Critical Role - C2E86 The Cathedral

Episode Date: November 28, 2019

The Mighty Nein race to the cathedral of the Dawnfather in a desperate effort to stop Obann's sinister plot...Watch Critical Role live Thursdays at 7pm PT on https://www.twitch.tv/criticalrole

Hello, spellcasters, sages, and spectators. I'm Ashley Johnson, and you're listening to the Critical Role Podcast Network. Tap into our magical narrative by watching Critical Role as it airs on Thursdays at 7 p.m. Pacific on twitch.tv slash criticalrole or youtube.com slash criticalrole. Twitch subscribers can watch the video on demand right away, or you can catch it the following Monday on YouTube. As always, Critical Role will be available right here in podcast form on Thursdays, a week after the initial broadcast. And now, let's scry into the story and see what mysteries it holds for us, shall we?

Hello everyone, and welcome to tonight's episode of Critical Role, where a bunch of us nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and play Dungeons & Dragons. Ooh, we're Dungeons & Dragons! Like that, every time. So before we get into tonight's episode, we do have some announcements to get through, which begins with our two sponsors for tonight. The first up, which is Disney's Villainous Games.

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in our November fundraising campaign with our friends at OSD. Since we have launched our campaign, we have banded together to raise $19,000 to help our military community, and we have a very special announcement tonight. My dear friend, Travis Frederick, center for the world champion, soon to be Dallas Cowboys,

legendary, all time, woot woot. Real Travis. Travis Frederick has graciously offered to donate $500 for every natural one that we roll during the month of November. The whole month? The whole month. I thought it was just tonight. No, the whole month!

Oh, yes it is. And it's retroactive from the beginning, which means that we have now raised over $23,000. What? Which is amazing. Same. Yeah, super, super gracious, generous, such a great guy. I wanna make you guys roll so much.

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We love you guys. Woo! That's amazing. So cool! Travis, thank you so much, that is incredible. And thank you all for donating to this incredible cause. This is amazing. A huge epic congrats to our very own Laura Bailey for her nomination of Best Performance

from the Video Game Awards for her role as Kat Diaz in Gears 5. Yay! Super proud of you, that's amazing. Thanks, you guys. You can vote for your favorites at thegameawards.com slash nominees any time before December 11th.

So go and take a look at the list there, and if you happen to like what she did in the game, you can go ahead and vote for her as well. That's right! I mean, just vote for her anyway. It doesn't matter if you like what she did. There's other good performers in there. Try and vote for me.

I tried to try to be civil. Our Austin live show is this weekend! Two days from now! I've never prepared so many maps in one week. Super excited to see you guys there. It's our one-shot, the Adventurers of the Darrington Brigade. It's part of our Kickstarter rewards for the amazing animated series we started earlier in the year.

Thank you guys so much for that and for allowing this to happen. Pleaser Fane from Poiling Spoilers, animated series Kickstarter we did earlier in the year. Thank you guys so much for that and for allowing this to happen. Please refrain from posting spoilers, not poiling, we can do that too, I guess, from posting spoilers online if you're there at the live show. And those who aren't able to attend, you can watch our live show on Friday, November 29th

at 7 p.m. Pacific on our Twitch channel, and it'll be available for VOD and on YouTube the following Sunday, so keep an eye out for that. No spoiling. No spoiling posters. Do not foil anybody, please. If you have a spoiler, don't foil it. Don't foil that spoiler. I feel like this past month, my brain's just slowly turned to Swiss cheese

from week to week and language is leaving me. Very low-key. Language is leaving me. All right, sorry. If any Linux is a critter, hi. Next Thursday is the Thanksgiving holiday here in America. So for those who are not here and are aware of that, we will not be having a session next week on Thursday,

because we'll be having the time with our families. So in northern, there will be an episode of Vox Machina, sorry, of Talks Machina the week after, Tuesday, December 3rd, so there's going to be a week off for the holiday for us here in the U.S., but don't freak out, we're going to kick back in the week after that, the first week of December. But I wanted to wish all you guys an amazing holiday.

We'll see you all the Thursday after that, and look forward to picking it up from there. Laura, you had some announcements to make. Oh boy. Why yes, I do. So this one has been a long time coming. Me and Liam have been very excited about this for a very long time, by our very own BebsTarr.

This is the Chastity's Nook Presents, the Exandrian Calendar. Now, I feel like I should point this out to you, that it's not an actual workable calendar, it is the Exandrian calendar. So it's pretty much just like a useless object that you hang. It works in Exandria.

Blasphemy. It does actually work. It does in Exandria, and you can follow along and see when things are, like, you know, certain dates that are important. There's holidays in here. It's pretty awesome. Couldn't you put some post-its on it and make it work?

You could put post-its, no! Well, no, because it's kind of something. I feel like I should sneak peek, should I sneak peek, like, one other page? Because there's like two of us. One extra, just one extra. Are you okay with me showing this one? Oh my god, yes, please.

So this is the pinup of Molly. I have been waiting for this. I don't know if you guys can see this. I love the Caduceus tea kettle. Caduceus teapot. Yeah, so. It's the pinup of Molly. I have been waiting for this. I don't know if you guys can see this. I love the Caduceus tea kettle. Caduceus teapot. Yeah, so. It's so good. You, you spice.

Lucinda. Did I say that? You're on Lucinda, yeah. Lucinda. So yeah. Plenty of you. All of the images are as tantalizing as that one? Oh, they're good. I can't show you more.

But the other cool thing is that all of the pages are perforated so you can tear them out and frame them. They're perfectly sized so you can just put them in a frame. Just put them on your ceiling. You just put them wherever you want. Babs is so good.

So yeah, Babs is amazing. Been working very hard. And then the other thing that we have in the store right now is our Whitestone dice set. So you can go look at this. I think they're showing them right now. They come in this really beautiful little case that we were really excited about,

because if you take off the lid, it works as a dice tray. And it's like a furry case. Yeah, it's like velvety and fabulous, and it's got the Whitestone crest on it, and yeah, so they look like they're made of Whitestone, which I'm very excited about. Yeah, so there you go. Wow. That's awesome.

It's amazing. And they're both available in the U.S. and the U.K. right now! Ta-da! Yay! They're gorgeous. They're awesome. Cool, thank you, Laura. I believe. Oh my god, no way. There's got to be more. I believe that's the end of our announcements, which means we get to jump into Christmas is on December 25th.

Tonight's episode. Don't forget to watch the Tarion. Tarion and Nairn forget it. To bring in the next Friday night. Love each other. New episode of Minute Primetime! Yeah, right? Fuck. This episode of Minute Primetime! Yeah, right? Fuck. This episode of That's a good one. Goddamn.

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Digging deep in your soul As the legend unfolds Now it's your turn To roll! Welcome back. You were right on the draw there. I know. Stove, isn't it?

Slum. Stove thing. Get some proper music for this. Last we left off. The Mighty Nein. Goddamn it, Sam. This is new. Is this new? Well, last time round,

I wore a different matte shirt. That music matches with that hot pepper game. I just changed the matte shirt, but it's still a matte shirt. You can see the sweat on the upper lip. It's not? I'm going to remember that. Not the night to do it, huh?

No, it is not. It is not the night to do that. The day that you're going to fail. So, the Mighty Nein, for quite some time, have been chasing the tracks of the Angel of Irons, a somewhat new and esoteric cult that only whispers have been discovered about them and what their plot was.

You came to uncover that the Angel of Irons was a cover to trick these other people and cultists into helping the chained Oblivion, the Ruzdun, begin to unravel its bindings deep in the abyss. In chasing Obann, who had gathered three figures to what he referred to as his family, your companion Yasha, the Laughing Hand, a terrible undying champion of Torog, and the inevitable end, the Catogeist, Jor-El.

All three of them bound to his will, he carried them across Exandria, gathering things necessary to see this plot to fruition. Your last scry spell revealing them arriving in the capital city of Rexxentrum in Wildemount. It seemed at this time that Vence, another cultist, had delivered some scrolls and information to a cathedral deep in the city

and whispers of what seemed to be a rather imminent moment. So rushing your way to Rexxentrum, asking for aid, you come to the rainy city, dark storm clouds overhead. You try and look for any sort of sign of where this cathedral might be, and upon arriving, finding out that the city is seemingly under attack at the same time by Kryn operatives.

You hear what sounds like a din of battle in the distance, though you've seen none directly. Is it just chaos to distract? Who knows? But you've gathered yourselves and an ally, Pumat Sol, who has come along with you to deal with this scenario after he was attacked along with you in his house in Zadash, and you've stepped out from the Rexxentrum Archive

of the Cobalt Soul into the wet, slick, cobblestone streets of the city, heading eastward towards the base of the Shimmer Ward, where it is believed this cathedral, known as the Chantry of the Dawn, stands. So, Mighty Nein, as you step out into the air above, you can hear the heavy elements of rain

coming down from above, which I can do here with the stuff, which is fine. Ooh. With music. Pushing through, you can see the streets are seemingly deserted by most civilians. The few you see run confused, some of them out of curiosity, others out of fear. Crownsguard occasionally attempt

to keep the peace among them. You hear quick rumors and demands for information from the crowd to the guard, and none of them responding. Continue to push them into their homes or push them out of the way. You can hear shouts from congested neighborhoods at the peripheral of your watch as you go from intersection to intersection,

heading east deeper into the city. The tall roofs and climbing spires, the various buildings that surround and frame your continued travel looming atop, just almost cutting out the grayish sky above. You can see a heavy group of about 30 or so righteous brand that rush past you northwards toward the platinum veranda, where you can hear muffled shouts

and a chaotic echo of battle. Is there anything you want to do, continue traveling eastward? Yeah, we fucking go towards the fray, right? Okay. Well, wait. Towards the fray? I thought last time there was... The fray you hear is to the north.

You guys were heading eastward to the Chantry. Because that's where we saw them doing some sort of ritual in this cathedral. Yeah, we got to go to the Cat-tree-tral. The Cat-tree-tral. In your last glance, you saw there was, of the storm clouds above us, a tiny sliver of light had broken through that framed the Chantry.

And you just said something about the Platinum something? Platinum Veranda is a location in the city that's northward. And Platinum. Okay, so we're not going that way. We're going east. Have we alerted everyone we can possibly think of that the real target is to the east? No, we haven't.

But we also don't belong here. You mentioned what you've learned briefly to the Cobalt Soul before you exited. And did we tell them to send word to all of our people? Yes, we told them to send word to Allura and to... To Allura? Yeah, the Tal'Dorei Council. We just said Rexxentrum, we didn't say where.

The Shima Ward? We touched down there. Oh, you guys, you touched down in the Tangles, is the larger area, the specific area is called the Court of Colors. Oh, okay. You being the only person who's been here, you know loosely the outlay out of the city, and you are the one who has the maps.

You have to guide if anything, if anything gets more scattered. I could do it. I would use up a spell slot, but I could send a word for him. Every block that we go on, I turn to Caleb and say, did you live here? Did you live on this block?

I didn't, no. Did you ever do anything on this block? Is this like where your school was or anything? Caleb's eyes are darting everywhere and is at the head of the pack leading us towards the chantry, which I have seen. Make a perception check, if you don't mind. Is the light still shining down on it from above?

It is, it's flickering in and out, like the clouds are closing past, and it breaks through every now and then, but it's like a singular ray. 15. 15. Your eyes train on the rising walkways and towers of the Soltryce Academy that are peeking over the walls of the Shimmer Ward that you can just make out

on the horizon as you pass by a series of buildings where the roofs are a bit lower than the other ones you've been rushing by. You can see pale yellow walls that surround the Shimmer Ward of the capital. You begin to approach the exterior of the Vigil's Circle, which is a region between where you are and your destination.

It's noted by the network of ring-like streets that denote the circular marketplace of varied shops and industries that normally fill this area, as well as the mini fortress of gray rock known as the Tower of Rit, but everything is closed. Everything is shut down.

What was the Tower of Red? Would that be something unfamiliar? It's the central temple to Arathis, within the city. It does not like the cathedral that you had seen within your vision. Two more larger bands of righteous Brand soldiers begin shouting,

Over here! They run past and cross your path and continue heading northward, also seemingly to join the rest northward. Just brand soldiers begin shouting, Over here! They run past and cross your path and continue heading northward, also seemingly to join the rest northward. Should we tell them that there's? I'm not going to believe this. Also, do we want them to,

I mean, the Kreen are attacking, right? We waste time trying to explain. But why on earth would we want them to go kill the Kreen? Well, are we supposed to just stop and try and convince them to stop? We just need to keep going. We're saying all this as we're running. Okay.

You continue to rush down the street ahead of you. It splits at one point to go into one of the circular regions in the marketplace. You know probably the shortest to the north, where you just pick that because it's close to the direction you're traveling. When you head a ways down, four three-crowned Sigurd come around the corner,

and their hurried gait shifting in your direction. They raise their hand, and one of them goes, Please return to your homes! We've everything under control! Our home is that way. We are out of sorts. We have a ways to go still. Then hurry up.

You notice at first, this faint vibration in the ground beneath you. Everyone get ready. You have just enough time to look to Caduceus as he says this before you begin to feel the ground. Familiar? I cast Fly on myself. You cast Fly on yourself. Is it familiar to the purple worms we've felt before?

You have that thought and go, holy shit, this feels like a purple. Punching out of the ground, but 15 feet from where you stand, sending one of the Crownsguard thrown from where he was standing, and about 15 feet, tumbling across the slick cobblestone. Bits of stone and earth go flying everywhere

as you see piercing out of the ground, rising up the gargantuan, twisting form of an angry purple worm, its body covered in its signature hard, dark purple scales with spines piercing through each area where they meet. You can see the rows of teeth as it roars in the sky, and on its back, you can see chains and bits of metal that are put across them, like barding. Holding onto it, you can see three Kryn soldiers

that immediately leap off onto the ground, facing not you, but facing the Crownsguard. You can see one of the Crownsguard that tumbled to the ground is pulling back, and the other two are pulling their weapons, and they're shaking. Do we stop this? Our signs are confirmed.

No. Do we just let them go? Do we just let them go? I say we keep going. We do, too. Oh my god. You guys, don't hurt you bad. As you say that, one of them turns and looks at your group.

Goes. And the worm then turns its head in your direction. The worm turns. So you guys, are you continuing to run? Should we just try to keep running? Maybe we can bring the worm and it'll bust through under the chandrier to be good. Running? We don't know how much longer. Running. Yeah, we just keep going.

Just keep going. Running. It's not our fight, right? Not yet. How far are we. Not if we can help it. I don't even know who I'm rooting for. No, I don't either. Caduceus just asked how far we are from the Chantry. Would I know that? You would know you're probably about,

I'd say, depending on, yeah, with it being pretty empty, maybe seven minutes. Oh, I'm going to cast Locate Creature for Yasha. Okay, what's the range on that? 1,000 feet, but it'll last an hour. Okay, there you go, so keep that in mind. You guys continue to run. Yeah. All right, the Kryn soldier that jumped off

and noticed you when you shouted is now giving a run in your direction. Why? Because they're attacking the city. And the purple worm immediately burrows attacking the city. And the purple worm immediately burrows under the ground. Oh no, they're going to pop up again, aren't they? You hear a few other screams

as it seems the two Crownsguard, or actually it would be all three of them at this point, are dispatched one after another by three queen soldiers. Damn, they're good. We're going to feel dirty, no matter how this plays out. The one that's chasing you is then behind. You can see the other two are now rushing up to join. No worm in sight when you keep running.

We show them the symbol of the Bright Queen. When anyone else is here, we just keep moving. The queen are? Yeah, they're all following you guys because you're the other marks that they dispatched to the Crownsguard. I will stop, and I'll turn around and I'll pull out our symbol of the Bright Queen, and I'll turn around and I'll pull out our symbol of the Bright Queen and I'll run up and I'll say,

Stop! Leave us be, we have business of the Bright Queen. Back at your post. Make a persuasion check. No one else can see this, right? It's just. Yeah, we're keeping our . There's no, like, retzits. Make a deception check. 23. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

23? Yeah. Deception check 27, by the way. 27, okay. Yes, yes, yes. 23? Yeah. Deception check 27, by the way. 27, okay. You guys are keeping watch. I mean, there are guards running through. There is one that turns and just sees the purple worm, which, by the way, as you're having this conversation,

about 10 feet from you, slamming out of the ground, showering you with bits of rock and dirt. At that point, the guard turns, sees it, and just fucking bolts the other way. The first soldier comes, weapon drawn, and as you're holding up the symbol, rushes, and you can see his form shift

as a shadow version of himself splits and flanks around you. What? You've seen this once before in the sewers of Zadash long ago. So long ago. As it rushes towards you and you hold the symbol and say this, it falters and stands and looks. You see it caught in the moment.

The two other ones catch up. You can see they both have their weapons drawn and they see you stopping and they look taken aback by what you're holding and the fact that the one who was guiding this charge has stopped. His weapon goes slack a bit. I hold it up, I slide it beneath my armor.

All right, I'll head back. Turns back and says something to Undercommon, and the purple worm, which is currently in a holding position, looking at them and looking at you, begins to turn in your direction and gives a shout out. Do any of you guys understand Undercommon? No.

I've got Overcommon. Yeah, yeah. He's like, and the purple worm turns back to him, and then they all leap onto its back, and then it bros back into the ground. Okay, okay, okay.

Thought something about that encounter. Oh! Yay! Thought something about this. Remember that. Oh! Yay! Thought something about this. Remember that. Remember that. Oh, deep. Continuing on,

you begin to see that ray of sun is your beacon, bringing you closer and closer, you guiding this charge. You hear more shouts, you hear an explosion in the distance, just a muffled echo across the city, uncertain of necessarily the direction or the intensity of it.

That's when you also hear the BOOM. Fucking bells. They're ringing the fucking bells. BOOM. Or the war bells. An attack. Yeah. BOOM. Alarming the city.

Maybe? Well. BOOM. Oh. Boom. Alarming the city. Well. Boom. Oh, maybe it's just like 12 o'clock. Is it a sound that I've ever heard? This is a sound that you've not heard, but you are aware that throughout the city, there are bells set everywhere

for the purposes of alerting everybody who may not be aware that it's not just, there's a problem, this is danger under attack. And so now this has been declared and you hear other Careful, there's a problem, this is danger under attack. And so now this has been declared and you hear other Careful, there's about to be full-on pandemonium. Just echoing across the city. Let's all stay close.

This is when people could start to riot. We just have to cut through it quickly. Yeah. Rain slicked, soaked to the bone, you all rush around one of the large, kind of small, I don't think it's large, small, large military structures on this corner here that is small for a large stronghold,

but it's a place here, medium. We'll go with that one. It's a bit medium. You know what I mean. To see what you recognize as the Chantry of the Dawn. It is a massive cathedral, and you're immediately taken aback to see what you recognize as the Chantry of the Dawn. It is a massive cathedral, and you're immediately taken aback

by the beautiful masonry and sculpture work that comprises this opulent structure that stands before you. High-reaching stone arches that are housing towering stained glass windows that depict various stages of the sun in the sky. Statues of 10-foot tall armored soldiers are set into pillars like celestial guardians.

You can see there goes multiple stories to climb into this great spire that climbs into the reigning sky. Every square foot of the exterior is tailored with subtle carvings of vines and leaves that frame the powerful supports, all reaching upward towards the stretching rays of the sun

upon each of these depictions. Boom, boom, boom, boom, the bell's still going off in the area. You come to the 15-foot tall doors in the front of the Chantry. Should we go in? Am I feeling anything yet? Could we do it now? Feeling anything? Yes, you are.

She's here. She's here? She's here? I should be able to also pinpoint what direction she is from us and if she's moving. She is moving. She is within and below. Oh god. Oh god. We're going to find them all.

Oh god, I'm into that. We're on the move. Is anyone or anything watching this entrance that we can tell? From the outside, no. Uh-huh. All right, all right. It's time to fucking kill Yasha. No, no!

All right, let's do it. No, we're going to save her. Are we going to bust through here, or do we want to try and do a perimeter run? Alternate, yeah. If people are expecting pressure to come through, we should try and find a more subversive way in. Is there anything on this door?

Sure, I'll go check just in case, while you figure out a side entrance. Does it look, how big is it? Deal. Okay. I'm checking for traps. Run. Go for it. Terrible. 19. 19.

You don't sense any traps, but it is definitely locked. Okay. And it's like a big lock. The key, you imagine, probably is about that long and the metal is very thick. Mind you, you've dealt with locks like that before, but just as a note, it is a larger lock. I will start unlocking it while they're scouting. She breaks left, I'll break right.

All right, as you guys turn the corner, you can see there's some small windows on the sides of what's almost like an entryway, almost like a foyer to the entire Chantry. The building then opens up into what would be considered the main church-like center of the cathedral. This is where it grows into the spire above. You can see on the outside, the windows begin,

again, like the ones you saw in the beginning, but the stained glass rises up for 40 feet with beautiful color patterns of stars that frame the sun in different visual bits of splendor. The bit of warm light is now coming down into this area, hitting the stained glass. The rain stops as you curl around the side and find a small pocket where the storm

doesn't seem to be affecting you. You come around the back side and it's just almost solid stained glass on the back end, except for the stone arches that hold the entire structure up. Any of those windows that we passed, are we able to slide up and just put one eye over the corner and peer in?

The windows you see are actually about eight feet off the ground and they're circular with a stained glass window paint. I'm going to take my paint out. I'm going to paint a little hole in the wall so we can give a peephole. A little glory hole? Okay. Which part?

We tried to break into a church, the tower didn't go so well. One of the sides of the door? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the last one. The front door, you mean? Yeah. Okay. Make a perception check with disadvantage. I'm also just picking the lock, not opening it.

Oh, guide me. Also in my team. 19. 20. 20, okay, 19. No. It's a big lock. It's a big lock, and it's more intricate than you expected, the door does not open.

When I'm doing the perimeter run, are there any cellar entrances, anything that looks like hatches that go down? Make a perception check. You glancing through, you look inside and you can see some candelabras that are arranged. There's a raised platform with a bit of a red carpet on it. It looks to be a desk or some sort of a wide, beautifully carved table that's meant for greeting people

who enter the Chantry. You do see two figures that stand at the top of that platform, a wide, beautifully carved table that's for greeting people who enter the Chantry. You do see two figures that stand at the top of that platform, and they're both in the process of looking through drawers or papers there. They both look to one side as if they're hearing something, and you can hear very faintly

a little bit of voices coming through the hole, and then one of them gets out of your perspective of the people, and that's all you see. What do the people look like at the door? They are heavily cloaked, wearing what looks like a piece of cloth across the front of the face. The hood and cloak they're wearing

is a gray, dark gray color, generally meant to look inconspicuous, but also to hide any sort of representation of who they are. There are people in there, like, rivaling through things. I'm going to throw my back away from the temple and squat down and pull out the pearl

and place it to my forehead and cast Fortune's Favor upon myself, hidden under my cloak. You got it. I rolled a 20 total. A 20 total. You do a pass and you're looking for the same? Did you roll perception as well? Good, 20. Okay, A 20 total. You do a pass and you're looking for the same? You draw a perception as well? Good, 20. Okay, two 20s.

You guys come around the opposite sides and meet each other and you look about. There is no cellar. It looks like whatever entrances there are here are designed to be either purely that front or you haven't seen what they are. There's no basement in the Alamo. All right.

You could turn that peephole into a... Do we get around to the back and meet each other? Yeah, you guys meet up on the opposite side after doing your scan. Anything? No, you? Nothing at all? No. All the windows are eight feet in the air. I can't even fucking jump.

A sheet of rain comes through as the beam of light gets partially interrupted. Can I look through the peephole and see, is there any area of the chapel that looks like it's hidden behind pews or maybe behind, if I look along the walls, does it look like there's area, is it hidden behind pillars? From what you can see, you can only see the front chamber.

You can't look into the main cathedral room. It's only this anti-chamber that you enter first. Does it look like it's blocked? Is anybody looking into this right now? From what you can see, which is just this little perspective, you can see the center of the room and that raised platform.

Nobody sees you, but there are people that are essentially looking towards the front door. Okay. If I moved along the side, would I be able to, I want to paint a little crawl space to get in. You can do that. But I want to do it out of eyeshot of what I can see through the people.

So terrible. Okay. What are you trying to do? Front door's a fatal funnel. Doggy door. I mean, I can go along the side. We can go further along. Yeah, let's go towards the back

and I'll do the same thing there. Okay. We'll run into them as we're. Okay, so are you guys going with Jester, then? Yes. Yes. So you've all gathered up on the right or left side of the cathedral? Call it. Right.

Okay, so you go on the right side of the cathedral. You meet up with them, you come around Beauregard, but you're pretty quick on your feet anyway, so you actually get there about the same time. You all meet up off to the right side and a little further back, you're at the cusp where the wall would be that leads into that main chamber or into the cathedral.

You can see there's a heavy wall that blocks the two. So if you're going to make, so you want to paint a crawl space. Where do you want to paint it? What do you think? Which side, big side? Front space. Backside. Backside.

So the large cathedral. Yeah, away from the door. Where the people are? The people you saw are inside the antechamber. Okay, okay, away from the door. Where the people are? The people you saw are inside the antechamber. Okay, okay, okay, then yes. The main space. In the main space. Away from the people.

Here, I'll give you a visual perspective. Yeah! I love that segue! That's all I wanted! How about a visual perspective? Visual hands. This visual perspective is brought to you by Dwarven Forge Combat Cam.

They will be at Pax Unplugged over the first weekend in December. Go say hi at the Die Hard dice booth. And follow along on social, at Dwarven Forge on Twitter. Also an awesome dice company. Oh! So you guys were up in this front area. Okay, okay, okay.

You have made a peephole here, which means you're able to look in and see this area with the desk and the raised platform and the candelabra. So you saw, up here, two figures up here going through the desk and keeping a watch. One of them walked this way out of your peripheral, out of sight, and that's all you've seen.

You guys went around this side now. You're over in this pocket. Okay, so we could go around that wall and try to go. This is the extension of the main cathedral. So this is the initial chamber, and then you could go around or through here, and this would lead into the main cathedral.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'll keep going back? Further in. Further in. Okay. Further back. Okay, so you come a little further here, and where do you want to draw? How do you want to paint this? I'll do it that wall right there, yeah.

Right here? Yeah, in the corner, yeah. Okay, so you take out your paints. There's still water dripping off of the roof here. Cover me so I can't see. So it keeps me dry. I need to keep my paints dry. Just hold it over. Okay.

What kind of crawl space do you paint? I'm going to paint a crawl space small, just big enough for all of us to be able to fit through. You can get pretty little, right? I can crawl. I have to crawl. Okay, yeah. Looks like a good place for Traveler's Gate.

Oh, I like it. Yeah, all right, Traveler's Gate along the top, and then it's going to be like a little. Okay. You go ahead and finish your detailed art and create the little open crawl space. As you finish the details on it, you watch, and it's wild because you look at it,

and it's almost like your eyes are blurred from there, you're not focusing, and once your eyes focus again, it's like there was always an opening there. Wow. It's wild, and as you make your way, and it is indeed a crawlspace, that you could all fit through one by one. So what's the marching order here?

Oh god. Should I go in and scout around first? Sneaky as fuck, right? All right, I'll turn invisible. Check the traps. Yes. Sneaky as fuck, right? All right, I'll turn invisible. Check the traps. Yes. What would be the, like? It's a trap here.

It's a trap. It's a trap. It's a trap. No, that's probably high, like two by two. Two by two is what you would do, yeah. Sure, sure, sure. I'm going to have to elbow it. Right, so.

If or when you guys want to go through, what is the marching order? Who's going in first? I'm going in first. That's going in first. Who would be after Nott? Roll in second. All right. I'll go after Fjord. I'll go behind Beau.

I'll go behind Laura. Who's Laura? Well, Jester, fine. Okay. Caleb takes the rear. And then Pumat'll come in after you guys. Yeah, Pumat! Will in after you guys. Yeah, Pumat! Will Pumat fit?

Yeah, if Caduceus could fit, he might take him in. He might have a momentary Winnie the Pooh moment, but he'll eventually make his way through it. Pumat, Winnie the Pooh-mat. As you're painting this and finishing it up, Pumat's like, I'm not going to lie, that's really impressive. By the way, how'd you stop that worm thing?

Oh! That's a conversation for later. We have a counterfeit badge. Yeah, it's like a secret sort of coolness. Okay, we'll talk later. It's really impressive. Confusing, but impressive. All right, so you head in first.

You're waiting for Nott's go, or are you going immediately after Nott? I'm going after Nott. Okay. All right, stealth check for both of you. No, I'm just putting my head down in the, I think we're all cramming into looking through the doorway, yeah. Stealth check with advantage, please.

I will summon, I will also summon the sword. Okay. And I will cast See Invisibility. Okay. So I can track Nott in the room. You got it. I'm just doing this. She's hurt herself. Oh no, she's dead, we should leave.

All right, I'll roll for stealth. Plus two, 27. 27, okay. As you carefully step in, you enter what is a beautiful religious space. Similar to when you first entered the Bright Queen's

quarters, that overwhelming beauty, though very different, whereas that was a very cold white light. This cavernous church chamber is a glorious hall of towering stone walls, draped in red velvet banners, chiseled detailed framing around the numerous 40-foot tall stained glass windows. You see murals of holy stories depicted across them

with Pellor iconography brought to warm life by colorful beams of sunlight that are coming from that one particular shaft that makes its way to the cathedral. Engulfs the interior in this warmth, this hearth-type feel, which is very conflicting with the interior of people that hold the inside. You do notice in the center, there is a raised

central platform that holds an altar to the Dawnfather, as well as candelabra arranged around it. You can see a series of pews that are aligned back. You can see there are two large towers that rise up in the middle of the chamber with balconies, and there are a set of raised royal seats towards the back that face the entire inside

with stairs that raise up to them. You can see about eight figures similarly cloaked to the ones that you saw in there, as well as an older woman in red, gold, and silver, the Cardinal Respa, currently at the altar, and is in the process of reciting something in a low, muttered voice. Do I know that you cast See Invisibility?

So I'm just going to say, like... Nine people. Ten people. Eight, I know eight, eight people. One. One. Sounds like. Medusa is inside. Yes. Apparently there are eight people inside

and one crazy woman with weird hair. Oh, I bet that's the lady that they saw. Who did you see? She had really fucked up hair. What does she do? What do we know about her? She looked like the old lady that ran the place or something. How do you mean fucked up? Like bad does she do? What do we know about her? She looked like the old lady that ran the place or something. How do you mean fucked up? Like bad breakage and damage?

Yeah, it was really frizzy. I feel like Nog would notice. Okay, yeah. Is the plan we're interrupting this? I mean, I don't know, probably. I don't know. Does Nott see Yasha? Does Nott see Yasha?

Yasha is not in this room? No, I would say, because I've got a feeling. Can you feel where Yasha is Does Nott see Yasha? Yasha is not in this room. No, I would say it, because I've got empty down here. Can you feel where Yasha is? Yes. Where is she? On the ground. As you continue to look around, you can see towards the very back of the chamber, behind the altar, there is

what looks to be a stone entryway with a metal door that is closed, and it seems to slope downward, indicating a passageway that leads deeper beneath the cathedral. She's doing actual right now? On this map, is that altar back towards you? Why don't I show you something?

Oh! Blasting through maps. Map blast. Here's the thing, now we only have one point of entry to get all eight of us in in a hurried fashion versus two. Across the room. This other map is also brought to you by Dwarven Forge. So we only have one point of entry,

we would have to get all eight in real fast and fan versus two in a flank. First weekend of December. But she's mid whatever she's doing. At Dwarven Forge. Oh my gosh! You are stunning. Stunning! You know what, we skip this room, too. That Dwarven Horde. Oh my god! That shit! Stunning.

Stunning! You know what? We skipped this room, too. Oh! Light it up! Pretty! Woo hoo hoo! Oh my god. Matt, what the fuck, man?

I've been feeling crafty, so to give you a little bit of a heads up of the location that you know not. Oh my god. I know not? Oh. That's so fast. Whoa. These guys are really powerful. There's the way down.

Where? What? Where? Where's the way down? Can you make us all invisible, Caleb? Behind the altars that slow them down. Fuck. Oh, there's no way. We chabies. I'm sure they're all just base level fighters.

Maybe we can send a distraction or something. Probably just really, really. What's with this guy? What is he? He's got like a sickle. You know who's off these balconies? Probably have motherfuckers in them, too. Can we send a distraction in? Maybe we could get up in the balcony. Send a distraction in. I'm in there already.

I can distract. If you can pack it in the balcony. So on the balcony. It's in the distraction. I'm in there already. I can distract. You can pop in the balcony. So Nott, of course. Are there doors leading to the balconies? What do we do? Yes, there are little doors underneath the balconies that might be a winding thing. Or at least there is on the one that's closest to you.

So Nott, you've come in through, you guys have been on this side here. Yeah. So you've come through, and you're in this far corner. Whoa. Right there. So close to a person. There's an individual right to the left

and you see them looking, occasionally checking in. Every now and then you'll hear the rattling of keys and one of the doors over there, which opens up into the previous chamber. Somebody pokes through and asks, Nothing yet. Wispy hoodie. And locks it again behind him.

And the ritual, can I just watch the ritual for a second and just see, does it seem like it's crescendoing or anything, or is it just an even chant? You listen to it and the phrases are less of a, you don't sense any magic. It seems like it's a sermon. Sermon, okay. Speaking of, you hear the old woman go,

And it was upon this day that the angel rose up and gifted upon us our boons for what we've given, for what we have sacrificed by the family below. They will break the first of many chains, and soon the angel will give unto us what we have earned. And they're all listening intently while also keeping an eye out on the room. Shit.

Should've thrown the throw out. Just like we did that guard up top. They're talking about breaking the chains, the chains of blizzard, cut it off now. Should we try and stealth in and surround and ambush and get the jump? How? I don't know.

That doesn't look like there's any cover. I'm going to slowly just walk that way in the room, away from the entrance point, as slow and stealthy as possible. Okay, you're still on the stealth check that you rolled. If she can draw attention to the other side of the room. You are invisible. As you get across to that pillow over there,

you do stop and look back and you see there's a slight trail of water from the rain that you've taken. Oh shit. Nobody seems to notice it. Did you say you want distraction? The first side of the room? Sure. I can take care of that. All right.

Give me 30 seconds, and I start walking fast along the side of the temple towards the back. Back to this side, you mean? Yeah. Okay. Ugh. He's alone. Where's he going? So you come around this end,

you're now on the outside of the cathedral. 20 seconds later, 30 seconds later, 40 seconds later, a massive cat's claw slams through the center stained glass window. Right here? Yes. All righty. Okay. Breaking into the space here, it now sits,

we'll say right, up, I'll put it over here. That's one way to do it. It is. I guess we're going. Yeah, we rolling in the deep. Yeah. All right, so the cat's claw crashes through. Bits of glass come raining down from above as the entire thing falls in on itself.

The sunlight comes through and shines bright onto the center pillar. All of them spin and turn and look up and see the mystical claw. What are you guys doing? As soon as I hear the smash, I'll push through. Well, now it's time to take initiative, because you've now initiated combat. claw. What are you guys doing? As soon as I hear the smash, I'll push through. Well, now it's time to take initiative,

because you've now initiated combat. What do you mean? Yeah, they don't know if that's a friend or a foe. Okay. I just roll. I've mis-rolled this thing initially. I used to have it. Ooh, that's garbage.

That's garbage. Good, good, good, good. Any natural ones? That was a natural one on my end. Natural one! It's a whole estate thing. That's terrible. Hey, that's great!

Yay. Right. Damn. 500 bucks? Wow. Thank you, Travis Frederick. Thank you, Travis Frederick, for softening the blow of my fame.

Good guy. Good deal. Hey, that softens the blow of your snake eyes that you got last session. I doubt it does a little bit. It's true. So 25 to 20. 24.

23. Ooh. 25 to 21. So Jester got 24? Yeah. Then you have 23. 20 to 15? 17. 17.

Wow. Wow, look, the rest of us are fucked. I think it's supposed to be what I'm good at. 15 to 10? 12. 10. Yeah, yeah, just breathe it in. Breathe it in, Caduceus.

Caduceus? Two. All righty. As soon as the glass shatters, and everyone turns and looks, you watch as Cardinal Respa turns and sees it, moves her fingers like this, and then shouts, and the magic that she summons causes her voice to boom loudly.

You recognize this as a thaumaturgic cantrip. No. Says, you who intrude on sacred ground in ceremonies shall be struck down! Bathe in his blinding light. The angel rises unseen. Let their children come! Then she stomps the ground and the ground

just suddenly quakes. All right, top of the round, Jester. I would not have done that! What are you doing, Jester? I'm going to Invoke Duplicity. You're all currently outside over here. Yeah. And I'm assuming all of their,

they're all looking at the window, right? They're all looking at the window at the moment, yeah. Okay, then I'm going to send my duplicate in. My duplicate. And she's soundless, so if this person's distracted, I'm going to have her come along the wall. Okay. And come back here, like behind the person. Create her behind the wall. Okay. And come back here, like behind the person.

Create her behind the person. Okay. Yeah, and then I'm going to... So that's your action. Yeah. I'm going to try to sneak in. Make a stealth check. Jesus Christ, guide me!

Oh no, I can't do that, can I? That's an action, I'm not going to guide me. 14. Okay, you don't move half speed because you're going quietly. Okay. Just let me get you in. One, two.

I'm just going to crouch down right next to where we came in at. I'm going to be next to that bench. Okay. You come in and lean against the bench. Can my duplicate have gone further? Sure, we'll let that happen. Okay.

So that comes into the visual perspective now. The person is right here, is looking up, and in the peripheral, they see the duplicate moving. Like running over this way? So they turn and go, and shout, intruder! Some of them look back. I want it to look like she came through the door.

Right, they all look and they see that, and a few of them look to you. Goddammit. So that's your move and that's your action. Bonus action, already good. All right, that finishes your turn. Next is Nott? Bonus action, are you good? That's it. All right, that finishes your turn. Next is Nott.

Nott, you are over here behind. You see Jester sneak in and create the illusory duplicate of herself come in, and then you notice that people seem to have spotted the illusion and possibly her. Well, hold on, I can do a bonus. I can do a spell for my bonus action. Oh, okay. But I just feel like it's going to make a noise and...

They already see you. They already see me as a thing. We going. Okay, then I'm going to cast Spiritual Weapon. Okay. At second level. Where are you going to drop it? Right over the head of that person. Right here? Yeah.

Okay. I'm going to bring it down. Go ahead and roll for an attack. Weird. 27. That hits. Go ahead and roll damage. That's not an eight. Oh, Jesus. Eight points of damage. Eight points of damage.

Whack, hit over the head, looks back towards that, where it came from, and sees the large- It looks like my duplicate cast it. Yeah. Just so you know. Okay. All my spells come from the duplicate. Right, understood.

So after getting whacked in the head by the lollipop, misty floating in the air, noticing the duplicate, looks at it, sees somebody shouting intruder and looks around and is just really confused. That person doesn't quite notice you at the moment, but others appear, seem to. All right, Nott, what are you doing?

Full movement, back diagonal towards the claw, basically. As far as I can get. 35, right there. Oh, well then, as I'm moving, I will... Shit, should I reveal myself? Maybe you can shoot and then hide behind the thing. Well, that's what I was going to do, but they'll still see me.

All right, as I'm moving, I will shoot at Cardinal Respa. Go for it. You have not been noticed by her, so you have advantage on the attack roll. Yes! Great. Ooh! 29 to hit. That definitely hits.

Yes! All right, let's see what we get. Not the greatest. Not the greatest. Not the greatest. 24 points of damage. Woo! What if we fight more people? I'll just leave it at that, and then I will,

so you say I can get to there, but I can't bonus action hide, right? I'll just leave it at that, and then I will, so you say I can get to there, but I can't bonus action hide, right? You're not, no, because you haven't, and you've revealed yourself now with the attack. Yes. And as you fire, you watch as Cardinal Respo, who's currently saw the smashing glass, heard intruder turn and saw Jester,

you were noticed by the cardinal, you can see as she begins to cast, or beginning the process of thinking about a spell to release before, and then sigh, and as she reaches back, the two other guys behind her, or three that are watching her, suddenly go and look in your direction, seeing the source

of where it comes from, and they immediately see you appear, and there's nowhere to hide from. Well, then I will use my bonus action to dash the full movement back behind and just keep going around the circle. 30, 35, that's as far as you can get there. Okay, unless you want to be up against the wall. I'll be against the wall, yeah. All right, there you go.

All right, that finishes Natsuko. Caleb, you're up. I need to understand what I see from outside. Is that window ground level or high above me? This? Yeah. When you shattered it, it shattered it kind of low, and then the top part mostly broke through. There's still parts of it up there,

but there's hanging broken bits, and it's jagged. You could carefully get through and- I can walk through, is what I'm asking, or is it up and in? You could certainly try. It looks like there's anywhere between two to three feet of broken, jagged stained glass there, but you could try and kicking it out.

You could try and climb through it. Instead, for my bonus action, I will pull the cat's claw down through that jagged glass, cracking out as much as possible near the bottom, and I'll use the claw to push me the distance up into the building. Forceful hand pushes, and I will have to save against it. to push me the distance up into the building. Forceful hand pushes, and I would have to save against it. Right, so you're back here,

or back all the way to the back? Yeah, I'm right where I put it through. Sorry. So just to scoop me up and in, if possible. I'll allow it. That'll be your action to do that. The cat's action, or my action? Because it's a bonus action once it's cast.

It's a bonus action to have it attack and move? Yeah, on subsequent turns. So I did the spell before combat started. This is a new turn, so it's a bonus action for it to do whatever it's going to do, according to the spell. Right, I'm just trying to remember, is it attack and you can move it on a bonus action? Or is it one or the other?

Go to the book. I believe it can move and tact. Just double check it. As a bonus action on your subsequent turns, you can move the hand up to 60 feet and then cause one of the following effects with it. Gotcha, okay, cool. So yeah, I'll, so it scoops through, clears out the bottom of the glass,

picks you up, and then lifts you. It moves fast, 60 feet. 60 feet, yeah. That's pretty quick. Twice as fast. Ah! Wow, that is cool. You got two of them? Yep. That's pretty quick. Twice my speed. Oh! Wow. That is cool, you've got two of them? Yep, it's a backup.

It lifts you through. I would say after carrying all that out, scooping you up and bringing you in, it has to be like 10, 15 more feet. Oh, I'm so sorry. Well, I come scooping up in here and get the lay of the land in like three seconds, and from the claw,

you see my hands come out and go and a ball of fire from the guano and sulfur pools out in my hands and I throw it centered maybe to that side of the altar by her right, by Respa's right side. All right. Fucking light them up! To whereabouts? by her right, by Respa's right side. All right. Fucking... Light them up!

To whereabouts? This side of her. This side of her, right there? Yeah, right there. Okay, so trying to get all of them in it? Yeah. All right, go ahead and roll damage. I believe in you. Yes, so I might.

Just detonates in the center, the explosion resounding through the flames, She detonates in the center, the explosion resounding through the flames, causing this, in the middle of the air, this pure sphere of burning fire that the bottom of it just being cut off from the top of the pillar, and just engulfs everything up there. And this is a fourth level.

So I love how the high level spells make you out of breath when you cast it. Cardinal at 19, so she's extremely safe. She made her save? She did. 10, 13, 18, 24. 30 points of fire damage. Nice, nice, nice. No, that's one more. 31?

36 points of fire damage. 36, nice. Sorry, so she takes half damage. She succeeds. He takes half damage there. That's 18. Fails and takes full. 18 is great on half, so that's awesome. Oh!

Nydan just screams and crumbles to the ground, just a charred skeleton left in its place. This one here gets cocked. 14, though, that's a fail. Is that a wisdom save now? Huh? Because the humanoids are going down from five. Yes, it would.

Each one, do you have to do a save for each one, or is it like a quick? At the end of the turn, if it's killed one, you don't have to do it for each one, but. 18. 18, okay. You're still holding on. This one here fails. Woo!

Incinerate. Last one fails. You watch as all of them scream. Only two of them manage to dodge out of the way, tumble down the stairs, put out the flames on their back before they stand back up and turn in your direction. I look at the door, I'm like, you would not believe what just happened.

Caleb's ears are ringing from the sounds of the screams, and he just dives and falls down behind that slope of stone with his movement off of the cat's claw. Hit and slide. Make an acrobatics check, please. I'm so good at that. Acrobatics, you said?

Seven. All right, you are prone behind it right now. I'll drop a bunch of glass. Yep. Oh! So you take two points of piercing damage. As you tumble, lying on your side, it's all jammed

into your cloak and stuff. Both me and my duplicate were like, ah, ooh. Ooh, yeah. It's just like Die Hard. Now I've got a fire spell, ho ho ho. Yippee-yi-yay-oh-kay-yay, motherfucker. Putting this on your reminder of your concentration.

All right, that brings us to, actually this one, and Jester is also holding concentration because of her duplicate. I'll replace that with this one. Got it. All right, that finishes your turn, Caleb. Yeah. All righty, it is now the cultist's turn.

There are, all right, these two here, they saw Jester, but then all of a sudden, just flames burst in. This one's going to go ahead and 10, 15, 20. Where you going? 30. Where you going? This one's going to rush over

10, 20, 25, 30, and does get close to you. Yeah. No. Well, does the claw get to do anything on that? No, the claw's a creature. It's going to make two melee attacks against you. First one is going to be, that's cock. Ooh, 24 to hit. Yikes. All right.

Take six points of piercing damage. The second attack. Is it harder because he's prone, or easier because he's prone to hit him? Out of melee, it's easy. Out of melee, it's easy. Out of melee, it's advantage. Oh. Shit. The second one will be, yeah, since

I take your fighting mix, I only want one teach. 21. Hits. Okay. You then suffer four points of piercing damage. It just stabs you twice with daggers. You're fine. So fine. Suck it up. This one's going to go ahead and rush up

and get on the other side of you, and now two of them are ready to just stab the fuck out of you the next turn. The head uses action to get there. Actually, you know what? No, he's not. This guy is a different type. He's going to go ahead and use his bonus action

and summon a gem on him. Summon a different type. He's going to use his bonus action and summon. He's a Gemini. Summon a spiritual weapon. What's it look like? This you see what looks to be a large sword of flame with dangling chains of fire off of it. As it swings in the air, it arcs down towards you. Raid attack. That is going to be 18 to hit.

Shield. I like your modifications, man. That misses. The shield deflects the blow from the weapon. That's going to finish its turn. Now the regular cultist, the other one's over here, is going to go ahead and...

Regular cultist, regular cultist. Doesn't quite have the same. No, not're the same. Too many syllables. Save it. He's going to come up and get face to face with you. I'd like to see you try! This one.

There is a hidden one, right? Yeah, it's going to go over and attempt to strike the duplicate jester. And does nothing. Swings through. But now is well aware that it is an illusion. That finishes their turn. Beau, you're up. All right. All right.

I'm going to. The duplicate is still acting like it got hit, it's like. Okay. Doing the Buffy the Vampire. He made her do it. It's very dramatic. All right. Still pretty sure you're watching.

It literally went to stab and its hand went through, and then a second later it began to act. It's like, looks back at you and goes, like the gift of the robot orangutan. All right, Beau, what are you doing? Okay, I'm going to slide through this hole like I'm sliding through home base.

All right, let's go. Five, 10, 15. You're 15 feet there, where do you want to go? Church! 20, 25, 30. 35, 40, 45, 50. Can I get face to face with her? Your speed is 50? Yes, it is.

Squeezing through the hole actually would have, to get through the crawl space, would have taken 10 feet of movement, so 50 would get you right there. You don't quite get base to base with her. Almost like you planned this shit. How could you plan for that? I never could have planned for that.

Because of the two foot by two foot crawl space, so the moment of squeezing through and getting up takes 10 feet of your movement as opposed to five. Why haven't you been practicing bear crawling? I don't know. Goddamn it. Even with unarmored movement and shit. Unarmored movement is what gives you the 50 you can move.

Crazy fucking fast monk. Yeah. Can you lightning punch her? Yeah. I'm sorry if you're unhappy with your super movement speed and the ability to stun everything I throw at you, but. Superman kicks a rock. God, this is so lame.

Yeah, let's lightning. Lightning punch her. Up to you. I guess lightning, let's do it, let's do it. Just one her. Up to you. Yeah, let's do it, let's do it. It's one minute, it's one minute. Okay. Let's start now. You rush up, slam the fists together. The bolts of energy can strike through,

curling up the body. Nope, they can see my dope hand movements, though. All righty. I can go cross-eyed, though. Now what are you doing? Gonna rev it up and Church! Just rev it up. Take me to church, oh, it's a-blah-ga-blah-ga, blah-la-blah. Okay. Pop-pop, 19 for the first one and 26 for the second.

Both hit, actually, yeah up 19 for the first one and 26 for the second. Both hit, actually, yeah. Ha ha! 19 hits. 19. Okay. Sam, do you remember what your hit was, number? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What did I hit the red chick with?

The cardinal with, yeah. I think it was a 29 to hit. 19 hits. Oh, okay. I think it was a 29 to hit. Try something different. 19 hits. Oh, okay. Yeah, good to know. Okay. 10 plus 12, 22 total. Nice. Lightning damage. Both punches, you see the bolts arcing off

about 20 feet, hitting the cardinal, and then striking through her chest for another foot or so before it dissipates and curls back, almost like a slow prominence being dragged back by gravity. With each hitch, retracts and looks at you with these wild eyes out of anger and then smiles. Yeah, you do have some breakage, honey.

Yeah. So you have a bonus action still. Oh my god, I do! Yeah, you do. Some breakage. Patient defense. Okay. You go into a defensive position, ready to take whatever onslaught comes your way. Finishing after Beau's turn, it is Cardinal Respa's go.

No! She... She's a holy woman, she wouldn't attack in a church. Yeah, she seems like a sweet old grandma. Has no one seen Dead and Alive? Am I the only one who knows how this is going to go? Okay, never mind. She's just going to restore all the damage.

I'm a ghast. She's jet packing up. She's going to go ahead and cast. Oh no. Oh no. Good old classic. Didn't see that. A good old classic. Didn't see that coming. Good old classic called Firestorm.

Oh. Oh. That's good. She's high level, y'all. 10-foot cubes. It's going to. 10-foot cubes? Oh boy. Yeah, she likes this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What? No, just how bad this could be is all. How fine. Can she hit more than two? She can. Yeah. But which?

Is it a line? 10. They just have to like, touch bases. How many? Four. Ten? Ten. Ten, many? Four. Ten. Ten. Ten's ten. Six.

Seven. Eight squares. Yeah, so she'll end up burning one of her own guys if it doesn't give a shit. So. I've been death called Mawful Woman. She'll get two of her own guys, won't she? Nope, she can scoot around this one.

Okay. She goes around here and then curls in that way, and gets the one next to Nott. The big C. So first, that would be a dexterity saving throw from Caleb, from Nott, and from Beauregard. Because you are prone. Dissipate.

I rolled a natural. No, it doesn't hit you. I rolled a natural 20. Oh, good on you. Oh, thank god. I thought he was going to say natural one. No, prone doesn't affect his. I rolled a natural 20. Oh, good. Oh, thank god. Good. I thought you were going to say natural one. No, prone doesn't affect the dexterity of your character,

strangely. I can take the dodge action as a part of patient defense. The dodge action? Right. Well, that's how it works. Basically, you've done the dodge action, which gives you attacks that give you a disadvantage. Right, I'm an idiot.

No, okay, yes. So what was your dexterity saving throw? It's bullshit. It's a 13. 13, fail, success? 17. Fail. Okay.

Ow. Evasion. A lot of dice in his hands. So you take half damage. Yes. I'm going to be healing, aren't I? You know this does not. Wow. 45 points of fire damage.

So you take 22. Evasion. So 22, 22, 22. You all take 22 points of fire damage. As you watch, she raises her hands up with a smile, cackling, and you watch the flames erupt. The flames have a strange, darker tint to them, almost like, as opposed to light being emanated, a bit of shadow is cast from them.

As the fire burns, these pillars of fire are burning like a giant series of shock waves of flame across, curling around the chamber. It completely disintegrates this guy. Actually, let me roll a save and see if he might survive. He survives, weirdly! But it's really, really, really, really hurt! He's like, why?!

And just incinerates the exterior of each of you. The air escapes you for a moment as it's burned away from the flames, and then it dies down and you all with a bit frazzled, a bit charred. That's familiar. I'm going to move five, 10, 25, 30 to there.

Oh shit. That brings us to Fjord's turn. I will move through the opening. Five, 10, 15 to get in front of Jester. Great. I'll use 10, 15 to get in front of Jester. Great. And I'll use the other 15 to move in more towards the room, so I can keep a line of sight with the cardinal.

Right there, that'll do. And I'll send two Eldritch Blasts in her direction. Go for it, roll two strikes. That sucks, 14. Please. And 27. Titt Jeez. And 27. Titties. 27 hits. Great, great, great.

Seven points of Eldritch Blast damage. Ooh! Seven points of Eldritch Blast damage already. Nice! It's in the chest. Vakabin? Who'd you shoot? The cardinal. The cardinal. The cardinal? Okay.

All right. The cardinal's like. Hey, it worked a little bit. All right, so finish your turn? Yes. All right, it is now Pumat's turn. Pumat! Scramble through.

Yeah, it's a little bit of tight space here. Oh no. And he comes into the room and sees the fire merging the glass wall and crumbled down. Sees Fjord run in and fire two Eldritch Blasts. One hits the stairs and scatters, the other one hits the cardinal, then ducks behind the pillar and he's like,

Oh, it's, what have I agreed to do? He's going to go ahead and move from there into that space there, and then for Pumat's turn, he's going to go ahead and cast Dominate Person. I made notes of which spells are enchantments. Weak. Pumat's evil! All right, so. He does have a bunch of servants that look like him.

Bring it up here, pardon my weight. Sync into four. Sync. All right. He's actually going to move it. That was 10, 15, 20, 30. He's going to get right there. Yeah, that'll do.

He's going to cast Dominate Person on Cardinal Respa. Oh! And is going to cast it on this cultist right there, the one that was attacking. That one's the other one that's worrying him off to the side, he's too close for comfort. Someone, what the hell of it, someone go ahead and roll a d20 for Cardinal Respa.

Oh, who's doing it? I will roll for Respa. She rolled a nine? Nine! Nine! Plus. She succeeds. Ah. It's the high wisdom.

Why do I roll so good? Should've let me do it. You can go ahead and roll for the other one if you want to, for the hell of it. Why don't you do this one? But use your shitty dice. Yeah. None of them are shitty.

Ah! Yeah. Hooray! That cultist suddenly leans forward and then turns back and looks towards Pumat and is like, Hey, want to help us out here? Thanks, buddy. That's going to be his turn. I'm going to cross off this one there.

That brings us to, you hear this skittering sound from the pillars above. Oh no. I have a gruff in here. This growling bit. As you all glance over the shoulder, you can see claws you need to pull up and these strange, humanoid,

imagine a dark greenish colored demonic creature, but the skin is hanging and dangling a bit off of its body. It has a snub nose, almost like a mole, and it begins to curl up. You see multiples climbing up, similar to when you've seen previous rifts opened in spaces throughout Wildemount. Oh no, they got it open?

Whoa, that's a lot of figurines. I think it's thin open. Oh no. What kind of fucking church is this? I'm so glad I didn't go up that damn top. I was just going to be clever and go up. Thus ends the fold. They're going to leap down.

They're not very quick, so they just leap off, hit the ground. And splatter. They're really stupid. They're made of jello. I feel like there's some dex saves that have to happen. I'm getting into it. Okay. On the dex save?

Boy. Are there? Boy, boy, boy. It's fine. Is there a door? Oh, is that a staircase behind her? Yeah, that's where they're going. You want us to hurt them. All right, so that one takes three points of damage.

That's where the girl is. And then we can lock it behind us. Down below. Oh. Do you have the to? All right, so that one takes three points of damage. That's where the gorilla is. Then we can lock it behind us. Down below. Oh. Do you have the? Mm-hmm. Down below. So if we get in there, it don't matter. Yeah, they're behind where they were.

Oh no, there's that many? There's that many? The rest of their movement is going to go over here, and they're going to take their action to rush in and swarm Nott. Oh! Oh, Traveler, be with us, please. Save us from this humanity!

You want to lay down as well? They have blood hands. They're covered in blood! One of them takes four points of damage. I hope. Do they move in pairs? They're just rushing, they're jumping off from the space. Are they like otters, they hold onto each other so they don't lose track

of where they are? They're smaller than you, than a medium size. They're about maybe waist high or so, and they're just skittering forward. Oh no, they're cute! They're going to use their action to swarm up on Beauregard. I don't know.

But they don't have any action to attack you. These two leap off. Oh no! I already rolled for them, and they're fine, and they move in, and they're both going to take attacks, and there's one more up here. That is going to attempt to leap off as well. Yeah, he's fine with natural turn.

He's going to rush around to Fjord. So that's going to be no attacks on Nott, because it took them a while to get them, no attacks on Beau, because it took them a while to get them, no attacks on Beau, because it took their action to get to you, attack on Pumat, and two on Fjord. Got it. That attack, nope, that's going to be a seven.

That's a miss. And Fjord, natural 20. Oh! And a natural 20. Wow! Two in a row. Well, getting this party started. Does that mean Travis Frederick has to take back $500?

Is that what happens? They actually do two attacks. So we'll say that's the first one. Okay. So you take eight points of piercing damage. Got it. From Bliffer's critical. Okay.

Okay. They're not super strong. And the other one, you take 12 points of piercing damage. Okay. And the other one's going to attack, bite, and claw you as well. All right. That's going to be a 16 to hit.

That misses. All right. And a 13 to hit. Yeah, they both miss. Oh, wow. On the two melee hits that hit, the Star Razor pulses and deals seven points of radiant damage to the attacker.

Nice. So with each strike, bites at you, bursts in its jaw, and you can see the lips curl back from the radiant burn that now sits at the edge of its mouth. That finishes their turn. Caduceus, you're up. I'm going to crawl through the hole. You can crawl through it. Get in there, Caddy. 15 to get right there.

I'm going to keep moving against the wall to the side, I think. Okay. We're here? Yeah, I'm going to move against the wall so nothing can get behind me. 25, 30. All right. I think. Okay. We're here? Yeah, I'm going to move against the wall, so nothing can get behind me. 25, 30. All right.

And I'm going to take a Sacred Flame against the priestess. Which one? The one that Beau is attacking, the main one. Main one? What's the range on Sacred Flame? 60 feet. She is beyond 60 feet.

Oh, where is she? She's right here. Oh, she ran. Yeah, she went and moved to the side of the pillar. She is beyond 60 feet. Oh, she's, where is she? She's right here. Oh, she ran. Yeah, she went and moved to the side of the pillar. She's about 90 feet from you. Oh. Well, heck. Right now, I can't see beyond that.

Oh, heck and heck. Well, heck and heck. Well, we're in a church. We don't want to say hell or anything. Then I'm going to hit one of the two that's attacking Beau right now. Okay, go for it. That's a dex 17. That's a right now. Okay, go for it. That's a dex 17.

That's a fail! All right, so that's... Fail! Fail! Church? 23 points of radiant damage. All right. Christ is born, Christ is risen. Wait, hold on, eight, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.

21 points of radiant damage. It just burns with the radiant flame as the flame finally flicks out of radiant damage. It just burns with the radiant flame and as the flame finally flicks out of existence behind, there's just a hint of charred bone that clatters to the ground, scatters into ash. That demonic creature destroyed entirely from the city. Oh, dang. So that's my move.

All right, top of the round. Jester, you're up. Oh, that's me. Oh, little're up. Oh, that's me. Oh, little old me. Oh, little old me? I am going to, hold on, let me look at this thing real fast. Okay, I'm going to, number one, use my spiritual weapon to attack this thing.

This thing it just attacked. Actually, no, I'm going to move the spiritual weapon and I'm going to go try to get one of the things that attacked Fjord, because I saw it took a pretty hard hit from that, the one that gave him 12 damage. Whichever one. Then it's going to swing at him, and it's going to get a 20.

That hits, go ahead and roll damage. That is nine points. Nice. Slams into it. Makes a horrid sucking sound at the end. Still standing even after the other two, after the seven points on top of that? Well, the one that took seven damage was that one.

You couldn't quite get to that one in time. Okay. It's a 20 feet movement, right, on the bonus? Yeah. Yeah, so couldn't quite get it done. The other one, this is the first damage it's taken. Oh, okay. Then for my attack, I'm going to cast Guiding Bolt! And my duplicate's going to go

at the, yeah. Is that 120 feet, right? Yeah. Yeah, you can do that. Go ahead and roll an attack. This is at fourth level, by the way. 20. 20. She does have half cover from going behind the pillar, which gives her a plus two.

Oh, can I move my duplicate to where I can move it up here to where it wouldn't get half covered? Yeah. Okay, yeah, let's do that. Mm-hmm. I don't get you, get her outside of there. The half cover there? 20? 20 hits. Yeah!

So that is... That is 7d6. Oh, rough. Two, three, four, five, six. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 10, 20, 21, and so 24 points of damage. Nice. She is currently raiding. As the blast hits her, she falls to one knee

and gets up up breathing hard. You can see a lot of the robe has been burned away. The skin itself is burned and charred and the hair is curled up on one side where part of the face is now scarred from the impact of the radiant blast. The next attack on her gets advantage. Indeed.

All right, that's your action. You want to move or stay put? I'm going to stay put. The next attack on her gets advantage? Yes. Do I know that? Everybody which is glowing. So Nott, it's your turn.

I will bonus action disengage, slide between one of those things' legs, and keep running. I'm going to run towards the door behind the sermon, the whatever, the altar. Yeah, yep. Five, ten. As I'm running, I'm going to turn

and shoot the radiant glowing lady. Okay, go for it. 19. 19 just hits. Oh! That was with advantage, right? Yeah. It is. Yeah, but just hits.

So I get sneak attack. You get sneak attack because of the Guiding Bolt. That was fucking over. Let me try that again. Try that again. So I get sneak attack. Yeah, do that. That one's cocked.

Okay. At the end. I thought one went under the drink. 24 points of damage. How do you want to do this? Yes! Oh shit! I would like to shoot her with a crossbow bolt.

But if possible, I'd love it to go through her neck and pin her to the pillar behind her. So as you run by, she turns and brings her hand out, but you can see she starts muttering and the fingers start to glow. It's matching the halo of radiant energy that Jester had set you up with. You aim your crossbow and for a split second,

you swear you see a green hand touch the side of your hand to correct your aim and you fire. Right as she begins to cast, She's going to molest me? In a church. You see her eyes go wide as her arms just go limp to the side. Blood spills out of her mouth.

Yeah! Eventually goes limp and just stays there. You can now see the hospital holding her while she's standing there. Did I see the hand? Did I see the hand help nod or, or did I not see that? No, you're way too far away. Damn it!

You've been staying in the corner. He did it, and I didn't even see him. He's just doing it to be nice. Wow, that was so cool. All right, so it's your movement and your action. And my bonus as well, to disengage, so. Okay, yep. Fucking aim bots.

You can get up to me here if you'd like. Great. Get you every time. Okay. Goddamn it. That finishes Nott's turn. All right. Nott, as you get up to the door, you sit there looking around and you hear Oh no.

Oh no, something's coming. Oh no. You turn back and the door Meganexterity saving throw. Oh no, Jesus Christ. Oh, what was that? It's got to be the Laughing Hand, right? 16. You do manage to move out of the way just in time

as the doors slam open. I would also know if Yasha is coming, by the way. I would be able to sense any movement. Oh god! Laughing Hand comes barreling through. No! Right as it moves past, you hear the, No!

No! That horrible laughing sound again. You're like, La la la la la la la la la la la la la la. I don't have time to cover my ears or anything. Oh shit. You also... Entering right after and flying up high into the chamber.

No, no, no. I hate him. I hate him. Oh, bye. Oh, bye. Oh, no, it's on. right after and flying up high into the chamber. I need him! I need Obann! I need Obann! Up to the top. No, it's on! This is it!

This is it! Then, stepping out, you see Yasha. Yasha! Oh, she died! She fell down, she's dead. She cracked her head on the steps. Perfect entrance, dude. Dude, dude, dude. Oh shit.

Oh shit, oh god, oh fuck, oh shit, oh god, oh shit. Yasha, if you wouldn't mind. Yay! You fucking snake! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her! Kill her!

Kill her! Okay, okay. Ashley's back! Until the end of the fight when she dies. Hope you got a backup here. You're going down. I don't have a backup. Focus on Yasha first!

I'll make one of you, too. Nope. Please be out of practice. Please be out of practice. Please be out of practice. When am I of practice. Please be out of practice. When am I not out of practice? Every time I sit at this table, I'm like, what's D&D?

Hi! Hi! Okay, okay, okay, okay. You get to kill your friends tonight. Woo! Yes. Get ready. So if you could roll initiative for me, Asha.

Okay. Because you're joining the initiative board. Okay. I mean, wait. Why? Okay. There's a lot of them that I canha. Okay. Because you're joining the initiative order. I mean, wait. Why? There's a lot of them that I could do. I go with this anyway.

Okay, okay, okay. This is such a bad setting for this, though, Matt. You've been so good. I'm just standing there in the platform, watching the walk of the arch. Yeah. Yeah. Oh boy.

Well, I get advantage on that. You're attacking right away? What are you doing? No, I get advantage on that. This is fucking, this is a shit show. You're attacking right away? What are you doing? Oh shit. Oh wait, are you using your initiative? No, just doing initiative. Oh. What's my initiative? Here we go.

They can get a plus one. Come on in, Ashton. Okay, 13. Come closer. Close 13, so? 13. All right. What a shocker. I rolled initiative. So right after, you're going at the same time as Pumat.

Mm-hmm. Yes. Scooch in. Scooch. Okay, okay. I have room, guys, I have room. All right. I know shocker. So right after, you're going at the same time as Pumat. Yes. Okay, okay. I have room, guys, I have room. I know what you're doing. So Nott finished, they emerge, Obann goes first. Oh, it's amazing writing Yasha the initiative order. Oh! Yeah!

Where was that in the, that was after Nott went, right? Caleb was about to go, but Obann's in. Yes. After Nott? I know. I know youvan's in. Yes. I'm after Nott? I know. No, you're after Pumai. I'm after Pumai. You're way late. You're after Fjord, then? Right before me.

So I have time to read the player's handbook. Yep. Learn D&D, please. Fifth edition. So when the doors opened, am I just behind a door out of sight now? That'd be awesome. No, okay. You haven't hit me. Did we also see the inevitable end come out?

Nope. I'm 14. 14, does that change my initiative? Because I have a plus two to initiative. That puts you actually before Fjord. Mom's sweaty. Knees weak. We are not clocking the inevitable end yet, by the way.

Oh, of course not. But you can see invisible things. I can, for an hour. But she doesn't really go invisible. I think we think she does. She comes from underground. She phases. So, with Obann's turn, Obann. Standing on a wall right now.

Pouring out and flying up in the air. It's like. Good. Morphater. As he looks down with a grin, he's going to go ahead and try a... Next up, Tialis brother. How many do you got?

I'm okay for me. He's going to go going to cast Dominate Person on... He knows us, too. On you, Beauregard. No! I knew it! You go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw for me, please. You got good wisdom now. Guidance.

I'm going to guide you. That doesn't work. We got a lot of go? No, not can't on a reaction. No. Sorry, sorry. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! God. Ugh.

$500? Seven. Oh god! Fuck. It's almost like six. It's been 18. Beauregard. You look up into Obann's eyes as his hands just form this come to me finger motion and you feel all of a sudden your vision pull back into your head like the sunken place.

I'm just totally sunken. And you lose control of your body. All right. 18 would have been a lot better. Yeah, it would have. Obann finishes his turn. So she's charmed? She is charmed and he can take complete control. So you consider Obann an ally, and the rest of them enemies.

As a predominate person, telepathic link, he can speak to you and you hear the voice in the head say, Kill them all. Kill them for the angel. Kill them for me. And yeah, so your general course of action is to attack your friends. But like, just with your shuriken.

So, Caleb, you're up. Okay. I will use a bonus action to have the claw attempt to shred the one who's stabbed. So as he's stabbing into me, I'm trying to back away and doing this with my hand and drawing the claw to shred him. Okay, go ahead and roll for the attack for the claw.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The claw's still out, that's great. That is a 21 to hit. That hits. Oh, good, good, 23. 23 points of damage. Slashing damage, yeah. Yeah, okay. What do you want to do?

Is that on Obann? No, it's the one who's stabbing the shit out of me. He just gets carved into ribbons. Oh good. And crumbles to the ground. The claws just seem like fall into four different pieces. gets carved into ribbons. Oh god. And crumbles to the ground. The claws just seem like fall into four different pieces. Okay, and Caleb starts to smear his blood on the ground

as he crawls this way just five feet, and he'll get this way, just five feet that way, so I can see a little bit, and in all the tumult, the hands clap together again. And another fireball flies out just to the side of that candlestick diagonally, maybe. Yeah, we're going to get, no, no, closer to this guy right here, and those guys over there.

Yeah. Right there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead and roll damage. Place your mushroom cloud. Laughing hand. Rolls an 11. That's a fail.

26 points of fire damage. That was just a third level. Takes half that. Actually, no, he does not, because he lost his resistance. Because we killed the fucking horde. Is this a fireball? Fireball. What's the DC?

Has it got you? Did it get you? 17. No, actually, he managed to aim it, so it did not hit a notch. You feel the heat and you're like, close your eyes, and the fire barely licks past. Your eyebrows recoil a bit. Your beautiful tattooed eyebrows. That's a failure there.

Incinerates, screams as the spiritual weapon that they had summoned vanishes. Let's do a 15 save for me. All right. Which is? I get a 14. 14? Yeah, because this's a leveled fire spell, so 13 was the DC, so you succeed.

All right. That was a level three spell. Yeah. Yeah. Fail. So you're okay. It takes half damage because it is resistant. Oh, the little things are resistant to fire? Oh, the little creatures?

Yeah. Because they're from hell. Yeah. Yeah. From the abyss, the little creatures? Yeah. Because they're from hell. Yeah. Yeah. From the abyss, actually. From abyss. Fails. And half damage there, and then that goes there. Fails, but did not take damage from your previous fireball.

I don't think so. Is it a rush through? That takes a full 26. Ashley frickin' Johnson at the table. All right. So I used 15 feet, half my movement to stand. Correct. I moved five feet that way, so I have 10 left. So you have 10 more feet.

I'm going that way. All right. 10 feet. Going that way. Just like those two of us. All right. Behind the edge there. Got it. All right. That's it.

That finishes your edge there. Got it. All right. That's it. That finishes your go there. Next up, the cultists. Oh boy. All? Yep. This guy rushes up here. Sure. And this guy.

Who is one of us. Who is dominated, is going to go ahead and rush up to attack the one that's outside of Pumat. Oh my goodness. Do an attack on that one. That's a natural 20. Oh, that's good, that's good. And a 15 for both hits.

It's a tie. Leave a penny, take a penny. Yeah! You know, you lose a bow, you gain a cultist. Leave a cultist take a penny. Yeah. I need to break down. I need to break down. I need to break down.

Did you save against the treant? It's okay. 15 points of damage. So that one. So carves into that one there with a dagger. The creature recoils back, looking confused and angry as the cultist's eyes are still wide and smiling while looking at Pumat.

Like, hey, that's like, yeah, that's right. The other one that's over there is going to attack you, Caleb. Two-ish attacks with you. First is going to be a 14. Misses. Misses. Second one, that's going to be a 15. Shield. Shield. Shield a second time, reflect it off.

The dagger scrapes off of the outside of the arcane energy shield, no impact. All right, that finishes the cultist's turn at that point. That brings us to Beauregard. Beauregard. Have fun. So, as I look at Obann and he says, kill them all, I start to slip into the sunken place and I feel the darkness come through like tunnel vision,

and then I just close my eyes and I resist, and when I open them, I'm sitting next to the ocean in Nicodranas, meditating. I breathe and I'm going to use Stillness of Mind to end a charm effect. Yes! That's right! Fuck yeah!

I forgot you had that. What? Man. What? Fuck, I want one, too. Give me two to tip. I open back and I want one too. Give me one, give me one. I open back and I look at him and I just go. I just grow angry.

That's your action. I was going to let you up. That's my action. Nice work, Danvers. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up! Fuck. Robotech missile her. Nice work, Danvers. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up! Fuck. Robotech Missile Error.

No way to fuck! Harnessing that stillness and that peace, I'm going to look around, I'm going to look with a laughing hand, look at the demon behind me, and do Patient Defense again. No. with a demon behind me and do Patient Defense again. And... I could theoretically move, but then he would get an attack, right?

Both of them would, yeah. Both of them would. You are within range of his blade. I will just Patient Defense and hold strong. Okay, as you do, you get out. Because you're naturally, what's your passive perception? 13.

13, okay. The Laughing Hand, as it's stepped up, you're the one who can see it, and it's breathing heavy, it's like. Oh no. He's having a rough time. Sickly. Maybe we should go easy on him.

Buddy. Yeah. All right, that finishes Beauregard's turn. It is now Yasha's turn. First move back. What's it going to be? Okay, okay, god. You're currently at right ears. Where's this to? Is that not right there?

No, it's just to the right. Hi. Okay. Please don't kill me. So I would like to rage. Okay. So, I would like to rage. Okay. Yasha flecks angrily,

that face turning into a dour, gritted expression. I'm going to turn to my right, and I am going to take out my skin gorger. Okay. The horrible, rusted-looking, giant, thick, jagged blade in both hands. I'm going to stare at Nott, and I'm going to attack Reckless.

All right. Go for it. Oh, oh, oh! I rolled two ones. Yay! That's it! That was awesome! Two ones. Yay! Hot to the get start!

Oh, so many levels of awesome. Thank you, Ashley! Oh man, you had one job. I got one job. Sneak eyes! I'm going to put puppy dog eyes on her. Okay, so. Wow. Wow. As a bonus action, I am,

or no, no, no, never mind, because I raged. Okay. I'll stay. I'm going to stay there. All right, that finishes your turn. Fjord, you're up. Wow. You see Yasha come out angrily, rage, and then rush over

and swing twice towards Nott. Nott backing out of the way, dodging. The blade is sparking against the stonework that's holding the doorframe. What are you doing? With my bonus action, I will put my Hexblade's Curse on Obann. Okay.

What does that do? 19 or 20 is a critical hit against him. It's extra damage and just a slew of other shit. 19 or 20 for anybody or just for you? Just for me. Okay. All right. And I will look up at Obann and say, looks like this is an aerial fight.

And I'll point up in the sky and my eyes will roll back and I'll say, it's time to vrock. And I will summon a vrock. A vrock? Summon a greater demon. Let's get ready to vrock! You got to do that every time. I think that adds a d4 for the pun damage.

Yeah, but that goes to Matt. I can hear the electric guitar riff. Beep, beep, do-do-do-do-do-do! All right. So stupid. You see this large, creepy vulture-like demonic entity appear, its skin covered in harsh feathers and this sickly-looking

scaled hide to the parts that aren't covered by the feathers themselves, giant wings, long, hooked beak, claws. All right, so go ahead. I roll initiative for it, right? It should say in the spell. I think it rolls its own initiative. Okay. All right. It should say in the spell. I think it rolls its own initiative.

Okay. F***s. It's a two. Which actually means it goes very soon. Yeah, it does. It goes right after you, or right after you. Right with me. Yeah. All right, so keep track of that.

I will, thank you. It can go first. It goes with Caduceus, right? All right. No, you can go first. No, please let it go first. All right, forward death. That's your action, you have your movement and your bonus. Oh, you're using your bonus for the Hexblade, no?

Yep. So stay put or are you going to move? I'm going to stay put so I don't incur a bunch of attacks of opportunity. Okay, that brings us to Pumat's turn. Pumat is still controlling the guy, he's going to go, all right, this is getting a little out of hand here. You see him looking a little scared at the presence of all these creatures around.

He's going to go ahead and he's going to cast Acid Arrow at 5th-level. 5th-level? Mm-hmm. He's going to go ahead and Arrow at 5th-level. 5th-level? Mm-hmm. He's going to fire it at the Laughing Hand, because that's, from his perspective, the scariest guy right now. Understandably. That's fair. There's a lot of crazy shit going on in this place.

There's cultists and skeleton heads. And giant blade-hand men. I mean, yeah. There's cultists and skeleton heads. Giant blade hand men. We still don't know where the inevitable end is. Oh no. No, we don't. She might be at a spa for a good break. Maybe she's just chilling, you know? Maybe she had a fight.

Maybe her idea went out of fight. Dun dun dun dun. Maybe she's embarrassed. You're too how to fight. La la la. Maybe she's embarrassed, she's doing embarrassed things. 14 points of acid damage to the Laughing Hand. He's going to burn a little more on his turn. As Pumat, surrounded by these things, sees the big guy burst through,

the skinny scary goes, No, no, no, no, no, no. Then releases this dart of green energy. It fires forward, splatters into him, and he begins to burn and singe the somewhat sagging flesh covered in mouths as it splatters and burns. The mouths that were laughing gargle a bit as it enters their interior. He is in a risk attack of opportunity, because he does not like being here any time that guy controls. We're going to move one, two, three, four, six. Both of them get attacks

on him. First one. Yeah, that'll hit. It takes six points of slashing damage and he has to make a constitution saving throw, which he makes, so he maintains some domination. Other attack against him, misses. So he swoops by, all right, all right. He hears the doors behind starting to unlock from the chamber you guys skipped. Oh no, those dudes.

All right, finishing his turn. It is now these guys' turns. Wait, where? The other cultists coming from the front. Oh no, the ones we skipped? Yeah. But we skipped that board. They're out of it.

It's done, there's some work. It's a scrolling game, you can't go back. It's Super Mario Brothers. Yeah, because there's a cultist blocking the other thing and rush up to Nott. They're both going to attack you, Nott, the first one. It's going to be a 12. Miss.

Dodge. First attack, they do have advantage on you because you're currently flanking with Yasha. Okay. Second attack from that one is going to be 13. Dodge. This one here is currently flicking you with the Laughing Hand, and that's going to be a 16.

Miss. The other one's going to be a 19. Hit! Oh my god, one of them got you! Yes! I'm so excited! Yes. You take seven points of piercing damage as it bites into your shoulder and latches on

and you shrug it off and you feel the teeth drag across the side of your arm and you can feel the blood beneath your armor. Uncanny dodge that or save my reaction. I'm going to save my reaction for something else. Three of them are going to be attacking you, Fjord. This one's going to move this way to youjord. This one's going to go ahead and move this way to you and flank him.

It's going to stay there. So the two that are flanking, the first attack, 13. Miss. Next one is 15. Misses. So that one's done. The one across the way, first attack, 17. That is my AC.

So it hits you. You take five points of slashing damage from a claw strike. I think I have to make a thing to maintain the spell, right? Yes, you do a constitution saving throw. And I have advantage on that, because I have the thing. Yeah.

That is a 16. You're fine. Also, roll your damage, because it struck you while you had the blade out. Oh, thank you, yes. I like this I'm rubber, you're glue thing you got going on. Five points of radiant damage on that one. He pulls back, goes in for a secondary attack,

which is a bite attack, 18. Pits. You take seven points of piercing damage as it bites into the side of your hip as you try and swing back around. He takes eight points of radiant damage. That kills him. Hey!

He bites on you, and the blast back causes his head to just scatter across the ground. The body onto the floor behind you, across the marble floor. Oh, that's fine, 22. 22, you're fine. That one who gets two attacks on you without advantage, the first one is going to be a 20. Hits. All right.

Yeah, I'm going to use my reaction to counter that. To counter what? It wasn't a natural. Oh, okay. It rolled a 22. You're fine. Four points of slashing damage. Got it. Five points of radiant to him.

Five points of radiant to him. Five points of radiant to him. All righty. And then? Totally save, that's a 24. Okay, second attack. It's a natural one, misses. All right, that ends their turn. That brings us to...

Ha ha ha. No. Here she comes. Here she comes, walking in the chapel. Nine, nine, crazy nine. Done. She should have gone too far out, so it's going to be you, Fjord, unfortunately.

Oh no! There she is. There she comes. Up from the ground, you hear this faint grinding sound, and before you have a moment, you look behind you. She's going to attempt to attack you. This is going to be not great. 21. Hits.

All right, and the second attack with the central blade is a 26. Yes, they both hit. Oh no. She takes 11 damage? Yes, 11 radiant. Got it, from both attacks. The first one is going to do...

Ooh, buddy. That's 11, thanks. Graveling over there. Ashley, how's it feel? Feels good. Yeah? Yeah. So far, you're doing great. Thank you very much.

I really was trying for double ones, so. You did a great job. Yeah. Mission success. Mission success. Charity drive. 45 points of piercing damage to you. Okay, okay. I need you to go ahead and. It was saved with a 21.

A 21 on the what? On the spell maintaining. 21 I don't think succeeds. Oh really? I mean, 22 is the DC, it's half. So you actually lose your concentration on your spell, which means the demon remains out there, which is no longer under your control.

Oh! Sad trombone. You're now going to see the other side of how this works. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also make a constitution saving throw for me, please. Okay. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. That's a devil that he's against, right? 17.

17, you resist the poison. The second strike deals 15 points of slashing damage. Or piercing damage, I'm sorry, piercing. And you should make another constitution saving throw. Okay. First radiant damage is one point of radiant damage. Constitution saving throw is a 10.

10. The poison pulses through your body. Fucking fuck. You are poisoned. Be glad you didn't roll one lower. Oh, what? Oh, that's right. What, how? Oh god. What happens one lower?

And with that, she's going to go to her duty to vanish into the ground. You do get one attack of opportunity against her. Okay. With disadvantage, because you're poisoned. You can also use a spell, if you want to, as your attack of opportunity. Because you're a war caster, you could.

So if you have a spell you'd like to use, an attack spell that you'd like to use, now is the time to use it. Not any that work the way that I want them to. Okay. A disadvantage, right? Yep. A little miss. I think that's 15.

15 misses. The other guy that's currently controlled by Pumat's going to go ahead and attempt to make an attack as well. And hits. So she takes five points of piercing damage from the cultist. All righty, that finishes her turn. Caduceus and the Vrak are up.

Vrak first. Okay, Vrak, take your turn. Yeah. Sorry. When does Vrak lose its connection with Fjord? It did. Immediately? Is it after this turn?

No, it's right now. It lost its turn. So, your control, Matt? It is, technically. It has multi-attack and has a bunch of shit. I can, you got it. Oh, I think. I'm supposed to say, the controlling emir ends the rest

and the demon spends its turns pursuing and attacking the nearest non-demons to the best of its ability. Okay. Technically, Obann's a fiend, so it's not going to go after Obann. Wait, it's not going to? A fiend is a demon? Well, he's allied with an entity of the Abyss.

And he's a fiend. But he's a devil. He's not a devil. Not anymore. Can you see? What do you mean, not anymore? He made a deal or something. But he looks like a devil. He has a devilish heritage, but his alliance... No, you're right.

No, no, no, I think with a Vrak not having any knowledge of Obann's current thing, no, he'd go after Obann, yeah, let's go for it. Yeah, no, that's a good point. So, since you have the stats up, if you want to go ahead and roll for me. Sure, would you like to do a multi-attack? Would you like to send spores or a stunning screech?

Multi-attack on it first. You got it. Okay, first one is a beak attack, which is a plus six to hit, so that's 21. 21, that hits. Okay, 26 plus three, seven, that's nine points of piercing damage. All righty. And the talent attack is plus six to hit,

which is an 11, so it'll miss. Misses. All right, so that's the Vox Go. And it's going to stay closest to him and just stay engaged, going after him. Okay. All right, that finishes its turn. Caduceus, you're up.

I'm going to turn invisible. Okay. That's the first thing I'm going to do, because this is a lot. Can you do that as an action or a bonus? That's a bonus action. Nice. That also, I can cast spells while I'm invisible.

I can do a lot of stuff. Just trying to find that, just to find it. You can cast all the spells. It says You can cast it while it's invisible? Bonus action, turn invisible until the start of your next turn. You attack, deal damage, or force a saving throw. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

All right. Yeah. So. This does look like a move. So that's going. I'm going to see. All the nameplates. I'm going to bump the microphone to make a weird sound.

Do it, do it. I'm going to back up to get a little cover from Obann, if I can. Like up here? Yeah, and maybe like, Not much to get cover here unless you want to go under the table. No, no, no.

And I'm about, I just want a clear shot of Yasha, if I can see Yasha. She has half cover from where you're standing right now. Okay, where can I get, well, I, no, and I'm about, I just want a clear shot of Yasha, if I can see Yasha. She has half cover from where you're standing right now. Okay, where can I get, well, I'm just, I'm going to cast Dispel. Okay. I know that there's a little orange mark. Correct, you're too far to see it.

Do I have to see it to Dispel it, if I know where it is? If you do not, it's not an effect, it's a focus, so I would say yes, you would have to discern it. Okay, so instead of, okay, so I'm going to turn invisible and move towards, until I can see it. Okay. I have 30.

You get right there, you can see her, it's an action to attempt to discern it. It's not just a casual look, this is you trying to make it a detail. Which means you can attempt that discern it. It's not just a casual look, this is you trying to make it a detail. Which means you can attempt that next turn. Oh. But you have to see it first. Dang.

Okay. Can I be against the pillar if I'm going to be doing this? Sure. Thank you. I just don't want to be, I want to make it as hard as possible to get riled up. I will attempt to discern it.

Roll a perception check for me. Okay. 11. 11, okay. You had to beat a 10. Make an active search from looking at her from behind. You glance and peer as she's attacking and moving, and you see that glimmer, that flash of orange,

the base of her neck, and you now know exactly where it is and where the focus can be attributed. That's your turn. Can you do a bonus? You did a bonus turn invisible. My bonus is to turn invisible. Okay, okay. It is now the Laughing Hand's turn.

That was awesome. That was smart, smart, smart. Laughing Hand turns towards Beauregard, kicks the chair down the way, falls over. You can do this, Beau! Knocks the actual altar itself, skits forward as he kicks it out of the way, and is going to go ahead and make

two melee attacks against you. Disadvantage. Mm-hmm. First one is 21 to hit. With a right arm. Yeah, yeah. The second one is a to hit. Uh-huh. With the right arm. Yeah. Yeah, that doesn't change. The second one is a natural 20. No!

Wait, with disadvantage? Oh, no, so sorry. It's a natural 20 and an 18, so the second one just hits with a third 29. Okay, well, that's better than a critical. Better than a critical. Mm-hmm. Hypatian Defense is your friend here. All right, so that brings you to... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I guess it is, you're right.

Trying to give you the benefit here. So as the blade arcs and slams into you, you try and parry out of the way, and as you feel it cut across your hand, the side of your chest and down to your hip, and blood just scatters across the stone. Bigger than I remember. You take 21 points of slashing damage.

Then it's going to slam you with its other fist. Which it did hit, but not critical. That's going to be 14 points of bludgeoning damage. Is that bad? That could be worse. All right, top of the round, Jester, you're up. You watch them all barrel through. You watch Beauregard just get smacked around by the Laughing Hand.

You watch the Catogeist appear and stab the fuck out of Fjord, and Fjord's now doubling over. You see Yasha appearing and striking at Nott. Caduceus vanishes. You can't even see where Caleb is. What are you doing? It's all chaos. How are you about to die for?

Does he look like he's about to die? Oh no. What's more important, trying to take down Noble or trying to heal? I don't think I can stay ahead of all the damage. It's going to be a matter of getting people back up, I think. I ain't going to disagree. I'm going to...

I have a question. Yes. Poisoned, do I take damage every round or is it just disadvantage on attack rolls? What you know right now, it's just disadvantage on attack rolls. What I know right now, okay. You just feel it come like through your veins.

It's not even that much healing. It's not that much healing, even at the highest level. It doesn't do shit. You don't heal, you attack. That's what you do. I'm going to Force-level Guiding Bolt Obann. Okay, roll for an attack. Chuk-chuk.

I'm a paladin. I'm a paladin. What's that mean? I can do stuff. Mm-hmm. That's good. That's very good. Because that is 34 to hit. Woo!

No, 24. 24. I was like, holy shit! Still amazing. Still good. Still amazing, it definitely hits. Okay. Position healed, I saw.

Oh. That's 7d6. Okay. Position heal dice. Oh. That's 7d6. Woof, okay. 10. Caleb, you're close to Obann, right? Not yet. Where are you? Behind the machine.

19. But he's still behind. 22 points of radiant damage. Woof, nice! And he's glowing! So he gets blasted, like pushed back three feet in the air, his wings have to correct as he floats there for a second. The Vrak's still harrying him, looks down at you.

That's my duplicate. Yeah, at the duplicate. And then my bonus action, I'm going to take my spiritual weapon and try to clock the one that's next to Fjord and try to get some of those dudes off him. Go for it, roll for an attack. Whoa, whoa, whoa, that was aggressive.

19. 19 hits, go ahead and roll damage. Eight points. Eight points of damage. He had taken a lot of damage previously from attacking Fjord, and as it gets clobbered into the ground, splats across the marble floor. Okay. All right, you want to move or stay put?

I'm staying put. Okay. All right, that brings us to Nott, you want to move or stay put? I'm staying put. Okay, all right, that brings us to Nott, you're up. I'm going to disengage by tapping Yasha on one shoulder and then running around the other side. Okay. All right, and then where are you going?

Straight that way until I get- As soon as you move out of the way, Yasha, take your Sentinel attack because it ignores disengage. Oh shit. Oh no. Do I still use Reckless? Sentinel waves.

It's okay. You weren't Reckless last turn. I was. Then how'd you roll double ones? Oh. That was the first attack, then? There would've been a second attack. That's okay, we can roll that after this.

So nonetheless, so if you're reckless. This turn got real bad for me real quick. I forgot. Yeah, I did reckless and I forgot my second attack. Sorry. No worries, it's all good. We'll come back and we'll retroactively do that. Oh, good. Okay. Reckless, I believe it's only on your turn,

but I'll double check here. Reckless attack. The old tap on the shoulder trick did not work. Reckless, I believe it's only on your turn, but I'll double check here. At this attack. Well, with the Skingorger. Mention weapon attack while using strength during this turn, so yeah, you do not have advantage on this. Okay. So what'd you roll? I rolled a 19, but with the Skingorger,

that is a critical. That is, yeah. So go ahead and roll damage. I'm going to, am I within 30? Nah, let me do it. Yeah. You are, yeah. Come on, man, I need this.

You go ahead and you cancel the critical hit, so just roll regular damage. Is that a spell that you just cast? No, it's a reaction. You are lucky. But he doesn't pop it out from invisibility? Nope, I'm fine. Great.

I rolled low. It's eight. That includes your extra damage. It doesn't even make noise? For a strike on the turn? No. Don't forget that. 11 points of damage. Okay.

So you take 11 points of damage. On Sentinel? Okay, now I will use my Uncanny Dodge to reduce that to five, right? Yeah, but your speed is reduced to zero, so you are stuck there. She hooks your foot and you fall on the ground and get back up and she's just on top of you.

Damn it. Okay, I'm on your left side of Yasha right now, right? Mm-hmm. Actually, you wouldn't have been able to even get that far, would you, if you would still be, or? Well, he moved around, and as soon as he tried to move out of her combat range, he moved through. Yeah.

So attacks on Obann still have advantage, because you hit. Correct. And he's engaged with, yeah. He's not engaged with an ally, but he does have the next attack has advantage. It doesn't have to be an ally. He has to be engaged with an enemy of him. Oh, okay, yeah, that's a valid point.

But either way, am I more than 30 feet away? Because that imposes disadvantage on my crossbow shot. But don't you have the crossbow? I have... Oh wait, no, no, that's the sharpshooter, right? Yes. So yeah, you would be... Yeah, he'd be be on 30 feet.

So what does that mean? Do I get sneak attack or do not? Well, you do not get advantage in the attack roll, but you do get sneak attack if you damage it. Okay, okay. Because of the rock. Okay, okay, I'll take it. I'll shoot it. Come on. Natural 20.

Also high! Fuck! Whoa! Fuck! Oh my god. Roll back! Roll back! Okay. Not great. Average.

It's average. With the sneak attack? It's average. With the sneak attack? Yeah. Sneak attack rolls. Add all the dice together. 18 on the dice.

All right, so it's 36 damage plus? Plus six is 42. I'll add Fury of the Small, 52. 52 fucking damage. Ooh! Oh, that's not good. It shoots again. Go for it. Use your bonus action to disengage. Oh no, it shoots again, right? It shoots again. Yeah.

20 to hit. That hits, go to more damage. That's exactly his armor class. 12 more points of damage. Yes! So as Obann's like, away from the Vrak, suddenly he tumbles five feet, manages to pull back up and good shot again,

looks down at you and is furious at both of you. Fuck, okay, that's your turn. Yes! All right. He's looking hurt. Obann's looking hurt. That brings us to Obann's turn. I'm going to get goblin.

Obann is going to pull away from the Varok, so he gets an attack of opportunity. Go ahead and make one for me. That's going to hit. That's a 19 plus something. Yeah, that hits. Go ahead and roll damage. Let's do the Talon attack. Did that burn the advantage, his attack, or did it? The next attack. You get it from being disadvantage.

Okay. Nine. 11 points of slashing damage. Got it, okay. He takes half of that. I did that one wrong last time. It's okay. It's okay. All right.

He's going to swoop down and stare right into Nott's eyes. No! And say, Oh, maybe you're more useful than I thought. I need you to go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw. Come on. This is not my thing. Do it, do it, Counterspell it. Oh, no, I'm not going to do it.

Eight. Eight? I also have to see it happen. You are charmed by Obann. I also have to see it happen. You are charmed by Obann. I also have to have vision. I'm charmed. Aw. And Obann says, this area grows dangerous.

Come with me, we've business. And he darts down and through the doors, closing them behind him. Oh, he went into the basement? Wait, he through the doors, closing them behind him. Oh, he went into the basement? Wait, he closed the doors, how can they follow him? He's really sending mixed messages. Follow me, poof! Do I follow?

When it comes, that's not your turn. Okay. You're currently charmed by him and you consider everybody else an enemy. Ooh, okay, great. All right, that brings us to Caleb's turn. Yeah, okay, so standing in the rain pouring in through the broken window, the cat's claw looms up over my head

and hopefully slashes the shit out of the cultist in front of me. Okay. Oh, natural one. Nope. Hey! Money! You get a lot of money because of that.

Sorry, Travis. You was due. And I curse Zimnian under my breath and slap my hands together. And I cross my fingers for good luck and throw here. Because I can see his head. I'm trying to get his head. Right, I understand.

So I would use? Well, he's on the outskirts. If you hit him, if it's high enough, I could say yes, to hit him, because he's so tall and on the top, you can probably hit him and miss Yasha, if you want to, or you can hit Yasha. I was not worried about that.

That was a nice vibration. It's only fire damage, though. I was actually trying to get as many of these people as I could without hitting myself and while hitting him. Flashing and piercing. To hit the guy near you, it'll also hit Nott on him, so you'll have to hit everything but the guy who's up next to you.

I don't know where Nott is. Nott is right there. No, I know where Nott is. So if you're doing this, then yeah, it'll go after Nott as well. It's okay, I'm an enemy. That's true. Yeah, I'm doing it.

Okay, so I hit both Yasha and Nott. I just used my reaction. Oh, but this is evasion. This is evasion. Yeah. It's going to roll your damage. That's why I'm going ahead with one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10,

12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 25, 26, 20, 21, 22, 23. This is a complicated fight. 30 points of fire damage. 30 points of fire damage, laughing hand rolls. Oh, almost a 19, a nine, failure. I think somebody gets past that because he's resistant. No, he's less resistant. That's right, so it's 30.

30 to the laughing hand. He's taking hits. All right, so against? 30 points of fire. Are you raging? Does that do anything? Even if both these guys succeed, they explode and burn out of the way. That's my motto.

Roll another wisdom saving throw. For a demon, yeah. That guy next to you, he rolls a 16 plus one, 17. Oh! He saves. Okay, yeah. DC 17. So he takes...

Oh! He's already taken a hit though, right? I don't remember. I think he ran over. He was a spiritual weapon guy. The spiritual weapon guy was destroyed. He ran over. So you have not hit him yet. I don't think I have.

Okay. I feel like he got hit by something. I feel like everybody's been hit by something. Deuces. Maybe not. He might have been hit by the last fireball, but he didn't go down. He was over here, he ran from it.

And then ran over here and then dashed up to catch up. I don't know. I'll save for the service of it, sure. He's probably taken a hit, and the damage he took from this was almost all the rest of his hit points based on what he had anyway, so he is disintegrated from that. And then Yasha and Nott. You guys can roll dexterity saving throws, please.

Yasha, you do not see its source, so you do not have advantage on this. Now I'll make my wisdom save. This is not for the fire that I'm saving against right now, right? Yeah. This is, am I saving against the fire? Yes. Oh, 21.

21, Yasha? That would be 21. 21, 15 points of fire damage to each of you. You take none, though, because you have evasion. So I'm going to add it back in? Do you roll against the dominate spell? On your turn. When you're hit? Oh.

I thought it was each time you got hit, but I might have been wrong. This isn't a spell, this is an ability. And even then, he didn't take any damage. Oh. Because of his evasion. All right, are you going to move, stay put? Oh, me? And that guy's gone?

I'm going to come out this way, past the hand, over by that window, so I can get eyes on the field, yeah. Okay. And then I push over the full view. over by that window, so I can get eyes on the field, yeah. Okay. And then I push over the full view. Are you guys okay? You guys have seen fireworks go off. Like the weasel around Chester's neck.

Caleb is done. This one cultist that remains here is going to go ahead and attack the other demon there. With two, yeah, one of them hits. He's going to do five points to him. That one's looking hurt. Also, these two doors. God.

Yeah, those guys. Cool, those doors really open. That's pretty cool. Then. What a weird design. I know. I know what I'm doing. It really made me uncomfortable.

Two more of these cultures come through. Why would you put them on different edges? Birdie. Weird building codes. The cultists come through. Why would you put them on different edges? Dirty. Weird building code. The cultists are like, I thought these were push. It's once an entrance only and once an exit only. We're going to rush up to Pinsir Pumat.

Not Pumat! All righty. They got gold cloaks. Save Pumat at all costs. Beauregard, Anyone who goes down. Oh, you also have one guy attacking you over there. Jeez. Two attacks against you.

Disadvantage. I still have Patient Defense up. Which is good, because that first one would have been a critical. So instead that brings it a 15. Miss. And miss, they both miss. That was a nine. Jeez Louise.

Just them. Now it's your turn. Open window. I Louise. Just them. Now it's your turn to defend. I love it. Okay. I'm going to just slip the guy behind me and as I am dodging him, as I slip, I'm going to come around, crack uppercut

to the laving hand with my lightning fist and then I'm going to slip again and go for his kidney. Sure. Or his mouth. Your hand's going right in the mouth. Yeah. Oh god. Okay, pop pop, two attacks.

Mm-hmm, 22 and 27. Ooh, both hit, go ahead and roll damage. Balls, crap, 12 plus five, so 17 damage. Nice. Stunning, actually, stunning strike. Stunning strike on that first one. 14. Miss, or save, he does, it works!

That's what I was trying to say! That was a ride there. in like half a second. Like, six to 15! Oh god! First try, first try. Missed it. First second, third home. Runnin' the Viper.

Laughing hand to Steve. He's stunned! That first hit. As you punch, it's weird. You fought him previously and it was hitting solid rock. As you punch, it has give to it and your hand almost feels stuck, almost like the flesh has turned to a thick rubbery molasses, and as you

pull your hand out. Whatever you guys did to him, or whatever you did to the permahart, definitely fucked him up in some ways. Mercy killing, really. Flurry of blows! All right. Doing it again with advantage. First pop. 22. 22 hits.

Second pop. What if you roll a natural one, but it's at a, no. 17? 17 does not hit. Okay, okay. So one. Another nine damage. Another nine damage. Another nine damage.

You see the eyes go lulling a bit. He's looking hurt. Can he stand? Yes, he is. For one round. All right, that brings us to Yasha. Okay, question. Am I able to attack Nott if she is on our side now?

Nott, you know, is on your side. So no, Nott is a friend. You're used to Obann taking other people's wills for his own, so now the closest enemy to you is Beauregard. Okay, so. Or Caleb, both within your reach. Doesn't see, oh, does see Caleb. Caleb moved into her vision, so yeah.

Okay, so I see Beauregard, and I am going to slowly start walking towards her. Okay. We move up the steps, holding the blade. I saw her exceeding my hours. You see Yasha arrive, up above the top of the stairs, skin gorger at her side.

Long time no see. It will not be hard. Raging and reckless. Okay. That's a shit. It's cocked. So bad. Ooh, that's a 19. That's a crit.

Okay. It was a natural 19? It was a natural 19. Yeah, that's a crit, skin gorger. Are you major defensive? Nope. I flurry of blows. Okay, so,

and Divine Fury, so that's... Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. Oh boy, guys. I can't see the next round. Feels like this fight's been going on for two hours. It has? It has been. Well, almost. That would be 15.

15 damage to you? And then that's... That's with the extra d6, right? That's with the extra d6. Doubling the dice and then adding your attack modifier. Well, doubling, that would be... Oh no! Double the dice? Yes,, that would be... Oh no! Double the dice? Double the dice? Yeah.

Yes, so that would be 20. So 20, you take 20 points of damage total. What was the number you just said? 25. 25 points of damage from Yasha's first strike. 25. You're out? I'm out. Beauregard falls.

Sorry, 27. That's a lot of math going on over there. Sorry, 55. Just kidding, I'm just kidding. She's out. You guys watch as Beauregard suddenly just falls down with a blow of Yasha. Make your second attack.

Okay. With advantage, because of the reckless, and... No. Okay. Okay. I'll instantly take two death save fails, right? She hits you, yeah. Fuck.

Are you going to hit her again? It's 21. So you fail two death saves. Yasha cuts Beau down. She falls to the ground, and you watch her step up and take the skin gorger and just. It evokes imagery you've seen once before.

Oh, fuck. Oh no. Golly. Oh no. This is, oh, I got the worst chills. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Do we have time? I don't know if we can do it. That's your turn, okay, okay. Do we have time? I don't know.

That's your turn, right? Yeah. Do you want to move, or? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You still have more movement if you want to. You used 15 movement feet, or 15 feet to get to her, so you can move another 20 if you want. Yeah, I start having tears roll down my face

and I slowly turn around and I start walking down the stairs. Towards? Towards Fjord. Fuck. Yasha just comes towards you, blade at the side, tears down her face. All right, that finishes your turn, Yasha. Fjord, it's your go. Welcome back, Ashley.

Two death saves, two death fails. That totally changes what I was going to do. Next rule's really important. Shit. So she's standing between me and Beau. Yeah. Right, on the fly, on the fly, on the fly. I have a knuckle! Knuckle's all on this! Right, on the fly, on the fly, on the fly. After Nekka!

Nekka is our offense! Making all those offense! We've got a long time before your turn, Jace. Okay. It's been a very long time. Six seconds. But a lot of things can happen, like other things attacking me in that box. At least you went before Yasha, not after.

All right. I'm going to look before Yasha, not after. All right. I'm going to look at Yasha walking towards me. I'm going to hold my hand out, say, tell me you can hear me, and I will cast Enervation at Yasha. What is that? What? I've never heard that word in my life. Enervation?

What is Enervation? It is a tendril of inky darkness reaches out from you, touching a creature you can see within range to drain life from it. It must make a dex saving throw of 17. All right, go ahead and make a dex saving throw. You do have a... Would I have advantage on it if I don't know what it is?

There is a barbarian thing. A lot of arguing against. You're raging. It's not a rage thing. A lot of arguing against. You're raging. It's not a rage thing. Dex on effects that you can see while not blinded. Well, you can see, so yeah, she can't be in the drawing. So that would be 14, first one's good.

And 14, both, two. So that's a fail, right? Yes. You got to enroll your damage. All right. So she's dead? No. You killed her. She takes 48 necrotic damage. Whoa. So you take 21 points of necrotic damage,

and I take 11 points of healing. Oh! That's pretty tits right there. Awesome. So you watch, as Fjord does this, reaches out and grasps his fingers. Suddenly the shadows bite into you like teeth and the pain strikes through your body and the blood pours, as the blood pulls out,

it shoots towards Fjord and you watch his wounds begin to seal, but the shadows stick to you. The spell continues. There's the slightest look of relief. Fjord, is that your turn? That guy's still behind me, right? Yep. And Yasha's within melee range now?

Yep. Yeah, I'm not going anywhere. All right, Pumat's turn. Pumat's now being flanked by two guys and is like, all right, this is problematic. He's going to go ahead and begin to cast a spell. As he reaches back behind, there's a short sword in a sheath behind him, and as he pulls it out, he begins casting, fluttering under his breath,

and you watch as suddenly his body begins to swell in size. You watch his muscles. What? He grows about three feet taller. I've been hoping to say it. Keep going. swell in size. You watch his muscles. Pumat? He grows about three feet taller. I've been hoping to say it. Keep going. His robe pulls Hulk-style to the edges of his body. His short sword now suddenly emits this force energy

around it. Pumat is now hulked out between the two of them. Do we want to say it together? Three, two, one. Pumat Swole. Thank you. Sitting on that for so long, hoping there'd be a reason. He gains 50 temporary hit points. Oh, what the fuck is this?

This is a spell called Transformation. Oh my god. Whoa. He's going to swing towards the cultist to his left with the short sword. 50? Straight up Andre the Giant. Oh, I hit everybody home!

15, that hits. He's going to deal six plus two, eight points of slashing damage, plus 15 points of force damage and just Yeah! Scatters that cultist to one side, spins to swing against the other one. Fjord misses the other one.

But you see Pumat just completely disintegrate one of them with a blow, and the other one, he swings wide, the other guy goes, freaks out, and just turns towards him. Don't worry, I got this. He's going to move here and just spin to turn his way in that direction of the battle. That finishes his turn.

It is now Dredge's turn to them. This one here is going to swing. Actually, seeing Pumat like that is going to rush over and strike him now that he's the big threat. Another one's going to attack you, Fjord. Okay. With advantage because it's behind you, that's a clap on that one.

That's eight misses. Second attack, 20. Hits. All right. You take six points of piercing damage. He will take six points of radiant damage. That'll destroy him. Oh man. He just scatters off as soon as he strikes you

from behind, the sword pulsing with each time you take damage. The one that's going to be attacking Pumat. Nope, he misses the first attack. And hits with the second one. Pumat takes eight points of damage from that. All righty. Okay, good.

It is now... Oh shit. Totally fucking. Oh fuck, forgot. Forgot. I didn't. She just hit him up right over there, bro. Fuck. Oh, fuck, forgot about this. I didn't. She just came up right over there. Fuck. The end.

What's your passive perception, by the way? Passive perception, 15. 15, yeah. You do not even notice until she's right upon you. You're looking at this and suddenly it just right into your face and stabs you right in the gut, or attempts to, at least. Block that shit, block that shit.

That's going to be 24 to hit. Jesus H fucking Christ. You suffer. You got any guts? No. But it's two of these is all it takes. Yeah. It's not looking good for our heroes, guys.

No, it's really not. We've got to do something. We got one down and nine. 42 points of piercing damage. I need you to make a constitution saving throw. We got to turn some shit around. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Working on it.

17 plus three, 20? 20, okay. Not this round. No worries. And the second attack against you 17 plus three, 20? 20, okay. Not this round. No worries. And the second attack against you does not have advantage. But I can do some other shit this round. 18. Oh, it hits my brand new shield! What is this?

You deflect the second blow. And then she's going to go ahead and vanish back into the floor. Do I get an attack of opportunity now? If you want, yeah. Okay, yeah, with my axe. Unless you were to plan on using Reaction. Oh, no, I don't really do anything with Reaction. Do you have War Caster?

No! Okay, gotcha. Whoa. That's a... What is that? I don't know what that is. I don't know, that's a conch. What is this dice? I don't know what that is. I don't know, that's a con. What is this dice? It's awesome is what it is,

if I can tell what it is. 14 plus eight, so 22. 22. That hits, go to all damage. Extract Aspects. Seven points of slashing damage. She's a striker, she vanishes back into the floor. Yeah.

She disappears out of sight. Okay. All right, that finishes her turn. Caduceus and the Vrak. With Obann gone, the Vrak is the nearest enemy. So we're going to be Yasha. Oh! Oh. Yeah.

Sweeps down, go ahead and make the attacks against Yasha. Would you like? They have advantage because she used Reckless Strikes. Oh, Jesus. Okay, you want the Talon and the bite attack? Yeah. Okay. How do we get rid of this thing?

Do we get rid of it? With advantage, that's only a 15 to hit. Armor classes? 17. 17. By the way, you guys are noticing now, Yasha is wearing a new breastplate. It has these curled tusk-type horns that come off the front and curve over the shoulders.

Whoa. Oh, shit. That's bad ass. Whoa. Wow. Socks, man. 17's bad ass. Wow. 17? Just hits. 17 just hits. No more damage on that. It's half damage, though, because you re-arrange.

Yep. Six, seven, eight, seven, seven, eight. Ten, so five. Five points. All right, Caduceus. I become visible. Mm-hmm. The rock is right there.

Does the rock notice me, or? The rock is very surprised. As you appear? I mean, it's focused on attacking but you're in melee with it. I am in melee with it, yeah. That's irritating. You do know that rocks don't like chickens.

They do, huh? No, I can't. I turn visible at the start of my turn. Oh, because you're some weird ability. Some weird ability. So, first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to I turn visible at the start of my turn. Because you're some weird ability. Some weird ability. So, first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to cast Dispel at level five at the back of Yasha's neck.

Fifth level? Fifth level. Come on, come on. That works. Ooh! But. So, as you appear, and you turn, the Vrak harrowing Yasha, she spins around, blade ready, you see Beauregard over there bleeding to death on the top of the altar.

Fjord is sitting there desperately backing up. As you focus and concentrate, the light around the cathedral fades and darkness of the clouds above take the space as you open your hand and concentrate and feel the Wild Mother's energy course through you. The Dispel Magic emanates from her neck and you watch the symbol burn bright and then shatter.

As it does, lightning strikes the outside all of the stained glass windows, shatter, and as it does, lightning strikes the outside all of the stained glass windows. Shatter at once, raining down into the center of the cathedral. Oh wow. Yasha grabs the back of her neck, and for the first time in as long as you can remember, a bond's out of her head.

I let out a primal scream of agony and relief and everything and just fall on my knees. Ooh. That's your action. That's my action for my bonus action. As I have done my prayer and done my little thing, I'm just going to turn, and a little beetle is going to run up,

and I'm going going to turn, and a little beetle is going to run up, and I'm going to have a, and it's going to run up, and tap Beau on the ankle, and Spare the Dying is going to be cast. So you are stabilized. Grave clerics, yo. Oh, Caduceus. I came back and you fucking died. On the table.

I'd be like, I'm going to see myself out. I am seeing what's happened. I'm just going to make sure that I'm standing next to Yasha. So I'm just going to keep my back to the wall. Not going to move. Take him out of the table. All right. I'm just going to say, yeah, got it back.

All righty, that's my turn. Finishing Caduceus's turn. Stabilize means zero. You are three successes. Three that's safe. But I'm not up. You're not up. No more than three successes.

You are at zero. Obann washes away, and you hear the crackle of thunder echoing through the city. You feel the surge of strength fill you as the entity that's been trying desperately to help you break through is definitely now at your side. You close your eyes and remember yourself fighting against the chains and the dreams that were given.

As you close your eyes, you see yourself breaking the shackles. You see the influence no longer holding any sway over your soul. There's nothing but the storm, vengeance, and hope. Heavy metal music plays. It's the Laughing Hand's turn. He is stunned.

Does nothing, because he's fucking stunned. Damn. Rocking A. Until the end of Beau's next turn. Jester, you're up. Okay. Well. Are there any other closest? I'm going to have

my duplicate run up to Beau on the ground. Yes. Oh yeah, do a touch heal. Yeah, she's going to kneel down and put both her hands on Beau's, on the side of Beau's face and cast Cure Wounds at... fourth level.

Fourth level? Yeah. Okay. It's 4d8. I'll come back. Yeah! Oh, that would be better. Ah! Fuck some shit up.

Fuck. Eight, 11, 16, 22! Plus five! 27! 27 points of healing. Two point of guard. That's great. My mouth tastes like blood. Boom.

Oh. Wait, what? You look up and the first thing you see is the Laughing Hand overhead going, and you're like, oh shit, shit, shit. Well, the first thing you see is my duplicate. That's true. Way down.

Hi. You are covered in shattered stained glass, by the way. Thanks, Jusdupe. Jusdupe. Jusdupe. All right, Jester, does that finish your turn? Are you going to move? Yeah, I probably should because that chick. Is there rain pouring in through the open windows now?

I'm going to run. That's fucking cool. I'm going to run over, oh god. There's nowhere to hide from this stupid chick. But I'm going to come and try to get over here if I can. 25, 30. Yeah. You've got it.

Okay. Thanks. Nott. I mean, Beauregard is prone. Correct. That imposes disadvantage on my attack. Correct. But Obann said to follow. Yes, but I want to bust off a shot before I go.

Okay, go for it. But she's at disadvantage. Disadvantage on a strike against Beauregard, go for it. So I don't get sneak attack. You do not. And I don't get sneak attack. You do not. And I don't, I'm too far from anyone who I would have advantage on. Correct, because they've got Yasha back.

So there's no clear favorite to who I would shoot. Pumat, technically, but you have disadvantage in that distance. Yeah, that's disadvantage also. But he has allies next to him, so you would. Oh, that's true, Yasha. So I would fire with disadvantage on the shot, but I would still get sneak attack if I hit.

Against Pumat, you would, yes. Actually, against Beauregard. Do you know that's my duplicate, or do you think that might be me? I don't know, that's a good question. I don't know. I don't know what I saw earlier, and if I retain that information. I assume I retain that might be me. I don't know, that's a good question. I don't know. I don't know what I saw earlier, and if I retain that information.

I assume I retain that information. Yeah, but you don't know which one is me and which one's your duplicate. Should I roll to find out? Who would you want to attack? I would want to attack the person who I would get most damage on, which would be Jester's duplicate,

if I think it's Jester's, if it's Jester. Roll an intelligence check. Just roll a d20 at your intelligence modifier. You roll a 10 modifier. Natural one. Yeah. 500 bucks, OSD! So yeah, you think that's Jester. So I will attack Jester.

Okay, roll for the attack. Ooh, it's terrible anyway. 12. It passes through. Just duplicate, oh! Um, don't, it's terrible anyway. 12. It passes through. Just to look out! Oh! Don't. It's fine. Then I'll say, Come hand, let's leave!

And I will go down the stairs. Nott vanishes through the door. Come hand! All right. Oh no, now we've lost Nott. That finishes Nott's go. Caleb, you're up. Caleb, totally rain-soaked and numb, No, now we've lost Nott. That finishes Nott's go. Caleb, you're up.

Caleb, totally rain-soaked and numb, just starts walking in, having seen Beauregard, his good friend, get stabbed through, pulled up, walks directly behind the Laughing Hand, pulls out the cat's cradle, slams it into the ground, and I cast Widogast's Web of Fire and concentrate it on the Laughing Hand. I'm actually standing in front of the column,

so that can jump five feet or climb five feet, so it should be able to go up and slam into his ass. Yep. Fifth level. Whoa. So that will be 11d6. 11d6. Oh, you have to roll a hit?

Oh, dope. Fuck yeah. Oh, dex save for him. 11d6. You have to roll a hit? Oh, dope. Fuck yeah. Oh, dex save for him. But he's stunned. Stunned. He's stunned, which means he automatically fails dexterity saving throws. Look at all those red dice. 15.

40. Kill it. 46 points of fire damage. How do you want to do it? No! Ah! So Cat's Cradle hits the ground, ring of fire goes and all of the motes of fire stretch out

and converge into one thick five foot wide wall and like a tsunami of fire just goes jumps up the steps, climbs up his back, and burns his entire backside. As the flames engulf him, the fire is a bonfire. The heat is immense, and Beauregard, you have to like wince and pull away a bit. It's burning so hot.

He just stands there, not reacting. The flames just engulfing, and the laughter gets louder and louder and louder, then thinner, then thinner, then thinner, and then the flames eventually burn out, and he's still just standing, a blackened body on its feet. Oh, sick. Wow. Wow. Get the fuck away from my friends.

Wow. Hand, you coming? Wow, wow. Get the fuck away from my friends. Wow. Hand, you coming? Should I wait, or should I? I'm just going to go. All right. The cultist over there is going to go ahead and take its strikes at Pumat.

Pumat Swole. Pumat Swole? Pumat Swole. One hit. Say it. Pumat takes six points of slashing damage. They're all just grazing off of him from the temporary hit points.

You watch as two more begin to rush him around the corners here. What the fuck? They get this close with their full movement to get in there and you hear skittering noises coming from up inside there. Get down there. Rainbow, a whole wagon pulls up

and 20 guys come running down. There's a monster spawner somewhere. Beauregard, it's your turn. My turn? Oh, it's my turn! Ha! Oh shit. I'm going to stand up. Matt also maintains concentration on the...

What's that? Are we going to try and make a run for it? I have it. Are you sure? That's how we used it. What should we do? We still have a Vrak, by the way, that has been summoned and is just fighting whatever's nearby.

Oh, I didn't use my bonus action for my kitty claw. That's true, what'd you want to do with that? Can I send it over to hit the vroch, please? Sure. No. Angry claw. Whatever it was, it didn't vroch so much. Oh, nope.

Rolled a 12. 12. Right, plus armor class of the vroch. I wouldn't have liked that, but I think the hand's coming. Yeah. Sorry. No. Right, plus the armor class of the Vrak. I wouldn't have liked that. I think the hand's coming. Yeah. Sorry. 15. 15, yeah, misses. The clock just moves, but the Vrak dodges out of the way.

There's two people coming. So we got a lady on the floor. All right. Did I see Nott go downstairs? Nope. No? Nope. No, okay. You just come to consciousness, and you pull back as watching the Laughing Hand

just burn into a cinder. You look up and see Jester's form, and you see Yasha over there, holding, like on her knees, holding the skin gorger. You're covered in stained glass, it's broken. Caleb walks around the way, and just looking intensely in his eyes. Fjord is still like,

the poison still coursing through his body, and Caduceus is on the other side of the rock, who's now thrashing around. I'm still in shock, but on autopilot, going to wipe my mouth and just stumble as I stagger over to this demon on autopilot and shake my head and jump back in the fight.

Go for it. Holding my rib that's still fucked up. Oh jeez Louise. 16 and a 16. 16 and a 16? The rock's AC is 15? No, no, no, no, no, No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, I wanted this guy.

Oh, him, sorry. Sorry. I missed. All right, go for it. 16, 16 is 16. That's it. Okay. Well then. Mm-hmm. 22. Oh man.

Total damage. Yeah, he is just splatted. You're just like, one more for good measure, just curb stomp him. Because I'm so fucked up. Yep. I look up at Pumat and I'm just like. Hey.

Hey. Looking good. All right, thank you, I appreciate the words of confidence. Yeah. Good job. I'm going to just lean on this bench next to me and that's my turn.

Okay, you got it. Yasha, your turn. Okay, so... Feeling a lot of shame and embarrassment, I will turn around to the rock and I will attack the rock. Go for it. Recklessly? Yes.

Oh. That die is so frustrating. It is. Okay, don't want that. Oh, shit. No, that was cocked. You rolled a one. You rolled a one and then?

And then I rolled a two, so a nine. A total of nine to hit? Yeah. First strike misses, second attack, reckless. Yeah. Okay, 18, 17, okay, so 18. Yeah, that hits, go ahead and roll damage. This is full damage because it's your first strike

on the turn, so you roll an additional d6. I roll an additional d6, great. Okay, so that is eight. If you want to, remember, you can reroll one of the die if you, the savage attacker. Oh yeah. Same. 13 points of damage.

13 points of damage to the rock. Copy that. All righty. Fjord, you're up. Yes. What the hell am I doing? Oh, I'm going to look at Yasha and say, I'll take you up on that grief and regret,

and I will continue to pull 4d8 necrotic damage. You actually think you stopped her turn, though. Yeah, I did. Okay. All right, go for it. Oh. Oh, I get what's happening now. Okay. I'll take you up on that creeper.

19 points of necrotic damage. All right, that's your action, and then you heal nine. Yes. Awesome. That's cool. That's pretty rad. Yeah. It's very warlock-tastic, I'm going to.

And I will move. You're all right, right? Can I move over here behind this pillar and just lean against it like fuck. You got it. Cool move. All right, Pumat's turn. We're all going to fight.

Yeah, Pumat's seeing you guys all looking rugged, sees everyone rushing through and goes like, Hey, there's more guys coming. All right, I'll take care of this, you go ahead. He's going to go ahead and move his hands like this, and as he does, you watch wind. Oh my god. Until a whirlwind suddenly

pulls up in the middle of the chamber and begins to carve across this way. To get this fella. Does it make it hard for things to fly around the room, maybe? It can. Does it just suck up flying creatures? Does it skip the feathers off of any named creature?

And turn them into a little Thanksgiving turkey. Happy Thanksgiving. 10-foot radius, 30 and a half color. So there it is. There we go. And all these toys. Oh my gosh. 30 feet in direction. We'll cast it and move. First appear here. Five, ten, 15, 20, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. It gets that far.

So the wind is whipping, kicking around. Glass shards are getting caught up and spitting around inside the vortex. The Varrock takes a 10d6 bludgeoning damage. Whoa! So go ahead and roll a dexterity save for the Varrock. Will do. One, one, one, one.

19. 19, okay. You're good. So. It takes... 14 points of bludgeoning damage. Give it a strength saving throw, please. You got it. No, there's nothing to this.

It's just a straight roll, which is a nine. A nine. It is restrained and pulled along with it. Hey! You're not going to attack Rock Cheney? No, because it's force movement. Oh, it's force movement, thank you. But the vroch gets pulled up into the whirlwind

and you see giant Pumat Swole guiding it around. The other cultists that are rushing in are like, shit, and they're seeing the wharf around. He's like, go! If we get out of here, we won't have to worry about the vroch, we got to go. Got to go, got to go, got to go, got to go. Upstairs then, huh?

Yeah. Ugh. Oh, wait. Oh no. Oh no. What? I think it's the inevitable end's turn. She could also have joined them two before. She might have already gone downstairs.

She doesn't show up. Shit. Caduceus. How many feet am I from? We'll say for the purposes of the narrative here, they are very focused on Pumat and the whirlwind. I was going to say, do I need to use my action as well, or am I okay? You guys should probably want to use your action to dash.

Okay, I'll dash. It'll just be 30 minutes. And! Can't we all run by and bitch slap Nott as we go by and try and snap her out? Nott's already getting on. Should we still bitch slap her? No.

Do the same on the break. Nott! We all run. As you all begin to dart through the door into the below chamber, you head, as the doors open, lightless below, a staircase that descends. Goggles forward, what is your marching order?

Well, whoever would get there first, I feel like. You would take a little bit for Jester to get caught up to you guys, so you guys are waiting up for Jester? I'm ready to go. Once we're in there, we're going to get everybody in and I'm going to try and barricade the door. Barricade the door, okay.

The second position. I'll take the charge, I to get everybody in and I'm going to try and barricade the door. Barricade the door, okay. Take the second position. I'll take the charge, I'm right, I think I'm closest. Okay, so for regards to taking the charge, Yasha's going second fastest. I'll go behind me. I do, but my partner is down below. Oh, you're talking to him. All right, and Caleb?

Yeah, number two. All right. As you guys dart and close the door behind Jester, who's the last one through, you begin to barricade it, and there is a barricade point that comes down. It's a little flimsy, but if you have anything else you want to add to it, that would possibly hold it in place. Is there a keyhole in there at all?

We don't have the dagger. Yeah, she's got it. Nott has the thing. Oh, I'm looking at you like you're with us. Are we doing a new initiative when we go down there? Depending on what happens, probably. Once you guys got through this door and closed it, combat for you has ended.

So do you wish to barricade anything else? With combat for all of us has ended? You guys have gotten to the room and closed it and put the thing down. You're not immediately in combat. You hear wind on the other side and people yelling and creatures screaming. How many rounds was that?

Do you know? I don't remember. I have anything. Nuts faster than us, anyway. Can't use the lash, it doesn't work like that. My lightning gloves are technically soft. I'm going to take a moment to use Minor Alchemy and turn the wooden barricade, Slat, to stone.

Ooh, that's fun. Nice, you reach out. It turns into solid stone, blocking the doors. What a hold, for how long does that last for? I have to spend time doing it. Okay, well, how about once we get down the steps a little bit, I'm going to use the wand, and I'm going to cast Grease on the floor

right underneath the door so that anything coming through will slip and fall at least. Sure. How long do you have to spend? How long do you need? 10 minutes, so five to 10 minutes. I'll do it right as we get into the woods. Well, if you're going to do that,

I can run a Mass Healing for 10 minutes if we let them have 10 minutes. Do both of it. Yeah, we can do both of it. One, for sure. Okay. So you're going to focus and turn it to stone. You're going to cast Mass Healing?

I'm going to cast Mass Healing. I'm going to cast Prayer of Healing, I mean, excuse me, since we're doing that. Let's do that at a fourth level. Fuck it. Everyone's kind of down. So that also be able to, like, is the door made of stone or metal, or

the door that we just shut? The door just has to be made of, what we guessed to be metal. Metal, okay. Okay. Let me in. 19 points to everybody. We locked him out.

I can't open this. He's a slimy bear. You hear the demons keep coming. 19 points to everybody. But, yeah. That's somebody else's problem. Beau is in front of me, and I will very sheepishly put my hand over where I stabbed her,

and I will cast Healing Hands, and she'll restore an extra 10 hit points. I'll take it. He couldn't have backed up and still controlled the wind and come in with us, at least? He's enormous. Yeah, giant. If you want to reopen the doors and check and see.

Yeah, we'll keep going. I'm dying. And not stone, I'll do iron. I'll make that slat iron. Okay, you got it. Can we have reopened it before we turned them to stone? If you want to open the door. But it's too much.

Tell us to go. Tell us to go. How many were in there with him? He'll be all right. There's like four of them, it's cool. He's got backups. So how much does everyone heal? 19 points to everybody.

So everyone heals 19 points if you haven't marked it already. Is there any other healing spells we'll get or should we be drinking these puppies or are we also going to take a short rest? We're not taking a short rest. I was going to say, if we're taking a short rest, then I did not pull that fucking spell because that's, yeah.

We're not taking a short rest. I'm going to drink my potion we're taking a short rest, then I did not pull that fucking spell, because that's, yeah. We're not taking a shortcut. I'm going to drink my potion. I'm going to drink my potion as well. Drink your potions. Had to hold onto this potion for a while. Ooh! What is it, plus four to these things? Plus four right to the regulars.

Seven plus four, so. Three, six. So it's four plus four? No, no, the regulars are plus two. Oh, okay. So if you roll plus two, that's plus four, and the bigars are plus two. Oh, okay. So every roll plus two, that's plus four, and the big one is plus eight. All right.

I look at Yasha and I'm like, sorry, and I pull more, no. Actually, I don't know where my physical one is. I think it's under your, I can hand you a potion of healing, too. We just need a lot of bolts. Did you have the big, some of those? I have anybody still low. Just a regular. Like super low? I'm 20 points down.

I'm 51 points down. Even after that? Oh, wow. Okay, okay, I'm going to go up to Fjord and I'm going to cast that, oh my god, first level Cure Wounds. Sorry that I don't have more. I guess I have another one. Or should we save it for a meta-back thing?

I mean. Potions are potions. Once you go down, you can't use it. I mean, like a spell. Yeah, spells, yeah. As you guys are waiting here, you hear, like the wind died down after a while outside. Then you hear like,

there's battle just going the whole time you guys are resting here. You finish, you've healed, you've taken that moment to seal the door with iron, you guys moving on? It's only been 10 minutes. Okay. Yasha. Make his. Yeah. There's no way, I mean, okay. Wait, what?

It's just Pullman, he's going to die out there. Beau, what were you saying? He's going to have you back. Like, back, back. Yeah. I'm very sorry. I did not know what I was doing. We know.

Please forgive me. I don't know how I can make any of you trust me again because I don't even trust myself. They go hug Yasha around the waist. Thank you, Jester. You can start by helping us kill this fucking thing. Yeah, well, we'll talk later. Now's not a good place. Yes, I think we have a job to finish.

I'm going to start walking. As you all follow suit, one by one, heading down the 10-foot wide descending space into the depths beneath the Chantry of the Dawn. We're going to take a break. Yeah. Three hour. Oh, ah.

Plus, wow. First time I've been nervous in a while. First day maybe loose. First day maybe a little lifty. So we'll see what the next stage is here. Rough. For you, it's like 14 points, so yeah. That's great. We'll be back here in a few minutes.

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So. Battered but filled with resolve, Yasha returned to your side, the spell broken that Obann has held over her since, well, since that time was lost. side, the spell broken that Obann has held over her since. Well, since that time was lost, you make your way down through the darkened stairs about 40, 50 feet before you come to an underground floor of what you would assume to be Chantry housing.

There are four chambers in all that appear to be open bedroom chambers, maybe storage, and you see what looks to be a continued stairway down into a crypt, what would you like to do? First of all, I'd like to turn to Yasha and say, you've been down here. Mind giving us a sneak peek of what we're looking forward to?

Yes. The Crypt. Um. I don't exactly know everything, but I know that we came down here to break the shackles off of the Fane, and we needed four of us. All I know is that that is down here, and that was the plan.

Did you succeed? I don't think we've done it yet. You were in transit before you were notified from a tomb upstairs and called to aid. SAM and LAURA:"But now they have not." But they only have three. You haven't done it yet. We haven't done it yet. And the Laughing Hand is gone.

Yes, and I don't think it can be successful because Obann looks for very specific people to do it. So as long as nobody else shows up, I don't believe it can succeed. Why you? Well, from what Obann has told me, he has chosen people that he believes cannot be killed.

So... we continue to go to every one of these shackles and try to break all of them, because when all four of us break them, we die, and then we come back, and then we go to the next one. You say other shackles. Kills the people that it does. We break them, we die, and then we come back, and then we go to the next one. You say other shackles. It kills the people that it does. It kills the people? Yes.

But you come back. How many shackles have you been to? This was the first one. You said he chooses people who cannot be killed? Yeah, but I... You cannot be killed? I feel like that is not entirely true. I think it's just because of what I am, I guess.

I just, I don't know. What are you? I don't know. I'm just, I'm me. I'm... I think just when I fall, sometimes I can be brought back a lot easier. I can die, but I...

I don't know. But I think... You have spent an awful lot of time with him. What do you think his next move is? I feel like he will probably try to bring me back to him and maybe any of you that he think might be useful. Is there anything we can do to make Yasha stronger on her resistances or something

if he tries to do it? Could bless her, right? Caleb walks up and cautiously reaches above his own head and places a pearl against her forehead, and small little fractals in geometric shapes appear briefly in the air, and I cast Fortune's Favor on you. So you can reroll a save or...

Thank you, Caleb. For the next hour, you can do it. Yeah, attack roll, ability check, or saving throw. Well, maybe I'll start Dordor. for the next hour, you can do that. Attack roll, ability check, or saving throw. Well, maybe I'll start Dordal. Yeah, Nott's down there. If he realizes he can't do it, maybe he'll just leave and take Nott with him. Like you said, he's looking for certain people.

Can Nott even? Then he can kill Nott. And if I don't get there soon enough, then it will be a lot harder to bring her back. That'll take time. Do you know if there are any traps down here, Yasha? You didn't encounter any? I mean, not that we would have set off.

Then we should move now. There's the four chambers right here? Yeah, it's like two bed chambers, or two, it looks like maybe two and a half bed chambers, and a storage room, and one that's like a bunch of supplies. Anything, is there anything out of the ordinary? Just for clarity, right, her resistance lowered my?

Yes, we went over that in the break. Well, 500 bucks. You rolled a lot of ones. Yeah. Oh, chill. That's it. 10 perception. Point of order, remembering your resistance

to necrotic damage, you do actually, you gain half of the damage that you took from Fjord, so you would have actually resisted the necrotic, and you lost 10. 20. I'm getting 20? You get 20 back, and I lose 10. We'll save one, yeah, it's fine.

Okay. What about you, Lucille? She has resistance to necrotic, the thing that Fjord was doing to her earlier. Oh, I forgot. It's all good, welcome back. What's interesting, though, is where it says defenses, and it says resistant to necrotic and radiant,

which I didn't see. Welcome back. Thank you. So we have these little antechambers. Am I still poisoned? You are. I will do Lay on Hands and I will cure myself of the poison. Okay, you are no longer poisoned.

Do you hear anything? As you reach down, and there's a dull green glow, and where the wound was where the poison was seeping in, you watch as these tiny green vines grow over the wound, and you feel the poison just slowly dissipate from your bloodstream. Thank you. You want to help me clear these rooms, just to make sure?

Absolutely. Yeah, SWAT style, we'll... Tap tap. Corners. Okay. Uh-huh. You go into the first bedchamber, and there's about six beds, people sleeping in them. Oh. People are sleeping in them? Shh, shh. I turn around.

Fucking shh. Fucking more gold testers. Yeah. Does it ring Wraitham? No, it's not a ring. Just pillows, right? Yep. Oh. Fucking ass. Are they breathing? Is there a knot or something? Like a lock?

Hmm? It's just an open door, but there's no door. Oh! Forget all the miming, then. Fuck that. Yeah, sorry. Caleb, you want to roll a fucking fireball in here, or what? Are they breathing? We don't even know what they are, so.

Make a perception check. I just want to make sure they're not like kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ugh! 15. 15. While they're having this conversation, you look in and there's no moving of the body. There's no rise and fall of breath.

I'm going to Detect Undead. Okay. No undead. Okay. No undead around you. Just dead. Just dead. Some cult shit. Yes, a little Kool-Aid. They're all wearing nighties. Let's just keep going.

Do we need to search the bodies or anything? I'm going to, just as we're walking by, run Detect Magic on the four rooms and just see if anything's bodies or anything? I'm going to, just as we're walking by, run Detect Magic on the four rooms and just see if anything's. Should we grab their clothes? Nothing catches your attention magically that you aren't expecting on your persons. Are they wearing robes of cultists?

They are not, they are wearing robes of the Chantry. Oh. It looks, and upon closer inspection, you can see a bit of foam at the corner of some of the mouths. It appears that they were all unknowingly eating their last meal probably this morning. That's really terrible.

I'm glad we killed that old lady with the bad hair. Yeah. Just for fun, I'm going to try a divine intervention. Okay. I'm going to put a prayer out to see if, how specific do I have to be? Just let me know what the intent, of what challenge you want to help with.

I wish to be better prepared for the battle ahead. Okay. For all of us. 77. No. Nope. Unfortunately, there's something about the essence, as you draw closer to whatever is below the Chantry, it blocks a clear mode of communication with the Wild Mother.

Yeah, Wild Mother. My sea invisibility is still up. Lasts for an hour. Anything in here going off in the hallway? Not in the rooms? No. Okay. Shall we? Yeah. Yeah.

Yasha, do you mind leading the way? Not at all. Okay. You head down the stairway towards the underground crypt. Immediately, the dark, musty smell comes to you. You can see the crypt itself stretches before about 80 feet, maybe 30, 40 feet wide. The smell of damp earth and incense lingering, old,

nothing recent necessarily, though the smell of burning embers is still a little prominent. You can see that the walls themselves are lined with shelves of bones and carefully interned holy corpses. The script carries many bodies, many old, some not.

Moss and fungus appear to have gathered at the corners of all the smoothed rock, while about a half dozen braziers carry low embers. You see four of them specifically in the room that are prominently placed in the center in a square formation around what looks to be a single statue of the Dawnfather that sits in the center of the room,

his head himself a brazier. You see the armored body itself, and where the head would be is the lower half of a brazier. In all five of these braziers, you can see ember coals. They've been burning for a while, giving off this dull orangish glow, and that is the only light source within the chamber.

There is no discernible exit beyond the steps you took. Anything invisible in the room? Anything invisible in the room? You do not see anything invisible. I'm going to start checking the walls carefully, not by touch, but peering, looking for seams or cracks or any. Okay, go ahead and make a perception.

I'm going to give you a, so what you're doing, I'm going to give you Guidance. That's a d4, yeah. Perception, not investigation. Just using your eyes and not feeling along with your hands and looking for things, I'd say it's perception. Yeah, I'll do that.

So 13, 17. 17, okay, you take a little while and begin to go along the walls. You don't see anything. You don't notice anything hidden. You don't know if it's a fault of your eyes or the room is just, it does not contain what you're looking for.

Have I been this far down yet? You've been in the crypt, and this is as far as you've got. Like you had just arrived in the crypt, and this is as far as you got. You had just arrived in the crypt, and that was when the happened and you were all summoned back up to the cathedral where the encounter occurred. Caduceus or I could make it a lot brighter in here

if we wanted. I can do that. I think we're fine. Do it. Lightspell lights up the chamber. I'm waiting right there! The chamber is brighter, but it doesn't reveal anything. Do I see any signs? I start looking behind the crypts and in crevices,

looking for the pieces of the portal device, or if there's anything that looks reminiscent of that hidden shit. Make a perception check. Or just any stashed shit in general. Perception? Or investigation. Well, if you're like,

if you're looking specifically for a device or inspecting for a... Yeah, hands and knees and the nook and cranny. Okay, so you're going deep in, make an investigation then. It'll take you a little bit. It's 18. 18? It's not great, but yeah.

Okay. You do not find anything that resembles the device. You don't see any sign of metal or the shape of it, though you did see it in the scrying that was handed over to Respa. You do not know where it's been installed. You do know that the creatures that seem to be fighting were in the towers or somewhere in that region.

Oh, it's probably up there still. Two of them. Yeah. Yeah, I bet they're coming out. That's why they kept spawning. Could you tell me the layout of the room again? I'll show it to you. Oh, we're showing something. So the Dwarven Forge will be at Pax Unplugged

for the first weekend of September. Go say hi. At the Die Hard Dice booth. And follow on social Dwarven Forge on the app, Dwarven Forge on Twitter, villainous. Oh shit. So that is the general layout of the crypt. Look at the skulls on the outside of the walls.

That's sick. Fucking cool. Under the skulls! Can we just have a moment for how dope that map is? The Dawnfather is the? The statue in the center that raises, it's like this large statue. And you said the brazier is the head?

His head is a brazier, yeah. Like Mysterio. And these are the brazier is the head? His head is a brazier, yeah. Like Mysterio. These are the four braziers on the edge. Each of these is like a stone tomb that sits in the middle of the chamber. What's in the braziers? There's burning coals and... Okay, so there is fire in the braziers.

Is there light actually coming? There was, they're burning. There's embers in there that are glowing orange. Can I climb up and look in the head and see what's in that one? Sure. You go ahead and climb up. It's not too hard to do, you find a place to look up there.

Similar to the other braziers, looks like some locholes that are burning, some burn thatch and things. I'm going to start checking out all of these tombs to see if I'm going to look for traps, but I think maybe there are stairs or a passage in one of them. I'm going to use Thuniturgy to get the fires

going a little hotter again, going to make the lights. Ow, shit! Okay, so yeah, I pull back a little bit, the fires burn a little brighter, the room lightens a little bit all around from all the small, low-burning fires now getting more intense. Corners of the room, are those candles

that are set up and sort of like... Oh, the corners of the room? Those are small areas where it looks like offerings would be left behind. You can see bowls and plates that contain coins, old knickknacks, pieces of jewelry that were either left as a prayer or part of a burying rite.

Can I inspect this statue and see if it twists or if there's any things on it that move or anything? Sure, make an investigation. I'll also say, technically, I think my detect magic would have still been raided. Guidance. Within 10 minutes of us leaving that. Those four chambers, is it within 10 minutes? 17. That's three. leaving that, those four chambers. Is it within 10 minutes?

17. That's three. But this, I would say it is not. Okay. 21. 21, okay. Looking at the statue, the brazier, anything around it, nothing? Nothing about this statue seems to move or shift or anything about the Dawnfather structure.

It is a solid piece of stone. I said I wanted to investigate tombs, see if there are any triggers, steps, or ladders inside them. And you rolled. I didn't. I was waiting for you to tell me what to put in. Okay, sorry.

So that'd be investigation for both of you. I'm going to paint all the gray here. Just like a half of a face, and then a little speech bubble coming out that says, Oh god, my head! Oh, my head! It would be Jester to deface a very holy relic at the bottom of the Chantry at this moment. I love it.

22. 22. You go through them one by one, and as you feel around, they're all pretty solid. You lift and look inside, and there are old, old bodies that are interred carefully, wrapped in ornamental robes, some of which have just slowly deteriorated.

Some of them, they're 100 years, maybe 200, as long as Rexxentrum has been. A few of them are a little more fresh, but all six of them seem to carry corpses and no signs of being able to descend within them. Anything interesting on the bodies? Oh yeah, can I touch each one of them and make sure my hand doesn't pass through them?

Sure. One by one, you begin to press the bodies and they rock back and forth and dust falls, some of them crumble, and you eliminate all of them as possibly being illusions, and your fingers smell a little funny. They're all real. I don't know.

Can I go search the base of the... Soaked in blood, anyway. The Dawnbrothers? Sure. I'm not very much. Make an investigation. As she gets there, I'm starting to kneel down and pray to the Traveler in front of the shrine

I just made for him. 21. 21. You get down to it, and you can see, towards the back of it, there's a general layer of dust that settled on this ground. Some of it's kicked up from feet and steps and movements,

especially you guys moving around. There are two, there's an element, like a square on the backside of it where the dust has been pushed aside. Oh. I'm going to try to push it. Okay, make a strength check. It's still beast mode.

Can I give her advantage? Can I help her out, since I'm sitting right there? Sure. 26. Oh, well, do you even need it? I can give you advantage. Try it again. The Spice Man. Well, yeah. That was not bad. 26. 26.

You both get behind it and push, and push. Nothing. There's a button or something. There's got to be. Do any of these skulls or bodies look like they're a different age than the rest of them? Yeah, the age varies tremendously. Some of them are hundreds of years old,

some of them are a couple decades old, some of them look maybe within the past couple years. One more Detect Undead just for fun. Okay. Is there petroleum on the floor? Nothing. Are there rats everywhere? This is a cathedral of the Dawnfather, who is one of the many entities that despises undeath,

and much of this area is hallowed specifically to prevent anything from rising. I'm going to start hearing Jester, so there's got to be a button. You all are messing with the statue, right? Yeah, it didn't work, so I'm going to kneel down and try to pray to the Traveler again. I'm going to go around, and I'm going to go up

to these skulls and bodies in the walls and just start like, jiggling them. Okay. Just, soon, pull a femur, see what happens. Okay, so you begin doing that. It's going to take a little while. I'm going to begin a ritual casting

to detect magic, too, since everybody's trying everything. Okay. Maybe we won't. Okay, while they're doing this. Do an investigation check to see if I can notice one. Yeah, all of them. Okay. You. I'm going to try to do Divine Intervention with the Traveler while I'm here.

Yes, sir. Yay! Here I go. 25. 25, okay, cool. We'll get to that in a second. This'll take a little while. I'm going to ask him to help protect us when we get down to Obann to keep us from

being turned. Please keep anybody from being turned. Okay. Go ahead and roll for divine intervention. Where's my percentile? Do I roll two percentiles? One percentile and one non. A d10 and then a percentile, then.

Jester. Mm, 22. 22. While his presence is felt, you gather that the protection he provides is already present. Understandable. He's already close by.

Understandable. Comprehensible. Jester, can you help me with something? Yeah, what do you need? This is really stupid, but I don't know, it might be something. I wonder if we can try turning the statue. I know, I was trying to do it, but maybe with two of us.

Yeah. I'll grab from one side and you grab the other. I'm going to add some, well, Guidance actually isn't going to help with this, is it, no? Probably not. No. Go, you! Make a strength check. Should each of us do it? Should you guys do it?

Yeah, it's not an ability. Natural 20. Oh, never mind. Which is a total of? Which is a total of 28. 28, and I'm sorry. I rolled a... Not a 28, I'm sorry, a 23. I rolled a nine. So'm sorry, a 23. I rolled a nine. All right.

So you guys push and push and push and push and push. Nothing, it's not moving. It's not a thing. Caduceus, can you... With a 20, with a natural 20. Can you extinguish the flame? Sure. Thaumaturgy. All the braziers go out.

Yeah. You have your goggles on still, though. It's not, the light's still up, because I haven't turned off my lights. I'm trying to work here. Where'd the light go? He still has his light spell, but all the braziers go out.

Temperature of the lights changed. Yeah, correct. Okay. What about? Now at this point, you've gone around the room, pulled all sorts of things, looked for it. You feel pretty confident that you've done a pretty solid sweep. There's nothing in the walls, nothing in the corpses, nothing in the bones. You've disturbed a lot of the room, pulled all sorts of things, looked for it, and you feel pretty confident that you've done a pretty valid sweep. There's nothing in the walls, nothing in the corpses, nothing in the bones.

You've disturbed a lot of the dead, and there's been no sign of... They're dead, they'll get over it. What are we missing? You've come down here with them. Yeah, we came down here, but we didn't go further than this because... What did you do when you were in here?

Anything. Obann began reading the scrolls that were handed to him by Respa, and while he was in the process of doing so, was when you guys were called up. So you're not certain. Did he tell a person? As part of your investigation, 25,

I will say you do notice that the brazier on the back left, that's at the foot on that side, there is a faint bit of ash and charcoal brazier on the back left, that's at the foot on that side. There is a faint bit of ash and charcoal on the ground around it, like a little ring that is more prominent than the other braziers. Hang on, hang on. You're going to pass out? Caduceus?

Yeah. What do you make of this? What do I make of that? There's some of the ashen. Does it seem intentional? Like, or is this? It looks like stuff that would fall out of a brazier on the ground.

Maybe try moving the brazier. I'm going to shift it, or... It doesn't shift, it's locked in place. Is there a feeling of mechanisms? Groping a brazier. Make an investigation check. I'm going to give you a d4 for that, since you seem to be doing a thing.

Do. Why is it always such a journey? It's not great. 19. 19. 19. It doesn't move, the brazier is solid to the ground. It's not like a bowl that's on pillars. It's like a solid stone pillar that has an interior part

that has some openings in the side where it keeps everything in, where the flames can come out. There's just a little ring of sprinkled ash and charcoal on the ground around it. Are the flames extinguished now? The flames are extinguished. a little ring of sprinkled ash and charcoal on the ground around it, but the other ones do not. Are the flames extinguished now? The flames are extinguished. Can you give it a big boost?

We need somebody to actually light it up. I can't. Caleb! Can I do that? I wonder if something's got to be burned around it or something with all of this. Can I take a copper piece and throw it in the brazier? Yeah. It lands in the brazier.

Maybe, I don't know, throw a firebolt at this thing or something? I mean, we can just do, I'm going to pull out, I think I have matches, so I'm just going to... Hey! What'd you do? I'll use a match. It slowly begins to take. And you ignite it again, the brazier's now glowing.

There you go. Anything? There's nowhere to look underneath, really. It's solid. Is the thing itself stuck in the, is it like a, what's the, is it a lazy Susan? No, it's like a. That's a weird word. The bowl?

What is the, so it just looks like ash that's around the bowl? Yeah. What is the ash made of? It's a circle in front of it, not around it. Around it, like as if it had come out of it. Like it overflowed. Only around that one. Only around that one.

Is there more ash in the brazier than the other ones? It looks like the ash that's on the ground was displaced, so there's maybe a little bit less for the amount that's now around it on the ground. Something came up from the bottom, maybe? Would you imagine 10 minutes has gone by for? Can I reach my hand down into the brazier?

Is it still ember-y? About now. And you detect no magic. Yeah. Is it still ember-y? Is it still hot in there? It is now, because he lit it. Oh, on the board. I'll bring it all, I'm not going to quite fill it,

but I'm going to reel it in. Okay, you're going to reel it in. Really low, okay. Mm-mm. Does anybody got a stick? Somebody give me something. You used my sword. Yeah, I stick it in and move it around,

see if there's a hole at the bottom. Ah! You do feel a bottom, it's about two and a half feet down. It's not the whole base of the pillow. The pillow, I mean, the brazier itself is up about two and a half, three feet or so, it's a little above your waist, or about your waist height, and it goes down about a foot and a half,

and hits the bottom. You kind of rustle around inside. Make an investigation check. A four. Nice. Nice, super nice. 15, 16. 16, okay.

My investigation's low, but. Move it around in there, move some of the charcoal around, the sword, pull it out. This feels like a brazier. I don't know what a brazier normally feels like. Stop scooping the ash out. Well, it's going to hurt our hands, but. I'll start going over and strug them.

Okay, it's still, you know, even when we took the flame out, it's still a little warm. I'll say in the process of doing so, take two points of fire damage. But you empty out the brazier, well, the ash. I'm going to use it into my bow staff to. Okay. But you empty out the brazier, well, the ash. I'm going to use the end of my bow staff to...

Okay. I'm going to start emptying out the other ones, too. I got a tiny shovel. Here's my tiny shovel. Desecrate. Okay. Yep. As you guys are going to empty the other ones,

you get down to the very, very bottom of this one. At the very bottom, there is a lever about that long, about two inches long. Any of the other ones? Nope, just that one. That's fucking teamwork. Doesn't move. What?

What do you mean it doesn't move? It's solid. The lever's solid? It's not moving. Is it like a lever or like a lever? It looks like a little metal switch that has some sort of a rotational bit, but it's locked in place.

Maybe he has some sort of staff or key of some device to turn it. Does it look like some sort of gear? Maybe it's like a rod that can't be moved or something. I heard about those things. Wait a minute. What do we know about the Dawnfather? He likes the light a lot,

and there's some sun involved, and... Maybe we have to do this when it's on fire. He's really tall and he doesn't have a face. And his head is only half there. Light it back up. Let's double, I'm going to just double check the rest of the, all of the, including the one, just to see if I.

It takes a little bit, but you scoop through, this is the only one that has it. All right, put it all together. I'm going to light them all up and get them going. Okay, so you put all the ash back in, light them back up, the brazier's now burning a bit. Okay, you reach in, your hand takes. How far down does it go?

Take four points of fire damage, I rolled really low. Okay. As you reach in and grab it. Ouch, ouch. And it moves without any resistance. As soon as you move the switch, the stone center moves along about five feet, revealing a staircase that descends further down.

Nice. We did it. We only had to burn two people. Open the door! No, don't do that! I'm dying! So what's the marching order here? Caleb is very concerned about that, so he is going second.

All righty. I'll go third. Okay, so Yasha, Caleb, Caduceus. I'll be the caboose. Once you've been charmed, you can't be charmed again for a while, right? Depends on the ability. Depends on the ability. I'll go between Beau and Fjord,

if Beau is okay being after Caduceus. Okay, so Beau is after Caduceus, then Jester, then Fjord at the end. Got it, okay. Sounds good. We'll move this out of the way. Such a pretty map. So spoiled.

Stupid. That's so true. That was for puzzle solving. Dwarven Forge! For just, yeah. Dwarven Forge! We could have been in combat and still fight our way to the last sword. Oh my god. Trying to solve that.

It is a very small staircase, single file, heading down deeper and deeper. It spirals on and on for what must be 100 feet beneath the crypt or more, slowly making your way through until eventually a faint bit of light is visible. To you, Yasha. The staircase comes to an end.

The spiral flattens out into a straight staircase that extends for an additional 15 or so feet, and you can see an archway that is open. Leads into what looks to be a cylindrical type chamber, made of rough ancient rock. You can see there's three pillars in there, load-bearing, holding for this chamber is up. It's not an immense chamber.

It's maybe 50, 60 feet across, a little less than that even. From what you can see as you glance down and first look, you can see there's an obelisk in the center that has you can see there's an obelisk in the center that has runes up the side that glow this constant, bright white-yellow color. It's reminiscent of the obelisks

that you all had found in the King's Cage, but the script is celestial, and it is old. Very old. At the top of this obelisk, which actually, where you're standing now, you won't be able to see the top. It is obfuscated by the top of the archway that leads into the chamber.

Make a perception check. Natural 20. Natural 20. Natural 20? Wow. Dang. You glance. I'm still trying to be quiet. What's the total with your perception added to it? 23. 23. Glancing down, you can see,

between these three pillars on the floor and the obelisk that sits in the center, there are four runic circles drawn on the ground in a jagged script at the corner of this obelisk, each corner having a circle. In one of the circles? Say again? In one of the circles on the opposite side,

you see Nott standing. Oh no, no, no. I just quietly. Nott? Hmm? Shereen? Hmm? All of you make stealth checks, please.

What's your passive perception? That's pretty bad. 11. 16. 16. 14. 15. 13. 16. 14. 15. 13.

16. Yeah, you have no idea. Ah! You've been told. All right, so what do you guys do? I will bow my head really quickly and just say a quick prayer to the Stormlord. Please, please don't leave me again.

As you say that and close your eyes and take a prayer, you hear a thunder roll, but it's not echoing around you, it's internally. As it gets louder and louder, you can feel the strength of the storm pulsing around you, it's internally. As it gets louder and louder, you can feel the strength of the storm pulsing through you. For a moment, you can feel the cold rain in your dreams falling upon your skin, a sense of peace comes over you.

Please stay there. Can I see any of the runes? Or read any of the, read what the script on the, you said it's in Celestial? You read Celestial, yeah? Yeah. Okay. It's old, old Celestial. They speak of, it's less of a sentence,

and it's more these very intricate, large runes that themselves are words. Like each is representative of an idea, as opposed to a script of language. And it says, like, eternal, bound, forever, at bay, left to darkness, secret. Like, this is, based on everything you've known,

everything you've gathered, this in particular, this is probably the shackle. Okay, okay. Oh, I'm sorry. I try to relay this information as quietly as I can behind me because I know we're single file here. Caleb tries to peek under her armpit and read the Celestial as well.

Yeah. Okay. Make a perception check. 20 total. Okay, you were able to make up the same elements that she did. Do you guys want to move in? It's only not that you see. The other three circles are empty.

The other three circles are empty. What? It's clear to drive. It's clear to drive. How far away are we? Five to five. Well, you guys travel. How far away are we? Well, you guys are all in a line up the top. Yasha's just at the top of the stairs,

flattening out. You're about, I'd say, 10 feet, 15 feet from the archway that leads in. How far from Nott? How far from Nott? I'd say maybe 30 feet. Can I see anything up above? No, because the archway is down below you and it's blocking it. You'd have to descend the stairs

to be able to get a better look inside. Has it been an hour since I cast See Invisibility? No. It's not sped up. Can I tap everyone on the shoulder and have them move to the side, still staying within where Yasha is, and just look around the room and see if I see anyone? Before he goes up, I'm going to grab your hand

as you walk past me and go, please be careful. Are you entering the archway? No, no, from within the archway still. Okay. From behind cover. You get down and look inside. You don't see anything else. He snorts back to all of us. Nott is actually facing the obelisk.

So we see her from the front, or we see her from the front? We can try something. Me and Caduceus. I can try and dispel. I can do it? Yeah, I think that's fine. Are you going to try and dispel? I can. Do whatever.

I can give you, so I can give, I think I double-checked the language and I think Guidance will help with the Dispel roll. How far away is it? It's an ability check. Which is what Guidance helps is add number one roll to one ability check of its choice. Yeah. Yeah. Try it.

You got a d4. I mutter as quietly as I can and move my hands through the air, and I cast it at a fourth level. At a fourth level? Yeah. Okay, go ahead and roll a d20. Add your intelligence modifier and your d4. I'm going to use Fortune's Favor to roll that again.

Much better. What do I add to that, did you say? D4, because it's an intelligence modifier. I'm going to get ready to run towards him in case he notices. Yeah. 25. Yeah. 25. 25.

Your will is your own. Unexpectedly, suddenly, all of this strangeness, and it came from the doorway. What? Do you? Hello? SAM and LAURA, SAM and LAURA, Hello? Pull out the wire.

We are in it. All of us are here. Do not reply to this message. Oh! Praise be. It's only for selling, motherfucker. Obann's going to know as soon as that thing is broken. Yeah, he knows.

I'm here with you, and you know it. Should we cough one time? I look around. Is anyone in here with me? Do I know? Would you know if anyone knew? Oh, jeez louise. While Matt can rule on me, remember guys, Disney Villainous. Are you here with me? Do I know? Would you know if anyone knew? Oh jeez louise. While Matt can rule on me, remember guys,

Disney Villainous is a great sponsor of Spook and Ice. How many natural ones have we ruled tonight? Is anybody going to try it? Four, five? No, it's at least, yeah, it's five. You're responsible for two of them. Yep. The cough was if someone was in there.

Yeah. No, no. That's a lot. Okay. Do you all have things that could help us with our wisdom? I mean, I can cast, I'll cast Bless. What?

I'll cast Bless, we're whispering. I'll cast Bless on. If you do it at a high enough level, you can bless everybody, or both of us can bless. It's a fourth level for, oh, don't forget I cast. Fortune's Fever. Second level, third level, fourth level. Yeah, we could split it, or I could also do,

I could also do it. You don't have to worry about me, necessarily, since I can save. You have it from one, two, three, four, five. I can do that? Oh yeah, because that's probably fine. Yeah. That's a level three. Oh, I'm that's probably fine. Yeah, fine. That's a level three. Oh, I'm so tapped.

Okay. Or I can do less if you prefer. Or actually, I might want to save for later. Let's both do a level one. Just both do a level one less? Yeah. All right. Who do you want to take?

I'll take Fjord and Caleb and you. All right, and I'll take... I mean, I'll take it if you still want to give one out, but I don't necessarily need it. Two. Yeah, actually, yeah, just because for attack. Yeah, minus five. Does that end up doing it again?

Okay, so we're all covered. What's Blast 2 again? Wait, are we all Blast? Yeah, we're all Blast. Awesome. Yeah, I'll do it at level two. How many Blasts today? Everybody's Blast.

Everybody's Blast? What does that mean again? You have a d4 to attacks and d4 to saves. Got it. Attacks and saves. But I would say let's not cast it until right at the, because it's one minute. So let's cast it once shit starts.

As soon as we know we're about to go in, that's when we would go. Yeah. I think as soon as we watch the portal, we don't get it on. All right. What's the plan? We'll walk in and- Shall we?

Before we do, I whisper, we are coming in, Don't do anything rash. Or maybe just tell her to run, and then you can send a fireball in there or something. No. Three, two, one. Start walking in. All right.

As you enter the chamber, Yasha first, you now see this 15-foot-tall obelisk rises up, and at the top, it's just this bright light, impossibly bright, like you cannot look into it. It's so bright, that lights up the top of the chamber. Three gold, thick gold chains emanate from it to connect to the different walls of the room, and you see nothing else in there.

Boy. Lots of Dwarven Forge tonight, guys. It's the Dwarven Forge-iest. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Ooh. The chains match Dwarven Forge.

Oh shit. Wow, Matt, wow. Fuck, dude. Yeah, you were busy this week. So are those circles? The circles are where you saw the burning circles from the ground. Which one is not in? Not.

Is not in? This one. No one else is? Can I do a once-or with my see-invisible eye? Yasha, you enter? Yep. All right, do you all enter. Yasha, you enter? Yep. All right, do you all enter alongside Yasha? You start fanning out. I'm going to hang in the doorway, I think.

Okay. I'm going to run over and flank towards Nott. I'll go to the left, underneath that first gold chain, yeah. Okay, I'll put you there. Against the wall. Against the wall? Always. Oh my god, shit. Oh my gosh. It's bad. Beau, you're going this way?

That way, yeah. Under the other gold chain, yep. And back to the wall, same thing. Okay. Jester, Fjord? I mean, I guess I'll go in right next to the door. Right here? Yeah, I'll just go to the side of it.

Right here? Yeah. I'll just go to the side of it. Right here? Yeah. Okay. Looking for anything that's there. I'd like to move my hand in. You just walked in, you still haven't come in. You guys all walk in. Fjord, you were towards the back, right? No, I walked up towards the front

and tried to look in through the doorway. Right, through the archway, but as we all enter, when? I wasn't in the front. Maddy? Okay. Do I remember my state? Am I hypnotized? Was I asked to stay here? You were told to stay there.

Told to stay here, but I have my own. You do now have your own will. No, I know I do, but what I was instructed by my prior master, I'm just wondering, if they came in the room, I would shoot at them if I were trying to give off the illusion that I was still mind controlled. If you were trying to put off that illusion, yeah.

Okay, so as soon as they walk in, I fire a bolt, scream, and run to the corner of the room and intentionally miss. Okay. So and run to the corner of the room, and I intentionally miss. Okay. So you run off which corner? Back left. Back this way. Okay. Intruders!

As you all walk in and fan out, Fjord, you look around and look up, and you're the only one who can see Obann and the Catogeist, who are both floating up at the top of the chamber, about 50 feet up above you, where the pillars, the load-bearing pillars, are all coming to a pyramid-type gathering at the top to keep this whole chamber up, and they're up there watching you all.

Right as you look up at them, Obann goes, and they both, everyone roll initiative. Oh, it's so hereditary. Oh, it's so horrific. Oh my god. Hey! My initiative. Hereditary, creepy as fuck. Oh, that's so creepy.

The boots I used earlier. All right, 25 to 20. 25 to 20. Nobody. Nobody, nobody, nobody, tight. 20 to 15. 18. 17. 15. Wow. Nice.

Are you sharing your Ashley Johnson? Nope. 15 to 10. Oh, oh no. 10. Fjord, Yasha, and who was it? 15. Caduceus.

Caduceus was 17. So it's Fjord, Caduceus. Seven. Oh, that's right. Seven. So then it's Beau, Nott. Then Caleb. All righty. Sorry, not. Then Caleb.

All righty. Sorry, can you run it down from top to bottom? I can't remember, I'm not fucking hand running. Fjord, Caduceus. Fjord, Caduceus, Yasha. Jester, Beau, not Caleb. Oh, okay, that's cool. I guess. All right. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.

Top of the round. Goodness gracious. Appearing from invisible, right by your side, Beauregard, as you are on that end, Cato Geist appears and goes to shunt the blade into you. This is not going to be good. That's going to be good advantage. Not a great roll, but still 22?

Yeah. Come on, none of us are over 20. Years old. We're so young, oh my god. Guys, I just rent a car now. Fucking dammit. I can't drink yet, but it's a good trade-off because it's so young. That's a really, really bad sneak attack roll.

Three, two, two, three, one. So you're looking at that one. I eat anything and never a game anyway. You take 35 points of slashing damage. And you make a constitution saving throw. Damn it. Ooh. Oh, is that Cox? Damn it. Ooh! Oh, is that cocks?

Looks like you can read a number. Okay, what was it? Constitution save? Yes. Ooh, and a blust? And a blust? Yeah. Yeah. Ooh, yeah. Go buy a blust?

27. Yeah. Yeah, you resist the poison, no worries. You have a d4 to attack, so. Second strike is going to be a 19. Miss. Misses. So the first blow hits and the blade withdraws, the poison and blood spills across the stonework, and in the other strike, you just parry it out of the way.

She's going to attempt to move into the wall. I just healed that wound, bitch. Sentry. Oh, but you do get attack opportunity. Go for it. Add a healed that wound, bitch. Sentry. Oh, you do get, you do get attack, go for it. Added decoy to your attack. Goddamn, goddamn, come on, please don't fuck this up. Please don't fuck this up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 27.

That hits, go ahead and roll damage. Yes, 12 damage, and that bitch is staying here! Yeah, she can't move. She gets punched and you grab and your mystical hands that can, you punch ghosts. As she goes into a ghostly mode, you reach out and grab her throat

and yank and hold her there in place. She's like and looks at you with this eyes of like, what the fuck are you? You cut my brand new robes. All right, that finishes her turn. The mirrored form now expands out of her. Can I turn? Out of that stray.

I can't, no, no, no, keep going, keep going. Which actually, yeah, I'm going to see if... No, she fucking rolled two. All right, so the mirrored form doesn't affect her, but she still has... A duplicate? There are three duplicates around her. Three. Right, right.

Mirror image. Yep. So you do still hit her with that, though. So she's still held in place with the speed of zero. Finishing her turn, Fjord, you're up. Caduceus, you're on deck. Can I see Obann invisible in the air? You can, actually.

Nice. And he is up on this end here. Oh my god, actually. Nice. And he is up on this end here. Oh my god, summon a demon. With my... Two fucking suits. Can I move forward and peek out from just behind this pillar, move forward up towards it, and with my... Are you here? Yeah, just on this side of move forward up towards it, and with my,

yeah, just on this side of the link right here. Okay, gotcha. With my last spell activating the sword, can I griff it, make the blade pulse, and I will reach in and say, Wild Mother, shine your light, and I will cast Faerie Fire on Obann. Oh shit.

Okay. I check Obann, and shit. Okay. He checked Obann. And he cannot be invisible anymore. Dexterity 15 saving throw. Gotcha. That's pretty dexterous. Yeah. It's always worth a shot, though.

Yes, that's a great one. Maybe one, natural one. It was a natural one. Shut up. But he has resistance. He has magic resistance. He gets advantage on saving throws against spells. Natural fucking three.

Ooh, yay, not invisible anymore! But that one is $500. Does it count? No, it's us that. It's only when it sticks. It sticks. So yeah, he's sparkly. So you guys watch as Obann suddenly,

you watch as Fjord walks out, grasps and thinks of the Wild Mother, and then as he puts his hand up, there's a like a small, reminiscent of a small Hupperduke party, a firework goes off in the upper part of the chamber, and as the sparkles fall, they gather an outline sticking to the form of Obann.

You can now see him in the air. He's like. Great, I will, with my bonus action, just turn back around and put my back to the pillar. Okay. My turn. All right, finishing your go, Caduceus, you're up, and then Yasha, you're on deck.

Does Ferry Fire give any advantage or anything? Yeah, you get advantage on all attacks. On all attacks? Faerie Fire is nasty. That fucking sucks for him. Are we starting there then, I suppose? We have advantage on all attacks. Against Yobanya.

I think we start where it makes the most fucking sense. How far away is he from me right now? Right now, he's about, from you at this moment? 55 feet. Okay, so there's no way I could get within 30 feet of him right now. No, no, he's too high up in the air. Okay, so I'm going to,

I figure everyone else has got it. I'm going to back up from him a little bit against the wall, and if I can see our other friend over here who seems pretty stunned, you can. I'm going to hit her with a Blight. A Blight, okay. That's a constitution save. That is natural 20. Oh. Okay, still takes damage though, right? Correct. That's a constitution save. That is natural 20.

Oh. Okay, still takes damage though, right? Correct. It's necrotic, right? It's necrotic. She does not have resistence. No, so that's a lot. They have had time to heal since your last battle,

so the wounds that were taken upstairs have been time-trapped. Oh, that's good. Actually, can I borrow this for a second? You guys got a chance to heal. Yeah, but not fully. We didn't take a full rest. But they're powerful.

They're way more powerful than us. Five, six, oh my god, this is amazing. So total here is... You guys also spent a long time searching that chamber above, too. At least 20 minutes. Probably like a half an hour or so with everything you were doing.

Just shy of an hour. Probably before we got down here. 20, 36, 42, 51 points of necrotic damage. That's some crazy rolls. I rolled eight, six, eight, six, eight, six, four necrotic damage. That's some crazy rolls. I rolled eight, six, eight, six, eight, six, four, five. Jesus. Eight, six, eight, six, yeah. Eight, eight, so and almost all of them were eights and sixes.

51? Yeah, 51. Still have, but even half, that's 25 points of damage. Nice. Yeah. All right, Caduceus. Nice job, man. That finishes your turn? Yeah, I can't really do much for a bonus action, so I'm just going to hold there.

Yasha, you're up. Okay. I would like to rage. All righty. Yes, you would. Yes, you would. I would love to rage. I'm really, really, really fucking mad. Okay. Skingorger or Magician's Judge? Only Skingorger is attuned. Yeah, yeah, only Skingorger is attuned.

Yeah, yeah, only Skingorger. This was a question because I wanted to switch to Magician's Judge because I, but I can't do it. Because I want to. Would there have been time on the walk down to switch swords or no? I mean. Takes a short rest to attune, unfortunately. Yeah.

Okay, that's fine. He's so far up there, I can't get him. You do have another target. Yeah, I'm going to go over to her. Okay. Hit her four times. Beau has her grabbed. Hit her, hit her.

I'm going to hit her. With a four, too, with a d4 also. And automatic advantage. No, not hit her. I'm going to hit her. With a four, too, with a four also. And automatic advantage. No, not against her. Unless you have to do Reckless if you want to do advantage. What if strafed or not already engaged? Oh, well, actually, with your movement, you could move behind her if you wanted to.

Oh yeah, absolutely. Okay, we'll do that. Okay, so I mean. Okay. So you get advantage and a d4. Mm-hmm I mean. Okay. You get advantage and a d4. 14. Oh, I get advantage and a d4. Sentinel babes back in the house.

Yeah, much better. Okay, 20. So what was the first attack? 24. To hit? To hit. To hit, all right. You strike and her form blurs and you watch now the three forms

of illusory versions of herself that surround and move through her. You strike at one and it vanishes, so you miss her, but you've eliminated one of the images. Okay. You take your second attack. Yeah. Natural 20.

Yes! You will fire! Let's see if this works. Fuck! All right, no, that hits. Oh! All right, do it slowly. Come ahead and roll some damage.

So it's your first hit, so it does get your additional d6. Yes! Big money. And then double it? Is that how it works? Yeah, so you roll the dice. And you can reroll one? I think I can reroll all of it works? Yeah. So you roll the dice. And you can re-roll ones? I think I can re-roll all of them. You can re-roll one of the dice.

One of the dice? I think I can re-roll all of them and then take the higher. I think it's just one. You think it's just one? Re-roll the weapons, damage dice. Weapons, you could re-roll the 1d12. Re-roll that three. She's not doing 12, she's doing the 3d6. Roll that three.

She's not doing 12, she's doing the 3d6. No, she's doing two 12s in it. Oh, is she? Yeah. Well, for the brutal critical, she has that, but. Okay, well, whatever. Okay, so shit, what was this one, a four? It was a four, yeah. Okay, so seven, eight, so 16.

Plus? Plus, um... Been a while. Yeah. Getting the rest off. 16. Well, we got you back. 23 points of damage.

So before I do that, I want to look at her and say. You added your Brutal Critical, right? You roll one more damage dice. Another one? Another d12. Another d12? Yeah. I've been rolling sixes.

Are you 10th level? Wait, no, my weapon is only sixes. These look like 12s because they're... Oh, I see. I was thinking that. No, they're weird. They're confusing. Yeah, they're confusing.

So you roll an additional d6. I roll an additional d6, okay. For brutal criticals. Okay, an extra three. Times two, so six. Times two, so six. So 29 points of damage, which is nice. You get anything else out of a critical

as a raging barbarian? Well, it's just that she gets to do additional damage. Which... Yeah, so that's that there. Okay. Before I do that, I want to look at her and just look her in the eyes and say, you can have control over your mind.

Fight it. You look in the face and you can, like, she's under the same influence you've been. So she's, does she have a fucking glory gold? I tried to say that loud enough so people could hear. That's loud enough, that's fine. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I already knew that, I know those.

Finishing Yasha's turn, it is Obann's turn. Obann is going to go ahead and shift over this way and glance over in your direction as you're the one who fairy fired. Hello. Hello. Uh-oh.

Would you do me a favor? Make a wisdom saving throw. With a d4. Oh, there we go. 13. You are dominated. Brock! You are charmed, sorry, I don't mean charmed. And he's going to point to the circle.

No. So your command is to go step into a circle. All right. That brings us to Jester. Fuck. I was focused on that. I'm going to try to cast at fourth level Dispel Magic.

That's all I've got, fourth level. This, I wonder, it probably needs to be fifth level on her. What you're doing? I'm going to try to cast Dispel Magic on the inevitable end. Okay, you cannot, you do not see? I know she has the thing, because I've been scrying on them. Oh, that's true, you would.

Yeah. You would. You'd have to move to get a better view. Okay. But you can do that if you want. Yes, move one, two, three, four, five. You'd have to get into the circle to be able to see her, based on how she's being held. Jesus.

Can she go past it? But you'd have a view of it. Do you have any movement left? Would I have any movement after that? No. It takes you all your movement to get. I'm doing it. You're doing it, all right. So you step forward into the circle,

and it's strange, as you step into the one, you feel this cold come over you when you step out of that first circle. You step into the one on the opposite end, and as you get ready, you can lean in and you can see as Beau is grasping her throat and Yasha's whipped up behind and striking, she's looking around, eyes darting wildly.

She turns back towards Beauregard and in the back of the neck, right beneath the red hair, you can see the faint orange glow. As you can feel the cold of the circle causing all of your skin to get goosebumps and your heart sinks in your chest. I embrace the cold. Okay, you cast it at 4th-level, you said?

Yeah. Go ahead and roll a d20 for me. Plus a def, no, Bless Is Not ability checks, right? Yeah. Why am I cursed? Got two plus whatever. Unfortunately, the Dispel does not land. God, that fucking sucks.

You're so bad at D&D. I'm so fucking bad at D&D. Nominee for best actress. No, that was a great fucking maneuver. Yeah. It's just a shitty die. It sucks. All right, that's your action and your movement.

You have a bonus still. As a bonus action, I can't cast another spell, so I'm just going to go. Sick. Okay. All right, that finishes Jester's turn. Beau, you're up, Nott, you're on deck. Go hand.

I got to buy this rope. Kill this girl? Mm-hmm. Whack, whack! Fucking wall. Go for it. Love it. Let me try first attack. First attack? You have advantage in these attacks because you and Yasha are... Flanking. Plus d4.

I'll take that 28. That definitely hits. Plus 33, 31. 31, you destroy another one of the images. Okay. Second attack. Almost a natural 20. 26.

Definitely hits. Hits her. 27, 28 total with the hits her. 12 damage. Stunning Strike. Stunning Strike. Should we focus on her? Hold on, but they run out.

Focusing on her because 19. Fucking pig. She's got a contract keeping her alive. I guess we focus on her. She can't be killed, that's the thing that Yasha said, all of them can't be killed. If we get rid of that, if we get rid of Yvonne,

it's fine. She's going to stun her. Still have a bonus action still. He just came back. He's got to go to his home turf. Yeah. Oh my god, I'm running out of points. Flurry of good points.

Flurry of Blows. Go for it. First pop. 24. Hits her. Plus 4, 28. Rolling real shitty on her mirror image rolls. 10 damage. 10 damage, all right.

You have one more attack, Flurry of Blows. She's still shitty on her mirror image rolls. 10 damage. 10 damage already. You have one more attack before it glows. Unless you're doing something else. She rolled a 19 on her save? She did. Um. 22 plus 26. That hits. Four, roll a four, roll a four, roll a four. Keep fucking rolling fours. All right. Another 10 damage?

Another 10 damage, all right. Extract Aspects. Okay. She is resistant to acid, fire, lightning, cold, and thunder. Dang. As well as piercing, slashing, and bludgeoning from nonmagic.

She is immune to poison. Makes sense. She cannot be frightened. She cannot be grappled. She cannot be paralyzed. She cannot be frightened. She cannot be grappled. She cannot be paralyzed. She cannot be poisoned. Or made prone or restrained. Oh, so Stunning Strike wouldn't have worked anyway.

No, she doesn't need to stun. She can't get grappled, prone, or restrained, frightened, poisoned, she's a mean non-bad magic, or paralyzed. Right, did she say paralyzed? Yeah, paralyzed, she's immune to paralyzed. Paralyzed, immune to acid, or no, resistant. Resistant to, yeah. To acid, fire, lightning, cold.

Shit. I'm going to just shout out and say, I think necrotic is necrotic and holy on this girl. It's all you can really do. Cool. That's what I say. All right. Hold on. Does that finish your turn?

Uh-huh. Okay, Beau's done. Nott, you're up. Caleb, you're on deck. How high up is he? 50 feet. Oh man, I'm going to have disadvantage on the shot anyway. No, well, it's going to be a cleared out

because he had all his attacks on the map. But it won't get sneak attacks. So in that case, I'm going to fire on... Stay tuned. What's her name? Running out of shit to do, too. Unless... Explode the crystal.

What? What? That's an option? Don't do that, don't do that. Balls, balls, balls, balls. What you doing, Nott? Man, I wish I could do more than just cast a spell. I guess I'll take her out, right?

Would that help? He also has advantage over the rest. She's resistant to? Everything, except for necrotic energy. Acid fire, lightning, cold, thunder, non-magical weapons. Piercing? No, she can pierce it. Oh, okay.

As long as it's magical. I will shoot her. Go for it. Roll for an attack. 13. 13 misses. Bonus action. But you get advantage. Plus four. No, if you're blessed. Well.

You're not blessed. You are blessed. You are blessed. Everybody's blessed. It's still only 14. And we're flanking her. So you get advantage. You get advantage. You get advantage. You do? Okay, is that true?

Hey, that's 27. Actually, no, Nott was not blessed, because Nott was not in the room. Yeah, Nott was blessed. No, wait, it was within 30 feet. When we walked in, we did everybody. So Nott was. All right.

And I get advantage. I don't know, does Nott get advantage in this? I think, against her? Yeah. No, you're not going to get advantage, but you do get sneak attack damage. No, it's not. I didn't hit. So 14, so that didn't hit. Next roll is a 24 to hit.

24 to hit. Sneak attack. There we go. One to connect, that's all I need. You shoot the last of the images and it vanishes. Okay, well that's a good job. It absorbs the final blow, but now all of the mirror images have vanished

and she is definitely there. Okay. For as long's a good job. It absorbs the final blow, but now all of the mirror images have vanished, and she is definitely there. Okay. For as long as she is there. And I'll just move that way, 15 feet. 15 feet. Back in three. Finishes your turn, Nott. Caleb, you're up.

I start to wander in, looking at Fjord a little anxiously, and I'm going to move to the column closest to me. Okay, over here. And fire just springs up in my hand and I just huck a Firebolt at Obann. Go for it, you have advantage in the attack roll. Firebolt.

I think they're resistant to fire. Yeah, he's resistant. I'm still doing it because I have nothing else I can do. Definitely hits, a roll of 19 plus nine, 27. 27 hits. And it's just 2d10. I will know after this that he can't be hurt. Nine of fire.

Nine plus fire damage, reduced to half. See, he's resistant. So gets the hit. Seems to shrug it off, no issue. Not something he has to maintain on old 40-boy? Nope. I will actually stand just, could I go just outside that circle?

The other circle, yeah. There, there you go. All righty, that brings us to a Catogeist turn. A Catogeist turn. Achaedogeist. It's going to cast Darkness in her space. Metal. Create an area of magical darkness in this area. As she does so, this black sphere envelops the area.

Both Yasha and Beauregard can see nothing. You are engulfed in magical darkness that your eyes cannot pierce. She then attempts to shift into the wall. Both of you guys get a tax opportunity with disadvantage. Oh man, come on. Sentinel babes. Sentinel babes. Add the d4 just in case.

17. Mm. Add the d4. Okay. Oh, disadvantage? Fuck, I rolled another natural 20. Okay, so 17. 17 misses.

Did you add a d4? I did, yeah. She's gone. Does the darkness go with her? Nope, darkness stays. All right, she moves up, that's her turn. Fjord, you're up. I think we're alone now.

Fjord steps into the circle. And the cold washes over you. Finishes your turn. I'm dominated, right? You don't attempt to save against it? Because he was just told to go in a circle and not quite kill any of us, right? Nope.

Nope, no save. All right. That brings us to Caduceus. And Yasha's on deck. I'm going to walk up to Fjord. And fuck it, I'm, no one die, okay? I'm going to cast Greater Restoration on Fjord.

Okay. Yes, yes! All right. So he is no longer charmed. Someone had that shit. No longer charmed. Someone had that shit. No longer charmed. I'm going to grab him, I'm going to take his hand, and I'm going to pull him out of the circle

and say, come with me. You can't because you used your action to cast the spell. That was my action. Right. My bonus can't be come with me and drag him? No, to forcefully pull somebody or push me out of the space is either part of an ability or an action to do so.

To do that, to cast the spell and then pull him out, he's still recovering from it. He can't do both of those. I could do some. Get out of the circle as soon as possible. I'm going to back the hell back up against the wall. Okay. I don't think I have any other shit that I can do.

Sorry. Yeah, no, just for, yeah, no, that's a... Yep, that's what I can do. All right, the finiscus is Yasha, you're up. Okay. You're just covered in darkness right now. The Kedogai slipped out of your grasp, your blade hit the side of the wall, no actual impact.

What are you doing? Okay, I'm going to try to back out of the circle, if I can. You move five feet and your vision comes back to you. Okay, so... I'd like to go beside Jester. Okay, move over. I'd like to go beside Jester.

Holy shit. holy shit. Holy shit. All right. You'll get the joke in two years. Year and a half. Jester, do you think you can get out of there? Sure, yeah, sure, sure, yeah. You think so? Yeah, yeah. Fuck.

I don't know what to do, because I can't reach him up there. You can hold your attack until he's within reach. Yeah. You can hold your attack until anything's within reach. Can we get up underneath him and then hold your attack if he comes down to the ground or something? Yeah, that's not a bad idea.

All right, I'll just get close to where he is. Okay. I know. 10, 15, 15, 30, 35. Nope. Yes. 40, you can get about there. And try to taunt him to come down a little closer. Okay, I'm just going to intimidate him.

That's packed. Sure. All right, go ahead and roll an intimidation check. So I can use my strength with that, right? Because I think we talked about that. It's one of the variant rules. Vip. You're called Texas Sterling.

Oh boy. Six. Oh. Yeah. He's unfazed. He looks down at you and goes, Boom. You've got to hold attack for the next thing that gets close to you. I'm still scared of him a little bit, you know?

It's going to take a minute for me to get close. All right. It is now Obann's turn. Obann goes, here, I'll do you one more. No. Lysaun enters the circle next to you. Oh no. Can you attack him since he's close?

He's not close enough to you. If you were holding an action, you could do that. To attack him, he gets close. I'm saying that right here, he's just out of range. He flies down and he's out of range. Oh boy. He looks back towards Jester. He goes, I could really use your help with this.

You see as he reaches in his hand, his pocket, and begins to pull out some sort of strange black dust and scattering it in the center of the chamber. Need you to make a wisdom saving throw for me, Jester? With a d4. I'm scared of my dice tonight. Come on. Come on, La. What's the save of some sort?

D4? It's 10 plus nine, 19. 19, you resist it. Yeah! That's right! That's it. Yeah! Oh, that's right! That's right! God bless. Ooh!

Ooh! All right. That finishes Yvonne's turn. Jester, you're up. Fuck, I'm going to step out of the circle. Okay. Which way? Yeah, towards him, why the fuck not? Okay.

Sounds like she's a Russian mafia. Yeah, why the fuck not? Okay. She's a Russian mafia. Yeah, why the fuck? Why the fuck not? And I'm going to Jester Wick. reach out to him and cast Inflict Wounds. Yes. Okay, that will level on.

That would be at third level. All right. It's necrotic, yeah? Mm-hmm. It's the one thing I'm not immune to, third level. All right. It's necrotic, yeah? Mm-hmm. It's the one thing I'm not immune to, it seems. Oh, plus four. Four? Mm-hmm. 20?

20 is exactly as I was hoping. Oh my god, finally. That shit is so hard. Two lesses in a row. Bless! Turk! Hashtag bless. Two Wesses in a row. Bless! Tchurk! Hashtag bless. I don't know, is it a 10? That's a 10.

Okay, so that's how many? 5d10? 5d10. Nine, 16, 24. It rolls. 26 plus one. 27. 27 points of chronic damage. You reach out and grab the front of his chest,

and as you release the divine energy, you see the green energy of the Traveler reach into his body and then pierce into the center of his flesh, and he reaches back. His darkened eyes suddenly go deep, deep forest green, and you see him have a hard time breathing for a second. Yes? Yes. For my bonus action.

Yes. Can I reach down and try to smear the glyph on the ground? I don't know if it'll work. That'd be more of an action to actively adjust it, yeah. All right. Okay. Beau, you're up, Nott, you're on deck. All right, I'm going to come out of the darkness.

Okay. And I'm going to run towards where I heard Obann's voice. Can I do like, do, do, do, parkour badass monk shit off of the pillar? Forward flip. Sure. Flying kick to his face. Make an acrobatics check.

Proud House Pike. Super high DC. Don't land in the cliff. 12. Slide down the wall. You get advantage because he's very bad. You don't take any fall damage, but you do fall pro. Oh wait, do I get a d4?

Not for that. Not for an ability check, no. It was a difficult acrobatics check. And you failed it. So you failed it. You failed it. So you fall prone, you climb up and you slip off the top. Tumble, you keep yourself from taking fall damage,

but you do fall prone. You can- I still have half my movement. You just jump and get up? You used about 20 to get over there and then fell, so you could use the other 20 to get up. You used about 20 to get over there and then fell, so you could use the other 20 to get up. Yeah. Okay. And then I'm next to him, right? You have a speed of 50, that's right,

so you can still get over there, yeah. So fucking monks. I just stand up and look around. I hope no one saw it. I saw it. Everybody saw it. Everybody saw it. Nice move. Thanks, I'm tired.

You fell! Ah! All right, go for it. Advantage. Advantage, sanity four. Advantage? Because he's very fired. She is dignity, she is grace. Okay, 22.

That hits. For the first attack, 10 damage. All righty. Oh, there's so much blood. Stunning Strike. Oh my gosh. Stunning Strike, you said? Stunning Strike. That is a 22.

22? He rolled pretty high. Second attack. I just keep coming. Cox. I'm going to vomit. A 22 again? Yeah, that hits. Damage.

Eight damage? Eight damage already. Bonus action. He rolled high. The constitution says if I can, if I can. It's up to you, what are you going to do? God, if I stand high and it could be a stunning strike. Okay.

Just roll a natural one or something. Same roll, 22. Sorry. It's worth it, it was worth it. It could have been good. Sorry. It's worth it, it was worth it. It could have been good. Yeah. Bonus action, what you doing? Bonus action, I'll just take one hit.

Go for it, roll a d-tech. Still advantage. Still advantage. Roll a d4. Rolled a natural 18, so 28, 30 total. And another eight damage. Another eight damage, got it. Does that finish your turn?

Yeah. All right. Beauregard is done. Nott, you're up, Caleb, you're on deck. Oh, I'm up? Yeah. Okay. It seems engaged, so I will attack it with my crossbow. Go for it. Roll for the crossbow. Natural one.

Oh. Yay! Well, you do have advantage. And a d4. Oh, great. My advantage sucks also, plus a d4. It's not going to hit. 18. 18 misses. Okay, and a bonus action, also attack.

All right. Also advantage. Okay, way better. 20 also attack. Also advantage. Okay, way better. 32 to hit. 32 to hit, that definitely hits. Uh-huh, and with sneak attack? Yep, because he is adjacent to Beauregard and Jester. 10, 15, 16, 22 points of damage. Nice.

All righty. I'm starting to look a little hurt. A little hurt? I'm starting to see some wear on him. A little wear? Yep. You going to finish your turn? I'm going to just move another 10 feet that way.

You got it. Okay, Caleb, you're up. Very simple, I'm going to move just five feet this way so I can get eyes on Obann, and I'm going to chuck another, let's go another five feet and chuck another firebolt at him, which is not going to doann, and I'm going to chuck another, let's go another five feet and chuck another firebolt at him, which is not going to do much, but I'm going to do it anyway. It does give him, well, from there,

he doesn't have enough cover, so you're good. Okay, so that's a 16. 16 misses. Misses. She goes through the wing, knocks it out of the way. Okay, and that's it, I'm just waiting. All right, time to turn. No. Who's that? What's that?

What's that going on? Is that Bish? I knew it. Is that Bish? This Bish. This Bish. Oh no, she's getting in a circle, isn't she? Oh no, she's not. She's cutting off the wizard's head. That is going to be a 28 to hit. Oh, it hits.

Are you sure, though? Uh-huh. Whoa. Did you see the joy on his face? They were all T2s. She could do this in one hit. T2s. That'd be kind of cool. 46 points of piercing damage.

I need you to make a constitution saving throw for me, please. With a d4. Can you shield? What did I do? With a d4. You're the paperclip. Man. I want everyone to look at this. Yeah, you resist the poison. Second strike against you is going to be a 22 to hit.

You take. I see you're trying to resist the poison. 11 points of slashing damage or piercing damage, and then you also make another constitution saving throw. Another constitution saving throw. Oh, same deal. Correct. Plus C4.

13. 13, you are poisoned. No, Caleb, no! She is going to shift over into the circle. I will throw a firebolt at her as she goes. You have Warcaster, you can. 16. Bless you.

No, 20. 20, that hits. Actually, you can use your reaction to parry. A firebolt? No, she'll take it. I'm confused. Go for it. Big five. Awesome, two points of fire damage.

Okay. Now, Fjord, it's your turn. Yeah, I will. You're going to stay in that circle, and Obann telepathically to you says, No. No. That's right, no, you broke it, that's right, never mind. You're going to stay in that circle, and Obann telepathically to you says, No. No. That's right, no, you broke it. That's right, never mind.

Fuck off. I'm getting the fuck out of that circle. No. No. Whatever the opposite of that is. I will walk around and try and get within melee range of Obann on the ground. Baddickaboop, baddickaboop, baddickaboop. You can get over here.

You got a nice little circle going around, Obie. Two strikes with the Star Razor. Advantage, because he's on a furry mire. Plus a d4. Yay! That's my mantra. That is a 22 to, well. It's like when you say. 23 to hit.

23 to hit, he's going to go ahead and use, no, he can't do that, never mind. Yeah, that hits. Okay, and the second one is 30 to hit. Yeah, that hits as well. Whoa. Wow. Yeah, that hits as well. Whoa. Wow. Yeah, that's cool.

And 17 is 29. 29 points of damage on both strikes as you rush around the way and arc through him twice, the blade cutting through, he's like. He sees you step out of the circle and he's starting to see his plan begin to crumble. All right, does that finish your turn?

So I'm on the first ball of the game line? Yes. Sorry, it's a 31. 31, just plus two. Oh, 31, that's your turn? Yes, that is the end of my turn. Caduceus, you're up. I'm not even going to move.

Do I have a clear shot on Obann right now? From where you are right now? No, you'd have to move a bit. All right, staying against the wall. Staying against the wall, I'm going to, let's pop another Blight. Sure. Yeah. That is, with advantage, 25.

Well, still half. So, sorry, I'm doing this again. Two. Even if he's four. Six. And then we have four Cad and Yasha before his turn comes up. Well, four, and Yasha before his turn comes up. Well, Fjord, Cad, and Yasha have to kill him.

So that's... Silence him. Everyone silence him. How much damage does that do? That's 19, 24, 24, 34, 39. 39 points of electronic.

Half of that into 18. Yes. You see the moisture being drawn from his body, the impact taking hold in him. It hurt. Damn it. Does that finish your turn? Yeah, yep.

I'm actually just going to curl against the wall even further just to try and be out of his sight. Yeah. Okay, got it. Yasha, you're up. Okay, I'm going to take I'm going to take the attacks against him. So poetic. You have advantage on this without having to go reckless

because Jester is on the opposite side of you. And fairy fire. And fairy fire, that's right. Your dice does weird. No, I just like how this one rolls when it does well. Okay, okay, okay, okay. What did it do? 16 plus. It looks cool,

but he's rolling them like it's designed to be cock. Plus a four. Not a lot of thought went into that one. 27. That's not a lot of R&D. It is. I'm going to guess. 26. 26 hits? Yes.

Okay. What about a body break? Okay. Oh! Oh, okay, I'll keep that one. All right. Okay, so eight, nine. And you can reroll?

Come on, Fjord. Yeah, reroll one. Yeah. Much better. Nice. Okay, 13. 22 points for the first hit. Nice. Second hit. Isn't it cute? It's like felted.

Is it poodle? It's real sheep ass. Yeah, okay, four. I get advantage on the second hit as well? Yeah. 19. Total of 19? It's a critical. No. Oh, you rolled a natural 19. That's a critical.

Ooh! So 27. Okay, you don't roll the actual d6. It's just critical, no. Oh, you rolled a natural 19, that's a critical. Woo! So 27. Okay, you don't roll the actual d6, just your 2d6 plus whatever the, 2d6 times two, plus an additional d6, and then you modify. Okay, so. 5d6. Just roll this again, just to see what happens. Okay, so we'll take the four. So nine total, so 18, plus an additional d6,

which is four, what was I on? 22. 24? You're at 22. You're at 22 points. 22. Your modifiers. My modifiers, what am I adding, what am I adding? I'm sorry. Your rage and your...

Plus my rage, which is an extra seven. Eight, 22, plus five. Uh, sorry. High pressure late night math. 27? Yeah, plus an extra seven? No. Oh, for the offset? Maybe plus...

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's been a while, bear with her, folks. Oh yeah. It's been a while! 22 plus. Your rage damage at this level, I think, is plus two, plus three. So 20.

It's plus three at this level, plus your strength modifier, which is plus three. So it's plus six. Okay, so 28. 28 points of damage. How do you want to do it? Oh! Are you fucking serious?

Yes! Are you fucking serious? Sometimes it's fucking poetic. Oh my god. Okay, I want to do something very bad. Do it. Okay. Is he turned away from me, or is he looking at me?

After Jester grabbed him, Beau beat the shit out of him, Fjord came around and hacked him. He's like, keeping around, and he's looking out, he's looking for the Cato Geist to come jump in and help him turn the tide. You see he's getting ready to glance at one of your friends who he hasn't yet to try and take their mind,

and then out of the corner of his eye, he sees you approach over the shoulder. I don't know if I'll be able to do this, but I want to reach up to the top of his wings, and I want to pull them off. Yeah, as you reach and grab, you see electrical energy across her arms. As her eyes begin to spark with bright blue anger,

she puts her foot against the back of his shoulder blades and he starts screaming. Tears the wings off of his back. He goes scattering across the ground, spinning, spattering his dark blood across the stone. He falls to his knees. And then I'll take out the skin gorger. Right through the chest.

The blade goes in. Pull the blade out and, falls to the ground. Angel of Iron, why have you abandoned me? I did everything you asked. All the light in the room gets darker. The actual pillar in the obelisk seems to flicker, and the shadows grow long and deep. This low vibration takes the floor.

He's in a circle. You hear a SAM and SAMRAM SAM and SAMRAM and you speak abyssal. I think I do. I hear speak abyssal. Holy shit! You hear,

You failed, and so shall be punished. He goes, no, no. You watch the blood pouring out of his chest begins to blacken and become a- I look him in the face and I say, did you hear that? The blood becomes more and more of a gush, like a waterfall, and his body begins to melt in his face.

Oh! As his entire corpse turns into this black, oily sludge that begins to spill out on the ground and expand, you all step back a bit as you watch it boil and roil. Tendrils begin to reach out of it. You guys all step back a bit in the chamber and watch as it rises up from the black, inky mess. Obann the Punished rises.

A mass of black, blue, and dark deep green tentacles and teeth and eyes. Cursed now with a punished form from the chained Oblivion. What? Oh! That's super gross! Did she just get worse? Ew!

Did she just get worse? What the fuck is that? And that's where we'll pick up next. Oh! No. It's got tongues. It's got eyes hanging off of tendrils. I ate that in Japan once.

Oh. I don't like any of this. It's like the Laughing Hen, but worse. Yeah. Oh god. He's the the Laughing Hand, but worse. Yeah. Oh, oh god. He's the little manioboy over here. What are you supposed to do? So we'll pick up from there next week.

Oh boy. Maybe the Inevitable End will help us. So. Yeah, because she's free now. Maybe. We go on break, actually. Next year's Thanksgiving. Two weeks. So yeah.

So we'll come back first week of December and pick up this crazy chaos. For a very Christmas episode. Yep. It's a very Thanksgiving turducken that we get to do. Kind of, yeah. Yeah. You think about it. Oh my god.

All right, guys. Oh man. Shit. We got All right, guys. Oh man. Shit. We got to get the fuck out of here. Yeah, right? Like, we're all tapped. We're totally tapped. Maybe it's friendly.

You guys are tapped. Yeah, it comes over and it's like. I'm on the edge of tapped. Matt, those maps were fucking amazing. Wow. Just kept going. That was so awesome. And Ashley's back! Ashley!

And build your captor! Ah! That was fucking cool. Yeah. Obann is gone. This is a whole other thing. Yeah, you watched the life leave his eyes. This is a shred of whatever remained of him

being twisted and left as a final fuck you from Thruzdun. We'll deal with that in a couple weeks. In the meantime, guys, those of us in the U.S., have a happy Thanksgiving. The rest of you guys, we love you anyway. But yeah, love you very much, and is it Thursday yet? Good night.

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