Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 7 - The Throne Room

Episode Date: November 27, 2021

With an uneasy agreement struck between Kima and Clarota, Vox Machina quietly begin a search of Emberhold. Lady Kima means to strike a blow against their unseen enemy by cutting off the head of K’Varn’s military forces. The party battles their way through the fortress and come face to face with the Duergar King and Queen themselves... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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named Lady Kima aboard who had been missing, going on a vision quest, apparently seeking some deep, dark evil that had begun to simmer and grow beneath the Dwarven City of Craghammer. The party managed to make their way to the city, delve deep within its caverns, and discover an entire series of caves and what eventually led to the underdark itself, the subterranean landscape of Terror and darkness.

After a series of battles with some Duraigar, which are kind of ashy, skinned evil, dwarven, offshoot people, characters. And a few brushes with some illithids or mind-flare creatures. They managed to befriend one, I used to say, ally with one, named Clorota, who has been traveling with them. He was apparently kicked away from his society and wishes reentry to save them from the kind of an ominous presence

of this unseen, barely spoken entity called Kavorn. Kvorn. Long day. Long day. So upon traveling deep into recesses. Don't worry, Matt. You just have to talk for three straight hours. I know. Every week.

Our day is just getting started. I know. But yes, so they have now, after a series of battles, found their way into the magma covered kind of obsidian jagged caverns. where the Emberhold, the Durigar Fortress, currently resides, where they believe Lady Kima was. Upon finding a way in, unfortunately, announcing the presence to the fortress itself,

they managed to find Lady Kema in a torture chamber beneath Emberhold, save her, slay her oppressor, and now they have, after a tenuous alliance was made, as Lady Kima and their mindflayer friend, Clorota, are very much at odds. A very tenuous alliance was forged, and they now journey back up to the main basement floor, or main base floor, of the Emberhole. proper. And that's where we left off last time. So hope you can absorb all that guys.

We are inside this fortress. Correct. We are moving towards the armory. We're trying to find the armory or something. Is that right? You're trying to find essentially, or Lady Kim has mentioned she wants to find the rest of her equipment. Which she says is either an armory or she mentioned a vault. And also she knows, she mentioned something about vengeance to those who run the keep. So, she stormed up. We're following her, right? You've followed her back up to the base floor of the Emberhold itself. You all currently

are now back kind of where you started after you snuck into the side passage of the ember hold. Can we just... And she said she would lead the way to the vault. Can we just sort of listen or sense, like, be quiet for a second and see if there's any footsteps around us or guards marching around? Are we in immediate peril? or do you have a second. Everyone, go ahead and make an immediate perception rule.

Okay. They're better to go that. Okay. So fast. Oh, my. Two? No, 22. Oh, 22.

28? 13? 24. Fail. 10. That's a fail. All right, so I'd be ready. Ooh.

27. Okay. I'm sure he'll give you half of that. Nearly at the ready. All right, so as you all take a moment, and kind of still yourselves, your ears perk up, and you can hear what sounds like echoes of distant footsteps down hallways far out of sight.

You hear some movement across the stone ceiling above you that eventually comes to a stop. And you wait for about a minute, and the entire place is now in a very eerie silence. You're here still. But they don't know where we are. Maybe they went to sleep. Lady Kimmer, do you remember where the vault is?

How can you get back there? Kima turns to her eyes still peering back and she's creeping towards the edge of the hallway. She looks back at you briefly and says, I've only seen half of this stronghold before they captured me. As far as I know, it's probably somewhere in the second floor.

What floor are we on now? Ground floor. Ground floor. Right, cool. So it's just one up. One more. Apparently. Or double if you're right to think of that way.

When there's stairs, when we went down that set of stairs there, was there also stairs going up right there? There were stairs right there? No. There were stairs going up in the first room you entered. Oh, right. So we could go back in a little storage room. We could. And go up. We should just spend the next three hours in the storage room. Let's go in the storage room. All over. Up to you guys. Lady Kima allow me to take a peek around the corner. So I'm going to go stelt. Okay. Go ahead and roll stelt.

An inch past her. That's good. 29. 29, all right. She begrudgingly steps back. You can see there's that kind of that eagerness to get in some sort of a fray or to feel something else bash against the side of this long, this great sword that she barred from you guys. She lets you pass.

Keep up along the edge. As you do, you see that here, there is in the middle of this hallway, a series of doorways, and what looks to be a large room in the center of the chamber where two Duregar currently stand. Turn back to the group. Oh, I don't just kill them. Isn't that a corner or dead on corner right there? This is another hallway.

Oh. Another hallway. Maybe go kill the Duraura. How dark is it in here? Is it light? Dude, I go kill the Dura. No, it's pretty dark in here. With low light vision, you're able to see maybe a good 30, 40 feet

ahead of you. There are a few of those red crystal clusters that give off a little bit of light incrementally. But DuraGar themselves, you've gotten to the point They like it very, very dark. They actually aren't needing light. This is more of a courtesy to guests they may have. So potentially, brother, we could take them both out

if you throw a knife and I do an arrow. Wait, didn't we see further past that? Because that's where we're grog. This is the area that we haven't been in. I just put up a hand and then you sneak, slip around this direction. Yes, upstairs. Oh.

Slip down this second hall that you review. All right, as you step past, you do see this room here is a little ajar. The inside looks to be a storage room. There's just a series of boxes, barrels, and various... Maybe you can put yourself in a box and walk around, right? Yes, Metal Gear Solidate. I continue to creep away from my sister, specifically.

Specifically. All right, you glare down the side of this hallway. It leads to two other smaller rooms down the way, with a split towards the back end. There does not appear to be anybody visible in that hallway. I got this. I'm going to keep going to go. Wait, what about us? Why are you doing this?

All right, so you go past this way, and then look at. Dude, Dargo, we can take them out in a second. Now this hallway, there appears to be an opening to this room, no doorway. But my brother goes on a field trip. An opening that's not currently see an interest. An opening that's not a doorway or?

I mean, there isn't a door in the way, it's just an open. All right, so I'm going to press against the wall, up to the edge, wait for like five seconds, see if I can hear anything, and then if not, curve around and peek it. Reception rule. Zub-Zub-Zub-Zub-Zub-Zub. 20.

You take a moment and listen. You hear what sounds like a light crackling of some sort of a fire, and the occasional dull ring of metal being hit against metal. Lexington. What is it? Metal against metal? OK.

I'm going to. to get low to the ground and peek in the door. The armory. All right. You can through. You do see, indeed, it is some sort of a smithy. A smithy. With two kilns or two anvil set up, a work table in the center,

and there is one lone d'urigar that apparently in the middle of his work has not been paying attention to any of the ruckus going on around, and it's just in the middle of hitting some sort of long, thick piece of black iron, and it's just tink, tinge, sweat dripping down the front of the front of, of his brow, the room itself is even into the corner of the doorway. You can tell the temperature is a lot warmer on the inside. And his back is to me currently? It's kind of to the side to you.

He's currently looking, working at the anvil. He's looking this way? Yes. Oh, but I see the door on the other side. So I take the ear. Why don't you just keep going forever? Take the earring and I whisper it to my sister. Field trip, guys.

Just you? Just me. Come on. Who else can stil? I'm a stealthy panther right now. I can turn invisible. I'm a stealthy panther right now. Do you want to be something and pop in my pocket?

That sounded wrong. You haven't had a short rest yet. I was to say, I'm still a cat form. Still a cat form. But I can accompany you. I should not go with you. I can't stealth for shit right now. I rolled a seven.

Uh, send Scanlan up. Scanlan. Huh? What? My brother's calling. You feel the oppressive force of Clorota's voice in your head simultaneously say, I can also accompany. Ooh.

Good plan, Clorota. All right, I'll step ahead and go invisible. All right, so Markov, your next ability spell. As you vanish, Clorota also kind of waves his hand for a moment, and his image disappears the same way Scanlan's do. Ooh, he does that too? Apparently. What did he do? He went invisible.

Oh, went invisible. Oh, that's scary. Cute. Yeah, I'm sorry. We're walking down a hall. Nobody's watching us. As you're humming to yourself. Oh, no.

Oh, interesting. You make your way down and eventually towards the back of where Vax is pressed against the I can feel Scalant's flute pressing into my buttocks. That's not my flute. So I turn to them And then I start I pass the door Okay

I'm going to go around the corner to that of the door All right And now I'm going to stab a door in the neck All right, go ahead and roll for an attack Just a simple idea That's how it starts a game It's a good day

I feel like it's going to be a good day All righty So, go ahead and roll damage. This is a sneak attack, because he wasn't aware you were there. I'll just use my keen dagger, I think, four, the seven is, this is a pencil, right? Okay, 11. How do you make it work?

11, plus eight. I'm next, so we can't yell. That's 36. You don't multiply the modifier, the modifier goes on at the end. So it's the dice roll plus your sneak attack, multiply it by two, and then the Dex modifier. The, uh, oh, okay. Just the plus.

That's a lot. Okay. It's plus seven, I think, right at the end? Yeah, that's right. So it's the damage plus the sneak attack, double that. And then add the plus seven. So four plus... That's 28 times two plus seven.

Twenty-six. Splend the hair is here. That's enough. So... One plus two plus two plus one. You hear this tink, tink. Tink! That's it.

Without even a guttural noise, the dagger buries itself in the base of his skull. You see him just... and just slumped down to the ground. I catch the hammer and I start going tink, tink, and wave the two invisible beings into the room. Hey, what happened in there? We're here, we're ready to fight.

What do you need us to do? Kima at this point. It's kind of like, you can see her hand kind of tensing around the sword. She looks back at Grog whose arms hands are also ringing this right axe. I want to kill something. She connects off at the side and sees the other Dura Guard that are there.

She's going to go in. And she's going to go ahead and run around. Oh, see. Don't waste my natural 20, Kee. I know, what you're doing, girl? Man, you can't control chema. This is why we don't have AI in the party, guys. You can't control the AI.

Tonight, tonight. No, you guys are telling a very, very angry woman right now to be patient. Doesn't seem to make a look at a good. Oh, wait, she's okay. Never play with NPCs. At least. So I can be ready to attack those two bastards.

All right. I'm gonna look to my left. Stinking to your back. I sit there and I kind of pet him as I look around the corner. Okay. Trinket is enjoying the petting. All right, so that door guards down. The current armory section appears to be completely open

and at your disposal. There are a series of partially made weapons kind of scattered in a pile. There are some ingots and even some raw iron material kind of in the far corner. Other than that, it just looks like your general Smithing workshop. Is Kimo with us now?

A weapon's not. Kima is currently looking around this section. She enters the room with you guys and like, Kima, do you see any of your equipment here that you wanted? She glances around, goes and moves from the piles by, turning over the room as quietly as she can. Not as quietly as you'd like, but quiet enough. No, nothing's here.

Can't you just take one of these things and call it a day? She glares in the day. She glares in the direction of your voice. I'm invisible. Right. This will do me just fine for now. I leave to the room. She starts heading down.

All right, I'm following after her, tiptoeing after her. Okay. We should go after her because we're all gonna split up. Yeah, I took into my ear, you say zub-zzezeb, zub. And then I keep going. I guess let's all go in that back way and see if we can stealth around. Okay, for everyone else, stealth check. Oh boy.

Here we go. That would be a- Natural 20. Yes. Disadvantage on you, Pike, because of your heavy armor. So that means I roll twice? Both twice take the lower. I take the lower one.

So as that happens, I want to cast Mage-Hand, and I want to cast light on it. And I want to slowly have a drift. They're both concentration spells. You can have one or the other. And Mage-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-HIN is an actual object, unfortunately. OK.

Fine. Instead, I cast prostititation, and I cast prostititation. And I make a small little glowing orb, and it's like little flickery, and I cast a thing. I can maybe travel like 15 feet. Okay. And where are you casting it? Just in the middle of this hallway here?

No, to my left. Here? He wants to see in the dark place. I want to see in the dark place. There is no entrance to this room currently if you can see. It's just a wall. There is a door on the opposite side.

Now it's a well-lit wall. Hmm. All right, well, I follow. after the bank. All right. So what was your stealth role? Oh, it was 17. 17. Wolf a Trinket. Oh, gosh. Really? He just got what I got. So I would add to it. Nothing. The deck's modifier. Right. Okay. Oh, good. 11. 11. All right. So as you guys are making your way down the hallway, slowly. I kind of clamp my hand over his mouth and tell me to You guys, make your way down here.

One of the Duragar glances over. Oh, boy. I heard something to the front and his side. I heard the bear, I start sliding my back down along the wall. I come, I turn around and notch my arrow for them. Okay. I hold everybody up the, I'm going to walk up to the very, very edge of the hallway. Waiting.

Hey, I'm behind the bear. Bring me right here. And I'm stabbing. Stabbing. Stabbing. Okay, holding right there. Stabbing. Matthew.

Yes. Behind the bear. You move behind the bear? Yeah. All right, you are right there, and they both see you. No, the other bear. I mean, the other side of the bear. As you're walking behind Trinket, all this transpires simultaneously.

So. No, the third bear. They see you. I was moving with them. Right. And they saw the bear and then saw something move behind it. Their attention must have. They see you, and they start walking towards.

However, as they pass to there, you go ahead and get one shot at this guy as he passes past. You go ahead and make your attack. I wave at them. Okay. Can I go ahead and move up now? next to Percy. Hello? I don't think they're all friends.

Why is that? Unfortunately, the space is a little limited with your size. You're gonna have to wait for the rest of them to let you by. Oh, well, can't, can't, like, Grog's behind me. He's not here, right? Where's Brad? He's big, you weigh 600 pounds.

You're a big cat right now. I'm a big kitty. 15? 15. 15 does barely hit. Okay, so, same key in dagger. As you work around the corner, Fire two arrows? 17.

All right. Second one? Same guy or both are different targets? Same target. Okay. There's one in front and he's slidding the other one? Yeah. Yeah, that one hits to this.

19. Both hit, go ahead and roll damage on both. 32. Okay. Yes. So as you watch the both walk past you, one of them just continues past with his hammer out, kind of rushing towards whatever he sees moving

at the end of the hallway, probably Tiberias after a drink it. The next one that comes past you, you reach around and just take your dagger and swing it across the back of his neck area. He managed to sever the base of the spine, and he just crumples into a pile in front of you. The other one, image? 22 with the two arrows.

The two arrows? Both arrows impact his chest. The Durgar kind of sticks back for a second. Surprise by the moment. Looks really furious and begins to step forward, his size enlarging. I'd knock him right in the face with the butt of my gun as he rounds the corner.

All right. Go ahead and make a stealth check to see or not he sees you. I can't use my previous stealth roll. Not for this point, because it's an active role. Eight. Okay. I think that's.

So you still get the attack, but you don't have advantage because he's aware you there. As he's running past Luke's over and glances and sees with the corner of his eye and is preparing for the blows. Go ahead and roll your attack. What do I add to this, by the way? I've never done the physical attack. As you're hitting it with the bunts,

go ahead and roll a D20 and add your strength modifier and four. Natchel 20. All right, so go ahead and roll damage. It is a 1d4 plus your strength modifier. It's a good thing. So that would be 2D4 plus my strength modifier because it's a natural 20.

Correct, yes. That's six points of damage. Well, it's five on there, right? My strength modifier is one. Okay, so it's five times two, it's 10 plus 11 points of damage. 11 points of damage. Which will do it. As the Dura Guard sees you is rushing pass.

with the hammer about to fold back and a swing at you. You rush out from behind the corner with the blunt end of your weapon and just put him in the side of the temple. Girlie scream. What's that? We're gone, we're going to have. Unconscious in the ground.

Alive. He's not dead? Oh. Can I, can I, so he's at a disadvantage, basically? He has incapacitated. So can I go up to him and slit his throat with my maze of destruction? You can make sure he's dead?

If you'd like to? Yes, I want to. Okay. That's really bad. Is that really bad, though? Pike walks up and grabs the back to the Durgarous hair, pulls it back, and using the jagged edge of her mace of disruption, tears open the throat of the DuraGar's,

then spills all these blackish acre across the ground. She's been on Renegade, folks. She's going to renegade. I just wanted to make sure he didn't come after us. Grog looked impressed, but also slightly worried, as the men who grew up alongside you. All right, so that happened. Do regards.

I'm going to dismember the body. Hold on. Because I'm invisible in the thing with Lady Kima, I kind of get up on a stool to see if I can catch some cleavage. Just kind of like just peek over, peek in. The leather armor that she wore is a full course covering leather armor piece. I apologize. I give up. Sorry, Scanlon.

Sorry, Scali. She is... Sorry, Pike's... Which, by the way, it's not just so much the fact that Pike did it, it's the fact that Pike did it by running a jagged, like, blade-edged mates across someone's throat.

It was less of a slice and... Sarah, how are you going to get really bad at me? Surin. We'll see. She's really bad. It's the really bad guys. We're super bad. The Jericho are so bad.

Right, Pike. But that was rough. We'll find out. You can live on the run. I'm back in home. So given this case, now the rest of the party is able to move forward. This hallway now, you can only see about that far down with the current light source. You can see Kima is now moving across.

She's just going? Listen, go listen. She's so going that direction? All right. All of us jockton behind Kima. I'm going to fall in a call. Can we do something to slower down? I can stop her if you want?

Can we don't want to stop her? I just want to be like, hey, she's, oh, no. You know what? I bet she's pretty noisy too. This is precise to make sure. Bring leather armor to this. It's not very long as right now. Oh, okay.

She's just carefully place a hand on Kima's shoulder and do a little sort of a curtsy motion. Allow me, I can. Okay, as you do so, you can just stop and look back up your shoulder and gives a begrudging nod, but you can see she's like, or actually like, it's shaking,

her hand holding the great sword is currently shaking with rage. I say two words, three syllables. All right, so as I'm down this hallway, it leads down to an open doorway and a closed doorway immediately to your right, and then the room to, I say, the doorways to your left, and then to the right,

you see another wall to another room, but you don't have a doorway currently. It's the door on my left, door straight ahead, right? Right. Okay, I inch up to the closed door on the left and place my ear to the door. Can you listen? Okay.

Go make perception check. Yeah, natural 20. What? Yeah. It's gonna be one of those nights. That one. Don't. Jinks.

Knock on wood. Don't. I'm gonna kill all you. That's not. No. That's not funny. You put your ear to the side and you hear nothing. Do I sense any kind of, I'm checking for traps in the door.

Okay. Traps perception, right, 26? So the door itself does not appear to be trapped. It does appear to be locked, though. All right, well, I pull out my picks. Then I get a three on that, so. That's okay. It's a really, really, really crappy lock.

Actually, you notice it's the door itself, it has a locking mechanism on it. It was kind of half locked, and as you pushed, opens up into a commode. Yes. Is there anybody? There is nobody in there. It is a room with what looks almost like a bench

with a series of holes cut into the bench. It's a communal. I'm tempted to close the door for a moment, but I will press on instead. Check for loot. Grouse. Alright, so I'm going to inch towards that open door ahead of me. I'll see what's around the corner.

I'm gonna inch up behind him as well. Okay. I'm still invisible, right? How long does that last? It's concentration for quite some time. Does, just, actually. Really quickly, oh, do you want to go first? No, you go.

Does anyone want to hide these bodies that we've just scattered about? Yeah, that would be good. Inside the loo. It's a perfect place for them to be interred. Oh, that's true. So welcome. Pike accident.

Hold still, please. Pike. I'm not moving. Eviscerate the body. So, so. I'm gonna out walk over in tiger form and I just grab one by the scrub and start. Okay.

Brog does the other one. Brog helps out. You guys move the two bodies slowly over and take the restroom. We kind of prop them up to kind of like, weekend and Bernies them. Yeah, make them just look like they're passed out. They're pregnant.

Yeah. Very friendly. Just they're both generally laying back, like they just got really drunk and barely found their way to the toilet. Yeah. Yeah. It's sluggish.

We take that one and kind of like, laying them forward. Okay. To the come out of the . All right. All right. You guys bring that. Good.

All right. Well done that. Oh, thank you. You guys have forward to that. Rob's come over here with a little to help. Now, looking down this hallway here, you can see. The back. Who we got? Who we got?

This side. All I want to do is find the damn treasure room. I want you to move. There's a treasure release. It appears to be a barracks. A room that is just filled with different beds, all apparently empty. Can I?

They're up and looking for us. Apparently empty? Where you can see. Do I. Can I use my keen smell to see if I smell? See if I smell any Dura Garde in there? Sure. So you slowly approach the door,

using your keen senses, which opens up this hallway a little bit visibly to you. You can see it goes back quite a bit. Sniffing this room, you can tell that there were DuraGar there recently. Apparently at the moment, though, there is no immediate scent that matches a DuraGar. So the room, for the most part, has been completely evacuated.

Okay, I kind of, I kind of. I kind of, even though I'm not a dog, I'm a cat, I still kind of point, like, pointer phase. Okay. You know. Pointer phase? You know, like, for sure. You know, like, pointer. Yeah, angle in your nose floor.

Right, right. I think he, I think he let us has to pee. I never had a cat. All right, I'm going to start sliding down that hall there, ignoring this other passage, and get up to the door and again, place my ear to it. Okay, this is the front entrance. Yeah. As you look to your right. This is a large foyer type area with two red carpets

that are rolled on the sides of it that lead to the front of the main double-sided, large 10-foot-tall stone doors of the front of the fortress. To your left, there is a double wooden door, about eight feet tall each side, about five feet wide. They're currently closed, leading into whatever this large chamber is immediately to your left. Can I hang a right and go down that other hall?

Is there a door over there? There are two different, actually. Closed? Both close. I'm going to listen into those doors. Make perception check. Natural 17. Yes!

Ooh! Gotta love that. Nat 17. There you go. Listening in, you don't hear any noise. Are you at the double doors? I'm to the right. I went the other way.

Looking at that black. I'm going to listen at the big wooden doors. And I rolled out, not that great. 17. All right, listening in. I scoge up ahead of grogmore like, excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me.

Excuse me. Excuse me. As you listen back, there is no noise internally. Except for the slight squeak. As you put yourself against the door, it shifts a little bit, making no noticeable noise, but it appears the doors are unlocked. Or there is no lock.

You're no noise from the inside of that one door you're at? Wait, I just heard a noise? No, you hear no noise. Oh, okay. Can I, Stinking Cloud, can I go through doors, or do I have to see what I'm casting? You have to have sight, unfortunately. And you can like peek very low and.

I'm gonna open the door and look. Okay. Because why not? You open the door. It appears to be some sort of a guest bedroom. It's a singular bed. It's much better condition than the barracks. There is, it's empty, it's well made.

It's more lit than the other rooms. It seems to be a room designed for, either non-Dur-Rif-Rif or general soldiers or guests or people that would come to the fortress to stay. Okay. I'm going to try to peer into the door, and I haven't talked about this before, but I'm wearing a cloak of elvenkind, which means I have advantage on stealth, and enemies have disadvantage on spotting me, so I'm going to lean my head in.

Do I need to roll for stealth, or am I already stealth? For this, you already stopped. I'm using the second. So as you glance inside the room, you see what appears to be a great hall of some kind. There are large wooden tables. There is a fire pit in the center that has a number of mostly burned wood that is mainly just small, darken embers with a little bit of glowing yellow and red to it. There are stools scattered about.

The room, you can see there are remnants of some of a meal that hasn't been fully cleaned up yet on some of the tables, but the room appears to be empty. You do see a slight glimmer across the way in one of the tables. Oh, I'm gonna go check it out. Get the sparkly. All right. Everyone else, what you're doing?

Can I look around the guest bedroom? Just kind of snoop around other things. Do I? Sure. Can I ask him, I'm asking you what you see in there. What do you see in there? I don't know yet, hold on. I'm gonna try to sense for traps in this room.

Okay. I'm gonna snoop in the barracks. Stupid the bear. It's just... More tingle. I'm gonna make my way around all this riffroff. Okay? No, no.

Yeah, yes. Push your way through. Excuse me, excuse me, pardon me. Pushing through everybody. I'm going to go past where Vax is in the room, down that hallway. And then I'm going to do my major hand thingy again. What that? My presentitation.

Oh. Down this hallway? Mm-hmm. Okay. Slowly, five feet by five feet. All right. You see slowly as you move down this hallway to check it out. A secondary set of barracks that are also apparently empty. Where is everybody?

They're all invisible. The stairs are all invisible. You see a secondary commode that is open. And as you glance around the corners, the light passes by, you see there are two Durgaar currently coming down the hallway in this direction. Oh, shit! I stop it!

And I creeped back. Okay. As you creeped up. back, you hear footsteps coming your way quickly? I'm going to the door, then I can hear that. Yeah, I'll crest to the door as well. Oh, inside the door there? Yeah, yeah.

Okay. I'm gonna stay actually right there, just right at the threshold. Okay, the rest of you guys? Where do you want to go? So far away. I can try to get up there, but. You can glance, there's still a hallway around that way. Okay, I'll go around the back way then.

Okay, so you move around. With Trinket. Trinket follows up behind. Moving up there. Scanlon, you staying in that room? I'm taking a dump on the guest bed. They don't sit here, right? I like walk by the door and see that happening. But also just covering it up with the blanket after one.

Well, you're in mid-process. This is all happening pretty quickly. I'll go around back behind where Trinket and Vex is wet. Because your little leg, you get about that. I'm invisible. It's true. Okay. Cheap to keep in the most scary. Uh-huh.

Operating the poop. Fine. Grod is eager to... I'm staying in the hallway. I don't want to be. Okay? So, Tiberius, as you're backing up, both the Dyrrugar turn around, immediately seeing you, and rear back with javelins.

Oh. Oh. I... I'll cast Blair instead. Instead. Okay, go ahead and roll initiative. Roll in a fast to see who gets off first. What?

I got to count that. Oh, I'll count that. 19. What? Why didn't she count it? Because it flew out of my head. I didn't roll it. Okay.

Yeah. All right. On camera. Playback. So you go ahead and cast blur. You guys see as Tiberius comes warning about, he manages to cast a spell really fast as two job that comes flying towards him.

His visual image begins to actually blur. The outline looks almost like there's two. mirrored images of Tiberius in the same place that are both shimmering and preventing them from actually telling where he's actually standing. The first javelin, okay, second javelin. All right, first javelin comes in at a 14. Nope. Second one comes in at a 17. 17 yes. Oh, you know, sorry, it's a four. This is this advantage. So both javelins just whoosh, whoosh, wish, pass. Look like they pierce part of that kind of shimmering, blurring,

blurring form, but both just ricochet off the walls of stone and come clattering to the ground, kind of near back where, where Hima and Grog are, and they both kind of step out of the way as they land. Ha-ha. All right, so that was your action. Who else wants to take the next action? I'm gonna hold. It's kind of dark, you can see movement in the distance.

Can I hop on trinkets back and see if I can see higher? You can try, all right. So you hop on the back of trinket. Looking over the top, and you know, Grog's kind of blocking part of your view, but you can see, with your light vision, what looks to be Tiberius' form shimmering and two Duregarhite individuals

that are partially blocked by him. So they do have partial cover or three-quarters cover. Do you have the feat that ignores that? I don't know. Because you don't know, I'm gonna say no. It would be called sharpshooter. Yeah, we call Sharp Shooter as the feet. Okay, I'll, no, I don't have that.

Okay, yeah. So go ahead and roll for attack on one or both Duregard are up to you. But they are, yeah. The 21 misses, the 23 hits. Okay. Because they have cover, because it's so dark, it's difficult to make out their form, but you do manage to hit one with the arrow.

Okay, I hunters mark him. Okay. Okay. Next time, make sure you do that before you attack. Otherwise, it won't count for the attack. Okay. Okay. 12.

All right. Math. There you go. I think it's cool. And then add your hunter's mark bonus in that as well. Oh, good. One. All right.

Gotcha. So one air sinks in the shoulder, but it doesn't appear to be stopping his angry advance towards Tiberius. Let's see. You're staying where you are. Wait. All right. You guys are actually kind of pinched off in the hallway right here. So as you guys are all kind of...

Don't say it pinched off to me! Aww! As you're doing this, Tiberius, you were right there. The two Duregard catch up to you and both. Now the Joplin's out of their hands, pull out their hammers with their bonus actions, and come down at you with an attack each. Run Tiberius. That's gonna be a six.

No. Nope. And a 17. 17.5 hits. Okay. Yeah. That blower is a bit saving you, man. All right. So as the one, both Duraghar are kind of swelling with frustration and anger, it's an ability

you've now gotten at the point between these Durrador can actually temporarily increase their form for stronger blows and attacks. Comes and strikes you for 12 points of bludgeoning damage as the hammer comes cracking down, finding purchase on your torso, and it kind of pushes you back a few inches.

That's gonna bruise tomorrow morning. Can I do a combo move with Grog, assuming that he would agree with me, that it's gonna be super cool? He'd probably agree with you, what do you? Okay, thanks Grog. So since Grog's kind of there,

can he, can we arrange like a fastball special almost? So have him like kind of go up and crouch and then I'm going to bust out. How are you going to communicate this with to Grog? With, oh, like, you know. I'm going to have to say, unfortunately, that's not going to work out for this moment. Grog's attention is on the Duraigar, and you are a giant cat. Hey, I'm gonna sneak behind Tiberius and stab that guy. It would have been so cool, though.

Thanks. That would have been really cool. And since Tiberius is there, I can get sneak attack damage because they're one of my arms. All right, just a second though, you're still holding. I finished, Keelew. So, Kielf, what are you doing? What was I was going to do?

Well, is Grog in my way? Grog is there. You can attempt to leap over Grog. I was wanting to vault off Grog's back, is what I was wanting to do. You can do that without asking him. Yeah, that's what I was ready to do. No, you were saying you want to tell Grogh could do that, but yes, you can still do it.

So go ahead and roll an acrobatics check. Well, do it. No, you asked how it was unigated. Just do it. Just do it. So I'm gonna come out and I'm gonna like vault off his back and try and do a pounce like over top of Tiberius for that Dura Gaur. Okay.

That's like closest to you. Gotcha. What am I rolling? Acrobatics? Is this an acrobatics thing? Come around the corner, you pull back, you leap up, jump on the grog's back and attempt to spring off of it. Uh, 11? 11.

11, okay. All right, so you jump off Grog's back. Grog not expecting it, instinctively ducks down in the force you push off, as he's not aware there's going to be a giant cat there. In doing so, it doesn't give you the momentum you need. You are able to jump over him and get kind of into the center of the fray, but you do not have the pounce and attack.

Okay, that's fine. But it gets you there at least. Oh, can I know attack? You can attack, yeah. Okay, okay, okay. I'm gonna go ahead and do my bike attack. Go for it. I'm gonna go right for his throat.

Still with the same intention that I had in mind. Okay, it's the one that took the arrow from the floor. Okay, um, 17. Yeah. That hits. Go ahead and roll for damage. Five, ten damage, piercing damage. Ten piercing damage.

All right, so as you rush forward, you bite at him, you see he pulls back, but you get a big, meaty chunk of his forearm and clamp down, and you feel a snap, some sort of bone in the middle of his arm he gives out a horrible, as he takes the butt of his hammer and hits you on the snout. It doesn't do any damage, but it's enough to get you to kind of let go of your grip a little bit.

And he rips his arm out of your jaws, leaving that kind of nasty, irony, taste of Dura blood that you've now become accustomed to, unfortunately. Um, and he's round down. You have Tiberius and a cat in your way. Uh, do the doors go in or out that I'm by the doors go in? In, so I'm just gonna go like this and throw a dagger and say you could do it at the same time. Okay, as you step out. That is a 29 to hit.

That does hit. Okay. You're not going to sneak attack bonus, unfortunately. Even though my ally is five feet away from him, I thought I remember that rule. You do if you're in melee with them. Like you get the bonus if you're both flanking them or you're like carrying them in combat because you're a distance, you don't get the bonus. Okay, so that is nine and then I'm going to follow the nine in damage.

All right. And immediately follow up with my other dagger, which also hits. All right, go and roll the damage on the second dagger. Which is 1U4 plus 1. Six. That's nine. Nine. Okay.

So after the guy rips his arm out of Keelith's face, essentially, a dagger comes swinging out from behind the doorway, stabs him in the other shoulder. He looks down at it confused for a second. As that dagger vanishes in a puff of dark smoke, returning to your side of your health, he looks up just in time to see the second dagger catch him right in the middle of the forehead, and he just falls onto his back at that point, unmoving. That Durgar is stripped. What?

What? Who's up next? Who wants to do anything? Who hasn't done anything yet this action? Is there a door next to me? Or a door or another room? You're just finishing. I'm just finished. Okay.

Sorry. No problem. So Pike, do you have anything yet? Can I, is there a door there somewhere right there? You move around here. There is a door over here, yes. Do it, Pike. Yeah, unfortunately.

Yeah. Yeah. You can't stop. It's a secondary guest room. Okay. All right. Now poop on this bed. All right.

It is a guest room of equal design and dressing as the one that Scanlan, you aren't aware, is currently fouling. I don't know you. Maybe I get a sudden urge for some reason to just poo on the bed. Do what you want. Be aware. Pike is a character, has her intent.

Yes, I know. I'm just saying. from that, the more it'll have ramifications for her. That's not what I want to do. I was just had this feeling that Scanlan was doing something, and I felt like she can probably hear muffled from that door. I can't hear you. Anti-Refatist.

I don't know. Okay, so I'll just, I guess I can't do anything while I'm in there. So can I just, uh. That's about as far as you're able to move. You can still use your action if you wanted to do anything. But right now, your vision is currently very well blocked by a woman on a bear,

and I manage the size of a bear. Okay, so I'll just hang out there. Okay. So that brings this back to Kima, who currently doesn't have any sort of way of getting over there. It's kind of frustrating, kind of trying to find a way over. It's a narrow hallway. Rota, who is still invisible, is just going to hold on that point. As everybody's doing this, I'm going, why are you blocking me?

I'm not supposed to be in this close of this thing. Keep coming. Your job. First. Sit there. All right. Tiberius, you're up. Oh, like I was saying.

Well, shit. Can I look behind my hand? Aren't you right next to the eye? Just do like a clean hand. Take it quick. I'm going to move to the next turn. Okay. I'll do, I'll just lift up my hand and go firebolt.

Okay. Point blank firebolt. Go ahead and roll your stall attack. 20. 20. All right. That all hit. Do you have more damage in the firebolt?

18, 1927. 23. 23 damage? Yeah. All right, so as you seely pull back in, you release the blast of firebolt energy. The Dürgar, who is currently harrowing you with his war hammer, takes the brunt of it right to the bottom of his face and his torso.

The stud of the armor that he's wearing kind of tears open with a sheer flaming burst and the impact of it, and you see both of his skin is charred and burned at that point. He reels back for a second. looking very, very hurt, but not quite put down yet. As my bonus action, I'll spend two source hurt points and do it again. That's 22. Alright, the second blast, as he reaches back, before he gave me a chance to get back to his feet,

the second blast hits this time. It sends him off of his feet, flying about 5, 10 feet back, skimming across the ground. 15 damage. Yes. And that puts him still on the floor, laid out with a burning kind of, kind of crippling, crispy scent in the air of what was once a standing Dura Gaur,

now dead and burning on the ground. So once again, I grabbed him by the scruff. We have a new bathroom. Take them and put him in the bathroom. There is. I give a couple of pats on Tiberius's shoulder and start to inch down the hole. All right, as you guys are doing this,

Scanlan steps out of the guest room, getting his pantaloons back on. My invisible pantaloons. Yes. You hear the footprints of Scanlan. You being still invisible. You essentially just... You phantom...

You phantom pooped. Okay. Did I find anything in there, by the way? You found a... Just relief. You found a fun way to prank Derrigar. Oh yeah, did I find anything in the barracks? Over there?

No. Did Liam find out what was... Plex find anything shiny in the room of the shiny. No, I got interrupted. Oh, well... Oh yeah, go get it. That's a good idea. Thanks for the reminder, Percy. You're welcome. Yes.

Uh, checking for, I checked for traps before, but I can't remember what I rolled. I'm sure it was successful. Go ahead and roll it in. Uh, 17. Okay, as you push the door open again and glance inside of the main hall, you don't see any traps across the floor. Okay, I'm going to go check out the shiny thing. Okay.

And I'll stay in the hallway? I'm coming with them. Okay. If I can get there. You managed to scoot through, dancing around, folks. People kind of let you get by. Anyone else? Yeah, sure.

I like shiny things. I'm burying my shame. Burying the Durrador. Okay, so you're dragging the Duraghar over into the... I'll go in, too. Okay. I'll follow, I'll follow. We're all going.

Everyone's going into the room. Well, I guess I'll go after I buried Duragar. Yeah, we're probably going to be attacked in here. Okay, so as you guys step in here, you move over towards the back corner where there's the shiny glint. Tabir's just the outside or one time? I'm going to wait for everybody to go inside. Okay.

Yeah, well, we'll be able to be able to be. team outside posse. Yeah. Tingle walks in, Grog goes to start making his way in. As he does, and you go up towards the glimmer. The glimmer on the table, you look, it's just formless in kind of this weird spark of light. It then vanishes.

And the doors that you guys entered. It's a trap. Slam behind you. With Tiberius, Grog, and Kiela, all kept outside of the room. The rest of you guys, the flames go to darkness, and the entire room goes pitch black. Oh, shit.

Oh no, we don't have light. I motion to grog. In the darkest, I say, fuck. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I motioned grog, I'm like, you know what to do, damn it. Brog's going to go for the door. However, at this point in time, I'm going to ask for. Can we stelf?

I mean, I guess we're all. Ask for. All right, so. Roll for day of sex mock out. Oh, you're going to ask the chat room, No, no, no, I'm not. I'm looking out what's actually going to happen here. All right, so suddenly there is a cacophonous bit of pain

streaking through Pike, let's see, the Pike, Vex, and Clarota. Guys, go ahead and make an intelligent saving throw. Intelligence. All of us? Some sort of mind thing. Intelligent. 13.

Not you. You don't remember. No. Just you two. So let's see. Oh, never mind. That was such a good roll. What was that?

That's a one. Okay. Oh. You rolled a one? So in the darkness, suddenly there's this searing pain, like some sort of screaming sound is blasting you from the inside of your very mind. You two are both currently stunned. Oh, crud. Stunned.

Who's you two? Me and I did bad things. I did stuff. I should get some markers for this. Shouldn't have... I'm standing here. Kill the man while he was done. All right.

Wait, so what does, so that means we just can't do anything, right? I mean, every turn you get to try and break out of right now, neither of you can. Every turn they have to try and break out of it? It keeps going. Yeah. It's like, keep going. You both are both just sitting there

grasping your head, it's like, screaming in pain as your body is unable to function or listen to any sort of thought process. Uh, clorota also unfortunately falls victim to this. And it's also unable to make any actions. Oh boy. I'm pulling the darkness. I'm pulling out my flame-tonged dagger

to try to get a little bit of light in here. All right. However, you, as you're currently pulling out your flame-tonged dagger, you feel a presence nearby. And a little bit of embers around the fire you see out of nothing a figure step into view. That apparently was not visible but a moment before. A tall, life figure with long limbs, fingers,

and a wrapping of facial tentacles coming towards your face. He was invisible. Shit! I'm gonna stab, I'm just gonna stab. Before you get the chance to stab, you get a surprise attack from this guy. Oh no, what if he sells our way down? All right, that comes to a,

an 18 versus our class? Yeah, I got me. All right. So as you go back for your blade to pull it out, it grabs you by the shoulders and pulls you and the tentacles wrap around your face and pull you into this horrible toothy ma and you feel this tearing pain sensation

as its teeth begin to dig into your face. No, no, no, no. I'm, I'm really, We're gonna die. That hurts. You take 17 points of psychic damage as the actual presence of the tentacles pulling on your face. You can feel it's kind of grabbing your brain

and trying to hold it in place and you are currently considered grappled. Son of a bitch. Okay. So now guys, everyone roll initiative. Fuck, okay. That was the surprise round. Yes.

Surprise round. Yes. He got the drop on us. What's going on in there? It's all right. Are here? Lots of ruckus. We'll be out in a minute.

Oh, fuck. Don't get me that, Kevin. Oh. Scanlon, you can't. No, no, don't let me touch it. What's going on in this? Oh, we're all dying. Oh, they're all.

I just a grab. They'll die! All right, so, 25-20. No one. All right, 25-20 going? You're going. Uh, oh, almost forgot. Go ahead.

The intelligence saving from. Everyone does a grog impression. They try to. Everyone tries. Really hard. OK. Good. 23.

All right. You feel the presence of its mind pressing into your brain. And you manage to, through the pain of its tentacles, pulling you towards its mouth, shrug off its current attempt to push into your mind. I'm thinking of the middle finger. That's a good thing. OK.

So you still grappled, but you're not stunned. Is he a piece on the board yet? Both of them are now visible right there. Oh, really. All right, so 25 to 20? Nobody. 20 to 15. 17.

17. 17 and 16? All right. Satatical. Actually, Garago is going first. All right, then Percy. 15 to 10. 10 to 5. Oh, wait, 13.

Sorry, I was thinking about shit. That's okay. 10 to 5? Nine. Thinking about shit. Saying about life and death. Word. All right.

Two. Oh. Bestie. Almost quinsies. Nonesies. You can not very well. We're right now with the tiger. We're still a Mr. Dungeon Master, sir.

Would anything be going better if you weren't at Tiger? This is all the same day. I don't get any of my spells back. No, you guys have not rested. All right, so first the top, actually, Kima. at the top of the initiative order. Get it.

I cast 100. I know. This one sucks. Kima angrily leaps on top of the table and goes running down with an angry yell. And leaps down towards the one that's currently grabbing onto you with its grapple. Nice.

As she's running, a little bit of light burst. As you can see, this divine energy begin to burst and glow off the edge of the great sort that she's holding. She leaps down and with a giant arc through the air that lights up that portion of the room with a brief sweep. The blade comes down towards. Oh, that'll hit. Second attack also hits. Yes, go Kima!

Come Kima. All right, so that comes to, okay, using her divine smite ability on top of that. She manages to deal 37 points of damage to it. Awesome. Damn! As she finishes both of her strikes simultaneously, the mind flare, however, does not release its grasp on you.

You are still considered grappled. That ends her turn. Grog now is going to angrily attempt to bash into this door. is gonna make it happen. Go, Garag, go. Go! Go! No athletics check. He's going to go into a rage. Yes.

Yes! Getting away at the gala. All right. All right, that puts a total of 32 points of damage. That's enough. So Grog just takes two big swings. The first one comes through, cracks the door in half, splitting it down the center.

Greers back the second time, cleaves through the door entirely. A little bit is left in the hinges. He kicks out with his foot, leaving now this side completely open to the interior. He then moves in around Clorota. That's as far as he can get with this current turn though.

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All right. All right. So I'm going to try to use, I guess athletics is what I would do? Or acrobatics, up to you, whichever is higher. Well, that would be acrobatics. Acrobatics. 27. Yeah.

That'll do it. Okay. You managed to, in that moment of it being struck with the two blade strikes from Lady Kimi, you managed to pull your head free from its grasp and just managed to write yourself now the throbbing pain in your head of what you just narrowly avoided still there. Okay. Poison dagger in hand. I roll an 18. Is that it? 18. Currently, that does hit. Yes. I want to grab him by the calamari and stab him in the eye. Okay. Go for it. That's what I did. So, um.

And then if I'm five feet, if Keem is there, I can sneak attack according to the real. Correct. All right, so I'm gonna stab them in the eye. One plus the sneak attack damage is 1938 plus 745. 45. All right, so as you- Poison dagger.

Are you using the, I think you've already used the daily poison building. I don't remember, so it was just a stab. Okay, so the 40-out points of damage, you pulled back and you jam it in the side of its eye, you can see as it rears back, a spray of dark colored liquid kind of warms the side of your face. As you pull the blade back out, it rears back and,

you can hear its voice piercing in your head going, I will eat you on, or another. Oh, you won't. Did it distract him enough that we lost? I'm really scared. I mean, I would imagine between on grappling and stabbing, is that it for me? Or do I get my same?

Take an attack. Okay, well, I think, I think, go fuck yourself. And stab again, nine plus, 19. 19, yeah, that hits. Other eye, no sooner. Two plus eight. Eight, okay.

The other, as it rears back and you hear it saying that, you pull back and you grab with your offhand the cluster of tentacles in the front of its face and pull it down. As you do the inertia, you jam the blade into the other eye. As you do, you hear this last burst of angry scream inside your head before it goes dead cold silence. Yes.

Oh, dead. I fucking hate these things. All right. That brings us to Therota who is currently stunned and fails save Clark is still stunned. Tabirius. I look through the door. The door.

What's going on in here? Are there any enemies I can see? You can see you over here barely. It's very dark in the far corner. You can see just the shape of some humanoid there. Oh. Okay. What are you in Tiberius? How tall is the thing? What you can see? It's maybe roughly six, seven feet. Gras is blocking most of it.

No, like random bunker, right? Right now you're in this giant great hall with giant tables and stools everywhere. And the ceiling is like... You can't see the ceiling right now. There's no light. The room is near pitch black. Like there's just a very little bit of light in the current. I will waltz in behind, Grod. All right.

Cast light. OK. The room all of a sudden bursts into view. You can now see the walls, the ceiling. It's a smooth stone room. There is a large chandelier currently hanging from the top of the ceiling. It's about 25 feet up to the ceiling in this current room.

Which you don't hear. That's fun. Indeed. I can see it. So yes. And what don't, now do I see that guy better? You do, yes. You see now there was a mind flare currently ducking behind one of the tables right now.

You can see a number of your friends in the party are currently clutching their heads, silently screaming themselves on moving. Ah, very, what are you? There's another one of those guys over there. Wait, there's another one? Yes. There's two? There's two.

Spend three social points. How many social points do you have left? You spent a lot over the past couple games. No. I have not because I didn't do anything last game, because I was all recharged. That's true, actually. Okay, just keep track of that.

I have anything. I have. I have eight right now. Right now, I'll spend it to go down to five. Five. Okay, gotcha. Okay, got you. Okay.

Once again, eight to six LA, after school tutoring. Good charity. I could have used it. I cast my, pillars of grand columns, as I like to call it, all the way up and smash that little bastard. All right. So what's the save you get passed that for the spell?

He does a deck save, and he takes 66 damage, and the deck save is to see if he is pinned or not. Right. It does make it safe. I believe it's 21. Oh, my. What? Roll the 21 versus your DC of your spell, which I believe is not higher than 21. No. So yeah, so it takes the damage, but it's not good.

Which is 18, once damage. Okay, it takes it damage. And manages to pull out of the wage in time as he slams into him. He darts off and catches himself on the ground, kind of slowly levitating above the ground as he comes to a stop. The pillar then slams into the roof in the section here.

Actually, Splinter is part of the table, which is now kind of a lift off kilter at an angle. Yep. Oh, so does that mean he's in the air for like a whole round? Because how it works is he's all the way up to that height, but he has to come or fall back down if he makes the sink. So he has to travel that distance. So does he cast up the tape as he's coming down?

How I'm playing it is the impact of the pillar suddenly slamming him from underneath is what does the initial damage. And he means just to roll off before it slams me to the ceiling, depending on. Okay, so. However, if that ends your turn, the mindflare now looking around and seeing the room lit up, seeing the entire group now in this room,

looks around at everyone. puts its hands together and concentrates, and as it does, you see its form, S-K-No! Banish. Damn it! Um, a few seconds past, you guys managed to shrug your stun and prototype as well. Whoa, what happened? That's all good.

What happens? They really know we're here. They really know we're here. We need to get out of this room then. Let's just search the rest of this floor as quickly as possible. As quickly as possible. Oh, we're all, can put down the dust and trace. All right, oh, will.

He's doing this flower girl mowing. Fowlgirl. Passing to you guys. Alright, so what is the current mode of action for you guys? I'm gonna go ahead and dart down this hall that we know is for sure empty. Okay. Exit the other side of the great hall that we're in. And I think we should all go back up, we should go to the second floor.

Just cras it off. Sit here. Walking in that door. Yeah, let's look through here and see what appears to be some sort of a kitchen. We see shelf units. You can see what looks like the tables. You can see some kitchen. I want to walk all the way in.

All the way in. All right. All the way in. There's a door towards the back. And right of you can see. The right, you see what looks to be a doorway that's partially open that leads to a staircase. Up or down?

Up or down. And what's in this room? I'm looking over here. Hey, look over here. It's a double door that is currently closed. I will head in your direction. Thanks. My D6 is 10.

You haven't taken a short rescue. I was after that. You have to, like, guys have to, like, stop and, like, take 10 minutes, 15 minutes to rest to do that, so. I'm gonna look all over the great hall and see there's any cool stuff in there. I think what we should do, everyone, I think what we should do is make our way back to the initial storage room. We were in and go up that stairway because that one's hidden. It's by a hidden entrance. People aren't going to think about that one as much as main stairways.

I agree. I think we should, I agree with that. I just think we should check the rest of the floor as well. Just double-check everything. Make sure we didn't miss the... Vax is having back to the room. Okay. Percy and I are checking this room with the double doors. Do you have any, like, trap-checked to keep it's locked? Don't you?

Okay, so, Percy and we go. You guys open this doorbed. It opens up into what looks to be another smaller eating hall. This one's nicer. This one has one long table. This is probably where the more, uh, well, socially risen... Take-up-put-to-the-Rem. Yeah. Anything in there?

Looks like hasn't been used for a day or two. All right. No good goodies? No current goodies in this room. Okay. So we'll go keep going down and check the rest of that whole way. Yeah. Okay.

There's a lot more for you guys. Maybe we should go find the vault on the second. All right, you guys press down here. There apparently are now, you can see, there's another set of double doors. The fax is following. All right. Thank you.

I think I should gather the group and try to make it back to the other storage room, just to keep, get us out of this area. So you guys are all moving back with, is that cool? Vex to return to the previous storage room. Ooh, yeah, go for it. We can uncover it real quick. And you'll hear, you'll hear us if anything goes wrong. Yeah, just, just, we'll power through.

Use your, your, all right. I'll go ahead and very, I'm just gonna kind of use my keen, my keen sense, or sorry, my keen smell again to see if I can smell any Duregor in the area. Okay, let me accept you, check with advantage. Good. Yeah. I'll take that first roll, which was 27. 27.

You smell that on this floor, there doesn't appear to be any Duregard in your immediate vicinity. There is a strong lingering scent of them coming from the doorway that you're currently at. A strong lingering scent? Correct. Like a move, you can kind of tell it was a recent moving of a large number of Dura Gara. But probably not present. I don't know. Whatever. I guess we'll see what's something. in here.

Alrighty. Beaky, pinky. I kind of parkour past Percy. Okay. Parcour past Percy. Parcourt, parkour, parkour. You open the doors into what appears to be a large temple chamber, a place of worship. What you see are a series of long wooden benches that are arranged to look towards the center.

There is an altar to the right that is arisen, and a stone die is in the center. There is a stone table, an altar that which has like a piece of black cloth wrapped over it and something on top of the of it you can't see from this distance. In the center of the room, there is a 12-foot-tall statue of what looks like an extremely strong armored Duregard clutching a giant warhammer and a shield. I'm gonna, oh wait, I'm a tiger. Yep.

I'm gonna perception check the room. Yeah. Which is high, 27. 27? There doesn't appear to be anybody inside this room. Screw this room. However, do you have a religion? No, no, no.

I would like to do a religion role. Or religion, guys? Nine. Nine. Can I do a religious rule for wearing? You are not over there, unfortunately. I have an earring. Can someone, that's what I was going to do is tell somebody

to get Pike over here real quick. You guys have earrings? Pike, there's some, I can put on my sprang boots. Some sort of religious artifacts over here so that could use your expertise. Pike, you make your way through, eventually it's down these stalwarted.

Clu-clin, clung, clung, clung. Pong, pong, pung. She's coming. We can hear her coming. Now. Hey guys, I'm here. Did you know I was coming? Go ahead and make a religion.

Don't stab anything. I'm gonna follow super slowly. 17. All right. As you're having that direction slowly, best that you can tell right now, this room is definitely a small temple built to, and the name kind of escapes you,

the words are trying to form in your head for a second, and eventually you come to realize that this is a chapel to La Dugur. La Dugur is the deity of the Duregard. It's the god that basically freed them from their original enslaved. from the Illetidthids, and they worship as a pinnacle of power, strength, and conquest. I'd make it up to where those guys are. All right. Let's keep searching.

Hey, what's that statue thing? What's the darkness right next to me? You tell me, Pike. Is there a door there? What is there? There is a door right over here. Oh, I'm gonna open it. Okay. Yeah.

All right, so you go ahead and open the door. It opens up into what you can immediately see is, a chamber that is some kind of magical laboratory. You see in the far corner hunched a robed Durigar. And as you open the door, there's a slight sound, a click sound and a jet of greenish fuming and it's to spray up into your face. Make a constitution.

Oh, God. I don't already know what that is. 15. I look over at 15. 15. All right. So. I know. I said I look over there.

You take 11 points of poison damage. Oh, that's wrong. However, you could feel the poison forcing its way into your lungs. You manage to back out of the cloud in time and cough it up. And your general physical well-being, you resist most of the effects of the poison. However, this poison fume trap did appear to go off, and as the smoke slowly dissipates, you hear a chuckle across the other side. As I hear the noise, I...

You don't hear the noise. Too far away. Shit. You guys do with that. Okay, I come over there to see what the... Okay. Okay. As you rush over, Scanlon's backed up away and you can see there is this chamber here.

Is the poison still in the air or is it? It's dissipated at this point. It's thin enough. You can still smell it and it smells awful, like a very, very heavy electrical fire type smell. So I can see that guy? Yeah. So, should I dash an arrow, try to it? It's up to you. What are you gonna do? Alright, I attack it then.

Alright, go for it. Get him! Get him! Shabang! Oh, dang it, I didn't do it. I meant to hunters mark him and transferred over, but that's okay, I didn't say it. You didn't say it this time.

That's 30 for the first. Did say shabang. I did say shabang and 16 for the second. Okay, both hit, go ahead and roll the Amazon each. Get it. Mm. Well, sorry. 15 and 8.

15 and 8, all right. The music is on. All right. So both arrows, you can firing over the top. He's kind of hard to see with the table in the room who crashed in the corner, but both arrows still manage to barely make their mark. One kind of pins him against the wall.

He looks at his shoulder briefly. It looks back at you, raises his hand as begins muttering something under his breath. As it does, your arrow through his hand. And he tries to shake it, and he now has pinned to the wall with an arrow in the middle of his hand. Yeah.

Trinket! Oh no, I used two attacks. But you still sell Trinquet to move. No, no, no, I'm gonna hold him there, because there's nobody in the room, yeah. Okay, gotcha. All right, so, what are you guys doing over in the temple? Exiting.

All right. The conceiters are you in full first. What was that thing that's covered up by the blanket on the altar? You walk in and glennignaz sorts it? Yeah. All right. What's up with that? Make your way, you look up to the top of the dyes where the altar is,

and on top you can see the black cloth that is wrapped over it. The scent gets to you before the actual visual. It's freshly rotting flesh of some kind. And as you glance over, you can see there is a heart that has been cut from a body and to the point of the blood itself is coagulated and begin to become thick. It's roughly dwarf in size. I get up and I grab it in my mouth. Okay, it tastes disgusting. And then I walk over to Vax and I lay it at his feet. It kind of Nudge it with my nose.

She caught you a heart. Oh. I screech sheeleth behind the ear, but nudged aside with my toe, and exit the room. Exit the room. Okay. I did screech her ears,

but I'm gonna continue down to the end of the hole. I follow. Okay. I'm going to do you a heart. Down this way? Yeah. Make your way into what looks like a giant foyer into a secondary entrance in the side of the...

Just walk all the way to the corner. Stealthing. Make a stealth check? Uh, It's high. It's 28. 28, got it. Okay, so as you make your way through, you eventually creaned at this corner.

You can see there's another hallway, what appears to be another room of some kind. You also glance back and see there are two sets of stairways that go up and down. What's behind me? This is a giant foyer that leads outside of the fortress. On the edge of the map this way? This way here?

No, by the, yeah. This way? This comes to an abrupt end at that point, a rocky wall into the mountain itself that it's buttressed up against. Okay, I'm gonna keep coming this way, still. All right, as you move through. What's happening with that dude? Are you doing all this while I just pinned it?

Yeah, I don't know what's going on back there. So there you go. So you glance in this room. You see there's a door, there's an open walkway, and what appears to be another barrack section also completely empty. Screw that. Do I see a door for this room that's still darkened out? And now I'm going to keep sliding along the wall.

Okay, so you slide along here. Make your way around to a door. Okay. Pressing my hand, seeing if I can check any for traps. Okay. 26. All right. The door does not appear to be trapped. Going to be heading in that direction anyway. Agreed. Same here.

Okay. I would like to stelf through the door. Wait, before I leave, I carefully examine that statue. Okay. What do you examine it? The facial features of the god with D.D. Okay, so you take a face at Ludhuber. You can see it's very, very old, it's very well crafted. You can see a lot of very meticulous craftsmanship went into its creation. It almost glistens with a perfection that is out of place in an area that is so covered in soot

and various other volcanic activity-based mineral deposits. I'm going to do a quick part of Katana check, just to see if there's any kind of mystical thing around it or anything like that. or anything like that, and it's 19 for that. Okay. There is some sort of a hum to the air that has an arcane element to it, but you're unable to pinpoint what it necessarily means

or where the source is. Interesting, okay. Knowing that, I kind of gather my thoughts, and then I head towards where there are suburbia. Okay, so while you're opening the door, the mage in the far corner kind of looks about sporadically and looks down at the arrow in its hand, at its shoulder, and just kind of fearfully,

the hook. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Stop. Don't talk. Let's have a conversation. Speak fast before I kill you. Oh snap. Leans forward, kind of pulling the air out of the doorway. So it's hobbling towards you a little bit. We all, we go in the room and Trinket goes up next to him and like gets all up in his faith. Okay. Next to him. As you both enter, both of you make Constitution saving throws. As two more plumes of poison out of the ground as both you and Trinket walk out. 15. 15. 15.

Okay, and for Trinket as well? Oh, I should have been so smart, but I wasn't. What? 14 for Trinket. Okay. You take seven points of poison damage. Trinket, however, takes 14 points of poison damage. What did I get, seven?

Seven. And Trinket is currently considered poison. Oh, no. What does that mean? That means disadvantage on attack rolls, disadvantage on ability checks. It's okay. But now there's like, coughing and kind of thrashing about the room, the table it bumps into and it kind of topples over.

Is this like a turn thing or can I do something? Well, this is just a reactionary moment of you guys coughing and trying to get out of this poison. Can I quickly cast protection from poison on Trinket? You can, yes. Okay, but I do that. Okay. And that cares it. That completely removes the poison.

Yes, it does. Okay. Drink it. Well done. Test your action. You now, as you're checking the door and you open it up, you hear all this commotion going off to the side now. Scanlon, you're over there as well.

Watching this on more plumes of these poisonous smoke. If I get close to the door without going through it, can I see the guy? You can move over and look. You can just barely make out his form. It is a dark room that is currently filled with a slowly dissipating green cloud, so it's hard to make him out. Okay, well then I will just. If I can't see him, then I will just yell at him.

I'll yell with vicious mockery. Yes. I don't like you very much for poisoning me and my friends. You're a poopy head. So vicious. Damn. Damn. Damn.

Damn. Oh, okay. So. Seven points of damage. Seven points of damage. Six points damage. Yes. All right.

That all that works. It's vicious mockery. It's an attack. That's crazy. 80 points of damage. Who said words couldn't hurt people? And bonus damage to his mother, wherever she may be. Sticks and stones can get my bones.

Damn. Yeah. Okay, so as it makes a little saving throw. It gets your DC. That rolls of three. Does not. Uh-huh. So as you shout out into this room,

the currently fearful Duregar Mage kind of glances his eyesight about, here's these words, and you see him rack his head for a second with sudden sense of self-loathing and disappointment. His hands drop, and it looks like for a minute, his intent to begin muttering some sort of incantation is momentarily distracted. Nice.

Great. All right, awesome. Can I start moving back? Yeah, you can start moving back this way. I hear that, but I'm still going to poke my head stealthily into the door Let's see what I see. Do I need a new stealth check? Yes, you do. Okay.

So, great. That is 32. All right. You glance inside in what looks to be some sort of a training room. Most of the floor itself is stone, and in the far corner, there is a large section that is mainly just sand and dirt, and there are a number of wooden training structures, various shields and wooden bars that are used as means of training for weaponry.

There's like a giant rack of weapons, like whole arms and stuff. Anything good looking? Uh, go ahead and make perception check. Uh, one. Most of the materials in this room look like the basic Derrida fair. These down the black and iron. I was gonna run in and take a look around anyway, so. Okay.

Uh-oh. As you run in, go ahead and make a reflect, or a dexterity saving grow. God damn it. Okay. Traps, traps, traps, traps. Traps, traps, traps. 24. All right, all right.

Trapa, keep up. So, you take 10 points of lightning damage. What the head? As you feel a tile on the ground, trigger, and then spring up, and as it does, you hear this sudden, high-pitched wine as blue energy streaks up from the floor, runs through your body. Thankfully, you manage to dive out of the way

and touch the ground to ground the energy, minimizing the damage. But yeah, you triggered a trap plate. We're going to get the sense that a lot of this tactic of this fortress now has been to lead you guys through a maze of traps. A labyrinth. A maze of pain. Before we hurt ourselves any longer,

we got put on a wild goose chase. We gotta kill this mother, or talk to him at least. And then. To get to the main event here. All right, at this point, Kima is now. There's a lot too push and do. I think it's too easy. As Kimi hears you shouting all these curses into the room,

Kima pushes past you. And pushes past you. You can see Kima coming in the room behind you guys. Steps over the broken table, down in front of the circle, and grabs the mage by the front of his robe, pulling him into her face. The mage at this point is still kind of reeling from the fact that you managed to strike him so deeply

in the heart of his hearts. It's just a man. I'm a nice man. However, Kima, with a look of absolute death in her face, grabs him and pulls him forward, Listen, where is the rest of your fucking army? She's making an intimidation check. Yeah.

He does not succeed in resisting that. Yes. The Dura Garp is pressed against the wall now. She's slamming him against the back of a bookshelf. Look, all right. They're waiting for you up there. All right? You're not going to survive this.

At this point, the entire city is probably waiting for you on the outside of the fortress. and those that are upstairs are well prepared. Okay? Your best chance of survival is laying on your arms and surrendering. Oh, hell. I'm looking out for your best interest here. Kill this also.

Kill him. Kill him. You can see her hand, releases the scruff. And you just take some deep breath for a second. But before he can finish exhaling, she goes immediately, grabbing his throat and squeezing it extremely tight. As he does, he sees his tongue deling out of the side of his mouth,

as she's cutting off his entire air supply. She pulls forward and takes the great sword and begins to slowly push it into his abdomen. As she does, he starts screaming in terrible pain. You can see her just slowly pushing the blade through his body into the bookcase behind. As she does, she goes, you're going to tell me right now

who they have waiting for us upstairs. As she begins to push it all the way to the hilt now, he's pinned up against the bookcase and probably a portion of the stonewall behind it. He's now got blood pouring out the sides of his face. And on the side of his nose, the Duragar being held against the wall. He's like,

whenever you have a killer, the arm is probably up. At which point she takes the blade and twists it, as she does, he gives it this guttural yelp. And his eyes just go blank. Blanker than the Duragar eyes normally are. And make it to the doorway and go, what is going on in here?

Are there any, um, taking that in? Are there any healing potions or anything? I mean, that looks like they. Go make an investigate check. What's the effect of the lights? Can I look at the door and see if the trap will go off again if we step through it again? Perception check.

20. Okay. Looks like from glancing about the room and getting a feel for it, there were three traps. They were all placed directly at the front of the door. Basically to give him a point of defense. They've all been triggered, so you don't have to worry about anymore in this room.

Is this still considered the under dark? This is, yes. Oh, cool. I'm going to go in and look around this one. That's We've been there. Ooh. Look around for potions and . This is considered the, or I could have been rolling twice

for all the man thing. Remember your ability. It's 25. Okay. Who's the singer here? Oh, we're singing now. Sorry, Skidna. So as Kimba pulls a blade from his body,

kicking it off the great sword and kind of wiping it across the leather on the side. The leather that you gave to, or in a little party, you said, oh. It's all right. This halfling is hot. So you guys have made your way back. Yeah.

The road is there at the edge of the corner, and Grog rushes it over, just feeling like he was ready for action. What's going on? What's her like? This might be a good time. You glint. As I say, you guys want to go ahead and take a short rest? Did I find any potions? Did I find anything in the room?

Glancing around the room, you managed to find two potions of healing. Oh. One potion of superior healing. What is that? That's major. That's cool. You also find one vial of some sort of weird viscous yellow liquid that you cannot identify.

Oh, don't open that. I feel, who knows how long those guards had to be staked out here. Don't open that. Can I do it? Can I investigate it or arcana it? Arcana it? Yeah, yeah, that's a one. Oh, good.

Oh, we know, that's a seven. These dice are horrible. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's bad. It looks delicious. No, actually, you can't make out. It has some change in color as you kind of like swirl a bottle and watch the texture inside shift and change with the centrifugal force. You can't make out anything about its intent, but it does feel like it's a potion creative with some effects.

Do you want to drink this? We'll just put these in our text for now. I check it's for 18. For what? Whatever you're trying to hand it, hand to me. Entemy. 18 arcana. 18 arcana?

Yeah. Okay. Take a look at it. It definitely is magical. You don't have a lot of experience with alchemy. Magic. You gather that the effect that it would have upon an environment would alter your physical form in some way. You just don't know the specific effects.

Absolutely. Scannell. I'll take that for now. Put in my pouch. Take a short rest. So, as you guys all kind of entered this room, this brief safe zone to take a short rest. if you feel you want to heal yourself up and regain any short rest-based abilities. Do so.

Can we talk about what this Dura Gaur just told us? Well, can we go to the bathroom before we do that? That's going to say we can return. Can we, yeah. Talk. So we're going to go into a quick bathroom break. We're going to put the videos again. We'll return here in just a second

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They're cute. Galaxies. See you guys in second. So you've housed yourself into this enchanting room, this magical laboratory and taken about a 15 minute rest. You're able to use any of your unused hit dice to heal yourself up if need be. And where's everybody at?

Because maybe I can just do a pretty close. He's, I mean, as far as health goes. I'm low, yeah, I'm pretty well. Yeah, what are you at? I don't need a dice yet, blood. I know, I don't have that many left. I meant like I accidentally erased it, but I believe I'm at third B.

Oh yeah, I need to all get on that. Do you have any of dice? Some. What's everybody else? Not a lot. Because I can sing to you and give you an extra little roll. I'd like you to sing to me,

either in the game or on another day as well. Are you Vex or Vax? I'm Vicks. All right, I'll sing to you and are you gonna use a dice? Let me see how, How our beautiful your song is. Heal the Vax, make him a better elf, for you and for me and the entire adventuring band,

there are Dura Gardei, if you cared enough for the adventurers, you'd bring Vax back to help us with a stabby stab. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Please, vaccinate your kids. I mean, don't vaccinate them. Vaccinate. Yeah, that's the difference.

All right, so. So you get a 1d6 for that. So next to 1d6 healing to anyone. Please more than 1. 3, okay. I hear you, 18, which is actually low, but I rolled really high for each roll. That's very good.

Okay, great. I am almost tip-top condition. Yay. All right. I have a blister. So as you guys manage to pull yourself out of your rest mode, you now glance out in the hallways, still quiet, and hear the movement of footsteps up above you.

What is your intent? To win? Okay, yeah. Wait, what are we gonna do? Because there's our army waiting upstairs for us? But Kima needs her stuff and we need to kind of put an end to this problem. Oh, I'm gonna hop out of tiger form, by the way, since we listed and stuff. Wait, they're above us?

Yeah, they're all upstairs. All right. Including, including... the mine flare who vanished from the room we're in, so I'm sure he told everyone what's going on. That's why they're waiting for us, of course. But they don't know we found the secret entrance, so I think Bexali is correct.

We should use the stairwell near the secret entrance. Are we sure that no other way out of here through this particular floor? Is that the only exit? There's two exits. I mean, there's the front entrance, there's that door over there. There's like two other stairways,

but we should use this back one. Also, Lady Kima, our purpose, The purpose here was to find you, but your purpose is somewhat greater than our own. What do you suggest we do in this moment? As she stands up and she, you know, holds the great sword and swings it a bit. What I'm seeking lies deeper into this cavern. Whatever is at the heart of this illited scourge, and she glances over at Plurotos in the back corner, hands folded. There's a slight mental hiss sound in her direction.

There's something far far away. darker at the heart of this temple. I've seen it. I have my thoughts and my ideas, but need confirmation before I speak of any doom saying. However, the link between those foul creatures and the assault that's currently mounting against Craghammer lie upstairs in the center of this Dura of our people.

Here. Here, here, and where we are now, yes, here. The link between this Kavan, Khevester. And let me ask you this. We can be on the same page. We can go up and fuck shit up. However, your weapons and armor, will there be a great help? Should they be our short-term purpose,

or should we just go up and try to end this problem? To be honest, we've entirely lost the element of surprise. I would not wish to sacrifice us foolishly for a few additional trinkets of my own when I feel that this should do well enough. as long as we manage to work together and be smart about this. So we should potentially just leave this castle for now and go find Kavan. Rest up.

No, this is the main event. Oh, okay. So there's a link upstairs, the link from into Kavan. Oh, I get it. Okay, let's see. This is important. How do you think Kavan is able to send these armies up again and again towards the back door of Krak, Evel? Besides, if we go on and leave them as they are,

who said they wouldn't come up behind us, and then we're fighting a two-sided front once we get there. Then let's... We gotta go upstairs. Vox Machina. Our years are short. Let's make good use of it.

Let's leave this decision up to Grog. Grog? Yes. Absolutely not. Grog's sitting there clutching his great axis. I say, I haven't been able to kill much since we got here. Let's kill something.

That's been terrible. He's a male before we go up, Brock. Yeah, of course. He goes into his... bag of holding and pulls out his now half empty cask and you see him frown as he hears it clink around he pours everyone a small drink toward us now an empty cask this could potentially kill us all yeah wait boxmakina la chaschummogina skens is ready to though should we talk about yes I have an idea but also are

there two stairs up to the top floor there's multiple you found three perhaps we should use more than one one half of our band Half of our band go up, create a diversion, the other half sneak up and kill, kill, kill. That's one option. The other option. The diversion group. Definitely the stealthy ones with me. I do have an idea about gaining the upper hand on our first meeting with this arm that's upstairs.

An intimidation technique of some sort. Yes. We have... You're not going to kill another pony, are you? I can't anymore. much as I would love to. No, but we've heard over our eavesdropping that some of these Dura Gaw bastards

are scared of that strange chimera sort of hodgepodge, human centipede thing. Frankenstein thingy. We could be one of those with a little bit of deception and all of us sort of piling on each other. We can act like a big scary monster and go up and freak the fuck out of them. The war.

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the moment intimidated a bit and we could get a few licks in before they realized we're just a pile of idiots running that kind of a pile I like it so we're basically gonna be like like three kids little rascal style on each other shoulders with the giant coat but that could be the divergent okay well okay well then I actually like this idea why don't we have a few of our stealthy members why don't we have the twins be in the shadowes and picking people off That's true because I've got range so that makes him. Right, well we have some of our range people.

I'll transform, I can transform into, how about a giant scorpion? That sounds fun. Can you transform into anything? I can transform into beasts. They have to be beasts. How about the type of beast that we know will scare them?

Like that big triceratops thing that we saw with a big metal thing. It has to be all this, doesn't it? I can be, I can be a rhinoceros. I can be like, um. Oh wait, back it up to the scorpion. What can do dinosaurs? I can be a dinosaur, right?

That's a new thing I can be, right? What if you were scorpion with the dragon-born tail sliding around and a gnome on your front leg and the human human human human human human. Oh, wait, wait. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, hang on, hang on, hang on. This might be crazy. I wonder what would happen if I drank that weird yellowish potion while I am a monster. No, it could be poison though. No, hold on.

But I'm wondering if you can, like, if I can transform into a monster and then you with polymorph can like maybe just transform. Stop talking! Stop talking! No, long! Don't have to snap at me! No, no, no, no, you're brilliant, Your Highness. Oh, thank you. I mean, you can keep on. I have an idea. I have an idea. We're off the rails here.

Tell it to us, Tiberius. What's the idea? Does it involve shitting on a bed? Eventually, actually, yes. Aren't you empty yet? Oh, weird. This is what's going to happen. All right. As far as you know, they're all Duragall up there, correct?

Mostly, except for the mind players. Except for the thing that's probably really creating that thing. They might have the... Which I saw in a vision. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, that's...

Come on. That's... Because I think that's... Isn't that the same vision? No, no, no. He's at the other one. He's not the other one. Mm.

Okay. Sorry. Read it wrong. This is what will happen. Hey, tell us. Those who can go stealth, we will creep up there. I will go invisible myself. I will be in front.

You, closely behind me. He has a name. Pemskins. Vax! There they go. You closely behind me. And whoever else can stealth follow suit. I will cast out of self and turn myself into their guard.

Their guard? Kavorn? Oh, they're God. Yes. But you don't know what he looks like? Or into that other thingy. I absolutely know what he looks like. I mean the duker?

Oh, the duker? We just saw his damn statue. Well, that's not Kovorn though. But that's why? Isn't it? That's good. That's smart. Yes.

As I give my whatever the hell I come up with to say at that particular time, maybe you can get out. Make it through first. Can I mean? You. This is good. What do? as the mind players catch all the end, and I turned to Carota, and I turn to chema,

that's when all of you will strike at them first. The rest of you will wait till I shoot off a cup of fireballs that they do a regard once they figure out they were full of crap. Because I'm sure that's not happen unless I am super convincing, which I hope that's the case. Okay. But I think that's our best bet to keep a certain element of surprise. Okay. So wait, so wait, are you going to be their god and I am still going to also be a crazy monster is like you're a pet crazy monster with our stealthy team I think the only thing better than their god would be their god on top of a giant scorpion. Ooh I have faith in you Tiberius let's run with this you'll be like Xerxie can I cast because I've been wanting to use um

thaumaturgi which can make your voice three times as louder. Can you pass that on him? At the moment he would be speaking, yeah. At the moment he would be speaking, okay. Oh, let's do that. Yes, yes. That's gonna be so cool. Some Beatrix.

Yes. Oh, that's a dread, pirate brother. This is a plan. I love it when a good plan comes together. So, where did you? What is that? Where did you get that? You're being a big god who talks loud and is riding a scorpion.

Yes. So maybe I'll talk behind him on top of you that's a scorpion, and then when you're getting ready to talk, I'll just, Okay. And then your voice will be, you know, you'll have... Yeah, that's good, that's good. How about this? So, just to clarify, are we all going up the same staircase,

or are we going up two separate staircases? Next and X. I think we should just go up the same staircase. Same stairs. There's too many of them. If we split up, we could just all die. We don't know what... It could be a million rooms up there.

We have no idea what's up there, but Tiberius has got a plan. I like it. If he's the god, you just go in behind him as the god. What if we did like your dimension door? Because is it too not very godlike if he's coming up a stairwell? case?

Dimension doors off the table. I can pass... I can pass... I can pass... Tiberius. Tiberius. Just do it. Let's do it.

Tives. But don't use the God thing... Don't use the God thing until we get to the big group. Typahood. It's a big thing. If you see a guard, don't turn into a God. You gotta see more than five people before you turn into a god. Yes.

Hyperis. Do you intend to go up one of the other stairways? I believe this one by the entrance the secretance we came in will afford us the element of surprise. Do you think you want to go up one of the others? Oh, let's go up that one. And make a distraction, right? Your plan is to make a distraction? Yes, of course. You're a brave dragon moment.

I am going to cast Pass Without a Trace on the party. Everyone, stay close. Who's the stealth party? Not you, you and me, you. Well, all of us, all of us, I guess, what we go stairs. Essentially, all of us will be stealth except for Tiberius and you who was a scorpion and you who's running behind Tiberius. I'm not. I'm riding on her, so I probably won't be rolling for stealth. Just kidding.

You'll be rolling. I probably won't roll it. Just kidding. You hear in the back of your mind this subtle, soft, echoing chuckle. You're all crazy. I like it. At which point, Kima, who's listening to all this with the look of kind of awe and curiosity, You know for once I actually agree with the thing.

All right. Yes. Takes her great sword in her hands. Late the way Yes You guys are stuffing up first, right? We all have passed without a trace as long as you stand close Can I just inspire-

I have... Wait for the inspiration. I have some inspiration dice to give out that I could give out as bonus actions. Can I give it out before we go into battle? I would say like momentarily right beforehand. It's enough. Be one of those like... But I can't mask give it out.

I have to give it to one person to me. It's one of those things where I have to give it to me. has to be in the moment when the journal is pumping, I think to be able to last into the combat front. And do we want to send Clorota and Kima off through a different staircase? No, we just have pleased a backup player. One big of a group of an army upstairs

to split us up. Don't split the pot. Yeah, but yeah, but in those. We have to 300 this. In those action movies when there's one guy who goes away for a while, he comes back at the end and saves the day. If we did that, no. No.

No. It's not going to be us. We few. We happy. I'm about to go do something very stupid. Let's do it. All right, let's go. All right, I can't believe.

All right, I can't believe. All right, so. You guys. We've got this. We've got this. Oh, no, Grogvel Ovo. Oh my gosh. Look, look at my hand.

This is... It's been a good, Jay. It's been a good time. Here we go, here we go. Here we go. What are you going to say? Are you thinking about this? I'm so nervous.

Start thinking about this now. Meditate on it. There are rooms up there. Oh, oh, oh, oh, right. Yeah, you should know his name. It was a stupid. What's the name of the god again? Is it a tiny room?

What's it? Le Dugger. Leweer the construction paper. Let Dugger. Can I take off my armor right now? Or? Your armor class would go away? You become a soft target.

All right. You guys all make your way up and you're all squeezing into this tiny, tiny room. You're all shoulder to shoulder essentially. You come up to the top area, there's a small box, and there is just a single stone door. Check for traps. Excuse me, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Sorry. This way, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, excuse me, Kima, sorry. Sorry. All right, my hands are on the door. I'm gonna check for traps on this door. I get 21. Okay, you take a moment and you

put to place your hand along this stone surface. You find that there's a low kind of hum to it. Careful, careful, careful, careful. And you can tell that there's a small, almost like a thin whisper of string laid across the very top of the stone where the wall meets. Of course I can. Of course I can.

I'm going to take care of this. Hold on. Yeah. Is this thief store, correct? Yes. 26. 26. Okay. You come up and you find that this is a very, very fine hair trigger. This is actually a partial enchantment as part of a magical trap.

You know that with the slightest hint of false vibration to it, the door shifting or hitting it at the wrong place will trigger whatever this trap is. He's hands us to do. And so you bring your tools up. You manage to place one at the base of each point of where this kind of arthane silken thread lies across. Simultaneously, you take your daggers and place them underneath the thread at each ends

and sever them both at the same time. The thin whisper of a string just slowly glides down and vanishes into a small sparkle of light. Cut the red wire. I'm just going to lay my ear on the door and see what I can hear. That is 20,000. 21. Hearing it, you hear what sounds like the low mutter of somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 low voices and the slow, the small

Shuffling of many, many, many, many footsteps. It's not the main thing, you said. Yes, and if I listen for a moment, do I just, does it continue? It's not the main. It kind of a couple footsteps. I'm talking about footprints. You can hear the scraping of metal and It's the only way we can go is through this door, right? We're all smushed into it. There is a hallway. There is a hallway this way that means. That way. Skip it. So we stealth down the other hall? We try. Skip it. So I motion everyone away from this. Okay.

Okay. The whispers and voices aren't like drunk in the other side of this wall. They're just in that room echoing through. But you do hear a lot of people there. All right, so what are you doing? Stelting down that hallway. I say, I sit to my earring.

Can we check for traps? Check for traps. I look, I'm perceiving. Okay. Well for perceiving. Okay, cool. 23 for Vax. Oh, I get 20.

Oh, good, that was way better. 10. No traps. Yay. You both glide your way up and peek around the corner. What you see immediately are six Duregar all stationed in this hallway guarding what looks like two large doors and entrance to this main chamber.

And they're all just standing their weapons ready, looking around. Wait, which is the main chamber that you just This big chamber here where you guys are looking at the door. Bax sneaks back to the group and motions Tiberius over. And Kiela Thova. Okay. We're doing this?

One moment, one moment. Okay. Lightning. Lightning. Who knows lightning? What's magic of lightning? What's going on? Are you wanting to try? Lightning bolt the entire line? The magic of lightning.

I've seen you do it before. I've seen you. I do know it right now. Anyone who knows lightning, I've seen it done on the battlefield with us. I have, I have lighting bolts. Person and person, the person. Can do it. Scalind, which is up, once again, clearing his throat in your presence.

Oh, Scanlan, I think, can do it. Hi, Scanlan here. Scanlan, you know, you know to harness the part of the power of electricity. I don't want to brag, but I'm a regular Ben Franklin over here. He's a guy, he's a no-mind-neen. Scanlan, can you and I focus our called lightning spells together? Two lightnings. Unless, I mean, mine's so freaking powerful if Scalon and one of the others does lightning at the same time and it goes,

if you get through that line, we could drop them all at once. But that's noisy. They'll come out. It's not that noisy. It's not like I was saying right. I think it's going to be noisy. It's not a stealthy attack. It's a quick way to get rid of six people though.

Six. Is that what we need to do? There's a row of Duragar around the corner. They're all in a line like radio, city. You just, I can get Scanlan. If you, what about you, Keeleth? Do I remember light, or do you bring it down from above? Tiberius. What? What?

Do you have the power from, do you want to do you want to shock? Oh, I have an idea. Okay, I'll peek around. Okay. Make a stealth check. Oh, sweet. You have a plus 10 because of my pass without a trace. You've got six door gone a row. Is there anything you can do that's all? All down the line. That's where you see this long row of Durgaard that are all kind of armored and ready

guarding the front of this chamber. I cast a watery sphere at the end of the last guy and create a giant bolt. You're doing it now? What does it look like, facts? So this giant water sphere appears on which side of the wall? On the last guy. This guy here? Yeah, and I draw it towards us.

us. Vax is grabbing the gnome and tossing him out to the right out here at the front of the group. Okay. And I stop at the last guy. Sphere eats out as the water sphere begins to pull in. And while he does that. Saving throws, what's your DC? Yeah. My DC? 17. And this is a a dexterity save? Yes. All right. One at a time. Oh, oh. All of them fail. No. This is gone up Kuhl. This is going to be cool.

I don't do it. It's going to put them on one spot. I'm catching up coverage and we're already in the line. No, they're on this giant sin. Now we can electrocute them and they're wet. There is now an entire like clustered sphere of water that is containing a mismatch of DuraGar. Kielis, and lightning bolt. Kielis, can you?

There we go. Call lightning. All right. So, as Kieleth, you step forward. Out in the hallway. Yes. You bring your arm up and there's this small cluster of dark clouds begin to form and swirl up in the top of the 20-foot hallway. As it swirls, you bring your arm downward and there's a sudden crack of thunder.

A loud, blasting sound that echoes through the hallway. As the lightning strikes down in the center of the sphere, they see the water itself burst as the actual concafamous blast of the lightning kind of loosely shakes up the aquatic sphere. However, go ahead and roll damage. Do I get any more damage? Do you do an additional, additional two dice of damage to each one of the DuraGar because they are contained in the water.

Yeah! So 5D10? Correct. Woo! Wow. Do I roll for each one? D10? You just roll once and that's across the board for all of them. And they're at a disadvantage the same thing because they are in the sphere.

Oh and they're at a disadvantage? Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm like holding them up. Alright. It's really funny because two of them roll 20s in a row but they're at disadvantage. Nice, not too shabby. So we have 10, 19. 19 plus 18, bringing it to 28 plus 3,

31 plus 1, 32. Okay, so, this sphere explodes. The actual stone on the ground, you can feel shake and shudder with the impact of the lightning storm. All but one of the Duragar are blown apart and scattered across the wall, Akira style, just phth against the walls. All but one.

All but one. Well, one of them is still in the center of the sphere, Now looking charred and burton eyes wide open with anger and frustration. Scanlan. Go. I say, you ugly, you ugly. Your mama says you ugly.

You ugly. You ugly. Your mama says you ugly. And I cast the vicious hockey off. Okay. Not much damage. A 14 versus the DC, which I think is 19. 19.

Just five. How much did you do? The total? 32 total. Okay. Plus five. Hold on. So, as the Dürgar is currently held aloft in this aquatic sphere,

half charred and burnt with pieces of his friends floating in the water around him, he hears through this kind of warbling sound, You are me, you robley. And he sees everyone kind of step out the hallway clapping with you, and he kind of looks around himself, looks at his situation, and eventually just gives up and takes a big old gulp of water and drowns. and aside the aquatic change. I shamed him to death.

What a terrible way to die. Good news is, you guys really screwed over six Duregar, one of which you shamed him to death. You have definitely, however, announced your presence and I'll shame. Run back and go through the back. Let's do it, let's do it now. Spanked Tiberius on the tail. It says, get ready to deity.

I say, I go, I guess it, get on my back, get on my back, and I piggyback him. You transform? I do. Or just cast it on me now. Well, I'm piggybacking him just now. Okay. I'm literally just piggybacking Tiberius.

Okay, so Tiberius, you leap onto her back. Mm-hmm. Then I cast all herself. Okay. And I turn in. Scanlon, vex. Okay, all right, and now I cast into a, dude.

I'm going to cast the thing on him. My nostrils? I see you're falling behind here. Okay, so you cast thaumaturgy on him to give him a vocal emphasis, a roaring, blooming voice. Do you stay with him, or do you move back with us? Pike, Pike, Pike, Pike! What kind of animal would this God use? Do you know, like, what kind of animal the Dürgaard would worship?

Religion check. Do you know? Religion check. Yeah. What kind of animals they might like, you know, like how, you know. Fourteen. Fourteen. You have no idea.

You know the deity exists. You don't know of any sort of animal, beast, or creature symbolism that would be fit a Dora Garka. I have no idea. I bet a scorpion would be made. Did I guess the scorpion? Scorpion? Fine.

Scorpion. He's a giant scorpion. All right. Giant scorpion. Kila's form shifts. As you see, a bunch of arachnid-like legs sprawl out the side of her torso. Her form condenses into a dark chit in the shell

as two giant claws form out the side of her body and a giant poison stinger curls up from behind. Tiberius kind of holds on during the transformation. I'm gonna go back because if they see me, then they'll know something's fishy. All right, the rest of you are here. So, you feel this kind of divine energy cascade around your throat, and you could feel like your vocal cords themselves

are temporarily infused to some sort of divine presence. You've transformed yourself now into the visage of this Duragard deity. Standing probably at a good, what Heidi going at? How tall are the... Proportional to my... The Duraigar are about four and a half feet tall. So let's make him six feet tall. All right, six foot tall Duraigar, standing in there.

It's big. The two of us get back by the other... Twins are going backwards. And get ready to bust in that back entrance as soon as... I'm sorry with them. We're the stealth part. I'm in fact nudging groan away from the store, towards the front, towards Tiberius. No, no, no, no. Nice way?

Yeah, he can come in this. Yeah, he needs to be ready to... Come in and... I don't know, they're not that strong. What are you doing, Grog? Which way do I go? Bax kicks Grog in the butt and sends him forward. Go help Tiberius.

Don't... Don't... No! No! No! Not that far! Come back! Go!

Go! Wait, wait till I say, help me and then come chill everything. He looks... Like he's listening, mostly. Back him up. Back him up. Back him up.

You hear shifting... You're shifting in the doorway at the front, some louder footsteps coming towards the front. Where you guys are? Okay. What's the plan? What's doing what? Who's going in first? Well, I'm a scorpion.

Is this going to be the entrance where does you need? Yeah, you bust in and be a god. Oh, are we busted in? Bust it and be a god. All right. We'll go in the other way. Fuck if I know. That's your job.

Let's the door open. All right, go ahead and make an athletics check. Oh my god. I was a scorpion. I'm simultaneously checking our door for... No, I already did. It's untrapped. It's unlocked her.

Never mind. Giant scorpion, athletics. It pulls my decks, I'm assuming. No, this is strength. Oh, it's my strength. That's pretty cool, though. 22. 12.

All right. The doors splinter open. The doors are actually broken off the hinges. That's right. As that happens, I cast light, and I cast. press the dissertation to say yeah yeah car concentrate concentrate concentrate don't lose concentrate don't cast too much shit I can't hear what's going on I hear

some annoying things in the background as I cast presentation to make my voice louder oh she's doing that with comedy oh she already took care oh shit three times louder than it normally would be so just keep it keep focusing on your light right as you guys bursting in holy shit yeah there's a lot of them Maybe do some presiditionation where you do shit around. Oh. What? Oh.

Hello. Everybody. I would like to rage. Oh, no basilisks. What? Those thingies. Oh, that's right. They have those pet basilisks. So, the door is in the prop.

Burst open. You guys come through. The entire, all of the Dioragar are standing there with the weapons at the ready, you can see in the back on this raised platform where the cloth stops, there is two thrones in the top two Duraghar sitting in the thrones at the ready. You can see two kind of lizard-like creatures in the back on chained leashes. However, all the Duragard that are ready to strike as soon as you burst through, take a step back, looking extremely confused about what's going on. Silence!

Oh! All of your silence! We weren't talking. Who knows who I am? Make a persuasion check. Yes, my theories. I still get it. Stealthen and Coas. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Vax is quietly moving along the back wall.

Our door is open? Yeah, we're gonna try to stealth in and sneak attack on there. That's 16. Okay. The dergo at the front take another step back, looking both frightened and odd. The one nearest to you takes his hammer

and throws it to the ground and takes a knee. Ooh. Yeah. Well, it looks like there's one saved soul. Save soul at this point in time. At which point, two of the other ones nearby kind of look at each other and look back that the one is in the ground, they put their hammers down and they kneel as well. At which point in the back you see the two throne figures stand up, one of which you can barely

see in kind of the dim light outside of your light spell that's currently gleaming above you. This long, almost touching the floor, black braided beard that drags right over this heavy set plate of jagged black iron and metal. A giant sword in his hand. You're kneeling below this false idol, this slurlustin. As I cast silence, as I say silence, I blow a big plume of fire out of my mouth, and I cast control flames. And...

So the light... I don't contrast control flames. I just do the fireball. I just do the fireball for a fact. I don't do control. Because that's a concentration spot. Yes. All right.

So you do the fireball. Where are you casting a fireball? Or just a boom of flame. Roll intimidation check. You guys, what are you doing right now? I'm moving along the back wall. 18th way? I want that ill at least.

Okay. Make a stealth check. Yeah. What else is going in there with them? I go in and stand at the wall next to the door. 32. Okay. Your stealth roll?

I'm so stressed. Yeah, I know. I think I'm gonna have a heart attack. So, you roll day. 18. 18? Okay. You can see the, uh, this figure which you're gathering at this point is probably King Murgle.

Still holding his sword aloft, looks back towards his wife who's sitting in the throne next to him or is just standing up and, kind of confused. It's right, boy. I am Woduga. You know, and you know your deeds as of late might upset my wrist. My wrist. All the Dürga are now looking over the shoulders back towards the king and kind of watching this transpire between the... All of you lay down your arms.

32. 32. You're going to, everyone else staying in the back hallway? I'm not moving. Okay, back hall. Okay, back hole. As you guys push in further and further, the group that are kneeling, move back in, move back in sheer fear and horror.

At which point, the king takes a step down off of the throne area onto the next platform. Dude. Weapons still decide and says, Men, I've trained you, I've raised you, I've fed you, and I've kept you alive. And I don't care for you to finish that sentence. I cast fireball, right, and fucking right on him. On the king? Yes. Whoa.

There's an attack right there. Of course it is. All right. Is it a good? So, what if he was gonna say? The blast hits him, a 20 foot radius. That will grab everything in that radius, including you. Oh no. I know it.

So go ahead and roll damage. 8d6. It's all right. 8d6. He'll me, Pike. He'll me. Will I will. Three minutes.

He'll. Oh, man. It's gonna hurt. He's gonna sing. Eight D six, you got this. Oh, God. Damn. Come on, you got this.

You got this one. You want it to be a lot, but not too much. It's a little less than 55. 25. Okay. 25. Okay. I'm sorry, 30.

Okay, good. So they explodes around them. You see all of them kind of shield themselves in the blast of flame. As it spreads out. Wait, I'm doing the rogue thing that I can't remember the name for. Yeah, Kenny Dodge. No, that's it. Something else.

Quickly, dickly. All right, so, why are looking that up? The Durgar brace them. themselves, and they have an innate natural resistance against things magical in nature. So they all take the brunt of the damage, however it does not do as much as you hope to the group. All of them look hurt, but definitely not taken out of the fight. The ones that are in the front, the two lizard creatures who you now have a better look at, you do see it's familiar. They have numerous sets of legs, and though the chains hold them at bay, both of them glance

up instinctually. I want you, Tiberius, to make Two constitution saving throws. Trapes. Yes. The em, evasion, if I make a success, I get half damage, if I fail again. That's terrible. Jesus. If I fail, I get no, if I get half damage. I think I fail, I get a nine.

Yeah, so you take half damage. So you take the, what was the total damage on your fire? 30. 30, 15. So you take 15 points of fire damage. Get ready. All right. So as you glance about it,

You've got the room now. You look over and both of these lizard creatures kind of look towards you. You kind of look back and forth and there's just like gleam in their eye. Suddenly you feel you're forming a tighten up. Instinct. Oh.

So you are considered restraint, which means you are a disadvantage to all your attack rolls and ability checks right now. I still have a bonus attack I can do before that happens, correct? No, this is as it's happening. Your turn is still happening. I got it.

This is all kind of a fluid moment. Things happen as they happen until the initiative is being rolled, which is now. Okay. So everyone roll initiative. Sinky sneaky. Oh. You break.

Right. Nice. Stupid dice. I know. All right, so 25 to 20. Natural 20. Nice. Plus your-nothing.

Nothing. Was nothing for decks? Oh, for decks. You add your decks to your initiative. Plus nothing. Okay. So 25, 20, 20? 23.

23. 21. All right, all right. Yeah. Sneak attack. All right. 20 to 15? 19.

All right. 15 to 10? I'm 9. 9. Oh, yeah. Great. Five. Five.

Five. Not to brag. Yeah. Oh, I'm really good. Oh, actually that. Big no five. We don't right behind them. All right.

Just noticed your shirts. It's really great. Oh, okay. Guys, tune in every week for this kind of intense activity. As far as brooding, intensely. In which case, Thanks for watching.

My eyes. All right. That brings us to the top of the round. Percy, you're up. I'm going to hold off until, I'm actually going to delay my turn until post-Pike. Can I still, like, okay.

Can I still like yell out, show all over this? is happening. He's loud. I mean, you can kneel out like one thing while other things I'm loud and I've got range so I'm going to let the room fill and then I'm going to come in and get some. I'm going to go to the bottom. While this is, as this is all going down, I'm going to yell, those who want to live, throw down your arms. That's what I do. Okay. That doesn't bring us to the top back. You're up. Okay, I use my bonus action to click my boots of haste together and I tap dance over to the Ilethid and I'm going to use two daggers to stab him

in his eyeballs. Okay. First one hits, it's 18 plus. It's critical because he does not see you and has not acted up his combat. Yes, it is. So I just take my keen dagger and I shove it in his eyeball to 1d4.

It's two plus. I feel like I want to have a heart attack. We're gonna be fine. There's nothing we can't head over. 14. It's nothing we can't head. 28 plus. 36 is the first dagger into his eyeball.

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and it didn't even seeing you. It recoils back, slapping your hand back out of the way. The other dagger strikes and just gleams off of its shoulder. However, it turns around with its other eye at you, and it definitely knows you're there. Okay. I like to circulate my hands to kind of carve out the eye wall areas. No, it pushed you off.

Yeah, okay. It's all right. All right. That brings us to... Grog. I would like to go to a hallhouse. Grogh's going to go ahead and take his axe with the chain on it and throw it towards the first DuraGar he sees, which is right here.

Froze it. All right, that is a, it's going to miss. The Pover of four. It swings past. He's going to make an athletics check to see if you can bring it back. That he succeeds. So he throws the axe, it swings past the Dura Guard, clings under the ground, and he just using his chain, he yinks it back, catches it in his hand.

This turn is spent, however. Next to the Scanlan. I step into the room, lining myself up with those two pig creature beast things in line. Yeah. Can I also catch the king or no? No, it's a line. It has to go straight.

Going for the guys. I don't want to scald you. They're already hurting. I'm going to go straight across the piggies and make them feel with lightning. All right. At the start of your turn. Oh shit, there's a trap.

No, at the start of your turn, you come up, and the creature looks over and you guys make eye contact. You aren't averting your gaze. Go ahead, make the Constitution save. No, he's not averting money. Save and throw, come on, Scanlon, you lucky, motherfucker. Is it? Where's my?

G20. There it is. There you go. Roll high. 17 plus what? That's good. Plus your constitution modifier. Yes. All right, so as it glances over at you,

there's a shine in its eye, and you feel all of a sudden in your form for a second tense and you shrug off the effect. Untouched by it. Now, go ahead and take your turn. Good poop. I cast lightning on the two beasts in a straight line. Okay, so you pull back and you unleash a lightning bolt.

Just streaking across the room. If I can get the king I can, it'll try. Unfortunately, he's just had the line ray, but it does streak across and blast both of these, now visibly basilists in front of you. Do you have to roll the hit first? No, you hit automatically. Just go ahead and roll damage.

Oh, sweet, sweet dice rolls. Let it rain. Let it rain. D6s from the sky. 29. One fails at saving throw, one makes it. Oh, nice. So 29 damage to one, and that will be 14 to the other.

And then for bonus action, I inspire. This one here is the full blend of it. That one half. I inspire Vax with a little ditty. All right. I want to sing a song of inspiration, of inspiration. All right, and Scanlan's song.

Scanlan's turn? King Mirdin's turn now. No, King Murdin. King Murdin is going to It sees this blast of lightning streak past now, as it blasts just barely passing in front of it, hitting both of his pet basilisks. Now seeing that there's like a full army between himself and the current intruders, one of which is visibly

stiffening, he glances over at this tiny gnome individual that now gave loose to this bolt of energy, grabs his blade with both hands, and goes running towards you with an angry, but he uses a bonus action quickly to pull out a vial, pop a cork, chug it, shattered the glass on the ground. As he does, you can see his arms actually billow

and grow extremely strong and thick with muscle. What color was the vial? This was a purplition color. Damn it. He then runs forward. What if you just like, just to just, just taste a little taste. Yeah, just like a half-tees.

Little for now, a little bitters. His turn swinging at Scanway. As he does, I say, dodge that sexy attack, oh white boy. I sing my, what is it called? Counter to no, cutting words? No, yes. Cutting words.

And I try to distract him as he's attacking you. Okay, so you get to... What is it? A D8 off of his first attack. Five. Five, okay. Well, he rolled a 20, which brings it down, or a total 20, brings it down to 15.

What's your armor class? Fourteen. Oh. Second strike is a 13. Third strike is a 12. Wow, he just can't hit all this turn. But however, the one strike he does get on you, the sword comes down, streaks across the front of you,

and as you're finishing your last final note of that song, you take 18 points of slashing damage. Okay, okay. No, no, no, no. Where are you at? I'm fine. I'm fine. I got more than him.

That ends his turn. This brings us back to Vex. That's me. I cast Hunter's Mark. Actually, I just transfer it because the other one died. I transfer it to the king. Okay. And then I cast...

First, I want to move Trinket over and... Oh, no, I can only move Trinket. Okay, first I'm going to cast Conjure Barrage. It's a 60-foot cone. 60-foot cone. I want to see how many of them I can get. Nice. You can get, see, you can get, it'll get everybody.

Yeah. Can I angle it so I don't hit those, my buddies and just hit like. You can angle it in a way that will, if you want to get the king in it, you're going to hit these two here. It's okay. Yeah, okay. And grog. All right, I'll hit him. It's the price of war.

Okay, so you'll be able to hit everything in that row. Awesome. So go for it, go ahead and, how's the effect on that one? That is, I, um, I roll 3D8. All right, so go and roll 3D8. Yeah. I have so many hit points. I know.

That was on a corner. Okay, roll again. So many of points. Oh, good. 17. 17? Okay, and what was the effect of the spell? Like, what do they roll against?

They roll a dexterity saving throw. Dexterity saving throw. King makes his with a 20. So they take half damage for it, or no damage? Half as much, yeah. Okay, so was the total again? It was... That's, I don't get a...

Was the total originally? It was... What was the total? Yes. Was 17. 17. Okay, so that is eight damage to the king. Plus a hunter's mark.

Right, so roll an additional, what you can turn on that? Four. All right. The Basilisk also does not make it save. What's the DC on this? DC. What do you mean? Your spell DC, the top of your spell page.

Yes. It's 14. 14. Oh, I did get a, I didn't add my spell attack bonus. Should I have done that? No, that's just to hit something with a spell. Okay, cool. All right.

So, Basilis in front makes it. So it takes the eight damage. The rest of the Duraghar. They do make their saves, they take half damage. However, with the spray of arrows that comes flying out of the front of your bow, you manage to take out whoa. Five Duraghar and one.

Nice. Swipe. The guns remain damaged. but still standing. Also now, dexterity singing throw for you. Against 14. Tiberius and Grog. Natural 20. Nice.

19. Nice. So both you guys take eight damage. Scorpion. Grog fails. Grogs. Good over here. Sorry, Grog. It's all right. All right, Vex, is that the end of your turn? Oh, I move Trinket in, and I want to, is it eight damage?

If I can get him to ill, it's it. Clinket. Like, kind of behind the queen. Okay. No, no, no, I want to get them near that way you can play. Okay. All right.

That ends your turn. It is now Lady Kima's turn. Ooh, I forgot about her. No rushes in angrily. She rages. She has to make the saving throw. No one not to rise. Succeeds against the basilists.

Because a glance is past. Rushes forward in combat with both King Murgle and the Bassahs. Come over. As she goes in for King Morgul, screaming the blade of the great sort, arcing across the air with the divine glowing energy. You see it aiming for the king with and looks to her side and sees this dangerous lizard creature,

recognizing it in a moment she changes her trajectory and swings next to the lizard with her first strike. That hits, and that strike does just enough damage. She cleaves that baseless in two with our first strike, with a first strike, using the inertia, turns around and strikes at King Mergel. I loosened it for her. However, King Margul, seeing her come forward,

takes his sword up and manages to parryhurst of the side. Both of them lock for a second as he steps into her and kind of glares her face. Oh, you're supposed to be downstairs for playtime. Pushes her off with this blade. Playtime. I know. All the bladies are like, ew.

That brings us to Queen Ularra's turn. Pinelara is now standing over there with trinket towards her back. As she instinctually does this, she go ahead, reaches up, places her hand on the front of her ropes. And you see this Duragar woman with kind of long reddish hair that she's just let flow to about the back of, just let's small her back. She stands up out of the throne. As she puts her hand on her chest, her form shimmers, much like you saw earlier on Tiberius in your earlier battle.

She moves back to there. As she does that, I try to counter smell it. As a reaction? Yep. Okay. So let's go ahead and do the contested roll. Contested roll. Ooh, it's like rock paper, scissors. That was almost the name of this shell.

Not contested roll. Not as catchy. DC equals 10 plus the spells level. Okay. So DC's 12. Go ahead and roll back. DC is... 13. It's a third level spell, right?

Blur is second level. Oh, I thought we counted, okay. Yes. So, counter's going. Go ahead and... Oh, time to put into the process of casting a spell. The creature is casting a spell. The third level of lower, it fails and has no effect. So, yeah, it just counters it entirely.

So, her form, she begins to shimmer for a second. All of a sudden, Tiberius, here. your attempt to go ahead and counter the spell to that burst of energy trying to put through, the blur vanishes. She looks back at you. What do you think you're doing, last? I'm still trying to do you now.

I'm in that form still. So with her sorcery points expended, on that quick cast, she turns around for her main action, puts out her fingers, and you see these blasts of blue energy begin to rock it out from her fingertips across the room in what is a chain lightning. Oh, boys. It's got the iPhone now.

She's magic. She is. So this will be towards, actually this will be towards you, Vex, Kima, Scan. All right. Let's say Vex or Vax? Backs, right?

Yeah, Vex and Bax. Both Vex and backs. Yes. Wait, you're all the way over there. You're all the way over somewhere else, right? Over there, yeah. Oh, man. Shane landing, man. It's a bitch.

I don't know what to do. All right. All right, they're getting hit. Are we getting hit? Are they on a hit? All right, so Vax, go ahead and make a dexterity saving throw. Not good. Seven.

Seven, all right. Can I use on invasion or evasion? I gave you some dice. I gave you some dice. You did give me some dice. It's not going to be enough, though. So now I'm at 13, but can I use evasion or uncanny dodge? Evasion is for area effects.

Uncanny Dodge is. We've already used one for the area effect. The other one reduces the damage by half. All right, uncanny Dodge. Okay, so you're reducing the damage by half? Yeah. Okay, so instead you take 18 points of lightning damage. Ooh! Damn.

However, both Vex and Scanlan and Kima all have to make dexterity saving throws as well. She makes hers. Not great. Oh. 14. What? 14. I have no dexterity.

Right. 16. 16. Okay. So you took, was it 18 lightning damage I said? Oh, I didn't have any dexterity. I had a nine to what I got, which means I'm at 22. Just your dexterity modifier?

Yeah. 22? Okay, then you would have taken half damage, we made a quarter damage, so you take half the bat even. Keep that in mind when you make your dexterity saving threat. Yeah, yeah. All right, so that would give you total how much damage? Uh, uh.

18 you took, right? Yeah, and then we halved it to nine. Right. So 36 damage to Scanlan and to Kima and to you, Vax. 36. 36 points of lightning damage. Holy no. And her turn, Tiberius, you're up?

So you, it's your turn now as you're now on top of the scorpion still. It's okay. You're on top of me. I'm holding you. Cool. This is... They're still on the altar that's raised above. They don't like.

You've got a problem down there, to be fair. Where we're at? You've got the witch problem to do it. What do you got, Tynerius? Quick. Before you missed your turn. That shall miss nothing. I'm going to stay right where I'm at. All right.

I'm going to snicker and I will put out my hand. hand and give my little ring a rub and let out a fireball from it, right where no one else but these buttholes will get hurt. All right, so I'd say probably a 20-foot radius number putting it out there. What is the common word for it? The official but-holes. So as you polish off the ring and release it, the bead of red energy streaks across, blast into the floor, the secondary explosion. Giant fireball just burst into the room. Go ahead and roll damage on that.

So. All resistance. Okay. All right. It's terrible. How many count? Okay, well, we have all these twos? Those two.

Those two. That's fun. These two should not be counting. Uh-huh. Your turns are taking so long. 18. Uh, uh, 23. 23.

Okay. Yeah. We're not going to die, the rest of these Durg are. Detonate. Yeah. Blasped the way out. Yeah.

Just goes, their bodies go thrown against the walls and the various pillars in the room. There's two pillars over there. They're kind of holding the ceiling up. The rest of them just go thrown about the room. The queen takes a bit of the damage, but seems to shrug off most of it. I'm going to spend two social points.

And I'm going to reach out by hand, and I'm going to form an ice knife. And where is the queen? Right there. There. Very good. I'm going to throw the ice knife right there. Okay.

Between them? Yes. Right there? All right. And I will cast it for at level two. All right. So you get to throw it out of target though, right? Or you're just throwing it on the ground to do the radial?

Okay, so you form the ice knife, you throw it, it streaks across, slams into the stone floor and explode sending shards of ice out. Go ahead and roll damage. Three D6 because it's at level two. Correct. And we're going to throw 14. 14 points of damage. Okay, both succeed for half damage. Okay, so seven points of damage to each.

All right, got it, cool. That ends your turn, Tiberius. Chlorota, now. Clorota. How'd you let them, that boss? Clorota steps forward. I'm on you. Seeing the other mind player there steps past

and decides to go into a contest of wills against it. Ooh, I like it. Contest of wills. Staring contest, staring contest. All right, this is intense. All right, Cloroda is going to step forward and begin to intensely stare at. You can see the kind of the air itself seems to shimmer

and push like a strange bubble shifting between the two of them at this connection point. Mindflare, now one-eyed and seeping liquid from the side of its face, glares back at him. Fails the saving throw. That's right, he does. This mind flare suddenly diverts his attention. away from Clorota and towards the queen.

Ooh! Yes! You'll dominate. Tie, tie, tie. And it's Clorota's turn. All right. The Duragar would go if they weren't all blasted to hell. That brings us to Kieleth.

All right, I am going to go right for the king. You're coming for a ride, Tiberius. I'm going to make a straight line. I have a 40-foot movement. I'm pretty sure I can move it. All right, let's get them. Oh, no, Tiberius fell off. What are you doing?

There you go. Okay, I'm in melee, yeah? Yes, you are. All right, I'm going to do my full three multi-attack. Okay. I am maniacally laughing. You are going to have a disadvantage on the tail attack because you have Tiberius on your back.

and you're trying to make sure you don't hit him with your tail. Okay. So first two claw strikes. Okay, first one, probably not gonna hit 12. 12? No, does not hit. Second one, uh, 16. Does not hit. Damn it.

Oh no. Clink, clink off the armor. Thirtle strike. So the tail strike, two, ten, nothing. Yeah, unfortunately, just his thick suit of armor, you're hitting at him with a giant scorpion claws. Nothing seems to be getting through. through.

God, you're so heavy, Tiberius. God. You hear this clacking scorpion, English. Oh, the little balance is rocky. Mike, you're up. All right, time for some healing. So pull me in there. All right.

I'm going to do mass cure wounds. Yay. Okay. And level five, which I think gives, thanks. Which me thanks gives me 4D8. Okay.

Plus my spell ability. Whoa. All right. Okay, so, uh. Damn. Get your heel on. Forty eight you would give. Get your heal on.

Get your heal on. So 20, 20. 20 points of healing for whoever would like it. Everyone who's in the radius. Okay. You, my love. Everyone but Grog. It's too far away from me, unfortunately.

Okay. That's fine. Thank you, my love. You both, that's your name. All right, Percy, you're up. All right. I'm going to just step into the doorway to take a look. I'm just stepping one step.

And now I'm just going to shoot. I'm just going to try and... The minute I recognize what a basilisk is, since I've faced them before, I'm going to do my best not to look and take a shot. Okay, so go ahead and fire with the disadvantage against the basilisk on the far end of the room. Don't you shoot me.

Don't you shoot me! Oh, that was a pretty one. I get 16 at my disadvantage. 16 at disadvantage, that does hit. Go ahead and hold damage. Nice. I'll be taking another shot too. Also, Tiberius?

Oh. Six points of damage. Six points of damage to the best. I'm going to take another shot though. Okay. 16 again. 10. Okay.

16 hits. This time I do 12 points of damage. Is your inspiration a cup for saving? 12 points? 12 points. Did I inspire you? He didn't inspire you. Oh.

And then I'm going to duck back around the corner again. Okay. Cool. As you duck around the corner, you've gotten these strikes in, and as you're trying to, as you finish your blows on the Duregard King, Morgul, in front of you, you hear this clinking sound as Tiberius is now fully stone form, falls off of the scorpion onto the ground.

beside you. He's stoned. Oh no. You turned to stone? Because the basilisk. We've dealt with us before. Yeah, we can fix us. It's okay. We can fix it. I think you pee on the body and it's curious him. Can I, I can't, I have to go.

Let's try it. It's trying to find out. The basilist now takes its turn. Please, no. Steps forward here on the edge. It's going to be. It's going to go ahead and this is going to be for Lady Kima. It's going to attempt to make it stare at her.

Lady Kima. Close your eyes. She's smart. She's close her eyes. Lady Kima, who's currently in this like blood frenzy against the king, unfortunately is not paying attention off the side. The Bastoges gets a glance at her. She looks at the corner of her eyes.

She sees the movement over and has a hard time pushing through the stiffness as the gaze begins to take a clenching effect on her body. I know. That'll be it from the basket. Yeah, thank you. Let's do that. Let's go there. Waze. Oh, waves. Why is my phone on?

All right. So, that brings us to the... I have no idea. Oof. Okay. I'm sorry, I can't help you with that back, Sali. It's mine player who is currently dominated. Yes! Oh.

Ket some ass. And is going to attempt to make a tentacle grab attack against the queen. Yes. Yeah. Queen Alara managed to do Dodge out of the way, seeing this coming and just back hands it, while taking a step back.

Unfortunately, it does not cling with the tentacle. That ends its action. Yeah. And unfortunately, I didn't hit. Good. All right, next at the top, that brings these two Vax. I'm hasted. I'm going to try to go stealth again from where I am.

Okay. I'm stealth. 1730. Yes, you are. Okay, I'm going to scuttle along the floor and leap on the back of the basilisk and try to step it in the on the opposite. while looking at the ceiling. Well, at the start of your turn, it's within 30 feet of view,

and you can see it. Are you going to not look at it? No, no. Okay, so you're taking disadvantage to this attack. Okay. So you move behind, you're hidden. 15 for my first attack. Your first attack.

That will not hit, unfortunately. Hasn't he hit inspiration? And second time, 19th, but second attack. That does hit, yes. Okay. Feel for the eye, stab it with. with a keen dagger for 11. Okay.

As you rush over, you take your first strike at the Baselisk, you see it reel back and slap around its tail. You barely just get it out of the way, and as you see its head turning around to attempt to glare at you, you instinctually take your off-hand dagger and just place it directly in the eye socket of the Baselisk. It sinks past your fingers, and you feel kind of that warm rush of blood and gore

against your hand. As you pull back, it just slumps to the ground there. Yes. Yes. One by one to you're calling in this room. We'll get you some of that blood. Blood.

One thousand is blood. I only moved 10 feet. So who's stone right now? Tiberius and wasn't two, aren't two people? I'm just chilling. Is it mid-effect in Tiberius? It's solid stone. I've got haste on.

I'm just chilling. If I've got haste on, can I get to Kima? Kima? I would say, yeah, you can spend the rest of you would be doing that, yeah. Okay, and I use my thumb to slide some of its blood off the blade and drip it onto her eyes. Okay.

All right. That ends your turn. That brings us to Grog. Grog turns and is going to go ahead and Luragin, frenzy against the queen. The queen. This is. Frog.

Strong value. I attack the pill. Okay, and a critical hit. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You crit?

Yeah. The first hit, she's going to go ahead and use her reaction to do shield. It's going to up her defense. This is what you're going to do. This is what you're going to Travis. So two attacks missed now, and the last attack is a critical hit. It's a great. No, it's for you.

It happens, man. Critt happens, whether you're not. All right, so that's 31 points of damage. Three points. Nice. That's a good. All right, that ends Grog's turn. That brings us to Scanlan. I'm next to the king, right? Near the king? Yeah. Over there? Yep. You're quite an excellent. I just make eye contact with him and I

mentally tell him that he really has the urge to try to do a headstand. Lay down his weapon and he really just wants to see if he can do it. Okay. Suggestion. Okay. What's your DC? No, this is 19. All right.

Just through the handker. Okay, that will be a 20, unfortunately. Oh. Makes a saving throw. As you, he glances back towards you with a look of confusion for a second. Looks at his feet and like begins to reach forward and then steals his mind and looks up with you angrily.

All right. Can I also, as my bonus action, who's around me? Who needs inspiration? Who needs inspiration? Who's up next? Who's up next? Yeah, oh shit.

I'll give Pike some inspiration, because she's my awesome sweet-ard. What do I get one D-8? Hey, thanks, man. To add, no problem. Okay. All right. Next up is King Mirdin, who is furious now. Both of his beasts have been slain and most of his men have been

completely torn asunder by multitudes of arrows and fireball spells. He, now growing in physical form on top of already the musculature he acquired from that. Potion is going to make his three attacks. against whatever is nearby. That's actually going to be, actually it's going to be two strikes against you, Scanlan, since you just now tried to hummus stand in its head and the one against Kima.

That is a 15. A 24. Hit. And against Kima is a 20 that also hits. So all three hits. Nobody puts baby in the corner. Hey, aye. Ooh, all right.

No. Sorry, this is right. So the first strike hits you for 21 points of slashing damage. The next one hits you for 23 points of slashing damage. No, you are. You no longer alive? Are you out of conscience? Hamlin falls unconscious in the ground from the two strikes of the King.

The third strike back towards Kima, who's currently seizing from the effect of the sociality is restrained, so he has abandoned. But she's got the basilic blood in her eyes. It was... There's a process. Alright. Yes, of course. You're the expert.

To undoing Preachern to Stone. All right. Your knowledge does not seem to be having an effect. Oh shit. What's you trying to do? Lady Kingman takes... Nothing.

Certainly not piss off the dungeon master. Mm-hmm. All righty. Yeah, that works well. That brings us to... Vax you're up. Oh, that's me. Every time.

You're not. Okay, I'm going to... I'm gonna... Kill something. Hail of air, no, yeah. Hail of thorns. At level three. Okay, at who?

At the queen and the illipid. Okay. So, I should have transferred my bonus action over to, but I didn't. That's okay. I'm stoned. Thank you, see. I should have done this before. I'm an asshole, I'm sorry.

But what about in the game? Oh. Okay, so that gives me at level three, 2D10. Additional damage to the arrow? Yes. It explodes around, right? Yes.

All right, so fire the arrow. So as your bonus action, you go and you grab one of the arrows out from the back, as you pull it back, you can see a bunch of these little thorns begin to grow and sprout from the actual shaft of the arrow. You release it and as it does an arcs across. Yes, natural 20! Oh! All right, go ahead and roll the damage for the arrow and the damage for the spell and all that doubles.

Oh, awesome. And all that doubles is cow-oh. Oh, they're shooting arrows in the hole. No, no. 8 plus 7 is 30. Yeah, all of the doubles. The bonus at the end doesn't double, just the dice. Oh, so 36.

36. 36 points. Plus plus seven? Or is that everything? That was plus seven. Yeah, with plus seven. And then it does, it explodes. Yes.

Right? And it does the dice damage, the 2D10. To everything within five feet. All right, so the mind flare and grove. Oh, right, yeah. I should have hit the mind flier with that, no. So it was so I had to hit up. Okay.

Oh, why does it tank. Bro. They have to make a dexterity saving graph. All right. The rug does not make it and the minor fire does not make it. Yes. All right, cool. All right, second arrow you can fire now if you want to?

Second arrow, I'm gonna fire from my flaming bow. I'll go one shot on that left. Okay. At her again. All right. Yes. And that's a 28. Yeah, man.

And that's nine plus a 10. Where's my 10? There they all. That's plus two. Thank you. All right. She's like flames begin to burn up on the side of a rope when she's looking really flustered and frustrated at this point.

All right, that brings us to Kima's turn. No. She's made a hardy stuff. Kima currently is fighting this is going to go ahead and release an entire all of her attacks against the King. Murgle is right in front of her. She has this advantage on them, unfortunately, because she's restrained. She's going to make two attacks against him using divine spite expending third level spell.

So that's 3D8 extra damage to each strike. So the first one hits. Both hit. No. All right. She's going to do it twice. So it's going to be 68 additional damage. Ooh.

That's hot. Okay. So as Kima rears back, her first strike comes down and hits overhead under King Murgle's armor. As it does, it hits. The blade only goes about a few inches in, but then all of a sudden, the blade heats up white-hot and actually buries itself an additional six inches

into his shoulder. He screams out and paint, reaches up and grabs the blade, and as he does, he, ah! His hand actually burns the process. She pulls the blade out around and swings it down again, sinking another eight inches into the side of his torso. This time with a giant arc of white divine light.

Into the side, he looks like he's starting to bleed out from two of the wounds really heavily. The king is looking a little rough. That ends Kima's turn. Kima's going to try and make a saving throw. Kima pulls the blade out. Oh no. He turns to stone herself. So he's still at like really high health too the king. What he is? He's looking a little rough. Okay, good. He's... He's... Stone. Oh, it's...

All right. You never know. He might just start doing a head stamp. The queen's turn. Oh no. The queen looks over at Grog in front of her, uh, kind of frustratingly uses a bulk of sorcery points, puts her hand up towards him as he's pulling his axe back angrily. He bails his save and he puts his axe back down and looks towards the rest of the group. Oh no, not again! I call her glazed over.

No, no, no. She's easily in the blue. No, he's under her control. Shit. So that was her, her, uh, sorcerer points, her quick action. She then says, I'm dead. We're not gonna die this day alone.

And I won't die. My love, I'm sorry, but there's much more work to be done. And she raises her hand up, and you see this buildup of green arcane energy at her hand. She turns it towards the rest of the group, faces it up towards the ceiling, and releases this pulse of arcane, green, ill-looking energy that blasts into the stone ceiling.

As it does, the stone itself disintegrates in a large chunk. Oh, no. And a glowing mass. of seeping hot molten magma begins to pour. Oh, shit. So, where's a part from? It's now coming from right here.

Oh my God. T.BK. T.P.K. So now, magma is pouring onto the throne room from above. The giant fall that is on top of the fortress is now peering into the room. Someone grab me and leave. That brings us to Tiberius, who is stone.

Clorota. Oh my God. Currently looks around in... Hold on. Am I conscious in stone form? No. You are a slate. You're blue screen. You are Grog after the intellect of hour. Um, okay. Hike, it's all on here, dude. Do you have water?

I can create it. Clorota. If you can create it, I can control it. Steps back. Wait, those are doing some stuff. And grabs Lady Chima. I have control water right now. Okay.

back and we're back through the doorway. Oh, God, we gotta get out. The lava. Like cool and freeze the lava. Pulling her down towards the stairway. That brings us to drink it. Keyliff. It's me.

Keelit. We gotta get out of you. Get us out of here. Like an umbrella? Okay, okay, okay. I come out of, you know, form. Yes, thank you. Is a bonus set?

Or it's a reaction. Isn't there a dead bassist right in front of us? of us right now? There is a body of devastation on the ground, yes. I'm going to take wind wall, I'm going to cast wind wall, and try and wrap it around the lava column and try and contain it within the wind wall, like cooling it down, like essentially making a tornado vortex around the lava. Okay, for the purposes of this, I want you to go ahead and make just a basic religion check.

Okay. No, not religion, you'd be nature. Okay. Just the purposes of my thought, I think a nature. your check would be an interesting way to see how this plays out. 18. 18? Okay. So, as you bring this gust of cold wind

swirling around, the column of magma begins to cool and darken as Trinket is like backing up against the wall and the magma is like starting to singe the edge of Trinket's nails, mm. No. It cools to a dark, black kind of rockish color and the magma fall ceases. Yeah.

But you can see parts of it breaking and breaking and beginning to break past that shell exterior, so you've slowed it. This isn't going to hold for long. Somebody rubs some blood on Tiberius quick. Let's get the hell out of here. I'm just holding this. Just holding it there.

Okay. That brings us to Pike. There's so much to do. I don't know if I should heal you, if I should rub blood on you, or if I should go try to remove the curse from rug. Try to see if you can get the curse out of rug. Because if we got a retreat, then...

Can remove curse remove the thing off of him? From your knowledge, no. It is an arcane effect. That's an arcane effect. Okay, so Grog might be on his own for a little bit. Okay, so can I heal Scanlan and then also rub some Basilix blood on Tiberius? From your previous experience, it's not the blood directly. The blood itself has to be distilled into a specific acchemical form to reverse the effect.

Wait, what did we do it before? That's what we did before. We just drank the blood last time. No, it wasn't drinking. It was after the battle, you guys took the blood. Yeah, we did. Prepared it and then used it as part of the recovery. Finish it.

Finish it. All right, so someone collects some blood and. Scanlan. We've got to finish this. So you heal Scanlan. How much does he heal? Yeah, we got to finish this. King's almost dead.

Do we want to kill the King? Do we need somebody alive to help us? 18. What is? So you're back up? Oh, 18, 19, 19. So you're healed 19. You're on the ground prone.

but you're conscious now. You look up at Pike and Smile and you look over and see this large column of magma that's now cracking through stone and pouring into the throne room again. Is there anything else we can do? Is there anything else I can do at this moment? No, this has been a heel.

This is, okay, no, you can move. That's about it. I can move? Can I take anyone with me while I move? I will say you can drag him. You'll be at half speed. Can I try to drag Tiberius away from the magma? You can try.

Make a strength check. Okay. He's a dragon. Let's athletics. We'll do athletics. We have a big floor. 19. Okay.

So you grab onto Tiberius, you rush over after healing him, grab and start dragging him towards the entrance at half speed. You managed to get him three squares. That's as far as you got. As you're pulling back, the king is a reaction, gets one strike on you with his sword. That is going to be a 19. Get out of here. Is 20?

It's 20. So the blade hits you. I just flip him off. Yeah. The blade comes down towards you, but with a flash of divine energy and your shoulder armor, it just gets deflected off the side, and you glare at them out of the side of your face and continue to drag Tiberius out of the room.

I go home and get you shine box. All right, Percy, you're up. All right, I'm going to step into the room to give some covered. Wait, I'm driving down the room. What have you been doing this whole time? Probably just slightly on the other end of this. Where over here?

No, like next to Keyleth, like near Keyleth. Oh, you're going to have to go around here then. This is a really harrowing place here. Okay, she's right here. Oh, thank you. I'm the green. Okay, the first thing I'm going to do is I've got my ice shot loaded. Okay.

I'm going to take a shot at the break in the ceiling and I'm going to try and ice it over. Okay, all right. So as you pull over, you go ahead and aim up with your ice shot ready. Go ahead and fire. That's 20. 20 definitely hits.

It's not hard to do. Go ahead and roll damage. and that will signify how long and how much it'll stop. So just the ice damage, not the actual bullet. It won't do anything. So just the ice damage. Just the ice damage. Two.

Two. Okay, so as you blast up, you can see as the magnet is going to pour down again, you blast it and you immediately spot cools into a rock and begins to slip again. You've maybe given yourself a couple more seconds. That may be what you need, you don't know, but that's all you got on that one. Okay, my next shot, I'm just going to turn to the king

and just shoot. Okay, go for it. Poo-Pew. I'm also going to spend a point for additional damage. All right. And I'm also taking a sharpshooter for additional damage. Okay. Oh, that's 16. 16 result. Army Class will not hit. Oh, wait. Okay, no, I just, I don't get that. Oh, God. It's not Pathfinder.

Yeah. Sorry. Okay, that's fine. I'm going to spend my bonus action, take another shot. Okay, so you're using your action search? Yeah. Okay. So you have two more more shots. Go for it. Yes. Um, 23 F you. That hits. That's nine points of damage. Nine points of damage. Got it? Taking another shot.

All right. This shot's fire bonus damage. Okay. And I'm also going to spend another grip point to maybe do a little more damage. Okay. Grit. 28 to hit.

That hits. Go ahead and roll damage. With the extra grip point, you do two dice, right? Yeah. All right. I got a bonus. I just have to find one. That'll do.

That will do. and that's 17 points of damage plus one point of fire damage. Nice. Okay, so the first shot fires just piggins off his armor and streets across the room. You get his attention though, and he looks back at you with this kind of wild look in his eyes. The muscles like tensing, you can see the armor

actually bending and twisting against his physical form underneath. However, the next shot blasts off side of his jaw. Oh! There's actually a giant gap now, and as flushes he looks back and you can see his teeth. And as he grits down towards you now, definitely intent on getting vengeance on that. second shot takes off a chunk of his head.

You can see the skull exposed on where you've now taken a piece of flesh off the top of his scalp. He's looking pretty rough. Let's move it, people. And I'm going to take like a step back towards the door just with what's remaining of my movement. Okay. You can get back to there. All right. That brings us to, shh.

Oh, I killed him, didn't I? No. No, he's not dead. He's not dead yet. Not dead yet. I know that would have been so cool. All right. The mind flayer who is no longer dominated, Clorota took his attention off of that for the time being,

looks around and everyone sees the circumstance of the magma flowing down and just grabs his chest and you can see his form blink out and vanish. He's pissed out. God, that's so annoying. Okay. At this round, by the way, It is broken and it's beginning to spread.

The magma is now filled this much of the room. Oh, God. All right, my boots of haste are on, so I run, I just dart right around Grog, around that column, up to the queen, while pulling out my keen dagger, I speak my mother's name, kiss the blade, and shove it in right into her collarbone. All right, go and roll for the attack.

That's a two, but I'm going to use luck. Okay. And get 20. 20 does hit. Because of it. And because Grog's there, this is not an ally currently. You do not get sneak attack damage. Don't get sneak attack.

All right. 3, 10 then. That's the first attack. First attack. And the second one also hits, that's a 29. All right. Is 10. 10. Nice.

So the first blade plunges into her clavicle. She maneuvers out of the way to the point where it misses any vital points but still sinks in. and she looks at you angrily and you can see her dull white, ashy Duragar eyes flash with an intense arcane rage. As you pull the blade out, her eyes start around with some sort of a plan, a thought process going through her head. As the other blade sinks into the side of her torso, she spits out blood that actually spatters across your face.

She pushes the blade out, and you see preparing herself for something. Oh no. That ends your turn. Grog. Raids. Currently, Coo. moves forward towards you.

Oh no. Wrong direction. That is a 25 versus armor class. Yeah, but uncanny. Dodge. How many times can you use it? I don't remember. Yeah, I don't remember.

It's like one of a counter or something. Yeah, once per encounter, you can use that. Next one is a 21 versus armor class. Once around. Once around you can do it? Yeah. Okay, well, never mind. So dig in the first attack.

Hell yeah. All right. So the first attack. First strike comes at you with a, ooh, that'll be 19 points of damage. Okay. Reduced to nine. Okay. Second strike hits you for a total of 15 points of damage.

Oh, good. So 24 total. Okay. Okay. Could be worse. And that's Grog's go. That brings us to Scanlan. That really hurts, Grog. With my knowledge of the arcane arts,

do I have any knowledge that using my dispel magic spell would work on Grog? Or do I just have to try it? It's a possibility. You know the spell that's been cast on him. You use it. There is a chance, but it has to be a contested roll. You could roll a 20.

You could roll a 20. Does it take my move to just stand up? Yes, it does. Unfortunately. So it's your call. Instead of moving across the space. But I don't have to be standing to cast a spell. No, but I would say,

But I would say it's gonna be difficult. It's gonna give... All right. I'll stand up. All right. You have a bonus action? I do have a bonus action. So no movement. I don't know what that...

What are you doing? And I will... Jesus. It's better for me to get out of there. Get the king. Get the king. Yeah, you might be able to kill him. He's on his last legs probably.

He's looking pretty rough. Yeah, but Kieleth is right behind him. Do it. Stap him. You can attack him with your sword. Hit him with a flute. I am a tiny, tiny boy. Do it anyway.

He's at his last legs. I get a bip in the nose. This is going to be epic scandal. I will say that. I can't. Go ahead. I'm a swing by singing Don blade at him. Don?

All right. I have a dawn blade. All righty. It's a dawn. It's just so lame. Do it, do it. It's really big a bit of rubber. Go ahead and roll for attack, D20.

A natural 20. Oh, we call it. We call it. We call it. So, roll the die. That's amazing. Oh, gone, he's gone. So that's eight.

You rolled an eight times two, it's 16, plus whatever the bonus damages for the sword. Critical hit, plus seven. Okay. Plus the don't blade gets another bonus attack at disadvantage. It does. So you strike with the critical hit doing, let's say it's eight, 16 plus seven.

23 points of damage, go ahead and roll for a second attack. I've never hit anyone with a sword before. Five. Can I give him a war god's blessing and give him a plus 10? You can. All right, plus 10. So 15. What's your total?

You'll the 5 plus 5 plus 10. I don't know. What am I adding? I've never used a sword before. I have used a efficiency modifier, which is 4, that's your strength of the 5. It's 5 to that, which is 10, makes it 20, which hits roll damage on the 5. Boom. Oh my god.

Kill him, kill him. Six. Six points of damage, or six on that. On that one. On that one. Which is one, seven, plus the Domblade, which is eight. 23? So it's eight, eight damage on top of the 23.

How do you want to do this? As I draw back the blade, I say, oh, you should have stood on your head, and I locked it off. So, as you say that, the blade itself vibrates with the sound of your voice, like echoing the song of Scanlon behind yours and almost a chorus out of nowhere.

The blade streaks through the air, coming down, slitting across the back of his Achilles tendon. Instinct she falls to one knee, which is kind of the height level for you. As you do, you bring the blade around with a flourish and shoof, take Morgul's head off his shoulders, which spins, tumbles to the ground, and rolls across the floor.

Into the magma. Oh. Black and beer curling back as the rest of his face is melted away by the lava, which is now pouring pretty heavily into this room. I guess that's your action and your movement, your bonus action. A bonus action, I'll give it.

No, you did your bonus action, you do the extra attack. Great, great. I don't know how to use swords. All right, so that's the end of your turn. Wow. You use the sword and got a kill on a boss. Yay!

Good job, Scaglip! All right, King Mirren's turn Riffie now, but he's on the ground. Look at my muscles! I'm so strong. I call Trinket back, get him away from that lava. I run past, because I can't, can I see, do I have an angle or is it being blocked by a molten tornado?

It's completely blocked right now. Then I run across behind it. Through here? Yeah. Is that magmas right now or is that? Yeah, it is. It's still pointing. She slowed it down, but it's still breaking through and pouring out slower.

That would be even bigger if they haven't slowed it. Okay, well then maybe I got from that direction. I run the other direction and down. That's here. Go for it. Roll for attack. Okay. First attack.

First attack is 20, no, and 19. Hits. Yes. Okay. 14. 14 points of damage. Second attack is a, well, does that mean. Sward. Second attack is 21. Hits, roll damage on that. Uh, is that, 12?

12 to hit? Yeah. Or 12 damage? 12 damage. Gotcha. Oh, and 100. Mark. You forgot again. Yep. All right, so both arrows, one, clips are in the leg.

And the other embeds itself in her abdomen. You see she grabs for it. She's looking really rough. Next is Kima, Kima Stone. It's now the queen's turn. She looks over at you who stabbed her the arrows in her abdomen and she looks up at Grog and says, leave go business, I'll sweat.

No, no, no, no. Both of them blink out dimension door. Oh, fuck. We lost dog again. A very familiar, purple-ish color. As you've seen you cast it, the dimension door out of the entire vicinity. Son of them.

This is the second time we lost your off. At which point, the stone rocks crack on the column and the magma now goes into full pour? We gotta get out. You guys have to get out of that tunnel. What do you do now? We run. We run.

We gotta get our stone friends out too. This is going into a skill challenge now. D-Din-D-D-D-Din-D-D-D. Okay. Yeah, we all run out that. No, we don't all run out. There's stone. We have to drag them out.

Yeah. You all stone. It's Tiberius and Kimima. Okay. Where's the magic carpet? Throw their asses on the magic carpet. They're stone. Grog has the bag. You can't pick them on the magic carpet.

It can be it's gone. It can be a thousand pounds. Grog has everything. Oh my God. Wait, feather falls. Gog had the bag of holding. Before we leave, can I take some of the bas-licks blood and put it in a vial? Okay.

This would be the first skill challenge. Go and make a dexterity check. Dexterity check. Okay. You have the magic carpet? But you have a magic carpet? I'm stung, so it doesn't matter. Oh, can we give the magic carpet?

No, the magic carpet is in the bag of holding. 18. That thing is huge. You carry that with you. You would be a disadvantage for everything you've been doing. Oh, I see. Grog has 18. 18.

OK, so you may you go over it, and you manage to gather up and do your whine skin, a little bit of the basilisk blood, best you can. The magma pulls close to you, and you manage to just take six points of fire damage from just the general heat of the magma, now pouring into the room. It's spilling out and just continuing

to fill the rest of this chamber. I shout to Percy. Come, Tiberius, now. We pick him up. Take them up and just start. I agree. Both of you guys make an athletics check. Oh, it's not a strength check?

For this one, this is athletics just to pull them along. 19. We're ready at a time. 17. I start pushing Kima towards the door too. You guys grab and pull Tiberius out of the room. It takes the two of you to heft them over. You manage to pull them out of the way.

That works out well. Down the stairway. All right. We don't need the figures for this. We're just going to do this visually. So you guys, we're going to bring Tiberius down the stairs. What are you doing?

I'm unfurling my bull strength scroll and reading it so I get a plus five to strength. Is that a thing? All right, so it's the enhanceability. So you go ahead and give yourself an enhancement. Your strength is now, can you have advantage on all of your strength checks. Okay. And I start to help who's pushing chema? I'm going to help push chema out.

Okay, so the two of you begin push chema out. Oh, wait, no. Wait, didn't Chlorota take them? The clota pulled Kima out of the room. Yeah. Oh, so we're all fucking fine. I go ahead and on our way out, I cast create water, and I cast create water and I I kind of just use my air ability and make a mist

to try and miss the lava that's coming towards us. Okay, you do, but the magma is so intense and it's filled so much of the room now that you get a localized area that the rest of it just kind of flows around and continues to fill the space. All right, so all of you guys make a dexterity check to try and get down quickly. Go ahead.

Do you. So. Natural 20. Woo! Natural 20. Jesus Christ. What? Shut up.

I rule the 19. Go get nothing. 20. 20. Seven. Four. Did I get to roll twice because of anything? Because of, yes, you do. Do I get my enhance ability?

Not for this one. I would like to note that I'm frozen like this. Okay, Thiberius is. 29. Okay, gotcha. So Pike and Scanlan, both of you guys are, unfortunately, because you're smaller and your legs are moving,

you guys rush down the stairway and curl around. As the rest of you, make your way to the doorway, which is currently closed, you all are kind of gathered at the exterior that hidden doorway. It's currently dark and held shut on where you guys entered. However, you two, the magma has now reached the stairway and is going to pour down off the top,

and it manages to catch the two of you. You guys each take five points of heat damage from the magma's proximity. The two ladies? No. No, Pike and Scanlan. You guys may get to the bottom floor. The doorway is currently closed for the secret exit of the fortress.

The door is closed. Vax drops Tiberius' stone ass to the ground and starts feeling. to try to get the mechanism of the door open. Okay. Are we at the foot of the stairs yet, me and Pike? You guys just don't get the foot of the stairs. It's a big stone door?

Yeah, it's the one you guys, it opens up outward. Oh, right. I just cast stone shape and make a hole. Okay. As you're feeling around for the mechanism, Keelos steps forward and basically the stone turns into almost a clay and she just pulls it apart. Oh, word.

Which is great because- I didn't need to like overstepping there, but. A giant block of magma pours down and splashes on the ground, hitting everyone in the vicinity. everyone down here takes 12 points of heat damage That's hot, it's hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.

I'm picking up Tiberius's stone butt and continuing... Okay, you guys push through the open hole that Keeleath pushed in, sweat dripping down your faces as the heat proximity to you is nigh intolerable. You make your way out of the gate, and now you have that giant magma flow. Is the thing not... Wasn't there? You guys, you guys go and step out.

The doorway that opened up previously is what parted the magma flow. You pull it open, so now it's just a wall of the eyes in front of you. But she also had created a wall there. I did create a wall over top. You did. It's not there anymore. It was permanent. It's permanent, but a perpetual flow of magma on it for a few hours will eventually eat through a stone wall. Can you cast it again?

I can't. Do it again. Okay. That's okay. So there's probably the last taste that. You create a stone wall that juts out, once again, blocking off the magma flow. You guys all step out of the room. Just as the main force of magma begins to fill the room behind you, everyone make one more dexterity check to get out in time as it's a small space and you're pushing out

Natural 20 Oh 16 You make nothing You make nothing seven Ten Two 29

12 Okay As you're helping getting your friends out, you're pushing out, you push Vex out, Vex starts out, Scanlon manages to get out. As you guys are pulling Tiberius through, the hefty force of magma comes funneling down into the room and splashes across the floor. Oh, that's a lot of dice. There's a lot of dice. A lot of dice.

Oh, stop that. Oh, God, there's so many dice. That is 18 points of heat damage. Vax is unconscious. 18 points. As you're pushing through Vax, you fall unconscious as the magma is currently laughing. at the back of your leg. The rest of you begin pushing out as you begin to realize

that your half-out friend is currently melting in a pool of magma. Go ahead and make a strength check. Oh, come on, Pike! It's not a strike at this point. This is pure adrenaline pushing through. 12. You manage to start pulling them up through the hole that Keeleth made.

I'm going to assist. I'm pulling out. I'm doing another ice shot to try and cool off the magma around. I send shrink it up to like pull. Before you get to that point, as you're ready for, it's a small space. As you're pulling it, giant bear claws, Come over and latch onto the back.

Of Trinkets is armored. The grizzly bear begins to tense pulling back. Yeah, Trinkets. A strength check. That'll do it. Both of you manage to pull you out. You take an additional, but a heat damage, you are now at two failed saving throws,

two failed death saving throws. I'm a centimeter away from real death. I'm gonna pull a healing potion. As he pulls it out, you can see most of his foot is melted on his right leg. Oh, that's his best leg. I pull a level till healing potion just get it in his mouth. Okay, you pull it out. At this point, the magma's beginning to fill up the room, by the way.

Okay, wait, wait, can I take my stone wall and like close it off? We're all out, right? You're outside of it. How long does stone shape last? Stone shape? What you're used on the wall. Can't you dispel it? I'm just taking it away. Closing the wall?

Closing it, I can do it again, and so I have too much less. Okay, how many spells do you have in that level? I, three. Three. So you spent one so far. One going out coming, no, you're the same, you haven't had a chance to do a full night Let's rest. I know.

I was an animal all week. That's true. So you used a stone form. I didn't use any last game. Yeah, stone wall. I used one stone wall last week and I had two, I have two level five spells now. That's true you do. That's true, all right.

That's no one to make sure. Okay, so as you do that, you send up another stone wall. It blocks off the magma just as it begins to pour over and spill out into this vicinity. It'll last a short time that it'll last enough for what you guys need. You guys drag. You can attempt to, yeah, go for it. No. Come on Pike.

24. All right. Yay. you your comes to consciousness you guys are about 10 feet away from the base of the stronghold your your your foot heals up but it's still burned oh for the time for the time being until you can take some serious physical rest your movement is reduced by five that seems fair and all you and your stealth roles are currently a disadvantage wait wait what should not ever be healed or that can't over time

Over time with some rest it can be, but right now, like, you're healed up, but that foot is scarred. It probably spent a good six seconds completely submerged in multiple. Are you telling me I'll never compete in the roller dripping again? Might possibly. You all are just on the outskirts of the stronghold. You can see now elements of the windows of the to upper floor are beginning to glow with internal light as the entire stronghold is currently filling up entirely with molten rock. Oh, I left my keys in there.

We're all resting for a moment off to the side. Grog is missing. And you all take a moment to realize that somehow you all managed to survive this mostly. Sort of. We didn't find the vault. You didn't find the vault. Didn't find Kima stuff.

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