Critical Role - A Bridge Too Far | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 14 Part 2

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

Part 2 The druids of Shaungarten question Thaisha's decision to bring the undead Occtis to their sanctuary and debate their continued aid... New Episodes Release Weekly on Thursdays.Learn more about... Campaign 4 at https://critrole.com/campaign4/   GET MORE CAMPAIGN 4 WITH BEACONWe're excited to bring you even MORE Campaign 4 with a Beacon membership! Get access to exclusive shows like our behind-the-scenes Critical Role Cooldown and ask the Campaign 4 cast your burning questions directly through our LIVE monthly Fireside Chats.You'll also receive NEW Beacon exclusive series, instant ad-free access to VODs & podcasts, live event pre-sales, merch discounts, & a private Discord.Start your 7-day free trial today at https://beacon.tv/join and get unparalleled access to everything Critical Role! OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN 4 CASTGAME MASTER Brennan Lee MulliganLaura Bailey as ThimbleLuis Carazo as Azune NayarRobbie Daymond as Kattigan ValeAabria Iyengar as Thaisha LloyTaliesin Jaffe as Bolaire LathaliaAshley Johnson as VaelusMatthew Mercer as Sir Julien DavinosWhitney Moore as TyrannyLiam O’Brien as Halandil "Hal" FangMarisha Ray as Murray Mag’NessonSam Riegel as Wicander "Wick" HalovarAlexander Ward as Occtis TachonisTravis Willingham as Teor Pridesire CREDITSProduced by Maxwell James, Steve Failows, & Kyle ShireSet Designed by Shaun EllisProduction Designer: Noxweiler BerfCharacter Art by Loren HontanillaEdited by Taylor Burke and Emily "Stevie" StevensonCritical Role Announcement Playhouse Editor: Vinny CelestiOpening Title Editor: Paul FoyderOpening Title Colorist: Peter KoocheradisWindow Effects by Christian BrownGraphic Design by Aaron Monroy & Jordyn TorrenceDol-Makjar art by Daniel Jiménez VillalbaMiniatures Painted by Payton Keo LacebalOpening Title Theme by Neal AcreeCampaign 4 Key art by Hannah FriederichsAdditional Art & Design by Hannah Friederichs Episode QC by Catherine Zimmerman & Paula FloresAssistant Editor: Gianna GencarellaPost Production Coordinators: M Swing & Bryn HubbardClosed Caption Editing by Margaret Dill, Nikki Kindelberger, Courtney Knewtson, Danielle Lackie, Eleanor Smith-Dufresne & Alice TsoiPost Production Supervisor: Tal Levitas HEALTH & WELL-BEINGDue to the improv nature of Critical Role and other RPG content on our channels, some themes and situations that occur in-game may be difficult for some to handle. If certain episodes or scenes become uncomfortable, we strongly suggest taking a break or skipping that particular episode.Your health and well-being is important to us and Psycom has a great list of international mental health resources, in case it’s useful: http://bit.ly/PsycomResources Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Hello again, it's Brennan Lee Mulligan, and you're listening to Part 2 of this episode of Critical Role. If you haven't checked out part one yet, pause this now and head over there first. What are you doing? Otherwise, let's jump right back into this adventure and the world of Aramamon. We return to the Hakwarlane Bukha. Yeah. It's so cool. Every new words are my favorite. Yes.
Starting point is 00:00:33 Here, the beautiful waterfalls of Rieson Gertil descend towards. a cliff plunge some 200 feet that will see them scatter on the western border of Helva. The water is cold. The ice clinging to the sides up here at this high altitude, and we see before us the sort of spiring chapels in this gatehouse, beyond the gatehouse, probably up some, you know, not too far away,
Starting point is 00:01:01 but up a small winding stone staircase in the side of the cliff, you see the sight of a mass massive eerie. And you see up there, Julian, in a moment, we'll get everybody's initiative. But those with high perception, Julian Valas, you see up here above, there is a massive series of nests. The nests appear to be about 20 feet in diameter.
Starting point is 00:01:26 Oh. You? Oh. Oh. Birdies. Birdies. Birdies. Birdies.
Starting point is 00:01:35 Looking out, you see a column of Taconas soldiers walking out in front of you, and you see that right in front of you, Mozor has just changed his accent and yelled an expletive. Can I get initiatives from everybody? Yes. 20 from me. 20? Let's go. 13. 13. 15. 15. Great. 14. Lovely. Lovely. I didn't do that bad. No. I don't know. I got to go what the end. Julian, you are first to act. as you see the knight over here at the head of this marching order. You don't recognize from this distance any insignia on a shield, but from some vassal house of Taconas,
Starting point is 00:02:20 calling out saying, stand down at once, you're under arrest under the authority of House Taconas. It's my turn, I think. So we take their mouth and keep going? Yep. All right. I'm gonna go ahead and move forward. 30 feet to 30-ish, about there.
Starting point is 00:02:41 Hell yeah. And I'm gonna use my action, I'm gonna hold my action to have my blade at the ready kind of hidden behind with the cloak in front, hiding the demi-gotlet, and just kind of use that position to protect you who's gonna try and rush past to get to my friends, or if anybody comes close to me,
Starting point is 00:02:56 I'm gonna shake him. Beautiful. Moving forward, ready to action, incredible. You see, Going next in initiative. This is so interesting. I like that. One quick point of clarification.
Starting point is 00:03:16 They are coming from the Erie, or they're coming from behind us? You see the gatehouse here immediately past the gatehouse falling away is a small, there's like what looks like a small tavern over here, over in this direction. There are some homes on a winding cliffside that goes this way. There is a tall staircase going up towards the Erie here. So in other words, they're coming from.
Starting point is 00:03:41 It is not, yeah, it is not obvious to you at once that these guys came from the ear. Okay, right? I just, yeah, so we, they are between us and where we need to be. Yes, exactly. It also does not seem as though these guards necessarily, they don't seem flush or out of breath,
Starting point is 00:03:57 like they were told to come here and look for you. It looks like you might have been spotted by a stationed patrol. Right, right, right. Immediately after you, you see, okay, that's what's gonna happen. Don't like that. Blu. No, no, all of this is good.
Starting point is 00:04:23 I should think there's 10 minutes? That's probably faded by it. It has been 10 minutes since our conversation. Really? I think since the conversation, oh yeah, you got one and got all your gears. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry, great, so it's faded, yeah. I just wanted to make you.
Starting point is 00:04:38 Gotcha, gotcha, no worries. How much is 60 feet? I hate that. Yeah, come at me. Bud. I'm going to go. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. What was that?
Starting point is 00:04:54 That's Mozor. Oh. In quotes. Okay, so he's just sort of cussed, and now is just going to keep it pushing. That's so interesting of him. That's so interesting of him. That's so interesting of him.
Starting point is 00:05:10 What an intriguing romance. Wait, you're next? No, I, did you say I'm next? He's checking something right now. I'm in the bottom. Oh, so it's, yeah, it's really and me, you, you. This is going to be... I don't like your life.
Starting point is 00:05:31 I'm so upset right now. Yeah, this is a tone. Everyone's mad at me. You're so mad at me. You see that in this instance, what's gonna happen here is Mozor walks up and looks over at you, Julian, and says, everything all right? I just hold the blade kind of between him
Starting point is 00:06:05 and the people ahead of us. ahead of us. It's like, we see what your next move is if this blade finds your neck or theirs. You see, I think in this moment, I am going to need a question. Julian was not present. No, no, okay. My curiosity is spiking. I want to know what's happening. I know, you're so good. I'm gonna need a Constitution saving throw for, actually give me a persuasion check.
Starting point is 00:06:41 Okay, that would be 14. 14. I'm going to need a Constitution saving throw from you. You got it. That is better, it's gonna be a 22. Let's go. Hell yes. Let's go, hold on a second. Incredible.
Starting point is 00:07:08 You see as Mozart turns to look at you, his eyes go blood red as he says, well then why don't you just burn? And you, instead nothing happens on a 22. You feel a flush of some kind of like powerful, fiery thing and a smell of sulfur. Fills the space as enmity. Oh God!
Starting point is 00:07:38 stands before you. Oh, what a bitch. She just gave you a hot flash. She's like, I cast menopause. She just said, yeah. No. No. A little sweaty right in the gooch right now.
Starting point is 00:07:54 Not like, hey. Incredible. The worst spell. Filed creature. That is five to six years, you think. On a success, you do take seven points of fire damage. As you feel as flash of fire and blood.
Starting point is 00:08:18 But you see the enmity readies in action next to you. All right. So walks up, ready's in action. As the impact of the heat burns through me and I kind of like react for a second, shake it off, throw the cloak back and I cannot use my ready action to just attack enmity. You absolutely can. Go for it. I'm not going to see that line.
Starting point is 00:08:39 No! That's gonna be, oh, okay. 21 to hit. 21 is a hit. All right. That'll be 10 points of piercing damage with the rapier. Boom. Your rapier flashes out.
Starting point is 00:08:53 Enmody throws up one of her arms, a slash of blood across the forearm. You a quarry from us. And that is going to be, that's Enmody's turn. My good bitch, who are you talking about? This is a funny question here, hold on a second. Da-da-da-da. The moving forward from here,
Starting point is 00:09:27 Julian, you were not present in the beer garden, right? You saw them, but they didn't see you. Correct, correct. It was Tysha and these two, right? Cool. Okay. You see this dude is going to come rushing up. Charges, charge, put them under arrest.
Starting point is 00:09:48 510, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 60. Whole turn, move and dash, just closing distance with you guys. Octus, that's gonna be you. So, okay, so I see enmity. appear, or Mozo was okay. I did warn you that they, yes, yeah, so I was like,
Starting point is 00:10:17 but then knowing that you pointed off to the real one, I'm like, okay, so this is a fake. What's that, okay, so what Octus is going to do is move. I'm just gonna be right here, and then is going to look at the Haushtokonis vassals and just say, as a sion of Haustokonis,
Starting point is 00:10:48 Stand down. Go ahead and give me persuasion. I am gonna ask you to do this with his advantage. Good idea. Good idea! Another national 20. Nope, that's an 18 and an 19. Okay.
Starting point is 00:11:01 So that's going to be 20 total. Um, 20. Sorry, what did you, what skill did you say? Persuasion. Persuasion. 20 total, yes. 20 total. That's go scary, Larry.
Starting point is 00:11:13 You call out to the Taconas here on a 20 persuasion You see the guards tremble in this moment. The knight in front of you, the one charging here, says, my lord Taconas, what be your first name? Hold on my siblings' names. Yeah, I got it, I got it, I got it. Franz.
Starting point is 00:11:41 You see, go ahead, give me, you have 20 persuasions you'll do this with advantage. Give me deception. You need to hit a 20 here. Let's go. Come on. Fronz. I just got it. 18.
Starting point is 00:11:55 This is simply too funny. I am gonna have to do this. Franz raises his visor. Shit. Tough news, little brother. He's going to. That's so funny. You had a one and eight shot.
Starting point is 00:12:16 I had a one and eight shots. Ah, well, hi. And then Octus snaps his fingers. his fingers and pin appears right next to fronds. Okay, pin appears next to fronds. Pinjiman. Pinjiman, his full God-given name.
Starting point is 00:12:38 Before you do this, I am gonna have to resolve something though. This is no effect your turn. Enmody's ready action goes off in this moment as she turns two fronds. Which one? Oh. With a bunch of demons all in disguise going, You're all being confusing.
Starting point is 00:12:57 What is going on? What is going on? Everybody say who you really are. On the count of three, say your real name. On the cat. Frog's here. God damn it. Yeah, Tysa in the back to just going, your family sucks. We are going to roll an incredibly important saving throw
Starting point is 00:13:18 right now. As enmity points to Franz, and says, Come to the aid of your ally, House Helovar now. And it's going to cast Dominate Person on Franz Taconas. You guys are in the middle of...
Starting point is 00:13:43 Sorry. You guys are in the middle of some shit. Aranesa is right next to you, Tisha, still going, she goes, a dynamic and fluid situation. Um... I just heard, I'm like, you're my best friend. Yes, friend.
Starting point is 00:14:00 On a 13 or higher, Franz saves. Okay. This kind of... I'm trying to do bad. This kind of isn't good or bad for you. It's just different. Yeah. 13 or higher saves.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Now 20. All right. The Tacitus isn't rolling hot today. You see, as she's, I'll come to the air house, hell of far. You see that he looks, and you see that his skin wraps tight to his skull and his gums recede as he goes, he goes,
Starting point is 00:14:31 you have come to a world with death, chain spirit. And the heat, I don't like this bridge. I don't like it here. I want to go. The worst bridge ever. The worst bridge ever. I started recording this for TikTok, I guess.
Starting point is 00:14:46 World Star. World Star. The standard houses are going to be. That is crazy. That is what happens, and now PIN has just been inside. So I saw PIN appears there and I look at my breath and go, Brother, do you mean to stop me from leaving this place? He says, I mean to stop you from ever making a decision outside the bounds of your house again.
Starting point is 00:15:12 Octus spins his hand and the sigil appears in the air, like flat, horizontal, and sticks his hand up through it and his hand disappears through the sigil is green sigil in the air, at which point PIN's mouth opens and like a snake's mouth opens up and a skeletal version of Octus's arm shoots out of Pins mouth and grabs my brother's leg? I just couldn't, I forgot the word leg. Yeah. Grags his leg and tears at the muscle
Starting point is 00:15:41 and his like I'm casting chill touch through PIN. Hell. His foot hand. Cool, we know. I love this. That's so dope. It's an attack roll, correct? It's a attack roll.
Starting point is 00:15:51 That explains when I was like, What is going to be? What's his little puppy next to frog? That's 20 to hit. 20 is a hit. Okay. Hell yeah. And that's, where the fuck?
Starting point is 00:16:02 Come on. What is this dice that I need? There it is. Breathe, you got this. Terrible. That's two points of necrotic damage, but he can't regain hit points until the end of my next turn.
Starting point is 00:16:12 Okay, cool. All right. You deal two damage to Franz, as pin, your skeletal arm comes out grass and he hits that feeling of you, you can feel the necrotic energy flowing out through him. Octus, that is your end of your turn, any other actions?
Starting point is 00:16:30 I moved to this and, um, yeah. Oh, I have to roll initiative for PIN. Oh. 18 plus. Hall is at the bottom, but even behind me in addition. I mean, he technically, he goes right after Julian, I think it's 18, 19, 21.
Starting point is 00:16:50 Okay, so the next round, PIN will go earlier. Cool, cool. Yeah, that is the, end of my turn. End of your turn, great. Veilus, you are next in initiative. Okay. And then Tisha, you're on deck.
Starting point is 00:17:00 Cool. All right, so I'm gonna move forward. All right, you know what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, where you? Your long arms and your long. Oh, thank you. Where do you want to go? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:13 All right, so let's go, I'll go forward, 30 feet. Okay, so I see. Right here I am. Yeah. Really lean across that table. Just right up beside. Do you want to be in base to base with? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:24 Okay. Or one back. Maybe one back. Yeah, you have reached, don't you? Yeah. I'm not gonna go for her yet, but I just want to get closer. Okay, so seeing this exchange between Octus and Franz, my eyes are going to go dark.
Starting point is 00:17:47 Hell yeah. And I just point at Franz across the bridge, and I will let loose a guiding bolt. Hell yes. Go ahead and give me an attack roll. Okay. Oh, God, which one? I'm gonna do this one. I'm gonna do this one. I think this is the right one. Okay. 16 does not hit first. Fuck. Okay. Okay. That's alright. I know I shouldn't have rolled that.
Starting point is 00:18:17 I felt it when I was shaking it. Well, I hate when you're like, ah, come on. I should change it. Just your heart. That's gonna be weird. Franz raises a shield as the bolt scatters across this sort of enchanted steel of his shield. Any bonus actions from Phyllis? Yes, I will, as a bonus action.
Starting point is 00:18:52 You know what? I am going to shield of faith on Octus. I think that's actually another leveled spell. So we'll not be able to cast that in this moment. I'm sorry guys. I know. You're good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:04 I'm just, I'm not talking. That's all I can do. No. That is my turn. No worries. Guiding bolt erupts. And that is going to be Tysha. That is you.
Starting point is 00:19:20 Cool. I don't have to move to do what I want to do. Bonus action. Let's go fog cloud. Or no, that's action. Action, fog cloud. I'm gonna cast it. Action. What's the radius in that?
Starting point is 00:19:33 20 feet. 20 foot radius, hell yeah. Oh, damn it. I know. I put it on the far, like on the far bridge. You want to go here? Yeah. Just to mess with all the backup coming up there.
Starting point is 00:19:46 You cast that fog cloud and the main thing that happens is these bolista were about to go. There are massive bolista that are now firing into the dark. Oh yeah, I forgot you got that whole speaking about it. Yeah, Julian, you see you a Oh shit. Tartja? And I think all of the clouds that are off that bridge like pool up in like a reverse of how we see
Starting point is 00:20:12 sort of smoke pour over with gravity. And the like the fog itself just whispers to everyone back there, if you walk on this bridge, you will fall into nothing. Yeah. Goh. Hell yes. Go ahead give me intimidate. Oh, thanks.
Starting point is 00:20:30 As a spooky fog, natural funny. Yes! Yes! With these persuasions and the fog, Tisha, you stand there, your eyes are the last thing these soldiers see through the fog as you say that, like if you walk on the spirit, you will fall to your death. And you see Franz call out through the fog saying,
Starting point is 00:20:56 advance! And you see all the sort of guards back there go, Stand at the ready! They are not going to charge. I think, man, no one gets paid enough for that shit. I'm not walking in that fog. Yeah, you just submit a fog there looks like the sandstorm and the mummy with the big face.
Starting point is 00:21:16 My boss tells me fucking advance on shy hallooed or whatever. I'm not doing it. Okay, I'm fired. I'm fired. I get it. Okay, that's your action. Any bonus actions? You know what? No. No, it's okay. That's it. Okay, we'll hold back here. Erinessa beside you looks to the two druids walking behind you and looks and says,
Starting point is 00:21:42 we can't go back. Forward, we have to go forward. She's getting ready for her turn. As you finish your turn, you see that that, da-da-da. I feel like I should be able to cast Shaleli. on Hal's, on Holla's horns, but we'll talk about that later. Just be like, go, ram that guy.
Starting point is 00:22:09 We could talk about it later. I don't know why I imagine them when you catch Shalayae on the horns and then the antlers and they become like Tron weapons, they just go like, that makes sense? You see one of the, as Aaron says, we have to keep advancing.
Starting point is 00:22:26 One of the druids behind you looks at you and says, we must save the young Tricona He's your son. And cruelty appears. Yeah. And casts is going to cast a spelling you. We need a wisdom saving throw. Okay.
Starting point is 00:22:43 I do you think of that. Would you please replace the figure behind Hala with cruelty here? Is this the one? Other one actually. I was like, I know that outfit over. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:01 He's TVD. Incredible. What did we get for wisdom save? 26. P. Pruity. Say it with your face, you fucking nun. What?
Starting point is 00:23:10 Cruelty turns to you, her eyes glow bright red, as she says, after all, don't you owe it to him? And you can hear demonic cackling that would require a will tenfold weaker than yours to have any chance of succeeding in this moment. Okay. Is that, are you good? You came here to hurt my feelings.
Starting point is 00:23:39 All right, tight, hold there. And then just turn back around and go to the fight. The guards fan out with readied actions all over the bridge as, I can't believe, the amount of nap 20s you guys are rolling. It's crazy. You've been getting off pretty easy this campaign so far. We've been rolling like, is this a fuller hit?
Starting point is 00:24:02 Yeah, you see. We're making up for the soldier's table. Oh my God. I love there you guys. Ooh, a cross table fucking, fucking, I do like those like shots fired, like, suck it, soldier's table. Look, did you know your dice go to double digits?
Starting point is 00:24:16 Crazy. Oh, man. Oh, no. Oh, no. We are. Thimbo life. Thimbo, bra, bra, p, woo. Back's just exhaustive from carrying you.
Starting point is 00:24:28 We are, we are gonna get some, some disadvantage shots coming at you. Shoot arrows. Julian, an eight-foot arrow speeds past you about three feet off your right shoulder, smashing stone against the bridge behind you. At what size do we stop calling that an arrow? A bolt, if you prefer.
Starting point is 00:24:53 My God. And then another one's coming for enmity. Like someone through, like low-key through a tree at you. Yeah. An arrow. Both miss. But you see erupted. out of the fog, both of them like, who, dragging a little trail of fog out of the mist before you.
Starting point is 00:25:10 Boom! Is too bold. Tish. Ah. Bad bad. Bad. Uh, Aranesa looks behind at cruelty, looks, and looks at enmity in front of her, seeing, like, you see that she looks to you as cruelty is cackling at your thing. And Erinessa goes, was that a spell?
Starting point is 00:25:29 And you see cruelty goes, ah. It's a moment of, Ow. Ow. Oh, are we being a little cruel for you? Get out of here. I fucking love it. It was just bully her.
Starting point is 00:25:41 Erinessa, let's bully her. He's been the whole fight bullying a demon. Is it a bonus action? I think it is. I use my bonus section to bully. She is going to actually advance all the way down here on the other side of Vailas. And she is going to get behind
Starting point is 00:26:01 Julian in this moment. Da-da-da. Yeah, she's gonna get behind Julian and just go, Spirits of the Golden Orchard. We know not what has happened to our house, but what if our house remains here? Please give you a gift.
Starting point is 00:26:17 Golden butterflies surround you. Golden light, haste is cast on again. We're gonna be okay. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Hell yes. What? And then, rushing up.
Starting point is 00:26:34 You see, if you want to give me that last Druid there. No. Agony is going to rush forward. Oh, it's so cute. I see. Aw. It is cute. You're like the depressed one from the feelings. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Get out of here. Oh, I thought it was in like. If, if it's good. Or tell you. Yeah. Oh, I like painting. Oh, I like painting. Pain and Panic.
Starting point is 00:27:01 Great. Okay. Oh, if I. That was a pretty good start. Ah. It's 1986 and everyone's got a Bobcat gold plate. In the pocket. 1886.
Starting point is 00:27:16 What is Hala's armor class? Oh my god, dear, dear, 11. Probably. Okay. Hala takes seven plus 12 points of damage. Well, you only need the The last one, tight. Wait, how many hip-wits is how I have?
Starting point is 00:27:37 13. 13, gee, wow! Okay. And her upper class is 10 actually. Unbelievable. And is going to look forward. To look forward. Who did that? Was that agony?
Starting point is 00:27:56 That was agony. Agony rushes forward, takes out her claws. It goes, Sorry! And slashes across Hala's back. There's a massive thing of flesh goes off. You see that Hala bleats in pain as agony goes and does a noise for noise, totally sonic mimic
Starting point is 00:28:18 of the scream of pain as it comes out. That's cool. That's very cool. And she's going to look forward, and I think that she's actually going to target Aranesa. here. It is a that is a success
Starting point is 00:28:44 as a blinding bolt of just a crackling red lightning surges out from agony towards Aranesa and Aranesa withstands it. Very similar almost to what Emmettie was trying to do to you a moment before. That is Agony's turn. We are back at the top with Julian Davina.
Starting point is 00:29:03 Yes. So I'd say with, and Erinessa Vindis is speaking behind me that feel the rush of the haste within me. I likely at this instance, even though she just took a hit from agony, I'd say right now with the renewed fervor of this spell, my focus currently at the moment is between
Starting point is 00:29:23 this demon entity to the right of me and the Taconas across from us. Hmm. I would say the fog cloud's thick enough. Do I have any sort of visual range on? Would you have wanted Franz in the fog cloud or out of the fog cloud? Tisha, do you want, you want, do you want Fonz in the fog cloud or out of the floor?
Starting point is 00:29:48 I want him at the edge of it because I want Julian have a clean shot to whoop his ass. Cool. So it starts right behind. It's basically just the upper portion of the bridge is in constant. I'm just trying to isolate, isolate Fronds. So he has less of a chance of backup. Copy that. Okay. So I'm going to dash, I'm going to say I'm going to rush up
Starting point is 00:30:07 to the left-hand side. of where the bridge is, kind of leap up onto the edge of that beginning of the bridge to try and come down and knock, what was your brother's name again? Throns. Frons. To knock Franz towards the edge of the bridge. Cool. So I'm just gonna be taking a.
Starting point is 00:30:28 Shove attack? Shove attack on him. Okay, hell yeah. Do you want to move, what square do you want to knock him in? So I'm trying to knock him this way. This way, so I'm like leaping up onto that. PINN, pushing, leaping, kind of almost like a grab on the stone and then push off to try and shoulder slam him from the side this direction. Hell yeah. Go ahead, give me acrobatics.
Starting point is 00:30:52 With haste. See, is that advantage? No, it's just Dexas, right? I believe so. Correct, yeah. All right, so that would be still a... 19? 19. No problem. You vault on there and you can get the exact angle you want to push him five feet. basically in any direction you want.
Starting point is 00:31:12 This is now gonna be opposed athletics. Did shove change in 2024? No. Yeah, I don't know. Say it would say it again. Shove. Did shove change in 2024? No, I think it's the same. It's opposed to athletics, right?
Starting point is 00:31:26 Show. Or does it make you make a strength saving throw? Target, succeeds on a strength or dexterity saving throw. You know what? DC is eight plus the strength modifier and proficiency bonus of the person shoving. Eight plus strength. Oh, they did make that change.
Starting point is 00:31:39 They did make that change. Okay, gotcha. But you know what? I like a contest, so I want to roll a contest. So let's do that. What is your athletics? Shut up, internet. It's a plus four, I rolled an 18, so that'd be 22.
Starting point is 00:31:52 22. Nice. Even with his considerable strength, that is still only a 15 from Franz, is knocked five feet in this direction. Bam. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:08 All right. I think you're being weird. Bonus action, that's part of the, so the shove is technically part of the attack action. Yeah. Right? Bonus action, I will strike him with my demi-gontlet. I shove him with the shoulder. As soon as he's knocked off kilter back
Starting point is 00:32:22 and kind of push that kind of forward angle, I rush low and then backhand him upward with the gauntlet just as hard as I can. Hell yeah. Does he have advantage because pins there? Not flanking, if you're not, unfortunately. That would be an 18 to hit? 18 hits.
Starting point is 00:32:39 All right, so for that, he would take, it's eight points of bludgeoning damage as the Demingolitan strikes him up the side of the shoulder in the back of the head. Hell yeah. Eight points of damage, you said? Mm-hmm. And then I'm gonna go ahead and use my hasted additional action
Starting point is 00:32:55 to try and do another shove as I bring my foot up to try and kick him in the chest. Hell yeah, go for it. This is another contested or? Another contested. All right, it's gonna be 16. 16 succeeds. He shoved another five feet same direction.
Starting point is 00:33:09 Yeah. Boom. Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm gonna use movement to move right next to both him and the demon and enmity right there. So they're both kind of locked in combat with me in the moment. He's sending us a snack. You find Franz, Franz is like a two above you in birth order.
Starting point is 00:33:27 He is the sixth I believe. Sixth, I believe. Yes, he is. No, he's the fifth. Oh, the fifth. Oh, so he has three above you. He's above bathroom, Tim. So you are looking at Franz. you have never seen Franz get bodied like this.
Starting point is 00:33:43 Julian is up on the railing of the bridge, bam, into the back of him, kicking his knees out, kicking him forward again, slashing with the gauntlet, flurry of strikes and shove attacks. Is there anything else from Julian? I think at this point, as you kind of push forward and get closer to his face and be like, see how dear dad for me on the other side of the veil.
Starting point is 00:34:02 And that's him to the end of my turn. Let's go! Let's go! Free action. Okay. I'd be so pumped. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:34:17 This is going to be, but bupah, okay. Go ahead, I'm gonna get a wisdom save from Octus. Yes, PIN had a 21 initiative. Oh yes, actually then PIN goes first. Is just going to take the help action against France.
Starting point is 00:34:42 So that when my turn comes around. Great. Okay, so wisdom saving throw? Wisdom saving throw. DC is 15. 15. Wow. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:34:57 I thought you were gonna save it on a natural one. 13 plus two. Enmity turns to you and is basically says, phrase my lord, and is going to gets you with a whole person that you resist. Yeah, and I feel the spell passes. Can I make an Arcona check to identify the spell really quick? Yeah, go for it.
Starting point is 00:35:21 Can I take the feeling? Yeah. Ugh. Um, 15. 15, yes, you recognize this as a whole person. It washes over me and I go, I don't know if I'm technically qualified as a person anymore. I want to yell over it.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Was that a spell? Yeah. See, we're gonna dog these girls. Your demons are just eating shit out here. I am going to need, once again, I'm gonna need a Constitution save from, I need a Constitution save. First of all, Julian, you see enmity here.
Starting point is 00:36:06 The wound disappears on her body that you put there. And I'm gonna need another Constitution save from you. That'll be 15. You save once again. But you are going to take another seven points of fire damage. All righty. She is trying to boil your blood from inside you.
Starting point is 00:36:30 You see that she calls back, you see as she does that reaching at her claws. So it's you, Franz. You see Franz is looking to fight both of you as enmity turns back and says, Sisters, grab the young Lord, break the spell. What? Spell! And you see cruelty goes,
Starting point is 00:36:51 you made your point! Are you gonna cry? Oh my god, are you gonna cry? I wild shape into a mean girl. Yeah. Like a Jansport backpack. Oh, hell you. Just pulled out like a giant lip gloss.
Starting point is 00:37:12 Julie, your AC is currently 16. 16. Oh, gosh. Unbelievable. Who is this from? This is from Franz. Franz does have disadvantage on this first attack because of the sapping from the demigonglint.
Starting point is 00:37:25 Okay. Just the first attack. Just the first attack. That's with disadvantage. You see, get that disadvantage. Just at Reynolds wrap. Even with his bonus to hit here, he misses twice as he comes with this long sword.
Starting point is 00:37:44 You see you've been fighting heavily. armored opponents like this your whole life. This guy, this is, you understand why Taconas Knights armor up like this. They armor up like this to wade into seas of men at arms and basically be invincible. And he has sacrificed all of his speed and mobility to basically slaughter commoners.
Starting point is 00:38:07 And he is not used to fighting a trained warrior of your station. The first couple strikes kind of dodged to the side and then one comes towards the head. I just capture it with the demigotlet in my hand. spin it around, and as he withdraws, I just kind of let it fly back with a flourish of the cloak and put the blade up again. Um, uh, he, uh, uh, steps back from that Octus
Starting point is 00:38:26 that is going to be your turn. Okay, um, Octus, uh, okay, I'm right up against those two. And then, so I turn, I see, I hear agony and, uh, agony and who? Uh, the demons, cruelty, cruelty, cruelty, I'm nitty, got it. Yeah. Uh, I turn and look over my shoulder and see them
Starting point is 00:38:44 and then seeing, uh, pincered between the two of them. and turns around and looks at the two demons says, If you wanna get a hold to me, you're gonna have to go through it. And grabs the golden skeleton in his coat, draws a sigilent in the air and out of it comes this absolutely desiccated monitor lizard just out and just tears down over the bridge and is going to make an attack on agony. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:17 So that will, ba-b-ba-ba-ba. I want to make sure that that, let me read the spell really quick, see when they actually make the attack. If it's after, I think it acts directly after I do, but let me double check. Cool, cool. This monitor lizard surgeon forward.
Starting point is 00:39:33 Yeah, it takes its turn after me, so it's gonna move over and just be there and it'll take its turn after I do. Incredible. This is attacking the enmity in front of it. No, no, agony. Agony, right? So I drew it behind me to put it in front of them.
Starting point is 00:39:47 Great, awesome. Then using PIN's help action, I will then, I'm gonna go ahead and light up my hand in this kind of green sickly fire and just go, I'm sorry, Franz, are you having a hard time? And fire the fire at him. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:06 With advantage from the help action, ooh, that's going to be 24. That is a hit. Let's go. And it'll be, oh, much better, eight points of fire day. Hell yeah. There we go.
Starting point is 00:40:19 You see fire races across tearing all throughout the armor. Franz turns and says, Don't you serve? It is an honor to be born to this family! You never treated me as such. You see that he wheels back around. That is your... I move kind of back up here.
Starting point is 00:40:42 Hell yeah. My movement. At the end of my turn, then the critter will attack. will attack. Go for it. Which is... Where the hell is that? There it is. Okay, so it gets right now only one attack.
Starting point is 00:40:56 Is it flanking... Oh, does it count as being flanked with Tysha? It does. Great. So this is a rotting rend attack. So that's going to be... Oh, great. 19 plus... What is...
Starting point is 00:41:12 Where are we... Oh, my spell is. So 6. So 19 plus 6, I assume it hits. Absolutely. So that'll be 1D8. Let's go. Bail, it's here on the deck. Okay. So that's going to be eight points of necrotic damage,
Starting point is 00:41:26 and then it needs a Constitution Saving Throw equal to 14. Constitution Saving Throw? Yeah. That is a failure. It is poisoned. Fun. Incredible. What type of damage is this, by the name?
Starting point is 00:41:43 It's necrotic damage with, now has the poison condition. Very cool, because they have poison damage as a resistance, but eight, you said eight points of damage. As it just bites into, like, her thigh and just starts, like, writhing around, like, a monitor lizard doesn't tear meat from a bone. Yeah. You, this lizard surges for us.
Starting point is 00:42:04 You know that this is a dangerous, undead creature. You're anticipating its necrotic bite to also deliver this poison condition. You have seen this thing at work before, believe it's going to deliver a painful blow. As it bites agony, you see agony, he goes, As her fangs, like, distend and blood gurgles out of her throat. I can't tell if you like it.
Starting point is 00:42:28 I mean either. Cruelty says, don't lean into it. You see, I love those. I have to shout out Whitney Moore for giving me the most fun three characters to play of all time. Yes. Incredible. August, that is your turn. Valus, that is you. Okay. So, are you okay up there with them?
Starting point is 00:42:52 Maybe. I'm fine. Tisha's. Kill somebody. Yeah, do it. All right. I'm gonna unclick my sensor whip, and I would like to,
Starting point is 00:43:07 I would like to try and swing it around Franz's neck and yank him down. So let me just see if that hits first. You can lean into that. Come on. Come on. I bet he likes it. No!
Starting point is 00:43:23 It's 10. Oh. It's a fucking 10. It's a fucking 10. Plus what? That's all of it. You made it worse. That's all of it.
Starting point is 00:43:35 You take a swing with your weapon. All right, so you know what? But you have bonus action spells. I do. So I, in my frustration, just under my breath and I will shoot a holy word his way. Hell yeah. That's what I can do, so let's see if that goes.
Starting point is 00:43:55 You got it. I don't know if that does either. 14. 14 does not hit, I'm afraid. That was like 18, 4. Yeah, it really, it really. It was so close. Are you moving or staying put on the bridge where you are?
Starting point is 00:44:09 I will move closer to Octus. Okay. So. Moving up here, copy that. Geez, Octas, why do you get two months? I can't help it. I love that. That is going to be Tysha.
Starting point is 00:44:28 Great. I need to work. I have to, okay. I need to go to work, I'm believing. No, I was like, I don't want to get the fog cloud knocked out of me. So bonus action, we're gonna cast bark skin on ourselves. My AC's now, eight, or 17. And then for my action, let's go primal savagery.
Starting point is 00:44:48 Okay. And I'll attack with advantage because I've got Hala flanking. She's gonna give me the help action. Spell rocks. Popper boy out. Okay. 16-57, 23 to hit.
Starting point is 00:45:01 Acony? Yeah. Oh, yes, you hit on 23. Sweet. For five points of acid damage. I think Tisha turns in her hands. Yeah, she's got that red decorative, almost like Hena-like pattern going down,
Starting point is 00:45:16 but her fingertips are all black. but the very edges of her nails are tipped again in that like steel, that iron, and that's what grows longer. And she just turns and grabs agony by the throat and just leans and he goes, you can lean into this. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:33 Kind of hot. This is pretty hot. This is smiling a little bit. Just like a little bit. I love it. Just a little bit by the throat because you're like, that was loud. Let me just.
Starting point is 00:45:47 Amazing. That is going to be, that's Tisha, that is your turn, cruelty is going to go next. Wait, really quick. I heard them specifically, yeah, because I warned you guys that they think that you're, for whatever reason they think that you're WIC and tyranny. Oh, that's right.
Starting point is 00:46:11 Yeah, that's why they're here. Yeah. I don't know, this. Cool, yeah. I forgot. Then can, like, and the end of the end, in my turn is go, you realize that that's not the people. They're not in disguise.
Starting point is 00:46:24 Where's the lion man? The what? Where's the lion man? Do you see a lion man anywhere near here? Oh, yeah, that's why I'm asking where he is. Okay. But you can disguise yourself. Can you see other people's disguises?
Starting point is 00:46:44 No, that's why we're going to kill y'all, so the magic drops off. That's so stupid. You're so stupid! You're so stupid! Ah, demons. I like them so much. I do. I love it.
Starting point is 00:47:00 Let's make friends. Let's make friends. Cruelty is going to rush up to you, Tysha. No! You have not damaged cruelty, right? No. Cruelty has advantage on anyone that hasn't damaged her. Oh, but.
Starting point is 00:47:18 Because she's so fucking mean. I think I talked some shit. I think I did some psychic damage in her heart. Does it 21 hit Tisha? Yeah. Okay. But, but, blah, blah. Shit.
Starting point is 00:47:35 I literally roll three ones. I promise these demons are scary. They are actually. No, for sure they're super are. You take eight points of psychic damage and feel yourself cursed. She reaches up with her claws. and slashes across, going,
Starting point is 00:47:54 Oh, Miss Loy, you should never have taken sweet Wicander. He knows so little of the world. Why do you think, we've both met him. Do you think I would put up with him? You would be delighted by his company. Are you in love with him? Oh my God, you're so in love with him, it makes you look stupid.
Starting point is 00:48:15 Sam, I didn't consent to this. Damn it. You see. I love getting to send messages to other tables. Yeah, this is actually the best part of this. Sam doesn't watch the show, he'll never see. He'll never see. I'm going to need a dexterity saving throw
Starting point is 00:48:34 from everybody on the back bridge. So that's going to be Hala, Tisha, Bayless, and Octus, and the Monitor Lizard. All right, come on. Does the curse affect my role in this regard? The curse does not affect your role in this regard. I didn't need the help. If you, if you, you're unclear as to what the curse does.
Starting point is 00:48:59 Oh, damn. You can use me for flanking if ever you need any help for those roles. If I can maybe do anything? Yeah. Yeah. Solid idea. I'm just trying to find out. Thank you for so much. Thank you. It's got to happen. The next one. I know it is. It's going to be your moment. It's coming. It's going to be, whew. You're also, if you want any of my cheap plastic dice,
Starting point is 00:49:23 I'm happy to give them to you. It's always sad when I quit. Dex Salish. Dex saving throws, what do we got? Five. Myself is 21, and the monitor lizard is a 15. 15. What did Hala get? Holla got, uh, eight.
Starting point is 00:49:47 Okay, Tysha, in this moment, you take five points of damage and Hala takes two point of damages. Hala vanishes back into the wild. And as you see, a volley of crossbow bolts goes up from the guards firing over the Fog Cloud. On in the back. I rolled a nine. A nine. Oh, sweet. Fod Cloud stays. Great, Fod Cloud stays.
Starting point is 00:50:14 You take three points of damage. Got it. So we saved. We're good? You guys save, yeah. The arrows scatter around you. We're going to take, Julian, you are no longer standing in the same spot, which means there is no possibility
Starting point is 00:50:27 of the Belista hitting you. Enmitty is in the same spot. And so, oh my God. Disadvantage cancels out in Nat 20, but on a 17, Enmitty is hit with a Belista bolt. For, oh, Christ, that is 17. 17, 28 points of damage. That would have just killed me.
Starting point is 00:50:53 Watch out with the arrows. I'm in full health. Next to you, as you guys look at each other, you see, as you are talking at Franz, Ron's is looking at you, as you're like, see my father, and then he says, I don't know what this is about. Blam!
Starting point is 00:51:08 It gets hit by a Belista bolt, boom, into the side, takes 28 points of damage and stands up unbloodied. Incredible. Farns also looks, Franz is looking fucked up at this point, and both of you watch this demon take up a Belista bolt to the fucking chest and stand up as he turns to you and looks back at enmity.
Starting point is 00:51:34 From the bridge, Brother, I think we have bigger problems. Y'all are raggedy but resilient. Can we be friends? Be our allies. I've never seen the receiving of an attack be an intimidation check. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:52 I take the frightened condition because she got shish kemobbed and went, what? Um, Erinessa, seeing Hala vanish, whips back around, ta-t-t-ta-ta. No, I can't do that. Um, she is going to, uh... Oh, I know what she's gonna do. Um...
Starting point is 00:52:16 She, what is Erinessa gonna do? This is, as we've said, a dynamic combat. Aranesa is going to go. She knows that she can't drop the haste. She'll lock the boat, Arnaessa. She is going to, protect your save. D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D, she's gonna go. Five, 10, 15, 20,
Starting point is 00:52:48 2530 and hide behind the fog behind this corner here. And you see she's actually going to ready an action in that moment. She's got a ready to action. And that is going to be her turn. Agony is going to go. Agony is going to attack your monitor lizard. That is going to be a 22 to hit.
Starting point is 00:53:19 Yeah, there's a 3rd. 13 AC. And deals 16 points of damage. Yeah. Is the lizard still around? Oh yeah, it has 30 hit points. Okay, incredible. Oh, dang, it has one hit points than I do.
Starting point is 00:53:32 The fuck. As she, once again, we're doing out with her claws. The lizard. What kind of damage? What kind of damage? This is actually psychic damage. Okay, now we're fine. It's just immune to poison and necrotic,
Starting point is 00:53:45 so I was like, maybe it takes no damage. Deals psychic damage to it. And we are going to see if she recharges her ability, which you do not want to have happened to recharge us on a six. That's a one. She looks up at valis. Agony, you're dressed as a nun,
Starting point is 00:54:09 and Agony is right behind you. Agony looks up and says, it's not even a really good disguise. You still kind of look like you. Who? Huh? Huh? Huh?
Starting point is 00:54:20 What? Don't yell at me! We are going to move. The most confusing combat. I can't believe you're being bodied by the biggest dummies. Julian, back at the top of initiative, it is you. All right. Now this here, is this the cliff that goes? This cliff tumbles down.
Starting point is 00:54:40 Now, this is not the 200-foot drop, but even this water's spilling down here, by the time you're over here, it's like 80 feet straight down. Great. So even with the, the, the, the ballista experience there. I got one single focus at the moment. I'm gonna go ahead and kind of, after glancing over in the direction of,
Starting point is 00:55:00 was it enmity? Yes. Yes. Go ahead and focus back on your- It scared me. Back on your brother. And gonna go ahead and take the blade, go ahead and faint up towards his neck.
Starting point is 00:55:14 And as he goes to try and protect himself, I'm instead gonna go ahead and take the gauntlet and slam it into his stomach and try and push him back all the way to my body with another shove attack in this direction. The DC you are trying to beat here is 15. 15? That's a natural one.
Starting point is 00:55:28 Cool. He plants deep in the ground on that first attack. All right. So as soon as the gauntlet like slams into his chest armor, I'm gonna go ahead and spin around and kind of throw the cloak in his face. And then as it kind of catches there, I'm just gonna try and back into him
Starting point is 00:55:46 as hard as I can, kind of pushing backward. Hell yeah. DC here is only a six. Oh, that's a 20. 20. Right. Moves five feet back. Boom.
Starting point is 00:55:57 He is right at the edge. Ooh! All right. I saw my bonus action, but like, that's only a blade attack, right? If you're doing two weapons fighting. Yeah, so I will go ahead and move in here, just kind of keeping them both there.
Starting point is 00:56:13 I will say, hold on one second here. My apologies. As you push him to the edge of the cliff and are preparing to follow suit, Aranessa speaking in Sylvan says, Halt! To you, and her ready to action, Gust is going to go off. Yeah!
Starting point is 00:56:32 Oh, hell yeah. Let's go. Strength saving drill. Can I cast slippy ground? She sees the play and she's going to try to help out. All her other stuff is concentration, so she's down to just cantrip. She says that, I'm going to go ahead.
Starting point is 00:56:48 and just duck out of the way to give her a clean shot. And kind of like keeping right next to and midi on the edge of that bridge center there. So this is good. Her DC here is 14, and which means on an 11 or higher, Etherand saves. Sorry, Fronds. Oh, sorry.
Starting point is 00:57:11 On an 11 or higher, Franz saves. Don't do it. Ah! Stay's planted, boom. Try. Good try. That is going to be, okay, the rest of your turn. With that, would the gust pass him out,
Starting point is 00:57:26 just close the gap again to stay right between the two of them, keeping them engaged, and then use my bonus action to go ahead and take the gauntlet. I'm gonna say at this point, I'm gonna go ahead and spin around and try and rake it against the back of Enmitty's shoulder and head. Go for it. Just pin to the ground.
Starting point is 00:57:47 That's gonna be, ooh. 22 to hit. 22 is a hit. 22 is a hit. She takes seven points of bludgeoning damage. Boom, as the gauntlet thuds into her. Snarling once again. She's so mad.
Starting point is 00:58:04 Why is that angry? You've gotten her full attention now, Julian. Good. T-t-t-ta-ta. I's a peer girl. She liked it. I liked it. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:58:18 She is going to take a swing at you. First attack as disadvantage, because I hit her with the gauntlet. You just canceled out a natural 18. Love them. She does such cool stuff if she hits with this attack, but turning an 18 into a three doesn't do me any fucking favors. Oh no. So she-
Starting point is 00:58:38 Don't do me no fervors. It comes with the claw. You should not have meddled in the affairs of the creed. You impudent crate. I've been called worse. I'm so quibby today. She? That's her action.
Starting point is 00:58:57 We're gonna see if she recharge as a bonus action. Once again, recharges on a six. Don't. Nope. All right. Then that is going to be Frons. PIN at a 21. We'll just do the help action again. Oh, gotcha. Great.
Starting point is 00:59:15 Pins doing the help action for you here. Franz. is going, sees what is happening. And I think he likes his chances. He's going to move here for, he's going to move here for some shove attacks as well. I will need, he rolls a 19 on the dive for 22. Go ahead and give me the athletics check.
Starting point is 00:59:45 That's not good. That's gonna be a seven. No! He, this time, bodies you with a shield, moving you five feet. You are now at the cliff's edge. He's going to close in behind you here. Looks and says,
Starting point is 01:00:03 Not so easy to dance around, is it? And he's going to roll for his second attack, another shove attack. That is a 14. That is Nation 19, 423. Boom! Tries to knock you. You, I'm going 80 feet, 80 feet down, you hold off. He's got a shield, bha, and you move past him
Starting point is 01:00:26 inside of his range. This cliffside fucking duel. This is going to now be Octus, your turn. Okay, I assume the help action no longer applies because PIN is not next to him because he moved out of range, so I'm just gonna say that doesn't because he's nowhere near him. He's not helping anything.
Starting point is 01:00:45 No. He's doing a good job. He's doing a great job. Good boy. Okay. Lizard is there, you're there. Okay. Now, just to, I realize I'm standing out of frame.
Starting point is 01:01:01 Emnity is not pinned by the ballistic bolt. No, damaged by it, but not pinned. Okay, great. But we saw no blood. No, her blood did scatter on the ground behind her, but the wound from Julian's sword healed. Oh, that's right. Okay. I will say you see her partially start to heal
Starting point is 01:01:19 on her turn. Okay. I'm gonna take a step. I'm gonna move down to the base here. Just to move, because Oxus is clocking, that it takes time for the ballistas to aim, and if you keep moving, it's hard for them to track you. And then he's going to, no, pin.
Starting point is 01:01:37 They're blindfiring through the fall. They are, but if we're not in the position we once were anyway, it's better. Is pin is in base-to-base contact then? He is. Technically kind of like, okay, so then I do get the help action. then I will... I got this boy.
Starting point is 01:01:57 You got him? I need to take that on the Colossus. I know, I know, I know. Important to me. Let him have it. It's a thing. Yeah. So, okay, so what I'm gonna do then is...
Starting point is 01:02:08 Baysman floating. Ignoring the help action on them, I'm going to... Yeah. I think what I'm gonna do... Oh, oh! Yes! Octus runs up into base-to-base contact with enmity. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:26 going to chill touch and at Emidy. So running up behind Emity and is going to reach forward, a siguel appears and he reaches his hand through and it comes out the other side completely skeletal and grabs the back of Emity's neck and is gonna try and tear at her to prevent her from healing. Yeah, let's go.
Starting point is 01:02:43 That's huge. That is huge. Okay, that's going to be a 21 to hit. 21 hits. Yes, that's so good. Oh, great, that's going to be 10 points. Oh, great, that's going to be 10 points. of necrotic damage.
Starting point is 01:02:59 Woo! Right. And cannot regain hit points until the end of my next turn. Oh my God. That's great. I'm in danger now. No, probably not.
Starting point is 01:03:11 Incredible. That was funny or that was N-M-M-M-I. That's N-Mini. Okay. We're gonna do something really, we're gonna do something really important here too. Hold on one second. Okay, great.
Starting point is 01:03:22 I have no bonus action to do, and then I will move to have the lizard do its continuing to ravage agony. Yeah. I also need you to make a roll for me here. As you're not being dealing acrotic damage to enmity, I'm going to need either persuasion with intelligence
Starting point is 01:03:45 or charisma with arcana. Your choice. Charisma with arcana. That's fun. Okay, that would reduce it. Or, it was charisma with Arcana or... Intelligence with Persuasion. Which one's gonna be higher here?
Starting point is 01:04:09 It's the same either way. So I'll do the Arcana one. Here we go. Go ahead and roll this with advantage, if you be certain. Double 19th. Whoa! So that's, you are rolling insane.
Starting point is 01:04:23 It's crazy. 25. You rolled like three natural ones with my die before we started. I saw that. Described me. It was crazy. As Enmody is preparing to descend
Starting point is 01:04:34 alongside Franz on on Julian, describe for me what runs up as you run up behind her, essentially, what happens? So I run up behind and kind of slide over, right up behind her and kind of get to the point where I'm like almost side by side with her, but slightly behind. And as I reach through, my fingers become this skeletal hand,
Starting point is 01:04:54 which grab the back of their neck, but the fingers kind of start to like just pierce into the skin of the back of the neck, these skeletal fingers, and I go, and I just grab a handful and start pulling it out. She turns around and goes, Yeah! Looks at the necrotic damage, soaking through her body,
Starting point is 01:05:20 and goes, are you? Exactly what? She screams to the heavens. Stop screaming so much. She goes, which one of you is Wakanda? Hell of her. None of us are Wakanda. Who the fuck is Wakanda?
Starting point is 01:05:45 She is so furious in this moment, but looks and sees that an enormous gap in her theory has opened up as you have cast chill touch on her and she felt it. Did the necrotic damage look like it was, did it work? Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:06 The damage trip. Change a plan. Auntis, that is your turn. Anything else from you? No, but the monitor lizard will now make its attack. Hell yeah. Is it, it's so flanking? Seems like, red.
Starting point is 01:06:19 Yeah. Yeah. So advantage. There we go. Natural 20. Hell yes. I know, I'm sorry. That is crazy.
Starting point is 01:06:40 I'm just leaching it all from you. You're perfect. It's okay. You're sitting in the wrong chair, actually. It's all right. So double the roll of dice. Yes, double roll of dice. Not great.
Starting point is 01:06:53 So that's, oh, so six, no, yeah, so six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12 points of necrotic damage and has to, well, and are they, They're still poisoned. Yes, Agony is still poisoned. I guess they can make another DC constituency, but it doesn't matter if they're still poisoned. So 12 points of necrotic damage.
Starting point is 01:07:17 12 points of necrotic damage. Agony is shrieking in pain. It's just ripping at the thigh and just tearing with tears and teeth. Incredible. That is your action and bonus action. That is the end of my turn. Vailas, that is going to be you.
Starting point is 01:07:33 Okay. I'm just going to roll before I describe anything. I felt that fear before. Yeah, I'm just like, nope. You can't just say no. You can't to say no. That was a that was a four. You made him leave. Plus a six, which makes it a ten, which I don't think. I'm gonna hit anybody. You can also try and find someone to flank with. You can try and move into contention. Yeah, we're trying to do it. Yes, right? Move first. Move tactically first. I'm right there so you could get it.
Starting point is 01:08:07 Okay. Flanking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I get up there? Yeah, you have enough. You might get an attack of opportunity. Oh, that's great. Oh yeah, you are leaving, oh, yeah. You are leaving agony, so you will take an attack of opportunity. That's okay. Do it, who cares about her?
Starting point is 01:08:21 It's fine. So it can roll again? Yes, okay, okay, okay. 12? A 12 total. A 12 total. A 12 total. 12 total does not hit enmity, I'm not afraid.
Starting point is 01:08:41 All right. I'm just like walking around. like this. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. We've all had best combat. I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 01:08:54 You decided to go into reverie, like, write as initiative is rolled. Yeah, yeah. I'm just gonna sit on the stair and just wait till. Yeah, that's fair. I'm gonna pray. You know what?
Starting point is 01:09:05 You gotta check the augurs. You gotta wait for a bird to fly over something. You do also have lay on hands, which does not require any dice roll. at all for those in your party that have taken some damage. Okay. How are you doing?
Starting point is 01:09:18 I'm fine, I haven't been hit. Julian is damaged. I've been, that's a little bit, but, you know. But you still have some movement. I still have moved like that. I think you, yeah, you were like five, 10, 15, 20, 20, 20, no, you're 30, yeah. And then also I guess if Agony wants an attack of opportunity,
Starting point is 01:09:34 she gets it. Okay. Me, Julian, and Erin Nessa have all been hit if you want to catch someone. Okay. Let's do, yeah, let's do some lay on hands. I have a, you have, you have, you have to be within five feet, yeah. Okay, so I'm close, am I closest to you or you're,
Starting point is 01:09:53 you flipped? Yeah, we're flipped. Yeah, Julian's on the edge. Julian's on the edge. Julian's on the edge. Okay, but then I would have to move again. You could lay on hands on maybe. I know. I'm okay. I think, I think that's my turn.
Starting point is 01:10:09 Okay. I think that's. Tisha, that is going to be you. Fives, great. Now that this is clear. Here's my problem. I'm gonna ask you. Thunderwave? You think it'll knock them over?
Starting point is 01:10:23 I could knock them off. It might knock a few of us off. No, it won't hit you. I'm far enough away from you that I can't hear you. Right now it's just Tysha and this Mander loser with both demons up here on the bridge. You know what? No, I need the, I kind of need the health back.
Starting point is 01:10:40 Unfortunate. Let's go instead. I'm gonna burn one of my wild shapes to cast LansAid. So I need a DC-15 concept. Can save from both agony and enmity. DC-15-Con-on-on? Not enmity, agony and cruelty. Agony and cruelty.
Starting point is 01:10:53 Okay. Does this hit all things in that? Yeah, it's gonna hit your boy too. Okay, what kind of save? Cruelty makes it agony does not. Okay, agony is gonna take nine points. Nine points of necrotic damage and the one that made it makes, yeah, takes four.
Starting point is 01:11:12 What's the save? 15 con. 15 con. Oh, it's immune to my mind. It's not gonna happen. Nothing's gonna happen to it. Perfect. Great.
Starting point is 01:11:20 And I get back nine points of healing, which was the more important thing. That's great. Hell yeah, amazing. And then for my bonus action, I'll adrenaline rush, dash and take two bonus HP just to get the, I'm so tired of being up here.
Starting point is 01:11:33 I'm not enjoying my time. And with my movement, I can get pretty close to the fog clad actually. Yeah. Are they gonna get swipes on you? Sure. Yes, they will. Both of them will. Okay. What is your AC current? 17.
Starting point is 01:11:46 17. Miss from cruelty. We'll find out in a second, but I've rolled consades for all the damage I've taken. That is a hit from agony. Cool. You are going to take 15 points of psychic damage. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 01:12:05 Hold on, let me get my healing back really quick. Did they take their attacks of opportunity on me when I moved? Oh, Agony would have had an attack of opportunity on you Let me go ahead. That attack also would have hit your, was your armor class currently? 16.
Starting point is 01:12:23 Taisha. Yeah. Phylas, on your way out, you take 15 points. Golly! Got it. Tanking that from Tosh. You get your healing.
Starting point is 01:12:35 It is not erased by agony who has already swiped at Vailas on her way out. Copy. You make your way all the way to Aranesa's side. And also don't have to roll a concentration for that fog cloud that is still doing the old path's work up on that bridge. You get me a little closer.
Starting point is 01:12:51 Alex, lean. Oh, thanks. Move here. That's all I am a crane to you. That's my crane son, thank you. Hell yes. That is going to be anything else from Taisha. No, that's it.
Starting point is 01:13:07 Okay, great. Cruelty. You don't have to prove you're a good warrior. I don't. We believe you. This is true. Yeah. This is true.
Starting point is 01:13:17 16 points of damage to monitor lizard. It's dead. Cruelty looks at the lizard. As Tisha runs away, cruelty looks down at the lizard, says, do you get hurt? And rips its head off and looks in the back of its neck. It just kind of falls apart into like sort of green smoke and like wet flesh.
Starting point is 01:13:42 I just yell, ew. Just onto the ground. It's a good album title though. Cruelty, cruelty looks down to enmity, tosses the lizard head, says, unsatisfying. I like them so much. Me too. That is going to be the guards,
Starting point is 01:14:01 the guards pepper just cruelty and agony with a bunch of arrows from behind the fog cloud. Agony goes, gha, I'll make some saves for them. Cruelty calls out and says, Enmity, this bridge is back. And as Emily calls out and says, Find which of them are the Lord's Micanda and our sister? What the hell part of none of them are the people you're looking?
Starting point is 01:14:28 God, take a note. You see all of us get hit. You see. Do any of us seem particularly horny about the damage we're taking? We're not your sister. It's gonna be one more attack with unbelievable. Emity, you gotta move. Emity takes 28 points of damage.
Starting point is 01:14:55 Oh my God, do not get hit with these ballista. Oh my God. They hurt your whole body. It's all by HP every time. Enmity, you see, goes, now enmity is bloodied. This was, ah, and, and, and, and,
Starting point is 01:15:18 That is going to. So funny. It's the most stressful and funny comment. Aaron as it turns to you, Tysha. On her turn, on her turn, she is going to look at enmity and go, none of us are who you seek. None of us.
Starting point is 01:15:44 The Lord Wickander, I don't know where he is. If it's because we were at Fiazzi's funeral, many people were there, and we do not know what happened to all of them. I'm just Will Smith gesture. Yeah. You see she, da-da-da. I'm going to have Eric. You have already spoken to Emmidy.
Starting point is 01:16:13 You just had that very high persuasion here. So she is going to, she is going to roll, she's in a roll persuasion with advantage from you having that. Natural 18 on the die. And Erinessa, yeah, that's her action, is that persuasion.
Starting point is 01:16:38 And, enmity looks and says, fine, give us one thing we can take on our hunt. and we'll leave you B. As Agony is going to go here. Stop negotiating. Stop negotiating. Agony is going to just rush towards her sister
Starting point is 01:17:01 to get out of the firing of the arrows and rush down here. And I'm going to need Octus. Roll a luck check on a D20 for me. Oh. You don't want to get a one. He said, like he hasn't rolled a thousand twenties today. Hot table, hot table.
Starting point is 01:17:22 Hot table. One. No, not hot table. It's because you stared at me like that. It's because you put them near me. That's a different diet. That's why I didn't question. That was her fault. I did it.
Starting point is 01:17:34 Natural one. Not for one. Incredible. Octus. You can see Agony rushes up to enmity as it becomes clear to enmity at this moment as Aranesa speaks to her that they have tracked their They have been following the wrong whoree that Wicander is in fact not here. Agony rushes up beside her going,
Starting point is 01:17:53 Sister, I don't even know which one would be the Lion Man. And... None of us are the Lion Man, baby girl. And you see that Emma turns around. On a Nat one you hear in the distance, far in the nighttime sky, two plumes of black smoke rise from Castle, Clippin' Blick, twin energies racing up through the air in your direction.
Starting point is 01:18:23 We gotta go now. What I mean? We're in the middle of a fight. We have to leave. They're coming. Cool, what? There's a worse thing, not than the fight that we're in. My sisters are coming. Oh, sure.
Starting point is 01:18:38 Agony does not take a combat action. On whatever you did to enmity, agony delays her action getting out of the arrow of fire. Julian, it is your turn. Is my turn? Mm-hmm. Perfect. I hear what you're saying.
Starting point is 01:18:52 I don't even acknowledge you at this point. I'm just focused right now on the first semblance and vengeance I can get with my back kind of to the edge and all this chaos happening around. I glance forward, then duck low, then leap up and with my rapier hand, kind of clamber up onto the side of this edge of the rock, spinning down and getting low to try and knock him back
Starting point is 01:19:15 with my other backhand from beneath my shoulder. Hell yeah. Kind of giving up over onto this side. Hell yeah. That is a nine. That is a nine. That will be seven. I will use one of my second wins.
Starting point is 01:19:30 So he got a nine and you got a nine? Sorry, I got a seven. Seven, gotcha. And then I'm using one of my second wins to use tactical mind to add a D10 to it. Okay, that's gonna make it a 15 instead. So I go ahead and as I bring the gauntlet back, I slam my elbow into his stomach
Starting point is 01:19:49 and then push with all of my might to try and Stumble him back towards the cliff side. Incredible. Boom! He stumbles back towards the cliff. You see his back armored boot slide. His heel is over the edge of the cliff. Finish him. Him and Vailas.
Starting point is 01:20:07 I'm gonna go ahead and... I just very much make way. I'm just like... Go off key. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go ahead and take my cloak, my kind of half-click off the side. spin it in the gauntlet hand to obscure it for a moment.
Starting point is 01:20:25 Hold the rapier up to his head and say, I know you worship death. Let me do your favor and send you where you're supposed to be. And I'm gonna go ahead and thrust with the rapier towards him, but then right as it gets near his face, I'm just gonna go ahead and get low and grab him like around the torso and attempt to shove him off the side. Yeah!
Starting point is 01:20:45 The number you're trying to beat is a 12. That's a natural 17 for a 21. Woo! Boom! As he flies over the edge, go ahead and roll 8d6 damage for me. And also I'll say two, yes, go for it. Roll 8 to 8.6 damage? Do we have to do a go-fund me to get mad at the second set of dice?
Starting point is 01:21:14 One of the threesies, man. One at a time. All this dice are behind the screen. This is the biggest trod- 31 points. How many jokes can't make before you can't do the back anymore? How do you want to do this? Yeah!
Starting point is 01:21:31 So. How do you do-d-do-do-do-do this? Okay, here's what I'll say. After I like slam into his side and kind of lift him up off the air, he slips off the back and catches himself on the edge with his one hand on the edge of the cliff, like barely about five feet down.
Starting point is 01:21:54 And there was like the wind blowing past, my hair can have tossed to the side. I stepped down about four feet under the edge where the cliff is and just kind of looking down at him, one down. And I slowly clamp my foot onto his godleted hand and kick him off the edge. Missed water. You don't know if the impact with the water 80 feet below killed him, or if he had the privilege of drowning in that heavy armor at the bottom of the falls. Can you get a performance check? I just gotta know. I gotta know how hot that was.
Starting point is 01:22:34 I think at this point, like there's that cold moment of an exhale, something in him healed just the slightest. And when that like hint of a gleam of a tear in his left eye, he clicks back into the moment and then whisks back and says, I'm gonna put my hand down just the little bit that you were. Takes your hand and lifts up and kind of pulls up into you. Now we can go. And with this hasted movement,
Starting point is 01:23:05 is just going to go ahead and dart, I think at this point now, move that there. He still has 45 feet of movement. Oh my hell, let's go, Doc. We're going to dart up into the fog, just to the kind of edge there. 35, 45. 45 gets you basically within the fog up on the bridge here.
Starting point is 01:23:26 Great. Hell yeah. But you see the guards can all hear someone charging through the fog towards them. And that is your turn. We move forward in initiative. Enmidi looks up to see the same twisting plumes of black smoke coming through the sky towards the Hakvalin Brucka. I just look at her, why are you calling them?
Starting point is 01:24:01 She looks and says, I didn't. Gratis. You see that she looks at you standing here, Vailas, and says, What trouble are you all in in this place? Your house has turned against itself. I guess you'll have to figure that out. Not tonight.
Starting point is 01:24:33 Cash is form. And she is going to say, RONSYRONSYSYSYSY as she takes off into the night sky. You're so goddamn stupid. Octus, Emmidy vanishes. It is your turn. Okay. Let's snap my fingers and pins going to disappear.
Starting point is 01:25:02 And did, they haven't moved yet because they're still here. Okay. He's going to take off, which will give him an attack of opportunity from. Nobody. Oh, they would they left. You see, agony is there, but does not appear to be ready to take a swipe. Okay. So I'm going to move five, ten, fifteen to the edge. I kind of look over where my brother went down.
Starting point is 01:25:28 Just kind of have a, use my bonus action to take a minute. Use my bonus action to take a minute. Just looking for any signs of what happened to him. And if I can, this is, I'm gonna ask to use a cantrip in a way that it's not meant to, but I'm just curious. I want to use press digitation to on the rocks kind of leave a short, here lies Frons on the edge of the rock, right where he went. And then use the rest of my movement to dart after Julian. You leave that there.
Starting point is 01:26:18 Just moving rocks or like scratching it into the dust, like something leaving it there. Yeah. Yeah. This is very important. I'm going to need you to roll a D4 for me. I'm looking at you. Two.
Starting point is 01:26:38 One, you have rolled two. You look up in the sky and believe you may have two rounds. You may have, they will be here, not after the next time you go, but that next time you go after. that, they will arrive. Incredible. So I say it was like, we have to leave now.
Starting point is 01:26:57 Okay. That is, you dart onto the bridge. Do you use a dash action or no? Well, I use Presti Digitiation, which is my action and my bonus action too. Veilis, that is going to be you. All right, I'm going to stalk forward. Just start walking through the cloud.
Starting point is 01:27:15 10, 15, 20, 25. 30 feet to move. 30 feet to move. movement. And I'm going to shoot out a guiding bolt. Okay. Just to try it. Just to know back of Julian's head. Just to know I can. Yeah, you're in a fog cloud.
Starting point is 01:27:38 See if I see if I see it. You're in a fog cloud so you can have to roll that with disadvantage. You'll roll it with disadvantage if you're catching in the fog cloud. Oh yeah, that's right. What's the worst that could happen? If I backed up a little, if I don't go forward. Because the fog cloud's like right.
Starting point is 01:27:53 The entire bridge. The entire bridge. That entire. The other way you're gonna roll disavailable. I mean, you may as well. Up to you. Fuck it, who cares. Wild.
Starting point is 01:28:02 Okay, that's not bad. That's very bad. Okay. So I think that was a total of eight. Eight, gotcha. What the fuck? Guiding bolt, rockets out of the fog. I'll let you make an intimidation roll with that.
Starting point is 01:28:21 Okay. Come and give me an intimidation roll. That sounds fun. Mm-hmm. Can you use a different dye? I will. It's like a fog light. I'm gonna do this one.
Starting point is 01:28:29 Oh my god, that's exactly what it is. Well, it's a natural 20. Yeah! There we go! It was a warning shot. The whole time. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say on a Nat 20. What a dumb bitch!
Starting point is 01:28:44 On a Nat 20, intimidation check. You hear one of the guards, as they hear boots in the magic fogg that they were told they would die if they go. to go to, a guiding bolt shoots out of it, and you hear, ah, talk for Gamer! And the cards are fucking frightened. Tysha, that is your turn.
Starting point is 01:29:10 Is this still technically the Schoen Garden? No, you are out of the Schoen Garden. Okay, cool. All right, just didn't know how much like Druid Reyes I needed. More than 60 feet away from me? No, I can get there in movement and a dash. Cool, then I'm gonna use my other
Starting point is 01:29:31 for adrenaline rush. Cool. To get all the way to the one in the front, to erupt out of the cloud. 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. Yeah, you can get right here if you want. Yeah. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 01:29:50 Who's the guy in the front? What's his whole deal? Who that guy? What's that? I'm gonna say on a Nat 20 intimidation, you rush out of the fog to find that 100% of these guards have gone prone. have leapt out of the way,
Starting point is 01:30:06 scattered and in disarray, as you rush out. And they're all wearing Taconas. Tacitus and armor. Yeah, they all basically dove for cover as a projectile, magic projector, rocketed out of the fog at them. Tight.
Starting point is 01:30:24 Well, I wanted to do it, so I'm going to do it anyway. I'm just going to keep, like, because we still got guys in the ballista too. The guys in the ballista are readying to fire. Yeah. Neither were the line of sight on you. I'm having a great day. I could just kind of keep it pushing. While these men have been cowed by a sudden act of magic, on their turn, they will re-enter. Yeah, sure. Okay. Well then whichever one I'm closest to, I'm going to go ahead and put my boot on and use my Loy Staff to cast heat metal on a fully armored
Starting point is 01:31:02 Fuck, yes. Oh, brutal. Is that a save on his part? PC-15 con save. That is a failure. Go ahead and roll damage. It's not that much damage. That's so mean.
Starting point is 01:31:14 I look, if Julian wasn't like so focused on like, I need this for closure, I'm like, okay, that's therapy for you. 12 points of fire damage. You cook a man in his armor. And just look up at the other ones. They can't see me, so I'm sort of just doing this, to like the edge of the castle.
Starting point is 01:31:35 As you rush out and stand, as just, you guys can smell, smells like a barbecue. Yeah, and with that like barbecue and like heat and steam, the fog cloud dissipates, and I'm just gonna look at the rest of them and go, you're gonna wanna stay down. Yes.
Starting point is 01:31:59 Cool, that's me. Hell yes. Cruelty turns to look at the bridge, the fog cloud still standing there, turns around and goes, I told you we should have gone north, boom, and turns, and look, you see, Octus, you're about to run over the bridge
Starting point is 01:32:19 right before you fade into the mist. You see that she turns into you and goes, bye, and walks off off the bridge. Oh, she's gonna be so upset later. Every new decision is the worst decision they've ever made. He's great. Eriness is still behind there. Did she go?
Starting point is 01:32:42 Eriness's turn has not occurred. Okay, I just want to make sure we were leaving her behind. No, certainly. Okay. My sisters are gonna show up and be like, there he is. Oh my God, that's so fun. I'll just act as the Deconis boy.
Starting point is 01:32:58 No one will suspect in things. Oh, it's so good. Bum, bum, baum. Remembering, Octus. Yeah, demons cannot catch a break. Incredible. I really love that this combat is far from, this combat is actually showing the world
Starting point is 01:33:14 that tyranny is the most serious of of her siblings. Crazy. You, these guards are going to use to have them to stand up from prone, see you Tisha, and they're going to swing. Sure. They didn't stay down. I asked them to.
Starting point is 01:33:34 I asked you to stay down. What is your AC currently? Oh, 17. Okay. That is going to be. Octus, come tell your boys to stop. This is the amount of dice. I think I'm dead now. It's on my turn.
Starting point is 01:34:01 Yeah. I can't do shit. You take nine points of damage. Trust these two. The last one deals five points of damage to you. Okay. So 14 total? 14 totals. Still good, heat metal's still going.
Starting point is 01:34:22 But the fog spot has dropped now. Yeah, the fog cloud did drop. Oh, the fog cloud has dropped, gotcha. Okay, in that case, all of you guys can see this unfolding as the guards get up and try to, you see Tisha standing in the middle of five spearmen attacking as they, Hwa! Tisha, you move to the side quickly. and even standing here, this burning metal underneath you,
Starting point is 01:34:43 this aura of heat waves surrounds you, as many of the spears miss their finding on you in this moment. That was even with some of them rolling advantage for blanking. However, fog cloud dropping. Then I can see what's happening. Yeah. To a Tisha right now. Yes, you can.
Starting point is 01:35:04 Okay, and then I, I know it's not technically my turn in combat, but can I say something? Yes, you can. Okay. So, Octa's looking over the bench, seeing this, he goes, as the highest ranking member of the Chiconas house currently present, stand down. Okay. I'm going to ask for a persuasion check.
Starting point is 01:35:26 These Belista are aiming. They have yet to go. I'm going to ask for a persuasion check here. This is going to be a DC20, but I'll allow you to roll with advantage. Okay, natural 20. You got to be fucking kidding. Oh, my God. Alex.
Starting point is 01:35:44 I love you. Ash is. He did something to you. That's not, he did. He did something to you. We all know it, you can't say it right in. I felt like my life was being siphoned out before we started this game and now I know what it was.
Starting point is 01:35:58 As you say stand down, as the highest ranking member of the Taconas family stand down, you see the Belista turned to look at you One of the guards up here calls out, I'm gonna say, because these guys can't see you, line of sight over the bridge, you're calling to the Belista.
Starting point is 01:36:22 They say, my lord, all of these are your allies and companions. Yes. Agony looks at you and goes, thank you. Oh, shit, so I didn't realize she was still there. No, that's the funniest part. I just turn to go, ugh. You belong to us now. Is that how that works?
Starting point is 01:36:42 Unbelievable. That is going to go back to Erinessa. That's so fun. I'm not going to touch it. That's very pretty. Aranesa, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30. She's going to rush up here
Starting point is 01:37:03 and then take a readied action for when the way is cleared to dash again. Agony. is going to heal herself, rush over here and tumble off the side of the cliff. As she goes, I go, you owe me. Thank you. And that is going to be Julian's turn. All right, looking at the asked to stand down to the men with the spears who have been attacking Taish,
Starting point is 01:37:33 should look like they took the command. Only the Belista have. These other guards down here have not been interrupted. Then, they made their choice. I'm going to dart towards the ones that attacked Tysha and just rapidly, like, go into a full run, with the rapier to the side, and go and try and spear through the one that's first up there. Hell yeah, give me the attack roll.
Starting point is 01:37:55 That's going to be, it's caught. Natural one. I catch the stone and like, whoop! Oh, no! I turn into a tumble and make it look like, I meant to do that. But I'm going to go forth. That guy right there.
Starting point is 01:38:10 That's my, this is for the demigotment off the side of my hands. I just go ahead and just punch him in the head. That's gonna be a 22 to hit. 22 to hit, hell yes, 22 hits. That's gonna be eight points of bludgeoning damage. A point, bam, eight points of bludgeon damage to that guard, that is a hit. Or that he is still up. He is still up, no worries.
Starting point is 01:38:29 I will use my hasted action to then turn around with the rapier and then try and kind of shank him more or less in the abdomen. That's gonna be a 16 to hit. 16 hits. All right. He takes, that's gonna be 11 points of piercing damage. Abliterated. Running up, that first one,
Starting point is 01:38:51 just exposes his full abdomen inside and the length of the rapier to the basket hilt goes through his midsection as he collapses dead in that instant. All right, I will then, oh, sorry, that was the one by Taisha there. Oh, by Taisha there, gotcha. Yeah. And then I will. then dart up and around with the rest of my speed
Starting point is 01:39:11 to flank the one that's next to him, also on Tisha, on this side. Great. So kind of over to that point. Okay. To see if I can get the advantage from flanking on him. Cool. To then go and do an action surge and attack him another time. He will get an attack of opportunity on you for moving around.
Starting point is 01:39:29 I guess you can move, no, sorry. You can move through him. He's using a reach weapon, so he had five feet between him and Tysha, so you don't get an attack of opportunity. Okay. Great. with advantage on him, that would be 20. 20 hits. So with that I get the sneak attack
Starting point is 01:39:45 because I had advantage on the attack against him. That's gonna be 12 points of damage. Skeward, you rush through and, with the action surge, he is dropped. Both of those on that side of Tysha have been slain in this turn. The rest of my movement, I'm gonna go ahead and kind of step up right
Starting point is 01:40:09 alongside Tysha, like shoulder to shoulder, almost facing out the others with the blood on my rapier. I flick it off against the stone on the ground, and look, she said, stand down. This is feeling good. Hell yeah. That's my dirt. I'm going to like it.
Starting point is 01:40:24 Octus in the back goes, oh. Octus, it's going to be you. Okay, so. Fuck up, kid. He just full run and dashed towards the garrison there. 30, 30's here. Oh, full, and then dash as well. Dash, yeah.
Starting point is 01:40:40 you rush through the gate here. And as I run past the two of them, I just say, run, you idiots! Call me dumb one more time. As looks back at you with just the most fear you've ever seen on his face. Got it. Oh, the twins. Yeah. Incredible.
Starting point is 01:40:58 Seeing this, Erin Nessa is gonna use her ready to action to also just fall in right behind you rushing for the open gate. Incredible. That is going to be Vailas. Yes, I will start booking it out. Dash, all the things. 25.
Starting point is 01:41:22 Okay, you're in a full dash as well. No, full dash, yeah. All right, through the gate, bam. Unbelievable. And actually, you were the first one to make it all the way through the gate, sprinting off into the nose. Tisha, that's gonna be you. Sweet, is my guy in the armor being cooked?
Starting point is 01:41:40 Is he still alive? No, he's toast. Toast, literally. My bonus action. Boo! She's bred. Yeah, I'm gonna put my hand on your shoulder then and nudge you forward and cast cure wounds as I do so.
Starting point is 01:41:52 Oh, thank you. Yeah. I wish I'd roll better for you. 12 points. I'll take 12. Sweet, and then I'll book it. Time to go. Time to go. Time to go. Tisho. Bonus action, I cook a dead man in his armor. I said stay down.
Starting point is 01:42:08 Incredible. It's all greasy in there. It's like when you like, when you like re-hit the fly swatter, but like the dead fly's still in it, it just gives it a little luck. Yeah, just cooking that corpse. Oh. These men are gonna close on Julian.
Starting point is 01:42:24 Oh, shit. Ah, fuck. I will kill every Lasticonis bastard. Okay, no, okay, no. Sure, please. What is your AC, Julian? Tentany with haste, 18. There's only one hit for seven points of damage.
Starting point is 01:42:38 I'll take it. And only those. That's all you got. Hot but focus. I think you this all day. That is going to be Arenessa who Arenessa sprints through the gate going
Starting point is 01:42:58 Julian, run! As she moves after Tysha and Vailas. Nobody lets you stay and have fun. Oh, she fell from a huge height. She fell from a huge height. She fell from a huge height. Actually, I'm gonna say running through, because she's got a head start here.
Starting point is 01:43:17 What's the range on that? No, she doesn't have it. Okay. She's not the range. Julian, that is going to be you. All right. I'm going to attack the one that's closest to the exit. The one that's right there up to the edge.
Starting point is 01:43:34 So I kind of dart towards him with the rapier. Hell yeah. That's going to be a 17 to hit. That hits. him for 10 points of piercing damage? Badly injured. I'm gonna go and use my bonus action to use my gauntlet to grab him by the chin.
Starting point is 01:43:53 And the blade is still in him, I get close, draw the blade, pull it back, and then just jam the blade a second time in with him, just from a narrative standpoint. That'll be 21 to hit. 21 hits. Technically, I have advantage because I hit him with the rapier for the Vex.
Starting point is 01:44:11 So just to roll again for the hell. That's a natural one, so it's the same. So that would be seven points of bludgeoning damage. Boom! Toast. So he falls, I will use my hasted action to go ahead and strike the next guy in the order. That's a natural 20.
Starting point is 01:44:31 Hell, yeah. There it is. All right, so that's gonna be. Tulian, this is so cool, but we have to go. 12 points of piercing damage on that guy. I'm so down. You, once again, just like golden moths and butterflies composed of light as you just, the sword is flashing
Starting point is 01:44:51 faster than the eye can see. The blood sprays and scatters about. There's the one guy standing there and I hold the rapier up on him and say, I leave one to survive to go back to your patron and tell the house that the Venus will see them fall now. And then I'll use the rest of my hasted movement, which at this point would be,
Starting point is 01:45:13 50 feet or so to catch up with the rest of the trip. Whosh! You rush out past Octus. Octus, you're the last one left on this side of the gate. It is your turn. Okay. There's one guard left standing in the two in the Belista Towers.
Starting point is 01:45:32 I look at the one last guard as I'm like, I like pause by the door for a second and look at that last guard and just, and I just take off. You rush through the doors. as you see the shadows of the gate behind you, you hear. Is there a mechanism within there to close the gate? The gate is actually, there is.
Starting point is 01:45:59 There is a gate and a portcullis. You see that the gate is open, and there is also a rope holding the portcullis up. As I run by, can I use my action to undo the rope? You absolutely can. And so the portcullis comes down. The portcullis closes as, as we exit initiative just for fun.
Starting point is 01:46:29 Two twin sisters, manifest. I think it is cuties. Just out of line of sight, not being able to see over the bridge. Octus is your feet. You hear the faintness of someone casting, detect magic and noticing Franz's name written in stone.
Starting point is 01:46:50 As you see the up here, you guys racing into the shadows as fast as you can as you hear the Belista sort of like, the Belista operators up here. Oh yeah. Oh, no, no, no. Shoot them. Shoot them. As the Belista sort of archers calling down saying,
Starting point is 01:47:11 who goes? Who goes there? Shouting to the bridge, looking through the dark as these two women look at each other and hear footsteps racing into the dark. I am going to need in this moment a group stealth check from all of you. So 19 on the die for Aranesa. What do we get?
Starting point is 01:47:46 18. 18. 13. 19. Dirty 20. Oh, okay, let's go. I will note. Yes. Just keeping this honest.
Starting point is 01:47:55 Haste only lasts for a minute. When it drops, we're all on a full sprint. Suddenly you watch Julia and just like, fall to one knee and he's incapacitated for a run. I pick him up. Bailas, you shoulder Julian with one arm. Let's go. With a dirty 20, 19 and 18.
Starting point is 01:48:15 Sorry, 19 for me. 19 for you, 18. 18 for me. 19 is our median sort of role here. You guys rush into the dark as fast as you can, up the stone steps towards the Erie. Down below. as you see mist rise from a spell cast on that bridge
Starting point is 01:48:41 by the two twin sorceresses peering out into the darkness as your footsteps vanish into the city. That's all for this episode. Oh, nice. Let's go. The Mick of Time. Oh, I was like, okay, run. Run.
Starting point is 01:49:03 That was so stressful. That was so fun. Oh, God. Taconas is. Yeah. You really did. Well, one Taconas and a couple of Vassal House guys. Yeah, a couple of guys who knew the job
Starting point is 01:49:20 was dangerous when they took it and one guy who definitely deserved it. Oh my goodness. That was exemplary work. How frightening and also how deeply absurd. And as you guys, depart, we'll have to get back into seeing if your eagles await. Just to bear up there being like,
Starting point is 01:49:47 what, it took you so long? Everything all right? That took max a minute, stop. One of us had to pee. You're all good. I know, that was what, three or four rest. You had a couple rounds of sprinting top speed before the incapacation hit.
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