Critical Role - C2E139 Rebirth

Episode Date: May 27, 2021

The Mighty Nein prepare for an intense confrontation with their transformed former friend, but the Nonagon who awaits them above the streets of Cognouza is more powerful than any of them anticipated...Due 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/PsycomResourcesWatch Critical Role live Thursdays at 7pm PT on https://twitch.tv/criticalrole and https://youtube.com/criticalrole. To join our live and moderated community chat, please head over to our Twitch channel.

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To roll And welcome back. Nice try, everybody. SAM and LAURA And welcome back. Nice try, everybody. Sure. So, last we left off, the Mighty Nein had arrived at the living city of Cognouza, adrift for over a thousand years in the Astral Sea, as the Somnovem

and the thousands of minds that were melded due to the arrival in a terrifying psychic storm all those years ago, had slowly reformed into the chaotic essence of what is now that living city. Giving chase to Cree and Lucien as they both rocketed off to different directions on this rock you ended up choosing left

and followed the path of Kree upon searching you ended up encountering her in the subterranean semi-stone tunnels beneath the city and battled her catching her entirely off guard as two of you managed to journey into the threshold vault beyond

and begin to keep it from being pulled into the city itself, thus temporarily thwarting the Tomb-Taker's plan. The rest of you slaughtered Kree, and in her dying breaths, you heard those of you who were currently connected to the Somnovem through the eyes upon your body, heard Kree mentally reach out to Lucien for aid, and Lucien aided, in a way, by transforming Cree into a terrifying flesh horror. Flickering elements of the pattern

seem to visibly appear upon this creature's body, and some of you, upon peering into it, could not withstand the will of the Somnathum and grew eyes yourself. As you reconvened, you all aided Jester and Caleb in tearing free one of these two threshold crests and sending it into a distant plane, seemingly fording the long-form plan

of Lucene and the Tomb Takers. We won. There you went searching for the spirit of Yussa. But regard, utilizing the gifts of the Somnathum, expanded your consciousness into the city of Cognouza itself and using the network of minds in this place, you were able to successfully locate where Yussa's spirit was currently being bound.

All of you together took flight across the astral sky above the city, arriving and freeing Yussa of his prison here on the city, sending him back to his physical body back in Exandria. Feeling the success still vibrating within you, you decided to go ahead and consider willing yourself a tunnel within the city

to lead you to the Aether Crux, this location where it seemed the Somnovem's heart resided beneath the surface. You followed this tunnel downward and came into this massive chamber. Here in the center of this space, You followed this tunnel downward and came into this massive chamber. Here in the center of this space, amongst the areas of broken stone, echoes of cityscapes and roiling skin,

you saw in the center a massive fleshy structure where you saw nine egg-like entities merged in the center, the core of the Somnovem, the Aether Crux. There, all of the varying scattered personalities, these nine long, shredded philosophers combined and spoke to you as the true singular sub-novem. As you discussed things back and forth, asked questions, received answers,

and are left with more questions, you weren't the only ones to have entered the chamber. As you noticed across the way, Lucien had approached from the opposite side of this massive room and apparently came prepared with the next wave of his long, cracked plan as a cluster of intuit charges seemed at the ready,

linked to detonate at a whim. Lucien then offered the opportunity to run, for you'd already played your part in distracting the Somnovem enough to allow this moment to transpire. In a brief instant, Jester summoned a massive earthquake here in the center that began to rip and sunder elements of the flesh and stone.

Parts of the room begin to collapse as you hear Lucien laughing and laughing, the rest of you running back in the cavern where you came and hoping that you were far enough away, saw the residual flashes of the detonations of multiple Inuit charges behind you. Inuit charges, you did this to me. As you all lie scattered

on the floor of this cavern, heavily breathing, still processing what had just transpired and what's about to transpire, you return to the game. So, we had a brief discussion for you, Caduceus. You asked me about whether or not you would know if such blasts of this would even bother you.

Intuit charge would be protected by an 8th-level anti-magic spell. So I said, well, let's go ahead and roll an arcana check for Caduceus to see if you would have known whether or not. Go ahead and roll for me. No. What'd you roll?

I rolled a three, which brings it down to two. Obviously, it would help. Obviously, it would have helped. Cool. You did burn your eighth level. Yeah, I did. It's still up. But for 10 minutes, or nine minutes and 54 seconds. An hour. Oh, it's an hour. I thought it was 10.

I'm sorry. There you go. Yeah. An hour? What are we pretending against? Pretty much, I have a 10-foot sphere around me that magic cannot penetrate. Amazing. And you also can't cast within it.

No, but if you have a projectile weapon that's magical, that will leave and be magical when it leaves. Well. Yeah. At the moment, you're all hearing the distant, slowly dissipating rumble of the subterranean earthquake that Jester had summoned beneath.

What would you like to do? What can we see? Where are we? You're further back up the tunnel where you had first entered, that Beauregard had manifested here. And if we look back from whence we just ran, just darkness, smoke.

There's no definitive light source down there. There is a faint subdermal glow in places, almost like when a flashlight is held behind your hand, just a faint, deep reddish glow in sections. But beyond that, it is shadow and darkness. Those of you with the darkvision, if you would like to go ahead and make a perception check. Sure.

Disadvantage, because you are quite a ways away. Damn it, that was close. Why? Why disadvantage? It was so good. Because of the eyeballs. Two natural 20s. Shit! No shit! Wait, are we ready or not? Wowzers. Wow. Wow!

Could have saved that for later. Wow. A dirty 20 for me. Look at those. Dirty 20, nice, okay. Nothing. All righty. 17. Just turned forward, picking yourselves up a bit and glancing down,

you can see where the tunnel curves upward towards the chamber, elements of the stone structures that were beginning to strangely present themselves out of the flesh walls of the entrance have fallen inward and you can see bits of dust dissipating from within. You hear shifting.

And listening and glancing down below, you take a few steps and look beyond and you see that similar glow of the Somnovem's arrival, but it is spastic and continuously flashing, heavily, heavily wounded. And looking within the chamber itself, the chamber is shredded in many places from what you have accomplished.

You also hear, because you rolled so high, Fjord specifically, you hear Lucien's voice just go, Oh, unexpected, but still, you need a little time to heal. I've always wanted to be a butterfly anyway. Come. And you see the shapes that have been torn

from the central portion of the chamber begin to lift out of sight, almost like they're being carried by invisible arms deeper within the chamber. Away from us. From where you ran from. Yeah. I know I don't see it, but you're describing the orbs that were pulsing and communicating with us.

Correct. How big are those? About? Like a basketball? Each one of those was about four or five feet in diameter. Oh, they were big. Human eggs. Yeah, they were rather large and there were nine of them all clustered within the center of this massive sinewy column

that marked the center of this aorta-like chamber. Is he using telekinesis on this shit? We're just willing it into existence. Yeah. So he said he's going to heal? From what you did. I think you slowed him down. Should we go in and attack?

I don't, we don't know what we're attacking. I thought we might be fighting more than just him, and now it seems like it's him with a bigger... I don't know. I mean, yeah, it still feels like it is more than him, but him and then some? Yeah. He knows what he's doing here. We don't.

He can't leave. You've made sure of that. Feels like we should try and take a moment to, I don't know. Well, our options are to charge in right now. Right. And start. Or we try to compose ourselves, marshal what forces we have, and if he interrupts us, we're with the first option anyway.

So we might as well try to, we are not leaving. We see this through. I agree. You're right. But he could be disappearing in this big city. He could be gone. I mean, he could hide in the city and it could take us days to find him.

We could just ask the city to lead us to him. The city's dead, he just killed it. I don't know if he did. That's a... Because he's lead us to him. The city's dead, he just killed it. I don't know if he did. That's a... I still saw the flashes. They're still alive. Well, we should talk to them. Maybe some of them. Yeah, he may be dictating

who's in charge of the city now, though. Yeah, vulnerable. Maybe some of them are hiding. Instead of nine. I can send a message to one of them. Just one. That's also a pretty good idea. If I sent a message and it wasn't through the eyeballs, maybe he wouldn't be able to hear it.

Maybe. Also consider that he could have had us killed many times by now. Yeah. So why is that? Why are we still alive? Yes, yes. He mentioned that. He could have done it

the moment he walked in. Well, and then every moment traveling the tundra together, he could have done it so many times. Why is he keeping them? I mean, he obviously tried to take them. Why is he keeping them? Why isn't he killing us?

Yeah, are those a vessel? Do they need to be replaced with what? Well, if he's replacing one of them, that leaves eight more. Are we the paste to make a sandwich? But all of his rhetoric was about him not needing the rest of them. It was all about him absorbing all of it

and just becoming the soul song of them. Maybe we need. Should we eat a hero's fist while we're talking about this? Yes, we should. Do you think it's stupid to set up a hero's fist while we're talking about this? Yes, we should. Do you think it's stupid to set up a hero's fist right here in this tunnel? It's not stupid.

I mean, it's not stupid, but he'll be getting an hour away from us. Yeah. Well, let's take a look maybe in there and see what's going. I don't necessarily... Why would he run? Yeah, he's not going to leave this city.

This is his domain. Ask him, one of you two. Just ask him. Ask him what are you doing? Where are you going? Sure. What now? What is it that you said you heard? Did we all hear him talk?

I relayed. You all heard him talk. I relayed whatever, okay, yeah. Well, you all heard him talk, but previously, you're the one who picked up him just muttering to himself. I'll relay the muttering. About being a butterfly? That is what you said.

Entering a cocoon and coming out. Right, a new. Right, you remember when I did the tarot reading and I said that he had to die in order to be reborn? Oh yeah. Maybe he has to lose his physical form in order to become the leader of the Somnovem or something. I mean, yeah, I don't think he came here to

surf into the world on this city. Want to go into the room? What if Lucien leaves the body? What if Lucien leaves the body and Molly's left there? What? Well, Molly is a part of Lucien. We would have to physically, if we would have to pull them apart, yeah.

But Molly died. But there's still pieces of him. This is an intense conversation that some chicken satay would go really great with right now. Holy shit, you know what I mean? So good. Yeah. A little veggie. I seriously, I could just set up a meal

we could just discuss, you know? Because we're going to talk anyway, let's be honest. And Heroes' Feast lasts for? 24 hours. I mean, let's do it. Let's do it. 24 human hours? What? Do we want to take a quick look in the room

just to see what's happening? Which room? The room we were just in that exploded. I think I should just set up the Heroes' Feast. If you want to look, it takes me 10 minutes. Yeah, yeah, of course. I'll go with you. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'll go in. If you want to look, it takes me 10 minutes. Yeah, yeah. I'll go with you. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'll go in.

If you guys want to take this an hour, that's a big if. Do you guys want to take an hour to eat? We can start and then start setting up. It's either here or on the surface. Is this going to collapse when he leaves? This room that we're down in the guts of? No, we've thought about it.

This is our room. I don't know. We think. It's sibling- Unless he controls the body now, and he can just, you know. That's the entire. Poop us out. He can poop us out whenever.

Yeah. It's the entire city. I mean, he could collapse two buildings on us. If he could shrink this tunnel, he could throw a gazebo on top of it. I'm setting up the Heroes' Feast. Okay, go for it. All right, so setting up the Heroes' Feast, you two are going to the previous three?

Three of us are just going to take a quick look since we're not too far away. Okay, are you proceeding stealthily? Yes. I would like all three of you to roll stealth checks, please. No, I can't. You can't? I was going to add a, nope, I'm not stealthy at all.

Natural one. Ugh. Nice. 28 already. Okay. I'm staying. 22. 22, okay. Echo, echo, echo. So the three of you begin to carefully,

for the most part, make your way towards the central chamber. And as you do, you can see now, when you had first walked in, there were odd semi-structures that were forming out of the ground and the walls that many have fallen and broken. And you could see these wide fissures in the ground, almost like split bratwurst

or severe muscle damage, just like areas where it just broke open. And it is a very wounded interior. Not to mention that this massive column of ligaments and tissue is mostly pulled down. But the first thing you notice is it is all slowly pulling back together. The chamber is healing itself.

Also, looking up in the ceiling where the tethers were originally attached, instead of it being this convex attachment at the bottom, it is now a concave path upward where you can see the faint last glows of the Somnovem Spheres as they are pulled upward and it closes behind them.

Top side. Do we see Lucien? You did not see Lucien. Is the throne still there? The throne is not there anymore. It was all about a chair. Poises. Okay, let's...

And do they look to be alive still? You saw the faintest bit of the glow receding beyond your vision. You didn't even see them. You just saw the glow in the upward tunnel as it closes. I'm all for the feast, but don't we need to track where they go?

Yeah, the ceiling just closed up. This is a 6th-level spell. Don't we need to track where they go? The ceiling just closed up. This is a six-level spell. I'm already making it. You guys don't want to eat this now. We're going to eat. You're just fucking me over. Is that what you want? You want that spell? I don't want to fuck you over.

I just made a meal for you. You don't want to eat it? I don't want to waste your cooking. I made you chicken satay. You said you wanted chicken satay. I did want chicken satay. You said you wanted chicken satay. I did want chicken satay. I like it. Actually, do we have a menu instead of chicken satay?

You can have anything you want, Fjord. Really? I will have apple tarts. Apple tarts it is. That sounds incredible. I wouldn't mind some pineapple fried rice. Pineapple fried rice in front of you, Fjord. This is our last meal. Make it good.

You mean our Heroes' Feast? Yeah. I have not tried pineapple fried rice. I will have some as well. Oh yes, and next to that, I have a big bowl of, what's your favorite type of soup, Essek? I'm not much of a soup person. I thought you said you like soup!

What's that soup for you, Essek? Stew, stew? Was it stew? I'm not much of a soup person. I thought you said you love soups! You, Essek. Stew, stew? Was it stew? I don't know why I had to say that three times. Is it stew, stew? Is it stew? You know what I'm going to put in front of you, Essek, in addition to pineapple fried rice? I think this actually would be pretty nice together.

I'm going to do a really homemade grilled cheese sandwich. You know, the kind that Mom makes with Kraft cheese. Not like any of that gourmet shit, straight up. Are you Essek? My mother has never made Kraft cheese. But I'm telling you, this is what it's going to be, and you're going to love it. And next to it is a big... He's an imposter!

Insight check. Make an insight check. 19 plus six! 25! 25. Essek was making a joke. Ah. A big bowl of tomato soup to dip your grilled cheese in. It's the most comforting of the comfort foods, Essek,

and I think you're really going to like it before we all die. Until the heartburn. I trust your aesthetic, Jester. I'll actually take one of those as well. Was there cheese in Rosohna? What? Yes, there was cheese.

Inside check! Go for it. I'm also going to have grilled cheese and tomato soup if anybody else wants that. Sure. I would like to try a bite, but may I have just a full stack of pancakes? Pancakes it is.

Bug pancakes or just regular? And then next to it, I can do a big, hot thing of maple syrup and a big heaping thing of butter and whipped cream and all the berries you can put on top of it and some fried bugs because the crunch will be really good. Okay. I would also like some green beans.

Green beans for the Caleb. I'll have some of that. Green beans for the Caduceus. I mean, I'm having the grilled cheese too, but. Yeah. Yeah, it was just a lot. Offset it. Yeah, everyone gets that. Green beans for last meal? You need roughage in your last meal.

That's very fair. Beau, can you make the wall move while we wait? That was your last meal? You need roughage in your last meal. That's very fair. Beau, can you make the wall move while we wait? You know, just because it seems like the car battery has been removed. Make the wall move? Do we want to do it now or wait till later, just not to experiment and accidentally eyeball? She did it in like five seconds.

Yes, but when we tried, it could be that Beauregard is just more adept at messing with the city, but I got an additional eye. I'm really good at meditating. Oh, I forgot that part. Yeah, let's wait till we really need it. Nothing happened to me. Don't do it, Beau, don't do it, Beau.

My theory is he's the king of the castle now. He can be anywhere he wants to be. Yeah. So there is no he wants to be. Yeah. So there is no safe place. That's fair. I drop my anti-magic spell. Do you think now I could attune back to my gloves? Yeah, if you step towards it,

the whole meal will disappear. I think so. I think so. It would stay, but not well. It's complicated. I had to read up how it worked. It would be very weird. I think so. We're talking about if we could

unattune from our necklaces now and attune back to another item. You have? I think he wants us to come. You have a short rest you're taking, so if you're going to change any attunements, now would be the time to do it. But then he could see where we are. He can already see where we are.

We don't know that. Has he ever made any indication that he knows where we are? Yes. Now the city. When? I think he can feel us stepping on his arteries. In his flesh tunnels. I'm also giving us some cinnamon bear claws, because that's a specialty from my hometown.

I think you'll all enjoy it. Doesn't the blood magic, when he imbues his scimitars with it, doesn't it make terrible fire and shit like that? We have a ring of fire resistance. Should somebody attune to that? I was suggesting you. She's already resistant.

Oh no, you are resistant to cold. That's right, because you're going to. Let me see what my equipment is. If anyone has something around, I could use a third object then, because I don't have any. I don't know. What kind of whatever?

Let's see. Are you going to wear your own ring that you used this whole time, you poor buddy? You don't want to wear the ring of fire resistance, Fjord? I'd rather you wear it. Fjord. Yeah. It's so expensive.

Anybody else got something fancy they don't want to use? Oh, that I don't want to use? I'm going to wait till the hour is almost up, but when we're at the two minute mark, I'm going to burn two pearls and cast Fortune's Favor on both Beauregard and myself. Oh, sick! You still have the iron stone, yes?

Jester has that. It's whizzing around her head. Nice. Yeah. I mean, I know I can see it. Just used to it. Thought it was a bee. I have a Celebone. Essek is also going to burn three pearls

and do Fortune's Favor on himself. And who else could use it? All of us. Yeah. Wait, use what? Fortune's Favor. It's what, a reroll one time? It's essentially, yeah. I'm here for the clerics, or at least one of them. Yeah, give it to the, we protect you, you protect us.

All right, and he steps forward as you're all finishing. He has one bit of soaked bread in his hand as he's chewing it. Puts the pearl up to your forehead. And as he closes his eyes, you watch as the white pearl goes dark and then dis-apparates into a black smoke-like material that then is drawn and conduus' forehead and vanishes.

Jester, free you as well? Oh, sure, if you're offering. Goes ahead and does the same, and you now have a mote of possibility. Thank you, Essek. I, do you have an extra? I do. Well, I have a Ring of Protection,

which is a plus one bonus to AC. That's great. Yeah. Are you not using that? I'm not, because I have my Coat of the Crest on. What? I might take that if you're not doing anything with it.

Yeah. Fjord also has an open attunement slot. I have an open attunement slot as well. I'm not unattuning from my Nikolas. Nikolas! I have the Wand of Fear, but he's immune to fear, so. That's pretty useless. Pretty useless.

While we're having this feast, are the hallways or room changing? Are there sounds? Is the color shifting at all? Make a perception check. You still have that wind fan. Yeah. Pop it in. Looking in a quidditch. Dirty 20.

Nice. Just make sure. As the meal goes on, and it takes an hour to finish this meal, in the latter remaining 15 or so minutes, you begin to pick up faint pulses throughout the hallway. The hallway? Very faint color pulses,

like a very, that sub-dermal light, that faint red, you see it traveling down the tunnel. Down the direction we came to get to this room? Down towards that central chamber where you last saw Lucien. What is that? Well, remember, there are other tunnels, I pointed out,

and there are other tunnels that lead from the room that we're in out the other way, the way Lucien came in. Should we go check it out when we're done? If there's another one of those, I think there were a few tunnels and one of them has that light traveling through it. It's an invitation at the very least. I want Artagan, Artagan,

to eat some of the feast as well. Sprinkle will be eating. Okay, so Sprinkle currently comes out. Sprinkle eats a bit, finishes, and then, Well, I'm not going to leave you to do this by yourself. We'll both be here for you, won't we, boy? You see a momentary frustrated face on this weasel. Dirt of the birds.

Where do I go when he controls me? That is weird. Sprinkles like, you hypocrite, save me! Question about the Heroes' Feast. Do you roll the additional? I roll. I roll the D. Now, before that spell finishes.

It makes it that much more tragic. Yeah. It's just, I have no control. Before that finishes, you see Essek stand up and putting his hands out in front of him, he begins to draw, with the same trace of dunamantic energy, that clock-like face. You watch as he grabs it to spin it up,

and right at the moment, you've seen the spell cast before, at the moment where it clicks, he closes it into a singular, small bead of rapidly gyrating energy, similar to the one that he handed you before, and goes, and if you was able to initiate this within the next hour, who would make most use of it?

What does it do again? I forget. It allows you to use the haste spell. Oh! Trepped in advance. Oh shit. Oh shit. Barbarians are dumb when they're hasted. Barbarians or monks, either one, but yeah. I'd honestly go barbarian,

because I already got a decent amount of attacks, but you would get another one. Yeah. Oh my god. And you're not stunning anybody in this fight. Wait, in an hour, though? Don't we have to eat for an hour? We've already been eating for an hour. He's waited till the very end.

It's towards the end of that hour. It's a food montage, Sam. Oh, I love those. Step up. I know. Yeah? For you, Yasha. Okay. Oh, I love those. Step up. I know. Yeah. For you, Yasha. Okay. Unleash the beast.

Be careful. It can be destroyed. So keep it safe. I'll keep it secret as well. Do I just? Hey! I rolled an eight and a nine! You eat it like a jawbreaker. For your hit points? Yeah!

Don't do that! He's like, no! So that's 18. That's 17. 17? 17 additional hit points. Those are temporary hit points. Temporary hit points.

How many? Well, they're not temporary. They're an addition to your max, so you can heal back up to that maximum. Oh. For 24 hours, we get 17 more hit points. I'm above 100. Aw. I 24 hours, we get 17 more hit points. I'm above 100. Aw.

I told you, you'd do it. Go be a butterfly with Lucien. For one hour. I don't know how to put that in. I'm putting him in his temp. Yeah, me too. You click on your max hit points, and then bottom left-hand corner, it's add extra. There's extra HP. Oh, override max.

Does it work on the temp HP as well? Override max. Yeah, you don't need the. You can put it in as temp, but then just keep track of it, I guess. That's what I'm going to do. I like seeing my max be much higher. Nope, that's not the thing. Okay. Nice.

So yeah, you click on the max, point on the hip point, and then override the bottom left. So 17 HP, and then we have advantage. I should have told you that. Unwiz saves. No Frightened, no Poison. Those meteors? No Fright. Two campaigns in a row.

No Poison. That was the worst. Immune to... The fuck? Meteor of Mortar Shot! All right. No poison. That was the worst. Immune to... I'm not the fucking leader of Mordor, so I... All right. All right. Okay. Cool.

Immunity to poison. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. As you wind down, getting closer to the end of the meal and the hour rest, is there anything else you would like to handle, discuss? Say. Oh. Let's go get it. We've got a job to do.

This could be our final goodbye, though. Is there anything you want to say to each other? Any warm words of encouragement or? Yeah, we're going to wait. Things that we don't want to leave unsaid? say to each other any warm words of encouragement or things that we don't want to leave unsaid? Confessions to make? I've stolen from all of you! We know. We know.

It's okay. But you've also stolen from me. Your harp. Uh-huh. Do this. Yeah. I have lots of things to say after we collusion. Thank you. Yasha, you made a big mistake going with Beauregard.

You should have gone with me. I'm just going to say it. It's been said. I just figured you were not available because you're married. I know. Had I known. I'm not saying I would have been with you.

I just think that I'm a better choice in general. Well, I disagree. I think you're wonderful, but I'm right here for this whole, we're in a flesh tunnel. You've changed so much. I have. She has. You're a wonderful person now.

You're all right. Let's do this. You're trying to take her, girl. You're a wonderful man. Fuck you! But I love you for that. Yeah. I'm glad. What were you going to say, Kev? I'm just happy to be with all of you,

no matter how this ends. And I think we're meant to be here, not just because of Lucien, but I think that this is where we're supposed to be and this is where we're supposed to do our part for our world. And I couldn't think of a better group of people to defend life.

I'm proud to die with you and I will be even prouder to survive with all of you. I'll also say that that was a motivational speech, so I'm going to pick five of you. I'll also say that that was a motivational speech, so I'm going to pick five of you. Two. Five of you. Oh, did you take a? Yeah, yeah.

Aw, that's great. Amazing. So who's it going to be? It's one, two. I didn't realize you took that feat. That's awesome. Yeah. Is it the leader feat? It's a motivational speech. It's a spell. Oh, cool. Oh, it's a spell.

It's a seminar. Oh, I see, I see it. Online. Three, four, five. So not the, not me, not you, because it's better for, so all of you get, everyone I pointed at gets five temporary hit points. And if you're hit by attack, you have advantage on your next attack roll for an hour. Oh, wait, so if, so, okay. That's great for the ladies. If you're hit on your next attack roll for an hour. Oh, wait. So if, so, okay.

That's great for the ladies. If you're hit on your turn, you get advantage on your next turn? Yeah, your next attack gives you advantage if you get hit. For an hour? By magical or melee? Hit by anything or just? If an affected creature is hit by an attack,

it has advantage on the next attack roll it makes. Once you lose your temporary hit points, that goes away. Who cares? It's awesome. That is amazing. You get hit every round, you get advantage. So that's great. Say again? Also, you have advantage on wisdom saving throws. Yes.

We also have that from the feast, right? Yeah, I know, that's why. And what else do we get from the feast? We're immune to being poisoned and being frightened. So five temporary, five temporary, five temporary, five temporary, five temporary, five temporary, temporary. And yeah, you get hit. Awesome.

Every little bit. That was an inspirational speech. Thank you. It was. I thought it was fire. It came from the heart and from my character sheet. Hey, Caduceus. Yeah? What happens to grave clerics when they die? Is this a joke? No.

It could be. I thought it was a setup. Same thing that happens to everything else. Yeah, that's good. Finally. Is this a joke? No. It could be. I thought it was a setup. Same thing that happens to everything else. Yeah, that's good. Oh no. You're welcome. Barb.

It was for you. No! Don't you bring that first X-Men movie in there. Same thing that happens. We go where we're meant to go. And what's left doesn't matter. Speaking of jokes, I have a few that I won't get to use

because I doubt I'll cast Hideous Laughter since he's immune to charm. I didn't get to use these jokes. What's Fjord's favorite bean? The pinto. Fjord with the Fjord pinto. That's pretty good! What's Yasha's favorite basketball team?

The Orphan Lakers. Oh! Bad! Terrible. Thank god I'm immune to such a damage. What's the Clay's family's favorite philosopher? That's already obscure. Play-Doh?

Oh god. That's real bad. That's not too bad. I mean, uh-oh. And Siglin's forward and goes, please. Okay, okay. It's time to workshop. I beg of you.

Stop workshopping your stand-up here. I'm good, I'm good. I'll leave it at that. Yeah. Caleb stands up and says, Mighty Nein. Wait a moment. Frumpkin appears on his shoulder. There we go.

Mighty Nein. Oh, yes! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Oh, but Sprinkle as well. So now we're the Mighty Ten. No, no, bring Frumpkin back. Now we're the Mighty Omega. We can overpower the Somnovem. We've got our own ten.

The Mighty Tsen. Let's go hunt. Essek finishes his final bit of the meal and looks around and... It has certainly been a very curious way that our paths have intertwined this past year or so. I'm not going to focus on the burden of shame that I carry for the things I've done in the past,

but I'm very thankful for the things I've done since our paths have come together. If today is to be my final attempt at making good the things I've done, I'd be all right with that. I thank you for your trust. Good music.

To crime? Crime. Let's crime it up. Crime. To war crime. Let's bury a city. Yeah. Simon, ready? Heroes' Feast disappears.

Ah, fucking missed the bear claw, fuck! I'm going to hit you with the treats. My breath is just cheese. I had like five of the bear claws. Look, we didn't think they'd go so fast. We only made two bins. It was a rush. All right, well, if he was heading to the surface,

do we also want to head to the surface? The tunnel was lighting up, remember? Oh yeah, we should see what the tunnel was about. Let's do that. We'll move into the larger chamber and see if any of the tunnels beyond are carrying that same. They are, but they're all carrying it inward. Here.

And you watch as this pulse all comes into the chamber and then up and towards the ceiling where it comes. Oh, it's going to them. He's taking the power of the city. Yeah, he's typhoning it. We got to go. We go. How do we go up? Do we just think up? We go back up the tunnel.

Oh boy, that way's already been made. Can we just go straight up? Can we fly down here? That's going to be a roll of the dice. What about up through the tunnel that he made? It closed. Did it close? It closed. But we can just make it open or cut it open.

Open up a tunnel. All right. You or should someone else try? One of us with one eye. What if someone with one eye? Maybe, maybe that's the way to go. Let me give it a try. I could give it a try. I've got no eyes. What's your intelligence?

Well, two, technically. I'm going to join in on this. Are's your intelligence? Two, technically. I'm going to join in on this. Are you pooping? Are you pooping? Are you aiding her? She's going to shit. Are you doing it separately? Am I aiding you? Are we doing it separately?

It's an intelligence thing. Are you aiding me? Who's got the higher? My intelligence is nothing. Oh, my intelligence is nothing. This is an intelligence action. Oh, this is wisdom. This is willpower. Oh, great. Yeah. Then let's both be trying. Okay. Oh, this is wisdom. This is willpower. Oh, great. Yeah.

Then let's both be trying. Okay. Okay, what are you tempting to Lil? I'm attempting to open up a pathway to the surface above me. Okay. Same? I'm attempting to open a pathway to wherever the energy is moving. Okay. Both of you roll 80-20

and add your wisdom modifier. If you have an eye, add the number of eyes you have to the roll. 21. Nine. Nine. Caduceus, you close your eyes and attempt to focus. As you do, not only are you having a hard time

gathering your thoughts to specifically will this to be, but you feel like the direction that you're trying to will is blocked with light. There's something in your mind's eye as you try and focus that feels like you're staring into the sun as you try and do it. And you come out of it shaking your head with a slight tickle in your abdomen.

Abdomen. Darn it. Oh, you got another eye. Yeah. Jester, you concentrate upward, not directly beneath where this happened, but in the general space of this interior. And as you concentrate hard

towards the tall ceiling of this chamber, you watch as a small opening opens up, heading straight towards the surface. I did it! Climbable, or we have to float? We fly up through it! Can we just do that? Yeah. Up. Okay. Up.

Oup. Up. Just like home. Mm-hmm. Caleb catches Veth by the shoulder before she goes, and just shares a beat for three seconds. And let's go. We'll be fine. One by one, you begin to make it up

through the tunnel that Jester willed forward. It is a odd travel, almost like being one of the meals in reverse that you've consumed not but a few moments ago. You slowly, one by one, make your way, gliding through this imperfect, but continuous tunnel upward. Eventually, within a few minutes of traveling,

you begin to see the walls of this tunnel give way to a starry skyscape. The threads of gossamer and purple clouds in the distance until one by one, you all begin to float above the cobblestone surface. I will it so that every time one of us comes out of it, it makes a farting noise. Make a wisdom check,

adding your wisdom on a fire. Oh no, I might get an eye for that. Get that eye. It gets a big loose one. 22. Better than the first. Yeah. Each one of you pass by, just a little Cognouza squeak.

But as you emerge, gliding up a bit, surrounded by the buildings and the towers, you notice that all of the structures of the city are all leaning inward towards where you are. They're all slightly bent and twisting in this direction. are all leaning inward towards where you are. They're all slightly bent and twisting in this direction. You see the same pulses traveling, and you glance over to where the faint ring of subdermal red-like energy travels to,

and there is this luminescent dome of film, this thin skin-like egg sac almost, this cocoon that is pulsing with glowing bright light that is just getting brighter and brighter. In that moment, the pulses stop. Oh no. Shit. Mathura's ready. Yeah.

You watch as the top peels away, and a faintly luminous lavender glow begins to emanate from within. Gliding from inside, you see a humanoid shape, muscular, nearly clotheless, purple of skin, long, dark purple hair, wildly drifting in space. The red eye tattoos that once adorned Lucien's body are gone. Instead, you see nine thick stalks

that protrude from the back, each ending in a red eye, drifting behind as he lifts up like a newly born entity into the sky with a deep inhale. And just continues up above the towers. Did he just make himself a god? I think he gave form to the abilities that he had.

No time like the present. The orbs, the glowy Sum Novum, they're gone? They're... Anywhere to be seen? If you want to make a perception check and go inspect the cavity. Yeah. Don't go stare into the cavity. Yeah. Don't go staring into the cavity. 17. 16. 17.

Nowhere to be seen? Well, we're the, yeah, they're at the end of those stalks. Oh my god. Oh, yeah. Are there any people around? Is there anyone? We're on the surface, right?

You are. You look around, and while there's nobody immediately in the vicinity, looking beyond this small marketplace opening in the street, you see people standing at every street, still, perfectly still, all looking up towards where Lucien now hovers above the city. How are we going to fight him?

Oh god. One hit at a time. How far away is the closest person? Maybe about 200 feet from you. In the rest of the city, you said the buildings were leaning in. Does the fleshy bits, do they look like they're losing life?

Make a perception check. 14. 14. It does not appear that's the case. And interestingly enough, now that he's emerged, a lot of the towers are relaxing back into their previous somewhat straight positioning. He wrapped himself in the city like a chrysalis. We should talk to someone,

see if we can make contact with anybody. What is? You're certain. Make contact and talk all you like. You all hear drifting through your minds, omnipresent the voice of Lucien, Talk all you like. You all hear drifting through your minds, omnipresent, the voice of Lucien, now mingling with layers and layers of soft other voices behind meeting the words simultaneously.

Come. It's far prettier from up here. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, we'll go, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Up! Let's go. Up! I'm going to cast Intellect Fortress again on myself. Okay.

Vlam! Essek glances over and gives you a look, Caleb, and a nervous nod, and drifts up to follow gives you a look, Caleb, and a nervous nod, and drifts up to follow as you all begin to rise up into the skyline above. Approaching, you see Lucien just not looking at anyone in particular, but looking past and outward as the stalks shift and take in each of you at moments

before drifting elsewhere. We welcome you. I welcome you. This is incredible. I'd always wondered, but this is... This is something. What's it like? And for a brief moment, your minds fill with a flash

of a thousand worlds, endless possibility, colors that shouldn't be conceived by a mortal mind, all of time condensed to a moment, and briefly, you feel your brain twitch and flex before you have to break out of it, the overload of information and sensation. And as you all pull out of it,

most of your noses begin to bleed. I wish I could share it, but there's... Well, you'd need to be with us. You have to be with the pattern. The pattern. You've left us alive. You said you wanted an audience.

We're here now, doesn't seem like many more are. What was it all for? I left you alive. I left you alive. He seems to linger confused on that phrase. Why did I leave you alive? You have to have somebody witness, right? If there's no one to watch an ascension.

Molly? Molly Mok, tea leaf. Something twitches inside Lucien. It's the head that previously was looking through you for once, the beams, all eyes go towards you. No. Child. child.

I needed witnesses, yes, to hear my birth cry. As he raises his hands, you hear the entire city scream at once. Like a collective child being born. And Lucien just smiles and takes it in. Jester starts singing the song that the little girl sang in the circus. The little opera that she sang

that caught all of our attention. You see his left eye twitch. Left hand twitches well, and he pushes through it and forces the smile. I do believe now it's time to take the city back to where it all began. Well, but surely. Where the pattern can reach all the minds. There'll be time for that later.

Do you still intend to leave the world better than you found it? Body twitches again. Where's the other crest? I can't feel it. What have you done? No, no, no, no, no. Well then, through dreams it'll be then. Whom do you care about?

Whom shall I reach out to in their night slumber and show them the pattern. And so they come and bring me what I need. Your husband. What? Your boy. Maybe they can make the trek up, too. And bring me the other crest I need.

No. No, I don't think they will. They don't steal from nice people. One by one, they will all begin to see as you have. They'll begin their own paths to becoming mine, Onaghan. These threats are empty. Why don't you ask the charm? The charm is here.

I need everyone to roll initiative. Ah! You pushed too far. I need everyone to roll initiative. Push too far. Push too far. Oh boy. Oh, okay. Oh no, Matt, you're tethered. Natural 20.

Oh god. Thank god somebody did. I'm going to use my boots. This heart-pounding combat is brought to you by Dwarven Forge. By heart, I can hear it. I have not rolled. Bring your fantasies to life at bit.ly slash dwarvenforge.com. It's like the rooftops!

Oh, it is the rooftops! We're above it! That is sick! Yeah, this is so cool! From the rooftops to the walls! To the walls! To the sweatpants, they're so cool! From the rooftops to the walls! To the walls! To the sweat-pig-dama balls! What?!

Don't just tell them you're in the sky, show them with hand-sculpted terrain from Dwarven Forge. Wow. Makers of premium, hand-crafted, gaming-curriced terrain. All right, so. This time I thought of it as Veth shouting that in the sky. Oh god!

Tell me where you would like be placed in this space. You guys seemed fairly close at the moment. I think we were strategically placed in a wide, wide circle all around. I thought we had spread out a bit. I imagined a little bit of a spread. Yeah. I was probably near to Caleb. Oh, skeet, skeet, skeet, skeet, skeet, skeet, skeet! Let me reset my music here,

because it's giving me the flabbergast. I have to pee. I rolled a 13. You two have to pee so bad. Oh, go pee as I go ahead and say, all right, so tell me where you are, though, before you leave to pee. But if you pee from the sky. Just rain, if you're tall enough.

Yeah, that'll work. Where is Molly? You're got to go, so you save her. Where's Lucien, I mean? You want to see where Lucien is? Yeah. Yeah. Oh no. Oh god! Bring that motherfucker out.

We're going to see who he, yes, yes, get back here, Ashley. I want to see your peacock, cock, cock. Your peacock, cock, cock. Oh no! Oh shit! Oh my god! Oh no! Crew, can you zoom in on that horribleness, please?

He's scary, but he's also beautiful. Wow. Is that a real Molly Minnie that you've like? That's our friends at Steamforged customized with me. Oh my god! Oh! Look at his unit! Mm.

We've never seen it before. I mean, come on. That is gorgeous. No! Look at his unit! He's double-jumped! I've never seen it before, I mean, come on. That is gorgeous. Molly was not that buff. No, Molly went Super Saiyan there. Long may he reign. Straight up. Long may he reign.

Long and girthy may he reign. Oh my gosh. Now if we can get this to actually function. That's amazing. Now he's got nine egg dicks. Yeah. Imagine scrambled eggs on all of those. It won't be so scary anymore.

This is a lot. Yeah. Scrambled eggs and oatmeal, is that what it was? Reboot, reboot! We'll edit this out later. Of course, now is the moment that the app isn't playing the music I want. Fucking goddammit. It'll come.

Yeah, no, it's all good. It'll, it'll. Yeah, we got battle over time. Okay. I'll just run classic battle music for now, then. We need the good stuff. Oh, classic battle music, that's kind of fun for our big fight. Sure.

All righty, so. Stack of hands. Oh no, this, oh man. My initiative is terrible. Hooray! That's a classic, yeah. You got to have it. Oh my god. That's interesting. What you just rolled. Oh no, he rolled really well.

Natural one. Natural 20. Natural 20. Oh! I'm not even joking. That sucks. I mean, considering how the combat started, we weren't going to swing for it.

It makes sense. Yeah. All righty, so sorry. Location-wise, with that being where Lucien, the neo-somnovum currently resides. Neo-somnovum. Where would the rest of you be? Jester, he's holding you.

He's, I would be. Pointer. Yeah, actually, yeah, that seems about right for me. Okay. Fjord? I'll swing to the other flank over here. Over there? I think maybe Caleb would have subconsciously

tried to get the wizards on opposite sides. Okay, so where would you like to be? Well, where I am is good, but if Essek were on the other side, so Caleb and Veth would have tried to flank him, mage sense. Essek, you mean, or Fjord? Essek.

There you go, Essek will remain there, then. Can I be higher? Yeah, if you'd like to. Can I be higher, bro? if you'd like to. Can I be higher, bro? You know you're getting me higher. So we already know about all of the other necrotics useless, psychics useless, spires useless. I'm trying to look it up

right now, where is it? We have all the buffs, right? Oh yeah, where's mine? We've got different buffs. I got a question about that mode of possibility. You've got your buffs? Does it work on Divine Intervention? It's d20 attack, or d20 rolls, essentially.

All righty, so Caduceus is fighting. Psychic, charm, fright, and stun, or no? Where do you want to be? You go. I want to be... Where the people are. Yeah, actually about there, so I can, yeah. That's about right between, yeah,

a little closer in and a little towards you, but yeah. There? Yeah, like there. Okay, Yasha? Charmed, frightened. Let's do... Fire and no-nose. Yeah, I'll go your left, back towards the circle tower. Oh yeah.

Closer to your right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, let's go there. Well, now he can move like a bubble. That was also protolution. All right, Beau and Veth, where would you like to be? Veth is next to Caleb. Beau is next to Yasha. I mean, yeah, pretty much.

Where's Yasha? Yasha's over here. Actually, I'll flank Yasha. I'll go towards this other, above this rooftop. That feels good. Sure, that feels directly in his line of sight. Yeah, that's great. All righty.

Come on. That's personal. Personal is evil. Yeah. That's true. Here we go. Oh boy, oh boy. All righty. Come on. That's true. Here we go. Oh boy, oh boy. Want to see him see it?

25 to 20. 24. 24? Whoa! 20, so Beau, Jester. Oh no, that's a lie, 22. Beau, Jester, Fjord. Fjord. Fjord.'s a lie, 22. Beau, Jester for? Yord.

For Jord. All righty, 20 to 15. 16. Unnaturally high for me. 15 to 10. 13 for me. Where's Essek in this lineup? Essek is after Yasha.

Essek in this lineup? Essek is after Yasha. Essek. He's rolled pretty bad initiative every time. Is that guilt? 10 to five? Eight. All right. Nott has the higher dex. Veth? Yep. You want to go, I was going to say,

do you want to switch up who goes first for? Tarv, what was it? On occasion? If you would like to. There's a couple of times I'd like to buff you. Switch it up. At least, so. Beau. Sure.

I'll also buff Fjord. I'll allow you guys to switch initiative, then. Caleb. Cad and Veth. Yasha. Yep. Essek. Okay. Caduceus. You go first. Veth. Thank you. Cad and Veth?

I'm going to use that trick a couple more times. Ooh. Oh. That's a good duo, actually. Giant Dickmaster rolled a natural 20 on his... Yeah, it worked out thematically. It's over 9,000! He's first. Yeah, he's up first. Of course he's first.

All righty. He's just going to kill us all right now. Yeah. You better get your mind right. First things first. Oh no. I'm the realist. I'm the realist? No, no, not her. Not Icky.

Not Icky. Never, never, Icky. Lucien's final form. Lucien's going to go ahead and rise up a bit. Rise! Raise rise up going to rise up a bit. Rise? From Australia? This bull trap? Raise, rise up. Raise, rise up. Oh, wow. Oh dear. Where are you, buddy?

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, I'm by the rooftop. Multiattack with two eyes of the Gaze of the Sonovum. Oh dear. The eyes of the Sonovum. This would be such a cool menorah. I'm just saying. Start with... Oh my god, yo. I bet Steamforge can make it for you.

So let's begin with an elatus. An elatus. One of the eyes turns over towards Veth. They all get a move? I need you to succeed on an intelligence saving throw, minus the number of eyes you carry. One minus one, but I still get to add my intelligence saving modifier?

Correct. And because I've got Intellect Fortress, I get advantage. You do. Is it going to be hideous laughter? I'll find out. Good, because one of them was a one. Oh my god. The other was an 18 plus six minus one.

That's a 23. Okay. You begin to feel this burbling sense of excitement begin to fill your stomach, and there's something, you glance up, and for a second, you see, no, it's gone. Ugh, it was all an illusion.

No effect. You was all an illusion. No effect. You do gain another eye. Oh shit, you guys! With every hit, we get another eye! Oh shit, oh shit! Oh boy, the plot fucking dickens! How are we going to survive this? Oh my god!

What happens if you get an I-9? Five. Your automatic death or automatically... Shush! Wait, hold on. Guys, guys, guys, guys! Question, question. Stay cool.

You have no hair on the side of your head. Caleb has five. Four. Three. Four, three. Yeah. Two. I think you had five. You have four. Somebody has five. You have three. I have four. Four, three, two. Cree had five. I, three. Yeah. Two. I think you had five. You have four. Somebody has four. You have three.

Four, three, two. Cree had five, I have four, you have three. Yeah, Caduceus has two, everybody else has one, except for you. The Ira Eye. I don't have any. The Ira Eye? Burns with bright anger. Looking past the field.

Oh no. Oh no. It's going to go ahead and shoot a beam from it. As a furious blast of fire explodes in the middle of the battlefield. Oh, that's a fireball. I need Jester. You got that fucking ring, right? I do, I do, I have the ring of fire resistance that I've been told to. You do, that'll help.

I need. Yes! Save the best! I need Veth, Jester, and Caleb to make a dexterity saving throw, please. Ah! Yep, yep. Let's just end the campaign right here. Let's just end on a good note.

Ooh, it's real bad. It's real bad, I rolled real bad. What kind of a save was it? Dexterity. Yeah. Fireball. Should be better at these. What'd you get? Six. 32 points of fire damage reduced to half, so 16.

Ooh. I failed, but I'll trigger the Ring of Evasion. 16 points of fire damage. 17. Boy. 17. And do I get advantage on my next attack? Because I was hit. I'll allow it.

Well, if you still have the temporary hit points, though. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, the temporary hit points are gone now. It doesn't matter. You've been hit. You lose the temporary hit points, but it doesn't happen again now because you lost the temporary, it's only one. So I still get the advantage.

So the next time you would have an advantage on an attack. Got it. Correct. Okay, well, we'll's only one. So I still get the advantage. So the next time you would have an advantage on an attack. Got it. Correct. Okay, we'll go with that. Okay. Don't forget to lower the saving throw you rolled by the number of eyes you have, too. Lower the saving throw, so 16, then.

16. Oh no, I have two eyes, 15. 15, that's a failure. You take 32 points of fire damage. But because I'm a rogue. You take half anyway because of evasion. So 16. So is that negative four?

Like negative eyes on every save in this situation? Seems to be. Yeah, okay. Isn't that 16? Oh, wow. Oh no. All right. The staff and the ring are 23, so I'm out. My five temporary hit points are just gone forever. The rest eats out of that pool of 17 hit points

that can be restored. Correct. Yeah. Okay. And the Gaudius Eye flickers. Which one, which one? The Gaudius Eye. Flickers a warm orange welcoming sensation. Oh my god, each one of these eyes

gets to go before we go. And shifts over towards you, Beauregard. Nope, nope, nope. I need you to go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw for me. Oh my god. With advantage, minus the number of eyes you have. Minus three.

Wisdom saving throw. Yes. And I can reroll saving throws if I fail them. And we get advantage on wisdom saving throw. Okay, okay. That's a natural 19, so 28, minus three, 25. Pretty good. That's a success. This sense of longing and love and companionship comes and begins to fill you,

and you push it away, knowing it's false. No effect. Does she get another eye? No. Who got the other eye? You got a second eye. Okay. Yeah. All right. Is there an eye counter? I'm going to got a second eye. Okay. Yeah. Is there an eye counter?

I'm going to do an eye counter. Okay. Just count your own eyes. One, two, three. All right. I got it up here. That is going to finish Lucien's turn. Beau, you're up. Jester, you're undyed. Oh, I'm up. Oh god. I'm up! Oh god.

Oh no! Oh wait, he only got three turns, not nine. Can't do nine in a row, that's good. That's good. That's good. That's encouraging. Oh! It's legendary things, though. Oh, fuck.

Okay, well, I'm just going to do what I do, which is I'm going to go up and I'm going to punch him, I guess. Oh my god. You're just going to punch him? Yeah. I'm so scared. Me, too. That's the magic power of punching.

Yeah. Loving it. Yeah. Loving it. All right, Beauregard. Follow the emotions. I am the Nala girl. Loving it. Yeah. Loving it. All right, Beauregard. All the emotions. I am the Nulligo. Yeah, though. Aim for his real dick. Hey, don't wait.

Okay. Let him know. Rage, Marshall Bell. You rush up, flying up to Lucien. Go for it. Okay! Oboe. As I hit him, as I'm punching him,

or I'm going to use my staff, I'm going to say, I liked you better when we were on drugs together. And whack! I'm going to try and crack him, pop, pop with my staff. Okay. Are you just saying it offhand? Or are you trying to connect with him on that statement? I'm saying it offhand. Okay, got it.

I'm just saying it as I whack. Wacky, wacky. Flavor text. Wow. Flavor text. Real bad, real bad twice. Huh? Okay, okay. So the first one is 18. 18 misses.

And then the other one I rolled a two, so 14. So miss, miss. You go to strike and the phrase you say, there's a bit of a grimace and one of the eyes peers towards you and you have to dodge out of the way to avoid being struck by some sort of a wayward beam from the Ira.

And as you do, your swings just go wide, no impact. Ah, ah, ah, ah. Hmm. Got a bonus action still. I know, I'm trying to think what to do with it. Flurry of blows. I'm just going to see if I can get some hits off on this guy. Pop up!

Okay, those are better. The first one is why it stops sticking to me. Go for it. Pop pop! Okay, those are better. The first one is why it stops sticking to me. Okay, 27. 27 hits. And 23. Hits. Okay. Oh, oh!

Those are both eights for a total of 15 damage, 30 damage total. Let's go. Nice. Those are both eights for a total of 30 damage total. Let's go. Nice. And extract those aspects. All right. Extract that ass. Give me that ass.

Resistant to fire. Resistant to necrotic. Immune to psychic. Immune to charm, frighten, and stun. So the same. Yeah, same. Resistant to what? Fire, frighten, and stun. So the same. Yeah, same. It resistant to what? Fire necrotic resistance.

Immune to psychic. And immune to being charmed, frightened, or stunned. So no holding them in place, no. So I'm just going to quickly to the rest of the team say, yeah. I don't sense any additional vulnerabilities or immunities. Why are you talking like that? I'm trying to be very analytical in a moment of stress.

All right, that finish your turn, Beau? Yeah. Jester, you're up. Fjord, you're on deck. Yep. Oh! Oh, but we're fucking flying. Um. It's like, do I do it, do I set it up, or?

Field generator. I'm going to set it up. And I'm going to invoke Duplicity. Okay. I'm going to send my duplicate right in front of Lucien's face. As you go to invoke duplicity, nothing happens.

I can't invoke my duplicate? I'm just fucking mad at my, fuck. Well, that's a wasted turn then. The fucking field generator thing. Who has it? I have one. And who has the other? The what?

We didn't say. Who had the second one? I don't have it. But I had said we should give it to one of you two. So why don't we give it to one of you two? Are you pointing to? I have one, so one of you two. Because they had no eyes.

Oh yeah, yeah, do that. So Yasha or Jester? I guess I could use my bonus action then to send it out. If that counts, can I do it as a bonus action? I'll no eyes. Oh yeah, yeah, do that. So Yasha or Jester? I guess I could use my bonus action then to send it out, if that counts. Can I do it as a bonus action? I'll allow it. Yeah. I still wasted my action.

Your turn. Do it. We need it. Exactly. Yeah, all right, I'll take, and I'll go, I'll see that my duplicate didn't work and go, oh, fuck, I was supposed to, fuck! And throw out the thing.

Okay. Fucking. You chuck it in heavy arc, and you feel like it should go off, Fuck, I was supposed to fuck! And throw out the thing. Okay. You chuck it in a heavy arc, and you feel like it should go off, but then it just remains dark. None of the energy releases. And then, as it exits the middle of the field, now you can see this arc right there,

as one of the eyes is now facing in this direction. Can I see which eye it's coming from? You can see that it's coming from the central eye there. Okay. Can I ask a clarification question? Correct. Past encounters with this motherfucker have been on all of us on the ground, so it was a flat plane of space,

but now we're at different heights. So if I saw that go out and encompass, say Caleb and Jester and Veth, but we're all at different heights, should I assume that it is also going like that? Correct, it is conical. Okay. It is not flat, it is a cone that kind of sprays outward.

Okay. Okay, okay, okay. Okay? Okay. I'm going to move to where I'm on the, just the other side of that roof peak. Right there? Yeah. You got it. It's a really pretty map.

Yeah, it's cool. Okay. That finishes Jester's go? Yeah. Fjord, you're up. Caleb, you're on deck. Because there are no squares, could I get a 30-foot tape measure from Fjord extending towards Lucien

just to see how I am distance-wise? Distance-wise? Yeah. That is 30 feet right there. So I'm shy. You're shy of 30 feet, correct. Okay, I will come in, what did it look like it needed? 15 feet, 20 feet? It needed about 25 or so feet.

Okay, I'll come in 25 or so feet. Okay. I'll put you in. We got this. We got so many tricks up our sleeve. We'll get you within 30 feet. Easy. With my bonus action, I will cast Hexblade's Curse. All righty.

Hexed. Even with the glow around Lucien's body, you can see one of the darker spots grows a little darker, and this greenish vine begins to curl around. For a moment, you feel, as you release the curse, you can almost sense the Wild Mother reaching over and taking the back of your hand

and helping you apply this central focus upon your enemy. Okay. I will send three Eldritch Blasts. Boy, I want to do the other thing. I'll send three Eldritch Blasts his way. All righty, go for it. That's a 28 to hit.

28 hits. That is a... That's a 30 to hit. That hits. And that's a natural one. That misses. Okay. That's 19 points of force damage. Nice.

16 points of force damage. Great. So that's 35 total. And. Only one hit though, right? Yep, 35 total. You got it. So it hits both sides, barely a reaction, but you can see the dart where the blasts hit singed and damaged the outside of the flesh a little bit

as it sits there, barely scathed. One of the eyes over in your direction. All right, does that finish your turn? Are you the lover? No, yes, yes, we're done! All right, well, because of that, at the end of your turn, it's going to use Legendary Reaction, Legendary Action,

to go ahead and turn the Eye of Fastadan upon you. Okay. This eye has a dull greenish tint to it, and you feel this wilting energy focus upon your body. I need you to go ahead and make a constitution saving throw for me, please. and you feel this wilting energy focus upon your body. I need you to go ahead and make a constitution saving throw for me, please. Constitution.

18 plus five, 23. 23, that's a success. Do you have any eyes? Any what? Eyes. Minus the number of eyes. Thank you, one, so 22. Still enough. Guys, guys.

That was a lot of dice, just got rolled. Yeah. They did not sound like d4s. Nope. You know you've heard this shit a long time, you know the sound of it now. You only take half damage, so you take 34 points of necrotic damage. That's not bad.

As the wilting energy begins to sap the life from you, the sheer disgust radiating from this eye causing you to shrivel in place, but you shrug off the majority of it and catch your breath. The faster-down eye had 68 points of necrotic damage in it. No problem. Is that like a blight? I don't know, what color was it?

Necro. Green? It was like a dull greenish. Yeah, that's a blight beam. Oh! It was originally 64 points of damage. Cool! Cool, cool. All right. That's more than eight.

That's like a perfect roll. Cover! Finishing Fjord's turn. Caleb, you're up. Okay, I think I remember that his vision was pointed towards Caleb and Veth. Correct. Yeah. So I'm going to use my mind powers to fly 60 feet

to my left, to Caleb's left, out of that. Yes. And as I'm going- Maintaining elevation? Maybe just 10 feet, or I can just imagine that if it's easier platforms. Tugboat? I can do it.

Yeah, I will tugboat very long. Goddammit. And as he's zipping over there, I'm going to down the Potion of Maximum Power. You've got it. As a bonus action, right? Is that what we do for potions? For healing potions, what does it say to get that one?

It says it has a muddy taste. Gotcha. Then... If I can do it as a bonus, I'll do it, but if I can't, I won't. I'll allow it. Okay. Yeah. So he just chugs that, and when he gets to his position hovering there, If I can do it as a bonus, I'll do it, but if I can't, I won't. I'll allow it. Okay. Yeah. So he just chugs that, and when he gets to his position hovering there,

he pulls out a scroll and opens it up and starts reading from the Protection from Aberrations incantation on it. All righty. Focusing on yourself? Yeah. All right. As you finish reading off the scroll, the energy consumes it, and as it does,

the spark of remaining flame separates into multiple runes around you. Kind of alights this cylindrical space where now this shimmering protective field now seems to be, hmm, my brain is not working. Seems to be emanating from you. There we go. Is it visible to everybody?

Faintly. Okay, so it's five foot radius and then a cylinder, 10 foot cylinder. So I guess that means five up and five down. Correct. So I think you would gain from that if you clumped with me. Take that for, do with that what you will.

Where are you at again? You're over on the left. I'm by the bottom left corner of the map. Got it, got it, got it. All righty, red base. That's the end of it. Red drum. All right, end of Caleb's turn. She's going to use another Legendary Action to,

let's go ahead and do another Gaze of the Sumnaven. Aw. That's just a thing you can do twice in a row? Do the end of, for as many legendary actions as I have, and do the end of other people's turns, yeah. That's the second one, this round. Let's go ahead and do Luctus.

Luctus. This dull, grayish, almost seeping eye spins and glances toward... I was going to say back towards you, Fjord. Oh no! I am a handsome fellow. You are, you are. I need you to make a dexterity saving throw,

minus the number of eyes you have. That's all right, this is going to go over because my dex is balls. It's my dex is balls. It's my dex and my box. That's a two. Okay, okay. That's a fail. You feel suddenly your heart sunken

with absolute grief and sadness. You are forced to face every poor decision you've made, every person you believe you've let down, and it feels like a weighing anchor. Instinctually, your body almost seems to sink in the sky a few inches. You are considered slowed. So your movement is halved. You have no reaction. And on your turn, you can choose to take either an action or a bonus action, not both. Oh god. And that lasts how long?

It lasts for a minute or until you save at the end of your turn, which you get to try and save every turn after. An action or a bonus only. I cannot move or Your movement is halved. You can't react. Thank you. That reaction thing is pretty bad. Yeah.

All righty, that finishes the reaction there. That finishes to that one. Yasha, you're up with extra contact. These spells, are they just innate ability? I know. They're, I think so. I would like to rage. Good on you.

Yes, please. Okay. And I'm going to get myself up to pollution. At least that's an effect. Yes, I have haste. Did you already activate the thingy? You have not. It takes an action to activate it.

Oh, it's an action to activate it. Got it, got it, got it. Okay, so I will... What's the thingy? What thingy? I will... Caleb told me to eat it. Okay. So pop it in my mouth, eat it.

Sure. Okay, good to go. Okay, good to go. Roll the dice. It tastes like a- Not now, Yasha, not now. A vague, immaterial concept. But nevertheless.

Ever seen a barbarian rage choke? But you are hasted. She's fucking into it. Which means that's your action to cast it. When you bonus action Rage, but it does add plus two to your AC. Is it advantage on dexterity saves? Advantage on dexterity? And you have an additional action on your turn.

You can use this turn? You can use this turn for a single-weapon attack if you'd like. So, here we go. Okay, first attack. Slice off one of them. Tentacles. Slice off a tentacle. Slice off a tentacle.

Okay. Thank god, I'm a country boy. That would be 23. 23 hits. Okay. I god, I'm a country boy. That would be 23. 23 hits. Okay. I am shaking. Guys, I'm shaking. I'm shaking in my boots.

Feeling in my plums. Yep. Feeling in my fingers. Feeling in my plums. Savage attacker. I'm feeling in my soles. God, why is that? It's the only thing I remember from that movie,

which is for the best. Okay. Meet me in the garden, Ho Garden. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Wow. That's a big callback. Wow. That's a big one.

Okay, so for the first hit, that is 36 points of damage. Nice! And as I'm hitting him, I'll say, it's been a while, ice spinner. Ice spinner. All right, you say it colloquially in the middle of your fray,

which means it gets a little lost. If you're trying to really mark with attention, you have to really spend a bit of your turn, at least. That's a bit of the action, okay. Or bonus action, even. I'm going to go stab ease again. Well, you get one weapon attack with that hasted action. Oh, it's one weapon attack, okay.

So in theory, now that you're hasted, you can use your action to attack twice, and then your hasted action to attack a third time, and then you have your bonus action still, on future turns. Okay. Yeah, you only get to attack twice on your base action. And this was your hasted action.

This was my hasted action. Exactly. That's right, that's right. You're good? Yeah, that's all I can do. All right. Can I ask for for clarification, Matt? Sure, yeah.

The anti-magic, was that coming from a stalk or was that coming from Lucien's, like an eye on Lucien? No, he doesn't have eyes anymore. The eyes are no longer in the body. That was coming from the central stalk above the head. Got it, okay. Oddly enough, the one name you didn't catch. Yeah.

Tide. Att't catch. Yeah. Tied. At Trax. Yeah. So that brings us now, finishing Yasha's turn, to Essek's turn. Come on, Essek! It's Chad. Essek is going to go ahead and...

Big eyes. Chadeus. I'm a Somnovem. Bigus. Want to chill? Chadeus. Do you want to sit in here? Is going to go ahead and cast Gravity Fissure. Biggest, shittiest. Is going to go ahead and cast Gravity Fissure. Gravity Fissure. Arc'd upward, you watch as Essek.

Essek's hovering there, looking amongst the group up there, seeing the anti-magic field projecting the other direction for the time being. Puts his hands together, concentrates, and you see a similar starscape, like the center of the beacon begin to swirl around his hands and begin to shift and shift.

And as he pulls it to his chest, he rips it into two pieces and slams them together. And as it does, you hear the sound of time and space ripping as gravity seems to burst forward in this tearing, cracking sound. It, at this angle, will just barely miss Beauregard and Yasha as he's aiming upward and outward

because it does have a radial element there. But it does manage to push through. For that now, that is a constitution saving throw. No, I have jellypops! Success on this constitution saving throw. However, does still take. Is it hot or is it cold? I don't know. I can't tell.

I don't know. I'm sweating and shaking at the same time. Ooh, nice. Taliesin, how many eyes do you have? Two. Dos. Are you two? I have two.

You still don't have any, right? I don't have any. And you still don't have any. Jester doesn't have any. 42 points of force damage reduced to 21. He did save. Pretty good, pretty good, pretty good. And Essek's going to go,

All right, that's enough for me. He's out. Just hides behind the tower and peeks. At the end of Essek's turn, he's going to use the last two of the legendary actions to shift the top eye. Hey, legendary actions is here.

Caduceus is four. And is now filling this space here. So that's Caduceus, Yasha, and me. But primarily focused on Caduceus. So he has four legendary actions per round. Is it four or five? Did he use one on you? He used two. Two on you.

Before this. Oh god. So is it five? It's four, right? But apparently it takes more than one legendary action to move the field that far. It takes two to move that. We saw it when- It takes two! Finishing Essek's go and that reaction, Caduceus,

you are up. I would like to move to get both within, just barely within 30 feet of Lucien and also just slightly, I want to see if I have enough movement to just. What's your intelligence score? What's my intelligence score? Negative?

No, your overall score, the number. Oh, nine. Nine. So you can move, flying-wise, about 25 feet. Oh, okay. Hey, Matthew, sorry. Which will not get you out of the cone. Unfortunately, you travel slowest of everyone in this group, being in the Astral Sea.

So even if you move full movement, thankfully you can see where it is, but you can't escape this cone this turn. I can't, there's no direction I can escape this one this turn? Not at your current, unless you want to back out, which you could do. How deep is the cone? The cone seems to go about 60 feet.

Oh, okay. Yeah, this changes my plan. Yeah, it's very, very interesting. This mousetrap is interesting. This is interesting. This is tricky. Fuck a duck. How many hit points do you think he has?

A godly amount. 100. 100. He's bloodied already, right? 50, 100. Matt, we released one of the, what are they called? The field? Arcane field generators. That's why we know that the top stop.

And it still works in this whole area? It is, what is the radius on the item? I don't know. On which item? I don't have the card. The anti-magic thingy. Field generator. Dang it, I've got it here. I'll tell you in a sec. Not a race. What it basically did

was let us know that the top stop is what is caused. So that's most of this area. Yeah, it's this field. Yeah, it is pretty much the entire field is affected by it. Great, great. That's awesome. So if you ever want to ask me where it is, I can go ahead and show you where it's currently set. And it lasts for a little bit?

It lasts until he moves it. No, I mean our field generator. Is that going to wear off? I don't think so. I think it lasts for like an hour or something. Yeah, one hour. Great. Hold that. If this battle goes on.

I can't really do much. If I move to the right, there's no getting out of it. There's just to the right. There's no way of getting closer and getting out of the field. Okay, then not getting closer and getting out of the field. Okay.

Would you want to just move back? I'll move... Yeah, I'll move, not back, actually. I'm going to move to the, around to the back. I'm going to round towards the back of Lucien. I'm just going to, if I can move that way to get out. The only way you can get out of the field

is to move backwards to some degree, because moving laterally to your left, you're still going to be inside of it. It is a 60-foot cone on both sides. You can only move 25 feet if you are, and you're right in the middle of it. Intentionally did that, because he's a dick. Cool. I'm going to...

I'm going to hold a spell. Can I hold a spell? No, actually, no, I can't do anything this turn. I'm just going to maintain. I'm just going to move like. Could you put something between you and him? What do you mean? Everything he does is magic, though.

Everything he does is magic. Everything he does is magic. I'm going to back up a bit. Going to back up a bit? All right. Floating back, that gets you outside of the field right there. But you do know that you are beyond 60 feet,

just as a note. Yeah. That'll, fuck, that'll do for now. I can't really do... Ah, yeah, ah. I know, I'm so sorry. This just changed my entire plan. All right, so that finishes Caduceus' turn. Veth, you're up.

No one rocks harder. The 1981 sting. Every little thing! Magic! I will assume, I'm not in the field thing anymore, so I can do magic. And Caduceus can't help me, so I'm just going to help myself. I will bonus action cast

Brenatto's Voltaic Bolt on my bolt. All righty. That I will load into my super hot Aeorian security cannon. Hell yeah. I will fire with advantage because I was hit by an attack? Yeah. Yeah.

Is that how you ruled? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay. I'll allow it for this. Technically, it's a combat attack, but I'll allow it for this because you need all the help you can get. Okay. Ow. Oh no.

And I will strike with a 24. That hits, yeah. All right, let's see what we do. Let's see what we do. Not great. Okay, it's fine. 12, 13, 12, 13. 32, 32.

41. 32. 41. Plus? 32. 30. 53 points of damage. Nice! Still focusing and looking about, hearing the little bit of prattle in the space.

Shink! Suddenly, all the attention shifts to you momentarily. You've certainly caught Lucien's attention as the bolt now is embedded, not bleeding, but embedded in his rock-hard abs. This is an astral washboard right here, y'all. All right. Thing to stay put? You want to move?

I'm going to move towards Caleb, but not into any sort of cone or cylinder. Okay. M're going to stay put? You want to move? I'm going to move towards Caleb, but not into any sort of cone or cylinder. Okay, maintaining height? Yeah, maintaining height. 30. We'll get you about there with your intellect. All right. That finishes your go.

Now it's Lucien's turn. Molly, I know you're in there! We still love you! You bitch! You owe me five gold! All righty. You watch the eyes shift the top. Shit.

Goddamn it! To about there. That's very interesting. The glitter is still everywhere in the air, right? So we see this thing sweeping through? Correct, yeah, you see it swinging back and forth. Question. Yes. The wording on that scroll says,

this prevents aberrations from affecting anything within the cylinder. So how does that apply to my space? Aberrations, this is an interesting point because technically the effect, the protection part of the spell is superseded by the anti-magic effect of this space. So I would say that the anti-magic cone

actually nullifies the protection if you're in that zone. But if you manage to move beyond it, then you are protected. Okay. So it doesn't drop the spell, it just makes it go away while you're in the anti-magic cone? Yeah, it doesn't dispel it or get rid of it.

It just kind of blinks away for the moment while you're in that space. Okay. That's better than completely dispel the spell. Yeah, it's the same with the anti-magic bubble. Unless you're trying to hit me with something, it doesn't do anything in this fight. Right.

All right, so going into the turn. But if you're holding a Concentration spell and you get hit by the anti-magic cone, that spell's done. Yes. The hand of Lucien to the right. He's going to reach out towards you, Beauregard. The hand, no, no, we're just using eyes.

We're just using eyes. Just use your eyes! Seriously, though, look at those abs. Is it 26 to hit? God, they're so good. I need you to make Mr. Dix. Saving throw, fam. Let's go, fam. Let's go. Don't fuck me. No, natural 20, natural 20!

Ah! Four total of? 28. Oh, minus eyes? Minus eyes. Minus eyes. 20, 25. 25, okay, that is a success. I just pass out.

Yes. So many dice rolls. So many dice! So many dice! Okay, so your 49 points of psychic damage would have taken is reduced to 24 points of psychic damage, and you are not stunned. As he reaches out, grabs you by the throat,

and not even looking at you, just says, Oh, this seems familiar. Your entire body fills with pain as your brain is wracked with a torrent of psychic energy. You hear all the screams of some of them coming into your brain at once, and all the eyes in your body flare up with a white-hot pain,

but you manage to push away and float just a few feet out of his grasp as the fingers. Yeah, I remember that, too. He just, looking away, laughs. I just look at the direction he's looking. And as part of the multi-attack on that, it's going to make two gaze of the Somnatham attacks. Gaudius, once more, shifts over the shoulder

towards you, Yasha. I need you to make a wisdom saving throw. But wait, there's so many more eyes that haven't done shit yet. With advantage? With advantage. With advantage. Roger's advantage, with advantage. You do not have any eyes, so you cannot take any penalties to it.

What about Miramus tomorrow? Okay, which one am I going to do? Let's do this one. Okay. Just seeing if I can, I mean, I don't know why I'm thinking I can add something out of fucking nowhere. 14 total.

14 total, because my wisdom is zero. So 14 is my roll. That sense of love emanates from the eye and this call to belong, to join with this wonderful possibility. You are charmed by Lucien for the next minute. Ah.

And your rage doesn't do anything for that, does it? Nope. Oh no, and she's hasted. That was a you thing. Is that a try and shake it off every turn kind of thing? You did a wisdom save? I did a wisdom save. With advantage? With advantage, and I rolled a fucking 14.

You have no pluses to your wisdom save at all? Do you have a mote? Plus zero, no. Hold on, hold on. Yeah, you didn't get Fortune's Favor? No, she ate the haste. Damn, damn. She ate the haste.

She literally ate the haste. Question for you, Matt. When I failed the Luctus one, do I take an eye? Just low? No. Okay. Which one was the one that Do I take an eye? The slow one? No. Okay. Which one was the one that hit you, Veth? I don't remember his name. Elatus, I think?

Luctus was slow. I think Elatus hit you, Veth. Elactus? Elatus was the one. Who's Elatus? Is that an actus? Intelligence, the charm. Elatus was the charm, yeah. Yeah. Elatus was the charm, yeah. Yeah.

Elatus was the charm. The goddess. Yeah, that's also charm, but that's wisdom. Elatus was something else. Oh, I just wrote down charm. Well, we don't know what it was, because Veth shook it off. Indeed.

The other eye is going to be for this one. Timore. It's going to go ahead and shift around to you, Jester. Me? And the sense of dread that would wash into your brain does not because you're immune to fear. Oh, yes. Glad we ate that grilled cheese sandwich.

Yeah, that was the grilled cheese. That was the five bear claws. Lucien spins in place and looks over towards you. Interesting. Noted. Yeah. That eye begins to, doesn't fully retract, but pulls away slightly,

realizing its lack of interest. What kind of a trick would that have been? That actually, yeah, that's going to end Lucien's turn. Lucien's not going to move from that moment, knowing that you got to go. All righty. Beau, you're up. Jester, you're on deck. Okay. How far away am I from him? You are roughly 60 or so feet.

Fucking awesome! Okay. Wait, what's happening? Waiting on, it's Beau's turn. Sorry, it's your turn. Yeah, what's happening? Okay on, it's Beau's turn. Sorry, it's your turn. Yeah, what's happening? Okay, okay, okay. Sorry, I was just going to ask the question. I was like, no, it's not Jester's turn, it's Beau's turn.

I didn't know what was going on. We're all just staring at each other like, what's happening? Yeah. I got weird. I was like, this is so stressful. I understood that we were waiting on something. We all were waiting.

No one, like, you all arrives at the scene. Yeah, we're thinking of their next move. Yep, yep, yep. Everyone arrives at a four-way stop and you're all like, do you? Was it you? Was it you? Was it you? But it is me! But it is me! So I am going to, You all arrive at the scene. Everyone arrives at a four-way stop and you're all like, Was it you, Jade? Was it you? Was it you? But it's you.

But it is me, but it is me. So I am going to, is his hand still held aloft from where he grabbed me? Yeah, it's pulled back a little bit. The fingers are flexing. I'm going to full instinct bar brawl, don't you fucking put your hands on me, bitch. Grab him by the thumb that's still out there

and just do a big twist and try and yank for my pop pop. Go for it. Try and break that thumb. Lord have mercy, what shit rolls? You have one advantage roll, by the way. I do, I'm not going to use it yet, because that's going to be like a when I'm dying thing. One is a natural one. One is a natural. It's the next attack you make. So one not going to use it yet, because that's going to be like a, when I'm dying thing. One is a natural one.

One is a natural. It's the next attack you make. So one of them is advantage. Oh! Yeah. Oh, I'll take that. Okay, okay, I'll take that one. That's right. It's a four. It's a four. Cool.

So for a total of, You can't break a god's thumb. I can't break a god's thumb. That one is an 18 to hit. 18 misses. But yeah. But the other one is a natural 19 for a 31 to hit. 18 misses. But yeah, but the other one is a natural 19 for a 31 to hit. That hits. Okay, that's an eight, so I'm going to do 15 damage there.

All righty. You sprained his thumb. I sprained his thumb. You grab the thumb and pull it back. It doesn't pop, but it definitely gives a little bit. He looks over at you, and the thumb suddenly gives too much. Okay. Ew! You let go and pops back into place.

I just instinctually wipe my hand. Yuck. Bonus action? My bonus action is going to say, don't you still want to see Gustav now that you've paid off his debt? Using your bonus action to say, don't you still want to see Gustaf now that you've paid off his debt? Using your bonus action to say this? Yeah. Make a persuasion check.

Ah. With advantage. With advantage? Oh lord, I'm not charismatic. Okay. 14? 14. He looks back. Wait, with advantage?

Yeah, you rolled. Not disadvantage. Okay, sorry, I took the lower number instinctually because I hate myself. Relatable. 16 total. 16? Minus three. Minus three.

Oh no, that's saving throughout. Oh good. That's the thing. 16. Glances over at you, and as the eye twitches, something inside the body . I don't know what you're talking about. Loses a legendary action.

Oh! He loses what? A legendary action. Like forever or just for one round? We don't know. We don't know. Because of what did you say? I was looking at my stuff. She just had Somali talk.

I said, don't you want to see Gustav? Oh shit. But I used my bonus action to do it. Okay, okay, okay, okay. And it was a persuasion check. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So if we all say, do you still want to see Gustav?

Maybe it'll just work a lot more. What if we all just start chanting, Gustav, Gustav, Gustav. That might not be a bad idea. From deep within my subconscious, Molly thinks we're all assholes and you're going to die. All right, so finish your turn, Beau. You going to stay put, or?

I'm staying put. All righty, finishing end of Beau's turn, he's going to go ahead and use a legendary action to fold space. To fold space? Angered and frustrated by the terms that you said, glares back at you. And just vanishes.

Oh! Well, that's- Appearing 60 feet. This way. Right to there. That's not so bad. What do we see for the vision after that move? The cone. The cone? Yeah.

So it came with him? Mm-hmm. Okay. It's a nice open space, though, we got. Stay out of it. All right, that finishes that go. Jester, you're up. Fjord, you're on deck. Can I reach him with my movement?

My intelligence is, what is my intelligence, 12? 12, that'll put you at about? 32. A little over 32 feet, so you can get, you can not get to him with that, unfortunately. No? Okay. You can get close, you can go within 10 feet.

I'm going to move up five feet. Okay. And I'm going to, seeing where the cone, where his eyeball is facing now, I'm going to use my last Invoke Duplicity and pop it up right behind him. Okay. On the underside, like below, next to his feet.

Next to his feet? Yeah. For the purposes of this, because it's fun, I'm going to go ahead and stick you right in. Yes! Nice. Is that Earthquake Putty? Yep. Oh, I love it. Amazing.

And then for my bonus action. That's a Brenna Lee Mulligan trick that I will forever thank him for showing me that. For my bonus action, I'm going to cast Spiritual Weapon at 4th-level above him. Ooh! Like, right here. Damocles himself.

Save for the purposes. It's going to look really cool. A lollipop. Yeah, a lollipop halo. Yeah. You need a toothpick and something. There we go. Sure. That's not precarious at all.

Oh god. Yep. That's what I'm here for. Yeah, we're getting fraggle rocking here right now. Oh god! That's what I'm here for. Yeah, we're getting fraggle rocking here. Wait, do I want to do this? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Because I still get advantage on my next attack, right?

So I don't know if I want to use this on my spiritual weapon. I'm going to not do that yet. He just pasted it to the bed. I'm sorry, keep it. It's going to go back in a second. But for my bonus action, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, you see?

It's just like the tarot reading says, Molly. You had to die. You had to die. You had to die to be reborn. Okay, I would like you to make a persuasion check. Come on, Jess. Charismatic as fuck. You're so charismatic, though. Eight.

As you shot this over the way, Lucien looks back at you and goes, Oh, little girl, don't you know those cards are stacked every time? Simple storytelling. Make you hear what you think you want to hear. I finish your turn? You were shaking, I saw you twitch.

That's my turn. All right. Fjord, you're up. All right, I'm slowed. It's just fucking great. I will try and travel 15 feet towards you. Towards me? Yeah, coming down. You're attacking the DM? No. You can do that?

I'm just going to try and put as much as that tower between me and Lucien, but I don't think I'm going to get that far. You don't quite get to the tower, unfortunately, because of the slow, but you get close. And you lower yourself a little lower, you said? Yep. Okay, there you go. And I, because I have an action or a bonus,

but not both, I will shout out to Lucien. We're all circus people. We all have our issues. Ooh, okay. Make a persuasion check. Charismatic. Is he charismatic, man? I am.

22. 22. We all float down here. You say that, and while nothing impacts, you see this physical reaction, like a knife through the chest that's like, scratches at it, confused. I don't know what you're playing at,

but I'm likely interested to see how this goes. It was a legendary action. Ah! This is exciting, okay. Hey, Matt, can I say that I moved, I said I only moved five feet towards him. Can I say that I moved 10 feet towards him so that I can? I'll take you there for the rest of your turn, yeah.

Okay. Okay. I'm going to go. That finishes your go, Fjord. Yes. Caleb, actually at the end of Jester's turn, is going to go ahead and use his last secondary action to gaze, and this will be...

Ira, once more, fills with bright red energy, looks over in this direction before. Act one. It ships past Yasha underneath to where Fjord, oh, by the way, I need you to make a saving throw in a second to see if you're still slowed. Oh, oh, yes. Oh, right. Yes, yes, that's super important.

You pause here for a moment, so would you roll? Oh, you want me to roll it? Yeah, this is a Constitution saving throw, I believe. Come on, come on, come on, come on. 19. Five plus four. Do you have any eyes? Sorry, this is dexterity. My bad, sorry.

Oh, dexterity. That's worse. Should I reroll? Same thing. Reroll, reroll. Oh, okay. No. No, all right, still slow. Explodes in a ball of fire once more,

catching Beauregard and Fjord in the explosion. I need you both to make dexterity saving throws. Where's my ring?! I'm sorry, Fjord! That's cocked. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't go dark right now. Dexterity saving throws?

Yeah. Minus the eye? Yeah. Yeah. 10. 22 points of fire damage. Not bad. To you. He rolled really bad on that. 20.

20 minus your eyes? Oh, nope, nope, minus my eyes is 18. 22 points of fire damage to you. And evasion. It means it's a half, so you take 11. It explodes. Wouldn't it be 17? Don't you have three eyes? Yep, that's math, 17. Still fail. Still fail.

Yeah. Yep, yep. Math. So as the fire burns around angrily and then dissipates, you're both a bit singed, but holding an okay. That's going to finish that now. Caleb, it's your turn. Yasha, you're on deck. Okay, I think I remember where the cone was,

so I'm going to fly in this direction out of it. The cone was over this way. Yeah, I will go on a diagonal so that I'm on the other side of the triangle instead of the one I'm on now. Okay, you have a movement of 60, you said? Yeah. Super crazy. Kind of around here where of the one I'm on now. Okay, you have a movement of 60, you said? Yeah. Super crazy? Kind of around here where the light is going, I guess.

Yeah, you could do that. Yeah. This map. Yeah, that's good. It's all ready. And I'm going to use a bonus action to shout out, you arrogant bastard, you died to save these people. You're not going to kill them now.

All right, make a persuasion check. That is a 21. 21. That would succeed, but he has already used all of his legendary action. So he's spent. Yes. And then I will take a palm full of iron shavings

and grind my hand through it and cast Gravity Fissure through space straight out in 100-foot range. Used one for the teleport and then used... I think you have one more. Oh, you're right, you did have one more. Because you have four, right? You're correct.

So you did actually get rid of that. Right. So Gravity Fissure, 100-foot range, and it's a potion of Maximum Power, so it is just a full 64 force damage. You are correct. Let's go ahead and make that save. That is a failure.

He's going to use Legendary Resistance to succeed, because he can. Good, good. Which brings it to, what did you say it was, 60? 32. All right, 34 points. 64, half to 32. 32 points of force damage. All the eyes are drawn into the body

as his face is still looking at you. Yeah. Shakes it off and everything flows out back once more, just drifting in space. Starting to see a little bit of wear and tear. End of turn. Yes. All right. End of turn. Yes. All right.

Finishing Caleb's go, Yasha, you're up. Man. You've got a few targets here. Who do you want to pick? Because you want to defend Lucien. Go hard. In this moment, you look to your friends and you watch as their faces turn into these solid red eyes,

like the creatures of the Somnovem infecting on the streets of Cognouza. These aren't your friends. These are the enemy. Pick between Fjord or Beau, your choice. Can I roll? Or technically Jester, because you do have haste, which means you can travel twice the speed.

So yeah, if you want to roll. Okay, what should I roll? Roll a d6. One, two, three, four, five, six. There you go. Five? That's me. Oh, baby.

Here we are again. Okay. Oh no! Why is it always you two fighting each other? Flowing through the ether of the Astral Sea. Try to get the other kidney this time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. It's still rough, yeah. Holy Avenger at the ready.

I'm going to pick one that I feel like doesn't roll well. Hold on, I'm going to pick one for my back. It's not going to turn on you. You know it's just going to turn on you. I know it is, I know it is. Just let me have it. Natural one. I love you! I love you.

I love you! So that's your first attack? Oh, fuck. Oh, yeah, that's right. You're hasted. So technically, you get three attacks. Okay. Okay, so that's seven. So 19 total.

Missed. Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe! Natural one. Bitch! Jeez! That's the power of love! Back and back once. Never have you been so happy.

I just flash my titties real quick as a distraction. I'm like, no, don't, don't, don't. I should start a new vibe. It is tried and true. She's got two Cobalt Soul tassels. Yeah. Yep. For the style of Shuriken. Yeah, she just had her. Yep.

Yasha just. Whoa! I stick on with Earthquake Puppy? Even the Knowing Mentor has got a secret. All righty. I believe that finishes your turn, Yasha. That does finish my turn. Sorry. Do I? I do it a second time.

Yeah, she's like, aw. Can I? I can't roll out of being charmed, right? There's not a save for this at the moment. There's not a save, okay. You're not quite sure how to break it. I'm sorry. That finishes your go, Yasha.

It is now Essek's go. Essek, frustrated, is going to go ahead and is going to cast a spell magic on you, actually. He's going to go ahead and, seeing this happen as you're attacking, it's going to go ahead and reach up. Yasha, be free of this influence! And scattering his hand,

you see these shards of black energy, almost like magic missiles, arc off, and looking like they're about to strike you like weapon, instead crackle across the surface of you, and... Hell yeah! Now that works! It's an 18. Yes! looking like they're about to strike you like weapon, instead crackle across the surface of you, and... Hell yeah, now that works. It's an 18. You're fine? You're okay? The charm is removed from you.

You're still hasted, but the charm is now dispelled off of you. I give a quick kiss to Beau. Okay. I mean, I know that's probably an action. I love reaction. As it goes, aw. As we know.

And then darts behind the tower. I'm so confused. Beau's showing a tits and getting kisses in the middle of the fight. It's very confusing. Tideus for the win, once again. All right, that finishes Essek's turn. Caduceus, you're up. Veth, you're on deck.

I want to head straight towards Beau. Straight towards Beau? Straight towards Beau, Straight towards Beau. Full speed. Flying up as well? Yep. Okay, you won't get straight, you won't get quite to her.

I'm going to burn my action to... Oh, okay. To get, and to get to Beau, and then once I, I'm just going to do a quick tag, and then I'm going to fly towards us, or towards me, after I do the tag, just sort of open us up a bit. Interesting.

So you're... I'm using my bonus action to calf. or towards me after I do the tag, just sort of open us up a bit. Interesting. So you're? I'm using my bonus action to calf. Where did it go? Why don't I keep the things that I want to save? Holy weapon. Okay. Tag.

Hell yes. That's a d4 to everything, right? That's a 2d8 radiant per attack. And you're just pulling back? I'm pulling towards me, so I'm like, not back, I'm going to, yeah. Actually, a little closer to, just gonna. A little closer to you?

Yeah, towards that little witch's cone, thank you. Okay. You can get about there. Or like that little hooky thing, yeah, right behind the hooky thing. There you go. All right, that finishes your go, Caduceus. Yep. Veth, you are up.

So yeah, extra 2d8. Hell fucking yes. I'm going to put this on you. Go-Regard to just connotate the holy enchantment there. Thank you. Yeah, in theory, if it goes into the anti-magic, it'll pop back up if you, because you die not in. As long as you're not in. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

That's actually good. With Mage Hand, Ledgered Mane, you can use the bonus action granted by your cunning action to control the hand. I can't cast Mage Hand with? Correct, you already have to have it out. Already have to have it out. I cannot attack this guy

unless I get sneak attack damage. It is a waste. It is a waste. It's a waste of me. He's already burned through all of his legendary actions this turn. Yeah, bonus action. Correct. He burned through a couple of them, and you guys burned through the rest.

Yeah. It's a waste. I can't hide, we're flying. I could try to hide. I can attempt to hide behind a creature larger than me, but I feel like with nine eyes, he'd see me go there. So maybe that's not a great idea. Try what you like, bud.

I'm going to very quickly be small and silly. Be right back. Oh my god. I know. If you want to, we're probably going to go to break after this is sitting. Be right back. I know. If you want to, we're probably going to go to break after this combat round, so we can take a break. I have to pee so bad. That's what I'm saying. I just keep seeing other people pee. We'll come back and-

Wait, wait, where are you? Jester, are you? Oh, you're not up on him. I'm on the other side. But wait, is your thing on him? Duplicate's on him. My duplicate is on the underside of him. That counts as an ally. I think it only counts for her, not for the other people, unfortunately.

Maybe? Yeah, because it's not distracting him in combat. That's the whole point. And I put him in a place that I hope he doesn't notice. Unless he has a fear. Could you hold to one of the melee people? Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. I'll move, I'll go towards Caleb and beyond him.

Okay. Just closer to Mollymauk. And I'll use my bonus action to just, oh, it won't make any difference because he's gone through all of his legendary. I'll just say, I miss you! I miss you, Mollymauk, we all do. Keep going past Caleb to the other side.

Okay. And then I will hold my action until Lucien is in melee combat with one of my allies. Okay, so you have your crossbow at the ready? Readying it for the moment. Yes. You've got him. All right, that brings us to the end of the combat round. And we're going to go ahead and take a break.

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Lucien gets his legendary actions back. Nice. He's going to go ahead and begin the round by... He's going to go ahead and... You know what? He's going to invite it in. He's going to keep this in a wide spread here. Gross. Feels good about that. Feels good!

Tilt it slightly this way. Just a little bit of moon. Widespray. Yeah, keep it there. All right. And it's going to go ahead and go into the Gaze of the Sun. I'm going to choose three different eyes to strike. Starting with...

Let's do... to strike, starting with... Let's do... Kulpasi. Oh, oh. Shifts over towards you, Beauregard. Oh, oh. I need you to go ahead and make a constitution saving throw minus the number of eyes you have. Okay. Very good.

A what save, a what kind of roll? Constitution. Constitution. Okay, okay, okay. Hop, hop. Okay. Not a good. 22. No, wait. Minus eyes. Minus three.

So 19. 19. Fail. I will spend a ki point. To reroll? To reroll and hope I roll over a 14. Okay. Let me just mark that off.

With 26 ki points. Please roll higher. Please roll higher. She loses a ki point for every eye she has. Nope, that's lower. Ooh. Okay. Got to roll a 20 on Kolbasa. Kolbasa!

You suddenly become wracked with guilt. The memories of accidentally attacking Yasha pop into your mind. The things you've done in your past, all the elements of life that you feel a failure at become swimming through your mind. While you are wracked with guilt, and only one creature can be wracked with guilt at a time,

you have disadvantage on saving throws, and we'll figure out what the rest does when it comes time. Oh! Fuck! Disadvantage on saving throws right now. Okay, okay, okay. Dis-save throws.

Ah, guilt! Fluffernutter. I hate myself. I got it, I got it. Nothing's changed. It's our only hope. Honestly, Beau feels right at home. Yeah.

No effect. Yeah. You feel no change. Yeah. I mean, look, we joke, but there's no immediate change, is there? Fastedun shifts over towards you, Jester. Needs you to make a constitution saving throw for me. Oh, this is the necro.

Oh no. Oh no. Oh no, no, no, no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no! Oh no. Oh no, no, no, no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no! Oh no. Did you roll a natural one? Oh no!

Shit. That's okay, though. That's just a hit. I'm instantly dead. No. Shut. You shut up, Bailey. A little gorgeous blue tiefling head. When the eyebrows go up. Studies micro-expressions. Bad things follow.

Yeah. It does nothing, that's a lot. Protect me, Sprinkle! Sprinkle darts in front and he takes the beam. You take 59 points of necrotic damage. Whoa! As you feel the sickening impact of Fastedan's disgust for your existence

begin to wither your spirit and physical body, and you begin to just shrivel up in space, floating listlessly for about a moment before you catch yourself. I feel so shriveled. And my fingers are pruney. Oh no! And? 59 points. That's crazy.

Miramis. Miramis. Is going to go ahead and swish over Oh, yeah. towards you. Caleb. Caleb, no! Swish, swish, swish. What does the protect? Fox say?

Yeah, I will tell you. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da! Pop culture reference! The barrier prevents aberrations from entering or affecting anything within the cylinder. Beyond that? It moves with me. A creature can attempt to overcome the barrier by using an action to make a DC 15 charisma check.

On a success, the creature ceases to be affected by the barrier, but it takes an action to do that. Good to know. No effect. No effect. Ooh! Yeah! Was that the first Miramis eyeball we saw? No effect. No effect. Ooh! Yeah!

Was that the first Miramis eyeball we saw? Indeed. We don't got anything. No idea what it did. No idea what it did. Since it repelled the effect, as the eye withdraws, it looks over towards Lucien, who looks at the eye and then back at you. Interesting. I don't like it. With a smile.

Yeah, that's what people think about our show. That means he's horny. That's all three of the eye runs in that one. So that's going to, Lucien's going to go ahead and shift. Is he folding time and space again? Nope. He can move. He can fly. He's just going to move a little further away.

In that corner. The way he was pointing the cone, or is he still a little faster? The cone remains this direction there. He can multitask. Okay. Is that a 60-foot cone? Yes, it is.

Is that a 60-foot cone? All right, finishing. Beau, you're up. Jester, you're on deck. It's a crazy task. Is that a 60-foot cone? Yes, it is. Is that a 50-foot cone? All right, finishing. Beau, you're up. Jester, you're on deck. Okay. Pop. Pop? Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, I'm going to get there.

I wonder what this other shit is. I have theories. So he's over, yeah. Is it going to fuck my shit? What are your theories? My theory is you're going to take damage when you do damage. Is it going to fuck my shit? What are your theories? My theory is you're going to take damage when you do damage. I'm going to take damage when?

That's my theory. That's actually probably exactly what it is. Okay, I'm going to Step of the Wind. Step of the Wind? All right. I have nothing to back that up. With your intelligence is, once again? 19. 19, yeah. So you're going almost a full 60, so.

Yeah, I feel like I'm just under... Just under 60, you're 55. 60. So you... So do I need to step in the wind? You do, because you only get about there. All right. That's 60 feet? That's 60 feet from where you were. All right, step in the wind.

Let's get there. Are you getting right up in front? Can I flank him, get to his butt? I'd recommend it, because that is where the... Yeah, that's where that eyeball is. I want to stay away from his eye. You got it. I'm going to get to his butt. Pop, pop. Yeah.

I'm going to get to his butt. Going to get to his butt. All right, I'm going to punch him. Tugboat incoming. With my holy fists. Just a bag of holy fists. Go for it. Before that happens, he's going to use his reaction to cast Bloodmaledict, Curse of the Eyeless on you.

Oh, because you got in range. Oh shit. So. Curse of the Eyeless. But I'm not Eyeless. He's going to go ahead. I'm not Billy Eyeless. No, you're not. Kill me now.

Yeah, that's the plan. In that moment, Lucien, I'm going to end you. Is this a? He just bends to the back. Well played. Oh, he bends to the back. Well played.

All righty, he does take 10 damage as he reaches up and claws across the chest a bit, and blood seems to gather as you're rushing towards, flying around, and right as you go into punch, flicks it towards you and it spatters your eyes, just go dark, and you just try and flail. So all of your attacks are reduced by 10. Oh!

Whoa! Brutal! Matt rolled that dice and his face lit up like crystal. Yeah. I literally rolled 10 twice in a row for the damage he took and the reduction of the attacks. So anyway, go for it. The hit to hit is reduced by 10?

Correct. Or the damage? Wow. The hit. Wow. What did you say? Don't worry about it. Oh fuck, you got to roll so high in order to... All natural 20s. Am I missing something? Am I missing something? All natural 20s, come on, Beau.

All right, all right, all right, minus 10. All right, first one. What else can you do besides hit things? I can't do, I'm just, you've been with me a whole campaign, this is what I do. At least the bonus action, you'll be able to, yeah. To say words? Say words.

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. That doesn't hit, that's 13 damage, or 13 to hit. Misses. The first one. Same exact roll. Swinging wide in space, making no impact as your sight is robbed from you in the moment. Thanks for your holy weapon. It's very, very, I'm sorry, I couldn't use it. Cool, I'll just whisper in his ear.

Concentrating. Because I'm behind him. I'll get up and I'll use my bonus action to say, still have to spend those drink tokens at the Blushing Tankard in Hupperduke. You owe me a drink. Okay. That's your bonus action.

Go ahead and make a persuasion check with advantage. Drink token bonus action. Because you are right up in his face. A natural 20! Nice. So 21 total. As you're swinging wide, and as your vision comes back,

and you see this in his face, he goes and reaches up to backhand you, and then stops. Dark and stormies. Loses a legendary action. All right. Because she's in range, I will spring and fire my shot.

Go for it. 12 plus 12, that's 24. 24 hits. Okay. Do some damage. You still helped, even though you failed. Thank you. That's my motto.

10. 20. Technically, you did 10 damage. 30. 20. Technically, you did 10 damage. 30. Technically. 36. That's blood maledicts. 43 points of damage.

Woo-hoo! Yes. Nice. You're so bad. I felled that one. Sucks, doesn't it? Sorry. All right, that finishes your reaction. Beauregard, that finish your turn?

Yeah. Did he hit me before? I wouldn't have, I don't think he did. I don't think I would have advantage on any of those attacks. Yeah, all right, cool. That's, yeah, that's. Well, you took a fireball, so you would've gotten the first one.

It probably won't do anything, but just in case, nope. Okay, fair enough, good enough. But you have your vision back. And as you gather that smug, pulls back, gets shot by Veth, snarls over at Veth, and then turns back to you. And then just looks away. And as he looks away, all the eyes shift away except for one.

He's going to go ahead and use legendary action to. Yeah, we'll do the Fester Dunn. Go ahead and make a constitution saving throw for me, please. I hate all of them. With disadvantage, because you are racked. With shame and guilt. That one's, well, that one's cocked, but it's, no, it's bad.

Uh, no. Okay. No. No. You take. Wait. Can I reroll? If I reroll it, would it just be one extra die, or would I reroll at disadvantage as well for this? Let's double check that feature of the monk.

For the saving throws. It's been a little bit. It's been a little bit. Yeah, no, no, this is a tricky one. That is a quandary. Just a double check. Because I get to roll after it's failed. I feel like ignore the disadvantage.

To re-roll it and take the second one. So you roll it again with disadvantage. Oh. It's not add or die. That's what luck does, so. I'm not going to do it. Not going to do it? Okay.

No, no, I mean it's disadvantage. Constitution saving throw. God, I would have to roll so high. Fuck it, I'm doing it, I'm doing it, I'm doing it. I'm going to do it. Okay. I'm going to try, I'm going to try. Do I have anything? Do I have anything? What are you using?

I can use a ki point. Nope, nope, two sixes, nope. Okay, take 48 points of necrotic damage. As you feel your skin begin to blister and pull back, dark spots begin to form at the joints. As you feel your life begin to blister and pull back, dark spots begin to form at the joints. As you feel your life force begin to wither. Fuck. That hurt.

Okay. Question for you. When you do these eye shots, are they attack rolls or are they just abilities? They're just abilities. Got it. All righty, that finishes Beau's turn. Jester, you're up.

Fjord, you're on deck. This is probably stupid, but I'm going to try it. I'm going to reach up with my duplicate and grab ahold of his ankle, and I'm going to cast Contagion. Contagion, okay. At advantage. At advantage?

Because I haven't taken my hit yet against him, so I've got advantage on this attack. It's an attack roll? It's an attack roll. All right, ooh. All right, all right, all right. That would be all right. So that's a 22 to hit?

22? Just hits. Ooh! Okay. Okay. Okay. At the end of a creature's turns, it has to make a save. I'm going to go ahead and mark. It's officially, he's poisoned. Hey, that's great!

Yeah, and at the end of every one of his turns, he has to make a save. Does he take damage, too? Well, depends. Depends on if he saves in the time. Okay, okay, okay. Okay. So that finishes, that's your action.

Yes. Two legendary actions down. From my bonus action? Just so you're aware of this ability, the effect takes place once it fails all three. I know. Cool. I know, I'm just. Just making sure you know.

Yeah, that's. That's good. I realize that, but I'm hoping that he fails three times in a row. He does have three legendary saves, though. Well, maybe this will eat them up. There you go. That's true.

All right, so that finishes, that's your action. For my bonus action, I'm going to say, I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to stay where I am, and I'm going to say, Molly, I've never forgiven myself for not being there when you died. I wish I could have saved you. I wish I could have saved you.

I wish I could have done something. Make a persuasion check. 24. 24, damn. This is another legendary action. At this moment, clutches the sides of his horns and yanks them for a second, he goes, Would you please stop saying that name?

All right. You want to move or stay put? Um, I'm going to float down to the rooftop. Okay, onto the rooftop? Yeah. All right. Just because I feel like it looks cool. There you go. Okay. Sorry about that microphone.

All right, that finishes your turn, Jester? Yeah. At the end of your turn, he's going to use his last legendary action to go ahead and let's do... Hmm. Legendary Action, to go ahead and let's do... Let's try Miramiss again, since that one didn't function too well the first time. It's going to go ahead and aim for...

It's going to aim for you, since you're the one that just ticked them off. So as Miramiam shifts over, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw. You have no eyes, so no penalty to the save. Right. 26. 26, you succeed.

Still don't know what it does. I don't know what it does, but it's a wisdom save. All right. Finishing gestures go. Fjord, you're up. Caleb, you're on deck. Yeah. Okay. Still slowed. Movement halved.

Only an attack or a bonus. That was his last legendary action. Can you poof? I am going to will myself towards the tower on the side that's opposite of me where your hand is, and I'm going to peek, no, down. Oh, down? Yeah, I'm going to peek

inside the window that's on your side of the tower. Okay, heading over to that side. What can I see? Glancing inside the tower, you see what looks to be a floor of shifting skin and teeth that just seems to be settling in its space. I am too clumped up with you guys,

and I am getting rocked out here doing nothing, and I will cast Far Step, and I will bamf inside the tower through the slit in the window. You've got it. Nice. You went into the flesh tower, through the slit. Boop.

There you go. Don't suppose there's a giant anti-slow potion inside the tower, is there? Battle Royale map? No. Yeah. No, sorry. Figured. Sorry, not so much. All right.

That's my turn. All right, go ahead and make a save. A save? Oh, for the end of your turn. Yeah. Dexterity, right? Dexterity, yep. 11. 11. Oof.

Stays there. All right, finishing Fjord's go. Caleb, you're up. Yasha, you're on deck. Did I hear you utter the words last legendary action a moment ago? Correct. Okay. I'm going to beeline with my mind towards Beauregard and drag my aberrant protection over her so if I can

get adjacent to her. Say you're like five feet below her to get her in the collar. I don't know if that negates what she's going through. I hope it does and I'm just going to hold my tongue for now and I'm going to cast slow. Okay. That is a... That's whiz, right? On four. On four, definitely. Yeah.

That would be a natural one. It's going to burn a legendary save to save. That's good. I don't have to be able to see it. Mission accomplished. That's the end of my turn. All right, finishing Caleb's go. That brings us to Yasha with Essek on deck.

Okay. Good. That was great. Yeah, huge. That was the goal. Okay, I'm going to Use two? We don't know how many he has. get on over to Lucien. Get on up. Okay, you Yeah, fuck. Get on up.

Okay. You are hasted, so your intelligence is? 12. 12, so you can move about, we'll say, 35 feet. Hasted is double. So that puts you at? 70 fucking feet. 70 feet will put you actually right up into melee.

Great. Or five feet away, shit. You're just out of range, just out of reach. Bitches. Okay. And you're still in the cone anyway, which negates symmetrical properties of your weapons. If you want to use an action,

you could dash and move to the side. You'd only get your hasted attack, but it's better than no attacks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's still something. Okay, so I'll go to the side so I can still... I was going to say, is there a flank that exists? Well, if I were there. Caleb, which doesn't work.

No. Yeah. Nah. No. Yeah. Nah. Okay. First and foremost, I am going to let out a battle cry. Okay. So 10 creatures within 60 feet.

In 60 feet? That's everyone, but... Now that gets Jester. So everybody except for Caduceus and Essek. Okay. And Fjord, because Fjord is inside the tower and too far out of the range. So you get advantage on attack rolls and saving throws. Ah, that's great.

That's huge. All saving throws. That's huge. Yes. For the next round. Just for one round. For the next round, till my next turn. Battlecry? Mm. Yeah. That would put you at normal. We're all on a raise. Yes.

So at least she won't get disadvantage now. Okay, so. And that's through Yasha's next turn? Yes. Yes. Thank you. So now I'm going to take my attack. Which one, which one, which one, which one? Thank you.

Let's go this one. Okay, that would be 25 to hit. 25 to hit, that hits. Show me some tiny dice. Three grains of salt. Roll. Three grains of salt. Roll. Three grains of salt. I'm going to do Savage Attacker.

Get a Jeweler's Eye, please. That thing. It's cocked. Ooh, that's a little better. Okay. So that is 34 points of damage. Slick! He's looking rough. He's starting to look a little rough.

Hey! Really? Yeah, starting to show some wounds, some gashes. Starting to show some wounds. I believe that's all I can do. Yeah, I look like I show some wounds when I trip and fall. Yeah, that's your bonus. That's it.

I'm just a perpetual wound. That finishes your go. Finishing Yasha's. That's your bonus. That's it. I'm just a perpetual wound. That finishes your go. Finishing Yasha's go, it is now Essek's turn. Essek, frustrated with the distance now at this point. Can move fast. You can move pretty quick. I am fucked right now.

You know what? He's going to go ahead and dart over this way, about 60-ish feet there, and he's going to go ahead and, at that distance, just full-on high-level magic missile fuck this shit. Oh yeah. He's going to go ahead and use a 5th-level magic missile. Not even having to roll for shit, no saves, nothing. You're within my shell of anti-adherence, so maybe all your stuff is negated, maybe. Not bad. Maybe.

You can punch him from right where you are. Plus your blood hex is gone. It only lasted for, yeah, it's not that, it's the minus 10 situation. That should be all right. That was a hex. It went away. Oh, that was a hex? One round. Oh, I thought that was the shame. No, no, no, no. No.

Oh, I was getting confused on what they did. I mean, your shame is still real. But the shame is, well, of course. Yeah. Shame never leaves. Tried to bury my shame for two campaigns. 23 points of force damage to Nottaghan. 22 points of force damage?

23 points of force damage to Nottaghan from Essek. Essek is out there in the open now at this point, but is now just holding that space there. Finishing Essek's go, Caduceus, you're up. Yeah, you're on. What does 60, my speed is 25 feet? Your speed would be 25 feet, yeah. Well, what does 50 feet look like, out of curiosity?

50 feet puts you at about there. Oh god, I feel like we're all clumping up around. I'm going to use the laser to show where I would like to go, since I can't do shit this round. Use the laser. I'm going to go right over here. Okay, 50 feet, just move and dash?

Yeah, actually, a little. Closer here? No, the opposite direction. Oh, this way? Just to have a little cover. Yeah, I'm probably going to drop down a bit just to have a little cover, so I'm not, the opposite direction. Oh, this way? Just to have a little cover. Yeah, I'm probably going to drop down a bit just to have a little cover so I'm not in the spray zone. Can I see Fjord inside that room? You saw Fjord vanish.

Oh, so I don't know where Fjord is. Okay, never mind. Do I have anything else I can do? It gets you about there, is about as far as you can get, but you're down a little lower. Not that it'll probably help, but I'll cast Hidden Step at the beginning of that,

so I'm just going to be invisible, not that it's going to work until the next round. Sure, keep that in mind. So, in theory, he may not know where I am. There you go. All righty, Veth finishes your go, Caduceus. Veth, you're up. I will fire a crossbow bolt at him.

Yeah! See, that's the good thing about being a shooter is that you know what you're going to do. Yeah. What's up? I could throw a fluffernutter, but I'll blow up all my friends, so I won't back. As far as the placement of it? Yeah.

The cone would have been about there, so you're like, yeah, you're like, just outside of it. You're still going to shoot an arrow. All right, here goes. That's not great. Advantage. Advantage.

That's way better. 30 to hit. 30 to hit, that hits. Sneak attack! Yeah, oh yes. Oh god,, that hits. Sneak attack. Yeah, oh yes. Oh god, I can't even hold them all. 10. 20, ooh, not great. 26 plus seven is 33.

33. 33 points of damage. Damn, all righty. Bonus action firing again. Go for it. With advantage? Yeah, all attacks. Woo! Okay, that's a 25 to hit.

25 to hit, that definitely hits. And that's another 10 points of damage. So from the one bolt that's sticking through at that point, you see him glancing around and grabs at that one to pull it out. Another one gets on that shoulder as he's pulling this one free,

looks back at you, and just flexes, and both the other bolts just go out. You're not my type, but maybe you are? And I will come open to new things. You've known him all along. Put some Minotaur to shame. If I go that way, if I truck that way at all, I'm going to be entering the cone, right?

If you truck this way directly, you'll be avoiding it. I'll do that. How far back you go? You know, 30 feet. There you go. Wait, do I want to be in the cone? Can he hit me in the cone? He can still hit me in the cone.

His abilities do not seem to be affected by the cone. Got it, got it, got it. Okay, yeah, that's where I'll go. They are a source beyond arcane elements. Well then, in that case, actually, I can't go across the cone. Can I cut across the cone? You could probably, if you wanted to do that instead.

I'll cut across the cone and try to get, yeah, over there. That'll get you just past the cone. Cool. Put it about there. Okay. A little squished there. A little clumpy?

Yeah, a little. All right, that finishes your go? Yep. All right, now it's back to Lucien's turn. He's listening to your reactions back. Top of his turn. He's going to go ahead and use his, well, actually, let's see if that's back.

It does. It's going to go ahead and reach out towards you, Yasha. That is going to be a 23 to hit. It hits. I need you to make a constitution saving throw for me, please. No, not again. God, wisdom match. This isn't the wisdom one, so.

Yeah, you're beefy barbarian. I don't think I made it, guys. That's, um, that's, um. With advantage and stuff? With advantage, I rolled a three and a four. Oh! For a total of? Shit. Uh...

11. No, that's a failure. Reaches down and grabs you by the face, not even the neck, but the front of your forehead, and lifts you up into the space. You watch as Lucien's eyes go from the deep red to a bright white flash, and your brain is seared with psychic energy.

The chaotic thoughts of the entire city pierce your mind and consciousness at once. Blood begins to pour from Yasha's nose and ears and mouth. You take... 51 points of psychic damage. Oof. Okay. Oh!

Psychic damage. And you are stunned. Oh, he did that thing. And you are stunned. Stunned means I can't do shit. You can't do anything. Yeah, you're... You're doing that to the lot of us. Gerd Durmant.

Okay. Yeah, clearing the field real well. And then two more gazes of the Somnovem. Actually, you know what? He's going to try and move away from Beauregard and Yasha. You can't react because you're stunned, but you do get an attack of opportunity. God damn it, can I, can I? Wait, wait, wait.

Wait. Wait. Wait. Hang. Wait. Hang on a minute. All right, I'm hanging on. What you got? The, okay, I don't know how this works because I've never used it, because I just attuned to it

because the ring of protection thing. Now's a good time. So the Code of the Crest says, whenever you are the target of an attack, you can use your reaction to gain resistance to the damage from the triggering attack? Correct. You can. So is there something I can do with that?

Yeah, so you take half of the psychic damage from that strike. You're still stunned. I'm still stunned? Okay. But still, okay. So you take, was it 51? So it's 25 points of psychic damage. Okay. That's way better.

So that's way better. Still stunned. Still stunned, okay. But that's definitely a buff. That's awesome. Okay So that's way better. Still stunned. Still stunned, okay. But definitely a buffer. That's awesome. Okay, okay. All right. All right, all right. Well done, well played. I can only do it once, though, so.

Hey, that helps. That's a pretty big one. 50-point hit, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beauregard, you have just a roll on this. No advantage or disadvantage because of the yell. Just a straight, so the disadvantage is still because of the shame? Correct. I thought that was just on saving throws, but no?

No. Oh wait, no, that is just saving throws, you're right. So yeah, disadvantage. I totally forgot about that. Also question, does my aberrant bubble do anything for her since she's in it? It does not negate things that currently exist. It's the process of trying to affect it.

Okay. It's not an anti-magic. Oh, it doesn't dump out. Thanks, though, Lemur. Okay, but advantage on this, advantage on this. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, 27 to hit. That definitely hits, so he can't leave.

Oh, nice. Yeah! And just go, nope! And you add 2d8. And I add 2d8? Yes. Hell yeah. So that regular damage is 12 bludgeoning damage, and then I didn't roll great. Five radiant damage.

That'll do it. But it's something. Five radiant damage, you've got it. So that keeps him engaged and looking over the shoulder. Okay, he's going to use the other two, two other gazes here. God, he gets two more gazes! Correct, because he only did the grab this turn so far on you. What?

So that's going to go ahead and... He's going to grab and a gaze. Yep, grab and a gaze. Grab and a gaze! He's going to go ahead and glance over. Oh, and he does shift the cone this way, facing over towards you both. Gazing my way.

Ah, that's it. Which I will say does reduce the extra five holy damage would not have happened because you were currently in the zone at the top of the turn, so. Wait, wait, his zone? Yes, he shifted it over to your direction. He shifted it to me.

At the top of the turn is when it happens. You and Caleb. Yes. We are under Sauron's eyes. Correct. It's still the damage, the bludgeoning damage, it's not the holy on top of that. Only five points. I swear I will make this worth your spell slot.

To be fair, it's keeping him irritated. It really is. He's going to go ahead and goddess is going to swish over towards Essek. Oh! Essek gets advantage on the saving throws, which is good because that was not enough. 17, 15.

Essek fails. Oh no, oh no, Essek. As. Oh no. As Essek is over there in the air. He's fine. Floating. All of a sudden, looks up. The eyes widen with this faint reddish-orange energy. Oh no.

Then looks aggressively towards the rest of you. Oh no. Shit. Oh no. Getting a peek into the alternate timeline that we could have had. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Oh god. This is a charm spell or a? Yes, yes. It's a charm effect, yeah.

It needs a dispel. And with that, he's going to go ahead and set up for the second one, which is going to be another Fastodon, since that's the big damage dealer. If I can have Jester go ahead and set up for the second one, which is going to be another Fastodon, since that's the big damage dealer. Hey! If I can have Jester go ahead and roll another constitution saving throw for me, please.

Oof. This is that necro shit. I failed it again. Okay. Sorry. No, you're not. Why does he got to look at me like that when he says it? It's not nice. Right?

It's not nice. That's his way of saying it's not. Poison or something? It's not kind. It's not kind. Okay, he's not Ronan. He doesn't need to learn what kind is. It's not nice. He doesn't care.

It's not nice. 40 points of necrotic damage to you. Didn't roll that high on that one, but. Four zero. You grab the top of the rooftop, your breath escaping your lips for a second. You feel like you're about to pass out and catch yourself and stand back up to your feet.

And that's going to end Lucien's turn. All righty. It's a hell of a turn. Beau, you're up. Jester, you're on deck. Great job, great job. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I want to shift around to where I'm not in his gaze. All righty.

Whatever that. That could move you to, oh god, Caleb's dead. Caleb! To this side there. Making Caleb back where he was. You angle it right, you get flanking from somebody. Tal. Is that a thing where I could try and like?

Taliesin. My first priority is to free you. You still have advantage on all your attacks, so. Oh, there you go, you don't even need it. Okay. You have to do the battle shout, so. Thanks. No worries.

All right. Keep leaning over the mic. Sorry, guys. It's not a visual. First pop. Oh no, wait, that is a seven. I thought it was a natural one and a natural 20, but it is a natural 20. Nice, all right.

I love this woman. Oh. Oh boy. I'm going to roll the damage on this one first, because it's double the damage die, including your holy weapon shit, right? Yep. Correct. Okay, so that's double the damage die, including your holy weapon shit, right? Correct. Okay, so that's, how many d8s am I holding? It's 2d8 of holy damage.

2d8 of holy damage. Oh god, oh god. Big roll, ah! Okay, that's good, good big rolls. Big good good rolls, big. Big good, big good. Jesus. Johnny Big Good. Big, big bad!

Big, big bad, big bad! Big good, chase me! That is 15 total. So 30, doubling the dice, plus seven for my initial, so 37 damage. 37 points of damage on the opening impact. Whack! As you wallop with the Staff or Fist, your choice, it flashes with the divine holy energy

and splashes across the impact zone, actually burning some of the skin on the outside of Lucien's body. And I just start, while I hit him with my second attack, just start going, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly. That's shit, shit, comparatively. Oh, but is it 22? 22 just hits. Just hits?

Boom! All right. I know! She's old, Somnovem. Oh yes! I see pride and shame at the same time. That's a little bit shitty of rolls. That is, sorry, seven, eight, nine. Nine regular damage, and then five holy damage.

Okay, got you. Pretty good, pretty good. Not bad. Does that include the plus seven in the roll? Thank you, Dad. Yeah, that's including plus seven, yeah. I know. I rolled the holy ones. The first one was so good. So 50 points of damage on an action, that's great. Yeah, that's including plus seven, yeah. I know. I rolled on the holy ones. The first one was so good.

So 50 points of damage on an action, that's great. Yeah, I know. And then, because I've got holy weapon and I'm able to hit him right now, I'm going to do Flurry of Blows. Flurry of Blows, go all in. Two more strikes to the advantage. Natural 20!

No way! This is the same one! This is the same one! This is the blue one! It's my same one! It's the blue one! It's my kobold blue one! I love, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So damage, damage first, damage.

I've never been more in love with her. Okay, that's good. Seven plus, we'll just do that one. No, shit. Seven plus five is? 12. 12. Plus three is shit. Seven plus five is 12. Plus three is 15. So 37 again.

There you go. 37 again total. Slick. Oh wow. Oh wow. And then final one, final one. Okay, okay. 25. Hits. Roll damage.

Okay. 10 plus, so 10 regular, and then for radiant, it's going to be... 13. So 23. 23. That is over 100 points of damage in one round. Yes!

Oh shit. Yes. Fantastic, fantastic. Mark shit. Yes. Fantastic, fantastic. There it is. And with each punch, you just go, Molly! Molly! Beating Molly out of him.

Okay. Beating Molly out of him. I can't even, I don't have diction. You're flogging the mollies. That's nice, that's nice. I just sound like Mark Ruffalo. Just. You got it, all right.

That finishes your turn? Yeah, yes. Okay. Wait, where am I? Can your turn? Yeah, yes. Okay. Wait, where am I? Can I stay? Should I stay or should I go now? Should I stay or should I go? Lucien's got to go. I'm going to stay, I'm going to stay.

Finishing Beau's turn. Great turn. As you just pummel the shit out of Lucien, he reaches to try and grab at your arm and you just parry to the side and whack, whack, right in the jaw. SAM and LAURA, SAM and LAURA, You know there are demonic elements to Molly Lucien's physicality. In this moment, the demon flares up

and you truly see the terrifying visage of the bloodline that long came before this entity. And is going to go ahead and spend a legendary action to fold space. And vanishes. Oh no. Teleporting. Scaredy cat.

Yeah. That one? Mark it there. Scaredy cat. Scaredy cat. Scrooge is a scaredy cat. Scaredy cat out of the way. Yeah, yeah. That does leave Jester's.

He just bathed into the middle of the map. I'm not squirrels gone. No, we were there with you. We were there with you. My duplicate is just floating upside down. Yep, so your duplicate is just chilling. Whee! Oh wow, yeah, we're going to, yeah.

Duplicate's just over here. Over here. It's a bit sad. Duplicate? Yeah. It's an upside down duplicate. It's a bit better. Duplicate? Yeah. It's an upside down duplicate. It's an upside down duplicate. All right, that's the reaction there. Let's get us two.

Did you do your poison save? Yeah, your poison save against contagion. At the end of your turn. Oh, that's right, that's right. Your poison save. That's a constitution? Yeah. 18?

18 is what you need. So he saves. Okay. It's fine, he's got two more. Okay. It's like a best out of five. Exactly. All right, so finishing the end of that,

Jester, your turn, Fjord, you're on deck. Okay, having seen Fjord not doing shit in this fight, I'm going to hope that he's within 120 feet of me, and I'm going to cast Dispel Magic on Fjord. Do you have to see the target? Nope. Yep. I think you have to look at what you're dispelling

to dispel it. It just says within range. It doesn't say anything about visual. Interesting. We just went through this. Yeah. All righty. All right. So shit, Fjord, come on, man. Dispel that, go ahead and roll a d20

and add your wisdom modifier. Okay. For casting at base level. Come on. I'm going to cast it at fourth level. Okay. That was amazing. Didn't even look at it. All right, go ahead and roll. I wonder what it landed on.

I think I would've succeeded, but it doesn't matter. Okay. That was... Do I roll again? Yeah, no, yeah, slow roll. At 4th? At 4th? 4th? Shit. Do I roll again? Yeah, yeah, slow roll. At four? Four?

Okay, I'll roll it again. No problem. No problem. Easy, you got it. Okay, 19? 19 does it, you are no longer slow. Oh! Yes, okay. Fucking three, yes!

Finally! It has happened to me. And I'm going to start singing. I'm going to sing. Molly, you gave your life to save us. Why are you attacking us now? Fight it, Molly! Make a persuasion check.

Come on. What is this? I can add 17? 17. After he appears and you shout that over, looks over. He's dead. He never really existed. You're shouting into nothing, my dear. Just like you'll be soon enough. Then why is this working?

The eyes. Uh-oh. He doesn't like me. I am rubbering your glue. Does that finish your turn? Wait, wait, wait. Oh. I'm going to float down below the ridgeline of that roof

and hide on the other side of it, away from his view. Okay. Yeah, right there. Uh-oh, there you go. Where'd you go? The eyes that were focused on you? Just went to the rooftops. Slackened, since you are no longer in their visual range. So instead, I'm just going to go ahead and focus it as a reaction into the turn.

On you, Veth. Oh. Veth, I need you to make a constitution saving throw. No problem! Bitch. 19! 19? Fails. Goddamn.

That was minus the eye, right? No, that would be 18, 17. 17, still fails. All right. Still fails. I got to get this woman home for Christmas. We don't get advantage on our saving throws anymore. That was just for one turn, Yasha. That's gone. Just wisdom.

Just wisdom. Just wisdom now, okay. It's already been back to Yasha's turn since then. Is that true? No. No. Did you roll with advantage? Did not. Roll one more time. I don't think I can.

I'd have to roll a natural 20. Yeah, go for it. Natural 12. Oh! You fucking dick! You fucking dick! Asshole! Burn him. Burn him.

Burn him. Take 50 points of necrotic damage. Five-zero? Five-zero. But halved because of something? No. Evasion? Evasion doesn't matter for constitution saves. That's only for dex, buddy.

Uncanny dodge? Nah. Uncanny dodge, you. Uncanny dodge. You can reduce the damage of an attack by half. Is that how it is? Yes. I'm looking. This technically...

An attacker that you can see hits you with an attack. It's an attack roll, so technically, no. This would not be affected by that. It is not an attack roll. Technically, no. Okay. 50 points of whatever. I gave a little bit of leeway with your bullshit. It's all good. Bless you. But that's as far as I'm willing to bend. Technically, no. Okay. 50 points of whatever. I gave a little bit of leeway with your bullshit. It's all good. Bless you.

But that's as far as I'm willing to bend. No, no. Yeah! I haven't taken any damage this fight. I take the ruling. Yeah, but that means you're near half. I'm fine. You're fine. Yeah, you said that when you had two hit points. That finishes Jester's turn.

Fjord, you're up. I'm not controlled? I'm not attacking my friends or anything? No, you're just physically ravaged by necrotic energy. I've been physically ravaged before, and that wasn't even a minotaur. Goddamn it. I'll feel the slow drop from my form,

and I'll walk back over to the arrow window that I entered through, and peek up and see Lucien floating up there. With my bonus action, I will call out, Are you sure you don't want to hang a tie on the doorknob? You know, we could order some fruit snacks and have a lot of fun! We could get freaky!

Yes. Roll a persuasion check. With advantage. No. You're lucky it's not disadvantage. But I'm talking about the sex, yeah! Uh, 19? Ugh. 19. Not being in visual range,

the voice seems to scatter out into nothing and doesn't find purchase on Lucien, who just hearing it, chuckles. Now where are you hiding? No effect. Well, I'll answer that question and I'll be like, and I'll send three Eldritch Blasts from behind. Which you can do within this aerosol, which also gives you three quarters cover.

So any sort of attacks against you would have, you have plus five DRAC. Oh, oh, great. No advantage on these attacks, right? No. Although this is my first attack since he hit me last. So you do get advantage on this first one. Yeah. First one.

On the first one. Yeah. Fair enough. Wait, but wouldn't you get advantage on both? Because the battle cry? He wasn't within the battle cry. Ah, that's right. That, ah, that's right. It was just the hit thing. Nope.

22 to hit. 22 just hits. Yes! Okay, second one. Nope, that's only a 16. That was crap. And 28 to hit. Yeah, two hits.

Go ahead and roll damage. Yes, okay. I had to remember Hexblade's Curse. Hit, ha, hmm, hmm, it's a lock. 12 points of force damage. 10. 20 points of force damage. Nice.

Yes. Ah, there you are. Weep! Three quarters coverage, so yeah. You got it. Weep! Okay. You can probably duck into where you get full coverage unless it floats. That's probably true.

I'll just roll. You can roll over and you're fine. All right, that finishes Fjord's go. There's probably true. I'll just roll. You can roll over and you're fine. All right, that finishes Fjord's go. There's nobody in here! Caleb, you're up. Yasha, you're on deck. Okay, so for my bonus action, I'm going to think into Lucien's head. You were infuriating when you were with us, egg dick,

but at least you had charm. This is beneath you. Make a persuasion check. Egg dick. Egg a persuasion check. Egg dick. Egg dick! Egg dick. Oh! Yep, I'm going to use my fortune's favor.

Oh. That gets me to, where is it? 19. 19 is not enough. Ooh, wow! That's what I just did. And I will then wave my hand toward Essek and shout, wake up, and cast Dispel at 5th. Okay, casting where?

Dispel at Essek. Dispel at Essek? Yes. Okay, 5th? Yeah, that'll do it. Woo! Holy shit. Thank goodness. Holy crap. It's good to not deal with his shit. Man goodness. Holy crap.

It's good to not deal with his shit. Man, that was going to be fun, too. Essek, who was... No, no. Essek, you see, was already gathering this dark well of gravitational magic while staring forward suddenly and lets it dissipate. No, you can keep it, just point it at it.

Thank you. You shot from the window. There's no one in here! You're staying put, or? Do we, where's the cone at the moment? The cone is shifted back this way. I will move closer, but outside of it. I will move next to, where's Veth?

Hello? Veth is over here. In the cone. No, Veth is outside. Oh, outside the cone. I'm gonna, with my 60 flight speed from a brain, I'm gonna fly through the cone and hover just above Veth, or right next to Veth. Okay.

60 feet on there will get you, yeah, right next to Veth. Okay. 60 feet on there will get you, yeah, just next to Veth. Pardon my reach. You're not going to be able to make a sneak attack this round, are you? All right. If I can hide. Got it. All right. I don't have advantage.

Does that finish your go, Caleb? Yeah, that is it. End of your turn. You're going to take another legendary action. But it's over now. To go ahead and use... Nothing. Miramis on you, Beth.

Again. If only Fjord were looking. But you are in the radius, so. Huh? I'm in the radius? Because he moved next to you, so he's not going to use it on you. Ooh! But you said, you got to take it! No.

I said no. You want me to hold to that rule? No! No, no, no, no, no, no! I only got one turn every round. No, no, no, no, no, no! I only got one turn every round. No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Instead, it's going to go ahead and use it on Caduceus. All right, Caduceus, go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw, which you're still very good at, but we'll see.

With advantage. Minus one because of your eye. Two, because of my eye. That's right. I have pink eye. Do we all have pink eyes? 27. Yeah, yeah, you're fine. Pinkity dog. You're fine.

You just looked disappointed, Liam. Do you want to be something? I give parent disappointed as my reaction. Okay. Okay. The worst kind of disappointment. You're not mad. Yeah. I'm not mad.

I'm just disappointed. I'm sorry. From new me to old me, I'm just disappointed. My apologies. This wasn't mirror mist, this was a lattice. I think I said it right? No, you said you were going to mirror mist. I said mirror mist, I'm going to go with mirror mist. Yeah, you're fine, never mind.

I've intended differently. I'll go with what I said. Yeah, some, yeah. It's loosey-goosey. We're good. You don't want to redo it, it's okay, man. No, we're yeah. It's loosey-goosey. We're good. You don't want to redo it. It's okay, man. No, we're fine. You let us do it all the time. Is that all the legendary actions now?

Sure. All right, that finishes Caleb's go. Yasha, you are stunned. So that's your turn, I'm sorry. And stunning. All right, Yasha's turn finishes, which means everyone loses their things. Now he's going to use his last legendary action

to now do Elatus on you. Make an intelligence saving throw for me, please. Two in a row on Caduceus? Without advantage, because that wore off. I know. Well, it was Miramiss and then Elatus. Come on, Cad. You got this.

You're not the brightest. 15. Minus the? That is with minus. Yeah. As you're there, looking up disappointedly, you look over at the rest of the friends and you hear a familiar voice. Caduceus? You look up, and where Lucien was, you see Calliope.

She reaches out to you and says, Help me. And you feel this excitement to see your sister in the middle of this, and you rush towards her and are pulled 120 feet up until the point where you are now base to base with Lucien. 120 feet? Holy moly.

Or up until base to base with, so. That is a long way to pull something. So we'll say, for the purposes of this for now, you are essentially right there. Right in the junk. Hey, you get advantage now. Well, I don't think so. I don't think so, because you're not my ally anymore right now.

Is he charmed? No. No. Oh, you are still my ally. You just got pulled. I just got pulled in. You just got pulled. Also, you feel a slight tingle on your left shoulder. No! Dick!

That is that one. Is that three total or two? Three. So he's still my ally. Yeah. We'll find out. It's about to be my turn, so. You still have any, and you still don't have any. All right. No eyes?

Finishing Yasha's go. Now it's Essek's turn. Since Essek is in control of himself, but now with Caduceus in the way, can't do what he was planning to do. Staring up at the junk. Epic sculpt. Ooh.

Look at the paint, John. That is actually really funny. Caduceus is just staring right at his dick. Yeah. Well done, Russ. How was that, I guess? Well, that's a lot. Oh boy, that's a lot. Yeah, that's a lot.

That was... proud of that. It is. Just going to do another, just going to do a fourth level magic missile, because it's just the safest thing to do with you right there. Oh my god.

Those are some demons. Badabam! Nice. 22 points of force damage to him. And then. Essek! I'm going to dart over here. Let's try and use the tower for cover.

All right, finishing Essek's turn is Caduceus, and then Veth. Caduceus. Oh me. Oh me. Okay. Oh me, oh my. Um, what am I? So I actually get to do things then. That's nice.

You are currently standing in the cone. I am currently standing in the cone. You can move around, if you'd like to, to the back side. I'm going to move around to the back side. Okay. This view is a lot. And actually, probably go fly a little bit up, if I can, without leaving. You can fly a little bit up without breaking the...

Is anybody not in the cone right now? Is the other question I have. I don't want to find the other eye. Nobody is in the cone except for Beauregard and Yasha, I think. Damn. So it's just Caleb and Veth? What the hell are you doing here? Spurned a resistance damage. Consume. No.

Yeah. No. No. No. Two turns of fire. Okay, I'm going to do something just a little dumb. This is dumb. Yeah, just so you know, see where you're looking at.

The cone is right here. I think he's burned, too. Okay, so yeah, there's no way. Actually, it's just Beauregard that's inside it right now. Yeah, but I can't fire a spell through that. No. Through the cone to her? Yeah. No.

No. Or through the cone to anyone on the other side of it. Correct, so that area is kind of... Yeah. Yeah, it's part of the chess match of the ability. How are you doing? How you doing? How?

Okay. I'm going to spend my bonus action, I believe. Let me double check if, no, this is a, I'm going to use my action to use Channel Divinity. Okay. What you going to do? I'm going to use Path of the Grave on Molly. On Lucien. On Lucien, whatever. I don't think that was an intention. So you're holding it or you're using it?

I'm using it. Okay. So the next attack, you got it. So the next attack, and then. So as now the Wild Mother's presence has felt stronger between both Fjord regaining his senses and Caduceus now focusing that draw to the grave upon Lucien's recently transformed self. That is your action.

What else? And then as my bonus action, is Veth 60 feet from me? Veth would be within 60 feet. I'm going to cast Healing Word as a bonus action at third level. Fantastic. So it's not much, but you know. I'll take it. So just because I don't want you out of commission.

Thank you, Caduceus. That's 11 points. I'll take it. I'll take it. Yep, yep. That's 11 points and yeah, that's my turn. Okay, finishing Caduceus' go. Veth, you're up. He's in melee with?

In melee range with Caduceus, correct. Amazing. I'm going to fire a crossbow bolt. Crossbow bolt. Crossbow bolt. Crossbow bolt. Should I make it an extra special one? Yeah. Do it. Go dumb. You saw me go dumb. Go hard.

Did you boost my attack somehow? All right, I'll go extra special. I'll cast Brenatto's Voltaic Bolt. If I'm in your bubble, can I cast magic? Yeah, it doesn't negate magic at all. It protects you from things that the aberration does to you. Then I will fire. 32.

That hits. No, that's wrong. 28, still hits. All right, let's see what we got. 10 and 20 and 34. 41 plus... Nine is 50 points of damage.

Times two. Times two. That's 100 points of damage. Ooh! Holy! Normally, we don't do this kind of thing, but this is a special occasion. Yeah! As Lucien has been shown some wear and tear and is angrily standing there in the space,

Caduceus hovering behind calls quietly on the Wild Mother. What does the effect look like? The effect looks like just this sort of strange, there's a little crystalline shimmer to it, but almost like heat slowly building. It's that weird shimmer, but it's almost like it's going through like a sunbeam catcher.

It's a little rainbow vibration. As you turn and, charging your bolt and fire it forward, you see it going towards Lucien and you see that straight shimmer. And for a second, you're afraid it's a barrier, but what it does is it hits and shatters. And now you see amongst your bolt, a dozen shards of energy now flying into Lucien's body.

Yeah. Yeah. Fuck yeah. I think... No. I think I've been doing this on my own a little bit too much. Bonus action fire again. Go for it.

Oh no. That misses. Perfect time. But because it's the Aeorian Security Cannon, I can use gravity to pull back the bolt and fire it back again. As a reaction, you can, yeah. Really? Natural one. Oh!

That's cool, though, but yeah. Good, good. Pew! Gravity is weird here on the Ash Wilson. I don't know how to control it yet! There's a moment where Lucien's breathing heavy in the air, still hovering, but you can see there's a bit of a rock at the placement.

No, no, no, no. Oh no. All right. Now that I flexed this a bit, let's borrow the full power of the city around me. And teleports away. Well, no, she doesn't need to teleport away because you're right there.

Begins to go into a full dive. You do get an attack of opportunity if you'd like to take it. I'll take it. Ha ha ha, that's a... Ha ha ha ha, yeah. I actually don't understand how my attack of opportunity works. It's my spell attack. You just make a melee attack

with your strength and proficiency bonus. But I can use a spell attack because I'm a warcaster. You can, yeah. So that's a 22 to hit. Which spell? Well, no, warcaster allows you to use a spell attack because I'm a war cast. You can, yeah. So that's a 22 to hit. Which spell? Well, war caster allows you to use a spell instead of doing an attack. Yeah, that's my spell attack bonus.

Yeah, so what are you using to cast? What spell are you casting? I have to see what actually requires a spell attack, which will take one second. It doesn't have to have a spell attack. You can just cast any spell. I can cast any spell. I can cast any spell?

Yeah, without rolling. Oh shit, okay. I guess it is a spell attack. Let me do, okay, just because it's, I apologize. How rough did he look? I think he's looking pretty rough. That's assuming he's looking rougher. But not like really fucked, okay.

He looked like under 50 hit points, right? Yeah, no. Let's okay. Are you like under 50 hit points, Ro? Yeah, no. Let's do... Did you see that? Yeah. I know, I know, I know. What does that mean? What does that mean? What does it mean?

I'm so sorry, I'm trying to figure out something to do. Hurry it up. Sorry. I know it's going to be half damage, but fuck it. Let's do Blight. Which, what spell? Blight. Blight? Sure, go for it.

It's half damage, but you know. So Constitution save? Constitution save. That is a fail. Okay. Two. He is going to take it. Three, four.

Okay, so that's, I know he takes half damage on this. He does, yeah. Because it's necrotic. Indeed. Oh my god, that's terrible. 16, 17, 18. Caduceus just got really excited that he got to do his spell.

Yeah. Rightly so, rightly so. Wait, wait, wait, wait! Yeah. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Uh- Wait, wait, wait, wait! Ha! Pretty much. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Uh-huh, huh, huh, huh. 37 points of necrotic damage.

That's not terrible. It's not terrible. It's pretty good. Second roll of blows. Is that halved or is that? It is halved. That's halved. I know. Now is he looking real rough? It's very hard for Taliesin to do moves

because Matt's wearing a t-shirt with Taliesin's face on it. That's true. Very intense post-op. I've been moisturizing myself. How do you think we feel whenever you pull that shit? I have very few things that'll actually hurt him. So that's okay. No, that worked out well.

So continues into a dive down towards the city. Uses both his action and his movement. And as he dives, the city. Uses both his action and his movement, and as he dives, the ground No! opens up below. And disappears down into the ground below. Six feet under the ground below.

Hmm. So, for the time being, at this very moment, you are out of combat. You can welcome to chase, but you cannot see Lucien at the moment. And the hole closes up behind him? The hole is still open. Let's go.

Yeah, I mean, we need the hole still open. Or do we just pursue? I'm out of combat. He could also be healing. I could use it- Do we need to heal, or do we just pursue? He could also be healing. I could use it. I could use a heal, Caduceus. I also think wherever we're going, he's going to have help. For sure. Yeah. His whole like, ah, I can't do this alone, blah.

And we know, we heal, he heal. Yeah. Yes. I don't think we should stop long, but if you can just drop something in me. We shouldn't stop. Yeah, we should cast while we're flying. Should we do a group heal, or one big group heal, or should we?

I don't have group heal. Everybody close into a group. Just so we can all move in. Yeah, let's do it. We all move in together. So all of you pair in together into a closed group, gathering and diving down this space, following Lucien into this opening into the center of Cognouza. Yeah.

What spells are being cast here? He's healing us. I'm going to do a group heal. I'm just trying to figure out what's the- I use my bonus action to bamf out of the tower using Far Step so I can join everybody in case some berries run out. Sorry, I fucked up my spells,

so it's hard to find things right now. You should have done it. I'm going to do Mass Healing Word, Sorry, I fucked up my spells, so it's hard to find things right now. I'm going to do Mass Healing Word, I think is the one to go with. I'm going to do Mass Cure Wounds at 7th-level. Okay, I'm going to do Mass Cure Wounds at 6th. One. Who else hurt? I'm hurt a little. Raise your hand if you're hurt-hurt.

Not hurt-hurt. One'm hurt a little. Raise your hand if you're hurt-hurt. I'm just not hurt-hurt. One, two, three, four, five, six. Essek? So everybody but Caduceus. Oh, Essek, is Essek super hurt? Essek actually hasn't taken any damage. Okay, okay, okay. So everybody but Caduceus is healed.

Wait, have you taken damage, Cad? No, okay, okay. Yasha, you're not hurt? Five out of eight. I haven't really taken that much. Yeah, you have. You've taken a little, though. Yeah, you have.

You've taken, you took a whole bunch of necrotic and... And psychic. So one, two, three, four, five, six. So yeah, you're part of the six. Seven, just five. Where did that do that? I think you took 25 or 26 psychic damage. Because it was supposed to be big,

but you used your armor to have it. Yeah. 21 plus five. Here's my six. 26. So everyone healed what? Five. 31 points of healing to everybody but Caduceus.

That's fucking amazing. Huzzah! And then 18 points to everyone but me on top of that. Yes, yes! Whoa. So 49. 18 points to everyone but me. Yes, yes! Whoa. So 49? Clerics for the fucking win. He said 18. Clerics in the group, man. Fucking awesome. Great.

And that can go into our temp or our... Yeah. That can go into the temp, yeah. The 17, not the additional five. Yeah, that can go into the 17 of the max. Let's fucking move. And then we chase after him. Yeah, let's go! All right. You all dive down,

flying at the speed of your slowest, lest people want to dart ahead, which a few can. Yeah, I think we should chase. Yeah, I'll dart. Go rock nasty, man. Sorry, Caddy, but you're fine. You got the power. You mess them up. You've got the power!

Haste. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Yeah, you can go, yeah. Okay. You've got the touch. You descend deeper and deeper into the lightless depths of the heart of Cognouza, returning to the space where the Aether Crux was. Eventually, after some time passing,

you see the space begin to open. Right about the time that the Haste spell wears off on you, Yasha, which does temporarily stun you. I'll use the rest of my Far Step, too, to stay up with the Fast Cat. Because I was stunned, so I probably can't. Could I even have moved? Well, the stun only lasted until his next turn, so it would have gone away after that.

But when haste ends, you are stunned for a turn. Like six seconds. So you fall a little bit behind, but as you catch into the opening of the chamber below, you can see that deep red, luminescent pulsing coming from the center of where the previous Aether Crux once stood. The chamber itself has mostly healed and you can see all manner of crooked buildings

and broken ruin and Gothic cathedrals that are halfway mutated with elements of flesh and teeth and eyes curling up them. You can see some of the towers that were once there now large, twisted, almost tendrils of flesh, just slightly shifting. Where this is in the center of the room. As you all begin to descend,

it breaks open. A second birthing. You see emerge from inside, Lucien, kind of. He got in there that fucking fast? Damn. As now what you see, the front half of Lucien,

as his lower body begins to twist and morph, you see the front half of Lucien. As his lower body begins to twist and morph, connected with the city of Cognouza, a bulbous twisted mass of flesh and stone and building and winged statue and cathedral and eyes and muscle and teeth. Where the eyestalks once stood behind him, instead now are two giant wings of muscle tissue. The eye's not present.

You see him now, centered and connected, here at the base of Cognouza. And Lucien looks around. Well, shall we finish this then? Oh my god. And that's where we're going to end tonight's episode. Oh no! Double boss fight!

Double two-parter! Oh my god! You so fucked. Five rounds, six rounds, how many was that? How many rounds was that? Five? I think it was five. That was a lot of rounds. Oh wait, did he have to...

Does Contagion still stay on him? Save for his poison thing. He rolls a 16 for his next save. Oh, so he failed it. No, no, 16 naturally plus his bonus, which would, yeah, he makes it. But he has to subtract his nine eyes. Don't feel good, does it?

It doesn't fucking feel good. Natural 20 on the third. He does save against contagion. All right. But good call, good call. Very good call. So we'll pick up from there, but good memory on that, too. Oh! So we'll pick up here next time for

for a true showdown. Oh my god. Oh man. I almost want to show you, give you a peek. Yes! Please? Yes, peek, yes, peek, peek, peek! Give us a peek, please, give us a peek. Peek, peek, peek! It won't have the same effect

because you don't have the proper battlefield to match it. Or you can save it. It's your call. Don't do that. Yes, we want to see it. No, no, no, no, no, no. Save it if there's a battlefield to match it. So that it's the... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Throw it to the camera. Don't show us half the picture.

Oh, I'm going to save it. I'm going to save it. All right. Oh, but that's exciting to know that there's a whole lot of things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was Lucien Form 1. Oh my gosh! How many forms are there, nine?

Oh god. Yeah, this whole boss fight is my love letter to growing up on Final Fantasy. Oh my god. At least three iterations, always. This is the Mortal Kombat that you get knocked into the next level. Yeah, the next, yeah, yeah. No.

Fuck, how am I here? All righty. Well, we'll pick up from there, here in the Aether Crux Chamber at the center of the living city of Cognouza, floating amongst the Astral Sea to see who survives next time. Wait, fuck! Thank you so much for joining us.

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