Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 102 - Race to the Tower

Episode Date: January 10, 2022

All hell breaks loose as Vox Machina race to stop the return of Vecna!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yep. Uh-boy. Anyway. Job's done. Job. Jop. Jop. Last we left off.

Vox Machina had discovered the existence of a second Ziggurat-like structure on the continent of Marquette. And apparently a cult who has whispered one there gathering magical artifacts to toss into a second darkened black orb similar to the one beneath Whitestone. beneath White Stone all this time. You ran into Scanlan once more. And leading you guys to where this cavern was found in the mountains of Smolder Crown on the continent of Marquette,

you did battle with the cultists there and seemed to reveal one of the leaders in that group was none other than the not dead, Delilah Briarwood. She funded you off, completed their ritual, and some of their surviving cultists fled into the orb, apparently to the other side. to the other side. You then gathered yourselves, gathered some supplies, your information, and then proceeded to travel through the orb in White Stone into the shadow fell, the shadow

plain, dark mirror to the prime material, where you stumbled upon a partially ruined city that had undergone some sort of ancient siege, and much of it still lies in ruins and disrepair, where you discovered what seemed to be two other siphon orbs existing around the outskirts of this forgotten city, leaving threads of magical energy being siphoned and transferred to a singular black obsidian tower. For whatever purpose, the whispered one, the undying king has for this energy. You began to make your way deeper into the city, masquerading at some undead. In the process, you killed a few cultists wandering the street and intimidated one. Or, I should say, didn't intimidate, you killed him and then asked his corpse.

I guess it's a form of intimidation. Probably one of the most extreme forms of intimidation, really. Discovering that this city is under the title Tha Rampala, which Tharampala, you don't know too much about it other than it seems to be where an ancient battle took place. Much of the undead that wanders this realm carries armaments, weapons, and symbols that seem to be. of Pelor, the Dawnfather. You also discovered that there's this tower in the center titled Entropus, where all the magic is being funneled at the moment. Thus, having found this information, gathered your resolve, you continue your trek deeper and deeper into

the city surrounding the Tower of Trapis to discover what your purpose is here in Tharham Fala. So, Vox Machina, what are you doing? Taking a five. Take a 10, about, time, time. You know. So we found out that there's a ritual happening soon. Yeah, like super stat. And there's no day or night here, so who cares, right?

Right? It's all just all just night, all the time. It's kind of a, kind of a sunless gray sky. There's some low light, like a very heavy, like a very dark thunderous Seattle. Seattle. Hello Seattle. Hello Seattle.

Thank you. I think it is. It is now. Okay. So. We have to make our way to the big tower, right? Super fast. And invisibly.

Oh, we're also vampire creatures. Oh, we look like the gloomstockers. Yeah. No, those are the flying ones. We look like miscellaneous vampire-y things, right? Yeah. We just look at shambling zombies.

Goody creatures. Yeah. Next is from a, yeah, bad, walking bad. Yeah, it's past. Troy's still kicking. Ah, what? That's right.

Passed on, Trace. Maybe a trauma film. I would say probably, I would have not cast a spell yet. That would have interrupted the, the. I cast it when we landed here, but. Correct. But I don't think you've had,

you've done anything that altered that concentration yet. I don't think so. So it's still going? I think so. Okay. Maybe another 30 minutes or so. Yeah, I didn't Hunter's mark either of the guys that we attacked.

We got the smoking thing, right? What's it called? The censor, the seed, the, what is it? The smoky thing. What's it called? The censor. Is it called a sensor? Yes.

First try. And it was, we learned that it does something too. It protects you from Ruelly Dead. Yeah. Yeah. Keep the weird. I think it's got a range.

If we stay in this tight, stay tight. Yeah. Stay tight, tight, tight. So why don't we just walk through the center of town in the middle of the road with the sensor and just walk into the tower. No? Maybe? No. I see nothing wrong with this plan.

Fly up to the top of the tower? Oh, no, dear. Mm-mm. Yeah, I can stay on the ground. Teleport somewhere. Do you have that ability? Yeah. She does.

Doesn't she can be. There's no trees on the top of the tower, I think. We can be smoky mist. That's, uh, we've got this. It takes a minute to not be missed anymore, and by then they'll realize we're on the top of a tower. We take off the robes that they had and pop it on some of us? Yeah.

Sure, why not? I think let's... I mean, we're undead. We look like we're undead. Oh, right, yeah. I think they probably know we're coming. I think let's just trepidatiously make our way a little closer, see what else is in this town, see if maybe there's anything useful.

Yeah, and stay low-key. We don't need to go marching. Let's in. Let's not blow anything up yet. Or making our way to the tower. making our way towards the tower in a towerly direction. Yeah. Are we at full health?

No. No. I'm not. I'm not either. I mean, should we take like a 30 minute rest and roll some hit points? Sure. Did we fight? Oh, no, that's right.

Going through. Yeah, going through the actual portal, the spinning ball of death, constant damage. I don't know if there's actually time for that, though, to take like. I'm all right with my, I'm 20 points. I don't mind being 20 points down. Let's be all full, though. We can be all full.

We're going to potentially fight Delilah Briarwood. Yeah, let's be full. Let's be full. I'm assuming it's going to take us some time just to even get there though, right? Yeah. Is it considered, like, healing as we walk there, though? No, we have to take a wrap.

I say let's get a little closer than, and survey the situation, then take a break. I just feel like we're a bit far to be. All right, I just don't know if there's if she's already started a ritual, if we run into something on the way there, though, I don't want to be at peak performance yet. Yeah. All right. Yes.

Let's move. Oh, God. Sure. It's going to be... Do we still pass... Yes, we do. You do. The next 30 minutes or so, yeah. Okay. So let's take advantage. Yeah, let's at least move for 30 more minutes.

Yeah. Who wants to set... Who's got the sensor in the front? Because we've got a stay in the robe. Oh, who's in a robe? We're all undead. Are we in robes? We can do robes. I'm all right with robes.

There's only three of them. I'll take a robe. I'll take a robe. I'll take a robe. You lead with the sensor. I'll take a rub with the sensor. Okay, Percy and Bex? Yeah.

Okay, you both throw robes on over your seeming altered undead bodies. Percy, you're carrying the sensor? Yes, I'm carrying the sensor. And you're all slowly clustered behind them? Yes. Okay. It's who dominate. It is requiem.

Thank you. All right, so you guys continue moving what's very plainly towards the center of the city as the tower stands as this giant beacon of shadow in the center of the horizon. And the streets are scattered and broken. You can see there was, what may have seemed almost like a hint of cobblestone at one point, really just looks like largely broken and shattered badlands and dried stone that seems to have been pummeled by impacts of some kind, crack it in the small pieces. This is a city by function and function alone.

There was very little considered in the beauty of its construction, at least this far out. as you continue to press towards the center of the city. I want to keep an eye out and just to see if anybody's noticing if it seems like people are paying attention to us in a way that they shouldn't be. Okay. Well, as you're keeping an eye out, I would like all of you guys to make a deception roll with advantage. Oh, with advantage? Yes.

Come on, Gil. That's not bad. 33. 21. 17. 18. 17. Pike?

22. 8. Oh. Too big. Too big. As you guys... I'm sorry. As you guys make your way further down one of the, not major thoroughfares, but one of the general streets that kind of snakes around towards the central area of the city.

Some of you gently, kind of moaning and girls, as you walk behind you have Grog Frankenstein his way down the street. Upad, open! No. Um... But now the reds! The sound of your rendition, that song.

No, you, um, as you're walking, a shadow seems to cross. A large kind of hulking shadow crosses past one of the rows and turns. And begins walking in your direction. direction. And you see ahead, it looks to be about a 10-foot-tall, thick, burly figure of brownish red flesh, torn and chains and hooks hanging from it. It looks to be almost like some sort of an amalgam of large hobgoblin body parts that have been sewn and stitched together with spikes and iron plates, kind of jutting through, keeping it together at the seams. Where there would be a face, you've seen instead a giant metal mass that looks like a

a cage of some kind. And behind it, these two glowing beads of yellow eyes poking through. And you watch as it just kind of walks in a straight line. Coming right for us? Call it walking in your direction. Its arms are kind of curled in front of it, like a gorilla. Its fingers kind of dragging in the dust below it. Does it look like it's just happening in our direction or is it coming toward us? It's hard to tell. It's about 60 feet up. Is there a road we can turn directions?

Is there a nonchalant way of maintaining direction but getting out of its way? There'd be enough space to kind of give about a 10-foot berth to it as you put your back against the side of one of the nearest buildings and let it pass. Like parting for the queen at the Rinfair? A little bit, yeah. All right. We maybe move to the side. Or Talz and Jaffe. Or Tal's in Jaffe and any party. What's our ploy if this thing tries to kill us?

Kill hit. Okay. Same old, save old. Shishaw. Shishaw. You guys, I'll make your way to the side. side. And you watch, it's it's autonomous. It's not being, you know, brought along with anybody. It's just running a path down the road. You all move off to the side and as you maneuver

to the side of it, it kind of gets close to the sensor you're carrying. And kind of puts its fingers out of the way, actually crushing some of the stonework on one of the nearby buildings to kind of pull itself aside, trying to avoid the kind of billowing. of the smoke from the sensor. And it gives like a dull, deep, resonant in your direction as it passes, then eventually passes by the cluster of you that have all moved to the site after.

Its head kind of ships and scans back in the path that it's walking, and it moves past you, following the direction you just came from. Nice. They're nice. So cool. Wow. Wow.

That thing works. A lot of Fonzes. It spells terrible. As you continue, you further into the city, you still hear the distant kind of low shrieks of the gloomstockers kind of overhead, just kind of swooping past in clusters, circling around. Occasionally, you watch one or two swoop down and land on a distant rooftop, and you hear the crunching of heavy stone and whatever materials were still remaining on the roof of that structure

as it lands and surveys a bit and then takes off and joins the rest of its kin. Do any of the buildings look remarkable or interesting? I'm trying to keep an eye out for any building that may have anything inside of vague importance. Either the building itself is just slightly more interesting or it looks like maybe someone has boarded something up to try and maintain some kind of vigil against the darkness.

entirely sure. Out of the ordinary. Make an investigation check. I knew you were going to say that. I am not good at this. Nope. Nope. Nope. That's a four. That's a natural one. A lot of these buildings are hard to tell apart when they're all just in this state of disrepair and instruction. Some of them do. Some of them have windows? Windows? Kind of. Okay. Holes where windows might be. Possibly. Some, you can't tell if it's a hole. Or a door. Or a door. As you press for.

That's take over again. This is just Osgiliath, right? It's just wrecked, ruined. No complete buildings or any of them? You see some further in. The exterior appears to have been the most heavily sacked. And there's been little intent to reconstruct from this point.

Like I said, you're still probably a good mile and a half out from the center of the city. And as you walk further in, you can see more clusters of skeletons traveling in groups of 12 to 15 somewhat erratically. You've seen some creatures that seem to walk with an intent pattern. Like they have some sort of a sentinel path they follow to keep watch on the perimeter or the roads of the city. The skeletons that one are the undead that you see kind of clattering about across the dusty, cracked grounds between the buildings are erratic, uncontrolled. Mostly, it seems to be less intentionally created undead and more just arisen by the nature of the plane you walk

and haven't bothered anyone yet, or at least those who live here. As you begin walking forward, you watch as a cluster of them kind of spills into this T intersection, a little ways up. A few of them falling and tumbling and getting back up as they cluster together. Some of them bang into each other, the clattering of metal from the bits of armor

that still cling to their long-rotted forms, Broken bones, some of them are missing arms or sections of a skull is exposed and cracked open on the side where you can see what looks to be some sort of long dried and rotted away gray matter was kind of left to slowly collapse like a flannel in a cupboard. As you begin to approach that area, they kind of separate a bit and kind of scatter to fill almost like a diffusing in the center of this intersection. And then they contract, almost like there's a strange hive mind magic that seems to draw them back together. They're just moving in these autonomous clusters of chaos. And you see on them still, similar to the ones you noticed earlier, some of the armor that they're wearing appears to be reminiscent to the armor that the blackguard that you battled at the Zerat earlier had.

Or similar kind of dark metal and other have long destroyed, ruined, scraped and scarred bits of silver and gold armor that are emblazoned with a long, ruined, and defaced symbols of the dawnfather at Pellor. Does it seem like both of those factions are still, I mean, are they clustered in the same groups? They are. Okay. And you get the sense that whatever battle took place here long ago was probably between these two factions and those that were lost in that fray have just been risen over time and just wander aimlessly through the streets. Free range undead.

Yeah. We've seen long dead people. It's fucking creepy in the upside down. What's going on? I called the airport to try and coordinate each time again. It costs me $17,000 for that one, five second bits, so enjoy it, guys. Worth it. Totally worth it.

These bodies, like compared to say the ex-champion of the Raven Queen, like, do these bodies seem even older, more decayed? Do we have any sense for how old these fuckers are? You would have to get up close and that would be a medicine check. Would you want to try and make your way close enough to one of these bodies to inspect it enough? How far off of me? There, if you guys continue moving forward, you'll be at that intersection in about 30 seconds.

I'm not gonna go ahead. I'll wait. I could go up close with somebody and do a medicine check. But keep up near there's a thing. Everybody get close to the sensor. I'll guide us toward something. Let's just. Yeah.

Yeah, no one poking out ahead for this. Hopefully they'll be affected by the census. Let's just start fighting. Well, hold on. So who's moving forward? Just the whole group. So we can all be with the wispy smoke. Okay.

So you guys make your way towards this intersection. We're normal. We're normal people in robes. You also watch, as you begin to walk further in, that elements of the ground are growing more jagged and craggy. You can see bits of stone and earth are jutting out in large stone spikes,

either be through some upheaval or elements of the tumultuous landscape long ago that just caused elements of rock to spike outward up five, ten feet in sections. You watch, as you grow close to this intersection, about half of the group, all that once kind of turns and looks in your direction. Can I just walk some of the smoke towards? Shamble in your direction, the rest of the group noticing

as you begin blowing the sense of smoke. That way, you watch as three of the closest skeletons make their way into the fume and kind of and seem to kind of vaguely lose interest for a brief moment. So since we're close, can I do a medicine check? Are we close enough to? Yes. because of the smoke.

Oh, shit, okay. You've got this pike. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Uh, 13. With the brief glances you have, it's hard to really tell, and plus you're not too familiar with the overall weather of the Shadow of Felt. You don't know if there's enough weather to really manifest

as, you know, general decay, or if they've been, or if they've been beaten by the ravages of time, and if it rains here or not, it's hard to tell. You gather probably doesn't rain often. They're definitely hundreds of years old. That's the most you can really tell. They aren't fresh dead.

These are long dead. Oh, my feeling foresighty. Can I creep up behind and do the same? I will say you can do that. However, you still have disadvantage. Just because she's already taken the role, and you're just supplementing her role in a very short period of time. Would that be an even roll then, since I have advantage on everything?

You have advantage on everything. I'm giving you a chance to do this when normally you would have none. So the four sets allowing you to have a role of disadvantage. So go for it. Ooh, 18. Or not. Getting a glance at the one nearest to you, the bodies seem to be fairly well preserved for as long as they've been here,

so you get the sense that there isn't a lot of heavy weather here at all. And given that fact, the decay that's there, it is reminiscent, maybe not quite as old as like the corpse of Pravonne when you discovered the tomb originally. But comparatively ancient, at least over 500 years. Good old Pervon. These skeletons are almost as old as you, Scanlon. Good one. It was an impressive walk. It was a very impressive one.

As you continue to walk forward, and the skeletons kind of part around the cloud of the sensor, you push deeper into the city, and they coalesce behind you and follow. They're like keeping a perimeter cluster now. They're still being held at bay by the wafting of this thick blackish green smoke that's billowing off of it, but they're staying just outside of it and just slowly shambling at your speed, kind of waiting for an opening. Yeah, I have an idea. What if, right when we get close to the tower, all of these trailing skeletons that we have on us, you just turn undead. And then you control them all. You can do that?

Well, destroy them. Destroy them. No, you can't control. I thought you could turn them. Well, turn them means they just run away screaming. I can make them run away. But you're at a level where you can just make them explode if they roll up. Okay.

So, up to you. Okay. We've got a little nuke in our pockets. I want us to be quiet. I don't want to make a big spectacle. Because I can make them go boom boom. Let's just wait. She can make them poop.

They don't even have bowels. Is anything like stalking us from above while we're moving? How astute of you? I was just about to get to that. Did you hear that? You put the ass. You put the ass in a stoop. A stoop, bitch.

Did you guys know that Travis is the smartest guy at the table? Sure. I could tell by his cheer shirt. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. So in the billowing smoke that's coming around, Grog, because you brought it up, as well as the twins who have relatively high passive perceptions, keeleth as well actually, you glance up. and notice that the erratic patterns

that a lot of the gloom stalkers take in the sky, there's two that seem to be circling. I don't like it. I don't like it. Yeah, I don't like it. One of them kind of, can you watch as it goes into a dive in your direction. Oh, God, in our direction. Is there a building we can duck into? Yeah. Make a quick perception check.

But quick. Ooh. Oh, nice hand. 23. Okay. Both of you really quick, you see two different directions. Pass the intersection on the right and on the left, you see two buildings that are mostly still intact. They've sustained some level of damage, but they still have two solid floors, maybe partial roof missing, but they appear to be structurally sound enough to at least jump into.

They both have doors that are partially ajar and a dark and interior. And a roof. And a roof. I can talk. Go in that building. Go in that building. We go in, yeah? Yes.

That way they can't dive bomb us. I go in last. Censoring. Oh, yeah, yeah. Good call. All right. So you guys all rush into the building on the right or the left? Your.

Right. All right. All right. It's the one that back's found. Okay. You guys all rush into that building with Percival's last in there. As you hit the...

Weapons drawn in case there's something in there. Okay. But also moving like zombie. Okay. And also. Perfect. So as you guys all rush into the building, weapons ready, who's first in the building? Me, maybe, because yeah, we saw it.

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20? 20. 24. Okay. As you enter the inside, you look around and you can see what appears to be the remnants of a few tables, very simple tables that have been shattered and destroyed, just broken into ruin around the area. You see what appear to be blades, two left in the wall, one broken off in the center, that have just long rusted over time. You see what appear to be the signs of body, like blood, dark, dark, dried blood circles in the ground, but no corpses, no bodies.

I'm going to use the broken tables and swords to barricade the front windows or holes I'm not sure which they are, but I'm going to barricade them. Okay. The window holes and the door, use the sword to jam the door shut. Are there dark corners that anybody could be hiding in or another room? I mean, the room itself is pretty damn dark, with a little bit of light that comes in through the, like, one of the distant, kind of broken elements of the wall. There's enough light where you can kind of, it's very dim light for you, Percy. Everyone else's the dark vision. It seemed all right to make out the interior.

Do that grocery trap check, even though? Okay, make an investigation. 19. 19? No traps from what you can gather at this structure. But you do hear, as you close the door and again barricading it, with Percival, you hear the multitudes of bony claws, hands and bits of armor slamming and brushing up against the outer wall that you just came through. The door is like, as the undead have now kind of clustered and are trying to push their way in. They seem to have a scent. We'll keep the sensor near the door. Yeah, I do a little gus can trip and like put a little bit of the sensor smoke under the door.

Okay. Okay. The. I'm like an oscillating face. Oh, man. Grod's getting pretty cool at 18, guys. Just saying, timeless body, oscillating fan. Best wild shapeability. Wait do you see the sprinkler system.

It's water conserving. Well, the vestra gets that. So as you're blowing the smoke of the sensor beneath the doorway, it lessens the impacts, but the undead, the you know, more than a dozen or so of these, probably about 15 or 16, them have kind of spread out, and they're all kind of clustered at that side. The little bit of the fumes that you can push beneath the doorway are only reaching a handful, and it's keeping them from the main door at the moment. Can we see outside at all? Is there a peephole or anything? There are no windows at the front of this building. You see a sliver where it looks like a portion of the wall suffered some sort

of an axe or a hatchet impact a long time ago, and someone tried to pull their way through. It's maybe about that wide, and that's where the one source of light is coming through. I'm going to go over there. Oh. Don't do anything? Well, I was going to say, what if we turned ourselves into something else and snuck out, and they would think that we're still in this building, like anything that was tracking us? I was going to try to make a little diversion to draw them away from the door. You guys hear a heavy impact on the roof above. I'll do that. I'll do my thing.

And you hear what sounds like really heavy footfalls along the roof of the building. I'm going to look through the little sliver and I'm going to cast. Do you want to see what they're burning in the censor? Yes, I do. I've had a sudden ball. I'm going to open up the sensor. Okay, hold on just a second. Yeah, go.

I'm going to cast major image and make a small little human girl in the middle of the street crying, bleeding from the arm. And just does, she looks disoriented and she's walking towards the other building that we spotted. Just very sad and like Steven Spielberg redgrass little girl. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. As you glance through and create this image, you, this image appears of this tiny, kind of saucer-eyed, kind of like a French poppet of a girl with a little dress, her curls, her.

kind of just musted up. Yeah. Hennig scar. Shirley Temple. Yeah, it's missing like one button eye. Oh, yeah. That's just like that very little. Basically.

And she goes running off, kind of screaming and crying. You guys immediately hear the shift of the undead beyond the door kind of and begin getting fainter and fainter. As that happens, you also hear... Scanlan, you glance out and you watch the shadow of one of the gloomstockers, flying over her head, begin to swoop down and attack. and attack for the creature, the little girl. Okay, she's gonna run, she's gonna book it

into that other building to try to get away as fast as she can, and she can move super fast since she's not real. This is actually very true. She's like the fucking flash. There is a lady all in my heart three, it takes a lullaby, he's how it's a lot, this is all this,

120 feet is all I can move her. She's like sweeping as she, She's ready for crying. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, you can make her move with an action 120 feet. So the little girl goes from like, Ah, too, eh. It just goes into a full sprint in a really creepy kind of ring-style way.

Like, that was for you, Travis. Across the way, and you watch as the gloomstocker swoops up and slams into the side of the stone building, causing part of it to kind of crush inward and break. The roof kind of partially has to settle and it falls into itself as the creature kind of writes itself. You now have a much closer look at this entity and it is, it is just billowing black shadow-like smoke off of it. You can see what looks to be glimpses of some sort of physical form in there, but it's so blurry. It's almost like it's phasing between physical matter and dream. You're not sure what it's made from, but you can see what looks to be an elongated neck, some sort of a snapping jaw at the end and two of a

at the end and two bright, greenish-yellow, glowing beacons-like eyes at the front of its face. Its wings don't have skin or flesh. It's just dark smoke. And as it flaps, it leaves these trails, these curling bits like black, black, black smoke. Are we fucking dragon size? It's Wyvern size. It's maybe about 20 feet from wingtip to wing tip. Is it anything like we've ever heard about? No, you have not encountered a creature like this before. But you watch as it glances, and at this this proximity, Scanlan, you're the one who's getting the view of this. You watch wherever it looks, its eyes seem to emanate these tiny cones of light, like little flashlights. And as it scans past the little girl, where the beam goes past, her body just is nothing there.

Oh, he's got. Is there another door in this building? There is on the back side, yes. It's partially covered by what looks to be debris and it looks but was like somebody else barricaded the other side, but did not seem to cover both ends before they fell within this building. We should go out the other door as fast as you ass upon us. I'll take care of that barricade.

But quietly, we don't want them to know that we're getting out the other side. I don't know if I can guarantee that. What are you doing, Grog? Moving shit out of the way of the door. In a... Medium pace. Yeah, let's call it a medium well.

Yeah. Okay. Go ahead and make an athletics check. Okay. You were a terrible stage. mom, by the way. Oh. Yeah.

Well, she's gone. She died. Well, she's still there. She got her equity card. And that's what matters. That's what matters. She's still there, and you watch the creature seems confused. Like the eyebeams kind of move past it, and the little girl's still there crying and still darting, you know, around the area.

And the creature's like, oh yeah, lens in the ground, and comes up and like swipes and bites at her and kind of goes through her form. And you see it. You get the sensitive creatures aren't super intelligent, but they are effective at seeing through certain glamours or... But is it still after her, or is it giving up on that ghost? It's in the process of giving up on that ghost right now. We should get a light flashlight. We gotta go.

21. At this point, you watch this Grog just goes over with this giant mitts and pretty much single-handedly just... Shifts the entire pile over with one shove, exposing the door there before you. Out the door. Go, go, go, go. You open the doorway? Leave anything behind, like a dead body or something for them to eat?

What are we? What dead body? He's got a ton of them in there. Actually, yes. Throw a dead body in the room. Who's laughing now, bitches, dead body? And like the world's most macabre flower girl. You produce one of the...

The eye birth from the bag of holding a dead body. And you just go f... And you just... as we run out the door so they don't know they don't follow us. Who's given the orders around here? Me, please. Okay. So as you throw the body behind you,

the door is now being kind of slammed a bit. It seems like some of the undead wander towards that illusion. Some are still on the other side, and now that you've pulled the sensor back from it, the other doors kind of being pushed in, and you can see light peeking through. You guys rush out, still with your seeming illusion on, and you hear very loudly,

loudly, almost omnipresent, the screech the of the gloomstocker right around the corner from you as it begins to take off. What are we doing? Just on the other side of the building. Some other buildings. Should we get look for another building we can duck into to like lose their, so we can't.

Line of site, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Building, building. Okay, I want everyone to roll stuff check, please. Do we have our, do, you're right on the, you're getting close to the tail, and you have about five minutes left. Ooh, natural 20.

Me too. Shit. Thank God we still have a thing. So natural 20, 21. Did you add 10? 36. All right. 39.

22, I mean. 22. Oh, natural 20. Yeah. 22. 20. Okay. It did not roll well.

Yeah, but we're fine. So you all got above 20. That's good. Yeah. We needed above 40. So you guys are rush past and quick glance around you, just find one of the nearby buildings. It's a little more dilapidated, but it seems to have at least enough cover where you can all

dive into the shadows and seemingly vanish. And you all stand there for a second and you're super quiet, all breathing heavily. The sense are still kind of billowing this awful, awful fume. It's just filling your nose. Your eyes are kind of watering instinctively from the presence. It stings just to get into your sinuses, but you're all enduring it and trying to be as quiet as possible. Is there another door in this building that we can exit? Make perception check. I'm showing Keyless what's inside the sensor. Can I get it?

An uncensored name? 19. It's hard to tell. It looks like what, where there may have been a door. A portion of the roof in here that is also kind of collapsed. It looks like a giant like siege stone about that big from a catapult was launched and just tore through the roof and just kind of shattered that side of the building. So the only way out is the same way you came in. Unless you climb up and out.

climb up and out. But as you open the sensor and look inside, it looks like there is this ember, this cluster of burning dried herbs. You're not quite sure what it is or where it came from, but it's currently just glowing red in places. I'm going to give some of the herbs to Keelith to examine. It's like on a charcoal. Sorry, I know. No, it has a, it looks to be charcoal stones on the bottom cluster on, and these herbs are kind of placed over it and it's just burning and smoldering over time. Sure. So can I tell what the herbs are?

Make a medicine check. Let's be a nature check, sorry. Thank you. And is this something that I would get advantage on for my herb book? Yes. You know. Your herb book. Urb book.

And sounds like that. 28. Okay. I get to look this up. Oh. Look it up. It's a real thing. I should stop crying.

What? It's called Wild's Guide. Wild's guide. That's the shit. Wild guide. It's a tobacco-like leaf that was used briefly...

It was briefly used for just, you know, like recreational smoking and treatment of like small wounds, but it tended to have a very quick kind of disease sickening sense to it. Those who smoke it a lot tend to just

get sick very quickly and it went into disuse from there. And it's largely considered to be a relatively useless plant. There isn't a lot of medicinal quality to it. And it's kind of just something that exists in herbalism books, as things to avoid. Comes in green and red available in the Resident Evil, you know. Yeah. You get the sense that whatever they're,

them using it for the sensor is probably not a widely no use for this type of plant. You found a new use. I did. I'd like write it down and I press a flower and then, or I save some of it, and then can I druid craft some more? Now that I'll know what it is. From that cluster, I'd say, yeah, you can create a little bit more, but very little bit.

Okay, I'll go ahead and make as much as I can. Okay. So you manage to, you spend some time there to focus on it, and from the remnants there you can make about twice the amount than what was in the sensor. you have probably a good solid kind of softball size cluster. The resin's the best part. Okay, I take half, put half back in the sensor,

and then give half to Percy. Does anybody else want some? Actually, should we like dab ourselves? No, is that weird? Is that weird? Okay. Yeah, maybe it's just give to press you. Really after all that no dab joke?

Anyway. It's too classy for us. I guess so. None of the opposite of standards are, I know we have them. You have some to Percy? Anybody else wants some? All right. I don't have any way to make by it, but I'll take it.

Okay. Definitely my shirt now. As you guys are doing this, you hear the... I keep some... And you hear the... It's hunting from building the building. Closer. A little further away.

A little further away. Is there a... He's gone? Did it fly away? Sounds like it. Oh! Let's keep going. Keep going.

Yeah. Keep going. Building to building toward the town. We'll find out. Let's go. Let's make a break for it. Okay. Who's going first?

Okay. Fact, as you dart along the side, dancing up in the air, you can still see. And it looks like there is some communication because where once there was maybe a two, you know, you can now see a lot of them have clustered close in your direction. There seems to be some sort of an overhead hunt. Should I cast pass without a trace on us again? Are we running out of time on it? You're getting pretty close, yeah.

I'm gonna cast it again just so we don't. Okay, so you cast without a trace again. Are we without a trace and dust of tracelessness? That's just a one-time deal. Dust of trace-less is just so that they can't track. Can be tracked. Thank you. So the second thing you've gathered,

these creatures are not very intelligent, but they do have some sort of communication between them, and there apparently is a rush on their end to search for whatever was recently spotted. So as you guys make your way following Vax's lead, down some of the alleyways, and begin slithering through the back ways and the small side streets,

kind of avoiding your first attempt to just walk straight through the center of the town. It's crazy how that didn't work though, I mean, because it was a really smart plan. It worked for a bit. Not every plan is going to hold you to the very end. There was some cleverness to it. So you begin to move through these buildings before it would be Keelith, Vex, and Vax.

You guys come around one small alley and opens up into another main road, and this road's hard to avoid. It seems to be almost a circular. central road that marks kind of the outer and inner rings of Thar and Fala. But you see there marking right across this road a 15 foot tall wall that seems to just lock in the inner cloister of the town. How does it? How thick does it appear to be? Make a perception check. Go through it.

Yeah, that's no rule. Oh, 17. It's hard to tell from this perspective. You have to get a better glance. You have to find if there was a break in the wall anywhere. And you do see what looks to be some variation in texture, a little ways to the right. It could be a gate.

It could be a door. It could be an opening. It could just be some change, and it's rather solid, not very varied exterior. Go to the game? Yeah. Okay. Why don't we see, why don't the half-house go real quick?

Just to stay small and quiet. No clanking, no crushing. And then you take a look at the wall, and then we just call everybody up in just two seconds if it's the way to go. Okay. Is it far away? It's like 15 feet from us, you said? Is it probably about 60 feet down to the right of you guys.

And so the change in the wall is about 60 feet. But the wall from our hiding spot is how far away from us? Across the way, it's about 30 feet from your feet. Okay. It's like about 15 feet tall. It's not crazy, don't it's crazy big. I'll see if I can discern something here. Oh, you come?

A little bit better. No, you go. Go, go. Go, go. Go, check it out. Sure. So the two of you can dart off to the side, following Keelith's impression of where she saw this shift. And as you make your way along the edge, you glance over,

and you see two things. One, there does indeed appear to be a small cut doorway in the wall. Maybe about six feet up, about three feet wide. That's designed for a single file passage of any creature that wishes to move through. It's open. There's no closed door there.

Above it, just above it, about eight feet up, you see what appears to be a deep, cerulean blue gemstone, about two feet of cross, that's embedded with it. the wall. I think it's fine. Yeah, yeah. Just go through the...

We're good. We're good. Yeah. We found it. Yeah. It's a big blue stone about that big around. It's just embedded in the wall above the door. I actually ask them how thick does the wall appear to be around that side?

Looking through the door, can we tell how deep now? Make it look. Yeah, actually you can. It's about three feet wide, four feet wide. Like the depth of the wall? The depth of the wall? Yeah. It's like a big heavy wall.

You can totally... make it. Good idea, Grok. Definitely try it. I can try in stone shape through it. You too recognize at least there's something very familiar about that stone embedded in the wall. It's blue. It's definitely blue. It's very similar in size, installation, and functional placement. It's very similar in size, installation, and functional placement. as the threshold crests that adorn the exterior of Singorn. Which are definitely used, wait, to teleport things? The ones that are used to transport Singorn to the Faywild.

That we saw in the Faywild. Oh, weird. Oh, no. Oh my God, if the ritual finishes, they can teleport this. The whole city. Yeah. Yeah. Shit, we have to stop this.

What if we dismantle the gems? gems. Probably have to dismiss. Maybe. We're only open. Dismetling that's pretty tough. I feel like it'd be easier to wreck the operator than try and break the machine. I don't know.

I mean, we've got a guy who crushes rocks all the time, right? Yeah, but I don't think it's saved to touch those things. And the moment he makes a ruckus, the air squad is coming down on the location immediately. AirBarr. Didn't we take some of that crystal? Didn't we take some of that? Which crystal? Did we take shards of it from the thresholds in Singlor?

I don't remember. I don't have any in my pack. I feel like we, because one of them shattered, and I feel like we took some. Yeah, I did. You did? Yeah, the shards of blue crystal. Yeah. One meters of the moon.

I don't know. Maybe it's useful in this case. That's just not pretty, it's all broken. One question is, if these stones are used to pull this tower into the main round. Is there another purpose to them here, or is that doorway safe is what I'm wondering? No, that door is no way safe.

Where was the gym embedded in the doorway? Feet up, about two feet above the doorway. I mean, I feel like we should go through the wall or over it just on principle. We can go over it, we do have a magic carpet. Yeah, and all the flying creatures are gonna see us immediately. We either go under the wall. How far from the wall to the tower is, is it?

Does it seem? Probably. Can we see the tower through the doorway? You can see across and it's not a straight shot, but you can get low and you can see like where it breaks off horizon. Since you have a good sense of direction being the ranger, I'd say you know it's at least under a mile. Okay.

A mile to the tower, so it's like probably two miles wide this whole. Yeah, probably less. Okay. Like it's hard to pinpoint directly from what little bit you can see, but it's definitely within a mile to a half mile of that door, that wall. Kiki, would you be able to grade escape us underneath this wall? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

What if we go underground all the way to the tower? Is it unworked stone? What's the ground like? The ground is unworked stone. It is just broken dirt and earth and stone from what you gather at the very least. Heavy layer of dust. I could attempt to tunnel us there.

Percy, I'm sure you would know. more than anyone, what's the likelihood that we might encounter, that I might bust through a dungeon or something, though, under there? That will be the question is, A, where do we come up, B, how do we tunnel without collapse in a building on us, and C, what if there's buried dead that haven't been able to break? I can get us under the wall for sure. I can do both. I can do both.

It's just figuring out what we want to do. If we can tunnel under the wall and then come up in a building. I think so. Yeah, let's get... Not try to get all the way there, just... What's this? Okay, can I stone shape like a... From within a building.

Kroll space through the wall? Yeah, you can probably do that. Okay. Look at the stone shape spell here. Big enough for at least grog to like marine belly through? We're all undead, so I'm a little smaller right now, actually. Well, you look smaller.

You look smaller if you want. You're still... You still... It would just be like a little zombie floating. Can we be zombie cows? Ooh. Um, stone shape. Uh, it's instantaneous and it's a section

more than five feet in any dimension. So stone shape would be just a one hit, boom. You could not create a long tunnel. But I can't carve a shape through the wall to just carve through five feet. Oh, through the actual wall itself? Yeah, through the wall, not under the ground. I want to bust a crawl space through the bottom of the wall.

Don't you think that the flying guys will notice that? Yeah, that could work. Be quiet, don't you do that? I can be, it's not like a dynamite. blast. It's like a... It's just a hole in the wall. It's like butter. It's like butter, so... Okay, so you dart across the open road

to the other side of the wallers. We are stealthed and we are... Yeah. Okay. Can I... Oh, shit, well, you already rolled. Can I have been keeping an eye out on the sky and like give her a go-ahead when it looks like they're not going to see her? You begin to do so as she runs across the road. What?

Just go. Okay. You hear the distant kind of shrieks communication between the various gloomstockers. Echoing in the sky. You make it all the way to cross the wall and kind of get low. Focus. Close your eyes. Low. Press your hand.

There you go. Press your hand against the cold, dark wall and feel it as immediately you carve a kind of circular. kind of circular tunnel through that goes completely to the other side, seemingly to no negative effect. Seemingly to no negative effect, I've made a tunnel. TIEC, tight, tight, right? Why are you using these weird words? I'm whispering. Oh. I'm just, I'm trying to be more pragmatic. Let's go.

We didn't take, we didn't eat a hero's feast yet. We didn't. No, we didn't. We're gonna get through the wall. Let's get through the wall, though. Go on here. Go ahead. Okay.

I know. We're idiots. Rubble, rubble, rubble, rubble. He is looking at, he's making eye contact and rolling a die. Like in the same side. If I don't look, he can't kill me. I know. If you don't make eye contact.

It's like in store you and if you don't make eye contact with the play one. Yeah, it's the old Warner Brothers rule. So, as you guys all my one, dart across and leap beneath the tunnel that Keelotid created, Kiel, have you gone through the tunnel? Or are you going to see everyone else through it? I'll wait and see everyone else, just in case. Oh, how generous of you.

Perkle. Okay. Yeah. Go, go, go, go, go. We all are dead. You all begin just darting through one after another, after another. And Kiel, you glance up as the very tail end of it.

You have Scanlan and Pike at the very end, ready to rush through the tunnel. because the gnomish feet. They both get there as you glance up and watch as one of the gloom stalkers and goes into a full screeching dive towards you at the hall, the outside of the wall. What are you guys doing?

Just hurrying. Jumping through as fast as our little long feet can take us. Okay. Go, go, go, go, go, go. Pike, you dart through, the size of the tunnel is easy enough for the both of you to kind of just run through while crouching as supposed to happen to get on your hands and knees.

So you guys start making your through to the side. Pike, you make it out the other side, scaling you're halfway through Keeleth. You're still there ready to go after as it's about to bear down on you. It's not coming up. It's not gonna. Oh no, it's going for a straight dive. It's going right for you. Oh, God. Am I trying to do anything like but get through?

You're running. Come on. She has to duck down. I don't know. I've got to crawl through. Yeah. So do you have a protection? Do you have something you can turn into? Oh, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to see it. And immediately B-shaped into like a little mouse.

and put it through. Okay, I want you to roll an initiative roll, because this is going to see whether or not it gets to you in time. Am I rolling too since I'm still half out? Well, you're halfway in the tunnel. It couldn't fit the tunnel if it wanted to. But I mean, am I watching this?

That's good. That's good. I'm going to say that I didn't need the other side of the wall when I realized that she wasn't coming through, so waiting right in front of Scanlan. Okay. Two for me. Okay.

Natural 19 plus three. Ooh. So as you shift, as you shift, down into the tiny mouse-like form, its claws just immediately slam into and sink into the mouse body. Well, I mean. Yeah, that's up 23 to hit. Yeah, immediately poof.

How much hit points does your mouse form have? Like one? I'm assuming no more than a kitten's worth. Right. So yeah. So we'll save for the purposes one. So that would be 16 points of piercing damage. So your form immediately reverts. Its claws now fills with your regular Keelith form. You take 15 points of piercing damage, Keelith, and you are grappled.

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool story, cool. As soon as it grabs you, it begins to pull you out of the tunnel and lift with you in its claws. Can I grab her arms? You're on the other side of the wall. Scalon's on the other side right now. It's just me.

I'm three feet away from you. Yeah, but you're, I mean, he's in front of you, so. Sure. Yeah. So everyone else on the other side of the wall, Scanlon's in the middle, and Keelitz on the front. You saw it shriek and dive down. You don't know what happened from that point. You can glance down and you just watch

as Keelth is being pulled up. So you see that happening. Scanlan, what are you doing? All right, I'll yell to the rest. It's got Keelith, and then I'll cast Dominate Monster on it, I guess. Okay. Well, that's not.

So what's the spell DC on there? Well, I don't know if I was probably not fast enough to pull up my horn. So 20. It's a natural four plus three. Yeah! So, as you say that and turn around, you bring your hand up and begin muttering the incantation

and finish it with a flourish. I could have just done that this whole time. As you finish the incantation, you watch as a small ring of glowing purple, pink glyphs, pink glyphs kind of appear like a crown around the outside, floating about three inches from the exterior of the gloomstocker's head. And its shriek goes, and it's just there hovering in the air about 10 feet up, clutching Kila. Please deposit her on the other side.

Slowly. Over the wall. You guys watch as the gloomstocker just over the wall and lands on the ground, slamming Kilo. It slams you into the ground as it lands. You take five points of pledging damage. Oh, well. You just kind of... I don't speak gloom. Five points.

Yes, you just kind of wham, it kind of almost knocks the wind out of you and you kind of slam him into the hard ground, but the claws kind of unfurl and leave you. I made it, guys. I'm glad you made it. Only 59 more minutes. Maybe he can tell the others to leave us alone. Yeah, to leave us alone. For sure.

Yeah, call him off. All right. Or maybe it's on the other side of the law or we're dead. Does he keep you? Are you rolling to break me or no? It's just, that's it. Tell me. It's handled, we're dead.

Hold on. And then we can ride him in here. Everything is fine. It's fine. We're good. And ask him if you make a good dinner because I'm hungry. And you're seven 11. And ask him.

Each time the target takes one. It has to take damage to get the save again. So it's just under your control for an hour until it takes damage. Okay. All right. First things first. Please go tell your fellow.

gloomy friends that the hunt is off. No more flesh down here. Disappear. And come back. And you can see now as it's landed, its giant wings have kind of folded under into these kind of folded knuckle-like claws that hit the ground. It kind of, and it gets really close and kind of snarls at you.

And as it gets close, the air gets colder in his presence. It's almost like it brings this drop. And it's already pretty cold here in the Shadowfell, but it becomes pretty much freezing as soon as it gets within maybe five feet of you. It seems to just suck heat out of the air as it's kind of glaring at you. It begins to take up, and you can now see three other gloomstockers who saw it dive earlier are on like arriving towards the location as it rides up towards them. You hear.

And the other ones kind of snap at it and circle it, and they all kind of have this what looks like almost an argument if there was. And then eventually they break, and they begin shouting off. And you watch as the heavy clusters that have been kind of swarming this area of the town begin to respond in kind, you hear the echoes, the concafony of various screeches and screams,

and they all begin to slowly dissipate and diffuse amongst the entire city of Thar and Fala. That went well. Good job, Scanlon. Welcome back, Scanlan Shortham. Thanks, Scanlan. It's good to be back. Okay, we'll meet in there.

name for him, obviously. Yes. So anybody got any ideas? Benjamin is what I'm meeting. Oh, yes. Mr. Mistopheles. Even better. Maybe better. Well, some of us can, right? By looking at him, does it seem like how much can he carry? Or she? You're not certain. Based on its size, it could maybe

carry three medium to small people. Okay. What's around us right now? Sorry, what's around us right now? So as you glance around the other side of the wall, the city is denser than this inner cloister, and the buildings all seem to be newer or repaired. It seems like this kind of inner sanctum of Therunfala has garnished most of the attention of those

that currently reside within its space. And as you are glancing up to you see the flicker, like the faint flicker of the conjoining strands of magical energy that are rising up to the pinnacle of the Tower of Entropus, where you see kind of like these three heavy claw-like fingers that drive out at the top of the tower all kind of curve inward. And when the flash is in the center of it,

it's just glowing brighter. Oh, sure. That pulsing is like, Oh, fuck. It's almost like seeing this, this heartbeat of pure energy that's just swelling and swelling. I don't think we have time to stop. Well, we can, so no more healing. But we could fly right up there and break you that thing.

Or we could head towards a tower and tell him to go out and just to cause damage. A break of that thing. I mean, I can, yeah. I can heal us, but we can't rest. There's no time for rest. No time for a hero's feast. I've got this fucking chalises. Next time.

It might still be useful. How long does this hero? Like an hour or something. Yeah. I'm hardly mad, though. Would you just take like an hour? I think that thing is like, I mean, what's, maybe we get inside?

It's a gradual. It's not like all of a sudden right now you watched it. We only had, as you've been getting towards you watched it just. slowly swell, so who knows? Some of us could get on Mr. Mistopheles and fly around the tower and see if there's a window that we could bust in or something. I wonder if Delilah is like on the top of the tower.

Yeah, but we'll be on a thing, so maybe we won't be very conspicuous. Actually, maybe we asked Mr. Mistopheles. I'm going to never get tired of saying that. To just go up to the tower, greet whoever's up there, and then throw them off. Well, it's just a pulsing orb of doom, isn't it? No, there might be people by the orb of doom. There might be things on top of the tower, right?

Oh, that's a good idea. One of us needs to see what's up there. I mean, no, we can just send him up there and then we can head in through the town. Oh, that's true. You can just be a problem. He can just go up there. I don't know how he's dumb.

If he comes back, he's like, oh, I don't know. You just say go up there. If there's anything living up there, throw it off. Can one of us go up there with him to just kind of scout it out? Yeah. Yeah, if someone's invisible, can't you all be invisible? Yes, of course.

Just me. Yes, just you. Can't you make all of us invisible? Not while I'm concentrating on Mr. Mistarphalese. I say we head in closer on foot. If you want to ride Mr. Mistopheles up to the top of the tower, that's one thing, but I think just sending him up there or sending him to just be an agent of chaos.

I could probably ride him, and if shit goes south, I could get away. You could always get swallowed. Yeah. By Mr. Mistopolis. He was going to be. I get the distinct. impression we're going to have options before this day is over. I'm quick.

I feel like we're going to have to do a lot of things to stop this and work this. We need to get into the tower. We don't even know how to do that. We don't know what we're talking about, which is why I think the idea to go scope it out is a good one. Does it look like there's any windows on the tower? Is it just like a big old Rapunzel tower?

New perception check. Okay. Nope. Well, hold on. 19. 19. Still pretty good. Not a single window.

No windows. It is a solid tower. Are there any doors? No windows and no doors. You can't tell from your perspective right now. The base is currently obscured by the very, very dense buildings. Ultimate challenge. Should we check one of the buildings and then we can figure out who wants to go check it out so we can get out of the open?

Yeah, let's get in a building and hide. Because he's a cleaner. Newark. And the tower, is it obscured by all this shit happening on top of the building? of it, but like Vex can see there's no windows. Can we see if there's like a rooftop to it at all? I mean, there is a top to the tower, but it's... But is it this, is it this, or can we not see?

The tower gently tapers and then comes to an end. There is a top. And you see this three giant curled finger-like black spires that kind of curl inward on the three different places. From like the outside of the... From the outside of the... And then there's the platform where the tower stops, where it seems like there would be kind of a top.

Somewhere to stand. And the thing that's glowing is like off of the ground of the tower and it's like... It's filling up the entirety of that space between the fingers on the actual roof of the tower. What if it has to keep expanding all the way to the crystals? He's got to find the one computer. We've got to find the one hole in the star. Yeah. What's the nearest building?

Is there like one building that's closest to where we came to the tunnel? Yeah, you guys are about 10 feet from the nearest building. Can I walk over? Are there any windows? This building does not have any windows. windows. Is he have a door? It does. Can I knock? You watch as an older gentleman with a very thin kind of gray goatee. He looks a little sallow missing his left eye. He currently has like a small sack over his shoulder and he opens the door. Hey, come here, p. And I just grab his face.

Inside, inside, inside, inside. We're just going in. Well, we're going in now, aren't we? We're walking and we're walking. I'll tell Mr. Mustafali to do a 90-second loop and come back down and check in on us. Because he can't fit in the door, I guess. No. Yeah. Why you just buy around 90 seconds and then swoop back down? It's kind of does a small circle as you guys all rush into the building. You went to the inside. You see what looks to be a lot of building materials.

It looks like some of the other buildings here were probably used as the storage. facilities for what a lot of the city was rebuilt as. And there's nobody else inside right now. This gentleman looks like he was on his way out of the building as you interrupted him. And as he's now, most of his head is just completely clasped by your giant Goliath, Titanstone knuckle, adorned hand. You just see a little bit of his eyes peeking over, Gog's mouth. He's just like, you can see he's got like the head.

heavy male pattern. It looks kind of like the old D&D dungeon master from the cartoon. He's like got a bald on top of this long gray hair that kind of goes past his shoulder. He's very, very thin, just missing the left eye. And he's just like, just limp. He's like, he's not even going to fight it. Oh, hey. We're sent here by Delilah Briarwood. You may know her. Right. Yet the ritual that's happening on top of the tower, how long until that thing's done? Blink once for 15 minutes. Blink twice. for an hour more.

Three times for a bunch of days. Maybe he doesn't know. Do you know? Blink once for yes? Twice for no. Wink, technically. He doesn't. 15 minutes. No, that was once from 15 minutes.

No, that was an hour at least. I thought he blinked before. Are we in an hour and 15 minutes? I don't think you can call the blink if you've got one eye. I think it's just a wink. It's a good point. Man, semantics. Because I have this.

You get the sense that as you say that, he does hurt him a little. His demeanor, well, already pretty shattered, just even further kind of, hmm. Does he have any pouches on him or anything in his hands? He's just... Nothing to sense. He had, he had like a small sack over his shoulder that he was, like, leaving with. And he's just adorn in regular, like... Is the sack on the ground now? Is it still over his shoulder?

No, it's currently on the ground, actually. He probably dropped it as soon as you just rushed and pushed him in. I'll take the satch or I'll give it to park, so look in here. Okay. Okay. You glance inside, and as soon as you grab it, you hear the clinging of metal. And you look inside and you can see what appear to be a handful of dark metal short swords, daggers, what appear to be some simple dried rations. And in fact, if you glance around the side of the room now, you can see a lot of the supplies here, aside from construction supplies,

you see a handful of weapons that are just kind of well-made, recent-made, not seen. battle yet. They're about to move. They're about to invade. We can just burn the fucking city down. I mean, sure. What? What?

I mean, if they're planning on transporting this whole fucking city and setting an army loose on our world, why don't we just burn the whole fucking city down? Destroy their rations, destroy their weapons. How excited about this plan. I think it's a good plan. Wait, what? No, it's a terrible. Let's burn down Manhattan.

How do you do that? Shall we ask this gentleman some questions? some questions. We saw a big fucking fire. Sure. All right, I'm gonna remove my hand. Obviously, you're like really cool with the perspective of dying,

and I will like quicken that if you make a loud noise. Like, if you ever seen like, jello mixed with like apple pudding, that's what I'll do to your head. Make an intimidation check. And an intelligence check for John. I did. I did.

Universal. Arnold Palmer. He's having on where you are. Was it? 22. He doesn't make a sound more than the gentle triggle out of his pant leg does. I think that's a yes.

Grabbed the scruff of his collar. As you release, you kind of, and you can see his teeth are broken and yellow. This is one kind of gaping socket that's kind of just twitching a little bit from just the recovery of the sudden rapid series of events that he was not expecting today. He kind of gathers his breath and kind of scratches the side of his leg. So, what do you wish to do to me? Nothing. We've got to hurry. I know, yeah.

No, really. Do you know anything about the ritual? I mean, not the specifics. Do you know if it's going to be over soon? I know that some of the alkaliates were rushing through expediting things recently. Expediting things. Why? What are they said? I don't know. Did they tell you together weapons? They just told us to be ready.

For what? What's the plan here, man? You're really far away from anything fucking nice. You watch them kind of close off as you start saying that, and he kind of catches himself saying too much information. And kind of his demeanor goes cold. Please, we know you're gonna transport to another plane. You're trying to bail, aren't you? Are you trying to run? No, I'm just doing the fight.

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you're listening to right now. Back of his face, and I start making my fingers touch. He reaches up and just grabs the small symbol, the familiar loop with the fork above it and kind of just clasped

in his hand and doesn't resist. Do you want it? Yeah. Put him a little lower, grog. Mm. I'm gonna rip off the necklace. He's like clasping it in his hand, make a strength check. Drop it! Drop it!

Got them gone. God, we're so terrible. Are we? We are not allowing him to sacrifice to soldier. He's clasping it, and you can see him like his one, as I kind of rolls back to kind of hold onto it, and he's kind of muttering a prayer beneath your fingers. He's like, oh, I can't it. You tear it from his grasp.

It's like, ah! We'll give it back. We just got to answer some questions for us. No, we won't look away if you want to preserve anything and I just squish his head. Oh! As you're saying that, you watch his one eye open and his hands go limp and then you just, oh. Oh, God. The spray on Pike.

Dude, I thought you were giving me the signal, like, end it. No, I was going to, I was going to. I was gonna, whatever. We'll walk on there, I'm sorry. We'll find another one. It's okay. Yeah, it's just really, I'm sorry. Oh, brains.

Pike got dragon-aged. Yeah. Is there like a water bucket around? Make an investigation check. So, but set fire to the house, right? Burn the whole city now. No. Sadly, the city is mostly stone.

I don't know if we can burn it. As having this conversation, you do find a small basis. Do some damage. That's filled with the water. The people that live in the city still need to live. And it looks like there are means of feeding and drinking, though you get the sense that they may or may not, most of those supplies to come from outside of the Shadowfell.

That's poison the water. I take a little bit of the water and kind of, like, control it and like let Pike wash off a little bit. Okay. Thanks. I got a little in my mouth. Oh, uh-huh. Wait, there's a little bit of skull right there. That's a little chunk where the joint is.

It's just this little bit that just breaks naturally if you put pressure on the side. There's just this slumped pile of dark cloth, thin body, and Ricky O mess just there on the ground. Wow, way to bring that back. Rikio Mets. So, what's the playing, guys? We've got a little shadow creature coming back around in a moment. moment. I want to jump on and do a scouting pass?

We'll head to heal up before we get across to the tower. You guys do the scout will heal. Guys, are we not going to do a Heroes Feast? I mean, it's an hour. It takes an hour, right? Can't risk it. It's an hour. What you think is going to happen in an hour?

Everything's going to kick off in an hour. Wouldn't you hate to miss it by 15 minutes? I mean, has the pulse has gotten stronger since we've been here. I don't know if that pulse means it's about to go, or if the pulse means that then... The pulse means that then five minutes in. This guy was about to leave his house to go walk over there for the final part of the ritual. Or he was trying to bail before the final part of the ritual.

I think he was in. Where's your pet? Let's go find some shit on. He had rations. No one takes rations. He had a whole bunch of, no. I think he was working out here. He was like handing out weapons.

It was like carpentry of the dams sort of thing. Yeah. What if the giant orb has to reach the crystals? It might, but it might just do the, boom, and then reach crystals. Technical terms. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're, yeah.

It's magic. Who's going up? Who's going up? Boys. Me and riding. All three are you? I'm not going up. Oh, just you too.

Okay. How's everybody? How's everybody doing right now? I'm a little rough. I'm a quick. Do a quick heel. Yeah, I can use 20 points. Yeah, I can use 20 points or so.

Let's do a little mass cure wounds situation. Oh. Do it. Do it. With a flare. Oh, fudge. Fudge. Flair.

What? Oh, that's a one, not a seven, isn't it? Thirteen. That's fine. That's fine, that's fine. Yeah, we'll take it. If we're taking a short rest, I can add my, are you guys taking a short rest?

Well, while they fly up, is it enough time for the people staying in the house to heal a little bit? You guys can take a short rest if you wanted to during that time, if you wanted to do a full scoping. Mm-hmm. By the time you come back, that spell's about to fade. I mean, yeah, we're going to go as fast as we can. So those that are traveling can't take a short rest. Yeah, that's fine.

And if that fades, he's fully aware that he was dominated, right? But he's not super smart. You don't know. Especially me. Yeah, you especially don't know. I don't know. Time's a waste in scandal. Let's go.

Let's go. Mr. Mustafaease. As you open the door, They're kind of just landing. Oh, that'll bring me the full point. Let's go. You guys climb onto its back? Yes, we do.

Okay, you climb onto its back. Touching this creature is like touching the inside of a freezer. Even with guttleted hands, you have to kind of wrap some of your cloth around and not give yourself frostbite over a period of time. Even resting on it, especially with your leather armors, it chills you to the bone. And as you take up and even just maybe 10, 15 minutes into just up into the air, kind of gathering as to whether or not you'll be noticed or spotted by this, you can feel it beginning to chill your teeth or getting to chatter just from being that proximity of the freezing cold creature.

And it's strange because as you touch it, it feels less like fur and flesh and more like you're grabbing onto a very, very thick sackcloth. like it tugs and pools, and it feels almost like a, like the scruff of a cat or dog's neck. But it has a clothy texture, and as you grab it, you can feel like the cold wisps of shadow and darkness obscure your hands. You feel like you're plunging your arms into it,

but you find purchase within that shadow and hold on. We'll need to spoon for warmth. I nestle in behind Scallon. I gladly accept. Let's ride. Let's ride. All right. So as you guys take up into the sky

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Ready to go, Rory! Donova will contact you and get your information and have that shipped off to you. A. FAPE. So, congratulations. All right. So, as the rest of you are taking a short rest, The two of you are making your way as stealthly as you can on the back of a gloomstocker as it encircles the exterior of the castle in Trapus. First off, I would like you both to make a stealth check. I squeeze the gnome tighter.

Oh, God. I think you're without range, so you don't get that plus ten anymore. That's okay-ish. 21. You have advantage, though, on everything. Oh, he's fine. 30. 34.

34. 3 million. 34. Infinity. Okay. So you guys begin to circle the exterior of the tower, making a wide spiral along its exterior. You make your way up.

It's hard to tell or gauge the full height of this tower, but it's at least six or seven stories tall, if not taller. I want you both to make perception check. you both make perception checks, please. And now that we're closer, looking for windows that she might not have been close enough to see, doors, holes, anything.

Reception check, please. Yes, sir. Natural one. Whoa. Well, I'm under his body. Yeah. He is curled up within Vax. Hey.

Not even at top or bottom circumstance. You're actually just within. It really just depends on the day. 26. 26, okay. No windows. No windows. It is a solid tower completely around as you cycle around. As you get towards the top of it, you notice the three curved finger-like spires that go up at the top and

the pulsing of the energy. You watch as these very faint tendrils of magical energy that you've now kind of tuned in to be able to see better now that you know what to look for are all from this height. You can see the long strands are kind of undulating and shifting. Almost like the very winds of the land are almost causing them to rotate. And you can see the variations in their form, but they're all still merging and entwining at the very top of Entropis. You see nothing. You can see what appear to be a cluster of about 30 or so figures all gathered along the top of this. We can take them down.

You can see what appear to be three glowing spheres in a triangular pattern around this that are accepting the tether of the magical energy and then suffusing what appears to be a small altar of some kind in the very center of the top of this tower. You've been circling here for about 15, 20 minutes or so and the energy untethered and unfurls. There's a shockwave of warmth

that just cascades outward from the top of the tower, both of you feel it passed through you. And that freezing cold that you've been trying desperately to hold it in bay as you're clutching to the back of this gloomstocker, this heat wave kind of moves past. The gloomstocker kind of instinctually kind of pulls back and you can see it for a second it drops and you feel your stomach bottom out as it loses about 20 feet of elevation before catching itself again. And you watch as any of the others that are currently cycling around the stratosphere over

the city of Tharamphala also are kind of ten. taken off guard by the sudden burst of energy. As you kind of glance over, you can see the tethers that connect of all fallen and faded. You also watch as about 25 or so of these figures in the top all collapse at once. There are some left. There are some left.

You watch a very big faint. You can see that altar in the center. there was a small bead of pure, vibrant, bright white light. And you watch as a robed figure that previously was kind of held in the shadows emerge. Fuck. You're too far away to make any more details than that. Motherfuckers just died on the top of that tower. You felt that.

Yeah, yeah. What do we do? Is that the end of the ritual? How much time left on that hour, buddy? I mean, enough to get back to our friends, probably. We've got to go. It's her. back now, just the two of us?

No. We should not do that. We could. We could. Between you and me, we're the most powerful ones in the group. I just don't feel like free-balling it right now and I'd really like the group and I think we should go back. I know, but will you at least confirm that yes, we are the most powerful ones?

Clearly. We are the most, as the kids say, O.P., and let's get back to the group. All right, hold me tight. All right. Mr. Mistophilis, I clutch my thine. Back down. It goes into a very rapid dive making its way back towards where you left the rest of you party.

The rest of you, you can go ahead and you regain your short rest. You get your wild shape back. You can spend any hit dice to heal up if you'd like. If you haven't already. Okay, good. I also need all of you to roll a wisdom saving throw place. Oh, yeah. Everybody, everybody?

Everybody who was on a short rest. If we had had a feast, we would have advantage on this. It would. It would. All right, so. 14. 30. 30. 24.

Just to make sure I used gnome cunning to double, because I have an advantage on wisdom. It's not a magical effect. Okay, so then I'll take my first list to take the first roll, which was lower, which was two, and then I will add my wisdom saving throw number, which is 10, so I have 12. I didn't need not to explain all that.

19. No, I want you nervous. Every role. In the rest you take, the Shadowfeld does not seem to have any adverse effect on your presence. Oh. However. I know, sorry. No, no however.

You complete your rest, fine. Okay. You guys all kind of gather your stuff. You take a breath and prepare for the next leg of your venture as the door to your building slams open. Scanlan and Vax arriving, just leaping off the back of the back of the. gloom stalk or that they had under their control. Who is also about to lose its... How much longer do they have?

Fly away! Wait, wait. Attack the tower. Attack the tower. Really? Tell it to attack the tower. It's gonna forget halfway there. Maybe they can mess one person up.

Attack the people on the top of the tower. Fly away. Just fly away. On the wrist, could I work a little bit more on enchanting the silver bullets? Can I do that or no? You can spend a little time. It'll take a few days of

Giving that to really happen. Okay. Just keep working on it. Okay. Did we feel that we're in the building? You didn't. Okay. You may have heard something strange,

but it didn't really catch your attention. You guys have just been spent your time resting in the inside of the building, so. What did you see? So a lot of fucking people just die on the top of that tower. I can't guarantee it, but I think it's a safe bet that your girl Delilah is up there. Oh, that's how you figured she'd be.

It seemed that they've completed at least some part of the ritual. Yeah, there was some sort of massive pulse of energy, 20-something hooded figures just dropped dead on the spot. A wave of some ship. Can I run out and look up at the tower and see if the orb looks different? Yeah, I join that. You guys rush out and peek outside of the doorway towards the top of Entropis, and you see that, one, the glowing pulse is gone. The energy tetheres from the siphons are gone. Wait.

Fuck. I look around. Are we still in the Shadowfell? Perception check? That's not great. 18. That's enough. Yeah, you're still in Shadowfell. Oh. Oh, I don't want to fucking Mars for that. So if you'd roll low enough and be like, you don't know.

Yeah, you don't know. Seattle! Seattle! Seattle! Seattle! Well, we should fucking get up there then, huh? Should we go straight up the tower? What else are we doing in here?

I don't know what else to do. Yeah, all right. Let's head to the base. We're gonna fight an aerial battle against super magical things. Oh my God. We're weighing risk here is, what do we think would happen

if we spent an hour having that feast right now? Actually, that's true. Nothing's going to change at this point. Maybe. I mean, once again, maybe we should return to something like sabotaging the machine or burning the city. Oh, God.

The machine's done. Rubbing off on me. Did you see Delina up there? No. There was a ringleader, but we were too far out. And the ringleader was still standing. Yeah. How many people were still standing? It would have been three that you noticed.

Precisely three. But lots of them died. But lots of them died in the blast. So it's not even going to be a tough fight. We'll just take down three people and be done, right? That's so easy. It's time to find the less people were fighting the worse it is.

It won't just be three. It won't just be three. It might be four. It'll be less than three. Even one with that fucking wall that she had last time were fucked. How far did the blast go? We were like 100 yards out or something?

Yeah, you probably were about 300 feet out yet. How about that? We didn't do any research on that wall, did we? That spell. Did anybody do any research on that? on that spell that we saw her do. I mean, we kind of figured out what it was. I mean, it was a modified version of a spell we've seen before.

Kind of, yeah. I mean, it seemed to be prismatic. You've seen prismatic spray. It's a prismatic spell in nature, but you didn't really research any means of defeating it or overcoming that. Do you still have that earthquake spell? I believe me and Pike both do, yes.

We couldn't like earthquake the tower to the ground, could we? Between me, you and Pike? We can take this tower down. Is that true? I just don't know about us going to the top if we could maybe bring it. Oh, if we could bring the top down here. We can, yeah, mess with the foundation.

That's really good idea. I just don't know how big around it is. It might be fucking huge. How big around is the tower? At the very base. It's not a bad idea. He's got, he's looking at the tower. He's looking at the map.

It's about 170, 180 feet in diameter. Oh, yeah. Two earthquake spells and siege. 180 feet in diameter. Gauntlets? Maybe. Hang on, Pike and I check our spellbooks real quick. I'm not gonna do it.

Can I do a little engineering, but if I were going to hunch at it? Do you have any other? The idea that we're going to sneak into that tower is far fetch. No, we either have to fly up to the top or bring it down to us, right? I like the idea of bringing it down. I like, even if it fails, the fight will still come to,

either we bring the fight to them or we rip down the tower bring the fight to us. For up to a minute in a 100 foot radius, centered on a point. Same. It deals 50 bludgeoning damage to any structure in contact with the ground in the area when you cast the spell.

If it drops to zero hit points, it collapses and potentially damages nearby creatures. Okay. So the question is, do you think that'll be enough to drop a solid obsidian tower? It's a tough call. But I mean, two or the rain spells, it's like the devil's dick.

I have a siege. It's like. I will point out this will be burning mine and Pike's eighth level spell. But it might be worth it. No. It feels like it's like a 3.2 earthquake. We need like a 6.2 earthquake. That's true we do.

Let's be honest. We really do need like a massive shape. What if we weaken the outside and then hit it with the earthquake? What if I can tunnel out underneath it? I think, I think. I think whatever was going on up there is gone. I think it's happened. Well, Delilah's still up there,

so if she falls, at least she'd take some damage. Throw my boat in the ring here that I think we should take the time for the feast. We're not killing piles of rats in the sewers here. This is serious. When last time we fought Delilah, were any of us scared of her? She's not what I'm afraid of.

Wisdom saving throws, I'm major. She could take control of us. poison. I'm not against that, but I think one person is to stay out of the feast and keep an eye in case they leave in the hour that we're feasting. Well, if someone's going to stay out of the feast, it should be the guy who already has advantage on everything. Oh, that too, yeah.

Yeah. I just can't get afraid. Yeah, but you can be taking control of with your brain. That's assuming a lot. Or we just go get it. We just go after it and go get it. I'm against the feast. I think we should just run in.

I just don't feel like there's time, honestly. Also, I'm vegan. I don't know if I could eat everything in the feast. It is lovely, go Phoibopo-Bobobo. Why don't you just name it a poo-ba platter or something? How far are we from the tower in this old house? In this house, you're about, this old house. A little over half a mile away from it.

Oh, wow. It's a 10-minute walk. This house is just outside of the perimeter wall. The intercourse are- You guys could do the feast and certain of us can help tunnel out the ground during that hour. I think, I don't know. I don't know if we're gonna bring it down.

I don't think we're gonna bring it down. It was a cool idea, but I don't think we're gonna do it. What's it made of obsidian? I mean, you haven't been close enough to really tell, but it looks to be made of a very thick, dark, obsidian or onyx-like material. It's also unsettling as far, right? Yeah.

Yeah. It's probably magically protected. Probably. That's true. You may just hover there if we like knock this. That is very true. Maybe keeping the ground up as opposed to being sitting on the ground at that point. So we're going to try to fly up.

Or raise your hand. Raise your hand if you want a hero's feast. For you all, yes. Four. Well, is that a raise or not? Are you scratching your air? Are you raising your hand? You know, I don't, you know, yes.

Wait. I'm just nervous. I know we don't have time, but what if this is one of those decisions, we'd say no, but the light is over. We should have fucking done a hero's feast. Let's do it. I don't know, though.

I don't know if we have the time. This is hard. Well, the transaction upstairs has already happened, whether they get away or not. I have a feeling we're going to be down here a while. Maybe we can prepare the feast. Keep an eye out. If we have to ditch out on the feast early,

then we do. Keylet looks out the window again. Are people, like, panicked? Are people running around? Is there, like, Robble in the street? There's no technical window in this building. There was the door.

She just pushes her head up against the wall. Look out the door and glance through. You do notice. There's no panic, but you do see a number of, and this is interesting, you glance at that you don't see any undead wandering the streets of the inner cloister, at least not like the outer area was. You do see, make perception check actually. actually.

Boy. Get it. Oh, that's good, that's good. 30. You see throughout the street, which the street from here gets about halfway to the tower before it hits a building and curves around, but you see maybe 35 or 40 total people in matching

or close cultist robes or similar colors all making their way towards the tower. That's a dress for an occasion, fuck it. We gotta go. 35 to 40 people, it's kill a mom. the way up. Man, you're frosty today. You're just trying to come over into our territory. I don't like it. They're all assholes. So we're going. Let's go. Well, how we're going to go in though? Just flying up. We have two, we have, well, we have one broom. We don't have two rooms anymore. We've got a carpet.

We've got a couple people with wings. Oh God, that creepy music is starting. We got to go, y'all. Just do it. And then what? And then what, though? Once we get there. Kill everything. Played by ear? Throw everything off the top. Oh boy. Break everything, smash everything. It's Delilah. She's going to destroy us. Do we have any way to neutralize her magic?

Well, you can turn into a... No. I can't. I gave Bax foresight. I cannot turn into a beholder today. I can. You can? Yes.

Do you have shape change? Something like it. All right. This is almost a plan. Let's do this. It's more than we know. It's far more. Are there a lot of gloomstockers around? You can tell with the loss of magical energy

that they've kind of been tossed to skew a bit. There are patterns of circling and being intense. They're a little more scattered a bit, but there are still maybe a few few dozen that look over the inner cloister. Let's make our way to the tower and maybe head up through the tower. We don't have to necessarily fly into the top. Wait a minute.

Did the orb at the top turn the same way that the orbs in the ziggurat turned? They farred it out, didn't it? Well, there were like faint orbs that were kind of taking into energy and focusing it towards that center altar. Then when everything faded after the shock wave, what you saw looked like the tiniest star. It was just a speck of extremely bright light

that to look directly at it was to hurt. I don't know. We gotta go. All right, let's just go get it. I'm honestly still kind of into the earthquake idea. Bringing down the tower. It's not gonna work. How do you know?

You said 50 points of damage? I mean, just from a. I can take 50 points of damage. Just from a. I can take two earthquakes, personally. At the start. That's not even, no, no, no. That can't even hurt.

The tremor deals 50 bludgeoning damage to any structure in, contact with the ground in your area when you cast the spell and at the start of each of your turns until the spell ends. And the spell lasts a minute. So you get 10, 50s. So you get 10 of those. 1050s. And then times two with Pike and I. So that's a thousand points. And if Grog is in there weaking, like, hasn't been it out. Is it concentration? It's concentration for up to a minute. And it has a 500 foot range and a 100 foot radius. So Pike and I could work. So Pike and I could split one half and half of the tower.

It's pretty fucking Hollywood. I kind of like it. All right. I feel like if we go right up to the top of that tower, it's like walking into the danger. Yeah, it might not work, but it's pretty Hollywood. Let's bring the tower down to us. Let's try it.

All right. This is insane. And you can still fuck shit up while you got that earthquake going, right? Well, how do you mean? Are you disposed? Oh yeah, if you have that spell going, you can do other things in case things attack us?

Are you just doing an earthquake the whole time, Or are you just standing there, staring at the ground? Can you make a picture? It's my concentration, so I can keep it going and do like an instant reaction spell. You can't do another concentration. But you're not lighting anybody's ass. You're not doing anything like that.

You're focusing on the towel. I mean, I can throw a fireball and keep it going. Yeah. It's got a spire. Okay. Yeah. So I say that Movers and Shakeers get the cloaks. Let's head out.

It's Michael. Get up as close as we can to support Pike and Keynes. And we keep them safe. safe, we are playing defense. Yes. God, I hope this works. God, I hope this works too. I don't know if this is going to work. This is stupid as fuck.

We're a distance. Anybody gets near them. We take them out. I mean, Gron, can you at the right moment just do a big saving and topple it? I can try and do whatever you want. I could run around and punch a bunch of holes in it or whatever. We're all going to, we're going to focus everything on one side of the tower. We're going to try and bring it down in a direction.

Yes. That's what we're doing? Yes. Focus it on one side of the tower. Yeah, because you obviously want to do. Both on the same side. Like a tree. Yeah, you're chipped up out of the way. Let's do this.

This is a terrible plan. Oh, God. Just trying to gauge Matt. Matt's Stone Cold or no. Matt's thinking about all the other people he could be playing D&D with, right? He's imagining a whole other set of faces here. All right, so. All right, let's teleport inside that dragon.

Come on. Yeah, what's the plan, guys? So we're gonna get close enough so that they can do their 500 feet distance, but keep a distance to the tower. And if we can be like hidden while we're doing this, not open? We have a 500 foot range here. We've got a dope-ass range. Keelis got a cloak, Pikes got a cloak. Okay.

I'm huge. He's huge. I'm gonna try to get in a building that's closer to the tower. Okay. Seeming lasts for eight hours, so you're still under the guise of that illusion. Although we don't need that anymore. We can look like cultists. Keelith, you said that there's no other undead around here. No, but maybe we shouldn't look like undead.

Can you shift what we look like without changing that? I don't think I can shift it. No, you can't. I believe seeming is a one-use thing. It's a one-time thing. Maybe just drop it and we'll be cultist. How many robes did we swipe? Oh, we've got the one from the guy who's head.

Are there any cloaks in this building that we're in right now? You would have four. Four cloaks, because there's two you got from the outside of the ritual. Then there's the one from the guy that you killed when you got here. Oh, technically there was the two that you killed when you got there. But you didn't say you grabbed those. I think we did. No, you did.

Right, so it's two, five, six. You have six clothes. And then the one that the guy that we just killed in front of us. Me and Pike, she could be on my shoulders and we could share one cloak. Yeah, that's good. Oh my gosh. I have that cloak of smashing that person gave me. Totally little rascals are.

Yeah, we'll just robe it up. Yeah. Okay, so you guys all throw on the... I almost feel like it should be other way around. It absolutely should. All right, so six cloaks, seven players. You guys are straight up doing... I'm so proud of everything that has just happened.

To make it look like our arms can reach the end of the cloaks. Are they sleeved cloaks? Yes, they are. So I'm going to hold a flute and like my sword. Mythcarver, meho, mythcarver, are a little rascals? Don't shake anyone's there. No, no survivors. No, Robert. Hey guys, it's the third time Scanlan has used Myth Carver. That's a vestige right there.

A vestige with you. It's gone from exalted to shame. It retracts into a dagger now. It never happens. It never happens. Oh my God. All right. Oh my God.

In a hip montage, you pull out the various cloaks. Assemble your materials. Getting ready. They are a bunch of assholes. Scanlon hops on top of pike. The cloak is placed over you. You get your sleeves ready. And you all walk out into the cold air of the shadow fell, making your way towards the center of the city.

Be cool. Be cool, everybody. I'm also going to say sometime in the last several hours, I don't remember what the armor is set to necrotic. Oh, it's good cold. I think you may have said that before. All right, just in case. I assume that was the video. I think it was already there, yeah. And remember, if anyone looks at you, close one eye. Yeah. Just be wanking.

Yeah. Always be winking. Always be left eye. Did everybody have their arms that we've run into so far? Or are they missing an arm too? An eye and an arm? It varies. Not everyone sees you're missing a hand,

but most of them are missing an arm. Okay. I know, dude. You all look like my sister. She's missing my two? You need to get your eyes checks. No, I just winked a lot. That was Liam saying that.

What I'm like Liam's sister had in my eyes? All right, we go. All right. Oh, camera. You guys. Make your way up the street, kind of following behind the few stragglers that you see kind of trying to catch up with the rest of the groups of people that have kind of filtered out of the buildings and made their way towards the center. You make your way through some of the side roads following around. And you can see now the closer you get to the city, the more the structures, the buildings here are built in a spiral. The roads don't intersect like spokes. They all gradually curve into the tower. So if you're looking at overhead, It looks almost like this large kind of spiral into the tower, like a pinwheel. You follow the curvature of the road, which prevents you from really seeing the end point.

And as you begin to get close to some of the clusters of people that are walking with a brisk walk, but still walking towards the tower, you kind of fall back a little bit to not draw any attention. As you're making your way there, you watch as two individuals kind of hurry up that were actually a little bit behind you and rush up to the side and are kind of walking in pace and kind of glance. It's over. Yeah. He's put it's forward. One of them who appears to be a younger man, probably like is in his like 18, 19 or so.

He's got this little patch of kind of reddish brown chin fuzz and it looks a little malnourished. He still has both eyes and he kind of rushes up real fast and his hood kind of pulling back a little bit and he's looking around a little excited but also kind of with trepidation. So it's happening, huh? It's really happening. I guess so. It's so... So exciting. I'm so excited to be here.

Oh, don't. Make a deception check. 24. Yay! Hey! It's fucking gay. It was like, oh. I didn't know the whispered one takes the special ones too.

Yep. Sure does. What do you know what did you have to? I don't know. I mean, I'm... Surely you've thought. I'm pretty low on the totem bowl here. I'm just, I'm excited to be on the right side of history. Ditto.

Yeah. Fuck the normies. And he kind of rushes up past you guys to try and get you up. So awkward. It's so awkward. I think you got it. I think you've played a really cool though, guys. I'm really cool, okay?

I'm really bad at holding my high shut for this long. So are we close enough now that we can stock this? Not yet. You're about maybe a thousand feet or so I'm going to see if there's any structures that are within distance so that once they set up and stop, I can get, maybe we can pitch. We only need to be so far out, so if we can kind of. And we can cover you from a roof. Perception check, Percival. Yeah, so wondering how we're doing in the gloom stalker department?

I mean, no one's seeing you currently. That seems that whatever piercing vision they have, it does not seem to pierce for the room. I want to keep an eye out for buildings too. I mean, I feel like I would have. But you as well make a exception check. Please. Um, wait, wait, no.

I have a lemon go. 23. Okay. You glance about, like, there are a lot of buildings here with vantage points. They're all similar heights. There are a few that are kind of outliers in, And you know, most of them are like one and a half to two stories, like a one story with an attic or an attic space, like a half story, or two stories.

You do check a few that are third story, and a lot of them are almost in steeple-like spires at the top. And you start to notice there is a theme. A lot of the buildings closer to the tower are built in a similar theme as the tower itself. You begin to see the edges of the roofs kind of curve up into their own spikes. And the further in you go, the more just dangerous and unwelcoming, the deeper inner cloister of Phara and Pala is to witness. You can see now certain people are actually climbing onto the roofs. They're kind of getting up there, almost like they're preparing for some sort of a festival or a firework show. It's like the fourth of fucking July.

The aliens are coming and we're welcoming them. Well, they're not wrong. Yeah. You notice. They're watching for something. Thanks. There's been no change in daylight or nightlight here. It's been just this constant kind of deep, dark, gray gloom

that hangs over the shadow of fell, unchanging, unshifting. There's a creeping brightness on the horizon that you feel kind of like rising. We're getting ready to teleport. And you watch as that creeping brightness forms like a dome over your space and then comes to a close over the top of the tower. And where once there was this gloomy sky scape, you now see what appears to be a brighter clouded sky. Oh, fuck. The temperature grows a little colder, and you begin to see snowfall.

Oh, no. Let's get to this. We got to do it now. Gentle snow begins to just fall, and you watch as some of the other cultists around, you start reaching up and catching it in their hands. No. It's too. We still got an attack. Yeah, we missed.

It's totally taking us to white stone. taking us to White Stone. It's okay. We can still fill everybody. We're in the north. We're, there's a lot of places that snow. It could be draconia. There's a lot of places that snow.

But it's Delilah Breyerwood. Uh, 19. Okay. You have no direct idea of where you are, but based on the weather that you left White Stone and not too long ago, this isn't White Stone or near White Stone. The weather patterns are, a little more classic snow.

Is it winter and wild mount right now? It's the tailwind of winter in a few places. Tawa still needs to come down. Let's move, let's attack. Let's attack. Before they release. Are we within 500 feet? You guys are about now within 500 feet.

Fuck you get into the building that we can and then start it. Pike and I just huddle together and try and join forces. Here we go. Let's do it. As you guys are holding hands, a voice begins to ring out. Oh no. Omnipresent, directionless, like it's being positioned directly into the minds of each of you.

from wherever it stands. It's an unfamiliar voice. The words creep and curl in, like they've always been resting. And now is the moment for them to reveal themselves. I would, to listen, make a fool of yourselves. I've watched you since you stepped into my domain. Not going to laugh, spin entertain.

I admire you. It reminds me of others who've tried what you are trying, but they're dead now. So I leave the choice to you. I will walk away and join me and join me anyway. Just do it. No one walks away. People don't tell us to stop if they're not afraid of what we're doing. To the end.

To the end. To the end. To the end. Oh, God, let's just pretend that's not really happening. Do it. I love you all. We do it above the screaming Halloween Horror Night's sound effects.

I'm full silence. All right. As you guys class pans begin the intricate incantation for the earthquake spell, you can hear the cheers of people on the rooftops. They're standing up now. And they're all shouting, yes, yes, I hear you. You get the sense that.

Perhaps you aren't the only ones that have been spoken to, although the conversations may differ from individual to individual. As you guys complete your incantation, you watch as the dust begins to rise around the base. You see entropis begin to quiver back and forth, and you watch as everyone begins to rush to rush to the edges of the rooftops, then rush into the streets to look up their hands raised to the sky. what this means, but basking in whatever glory this next sign or omen is to be. You watch as a loud, shattering crack sound hits, and you watch as one large, snaking, carving line begins

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You glance up and watch as the very apex, the three-clad top of the tower, is just there in the sky, held aloft, unmoving, as the rest of the tower seems to have broken away, And as it falls, with this slow, terrifying collapse, you hear the rumbling of broken stone just slamming into earth as clouds of smoke, dust, and dead earth are kicked up from the impact of this falling tower, completely swirling the center of the city with debris and darkness. You watch as cultists go running now, their faces filled with fear and confusion at what this is suddenly means, what's happening. And as the dust kind of, kind of washes past you and gives this haze over the sky. And slowly comes to fade, you all kind of taking in what's happening.

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Ish. Did any one of significant stuff? in the process? Can we see? Can we see who it is? You're too far away. You're 500 feet away from this. Let's go.

Let's go. Yeah. All right. We're going up to it or waiting until it comes down all the way? Oh, I mean it's landing, right? It's settled itself. It's kind of cocked to one side. For it to land in the rubble, it's not a perfect platform.

It kind of comes to rest at a very faint angle among the just ruined, broken, jagged, obsidian pile. It's a thousand million flecked arrowheads all just jumbled in this kind of broken glass-like landscape of destroyed tower. And there, the very zenith of this once grand structure sits resting, waiting. Let's do this. Yeah. We have an escape plan? No. Killing everything. I mean, I can plane ship us if things get really bad, but I kind of think we're already on our place. This sounds like we're all gonna die. No, we're good. We're good. Talk with this, Castlevania.

Alright, guys, we're gonna do this. We're gonna do this. Start walking. The minute I grab onto your room, you can't hear anything, so I'm just gonna ride it down to the ground and then let go. Okay. Well, I'm done playing, so I'm gonna take the Titanstone knuckles together and smash them together and cast them large on myself.

Your cloak tears around your body, Incredible Hulk style, as your form just ruins what remains of the black sheared fabric that once, even, you know, Even by the search of the imagination, pseudo hid you. Now, it remains. Exactly. Wow. Yeah.

It's almost like one of those Chippendale kind of neck pieces. And what you see is if a number of cultists that were kind of running away from the tower stop and see this. And then like almost instinctually go to defend, make an intimidation check. Shit, raged. That's not terrible. 24. And just go scattering in other directions. You see some are rushing towards the tower to see what happened, to see if anyone's okay.

There were a lot of cultists that were crushed in that. You imagine on that side of the city, especially they were clustering at the base for whatever this was. But many more are still out in the streets as you guys kind of walk, making your way towards the central tower. Take off the robes. Get ready. Slow motion walk towards the track. You make your way down the ruined city streets of Tharampala, amongst the snowfall that's now beginning to gather

on the tops of your heads and your shoulders and your wings. And along the sides of the street that hadn't seen snowfall probably ever. And you make your way past the final boundary of the buildings, the cult is just kind of letting you pass. Looks of fear, look of excitement, looks of knowing, of knowing, looks of understanding that you probably walk to your deaths, and I want to watch this happen. And you begin to step over the rubble. Your footfalls finding the grinding, high-pitched cracks of broken glass-like obsidian beneath your boot and feet. And there you look up and can see about

25 or 30 feet of the tower top. It's just resting at an angle. You can't see what's up on top of it. No windows. How do you wish to proceed? Looking up on shit. Well, no. They know we're here. Circle, flank, all together. Which one? Powerhouses together.

Distance fighters keep the distance. I'll take the carpet if it's available. Surround the tower, climb up each side. I would. I'm gonna grab the carpet anybody who wants to lift up. Feel free. I will take that ride. I'll bring it.

I'll hop up on the carpet. Carpet's full. As you guys are doing, Getting yourselves prepared, that voice returns to you. Echoing through your minds once again. I am genuinely here to remain to watch my sentient, far from me, to rob anyone ever come and be the next sacrifice for the new aid.

You're a dipshit. Hella kunzbo's salvage. So, via broom. We have to fly to get up to it? It's like 35 feet up, so. To the top of the tower? Mm-hmm. Platform, whatever we're gonna go.

I shoot up and past. Like quite a bit. Can I hop on a carpet or broom? You can hop on my broom. I'm about to say carpet's a bit full broom. I'll hop on the broom in the backs. I need a ride as well. Oh, God.

Once I'm up, I'm gonna scatter and we can. Can you dig these hand? Or a dragon. I don't know. I hope you settle it. I feel like just wait and see. I'm so nervous.

I mean, I just have no idea what's going on. How long can you maintain him before? How long does it last cast? It's instantaneous. Oh, then let's wait till the moment that it's necessary. That way you can see what it is. But he could counter spell it. Well, that's true.

Unless I do it now. I don't know if he's actually here yet. Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Oh, boy. Okay. Oh, no.

That's awesome. I feel like whenever we, like, come across a map, I feel like we walked into his hand, like exactly what he wanted us. It's been years since we've been this close to him out. This is also true. That is true. Okay.

So, please indulge me where you're coming in from. And these resemble the three curbs. Spires. Okay, okay. So those ideally go like that above it, right? Yeah, they kind of curve upward and stop about there. So they're not platforming. We can't.

No. Come to a point. I'm hiding behind this green, this glowing spire. I'm going to take some cover behind. So you rush. We're going for landing placement here, because this will come into play here. Frog, where are you going? Right there.

Okay, me and Keyleth. Do you want to land over here? That's fine. I follow your lead. Okay. As soon as I land, I Bamp Trink it out. I'm gonna say that I'm about 80 feet in the air, just off center.

Towards Vex and Keelot, but just off center. Okay. I'm gonna say I'm there, straight up. There you are Vax. Right there. The minis look so cool. I haven't seen you have been so far away. I know we've been so far away.

Who's left? Pike. And Scanlan. So you guys, because you took the carpet, you're going to have to be near Grog. Yeah, that's totally fine. That's going to be the circumstance there. And Percy, you just run up the side to get there? Well, I'm, no, I was on the carpet and hopped and left them, because they had to go pick up.

Okay. If that's the case, then I'll say that you're landing there. No, they had to go get Scanlan. So I, like, they, they dropped in me. It's 35 feet, so. If you guys had to leave Scanlan behind, that's a whole different thing. No, I think I'm going to just go ahead and be a beholder and fly in there myself. Okay.

That'll work for you. Okay. Wow. Okay. All right. I like that that was on the top of one of the other. YOL. So, so.

If you would be so kind, throw me here then. Someday we could have a game with two beholders on our side. That's true. But not today. That's Scanlan. I like that you found a goofy looking beholder. Hi! Now,

Hey, you guys! As you guys arrive, remember, don't look directly. The floor is just surrounded in bodies. Cultists of very ornate robes. Mostly you've seen kind of peon-based black splatters of just sackcloth and what was available. You see on? No.

These are all well adorned and appear to have been very well-edowned. very well regarded within the remnants. You also see on this side, what appears to be, sorry, on this side would be, Delilah Briarwood. Bitch-faced Briarwood. Bitch-faced Briarwood. On this side, you see what appears to be

a black armored massive, not quite Goliath size, but a thick, dark, black night of just just jagged, dark metal armor, what appears to be a long sword that just emanates this dark energy. And floating above. Flying. Put it away. No, I don't need it. Those are my platforms.

I can take them back anytime I want. Oh, no. What is that? You see Conan. Doctor Strange. A man. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Though the flesh is pulled tight against a skeletal frame. You see long, red and purple and black robes that are tattered and drift below, the breeze and cold, gently blowing by. You see just a field of crackling energy just bursting around the outskirts of his form. You see one hand is out, just kind of in a welcoming position. position, while the empty wrist that once contained the hand is now open on the other side. You see the bald, hairless head, which is covered in spots and tugged open bits of flesh that have curled away from rotten decay. You see the cheeks sunken in where these skeletal

teeth are now emblazoned and terrible grin. You see the right eye and the gaping hole where a bright green bursting, flaming, vacuous void where an I once was now drifts off a trail behind it. You see there, reborn before you, the whispered one. No. The undying king, Vecna himself. Oh, God, we're in it. I don't like it being this close. We'll probably all die.

I would like you all to roll initiative. Oh, no. Matthew Mercer, may I borrow your monster man? monster manual so I know what I am. We're gonna be here. I think Marisha actually has a page for it if you want that little to. You have a page? You want my beholder page? Yeah. That's terrible. That's terrible for me too.

My teeth hurt. My teeth hurt. Okay. That's terrible. So I'm not okay with that role. Oh wait, give me that back page. Sorry. Back page. Okay. It doesn't say what is in You have to roll its... It's a... It's a Dex modifier plus a D20 if you don't have an initiative. What's up?

Your initiative is normal, right? Your initiative is whatever the Creatures initiative is. Which is it's Dex modifier. Okay. All right. Plus the D20. 11. All right, so...

I mean, it's a normal amount of time. No, I mean like right before coming. I can't remember the last time we had a full rest. A full rest would have been... Right before. Maybe... Coming through the portal. Maybe four or five hours ago.

To get... Okay. I think I have all my luck. That's why I'm asking. I don't think you've burned since we've... Since we've slept. I'm not 100% short, but... I also gave you advantage on everything.

I know it. Girl. I think you didn't use anything. All righty. Okay. So, initiative order, 25 to 20? 20. 20.

Shit. Fuck, guys. Yeah. Guys. Me? Okay. I have no plan. We're fully Leroy Jenks. I mean just fully.

Leroy Jenkins. Yep. Crog, what's your dex? Dexterity. There's no way to be prepared for this. Okay. Technically you rolled the same initiative as the death night, so he'll go right after you. Okay.

Foof. The death knight, by the way, is what Coloneled. The arm old fuck. 20 to 15. 16. 18. 17. Ooh, nice.

Wait, so you got 18, 17. 17. And 16. 16. Not good. Oh, God. Silas broom stick up his ass, death night, Briarwood.

11. 13. This first round is definitely a surprise attack on them, though, right? Oh, yeah, totally. They did not see this shit coming. Seven. They did not see this shit coming at all. All righty.

So. I had so much hope when we took down their tower. It went away very quickly. It did, but I think that probably made a lot of cultists go away. Guys, we got to start the new campaign sometime. Okay. Beginning of the round. 18. Not great. The old die. Cast game over.

20th of a spell. So many options. Oh, fuck you. Oh my god, we're all gonna die, you guys. You don't come up with a decision, I think we get to get a quarter of your turn. We're gonna die. Yep. Yep. Obviously, we're not at the top of the round. Yep.

Okay. Bocault. So, Vecna, as he stands there, seeing the beholder arrive over the edge, seeing the paladin in the sky, seeing the rest of these individuals cluster in. Very well. I wanted to talk more. Please. Sit.

Oh, but. I need Sam, or Scanlan, Vax, Grog, Kieleth, and Vex to all make wisdom saving throws, please. Fuck. I should have done that fucking feast. We knew we were gonna say it. Shit, I'm gonna lose my fucking ninth level spell. It was out of the box.

Not necessarily. Definitely. 13? Oh, fuck yeah. I don't know. I have to roll really hard against fucking Vecna. You have a luck? No.

Oh, yeah, Terry had luck. Not scared of my. I neither have luck. I'm a beholder. No, you have your... You have all your show. Are you sure about that? Is it like shape change? There's a D.M right over there. True Polymorph.

Oh, it's true polymorph. I am this creature. He is that creature. That's hot. Except it's not, because I'm about to not be anymore. Well... Because he's gonna cancel it. So...

18. God damn it. Oh, Jesus. 27. You resist. Oh, God, you have to roll so high. Even with advantage? 18.

Oh, fuck. Geez. What? They roll disadvantage against you. All right. So that's. Oh, you didn't say me. Sorry.

And I rolled a 20. Wow. Fucking. You rolled a 20? You feel the force of his magical prowess coalesce like a cold vice on your brain, and your body seizes holding taut, and you all held.

You fall straight down 80 feet. Oh, God. Oh, fuck! Oh, man! None of us can do anything to help out. We slow motion walked into our own death. Oh, shit. Is Pike out?

No. two points of bludgeoning damage back. Ouch. Okay, okay. And you are. Ging-ch. Oh, God. Walls, brought down.

Yeah. Gadding. Prone there. Fucking shit. The rest of you are also held. Is this charmed or frightened? Uh, no. Okay. It's not.

No. What is being held means? Paralysis. You are paraloged. For, ha. Until you save. Until he, we saver until his concentration is broken. is broken.

Correct. And Rage would have no effect on this. Nope. Okay, okay, okay, okay. And he's gonna go ahead and shift up about 20 more feet. And kind of glance over the battlefield a bit. He's a god. He's a golden god.

He actually is one, and he won't jump off a thousand-quip. I know. Apparently. All right, that ends. T-minus 10 minutes till he turns into a goldfish. We can only be so hopeful. That ends his turn. Delilah is now gonna go.

Oh, good. Wow, what a way to lead off the route. I don't want to. My anti-magic cone is not in effect, I assume. Actually, isn't it just naturally wherever they're looking? It's wherever you're facing, but he hasn't had a turn to go yet. He basically just arrived. Oh, okay.

Oh, man. So it would be kind of in this piece. path here or wherever you would have come in this regard. So it would be in this direction. That's a big fucking headlamp. Just frozen like that. Actually, I really want to swallow it. I can't close. I was under the impression that the eyeball was passive. I'm checking right now, actually. Well, you have to choose at the start of each turn. At the start of its turn, which way the cone faces and where the cone is

I haven't had a turn. If it's active. You're holding your action for being able to move. Anyway. So, we got this guys. How many of us are still able to move? Three?

Three. Hey, okay. Look it up. Things are looking up. So held. He has 12 head points, by the way. What's the deal with that? You're paralyzed, which means you're incapacitated.

You automatically fail, strengthen dexterity saving throws, The sling throws, the tackle is against you have an advantage, and any creature that hits you with a, than five feet, it's a critical hit. Basically, worst scenario possible. Yeah. It's all you'd say. It could be worse, but it would take math.

It's like, this is bad. Pikes, Pikes, going to solve everything. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she can get us out of this. Let's know this stuff. Remember this look, boys and girls on Matt's face. As the chef,

of Matt choosing the form of our destroy. the form of our destroyer. Of our destruction, of our doom. He has been grooming us and fattening us up for two years. Delilah is gonna move. Oh no, layer action, she explodes. Ha ha ha ha ha. And it's gonna just like step over Vax's body on the ground.

Oh, bitch. You better buy off, bitch. I'm wearing underwear, bitch. Because he just looks at your skirt. And looks at your skirt. And looks at your skirt. Looks at you. It's been a while, my idea.

No. No. No. Why would you do this? The finger? How you do this, Matt? So make a constitution saving throw. No.

You're held, but you still make a constitution one. Come on. Matt, how do you do this? Come on. Not again. Yes, that's right. Okay, so you take half as much damage, which is good. Wow.

The ground is going, Ngu-h-h-h-h-h-h-all right, so instead of 61 points of necrotic damage, you take 30 points of necrotic damage. Oh, I'm not. Leroy. Leroy. Trey. Oh, my God. I got to squeeze my spiky dice to wake up.

I am. And then you get? I'm good. Okay. Blood pressure is a thing, right? And her turn? No. Grog.

Holy shit, Grog. Yeah. Your turn happens at the same time the layer action happens. Oh. And the death night, he's going to go directly after you. He's going to go after you because you guys going the same turn type. They gave you a little bit of that. Oh, man, I'm not.

Oh, shit. Okay. You watch, because the body's in the ground, quiver. No. Oh, I am going to rise up around you. You got this. You got this. No.

Forget them. They're nothing. They could just like attack this until we die. Fix us. How you're tiny? I have a plan. I have a plan. What? You're gonna pledge your fealty to the fucking some sort of, I don't know, they're also really stored restoration or something?

No. How about instant nuclear warhead? That's not a spell, you guys. I don't know. I don't know if she might can fix us this. I don't think she can fix it. Let's make it, let's use it. Matt, you can put that in your new campaign book.

Yeah, yeah, new newsman right now. Mass restoration. Mass anti-holds. And this. This will be there. So they all rise up out of the ground. These basic skeletons, and they all get one attack. So against Percy, this one kind of moves in.

Rolls a natural one, misses entirely. One of them is going to strike at the beholder that's up in the air. That's going to be a 15. What's your armor class? 18. 18. Just ricochets off the armor. There's one here that's going to go towards Pike.

And you're not held, right? So you're, yay, you resisted it. So it's going to go ahead make a strike on you. That's going to be another 15. Just hits your armor and scrapes off, no effect. This one's going to rush forward and attack two against a Vax in the ground. That is a advantage.

It's a 19. To do what? To attack you. All right, so I'm at disadvantage, but I have advantage. It would be one straight roll? No, it's just a disadvantage against you because you're paralyzed. one straight world. The first roll was 19.

Oh, so none. So no. Your armor class is 21 naturally? It is 21 when the daggers are out. And my daggers are in my hands. I mean, I don't know. It's kind of loosey-goosey. Then I'm at 20.

Okay, so it still misses you. The other one. I don't feel good. No, misses. Both of them just miss you. Even the effect of the ninth level spell is just enough of a vibration that the attacks are being just you're moving ever so faintly. Ever so faintly out of the way.

Familiar. One attacking Kieleth, that is a 24. Yeah. So you suffer eight points of slashing damage. And then Vex, that is a 12 to hit. And a 20 to hit. Another hit. So as they're striking either hitting the armor,

it's just not cutting through. They can't seem to get through it. So that worked out okay in your favor. Thanks, Dragon Armor. Dragon armor. Grog, you're paralyzed. Uh-huh. I believe you make another saving throw at the end of your turn to try and shrug off the effect.

Can I go into a paralyzed rage? Nope, but make a wisdom saving throw. God, we've got to roll like a 27 in order to break it. 12. Nope. You're still locked in place, unable to move. Oh, fuck. I will never be able to break it.

A 20 didn't break it. So yeah. Yeah, there's no way. The natural 20 would break it. A natural 20 would break it. That's the only thing? I have a modifier of zero. So.

Yeah. Holy shit. Actually, you know what? He's going to stay back there and move this way to get out of the way. Fuck you, Silas. As the death night kind of steps over to the side, you watch as this small sphere of darkness begins to into his hand.

his hand and then throws it with an arc and a 20-foot radius centered on a point that it chooses. That's rough stuff. Skelton. Skeletons are destroyed. Legendary actions and resist. I don't think, I don't know. It's legendary resist resist resistors not actions. What's the legendary resistance?

You get to re-roll, unless it doesn't have it. I don't think the... This doesn't. No, the Beholder is not. It's not that powerful. All right, I need Pike. Pike, Grog, it's a dexterity saving throw. So Grog and Scamlett automatically fail. Percival and Pike, I need you both to make

dexterity saving throws, please. Yeah. 20. Six. All right. Wait. You take. I have advantage also against the...

Right. You take a total of 35 points of fire and necrotic damage. You take 35 points of necrotic damage, and because you're resistant to fire, you only take Take 17 points of fire damage. Oh, but wait. 35 points. What did I say?

Did you say 17? 17, yes. Scanlon and Grog, you both take. Actually, no, because you have resistance to fire. I added wrong. Which actually your form is, I should give you the large form. Wait, wait, stop everything. What are you stopping?

I added wrong. Oops. My saving throw was a 23. Was it 23? I'm being held? Yes. I'm being held. Still failed.

Oh, shit. You did a 24, right? I rolled like a 24. She rolled a 27. Yeah. Oh. We should, we got to go. There's nowhere that we're going to die.

Oh, so what did I just get hit with 70 points or something? You took 70 points of fire and necrotic damage. Awesome. Do you have resistance to any of that? I don't know. Not as a beholder, no. No, no, no. Okay. That ends the Death Knights. I mean, he's just dunking on us.

Well, they're top loading. They're top loading. Thanks. Go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw. Watch and face. That's cock. Roll again. 21. Nope. Still locked in place. For the wisdom thing.

Pike. You have to . Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. All right, I'm going to touch Grog and cast lesser restoration. Okay, which cures paralysis. Then yeah. Okay, so you are cured of paralysis. Okay.

Do that all lot. Everywhere. Okay, and then. You feel you're freed of the effect of the spell. Do you want to move? How many undead are there? There are one, two, three, four, five over there. Okay.

You already used your action to cast the spell. So as my bonus action, I'm going to cast shield of faith on Percy. Okay. All right, what's nice. Add two to your AC. Oh, thank you. The level is shield of faith? to the first level.

Okay, yeah. So there you go. Just mark that for yourself. Ah, that's on. Alrighty. Do you want to move or you're steer you are, Pike? You've got a death night if you're feeling, if you're feeling frisky. Do you want to move or stay where you are?

Okay, sorry. Let me, uh, I'm gonna hide behind the beholder. Okay, so you move around grog and get right about there. Okay, that ends your turn, Pike. Turnpike. Vax, make a wisdom saving throw. To attempt to roll a natural 20? You have advantage on everything.

I know. That's good, that's good. That's okay. It's not a natural 20, though. Which is what it's going to take. I'm going to use luck. Oh my God, you're going to 19. 18 and a 19.

I'm going to use luck. Plus, how much? Plus two. It gets me to 21. I need a natural 20. Luck. No. Fuck.

That didn't you turn, Vax? Percival. I'm going to scoot against the wall towards myself. as far as a reasonable amount of movement will take me, because I don't- That's your movement there to get there. I don't like clumping. I'm gonna take aim at the asshole in the sky.

Okay. And let's, all right, let's do a couple things. I'm gonna take bad news out, and let's, just to keep everything reasonable, I'm going to burn a point for dead eye. Okay. And I'm going to take a sharpshooter shop on him. Okay. So minus five to the attack.

Minus five to the attack. So that's a, that's a crit. So that's a crit. You rolled a 19, yeah, which you have now at level 18. It's now level 18. That's a crit with... Okay. This is with which gun? This is with bad news.

Okay. So that's going to be 12. That's going to be 4012 plus six. So. Is he said? Bad news. Okay. And I'm pouring, and I don't know if this also doubles, I don't think it does, but I'm pouring all of Kabbal's ruin into this shit too.

Okay. So that's- Uh, go ahead and roll the Cabals ruin damage. Because the actual hit from Bad News is what doubles. Does nothing. Oh, really? The non-enchanted attack from Bad News just hits and dissipates across his form. Oh, no. This is-half damage.

This is... No, this is back-knit. But Kabbal's ruin. But Kabbal's ruin. Ball's ruin is considered magical damage, that will go through. Two, four, six. Was that the one you crit it on? Yeah, I burned a crit.

Nothing. But that's okay. You gain the grit back, is the crit, though, which is good. You gained the grit back from. Yeah, that's right. The crit's not burned, so that's nice. The grit. Oh, boy.

And these don't double, do they? No. No, they don't. It's dice. It's nice. They do, because it is a crit. All dice double. All dice double.

That's good. Get up. to apply to this? Does this add to bleed damage now? Maybe not. I don't know. I don't think so, because it's an outside effect. Because it's not because it's outside factor, that's fine. I'm just saying that. No, I'm with you. All right, let's see what you got. No, you know what? It would, because just like any other critical effect, yes, it would.

Okay, so let's see. It would. 16. You're all pretty good. You're all pretty good. Let's see. 10, 16, 17, 19, 20. 1920, 25, 29, 331, 32.

That's 32. Do I double that or roll? Oh yeah, 32, 32, 34, five, 36 points of damage. Times two. Times two. Right. So 36 points of damage, time two. 72. 72 points of electrical damage, and then he's also going to get a bleed

of 31. Well, no, he's gonna get a plead of 15. We'll get 15 because he is actually resistant lightning. So he took half the damage. So he takes half of that next time. But he still has to roll concentration. Yeah, for 36. Take it.

And goodbye Cabal. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I'll gain more when he hits me with some magic shit. Oh boy. Guys. This is. It's like such an anticlimactic fight. We have the damage.

I don't do anything, so it's just like, well, so that would be 18 is half that. So DC is 18 from maintaining concentration. With advantage. 14. Yeah, he saves. God fucking damn it. Barely, but like one.

Fuck. By one. Wait. Concentration? Yeah. God damn it. I was debating without him with HECS, and now I'm so sad I didn't. Oh, well, that's okay.

Okay. I'm reloading. and I'm going to take another bad news shot at Delilah. Okay. Where is she? She's over here. She's not holding it. What is she doing?

No, she just stepped over Vax's paralyzed body and then through a finger of death at Vex. Okay, let's also, let's burn that, let's burn that a little bit of animus again, just for my own, let's burn that grit point again for advantage. Let's hit her with bad news. Actually, I'll cast hex on hers well, just for fun. Okay. And give her disadvantage, Constitution disadvantage.

Okay, hex on Delilah. Or actually, let's give her just in case like she gets grappled or other way. Let's make a constitution disadvantage. Fuck it. Okay. And then I've got bonus, and I'm doing Sharp Shooter again. Okay.

Oh, thank God I did, because that was a terrible shot. That's 14. 14 is not hit, unfortunately. As you go to fire. Do we know what would hit? We don't. We don't. Why are you thinking about trying to push it? War God's blessing?

Give it plus 10? Yeah. Oh, that would definitely hit, I imagine. War God's blessing. Okay, so use War God's blessing as a reaction onto Percy. As you go to fire, you feel the presence of Sarenre coalescer on the blade and you hear a little whisper of your shoulder say, there.

And all of a sudden, clear, comes into frame and you fire bad news towards Goliath. So go ahead and roll damage on that. All right, it's with the hex. She's not even going to spend a shield on that. That goes way over her AC. Oh, that's not bad. Yeah, that's eight.

9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. 20 points of piercing damage and five points of necrotic damage. Okay. Blast, you see the robe kind of tear open on one side. She's like, ah! And that's my role. You glance over with the scope. and see her as she turns and looks at you.

You can see. Putting it away. What you didn't see earlier is the one normal eye she has and one yellowish green eye with a cat slit pupil. Shit. What is that even mean? Beckna's been busy. Okay, this is going to get interesting. All right, that didn't you turn first?

This is all I could do. Scanlan, go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw. Nope. Okay. I can't move my eyes or anything or turn. anything or turn on my anti-magic. You're paralyzed, yeah. I mean, as far as the ray that you have,

like the eye perspective, you're hitting right there. So you're missing most, you're just out of range to hit, to get rid of the paralysis from Vex and off of Vax. If we managed to break from this somehow and you rotate, the spell would have no effect while it's on them. So wait, they're broken from it? by being in his gaze?

By being in his anti-magic... Am I in his gaze? No. No, you are not. You're just outside of it. Yeah. But if I move into his gaze, I cannot. Correct. Or if you shoot something through the cone, it'll dissipate.

If I shoot up it back now, will I hit him? Will I go through the cone? Yeah, probably. He's an arc. You're just outside of it. I will not go through the cone. Probably. You can angle it that way, yeah. Okay. So... Just throw someone into the cone.

Keeleaf, what are you doing? It is now my turn. You throw someone in my phone. Oh, and also I need you to make a concentration check on your. Oh, my spell. Yep, transformation. I get advantage as a gnome.

You do. How much damage you take on that one totally? Huh? What? From the blast? What? From the blast that you took from 70 points. So you have to beat a 35. Okay, as a what, a wisdom?

That would have been a concentration, a concentration, Constitution, saving throw. So in theory, Scanlan, before it came to your turn, you actually dropped your beholder form. Oh, I'm no longer paralyzed. The spell maintains itself on it. Whoa, but I'm a different guy! But it's your mind that it affects.

Wait, what? Why? Why? His concentration. Any spell still carries over the effects on you. Like, you can't wild shape and... But he lost concentration? He lost concentration on his big spell, yeah. Yeah.

Hey, guys. Hi, Scanlan. I'll let you remake that Constitution's saving throw with your Constitution. All right. Sorry, your wisdom, I'm sorry, with your Scanlan's wisdom. Okay. Do I get advantage because of magic? Yes, because it is magic. And can I inspire myself?

Yes, you can. All right, I will inspire myself. Oh, God. I'm so much. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. 24. 24 is just enough.

Oh. Oh. So you shrug off the paralysis at the end of your turn. You're now free to move. Oh my God. Just move. I can't act, right? No, that's just the end of your turn.

Get out of that clump. Yeah, I'll just move to the right. So Keyleth, what are you doing? Is he 60 foot away from me? Is he within a range? Who? Should I handle Delilah or should I handle him? What are you doing?

Which one do you want? Sam, tell me where you want to move now or just in general? No, no, like next turn you'll be able to move. Got it. Is he within 60 feet of me? Who? Vecna. You're not sure.

Do you want to, you have to eyeball it. 2530, 35, 40, 45, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 60. He's exactly 60 feet in the air. I have to get directly under his butthole. Can I get directly under his butt hole? You can move through Trinket. You'll get two tech opportunities from two skeletons. Oh, Jesus balls.

It's. Jesus balls. You have to leapfrog over Trinket to get there, but you can do it. What about Delilah? Where is she? Delilah's over here. She and two skeletons right now are kind of lording over the paralyzed of acts on the ground. So if I move at all, I'm going to take opportunity from skeletons. You don't do a whole lot of damage, but damage adds up. Um, um, uh, Jesus. Okay. I am going to

to head to Delilah. Okay. She's within 30. I can move up to her, correct? No. Move straight up to her? Can I? You can, yeah.

Both skeletons can tax opportunity on you. That's a nine. No. Nope. And, uh, 12. Negative. They both hit you, but the mantle

actually rides out in front of you. You watch those various leaves kind of almost unfurl like a cat's hair up on the back of its neck. Sure. flex the blows of the skeletons as you rush past. Cahalladden out of her. Dismanite intelligence checks and give her confluence or I can give her

disavitance and constipater No, no, no, no, no. Whenever she takes damage, she's stunned? Or should I give to the confusion thing? Either one. They're both good. Yeah, go for the first one. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay.

I am going to, I'm turning into Ashley Johnson. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm gonna go up to Delilah. Okay. Cout and mouth. Oh boy.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm going to say, I'm going to go up to her. I'm just going to be like, experience what you've been putting all of us through. And I'm going to touch her. I'm going to try and cast contagion on her

with mindfire? Mind fire. Mind fire. Mind fire. Okay. Question mark? Sounds good. Yeah, it sounds really.

Hit her with a mine bullet. Mind bullets. Please this Kyle. How about the power? So make a melee spell attack. Make a meal a spell attack. Okay. Okay, I have a bonus to my spell attacks, actually.

Yeah, you do. Oh God. Yeah, you do. I believe in you. You can do the thing. Come on. You're going to eat too. Good.

That's a cock. You're the best. That's even worse than when it was like cocked. Not great. 18. 18 is exactly what you needed. That's her armor class. Your fucking leader's two kings.

So she now is affected by mind fire. So she now is affected by mind fire. Which means she her mind becomes furious and she has a disadvantage on intelligence checks and intelligence saving throws and she becomes confused. What is that mean? Confused me. For seven days. Sounds like she can't cast spells too well. Hopefully.

Maybe. Okay. So she's now considered confused. What? She's under the effects of the confusion spell. I know. I was under the effects of being confused about the funeral spell. Okay.

Is that a new turn killed? Necromancey dabbling. Um, what do you got for a bonus? I don't have a lot for a bonus considering I just, I could go into an element. mental form. Or the, I will say the boy.

Now, if we attack her, is that going to drop the confusion? What? Yeah, can we attack her in the, well. No, it just lasts for seven days. Well, it lasts for days if she fails the saves. She has three saves in a row, and if she succeeds and it goes away, if she fails for seven days. But not dropped if we hit her or something. Yeah.

Okay. She has to make Constitution saving throws. Okay. But she's under the effects right now, correct? This spell has been a lot of... Yeah, we've been through this before. Haven't we? Oh yeah, this is one of the ones we tried a long time ago.

No, no, no. But it says after failing three of these saving throws, the disease effects lasts for the duration. So that would make me assume that she has it at least for three rounds, concerned for fifth level. But we had this discussion before because then there's the ability it has slimy doom,

which the creature has, whenever it takes damage, it becomes stunned, which is the most broken. I almost did that. I know, but that, I think the D&D ruling technically is they have to fail three saves before it affects them. But it's a fit level fucking spell. That's a lot.

I know. I know. Like if that's lame for three rounds for a fit level spell? Look, I'll say this. I'll let mine firework on her, for now. Oh, he doesn't look happy. I feel like I just pissed off the DM. No, you didn't piss off the DM.

This spell is a lot of contention in the community, but the official D&D ruling was it doesn't affect until they fell all three spells, but the way it's written doesn't say that, because they're afflicted upon them being hit. So, I'm letting it go. through because you didn't choose the cheesy-ass stun lock broken spell. But after succeeding on three of these spells, the creature recovers from the disease. Right.

So they were already affected. Right. Which is what I'm saying. This is between what's written in the spell and the arguments that people have made with D&D on Twitter, and they clarified saying that's not how it works. It's a mistype. It wasn't very clear. So I'm letting it work. Be happy. This is in the book. Cool. Don't go ahead. Good stuff.

Don't make it happen. Be happy. Look down. At the end of your turn, At the end of your turn, Vecta's gonna go ahead and use some legendary actions to cast a spell. No. How about you just say you did and don't?

Yeah. Let's not say we did. He could just evil monologue a little bit, you know, tell us his plan. You know, talking about how much you wanted a monologue, I really feel like this is the moment. I'm going to cast a seventh level fireball damn it, right there.

Oh, damn. All right, everybody. Seventh level fireball. See you guys. Yeah. So I need... We gotta go. I need Keeleth Vax.

Oh no, you don't have to auto save, yeah. Good night. I have to wake him up. Wow. Maybe the Raven Queen will use you or something. I can't. It's an automatic fail because I'm paralyzed. Yeah.

What about the disadvantage that'll take... That's actually good. Right. That's came in, like no one's really hidden with anything. You'll lose paralysis because you'll be in a coma. Yeah. No one will just wake you back up. It's fine.

It's actually kind of good. All righty- All righty- So, Keeliff, if you make a dexterity saving throw, please? Yeah, that's a good reference. Come on, Keelah! Bring it back. Flat-Bin. They're done. That's not good.

That's a natural one. Are you serious? Yes. Are you serious? I'm looking at it. Oh, no. That's a surprisingly shitty roll. 38 points of fire damage to Vax.

That's a shoole. Yeah. On a sudden level fireball? I know. I rolled really shitty. Okay. 38? as well. 38.

38. I can do that. I can do it. 38. That's not terrible. And 38 to trink it. That's a, that's a small, that's like a dire armadillo. That's okay. 38 to drink it. Delilah take all that damage to her?

Delilah. Yeah, she did. She can't save against this shit. And she's kind of like, she takes it and it's like, she had that, like, what? The night was out of it, but Delilah took it. Yeah. I like it. Probably a little bit. She was like, ooh.

Burn, sick burn. It made sense for the circumstance. She's up for the sacrifice. All righty, that ends. Kielas' turn, top of the round. Now it's Vecanus go. Folls. That was just legendary. Oh, God. Let's see here. I like that you have an enlarged figure, girl. That's cool. I thought you were complimenting the DM. I was like, yeah, keep it up. I like that you made it up. an enlarged figure for Grog.

Vagasy. I'll kill you last. Oh my god, this map is so pretty. He shifts in. What is that thing in the middle of the? This is the altar. Whatever it is, it's really cool. Can we see what's in it?

You have to go check it out. If there was anything. Is he like moving towards the altar? He's just kind of shifting over in the center, kind of looking down for a bit. And he just goes, Well, sleep. Oh.

Oh. Um, he casts. Can you do that with a concentration? What concentration? This is not a concentration spell. Okay, just tracking. You have advantage because of the half album. He casts.

Magic can't put me to sleep. Uh, power word kill. Oh, well, that's different. What happened? Wait, what? What is that? No, he did this what he said. He meant metaphorical sleep.

Metaphorical sleep. He meant death. You utter a word of power that can compel one creature you see within range to die instantly. If the creature you chose has 100 hit points or fewer, it dies. What? How many hit points do you have? I'm dead.

Like insta full death? Insta full death. No saving permit? Nope. Wait, what? What? Like perma death? Like no death saving throws.

You watch as the light suddenly fades from Vex's eyes and she just falls to the ground. Oh. Vax is watching. Frozen. Oh my god. Hey, don't compliment the map, you guys, because Matt really doesn't like it.

I'm sorry. No, it's fine. It's now Delilah's turn. Maybe she's not going well. Maybe we should leave. Played shift, I don't know. Should we get out of it? She turns and looks at you, Keelith.

Oh, no. And goes. Is this Delilah? This is Delilah. You took him from me. I'm now going to take him from you. No. She points down.

I thought she was confused. I actually get to check out if she does now. This may make the change. Oh, Van. Also, we weren't technically dating when we killed her. So I'm not really sure if she's no. All right. So I get to roll a D-10.

I am not. Let's hope he doesn't roll a nine or a ten, y'all. A ten. You are fucking lying to me. Come look. Come look. It's right there. Oh.

I see it. Oh, shit. Oh shit. Wow, you really went down. I'm sorry. Oh, boy. I'm rolling really well. I'm sorry, guys. Yeah, but that fireball was super low, so.

Oh, boy. All right, so do I have to roll from an attack on this? Creatures to make a dexterity saving throw. I don't know what to do. We have to leave. So that's 76 points of damage from the disintegrate spell. Haft from the Death Walker's Ward armor. to necrimanic. It's forced damage.

Force damage. Dissinigrates force damage. Oh, well then I'm down. No, no, no, no, no. That means she's disintegrated. You watch as the Vax's form turns to dust. Are you fucking kidding? Leaving the armor of the Raven Queen empty on the ground. The daggers tinct-ch-titch-ting to the stone around it. Like no recovery from that, dude.

Bro, we're gone. Wow. Grog, it's your turn. Twinsies out. Oh, no. What's happened? Okay. I thought this campaign was gonna last longer than this.

Okay, okay. I said this was the last episode and I meant it. You, you are a terrible person. Oh, no. Forsy. Can you run your five backs if I throw you over? With foresight, oh, because you're a fuck. But she doesn't have to roll again.

against that? Like, she gets disadvantage on everything. It's a dexterity saving throw, but he's still paralyzed from. So he doesn't get advantage? You automatically fail deck saving throws when you're paralyzed. You can't dex out of something if you can't move. If I throw you over to her, can you? I'm too far to do anything, right? I mean at the moment.

You could have, well. No, it has to be within 60 feet. From Delilah? Yeah. She's in 40 feet of you. Can I retroactive? retroactively counter spell? Yeah, I'll let you do it.

Because you have your billy back. I'll let you try for it. Wait, the disintegrate? Yeah. Go, Scanlan, go! Oh my God. You need all the tricks you can to try and. I think I have to roll for this.

Yeah, yeah. You roll and add your charisma modifier. Charisma modifier? Yeah. It's just an 11. plus two because you get plus to plus. 13. I can't add anything else.

You fire. Not on a reaction. Reaction, I don't think. You can't, but you're a war bard, right? No, he's not a war bard. The lore bard. But I mean, Warcaster. Let me see.

Oh, man. This is. This doesn't feel good. Doesn't feel good. This does not feel good. There's a peerless skill. When you make an ability check. It's an ability check, technically.

What's that mean? Do it, do it. It means you can add your... Do it. You can spend another bar of inspiration to it, so you're at a 13. It's cocked. It's all again. Oh my God.

It's not the 11. It's a 17. The spell is a sixth level spell. The DC is 16. Oh, God! Oh, he's not disintegrated? Is disintegrated? So.

Are you serious? Mad is a gentle guy. Are you serious? Genuine. So. So in this flash of vision, Kieleth, you see this happen. And then the bit of inspiration from the Raven Queen that's been kind of trying to push through whatever is keeping her vision at bay here, your vision flashes back. And there you see Vax on the ground, the extended finger of Delilah as the green energy begins to spiral out the tip of her finger.

And scale in the back just says, oh, uh, I'm... Hey, you know what the problem is with your face? I can see it! And Delilah goes, what? And the spell just pf, just paced. Oh my god. That was a sixth level spell? Yeah.

Does she have any more of those? We don't know. You don't know. Because I know I have two. Do you stand? Got it in something. That being the case, Delilah is going to go ahead and... Go be confused, bitch.

Four, five, six. That way you do get an attack of opportunity. Keeliff, honor. Just straight melee. Just the straight melee. Hit her with a stick. Ugh. Fuck her, hit it with the stick. God, this fucking...

Dice! Dice! You've rolled shit on that dice every time tonight. It's not good. Not good, sorry, 13. 13? No, that misses unfortunately. Fuck this dice. Fuck it.

Kill it into the ether. Okay. Frog, it's your turn now. It goes in the dark though. Sure. Sure. Just put it in the jail. Can I use my, are we doing this?

Yeah. Can I use my action to pick up my buddy Pike? And I am gonna try and throw her as far as I can towards where Vex's body is laying. Okay, so you're gonna pick her up and move? I guess there's no difference, right? I mean, you can pick her up, move and then throw her. They'll give her the most distance, but you can only move half your speed as you're carrying her. You're essentially an agreed upon grapple.

So you'll be able to move 25 feet with her and then... Versus... versus picking her up and throwing her for an athletic check or something? I mean, you can, but I don't know how far you'll throw her that way. If you... It's up to you. You can just stay where you are if you'd like to. You think so? And the initiative is Grogpike Vax right now.

So I should just go on load? Yeah, do your thing, do your thing. Okay, can I use my, I would like to rage? You're raging. Can I use my full speed to head towards Delilah? Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five, forty-five, forty-five, fifty. 50 it's as far as you can get right there. For my bonus action, can I use my boots and ferro leap horizontally?

Okay. 20 feet. I just want to get within melee. Okay, make an athletic check. And your body still exists. Maybe. For now. It's a million.

25. You land right in front of her. She watches you as you run around the side. Leap right in front of her, this giant hulking form of muscle. That bitch. Yeah, reckless, great weapon master, all of the, Turn her to fucking paste. You have two attacks.

Yeah, two attacks. Why am I light-headed? I did this. All right and those drinks were really inappropriate. Uh, 28. 28? Yeah, that hits. 19, be 5 and 4, because I'm enlarged.

35 total on the first one. And the second one. Should have taken another thing. That would have been a crit. minus five, 27? 27? Does it, yes. Boy, she's got a high in DC, does you?

Let me see. 20, 34, 34, three points of necrotic for 37. That's a D8, that's the wrong one. 36 points of damage. As you rush forward and cleave in tour with Hit after hit on the axe. You watch as her imposing form is just battered around and slashed apart.

And as you finish and withdraw the axe for the two strikes, you see you're already like clutching her stomach. And an action surge is a bonus action, right? No. It's not an action search. Just an action surge. You can just do it. So we just empty the tank?

Yeah. I'll use the axon. Now's the time. Okay, go for it. So is that three more attacks, two more attacks? Two more. Reckless, great weapon, all the shit. God damn.

two 19s in a row. If I'd pick that other thing, they would have been criticals. Good, you're good. 28. 28 hits, definitely. 17, 27, 27. That's a fucking D8 again. 31. 31.

31. 31. All righty. Second attack. 27. Jesus, yes, that hits. Monstrous thing. Haster.

Hayster. That's a 12. 26. 26. 36, 38, 30, 40, including the large and the necrotic. You slam her with the two extra attacks knocking her back. As the two additional axe blows slice across the front of her chest, one gets from the side of the chin. You can see you've carved the cheek open and broken teeth.

And now when she looks back to you, you can see all of her back molars and teeth now this horrible Joker grin on one side of her face as the blood leaks out. And you can see one where the one kind of gleaming, green glowing, a greenish yellow glowing eye just kind of flares open at you. Don't stop smiling on my account. That ends her turn, Grog. No, it's my moment. All right. So, ghostly claws begin to spring up from the ground in a 20-foot radius.

Oh, boy. Ho-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Clause, yes. Ghostly claws. right there. Shit bowels. I need Vax fails.

I need Keelith and Grog and Trinket all make dexterity saving throws. Sorry, strength saving throws. There's strength. He can't do anything. Don't fuck me guilt.

Trinket can't. Trinket can't still attack if I'm not in relying. Oh shit. I'll let you. I'll let you in the purposes of being dead. Trinket is going to act on its own

on his own to just go ahead and defend you. Okay, well, he rolled a seven, so. Okay. Okay. Or he's about to be pocketed in a pocket dimension pretty quick. Yeah, you might go into pocket dimensions. So, wrong? 22.

22. You take five points of necrotic damage and are not grappled. You take 10 points of necrotic damage, reduced to half to five because of your armor, and you are grappled and paralyzed. Kieleth? 22. 22.

You take five points of narcotic damage. Okay. And then Trinket takes how much necrotic damage and... Ten is grappled. Okay. It means the speed of zero. All right, so... Holy fuck.

This is... Welcome to the... God Wars. Welcome to the God Wars, guys. Can we get a God in here? Not cool. Yeah, can we... Why didn't we like Heroes Feast?

It wouldn't have... The wisdom, I mean like this still is a gun out of here. Light of dark meat, I don't care, one of the other. Yeah, you don't want one's fine. Get one of those ladies in here. Step, step, step. Oh, step. He's just nervous.

Just run something. These heavy armored footfalls as it walks, puts his fingers forward, begins carving this sigil in the air. G. Gads it, and as it turns it, you watch the same sigil ruins appear around Grog and begin to spiral around you. Make a charisma saving throw, please. Charisma.

Fuck balls. Oh, my God. Hey, y'all, plus one. Don't worry. Four. Oh, Jesus. Wow. Grog, you vanish.

Oh, my God. Banished from this realm of existence. Oh, you know! You appear on the ground in the shadow fell, in the gaping crater where Tharunfala once stood. Oh my God. Oh my god. You look around up to the familiar cloudy dark sky and are alone. Wait, y'all aren't in the shadow fell anymore?

No. Oh right, snow's falling. Wild matter some shit. Guys, Matt wanted to read this shit. Without a perception check, is anybody around? Nobody's around you, although you do look up and see maybe a dozen or so of the gloom stalkers swirling up ahead. Oh, great. They haven't noticed you yet.

Oh, God. You know what, though? You've been banished to another dimension. You can punch to another dimension. You can punch your way out of it. You know what? I only have one thought. Oh no, he's gonna turn to the cards, y'all.

He's gonna turn to those cards. Y'all just, let's just, we got this. He's going text. Keelik, perception check. What? What? Perception check. Okay. Oh, my God, more shit's happening.

Oh, that's good. So 14 plus the 13, so 20, oh, seven. You do notice the armored death night is still has a hand out after Grog's vanishing and is still like, Okay, okay. Okay. That's good.

Okay. This doesn't appear to be plane shift. So if I kill the, if I kill him, he'll come back? Wait, I do. It could be a concentration hole. Well. Grog won't ever come back. What does that mean?

I don't know. We'll find out. Because we're just going to light waste to shit till it stops happening. We're going to just keep doing terrible shit until terrible shit stops happening. Pickle time. Dude, this is... What's up there? Where we have?

We are at the end of the Death Knight's turn, which Vectna is going to use two legendary actions to cast another spell. Fuck! This feels like he's probably done only a couple level two spells now. It feels like when we played in Liam's one shot when we got on the beach. This is very much the beach, isn't it? Vekna is going to shift further back on the field to there. There. Is he just always gonna fucking fly?

Probably. Why wouldn't he? Yeah. Feeder, feeder passe. As he glides over, he looks down and sees the mess that Delilah is currently in, looks around and sees the options and says, well, I hate to see work unfinished. Again. Dissiterate. This is the same round, right?

This is the next round. Can I try? Well, he's as far. He's moved out of your range. Great. And I don't, uh, uh, uh. So now, now you see as a green ray fires down from the whispered one above and within an instant. Wait, wait, wait, can I like bonus action him? Did he have a reaction?

Reaction? Of any sort? I'd gotten happen. Turn to dust within the armor. Where once Vax stood, the vision you saw flash you thought might have been a warning instead it was an omen. And you look down and see the raven wings just turn to ash. And now there is the empty body or the empty armor of the Raven Queen, the daggers clattering to the stone. Oh, man. What the fuck.

Pike, it's your turn. What's gonna do? Fuck. Name smallness, Laura. Okay. Sorry, hold on, let me try to think of... She can't reach you? Yeah, yeah.

I'm small in this one. Nope. Not this round. I can bring you to her. You could hold your action and he could vamp you over. Let's, uh, when are you up? Four more. I don't know.

Ish. Three or four more. Just do, do whatever you want. Ugh. You have to touch her? Yeah. Yeah. So if you want to do something like that, you'd have to begin casting it.

Hold your action for him to take his turn and then you could take her there. Wait, so who's up? I'm probably next. It's you. Pike, Percy. You Percy then Scanlan. Okay. So Percy's next and then it's Scanlan.

If we don't die in those two turns, yes. Okay, so, oh my God, I'm shaking his a bet. I will start casting Revivify and I will hold my turn until Scanlan. Okay. Bams us. Yeah, I'm going to be a total dick and not do that. Okay. So that's going to do turn.

There's no one in between us? No, we're next to each other. You're in next to you. I mean, no one in between us, like the bad guys. Well, they can go whenever they want. Delilah's right. Well, Delilah already took her turn. Oh, Scanlon.

Oh, it's my turn. Where's Percy? Sorry, no, Percy, you're up next. I'm going to unload a few rounds of Anamis into Delilah since she's still standing. She's still standing? She's still standing. All right, let's drop a point of grit

and let's get some advantage on this, just for animus shot number one. Come on, come on, crit. Not a crit, but still pretty decent. That's a 28 to hit. 28 to hit, that'll hit. So let's do, that's not the full damage. Let's do this plus, let's do that.

So that's 8, 9, 10, 11, that's 12 points of piercing damage, five points of psychic damage, and four points of necrotic damage. Okay. The aquatic damage doesn't do anything, unfortunately. I know. I just keep that off then for now. Okay. That...

She's looking really hurt. All right, let's take another shot. Same thing, burning a grit. Fuck it. And let's make this one, these are not the right dice to roll, because I'm really nervous. Let's make this one a sharpshooter just to see if we can pour a little more pain. Natural 20. That's a crit. There you go. Let's get that grip back.

Killer, kill, kill. I'm working. I'm working. I got to use my pen. I got to use my pen. Don't shake me. I shake so much on my own. That's 2D10 plus 2D6 psychic. So that's four points of psychic damage. That was a terrible role. That was so bad. 18, 19, 19, 21, 24 points of psychic damage. 24 points of damage.

Okay. Is that doubled? That's doubled. Well, it's terrible. How do you want to do this on the Lila? Take my second shot. I call Delilah. Even if we die is fucking worth it.

And I take it right in her good eye. I want me to be the last thing she sees. As you, as she turns around, you watch that side of her face just explode. And she falls back. the force of it, knocking her off her feet, and she scatters across the stonework. You glance over and you can see her looking face up,

and the little green eye in the socket just turns and looks towards you. Wait, it's still working? Yep. It's just the eye turned and looked at you from within the socket. Yeah, but it's down. All right.

Like a creature inside of her. Off. For my third shot, Mr. Armor. Oh, and I get another grip back, because she's dead. Armor, I'm taking a, what's he holding? He currently has a long sword in one hand, that's all he's currently holding. Holding a long sword.

Let's get rid of that long sword. I'm going to hit him and make him drop that long sword. Okay. I'm burning a grint to make him drop it. I'm, I know this is a lot. Taking my third shot with Animus, and this is going to be a sharpshooter shot. and that's not a crit, but that's pretty good.

That's 18, 28, 29 to hit. That hits. All right, so this is 1d10 plus 1D6. That's terrible. That's 20 points of damage, 2 points of psychic damage. Okay. And he has to make a strength saving throw, or he drops the sword. Okay.

That is a... DC 20. He gets a 20 exactly. Fuck! 15 plus 5. Also, but he did take the damage chase to make concentration, which he makes. It's a DC 11 because it's half the damage.

Concentration. Oh, for that. Well, that's fine. I'm gonna, just because we're at that point where I'm panicking, let's burn an accident surge. Boom. Three more shots on the asshole. Okay. Were you shooting on Vecna?

No, Vecna, I'm not shooting, is he's laughing off my bullets. Most of the impact is kind of deflects off the plate. You're shooting at the death night. I'm shooting at the death night. So now I'm just going to do a grit shot. I'm going to just burn for a dead eye sharpshooter.

That's 16, 26, 27. 27? Okay. A hits. Yep. And that's, um, oh my fucking God. Oh, it's how. 20 points of damage plus one point of psychic damage. Okay.

Okay. Burning another for, uh... Burning another for a... Oh, I got more. I got three more. Wow. I just keep killing things. Kill them, kill him.

Kill it. That's, uh, no, that's 17 to hit? 17, just you watch as he's concentrating on that one spell, and as he, the one shot hits him in the second one, he just kind of puts his arm up and almost seems deflect it with his hand. Did he, did he make a constitution throw, save against that last one? the past the previous damage? Yes, he did. Okay, all right, and Groon, this is my last shot, burning another grit. And...

Barely. Natural 20. Okay, so that's, uh, that's going to be... Come on. That's better. Oh, which I actually forgot to mention that. Veclund took a little extra damage from your crit earlier. Yes, he did.

So he took 15 extra points of damage. You have. Yeah. That's 18, 19, 2021, 2, 23. 20, 23. 30 points of damage plus five psychic damage. Okay. So, so. And he's going to take 30 points, he's gonna take 15 points of damage

plus three psychic damage next round. Yeah, actually that was a, 16 and 1. So with his concentration bonus, he saves. He maintains concentration. Oh, my fucking God. Yeah, it's hard to break, and the design for that. I'm gonna use my bonus action to reload,

That's my fucking turn. Okay. Oh. That was a long turn. I know. It did good. Moving on. Did good.

All right. And to Percy's turn, Scanlan. Okay. Which Percy, do you want to move on your turn? No. Okay. There's nowhere. I'm as far away from everybody as I can currently be like there's nowhere else.

I'm letting you know. Yeah. As it currently stands. Yes. Delilah is down. Delilah's down. And two figures that look pretty much much untouched. What are you trying to say?

I'm saying just be mindful of your choices. You know what? I'm going to start making a beeline straight for Keyleth. Fuck it. Okay. I'm going to see if I can like, I'm going to try and maybe get some cover behind. 30. It's going to be out in the office. What do we do? I'm fucking bailing. That's up to you. You do have one of them down and you have two. Two super. Grog.

We can get Grog back. We just have to, just gotta get everybody up and... You know where Grog went. You didn't know where I am. You can find them. You can find them. But you. Grog's fine.

I'm gone. There's no finding me. I'm gone. We're picking up armor. Scan on you live. I grabbed Pikey-pooh. Picking up fucking armor. Dimension Door.

Straight to Vex's beautiful dead body. Like a dead Juliet. Oh, fuck. I will inspire Pike. I don't know if that has that has. helps your whatever ritual you're about to do, but maybe. Just revivify. Revivify?

Yeah. What do you get for Inspire? You get a D12 that you can spend on something, which as you release the Revivify, you reach down and grab the cold lifeless hand of Vex. I need you to go ahead and just roll a wisdom check. With inspiration. Should she need it? Should she need it?

And don't I get, no, I'm cunning, so I have advantage on it? No, it's not a saving throw, it's just the check. So you just roll a D20, add your wisdom on fire. everything we fucking can. 18. 18, yeah. The breath comes in. Hi.

I... So you're at one hip point. Are they dead? No. You look over to your side and you see Delilah on the ground. Her head kind of scattered and exploded on the ground. The one kind of yellowish-green eye kind of still like moving around and just taking in the scenery.

You glance up and you see Vecna, still kind of lording over a big smile on his face. You see the other arthurting over a big smile on his face. You see the other arch. Armored Knight just kind of walking around the plated black helmet just guarding any expression, except for these little glowing red dots to the eyes that peer through. I'm going to use any movement I have to pick up the dust of my fallen friend, if there is any dust. There's the dust in his equipment. Those are the two things that are little pick up whatever I can.

My little tiny, scoop him into a little vial. Tiny arms. That's so bad. Achoo! Oh no! Oh no! There's no time for allergies. Wow. All right. Fuck! All right. So you get your hands up in the armor and some dust and you gather it in your hand.

There's Scanlan. There's you. Okay, yeah, we're close. There's Vex, Pike. So we're all together. Mine is Percy and Grog is somewhere. Percy. I got as far as I could. Are you done with you?

Okay. I'm done. So bonus action. We need a vampire. Can I do a bonus action? Yeah. Okay. And you need healing like a mother.

Don't, don't shrug at me. Don't shrug at me. She's fine. I'm gonna cast healing word on Vex. On Vex. Level 2? Let's, no, because it's... Level 4. Bonus seconds.

Well, because you've already cast, so level 2. So 2D4 plus your wisdom modifier, I think. I'm already rolling Vax into it. Mixing it with your suit. Exactly. The 10 hit points. Let's tuck it behind it.

on ear for later. I can't cure wounds and bones. It doesn't matter anymore. I haven't seen facts yet. I haven't seen what happened. Can I move? You haven't. You haven't. No, because you already took your turn.

You're holding. Oh, my God. All right, so that ends your turn. Scanlan, so you moved up there, you grab the stuff. That's your turn. Yeah. Keelef. Oh, God.

Uh, um, okay. Kill things or, uh, are we, are we trying to get to me so I can get us all out? If it's gonna take probably another round. One more turn. For Percy to get there. But everyone's coming this way, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, uh, fucking, uh, f, uh, fucking hell, okay. Kill someone. Kill someone. How does fire storm work? I know it's like 10, 10 foot. Cube so does it have to be on the ground or can I hit him up there? You know what? Can I like rain... Justice reigns from above? Can I do like that?

Uh, 100 feet, 10, which you can arrange as you wish. Each cube must have at least one face adjacent to the face of another cube. Oh. Yeah, you can. But adjacent. Here's the location you choose than range, so I don't see why you couldn't. You can just create a lava fall essentially. But you'd have to pick one of the two of them to hit. You'd pick one and then you could create a bunch of cubes that kind of chain off of it if you want. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't hit them both. But I'm not gonna be able to hit the Death Night and back now. Probably not.

Not without hitting Scanlon or yourself in the process. Well, what if I got out of the way? Could I? We can try it. Okay, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do a bonus action and I'm gonna go air elemental, just the full-on wrath of my people. people in my hometown and I'm going to like levitate up and like a cool tornadoy thing.

Are there any material components for firestorm? Probably. No, there is not. So you can cast that in your form. No, there's not. All right, so you levitate up. We'll say, what, right there? There's a lot of dead bodies on the ground, man. I know.

Here, I'm just going to turn this is... This is rough. So we'll say, okay. Okay, that's high. Yeah, but that's okay. That's okay. It's fine. How did you want it?

In between, but don't worry about it. Sure. And then I'm gonna just do like, did right onto Vecna and try and swarm it down towards the death night and try and hit any between. How many cubes is it? It is 10, 10, 10 foot cubes. That's 10, say 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5.

Five, four, three, three, two, one. You just barely get them. Just barely. Go. That'll do. That'll do. Hold on. What you mean hold on.

Don't say that. There are some legendary things that I think might be having. Yeah, I get that vibe. I've been legendary. As you swarm up and begin to formulate the spell, that just kind of looks out with you. And you can see what the,

The vacant space of the hand is, there's almost an arcane flash of a hand that goes, to counter spell you. Roll the one. That is. What is he have to roll? Under my... Save. It has to beat your DC.

No, sorry, the level of the spell, which should be 17, which succeeds. You rolled out a 14 plus 10, so yeah, 24. So as you formulate the spell, you watch as the flames kind of sputter. kind of sputter out. Can you come back down to the ground? Yeah, I'll try and levitate down a bit. Okay, yeah, you were about there. And with your flying speed, you can land back down

on the ground if you'd like. Sorry. Is that your turn, Kiela? I mean, I guess so. Okay. Nothing else. What's it look like when you're looking out at all of us who were just so sad?

It feels awful. No, no, you love it. I love it. You're a liar. You're a lying liar. It legitimately feels awful, but like, we're building this for a long time. I gotta play it. There's a god floating in me. Not a god yet. Not a god yet. Not a god yet. Not a god yet. Oh. I'm assuming.

We'll be a god in our next damn campaign when we're all dead. He's going to use his last legendary action at the end of Keyless turn to cast a cantrip at you. As you just got back into consciousness, he's going to reach out with a flame bolt. Apparently, it's because I called him a dib shit when he was talking to us. You did blurt that out. You did. You did kind of talk to him. He is a dipshit. You're a dips shit. I'm going to say, before he does a scant trip, I'm going to go, you can go ahead and live forever, but you'll still be fucking ugly the whole damn time. That's...

What's so crazy? Oh, God. Disadvantage because you're prone on the ground and it's a ranged attack. That is a... That's true. Two plus 16. That is an 18. To my armor class.

He doesn't hit. Oh! I rolled a natural 20 and a 2, by the way. Oh my. So if you weren't prone, he would have destroyed me. That's fucking valerious. He would have. So as he kind of points down with his still-existing hand, at least is this bolt and you see it kind of flare up in the air and rush towards you and just quickly,

roll out of the way and it slams into the stone below you. You hear crack and break the area where your head once was. Now it's fucking this turn. Now. Now a warning. Wait, but wasn't that, that wasn't his turn? That was a legendary action. That was a legendary action.

That's right. You know. I don't want any of it. None of us want this. I don't want it. I don't like it. None of us are enjoying this. I don't even want to sleep.

Oh. Okay. Fud. Tarian's just back in Whitestone, having a fucking ball. No, Terry is sitting with a cup of tea. No, Terran's on the floor, weeping. Weeping holding his neckliss. His neck is blinking.

Oh, that's right. But did it go back? Did it go back? No, we've got one way down. We are all having the thumpa thumper right now. It's just red. We're just all flashing red. Okay.

Why are you making, why did you say okay that way? I know. Liam can be Tarian now. Oh shit. You're terrible. Well, no, it's an established character. We already have artwork for it and we like to be a little waste. He's done prissy boys before.

Look in that space. Look in that space. Vecna is going to lean down seeing that you just brought life back to Vex and says... Don't you do it! Don't you do it! No! Join your family. No!

No! I will sixth level counter-spell. Okay. You will have to go quietly into the night. I will sing at him, count a spell. Baby, don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more.

Counter spell. Okay. Roll a D20. It's a seventh level finger of death, so. Is that natural 20? No. Oh. Can't hang.

Can't hang. Can't hang. Natural one. Stop rolling. I'm pulling that die. Oh. It really is a one? It really was a one.

Which die was this? I'm sure I can add things to it, right? No, you can't. One's are... So I need you to make a Constitution saving throw. I make a Constitution saving throw. You're still inspired. You're still inspired.

You're inspired. You're spired. You're spired. Use it. Spired. Okay. What's... Constitution...

Okay. More at the top of the top. Yeah. D12 on top of a D12. So would you roll? 13. A tartane. Plus one is 14 plus the inspiration.

No, no, no. No, no. Just the 13. Uh, plus 19. No. Oh. You take 67 points of necrotic damage. Okay.

So it wasn't power word kill, it was a finger of death. No, he'd already used his power word kill. Okay. It's not a god yet. Okay. Just the one power word kill. The fact that is not a god gives the power word kill. Gives me diarrhea feelings.

Okay. Ow. All right. And he's going to move back a bit. Frustrated at the... At everything. Well, especially at your attempts to counter-spel. Actually, because they kind of laughed at that.

He was like, Nice try. It wasn't my best performance. All right. That's the end his turn. Shit. Fire. Grog.

You, uh... I'm in the shot. Mm-hmm. Make a stealth check. Yeah, cool. Right. Pass for that. Trace still going, right?

Nope. No. That's a one. Hello? Oh, me, me. As you're there, Grog, you hear a cloud of screeches as about nine of the... Nine of these gloomstockers all start going into a dive towards you. Maybe one of them's our friend Mr. Mistophiles.

Are you going to do anything, Grog? Am I going to do anything? How far away is the nearest structure? Nothing. It's a crater. You're where the city used to be. You have at least a mile to each side of nothing but crater. I mean, I, I, uh...

One more round. One more round. One more round. He doesn't know. He can be so. There's nothing we can do right now. So I'm gonna use my, you're tethered. I'm gonna go into a frenzied range.

Okay. And I'm gonna use my second wind to heal 1D10 plus my fighter level. Okay. Uh-huh. Three, six. Six points. Yay. Okay. I'm so uncomfortable.

How close to you do we have to be? We have to be touching. Okay. And also you have to not be win. And I will. No, I can be win now. You can just be win. I don't have any of the fighter things.

So as long as you're all, I'll just. You've got all the ship. That's my turn. That's your turn. You've got all of that. Okay. Whatever I can carry, yeah.

All right. So ending your turn. Right. Plainship. All it be touching. Dark energy suffuses the landscape in the area. Right. Actually, no, I'm not going to use that one

because nobody has necrotic resistance right now. More and dead are going to pop up. Let's see how many. That's actually a pretty shitty roll. Bug, bug, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger, so four undead pop-up. They're bullshit. We don't care.

Alrighty. That's going to be attack on you. It has advantage because you're prone to a melee. That is a 17. Still doesn't hit. High armory. She's just like, ducking out of the way, the skulls. Like, ah, chink, tink, hitting the ground.

One's going to be attacking at you, Pike, and that's cocked. Natural one. It goes to strike you, and you don't even, it doesn't mean it hit you. The holy symbol of Sarenrae flares, and it like, pulls away from the blast of vibrant radiant radio energy. There's going to be one attacking you, Scanlan. That is a 20 to hit. Oh, yeah.

All right. You take eight points of slashing damage. Great. And attacking you, Percival? Yep. That is my armor class. So it hits you, you take 11 points of slashing damage. As it just cuts to you.

I don't even acknowledge its existence. Okay. I am definitely not amused. What was the name of the city, you guys? Where is your dad from? Is single one still in the paywall? Where did we go? What city in the pay wall did we go to?

We can go to the pond. Okay, the death night. Steps forward, seeing Scanlan shrug off, each one of the attempt to shrug off all these spells. Comes rushing forward and you watch as its blade begins to empower this dark black shadow, similar to the gloom stalkers you've seen before. And as he brings the sword and arcs it down

with tremendous might, you hit the crack of thunder as this staggering smite. slams into you or try to at least. That sounds bad. That's bad. That is, do you have a reaction? No. I used it already.

Should he roll? 16 hit? Oh yeah, that hits. Okay. I mean, I'm not, I think I'm not attuned to, yeah. Yeah. So you take 10 points of slashing damage. That's not bad.

That's not done. Actually, it's, you know, plus slash seven plus. I know. 17 points of necrotic damage. Okay. 27. 17. And this part of the Stuyvesmite, you also take 14 points of psychic damage and make a wisdom saving

throw. Against magic? Yep. That's better. 17. 17. 17 is 18. 18.

Oh, no. Unfortunately. So on a failed save, you have a disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. You can't take reactions until the end of your next turn. So you can't counter spells. Scalming wailed on. Sure. By the...

Disavantage on all the attack. Oh, but that's a concentration spell, so he's not going to maintain the concentration. You just take the damage and he lets it go. Yes, so that doesn't happen. So you don't have the disadvantage. Otherwise, you lose other bits of concentration. Other bits of concentration. All right.

So... That brings us to Vex, your turn. I get to go. Yeah. Sorry. You're alive. Sorry, guys. Yeah.

Wow. You walked into the lines then. Oh, yeah, we did. I never did a single thing in this way. I know. I'm so sorry. That's all right. This is the game.

I stand up. Best fighters in my life. We're smart. Well, you know, I'm heading and I'm heading towards where you are. I'm heading towards the deceased body of Delilah. Should we call? I'm gonna, as a bonus action. down one of my, like my biggest healing potion,

which is one greater healing potion. Oh, fuck balls. One grader healing potion. Okay, go for it. What is that? That is also a superior potion lying on the ground amongst all my shit. Yeah, no. It's just saying.

It's in your armor and stuff like. It's right. Greater is 44 plus four. Forty four. Okay, that sounds. So is the note. Thirteen. Plus four is 17 healing points. And I'm gonna move closer to Keyleth. She can move to us. I was gonna say, like, well, no, never mind.

Maybe I can put myself. We have to all be holding hands, so maybe can I put myself in between Percy and Keyleth so that I can reach my hand out so that... I'm gonna be making a B-line for everybody else, right? And everybody's like in that big climate here. We're all in a clump, so we can still touch. I don't need to move anywhere in order to be able to touch her. She'll, on her move, you'll be able to move before you cast plane shift, right?

Yes. So as long as we're all touching, she can get to us. So we just need to clump. And I move last, so I'm fine. Okay. Is that right? Yeah, I moved last. Yeah.

I'm. Keyleth moves last time, I'm. Well. Gilth and Scanlon. Okay. So what are you doing? I'm going to shoot at the. All right.

The death night. Go for it. With my 21. 21 actually hits. Oh, good. And BB. With my blazing bowstring. All right.

And I want to make it a bramble shot. Go for it. Just fuck him up. Hit him hard. Is anybody standing next to him? Okay. Scanlan and Keyleth. Sweet.

Feel free to hit me. I don't care. I actually can't be grappled. I can't be gravel. She gets extra stuff. 14, 19. Oh, he's flanking. 23. 23 plus 8 is 31, right?

33. 33 plus 1D6 lightning damage. Yes. 39. And then 3D6 sneak attack. 11 additional, so that's... 50. 50.

Yeah. So he... Oh, and the blazing bowstring. Yes. Six additional from that. 56 points of damage in the one shot. That is a 23 on his strength save. So as the arrow hits, you see the burst of flame, it pierces the armor, and you see the brambles kind of extend and tear around them.

He just kind of looks up at you, and you watch his flames kind of burn out of the armor. The arrow burns away. and the brambles kind of ignite and fall to ash around them. Not surprising. What about his concentration? Mm-hmm. Come on. That's gonna be.

Come on. 56. That is a twop. Oh, man. He's gonna have to roll really high. No. No. Hold on.

Half of 56 is 28. 28. No, he rolled a 19 plus five. Oh, oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. So as the flames ignite and burn around, the impact still causes him to lose the spell.

And you watch as a vacuum fills in. And Grog, just as you see this barrage of gloom stalkers, just ready to grab and tear you apart. So beetles jerks. You just out and then appear in that space where you once were. What's going on? What's going on? Crog!

Crom! Come back! Go on! We just get out! All right, that ends your turn, Vex? No, I get to attack him again. Oh, yeah, go for it. We're in a nice little clump, aren't we?

Who needs... That one definitely gets. Oh, that's so weird. This is way less damage. Yeah. 16, 17, 18. Oh, wow. Okay.

20 damage on the second one. Already. Okay. You can sense like there's like shadow and smoke kind of pouring out from under the armor as they frustrable. of loss concentration there. The second arrow hits the shoulder, just staring straight at you angrily.

Kielit, get us out of here. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Hold hands, everyone. Hold hands, hold hands. Who's, I think we're all in physical contact at this point, almost, except for me. Except for you. All right, then is Vex's turn? Where's Vax?

Well, we... Well... We'll talk later. Working on it. Do you have all of his stuff? As much as I can carry. Armor, daggers. A little investigation check.

Dust? Boots. Boots, his voice says from the ground. The boots are part of his armor. 30? 30? You rustle through the dust when you went through and spent the turn grabbing what you can. You get most of his important magical items.

And dust, brad, dust, dust, dust. Those boots are gone. Next time we fight Vecna, he's going to be wearing some very nice boots. No, no, no. I'm just kidding. All righty. So. It'll be.

Double time. I mean, are we trying to get out of here? We are, we are trying to get out of here. You can't get us out of here. But then what? We figured. We should have to fight him. Yeah, but then we'll be able to recover a little bit and figure out what we're doing.

We're going to die here. Okay. Get out. Maybe. I'll run to, sorry, I'm stuttering. To Keelis is doing it? Well, as long as we're all touching, it doesn't matter where Keelis is. We have all touching hands.

But we could turn some undeadwood. help maybe? Yes, yes. Okay, before I leave. Keel us or something. When's your turn on dead? When's your turn up? When's your turn up?

I'm coming up, right? And you're holding your action, Keelith? Yes, after Pike's turn. So Pike, we're doing. Okay. I'm going to do mask your wounds. It six level. Hmm.

Which is, let's see. Use the ring of counting. Which has actually been proving to be invaluable. Oh, but I also have... Yeah, it's very... Yeah, it has been... I wish I had a 100 markers. What did you just think of?

Later, later. We need a bigger boat. Fuck, this was a bad role. Is this a new round since my last counter spell? Uh, what was the last one you countered? And failed. That was on Vecna's turn. Yeah. Yeah. So when it comes back to your turn, it will be.

So not yet. Not yet. Okay. 26 points I rolled so bad. That's great. That will do. 26 is great. And then, am I able to as also at this point?

Yep. That's everybody. Maybe see if I can. Don't do that. Channel divinity, or does that have to be? It's an action to do that. It's not like she's going to show up. show up. Okay. Okay. Okay. Sorry, you're so hot. Okay. That's what I say to myself every morning.

Your attention look good, but I feel like that is. Okay. I'm just, just hanging out. Okay. That's Pike's turn. Anything? She cast a here. Cures the hands. We're just still, yes. Wait, did you just cure our wounds? Yeah, we just got 26 points back.

Oh, I didn't know that. All right. At the end of Pike's turn. Wait, can I do a mass healing word? Is my bonus action at a 6 level? No, because you already did a higher so you can't do that unfortunately. You can just do it to one person.

Or a turn undead bonus action? Or a turn on dead bonus action? Or you can do one person, yeah. Yeah, yeah. She's probably at the bottom. Yeah, who's it? Where are you at? Oh yeah, you're nothing.

Okay, let me do the healing word. You're nothing, you're nobody. Yeah, nothing being nothing in this world. All righty. At the end of your turn, Pike? Yep. What is that? Deacon is going to go ahead and cast.

Two D-D-4. You hear the voice enter the mind once more to you, Pike. I want to know right now. Don't worry, if you love her that much, I'll send it to you. Oh no. Make a dexterity saying throw. Oh no. Dexterity.

Let me see this dexterity or consternation. I need to check again real fast. God fucking damn it. What is he doing? He's trying to hurt our pikey. That is a dexterity. So make a dexterity. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

16. Nope. I knew it's too long. I know, I know, I know. All right. You take 78 points of force damage. How much? 78.

78. Okay. That is okay. That's okay. That's okay. I'm unconscious. But, however, it brings you to zero, which turns you to dust.

What? Better armor, better armor, better armor. But the armor. Thank you. It never got her to zero. As soon as you hit zero, the armor flickers in and the divine... Oh my God. Which also means that all the fucking skeletons take damage.

Yep. So, as the ray hits you and you feel your flesh begins, your flesh begin to dissipate, the blessing of Pellor and the guidance of Sarenrae flicker into you, and you watch his light and flames just burst out of her like a doctor regenerating. As the fire consumes the area, go ahead and roll your damage for your armor. Thank you for reminding me of that. Oh my God. Look at the dawn martyr, you guys.

I was about to say, I know the stats of the Don Martyr really well right now. For reasons. Oh, 66 fire damage. Oh, 66 fire damage. 66 fire damage. It wasn't a melee, so. It's all hostile creatures, correct? Yep.

Not all creatures? Yeah, all hostile. Okay, that's a very important distinction. It is a... That was terrible! 914. You know what? It's fine. I'm alive. Yeah, okay.

So as the flames to burn out, you watch those skeletons, Catch Flane, the bone burning to a black, but they're still standing. They're still looking through. But standing. Okay. So that brings us to Percy. Okay. Nothing is going now.

All right, are we a reasonable chain? Is there a breaking the chain? Yeah, we're just waiting on you to make them touch. You have to move, man. There is nobody breaking the chain. You. I'm going to move six points in the direction of Delilah, because I'm going to bring her with me,

because I don't want that dead body there. Do I make it in six moves? In six, you're right there, yeah. Okay, and while I'm running, just for fucking fun, I'm going to take three shots at that armor and I'm gonna push him the fuck back. If that's okay, I'm gonna just push that knight back. I'm gonna try and do a force push.

And you're just saving your action until we're all touching. Yeah. Okay. Which is about to be, we're all touching. Next, I think. So let's get rid of that fucker. Get it, Percy.

All right? I mean, we aren't getting out of here, right? Yeah, we're gonna out of here. We're getting the fuck out of here. Oh, I thought you were saving your action. I didn't know if it wasn't. I roll a really fucking shitty initially. Go Fred. Get him.

That's a 27 to hit. Yeah. The knight. Oh, that hits, yes. Okay, and that's a torso push. So that's, I'm only gonna take the one shot. I don't even fucking care anymore, so I'm just like pushing him away. So he's pushed 10 feet back from my position. So you can save for that?

There's no save for that. That's right, yeah, just the push. And then he takes a disturbingly sad nine points of damage. Nine points of damage. Plus six points psychic damage. Plus six points psychic, okay. But he's 10 feet back. We're all touching.

I'm going to save the rest of my attack for anybody who tries to get in the way of this shit. So if anybody interrupts us, I've just got two more shots ready to go. And also burning a heel just for fun as well. Sure. Scanlan, you're up. I will lightning bolt at level four, the armor knight guy. I'm also holding on the Delilah.

Galila. I'm, he's behind me, so I'll do it from my ass. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Solid. Yeah. Oh, for fuck. I love you so much.

But I'll lift up my leg a little bit. Just kind of like, squeeze it out. Like a dog at a fire hydrant? Uh-huh. All right, so. It's 8D6, but at level four, it's 96, I think. Well, 4 is 96, yeah. Mm.

He did not make his save. He rolled a nine plus six, 15. Yeah. Yay, I'm not quite at full health. But he has advantage on his saves because he's magical effects and spells. That's right. He rolled wars.

The four. 35. 35 points a point. The bolt threw him at the same time he's blasted back by Percy's hitting kind of skids and you see the smoke rise up. Like the Terminator just keeps moving forward. I'll gather whatever bits of use my movement to gather whatever bits.

of Vax I can still see. Put your hands in and... And get into Pizzish. Okay. We're ready to burn. And I will... Bonus action, Healing Word, Pikey Pooh. Which is, for me, what is healing word?

It's 2D4 plus 6. Is that right? Yeah. Yes. Okay. So you go. Ten. There you go. At the end of Scanlan's turn.

No, no, fuck no, fuck no, fuck no, fuck no, fuck no, no. Listen, listen, let's just have a conversation about this. We're a dog. God, fucking damn it. No, do it. It's going to take a shot at Pike with a firebolt cantrip. Say hi. Do you have a reaction?

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So, on this there. Did the people have to be alive to get out of here? That is a 21. It would help, yes. 21. 21. 23. It doesn't even hit.

It doesn't even hit. Oh, God. Eat a dick. Oh, God. Five. Eat a bag of next. You'll see. Okay.

So, level five. I'll have old a five. It's a cantrip. It goes ahead and fires the bolts towards you. You're barely holding on. And as you turn around, the flame hits you, but your armor absorbs it. No impact.

Okay. I need Docobel right now. I'm in my line. I know. I want Taco Bell so bad. All right. So much brief. So I'm coming.

As in Scanlan's turn, Keelef. Are we all here? We're all sure about this. We're out. We're out. We're out. We're dying. We're dying.

We're on this plane, right? Yes. We're on the material plane. Then we're going to the Fay Wilde, and we all hold hands. Are you turning back to your form then? Yes, I drop form, and I pull out my tuning fork and my flowers, and I think deep about the gilded run and the Shamed Merck blog and the beautiful pond that we appeared around that we know there's like a portal right near it, and that's what I think about just strongly.

And I say, everyone think about the pretty ponds? Fay Wilde, Spring Break, motherfucker! Spring Break 2017, Fay Wild! Roll. Okay, so... Oh boy. Against... You're a good man.

Degna's gonna attempt a counterspell. Yep, seventh level counter spell against him. You know that's what you were waiting for. I knew that's what you were waiting for. I knew that's what you were waiting for. Oh, I knew that's what you were waiting for. That was some more. Old school magic of the gathering shit right there.

Do it, Scanlan. Do it. Oh, God. You just pulled on the wild Uno card. Listen, we're not happy yet. We're not happy yet. I know, I know. We're not. So, um...

Mexican stand-off. So seventh level, counter spell. Yeah, it doesn't even go off the roll. Oh! Oh! A little finger. Because yeah, let me check real fast. Because it says here,

oh my God. I need to confirm this real fast. Yes, he's back. Short-hawn's back. Because, yeah, seventh level would be four. I'd rather not use it. I don't feel like to someone. Yeah, no, because the only spell

you even had left a counter spell would be seventh level. So yeah, no, boop. Let's go. So as the glyph of shattering begins to coalesce around his fingers in one hand and the wrist on the other, you strike up a counter, of your own? Sure.

I will just say to him this time, I got nothing left. I will sing to him, I'm beautiful. I'm beautiful, it's true. You saw my face in a crowded place and you didn't know what to do

because I just took a shit on you. on you. Oh my gosh. The last thing you hear as the spell begins to take effect is the whispered voice of Vecna. Throughout all of your heads say, At. Before you are all yanked through a familiar tunnel of darkness and then thrust out into the center of a clustered, dense,

dense, for worst in the family. Oh, God. Have I been there? Wait, was that me? Yes, okay. I'm sorry. I would have taken us home, but he, we were already there,

and I had to go somewhere else. Where's Max? And that's where we're going to end this session for tonight. Oh! You're a distic motherfucker, you kind of right there. Oh, oh, I was so good. It's so nice.

That's not nice. I'm so sorry. It's so good. Nothing feels good. I was okay till right then. Let's just do like one more hour. That was amazing. That was brutal.

We didn't have a fucking chance. No, there was not a fucking prayer. What else were we gonna do? What else were we gonna do? What we're gonna do is set up an orange julius stand by that tower. Of course we were gonna go in that tower. Of course. Of course. But we didn't know how fuck we were until we got up there. We had to go. I thought we were pretty badass but we towered down. We were not. What a game.

I can get you back, man. I can get you fucking back. Can you? Without a body? We got options. True resurrection. We're gonna have some discussions. We got options. Without a body? It just, no, but true resurrection says I can.

We'll have some discussions. Oh, my God. Everybody settled. Everybody's settled. Anyway. We'll figure it out. It's okay. It's okay.

Thank you guys so much for watching. Thanks for kicking in for a taste of the final arc. Oh, my God. Holy shit. You know what? I'm really grateful that we're not going to have an arc for you. I wasn't. Oh, man. Oh, my world.

There was a part of me because like it was, I was, it was, it was, If they were going to end up waiting, if that didn't break concentration, they were either going to wait for you and probably lose a lot more, possibly Keeleth once you realized what was going on, or left without you, you would have come back. That would have been the end of that. I would have had to have won the game all by myself. What you probably would have done. Here is bless you.

Or I just want to just take in the deck and be like, Here is the moon. Number one lesson, the one takeaway tonight. The one takeaway is just how O.P. Vaxildon is. Yeah. This is true. If he can't move, he's fucked, is what we learned. I can't believe I've fucking done my ninth level spell in you, and then you got tied down.

It made zero fucking difference. You know? We both wasted our fucking ninth level spell. Well, they're hard to use. We've got to learn to use them better. Yeah, you got one chance to do something fucking amazing. Beckna is out and ready.

It's a hell married. to fucking destroy. So we'll pick up. Yeah, we'll pick up on this next week. Wow, I'm shaking. I don't feel like that. Me too. All right guys, thank you so much.

Have a wonderful night. We'll see you soon and is it Thursday yet? Nope, it's Thursday right now. Last Thursday. Good night, guys. Oh my God.