Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 113 - The Final Ascent

Episode Date: January 11, 2022

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Welcome back. So last we left off, Vox Machina had made their way through the innards of the undead-ridden primordial earth titan, which on its shoulders was held the long abandoned until recently city of Tharam Fala from the Shadowfell, a city that once held the armies of Vecna, the undying king, who has since risen once more and achieved godhood in recent days. You traversed to this Titan, through its innards, up into the city of Thoramphala, which you notice the outer wall currently manages to maintain an arcane dome that holds at bay any of the outward assailing forces of the Wyvern riders or DeVosha, the brass dragon, where the inside of it contains in wait a cloud of various gloom walkers and apparently a skeletal dragon that just peruse the city in safety as you make your way through the street. in search of the now recently reassembled and standing Tower of Entrapis. Now upon seeking a sword that was, you were notified had historical binds to the hatred

of Vecna and hopefully his downfall sort of cause. You went seeking this weapon, apparently long ago discarded and bound within a buried catacomb of some kind, within a pit of acid, along with of many various corpses left over from an ancient war. And in doing so, unfortunately notified, Vecna of your arrival. As Vex passed through into the ethereal plain, the ring that she contained that kept any sort of scrying at bay was lost, and both Vak Sankeleth

came to his attention. Surprise. The both of you, all of you managed to flee back to Scanlan's mansion where the rest were in wait. However, with a notification fresh at hand, the skeletal dragon swooped into the chamber where the mansion was set, and on its back riding Lady Delilah Briarwood

and apparently the recent re-risen, Silas Briarwood. Teddy Sprinkles. The mansion was dispelled, you were exited from the pocket plane and barely maneuvering due to a very lucky role, having your plane shift dispelled, you made your way to the Faye Wild as a Hail Mary and where

through a dick drawing, made contact with the one archfay that you had encountered in your previous journeys. You are welcome. Vachtagon. Dick drawing her around the world. Upon being summoned and your knowledge of the strange time-altering nature of exiting the Fay Wild, you asked if it was within his power to ensure the condensing of the time passage were you to the return. He agreed under two conditions. When this was all said and done, you would help him assemble a doorway in the primaterial plane

in which you could visit your space, and two, upon realizing that Vax was of some undying or re-rising nature, wished to strangle him until dead. You agreed, and shortly thereafter, Vax expired into ashes. and you all spend time awaiting his return. So we left off with the return of Vax, but if there's anything you wanted to do over that period of time before his arrival, now it'll be the time to do it. Before his arrival?

Or his arrival? He walks back. Oh, so that we can actually do some spells that will be in effect for a day. So he takes a while to come back. He takes a little while, yeah. So we should do some of our spells right before we go to sleep. Yeah, for sure. Anything? Is that now?

I don't know. Is sleep now? It's up to you. We do need to do Heroes Feast. I have one Chalice left. Okay. But then Vax won't be in... Just leave him a plate. That's we leave him a plate.

Okay. Well, the spell, the meal appears for a short time. Then we need to do that right when he gets back. Okay. Does he... Right before we sleep. Yeah, hopefully he'll be back before. We'll wait a few hours.

We'll wait a few hours to see if he shows up and then we'll cast it to see because we'll have him to be able to do it. It'll be a hero supper. We'll say for the truncating of the wait period that eight hours go by, 12 hours go by. It's hard to tell time in the Fay Wilde. It doesn't not have a day and night cycle. It's always on the cusp of sunset. And the longer you wait, the more the boredom sets in, the more the stress of the coming fray creeps into the back of your mind. You find that it seems like far too much time has passed,

and you begin to worry, you begin to twitch, you begin to do search parties around the surrounding forest, the possibility he returned and got lost. You don't know how much time has passed until you convene to desperately ask if there was any possible sight. In that point, you hear the snapping of foliage beneath the distant foot, and you all turn,

and by the nearby tree you see entering the pale, nude, long, dark-haired body of Vax returned in his revenant form for a second time. Thank God. Yep, that's it. That was a thing. Does anyone have my clothing? Yes.

No, they took it and ran. It was like part of the penance. We fought bravely. It's buck naked from here on that. It's going to make tomorrow a little squiggly. Scanlan awkwardly put it in like a weird, Drurid Circle rock thing. It's over there in a rock.

We were protecting it for you. He doesn't know how to do Drurid circles really, right, but I. The goddess Aynne told me to protect it in a circle, reminiscent of the circle of my third eye. I don't think he's telling the truth. Do you have all my shoes and glasses, so I may have them?

As Ayun wills it, yes. Okay, could you lead me and my penis towards them now? I won't be pleased, I will. We're still standing here. It's getting awkward. I'm a holy man. It's supposed to be awkward, man. Start the Heroes Feast.

I'll help with that. I'll help with that. That sounds like a great use of time and not watching this. Pike? I have a question. Should we ask the sword of Kaz since it's fought Vecna before? Like, does it know of any weaknesses? That's really smart.

Wow, that's really smart, Grog. Oh, good idea. Don't think too hard about this. That was a perfectly adequate idea. We can't hear him, so you'll have to talk. Hello? Grog, you'll have to really talk a lot out of you that, yeah. I need to see.

Grog, I have an idea. I have an idea, Grog. Why don't you ask the sword if it has any idea of Vecna's weaknesses or anything that... That's a good idea, I'm so glad I had it. Oh my God, yes. Wait, wait.

If I pull it out of the sheaf, right to talk to it. Can I talk to it through the sheath? Yeah, probably to draw from that. I might have to draw it, and then it's going to need that. Here. You? You can cut me. No, listen, I made a promise to your brother. He was very adamant that I'm supposed to stick him. I'll take it. I was.

It's my turn. Percy, what a tough thing for you to do. Do you want like Mr. Hansloss or do you want to up the ante and I'll just stick it in your thigh? Oh. Oh. I do have to bathe it. It has to be quite a coating. Mm. Just do it. We'll heal them up.

Okay, cool. Come on, Percy. Find a ticket, baby. We're all right. So can I unsheathed Cass? As you pulled a blade out with this very silent, kind of glass against textured metal sound, wheeh-h-h-h. The blade itself is so dark that barely need light seems to crumb across.

You can see where the blade is, close. It is close, you can barely make out the outside of it, but as soon as you draw it, the voice goes, I'm hungry. All right. Just on the count of three. One, one, five. Five. And I reach around to the back of his knee and I just pull on. Why is it taking some out of his knees? When you try to take him out of commission for future fights. Is that bad? I don't know. That's like his standard. Yeah, that's appreciate your leg. I said yes. I said yes. I'm going to cross your wounds at third level. I'm

She reads Celestial with that knee. You can't. That was the bad knee. You can shave your legs. The back of the knees is like the tricky part, right? It's just so I can swim faster. It was not for you to have a target. So as you deal with the nearly hamstrung self that is your right knee, the sword itself is coated well enough in Percival blood as it seeps into the darkened blade.

And the voice goes, ah. Yes. You got. Respectfully, Cass, I had a few questions. just because I am on board to satisfy your maniacal desires to fuck up Vecna and all that he stands for, right? Oh no. Gazz? Yes.

Oh, thank God. You might need my blood soon. Do you know of any weaknesses that Vecna has or opportunities that we could ex-play? Intelligent than most, but his arrogance gets to the best of him. He likes a show. Apparently he's really smart and he's aeromatic. He smells? He's...

That's what he said. He's... Amicmatic? What did he mean? He likes to put on a show, I think. He likes to put on a show. He builds webs of plots. So many things intertwined.

Doesn't make much sense. Apparently he builds whips out of pips out of pats. plots and like... Cut, grades. Oh, good. And the web can falter. Oh, right. He strings things together like a web, you know.

Oh, like that. Yeah, like a dog makes. That's much. Oh, that's mine. Okay. Okay. I can cut these threads. Bring me to these threads.

Bring me to him. I must cut him down. No. No. No. He's really adamant about cutting the webs. It's a sword. He cuts.

Cut it. Cutting webs? Yeah. I guess Bechner has spider abilities. Oh. Pro tip, yeah. Okay, okay. That's interesting.

We didn't notice that before, but yeah. Any physical weaknesses or things that he is vulnerable to that we should know? Him. Him, okay, cool. I think we've got everything. Oh, the sword, right. Yeah, yeah. He's vulnerable to him.

Oh, to him. Yeah, to him. Got it. I got what they got. All right, next time I'll pull you out in the light, it will probably be to kill Vecna, or someone that I don't like, fete. As you put it away, you know. You're actually going to pull that sword out, and it will have committed suicide.

I was going to be, is it okay? It's feeling much better, thank you. Okay. Should we maybe talk out our plan for the moment? Sure. That sounds fun. No, it doesn't, but I do think we should probably have at it. We've got the trammels.

Yeah. Bog's got them. So Silas is back. Oh yeah, that. Along with the Lila. So. That's fun. So my blessing from Taylor,

um, hashtag blessed. Hashtag blessed. Um, gives radiant damage to anything evil that it is attacks me with a spell. That's pretty neat, huh? That's good. That's good. I have a feeling radiant damage is going to be really important in this fight.

I recently was able to attune to this armor that I haven't been able to attuned to it for a long time, and now I'm resistant to spells, so that's good. What? Yes. You've just been wearing it and it's not done anything? Kind of, well, I had to attune to my ring and my antlers, and then I got the stab, so I kind of let that go. But now, like, I just wore it. It looks so good, though, I understand. Yeah.

What are your three attuned right now? I have four. Four. Because I took a feat when I leveled up. That's pretty cool. I was pretty dope. A whole bunch of more hit points. What's a hit point?

It's like, I don't know. But I was thinking I have all three trammels, right? And I need to get like real close to do anything to Vacna? Is it stupid for me to have all of them? Yes, it is. Yes. We need to spread those out. We need to decide who's doing what.

at least what we think is going to happen. I think I should take one of the trammels. You're speedy, of course. I agree. And I think it's smart if Pike and I dedicate a decent amount of our spell power to freedom of movement right before we go in. I won't be necessary for me, but for the rest of the

So good. Parallalalalalas. If Vax has a trammle and Grog has a trammle, who has the third trammle? One of these two. I could do it. Someone who can fly. You can fly.

I have a broom, after all. But Pike can fly now too. Don't she have to be super strong to use these trammels? No, I guess super strong. She's a mom's stuff. No, I know, but I'm fine with that. She probably maybe she can fly, can you fly? She can fly. I can't.

How? How long can you fly? It's for. For 10 minutes. For 10 minutes. That's all we'll need. Oh, 10 minutes is a long time if it's like right at the beginning of the fight. That's when we'll need to use the trammels.

Yeah. A giant. Beyond that, it's pretty tight. Oh my God, you can fucking fly! I'll reach over the pocket, I spin her around. Are there any wings on the back? No. I don't know where they are.

I don't know how to break this, too. They're not there yet. Sometimes they're on the ankles. I turn her upside down and look at her feet. No wings. Turn it back. Just keep wishing they'll grow in. Okay.

Thank you, Crog. Flap your hands if you believe. I'm not going to be much helps. So do you think you're stronger and you're more proficient with actual melee weapons, right? because I don't think I can shoot a tremor from my bow. I feel like I'd be pretty proficient. Because it's, it takes the strength to do it. Yeah, and you've got that.

I've got it. Okay, let's have pipe hold the other one. She's so confident. I love it. Do you do, do, do-do, d'oo-do. Okay, so pipe snap the whip from to back. And we just have to protect our cleric.

What are we all, what are all of us doing? I'm praying into a book. Fighting. Sure. To give you a mechanical idea, just in essence, and based on what Iune had notified you, The more damaged Vecna's avatar form is, the lower the D.C to drive a trammel into the body.

Oh, so we gotta bloody him up and then. Trammle. Possibly, or roll really high early on. The choice is up to you. That is the risk you have to take. Okay, if we try, we don't know. If we try it with a trammel and it doesn't work, it doesn't break the tremble, we just have to try again. You don't know.

You have two strong and one fragile trammle in your base. Oh, wait, who's holding the fragile one? I am. You're holding the fragile one. Okay, so save that one for when he's real fucked up. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Percy and I had a thought for Grog. Let go, because I don't have any more.

If you borrow Percy's spider climbing boots, I can maybe make some pillars to one add for cover, for some of us, you know, more rangy people, but then if I add pillars of kind of different heights, you can climb up them. Do I have to attune to them? No. Also, but...

Does my speed translate to going up things as well? Oh yeah. Yeah. So I don't know what boots you have right now. I have the feral leaping boots. Would you rather just run like Spider-Man? What would be better? If he's more than 20 feet in the air, I'm fucked.

Yeah, then spider climbing bases. How can we get married to fly, though? Because these pillars, they can't go all the way to the heavens, can they? I mean, I could shape change into something and give them a mount to delight me. Yeah, but you're a cast. What about you, Scanlan? Could you still cast if you're like a dragon or something? You're tricky.

I can cast in B shape, I can't cast. Shape change is a spell. So if I'm a dragon, beholder, that's what you get. If the creature you transform into has spells, you can use those spells, but that's the only circumstance. There's coffee all over it. Yes, there is. There's coffee on everything.

We remember that episode. Yeah. Your dice tray, like, dried nicely though. I think it actually has a little bit of nice character. It does. It's actually... It's a testament to where I would do... This got put in the dishwasher and the leather, I think, got cooler after it got put in the dishwasher.

Anyway, guys. No, no, we're focused. No, no, this is happening. Okay. I mean, I guess we could use these pillars, but it just seems like a waste of your spell to get him halfway up towards Vecna if Vecna is flying. Well, the thing is, if you're flying, you can get knocked off. Unless they're too. I've been there, and then you...

And that sucks. It's super bad. So actually the pillars are really wonderful in that regard. If he's straight above us. Well, I can do six of them. I can do a lot of pillars. He could be off of the tower, yes. And then it's all ranged attacks. That's what we have.

All right. No plan. The plans are easy. The magic users are going to be attacking back now with all their worth. Hopefully, we'll be able to take out the Briarwoods before the fight. I can cause up to six pillars. Each pillar is a cylinder five feet wide and up to 30 feet high. 30 feet high.

And can do six of them. Can they go on top of each other? Well, he wasn't that much more than 30 feet last time. He was above us, but if he goes off of the task. If he goes off of the task, I was about. If I get Grog 30 feet up, you still have your throwing axe. He's still reachable another 30 feet for you, right? Theoretically.

Yeah, yeah, I'm not using the axe or the hammer. I'm using the sword. You're using the big fatty. You can still attach the chain of returning to the sword. Oh. Yeah. It's only one attack per action. Correct.

Instead of three. But it's something if he's other eight. I also, I'll have enough bullets that I may not be able to hurt him, but I can make him drop. My plan is to not run away because we're going to die fighting or we're going to save the world, right? Yeah. So I definitely won't be running away.

Definitely. Scanlon. Are you convinced? I may run away. If you do, then he solves everybody and subjugates the entire world. I'll tell your story and I'll tell it very well. As the crumly, the little guy to Java the Hut for Vecna. I will vow my allegiance to Vecna and I will be this.

If you promise you have run away, I'll put this fucking hat back on. And I bring out the stupid pointy hat that he gave me. That's a deal. So here's the thing, last time we fought back, no, right? He went higher than 30 feet. He was like up there. He was up where Bax was before he fell. I was above him though, when I was 50 or 60 up.

He wasn't that high. You were 50 or 60. Up to you. That is an option. It is up to you. Okay. But let me know, because either way, I'm going to either keep my boots or not keep my boots. Do we remember how high the tower orby situation was? Did we get a number one?

The Tower of Entropas? The very height of it? I mean, you didn't engage it in. gauge it entirely as you flew up, but even just a bit of distance, it was hundreds of feet high. No, no, no. I mean, there was like the dome above that. Oh, the dome above that is probably about another 100 or 200 feet above that. It's a big dome it encompasses the entire city of Entropos. We don't know who's casting that, we don't know where that's coming from.

Make an intelligence check. Okay. Oh. I mean that there's that Jim Stone thing that he's using. Natural 20. Natural 20. No, but 21 will do it. That's pretty good. You recall, the Tharomfala that is currently embedded in the Titan is not the entire city. It's only the inner circle in the city. You encountered the inner circle of the city, and you saw a little bit at the edges.

There's a wall that is built on the inside of Tharamfala. This was the same wall that contained the threshold crests that caused it to transport from the shadow fell to the prime material plane. And that seems to be you look at the energy of this field. you've seen it kind of pulse from the wall upward. Like, f-hm-hm. We could break the wall, there were stones in the walls. We could break the walls. We can break the crystals.

Wait. And then we could bring down the forces. And then, Jimon, so old, we'll be able to help us. Help us. Help us, Jimon. Help us, Jimon. Oh, we have. So, okay, that's good.

Okay, we go for the walls first. Here's the good thing about us banffing to the Faywild, right? They think we left. And if we all actually stick together and don't fuck up with this fucking ring next time, they won't know that we're there again. Because last time they had an idea because you guys, you know, almost died as we were going in. Uh-huh. Yeah, no, I remember. I have an idea about grog flying that just occurred to me.

Trinket's big. He is. Trinket could be polymorphed into something else big. like a flying eagle of some sort, and actually be useful. How dare he? If they dispel that, won't he just turn into Trinket and he'll fall?

Yes, but with big risk comes big reward. Trinket. Trinket over there is on the side, just kind of arms, kind of, playing pillow to them off. Okay, bud. It's plan B.

If you fuck this up, If you fuck this up, Scanlan. Um, I say, I cast, though I don't have any more spells, do I? If you fuck this up, she'll let you fight. He can't understand me, I just can't understand him with my speak with animals. Shit. Tell him to just shake his head. Okay.

Oh, it's the first level. I have a first level left, okay. Okay, here's the thing. Scanlan wants to turn you into something that flies. You hear the slight squeak of a bear fart in his direction. Good job. Yeah. Would you be willing to, are you okay with that for the actual big bat?

I mean, you could be up close and personal with fucking Beckner. Trigot walks up to you now. His fully grown form is, you know, a good foot and half taller than you at the shoulders. And it kind of comes up and gets really close and kind of... And then just butts his head against yours. And then licks the side of your face. Yeah. And sits back.

Okay. It's a plan B. It's a plan B. Do you have anything gnarlier than... I mean, I'm a little invested too. I've spent a lot of years with this bear. Like anything gnarlier than... Eagles, cool, but like anything with spikes or rhino armor or anything like that?

Like a flying rhino? Can you do a flying... What flying things have we seen that are scary? A wyven? I don't... I don't... I can't polymorph I could. True polymorph trink it and permanently make him...

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Yeah, that was an erratic to the spell that I've discovered as the internet made very keenly aware to me. Even if it becomes permanent? Correct. Wow. Then what the fuck does permanent mean? So can't you just just you cast a paper tray? Just like a simple level three to spell magic can get rid of a ninth level permanent polymorph? Well you have to know that the creature has been polymorphed in that form. Sure, sure. And even then it's a ninth level

that you're trying to dispel, which is not. So they have to at least cast a ninth level to be instantaneous or they have to roll against it. I'm not going to waste my true polymorph on that. Just standard polymorph. Polymorph. Does that mean you could permanently do it to him and then we cast a spell magic on him later to undo it? Yeah, you could do that. So you could use that tonight? Tonight to lock him in.

Yeah, but it could still be dispelled if... Yeah, but they would have to... He would have to burn a dispell at things. And he would want... Are you talking about polymorph or true polymorph right now? True. I was just talking about polymorph... I think it's polymorph tomorrow and then use your ninth level spell for something.

Major. But if it's permanent, why not do it tonight? What else you have? Because you can use a ninth level spell tonight for something. For something else. Because polymorph only lasts for like an hour. So what else you have? As we're doing this, we're making the feast,

because we're about to get ready to go to bed, right? Noam, nom, nom, nom, food. Yeah, so we'll like make our feast before we go to sleep. All right. Okay. Pollymorph is a concentration spell, so keep that in mind. Yes. Oh.

Yes. Yeah. Boots. You wouldn't have to concentrate with true polymorph. True. But. Those are just the specifications. What's more important?

Could he be a baby, like a young ancient dragon? Yeah. You can turn Trinket into a dragon. Well, let's see here. It has to be the same, he has a challenge rating, doesn't he? The Wormling or a young dragon? I will put Trinkett at about a challenge rating of six, I'd say, because he's not a full, powerful creature.

He's a compliment to you. Right. I put him at a six, maybe, the high end. So monsters of a six, I don't even know. No, I'll look at the list. Okay, think about it. Regardless, who's casting, you said you're casting Heroes Feast? All right, so as you set up the table,

you summoned forth the meal that is infused with divine energy. You all begin to eat in this kind of solemn, quiet, occasionally discussing plans and tactics. The delicious... Can't join us. Oh, he does, don't worry. As soon as you guys mean to eat,

and the fart at the table, you can see, the orange mane kind of just erupts from the side of the table as he takes a seat. Oh, hundreds. I appreciate this, thank you. So did that look up to your expectations, then? Hello. It was all right.

New hobby or? I don't know. To try when they're not willing. That's a joke, that's a joke. Hey, Art Tagin, can you look at this wand? Which one? This one in my hand. Which one are you any?

It was one one from one of Vecna's people that I just hijacked. I wore wand. It's a plus one one. For anyone who's casting a spell through it, it's a plus one-a-a-a-a-a-fair. Oh, plus one won't. Oh, do you have to attune? Oh, generally you have to attend these here. Okay. Oh. Great. All right, thanks. There's nothing special about these symbols that they wear around their necks, are they?

Just, as it is in your interest, to keep us alive long enough to build you a portal. It doesn't require, or contain any magic if that's what you're asking. Yes. This is jewelry. It's a focus, it's a divine focus for those who wish to utilize it to draw energy from the deity of choice and or just a token of brotherhood. Boring. All right. The loosest meal, by the way.

It's yours. Yes. Thank you. Oh, you're so welcome. All right. When do you intend to go back? As soon as we go to sleep and wake up. Nothing. Sleepity? He gestures over his hand behind you, and as you look back, you can see there's a series of beds that have all

kind of constructed out of the nearby moss and vines. They'd kind of grow and lift up out of the natural floor of the Fay Wilde. And as the beds form, you watch as the tethered vines and roots of the ground again to form these dome-like tents over each specific bed. Oh, good. Pipsy. Are you doing anything? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. before you go sleep? I mean, if I true polymorph him shrink it into, I could do a Wyvern

or a young white dragon, or is Jemann a brass or bronze? Brass. I could do a young brass, young white dragon, or a wyvern, or I could have another Scanlan. I'm just a friend of... I vote Scanlan. Scanlan too can cast polymorph. Fucking A, do that.

I vote Spanlin. That's a no one. And he'll just hang around with us? Scanlon Jr. Second Scanlon hangs around us until what? No bros. I mean that is flat out amazing. Second Scalus.

We'll see. Make another Scaltern. The world is ready for two Scandler. Let's do this. I'm pretty sure it'll be apparent that he is not a real person. How do you know which is which? That's true. Well, you'll know because come on.

This charm can't be replicated. We need two hats. Hey, hang on. I will say, Second Scanlan will immediately in Vecna that there's some trickery magic going on. Is there a way that second Scanlan can be, like, definitely hidden? So he can just be support Scanlan? If we give him the...

Counter-Spanel Scanlan? If he gives him the hat of disguise, then there's just a magical field being about the magic. Yeah, let's do that. He could be the meat man. He'll be the meat mat. Awesome. No true sight.

I'm sure they have true sight. Of course they have true sight. Of course. You have to use true sight. It doesn't just happen. As a god. of secrets, probably see through an illusion. No, no, no, we're gonna pull it over on Becknum.

We're fine. This is a great play. Just throwing it out there, based on your experience, even the creatures, even the creatures around the tower have true sight. Oh shit, so he's gonna know, even like, he's gonna know Trink is not a fucking. He's not gonna know anything about,

but he still has to choose to use something on that. Oh no, he's actually that animal, so he'd have to know, no, no. Do it, man. Do it. Do it. Do it. We're overthinking it.

Do it. Guess he can also maybe just cast support stuff for us, right? Yeah, exactly. Fucking doing it. Can Vecna, do you think just dispel the second scan in a way? He can certainly try. He will have to burn some stuff. He can dispel a whole bunch of other shit.

And the only only only thing would be like a second pike to do all of the freedom of movement stuff and things like that. So, but I mean, those counterspells, man. Are so clutch. Keep in mind, a counter spell can't be done unless they're on the field to see the spell being cast. And within 60 feet.

So second scandin would have to be in the frame. Can second scandinum be invisible second scandin? He can't throw a while, yeah. You can. And things that see through invisibility, like a god of secrets, would probably see through it. You can never have enough Scanlan. That's true.

There's always room for Scanlan. These are good catchphrases for sure. Depending on whether or not you have the mountain, let me know if you want to trade boots or not, since these are not attunable. Okay, hang on. If someone has to roll, if you have to roll to see if Second Scanlan is dispel

do you have to roll? Is it like a second Scanlan has to roll? Vecna would have to roll. Vecna has to roll. Yes, and Vecna will win. You know how Vecna rolls. And we're definitely doing the pillars? I think the pillars are pretty solid.

I can throw up pillars. No, no, I mean, are we or are we not? Yeah. We are doing the pillars if he's not doing something on Trinket. I think the pillars could just be good for cover and other things. Because I'm assuming we're... Okay, cool. We're doing the pillars. We'll do the pillars.

We need cover. Let's go to sleep. Do something so that we can sleep. I need the strength of two me's to win this fight. So I'm going to drop to my knees and wish to the gods that there was somehow more of me, that I could somehow be in two places at the same time. I wish for more me, me more, me more, me but more. Mascanlan.

All right. As the words leave your lips, you could see Artagan himself, as he finishes the meal kind of leans back. Oh. Like, seemingly taken aback by the power of these words you've spoken, as you watch as hints of nearby slowly melting snowfall that seem to have gathered elements that base of the trees nearby, begin to slowly congeal into a form. You do realize that this is gonna take you 12 hours to complete, right?

Oh yeah. So you should have started that earlier. Shit. Yeah. Can we decide that earlier? No. That's cool. You guys can sleep, then I'll sleep, you wait for me.

You'll be arriving a little later than originally anticipated. Yeah. Who knows what ramifications that'll have, but. Sorry. Just do it, just do it. It's already being done. We're part committed. Let's go.

All right, man. So. Shit, we should have done that while we were waiting for fucking Vax. Wow. That's what we were doing. I didn't know it takes that long. We tried. We didn't really mention that.

It's a 12-hour casting time. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's fine. What's done? It's done. Over the next 12 hours, you sit there focusing

on trying to press your will into this congealing snow no golem of Scanlan and watches it slowly takes form and breathes air. And with no equipment, of course, but has your knowledge your spells, eventually the completion of the spell brings to life a secondary Scanlan under your beckon call. Oh my God. Hello? Scanlin, is it you? It's me. Oh, oh. You're short. I thought you'd be.

Speak for yourself. All right, let's just see if you're really scantlin. He's already naked. Oh, okay. Let's see. Without my little measuring tape, one inch by one inch by one inch by one inch. Parts the same.

Mm-hmm. How do we know I'm not the real Scanlan? How do we know you're not the real Scandlin? I think, I think, There's only one way to find out. Sing all. No. No.

M... Mottobene, motobene. Motobene. Motobene. Oh, that's everything I needed. You guys are trying, you're halfway through your sleep. Shut up, Scanlan. Isn't which instantaneous?

The spell is instantaneous unless it's copying the effect of the effect of it. Give a smell. All right. This worked. Scanlan, let's go to sleep. All right, Scanlan. Where too? I'll spoon you.

Okay. All right. You guys head off to your domicist. If you want, by the way. Check off your list, I think. There's some items for other Scanlan. Oh, we have extra items? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Can carry things? Sure. Other Scanlan can wear things? He can just, he's fully. You want of bracers of defense? Plus two to your AC? Because he doesn't have any of my items, does he?

Nope. Got it. He is naked. Put him in that armor I gave you. That you don't wear. Yes, yes. I will put him in the armor of acid. Acid.

No, I have acid. You had cold. No, I have cold now. Oh, we had two acids. Yeah, that's what it was. So it's acid resistance. I have a shield of fire resistance. Also, I have this wand of plus one for the spells.

Ooh. Wand of plus one. What is that? The thing that he just... It's war wound. Yeah, great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.

And then here. He's also got braces of defense, gloves of missile snaring, and a dragon slayer long sword? Sure, why not? All right, so you go. You got those and got some stuff. All right, so you go ahead and find yourself to sleep the rest of you. No. Tonight's rest, if there's any final words before the fray comes, anything you want to do to calm yourself before the final battle now is the time.

Oh my God. This could be it, huh? This is real fucked up. I'm really excited, actually. Like, you know, you always want to test yourself, see what you're made of, what is your metal really like? We're going to find out. We're really going to find out.

Nobody else, excited? I don't know if excited's the word, but. You know, there's been a few times that we've all, you know, known we could die together, but this might actually be it. That's true. Yeah. You know what? We're doing it for a good cause, though.

Yeah. It's... It's fine. Yeah? Yeah? Together, right? Together. And you know what? No regrets. No regrets.

These last three or four years have been the best of my life. Same. Yeah. I had a good run a few years before that, but this is pretty great. That's fucked up. I'm going to know. Last year, I was a crime boss, so, but this, the last few days have been really fun. Everything's society.

I met you all has felt like a dream, even the worst of it. I love all of it. Yeah. Oh, that's okay. He's honest when he's asleep. He'd be wrong to shave his beer just one more time, but not. We need his head in the game. Yeah, it gives him strength.

I think it's like his focus, you know? Proofies. Yeah. One of them, yes. Yeah. I'm gonna sleep. Like it's weird to say goodnight, right? We can totally take this guy.

Fuck it, we're not going down. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe he won't be. Doesn't know what it's gonna hit him. Exactly. Who the shits? Yeah.

Fuck them. Yeah. It's been a while. All right. We've got other gods on our side. He's a fucking half-ass god. Yeah. That's true.

That's right. And you, you, you're not going anywhere. All right, good night. Good night. Yeah, Percy, get your rest because your last words, to me, tomorrow, need to be indignant and irritated. I've already planned them out.

Good night, brother. You all find yourselves resting. Uncomfortable at first, but the knowledge and the exhaustion hitting you eventually it takes you. The dreams lead seamlessly one to the next. memories of your meeting, of your story, of your experiences, bleeding between your fears, your victories and the people whose lives you've touched

and have touched your lives. From Wilhen, the fall of Kevdak, to the respect of your father and the vengeance of your mother, to climbing the destiny of the Aramente, to rebuilding the memory of one's family, and to spooning a second version of yourself. My darling, I'm good for your touch. And knowing that you've taken your faith from a place

of being forgotten to a newly built, symbol of hope. These thoughts all mingle as the dark of rest takes you. And as you all awake in the center of this strange mystical meadow, peeking through the hints of purple and orange that signify the sky that breaks through the canopy of this forest, the pools of Nala that once brought you here long ago. You all awake, the bed's gone, the tents gone. You're all just lying amongst this field in a circle around each other. As you come to consciousness, and you all sit up and take a breath and feel the warmth, and the knowledge of what has to be done wash over you. The shadow between two distant trees reveals the orange mane of Artagan once more as he steps forth,

his well high green collar disappearing into his long sleeves and a cloak that billows past his shoulders and loops under his back as he almost glides effortlessly through the grass. I take it you all slept well. You slept well? Yeah. Well, then, time is of the essence. You've been here more than a day.

Just now. But whenever you're ready. I'll see what I can leap up. And as he wipes his fingers against each other, you can see the sparkle, spiral of purples and blues and oranges and colors, just causing this glow under his face and his hair as he gets excited at the prospect of seeing just how far he can tweak the boundaries of the Faye Wild that he calls home. Here we go.

What are you holding over there? Myself. My other hand. Dr. It's back in the necklace for the Bampkin over. Okay. Go on follow. On the back of a Titan, on the material plane. Take them.

As you concentrate and the spell begins to swell around you, this familiar energy begins to ride up in your stomach. You feel the butterflies take form. And as the realm begins to darken, the colors that you see spiraling out of, Attackin's hands begin to consume you as well. And nausea takes over, and you feel yourself wretched, left and right. As darkness begins to swell once more and close in,

the colors surround you entirely. And you feel like you're being pushed through a window, and as you all glan and catch your feet, the darkness subsides, the color subsides, and you all feel immediately queasy, falling to your knees. As you glance around you, you can see you stand in the rubble the exterior of a building that has fallen long ago. You see large chunks of the second

secondary floor, a fallen inward and dust kind of of up as your knees hit. You look up and see the familiar green-blue crackle of the barrier above you. You've managed to make it on the interior of Tharum Fala. You look up to see immediately clusters of gloom stalkers in the distance that haven't quite gotten a view on you. In the building now. Yeah, down, down, down, down, down. You guys all start, make a stealth check, please. First roll, first roll, first roll, first roll, first roll.

Good luck, good luck. Good luck. It's good. Okay. Oh, natural 19. Oh. Scanlan 1, 19. Scanlon 2.21.

Do we have? 19. We haven't cast that yet. 28. 35. 18. 11. Okay.

As you guys dart, this building is mostly collapsed. There was a small alcove kind of in the corner where part of the secondary story is still there. You guys darted into the side of it and you rest there for a minute and quiet. and you suddenly hear a an impact of stone against the wall behind you. All of you guys immediately turn around and you watch as the heavy piece of stone that marks the outer part of this building is now cracked

and part of it begins to fall in. I need Scanlan 1, Real Scanlan and Percy to make dexterity saving throws, please. 10. I'm gonna burn a resolve. Are you ready? What? No.

I rolled really low. I want to do that a little better. Take a conk on the head. Yeah, fine. No, you don't know. I don't know. What are you going to do? Are you going to take it or not?

No, I'm going to tell a resolve one more. That's way better, natural 20. Okay, cool. You only take three points of bludgeoning damage. That'll do. Scalline take six. Just resolve, I got three. Okay.

You reduced three points of damage. I thought it could be trapped under the wall or so pretty. No, it was fair. Wrong edge, guys. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It crumbles over onto you.

You've managed to pull away. As you turn around, you can see right around the edge of the part of the building that's collapsed and fallen, a gloomstocker covered in dust, shaking its head as it attempts to stand once more. It looks like it's been slammed to the ground or it crashed into this wall, and you can see it. It's like on the ground,

shaking its head and trying to get back up its wings, trying to unfurl. As it writes its head, you suddenly see a leaping blur of black armor and red scales climbed to the back of the beast, grasping the side of its shoulders as it spins back and forth trying to shake it. to shake it. You see this humanoid figure trying to take something and throw around its throat and its head, however, it's just not able to grasp it around and gets thrown off the side

into the back. You watch as the gloom stalker, it's buck off the assailant begins to try and get its wings up once more as the figure leaps up again and shoulder slams it into the wall a second time. You get a better look at it now. You can see now this standing in a pretty decent height about a seven-foot dragon-borne of red scale and black-hooked armor, bladed and angry, you see just a burning fury in its eyes. Joe, if you want to come to the table clean. Oh! What's this?

I like that it's kitty corner right now. Tens on the ends. Oh, my God, oh my God. So, Arkin. Yes. As you've been trying to wrestle this gloomstocker down, you spent days here trying to find a way to recover from the circumstances that left. left you here. This is the closest thing you've had at the circumstances as you've regained

your strength and as you leap onto its back, continues to knock you off to the side. You guys see this confrontation happening. What do you do? Does it look like, ugh? No, I'll get it. Yeah, he's a tag. Go it in. Stalker, I'll join in. All right, so what are you guys doing? I'm going to help this guy out and throw.

All right, so go ahead and make two attacks. Wait, don't hurt him. Don't hurt him. I scream, don't hurt him. Well, he's thrown two daggers. I don't. Ging it did, and they both hit. Yes. Technically adjacent, so you do sneak attack damage. All right, I will.

24. Oh, boy. It could be bad. Oh, no. It could be bad. As 12 is... Oh, wow. What are you doing?

Oh, God! Oh, Jesus. Oh, God. Save it. If I can, it's too late. It's triggered. No, don't do it. It's triggered.

It's triggered. I cover Tiny Scanlon's eyes. I'm going to the game, Joe. I know. This is what we do. What were you trying to do? I hope you have a healing potion. Nope.

Okay. So that's 51 points of damage. You have 46 and 4, it's 50. 50 points of damage. Okay. Marking that down. That's okay. So you see these two daggers

into the side of the gloomstockers that gives this horrible, shrieking, shout, and pain, and rears up. Now that's up. Well that it's distracted, does that give me some sort of advantage? I will say, given the pain it's had, go ahead and make an athletics check. I think it's here. Because you're attempting to grapple the entity. That's correct. All right, okay.

Can we see, does it look like he's got hands and eyes complete? And that's athletics, that's going to be a 19. Natural 20. Oh! Is it part dragon? No, it is not. It's considered monstrosity. Okay, fair enough. Okay.

So, that's okay. So as you hear the dragon-born shout out, seeing the dagger slam into its side, what do you yell to them? They're attacking it now. Don't hurt this thing. Help me wrestle it to the ground. At which point it now thrust the dragon board off of its back, it goes tumbling and rolling onto the ground, landing onto your back, and you see it.

I throw out the rope of entanglement on the gloomstocker. Okay. I turn to person and go, who's fighting? I don't know. I don't know. So now I would like an initiative roll from everybody, please. Oh, shit. Oh.

What's that? Plus, a D10 to my initiative now? Is Stanlin T. Take my advantage? Or no? How does that work? Separately. Get him out.

You're two people again. How's it feel? The best. So, 25 to 20, anybody? 24. Natural 20, which made a 23. All right. All right.

Oh, he's super low. All right. 20 to 15. 17. Oh, sorry. Scamlin 2 is also 21. All right. Joe, you're sitting on Scanlon 2. All right, 15 to 10. 12. No, really? Whoa.

Why would I be pipe without really? No. That's a shit, man. EG, wow. How it is in Clarex. Did you get Pike? Yes. A six.

Wow. All right. All right, good it. All right. So, Vex, you're up first. You're going to use the rope of entanglement is what I was going for. I can't find my... I have this sheet here, okay.

Oh, you do, okay. Oh, no, here it is, yeah. So you thrust it out. It has to make, it's a DC-15 dexterity saving throw. Yeah. Let's see here. Natural 1, Natural 20 to natural 1, back to back. So, as you fall into your back and shout that out, you go rushing towards it, you watch

as this glowing, long piece of thick rope begins to suddenly wrap around this gloomstocker. It's just trying to take off again. It gets like a foot off the ground before its wings get pulled up to its body and falls back onto the ground, wrapped and restrained by the rope. Great. So I can do my thing now? Is anybody else going to do anything right now? Yeah, I'm gonna run up, I'm gonna run up and just grab it by the head and I can lay on it.

Just hold it? Okay. Scanlan's? I'm just watching, and I turned to Scanlan 2 and say, so that's a gloomstocker. Yeah. And that guy, I'm not sure what he is, but he looks really cool. I know what he is.

I'm not going to tell you, though. All right, Arcon. I remove this golden-needled, five-jeweled wreath from around my neck, and I approach the beast, and I fasten it around its neck. All right, so that I'd say, shock cover. A shock collar. Kind of. So it's a DC-17.

If it barks, it activates. Five plus six, it's an 11. It does not succeed. You watch as the thrashing around gloomstocker on the ground begins to slowly calm down until it reaches a point where it's not moving, it's just breathing. And you almost hear what you sound, what sounds like a reverse purr. Does this thing have horns? It has like a series of spines along the back of the neck, but no actual horns. It has a head that flares out almost like a cobra, but it looks like it's made of shadow and where the jaw is. Its tongue lashes out, but seems to almost, instead of saliva, it gives off smoke.

Then I grab it by the back of like the jaw here, and I put my forehead down to its forehead and I close my eyes and then open them and they turn into that thing's eyes, correct? Correct? Yeah. What the hell is that? The gloomstockers, they have no discernible pupil. It's just a glowing beacon of yellow-white, where each eye is. And you watch as this dragon-borne opens its eyes, its head-butted against it, and the dragon-bord's eyes now match the coloration of the gloomstocker.

I climb up onto its back. Okay. It's still bound by the rope. You get up onto it now. You watch this massive dragon-borne gets up onto the gloomstocker, which is a little bit of the gloomstocker, is now currently on the ground, like trying to write itself now, still wrapped in the rope. You can release the rope now. Does it look like anybody's noticed us?

Make a perception check. Oh, Jesus. Oh, that's a good role. It's fighting silently. 33. You do look and see what appears to be two more gloomstockers that have broken away from the cluster that are making their way in your direction. Will this thing obey you? We should get inside.

I let go of the rope and go back in the building so that we can hide. I cast pass without a trace on all of us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone else following the suit? Yes. Okay, you? Yeah, absolutely. All right, do you leave the gloomstocker where it is

and then step inside with them? Can I take it with me? If you want to? I'd like to say, yeah. Okay, yeah. All right, so as you guys all dart inside this alcove in the building, like most of the roof is gone, there's just a section of roof that's there.

It can hide most of you. The gloomstock is a bit large as you all kind of cluster into the space as it kind of looms in. This is the second time you've had an allied gloomstock this close, and it's a very upsetting proximity. Uncomfortable elevator at a convention. Kind of. As you guys pull over the side, I'd like you all to make a stealth check, please.

Why did you wear wings? If I want its back, does that have anything to do with my plate armor? Meaning, am I relying on some form of stalking that doesn't make my armor clank around? Unfortunately, as you're still riding it and it moves and shifts, there is still the plate sitting against it, So you would still be at a disadvantage.

Am I the only one in plate armor here? No, she's got it. Okay. I just didn't want to be fully responsible. Plus 10 because vexed seems like that's about a tree. Plus 10. Yeah, so you don't roll at disadvantage anymore. Okay, great.

Yeah, you've got non-flanky boots. All right. I'm at disadvantage. Yeah. Come on, Joe. Come on, Joe. Add 10 to your roll. You're fine.

Okay. 20. Oh. Okay. On them. that sheet for the next off. It's taken 50 damage, so you can note that. Can I feed it a whole healing potion?

When you have a moment, you can, yeah. Trust me. Almost thought, yeah. You know, we were jumping at him and punch him in the face. I thought, I thought wrong, I do that. Do you have a name for him? Do you have a name?

Yeah. Do you have a name? Who are you? I just love animals. We can kill you any second, so be scared of us if you're an evil person. Big second foot. You could, but I know these two.

What? And there's a moment of recognition for Percival and Keeleth. Oh, my God. No way. What? Oh, it's been like two years? In this two years. At least.

Percival, we've aged. Keelith. You look almost like you. You still look the same. She got my hair. Oh, shit. Are you going to let him do that to your girl? It's at this moment you hear two heavy impacts from me.

nearby rooftops. Okay, maybe not the best reunion, Tom. As you all stay as silent as possible, waiting, one of them takes off, and you can see it arc just barely over the opening but seems to be doing a wide sweep. Just out of visual range, the other one appears to be stalking from rooftop to rooftop, not far from you. It leaps and lands on top of the small part of the roof that's above you guys. It holds. A few rocks tumble around you as you're quietly in that space, hoping its head peaks over the edge and look straight down right into all of you. Oh, gosh, darn it.

What are you doing? Yeah, what are we doing? A shoot an arrow into its eyeball. Okay, so as soon as the head passes over, make your attacks. You're close enough to get one swipe up because you're on the back of a gloomstocker, so as his head peaks down, You can get a strike at it. Okay. It's about, I say, 12 to 15 feet up.

It's gonna be good. 35. That hits. That's gonna be a 31. Oh. And that's a Vox-Mockinga number. Yeah, that's about damn time. To level 17, I'll get you.

Yeah. All right. All righty. So. 20-21 in this. Okay. 25 damage. 25 damage. All right.

Okay. Oh, and I get to do it again? You do. Is this proximity close enough that either of these guys are within five feet or anybody's within? Okay. I'd say arc probably is. Okay. 18?

Go it. 18. Aitone. Instacute damage. I know. I don't want to have to do anything. But it's a bad. 18.

Okay. I can prove this. This is the paladin dilemma. I think I'm going to save the spell slots. But I am going to swing at this guy pretty good. Go for you. Okay, I'm going to swing my battle axe feign-eater. Okay.

So you get two attacks at that? Great. Okay, well, one was 31. Yep. That's going to be nine plus... That's 23 points of damage on the first one. Okay. Nice. And then second attack is going to be a 23. That hits.

And that's gonna be 21 points of damage on the second. Big hits. All right, and with that, as soon as its head keeps over the edge, two arrows under its throat, and you watch as an axe cuts part of its head clean off as it tries to make a noise, but the blade is caught in its throat and prevents the air passage. As the faint eater is yanked out of the side,

you see the jagged edge of the axe, arc back, causing blood splatter across the back of the wall behind. Arcon goes in with a second sight, with one clean cleave motion, the head falls and plummetes into the ground. The rest of the gloomstocker just tumbles in lifeless into the rock. And you see as it lands its wings sprawl out and slowly the body begins to dissolve into black smoke and shower. I run out and I say, wait, don't kill it. I'm just kidding with you. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Box walking out, may we introduce you to Archon?

Yeah. Arcon. Arcon. Hi. You look like you, you look like us. You look good. You got more stuff. We've acquired more stuff over the years.

How do you know this gentleman? We did some work ages ago. Yeah, forever before we really knew it. The Temple of Shumas. How did you get you? It was a crappy swamp. It was good times. Good times.

Technically it was a desert, but yeah. It was crappy desert. It was the worst kind of swamp. It was one of the worst kind of swamp. with no water or anything. It's just the driest of swamps. Yeah. Yeah.

What are you doing here? That's a long story. Weeks ago, we won't have attacked by a cult. My companions and I. This cult was led by a death night. And a sorceress woman. Lady Broward. Rewicz.

And then Vecna followed. And we were ambushed. My companions and I were marked. and I were marked for death. They were all destroyed. And I watched that death night burn the closest thing I've ever had to a brother. And he cut the still beating heart out of our Goliath. And then these buzzards came to pick my bones, thinking I was dead. But I wouldn't die. The queen had another plan for me. What kind of queen?

I hold up my shield. Make a religion check, Scanlon. That's no good. Oh, that's, well, 11? You have passing knowledge that the symbols that adorn both around Arcon's throat and the shield that he holds up are that of the scaled tyrant Tiamat. Oh, we've heard of Tiamat. Which is the patron god to chromatic and evil dragons all across the world. Oh, he's evil. That's evil. That's the evil dragon, potentially. You serve this queen?

It's Arkand of evil. It's fine. I understand that because of my dogma, we belong to groups that would never mix. But I can assure you, if you help me get revenge on the one that killed my friends, I swear to you, I will fight for your lives with the fury of a man who is already dead. I think we have a surprising amount already in coming. Good pitch. Really good pitch. Devil's advocate, maybe not. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, I was going to do an instant.

I'm a principle. I make the doom stop. I'm a talker snarl at the two scars. Do you say, well. I'm a . Yeah, I rolled an eight. He checks out. Can I quick question? Mm-hmm.

We didn't roll our temporary hit points for our hero's feast. Oh, we didn't. Oh, you did not, you should do that. Or does Pike do that for us? Oh yeah, well, Pike, you roll the temporary hit points. For all of us, right? How many hit points?

An additional 2D10, I'm pretty sure. So roll 2D10, Pike. And everyone was present for that. Oh yeah, you should give us a speech. How long does that last? Oh, I should give us a speech. It takes 10 minutes. It takes 10 minutes to do it.

But it's a thing that lasts until later, later, later then. Yeah, yeah. I should have done it before, but I'll do it like so. What are you doing over there, Johnson? I'm just looking for my tans. Oh! Wait, are these 12s? No, those are 10s.

All right, so you guys gain two additional hippies. Two additional hit points to your max have points. Oh, that's a bummer. Is that everybody? Yeah. Meaning, no. You weren't there for the meal, unfortunately. This is from earlier.

It's okay. The meal didn't do a lot, apparently. So glad I'm here to be useful. However, everyone does still have their advantage on wisdom saving throws and your immunity to fear, which is pretty huge. And poison. And poison.

The hit points are more of like a bonus. like a bonus. You're fine. Slip-Slimpaste. Slip-Slimpaste. Can I feed this thing a healing potion? I'm so sorry. You may. Okay.

I really thought I was gonna roll two tents. Greater? I think greater. Yeah. It would be 44 plus four. Okay. I really wrote the wrong, those are wrong dance.

Those I think those were eight that you were rolling. That's probably. Cool. It's nine. And it's not great. And it's not great. We need to lay on hands as well. Okay.

Yeah, well, I haven't. You can't die. Is that true? When did he say he couldn't die? Well, he said, like, she thought I was dead, but my queen. He said that he would fight like a man who was dead. It was a metaphor, Grove. Oh, no, you're right.

We've had talks about this. I don't like those. Do you mean naturally, have you died? It's kind of a colloquialism for religious folk. You know what I mean? Like I hit a death save. Oh, tight, tight, tight. It's a metaphor.

I touch him to see if he's real. I blow smoke out of my nostrils in a little fire. It's kind of squishy. Really soft. I got he's wearing that armor, huh? Pudgy. I'm gonna pump 30 then back into this gloomstocker. Plus the nine. So there was, what, 51 that came off?

50 points of damage you take on. So I put 39 back on, so that's 11 off. Yep, you got it. Okay, cool. Perfect. When do we want to do freedom of movement stuff? Not yet. Right in the middle. That's like only lasts for an hour.

Just checking. Just check. So here's the thing. Do we go for the outer walls to take out the shield first? Probably. I think so. Once we go in, we're going to go in. The outer walls?

Yes. How are we going to take down entire walls? Do we have to take out the walls? We have to break a couple of the crystals. Yeah, yeah. Those crystals that we were kind of started to break when we were... If we just do a hit and run, we can cause so much chaos that all of these gloom-stoppers are going to be busy dealing with everything in the Hey, you remember our old plan of just set everything on fire?

Let's do that. Let's do that. Yeah. In fact, that's actually a brilliant plan. We could disable a crystal. Maybe I could light a signal, distract people. While they're distracted, we make it to the next one. And as long as we're close to that one, they don't know that we're here.

They can see us. What are these crystals? We don't know. We don't know where these crystals are. They're all around the... They're all around the... Out of war. We saw them when we were in the city before.

Yeah. In the shadow. Remember, we kind of jabbed at one and decided against it? All right? If we break these crystals, this could help bring down to the time. Does anyone know that you'll hear? Vecna? The female wizardess? She knows?

And the death night. And if they've been washing him, he just vanished. We should run now. We should move. But they thought I was dead. They left me for dead. So they don't actually, but they don't necessarily know you're in this. necessarily know you're in the city.

I think they'd be a surprise to see me. Okay. All right. Cool. Let's move. Okay. Stealthily, let's try to make it to the outer wall so that we can cut out some of these crystals.

Okay. First off, make perception of check as you glance out. Let's see how close you are to the nearby wall. I haven't thought of danger. Third. You notice you're on a different part of the city than you were previously. You guys had been mostly, like if the city's moving forward,

like if you consider the direction that the, If you consider the direction that the Titan is traversing forward, you guys were to the back and right side of Pharam Fala, like, a clock. If 12 o'clock is where it was traveling, you guys were around four or five o'clock. Looking now at the layout of the city, you're closer to 11 and 12 right now. And you're maybe about 200 feet from the nearest wall. You can see the curvature of the dome is pretty striking. from your current position. You can see the pulses, the waves, though. It's this constant, imagine like a reverse waterfall of energy, just shooting upward, and every now on there's a burst. Does it look like there's an area that the pulses are brighter along the wall?

Yes, you do see the pulses aren't universal. There's certain locations, about six of them throughout the city that you occasionally see them. Are we close to one of those pulses? You can maneuver there. It's not directly behind you, but you can eventually get to that location, yeah. I see where one of the

Crystals is. Let's move towards that. Potentially. We'll get grog to smash it, to smithing. Yeah. You do. You like it. To smithing. Smithing.

You're so good at punching malls. You do you. All right. So I would like you all to make a stealth check. Are you all walking on foot? Are you taking the gloomest dock around? I'm on top of the gloom slur. Okay.

Is it walking? It's currently walking? It's currently walking unless you want to hover with it. You got to stay within 60 feet of us, 30 feet of us? Oh yeah. I'd like to hover. Okay. So as you guys are, our sting low-key, Arcon is currently riding against the back of this gloomstocker as it's hovering in the air above. And the stealth check you're going to be rolling is going to be to see whether or not anything notices you on the back of a gloomstocker.

Bloomstalker is not going to register on the radar of any of the current watching creatures because it's part of its posse for the moment. So is this with disadvantage for plate armor or not? I would say no, because it isn't a movement-based stealth check. You're just trying to stay still. With the bonus. With the 10. Love it. Good.

I think 31. Oh, wow. Come on. So you're just clutching the exterior of trying to stay low. You're pulling into your armor like a turtle shell almost since it is black. And using that to try and blend into its form. And can we kind of stay under the shadow of the green stuff? You guys can move along.

Yeah. So 31. Okay, 34. Kila? 32. Back? I rolled a four, so it's 37. Fucking row. 29. 18. Oh, man. No, I thought I did it wrong. Oh, 19. Okay. The head has a muscle. Okay. A five and a six. All right, so, as you guys begin to maneuver through the streets, dodging from building to building on the outskirts of Tharam Fala, thankfully one, the streets are a little more sparse on the edges. You also notice who's traversing, and this is interesting.

It's his headshot. It's Concord. I would have liked it. It's, yeah. It's Arkon's commercial headshot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a current one in black and white. Yeah.

That's just like working the office left. That's such an LA joke. Yeah. All right, so as you guys are maneuvering, Vax and Vex, and Kiela as well. We have the high passive perception of the group. You notice that the droves of undead that have been clogging the streets of the city and the clusters of cultists that seem to have been running around busily,

running from location to location with some work on their midst, the undead were just scattered and wandering, are now unified and moving in patterns. They're now being driven by some intent, whereas once they were just scattered amongst and kind of in a whole, holding pattern. Now they're maneuvering with solid purpose, away from the sides of the wall and the shields, which enables you to go relatively unnoticed, but you're seeing them now gathering towards similar tunnels to the one you came up in.

You can see now dozens and dozens of zombies and skeletons and the occasional robed cultists, both warrior and mage alike, all beginning to make their way down into the Titan. at various points in the city. We're going to go attack the city. Oh, my God. We've got to get these shields down so that Veseltzlheim can actually have a fight a chance. Yeah.

That's fine. We're still. All right, let's do it. As you guys make your way around the edge of the city, you follow these pulses. They occur every two minutes or so, so you have to keep an eye out for it until what happens and then reorient your direction. But you're taking point on this. You lead everybody darting from place to place.

shitty-ass perception. That's okay, man. That's good for you guys. Let it happen. It's cool. Eventually, you come around one cluster of exterior buildings. It looks to be what was once a manner that was converted to a fortress, like a small exterior fortress, to this inner circle of Tharamfala.

You curve around and there you see. Familiar you from once before the walls that surround the exterior of this inner sanctum of Tharamphala and the basis of this field. that contains the entirety of the city. Looking at the wall, you can already feel the dangerous vibration of this field being so close. There's just this kind of violent hum to the air. Each pulse kind of hits this certain frequency of sound

that causes your ear to tweak just a hint. And you can see these violent waves of green-blue magical energy just up the side of the wall, like a very powerful reverse waterfall, just shooting up to gather and maintain this field. You cannot see the crest. The crest was visible from the outside of the wall. And the energy field is being produced on the outside of the wall. You're on the inside of it. But you can gather the base location of where this burst is happening to get an idea of loosely where it might be. I don't think it's the wall.

You don't know. And we saw the crest before because there was a doorway in the wall, in the other wall. Is there any kind of doorway around us? You glance over to where the door was, but you glance over to where the door was, but below the crest before, and you can see the opposite side of a door, currently, yes. It is shut. It appears to be made of hard wood with its iron bar reinforced, both kind of crosshatch. Well, we can try the door, and then if that doesn't work, Grog can make a new one. Yeah.

Let me check out the door. It's a pretty thick. I'm not really so keen on making doors as opposed to knocking them down. No, you're very, you're aggressively good at communicating with it. All right, just me. Check and see if the door is trapped. How are you with doors? Pretty good.

Yeah. Oh, shh. Shh. 26. Thankfully, only rolled the nine. Mm-hmm. Shh. Oh, my God.

All right. 26 for investigation on the door. The door is locked, but it is not trapped. All right, let's open it up. I hand grog some jerky from my pouch. My pouch. Hungry? Oh, so good.

Mm. Don't share it. Mm. 28. 28. Okay. So the door. And it's interesting, because as you put your lockpicks in to feel the tumblers, you can feel the metal vibrating.

Like the entire door is, and as you hit it, and the door swings open, almost like something's been pushing it on the opposite side. It swings open and slams on the... clams on the inside of the frame, and there you're looking at just a wall of violent green arcane energy. Just coasting by, actually this is blasting downward right now because the threshold crest, as you recall, was above the doorway in the wall. Can we see it, like, above the doorway? Is it like in the archway? It's like on the other side. It's on the other side and up on the wall. And currently where the door opens, there is just violent, magical energy slamming down.

Do you think it's possible to like punch up on the archway and knock the crystal So pick up a rock about that big and just walk 10 feet back and throw it at the energy. It hits the field and there is a violent flash in that section about a foot radius around where it was and the rock just shoots past you, make a dexterity saving for us. Shit. Oh, that's not good. 16. 16? 16?

Wow, you haven't, you, that's the first time we failed the deck save in a long time. Yeah, I rolled a three. Oh, thank God. So happy. He has to be safe. You are fallible. This is what you were trying to choke out. You take six points of bludgeoning damage.

Okay. It's a D4 plus two. But it literally pelts you in the side of the jaw and the neck, and you turn around and you can feel it, and you could feel like the pulsing of the blood beginning to flow into the bruise that's gonna be there tomorrow. I literally just got choked to death 18 hours ago, so I'm not sweating it.

What are we going to do? You think you can punch up? Okay. Try punching up. All right, but if we interfere with that force field and it somehow hits us. We're gonna be hurting. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not only should we back up a little bit, except for me, we should also have an area that we're gonna run to, right? Because I'm sure this will bring the noise. Yeah. Is there a house nearby? Is there a house nearby? There's about a 20-foot gap between the wall

and any nearby building, and there's the large kind of fortress-like manner that you saw earlier. I'd say fortress like manner. It's like a huge house. It's two-story, and it's a decent size, but it looks like it's been reinforced. on the walls, like somebody had designed for it to be a place to hold off some sort of a stand,

probably from the war with Pellower's Army long ago. And that's close by. That's the closest thing to the store. Okay, we can get ready to run there. However, we're staying within 60 feet of you while you mentioned. All Ken's going to stay, just in case it needs like a double. A double punch? Yeah. Okay. It's probably more than 20 feet, actually. It's probably like 30, 40 feet. 30 feet away? Yeah. Okay. How many gloomstock are riders are in the sky above? I mean, overall, Make perception check.

Oh, shit. Yeah. Yikes. Ewe. Eight. There's a lot of them. Stas do you. Like, there's a lot of them by Entropus.

Gloom soccer shit hits me in the face. Yeah. But, I mean, you do notice that there's, where previously there wasn't, there's like some sort of a cloud gathering at the top of this dome. That seems to be kind of funneling down onto Entropos. We gotta get on this, no. Hold on, you gotta stay here right because of the... That's what I said, I'm staying.

Within 60 feet of you. I would like to rage. Okay. And I'll go, tiger, apricot, and I just fucking destroyed the roof of it. Go ahead and make an attack. Oh. Destroyed.

Yeah, destroy. 23. That hits. Go ahead and roll. Damage D4 plus your strength modifier. That is 15 just by itself. Times two, that's 30 points of damage with a punch. One punch, man.

One punch, just fucking sees you, man. That's good. So as you slam into it, you guys watch, as right above the doorway and the door frame, the entire wall, which is a spider crack, shoots up about 20 years. The wall is about 30 feet tall or so. Actually, it's about 20, so feet.

And it cracks up to the very top, and you watch as parts of the large parts of it break off and fall, but it hasn't completely collapsed, but it's sustained some very serious damage. One more will run. Yeah. Take cover. More more.

Kill it. I also need you to go ahead and make a Constitution saving throw, please. Oh, no. I'm going to walk up behind him. He's within 10 feet of me. He gets a plus four. And plus two for me. Oh, shit.

It doesn't stack. It doesn't stack. Plus four is. And I'm backing the fuck out. Okay. Oh, got it. You got to do. From the aura.

Order of protection. Provided by Tia, Matt. 20, 24. 24? Touched. All right. You suffer, it would be 14 points of force damage, reduced to seven. Okay.

And you're pushed back 20 feet, but you're not knocked prone. Okay. So as you slam into it, there's a burst of barking energy out of that section of the doorway and wall that slams into you. You go spinning past, spiraling, and you catch yourself in the ground about 20 feet away. In the middle of the open there, catch yourself. Catch yourself. It's still like a Jackie can't film. Still don't fucking see you.

Okay. It's very loud. I'm rolling so shied today. Thank you. You're gonna roll well when it counts. I'll take a shot as well? Yeah. All right, so as Afas Grog spins back and catches himself.

You walk up to this door frame with your axon hand. Go for it. I want to attack. Okay, that's going to be a... It's going to be a 19. 19 hits. 19 hits a wall. There's an AC of 18 on the wall.

The wall has an AC. Get that brick and mortar. The wall has my armor class. That's really hard on my. With my axe. It's a magic wall. That's going to be 20 points of damage. 20 points of damage. That'll do it.

So as Grog can catch yourself and look up, you watch as Archon just rushes forward. And with a giant leap, cleaves the axe into the stone. As it does, the archway collapses downward. First off, make a Constitution saving throw. Oh, you. I'm standing there. Come on, I'm just ready. Just right.

Con save, all right. Yeah, not big money. This is not. That's going to be more whammy than big money. We're going to go with, that's a nine on a con save. That's not going to do it. Okay. Nine?

You suffer 16 points of force damage, and you get blown back into Grog's direction and knock prone. So you catch, but the impact actually pushes you back five feet, and you get you and he falls face first in the ground. There's actually a dig in the ground, like a groove where the impact is. At that point, as you watch the wall crumble and collapse, you see suddenly dislodge from his position the about two and a half foot wide threshold crest stone

that is embedded in the wall there, crumbles downward and falls out of its space. As it does, there's a series of bursts of vibrant arcane energy that just shoots up the wall, causing this side of the wall to glow exponentially brighter than the rest of the shield, at which point, like a large slice of pie, one sixth of the dome, just falls inward.

And for the first time since you've arrived, you see the non-filtered sky above of the darkened clouds that have completely encased the upper atmosphere of Authentia. Which direction? Now they can get in. You also glance past where it crumbled, as the city is at a slight angle forward,

the way it's placed on the front of the Titan, and you look down and see immediately around the familiar sight of the Vassper Timberlands that surround the exterior of Vasselheim. Oh God, we're there. We're there. Not more than maybe a few miles off, you can assume from this distance,

you see the singular mountain pillar that Vasselheim is built around in the outer wall in sight. Do we keep going? Do we try to get down some more? You also, at this point. Alderan is in sight to run. We're coming around that's where I'm running. There we go.

Everyone make perception check please. I got this guy, don't worry. Hey. That's yeah. Oh, fuck me. 27? Oh, geez, I hate that awful bites. 27.

20. Was this passive perception? Because if it was, then I rolled the natural 20 of passive perception. The natural one. Okay, got you. 18. Three. Twelve.

Okay. Three. So those who got over 20. As soon as you see this, there's this small victory in this moment of joy and accomplishment that is immediately washed over by the realization of how close you are to the city. The two hours that you were gone, still better than a full rest, however, has put you within proximity of the city. and you hear this familiar, large, airy kind of reedy stretched screech in the distance. You glance over and you see in the distance barreling down in your direction a skeletal dragon familiar

to you, not far before. Move, move, move, move, move. I don't think we're going to be able to move. We're going to run and hide, though. We're going to hide. We're going to run away from this. At least get in this building that there was that in. Yeah.

All in the same enclosed space? Yeah, but it's like, it's. There's like a tower-like structure and then there's that building that was reinforced to be in. The reinforced building. We are not going to scatter and spread, but we are not going to scatter and spread. We're going to stay together no matter what. We have to stay within 60 feet. There is no scattering.

Within 60 feet of us. Okay. Super important. If you all are rushing into this building, everyone makes stealth check, please. Okay. Is this a hovering stealth check? If you want to still stay out in the open, that is up to you.

Oh. They're all darting into a building, so the choice is yours. You can stay with your beast. He's kind of one of them, so I can kind of leave him outside someone. You're on top of him. Yeah, I am. So, do you want to try and blend into his form? I'd love to. I think that's what I want to.

Okay, then make a... Maybe you still get plus 10. Make a straight up. up. You would not be within 30 feet of her once she enters the building. Can you do like the cool like John Wayne thing and like go underneath of them and like hang on its belly from the cell? That's what I'm trying to do. Okay, make an athletics check. Athletics check. Yeah.

Oh. That's okay. 28. As this happens, you immediately climb down to the underbelly of the gloom stalker and you now, to maintain hold on it because it's physical form and it's interesting, now that you've been this close to, you're going to be able to, you know, to maintain hold on it, because it's interesting, now that you've been this close to. to it, you've been wrestling it, you feel it's partially corporeal. There's something about its physicality that is almost gelatinous. It's made up of a combination of shadow and physical will. And as you clutch into it, your fingers kind of dig and begin to seep into it, almost like a cluster of tar. But it holds you fast, and you're there underneath. You get to make a stealth

check without disadvantage, but this will... Like a gnarly acupuncture. Is it a boy or a girl gloomestacker? I'm close enough to know. The glooms talkers are actually sexless. They have no natural. It seems to be sexual. Oh, do I have a little... You do not.

Aye. Oh, hey, that's my own. We don't hand them out of the door. Oh, no. This is going to be in 11. Okay, good to know. The rest of you guys? Oh, 16.

No, 18. Add 10. I did. 22. Uh, 33. 46? 27. 30.

19 and 30. Okay. No. Oh, 40. Okay. As you guys all dart into this building, you all quietly listen outside as you maintain, hovering in place. The skeletal dragon, swoops down and as its wings catch itself.

The wind billows through the space in the center here. You can see a bunch of the... the dust and pebbles and loose rubble that's been kind of built up around here, and the wall that was left behind just gets kicked up and kind of spins a brief dust devil in the vicinity. The skeletal dragon there still flying. Make a perception check. Okay. But we're within 60 feet of him, right? He's kept relatively close to the building.

Okay. So I didn't get the plus 10? No. No. But you're still hidden from view from Beckna. Perception. That's not terrible. That's not terrible. That's a 16 perception.

Okay, as soon as the dragon gets close, and you've seen it flying about up in the kind of stratosphere area of this dome before, you can see there are still bits of kind of flesh stangling off of the bones, and it is a familiar colored flesh. Oh, no. Whereas you and your adventuring party had traveled here before this risen dragon form seems to have torn from the corpse of the mount that brought you to this city. Oh, no. You see as the skeleton, the skull of its body, its eyes crackling, bright, blue-green energy.

There on the back of this dragon, you see two humanoid standing on its back. You see a dark armored male with pale skin with a well-kept beard and short hair with his arm around the waist of a female who's currently clutching under the back of its bones. You could see the woman in red robe was being blown in a black of her. up, her hair bound in the front is wild behind as she has a necklace bobble that hangs around her neck, crackling blue-green energy. As she has her hand forward, she glances around at the space angrily. What? Looks over at the gloomstocker. Oh, what have we here? Is this your doing? She doesn't see you. Maybe she's talking to the gloomstocker. The gloomstocker, I control the gloomstocker. I control the gloom

loomstocker and make him screech. Adorable. Wouldn't you say so, honey? And the man behind him goes, Oh, quiet. Well, I'm a fan of taking thorns out of my sight. Is it time we do a bit of surgery, darling? And the woman goes, but of course,

I've missed you. And she nozzles into his neck a bit and turns around. The dragon lands onto the tower across the way, facing in the direction of the gloomstocker and it inhales. And you watch as it begins to breathe in all of the shards of bone matter that have been scattered across the streets of the city, begin to whip up and spiral into its ribbed cage, like a blender. As it pulls back, and as the dragon's mouth opens, it releases a blast of bone shards that arc out in front of you.

You and the gloomstocker each I need. Oh no. Into the earring, I say, this is our chance. We leave him as a distraction and we go. They don't know we're here. We can run. You and the gloomstock make dexterity saving throw, please. But here's the thing. Like, we're not going to have a better chance to get them away from Vecna.

Should we attack them now? Plus we have one extra ally, two. We can attack them now, away from Fetna. You said DECSAVE? Correct. Okay, I actually have... It's true. True.

It doesn't know where here. An advantage on deck saves that I can see. There you go. Maybe wait for them to land and be. They are not assumed. Are they landed? Are they hovering? They've landed on a tower right across from the building where you guys are.

How far away is that? Yeah. Let me show you. Oh, my God, we go, we got, we got. So wait, is it's Vargal? Is it Thorad? No, it's his mount. It's his mount.

It's your old mount. It's, I rode in on a white dragon named Obatala. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

How did you know we would be here? Oh, shit. Sorry. It's my. How did he know we would be here? Oh, no. Oh, shit. Oh.

Oh. It's okay. Briarwood's down. Boney dragon. Oh, man. Oh, M. Oh, no. They're dead.

We're getting it. If that was the way it played, you guys have been dead a long time ago. The war is over and both sides lost. Kingdoms were reduced to cinders, an army scattered like bones in the dust. Now the survivors claw to what's left of a broken world, praying the darkness chooses someone else tonight. But in the shadow dark, the darkness always wins. This is old-school adventuring and its most cruel. Your torch ticks down and reds down.

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Hey on top of my dude. Thank you John Paul and everyone at Gail Force Nine for my sweet-ass mini that just arrived in the UK today. Oh yeah. Good time. Thank you very much. There you go. Oh my God.

So we're in this building? Well, I was kind of on the bottom, but we'll let it put there. Yeah, we're putting it there. Yeah, that's the range of the blast right there. Right. Yeah. And maybe he rolled really well in there. All right, so you guys, let's go out your placement here.

So, you guys rushed into this building here. Oh, there's a window. There's windows. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Oh my god. So you guys rushed around and into the side, so you guys are in the base floor here. Okay. Where do you want to be?

Can I run upstairs and look in that window? Sure. So I'll put you at the window there. Okay. Who else is placed where? I'll be downstairs. You guys entered around over the window. There's no windows downstairs?

No, there's no windows down there. There's no windows on this side. Just whenever you feel like it. Okay. So. There seems to be some windows on this side, right? There's a couple of small slits, but they're facing out this way. And then would you say we could use the attic windows?

That's more of the place in there. There would be no attic windows. It's been reinforced, so like, there's been places to armor on the bottom. The only windows that are available to ones up top. and even them only have an arrow since. So. Because we can't see around there. I'm going to use it as a reference photo.

Fair enough. So, back so you're up with your sister? Yes, I am. And Trinket is out. All right, so you bring Bamp, Trinket out of the next one. And Bamp, Trinket out, but he's down by Grog. Okay. We'll put Grug.

We'll say that you were probably down in this building being as quiet as you can. Percival, Scanlan, Keyleth, Pike. I'm behind my boy, Grog. My bow blue. There's that other window? Oh, more. Up on the second.

Yeah. Okay. Oh, good, oh God. Guys do not worry. We have an extra plus two to our hit points. It's gonna be fine. The most amazing two detail roll ever. Two.

Scanlan. I mean, I'm just in there somewhere. I need a stuck in Scanlan. Is Galith up top? Got it. Give us up. Okay. I think I would be near the window where I could kind of see, what's your name? Arcand? Arcon. Arcon.

We'll say it for the purposes of this. It's Arcone Skagit. You can just move with me. So then this will be a tiny scamman. Sure. Skilin, where are you? Near the windows that can kind of, if I, the downstairs windows where I can kind of There are down there.

There's like small slits, they're all armored up. But I can't, oh, they're armored up. All right, so then I'm upstairs. Okay. So we'll put that there. So we'll say for purposes. Is it this? You guys are... I can't believe we're fighting the fucking prior woods again. It's gonna be fun. What is this? The third time? That's not the death man. Third time. Yeah, that's her...

Ah, such a bitch! Sure. So... Yeah, that's... Now that we're set, thank you for your patience. He's a vampire. He's a vampire. So would you roll you and your gloomstocker? Well, me good, not him, not... Role? Not so good. I had a 27, gloomstocker 11. I'm trying to be... give the proper... Yeah, that's proper-in-brown.

Gender-specific. They? They. They. They rolled in 11? They rolled. Yeah. It's immediate Shannon.

And you rolled? Well, actually, no, wait. Hold on. They would benefit from my aura of protection. That's true. So they would have a 15, I would have a 20. That's what they're plus six? The Gloomstock gets a plus six dexterity saving throw.

Oh, plus six. I'm looking at the Dex modifier, just plus three. Right. It says under saving throws, dex plus three. Oh, great. So then let's throw in an extra three. That's eight, sorry. Oh, shit.

So then it, they had a 20. I had a 27. All right, you both succeeded in the save, so you take half damage, which is only 26 points of necrotic damage. That's solid. Piercing damage, not necrotic. So as the bone shards go slamming into each of you,

that completes the dragon's turn. Now everybody, please roll into it. Come on. Come on. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, all right, all right, all right, all right. You said 16 now? Sorry, sorry, sorry.

I said 16. 26. There you know. Correct. Okay, I got that right for there. What happened? Do I roll for this thing? Do I roll for the thing?

Yes, you would. Separately of me. No, separately. Okay. Don't say any of the ease of it. Let's make it on your turn. Fair enough. There's a lot going on here.

There's a lot going on here. All right. In-game hour, not this game. Right, right, right. Oh, no. So, 25 to 20. Thanks to Kaz, 27. Yeah.

Oh, shit. 24 for me. Right. 25 to 20? I just said that, right? 24, yeah. 20 to 15? 18.

17. Nice. For me and they. 18, 17. You're being that bad ass. Oh, okay. Is it 18, 17? Yes.

Do you always do this, or is this new for you? I always do. How I missed this? Oh. Nice. Is there a cricket in the studio or is that part of the sound effect? We know that's a fair. It's not that intense.

We have a . 15 to 10. There's a really annoying cricket. Yeah. You hear it. What were you again? 24. All right.

That's a cricket. You were looking at me in the eye when you said it. All right. Cricket's initiative is at 30. He's like out to do. Keelis, what you get it? Six. So did Scamlin, too.

Eightful eight. All right. Two separate initiatives for you and again. This is new for me. This is his first time. Have you waiting your entire life? So is that everybody? Yes.

I believe it's everybody. All right. Matt, just manage the ten people and three creatures on the field right now, and we'll be fine. No, no. Be good. All right, first up first. It's you. It's me.

It's already raging. Yep. Already raging. Can I run a do it? Let's see, there is a window, right? There's no killing rats in a basement. Can I run? Upstairs.

There you are now up. Protect the wine casks. Right there. And can I jump out the motherfucking window? That you can? Yeah. Is that my full 50? I'd put that at about 35, I'd say.

You got 15 feet still. Awesome. So I'm going to double dash with the spider boots that Percy gave me, and I'm going to run up the tower Oh, yeah. And just go straight. Yeah. Well, one dash. One dash.

So you get up to the top of the tower and you are now base to base when the drop pass. Oh, yeah. Right there. Did you just fucking no farther than 60 feet away from me? No. No. No. Right.

Why are you making me feel like that? Just remember that because it's a thing, Drenpo. Take your turn. They might be able to just communicate with vetting. They could, but we don't know. We could kill them before he knows. So that means if I'd get up next of this thing, I would be in range of the 16. You are within 60 feet right now.

Just do what you do. It's Vex's job to keep us in radius. That's just to keep... What bonus do I have? That doesn't give you a bonus. It just keeps Vecna from C.A. Fair enough. It's a term of anti-teleconnesis ring.

You are within Malay of the dragon, yeah. Perfect. That's my turn. Like the only way we're going to get the drop on him is if he doesn't know we're actually here. They're going to kill them. We're going to kill them. They're going to go, they're here. They're here and then that's it.

They're not. They have magic message. VACC. That's something we have to do in supposed to have a front of the bottom. Unless you want to let me go for an arreiber. Oh, sorry, that's right. It can't be done this. All right.

All right, so, thanks. Okay, can I lean out the window and attack? You may. Okay, I lean out the window and I am going to use, can I see Delilah? Can I shoot at her? Sure. With my sharpshooter, she doesn't get any additional cover or anything to the dragon.

Okay, so I'm going to have. Okay. Sharp shooter, Delilah, with one of my needle arrows. Okay. That I've been hanging onto for a gajillion years. So that is a 26, 25 to hit. 25 to hit? Yeah, even the shield, she couldn't stop that. Okay, that hits.

Yes. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Good. Are you shooting for the driving? No. No. Big D. T. 20.

Is that sneak attack? Is she didn't know I was there? Technically. Oh, Grog's standing right there. Grog standing right, well, Grog's in melee with the dragon. I'll say because she was not aware of you, they were only aware of him. Yeah, sneak attack.

It's not a crit, it's not a surprise tack, but you get sneaky. 31. 31, yeah. Uh-huh. All right, 31 points of damage. And then my second, oh no, 41 because I was sharpshootering. Okay.

Nice. And then, oh, that one definitely does. But it wasn't in the thing. Yeah, I know, but it still was a roll, so I think it was. What is it? It's 17. 17? Nope, that misses.

So the first, as you lean through the window, you release the first arrow, and as Delilah's up there, kind of, you know, both clutching the necklace and has her hand out on this wand, you hit her hand with the arrow, and she looks over and looks down at the window right towards you, and there's a moment of recognition. She's easy. As you fire the second arrow, she dodges it. It was, I remember you. Oh, no. She's poking me. I'm using my bonus action to hide. Okay, so you duck off to the side of the window.

Not that it matters, but I'm not at all for style. Yeah, that did nothing. 21. No, 31, because I still haven't cast a hunter's mark. Okay, good enough. All right, that ends your turn. And with that, it is now Delilah's turn. Oh, shit, she brought up on the change.

We did. Shoulden 19 for initial idea. Okay, okay, so it's Grog. Grog. Vex. All right. Grog, Bex Delilah. I was going to take a slight numbers with where I am at the one.

I don't know where Bax is. I forgot his number. He's eight. He's eight. Percy, what? Percy, Arcad, Pike. She. It's Arcade.

Sorry. Sorry. No, don't. He can't. He can't. He can. Pike. All right.

Oh, Khan. She is going to point her finger down at the wall where all of you guys are. and a thin green ray streaks out from her finger across. It seems to be. I don't like the phone. I know. When there are too many dice to roll, the phone comes out. Oh, no, no.

I'm just confirming the... Sorry, just making all the... Yeah. The deliverance of the death. The method chosen. The size of the space that it can disintegrate. There we go. Okay.

We've got to drag it more palliative. We're fine. We're about it. We're fine. Yeah, could you ring up T.M. And half the rope up with his dragon type? Ten foot. Keep of it. All right.

She's on hold. You got on speed down? This entire wall. Right here. Or that one. You could just turn it. Oh, that's true. You could just turn the whole bit.

Just stuck in. Yeah. God, that's so dope. Ball is disintegrated in place and now reveals entirely Vex and Vax. I'm like. Looking out the way. Right. Which point, as she pulls her finger back and the wall just

turns the dust around you, you just hear her off and say, I'm sorry, honey, but no. Oh, oh, hello there. I didn't see you. That's going to end her turn. It is now the dragon's turn. The dragon is going to, we'll see if it that breath attack does regenerate.

The dragon. No, no, no, no. It's going to take a big attack of opportunity. No, no, no, no. I'll make it reckless. Okay. I mean, that's the third time has fallen. I know.

At this point, I'm just going to. Take them off. I should have tape on the bottom of it, and that's my fault. We have tape? We can get tape. We get some tape, I can do that. Is there gas tape in the house? Man, I really wish we had some tap tape right now.

I know there's a row of it back there. Oh, dear God, send tape. Did you get the attack? Did you get the attack? Did you? Dear Tim, it's Arcon. We need scotch tape. I believe it's arcane.

That's fine. It's fine. So as the dragon, you get an tag of opportunity in the dragon. It's a 34. 34. That hits. Yeah, good. Thank you, kindly, Mr. Brian Popper. Just a little bit.

Greenpeace. It's a janitor's key ring of text. Yes, son. The tape. It's the best. So this thing is on the ground now? Yeah. It is hovering right above the ground.

It's trying to get down into the space of the wall that's currently exposed now. We want to pass the tape over here. Please pass the tape over here. Let me ask you guys the question. Yeah. Handle that. All right, so how much damage is that ground? Strategically.

The dragon would be considered undead, yes. So with the swords 2D10 slashing damage to undead, that's 32 points of damage. 32 points of damage to the dragon. Nice. So as it whoops up, Dragon takes one arc with the blade, and as it streaks across, it slams into part of its foot, and you watch the bone just splinters upon impact

with the sword of cost. As the dragon lands, it brings its head down into the gap where the opening is and arches forward. As it does, it fills the entire It's a higherity of space. It inhales the second time. You watch, all the bits of bones spiral up into it if it regenerate. For the second time. The bone shards spill up into its chest. Is this an attack roll that it's about to make? No. It's saving throw on you guys' point. As it releases this torrent of bone shards and rock and whatever else, it could pull up into its chest and releases it, I need everybody in that room.

Both Scanlan's, Keelith, Percival. Do I not have cover? Cover's not going to help you on this. Unfortunately, it fills the whole space. Should erode in on a horse. What do we make? Dexterity saving throws, guys. And drink is a good. This doesn't give us like spell resist, right? No. Scanlon 2 is going to use cutting words to reduce the damage. Okay. That's all right. That's all right. That's good. That's good. That's good. Dex. Okay.

That's good. Okay. All right. Scanlan 1, 18. Scanlan 2. 25. Both succeed. 18 and barely. 18. Succeeds. 17. I barely missed it.

Fuck! 26. So evasion means zero damage. Zero. 31. Succeed. All right. So, so the only person to take full damage on this is Keeleth, right? Sorry.

Double checking here on the bardability. Sorry for D&D. Sorry for Dund. DERN. Can reduce D12. Yeah. So go and roll D12. On all of us?

Five. So five less. That's good. That's good. That's good. So that is 49 points of piercing damage to you, Keyleth. 149. Yep. The rest of you take, it would be 24. That's minus the five? Yes.

One three. Minus 49? Because it's... Okay. I'm in 94. It's filled the space there and you all just, you feel every ounce of exposed skin and flesh is now just been hit with a thousand I did. That ends its turn. Percival, you're up. Hmm. Okay, just a quick, just so I can kind of gather my wits.

There's an angry Delilah with a wand clutching some sort of weird thing around her neck. Yep. There's a Silas with, I assume, what would be a brand new sword. Probably. And they're sitting on top about how many feet up on a dragon right now? I'd say about 15 feet. I don't know. That's be 15, 20 feet.

Let's have a little fun. Let's have a little fun. Let's have a little fun. All right. And we're, oh good, and I have an escape route. That'll do really nicely. This is going to be fun. I'm going to bug's bunny this lady.

First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take a shot with. Don't look down. Why? It's a good. Never mind. Okay, never mind. Oh, no, that was good. It took me a second.

I'm going to take a shot with Animus. Boy, I'm nervous. I'm going to burn a point of grit. And I'm gonna make her drop her wand. You got this, focus it, you got it. And roll the attack. Mm-hmm. Walk in the park.

That's a 31 to hit. That'll hit. Okay. And that's a, let's make her drop stuff, is a strength saving throw. Natural five. Yeah! So she's holding the wand out with the hand.

She glances back and as the smoking gun is there, she goes, I certainly remember you. Miss you too. I do, darling. Is that, I still do damage on that one, I believe. So that's, wow, I am so... Her hand is now covered in blood, and you see like one of the fingers, things, looks pretty heavily damaged. That's, uh, let's do a little, let's have a little fun.

Grog does not count within melee of the Draculich, right? It's just... I mean, he could hit his queen. Grog is not in melee for us. That's nine points of damage plus five points are psychic, so 14. Okay. 14 points, got it. For my next trick, I'm now going to, uh,

burn another point of grit. All right. And let's push Silas, 10 feet. Okay. So pull that. And that's another 31 to hit. That hits. Yes.

So let's take a little damage and do a little psychic. I do not like this die. I'm getting rid of it. That's fine. It's only, again, nine points of damage plus two points of psychic. Okay, so 11th Silas? And 11 to Silas, and Silas has to now move 10 feet back. Right, no save, right? No save. Yeah, silence.

Gets blasted. Oh! Yes! Off the back of the dragon. Yes! Yes! I thought it was Bugs Bunny, but you did Woody Woodpecker. I did.

Woody Woodpicker is, obviously, on the certain level, has more shade. Is this creature under control to the point where someone takes damage and has to make a control save? We don't know. We don't know. I mean, if it used to be yours. It was mine. I don't know. We'll see.

But it's not anymore. It's dead. Now it's dead. Maybe you can try to get through. All right, so he gets blown off and lands prone on the ground. I know you're in there. Buddy. You're like a little jerky?

All right. Jerky's good, right. And for my next fun, I'm going to, let's push Delilah ten feet. Fuck that, bitch off. For my final trick. That's a 28 to hit. Shit, that hits. Yep, sorry, man.

This is my best. This is my best trick. and I've burned a lot of it. So that's, I should have done some extra damage on that, but no, I didn't. Ah, I was, oh, fuck, I'm prone. 15 points of damage plus four points of sight kit, plus 10 feet. All right.

She gets pulled off the side. Oh! Everyone's falling. Take some fall damage. Put her behind the dragon. Actually, both them should be behind the dragon. Okay. Yeah, both prone.

Did they take damage from falling? They did. They both, they both took 1D6. And they're both prone? Or 2D6 each. Sorry. That's a... Yeah, five points blizzard and damage each.

And then I'm going to... Man, I should have burned some ball into that. I feel like an idiot. I can't know that's... There's no attracting that. So for the rest of it, I'm going to use bonus action to run a heel. So I'm going to give myself... I'm keeping for a while.

I'm keeping for a while. 19 extra points back. And I'm going to run downstairs. Okay. So you run down stairs. I'm going to run down to this area. Yeah. I'm heading towards that back door.

Okay. Perfect. That ends your turn, Percival? Yeah. All right, Arcon, you're out. I would like to rage. Okay. Oh, look at this crew down there.

Yes! Sorry, audio team. The testosterone in this group just went from a half to one. Did you say you wouldn't have friends you raged for me? I did. Okay. Oh, man. I...

Now, question. If I fly past the dragon to Delilah, do I give the dragon an attack of opportunity? Yes, you would. I would. So I have to go through this thing. Oh, well. Okay, I'm going to fly the Gloomstocker right up to this thing. I don't know.

Gloomstocker pulls into range and is going to, it makes two attacks on the... On the dragon? on the undead Obatala. Go for it. Barack Obama. Oh, terrible. Actually terrible. No, no.

That's terrible. Wow, this thing is not. Okay, so that's going to be a... Thanks, Obama. It's a 13 and then a natural one. Both misfortunely. It's claws streak out in front of it, and unfortunately it just scrapes against the bones, no effect. Okay.

But you have your turn. Yeah, now it's me. That's an awesome, is that your WorldW Box? This is mine, yes. It's really cool. It's pretty hot. They do those specials, those one of a kinds that you can buy. Oh, well.

I don't know where to the time. Next campaign kiss, next campaign. I know I have an idea for a... I paid for it. I pay for it. So I get advantage on my attacks because I'm raging. This is the first time I've ever raged. Well, yeah. Well, if you're going reckless attacks, you can.

Oh, reckless frenzy rage. Then yes, you can. Okay, great. So you're going frenzied, rage, as opposed to regular rage? Frenzied does, yes, yes. Okay, I'll have to hold it. Oh, because I'm not. I'm not frenzied yet, because I use the bonus in rage.

Okay, yeah. He's the bonus to rage in the first place. Right. Great. Okay, that first one is going to be a 33 to hit. That hits. Yes. And this thing is undead. Yes, queen, Tiamach.

Okay, I'm gonna pump a third level divine smite into it, which is, okay, just bear with me right now. We don't do math fast ever. Two diage for the axe. Two diage for first level divine smite. Three more for second, no, second third level and undead. Correct. All of all eights.

Dump it, dude. All of all eight. Dump it, dude. It's seven. All right. Oh, man. Okay. People never look.

This is not bad. It's going to be, that's going to be 49. 49 points of damage on the first tip. So as you rush up and the gloomstock are scratching towards it, you rush with the giant arc. You watch as Fane Eater's blade suddenly springs forth these darkened spray of colors. Red, green, black, every chromatic dragon's power thrust into the blade as you slam it into the side of the rib cage of the undead dragon, watching bone splinter and break from the blast of dark energy. I love it.

Second attack. Go for it. That's a good one too. That's going to be 29. All right. Same thing. Third level, divine smite, seven die eight. 47.

As you pull the axe back, you arc at a secondary time, and this time with the sound of, it's like a union of four different dragon cries, the fifth one being your own, as you slam the axe the second time hitting the edge of its clavicle, and it just carves through and breaks. You can see part of the bones just shatter and then kind of reformed, but still broken and not in the same way. It's taking this serious round. Okay? Just a hint, a tiny hint of remorse for having to kill this thing that I helped raise. Correct.

Oh, that's what I think like if I had to fight under drink it. That's a legendary action. He greets your blade with a single tier. Legendary action, incoming. Silas Brierwood is going to go ahead and move his speed. You can hand me Silas, please. He's prone, so he gets half of it. And he moves through and he gets part way through the dragon, we'll say.

So he's about there. Okay. All right. That ends your turn? Silas is up and moving? Silas is up and moving. And your turn? But he was perfect.

That's all I got. All right. Silas's turn. Silas, seeing you come up and destroy the dragon, Oh no. Grins, rushes up to, climbs up the side of the dragon, jumps onto its thigh, and jumps in the air towards you, holding what looks to be a giant blackened gray axe in his handy.

It's going to go ahead and make a strike at you. Oh no. Oh, you know what? No, he's not going to. Oh, no. Silas said rushes up. Axon one hand grabs the side of the skeletal rib cage, hanging off, looks up at you and goes, you seem like one other strong, and just kind of looks you dead in the eyes. No. I need you to make a wisdom saving thing. No, come on, no, come on, come on, cool. Oh my God, no, do not get turned. Does he have advantage on some, a wisdom, something?

No, he doesn't, because we didn't take, he didn't have a feast. Can I, can I cut him? words? You've already used your reaction, buddy. One of us is. Don't get touch. It's true. Oh.

That's true. Ceylon. Ceylon. Ceylon steps up. Cutting words only if you can't give a bonus to somebody saving throw. Okay. Then never mind. Okay.

You can reduce an enemy saving throw. Got it. You got this. You can do this thing. Straight up, roll. Here we go. Mm. That's up.

What would have happened? He would have charmed you. and you would have had to start fighting them. You'll start killing us. So, as he stares at you, you feel this cold presence begin to consume the back of your mind, and you feel drawn to him. There's just this force of charisma and drive,

and as you begin to lean forward towards it, you feel this oof in your holy symbol, and as you glance, you break the gaze just for a second to look down and you see the multicolored fury of T-MAT reach up and block and obscure the vision from him, and as the flames burn off, you look up again, is gone and he looks at you with a frustrated glance. Wow.

Yes. He's going to use the rest of his. Oh my God. Yes. All right, he's going to use the rest of his movement to go ahead. It's fucking on right now. Dark back around the side of that tower there. How much movement does he have left after?

Next to the door or just kind of right. He got up. He used a legendary action to get up and get his movement, and then on his turn, he got his movement. All right, right. Not some good use of logic. Settling this turn. That brings us to Pike.

Okay, so can I get up stairs? Sure. But just like stay like a, getting some warriors enough? To about where the twins are up there. Okay, so I'm going to cast, ching, chank, chag, here I come, chink, quake. I'm going to cast a beacon of hope. Yes. And choose any, all of, everyone that I see of my.

With everyone within 30 feet that you can see gets effective. Yes. That you can see, does it say? Choose any number of creatures within range. Which is 30 feet? Yes. So you'd be able to see Percival down there, yeah. Would I be able to, I can see Grog.

Is that 30? No. Grog is farther than 30 feet from you, unfortunately. Can you see Archon? Yeah. Okay, good. Archon is like a direct picture. Yeah. Yes.

What does this do again? You have advantage on wisdom saving through us. Oh, healing is maxed. And death saving. Nice. Wisdom and death. And then I am also as a bonus action going to cast sanctuary on Vex.

Okay. Do we hit you? Well, sanctuary is a bonus action? It's a bonus action. It's maximum. Nice. So you don't roll here. Okay, okay.

What does that do? What is a sanctuary? Well, just a kick in. Okay, okay. Sanctuary means that if something tries to attack you is to make a will saving throw or wisdom saving throw to see if it does so or fail.

It's what Grooond did him. Earthbreaker did for 12 turns. All right. And you turn Pike? Dude, we need to get back to back. Is that your point? Yes. Can I...

This is the best thing ever. Lats to Lats. Like a fucking cobra. Am I able to sort of get hidden around the wall? Or since I already moved? Your movement would have gotten you just up to the stairs at that point because you had to climb up. Okay. Okay.

At the end of that turn, Too much man for me. Swooping down, you hear two impacts on the roof above you. Love this. Oh no. No. And you hear the crowling, tearing sound as the somewhat long, dry rotten wooden rooftops that are above you guys get pulled open. By two boomstalkers that have joined the fray.

Toothless? How's a bitch? Are they undead? You don't know. I mean, like, just for the count is undead? They do not count as undead? They do not count as on your experience. Is the roof off of it?

Now, right now the roof is open, so it's damaged bits and part of it's fallen in more and you guys can move around. So now they have visual on you. Okay. But that's all I can do this turn. It took them their full movement and action and break in. Oh, they're all open that. That's going to end their turn.

Scanlan, you're up. Scanlan 1. Scanlan 1 turns to Scanlan 2 and sings the song of healing. Wait, does that mean our- Scanlan 2 as in the... Which one are you prime or 2? I'm prime right now. Okay. Some acorns cannot be healed except by...

Ever? They can be repaired. Oh. What does that mean? But not healed with a healing thing? Correct. Or a potion. Correct.

How do they get repaired? Is it like a doughty situation? Kind of. Like once they're gone, they're gone? Yep. Okay. Then never mind that. So after the...

I'm just saying, because you would know this having known the spell and the significance of its creation, If it is damaged, you can repair it in an alchemical laboratory using rare herbs and minerals worth 100 gold per hit point. Oh, boy. Can Scanlon 2 heal himself? Scanlan 2, no. It can heal other things, but the actual simulacrum can not heal other than being repaired. Oh, that one. Fuck. A little more.

We're dying. Hey, man. It's going to drag breath. All right. Oh, shit. It's all good, guys. We're going to be fine. Let's say,

It's fine, we've got to end some shit. All right, well then Scanlan one will heal himself with just a bonus action healing word. Okay. And then he will grab Scanlan 2 and Dimension Door behind the Dragon. Oh shit. All right.

What are you doing? So both of these guys appear behind the dragon. Awesome. Like right behind? Do you know Silas and Delilah are right there? Delilah or here? Back there. Right here?

Silas is right here and you're right next to Silas. You want to be behind them? You want both of you to be right behind Silas. All right. Did you add your Macs? Let me ask you guys to move things behind the floor. Thank you. Do you want within like melee range or do you want back like 10 feet?

Back 10 feet. That would be great. All right. So that's your action, bonus action. Mm-hmm. Now you can move. Yes, and Scanlan 2, wait, this was Scanlan 1. Scanlan 2 hasn't gone yet.

Scanlan 2 is at the very end with Keelah. Scanlan 1 will rock around the side of the thing. Okay, there you go. All right, Vax, you're up. I really am? Oh my, okay, so if I get to the- Actually, at the end of the turn, Silas is going to go ahead and use another legendary action.

What? What? He got him back, actually, because he used it before last one. He uses his first legendary action to... Give me sound as please. To hide up. He can climb up walls. He runs up the side.

He can run up the sides of walls. And glances down looking to where you are. Vampires, man. All right. That's going to bring us to back to his turn. Yeah, okay. So if I get to the very edge there, am I in range of Delilah on the ground with sharpshoot Because the cover doesn't do much.

Correct. Except full cover. Yeah, she would have cover in the circumstance, but you avoid it with a sharpshooter, so you can't. Okay, and am I within 60 feet there about? Yes. Okay, I'm going to throw whisper at her, and she's down, so I've advantaged. That is a 27 to hit. 27 to hit, hits. And I'm going to BAMF there.

Okay. All right, so here we go. She is prone. Yeah. Advantage. Yeah. So you have disadvantage on the attack against her. For what?

Because she's prone? Because she's prone to a ranged attack. No, no, no, no. You don't have advantage against her, because there's nothing giving you advantage. Oh, her being prone doesn't give me advantage? No. Her being prone against range attacks gives you disadvantage. All right, go on again.

Go on again. That's much worse. But doesn't it cancels out for him? Because of sharpshooter. Sharpshooter just means she ignores cover. No, it just means ignores cover. Yes, it doesn't give him advantage in the attack. So it's still a disadvantage.

Correct. That sucks. Okay, I'm gonna attack again. That one misses, that was that 18. 18, technically would hit. She's going to go ahead and use shield as a reaction to go ahead and add plus five to your AC. So she's on the back, she sees the dagger,

and she goes, and just to flex it off. Tight. Okay, she's gonna be a reaction. All right, second attack is a natural 20? Yay! Is it really? Yeah. That's good.

With Whisper, she has to make a saving throw with a DC of 18 or become frightened of me for a minute on a crit. What was the DC on that one? 18. 18, which is a plus 10 wisdom save, so that's gonna put her a 20. Okay, all right.

So two, there's a two, two plus eight. That's a great. That's a great. 72. 72? Yeah, it's a crit. Right, but it's not sneak. Double the dice.

Right, but it's not sneak attack though. Oh, sorry, so. 72.62. 32. Excuse me, thank you. No worries. 32. Wow, your reverse math was super fast just then.

That would have taken me five minutes. All right. And I'm going to BAMP there on it. Okay. Okay. Oops. It's fine. It's fine.

And, don't worry. And with my bonus action, I'm going to throw my third dagger up at the wall. Okay. Can I throw a whisper again if it's like, is it, I don't know if it's like quick draw or does it have to change dagger? Technically I'd consider it to change dagger generally. Okay. Because otherwise it's like, because you're throwing them so fast. Like blomerang in it. You know. All right. Then I'm gonna, instead I'm gonna disengage and I'm going to dart back between the Scanlan's.

Okay. Between the Scanlan's. Good to know. All right. Then as you turn back? Two Scanlan. Keyleth. Kieleth. At the end of your turn, Salas is going to use his second legendary action. Haldow. To attempt to make...

She used a reaction to knock with Dider, right? Silas said she would use shield. She did, yeah. Which is a reaction. So she can't hit me. Right. With an attack of opportunity. That's not what this is.

Silas is using a legendary action. There's nothing to do with Delilah. You're talking about you're disengaged. Don't worry about it. You're fine. Silas is going to use a second legendary action at the end of your turn to go ahead and take a sweep. go ahead and take a swing at Grog with his great axe of the eclipse. Great axe of the eclipse. Wait, Delilah or Silas? Silas. Okay.

That's going to put his as a 21. That is okay. That is. That is 14 points of damage. I need you to make a reduced to seven. And I need you to make a wisdom saving therapy, please. Oh no. With advantage. With advantage. With a bench. Oh, wait, that's a 10. Natural 20. Yes. Nice.

That person was a three. So as the blade sinks across to you, you resist the impact, but you feel this cold sensation across the wound that begins to spill across your body. And you just angrily, in your rage, flex against it, and just manage to withstand and shrug off the blade. That ends that. That brings us next step is Kieleth and Scanlan, too. Hey. Hey, Scanlan, too? Hey.

Are you just as charismatic as Scanlan one? I've got all the words to make the girls like me. Okay, I don't care. And I'm going to keep on a two punch. Okay. Okay, Gila's going to try and do like a one-two punch here. So she's going to move forward. Boop.

And then does she see Delilah? Through the bones? Through the bones. I'd say probably, actually. If you watch her going to knock back, you're fine. It's a problem. Partially translucent dragon. Okay, I'm going to reach out and I'm going to do an entangle spell right under her.

Okay. So unless she can make a strength save versus my spell shit, she's... That is a four plus one. No. Fail. So she is restrained. Okay. And then I am going to run, and I'm going to use my mantle of the Tempest jump to jump, and then

like, like, trying to be kind of dope here. I don't know. Mid-air, I'm going to change into a Earth Elemental and try and grab onto the Bone Dragon and see if I'm like snap his neck in the process. The grapple of the Bone Dragon's head. Okay. Is it tangles in action? Yes. Okay. So. But then I'm just running and jumping and grabbing for the rest of my movement. Jesus. Okay. Do we need some more tape? Yes. Well, you can't, uh, actually, we finally just need

The way over here. You're gonna ride this thing like a mechanical. Yeah. Do you want me get the tape? All right, so you leap over. I know, right? You can't. Is it doomsday?

That's the rest of your turn. Yes. So you, after entangling her, you run, leap, and as the wind from a mantle picks up, you watch this gust of wind, lift her. Go ahead and make an athletics check. Oh, to like try to land on the dragon? Just straight up. Just straight up. Just straight up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 11. Okay, not too bad. Okay. Okay. Okay, okay, okay. That's enough. It was maybe a 15-foot jump at this point,

and it's tripled because of your mantle. So you leap and land, transforming into the elemental and grappling on its back. All right, that ends your turn, Keeleth? Scanlon, too. She's grappled now? She is, yes.

Yeah, fuck her shit up. She's prone and gritty. Prone and grappled. Prone and grappled, and not for a very long time. Yeah. So if we hit her, it's like it automatically hits, right? Physically. You get advantage on attacks against her.

Is Bigby's hand a magic attack or a physical attack? It's a melee spell attack. It's a melee spell, so you get advantage on the attack roll, yeah. Okay. Okay. Well, then I'll change my plans. Shit. And I'll do that. Scanlan 2 will cast Bigby's hand at level 6. And just pound her really...

her really hard. What is... Is that like a Philips Seymar Hoffman's happiness? Let me's hand. Oh, you're sorry. Just keep... Is he, is that 6d8? Or 8D8?

Hold on. Let me pull it up here. There's a deep cut. Oh, man. In its fifth level and you've cast it at sixth, correct? Yeah. So it's an additional, it'd be an additional 2D8 to the... And it starts at 48 or 68?

Correct. Oh, so it's only 608. 6d. Do you like to borrow some D8s? Yes. You know what? I'm going to do it at 11th, level 7 then. You already said 6.

Okay, that's fine. All right, so a bunch of 8s. We have to roll the hit first. Oh, yeah. D20 with advantage. 17 plus 11. Yeah, that is. So go ahead and roll your 6D8.

68. You got my... Pick them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can use the smite dice. I like these. Smoot d'O.

29. All right. Thank you. Oof. 29. And then I guess as his bonus action, he'll inspire Vax. He's not even here. Sing to the space where he was.

Scanlan 2 is not, he only knows the songs of Scanlan. So he will sing sort of weirdly hollowly, When I get that feeling, I want Clara to healing. He only knows the songs that he already knows. He said to hold this in the gym. All right, so when he gets back, give him the D12. All right. Then I just go ahead of his turn.

And then he moves. He ducks back behind there. Yeah, just peeking out a little so we can see where Bigby's handed. Okay. At the end of your turn. Do you want to be in this doorway maybe? Silas is going to use his last legendary action to go ahead and move his speed without provoking opportunity attacks. So he leaps off the side and lands right next to the Lila.

Whatever. Bouch. So I guess if I get entangled because he did just land in difficult terrain. Difficult train, he's not entangled, I don't think, for his spell, because he went there with the casting, but difficult terrain means if he moves across it, it's... He's in difficult terrain. Okay, good to know. I have rocky ground. That's all I have.

All righty. So, you're entangled. Going on that in there. Okay, so it's got it. All right, cool. So that ends the end of legendary action. Grog, you're up. Can I jump to the top of the banister here? So I'm looking down upon old tangled up Delilah. I'll just stay there for a second. Okay.

May I leap off the tower? tower and straight on to Delilah's prone body. Yes. Sure. Make an athletics check. So romantic. Like feet stomping or chest? That's easy enough.

Make an athletics check actually to see you. Case sending goes horribly bad. Yeah. You are raging so you get advantage. 25. Okay. Easy enough. At that height you take eight points of bludging damage, reduced to four.

Cool. And you land kind of arcing over her, both feet, each side of her, and you're just kind of standing looming over her body. She's wrapped up in vines going, I fucking hate this dead bitch. And I just raise the sword and you start swinging down and these huge arcs at her. The first two attacks at her.

Okay, as you pulled the blade up, the voice that I get her just goes, Yes, she's part of the whip. And you just give in to the fury. So go ahead and make a attack. Are they with advantage because she's prone? Correct. Well, she's restrained. So not reckless. Correct, okay.

Natural 20. Yeah! She's gonna die. Butcher. I'm not motherfucker. Did I go and roll the second attack? Roll the damage first. Okay. I mean, she's hurt, but she's not terrible.

Yet. She's about the details. Yeah. Kill him, come on. Fourteen. Oh, it's 21, please, 14. It is. 21 plus 14, help me.

35? 35. 35. 35. 21 plus 13? Mm-hmm. Yeah. 35, okay. So that's those. Make sure I'm doing this.

Oh, that's before the modifier. 35 times two now? No, no, just 35 plus. Modifier goes on at the end. Yeah. What is it? Oh, no. 51.

Yes. Yes. What do you get for the crit on casks? Saves? Not an attack. What do you get for the quit? That's why I'm asking you double your dice. No, no, no, no.

I mean, my brutal crew. I roll the damage die an additional. You roll the damage die, double that, add the modifiers, and then the additional damage. Two times. Yeah. That's your rage damage damage damage. Don't forget to double that.

Two damage dies at this level. We'll see. We'll fucking see you. This is that crazy new sword. Three. Yes. 3D10 addition to that. 51 plus 3D10?

Correct. Oh. And is that doubled two? No. Okay. That would be crazy. 52. We're pretty low.

Okay, so as you bring the blade down with this horrible screaming hits. That's one hit. Yeah, 62 points of damage. The blade jams into her chest, and as you twist it, she screams and the blood from the wound sprays out in the middle air and then freezes and then sips into the blade as it's like sucking the blood. Yes! She's like, entangled and she reaches it and grabs the blade and starts pulling out of the wound. She's like, ah, causes blood spattering up around her mouth and she's still alive.

Did you want it out? Here, let me help you have a bucket! Roll again. That is a 32. Okay, roll damage. Okay. I like the music like stops. I don't. Six. 24, 24.

24. You jab at the blade in a second time and gash across and it carves open this part of her chest. And you can see the blood spatter out. The bones are exposed and she's on the ground shaking. Like she's hanging on by a tether and her eyes are going wild and she glances over. And her hand goes out and you can see Silas is right next to her. His eyes are wide and he's reaching out to grass-pillar. for a hand.

Is that you need to your turn? Oh, you're frenzy raging, right? Oh no. Yeah. Come on, come, come on, Ron. I was going to do something to Silas, but fuck it. We're going to look at how you know. Drop off her hand.

Oh, damn. It was so close. 33 to hit. That hits. That hits. Roll damage. Please thy, del I love we want you dead. Third time's to charm.

23. 23. 23 points in damage. Are you rolling extra undead damage on this, on these attacks? Because she's not undead. Nope. Nope. 23 plus I wasn't even adding, I was so excited about the sword damage. I was forgetting my rage damage. So you rolled 3d10 there. I did. Which is yeah the D10 plus 2D10 slashing damage to undead, right? She's not undead though. Oh, she's not? No. Oh shit. You mean adding that to all the attacks? Mm-hmm. Okay, so no I just figured she was dead and not dead.

Roll 4 D10 for me right now. Okay. I'm going to retract that from the damage she's taken. 1.10, 15. 22. Okay. So she's still wounded, but she's not hanging on by that thread. Okay.

So the damage you rolled for that attack? 24, you said. 24. Yeah, but I hadn't added my... So just do your damage again because that... Just roll the D10 and add your model. Okay, fair enough. Shit, I'm so sorry.

It's okay. She's not undead. I wasn't doing my rage modifiers. So you could add that then potentially. The difference. So that's 21. Okay. So.

With your rage? Yeah. Okay. So as you hack on a third time with the blade, making the smear of blood across the ground, the entangled vines that hold her there, are just soaked in crimson at this point. And she's coughing and sputtering. You can see the open wounds in her chest and her hand just reaching out silence. He's like going for her at that point. That's end of your turn.

She's alive. All right, Vex, you're up. Good job, good job. I thought she was like dead. I just figured. No. She's a clone. She's a clone.

Oh, really? Yeah, like a clowner herself, right? Silas is a good. Yeah, yeah. No, because I faced her before. It's gloomstockers. Yeah. But she could be a revet.

She's a fucking clone. I just figured he was in. She made a clone of herself and like. She grew herself out of mandrakely. Yeah. Like the Roshasa. Okay, so if I attack her, it's at disadvantage or with... With the range attack? Yes, because she is...

Well, she's restrained, which gives her advantage. So technically it would be just a regular attack roll. Okay, then I'm gonna attack her. She's already restrained. Fuck it. I'm gonna attack her with a blazing bowstring. Go for it. Goal her. Can't believe it's one.

17 plus 14 with sharpshooter. Yeah, that hits. Okay. Okay. Oh god. So good. 15, plus two is 17, 25, 30 plus the blazing bow string, 37. That's everything, right? Did you do your plus 10 for the sharpshooter? 47 for sharpshooter's market.

47, I didn't have 100 market. 47 points of damage with the sharpshooter. How do you want to do it? I love it. I love it. The hand is right that finger. I love it. She was reaching out for that dimension door.

Oh, oh. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Yes. Oh, fuck. So as you see her hand reaching out and she sees her fingers tracing the incantation in the air as Silas's hand reaches outstretched for hers. No, you don't. I point my finger down to her so I'm going to shoot the arrow.

And then as it shoots, I just keep pointing at her like, how's it feel, bitch? As she reaches out. reaches out. She's reached, her eyes are locked with Silas. She's not even paying attention to Grogh at this point. All she's focused on is escape in Grogh. As you look down at her and Salas is looking into her face, reaching out, the air just just through like the jaw and out the side of her cheek there. It just pierces the cheek and she just, and the eyes just go cold. The spell incandation fades and the hand just twitches and then falls to the ground still.

What happens? Silas, his hand still reached out goes, no. Oh, I feel so bad for him. No, you don't. No, you have another arrow? I do have another attack! He turns around to look at you. Vengeance, I suppose, is mine this time. And I attack him. This is a unique reversal of the last time.

Yeah. With... Blazing Boat's drink. Okay. Sharp shooter. Yes. So 28 minus five hits. 28 minus five.

23? Yeah, that hits. Yes. Okay. That is the end. Delilah, Bride. Holt play forever and Clones take a while to.

16, yes. 16. 16. Get me. 23. 33 damage to, 33 damage to him. Okay. Seven of which is fire damage.

Gotcha. Okay, cool. Continue your turn. She. Were her hands, her own hands? They seem to be. Okay. I'm gonna run down the stairs.

I'm going to move and run down the stairs to the lower level. I can't reach that part, but I'm in here. Sure. All right, so first things first. As soon as Delilah's body goes lifeless, Keelith, you feel this sudden shift beneath your feet as the bone structure that maintains the body of the skeletal dragon collapses in tightness. entirely. Oh, my God. Oh my God. Let's. You suffer. Silence.

Uh, 11 points of pleasure of damage. That's fine. He's not out in place. Percy, you're up. So, I want to try and come around here, if possible. That's definitely impossible. Would there be at 30?

You can do that. Yeah. So just here. Let, don't forget those two guys. Yeah, good strivers to talk. Boomstockers up top? Boomstockers up top. They just got their last turn, so.

That's a person. Oh, yeah, no. That's like, that's a real question. I know that's Sunsu would say. Oh my God, Delilah's dead. Delilah's dead. So Percy, what are you doing? First thing I'm doing is I'm taking a,

I'm taking a grit shot at Silas with Enimus. All righty. And I'm doing a head shot just to make his life a little more complicated. Do you get them at reproductions too? I do. Taking very nice and a good. headshots. I actually, I go to Prince Charming. Is it one? Do you really?

I do. That is not a place. Is that a place? That's a real place. It's on Ventura. Seriously? Who's the person is? Yeah, sorry. The most LA moment in our game ever just now. I don't know about that. Maybe not. Okay, so.

Good for autograph. Good for autograph. All right. Yeah, that'll do. That's a 26 to hit. That'll hit. And he has to make a a constitution saving throw. Okay. He's going to use legendary resistance to succeed. That's fine. Okay. That's four? His first one. So he still takes 16 points of damage and two points of psychic damage.

All righty, 18. Got it. And I'm going to take another headshot because that's funny. Okay. And that's 31 to hit. All right, gun roll damage. That's 12 points of damage and one psychic damage. You know that feeling when you hear one interesting thing, and suddenly you want to know more. Well, that's the idea behind my podcast, something you should know.

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What's the DC on it? The DC is 20. He rolled 20 exactly. Fine. I'm going to take another headshot. Burning my grip. Chimpew. So here we go.

That's, I should have gone. for a sharpshooter, 27, that's 34 to hit, Jesus. That hits. Another Constitution saving throw. That is a 20 again. God, motherfucker. 16 plus 4 both times. So that's 15 points of damage plus 4 psychic.

Okay, so 19 total. All right, so as he's there on his arm out and he's kind of just seething with rage, his eyes burning bright red, like the same shade as Grogs, which is disconcerting. Each bullet hits him, and he just doesn't react. and he's just looking down at her and back up at Vex and down at her. Is that your turn?

No, I don't like the way he's doing that. I'm burning an action surge. Okay. I'm going to use some sharpshooter, and I'm just going to burn my bonus and reload my gun. So here we go for just let's just take three more. Let's just take three sharpshooter shots. Let's see what happens. That one's cocked, I think.

No, so I should not have rolled all three at once, but that's... Oh well. So. So the way they landed, it would have been the third one anyway, so. Okay. So two shots. That's 15 to hit? No.

15 misses. He puts a hand up without even watching and just kind of deflects the bullet from the air. He just flex the bullet? 20 to hit. 20 to hit. He's going to use his reaction to use Perry, and his second bullet. the second bullet, he shoo the other hand, just shoots it off to the side. Not even looking at you, just staring at Vex still.

He's me. And the third shot jams at a two. No, I ran away. You can't see me. And I actually have glaring at the space you were and where you ran. Through all material. Oh no. I actually, I have a resistance now to psychic damage. So I take one D6 psychic damage now for my gun, not two, correct? Okay. Yes, you do.

I take my four points and I'm happy for them. All right, that ends your turn. That ends my turn. Arcon. Come on. Come on, Arcon. I command the gloomstocker to shriek. Okay.

I just read this. What does it do when you shrieks? Within 60 feet, the gloomstocker emits a terrible shattering shriek that impacts all hostile creatures. Each must make a DC-16 Constitution save or become stunned until the end of their next turn. Oh, hell yeah. All righty. And that's those two. And it's the two up there, right?

At the two gloomsucker. Technically, they are, yeah. Whoa. What the fuck's this dude's deal? That was what they were going to do next turn. It's like banjol. Oh, wow. So that's a two on the one gloom stalker.

Yes. That is a, with a, this was a, what's safe? Constitution? Constitution. 16? Yeah, I know with them. That's 14. So they both fail.

Both of the other gloom stalkers, so all of a sudden, their head begins writhing around. They're stunned to the end of their next turn. And Silas is, oh, it's cocked. He's gonna use the second legendary resistance for the day. Burn him out, burn him out. So he resisted. And now I'm unimpeded all the way to him.

Correct. Destraw him. Giddy up. Giddy up, they. Fly this over to him. High five, Keyleth on the way in. Yep. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, man. Fucking hasty. Cool. And. Okay. And I will. I'm going to reckless.

on this. Oh, you are. That a boy. I think all reckless. Yeah, great. Oh, so, I'm very good. Okay, that's a... I like the magical flourish of the day.

It was like some David Copperfield. Exactly. Just salt bay or dice? Does 32 hit? 32 dust hit, yes. Okay, great. Is this guy undead? Yes, he is.

He is a vampire. Yes, Mike, that's it. Out of curiosity, the bones of Delilah, she just kind of like, deflated like a bag? Is that what happened? Well, she's just dead. The skeleton fell into just piles of bones. Piles of bones. She's okay. She's not like a zombie. She's not like a She's just a slashed up human. Like her whole torso is just a mess and she has an arrow through her jaw and cheek. Outer, outer eyeball.

Okay. Great. Well then I would like to do a second level divine smite, which is going to be six. Got it. Three, four, five. Six die eight. Sixty-eight. Sixty-eight. Holy shit. Yeah.

That's just in. That's a... I rolled badly. That's a 28. That's bad. Oh, man. Yeah, that's bad. All right, so as you rush forward with your axe, you swing down into silence.

It's slammed in the side shoulder, and as the spark of the divine smite energy, slams into his side, you can see him. He's now starting to feel the pinch. Ooh. Same exact. all of you swelling around him and his allies coming. That's a cock. Yeah, so roll again. That's a cat.

It's a dice, actually. That's a cat. If I've ever seen a cat. That's not great. That's 19. 19 does not hit, unfortunately. I would like to frenzy. Okay, so you roll your third check.

Frenzy reckless. Yeah. That's going to be at 27. 27 hits, roll damage. Great. Yeah, galah, galah. We'll go second level to mine smite again. So.

Three, four, six, six. Those are pretty. Come on now. Please. You remember for my friend John. Come on now. My friend John bought me some smite dice. Let's go.

I was admiring them. Oh, man, that's a lot. Oh, that's rough. That's rough, isn't it? Damn it, John. That's a, that's a 29. 29.

29. which was terrible rolling. It was bad rolling. I rolled bad. So as you arc, you know, first attack slams into it and burst. The second when you swing and silas' form and turns the shadow temporarily and just dissipates around the blade and returns, the third hit does strike true in the back of the head.

He helps out in pain as the blast bursts up where you can see the flesh kind of burning from the impact of the radiant damage. That end your turn? Believe it. All right. Yes. That brings this to Silas' turn. Silas does not regenerate because the radiant damage.

kept that at bay. Isn't he stond-off? I did not know that. He resisted. He was... He resisted the divine. I don't know that. If radiant damage prevented his regeneration, he's going to...

No, no, no. Don't. You watch as he glances around in his body... Into a bat. Scalind two is going to cast a counter spell. Yeah! It's not a spell. The vampire ability?

Scalland two goes to counter it, there's no spell to counter. Vampire bullshit. Turns into a bat and... Oh no, look. I have a reaction. Can Keelis Ely try to grab it? Is that an attackel attached? No, no, you don't get an attack, you get an attack of opportunity.

Can I? You can attack opportunity. You can attack opportunity. Rugg is attack opportunity. And Bigby's hand. Blumstalker? Does they get an attack of an attack? Would as well? Yeah.

They get one attack of opportunity. So. Against the bat. Correct. Which means if you hit him enough, he drops back to human. Yeah. That's not how vampire bat form works. It's not a polymorph technically.

Oh, god damn it. It has the same hit points in the bat form as he does as his normal form. No way, really? A reckless tripping attack with that fighter, the... Does that work on a bat? Can you trip a bat? I don't know.

I don't know if it would ground him at least for one second or not. I've got some... I don't know. That's what I'm asking to be. It might not. Who goes first out of all of these attacks of opportunity? Can I go up at the scene? You go first.

Okay. Then I would like to attempt to snatch the bat with Bloomstar. Yes. It has a snatch. Get that snatch. Snatch that batch. Snatch that batch. Get that snatched.

Do you like dags? Nice. That's a 24. Yeah. Degs. That's a 24. 24 hits? Snatched.

What does that mean? Snatched? It means he's a snatch. The target is grappled. The target is considered now restrained. Oh, man. I can also fly with my grappled target at half of my speed. And it's two-dye six plus six piercing damage.

Right? That doesn't like this at all. Because the snatch is a special attack essentially, as a reaction, because reaction gives you a melee attack, it's not an actual attack choice from your one. Okay. I'm gonna double check here for you guys real fast, for sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Was that me trying to sneak one by? No, no, it doesn't say that it's special. No. Backup for it. Making us miss one of our other players from doing this game. Double check in here.

Part of the pork. Sean was really good at me. Well. Hmm. Hmm. Okay. I'm not what's doing there. I'm nervous.

It's like a fidget. I need a . I need a food for my nervousness. I will let you know if it snaps while it's in your teeth that hurts a lot. I've known that from experience. Yeah. This is like what Dr. Susan wants us about his kids.

You could break the tooth. Yeah. Guys, what are those shirts? Can you hold up with you? that shirt again? I mean, it feels like, oh, there it is. This is the medieval in the meantime. This is the face man that's not making right now. Oh, and after after. If you want to enter the raffle, I'm not

sure how this works right here, but I brought this shirt. We're going to rub it all over Travis at break. And then the winner is going to get this shirt. Muskelaid. They only come in extra large. I will say because I don't allow monsters to use special attacks as reactions and haven't used the entire game against you guys, because that would have been much more dangerous. I won't allow it for the circumstance, but he does still do the damage on the regular attack. Fine. Okay, great. Then I'm gonna bite this right in the fucking nose.

So it's still hit, the wall still hits, you go to more damage. The other one. The other one. It could also be a Halloween costume. Oh! Oh, yeah, yeah. It's pretty close. Oh my goodness.

Oh, my God, it's not. Okay. It's got really weird suddenly. We're going to show up to the next team all wearing them like a terrible counsel of it. Like a terrible counsel of evil. Oh, I forgot. Hey, Travis. Oh, wait.

That's 21, what was 8? 29. Just the eyes cut out? Not bad. That's, uh, do you want me to break it down, piercing and necrotic? No, that's fine. Okay, 29 points. Actually, no, actually, and you do need to.

Damn it. Okay. Then we're gonna have 19 piercing. All right. And eight necrotic. Okay. Cool. 19 and eight.

Sorry, 27. Make your attack opportunity, your attack opportunity, and your tag. You're right. Go for it. I'll do a reckless, triple-tech. Don't fuck me. Kill. Yeah, yeah, yeah, me.

It's a little fucking. It's fine. It's kind of fucked me. I got seven. 12. No. Off his arm right. 30.

That hits roll down. 34. Hits real damage. Well. They did all. They did all. They did okay. He's undead, right?

I do the, you first, crack. No, no, please. That that's fine for barbarian. You were up first. I had said, ARC, please. Yeah, but you felt you did that dynamic jump. It was really cool. Josh were not this polite.

We rolled it because it's a one, which I was not doing. They were to each other. Oh no. Yeah, you totally. Yeah, you totally. Yeah, 17, and then I roll a D8 to add a D8. D8. D8 additional damage, yep.

Oh, my God. That's my first one I was over. Five. Shit, what did I say? 17. Thank you. 22. All right, 22 damage.

And. Tripp. It's a trip attack. What's it say, does? Oh. I'll pull it up. No, I'll pull it up. No, no, no.

I've got it. You're right here. Please. Please. After you. There we go. Shit. Okay, a strength saving throw.

Oh, right. That's a natural one. Susan uses last legendary resistance to resist it. Fair enough. He's out of legendary resistance, though. All right, and damage in that one? Just pumped the first level divine smite. Okay.

And that's gonna be. 21. 21 plus 3, it's 24, 24. This is a . All of his equipment goes into a bat with him. All of his equipment goes into his form. Okay. That's gonna be 40 points of damage. Whoa.

All right. So as you all slam into the side of this bat form, it shrieks out and then just takes off and he's gonna use his action to go ahead and go into a dash and continue to fly away. I feel like I would be able to get an attack somewhere in here considering my range if I pulled out my big gun. Oh yeah, no, we're coming back to that.

Okay. He is at that full speed in that form. Plus we're still in. The reaction of our reactions come from the average. Okay, so that ends, Salas's turn. Pike, you're up. How far away is he? Yeah, where in the space is here? He would be about, let's say at that flying speed of the bat,

which I have to look up now, because that's a thing. How could you not be prepared for you? I know, is this bullshit, Matt. Sure. Jesus Christ. All right. So you can just, it's the quality that I got with you. Fly speed is 30 feet.

So he's 60 feet away from you guys. At an angle that way. Is like here? Yeah. So he's, okay. Like 60 feet up there. I'm tickling him. All right.

So what do you want to do that? Mike, what's you doing? Okay. I'm going to. I love your commitment to the tickle. I know I'm trying to think of which things you should do. Okay, I'm going to try to guiding bolt it.

I'm good. Guiding bolt, out the butt. You want to move forward so you can hit him? Yeah. So getting bolt, I believe you have to roll your attack on that one? Yeah. Yep, make a range spell attack. Let's look you, let's look you.

18. 18 does not hit. I'm going to use guided strike. Okay. Yes. Which is a plus 10, so 28. You can use it on yourself, right? Yeah.

Guided strike is for myself. Perfect. Then, then. That's what it is. That hits, good, roll damage. Yay! Kill him! I do it at third level.

So that's for 66. Yep. 66? 66. Yes, radiant damage. Oh, that's nice. All radiant, radiant, radiant. That is a really good roll.

That looks solid from here. Ashley Johnson. and finally rolling. By coastal roll. By coastal roll. By coastal roll. Now I want sushi. Okay, well, 23.

23, okay, so blasts in there. All right, it's been now shining, the next attack against that has to advantage. That's good, that's good. Any of your choice or so. Let me see. Where are my bonus sections. I don't want to use that in case. Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, that's it.

All right, end of your turn, can you use legendary action to move its speed, the bat is now 90 feet away. All right. That ends your turn. That brings us to Scanlan, or the Gloomstockers actually, which are no longer stunned. But that's the end of their turn. And if Goomstocker's turns can use another legendary action to move another 30s, 120 feet away. Scanlan, you're up. Shit.

So he's really far away from his time. He's just full sprint. He said 120 feet away. It's 120 feet away. Oh, God. He's 120 feet away. Can you do anything at 120 feet, Scanlon? I can do.

I can do one thing. If you guys let me go right now, I can try. You can do something? Scanlan one will just hold his turn until those gloomstockers are in range, or until they move and then he'll cast, I don't know, fucking wand of magic missiles, I don't know. Okay. Some bullshit.

Some bullshit. The end of Scanlan's turn, use third final action action, is now 150 feet away. Shit. No, let me go first. Let me go first. You can't. You can't switch your initiative.

You can't if other people hold. Can you describe it? No, because then he still, he doesn't. They can hold their action, but then at the end of their turn, he still gets to do it. All right, I'm going to use my movement N-Dash, a 510, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 550, 560, and I'm going to pallet and attack the Bloomstocker up there.

Okay. First one is a, that's great. That is a 33. And the second one is also pretty good, 25. Okay. Does those both hit? They both? Yeah. Yeah. They have a AC of 15.

Okay. Shit. All right, so the first one is one. Well, once he gets away. Can you legendary? No. 994. No, it's grapple check as a versus. Savings throw.

So 11 and 7. So, 11 and 7. Just 11 and 7 on that one's stuff. 11 and 7 on that one's second. All right. You keep grapple. Got it. Ends your turn.

Yeah. Kieleth, you're up. How far were you see? 150 feet. From where he was. I'm going to drop my form. Okay. Take my action to cast earthbind on him.

It's a 300-foot range. Oh! All righty. Oh my God. Please, please, please. He used up his legendary resistances, right? He did. So what's the same he has to make?

Strength versus my spell save. Do you have something because of your hit? That is 23. 22. Wait, do you have a, do you get, does she get advantage? 22? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, wait.

Can you do anything? Can you do anything? Can you do anything? Can't do anything? No. The last time you hit him, did he, does that mean way out of range? Oh, yeah.

She gets a, it's a saving throw, it's not attack. So yeah, the Earthbind does not take effect on him, unfortunately. Can I do it again? Can I like try again? No, it's an action to cast the spell. Yeah. Sorry. I know. Can we all hold, wait and...

But... Damn it. Okay, Scanlon, too, anything? Can't believe he saved. He's 150 feet away? You're all so fucking high. Can you run 30 feet and then do something? Can run 25 feet and then reach 120 feet.

If you all... So yeah, I'm five feet shot. Wait, I can get you on the back of this thing and fly it up there. Yeah, but we can't get out of range of the ring unless we want to pull. I mean, and Sona Silas isn't there, he's going to know we're here. So we have to stay within 60 feet of each other. We move now and leave. We can all just run.

If you all try it again, if you'll hold, I can try again. No, he's just going to keep flying. If we hold, he just keeps moving to it. Yeah, but it's a 300 foot range spell and he's only 150 feet away. No, but every time. He already did 150 getting to your turn. So he'll be able to do another 150. But it's a 300 foot range spell.

So he'd still be able to be able to. So he's so right within the other shot. We don't have to hold our turns. We'll just get back to you. You just, right. That's what I'm saying. Oh yeah, no, we're fine. I mean like that'll happen eventually.

That's gonna get there. Who's turn is it? It's Scanlon 2's turn. He's gonna, he's gonna bonus action Bigby's hand grapple one of the gloomstockers. Okay. The one we've been working on. Working on.

Alrighty. Who's the robot? Bigby sand punches. Not punch, grapple. We'll say for the purposes of this, they're easily killed. They're pretty easily killed given the circumstance you guys have. The chase now seems like this gets away. Do you want to kill them or save them for riding on?

I think I'm, what's 40, 40 minus 3 is 37. This one's got like 37 hit points of damage. I mean, look, just do what you feel, Scanlan. Oh, Scanlan. Well, I mean, I'll just hold them for you. Oh, thanks. Yeah, no, no, I appreciate that. We'll say, if you go up there and start. That'd be great.

Anything you want to do? That would be good. I want to see what the inside of them looks like. Okay. So the purposes of expediency, you know, spend time just charging through these things. You guys just start hacking at these gloomstockers. Well, one we're saving.

Save one. For him. Except for the one that we're saving. I will say to note that the control feature, generally is like a once-a-day type thing. Oh, then never mind, we kill it. Not like a, can constantly regenerate to the next Let me read my description that you sent mail away.

All right, now I'm getting up. I'm calling Mike Burles. So, For example, we get by around everybody. Is he still fucking here? We get to Silas' turn. Silas' twice. Wait, is it Silas' turn or my turn?

Sorry, it's your turn than Silasus. So go ahead. My turn first. I'm going to take my advantage shot. Okay. Because I have advantage because of... Which gun? With bad news.

Wait, why didn't I get to go? That's right, you're first. Go for it. Yeah. Can I run out the door and hop on my broom and fly as far as I can? No, no, no, 60. Yeah, but I mean I can only get 50 feet away from you guys, so if I come here... As soon as you go around that side, you're starting to get close. Oh, really? You have scandin all the way over there.

You barely have scandin in your... So I can't leave. I'd have to run up. So I'm at the bottom of the stairs. If I run up the stairs and broom it from here, how far would I get? That, you get like 10 feet out the window. 10 feet out the window and he's... He's your range on your window.

And I'm, my shot is what, one? But with sharpshooter, no. That's difference. It doesn't affect range. It just affects your chances. Shit. Wait, let me look at Fenthris. I'm just hoping there's something that says,

it's 300 feet. That's fine. Fentress does not change your range. Okay, then it's only a 120 foot range. Right? With a long bow. The way long bow is you have the minimum, you have the inner range and the outer range.

So if he's beyond. But if you're structured to the outer range is the inner range. Correct. But it doesn't go further. It doesn't go further. Yeah, your max is 600. My max is 600 fucking feet? Yep.

Huh? Oh, so yeah, you can just walk up and take a shot. Okay, then I'm gonna walk up to the window. Between your heartfeats. And I'm gonna try to cast bramble shot on him. Okay. Good that first. With advantage?

With advantage? It's an attack. Guided bolt. Go for it. Make your attacks. Much better. Holy, much better. Freaking half-el. 20. 20 just hits. Oh! Yes!

Get him down, get him down. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Okay, so. Downrange. 12. Yeah. That's 18 plus 4D8. Double?

Come on, killing both. No, but you have the two different ranges. 18. Because your range is certainly 30 or 60. Yeah. But you can go with the full 60 without taking disadvantage. That's right. 36.

4. 4, 600 is not disadvantage. As a sharpshooter. Amazing. That's literally like a crazy feat. 403. 43. 43 points in dance.

And? And he has to make a strength save of DC 17 or be restraint. X is killing the power. That is a 9 plus 5. That is a 14. He's the arrow. He puts the bag, he watches the arrow bursts into a sudden swarming of bramble vines wrap around, and the bat just... It's fallen?

Six! Oh! Oh! Does he take a little bit? Just a little? He's about 80 feet up from that, because he's drawing it at an ankle, so he takes 8 D6 bludgeoning damage. Oh, and he's in a little group ball, so he's protected. All right.

No idea. Oh, my God. That was the most sniper thing you've ever done. That was pretty fun. Yeah, yeah, out the window. And with that, you watch as the bat form dissipates. The brambles fall we can open. Is he there?

Make a perception check. I can't see this. Can I see him? Can I see him? Can you look? No, Bueno. Can I try? 26 for Vax.

Do you all make perceptions? Do I see a fart? Are all of them? You see a misty cloud in the space where silence was. 34. Don't we need to get rid of the cloud? Misty cloud or something. We have to destroy the cloud.

How do we fight him before? Sun, sunlight destroyed him before? Radiant something, right? Sunbeam. Sunbeam destroyed him before. When he was in the gashes form. No, he's a gaseous form. Okay, so yeah, I rolled a 30.

You're not. I rolled in, four. It's not huge. It's not. 28. How far away is he? To what? To the perception.

Yeah, you see the mist. How far away is he? Don't cross his feet. About a half. He's 150 feet. No, no, he had more than 100. No, he didn't get a chance to go. No, he just to go yet, because, yeah.

So, yeah. But our 50 feet. He's 150 feet. Yeah. So as a group, we can all try to move forward. Yeah. Yeah. But as we get closer to him.

You've got what it takes. That's true. How far is daylight? What's the daylight casting distance? Can you run forward and get close enough? You guys aren't when I hear this. I can run forward and sunburst him at 150 feet away, but it's gonna burn my eighth level spell.

Don't do that. No. But I have Sunbeam, which is a sixth level spell at 60 foot away. How far is, nope, I dropped my form. Yep. Nope. What if you got on a map? Just get there as fast as you can.

But we can't go outside of the 60 foot. We can all go. We'll move together and he will not be able to move at high speed as a bit. Let's all move together. Can I scoop up Vex and dash like 60 feet ahead and then sunbeam one for another 60 feet? Dash is your action. Yeah. And we can't, we have to stay together.

We have to stay together. Well, you're in the gray. No, where are you? She's green. I'm green. She's green. I'm like technically right. You're the blue right there.

I'm right here. Right now I'm up to the same level. Next to pike. And Big Bees is. Globetsocker's dead. Is it your turn to help? Everything's going to help. Yeah, whose turn is it?

They're dead. If it's your turn. It's finishing Vexes. No, it's Percy's turn. Okay, so Percy, your turn. You could technically try to, oh, you should miss it. What? I'm going to...

I'm going to... Was that a janga? Dang-l-way. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I have a weird thing I'm going to try and do. Oh, God, I need to get within 35. I need to get within 30 feet. No, the thing I need to do, I need to get within 30 feet.

Well, should you move forward as, you can get within 60 feet and we, so just move. I'm gonna move to the edge of where I'm capable of moving right now at my speed without getting, I'm gonna start heading in that. I'm gonna signal everybody and say move as a group. Yeah, okay. Okay.

So we're gonna try and sink our movements. I'm gonna just big behold, I think. All right. As long as I want. So, we'll say, for the purposes of this, the mist travels and vanishes from sights by the time you're able to catch up to it, to get it to a place where you can destroy it.

Delilah Breyerwood has been destroyed, seemingly, for the last time. Silas has been driven to wherever he needs to recover. It's taking a lot. It doesn't take him a long time. Can I say one thing right now? Yes. As we were moving, I did, you know,

moving in the bubble. We didn't get very far. We didn't get very far. I cast animate dead on Delilah, and I raise her. What? You're doing what? We're fighting her again. As you guys finish focusing, as you look out,

you can see the mist and the mist just kind of vanishes, and at this point you can see now, looking up, dozens and dozens of gloomstockers have all turned to see this out in the open action that's now taking place in the space around you. You're all out. not being stealthy, firing and shooting out into the air, and you see now clusters of these things heading in your direction. As you turn and look to the side, you watch as Delilah's

body gets up from the ground. Rise and kneel before your master. As the shambling corpse of Delilah falls to her knees before Arcon. Oathbreaker, baby! As it begins the realization of you, what is coming at you, two you could handle, maybe. There's a lot in your direction. You revealed your position, the wall was already destroyed, and everything is swarming in your direction. As you all begin to turn around, you hear this deafening roar from the sky above you, and you glance up to see a flash of brass light. As DeVosah comes swooping in through the barrier behind 100 or more Wyven riders, risen from Vasselheim to join the rest of the brigade,

come swarming in and collide with the gloom stalkers. You now see a frantic dogfight cluster as hundreds of one and hundreds of the other begin just slamming into each other, tearing each other apart. You see blades swing, you see arrows going flying, and and DeVos begins to do sweeping rounds back and forth across the sky. You realize if there is a moment to move with the distraction, it's now. Oh, shit. I load Delilah on the back. I grab her wand. Yeah, the wand. And her holy symbol that fell to the ground. Whatever that sparking was. Whatever that fucking is. Yeah. The glowing sparkle light in it is inert. Is what? Inert. It was the controller.

It was the controller. That's so we have it. We have it. We have it. We have it. All right. And you guys begin bolting your way towards Entropus with its large funnel-like cloud encircling the top of its spire.

And we're going to take a break. Oh my, good. It dipped a while. Oh, God. I want to find this deer. Oh, my God. What a dick. All right, so we're going to take a quick break.

Because we want probably pushing about 11 tonight. Probably pushing about 11 tonight, and then we're going to leave. So, like, quick restroom break, best we can. Come back, see you guys here in just a minute. We're giving away. We're giving away things. Jax Machia. So many things.

Josh mocking up. Max or Ryan, is there like stipulations on the shirt? No. Nope. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Let's go put this on.

All right, guys, we'll see you here a few minutes. Take the wrapper off. That's weird. Come back. A little longer than I. It's paid it, but that's fine. We're going to jump in here, but before we do that, the winners are for the Wormwood box. We have Zabando is the winner. Zabando!

And for the Jax Magna shirt, we have Alkyon 299. Congratulations. You get to join the very exclusive Jaxmokening club. Testsosterone 5. There's only 5. There's only 5. Yes. There's my trainer Ron who plays another Goliath and my brother Nick who plays an Elf Ranger who is incinerated by the fucking Death Night. That's right.

So bringing it back in, as you guys are charging your way towards Entrapus, running through the streets, you do the best you can to dodge in and out of any sort of things that might catch your attention on the side. You see most of the undead and various cultists have been filtering down beneath the city a while back, and you're not entirely certain where they are at the moment. The few dregs there are around there, you guys easily enough dodge around. Pushing You see the spire of Entropis growing taller and taller, the closer and closer you get to it. And as soon as you get to the base of the spire, you look up and you can see the broken seams of the once-toppled tower, now held together by the network of glowing magical threads like arcane veins, wrapping the tower,

and lending an unsettling organic nature to its visage. The exterior still stands windowless, like an obelisk. like an obelisk of tyranny looming over the entirety of the city. The apex, of course, is now obscured by shadow and cloud, this slow spinning tornado of twilight darkness, entwining the top, blocking visibility and possibly entry at the top. Numerous gloomstockers encircle the higher level, not currently engaging in the main fray, which is chaos all around, and you see more emerging from this cloud, almost seemingly creating Large front doors to the tower appear somewhat ajar and open.

There is one wrought behemoth currently standing in front of this door. Box-Machyne, what do you want to do? I don't want to overthink this. But I feel like the sword said that he wanted to cut the webs of Vecna. Can I just cut the tower down? I take your laugh as a sign. You can cut the whole tower down. They'll probably try to stop you.

Don't you think? Certainly try. Good note. Yeah. Perhaps not. I feel like do we see any other doors, like secret doors maybe? Do we see invisible doors? Windows.

You do know? Perception, you don't, glancing around you don't see anything. Looks like this is the door entrance to it. You can make an investigation check, but you have to get up against the wall and like carefully check it. Can I do that without letting the rot behemus see me? See me? You can certainly try. That's a big fat now.

You can certainly try. That's not a know. But we're directly in front of the door or ways back. Yeah, you can see it. You're about 40 feet away from it, kind of off to the side, glancing over where you can see the rock behemoth just looming in the archway. We didn't really think about how we were getting up the tower, did we? Here's a possibility.

Here's a possibility. Yeah. I have a gloomstocker, and I have Delilah. I put her on the back of this thing and fly it up there. fly it up there. Maybe this thing moves out of the way. Maybe the Rot Behemoth moves? I'm just saying. Can she talk? Can you make her talk? Can she talk? But she looks to select Delilah. I don't think I can puppet her. I can tell her to do commands. Can you tell her to talk? She'll understand what I'm saying but I don't think

she can talk. By the way, as you've made this journey forward and Delilah has been shambling behind, you know, sitting behind you, this strange pain has been hitting you in the back of your shoulders and you glance back and look at the corpse of Delilah behind you. as what appears to be a rapidly growing tree is protruding and growing out of the chest of the corpse and is now kind of setting weight off of the top of the gloomstocker as it's trying to flutter up behind the party. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, that's a thing. Can I cleansing touch and end one spell? It's less of a spell effect and more of a divine sense. seed that was placed inside her body when she was slain by the vestige.

Fentheris. I placed my seed inside of her. And it quickened. Don't make it weird. I'm not going to... I'm not going to further question you about that. You knocked her up. Yeah, okay.

It must be an elf thing. That's interesting. Very interesting. Okay, great. Maybe they'll think that it's just a fashion thing and they'll let her through. It's still growing and it's not protruding. It's about four feet from it. from her chest now, and the body is now starting to get a little top heavy.

You can just chop the tree down. It's a thin tree. That's not very thick, it's maybe about, oh yeah. Okay, so you take a couple hacks out and eventually you manage to cut away the tree, and now there's like a trunk that's now stop growing about a foot out of Delilah's chest with like roots that have now taken root up into the shoulders and the chest. That's kind of sick. It's like she's got a built-in shield now. Can I take one of the fancy robes that remains in the bag of holding and drape it over the trunk coming out of her chest so it's a little more hidden? Sure.

Does anyone have any woodworking skills? Actually? I need a house. Can I take her branches and make one? You need it. A house? Oh, it's the giving tree. Oh.

That's terrible. Oh. Oh, what was that? I don't know. So you have this rock the name at the entryway. What are you guys doing? Our options are somehow flying up or going in the front door. Do we fly up or do we go inside an avatar?

I'm sure there's no traps or horrible things on the inside of it. Last time Pike and I took it down with a couple of earthquake spells. But that didn't help nearly as much as we thought of Lotus. I mean we didn't have to go up the damn thing, so maybe check yourself before you say things. This is a fucking giant, right? We've killed giants. Is it dead? Is it dead? The rock behemoth?

It's undead. It's undead? It's undead. It's undead. How big is the rock behemoth? The rock behemoth is about 12 feet tall or so, and it's just a mass of stitched together undead flesh. I've got an interesting idea.

Media for large. I've got an idea. Can I borrow some of that are infinite rope? Of course. All right. I'm taking the infinite rope and I'm tying it around my little gem that I have. The little blue gem? My little glowing gem.

Are you gonna do that like that $20 bill trick in New York City thing? More or less. So, oh my God. Are we all agree that? I love it. If it doesn't work, we can. Yeah, we'll just drag it out of the doorway so we can kill it. Well, I'm just going to make it move away.

And then we can go in. And then once we're in, I'm just going to yank the Gemma. I used to do this with string and a G.I. Joe for my cat when I was a kid. She loved it. I'm sure the rock name I wanted. So you take the pulse stone. You tie it around. Tied around.

It's like a monkey fist. and I toss it about 20 feet away. I'm gonna give it a throw, I'm gonna just throw it about 20 feet away from the stone. We're all in agreement of this. This is the best plan. Wait, wait, one second. Do we want to lure it into a house

and all of us just be waiting to gank the shit out of it? Well, technically, wait, hold on. Don't you paladin types have something that can make it our eyes? You see a flash, like a flare in the sky above you, as you see a cluster of Gloomstocker is emulated by a burst of flame breath from DeVosah, who's now up in the stratosphere. At the same time, you see about a dozen or so Wevernwriters go riding into the slow spinning storm

and just get disintegrated into pieces. I'm actually going to throw the gem, then pass the Stone Giant into the room. Okay. So just a little bit so that anything in the room. So make a strength check for me. It's a bit of a lot. It's a bit of a lot. Okay.

Nine? It makes it about the 20 feet you intended to. All right. Ting, tink. Pull it back and have one of a, I mean, not that you're not strong and very. So what's the range on this? Strong of mine. It's 30 feet.

Okay, it is within range to affect the rot behemoth. Okay. I have to roll though. I have to do a roll to see if it survived the throw. That's true, yeah. So. A stone? Yeah.

It's fine. Okay. Ting-ting. So it's a will save for the rod behemaheemoth. Oh, jean. You gotta do that thing when you move us. DC of WISD. That's a two.

No. Wow. So you guys watch as the rock behemoth, the stone, tchun, tch. It's like a metal armored face and glowing coal eyes. Turn. You're drawing it towards us? And it walks over to the gem and just stares at it. So let's all go in, shall we?

Yes, let's walk around it. Stealthily. We're just going to walk around it and stealthily. Pass without a trace is still fucking up. I think we go in outside. If it's been less than an hour. Make a concentration check for me real fast. Make a constitution safe.

And the sluifference get obliterated trying to fly into the swirl at the top. Oh. How about that we are? Okay, you maintain the concentration. Referring to the blast from the skeletal dragon earlier. All right. So, does you guys all roll stealth? Oh, shit.

Plus ten. Not for 20. All right. Wait, a stealth? I rolled a two and a two. That's 15 and 15. Okay. How do I do this unwire on this gloomstocker with the zombie?

How does this work? Zombie's not stealthed, but it is undead. Gloomstocker, it's hard to be stealthed that gloomstocker right now since you're going inside of it. We're going to leave it? We're going to leave it? I mean, what are you going to do with a flying thing in a narrow stairway? We've seen inside, we've seen inside, we've seen inside, we're going to

He's scryed inside. It's a very narrow stairway going up. Can you have him climb up the side of the tower and just meet you up top? Wait for your signal, then. He ain't gonna survive that. It's really good to try it, though. You might. Yeah, I think that would work. Okay.

You can do that. I ain't know when you do that. I mean, I hate it. I mean, I love it, but I hate it. Yeah. Just also double-checking. Grid is a reset after combat, not a reset at short rest. No, it's short rest.

It's short rest. Okay, just definitely. I have the wreath back on my neck, correct? Because that's how it works. I put it back on my neck and put it back on your neck once you've, once you've a tune. Correct. Okay.

They meet us at the top. Okay, as you step off and look into its eyes, your eyes flare the bright yellow color, and the gloomstocker nods takes a step back and then leaps onto the side of the tower, its claws gripping in, and as it bats its wings, it takes off and starts heading upwards. Circle at the top and wait for my command.

It seems to acknowledge your commandment. Sweet. All right. Now a disadvantage roll in heavy plate. You got it. Do I have a plus 10? Yes. Yeah, I got this.

All right. 97. Okay. So 27? Two and two. 15, 15. 15. 15. Natural 20.

29. That was a 1, but it's a 37. Because you'd roll the luck? One. No. It's always 10. Because of reliable talent, because of reliable talent for him, he always has a 10 minimums. That's fucking badass.

I'm sorry. 37. 21. 22. All right. Oh wow. So, as you guys all dart around this rock behemoth who takes, pays no mind to your presence, you dart into the partially ajar doorway into the base of Entropis, the tower itself.

It's dark inside. And as soon as you all dart into the interior, the doors are still partially open. You can see the faint glow of the very, very low, general light that encompasses the city of Tharumphala. The normal greenish-blue glow of the shield is offset a little bit by the natural light that's coming through from the opening of the barrier

that you guys have opened. However, the light still diminishes as you step into this large chamber. As soon as you enter the chamber, those would do the dark vision, Glantzor and C, it's a big kind of thoroughfare. You see large, large kind of foyer-type chamber with pillars that go from bottom to maybe 25, 30 feet up to a ceiling. Across the way, you can see what there to be two spiral

staircases that curl upward, and there are maybe 30 or so humanoid figures that are in the center of this chamber. What are they doing? Well, as soon as you guys step in and turn around, they all turn and look at you. turn and look at you. Oh boy. They're undead. And they can just...

We need that orb. We need that orb. Once they're within range of us, I'm going to wait. I mean, they're moved, a lot of them are going to be right upon you right now. Can I sense what kind they are? Divine sense. Tell what type of fiend, celestial, and dead they are. They are undead. They appear to be mostly of the baseline skeletal or zombie variety. It's a cluster of undead that are just set here as a...

Okay. I'm going to tug on the rope. Okay. and pop the, and just pull it up and toss the gem right smack dab in the center of us. Okay. Unless somebody else wants to throw it. No, that doesn't matter. Yeah. I just yanked it, right?

I just yanked it, so. Okay. You yank it. Go ahead and make a roll, see if it destroyed or not? No, it's good. Okay. The stone, tch-tun, arcs in the center. The blue kind of pulse glow light billows out. You see the various zombies and skeletons charge into the light, they kind of stop and stare at it. Let's see. Do you see 15? It's 30 rolls.

Does it, can't you kill masses of... We can do one at a time. Okay, so it looks of the 30 or so, about 20 of them, stop and stare at the glow while you hear a bounding heavy footfall sound behind where you came from. I thought, okay, he was not still within range? No. You pulled the stone from where you were inside the chamber now,

so he's now rushing in afterward the stone is. So, spread and let him run right into the range. Oh, we can get out of the stone. We can get out of the way and let him maybe run into the undead that are... As soon as he enters, he's in the ranch, doesn't he? Possibly? Yeah, let's move out of the way. But 10 of the undead are still rushing in towards you,

and they're immediately scrambling with their claws and teeth out there. That's going to go ahead, let's say, for the people that are at the front here. Yeah. It's going to be probably the two of you who first made it in. I'm just going to keep throwing this. Three attacks against each of you. Okay. That is an 18 against you of X.

No. That is 20 against you. No. And no, that misses. Three against you. Natural 20. 20? No.

And natural one. All right. So while they scramble out you and you push them back at bay, one of them does manage to get through. And it's going to be 12 points of slashing damage against you, Vex, as one of them swings at you with a rusty blade that just carps past you. Okay. Dammit Bobby. All right. What are you guys doing?

Let's just happen slash these. How many? How many? How many? Not 30. Let's keep going. Can you do it? Seven, right, bum.

Yeah, I'll just take out my mace of disruption. Oh, yeah. I don't know. Have your channel divinity, you have your turn undead. Or destroy on. Yeah, destroy undead. Which, do I want to wait? I don't know how many undead we're going to face up top.

Vecna is going to be too powerful for a destroyer or turn Undead, so it's for weak-ass shit like this. But we might have, you know, I don't know what kind of army he's going to have up top. So it's up to you. We have another one. So maybe do one of them? So I can do it now. Okay.

So as you rush in towards where this pole stone is, as the crowd of Undead have kind of gathered in, you hunkered down, clutch your holy symbol, and release a wave of divine energy, the whispers and prayer of Sarah and Ray emanating from you like a caustic wave against undead energy. What's the DC on that? It's not written time.

Would it be your spell? Oh, 18. Yeah, 18. Okay, 18. Look it up. Your spell this is not actually said it up. What's your ability?

Oh my God. It's based on... Your spell casting ability. Do you know that your spell cast, either wisdom or intelligence? Or, Corridism. Wisdom for clarity.

Has your wisdom gone up at all? Eight plus five plus your Your proficiency bonus. 1420? You're at six proficiency bonus now. You're not at. 8 plus 5. Yeah, you're at 6 now.

I didn't know that. It's 19. So your DC is 19. Sorry, Matt. It's okay. I don't know why I'm writing on you. No, you can go for it. Even with their saves,

four undead survive. As the shockwave emanates out from you, you watch as about two dead dozen of these various skeletons and zombies, many of which are grasping at you, just turn to ash. One of them is reaching out towards you. You get a glimpse of it, and you can see this one's a fresher corpse. It's one of the zombies. It has a dirty blonde hair, a torn chin with stubble, and for a brief minute, you can see this gash in its stomach, it's partially eaten arm, and for a brief minute as it reaches out for you before the wave hits, you're

like, Aldor? Turns to Ash. What? the Slayers take once the prized love of. Oh, Alicia Day! No! As the flash expands, you glance around and you see a withered gnome corpse that's been reaching towards you, mostly bald-headed places. You recognize this as one of your companions grubby before the wave hits and he turns to ash. You just killed two of our friends, Pike.

Don't do that. Fuck off. I didn't know. All of these, they belong dead. As this burst of energy hits and all of a sudden just dust and ash fills the chamber around you. Did you do anything to the Rappahumath coming in? The Ropaheimuth behind, what is it? Did you see on him? What's the...

Oh, no. Challenge rating of four or lower five? Oh, yeah, it's higher than challenge rating four, so it doesn't affect him at all. But the four of you, easy enough to probably cleave him down, but we'll see if even is affected by the stone. So the last four that are there, as they charge into the stone, nope, none of them make their save. So the last four that are still just all kind of stop and stare and just kind of glare at the stone and they're in the center of the chamber The Rappaheemoth comes looming in What's the DC? Oh, DC's 15 15 14 does not make it

Oh Oh Yay Don't worry man your luck is coming upstairs It's true, it's true The door and then comes in and just kind of stays there staring at the stone blocking the doorway and holding it in place But now this chamber's open.

Should we kill this shit while they're stunned? No, we should just walk up. How do we know we're not going to run into like a whole bench more? Which is why we're going to keep on the rope. We're going to go all the way up the stairs and when ready we're just going to tug like a motherfucker. Okay. Then all these things are going to chase after us. They're going to keep following you.

Every time he pulled the stone, they're going to come towards you. So we might as well just kill them now while they're stunned. Just one at a time. The Giants going to take more than a one hit. No, he's going to take one hit. But we're going to get a little. We'll say easy. Easily enough for you guys to coordinate, the skeletons are easy enough to destroy. The

Rob behemoth all in one swoop you guys could take down as one quick glass on it. One of the skeletons you also recognize is a heavily charred zombie, making a horrid sighing sound as it's sitting there staring at the stone. And then see the remains of Vander. Is he damaged? Burnt to a cinder. The last thing you saw was him being emulated and screaming. I'd like to channel divinity and control undead. Okay. And with that, before you destroy the zombie, a second. It's a wisdom save. Wisdom save? Three, nope.

You got two zombies now? Yeah, two zombies. Delilah. And now your previous ally, Van derr turns from the stone. This is fucking dark. It's so dark. I'm really excited about the notion of like a Delilah pot of plant that we can get now. It's my brother's character. Yeah, Ben.

They're holding them. Yeah, bro. You are now Michan from Walking Dead. You got two zombies. Oh, yes. Bring them into the COU, you got them. That's pretty tight. That's really tight.

Zombie Vander. Oh, man. This is like rattling whatever blackened heart my character has inside me. Okay. All right, well, up we go then, yeah? Let's do this. I'm going to look for traps as we go. All right.

The investigation check. One, back, back, back. Everyone all healed up to full? No. No. Should we pause and just heal or? Pause for 30 minutes and heal? That's when I was just.

Potions. Out the window. Yeah. Let's, uh, two miles away. All right, what'd you roll? 18. 18? Okay.

If you take a potion, you're full, right? Don't you have your thing going or no? Is that gone? What? Beacon of Hope. Beacon of Hope? Yeah. Oh, Beacon of Hope just means it heals to a

max that a healing spell or a healing potion can do. You don't automatically go to full help. 2D8. 16. Oh, I didn't know that. How long does Beacon of Hope, last. Looking it up. A minute.

It is. One minute. One minute is gone. That's okay. Do you have a healing spell for people? I do. I'm fine. Are we doing a group thing right now?

How about how? Are we short resting or are we doing a little healies? I don't think we have 30 minutes, but does it need a full 30 minutes to do a quick short rest? Technically it's an hour by the rules. I let it slide a little faster in times of intensity, but I'm fine. So I'd allow like a 30 minute. Quick rest, but I'm fine. I would not say no to it, but I can live without it.

I just don't know that. I mean, they're fighting at Vasselheim right now. Yeah, we're at the gate. At the gates. I'm at 94 hit points. I'm down about 50 or so hit points. I'm telling you though, it's this or nothing. If like if we fall here, if we fail, then it's fucked.

So even if it destroys half the city, it's better than have all of us at full fighting potential. I would like to cast death ward on myself, fourth level spell slot. Okay. Smart. I feel like you should have. All right, do it. Do the short rest.

Just do it. Wait, we're doing a short rest? Just do it. Wait, who needs it? We can heal her. Oh, you do? We all need healing. No. Do it.

I'm like 40 points down. I'm 50 points down. And I burn both of my shape change. That is too much. All right. All right. Who else is down for? Damn.

We just... Wow, more quarter or half of Vasselheim. I don't you have a few on the block? I do. How much does it? But it just depends on the goal. It might end up being something. No, no, no.

It maximizes it. No, we don't have to take up and it's 60 seconds. Yeah, so if I roll bad or... No, but we have hit dice. We don't need the spells. We just do it. Bye, Vasselheim. All right, you guys are taking a short rest

on the inside of some tracts. Super short. There is no super short rest. There is no super short rest. It's a short-rised. It's a goddamn. It seems terrible. It takes 30.

I mean. I don't know. What do you want? What do you want? What are you? I don't know. We have potions. Can we drink potions?

It's what you want. Listen, you're not going to need the potions after today. I'm just saying. Might as well just take them. You know what? Just go for it. Don't take your superior though. No, we have other ones though.

Okay, yeah. As long as you have other ones. Can you just try healing and see what it does? Yeah, yeah. I'll just do, I'll just do. your wounds on you guys. What does that do? I don't know, we also broke down the barrier,

so Vasselheim can defend itself a little bit more. A sixth of the pie. And 50 points down and without my B-Shake. If the boats is in though. You don't have Bisham. I used it to go Earth Elemental because I thought that the Briar would fight might be a little bit more beefy than it was.

But I don't necessarily need it. Vote as a group. Hand up if you want to short-referring. If you want a short rest. No. No hands? No hands? You want it? You just put your hand up if you want it.

I will admit it would do a lot for me. Keel, put your head up. I'm going to put up because I think that these two need it. I'll tie it right good. So short rest? Yeah. Short rest. Okay.

Vasselheim. I'm down a lot. Quote the leaders of Vasselheim. They have defended the Psalms for a Mani Fahill is going to be up there full strength. He's going to be back. Oh, that's a good point. He might not be back from the strength yet.

He'll be back something. He takes a while to rest out. It's like 25 a minute, isn't it? Is it? It's super fast. He does regenerate 25. Well, there's a lot of things at work here. It depends.

Roll a religion check. Yeah. Yeah, we don't know that. I'll do that too. Natural one. I'll do. It's good for me. I'm a pallet in with terrible religion.

Four teal. All right. Let's see. Let me just do. All right. Blind face. Seeing this how you are, undead is your domain. That's true.

Just roll a natural 20, Joe. I rolled a natural 18. Oh. Plus? Zero for religion. Okay. Okay. You know this because of your experience with undead and amassing yourself a necromantic energy

since breaking your oath long ago. Yeah, you do. When a vampire is reduced to zero hit points and goes into mist form, it has two hours to return to its resting place. when it reaches its resting place, it has to rest for one hour. And once it rests for the one hour, it goes back to one hit point, and then it generates 25 hit points, or at least

size, every single round. Roughly how much time has passed since we went from? About, I'd say, 30-ish minutes or so. So we've got two and a half hours, but 30 or 40, because you've been slowly stealthing your way through and being careful. Right, right, right. So if you take a short rest, you're probably going to look at a, look at a Silas waiting for you somewhere up top.

It's gonna take two hours to get up the tower? We don't know. I thought we're all already almost there. No, meaning if you guys take a short rest, he needs to rest for an hour. It took you 40 minutes since that happened to get to the tower. If you take a short rest, you're gonna have to deal with a silas. I mean like, fuck it, if we just heal ourselves.

Scanlon's got healing. Scanlon's got healing. This is a crux choice guy. Because he also turns people, right? He does turn people. He does turn people. I barely made that. No.

No rest. We'll be okay. No rest. I'm going to take my, how much shield do you got out of the potion? Who's your bad? What's Masker Wounds? I'm not great. You're bad.

Who else? I could use some seeing that I have tank duties. How many can you include? Okay, is anybody down? I'm going to do prayer of healing. I'm down. I want to say. I'm at 94 hit points.

So I'm down. I'm down 42, but I can heal short rest. No. Just understand. and be prepared with the knowledge of knowing that you're also going, just put some things in your chamber that'll be helpful against a vampire. Scanl too has tons of healing spells that he can use. So use them. He's going to be dead soon anyway. Like you guys don't want us losing any of our spellcasters right now. I'm at 94. It's not a lot, it's not bad, but it's bad enough. I'm a third of my hip-point spell.

You do have a battery of low-level spell slots right now that can use to heal things up if you want to. Yeah, I can heal you and heal you and heal you and heal you until you're all done. Yeah, but every time you heal me and heal me and heal me as taking away from something else mechanically good. It's just a level one bullshit. But it's also, it's healing we can do in combat. That's what we're meaning. No magic missiles for you. I am resigning my decision right now.

Make a choice here, guys. I know, I'm sorry. You're freaking this in the tower. No short rest. Heal, heal some people. I'll heal some more. We got this. We got lots of healing. Okay, I just use a second level for 16 points of healing for six people who need it. Great.

Okay. 16 points, I'll take that. Okay. I'm taking it as well. I'm taking it as well. How many people are taking it before? I don't know. I don't take it.

You said up to six people? To six people? Yeah, I'll take that. One ten, I'm still 31 hip wins down. I will cast healing word, Scanlon, too, will cast healing word at second level for you. For me? Yeah.

That's... Can you use cure wounds. as opposed to healing words. I don't have cure wounds. Oh, that's right, never mind. I have cured wounds. That's nine more points for you. For me?

Yeah. When I do it. Oh wait, I can sing a song of rest. That takes a short rest too. Yeah, that makes sense. That's true. I can do my speech if I had a short rest. We'll even do the speech as we climb up the tow.

How much are you short? How much are you short? If you recall, she's 20-22. She's 22 short? Yeah, I got to save that. No. Save that. The speech does what?

Does the speech regain hit point? She's 10 minutes to save the speech. So as we climb the tower, she could be seen? Perhaps, yeah. I will heal you another second level healing spell. A greater healing potion is 44? You got it 44 plus 4. I'm only going to take her from the scan two.

Consider now as you guys climb the tower. Oh, that's good. How many are you down now? How many long-lasting things that you want to utilize for the coming fray? Is that another 12 gets you to full? Freedom of movement, death forward. All the things you guys want to prepare with, now's the time to do it. 141. I'm going to, when we're right on the verge, when we think we're right on the verge, I'm blessing you. And you. I think this is the verge. Wait, is this the verge?

You saw the tower to climb, but no, if you have spells like buffs to cast at our concentration that lasts a while, now's the time to do it. Like an hour a while? Tiamak gave her 12, and I'm going to give 18 to myself out of my healing pool. Do I do it? Perfect. Okay. Pike and I burn all four of our fourth level spell spots to do. Splots.

Splots. We do all for our spell splots to cast Freedom of Women on anybody. Okay. With the exception of Percy who already has it. What is freedom of women do? Wait, so how many slots is that for you guys then? Three each. Three each.

Okay. Except we didn't account for. I got some further stuff here too. Scanlon 2 or Archon. What's happening? Okay. Anything else you want to buffering? Yes, I'm going to invoke my blessing of the Donfather. Okay.

And... Oh my God. No death wards. You did death ward to yourself. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. She has a death ward. Wait a second. So one of us is without freedom of movement.

Scalyn two. Scalind two. I have it on Margram. He has it automatically. You have it on it. Understand. Does anybody, can anybody cast, should we cast some death words to you? Yes.

Wait, I didn't get free of movement? No. No. We can only do it on six. Sorry. We did it with an earring and sorry you weren't on. I'm just over like kicking a can in the corner. We're all on iPhones and you're on a Windows phone and just kind.

It's a very nice raider. It's a very nice raider. I'm on a fifth level for . No, I have some funky shooting. I have a cleansing touch anyway that can end a spell on me or any willing creature that a touch. Oh, my God.

So that should help. So what's the plan, guys? Wait, we're doing things that last an hour? We're doing things, yeah. We're doing it. Shit. I mean, I don't know. Okay.

We should invoke your person. Unless we want to try and get a higher up before we go. It's up to you guys. That's it. It's an hour. Do we think this is it? This is it. Is it like one of these guys?

This is like he's lying in. You can't see the height of the tower. It goes up into another floor. Okay, so this means anything we encounter, if it's not fucking Vecna, then we're barreling through it and going straight. Yes. Because we have burned everything.

Yes. Yeah. If you want to hold your spells until you get higher, I'll let you do that. Up to you. There's a death night. I mean, is it, I don't know what's worth it. How much, do we have any idea of how much higher this tower goes?

I mean, it goes pretty high. Oh, excuse me. Where is Vecna right now? How high up? Right above you. Right above us, way up or a floor up? Way up. Way up. Okay. Do we want to try and jog another ten minutes before doing this?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do we want to what? Jog another ten minutes before doing this? Let's get halfway up to time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, before we're just letting you guys be prepared here, because you're box-mocking it. Okay, I'm going to go ten more minutes up,

and I'm going to give a speech as we go. All right. So I've been voting the blessing as we get closer. Okay. No, no I'm good. Anybody else have one? Okay guys, he's recline this tower. I know there's a lot of stairs, but the stairs are gonna be fucking nothing compared to

Vecna, but holy fuck, holy fuck, these are a lot of fucking stairs. This is inspiring. Stairs are a metaphor. The stairs are a metaphor. Each stair that we get across is going to be like another step further into defeating Vecna, you know? So with each stare, just, I'm winded. The stairs are long but they're not infinite. The stairs are long but they are not infinite.

It'd be good. And we're almost there, guys. We're almost there. This is it. This is it. This is it. I feel so inspired, Kayla. Thank you.

That is so inspiring. You guys just keep going up the stairs. That's my speech. Okay. Take your 17, no, 19. 19 hit points. Nice. Yeah.

19 temporary hit points, including you. 19 temporary on, yeah. They're temporary. In addition to our plus two, so now we have 21. Oh, snap. Do we heal above that? We automatically does. Well, you just get temporary hit points.

They're like a buffer shield. Right, right, right, right. So those 19 go first. Correct. Yeah, okay. Okay. Got it. Okay. Oh God, oh God, oh God.

Okay, are we getting near the top? So. Let me know, because I'm going to throw it up. Who wants the death ward? Yeah, and Pike and I cast whenever it seems appropriate. Right. But who wants it? I mean, who needs it? Who's gonna die? I know, this one definitely.

We have talked about this. Okay, here's the thing. The people that have the tremors should probably have a death ward too. I've got my one hit point regenerate, regenerative. Okay, you're good. So you, you have one. I have my armor. Okay, so that bams you back up once you've gone down once.

So really he needs the, and you, well, no, you won't come back right away. If I have the death ward, I will pop back up. There is only one person that can complete the incantation of sealing. That's me. With the trawles? Once the trammels are in, he has to do it. You've got to put it on Scandlin. He has to do it.

What about Scanlon 2? Can Scanlon 2 do it? Can Scanlan 2 do it? He is not going to last that long time. I'll laugh that long ago. We cast, death word, and Scanlon. Like, I accept your blessing. Scanlan, if we get through this,

you know what that means, don't you? No, what does it mean? It means that your clone's gonna get very lucky. You on the other hand now. You'll just have to live and wait and find out. Well, what does it mean? No. What does it mean? Just live.

Just then the real Scanlan comes back from peeing. He's like, what I miss, can I? Oh, man. Ascending the stairs, you climb and climb the spiral, continuing upward. And both of the stairs, you spell upward. So which direction did you take, the right or the left? The right. No, wait.

Which hand is Vecna chop off? The left. What is your speech to, Keeleth again? It gives you an additional 19. 19 hit points. Temporary hit points. Temporary hit points. So add plus 19 on top. When you lose them, they're gone.

When you lose them, they're gone. Huh? We're trying to decide whether we went left or right. We went right. Okay. Okay. So you spiral upward and upward and upward, climbing in an extremely long period of time.

Your legs begin to ache a little bit, and then another floor opens up. It appears the tower is now divided into two chains. divided into two chambers. It's actually like from the bottom floor up, it's now two sides to a tower, and you're on the right side. The hallway curves around the outer edge of the tower.

On the opposite side, you can see the staircase continues upward. The interior of this chamber appears to be an incredible arcane laboratory, occupying the center space of the tower side. You see six overlapping circles of dulled ruins and glyphs that encompass the entire three-foot walkway between here and the stairs, and shelves and tables of countless glass tubes and metallic vices lay out across tables, organized in a near OCD pattern. Tomes and

books line the inner chamber walls. What do you guys do? I use divine sense and feel for undead. Okay. 60 feet. You sense around no undead in the 60-foot radius. Does this feel like it might be Delilah's room per chamber? You don't know? I feel like, from where I am, can I recognize any of the book titles?

Any of it? From where you are now? You can't even see. Is there any traps in this room? Can you check for traps? Can you sense Vecna? Yes. So Vecna moves, we know. What is that?

Investigation? Investigation. 24 for me. 14 for me. Okay. I mean, there are symbols across the ground here, but they seem pretty inert. Three of the circles in the center of the chamber appear to be ready to trigger by proximity, by five foot proximity. Where's the exit to this room? It's across the way, like around

the outside of the tower wall, so you can follow along. We can go around the edge. Most of you can. It's a very tight walk to get through. We have a few large individuals. What's making that so tight? Is there one trap that's making it so tight, or all of them? There are three large circles that overlap with each other. that are triggerable, and there are three inert ones that kind of overlap. They're all kind of, it's like a series of Venn diagrams. Did they see arcane in nature these rooms? Yes, they do.

Do I have a shot in hell? Of disarming them? I take out the immovable rod and just have it in my hand. Okay, make an intelligence check. Natural 20. Oh, what's up! These traps are far beyond your understanding to disable. Okay. You glance these and go, oh, this is bad.

We would need the spells. What if, what if? Can we fly over them? We go, no, the people that are small, go around. Sure. I'll banff trink it out on one side. Put Grog in, go back. Put our con in, go back.

Yes. So we work our way around the room. The zombies are gone. They can work on. No, no, no. His slave zombies. They're little. Okay.

His dead brother. I was thinking about it until you just brought it up again. I was actually in an okay place. I could have been something. Are you guys okay with this plan? Yes, let's do it. I could have been somebody, Alcon, instead of a zombie because I am. So, I need everybody except for Arcon and Grog

to go ahead and just make a general dexterity check. Ball's head. Oh, fuck. I thought we would just be able to avoid it. Yeah. Natural 20. Beautiful. Okay.

Scanlan 2 is okay. He made it 17. Scanlan 1 had a 1. Okay. So, what did you get? Oh, I had a roll? Everybody except for Arcon and Scan. Oh, everyone but for them.

Deck safe. Oh, who's near me? Deck save or decks check? Could I retcon and say that I'm next to a certain check? You got a natural one? Scanlon did, yeah. If I'm next to him, because I give plus two to saves, does that, Futs with it, we don't know.

It's not a really check, it's a saving throw. One is an auto fail for a saving throw. They weren't within 10 feet at me, were they? No, no, but I'm partially across, because you couldn't get across, you're too wide. Fair enough. 13. Okay, that's fine. And you got?

Got a same throws. A four. Okay. So as you guys are moving across, Scanlan and Pike, you both are clustered next to each other, and unfortunately Pike begins to wobble, and you reach to grab and pull her in, but the armored weight is too strong, and you both accidentally step out of place, at which point the glyph to your left suddenly flares, and you watch as in a flash of sudden arcane energy, a cage of force-like power encompasses the both of you in a cube.

You see these bars of cracking the energy just shh-h-h-h-h-around, and you're both currently stuck within this arcane entrapment, the gnomes. Can you dispel that shit? I don't have dispel magic. About Dimension Door? Yeah. Good question. Yeah.

If only the person in here with me was also of gnome size. Oh, wait. Oh, wait. Will Dimension Door out? Do we want to try to get everyone else across before you do that? Maybe it's a one-time only. Sure. Everybody else went already.

Well, they're probably blocking the path now with this cage. I meant the necklace, but I don't know how this spell works. I hope it works. We might just get hit on the way out. Okay. So as you clasp Pike and complete the incantation, I need you to make a charisma saving throw. Come on, buddy. Come on.

Come on. Charisma save? Oh, geez. Just look at that. Is this magic? It is. It is. Okay.

Twenty. Twenty? Twenty will do it. I've never had to make a charisma saving throw. You have very high. Okay. So as you grab her and you both begin to transport outside of the cage, you feel the force of it push back, but the nature of your innate magical ability manages to puncture through that threshold, and then both of you reappear at the opposite side. opposite side.

Oh, my God. Now worse for where. The cage is still present though, and it's kind of blocking the path across. You climb up and over? The rest of you get good across, fine. It's the gnomes that got stuck, and now the two of you are on the opposite end. You have 30 feet between you and the opposite side, and that walkway is entirely closed off. We can do this.

I'm not worried one bit. Wait, did you switch your boots? Oh yeah, despite a climb to the ceiling and... Oh, yeah! How fun. How fun. Cirque du Soleil this thing and we're like hold arms and I'll just walk on the street little shirtless hunky dudes holding each other just like in crazy poses you should

definitely take your armor off for this though definitely wait I was about to say we still have we still have a fire you could get some oil and really make it more yeah my answer to your question was it's just Cut too. Okay. Yeah, I will walk up on the wall so that I'm sticking out. Okay. That's like a lot of powerful things.

Popper train away, yeah. Why don't I'm like for a big. This is all beautiful. Okay. The forest cage encompasses too much of the wall space to go sideways, so you'll have to go across the ceiling. inverted? Yeah. Because I was inverted.

Oh shit. We were, you were, you were, you were, okay. My contact is maintained. So, as you climb to the top and you pull Archon, you tuck your feet up underneath and and... Treat me like your dragons, I mean like your shadow, whatever. Paint me like one of your... A magueros.

All right. You know, like you? You should say, can we make it out of here? You should play some beach volleyball sometimes. I don't know, it'd be cool. I got hand reps, we got some aviators. It'd be totally cool. Don't keep taking, ooh, do, do you,

this is so much. Could you both please make athletics checks for me? I'm still raging. You still have been raging in this whole like, you're like the most intense spotter right now. This is an athletic check? Yes. 22. 25.

Step by step, you carry the heavy armored Red-scale Dragon Board across the threshold of the chamber. So dead in the life, yeah. And you release him and both safely come to the opposite side of the laboratory. Yeah. Oh, good. Good job. Good job. Good job, good. Is it hot in here?

Oh. Oh, good. What happened to you guys? You're pretty tuned, man. Okay. Okay. Did you guys see that? Yes, we did.

Continue up the stairs? Yes. Yes. Question. Point of board. So I know roughly how Vecna is, right? So I should be able to tell. As we're getting closer, like roughly, how much distance, halfway at the tower, three quarters, etc.

You guys are, based on the helmet's part, you've climbed, you're about halfway up the tower. Okay. I would like to do one thing before we leave the room. I would just like to take something, set it on fire, and just toss it on those books over there. Oh, that's dark. Nice. Are Pike and I holding on,

we're holding on our freedom of movement, right? We decided to. Until we get up. How long did it take us to get to this point? I'd say about a little over 10 minutes or so. I'll just continuous climbing. Who knows what is above us? It could be as slower for the upper hand.

Fire stays where it is typically. It doesn't rise. It doesn't move. We're fine. We'll just stay on the books and that go out. I like it. There's nothing else to catch fire in here. It'll be nice.

Is there anything else to catch fire that we'd travel upwards of, we're climbing a towering in porno? It's stone chambers. It's full of chemicals. It'll be noxious. It'll be brief. So you take... I take a torch.

I actually have one last white stone seal that's a flash powdered, wrap it, light it, and just toss it on the counter. Okay. It clatters and the torch burns and the powder from. That'll do. All right. Walk away. You guys continue up the next set of spiral stairs, climbing higher and higher up and trappas. You can see every now and then one of the various vein-like cracks of energy that's holding

the tower together and you can glance out and see very obscured just movement in the distance. but it's too fractured by the, too much defraction. I think. Continuing upward, you come to a second, or another floor, about four feet or four minutes of climbing next. This next half chamber, you see dozens of sets of chains and manacles affixed to the walls where tortured corpses are currently dangling from them.

Left in pieces, the scent is terrible, decay is strong. Do we see traps? Divine sense? Undead. No undead. Do we see the traps in this room? Do we make an investigation? I suck it.

A T. Okay. No traps in this chamber. Do we recognize any of the corpses? Make a perception check. Oh, no. I had to do it. Natural 20. Oh, no. Oh no.

Oh, no. I get to know you. Most of the corpses around here have been mutilated to the point where it's hard to even recognize. This was essentially a torture chamber. This was a gathering information, this was a point-making chamber. But the ones you do see around here, most, nothing catches your eye. One, does seem familiar. You look and see, and it's been a while, but you remember the face of a scale bearer Desona who traveled across the Osmite Sea with you aboard a sky ship. Glancing around the bodies appear.

to have been cleaned of any useful items. This is mainly just a, for utility and fun chamber. Any weapons or items besides the chains and manacles on the floor? Clean. The room is clean. How far above us is Vakna? About 120 feet. We should cast it now. We should do all of our casting. Now I invoke the blessing of the dawn father. Call it out.

I'm waiting for Pike. Let's do it. So, doing a round of what spells to who? Freedom of movement to Scanlon 1, myself. So only three freedoms in movement? From Keel. That's all she has, right? From Keelith.

From Keelith, right. Pike. Freedom of Movement on Vex, broke. Bike. I'm putting the wings out now. The Raven wings emerge. Pike, is you doing Death Ward? Oh, yes, she did on Scanlan.

In Scanlan? Okay. So fifth slot is taken? Scanlan will invoke the blessing of the knowing mistress. Dole. And you watch as the forehead space where once you had seen the briefly visible third eye of Aynne now emblazoned like a lantern light, this bright purple eye. And in that moment you watch as Scanlan's pupils just turned to silver.

Whoa. Are you still you? I can't see anything. Everything's silver. Oh God, I'm blind. I'm just kidding. I can see fine. I charge diplomacy up. Okay. And I will invoke the blessing of the air flight. And with that you watch as this bright light emerges from the back of Pike's shoulders is a familiar but much more vibrant and strong set of divine golden wings, not made of energy, but visibly beautiful. Visibly beautiful, gold-feathered wings. Expand from her back and your feet lift off the ground. As the voice of Sarah Inouye whispers into her ear.

A Banff Trinket out. If you want to polymorph him. Now's the time. Polymorph only lasts, is it an hour or ten minutes? I've got to learn this. Polymorph, I think, is an hour with concentration. Could be wrong, but I think it is. All right. Also, do you know, this is, you still have another series of staircases that are pretty tight. Okay, okay, okay, we should just go up. We should keep going up. Also, I'm going to just say this now in advance, and it might not be possible, but if we get to a door, I'm thinking ahead of time, if we think we're about to step out, I want to cast Bles on the three half elves right before going out. That might not be possible, but it's in my head to do it. Okay, good to keep in mind. All right.

We should send Delilah in first. Yeah, sure. I'm into that. That's actually a good idea. Yeah. Scanlan 2 is going to dump a third level spell into the Tome of Isolation? Okay. To reveal the hidden text. Is it only revealed to Scanlan 2 or is it revealed to everyone? Let me see the item again. A D4 to every attack roll. The text remains for an hour.

What is it called? You're blessed. If it happens. Hashtag blessed. A D4 added, rolled for every attack roll. Actually, no. I mean, once the text is revealed, technically anybody with any sort of a pension for arcane knowledge could attempt it,

but you have the best chance. So you don't need to do that. No, no, I need to reveal the text. It's hidden otherwise. Correct. Right? But the text is revealed for an hour. Okay.

So if in theory you were to fall in the book, David. I got it. Stop reading. Yep, it's more difficult, but it's... Ballroom. What? What?

Do you have a book that I need to read? Yeah, it's gonna be fine. No, it's possible, but it's kind of what his face was? It's because he was the chosen of Ayu and that he can read without issue, but the text itself is still very arcane in nature. Mm-hmm. He lives. He's the only one that can finish the... It's like a keya instruction.

The ceiling. Right. And then Keel turns to... to fax and whatever happens, lest it be tried, stay with us and cast's guidance. For the next minute, which gives you a 1d4 on ability checks. Like right before we go out, you mean? Yeah, before you move. Okay.

Just for the start of it. It might go. You guys going to climb up the next staircase? Yeah. All right. You begin to spiral up the next length of it. You get about 80 or so feet up before. And are you leading this charge visibly or who's?

Yes. Okay. Actually, Delilah is. Well. Delilah. Sure. You're saying Delilah ahead of you? Well.

When we get up to the top. Okay. As you're cursing around the edge, the stairs stop into what appears to be another chamber. The chamber the level is off. So like we're seeing the edge of steps. Yeah, the edge of steps. All right.

I'm stealthing. Okay, maybe stealth China. Very quickly, Graub, give me another long sword for Zombie Vander. That's the last one I have. Thanks. Got it. Are we passed for that race right now?

Yeah. 44. 44. Yeah. Okay. So you stealth up around the edge, and you see now, where once there was divided into two chambers, it now seems the chambers have converged once more onto a single room.

It's not very big, and the tower's been slowly tapering the higher up you go. The room is fairly empty. You see a few vases in the corners and some base basic, basic ancient decor, standing, not noticing you're there, you see three figures in full dark armor, similar to who you fought in the Zygorot, or one who was guarding the tunnel that led up into Tharumfala. So they don't look like the big gahoon or they look like the underlings?

The underlings. You see them in the same kind of dark horned armor. There's one that's humanoid size and one that looked to be like half-ling size. Or two of them would have a half-in-size fling. From my hidden position, I want to see if I see if I see. see any traps in the room. Okay, make an investigation check from immediate entry. Well, I'm not entering. I want to do it from my peaky spot. I mean from the immediate entry from what you can see. You can't investigate from across the room.

So that is 23. They're not facing away, but they don't seem to acknowledge his presence yet. They don't see them. Rule 44 stout. Yeah, 23 for the investigation. Okay. You don't see any traps in the immediate vicinity of the room. Okay. So what I'm going to do is slowly.

back down to the party. Okay. Relate what I just saw. Three of them. What do we do? What are we going to? Just standard undead? What kind of? No, they're like in their death night.

Dead night, dudes. Do they count as undead? Oh, God. They're death nights. They're death night is what you fought. The dudes in armor. They're lackeys. Are they killed?

Are they killed? They're undead. Can't tell. They're fully armored. How far up the city? They're about maybe, you guys, where you are right now. where you are right now, they're about 30 feet around the way, and then 10 feet into the chamber. I'll divine sense, which is up to 60 feet. Are they fiend celestial or undead?

Nope. So it looks like they're human. What if you see them with Delilah and... They're probably human. Well, is it difficult for you to use that sign and sweat and if you want to use that sign-in-swept? Once I use it, I've got 10 minutes. Of... Ten minutes of silence.

Silence. And I was curious that if I get close enough to Vecna, He can talk. So do you want to do? So you need to save that, shame. I was hoping to save that, because that might be a thing where we can keep him from casting vocal spell. Can we just try and stuff around them and not fight them at all?

It's a small room. You and I can probably handle two, but that leaves a third. You see one staircase, one final staircase that winds around the corner. You actually, well, you haven't seen yet, so. Okay. Okay. There's no chance you could just remove the stone from the middle of the floor and how it's

kind of what I was looking for. Can I like keel take a peek and see what's up? Is there any other stone? Make a stealth check? Yeah. Plus stone. Do you still have that? Yeah. That's good, that's good. That's real good. That's real good. That's real good. 39.

Oh! 39? Okay. Yeah. So as you curl around the edge, you glance inside. You recognize this chamber. When you scryed in here previously. Oh. This was the chamber that was being left by the death night as he ascended to the top of the tower. So this is the last stop. Okay.

Can you open up the floor underneath them? Can't it look like the floor opens? It doesn't like it's a trapdoor or anything. It's stone. You're saying it's stone, can you open up the floor and let him fall? Could Stubby and I each target one? and you yankoen into the ground simultaneously? Can you do that right now?

We can't really, I mean, it's a single, theoretically, yes, actually. Let's have you two, you take some out and we'll send the big guys in and just aren't you out of. It's all worked stone. It's all worked stone. It's all very carved. I could hold one of them.

Just paralyze one of them. I can also hold for us. We have to. If we don't think that the room or the setup of this will fuck us up, the big boys can go in and probably, We'll take your sneak attack. We can follow your attacks. We don't want to create a stir.

We might. So it's better that we do two quietly and just leave one left. Can you throw your fucking manners bowl at the third? It's better against weaker opponents. The thing is, it's a thin staircase. It's like not three people won't be able to attack it once. I'm seeing it.

I'll have ten minutes of silence. Two at most would be able to strike it once. Then you and me go up, sneak attack, fall back and let somebody run in and just take it out. Yeah? Yeah, so who's going in to three minutes? Yeah, the taller one in the center, and then the two smaller ones fight.

We'll take the smaller ones. I would send in the Dragonborn, because they're all alive. All right, yeah? Yeah. Get ready to fight once we take the two out. Do you see you can handle this? Would it tell me again the three that are in the screen?

There's one like human-sized one in the center, and then there's two kind of half-ling sized ones like that. Jock's Machina does not get hazed. So just, oh come. Yeah, stop bullying Jock's Machinawa. You know. I mean, 12. So, Arcon, we're going to handle the small.

No bullet. And right after you'll handle the tool. Yeah? Sounds good to me. All right. So we sneak up. Is it auto-crit if it's a sneak attack? If they're surprised.

If they're surprised. Okay. Are they surprised? I stealth. You have to stealth, right? I have to stealth. You have to stealth. You have to stealth.

Okay. 29. Okay. That's correct. So I will go a split second. performance system. Okay, so both of you guys curl up to the edge and you see the three of them. What are you doing?

We're attacking the two small-ways. Throwing on the right. Okay. So you're attacking the one on the right, you're taking one on the left. Go ahead and roll your attacks. All right. Is it auto-crit? It's an auto-crit.

If it hits, it's an auto-crit? If it hits, it's an auto-crit. But you have an advantage on the attack because they don't know you're there. Oh, that's good. 30 on the first hit. That hits. They all hit. That's good.

Four. Four sixes. Yes. Oh shit. And a five. And the light of one. You do not. I love this light up now. 29 times two is what.

Both of you guys. Big damage. Big damage. Was it 29 times two? Yeah. 58 plus eight. So 66. 60.

86. 80 for the first. 80 for the first. And that's the first attack. All right. So I'm not an attack for each of each. 19. That hits.

12 for my second. Does not hit? No, they all hit. All my time's hit. Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, 12 damage to the second. Okay, what's the damage in the second one? Eighteen on the second. Okay, both of the armored ones inside, just like take the hit and crumble fall back, like helmet falling off.

And I immediately move to the side so he can run through. All right. So the guy turns around and I'm... So they're still in the center of the chamber. They're about 15 feet from the top of the stairs. So the two of you are going to rush in. Just you? Just you. Just Arcone. You rush in. Towards the one that's in the center. Go for it. Unleash everything. Okay. Well, this, right. I don't think I should rage here. I only get two rages. I don't get two rages.

Stuck. Everything. I was like so busy watching the action. Did you see that? God's fucking. Switchable? Right as he runs out, Scanlan says, Don't fuck this up!

So as they both drop, you rush, the one standing in the middle and the armor doesn't react to your arrival, just stands there staring at you. As you rush forward and swing, you hit the armor, but you hit the edge of the blade and it just cleaves off doing no impact. Does he move?

That's attack one. Okay. Okay. Oh, okay. That's okay. No, that's okay. 21. Oh, that's okay.

21 hits. Okay. Good. It looked bad from this angle. No, no, no, it wasn't back to back. No, I see it now, but like, holy cow. He's not undead. He's not undead, is it?

No. No. Okay. Well, this is going to be weird then. Okay. Oh, it's not bad. That's 28. 28.

All right. You hack and the axe, slides into the front of the breastplate, and as you pull back, you see a gout of blood, the figure just takes it, not reacting. Oh, maybe we shouldn't kill all of the flow. Why? I would like to bonus action. Okay.

No, I wouldn't. I'm not. I'm not. I'm just... Why isn't you moving? Does it have a helmet? Can you pop the helmet? The one standing has a helmet and the two that fell, their helmets kind of tumbled off as they impacted and fell back. What do they look like up there? Oh no. Oh no.

Were they our friends? Pull the helmet off. Oh, come, pull the helmet off. I pull the helmet off. Okay. You pull the helmet off and you watch a immediate bit of black kind of fuzzy facial hair tips from underneath. And as you reveal, you see darkened skin and long black hair with a bit of kind of colored makeup under the eyes. No. No. And what looks to be a metal band across the forehead, looking ahead, unmoving, unflinching, just locked in place staring past you. Is it Gilmore?

You glance up and look and it's Gilmore standing in the middle of the room. Wait, don't run in. We killed the two. No, we don't know anything yet. I command zombie Delilah and zombie Vander to go to the heads and take the helmets off the two heads on the ground.

Okay, the helmets are partially off, so it's easy enough to slip the helms off. To the left, it was less of a halfling and more of just a young younger girl. It was conjamed arm. A little tall in the other. You can see brown hair with a shock of white in it currently laying back unmoving. You don't know. Bleeding out. The other one looks to be specifically gnomish. Short brown hair. And it's just eyes wide on the ground. Is that my girl? Is that my baby?

I think it's an illusion. An illusion? I'm hoping. I don't know. Can't fuck with both? Oh, dead. This is my baby girl. Can I, can I, I, I'm going in. Can I stand over one of the bodies and just do like a, a perception check, a medicine check? Make a medicine check.

A woman? 23. A child. They're not illusions, and they are both dead. I cut the head off of the one in the middle of the top. No! No, don't do it, don't do it! I'll go down.

I stand in front of him and I say, no. Please don't. They still have. kind of the bands, each one of them has this like strange brass band across the head. Take the band off his head. I take my mace and I slowly try to take one of the bands off. Okay, take it off the head of one of the two dead? Yeah, but not touching it, but just like scraping it off. Okay, it slides off.

Does anything happen? No. Off of one of the dead ones? Yeah. Can we cast revivify on them? Don't not do that. Let's, yeah. To do that.

Who is it? Who is it? Who is it? Krivi is immediately. It's Kari and Cassandra. Cassandra? I'm not looking at. Revivify them.

Take the bands off and revivify them. We need... What is the band before we do? Take it off of Gilmore. He's still alive. That's what she did. She took it off. No, no, she took it off one of the...

Does Gilmore look like he's still alive? He's wounded, but he's still alive and just daring to hold. Okay, so we'll do the same thing with Gilmore. And the eyes kind of flicker for a second. Oh my God. What happened? Where am I? Oh my God.

Pull the axe back. Oh my God. What happened? I just killed. Okay, okay. Save her. Right now. I put my hand up over his mouth.

Okay. Take them. It's okay. It's okay. He looks down. I stand over Kaley and I cast Revivify. Okay. Okay. Okay.

You see the eyes kind of low back and the stillness of the body. And as you finish touching the body and the warmth of burst, breath comes back to her and she starts coughing and sits up and kind of means over grasping. I go and grab her and just hold her. I stand over Cassandra and I cast her Vivify. Okay. Oh, wow.

He's a big spell, huh? As you reach out and touch her chest with the brief moment of stillness leads as her eyes slowly blink back. It begins breathing again. Some seven shit right here. That is so shut up. Sean, can you get them out of here? Um, I, yes, I... How did you get here? Is it really you? I don't remember anything, Sean.

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21. 21. I mean, it's Sean. No more. Fucking hell. You are in no shape to do anything right now. Now you need to take these two women and hide downstairs. Do you hear? Where are we?

What's going? There's no time to explain. We're in the Tower of Entropus. We're on the back of a Titan, just try and get them as far away from here as possible. Vasselheim is an hour away. To all you can fight with us. No. No, no, his head is not where it needs to be.

Wait, so if we're in, we're near Vasselheim, what's Entropis? No, no, no. We're in Tharunfala. It's been teleported to the back of a Titan, which is a giant mountain, which is what we're on. It's not much. You just have to get away. It's too much. He's right above us.

Go away. And what are you going to do? We're going to fight him. And you're going to go away. In 30 minutes, we could all be dead, but if we have any chance, you three need to not be here. You need to go down. Now. Oh, I can, I can. I, uh... I can get the three of us away. I can teleport us. It's maximum of what I can do. Jamon's a order is here. The Slayer's take has probably been vastly compromised.

Go to the woods. Go to the woods. Scanlan's right. I could probably take this back to Amman. Like, why even stay near this? Then go. Go! I'll do that. You're going to fight this, Vecna. We are.

I hate to even ask, but is there anything you can do on Stee? So if you make it quick. Yeah, we have to ask. I'd almost rather him stay in fight. I know, I want him to stay in fight. No, no, no, he's got to get them away. Yeah, but if you can... They're at one hit point each.

Yeah, but to be fair, they're gonna be dead in an hour anyway. If you can make this quick, I can leave you with some intense adrenaline, my friend. Me? Yes. I'm a fan of adrenaline. He looks around the blood on the floor and the two barely living women to the side and says, If the one you're going to fight is the one that did this to me and then. Leave a scar in my name if you don't mind. And when it's done, maybe carve a unicorn.

We're pleasure. At which point you begin to hear heavy footsteps coming up the stairs behind you. Heavy footfalls. And remember the footsteps heading up the tower behind you. He goes and grabs the bodies close. Glances around you up the stairway. You see emerging behind you the death night that joined you in the fight against Beckina. I I grabbed Kaylee by the face, and I just say to her, goodbye. Goodbye. The one that met you at the top of the tower, last time you fought Vecna, emerges and looks across and begins to go for the blade. I go straight for him.

You go straight for him? For the death night? Yeah. Straight for him. Okay. At which point Gilmore reaches out to you and casts haste on you. Haste? Yes.

Oh! Fuck! But it lasts a minute, hurry. I hate to say this, but Arkhan, do you have him? Get upstairs, I'll hold him off. Let's go, let's go. Come, come. Bless, bless, bless, Sean.

It was an honor knowing you. It'll be an honor knowing you all still. At which point he grabs both of the girls in with a flash of the lights. The three of them vanish. The death night at which point has turned to reach out and goes to cast something as Arkhan rushes up and just slams the axe across his arm, knocking it aside. You can see now behind them other cultists and other things begin to head up down the stairs, but they're currently being choked at this point where the death night's being held at the stairway where Arcon is just stepping there. We run through the other door.

Zombies are grabbing his arms. All right. As Archon holds off, you guys head up towards the top of the tower and that's what we're going to pick up next door. No! What did you do? This is what you Kevin Spacey from seven motherfucker. What did you do? Oh wow.

When you revealed? To a god how close and dangerous you were last game, there were going to be repercussions. Oh my god. And he knows how to get to you. He knows your secrets. So. This is a great game. This is the most fun I ever had. So, I love you guys.

Oh, fuck. We'll pick this up next week for what will most likely be the final battle. Ashley, can you pipe in? I don't know yet. I don't know this schedule yet. If any of you are watching are from Blind Spot, find a way to not have her work Thursday in evening, please.

We need a few hours on Thursday. All right. Oh, wow. And that went a little long, no, we've been anticipated, but we're at the end of the campaign. Oh, my gosh. Thank you.

Joe Matt. Joe. At the table. Jock's. Oh, my God. Jocs. We're here. Get you, so.

Fuck. Oh. Oh. All right. Oh. Fuck. Man. Thank you so much for having me.

Man, of course. Thank you for coming. So glad to have. I've been so looking forward to this. So much fun. I've been so looking forward to this. You're looking for this. You're looking for a lot of time.

Yeah, man. See, man. Chian's so bad. Well, she's pretty fucking bad. Cheers, yeah. But when your goals are aligned, it can be useful. All right, well, guys, thank you for joining us for this extended episode leading into the final fray of the campaign.

Oh, man. I'm so excited for next week. I'm probably the last thing you have. First she's got surprises and then he's got that shit. That's it. That's good. I was like, you got surprises and then you've got... and then you've got that shit.

You could tell something was up. Something was up. Oh, yeah. Yes. There's no way to know what it was. I was feeling weird about it. I was going to cut his head off. I know.

Yeah. I thought he was some kind of sentinel in me. He was seeing through his eyes or whatever. I was about the trap his head on. Thank God you roll the one. I know. That was the luckiest one. That was a lucky fucking one, dude.

Gilchurch was dead. Next campaign. I mean, we don't attack anybody. We talk to everybody, everybody, every NPC, every hot-dive vendor, every lich. That was no punishment. That was a fucked up tactic is what it was. Fucked up.

You managed in the space of a week to make the chokeout seem like child's play. Oh, man. You are a monster. Vecna is a monster, guys. I don't know. I'm so proud. I'm my undead brother that I'm dragging around with me. around with me. This is fucking so fucked up.

It's really good. Oh my God. Oh, yeah. Well, thank you guys. Hope you had a good time. Yeah, yeah. We'll see you guys next week. Have a wonderful night, and it's a Thursday, congratulations to our t-shirt winners.