomb of annihilation group
So with Grae the doppelgänger
and it was like oh god how do doppelgängers poop? It's just look the same
Does it like look the same and then go like recede over time?
Puffin: This is a question we need the answers for.
It's funny how in D&D you could suddenly get into the situation where it's like
Like this is a plot critical element. Like how does this monster poop? We need to know
we need to know yeah, there was a situation where it was like, it was dinosaur poop.
We needed to see if one of our friends had been eaten by the dinosaur
So we were going through its poop.
Seeing if we could like see whether or not our friend was in there.
It is plot critical man, you gotta know you gotta know that NPC actually just survived or not. But anyway
Puffin: Moving on to other we have other things to do
Jess: Only the most quality conversations here folks.
Puffin: That's gonna be so weird if we actually both pick the same one
Jess: I don't know if we did or not but it would be hilarious.
Puffin: What's gonna happen is we're gonna cut we're going to spend like several weeks making like these beautiful gorgeous drawings.
Jess: Yes, and then just cut to the end.
Puffin: Yeah were just gonna cut to like
oh, this is what it looks like.
Jess: Oh jeez how's yours coming?
Puffin: Ahh-
Jess: On a scale of one to abomination, what level of abomination is it?
I think I'm done. I think if I go any further, it's gonna get horrifying so I should like stop now, okay,
OH! I love him!
Puffin: As I said, it was like a person died from Linens and now it's going around and killing people
Jess: Oh god. Yes
He's he rolled too low on his dex. He's a dead man now. He's gonna be he's gonna be sleeping with the linens tonight.
Yeah he's gonna be sleeping with the linens.
Jess: I dunno man, its a swamp
creature that's adorable.
Puffin: Kinda slimy, kind of cute going around murdering people
Jess: And he murders. And he just murders.
Puffin: Okay Okay, because I'm trying to find
Actually, it's very similar
It is it is a wolf bird
It actually might be the same thing. Let me think
Jess: It might be the same thing...
Puffin: Simurg.
Yeah, because what I actually I'm looking at it. Yeah, I actually I think we pick the same one
It's weird how the smelling is different. Do you think?
Jess: It's just a different edition probably.
Jess: Actually, let's do one that's not necessarily in D&D.
Can you think of like mythical creatures that aren't D&D that might work or
Or you can give me like a home-brewed monster and then you can describe it
Puffin: Uhh, let me think like because I did make up one called a Krick
Jess: A Krick? Like is it's like a demon creek?
Puffin: Like do you think you could be able to draw something just from that?
Jess: I think I think I could try
But yeah, okay. So let's go with a Kasa Obake.
Puffin: Kasa Obake. Awesome. Cool.
Okay, great or a Karakasa.
Puffin: Karakasa, okay Kara.
Jess: So, oh wait color. Ah, like let's go with orange
Puffin: What is it called? Orange? Just just orange, okay?
Jess: I'm not fooling you!
I'm not gonna throw out any more crazy colors.
Puffin: Now for you pink, how's that?
Jess: Okay, pink for Krick.
It's like do you have any ideas?
Puffin:I'm thinking I'm thinking
I actually think I might want to draw something that's like humanoid or something
it's like maybe it's who like died out in the desert or something and then
Got like brought back by the winds or something. So maybe they might have like a stony exterior or something
Jess: Ahh that's awesome
Maybe you're on the right track I dunno.
Puffin: Oh my god, I solved it
Jess: Krick. I'm thinking like I'm still thinking on the creek. Maybe it's like a living like like a like a water weird
But it's a big one and it's like a creek and it's pink
It's bloody water. I don't know
Karakasa obake has to be something that's like at least at least Asian
Got the weird folklore now
with the Krick me and me and Pappy went down to the Krick and then we got eaten by the Krick
Puffin: Them Kricks be coming up on our yard
Puffin: Like I can't do accents I can so there are very particular ones like the absurd or something where it's like
oh, that's absurd
But yeah for everything else it's just like if someone asked me like oh, hey do a Scottish accent?
It's just like no.
Jess: I think what helps with accents
They like actually look up some some like phrases for your NPC to say that's in the same same dialect
even then even then it can get like
cultural stereotype really fast.
How's yours looking mine's like a blob.
Puffin: Mine's, okay. It's um, it's kind of I'm thinking of this guy who's like part sand and part person
Jess: Mmm-hmm, just like yeah, it's turning out to be like
a Water weird that's like it's not it's like a water real weird basilisk.
It's like I don't I don't know what happened, but it's a Krick. Oh, maybe maybe I shoot I didn't think of this
What if it's like look it's like a Grick, but it's not. It's a Krick. I've got to make it a Grick
It's a water Grick . Yeah, maybe I'm on the right track?
I'm gonna give it spider eyes. Just to be sure.
Puffin: Yeah Spider eyes
It's angry! At you!
Jess: Its angry
Puffin: Yeah for me. I'm just thinking this guy coming out
so I was like his legs on his feet or kind of morphed into the sand and his heads coming out and he has
bits of kind of
Like sand kind of particles coming off of em
Jess: Aww that sounds so much more badass than what I'm drawing.
Mine's just like, hi guys! I'm a Krick!
Actually with the spider eyes, I think it made it more adorable. I think I need to take away the spider eyes.
They're like, you know like this jumping spider eyes. Yeah. You know that are like really cute?
Puffin: Oh those ones, you didn't- You didn't give them the cute ones.
Jess: No, I gave them the cute ones.
He has a winning smile. This monster has high charisma
Puffin: And everyone likes him.
Jess: As a swamp beast he has high charismas.
Oh no how far are you along? I always feel like you're always a step ahead of me.
Puffin:  I'm actually I'm getting close to done
You know, I'm just kind of adding details and stuff as I go along. Okay, I will just send you over the image
Jess: I will look I will behold. Oh my god. He's actually pretty cool looking
He's so much more badass than what actually it's supposed to be. Okay. What's the answer? I'm curious now. Oh my gosh
Behold. Oh
Puffin: Yeah, I would have guessed that of course, yeah, an umbrella.
Jess: An umbrella with a leg
Puffin: With one leg.
Like and why would he have two legs that's just stupid.
Jess: That's stupid
Okay, screenshot away.
He's beautiful! And pink.
Ahh, he's pink.
He's got that smile! Sorry.
Puffin: The concept I had in the head for him was was that the Krick was like a
I don't know like a really large cockroach or something like Krick
Krick is like an insect or something like that
And then I and it's it's like they have some kind of like poisonous spines or something or they bite someone and get them poison
Jess: I got them spines!
Puffin: Yeah, there you go. Yeah, but but anyway you it's like the the thing is that whenever I'm lazy
I'll just be like, oh, what's that?
Oh, it's Krick or something like that or it's like in it's because they're non-existent. I can just give them whatever power level I want
Jess: They're power level 1000.
Puffin: Well, you know if you know that world devours if the players happen to be 20th level
Jess: You feel like doing one more?
Puffin: Yeah, I got one more in me.
Jess: All right, I like this one. Okay, I'm gonna give you one
It's called an Allip.
Puffin: So here's the thing is I have heard of the name
But it's been a while so I don't have an image in my head. So I will try and draw that
Okay, then we're gonna jump over to you. I think you know, what a grindylow is?
Jess: Oh, I've heard the name but it's in the same boat where I don't remember what it's supposed to look like. Nope
Puffin: You can try doing the Grindylow or Grindle? Oh, I have to figure out a color for you. Uh-huh
actually, you have to figure out a color for me because-
Jess: I think a nice
Vivid like purpley violet color or a nice pink Maybe like a mauve?
Puffin: Okay, so I'd already given you for the sunset Raptor the purple. So what that means is that
For the grindylow I am going to give you
I'll give you blue
Yeah sky blue, let's go with that . Okay. Yeah, all right
Puffin: I'm gonna draw the Allip.
Jess: That sounds like it sounds like a Hag or something because it just sounds like a "this is nanny grindylow!"
Puffin: Oh, okay
so for for the Allip
I think what I'm thinking of is that it's probably kind of like a whale person it's some kind of like
Helper, who's like, oh,
we'll talk to the allip and and it's gonna be like
The the upper half of a whale and then the lower half of the man. Yeah there you go Allip.
Jess: I'm trying to think... you got the whale person hybrid
Um, I'm gonna go with like a haggard old woman type deal
But maybe like but it kind of sounds like sounds like a sea monster
Because this is like a "grindy" which is like kind of like gills. Like a sea witch... a sandwich.
Can't like I honestly can't remember what it's like
Supposed to be but I've heard them before that's like heard of it. Yeah
Okay, like a Sea Hag kind of looking deal
Puffin: So you're thinking like a Sea Hag or something
Jess: Yeah, kind of but maybe a little bit different more of a more of a fish body.
Puffin: Got I got my whale coming out my whale person
Jess: Oh yeah! You got-
Puffin: We both got the sea creatures on our mind
Jess: Have you have you run how?
Puffin: What's the highest?
Jess: Yeah, what's the highest character level you've ever DMed?
Puffin: Highest is like 11 levels. That's the highest I've DMed for and
And actually and so it's funny because it's like most the time
I've been running at like lower levels and the players we're gonna be coming back to this campaign
Everyone's gonna be 10th level and that's gonna be like, we're gonna be going up from there
And that's like the highest I've ever gone up
and so I'm curious to see how it goes because I am a little bit worried about how much like
Bookkeeping is gonna have to happen because players are running around with like five attacks
You know and stuff like that or and so I'm just worried. I hope they don't get overwhelmed to with all the dice that they're rolling
Jess: Yeah, because
Yeah, I've never gone past 10th
so it's like I always seems to conclude right just right there anything beyond that it's like DM's like no.
Puffin: The one time
Okay. So one time we played the 14 level and I have told that in the story. That was when I made Absurd
and there was there was one clip that I left out of that which was like they
one of the players did reverse gravity and this is the first time we've ever dealt with that powerful magic and
He was going to lift everyone off the ground and then have one
Absurd cast feather fall on everyone and I was like just to clarify
All of your lives are in Absurd's hands right now
Jess: Oh no, I just lost concentration. Whoops!
Puffin: They're all dead
like
And so I I said like look you should probably wait around till someone gets feather fall. He's like, yeah
It's probably a good idea like yeah
Jess:Yes. I'm going full fish.
It's just like literal fish with a -
hag's head strap to it. This is fine this is this is what wizards of the coast would produce.
Puffin: Yeah, we're gonna get a call from Wizards
They're gonna be like you-
Jess: We need you guys.
Puffin: We need to wait like right now we need you to stop right now
Jess: There's too many good ideas.
Puffin: Yeah, yeah, that's yeah that's what I was thinking too many good ideas
Jess:vMm-hmm. It's it's too good
Puffin: They're taking all of them. Like there's a limited number of ideas in the world and
You think you people think you can just claim all of them for yourselves? Well you can't!
I'm going through a bunch of different character shapes because it's like the problem is I'm trying to get him like, okay
How do you do part whale part person?
Jess:You got reference going. I shouldn't be flying blind. Kids if you wanna draw
Don't don't don't work without reference but be smart like puffin.
Then you won't come up with horrifying monstrosities like this
Puffin: All right, let's see
I'm giving him a best because any good whale person would be respectable and would be wearing a vest. Mm-hmm
Jess: Yeah I dunno, I always have trouble like trying to decide
All my silhouettes sometimes end up the same
They're like, alright, it's a monster. It's hunched over
Puffin: Yeah or something. No, I guess I gosh. Oh, yeah. Yeah
Jess: It's like oh
Puffin: Or something started putting in the detail and when you figure out that it's the wrong silhouette and it's like well
Well, I guess I gotta burn it now.
Jess: I guess I got it set it on fire
Which this thing deserves to be set on fire because it's just no
I don't want to meet this thing in dark alley, okay?
Puffin :Yeah, no. Oh.
Jess: Absurd save me!
Puffin: Oh no, I will rescue you it will be all okay now
Jess: Oh no okay. Cast your feather fall at the grindylow
Watch it be adorable like actually be cute
Puffin: I'm gonna be sending you the image because what can I do? You know, you can't really mess with perfection
Yeah, that's that's exactly what an Allip is
Jess: Aww it's so cute! Oh my god!
That's what it should be like next time anybody like throws throws out an Allip, you know like
He it should be that
Puffin: Yeah that's exactly-
Jess: See here you go. That's a good picture. That's it. That's a real good picture
See it looks just like it!
It's not like some elder spirit from another dimension, it's good!
Puffin: This is this is what it manifests what I drew is what it manifests as
Jess: See this is why they don't cross planes
Jess: Alright, I'm almost done with with the Grindlylow. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's yeah, it's good
Yeah, there's no improving this okay snipping it now
Puffin: All right, actually, that's that's pretty close to what it actually looks like
Jess: Is it really? It's just a lady with a fish fish body? Oh god-
So I got fish right-
Puffin: So it's also it's been in Harry Potter as well I think the grindylow
Jess: But yeah, the ah
It just no-
They're so gross
It just needs it just needs to you know, like just needs more hair and a carrot nose and it'd be good. Yes
Well, thank you guys for staying along for the ride and seeing some horrific monstrosity is unfold. Yes
We're not sorry, we're not
Puffin: We make no apologies. We have no regrets
Jess: I mean if you guys want to use these in your campaign, you stat them up. You you go girl, or guy
I don't know. Anyway-
Puffin: Yeah, and thanks for having us having me. Yeah, and
Jess: Yeah and you can totally come back anytime
Puffin: Yeah! Awesome!
Jess: If you're willing to come back to this.
Puffin: It was a lot of fun. Yeah, I really appreciate it. Thanks for having me
Alright. See you guys. Bye guys. Bye
Both: Bye!
