Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 46 - Cindergrove Revisited

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

Vox Machina joins forces with an eccentric candlemaker to help seal the rift between their world and the fire plane. Guest starring Chris Hardwick. #FeeltheGern   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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intrepidant adventurers Vox Machina after having a horrible encounter with the Chroma Conclave, a gathering of chromatic evil dragons that has just torn through the Taldori countryside destroying cityscape after cityscape.

The party has fled and has been seeking information on how to possibly eventually topple these creatures and restore order to the land of Taldore. They begin seeking these artifacts known as the vestiges of divergence. that promise ancient power from wars long past that could aid them in this journey. After acquiring one with a near-death experience by Vexalia over there,

they begin their next step in the journey. However, as part of a recent scrying spell by Kiela, the druid, discovered that the Pyra tribe of her druidic heritage, the Ashari, were decimated as their home of Pyro was the portal to the fire elemental plane, that they normally guard, was where Thorac, the cinder king, the great red dragon tore through into this prime realm and managed to would seemingly wipe out most, if not all, of the tribe.

Voxmachina made the relatively grim journey back to the mountainside, finding it now brimming with volcanic rock and volcanic activity that previously lay dormant. Upon climbing the side of the mountain, you found remnants of the pirate tribe still alive and making their way up the mountain as damage as they are in hoping.

of sealing this now progressively swelling tear between the primaterial plane and the elemental plane of fire. Not just that, there was aid that came to the pirate tribe that involved a number of Earshari, one of which was Koran, Kielith's father. There is a brief tearful exchange and reunion before the rest of you, stealing yourselves, began to walk in towards the center of the mountain's caldera, towards the remnants of the cinder grove, the now destroyed and sundered, petrified forest in hopes of closing this rippling tear to the elemental plane once and for all. And this is where we begin. So the group of the six of you, gathering alongside the dozen or so pyro members with various burns, Circonos, who is the leader of the tribe, now missing

his arm, cartyzed at the shoulder, all advancing forward quietly. in this kind of tense push of necessity, you can see in the distance, swirling between the trees, clusters of glowing elemental entities that are either spilling forth from this recently and have taken this landscape as their own, or just enjoying in their, they're kind of, element is like the burn shit. And so you're seeing firementals wandering about just tearing through what remains of this countryside, And you, let's see, you actually, Vexalia, as you are stepping forward, keeping an eye on these glowing distant entities, these creatures, you catch out of the corner of your eye what appears

to be a number of other humanoid, a small cluster of shattered individuals, kind of far off to the left, tucked around the bottom of a tree. Can I ask everyone to wait? Percy. Yes. Can you look through your scope and see who that is? Take a look. to look. Big reception check? First roll. Oh. That's not bad. Music. The violins go south.

23. 23. Glancing over that direction, you see towards one of the larger broken, petrified trees, right on the outskirts of the Suna Grove forest, you see what appeared to be a cluster of humanoids. Two of them have flesh, the other two do not. These skeletal creatures kind of shuffle in place, clutching a blade to one side, while the other two appear to be in partially rotted states. They're mostly disinterested in their surroundings and stand there kind of head to the side, aimless. Are they in the clothing of the natives, or are they, do they not look to be? Aschari. From what you can tell, one of them does appear to have a shari wardrobe. The other

No one does not. Said in a weird way. They look undead. It doesn't. Are they from here? Possibly. One looks vaguely familiar. I do. But there's something wrong. We should proceed. Let's go up and find out what's happening. Slowly and armed. At this point, Corrin, his father in the head of the air, Shari, in your absence. and puts his hand forth and goes,

I'm sorry, you're saying that you see along the way undead creatures. There's something unnatural over a man in that direction. We should probably be the ones to investigate. Given the nature of the elemental presence here, we're going to have to probably divide and attack the central place from multiple positions, otherwise they're going to have too strong of a fire front

at the edges of this border. Do you feel confident enough to handle your own sliver of this assault? Is he serious? Grog, I believe we can handle it quite. We don't have a lot of magic wielders with us, though. It's all right. I'm pretty good. A lot of magic viz.

Better than good, buddy. You're okay. Well, we'll keep an eye out. We'll have two of our druids overhead keeping eyesight. eyesight. If anything goes wrong, signal up there. You know how Kieleth, and we'll send them down to aid you. All right. Is that good? The Arashari will come from the northeast.

Soconos, take the rest of your tribe. Hit from the west. You continue on forward. If this troop you found of seemingly lifeless entities, it looks even remotely dangerous, do not engage. They are not our target. But if this is a scourge that is spread into the cindergrove, I feel maybe in worse shape than I had originally envisioned. Regardless, stay silent, stay swift. He looks back to the rest of the Earshari, and all of them kind of their outer form shimmers as the wind begins to collect around their feet, ever so quietly.

And they all, with an intense speed, begin to just trek at an incredible pace, seemingly blending in with the rock surroundings as they go, disappearing around one side of the cindergrove forest. Sarkonos and the others kind of nod. Sarkonos looks the rest of you, brings up his one hand and kind of gives a touch to his top of his chest and sternum and bows his head and goes, I wish you all great luck. See you on the inside. And the rest of the fire shari turn into burning fire elemental forms and freaking to streak through the various broken rocks and piece of glass shattered obsidian that peppered this landscape within the caldera, leaving six of you. Ready to check forward yourself.

Scanlan, can you do that? Uh, no. No, and I don't think I could learn. Oh. Perfect. Yeah. So, let's go. Avoid the skeletons?

Avoid the skeletons. Let's take a look at least. What? We were supposed to make sure they're not part of something larger that's heading in. They're in the way, Thilith. Did you not just hear my father? He said if they don't bother us, then to leave them alone, but we should just check to make sure that they're not part of something.

Are they're not part of something? Do they look like they're going to be near us when we go? They look like wherever you're traveling, because there's an open expanse of about 80 or so feet before you actually reach the edge of the Cindergrove, and they're right on the outskirts of the Cindergrove forest. So lest you're very careful, they would technically see you if they're paying attention.

Yes. Tread gently and see if they react. Do you have passed without a tracebacks? I do. But, Keelith, the minute we start fighting, they will notice us, And then they'll attack us from behind. So we would be best to get their attention now. We also don't want to waste all of our abilities on dead.

There's not, there's only two, maybe four of them. There's not. There's nothing wrong with a four that we see. Let's... Why don't we just tread that way and we'll see what happens. That's exactly what I'm saying. What could happen? I guess I used pest without a trace on them.

You did. Did we already have it? Oh, that's, did we already having? Yeah, we did. Is it maintaining your concentration, home is the last four? The concentration? It holds for up to an hour. An hour, yeah. So you can still be under that effect. I'd like all six of you to roll stealth checks for me if you could.

Okay. With triple advantage? No, just the plus time, which is better than a bad. Twenty-five. Three. 30? Um, uh, 28. 38.

30. 38. 14. With the plus 10? With the plus 10. All right. Incredible. As you heard from Mary Popperts from Mary Frommel, just walking with a giant ass man.

So, as the entire group kind of bends down into a ninja-like stance, just darting across as fast as they can, keeping load of the ground and using much of the shadow of the overhead clouds and smoke that has completely engulfed the above skyscape. Behind you, bounding very loudly. Is it a gentle gnome, swishing brown hair? Trying to do that thing that the Ashari just did. Right. It's not working. Hot, hot, hot. And as you're darting across, you're jumping over little open globules of molten lava that is starting to pour out from very crevices in the stone floor. You're trying to hop around to avoid that. And in doing so, your foot catches the edge of a piece of stone and you begin to go to tumble, make an acrobatics

check. Oh yes. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Oh, disadvantage, because I am exhausted. You are. Oh, shit. I forgot about that. Be honest no. Okay. D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D. 14. You do manage to catch yourself. with a slight tumble skid a bit on your ass and kind of landing your feet. It would have been a cool three-point landing if anyone else had attempted it,

but you just barely catch yourself. Look back at the group of the sheepish grin, and out of the corner of your eye, you see one of the identities kind of turn its head and look right in your direction. I think it's all wrong. Sorry. Starts just kind of wandering your direction. Should we engage or keep going?

I'm afraid if we engage, you can draw attention to an entire slew of what could be around. Let's just put it down quietly. All right, Jesus of Christ. No magic, just weapons, no guns. No guns. I pull my sword. Vex. You might be the most capable for this.

All right, roll up an attack. Okay. Oh. Just going for it. Okay. I'm literally, I'm cursed. I think I cursed myself sometime between here and San Francisco. The D20s talk to each other and they know that you're in, you know, you know.

that you're not true. 18? 18. That hits. Go ahead and roll damage. Can I attack on her heels when she's done? At this distance, it'll take a little bit to rush up if you want to. No, that's the wrong.

They're roughly a, let's say this point about 60 feet from me, so if you wanted to. That's my distance. With your, oh, if you go full speed, you can. Attackers. 15 damage. Oh, okay. 15 damage. on which one of the skeletons?

Oh, and it's a sneak attack, right? Because I'm hidden. It would be from you, yes. Extra tube. What? Extra two. Okay. This is against one of the zombies or one of the skeletons?

I was doing the one that was walking towards us. I thought the other ones were still in the street. Then that would be one of the zombies. Okay. Okay. Okay. Great. That's all right.

The arrow streaks through the air, slamming into the chest. And you see it just kind of embeds itself, causing a piece of tendon to kind of snap and curl back inside the torso. its arm kind of falls a little more limp than it was previously, but it just kind of keeps locking forward. I hide. All right, go and roll stuff, check. You?

Are they all grouped together? Three of them are grouped together by the tree, the one that noticed is like slowly wandering towards a match. All right, so I'm going to throw at that one as well. Okay. 39. Still. All right.

I'm just going to throw one and just to check, I'm still, I'm hidden, yeah. Correct. So this is the assassinate. This is, I have advantage. because it hasn't gone yet, and it's a crit because I'm surprising it. Mm-hmm. Wow. Do I think a little bit more? Uh, to-took-tok-tok-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-to-to-cuh.

25. 25. With that, as this zombie entity is hobbling forward, the dagger strikes it right in the center of the skull through right over its mouth and jaw hinge hit, severes the base of the skull to the spine, and the head just rolls off, off under the ground underneath. The body just kind of takes two more steps before falling forward. Does any other? Yeah, did any of the other ones notice?

All the other undead creatures all of a sudden turn into the forest as opposed to towards where the death happened. And you see running out from the forest towards you a blue-skinned humanoid rushing out arms in the air. Stop! Stop! Stop what you're doing! Stop it! What have you done? What have you fucking done? He wasn't hurting anybody. I don't understand it.

Jesus Christ, these are not easy to make. Are we killing this one? No, no, don't kill him. He's precious. What did I do? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?

You're fucking shooting at me. You're asking me questions. These are zombies. These are undead. They were attacking us. They were attacking him. These were in my employ. Oh.

Well, you should. keep a leash on them then. That would be inhumane, wouldn't it? They're not human. Well, they were. That's very disrespectful of you. I don't appreciate it. Are they pets?

Are they friends? Where were you? You're a friend pets. You have to be around, though, to keep an eye on them. I know, but I've been traveling out here for a while, and so they provide a layer of protection. Certainly not great, now.

Now there were four. Now there's three. Well, listen, when we see these things without an owner around, we take them out. I'm sorry, it's pretty standard. This can't be the first time this has happened. It does happen quite a lot, actually. How does I think about it, it's probably a little bit on me.

Maybe you could make them vests or something, that's a service. That's a nice idea, so a vest maker. A service. It's like a happy mask on them or something so people know they're nice. Certainly, yeah, yeah, masks and vests. That's a great idea.

You see agreeing before you a blue-scaled dragon-born, if you would like to describe yourself for the party. Yes, I'm sorry, I forgot to, where are my manners? My name is Gern Blanston. No, it's not. It's Gerne Blanston. This one's very rude. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

You look exhausted. This volcano, do you live near here? This volcano really takes the piss. No, no, no, I don't live near here. I'm, listen, I've been traveling. I'm a simple candle. What are you doing on top of a volcano? A volcano is nature's candle. What's a stupid question?

You make candles, but you also make undead. Yes, they're like people candles. Can I inside and see if he's telling the truth? Our lives are so bizarre now. 17. 17. He's telling the truth. He's telling the truth.

Why is my brain taking it? Why is my brain tingling? Is someone noodling around inside there? She eyes you up and down, trying to basically get a feel for whether or not you were, who are you see? I make special candles. I make special candles.

I'm searching for some magical items up here in this volcano. I understand there was a wee bit of damage not long ago for a dragon had torn through the region. And so I'm just searching for scraps to make these simple candles. That's why I was in a, I, This is my dance vest. I think dancing is very important.

I'm alone most of the time. It keeps me occupied. They have no appreciation for the arts, these undead creatures that are friend pets. And I've just been digging around up here, seeing what I can scrounge up and find. What are you lot? Are they special candles or are they simple candles?

Well, some are simple. Some just create light and others create tragedy for people. They're magical candles. Yes, in a word. Actually, magic is the perfect word. That's just... Oh, exactly is the patronage of your candle business. Who do you sell to?

I mean, I sell to, you know, no one in particular really, just... I have to be a little choosy about who gets the candles, but, you know, it's something that I've crafted over the years. Well, we feel dreadful about killing one of your pets. I'm so sorry. Perhaps we could purchase a candle off of you to make amends.

Well, maybe you could just kill you. kill someone else and then I could just bring them back. I mean, that would be a wonderful way to repay. Well, you know what, we're all no way to do just that thing. Really? Things do tend to die around us a lot. Sometimes larger things, sometimes smaller things. Would you like a body to reanimate or something?

You might get something even bigger. Are you inviting me to come along with you? I don't know, are we? Did I just invite myself to come along with you? Well, maybe, like, if you give us one of those tragedy candles, you know, we could always light it for somebody. It could be good down the road. Oh, oh, like candles for funials?

That's sad. We do have a lot of tragedy. We bake somebody a cake, we shut the candle on the top, and we give it to them. I don't think that would be a grand idea unless you didn't like the person very much. That's what I meant, yeah.

Well, I think for now, I'll just hold on to the candles that I have and just see how things pan out. I really don't know any of you, so. We're Vox Machina, a traveling band of adventurers, led by me, Scanlon Short Halt, and these are my, compatriots were on a, we're on a very important mission to get, what are we doing again?

We're trying to close this giant rift that we were walking into. You have to break something big and scary. What's your name again? Scanlan Shortwell. No, what's the name of your group? Vox Machina. No offense, but that sounds like a shite band. Thank you. Are you musicians? It's better than tragedy candle, really. I mean, that's kind of a shite band.

That was really. They opened for Voxmachina. That's a haunted. You're fantastic. Oh, I'm not thinking of the right thing, that's all right. I'm a musician. Excellent. But these people, they can't really hold a tomb so much. Listen, seeing as how that you've killed one of my undead thralls,

it'd be really nice if I could join you to see if maybe we can scrounge up some other things along the way. Thank you, help us. I mean, we'll see how it pans out, but I feel like everything would come to an abrupt, if I just walked away at this point. It'd be very strange. It's thoroughly unsatisfying for anyone else who might be witnessing this exchange. Your undead pets, are they gonna try to eat our brains or anything?

No, no, they're just fine. That right there is coral, and that's Stimpy and that's Fattie Arbuckle. Who was the one that we killed? Oh, that was Carol. Very sad, very sad indeed. Carol and Coral. Carol and Coral. I get them confused. No, no, no.

They were not initially related, but we became a makeshift family. shift family after a while. That's very beautiful. It's, I noticed the, I noticed subtle differences that most of the living doesn't notice. We're supposed to be doing something in the middle. Tell you what, Dan, we're actually... It's kind of dangerous around there.

Very dangerous. Gather. And you can join us with your family. Please, that would be very nice. What was your name one more time? Gern Blanston. Yeah, okay. Gern.

Well, let's go. Let's move along then, Gern. You good to come along with your herd of... Can you fight and stuff in case shit goes down? If you make magical candles, you must know a little bit of magic, correct? I'm a little bit better of a spellcaster than I am a Fistikov's type of person. Perfect. Sure. We're short on magic people. That's wonderful.

Excellent, no offense. All taken. We move along. Are we still trying to stealth forward, or is it... Does it even matter at this point? Your dead things don't stealth, I would assume. They're not very delicate, unfortunately. No, they're really for protection.

Now, the zombies can really take a lot of damage to the front of the chest, and the skeletons are quite quick, actually, so, you know, they've been fairly good for a while. All right. Good, no. We head towards the thing. Stealthily. To the thing!

Stelthely. To the thing. Onward and inward. Go and make a stealth check if you don't mind, Gurn. Does my past without a trace work on him, too? Does it like envelop him? No. 11.

11? He's not underpass without a trace. No. And then, yeah, no. Okay. So as you guys begin stealthily, there is a couple heavy footfalls of the lumbering dragon form. Oh, dragon feet.

No tail on this one. No tail. What happened? Please don't ask me about it. Okay, I won't. Yeah, the only of the dragon board you seem to go out of tail was the pallid and that worked in the council, Tofa Bertoris. So that does catch your attention a little bit.

But not just a dragon more lumbering, but now the three undead that are stepping behind. The worst than trinkets, Kevin. I don't know, stealth is going to be a thing going forward. Yeah. Okay. As you guys begin to... Sorry, these dragon lips can't whistle. Mostly just fire comes out.

And it's at that point you hear the cracking of what sounds like heavy timber, no more than 30 feet away from you. You all stop in place suddenly, and you glance over and you can see the flickering of light of what appears to be some sort of a flame-based elemental energy that's tearing over the side of a newly fallen petrofoid, petrofoid tree, look what you've done to me! This is your fault! Gern, son, bitch. Purple hearts, green storms! Purple hearts. I've seen some shit. The veterans.

Special veterans edition of a lot of charms. Very, very lucky charms. Very lucky charms. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Hell, that got dark. Yeah, how about that? Back to normal that, huh?

Yeah. So, as the flaming ends to trickle and burn over the edge, you can see there is an intelligence to it. There are a couple of arms that kind of ride the way over the side as the head pops over and glances and stops in place frozen, staring over in the direction of the bounding dragon board. It's a fire elemental? It appears to...

smaller than what you're used to sing, but it is indeed a creature made of elemental flame. I, would he be considered a primordial? It would be considered an elemental. Okay, I'm going to go fire elemental. Okay, so you're using your transformer. Seeing it, I'm going to transform and go into my fire element. Is this the first time you've done that? No, no, no, she's...

Is this the first time I've been fire? This is the first time I've been Firemental? Yeah. Really? From Sartonis. So you guys watch as Keyless form suddenly erupts into flame, which freaks you out for a second, as your uncertainness whether or not she did that. Keele's, are you alright? In fire elemental, just like...

Does it still look like Kile? What does it look like? It has, for a moment, in essence of Kila, it's kind of more lithe form than most elementals would, but still these long, curling flame-like arms, these eyes that glow a bright. white fire in the center of the face. Other than that, relatively formless, other than what looks like where her hair would be, these wifts of flame kind of curl behind her. Pretty freaking sick. Can you talk to it? That's what I'm going to go do. Awesome.

So as you approach the elemental form. It's our approach and I'm going to kind of like, like do the animal instinct thing and kind of poof up, and poof up, like myself like real big. The creature behind the form, you can see, is like drifting away from the trunk of the tree. Oh, it's running from me? It's turned away and it's moving away from you, yeah. That was easy. Deuce is...

And I roll back. All right, cool. I thought we were supposed to keep them from coming out into this world. Are we... wait. Are we not in the fire plane yet? No, no, you're just, you're in the caldera to... Oh, we're in the caldera. Yeah, you haven't traveled to traverse the plane. You're still...

You're making your way into the remnants of the cindergrove. Maybe you should ask it to go back. I'm going to say, hold! In Ignan. All right. it speaks. As you guys hear in the distance this echo of this weird sucking crackling sound that goes, it halts for a second, looks over its shoulder, and then goes into double speed disappearing into the trees.

Shit, shit, shit. Um... Gonna follow when you lead here. I follow after it and I say, Hmm, in the name of the guardians of this realm, you will stop. Stop. Okay, as you follow it past the initial, as I say tree line, it's where a bunch of trees have kind of fallen over and formed a small blockade in this portion of the forest.

You glance over as you're shouting that, and you can see what appear to be another of the same small elemental that this one has gone to to have a brief conversation. Beyond that you see a larger one, roughly your size, that has just turned around and notice your presence, and all of them kind of look over at what appears to be another humanoid creature, instead of a lower torso of legs, it's an elongated snake-like body. It's black and red scales across its entire form, two human arms and a humanoid face, but these kind of webbed red spines down its entire back.

Gern, is that one of yours? That's you, Gern. No, I don't know who this is. Okay. I don't, I'm not familiar. I'm not familiar with who this is. I took my potion of fire assistance. Okay. I could send them a present in the form of a candle if you prefer.

Do it. At this point in time, Kila, as you're standing there looking over this edge, they all turn and the creature, the weird kind of, I'll say it, Salamander-like creature, begins shouting out phrases in Igna which you understand that says, Cole, he's not here yet. alleviate this uncontrolled one. What? At which point?

They all begin to swarm towards you. At which point, I'm going to do a, like a fire, kind of like, intimidation tactic. I'm going to do like a fire radial thing. And I'm going to say, as the leader of this realm, as the Kaitiata of the Fire Nation, you will heed my word. Go ahead to me. As you guys are watching this from the distance, all you're all here is, is, oh, put it's right, and I'm going to love.

It's really confusing and a little hilarious, to be honest. I think it's going well. I need to make a, sorry, an intimidation check. Did you get that down? Right. Right, her pocket. Fire. Seriously.

No, that one fails me a lot. Yeah, sure you feel. You got, Keel. It does. Shut up, Travis. Now that's funny! Woo! Got it made a foot.

All right. As this happens, the The two smaller elementals kind of shrink down and glance over at the larger one. The larger one kind of looks about and shouts back at you and Ignan once again, Do you serve him? It doesn't matter who I serve,

for I am above him. I am your master now. This is not your realm. Get back into the fire plane where you came from. It looks back at the, the, long snake-like humanoid who's standing in there, who kind of glanced at their elementals and goes, She wants us back, very well.

And they all turn around and begin to slowly drift back towards the center of the cinderbrough, where the flickering light was. Holy shit. Good job, Keeleyn. We don't know what happened. Where are we're talking? Are they turning around, they're heading back the other direction?

We know she's seen there. I fly back over to them still in iron and fire element. Oh, whoa. Control your limbs. Control your limbs. You just see that? They take out their leader. They think I'm their god. Is she talking in normal or is she talking in the...

No idea what you're doing, okay? You're very scary right now. It's very hot. I think so. I might have to tackle you if you don't calm the foot down. I chill out. I chill out. I'm not going to revert back though, yep. Because I want to stay in the... So the Parliament, she was like...

F-M... And just more of a smoldering, sad elemental at the moment. moment. I got to go on fire thumbs up. There you go. Strong side element. First word, two syllables. So, um, they're going back.

Do we move on from here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm going to take off kind of leading in my fire elemental form deeper towards the rift. Keeping my eye out for any elementals that might be escaping. All right. This is her game. Yeah, but it's all on fire.

Uh, go ahead and make a slide a hand check. What? 18. Okay. Uh, yeah, Vax, go ahead and make a perception check. Oh, shit. Roll high. Mm.

Presser. Use one of your good dice. Perception? They're all bad. Shut up. Should he use the good dice? 30. No, 28.

28. 28 perception? More. Yep. Wait, are you exhausted? Yeah, you are. Everything? Let's go check.

Roll again. Even better. Even better. So it's the earlier. So it's the earlier one. Okay. You just see as you're all walking along, your new blue dragon board friend just kind of, it's about reaches down and snatches something from the dirt, pockets it, and keeps walking.

If I follow behind him and keep watching him. Could I see what it was? Mm-mm. You just see a little cluster of kind of ash and dust in the ground that's been partially disturbed. All right, as you continue to press forward, you hear in the distance a loud cracking sound echoing and you can see what appear to be a number of trees in the far off side to the, actually it would be to the more north-eastern side of the forest. As a brief whirlwind flickers up, you assume this is apart from the fire ashore you've taken that side of the entranceway. And

you can see two flickering lights kind of drift up in the air before sparking out in the distance. Ooh, pretty. Should you let him know we're in place then? I'll throw up a sky right. Or actually, as a fire elemental, can I just be like, in fire elemental form? I mean, you can make some localized fire happen. Can I, like, send up like a little bit of like a flare? Not in the way that you would want to.

You'd have dropped form for that and cast a spell. We could, of course. I set an arrow. I'm going to set an arrow on fire and then shoot it up in the air. I don't realize she's doing it. Okay. As you go ahead and take the arrow, what do you have around the edge that are going to, you just like the shaft on fire?

I'm gonna tie some of my cloth from, you know, does I have, the thing. Yeah. Cloth. I take some cloth from the bag of holding from one of those old fancy cloaks that we had. Better ask a person. Seriously?

Can I have some fancy cloak, grog, out of the bag of holding, please? Oh, are you hot right now? It's so weird. Phae. Fancy cloak. There you go. The arrow arcs off. It vanishes across the little bit of the raining tree line.

You can tell. No idea of face all that. All right, do you guys need to press forward? Hold for a second and wait for Team Three's response. Is that 13? There's 13. All the other teams already were the third. Oh, one, two, we were three.

Okay, yeah. Okay. You begin to push further forward towards the center of the cindergrove. You're noticing more and more of these trees are pushed flat, and it's almost like that Russian forest that the meteor had landed and exploded were. All the trees are flattened, pushed from the center. Tunguska, thank you. Where you begin to climb over a number of these flattened portions of the forest. In the center, you can see that one river of molten rock that had been trickling down the front of the mountain

is sourced here in the center, where once previously you guys performed a ritual to pass into the elemental plane, has now torn into this extremely bright rift that flickers. It's like looking into the sun, you have to avert your gaze. You cannot look directly at it without actually hurting your eyesight. And you can see there are multiple paths of this molten lava pouring out from this renewed volcanic activity. You can see it burbling up and bubbling underneath. Like the very presence of this tear itself is causing the activity to just raise and grow more fervent. At the base of the rift, you can see a number of other elemental creatures that are in the process of surrounding this opening.

And you can, have a single ride to ride. I am not here. You're not here? No. I don't know. You guys see them too. Perfect. As you can see, a lot of these elemental entities are swirling around.

There are two more of these strange snake-like humans, these salamander-like creatures that are discussing it, and one really large one that stands there holding this strange trident-like. strange trident-like structure, and it's shouting out commands left and right, and you can see these salamander entities, and a number of these elementals are all kind of gathered around the portal, and they're all just focusing this slow, steady beam towards it, as you can see it, tearing, flickering, and slowly expanding with each popping expansion of this doorway, the ground itself kind of shifts and rumbles.

My hunters mark the big one. All right. Can I send a candle? I'd like to, yeah. All right, I'd like to... What am I looking at here? Fire, there's a bit of fire. It's a lot of fire. Most of these entities are either fire, like, fire essence,

or just made out of straight flame. I'd like to call over the skeleton known as Fatty Arbuckle. I'd like to give Fatty Arbuckle... I'd like to give Fatty Arbuckle an ice storm candle. All right. And ask him to kindly deliver it to the center of this... melee that's happening just up ahead. Won't that kill your friend?

Oh, he's had a good run. I'm probably a lot less guilty, so. Well, I can do it, but I don't appreciate it when other people do it. You know, it's my choice. Never said it was okay for you to start lighting them up with arrows. Jesus, Christ, whoever that is. I'm Big Salia. Nice to meet you. Fatty, Arbuncle's skulls clasp around the side of this kind of marbled-looking, blueish-white

candle and clutches it and just goes, Yes, off your trot, go! You don't have to demean him as... I was really hoping for a Fatty Arbuckle skeleton infection. I was really, really hoping for it. What you did was cool, but like that was just... They don't, they can't speak. Okay.

They don't have voice boxes or anything. kind of shuffles forward down this ashen pit towards the dome where the lava itself is being to pour forth in the doorway is. You can see the shadow of its form kind of as the light passes. It looks like the cover of the thing, how it's just like bright light coursing past this dark image of the skeleton walking away from you. Maybe we should duck down so that nobody knows where that came from. Oh yes, get ten feet back. I should have said that already. It's walked quite a distance, thankfully, at this point. It's probably about a

a good 40 or 50 feet before it reaches the first salamander. And see, as it begins to step forward, they all kind of turn and look, and one of them kind of shouts over, right closely. One of them kind of glances over, reaches out, and pulls out some sort of a long, brass-colored long bone begins to notch an arrow carefully as it kind of hobbles forward. They look at each other.

One of them shouts out at Ignan, which you understand Keeleth, shouting, you who walk you? Who walks here? She keeps walking forward, like a little wind-up toy made of bone, until eventually the one with the bow kind of gives a nudge of its head, and the other salamander entity draws some sort of a heavy bladed object, and it is to step forward towards it, ready to go ahead and cleave it. As the skeleton steps forward, it gets right at the corner of its range.

Do you want to command it? Helen Hunt in that moment in twister. Squeeze the candle, Fatty Arbor! At which point the skeleton, just as the blade sweeps past and crashes into its torso, shattering the rib cage, the arms go, the wax bends and cracks in the center, and there's a brief pause where nothing seems to happen. And a swirl of sudden localized storming blizzard just in cases a 10-foot radius, hitting both of those salamender creatures. What does it say on the candle specifically?

Oh, on the ice storm candle, the candle's says it shows. All its effect must make a dexterity, saving throw, DC12, or suffer 4D6 cold damage. It's a fail and a save. And it's a half damage on success? Half damage on success. Great.

Okay, so one of them failed, one of them saved. So go ahead and roll 4D6 damage. Dang. That's a good place. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, boy. Three, seven, nine.

Nine, okay, nine and five. Cold damage to each. So, it blasts open. Oh, and dexterity check for your buddy who makes it. Oh. So Tyne Arbuckle actually walks out of there with a mere five points of cold damage. Ice and Frost.

It's busted open rib cage, though. He did suffer... Ooper doper! I'm not there. Except for seven damage from the impact of its weapon. So Fannie Harbuckle, pretty damage, but still standing there, just going... Keep standing, Fatti! You can do it! I love you, Fattie! Is everyone just going to sit back at this?

No, we should probably attempt. It's up to you. Or you can watch this horrible bludgeoning of this skeleton if you did it. When I see this alimenta take out the big shiny, shaw thing, I go into a rage. I hide. All right, as I assume you're going to be rushing in there then. Anyone who wishes to go into battle now, let's roll an initiative. All right, I'm in on this. All right, let me go ahead and...

We're fatty! So these are all fire. Both, same time. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Ah, nice. Should we roll for stealth again, or are we still stealthed?

No. What are we attacking you? I was just shouting at a scout. Oh, I know. I was trying to hide, though, like, back away from you as you were doing that. The candle turned into a blizzard, so. Is it a candle, though?

It's like a thing, like, there's no, like. And I mean, Gern was shouting. Get technical with it, Percy. And they also catch on fire. And they also explode. This is quite a ways away from the portal itself. Oh. Off of a flow traveling around that side.

Oh, look at that. All right, and we have Keyleth over here as the fire elemental. Huh? No. No. Where's the big one? I like the pools. The big one that you haven't seen yet?

The big one that I hunters mark. Right there. The one holding the tridenti thing. Oh, sorry. Oh. Thank you. And then we have. Look at how pretty those lava bubbles were.

Here. Is that Gern? That's Gern right there. Oh. We have Fetty Arbuckle. Then chilling over here. Coral. We have coral and stimpy.

All right, so. So, pushed them on that. So these are fire elementals, yes? They seem to be fire-based creatures, yes. A DM. Yes. You said they were ripping open the The portal? Is that on the map?

It's back. It's just a crater. That crater is just a crater, then. There is a pool of magma that kind of goes this way. You guys are on one side of and pushing this way further. The rest of the actual portals back this far. All right, so initiative order. We have 25 to 20, anyone?

42. 22. Two. Jesus. It's insane. Oh, yeah. No plus much. You want.

Yeah. Fast as fun. Okay, 20 to 15? 17. 17. 16. Cool. Good to get it out of the way now.

Yeah. All right. 13. 13. All right, great. So top of the round, Percy, you're up first. The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to use my pistol. I'm going to do a trick shot for the arms.

Actually, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to use my bonus action. to, you know, actually I'm going to hold off on that. I'm going to make an arm shot to the one with the Trident. All righty. And that's, that's 25. 25 hits. And that's a strength saving throw. Okay, saving throw. That is going to be a 20.

Just barely makes it. The blast of your impact. impact, psh hits the arm, manages to hold on to his trident-like weapon. That's fine. I'm going to take, he's going to take his damage, and he's going to take another one of those. All right? Let's go a little damage on that. Because F that. That's 13 points of damage. 13 points of damage, already? All right.

I'm going to take another shot. Go for it. Skin on the Europe on deck, by the way. Yeah. Error. 20. 20 hits. Strength check. That's a nine. He dropped. DeLior. Peer! You see his fingers are pried off as one of his pinky fingers actually blown off from the impact,

shooting some sort of dark, deep crimson blood that seems to kind of burn the landscape around as it drips. Tremble to the ground and being lodged in a piece of rock, almost ready to spill as part of the lava. And that does seven points of damage. Seven points of damage, all right? Third shot is going to be a sharpshooter shot. All righty. So I'm going to the attack.

That's probably going to miss. Fourteen. Fourteen, unfortunately, miss. All right, that misses. I'm going to take a run behind and hide behind that rock I'm dropping. Okay, got it. It's not a rock. Scaling, you're up. Do I see that big thing in the back? This big thing here? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The final until you see that.

Okay. And the thing next to Fatty Arbuckle is also baddy, yeah? Yep. They're all baddies? These things are all baddies here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm going to take 15 feet step to my right. right to put me in a straight line with the guy next to Fatty and the big guy behind him. Alrighty. And then fire a lightning bolt straight ahead to both of them.

I hope they're not immune to lightning. I'll find out. All righty. So, and you watch at the corner of your eye as well, Gurne, you see this tiny little numb, step to the side, conjure some arcane kind of purplish-blue energy, and then thrust his pelvis forward as a bolt of lightning energy just rockets forth. Tearing into both the... I don't think I've ever seen that happen before.

We have. Slamming both into the larger solomander creature and the elemental behind it, go ahead and roll 8 D6 damage. What's the DC on this? Is it my spell save? There's more in here if you want to... Yes. With the hand cone? Yeah.

20. That is a failure and a failure. Yes. All right, so full damage against both. 27. Ooh, all righty. As the bolt of Lenny energy tears through both of them,

eventually absorb into the stone behind them. Both the elemental flame form kind of flickers and falls to the ground for a second trying to reform itself, while the salamander looks down at this black and burn charm mark in the center of its torso from where the bolt entered and exited out of its back to strike its compadre. A lot too happy and confused how such a large damaging thing came It's a small little creature.

That's powerful. Then I'll turn to our new friend Gern, and I'll say, I will inspire him. I'll say, please help us. And to inspire you, I will sing you a song. And I will sing. Pretty inspired by your dick lightning, to be honest. Oh, there's more.

You think a song's gonna get better than that? It might, it might. And so I sing, to everything, Gern, Gern. There is a season. Gern, Gern, Gern. I just like to sing your name Gern Blenstyn. Did that help? Do I have to roll to determine if that was helpful or not?

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So you just have that kind of in the wings. We'll try and remind you with something. Thank you very much. Excellent. That brings it to the Elemental's turn. Now, this Flame Elemental is going to streak over to... to Blurn who is, oh sorry, no, this is too... Fattie. Fatty Arbuncle.

There's so many weird names tonight. And this larger, fire elemental here is going to go back. Oh, Fatsy. He served me well. I don't know, he's got a fighting chance. I love that we were scrambling for D6s when we... Right. And is going to... Are there any dice around anywhere?

Are we going to find? Just waiting for the hand to go in. Oh, shit. I found this polyhedra base. Polyhedra vase and I had to fill it with nine pounds of dice. He was a long way. He's not doing anything. He uses the whole round to get there. But now as the larger elemental burns into the center of Scanlon, Percy, you can feel just

its presence itself is extremely dangerously hot. The air around you is blistering. You can feel your hair curled back in its presence. The small elemental is going to go ahead and make two attacks against Fatty Arbuncle. Ah shite. That's going to be a nine to hit? I think he's 18, so I don't think it's going to hit it. Second one, rolls a one.

Fattie lives. Fattie lives. Fattie lives. He's one. Can't keep Fattie down. Bob and weave, Fattie, bob and weaves. Don't step too hard, Fattie. You won't be able to take it.

And with that, Grog, it's your turn. So you go into your rage and the top of your turn. And then what would you like to do? Can I use, I guess, my entire action to run towards Scanlan? What's your speed again? It's 50. 5.10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. You can get right there between Scanlan and this feature if you want to.

That's about it, huh? That's your movement. You can move 10 more feet if you want to. You can leap over me? No, we need to spread out. Can I go back and arc the other way? Can I run to the left just as far as I can? This way?

No, where up from my starting point was? Oh, I mean, this way instead? Yeah. Back towards you around the way. That's about as far as you get right there. If you do not attack anything, you will lose your range. So I fall out of it. You can still, and if you want to.

Can you throw something? You can't throw your weapon if you want to. Can I attach the chain of returning to Cravenage? And I'll throw it at Tridentless bastard right there. Go for it. So you watch this muscle-bound Goliath comes leaping around the corner as it affixes the chain at the edge of its weapon, flinging a two-handed sword like a giant boomerang. And... Only 14.

14 against the larger one? Yeah. Unfortunately, it makes an impact, but it just ricochets off of its plated body armor. And then kind of tumbles to the ground. You go and make your... Thing to pull it back. Yeah, pull it back. Straight.

18. Okay, no problem. You pull it back with the chain and catch it midair. Ending your turn there. Keep him all rage. Indeed. Vax, you're up. All right, so I rev up the boots of haste. and I'm gonna run right next to Vexalia

on the very edge of the map. Over there. And the fire elemental is right up against Percy, right? Yep. All right, I'm gonna stab him three times in his fire buttocks. So, first one is 27, second one is 16.

Hits. Third is a 14. Hits. Okay, so first one, sneak attack. So, shite. Mm. We'll add that at the end. Here come the dice.

Three and four seven, ten, sixteen, twenty one, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty eight, it's two, thirty six for that first. Ooh! This one kind of flickers briefly promote from the sheer impact of the dagger hit. Mm-hmm, second dagger does seven and third swipe does nine. Nine. All righty. The two of the daggers impacts, partially passing through its form. Not quite as impactful as the first, but that first one did seemingly cause the creature to have a hard time coalescing its, you know, fire-reefed physicality. That ended your turnbacks?

Yes. Gurin, you're up. So you're right there. I'm right there. How far can I run and cast a spell at the ones around Fattie? 30 feet is how far you can run, and that's about six squares. If I were to cast a bit of... How about a cone of cold?

Could I cast a cone of cold at the fire elementals? You could very much so. That sounds delightful. I could cast ice storm, but that's a general malaise of middle-aged couples living in a neighborhood. Becoming aware of their dead-in lives. All right, so you want to move around here? Yes, let's move around that bit right there. I would like to cast cone of cold.

I might unfortunately have to take out fatty, but... But. It's probably a good chance. This is not going to be. After everything else, Fattie survived, his own master deals the possible finishing bro. I feel like I should be the one to do it. It's much more humane. It's poetic.

I think so. You brought him in this world. This is what Fatti would have wanted. Oh, holy guy. Oh, God. So yeah, you can do this. Yeah, don't worry about it. That's hot.

Yeah. This old spell, I mean, y'all want to go to the DQ and get a count of cold? You want to get a count code? What's your spell DC? It should be in the top of your spell page. It is 16. 16. All right. And it is Constitution saved? Let's see if they... That is a failure, a failure, and a failure.

Yeah. What about Fattie? Did he succeed? Oh, I'll roll for Fattie. Fattie does not succeed. succeed. Oh. It was inevitable. Nope.

Nope. All right, go ahead and roll 8D8 points of cold damage. All right. Oh, man. These are not used a lot. Two. I have four. Eight D.

Oh, let's see. There's another one here. Not that's easy to get to. No. Two, four, six. I need two more. Two more. Good gravy.

This one. Here's one. And there's one. Oh. I love it. This is why I sort my dice at the beginning of the game. Oh, give me a fork. Sorry, it seems like there was something coming

from the other side of the room. How's that working out for you? How's, do you have a DA? Do you have a DA taken bar over there? I do. I don't know what happened to my D8s. I need to buy, I'll buy some at the convention tomorrow. Yay.

By the way, guys, if we hit 16K before the end of the night show, we're going to go ahead and have a sloth come into the studio. What? 16K in a slot. Holy shit. I know! I know! When?

What? An actual sloth? Is it going to play with us? Can we hold it? Focus. Focus. Focus. 24.

38. Forty-four. Forty-four. 44. Oh, shit. Thirty-four pounds I call damage. I don't think I appreciate that very fucking much. I'm saving all your fucking arses out here!

All right, so. For crumb's sake! Crook! As he's shouting out at you, releasing this amazing condensed blast of pure winter hell in front of him, it comes scattering across this way, freezing the corner of this, turning partially some of the lava here, the stone, just by proximity, blast past these entities, and as the arcane snow comes to rest, you can see the philimental here itself is having a hard time keeping itself together. Its flame is

kind of sputtering and flickering, barely keeping itself together. However, by its side you see three very still frozen solid statuettes of the remnants of the two salamanders and fatty Arbuncle, taken by the cold of winter. Oh, shit. That was awesome. Maybe you can reanimate him. It's too late. It's no good any longer. We'll say for the sake of Rema? Reiserberg? Let move on, I have. We'll say for the purposes of remembering that too.

We'll put a couple of frozen. Frozen. And let it go, let it go. All right. I believe that ends your turn, Gern. All right, it would be the salamander's turn. But they're frozen. Damn, they got pummeled. Vax, you're up.

Awesome. Wait, so they can unfreeze or are they basically frozen until something? You don't know. Okay, I'm gonna, that yellow one like behind me, that's Keeleth, right? You believe so. Okay, I know, right? I'm gonna flip backwards, like 10 feet. Actually, can I, I don't want to be like around anybody else. So I'm gonna like flip over the lava pit and go out.

pit and go out in the end. All right, go ahead and make an acrobatics check. Oh. Don't bring your foot. Ooh. Oh, that would be 38. Without issue, land. Not even no two-point landing on your feet, knee down, still clutching.

You're ready to go, bow. Unscaved by the boiling cauldron of Molten Rock. And I, Hunter's Mark, the guy attacking near Percy and Scanlan, and I shoot two arrows into him. Okay. Go for it. Two attacks. Um, that's easy. Where's my thing? Hold on, sorry. Um. You're on deck, Keyleth. 21. 21 hits. And 17. Both hit.

That's nice. 13. 17 on the first hit. All right. And then 18 on the second hit. on the second hit. Nice. Both arrows shoov-shoof! It burned to ash when the impact, but the sheer blow and the magical energy behind it from the bow that you threw it from, hit it, and you can see it begin to shake its form even more. It's self, it's, it's, do the Hunter's Mark damage as well? Yeah. There you go. Cool. Then you turn, Vex? Yes.

Keyleth, you're up. Okay. Work with me here. Okay. All right, what you got? What you got? So here's what I want to do. I want to kind of of like go low and kind of dive into that lava pit in front of me. Sounds scary. And I want to kind of using the lava around me to rise out of the lava and look really like scary and badass. And then I'm going to shout to the living elementals. I'm going to be like, hear my warning. I am your new master. Retreat to the fire plane or meet your imminent demise.

This is your last chance. Pretty good. Well done. Thanks. Circle, yes or no. And if you'd like to meet for coffee later, I might be available. I'll say given the use of lava control and this, the rest of the elementals, go to make a persuasion check.

No, intimidates, be intimidated. That's better than my persuasion. Let's do this one. Get out of here. Get out of here. 15? 15. You can see the smaller elemental here that has watched its friends get frozen solid as well as whatever that skeleton was.

Kind of looks it, turns towards you and it begins to make its way this direction. Oh, right. Towards the portal. The large one doesn't seem prominently phased by your display. But that one's piecing out. Yeah. Do I still have an action? I would say that whole thing of bringing up the molten rock and the shout and everything would be your action. Okay.

You knocked one off the playing. I knocked one off the playing. Nice. There you go. All right, and is your turn to Keylet brings up to Percy? Am I, I'm toe to toe with that one right there. Yeah, it's right up in your space. It's in my space.

Okay, I'm going to, I'm going to draw my sword. I'm going to try and do it back and forth. Let's see how this goes. All right. I'm going to take a swipe at it with my sword. Go for it. That's 30. That hits. That hits.

You take nine points of fire damage as just striking it. The flames burst back and burn towards your face and torso from the impact. Did I put fire resist on you at the end of the last game? Yes, you did. I have fire resist on me. Okay. So, all right. So that's how much fire damage? Roll that.

Four. Four damage. All right, and roll damage for your strike. Ooh, 15 points of damage. Hmm. All right. So you want to make a second attack you said? Or you're just going to keep going back and forth what's your plan? What's you doing?

He's being a dick. I'm going to try and break away and back up. I'm going to try and roll away from him to the other side of the rock. Okay. As you roll away, it's going to go ahead and make an attack opportunity at you. is a plus, that's an 18 to hit? My armor class is 18, but I'm going to use my shield for a plus five for my AC. Okay, so you use your shield version. Okay. As it strikes out towards you, streaking its elemental claws outward, you back away, instilling the power of the brooch, and you see an arcane shield temporarily,

just ricochets, pushing its claw away from you, you run away unharmed to the other side of the rock. I'm actually, I'm going to, instead of going to the other side of the rock, I'm just going to back, I'm going to run straight back, and I'm just going to shoot at it as I run. away, and then they'll take two more shots at it. Alright, I'm gonna take one more shot, because I have to reload. And I, that's a 15. 15 hits. Wow!

Holy cow. Those aren't very hard to hit. No, that was amazing. As long as you're not right back to. That's just 10 points of damage. 10 points of damage. And then I reload. All right, and you reload.

All right, that ends Percy's turn. Scalin, you're up. Who's behind me back there, way at the edge of the map? Over there? That's back. That's Vax? Oh, he'll be fine. Okay. I don't want to be near this thing, probably, right? That's your call. Okay, I'm going to take a step towards Vax. Okay.

And away from Gern, right? So is Gern? There's GERN there. You have 15 feet away from me yet so far? He's 15 feet from you yet. Okay, so I will then cast Thunderwave, which should not hit GERN, but we'll hit backs. Okay, what was it, a 15 foot radius? Yeah, it's a 15 foot cube.

Cube, so you can just make the cube here and it'll hit none of them. Oh, great, please. I'll do that. All right. So, and I'll do it a level two, Thunderwave. All right, level two, thunderwave, come on up. Oh, it's a self, yeah, if any foot cube,

originating from you. So yeah, originating from me. So you can hit that guy. All right, cool. So level three, that's 3D8. Let's see if it makes a constitution saving throw. It does not, not with the National 7. So go ahead and roll your damage.

3D8 thunder damage. Not very much. Ooh, it's pretty good. 20. 20. Nice. How do you want to do this? Oh!

Handly! Sure don't! I send the thunder wave out by cracking my knuckles. And as I do so, I do, ahem, Gern might want to check this out. Oh, I'm looking at something over here. I'm doing with you in just a minute. I'm dealing with something.

Really cool. I'll be with you in just a minute. Fuck. So I do it anyway with a scowl on my face. All right, what did I miss? Fuck! Oh, I was just, why didn't you wait? I just said a minute.

Forget it. It was, you had to be there. All right, I was here, but you didn't, you should have told me. You even missed your own Thunder Rape spell. You were so distracted with your inspiration. You look back, you cracked your knuckles, and it's gone, but you didn't see it happen, and it's a little disappointing overall. I kicked the dirt. All right. You guys look over as this elemental runs off towards the glowing doorway you see

further down this passage. It's not that far away from you, but you do see the flickering doorway. You can see other entities beginning to step out of it, and you can see one larger form. It looks kind of fiery, kind of humanoid. Just kind of comes out the lower body made of ash and cinders. and look for my other tribe. Can I see any of my other tribe? Make a perception check. You're running out the monster. So if they're frozen, does that mean that it is? Can you go find out?

Can I walk over to those? That's better. That one keeps fucking with me. What should you say? Perception? Yes. 26. Currently from where you stand. No, sorry. Sorry. 24.

24. From where you stand, you can look off in the distance, you can see. parts of the tree line across down the center grove shifting and moving and you hear the distant sounds of combat, but you do not have a visual perspective. Looks like the other teams have not quite made their way to the center. You're actually the first team to get here. And you're kind of, you kind of, you made your way around a possible encounter, and in doing so, arrived before the other team said.

However, it looks like a secondary line of defense is now pouring out of this doorway. Oh, Zit. Can I make my way to the two frozen statue types? There's three statues. Oh, three of them, yeah. Including Faddy Arbuckle. Fatty Arbuckle. Can I make my way over to one of them,

and should I just make sure they're dead? Yeah, just push them over. Yeah, can I push Trident Dick over? Yeah. As you shove, and it's pretty heavy form, especially with the ice that's, you know, form around the body. Get mad. But not too hard for you, Grog, because you're grog.

You, you give a little shove, and as the toples over, just shatters into a hundred pieces. Ooh, like a two one, thousand. Do the other one. Oh yeah, can I go over and do the other one kind of like, yeah, this time you give this one a full push, this one actually gets down ten feet in the air before scattering across the ground, pieces of it actually spilling into the molten lava. And there stands frozen in place, fatty Arbuncle, chest destroyed, arm kind of

living to the side, just, can I pick him walk him back over the gun and go, sorry? You see the giant, the half giant Goliath, handing you the frozen body of your skeletal friend. Well, don't do what I was supposed to do with this now. You don't want him. I mean, he's not very, maybe we could have a quick burial. You could hang a coat on him. So we basically would just carry him around as a coat rack.

Don't we have company incoming? We have a bag of holding. I was about to say, don't we have a bag of holding? There's a giant monster. I hunter's market. Is it close by? Yeah, stealth, stealth. We'll get to that as soon as we come back from the spread. Oh, God.

Hello everyone and welcome back to Critical Role. Cool. Last we left off, Hardy was making their way towards the center of the Caldera where the portal torn open to the fire elemental plane resides over a flow of molten rock pouring in three directions from the center of the mountain. Seeing a number of entities swirling around and some pouring forth from this open doorway, Vox Machina and their current temporary ally by the traveling dragon-born wizard slash necromancer slash candle maker named Gurne Blanston. Here, here. Have made their way in this direction. Now, before we start, just remind you guys, I guess we're getting pretty close to 16K subscribers. When we hit 16K, something with a sloth is going to happen.

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Just stepping through the battlefield you had just encountered the shattered and slowly melting pieces of ice that once were some of these fire elemental denizens scattered around your feet. You step forward as you see the somewhat human, somewhat flame-based entity, come pouring out of the void, surrounded by other elementals and one of the other standing salamander general type individuals. This is coming out of the rip. Yes, coming out of the rip. Is that behind him? Is that what the... This is the actual doorway right there. And so this, like, is a pool of lava that they're coming out? Yes, this is all molten...

Molten fire plane, more or less? Well, this is actual lava from the inside of the mountain that has been called forth and cracked through the surface because of the presence of the tear. Oh, my gosh. Probably fine. Probably. I don't see a problem. I don't think this will be bad.

We did not take a short rest, didn't we? Did we? No, you did not. No, we did not. But in the middle of the... There's been no time. Is this come to fire plane? I'm gonna, and upon seeing this, drop my fire elemental form.

Alrighty. Where are you going up? Oh, she can't be in water. No. Um, and I say, oh shit. Uh, I have a feeling this is the hymn they were talking about, and I have a feeling he's not going to believe that I'm the real new master. So... There's that.

So, do some cold stuff like this guy. I'd like you all to make a stealth check, by the way, as this is transpiring and these entities are now taking. Do we still have? Fast Without a Trace. Is that still a second? No, you cast 100 marks. The concentration that ended, unfortunately.

Sorry. All right, guys. 14. 14. 15. Oh, wait. With Passed without a trace? No. Okay.

24. 32. 20. As you guys are all having this conversation, kind of hushed behind this barricade of broken tree elements, you can see this Salmanager turn and kind of hiss in that direction. Hiss! Look over and point his trident in the direction of where you all are, and you can see the larger fire elementals all of a sudden turn their attention in the direction of the rest of the party

as the humanoid is kind of floating about five feet off the ground, his lower form, just kind of the swirl of cinders and black ash, kind of chuckles with his arms crossed. Points forward, and the elements begin moving forward. Can Keylet's do a quick ancillary action before shiabble? Well, this would be the initiative order now. Fuck.

So everyone roll initiative. Ah, ha, ha. Maybe they see something behind us. Wow. Fuck. Jesus. Sucking it up. Yeah, no.

Yeah. That's okay. Well, it's good. All right, folks. This brings us to 25 to 20. 20. Hey. Jude.

Don't wake a bad. Thank you. Take a bad roll. 20 to 15? 19? 19? Yes, I'm 15. 16.

16 for Gern. Gern. 15 to Gern. 15 to 10. 15 to 10. 13 for Percy. 13 to 10. 13 for Percy.

13 to 5? 10 to 5? 8. 8 for Gras. Scanlon, what's your... Oh, 10. Oh, sorry, 10. 10.

So that would be just below you, Percy. Yeah. I believe that's all in that. there, and that brings us to these seven. All right, so. I'm seven, by the way. Oh, seven, I thought I got you. Nobody cares, Marisha.

I know. I'll just be back here. Caboose. All right, there we go. So right before Grog is Keyleth. Great. All right. Top of the combat round.

No, not leaving. Nope. Hi. All right. Shitty initiative rule. It's going to be fine. He's cut things out of cardboard. This doesn't look like this. Oh, no.

There was a planning. There was a thought process. Oh, shit tower. There was an instructables involved in this. This is just really... Some pepacchorus. No, no, no, no. He was down in the play zone before. Ooh, cool.

The, the, which, let's see, if you want us to roll an Arcana check, as you see this entity rising. Absolutely. I will as well. Good. People who are proficient with it. Two. Oh, no.

Oh, with disadvantage, right? You do. So tired, yeah, no good. 24. Whoa! Get out of here, Dragon Boards. Let's see it. Brain on girl.

All right. I'm very smart. And as you say that, you recognize the Zenteem blur out its name just instinctually as you get a proper view of it. One of the many denizens of the fire elemental plane, this is an Ephriti. It is a fire genie. Nifriti. Nifriti. Nephiti. is the species of Fritti, but in Ephrit,

however you want to pronounce it, a flame genie, generally hailing from the city of brass and ore spaces around in the fire elemental plane. I could feel it from that side. I was thinking of it. Yeah, I know, I could feel it. All righty, so floats above all of you, arms still crossed, opens its arms, and as its chuckles,

both hands just are engulfed in flames that congeal into these large firing balls. Is it... Oh, no. Flings them both down. in the direction of the party. Oh. I feel like we're in Mega Man. I'm a Mega Man boss.

Oh, yeah. This is going to be at Scanlan and Vex. What? These are fireballs, right? It's a Scanlan that is 13. No way. Vex, that is 15. No.

Both just cracking into the ground by the sides of where you're standing, barely missing them. It just kind of keeps glaring down to the rest of you with a smile. Ending that, it brings us two Vax. You're up. I got a high stealth right beforehand, so am I hidden at the moment? As far as you know, depending on the individual. You don't know who saw you and who didn't.

All right. All right, I'm just going to throw three daggers at the salamander, right from where I am. Right from where you are? Yeah. All right. Okay, so first is a 20, second is a 14, third is a 19. is a 19. Okay, the first one was what?

20. The first and the third hit. Okay. If you are hidden though, which you would technically be hidden from this individual, you do have advantage on those attacks. You can re-roll the... And if I'm hidden, it's a surprise, right, on that guy? You tell me... No, no, it's a sneak attack if you're hidden.

Oh, okay. A surprise round is if they have no idea that you're there. Okay, I thought it's hard. Yeah. Love it. Uh... Okay, so... You have advantage.

So maybe one of those would be a 20 if you roll the two. All right. No. And the other one, no. Nope. So, four, eight, 12, 13, 13, nice, be high,

20, 31, 30, 30, 35. Yeah, first. Nice. The second one is a 10. Pick us off, strong. Not bad. Fleeing, both daggers, whish, whoosh, whoosh, One strikes it like square in the sternum, and the blade cracks and pops as it hits the center of the chest.

It can't make any sound as it disappears from the wound returning to your belt. The second dagger manages to come towards it. It tries to parry it out of the air, but in doing so it gets it embedded in its forearm, and it kind of shrieks out in pain. As that two vanishes and pierce and skin at your belt. Are you going to move or stay where you are? I'm going to skip to my right and stand behind Grog and spank him on the ass and say, go get him, Tiger. Go get him, Tiger right there. All righty.

My name's Grog. Vex, you're up. Is there any, are those trees, do they have any substance at all? Are they just there to look pretty? I mean, you can get behind them if you want to. They're like maybe about that wide. Like Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Club Tower. Practically, as far as the Cinder Grove is concerned, they're pretty sad looking.

They've been destroyed and torn and pushed down around. I'm going to try to use one as protection. I'm going to hop behind the one over this way. This way. It's fine. Here. And I'm on a hunter's marquee of fruity. All right.

Mark. Frit. And then I'm going to use my long bow of the sky's Sentinel. I'm going to shoot them three times. Go for it. Yeah. That first one probably does not succeed. It is of 16.

That does not hit. Nope. What about 23? That does hit. All right. How about mega miss? So one of those hits because I'm a loser. loser.

Streaking pass and the third one, hits it as it's kind of holding the flame balls in his hands. It just kind of, just kind of sacrifice. It's seemingly small impact. It just kind of glares at you through the impact. A small mammal. Maybe we can find like a squirrel or something. I can hook you.

A pagan ritual. Okay, cool. I got a kit. I'm not supposed. 17 points of damage and that's it because I suck. 17 points of damage. All righty. And there you are hiding behind the tree this.

the tree. I'm fighting behind the tree. End of Vex's turn. All right, it is now the elemental turn. Oh, please. Oh, boy. Dors. Oh, boy.

Oh, that's just going to move in and actually consumes the space of Gern and his followers. It's not even a figurine. It's just a chunk of plastic. So as you're sitting there, you see this fire element will just streak around real fast, and all of a sudden, just step into the space where you and your two undead followers are, flames just whirling around you. All of you, all of you, you, you are. immediately take five points of fire damage. You and your two allies, Stimpy and Coral. Poor guys. Those two guys, weren't there? Oh, they killed one, that's right? Yeah, and you guys killed, you fucking killed one too. Yeah. So they both have six.

All right, so with that, it is going to make two strikes towards you, Gern. The fire elemental rushes in and just... Not the best! Not the best! That is going to be a 13 to hit. What's your armor class? Thirteen. Just hits you, and that's a natural 20. Oh! Fuck! So you take 14 points of fire damage from the first take?

Doesn't feel very natural. No. It's 14 points of damage from the first. 14 points of damage on the first one. Thanks for coming. Thanks for playing. And it's... Friend of the show. 19 points of fire damage from the second strike. And you are currently engulfed in flame.

Oh, God. You caught fire from the impact of the fire elemental. It doesn't hurt. I'm fine. I'm fine. Are you sweating? Do Dragon Point have natural fire resistance? Not blue ones. Certain ones do. Not blue.

Oh, no. If it was lightning. It would be fine. No. All right. That ends that elemental's turn. This one is going to step into the space where both Percy and Scanlan are. Both of you guys immediately suffer seven points of fire damage. I'm halved because I have resisted. Correct. So you take three points. And it's going to make a strike on each of you. That's going to be a... Eight to six. 14 versus you, Scanlan? That does not hit me.

All right, and then versus Percy. Same rule. 14. Woof. Oh, you're adorable. This is you both for the series of terrible attacks. That ends their turn. Gurn, you're up. Gern.

At the start of your turn. It's my turn. But first you have to take your fire damage. Okay. Oh, I'm still getting, I'm still on. I'm still on fire. Yep. All right.

At the top of your turn, because you're now on fire, you take six points of fire damage. The flame, you're just raised into fire all around. It's a bad day. It's a bad Sunday for Gerd. Oh boy. Um, trying to find something that won't destroy. How close is everyone to me? Everyone's pretty close.

No one's near the big guy. No, but I'm standing. I'm right there. I feel like I... Well, here, you can see it right here. You're that little red ring right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then your two followers are right there.

I've got anything that goes in a cube, you can be fine. Do you have anything that's a cube shot? Which way am I? Oh, I'm not facing... Whatever it goes. Okay. Um... I mean, I guess...

Can I run around and throw another... I'd like to run around and throw another cone of cold aimed at that guy and then up at the... the prick hovering above everyone. This direction you mean? Yes. Okay. So you can move around to this side of the elemental

is currently in case and kind of pushing past your allies. Whip around, you get a little bit of view through the fire and the flames that are swirling around you. You concentrate and then release a burst of cold energy. It might not be close enough. Of course it is! It'll be enough to get those two there. All right.

Oh, I suppose that's impressive. That's impressive. That's not. Nothing. All right, so Constitution saves in the elemental. That's a, what's your DC? Is it 15? 16.

16. Fails, and then on the salamander, that is another big fail with a 13. So go ahead and roll 8D8 damage. Oh, fuck. All right, 5, 6, 13, 19, 23, 25, 31. 40. I'm sorry.

What was that last one? Shit, 3135. 3135. 35 points of cold damage to both the salamander and the elemental in front of you. Great. And so you see as the blast of winter, Archie Energy just skirts forward. Casting most of the dark area here in snow and ice and sleet, you can see the front of this lava pond is cooled for the moment.

And actually, it could be walked across for one to two more rounds as the lava has now turned to the door. You're welcome. Still on fire, by the way. Yes, you are also still on fire. Did he freeze that? It would take, someone has to take an action to try and douse the flames on him, whether it be himself or possibly your allies. Because you still have, you can still give actions to your two undead buddies.

Oh. In that case, I think I'd like to ask the zombie character, which I believe was, no, Stimpy was a skeleton. I believe this is coral. This is coral. I'd like to have coral rip is my is my skin on fire is it just my vest both actually like actually the scales are starting to crisp really hard to get the vest yes um I'd I need to have it like swat you it's like I'd I need to have the zombies body hurl its body on top of me under the ground

and roll around on me to get the flame off It's a very stinky enterprise. Okay, I'll allow this. You are intentionally going prone. So you'll start your next combat round on the ground, which means just half your movement, as Stimpy hobbled over, and begins to roll around. Is there like snow or ice on the ground?

There is behind the elemental, yes. Can he scoop some up? The zombie can take one action. Unfortunately, it's not a super intelligent creature. One or the other. All right, then I suppose he just has to roll on top of me. Okay. So you guys glance over the corner of her eye, you see the dragon boar and all of a sudden, jumps to the ground,

sprawled out, Snow Angel style. Do it! Just do it already! What are you waiting for? As this undead begins, just flailing about on top of his body, you're starting to get elements of, you know, decaying goo. Yes, it's fucking terrible! But the flames do eventually go out over the next, you know, five to six seconds or the so. What would you like Stimby to do?

What would you like Stimby to do? I mean, I guess, I would have to give him a candle, then wouldn't I? You would, yes. Right. Maybe he just scoops up as much ice and snow as possible and attacks the... Sure. All right, so Stadby goes over. Snowball fight. picks up some bits of the frost on the ground with the skeletal hands.

Fling on your... Fling it. Funnily enough hits. Fuck, yeah, it does. Because it's right there. And we'll say for that particular instance, it takes... What, like 100 points of damage? Three points of cold damage.

Yay! Steppe! Immediate steam in the face of a fire elemental. Happy memory. Smell like cooked cow. Venus of the moon. First year up. Weird question.

What saving throw does a creature have to make with your sword? Oh, wisdom. It's a wisdom saving throw? Yeah. And it's Constitution for the strength you meet. Constitution. Constitution saving thing.

Good to know. I just answered the first thing that popped in my head. Was wisdom, fascinating. Okay. I'm right in the thick of it, aren't I? Yes. I'm going to break away, I'll take the hit. I don't like attacking these things straight on.

I'm going to take a... At the top of your turn, by the way, you take nine points of fire damage down to four because you are also engulfed in flame as a Scanlan for having passed over the space there. Nine points of fire damage down to four, so I'm on it. Okay. So I'm going to break away and take a run for it towards That crater in the far right corner. Where's the... This way here?

Thank you. Yes. Okay. Running past the fundamental does get an attack opportunity on you, swinging out with its flaming appendage. That's going to be a 13 to hit. No, that ain't going to hit. That's fine. I'm going to take my bonus action and I'm going to cast hex on it.

On which one? On the one I just ran away from. Okay. That elemental is now currently hexed. Next. With a disadvantage on Constitution saving throws. Oh, okay. Hey.

Teamwork! Hey. That's fucking, I don't think of any blood, though. Is it saving throws, or is it ability checks? Ability checks. Yeah, it doesn't affect saving throws. Gotcha. All right, never mind.

Well, that's fine. Since I've broken off, I'm going to take some shots at him anyway. I'll take three shots. Go for it. The first one is a 18, 18 hits. That's seven points. of damage. All right.

Second one's a sharpshooter. That's 25. 25. And with that shot, wheyes, leaves time for the rest of us, big boy. Wait, why I go back? Let's say, sorry, this is one that took all the damage from the cone of colts. This one is still fine.

Oh. Bob you a victory. That was so weird, he disappeared for a moment, and then it was actually damaged him yet, have I? You did seven damage. No, I didn't, because I didn't. because I didn't. Oh, that was the first damage, the second damage I haven't done yet.

No, you have not. Okay. 20 points of damage. All right, nice. Another sharpshooter. You're adding your hexes this, right? No, I'm not. Oh shit.

D6 to each of these, buddy. Oh, so that's six extra points. And that's seven extra points total. All right. And third sharpshooter shot, thank you for reminding me on the hex. That's a 12 that's gonna miss. and miss this unfortunately. You shoot too far. It actually like separates its body for a second. The flame's flickering away from the impact of the bullet. Passing through. No effect, unfortunately.

Weird, weird thing. Can I, can I spend an action surge and put myself out on fire? You can't. You know what? It's just fire. I will be on fire. You will be on fire, Percy. I'm gonna be on fire. Sure, sure. Scanlan, you're up. What is holding the thing that's floating in the sky aloft? Is he flying? Is he supported on a column of fire? No, he's brought a plastic shelf with himself. Oh, oh, of course.

He's just standing on it. It's IKEA May. You just kind of build up. It's the schlogle. It used to be flying. The very essence of this creature is like partial flame and magic, and it's just levitating as his lower form is a tiny dervish whirlwind of black ash and flame. That sounds awful. And he's a larger creature or smaller? Large.

He's a large creature or smaller. It's a large creature or smaller. Okay. I'm gonna make him the boy in the bubble. So I will cast Oto Luke's resilient sphere. Yay! What is that? I'm going to make a bubble around him. All right, well first you take four points of fire damage because you're on fire. Yeah, whatever. Oh, wait, no, but it was nine, right? You said?

Hmm? Wow. That was when I originally got to you and then you're just, you're still burning every turn until you put yourself out. All right, the range on the resilient sphere is 30 feet, so you're going to want to get closer to the cast. Okay, I'll walk. He's going to hit me, isn't it? This is cool currently if you want to go across. Yes? You can get there, and that'll be enough distance. Okay. I'll do that. Okay. And then straight up in the air. Okay. So it has to make a dexterity saving throw. What's the DC?

Old Heluk's Resilient Sphere. Yeah, the DC-Ongu's supposed to 20 right now, right? It is. Wow. And it rolled in 19, 18. 18. Oh! That's one. Wow. Oh my gosh.

And with that, suddenly you guys see Scalyn concentrate shouting the magical incantation through the hand cone. You're in a ball, motherfucker! You see a somewhat pink-purple-hued globe of crystalline magical archa-energy just form around the creature. And the ephritus goes, Does he fall or can he continue to firebime? Apparently, the sphere is weightless. So no, he stays where he is.

And is it a good witch? Oh, good witch. Okay. Science check. Yes. Does oxygen penetrate? There is still air inside. Damn it.

Because that would have been amazing if it was. I was looking away. What just happened? Oh, fuck. What? Always look at me! Oh, I was, there was some, I was looking at some grubs over by the grubs. I'm hungry.

Okay. Oh, and I'll turn around and I will heal Gern. Because he's not doing great. All right. With my bonus action, I'll, at a second level, I will cast Healing Word. And I will sing to him again because he loves it so much. You know, I think I'm fine with 26. Gern, baby, Gern!

Candle Inferno! Gurn! Gurn! Four, man! All right, and so second level is that it's 2D4 plus? Yes, five. 2D4 plus five, you heal. Holy shit.

Oh, do I roll that? Do I roll or does he? Whichever one, doesn't matter to me. Okay, and two, yeah, I got one back. Thank you. Okay. One, four, okay, so nine. Great.

All right. Scan, that ends your turn. Keyless, you're up. Thank you. Okay. I will never again not watch your spell casting. A tiny bundle of adorable creature. Is that guy and that guy within 30 feet of each other? It's kind of hard to tell with the thing on it.

There is 30 feet between them, yes. Okay. Meaning like a 30 foot long spell could hit both of them, correct? A 30-hit long spell could 10, 10. You can only hit one. It's 30 feet between them. Okay, so, but this guy, oh, these, damn. Oh, but, but what about this guy and this guy? They're within 30 feet, right? Oh, yeah.

Or salamander and 35 between them. Yeah, the two, sat. These two, there is definitely. Okay, actually, yeah, let me do that. Okay, I am going to cast a tidal wave right here, and I'm going to go outward in this direction. and it's 10 foot wide and 30 foot long. So I'm actually, let me back up a little bit out of it.

So it's 10 feet wide, and it'll go like that you mean? Yeah. Okay, so you back up to there? Yes. Boom. All right. Okay, dexterity save on each of them. Dexterity save on the first one.

That is. It seems it's water. Do they have like disadvantage? No, not from the saving throw. Okay, that is, the first one does make a saving throw, however. That is 19 plus 3, so 22. On success, it takes half as much damage and is not prone, so it takes half. The other one, however, does fail.

Do they take more damage because it's water? How much is in the spell? It does 48 damage. Right, go ahead and roll that. I'd say, how many gallons would that be? That's all 10 of gallons. Ooh, that's good. 12 plus 8 is 20, plus another 8 is 28.

Math. That's a D8 there. That's, yes it is. 14, okay, 14 and 28. Okay, I'd say that tidal wave, how many gallons of water would we say each one of those? It's 30 foot tall. It's a 30 foot tall. 10 foot wide.

10 foot tall, 10 foot wide. So that's, 30 feet long. That's like. Four gallons, easily. I'd say we're looking at close to 50 gallons of water, right? water, right? Probably way more than 50 gallons. A lot of gallons for sure.

I think it's like a million gallons. It would be like enough totally of... Somewhere between 50 and a million. Guys, why did we switch it metric? It would be a few hundred gallons of water. We'll say for the purposes of this. How many deciliter's of water? I know.

For the width of it and the space you had to pass it through, we'll say roughly 60 gallons of water passes through each these elementals. Okay. Water susceptibility, for every five feet the elemental moves in water or for every gallon of water splashed on it, it takes one point of water. cold damage. They both take an additional 60 points of damage. Oh, which destroys both of the elemental. Oh!

Do that again, Keeley! Okay, I will. Again, again. Again, again. Okay. So, Kyla, you have more movements still if you want to move somewhere. Damn! Oh. I'll scooch up a bit, kind of start moving towards...

Like there? Yeah, that's good. That works. All right. That brings some. to Grog, you're up. I would like to rush up where Scanlan is and attack that little guy on the ground there. Right there? I'm the little guy on the ground.

No, not there, no, you're the other guy that's next to him. Okay. And can I use reckless attack? Are you raging first, or are you? Oh, yeah, raging. Okay. I would like to rage. Okay.

And then use reckless attack against him. All right, so you got two attacks, reckless attack. That's good. I have two. 24. 24 hits. I have that 23. 23 hits. Awesome. 10, 18 on the first one.

Nice. And 10, 5. I don't know. I rolled out. 23. 23. Nice. All right. So as you rush past, looking over at the cooled rock that's starting to crack and bits of, you know, steam vents are starting to push through underneath your feet, scantling. The area you're standing on isn't very sturdy. You probably don't want to move pretty soon. However, you see this barreling form of pure anger and blade from rushing past as Grog just slams into this Salamander twice with this blade. That's a fails first constitution and fails second. Yes!

So you gain plus two strength, Salamander loses two strength. Yes. However, because you've taken, you have taken you with each single, you with each strength, you, with each strength, you, you, with each strength, you, strike with an melee, the salamander's heated body is so intense by its proximity that you suffer six points of fire damage from the first melee attack against. She gave me a resistance, so half to three. After two. The other one would be 12, so you take six. Okay, eight total. Total of eight fire damage, just from slamming and attacking the salamander. All righty. That brings us to the very end is now the salamander's turn. After being hacked twice by you, Grog, it turns around

It takes its trident in its both hands, looks at you with this horrible snarl. You can see now these kind of glistening, almost ruby-like sharp teeth and its wide grin. These long kind of catfish-like tendrils that kind of waved off its face as it slams down the spear towards you. Oh, you brought a fork to a sword fight. That is going to be a 23 to hit. Oh shit, that hits. You take 12. points of piercing damage.

And up to six. And it's going to also turn around in its tail. Long snake tail whips you. What's bad guys? What's the point? That is going to be 18 to hit. And misses. It misses. All righty.

The tail comes towards you and you just knock it out of the way with Craven Edge. That will end its turn. Top of the round. I'm going to go and make a roll for the consistency of the currently cooled lava pool. It maintains. However, it's, you feel your feet kind of like cracking beneath and you start.

Go stay. It's right. It's nice here. All right. Maybe a time share. This, this, eerie, let me look at the logistics of this spell now because. Oh yeah, no, this spell is awful. It can't do anything.

Yeah. There is a close for the duration, up to a minute. Done. Sorry, Matt. Sorry, Matt. He's like, I'm going to say. Sorry, Matt. Now my flame genie.

It's pushing against and it takes these two flame balls it conjures and throws them out towards you guys. They're just going to go pfpf against the sphere and then go out and just kind of, it's really, really pissed off. I can't do anything. It's a bottle. Go to rub me the right way. We all collectively look up at it and looks out and go,

oh. I'm looking forward to just rolling it back through the rift. Oh my God, should we do that? Just rolling it back into the rift. Like a hamster ball. Oh, Wonderwe. Oh, wow. All right, ending that it's turn, because you can't do anything.

Bax, you're up. All right, I'm going to scoot up right in front of Keyleth on the edge of the frozen-over pool of lava, but I'm not going to stand on it, and I'm going to chuck three daggers at the salamander in front of grog. Right there? Right in front of her. Between her and that, yeah. There you go. Okay. One, two, three to the salamander.

Go for it. 21, then 25, and then 21. And then 21. What's happening? Okay, all three hit. Yeah, all right, and because he's flanked by grog, the first one gets sneak attack damage. Two plus eight, 14, 16, 17, 22, 23, 25,

31 for the first, and then 10 for the second, and 8 for the third. All right. Good to know. As you jump in front of the wave of Keleith, you unleash all three daggers in rapid succession, each one finding its mark, shing, shink, into the body of the now profusely bleeding salamander. You can see now streaks of its own blood are pouring down, kind of boiling on contact with air, air, the significant difference in temperature from the exterior and its actual interior body, causing it to change from a liquid to a gas. It's a rogue.

And your turn? I'd look over my shoulder at Keelot's like a dumb schmuck for a second, and then back at the soundlander. Okay. Vex, you're up. Okay. I'm going, am I hiding? Am I hidden? You can roll a stealth, check. A hide action is a hide action? It's, as a rogue, do you have the, I don't know, not? I don't know what, not really smirged off of the dice. That means that existence is about to end.

Oh, there's literally. I think it's a long. Just roll this. Roll another one. Roll my spiking. You technically, technically, you do not have any action yet. It's a second level rogue ability. Okay, but I had my skirmish stealth.

If you go from hide to hide, you can do that. But you're not hidden at the beginning of the round. Sorry, it's a rookie rogue mistake. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fine, that's fine. All right, then I'm just gonna. At the higher levels, you mess up the assassinate thing. Everything's a concentration thing, so I'm just

got a lightning arrow the giant fire guy. Right there? Go for it, roll for attack. Okay. Oh, that's my new name for her. Yep. Boom. That'll hit.

That'll hit. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Just hit a sparrow on paraglides. That's 4D8 lightning damage on a hit. Correct. Yep.

It's okay. Well, half good, half bad. 18. 18. It's an average down. That's it. 18 points lightning damage? Yeah.

All right, so as you turn around the side of the tree, releasing the arrow as it goes through the air, streaking it, so suddenly bursts into an arcing bit of energy. A bolt of lightning that strikes into emigants to spill around the insides of the lightning elemental. You can see it kind of shakes it off as the energy disperses. Okay, I'm going to use my bonus action to hot, hot. hide then and it's the skirmishers thing. For my skirmishers stealth I can use a bonus action to hide. I'm pretty sure you have to if you go from hiding to hiding you can do it. You don't... I swear! It's the ability, read the ability. Okay, where is it? Right now on the air. Okay,

where is it? Okay, where is it? I'll find it and then I'll find out. Okay, and then I'll roll for stealth then if it works. Okay, I'll say for the sake right now of the distraction, go ahead and do it for now and we'll correct it later if need be. Rather you have fun than not. What's your stealth roll? My stealth roll is a real good deal. He's a good guy. He's a nice fire.

He's tough but fair. No, it was a... 15. Who's speaking right now? It's not in the book. It's in the... No, it's in the PDF. You haven't put it out.

Okay, we'll have to give that for you. Anyway, would you roll? 15. 15. Okay, good enough. And if your turn, this elemental creature... Oh, geez. Oh, God. Comes.

Coming to me. He's dead. He's dead. He's dead. He's dead. He tripped at the finish line. As another one tears out of the portal. Geez.

It's making its way here at full movement to there. How's it never bad to you? This one's going to go ahead and make two strikes towards you, Scanlon. Two attacks. I feel like the genie might be keeping the board. That's going to be 11. Is that the attack roll? The attack roll?

and the natural one. Elementals can't roll today. And you're already on fire, so this fire form would make much of a difference to it other way. All right, so it's going to end its turn and the elemental pour in. That's the end of there around. All right, that brings us to Gern.

Oh, boy. Feel the GERN. Feel the GERN. So flames are out. You push, not Stimpy, coral off of you. Coral standing. Yeah. Can I, can I,

does it count as my turn if I ask him a question about the orb? No, you can make it a quick little aside. If you shout it out though. If I attack the genie, is it just going to attack the orb and then he's going to be free? Yes. I'm not, I'm not looking at you, by the way. It really hurts.

I didn't realize how much that hurts. Yeah, I know. I've learned a valuable lesson today I think we all. I think we are. I can I cast some type of a mental spell through the orb to the fire genie? You can certainly try.

Would it be too crafty if I were to cast modify memory? Could I modify the fire genie's memory to forget to not kill himself? I'll take that as a no. Can I modify? Can I modify the fire genie's memory to forget to not kill himself? Can I modify the fire genie's memory into thinking that he's completed the task that he came to this realm to complete and that he might go home? You can certainly try. I'd love to try.

Okay. What's the range on the spell? Infinity. Okay. Modify. Modify memory. There is it. There you're fifth level. Oh God, I hope this works. I hope it works. It's a 30-foot range, so you're gonna have to get a lot closer. And you're getting up from prone, which is half your movement, so you only have 15 more feet you can move.

So you wouldn't be able to even get into range. Where's your... Be able to get... One, two, there. That's too far from 30 feet. He wouldn't be able to get into range. Oh shit. So I can't cast one if I've ever anyway. I've already cast two spells like that today.

You can cast... That's true cone of cold. You're out of this level. Those versus. I might, so which way? Is there a chain of people? Oh, I see a couple right there. Laser pointer if you need it. Thank you. So maybe what I'll do is this guy's new, right? Yeah. This guy hasn't been touched really except for her lightning arrow. Maybe I should cast, oh, I can shoot lightning breath, right? You can, yeah. At this, maybe I could shoot at, should I shoot at this guy or this guy?

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Brushing it off with your hands, you lumber forward to the outskirts of this newly cracking, crust that once was a lava pool and will soon be once again. Inhale, as you guys look around, you see this glow, this blue crackling blow on the, glow on the inside of his mouth. The blow is how he got to the mountain. That got inspired to shoot the lightning. I'm flying high, but I can't get an erection. I get so much blow. Gern Blanston. Fly in high. No erection.

Sad. This crackling electric energy on the back of his toothy mouth as he releases this blast of lighting energy forward striking into the chest of the fire elemental that freshly stepped out of the portal. What's the saving throw DC on that? It's 14. 14. It rolled a nine. So go ahead and roll the damage on the breath. How much is it? It's 4d6. 36 lighting damage. I'm rolling really bad tonight. They are, Matt. They are. They are. It's not you. 4, 10, 15, 16. Yeah, that's good. 16 points of lighting damage to that elemental. It kind of pulls back from the blast. You can see its form has to kind of

reconvene. There's a little bit of kind of a black and gray smoke that billows out from the wound as it turns to you. You've definitely got its attention. Hello! With your bonus action, would you like to do anything with your compadres? Oh, right. I still have two left, don't I? Yes, you do. You do like dancing. I'd like to send them off to start dancing.

just to the left of this gentleman right here all right just to distract him a little bit because he seems to seem to caught his attention so I'd like to throw I'd like to start a little dance party right there okay this fellow right here this fellow right here the zombie can do a little break break dancing and then and then the skeleton can can do a bit of the a bit of the bird and then maybe the worm Don't give a dance. All right, as the skeleton leaps down into the worm, just flat laid out, cracking part of its pelvis.

They're dancing without music. No music whatsoever. This is a zombie kind of like, the tip of his arm falls off at the ulma. Pop and lock. Pop and lock. Oh, popped off. All right, I'm gonna go ahead and...

All right, um... These guys are great. I'm gonna ask you to go ahead and roll a performance check. Yay! We'll never do those. I feel really bad that you're filled caps now. Okay. Oh, that was almost bad.

Wait, plus... Oh, you have inspiration! You do! You'll use your D-10! This is the time. Oh. So you add a D-10. So seven plus performance plus one, eight, and then a D10.

Roll the D-10. At it. Jesus Christ. Ten. Ten. Trying to recall and hum the song that Scanlan once sing to you not but ten minutes before. You don't recall it much at all and it comes out. It's a...

It's kern. It's kern. It's gurne. Time to gurne. Now you're sharp. Gern. It's all the way. I'm doing great.

Your name was in the song. Gurn is my name. This is definitely the song that I'm singing. It's disheartened enough that, on a low wisdom save, I'll say the Fireland Mental's next attack has disadvantage. Yay! It was strangest round of combat. I think I've never had in Dianzoo.

All right, Percy, you're up. Follow that. I feel like I'm laughing. That. Supportive. First, top of your round, you take nine points of fire damage. Reduced to five. I have the skirmish or stealth.

As a bonus action at the end of your turn, you can make a dexterity stealth check to hide again. All right, cool. There you go. Perfect. Wasn't sure if you had to be hidden at the top to do it. I'm going to shift my hex to the tiny little fucker. Laura. God, you got me doing it now.

Damn it! It's played. It's contagious. Which one this guy there? No, no, no, no. No, no. The one for this from me. Yeah, right there.

All righty. Move my hex to him. I'm going to bust out the bad news rifle. I'm going to sit and I'm going to take a nice, calm, calculated sharp shooter shot at him. All righty. Bad news just goes... Did you misfire? I misfired.

Oh, no. You get down with the gun and... You look at it and you can see some of the metal kind of bowing in the centerpiece. Like, that's bad, that's bad, that's bad, that's bad. It's fine, I put it down, I pull out the pistol, and I'm going to take a shot. Okay, go for it. It's hot. Just keep going on.

That was really awkward. Maybe the heat made your miss-myard. You should just roll the dice. You're also 60 feet apart. Okay, that's a... Well, I mean, it was more... 25 to hit. 25 hits?

Sure. The sharpshooter? Yeah. A sharpshooter? Wow, nice roll. Where was that earlier? Literally. Literally, huh?

Six, twelve. Twenty-twenty-two points of damage. All righty. And I reload and that's my... reload and that's my... That's your turn. Okay. Gotcha. Finish a person that brings us to Scanlan. You're still concentrating on the old Thucs Resilient sphere. Oh yes I am. The Gnome has got this. Hey, how's that stuff under my feet? Pretty rough. You're gonna want to step off of it very soon probably.

I'm gonna step into it? Uh, what are you Scanlan? So I can fire a lightning bolt and hit both of those guys. Oh snap. Okay. And yeah, that's it. That'll be my... You can also keep you move. After the back. You can fire the moment. Okay, good. Thank you for saving me.

All right. I saw that. It was great. Oh, for once. Thank you. Thank you. It was for you. Five now.

And a 12 plus 3.15. No, both failed their saving throw. Okay, so 8D6. 8D6 points of lightning damage to both of them. 14. It's a wonderful display, Gern. I ship Scanlan and Gern. Guys, please.

33. 33, nice roll. Oh, that lighting bolt was so big. And wide. It's the width that really does. It really does. Not so much the length now. It's the girth of GERN.

It's the GERN. And I will re-inspire Gern. Oh wait, you're still injured, aren't you? I will heal Gern. Please. With another healing word. This time at third level. Technically, you can only do as high, a second spell can only be as high as second level.

Okay. You do two spells in one round. It's still very romantic, but I'll do second level. All righty. And I will sing to him, because I'm running out of things that rhyme with his name. Goern down for what? Bup-Bah-doo-da-bo-da-bo-da-bo-da-d-d-d-d-d... I might remind you I'm unable to get an erection at the moment.

However, in spite of that, the blue pill does give you ten additional head points. He was. Did the skeleton and the zombies start dancing better after that? Oh yeah. They have a bit. It actually does pick up their pace a little bit. Now they have a backtrack.

Skelon starts grumping. What is the elemental doing while they're dancing? Well, it's currently being surrounded by a swirl of HECS shadow and looking around very confused and wondering why I got up in the morning. Where's the closest? Do you want to move out? And I can move out? You can. You can.

It will, yes. Okay. But better than possibly falling in. Oh, and do I get... I'm still on fire, right? Yes, you are. I'll take an action to put it out, though, unfortunately. That is 18 plus six, I believe that does hit you.

You take 12 points of fire damage. Plus whatever I was on fire. You already took that damage earlier. I did? At the beginning of my turn? Yeah. I will put that already. So you take nine points of fire damage, I think it was.

Oh, okay. Plus 12? Plus 12. If I'm wrong, whatever, it's fine. Okay. All right, that ends. Your turn Scanlan? Keeleth.

Okay, so we have these two assholes in front of us. My name is Vax. Well, it depends on the day. So that guy's still alive too, yeah? Yeah, all three of these guys are alive. And this guy's in a hamster ball. Being pissed. It's like the prisoner.

It's just a weather balloon. Yeah, it's a rover just holding him in place. I'm going to tidal wave again. Title wave. Title wave again. Right here, this way. I'm fucking with these two guys. Alrighty, let's go ahead and roll some saving throws on their end.

Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Six and eight, both fail. Yay! Who is number one? I am not a number. I'm a free man. That's so good. So good. The original one, not the ring. Patrick McGuwin.

All right, two failed saving throws. Good, and we'll damage on that. It's really good. I'm warning you right now. 7 and 7 is 14 plus another six. Bring me to 22. 20. 20 plus 8.

28, again. That's what I had last time, right? 28. 28 points of water damage plus the additional blast of water gallons surging through them, manages to completely scatter both of these. Whoa, the big hug! I don't know how much water.

We actually had a critter tweet us how much water. How much water would be in that tidal wave? 225 gallons. Oh, there's no way they're surviving that. And technically in tidal wave it says, the water then spreads out across the ground in all directions, extinguishing unprotected flames in the area within 30 feet of it. Emputited flames are different than lava pools,

and the water doesn't grow it, it just evaporate. We've got steam. You do. You have a very, very heavy cloud of steam now that is sush the side. The dancing skeletons aren't. skeleton and zombie are now just these shadows lit in this kind of cool music video light now as they're dancing. And as if this were a telltale game at the top of the screen it says, Keeleth will remember this. Exactly.

I'm then going to use... Title wave on firementals. That's nasty, man. That's the wrong way. Um, there you go. Can I use my bonus action? It's perfect. This is happening, guys. Is it the rest of your turn, Gila? Do you want to move somewhere? Question. Yes, what's your question?

What's your question? Can I theoretically cast a grasping vine coming out of the hell mouth? No, Gresping Vine is a fourth level spell, I believe. And as a bonus action, you can't do anything more than a second level spell in the same round. Fuck, never mind. Sorry. Actually, no, that's not true. I will take my bonus healing word to... toss another healing word, just first level over to Gern.

Aye. Just keeping the dancemeister alive over there. Oh my god, amazing. So you heal, uh, uh, uh. You heal eight points, Gern. Eight healing, eight points of healing to you, Gern. He's gone. He's gone.

He's all, we can't save him. Grog, you're up. I use another reckless attack, and I'll make the first strike against the guy right in front of me. Go for it. Jesus. Bad time. 14. 14. Misses. Dammit.

And with the second one. Are these with Great Weapon Master? No, just reckless deck. This one's with great weapon. Okay. Nope. Beto. 60 plus 9 is 25, minus 5 is 20. That hits. Go and roll damage.

Hey, Nazi. 10, 18, 28. 28 points of damage. Okay. This time, as you release the first blow of your sword 40, catches it in the blade of the Trident and deflects it off to the side, slamming it into the ground, almost pinning the weapon for a second. Gets up on your face and grins, and the actual breath that emanates from its teeth, begins to burn and singe the edge of your beard hairs, and that

invuriates you. And with that, you actually lift up, crave an edge between the blades of the Trident. It's a test of strength, as you both tense, and eventually you lift it back, and with the back swing, slashing right across his chest with that blow. You see a strike of extremely hot, hot blood just splatter across, kind of singe to the front of your chest, and leave little burn marks on you. Yes. Like freckles.

You don't want to fuck with his beard. You just make a say. She has a name. Sorry, Laura. Well, hopefully. Is it the end of your turn? Yes, yeah, that's year about turn. All right.

Next round. Darling, shush. Eiffrit's going to go ahead and start pushing against the ball, which is going to just begin to coast of the air this way. Does he spin the globe? Oh my gosh. Just kind of gliding through slowly.

Yeah, that's about all I can do this turn. Sorry. Oh, no, it's what you do. It's what you do. All right, Vax you're up. Man, all right. I'm in a good spot. I'll just throw three more daggers at the salamander the garage has not yet killed. First one is a natural 20.

The first one is a natural 20. The second one is a 13. And the third one is a, oh fuck, is a 14. Okay. So the first one is... Put a hold off on those two attacks just in case how much damage your critical sneak attack does. Blah. Five, six, seven, eight, twelve, eighteen, twenty one, twenty-five,

twenty-five, so you double the dice is fifty-six for the first one. Okay. So as you throw the dagger, it goes right past Grog's ear and you can hear the wind as it just brushes past your face after you finish your back with Craven Edge as the salamander creature rears back from the impact. It looks towards you and just its eyes twitch just ever so slightly to your right as it sees the incoming blade a little too late as it shoof right into its right eye socket. Its tongue lulls out of its jaws it falls onto its back. And its tail kind of moves and twitches for a few seconds before it eventually goes limp. No, no, he's still alive, and I kick him, and I'm like, now he's dead.

Grog stops it into the ground, twitching stops, and salamander now destroyed. Is the dagger stay in his eye socket? It's currently in the eye socket, yeah. Ooh. Can I reach down and grab it? Yeah. You go and grab the dagger and as you pull it out, it turns into smoke in your hand. Holy shit!

I look back and Max. Grog, how did you do that? I don't know. I picked my bag. I'm a magic user now. And I'm not trying to cast, reanimate person on the dead thing. Okay. That's not how you do that.

No, no, no, no, go, I'm going to concentrate. All right. Hey, Scanlan. What are we going to do with his giant ball? We need someone to bring him down to Earth. Keyleth, can you bind him down? Or Gern, do you have something that can move things? Can I, can I...

Oh, go ahead. No, go ahead, Gern. Does anyone have a large purple ham they could use? I feel like I had draconian spurs. Oh. Yeah, one spell at a time. I thought I had some sort of a Cannesa spell, but I guess I don't. Chromatic orb?

Can you bring it down, Cleleth? I can try. Can I do a grasping vine from the bottom underneath of him? Oh, Zovar. Lava. He's got something. Oh, sorry, go ahead. What are you doing?

What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could either manipulate his memory, or I do have a flying broom. Oh. What? Yes?

Yes, I have a flying broom. Are you gonna like, like you do? Like you do. Like you do. Like you do. Like you do. Yes, yes. Let's do that.

We need to get rid of everything. Yes. Great appreciation day. Are you doing your mind as well or letting it? Let me see how this goes for itself. Okay. So as you're, without any, any other command, your two friends, Coral and Stimpy, are still over there just dancing as

the mist slowly dissipates from the deluge. You pull out from the side of your little satchel there, your flying broom, which is a pretty decent kind of medium-sized broom. Places in the air, it kind of rests there, slightly shifting in place. You leap up onto it and grab onto the front as you shoot up from the side. Going up to catch the golden bitch! That's like... As you... Like rooms?

Yeah. As you place yourself on top of the Old Tukes resilient sphere, placing all your weight onto it, it sinks a little bit. Awesome. Then it kind of comes to a halt. About three feet it sinks as you're just standing on top of it. That's as far as it goes. What do you aren't do?

Can I... I'd like to try to cast the memory spell on it if possible. Okay. Well, you've already cast the fifth level spell twice? How many fifth level spells can you cast per day? Two. Yeah, so you modify memory, unfortunately, you're out of fifth level slots. Could I cast it on you to forget that I've already cast this place? Scanlan, how much time do we have with this bubble? A minute, but I bet 30 seconds have gone by by...

Oh God! Get him down, get it down! Can I put myself out while this is happening? Yes, you can do that. Can I push down? Can I push down? You can jump onto it and begin to push down more than. I'm going to push down with all my mind to try to get him down on the ground. Okay, so you leap in the air.

and shove on it again as you do the orb. And just slowly over the next 15 seconds, shove it down to the point where you're over the orb right now on the very top, as you can feel the spell about to dissipate. Grog, stop trying to reanimate that thing and hit the friggin' red guy into the pole. Go ahead and roll an Arcana check. Oh, he's the best of an Arcana. 20. Get it. Reanimate that fuck.

Six. This isn't working. Must be a rookie mistake. What are we trying to do? Shove him back into the hole. Shove him in. Shove that fucking thing in there. He's standing over, he's over lava.

Yeah, but you are made of hit points. All right, fuck you. I just, this is your thing. Can I do the vine from out of the portal? Can I do the vine from out of the portal? No, it has to have an anchor point somewhere. All right, fuck it, no, I just run in a rage, and I run into the lava,

and I start shoving him as in. In the ladder, straight towards the flaming vagina hole. Okay, I want you to go ahead make an athletics check. No, mate, this would be a full strength check on this. Just roll a strength attack. Give advantage because you're still raging. Although you wouldn't be raging anymore because you spent time concentrating on the spell. You could go into a rage for this if you'd like to.

Spend another use of your rage. Yeah, I'll use another one. Okay, so you're going to a rage. All right, as you step into the actual lava, you suffer 26 points of fire damage. fire damage from wading up to your knees in molten rock. Half. Half because of your resistance. 12. All right, so 12.

I roll the 22. With that, you shove the sphere, which shifts back about halfway to there. You kind of have to like, whoa, catch yourself on the side, grabbing the broom and kind of holding it out here as you're kind of stepping the other direction. I want you to go ahead and make an acrobatics check. All right. Seven. Seven? You have inspiration. No, he used it. He used it.

As you slip off the top of the sphere, begin to fall back, putting towards the lava behind you, in a very Lord of the Rings gallum tumbling into Mountain Doom type of view. Back first into the lava. Oh, shit. I feel fine. Actually, it's pretty... You take six points of fire damage, impacting.

Rolled really low on that. I meant to do that. You can feel the back of your scales and the flesh on your back immediately begin to burn with horrifying pain. You're holding your broom aloft because you don't want that to go in the fire. I run forward to try to help him out. And steal the broom. And with that, the sphere breaks.

Oh, crap. Dyernit. Run up. Do I have an action? Right now we're going back to the initiative order, since combat has reinitiated with the sphere opens. That brings us to the top. The Eiffrit now freed from his fear is going to go first.

He's mad. He is livid. All right. I just wanted you to know I was trying to free you. They'll roll these people. Lake of lava. These assholes. Can you believe they rode these people?

It's going to fly back up. Ah, creep away. It's going to, let's see. It's going to go ahead and cast invisibility on itself, and then it vanishes from view. Great. As it does that, do I recognize the spell? You do.

The sparrow. I cast counter spell. You can. Go ahead and roll. Wait, oh, we know, it's a second level spell. It auto, yeah. Yeah, because it is a second level. Aye.

Yeah. Yeah. All right, so as it's forming is to vanish, Scanlan, what do you do to counter it? Oh, I'm gonna sing, uh, no, I'm gonna distract it. With this. With an app. With an app.

Oh, wait, that's not what I want. Keep going. Distract him with your morning radio program. And that bit of chaos is just enough. As it begins to cast its innate invisibility spell, it looks over, what? Shit! And loses the spell concentration, the invisibility field vanishes,

and it kind of stands there. above. All right. That brings us to Vax. Oh, shite. All right. I'm going to leap over the lava pit. Make an acrobatics check. Yeah. That'll be a 28, so for fun. I'm going to run up behind Grog. And I should be within... I'm darting around the side. Because you are hasted with this, so you can actually just dart around the side. All right, right behind Grog, I should be within 60 feet of the Afriety. Yes. And I'll throw three daggers at it. Go for it. First one is a 34.

That hits. Second one is a 27. Third is 29. So they all hit. Jeez. But there's no snook-a-jerk on these. So this is 10. How'd you get 34 on your attack?

I don't know anymore. I rolled really high and I rolled my attack bonus. Like a 19 plus 11? 30? 30. I don't know. That's okay. A 30 works.

It looked right when I did it. Okay, 34 I was just like, ah, I didn't leave. All right, so, it hits, it's fine. There's no subterfuge. It might be stupidity. That's fine. First one was a 10, second one was a 10, and the third one is seven.

Seven, got it, all right, cool. That ends your turn, Vax. That brings us to Vex. Hunter's Mark. All right. It is, uh. It wasn't because I used lightning air, so it dropped the concentration.

That's right, so you Hunter's Mark once again. Which put that back on there. All righty. Although it doesn't really matter, because I'm going to cast lightning arrow on him and I lose my hundred sparse. I can cast. The trauma from the earlier episodes.

Hunter's spark! All right, so lighting arrow again, go to roll for the attack. Oh, yay. Oh, that's 31? 79. 30, 31. That hits. Go and roll name it.

Okay. Burn you on deck. Burn you on deck. Good. Good. 23. 23 points of damage, already. Ooh.

That's better. The lightning slams into his chest, and you can see kind of arcs through his scimitar that it's holding up in its hand, and it kind of like shakes and almost drops the weapon and catches its arm as the electricity disperses out the edge of the blade and kind of looks back at you. He's now glaring at both you and Scanlan.

I'm going to use my movement to run up around the molten lava and hold my hand out for Gern so that he can use me to get out of the molten lava. All right, that's as far as you can get there. Okay. All right, Gern, top of your turn, you take 24 points of fire damage from the lava as you're sinking into it. Goals.

I'm going to be building. Yeah, me too. So can I jump up and then cast a spell? You'd have, right now you could try and cast in this area, but you'd have a hard time concentrating. I'd say you have to take a concentration check to even get a spell out because you're in so much pain. I'd say you'd probably want to move out of the lava before you do it. to do that.

Take it out of there, Blue Boy. All right, I'll get out to the lava. So you kind of like, kind of stand. Take my hand! It's too deep, and you're having to basically wade your way through, which is burning your hands as you get over there. How about my broom? You're holding your broom.

Right. So here's what you do. You go ahead and you kind of lift yourself up out of the lava onto the broom, and then kind of push, and you know, you're not fully on it, and it's hard to kind of engage its mental commands directly with the current amount of chaos around you, but you do manage to skirt yourself. just to the very edge of the lava and land on your feet, which are numb after the sheer amount of pain you've suffered. And you don't even want to look down at what you look like from the bottom.

Do you need me to hold your broom while you cast your spell? Please. Thank you. Oh, don't do. Okay. Done. So she takes the room from your hand. What are you going to cast? Dysenegregate. Dysenegenerate?

Dissendigrant? That's a spell? That is. Big one. We've seen that happen. We have? Yes. Who did that?

The whole. I'm fairly pissed at the moment, as you should be. All right, so you get to go ahead and roll. Get the fucker, you dirty bastard. Let me get to the spell here all fast. All right, disintegrate. You need to go ahead and make, oh, it just makes a dexterity saving throw.

It doesn't even get, all right. What's your spell DC again? 16. 16. Rolled a two. Yes! That's going to be bad. All right, roll 10D6 plus 40 damage.

Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Damn. 10 D6. disintegrate is messed around. Yep. Just remember that giant. It was in your...

All sexes. Yeah. It was smearing at that. 10, 11, 16, 22. It's all I don't think is about, like, if they make the save. No. 22, 23, 23, 36. So 76.

Oh, damn, son. Of force damage. As you get out, you can see your vest itself is burned. There's still elements of like embers, kind of burning at the edges of the leather and the cloth. The bottom part of your scales are a combination of blue, black, and little bits that have cracked open where you can see red flesh underneath. There's a lot of burn damage. Zippers are very hot, I might say, I bet they are all of us. However, as you turn around and as your kind of fin jewelry on the sides of your face jangles

with this speed as you spin around and point your finger upward, the arcane energy forming at the end of your finger, this singular beam of dull green arcane energies streaks forward The Eiffrit, who is currently focused on Scanlan and watching Vex run past, looks down just in time to see you release the spell, opens his eyes, and attempts to dodge it out of the way. Unfortunately, not fast enough. It blasts inside of its shoulder, and you can see as a whole chunk of its back muscle, shoulder, and lower torso are just turned to dust, exposing bone and elements of its musculature and flesh underneath. It goes, and looks down. It can't even make a loud, emitting of pain. It's just kind of gutturally whispering its horrible suffering. As it looks down and reaches up with its hand,

it kind of carterizes the wound on the back of its body, leading it kind of a charred cinder. It glares down at you. Oh, shit. Extremely angry. I hate you most of all, scarecrow. Go back to your fire slit. Fierce, you're up.

Um, unless you want your dudes to do anything, by the way. They're still over there dancing. And they should get a little bit of. closer and dance. Okay. Front of him just to make sure they get very self-conscious if no one's paying attention. Of course. They're just cheering on.

I'm just to dance him while I'm standing in the right. Can I, can I, can I, can I, can I, can I, can I try and, try and shoot him to, to drop him out of the sky a bit, or is that? You can certainly try. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna hex him. He's hexed. All right, so the hex moves over. Smovoo! All right.

And I'm gonna, I'm gonna take a, a shot to try and drop him. I'm going to take a grit shot to have drop him. Go for it. That's 22. 22 hits. And that's what's the saving throw for that? Strength throw. Strength? Oh, 23.

Really? Yeah. Sorry. That's fine. You just take his damage. Okay. Little bitch. Plus one D6. Don't forget. Yes. Thank you. That's a great spell. That's a great spell. Fucked him up. 11.

17 points of damage. Nice. I'm going to shoot again. Well, that's the end. Is this with your pistol? Yeah, I'm just with the pistol right now. And what's your first range increment on that? 400.

The pistol? Yeah. 1,200 for bad news. Your first range increment. I'm a sharpshooter. I have no range increment. That's right. Good call.

Yeah, so fire again. Rang increments are for you. We don't do that here. Yeah. All right. 20. That's 20, 20, 30, 31 to hit.

That hits, roll damage. Scanlon, you're up next, by the way. Thank you. And that's 16 points of damage. All righty. It's two shots. Just as it manages the car rise, the wounds from the disintegrate spell. Both bullets blast into its torso, and you can see it's now,

thinking that a height advantage would be helpful after being locked in a hamster ball, and then now being repeated. repeatedly blasted from every which way. It's not enjoying its current experience by any means. It's going to get worse. All right, and now I'm doing a sharpshooter shot. Okay. Pee-Pew. That's 18? 18 hits.

Oh, yeah. And that's, oh, that's 28 points of damage. Nice. This one, I actually blasts into the center of its chest, and you can see part of its pectoral muscle just tears open and flamed. just erupts from the impact. It kind of reaches up and... Action surge. Oh. Fuck this guy. Sorry. I'm... I'm... keep pulling it. Same thing. I'm sorry. I'm same thing. Sharp Shooter. I'm just... I'm going to be rolling sharpshooter.

Go for it. Okay. Get the other nipple now. The other nipple. It's matching piercings. 22. 22 hits. This is going to be a rough round for him. 27 points of damage. All right. Reload and one more shot.

Jesus Christ. Yeah, shot, reload, one more shot. You got it. That's 17, 2029. That's a hit, yeah, go for it. Roll damage. That hits. Damn, man.

16. 21 points of damage. All right. These like holes are beginning to appear in its body where there's the bits of fiery flesh are being blasted away from the impacts of your weapon. your weapon. All right, that brings us to Scanlan. It didn't kill him?

Nope. No, but he's a, he's a sieve now, but he's, yeah. You guys held them. This took like 100. It took a lot of damage. It took a lot of damage. Hey, that ion stone that I have, does that allow me to cast a fourth level three spell? If the spell you put it into it was a fourth, third level spell, yeah. It was a third level spell, so it's like an extra, a third level spell.

Right, then you... I'm maxed out on third level spells, but I still have that thing. So yeah, so it wouldn't be a fourth level spell because you didn't cast the new it as a no, I mean, I mean the fourth time I've cast a third level spell. Oh, gotcha, it wouldn't count against your daily... It's in addition to that. So I will, for the first time I ever use that stupid ion stone and cast lightning bolt again. I'm just sticking with my method here.

All right, all right. With a five, it does not make it saving throw. Go ahead and roll damage. 8D6. 6. Oh, you're gonna do it. Thank you. Okay.

Who's after? Here comes the cube. Oh. 17. 17. 17. Thank you. Do you do this one too?

Yeah, 2328. 28. How do you want to do this? Oh, both kill! I think I would like to, if there's a way, I'd like to angle it somehow so that he will drop right on top of Grog. I feel like Grog can do something to a falling behemoth. It's hard pressed from this angle, unfortunately.

Grog's at an angle. You wouldn't really do that. Mindy, when you blast him, he'll plummet to his, close to his feet if you wanted to. All right, yes, let's do that. So Grog can feel like he gets part of this too. Okay. And if I can, I'd like to be able to be able to. burn a big S in his chest.

So as you charge up and blast the lightning bolt from your crotch region, you then do like a little dance maneuver with your waist, causing it to carve a scamplin S into the torso of the, as it plummets to the ground, slamming into where the lava would be, while the fire doesn't hurt its form, you can see Grog as it stands on the ground, its forms turning to ash around you. It's actually just dissipating and turning to ash as it

eyes kind of roll up and meet with yours. I'll run over in the lava, and I go, I'd like to cast beheading. Shoo! And I'm... All right, you suffer... Oh, Jesus. 26 points of fire damage reduced to 13 from taking another round in there. Totally worth it for the spell.

As you take paper edge and just take the head off as the head rolls away. I'll grab it. You grab it. Turns to ash. Run out of the lake. You get out of the lava, sitting on the side, and look over and just. and just as the rest of the head just kind of turns to ashes. Oh, shit.

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Yeah, girl. Am I allowed to roll a perception? Yes, you can. Come on, Bex. Come on, sister. 18? Get it. 16 plus. No.

No, so 16 plus 1, yeah. As you're kind of dealing with this, you have no notice of this. You may question it later if you like, but you have no idea where it went and didn't see any of this transaction happen. Oh no! What? What is it? Your broom fell in the lava! You shouldn't have looked at me when I cast my spell! This is why I never!

I looked at you before. Ah, I was wrong to doubt you! No! Now you're a constant source of disappointments! 18? Where's my fucking broom? Make an insight check now. Insight... 13. 13. She's telling the truth, man. That broom just went straight. You're a horrible person. You know, I'm really good at reading people and I know that you're telling me the truth right now. I'm so sorry. No, I feel your sorrow. I feel your sorrow. I feel it. I feel bad for you that you have to experience that. It's just a broom. Right, it's just a flying broom that's very difficult to find. No big deal.

I wouldn't know. I don't know. That's all right. You know, serious, it actually, it sterilized me actually. I'm quite glad it has very dirty properties. Anyone that would put it between their legs to fly around, it would be in horrible danger, horrible danger. So it's actually probably for the better. Yeah, so many STDs. It's really just like a, it's really just like a disease tampon. It's probably what it is. A what? Is that like a magic candle? It's sort of like a magic candle. Yeah, a tragedy candle. Right, it's a tragedy candle. A Blenston candle. Yes. I don't understand sorcery at all. At this point, you hear the flickering of flame and the portal itself has beginning to expand even further. The sky right.

NIRMANN-LIT throws up a skyright spell and says, you know, we're taking the portal. Okay. As this is happening, the flames themselves could grow higher and higher. The lava begins to boil and roll. As you guys all move up to kind of the side, you can see the lava's beginning to kind of like splash out and spray bits are starting to scatter. As some of the nearby trees tumble over and you can see the four-four fire ashari as well as Korn come across one of the clearings. The other way you see, what looks to be another salamander, gets thrown about 15 feet from the trees, hits the ground, skids and is motionless as you see Sarkonos with the rest of the Paira, the Fire Ashari, stepping

through. Kielith, we saw your symbol. Is it time? Yes. All right, let's try to close this rift. And the rest of the druids all began to gather around the outside of this portal as it's flickering. You can see piercing into the extremely blinding light keyleth, you take a moment and using your attachment to the fire ashari and the fire elemental plane from your last passage through it. You can see past the brightness and see beyond the doorway. And you can see on the other side, there appears to be probably another half dozen or a dozen or so of a few other elementals and telemanders that are now making their way

towards the portal. I stand next to my father and join the rest of the woods. Crog, you should probably help them with all of your magic powers. Do you think so? It feels like it's an intimate thing. Just hold your hands up. Hold your hands up. All right. All right. As the rest of the Ashari begin to gather around the portal and concentrate, they are managing to hold the rift in its current size. You see as beads of sweat began to pour down Koren's face, not used to this type of terrain.

We need more power. Okay. If you can eat, whatever you have to bring to this, please. Now's the time. So don't wish to help with the ritual. Oh, yeah. No help. All right, how would you wish to help?

What a nice guy he is. Certainly not someone we should swindle. Well, no, I'm strange that you would say that. I would know if someone were trying to swindle me, believe me. That is true. You all have honest faces, particularly her over there. Very honest face. What can I do to help?

What do you think would lend itself to a fire gate sealing ritual? It could be a spell. It could be a use of a skill. How would you like to? Candle? Do you have any candles that can aid? Like fiery candles, maybe? I have a, no, this one casts, this is a bright light. There's a thunder candle. A blink candle.

No, that destroys dexterity. I have a thunder candle, but I don't know if that would work. Make an arcana check. 19. The blink candle, which you crafted from various parts from blink dogs and other creatures that have natural translocation capabilities might have the capability, as this is a doorway between planes, and teleportation magic is based on creating short-form doorways between similar spaces, might have some impact on the ritual if used properly.

I have this blink candle. It's formed from various animals that blink. And if I, that has trans-dimensional properties, very good properties, the best kind of robust properties that I can throw it in, and it might help stop the, from all of that. Yes, it's all going.

Right, so we're all in agreement, then. Yes, go for it. Well explained. All right, so I'm going to hand, I'm going to hand blink, candle to Coral, and I'm going to have Coral walk into the portal. Brave Coral. Brave Coral.

Fuck, I've lost two in my broom. What a fucking terrible day. As Coral takes the candle, it kind of turns around and then begins to just slowly melt. It steps into the lava. One Coral run! One, seven. Come on Coral. Nine points of fire damage to Coral, who is

already sitting at... Or was it six. I had taken six damage, right? Yes. Yeah, so that brings to 15 from 33. Coral is at half health. Coral, as this is, rough terrain, gets part of the way there, then continues walking forward.

The rest of the way takes an additional, it's going to be 17 points of damage. Oh, no. That's one point left. That's 30, no, that's 22. 32 points of damage. What's Coral's that point? 33 is the max?

What, didn't you just say that? That's what you said. Yep, on the sheet right there. I read my own text. 33 hit points. Coral at one hit point gets up to the lava, takes the coral and as the energy expands from it, you can see like a ripple, like a heat wave ripple that just billows outward, coral vanishes entirely, and the portal shrinks down by about five to six feet.

actually closing in its space. Oh for Coral, I forgot to tell you some... Fuck! Suddenly you hear a... And Coral appears about 10, 15 feet in the air. Oh good, there you are. Listen. Did you see my broom? Shmack!

Coral falls those 15 feet, taking six points of Flusonine damage Fathers the way. Shmack! Let's see if Coral survives this with the undead fortitude. That is, nope. That is a roll of eight versus a total of DC of 11 with the damage taking and a little, splat. Like a really, really old orange just slammed into the concrete. Just, shuddh. Really old orange. One of the fire shard goes,

concentrating on holding the gate. I'm sorry to think you're all very bad luck. However, I did aid the ritual. All right, we have two more folks who can aid in this ritual. I can use, I don't know if it'll help, but I have a really great diamond of awesomeness. That's precious. How would that help? I don't know.

Am I a part of the people who are going to be included as the two? Yeah. Okay, I am going to cast a seventh level plane shift to help smush it. Smush it clear. All right, go ahead and make a nature roll with advantage. Oh, true. This is your understanding of the natural elements the world around you and the connection you have

with the pharma on the plane. It works. Really expensive. Oh, okay, I'll take that. Oh, with advantage, yeah, okay. 23. 23. As you begin to concentrate your hands instinctively burst into flames

to coalesce your condes your connection to the fire elemental plane. As you complete the plane shift spell, your form shimmers for a second, and for a moment it looks like she's only partially there. She's actually translucent as the flames begin to lick up the sides of her body. At this point, you can see the lava flow and the mountain begins to slow and the bubbling begins to come to a stillness. The portal itself shivers again and then shrinks down to the size of a normal doorway, about five foot by ten foot tall, and it's just barely holding on. As you're concentrating and holding it in its place now. You can see now the rest of the druids around are sweating profusely.

Who wishes to take on the last part of this ritual? I have a firebrand war hammer. I could hit it. Anybody else have anything better? Scanlan? Do you have any magic stuff, Scanlan? I can inspire them. I mean... Did you dimension door? Yeah, a dimension door? Dimension door what?

The door. I did planer binding, which technically wasn't really supposed to do what I just did. Plain or shift, you said, right? Plainer shift, I mean, yes. Is it a funny way to tailor magic essences into this type of a ritual? I can, I can, will that, do I know that will work or help? You don't know, you'll find out.

However you wish to aid this ritual and justify how it would be helpful in this instance. I, uh, that's something I could do. Oh. Yeah, spit it up. Do I have the, yeah, go ahead. I whip the cape of the mountebank out of my pocket and run at that door and jump off the edge and just try to balloon umbrella it down over with that red cape.

Hmm. Okay. Matadorate. I'm doing it. I'm madadoring it. Okay. I will say, hmm. How do I make this work? I want you to go ahead and make an acrobatics check.

Okay. That is a 25. All right. You rush up, leaping off the side, spinning in the air. As you do, you unfurl the cape and turn it into a limited parachute type projection. And as you slam it down towards, I need you to go ahead and make a wisdom check to see if you have the capability of triggering the magic of the item at the right time to be impacted. Cross your fingers, everybody. Come on, Vaxie. No bonus is here. No whammies. We don't still have our fancy fees, do we? Oh, yeah, are we still feast? Yeah. So what does that mean?

Advantage. Oh, my God. That's better. That is 13. 13? Yeah, that's better. As you come down, you take the cape and in case it and trigger the magic, at which point the remainder of this doorway just blinks out entirely. The cape gone. The doorway gone. Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Has back right into the lava.

I take a grasping vine from the edge and trying and yank him back. Okay, you take 22 points of fire damage as you splat into the lava. The Death Walker's ward is set to fire, so that reduces it to 11. So you shp, p. In the lava, all of a sudden, the image is flash in your head of the time that you lost most of your foot in the under dark. And you go, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Or you can even react, all of a sudden, something wraps around your waist and yanks you out as a vine pulls you in an arc and slams you into the hard obsidian floor from the outside of the lava flow. The rest of you gather there. As the rest of the druids finish their concentration, the lava poles themselves have gone still, and you can see elements beginning to cool.

and there's currently no sign of a tear between the elemental planes that is currently bursting through. Nice job, Vax! Where am I near her? On the ground? You're currently, she would be back here. You're on the ground right next to a dancing skeleton. Well, I moved up. I moved up.

Okay. You would be part of the ritual, but you fell next to the dancing skeleton. Okay. I look at the skeleton. I look at her. I look at the skeleton. I look at her. I'm an idiot. I'm an idiot.

Yeah, no. I already. Yeah. It's fine. You did good. You did good. I reached down and I help them up. Okay. How about you? I'm pretty bad. I, I, cure wounds level four. Yeah, cool, do that. I'm gonna walk out of the lava now. Taking another, uh, 21 points of fire damage.

damage, reduced to 10. The druids all kind of look around and give a nod of acceptance. All of them acknowledge you, who they have not met and don't understand quite where you came from a while you're here, but one of them who is currently missing an arm on one hand, dark, weathered skin, long jet black hair, cruising down to the middle of his back, approaches you and his one right arm he puts on the shoulder and says, into your eyes. There's not a I know you, friend, but you have come to our aid at an hour we really required it. Great, sure. I just thought I'd come and lose a couple of thralls in my fucking broom, but great to be here. Everyone seems nice, especially her. She's great.

He removes his hand. Very well. Let me know if I can do anything else. Do you want a candle? Oh, I... I make candles, just various candles. He does this in his finger, bursts into flame, and you can see a flame, We do not need candles here in Pyra, but thank you. Is that the finger? Or is that the finger? Insinuated, actual finger. At this point, Coring, your father approaches you and places a hand on your shoulder and turns you around to look you in the face.

And you can see there's smears of dirt and he's still glistening from sweat from the whole ritual and he kind of looks a bit weathered and winded from the experience. and Kielith, I'm proud of you. I think we will stay here and help the Pira tribe rebuild. He kind of takes your chin and pulls it up and looks you in the face with a broad smile on his face. He says, The road before you, Keeleith, is hard and fraught with loss and sadness. To live is to struggle against the void,

but it's those moments of darkness that define the joy of the world around them. Learn from the loss and push forward as a beacon, a perseverance, of hope for life after pain. This is one of the pillars of strength of a leader, one that I've learned with the loss of your mother. But you are my beacon of hope, and to many more than you even expect. He looks back towards the four other members of the Zephyra tribe that are all just looking at you. And they nod. I hope I do not fail you, Father.

I trust you will not. Now go forth. While we stay here, I want you to grasp your destiny. Vanquish this terrible beast that lies on the shores of Taldore. Complete your aromente. How do you know that this is my destiny? Whatever your destiny is, grasp it. But you've chosen this path. And all destiny really is is the choice as you may make, leading towards a goal that perhaps you do not yet understand. When you've returned, I wish for you to teach us the wisdom you've gained on this journey. Father.

Kiteyak Ekilis. Did you see a broom lying around anywhere? No, it's all right. We will keep an eye out for it, though. Please. And tell everyone, hashtag feel the gurn. They'll know what it means. What is the hashtag?

I'll explain later. All right. Well, lest there's anything else, we have business to attend to in restoring this area. I wish you all. Great luck. Corrin, if we should ever need you, I should ever need you. Or the assistance of the Ashari. What is the best way to get a hold of you? Call to Zepra. Come home.

and we will come with you. As he looks over all of you, kind of giving each a look of nod of respect and appreciation. Wow. Feltz coming. Glances past a grog, Vex. Linger's a very long look on Vax. It just gives you a nod.

His diamond earring is listening in the light, yeah. Did I stutter? Stay safe for her sake. And Corin turns around and walks back as the rest of the Zepra Ashari walk along with him. You, through all this chaos, kind of get a little bored and frustrated with all this weird, nonsensical stuff. Look up to the ground and realize there's a lot of hid treasures scattered amongst this vicinity. Probably so. Probably so. You know, I might stay behind a bit and dig around for a little while.

You know, candle making is a difficult business. Is it now? Aye. Well, if you ever are looking for more customers, you will always find them in Whitestone. So if you make your way north. Excellent. You're always welcome. Thank you. Could someone heal me a bit before you leave? I'm quite singed. Oh my. I woke up and I cast cure wounds on him. I've got Jack's shit. She's so nice.

She's great. At a level three. At a level three for you. Wow. You, you, you, yeah. That's really nice of you. You're a really good person. I am.

I am. 20 points. Holy shit. Vex, this gentleman has done nothing but aid us. I know, and it's so kind of him. He's suffered the loss of three of his rolls. And look at all of these treasures he's gonna find him. Is there anything we can do to repay you?

Make an investigation check. Did that centaur the genie had that poured in the lava? Yes. Is it really? 18. 18. As you look down and say all these treasures around, you get a better closer look.

The ground here is rugged rock and black ash and dust and pieces of charred and burnt petrified wood. And right around the outskirts of where the lava pool is, you can see what looked to be broken. broken slivers of soot-covered dragon scale. Just kind of peppered throughout the landscape, barely visible until you look real close, thanks to the constant barrage of black soot and dust

that falls from the nearby area. Dragon scales for your candles. Oh, I forgot to tell you, I've sold out my own kind because I was enslaved by dragons who had tails who consider themselves royalty and therefore better than me, and I don't have a tail, and so I spent my whole life trying to figure out how to turn scales into weaponized candles. Anyway, gotta go, everyone have a great time.

Thank you. You just leave? I leave. Scoop up some of the few scales and piss off. You guys watch this Gern danced in, begins walking around and like a gutter snipe, or one of the people on the beach with a metal detector just starts combing through.

Don't you forget about me? Gern, before you leave. I? You know, we're killing a very, very large dragon, hopefully rather soon. Very interesting. Where would that be? Well, he's in a mall now, but we're gathering our quarters in Whitestone. Good to know. I might catch up with you later on. All right.

Goodbye. Bye. Which he says with a strange Doppler effect, even though he's but 20 feet away from you and is chosen now to ignore the rest of the party to go about his business. No, yeah. Just like an NPC and... Yeah. Just sky rim? Yep.

As there are skeletons in the background, just kind of dancing a little. There's only one left. I think he's freest frame. It's okay. There's plenty of charred corpses littered all over this mountain top you could make him dead from. Yeah, see you later, Michauden. Does the skeleton go with him, or does it stay? It follows him.

There's two of them. All right, so the rest of you, what is your next course of action? I siddle up next to my sister and just stand there for a moment and deadpans. and deadpan, say, oh, the more things change, the more they stay the same. And then I walk away. Keelew, why don't we head home? How do we do that?

White Stone. Can we get to White Stone? Can you Bamp us? Let's go there and rest up. Let's go there and rest up. Yeah. Hey, thank you guys. Thanks for coming.

Your dad is very noble. Your homeland is, you know, I mean, the volcano, the magma, the monsters, the fire torn in the sky. I, it's lovely, it's charming, really. Thank you, Scanlan. This isn't my homeland. Oh, oh, it's not. How well you know me. Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you lived here. No, if this is the fire, Ashari's kind of camp.

You're not a fire ashari? I'm an heir, Sharry. It's all right. It's only been a couple of years. Only a couple of years. Aren't all Ashari the same? You know what, Scanlan? That might be the most questions you've ever asked me about myself.

I don't mean a negative last name. I don't have one. But thank you. Hey, what's a hashtag? Hey, Gunn. Gun, Gun, Gun. No, we do, actually. Hello?

Is it just dragon scales or is it any dragon parts you use? You know, mainly dragon scales, but I do like to see. than blown apart, so that part's merely for pleasure. Got it. Bye. You give him five pounds. Let's go home. All right, I pick a tree that's big enough to fit all of our. You've already cast transport via plants this day.

It's how you got here. Oh, first. We need to, maybe we should rest. Do you need me to help you with the tree, spell? Maybe we should just sleep here and rest up and spend the night, wake up in the morning, head back to Whitestone. She's going to still be there next week, by the way. And with that, Vox Machina leaves Gern to his business as they go and camp out at the base of the mountain, knowing that... Someone lose an orb!

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