Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 108 - The Core Anvil

Episode Date: January 11, 2022

Upon finding the Core Anvil and the forge guardian that protects it, Vox Machina attempt to create the divine trammels that will aid in their fight against Vecna.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Pantheonum of the prime gods, gaining some blessings and gaining bits of essence from these deities to create something called a prime trammer, an item that was used previously during the calamity to seal one of the betrayer gods and could possibly put an end to Vecna's newly ascended form and reign as the only god on the prime interior plain across the divine gate. In information given to you by the knowing mistress sent you beneath an underwater volcano known as Skald Seat, where you proceeded to learn how to breathe water and then step into toxic fume-filled tunnels, where you proceeded to breathe through the water via Grog's Jug. Very clever. But finding your way through a short battle with some of the indigenous life forms there, a mother and two children,

magma bullets. You head down deeper into the volcanic caverns of Skald Seat, eventually finding what seems to be a long-sealed series of chambers by the Allhammer, the deity for craft, family and legacy, where somewhere supposedly beneath this volcano, and hopefully within these long-sealed chambers lies, the core anvil, where these prime trambles can be constructed. So, as you're made your way through here, hearing the undulating, reverberating, pounding of some distant piece of machinery, it seemed,

heading down the stairs, you were put into a hexagonal chamber, which had a large square of coals, and above that, some X bars against a wall, where in the center you saw a gold, kind of inlaid, I want to say a seal almost, that had a, what's what we're looking for, an empty triangular shape, like a pyramid inverted within this golden seal and a series of these iron warriors

that were embedded in the walls. Behind the stairway you saw what appeared to be, and you identified upon seeing it, means of smelting metal and other forms of material. When Percival was inspecting one of these warriors, it immediately came to line. And you watched as the glowing outline of each one of these 10-foot-tall, 12-foot-tall, metallic warriors glow bright orange. They each emerge from the walls with these large, two-handed great swords at their side,

and immediately began to incite the conflict, and that's where he left off. So to begin this fray, where are you guys placed currently? Percival. You would probably be right about where that guy was. I would probably be about there. You were on the wall. I was supposed to say I had my boots on, so I was up by his face.

Okay. I was over the Ford. Oh, God. Oh, geez. There you go. Yay. I like it. Grog was by the smelter.

I feel like I had been looking at the thing, the empty, big empty pyramid triangle thing. So you would be over in this area. Yeah. Used in large. Oh, God. Oh, God. I think I feel like I was kind of with Vex,

maybe kind of on the other side on this, yeah. I was on my broom because I had been hovering looking at it. Fair enough. So it would probably be about. I thought about there then. Oh good, oh good, oh good. I knew that I had just poofed the wings out and I think I was inspecting one of the big metal men

before it came out of the wall. out of the wall. I don't really remember which. Most likely one of the ones that was not attended by it on the member of the party. Some of say about here. And Scanlan, whereabouts were you? You know, near things. Can't really see too well. So just put me where, let's see here, I was at the door when we opened it, and then I was beautiful, and now I'm not as beautiful. So put me near the door. Near the door? Touch your mouth.

So all their faces are indented, but there's no other interesting. Yeah, each one of them, as opposed to the other warriors you saw in the chambers that led down into this area, have no faces. Instead, where you see, are an empty void, triangular like the large seal, but just vacuous. But nas is at the same shape. But smaller. But smaller. They didn't manny faces around, I'm remembering that? Maybe I just really like manny faces.

But regardless, I would like you all to rule initiative. Oh, God. Oh, God. Lill, little little seedie dear. I'm gonna chase which loves eye roll. Oh. I'm gonna go forward. Is there about the same height as the seal and the cross members?

That's awful. They're... Taller's that one. The seal is a little bit higher than where their heads are. All right. So, 25 to 20. 23. 23.

No, no, I had a advantage. 17. 20 to 15? 16. All right, so we have Grog. So is Vax. Gros. 15 to 10?

12. I was looking at a book. 18. Sorry. You're a bug. Yeah. Always. All right.

All right. Keelith, which could? Five. Oh no. I don't want to talk about it. Uh-huh. Well, that being the case, as these large metallic warriors are merging from the side of the chamber, wrenching the large metal blades, these kind of large rectangular, almost slab-like

swords, bladed on each side, Vex, you're up first. What are you doing? Oh, God. What do you do? What do you do, Hotshot. I'm going to attack the one next to Percy. Attack slab. I'm going to hunters mark him, and then I'm going to attack him. There you go.

I'm going to do this. You know do this. What are things like this considered, like creatures or gollum? Constructs? Constructs. God dang it! What? That was a miss. It was one.

It was a natural light. All right, yeah. So you do actually pull back the arrow and it strikes true. However, the armored plating is so strong that the arrow just shatters across the front of its armored chest. Fuck! I do it again. All right. Second shot.

Oh, my God, 21. 21 hits. Okay, good. Well, that's good. Nice. Oh, I'm gonna scream. Yeah, I know, bro. You're not a bro, your hubby. How many? That's what you called me, bro.

This night is not off to a good chance. Game of Thrones is up. Just up 18. 14. 14. Don't say other numbers. 14. The 7 is 21.

24. 24 points of damage. Yes. All righty. And are you going to stay where you are or do you want to move? How high is the ceiling? The ceiling, I'd say it's about 30 feet up. Fair call. Yeah, I'm going to fly up. 25 to 30 feet.

Alright, I'm going to go to the roof. Okay, you're going to go all the way up to the roof. So they're metal? They appear to be some sort of metal. Some of that was lightning damage. That was two points of lightning damage in case. Two points of lightning damage? Because they're made a metal.

I didn't know if that did anything. Okay. Okay. Thank you for the head. up on that. All righty. Sending your turn, that brings us to Vax. All right. To start, I'm just going to, am I within striking range of him if I back up a little bit? If you back up a little bit? Yeah. Do I need to disengage? You are currently engaged with him Miliwides, yes. Okay, so I'm that close, all right.

Yeah, you're inspecting it as he emerged. Okay. I'm going to use my bonus action to hunters mark him. All right. And then I'm going to stick him in the first. stick him in the face. Go for it. As I want to do. Take him in the first!

Oh wait, I get three D6 of sneak attack now? If you haven't been marking that, yeah. You should do that. An extra four. Okay. It's 30 for the first, and for the second. All right. The second is...

Oh, I did right. 30 for both. 30 for both hits? Yeah, because I'm at advantage because I'm going before them. Correct. Yeah, so both hit. All right, so the first one,

The first one, which will get the sneak attack fun, is two, plus eight, it's ten, plus psychic damage, is 16, plus sneak attack damage. 16, 21, 24, 26, 32. Yes? 33, 35, 38 for the first. Yes. Plus, Hunter's mark, something for me, 38, which is... That's another D6. Ah, so 44.44 for the first and for the second. Nice.

Is one, well, that's just it, is one plus the hunter's mark again, right? Only hunters mark once on your. So it's only for one attack, because I don't use it. Just kidding, it's 100 mark every time. Every time? Yeah. No, I know that. Movement on you before we went in.

So five for the second. I don't know what that means. You cannot be restrained. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, whenever you hit it with weapon. All right. So what's the second one you said? Uh, uh, just five.

All right. Got it. Do we still have... Wait, that's not true. Sorry. Eleven. Because it's not an offhand attack. It's my second paladin of sack.

That's correct. Oh there, blah, blah, blah. There you go. Eleven. Boom. All right. You're going to stay prepared or are you going to move some more? That is efficient. Going to risk an attack, well, I'm not hasted.

I'm going to risk an attack and back up about 10 and go up another 15. Okay. Yeah, they can't throw those great swords, they don't have like laser eyes. Don't give them, stop it. Paralyzed or restrained. Oh, that's great.

Yeah. All righty. So you are also just about at the ceiling with her. As you, sorry. As you shoot up in a way, it strikes up quickly after your dagger and carving into its armor. Its blade comes up in a wide arc against you. That is an 18 plus 12. 13.

13 plus 12? Yeah. Just barely hits. All righty. Wow. Do we still have our death ward? Yeah, you do, yeah. Oh yeah. Thank you for me. Yeah. And our hero's feast. Yes. We're pretty metal. We're pretty sad. Two points of slashing damage. As the blade rakes across the front of your chest and kind of forces you back even further,

your shoulders end up slamming into the ceiling from the impact of both you retracting back and the blow itself. Your wings have to kind of catch you for a second, and you're keeping yourself elevated at the moment. Finishing your turn there. That brings us to Grog. Standing by the blacksmithing stuff, I say you are interrupting Grog's arts and crafts.

I would like to rage. All right. We're into a rage, you go. And I would like to charge at that little bastard right there. This one here on his own? Yes, please. All right. Up into his face, you go.

Up into your face. Get him grog. Reckless, regular strike. Not terrible, not terrible. 29. That hits, roll damage. Nice. 29 is not terrible. Did you know that? Yeah.

Hey, that's proof. 28. Damage? Yes. All right. The second one, reckless great weapon master. Okay. Oh, God.

Just cause. That's a million. That's 34 minus five. Twenty-29. Thirty-four minus five? Yeah. Nice. That hits.

That was a high roll. It was a . Five, nine, twenty-one, thirty-one. Thirty-one. Thirty-one points of damage. Thirty-one points of damage. Fantastic. And that is my turn.

All righty. Endingrogg's turn there, Percival. I'm going to just cry out to everyone. We need the heads. Don't hit them in the face, please. What? I am engaged. I know. There's nothing I can do.

I am engaged with that thing, aren't I? Currently, yes. That is my sister. Could so. I think he's technically triggered it. It's seemingly aware of your presence. Betrude. In fact, in the moment you say that,

that you watch as the metallic head goes, and looks up right to you with just that creepy, triangular void staring right at you. I am. Do you think you can dispel their magic? I don't know. I'm going to try and take a run in the other direction. I know it's going to take a swing of me.

Yep. I'm running up the, down the wall. This way to the corner? Yep, as far as I can go. But as far as you can get on that wall, if you want to come into this. I'll start coming that way too. All right. I mean, not a full, yeah, it's six spaces, so.

Yeah, so at that point you about there. There. All right. All right. It does swing after you. Yep. That is a... It's fine. 19? Shit. 19 just hits.

Is it your AC? Ah, AC's 18. Esher Man is down. Esher man is down. All right. I love being able to see our man. That's so nice. 34 points of slashing damage.

Wow. Which almost cleaves you off the wall. Thirty-four points? Yep. Okay, so hold on. Let me do the math on that. That's a... 24, 20, 19. 16 points into my 60, 67, 150s.

Okay, I'm 151, 151, because I have a whole bunch of temporary. As you're running on the wall, it hits you from behind, and you, for just for a second, you feel that, like, urge to black out, and you fight through it and keep running. You can feel kind of the warm spreading on the back of your shoulder blades from the impact of blow, and you careen around that corner and stop, spinning to survey the room. What are you doing? I pull up, I'm going to take my first shot. I'm going to take a straight shot with it, and I'm going to,

low point of grit and a couple points of, well, we'll get to that, and I'm going to try and get him to drop his sword. So, first thing is I'm going to try and get him to drop his sword. Fuck. That's a, like 34 to hit. That hits. Strength save against 20. Okay. That is a 13.

Drop your sword. It's sword clangs to the ground as you fired. You see one of his fingers is going. You see one of his fingers is kind of bent back and busted from the impact, and it kind of looks over for a second. And you watch his broken finger snaps back into place, and it kind of looks back at you. Okay, so that was shot number one. Yes. Oh boy, here we go. I must have got to do the damage on that, which is I'm going to drop a little bit of, I'm so sorry, where are on my dice? There we are.

Oh, I didn't do that, so none of that. Where are we going? We're going to, I'm going to drop a third three points of cabal into this as well. Okay. So that's, oh, yay. Six points of psychic damage. All right. Four points of lightning damage. And 16 points of the standard piercing damage.

Gotcha. Okay. What was this? Animus. Got it. Perfect. All right. So the finger kind of curls back and breaks into place. Next thing I'm going to do, I'm going to cast hexon in.

Yes. Give him a disadvantage on strength-saving throws. Well, strength ability checks. Strength ability checks. Strength ability checks. And I'm going to take a sharpshooter shot. Okay. That's 20?

20 just barely hits. Okay, good to know. Making that note. So that's, and I'm going to drop three more points of cabal into that. So that's two to two. Duh. And so that's, oh, that's 28 points of piercing damage. Four points of psychic damage. 13 points of lightning damage.

What the fuck? Jesus. Three points of necrotic damage. Percy just turned into Ramble. Okay. Brats you! The second one blast you watch is one of its kind of armored shoulder plates, kind of dense inward from the impact, and there's a small,

pierced hole in the center where it seems to have blasted through its armor. And last shot. You got? That's right, yeah. Okay. And I'm just going to try and push him 10 feet back. Okay. Natural 20.

Woo! To have done damage. There's no damage on a push shot. Yeah. It's okay. But he got pushed 10 feet back. He definitely pushed him 10 feet back. Hey, I get one of the grip point back, so that's nice.

Yeah, man. When you got pushed on the playground, I got in your head. So he's got to move 10 feet before he can pick up a sword. Correct. And that's my, that's everything. All right, that ends your turn? Yep. All right, it is now their turn. Yes. So the one that you just blasted back is it skids to a halt and slams against the wall.

It looks over at you across the way. Oops. And then looks around and surveys the room quickly with its strange, triangular, vapid, lack of a face. Glances up and sees Vixoli in the room above. Goes into a full leap to push with its feet off the wall and attempt to grab towards you in the middle of the air. Oh, Jesus. You jump that high?

Apparently. Apparently. Yeah. It's half the size of the room practically in height, so it's not a huge report. Really bad. This is exciting. You might get top-hearted right here. Pile drive.

So I'm making this a grapple check, so roll either acrobatics or athletics. Okay, do you. Which everyone's better. Acrobatics. 25? No. Oh! 34.

Oh! Rolled really high. I rolled the 19. Fuck me. So, as it leaps in the air and grabs you, it drags you off the broom and then basically slam dunks you into the coals, straight over, prone into the coals, landing at the side of it right there.

The broom goes clattering off at the side of it right there. The broom goes clattering off to the side. it's still chained to you from the apparatus that you place, and it scatters across the stonework a couple of feet from you. I thought you was just gonna slam in the crowd. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt. It's never real good.

You suffer 19 points of bludgeoning damage from the impact. Okay. Oh no. I mean, remember you had temporary hit points. I've already marked in it. And then 10 points of fire damage from being slammed into the colds. Could be way worse. Yeah, I'm sure each turn it gets a little.

You are considered on fire. On fire. Metaphor. Metaphor. to put it out, or you take 1D10 damage every turn. You put your hair back before you. However, it's sword, and I'll go ahead and use this as a marker. The sword is on the ground right there, so we can't use that right now.

Oh, okay. The other two can. So this one over there who got shot by you and flew away as it arcs up. It's starting to look around to see if it can gain any sort of real intent to go towards you and then glanced off at the side and instead sees the smaller targets, the softer, easier to get to Druid and Gnome. What a fool. Bring it bridge. Turns to engage both of you.

This is the cockpit. Booosh! Actually, he's going to stop part way through there. Scallet. And actually, it's going to go right there. You watch as underneath the head, the armor part in the chest, suddenly hinges open, and you see this bright burning furnace in the center of its chest. That just lets out this extremely, extremely bright hot, burning, angry torrent of flame.

Can I cast cutting words or can I use cutting words? You can, if you'd like. I don't know if it's going to do anything. Sure. You can reduce damage. Cunning words can reduce damage of an attack. Not only by a little. I want them to miss, right? Well, it's going to hit regardless. You guys have to make saving throws. It's a cone. It's just going to head us.

It's just going to hit all. It would be about there. Fuck. Hit all of you, including the other guy. Okay, little miracles. If I'm prone, do I still get to roll to me? like it can roll through the coals to avoid it or something. Yeah, hide yourself under the coals.

Like the McDonald's Paul. All right is this is there like two years. You do not get disadvantage on saving throws. You can still just, it's just the general saving. I need Scanlan and Keelith and Vex to all make dexterity saving throws, please. There's a hyperdermic needle in here. Oh, God, yeah. Oh, very son, mona.

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What's on the other side of the poop? The other side is a skull. So that's a one, right? I think for you, you count the poop as a 20. Is poop 20 or is poop one? I think poop is normally one. What's next to the poop? What other numbers are near it?

Oh, God. 19, 13, and seven. Nope, that's a one. That is a one. No! No! Two ones on that. You got one as well?

No, I rolled a three, so I'm at seven. Yeah, so Keylet and Scanlan, you both from the chest furnace, take 38 points of fire damage. Okay. As it just burns out front of it, you take half that. Okay. Which is what? Oh, sorry, 19.

19 points of fire damage to you. And the flames burn across the other armored individual, the giant construct, and you watch as some of its damaged form, to seal up from the flames. Flames help it. Fire heals them. Cold damage. Do cold damage.

Fire bad. Fire, good. It's good. I'm going. It's going to make expressive. He said minus 38, right? So that's going to end its turn. As the chest slams shut now and the flames retract back inside,

and you watch it kind of almost exhaust smoke out each side of its armor. And the flames that you saw burning in there are now just, dimmed, but they're beginning to flare up again. The one that's by you, Grog, it's going to go ahead and just move adjacently, kind of its head kind of spins around for a second to look up at you, and spins back to you, is going to make two strikes at you with its great sword. Okay. These guys aren't really bad. You can use reckless. Yes, it does.

All right. What if we don't even make it to the Vecna height? That is 31. That hits. And you got your one shot ready. Oh, God. That is 30. 30 points of damage.

No, those are two attacks. Oh, yeah. They both hit. Of course. Okay. So for these, D. Damn. D. Uh, 33 points of slashing damage.

Reduced a half. What is that? It's 16. Thank you. Right? 31 divided by two? Yeah. Well, 33 divided by two.

And then the other one is another 34, actually. Damn! Seven. Seven. So there you go. Round down, so 16. Okay. So it's going to end its turn there. All right, bringing us to Scanlan, your turn. Do something amazing. I'm on vacation, so nothing's going to be amazing.

I will, is the sword still on the ground? It is. Is it near me-ish? It's about 25 feet from you. Okay, I will cast Big Miss Hand and I will pick up the sword. Yes. Oh! And I will use it to hit not the guy who's sword it was, but the guy closest to me. Okay. They're technically both pretty equidistant. Equidistant from you. Okay.

Okay. Doesn't matter. I want the guy who hit me. Okay. So you can move Ligby's hand. Pretty, I'll see how many feet it can move. Because it'll pick up the sword. I don't know if it can.

It can move 60 feet. You can move 60 feet? Okay, then. I guess it definitely can. It darts over two. The guy who hit you with the flame. so go ahead and make your attack. I'll say for the purposes,

for the purpose of this, I'll add an additional D12 slashing damage to its strike. I got an 18 plus something, I don't know. 18 to roll for its attack, plus your spell attacks, yeah, that definitely hits. Plus 11, yeah, that's huge. That definitely hits. And what do I roll, is this a sword attack,

or is this like Bigby's hands clenched fist attack? I'm making it a clenched fist attack. Fist attack, so it's 4D8 force damage, but I'm adding an additional D12 slashing just because it's wielding a sword while it does it, because that's cool. That's cool. Okay, I love you, and thank you.

That's cool. That's pretty cool. So I roll 4D8, 4D8 plus. Plus 1D12. Oh, wait, wrong one. 4D8, 17 plus 12, 29. 209? Well, plus a 1D12.

Plus a 1D12. You have to roll a D12. Oh, sorry, thank you. Sorry. Then it's 17 plus. plus seven. Okay. 24 points of damage to you.

All right, perfect. So the fist comes by and slams into it. The sword arcs through its armor and you watch some of the plate separate a bit, but it's still holding itself in place. That's your action? Yeah. Oh, I get a bonus.

I will inspire Keelef, I guess. Not that she needs any help. She's so freaking powerful, but I will inspire Keelef by singing, Your Minxie brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like, It's better than yours. Damn right. It's better than yours. You could teach them, but you'd have to chorge. I don't know. Take a D12, George die. Sure.

All right, and do you want to move it all? I'm close to a guy who's going to hit me if I move, right? You're not currently in melee with the guy yet, but you're pretty, you're just in the outside of melee with the guy yet, but you're pretty, you're just in the outside of melee with. of melee with two guys. Then I will move dead center on the board. Yeah, that's actually a really good idea. You're going to back up the stairs a bit then as well. We're going to deal there.

That ends your turn, Scanlon. Kila, you're up. Do you need help off the coal? I'll figure it out, right? Okay. Yeah, basically go. I am going to just turn. I don't need to demonstrate that. I'm going to turn.

Do a tidal wave against this guy in front of me, so he has to make a dexterity saving throw. This is. Oh, interesting. Tidal wave. A way, buttler guy behind you, or the one across the pit? One closest to us. The one on the other side. Hang on, let me see.

5.5.30. I don't think I can hit both of them with most of my stuff. Can you hit the two that are by us? I can, but I think it also hit you. It's like a straight line. Yeah, you can essentially... How much damage is it? 48 fledgaining. You put me out, I wouldn't be on fire anymore. So you couldn't hit both, you couldn't. I would put you out. And you could do it in a way that would probably hit both of them, but it would probably hit her as well. It's a possibility.

Right, that's, yeah. Do it! Are we concerned about me extinguishing these coals? I mean, we can like coals again though, right? There's coals. Unless they're magic. Right. I have made fire! Okay, cool! Then... If permission from Vax, I'm going to be like, oh, I'll put you out, and then I'll step out of the way. I'll shift here. Maybe it'll, like, push me out of the cold.

It's going to turn this room into a sauna. And do a, yes. I'm turning into a sauna. I'm going to hit that and go, boom. All right, so it slams across them. All right, this is a dexterity saving throw for Vex and both of them. This combat judge got a lot sexier. It's okay, I'm a real good swimmer.

18 and a nine. Failed. Both of them. Nice. So they take Dex, yeah. Dexterity saved too? You do. I think I failed that. Hold on. 16. Failed. Not prone. Oh, buddies. And Bettsville. You're hungry, yeah. So you take this whole damage as well, but you were no longer on fire. Yay. Did I get pushed out of the coals from the water? No, but the coals are no longer burning, so it's not a huge deal. At least that edge of it isn't.

Okay, so they take 19 damage. They're knocked prone, and the water extinguishes all unprotected flames. So as this giant calm of flame roars up, you watch as one of the constructs kind of disappears into the water and gets slammed into the wall. It shh over the colds, temporarily just dowses you. Flames go out, but you get battered around briefly by the other guy behind you. Both of your forms crash into each other. He falls onto his back, and as the water subsides, steam just fills the room now. Visibility is now limited. It is like a fog cloud. Yeah. Everybody in here for the most part, unless you're directly in melee range, you are at partial cover.

So. Is it up through all the way to the ceiling or is it? Yeah, it only lasts a round or so that it'll dissipate. But for the next round or so, there is partial cover for anybody who's not directing it. But our skin looks amazing. Partial cover, though. Partial cover? So it works both ways. Yeah, against them and you. As if Vax needed any other reason to hide. I like, I can feel the chat just saying, thanks Keeleth. Like I can just like feel it like this pressure.

Seriously, though. Thanks, Keylet. Thanks, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Are you going to stay where you are? Yeah. All right, that ends your turn.

Back the top Vex, you're up. Oh, no, no, wait. Wait, and I'm going to take my bonus action to go water elemental. Okay. And then I can still move, right? Right? Yeah, I'd say so. Can I then just move my Water Elemental into this guy's space, and as part of my elemental form,

I can move into spaces that are within an inch, you know? Yeah. That'll do. Can enter a hostile creature space? Yeah. Okay. Perfect. All righty.

That ends your turn. your turn. Okay, so I'm going to stand up. You get up. The flames are gone. You're still aching from being slammed so heavily into the coals there, and you can look down and you can see beneath the water that has now turned to steam and is dissipating on the middle of the hot metal floors of this room. The construct is still thrashing and about to get its way back up. What are you doing? I can see him good enough though to shoot him. Oh, he's right there. But he's not at dis-amaged because he's prone, but he's like right there. Your disadvantage both because prone and you guys are in, you can back up if you want to, to try.

Unfortunately because he's on the ground and he's ranged weapon, it's still. Right. Is it still? Yeah, it's something to do with the weapon. It's just the fact that he's on the ground. Oh, it's from the ground, okay. Okay, I'm going to back up in, because he can't take a strike at me, right? He can swing at you, but it'll be his fist as opposed to this.

I'm going to back towards the stairs, actually, where Scanlan is. All right, so you go back up towards the stairway there. Yeah. It does get one swing at you. No. He already got, no, because your term was before he has, so he does have his reaction. So he swings out with a fist at you. That is a 21. I will, I will cutting words that.

Okay, then. Yeah. Thanks, Cameron. Sure. What are you cutting words to him as he tries to swing it? Oh, I'm going to quote from some old TV show and say, you are a monstrous mechanized, misguided moron. Oh. That's it.

Very nice. So go and roll a D12. I don't know that. Me? I think it's Lost and Spey. Yeah, you. Correct. Talos and Jaffe.

Oh. Lost Space. Oh, shit. I only rolled a three. Okay. Is that cutting words him down to 19 or 18? Yeah, that brings him down to an 18th. That knee doesn't hit me.

Yeah. As if this swings wide, the words seem to strangely cut through to what element of an ego this charisma creature has. Crazy. And just slams into the metal, causing this large, heavy knuckle punch to the ground as it kind of resounds with this heavy, pung, it shakes the ground. Vax, you managed to move by with that issue. Great.

I think I'm going to then try to attack him. Go for it. Two attacks with disadvantage. Okay. Ah, natural 20 was one of them. 30. Is the first attack? I mean, it's 20 and an 18.

That's pretty good. Well, 20. Actually, interesting point, the prone. An attack roll against the creature has advantage if the attacker is within five feet of the creature. Oh, so I shouldn't, if I hadn't moved away, I would have been okay. Possibly. No, it's still arranged. You would have had disadvantaged being arranged in melee, so would have been a regular attack, though.

Yeah, so it's not canceled out. If I hadn't moved, it would have been just the, never mind. We're just fucking, just saying it's fine, because then I'm just going to wish I had that crit that I just got. So 30 was the attack roll. Okay. Okay, that is 13, 14, 15. 15 plus one lightning damage, six. Six, sneak, no, no sneak attack.

Just kidding. Is your hunter mark? There's the hundred's mark, five hundred's mark. That's the first attack, and the second attack at disadvantage. Is 19? 19 just misses. False. It's the armor.

cross it. Fuck. Is that your turn? All right, fax. All right, I want to slam down right. Yeah. Sorry, can I use my bonus to hide behind one of those pillars? Sure, go ahead and roll the top of the chair.

16. There you go. It's foggy, it's foggy. It's foggy, I'm not. I mean, steamy. It's like Marine later. Mm. Back.

Yes, all right, slam down right by that one's head. Right down to the ground. Fongangang! Take a split. A second to look up at the watery druid, shake my fucking head. Step-sab right into its face. No work. Yeah.

Okay, so the first one is a 33. 33 hits? Yeah, and the second one is, or the first one is 16, uh, 28. All right, so he's prone, he's a disadvantage. I'm going to dump smite in both of these. Dump it. Yeah. Two, because he's 10 plus, uh, 13.

13, 17, 18, 18, 20, 26, 31, 36 plus the smite, which is right. 32, 32, 39 for the first, and then for the second hit, it's 268, plus the smite, 10, 12. and then for the second hit, it's 268 plus the smite 8, 10, 12. 12 damage. All right, so as you slam down the first strike, you jam it right into the chest, and as you pull back the blade you watch as one of the chest armor pieces flips open, and the flames, the furnace of its chest that are starting to burn in again, begin to fill with the water from the water elemental, and more steam just emerges from it. As it's starting to feel the furnace burn out, you reach in with your dagger and find a cool spot and jam it right in the middle where you see where the oren of the embers is the brightest.

And as your hand goes in and strikes it, the ember just goes dark immediately and the creature falls limp there. Yeah! Oh! I know what? Ben, so the way Hunter's Mock works is I can move it to another. It's a bonus action. Can I get it over to the one by Grog? What's the range on it?

Oh, geez. Hold on, wait, hold on. 90 feet. 90 feet. Yeah. So I should have a little bit of movement left, so I'm going to shoot back up, high five my girlfriend on the way and go as high as I can into the room. It's like, it's like punching a fire hydrant. All right, so you're going to head over it this way?

I'm only 60 feet because I'm not hasted wings. Right. But this also is a small area. So between there, you see how it was 30 feet there and then 30 feet up, so you'd probably be close. Okay, awesome. Okay, awesome. Yeah, so you got. All right.

That was a terrible. That ends your turn. It's simulated the water. Grog, you're up. All right, this guy can obviously play heavy. Reckless, great weapon master. Can I make the first attack? I'm going to try it for the first time.

And remember this round, don't forget your retaliation ability. Yeah, Ra, I forgot that last time. You forget it a lot. I do, I know. I'm sorry, I get confused. I know, it's okay. Can I try? We've all been there.

Thank you. A trip attack with my new Manoo. If my new maneuvers from a- Okay. Oh, hell yeah. It's a D8 that's added to a successful... To the damage, but you still have to roll the hit first. Right, right, rap, bad, master.

12. That's not the triple tag. 30 minus five is... 25. 25 hits, yes. 11, 27, 37, 37. 3, 9, 40, 41. 41. 41 points of damage.

31 points of damage to it. And he's tripped. And he has to make a strength saving throw. Correct. I don't know what. That is, you actually got a 15. And your DC for your abilities, do you have that figured out? Uh-uh. You should have that figured out.

Okay. It's eight plus your strength modifier or plus your provisions you bonus. You're way over. Oh, okay, cool. So it's six plus eight. So it's 14 plus your strength bonus, which is, I believe, eight. Eight. Oh my God.

Wow. Oh my God. Six. Wow. It's four. No. It's twenty-six. Yeah, sure.

That's great. So with that, the first thing you knock it prone onto the ground, tripping it up from under itself as you sweep across its legs, you watch as one of the puldrons that's built into its leg just kind of splinters off. And you can see kind of the inner mechanisms of the construct's leg. What do you want to do for your second attack? I want to hit it again. Yeah. Reckless great weapon myself. Thanks for that.

Seven. Shit, that might not be so good. No. That hits. 20 just barely good. Oh, it is a hard 20. That's right. One, seven.

17. Oh, 17 plus 10, so 27. Yeah. You're a melee too, so the reduced visibility doesn't really affect you since you're right up against it. How much said that damage total? 27. 27 points. Okay.

As you swipe it from under the ground and it falls onto its back, it slams and hits the ground with the hard metallic, using that momentum. You swing back. whack, and slammed on top of its chest, which caves in briefly and can see bits of the flame of the interior furnace, flickering out at the edges where the metal is now crinkled inward and exposing the burning flame. I'll spend an action surge. You may. To do one more strike. You may.

Into his Gallagher afflicted chest. Black, right, right, right, right, right, and that's a lot. 16, 234, 29. 29. Nice. You have two more damage. You have two more attacks with your actions. Oh, shit.

Yeah, because it's... It's just another attack. Welcome to my world, man. 21, 30. 31, 20, 20. 31 hits? Nice. Oh, no, no.

29 was the hit, and 31 was the damage. Yes. They're great. 21 plus 10. Okay, so as you pull your weapon up from that first impact, seeing the damage it's done, you grin and you feel like the veins bulge once more on your neck, and you bring it up a second time, or third time, I guess, for this one, slamming it down, the chest caves in entirely, and you watch you kind of,

fall limp as it's all, Limp as its arms detach and fall to the side, it's done. Nice! You still have one more attack and you haven't moved. Can I turn like to my right in my rage and just start running across the room to old stupid butt on the fall? Old stupid bud.

50 feet. Good old. You got to grab. Last one. Okay. Okay. 7.2. That's a million. 35.30? Yeah.

21. 31. 31. It's so good when there was in range of grog. Yeah. All righty. That ends your turn, Grug. All right, that brings us to personal. I'm going to spend a point of dead eye. So that last one that's on the ground, just, and I think that just cancels out the disadvantage. Okay.

And I'm going to... We're going to take a, yeah, let's just shoot them. Okay. That's, yeah, it's a 27. 27 hits. So that's 10 points of damage, two points of necrotic, two points of psychic. Okay. I'm going to do the same.

That's 32. What would a senseless waste of human life. Oh, the tarot cards. Tarot cards are fine. They're actually fine. They were on the box. Let me know what magical items need me to reprint out for them. All of them! Coffee still. Can we get some dyesbox? Oh, the dice box is fine. I call the feng towels. It's coffee. Ten points of coffee damage?

It may have landed on some wires. That's nine points of normal damage, two points of psychic damage, six points in necrotic. Okay. Somebody's running now. Yeah, buddy. And for my third shot, not much. That's 20, that's 30 points. That's 17 points of normal damage, four points of necrotic, one point of sidekick. Okay, so after Grogh rushed up and slammed in this one's chest, he pulls back and actually pulls the armored chest plate that retains the furnace in the inside off. It's still wedged on the axe.

And as it pulls it open, you see the flame begin to just spark and billow out of the chest. How do you want to do this? Yeah. He's like, you just drowning in. You are frenzied raging right now. I want to pour a cup of coffee. Yeah. Morning traffic, Percy. He's just like, ugh.

I'm just going to sit. I've already got him second, and I'm just going to find very carefully every little crack, and I'm just going to get them in there. I'm just going to listen to them bang around on the interior. I'm just going to rattle them around. You hear the ricochet on the inside. As it does, the flicker of f-bler. It burns really bright.

You can feel like it almost burles. burns into your beard, but you pull away real fast. Almost like looking out of the trap in Ghostbusters. So you turn away, the flames burn upward, and then immediately go dark afterward. It kind of falls and collapses to the ground there on moving. I looked in the trap, Ray.

Yeah. Oh, gosh. Oh, no, that's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. It's seriously under the box, though, on the white wire. But like, coffee and wormwood are the two best things. the two best things. So you're just mixing the two best things.

Oh, wow. It's everywhere. Holy cow. I have a coffee problem. If you see one copper. The copy apocalypse has come. Critical roll this night. It's like an eight ounce cup is a normal cup. You would think, and I've been drinking it all night. You've got enough to like. How is there so much coffee? I don't know. A caffeinate half of Bergbank right there. You're gonna carry on. Ignore me. It's hard to.

It's hard to. So, anyway. I'm at the edge of the Mississippi. So, as you all take a moment to look around, you can see that these three warriors now lie broken and destroyed on the ground, whether it be drowned, torn apart internally, or just bludgeoned in the center of their chest cavity, they are no longer moving. You're still now in the quiet here, the arithmetic that's been perpetually feeding into the distant background of the distant entire structure deep in the volcano. What do you want to do? We should...

Can I look at the Golem, the construct that's down by me, is his face, the triangle face? Is it detachable? Could I remove it from the rest of his person? Would you always just put it underneath the smelter and pour in? Make an investigation check. Hold on to your butts, that's a one. I mean, there's no button for it.

There's the old-fashioned way. I'm going to land down next to the other one and start looking the same fashion across the run. Make an investigation check as well. I'm going to cast cure wounds on myself. All right, go for it. And I will do it the old-fashioned way. So make a strength check, please.

27. I mean, it's pretty like most of its armored pieces. The arms that detached there, the head is a solid, jointed portion to the torso. Okay. 22. And as you're expecting this, you hear this horrible sound in the distance. As you see Grog with this foot up on the center of its armored clavicle piece, just yanks the head off of it, tearing

and causing the middle to bend back and spring for a moment in the air. Look, it's just like the one above the coes. Oh, that's how you do it. Oh, but smaller. Good job, Groh. Is it? Oh, this is. We've got to do all three heads. Yeah.

That's an interesting phrase. See if you can smell some of you can smell some of the two. You can smelt some platinum into that thing, Grog. Should it be platinum? Should probably be platinum, yeah? You know, we have the platinum. Let's see what happens. Let's smelt the platinum into the heads.

Yeah. You know how to do it, because you're a blacksmith now. We're not supposed to like kissy face, the head to make some sort of a 3D shape? No, it's already got a pyramid in it. Good real. I think we're going to put all three in the one. Sounds like a plan.

Can I go over and archaic remove the other two noggins. Sure. May I assist by holding the bodies with Bigby's hand while you pull the heads? Yes, actually. So go ahead and make his string check with advantage, Grog. 23.

Yeah. So with Bigby's hand wrapping around the body, kind of clutching it like an action figure, you very easily just pop the head off and you now have two disembodied heads. One more. You want to help you with this one too? Yeah. Sure be your voice. 18.

18. It takes a little while and it pulls off, but it's mildly deformed from the yank pulling off. It seems like the hole in the face is intact, but it took so hard to try. We've got the ice trays. That'll do. Let's try this. All right. We head over to the smoking apparatus.

Okay. So you walk on over and it's a small, uh, it's a small, uh, It's a small furnace built in there with extremely hot coals and it seems to be an influx of just perpetual heat, but there's a large bellows next to it that you can use to try and increase the heat there for a temporary short time. And you, once again, strangely, you look over to it

and you know exactly how this works, like you've always worked with it before. So you begin to, the flames that were kind of like a burning orange-red, extremely hot, begin to just flare into bright, bright yellow and white in places. And the heat emanating from it is enough that causes a lot of you to get uncomfortable, just in the presence you have to take a step back.

Grog just enduring it. I'm still a fire hydrant. I'm actually, Keelis is just on fire marshal duty. Okay. And I turn into, like, I'd do some misting, like at six flags. You know, to cool off Vex. They can't just run through you, like Universal City Walk or something? Just to make that's look at first.

Yeah. Mainly just to make Vex. sexy. That's really all I'm going for. All that. I turn into an elemental. I've got to do something with it. Yeah. So go ahead and make a check with your blacksmithing tools, which is your proficiency modifier. And we'll say for this, because it is more of a dexterous use of the skill, add your dexterity modifier.

24. 24. So in setting up preparation, you take each one of the heads and to fill each one of their kind of, say, concave, but it's an interior pyramid space. Conclave. Conclave. Conclave. It'll be about, I'd say, 100 platinum pieces or so to fill each face void.

So you take the platinum, you melt it down into the smelter, get it into where it's in the gripped, like, tong-held metallic reservoir, until it eventually melts down. You then pour it into each of the heads. So 300 platinum utilized to do this. It fills to the very edge, some of it spills over. Oh, no. But you can easily kind of snit that off.

So as you wait for it to cool, which you can probably help with, actually, there is no basin for quenching the metal of the moment. So the steam rises up all around, and you turn the heads over, and each one leaves these heavy, metallic pyramid pieces that are smooth and perfect on three of the sides, and one of them appears to be almost like a broken crystal on the inside. It's just a shattered, messed up section. A little piece. We've got to fit them together. Okay, so if we fit these together.

They seem to fit together very well. You figured out very quickly. They fit and hold together. With the jaggedy ends or with the smooth ends? The jaggedy ends. Does this now make another concave piece? All together, it makes a pyramid that kind of comes to a central point. Let's put it in the big day. Oh, another big thing!

Okay. So I've still got some spider climb, so I'm gonna grab one. Okay. And lift up, all the flyers. Yeah, yeah, let's go. Okay. So the three of you make it up, kind of fit it together, push it in.

And back up. It fits in perfectly. It just slips in. You all back up. Really ties the room together. Yeah. We push it in harder. All right, make strength check.

This is definitely gonna be really good. I push on my sister's shoulder blades and push her further. All right, you guys get behind and shove and push. Nothing. Can I try? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You try.

I run across the culpits and Superman punch. Go for it. I go my barrel all out of the way. Yeah. I rage before I do this. There's a dent in it now. I know. Advantage on this thing.

That was what I was hoping for. 21. The impact on this causes the whole room to shake almost from the blasts. You hear the echo right up the stairs in the hallway that you emerged from. You can hear it just continuing as it slowly dissipates in the distance. You land and you can see there's actually like a knuckle mark in the platinum from the impact. No effect. Hey, I wonder, I've got an idea.

I took out of the Coles. What if we take this thing off of the cross beams, right, and stick it in the Coles or something? Because why are the coals here right underneath it? I think it needs to be... I'd drop water element to form. You think it needs to be hot? I don't know. First?

I don't know. I kind of, I line up the apparatus and kind of look across the room. Does it feel like there's any other kind of like Indiana Jones? The stairway is in the way. Because the stairway doesn't come all the way up to the top of the ceiling, and then back here, I mean, it blocks this kind of passage between the two of them. But as you go and look up, all the other things, All it is the reddish, rust-colored cross beams that are bolted against the wall,

and in the center, there's the round golden crest with the triangle shape, which now is now filled with the platinum key that you've made. Should we try? The coal's hot or the coal's cold? The coals are currently now cold. They've been, they've... Let's re-reve- Right? Yeah, we should... Oh, yeah, good idea, but we should reignite these coals, because I think it's bad that they're burned out right now. I think so too.

I just attest, yeah, I'm going to do burning hands. and how quickly do they catch? Pretty quickly. And you get the sense that they were slowly catching anyway. There's something about, I mean, the heat that the general room perpetually emanates, kind of maintains the fires within. But you're flaming with the burning hands very quickly, kind of elevates and quickens that process.

And you watch as the coals now glow to a bright orange, kind of red hue, and you can feel the heat emanating from them. Can we turn the circle? Does it move? So you go up to the edge and you grab the edge of the golden Crested. Tug and... It's not moving. Gosh, darn it.

What we're supposed to do? Are there any, like, inlays? Make an investigation check. In the circle. Okay. That's not my strong point. God damn it, that's like the fourth three I've rolled today. You're inspired.

I mean, we're right there. You are inspired if you want to use your... Up to you. Better... Twelve. Twelve. It's just smooth gold. There's no signs or...

ruins or anything on the side. I want to see if there's anything in the holes that were left by the soldiers who left. What was what? Well, the three suits of armor came out of the wall, so there's now a wall that we haven't seen. Okay. Behind them. Oh, shit. So you go and inspect the...

The platinum is for the trammel. So you go ahead and look inside, which one? I'm going to do all three, but I'll start on the one on the left. Okay, well, investigation check. Wittershund. That's an investigation check. What did you do? Six. Is it also a three?

Yeah, it's also three. I mean, you look around inside and the shape is just a perfect indentation of the physical form of the three metal warriors. You don't see any signs of anything beyond just enough of a cavity to fit them snugly when they're dormant. Ace Scanlan. You want to use your dragonfisting friend to put that pyramid in the coals and heat it up and then shove it back in? Wait, what? Do you want to use Bigby's hand to take that pyramid, shove it in the coals, heat it up and see if that makes a difference, shove it back in hot? So you want me to heat the platinum and then shove it into the guy's face?

Bigby's hand, by the way, at this time, is faded. It only lasts for a minute with concentration. Oh, yeah. I thought maybe the pyramid heated up could make a difference. I don't know. Throw in spaghetti a little... I'll walk up into the coals and I'll take the platinum pyramid out and I'll... Drop it down under the coals for like... Okay, it's about 15 feet up off the ground. Like... Shit.

Can I jump? Boots of Pharaoh leaping? You can. I'd say you leap up and grab the edges of the seal with your, you know, giant strength and kind of wedge your fingers into the side and pull it out and land on the Coles. You do take four points of fire damage. Okay. As the Coles springing to burn into your feet and just the proximity of the heat, but you back up out of the...

the coal base center and you're now holding the key. I'll drop it in the coals. Only the three pieces kind of come apart as soon as you pull it from the sections, you have the three different pieces right there in your arms. Okay. So when the three pieces go together, the part that goes towards the wall, it's another point, like a, it's like a four-sided pyramid.

Oh, right, it is a pyramid, so the whole pyramid goes on the wall. Yeah, and it's a flat seal from the outside. Okay. Can you see the outline of the triangle? This needs to be gold. Why would it be gold? Well, the outside is gold. The ring, a circle of gold.

It's true. Maybe the platinum was only for the trammels, not the key. We can try it. We have gold. Finish my stupid idea, and then we'll move on to the next stupid idea. Good call. Has the platinum pyramid started to heat up yet? I mean, you're holding in your arms.

I drop it in the coals. You wait about five minutes or so, and you can see a faint bit of heated glow. It's slowly heating up, but these colds. but these coals are not smelter-ready. You don't want to eat it too much because we don't want to melt it. I'll pick them up and tell me, how do you have to tickle. That's good, that's good.

Okay, so you, I was really enjoying that. Make an intelligence check, Rob. Oh, no. Come on, Mary. To assemble the three puzzle pieces of the key. We're logging him through it. We just don't want to touch it. Negative two, nine.

Nice. He's having a hard time putting those pieces. together, guys. I'm Deathwalkers boarded to fire, and I'll start helping together. You each take five points of fire damage, just helping kind of touch and assemble this key. Once you get it put together and you kind of hold up with the grasp of your hands, you leap, using the boots of feral leaping. And jam it back inside. Poster eyes.

Land off the side. Nothing. You're asshole. Son of a bet. You got a fucking trident-gold. Trident-gold. Maybe a triangle. I have one other thought, but.

What is it? What's the red armor made out of? The red armor? What are the armors made out of? I mean, it's like a dark reddish black metal. Can we melt the golems into their heads? What? Melt each one. Maybe it's got to be the metal that they're made out.

The triangles are like this big and the armor is like massive. Yeah, so take some of the metal and melt it down into the head. What is the metal? Can we do it like a check to see what kind of metal it is that they're made out of? that they're made out. Yeah, tinketail a spy. Can you take a look at that? Either of these guys could tend to do that.

I'm going to take a look. What would that be? This would be an intelligence check plus your tinkering benefit. Intelligence check plus your blacksmithing provisions modifier. So that's intelligence plus my normal tinker check? Yeah. Tinker check. Tinker.

So that's not bad. Let's see. 19. Oh, wow. That's like 32. Yeah, okay. So both of you say out loud at the same time, Oh, this is volcanic glass metal.

Oh. This is volcanic glass metal. There it is. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Sweet. So maybe can we melt it? Only in a glass volcano. No, it will probably. I think it'll melt. Do I know if it's a...

Yeah. It's a... It's a type of metal. You follow me on it? Yeah, I'm following. Okay. It's an oxidized red iron base that in the construct and the folding of the metal to build the actual armored structure of these creatures had bits of volcanic glass folded into the actual metal that was created. See, I feel like that makes it special.

It's Pallarian steel. Yeah, I was doing the chag. Bring on the night king. I'm going to hear it a shot, can't we? Yeah, so you want to try and... ...and roll them down and be one of the each of the three. Yeah, each one. Why don't you make their dreams come true and rip their groins off?

Yeah. Melt their body into their face. Okay. So, because you roll a very high check, I'm going to let you know that generally heating up a metal to the point in which it's liquid and then pouring it into the same metal will not work. Is going to mess up the mold.

Oh, really? Don't do that. No, that's a terrible idea. Let's try gold. Let's try gold. That would have been, that would have felt very coolest. I guess if you know that as a blacksmith, you guys are so smart about this stuff, then we should get gold.

It comes away. It's like a new awakening. I don't know. We'll try the gold. Smelting. Okay. So about 100 gold pieces per head. 300.

So 300. How come it was 300? Oh, because it's not the same. It's not the same worth as the coin. Well, it's 100 gold pieces per face. It was 300 total. Right, right, right. Yes.

So 300 gold taken off total. Yes. You smelt it down, the same process, and then place within each of the three molds, wait for it to cool, and then you remove the three key pieces of the solid gold. They all fit together just as the platinum pieces did. Can somebody go pull that thing out, and then I'll put this one in? I'm pulling it out. Okay, so you go ahead, you pull out the chunks of heated, are now cooling platinum and let them running out of it. them into the coals for a moment.

We still use these two stumbles. It's not like it was no, this is still useful. Pull them off the coals carefully. Can I run up in MJ the new gold pyramid into the... Sure. Make an intelligence charge. Oh, because I gotta put them together. No, we'll be...

Two! We can do it, we can help. I'm making an origami swan. Let's get it. Don't put it no matter. You guys eventually help them put it together a second time. A second time. And then we put it in.

A really good macaroni art you made. That's so good. That's a boat, right? Let's put it in the key. All right. So as you have it assembled, you rush up, leap, jam it in there. As it slides into place, tsh. You hear a heavy slamming sound, and we hear it like the scraping of heavy chain metal.

You're right. It's always about gold. I grab the platinum pyramid and I put it in a bag of a whole room. I'm bed, no, putting it back a hold of you. What? No, no, no, no. I already had said that I had him, no. No. No, he doesn't do that.

So the wall immediately shudders, and you see a layer of Dustin's soot just kind of pf off of it as it falls to rest and onto the ground. And you see the wall slowly rise up. Oh no. Oh, shit, get ready. We get ready to hide. Wait, wait, hide.

Hide. I didn't know, then we're going to prep something. Hide. So who's hiding? I am. All right, stealth check. Yeah, sure. Yeah, and I'm hiding behind the pillar that I'm next to.

Oh, cool. So you hide behind the pillar. Stand in the face death with me. I'm not kidding. Do I'm just going to stand there? Hands on hips. At this point, it would be out of the vision. All right, I'm just going to hide there.

I'll hug the wall closest to the door. Okay. Yours. All right. It's just going to reveal them to this. Stay away, good luck. It's gonna be another door. Do you guys see National Treasure?

No. What? No, I never saw National Treasure. Oh my God, it's so good. Okay, well, we'll make it with the evening of it. It's Nick Cage and it's most mediocre. St. Nicholas. All right, so, as the door eventually comes to the stop, just maybe a foot below it reaches the ceiling.

Black smoke just pours in from the other chamber. You watch as it immediately fills the ceiling, and then begins to just dissipate up the stairway and the hallway above you, where you guys had originally descended from. You see flashes of sparks and embers through these clouds of black smoke and sit within the chamber that's obscuring most of your view within the inside. And that heavy pounding, that p-hm, is much louder now. And you can sense that this is actually, this is the source of that really, beat. That's that metal-on-metal clang you've been feeling since you first came into this series of chambers. You can see small streams of glowing orange molten rock within the chamber, which is slightly down and before you.

It looks like two small, like 10-foot wide rivers of molten rock metal. You can't quite tell from here, but they're just glowing orange and red. and they both convene and go dark in the center where it looks like they're being covered or obscured by something that you can't quite make out of this distance. A giant anvil? Make a perception check. Anybody who wants to glance in there? Right now, the only people who could really look in, would not be Percival and Vax, because they're in the way back. I got humans. If you want to glance on the side, you can. I can do it like a peak.

Sure. 17. 16. 24. All right. All righty. Glancing in, it's a lot of sound. So what you can make out for the most part is this central platform is raised. It looks like there's a staircase that leads up to a middle platform that is in the center of this larger chamber.

And it looks to be a couple of large, heavy platforms or pillars that have roaring flames at the edges of them. You can see beneath it the two pools of lava that disappear beneath it, and you see a hint of a spiral staircase on each side that kind of curls around the back end of where those two bits of these two rivers of molten rock meet. Behind that you see the flashes, the flasches, like these rhythmic engines of sparks that are just kind of pouring out the black smoke that is perpetually filling the upper part of this chamber. However, since now it has a place to escape, the room is slowly revealing the interior. You can see on top of this platform in the center what appears to be a large dark metal object, roughly about four or five feet from front to back and about three feet wide of dark jet black metal with small veins of glowing red and orange that kind of curled around it that occasionally flare with each impact of whatever this rhythmic metal clanging is behind it.

As the smoke begins to dissipate even further, the more visibility reveals the shape of this object to definitely be that of an anvil. You can see a number of chains that are linked to it on each side that kind of dangle off the edge. You cannot quite see what's the end of these chains. They're falling off the side of the platform and out of view. You have to get closer to see what they are.

However, the shape that you now see that you now see right behind this platform looming at about 20 feet tall from your estimation at this distance, Kieleth. As you're the one who sees this before anybody else does, you see a stalky humanoid form that is just looming over the anvil, both of its fists, kind of resting on each side of the platform. You can see it, its trunk-like arms and legs

are dark gray stone, and the head carries no face. It's just a smooth absence of face. You can see what it looks to be like red cables that dangle from the top and the back of the head that are then pulled together in the back like a ponytail. And around the center of its torso and its lower body, these extremely thick layers of leather wrap that almost make like a kilt that dangle past the knees of this giant stone structure that just stands there looming over. In one of its hands, you see a comparably small but impressive-looking hammer of gold and black that is currently chained to the platform. It's the one that isn't currently dangling off the sides. It's in its hand. It's just kind of resting there.

And you can see the heat that's emanating from both the pools of Molten Rock to the sides of it and the flames behind. Most of the imagery is just perpetually shifting and being altered by the... sheer volume of heat that this chamber holds. This is apparently the core anvil and whatever decor around it looks very intimidating. So what do you want to do? Okay, I kind of, the humanoid figure doesn't seem to have noticed us. He's just pretty much not moving. It's not moving. It's just standing there, right platform. Like over the anvil? Is that kind of booming over it? Still happening?

Yep. And the figure is like 20 feet tall, you said? Yeah. And he's not moving. You don't see the ceiling in here, because it's all just filled with black smoke. Can we see the source of the sound? Can we see what's causing that yet? You can't right now.

It's behind that entity, and you just see kind of behind where the platform is, and the darkened back portion of the chamber. You see these two flashes of spark and flame that just fling. As they do, you watch... So intimidating. So, you see bursts of smoke and flame just kind of... just kind of billow up and continue to fill and feed the ceiling. So.

I convey what I see. I think you might have a guardian that you have to fight over that hammer, Grog. I heard Grog and I creep up past my sister and place a hand on his knee, which is my fucking face. If we can take 60 seconds, I kind of back up into a corner and start casting Conjure elementary and conjure another water elemental to be on our side. Okay. From the staff.

Maybe he's a friendly giant, really creepy-looking entity. Maybe he was the guy who tried to use the anvil before. Maybe he's the old father. Is that what he's called? Well, look, before we step into that... The all hammer. Before we step into that arena, we control this space. How quick and quiet can you be to see if he responds to your movement?

I can get in there. Yeah. In and out. Super fast. Sure. Do you want me to get a look? Yeah. See if he reacts to you. Dot up to him go, and then dot back.

They're getting on how far. Hang on, hang on. We might want to be careful about getting too high. There's a lot of smoke in there. We don't want to suffocate. That's the only time Marisha has ever said those words. We're live on the fucking internet, Sam Riegel. Hope your mom's watching.

She'd be proud. Thanks for watching. Everybody, that's the end of the night show. Oh my gosh. So, what do you guys do? Can you have any of you a supercells to my sneaking? I mean, I... You have to stay within a certain radius of her to get the effect.

Never mind, I'll be fine. Yeah, do it. This is what you do. Just fly in really fast, be creepy and quick. But I need to do it an additional stealth. Creepy is automatic. It's a given. Yeah. Because this is heading into the chamber as opposed to just staying behind the

The platform, yes, I'll see you have to roll again. Okay. Natural 20. Oh! All right. We don't even notice him leave. So you head into the chamber as you step inside. Float inside.

Okay, so as you make your way inside, you look left and right and you can see like the stonework, the dark stonework begins to mingle with the metal and it begins to go into almost like edges, like rough edges of the volcanic rock that it's built into around you. around you. You see two large pillars to each side of you that has these red rocks embedded in the side that give these faint, red glow that just gives a hint of light to the chamber. There's the heat from the pools, and just the whole chamber here is very uncomfortable for you. Thankfully, your armor giving the heat resistance does help a bit. You can see the anvil there up on top of the staircase on the raised platform and that large hulking entity that's just kind of looming over it at the moment. Can I, if he's here right and I'm over here, can I fly up to just there so I can see the front of him a bit,

or the angle of his face, if there is one, anything to see, or is he facing out towards us? Facing out towards you. Oh, he is, never mind. Um. You got a buzz on your face. Can I get it? Yeah, please. No, you got it, you got it.

Oh, I saw it. Yeah, it was like right on his lips, so every time we talked to, it was like, yeah. Nice. So what you're doing? Just float in space and do that. Okay, you just fly up and just wait. Okay, that is not stealthy. No, I mean, from where I am, I'm not making noise, I'm not flying closer to him.

Right. I'm just doing this. Right? Right. Okay. Okay. I stealthily get his attention by waving my hand in his face. I didn't.

But as you, you know, this difference between, like, stalking off in the corner and then flying up into the center to get a look and then seeing if he sees you. So what are you doing? I have to distinguish that. Okay. I'm going to fly back to the gang. Okay. Could you get this fuzz off my face? I can get off the whole time, no, it just keeps really fixing. I don't know, I mean, I flew in an hour.

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Are we talking to this thing? Should we try talking to him? We might. Maybe it's better. We shouldn't fight him. It's a crazy plan, but it just might work. You can speak celestial to him, right? You don't just read it.

That's, it's... The fruit to, yes. Oh, man. Swedish. The fur is sturdy. I was like the Swedish. Sliish is the same to Sweden. So we know have a Zexandria canon

that Schlesstiel sounds like Sweden. You can bury that. that's a huge as a moment. Thank you for that talent. Well, you know, it's like a whole, yeah, it's like a whole thing. It's sweet as sweet as seat. Can I get another, a quick rerun down in the room? So he was up at the top of the stairs facing out, not moving, and was there, was that like wall behind him or does it go further past him at all?

It goes past. I'd say about 15 feet behind him, you can see what looks to be the occasional reflection of the flashes of the light where it looks to be there is a wall behind him. There is an end to the chamber, but you're too far away and it's just a little far away and it's a little. too obscure by smoke for you to make too much of a, you know, to know exactly what's behind. And when I got in there, I didn't get close enough to see if there was any sort of good hiding spots beyond him. Make perception check. Okay.

24. The, I mean, there are corners to the chamber. You kind of, as you fly up and glance, you could see what looks to be two more small, or I'd say equal size pits of coals behind him on either side. And you do glance what looks to be two kind of almost 20, foot wide, domed-like machines that you see the flame and the billowing smoke are being pushed out of. It's some weird engine-like structure. There's two of them behind it that you can see the flames kind of f-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-th. And that's where the sparks are shooting out of each time. I would speak to him. Do the talking thing. I'm going to go back in though

and... But call out to it. Don't get up first. Before we start, how long has it been since we entered this chamber. It's been at this point, maybe 10 minutes. It entered into the volcano. Oh, into the volcano? Yeah. Injured to the first forge room. I'm trying to find out if freedom of movement is still on. Okay, without, with all the smelting put together, I'd say it's probably been close to an hour. I'm going to Rehast. Can I only have one like condition effect on him? Or can I like stack them up? You can have as many as you put on him, just as long as they're not concentration, you can

stack as many as you want. Okay, freedom of movement is not. I'm going to cast freedom of movement on you again. And then I think enhanceability is, though. So I'm going to use my concentration to give you cats, grace, right? You were using dexterity, right?

Or the smelting? Well, yeah. On that one. Is it going to be, yeah, it would be dexter strength for. For most blacksmithing, you gather it'll be dexter strength. Okay. Well, strength is way better Then I'll give you Katz grace. You have advantage on Dex checks.

Yeah. For the fine tuning of the trammals. And D.M. How long are we in this room? In that room? Since you entered that chamber, it's been about an hour. It's been about an hour. Yeah. My wings then are... At this point, yeah, your wings have been dissipated. Boise, I'm not afraid. Go talk to this thing. I'm going to say in Celestial, I'm going to say hello. I'm going to say it out.

You just shouted into the chamber. Hello? Come seeking the Allhammer? We need help. Vecno walks the earth again. We come seeking a way to defeat him. Once again. We come with the blessings of Pelo. And I'm going to start entering very gingerly. Okay, so Percival is entering. I actually threw out that I crept back in ahead of that, so you are in there hiding. I'm floating behind him on a brood. All right.

Scanlan, where are you coming in on this? I will just lag behind grog-ish. Like you do. Okay, so we have Percival walking in. Who's right behind Percival? Grog. Grog. All right.

Scanlan, you're floating above. Does it have to be single file with this? No, it doesn't. Okay, then I'm going to be back over to the side of Scanlan. Yeah. All right, Keel. I'll take up the rears with my water elemental. Okay, it's your one.

The ground is still super duper. hot, right? The ground is, yes. Okay. Just making sure. All righty. So as you begin to enter the chamber and make your way towards the stairway and the central kind of raised platform with the two flaming pillars that flanket, you're shouting this into the chamber. It echoes through and you still hear the f-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. Each flash of light you can see kind of caused this faint glow across your faces and the faces of your companions. Their shapes go from like dark obscured in the shadow and smoke into a brief reveal of your form. As you begin to approach the stairs, you hear this faint grinding of stone as the faceless giant's head slowly looks up

to face you. But that's all. I keep walking. Me too. Okay. As you guys continue to walk, you get to the bottom of the stairs and you watch as one of its hands in the side that clutches the hammer, unfurls and releases it, and the hammer, once let go, swings the chain going taut, and it slams into the side of the race platform out of sight. And as it does, it stands up and writes itself. But its head is still looking down at you, Percival. We ask permission to use the anvil.

Tell him, like, nod yes once for yes and just shake his head. How about this? Joking. I'm not afraid. If he takes a fence, I'll take it better than most. That's fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you guys, do you ascend the stairs?

In the front now, I will ascend this. Grog has now moved to the front. All right, and you take your first couple steps onto the stairs as you do. The large stone entity spins around and kind of steps into the smoke a bit that kind of obscures its kind of shoulders. I'm just going to cast carewins myself one more time. Go for it. I'm going to down a potion. Okay, go for it.

And then I have a question too. Hunter's mark has a duration of an hour, but since that last battle lapsed, am I not allowed to slide it to this guy? No, it's gone now. It's been more time. The process of smelting and then re-smelting and figuring out and adjusting everything,

it's taking over an hour. Can I use my second wind? Just because. Sure. We'll use spider column right now. 13 points, 223. All righty. So as you continue to step up the stairs, Grog, as you approach,

you get about a third of the way up there, and you hear what sounds like heavy metal scraping against stone and just one giant burst of sound. And you watch as the giant figure shifts and turns back out of the smoke, holding across its front in one hand a large, cleaver-like blade, with runes glowing across the side of it, about 15 feet or so from end to end. And as it spins, it looks down towards you all and kind of just holds it in front, almost like the flat end of it facing out towards you in almost a ceremonial way.

What kind of rooms? Make an archa check. Maybe if you use it in the right way, you know, like he'll, it'll be fine because only some people don't use that. You have no idea. Okay. Are they ruins or like in a language? Is it like a script? These are specifically arcane runes of an enchantment type nature.

It's just holding the blade out in front like that, clutching the handle on one side and putting its hand against the flat of the blade on the other. Do we have our bits of God? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Might want to just have them available for a moment. I take mine out of my pocket. So, Groggy walked at the top?

Mm-hmm. You make it to the very top of the stairs, and there's the anvil there before you. The heat, you can feel it. It's, like, you know when you're close to an explosion and there's that brief minute of extremely uncomfortable heat that you flinch, it's that perpetually? And all of you are just sweating masses beneath your armor. You're afraid at certain points that your eyebrows are beginning to singe and curl. It's hard to breathe because the air is so hot and so thick, and occasionally you can't help but find yourself coughing at the caustic black smoke that fills a large portion of the chamber.

Unconsciously checking my beard. Okay. As you approach the top of the stairs, the head just looks down at you. What do you do? Am I standing at the anvil now? You're standing right at the edge of the stairs, the very top of the platform, and the anvil's there, maybe like five feet in front of you. You can see all the chains that are hanging around. on the side and dangling off the sides of the platform. Can I see where the chains are leading,

or are they just dangling off? Well, like, it's about, I'd say, the platform's about 20 feet wide, and so the chains that are all hooked in multiple places to the edges and the outside parts of the anvil are taught and then dangling off the edge of the platform so you can't see what they are. You know one of them is the hammer,

because that's what you let fly off the side. Maybe they're the tool. I keep track of which one was the hammer. Okay. Give me the platform. Okay. We'll put it together first, please. With the platinum, I will approach the anvil.

Okay, you step up to the edge of the anvil. As it does, the blade tilts set now, as opposed to the flat facing you. One of the two bladed edges is now. I stop. I mean. In your vision of how to do it, did you see this guy? Did I? No.

No, I've got nothing right there. Do I see any blacksmithing tools, anything that I would use to hammer this. The hammer that you let go of. Oh, that's hanging up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You saw that, but you didn't get a great look at it by the time it was chucked off the side.

Flat edge. That does feel like a ready set. Yes. I take one step back. The blade goes to a flat edge. So next after the edge is decapitation. Probably. Yeah.

I'm pretty sure that would be like 150 parts of damage or something worse. What if you go and try to pick up that hammer first? Do you need it? Well, like, I'm picturing the anvil right in front of me and he's just off to the side, right? The anvil is right in front of you. He's on the other side of the anvil. You only see the upper part of the torso because he's standing off the platform below it. You see it from the waist up, because he's about 20 feet. tall from top to bottom, you only saw about 10 feet of his torso there. The blades out in front. And the hammer... Oh my god, that's so big though. Is the hammer somewhere between me and him?

Yeah. It's... Make a perception check to see if you remember which chain it was. Seven. There's four chains on each side that are dangling off the side and you're not sure which one it is. Oh, it went hanging off on one side. Yeah, when you let go, it went off on one side. It held off the sides. So now there's like four chains that are top on each side of the anvil that are... Is he... Is he another golem?

It looks to be a golem-like construct, yeah. It's like you've seen golems and you've encountered golems before, and the constructs of them can vary. This one, elements of it have the same proportions of a golem, but there are elements that seem more human-like, as opposed to just like an armored, battering ram of a... This one looks almost like it's craft and the refined details of it, including like you can look up and, you know,

your perception role isn't high enough, and you're too far away to make out much more. of its form, so. Is the sword like as big as our table is across? Oh, what if we show him one of our little beans? She pulled one out, yeah. Oh, she did. What if you have to show him how good a blacksmith you are to earn the privilege?

Yeah, but I got to get to the anvil to do that. Yeah. The blade in his hand, just the blade from like from Hilt to ends about 15 feet long. Scanlan. Scanlan, can you read what's... Can you read what's the arcane runes on his sword? Do you know what there's enchantment is? I can certainly try.

Making an Arcana check, Scanlan, as you kind of glance over, stepping up to the edge of the stairs. Can I help him in some kind? This is purely based on his knowledge. You've got this, Scanlan. Come on. This is Arcana? Yes. Come on, vacation Scanlan.

It's 21. 21. The runes across the blade specifically deal with the cursing the physical form of what touches its blade. Oh, shit. Okay, cool. Instead of walking towards the anvil, can I start walking to the right? Okay, you walk to the right. Like one towards one of those chains that's going on.

The chains are immediately to the left and right of the anvil, so to go towards a chain, you'd be stepping closer to the anvil, and as you turn to the side, its head just kind of tracks you as you Oh, it's so fucking creepy. Is it tilting it down the blade or? You haven't moved forward, no, it is not. Okay. Can I keep moving in that direction? Okay, so you can step forward towards the chain.

The blade comes down to a flat end towards you. I'll stop. Okay, okay, okay. I'm gonna try and sneak around the side of it. We'll get to that. What's behind it? Make perception check. Uh, 19.

Okay. Glancing over what you can see between the smoke, you see the two pits of burning coals. to the behind right and left of it, with small steps that lead into the coals on each side. And you see the two edges of these large, almost, they almost look like cylindrical turbines of stone and metal where the impacts are in the flames, flickering out for it.

Are those billows or are those something out? Is it more complicated? You're not sure. Like a lot of it's obscured from the smoke that's spilling out of it. You're too far and the light's too dark in here. In that distance, yeah. What would happen if we put that machine out? Well, it's not like you could

You can just step up to the anvil before the medal's hot anyway, right? That's right. So maybe we're stepping up to the anvil too soon. Maybe you have to heat the metal first. I think that it feels like a guardian. What if we put the water elemental in the... I was going to say, I'm going to kind of come into the room a little bit. Okay. So you step in. Most of you are kind of like at the base of the stairs.

Grog's at the top of the stairs. Scanlan kind of stepped up behind him to look. look at the runes and the blade. That's where you currently reside. Is this eyesight still trained on Grog? Correct. I'm going to send my water elemental forward and see if it attracts its attention,

since it's not like a mortal. Where do you send it? Towards the anvil. Okay. So you head up the stairs. The water elemental kind of swarms around the side. You see wherever, as it moves forward, there's just steam pouring off from the heat of the ground and the surrounding metal and stone.

As it comes up the steps, more and more steam just... emerging off the back of its body. It comes to the top, and it's now next to Grog. You had to set it towards the envelope? Yeah, but didn't Grog train to the right? Grog stepped to the right, and then began to step forward and then stopped. Does the water elemental seem to be catching its attention at all, or is it still looking at Grog? It's still looking at Grog. Can I move the elemental to the left to see if it follows the elemental?

Okay, elemental moves to the left, it doesn't follow the elemental. I wouldn't send it any closer to the envelope. Well, you might just swing at the thing we got close. That's kind of what I'm wondering. Why now? It might send him in attack mode and then he just, you know, stuff. Unless we're short on ideas, we might have to just starburst this thing,

scatter and run. Who forged here before? What god? The all hammer. Yeah. Oh. Aune helped. Palor helped. Well, should we show our god shit?

Did we do that yet? Well, yeah, I'm going to fly up next to Grog, but I want to go past him. Okay. And I'm going to hold up a little beat. power. Okay. His attention kind of focuses in between the two of you. Doesn't change his stance. The blade is still tilted down towards you. I'm going to step forward with it. Okay. So you know no further than Grog stepped that first time. Right. Yeah. The

blade is still kind of turn towards you. It doesn't seem to react. All right, I'll back up. No. You think it's better think otherwise. Groke's gonna just be doing some shape. I kind of want to put the engineering behind it out. I want to put those pistons out. What if the pistons are fueling the fires and the forge? I think we need to forge with you. I don't think we want to dig around. I'm going to go.

We still can't see behind it, we still can't see what's sending up those. You're not close enough and you don't have a far enough view. It's kind of blocking the bulk of it. I'm going to fly to the side, like against the wall. About an oracle arrow. Yeah, that's what I was going to do so I could shoot around. Okay. So you fly off of the side of the chamber?

Yeah, and I'm going to shoot an oracle arrow like behind him to see like what's going to on over there. Okay. You go and fire the arrow just past him. As you do, his head darts with the speed of the arrow as it clacks against the back of the wall. Without even looking towards you, this hand releases the blade and the blade swings, a wide arc about a foot above your head grog. Slam something in the back of the wall at a sight.

You hear what sounds like heavy chains snapping and falling to the ground and the wall behind you where you entered the chamber, slam shone. as you all kind of hear the sound and taking the scenery you watch as it retracts the blade into an offensive position. God damn it. And we're going to take a break. We're back here in just a moment, guys. We have a giveaway. We have a giveaway.

We're shooting at them. It's all right. We never do diligence, you know. We tried to be friendly. We poked it, we prodded it, and we called it and all these things. So, this is a big package. Oh, wow. Going out to a bunch of folks there. It's the complete black poisonwood set, which is awesome.

It's the tray, the vault, the dice tower. It's all falling. It's all falling. It might be a little broken. I apologize in advance. It smells of coffee. There we go, exactly. That's what it looks like.

It's going to sign about the cast for you. So to go ahead and be entered in that giveaway, come into the Twitch chat over the break, and the keyword is going to be tarot, T-A-R-O-T. Yeah. So yeah, we'll be back here in a few minutes, guys. Jerry Brake, and we'll see you in a minute. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Critical Role.

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I know you, so I'll ask you later too. Yeah. All right then. So last we left off, you had made your way. You had made your way into the chamber that seems to hold the core anvil beneath the underwater volcano of Skulled seat. Upon approaching the center platform where the anvil was, some sort of a stone-built guardian that loomed over it. Upon approaching and testing the building, boundaries, an unintentional firing of an arrow in the vicinity seem to have

triggered an aggressive stance and the end up to be on the assault. So now with the chamber there before you, I would like you all to take stock on your current positions and roll initiative. It's sitting our best. He is going to hit you like he is at a driving range. Yeah, like a ball. Small circle of my elemental. Well, that's really unfortunate.

Jesus. I get advantage on those, and that's terrible. All righty, so 25 to 20. 24. Ooh. 20. Jeez. Jeez. All righty.

20 to 15. 20 to 15, for the love of God. Okay. 15 to 10. 14. All right. 12. 11 for my elemental.

What? 11 for my elemental. You're not? No. Okay. All right. Ten to five. Six.

Six. Oh, six. Oh, six. Oh, we are. Book. So, he's up. Top of the round. As the large Forge Guardian stands with its giant Runeblade before it.

No. First of all. You're up first. What are you doing? Make peace, make peace. When the DM smirks like that. I'm going to bake a pie and deliver it. Okay, I'm going to run back towards that red crystal.

That worked in Customized a Dragon. No, 20, 20, 30. Oh, is the shit out of that. I'm going to run that direction, and then I'm going to ... Uh, Solution to do that.

to do that. I'm going to hold my attack till his attack. Okay, good to know. All right, that ends Percival's turn, holding his action to attack when it attacks. Vax, you're up. Oh, geez. You know what I tell you what I'm going to do? I'm going to run over to right next to Keyleth. All righty. Oh. Excuse me, 20, 25, 30. That's about as far as you can get on. Right, right. I will use my, hmm. I know what I want to do here.

No. No. Bob. Is Percy within 30 feet of me? Percy is, yes. I am going to cast Blese on Scanlan, Keelith, and Percy. Okay. What's that do? You just get about me anymore. That gives you... I gave them back.

I gave him back. A slight way. You're just so, you know. You bless up to three creatures of your choice within range. Whenever a target makes an arrow or a saving throw before this spell ends, the target can roll a D4 and add the number. Yep. So you three- Attack roll or saving throw?

Yes. You get a D4 to it. D4. And then I'm gonna- That's my action. I have bonus action. And I'm going to This is an intimidating mat.

I am going to roll backward and sit underneath my sister and her judgmental loss. Okay. So you're gonna dash over on your heart? At the top of my turn, I'm gonna have fired. That's how she propels the broom. It immediately catches your butt on fire, surrounded by methane gas. You take four damage.

Reduced a two because the damage. And you're on fire, yeah. This is really intimidating. The crystals are glowing and it makes me, it makes me... Your crystal red tank of guardian. Yeah. No. Not cool.

Steps. Steps. Leaps. Oh, no. Fuck yourself! Wow! It just the worst day. It just lands in the center.

Look at him winding up. This is awful. With his legs down kind of straggled to the two sides of the . And it's going to go into a blade storm and just spins around in a white arc. Okay. So if he's going to do this, I was holding my attack. I'm taking my attack now.

Right where this happens. He has no face, doesn't he? Currently, you do not see a face. There's no face. So if I were to make a head attack, that would probably be really goddamn useless. One way to find out? One way to find out. Well, he has a head.

You can have a face and not a head. He doesn't have no eyes. Maybe the mask, or maybe it's a mask. Maybe it's a mask. Okay. I'm going to take... Maybe it's an illusion. Oh, buddy.

I agree. Speaking of, did you... Blades storm? Did you custom, like, mess with this figure? You did, didn't you. Just to cover the face. To hide his shame. And I can...

Do I add the D4 to this if I so am inclined, or...? Yes, as part of the... And I can do it every time, or... Every attack, yeah. Oh, wow, this is so nuts. So, first attack. A D4, yeah, yeah, yeah. Out of curiosity, does it keep my misfire if

Does it knock me out of misfire, technically? It's still rolling on the D20. God damn it. Okay, let's put that away then. And let's take some psychic damage, because that's funny. Oh, that's great. Okay. Oh no.

Yeah, so let's, that's 142. That's cool. Ow, I'm going to put that down and get a bigger gun. And try that again. That blows that grit as well. Much better. Okay, good. No, it's not. Oh my God. Oh my fucking God. It's just doing it. Never mind.

I'm going to blow the rest of it. I'm going to lose the end of my turn trying to fix on my guns really quickly and just do a quick clear-out, which is 12 versus misfire on the psychic, which will be... would be just got to roll better than that. And I do. There's that, 19. Clear the weapon, that's good. I cleared Animus Bad News is still out of commission. Gotcha. And that's my turn, never mind.

That was your help. So as the blade storm, it does a large sweep all the way around it with the blade, hitting everything within 15 feet of it. Is it an automatic hit or is this something I can do cutting words on? It's a roll to hit, but it would affect for cutting words, it would affect a single attack against an individual. Let me see what else. Oh.

Yeah, that just burned all that. Yeah, because each attack roll is separate, so it would affect one of the attack rolls. Well, I will, cutting words it for my attack. No, no, he's going to hit me no matter what. Who is in the path? Well, let's find out first. So it's going to be Vex, Vax, Scanlan, and Grog. And then Keeleth and Percy are just,

of range as well as the elemental. So against Vex, that is a 17. Doesn't hit. Doesn't hit. You just talked out of the way. For Vax, 17. Nope. Two threes in a row. Sorry, Zach. Striking around to Grog. That is a 24. That'll hit. Can I try my peri maneuver? To What's the pair you do? You use your superiority, or I mean your dex modifier plus the dice. Subdice. Yeah.

He literally wrote sup dice. Yes, you can to reduce the attack fire. Yes. Somebody's been reading their handbook. I'm going to try it. Seven plus two, nine. All right, so you would take 37 points of slashing damage, but instead you only take, so take nine away from that, it would be 28. You get 28 points of slashing damage.

Nice. I'm not raging. Nope. You took 28 points. And you are pushed 15 feet away. For us, you are now, like right off. You get knocked over the side of... You're prone?

You get knocked prone off onto the edge of the platform there, just almost catching yourself before rolling off the side of the platform. It's so exciting. Holy pop, dude. Scanlan. Oh, my plan. That is a natural tooth. I have a natural two, that's a 16 to hit.

Yes. I will, it will hit, but I will do my cutting words. Okay, so roll a D12. Okay. D12. I rolled a nine. Okay, so that will miss you. So as it swings towards you, what do you do? I will quote Dr. Smith again, and I will yell at him.

You are a tiresome tin-plated tin-tinabulation. Wow. The second construct you've bruised the ego of today, I need you make a Constitution saving Joe, Rob. That's why? That's your one. That quote, that pink shirt? 18, and then minus two.

18? That's a deep kind, man. Your vision fades. As the curse takes hold, you are considered blinded at the moment. Whoa! Okay, anybody else? Lights out for anybody else? And that's its turn.

Wow. So you know, no big deal. Oh, G-Bs. Okay. Oh, oh, I can use Disengage! Yes, you can. So he doesn't hit me. I'm gonna move away from him.

Okay, where do you move? Anywhere you want. All the way across over here. Okay, well your movement with your broom is, how best is your broom? 50 is it? I remember because I don't have the thing anymore. Seven thousand.

I've got the out. I know, Matthew. I've got the out. I've got the apple seeds get there first. It's like, I think it's like 40. Probably. I'm flying, 50 feet. Look at that.

You get it soon. Andalogue. Phthalo. 50 feet, I'm writing it down right now, okay. 25, 30, 35, 45, 45, 50, you can get right over, right above where Percival is. Okay. So is your bonus action, disengage, your movement to get there. What are you doing now?

I'm gonna, um... I'm gonna attack him. Go for it. That dice attacked me while I rolled it. It was a 23. 23 misses. What? Balls, mother pitch.

23 misses? Yeah. You strike the armor on the side of its body, and the arrow just disintegrates on impact. You see the bits of it catch flame from the nearby heat. Oh, lody. Okay. There's gonna have to be... Okay.

I thought because he was big, maybe, but is he covered head to do that? Is he covered head to toe in armor? Do we see any weak? He's made of what looks like solid stone with pieces of metal armor around the body. Pretty weak. Okay, so I'm gonna attack him again, but like in his neck.

That's good. That probably hits. 18 plus 14. That'll hit, yeah. Okay, I didn't want to do the map. What is 18 plus 14? 32. 32.

Oh, Jesus. 17, 16, 17. Is he, do I get sneak attack? He is in base to base with your brothers. So yes. Wait, that's lightning one extra lightning damage. And then, oh goddam seven plus nine sneak attack. Okay, so the total on that is?

17 plus nine is 26, 27. Got it. Almost 26, yeah. Plus one lightning damage. Right, okay, yeah, there you go. All right, cool. So the first arrow shatters, the second one you manage to strike, and it embeds itself in the stone and just kind of sticking out.

It's hard to see if it had made much of an impact. But that ends your turn. That brings us to Scanlan. Me? Yes. Oh, Jesus. See this thing's big and scary. I can't do anything.

On the top of the staircase next to the Water Elemental and Grog, who's currently on the ground, screaming that he's blind. The entity's about 15 feet away from you. You're just out of range of its blade, and it's kind of, it's just an intimidating thing to have that close to you. What are you doing?

Yeah, of course it is. I'm not dumb? Yeah, super intimidating. I will, I will, So how far is he from me? He's about 15, like 16 feet from you. Real close. Jesus.

You're just at a range of the blade. Your eyeline with his wang. Well, no, actually, sorry, no, because it did hit you. So in the edge of there, you are within 15 feet of him, yeah. Okay. I will just not knowing what to do. I will... I'm looking at my spells.

I got nothing. I will just blast him with a lightning bolt. Level 3 lightning bolt. Level 3 lightning bolt. Okay. So go ahead and roll that. 8D6 points of damage. Yeah, I'll do level four, so 9d6, I suppose.

All ready. So that is a natural 20. So that's the advantage in the saving throw. However, it's dexterity. Bonus is nothing. So it's a straight 20. Your spell DC? 22.

22, so it does not make the save. So it's 34 points of damage. 34 points of damage. four points of damage, lightning damage to it. Perfect. The bolt, hits it and seems to arc through, and it's faceless head slowly shifts to face you. Oh shit. Jesus. I'm within melee range of him, so if I move I will get hit, yes? If you move out of his melee range, you will, yes. Okay.

You get attacked. Doesn't mean if you'll get hit, but. is, Greg, you're okay, right? You're not dead. I'm blind! Okay. I will... It's very hot. What?

Very hot. On the ground and I'm blind. I don't know what to do about you. I'm sorry. I'll inspire you, I guess, right? Because you don't need health. Yeah, great, thanks. Sorry.

All right, I'll inspire. I'll inspire him, I suppose. Okay. Sorry, Grog. What do you say? Oh, sorry. I will pick up my flute and I will sing, You like it when my flute goes.

Baby make your booty glow. Skin, I know you want to show. My song, song, song, song, song. Cisco. It's Cisco. Take you D12. Thank you. All righty.

So that's your bonus, your action. and you're gonna stay where you are, or you want to move? Yeah, I'm gonna stay where I am. Okay. Ending that turn, it comes to the elemental. Actually, no, sorry, at the end of Scanlan's turn, he's gonna go ahead and use legendary action to make a run blade strike against Vax,

who's right in front of him. That is a 22 to hit. And this straight-up attack, yeah, I believe that hits. Yes, it does. Okay. Wait. Hang tight, buddy. Wait. I'll use my last luck of the day on him and he has to rerow.

Wait. Wait. That is a 19. No. No? Well done. So as the blade arcs overhead towards you, you just barely duck out of the way. Slams in the ground sending shards of stone and metal up in the air around you.

You feel it kind of rain over your shoulder in the back of your head as you slowly pull away from it. Oh, nice step, Mama. Alrighty. Now it is the Elemental's turn. Okay, it's going to move into... over to him. And he's bigger than large. So he's just going to do a multi-attack. He's going to do two slam attacks. Plus seven a hit.

Okay. Oh. One's a natural one, the other is natural 18. Okay. So one hits. Two to eight plus four. What was the attack? Eighteen plus? 18 plus seven. seven. Okay, so it would be 25. 25.

Okay, that hits. Are the creature's attacks considered magical? There are two bludgeoning attacks. I mean, there are two. No wonder does it say does magical damage? It just says bludgeoning damage. Okay. So as the elemental swings out, both fits against it.

No effect. None of its attacks seem to have any sort of effect or impact on the creature. It's just like bludgeoning the side of a mountain. Okay, good to know. And he doesn't seem to be distracted or give two shits about him. Not at the moment, no. Okay. Cool. A lot of fires to put out, I guess.

Yeah, you know, keep him on standby in case people catch on fire. Okay, that MC Elementals turn then? Grog and Keyleth, you're up. Yeah. What did you find out? How about you go first? Okay.

Yeah. I'm going to do ninth level shape change and take a cue from Scanlan and turn into a planetar. Whoa. Do you have a big dick too? Yeah, bitch. Can you do that? Yes, I can. With shape change. Right? It is a challenge rating that I can do, right? Which one? Planitars? Yeah, you can. Okay.

You lose concentration on the elemental. That's fine. It's not like he was really... Doing much. But the elemental stays and it's now hostile to you. Right. Can't like dissipate them or anything. It's not for the planet's hard.

I'm the worst. I was going to say, can you dissipate the... I thought I brought it. Not really. No. That's okay. So if the planetar size is large, we'll save it for the purposes once again of it this week. Doty! We'll use Doty as the planetar.

So, there you are. But he says it in Swedish. Duty. Duty. Duty. So your wings extend. You are now on the planetar form. Okay. I am going to go up to Grog and do healing.

Well, is your action to cast the spell. So I can't do anything else. No. Shape change is it takes an action to just make the transformation. Next turn, you can take your action. It's okay. You can move. It's great. Grog definitely won't fall in the lava on his turn.

I was going to say, can I at least go up to him and grab onto Grog's loincloth to make sure his ass doesn't tumble into the lava? You could certainly try. I guess. Sure. Loin grab. So we'll say for the purposes of this, you glide over, and you're now flying up next to Grog on the edge of the platform. There you go. Yeah, sure. Sure, sure. To keep him from wandering off.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Is that into turn? Go out? Cool. Can I use my action to get up off of, for being prone? Okay, so have your movement. Not my movement, sorry. On to one knee. I mean, just in my mind, because I can't see, and can I hold my action until I can see again or until it's my turn? It's your turn. Until I can see it again.

I feel I could see it again, yeah. Okay. If I can't see it until my next turn, then. You don't get to save against this, does he? No. No. All right, so that ends Grog's turn holding his action. Yeah, crop the round.

Next to the, so both hands are on the ground. At the end of your turn, it's going to use another legendary action. Take another swing of the slippery little rogue paladin on the ground that it can't seem to hit. No. Natural one. Oh! Jesus Christ. Okay.

That'll be the end of that lock. That demigod does not exist in this universe. Percival. Your turn. So, first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to throw a, get a quick little heel bonus going because why not? Let's do a heel. So that's 14 points up. So I'm 156.

A little bit better. And that's my heel. I'm noticing that this thing's not. only taking magic damage. The hammer it dropped is underneath the planetar right now, right? It is currently dangling off the side along with another other series of tools. Looked with like tongs and other smaller blacksmithing accoutrement. I'm going to run in that direction. Okay. Okay. 10, 15, 20. And you're just...

Another stepping you're starting to hit the molten metal and rock. Both of Melmell and Rock, and there's not, I can't jump that, can I? You can try, yeah, make an athletics check. And not an acrobatics check, I take it. Not for the leap. Okay. But there are chains that I can reach there, or are there? There are chains you can try and, if you're leaping towards the chains, you attempt to grab it, yeah.

I'm going to attempt, well, I'm going to attempt to grab the, I want to grab the hammer. Okay. Are you using it to swing, or are you just trying to grab an hold? wrap and hold on. If it's available for a swing, I'll try for a swing, but if not I really want to get to that. I'll give you advantage if you're just going for the chain then as you're just kind of swinging across it. Go for it. So roll with advantage. Yep. Athletics? Athletics. Please don't fucking fall in lava. Natural 20. Yes.

Oh! Run swings across and... Let me move this a bit. Oh, no. Oh! I can fly! I can fly! I can fly! Percival just barely makes it across.

And if you let go with the chain, you'll land. If you hold onto it, you'll just dangle and swing in the center. This is the hammer chain? Yeah. So am I touching the hammer right now? You are, yeah. But it's not a magic hammer. It's just a really nice hammer.

And you just grabbed it. You can take a moment to look at it next round if you want to. Yeah, I'm going to take a moment to look. Well, I've got an action still, so. True. Do you want to do that then? Yeah, I'll use my action to like admire the hammer. Okay, making an arcana check.

I'm just looking for- As you're clutching the hammer now, it's kind of dangling down, you're holding onto it, and the heat is just burning up from underneath you. And you can see the... No. I have an arcana of seven. Seven. You're too distracted by everything going around you and the heat in your face, and you can see it above you, the black and gold scrolling on it.

It looks beautiful, but you can't make out any more details than that, unfortunately. God fucking damn it. Okay, I'm hopping off then and then that'll... I mean, like, did I have timer? You swing back, and then you swing and then you land. We'll say, because you'll do this. You'll let you do this. All right.

I'm over there. I'm hiding. Fuck. Okay. That ends. Percy's turn at the end of Percy's turn. It's going to use his third and final. Damn it.

What? Where did the big guy go? There he is. He's trying to kill the cricket. You did it. Did you get it? It shut him up for a little bit. You can't get the GOLM, but you can get the cricket.

Well done. All right. At the end of Percival's turn, it's going to use his third, final legendary action to try and get that hit on you. Suck, Gollum. Natural. Oh, my God, really? Making up for the last time. Good fine, give it to me, give it to me.

No, can you uncanny dodge and use your other thing? Yes, I can uncanny dodge, yes. Don't you have another thing? Just uncanny dodge, so maybe I can cancel out his doubling. Or candy dodge? Uncanny, yeah. Uncanny dodge halves the attack, so it'll just be right where it's supposed to be. Technically it'll lower him slightly lower than where it's supposed to be.

Really? It doesn't just have the doubling of the dice, but also the natural bonus. 57 points of slashing damage. On Dany Dodge. All right, reduce that. Two, three. With 23, 28 points of image and your vision goes dark. Oh no.

Wait, don't you have to roll the Constitution? That's true. Roll the Constitution safe. Eight, but not good. 14. Your vision goes dark. Oh! It hits you and you hit the ground on the searing peering pain hits your body, and as you get up, it feels like all the smoke just fills your vision.

All you see are occasional flashes of red, almost like you're surrounded by a miniaturized electrical storm, and you have no idea what's around you. Okay. So he's blind. Yeah. You're considered blind at the moment, yes. It's your turn. Okay.

I would like to cast a vow of enmity on this dick, which will put me at regular, because I would get advantage versus the disadvantage of blindness, so now I'm at regular. Is it a visual? That's what I'm checking right now. I've got it here. Yeah, spell castings a bitch. Vow of enmity. Creature you can see within 10 feet of you.

Wow. You cannot certainly see it. Wow. Shit, y'all. Wow. Fuck. Okay. Oh, no.

Instead, I'll use my bonus action to cast Hunter's mark. You need... Visual on that as well? Yeah, it'll say the components at the... Okay, got it. Okay, got it'll say like, I think you did use a little semantic. But if you're going to, it's not his turn yet, wow.

Okay, I'm going to use my bonus action to disengage. And I'm going to move 510, 15, 20, 25, 30. Okay. And then I'm just going to get the fuck out of here. 510, 15, 20, 25, 30 there. And that's it. I'm fucking blind and I ran, because I can't see. see shit.

Okay. Done. All right, that ends your turn. So now it's turned. Oh, man. Guys, this is bad. We haven't, like, actually done anything to him, have we? No.

Oh, no, I got an arrow. I got an arrow on it. You got an arrow which didn't probably do any physical, well. It was a magical arrow. See if it gets its plate storm back? I mean. You probably should have cast the mansion door before we start this. We can still do that.

It takes a minute to cast. Oh, shit. make this work. Oh, we can't even run away. I'm gonna finish me off. Look at this motherfucker! Jumping around! Why is he gonna kill all of us, dude? He can get all of us in a circle. All right, so.

Everybody. I've also controlled my whole mental. Sorry, I can't. Here's what's gonna do. It's going to, because you ran off, it hit you. It's not even focused on you. The head kind of turns and looks towards you, Vexelia. It's gonna make a run-blade attack.

attack. Oh, great. It's to you. That is a... What? That is a 17. It doesn't hit. Jesus Christ, it has rolled so many twos and threes and then 20. Good. So it swings and you dodge out of the way, however, hearing the skittering of a vogue behind it without even looking, it just back kicks behind it with its foot. Oh my god. That is going to be a 21 Scanlan. Oh yeah, of course. All right. So you take twenty-one 23 points of bludgeoning damage, and you are pushed 15 feet away from hit and knock a pro. Five, ten. No!

I need you to make a dexterity saving throw, Scanlan. Go on, Scanlan. Go on, yeah, I've got, you're blessed, so add 1D4. Oh yeah, that's right. Okay, that's terrible. That's 1d4. So this is, Dex is, so I've already rolled a, eh, a 13 plus a D4. This is not going to go well, is it?

Okay. D4 is another one, that's 14. Oh, yeah. Can you inspire yourself? Can you inspire yourself? What? Can you inspire yourself? Can I do that on a, this is not a check, this is a save.

For you, for your, let me go double check on that, for your Bartak ability. And how many more Bartik inspirations do you have at this point, by the way? 87. I haven't used, yeah, because this is our third five in the same fucking day. Well, you used one where it's

You've inspired Keeleth, and then you've inspired Grog. Oh, cutting words counts? Yeah, but he's level 18, so he's got like, what, eight? Then I've used four so far, and I have two more to go. So you have two more to go. So as far as your peerless skill, you can add it to any ability to check. Yeah, so not a save. Not a save, unfortunately.

All right. Bye guys. No. So what's the total? 14. 14? Is that including your deck save? Yeah. Oh, wow. Okay. So Scanlan gets pushed off the edge and falls prone into the molten metal blow. Oh man, this is so bad. That's a lot of dice he's picking up.

You are on fire. Sure, sure. I feel like you're filling a playground with gravel right now. It's like, which hoop. Oh, God. I feel like he's playing like Put Putt Pug golf with us. We're, well, I mean, he's strung us along on several battles to get all of our juice out. Yeah. That's why I feel like we should really maybe just rest. You take 53 points of fire damage Scanlon, as you are currently now partially submerged in molten metal and screaming in horrible pain. Oh man.

But it sucks, doesn't it, buddy? But with vibrato. That's when it's turn. Vex, you're up. Great. I'm going to disengage. Okay, so use your bonus action to disengage. Where you going? I'm going to go over to Grog. All right, so you fly over and where are you going?

I'm going to fly next to him and I'm going to touch him and I'm going to cast lesser restoration on him. Okay. So use action to cast lesser restoration. The, uh, so wait, less restoration effects. Heels blindness and deafness. Good. Just get to get to see with the 250 hit point guy. Good, good call.

He needs to be able to fucking see so he can Smith while we're trying to distract this fucker. So the blindness fades as she touches you? Your vision comes back. I can get you. Oh, right, then I held my action for that. Yeah, you did. That's the thing. Okay, so should I stir on the Smith?

Mm-hmm. Do we know, here's the question is how quickly, I should know this, how quickly can these things be made? Well, to be honestly, the process of each tramble is going to be like a 15-minute process. You can't hyper-smith in the battle. No, no, no, no, no. It's just the guy. Yeah. Okay. Fuck him up. Okay. Well, okay. Cool. I'm going to, do I have any more movement left? That's like, that's a 15 minutes if it's just a straight, multiple people helping type circumstance. Do I have any more movement left? With that, not really. You had to go, oh,

over an arc to get there? You could grab the hammer. Yeah, but what purpose would it say? I don't know, maybe, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's a control hammer, I don't know. I'm grasping at fucking straws here. So, Vex.

That's my last level two that I cast. I could try. Great, so I don't have any more. You've got actions. Restorations. Can cast it at a higher level, maybe. You also still have freedom of movement on you. You don't have anything else at all.

I got lost. concentration, but you do have freedom of movement. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So grabbing that hammer is definitely an option. I don't know why you would grab the hammer. I mean, maybe you would stop moving if I grab the hammer? Well, thanks. Is that all you're doing on your turn? I mean, that's all I can do. That's my action, my bonus, and my movement.

Yep. All right, so Scanlan. Oh, but I held my action until I had sight. Yeah. Correct. You have sight now. What are you going to attack? So you can't move. It's just your action. Could I try pulling the hammer? You're on the hammer, aren't you? I like how I'm off. Should I try pulling up the hammer and see if that does something?

Okay, I'll try and pull the chain up to grab the hammer. Technically, when you're holding your action to do something, like an attack, you can only do that, because it's a reaction, like a very quick thing. So, you basically, as soon as you get your vision, you're like, ah, he's too far away. I will rage, and that's it. I'll let you rage on that, sure. Okay. Because it kind of pisses you off, I'll let that happen.

Can you attack the elemental that's now rogue across from him? That's true. He's not within range, unfortunately. It's across the way. Can I turn around and look at the, now that I'm right up and next to the core anvil, is there anything that I'm noticing about it that would move or knock off or like a switch or a button or a... Make a perception check. It doesn't look just like a flippin anvil. Yeah, okay. Cool. That's a two.

Such a shit show. No, it's because it's minus. Oh, okay. Yeah. It looks like an anvil. A beautiful anvil. What the fuck? Like a primal built, ageless anvil. I never see shit. Hey, that's my magic trick. All right. So Scanlan, you're currently submerged in molten metal screaming on fire. Your turn begins, and you take six points of fire damage. Sure. You're prone and sinking into it.

What are you doing? Have you seen this guy? You should probably get out, right? Yeah. I guess, yeah, probably. So you get out of pride. I will, I guess, save my life and dimension door out of there. Oh.

Okay, your dimension door out of the lava? Yes, please. Okay. I have no other options. Well, no, you can block out of it. You're right next to the edge, so. Oh, I'm next to the edge like I could grab and, yeah. You could like pull yourself out of it.

Oh, well, I'll try that first with my action, I mean, my movement, I guess, right? With your feet. Yeah, so with your movement, you get out, you're like 10 feet out of it, you're on fire still, but you're no longer, like, melting in the lava. You're hurt, but you're now, you turn the corner and you can see the giant guardian is now currently facing. off with the rest of your allies on the other side of the platform on the far corner of the room, so you're kind of staring at its back. What are you doing? Oh boy. I wasn't expecting to attack this turn. I'll do the lightning again because it seemed to have some damage. No, you know what? We've got to block his sword, right?

Yeah. Shit. I will Bigby's hand and try to grapple his sword. Okay, you do another Bigby's hand? Yeah. And you're trying to grapple his sword. Yes. All righty. It was arranged. I don't know if that's going to work at all.

Let's give it a shot. So Bigby's hand. It's right. He's over here. To attempt to... Yeah. He's dead. He's dead.

He's dead. If we went by that tactic, he's dead and you all die. He's suicidal. I'll put him in. Let's put a man. He's... Yes, it's just in the night of like catering out.

First, we've been dead for a long time. Yeah, that's good. That's good, man. Awkward looking. That looks awkward. There you go. All right, so. I want to try to move Bigby's hand to like hold onto his arm.

Can I try it? Do you want it? So grasping hand. I guess. I mean, this is supposed to be against a creature, not against an item. Right. I'm letting you do this, though. It's fine. It makes sense. It's big enough. So make an athletics check using the strength of Bigby's hand, which is a plus eight.

So roll a D20 and add eight to it. Okay. Ugh. That's the 19. Oh, but I have a blast. Hashtag blessed. 19. Plus a D4. Plus three. So that's 22. 22. It rolled a 19. Yes.

So it is grappling the blade. What that means is, for the purposes of this, is all of its attacks or disadvantage until it can break free from Big be holding the blade. Okay. Big Benz, ha, oh. So I think that's your turn, unless you want to use a bonus action for something. I will use a bonus action to level two healing word myself. Go for it. Okay, I will sing.

I'm freaked out by the shape of me. I'm burned up and nobody can see. So you know what I'll do to thee. Give some health to my body. Oh, I, oh, I, oh, ah, oh, oh, ah. Damn it snap. All right, so take your 2D4 plus six. Okay, thanks.

All righty, so, finishing that out, it is the Elemental's turn. Son of a bitch. I mean, he's slowly, like, steaming away, right? Because it's, like, so hot. You're not gonna rule his lawyer me out of the Elemental. Let's see if you're right. So let's make a slam attack against both Vex and Grog. Vex, that's a 15 plus 722.

And then Grog, that's a 17 plus 724. So what's the bludgeoning damage from the element? Is 4-2-2d8 plus 4. Vex, you take 15 points of bludgeoning damage. Grog, you take 11 points of bludgeoning damage reduced to five. Sorry. Where are you at, big guy? One idea.

Oh, geez, that's wrong. Grog and Keyleth, your turn. Kielas, you now have complete control of your form. Now people wonder why I don't conjure that many elementals. Okay, I'm gonna go, and fly away since Grog is now fine, go over to my boyfriend, foo, foo, and can I kind of, would it be part of my movement

to be able to grab them and pull them away a little bit, and then can I still have an action, or would that be my action? He's gonna swipe at us. Yeah. All right, then I'm going to, fly by and do a healing touch on you, which you get 68 plus three hit points and you are freed from your blindness. Oh, I love you so much.

That's amazing. I love you so much. I love you too, boo. One, two, three, four, five. Will you give me one more? Holy shit. Twelve, plus four, fifteen. Right? No, 16, plus another three. It brings us to 19, plus another four, brings

22. 23, and then another three brings us to 26. Hit point. And you're cleared from your blindness. And then can I use the rest of my flight speed of 120 feet like my boyfriend to then fly away? Certainly. Which direction? I want to go kind of like back and over on this side. Yeah, a little bit closer kind of, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You fly over, as you swing, it glances kind of your direction and the reaction and gets some attack of opportunity on you. Disappant. With the disadvantage. So that's 20. What's your armor class in the planetar form? 19, so it hits you. 19, so it hits me. Yep.

Are you blessed, though? I'm blessed. Can I do that? Plus doesn't add to your armor class. Oh. It's attacks and saving throws. Oh. It's level one spell, guys.

Yes. So it hits you. Dammit, insidics. You take. Insidio! Insidio! I still jumped in that right here. 42 points of slashing damage.

Oh! And I need you to make a Constitution saving throw. Oh, no. You can't be blinded as a planet's arc, how do? That does get to one before. You are not immune to blindness as a planet's God fucking damn it.

No. There's no way to run away from him. We have to either defeat him or find a way to disengage him. Can't cast the match. So wait, is it con as me or con as the dude? I mean there are four chains hanging off of the thing, and we only know the hammer's attached to one. The tools, the rest are other tools.

Do I take the guys, do you take my plane to charge constitution? Yes, this is plus seven. Oh, that's cool. but I still have my warcaster ability too, right? So I have advantage. No, that's against concentration. So yeah, you will have to do that in a second. But first roll to see, this is just to see if you go blind or not.

This is the curse effect. Do you have true side and stuff? It's pretty good. I do have true side as a planetar. It is pretty good, so that's 27. 27? Okay, so you resist the blindness. Okay. However, now half that damage, which was just it was what?

You said 42. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. 42. So have that's 21. So DC 21, make a constitution. and saving throw with advantage. With the D4.

I'm good. 17 plus my constitutions do. Fine, so you maintain concentration on your form. Perfect. All right, that finishes. Keelis turn of Grog. What's you doing? Yeah, yeah, it's hammer time.

I'm gonna run. Golem hits me. So hard. What are the steps? Like 20. 25, behind it there. this side. Okay, perfect.

You can get it right against it there. Great. The elemental gets one swing at you as you go out of its range. That is a three plus seven, not ten. It hits your back and it's like, ooh, it's kind of cool. That was refreshing. Okay. And I'll take both of my attacks at the giant Deathbringer.

Yeah, that's good. Just reckless, not great weapon. Okay. Hoping for a crew, which so was not it. 31. Hits. Great. That's better.

32. Hits. Great. Is it both of the minus five? No, not great weapon. Just right, yeah. The nose hit. Six.

22 for the first one. Okay. I can't disarm him. He's a giant. Okay. And 20 for the second one. He's already grappled. His weapon is grappled right now. right now.

Yeah. So I don't know if you have advantage on trying to disarm it. He's gargantuan, though. He's already at a nukeative, though, because of Bigby. All right. And that is it. That is it? Yeah.

All righty. So that ends your turn at the end of your turn, Grog. It's going to go ahead and use a secondary, legendary action to swing back at you as you're hitting it. So you slam it in the back with the axe as angrily swings a wide strike towards its back, hoping to catch the side of your chest with disadvantage. That is in eight plus 14. 22. That hits. Okay. You take 27 points of slashing damage. Half. Reduce to be 13. 13. Can I use my Stone's Endurance to reduce that further? If you want to, or you can take a retaliation shot. Up to you. Don't forget your retaliation.

Yeah, I was going to do it afterwards. I thought you did like two hits backwards. Well, Stone's Endurance is a reaction. You get one reaction, so it's one or the other. I'll do the retaliation. I'm pretty sure it is. I'll do it. I'll do it. Double check. Okay. I'm not sure. Is it just you're like, we're missing at something really hard?

Essentially, double check. Yeah, like knocks all the hip points out of it. I feel like he's invulnerable, like, should we be trying to find, like, a way to make him make him make him? Yeah, you can use your reactions. It's one or the other. Okay, yeah, I'll do the retaliation. All right, cool. So you take the 13 damage.

Constitution, take me through, please. Okay. Oh, shit. It's the fucking sword. Right. You have inspiration. Thank you. I'm gonna need it.

You don't have a D4 on it. 20. Let me use my inspiration. 28. 28, you resist it. No way sure. So now you take your retaliation shot. Oh great. Reckless.

Great weapon master. That's exactly 31 minus 5, 36. 26. That hits for leverage. Nice. Holy shit. Holy shit. Fuck.

I would like to imagine that. 27. 27 points in damage. Yeah. That was a shit roll. Oh, I re-roll ones. Sorry. All right.

All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's over. Yeah. That's over. 28, 38. 38. 38.

38. There you go. So as you get to hit, resist the effect, you come back with a third strike, slamming it to the back, and you can watch some of the armor in the back kind of cracks. You can see bits of glowing kind of orange in places. It's still looking fine, but it's taking hits. Okay, okay. It isn't impervious.

He's not invulner. I wanted a stupid, water elemental. He's on death store, guys. Yeah, he's definitely . We got it. We got him. We got him. We got him.

I'm going to run all the way back to the back of the room. I'm going to put as much distance. Well, actually, I'll take my shots first. I've got, yeah, I've got Animus up, so I'm going to spend a point on it. Running out of grit on advantage. I'm just gonna try and take a shot on this guy. I'm just above you, telling you how hot you look as you're doing it. All right.

Oh yeah, I get a before on this too. Like physically, you're really sweaty right now. Your hair is so hot. You're like Steve Martin without the ukulele. I'm just so turn on you. That hits, I assume. So that's 1d10 plus 1d6. And then I'm also going to blow the last of my lightning into it.

lightning into that. Yeah, 100%. Do it. So he's just a Q-tip. That's 18 points of standard damage, two points of psychic damage. And six, six, seven, eight, nine. 15 points of lightning damage. Nice.

35 total in that shot. That's one shot. I'm going to take a, I'm going to take a, This is my last advantage shot. I'm gonna take another advantage shot on him. Here we go. Come on, Purse. Where's that snitch at?

That's, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 24 on an advantage shot. Just hit. That's what it is, 24. Yeah, I've already. So that's, here we go. That's 15 points of damage plus three points of seven points of damage, plus three points of psychic damage.

I should start taking track of this. Shooting again. No advantage. All right, though. 20. 20 does not hit. I'm gonna burn an accent surge and take three more shots. Go forward. And I'll just roll 3D20.

Actually, hold on. No, it wouldn't matter. 22, yeah, it doesn't actually. So here we go. Taking three shots. Oh my God! So this is great. I take three more shots. First one is 13, 13, 29, so that hits. If any of those missed are blessed. No, they did not. So this is going to be fine.

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It was 26. 26. All right, so critical damage. Here we go. Critical damage is a little bit. That's 11 points of psychic damage. Okay. And

9, 10, 11, 12. The psychic damage is double two, by the way. Yeah. points of normal damage. 20 normal and 11 points of psychic. Okay, so 31. And now the next critical hit. Yes. Yes. Yes. This means it's going to be... Yes. Here we go. Come on, you sweet chinchilla. Oh my God. That's a terrible roll. That's okay. Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve points of normal damage and six points of psychic damage. Plus. Eighteen. That's the whole. And so the two of those combined cut in half is what

he takes next round as bleed damage. Yeah, which is 49, so we're taking 24 points of bleed damage. I'm running in the opposite direction. Wow. You broke and busted. Okay, out of the point so you just run around this way? Oh, and that's two crits, which I mean I get two grits back. Wow, wow. I like, that way.

That's as far as you can get that way. I can't even, yeah, that's as far as I can. If you want to go that way, you'll have to go around in lava. No, yeah, I want to go around. That's as far as you can get there. All right, and as your turn, Percival? No. All right, at the end of your turn, it's gonna use its third and final.

Legendary action to hack down at you because you're up next. Bring it. Bring it. Bring it. Bring it. All right, so that is a 25. That's true. That was with disadvantage?

Yeah. Yeah. Man. Uncanny Dodge. All right. 33 points of slashing damage. Okay. Halfed.

All right, so it would be 16. And I want you to make Constitution saving throw. Oh, balls. Right after you're healed. I know. This is what you're gonna be doing. This is just what you're gonna be doing. That's not good.

You're out of Lutz because we use them all. That gets me to 18. 18, not enough. Not enough. The darkness takes over again in your eyes. It's still there in front of you. You know where it is, but your vision is taken from you. That is going to end.

That is now your turn. I just cleaned the bathroom. I hate holding my turn because I don't understand it. If I hold my turn, I can only attack when it gets back to me, right? Depends on whatever action you decide to hold. Can I hold my turn to cast vow of enmity until I can see again? You can do that if you want to. That's what I'm doing.

I'm going to hold my turn until I can fucking see to cast vow of enmity and attack. Okay, so you're basically, so you're expecting somebody else in your party to come and heal you? I'm gonna do fuck all without it. Yes, that's what I'm doing. Okay. All right. You can move. Can you move back up or come.

You can move and you can bonus action. Well, bonus action is vow and emm- This guy can get anywhere. He has shown us that he can get any anywhere on this map. There's no point going anywhere. No, I'm going to stay put. That's what I'm doing. I've already called it. Okay. That ends. So that's going to hold that. It's now his turn. Let's see if he gets the blade storm bag. Oh God. It does get a blade storm back. No.

It's good. I'm doing. Yeah. So it's going to leap and land up here in the center. Oh God. Big B-Bee. Oh, that also means it takes his bleed damage this turn. It does, yeah. So we're going to go ahead and put this up. Can anybody do an attack of opportunity? I do. Her turketerreter. Can I get a track of opportunity even though I'm holding? I have no idea.

You will, yes. Yes. I'll put this here to help. I'm so excited about how you're doing. Hold his balance here. This is like some kind of thing. I know, it's so crazy. He's been doing his yoga still.

That bigby's hand. So, so, take. Stop to stop. Stop. He's not even touching one of the. 24 damage. All righty. Should I do the attack bomb or the... So both you guys get a taxed opportunity?

Reckless, great. Get that bucker. Yeah. Bucket Leatherface. 35, 30, 30. Hits. Okay. 30, 30 points damage.

30 points damage. Nice. Nice. It takes the hit and lands. You go to make your attacks on. Okay, so I have him flank with Grog, right? Because he was right between the two of us, so down to a regular attack. Correct. Good. That is, that hits. That's 18 plus a lot, plus 14. All right. All right. Oh my God.

That is 11 plus psychic damage. Is 13 plus these fuckers. 13, 19, 25, 31, 32, 33, 33, 34, 35. 35. 35. Okay, 35 damage and the blindness fades. Yay! Why don't you do that? What you do? I'd say I'm super happy.

It's just, oh. Oh, it's concentration maybe. Yeah, maybe because I cut a bit. It seems less concentration. You get the sense that the blindness lasts until you hit it. Can I see now? So now I can do my held turn. Yes, you can.

Is he within rain? Am I in 10 feet? I'll just move forward a bit. Well, you held your action, not your turn. There's a difference. Fuck a duck! Okay, but he's near... I will say.

the minute you hit him and the vision comes back, I'll allow you to do it. Sure. So you're holding your old... Because he would have been within 10 feet when he hit him. Well, yeah. So yeah. Is he within 10 feet of grog? Would you say his foot? Yeah. Sure, yeah. I'll let it happen. I'm gonna save it then. No, no, he said you were in range. He was in range right when you... I understand that I'm just... I'm weighing multiple options, dear. No, I will cast Val of Enmody. I'll cast it out of my bonus action, then attack attack attack. You held your action as Valvin. To attack, right, to attack. Which was Valva, though. Which was to That's valve enmity and not to attack as well?

You can't hold your whole action. You hold a whole turn, you hold an action. Okay. So you see, I love- VALV-Enmity. So that's on, there you go. Thanks, there you go. Thanks everybody.

So as it lands there, it uses Bladesorm, strikes around as it sweeps, everyone in a 15-foot radius. Brog, Vax, Vex, the elemental and Scamlin. Oh, I can even get Scanlan, but he's so little. It doesn't just cut us air. Am I still holding onto his sword? With Bigby, you are. That's fine.

So he does have disadvantage. So he does have disadvantage. So against Scamaran, that is, avoided a natural 20 because of that. So that instead is going to be a 22. That hits. All right. Against Vax is a 29.

Yeah. All right. Against Grog. That is a 21. And against Vex is a 24. Ooh, that hits. All right, so. And the elemental.

And the edimentor. Elemental is a 18. It hits armor class 14. Yeah. All right, so each of you suffers 44 points of slashing damage. I'm an uncanny dodge. Okay, so 22.

And I've already done. I use my uncanny dodge in this round, I think. I think. Yes, because when he took his turn, you did. Yeah, so minus 44 for me. Okay. 44 to the elemental. We're gonna keep track of that.

Yep, I'm on it. Okay, and then 44 to 22 to you. And I need all of you to make Constitution saving terms. Come on, baby! Oh, geez, Louis! Come on, Elements. It's a blind elemental. It's a blind elemental.

It's not terrible. Oh, no. Nope, he could be blinded. He's got 70 hit points. He hasn't taken any more damage, correct? Oh, no. Oh, no, I'm blind. Who's blind?

I'm blind. You're blind is Grog blind as well? Grog is blind. But I'm in melee, so if he leaves, I can hit him. Yeah, and the minute you take your turn, you can just make a reckless... Blind. Wow. Blind.

What's your Constitution saving throw? I made a 23. Scamlin resistance. Plus me, plus fours. That's you and you and Scanlan. I still have my blast that I haven't used. So now Scanlan, I need you to make concentration check on Bigby's hand now. Oh, geez.

So you took how... Your workcaster, you have advantage. So it's DC22 because it was 44 damage. So you have advantage. Come on, Pinky. The first one was that poop thing again. Okay, that's not good. The second one, I only roll a seven, so I'm sure this is not going to add up to something good.

Oh, yeah, get rid of that dice. Save? What did you roll? Yeah, are you sure the poop is a one? What did you roll, Sam? It is. No, the poop is a one. What am I adding to this, Maddie? Your Constitution saving throw.

Plus 1D4. Plus 1D4. Okay, I'm still not going to hit 22. This is a check, though, so I could inspire myself, maybe? It's not a check, it's a saving throw. Okay, then it's only gonna get, it can max out at 20. Well, 20 is the max. That's what you're trying to hit the DC is 20.

Oh, okay, well, then I will roll my D4 and see if I I can hit it. Go for it. I only rolled a three, not a four. Oh. Oh. So good. Fades.

No longer holding the weapon. The hand fades and the blade is now no longer held back. The creature's looking pretty hurt, but it's still hanging in there. Yeah, I can't see that. I can see as balls. All I see is wicked Davy Jones. Yep. And in its turn?

Upskirting. Me. Not Davy Jones. Who's that? I am. I am. Do I remember where he was? Can I shoot in his general vicinity?

Yeah. Disadvantage you? Please shoot me in the neck. I thought he said going to shoot in his genitals. I can see up his skirt. I'm not going to lie. That's what I thought she's fine. Take a shot in his genital.

For her. Don't fight until you'll see the area. 21 won't hit him. Okay, so I'm going to try it again. Scrot or broke. God damn it. No, it's a disadvantage. So I don't, neither of them hit.

Both arrows just go wide, disappearing into the smoke of the room. Okay, well. You still hear the machine. Behind you. Okay. Okay. I'm gonna, let's see if this is. Nope, it's in action, because I'm a genius.

I'm gonna back up. I don't know if that'll do anything. I'll take a, okay. I'm gonna disengage from the, disengage, and I'm gonna back up on the room. Okay. Make a perception check with disadvantage. No blind ass.

Great, I'm rolling so good tonight. Shish, shush. 17. Because your train saved you, you pull back and you just managed to hear the echoes of the bubbling and the sounds nearby. You know where the stairs are and you don't fall off. Oh, I'm on my broom, so I was flying backwards. Okay, well that's the case.

Then you manage to drift backward. How far back do you want to go? As far back as I can without, you know, dying. Well, you're going to pull back and then slide. slam into the wall over here because you're not quite sure where that is. Yeah. We'll say you're there. Okay.

Wow. This is so fucking. That ends your turn, Vex. At the end of your turn, the creature's going to go ahead. The Forge Garden is going to use... Let's see. Don't say, let's see. I'm right under his foot.

I'm just right there. Yep. It's going to go ahead and use legendary action to attack with its ruin blade against... You are... Yeah, I was going to say. I'd say you are the heavy damage dealer so far. You are hitting a lot. Yeah, it's gonna go against you, just for this tip.

Advantage against you? Mm-hmm. Natural 20. Oh no! Why? What are you at? Okay. It's a lot of air mat going on.

61 points of slashing damage. Half to 31. 31. Okay. Okay. Cool. Cool. Can I tell you? That's cool.

It hasn't come back to your turn yet because you've already used that last turn. You are right. Yep. You can't do your thing. You can't do your thing. Yeah. You have you? Because you went last time to attack it. Yeah, and you took it as it hit you back in the turn.

Yeah. So that brings us to Scanlan's turn. I will cast another lightning bolt at level six this time. Okay. Nice. Where are you at? Which is 8, 9, 10, 11 D6. Correct. It rolled a 17 on its deck save. It has no Dex bonus, so that it hits without issue. So full damage. Okay. So 11 D6. 11 D6. Yes. Yes. Okay. That's only 42.

That's pretty decent though. 42 points of lightning damage as you blast it from behind. The energy hits the back and arcs through its weapon and its blade, and you can see like steam rising up around where its fingers grasp the handle. The leather kind of kilt kind of hangs at its sides is singed and burned from the impact. Well done. Above average. Do you want to move or stay where you are? How far am I from the thing? You are about 10, 12 feet from it. I will not move. Oh, but you're not blind anymore. He's not blind. I was never blind. I was never blind. Okay, that's right. He avoided it. You avoided it. But me hitting it for it, it doesn't unblind someone else, does it? Nope.

Oh, yeah. Okay, I'll just healing word myself again, I guess. Okay. Mm. Mm. Two D, what is it? 2D4 plus six. Okay.

Aye, aye, aye, aye. Come on, buddy. At the end of that turn, is going to use second legendary action. To attack back this time. I'll add back this time. And since your blind has advantage, That is a 29 to hit. Oh, yeah, that hits.

This is within the same round, by the way. Low, yeah. Low. Low. That's okay. You can't die. You can't die. You're right.

You're right. You're right. Right? He can't die. Yeah, I mean, well, I mean, let's not test that. Let's not test that. Yeah, I'm not quite sure. That's all right. And if Scanlan's turn, it's the elemental's turn.

We also have a deathboard. The elemental's turn? Yeah, the elemental. Do you have death fool? No, he didn't take it because he can. If it's going to thrash whatever's nearby, it's hostile to everything in the area, and the closest thing to it's the creatures. So it's going to attack with disadvantage twice. That's a miss, and a natural one on the second one.

Come on! The elemental swings and is hitting nothing in the air. It's angry and crashing about. You are a shitty, shitty backyard fountain. At the end of its turns, we can use its last legendary action to attack Vax one more time. It's on sale at Home Depot. What is a slip-ins line? 29 again.

It's. Don't even bother I'm unconscious. Okay. So you're, yeah, you're 1126 points of slashing image. Okay. With that, you are unconscious and unconscious. Oh no. Okay, okay, we're good, we're good, we're good, we're good, we're good, we're good.

You got this. All right. So that brings us to Grog and Keel's turn. I'll go. I'll go. Yeah. Go first see if you hit him. I just, pignano swing, reckless.

Great Weapons. Okay, so the reckless. Cancels out, so it's a straight rolling. Single. Don't fuck me, Gil. Blacksmith die for a blacksmith thing. That's not great. That's a miss.

Yeah. 20 minus 5 is 15. Yeah. You swing and it hits air. Why have one more? I'll just make it reckless and not great weapon master. Natural 20. Oh!

Bill kind of. It's all fucking unfucked you real fast. That was a whiplash fucking. It's been so long since I've done this. I'm weird tonight. I don't remember how this works. Okay, so I double it. It's three times the thing.

Oh, man. For you, you roll the dice and you do the critical damage like in Millie Wood. So dice is... So it's 24 plus your bonuses. Which is 16. And whatever your axe... This is the extra necrotic damage, right?

Oh my god. You've been forgetting the narc damage this whole time? Croc damage the whole time? It's gonna be okay. The what damage is over? It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be great. There's a lot of math.

It's a big book. I know. I know. Those are too. They are. Well, now's the time to remember, buddy. Yep, yep. Travis has a job.

I mentioned it if they were on. It's all good. One, two, six. Necotic damage. Is that 24 plus? Sam, how many good points do you have left? So he's at 40 damage right now. Well, there seems to be some confusion about that question.

Four plus 16. So 40. Necrotic. I have it at 62. Five. It's 10. The overlay has me in 44, so I don't know. Plus.

Split the difference. Two additional D-12s. A 1, 51, and a 7, so 58. 58. 58 points of damage on the hit, and your blindness goes away. Yeah. Must be nice. Oh my god, the fucking necrotic must be nice.

It's all right. I forgot Hunter's mark for so many episodes. So this time is you swing out, it cracks in the the side of the axe actually wedges a few inches into the side of its thigh and rear region. As it wedges in there, you actually hear the first sound emanate from this creature. It's like deep, guttural, kind of vibrating low sound, and as soon as your vision clears up, you see it kind of turn around its head under its arm down at you. It's looking like you're seeing some damage on this thing.

Like Tony Stark and the whole Buster Armor, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Good about it, Tony. Put a certain place. The end of your turn? That's the... You took two swings. Yes, that's the end of my turn. Okay.

Do you want to be out? Keelith. No. No? Okay. Do what you're going to do. You're blind as well. Okay.

I'm, I see my boyfriend down, but I think he's all right. Hmm. He's fine. You're fine. Fine. I even, I even, good. All my friends are fucking blind. I turned and I go, whoo-f-vo-f, fly over the backs and go,

stop out of it! Okay, 1D4 slapping dead me. Yeah. So you... I slap a healing whatever into her. A healing touch. All right, so you heal the blindness. Delivered their slap.

So 6D8, another... Plus three. Plus three. Give me a D8 again. She had it coming. See? Roll one? That's not with healing, but 8, 8, 16, 17, 18, plus another seven is 25, plus 4, 29, plus 3, so 20.

32. 32. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Heal 32, and your blindness dissipates. Yay! All right, so you saw movement. I'm going to kind of fly back to where I was and patrol. Nice. All right there at the edge of the lava. Just keeping an eye on the battlefield. Yeah, and without his swinging range. Yes, you're not quite within his range, yeah. All right, that ends your turn. Percival, you're up.

Taking three shots. And that's a 34 to hit. That hits. Bless, bless, bless. Yeah, anything that didn't hit, I'm going to run a blast. So that's 15 points of damage. Five-point psychic. Nice. That's 24. 24 just hits. Well no, because the blesses concentration, right? Oh. That shit's gone, so no. That misses, that misses. That misses. That's totally forgot to keep rolling concentration if you on that. That's the thing you got to keep in mind. Burning an action surge for three more shots. Burning a grit for advantage. That's right, because you have another action search. So, advantage number.

Advantage number one is 17 to hit. That hits, 1726, yeah. That hits. That hits. Let's put that away. That's not helpful anymore. That's 13 points of damage, two point psychic. All right.

Next advantage shot is in burning all those fruits. In time, isn't it? That's a natural 20. Nice. So that's... Oh, thanks, Gil. Yeah, buddy.

Pop, pop, pop, Mother Burger. Gill's on our side. That's four, five, six, seven. That's seven points of psychic damage. Oh shit. That's 18, 19, 22. 28 points of piercing damage. All right.

Plus nine point psychic? Plus four, five, six, seven point psychic. All right. And that will half that damage next round. Right, which is the total of that together then is... Was a total that's a 9 plus 8, 17, 27, 20, 30, 34. 34, thank you. So it takes 17 damage next round.

On its turn, on burning another grit for my final shot. Okay. And... Is this grit can you advantage? Is that what it is? He can burn a grit to get advantage in a shot if you want. He's a lot of things, but he's so big, this is like my best shot, because his AC is so fucking... Get it?

No, that's 31 to hit. That hits? So that's... Do you have disadvantage on it? And that's 16 points of damage and one point of psychic damage. Okay. So it's your shots. And I'm running towards that fire pit, straight back.

This way? Yeah. You're going to have to leap over lava. I can't walk around it. If you want to run it, you go five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty, two. 20, 25, 30. That's as far as you can do. All right, there you go. All right, that ends Percival's turn.

That saving throw with advantage. Good, natural 20. You're fine. You're fine. So end of your turn, it's now the Forge Guardian's turn. Is he blind or is he still blind? Well, he's not conscious, and currently you are still blind, yeah. Okay.

Zero hit points and stable or one hit point in stable? Zero hit points and stable, okay. Zero hit points and stable, okay. Love it. Okay. I believe. That's how weird, yeah. Let me double check.

The stable view like you're not deleting out. You don't have to make the death saving chosen anymore, but... Oh, but you're still in contact. I could have been the... It's a huge difference. No, you're getting one hit point if you roll. We're not the top of the round, right? We're still mid round, correct?

Yeah, middle. Okay, cool. So you're conscious now. Cool. Though your vision, you open your eyes and you're still dark. Still dark? But you're conscious. Pass the Raven Queen.

All right. So, in that fact, the rule. Does not regain his blade storm? He's going to make two melee attacks against you, Grog. Since you've given it the option of... Word. Actually... Come on. Come on.

Come on. And then attack the water elemental. Just a little bit to land here. Not going to give you an attack opportunity. It's going to make one strike at you, Grog. And another kick attack at Scanlan. Kick a gnome. Nome kicking is a rude.

That is a... 31 garage. Yeah, it hits. I'll take the retaliation after it as well. Now that it's in the round. Oh, I remember that show. I love David Dunl. 34 points of slashing damage. Down to 17.

Thank you. And Scanlan, that is 28 to hit. That hit. It's. Oh no. Oh no. Twenty-four points of bludgeoning damage. Oh, no.

I will reduce that with cutting words. Okay. It's about to go down in his name. It doesn't matter anyway. All right, so reduce a roll of D12. This is your last part of inspiration, so you're done with this now. Fuck. D12, D12, D12.

Six. Okay. So take six damage off of that. What was the damage? Do I need to make the customers? No. I don't think you said. I thought I did, but I don't remember.

It was 20-something, I don't know. Yeah, it was a 20-something to hit, but I don't think you said damage. Oh, again, that's fine, I can't remember. Okay. You didn't. You didn't say damage. 25 points, so it's reduced to you take 19 points of bludgeoning damage, as it kicks you and you are pushed 15 feet back.

Oh! Oh, no. Past the lava. Past the lava. Like a story. Into the lava. Skipping across. Shit.

So. Please tell me you're not unconscious. So Scanlan? Yeah. You immediately are kicked back into the molten rock and iron metal. That is 61 points of fire damage. Oh. Gonna go under?

Tell me you're not unconscious. I'm un-conscious. In the lava. You got to get a mount. Scanlan is not on fire and just shh. and just T-800 into the end. Can I take my retaliation attack? You can't.

I can get them out. A reckless great weapon, yes. Are you, wait, but when's your turn? You already went. A bit, I mean, six-round turn, six seconds. That's more better. I can get down. 34 minus five.

29. It hits, well, damage, potentially. He goes before I do. 33. 33. 33. 33. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. 17 points of damage from your encouraging shot. And don'ts? No. It's looking kind of rough now. It's looking pretty rough. Shad up. Shadden up. All right, so that finishes that turn.

And if his turn vex, you're up. Yeah, okay. All right, I'm gonna, can I get to Scanlan from my position on the map? Movement dash action to Graham. 35, you can get to him, yes. All right, then I'm gonna pick him up. Alright, so you glide down, you grab his body, and you kind of lift him up, and you get him out of the lava, but that's as much movement as you go. Can I use my action to...

Oh, God. It's your action to grab and pull him out. Okay. Bonus action to dash? Yeah, can I use my bonus action to dash away? You can. I'll say you move half speed because you're having to bring him with you. Okay. I'm going to back up.

So you can get both of you guys back up, where do you want to go? Into the corner. Into the corner? Okay. 25. You get about... At least I got him out of the lava. I have had a jack-

Holy shit. Oh yeah, no. But that's it, that's all I can do, right? That's everything. That's everything. All right, that ends. Next's turn, top of the round. Scanlon, you immediately take fire damage

because you're still on fire, so you immediately fail a death saving throw. But I have some sort of death ward on me. You do have death ward on you. Oh. Oh. So as you go and reach and grab him and pull him up, the death ward flickers on and he comes back to one hit point.

hit point. And you pull off to the side. As soon as his turn comes up, he's on fire. He takes 10 points of fire damage and now goes to zero. At least he's not in fail. The death ward is expired. Point of clarification, we're at the top of the round, so I just went from one headpoint to two hit points. With deathboard? Yeah, with that's so in fact sure. Well, it's the top of your turn, so yeah. I think you can change so much water just now. So I'm safe at two. No one can touch me. Yeah, yeah, you're all good.

Yeah. Let me know if he hits me. Okay. All righty. So that brings this from Schone's turn to the Elemental's turn. The Elemental is just going to go ahead and... This overlay thing's pretty cool. Look that, right?

It makes remote play not quite as removed. Can we have that, like, a hologram version of that in front of us all the time? Yeah, yeah, right here. Oh, the over-the- yeah, counting our hiplings for us? That we can see, I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 13 against here, all the class does not hit. No, it does not hit.

And 14 does not hit now. Hey. It has the blindness on the elemental is fighting it up. It's super cute. All right. All right. Ending that, Ellen's turn is now Grog and Keyleth's turn. I'll go.

I'll go. Go. Turn. Straight at him. Reckless. Great weapon master. All right. That's going to be enough. Come on, crit.

Nope. Actually, technically, sorry, before we get to that, at the end of its turn, at the end of the elemental turn, it's going to go ahead and strike you with its blade. Okay. I'm going to keep that roll just in case something. No worries, that's safe. That's a 27 to hit. Do what it does. About 10. This is a very... We have to have more fun. We can just do an enormous amount of damage when we need to.

36 points of slashing damage. Reduced to half. That's... 18? We can do something. And make Constitution take it there, please. I know you're running out of human. I have four as my planar, so I've got two more of those that I just did. Gill. Gil, go, gal, gal, gal.

That'll be fine. I'm sorry, I get tapped. 24, I hope. That's fine. 24, yeah, you resist the blindness. So your turn. Unabated as you were before. Right, minus five is 31 to hit.

Yeah, that hits. Jesus. It was a great role. And the second one is, that's pretty big. 16. 34 minus 1. 5 is 29. That hits, yeah.

Both do damage. Let me do a little role play here. Oh, Bibi! 17 plus 10 is 27 for the first one. Oh, no, no, I'm sorry. That was a 1, so I'm gonna re-roll it. 5.21. 31 for the first one, 31.

One, all righty. The second one, three. Geez. 29. 29, and my fucking necrotic dice. Two, four, four more. They do. Like they're good.

All right. That into your turn, Grog? That does. All right. Can I just move? I'm gonna stay in A-Lay, but I just wanna come over here and decide to, decide to golf swing me into the fucking lava river. It's gonna go and use.

going to use the second legendary action to attack you as soon as you move around. It's going to sweep low and attempt to just try and cleave you in half. Keep an advantage against you. Really? Yeah, it's fair. Natural 20. Oh! Knock it off! That reckless attack man. He gets advantage in all its attacks against him.

That's true. That's the reason I roll so high, most of the time. 10 and 8. Is there about 12? Yeah, you kill them before they can retaliate. Yeah. Then there's the 19 on the second one. 73 points of slashing damage.

What? It's not divided by two. It was a 10, 8, and a 12. What was it, 76? So that's 30. Are you okay? Seven? No, it's 8.

It's 2030 times two, 60 plus 13, so 73. So half of that would be 36. 36, we'll say. 35 points to slash an image and make a constitution same and throw. God fucking damn it. Yeah. 24. 24.

26 minus. Just this thing is still. Wow. I can still see? Yes. Yeah, you can still see right. All right. Okay, okay, you can still see?

Everyone's good. Yeah, I can still see. You're up? Everyone's up? Okay, I'm going to... Scanlan's dead or unconscious. You're with him, he's fine. I'm going to fly over and, uh, huh?

To him, 120 feet. Yeah, you can get there easy. I've got a five-foot reach range. And when I do my multi-attack, that's a little-attack. Okay. My planetar. Already. So two hits with plus two. I'm going to do Gill and Ha ha.

Captain Planet. He took on three fights in the same day. Jesus. God damn. Oh! Okay, that's a natural 19 on one and a natural 16 on the other plus 12 for both of those. So for the 16 we have 20. Yes, both hit. Okay. Okay. And then for both of those, 4 Ds.

6 plus 7. And then an additional 5D8 gradient damage. Correct. Wow. So get that. Yes. Okay, so for the D6s alone.

Okay, that's six plus four, that's ten, plus another five, fifteen, plus three is eighteen. Eighteen plus seven. So that's... Twenty-five? Uh-huh. I'm just doing the D-6es. Twenty-five, and then not as great the second time. You were all those?

No, not in this point. Not for this only elemental damage. So five, six, seven, plus another seven, so 14. 14, okay. And then now 10D8 radiant damage. And then the eight radiant damage. Okay, you just roll these twice. Okay, so the first one.

Okay, 10 plus seven, so 17, plus another seven, is 24. 24. The next set. Radiant. And then six, seven, eight, nine, ten, seventeen, nineteen, damage, radio damage. How do you want to do this?

Across the room, when you're, you know, just rushing towards it and strike out towards it. What do you want to do? Oh, God. Okay, okay. As I look around, see all my friends blind and kind of running around insane, I'm just gonna go, And fly across the field and just come down with a big radiant strike and try and evoke in the back of my head.

Hallelujah. As you arc down with your weapon, the holy divine energy spraying off of the strike. The arc slams into the center of the guardian's chest. And you watch as the armor expands and explodes, you see this core in the center that as previously has been guarded by its stone form. And there on the inside you see this kind of beating, red gem that just goes cold. Oh, I bet if we would have taken out those gems. No.

As it does, the Guardian, it drops the blade and walks to the side of the chamber, pieces of its armor kind of falling off the ground. You see crack parts of its outer form kind of breaking off in small chunks of shale, and it makes its way to the opposite side, just walking around carefully each of you, takes and places its blade.

blade up on this stand on the wall, turns around and goes completely inert. It was like a trial you had to be able to beat him in order to forge here. I'm putting Scanlan out. Okay. Because he's still on fire. Scanlan is still on fire. Scanlan is not on fire anymore. Is he unconscious still unconscious so I'm going to cast mm. Just going to roll. Mm.

Your wounds, yeah, cure wounds is at level one because that's what I can do so I'm going to cast care winds on him to just bring him back alive. Okay. And then I fly over and do my other healing touch on fast. How many healing touches does he have? No, wait, wait, wait. Wait. No need.

Wait, wait. Wait, wait. So six points, Scanlan, that's what you've got. Yeah. The massive gash across my entire body, as you stand there for like 30 seconds, just starts to close. Oh.

I go over to Scanlan and do a healing touch. 68, three, four, five. Can you give me one more D8? Mm-hmm. Okay. Scanlan, you 14, 15, 26. You heal 26 plus three, sorry, 29, hit points. Thank you.

And you're cured from any d-thus, from any diseases. Is anyone else blind or rough? I think all of us. That's gone as soon as he's done. Yes, the blindness is faded. I have one more of these if anyone else needs healing. I mean, I'm in double digits, which is uncomfortable for me. Probably Grog.

Yeah, you're low double digits too. You're low double digits? Foof. Where are you at? 53. Oh, shit. Wow. I drop same thing into Scanlet.

Sorry, Grog. Three years of this game. I just got a skimps. I just got a skim. I got my hand and two. Oh, that's good. Two crits by that giant. Yeah, man.

That's reckless, man. That's the downside. I'll take it, though. I think it's worth the gamble. Yeah. 23 plus 6 is 29, plus another 5, 34, plus 3, 37. 7.

You get 37. That's great. Yeah, the first part of this fight, he was sucking. It was like 2, 3, 3, 2, and then. And then he picked up? Yeah, he caught up. That's good. Okay, I'm looking at me.

All righty. So in the silence, as you guys take a moment to breathe and recover, the uncomfortable heat in here is sweltering. The guardian is motionless across the forge. The blade is set up against the wall, now obscured by the smoke that's still billowing up across the back wall. Getting a better glance around, you can see like a lot of the wall. you can see a lot of the soot in black that has kind of gathered in the upper areas of the ceiling, the ceiling which is about 50 feet high. There you see faintly glowing and obscuring the air above it, the core anvil.

The chain still held taut as the various blacksmithing implements hang dangling off the sides of the central platform. Well, that was a bitch. What you say, we just cut to the chase and hammered the shit out. Hopefully he won't come back to life as soon as we start. Is my elemental still going rogue? I will say at this point, because elemental took quite a bit of damage, that you guys quickly dispatch it. I don't want to have to worry about you guys killing a blind elemental. It's fine.

No longer blind, but still, you're just kind of, P. Keilis just goes like Mickey and Fantasia for a second. It's just like the axe to the brooms by the silhouette. You see the horrible shadow against the wall? Killing my creation. Hallelujah. This is a out of control, oh.

Scanlan's, so things splashes against a little, that's a flop. Sam, your inspiration is a long rest recharge, not a short rest, right? Short rest. Oh. Short rest. If we take a short rest, he can inspire us when we do this. Yeah, we should probably, if we can, take a short rest. Just breathe. Is that a half hour? Yeah, that was hard. I want to sit down.

Just so you guys can think about your process, know exactly what you're doing. We do need to discuss this. So you guys, while you're taking a short rest, you can heal up with, we with your... Sweet. Hit dice. All right. Also, everyone to make a Constitution saving throw, please. It's so hot in here.

Do I with the fire on the deathboard? You're fine, actually. Yeah, and me with the mantle. This is a little more than the usual man. Also, you have to make it as well, Vax. Just make it with advantage. Do I get with advantage as the mantle or no? Nah.

Two. Eighty-one. Fourteen. Nineteen. 14. Okay. Oh, God. Scanlan.

I rolled that poop thing again. So both Scanlan and Keyleth gain a point of exhaustion. Wait, do I get advantage? No. What the fuck? You do not know. It's hot. It's horseshit.

I'm sorry. You've got a lot of hit dice. I do, but still. All right, so it's a... So we get to add five each hit dice you roll too, which is nice. Your constitution modifier is. modifier is. Okay.

And now I'm up to the top again in one through two, fifty. Yeah, and then I get my heel back. I get my action surges back. Yay! Grip comes back on a short rest. I'm back to 144. I'm back at the temporary 137 due to the feast. I'm going to really quickly fix bad news.

Which is 11 I got a good. All right. I fixed bad news. There you go. And wow, and so many things just don't work anymore. Okay. Yeah, I just, yeah. What's wrong now?

Oh, just like I've burned all of my hexes burn, my spider climbs burned, my diplomacy is a long rest before that goes again. So you guys finish your short rest. Yeah, and then we need to. So what do you want to do in the chamber? You have the whole chambers at your disposal. What do you want to do? Oh, yeah.

I would like to go to the top where the core envelope is and start pulling up each of the tools that are hanging by. by the four chains. Okay. You find numerous sets of tongs. You find twisting tools. You find metal punches. You find chisels of all sizes.

You see what appears to be a form of leg vise that's laying at the side of the anvil, which you know immediately, weirdly for you. Leg vise is a small device that you use to clamp metal onto the anvil to work on it. You use your kind of foot to hold down with pressure. You also see the hammer that was chained to it as well. You pulled that up, which is very, very well made. That's like the dark black kind of hammer metal look with gold inlay. It looks like scrolling all across it in places. All these pieces of all these different tools are all chained to the actual sides of the anvil. Can I tell what material, the black part of the hammer?

is made out of, if it's rock, metal, some sort of volcanic glass. It appears to be metal. Okay. So these triangles need to be made out of platinum. You know how to do it, right? I mean... No, I know how to do it. Okay. So what do we do? I have the...

Well, first... I hand the chunks of platinum over to Percy to put the... I guess they don't have to be in... No, they don't have to be... We're going to have to smelt it. Oh. They're just going to be melted. So we should do that, right?

We have to start with smelting them. Well, I don't know. You know the process. I don't. Are there billows? Why am I in character talking to the dungeon master? What's happening? Oh, the meta. You know the shape that we're going to be. So you understand, based on the discussion you guys have in the design.

The platinum has to be smeltered down into workable bars. Ingets of metal that can be hammered and folded. You have to get into the chamber to do so. Because the smelting materials are in the chamber you just came from. This is the forging chamber. Oh, fuck me. We've got to get back. The other doors are still closed.

Once they're made into bars, and this is from the design that you recall that I even gave you, the beads of divinity that you've been given, you have to actually shatter across the anvil and then fold the pieces into the metal. Sure. Once that's done, then you actually have a solid blank

of platinum inlaid with the fragments of divinity. You then have to draw out the tremble tips, which makes them into a fine point, like a long kind of javelin-like rod. Then you have to use the vice, after heating the metal to twist the trambles. The actual design has them twisted because it helps conduct the divine energy to the point.

And then using the chiseling tools, You have to work in the runes that match and channel the incantation that the Scanlan's book has. It's a multi-process step that's going to require both of you to work together on this, since some elements of it are blacksmithing elements of it are tinkering. So we have to get into the other room first before we do any of that. Can I fly over and see if I can find any kind of apparatus that would make a perception check? He did the same. He did catch something.

Investigation. 30. Okay, 30. You glance up and you see, it looks like there were two chains that were originally downheld on a, it looks like a device, a crank device. However, the chain has been cut and is now dangling in the other half of a bit, it's about 20 feet up in the air. Okay. And I'm assuming that I'm not strong enough to pull on that chain, right? Well, I can try. I'm assuming. I'm going to try. I'm flying.

I'm flying. But you can't fly. Plaintiff. Oh, you're right. I can't. Yeah. You fly on one and I'll try to get the other one. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. You can try to command the guardian. So Planetara form, go and make a strength check please. I am looking right now. Yeah, what my strength is 24. So plus seven. So plus seven.

Again. Wow. You should just put that. Put that one away. Put that one away. That's a three. 10. Oh, I rolled a 13. You two tug on those chains and they are not moving.

Can the Guardian do it? Hey, hey you that was attacking us. Can you get those chains? Make a persuasion check. Really? Yeah, it wasn't a very persuasive thing to say. No, that's 14. That's 14. 14? It makes no motion change, nothing.

I'm going to take the... Yep. You got any Bigby's left in you? I could do one if we really need it. What's wrong with Grog? You can't do it? He could do one, we could get him up there. Can I take, is the end of the chain able to where it can pull to at least make it reach Grog or no? No, you don't have the strength to pull it down with that strength check, unfortunately. You're still too new to the form. Bigby one in the room.

The rest of us can somehow, maybe Vex can slowly pull Grog up to that thing. Or she could probably lift Grog up. That's right. That's right. Can I go and like- Yeah, you can lift up. Yeah. It's heavy as shit.

Okay. So you, it takes you a minute. It's just a slow pull. You feel like the veins bulging on your blue skin forehead. Just kicking my feet, which doesn't make it any easier. No. Doggy paddling. Maybe help.

But you do get up. I'm getting a dog over about that. Yeah. chain, make strength check. No, I'm not still raging, unfortunately. Can she assist him since she's like pulling. Can still be raging if you want to. I'm still angry.

He's very angry about it. I don't mean it. 23. So as you look at it, you grab the chain and kind of like in rappelling down, you begin to find places in the stonework and metal on the side and kind of hold on the other hand. Pull as you do, you wash the wall on the opposite side. Move up on one side a little bit and get stuck. Should I, Bigby the other? Yeah.

Yeah. All right, I'll have to do it at level seven. Oh, shit. Okay. We're so tapped out. So Bigby's hand appears, rushes up to the chain. Go ahead and make a D20 roll and add an eight to it. Bigby does a curl.

Uh, 21. As Bigby pulls the other side, the door, the wall opposite side adjusts in both chains now. Grog and Bigby's hand together. together, pull and pull and pull and slowly as you're both kind of pulling across the metal and dragging it downward. The opposite wall, oh wait. Opens up. Oh wait. What is this an ability check? Yeah. I'm exhausted. Bigby isn't though. Bigby isn't you just... Oh good. Oh good. It's a check for the spell, not for you. Nice. Okay, good. So together you both eventually bring the chain

to the bottom and you find one of a number of hooks on the floor area where you can go ahead and wrap it around and hold it in place. It's tenuous, but it's holding. And so the large metal door on the opposite side is currently now held up about 12, 13 feet up. It's only part way up right now, but that's all you need at the moment. Okay. If you're all in them, let go. Is it going to slam shut? They found large rings and hooks to hook them onto. Oh, I'm done. But I'm already darned out. We hurry to the other room.

We're into the other room. If we can get any inspiration too before we start this process. There's no inspiration. Oh no, he rested, yeah. You took a short rest, so he has his inspiration back. Let's just smelt for now and then. Yeah, we'll smell first. And now I can do my concentration.

Let me burn another spell. I'm doing Cats Grace on you. Oh, great. That kind of felt to the wayside before. I don't know what that is. You have an advantage on dexterity-based ability checks. Oh, that's the one. Thank you.

So, with that. Grog, Percival, you head to the original chamber before this. You find the tongs and some of the base, metallic ingot-based molds. You take in pieces of platinum equal to the amounts you had pulled it before, which was... How much was it? 300 platinum each. That was the face, the trammels. Oh. Would those little pyramids work to make the trammels?

Or that it needs more? No, no, it's a different. There's other molds there with this melting device. I got 4,900, 4,920 platinum. If I recall it was 1,500 platinum per piece, I believe. Well, I have, like, whatever. There's enough gold. So 4,500.

Sure enough for three times. You guys made the platinum transition when you were in that. Yeah, yeah. And the reason it takes so much is because even the natural platinum that's out there has some impurities in the process of the crating. So you guys have to repeatedly go through and burn and pull out impure segments of the metal as it comes to the top. Make sure you use some of those pyramids we made though. Yeah, so we don't waste that platinum that we melted into triangles.

Yeah, the first thing that went into is melted. Yeah. So Grog, you go ahead and make the blacksmithing tool check. Okay. This is with my proficiency bonus and my... Proficiency bonus, it could be dexterity for this. Which you have a bench. Which you have a advantage.

$1,300 per tremble? Yes. Of platinum? Yes. Okay. Okay, so we're fine. Yeah. Can you get your count?

Never mind, I can do this myself. Yeah, figure out what Dex Plus proficiency, whatever your Dex plus prof is. Oh, advantage, right. Dex Proff. Oh, look at that. Dex Proff. Dex Proff. 19.

Okay. Oh, do you want me to inspire you or anything? Do you mean anything? How long does inspiration last for? Up to ten minutes. Let's wait till the final. Final. That was with a binge, yeah.

Yeah. All right. So it takes you a good, we'll say 20 minutes or so, 30 minutes or so per ingot to get all the impurities out to heat it and to scoop it out. Eventually it gets you can form three bars of pure platinum to the level that you know the requirements of the tremble are. All right. So you look around, you don't see any areas here to cool the metal. cool the metal. You didn't go to good look at the other chamber necessarily to see if there was something for it. Maybe I still have the alchemy jug with the water in it.

You might shatter that jug. It's been like sloshing around though probably. There's probably everything we need in here if we take a look around. Do you need water? We do need. We're going to need water. Can I fly around and see what we can see? Sure. You glance around, there's the two machines over there that are still f-hm-hmm. Behind and in the center of the two machines.

you do see what looks to be a trough about eight feet on one side and three feet, the other, the width of it. It is empty, however. It looks like whatever water was in here is evaporated longer. I go over and cast create water. You managed to fill the trough brimming with cool, instantly created water. We got a trough! Back and forth, you guys take the molds with tongs and quench the metal and pull out the three. heavy platinum ingots ready for use on the actual anvil.

Yeah. So, now that you're working on the forge, you have your gauntlets on. The two of you walk up, and you have all these tools around you. To fold the metal, you're going to need the hammer. Yeah. So you grab the hammer. The hammer's pretty big. It's like a mall.

It's a two-handed hammer. And... I love this. So, you need the beads of divinity for this next stage. Who's got the beads? I got a bead. I've got a bead. All right, so you take the Ayn one, which is a faint kind of white-ish-gray glow, placed in the center of the anvil.

Go ahead and make a strength check, grog. Can I go into a rage? You may. That's even better. 25. 25. with a giant echoing yell. You bring the hammer down and you watch a flash

of bright, vibrant, white, faintly blue light, just flicker and beam across the room. All of you are first, I have to kind of hold your eyes and look away, and as you come back, the hammer is just on top of the anvil. As you pull it back, you see where the bead was. There's now a crushed dust of the same color, roughly about the size of a plate.

None of it scattered away from the anvil. just a crystalline diamond-like powder of the maramines. That's super good. Do we fold this into one of the ingots? Yes, we do. One at a time. One at a time. All right.

So with you holding the tongs and helping him, you take the hammer, I need you to make a blacksmithing tool check. That's off the dext, right? Okay. This is with strength on this one. Oh, straight? This is hammering the metal and holding it into the metal. That is a...

A 19. 19's fine. The hammering isn't too hard. The different things have different difficulties, and so the folding isn't too bad. So with that, you guys take the dust and you scattered across the metal and then hammer and fold. Hammer and fold. Take more and scattered across the metal as it's still heated. Hammer and fold. Then go and take it off to the side to two of the coal areas and you watch as the furnaces burn and heat the metal up again. You bring it back up to the steps and hammer and fold. And hammer and fold with more of it until eventually you've managed to hammer in over the next 20 or so minutes. Both of you just sweating feeling a little bit of stiffness and soreness in your arms just from this process, but you've been far worse. You eventually... We're just sharing them on the side of the...

Yeah! Good fortune! You get it! Hold that metal! You eventually build a rod blank for your first tramble using the bea divinity from Ayun. That is complete. Nice. So, who's next?

Whose bead is up next? Oh God. All right, here we go. All right. So you take the faintest. kind of yellowish, glowing beat of divinity from the dawn father. Place it onto the end. They'll make another strength check, please. Do me get, does he need inspirer? You're doing all these strengths. Persistent rage. I'm just, I'm just rage in balls.

Do you still have an inspiration on you right now? I do not. So, I'm Scanlan. Do you want me to inspire you? Yeah, yes. All right, I will, I go to Grog and I tell him, Grog, I'm going to tell you some words of wisdom that I learned from a book once. a wise man said, the man who hast smelt it verily didst also dealt it. Ah, whizdom! Unparalleled wisdom!

So with advantage on you're still raging on this? Oh, that's amazing, yeah. 25. 25 again. Yeah. 17 plus 8. Both times you've hit 25, and the DC on this is 25. to shadow the shade here.

I like it. So with Pellor's beat of divinity, you slammed down a second time. This time you guys see a flash like you stare into the sun for a split second. The heat in the room grows even warmer for a moment and all of you uncomfortably, it's like being on the outside of a meteor swarm blast.

Would you all recall very simply? I feel blessed. And you come back and pull the hammer away, and pull the hammer away, and there you see the scattering dust of the Don Father's blessed bead. Collected line. Oh, it's good. The two of you then go ahead and take in the next ingot,

and begin, you heat it up, bring it back to the anvil, and begin to fold, scatter, fold, scatter, reheat, bring back, fold, scatter, repeating the process until you get all through it, I need you to go ahead and make another blacksmithing tool check. Damn it, I just thank you, that's grace. It's a 19. 19, well, this is strength still.

Oh, it is? Yeah, I'll tell you if it's extra strength. Oh, okay. Because you're just hammering the metal. He's turning it over. 27. 27, yeah. Without an issue, you guys manage to fold in your second tramble blank, without worry.

Bring into the third one, the third and final. P. Producing and placing onto the envelope backs. You leave behind there, the small jet black, kind of smooth oval bead. I reach into my pouch and I take out one of my peas that I got up. No, don't do it.

I just put it on the envelope. Don't do it. Get it off of that, Grog. Strength check, Grog. Raging. Still raging. Still raging. Okay.

So it's feration time. Grub. It's feroation time? Yeah. I mean, I'm going to use the dice. Oh, I see. Because you didn't use it before? No, I was I can use it.

It's a 24. 24. So you slammed down and you pull back the hammer and there it remains. Oh, okay. I'm just try it again. Try it again. Try it again. Put on my arms, really, so. I need a massage, yeah.

Help me, help me. I'm gonna run these muscles. I'm gonna on the other side. If you do this, I will give you something really cool. Really? Really cool. By who standard? Yours are by.

Yours. All right. Do you want to inspire him again, Scanlon? Yes, I do. I will sing to him. Pawsome. Platinum on thee, and get it on an anvil pour to sell. Platinum on D.

When you need a trammle. Take your D12. All right, Grog, as you try again, putting the large mall hammer up. No, come on, Gail. Come on, Gail. Oof, that's dog shit. Something really cool for you. Oh, no.

Yeah, that's not, we're not going to, I'm not even going to use the inspiration, because it won't get us there. Try it one more time. Can you try it? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. I would have to roll a 12 of a detail.

You'd have to roll a 12. Try it, though. It's up to you. 10. Oh, motherfucker. You slam down with the second hit, as it hits the reverberation of the impact, fills the room. You pull a hammer back, and there it remains.

But you do see a mild crack through its form. I'll try one more time. One more. No inspiration. I like, if you fuck this up. Can I do anything to help him? You probably got three tries and then it's like ruined. No.

No, no, let's just do it. Can I give him guidance? Nope, that's a. Do you get any more inspiration scumman? That is a surprise. Yeah, it's all right. We might need it later. Hold on, let me try it without the inspiration.

But it would get rid of. Without the inspiration. If you give him guidance, he'll give him an additional D4, he gets that. But it would get rid of his cat's right. Oh, yeah, yeah, just concentration. Yeah, yeah. Let me do it straight out.

No, no, no. No, but give him. Give him... It's a cat trip. I'm gonna give you guidance! I'm doing it! Guidance! Guidance! So as you're doing this, Kila comes it behind and then touches you. Come on, Grog! Come on! That's my guidance. I didn't need it. 25 on the dot. Oh, good. Good.

What could have been only two trammels. Oh my god. You barely managed to succeed in properly shattering and not ruining the third bead. As you slam all of you for a second, see nothing but darkness. All the light, all the flame, even the heat of the room, goes jet-cold for an instant. Oh, it felt good. And all of a sudden, the light of the furnace is flicker back on you. The machine once more, the engine slams and light filters back. You pulled the hammer back. And you see a

scattering of what looks like darkened, cold obsidian dust remaining behind. I've never been, sorry, I've seen a 17-2. Oh, my God. Worked up, Lado. Come on. With that, you two holding the tongs, you take and fold the metal, hammer it. Fold the metal, hammer it. Make one of the black something checked. Go ahead and make your final blank. Okay, but now you've got, you can add these. You have guidance.

Is it strength? Or decks? There's a strength still in this one. You still have guidance. But I get a D4 on top of it? Yeah. That's great. 26, without the other stuff. Without an issue. So with that you fold and you have your three finished tremble blanks,

each one infused with the beat of divinity. Now you need to draw them out. And you can do these as one check for the three of them. So you go and you take these blanks, these long rods, and you heat up the tip and bring it back, you holding with the tongs, you begin to, at an angle, hammering it against the top of the anvil to eventually bring it to a gradual point.

I need you to go ahead and make a blacksmithing check. This will be dexterity, because this is less of just hammering. This is a little more careful manipulation of the metal. Did you get a cast, Katzgras on him again? I can. Yeah. If you don't, it's not advantage. Catsgris.

Oh. Yeah, okay. Then I'll keep that. And then what was the guidance? Do I have guidance anymore? No, that's on, it's only on strength. Do you have one advantage or do you want the extra D4? I mean, I...

Oh, you get D4, so he can still add one D4 on this? No. Pick one. It's a 15 with advantage. It's a 15? It's... It's... Because the black's...

Yeah, inspire him. Well, you have to inspire him before he makes the trap. Because it's my dexterity modifier That's my proficiency bonus, right? Yes. For the blacksmithing. Yes. So, can I help with this?

You are helping with this. Oh, God, okay. Jesus. Yeah, we'll get to you shortly. All right. So as you begin to hammer it out, it's getting a little fragile at some point. I'll let you make one more check

so you don't ruin one of the tramples. Advantage. Advantage. Advantage and inspiration. Sure. Yeah. Inspire them. again. All right. He needs as much as you can give him Scanlon. This is dangerous. I will give him every inch of myself.

Oh, so that's one. So one? One by one by one. Yeah. That's better. Okay. 20. That's a 24. So use the inspiration. Yes, you should. Just use it. 29.

29. So this time, seeing where the imperfections were and the hammering initially did and curving and bringing fragility to one of the trammles, you double back, heat up, and correct the mistake. Over the next 10 minutes or so, you both carefully work to bring each two what seems to be a razor point at the end of these large platinum javelins now. They are thicker on one side and come to an impossible point in the other. You have three of these base trammels now complete. Fuck. We have to put the run, now we've got to put the runes up.

And we got to twist them. So you bring the twisting. This is where you bring up the leg vise. So you go ahead and you clamp it in there. This is without your help. Yep. This is now you taking and heating the metal and twisting it as you go. So make another blacksmithing up.

I can guide you. I can do nothing else. This is a dexterity. Oh, it's a dexterity still? Then keep the advantage. That's grace? Yeah. Give him advantage.

I'm tired of this. Does he have any more inspiration? Sure. That's pretty good. Yeah, keep it firing. You already rolled. Oh. Wow.

Yeah, but he hasn't announced it. He already rolled. Oh, really? Yeah, you got to have you inspired first. It's a 26. It's okay. Okay. So with that, you one by one, slowly using the clamp, twist, heat up, grab clamp, twist, a quick twist, and continue this process for each channel as everyone looks on with baited breath.

Okay. The deafening sound of the engine light. contraptions just filled space like a heartbeat. The rhythm kind of gets into your muscles and the aches begin to fade as you focus on the hammers in unison with the boom. It becomes this very kind of primal forging of the world vision to see Grog atop this anvil for over an hour at this point now just sweating and hammering away at these trammels. A vision of the all-hammer once long ago forging weapons of old, long forgotten and lost. Now Grog sits here

here, forging the means of sealing, one of the biggest threats to the Prime Material plane by himself. As you finish twisting the final trammel, you pull it up, crunching them in the water that you left behind. As you pull up, you can see as the steam rises, the three twisted javelins of pure platinum ready for the final scroll. Fuck. Okay. Wait before we give me the cool thing. I don't want to do that with everybody here. I'm not lying to you. It's really cool. I'm not shitting you.

I'm not shitting you. Later. I promise. I promise. So now. What do you, I can. Well, let's see. What am I? Where do I have to do? Yeah. Well, there's... The only hammer here is that mall. But all the chiseling and tinkering work takes a much smaller, more dilett. I do have the dwarven thrower, which is a...

It's going to have to be a smaller edge than that, like... Like what, a whisper? An edge, yeah. Like a teeny hammer? Can we look around for a little teeny hammer? Can we look around for a little teeny hammer? Teeny hammer. Teeny hammer.

I'll look around for a teeny hammer. 12 for me, so probably not so much. You're making an investigation check. Me too. 18 for me. Nope. I'm glad I got that roll out of the way. That was ugly. Looking around, all the other tools are...

Are big? All the other tools are for different things, but there's no other hammer. There's just the one singular giant hammer on the chain. Have you picked it up? Maybe it changes shape when... I'm going to try picking the hammer up. Okay. You pick up the hammer? I'm going to think about... I'm going to try and attune to it. I'm going to try and think about... So you take a bit of time to attune with it if you feel that you could try. Is it... I'm going to examine it. I'm going to kind of give it other than that like...

Make an arcana check. Let's make another archa check. Let's see what happens. Well, that's better, 21. 21. This is definitely an enchanted hammer. You take time with it and focus, and once you feel the essence of attumment

begin to drift into this hammer, you're unintuned from one of your other items. Uh, yeah. And you will it, the hammer actually shrinks down into a small light hammer, like ball peen hammer. Smart human. I'll drop animus for now. Is your coffee stained artifacts?

Oh shit. I dropped my travel on it. Aww. So, now with these tinier hammer in your grasp, you walk over and put the trammels on the anvil. You grab some of the chiseling implements, and the two of you together begin to work on. And this is, you're mainly just there taking the hammer

and driving the back of the chisel he's guiding the design because you don't know what vision he has. So you've done all the groundwork. You've built the structure of the base plate for it, but you have all the intricate designs in the head that I own imparted with you. So now you almost go into a trance with the chiseling tools and you have three in your hands and you're juggling tools and you have three in your hands, you're just staring ahead to watch Percival go from this focused individual to just staring off into space and his hands kind of take over and begins moving the chisels along each one of them almost too fast for you to keep up. And you get to the point where you're like whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, trying to keep up with him as he's just moving along. As you do, you watch as this intricate scrolling begins to appear and dig itself into the side of each trammle. He rotates it with the tongs. He moves into place, and gets the chisel removes it. And as this continues, it gets faster and faster and faster. I need you to go ahead to make a tinkering check. Do you want any guidance?

Oh, I'll take anything I can get. Cats grace is what? Dexterity? I will happily take cats. Oh, technically, that's a dex check. So if you have Cat's Grace, I'll take it. Grace, I'll take it. Is it a dex check? Yeah. That's what you gave to grog earlier.

Okay. Then I will give you Kat's Grace at third level because my second level spells are tapped. Okay. And so are now my third level spells. So nothing more. Nothing more. I'm just burning a higher. If you have any inspirational, I'll also take it.

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So the actual heat from the core angle is enough that when you hold the tremble against it, it gives it just enough a malleable edge for you to go ahead and chisel through it without issue. As you're going, it's three checks, one for each trammle. Okay. So, the first one. That's without inspiration, that's 31. 31. 31.

K-t-d-d-t-ting-king-ting. Over about five minutes or so, you finish, and grab one of the trammels and just cling to the ground, begin on the other. Slow, slow up, slow that. Try again. I think I can. Inspirationate.

I can, might be able to inspiration this because that was a really bad role. Both of them are the same. Both of them are two. Oh, God. Okay, so what do you mean? And this is not one of those things where I can fix. It's either good or it's bad. We'll find that. You might be able to fix it. I'm gonna try and add a little bit of inspiration maybe.

Come on, come on. That's not very good. That's 17. 17. Okay. The second trammel, as you're chiseling along, you feel as the metal kind of begins to bend and snap in one place. It's still one piece. The DC has gone up, but you get one more shot at that one.

Can I get a little more inspiration if you got any? Are you out? I have one. I've used five, and I think I get six. He has one more. Let's take another one, just in case, because Jesus fucking Christ. Yeah, the DC was 20, now it's 25. Okay. Oh, my God. If this fails, it's going to break a tramble.

Oh, my God. Please. I will happily take that inspiration, please. All right, I will... Gosh, I inspire you with some bullshit. No one has any other type of guidance or anything. I'm looking at, I've got nothing. No, it's a skill check.

I don't have anything. I just hit things. It's a skill check. It's not a save. I mean, I can try it in turn. Oh, wait, I don't get to add anything from the hammer for this either. No, it's just a... No. Okay. The hammer is allowing the process and take place. Do we need to do this right now? Can we take nappies and come back?

I think it has to be soft, right? Like this... You would have a whole other batch of inspirations in the morning. Yeah, but he's got one more shot at this, whether... I think we have to do it now, right? The trance is there, it's up to you. I mean, like, but like, give me one more inspiration if you can, and we'll see where we go. and we'll see where we go. I will sit up all night with this fucking thing.

I will sing one more song to inspire you. I will sing, here's a little song I wrote. It's filled with inspiration. No footnote. Don't fuck up. Well, I'll kill you. All righty. I don't feel good.

What at a time? What are the time? That'll do. That'll do. 18, 20. 30. 30. Good. All right, we have the inspiration for the third.

No, good, good, good. Wow. You managed to complete the scrolling on the trammel. The trammle is still noticeably fragile, but it seems functional. The enchantment will be channeled. So, second tramble's done. Final check on the third and final trim.

Come on, Jesus. Bucking Beckna. It's not bad. That will. So that's, uh, 32, 34. Oh, holy shit. The roll of 12 on the inspiration.

Oh, my God. With that, the feverish pace of the scrolling as you work across the final trammel, grog, it's almost to the point where he'll move the chisel to a place. You'll hammer, move back, and he's going too fast, and he has to go back. And while he's not been looking at you, the chisel will, like, cling multiple times across the side of it,

like telling you to fucking hit the back of the hammer, and you take it and slam it, and move along, eventually coming across each side of the spiraling trample, to completion. At that point, the hammer are stolen your grasp. You back away. Percival, you take it, and it's now the heated edge of it is kind of burning into your hand a little bit, and you just walk over and drop it into the trough water. Turn around, drop it next to the third and final piece. And I faint. And as Percival hits, he passes out onto the stairs, like half leaning onto the stairs. I'm out. I'm out.

You catch him. You catch him. Groggy, look at your feet where Percival left the last piece, and you reach down and pick up the three trambles. They're each, they're about that long, each of them. And they're just like these heavy spikes that come to a gradual, spiraling twist in the tip but just covered an intricate, beautiful scrolling of some sort of arcane language that you are unfamiliar with,

and you don't think you've been so proud to be part of crafting anything like this before. These are obviously too dangerous for this world and I walk over to the lava. Oh, wow. Fuck you. This is a step up from a fine leather boots, well. It is true.

And with the completion of the trammels, this leg of your journey now complete. Oh my God. We're going to go ahead and close tonight's episode. Oh, my God. We'll pick up this at Gen Con next to you, get our live show. Wow. So at Gen Con we're going to start with trying to get out of an active volcano. Well, I think we're assuming that we're going to take a mansion rest and we'll come out of a man.

Mansion rest. Can we just assume that's going to be? It's good for Jen. So we'll see if you want to take that point now, we'll say with the end of this episode, you guys take a mansion rest? I'm... No? No? Yeah. Do you have any spells left, Scanlon? Can you do?

I saved one level eight spell for such a thing. My boy! So we head into the mansion. And I technically have one seventh level spell. So if we want to go into the mansion and then I can plane shift us home, we can do that. Or wherever we want. That's true. So we can mansion, we can plane ship mansion wherever we need.

And if we go into the mansion, the first purple servant that hands me a salad, I'd behead, unless it's the go Phoebe foe. So are you going to long rest and then plane shift or plane shift and then long rest wherever you land? Plain shift and then long rest. Yeah, we'll figure out. We'll figure out where we'll, that'll be exciting as we'll let everyone know where we're going to be. If we're in the mansion, you can't see us. So that's the only thing.

It might be good to like rest inside the mansion so we can't attack us before we attack him. But we're going to go, are we just going straight to him or? We don't know. All right, Mansion. I will just be burning my seventh level spell at the top of the day instead of at the end. Right. So let's plane shift somewhere in Mansion. Oh, well, no, no, no.

I can only plane shift us on this plane by basically kind of hacking the spell because the mansion is another plane of existence. So I can't plane shift us on this plane, and I have to plane to plane to another spell. plane to another plane. Yes. We need to rest. Let's rest in the mansion. Then. Yeah, ignore it.

Yeah. Be cool. We'll figure it out at the top of the next. We'll figure it out in Indianapolis. Fuck it, we'll do it live. We'll do it live. Fuck it! All righty then.

So, we'll pick up there next week at Jen Con. All right guys. Well, thank you so much for... That fucking giant sword-swinging bastard. What a dick! Is he even wearing underpants underpants under that? No, he's not. I saw his ball and balls.

It's just a big iron pendulum. Yep. Essentially, yeah. The legendary action, the nut swing. Yeah. Oh, goodness grace. Do we need to bring our own binder to Gen Con? Yeah. Bring your binders. Bring your sheets.

Otherwise, the rest of you, thank you for joining us as always. Rest well. See you next week. And is it Thursday yet? Beautiful map, Matt. That was a Melchemy.