Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 11 - The Temple Showdown

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

This time around, Vox Machina finds themselves in dire straits. A tangle with a smelly giant paves the way for their next big test: the assault on K’varn’s temple. Who will survive this grueling battle?​   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh, you're tuning in to an interesting time. This party of adventurers were tasked to locate an individual, a famed folk hero, a paladin of Bahamit named Lady Kima of Vord, who on a vision quest went to search out and destroy a great evil that was germinating beneath the Dwarven city of Craghammer in the Cliff Keep mountains. The party, upon delving beneath the city, discovered it breached into the underdark. And following her trail, fought

past Durgar, Ashish-skin evil dwarves, past mineflayers, and various other terrifying denizens of the Underdark, eventually saving Lady Kima after weeks of her own torture and discovering that some great evil named Kavarn had unified these normal enemy races, the Durgar and the mineflayers, the illifid. Also finding that apparently this individual,

Yes, sir. We should probably just go ahead and do the give giveaway because we already got to. Oh, let's that. Let me finish explaining this, and we'll do the giveaway. They discovered this entity called Kavarn, this great and powerful entity, which apparently had acquired an artifact known as the Horn of Orchus that adorns its head. That gives it some sort of power imbued by the dark god of undead, Orchus himself.

The party then managed to find its way into a cavern where the Ilythid city of Yug-Viril exists. And after a scry spell, the Achilith last episode unveiled this entity, Kavarn, to be a dastardly beholder, an extremely dangerous aberration that currently holds at the top of the temple in this city a strangle hold on the mind flare civilization. So that was where we left off. The party slowly encroaching the edge of this island. And we'll start just a moment with you give the gift.

All right, we got to do is let them be active in the chat room, and that makes them a part of the giveaway. All right, guys, so be active in the chat room that'll enter you as part of the giveaway. We've already hit that, so the giveaway should be happening very soon. So say hello, say your opinion, be around and have fun.

Say, Beck's awesome. That's right. Well, so, so James Scanlan's not here in the moment. He's stuck, he's really stuck. He's stuck on the five. What's the fleshy thing in front of you? That's ears. These are dried apricots.

Those are huge. I'm just saying it's a shame because he's right in the thick of this sequence here. So as the party was making their way up the shore, they found bits of the ruins that coat the entirety of the subterranean city. They found what looked like some sort of a large stone, partially crumbled fighting pit. And what looked as Vex, Vax and Scanlan were stealthing over,

Scanlan himself invisible, had stealthed over to scout ahead, managed to find what looked like an encampment of some kind, a series of rags and furs, a very large living space for some sort of creature. Scanlan failing his stealth role seemed to draw the attention of whatever an entity living, there, which was an extremely tall, large giant-like creature, malformed, kind of pale, purplish-gray skin, one squinty eye and one bulging yellowish one that was dragging something fleshy and bloody behind it. It turned towards the rest of the party, going to inspect what seemingly created this sound near its homestead, and that is where we left off.

What's the landscape topography, everything? Right now, you're on the outskirts of the Fungle Forest that covers large portions of this island. We are right now is on the edge of this kind of stony pit that's dug into the ground. It's about a 15-foot drop down into this pit where the remnants of this encampment was and a leftover large fire pit that's just slowly burning ember coals. And Scanlan is still invisible?

Scanlan is still invisible next to you guys. Scanlon also just texted to say, don't kill the giant, don't kill the giant. Right, okay. Texted while driving, I might add. Don't do that. He wants the sex puppet. Maybe Scallan can just.

Stay perfectly still and you and I can just hide so that... That's true. Did you say there were buildings around? No. There are chunks of ruined buildings in the vicinity, probably a good 30, 40 feet from where you are. You guys are right along the edge. I think we should duck and hide under his covers.

His big nasty fur bed. All right. Get up, I go! Okay, stealthing away. Okay, so the two of you leap off the edge of this down into his living bedding area. Should I grab Samman? Pull him in.

No. Okay. The two of you leap off down, both make an acrobatics check. Oh, okay. Oh, come on, guys. Oh, God. Oh, it's an under dark. Yep, see.

I'm switching dice. Oh, good. That's much better. Oh, my God. Makes the ranger very happy. That is horrible. She has so many dice now. That's a 22.

22. Under dark. Twenty and twenty two. All right. The two of you leap off. The 15 foot fall is easy to tumble through and both of you land right next to this large pile of rags and furs. You both quickly dive inside. This is stupid.

Which the instinct of survival prevents you from immediately realizing the terrible, terrible scent of long festering body odor, what sounds like a combination of dried blood and some sort of extraments as well as what other what other entities once wore these furs or adorn them on their fleshy self, there are still chunks and pieces of them dried and or are still rotting within this pile. Oh. So both of you sit there for a second, diving underneath, keeping as quiet as possible. Scanlan. No, go, do you want to make a stealth check.

Come on, buddy. All right. Oh, no. So. All right. All right. All right. As this giant, shunoid bee starts lumbering forward,

and you can just barely catch a glimpse at times you guys are hiding from behind. You can see like giant, saggy, fleshy ears, this kind of bulbous nose. It looks like almost like tumors all across his shoulders and back. And his teeth are kind of broken and nasty. There's blacken the gums and just kind of steps and looks over the edge. Licks his teeth for a moment. Looks over. Takes a couple of steps around the edge.

Glances over towards the edge of the forest. Both if we make a Constitution saving throw. Against his nasty essence. As the smell itself, it is a terrifying, awful smell. It's a sting-board amazing depending on who you are. A natural one, top of the game. No. Get out now.

Get out now. Natural one gets no bonus. That is an automatic fail. I should have rolled the one man out of meteorite, but I use the jade one. What kind of your choice is that? What kind of the choice is that? Meteorite wins everything. Eighteen energies, man.

It's true. If Scanlan were here, he'd say, we need to capture the giant, by the way. He would say that. And I'm saying, Hoh. Shh, shut up. So, Vex, as you reach over, you notice,

you put your hand out to shut him up. But an unfamiliar liquidy, warm sensation hits your hand as you catch him mid-vonit screen. Oh, what? You managed to muffle some of the sound. You choked. But it does. That's disgusting.

This is really disgusting. I'm sorry, guys. Good plan. All right. The creature suddenly lifts its head over towards the pile of rags, goes, What's that smell? Grabbs the edge and leaps off.

The impact of its weight, no more than 10 feet from you, you feel, even through the soft. Even through the softness, it is still soft with the nastiness, you feel the impact of both of its giant, thick, tree-like legs slam into the stone right around you. Why do you mean? What do you want me to do? Scanlan sees this.

Yes, ignorant. Here's this, and instinctively, without much of recourse, this invisibility fades as it begins to form an incantation. Thankfully, he's distracted at the moment, but the large entity, He's going to attempt. So helpful if he was here. I know, I just wish.

I know he's got a great plan on the five. I'm sure he does. Not texting it to us. He's texting it to me, because he's going to love the text. He says he wants us to catch for. All right. Guys, I'm just going to sing a song right now. So no, what he's actually going to do is he's going to cast

domination on the end of the. Oh. That's cool. That is what he would want to do. That's what he would want if he were here. So, as he finished this spell, the giant creature, as it starts reaching and pulling the sheets back, it pulls it back right as you guys see its horrible gnarled face

right in front of you. Its nose, you can see dripping with liquid from somewhere inside. As you pull back your blade, all of a sudden, it stops and looks up, turns around, looking over at Scanlan on the edge, and Scanlan goes, hey, go for a walk. The giant, okay.

Climes up to where Scanlan is, and you start walking towards the fungal forest at the edge of the... What? Maybe call him back here and we can tie him up. Is that dumb? I don't know. Come back, come back, scalyan says, come back. The giant turns around.

Make him sit down. Sit down. It sits down. Still hasn't made its saving throw. Oh, okay. Even sitting, Scanlan is up to its knee. Wow. You've seen giants to an extent at some point

to larger creatures, an ogre would be. about waist high to this. Can he talk? For just reference there. That's about the size. Oh, so he's really small. He's tiny guy. He's tiny guy.

Yeah, he's like Rudy. Should we capture him or should we just? I feel like he doesn't. No. Capture him. You told me to do something. You guys aren't there. Scanlon would say capture him.

I know. That's what I'm working through. Yeah. Vax, just back into the shadows. Hopefully the giant forgets about him. It's useful. Stelter. Yeah.

But what if we have a male bus fight? Can I bust out my rope of infinite twine? And start tying it around him. No, don't do Kai's friends. Just, I'm not. A lot. A lot. Just a whole bunch, as much as possible.

Because it's infinite, this twine. All right. You get about a third of the way through wrapping the rope around his body. He kind of just sits there looking confused at you. He's jaw, a little slack. You continue to wrap. As you are pulling it on the second round, all of a sudden his expression goes from dull slack to angry.

Oh shit. As he looks down at you, Scanlan goes, oops, I think it's worn off. At which point he makes a tense physical action against the rope that you've bound him with. And before you have a moment to react, with a powerful surge of energy, breaks through all the rope that you would tie him on.

You're now standing at the base of him. Where? Go for it. You guys are on the shore. You guys are very far behind. Yeah. Oh, should we just run? He's outside. Scanlon is outside.

Over we go. Someone let Sam in. All right. So as this giant entity reaches over and is going to attempt to try and slam his fist down on top of you, that is going to be a 21. Against your armor class, yes. Oh, no, that hits me.

All right. That doesn't count. You take 14 points of bludgeoning damage as the hand just slams down onto your sister. I just run up the things back. I had ruled 27 for that stealth, so presumably I'm. Presumably he doesn't seem to notice you there. Yeah, so I like to stab him in the back.

Okay, go ahead and make an attack roll on that. I don't think. Okay. Hey, you're wearing a cool shirt. Oh, I missed. Oh, I miss horribly. What did you roll? Oh, guys, this is bad.

Did you roll a meteorite yet? No, not. You dingling? Start? Skim-hers! Scal! We need to! I hope you guys got my word that you did not try to capture it.

No, we didn't and everything's gone horribly wrong because of that. Don't try to catch. No, don't capture them. That's a terrible idea. You got me. Not what you said. Definitely. Oh no, it's starting.

We're already in the giant battle. If you'd been here five minutes earlier, you might have helped shake sweat. what happened. Sorry. You do have one reaction to this. As you stabbed and missed, you've been hit, you have a reaction as well. If you've taken it, you pull yourself from under its fist,

and it's now starting to get up onto its feet proper. What's you got? He's moving? He's getting up now. He was sitting down. Bigby's hand, grab him, grapple him. Okay, all right. Yeah, I can grapple him as if he's raised.

How big? It just says big. A large? No. This creature, it constitutes as huge. Yeah, he's, an ogre comes up to his waist. It can grapple a huge or smaller creature. That'll do, yeah.

Yes! Oh, wow. All right, so, so go ahead and make the roll, the contested role for that, if you don't mind. You can't see? I'm not. You got this? We got this.

You got this. Plus what? We're going to find out here in a second. Let me poke the spell. I got it right here. Here, concentration, no, AC. The hand, though the hand has an AC, no, here it is. All right, so, I got it, I got it right here.

Grasping hand, all right. So use the hand strength score to resolve the graph, so you roll that and add eight to it. What did you roll on the D20? 18. 18, plus eight, it's 26. Mm-hmm. Shoot.

All right, versus it in athletics. Okay, so as it's getting up, suddenly you, if you freak out, bring your hand. Stand up and you summon that same sparkling kind of wave of arcane energy that shoots out from your hands, forms this giant version of your hand, clings around both his arms and its torso, and tightens itself around its body as it does it.

It stands up, and it's currently grappled. Yes. Good job. You dominated it earlier. I do that with people. Yeah. Mark off your domination. Okay, got it.

All right. Also, the target takes 2D6 plus 5. five damage crushing as you're now grabbing and forcing its body. That's not very much nine points total. Nine points of damage total to it. All right, gotcha. To this wondrous entity. Yay! All right. All right, great.

So, that ends your turn. It is currently grappled. Do I have a reaction? It is now your turn. Can I jump away as a reaction? You can. We'll go ahead and we'll say you've been down here, Scanlan is right here, and you are right here. Not with Trinket because you went up to scout and stealth.

So that's you there? Can I hit my earring up and go, giant, giant being attacked? Help, can we go? You guys hear that? Those are you have the earrings, shot that out. The rest of you are starting to run up. Clun, quid, clung, clon, clon, clon, clon, clon, clon, at full round sprints, yeah, it's not going to be

a very quiet walk for Pike. That's okay. It'll take you guys about two rounds to get there. Okay. At a full round, so. It's appreciated. I just run towards the pleasant smells. Yes.

You guys are like, and I'm gonna like to take out one of my hunters mark. And one of my sleep arrows. And I wanna shoot it with my sleep arrow. Oh, what? Okay. I have a sleep arrow. Awesome.

I don't have a sleep arrow. I bought them, but I want Tiberius to make me more. You what? I've asked for more sleep arrows if you can make them. It takes a while for me to do that. Oh shit. You also have a grapple error. And that, I know.

So we got two rounds to the... But after the rope, I... Yeah, yeah, no. All right, so... It takes like at least a few hours later. Oh, it makes a while to sleep error, yeah. It takes like a... It takes like a... we'll go on later.

All right, so you go ahead and you pull out single error first or sleep arrow first? Sleep arrow first. Okay. You realize if you damage something in sleep, it wakes back up. Yeah, put him asleep. Put him to sleep. Say if you do sleep arrow first, you hit him, and then you do a second.

Oh, okay, I'll put the first arrow and then I'll try to put it. Okay, smart, thank you. So, you know. The call, the call. I know, right? 25 for the first hit. Okay. 25 definitely hits.

And then eight. Beautiful. 16 for the first hit. 16 for the first hit. And then sleep arrow. Oh, no. Oh, that's 20! Oh!

Yes! Fantastic! Go ahead and roll the image on. 90. Right. Yeah, used to that, so. 18, 16, 17 plus Hunter's mark. Did you multiply the dice?

Oh, no. It's a critical hit. Oh, sweet. Uh, 8, 16. Do I add the two for the bracers on that? Not to the multiplication, no, it's after the fact. 16. 20. What is that?

23, 24, 25. Plus hunter's mark. Yep. Five for hunter's mark. You put him in a coma. Nice. He's not sleeping. So as it's still standing up and you see

like his standing up now, he's reaching off to the side and he's pulling a giant club up, that was kind of leaning against the side of the inner portion of this giant fighter's ring. As he pulls the club up, you pierce him in the arm with the first arrow and he looks down you angrily with his one giant, eye glaring, the smaller one.

The second arrow pierces the smaller eye and he kind of pulls the arrow out with his fingers, like old tweezers, angrily. I will say because it was a critical hit on a sleep arrow, normally what you would roll is 5D8 to see how many hit points it can effect. Go ahead and roll 10D8. Whoa!

That's not really. This is just to see whether or not you can put it to sleep. Oh, really? Oh, he's got help. Yeah, we can get it. Oh, good, good, good. 16. I've got it.

I've got it. I've got it. And then I get... Oh, enough is this? I've got access to this thing. Let me show you. You can show you. But I've done this one.

So you're not going to have. Action math. Action math. Action math. Ah! Forty-47. 47? 47.

Nice. Some hot math. So, the arrow pierces when he pulls it out. And you can see for a second the eye gets a little... Come on. Come on. It flicks the arrow off. snaps as it leaves his fingers and he glars down at you with his other eye angrily shrugs off the effect.

No, man, that would have been, that's impossible. That would have been really cool. Unfortunately, he still has a lot of hit points left. Sleep arrow is up and he'd be lied into later in the battle. Oh, that makes sense. Oh, that does. How many would have done it? Yeah, yeah. You're still on the beach.

Did I still do 47 damage on that sleep arrow? That wasn't, no, no, no, no, you still did the 30 damage in the sleep arrow? sleep. Okay, okay. That was just to see how much of the points it would affect if it was going to come to sleep. But a nice try. All right. All right, so that ends your turn. That brings us back to the top of the round between you guys. We'll wait to the rest of ride before we do full initiative. We're just running off of the sequence of events here. Did you want to move it all? Are you going to stay right here? I want to run as far away as possible from him. Okay. And I fly...

So as you start running backward, we'll stay up to about there. He has a very long reach with the club and he's going to swing at you as a reaction. So as you go bolting, he just takes the giant club around, whoo-wsh, straights it across the ground. Not groggy at all, you're a little. Graple. Oh, oh. Yep, which means he's in a bad situation,

and he's, because he's grappled, which means he can't move from his current spot. He's being held in place. Check at the stats. But he still manages to roll a 14 to hit. And he doesn't hit me. All right, so, whoo, just jump over the club, roll off the ground, turn around, get your bow back in ready position. Untouched,

that's the end of your turn. Now it's his turn. Oh, God. He is going to, you are, because you let, did you throw the dagger, so did you leap up to try and backstab him there? I tried to backstab him, so I'm right there. He's going to shit up. Spins around. Benz down and just glares at you with this one giant yellowish eye with almost like a slit pupil in it. As it does, as it does, you feel this strange impressive force, come from the eye into your mind, and I need you to go ahead and roll a charisma saving threat. Roll the meteorite.

I'm going to use the meteorite. Come on, meteorite. The aquifer. That's better. 17. 17? 17? Yes. You managed to resist whatever effect this was.

You kind of just shrug it off. It kind of looks at you angry even more, takes its club and slams it into the ground like a giant pouty child. Sorry. Yeah, the smell is still present in your face. pulls its club up to prepare itself for its next round. That's its turn. Oh, no, sorry, and also makes one attack.

It gets to use the evil eye and one attack. So angrily, it's gonna go up its club and slam down towards you. Yes. That is going to be a, hmm. 15 versus AC? No, sorry. Can't roll over the crap today.

Club comes out, actually breaks a good portion of the stone on the side of this that comes up falling backward and tumbling into a pile inside this pit as you dodge out of the way. That ends its turn. Uh, you're up. I'm up?

Scanlan, you. No, you scan on first, and then you. Okay. So, scatlin. Yes. Oh, but he's a giant and I'm a little thing. Yes, you are. Yes, he is.

I guess I'm gonna hit him with a lightning bolt. You should come in close. Okay. I should come in close? Then I can buck him up. Oh. But he's big and I'm little. No, don't come to close.

Seriously. But honestly, he can still get you from where you're at. you're at unless you move further away. So it's the same, right up against him or five feet back, same same. If you move away, he's gonna take a swing. I'm not saying any of this, I'm just thinking it in, yes, furiously.

You can yell out across. I'll just make, just, does lightning come from me? Yes, it comes from you and it goes in a straight direction. Well then I have to move anyway so that I don't strike Vax or Vax. So you get the feeling he has about a 15 foot reach with this, So as long as you stay within that reach, you're still in me there. Will I hit either of my fellows from where I'm

currently? Yes. Then I need to move. You go. Where are you to move? What they can't take? That ring, is that high, low? It's 15 feet up, so you kind of like jump down into the ring if you wanted to go down there, or you can move around this way.

Oh gosh. I don't really jump well. I'm going to jump into the ring, I guess. And then can I shoot from there, or will it be the wall be in my way? He's big enough for you be able to see him. Okay. So you leap off the same. side, as you leap in the air, he glances over with his large eye and does a back swing

in the air, trying to basically baseball swing you. He'll hit me. We'll find out. That is an 18. Oh yeah. Okay. You take 19 points of bludgeoning damage as he, boom, t-balls. Like, backhand swing hits you. Go ahead and make an aerobatics check. Because your landing has not going to complete from top of the top of the air.

the impact throwing you off your knowledge. Is it 20? Is that good? What we'll do? Did that you do? Like a cat, you correct your trajectory in mid-air and still three-five-one. Oh, man. Down below, you're down in the pick, you're looking up. This gargantuan, you know, humanoid is still standing above you,

looking down, hissing at you, as you still manage to not be affected by its swing at you. You can now cast your spell if you like. Okay. I will cast lightning ball. on his face and neck area. Oh, right. Good. Go ahead and roll 8d6. Yeah, give me those sixes. Boom, let me do these.

I got much. I need all. Give him. Give it him sixes. He does not make a saving throw. Yes. He is too slow at that size. Yes.

Oh, out of six. Six, six, six. What am I doing right now? You guys are running up to the right. 31. 31? 31 total? All right.

Robin. Yes. So after you land on your foot, you turn around and reactively just fire this bolt of bluish arcane energy. It streaks up, slams into his face and shoulder area. You can see he rears back from the pain of it kind of reaching up in the air like he can somehow fight off the lighting bolt. As the bolt passes through him, it leaves this like burn mark on his chest inside of his face.

Smoke is up off his torso. He was very pissed. Do I get up my bonus? You do. Can I give inspiration to Mr. Vak. You may. I don't know, can you? There you go.

There you go. Some jethro toll up in here. I got the worst end of this now. I guess you're singing to him. I will say the mild echoing sound of mildly off-key whistle following a mighty lightning bolt is inspiring enough. Go ahead and take a D-10. Okay.

And now it is your turn. Yeah, I'm going to use that. I'm going to use that. I'm gonna use that. I wanna make an acrobatics tap. I wanna jump up on this guy's knee and then dagger, dagger right into his strange eye that he tried to mess with me.

Okay, so are you going directly for the eye? The eye, yeah. All right. So I want to jump up his body off his knee. Jump up his body. Okay. All right, so what are acrobatics check first? Okay, so four, I'm gonna use luck.

19 for the second, so that's, what? That's 19 plus 13, so I'm pretty sure I succeed. So as he's like reeling back from the blast with the lightning bolt, you see that opportunity. You jump up onto his partially bent knee, use that as a platform and leap up in the air, daggers drawn, slow motion towards its face. Go ahead and make your first attack.

Since you are going for the eye, yes. I will say that it is at a disadvantage on the attack, but if it hits, it will be considered a sneak attack. Let's say that again. I will say it disadvantage on the attack, but if it hits him in his eye, you'll be able to do sneak attack.

Roll well. Meteorite die. No good. First one's no good. second dagger that's good and that's also good identical so that is a 26 26 yes all right that one will hit thank you meteor I die okay so this is one D D dirty dirty dirty dirty okay that's a D2 the six is eight eight plus your five D six five D oh this is a sneak attack

Because you hit him an eye. Oh, this is the second attack is what you did, right? Yeah. Technically you're both going for the eye. I'll say I'll allow it. Hey, you're a nice guy. It is 12 and is 17 and 18 and it is 22 and it is 26. Six points of damage.

Eyeball. So first dagger, you tend to swing down. He actually moves his face out of the way and just scrapes across the side of his cheek, doing nothing more than a scratch. But the second blade strikes true, slamming into the side of the eye, as it pierces, For an eye, what you expect, but pop, it's still of hearty material.

You actually push into it, and it's almost like it's full of taut muscle on the inside of the eye. The dagger still drives in, and using your weight, you drag down and cut it open on the bottom. Screams out in pain and pushes you off. You barely manage to catch yourself on the ground. Oh, God. You haven't seemingly blinded him, but you've definitely left a serious mark on his eyeball. It's huge. You want to use your movement at all you can, or you want to stay where you are.

I will disengage and move back. Okay. Which means that he can't take a swing. Right. You can use your bonus action to this. Right. Yeah. We'll use your bonus action to do your secondary attack. I'm pretty sure I get that on top of that as a rogue, hoo-ha.

But I'll stay there if you want. I'm in no mood to argue with you tonight. I know. I'm pretty sure as a rogue you can use your bonus action to do disengage. That's kind of, that's one of the benefits, but used it as a secondary attack to get the sneak attack. So, you could move. You move out of the way, but you'll take a swing from him. Okay.

Yeah, um, yeah, I'll move back. All right, sure. So you say you move back to him out there. Yeah. As you do, he like reaches him and grabs his eye with the other hand picks up the club and whoosh, backhand swings at you. That'll be a 19.

That's all right. Couldn't just let him go in the trees. You take 19 points of bludgeoning damage. But as the hit slams into your back and you manage to just catch your knee underneath you so you don't topple off the top of this, Edge. Ends your turn.

What's your got, Vicks? Hi. I'm gonna do hail of thorns on him. All right, so you pull back? Yeah. Same wooden shaffles and sprouts these nice thorny, jagged spikes in the sides as you release the arrow. 26.

Hits them. Okay, so that would be, I'm doing it at a level three, so that is 3D10. 3D10 damage, go and roll that. It's 16. Yeah, 16 damage. 16 damage for that plus my hunter's mark. 17. And then my second attack.

Second attack, go ahead and roll it. 17. 17 does hit. He's pretty big. He's a big old sack of hit points and no armor. 15, 16. 17. Oh, plus Hunter's mark.

Yep. Don't forget your Hunter's mark. Five for Hunter's mark. Okay, so 22. Nice. All right, so one error. It hits him in the elbow, and it looks like it pierces the sinew that holds it. The arm, almost goes slack for a second before he flexes his attention to you hear the

actual wood shaft snap as he brings his forearm up. Grabbing his club turning around, you shoot the back of his elbow causing him to drop the club on this hand, and he looks extremely frustrated at the process. Now he's got blood streaking down both arms. Yes. He reached down to grab the club again to try and prepare himself for another route of attacks. Are we there yet? You guys are just now arriving.

Morn's gonna finish its turn, and then the rest of you guys can go. He's gonna take two swings. First, he's gonna go ahead and Inglea leap forward to there. Like a small jump, lands in the ground, takes one swing at each of you. Can he move? Is he still grappled?

Actually, no, that's valid point. I forgot I was still grapple. Thank you for that. Yeah! He's going to try and break from the grapple. This move, that is going to be an acrobatic, or sorry, an athletics of 20. Go ahead and roll a D20 at 8.

Come on. 18 plus 8. Oh! Yeah! Oh! Can't do so. It's stuck where he is. He currently has nothing in range to attack.

Except for me. No, you're 15 feet below. He doesn't have range on you at the moment. He tries to take a swing at you, but partially because he's so high up, he cannot move, and because you are so small, you literally just stand there as the swing, the wind blows your hair back a little bit.

I do not find purchase on your body. A little tainty nose. Completely wasted its turn. Well done. All right, so that brings us to you again. Actually, no, now goes to everyone else, because they have all arrived on the scene now. You guys are all starting to appear.

We'll say over this area. Don't kill him. Don't kill him. Don't kill him. We need him. How? How are we gonna use him? We have a mind flare, we have magicians, we have all sorts of things. He is our wrecking ball. He's our way in.

Yeah, if we can keep him controlled, I can, I can get him like mind controlled on our team for 30 days. Yeah, he is our ticket into the palace. All right. He's gonna be like that one scene and Lord of the Rings. Ooh, I like it. That one scene. Yeah. We eat the lembers bread. Oh, nice big giant.

All right. All right. All right, so who's going first? Should we roll initiative? Okay, that's actually up. We haven't rolled. Everybody all together now? Everyone all together now.

All together now. All together now. Is he a giant? Like a giant. He's considered a giant. I speak a giant. Yay. You speak giant?

Say something, wrong. I speak giant. Oh, good. Oh, I can use my brain for something. All right, so we have 25 to something. 25 to 20. Oh wow wow 20 to 15 18

Yeah, 17 clear in the stars right 18 that close ash I like going for that close to right 50 to 10 well teen Okay, wow 12 well 12 right so Percy and Kigliff Where's my tree? Oh, actually helps me all right All right, 10 to 5 It's very helpful. It helps every five five oh Oh, that's me. I'm an eight. You're an eight, all right, we have Vex.

That's Trinket, too. All right, that is, almost everyone who, one. One. One, yeah, Scanlan. All right, Tiberius and Pike, you're up first. Those guys rush on the scene, seeing this creature being currently crushed

by the semi-etherial giant arcane fist of Scanlan. Pike, Tiberius, what you doing? I want to see the giant fist of Skate. Um, many have before. I'll, uh, I'll follow suit and be like, oh, is this what we're doing? Skyline, what are we doing? We're capturing the giant and, uh,

don't remind him I'm here. Capture. Okay, well, I, uh, I'll water, water sphere and help him maintain him. Okay, so you go in your eposphere? Yeah. All right, does that, why does that affect on huge creatures? Like, it's a,

It's a dope-ass effect. That's what it says in the book. Does that officially says? Whizms of the coast, page 304. What's the film? It's a dope-ass effect. Watery sphere. Watery sphere.

We got it right here. It's not in the. A huge or larger creature automatically succeeds in the saving throne. So as you create the sphere around it, the water kind of forms around its physical form. It doesn't seem to be affecting it. It's large and strong enough to the point

where it's thrashing because he's holding it in place, with his fear is just having no... He smells slightly better than he does. They're cleaner portions of his flesh. Yeah, this is a little larger than what you're used to capturing with the sphere. What are you talking about? How big is it?

He's huge. Look how big he is. He's madge. You were tickling. This is an ogre. There's like large. I can capture those, but not that guy. Yes, you were tickling his nipples with your water.

Essentially. But as high as he got a little bad. Hold on, I knew that. I do that to wash him off. Okay, yeah. He's much cleaner. And I'm swirling around, I'm like, does this feel good, giant?

All right, Pike, what you got? Okay, I'm gonna make a therapeutic. I'm gonna make a spiritual weapon. What? I'm gonna make a spiritual weapon. Okay. I wanna sort of make a kind of a lasso again of sorts, but with a grappling hook on the end.

It's a little spin around them real quick. A lariat of truth? And sort of keep them in place. Okay, all right, so you're creating a spiritual weapon. We'll say that this would be considered just an additional grapple. Okay. All right, it's good enough. So you create it.

I'll just use this as the spiritual weapon in its space currently. It just begins to wrap around him rapidly. One, two, three, four, fom, kink, and finds purchase on its own self, holding it in place. So there we go. Is that, do you want to move with your turn? Are you going to stay there? Where am I at? You're right here.

Okay, yeah, I want to get, I want to give a little closer. Whoa. Whoa. Just hold on a minute. Is there? Just getting closer to me. The gnomes are like ten spikes. Folling.

All right. As a note, well, fast guys. Do we, let me see if we have the... Currently watching his hump. Oh my god, is the Booker-Holder attacking? Is it now? No. No.

You're gonna pull your thing up. The laser pointers for you guys. Oh, right. That's right. Oh, do we have more? I've got one right here. Oh. Oh.

All right. All right. I have one here. I throw it to that table. All right, so we have two over there. One over here. Two over here. All right.

Good enough. Thank you for your patience, folks. Do I roll for damage or anything like that? For the purpose of what you want to do with this grappling thing, it's not going to be a damage to him, it's just going to be an additional grapple to him holding in place. All right, that brings us to Grog. I hold off on raging. Can't talk right if I'm like, bach, freaking out.

You can talk, but it comes through in single words and usually not in a diplomatic way. Right. So I call out in Giant, nipple, taint, knuckle, broom, which means, brother, we seek to fight a great evil. For chance, would you, would thou care us to join us in such a fight? I have ale. Inspiration, anybody, can. Yeah, yeah, would you like to join us? Wait, can it be my turn? Who's turn's next? No, he smells very good to be.

You're next after this. Is he just appealing to his reason? Can I go next? No, yeah. And then help him out? Well, it's a little late for that, unfortunately. We're not worth the trouble. But we would love to pay you an ale

to join us on a much better fight. Go ahead and make a persuasion roll with disadvantage. Yeah. That's pretty bad. that's the same number So yeah I got a massive plus one five

It worked I think it worked So the bound twisted Malfourmed giant creature That's currently held by Ethereal rope and ethereal hand Glances over at you for a second

And you swear you hear it chuckle Oh And spits a basketball-sized luggy onto the ground in front of you. Impressive. Fuck it. I rage. And I attack.

I would say that diplomatic attempt on him would be your action. So bitch. Can I rage as a bonus action? You would be raging as a bonus. Okay. You want to move as well? Look how little you look next to you. You're so small.

I'm like right. testicle height, which is not good. No, I'll stay right where I am. All right, that gives us two Vax. I'm going to go stealth. And then this ring, is this like, this is a wall, right? It's a big, it's a 15-foot wall that goes down into this pit, yes. Okay, so still, going stealth, is that bonus action?

Or is that? Going stealth, for this, I would say, would be considered part of your move. It just has a, it's a disadvantage if you're stealthing while moving. Okay. Well, I still want to do that. So I'm gonna try to scurry over the wall there and go stealth. Well, actually, I think for you actually isn't hide the stealth ability that you can use as a bonus action? Yeah, that's part of the cunning action.

So that would be it, yes. All right? So it would be your bonus action to attempt to stealth, yes. Okay, so roll to stealth, right? Yeah, go for. Okay, come on, meteorite die. I'm using luck because that was terrible. It was still terrible.

Two luck points. Okay, all right. I'm not stealth, but I run over by SAC. Would you roll? You don't know if you're stealth or not. Oh, sorry. It was so pitiful. 16 and...

That's not pitiful. It is for me. All right. 16 and 18. 16 and 18. Gotcha. All right. Cool.

So we have an 18 stealth technically. So pitiful. All right. So as far as you know, you may or not be hidden. What are you doing? All right. I want to roll over the side of the wall and then just move along over by Scanlan. Between Scanlan and the giant.

and just hold hold my attack okay trigger that down the road right yeah or or you you wouldn't be able to wait you have to wait to the next turn you can't hold part of your turn you've got to take then I'm gonna stab him in the knee okay so are you just like shimming along the side or he's 15 feet above you you're down 15 feet you would have to throw a dagger to hit him at this point all right I'll throw in his face okay currently bound kind of easy to see it's really ugly you throw Daggwreth towards him with your action.

All right, that's no good, and then the bonus action is also no good. You've already used your bonus action to go stealth. They're gone. What did you roll? Four to five. Plus, plus, uh, I didn't sleep at all last night. Tell me what your final numbers are. Um, uh, begin, be gay, be get, 12 and, uh, 10.

Yeah, both those unfortunately miss. You fling both, unfortunately, the process of jumping down and running as you chuck it at the end of your movement next to Scanlan. Even though he's bound, you just, you're a little off your game and it just, just, kind of cascades at a sight and then vanishes, peering back on your belt. That brings us to Percy and Kiliffe. I'll go first. Okay, I'm going to, where am I?

You're over here. Okay, I'm going to scoot in over here and make my way and right, and as I'm running by, I'm going to take a shot at his kneecap and see if I can prone him. Okay. Not bad news. Are we still trying to capture him?

Yeah, I'm just gonna knock him down. We are. I think we're trying. You can do like non-lethal. 20. 20 hits. 20 hits. And he's grappled? He's grappled and he's now prone.

But I'm going to do my 1d10 damage. And I try to talk to this. 15 damage. Okay. It takes 15 damage and he's prone. Sweet. Don't follow me. And I'm going to finish just scooting.

I will. Okay. Okay, so as you shoot up a kneecap, he tumbles forward over the edge. Oh my god. This way, both of you guys make dexterity saving throws. We can't win. Wait, that's a clip. We can't win.

It's a 50-50 shot on which side he fell. What? Where's my knife? We spend a great point in 19. Here. 15. 15. 15.

That's good. Plus what? Do dexterity saving throw. 17. 17. You both managed to just leap out of the way, slamming onto his back on the ground. Do we get free attacks on it?

No, but you made me crushed by an extremely large person. That's a plus. That's a positive. All right. Percy, that on your turn? I'm not doing anything else for this turn. That went poorly. Okay.

Keyliff. Okay, I am going to, um, can I move like, Can I move like, what, can I get to him? He's 15 feet down. You can move up to the edge here. Look down and see him on the ground currently is strained and struggling on his back.

If I turn into a snake, can I get down there? Big snake. You know what, I'd say you would be able to. I would turn into a giant constrictor. Okay. Oh, no, no, no. You're gonna constrict him? Real big, Nick.

Yeah, I'm gonna restrict him. Turn into, I'll use this Naga figure for that. Ewe. That's big. It's a Naga. We're a grating hell out of it. I'm so great. All right.

Leap down, you're turning to grapple. And I'm gonna start constricting. All right, so go ahead and make a roll of D20. And I don't know if I can. This list the strength bonus. of the form? I get a plus six. Oh wait.

What's it say for the constricting? You should have the rule there for you. It's a strength. All right, so you add six to that. Bonus, I guess. So 14. Okay. You start moving around and even though he's still struggling

in his form, he gets one hand up and is holding you at bay. You have not managed to grapple him yet, but you're in the process of trying to. Next round, you can try him. He's pretty strong. Where are you clever folk gonna get in his head? Vex. That's me.

Yep. I am going to, um, uh, how much, has he taken a lot of damage yet or we just keep grappling him? He looks, there's been a lot of grappling this past round. He took a lot of damage before everyone else showed up and it's been just a lot of... Alright, I'm gonna attack him twice the second time with a... You can't see him right now because he's falling... I'm gonna scooch up there so I can. Just hold him.

Just hold him. Just nice him on the ground. And I'm going to take two shots at him. All right. Both of these shots are disadvantaged because there is Keeleth currently trying to wrap around him as a giant snake. It'll be fine. He didn't make the good. We felt that.

I'm going to try to capture him. We are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just each attack at disadvantage. Just roll really high both thumbs. Wow. That's good. 26. That hits. Second attack? Second attack is a sleep arrow.

Secondary sleep arrow. Yeah. All right. Go to sleep. Go to sleep. 17. 17 also hits. Awesome. All right. So go ahead and roll damage on the first arrow. With your hunter's mark damage. Yes. 15, 16, 17. 20. All right. And then the second one.

You're putting the arrow. Uh, that's 16, 19, 12. 16 on the second hit. 16, okay, and then go ahead and roll 5D8 for the sleep arrow. All right, I only get 5D8. Yeah, it wasn't a credible head, sorry. Okay. Look at all these dice I have.

22. 22? As the arrow sinks into him, you see him struggling against both the snake form and the Big Bee's grasping hand. As it struggles and throws about, the grappling hook, on its form. Yes! Sleep!

Sleep! Oh, no, no! You had a sleeper? You had another one? Yeah, I agree! Just one more. Now she has one. Now I have one.

Okay, he's asleep. Don't touch him. Okay. Shhh, let me whisper. What? Okay. Rock him, Kieleth, rock him. No, don't wake him up.

Don't wake him up. So for the moment, combat is paused. Do you guys do what you need to? But be aware that every period of time he's gonna be making saving for him. How is the game? We have a mind flake. We have a mind flet.

player. Can the thing... Oh, Clorota, can you dominate it? Yeah, Chlorota is a mind-flare. Doesn't mean, this is bad? Sh! Cholota is a point. The floor, he goes, I can...

I know or I could just take its mind. What do you do? What do you mean? You mean, like, for a snack, though, you know what I'm saying? I would then have its memories and knowledge might as... You can't control its bias. We need more of his brutish, tankish, strength.

Wait, but sure time means what? Until it resists. Thank you. Oh, Corotine. That's no good. That's very temporary. Could you perhaps put him to speak for the evening? Or can we figure out a way to rest to rein him?

We need to rest. Can we prolong? Just here's the thing. I have an ability where I can use Gaius. And can. gas on him, which and I basically give him a command, and he'll essentially become our big... And it lasts for 30 days.

He'll be our big, beefy minion for 30 days. And if he resists it, he takes psychic damage. But yeah, we have manacles and we have chains. Put him in the bag of holding. Let's freaking tie him down at least. Can we tie him up right now? Or we were secure him, but Clorota, could you prolong the sleep for eight hours so we can rest and you can rest?

For eight hours? No. Nothing. Nothing in my repertoire lasts that long which is why I say let me take his mind No, wait, Clarota. It's a big old feast, I know. I know, it's a lot of food for you. I think we're just killing.

Wait, you had a snack. Oh, I hand him to see jerky. It's not that long time. What about Clarota? What about the thing he was carrying? Can you eat that? That thing's great. Okay.

Don't worry about his dinner. What was he dragging? Isn't there a corpse? Figure out how we're going to control it. Who's dragging a corpse? I don't think we can. Let's manacle it, but at least try to hold it. Can we try to read?

Chain it up. Can you make the manacles big? Can you engorge? The creature begins to flutter its eyes for a second. Clorota immediately looks down and puts his hand out and releases a force of arcane sparkles that cover its body and it falls back to sleep. Can you make the manacles bigger?

The giant sized? No, they're not. They're inorganic. I can't, I can't turn anything for that. Can we just use chain and dry and lock? You can't create chain as much, right? In Gordo, fuck. Do we have?

Do you know? I have, we chain them up. You and me. I'm chaining them up. Yeah. We're chaining them up. You can do that. That's a knockout drug, isn't it?

You don't know much about drought poison. I just thought. I should go ahead and make a nature roll. It's weird. Percy and I chain him up. We use the things that we have. 20. 20?

You know that drought poison for the most part would not facilitate keeping something alive. Right. It just poisons. Okay. While everybody's discussing, Vax is going to walk down to the center of the pit to take a peek of that hole. Okay. You go ahead and glance over the time. It drops down for about 20 feet and it looks to be a series of long rusted over metallic spikes. Whatever this pit was previously used for was almost like a gladiatorial experience. You can see what looks like some clusters of old ancient bones at the bottom, mostly seen disuse for hundreds of years. We should drag him over there just case he wakes up and kick him in.

It's fine. If you get it up, then we killed him. So what are you guys doing? Can I take time? Can I take time if we grab a home and I like take a rest, like essentially almost take a 20 to cast GAS on him? Long as Gaius, take to cast. It's a minute to cast. Generally takes a minute. Okay.

Can I do that? You can certainly try it. We'll see how long you guys keep him restrained. We have chained him. Right. With our puny chains. As you guys are getting the chains around him, he maintains his slumber.

You guys continue to bring the chains around as a big body, and there's a lot to get around. How much chain do you guys have total, by the way, lengthwise? It's 150 feet. We also have our never-ending rope, don't we? I know. We do have some more never-ending rope, and we can keep using that, a lot of it.

Never-ending rope doesn't grow on trees, You get the chain, full length of chain around his torso area, he start getting on his legs, and start pulling the rope around. He begins to wake up once again, and begins to thrash about. No, no. I keep my ass.

He rolls a two to break against the chain. He's currently still grappled. Chlorota releases another sleep spell. Should we put a fancy robe over his nasty eye so he can't like, yeah, let's do it. Yeah, why not? We have eight fancy robes.

I take one of them and I put it over his nasty eyes. nasty pirate eye. Oh good. You take one of your eight fancy robes you got to kick it in the back of holding. We're in the closet and nobody wanted them

but now they're coming to use. It's a second. It is probably the nicest thing this creature has ever worn. Just keep that much. There's a pair of pants hanging off. No, they were in that with the little infinite thing.

You finished restraining him with the chains. Who's doing what? She's just casting, right? Does anybody have, I'm going to inspire her somehow. I'm going to encourage success. I'm going to inspire her with his song. I'm going to see if I see anything more than just spikes down the hole.

Keeleth. Oh, never mind. Can anybody make it look like there's a big feast in front of him? Yeah. You do see what looks to be some sort of mild glimmer of metal that amongst all the rustle of weapons, armor that have been destroyed down there, one seems to have resisted the age. I can make a little bit more. I can tell him with something even more,

try it to something on the head. There's nothing to find person. All right, so I don't. Let's do it. While they're chaining them up and everything, I'd like to walk up and put my great axe just under his chin. Just as a reminder. Keelot, through casting?

I'm going for it. All right, so we'll see. He has to succeed on a wisdom saving throw against him. We'll get there yet. It takes you a full minute to cast it. Every round he gets to resist. Um. Percy, could you give me a hand away?

Sure. Alright. What are you doing? Ah, there's something down in this hole. You think you can hold on to this type of your life? Classic line. Right. Actually, I just put some of his meat and treats.

So this felt, he is asleep for the duration. You finish your gaze felt? All righty. So. There's nothing in this. Keep drinking out of, there's nothing in it. Bro, there's a diamond up in the flat. All right, so we have,

all right, guess. So it has to make a wisdom saving throw. Sorry, what is the DC? Old man with us. Just a second. Just a second. I'm, I'm, I'm, against, it's wisdom.

Oh, against my spell save? Yes. 18. 18, all right. A steep spell wears off. His eyes begin to flicker, and you see like the strength, flexing. in his muscle form.

As you hold the ax there, as one slashed, but, you know, kind of not bleeding at this moment, I. It seems that a lot of the fancy robe is absorbed or whatever was oozing from it. Very absorbed. It glances down at you. And just in this horrible, guttural series of phrases and consonants, Yeah, to reticoc.

What's he saying? Anyone speak undercommon? I do. Oh, it's not giant. Okay, the two of you. Speak two languages. You do. Speak undercommon?

No, but not, no. He says essentially, What have you done? What do you need? Oh, I speak back to him and say, Kavarn, for him or against him? No, good, yeah. It's like a political rally?

Its eye slowly tweaks over back towards Keeliff, he says, What do you ask of me? Yeah. Oh, got it. Follow our orders. Help us fight Kavarn. Vex, how do you say follow our orders in Under Dark?

Oh, it's, um, is that, the accent is on the, on the, you got it. Was it? You got it. Uh, um, back at the door.

Yes, yes, very good. The giant takes a moment and his head nods slowly, like... Is it like a French person? Kind of, yeah, like... Okay. Then it's just to get the gist across. I don't know what you're saying. Oh, oh, ugh.

Oh, I understand. How do I say kill? How do I say kill? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I look at it and I go... Kavarn. Got that accent was terrible. Shut up, Percy.

I'm not from here clearly. Everyone knows that now. All right. It looks out of the chains and kind of looks expectedly at you. Okay. Hmm? Hello?

Take the chains off. Should we take the chains off? I believe we should take the chains off. See, I'm making him agree first. He seems to be an agreement. Best you can tell. You roll. I start with us.

I start taking the chains off. Very carefully, taking the chains off. You hit the chains off, and as each hand is free, kind of like, shakes it free. All of you can jump back for a second, and places it in the ground, stands up to his full height around you. I assume that you're no longer a knock as you cast the spell. Eventually, he gets to his full height and stands up looking down to all of you.

Kind of glancing around grabs the large, hardened piece of wood and stone that he's kind of fashioned this club out of and she kind of glances and says to you translate for her where man a few words he wants to know where I saw her up hello oh impressed I can I'm really impressed as you are you off right now do you speak under dark I don't think he can't understand you I'm having a it's a what that's what I meant oh wonderful tell him to follow our authors that's all he needs to know from that. I already told him. Oh, good.

He's in odd posse. Oh, but if he asked where? He's asking where. We should tell him. Tell him where. But tell him to stay for now. Well, you here for now. She's going to translate. You.

I love this. We roll together. Jesus. Go ahead. Go ahead and translate that. Next, you got that. Could you translate that? I didn't even have that.

This is... Mike, did you want to tell him what she says? Oh, yeah. We rolled deep. I speak Keyleth. She's saying... She's saying that he should wait here until our instructions to attack.

Okay. What is trying to say, no. Oh, oh, uh... Uh... ... ...slings the club under his shoulder where they have to... to you all feel the actual impact on his body, just in your eye presence, the air around him being pushed.

Looks at you for a second. Looks back to Killeth and gives a solid nod. It just kind of stands there. Sweet. I take that as a good nod. Will this keep up while you're sleeping? It keeps up for 30 days. So we're set.

We're fine. Awesome. I walk up to the giant and I take out my jerky game. Pull the reins. Can we heal it? There you go. If we heal him, will it cancel it? Vexalia.

I feel he doesn't spike. Ask him what his name is. His hand reaches down and completely envelopes your fist. What? And just pulls away. Jerky is gone from your hand and you feel probably a few scales. I grunt at him and ask what his name is. Vexalia.

Do we all have to say it that way? Vexalia. Just glares at you. Oh, come on. I'm gonna tell him he's handsome. The big eye squint in confusion at the tiny thing and just keeps licking the remnants of beef jerky off his fingers and it just rung to area so

ice the jerky. Well, I thought I'd try. Let's take a nap. What should we call him? We should ask his name and be polite. No, we did. We didn't give it. Tiny, tiny.

Vaxxed are getting something out of there. All right, so the two of you guys move towards the pit, you're white. I'm lowering him down on a rope. How much pet, does? The whole line you get down. The spikes now up close you can see are about five and a half feet in length at the base, about that wide, and pretty nasty, jagged covered

and whatever, rust, soot, and the finest band there. It's nasty times. It's going to be a little careful to get in there without hurting yourself. Go ahead and make a dexterity check. That's a 25. 25. You managed to Mission Impossible style, swing underneath, grab the rope, finish to keep yourself at a light side angle where you reach between two of the jagged spikes, reach out and grab this metal pole that was kind of shining, pull it out,

pull it out and it's an intricate gold and bronze javelin. Oh. You found booty? Pull me up. Oh, that's a big. Well, I can't use this. What is it? It's a javelin.

It's beautiful. Beautiful things should go to Pike, I think. Oh, Scanlon, but she has really good aim. She doesn't really throw sharp point, but this would be good for you, good guys. I probably throw it in with all that. I just feel that the gold of the javelin would match the gold of your chart, I'm going to check. 23.

23? Just enough. Still holding it. Tell me about it. Oh, this is, of course, the javelin of lightning. This javelin is a magic weapon. When you hurl it and speak its command word, it transformed into a boat of lightning. Sounds a little reedy.

It, ways. You know what, I'm not on the clock, you read. Alt of lightning five feet wide. Basically it's just lightning, but we're in a javelin. Yeah. I spin it, rotin, my hand, handle towards grog. I heard something that's magic. All right, so.

You guys now stand on the outskirts of your grill, or a little ways from the virile and the fungal forests. In the distance, you can barely see the dull greenish glow of what encompasses the top of the temple. What is your plan of action? As you've now bound a Fremorian to your will. I feel like we should hop down into the pit. Of spikes?

And rest. No, no, not in that pit. In the big pit. And rest and that way we're blocked to you. Just before we rest. He'll are, what are we calling him? Tiny. Tiny.

He'll tiny. He'll tiny. He said he's a Fremorian. Just before we rest, can, does anyone have knowledge of his race and his species? Any of his weaknesses or strengths? Can I do a, I'll do history check.

History check? Though this would be more of a... Yeah, that's a one. Oh, okay. This would be a... This would be just a nature check. What? Are we checking?

Just to see what are his strengths and weakness? What about his race? The Fermureans, well, the Framorians. Formorians. Formorians. Fomorian. Fomorian. Fahmorian.

Fahmorian. Fahmohmoh. How much your roll? An 18 plus 10, so 28. All right. And between you and your understanding of the Under Dark as well, you managed to suss out. Famorion is a long-cursed species of giant

that it lives in the Under Dark specifically. That's why its form is so malformed and physically messed up. They are inherently very evil, very selfish creatures, and the fact that you even have it in your presence is, says well of your magic, but also means it's probably very, very minimal in its control or ability to really. help you, unless it absolutely has to. Is it a giant guy?

So. Yeah. It's a cursed giant. Well, I mean, it sort of has to. Right? He's not to do it with all its heart. It starts to fry his brain if he doesn't. Sometimes things might want to take damage, depending on what you tell

it to do. Oh. It's not the time of what we say. Well, can we ask you? You're writing a very fine line keeping this thing not thrashing and smashing your head right now. Can we ask him? I mean, if Kavarn is annoying to him or is.

if he likes him. You ask him an underdog or an undercommon? Yeah. The best you can get out of his response is the equivalent of, I don't really know or care. I hunt. I find things that wandered too far from the city and occasionally squash a dwarf or two.

Do we know what sorts of things he either hates or likes? We've got a distraction. Oh yeah. Like, forget the fight. We can just send him off into the city, and that should be enough for us to sneak into the temple. Yeah, that's true. I am not sitting foot on that temple quite yet. No, no, no, we'll come up with an idea, but I mean, if you see something. And who...

Is it safe to sleep next to him, or is he going to attack us when we sleep? That's great. Um... Might be able to box them up, or maybe we should chain him up while we sleep or something. I don't know. I mean, he should be okay. We can take the watch like we normally do. Kind of looking at him, says, I'm not sleeping next to it.

I'll sleep near you, Kima. Her eyes for a moment seem to dart to your shoulder where you have previously shown her your awkward purple third nipple. I'm fine Scanlon, but I appreciate the offer. That's just a sentence you don't hear very often. You said he's a cursed giant? Uh, meaning not him individually. Meaning not him individually, his actual species long ago is a line of giant that was cursed

by the fay. To be this horrible form. Well, let's rest in shifts. Maybe we can chain him up to something while we sleep. As long as someone's watching it should be fine. You don't want to seem aggressive toward him. Oh, fine. He's fine for 30 days. Who's taking the first watch?

All right. I'll take the first watch. I got to heal up. I'll sit up. Well, hang on, what are we doing from here? Well. That's a good question. We're not going to mount our full attack. Are we?

Why not? No, we are not. Why not? I am telling you right now, I am not sitting foot in that thing's layer. Okay, tell us why. Until when? Until, until, until, until we've figured out a damn way to get it out of that layer. You want it out of the tennis? You want to put the...

We're not going to be able to do that. Percy? I'm saying this right. I'm saying this right now. I am not stepping foot in that layer. That's fine. We're not going to be able to get them out, I don't think. Wait, which layer?

I think we can, actually. Well, my idea is this. Okay, yes, please tell us. The new addition of our giant friend, we do have a great advantage as we can definitely make the destruction, as you say. I propose, Keeleth and another stealth member, somehow see away if there is some type of ventilation

that leads into the major buttholes chamber. The temple that you won't set foot in. Yes. You want somebody else to go into it? Absolutely. All right. And when finding this, craves some type of piping system where we could smoke him out. If he has to breathe, which I believe aberrations need to breathe and eat.

Do I know that? Do aberrations need to breathe? Best that you understand, not a lot of study has gone into the breathing apparatus of certain aberrations, and the few that have been close enough to a beholder have it really tested that theory. All right. If we smoke him out and he cannot breathe, he must have. and he cannot breathe, he must leave the facility. And if we go in there, we will be at an extreme disadvantage in many ways than we realize.

How are we going to smoke him out? I just proposed the idea. I don't know, but that's what we all need to figure out. Okay, I've got, I've also got an idea. I mean, are we, what about that whole plan to break apart the apparatus that was holding the elder brain together? That's my thought. I think we need to go over the top.

Once a distraction is in the city, blah, blah, blah, blah. go over the top acid that metal break it apart or giant that metal I think it'd be hard to get the giant up to the top of the temple but

this is a brain storm session everything's positive acid whatever break it apart release the illithids from his control and then we'll have them on our side at least not our side but against him absolutely so there are prisoners

right all of the illithid and the city are his prisoners He's controlling everyone. Oh, so I was misled earlier. So this is the good part of the plan. We do exactly what you're saying first. Oh, okay. After a...

I like your plan so far. Therota here will rally the illiter to fight for us. That's when we smoke out the beholder. Except, of course, by doing that, we've destroyed the roof of the chamber so that it'll actually just be nothing but ventilation. We do it a different way. We don't go near him. You do it a different way.

Do you know that it's enclosed? I can get the giant in something. I can get the giant inside the temple. Has the brass crossbite? Ooh, I like that. And they would appear to be in. You know what though? Because a holder will just take control of the giant.

Gliss. You'll just take control of the giant. Or some sort of glass. Sort of translucent material that fills in the parts that aren't the braced. That we're talking about destroying. The room that he's in is sealed. I think we should keep the giant as a distraction.

I also have an idea. Yes, well. Ice cream and peanut butter mixed on a old stone. That'll never work. It'll never work. I don't know. I don't understand. That is incredible.

I've been thinking about it for days. How would you get the stone cold enough? You would need all sorts of sides to add to it to fold into it. It's a terrible idea. I told you I don't like thinking. And then also another idea. What if you used your pillars, right, against the beholder and kind of trapped him in? Can you do that?

I am not going anywhere near. All right, all right. What if you're outside the temple and you cast pillars and then we go in and you stand outside? I suppose that it could work possibly. I just don't know why. But if you're on top, can you cast pictures from the roof? To where you want the pillar to come out of, yeah? Right. Yeah. So actually that could be, let's work.

I could do it from afar, maybe on the carpet. That gives us something to hide behind, right? At least with his eyeballs. Yes. We still have to go through the fungal forest, right? Yes. How long is the forest, how far is the forest before? before the city. So to bring the map on top here,

where you guys currently reside, which is this portion here. You imagine, based on the distance you traveled, you have about a mile or so before you get to the city. A mile. Maybe a little over a mile. And I wish we had some cold stone right now. I should be about a mile and a half before you get to the city,

which is about two miles from the. Does that sound amazing? We need to find a frost giant. We could leave this fucker here, go mix them. Peter butter and ice cream. Everybody's happy. My plan is growing on me. Should we nap?

Let's take a rest. Like this is super high. What are we gonna do? We're just gonna come in a few seconds, please? What are you to do? How's... Tomorrow we can stealth in and get some in- Yes, let's do that.

Let's do that. Has already been tempted to be healed this day. Oh, we can do it in the morning. Yeah, it's like a once a day type thing. We need you to stealth in and get some awesome recon. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But that means you'll be at risk. We're going to need to destroy the mechanism.

A suicide mission? I'm a fucking hero. That's the big one. That's where you say danger is your third. The big one is releasing the elder brain. We need to do that before we take it. We know. Okay, here's my thing.

Why do we need to do reconnaissance? We already know what we've already done as reconnaissance. Well, we saw through Keelot's scrying. Right. So we know what's going on. Somewhat.

We know that there's a mechanism inside that room. We know that that's probably what's keeping the brain. We should just go knock on the door. What we need to do Hello! I'm not necessarily sorry. We need to get up kind of close. We should do some recon. There might be being some creatures around there

that we can distract you to our advantage. I feel like we should get up close, release the giant, fly up over, do our shit, and then take it. All right, but we don't know how we're going to break that thing. Acid. We don't have acid. We have acid. We have acid. How much? I bring out the yellow vial. And we have this. We have

bunch of acid in grogues. Do you have that yellow vial? They have four acid vials plus that. This is the thing that's going to hurt it the most. We don't know. They could make it stronger. Well, I mean, I could do some, like, heat metal and... You know, it's a bit.

Did you turn this in, like, to an arrow? I feel like we should save that acid for the beholder. Remember, the argument was also that it'll be magically treated to withstand gentle or simple acids. I'm going to take... Well, the elder brain casing was. It's not necessarily... I want to experiment on the liquid... The brass cross.

Yeah. I want to do a couple things. I want to first take... Using my little kit, I want to just bigger off a tiny bit of it and expose it to some organic matter to see how it reacts. Okay. And expose it to a little organic matter to see how it reacts. Okay.

You take a bit of the kind of swirling yellow orgish viscous fluid out of, you place it against some organic matter, which you find somewhere in the vicinity, partially rotted chunks of flesh from the pile that the formorian was sleeping on. As you place it on, it blackens the flesh around it, and there is a sizzling sound. Interesting. Yes. Now I want to try it on some inorganic manner.

Which organic matter? Do we have any metal? I have a dagger that I never used. I have a sword. I have some rusty instruments. Rusty instruments. That's a tourier room. You have a rusty chambot.

Oh. Sorry. I don't understand. I don't understand. I use my minor illusion to create out. I would like a couple things. I would like one of the rusty instruments and I would like one of the diamonds, please.

No. Yeah, you can have it. Here. Oh, Percy, why? So that we find out if it's going to be useful, if it's just acid, it won't do a thing to the diamond. How about a sapphire? Or a sapphire fine.

Then my fine blue sapphire that's been in here for a year and a half. The diamonds are super strong. Here have some cold stone. Some cold stone. I want to try it on some ice cream with peanut butter. I'm just saying. I want to mix the acid in. Let it talk to you.

Let it talk to you. I don't know what's like raisins. So you're putting it on one of the rusty instruments. All right. And on a sapphire. What's our rusty trombone? Oh, right. Really?

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No. So, as you take a data bit and you place it on the rusty instrument, which actually looks like some weird hooked crowbar type implement. The rust immediately cleans off and the metal underneath begins to slowly warp and bend and then dissolve at the place. It's good. Placing it on the sapphire, it kind of coats it, slips off, and begins to burn the ground around it with the sapphire. Interesting. All right. Good on metal. Good on metal. Not so good necessarily. If the glass, if the glass is good, if the glass is good, The gloss will break if the gloss is something else.

Saffire undamished. We may have to burrow through it. Saffire is okay then? Is it clean? Does it have any advances? It's coming back to me. Don't reach for it. It's, it's... I'm going to clean off the sapphire. It looks like there are very, very minor pock marks across the surface. Um, but yeah.

We're good. Whatever the metal? We're very, very good. I'll take the sapphire, bag. I can possibly, I'll make sure I learn heat metal and I can heat the edges, like of the crossbe. of the cross beams. Nice, okay. And then if we can maybe even,

if we can have like grog bring up something heavy. I think a big weight after we spin acetate. I can just be weakened it. Well, it's on the top of the temple. That's what I mean. If you can jump on it, but you'll be going down with it.

That's all right. We'll just heat it. We all got it. I'll love an idea. We've had a lot of success flying around, right? What if, and I don't know who does what, but what if one small group flew in with Tiny in the form of a mouse.

Oh. And then with instructions and drop him and in midfall, Curse Giant lands at the front door. And if you're on the flying carpet dropping him, get out of there. What if Curse Giant lands on the metal beam after we've already weakened it? Yeah, I like that more.

That's good too. Yeah, that is good. But you could go ape shit on us. No, no, no. Not if he's alone up there. What if we do it, do it, do it. I think what Vax is proposing is to create a diversion down there while we work on the metal, try to weaken it.

Yeah, the most of us will be do far more damage. Half the team gets into position on the top of that thing. The other half splits off, drops the giant, the giant goes apeship for like a minute, right? Drawing help away from the beholder, drawing attention down there. We wait for a minute, and start pouring acid and grog smashes in. with his fucking forehead.

Yes? Yes. Can we have... Can you, like, levitate or do something to... To move a giant boulder that we can draw on top of it? Of course I can. Let me recap on your... You looked in using your magics and you saw...

I mean, can we read... Tell us what she told about. Can we remember? I have advantage to recall information from me. about the deed. Exactly, what you had seen in the vision was, within this room, there was that giant brass, kind of gold, bronze looking structure that,

almost like an upside-down Christmas tree. It comes to a spiraling point above the elder brain pool, which is an erased platform in the center of the room. To one side, there are two large cages that contain what looked like some sort of skinless creatures that are currently being experimented on. In the far into that room, there is a tally that was set up with implements,

probably in the process of what Kavarn has been just having fun toying with flesh. On the opposite side of the room, it was shrouded in darkness, and that was where you saw Kavarn reveal itself out of the shadow. One question, if we break the thing at the top and the upside down, Christmas Street falls into the elder brain pool thing,

are we gonna kill all of the illithids in the city in one fell swoop? Yes. Well, according to Kloy, which at this point, as you say that, Clorida goes, that is not an option. Right, right. No, we're just trying to see if maybe we didn't want it to happen.

We just were making sure it wouldn't. It didn't. You mentioned that the elder brain was pretty protected from physical damage. Yeah? There was lots of magical enchantments and stuff. Oh, that's right. It is a powerful entity, but in it has its limits

and it's currently weakened for. Okay. What if you cast featherfall on it as right when we did it and then we can move it out of the way? It works on creatures. I'm not sure I could do it. I have a terrible idea. Great. Let's hear it. What if we break the fall of the device with Chlorota? Chlorota? What about why Chlorota? I'm so sorry. The giant tiny? Kima. He means chema. No, I'm saying why if we lure it into the center of the room and then drop the ceiling on top of it?

Oh, you mean? Yes. Kvarrivan? Kovar. Kloroto is currently stepping back with a look of confusion and... Sorry, this is... Your name is confusing to us. This is why we wanted to call you Clarence. Sorry. Sorry.

At the term, Clarence, you see the tentacles and basically, Oh, he's warming up to it. I think he's like... Cloroto, how much does the crystal weigh? way. Upside out Christmas room. I do not know. I was not around when it was created. I didn't know it existed until you sighed. I have not been in this city in nearly a year. It's, I think it is, it is definitely an option though. If we can lure it out of hiding and get it into the center of the room.

I thought the elder brain was directly below it, so it would have to step on the elder brain in order to do it. Is the elder brain directly below it? Seems too complicated. It's not about Tijuana. It wasn't a bunch of blizzard? It's a series of, the way you saw it is it is a cluster of brains that are kind of merged together into one large hive mind mountain. Who wants to go up on top?

Who would want to go down? What if instead of... Let's a crystal a more a metallic structure. What if instead of letting it fall, before we fully break it, we like take the rope and... and chain and then just like lift it and then take it away. Or just swing it. Or just swing it so it doesn't fall all the way

and it goes at a pendulum. What do the structure look like again? It looks like a beehive. It looks like it's made of metal and glass. It's a slowly like a spiraling mass of metallic pipes, tubes, metal bands that just slowly twists and comes to a gradual point, like I said, like an upside on Christmas tree. set on Christmas tree.

It falls. It would be bad. Very good. Right. In that case. We can swing it. Many structures like this, we won't have to maybe do any of that.

If we could just merely bend the structure, I believe that would compromise the magical integrity. Usually structures like this are designed for a particular arcane reason. If we were to merely damage it to, Grog, you could just as you do to place things. Are you looking to me to bend it? I was like, can you metal bend? This is awesome.

You want to see a lie, sweetheart? I mean, I could probably help as well, along with Carota, but you're also assuming as much how do I get to it, though? I mean, if we bring... Flying carpet. It doesn't carry you. It would only carry you.

It could carry a grog, and that's about it. I could be like that pilot at the end of Independence Day that's just flying up into the... I'm back! You are Randy Coy. any way, which I've always aspired to be. Are we 100% certain there's no nooks or crannies or holes or anything?

We don't want to go have a look. Yeah, we should go have a look tomorrow. Let's have a... Go have a look. Why? Why? Because you're assuming we know everything there is to know about the structure. About the city around it. Look, we don't think we're going to know anything. We're talking about a chance to gamble with his life.

Let's let him do it. Yeah, we should go, we should know all we can know. I'm wondering what more you're gonna find out from a flyby that I couldn't find out from my vision. Well, I don't know how to tell you the things that you don't know yet, because you don't know them. Hold on, Max, are you planning I'm going alone? That's silly.

Oh, good, silly. Oh, good. Still, so much. You can go invisible, we'll just take a peeve. Should we do it? Let's do it. Let's go. Let's do it.

Nap time. All right, so you guys take an evening of rest. So, back the game at hand. You all, after an evening of taking turns, Resting best you can. Nothing catches your eye, although occasionally you see a little bit of movement, very slow movement, just outside of your main light radius along the edge of the top of the pit you guys slept in. Just kind of fade it in and out, something.

Just drift it away. Eventually you all come to your Fremorian friend is just sitting there in a very unfriendly, aggressively passive manner just staring at the rest of the group expectantly. I offer him a sip from the cascaveil. He takes it in his hand, which in him it looks like a small mug. All right. Just a shot. Oh, he's gonna drink the whole cast.

He's gonna drink the whole. He feels the top of it off, breaking the wood. Don't do it. I will fucking kill you. Love. Happy. Crog. Look, Grog!

And I saw, I cast press, hesitation and make a much fart noises. Oh, look, he's farting. Look, I'm farting. Oh, that's my eyes. And I go, oh no! They're very sick. A wisdom saving throw.

Grog, are you crying? 12. If should you choose to, you manage to resist the urge to fly into a rage and smash your axe into the face of his entity. Entity. By your lip, you can taste the blood in your mouth. Oh, Tiberius sees of parts. Look at those thoughts.

Sue. I'll run up his fat chest and I head bottom in the face. Oh, shit. Okay. It's my casqueville! As Grog rushes up in a blur of angry motion, you see a trail of froth in the corners of his mouth. his head comes colliding into the giant.

I'm going to say for this, go ahead and make an athletics check. To me for the Behold of Fight three weeks from today. Natural 20. Oh, shit. He's really good. That is the natural 20. You don't fuck with grog's cascabale.

My clerics don't lie. That's our giant. All right. He's true to himself. And he's dead. He might be like a brotherly thing. He might like it. He might do.

So, as Grog runs up, full force angrily slams his Goliath skull into this large, Femorian, underdark giant, you hear what sounds like a clap of thunder nearby, and you swear for a second, one of the two heads are about to crack or explode from the sheer force of the impact. You see, Grog, whose head is approximately a fifth of this entity, has hit it with force so strong that in that breathless moment, you're waiting for Grog to scream out in pain with blood pouring down his face. However, it is the Fomorian who reels back

from the force to blow his giant eye closing in severe pain before he falls onto his back, stunned. As Grog stands over, staring down at it. It's only partially reminiscent. And in your fury, you didn't realize you shouted at it in giant. It kind of looks up at you. and gives you a nod of momentary submission as you step off of its body onto the ground,

walking away extremely furious. I'm grieving now. Leave me beat. Oh my god. Does that happen? Crazy. Right. I go over and I pat him on the shoulder.

Where is my casks? I'll get you 10 casks of a If we elit. If we live. I'll have allergies, Tony. I take my wheel out. What are you doing? He's so,

the mending wheel continues process. I've had that cap for two years, man. He's mending it, wheel. A pure, untouched, perfect, empty casks. Thank you, Ty, Bill. We will fill that cask with ails. Thank you.

We'll be. You can sleep the game. This is a promise cast. Thank you. It's all being it is. For H-Porture, should we call Wobie. I was trying to tell you that before you hit the creature, but it worked out.

All right, shall some of us stealth ahead to the temple and see what we can see? Or should we set out on foot as well? I was just about to say, is this look normal to you? Oh, my. You know, I've got a lot of flexibility back. Feel strong, but it doesn't look quite right. And it's disgusting.

Let's do it. It's real medicine. It's real medicine and what level of healing spell do you? Um, I still, we're gonna rest. Oh, she might want to rest it. Guys just rested. Everyone's spells are back. Oh, we just rested.

Just keep in mind what spells you want to have prepared. Okay. And keep in mind what may be ahead of you. So, be sparing. Yeah, it's just a foot. Don't don't feel crazy with you. I just want to be able to see. How do we know how much is left on,

we don't? The other healer. It looks like it's had advancement. It's like the fourth time we've done this. I'm gonna- 20 for medicine. Girl 20 for medicine? Oh, yeah.

All right, and what level of healing spell you're gonna use? Okay, so let's do it at a... Just keep in mind the battle you may have ahead of yours. I know. Shit, I'm not level to do it at, because since we're going to the whole-of-level one. Yeah. Level one. All right.

We're gonna do some serious guys. Sorry, brother. So 1D8 plus 5. Mark off a level one. Spellcasting? It's almost healed. We got a big battle brother. Shouldn't have fallen asleep. Ten. Okay, so through that, the medicine check, part of the the scarring from the lava burns that still remains begin to heal over. Most of the scars are gone. You're on the cusp of getting past your disadvantage but not quite yet.

Sorry. Sorry, your nub and lips. All right. Thank you. Lynn. Yes, what is the plan? Are some of us sending out on foot or are we just sending... The stealthiest of the stealthy go.

On foot? No, no, on the carpet. On the carpet. Yeah. A little recon and then we... Just recon. I'm with you. Go ahead and cast

enhanceability for dexterity on Scanlon. Brilliant. Brilliant. That gives you an advantage of your dexterity checks. Is it just dexterity? You can enhance it.

No, and skills that are dexterity. All skills are dexterity. So, stealth would have advantage. Nice. Nice. All right, so you have Scanlan. That's nice. There we go.

These guys here are new carpet. Yay. New carpet. That's awesome. It's a cool. We got a swimming car. We can roll twice. So as you guys hold the place,

the two of you drift into the air. Be careful. It's just us two? The two of you glancing down. Go-Well, bike. I'll miss you. Goodbye, my love. What?

What? No, no, well, it was, it's from a movie that I saw. What is a... Like, what is a movie? It's just like a flashing picture. Oh, like... It flashes. All right, off we go.

The two of you, hop onto the carpet, and begin to slowly ride it up past the tree tops of the nearby function. of the nearby fungal forest. As you curve upward into the air, you get a very fine view of the city proper. You can see a lot of these buildings in the outskirts of the city are rubble.

They have fallen in themselves. They have collapsed. You can see pieces of foundation and ceilings and rooftops that have caved in. And right in the center of the city is very easy to see temple, which in itself is essentially a pyramid with a flattened top. and top. There is that dull greenish glow that seems to just slowly trickle around the very

top of the temple. As you are just starting to crest over the top of the outskirts of the city proper, I'd say about here. Are you guys going over the city? Are you following the outskirts? What's your plan of recon? You guys are currently now moving this way. Plan? What's that? Well, we're moving pretty fast. I say we go all around. the rim of the city. All right. A rim drop. Both of you, both of your old stuff.

What? What? What? Eighth. He had two. A good side. Vax is the movie. Fourteen.

Eighteen. Fourteen, eighteen. Okay. So, you guys are going to crest around, and you look down, and it's very, very dark. There are what looks like these greenish spores that found pockets in the city, that give off light. There's this very, very faint luminescence within the city, and they get thicker and thicker and cluster

and make the center of the city more bright and easier to make out the details of. You don't know if these were placed there or they naturally grew there and just kind of had the ambience to it. But what you see in that little bit of light as you glance down are many figures walking and moving through the city.

What figures? Many figures. You can see humanoid-sized individuals gliding through the city. What? 20, 30, 50 illithid visible in one section of the city, each carrying two to three slaves, each some trolls, ogres, other dwarves, other creatures that under dark that at this distance you cannot make out their form. But there is essentially a thriving community down here of mind flares.

Some of them, it's hard to tell where they're going, but there are some going to and from the temple carrying small satchels or boxes. as a glide error, or actually they wouldn't be carrying it, that their slaves are carrying it for them, and they're just kind of keeping up alongside them. As you continue around the side here, you start getting more into the ruined area in this part of the town itself on this side.

It's mostly non-functional. It's abandoned, and you can see that this, the repurpose city construction by this colony has started in the center over the past few hundred years or as long as it's been here. It's just slowly building and repairing outward. As you crest around this side, you can see a far ruin about another half mile to a mile off from where you are. Too far away to catch any details of it. You cruise around this side and you hear the squeaking sound that you glance when you see what looks like a cluster of bats moving through the top of the cavern. They're almost buzzing you guys in the head above.

10 and 20 feet ahead of you. They're just coming back and forth over you. Yeah, central points. You guys take it a little lower to kind of get away from that. Eventually the bats stop harrying you. You find a way back around, come to rest, back at the camp. And just to clarify, the part where we saw all the illithed figures was on the opposite side, right? It was around this section here. You saw in this portion of the city, which is the only one example. The best you could see around this was this whole intersection right around the temple is pretty fairly populated.

with mind players and their slaves. So the... Pupidies a bit. Yes. Well, I'm only 62. I mean that big brain. Yeah, the city is crawling with Iletan. Right.

But more on the northern edge, not so much here on the side. And it's a lot. It's not a few. It's a lot. It's a city. Yes. We need the other. We need the...

We need a distraction though. That's the only thing I took away from what we saw. Unless we all go in from the top. Tiny and I had a meaning of the minds so we could provide a distraction. You want to go against illithid? I don't do a shit. He does not want to go against illithic.

Chaotic neutral baby. Yeah, but they're gonna take you over the guy. They'll take you over and then we'll fight you. Here's what I think is better. We take Tiny, transformed into a mouse, We fly over just when we're over the right part of the city, flick him in the mouse nuts, and toss him off. And then let him turn back into tiny as he falls into a pile of illetid

and keeps them busy. We need to draw as much attention away from the beholder as possible. I like it. I like it. What will we be doing at the meantime? We'll be going over the top and trying to get rid of the thing controlling the elder brain. We do not want that. Yeah, there's going to be collateral.

damage. No. I like the first half of that idea, Vax. Not flicking that? No, that idea will work as well too. I think where we should do is do the mouse thing. Whoever, I guess we make the effort

to go on however we can get on into the top of wherever we're going to attack those beams, as it were, to do damage to the thing controlling, whatever. That's when we should lightly drop in him as a mouse

because when this takes enough damage, which he should, as a mouse, the spell will wear off, and he would poof back into whatever. He should do it right on the beholder. Actually, I agree with that. I feel like he'd be grateful. Because that I think would be more of a distraction for the creature. A beast against a nasty beast is always a good fight. If he's being controlled by you, can he not be controlled by another bee?

Kavan seems very powerful. It probably would be a contest of wiltz. And he could turn the thing on us pretty. easily I'm going to win. Well, what if we, um, how about this? Why don't we turn them into a mouse and we can just keep them as our, you know, emergency pocket mouse. And whenever, if we need a quick distraction, then we flick them in his mouse nuts and drop

them over and... Poor mouse gnats, they're really... I like you. We need all the people in the town of life. Clarote, I mean, would be absurd if we hurt anybody, and we need their aid. I suggest because I have a feeling that because this is his layer, he will have, and I'm talking about Kavan. he will have advantages

that we do not understand if we go in and we will have disadvantages We don't want to go in We're all open to an idea Get him out Have you got one? I think that is why

So if we throw Our rather large friend here And do the thing That will get us control And Clarota can help us manage everyone in the town Even the slaves will rally They don't like Clarota

They aren't going to listen to Clarota especially if they're controlled by another. Yeah, they did. Right now, I mean, Ferrogy puts the thought in your mind. I mean, basically this very strong organization that, without the town freed, I have no leverage with my people.

That's what I'm saying. After we've destroyed the mechanism, after we've destroyed the mechanism, yeah. That's why we cannot attack the town. So are we saying we want to go up to the top, we want to try and weaken the cross with the yellow and the acid? We want to drop Tittmouse, the giant, on.

on the thing, hopefully if it breaks. If it doesn't break, then what do we do? We rage. We make Coldstone. And also, I don't understand. We're talking about crashing that thing down, but aren't we risking, at least risking,

dropping the upside-down pyramid onto the elder frame? And that's what I was saying, if we can, we're going to tie chain to it. I think if we tie a chain to it, I think we break the beams and then air vac it out, personally. I think it might be terrible.

Evacuated via air. I feel like that uses way more time because what's going to happen is once it happens, it's all going to go to shit. So once we drop it, we should probably just fucking go. Well, then how about this? Why don't we concentrate instead of... Because, okay, it's a middle cross-beam thing, right?

Yes. Why don't, instead of focusing on the middle section, we focus just on two sides. So it goes, dingh? That's a good idea. May I... May I throw a wrinkle into things? Those bats didn't look good.

Those are eyes that he's using to watch things above. So we've got to get through the bats first. Or distract the bats or get rid of the bats. Bats won't be a problem. You see how this catch fire rather quickly if I... Maybe Keele if you can turn into a bat and tell them all to go a different direction. I can talk to the bats or I can dominate a bat. I can talk to the bats.

This is assuming the bats are going to be a problem. Yeah. I don't like the bats. If they come up. We'll deal with it. How about that? I'll make sure I can talk to the bats. I'm not afraid of bats. No, no, no, but the bats will ruin our element of surprise.

We have really an element of surprise at this place? None of it's a surprise. He knows we're here. Onward hoe? Let's do it. Onward ho. Oh, God, we're going to die. Let's do it. Come on.

Come on. We don't even know what we're doing. We're telling into the ocean. Let's run into that. Yes. Kima has finished wrapping the leather on the handle of the great mall that she's holding. Grasters in her hands, her armor freshly polished after waking up and looks at rest to you and says,

I'm ready to walk into the great halls of the warrior minds before us. No. No. Do you have any ideas real quick? Were you hearing anything we were saying? Kima? I mean, there's a lot of ideas thrown out,

but do you have any idea? Do you have anything to contribute? Kima looks at you for a second and pulls her own holy symbol out and says, The guidance of Bahamette has not steered me astray as of yet. and your deity also has brought you down here for a great cause. I think as long as they're both looking over us,

and we are straight and true with our intent, we shall be fine. As far as the tactics, they seem sound as long as we can maintain the element of surprise. I feel that if that is given up, we may have to improvise. An improvisation scares me. Okay, okay.

So everything we can possibly do to maintain a very quiet arrival, is going to be the key to success in this. Okay. So that's either a distraction or taking care of the bats. What if, okay. I mean I could fog cloud us, we could look like a big floating cloud.

Yeah, but if we're float, so we're gonna float right away from the fog. What if we use like a giant net and two of us get up on the carpet and we use a big net and catch as many bats as we can? Does anyone have a net? Do we have a net? We do have a giant piece of leather

that makes us look like rock. back in Imam. She was great. All right. I still think we should drop tiny on top of the, or at least near the main ill of an encampment to keep them busy. Kavan's eye will turn there for a moment. We can, and we can attach the camouflage

back onto the flying carpet. They have camouflage? We do. Cloroda motions up for a second. It says, Oh yeah. So we have to consider. This temple has doorways in and out.

This chamber the Kavan had taken its ways to be opened and outside forces in. Do we have a way to seal these entrances? We are to do this fight so we don't have any additional visitors. Of course. Of course, we haven't done that.

Oh, great. Do you know where those entrances are? Kavarn thinks for seconds just You need the rota I'm sorry It's correct If I recall

Two doors to the room He doesn't need doors right He can make portals and shit No no I need a door to let in other people Well here's the thing are we trying to actually We're not trying to get inside the table We're trying to call it like a fucking dragon or something He can't dimension door in a dragon and be like

He can't call every single creature in the city to come to his aid but not something, not, he can't like have a... More than enough to deal with that. You can just draw things in from a bomb on the temple. Damage the device. If the devices damaged, he no longer has sway over the ill fit. So then we want people to come into the temple.

No, that's when we get out in smoke a mouth. Maybe just give up on the smoking out. Okay. I think hotboxes. I think hotboxing is now. No. Yeah. If I were to use divination soon,

how long does that last? I will not step inside. Divination, period. Is that the one where you call your deity? Yeah. Oh, you mean you're divine inspiration? Divine inspiration, I'm sorry. It happens the moment you use it.

It happens the moment you use it. Yes. So we would know if it's going, if she's going to help us? Or would she help us? It's not so much like, hey God, come with me. It's more like, please help me right now, something may happen that turns the tide. So is that something, just a question,

that I would do now or maybe in the battle? Maybe in the battle. Okay. Like, the moment you need the help is the moment it will happen. Most likely. All right. Just was having a moment with God for a minute, guys. Sorry, back.

Can we, before we make this journey, can we just sort of sound off who's on what duty? Right. Who's on damaging the device duty? I can give the four acid vials to whoever has the yellow liquid and wants that responsibility. I'll take... Do you use some of that, though, for the beholder? I want to save as much of it for the beholder as possible.

The yellow liquid? Yes. So who wants to pour the acid on the cross? I can do that, but it's... Well, are you going up top? I'm at everybody's disposal. I'm going to head up top just also. In the fight, I'll be more use from a distance anyway.

Who's on... Cushing? Shutting off those doors, duty. Is that a thing that we need to assign to someone? fashion like that could be healy would you're not gonna be a nice paint hole you're really you just say behind yeah you guys could you guys be in charge of closing up the entrances

I'm gonna need you do we have any spare glass vials? No one have you have military experience can I have one definitely a military operation I'll give him a glass file I'm flying people over top I'm a spare arrow right that I think we should all be on top together I don't think we should all be on top together. I don't think we should try and separate. Can I

borrow a spare arrow? A sparrow. A sparrow. If I have a second, I want to see if I can make a crude acid arrow out of a glass file. Take it. Give it to me after it's done. Straight up shatter arrow. Because of the rush nature of this, go ahead and make a roll.

It's a proficiency bonus plus. I will inspire him. Thank you, please. Everything is awesome. Everything is cool when you make an arrow. Can roll a D10 add it to the roll? Oh, thank you. Oh my God.

Yeah, nine. Nine. As you're attempting to fashion into the arrow, unfortunately the vial shatters in your hand. You take three points of acid damage. Ow. I wasn't, oh, I wouldn't have put the acid in yet. in yet. Okay, fine. It happens

at the process of you setting it up. Damn it. All right. Based on the rule you made. I'm having bad rolls for this stuff, man. Better get him out of the way now then. All right, so that didn't work, but... Damn it. Good try. I'm trying to figure out a way we could just conserve the acid, like if I can.

I'm just going to pour very gingerly. Okay. I'm going to just pay attention. And when he attacks us, what do we do? Okay, yes. Good, good thinking. Are we gonna fight him now? Are we gonna try and run? Or we're gonna try and lure him a rat in? Yeah.

Stay up top as long as possible. If you're not going into... We're not going into... What if we can just attack from the roof, from the opening in the roof? Your plan is to lead the charge into Kavan's layer. That's what's your saying? Do I have that frankly?

Not fair. Is that possible? Can we attack from the roof from the opening and the ceiling? Can we attack him from up there? We don't have to go in. Possibly, yes. Kimmy gives a nod to that. It's like, I'm useless at this.

that range, but we have a few members of the party that excel at that. Maybe we drop the thing, attack from above as long as possible, and hope the illithid attack him in addition. One last question. So his eye cancels out magic, right? Yeah. So the more places we make him look, the more of a chance we have to get it away from the magic users, right? So instead of just two people, why don't we do all three? If there are two doors and the skylight, why don't we have three teams? So he has to pick which one he looks at?

Nobody go in the temple, everybody attacked him outside. I mean, I can take one of the doors at the bottom and try and keep people from coming in. That's a really, that's a really good idea, actually. Corotope types happen says, The two of the doors are accessible from only within the temple. If you had two parties to enter the two other doors, they would have to go through the entire subfloor.

Find a way up, which you're welcome to try, But. Oh, I was thinking it was just like a giant pyramid with like one room. That would be the best scenario. That makes so much sense, though, that it's not. To be fair, traditionally, that's very similar to how people are. Okay, what else are you there? All right. That was awkward, I had to add to that.

Oh, yeah. Okay. It was a good thought. Well, maybe. Well, we could still kind of take a similar approach and just have, we're, we've already decided we're going to have two teams to be on two separate to do the slidey. Yeah.

The hingee maneuver. And then have a third team that's Kavarn distraction duty. Yeah. So we do distraction duty, maybe people have really high. So this is the beam. I don't know what I'm talking about. And we're gonna attack this one and this one, Matt?

Right, so if, if, if, like, so we've got this pyramid and there's like this cross beam, you said, right, Matt? Oh, is it like that? Oh, God. I'm picturing it's so fucking different. The top of it, which is open. Okay. So this is a, this is a pyramid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The thing is hanging. And then the thing is, if we can see through it,

the thing is hanging down like that. And it looks as all spirally. Okay. And then here is the elder brain. Pool brain. Where's beholder face? Somewhere in here. So we are going for one side of it. So if we go for, go for, go for,

for and it hopefully would go point and then I'm just going to keep breaking hinges until it swings Okay. Is anybody interested in going underneath the pyramid with me? Technically you could really into it. I feel like you'll be fighting a lot more things.

I think it's better to just go from the top and drop in if we have to. Drop in if we have to and yeah. And just scattered a different area so he has to look around. Keep him looking around. Can't stay together. And remember that if you don't use magic and especially you have one magic attack.

Don't try and use magic when the main eye is on you. No, no. But all only. All right. Are we going up? I think we should try this. So, okay, okay, hang on. What happens if this starts going poorly?

We're just bound to do. We run away. Actually, if everything starts going to miss, I will make the call. Follow me, and I will get out of here as soon as I'm. possible. How will we follow you if you're on a carpet and we're standing on a thing and or if you're dead? If we're all in different places. If I'm dead then I'm afraid none of you will survive. But if we're all, if we're all around the room, let's say we've, let's say we've gone in there and it's

falling off and we're all around the thing. You can't all whip us out of there. We have to be in one right? Who would be? What? Yeah, okay. We all have to be on the carpet? Is that a carpet? No, no, no, it's awesome. Like you can't teleport a room out. We have to be together, right? I can make a portal that you can all step in and benefit to... We have to be near you, right? We have to be where I cast it gets. Yeah. So if you make the portal, you have to get to the portal.

Yes. We might not have that luxury. We might not. Wait, do we need, like, as you have a ...avenson door, a safe location? We have a runaway word, like a safety word and like a... How about, oh God, we're all going to die, run away, run away right now. My God, my God, we're all going to die.

Oh, Percy, yes. I believe it's this. Leave it. Yes. Yes, we'll do this. I'll do the signal. Just to clarify, before we go, I am dropping a giant mouse in there, right? Yes.

You are. Muppets. Going up on Thursday. Oh, God, okay, so are we doing it? Come on, let's go have some fun. He's just sitting here off his. He loves her ball under her shoulder and gives you a look and goes, Yes.

This day, we save Craghammer, Cliff Keene. keep mountains and quite possibly the future of Taldore. Or we fall, and others will come to try and finish our journey. I want to go out of these. Good pepper. Either way, we do this as heroes. We do this together. We do this together.

She puts her hand out in the center. Oh, oh. Chlorota, you're gonna put your... Clorota slowly hovers towards the center. Yeah, Glorah. about the... These terrible, long, langy fingers almost wrap around the cluster of hands at the top.

It's cold, nasty. Trigot comes up and knuckles the center. Kimo once more says, Wavok's makina! Vox! Vakina! We're a well-oiled. Let's go do the stupidest thing we've ever done.

What are you thinking over there? How are we getting that? So, all in probably, like, we're still coming in. I know, I know. We're all still coming in through one area, though. It's like the fatal funnel. It's like a doorway. If you all come in through the doorway, you're all in one spot. It's also an easy way out.

It worked for the Spartans in that awesome 300. This guy has like 12 dick finger eyes. It's all bad. It's all bad. That one finger eyes? It's not how that works. All right. Shut up.

Sorry. It's awesome in the topic. So what is the process here? What is the plan? Question, when you guys are flying our head, the top of the temple is wide enough for us to stand on, yeah? It's got a massive crossbeam supporting a giant art structure. It's about, I'd say, 20 foot by 20 foot. So yes.

So it's a pretty wide square. The wall, can we stand on the wall of the temple? Oh yeah, there's like a five foot wall in the edge. Okay, okay. I have one more plan just to throw it out there. I'm all yours. It just occurred to me. It just occurred to me.

Okay. It could get us into the temple a different way, but not not into the chamber. Okay. I can make us all look like illithins. They're psychic. He'll read our minds. He's already in our hands.

He could read our minds, but we'll be outside. The world would they know. And says, piercing in your mind with a force of honesty and almost condescending essence, it 10 feet before the brain is pulled from your skull. So that's a no? Typically, it's yes and chlorosa, but

All right, all right. Good, then let's just go dive bomb with a big mouse. No, I... Is, Vox Machina! Yeah. We do have a thousand foot teleport. They did all die.

I did not. The Florian stands up. For ground forces, we do have a thousand foot teleport, so we could actually bring you into the room. If it gets to a point wherever you want to go in. I will go in underneath with you. I'll do my earth elemental thing. Yeah, anything that'll just split up where he looks. I'll go with you if I get to that point. Okay. The, um, the Famorian stands up with his club and looks to you and says an

undercom and, oh, I know, in a perfect door. What are we telling the, hey, hey, hey, what are we telling one giant to do? Not the, cross-or-or-hurt. Attack the, attack, attack. Attack the, when it's He's going after Kaporn. Well, right now, you are going to be mouse. Good. And then, wait for me to finish my thoughts. Hold.

Stay with me. And then you fight Kavarn. You kill Beholder. Smashing smash. Eat, food. Big eyeballs. Eat, food. Yes.

licks the side of his giant club which you can see is covered in this horrible mixture of moss and and rotting entrails from whatever he smashed the other evening licks it off and goes eat all right like slams his chest I like in my mouse confused-looking mouse you've ever seen. If there could be an expression of what the fuck on a mouse, it doesn't work. And maybe the mouse still. Thanks.

Oh, I'll just keep him with me. I scratch him behind me. All right, let's go. Who's in the carpet? Uh, we always do it, don't we? Don't we know the gnomes fly? Yeah. How does Grog get anywhere?

I forget. Are we gonna polymoth grog? No, no, you'll levitate me, right? I don't know. I cast fly on him and I hop on his back. All right It's even better This time you can see

That's true It should be a lot smoother Okay so Percy Beck's backs on the plank carpet And trinket And I'll be on the carpet Trinket can't be on the carpet Can anybody shrink it too heavy for the carpet? Can anybody shrink it too?

It's Trinket worth it? Scanlan spell. Oh no he didn't. Of course Trinkie was worth it. I was saying I was being bizarro scamblin. Are you who can shrink my bad? Keeleth, are you, are you Hawking carrying the gnomes? Please. No, we're all on magic carpeting. No, we can fit six people on the carpet. Yes. This is what we always do. Can you carry the mons? Can you carry on Trinket and ride him? I'll ride him. Somebody has fun. Can we? Here's the thing. If I turn into a hawk, I won't be able to

turn into an earth elemental. We don't want to sacrifice that. No. Why don't we, is it possible to drop off a group and then go back and get the rest? I can't attack my room. Why don't? Can we make two trips? We have two carpets now, Matt.

We have two carpets. No. Da-da-da-da. No. It doesn't work that way. You try. We have two carpets. We have two carpets.

Well, it's a mile. Hold on it. It's a mile. Boulder Falls Smashes Party. All right. So. Chifts. We're going to make two trips and come back for tickets.

Okay. All right. Two trips. Wait. So first shift is... Well, we can leave... Don't take offense. But we can leave Kima.

She can't do anything for us up here. She has no ranged attacks. She's useless. For the first time. In a so sexy way. That's not a complex. The female looks you in the face and says, regardless of what your plans are,

I'm bringing this hammer onto the head of that foul abomination. Yes, of course. But outside of here with me, because... I know I will not survive this. But I will be damned if I don't dent its face before I go. Which is why we're picking you up in the second group. And Lady Kimo, you must survive

because you must tell Laura of my deeds for no particular reason. particular reason yeah it's not like you'll be there to collect no too on the you know props if you die second but trip is first stealth stealth stealth they should go first and we'll fly the carpet back promise you'll take you have trinket if I go back right so we'll fly and then we'll fly the carpet back I'll fly it's too heavy unfortunately some bear I get from the top of the pyramid down in maybe you should hide here and

and live to tell us story. He's gonna drop me off on the first trip, take fly off of me, he'll get on the carpet, come back for the second. Kim just stay with the boat. No, he can't fly on. Because I can just hop on the carpet in. He's on the first carpet.

Once I'm on the temple, you take it off of me, and then you can put it on Trinket. But that's casting it twice. I'm casting it twice. But she can put Trinke get on the carpet. No, we can't ride the carpet. Trinket should stay with the boat as opposed to fighting a beholder.

He needs a diet. Those are your options. So Trinket fights a beholder or Trinket. As you have a discussion, Trinket comes over, rubs his nose along you, and gives you a look of like a very stern stance of, essentially that the feeling is Trinket wants to be by your side for this.

Yeah, Trinket wants to be by side, you realize. How the fuck do we get it out there? All right, who's on the first, someone's burning a spell or we're going in shifts? We are doing shifts, right? Yeah, aren't we? And we don't need to if we burn a spell because Trinkett's the one that can't

on the carpet in the first place. Everybody else can fit on, right? Mm-hmm. So we're picking one. We're either parlor mortg, or we're casting a fly-on. Hold on. Hold on a tick. How much can you lift, Grog? I mean, I weigh 645 pounds. So a shit tongue. Grog is not strong enough to carry a bear. What if you cast fly on the bear? No, no, I mean, one at a time. It's a good idea. Oh, we're still doing shifts that.

You can try. There's a good chance. He might drop Trinket on the bear. the way over from that height which would be a splatter bear can you cast flight on Trinket and then have Grogh ride Trinket yes yeah yeah they're like one of us ride Trinket well but Grog won't fit on flying carpet this is a really this is like a mind puzzle I know yeah how long does it take to make the trip flying over there on the carpet at that at its full speed I'd say it'd take about 20 minutes or so 20 minutes oh to fly a mile I cast fly and trick it's not a The carpet isn't extremely fast.

Okay, wait, and I'll do that. I'll wait, because I can only do it at one of the time. So what's up? I'll burn it for him. Okay, let's go. Let's do it. What did you do? Who's going first?

I'll burn it for training. Burned by. Okay. What does that mean? Fly. Not right now. No. All right.

So we go up first, then I'll come back down with the carpet. I'll cast flying him. So whoever. First batch. Vex, Vax, Percy, Scanlan. I don't need to go up. Grog is flying. All right.

That's a crux there. You're staying? I'll stay down with you. Who else can go? Is there room for one more? Because I don't need to go up. Oh, what do I, Kima and Klorota? And we'll say,

Hora-Kla-Kla-Kla-Kla-Kla-Kha. We'll go with you guys, because Kloa can stealth. Okay. Kimmel will stay back. All right, so. I pass without a trace on the entire party. Wow. Before we all take up.

Good. All right. As you guys all continue forward, let's see. He'll go on with them. Stay behind? All right. I'm going to in front of us using minor illusion. I'm just going to just create like a floating like a bald eagle thing to just

sort of distract the bats with. Okay. It's just like flying around. Everyone in the carpet, make a stealth check. Corrida goes invisible. What's the bonus? First ten. Yeah. Oh yeah. Stealth is in textarity. Hmm? Yes it is. 23. Yeah. You add. I needed that. You add 10. Yeah, I tend to it. Yeah. 36. Oh, plus 10? 31.

There you go. 13. 18 total? All right. You guys make your way. I'd roll three times. Over to the temple. The bats.

The bats don't seem to take any notice of your passage. You find your way slowly coming towards the temple, that dull, eerie green glow towards the top. The carpet finds its way just along the edge, to the point where you could see. safely step off on that little five foot wide section of walkway that surrounds the glass top. And you do see it. It is a relatively large, see-through, almost glass-like substance. It's hard to see. It looks like glass. It's about a good three inches thick, and the metal beams themselves are bolted into the stone itself.

They're bolted into the stone itself. Is Vex up there? I would love to, while we're here, very quietly examine. When we've arrived, is anyone going back? No. No, I... Yes. Yeah, people were talking about. Someone's going back. Who's going back?

I'm staying on the carpet. So he's going back. And you're going back to pick up to the other. And Grog slowly flies over and meets up with you guys. Are you staying back? No, I had to go with you. There's enough room now for the carpet to go back and take over to... And you went to...

So I can come back with the carpet. Yeah. It's because they dropped off. Okay, so you dropped it off. Do you roll stealth check? Oh no. Uh, that's... 19 plus 10 that was including yeah okay so thank you so you guys are left at that

point now I want to I want to examine the structure to see if I can find the optimal place and the weaknesses the structure whether or not it's more appropriate to to pour the acid on the stone whether it's better to pour the acid on the on the metal just to see where it would be weakest mathematically go ahead and make a perception check our example let's just be investigate investigate investigate investigate yeah Before I leave to go back down, Vex, Vex, you see it, we make sure to mark the beast.

19. All right, you gather best that you can, that the metal itself is essentially bolted over top onto the stone. If you were to run the acid along where the metal is kind of overlapping and bolted down on the top, that would weaken it significantly. The stone itself is not going to help much, but where that boundary is where it's essentially clamped,

That area right there is gonna be where you want it to put it to bleed through and coat. Good. All right, are you going back for the others? All right, are you guys just standing carefully on the edge? Are we waiting? We are definitely staying out of any kind of visible size

of a giant meatball. All right, Tiberius, you head back? Yeah. All right, eventually grabbing the rest of the group here. And I go ahead and cast pass without the trace on the rest of us. All righty, pass that trace second time. Thank God. Thank you.

You cast fly on Drinkett, which is a hilarious sight as this large brown armored bear all of a sudden is like, it takes good. Think of, think of Vicks. Go to Vex. Go to Vax. Can I grab it, Paul? As you say that, Trinket suddenly straightens

trajectory a little bit and starts finding this awkward zigzag, but nevertheless is finding some sort of purchase in this strange flying environment. You can see if a bear could have an expression, it would be bewilderment, confusion, and slowly trickling into joy. It's very cool. As you all begin to drift back over towards the center

of the sea, if I can get a stealth check from everybody, including training. Do we get a plus 10? Everybody on the second trip. Okay. 23. Yeah, all right. All right.

Don't forget to be a plus 10. Yep, that was my thing. All right, and for Trinket. Oh, um, yeah, that's... Plus 10, 16. No, plus 10 would be 11, because he rolled a 1. Oh. I saw it.

I'm flying. It's the first time. It's going to be a little rough. As Tricket continues, kind of floating behind. kind of floating behind the carpet. You hear this familiar... The bats. Sound as a cluster of bats begin to descend

from a darkened portion over the cavern. They're about 60 feet back. How far away is it from me? About 60 feet. Don't do it. I turn and I... Seeing the bats come in in bat language in like, you know, echo.

The bats say, what are you clicking on? I tell the bat. don't worry about it go home nothing to see here forget about it we're running an errand for go far

don't worry about it go home and get you guano box persuade those bats inspiration I'm not with her I don't know this is going on It doesn't matter what you're going to It doesn't matter what you're bads

They're bets Oh but I had a good role I know but you can't persuade beds But I had a good roll But you can't persuade bats I thought you said that But you can't persuade bets I was just fucking with it.

Oh. Oh, cool. No. I cast, I cast. You cast? I did not hear that. I thought you were just trying to do that. No.

I did this. I've cast. Oh my God. I missed that phrase, but I never come up with the conversation. So, anybody else here speak with animals as a spell? I didn't say I cast. Okay, I missed that. Okay.

I think you said I cast, talk to bats. Okay. So, what was your persuasion rule then? I'm not sure. 18. Okay, okay, now this comes into play. Good. As an almost to spell, this was a really funny moment

of Keelah's in my head. I was like, what is, okay? Go home, go home, bats. We all start going to go home, okay, the cluster of bats, you can see there's this odd green glow around them that is slightly reminiscent at the top of the temple. They seem to shudder in place as you're giving off

the strange series of squeaks and echo-based sounds, and they just seem, bring as opposed to going away, they just kind of stay in place as you guys drift further or further away. Hmm. Cool. You don't know what that means. It would be anything. Let's do this.

Eventually, you guys come down. You're now landing around the outskirts of this. You can be watching. I stay on the carpet. You stay on the carpet. All right. So, what are you doing? Okay, let's ask you this.

While they were off, what were you doing? I was examining and I've got four bottles of vials of I've got the three that we had and then I've got the fourth super that's a it's really distracting that's an omen of things to come who has who has the mouse by the way I have the mouse okay so I'm going to start by taking our normal vials of acid and I'm going to pour very gingerly right at the sections that I want to that I want to crack and start letting you further I pulled out an arrow and I'm tying the little tiny mouse onto an arrow and I also pull out

My climbing equipment and my 200 feet of rope out of the back of holding. Okay. And start with the climbing gear on. All right. Make a self-cham. Ooh. Pass about a trace. 23.

Okay. Does he get double pass without a trace? Are there any jetting stone things anywhere around? No. It's a flat. Smooth stone surface surrounding this glass top. Percy, as you've placed the as the a lot on the edges of the two sides, you've kind of slowly moved around and trickled it along with the,

where the metal beams reach the stone. The acid is having an effect, but it's a very slow... Okay, I'm going to take the major bottle of acid, and I'm just going to... Before he does, I'm going to just see if there's any magic protecting the metal or the joints

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So essentially you begin carving into it, but the little bit you use doesn't keep burning through. It burns to a certain point and then loses its acidity. Okay, I'm going to keep gingerly slicing it through until it's just being held. The minute it starts to give, I'm going to shift to the next one. You make your way about halfway through the vial before that one platform you feel is about halfway or more dissolved. All right, I'm going to take the other half and I'm going to work on the other. The one that's like halfway to-self-check. Oh, great.

Is there any purchase? Can a hand grip the metal and pull? It's built a way that's almost smooth entirely over top, like the construction. 29. 39? Do it. Good one. Okay.

So you empty the rest of the yellow vial on the other side. You can see the actual metal. The area where you dip it, the kind of yellowish liquid hits this kind of smooth, shiny bronze color. And the leftover material is this like thick, horrible, dark green color, the way the two mix and dissolve. You empty the last of the vial and the other beam gets about halfway dissolved through before eventually the last of it's used up. As I do this, I go to the bag of holding, and I go to a... to the endless rope. Yeah.

And she has that, actually. Oh. Yeah, I'm not up there. He stayed on the carpet. He's right there, though. And the endless rope. As I'm asking for that, I take out my immovable rod. And I'm going to place it kind of in an exit position

and make it stay right above there. All right. As he releases it, this rod is now stuck in midair. Okay. Engered permanently until removed by a stick in that position. And I start throwing the rope so it goes all. This whole time I'm just doing that, so it goes all the way. Croc.

Crog. Going to need a lever. We're going to need wrench. Get a blade into the metal. 25. Here, I can be. Wrench. And you're going to get the second one.

Okay. Okay. But it should give. So you've dissolved a portion of two of the metal beams in each side. You guys have a mouse. mouse kind of tied to an arrow. He's secure. What's the plan?

Okay, so I'll take one side and Graz's gonna take the other beam. And do what? I'm gonna start, I'm gonna take my staff, I'm gonna do a concentrated heat metal spell and I'm just kinda kinda solder right along the inside where it's already weakened. Okay, you understand the spell heat metal is less of a localized damaging the metal, What it does is it just causes a metal structure

to in itself become hot. Right. You would not be able to necessarily damage the metal with it. What you would do is you have to weaken it universally, possibly, with enough heat. Okay. But it's not like a blow torch or anything. Well, then why don't I'll heat the metal

while Grog is prying it to help? It could also hurt Grog if he's touching it, if it's that hot. Well, you're using a wooded handball. Okay. Using an axe, I'd imagine. Yeah. Well, we'll tag team it, though.

you're tempting to pop. You're just fry, right? Yeah, we're gonna stick down and just pull. What if we just give old mouse a year, turn him into a giant again and drop him right on it? It's not weakened enough yet, is it? It's not weakening it. We're gonna, we have to crack it.

That's straight down. Email ex-dart says, certain height, I imagine it, oh, I don't. Yeah, but we wanna save him. Let's see if we can do this first. Yeah, let's, this is not gonna be loud. How about we, can we? Well, it'll be loud once it breaks.

We get them in place and then try and if it makes a noise, we just drop him. So she can shoot it, you can like... Shoot them up and have them kind of down. Well, we can have Tiberius hit them with like a quick damage of film. We can fly up and just drop him down like a big giant... We need them, we need them to fall like King Kong for me in person. We can take him up, up, up and just drop him. Yeah, we do have a flying car.

How much does he weigh? The femurine, you imagine Polly weighs... Oof. I'd say three to five tons. This is what... That'll break it. Well, why don't we... weaken the beams first.

All right. I'd say about three. What if we give ourselves away, what do we lose? A lot? I don't think it's worth it. All right. Let's drop a giant bomb. As soon as the-

What do you mean? So if like if we try and we can and the metal makes any noise, anything, right, gigs up. Yeah. Well, it's good gig's gonna be up as soon as a giant. Yeah, but at least it's nowhere through. Like, we won't even have gotten through. But what if it doesn't bust all the way through until we start popping up.

I don't, I think dropping three tons on it is gonna see what dropping three tons. And even if it doesn't, it might be better than trying to create. I'm gonna do, I'm gonna, would I've gotten enough engineering information about it to actually have a, have a good sense on whether or not three to five tons would actually do it at this point.

Another investigation. 15. Looking at the sections of the beams that you've damaged, the thickness of the plane and the metal bars and the parts where they're attached, you're not getting a full view because you're not actually looking the room yet everyone's avoided looking in the room at this point but you gather

with enough speed and enough weight this thing would break an hinge pretty easily all right let's go forward I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm just gonna show where I want him to drop okay we bring him up how take him all the way up as they go out you know you don't know you don't look in the room yet I mean that's quiet yeah why not 20 feet can I just say look inside yeah no just back up okay just Can I just say, I have no idea what's about to happen, but it's been a great pleasure to walk beside each and everyone. Are you doing it.

It's been an honor to serve with you, sir? Why would you say that? All right. Screw you, I want my final words with you to be indignant and irritated. I agree. I think that's puppy cock. We'll be fine. We'll apologize later. All right, who's flying the mouse up? Have we attached anything to the top to keep in the spiral?

Yes. You're on a... We have attached something to that? Yes. Come up. No. But we're going to drop him as a full three-ton weight. I'm polymorphine him. I'll make him drop.

Weakened only one side, so hopefully it only smash one side. Yeah. It won't go straight down. Maybe we can even try and aim him leaning towards the part that will break. Leverage. Just shoot him wherever we need him to drop. Yeah. No, we want him to drop from the full height.

And the three tons, so we want him to be a giant when he falls. Oh, because he's fat. Shall we execute? Come on, let's do this. Do this. Fly it up. It's been an honor. It's been an honor to bring it.

Oh my god. On the carpet. So. Do you. Lou, strength the honor. So we die with honor. Tonight. So Tiberius in the carpet?

We die. I feel like I'm already just going to start crying. I go ahead and I. I'm like, oh. I'll take the mouse in your hand. And for a second, it's adorable until the smell hits here. Oh. Hi.

You all sit around the edge by keeping out of view. You can see a little bit of faint, light coming through the glasses and the general green glow that permeates this circumstance. Tiberius slowly lifts up. I start heating the metal beams concentrating from both sides. Okay. As you get over ahead, Tiberius, you get the first look into this room. Oh God, oh God, oh God, God, God, guys.

No experiment to use this. This is... This is a suck. I think I just kicked my pants on. I think Matt had things... We gotta get those present. printed in a 3D printer for this, so it's pretty, pretty cool. We gotta get the prisoners to try and help us.

I don't think those are crazy. They're the things we've been fighting. They're stitch monsters. Well, they're a question mark. Yeah, they're a question mark right now. They might be controlled by Kavon stitch monsters. That's the suck right there. As you glance down inside, you see immediately

in the center of the room, the giant brass structure coming to a point above the elder brain in the center of the room on the elevator platforms. you see there are two caged sections of the room that contain two kind of flesh, skinless, altered creatures that have been subjected to serious tortures by Kavarn. Kavarn floats off in the distance by what looks like some sort of experimentation table

containing glass vials and strange metallic structures. Dian, which side has the crew worked on in relative to where I'm looking at? Here. First we're going to go ahead and find, do they damage this side or this side? I'm not so high up. I don't want to.

Oh, God. I just don't want to do it. I'm just go scared. Everyone. I've already died. I know how it feels. You're good, you're good, you're good, Dirk, Dura, Dirk.

Use the boots. I won't let you dive hike. I won't let you guys die. Find your happy place. You're on it, you're on your game. I'm on it. I'm going to drive. Oh, look.

He built a high dive. Die with hilarity. We'll say, I'm not at all. For the most part up here. You're not chilling. The flying bear. It's a crazy roof party. So they have that at Costa Rica.

So then they would be working on this side, right? You guys work on this side? It would essentially hinge this way. Wonderful. Great. Okay, drop it. Drop it like it's hot. Hey on. Drop. Drop it like it's hot.

As you glide up Tiberius, far above, looking down into this. You drop the bomb on me. Before it falls, I would like, I would like, to rage. All right, is there any other preparatory spells that want to be cast this moment? Do you want to give inspiration to people?

Do you want to cast any spells? Can I see him? Can I just go ahead and cast hunters mark on him right now? Where he does. You're welcome to look over into the glass if you like. They'll do it yet. I will cast inspiration on this gentleman for his throw. All right, so, D10, you can give up to four people.

Oh. D-Fine. Pike. Yes. D-10, inspiration dice for you. Oh, for Pike. Grog. Okay, D10 for me?

Yeah. Feederate her attack, saving throw. I'd recommend saving throw. Percy. Yes? You're gonna get some inspiration. Thank you. That's, what is it now?

In Vax. E10. Wow. He thinks he thinks are gonna be useful. Thanks. Thanks, that's all that's gambling. I don't know. Back's at D10, inspiration.

D.U as well. Keep track of those guys. He's the only ones you get from the bar at this game because you used them up front. The buff spells that want to be cast at this point in time. Do we have bus spells? And so I can. I'm gonna

Byte. Byte. About spells? You have spells you want to put on? I'm gonna cast Death Ward. Okay. On

Grog. Okay. Is Rogg the only one you want to cast it on? I can cast it on more? Yeah, it's out concentration. As many fourth level spells as you have, you can cast it on different people and it lasts for eight hours.

But, hey, it's a fourth level spells. So how many people can I cast it on if I cast it? many force level spells as you have. It's one person per cast. I'm going to go ahead and cast a stone skin on myself. So death ward, if you go down to a zero, it'll put you at a one. It won't take you under it. Right before things happen, I'll cast it before. You don't want it? No. Cast floor on yourself.

I cast stone skin on myself. Does anybody else want death ward? I'm going to cast on grog and on and on vax. What else? On vaks? Bax. Bax or vax? Vax. Okay, so death ward. Mark that death word on both of you guys. Keep that in mind. I'm not gonna keep track of it for you. What does it mean? What does it mean? It means the next time you go to zero hit points, it brings you to one.

Okay. You can't die. Then it's gone. That's... All right, guys. You cast below on yourself, hold out the mouse. Aim. I'm going to aim and...

Unpolymorph him. When he falls. Oh, okay. Right as he falls. Yeah, right as he lets him go. We need the mess. Oh, unpolymorph! Okay, as the mouse descends out of the middle of the air.

Shit. Fremorian was tumbling down angrily, cascading towards it. There's a falling giant. Do we have anything that's gonna stop us from falling to our down? We're on the side. We're on the river. With a deafening crash sound, the Fumorian goes slamming into the glass.

You hear the cracking and crashing sound of the plains as they shatter. The metal structures, this is horrible breaking down. breaking bending sound as they bend inward and slam into the side of the inside of the temple. The Florian streaking down, slams into the ground from that height taking... The German badge does not like. Oh wow. 4.2. I was not impressed.

At that height, he's dead. He's dead. He's dead. If Florian, yeah, even in his hip-fight level, he is right there on the ground. Sorry, Tony. Because he's been enchanted, he can still attack, right? Well, we splattered a giant, you guys. As soon as that happens...

Oh, is he dead? Oh, yeah. He's meat. Whoops. Sleeping. So, as that happens, the entire structure tilts to the side. Part of it bends and kind of hits the side of the temple. And whatever strange green glow is at the top of the temple dissipates.

I swoop down and pick everybody up. What? You don't pick me up. You don't pick us all up. You're way up here right now. I know, I'm gonna start to... You're gonna make me out. All right, everyone roll initiative,

because Kavarn turns around immediately, you hear this very familiar, deep voice echoing from within the chamber. Nottie, knotty, I'll let the door open for you. Everyone roll initiative. What do you say, I let the door open for you? You wanna just come into the bottom, probably. But we can hide over the edge, so we can't see us, right?

Oh, he said, no. Oh, shit, fuck, balls test. All right. So, go ahead and we have 25 to 20 guys. 20. Yes. Are we leaving? I would be like 20 to 15.

19. 19. 17. 16. All right. 15 to 10. 10. 10 to 10.

10 to 5. 7. 9. 9. Pike, what you get? Seven. Thanks. It's good that I go.

Who's behind me? Oh, man. I'm the next person. He's good. He's good, oh man, or a bad o'clock? That's a bad for us. That's a he attacks first. That was a chema going last.

Oh. All right. Everyone used the rope. It's time to leave. Grog, you're up first. Who's behind? Can I excuse behind me? Do we?

Both 10? Can't only. You don't know. It's your turn. Most everyone's behind you, technically. So with the climbing harness and the rope, I speed rope into the room and take cover behind the pool. Can I hide behind the pool on the opposite side of?

Yeah. So you land there? Opposite of him so I can hide behind the pool. You're going around. You know, that area there. Like even going prone if I have to. It's hard to hide you. Oh, no.

What about the giant? Can you hide behind the giant's bladder? He's already landed. So that's your movement. Yep. You've landed. That's it. You can see now the giant beholder standing with its metal plates like haphazardly bolted

onto its body and the giant horn curving upward and in front. The eye focuses on you. It's pale blue color looking at you with a menacing of anger. Yet the strange sense of joy and playfulness. It's awful to behold. That's all you're doing your turn? Yeah, can I bury my face in my arms like this? Sure.

Like just place based down. Certainly try. Certainly try. Tiberius. You are coming down as fast. as fast as you can on the carpet. Yes. You get about halfway to the top of the temple with your turn.

Yes. Vax. That's all I can do? That's using your whole round to just fly down on the carpet. All right, I'm hasted. I'm going to throw three daggers down at him from here. Okay. At this distance, you are at disadvantage on the attacks because it's too far away.

Okay. So go ahead and make a great attack too. So where's my? Okay, that misses, well five, that's 16. 16 misses? 16. Uh, 21. 21 hits.

Okay, and the last one I'm just gonna roll it now is 17. 17 misses. Okay, so I'm hitting him with poison dagger. All right. You did attack before he does this turn? Does that do something with... Oh, um... Use an assassin?

Yeah, advantage, well, advantage on attack rolls on enemies who haven't taken a turn yet. hit on this is a crit. And he had a surprise. Yeah, it's not a surprise. He kind of blew the surprise with the giant form or crashing through the top. Okay.

So you have one dagger that hit? Yep, poison dagger, which gets three. The dirker, Durker, Durker, is nine plus poison with a DC of 15. Okay, all right, he is currently poisoned. Yes, he takes eight plus 10 points of poison damage. on top of the dagger damage. I love how nobody's saying shit because we're all terrified.

All right, that ends your turn? Then we roll counts. Yes. All right, that brings us to Vex. Hunter's mark. All right, hunter's mark is on Kavarn. Okay, good. So his eye would cancel out my hail of thorns attack? Is that considered...

He's looking at me. He's looking at me. Okay. Oh, that's true. Okay, then I'm gonna cast hail of thorns on him. Okay, so you pull your arrow, your hand's shaking slightly as you see this creature now focusing its attention on grog below. You pull out the arrow, you focus your magical energy, the shaft of the arrow, you know, shuts out all these different thorns and you release it below. Go ahead and roll your attack. Okay, that's 29.

29 hits. Are you doing a secondary attack? Yes, I am. Go ahead and lower your secondary attack now. Okay. The secondary attack, I wanted to shoot through my blood-seeking bow, though. All right. Can I give a plus 10?

War God's blessing? You can. What fuck is Ariel? 23. 23 hits. So as you release your first arrow, you fire the second one, you pull back, and the shaking in the hand is too intense. And as you're about to release it, Pike reaches up and touches your shoulder with her hand, and you can feel the surge of Sarah and Ray guide your arrow.

Your hand straightens, and your arrow strikes true to Kavar. Go ahead and roll damage for both. Okay. Get it. Okay. So I'm casting is a third level spell on the pail of swords. Where's my D10s? Okay, I'm so nervous. I don't, I can't find anything.

Okay. There's a D10, there's a D10. Okay. 10 on that plus Hunter's mark. Six, so 16. Already. That's the first attack. I know.

14. Oh wait, dude, I get plus two on that other attack, whatever it was. 18, yeah. Yeah, your braces give you plus to all those damages. 16 plus Hunter's mark. I'm sorry, my brain. Yeah, 16. 19.

And then the blood-seeking bow bleeds him. It's currently bleeding? For 10 damage each round. Gotcha, keeping that in mind. All right. Nicely done. Question, sorry. What happened to the big mind control device?

mind control device? Is that disabled? It's currently hanging right now. It's disabled. So the mind fliers, as far as we know, might not even be under- Could be. Yeah, could be free. Okay.

Okay. All right, that ends your turn vex. Yeah. Nice. Oh, and I duck back as much as I can, so I'm out of his sideline. Can I back up on the wall? You step back.

It's a five-foot space you're having, like, lean, and as you look back, like it's a long shirt. I crouched down to keep that. Okay. All right. So, Kvaran starts, Kavarn. starts Kavarn's turn. Kavarn now with the poison coursing through its body.

And March kind of just looks about and kind of shakes for a second. The eye stalks kind of looking in different directions. And just goes, I want to play. It begins to drift up into the air. Oh, we can fly. Good, good time. I didn't know that. That's cool.

Kavarn moves up, at which point you guys who are ducking down off the side, Kavarn comes into sight as he drifts up towards the top. Shit, shit. Where is the thing that fell, is it blocking any sort of? No, it's at this angle right here. It's basically kind of following the temple ceiling there. So, first thing's first. It's going to fire its first ray.

And it gets three eyes every turn. All right, so one of the eyes whips around. It aims at, let's see, should be at Percy. Percy go ahead and make a whiz, no this be a dexterity saving throw. 24. 24. You managed to just stuck out of the way as this kind of whitish gray beam of energy goes to shoot out from the top of the temple. A secondary ray. All right. Secondary ray is going to go ahead to fire at Pike. Me already? I was at seven.

No. You're aiming it. Sorry, I just got so scared. I heard my name. Another beam of shoots out. I just shatters up. Go ahead and make a strength saving throw. Strength. A strength save. Yes. Okay.

What would that, what is that? Oh, no, okay, I see. 12. 12. You have inspiration. Should you need it? Okay. You can add your inspiration dice to a saving throw

if you'd like. You can? Do it. Do it. You're gonna talk to me. Yeah, I'll do it. All right, so it's a 12 plus a D10. Roll a D10.

That's a 10. That's a 10. 14. 14. 14? So as you bring your shield up to defense, this strange kind of grayish green ray slams into you and you feel weightless for a moment

as all of a sudden you're lifted off your feet and carry down into the chamber floating restraint unable to move and you're just kind of floating in middle air right there right now okay and then the beam releases you go ahead and make an athletics check come on pike because your arms heavy mail don't What was it, athletics? A five. Acrobatics, type two. Our acrobatics?

Sorry, it's my problem. Oh, four. All right. Thanks for the clarification. All right, you take 23 points of damage as you plummet slamming onto your back on the ground and you're currently thrown. Okay.

Things are going well. It's a third ray. All right. Shaking so much. The third ray streaks up and is going to slam into you. Bax, go ahead and roll a dexterity saving throw. Okay. 24.

24. You see this deep, bluish ray comes shooting up towards you. You pull out of the way and it slams into a part of the broken metal that's left over. As it hits the metal, you see the metal, turn to stone. Ha, good up. You managed to just pull out of the way of the blast. That's going to end. That'll turn to Kavorn's turn.

That brings us to Perota. Mont-Pharota. Corota. No, Corota. No, Colosa! Hover down into the computer. Gets to about.

Of course you've been waiting for. We'll say for the purposes of this, just for eight of these, because I have one of the things to come up here. Say, Corota eventually. This is turn to flow to the bottom. I'm shaking, by the way. We'll say nearby over here.

Yeah. Is there alcohol over the water? face. He's gonna go ahead to the mine blast. You mean water? Fire water? Yeah. There's water. Fireball? Fire water? I do want, actually, want water. Can you pass for that? Okay? Yes, I want water as well. As Florida lands next to it,

grabs the side of its head and attempts a mine blasts as a cone in front. Kovarn just turns and laughs in Florida's face. Your kind has tried so many times. Of course. Big old toothy grin pulls across the front of the beholder. that ends Clorote's turn. Percy, you're up. Okay, there's still a, two questions. There's still a stick floating in midair

with a rope tied, correct? It's the movable rod. That's fantastic. I have a plan. Also, I'm curious about targeting shot. If I use a drop targeting shot, that won't work on him, will it? Oh, the one that knocks him prone?

The one that knocks flying targets down to the ground and then they fall. Uh, that, the wing shot, I would say that would, that would cause him to plummet a little bit. But it wouldn't, he wouldn't fall. He wouldn't do what it says it I can do here where he's going to hit the ground. Not necessarily. Due to the nature, you could lower his current position in the room, but his floating nature wouldn't allow him necessarily take a lot of damage from that. I don't hold off on that.

Okay, so I will, I will just, uh, I'm going to do a targeted headshot. I'm gonna grab the rope with my bonus action. All right. I'm gonna, I'm pulling out, I'm, shoot the damn eye. Pulling, oh yes, I'm pulling out the bad news. Okay. I'm going to take a shot,

I'm gonna basically take a targeted headshot at him. Okay. In the eye. Okay. Come on, man, come on. It's 29, I think. That hits. Well hit.

All right. So this does a couple things. Where's my... Oh, it's so jittery. I know. Where are my... Guys, come on. This is like a piece of cake.

One guy. There's like eight ofs is a D10. Where's my D12? Here we are. Damage. Damage. It's still bleeding currently. So, how much damage for that?

It's only 10 points of damage. All right. But the nice thing that that does, which is that for the rest of his turn, up until the end of his term, he has disadvantage on all attacks. So since the rays automatically hit, I'll consider that those who get hit by the rays

will have advantage in their saving threat. Excellent. I'm then going to take the rope holding on and I'm basically going to do a swing so that I'm out of range for me its attacks until my next attack. Okay. I'm not swinging down into the temple. I'm swinging around the outside of it.

Outside over here? Okay. Just say you're over there. Yeah. All right. That ends your turn, Percy. Kielith, you're up. Oh, it's me. It's me.

Okay. How many of a jump is it for me to to Kaferum? Uh, I'd say this distance, it's about a good 50 feet at an angle. I'm gonna do it. Um, fuck it. What are you doing? All right. Yolo.

I'm gonna run the carpet and I'm gonna do a swan dive. And- You're on the- She's not on the carpet. You're on the carpet. You're on the edge of the platform. Tiberius is up here. It's fine. I'm on the edge of the platform. There you go. Running.

And I'm going to swan dive. And as I swan dive... Athletics check, first. Okay? 15. Okay, all right. So you leap off and swan dive. And as I get closer, mid-swan dive, I'm going to turn into my Earth Elemental.

And grab them. And take them down with me. All right. Go ahead and make a rabbit check. To log physics again with the Earth Electoral. Elemental's strength. Form tackle this bitch. With the Earth Elemental Strength?

Yes. Oh, I don't have this book. It's in the Monster Manual. I'm going to say the strength is 50. Yeah, I think that's fair. I think it's five. We didn't put this out yet. All right.

That would be your strength of 20, so it's a plus five to the roll. Nice. Keep that book with you. What is that? I rolled a 19. Ooh, okay. All right, so.

Oh, it ain't nothing. You rat. You grapple onto Kavarn, holding onto his form. Cavarn is dragged not entirely to the ground, but is reduced to about that height. And right before I swan dive, I go, I yelled, or before he's transformed, I yell to the party, go, get away.

Or not. Let me be heroic. So you've dragged Kavarne now down just about like a 10 foot height and is currently grapple on him. So Kavarnas, like, br- I've got holding onto his eye stalks and I'm riding him. Okay, let's leave Keelew up here and just go.

Yeah, just go. Yeah, let's just go. Okay. Yeah. I've got him. Everyone scratch Kieleth off their t-shirt now. It's good. Mike.

No, no, no. Mike, it's your turn. It's me. What's going to happen if something is that. happens eventually. Okay, I'm gonna, oh, she's grappling. Grappling. Yeah, you're prone on the ground, so you might wanna get up.

Okay, so I'm gonna get up, and then I think probably it's time to do. No, you can, go, don't feel like you shouldn't hit things because of me. I've got 126 hit points on Earth Elemental and they don't affect my hit points. They don't? Once I hit zero, I go back to whatever hit points I have.

Okay, good, good, good. I can have like a tank, which is what I'm doing. Thank you. Okay, so if I use the divine, sorry, I just have another question about that, where I have a percentage, is it only for that turn? You use it once and you can't use the game for the rest of the day, that's your action.

And then Sarinrae just intervenes whenever. You ask what kind of intervention you want, what kind of age you want, and then I decide how that function is. Okay. It's a little early maybe. It's a little early. All right, so you know what?

I'm gonna do a flame strike, or, uh, Sorry, I'm so shaking. What's that? Sacred flame, I'm so sorry. Sacred flame. All right. And then, uh, I'm gonna send it on over to the go holder. Okay, what's sacred flame new?

It's a cantrip. Nope, that's not what I was gonna do. Fuck, I'm so sorry you guys. Where's my... I'm sorry, I know I'm the worst. I had something else. Flame strike. Flame strike. That's a horse of a different color.

Yes. Flame strike. All right. So fifth level flame strike coming out. Yes. A 10 foot radius in a 40 foot high platform. Where are you creating it? Um, just right by the bubble bird. Just right, right, yeah. Away from Clorota. No, Clorota's the... Fuckerrota. Smoke that, dude. Maybe you have from that like against the wall. I'm gonna, can I change it? I'm so sorry. Can I do... Fuck, Clorota. You're gonna do...

Fuck, Clorota? No. What are you doing? Pike, what are you doing? Guiding bowl. Gotting bolt. Gotting bolt. Sorry guys, sorry guys. All right. It's tense. It's tense.

It's cool. Gotting bolt. All right, make a range spell attack against Kavarn. It is at a disadvantage because of Arn is currently grappled. Good, good. Okay. So it's a 15. You roll twice?

Oh, I roll twice. Oh, I roll twice. Oh, 15. So 15 still. It's a 10. Total of 15? So you roll a 15. So you roll a 15.

What's your spell? Bell attack? Oh, yeah. Is your spell page? Oh, it's eight. That does hit. All right, so on a hit, the target takes 4D6 radiant damage, and the next attack

all made against it has advantage. Oh. She's giving so much. She's a little great. It's going to roll 46. 16. Oh, 16 damage. All right.

So the next tackle on him is at advantage. As a reaction, it's going to use one of its legendary reaction on its turn to, as it gets hit in and dazed, one of its eye stalks, bends over again. The same one that hit you last time is going to attempt to hit you again. I hit me as a strength saving throw again. Maybe it's a strength.

I think my strength is 14. 14. The race slams in you again, and you feel yourself, lift off your feet as the beam throws you across the room, slamming into the bars on the side as you hit them. The impact doesn't do enough damage, but suddenly these two giant fleshy arms reach to the bars, gush, and grab you and pull you against them.

You take, the dealer is about to die. Nine points of crushing damage. Nine? Yes, and you are currently grappled and held against the bars. Okay. That ends the legendary action, and I think you've used moving to get up. That's your turn. That gets us to Scanlan.

Boy, oh boy. You say you can take a hit? Go for it. I'm also going to do a lot of shit. Okay. Chain lightning scroll. It's the biggest thing I have. Yeah.

Do it. All right. So pull out the score. Whatever that is. It's a scroll of chain lightning. I can't cast it at my level, so it's gonna be just a 50-50 shot whether it even works. So Scandman, as you hold over the edge,

you look down, you pull out the scroll and again reading it. Hopefully the arcane language will come to you. Bits of it have seemed familiar. I need you to go ahead and roll a D20 and add your ability modifier, which is five. Ability mind. 10 plus five. 10 plus five, the difficulty is 15.

Oh, yes. As you finish muttering the spell, the actual scroll disappears in your hand and bursts into this strange array of purple color that then coalesces and releases with such force that you're nearly blown off the top of the temple. A bolt of energy shoots out, slams into Kvaran. I'm going to have chain lightning here. Ten. Damage.

How many do you? How many do them all around? Let's do this time. There. Yeah. All right, so 10D8 lightning damage. Oh, man. Kavarn does make saving throw, so it's half damage.

Nine, I need one more. Oh, here. Okay, someone do math. 15, 20, 21, 25, 30, 44. 44? 44? 44? 44, okay, half that's 22 damage to the barn.

Okay, that helps. Uh, I will say, you choose the targets of that target as many as three other targets oh get those monsters you can choose not to affect your allies on this oh you could release pike I would appreciate that I but it must even 30 feet of the target which yeah both of those would be I can choose the other the other guys in the cage yeah the cages yeah yeah that all right okay 22 damage to that guy he gets it halved as well 44 to him? Oh, he does not make a saving throw.

He's looking pretty rough. All right. This brings it to the new turn. I have a bonus action. And a move. And a move. I think I'll stick, but as a bonus, shoot. Shoot.

I've used all my inspiration already, right? Can I, I can't do cantrips as a bonus, right? Okay. Unless it says a bonus action. Okay. All right. Kima, runs around to where you're on the side, grabs the rope from you and says,

I need to do it, my destiny tells me to. Takes the rope and repels down, lands there. She is going to go ahead and use her action. She can't quite get into combat. She's going to cast aura of vitality on herself, which allows her as a bonus action to heal allies within the 30 universe. Ooh.

Yep, and Pikes with a bonus, with her. She cast the spell, grabbing her holy symbol, this white light consumes her body for a second and creates this kind of gentle, 30-foot radial area of divine energy. And she looks over at you, go ahead and you heal eight points of damage. Nice. All right, all right.

Nice, Kema. No, just, she can choose one person for turn. All right, that finishes Kema's turn at the top. Rog, you're up. I would like to run. Is Pike still being grappled? Pike is still being grappled? It's okay. Just rage. Just rage.

I'm already raging. Uh, please rage. Please, sir. Mike, does he high enough for me to reach? Is he out of my grasp or I won't know until I get there? You won't know until I get there. It's kind of hard to tell. Fuck it. I run over in a frenzied rage.

Frenzied rage. Whites of the eyes only and try and just swing over my head. These 10 feet up, you are 8 foot 7 with the great axe, you can reach. Yeah. 19 plus Jesus, 27. 27 hits.

Should I roll all the attacks right now and then damage afterwards? Yeah, roll the attacks now. 22. 82 hits. And 23. Hits. Fuck you.

This. Oh, well. It's a good round. I know. Yeah. Okay. Power them up. Kill.

Kill. 14. Uh, uh, Jesus, it's 14 plus 7. Um, 21. 21.

21? 29. No, it's, yeah, yeah, plus 4, 11, and then 18. So 29 plus, I'm sorry,

21 plus 18. Somebody keep tracking this shit. Okay. 40. Uh, oh. 39. 39.

39. Okay. Uh. Uh. That is... That is... Each of those attacks is reduced by one because your axis is only not magical in the front its anti-magic cone.

Right. Two plus... All right, I got those numbers for you. And there's one more because it's three strikes for frenzied, right? You already... Those three strikes. That was two. Yeah, I only did two.

The third one's not great. It was two... Oh, it was... Sorry, I heard 21, 29, 17. Sorry, so that was... The first attack was 20... Twenty-one. The second one was...

Thirty-nine. Thirty-nine? 39? No, no, it added up to 39. Oh, the two together added up. I see. Yeah, I'm sorry. And then six, the 13 is the last one, 13.

13, okay, gotcha. Minus one for. Grog smash. Okay, cool. All right. That brings us to. What did that add up? And if your turn, Tiberius.

You just now, shh, get, if you're using your full turn, you can get to where everyone else is. Yeah, but I can, like, dash and double my movement speed as well. Which I should have done. and last turn, because I don't want to go there. It's not your speed, it's the speed of the carpet. Oh, shit. Okay, well, can I still dash with that

and double that speed of the carpets? The carpet moves at a consistent speed. Okay, well, I don't want to get anywhere near that. Okay. I actually want to hover around to the city side, and I want to look and see what's going on with the crowd downstairs. Okay, so we're hanging over there?

Yes. All right, that brings us to Max. Are there ropes still going down? There is one rope currently that is attached to the movable run, yes. Okay, I'm gonna do something stupid. I'm gonna grab a rope. I'm not gonna repel, I'm gonna grab about, how high are we up? You are, about 50 feet up.

50 feet, all right, I'm gonna use my bonus action to get down to 25 feet and I'm gonna jump, but I'm gonna jump out in the hopes of swinging this way and swinging back towards the bar. Pendulum. That's what we're gonna pendulum. handle on them yeah okay to jump out and go whoo who okay so you grab the you grab the rope leap out in that direction catching yourself at 25 feet that's

gonna be your movement yeah this whole thing so you go grab it go ahead and make a athletics check come on man natural 20 as you leap off the platform or your hand your fingers clutch the rope and you can feel the pain as the rope burn burns through your gloves but you still hit that point in time where you You latch on at the perfect moment. For a second, you look right into the face of Kavarn. Swing back. And they come forward again.

Straight towards him. Straight towards him. Three knives, because I have friends right up against him, this is a sneak attack. Ah. Nice. Yeah. Drop some faith.

OK. Come on, critical. Remember, your daggers are right now. Not magical. Say again? Fine. That's fine. They won't pop back in your belt.

It's fine. It's fine, it's fine. Okay, great, that's great. That's a 17 plus this, that's a 28. Let's just go ahead and roll, that's the, to hit. So let's just go ahead and roll damage now. So there's no plus, I forget what is added for like my dexterity and what's the magic, the key,

oh, it's two for the keen deckers, so one plus five is six. Now here comes the sneak attack damage, six, Plus three to nine. 12. 22 for the first. Oh, and natural 20 is a, is a, is a crit. That wasn't your hit, that was your attack.

That was your, that was your self- That was, sorry, I am vibrating right now. Okay, so that's the first one. Okay, second attack is a 19 plus 29. All right. So that's, that is a measly four plus five is nine. And the last one, we use Jade in that, I shouldn't use the Jade because I didn't hit, I don't think.

14? 14 is nothing. Okay. All right, I'm sitting on the behal. You are like, now on the rope, on the end of a front swing holding onto it, as its final layer, well, final legendary action this turn, as you slam into it with the snake attack,

your dagger pulls out as the rope begins pulling you backward. One of the race turns to you. I need you to go ahead and, depending on the roll here. Worth it? All right. Totally for them. Go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw. Okay.

With advantage. Yes. With advantage? Yes. 8, 20. Total 20? Yeah. All right.

This kind of pinkish ray slams into your side, and you feel for a second the entire room's color shift as if all of your allies turn red for a second and anger fills your body. Oh, no.

And you shrug it off. Oh, fuck. I don't want to fight. We got a workshop for you. I love you guys too much. I can be charred. So now you're just, okay, night. You can't.

You can't. I have floating in the middle right there. Let's put you there for the time being. All right. That brings this to Vex. Right. Well, I'm gonna just do the hail of thorns again. All right.

From above. Yes, as the first attack. You have disadvantage this attack because you have an Earth elemental currently clutching. Oh, right. So 16 or? 19. 19 chest hits.

Okay. So that's 3D10. Wow! 28. Wow. Zero's look so good. Yeah they do. 28 plus I get my two for my brazers, right?

So that's 30 plus my hunter's mark, 32 for the first. Alrighty, nice. And the second, I want to do it with the fire stream. Okay. Okay. Oh, disadvantage. That's a, oh, that doesn't hit. Damn it.

What was that? It was a 16. It's gonna miss. Yeah. So the second I took it. The first arrow slams into it, sprays off and manages to pierce the side that doesn't impact Clorota or your druid.

Second arrow splinters off the inside of the temple room. All right? I wanna kind of duck down. Do I still get to move Trinket at all? Yeah, if he still got fly on him? Technically, if you're still maintaining concentration on that. Tedviers, you haven't done anything. No, he's no longer flying.

It's just hanging out next to me on top of a roof. Yep. I just pet trinket. You tell him the duck down. Okay. Trinket's already ducking. We're both ducking now. Duck here.

That brings us to Kavarn's turn. I'm shy. Kavarne takes 10 damage from the bleed. What about the poison? Poisoned off. Oh, yeah. All right. So, let me see.

So what the effect is giving him disadvantage was the, that was me? Right, from your headshot. Awesome. All right, so. Also, Pike, too, right? Did she have an invasion? One time, that's what happened.

So the first one is going to, all right, so one beam turns around and sprays this pitch black ray that careens across the room. This one is going to slam into, let's see if it goes. All right, that's going to go ahead at Percy. It arcs up. I need you to go ahead and make a... Live cover? Okay.

I thought I had cover, but okay. Cover, unfortunately, for these doesn't make a difference. The rays are magical an instant. You should make a dexterity saving throw with advantage. Probably. Yeah. 20, 15. Yeah.

You manage to pull out of the way. A secondary ray that's black as well, but seems to be just pitted with shadow that is pulled out of the air around it. Actually gives off the strange buzzing sound as it across the room. It's going to go for grog. Oh no

Frog. And he should go to make a dexterity saving throw. Come on, grog, go, go, run. With advantage. Get it. What is that plus? The top of your... Oh, thank you.

Dexterity. Uh, 15. 15? You try and move out of the way, but the beam hits you on the side of your torso. You feel a familiar sensation back when that Proto Litch was drawing the life force from you, from the infractory, in the factory that was so many of your chest.

It's so nice that time. I need you. You take 55 points of damage. Oh! What? Are you surprised? No. You're not in the room.

I don't care. Stop being so pouty. You knew this was coming. I'm doing it through here. I don't have any of you. Oh, boy. All right. And this time, a pale greenish ray

kind of streaking across. This one's going to be aimed at Scybearius. Yeah, and then go ahead and make a dexterity saved with advantage. What the hell do you think I'm doing? Stop being a dick. Yeah, stop being a dick. I'm angry at all of you right now.

18. 18. Because she's just casting dexterity. Absolutely. That's true. Yeah. So you duck out of the way and the beam just shh past you. Thank you, Keelan.

You're, yeah, totally. As it hits part of the stone nearby you, wherever the beam hits the wherever the beam hits the stone, the stone is just no longer there. It's like it just carved. What was this one? Very similar to what Queen Ulara did to the top of the throne room. That will end to Kavarns. As movement, Kavarns going to attempt to try and break me a grapple. A flat time. Go ahead and make another athletics check. Keyless, athletics check. Sorry, I was shell shocked.

Roll plus five. Huh? Roll plus five. D20 plus five. Okay. 15. 15. 15. Kavarn pushes you off. You lose your grip and fall onto your feet, but onto the ground there.

Damn it. Kavarn then... Do I have an advantage for that? Still? Do I still have a advantage for that? No, no, no. It's only for your receiving throws. Kavarn is then going to go ahead and glide back up. Look at.

Oh, you're okay? Yeah. Backs up towards the edge there. Oh, a tickle. That is going to end. Pervon's turn. Pervon saves against the bleed is not longer bleeding.

It just starts laughing. As you see black energy see like, black energy seeping it around. And you can see the visible wounds that Gragge's left are slowly stitching. No. That brings us to Cloroda, who's still kind of Covering their levitation, Quora comes to the ground,

and lands looks up, the tentacles pull back, brings one hand down in the arcane sigils that you've seen appear on the hands, both light up, and then releases a bolt of lightning energy up into the air, towards Kavarn. Okay, Varn does make Dexeri Saving throw, makes half damage on that, that is 18 points of lightning damage. And back to there.

At the end of Corota's turn, Legendary Action is gonna use secondary ray. The ray is going to be all right. Streaming up towards the top again, Scanlan. I need you to go ahead and make a strength saving throw. Strength. Three rays on its turn, and then it gets to make three individual ray attacks on other people's terms.

It's still technically speaking, though, we would still have an advantage. Until your next turn. May I use my cutting words on this? Unfortunately, it's not an attack roll. It's not an attack, okay. Then a strength saving throw. With advantage. Oh, with advantage.

Oh, good. Not good. Not going to do it. Technically do it. 10. Here comes the telecases. So a familiar beam streaks up, kind of a deep green color.

It slams into you and you feel yourself chucked off the top. No, no. Restrained and then pulled down with severe force into the center of the tent. Oh, into the room? But I don't want to be in there. And then the beam releases you, you go slamming into the ground.

Go ahead and make an F, make acrobatics roll. Come on. You have advantage because your dexterity. Oh. Oh. 17. No, 19. 19.

OK, you managed to reduce the damage from the fall somewhat. Roll. You suffer 11 points of damage, managing to land harshly on one knee and foot. You feel that's gonna suck in the morning. No problem. All right. Easy. Easy.

That ends potous turn per zero. All right, I'm taking, I'm taking another aimed shot at the, I'm taking another head shot. Straight into the face. Okay. Yeah, that's, uh, that's 29 to hit. Three nine to hit? Okay. Do you quit on 18?

Uh, I can't remember, did we? No, you didn't know. God damn it, no, I don't. So that's 15 points of damage. Okay. Uh, and he has, he maintains that thing where everyone's still, have saving throws. All right. Good. Awesome. I'm then, I'm actually going to...

I should in this last round, by the way, as a point, I need you to go ahead and make a Constitution saving throw. You are firing a bad news on a small five-foot platform at the top of a temple. There is kickback on this. I'm just keeping tabs on this. Okay, so you're going to need a Constitution-safing throw? Constitution safe to hold your footing because that is a big, loud, powerful kickback blast. Okay. 17. 17. It blows you back, but you managed to keep your shoulder. You're putting at the top and reload with your second attack.

Okay. That was almost. All right. Something like the mission if possible. Slidepress here. You're going to stay where you are. You're going to move. I'm going to duck.

I'm going to step back from the edge just so that I'm not in its eye line for a little bit and just a half a breather. All right. Rob. Keyliff. Fastball special. When we toss your ass up there? See if you can grapple onto him? Yeah.

Can you throw me at a side away from his eyeball? I can try, yeah. If not, it doesn't matter. All right, I'm going to cheerleader toss Grog. Okay. So I want to take Grog and push him up to see if you can essentially do what I did to Gavard. Okay, uh, Grog's turn doesn't come for a while for the next turn to come at. So you would throw Grog and then Grog would come back down.

Grog is just now coming off of the series of frenzy attacks. So you would hold your turn to Grog's turn to Grog. I would have to hold it. my turn because I can't reach him right no unfortunately it's just out of reach it's probably grappled I'll hold my turn then still grappled yeah I'll hold my turn would you turn it all right till grog's so grog's all right he was out of the line back at the top of the next round Pike you're up you're currently can I heal if I'm still grappled you can't move okay um break the grapple though right for a move

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Cure wounds, I'm sorry. I am so flummoxed at the moment. So nervous for all things. Okay. I think there are worst ideas. Let's see. I can do it. Worse ideas.

3D8 plus 5. No. 20. 20 hit points to six creatures in a 30 foot radius. Nice. So you can get Grog, Scanlan, Keyless. How many hit points?

20. Oh. Is that also including myself? Uh, just reason there's some centered on that point. You should turn it. So you can do it yourself yet. All right. Yeah.

Nice. Thank you. So 28 points to Grog, to Scanlan, to Heal. To heal us. Is it temporary points? No, she heals you. Okay. If you're full, you're fine.

Yeah. All right. I think that's your turn, Pike. Scanlan, you're up. You're currently face down on the ground. Oh, no, sorry, you're on like your pertin-y. You're not prone. You managed to catch yourself up there.

I stand. I look at the the creature. No, I don't look at the creature. I just sort of look at the creature. You're like, just kidding. And I will punch it in its face with Bigby's hand. Yay! All right, let's go ahead and pull this up real fast. How does the... What's the effect on the note? Hand is an object that has an AC of 20.

Strength of 26. Blah, blah, blah. This is the forceful hand. It's the clenched fist. It's a clenched fist. It's a melee attack. It's like... All right, so go and make a million attack with your game statistics.

So go ahead and roll D20. Deto-20. Add your strength modifier and your proficiency modifier. 10. 10. Right? The total of 10? Yeah. All right.

And you know, chipping away. Chipping away. The fist swings down. What you notice is the fist swings or swings upwards, sorry, at Kavarn, who is kind of loosely facing your direction. facing your direction, the fist crosses the front of his cone, and dissipates. The spell is nullified. His eye cancels. You gotta go from the side. Damn.

All right, are you still hurting Graz? As my bonus action, I'm gonna give Frog some more healing. All right. Yeah, yeah. So now I come to you with healing words. Now you know what. Grow? I don't know. Healing words.

All right, so that's one, it's four, it's one D4 plus five, it's not very much. Do I roll for that or does he? You roll for it. One D four. Six. Yes. Eight, I'll take it.

That's eight. That's great. Oh, you roll for it. I rolled, you get six. I'll take it. All right. I like you, Scott. Sure.

Great. That brings to Kima's turn. Yes. Kima, who is now landed and cast that spot. bell on her is going to go ahead and use an ability called Sacred Weapon. She pulls out the hammer and as she brings her hand across it, this divine flame gets to burn around the base of where she's holding it

and the giant head of the mall. Bad ass. She then steps forward. It's nice knowing you. To there. Actually going to move to the side a little bit there. That's going to be her turn. She shouts out, someone bring it down!

How about you? brings to the top of the round. Grog and Keyleth. Oh, I'm getting a donut. Hang on. Yeah. Okay. Fastball special.

So, gymnast, hi. All right, athletics check. With the donut was pretty hilarious. Actually, no, this is a strength check. So just roll and add five to it. Check. 15. 15.

But I'm also a giant earth element. You're pretty pretty huge. Right. Pretty freaking huge. I know. That high up. I would say you go ahead and roll a strength check as well as you're also pushing off of her.

Fuck, yes. 22. 22 between him pushing off the force of your hands. You managed to move over, leap in the air approximately at his height before you plummet. What are you going to do? Grab my ice dog. Horm.

Yeah, I'm going to grab the black horn. Ooh. All right. You reach out, go ahead and make an athletics check. Natural 20. Oh, oh, Oh, special! Grab on the horn and you're dangling from it right now.

You can feel just to the touch of your hand, there is this freezing cold sensation. As you look up, you can see frost beginning to build around the outside of your fingers. It's immediate frost burning your fingers, but you're holding tight. You have this giant eye moving in front of you, rapidly looking around angrily,

this giant toothy mage just behind you, with the tongue, lashing about, and this voice it's right in your face going, oh, you don't wanna do that, boy. Well, I have an intelligence of six, watch this. That's your action, what do you put? That's your bonus action. Can I grab and kick off and try and rip it off his head?

Or is that all the same thing? You can certainly try. I'll try that at least trying to kick my feet into his eye. Maybe the horn comes, maybe it does. Strength check. Natural 20. That's what you gotta do. Come on.

You have inspiration. Oh. Did I have to do the inspiration before I? No. No, you can do it now before you are. The other would be. And it's 10? 10.

Rad, 1D10 to the roll. It's 16. 16. 16. You grab you, you take your feet, and you kick off the front. That thing is wedged in there. Your body comes back flat against the beholder.

You see the eyelid has been closed from the impact to your feet and this horrible snarling sound. What are you doing? That's your turn. At the end, you're trying to go ahead and do another layer layer action on you. Because you were in its face, I'm going to say it would give an advantage. However, that's negated by him, so you just have a straight rule on this.

I want you to go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw. 19? 19. Yeah. Damn. For a second, you feel like the force of Kvaran's mind begins to creep over yours, and you feel the urge to start. suddenly turned to his side, you shrug it off out of just the general fury and anger,

realizing that you wouldn't matter, being raging or immune to charm effects. Ah, yes. All right, then you should turn Tiberius? Filled over here. Or as far as down as I could have been to begin with, so even Steven with those guys. What do I see in the town? Do I see a mass anywhere? Go to make a perception check.

No! Natural 20. Nice, dear. All right. Looking down, you look about the city streets, and what you can see is immediately a swarm of illithids and mine fliers heading towards the temple. Great.

I jump off the carpet. I cast fly on myself. All right. I go to where I can just right, hover. I want to hover above them about 20 feet away. And as I come to it, I'm going to flip out the carpet, get on it, cast alter self, turn into chloroda. I'm going to keep my original lungs.

OK, hold on. One turn. Yeah. I'm going to cut. I'll spend whatever estimate I've got to spend. I'm doing all of it. All right. So to get to the bottom of the, you get 20 feet away,

you said, which is you can get about that far at the end of the term of the metric carpets. You're about there, I'd say, on the outside. So you then, you jump off the carpet. You turn, you cast fly in yourself. Can they see me? Look at the crowd that's coming. You don't know that yet.

Like you imagine you're out in the open, but you know if anyone's noticed you yet. That's why I want to go towards a crowd. Right, but you only move so fast on the carpet. You come down to the bottom of- No, I dispelled the carpet so I can do double my speed so I can get there. Okay.

And then I redo the carpet as- No. You can't just like grab the carpet and go down. You have to jump off the carpet, leaving the carpet behind. I grabbed it as I'm going with me. It only floats at a certain really too easy. It's a really, really big, it's like a, boop. It's a six, it's a 15 foot by 10 foot. Clets. It's not gonna be as cool.

Well, then I'll just say on the stupid carpet, though. Okay, I'm just letting you know, you're pretty much gonna have to let the carpet go or take it down slower. So as you coast down, you get to about this point, you see you cast fly on yourself, or you're just gonna go for the alter self? If I'm like down at that level,

then I don't really have to do that. I'll cast alter self though, okay, turn into Clorna. All right, you're now in the form of a mind flayer. Covered rags, with a big old metallic headpiece. Do you actually, Sands headpiece. Clodero without the headpiece.

And what do I see when I get down there? As you close down, you can see a grove looks like three mine flayers with about seven slaves swarming in towards the front of the temple. They haven't quite noticed you yet. How far away are they? About 30 feet from you. Great.

You over there, quickly! And I get their attention. I'll stop and look up at you. Look of confusion. As mind fliers both do not speak through language, let alone speak common out loud. Look, I took the form of one of your own. Pretty much to get your attention.

We need your help. We want to defeat the one who's taken control of all your mind. We are the one who disabled the crystal to begin with. Please, come on this, with me. We can go. Watch faster. Up here, please. You make a persuasion roll.

Damn right. Plus 10, that's 16, plus 9 is, my persuasion is 9. 25. Plus 16. What equals you set that up that? Six. Six. Six.

Plus 10. Plus 9. Plus 9. Because 25. Okay. You stumped it. There's a really, really, really fine line here. Oh yes.

You could suck your brain out. Not if there are. How many of them are there? Hundreds. Hundreds. Two of them kind of look at each other confused and look back. The third one looks up at you and just continues inside the temple. Well, I guess that was something.

Great. Yeah, it might have been. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You didn't get my blasted three times. That's good. Yeah, yeah. Noticing that, then, I will go to, I don't have another movement, right?

Oh, that's your turn, yeah. Okay, cool. That's good though. All right, all right. That's what I do. All right. They're on their way. outside the box.

Max. You're right. That was the end the whole time. All right, I'm going to run. I'm still hasted directly underneath the mine player. And for the green. Carbara. Yeah.

Oh, sorry. Thank you. Yes. And here we go. It's clutching my man there. Ten, first attack is a 21. Right. Disadvantage on both those attacks because you currently have grog dangling from the creature.

Oh, okay. Okay. All right, so, okay, so that one misses. What a crap. Second one, maybe 15 misses, right? And the second one, come on, man, is 20.

That does hit. And there's no non-matchel effect on me at the moment, right? Because I'm out of his vision. So that's a nine. Correct. Yep. Okay.

Good job, buddy. Dagger slams into the bottom because you're out of the eye range, turns to your side. Any of your turn is going to use legendary action. Final ray. Come sit on me, dude. Come on down.

All right. This stock now gives up this weird yellowish, like a very faint yellowish, see-through color. It kind of scoops across the ground, right past you. After you throw the dagger, go ahead and roll a Constitution saving.

It's able to, I just don't know. I'm not challenging it. Everywhere. Even under, on it's tushy? These stocks? Aimed down. I was going off that. Okay.

All right. So what am I making a third? Constitution savings drop. With advantage. You have advantage because of Percy. Advantage? 18. 18.

All right. You managed to just dodge out of the way. It crests your arm, and for a second you feel the muscles tense up, and then you just shake off the effect. All right. That brings us to Vex. That's me.

Yep. Okay. I'm going, Greg is dangling from him. but I'm just going to try to shoot him. I'm going to try to shoot him with the ensnare arrow that I have from Percy. Okay.

Try to maybe see if I can tie some of those stocks down to his head with it. All right. Yeah. Like a hairnet. Yeah, like a little hirnett. Yeah, like a little hirnett. A good back at disadvantage. Yay, science.

Come on. The disadvantage was it, what was that, 20? Yeah. Total 20? Okay, that hits. Yes. Okay, so how do I do that with the entire arrow? Essentially how it works, the zip works like a ptangle foot bag,

and slams into it, you roll damage for the arrow. Okay. And it bursts over him like a giant package of globby, thick glue. Just... Yes. So more like hair gel. In a hair suit. 19.

18, David. You all right? Some dapper d'am. It looks a little goopy. The purpose of a tango foot bag usually is to stick something to some. something like a creature on the ground. So he's got a goop on them. Doesn't seem to be affecting him much.

You want to find another arrow? Oh, I thought it was like a f f f f f-f-s-s-sing sort of wraparoundy arrow. It wasn't like a, I thought it was like a, like a bolo. It was a bolo-wee thing. Oh, this was the tanglefoot arrow. It was basically like a wire thing.

Yeah, it was a bolo arrow. That's how was, that was how I originally pitched it was a bolo. That's what he told me it was a long time ago. Okay. Then, given that circumstance, the Bolo wraps around him. Hopefully taking some of the stalks pinning it to his body. Bolo's are used to trap creatures with legs when they're running.

Right. Wrap around and come up all over. It wraps around some of the stalks or parts and does seem to have an additional effect in the damage. Unfortunately, it's just, Bolo against Beholder, it's kind of square peg around hole. I know, I was just hoping I could pin a stalker too. That's okay. All right, the second one.

It made sense. Yeah, I did. With the burning bow. All right. So excited for science. Yeah. Uh, isn't I'm saying? They have no.

Oh, no. I didn't sit at all. It's just 17. 24. Okay, so. 10, 11, 12, 12, 16 plus 10 for the burning. Okay.

19. 19. All right, gotcha. Cool. As the arrow streaks it and slams into the side, you see the burst of flame and get the burn up its side. And you can see now, like the armor plates in the side of Kavarn, some are starting to like creak off

and kind of peel off at the side. The damage is starting to have a visual impact on Kavarn. You can see there's bits of holder blood beginning to pour down the side of its meatball like torso. Is that the new turn? And I duck down again and try to drop out of his view. Brings it to Kavarn's turn. Varn is going to attempt to shrug you off the horn grog.

Hold on, tight. Hold on. First, it's going to fly up. Oh, great, yeah, that's good. It's gonna fly up. An additional... Had to grab the horn. Can I move underneath so I can maybe catch grog

from where I cheerleader through him? Are you cheerleading something? Prep for the basket. Because I imagine it was like a... This is all happening in six second increments. six second increments man. All right, make an athletics check. This is very weird considering you.

In my head, this is how I see it. Okay. Do not question my imagination. 15. That's a shirt. Kavar nudges you. That's a sheer bit of force and your hand, let's go and you plummet backward.

Again, slamming into the ground. Make an acrobatics check to try and reduce the damage, if you like. 17. All right. You go ahead and slam into the ground. When you manage to reduce the damage somewhat, but your back cracks into the part of the stone

that raises up over the platform, you unfortunately, you reduce the damage some of but you still am taking 14 points of damage from the impact. Okay. And you are prone. How's Khamarn's movement? Now, Kavarn is gonna go ahead and fire three additional rays. All right.

All right. All right. Everybody was, ah. My form. The kind of pinkish red ray streaks across and is going to slam into you. Go ahead and make your saving throw. It's gonna be a wisdom saving throw with advantage.

21. 21. The beam comes across, hits you in the shoulder, kind of crows across the front of your chest. For a moment, you feel this kind of bloodthirsty urge fill you, and you just wince and feel it washed over here. Damn. Jesus.

All right. Second ray, let me have to roll that. All right. The second one is gonna go ahead and streak down towards Grog. Grog, I need you to go ahead and make a dexterity check. Yep. With, I'll say disadvantage because you're on the ground. But the advantage, can't be advantage?

That's true, so we should be ready to roll. Five? Five? All right. Regular roll. Regular roll, or? That was his first one. Regular roll, yeah. All right. That's a strong five.

It's a strong five. It's a pissed off Goliath five. He is raging. I am Kerry's Strug. That's 11 o'clock at night, fine. All right, Brog, you take 61 points of damage. As that- As the black ray that is carrying that heavy aura of shadow

just whee-r- and beams into the ground, slamming into your torso. What are you at? 13. Oh no. Second ray into Grog. Stretch the horn and really pissed it off. All right, go ahead and make a constitution saving throw, Grog.

Come, buddy. 13. 13. A secondary beam, this one with like a deep reddish brown color, slams into your torso. You take 36 points of necrotic damage. Death war. Conscious.

Death war. Death war is activated? All right, so as the beam is about to blast your body into severe shock, you, feel that surge of Seren Ray's energy guide over you and pull back with one hit point left. Kavarn, frustrated and looks down at you with your eyes still open and goes,

No! Yes! Ah! Ah! Fuckin dust! Can someone handle? Fucking meet. One.

Go ahead and make a, uh, strength saving three. Same, throwbrow. Again? He's getting it again? Natural 20. Yeah! The Ray slams in your body and you can see the telethonnesus being trying to move you,

but you're for the moment, you're just too heavy. That's going to end Kavarn's turn. That brings us to Clorota. Chlorota is going to go ahead and pull back and further here. Actually, Clorda is going to, one, next two, because my blast back. Nope. Go ahead and turn with another lightning bolt.

I'm so stressed out. Okay, Dexterousie St. I know it looks so intensely at a little plastic toy. No. Fuck you, a little plastic toy. I can't even look at it. I can't even look at it. 14 points of lightning damage against Kavarn.

Full of you, the eyeball. I'm like, fuck you. At the end of Colorado's turn, Kavarn's going to use legendary action to fire another beam at Grog. Tiberius. Oh my God. He hates you.

legendary action. Is this an automatic hit? Yeah, all the beams automatically hit. Go ahead and make another dexterity saving throw. Dexterity, dexterity, that's your good job. 18. 18. That same buzzing black ray comes back again

for a second streak slamming into you. As it hits you, you feel this sucking cold sensation as the soul is pulled from your body. lifeless. Oh! The light left Grog's eyes, laying slain on the floor of the temple. Oh, no. Just thought.

As that necrotic energy kind of drifts off of Grog, it pulls into the horn, and Kavarn, you notice the wounds begin to seal up a little bit. And a chuckle comes out. Who's next? Oh shit. Oh, my God. Percy, you're up. Firsty, you're up.

Charlie, collage, it's different. Okay, weird question. Uh-huh. All right, we've got a giant spiral machine hanging by two chains right now. Yes. I'm gonna peek over the edge, and is there a way that if I happen to snap one of those chains,

that that thing would go slamming into him? Very possible. I'm gonna pull over and make that shot. I'm gonna steady myself, sit down, and I'm gonna make that shot. Okay. Bad news aimed. up, you're aiming.

You're probably gonna have to move around to this side. Fine. Which is very careful around the two of them. Actually, you probably go around the other way. Yeah, so you make your ready here. You kneel down with the bad news. You aim for one of the weak points. The metal bent in ruin from the swinging of the platform.

Grab that horn, grog. Uh, 17. 17. Does not hit. Does not hit a not moving target? Oh, no. The beginning of his AC. That hits the platform. I'm so dumb.

So thank you. Go ahead and roll damage. 7, 8, 9, 10, 15 points of damage. 15 points of damage. Save big throws, right. Go and make the Constitution save, as the blast of the bad news threatens to push you back. 20.

Keeping your low stance, you keep yourself with the strain on the top. The blast hits the side of the metal. The metal streaks and breaks and snaps. The single bit of the contraption swings widely, slamming into the side of a convoy. Does not make dexterity savings throw. Yes! Nice.

Very good. Kavarn takes 36 points of damage as he blast of the arcane nature of the contraption and the impact from it slams into him, pushing him all the way to the side over here. So leaving you right where you were there. And you can see now part of the metal armor has completely been destroyed by the impact.

So the AC actually lowers for Kavarn. Nice. Hold on that. And just looking pretty. pretty rough at this. Cool, bonus action. I'm shooting him again. Ooh.

Oh, you mean the action surge? Action surge. Okay, so you use your second attack to reload? Yeah, well, I use my second attack on the road. Now I'm on my, yeah. You've, from unfortunately from not position since it's slain in this direction, you don't have eye sight on him unless he's

considered having cover right now. Have I actually moved all six of my, all six of my spaces for a move? To move around the whole platform, yeah, you would have had to. You can still fire, but he'll have a few quarters cover. I ignore three quarters covered.

Then fucking fire. Thank you. All right. I'm spending the last of my grit to do yet another headshot. Okay. On Percy. You are a .

Isn't he just a giant head? Technically, it's a headshot. It has an effect. Okay. I'm shooting him in the eyeball, basically. That's 29 to hit. That hits. Yes.

That's, that's a. What do you can do? 18 points of damage. 18 points of damage, plus the same thing everyone gets a advantage. Nice. All right, this Percy's turn.

Pike, you're up. Okay, I'm gonna, can I run over to Grog? You can try to go ahead and you have to try and break the, the grapples off. That's right, the Grap is gonna hit. All right, yeah, so you can go to do that. Okay, so. Come on, Matt, can't you remember where 10 people are at once?

11's, 17. 12. I'm gonna try this. I'm gonna put my hands on and try to cast Revivify. Okay. All right, so as you reach over, you grab your holy symbol, which looking down and you can see that crack is still ominously in the symbol, but you reach down,

you pray to Sarah Rae-Aid and aid you. Huh? He put it in the mending wheel. I remember it didn't work. It didn't work. Okay, never mind. You reach on and touch Grog, and his cold still body, you feel the divine energy begin to instill his form.

I need you to go ahead and make a wisdom check. And I have gnome cunning, so I get to, I get advantage on wisdom checks. Yes, you do. Which one from the gnome's cunning? Yeah, you do. So, what do I add? How do that on what? For her racial background, she's a good.

She's a deep gnome. She's such a racist. 16. 16? 16? I'm going to get that, it's something. Yeah, I care of the whole number,

you grow up. What eye is a bad eye of his? Known cutting is you have advantage in all saving throws against magic. Okay, so that's not a thing. Oh, it was okay, the high, the first one was, it would still be. It was 16. Yeah, okay.

As you put your hands and you feel the surge of warmth and some of the coldness in the air, is pulled back in as Grog's chest rises up with breath once again. Grog, the darkness fades and your eyes come clear. You're looking up on your back into the room. You're at one hit point. I'm pretty sure for five, but you're alive. He's one hit point now, so he needs a... Can you take potions? Do you have a bonus action? I do, but it's not my turn. You can I take a hit dice at any time? Can I give him a potion? Uh, I have to wait for my turn. He's right there. I'd say, yeah, you can do that.

Okay, I'm gonna give him a potion. I'm gonna, I have a, I have a, I have a big one. Yeah, we have a superior. Yeah, I have a superior. Put it in. What is the superior do? The superior is... It's like 100 hit points, I think. It's like 100.

Here is 8D4 plus 8. Oh shit. Oh, that'll do. I don't have one of those. Oh, those are sixes. La, la, la, la. Now you have three hit points. Come on, Grog.

Don't die. again. I'm trying to do. What's the amount? What you got? I thought the horn was like a party hat. Like you could just shake it off. Yeah, yeah, it seemed totally reasonable. We were with you. We were totally with you. It wasn't even his. It's like, I thought he was wearing it. 25. 25. 25. All right. Way better than one. Yeah. Okay. Go. It's something. All right, at the end of your turn, Pike. Kamarne angrily is going to use a legendary action to go ahead and fire into the beam at you. Okay. So you go ahead and heal them up. All right, go ahead and make a dead.

with a dexterity saving throw. With advantage. With advantage. Oh, that's good. 19. 19. You manage to dodge out of the way before it hits the stone around you,

carving just past Grog. No effect. However, where it sits the stone, you can see the stone is carved in this giant groove, like the beam itself as like a giant welding torch. I can't like that. Yeah.

Then it's your turn, Scanlan. Ah, oh, hey, oh, hi guys. Um, do I blind it or do I attack it? Blind it? No, I don't know. Can you find it? Is he looking at me? Where are you?

If you can blind it. You are down here, he is not currently really looking at. Actually, no, he was looking down at them. So, yeah, you'd be in the current cone. Or get out of his eyesight, remember. I'm gonna blind his big eye. With blindness. You would have to move your currently in his...

Oh, he can see me? I'm in his field of vision? Yeah. Oh, then never mind. You can move. You can move. Move out of the way. Just move to the right. Move out of the cone.

Okay, I'll move out of the cone. Pass Clorota. You'll be out. And now I try to block it. All right. Through the hand cone of clarity, of course. All right. That is a 20.

Blodded by the line. Yes. Rect of the dooms. Lola, roda, la, la, what's the DC of your song? 19. That's like, all right? You were a funny.

It didn't join me. Fuck you. Shit. As you release the spell, the Ice Stocks, turn and you can see the darkness that normally fades over the eyes. Just gloss over and dissipate. Great. Well, then as my bonus section,

I'll give Grog just a little bit more healing. Yeah, thanks. Six more. Take it. Thank you, sir. All right. So now, Kima's turn. Kima's going to hold off. Looks over at Kielsen says, you can give me

another one of those tosses like you gave Grog. Ooh. Oh, I got it. All right, God. Kimo holds. She's inhuman form. Around. That's just how she talks.

My turn? Yeah. My turn? Sure. I'll go ahead since she's a tiny drawer foul. All right, go to make an athletics check. What's that just a strength check as a elemental, I guess? Add five to the detour.

Woohoo! Yeah. Um, 23. 23, all right. You send Kima flying in the air, mall arcing through the sky as she barks the mark above her. A giant flash of divine energy just kind of sparks in, is left behind her like a giant trail. To the scott, she brings the hammer down towards Kavarn.

That is a 21 that hits. As she slams into it, Kima, he's going to go ahead and throw a third-level spell into divine smite. Doing an additional 3D8 damage on top of that. That'll be 38 points of divine damage. That's great. Slamming into the side, knocking teeth out, and you can see now that portion of the eyes starting to swell on.

Kavan's looking pretty rough. Kima, however, just continues to go. Oh no! And attempts to land. So stressful. Does not make the athletics check and takes. Okay, that'll be 22 points of damage from the fall. It's brought up.

fall. But I was happy with the damage that she dealt. Grog. Yes. It's her turn. Run away. Am I still prone? You are, yes. Can I stand up? You can. That's your movement to get up. That's my movement to get up? Yeah. God, son of a bitch. He's looking at me, right?

He's kind of looking in that direction, not directly down at you. But I'm in the cone of shit? You're just on the cusp of it, yeah. Cone of shit. Can I use the chain of returning to throw my axe at him? You can. Yeah, because I can't move anywhere, right? You can heal yourself?

I think can I use it? Can I heal myself after I throw it? Okay. Can I? Or is it one or the other? Put it this way. Since you stood up, you're now, like, cusping in the cone, the anti-magic cone. Any potions drink in that area will have no effect.

Magic if the actual potions are dispelled. I had to stand up. Let's throw an axe. Woo! Go ahead and roll, attack. It's like rent fare. Oh, oh! Oh, no!

As you reach back, you lob the axe. The chain of returning now also in the cone of anti-magic just snaps off the axe. The axe goes flying across the room, clattering to the ground underneath the corner of a here. We're gonna die. No, no, no, he's almost dead. The chain of returning's magic?

Yeah. He's almost dead until- Honey-Dell's. Do you think that has a name, like, chain of something? It was like, just chain of cool. Are you still running for Congress out there? That's not going to work. I head back up to the top.

Actually, no, I don't. I go to the side of the temple where the rope that I was throwing out earlier goes and meets down to the floor. floor. So I... Okay. So you head down towards the base of the temple block. Okay. Oh, no, no, hold on a second. I don't do that. I redact that. Okay.

I need you... Um, I go back to the top. I can get up there, right? Like, there. There. Just go fireball, like. Um. Yeah, just throw fireball. From the outside, just throw one.

He's all alone up there. Um, does he see me? Uh, I mean, you're visible. up here. If you can see him, he can see you. But you're not in the cone, he's looking down. That's what I mean. Like, is he looking at me? He's kind of looking in this direction right there. Oh, Typerius, burn him.

You're gonna get the fucking kill him blow, man. I'm gonna cast telekinesis and rip his horn off his head. Okay. Go ahead and make the check for telekinesis. Oh, see. Oh, you used to. Oh. Yeah, no, that doesn't. How can you read that? That doesn't hit. Um, so I'll have to spend. either.

Okay, so as you release, it's helping, he says, but you pull and pull, but that horn has definitively locked in place. Okay, um. Actually, I'm, too, look, and he'll take on the heat, watchers and that crime, it's really,

well, then I'll spend five more, and I'll attempt to rip off one of his ten. Awesome. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead, make out the check. I'm gonna check that last one off. Check this off. I'm using all these from my eye and so.

Okay. I, I, yeah. Um, uh, that hits. What is that? My 20... Oh no, fuck what I said, that's 29. 29? Yeah. All right.

So as you pull one of the ice talks, gets flung off the body, and you can see this like this spurred of brackish blood that spills across the area nearby. Oh, I hope it was a disintegration. Go ahead and roll 3D6. Oh, that does damage? Yep.

Four. All right, Tiber's a end of turn. I and I hop off the carpet and I leave it there. Okay. Or I hand it to, who's next to me? You. Or I just, I just hop off. Yes, let the carpet there. All right.

It's parked. You take this carpet. Vax's right. Vax was up for me. No, Vax is first. Sorry, go ahead. I am. And Kielith has already done our fastball special. That couldn't happen again at the moment. Correct. All right, so dagger, dagger, dagger.

Okay. That's 26 to hit the dagger. I was thanking them for their patience. Oh, sure, sure. 26 hits? I don't know if I'm in his cone or not. If I'm out of his cone, then that's a 10 of damage. All right.

The next is, I'm going to use a luck point because that will have won. And I get... It's your last luck point you used by the way, is 30. Yes, 25. Okay. All right. Swishes. 10 of damage, and last dagger as a one. So it just flies away.

All right. All right. So you chuck the daggers up, they kind of cascade off, one of them manages to slam into the side. You pull back to your belt and get ready for the next round. Vex, you're up. Okay, I'm gonna shoot an arrow at him, Hale of Thornt,

as a level three. Okay. That doesn't hit, that's a 14. 14, unfortunately, no. It hits the side of the wall, explodes, sending a sea. series of wooden spikes into the stone on the side of the temple. Okay, cool. I can't do that again, can I?

Alright, then I'm just gonna shoot him through the flaming bow. You used the flaming bow twice already, so you're not gonna use it. I'm not gonna use that, I'm just gonna shoot him. This is fun, guys. Uh, 23. 23 hits, go all damage with your hunter's mark. Okay. Get it.

13, 15. 20 points of damage. Boy is. Take it. All right. You want to do this? Oh! Oh!

Yes! Yes! Um, I want to, oh God, how do I want to do this? You want to do it crying, I know that much. I do. I'm crying. I want to shoot him. Is it possible to shoot him right where the horn meets his head and knock it off of him?

No. All right, they're straight in the eyeball. All right, so as it's kind of... Middle of the... Kavar's looking around kind of frantic at this point, realizing that this whole swarm of individuals are pouring into the temple, that looking around, you can sense that the, it's lost control

of the elder brain, it starts just getting extremely manic and- Vox-Mogg-in-up! Vox-Mogg-It-up! Another way of energy, it glances up at you just in time for you to release that final arrow. It strikes down, going right into the pupil. The light blue color immediately bursts into a

angry red as the eye closes over trying to contain the impact. The blood begins to pour out of the front of the eye. As the arrow, you can see, pierce out the back side and is jutting about six inches out the back of the beholder. And Kavarn slowly sensitively. Oh my God. Slams onto the ground. Fuck you, Biko.

That is how it's done. That ends your turn backs? And I hugged her, it's so tight. So on Kavarin's turn, what? Black energy begins to pull into the horn. Mother. And the beholder opens the eye again. Now the light blue color is now just a pale white

and you can see the jaw's little slack. But the horn is now glowing this intense black color and the beholder gets back up from his position. Wait, what? Wait, he's zombie beholder now. At which chemo is on the ground says, She! Orchis! God of undeath, of course! And she's gonna start getting ready on her end.

Oh god, evil, evil, god, evil god, even god, oh my god, is this like another... Orcus was the horn was from Orcus. Just two more hours, guys. He's not a dimmy god. Just two more hours. We got this. Kavan's going to take another ray attack at... Oh, this is like a mutty bed. Let's see.

So a dexterity save against... This would be... Kima on the ground. Kima fails. Kema's form begins to slowly turn to stone. Oh no, Kema's stone. She turned to stone?

Kema's stone. Her body's like, yeah, okay. Secondary one is, I've both known one. All right, can I get a wisdom-saving throw from you, Vax? Sure, I'm not worried. Have you used your... With advantage? Yes.

Natural 20. Oh! Wave of fear hits your mind for a second watching it rise up, but you've seen many horrible things and it's not enough to shake your will and resolve. Third one, all right, can I get a dexterity saving throw? This will be from Yupite. Okay. Jump.

With advantage. With advantage. 10. Oh. Plus your decks, right? That's a double advantage. As a dull green ray. fires out from the currently undead Cavarn,

you take 45 points of damage. That's a lot. All right, all right. Still alive, so long. I am still conscious? Yep, she isn't. I am still conscious. Good.

How many did you say? 45. 45. Okay, just to be clear. Is this in me? Okay. That's a lot. Fuck this.

No, this is the end of like Iron Man 3 right now. I'm kind of, I'm a little there. And that was a terrible movie. I loved it. Clarota is going to run forward and attempt to move in these tentacles on Kavarn. That's an 18 that hits. Come on, Clarota, if you're a fellow squiff.

It's 15 points of psychic damage and is now trying to grapple the tentacles around the front of Kvar, the side of Kvaran's head. That brings us to Percy. I'm gonna hop on the magic carpet. All right. Oh man, okay. and I'm gonna get

I'm gonna get myself down and I'm taking a shot at the horn. At the horn? All right. This is gonna be a disadvantage. Because I'm so close? Because you're on the carpet flying down making a specific shot at a very, very tiny object. Okay.

Oh, look, there's a man with a gun on a flying carpet coming in. 18. 18 against the horn, unfortunately, will not hit. It hadn't been for disadvantage. I know. The heart kind of juts back for a second. The shot just ricochets off a few walls.

You can see a bit of stone getting knocked out the side. So proud. Then your turn? That's the end of my turn. All right. Pike. Okay. It's divine intervention time.

Whoa. Yeah. It's time. All right, so using your action to call divine intervention, how do you want to call your deity? Um. Does it be anything to specific? anything too specific if you just aid me whatever you feel like just sort of aid sort of

very very well grab your holy symbol what do you shout out to sarin ray help us kill this thing go ahead and roll 2d10 2d10 go ahead and so roll the first one the second one 70 so you feel that this depth, Sarah's influence is a little too far away from you to come into this moment and you feel the intervention isn't quite strong enough to really make her presence known in this point, but you feel a sense of warmth and comfort knowing that at least she's looking over you, but thinks you don't need my aid at this moment. This we do. So, okay.

That's your action. That's my action. So now all I can do is move. Move bonus action. Um, can I, uh, actually, can I divine strike also? I think that's an action, unfortunately. Okay. All right, well, I'll just... Oh yeah, I'll take a potion.

Okay, go for it. Okay, go forth. That brings us to Scanlan. Oh! Lightning bolt on the thing with the bad guy. Lightning. Okay. Lightning.

All right. That's all I know. All right, lightning. And hell, I'll do it at a higher level. Yes. At what level? Uh, level three. Is level three normally?

No, it's level two. I'm sorry, level four. Level four. Okay, so that'll be 90, 6. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Does make you saving throw. Okay, so it's half a lot. Yeah, come on, buddy.

Lost one. That's by your feet. Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, 18, 18, 19, 20, 21, , 22, 22, 22, 25. 25, so 13 points of lighting damage. To the side of Kavarns in dead form, you can see part of the flesh is not blown out the side,

hanging limply, part of the teeth on the inside of the mouth are now visible. Still standing held together by the power of the horn. I give some healing to Pike as well. All right. Hey, hey, hey baby, hey baby, hey. It's late, it's late. Hey, baby, hey, baby.

What do you? It's not much. Oh, it's eight. That's great. Kima and Kieleth. Kema is going to stand up. Nine? Okay, great. Unfortunately, because she was prone, that kind of takes her turn.

What is the situation? Yes. Sorry. What was that? What was that? What was that? What was that situation with the hanging Metropolitan Museum of Art Peace? It's currently dangling right here, right above view precariously.

Good to know. Oh yeah. Can I, as a rock monster, go up to it and Just grab it? You can certainly try. It looks very heavy. It's very heavy. Yeah, so beat it in the face. I was gonna try and bring it down on top of Kavar.

Kind of in the middle of a bunch of stuff. Yeah. The process of doing that will probably take out a few other people. Um. You don't push the eyeball. I'm been just gonna run and just do a double strike. Now, you know what, I'm gonna run and scrabble him. I'm gonna grapple him again. Alright, go for it, go ahead and make an athletics check.

Oh, this thing. Yeah. Ooh. Oh, nine. Nine, yeah, no, you go to reach and the Boulder jump pushes you off. That ends your turn. Kima, turns to solid stone, locked in place. Oh, Kima.

Grog, you have no axe. Nope, but I got shit in the bag of holding, because I'm a hoarder. Can I, can I get around behind it by going to its left, going between it in the cage? Can I fit through here? Yeah. Or just to its side at least? You can get to its side over here maybe.

I'll take the side. Alright, you rush over. As you pass by, this creature steps forward as an attempt to grapple you. To the bars, that's gonna be a 14, go ahead roll off-Uthetics. Come on, you've been working out. 10. You take seven points of crushing damage and are currently grappled. Crushing damage is ahead.

How many was it, 14? No, you take seven. You're grappled. You're still next to Kavar and you just can't move any further. So you can still attack him? If you want to. Oh, really? Yeah.

Okay, I'd like to take the great sort of frenzy out of the whole bag of holding. Okay, that's let's admit out so that your uh put your bonus action Should I wanted the bonus action drink a potion but I'd like to swing it at the giant all right shit Go for it. The 17 does not hit. Oh, uh 26 that does it Yay then roll 2d6 for the damage plus your strength Oh, that's good 15 15 damage all right you slice through part of its body. You can see now three stalks slide off,

and you can see some of the brain tissue underneath, but yet it's still the necrotic form is holding it in place. Oh. That ends your turn. Who's next? Tiberius. How many stocks do you have left?

It has probably nine. Left? Yes. Yeah, I got a lot. Yeah. Covering stocks, dude. It's looking really rough, though. Okay.

My magic attacks have been using working from above Tiberius. Where is it actually? Right here. Is there anything? Oh. Shoot him. Sipset something. Get him.

Okay. I'll do a... I'll shoot a glacial blast at him. All right. Just a concentrated, I'll spike it right before it hits him and jamming in his fucking eye. All right. It's a Dexterity save, right? Yes.

Okay. It's 19, makes the dexterity safe. Go ahead and roll damage, takes half damage. Geez. Oh shit, I need D-8. Is 40. 40, is a half that 20 damage? How do you want to do this?

Oh, come on. What just happened? We're killing him again. Three more forms together. Get it. Two of ten times. Two of ten times. Okay.

Are you going to do the glacial blast? Um, I'll just, I mean, like I said, Right before I do it, I'll shape it into an ice spike and right through the eye. Okay. So you take your arcane form, and you can see where the impact of the arrow left behind from Vex is already still there,

and the eyes kind of slightly concave as the wound is open. You take glacial blast into one giant, jagged piece of ice, and you thrust it forward with all the arcane might. It hits and sinks into the eye, and as it streaks to the inside, it bursts from the interior, you see ice shards, piercing it from the inside out, as the form kind of,

Tink, tink, it lands on the ground there, as ice begins to slowly form and crackle around its outside. You can still see dark energy pulling into the horn. Get the horn a lot of it. I go up to the horn and I spend five sorcerer points, and I do kill telekinesis and rip the horn off as flush with your points do you have? That's it after that.

Why not, I can just rip it off. I'm a rock dude. Don't touch it. This is my turn. All right. All right, go and make your roll. What is that? Oh, uh, uh, that's, uh, that's, uh,

26. 26. With a sickening, tearing sound, you notice the shaking of the horn begin to slowly pull from the slightly dilapidated and decomposing form of Kavarn. As the horn begins to tug and tear the flesh stretches before eventually it's torn from the body. The moment the horn rises up, all that black energy dissipates. The horn held the loft in mid-air. The rest of Kavarn's form just slumps to the ground and slowly begins to melt away. I'll hold it in place for now

and kind of... What is that? What is that? Yeah. I don't touch it to it. No, he's telekinesis, is he... I know, but don't touch it to the thing. Oh, right? Yeah, it's like the thing at the end

of time bandits, we should just... Yeah, I just killed it. Don't tell me what to do, y'all. I don't know. I know, you're so honorary. You can bring you back in here. We told you to hit it. Wait till we're not fighting. Crazy. So as Kavarn's horn is now.

currently held aloft via your telekinesis. I don't know. That ends your turn. It looks like currently the battle for the moment. For the moment. It is held as you guys sit here in the center of the temple. We got a bunch of illiphyde coming in here soon. Yes, we do.

Look about you. The contraption destroyed the loose, pale pulsing glow of the elder brain, slowly glowing brighter and brighter. As I see that, I'm gonna flip this. More towards me. And I'm taking it now, it's hovering above. I'm going to hold it about 25 feet away from the air. All right.

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