Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 83 - The Deceiver’s Stand

Episode Date: January 10, 2022

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So we can see how the socks did it before. They're really comfy, and then, but then I took them off and my cats found them and now they will not give them back. This is true. So don't give them to your cat. No, this is really true. They've taken them and they're not getting them back. For context, for context, Sox Machina was a joke of ours, like, over a year ago.

Yeah. And now it's happening. I think it was his joke. But when we got those socks, it's like your... It sounds pretty stupid. They're kind of not. They're really nice, man. Well, we came up with Sox Machina at the same time that we came up with loxmachina, which is our branded smoke salmon.

Yeah. Yeah. That's some day soon, you guys. Shoot for the moon, guys. I'm hoping. for that in the storm. It'll be grog socks with just tons of holes in them. Perfect. Perfect.

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It was fun. It was nuts. There'll be more of it tomorrow. We got a couple of Warriors. in there, I'm playing the knight, the chivalrous knight in that game. I'll play a Viking. Yeah. Of course.

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No one can hear, man. It doesn't exist. It's all there. In the morning. Anyway, bringing us into tonight's episode, leading up to where we are currently in the story, Vox Machina, having spent a period of time battling with the Chroma Conclave, a collection of evil and allied chromatic dragons that terrorize the Tadori countryside.

They've acquired artifacts called the vestiges of divergence after traversing the plains and locations to gather allies, they made war on the current occupying armies of Thorac the Cinder King in the center of the capital city of Amman, managed to eke out of victory, destroying Thorac, and apparently go into battle with an alliance, a dragon they made an alliance with known as Raishon, the deceased deceiver, a member of the conclave,

which they had a very tenuous agreement to work together. After being nearly killed by Reishon, as she flew the coup, essentially. You managed to collect the remaining armies at the city, make sure it was okay. You ran into an old friend from Western here, Carrick, who had brought a number of his able-bodied warriors with him to aid in this battle. You then made your way to Whitestone with Carrick to ascertain the location of Reishon, the deceased deceiver, which apparently she had absconded to what was called the island of Viscan. It was used to belong to a necromancer and then briefly became the layer of Thorac the Cinder King

before his original attack on Tal'Dorei roughly 16 years ago. You then gathered your weapons, your armor, and your reserve strength, and with a couple of allies, traversed through teleportation, all the way to this island, managed to battle your way through a deep dungeon of once this necromancer called his home, going past traps and chasms filled with undead and gravity reversed through magical means,

you made your way into a small tunnel just past this area into what seemed to split into two sides. Behind that would appear to be the Necrimancer's sanctum, some sort of a necrotic laboratory, where you discovered therewithin two of the eggs of Thoradak's layer that were taken by Raichan, the corpse of Thoradak folded in the corner, and apparently, Reishon's female human form currently pouring through books and rummaging through what currently appears to be the relatively untouched necropolis chamber. So last we left off, the two twins had snuck ahead

to take a look and kind of take in the information of this vicinity while the rest of the party began to slowly approach from behind. As the rest of the party is coming behind, I would like everybody else to make a stealth check, please. Is he still a fast-out trace? Yes. No. I don't believe you cast it.

I think. Did you? Yeah, ages ago. Yeah, it's been a while. Oh, you've lost concentration since that. Yeah, I don't think I've cast it since we came out the other side. Flying up in the broom. Oh, that's a good thing.

Oh. No. That's a good thing. Great. She has disadvantage because they're armor. You dirty bird. Well, no, she put on the boots, the elven boost, didn't she? No, Kima did. That's right.

So yeah, roll again. Just roll another 20. Just do it again. Yeah, do it again. Here to go, hi, hey, Patrick, not as great. Not as great. Never mind.

What is it? Four? Four. Yeah, four. Plus, plus. Nothing. Cool. 13.

Eight with a natural one. Oh, dear. 10 total. Not great. Oh, good. Let's be honest. She fucking knows. Yes. She knows.

This was my 120 of the night, folks, and everyone else. Failed you. It just means she'll die first. She doesn't know you're here. Yeah, you're invisible. I put on the ring and I just leave. I'm just gone. One step. And that's how Bill does insurance companies started.

I'm going home. I started to get a real job. I'm done. Are the twins rolling too? Just for a fresher point, sure. I mean, you guys... I should have taken that 20 for myself then. 20 for myself then. I thought we were already. I thought you did.

You guys are still in the same stalls of all as last time, which was probably, you were fine, you were fine. Drog? 13. What the fuck was that? I don't know. Is Trinket? Trinket's still in my necklace.

Because I left him in. Because he healed up, he's in the necklace. Okay. All right, so as you guys turn the corner on the right side of this hallway, you saw this laboratory filled with bookshelf, chests, chains, candelabras in the walls, a large door across the back wall. There are two pillars in the center of the room that are just strewn with various magical engravings. You see this bunch of books kind of scattered across the ground, pull out of the bookcase, and there's

one that's open against this book holding platform. You see two cages in the back of each corner that seem to contain some sort of a slumped corpse or body. of some kind. It's hard to see at the low light in this room, because the only light you're getting is from the candelabras in the space. There you see the woman with long, dark, green hair, silversish, pale skin, robes, piercing eyes of yellow and emerald. As the rest of your party catches up from behind you with the ever-so-s subtle sounds of metallic footfalls and plated armor against plated armor. King, kh-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.

The female figure seems unfazed by it and just continues to turn a page and grab another book and kind of take a book and we'd ever pass if I kind of throw it off into the corner. There's a pause before the female figure kind of stops. And still facing away, just begins to speak out into the air of the room. Well, you certainly proved quicker than I anticipated. But I unfortunately have business here, and I would kindly ask you all to leave. The conclave has served its purpose, as you have served yours. We have nothing more to discuss.

It turns on the page of the book and just continues facing away. Can I look sealing every other part of this room except for where she is to see if she is also somewhere else? Sure, make perception. She has pretty, I mean, that was nice. She's polite. Glancing about, even with the light vision, meaning the room, the halls here are roughly 20 to 25 feet wide and about as much in height as well,

25 to 30 feet tall, kind of carved arches. You don't see any other alcoves or hidden spaces. So it appears to be just this figure in this room the rotting corpse of Thornaq and the two eggs kind of tossed into the side. I'm going to burn my final divine sense, just because I've never been exposed to this creature at all. She's got like a lot of extra names, like the diseased and the corruptor and whatever. So I don't know if she might be, I have no idea.

I'm just trying to draw a bead on whatever is in the room. Right. All right. It's 60 feet, and I think it's fiends corrupted. undead location and type. Correct. Okay. So as you hear these words kind of echoing through the hallway around you, the rest of the group, the tension rising you watch is just through a quick glance. Each ally in the room, their body's just instinctually kind of tighten the muscles getting ready for anything at this point in time. You close your eyes

and focus on the presence around you. You do not sense anything. Okay. Yep. No celestials, no fiends, no one dead. Did the party, as they were clomping along, did they catch up with us at all, or are they still that far back? They're still this far back. Nobody has, this is where you guys stopped upon the discussion happening. So the twins are still up ahead. The rest of the party is kind of halfway through this unit here. The actual chasm ends over on this side here, and this is the entranceway with the fountain you had discovered. Somebody should roll off to the left.

Yeah, before any of that happens, though, I want to get Pike to step up. forward so she's within 30 feet of everybody. Okay. As many people as possible. Can she be like right in the middle? That's about as close to middle as she can get right now. Can we all move up a little bit? I'm going, if you'd like to.

Peel off a little bit to the left. But wait, just a fucking second so she can cast Beacon of Hope on everybody. Just one second. She's trying to help you. I just got yelled at my earpiece, so I will not. And Pikes like, just a fucking second. Sorry. Sorry.

Just kidding. I mean. So, what's the range on the beacon of hope? 30 feet. 30 feet. All right, so that would get, that would be everybody. Everybody is currently under the effect of Beacon of the Beacon.

Which is... We are very hopeful now. Which means that you are hopeful and vital. Is it a perpetual radius of her, or is it affect each person at the time of casting? It affects everybody at the time of casting. Okay. I think. It just says range is 30 feet. Choose any number of creatures within range.

within range. For the duration, each target has advantage on wisdom saving throws and death saving throws and regains the maximum number of hit points from when healed. Yes, that's correct. Oh. So all of you guys had this effect on you for as long as she maintains concentration. So keep tabs on maximum healing and wisdom saving throws, death sages. Is she really there? Is that an

illusion? Can I tell if it's really an illusion or does it look like she's really there? Can you censor? Yeah, I'm trying to sense. Well, I couldn't censor before when she was in a human form, so I'm assuming I can't censor now. When she was chilling it.

Like she's got something masking her? Yeah, I mean. She's the deceiver. I had, I sensed, I did the dragon sense like, like right before we came down this hallway and I sent three dragons down. Okay. Okay.

In the time that it's taken you guys to deliberate and discuss this and the long, awkward pause that's transpired after Aishon said the previous thing she did, her voice picks up once again and says, whereabouts is your brass pet, still facing away? Whereabouts are you? No response. Keelot steps forward a little bit towards the twins.

Percy and Grog are gonna roll up to the left. We're peeling to the left. I'm gonna wall walk until about, I'm gonna keep going until I'm on line of sight with the red eggs against the back wall. And I'm going to, uh, cool. Not that far, not even that far, like there. Yeah.

I would like to move across from my sister and move forward up to, I can't tell. from the overview, but a little bit of rocks right there. Right there, yeah. And stay hidden. There? Yeah. Already. Ekelet just says,

Did you find what you were looking for? Hmm. I did, actually. I discovered Thoradak's original intent. For the soul anchor, driven him insane, and he lost sight of his purpose. That appears it holds the same answer that I've been seeking as well.

So, in a word. Yes. Yes. And this is the answer to your disease you were looking for. Your curse? Perhaps. I'm assuming it has something to do with the Soul Gym. Do you think you can resist the same type of madman mentality

that Thoradak fell victim to when you anchor yourself? Still facing away, you see the shoulders kind of shift with the chuckle. I would not dare touch such a piece. That is far too dangerous. The SoulGem is destroyed. Does it no use to me? While that conversation is going on, I want to Banff Trinket out and send him around the other way. To the left.

Run this one? With Grug. Okay. Have Trinket roll a stealth check, if you could. Okay. You got this. Come on, Trinket. You're so quiet. Oh, Trinket.

Trinket rolls a 19. He knows really old. I know. Why is stealth check? Maybe the lair or something. Well, maybe Trinket. You know, she doesn't know trinkets here. I'll move up a little bit to.

To how far? Enough so that hopefully I can get as many people within 10 feet as possible, and ideally within 30 feet if I need to rush an attack. Okay. Currently, you are in a space to get three people in your area. You can have to move forward with them, or if you wish to push forward on your own, you are currently not visible. Right. Yeah. layer attack. Ferry lynching. Oh.

Okay. Kima is going to follow along with Grog. And Trinket, Allura feels the lack of magical force on this side is going to go ahead and follow up behind you guys as well. I'm over there. Even with her hood up, she kind of gives you a glance like, Stay behind me. Muscle magic. Well, of course I am.

Yes, I am. That's part of the reason. Magic grog, the Magic Mike sequel. Yeah. Hero of the beach. Scallel? I'll just inch up a little still kind of hiding behind those outcroppings there. And then I'm going to call out the dog. Ooh, nice. Pike's going to walk to the middle, like to where she's in between the two parties. That's really clever. Are you going to, oh.

I'm going to summon the dog. I just say good dog. right? Yep. And I throw the figurine. Pum-b-b-b-pum, hello. What's the English? I'm really listening as a Pomerangie. Like Reginald or something? What was his name? We never figured out his name. We know it or something. You said it was very cryptic.

I did. I wrote it down at one point in time, but I'm not going to look for it right now. The dog hops out. Okay. But as well, which we use this badger for the time thing. It's fine. You put a badger up? You couldn't find an actual dog. The Badger? I got a Mastiff. I'll donate a Mastiff. I'll donate a Mastiff. It works.

Badger doesn't give a shit. No. And then Pike wants to walk in between the two parties, so like hiding behind that while outcropping. Okay. All right. At this point, the air itself is still very still. The closer you get to this as you approach the smell of the decay is as overwhelming as it was. as overwhelming as it was in the chasm

that you went to cross before. Rushon continues to speak. You may also come to notice a curiosity about this island that explains a lot of the legends around it. Sadly, the pressures of time left me forgetting until I arrived, which has limited my options. I had only used the glyph once before years ago, but it is as it is.

So I ask you once again, we may made a deal. You rescinded on that deal, and punishment was required. You survive only by my grace and your stubborn need to cling to your insignificant lives. Regardless, I have what I sought now, and I offer you this opportunity to leave freely, decline, and you choose your resting place here, away from your loved ones, to be forgotten, and join the undying dregs of a long, long past Madman's Fancy. Somebody do something. Maybe we should just leave.

Keylet steps forward again, a little bit more, and says... You bump into the shoulders. Yeah. Excuse me? Sorry, sorry, sorry, I just want to... I just, okay. Persistent. I want to kind of keep walking up to her as much as I can. Okay.

And I... So you just step out of the shadows? Yes. Shit, I've got to follow. If I see her moving, that I can. I can't, I'm not good with that. Okay. I would also on the other side like to advance,

as far as I can without reaching her eye line. You would be about there. Thank you. I still want to be. Kima sneaks up behind you, Trinket falls up behind there, and the lower up and stay is just out of line the side. While this is happening, Keithlith is speaking to try and keep her attention.

You know, Ryshaun, you've taught me a lot about myself these past few weeks. Arguably more than I've learned about myself, my entire years of living. Good. I'm glad I could enlighten and inspire in these final moments. Inspiration's a word, I guess, you could use. I would say more of a cautionary tale. In an odd way, I hope I never become you. All those years of long life.

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just curling across her porcelain skin. Ah, I see I have your attention, after all. You've had my attention since you entered this place. You aren't the subtlest of adventurers? No. We... I mean, we know. I was waiting for it. Thank you. Point to you. Point to you. Tusha.

So what is it? You've come here to speak on your... enlightenment and die? Or do we wish to maintain the agreement we had? Go our own separate ways. I'm gonna really quickly whisper to the dog. Do you see anything that we don't? The dog can look so. No. Good doggie. You're correct. We reneged on our deal. Just as you did on your end, there is a mutual distrust. We knew that from the beginning. That makes us even then, does it not?

It does. But in terms of negotiation, you presented your deal, so we will now present ours. Hmm. I might not, still flanking. No, no, I'm backing up, but I'm drawing an arrow and just notching it and waiting to see if she does anything to Kila.

Okay. My want for revenge against you, against you. While still strong and very palpable, I now understand is ultimately selfish, only in the sense that everyone else in Tal'Dorei should share in the revelry of bringing you to justice. I am not the only one. We are not the only ones who have felt the ramifications of your destructive actions. as much as I would love to make do on my promise that I told you weeks ago and enjoy life right now,

I desperately want the rest of Taldori to feel that satisfaction as well. So you surrender now. You come with us under means of temporary control. We take you back to Iman, maybe the fire shari. We'll work that out where we're gonna take you. And you face trial amongst the Tal'Dorei Council, the people of the Ashari, and on behalf of the rest of the citizens of Exandria. If you choose to not take this offer, then I guess we

will see who this final resting place will be in this cave. The book that she currently had in her hands kind of closes in her grasp as her eyes. Don't flicker or shift or blink from your connection. She looks to you with her chin raised a bit. I kind of mirror her. Puff up a little bit. Puff. You act as though the laws of the antil affect the foot that crushes it.

You speak words of importance, but I've seen laws and people come and go. Change, die, turn to dust and rise again. People kill neighbor. Families die from the inside and out. You see, I'm diseased, but look upon you, you insignificant creatures. You do more to your own people than I've done in the entire lifetime.

That might be true. But at least that is the fate of our own consequences and our own doing, not some outwardly force, forcing their repercussions on us. And you should know, Reishan, I've stepped on plenty of ant-hills in my day. Those that don't die, revolt. And guess what? There's some pretty nasty stings from some ants out there.

They'll leave a well, they will really. The strength of a colony is stronger than the individual of one great diseased foot. You are truly not intending to leave me be, are you? Nope. Wow, that is such an unfortunate disposition on your part. Interestingly enough, which you can't a thumbs a couple of people. pages in this book, closes it and throws it to the side. My needs do happen to call for a handful of powerful magic users. And there are proper tools within these caverns to keep you in line.

So, we shall call your foolishness Kismet. I guess we can say the same for yours. I guess it's a matter of who wins now. Very well. I'm giving you one last shot. I hunters marker. At second level, because that's what I have. Okay. Surrender now. Same. Are you? Surrender.

And if you choose not to, at least we can go forward in our consciousness, know that we gave you a choice. So as you guys are casting the spell and she's saying this, Raishan responds with, I shall relish closing the final chapter on your brief pitiful tales and beginning of fresh, a fresh new chapter of mine. As you guys both mark, the spell has no effect. It takes no root in the space. You can maintain concentration, but nothing was marked. There is nothing there. Physical. The dog in theory sees invisible things, by the way. Yeah. Correct. Okay. Just not invisible. It's just not there. She like a hologram? She illusion? What are we doing? What are you doing?

Aside from rolling initiative, which I think probably would be a good thing to do right now. Come on. Wait, wait, wait, wait. That's a dead party of Thorac, right? Correct. She's not like possessing Thorndack. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know the paladin check for... I sent three dragons. I would probably sense unless there's some sort of masking going on here. Which she's good at. Oh, God, I don't like hearing that. I'm sorry. That Talos and laugh is... That's a bad Talosin laugh.

It's a bad Talasin laugh. On your wedding day. Please do not... No, no. No, no. No, no. No, doomed to die for sing that song any further. Ah.

All right. Wow. So, folks, initiative tracking Going down now, we have 25 to 20. 25. 24. 22. 21. Thank God you guys rolled high.

Thank fuck. 25, 24. 21. 21. 22. 22. All right. 20 to 15. I can drive. For peglet.

Yeah, I did. I rolled up for piglet. She got an eight. Pike got eight. Pike got an eight. Keelth, what did you get? Four. Oh no, Kila. You don't add proficiency bonus, it's only a Dex bonus, right? Just X bonus, correct.

Then 11. Okay. So we have, you don't add proficiency bonus? That's what I was asking about for Dex, or for initiative rather. I think that's you because you're a fancy fighter. Okay, that's a weird. So Keila, you got the lowest? Huh?

You got the lowest one? Yeah. I was talking. I was giving a very compelling. Very compelling speech. Yeah, I was writing it down with my inability to write. All righty, so, top of the round, currently. Vax, what are you doing?

We see nothing. You see nothing, no. You just see the not physical, apparently not physically there, humanoid form of Rishon still standing the opposite side. Ditcho. And two eggs. Two eggs here and the corpse. All right, I'm going to cross back.

Back across north to the, I'm gonna click on the boots of haste. I'm gonna move straight towards you, Matt, across the hall, so I'm by the corner there. Over here? No, not that far. No closer to me, closer to me. Right, yeah, right there. And I'm gonna throw at the eggs. Okay.

And it's, I'm going first, so with assassinate, I get advantage on all these because I'm the first to go in combat. Cool. Yes. Yep. Sure. Starting at third level, you are deadlaced when you get the drop in your enemies. You have advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn't taken a turn in the combat yet.

Okay. Sure. The eggs have not taken a turn in the combat yet. That's great. And I'm going to use sharpshooter. So I'll get a negative five on these. So... The eggs have not taken a turn yet. The Egg Assassin. Yeah, 21 for the first. That hits.

This Easter, the eggs have not taken a turn. Prepare to be scrambled. is an 18. 18 hits? Okay. Oh, that's not that good. Is 14. 14 damage? Yeah. Okay. Do they all three hit or just the first two? First two. First two.

The first one gets the sneaky egg image. Those eggs don't even know you're coming. That's right. That's right. You want me to take less damage? No, no. That's work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These eggs are caught unaware. This will be over easy. It's excellent.

Keep those puns coming. It's coming. I'm so proud. I'm so proud. It's so proud. It's so proud. It's so proud. It's hurt me.

It's all right now. Yeah, yeah. We're right now. 21, 24, 25, 29, 32 for that one. Excellent. Yeah.

Oh. I didn't start this, I'll start this, but I will finish it. And what the heck, I'm gonna poison that egg? That's seven. Seven is that egg has to make a DC-15 success against poison. Succeeds. The natural 17.

So does it get half or half, right? Or none? I don't know. I've never killed an egg before. I mean, it still takes the full stink attack damage, and it is not poised. Not poison. So then give it another seven hit points of damage just for the dagger itself. A total of...

Seven for that second attack, but the earlier one was 32. Isn't Dungeons and Dragons fun? Isn't it? Eggs, you guys. So as you rush past and curving around the corner, throwing these three daggers out to the side, the first one just smacks into the side, and the egg, which had already been kind of previously damaged structure-wise by a somewhat resistant, but still on the side, impactful burst of druidic magic energy in the previous conflict, the first dagger cuts

through like a hot knife through butter just out the other side of the egg you watch is the shell on the other side just kind of scatters, causing this splatter of some sort of thick liquid against the wall. The other two daggers, one just kind of creans off the side. The second one that does impact continues and causes the egg to actually crack and fold it on itself, causing it to out the side of the shell as it collapses in on itself somewhat. That's one egg down? So that egg there, I will mark as currently Scramble.

Sunny's not over. Dissory. Loretic. Benedict. Poached. Poached. Poached. Poached.

Poached. All right. Is any of your turn? Yeah, I'll sit. Okay. Next step is Vex. That's me. Okay, I'm going to immediately say over the earring.

I don't think she's really there. And then try to look and see anything, any sign of her that I can spot. Can I see anything? Make perception check. 30. 30. Glancing around you in the current space, that is definitively an illusion. And in fact, the way it shimmers, and you look at the books that it was kind of using and messing with,

while you were kind of keeping more of an eye on the area, you notice now that the The books that she dropped just vanished. It was all part of the illusion. Definitely not there, but you don't see anything around you that resembles a hidden or stealthed, dragon-sized creature. Okay. What else would you like to do with your turn? Fuck.

I think I'm gonna save my, I'm gonna back up against the wall, like just straight back. Right here? Yeah. Because I feel very uncomfortable with this situation. and I'm gonna save my attack for if Thoradak moves. If anything moves at all, I'm gonna wait to attack. Attack it?

So you're holding your attack action in case something moves. Yeah, in case Thoradek moves or something, I see Reishon or something. Okay, cool. Percival. Just on this back wall here. Okay, first things first, I'm going to take a shot with bad news at the remaining Okay.

Let's just do this. Why are you doing that? Okay, good. That's 22 to hit. That hits. So let's, oh, that's nice. 25 points of damage. All righty.

The first shot hits. You see the front of the egg kind of spider crack inward previously, like how you shot in the Thorac battle, but the egg still holds firm as you begin you begin loading for your next shot, you watch as part of the egg begins to crack outward like something's pushing out from the inside of the egg. Okay, never mind. Then I'm going to take another... Okay, I'm going to take another sharpshooter shot at it. I'm going to try and kill it dead. Oh, gosh. Yeah, I'm having no... I'm having a weird premonition that's making me really

uncomfortable. So... 16? 16 to hit? Yeah. With its armor, that probably won't hit. Oh! The bullet ricochets off the outside of the hardened egg shell and just . I don't know if it makes a difference.

I called sharpshooter on my shots before, but forgot to add the additional 10 per attack. You destroyed the egg, so. You threw them all simultaneously at a single egg. And, yeah. Did you add 10 years or something? Do you what you just say? No, I lose, Sharpshire, I lose five to hit.

Yes, which is why I didn't hit it. Oh. But I get 10 points of damage. Right. I'm feeling like now is the time to take this out of play, so I'm going to burn an accident surge right now. In the action surge? I'm going to burn an action surge. Sure, buddy.

And I'm going to take another shot with a... Another shot with bad news. Go for it. Same thing, sharpshooter shot. Do it. It's time for an action search. I love you. That misses. I'm going to get you.

Oh, no. Mickiche is off and get an irregular shot because Foggard. Come on, man. That hits. That's better. Yeah. That's 9-20. It's like 32 to hit.

That's not just taking it. But it's okay. Let's see what we do damage-wise. That's not bad. 22 points of damage. With the second shot, you actually tear the top half of the egg off, as it goes south. splattering to the side of it. You can watch as what looks to be some sort of a very, very young primordial dragon like the ones that you had yanked out of the eggs before that was trying to pull its way out of the egg, just kind of

in slumps lifelessly over the outside of the egg and destroyed. Terrible. We're so hard-boiled. Oh my god. That's awful. Wow. I don't suppose I have time to run a weird perception check. Do I really quickly? A weird one. Do I have a moment for a perception check? You've used all your action, your bonus action. I used my, yeah, I haven't burned any movement. What are you looking for? Is that center wall real?

This is the center wall here? This is an investigation check. Oh. That's... Nothing's real. Yeah, I'm calling that. Let's see, uh... They're all hosts. 23? 23. Glancing over across the way, best you can tell, the wall appears to be solid and is an actual natural barrier. Just want to have that moment. Oh my god, that would, is so smart though.

I had a momentary, a moment of horror of like, oh God, that's dragon-sized. Okay, cool. That's her. All right. It could still be her. He could have just not rolled high enough. You could be she. So that ends your turn.

At the end of Percy's turn, the- The human figure across the way with the dark green hair gives a deep bow, and then vanish this from the field. No. That wasn't so bad. We won. Good job, guys. We just had her leave.

He was going, turns around and faces this direction and starts barking. Fuck. Yeah. Good call. Good boy. You just hear, and then suddenly, there's suddenly a torrent of wind blowing within the area as something is disturbing the air quite heavily. I'm holding my action until Raichon does anything.

I hope she attacked. Well, no, I hope we get to attack our sound. That's going to be the end of Raishan's turn. Really? Just a sound? Yeah, you just all of a sudden hear the Mastiff barking over and over again in this direction. Do I see it? Did I? Oh, God, I can't. It's not my turn. But you don't see anything. No. Did my hair go? A little bit.

It's kind of always doing that a little bit. I mean a little bit. Scamlin, it's your turn. It's really has a lot of life. I turned face in the direction that my steed. My dog is looking, our dog. And shipballs. Who's that near me back there? Who is that? This is Vex. That's Pike.

Vex, I will inspire with a quick limerick. Oh. Gernblanston wepto. Gernblanston wept and wepto. His wonderful broom had been swepto. First our Vex spied it, then she shang-hied it, because it turns out that she's a total klepto. You can take your D12 inspiration. Bring it back. And then I will, incorporation.

MULS, I want to hold my thing too, but I'm not going to. I'm going to hope this works and the dragons coming at us, maybe. I'm going to, mm. I'm going to step forward as much as I can towards the sound I heard. and blow my horn of fog just everywhere. That's pretty cool. Nice tactic. Can't you put that drug pipe down from a fuck?

Don't take it away from me, man. Vote one note. Nothing turned on, mom. It's for tobacco, okay? Alright, so. I got one. He's going to settle a lot of beds on who vapes. He who vapes.

All right, so, so yeah, 24 radius, seven point in the range. So you create this area here and obscures it. So now you, currently this whole tunnel is just filled with fog. You have no vision beyond the outside of it, right where you are. Okay. Good. But if something comes through, it will disturb the fog, correct?

It may. Oh, shit. Congratulations, we can play Lasertag now. Okay. All right, that ends your turn, Scanlon? Yeah, I'll just say, I think she's over here, guys. Man, what a hero. All right, Draug, your turn.

Rage and with, I would like to rage. Okay. And with my 50 feet of speed, can I try and make it to Thornax corpse? See how far I get? I get. Yes. Yes. Get it. Get it? You get right up to it, yeah. Okay, cool. Can I take, I found out that the hammer, the Dwarven Thrower, is a versatile weapon. Yes, you can hold it with two hands if you'd like. With two hands? Can I take a shot at his big, stupid cranium?

Uh, yeah. Okay. I want to squash the waterbellet. All right. Roll for it. Oh, brickless. Sure, you didn't need it, but go for it. Oh, okay. Come on, Crid on the dead scum! Natural honey. Natural 20. Natural 20. It's like a beached whale. Dude, yo, how do you want to do this, Crog?

Talk to the new dwarf and throw a hammer. This is the beginning of a beautiful relationship. As you leap in the air using the momentum, if you're If you leap, you smash the Dwarven Thrower down onto the already partially destroyed skull of Thorac's corpse, the skull immediately caving inward with the force of the blow. As it hits and curves inward, it releases this sudden burst of heavy ash into your face that fills your lungs and burns your eyes and you kind of cough. As you pull back, you try and wedge the hammer out, and as you do, you can see there is actual molten rock still dripping off the outside of the hammer. Any sort of general, normal metal, unenchanted metal would probably be slightly bowing or melting in the presence of such heat.

It looks like even in this dead state after a day of rest, Thorac's corpse still maintain some sort of internal volcanic life as it's slowly subsided. But the skull is destroyed. You see bits of the upper palate just scattered, like bone chunks across the stonework of the floor, stopping at the outside of one of the cages. Thorndyck's head is thoroughly destroyed. J-E-L-L-O. Well played. I have another hit, but I want to get close enough for it. With my bonus action, can I use the boots of Ferrell Leaping to make a horizontal leap 20 feet towards the remaining egg?

The second egg did get destroyed. Oh, they're all toast. But you're welcome to if you'd like. I want to leap. But there's potentially corpses in those. cages, that could be something. Yeah, no, do. Do it.

I'm focused on the egg. Possibly deadly traps. I leap towards the egg. How far can you leap? 20 feet. But I have to make a DC at 16 athletic check. Oh, each of those little squares is five feet? Yeah.

Not the big tiles? Correct. Okay. All right, so you, not as far as you'd like, but that egg is staring you down. There is an unmoving baby dragon corpse that is you got a date. With your hammer. For the full town, may I throw the Dwarpen hammer at Baby and Corps.

Go for it. Reckless! Yep, advantage. All your Jacks are reckless, Matt. Do it again? No, no, not quite. That's okay, it's dead. You are going to kill two dead things.

24. Not hits, go ahead, roll damage. But this is just a D8 because it's one-handed. How'd you get that? He needs this. He needs this. He needs this. Two, whoa.

Plus an additional D-8 because you threw it. A lot of that man. I don't know if we're going to kill Ranghan. Part of the enchantment of the hammer. We smoked those eggs. Tight. I think it's just if it's a giant, it's a two dozen eggs a date. No, no, no, a few 50s.

Oh, you're right. It steals an extra, yeah. Just one D8. Well, so that's 26 total. 26 total. The currently lifeless limp corpse of this nearly hatched primordial dragon, Whatever this new entity was through the merger of the power of the sole anchor, the fire elemental plane in Thorac, the ancient red dragon, this

Remaining dragonkin is turned into red oatmeal against the The table and the stone wall behind it just Come back from that, bitches We're not worried about dead. No, no, no, you're good. You're good Trinket's fighting every urge to go lick up the egg. Oh, don't eat that. Come on, it's fair. Oh, good.

All right. At the end of your turn, no. Let's see here. That floor, it's dangerous. Right where he is. Blow down. There's two magical columns right there.

Those aren't even there, y'all. Scallon, you feel a strange, kind of warm sensation for your chest. Oh, you've been dispelled. Bitch. Oh. Also, this. the end of your turn, Grog, or as soon as your turn ends, you hear this strange, sucking breath-like sound. Don't do it, listen. I like you the way you are, don't.

Make a perception check. Oh, yeah, that's a fucking five. Five. You are talking fervently at your hammer. Please don't look. Come on, I've had previous relationship. I've been burned before, okay? I want to stop, Rush. All righty. No, that's something, well, that may be something else. Well, it's a beacon of hope. That'll do it.

That's a different thing. But is it still so small? It depends on what she dispelled. The time you're focusing on the hammer, you aren't paying attention to your surroundings until you just see the shadows tend to be coalescing closer to you than you expect. And by the time you look up, you watch as two black-smoth, rake-like entities that had slowly pulled themselves out of the two cages and the sides have shifted up aside. and lash out at you. I scream like I'm in a haunted house. Which, by the way, is like a little girl.

Yeah, I was going to say, I've seen that. Yeah. Legit. It's legit. You know. And the boots are fairly but nothing, y'all. Like an NBA player. I just woo-hoo!

Halloween horror nights is only fun when watching him. 19 to hit? Oh, they have advantage against you. I forgot. Oh, no. Oh. Yeah, so it's 19, and the other hit is two and a, oh, and a 22. Both hit.

So both hit you. All righty. You suffer. It's not a real point until I get hit, okay. 21 points of necrotic damage from the first hit. Necrotic, huh? Oh, you don't have anything against that? Well.

I'm a forced gum up this bitch. Real quick. I was a run. And 20 points of necrotic damage, so a total of 40, 40, 40, 41 points of in court damage. I need you to make two Constitution taken for us. Oh, doubt. Which I think we have advantage on right now.

Is this a seven-yro or just a constitution? Wisdom. Well, no, you have advantage on wisdom. This is a constitution. It was from the Heroes Feast. No. Hears Feast is in Constitution. It's wisdom as well.

I know. You're minus two to everything. I wish. But it makes you mean to poison. That is a three minus two equals one. That's not a natural one now. It's not a natural one. And the second hit?

Is it an 11? All right. So your maximum hit points are also reduced by 41. As both of the rates drain the light force out of you, their claws kind of rake through your body like it's nothing. And as they pull back, you feel the breath sucked from your lungs and you kind of instinctually cough for a second, almost tumbling to one knee as both the race kind of chuckle on the sides of your face. I feel like we aren't taking this seriously enough, you guys, because I feel like this could be really bad right now. No, no. We've made some good omelets.

Oh, my God. We don't know. All right. This is important to work. The room was empty. You watched this happen over here, as well as seeing the fog cloud suddenly fill the opposite side of the cavern. And for a brief moment, you feel like you're a little bit out of your element, but you click in and your combat sense kicks in. What do you want to do?

No, this is my game right there. Horrible things from beyond the grave. Plus, my new, my new boyfriend is in a bad way. So. That's me. Two guys. I missed one episode. Cuttle care then.

I can, I've got movement to 30. That'll get me up there. Play date. Okay. 15, 15, 25. You can get right, you can get right next to both of them if you'd like. Um, there's probably advantages to that. It's up to you.

Doesn't matter. It's advantages to both. I will make one attack, one closer to me, for lack of a choice. Go for it. 20. 25. 20. 25.

We have hits. Go ahead and roll damage. Okay. Now, I'm not going out on a limb here thinking that this is an undead creature. This, in your time, and you've come across quite a few undid creatures based on what you've walked through in this endeavor. While he did not see it, you watched these things rise out of the pile of corpses that are jammed at the bottom of each of these small cages. You have a pretty good sense of these are undead. I misjudged the scale before I thought my divine sense was big enough to cover this whole area. Right. So I am going to use my paladin ability, and I'm going to burn a first level spell slot for my special pallid ability.

Divine smite? Yes, divine smite. All righty, so that is 2D8. And plus a D8 because they're undead. So plus 3D8 to your attack damage. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. So, and then another 11 is 15. Plus one more is 23, 31 radiant damage. So as you rush up, then from your perspective, Keelith, you watch as this flash of light, and from thin air you watch armored Carrick

just streak down with his glowing-headed Warhammer and slamming the side of this wraith-like entity as it hits, you watch as the creature turns, The radiant energy just consuming part of its torso in the blast, and it streaks out in pain as the radiant energy tends to burn into the side of its undead form. With the secondary flashes, the divine energy bursts outward. You watch the wraith go from eager and smooth to look like it's kind of shimmering in place and its form is starting to kind of shake and hold itself present. Keelith just says, I've never seen a gardener do that. And I will take my second attack.

Same one. Yeah, same one. All right, go for it. Jesus. That is not as good. Now, if I'm coming in invisible, do I get advantage due to surprise? On the first strike you would. Only the first.

Okay. So this is 17. 17 still hits. Yay. And I will burn another spell slot. Go for it. I don't want these. Hang it around.

Weapon damage plus 3d8. Burn smirk. Mersemer. 8.16. Oh. 16 plus 13. Somebody help out the English major. 29.

29. Oh. And 35. And just to let you know, the dusk hammer also gives me plus 1D8 against undead. So I'm taking that extra one. those of you at home, see, I'm not fucking wrong. Yeah, it's actually the ability of the weapon.

Right. Okay, so that... 35 radiance. Nice. O.P. That's how we do it level seven, folks. As the second strike, using the momentum of the first swing, you pull back and backhand it right in the face, as it cuts clean through with no resistance, the wraith seems to scatter, and the shadow reaff forms in the space it was, but... but barely.

It's like, it's like, it's fucking, you're watching as part of it is kind of flickering and bits of shadow are dripping and disappearing into the stonework behind, and its original kind of chuckling, evil, hungry visage is now this fearful, oh shit look on its spectral skeletal face. My boy friends back in the Hey nah, hey now, my boyfriends back.

That's that. I got weird. That was like the Adam's family version of my boyfriend's match. That's got so awful. That's awful. Somebody's cat at home just died. It was awful. All right.

That ends, finally get my socks back. I'm very excited. That ends Kerricks turn. It was only five hit points. We know this. When the invisibility goes off, is my displacer cloak still in effect? Do those things layer or? Yeah, there's still in effect.

Okay. You had three things you're going to tune to, and so, while the ring is no longer invisible, and, you know... I know that'll be kind of out for a while. That's kind of out for a while, but the cloak is still in effect, and your hammer's still in the case. The way that cloak goes is they're at disadvantage.

If they hit you once, then it goes away until the start of your next round. So it keeps you resetting. I was mostly wondering, like, if I was invisible and displaced, if they can detect invisible, do they see me displaced? But let's not worry about that until it becomes an issue. Yeah, yeah. And in this circumstance, since you're longer,

since you are visible for the foreseeable future, it would make a difference. Okay. But if you were invisible, the invisibility would take over. They'd have to have a disadvantage against attacking you anyway, but they'd have to even know where you were to even try and make an attack, because that would work. Somebody saw who's dropping the base. Okay, so ending Kair's turn. Pike feels a warm sensation within her chest, a familiar one. Let's see here.

Okay, so that's Kima's turn. That's what happened before. Kima is currently seeing these wraith-like entities start rushing into the room. Five. This is her wheelhouse. She, movement-wise, can't quite get all the way up to where they are right now, but she gets her hammer at the ready. And Kima is going to go ahead and she's going to go ahead and cast Crusader's mantle on herself. What was it, Crusader's mantle? Crusader's mantle is the ability.

And so while she maintains concentration on it, Actually, what? No, I take the back. She's going to cast aura of vitality. She means she can use a bonus action to heal an ally within 30 feet for 2D6 damage. Nice. So she cast that on herself. She's going to, seeing you damage, Grog. She's going to use your bonus action to attempt to heal you, 2D6. However, your maximum hit points has been lowered, so it has no effect on you. And she realizes this, as she can retouch, Grog! This bit of divine energy streaks from her hand hits you and seems to just peter out upon impact.

Shit. She kind of steals herself with her weapon getting ready for the next round of onslaught. Finishing Kima's turn, it is now Allura's turn. Luckily though, because of Pike's spell, the damage you didn't heal was maximum. Oh, that's good. Yeah. That's just math. I didn't follow any of this guy. Silver lion.

I replied a positive way. You're probably going to want to destroy those cages, by the way. Okay. Okay. Disgravement? I think that we're going to get more wraiths. It's just coming out. Did they come out of the cages?

They came out of the corpses in it. I think there's only one corpse in each cage. I think they're like gauntlet generators and they're just going to keep. Quick point of order, are there multiple? Is there like human, is there like corpse soup in those cages or is it one corpse per cage? You can't really see from your perspective. It's fair. I wonder that same thing.

For the sake of paying attention, go ahead and make perception check. Okay. I'm heading that way anyway. 11-ish. 11. It's hard to tell them the low light from the candelabra. It does look light from the view here. There's at least two corpses in one of the cages. Like a pile. There's like one that slumped forward, but you can see more than two legs.

Total spawn location. All right, so for Allura's turn, she is going to... Oh my god, was that the gauntlet? Yes. Never, Keeman's got this, she steps over to this side knowing that when the dog barking off to the side, that that's definitely a sign that the dragon's coming from this direction, she pulls her hood back, and she will cast, she's actually going to hold her action. She's going to begin casting. We'll be going for this one. She's going to begin casting disintegrate.

Once something attempts to move by. Savage. ...Hage of Gilmore's book. So she's going to hold that as an action. All right, that brings us to Pike's turn. Okay. Pike is gonna cast. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna.

Pike's gonna cast spiritual weapon at level four. She would probably do that. Right? Yeah. In the shape of, uh. She putting it, where? She's putting it right in the middle of the hallway. There? Yeah.

All righty. And. Radiant swords. appears in the center of the air. Right behind you. Right behind you, yeah. Disconcert. And then, no, it's protection,

scampment. And then she's gonna use, I guess it's only within 10 feet. Can she move? She's gonna cast light. Just to create a little bit of a better vision on that pile of rocks. in the middle of that. Here? Yeah. Okay. So it's now a very bright area here now in the center

of the hallway. Alrighty. I think maybe that'll help spot rash on or something. Sure, yeah, yeah. Raise yourselves. That ends Pike's turn. Yeah. Kieluth, you're up. Okay do. Okay. What's you doing? I was just trying to see if I could actually get the who's giving me a problem. Oh, is that like a stalactite? Yeah. Interesting. Okay. Kila is going to kind of move a couple closer to the wall. This one here? She's close, yes. Two. It's forward a little bit kind of going towards this tunnel.

Other way, other way. Other way. My way. Talison literally has the later. Right there's good. That's good. Thank you. He's literally, yeah. Can I take my bonus action to kind of do like a perception check and see if I can sense any faint movements, fog being moved, pebbles being kicked? Go for it. 21. 21, okay.

Yeah. You can see the fog cloud that's there. There is a heavy swirling in the cloud. It looks like the fog, which is stationary because the magical effect of the spell, it creates it within a vicinity. The fog itself is wh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h. And occasionally you see what looks to be almost like a big gust rapidly right at the outskirts of it. I got you, bitch.

All right. I want to do right over top of Scanlan's fog cloud. I want to do fairy fire. Glitter bomb. Okay. Glitter bomb. My ketchup music video. Castile left bath pump.

Yeah, yeah. So annoying. Why. Oh, God, it's everywhere. She's never going to get off. Oh, man. Never. Never going to labyrinth again.

The next three baths down. Glitter. As you step out of the way, coming towards the fog cloud, you focus it and you begin to bring your fingers across to deliver the incantation if you're going. deliver the incantation of fairy fire, and you watch a sudden slow blue spark of energy from inside the fog cloud just within.

So it's like a little firework in a cloud, just like, and when it happens, your spell fizzles at the tip of your fingers. She fucking counter-spelled me. Or legendary did away. Or legendary did away. She's in the fucking cloud, you guys. Seems like it.

She's uploaded herself to the cloud. Druids going country. Look. Never forget your roots. Go, country. All right. That's why you never upload anything. That brings us to the top of the round.

The cloud can get hacked. Facts, you're out. Uplover the dragon of the cloud. It's a black mirror episode all of a sudden. Are there still dead things with Groggy? Correct. There's two of them flanking him, correct. They're full of, full of piss and bin. I'm gonna attack them.

She's back, please. I'm going to throw, but I'm going to go one dagger at the one above him. This one? Yeah. All right? I think the one on this side is the one that's hurt most. On this side? Yeah.

Okay. That's the one that I roughed up real bad. I thought they were both roughed up real bad. No, I hit both, I hooked. All right, I'll touch. All right, so the one that's fucked up, I will attack. Okay. So I'll throw one at that.

That is good. That is a 31. one. 31 hits. Yep. Are you sure? And then I'll throw another one. Yeah, throw another one at that one.

Same one? The damage one? That is 18. Can I wait to see how much damage? Yeah, you can roll damage as you go. Yeah, then the first, then I'll just attack one at a time. I'll save that roll though for the next. So that is 2 plus 8 is 10.

Is there anything standing next to it? Yeah, a bunch of us. Oh, Brog is so it's flanked, so it's sneak attack. Thanks, buddy. You're also my buddy. 16. You ain't my girlfriend? You ain't my friend, buddy.

I mean, it's gotta be gone. 16, 18, 20, 20, 20, 2, 28, 28, 28, 3,000, it screams, as its shattered form is sent to join the rest of the shadows of the room, unmoving, cold, and without life or undeadth. Okay, okay, then the next two. Go for it. At the other, the first one gets 18.

18 hits. Okay, and the second one is a 17. Also hits. Okay, so there it goes. Did we get it? I'm gonna roll this one. That's a three plus eight, plus a levin plus psychic damage has gone missing. What do you need?

Where is everything? Where is more? What do you need? 18 for the first. 18 damage. And two is eight. Eight. Eight for the second. Eight damage? Help me!

Eight damage for the second one? Yeah. About the attack modifier, right? Without the attack. So you don't add your dexon bonus on an offhand attack. Well, if I rolled two, okay, so then just two. Okay. So it's 20-20. Okay, so both of the daggers,

after destroying the one, slam into, and the magical effect that manages to cause the form to shimmer slightly with the impact is that the daggers pass through and then vanish on the opposite side of the river, returning to your side. The creature seems to have taken a few hits, but it's still strong and still kind of swirling around Grogas. Trogh trying to find a way to get a beat on it so you can smack it with the hammer.

Okay, and I see that Grogh is in pretty good hands with Kerik, so I'm going to use my movement, which is hasted to slide around this way and crouch 10 feet in front of Kieleth. I think that's Kielith you're moving. Oh no, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. Ahead of Kieleth between Rishon. Right there? Yeah. Cool.

All right, Vex, you're up. Okay, I'm gonna, I saw Keylet say that she was in the fog. So can I, like, come around that corner and see her? Make a perception check. Come on, come on. Dragon sends in truth. Yeah. Uh, 31.

Yeah! You can see within the fog, as difficult as it is, winged form, swirling in there. So you can make your attacks at it. It's still at a disadvantage, because it's invisible, but you can actually attack her right now, yes. Okay, I'm gonna attack her and I'm gonna try to do bramble shot. Okay.

With a blazing bowstring. Okay, before you do that, you still have Hunter's Mark up. Oh, yeah. It's concentration. Okay, bramble shot isn't concentration, though. Can I shift it over to her? You can, technically, yeah. Can you hear a hunter's mark just disappear?

No, no, no, it was up. It's still up, it's concentration. You just have to choose another target. use a bonus action to shift it over. Because the illusion isn't considered a target? Right. So once I, it's like up, so once I knew where she was, I can just shoo-shed.

Okay. So sorry, since I'm new with Hunter's Mark, later I can take my floating hunter's mark and bring it over to the right-. Eventually, once you have a beat on where she is, yes. Okay. So now you can take your attack, go forward. Okay, big money, no wins, come on.

You got it. That's good. Okay, that's good. That, what is that? 30 or something. 32. You're only with this advantage, right? That was, okay, the, 26?

26, uh, 26 hits, yeah. Okay, so that's the bramble shot. It hits, or hits? It hits. Bramble shot with the blazing bow string. Yes, all right, so go ahead and roll damage, and then let me know what the saving throw is. Oh wait, let me get my, let me get my D-HAT out here.

Wow, good Indian accent. Thank you. Twenty-eight. The twenty-three. This is a darkness I have. It's a full moon. 28 plus two lightning damage plus

six for Hunter's mark. 34. 34 plus the blazing bowstring is nine. So 43. Three. Yes. And then she has to do a strength-saving throw.

Well, first concentration check. The two... What are you? See? Okay. And then a strength saving throw. That is a nine. Oh, so she's restrained!

She is. Shut up! She's still invisible, though. She's still invisible. We can't see her. But she's restrained in the fog. You can't bathe us! You hear a...

Oh! You watch some of the fog kind of pillows out. You can still kind of vaguely make out the form. I just kind of... Okay, I'm gonna pull out a sleep arrow and do my second attack with a sleep arrow through the blazing bus stream. Okay, go for it.

Yeah. Invisible gives you disadvantage because she is currently restrained that gives you advantage, so it's just a straight roll. So straight? Come on, come on. 26. That hits.

Ha ha. You will be a golden god, but it works. Oh my God. 14. 14 plus one. Lightning. Brightening plus two for sneak attack. So four more, and then, oh, and then a sleepbarrow.

What's the total damage? 18. 18. Thank you. Okay. Do the sleep arrows work like a little? She maintains concentration. So for the purposes of the spell, Oh, no.

Roll 5D8. Come on. 5D8? I think you have to beat her hit points. Yep. Oh, okay, okay. It's gonna be tough. Yeah.

Yeah. But she's diseased and whatnot. She got that hipsy, y'all. 18. 18. No way. You fire the arrow, but you still hear thrashing about. It does not seem to the...

Well, it was why the try. It was valiant. All right. That ends. Oh, and then I'm gonna use the rest of my move to duck around that corner and back up. Back up. This corner here? Yeah.

That's as far as you can get right there. Then I want to be behind that still agite or whatever. There? Yeah. Might. Like might. You might what? Yeah.

All right, cool. That ends your turn. Percy, you're up. Did I see this go down? You're over here kind of watching the egg off the distance and you watch her fire a couple arrows and then rush around the corner. You hear the, slam into the ground. You can see the fog moving around and there's thrashing. If you wanted to try and attack something, you'd you'd try and attack something.

I have to roll a perception check. All right, I'm gonna, well, I'm sort of making my way along the wall anyway in that direction, so while I'm walking, I'm gonna see if anything looks worth shooting at over there. Okay, go for it. Perception check. Hey.

Let's call that, uh, 25. 25, you can just make out the outline of a form thrashing within the fog cloud, so yes, I would allow you to take attacks with a disadvantage. I'm gonna cast hex. Okay. And she now has disadvantage on strength saving throws.

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Yeah. Strength saving throws, hell yeah. Yeah. So I'm gonna burn a grit to cancel out the disadvantage. Okay. I better mark that like a clever person. And I'm just gonna try and take a shot and see what happens. All right.

This is with bad news. That's 21. 21. Vanishes into the mist does not seem to have made an impact. 23. Really? One more shot. Oh, yeah.

29. 39 does it. That's with disadvantage? Yep. No, that's with a grit to cancel out the disadvantage. Oh, gotcha. Yeah, that does it. So, okay, so that, and I'm going to use that since it hit, I'm also going to shove all of six of my charges through that shot as well.

Okay, then. For fun. Actually, does he have disadvantage because she's bound? Didn't those cancel out when she attacked? She's invisible, though. She's invisible, but restrained. Yeah. Right, so it would have had, so it would have been just a straight attack.

Oh, so you don't need to burn the grit. That's great. I'll get that back later. Good call, thank you. So, thank you. That's going to make life better later. So that's... Let's roll damage and then pump 6D6 lightning damage from your cloak into the hit. Holy moly.

So that's, oh God, I'm gonna have to get more dice. I didn't think this three. Do you need D6ies? I've got a lot. Fine. Sure. Here's some D6. I just need three more.

One, two, three. Here's all of them. So 66 plus D12 plus, D12's plus one more one D6 because there's some necro there. Thank you. Okay, that'll do. Here we go. Yeah. Yes.

All right. Oh wow. Okay, I'm going to make that the necro because that's fun. That's hot. Yeah, it's pretty good. I wish I had your power to do that crazy. All right. Let's see what we did.

That's ha ha ha ha. 23 points of normal damage. 23 points of normal damage. 23 points of normal damage, 6 points of necrotic damage. Okay. And 25 points of lightning damage. Nice. This is total of 54. four points of damage.

Oh, yeah, that's all good. Nice, buddy. She still makes your save for her maintain concentration. Wow, all right. I'm going to keep moving my maximum move in that direction along the wall. Dragons have high constitution. It's plus 14 motorfarer. So I moved, if I can move any further I will, but like that's... You can move from where you were?

No, that's as far as you can get. That's fine. I just call over the headpiece. She's down and vulnerable. All right. As you finish your turn, you watch as the wind, the fog shifts in here, and a voice retorts out,

Not as down and not as vulnerable as you think. Backs up into the fog. You just barely see Scanlan as it steps away, like this kind of form vanished into the... What were you holding? Did you holding your action for something? I was not holding my action. I thought about it. That's right.

So you watched the figure back away into the fog ever so slightly going, It hurts. Oh, she's casting something. Did she, even with disadvantage on her strength check on that one? Hmm? Well, she can't move anywhere because she's restrained. Oh, she is still restrained?

She can't, she can't move. She's switching forms? She's still restrained from, because for the item, was it safe, is it a saving throw at the end of the turn or is it has to use an action to break free? Let me find that, because, let's say, you wrote it, I mean. I know, but I've looked at in a while.

The restrained target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns. Okay, cool. So, so yes. Oh, and it's a DC of 17, not 16. I have it written down wrong. Okay, that's fine. Still rolled poorly for that one.

As the face kind of pulls back into the mist, you feel this kind of shaking within the room. as the ceilings of the cavern begin to shift and form into what appeared to be small rifts. The air conditioner? No, that's what it is. Central. H-back.

Oh, no. You hear the sound of rocketing stone and flame being pulled from a realm or plane beyond the material. She's doing a meteor swarm. There's nowhere to take cover, is there? Hold on to your butts. Hold on to your knickers. One.

Two. Yeah, that's fair. It's fine. That should be two, three, four. All of you. Four? One day I will have that spell. Scanlan even got hit, Scanlan got hit in there?

I was on the edge of one of them. Oh, balls. Everybody got hit. No! So, I need everybody to go ahead and make a dexterity saving throw, please. Yeah. Nobody can counter that or anything. Natural one's way.

Uh, I'm gonna get a post-tree from me. Oh, nice. I don't know. Is the other, who else is next to me there? Is she close enough to be within my aura? Get a boy. Oh, that's good, it's good. That's okay.

Okay. Who, Kima? Yes. Kima has her own aura, thankfully. Okay. Okay. She's a paladin as well. Am I close enough to get apart?

Oh, so there's 10 feet. You guys are not close enough to affect each other. No. So you guys, no, you do not get to receive each other's bonus, unfortunately. All right. So, Skamman. Eight. Eight.

Okay. You suffer, that's 100. 118 points of damage. I'm immune to meteors. Oh my God. It's 2086 fire damage and 26 bludgeoning damage. And half as much on half. So yeah, it's 118 points.

Tell me this, do I have, how many hit points do I have? Because when she dispelled the Heroes Feast, do I lose those temporary hit points? You do. Okay. So got it. So you're unconscious, aren't you? No. No?

Oh. He's a hearty little gnome, man. Wow, that's impressive. Percy. Um, uh, uh, uh, the, um, um, 18. 18, you suffer 118 points of damage.

Oh, also, well. 19, I'm sorry, 19. Still suffer it. Okay, that's fine. When I, when she dispelled things on me, 118. Did I also lose my pike advantages and things? The beacon of hope?

Beacon of hope? Or was it just one? No. No, it was, the only thing she dispelled was a single specific effect, which was the hero's piece. Okay. So you have to pick an effect. You have to know what you're just a singular effect.

Okay. Okay. That's good. And Rushon is well aware that you guys prepare with the Heroes Feast. Okay. Yeah. 24. 24.

You suffer 59 points of damage. Okay. That's half. That's half. That's better. I know. Don't you guys wish you were me? Yeah.

No, really we do. That's genuinely a thing. What? Fifty-five. No. Okay. I'm alive. It's nice.

This is like instant, instant runaway. One spell she does. Kima is already down. No, Kima. Oh, Kima. Sorry, Alura is down. Kima still up. Kima still up.

Two seven hit points. I'm at 57 hip points. She didn't even get to do anything yet. She started to cast. No, just no, not even close. Wasn't she saving her action? Alura, wasn't she preparing to centigrade? Yeah.

She was, but she never saw something come through. So that. Is that like a hang grenade where you fall and? And he goes, tib, tib, tic. Not so much, sadly. Six. Six. Carrick, you suffer 118 points of damage.

Yes, I do. What's he down? Carrick is unconscious. I am unconscious. How far down it? There is no negative. He's just dying. You have to surpass your toll.

I know, that's what I'm asking. Not that bad. Not that bad. The word's cruel. All right, next up is. Natural 20. So zero damage to Vax. Hip hop, hippie hop.

22. You have evasion? 22, you suffer 59 points of damage. Okay. The DC is 22 for the spell. Oh my God, you. Trinket got three. But he is resistant to magical bludgeoning damage.

Is that true? True? Or, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Is this magical damage? Yes. Does that Kabbal absorb it? What's it safe for Kabbal?

Oh, Kamon. Okay, you keep going. I'll let you know. I'm going to re-bub. So Trinket takes... Advantage. So if Trinket failed to save, Trinket would actually take 85 points of damage. Oh, he's unconscious and in my necklace.

Good job Trinket. He was within 100 feet at me, right? Yes, he was. He was over here. I'm glad I moved back. Would you have been further than 100 feet if I had moved back? No, you have to be further than 100 feet from you. Grog?

11. 11. You take 118 points of damage. Now, is it, do I half the bludgeoning because of raging? You know what? I believe you do. Yes. So you actually, you suffered the same you tip of 80. 85, you said. 85, yeah.

Okay. And Pike got a nine. Pike takes 118 points a day. But she's fire resistant. Right? Oh, so that's true. So she takes, 30. She takes 87 points of damage. All right.

She's still up? She's still up. Yeah, I'll wait till you guys are done. I'll wait until you're done and then I'll pop in with my reaction. That's the single-go-powerful attack we've ever had hit, right? Actually, I'm really glad to hear that, because if I'm going to go out, you might as well go out with the ace. I'm going to have a hail of the bullets.

I'm going to activate, I'm going to use my reaction to activate Cabal's ruin. I'm going to absorb the spell and the damage I take is halved and the cloak games, the number of charges equal to the spell's level of the triggering show. Yes it does. Wow. That is a great. Yeah, purse. Which, it's a ninth level spell.

Yeah, I don't get all nine though, do I? Because the, does the spell hold nine charges? The cloak holds six charges. However, as you absorb the spell, the cloak flares out and actually grows an additional six inches in length. The inside begins to sparkle with electrical energy as it pulls one of the meteors into the cloak itself. It kind of arcs inward and vanishes into the side. It bursts behind you and the damage is taken, but the cloak now is shimmering with a very vibrant, percontinuous spark of arching energy. energy. My eyes are like, yeah. Yeah.

What? It awoken. Pass this over. It's coming for. You got upgraded. Dada-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Oh shit. What?

Okay. Exalted, it says. Okay. Not just awoken. It has got true. Oh, my God. So jealous. What do?

So I'm at, I'm at nine. Nine, and I still, the damage is still halved, or? The damage is still have, yeah. Okay. So you took a total of, what's 118? They took 59 points of damage. 59 points of damage. Okay, so I'm gonna add to that.

The rollo just went full peacock. It's, I have plummet. Suddenly has a giant cowboy hat on. It says anyone who wears the exalted Kabbal's ruin has permanently oiled skin. It has a full paragraph descriptor of it in the actual item. That's nice. And I have nine charges in the cloak.

Yes, you do. Okay, that's awesome. You should use that shit. It's never come up. All right, now Risham trying. So by the way, I don't think it's possible for any of you have spells up to even make the concentration saving through on this, because the sheer amount of damage you took. Make a concentration saving throw, Percy? Akema lost hers.

The Pike lose hers? Pike, roll a concentration, a constitution saving throw for Pike. saving throw for Pike. Oh, that's 16 is my concentration. Okay, yeah, so your... My hex is gone. I know it would be. Am I good with my hunters mark?

You didn't take any damage. I would say you're fucking fine. Can't believe we didn't take it. You haven't tagged her with it yet, but you still haven't. I mean, you better save all of us when we all died. Our relationship is very complicated. I guess just like walking around. What was Pike saving throw?

No, she didn't make it. She got five. All right, so yeah. Her spell is gone as well. Great. And Vaxon needs you to make your constitutional? Okay. Constitution.

Lose your honor's mark as well. All righty. Get rid of that one now. And Ryshan's going to make strength saving throw. That is a 19, so she is no longer restrained. Fucking fuck. Yes? Did the dog get hit?

Oh, the dog got hit. It. As the impact hits you and you're like, Can I roll for the dog? It won't even matter. Okay. The dog takes enough damage to immediately revert back to the onyx figure that it was, but the impact sends it cringing to the room like a pinball.

Ting-ting, tini-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-. Every time we use this dog, that's what happens. Imagine his life. Just moments like, I was going, br-r-r-r-r-ha-ha-ha. I think we've only brought him out twice and he's been blown up both times. That's true. It's worse if you imagine how a dog always greets you when you come home. Imagine that's how it comes out, it's like, hey, hey, hey, hey.

I'm so happy to see you. That's terrifying. No, he's a sort of a snooty dog, actually. It's kind of a snooty dog. We need a scene with the dog and trinket kind of commiserating over a bowl of getting over a little. of getting bray. Constantly getting blasted up. Kibbles and bits for you too.

All righty. So ending Reishon's turn, Scanlan, you're up. Oh man, that's smarted. Yeah. Okay, is Carrick around me? Kerrick is way back here. Yeah, man. He's about 100 feet from you.

A hundred feet. There's a paladin over there. There's a paladin. Probably hopefully. All right, well, I can't reach you anyway, so. Allura is down, and everyone around. Oh, can I see a Laura for a world?

Allura is right everywhere. See, yeah, you can see a Lur. Yeah. Did the rain came? So the only people who have gone down are Allura and Carrick? Kerik. Everyone else seems to still be standing. Did her barely, but standing?

The race didn't take any damage, did they? The one race that was there, yes, actually, that race is destroyed. Thank you for the reminder. Silver lining. Silver lining. The second one is still there, right? Well, there was one left. That one just got.

destroyed by the Meteor Swarm. And Thorac is just even more watermelon. Yeah, it is just, the room already had like old carnage on it, now it has new carnage. Fresh paid. It looks kind of like the butcher in Diablo One when you get to his room. It's just covered in the room. All right, so Scanlon, what are you doing? I'm going to heal Alura.

Okay, you have to get a little closer if you're doing, well, no, it's 30 or 60 feet for your... It's 30. So you have to be a little closer. Then I'll walk that way as much as I can, actually. Okay. Yeah, right there. As you pull back. What?

No. Sure, sure. Technic. High five. Buc. Yeah, high five with the claw. Right. Rishan takes some attacks of opportunity on you,

her invisible form right at the edge of that fog cloud. Oh, that is a 15. Again, that hits. Unless I cutting words it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do the thing, do the thing. Shit, I'll cutting words, it's sorry, Allura. Oh wait, no, that's not a bonus action.

That's a reaction. Yeah. So yes, I will cutting words, I will yell at the claw I see coming out of the cloud of smoke. I will say, oh, you're so dumb, you get your yearly checkup from Dr. Dr. Drenzel. Oh, God. Roll D12. 12. That was, yeah.

That was like some six-week-old orange dew. That reduces it to 13. That does not hit. Yay! That's it. So you hear this voice go, wait, who? From the fog. And this wisp of wind just misses you.

A claw just catches the back of a hair. But yeah, you move fine and you are within range now. Jesus Christ. Okay, so I will hear, I will be. I'll do a healing word on Allora. Okay. I will sing to her. Scanlan singing in the dead of night.

Take your broken bones and learn to fight. That's all I can't do. I love that song. I've been in a snow. We're only waiting to get up and cast a spell. Yes. Do I roll? No.

Yes. D4, plus six. Four. That's ten. All right. She is at 10 hit points. In conscience, allure now, oh dear. I've looked down and they're like, ah.

I will also, boop-boop-boop-boop-boop-boop. So I still have an action, right? You do. And when I saw the form sort of rise up in the cloud, it did not move away. away, it just rose up. Correct. Yeah, it was right at the cusp of the fog. So I kind of have a vicinity. I saw a claw, I saw something like I can take a shot. If you want to? Yeah, I'm gonna take a shot. What are you doing? I am going to cast. Let's do Bigby's hand at level six. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Yeah, sure.

Commitment. Right at the outside of the radius, where the dragon is? I mean, it's probably got to punch into the cloud a little bit to get to get the thing. It's right at the cusp of where you saw the dragons form moving. Okay. And so level six. Yeah. All righty. So for that and you're using the punching? Yes, please. All righty. So go ahead and roll a D20 adding your spell attack modifier. That was a cocked roll, but I'll take it because I'm a man of honor and it did not work. 13. 13. No, that unfortunately misses the fist. What is it. It was cocked. It doesn't count. It didn't actually roll.

It just hit the side of my box. It's still rolled. It didn't even land in the box? So the fist, whoo-in to the fog, just manages to move past the form, does not actually hit the side of it. All right. It's not hit balls either.

But Bigby's fist is up and around. Okay, good. All right, that ends your turn. Oh, what about the radiant weapon? Was that a concentration spell? It was. Oh, wait, no, it's not a concentration. No.

Spirit's where it's still around. When it's still up. Turn, Pike can still do that. Okay. Good looking out. Still, oh. All right. At the end of your turn,

right, Sean is going to use two legendary actions. Yeah. To... Furnham, baby. How many does she have, total? Too many. Just four per turn. Four per turn.

Yes. It's going to go ahead and cast disintegrate at Pike. What? Dissigrate? What did you? Dissigrate toward Pike. Dissigrate toward Pike. I know she is.

No. No. No. No. What? What? Is that bad? Please tell me that's a natural one that you just rolled in.

You're taking a picture of it. Yeah. I'm taking a picture of it right now. No, he somehow rolled 846 and they're trying to figure out what to do about it. Laser pointer. Laser pointer? Oh, geez. I regret nothing massive.

Okay, fine. I'm double checking to make sure this is how the spell works. Blind him. Blind him. Don't blame me. Let's take the shot. Take the shot. I have the shot. I have to make a dexterity saving throw. So that wouldn't matter. I rolled a one, but it's not an attack. Okay. So dexterity saving throw on Pike, please. I don't want to roll it. It's too much pressure. Can we just like pretend that one was like a Nat 20 for Pike? Here's what it is. This is what it is. It's a 14 plus...

Come on. 14? 14? Total 14? That isn't that enough. Oh no. Does she buy anyone with the pallididid radius? We got a bunch of pallies here. She's not any of the paladin. You know what, actually, Allura is conscious on the ground. Allura is going to attempt to counter spell that.

It is a sixth level spell. Oh. Because Alura, someone needs to be like, and try and get that out of the last minute. So. Mm-mm. With disintegrate, does the body go away? Like, I don't understand.

Yeah, it ain't good. Do you have a, does the arm, will the arm? Hold the armor retort that or higher. DC equals 10 to the spells level. Allura's spell on fire is five. So, that is an eight. That's not enough. She rolled an eight plus five.

It's not enough to counter the spell. Okay, so that comes to Pike suffers. 72 points of force damage. Well, she's knocked unconscious, but the armor should bring her back. Pike, as the beam hits her, you watch. her flesh begin to turn to dust as the fingers begin to disperse as a burst of flame from the armor aflars outward, bring her back to her feet at whatever the effect of the armor

is. That's the effect of the armor. She's up. She's up. She's not dead. It brings her back to five hit points. I've forgotten she had that. And she's on her feet.

So she's on her feet. Is, is, no, right Sean's not within 15 feet of her, is. No. Okay. Okay. She's not dust. She's not dust. Okay.

That brings us to, uh... I can't even if Ashley's not here. You can't kill her when she's not here. She's not dead. She's walking around. I'm acting like she would. That would be the worst fucking phone call. I know.

If Ashley dies what she's not here. She's also the cleric. That's exactly what she's... Riceon would do. Grog, you're up. I take out the cascavail that I start drinking. No. Now that I don't have any more race, I'm going to run towards this wall if I can. This one over here?

Yeah, right, right here. Okay. 50 feet and I'll leap the rest. That's as far as you can get there. Yeah. And that is. So we're going on while you're athletic, check the leap. 22, yeah.

Yeah, that's fine. So you can leap 20 feet. 10, 15, 20. 20. Yeah, Mr. Badger, you're gone. You were scattered. All righty. Oh, I can throw. Well, we have to roll a perception check to see if you can see the invisible form. This will go well.

Natural 20. Nope. When Biggie's hand went at rest, he just started to just... Just pointing? Here! Perfect. That is a 16. Okay. I'll say between. between that roll and the Bigby's hand pointing at where the dragon is, I'll let you make your attacks but they're a disadvantage.

Woohoo! Awesome. Well, I'll make them reckless, so I'll zero it out. Can I throw the Dwarven thrower? Yes, you can. Okay. One roll. 21. Nope. The hammer just disappears into the fog and returns back to your grasp. That's better. 31. That does hit. Okay. 18 points of damage. 18 points of damage? Oh, thrown.

Yeah, plus the... 20. 20, okay. Constitution saving throw. Yeah, it makes it. Concentration one. All right, and since you're, are you frenzy or not? Is that a saving?

I would like to go into a frenzied rage. It's a frenzy to rage. So you make your bonus attack strike with it. Is that a saving throw? Yeah, it says maintain concentration on greater invisibility every time it takes damage. Technically disadvantaged because of having more. That's true.

That's true. Hey. And that would be a 19 still makes it. Yeah. It needs to make more damage. 28. 28 damage. No, no, 28 to hit on the throw. Oh, that does hit. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Oh. 22 points of damage. 22. Saving throw. Yeah. Succeeds. Maintainting. Miserables invisibility. Yeah, that doesn't give me 10. All right. Is that new turn, Grog? It does. Does the cutting word, how long does that last? Just won the next saving throw? That's it.

That's cool. All right. Parts are mean, man. Well, that's not a bird. That's from the sword. Is that the sword? From my myth carver. Oh, shit. Yeah.

At the end of your turn grog, just use your other two legendary actions here to go ahead and cast cone of cold. Not that shit again. I didn't do well that last time. Cone of cold? Oh, again, I die. Is that a wraith of being spawned? Maybe. Wow.

So that's everybody there. I need Scanlan, Vex, Pike, Vax, Grog, and Kieleth, and Allura to all make, I believe, Constitution saving throws? Five. Constitution, yes. Oh. Oh. Slide.

Oh. Okay. Not with your plus nine? No, no. No. 13. 13. You take 42 points of cold damage.

Okay. How much? 42. Is that the full damage or did I evaded? That's full damage. You're up. Vax? 16.

You take 42 points of cold damage. Vex? 12. 12. You take 42 points of cold damage. Seven. Don't you have evasion? Grog takes 42 points of cold damage.

Am I in there too? You are as well. Would you all? Fifteen. Forty two points of cold damage. Holy shit. Twenty for five. I am a line fighter.

I already have got 42 points of cold damage. Shit! So, Pike is unconscious. Who else is unconscious? I am unconscious. We're unconscious, the movie's hand is gone. Oh, I forgot we're on TV. Alora.

What did you do? He's really gross. Alora is unconscious again. This is the internet. These people can't spell it. Wild West. So Allure is unconscious. Vex.

Vex, you still up? I'm still up. Allure is down again. All right. Pike's down. Pike's down. Fiking. All right.

That is all of her legendary actions this turn and Grog's turn. All righty. That brings us to Carrick. I need you go ahead and roll a death saving throw. I've been down this room before. Don't you're going to hope advantage on those, death save those? What was that? Unfortunately, the spell that did that, faded.

I think he's auctioning something. Yeah, 25, think of 25. Now, is that just a straight of constant? Straight D20. Straight D20. Seven. So that's a one fail. So you failed one death saving for him.

Well, you could call that a failure. It really depends on what I'm trying to accomplish here. Don't call it a comeback. In the Hindu faith, you would welcome it. Yes, you know, if what I'm trying to accomplish is a lot of drama, I consider that a great success in a role. All right, so Kima, as is now Kima's turn, sees you on the ground kind of convulsing from the blast of the impact, the giant crater

in the ground where the meteor struck. And hearing these blasts of arching energy around the other side, she has practically no vision of what's happening right now. All she seizes you down and grog run off. And she goes, come on, my bearded friend, runs up and is going to go ahead and hit you with lay on hands for, let's see for Kima. She can do up two. She's gonna give you 30 hit points. Oh, that's nice. As you come to consciousness, you see the scarred halfling paladin in her golden armor and half-cockering.

Come on, we still have work to do. He puts her hand down to try and lift you up. Okay. We'll say for the sake of the fun of it, bonus action she pulls you to your feet. Okay. Thank you. All righty. That ends Keener's turn. Shit.

Allura has to make a death-saving throw. No! That is a failure. She loses a death-saving throw. That brings us to Pike. Pike, I need to make a roll a death-saving throw. My God. You want to do it?

I'll do it. I can do it. Go for it. That's up five. God damn it. Pike fails a death-saving throw. Okay. Now nobody else just willy-nilly make some rolls, okay.

Keelis, it's your friend. Do I need to make the best scene? That's nice. You know. New campaign next week. Your fucking face, right fucking now. Fuck me. Okay.

Who's got that this is a bad dream spell? Okay. The Dallas? I don't have a Dallas left. There's a spell for that. Where's the light? Do we have any way? No. They've got it.

Don't wait. Just shut up. Laser pointer. Can you try and draw a card? Travis. Anybody laser pointer. Oh, sorry. That's my girl.

Who's that? That is the water fountain. Okay. Fuck that water fountain. I've been wondering this whole time. Yeah, this is from the chasm. Who is that? Who is that?

Yeah. It was very lifelike. Okay. It was very not okay like kind of comes around the corner and I'm going to do with my staff and I'm going to kind of come. and I'm going to kind of prey to Melora and be like, I know you hate this bitch as much as I do, and use my staff to do firestorm right where I know she is. Over here. Yeah. All righty. Just boof, bo bo bo bo bo bo bobobobo boof.

Sure. That's the radius. It's I get to pick. So yeah, you just kind of send fire snaking all through this area. All through that area, just that whole tunnel gets lit up. I'll say for the purposes of the fog spell versus a seventh level fire spell and the item, the cloud is just burned on steam, man. It is gone.

All right, so roll that, 7D10 fire damage. Saving throw. That is a failed save. She will use her first legendary resistance. First. To ignore that. Burn them up. 7D10.

5. Do you have two moan? Did she gain the mole back? Does she heal all the way? I mean, like, what's going to go? Yeah, but she rested. She got them all back. You guys rested a whole night to get your shit back, so didn't she? We have a con.

It's like enemies can do that too. Don't forget your staff's ability if you can. Rerol once. Which I have one one that I will re-roll, and it's a one. Do I get to re-roll it again? Fuck yeah. That's better. That's better.

That's much better. Nine. Twelve, is it? Am I hot? I'm pale. I'm a redhead, so I show everything that happens. 12, that's true, 17. So I don't think that came out right.

No, it doesn't. Don't worry about it. I'm really distracted. God damn it. Now I'm distracted with my math. 17 plus 4 is 21, correct? Yes. Plus another 5 is 26.

Plus another 4 is 30. Plus another 4 is 34. 34 damage. 34 damage. 17. 17 points of fire damage. Did you get hit? No, no, that's half. That's half.

Oh, that's half. Oh, that's right. She saved. Did the thing it now. Does it being a staff of Malorva do anything? No, other than maybe like the mention of the name caused the sound of growling in the distance. No. Why won't you all just stay down and die with dignity?

We don't do anything with dignity. Scanlan's lifeless corpse has a pool of urine around it. All righty. All right, that brings us to, is at the end of your turn? Do you think you can move forward? I am going to kind of, can I see Pike? Pike is right there next to you, yeah. Okay, I'm going to reach around the corner and...

and do a healing word. All right, healing word. What, is it because I said reach around? Yes. No. Yes. Not at all. Jesus. Everything I say. Everything I say.

Level one, little two meeting. Those are pale and you do. Level one, because I'm pale and I just show everything. D4 plus six. To be fair, anyone, anybody says. Nine. Nine. Nine. Pike heals nine hit points and is conscious.

Yay. Nice. Clapping from the voice. Because that saving throw. And that resets the dead saving thing? Yeah. Yeah. Everything pops back.

All right. Bring us back to the tap. Vax, you're up. Now, with the boots of haste, one of the extra actions has to be for an attack, right? I couldn't do. Correct. It's an attack, disengage, or dash, I think. It should stay on the card. Can I?

Yeah. It says the extra action can be used to attack, dash, disengage, a hide. Shite. So I'm going to... I'm going to go to the gnome on the ground, and I'm going to cast lay on hands. Which one? Pike is up, isn't she? Pike is a conscious.

Conscious is what I mean, to scan them. There you go. One hit point. Your hands are just covered in hiss now. That's fine. You are conscious. Are you up? Is this my urine of someone else's...

Someone peed on me while I was dead. It's just body or something else's. I don't know which is worse. There's only one way to find out. Does it taste like anything you've had? What a battle tactic. O'Sparagas? That's me.

I'm going to use a little more movement to move to the same spot that Big Bees was before it was gone. before it was gone. Maybe into the cloud's gone, right? Cloud's gone. I got burned off. Maybe I'll even go ten more feet forward. Okay. You slam into a physical form. Vow of enmity. Okay. As a bonus action. Alrighty. And I will use the extra action to disengage and get the fuck out. Okay. Whoa! What's that? What's that? What should do? Back up? How far? I'm gonna go that way. Back towards Scanlan. Okay. I should have 60 feet of movement hasted.

Yes, and as you back up. Disengage? Yeah, disengage, yeah. Nicely done. And I will actually go along the wall. So you'd be like overheated. Yeah. Okay.

All right, that ends your turn. Vex, you're up. Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna run over to Allura and I'm going to cast third level cure wounds on her. Okay. Healing her. 3D8 plus 3.

15 points. So that's my action, isn't it? And then that's my action, isn't it? I guess as a bonus action, I'm going to hide. I'm such a loser. So you're going to move over here and hide? and hide? Yeah, I guess.

Okay, it's going to roll a self-check. Okay, let me see if I have any healing, whole potions left, though. I have a regular healing potion left. Go for it. So I'm going to take that. It's 2D4 plus 2. Eight points, healed. All right, percy.

And a stealth check. Stealth check, yes. Do I still have any theory of where she is, or do I have to roll another perception of that? I mean just where she was previously standing. I'm just going to, I'm... Just bumped into something. Yeah, just... Yeah, so I'm going to, again, as I'm scooching further and further back along the wall,

I'm going to actually pull out the animus box and take a few shots in there and see what happens. Disavantage in all these strikes, because she isn't visible. Because she is invisible. Get a nerd. Yeah, I'm going to burn a grit for the first one to neutralize that. Can I have gone back behind the side? I want to go around the corner. Yeah, like for...

That's as far as we'll get it, unfortunately. That's fine. I rolled a 16. Yeah. So shot number one, natural 20. Yes! Yes! This would disadvantage or do you use the grip? I used the grit point to cancel out the disadvantage.

You did, all right? Yes! All right, that's awesome damage. So let's... And that will not affect the Cabal's ruin damage I was going to add to it because that's a different thing, right? Um... That, I mean, because that seems unfair that I can,

because I can add that later. Yeah, adding that to a crit is a little intense. I'd say no. No. Okay, I'm just going to add the standard damage I was going to, I'm not going to crit the Cabal's ruin damage, but I'm adding. Okay, so the dragon doesn't blow up. That's the thing.

1d10, 1d6. So I'll make that. The benefit is you can choose to apply it after the hit. After the hit. The downside is you can't add it to the, yeah. Totally worth it. So. So you never wasted.

No. So that's, let's see. six points of psychic damage. Already. And 18 points of normal damage. And then I'm going to add three points of Kabbal's Ruin, which is 14 points of electrical, of lightning damage. So 24 is 38. Yep.

Does all that double because it was a crit? No. No, that is double. That's 38 points to that first hit. She's going to make a concentration check. And I also get my grit point back because I credit. Yes. That's true. I think it's time for some Advil.

Critical role, brought to you by Advil. Fails the concentration check on the invisibility. Yes! Is going to spend another legendary resistance to succeed it. So she spent two? She spent two. That's good. That's good. That's fine. Now for my second shot.

Oh, shh. I'm gonna spend a grip point to her. Oh, she's not visible. She's true. Yeah, she maintained concentration. Did she blink into visibility? No. So I still have disadvantage, so I still need it.

You do. Okay, that's fine. Are you doing another grip point to cancel it? Yep. All right. Not quite as good, but still good. 27. 27 hits.

That's, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, buh, so that's, oh, that's nice. That's 17 points of normal damage. All right. Two points of psychic. damage and 10 points of lightning damage. Nice. All righty. For my next shot.

Yeah. Natural 20 on the save, so she saves concentration is maintained. Doing the same thing again. So I'm at two good points. Kill her, legendary resistance. Come on. That's not gonna hit. That's gonna be 19 to hit.

That's not hit. So that one misses. Still I have three cabals ruined those, that's nice. I'm going to use my bonus action for a heel surge, for my little healing, my little pick me up. Great. And so that's gonna give me back 16 points of healing points, so that's 16 to me.

So that's 105, I'm at 105. And I'm gonna keep just kind of scooting back along the wall. I wanna keep where I'm shooting in my line of sight, but I just wanna kind of get about there. Yeah, and still on the wall. Okay, gotcha. All right, that's your turn, Percy? Yeah.

All righty. Good turn, man, good turn. Thank you. Thank you. It's awesome. It is now Raishan's turn. This is mean. Can I say that?

Reishon is fed up with this whole down and up, down and up, yo-yoing. You're good flea, do it again. Rishon, Scanlan is you're on the ground. Like getting your bearings back to consciousness, You watch as your head is across the ground, the rocks kind of, and something seems to hit the ground right next to you. Roshan's going to do a full round of just physical attacks on you. Great.

It won't take very much since I've got the one hit point. But maybe my 14A.C. will protect me. You are prone. Oh, god, really? So it has tackles against you. It has advantage within five feet, which is good, because his first attack was a one. And an 18 plus.

So the first hit, which is a one, which is a three. It's bite. It hits you for, for 13 plus eight. I mean, I'm unconscious now. Do you have any reactions that you can do that? I don't know. I can't remember when the last time I used a reaction was. Was it this round or the round before? Round before. It was a round before.

So you could. You have a reaction now would be a moment. Well, your turn's next, so you have used it. Oh. No. No, no. It was. It has been since last time. It wasn't 18 to hit. This could be the difference between life and death man.

One and two deaths, three deaths. All right. Because a full round is four attacks. You take two death saves. For Reishon, you don't know. Yeah. I bet it's four attacks. This is down with a wire dude.

This could be it, get it right in. Yeah, do it. Okay, I'll say to the Ryshan this time, you so dumb, when thieves stole your horse, you chased him down and said you forgot the saddle. He utters with a weak breath on the floor of the Necromancer's sanctum. He's going to see a Scamlin's final words. Go and roll a D12, please.

Come on, Scallon. Six. So it's 18 minus six is a 12. So, you did it. You did it with your shing and George. Now just three more attacks to dodge and I'll be okay. That was the white, wasn't it? There's two more claw attacks happening now.

It gets four. Right. If you would have failed that, your instant dead save fail. So that's 21 to hit. Oh, that'll hit. So with that, you take 4D6 plus 8. Let's just call it. Yeah, you're unconscious.

Unconscious. And the last final claw attack has advantage, which hits you, and it's a crit. So you lose two death saving throws. We're going to have to deal with that very, very quickly. Where are you? Can you point to him on the map? I'm the pink one. Right there.

And the impact seems to be coming from this area here. I'm assuming we can see my body sort of like moving. Yeah, like a hit, like... You can see him getting... On the ground. Mangled from something that's not currently there. And then the wind kicks up that something seems to shift through the air. Can we feel, can anybody feel it flying past?

You can feel it kind of move in this direction. Great. With that, um... Yeah, I can just make it through without an attack of opportunity. Yeah, can I do an attack of opportunities that flies by? Yeah, I'm not dead too. I feel it. You sense it not far enough from you to suffer, to be able to attack something with an attack of opportunity.

That ends Rishon's turn. Scalin, death saving throw. Oh my God, oh my God. Three. Oh. And with that... Oh, that's not... The breath escapes Scalyn's lung.

to smile across his face as life leaves his form. This time I died with a bad joke and piss all over me. Died as he lived hard, or after a bad joke with piss all over him. All right, that ends Scanlan's turn. Grod, you're up. Yeah. The Dragon moved. Scanlan dead. Did I detect which direction El Dragon flew in? and flew in? Roll perception check. Yeah, sure. Three. You're not entirely certain. You just saw something

kind of through the air in this vicinity. I am just going to throw a hammer in that direction. Okay. In there. Roll with the disadvantage. Yep. Can I make it reckless? Sure. One roll? Is that zero out the disadvantage? Okay. She's a higher AC because she's technically heavily obscured. Right. Uh, 27. 27? 27 just hits. You got lucky and just flung it out in the middle of nowhere

because of the AC bonus of being heavily obscured. So yeah, go ahead and roll damage. Nice, that's good. Now you get a better idea of where she is. Yeah, do I kind of keep track of where it hit her in 19? You watch the hammer impact somewhere, and you watch it somewhere right up here. right up here. Great.

Like right above you. 23. 23 damage. 23 damage. 23 damage. Okay. Okay. Yeah, it makes a hint's concentration.

Zicking. Hammer comes back. Can I be thrilled that I hit something that I didn't see and smash the Titan stone knuckles together to enlarge? Sure. With that, your hammer grows in size as well. Can I try to you? and throw the hammer again. You can. At the same general area. One roll. Unless I know where

she is now, but I know you're still disadvantaged in the attacks. But you're going reckless this whole round, so the jaw just straight hits. That's a one, so I'm no. On both? With reckless? No. Oh, but I thought I just, I couldn't see her so it was disadvantage, reckless advantage. Oh, right, yeah. So just say yeah, the first, the one just misses past. Third row. Break some of the rock and stone off the wall. That's better. 31. That hits. Okay. 18.

26 plus 4 for enlarged. 25. 25 damage. 25 damage. Yeah, yeah, freaking out. It's good right now. Yeah, she fails her last saving throw. Concentration. No, she wants to maintain that spell.

So that's her last legendary resistance. But she maintains concentration on the invisibility. So that was twenty Twenty five I think So shit Yeah I got all right I'm assessing your turn grog?

Yes it is Okay you can move if you like Is that what you just threw that's all you did? Oh right yeah I'm gonna move in the direction that she flew You something hits your head as you get about right there I get angry again Alright that ends your turn grog

At the um Yeah at the at the end of your turn Not a word. Not a word. Shit. It's going to go ahead and... Surrender. Too close now. Yeah, we're done. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Did we mention that this is all subduing damage?

I'm so glad you got that joke. Oh, yeah. Subdual damage. Back in the day. It's kinder gentler world. I know. She's not going to use that ability yet. Instead is going to, everyone's going to move it around her.

I give money for a popcorn grenade right now. Okay, you know what? He's going to use two legendary actions to do a wing attack. Two legendary actions. So the wings start beating furiously in the air. I need Vax, Kee-Mex, Kima, Grog, and Vex to make a dexterity saving throw. Minus two, because, you know, gambler.

Bidded advantage. No. Wow. Allura actually made it. Oh, Vex. Inspiration. Doesn't matter. What? Yeah. A shitty rule. All right, so.

27. 27. 27. So you take no damage. Vex? One. You take 13 points of bludgeoning damage and you are not prone. Are you still alive?

I'm still alive, you guys. Still standing. It's not standing. Allura succeeds and takes no damage. Grog, would you all? 17. 17. Grog, you also, no, you take

13 points of bludgeoning damage and you are not prone. How'd? How did you say, six? Oh, 21 points of damage? 13. 13. Yep. And the dragon moves half its flying speed.

Is it close? It just kind of moves away at this short. Do I get an attack opportunity? The people who are not prone, yes. So Vax, you're going to make an attack opportunity with disadvantage. Oh, okay. I'm going to use one luck. Okay.

What does that mean? I use luck. The disadvantage, I rolled a six inmate. It gives you advantage, though, doesn't it? Say again? Your valve eminid? He's right, it does. So it cancels out. So the first one, but I'm still using the luck, so the first one was a six. The second one was a, three one. Thirty one. Thirty one hits? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hit him. Hit her?

Huh? Okay. One two, seven, five, six, six, six, nine, plus psychic damage. Oh, ten. Ten, seventeen, eighteen, eighteen, nineteen, nineteen, nineteen, twenty one. 25. 25 points of damage. She just has to have one more. Jesus, sorry. Kill all the other dies. Yeah, maintains concentration.

God. And pulls away. Do I get an attack of opportunity? No. Okay, so she has a move past you. She has not moved past me. Nope. All right, that ends that turn.

Carrick, you're up. I'm a, yeah, I've got to be hearing that over on that side. Yeah, you're hearing all the impacts of slashing. to battle on this side. Okay. Boy, 30 move. I can dash, right? You can, yeah, as an action. So you can move, do twice your movement. Oh, so you just, it's a movement, and then I move my, move, burn my action to do another

movement? Correct, yeah. How far over does, how far over does 30 get me there? 10, 20, 20, 20, 25. 30 would just get around the corner here. Can I get 25 and like, like, 30, 10, 15, 20, 20, 20, 20, and, like, Actually, I don't know she's invisible. So I go, dragons coming around the corner.

I want to hang at the corner and then effectively wait to attack. So you're holding your action in case something shows up that you can hit. Well, actually, I'm going to be around this corner waiting for it to come into this. Right there. Okay. Gosh, I think that's all I got. Okay. All right, that ends Carrick's turn.

Let's see here. Kima sees you doing this and is going to go ahead and back you up. Over to there. Sorry, Percy. Wow. This butterfine makes you so easy to knock over. Kima, on her turn, is going to use ORA vitality again on herself. And utilizing that as a bonus action is going to heal you for 2D6, Carrick. So, oh, not bad.

11 hit points. Very good. Alrighty, that ends Kima's turn. Allura, who is barely conscious with 15 hit points, is going to get conscious, is going to get to her feet. Perception check, natural 20. Yeah. Lady knows what's up.

Allura is bay. And is going to, no, not third level. She's going to go ahead and cast a fifth. level to spell magic. Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which would, yeah, it's just dispel. And with that, finally. Yeah.

Yeah. Finally revealed on the field. And she's just like covered in blood. She's just so beat up. Yeah, she's barely hanging on. She's looking pretty rough. There. She's got a single tear coming from her eye.

Oh, God, she's like right there. Yeah. Look out, birds. Oh, God. Oh, God. Just. I get to go to the idea. I get the idea.

With it a counterweight. Ha! Further over. It appears right in front of your face, Percival. Just her butt. And then Alura, using the rest of movement, is going to here, here, here, and then actually misty step over here next to Keeleth to get out of the area. It's like, Kethe, we have to finish this.

That's going to... Laura's turn, Pike is up. Okay. Is she still unconscious? No, she's up. She's gonna stand up, and if she uses her sprinter's boots, can she run over to Scanlan and Casparovify? Would she be able to get to him?

She would just get to him to this side, yes. Okay, then she's gonna cast her Vivify on Scanlon. All right, so go ahead and roll a D20 and add her wisdom modifier. Do you also have a inspiration still? Pike didn't have. No, back. You died twice, the DC is 12. So.

So. So, whatever you roll, plus the wisdom. Yeah, so 20 plus five. Okay. What? So the Revivify fails, reaches out, the event doesn't hit.

Damn it. You're still dead. You're not like permanently dead, but you cannot be revived for the remainder of this battle. You can only be used ritual to return, and the DC does go up to a 13 going forward. Okay. Okay.

of return? Yes, it's the last itch. Okay. So, yeah, the, currently you get, Pike touches and releases the energy of the spell in the Scanlan's body, and you feel the necrotic essence of this, this necromancer's sanctum, the very dark nature of this place is preventing the connection between the spirit and the body of Scanlan at the moment, the spell having no effect. Pike still has a bonus action if she'd like.

She's gonna throw a Sacred Flame at Ryshawn. Okay. And that's at 17th level, it's what she's at now, right? Sacred Flame is an action? It is. It needs to be a bonus action, unfortunately. Balls. Great, tight.

Um, she, can she do like a heel at a phone? She can do a healing word. Healing word, tight. She's gonna do that on herself then. Level two? Sure. All right, so 2D4 plus five. Eleven.

Eleven. All ready. That heals her up. To stick one on her. I'm gonna get stupid, so. I know, same zee. All right, then it's Pike's turn. Keelith, you're up.

I should know if you can try. Well, things have gotten simpler. Okay. Hearing Allura's words and seeing Scanlan down, can I get a movement to where I can and kind of get over here and see her. Keep going, keep going. You can see her there. I can see her there. Yes. I'm assuming she's within 150 feet of me. Yes. She's kind of like a Hail Mary, you guys. Oh, Jesus, fuck. All right, I am going to cast my one eighth level spell, and I'm going to attempt to feeble mind her.

All their legendary say is. Exactly. Exactly. Alrighty, and it is a intelligence saving throw. Yes, which she's really good at. But we could get lucky. Four plus four. Roll the four, she has an intelligence modifier of four and is not one of her saving throws. Shut up!

Our intelligence charisma become one. Cannot cast spells, cannot activate magical items. Up top. Oh, my God! That really happened? Did that work? Did that work? Did that work?

It's permanent, right? No, it's... She can keep saving from it. Yeah, at the end of every 30 days, she can repeat the same thing. Oh, my God, she fell. Oh, she's the drug. It looks painful. Are you okay?

What a beautiful moment. Get it, get it. We still got some problems. As you reach out, you watch as the tendrils of nature's energy begin to spill out of the cracks in the vicinity. And I just say, Malora. Come on, girl! Come on, Malora!

You watch as as Rajshy's, as Rajshy, Sean kind of chuckles. One of the tendrils slashes out and wraps around the throat. And as they wrap and begin to strengthen around the neck, pouring into the cracks of the flesh where the disease currently holds her throat, her brow begins to sink. The jaw hangs open and slobber begins to drip from her lower jaws. Right. Sean, as opposed to speaking, now gets to a guttural. Herg his mouth. Poetic justice, motherfucker.

Still got a dragon. Still got a dragon. She's stupid. She can still attack. She's been, grug, get her down! It's all I can scream before I'm just, my mind is blown. Okay, so at the end of your turn? And then panicking.

Do you still have a bonus action, right? I do. And technically, ten more feet of movement. Uh-huh. I'm going to go back towards Allura. Fuck, all these spells, cannot use them now. Yay! That's right, Matt.

That's right. That's right. Okay, I'm gonna go. That's karma for trying to kill when she's not here. George Allura and heal the fuck out of myself. You kill one of our nodes. I didn't need to drive. I'm gonna do, Jesus, I can't speak.

I'm gonna do a third level cure wounds on myself. Can you only do up to second level because you cast it. I'm sorry. I'm going to do, oh right, and it's a bonus action. I'm sorry. I will do a second level healing word. All right, 2D4 plus six. Wow. That brings the top Vax you're up.

I'm just gonna unload on that. Except for at the end of your turn, actually, it's going to go ahead and use legendary action to you, do a tail attack against you, Percy. Do I get a reaction against that? A reaction? I can't react to her attack. Okay, she's just gonna do a legendary attack against me.

Yeah. Okay. I mean, all right, that is three. 23 to hit? All that hits. Okay. Keyleth is at 28 hit points. You take 21 points of bludgeoning damage.

21. All right. Now, what are you doing back? I'm unloading, dagger, dagger. Go for it. At advantage on all of it. And can I do, I've got two spells left, so can I do smite and smite? Because it just says on melee attacks. It doesn't say how many around or anything. I don't know. I've never tried to do it. Yeah, no. In each attack you can smite. That's right. So first attack is hits, it's a 30, it's 30. With a melee weapon attack. Oh, okay.

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He endure a feeble mind. So that's the first attack, and that gets smite. Second attack is a 16, well, not a 16, is a 27. That hits? Okay. I'm just going to do Dagger and Dagger, actually. Okay. And the first attack. And neither of these are sharpshooter because they're melee. That's right. That's not for that. That's one, Zay is nine, plus the psychic damage. It makes it 12, plus smite is 12, 17. 17.

Oh, does it? 22. That's so distracted. Plus the sneakies. What? Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh.

Four. Seven. Three. 35. 41. 47. 53. Is the first attack.

53 points of damage. Yeah. Come on. And then the second attack, which is also getting, okay, so one. It's just one. Okay. Plus five.

And eight. All right. and I'm going to use my bonus action to disengage and just leap away from her and just tumble crash to the ground. Okay. Does she still have an attack of opportunity against disengagement, or did that let in her action? No, disengage doesn't have to.

Do you make an acrobatics check though? Okay. Yeah, that's the whole point. Well, I'm just curious because I'm going to have a problem in a moment. That's all. I also kind of got. 25. You land on both feet without an issue.

I got really excited and forgot to roll the damage that feeble mind does, which is Just 4D6 psychic damage? Oh, you did. I just got really excited that it worked. I'm sorry. Awful bitch. You're gonna have a big old bump

on the back of your head. Go for it. It'll be fine. The adrenaline, I don't feel it right now. 4D6. 4D6. And I have 60 of movement, so leaping off and rolling, does that use it all up, or can I move against the wall?

Just keep going out of direction away from her? Can get there. Thanks. Second roll. Technically, wasn't she flanked, two? 13 points of psychic damage. No, because you were, how much? 13.

13. All right. I got a pile of an eyes on himself. All righty. That ends your turn. All right, at the end of your turn, she was her last legendary action to attack Percy once more. That is a 27 to hit. Oh, yeah.

I'm the only thing within reach. 15 plus 8 is 23 points of legending damage. Okay. Oh, you're doing okay. How are you? I'm fine. Okay. Oh yeah, because you're in the hundreds.

23 points, Max. Oh my gosh. Sixty-one right now. I'm at 60. Not wonderful, but you know. It's the most perfect poetic monument. Fick you in the door back, man. Alrighty.

Vex, you're up. Okay. Using disengage, can you run past them with disengage? Yeah, so into disengage you go into combat and then you can leave combat without getting an attack opportunity on you. Okay, but I'm already in. in range of her.

You are just outside of her range, technically. Oh, really? Yeah, her reach. Actually with the tail? No, but she's up in the air. I'll say you're just out of the range of the tail. Okay. How far away if I ran past her would I be able to get

if I ran to the other side of her? You can get just to the side of Carrick. Okay, then I'm just going to back up. Okay. So half your movement there to get up from phone, so you can move 15 more, so you have three more squares you can move. I'm just going to back up into that, ding, ding, ding. To there? Yeah, and then I'm going to shoot her.

Go for it. Yeah, I already used place. I'm going to be able mine. Okay. 17. 17 does not hit. Nope. Or the arrow hits and it just splinters across the outside of her body.

Oh my God. I'm just doomed today. 18. 18. does manage to strike the side of the shoulder, and then the arrow held, the arrowhead actually breaks against the dragon's hide and scales. That's going to do your turn. You sell a bonus action if you want to do something else. I'm going to use, I know, because I, well, I didn't use disengaged.

Okay, that's okay. I'll use my bonus action. Fuck it to do Grasping Vine. It's a bonus action. All righty. From where and two-where? From the ground. I'm going to try to grab Reishon and pull her to the ground. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All righty. So with grasping vine here, that's going to be a dexterity saving throw. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That is a five plus nine. That is 14. What is your spell, D.C.? 15.

Oh! All right. So. Do I get into talk about trivia on this one? No, because it is forced move. Rayshan has pulled to the ground there. Damn it. Like a dug or just peed on the carpet. All right.

You say you stay down, bitch! And I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm too. I'm going to go to while she's going. In character, in character. All righty. Just about of curiosity, I see there's, from here I can see there's plexiglass around there.

How close is that, like, the edge of her character to me? Right now, she would be, she's about 10 feet from you. Okay. All right, that brings us to Percy's turn. Weird question. Yes. Am I still in striking distance? Am I still, if I tried to disengage right now, would I get attacked?

Yes, you are in melee. I'm in melee. Okay. That's fine. I'm going to run around. I'm going to hit her with my sword. I'm pulling out, putting the gun away, pulling out the sword, We've gone away, pulling out the sword and just taking some shots. All right? Dragon Slayer, right? Yeah.

Yep. Okay. Let's see. The first one definitely missed, which is a 19. Did not hit? 19 misses, unfortunately. 22? 22 just hits. Okay. 22 and the other one is a 28, so I got two shots. Yeah, so two ones hit. Okay, so let's do the first one, which is...

Brandon Bastert 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 points of damage plus 20 points of damage plus 10 points of lightning damage. All righty. Total 32. Total 32. And the second slash is 21 points of damage. Nice.

Okay. He was aiming at the eggs, though. The whole time. The entire time. That's perfect. So I'm now going to disengage. I'm going to let him take that shot, and I'm going to run towards the... If you can pull her towards us?

We'll see. I'm heading towards the eggs. Okay. Full speed. All right, so as you go rushing, she's going to go and make a claw swipe at you. I died again. That is. That's a natural 20. Okay.

Sorry, buddy. That's okay. I regret nothing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Stop making noises, it's not polite. Stop counting. 40 points of piercing damage. Okay.

As the claw strikes you from behind. Like retaliated against him. So, where you going now? I'm running six spaces towards the eggs and turning around and pulling the gun back out and sitting on the wall like Spider-Man, like an angry All righty. That ends your turn per seat. Don't go fire elemental on us. I have a bone. Anything I can do with my bonus? It is now Ryshan's turn.

Now, just before she goes, drink something. Because I'm not familiar with like the hold action rules. I was waiting around the corner for the dragon to show up. Correct. It's not in range to you. The moment the dragon comes into range, you can strike. Okay, so that's the deciding factor. Even though she showed up, I can't finish my move that I delayed.

With the fifth edition rules, it kind of make it so it's like a quick reaction hit. Okay. However, the dragon does Oh, this is... Fly past to get around the edge to this side here. She's just going after Percy. She had a crush on you, man. I know. She may vaguely remember that I was not cruel.

Yeah. In this stage, she does make your attack as she comes into range flying past for you. Okay. That's all I need, just a chance. My hand-dragging this on your shoulder. Not like this. Not like this. Guys, not that I don't have to play,

I'm playing Marvel Puzzle Quest. It's addictive. Like seriously, Sam has stacked up his binder. He's closed everything like he's getting up. I know, this is sad. This is the rest of the day for him. There's nowhere to go for, yeah. Just put your head down on the desk, student.

Think about what you've done. Heads up seven up. It was not your fault, Laura. A 20, which is not gonna make it, I'm guessing. A total of 20? Yeah. I just wrote that. No, unfortunately.

Motherfucker. I miss with both. I've got no juice to throw on it either. First swing just goes wide. The second one hits the side, but you haven't hit hard ancient dragon hide before. And it scrapes across the outside with no noticeable damage and a little seed of fear wells in your heart once more. Yep, that's okay. I got to use these actions. You're going to be wasted anyway.

All right. As Reishon slams down onto the ground. Was she holding action alongside me? No, she cast a spell to heal you last. Okay. It's a bonus action. Rishon is going to unleash upon you, Percy, who has avoided the meteor swarm, who has shot her in the face. And right now in a feral state is just focused on what's closest and angry at her. Okay, yeah. All right. First strike, that is a 26 to hit.

Oh, Jesus. How is this happening? How is this happening? With the bite, that is plus eight, 25 points of piercing damage. Oh, no. Oh, no. So you fall to the ground. Yep. Oh, no, no, no. So you lose a death save.

I know. Oh, is that lose a death save? I was only a few feet up. I wasn't, like, it wasn't, okay. Yeah, all right. You were just a few feet up as opposed to? I was just, well, I mean, I was, yeah. And an eight-foot drop on your head is pretty bad.

Yeah, that's pretty bad. No, I'm taking it. You leave him with one foot stuck to the wall. Ow! How! Oh! No! A punching bag.

It can be Short-Halt and Dorolo in heaven. Oh, it's so cute that you think either of us are going. It's going to angrily take a claw attack at your body, which hits critical as two death-saving throws. You're dead. That's it. I'm out. As the bite knocks to the ground, the claw slams down onto your torso and just Tears out the side of your body, your entrails scattered across the stone floor, and your breath just escapes out.

Kerik, you and Kima both there watch this happen as Percy is now partially spread across the stone immediately to the right of you. Blood is in fact, blue. And Reishon gets legendary actions back. It's going to end Reishon's turn. Grog, you're up. Yeah, Grog would like to get up. Stand up. What does that take for me to do that? That's after movement.

It's 25. Can I use the rest of my movement to run towards dragon dick? Towards dragon dick. Yeah. 25. That's as far as you can get it. Can I use the boots of barrel leap into leap even further? Yes.

Wait a minute, did she even roll to break her grasping vine? The grass mind doesn't keep them restrained. Oh, why did I use the natural 20 on that one? It's meant to move things. Natural 20? Yeah, on my leaping. Well, I mean, that's so cool. That's so cool.

I leap through her chest! I leap through her chest! Backman threw it. No. So I have my three attacks, yes? Yes, you're not a melee. You didn't quite get far enough to get to me. I'm gonna have to throw them.

Reckless. Not negated because I can see her now. Correct. Right. 30. Yeah, that'll hit. Okay. 18.

19. 23 for the first one. 23 damage, already. The second one, I'll make reckless and great weapon master. Sure. Okay. No, I can't do Great Weapon Master because it's one-handed. Yeah, no, it's, well, it's thrown. You can't only do it with melee. Right. 24. 24 hits. 22. 23. 23 for the second one. Okay. One piece of shit for the third.

third one. Wait, where's the one? 23 said? 23. Third attack. No, no, Pike has lots more. It's not a natural. 27. We've got time. 27 hits. Okay. Got a minute. Minutes is a long time. It's 10 rounds. She's got little, yeah.

Mac gets weird about the minute. Oh. 26 for the third one. Mac does get weird about the minute roll. That is right. Also funny. Scanlan's getting fed grapes by little cherubs that are the same size as him. Wouldn't it be?

Already. And he's like, come on, Percy. We've got red and green grapes. The ultimate punishment for Scanlan is he would show up as a spectral servant and somebody else's made. Oh, God. No, the last one I rolled at one on the damage, and I re-roll ones or twos with that first thing of fighter. All right. It's not, I remember what the number was.

That's for the larger weapon. I'll double check real fast. Yeah, I don't remember what the number was anyway. Well, here, I'll, just to remind myself, the weapon, that is great weapon fighting. Amelia weapon, you're wielding with two hands, which is if you're throwing at your not. Thank you. So no. All right, got it.

That ends Scrogg's turn. Carrick, you're up. Oh, please, please just let me. All I want to do is stick at least one on this goddamn dragon. Six rolls. Come on, Care Bear. So there is 26. Yeah!

And a 20. And a 20. 20 misses, unfortunately. Unless this dragon is so surprised that I finally made a successful attack. No, unfortunately, the feral, angry, an intelligible state of Ryshan right now is just a beast. No, not surprised. It's instinct. Yeah. Oh, man.

So I'm gonna burn my a second level spell for Smite. And she is not like anything that is specifically affected by, like, Doomhammer here. Like, she's not undead technically or just regular old evil. Yeah. Okay. Regular old evil. She's just awful. Classic evil.

Just bad. 10, 18, 28, 28. 28 points of damage? 28. Wack. She dies suddenly, a cardiac arrest. At a max hit points of 520. How do you want to do this?

It's really had seven hit points left. As far as my math goes, yeah. I can't fucking believe that happened. Karen is like leveled up till I know. So how do you want to do this? Oh my God. Oh my God. The Farrell beast there, tearing the innards out of person.

sea on the ground, grog slamming into it, just seemingly just bashing against the world, watching everyone drop out on you like flies, your one hammer in hand. What I would like to do is step over to like be over his body, you know? And it's like, it's like no, no, no further. And as the dragon is coming in, like just trying to mindlessly claw at this poor destroyed corpse, you know. And I like to think of the anime slow-mo strike, where the hammer comes back and it slows down, and then when it connects, you get like the big starburst. Wow, okay. As the hammer arcs downward, slams into the snout of Ryshan just as the head turns up.

The eyes that were once reptilian and intelligent are now just filled with bloodshot rage and feralds. intensity. The jaw is attempting to snap up and catch the blade. However, you're too fast. Your old adventuring reflex kicking in. As the glowing hammer head comes down onto the snout, the divine energy blasts forward and you watch as the dragon's face explodes, inverting inward, the front of the skull being blown backward. And you guys watch as this flash of light fills the entirety of this necrotic space, this one plume of radiant smoke kind of And left behind, you see Carrick sitting there holding the rod, the actual head of the hammer now dismissed as part of the burst of radiant energy, and there the smoking ruin of the throat,

headless, of Rishon, the deceased deceiver, collapsing to the ground unmoving. We're going to take quick break. And welcome back. So, last we left off, the battle with Rishan ended with a victory for Voxmachina, but at a rather high cost at the moment. As you stand now on the still silence, the aftermath of the fray, looking down, seeing your allies beaten, bruised, dishevelled, Scanlan lifeless on the ground on one side of this cavern, and a partially gutted Percy lifeless on the other, the smouldering ruin that was once the head of Ryshawn, lifeless and still on the around as carrot clutches the hammer. Kima walks over and grabs your shoulder and kind of tightly squeezes it going, he did what had to be done. Thank you. I mean, I've

been around like I can't help him, can I? I think he's beyond either of our power now. Allie? Please tell me she's alive and Kima runs off, run back, realizing that she had doesn't really kind of know the status of the best. The rest of the group. Allura shouts out to her in this side. What's happening? I'm all right. I get down there and I'm doing useless combat triage. Trying to gather what you like do what you can. What's outside and putting it back in, yeah.

And I've, yeah. Vax? Are you up? Yeah, yeah. Good. Perciful, how are you? Sound off if you're alive. I start stumbling over towards Scanlan. Percy. Percy? I go running around the corner. Same. As you guys both kind of run Keeleth a bit behind,

Max, you turn and you see Reishon's corpse just piled and then on the ground you see Kerak slowly, methodically, almost staring off into a memory, trying to gather a bit of a bit of Percival scattered innards, a wound of his side torn open. No! And I run over to him. Help him! Pike comes running around the corner. Oh, God. And she runs up real fast and begins gathering her Rehivify spell. Where's Scanlan? I pick him up and I start walking towards Grogw with him.

Um, did either of you guys want to roll for Pike's Revify? On Percy. On Percy. Do you want Matt to do this? I'll do it. I don't want you to have, I don't want you to get out of your head. I'll do it. I'll do it.

I'll do it. It's just dice. It's the universe. Is that a nine? Six. Look. Plus what? It's not going to work.

Six plus five? Yeah. Percival has died. How many times? I don't know. I don't do that once. I think just once for him, right? The big one.

It works. It works. It's just enough. It's just enough. Wait, how many times does he die? No one. How many times has he died? Does the necklace count, does the necklace not count? The necklace does not count. Once, as far as I can remember. Because the necklace just instantly bamped him back. Yeah, similar to the effect earlier.

Oh, come on, come on. So, if that's going on, I've got like 30 points of lay on hands that I have not had a chance to use. And I'm probably not in great shape. Like, so I'm probably gonna be trying to use it even though I know better. So as you're trying to grab the body and trying to make it form, it's not doing anything.

The healing magic is not taking effect into the now still cold body. As Pike's metallic hand comes into your visual frame, Kerak, you watch and that slow breathless motion as her gauntleted arm reaches out and touches the clavicle of the bloody mess of Percy's torso, and as the divine energy pulses warmth once more through the chest, you watch as the bits of exposed organ that you had pushed in, close over with skin, and breath comes back to Percival's body.

You come to consciousness barely. Quick question. Yes. Okay, good to know. I just kiss, kiss, kiss, tears, tears, tears, tears, tears, tears. Oh, that's nice. Welcome back. Don't look down, you're a bloody mess.

Oh, this is mine? No. Okay. I'm gonna pass up. Are we all here then? Grog. Scanlan was down. Scanlan's down.

I take up running for Vax. Okay, as you turn around the corner, Kima and Alora rushing up to you now as well. Is he? And you turn the corner of Grogh, and you see Vax holding the still body of Scanlan just dangling out of his arms. No. No!

Fix him! Will somebody do something? We have to take him. We have to get him out of here. We've got all these people with magic. You've all got magic spells. You just brought him back. Fix him. Frank looks at Kima. Can you two anything?

This is beyond any of my capabilities. Look, I have a certain skill set, and it's not this kind of skill set. I'm sorry. Back's the Raven Queen. You can talk to her, right? Vax? What do we need? Do we need, like... Okay, we have to get him out of here because this place sucks.

We need to take him somewhere with a temple. And we need to find his daughter. Okay, question. Oh, you didn't kill anything, did you, Vex? There's no, like, fenthras trees? No trees? No trees. Can Alura do Trem?

I do have a teleport spell I can utilize. Gather everyone around. I'm going to drop the gate stone that we have right in this room. I'm just gonna leave it here. You know you're very funny, but this is not very funny. I'm coming back here to dissect that monster once we're done. Okay.

Let's save our friend. All right. Let's all of us gather our hands together. She puts her hands out, Kima takes on the side, and you all form a circle. I'm lying down to do this, but yes. She closes her eyes, and she begins the incantation under her breath.

Why is she rolling? There's a brief flux of arc and energy and it fades, and you all remain in place. No. She goes, what's wrong? I don't know. Something is bothering my, It's this place the dragon said that there were features to this place.

Oh, fuck. Tarrick has like no affect in his voice. We have to get out of here. Up and out. Up and out. Up and out. Uh, Pike's gonna cast a tech to magic and see if, where it's coming from.

Can she see if it's coming from anywhere? She casts detect magic. There are a number of magical sources in this room. There are a few vials on the bibles. back shelf, some of which appear to have been broken and scattered in the ground and the magic is fading. There is one book that is actually kind of in a chest that she goes and kind of partially open. There's a book that was hidden inside that is emanating some sort of magical essence. There's also, there's the doorway across the way, but there is just

a general magical presence, a very faint magical energy everywhere in here. There's a doorway across the way. On the far end. Oh, there is a door. Oh, there is? I run over to inspect it. Make an investigation check. Try and get us out of here. Perception?

Investigation. Oh, Jesus, fuck. What hit points are I right now? Seven. The door looks like a door doesn't look like it's to the, you know, Intricate. It looks like it's locked or chained by something. Vax, can you, can you check for trapped?

I'm gonna third level cure wound to you. What am I out right now? Take it. You're probably at one. Okay. I'll go to where Ikely at this and start looking for trying. With the laying out of Connelly on hands with him, once he's back. Okay.

I can use my last leg of the day. I'll give you 30. Thank you. I just use my last luck of the day and I got two ones. Two ones. The door seems not trapped. It appears to be chained or locked from the other side. Fuck that shit.

Titan stone knuckles, I'm going through the door. All right. Give him back, give him back, get him back. All right, roll a strength check. With advantage, that's good. Twenty, six. Twenty-four. You start slamming your fist against the door, and it splinters, and then breaks inward, and then outward, and rocks just start tumbling outward.

The... The door, this vicinity here is now appears to be a cave-in from the opposite side. I do my stone shape, and I just, I punch the walls and try and blast a hole through the fallen rubble with stone shape. Okay. As you slam through, you smash a cylindrical space in and it just meets more rock. You get the sense that whatever chamber was beyond this room has caved in. It's just caved in. I'm going to say something awful. Put him in the bag of colding. It's not like he's breathing. it will keep him safe. Let's gather what we can.

We have to walk out of here. There's no other way. Pike looks at the book that's emanating magic. Does it look like it's like an evil book at all? It has a sinister look to it. It is ancient. The leather itself is darkened, not by initial color, but by just weather age.

It has a very, very deep leathery brown burgundy tint to it. It has ancient brass inlays, and it is locked shut on one side. Pike's gonna take off her scarf and throw it over it and try to cover it and wrap it up in cloth. Okay. And ask Grog to put it in the bag of holding and wonder if that'll make the magic go away. Sure.

I'm also just gonna grab Grog really quickly and just scrape as much stuff off the shelves into the bag. We need to know what this shit is. Okay, so you grab a number of the tomes. A number of them were destroyed from the impact of the meteor swarm. You get a number of tombs in there. You get some odds and ends, some tree, get some bones,

some other things that are just kind of around the territory. And that all seems to go in fine. Okay. Keyleth goes over to the corpse of Rishon. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. She kind of takes the staff of Laura and shoves it down into her corpse

just to see if any reaction happens. Okay. The staff slams into the flesh, one of the exposed wounds in the side of Ryshan's body, as it sinks in, the staff seems to right itself in a standing position. You kind of let go instinctually and you watch as the remaining visual of the black disease that it began to spread across the body spreads rapidly across the entire body of Rishan.

What remains of green scale turns to black and very, very quickly, the corpse begins to just wither and blacken and then turn to this rippled, fleshy husk. The staff disengages and falls to the ground, clattering against the stone, seeming that the remainder of the disease completed its cycle. I just say, that was four Scanlan from the Ashari, you bitch. I'm going to, Karag, help me, pile all of the dragon remains into a pile, the eggs, everything. I need a pile. We're going to try and remove anything useful, anything that's...

especially of the eggs, anything to know what they were. But I don't want to take the whole thing. I don't want to leave anything. We're going to burn it. We're going to burn it all. I take the gate stone and put it back. Knock out these pillars. It'll cave this whole thing in.

Okay. I still want to burn it. Yeah. As you, Carrot, walk towards one of the edges of the pillars there, there's a flash in the ground of a magical glyph or a symbol of some kind that triggers, and your body is immediately racked with horrible pain. I need you to make a constitution saving throw. Jesus.

Is that evil? 11. 11. No, no, wait, wait. With Constitution, I get. Make sure it's Constitution. Plus seven. 15.

18. I probably should have been making some of these saving throws by adding the right numbers to them. No, the feeling. Yeah, that's D&D, man. That's okay. It's math light. Okay.

Let me see, make sure it was the right one. I don't want to do it. Yeah, okay. So as the excruciating pain takes over, you instinctually start screaming as your muscles lock up, and you are unable to move. You guys all look over suddenly as Carrick is just locked in place, all the muscles pulled into this tense moment,

just screaming in place. Uh-uh. What is he grabbing onto? Is he grabbing onto? Nothing. He just walked over to one of the pillars. And he had a glove. Kind of the central area here. area here.

Someone shove him off. I'm going to use my rope of entanglement and latch on to him and pull him away from it. Okay. You pull him off. The glyph still remains glowing in place, and he clatters to the ground, still locked up. You don't even see color or shape right now. It's just white from the pain that is wracking your body, and you are unable to move, make conscious thought. You are purely a primal entity that is suffering right now. Can you smash clips? Can you smash-liff? I walk over. I'm going to try.

Actually, it's not that much. This is almost better than what I had to do. before. I kneel down and try lay on hands on him because it can cure multiple diseases and neutralized poisons with a single use. Okay, so you spend five for your hit points. Sure. Five. Doesn't seem to assay him. He's still like his teeth. It's almost, you know, almost

biting through his tongue. Allura immediately looks over and he's going to go ahead and him to dispel. Is he cursed? Which succeeds. Actually, he should rule 15. So the pains subsides immediately. and she puts her hood back up as kind of your breath begins to regulate. Let's get out of you.

What was that? The dragon left a symbol. A symbol? Don't worry about it. It's gone now. Just do not touch that for the next 10 minutes. I'm gonna quickly search Scanlan's body for his wand. A fireballs or? Yeah. I'm gonna shoot some fireballs in here when we're on our way out.

Are you gonna burn it to the ground? I'm gonna burn it. I can help you with that. As can I. As we leave, we help burn this motherfucker to the ground. All right, as you guys begin to walk out, the three of you between your staff, your wand and the Lura's preparation, you guys just... And you watch as elements of the stonework begin to fall into itself and collapse.

Not after the point where it causes a full cavern to be endangering to you, but you ensure that this this space is no longer used for whatever purpose it was being used for. You guys continue back out to the edge of the chasm where the bridge is currently. The bridge got snapped, didn't it? It did, yeah. But the gravity is off. But now gravity is regular. Yes.

We can carry it back and forth on the carpet. Yeah, carry back and forth with the carpet in the broom. Okay. You get across with that issue with the. Pike casts light on her mace so that it's a nicely lit thing anymore. It's not creepy and dark. All right. You guys make your way across the chasm. You can still hear below, and occasionally when you glance down as the light kind of opens the area below, you can see the masses of writhing bodies that are all reaching up from below. But with no magical gravitational trap in effect, they have no effect and are kept at a distance. You make your way across, heading back towards the spiral staircase upwards.

The glyph from earlier. Reporting that trap, reporting all that stairs trap stuff. Yeah, the glyph is still dispelled from earlier. Good. You guys still make your way up in sections using the broom and the magic carpet. As you make your way up into the next chamber, you begin to hear cackling laughter. Are these the fucking ghostwriter skulls again? Here.

From ahead, and you see a little bit of a light source begin to appear from the iron door room that you guys had your first encounter with. Are they all just like right there? down a... They're not quite in sight yet. You can just see the glow as they're like descending down a grade. And we're kind of in a hallway, right? Yeah.

Are they technically undead? Yeah, they are. So. So Pike's gonna use her, um, this will do it, yeah. Yeah, she's gonna use turn undead on those motherfuckers. Yes. Okay.

Looking at the radius of turn undead. Oh. Double check here. And it's pretty close. And it's really destroyed undead at fifth level, which she has. Yeah. Okay.

But, yeah, it's 30 feet near you. Oh, okay. So she can wait. But they shoot fireballs, so maybe that's not smart. I'll actually say the second that we see them, I'm just going to empty the lawn. It's fire, though. Yeah. Oh, will they just be fine?

Yeah, they'll probably be fine. I'm going to shoot them with arrows and try to get them from far away, I guess. All right, so you guys are holding your action from you come into range, essentially. Can I see them yet? Actually, what, like, is this like a straight tunnel, straight featureless tunnel heading? It's a slow grade downward. You guys are heading back up the pathway, and you see them now coming in your direction. Can I just unload on them, I suppose? Once they come into.

Is it all four of them? You're not sure. We just can't clump like we were before. I've got a sunbeam ready to go. Oh, well. Well, yours has a probably good range on it. 60 foot, but I want to get them in line. I've got 120 feet on my bow.

I've got like disgusting. All right. Hearing the cackling and seeing the glow coming, you hold your actions, you're holding your bow, you're holding a sunbeam, you're holding your attacks. That would give you guys immediate action as soon as they arrive. So sure enough, within a moment you watch as four of them come into view, the same four you destroyed earlier, kind of clustered around. There's two to one side, like there's two lines of two, essentially. So. Did you regenerate? Do you hold up, right? So do they just grow back or like we shattered?

A few of them. I feel like there's a bunch of throws. Fuck. So, Kieleth, you can, the semibing can only affect two of them. So they get their saving throw, right? Roll 8 D6. If you could, they do not make their saving throws. That's right. Five, six, give you two more.

What do you need? D6s is. 12, 17, 27, 24, 6, 27 27 radion damage. 27 radian damage to both of them, all righty. Gotcha. All right. Purcell? I'm going to try doing a sharpshooter piercing shot

on another round of them. Did that take those? The pepper box. Did that take those? No, did not. Ooh. So, sharpshooter piercing shot. Pike's gonna do sacred flame on them.

Okay. Yeah. That's not bad. So that's, the first shot is 16. Hits? Oh, then they all hit. That's good. So that's 1 to 10 plus 26.

So 1 to 10 plus 1 to 1 to 10 plus So 26. And this is piercing shot, so it's the line, enemy line. Wow, that's nice. I have no brain. That's 27 points of damage with five points of psychic damage for the first shot. Okay, so 19 total.

They appear the blasts of the bullet don't seem to be doing as much damage. Okay, but it's also, it's hitting both of them in a row. Right, yeah. The next shot is 28 points of damage with four points of psychic. Okay. With that, and this is against someone that she damaged with the sunbeam? Both of those skulls just as soon as the beam streaks past, blasting into two of them,

two piercing shots in a row. You can watch as their eyes begin to glow, flames glowing within the back of the skull. Two of them immediately just scatter into dust and bone. The two other side. I still have one last shot, so let's do slightly less that time. 20 points of damage with one point of psychic. Okay. And that's my contribution of the war over.

Pike does Sacred Flame. My level. Well, it's she's a 17th level. Cleric now. Right, but what's spellable? It's a cantrip. So it's just a 4D8 damage. Okay, yeah.

28 radiant? Mm-hmm, radiant damage. Oh yeah, that's great. It's 22 radiant damage. They have to do a dexterity saving throw. Cool, so one of them takes 22 damage. Nice. I'm gonna do the one that Percy just hit.

All ready? Hit both of them. Well, there's four of them. Two or down. Oh, okay, cool. She does one, and then I'm gonna, as, Beck's shoot arrows at them. Go for it. Doesn't hit, because the world hates me tonight.

And then that one hits. All right. I can't find it. 17 damage. All righty. 17 to the one that's right there. Alura, who is frustrated and understanding what their resistances are is just going to go ahead and cast a high-level magic missile.

Okay. That one just explodes and sketched. So now there is one left that is partially damaged from Percival. Are they within 30 feet? Not quite yet. Then I leave the ring of the invisibility off, and I just charge. You just charge in? I'm heading toward them, because if they hit me and I'm far enough away,

it won't hit the whole group. Okay. As you go rushing in, that triggers them to start, or the one that's remaining, to go ahead, and it's going to fire a two fire rays at you. What? That is 20 to hit. Yes, it will. And 24 to hit. That one won't, strangely enough.

No, hit to hit that. That would be spain. I saw you, my God. I want that class. That is 13 points of fire damage on one. Okay. And seven points of fire damage in the other. I will take that.

All right. Watches, both eyes just kind of streak out these burning rays of flame in his direction, both blasting and the shoulder one hits them in the side of the knee and the thigh, but Kerr keeps running forward. You can go ahead and make your attacks if you want. 19. Hits. And actually that's way better than 19. I'm counting dumb. This is 18.

18 hits. Okay. So for the first one I'm going to burn one for Divine Smite. All righty. And these are undibed? Yes, they are. Eight. 11, 16, 17, 25.

25 for both hits? That's the first one. 25 with the first hit. All right, so do the second hit now? And that doesn't do it. Just to make sure I didn't kill it with the first one. It doesn't destroy it, no. Okay, then for the second one.

It does crack the skull, and you watch as the sutras kind of cave from the impact of the blow, the light of your hammer is still struck. Right, and then 12, 22, 23. 23, 31, all radium. 31, that'll do it. With that, the first blow knocks it almost to the ground. This begins to lift up again. Its mouth kind of,

you hit it at the side of the hammer, and it just scatters into broken bone chunks and shards that kind of splatter against the wall and kind of rattle down the grate a bit towards your guys' direction as carrot turns around, looking back over his shoulder at you guys, the pathway now clear ahead of you. It's kind of matter of fact.

Like, he didn't, there was no, there was no serpentine. Yeah. It was like, and then it was just cutting wood. Yeah. You guys continue forward. You make your way to the chamber with the iron door, still open. Eventually walking to the outskirts of the entranceway to the sanctum.

You now walk carefully around the previously noticed patches of dirt and sand. Oh, I grab those immovable rods when we get out of there. when we get out there. And as you pull them out, it seals the tunnel once more behind you. Yeah, how do we go? Laura, do you have any more teleportations left? No, that was the one.

Let's find a big old tree. I've got. Did you see any living trees? Everything was dead, the closer we got to the session. We have to get to a living tree that we can all fit through. Actually, she said, I do have teleportation circle, so I may be able to bring us to Amon. Do you want to go to Amon?

Or anywhere else. We can go to Grey School Keep. Can you get us to Grace School Keep or at least the... We need some level stage scan then. What's at Gray School? Serranraised Temple. Is it Grace Keep or... I mean, that's where our chapel is in our house.

Pike and I have like a little temple, yeah. It's one of the few teleportation sigils that still exist in that vicinity at least. Yeah, do it. Do it. If it doesn't work at Saran Race Temple, I can use a tree stride to get us elsewhere. Let's get to Graceco Keep. Right. She gets down and begins marking out the symbol on the ground on the outskirts. She finishes, you watch the arcane flash.

She steps onto the circle and vanishes. The teleportation circle. And Kima's about to go behind her, and Kima goes, I don't, it doesn't usually look like that. What? Allura didn't vanish, did she? Allura stepped onto it after casting it and then vanished. There was like a weird spark-go-blenish plant in the group.

What do you mean? It doesn't look like that normally. I don't, I don't know. Do we follow her or do something else? I don't understand. No, Kima. Kima just walks in after her and sparks once more. Does anybody, does anybody know what the fuck?

What did that mean? What is that supposed to look like? Can we do some sort of like, check? I don't know arcane. I don't either. Scanlan does. Scanlan does. You make an archa check. I'd love to make an archa check. Oh, for Scanlan. I mean, as a perception thing, if we've seen a teleportation circle before,

would we at least know that it doesn't look like it's supposed to... What is this? No! Nothing. I don't know. Shit. 22. 22? Yeah. As you get closer and look at it, you've seen a few teleportation circles as they've

Of the scroll, and once they're down, they just kind of glow with this mild energy until they dissipate. Which is pretty rapid. Let's see here. We need those two, right, to do what we need to do. We have to go with them. We don't. We don't. I can guess there be a tree if we need to. There's a tree in Sarinwit. You better be right if we leave those two behind. What if...

Yeah, it only lasts for a round, so it's... Six seconds. We have to make this decision like staff. No. But what if it took them someone? You glancing at it, there's like a flicker to it and a weird kind of, very similar to the weird flash that you saw

when you were inside in an attempt of the original teleportation. You get the sense that there's something about this, either this mountain, this underground area, there's something that has some sort of influence or impact on any sort of transportation magic. Who knows where they just got teleported to? reported to.

If they ended up here. Do we need them? I mean the amount of talking we're done, it's already closed at this point. It's gone. Oh my God. Fuck! Go find a tree. We all start running.

No, no, no. Yeah, we find a tree. We find a tree. We go to the beach and we find a tree. We got as far away from this cave. Where did they just go? I don't know. I could try and sry on them.

I can try and scry on them and see, but that's going to take time. One crisis at a time. No, no. We just start walking. We start walking to the beach. Can I scry while we're walking? The ritual requires you. The ball. What about the ball? Can I get a piggyback from Grog and scry while he's while we're walking? On the carpet. Yeah, on the carpet.

We could probably try that. Yeah. I give you a concentration check to maintain it for the tradition. Let's do it. I'm going to take a rest on the carpet and I'm going to fly the carpet while you do your thing. I'm going to actually cast my... I haven't burned it. any fifth level spells, so I'm just going to scry. Okay. Well on the carpet. Pike's going to cast healing on people. She might want to save, well, we'll see.

Things are going to get weird. All right. Yeah, like, let's, if whoever's low, I know some people are probably low. Everybody's low, super low. You guys slowly make your way through the forest, avoiding the patches that you noticed before, the weird collapsing earth. While they're, I'm just kind of like laying back on the carpet kind of in a trust state as they guide me. Go ahead and make a constitution saving throw, Keyless.

Just straight constitution? Yeah. 15? 15. 15, okay. No, no, no, 17. What are you focusing on? What are you focusing on?

Allura. Okay. Oh no. Oh no. So you... you focus on Alura's life force, form, face, and as you close your eyes, slowly moving along with the gradual movement

of the flying carpet, your vision pulls out of you and above on the island. It then shifts suddenly and pulls you over blue, over water. water. Then there's another flash, and there's nothing but water around you. You don't know where you are. You don't know where it is. And it flashes once more. And there in the center of this open expanse of water and ocean, you see two figures swimming. And you glance down and there in the middle of the ocean waters, you see allura, treading water, shouting Kima's

name. Kima! And looking across the way, you can just barely hear in the distance, Allie, I'm coming! She swims over in that direction. Eventually, eventually grab each other's hands and kind of together, hold each other and look around, keeping treading water as the sun is slowly being set in the distance. Nightfall comes. You just see a lower kind of holding her there, trying to both keep her aloft.

It's all right. We're alive. I don't know where we are, but we'll figure this out. We'll figure this out. And they both begin swimming, looking at the direction of the sun, and picking what looks to be a northern position. Do I see any land, or is there like an island? You cannot see, the scrying is specifically on her, but they are both just plopped somewhere in the ocean. If we would have gone through?

No, we have a fucking magic carpet. They can't hold all of us. I tell them what happens when I wake up. I don't even know where they could be. They're in the middle of the ocean. of the ocean, they could be right off the coast or hundreds of miles from here. This ocean. This is fine.

We're going to go to White Stone now. We're not going to go to Grey Skull and we're going to get Gilmore's health. But there are our friends? Are we just going to leave them behind? One. One thing at a time. That's right.

That's right. I mean, Kayla starts like hyperventilating, panicking a little bit. Keeleith, we need you right now. They're okay, right? Allora. Allora will figure it out, right? She'll figure it out she's so powerful.

Yeah. Okay. One thing at a time. Oh, this is taking everything to not stay here. Okay. Still moving towards the beach, looking for live trees. Short time later, you eventually get close to the edge of the water line, and you do find a handful of trees that appear to be live enough and large enough to maintain one of your spouse.

to a useless scan of the ocean out of desperation to see I see anything. I'll join. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Natural 20. It's true. It was Gil dice. It was Gil's dice.

You can see. You can see. And add your perception bonus? 31. 31. Perception's 11. You take a moment, and you don't know if it's the sense of the scry spell

and something about the arcane winds that blow the lay lines of magic that traverse across Exandria, but something guides your attention that way, and you focus real hard, and you see jazz at the horizon what looks to be a very, very faint speck of movement. Fuck up. Carrick puts his hand on her shoulder and says, oh child.

I take off on her room out. Wishing doesn't make it so. No, I know, but look, look, there's something. It could be something else, but there's something. Kulith. Yeah, I'm going, I'm going. I went. You are coming as fast as you can on the broom, full speed,

holding onto the hat as fast as you can, and just the wind of the ocean air coming past your face, the salt and the briny spray of bits of reef and rock that surround the island. I'm trying to give vex over the earpiece, like a warmer, warmer, warmer, colder to little 10 degrees to your left. Yeah.

Yeah. You do look out and you see both Kima and Alura swimming through the ocean exhausted. And it looks like based on both the heavy armor that Kima's wearing and the general physical state, they're both having a hard time treading water. And they're swimming in a wrong direction. I fly over them and just tell them, hang on to the broom! Oh, that's the best thing. I could have helped Sing. And Allura reached up and grabs your arm, and Kima, hold on! And just grabs the edge, and you can see Kima now. It's like, coughing up water right now, and is trying desperately to tread water. It's a natural 20 on a strength check for Allura. Holy shit, with no modifier. Manages to hold onto both you and Kima and get you up. I need you to make an athletics check.

Just to hold on. 13? 13, okay, it's enough to maintain. Carrying them both back as fast as the broom, which is not very fast at this time, it takes you probably a good 15 or so minutes, and as the tensions going on, you could see Alura getting more and more exhausted.

Keep holding, we're almost there, darling. I'm trying. I just keep saying, Vex, did you find them? I'm taking the carpet in that direction. Vex? If it's been this long, Karek has given five minutes. The talk.

I'm just, crying in Carrick's shoulder right now, just bawling my eyes out. I'll be back in a moment. I'm taking the carpet towards the spec I see on the... And probably ten minutes in is where... I would have a time in to ten minute. I'm on the way with it. At this point, you can see... You can see Laura's grip is getting shaky on the broom now and says, we're almost close enough. Now! And then her and chemo... Vanish, fang!

Vanish, uh, vanish in a puff of dark, blueish energy and appear on the carpet next to you through a dimension door. Oh, I'm so tired. Still sobbing into Carrick's shoulder. It's been like a slow litany of like sometimes people go and you never get them back. It's like he's giving you the wrong pep talk. Oh, God. You know?

So wait, were they? Maybe they were just dead and I saw their ghosts. We have them. We have them. What? And I just cry harder. Vax is. He was also listening to that, sometimes you don't get them back while hoping Scanlon can't feel like.

Like little Dobby and Harry Potter. Eventually you guys managed to gather the rest of your party at the beach side. Waterlogged, Kima kind of shakes it out and leaving his trails, her hair is all matted and cladded into her face, and she just looks really piss. He's like, not a word. Allura is kind of squeezing out the sides of her braids. Well, now what? Whitestone. Let's take a tree, shall we?

Let's try. I think this definitely explains why so many folks who went to investigate this place never came back. Are we as far away as we can be? Like, we came in on a tree, right? We're on the beach. We came in on a tree, yes. Okay.

We're as far as we do that. So you go ahead and find the tree? All right. As you reach out and touch the side of the tree, eyes kind of clenched tight, hoping that this is enough. You watch as the bark splits into the transportation via plants portal. And as it splits apart, you can see further internal wood striations. Those split. A third layer, splits like this. It's having to force its way through this tree. And then finally it divides out, and you can see the sunset. lit outside of the center of White Stone.

Go, thank you. I kind of hold the door open like it's a closing elevator. Am I sure it's fucking White Stone? It appears to be White Stone. We got six seconds, go, go. You guys all charge through, making me f f f f f f f, through the portal. And I go in last.

You all step out, catching yourself, just as the tree slammed behind you. There you see the faintly blossoming branches the sun tree greeting you to the center of sun setting white stone. Together as a group, clutching Scanlan's lifeless body in your arms still vex. What do you do? I cry to care a little bit more. No, no time for that. No time. Get him to the castle. Okay, sorry. Right? No, should we get him to the castle of the Raven Queen's temple? We go to the Temple of the Raven. Okay, to the Temple. Scrii, find his daughter, Scry on his daughter.

Okay, I use my, oh geez, I can't remember, no, I didn't use any of my scrying eye on Rishon at all, right? No. That was my spell just now. I will use my scrying eye now to see if I can find Kaylee. I'm already 50 feet with the temple. Okay. You guys, I'll make it right towards the temple of the Raven Queen in the graveyard outside of Whitestone. As you're making this the scry attempt with the item, go ahead and make another concentration check as you're moving along and doing this on the carpet. That's cocked. Oh.

That's not bad. Just a regular, what do I use? Is it a constitution saving throw? A con saving throw, then 16. Remember, you have warcasters, so you technically have advantage on concentration. Oh my god. Oh my god!

Don't forget that. Nope, 16. Okay. Let's with a show. Okay. Your vision pulls back and is dragged fast enough to the clouds to have no sense of direction. Suddenly you feel your essence thrust downward through the clouds

once more towards the closing daylight around Kaimel, in the center of Tal'Dorei. She's in Kaimel. Looking down to the rather dirty, destitute kind of gambling overrun and light law-en-forced city that Kaimal is. You're pulled once more into, it looks to be a tavern room, and there you see a makeshift band of very terrible performers playing. And on the back table you see Kaylee with half a flagon of ale sitting there, a dagger on the table, just staring and just giving those performers shit. She's like, you don't fucking suck, you know that? Cool. Oh, I love her so much right now. What I come from, you, kill you for this. That's terrible. Certainly.

Certainly. Knowing how scrying works and knowing how scrying works and knowing that certain magic casters can feel it. This is kind of going on the limb. I just yell through the scrying and audibly amongst everyone. Kaylee, it's Scanlan! Trying to push through the magical boundary and see if I can at least get a reaction out of her. Okay. You're shouting this, you guys hear her doing this, and you just keep pushing forward to case and check back and make sure she's okay. Kaylee just keeps drinking from the flagon and shouting out. Someone comes by and you watch us, she like definitely just nabs a little bit of coin from the pocket and still just keep.

Kaylee! Doesn't seem to be having an effect. Kaimel? God damn it, I wish you could talk to people through scrying sometimes. Who has, who can send me there? Who can send me there? I'll go. Alora might be able to send her a message. Alora, do you still have any messages left?

I can cast sending, yes. Do you know, have you ever, has she ever met Kaylee? I don't think so. We need to get her and bring her here. Can we get the other gate stone and find Sean? I have the gate stone, yes. We've got both of them, we have both of them. No, we have the one gate stone.

Yeah, doesn't your sister have the other one? She has the other gate stone and find Sean. Find the other gate stone, I take off to find Gilmore. Find Sean. Okay. I will go get the other gate stone. I'm tapped out of teleportation. That's fine. We can make this work. In the meantime, take him to the Raven Queen's time.

Raven Queen Temple. And so is Alora. Tap doll teleportation. Yep. From what I know about the Raven Queen, she is not like, oh, you can get a do-over, right? She is like, you are dead, and that is the line you do not cross. Do not come from a little more complicated. Well, he is her champion. Yeah, but from what I know. Yeah. From what you know as Carrick, yeah, she's, you know.

Yeah, she's... She's the one that fucking holds this line. Like, you do not come back. She guides you, one way or the other. She's the mistress of fate. And if your destiny is cut short, there is exception. Okay. Okay. Um...

However, it's... Her real loathing is for those people that go against that natural destiny. That abrogate the natural order. Exactly. Right. You know, unnatural, unexpected death across one's fate line is unfortunate, but it can be corrected. Okay. So you go ahead and you look for Gilmore.

You find Gilmore with a big mug of coffee in his comfort robe, still recovering from the war the previous day. His hair is kind of tassel up and he's just sitting there kind of cradling it, looking out as the sun setting in the main common. a mess area of the castle and as you walk in. Ha! Oh, Vexali, you return! I just run straight at... Darling. Yes, yes.

Do you have teleportation? Do you have anything that can send me to Kymal? To Kymal? In a taboo, I... Please. I don't know of a... I'm sorry.

I normally don't frequent places like that. It's a bit dastrely for my tastes. I... I'm sorry. Do you know of a city nearby? Anything? What, um, I mean there's Western, but that Central got destroyed too. What's wrong? I don't know what to do. Scammon's down. We have to find his daughter. He puts his mug down and kind of stands up slowly. His demeanor gets very stoic and very, very dark.

Well, let's see what we can do. Follow me. And he begins walking down towards, leads you towards the home that he's been staying here in White Stone. He goes in and it's still, you know, it's barely furnished based on the original attack that happened when you guys have the assassins come after you here. It's been cleaned up but it hasn't been replaced. He goes rummaging through some things up in his room and goes through a few packs. I was, I don't really have many options. Is it a... I just need to get there.

Have you talked to Allura? She's out. Out of spells. Hold on. And he leads you back up to the castle. What are you guys doing? All this time I have laid Scanlan down in the center of the temple. And with a wet rag I have cleaned his face. clean his face and combed his hair out and laid

Myth Carver out next to him. Probably gave him some clean pants because he's covered in piss. Yeah, you gotta scrub back down a little. I'm waiting outside, because I probably can't go in. Right, I can't go in there. What? I don't know, just me.

While I'm cleaning, I start talking as well. You know, if it is his time, then I can that it is his time, but he just did an awful lot for you. That dragon was tampering with your ways, and without him we would have not gotten as far as we had. He has done a lot for you. And this isn't even bargaining anymore. I am yours.

I'm not bargaining. This little man has more heart in his chest than any man I've met. And if there is anyone who deserves a second chance. I don't know, I don't. Your will be done. I grab Grog on the outside of the temple, also staying on the outside, and I just grab him by his massive gigantic shoulders, and say, you were closer to him than probably anyone else in this group. You knew more of his secrets than anyone else. I think it would mean something

if you talk to him from beyond. How do I do that? His spirit still holds on. You can still speak to his spirit and convince it to come back. Convince it to come back, Grog. You knew him. You knew him. Look inside and you will know. Well, I'll just start talking to him. And I kind of crack the door to the temple open and try and gesture him in.

Oh, in there? I'm not really religious though. I don't. You don't have to be religious. You had the connection with Scanlan and you have heart. That connection speaks far stronger than any religion ever could. It's up to you. We don't know if Kaylee will make it.

Right. Okay. For Skadlin, then I'll go into the temple of the Raven Queen. Are you guys having Pike prepare a resurrection ritual? Is that what's going on? I guess so. I don't know what's happening. You guys are talking to air right now.

Well, I was talking to Grog. Right, right, right. Trying to put together a resurrection ritual. Okay, that's how it was- Trying to prepare that. I wasn't expected that wasn't part of the ritual. Right, right. So everybody here is a mess, right?

And actually, when they brought them out of the ocean, like, Kerik was like, Oh shit. Oh, it was like, you know, because that shook him. You know, because he knew at this point, it's like, now is the point where all your friends die. But like these guys I can't talk to, they are all a mess. How bad are you?

I'm, outwardly, I'm fine. I'm in get shit done mode. Right. Then I kind of get you a little aside. I'm probably coming back down now from the castle with the stone. I can, I'm like, what can his sister do something or his daughter? Why the urgency? I mean?

Because it's the only thing I can think of that could really drag him back from wherever he is. That's my thought. I've been there. I've experienced this. Been where? I've died. You need to, it's not easy. And you need to, not everything cuts through.

You need to find the right thing to cut through. And I think this might be it. So it's where I'm putting my bets. Allura, the kind of approaches. If we can wait tomorrow, I can take us there, but I have no means of... What about... I feel like it's about to wait. What, what, um...

Oh, geez, I don't know his name. Lex, as you brought up to the castle, Gilmore is kind of tugging your arm, and he sees he has kind of a haste to him, and he's like, Where's that skill? Yeah. Where's Eskil? Is he returned? Please, somebody, give me this answer. Anyone? And you watch some of the guards kind of come up and it's like, Um, I mean, you know, Eskul's been backing his research at the Ziggurat for a better part of a week now.

Guards are with Gilmore. You will get him into any room in the castle immediately without question. Yes, yes, sir, yes sir. Now, it pulls you down, you rush down to the, to the, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, you'll get him to the, uh, uh, uh, down path the ziggurat, and actually Eskill is returning with his servant. It's his older, kind of hunched form. It looks like they finished their work for the day, and as you all begin rushing down the hall to the ziggurat in Heath Whitesones. Oh, hello.

You're finished. There's no reason to... Interpretation. Oh, it's a very strange. Sean. Unique magic, yes, of course. Yes, can you do it? This child's play, really. Then can you send me to Kaimel, please?

To Kaimel? Yes. Why would you want to... Urgently, darling. Sean? Sean's kind of guess... If you want to be of use to anybody right now, buddy, this is the way to do it.

All right. It's one way to trip, so you're paying for a room, bored. Sure. I give Sean a kiss on the cheek. All right. Dude, have you guys caught up at this point? I'm at the temple. I sent them off to deal with this.

All right. So we go, what are you looking for? I'm looking for a tavern, probably the only one in town. All right, I'll take you there, and that's where we're staying for the night, and then return tomorrow. Yes. All right. And he kind of reaches out and grabs your hand. Be back in a day.

I'm going to doing this kind of incantation. As he traces his fingers at the air, you watch these kind of lines we're going to connect. And you watch he's kind of tracing almost this mystical map of portions of Tal'Doree. And as each finger hits a point, you see him connect the thread. And as he connects the thread, both of you blink out, and here in the middle of this busy cobblestone street now. You could hear what sounds like roused laughter and shouting in the distance from two different directions. You can see now as the night has gone from like a bright orange and purple to like the dark reds and blues of post sunset. There are a couple of what looked to be guards weren't in the street, but they themselves

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so it's a stretch. It's not Lothlin level. Sorry, Lothlin. Sorry, Reno. Yeah. Go ahead and make an investigation check. I have to read. I was terrified.

Come on, you're on. Eye rolls. It's quite stable. I got two left on this table. 16? No. 16, okay. Wait, but I didn't add anything to that.

Investigation, that's a 23. Okay, yeah. Asking questions rapidly around dragging Esco behind him. Where are we going? Shield. Yeah. You eventually find your way asking to where the different, where the worst performer

as you've seen perform in this town. Everyone keeps pointing you to this one place that's up on this one hill towards the back of the Iron Seat Ridge, which is the mountain that Keimel is up against. As you walk into the tavern, you see probably a little more than a dozen people in various clusters. Some of them are ready to go. They've been drinking since sundown, and they're already

pretty sauced. There's a terrible off-key ban in the corner of four people, let's see, three gentlemen and a lady. A terrible band name. It's a terrible band name. And it's pretty bad. And there you see kind of half slumped over in the corner at the table. You see Kaylee just ready to pass out at the end.

Stay by the bar. I'll be right back. Should I get our room? Fine, yes, darling. And I ran off toward Kay. Two rooms she's paying, hold on. And he kind of walks over towards the bar. Yeah, this is gonna be so honest. Ditch him.

I'm so approved this, by the way. This is the way to do this. Okay, bye. Sorry. Sorry. Just Kaylee. Kaylee. What do you want from me?

Smack across the cheek. You take, she grabs the dagger and, like, grabs you by the front of the shirt. Darling, your father, Scanlan. Tell me you sober. Why, I remember you? Are you sober? I'm never sober. Fuck.

What's the little? Your father's hurt. I don't want to deal with them right now. Tell him. Look. Kaylee, and I pick her up and bring her up to my eye level. I will kick your ass right now if you keep pleading me like this. Your father, he died.

But there's a chance we can bring him back. If you're willing to help. How do you die? And she's still being held up, reaches over and grabs her tanker. Her feet still dangling. Defending everyone. saving the fucking land, can you believe it? Who wouldn't want a death like that?

He died with piss all over him. That sounds like my father. Will you go? And what? And help? And help what? And help what? I said her on the table, so we're still at level.

All his words were of you. Look, I know a little bit about having a father who wasn't around. who wasn't around, right? Take it from me. It's not worth it. It's not worth harboring this hatred in your heart. If you can find it in yourself to forgive him, you'll live a much happier life.

Make a persuasion check. Doesn't you around? Come on. 25. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She kind of looks at you for a second. You can see her kind of frustrated piss off facade drops a little and her eyes kind of sink below. I really don't know what you think I can do, but I mean, at the very least I'd like to see his body before it's interred.

I pull up the stone and I put it in her hand. Concentrate. Concentrate on him. It'll bring you to him, I swear. Nothing but strangeness around you folks every time I cross pass with you, it seems. Please. Kaylee. I take my drink. You can take whatever you want. Just promise me. You'll try. She can hold us for a second, looks at it.

Kind of squint and I guess. Listen, if you're trying to hit the piss out of me, and her form just vanishes from the table. It is pushing 1120? Yeah. I think we will pick this up right there next week. next week here in White Starland for the ritual. All night long, man. All night long.

Now I'm trying to push the narrative as long as I can get to sure you can get to a point, but like, yeah, this is just, this is building. I don't want to drag us in here. This is going to be a first situation. Scanlon's going to be dead for a week. I can't force narrative for a clean ending. Can't force narrative.

All right, well, we will pick this up next week. Ironically, of course, also, I don't think we have. Sam won't be here. Sam can't be here next week. Oh, that's gonna be interesting. All night long like Lionel Richie, come on. Get used to it. Oh, snap.

Dick. Amazing. If we wait, he's gonna write us off. I hear him. I hear him. Oh, I hear him. All right, well, we'll figure it out. Of course Mr. Worst, Mr. Worris, I'll play him,

or we'll see if he can sky. We'll see. I don't know what he's doing. I know he's gone. Like a tool. We can totally like Zod, like Zod in the mirror kind of. That's true. All right, well, with that the conclave lies destroyed. Oh my god. That's great. The Ryshan's plot still not uncovered. One of two deaths reversed, one still on the line.

the tethering of the soul to the body withering with each fall. And a surprisingly low-level pallet in getting the final blow on an ancient green dragon. Way to David that collapsed, man. Like, legit, we were all talking, and we thought you were gonna die. We really, we were like, what did we call it? Why do you think I showed up? We were like, we were like, I wonder if he's gonna totally Colson. We were like, I wonder if he was just going to Colson on us.

We thought you were going to be our Agent Colson. I honestly prepared that to be like this, like we talked about at the break, like it would have been an awesome heroic, you know, end of the story. That's why I was here. I was here to throw my body in front of someone. It just happened to work out that she was pinstringed tackled with the side. Didn't do it, Patrick. Oh, believe me, care much would have rather died than have this particular outcome.

Shoot for the moon, sometimes you'll land at the how do you want to do this? And also, also feeble mind? Wow! Natural 20 on scanning the ocean. Pretty fucking great. That was. Yeah, had a few lucky roles. King of care, MVP's for sure.

Somebody conquered some personal demons this week. Well, Sam, I was waiting for this. Sam, we love you. Sam's, I'm still, wherever you are, people will always be an awkward mess. I know. As much character growth as you can have, you're still always you.

She will always be a pit of fire. Exactly. I will always trip and fall and face plant in lava. It's beautiful. Right. Don't say that. If Avatar and Legend of Kor have taught us nothing, you gain some strengths and also remain a spags. Yeah.

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