Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 31 - Gunpowder Plot

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

Scanlan finds himself alone, caught in a Briarwood trap! Meanwhile, the party fuels the fire of rebellion, but will the price the town of Whitestone pays be too high? The revolution has begun, and nothing can stop it now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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home city of Amman to Voxmachina, our troop of Attribut advent adventurers. Upon discovering this, battled them at Iman. They fled to Whitestone, and the party has then gone after to seek to destroy them and free the town, the once home to Percival. In the process, It appears there have been a number of warnings set, and the entire town has been long held under this dark, kind of ominous rule that they've kept at bay. Apparently, they found notes of previous failed rebellions and things that die here don't seem to stay dead. A number of zumbified giants wandering the city as these giant lurching sentinels. And apparently, a number of the cutthroats that helped the Briarwoods come to power in this town have now been given titles and land here, and are called the New Nobles by the locals. During this process, you guys manage to sneak

into the town, begin setting out word of coming rebellion, and that Percival Dorolo has returned, and the Briarwood's time is numbered. Upon meeting the previous chancellor to your father of the town, Archibald, you guys came to an understanding, and he was going to reach out to all of his contacts and let them know that the rebellion is happening. You guys then set out to set a two-pronged to attack against two of the remaining new nobles in the town. Most of the party going to seek the outside of Count... Count Duke. Which one was it? Well, Duke is... Count Duke.

Duke. Duke. Duke Vedmire was the one that Scanlan went to, and then Tileri is the one that the rest of you wanted outside. Now, as the rain pours down into the city, midday, Scanlan decided to open from a polymorph spell as a fly to the top of the front doorstep of Vedmire's home, then proceeding to unpolymorph and then repolymorph himself into a triceratops. Of which I have your statistics here for your triceratoms form. You want to come get that. Go get them stats, boy. Which that's something I had to do. Stats. Stats. Stats. Stats. Stats. Stats. Stats.

That's your Triceratops form. After becoming a Triceratops, you squashed the front guard that was there, you slammed through the front of the building, destroying the front door, and we cut to the other group who is stealthing through the rain to the back, at which point the okay was given to Grog, whether intentionally or not, Grog then charged to the front door of Tileri's estate, and the rest to be prepared for impact, and that was where we left off in the center of this chaos. So, let's do this. Oh, God. Without further ado, Sam.

Oh. But I was just handed this. I know, take a look. Take a look. Sucks to me first. He's got the maps out already. Get your shit together, man. I've never been a triceratops before.

All right, yes, you're right. Think like a triceratops. So they didn't fix the air, right? They didn't fix the air. I need. I need. I need shelter. No, I don't know. How do Triceratopses think? I'm like like Punk-Rocytophonist, is that bad.

Hippapaphypapy. Puck-a-Pypotomai. Plunk-Roc. Okay. Say for the sake of this for now, we'll go through your circumstance. Okay. As they are separate. So Scanlan, you are, I did not have a triceratops, but I did have a stegosaurus. I'm not at the same size, so, or the source.

I'm sorry, blood spike behemoth. That's kinda racist. I'm sorry. You know what? They're not around to argue. We're not around to argue. That you know of. We don't all not the same.

You're gonna get a bunch of angry tweets from Sega sources in trying to I'm sure, please, bring in my way. As you slam your way into the front of Duke Vedmeyer's estate, pieces of wood blasting outward, scattering amongst the center of the foyer. You see before you a rising staircase that divides into two separate staircases that curl around second level. Lovely decor. You also notice, at first notice, that the entire interior is currently filled with guards.

All seemingly prepared and almost expecting your arrival at the top of the staircase you see. I think I can take them, guys. I think I can take them. You also see at the top, Duke Vedmire himself, a A large, hairless gray-skinned Goliath wielding a giant two-handed sword, armored with a breastplate. Beckmeier? He's a Goliath?

Geyer. Bechmeier's Goliath? Wow, that's gonna be fun later, but not right now. Okay. Do I know, so let's assess my knowledge real quick. Yes. I know about him a little bit.

He's one of the thugs that came into the city. Correct. He is not a magic wielder. As far as I know. As far as you know, no. And at first glance, based on the fact that he's wearing heavy breastplate and is wielding a giant two-in-ed sword, you get the feeling he's probably not as heavily inclined

towards the arcane arts as others you've encountered. As I quickly survey the room, do I see anyone else who is a threat greater than a heavily armed guard? Anything that's like a creepy wizard or a weird old mage? Currently, all you see are a series of white stone guard. and uniform armor, all with heavy crossbows, currently knocked, and as you come blasting through the door, they're already arranged in what appears to be a waiting pattern,

should anything try and charge its way into the house. They'll probably all shoot me, won't they? In fact, roll initiative. So there's, directly in front of me is a staircase going up? Any other doors or exits? There are doors on each side that are currently locked, and other than that, no. Those are locked doors on this?

They're closed currently, and they appear to be, there's a giant wooden beam. beam cross over the front of each, and then there's the outside which leads the exterior to the raining outside of the household and the stairs that go up. Man. Roll initiative. Initiative. Don't I get a surprise round? Doesn't matter. 21. Okay. All right. I don't get a surprise round because I sprung in there. Yeah, apparently not.

Damn it. Made a very loud noise when you turn into a Triceratops and then tore through the front of the household. All right, so Scamlin is a... First. You're still first. I'm so, so here's the thing. Here's the thing. I should probably leave.

Yeah, come on. But come on, I'm a Triceratops. I gotta have some fun first, right? You can take a couple hit points, right? Right? Yeah. I think you revert back to normal. Does Polymorph carry over or is it, it's not.

If you go to zero hit points in animal form, you go back to your regular. You go back to your regular full health. And any damage that carries over just goes to your regular health at that. You have a hundred and 15 hit points. You guys aren't there. Scalin, what are you doing? What do you have initiative.

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. What are you doing? Wait, it's my turn first? Yeah, you have initiative, man. I beat them with initiative. You did. Okay, they're more than my charging distance as a triceratose. He's the only one that's within, technically.

What's your speed? 40. 40. You would get right up to Bedmire if you were to charge. I would be dead. You got it. Do you want to do? What do you want to do?

What do you want to do? I'm going to go how far away of those doors on the sides? Over here, it's about 35 feet to get that way? I'm going to turn right and blast through that door. Okay. Yeah, all right. It's only a shot, so he's going through the door. Oh, shit, it can be trapped.

Oh, well, we'll find out. We'll find out. I'll turn right. Blast through the door. It goes blasting through the doors. Do I have to roll to blast from the door? Yeah, go ahead and roll a strength check. 20, add your strength modifier of the triceratops form.

Okay, strength modifier says plus five. So that's only a 17. A 17? It's the door. That's going to do. Me and doors don't get along to. You running and you slam your head through the horns, protruding and tearing through the wood, the doors break inward,

but the doors don't fully blast inward. The door beat me! The door's in bad shape. It won't have too much more power to blast through. These fucking doors! It's now your worst, I miss this. So now I am stuck in a door? You can try and pull back out and it's not.

You managed to pull out without an issue. The doors are mostly beaten inward. It'll take but a small impact to blast through next turn if you want to. Next turn. Do I still have an action after this? That would have been your action. You're great, you're good.

Every single one of those guys can attack you now. Yeah, but it probably more happened. Maybe they didn't see you. Run away. It's not my turn anymore, right? That's it. That's your turn. No!

My Triceratoph's ass is just sticking out. Just right there. They're all dummies. They're just mad. They'll probably watch. Watch. This guy moves up over the railing with his heavy crossbow and aims this way. These guys all kind of shift to this side with their crossbows.

This is the most insane. Ready. I'm gonna die. Over here. This guy's gonna move at this point. We can get a view of you. And Bedmeier's gonna go ahead and move down to here. And just kind of get his sword at the ready, grinning.

As he holds his sword up, he puts his hands up and goes, aim fire! A bunch of crossbow bolts get loosed at once through the middle of the room. What's your armor class? Is the tracer? I have no idea. Fourteen! All right. So, that's 11 that misses.

That's 13 misses. Wow, these guys suck. They're like stormtroopers. Natural one. They are! You're attacking my stormtroopers! That is going to be a 14 hits. 18 hits. Oh, that's 24 hits. And then that was a 16 hits.

That was six? That was six. Three hits, yeah. One more, that's a 22. So I have four that actually hit you with the crossbow bolts. You're fine. You're now a porcupine triceratoms. You're a dinosaur, man.

I have 115 hit points. Yeah, and then when those go out, you're back to human hip points. That's extra bonus hit points. That's eight piercing damage. Nome, racist. 13 piercing damage to 21. Are you immune to any kind of damage? 25 and 34 points of piercing damage from this volley.

Is there resistance anything on there? No. Damn it. Nope. So what's going to take me down to 7.81? Is that right? 115 minus 34.81? Yeah, sounds about right. Okay. All right. Ain't nothing. That brings us to the top of the initiative round. You're up.

Well, shit then. I gotta get some retribution. Totally. Turn around and give it to him. Oh, am I considered flanked? You are not. Damn it. You do have a tail. I do have a tail.

You're like a drunk guy at a crap stage. I don't know how to hit things. I've never hit things before. The door you mangled in front of you. Okay, I'm gonna gore that guy to my left. He's above you on the railing. Oh, oh, that's a balcony. I thought that's a stairway down.

I'm sorry. This is a balcony up top, so he's actually aiming down and firing. at you from number. Oh, yeah. Bye-bye. You can just go through the door. I'm going through the door. All right. Yeah, because I'm not tanging with you. So roll into the strength check.

Dude, Benzmire or whatever. 23. 23, okay. Not a problem. You burst through in what? We're going off the map. Hey, you guys. So what you see in here is a social security number.

As you blast through, it's a dining room with a central dining room table. Two small tables at the far corners. There's a 10-foot window across the way. It appears to be a normal dining room set. Is that my action? That's your movement. That's my movement? Yeah, I'd say at this point it's so damaged that it doesn't take much effort for you to push through, so you can manage to push through as part of your movement. Okay. You could pick them off as they run through. I'm not helping. I'm not helping. I'm sorry. You guys aren't there. No. No, I'm not there. shutting up. I should get out of it.

What do you want to do, Scan? So I'm in the room. No one's in there with me. Correct. You're at there. So where's this laser pointer? You can also hold your action. Just as an option. Not to help, but you can hold your action.

So yeah, so I'll just, I'll position myself right next to the door right there. Okay, so you'll just, thomp over, step on part of the table, just throwing it. I will hold my attack till anyone runs through the door, they get an instigore. Okay, good to know. Good to know. All right. So, holding that action, the next term will be

Fidmire. Oh, shit. Here he comes. Here he comes. It's me and the big guy. Holds up there. He's gonna wait up there. He's gonna dash and just get it right next

to where the doors are burst open. You can kind of hear you right around the corner. This these guys are gonna dash in. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. There. There.

I think I can take them, guys. There. There. This guy is going to just try and jump down. See he makes his acrobatics. Sphere and no. He does not with his armor. He leaps off the edge and, like,

I manage his ankle, and is currently prone on the ground. You smell hard. You're already finished himself. Then he's their turn. Back at the top, are you still holding your action on your turn now? It's back to you. Okay. Did I hear a bunch of footsteps?

Can I hear? You heard a bunch of footsteps, coming in, yeah. All right. I'm not good at fighting. I will... Can you set a blaze? I will drop...

I don't have any fire. I don't know why I was sent into this mission. I don't do fire things. I will drop my form. Is that an action or is that just... You have a lantern! You can drop it in a moment. Don't you have a torch?

Or a lantern? Sarah Topps. shrinks down to gnomish form now in this partially destroyed dining room area. What are you doing? I'm going to, hold on. How did this plan happen then? We're a bunch of slapniks. Why do you say I don't have fire?

I mean, I guess I could have like heard a light and match. I said, hey Scanlan, I should come with you and you said, oh, I can take care of myself. How many times you have to tell you guys, I don't need your help? The echoing voice you hear in the back of your mind is you imagine this is what Keelith would be saying right now. be saying right now. Okay, hold on you're saying. Okay. What?

Doritos of failure, you guys? No. Yeah, okay. So I just kind of peek around the corner a little bit. Just make sure they're all there. And I will stinking cloud all of them. Okay. All right. I'm going to not be mentioning Dorian.

Look out there. I got to have some fun first. No. How often am I going to take out a whole house by myself? I'm so in love with you right now. I approve of this plan. All right, 20 foot radius sphere. I'd say you could affect, you could affect all of them.

Yeah. All in this big old sticking cloud radius. Not a worry. The area fills up with gas. All right. All of a sudden the entire foyer just fills up with this greenish-noxious cloud of poisonous gas. Let's see, they have to make Constitution save.

Okay. What's the DC? Is this through your hand cone? Oh, for sure it is. So 19. Jesus Christ. Okay. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Nope. Nope. Natural 20, he's fine. 19, he's fine. 18, nope. Nope. Double nope, because he's on the ground. Fuck that guy. Ed Meyer rolls a one. All right, so. Oh my god, that's a barn. These are ridiculous. These two guys immediately just kind of like cover their mouths and pull up these little bit of material they have

around their chest plate armor to cover the mouth. The rest of them start hacking up when they start vomiting all over the ground. He has a helmet on, so it's kind of like strained through its powerful. Yes. Oh! Yeah, yeah. Vedmire himself kind of backs against the wall and just kind of like just get it to the area, but it's just this thick cloud, it's slowly moving away.

Yeah, they're in a bad place right now. Okay, and you still have movement. You only move five feet so far. Is Stinking Cloud methane based? It is the way I do it. I can still move? Yeah, you only move five feet so far, so it's still 20 feet to be. Hell of a blue angel.

Okay, I'll do like a Dukes of Hazard over the table. Right. Unnecessarily. Or to make an athletics check or anything for that? I'll make him acrobatics and see how cool it was. Acrobatics? Yes. What do I do?

Forget it. You got a number. I know, but I don't do these things. Eleven. Eleven. You... You slide only because you partially destroyed it as a triceratops to the other side. to the other side, put in your head it look pretty cool.

Thank God that none of your allies were around to actually witness it, but you heard the theme music. Okay, yeah. So I'm near the window now, right? Yeah, you're right by the window. Okay, and that's, I guess, everything, right? Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Your turn ends. Vendmire is just hot, you can see his eyes are filling up with liquid, and he does make his saving throw. He coughs, pukh, manages to clear the air around, and you see the clouds slowly moving back.

this way away from where it was cast. That finishes his turn, however, but he is no longer affected by the Stinking Cloud. You can see as the cloud slowly moves past him and his face comes through, his pupil-less, angry Goliath eyes are staring at you from across the hallway or the room to where the doors are open.

You see him grit his teeth and you can hear his teeth scratching across themselves in anger and fury. I'm shaking. These two guys, now the rest of them we're going to go. These two guys are going to move forward. They both come running in, putting another bolt into their crossbows, pulling it back real fast, pulling up their heavy crossbows and firing that now.

That is going to be a 24. That is, of course it does. And an 18. Against what? You're an AC. Oh, yeah, that hits. Okay. So you take 12 points of piercing damage from the first bolt and five points of piercing damage from the second.

Both bolts, one hits you in the shoulder and ricochets off, and they're being much damage. The other one slams and actually invents itself into your thigh, about an inch into it. It's kind of piercing and sticking out the other side. Mostly caught armor, but you could feel it definitely got a chunk of flesh in the process. Oh, no.

Okay. That ends their turn, the rest of these guys now. We're going to try and make their saving throw. Fail. Fail. Fail. Fail. No success on him, actually.

The World of 19. A success on national 19. Fail. Fail. I know, actually, he's a piece of those. So these three succeed, the rest of them are still down. So I'll say that these guys are here all down. He's still down. He's still out. He's twisted down.

Okay. GTF. So that ends their turn. You're up. I so want to get some pay back, but I shouldn't, right? DFO. I think I can take these guys. God, you've raised your little trunk. There's a hell of a lightning bolt line right there.

How big is that? Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody. It's about six feet across. Oh, I can't lift that thing. No, it's a big, long table. You just have a very wide line of individuals right there. All right. That you.

One more round. What do you say, guys? We're not here. We're not here. Okay, you're talking to yourself right now. I'm going to, I'm going to, fuck. Do I have a line of sight?

Okay, can you see it? You can come in. Do you know? By the window, if you wanted to move over here, you'd have line-aside on pretty much everybody. Yeah, that would be so fun. We could move and then move back. I'm only helping with gameplay strategy. He could brain me.

He could brain me in one shot. Okay. I will duck under the table, so they think that's where I went. Okay. And then dimension door to the roof. Okay. Okay. So you duck under the table.

I'm going to say make a deception roll to try and... try and successfully faint them. Oh, okay. And then you can see the top of his head behind the table? From their direction, it's kind of hard, especially since they're a table, I mean, they're chairs up against it, and part of it's been crushed by the triceratops

that was previously here. Oh, I'm going under the table. Sentences you never expect a hearing there, do you do? 31. So you grab your head, oh no! Do like a very elaborate dive under the table. Do I go under the table? A little strange, dull thud of archaer,

as you bam up to the ceiling. Okay, great. He's reaching under the table, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, okay, okay. Oh, okay. Croc it out. I like it. On top of here.

Okay. All right, is that your turn? You're now up on the rooftop. There's rain pouring down. You're immediately soaked from the heavy storm. It's now coming into White Stone. Yeah. It's just me up here? Just you up there, yeah.

Okay. I'll go invisible and just kind of hang. Okay. What happens? Easy enough to do, because it'll take a round for anyone to recover from that anyway, because you have to use action both turns. So as you're waiting up there, you cast invisibility on yourself and wait. And then I start digging through my pockets if I have any flint or fire making apparatus at all. Check your equipment. I will. I'll look.

You have an adventurers kit? Nope. I have some poison. Poison the house. There you go. That'll work. We are the best planners. I know. You guys are rocking it. I do have something. Yeah, you do? We do?

Yeah, I have a potion of firebread. You do. Okay. Okay. It's raining up there. Well, but it's a potion. I don't know how it works. You're checking your pocket.

You find the potion. You look down, you notice even through the storm, you can see in the distance there's the dark shape of a giant lumbering zombie guard making its way down this part of the town. What are you doing? So I'm on a roof, it's all soaking wet, right? Yeah. There's no crawl space access, no attic I can get to. Make a perception check. Oh, nothing.

Two, this is a pretty solid roof with, but apparently no entry point in any point. The craftsmanship is flawless. Wow. Oh, okay. And you know what? I'll just try it. I will potion, I will fire breath potion myself.

Okay, you pull up, pull the cork off. I don't know what this thing does. It's got this. As you feel the fluid find its weight on your esophagus, it warms it like a fine whiskey wood, but the warmth just grows and grows. To the point where it's almost too hot, but it never reaches the point where it's painful, but you feel as if, like, this need to belch is burbling within your stomach,

and at any given point in time, you could let that belch fly forward. Okay, and Ken, am I close to the, uh, so the entry point route, the roof of the entry point? from where you came in? Can I get over there? Yeah, you just come running across the rooftop. It's a little bit of up and down as the topography happens. And as you're running, you start hearing voices shouting out in the street. You make your way over to the top of the roof above.

Okay, so I'm just going to kind of lean over the side and just scorch the whole front entrance as much as I can. Okay. As you let the belch out, it comes out in a large spring. of orange, yellow, and red flames that immediately burst beneath the overhang, which is kept kept most. By the way, I'm also invisible, right? You are no longer, unfortunately.

When you do an attack of some kind, the invisibility is released. Okay, great. So this gnome appears, soaking wet, over the edge of the roof, and then just releases this gout of fire that blankets the front of the building, catching flames on all the portions of the front part of the second and parts of the first story. including the top of the entryway that you would already smash through as a triceratops, which exposed a lot of dried wood, and immediately burst into flame. As you complete that breath and you kind of inhale for a second, you hear voices now starting to shout from the inside of the house. You can't really make up the noises, but it sounds like there's panic now starting to hit from the inside.

And you see a few guards start rushing out into the street to try and look at where the source of the flames came from. Okay. They both look up and see you. Oh, great. These are guards who are outside, yeah? Outside, yeah? These are guards who were inside the house that when as soon as the fire came shooting down

and burn the house, they rush out, look up, grab their crossbows and aim them up towards you. Just your hands and head. That's 17. That hits. And a 13. Doesn't he have at least half cover from the roof? Guys, actually.

That does not hit. 17 does not hit. Oh no, the 17 does, I mean, it would have. It would hit, except for, that's a good point. You would have half cover from looking over the rooftop. You only have a little bit of your hands in your face showing. What we're here for?

So both go, firing off into the range Do I always have half-cover? No, but it's easier for you to find it. It's a lot less to cover. Okay. So both bolts just streak past you into the sky. They angrily reached down and duck back inside the building with the rest of the movement to get out of the range of now what appears to be a flame-throwing gnome.

So that's their go. What are you going to do? Do I know enough about this potion to know if it gives me any other breaths, or is that it? It does progressively give you a breath for it. progressively give you a breath for a short time. So I can breathe again? Yeah, specifically. Oh no. You killed him!

That was the end of scanning. It's the giant, it's the undead giant. Goo. I have no idea what I'm doing this. It's amazing. You're doing so well. Not that we ever do. Yeah.

Yeah. Usually at least have a . You have three different exhales of this. It lasts for an hour or until you exhale three times. Okay. It's a bonus action to do it, so you could also, like, do something else and... It's a bonus action? Yep.

Okay. Well then... It's a belch. Oh, boy. I don't know if that house is cooked enough, man. I know, maybe you should just keep burning it. Yeah, so I'll run over to the back side of the house and do the same thing. Okay.

So you run over, you... Your full movement gets you about halfway across. At a dash, we'll get your other action there, and you have your bonus action left over. You just managed to, like, slide across the roof, grab the... Grab the edge, reach over and just unleash on the opposite side. This side, because the angle the rain is coming at, the side is getting a little bit of water, but there is still a number of dry wood exposed by the media overhang that it does manage to catch, and the flames are beginning to burn up and collect on the sides because it's superheated flame.

Both sides of the house now appear to be on fire. Looking over your shoulder, you can see now there's a pillar of black smoke rising up from the front of the building. You also do see on the opposite side, a half. hatch, slam open, and you see a giant, meaty Goliath hand. Oh no! Oh, shit! Now stepping out into the rain, you see the Goliath Duke, Vedmire, step up with this two-handed sword. Oh, shit. Good, good.

Lovely hope you got here! It's like duel of the fates. Oh, God! On a burning rooftop of the rain. This is so sad. Giant Goliathes. He gets up there. Had a gnome.

It's fire. It's a lot. Play the song. Play the song. All right. It's your turn. Okay. How close is his hatch to the edge?

The hatch is actually halfway. It's like in the middle of the roof. It's met from the second story from one of the rooms or one of the closet. So it's about 25 feet from either the front or the back side. It's like right in the center of the house. It's close to it. close to it. What you got, Scanlan, what you got? I'm trying, right, turn. Just seeing range here.

It looks like a Frank Miller comic right now. T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T. Scanlan showing you down in the rain. Five times your spellcasting ability modifier. My spellcasting ability modifier is what? It's charisma. It's five. Five times five. 25. That's 25 feet. Okay. Yeah.

Uh, sorry, I call forth Bigby's hand and I... I think I'm called for it. I will force him off the roof. Yeah! Yeah! Yes! Okay! All right, let's...

The roof is wet. The roof is indeed wet. I'm aware. Oh, this would be interesting. I want to fly away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so you create the hand next to him, and as he's kind of starting stepping forward towards you

with his sword at the ready, there's a shimmer in the air as a giant kind of vaguely purplish arcane hand. All of a sudden appears. He looks confused for a second and rears back to try and attack it as the hand pulls back. And goes rushing forward towards him. I want you to go ahead and make a strength check with the hand. Oh shit, he's strong. The strength is plus eight with, so add eight to this role. 17 plus eight. Natural one.

Of course! You're going to be eating you today! I'm going to kill everyone in this motherfucking house. I've rolled so many ones today. It's ridiculous. We're just going to exertion. All right. If the hand pushes up five feet plus number of feet equal to five times he's bell casting out of fire, yeah.

Okay. Please do it. Please kill everybody. As the hand shoves him, he was pushed off to this side. The hand, he seems holding against it, but the hand eventually scoops him up and actually gets him off of his feet and like shot puts him off the roof. roof. He plummets backward, no-h-off the side of the roof, and you wait a second to hear

... ... across the way. That's full damage there. Okay, it takes 34 points of falling damage. It is knocked prone down there. You can't get this on network television. So you're now standing alone on the rooftop, your Bigby hand there next to you. A little trickle of fire curling at the corner of your mouth from your final dragon's breath and you decide to use it.

and you decide to use it. What are you going to do? Oh, I got to get out of here. Shud's burn it. Burn in the hatch and then get out. Okay. Okay. Are I close to the hatch?

Yeah, you're about 25 feet from it. This is where you kind of got to. I'll hoof it over there and then... Gov over to the hatch. It's right up there. Yeah, look around and kind of punch myself in the gut. Okay. As you reach over, you look down, and there is a ladder

that leads up to the front, and there are two guards that are currently making their way up to the roof. They look up and see you, their eyes go wide within their helmets, and as you release the flames, all you see is their faces go, ah! Engulfing the entire tunnel. Roll 4D6. 4D6?

Yes. Here, I don't have any D6. Four Q. There you go. They both failed their DC-13 dexterity saving throws, because I can't roll tonight. 15. 15? 15.

They both take 15 points of fire damage, and the entire The entirety of that space is now burst into flames. You pull back because the heat is intense, backdraft style as you're at the top of it. My eyebrows burn off? They don't burn off, but you feel there might be a little cinched. You have to give it a few days to recover. And you hear screaming down inside the tunnel,

and both of them are currently dealing with the fact that they're on fire. So that's your movement. That's your bonus action. You still have an action. Okay, I can't get the hell out of here, guys. Okay, tell me this, dungeon master. Yes. door. Can it be used at higher levels?

Let me double check on that, actually. I don't know if it can, but we'll find that out. Can you Bigby's hand slam down onto the count? Mention door now. Mention or cannot. Okay. How about polymorph? Polymorph? Nope. It's all you mean? You used all your spell slots? It's job.

It's job. Bigby's hand to... Yeah, Bigby's hand. I don't know if Bigby's hand can catch me. catch me. It's not like feather fall. Can it like carry you? Can you? Can you? Maybe it's like a slide.

Maybe you can slide down Bigby's hand. You can you tilt it, right? Like a carpet. You're welcome to drive. Really? No, you've lifted people with it. Yeah, you've lifted yourself with it. I mean, ultimately on foot sucks for him right now.

Yeah. Just surf on a giant floating hand. Come on, Bigby. Through the sky. Through the sky. Is what your friends would say if they were there. All you gotta do is get away for this to be amazing. Otherwise, you burn alive on roof.

Otherwise, it's tragic. All you have to do is live. Comically tragic. What are you doing? Okay. Does Unseen servant have any mass? Not really, no. Unseen servant is like a barely there, kind of small level,

elemental. Okay. So I'm just gonna... Do do do do do do do do do do do do. I'm jumping on the rain. I'm going to jump off the, can I go away from the Goliath? That would be this way, this way, because he fell off that side. Not the two sides that are on fire and not the

flames. The flames are now looking up both sides. Go the other way. Where's the zombie stone giant though? Okay. So it would take a couple turns to get over there. Yeah, the full length of it. So the full dash will get you there.

you there and there, and you still have about a good 20 more feet to get. So that's your turn there. Okay. The two guards that were back that way are now no longer on fire. They have gotten to the roof and put themselves out. They look very, very angry at the current circumstance, and they step out of the hatch both places. Different hatch or the same hatch? Same hatch. Hatch is on fire? The hatch is still on fire. There's still flames, but they got out. They're out in the rain now. The rain's putting out and dousing the flame that's on them. They both go over and see running away. They pull their hand crossbows at the ready. They were only ready to fire.

That's a 24 and 26. For the second guy, I, I, uh, no, I'll just take it. Okay. Okay, they both hit. I think 24 and 26. That is seven points of piercing damage and 12 points of piercing damage. It's held 19 total. Great, got it. All righty. Both reach over and grab bolt other side and start preparing for another series of shots. Both kind of catch you in the side, one you can feel kind of a few inches into your shoulder, and it's kind of making the joint stick and the pain starting to really burn on that left side of your body, but you're okay. Now it's your turn. Okay, I look back at them and I do that thing where you just kind of do this. I trust fall off the back of it. I do. Okay. But I'm going to simultaneously make Bigby's hand

to try to catch me at the bottom. All right, go ahead and roll D20 and add your charisma modifier to it. Charisma? Yeah. That's 20. 20. Do you trust fall off? Your eyes kind of somewhat closed and letting it happen.

Come on, beg me, catch me. And in the moment that you expect ground to meet you with a heavy, hard smack of reality, a soft cushion of arcane energy catches you as these kind of spiritual purplish fingers. you know, purplish fingers curl around and gently bring you to the ground. Oh, Fymex. Don't get handsy, big feet. Austin Coward.

All right. That's, is that my turn? No, no, that was just the fall, and you land there. He's way over this way. So you're outside of the house now. You're in a small alley between, or not alley, they're actually on the side of the house

and there's a big kind of grassy area around it and there's the fence that surrounds the full. What? Yeah. in a... Do I get an action? No, Bigby's is a bonus action. Bigby's, it's an action to use its ability, so it was your action to kind of catch you as part of it. It's an action? To do anything with Bigby's hand specifically?

It sells. And as a bonus action on subsequent turns. It was a bonus action? Oh wait, no. That's for moving it. The bonus action is moving it, I think. Okay. You've been moving it along with you as you go. Yeah.

The act of catching me was the action. Got it. Okay, so I'll just start running. Okay, so you'll start running off this way. With my little tiny nubby, my tiny little nubby legs. Okay. All right, as you run, you get over to the front of the gate that is closed off. It's a little bit too tight for you to squeeze through.

How do you plan to get over the gate? I'm planning to climb over the gate. Okay. I got nothing left. Make an athletic, an athletic, an athletic o'clock. or acrobatics check to try and get over the game. Whatever the other number is. Athletics or acrobatics.

16. 16, okay. Is that acrobatics or athletics? That's athletics. Athletics. So you run, you jump up, to grab onto the metal bar, so start just pulling yourself up.

Nice. Over the top, laying on your feet, and you're now right near where the street is. And you can see to your right, it's open, kind of towards the direction of where the rest of the party is, to the left. You can see now coming from the rain, maybe about 100 feet from you,

giant hulking zombie giant is kind of stopping towards you. As you notice that, you see a number of figures come swarming out of the two buildings to the side of it and immediately start attacking the zombie giant. Oh. Go, go, get out. Go, go, get out. Right away, they're attacking the zombie giant.

That's good. You have inspired people. GTFO, man. It's working. Yeah, I'm useless to you guys. Rebellion. So I did your life. Yeah, I'm going to go invisible and watch from the shadows.

Okay, so you just cloak yourself and watch the shadow top at the side. As you're there for a little bit, keeping your eye out for the next couple minutes, you can see the house is now completely engulfed in flames. The rain tries it might. The roof itself is not catching yet, but you can see now fire is looking out of every single window and glasses suddenly breaking over time. The guards have all escaped out, and you can see the guards and Vedmire are now storming across the entire grounds. He's giving orders left and right, and they're all out searching for you in the nearby vicinity of the home. Looking across the way, you can see the zombie giant is now currently reaching down and swapping down. You can get a closer view. They look like some of the normal inhabitants here are wearing makeshift armor, weapons that they have, and they're now rising up and attempting to take down

the zombie giant. You watch it, it slams and smashes one to the ground, leaving them lifeless, while another two leap up on the back of the zombie giant and are stabbing it with spears, and you see gives out this kind of roar. It's hard to tell from this distance which side is getting any ground, but it is currently now held up by this group of about 10 individuals that are attacking it at once. That's so cool. Yeah. Just going to stay there and wait it out? I think I'll wait it out if I'm in a relatively safe place because I can't really do anything for you.

You guys anyway. You're on your own. Okay. So we'll use that to hop over to the other party. I'm taking a short rest. Oh, I'm taking a short rest. Oh, that's good, yes. Short rest is about like a half an hour to 40 minutes of waiting, so you might want to find a place that isn't quite so intense to do this.

You can try and sneak into one of the nearby homes and do it, maybe. Well, I still want to see where this giant thing goes. So I'm still watching. So we wouldn't have to be able to rest, unfortunately. It's not a very restful situation right now to gather yourself. OK.

Oh, no. Oh, no. I lived. I like that Scanlan took out an entire house and we're all probably going to die. You were fucking Rambo just then. You were a legend. You are officially a legend.

Do you have any red cloth you can tear off and tie around your forehead? Because you're, yeah. Is your brace so long? Yes. I never got a beret. Did I get a beret? You did get a beret. I thought you got a beret. I wanted a beret.

That was outstanding. All right. Yes. Yeah. I approve of this greatly. All righty. The rest of you guys, witness me.

We've all been slinking out the back. You just knocked a guard out. You're back with, Trinquet came with you. Trinke went with Grog. Grog, right? That's right. That's right. You can do it, buddy. Percy Vex, you guys are all back this way.

The back of the building. You can see what looks to be a one door to a back room. Let's do this. Grog, you come slamming up with the Trinket behind you. Up to the front of the building. You see the front doors are there before you. They're in front of us? I'm already raging?

Yeah. I just fucking bust through apeshitch style. Make shrink check. Can I ask you really fast? Yes. I never leveled up Trinkets hit points when I leveled up. You didn't. All right.

That's important at this moment. It is very important at this moment. Ah, why do you have to do that, man? She gets hit points right now or what? 56. 56. This Alder's girls' music is pretty dope. Yeah.

Bringing it home. I know. Four hit points. Four. Yeah. All righty. Zach, adjusting the microphones. Nobody knows.

Nobody knew. I got advantage. I got advantage on the strength check, so it was 26. 26? Yes. You wish forward with your foot, it's Sparta, the front of that door. It just cracks open. Trinquet come up behind you.

The door's open. You can see now before you, there is a single staircase that kind of curves up to a second floor this foyer. There's a large vase right at the base of it right there. There's a couple tables by, and it goes to the right and left. Do you enter the premises? Oh, no. Or you're staying right at the door. It's up to you. Yeah, I'd go in.

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He just keeps adding them. And there. It's a time here. All waiting crossbows at the ready. The doors slam open, you guys rush in for a second. There's nothing immediately within your range, and you look up and see an entire array of guards all trained upon you and shrink it.

A voice behind them goes, loose! At least drinks behind me. So what's your armor class? 19. 19. You're going to tell us when we could do something in the back, right? Yep. This is just, because of the speed of everything goes,

he gets there before. Anybody? Yeah? Just curious. No worries. All right, that is, oh, that is 27 to hit? Yeah. That is 15 to hit?

No. Third one, that is 16 to hit? Nope. That is a 21 to hit. Yep. I'll start this like this. 26 to hit. Yes.

That's a 22 to hit. Yep. That guy. All the shitty guards were all right the other. The key guards were over at the other house. 14 to hit. 20 to hit. Yep.

Then three more. Oh my god. It's 22 to hit. Yep, that hits. 12 to hit. Nope. Last one. And it's 10 to hit, yeah.

Six crossbow bolts come at you. Oh shit. That's eight points of piercing damage. Don't have them yet. Add them all up and then we'll have that. Okay. So eight plus 13. 21.

How he's doing. Plus eight again, 29. Plus another nine. 38. 38. Plus another 11. 49. 49.

So 49. And then 12. 19. 6. No. 60. 61. So you think half that.

That would be 31 points of piercing damage on you and one volley of crossbow bolts at you. Okay. You protect the dream. And the rage did descend that a little bit. The pain, because all these bolts are now sticking out of your chest. Just kind of fun-quilled porcupine. It's badass. You just take the pain and grin for a second.

You have that irony taste of blood kind of reach the back of your throat from the immediate impact. It just further intensifies your rage. I'm gonna have everyone here all initiative because you're all acting simultaneously at this. I don't need. Which dice is great, great. I know, I'm like, which ones? Which one? Nope.

That was. All righty, 25 to 20. Oh, should I roll for Trinket, too? Oh, he goes when I go. Three. Okay. 23. All right, you have backs at the top.

We have 20 to 15. 18. 17. All right. Feral instinct. All right. 15 to 10, 10 to 5. Oh, shit.

Five. What'd you get? I'm not there. I totally forgot. I'm so sorry. I'm at 26. I got distracted. Sorry.

I have to be fair. I asked 25 to 20. 26. No, that's my own fault. I'm using my new cheat and I'm just confused. That's okay. All right. You're cheating?

Sheet. New sheet. I doubled up, so I had to do with. You know, kind of drugs. Both Scanlon and Percy leveled up this last month. If only Rambo Scanlan was here. It's insane. All righty.

All righty. So we have at the top of this combat round, Percy. Oh boy. Is there a way in? Is there a window? Are you getting a FaceTime? Am I? Are you FaceTiming somebody?

I better not be. That was weird. I don't know what happened there. Anyway, battle's still up. So is there a way in at this point or is that not? We're doing a call-in show. There is a ghouer. or right here at the back of the building that you can see, right?

The door is currently closed. I'm running over the door and opening. I can hear the commotion from inside. Okay, you rush the door. You're going to try it? The door is locked. I'm... Hold your turn, dude.

Holding my turn. Okay. Hold your action. I'm holding my action. Okay, that's fine. All right, I'm on. Next up is Vax. Yeah, I'm going to try to unlock the door.

All right, go ahead and you rush over. Put your lock picks. So that's a 10, 23. 23. Yeah, rain's still pouring down. You have your hood up. The water's dripping past your face as you're trying to concentrate.

You get the tools in. It's not a very complicated lock. You push it open, leading you guys into the interior of what looks like a kitchen. Is that a check, which is 25. 25 as you look inside. It's a cold kitchen. It hasn't been in use for a while.

Like the fire's up. There's a little bit of a slab in the corner where most of the preparations are done. There's a few cabinets that are up. It looks like it's dark. There's no lantern. And what are the other doors? There is a door immediately to your left,

and across the way is an archway opening. There's no actual door there. It's just a walkway that leads into the next room. So it's open straight ahead. Yes. I haven't used any movement. If I go to the archway right across, right? Yep.

I'm clicking my boots. Okay. As I walk forward and do I perception check again at the arch? Or does the same one hold? As you glance through, you can see what appears to be. I'm gonna see. Unlocked the door and I've walked 10 feet. There appears to be a hallway.

There's a hallway that goes across the way. There's a door at the end of the hallway and two doors to the right and left of this hallway. All right, I'm going to juke to the left, and I'm going to go to that door and try the knob. I'm going to see if it's... Here? Nope. Nope.

Over there, you're trying? Yeah. It opens up. Reception. It opens up into what appears to be a storage room. room. A series of barrels, small grain sacks in the far corner. It appears that most of the dry storage for the kitchen

is kept in this room. So I look straight at Percival. I'm going to go straight through the hallway and try the door on the left. OK, well, would you do that? You move in. I'd like to use the last of my movement just to stay, because I've got the boots on.

I could stay, I've got a lot of movement left. You do actually. 10 feet behind him. OK, so you stay behind him as you move in. The door or this one here? Yeah, move the one to the right. Yeah, sure. That one.

You slide that one open. It appears to be a bathtub in there as well as, it's a rather nice powder room and bathroom. There's no way to just quickly push the other door open, too. You can try, I'll say for this round. You can go ahead and open that. Look inside for a second. Go for this.

Yeah. Really quick, check it back and forth. This one, this door actually does not appear to open at a push. So an eye signal. Can I at this point? No, you've already. You're on the first floor, right? Yes, you guys are on the base floor.

Okay? Yeah. And they're all up on the second floor, right? Right, that's your go. So, bringing us to Count Tileri's turn. No. Taileri, who's currently looking over the banister, he kind of steps forward here for a second. Grog, this works for you, because you look up and you see all the guards there.

Tileari walks up. It's kind of rotund looking sort. Rotund looking slimy individual, thinning hair, very pale skin, a little bit of facial hair that has never really seemed to grow fully in, but he tries to groom the best of the best of him. Brogg's beard is better than that. Oh, much better. He's wearing fine clothing. He's got rings encrusting his fingers. But he walks with like a deafness to the edge of this stairway and kind looks over and says, interesting. I forget there'd be more of you.

Interesting. There's a lot of dead men up there. Of which you see them leap up onto the ceiling, stick to it. And begin to scatter across. The one with the shitty beard? Yep. Tileri. He's Spider-Man?

He jumps up and spider falls across the ceiling and then drops down. That's spous or something on it. Yeah. With deft acrobatic feats, he leaps across, drops and lands right in front of you. You can see now in his face, as slovenly as it is, there is a look of deathly hunger in his eyes.

No, he's a vampire. That's a neat trick. Vampire. He is now going to make two melee attacks again to you. That's an actual 20. Oh, come on. And then the other one is going to be a 15. I don't think it's going to hit.

So he now has these long claws in his hand. The first one, it catches you off guard from just the sheer, weird assaults. What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? You take 16 points of slashing damage from the first arc. He goes up with a second hand, and this time you pull out of the way. Actually, his hand manages to knock some of the bolts free that were jamming your chest.

Half to 16, right? That's right, right, seven. Eight on that one. Okay. That's his go. It just kind of grins at you with this like hissing sound, licking his fang lips. That ends his turn. That brings us to Grog.

Grog, you're up. Grog, you're up? I go into a frenzy rage, and I use reckless attack, along with my great weapon master, and I turn that thing into a piece of goo. Okay, Warhammer burst into flames. Your eyes all of a sudden start going into an intense glare as you reared up, go into your frenzy raid, make your attacks. Do it.

Advantage on them. That's much better. That's 24. 24 hits in the first strike. The only advantage in the first attack. The only advantage in the first attack. Oh, gotcha. Okay. Just, oh, just the first one.

Yeah, the first one's a reckless strike. Okay, 21. Hits as well. And 20. All three hit. Yes. Yes. Ha ha ha.

Okay. This is with the minus five, right? Oh, because he used him. This great weapon master would be minus five to each attack. No. All right, so the last one was 15. Yes. Last one misses.

Okay. But the first two do hit. Oh, that's good. That's good. Got that part. No your rules, kids. Then you added 10 to whatever? Yeah.

And 21 for the first one. 21 points of damage. And 20 for the second one. And the third one misses, right? It's with the fire, right? That's with the fire. Yeah, the one misses. So 41 points of damage to him with the first two, whack, whack!

The impact slamming into him. You can see his body get pushed back with each impact. He's still taking and grinning at you, but he's also seemingly surprised by the ferocity of the strikes. Is that your turn? Is that your turn? Uh, no, I'm not gonna move. Okay. He's gonna use one of his legendary actions to, at the end of your turn, reach out and attack you again. That is gonna be a 23 to hit. Yep.

He is, instead of attacking, he's going to grapple you. Okay. So his claw goes up and actually, shh-ratch reaches into your throat. You can feel the claws kind of digging into the flesh and it's a very, very firm grip, and he has you right where he wants you. wants you. What's that action there. That's that action there. All right, that brings us to the guards. The guards all reload their crossbow bolts.

Move in. These three now see the bear in the back, and they're going to fire on Trinket. These seven are all going to fire on Grog now that he's held there. So the three against Trinket. That's going to be a 16. Doesn't hit. It's going to be a 20. And a 22.

day, 22. All right, so Trinket takes six points of piercing damage and 11 points of piercing damage. A total 17 points of damage to trink it. A two-bolts, shoot, shoot. One of them kind of just bounces off the armor. One actually sticks and trink it, but it's not enough to really cause much of a word. Yeah, he doesn't care. The other, seven against sugar rock, natural 20. Second Natural one. That's not going to hit. That's natural five. 18. Misses.

Natural one. It's a 19 that hits. Totally 19 natural, it says 27. One more, that's 18 to hit. Misses. Oh, these will have advantage on you because you have this attack. That's right. So the one that would have missed is a natural 20.

Yay! That has hit. Natural 20 again. What? I'm rolling for all the ones that that would have missed. Why do they have advantage of them? I have advantage on five.

Yeah, reckless attack. That's reckless. So they all hit you, three of which are crits. Yay! Son of a bitch. First crit is 19 points of piercing damage. Every crit mess. We're all going to die.

The second crit is going to be a nine points of piercing damage. Okay. Last one is going to be another nine points of piercing damage. 37 halved. Or we have 15 total as a crit. So the three crits are out of the way. Okay. Okay.

So 15 total? 15 total. 15 on the last one, yeah. Okay. And so those are the three crits? Three. That's half three. 17, 16.

16. There you go. So that's that. And the next ones are 11. Another 11. I'm gonna have to thin these ranks out quickly. 10, and seven. So take another 39 points of piercing damage after that.

I'm gonna use my stone's endurance. Okay. To get rid of that, that it's stank. So one of them, so yeah. 12, what's the cost to our job? 16. Okay, so we'll say you reduce one of the crits from 16. The first one just doesn't know so.

Take 15 points off that, because I think one of the crits was 15. I'll get it on that one. That's 39 points piercing damage, reduced by half. That'll put you at 18. 18. Okay. So, it's like 18 points of pierced damage from those four non-crits.

Okay. So yeah. That ends the guards volley. That brings us to, Vex, you're up. Me. And Trinket. And Trinket, both. Okay, so I run in after Percy and my brother.

Okay. And Trinket. Are you going to dash? You can double move using your action to move if you want. Oh, I can? Yeah. Sure, I'll go ahead of them. Unless you want to use your action to like yell out for Trinket to attack, in which case you can give Trinket around of combat.

Oh, I do want to give Trinket a round of combat. Okay. So yes. And he gets a couple of attacks if I don't attack at all, right? Correct. That's good. Yep. Okay, Trinkets gets two attacks because of Beastio Fury.

Correct. Here's your voice. Because here's my voice. So he's going to run around and he's going to knock over the, he's going to cannonball into the vampire guy. Okay, so he's going to move this way and then cannonball forward? Yeah. Okay. Tricket, who's off the side?

Gets a couple of running starts and then rolls into a roly-poly-style forward. All right, so go ahead and make one attack against him. Okay. Okay. What do I add to that? Your attack bonus? Attack bonus for Trinket. There's that.

I don't know for your bear. ACHB, bite attack, claw attack, plus eight, plus eight? Yes, plus eight just to the- Okay, 15. 15 does not hit, unfortunately. So Trinket rolls past, he dodges it out of the way, gets an attack of opportunity on him because he wasn't hit as part of the attack. That says 27 to hit.

Trinket takes seven plus three. Ten points of slashing damage. Of course he does. As he streaks by, seeing the bear coming at him too soon and managing to pull out of the way and use that to his advantage. that to his advantage. I'm going to be playing rule Nazi tonight. Is that an attack of opportunity possible since he's grappling somebody or does that still? Technically, yes. Okay. So he's just grappling with one hand and then just docks out of the way, moves over and slashes him the other hand. Trying everything I can to say because bear.

No, you can. It's okay. Okay. Trinket. Then he comes out of cannonball and tries to bite the back of the vampire's neck. Okay. Let's you do that because this is your full round to do that. Usually it'd be like you'd choose to cannonball or do the two attacks. Or I did my two attacks. But because you weren't part of this combat free, you're giving all of your round to him. I'll like you do it, sure.

So Trinquet comes out of the roll, turns around, and strikes the claw, swiping. He's trying to bite his neck, like a vampire. So is the clock? Oh, shit. That's good. 27. That hits.

Okay, so. Split his head like a gore. Uh, uh, 11. 11 points damage. That's, Triggett, latches on to the back of his shoulder. and pulls and tugs out. I'm trying to get him loose from Grog's grip. Not strong enough to do so, but nevertheless takes the damage

and hisses back at the bear clutched onto his shoulder. Cool, that ends your turn. Kila threw up. Okay, can I see the smoke from the fire rising up from what Scanlan did on the other house? At this point, make reception check. It's a heavy storm. It's not great.

Twelve. 12? Yeah. Currently in the storm, it's not able to really make up too much of any visual distance. Right now, no. You do not know if there is any fire going on or any signal at this point. Okay. Shit. Can I run around, are there any other windows along this back side of the house?

Yep, there's a window there, window there, window there. Oh, back here. This side, there are no other windows. It is completely closed off. No other windows. No, there's just the one entry there. Everyone else went in through. Shit. Okay. I'll go inside.

Okay. Hello, anyone in here? Is there anything this direction? This way? Can we not get this way? No. This is a storage closet that was already checked by Maximoff past. Do we know if there are any outside doors over here on this side? No one's moved all the way into space. see, and it's not very well lit in there currently. Like, could I have gone around the edge here to see?

Like, what do we have known, going on this side? No, because you guys have pushed from that side. And from what you saw, you just saw windows, but it was fairly dark. You saw a little bit of light moving through some of the windows on the second story, but nothing down here that really caught your attention. And we still have no way into this main room either yet?

Not yet. There was a door to the end of this hallway, but nobody's gotten to try it yet. Could you get to a second floor window? If you can push past your party, you can move down the hallway if you want. Second floor is better than first floor anyway. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm an asshole. I'm gonna...

Turn into an asshole. I turn into an asshole. Were there any like... What are you doing? We really don't want to have to blow in case I want to... Yeah, you know what? Okay, I didn't go inside. I'm outside. You came inside. Kill something.

Not going to wreck on it. Dick. All right. You're just saying. You can't get halfway into it. Just like, wait. This didn't. happen. Okay. Well, technically none of this happened. And. Thank you for coming with me on that journey.

All right. Do it. Fine. I'll just see if this fucking door is open. That's all I can do right now. The one across the way? Yeah. Okay. Sorry, excuse me. Sorry. Excuse me. You push past everyone. You move and you push on the door, opens up and reveals a long dining room, a big, thick dining room table, double window across the way. This is the house's dining room. There are two double doors across the way that lead

into you think is the foyer in which Grog and Trinket currently stormed through. And you can hear muffled through the door in the distance the sound of combat impact and people shouting to each other. Okay, I'm going to cross. Can I cross over to that window and look out the front window? I'll say you can get that far and you can just crest and look out the window if you want to. Do I see any fire from Scanlan? From this point, you've already checked once. You're just getting there. You won't be able to really see it from here.

It's my turn. Okay. Bring us the top Percy you're up. Yeah, can I call him? Can I? Scanlan! Scalwin! You make a little bit of a calling noise. You hear nothing back.

You fear you might be just out of range for it. Son of a bitch. All right. I'm gonna make a run for the door. Okay. You can get there. You're just at the edge of it. You want to try and, like, knock it open?

Yeah, I'll try and... Is it open? Can I open the door? You can try to. You reach out. It opens up, and you can see now a light comes pouring through from the foyer, and you can hear much louder now. The sound of combat and grog chuckling and swings and impacts and you see a couple of cross the bolts go phth and scatter across the ground. I would have to use my action to move to... Correct, yeah. You know, you know, this is going to be worth.

No, this is gonna be worthwhile. I'm gonna, well. What you doing? I hate you. What's you doing? Kill things. Shoot out the window. Shoot out the window?

Just act on the fly like Scanlan did. It turned down off again. All right, everything, Percy, do you think? Turn into a tres of our tops. Okay, I'm gonna be helpful. I'm gonna burn my action to get into the room. Where do you wanna get on this side? Right there.

Right there? Yeah, I wanna stand right there. Okay, so you just swing around inside, you can look up immediately to this curved banister and a whole row of guards up top with heavy crossbows. In the center you can see some blur as both Grog Trinket and some individual are in the middle of this tussle, one of which the individual has Grog grasped by the throat.

How crazy. Don't know if I can do minor illusion that way right now. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to call Hax on that first guard there. Which one right there? Yep. Okay. I'm gonna burn my action surge. I'm gonna start taking my shots and I'm just gonna work my way up. Okay, so you swing around the corner, you look up at the one guard and as you kind of concentrate for a second, bringing your gun up, your eye is gonna go black again. The smoke kind of pouring out from the corner of it. Smoke begins to pour out of the midsection of the guard. It looks confused for a second. It swirls around him as part of the hex that hasn't marked as you release your next three blasts. Okay. This is with Shark Shooter.

Okay. That sucks. Seven. What's it? I'm sorry? 10. 10 misses. First shot just goes wide, blasting a chunk out of the upstairs hallway. 11. 11 also goes wide this time. Blasting apart the banister in front, the guard kind dodges out of the way as the wood splinters past him. Natural 20. That's better. That's the first we know.

Okay, and that was also, since that was a third shot, that was also a bonus shot. So that's got an extra. Okay, does that mean that does everything get doubled? All dice gets doubled and then you have the modifier. Not the modifier, though. Not the modifier. Modifier stays the same. Correct.

Okay, so that's roll twice or just double my die? Double the die. It's faster. Okay, so that's, just use my device. I know, I should have just used it. That's not bad though. 13, 26, 26, 36. 46.

42 points of damage. Woo! 42 points of damage. And four that was fire damage. And four that was fire damage. Okay. As you look up, the first two shots, fire. Go wide. The third one just explodes.

And in a burst of black smoke, the guard's head is no longer across its shoulder. Oh, nice. Okay, I move the black cloud to the next one. He also gains disadvantage on all, let's make it, dexterity saving throws. Okay, or ability checks. Ability checks, yeah. So all dexterity.

So the smoke pours off the body and coalesces around the next guard to his right. All right, that ends your turn. This is the end of my turn. Vax. All right, I've got double speed. I go right towards the table, make an acrobatics check to slide my ass across it.

Are you doing that? Do some hazard style. Just do some hazard style. That is a ten. That's a 23. You did so much cool. I'm going to slide into a crouch right behind. I don't want to go that far right by Percy because I can't go much further, I don't think. A double movement?

Would I be able to make it to Grog and his friend? A few more than it. If I can't make it a Grog, I want to stay at the door. If I can make it a Grog, I want to go. Yeah, I can get next to him. I don't want to go next him. I want to go and eviscerate the bowels of the fuckeroo's. with him. Okay, so right there? Yeah. Okay, yeah, you can get up there with the movement.

He's engaged with grog. Correct. As he slides over the table in front of me, I go, that was pretty awesome. Alright. I didn't see. No. No. No. I didn't see it. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, wait.

So, I'm alive. It's so good. It's so great. Roe-rolls, rog-rolls, rog-rolls, rog-rolls. What are you doing? What are you doing? Oh, I'm stabbing the guy three times. I'm doing my... Catchphrase, man, dug-a-degger, dug-a-d-d-a.

Take a turn, yeah. Oh, he's already taking a turn in combat. Okay. So the first, I'm going to use luck on that first attack and go again. Ooh, and I'll use the first one. So the first one was an eight plus is 19 on the first. 19. All right. Second is 19. Hits.

Third is 23. All three hit. Go ahead and roll damage. Sneak attack on the first one. First one is, I'm going to use my flame tongue. is two plus nine. And then here comes the juice. 9, 13, 17, 18, 20, 23, 25.

That's the first one. And then second attack is three. This is the Keene dagger, that's a 10 and the third attack. I don't know what the fact that is. Third attack is the Flamed Tong again for seven. Seven, okay, gotcha. A fire damage.

So you've darkened, a blur of darkness. You come swinging up. You can see Tileries is currently grasping Grog. The corner of his eye just sees the movement, looks over curiously as the blade is immediately in his side. Bowels. Bows. You see the kind of jowl shake from the impact of the dagger blow,

and he looks out angrily at you. Thangs bear as the two other attacks hit his side. Now I'm looking at him right in the eyes. I do that too. At the end of your turn, he uses two of his legendary actions. Yeah. I'm wearing my helmet, my shiny helmet. to look at you, reach up with the throat that he's grasped and sink his fangs directly into your throat grog.

I have a little collar. Does that help at all? Not in this moment. Oh. You have a big neck. Very big neck. Very tiny collar. It'll be a 20 to hit. Yep. All righty.

So you take nine points of piercing damage. Is that halft? That is halved. All right. Okay. So, say five rounds. Sure. However, you do take, okay, 14 points of necrotic damage. That is not reduced, but your maximum hit points are now reduced by 14. Got it. As you feel that same similar cold feeling as the life's blood is being drained into our body, and you can see his eyes

kind of cresting at you with this wild glare. That ends your turn, Max? It is now his turn. Spider-Man? Yeah, now it's taking his turn. He's now going to go ahead and make another bite attack on you again. As he pulls back, he reaches his throw and grabs the other side of your throw going for the other side of the regular. It's a lucid roll buffet. It's natural one though. Oh! Hey! Oh, because you've got your necklace on. Yeah, it's a necklace. However, he does have advantage on you because he used direct the strike.

Never used this first round. Doesn't it cancel out for one roll? It's like if you rolled a one on. Advantage versus disadvantage. It was in it on the first attack, right? It was running the first attack, yeah. It's until your next turn. It's until your next turn. I thought his first bite was the first one. Oh, double check. So all attacks, even follow-up attacks get advantage, even though he only gets advantage on the first one? I'll read it for you right now.

It's a cool ability when you're not the only tank in the room. It is the worst ability I've heard of. It's a good ability if you're only a fighting one person. Yeah. Yeah, but attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn. Oh no. Because he's out of it. He's going cookies.

She's never used that thing again. I'm using it every time. Doing so, doing so gives you advantage on melee weapon attack roles using strike rolls an attack rolls using strength during this turn. So yes, I apologize. It does give you advantage on all your attacks. I misread that.

Oh, shh. That's okay. That's okay. Stuff happens. Give them a bonus 15 or something. Yeah, it's fine. Going forward, good to know. So it does give you advantage in all your attacks.

The first attack is the one that confused me on the way it was worded. Sorry, folks. I know better now. But for that, I will say the one stands as retribution for me three-neigh- Yeah. It goes in a strike for the bite.

This time, however, he does manage to catch the chain You know, Quay, that's Kevin I made you, and things get caught in the chain, pulls away. Like banging out with braces. Oh, God. Releases you. Oh, no, it doesn't release you. Holding you there is going to go ahead and make a claw strike across your face. Two and, oh, that'll be 19.

It does hit. Okay. You take eight points of slashing damage, reduced to four. Because of your rage. That ends his turn. This turn, Grog, you're up now. I need to, am I still grappled? You're still grappled?

Like to try and break the grapple. Okay, so you take your action to try and break the grapple? Fuck yes. So athletics roll of? 22. Yeah, you just shove them off without a problem. Awesome. Just let your bonus action to strike if you like.

Can I use my bonus action to try and grapple him back? None is a bonus action, unfortunately. It's an action to do that. No, no, no, no, no. I will attack, yeah. Okay. Just one, right? One strike, yeah.

Yeah, okay. 21. 21 does it, yeah. So, and that is, bad ass, nine, 17, 22. 22 with the fire damage. Two damage, all right. Whack! And you're watching, as he does all these actions, you see his body begin to reform and the wounds beginning to heal themselves in the vampire manner.

But as soon as that wound begins to sew up, you take your hammer, and, slave it into again, reopening, and you can see now parts of his muscle are exposed, kind of deep purpleish color, this very unnatural interior to his flesh. Something's not right about it. You can see it burn, the flames kind of, you know, cart-rised the edges of the wound. Awesome.

Does that finish turn? You want to move it all? Up's down. Is Trinck is still behind me? Trinket is on his backside. It's currently on the, on flanking the guy. Holding on to his. Yeah, no, I'll stay.

Okay. That brings us to the guards turn. The guards. Boy. They all reload their crossbows. These four are now going to make shots at you, Percy. These three are going to take shots. Now, all five of these guys are taking shots at Grog now.

They're trying to take you down so they can move on to the next target. So four shots on you, Percy. That is 20? That hits. 18. That hits. 20. That hits.

And 11. That does not hit. Okay, so you take from three heavy crossbow bolts at you. Seven, 19, 32 points of piercing damage. All three bolts kind of stick into your chest. They're big, long, thick, heavy crossbow bolts. One of them kind of just cleans off your shoulder and catches the edge of the wall, but the other two actually have sunken into your torso and they're sticking out of you.

Other five against U-Grog. Yep. Since you do a reckless strike last turn, they are not with the binge. Yay! So that is a 19. Hits. 12. Misses.

Oh, that's a 25. Hits. That is 19. Hits. Last one is a 24. Yep. So four of five. Yep.

That's 11 plus 7, 18. 18. Plus 8, 25, plus 26. 13. So 39. 38. 18. 18 points of piercing damage. Again, you're now just bolts are sticking out of your body all over me. Almost have additional armor

from the number of bolts that are on your body. But you're still staying in there, frothing at the mouth, angry, just like, come at me! Then to the guards turn, they're all reload their bolts and pull the crossbows up. Vex, you're up. Yay! Can I get up to up to you? to the doorway. Tell me I can.

With a dash you can, yeah. But I don't get any action then. Unfortunately, though. All right. Janet. Damn it, Janet. All right, Trinket's just gonna, Trinket's gonna try to claw him.

Okay, go ahead. Two attacks and Trinket. Yep. Make it good. Come on, you're my favorite bear, Trinke. That hits him. That definitely hits him. Do it.

16 plus a lot. Yeah. A natural strike! It's a bear! Woo! Woo! You got the natural card.

All right. Damaging the first strike? That was a critical Raur. Oh, oh. 11 for the first. And then... So sour, it was sweet. Three plus seven is 10 to 20.

Yeah. Which part doubles? Just the dice double. dice double? The dice doubles, yeah. 13 for the second attack. So total 23 damage? All right.

24 damage. 24 damage. How does Trinket 1 and 2.3? Oh! No! It just killed the fire! Is this a first? This is a first?

This is a first. I think it's Trinket's first kill. Trinket. Trinket. Claws crosswise and chakes off his head with a bite. Okay, so as Trinket reaches down, arching cross both claws. Both claws across his back,

to the, to his hands and knees, looks up as Trinket then puts his jaws down over the head. And he rips up. As you see, the flesh begin to tear on his body. He screams out in pain as the body turns to mist. Dammit! He's a vampire. But you know what?

Is the mist there? The mist there? There's a clump of mist where he once was. Somebody light a match. Oh, I'm coming. I'm coming. All right, so. Is he, is he, so. the head disappears from his mother,

do you still get, they're still just like, kind of thick, purplish, congealed blood in his mouth. But the vampire's form has been forced to miss at zero hit points. All right, that brings us to Keeleff. Okay. So seeing Vax go over the table and being like, that was cool, I'm also going to be like,

over the table. I want to join the Tewksa Hazard tree. Backerback, check. Damn it. That's a . That's not a huge difficulty. 17. 17, yeah, you jump up, slide across, land across.

The bonus there is it takes only one block of movement, one five foot movement to get across. Oh, I should. That's five foot there. So I'm gonna come in, and I see a headless dude with mist. No, you just see, you see grog, Vax, in, in the center of this foyer with a big cloud of mist kind of near Trinket and Grog, and an entire ray of guards with heady crossbows trained down on the three of them in this like ambush pit.

Would you know what it was? Yeah, you would. We've learned about vampires. We know they turn into mist. Yeah, the vampires down by the tree did this. Yeah. Sunlight that shit. Sunbeam! Someone could yell at me to do it. Sunlight!

I would say, I would say, make an intelligence, check. Make an intelligence check. This one. Ooh, that's the intelligent dice. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Just with my modifier. So that's, do I, wait, is this a saving throw?

No, just my modifier. So 17. 17, okay. I'd say, given the circumstance right now, just rushing in and just seeing mist there and people with things, you have no idea that's a vampire. You have no reason to believe it's a vampire. You just know that right now there is,

I'm just being honest here. You walk in the room and there's just a little bit of mist in the ground, and there's a bunch of guards up there. It looks like there's a threat of a bunch of guards in the room. I didn't find it's a vampire. You know it now. Crog, in the middle of a frenzied rage, would not have that. I would have enough to point and say, vamp out for the love of God.

Okay. Let's take a turn. Oh, man. Stop giving the PMGree. We want to. Fine. You're doing. Well, I know what I want to do, but I can't do it without feeling guilty.

I was going to sub-beam this. It only makes sense. I'm just saying. What makes sense? That you wouldn't know that that little bit of mist on the ground there is a vampire. There's no way that Kuliffe would know that based on the way you were written. You just missed. Are we just a black mist? We got a ton of other people in the room though.

And there's black smoke around one of the guards up there and... It's something else. Okay, well, if I saw a black mist, what I would probably do, realistically is they're... is think it was like some sort of poison shit, and I would wind wall it. So I'm going to, whew, wind wall that mist.

Okay, all righty. Let's see. This actually could be pretty interesting. That's what I would assume it was, but I might be aiding it and like getting away. All right. It's bullshit. All right, so you put a wind wall up,

in this area. You can see the mist dissipates for a second, it holds its place. So over, this wind wall is now currently held up in this area. That's your action. I kind of wind wall it to try and keep, like essentially do the wind wall. Like here? Yeah, around Grog. I'd want to protect them. Right, like this area?

Yeah, I'd want to protect them from the crossbones. Okay, so then this is wind rushing up around. You can see the tapestries and the walls are flickering around. And then I once again go, Scallon! Scallon! There's a little bit of crackling through. You're right at the cusp of the distance on these communicators. So Scanlan, you hear bits and pieces. At this point in time right now, you have... I'm on the roof.

You're hearing crackling in your ear, but you're still on the roof doing the chaos. So you haven't heard anything really coming through at this point. Doing the chaos. You're going to stay right there? I'm doing this thing. Yeah, you're just falling off the roof. Yeah, I'm going to kind of back on the corner and keep this wind wall. Okay. It's concentrating on the wind wall.

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of encapsulating the mist in my wind wall I'm kind of trying to kind of trapping the mist in when you're you have it the wind wall itself is not a full circle it's just kind of a semicircle yeah but is it like stuck in the wall it's currently overlapped with it yeah that's uh that's uh 22. 22 points? Oh, 22 to hit? Yeah.

That's 18 points of damage. Alrighty. And need your third attack? And my third attack also on hit is also 22. That hits as well. And that's, oh, that sucks. Two points of ice damage plus 11 points of normal a a lot. Okay, so blasts two blasts hit him.

You can see you almost get thrown off his feet from the impact. from the impact. He was now blood-trucking out from under his helmet where one of the blast got his chin went into his chest, and he's still standing up barely. And he's kind of still confused by this smoke that's swirling around him. Give him to stay where you are? I'm going to just take a step forward. Okay. Up the stairs. Stairs? Okay. Yeah. Ominously stepping up the stairway. I like it. Okay.

Busy. That brings us to Vax. Right, so I am going to Start rushing up the stairs Before I do, I'm going to spank grog As hard as I can on the ass and say, kill And run up the stairs at the first guy Who is enveloped in Percy Smoke And start stabbing him, yeah.

Okay. He's up above the banister. Oh, there's no balcony? No, no, the idea is the banister rides up And there's a wall along it, And then along the second floor, they're all up on the second floor here looking down at this.

There's no way up there? You could leap up, make an acrobatics check. Leap up and over the banister. Yeah, that's good. That's sturdy. Yeah, you jump, grab it, flip over, land on the balcony next to the guy enveloped in smoke. And then stabbing to death.

Go for it. Okay, so one. Do I, did the leaping take any of my actions? No. Okay. Just part of your movement. So that's 22. 22 hits.

And a 16. And, uh, one. So the first two hit. Yeah, okay. So the first one is the Flametonged dagger. That is four, plus six is ten. And the second one is the King dagger, and that is two plus seven, it's nine.

All right. As you rush at the guy looking out, you confused, the smoke's rolling around him. The first two dagger stab, and the second one actually finds between his ribs up to where his heart is. And you see him just gasp per second, as he just crumbles beneath your grip, and you kind of to slide the blade out as he crumbles to the ground. That's the button. That is the dead button. All right.

That ends your turn. Tileri is going to make... He's still alive. He's a mist. All right. The mist pushes past. He's going to use second action. He pushes past the wind wall?

Oh, he's in the room with him. But it says that figures caught in a gaseous form can't pass through the wind wall. Is it that the spell? That it does. I just read it. That's my motherfucking wind wall. Because it's gonna screw up my arrow, so I was checking in. But yeah, it also says he can't.

Creatures in gaseous form can't pass through it. Why would they even have a hypothetical for that? Because this. Because of this right here. This moment. All right. I'll say, I'll say. Thanks, Mike Burles.

However, as part of that, then Trinket is also in the wind wall as well. Just as a note, so Trinket will be taking bludgeoning damage from being where it. Okay. So just as a heads up. In fact, right now, make Trinckett make a strength saving throw. Sorry. It's okay.

It's like a hurricane or something. It's like a wall of wind. Um, eight. Okay. Trinckett takes 3D8 bloods damage. Uh, go ahead and roll 3D8. 3D8. Whoa. Yeah.

I thought you were capturing him inside and it realized you had it actually on him. And so having the wind wall on him to prevent him from moving. would also have drinking a bit. Yeah. It could be worse. That's six plus four, so ten. Yeah, yeah.

Okay. All right, so that makes me watching more weird. I did, I definitely did. I didn't blow up a lot. Okay, good to know. Thank you for that. So Tileari cannot break through. Tiley stays there in the mist form, being caught in the whirlwind. Grog, you're up.

I'm up. Yep. Oh, God. Well, I can't get through the... I mean, I don't know what the fuck. What am I gonna do the gas? Hit it? Uh, can I start running up the motherfucking stairs

and jump up like back street? He said to kill! All right, yeah. Do I make a... You can get up to there, and you're just within reach to get one guy over the banister, probably. Yeah. I luck for do that.

Okay. Uh, that's a 23. That hits. Okay. More attacks? Oh, how many attacks do I get? All of them. Yeah, that was just a moving.

That's amazing. Barbarian 40 feet crazy movement. Yay, 22. Yep. Shit. 12. 12 does not hit. Okay.

First through it. 13 and 17 for the first one. All right, 17 damage. And 15 and 17 again. Two plus two. Nice. All right. So back, the hammer comes streaking down.

slamming into the guard there, his crossbow shatters from the impact, and the flame's going to lick on the front of his body. The second slam smacks him again. This time you hear the armor ring out from the metal-on-metal impact, and he kind of shakes from it. The third time you were just in the middle of the series of swinging, he backs up, and you just end smashing a banister instead of him. The hammer cracking part of the ground on the second floor. Yeah. He looks pretty messed up from that series of attacks. All right, that ends your turn, Grog. It's now the guards turn. Come at me, bro.

This guard's going to move over here. They're all kind of like, oh, God! These three here are going to attempt to fire on Trinket through the wind wall. These two are going to fire at you, Grog. And these two are going to longsword you. They pull out their long swords. This one's going to turn with this crossbow

and fire at you Vax. Finally. So versus the attack at you with the crossbow, that is a 20. Oh, yeah, that hits. You take 13 points of piercing damage, as the bolt strikes you right in the chest, kind of cracking your stern a little bit. You're like, oh, that's gonna suck.

You feel the scraping of the bone as it impact. What the fuck? The two, the longsword's against you, Grog. Yep. That is 18. Misses. That is a 12. Me, guys!

Both then, the blades come at you. One of them actually hits your shoulder, but it just sticks an inch in the flesh. You just flex and the blade pops out. You just duck your head out of the way. It goes long. You just get the anger. That's awesome.

Then the, the. Two who are going to fire crossbows at U-Grog. That is going to be a 15. Misses. And 23. Damn, I was almost Neo. Just dodging those sorts of shit. Number 10.

13 points of piercing damage. Half to seven? Half to seven, yeah. And then now the three aiming at Trinket, they all have disadvantage, I believe, for having the wind wall. Nothing can shoot through it at all. Arrows can't go through it, it said. At all?

Which she said begrudgingly. Fucking sucks. Well, I mean, it's gonna save the bear, right? Yeah, and also killed the bear. Yeah, they automatically miss. They all three fire through. All bolts just get scattered across the room. Go straight up to the roof.

It's over. Does the wind wall go all the way up to the ceiling, or does it go certain to a certain height? It is 50 feet long, 15 feet high, so it doesn't go all the way to the ceiling. Okay. In fact, it gets just a little bit past the second floor, so it's about the height of the guys on the second floor. of the guys on the second platform.

Okay. That ends their turn. Fax, you're up. Okay. I'm gonna tell Trinke to get out of the wind wall. Okay. The wind wall gets an attack of opportunity. So he's gonna move.

And he's gonna be very happy to see me come around the corner of that door. All right. Where I will see a bunch of dudes up high and I wanna try to do conjure barrage up and over the wind wall and over in an arc down on everybody on the other side of it. Interesting. Okay.

The lob. It's like a, whoo, boom. Yeah. Which at this short distance is not a lot of strength to get the lob. I'm a really skilled archer. I'm kind of like Legallus, I know how. If you're shooting up this way,

like the wind wall itself only really encompasses the bottom of the foyer. So if you go up the stairs a little bit, you will be able to get these guys. Can I get up there? Yeah. Oh yeah, then I'll do it and try to get everybody in that cone. Sorry guys.

Nope, make it right. So it's gonna, yeah, you're gonna hit all, All of them. Go forward. I'm a fan of one dollar bills. I can take it. Okay, wait, I guess he has works. I just throw it in the air and it turns into a cone.

Yep. So I don't have to attack? They should have a saving throw, I believe, right? Yeah, they have a dexterity saving throw. Everyone make a dexterity saving throw, or at least you two. Yeah. I have advantage. I'm casting this as the level.

I don't have advantage. One guy makes the saving throw. Fuck yeah. 25. 20. Wow. Nice. So one of the villains makes it, they both make it.

Okay. What about all those guys up at the top? So I'm saying, this guy made it, these two didn't. What about the other ones? Are you doing the, from this perspective? These will go through the wind wall. Oh, really? This will prevent it from getting either.

This guy probably be hit, actually. He fails. Ha! So yeah, these guys are unaffected because the wind wall prevents the barrage from that point. So I can't get like a critical hit on this because it doesn't actually well, okay, man. That's good. It's pretty good. 16? Okay. 16 damage? Yeah.

All right, so it's half that for saves, right? Yeah. All right, so eight damage, four damage. Oh, uncanny dodge. Okay. So what did you give me for damage? You had eight. Eight, that's four.

And then as a bonus action, I'm gonna, Hunter's mark. Who looks the strongest? The mist. Not you, I don't have them. I mean, they're all pretty standard. There's one dude over here that appears to be kind of commanding him. Yeah, I want to hit him. Okay, you hunters marked him?

Yeah. All righty. He is hunters marked. All right. By the way, the guy that grog had slammed, the barrage just riddles him with the arrows and he kind of falls over and say, and crumbles to the ground. The last bit of health that he had. Took away my playmate.

That's his end of your turn. Keeliff, you're up. Okay, so I'm gonna keep maintaining this wind wall and kind of wrap it up around the mist, kind of double and force it. And I'm gonna scream, what is this? All right. And then what are you doing?

Okay, you don't know. It's a vampire. I'm putting my gun away anyway. Okay, okay. Does that count? It's a vampire, we just killed him, sort of. Be warned, treading thin, nice with metagaming with your DM going forward.

Yes, you have now heard it from Kyrgyme. I'm legitimately asking. I know, you got it. This counts, it's fine. You heard Percy say, vampire. Vampire! Great! What's that charisma score again?

The M. And we fade to black. Yep, right there. Dostroids your fucking wind wall so I can hit something. I'll drop the wind wall and cast Sunbeam and just eyes flashing light just right in the concentrated beam where I have this mist there. Okay. And stuff.

And stuff. Okay. Yeah, that will be considered direct sunlight. Cover your eyes. As you release the wind wall, the mist immediately begins to push its way this way out of the room. However, you catch it, your eyes glow. And as you release your hand forward, a blast of pure sun energy shoots for you from your hands, you see it burning the back wall, like a big, thick laser.

Just g-ghr. And as the mist tries to escape, you catch up to it, and you hear this faint echoing, screeching cry as the mist immediately is evaporated on impact. Thanks. And we loot. Fibbiz. Fill a pocket with ash, if you like. Come on, look.

Some coins. Dink, ding, ding, like Scott Pilgrim. That's not a good bus fare. All righty. That's my turn. All righty. Wait, can you use your bonus action to link to ask for forgiveness?

Let's for forgiveness. First of your up. I can use my bonus action to heal somebody if someone wants it. Actually, how about this? I used my bonus action to ask what the shit was this. There you go. Does that make it feel better? Sure.

What's the damage on my rapier again? Is it 1D10 plus... 1d8 plus... It's a plus 1d8 plus... It's a plus 1d8 plus your dexterity modifier, plus 1. So it plus 7 for you. Okay. Then, in that case, I'm going to...

to bring my hex up to the very next. Right there? Yep. And I'm going to put my gun away, walk up to him, and begin stabbing. One, two, three, four, five. At that height, you're going to have to leap up onto the second floor to get two. Oh, that's right, he's still up on the,

yeah. I'm not going to pull my, and then I'm just going to, I'm going to walk up, not quite that close, but place in there. Step back. Take my next three shots. Walk up the stairs. Go for it. That's 21.

Hits. That's 23. I'm going to stop there in case that kills him. Okay, go ahead and roll damage. Actually, I had to reload anyway, so. So there you guys. Your third attack is to reload. Reload, attack, attack.

Okay. So that's 16. 16, all right. 14. He has blasted out of place. You can see there's a kind of gaping hole across where one of his lungs this was located. and he kind of crumbles to the ground into a pile. Okay, I've moved the mist to the next guy.

Use a bonus action to recourse in the other one. I know which is, I had a bonus action. That's right, you do. Yeah, so. So technically use the bonus action this turn to put it onto him from the last turn. Oh, did I? Yeah, that's, you're technically correct.

So yeah, go ahead. You're probably going to do it next turn anyway, so we'll do there, it's fine. But yeah, keep that in mind, as this is a new ability. Gozint tight. All right, Bax, you're up. Oh, well, is that fellow who's enveloped in Schmutz right next to Grog? Yep.

Yeah, I'm going to stab him. All right. One of three answers for everything. First one is not that great is 14. 14 misses. Second one is a 27. You are flanking him, though, you have advantage on the attack. Oh, let's do that again then.

That is, we'll call that a 27 instead. That hits. And then the second one is now a 20, and the third one is a 26. Shunk, shunk, shunk, chunk. Two, seven is nine for the Keene dagger, and then for the life-stealing dagger is a seven, and then back to the Keene dagger, that is an 11. Don't you get sneaker tag damage? Yeah. Oh, right, yeah, I'll put that in.

Thank you. It's like, where's action? That's the whole point of this. All those? Eight, nine, ten, eleven, seventeen, nineteen, nineteen. Oh, no. You killed Grohl! Brock.

What'd you do? He is just, all the daggers just cut through this midsection, and you see where the armor plating itself was exposed in the first strike, the last one you just jam up into his torso, taking out any major organs. I would also like to boot him over the side. It falls over, down the stairs, kind of past you Percy, you kind of let him tumble by as he slides to a stop at the very bottom of the stick.

I put my foot on him to stop him. Okay, and Vex stops him in place. Face down, it was like the smear of his blood across the steps. Once nice fine wood is now, can be made up. completely just coated in crimson. Okay, um, Grog, you're up. Is you made? Yep. I know how these, uh, is it just a row of guys in front of me?

Yep. I would like to hold my turn. Oh. Because if I stand in front of him, nobody can do anything to him. You can. Nice of you. Kill him. How many left?

Whish. I have very nervous looking. and smash them off the guards right now. We're trying to hold ass out. And other rooms. And I'll hold, go whoever's next to go. So polite. That is really kind of being up.

Gentlemanly. That ends your turn? It's now the guards turn. Yeah. They're all going to kill you. They all run away. We're going to try and flee, aren't they? They look through each other,

and their one leader goes like, Men, run! They all rush and leap off the balcony and get themselves there. See those acrobatic checks. Todd's 19. 17. I want them all to fall, please. This one of them is his ankle.

Make a mole eat it. Okay. Three of them land fine and begin bolting forward. Two of them fall. One breaks his ankle and falls on going, another one slams into his hip on the ground and falls prone. So both of these guys are prone.

These three continue to move forward to there. They're going for a full dash. Is this a try getting an attack of opportunity on all of them? Against one of them. So I take a reaction for two. But they all rush out. That definitely hits him, though. All righty.

27. 27 hits, go and roll damage. 11. 11 points of damage. That guy. Okay. Drake it strikes across one of the guys, the guy you hunter's mark, who takes the claw across side of his head and he hears him yell out and pain as he makes it out into the rain.

Hurt but not taken down. It continues to run past and they all dart outside into the rainstorm. I'll take my turn now. Okay, Grog. I leap over the banister with my whole hammer high and jump down on the guy that's closest to me. I dare? Bringing it down with a reckless attack and great weapon. Make an athletics check for the jump.

Oh no, don't fall on your house. It's good, this is good. Oh, okay, that's true. 13. I'll give you advantage on this because you're raging and it's reckless and it's just five. That's better. 24. 24, yeah, you leap in the air, woof, like slow motion,

you. Down on top, go ahead and roll three attacks on him. That's amazing, that's 27. That's 26. I roll damage on those. Okay, that's probably, yeah. That's 29 on the first one. 29 in the first one, okay.

Oh. And 28 of the second leg. So as you come down, the hammer blow slams into his torso. His actual metal armor crinks into our knee-go, Gaps and pain, as you've now jammed his own ribs into his internal oil. Pull the hammer up with a sludgy sucking sound. You see him look at you with this look up, and the hammer comes down again.

This is on top of his head, which Gallagher watermelons across the floor of this. Flaming Watermelon. Done. You look over at his friend who's like, trying to back up with this broken ankle with your third attack, who was within your range. Oh, God.

Oh, I don't need it. That's a 27? Well, well, we'll advantage just in case it's a critic. Oh, it's the same thing. It's 27. Okay, there you go, that hits. It's meant to be. I haven't credited it forever.

See, even if you don't need the advantage, it's nice to roll a second time in case the chance of a natural 20. Right. There's 20. 30 points to damage on him. Whack! This one you actually bring down onto a two

his other leg. That leg snaps. Is he on his back? He's on his back and he's trying to pull away from you. Right on the knee. On the knee? Crack! It snaps underneath and he screams out in pain as the hammer pulls back. You can see where the bone is jutting out. You've actually taken off the lower half of his leg from the sheer horse. Good. And he's now like bleeding out onto the ground a little bit, not as much as he would be because the flame cartarized the impact from the hammer. He is in really, really bad place.

I'm taking it. Murshii. All righty, Vex, you're up. He's Legolas. Well, I'm gonna, should I shoot the guys running away? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, are they close by?

Are we gonna start out the front of the doors? I'm gonna come down and get in range. Don't forget to tell them about Kilmores' Glorius' kids first. We're supposed to advertise. Timing is everything. Lightning arrow, yeah, lightning arrow, because everything was everything than 10 feet is affected. Yeah, that'll hit all three.

Okay. Nice. Nice. All right, so you pull your arrow, you can kind of aim it close to get you the rain pouring down and they're all running out into the storm. You're like, huh, storm, that's interesting. 27? No, that's a lie, 19.

Against the guy you've, you've hunter's mark? Yeah. Yeah, that'll hit. And then get the rest of him? Yep. Should that they have to make a dexterity saving throw? Okay. This guy fails.

What's the DC on? That's a good question. 15? 15. Okay. Second guy fails. Guy's hunter's marked, does succeed. So he takes half damage. Okay. So he, I'm hitting him initially, so he takes 2D8. They all take 2D8.

17, the 19, plus Hunter's mark on the first guy. So they all take 19 and then the extra guy takes an extra five. Okay. Okay. The guy that trinket swiped just screams, as you can see, like, the electricity charging through him and the wet rain that hit him has caused it to even give more... I thought trinket swiped the hunter's marked guy, though. Did he?

He did. He did. I remember you saying that. He did. Back in the head. So the guy who's hunter's marked ends up destroyed. The electricity bouncing through his armory, he just falls to the ground and crumbles over.

The other two guys get jolted and almost knocked off their feet. They're both looking really, really rough, and they both look at each other. and just keep running with a little strength they have left. You still have a second attack, don't you? I do. Go for it. Okay, I'm gonna, oh gosh.

I guess I'm gonna shoot. Is the guy on the crap? You're gonna shoot you all in the back? No, I'm not gonna shoot them in the back. Is the guy on the ground? He looks like he's in a lot of pain, doesn't he? Here? Oh, he's not going anywhere.

I'm gonna put him out of his misery. We don't want people running to report for here. No, exactly. Oh, really? So I should get the guise? Get them. No witnesses. They might be vampires.

Oh, God, okay, okay, okay. I can't like to narrow them again, though. No, it's a bonus action to castles. So I'll just regular old attack. I get one of the top. Vex, no survivors! All right, all right. Next arrow knocked.

That's a 17 again. 19 hits, go and roll damage. 13, 13. 13 points of damage. That guy is through the back of the head. And you just slide to the mud for about two people. And I act like I have another, I can attack him again. I say, stop!

Take an intimidation check. Oh, my girl. Come on, girl. Natural sweat! It is. It is. What a hot. That's amazing.

Watching his friend fall and slide in the mud, he stops where he stands and looks over his shoulder, slowly turning around, shaking. And I say, get inside. Okay. Next up is Keyleth. Are you going to do anything? Do I kill him or do we keep him? You don't have to make that decision. Yeah, whatever.

He's coming back inside. Or he's standing there. He's certainly standing about 10 feet outside in the rain. Is that a window I'm up against behind me? Actually, no, there is no window to the front here. It's just a wall. I'm just going to go, excuse me, excuse me, trick it. Sorry.

Sorry. And I'm just going to peek around the door and go, and sunbeam him. Sunbeam him. Can you sunbeam? That guy. That scared, shitless guy. She might be it.

Okay. What level is sunbeam? It's what I just did. Huh? What level is sunbeam? Six. How many six level spells per day can you cast? How many six level spells?

It's a concentration spell. That's right. You can do it for up to a minute. Yeah. Good call. She's a lighthouse right now. It's a concentration spell. I can keep doing it for a minute. That's so freaking cool.

All right. So, uh. I can do that too? Constitution save. No. No. Two damage. Eight.

12. 12. 16. That's 20. That's 20. Plus. 30 damage. Radiant damage.

As he's sitting in the rain shaking and looking at his friend and looking at you, Heelph kind of just steps into frame and goes, Poooo! And before he can go, Wait! And there's just this scattering of ash that one finds his body, his armor is left intact and just tumbles to the ground. And this pile of like, you see smoke sizzling off of the now heated armor.

There's no sign of his physical body anymore, just this smattering of now mud that the ash has now mixed with in the rain outside. Foof. Fudgeous, okay. A one guy left. Now as you guys are all kind of gathering around, we'll say from a role-playing standpoint, as there is no real immediate threat to you. There was one guard left who was currently one broken ankle

and one missing lower half of his left leg on the ground, looking at you all hyperventilating and trying to back away, like, Tom to call the Sadman. Since I'm kind of outside in the threshold of the house, can I see where Scanlan might have lit up the other house yet? Make perception check. Do you have any questions?

17? Yeah. 17? Yeah. You can see a little bit of a dark screen in the distance. You can't tell if it's just like nearby chimney or if it is a symbol of Scanlan. The rainstorm does make it a little hard to see at this point. And through the adrenaline pumping in your system, and the fact that you just disintegrated

two individuals in a short period of time, you're also kind of wrestling with the morality of that and dealing with the fact that you just did so your concentration doesn't really enable to notice anything yet. Okay. Who's got questions for Peg Leg over here? I do. I hop down off the balcony and walk up by grog. I'm going to start exploring the upstairs. I stay standing outside just staring out into the distance, waiting for Scanlan's cue.

Okay. So as you head upstairs... You see my cue. Attack. Yeah, I know, which is what we were technically supposed to do. No, no, no, we said on the... We said we were waiting 30 seconds and then... It was a terrible plan. It was a bad plan we've ever had. You were amazing. You were amazing.

We killed them. It was great. It worked out. It worked out. It's fine. I hold my hammer over his other knee and I go, look, we can work on you one limited time. Or you can be very truthful and my friend can end it all very, very quickly.

Only one. There's no question. This is a bad situation you're in right now. We're not looking for you at all. I'm happy to knock you out and leave you in a closet here and lock it. If you want to help me find the Briar Woods, I really want to know where the Briarwoods are. Not you, just the people you work for. Looks around the rest of the group, sees you walk up the stairs. They're in the bloody castle. Where else would they be? Or under? That's a good question.

I don't know. I don't know. They spend equal people. parts in both as far as I'm on now. I peek around my brother and go. Is there anyone else in the house? No. If you're lying, you'll pay. All of us were here, we were waiting for here. Got it.

I go upstairs with Percy. That mist is probably following me around at this point, isn't it? Just the black smoke you mean? Yeah, before, since it's not just like a Just like a little bit of a hour. Oh yeah, the black smoke is kind of just slowly trailing behind you. It's kind of, with each step you take, it kind of licks the back of your boots. Oh, boy.

Okay. Is there anything else you can tell me in regards to backdoors or secrets that your bosses don't want us to know? I mean, really, this is the time to talk right now. Anything you use to identify each other? Go ahead and make an intimidation check with advantage, because he has. One leg? He's bleeding out right now. No, he's not bleeding out, because he's bleeding, but it's the trickle because the 21. 21. He kind of gives a look at this. Look, we've all been working for the Byerwoods.

They've, they mean well. They have big plans. I know that. I don't know the details of it. They don't tell us. But we're keeping guard on them. We were supposed to stop this insurrection. These people, we are, we rounded up, folks. We are, we are. We were given basic descriptions and we hung people against a Sun Tree as a warning. We hoped it wouldn't come to any sort of conflict. You would take that as a means that you weren't supposed to be here. But then we all saw what happened to Sukerian in his house, and that meant that you were here and then you meant business. So Taileri, Vedma, we waited for a signal and we heard that you were telling an attack.

so we set up guards here. We prepared and sure enough, you showed up, so let us know that our contacts are good, and we thought that would be enough. We didn't realize you'd be walking in with where the fuck this thing is. Let me know what you are, and he looks like he looks genuinely frightened at the fact that you,

with all these bolts sticking out of your body, are still grinning above him. Nothing should have survived that ambush. Let's back this up a little bit. You hung people from the sun tree. Yeah, as a warning. where I saw that child. Let's let his throat.

With a wet gurgle, the life expires from his body. A pool beginning to form on the tile below him. Nicely done, back. Piece of shit. So Percy and I are upstairs alone? Yes. Can I check his body?

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Sexy. 27. And I look him straight in the eye. And kiss him. And I say. Stop encouraging. Are you all right? I think so.

I'm... Look me in the eye, Percy. I feel cruel, but I think in control. This is... This is controllable at the moment. I'm in sight. Does he make checking him? Go for it, roll in sight.

Shit, just shit. Ten. John Seed well. Give me your, what's your charisma modifier? My charisma modifiers too. Okay. He's hard to read right now. His focus is divided amongst your intensity

and trying to answer your question, the pause in his throat isn't because he's thinking, it's because he grasps the words to describe it, but there is a quiver to it, and you can see his hands are still shaking a little bit. As you look down in his hands, you also see the smoke is still kind of slowly swirling his ankle. Fine, for now. I'll let you know if, you'll know if I'm not. I will. Yes. I follow behind him closely. Let's keep looking. You start seeing now the dark plume of smoke in the distance. Scamlin has apparently effectively set the signal. I'll try one more time. You also do notice, as you're looking out,

other people have left their homes now, and I'm stepping out of the... And I cast my skyright spell. I just spit. And I use the smoke in the distance and just start, like as it's rising up into the sky, start drawing out the Dorolo family crest across in the smoke. Okay. You begin to take the plume of smoke and kind of filter into the dark rain clouds,

and you make the smoke go to a thicker, thicker black and take the next few moments to begin sculpting in the air until eventually you have a very well-defined Dorolo family crest, now staring down at the entire city of White Stone. Oh, something's happening. Something's happening in the sky. That's me. I think it's a magic wieler of some sort.

Something, I must flee. All right. Investigation checks from both of you. Okay. You've got to find anything on SmashBase. That's what you rolled the last time. I know, it's just a bet. I got to put this one away for a while.

What did you roll? I rolled a nine. Okay. The two of you take a while upstairs, looking about the rooms. You managed to acquire from just some of the local bits of cabinets and desks. You gather about 230 gold pieces.

230. You just loose gold pieces that are around. There is a nice jewelry box that seems to contain most, like, you know, some of the jewels and gems that this individual likes. I'm going to take the whole jewelry box and store it later. Okay.

So say box of Tileri's jewelry, which you'd mark down. Tireli family jewels. TIE. That won't be confusing at all. You do notice, however, that's all you're able to find for the most part other than some few bits of clothing and outfit. The master bedroom has no bed. Oh. Did he sleep in a coffin?

We're going to finish searching downstairs and find the entrance to the... Okay. I'd like to wind my way up there as well. Okay. As you make your way up there, you notice them stepping out. Yeah. I'm still curious. I want to go have a look as well. Okay. Go for it. Your investigation. It's better. Thank you.

16. 16. You look through the room. Most everything of interest has already been picked clean. This room also doesn't seem to seem much use other than the clothing that's in there. This room is used for dressing and presentation on purposes, but other than that, as a bedroom, it's pretty useless. As you guys go downstairs, we'll say for the sake of everybody, you take a little bit of time to stop looking through. You know you're a little pressed for time because you can feel the energy in the town again to rise,

and you start hearing noises. You're keeping an eye out. The people that rushed into the rooms are now rushing back out. Some of them are wearing leather tunics and small bits of armor. where they have weapons gathered and they're forming small bands. I kind of come over the speakers, once again, the ear pieces. I think it's time to go. Whenever you guys are ready, I want to light this bitch up. We need to check all the rooms and go downstairs first. All right, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.

Got an empty house. I'll run out to the door to the right, left, left or the uncovered areas. Okay. You go over into this hallway. You eventually smash the door. It doesn't take too long. It leads into a, it looks like a small study, or some sort of an office. office room, like big blue rug, a desk with a chair, some papers strewn about. Can I grab the rug and yank it? Yeah, pull the rug off. Reveals a hatch. Ah! I found the hatch! Ah! Oh, so I found the hatch.

I just want to do a quick round of the downstairs room before going to the hatch. Glancing about, you find what looks to be just a general sitting area, a music room, or a place for you to host guests. Also in fair disuse. And then beyond that, you find a room that's pretty bland with a staircase that leads down into what was once servants quarters that has been converted into a torture room. Oh, lovely.

It's a little nicer in its presentation and tools than the Durgaar torture room that you encountered in the Underdark. But this looks to be, like Tileri had a definite interest in entertaining unwanted guests. Okay. Um, Baxoves, will you come check this hatch for boobies? I, uh, jog on down.

All right, go make perception. Yeah, that's 23. Yeah, it does not appear to be trapped. No boobies. Okay. You want to open that bigger? Yeah, ah, ah, yeah. A hatch comes up.

There is no ladder. It's just a 10-foot drop down into a basement. Okay, I jump. I jump. Then down there. It's a 24 by 20 foot room. It's very musty. However, you do see in the far corner there is a pad of fresh earth set up, and there

is a dark box. About eight feet long. I heard him say, um, and I jumped down too with a flamethrone dagger out. The room lights up a little bit, and you can see across the way. There is a, not super detail, but a fairly well-crafted coffin on the opposite side of the room. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I bet there's treasure in there. in there.

Go, go. You might be right, yeah, let's go have a look. Is it a treasure? Did you find treasure? Hold, hold please. The perception check the coffin. That's 20. Okay.

The coffin does not appear to be trapped. Okay. Could I open it? It's fun to do that. It's fun to do that. Should I just smash it? I really feel like this could be... Smash it.

I kick it off with the end of my phone. foot. Okay. Or try to. The lid flies off and slams on the ground. A smell hits you that's just like a musty old mildewed earth. The inside of the coffin is, it's lined with like a fine purplish velvet material. It's milk cleafades. It looks like there's some small bobbles in there keepsakes.

There is what looks to be a cape or a cloak that is kind of laid across the bowels. bottom as part of comfort. Roll it up. Okay. Put it into my satchel. I'm going to take a dagger on. I want to cut all the way up through that purple velvet. Just see.

You cut through the purple velvet, kind of rummage through underneath. It appears to be the back of the box. I'm going to check his desk upstairs or anything interesting. Okay. Make an investigation check? Natural 20. Yay! As you're rummaging through the notes in the desk, a lot of the desk, a lot of the

desk, a lot of them are ledgers involving the trade in and out of the city. He has his hands dabbling in elements of the timber trade, elements of the actual trade of white stone. It talks about the, and you understand, the reason that white stone itself is, the stone that's mine here is so popular for construction, architecture, and other elements is the stone that these mountains are made of when properly prepared, there is a faint bit of residual that is just naturally ingrained in the rock here. No one really knows how they came about, but whatever it is, while it's not inherently magical, it makes it a little bit easier, faster and cheaper to enchant the stone. So when it comes to enchanting a teleportation

circle permanently somewhere or for traps or things, not actual objects, but actually enchanting anything made of stonework, it's easier to enchant, and that's why the white stone of this area is kind of sought after and a good trade element. So there's notes about that, but the stone trade has been halted. Stone is going to need to be mined, but it's not being exported. Is the desk made of the stone? They're keeping it open. Is the desk made of the stone? No, no. There's just notes about it. All right. So all the white stone that's being mined is not being exported. It's being kept here somewhere. They're making something big.

Making something big. I think we need to get out of here. I ask you, are you good with the coffin? Yeah. Okay, I smash the shit out of it in an effort to see what's underneath. Okay. You take about 30 seconds of extreme violence against the wooden coffin, tearing it into chunks and blocks.

Extreme violence. You get the feeling that this may have been the place the mist was trying to get to, but did not make it sturdy. It got scattered by Druid Sunbeam, and, yes, destroyed. And the coffins left in ruins. Even you grog, absorb the fact that when a vampire goes to mist form, you get the feeling that this is the home it needs to come to try and survive. Not anymore.

Not that one. Hey, what do I see? Anyone coming in coming? Oh, you see another zombie giant coming up the way. You can see people attacking it. It's just thrashing them about. but this one seems less bothered by the group and is now moving towards a specific area,

moving towards the fiery plume in the distance. They're all gathering that direction. But no one seems to be rushing towards this house. Not at the moment, no. This one's not on fire yet. Yet. All right, you all gather, you can hear the rainstorm itself is coming down in sheets.

What do you want to do? Light this schedule. Should we light this on fire too? Burn it to the ground. Burn it to the ground. Everyone out. And I start casting a flaming Okay.

We're out by now. Yeah. Everyone is out? You guys all step out into the rain pouring down. What bits of guard blood that have been pressed against you washes off? I kind of peek in this foyer and just, boof, right in the middle, kind of take a minute to move it all around. The lemming sphere begins to just corkscrew around this room up over the banister, up to the upper area,

and like an artist, you just paint this entire room with flame until the entire interior of this main foyer is just just an inferno. You can hear the flames licking and the light is very bright. You end up backing up and you can see people, unarmored folk, in nearby homes that are pressed up against their windows watching this happen and whispering to each other. The children, those that are kept kind of guarded and are not part of this rebellion initially are watching this with smiles. Okay. I think that's good enough. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

So we run, yeah, sneaky, stealthing. Okay. As you guys run off into the dark alley behind. Passed without a trace, I cast on all of us. Okay. Nice. How many more spells do you have, by the way, at that level? Couple times today. Yeah, I'm fine.

Fasted out of trace. That's the first level. Okay, perfect. So the back to the alcove then? Yeah, back to it. You guys all dart off into the alley under the cover of the shadows of the storm and the rainfall to head towards the alcove. Jumping back into the chaos. The party is scattered back into the rainstorm.

I would like everyone. everyone to make a stealth check. Oh, right, plus 10 for everybody. Plus 10. I rolled my disadvantage. All right. Ten? Total ten. Total ten. No, ten. You had a zero plus ten. Okay. 29. No. Forty-three. Okay.

I'm not there. 43? Mm-hmm. Well, you're making your own stealth, though. You're invisible, so you're Just roll white. Natural 20. Ah, yeah, yeah. 28.

30. Okay. So making up for the bounding chaos that is grog throughout the city, you manage to still make your way. Largely, it's a group stealth. Were you heading to the alcove you said?

That's where we had our little crash base set up. Correct, correct. All right, so you make her way to the alcove. As you're starting through, you can see in the distance, small, pocketed sounds of yells and the occasional sound of some sort of large-scale crumbling or crashing of wooden stone. Occasionally, darting past the streets, you see kind of

militant occupants of white stone, armored, rushing through shouting orders to each other, some coming back, wounded and, like, helping their friends back. The midday rebellion has definitely started. And you get the sense that the initial surprise has been effective, but the longer this runs, the longer this wears on, the more and more of a body count, this will be. Seeing the chaos, can I get the dust of tracelessness and start trying to sprinkle it behind us? Yeah. Yeah. Guys, we should do something. I know we really should. You have to help. Am I with these guys yet? You have not, but you all meet up back at the alcove, communicating over

your ear pieces. You make your way to the front of the building. The doors are closed and locked. When we get the alcove? Closed and locked? Oh. Well, I'll say about that. I'm going to check the door. That is 10. 23. Okay. It seems to be a fairly simple lock. All right. Look for an ambush around. Can we look around the moving? Yeah, perceive it. R rooftops besides the building?

Make perception check, guys. All of those? Not you, you haven't gotten there. I actually roll the same. 24. 24. Okay. Looking about, there doesn't appear to be any set ambush or anybody else here.

You do hear the soft sound of pacing footsteps in the interior. Probably, should we knock on the door? Can't canvas the building, no canvas the building. I can get in there and see who's that. Who's that is. I can go in. Yeah. She's right on the inside.

I thought it was upstairs, or you said right on the other side of the door? Right on the other side of the door. Yeah. Oh, but crying out loud. I push past them and I just go, Georgina! Jordana, it's us! Okay, so pause.

And her voice goes, who's us? Oh, oh, crazy grandma! And yeah, the fox-machina. Does she know what called that? No, I don't know. Crazy grandma, was saying with you. Crazy presents. Allies.

Make a persuasion check. Son of a. Nine. Can I help? I'm crazy grandma. I'm crazy grandma. I'm crazy grandma. I'll say, since you're backing her failure up,

go ahead and make it with disadvantage. I got 50 cats. You don't have to call it up. That sounds so sad. Not just say it like that. Sorry. 18. 18.

There's a pause. Crazy grandma. Come in. You hear the sound of a locking sound in the door, opens up ever so slightly, very, very dimly lit interior. There's a small lantern, a hooded lantern across the room. Other than that, you see the shadow of Jordana, and she ushers you all in out of the rain.

So, hey, guess what, it started? Yeah, apparently. She closes the door behind you. Looks out the window that has the curtains closed and goes, Okay, so it's underway. It's not safe to be here right now. No. Um, did anyone see you come in?

No, no, no, no. Good. Now what? Who are you? Oh, well, how about seeming? Have we, are we this whole time? Have we looked like crazy peasants? No.

No. We dropped it? You dropped seeming before all this. Okay, just make sure Trinket wasn't a donkey that killed the... No, no, no. That would have been intense and awesome. That would have been amazing. Donkey eating a vampire head?

Oh, man. This is one. If only. This is hard to believe. This is up. Am I there? Grandma. I'm crazy grandma.

I do a crazy eye thing just to kind of show her. It's not safe. Am I there, Matt? You've just now gotten to that point. You see the door closing as you get there. Oh, hello. Hi, how to go? Good work, by the way.

That was awesome. I mean, I could just, I just saw the fire. I don't know what you did, but well. I set fire to the place. Some shit went down, dinosaurs were harmed, but I know that you got the smoke signal and used that to attack. The DeRolos of dinosaurs.

No, no, it was me. It's all good though. I caused a ruckus, that's all I was supposed to do. Yes. What is going on? Right. Perhaps. We may have just started a revolution.

Does he look familiar to you? You don't recognize us. It's not safe to walk these streets for outsiders, so we were using a little. little bit of trickery. This is us. We're the same people you were dealing with before. Box and mock you now. We just need to rest. Okay. You can rest here, but how long? Until we're healed and then we'll go.

Overnight. Right. I feel like we should get word out to somebody though because... To what? To hold the revolution? I don't know. I feel like everybody's going to die before we even get to the castle. That's the thing. I... I don't know if this is... This is the time to rest. We don't have any spells. What we can do.

I'm okay. We can maybe make do. You're not the final attack. We're gonna be cool, but we're fucking. How about we stay here until four o'clock, five o'clock in the morning? What time is it now? Right now, until you're close to three in the afternoon.

How do we tell the people to like hold off? to briefly quell the rebellion? We started something, we can't stop it now. Are we going to be willing, actually. Well, let's spread word. We're going to be indoors. It doesn't matter what time we go into attack the council. It doesn't.

Let's spread word. We can spread word. Let's find a few. Can we like send off a message that says, we sparked a hope in people. We now have innocent peasants. People who are not fighters. What if we all think that...

Can you skywrite something about, like, attack tomorrow or hold? What if we all take off in separate directions and we tell all the peasants we find that are fighting the time that we're going to attack? Aren't there a bunch of zombie stone giants walking? Well, yeah, we'll have to be sneaky about it, but we'll spread the rumors around. I look over at Jordana, Joanna.

Jordana. Jordana? Sure. And I say... And I say, can you get word out to people? To a few, maybe. It's... I don't want to go outside right now. I don't know yet.

Let us stay. I say we just rest up and we attack tonight. Tonight? What if there isn't a town to defend tonight? Are they strong at night? I don't want to be indoors anyway. Who are they? First of all, it's raining outside. It's daytime. There's no vampires out there right now, right?

They don't like water, do they? No, they can go out there. They don't like running water. In fact, they hate running water. I didn't think about that. It's a lot of running water, though. I think they're all right with rain. Yeah, they said a river is with it, right?

I'm sure they don't like it. In any case, the only thing that our rebels are rebelling against right now are six zombie giants, one of whom I'm pretty sure they killed already. Did I see them? Best you can see that group was doing pretty well and was hacking it down. They lost a few of the number in the process. Did we ever get a count of how many zombie giants there were? There were six. Six that you saw while you're doing your overall flight.

What, so we go out and fight zombie giants? No, but maybe we could. Why not? Is the castle like stone? We are the most capable people in this town right now. Well, we could go fight zombie giants and then tell everybody to wait. Aye, yeah, yeah. That's gonna purpose.

We gotta rest. We gotta rest. Why don't we take a short rest, heal up a bit? Get back out there, take down some giants. What do you guys say? Eh? I admire this fire in your eyes, but it's so stupid. So stupid. So stupid.

They'll stop fucking fighting and wait until tomorrow. They won't. They won't. We literally, I just threw up a giant. Smashing them. What time did it do you say, else? It's about three. We could just do a round of the front courtyard

and see what's going on. Fuck. Fine. Try and sleep through the night. All right, we fight until we absolutely can't fight What about the people that absolutely need a short rest at the minimum stay? We stay for an hour. We can take a short rest.

We can take a short rest. It's gonna go on for a while, but the longer we wait indoors, the more people are gonna die, and if we're killing people to try and save the masses, which is how I'm justifying this whole thing, by the way, I feel like we can't leave the masses to their own devices. Wait a second, what about that cleric, that the religious? the religious man that you've talked to, could he get a message out to everybody?

What's his name? At this point, though, it's chaos. We literally lit the fire and we can't stop it now. Archibald, is that his name? Yeah, they're standing up for yourself. There's also the point that somebody is informing on us.

Someone is informing on us. What are you talking about? They were ready for us. They knew we were coming. Of course they knew we were coming. We killed one of our houses. They said that there was informant when we were there. Who did?

That guard, he said our contacts were right. Our informant was correct. Somebody is informing on us. It could be you. It could be you. Go ahead and roll inside. 14. Can I say it? Because I just said it could be you.

Can I do the same thing? Sure, go ahead. That was terrible! Okay. What do you want to know? Best you can tell she just looks genuinely scared and is uncomfortable with your presence right now, is letting it happen.

She's still getting over the fact that you guys look entirely different than when you first talk to her about staying here. Well, short rest, and then we head out. We do some attacks. I've never fought a zombie giant before. No, but everybody else is doing it. Those pleasant are doing it.

So what I'm saying, let's see what we're up against. Let's take a breather and let's go pick one off. Jordana, do you have any books here about- Expose ourselves over a fucking giant? Zombie giants. They know we're here. They know. in the open.

In the streets. The next event he's not studied in this town, at least not. We never had to deal with it until recently, and we haven't had the opportunity to really study. Well, we know, we know, I mean, zombie combined with giants. I mean, we've fought zombies and we fought giants, so I'm assuming it with, you know, a vague, you know, we keep a distance, oh.

It's kind of close. How long does it take to recharge hacks by the last? It's new. I need a long rest. Long rest for a rest. What is the deal? How many sunbeam Hidukins do you have left, Keele? How many Hidukins?

Yes and sunbeams? I'm done on sunbeams. If you get a short rest, how many do you get back? I'm done yet. We need long rest to get to be able. But, however, if I short rest, I actually haven't burned any of my animal forms here recently, and I can water elemental up, which would also permanently kill them. So I have other defenses that could still take down vampire

if we encounter another one. I'm more concerned about these giants right now. Well, I'm talking about. They're bad fires. No, there are zombies. They're undead. Those are two different things, huh? Yes.

There are two very different things. Groglerons. So what's the plan? We short rest and then we take a rest and then we join the rebellion to exterminate? We join the rebellion or right around town telling everyone quell Quill. We're taking down these damn giants. These giants are killing people left and right. We watch them crush people on our way here. All right. And we tell them that they take cover during the night.

I'm gonna roll like four of these. Yeah, you guys go ahead and use your hit dice to heal up while you're taking your short rest, those are taking damage. Does anyone need any of him? Oh, Trinket. Can you heal Trinket? I can. Oh, uh... He'll him so much.

Yes. You piece of shit. Does Trinket get, oh, he does get hit hit, hit dice? Uh, Trinket. Technically does not. Trinket requires? It says it does. It says it's written down.

Great dice? Yeah. Okay, we'll go for it. Also, another strange question. What creates initiative? Initiative is your dexterity modifier? Correct. So with me, it's my dexterity modifier plus two.

I'm also apparently wearing a head man of initiative, which I'd forgotten about. Which gives me plus two to my initiative? Correct. Oh, dear God Almighty. Okay. Thank you. Percy, Percy. I don't mean to be doing this.

No, no, it's right. Okay. I thought you didn't take the alertness feet. Then things would have gotten stupid. Are you healing Trinket? I don't know how much more does he need? He's at 36. He needs... Okay.

24 more. Actually, I'm gonna be using the hat of disguise just because it's probably safe. Does anybody want a headband of initiative? Let me... Yeah. Do you not need it? I can't wear two things on my head. This guy.

I don't have anything on my head. Put it on your little head. So you've got plus two to your initiative. And I'm losing plus two to my initiative. They're getting rid of that. It's called a headband of initiative. Yes. There is very mystical.

How much something do we have before the sun that is being blocked by the rain clouds goes down? Well, you guys taking a short rest. About 30 minutes to an hour. So you have about two and a half, three hours before it goes down entirely. That should give us enough time to do a quick tour. We already know they're walking around,

and I'm sure that the people are putting it up. I'm going to give them a level two. Your wounds. Okay. So do 2D.A plus 10. Me? Is it former? Sure. Me or you.

Whoever feels more comfortable. I'll do it. It was good. It's that old bastard, isn't it? Is he back? Are we, is he back? If you wanted to spend some time with that cape. Yeah.

Is drink it back? I do. He's a 51. I'm going to sniff it. I'm going to shake it out. I'll do it. I'll do it. No, I can.

That's fine. He's got hip-bring. No, I can sing a song in rest for all of us. Oh, yeah. Do that? It gives us all 1D6. It's pretty weak. No, that's, but that's... No, it's fine. He's got extra head points. Don't worry, then. Extra.

No, I got a rest just happens, right? Do you get that from free? Yeah, it just happens. Oh, so you might as well. You don't burn anything. Oof! Okay. Health, we need some now.

Health. Not just anybody. Anybody, health, you know you need someone. Help! Help! That's not trademark. Oh, God. I love it.

Can that come from my cup? Probably. All right, so you guys have rested up. It's another D-6. Through the rest, you occasionally hear the voices run by yelling. Oh, no. As you guys are getting towards the end of your rest,

you hear the large heavy footfalls hitting nearby. a loud, heavy impact, and you hear some short cheers outside. Yes! He died. That's two down. Splash two. Right out front, we hear it? Up front, little ways off, not like immediately. Do we have horses? We don't have any horses, do we? Should we go outside and see how they're doing?

Let's get eaten by harpies. Should we go outside and see how they're doing? Let's go around again. Yeah, let's check it out. We go out front. Okay. We want to split up? You want to split up?

No, let's keep together just do... Actually, before you go, I ask if she has any holy symbols at all in here? I'm sorry, no. Nothing. Do you have... We know the route, let's just circle. All those were kept at either the two temples here. Do you have anything magic that can help me?

I already gave you everything of magic that I had here. Oh, right. I forgot we took it. Sorry. Shit. All right, thank you. Once we're outside, how far away is that giant that was... I just sit outside and look, it's about 60 feet off near one of the... near one of the big crossroads near this area.

And there is, zombie giant has been completely fell down. And there are three people now that are currently a process of hacking its head off just to make sure. It's a group of about seven people that live here. They're all looking pretty messed up, but they're all eager and kind of adrenaline given. They're all hacking away and stopping and taking a breath. You hear in the distance,

bolt of lightning coming down from the storm. And as everyone kind of shakes for a second, look at each other. Give like a cheer of victory. They all hop off the body of the zombie giant and begin darting further and towards the center of the city. I look up, is my Dorolo symbol still in the sky? It's there, it's dissipating slowly,

but it's still there. It's moved a little bit off axis with the storm. Okay. So that's it for the big houses, right? We've called the big houses of just the castle. Except we haven't killed the members of one of the houses. By the way, my song of rest is a D8. Awesome.

But we haven't killed the last one. Now, the one that you guys killed, what's his name again? Taileri. Taileri. He was a vampire. Yes. Because, because Silas killed him. Yes.

Right? Yes. And then made him a vampire. One would assume? Didn't he hang him on the sun tree? No. What? What?

What's he talking about? What? I don't know. Didn't that guy that we meet? You do recall, actually, when you were in a terrorist interrogating the driver of the Briarwoods, that Taileri was the master of the driver, Desmond, who beat him and subjugated him to various forms

of torture and abuse before Lord Briarwood took Desmond, and to try and show extension of faith, revealed to Desmond, Tileari hanging from the Sun Tree. Wow. That was true. And then he became a vampire. Is that where they're spawning? Maybe he was already a vampire, and he hung him from the tree just to show.

Well, Vax. That doesn't seem right. Didn't you? Let's head to the Sun Tree, why don't we? Okay. Let's make that direction. Let's go. Something to us about how when people die in this town, that the guy you talked to with the bar?

Yes, we talked to a guy you talked to with the bar. Yeah. What about it? And he said when people die, When people die here, they don't die. Well, yes, we know that, yes. They come back. I'm thinking that could be, yes, that could apply to. I think this whole damn town,

I think the whole land is cursed. That's what I think. I think that's probably pretty fair. Should we go to the tree? Sure. Why? Just. We'll make our way through the town

and look for giants as we make our way to change. Let's look for giants. Let's go giant hunting. All right, so from the island. Malko, you guys head in a southwestern motion, keeping off the main paths best you can. The main chaos seems to have died down a little bit in this area of the town. You come across another body of a zombie, a giant. It's three.

Surrounded by what looks like eight bodies of civilians of the town. Are they all dead or are they injured? No, they are all very dead. Two of them which are torn in half and just tossed two different sides. One appears to be half eaten. and the rest are just smashed. But whatever troop was with them managed to take the zombie giant down.

Eventually make your way to the center of the town square where the sun tree is, and there is, across the way on the opposite side, what appears to be in mid-struggle, one zombie giant that has a series of spears or javelins sticking out of its torso. It's currently swatting a group of individuals that have torches in the rain still trying to kind of, kind of get up towards it and push it backward.

The Sun Tree at a glance. Roll perception check. All of us? Yes. There's a treat. Four. I rolled a 19, so 29. Okay.

23. Is my passive perception higher than my roll? Active perception and passive perception. Passive is more something to keep track when you're not actively perceiving. Oh. Gov. Seven.

Okay. Keel, if you pick this out in the rain, and it's kind of hard to see, but from this angle, you see what looks to be eight ropes currently just dangling free in the sun tree. They became vampires. The tree is the spawning spot. Or maybe one of them. Maybe they cut them down.

No. We've got to cut down this tree. Does it look like the ropes have been cut or is... You can go closer to inspect if you want. Yeah. Try to heal it. You're hearing in the distance of the battle is still raging about 65. about 65, 70 feet from you, you kind of get up behind the tree and you take the ropes

and inspect it. All the ropes are very finely cut. Oh. They cut them down. They cut them down. They cut their dead down. Okay, so the nooses are gone. Yeah. But like it's just... Yeah. And you do see there are a number this close. You can see there are loops of rope all over the tree, some very old and weathered and aged. Some of them are torn. Some of them are cut. But the fresh ones that are the longest currently and there are places. closest to where the bodies were originally there are all very cleanly cut. Can we spin around and look and see if there's anything around that looks like,

or look at tracking and see how it looks like somebody cut them down or if they fell on their own? You glance around real fast and you can see to the south there is still the battle raging between the zombie giant and crew of individuals, but you look back where you guys were from and you see a large series of shapes stepping through the rain coming from the direction you guys were. I think they cut them down just like Tileri, I think that this is like where they hang them to ripen, and when they're ready, they pluck them off the tree and set them on the way. As you're having this conversation, you keeping your eyes forward as he's saying this in your ear, you can see as the light of the town is slowly beginning to vanish into a sunset.

Is it still raining? It's still raining. You see ahead of you coming from the central roadway into the square of the town, You can always surmise to be anywhere from 30 to 50 armored skeletal entities that are pouring from the north. Okay, I climb the sun tree. Wait, what? We gotta get out of here. I'm climbing the sentry. Climbing the sentry. All right. You guys see Keeleth scurry up the sun tree? I blow my horn of fog to create a smoke screen. I don't know what the fuck you're doing.

Okay. I'm gonna start a fucking listen. The slow horn blow comes out and this fog begins to fill the area between this marching skeletal army and the Suntree where you guys currently are. Looking over your shoulder, you can see the zombie giant finishes smashing the last individual in that crew. How far away?

It jams it into its giant. So there's a big army coming down, like filtering down a street? Down the street towards you. Oh, far away. You can't tell now there's just fog all in the way. I can't tell how far away they are roughly. You can't see him. I can't see them?

No, because Scanlan just created a whole bunch of fog between the two of you. You gotta go. The moment that you saw there were maybe, there maybe about 100 or so feet from you. Keeleth, tell us what you're thinking because the rest of us are thinking out of here. You engage, they'll follow. We go, we fight another day, we sleep in the rafters, we wait till daybreak. Who are you?

I might be able to do something. What is it? Tell us. I can do like a big ice storm or do something to take all these fuckers out at once possible. All 30 to 50 of them? We'll kill them all. No, Keyleth, we've got to go. It's a big range.

We've got to go. He's not even the people we want to kill. They're a dead-hard army. I say we let her hit them and we run. Okay. All right. Scanlan, can you just kind of drop the fog just a bit? Not magic.

You can blow it, you can blow it away. All right, I'm just going to have a vague idea. Fog is low. The fog this creates is a magical fog that obscures an entire area. If you climb to the very top of the tree, you might be able to get a little bit of a visual. All right, I'm gonna climb as high as I can. Okay, make an athletics check.

I'm gonna climb up after. Oh my God. Acrobatic ability is not. I know, but I can just jump up. Wonderful. It is too, shut up. And acrobatics or athletics? Athletics.

Oh, that's better. 15. 15, okay. You make your way up to the very precarious, top of the branches. It's very, very, you can feel the brittleness of it as the tree itself is life force is withered over time, and some of it cracks and some of the actual bark of the tree kind of twists off in your grip as you get to the very top.

You can look just over the bank of fog that Scaling has created, and you can see beyond that. The number of undead from this angle, what was initially like a 30, probably pushes closer to about 100? Okay, and they're like 100 feet away? Starting about 100 feet away, slowly marching towards you. I'm going to write kind of where they are.

I'm going to just start a little ahead of where they originate. I'm gonna start making an ice storm. Oh, I'm pushing all the way back to where just right down these fuckers. I'm also just trying to stay underneath her as best I can. Okay. Stop looking up a skirt, brother. She has a skirt.

She's been wearing a dress this whole time. Thought she was covered in leaves. Stop looking up her fig leaves. All right. What's the damage on that? Is it like 2D8 bludgeoning in 2D8? 46. They take 2D8 bludgeoning damage and 47.

six cold damage. Okay, go ahead and roll for both. And... Inspiration. So save for half, right? Inspiration. Oh, well, I didn't do it. 2D.8.

Degening. That's seven bludgeoning. Not great at all. Four, five, six, seven, eight. Total of eight. Eight plus, what was the other one? Seven. Seven?

Okay. And it's difficult to rain. Okay. So the first area, suddenly you see some of the clouds above you begin to funnel downward. And a few bolts of electricity through it. As the funnel hits, it grows dark, and then all of a sudden this cold wind begins to swirl around it. And with that, the cloud almost seems to tear open within itself and a sheet of jagged ice and sleet begins to pour downward into the center of this undead hoard.

As it does, you can see probably a good... 35, 30 of these are just blown part. Bone shards scattered around, and you can see bits of rusted metal weapons and armor thrown left and right. The ice then kind of coalesces over the floor of this area, and some of the skeletons just kind of slip, but they keep marching forward. It definitely took a chunk, but as it continues pushing forward, the... Now we can run. Yep. Good job. I'd grab the back of her shirt and the gate. You guys make your way down the tree.

As you get the bottom of the tree, the zombie giant has taken notice of the sudden flashing of light and the movement in the tree is bounding towards the tree after you guys. Are we running? Are we going to the alcove or going to the tree line? I say we go to the tree line and I say that you take a couple shots as we're heading.

I'm definitely doing that, yes. I'm going to shoot at the giant as we're running. Okay. As you guys all land- Okay, you hunters mark turning around looking at the giant. She says that. I'm going to go ahead and start casting my call lightning spell. Okay. So you land, you cast call lightning.

The fog that you created, Scanlan, that formed up. You start seeing shapes. These terrifying skeletal faces begin to appear through the fog as the rest of the arm begins to push through. Running away. Run, commit. The clouds collessing above keelith as you get your call lightning ready. You marking the zombie giant, you guys, again bolting out of the way.

Trinket comes running away. up behind you, Bex, and picks you up onto his back, and you guys begin rushing off towards the treeline to the west or the east. Can I shoot him? Yeah. As I turn around, I call lightning on the giant. Okay. Go ahead, roll damage on that. And it's, it's cloudy. So I get, how much more? I don't know, how much do you get more on that?

Huh, huh, huh. While you decide, Percy, which way are we going? West or east. Cross of all. 3D10. 3D10. There's an additional 10. So it's 4D10. And I'm going to shoot him through my long bow of the sky sentinel as we're.

Okay. Okay. So the passage to the castle I'm aware of is to the west. And then the one that Stonefell mentioned. Yeah. Can we go to the tree line by the castle? No, the one that Stonefer mentioned was the same. It wasn't Stonefell.

It was a book. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, he was referring to the same. Tree line to the west so that we can attack first thing. Yeah. 22. 22 hits? Twice.

And then three on the last one. Well, it's technically 14 on the last one. For him, still hits. Oh, sweet. It's a big target. Sweet. Big target, a lot of hit points. And as she's like rearing up her bow, I'm behind her,

and I just do bring down the bolt for 32 damage. Damn. You can see the bolt strikes the front of the zombie giant, right as it starts swinging after you guys. The bolt hits its shoulder and blasts a chunk of its shoulder blade off. You see bone shards fire behind, and there's a giant piece of its torso now missing where the bolt hit, stumbles back onto its back foot

and catches itself almost toppling over. Just start backing up. Vax. It starts clumbering forward again as Vex releases her arrow, which splits into three. Vax. Fifty-four points of damage. Whoa.

Kill it! Nice! Whoa. Fifty four. All the arrows blasting into its body. You can see they sink in and burst on the inside. There's a dull glow as this kind of burst of electrical energy hits from underneath

its sickly, zomified flesh. At which point was a slight delay before it bubbles forth, and a bit of its internal liquid spews out like a boil. You can see it's definitely taking damage, and it keeps pushing forward. Yeah, it's still moving towards you guys. I pull out. It's about 10 feet from you guys right now.

I pull out bad news. Okay. God damn. And I shoot it. I'm shooting it with bad news in the, and I'm going for an aim. shot to the legs. Okay, the moment it would take for you to stop

and pull out bad news, by the way, is the moment you guys are turning around to attack it, it has gotten within range to hit, so this is all happening, and then will hangously. It's gonna get two strikes as you guys get your attacks as well. No, what are you doing?

So go ahead and roll your attack. I did. What you get? 27 and 18. Both hit. That's good, that's good. I got 28. Okay.

And against. Should have gone for a sharpshoeked I'm kicking myself. Percy, that is a 17 and a 20. 17 misses the 20 hits. Okay. You take 16 points of bludgeoning damage as its fist just comes down and whacks,

slams into your side just as bad news fires off, and your daggers go towards it. The dagger, flame tongue, combined 20 hit once. Okay, good to know. As soon as I'm able, I'm backing up and bringing down another blanking ball. Well, I've got another attack. That was just one attack that I did, too.

We need your spells. We need to hide. We need to run. So you say this is a concentration spell. I can keep doing it. I'm not blowing spells on it. 22 points of damage, plus he's not prone. Okay. Easy enough. Through the daggers, the bolt. Oh, you can make a con saving throw, though. It doesn't matter. It's still managing to keep its zombie form through. It seems like every single hit you're taking chunks off of its body, but it continues to push through the damage until eventually it swings at you with the hit.

at you with the hit, bad news goes off as it blasts through the center of its torso. It takes out the back of its spine. It can't keep its physical form together, and as his body lunges forward, you throw both of your daggers, which go thuk-f-fook into each of its eyes. It falls for the torso seems to roll on impact and come after you like a slow-moving boulder for a few feet. But since you're all moving forward, you managed to outrun it, just barely keeping it out of the way. The legs walk on their own for two more steps before they just go forward into the mud, kind of relieving all of its internal intestines into the rain soaked ground for. Let's get out of here, go to the woods.

Don't go to the trucelessness. Pesman out of trace. Aggressive flower girl. Do I see any other, like, as we're running through? Just run, Kinget. I grab Keyless by the arm and I just pull and run. We're just running. You guys go running back, and as you're looking over your shoulder,

you can see the skeletal army swarming the center of the square and pouring into the streets. It seems that the Briarwoods had their own reserve anti-riot. campaign We're going to take out everybody We can't go, we can't go We have nothing left And with that word concludes

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