Critical Role - C3 E117 Race to the Ruidian Core

Episode Date: December 16, 2024

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It's Thursday night And welcome back. So, last we left off with this troop, as we returned to Bell's Hells, they had come back to the Moon Ruidus, escorting, or being escorted by, traveling with the hidden heroic group known as the Mighty Nein, who have since left on their portion of this plot to go and assail the Arx Creonum Citadel

that lies built into the prime pillar of this Ruidian capital city. As they shoved off on their part of the mission and you were left to prepare for yours, a sudden vision came to Imogen. Her mother seemingly saying her goodbye and trying to give you the strength to finish what you've started before she's gone.

As you watched her essence being drained by Ludinus De Leth in what appears to be a more modern reconstruction of his quintessence array, surrounded by other exaltants holding her in place somewhere below. We return to you as that moment fades from your vision and you all still stand laying low within and near the core of the city crevirs.

They found her out. They have my mama. Ludinus, he's made another harness. He's using her, he's absorbing her. Oh no. Let's go, then. How long does it take, Chet? For a creature?

It's a... Oh. We have to go. Yeah. She was still like, it was happening as I was watching. I think it takes an hour. Yeah. It takes an hour.

We can get there. We can get there. We can get there, we can get there, we can get there. As long as he hasn't souped it up and made a better version that goes quicker. So let's go. I'm just saying, let's go. It's not a trap.

It's clearly a trap. I'm not saying we don't go. I'm just saying it's clearly a trap. We're going there anyway. Which means when we go in, let's know that they're expecting us. Let's be smart about it. Okay.

She said he knows that he realized she was working against him. And it was real. It felt real. It's not an illusion. Just starting. Yeah, they were holding her down. I saw her falling apart.

Then fuck it, we go. Yeah! How do we know it's an hour? That's our harness, right? Well, that's the thing, if we made a better version, so then we go now. So we go now, but let's not pretend like we have an hour. Okay.

Okay. Let's go, then. How do we navigate this? It's on the other side of the, fuck. Crevirus? No, yeah, on the other side of the tower, the core. Yarrskr- Arkskr-

Got it. Flux Capacitor. Arkskriona. The path down is on the other side. We got to go. Oh boy. I like how long Matt's just letting you twist on the wind. Yeah, he's like, I mean, they're all winners. Yeah.

I'm taking notes. All the shit's going in the next game. All right, well, you are still under the effects of the Seeming spell that was left upon you by the Mighty Nein that should last quite a while. So you're all still currently under the illusion of being various civilians of Kerberos itself. Is there anything else you wish to do

before you head out into the partially evacuated city and likely the side of the city that has been mostly evacuated? Even though we've got these disguises, it seems like they're ushering all of the civilians the other direction. We have to not be civilians. So we're still under seeming, is that right?

We are. We're covered in seeming. Maddie, you can't halt for anything. Has anybody of station been holding anything that would denote importance or office or station or a pass or a staff or anything on them that would be like, get out of this person's way if they walk by? Sure, go ahead and make a history check.

17. 17. I mean, there are different types of armor that you've seen that connotate in its level of decoration and quality of its make, stationed within the hierarchy of Kraviris connotate in its level of decoration and quality of its make, stationed within the hierarchy of Kraviris and the general Lycraeidian society. You've seen a few that seem to be at the head

of other groups of general soldiers, less so on the surface, but more so in the core of the city. And you can see there's intricate craft scolding at the end of their mantles and armor. Sometimes they have these, a lot of the leaders of various troops, you can imagine captains in larger groups,

have these long strips of tooled leather that has all manner of designs in it. The brief time that some of you had come face to face with the general of the Ruidian army, he had multiple of these dangling from his armor, from Cruth's armor. But you do know that those bands, those hanging straps across some of the pieces of armor

seem to carry some social weight. Okay. Okay. We can just make another illusion. If we can put one of us at a higher station who clearly should be here, then they can speak for the group. They can usher us through. No one needs to know who we are.

Did Caleb not make any of us look higher station? Widogast made Rylorenz and Bormodo for size, but never specified. Okay. Well, then we just have to make do, unless we can find some armor along the way. Yeah, I think sneaking through the city, he probably wouldn't have thought that they should look like the elite upper echelon.

I mean, I've got Silent Image. I think a few of us have Silent Image if we need to make something. Just might be for Minor Illusion, but maybe you could Minor Illusion Doctor up. Maybe. Yeah. Silent Image is a first-level spell and has fair limitations, just so you know.

It's useful, but. I don't think you could travel either. Yeah. All right. Okay, let's just do it. We got to go. Yep. All right. Okay. All right. Okay, let's just do it. We got to go. Yep. All right. Okay. All right, so. Cut it. Just so we're aware,

I'm keeping tabs on two different clocks as you travel towards the possible encounter with Ludinus and your mother. But why, though? To see how much time has passed and see if we can save her? Well, based on choices, based on successes, based on failures, I'll be marking one or the other.

And you will, in time, maybe discover what one or both are about. Jeez. We don't know which one is the dead mom clock. You don't know which one? Okay. That's my least favorite. The clocks are ticking. One way or the other. We need to do a thing with a time limit, and we...

We need to go. Got to make sure we do what we need to do. Okay. So who is leading the trek to try and locate and head towards the entryway to this secondary tunnel? Well? I can. I can do it? I can. I can do it, I can try.

Try to use my pull to Herdathos and see if I can sense where I should go. I have Locate Object. We don't know what we would. What the object is, unless it's the other harness. Yeah. You did see it. You saw it. And can I try to assist?

But you would know vaguely what it looks like, as long as it didn't lead us to our harness. You could put the image in his head, and then he would know exactly what it looks like if you saw it in your vision? Vision. I don't want you around my head, though. Oh, for fuck's sakes, don't be a baby about it.

You hear too fucking bad. All right. I don't know, do you want to try that? I just did. Ah! I see it. Well, well. Wow.

So your vision was strongly on your mother and you saw details of people and looseness around you. I'm going to have you roll a perception check to see if you were to pick up enough details of the harness to have it be strong enough for this particular step. Perception six. I'm going to say you recognize the funnel in the back

because you have a quintessence array, but the details on this one to be able to draw the information from somebody else's vision is pretty tough. Sure. Let me check in on the spell. Oh, what about the locket? I gave her the locket. Two halves make the greater whole.

Have I ever seen this thing before? I've only known it for four days. No, but it's that strongly in my head. That is strongly in your head. Do you want to do that? Yeah. Good idea. Okay. It's beautiful, and it's craftsmanship.

It's meaningful, too. Yeah. I like the chain. Yeah, it's lovely, isn't it? Yeah. Silver. I can see. Yeah, obviously. Okay, so you cast the spell and begin to concentrate. Yes, I will do that.

How, what's the range on the fight? A thousand feet. So maybe wait until we get closer. It also lasts an hour, right? Or you can last it. It lasts for 10 minutes. Okay, then we wait. Wait a little bit, let's get further into the city. How do we know if we're closer?

Because we know what's on the other side of this fucking core. All right, I'll wait. You two have been there before in your previous travel. Do you have a general idea of where we're going? We know that the tunnel that they've opened up is on the other side of this core. Where we went to with Ira

when we tried to blow it up? That was the previous tunnel that you had destroyed. This is a new one that's been built since then to continue to head towards the core of the Prime Pillar. Okay, okay. Sorry. I'm going to walk up to the front. Are we, are everyone taller as Ryloren's? Yeah. Yeah.

I'm going to walk up to the front with, to Imogen and just put my hand in between her shoulder blades and just push her forward to lead us to go. And I'm going to go with you. What's our landscape right now? So right now, you are sitting somewhere deep in the village, which is a dense residential

and in some ways industrial portion of this city. The clustered walkways and numerous buildings around you pile up at odd heights, and you can see the prime pillars still glowing high and large, and the sky pulsing slowly as the energy itself seems to flow. You are, I mean, the streets are predominantly empty,

other than the occasional civilians with their last belongings heading out towards what would be the equivalent of an eastern direction, if we're looking at an overhead map. That's where you saw the majority of the busyness of the folk of the city, when you had that brief overhead view

upon your arrival from the old Volition Pass House. But now we're not above, we're in it. Correct, you're in the city and you've been hiding in one of these additional hideaway homes that the Volition had used. Now they've all gone off to their mission. So you are in a fairly dense part of the city that's not directly against the core of the pillar,

but maybe about a 10-minute walk from it to get there. If you're being careful and stealthy about it, probably a little slower, but up to you guys. So are you going to search for this, just using your connection with Pardothos, using your connection with your mother, trying to tap into your Ruedas-born essence, or are you trying to?

Yes. Okay. So for that, I will say go ahead and roll a d20 and add your charisma modifier. Can I help assist in any way, since I have a little bit of? Because you are Ruudusborn, and for the record, now that you've gotten this deep into the city,

when the rest of you have a moment to sit, especially with this moment of tension flaring, you can see this ever so faint tether of red energy that drifts between Imogen and Fearne pretty much at all times. It's hard to see at a distance, but when you're sitting with them for as long as you have been, when you look past them,

you can see it gently drift there. See their aura. Yeah. Oh. 26. The aura makes me sneeze. I'm going to pad alongside Imogen and look and listen and make sure

that nothing springs out at us. Just any enemies. Sure. We'll get to that in just a second. 26, you added your charisma modifier or your saving throw to that? Just kidding. 21. 21.

Thank you. Okay, gotcha. No worries at all. So as both of you take a moment to focus in, you let your consciousness expand beyond just your physical bodies for a moment, which is a very easy, familiar place for you, something that you're still getting used to, but because you're doing it together,

you both share a space. And as you do, you begin to feel the pulse of the prime pillar, the glass itself, the way the energy flows, and it has a from below and up flow to it. Woof. Woof. You feel it move through you. As you do, you begin to feel that pull below,

ever so faintly. First time for you, maybe, but strong enough for you, that sense of, on the edge of toppling. And you feel, as part of that tug, the tug is also trying to draw you there the best way that it can. that tug, the tug is also trying to draw you there the best way that it can. As it does that, you feel the direction,

like something's pulling on your clavicle and just slightly dragging you in this direction, in the direction of the pillar, and you're like, that'll help us get there. So you follow that? Yeah. The rest of you follow suit? Yep. Okay. Good.

Dang it. That's the bad choice wheel. I feel like it's the bad choice wheel! Or is it a good choice wheel? What is a good direction? Left or right? You'll make us cheers. Just tell us.

So you begin to beeline with your troop through the streets, through the alleys. Are you going directly or are you going stealthily? What do you guys think? We have an hour, but it could be less. Should we just go? Just go. Yeah. Just project that unearned authority

and we should be fine. And if anyone tries to stop us, we just bop them on the head and keep going. We're a bunch of aliens hurrying through an alien city. And I'm, again, trying to look and listen to anticipate any problems. There's urgency here. It's not like we're relaxed.

Yeah, there is a palpable intensity to the people you see that still exist in this city. Many of them are keeping a very strong eye, probably for an imminent volition attack. So you rolled what perception? A natural 20. Whoa! And a one. Let's see if I get two 20s.

I was like, I just saw the one. That's a 12. You're rolling a d12? It's an instrument. Oh, that is a d12. So the 12 got a one. Okay, I was like, how'd you get a 20 and a 12? That one's just a 12, but I got a...

You got a Dorian. Dorian 20. Oh! Barf. Well. The inspiration guiding your eye is true as you begin to trudge into the open walkways and the massive streets that carve their way

through the villums, trying to keep to the side. Are you taking more of an import versus a civilian position, right? Do we look like civilians? You look like middle ground civilians. The illusion did not carry any air of import. Authority! Yes. Authority, do we try to pitch that we're

hurrying to pitch in around the city? Yeah. If you walk like you belong somewhere, almost no one will ever stop you. Hold a clipboard? Yeah. Do we have a clipboard? Does anyone have a clipboard? Let's just mime clipboards. Just scream in the floor! Minor illusion clipboard.

But it also rolls down into a hard-case looking scroll. A hard-case scroll with a ribbon on it and a wax seal. Ooh! Good, Jett. Only opened by those clipboards that was clear. Where do you think it waxed up here? Because I always wanted one of those as a kid. Those were always the coolest, the cute ones.

Great. I have no response to that. I pull out the Pipe of Remembrance to look more distinguished. Okay. My fucking pipe. Okay. At least it's getting used. So you look following This is my most heroic moment. Imogen's lead,

like a bloodhound, trying to remain as unfocused on your surroundings so you can keep that essence of where it's pulling you strongly and at the forefront of your mind, you move from street to street to alley to street. Orym, keeping a close eye out to help guide and avoid what looked like clusters of soldiers that are heading to meet off with your path

and temporarily stopping the troop to let them pass before continuing onward. It doesn't take you terribly long, under 10 minutes or so, to carve through the streets with both of those rolls to avoid being noticed upon reaching near the opposite end of the prime pillar. It is a massive central part of this city. And thankfully, your expediency allows you to get

mostly in that direction within a short period of time. But you can also see where you're being drawn towards. There are a number of walls that have been built and constructed. It looks like you can just make out with your perception roll, not at the base of the pillar itself, almost like either they've carved an additional rock tunnel

to coincide the exterior of it that heads down below. This massive hole that is burrowed into a piece of rock that rises up against the pillar. This might actually push into the pillar or at least continue down below alongside it, but it is about a 20, 25-foot wide arch that it looks like it's been burrowed in into shadow below. You can see there's risen parts of red rock around

and a number of other Ryloren and various Ruidian soldiers are walking around and just keeping an eye and a pace on the ground. Is anybody going into it? At the moment, no. You do see flanking the entryway, on each side are two thought eaters that drift, their arms crossed in front

as they glow and float. In the center of it, acting like a goalie, you see a massive armored Ryloran juggernaut with two glass blades sheathed on its sides. He sits there for a second and then yawns and keeps an eye out there as other soldiers slowly crisscross. You get the sense that it's sparse here.

There isn't a lot of density to watching this space, which could mean that, well, for one, a lot of the army has been pushed towards the Bloody Bridge and is heading towards the imminent invasion of Exandria, if you will. So what's here is sparse, but likely fairly capable. Have the explosions gone off that Mighty Nein was setting?

Not yet. That'll be good when that happens. Yeah, if it would happen soon. Well. It should be happening any minute, because they were- It's got to be happening literally any minute, because that was one of the first things that happened after they left.

They were above us, right? They were heading up the core to shoot into the tower, and we're at the base of the first things that happened after they left. They were above us, right? They were heading up the core to shoot into the tower, and we're at the base of the tower now? Well, you're not quite sure. But we're on the other side. Where they went, necessarily. They went to a...

Oh god. It comes for us all, Ashley. Cool. Cool. What? Hold up. But you... Oh, good. No. Oh, what? But you look good. No. Oh, look at you!

That's some Tiger Bean shit. That is Tiger Bean. That is not true. I can provide some. Why are they all on an orange shirt, though? They're not, they're all different colors. Oh, okay. They're not.

That is a burnt orange. Yeah, fair. It looks good with your skin tone, though. It's the color that her shirt was last campaign. Oh. Oh! So you carefully situate yourselves within visual distance of the outer wall

that's been constructed. It looks like the stone has been risen up to create the wall. Not smoothed or well chiseled by any means, probably as part of a ramshackle resort, given the expediency in which they had to rebuild this entire burrowing endeavor. You wait 30 seconds more,

a minute more. They're still walking their patterns. Do you want to wait for the detonation? Good. I have no idea. We can either try to take these guys down fast and keep going. Maybe you could bullshit your way through.

We have to walk past the juggernauts you were saying? Well, the entryway where this burrowed tunnel that they're very clearly guarding. And it's two of them? There are two thought eaters, one to each side, and one juggernaut that is heavily armored with glass blade sheathed to the sides that are all three of them guarding at the front.

Do we have our red robes, though, don't we? Red robes? Well, we're covered in seaming. I know we're covered in seaming, but if we don't have the seeming, can some of us drop seeming and some of us have robes on? So that we look like we've captured? Part of the, part of the.

Ruby Vanguard? Yeah. Part of the Ruby Vanguard. Because, I mean, it's the exaltants that are heading down there, right? So if we base the deception in a truth, it should help us, right? I don't think Caleb has to release. Yeah, I don't think we can drop Seemir. Yeah, I don't think that. Really?

Yeah. Yeah, it gets stuck on you. I'd say if an ally who has the spell effect on you wanted to drop it on themself for whatever reason, I wouldn't be against that. It's more like just feeling that magical tether inside and just dispelling it internally. Okay. I be against that. It's more like just feeling that magical tether inside and just dispelling it internally. Okay. I would allow that.

We just have to find a spot to change. The robes are in the back. It's a good option amongst bad options. We could open up the hole really quickly, let someone hop in, use it as a changing room. Sure. We could also, are we luring them out, or? Just trying to get past?

We're just trying to bullshit our way past. I think it's bullshit, because if we have things that are meant for lewdness and we're taking it to the cage. Sure, okay, let's try it. They could be the ones that will reap the- But it has to be you, because you can talk to them. Yeah.

So I'm still a Ryloran? Okay. I guess, right? Because we can't talk to them. Or we just go go balls to the walls and you're just yourself. That's a bad idea. That's not bad. We've used it before.

There's no good idea right now. You being your mom, basically, or trying to pretend you're your mom? You could surrender. Just go out there and say, I'm here to surrender to my mom and they'll take you in and we can just follow them. The opening to this entrance, this tunnel,

it's not covert at all. It can be seen from, if we scrap, everybody in the area is seeing. It's not covert. It is an open walkway, probably a good 50, 60 feet of space between where you are now to the exterior wall. Then from the wall to the rocky base that eventually the prime pillar emerges from

as the incredibly... What's the word I'm looking for? The vertigo-inducing scope and scale of the prime pillar from that far base goes above it. That's about 120 to 150 feet from where the wall is built. Maybe I can try and Phantasmal Force him and make him think he sees something that he doesn't

to pull him away. What are the Thought Eaters? They're creatures, right? The Thought Eaters are Rylorans. They tend to be the ones that are more honed for mental prowess, psychic and psionic prowess. Are they going to pick up on it? These are clearly Tha'iators?

I think we're going to kick them. They're going to kick them. That's our discovery. They are drifting in a dorm. There isn't a uniform. Yeah, I don't think that's a good idea. I take that back. I know it hurts to wait, but.

We also don't know how long we'll be waiting. Yeah. Yeah. And if we're going to try and push past having enemy number one as a prisoner and some documents just for lewdness's eyes. I'm still pushing it. Sure. Let's do it. Worst case is that we just beat the fuck out of them.

It doesn't work. But the only problem is we can't speak to them. I'm the only one that can. She's the only one who can speak in their heads. With a thought. Then maybe Fearne drops it. And we have Fearne. They know her, too. It's true.

Will they see your tether? We can see it. Would we know that? You're uncertain if they would be able to notice it. Yeah! It's only been noticeable by your troop after spending stationary time together. Yeah.

And it's grown brighter since you've arrived in Kraviris. Maybe you stand right behind me. Yeah, but if you're an exultant here, it would still show for them. Yep. Right. So you drop it, I'll be a Ryloran. All right, I'm your prisoner, baby.

Okay. I'm your prisoner. All right. Oh no, doing you well with me. You want to rough her up a little bit? No. You want me to just? No. No? Do you want to hit me? It's your turn. No, no, no.

This has to look real. All right, let's go. All right, let's go. Wait, so is the crowd of us going up? Yeah, let's just go. We're trying to get down. We should get in formation, though, like four by four, two by two. Wait, would I be tied up or anything?

Flying V. Of course. Flying V, Flying V, Flying V. Love the Flying V. Yeah, tie her up. Someone's got some rope or something? I don't know. Would they tie me? I don't know. Do we need rope? No, I'm outnumbered anyway. We have mental control over her. Okay. Someone's got some rope or something? I don't know. Would they tie you? I don't know. Do we need rope? No, I'm outnumbered anyway. We have mental control over her.

Yeah. Okay. Let's go. Am I actually looking mentally controlled? I think you should, yeah, play it up a little bit. Just put your hands behind your back. Yeah, exactly. Just be like, oh no. All right, we're all down.

I'm going to go subservient Bormodo next to you, just so that you've got a sword right by you. All right, we're in formation. Okay. So what is your formation? Just from the way I am. Oh, Jesus. Oh, come on. Two lines. Are you familiar? Two lines.

With a flying V. With a flying V. So with Fearne at the front? No, with me at the front and Fearne behind. Yeah, behind. She's in the middle of the V. Everybody else is a V and Fearne is in the middle of the V. Right, okay. Who's to the right and left of Fearne? I'll flank opposite Orym.

Okay. Yeah, I think I'll go, I think, I think I'm familiar with flying feet. Yeah, Laudna behind Orym, and I'll go behind her. And then maybe Dreyas just sitting to block her from going in the middle. That's good.

Yeah, right there. Yeah, we'll be the most. We'll pyramid it, yeah. There you go. More the flying arrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fine. Okay, cool. Flying arrow, Iose. We'll pyramid it. There you go. You are the flying arrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. Okay. We're just a club.

It's just a club, guys. Okay. So. We're just a club. Yeah, we're just the two. You all sit yourselves up, you drop your illusion, and you... How do you bind? Wait, what is your dad's name?

Zahra'lor. Zathu'da. Zathu'da. Atheon Zathuuda. Zathuuda. Zathuuda. Atheon Zathuuda. Atheon Zathuuda? Somebody calls that bitch by his first name. Yeah. We're not on a first name basis. No, no, no. He did.

You don't have to use it. I just offered. I was just offering. Good theory. You killed his Ryzen PC. Can't even say his first name. Just to be quiet. We'll do what we want.

It hurts a little, but it's okay. I'm going to pass it. Summon the dragon. Summon the dragon. Shh. We built the palace up long ago. That's true. Long ago. So Fearne, you said you're bound by something? Yes.

What are you bound by? I am bound by my ribbons. By your marsupial pouch. I was bound by my ribbons. By your ribbonsial pouch. I was bound by my ribbons. By ribbons. I just held my pouch around myself. Okay. Before we go in, I just will say to you, Imogen,

this is very important to you, and just remember your family is important to all of us. And I'll just give her inspiration. 1d6. All right. Thank you. Okay, something. 1d6. All right. Okay, something. Something. I'm going to give you Guidance.

Thanks. Okay. All right. With that, you all step from the nearby structures in shadow and begin to walk briskly across the gap that leads to the exterior wall and the opening, which, at the moment, looks like the two pat leads to the exterior wall and the opening, which at the moment, it looks like the two patrolling guards

that walk back and forth, or you wait for a moment where they're both separated. You step through the wall's entryway into the wider opening gap, where you can see there are some distant battlements on each side. Other soldiers are sitting and resting off, keeping an eye up above

and beeline towards this entryway. Two of the nearby soldiers that were part of that patrol notice your rather large cluster of figures entering the space and turn and begin to briskly approach while the two thought eaters drift a few inches into the air and acknowledging your presence.

They both look towards the juggernaut who places his hands onto the edges of his blades upon your approach. So now you have two soldiers, the two thought eaters, and the juggernaut all looking upon your troop as you approach. Not one pair, not two pair, but four of them. Yeah, four of them.

That's fine, that makes five. Topman. Way enough, way enough. The boss. Do you like that movie? A little bit. The right-hand thought eater drifts from the top of his pedestal

where he was keeping watch, while the other one hems down below and waits, keeping about 15 feet back from the one to the right. And that one, you can likely tell based on just that physicality, maybe has a little more presence or station amongst those that are currently here. The juggernaut patiently sits back

and keeps its dark, shark-like eyes upon you. The thought eater begins to approach about 60 feet from where you are before you hear in your head, Imogen, what is it you bring here? An escaped assaultant called by Ludinus. She wanted to escape her duty.

Make a deception check. Let's go! Let's go, let's go, let's go! I'm going to put on a show like I'm trying to. Like a real good one. This is a disaster! So you are aiding her with this? Yes. Okay.

So you can roll one more time. How dare you! Oh, I get to? Well, she was aiding you with this. Oh, yes! Advantage, okay. Okay, well, I'll take the other one. Was that a one?

That's not, because I'm by you. Oh, wow, okay. Yes. Halflings, man. Natural 20! Yes! Why? Why? Oh, no! No, no, no, no!

No, no, no, no, no! It's good stuff! We can be the counter! We can be the counter! All good things come about! He's go, let's go, let's go! We can be the counter! We can be the counter! We'll do things on the mount! He's actually just adding stuff to a grocery list. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll get to this on the way home tonight. Like, oh, Taco Bell sounds nice. I'll just go get that. Fuck, eh? He hocks his head towards you and shifts back to you. You hear in your head, Fearne, and what makes you so special?

I'm not. I just thick, thick. I mean, I am so spe- shit. I'm just that thick bitch? I'm just, I don't know. This is Zathira's child. I don't know. Hmm. I'm just that thick bitch? I'm just, I don't know. This is Zathuda's child. I don't know. Yes, Zathuda is my father. Prime prize, then. I think he would be rather pleased of your acquisition,

than of the rest of our compatriots. I'm not telling. You don't hear it, it's in her head. You know what, no, they're expanding your hunches to you, because it's more fun that way. It's more fun that way. The rest of our team, formed by Ludinus. Her compatriots.

Oh, escaped. So then we shall keep an eye out for them. Lucky bitches got away. I kick her again. Ow! The dragon on the back is like, Fuck down. Okay, I'm going to die, I'm going to die.

You don't have to take her. Does he say that? Oh, okay. I just look embarrassed. The Rylone goes, We appreciate your aid. We'll take her to Ludinus ourselves. Aw. And extends its hand this way

and you feel this pull on your wrists forward. Shit. Kill him, kill him, kill him. Oh! A massive detonation followed by another one just rocks the interior of this cavern. Flame and shrapnel begins to spray out from the opposite side as dust and smoke

pours out from the opposite end of the prime pillar, filling the upper cavernscape of this space. The echoing sound of the explosion bounces around inside, causing this horrible, horrible blasting ring in all of your ears, and you watch as all the soldiers come in and turn and look, the light reflecting briefly off of their

various bits of armor and their face adornments, at which point, suddenly, panic looks start going around as silent commands are being thrown psychically between different Rylorans, and you watch as all the various soldiers begin to gather up and rush over to see what has happened. Ubs begin to station up at this point. What are you doing?

I look at the thought eater that was talking to us. We'll move forward with her. Go, go, quick. Yeah. No, no, no! He watches the two thought eaters glide off and begin to scoot around, heading towards it to get a perspective on the Arcus Perionum.

I'm trying to keep in the bit. The juggernaut pulls its two blades out and begins to jog past you all, trying to follow up from there, going, trying to keep a visual on this. As it comes by, it kicks you in the knee a little bit. Oh! He was right.

We were doing a bit. Prisoner or not, be respectful. Oh! I like him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm glad we didn't kill him. He's got to die. He's got to die. He's got to die. I hope he dies.

I hope him and Gaz become best friends. He's the one who eats shit on the barbed wire. Ball joints. As, at this point now, dozens of festivals that were flying in the air or were currently grappled to parts of the cavern in shadow dislodge and start flying, and you hear the shrieks echoing throughout the chamber. This city has suddenly become a war site.

And you can hear the sounds of also distant explosions and bits of rock falling from the ceiling from just the sheer immensity of the detonation. As you're stepping inside the cavern, you can hear pieces of the, probably barely loosened bits of rock on the high end took that long to fall from the top of the cavern before hitting the ground with a heavy crack,

dust being kicked up around. As you step through the entranceway to this tunnel and just hear the muffled sound of distant action and conflict begin to get quieter and quieter. Now, you have entered the beginnings of this secondary tunnel. You now get to figure out how to navigate these caverns and tunnels

to try and stay on the tail of the Ruby Vanguard. Maybe now you can use your Locate Amulet. I could try. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Lead you on the path. As a precursor while he's doing that, can I just give a sniff, Wolf Nose, and see if it picks up anything that's familiar or that would divine one route from the other.

Yeah, go ahead and make a perception check. Can I use my advantage because of the. Yep, you can. Oh, good. Double natural 18s for a perception check. 20. 20, that's great. Okay. All right, I'll try to locate the object as well.

Okay, so you go ahead and take a moment. Focus on the image of this locket that you placed within Brace's mind, and as you do, the spell finds no purchase on it. It's all right. Which at least lets you know that they're further than the range of that spell, so you may have to travel quite a bit.

Oh god. You don't know how far down this is or how far down where they're going and where they are might be, but you do know they've spoken in the past of heading towards the Core. And how long has it been since the vision? It's been...

Your SPM? Roughly 15. 15 or so minutes. 15 or so minutes. Okay. But as you step into this chamber, you can see now, it doesn't take too long for the prime pillar itself, now exposed on the left-hand side of this chamber, you can see now, it doesn't take too long for the prime pillar itself, now exposed on the left-hand side of this tunnel. You can see the extremely dense glass pulsing, giving you a little bit of light. You can see now, as the tunnel progresses down in a fairly steady incline,

elements of the wall, this tunnel has been dug alongside, almost spiraling around the pillar as it goes, breaking the rock to use it as a light source. Otherwise it would be pitch black down here. There are no braziers, there are no torches, there are no glowing crystal lanterns that you've seen so far. Just the pulsing light of the occasionally exposed window to the prime pillar lighting it up. And as it does, the entire tunnel, as you progress,

brightens and then falls to shadow and then brightens again. The actual tunnel itself almost feels like it's breathing as you continue to descend deeper, deeper within. You trying to keep a sense. This tunnel is pretty one note and following it along the way, you don't see much in the ways of any diversions.

The occasional alcove off to the side, you go and investigate quickly and see that this was probably a rest place where a couple of tossed-aside tools that were part of this dig. Though you're not quite sure what they do. There aren't pickaxes necessarily, but you see some long poles or pipes and things

that had some sort of mechanical purpose that have bent, like they were damaged in the process and discarded off to these alcoves, but no sign of any immediate Ryloran present within this tunnel, which means they are probably far below in the process of digging, or they've already dug. Sure. Continuing to push below,

you do notice a familiar smell. This, at first you pick up, it's like a... It's adjacent to the faintest urine-type smell. And you remember it being not dissimilar from the smell of the breath of the Avedons that were hunting the arrival of the Bloody Bridge. It's about that time that you can hear like things that were deeper in the tunnel

are now being called up to investigate the source of the detonation. So all of you stand here in the middle of this, maybe, I'd say, right now, 25, 30-foot-wide tunnel. It's burrowed. Yeah, it's burrowed through. You hear, now that you point it out, the steadily increasing volume of Avedon-like creatures approaching.

What would you like to do? Wait, wait, Avedon's? Avedon-like creatures approaching. What would you like to do? Wait, wait, Avedons, Avedons. Avedons are the yellow. But there was a place they liked to be scritched. That's right. You're going to just force-scritch them? Listen, I have telekinetic. It was on their back or between their shoulder blades.

I have it written down. Or snoots or something, I think. Get out of this. There was one note Laura Bailey definitely And they also don't have eyes, right? Correct. Ashton, is there a way to get us into the stone or anything?

There's a way to get me in the stone, and honestly, if it comes to that, it's been a pleasure, all of you. Fucking great! Ooh! Amazing. We have the whole, we do have the scepter that could make a pass wall, which builds a door into the wall

if we could cover it up somehow. But that's using all the charges, basically. Yeah. Which feels like a waste. Is that invisibility for our smell? There's banishment, there's no invisibility for the smell. I can speak with animals. Oh man. I don't think they're animals. There's just invisibility for smell.

Off of the smell, can my keen ears pick up a rough number of avadons? Does it sound like? I'd say using that same perception tech, you can test, you can assess three at the minimum. Okay. What if we throw down the hole and they go over the edge like lemmings into it and then we roll it up?

Sure. 20 feet wide? Are you playing? No, I'm trying to look up something. If I 20 feet wide and the hole is, what, 10? 10. We can also throw the hole on the side of the wall, right? Lanyardian style? Does it stick?

No. No. It's a flat surface. Flat surface? It needs a flat surface to lie on, you can't be... I mean, the 10-foot hole in the middle of the tunnel. Yeah, we can also always roll it up a little bit. Because then it's just five feet on either side. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do that.

Okay, let's do it. We open up the hole in the middle of the tunnel. Will it unfurl properly in the middle of the tunnel? It's fine. In the brief moment you have, one of you can search for a spot that can be the flattest. Yep. All right. Flat, flat, flat, flat.

Perception or investigation? Perception. Oh! 20. 20, okay. It gets louder and louder as you see one portion where some fallen rock made it look rougher, but you can brush it aside and see a space that might work.

Ashton, over here, set the table. It's hard to tell if it's flat enough. Throwing it down. You throw it down? If you've got one. Ashton, go ahead and roll a d20 for me. All right. On a 10 or higher,

is it flat enough for the surface to function? 19. Yeah! Yes! You set it down, and there's a brief moment where you all hold your breath, and then the familiar space, it just goes to shadow. What do you do? I'll take corner number one for the pipe.

If we're going to be ferreting them through, I'll take the way on the right. Yeah, I'll take the other side, ready to bumper strays into the hole. Yep. Okay. Yeah, tiny dots on the left. We'll all back up on the other side and wait for them to approach us, right?

Yeah. They'll probably try and approach us, right? Yeah. They'll probably try and jump it, right? Oh. All right. If they notice. So let's go ahead and make a group stealth check, then, to see if... We can stay in the middle and bash them into it. We're trying to force them into it, yeah?

Yeah. Oh, wait. Can I stand next to you? Oh, you get another one? Yeah, if you're 30 feet away from me, yes. All right, so starting on this side. I got to step on this side. 14. 32. 32, 14.

Wait, how high did this get? 14, okay. 25. 25, okay. Oh, but you was a natural 20? Yeah, I had a natural 20. Oh, that's good news. I guess one of us fucking pips it.

12. Oh, that's what it is, okay. Okay. 30. 14. 14, okay. 15. Okay. what it is. Okay. 30. 14. 14, okay. 15. Okay. 30, 20. Okay. 26. Okay, okay.

Okay, okay. It's kind of balanced, isn't it? Kind of balanced. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So. You're back, you're back. You hear about this? You hear about this? You all, there's an alcove not terribly far

that some of you can hide in. Otherwise, the rest of you are just pressing yourself up against the edge of this carved tunnel that's slowly corkscrewing down along. I say slowly because the width of this pillar, you can barely tell it there's a curve until it pulses up and you just see it begins to fade a few hundred feet down.

So as you pick up to the side, you begin to see the shapes emerge, rushing. Full, four-leg, just galloping forward. Here they come! You all keep to the sides. About, it would be about 60 feet from where you're all hidden. One of them picks up something.

You recall they have no eyes, and many things here that are psychic-related in how they were created or how they have developed, it seems to sense the presence of other minds. The other two do not. So two of them go rushing past, as one of them stops and goes, begins to glance about.

The two rush past and begin to slow down as they see this open hole in the ground and move around the sides of it. That's not easy. You two are on the sides? Mm-hmm. Yeah. All right, I need you both to make shove attacks if you're going to go ahead and do this. Oh, not easy. You two are on the sides? Yeah. All right. I need you both to make shove attacks if you're going to go ahead and do this.

Oh, I don't need a shove attack. I can shove with my hammer. Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah, you can do that. I was with Orym, too. Tiny tots on the side. Yeah, okay. I'm going to make a pushing attack. I'm going to use a, I need to use the arms.

I'm a strong, old-ass bitch. Natural 20. Whoa! Yes! Let's go! Let's go! That's the hit, right? Yep. All right. Go ahead and roll damage.

I'm not even raging. This is going to be hilarious. Don't get cocky! No, no, no. What'd you roll? Well, I'm making a Battlemaster pushing attack, so I rolled an 18 to hit. 18 hits. So it's a strength save.

DC 19, but maybe if Chetney helps shove on this thing, the DC will raise? Well, what I'll say is, if this fails, then you'll have one chance to try and shove it in there as well. This is a 19. It meets it, beats it. Yeah. Well, it's still hurt, so.

Yeah, still do damage to it. So you go ahead and strike it, push it back and it catches itself on the edge of the hole from the side that you and Chetney are on. You did how much damage? 45 points of damage. 45 points of damage. Yeah. Barf. It gets hit and thenetney are on. You did how much damage? 45 points of damage. 45 points of damage.

Yeah. Barbed wire. It gets hit and then falls into the hole and you can barely hear it moving. It is injured. Yeah, 18 times two plus nine. Yeah, okay. Okay.

And I did 21 points of damage on my doggy. Okay. So it's a 19? Yeah, but it did not get shoved. It did not. It barely catches itself on the edge. You have one more shot. Are you doing a shove attack to try and push it in?

Yeah, I think so. All right, so for you, that would be an athletics. Okay. That's in my hybrid form. 15, 16 plus nine, 25. A seven, it rolled a natural two. Nice, nice. So as it barely holds on, you hit it with all of your gnomish might.

For a brief moment, you tap into the woven curse in your blood and drawing on that strength of the beast within. For as small a size you are, and what little room there is to move, an unnatural amount of strength comes in your impact on it and it creaks in, and now two of them have dropped inside the hole.

The one that you hit, it would have had time probably to try and get its way out if it wasn't so injured. It's currently now on the ground, barely moving, while the other one falls on top of it. The third one still stops and sees this moment get its way out if it wasn't so injured. It's currently now on the ground, barely moving, while the other one falls on top of it. The third one still stops and sees this moment happening, goes, and is rearing back for an attack.

What's everyone else doing? Can I try to telekinetically pull it to the wall? Okay, it did. How far back is it? It stayed back about 30 feet. Oh, okay, okay. Because as soon as it sends to you guys, it slowed down while the others kept going. But you can pull it closer if you'd like.

Psychic Retainment? Can I just go so he'll come a little closer? Are you trying to? To get him in her grasp, close enough. You want to try and draw him towards you? Damn it. Okay, make a persuasion check.

Put your mind out. I think I'm still here. With mine! What is? Stop thinking that, too. Gneissus Kyle. 32. 32. You have successfully taunted it,

and as soon as you do that, it goes slobber drips from its jaws as its teeth are exposed, and where its head is not present, just an open mouth of teeth in its central shoulders, and it begins coming after Fearne. As soon as it's close enough, I'm just going to try to pull it into the hole. Okay, if it succeeds on this roll,

it's going to get a round of attacks on Fearne. Oh! All right, I'm going to roll above this. Come on, baby boy! Natural 20. Oh! Shit! What a shame. You pull it, and unfortunately, this momentum is so intense that you end up pulling it towards Fearne as it clears the hole.

It does rush towards you with a multi-attack. This massive, barbed tongue whips out of its mouth as it's approaching and leaping in the air towards Fearne. It's going to come at you. Wait, can I shield? Oh, it's happening. Do you have shield? I think I do because of.

You do. However, let's see if it hits you or not first. That would be a 21 to hit you. Yeah. That hits you? Yeah. Do you want a shield? It's plus five AC. It's plus five?

Okay, shield. So only do it if it makes sense. Also, is it going to hurt that much? You want to waste your shield now? I don't know. Oh, is it not going to hurt that much? Well, it's just a reaction. It's just a reaction, right? Can you do shield as much as you want?

Use a spell slot. A spell slot? Oh, it's a one level. Oh, it's a one level spell slot? Yeah. Let's just take it. Ah! Up to you, what are you doing?

Do it, do it. You were going to shield. You were going to do it. Okay, shield. Let's go. You still want to stay on those hit points. So that misses you? Yes, that's a 22 AC. That misses me. Okay, so. Let's go. You're still on the same tip point. So that misses you? Yes, that's a 22. That misses me.

Okay, so it leaps. Its tongue tries to grab you, snap around you and dig in with its barbs. You put the shield up and it keeps it at bay. Instead, it crashes into you and it's trying to make a claw and a bite attack on you simultaneously. The bite attack is going to be a 23.

Ooh. Does that hit? That hits. Shield is still up. Oh, great. Shield. Oh, it still hits. Shield lasts one hit. That hits. That hits, okay. And the claw attack is a natural one. Yes, it can do.

Okay. So yeah. One hit. Okay. So one hit. The bite does hit you. 17 points of piercing damage. Okay, okay. Make a strength saving throw for me. Okay. The shield manages to fight. How much damage did you say, sorry?

17. 17, okay. Its claw gets put off to the side, but the jaws and its shoulders push forward and the shield breaks away and it manages to bite onto the side, but the jaws on its shoulders push forward and the shield breaks away and it manages to bite onto the side of your left arm and dig into it. 12. 12. You are grappled by it currently.

It holds you in place. Now, Laudna, Dorian, Reyes? Yes? What were you plotting to do? Well, seeing this thing. So is Fearne on this side of the hole or the other side of the hole? Fearne's on the opposite side.

She's now, put it this way, if the hole's here, right? We'll use that napkin. We'll use the napkin for it. Perfect. So where it was, in my mind, we had Ashton on this side. We had Chetney and Orym on this side. Probably had Fearne trying to draw them

over the hole this way. The rest of you were likely hiding off to the side here. So it has left over the hole. Correct. We'll say two of them are currently now in the hole, and one of them has left over it and is now engaged with Fearne and has her grapple. Yeah, I mean, I would run up and just try to bash it

into the hole, if possible. Okay, so you have two attacks in the round? Yes. You can make two shove attacks if you'd like to. All right. So you move. Is this shove plus my strength or something? It's your athletics. Athletics. It's contested.

Okay. Here's one. That's a natural 20. Oh, that's no! I mean. Oh, wow. I was on fire. You have to treat a woman with respect! I just learned that five minutes ago.

I'm not even joking, it rolled a natural 20. What? I'm not even. Mine's a plus seven. Right, it's a plus five, so it still fails. That, dang. Awesome. Wow, big guts coming out. So it grapples onto her, you rush forward,

and describe to me how you slam it. Well, I was going to use my flail to sort of baseball swing. Yes. Crack! As you hit it on the side of the shoulder, it tears its jaws free from grabbing onto Fearne's left arm and like falls back, tries to catch itself on the hole. Like that?

No, not with that roll. Not with a three. And it falls in at this point. Now, all three of them are in there, but the ones below are going to try and get out. Sure they are. What are the rest of you doing? Wait, he's in it? Yeah, all three of them are in it.

I'm going to Mage Hand Flip it up. Nice. Okay. Cash Hand lifts up. The hole lifts up and they are... Awesome! Fucking great idea! That was a great idea. We've got a bag of Wolverines.

Yeah. Just instead of these spurts, yeah. Then they're slurry. How long do they have to breathe, though? Because they don't have a face. They might not have to breathe. Well, they have a face. That's a tomorrow problem. It's just the vagina face. Yeah, but it's't have a face. They might not have to breathe. Well, they have a face. It's just the vagina face.

Yeah, but it's like a void face. It's a void face. Do they breathe through? We're going to learn so much about them in a couple hours. But that's a couple hours. Thanks, Marisha, but sex is ruined for me. Okay, you have two kids.

It's true. Yeah. We start booking it, right? Yep. Yep. Full speed. Oh, it's already over! That's a success! It's a good one. It could be a failure. It's a good one. Look at him frown. It's a good wheel.

They both look like Trivia Pursuit pieces. I don't know what's going on. He's using a red marker. No, he was using a blue marker. He was using a blue one. He put a blue cap on a red marker. No, he was using a blue marker! He was using a blue one! He pulled one. He put a blue cap on a red marker to confuse us. Oh! He's a genius. Oh, look at our napkin.

What? I just realized he made a napkin with our dog. Yeah! Yay. You guys are in a hole? Really fun. I'm going to put you right there. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. Back in your hole.

Back in your hole. Theodore! Do, do, do-do-do-do! We are old. The chipmunks. You get your sweet ass. Yeah, yeah. All righty.

Just a brief pause of breath as you roll up your hole, which right now is pretty... Uh-huh. Yeah. Our hole is what? Your hole's pretty filled. It's pretty...

It's kind of at capacity. It's... Filled and stinky. Yeah. Ah! Okay, I've cut my left leg. Let's clean it out later. Lentil soup out for too long?

Oh! Fucking kill me. Bag of holding? Because it holds. Bag of holdings and holes. That's a foul hole. Stinky, gaping hole. Isn't it funnier when you say it? Heard that about Ashton. Yep.

You're continuing further and further down the tunnel. About five minutes of walking, and it begins to branch. You begin to see the tunnel continues downward, but other caverns begin to appear. Layers of subterranean open spaces, pockets of air that were crafted when this space was crafted long ago. Just natural, empty crevasses,

different openings in the rock, shadow filled, no light, except for the occasional bit of glimmering, glowing blue. And you remember long ago when you gave into a vision and felt yourself fall through this red moon of ill omen, that below the surface, there were many ancient, forgotten, locked caverns below. Yeah.

Do you happen to remember the right one? No, it just, there was a lot. It's deep. Can we tell which one continues to go down? Well, the tunnel continues down. This is the first cavern you see off to the side. Okay. Like capillaries, right?

Yeah, all just spiraling off. You're uncertain of what might exist there, good or bad, but you keep your eyes on the prize and follow down the slowly corkscrewing path on the outskirts of the prime pillar. The pillar itself, too, the further down you go, its exterior grows less smooth and more root-like.

Parts of the glass push out. Some seem to almost branch, like tree branches, out for three or four feet from the side. Like the carved bit of rock couldn't quite pierce fully the bit of exposed glass and they had to burrow underneath it. You can see these veins that wrap around

where the tunnel had to make a shift in its path and dip below to push beyond that thick piece of Rudian glass. You also begin to pick up a smell. An old musty smell. Something that reminds you of rot. Something that reminds you of fungus. Pew, Chet.

Happy? And it's about this point, as you come upon one of these caverns to the side and one of the exposed windows of the Prime Pillars, glass glows, you see dozens of reflections in the chamber to your right of just enough of a reflection to see eyes, it looks like,

in the shattered expanse to your right. Within Crystal of Column or in the dark? In the cavern to your right. That's just a shit ton of eyes in the cavern. The glass is on the left-hand side. As it lights up, you can see dark? In the cavern to your right. That's just a shit ton of ice in the cavern? The glass is on the left-hand side as it lights up. You can see in this one exposed cavern that you're passing by, numerous reflective glimmers.

My seed? Like little pinpoints of light? Or is it like, ah? It's like a bunch of reflections of the glow of the glass. This might be the place. I don't know. I'm going to pass the seed.

I trust you, Ashton. I will. You find a place. You watch as something shifts in the shadow. Do we recognize the smell? You said it was something familiar. Meaning it smells like rot, decay. Oh, okay. Should we see the light in here?

And you see movement in the shadow as you hand over the seat. And emerging from the shadow, are three, six, 12. Small, my seat, stepping out, these little fungal folk half-teetering and some wandering out, their shapes different. You can see what the reflection would have been.

You thought it might have been eyes, are portions of their caps or their exposed fungal bodies that have a smooth little knot that itself glistens and reflects. Some of them have what looks like it might be an eye or eyes in places, but they're all just varying shapes, and they all emerge curiously.

Good or bad? Good or bad? They're good. They can be good. I think they're okay. We had some nice ones that we ran into earlier, but who knows? They could have been on another side. So at this moment, as you're listening to Fearne, you look down and one's right there,

just like almost ninja cat in front of you and is looking up at you. Do they speak? Can I say in their head, do you know where the group, the people from the Blue Dream, do you know where they are? There isn't so much language as there is just

an odd mixture of emotion and color, and you get the sense that it knows where things are happening. One of them is in danger. We need to help. About two dozen more slowly emerge and they're filling up the cavern around you all. I'm a little nervous about this.

You can assume. Minus, not minus. I speak primordial. Does any of this sound ancient? Am I making out any words or anything like that? I speak primordial, too. You do? I would just think if they're an ancient being of some sort,

it feels older than most. I also speak with small beasts. Are they considered beasts? They are not considered beasts. And there isn't a language purely, but as people that have knowledge of the primordial language, there are certain sounds and reactions

that sound akin to what would be the common version of, yeah, huh? Sure. So there is some sort of an ancient connection in some way to these mycete and something primordial, likely long ago. You throw me a little light and ask them if I can plant this real quick,

and then we can be on our way. If we're in a hurry, Ashton. Yep. I'll send out some lights. Is the vibe okay? Make an insight check. Innocent? Yeah. Pretty good for me. That's a 20, dirty 20.

Whoa! Whispers. Yeah, they're fine. Whispers, guys, go buy stuff on our store. Where's your little sheet of paper? This is for battles. Whispers, guys, go buy stuff on our store. Where's your little sheet of paper? This is for battles. I can't tell you what this says.

Right at the end of the year 2024. Yeah, so have a good holiday. Yeah, it's the episode. Yeah, so go buy stuff. Eat lots of food. Eat food. It's the holidays. Celebrate by buying stuff. Mulled wine.

No sun movements. Yeah, no, I'm trying to be. No, they're just, I don't know, they seem curious. But I can't, just let's not. I'm keeping low to the ground and I'm trying to. Startle, let's not startle them. Give him a strawberry. Do I see anything?

We've got some light in there. Do I see this is a good place to plant something or is this not? You light up the chamber that they're coming from, and as you do, more and more chambers open up. It is just a sprawling network of caverns throughout. Some places have, it looks like where crystal has been mined from,

like the crystal glass, the rooting glass, it looks like there are veins that have been pulled from. There are some signs that this area might have been used elsewhere, if not by them. It doesn't look as refined as you'd expect from Ryloren work, so perhaps the mycete themselves, this is one of their hidden caches. They're uncertain.

But the smell, that smell, that fungal smell, is faint around them, but it was too strong in the air to be just this group present. Laudna had a good idea, and Orym squats down and makes a strawberry using druidcraft appear in his hand. He calls it out for them. One of them takes it.

Seven of them gather around and look at it. They're all. I'm going to, while they're distracted, tell Pate to go invisible and then have him seek out that stench in the cavern further into the crevasse. See if he sees anything. As soon as Orym says, no sudden movements to,

I'm just going to start quietly humming a familiar tune to myself and will continue to for the foreseeable future. It takes the strawberry and crushes it up in its hand and smears it on top of its cap. Oh my god, I love him. Wait, is he a mushroom man wearing a strawberry hat? Well, it's a mushroom man who's smeared

strawberry streaks on the top of it. I love him! I love him, too. The three other around go like, Don't make them turn evil. There's now six other ones that have gathered expectantly at you. I give them a blackberry.

I love a mushroom man. That's slowly maybe better. At least we were on their heads, too. More and more are starting to approach and gather towards Orym. Maybe. Maybe. That's probably enough.

I start to move to the side of the entrance to clear the entrance a little bit in case any of my friends want to. No, I want to move on. Okay. Anything from, we can just go. No, he also tells me yes, but we can go. Is there any significance,

since I haven't been here, to the ruidian glass, these veins that you're talking, that are moving through the wall? Do they have a purpose? It's kind of like part of Predathos is what we think. Yeah. Okay.

Amplifies psychic energy? The lore that has been conveyed by various Ruidian allies you've had in the past, Everroa as well, it is thought within the study of Ruidus' history from the Ruidian society that the Ruidian glass is the remains of Pardothos' original form

when it was defeated by the gods and titans long ago. And the glass itself still carries a very strong psychic resonance within it. And it is very difficult to mine and manipulate, but weapons and tools that have been made from it have additional properties that are psychically resonant. Can I really quickly investigate the walls and the area that's connected to the space

that we're in, just really quick, just absentmindedly? I want to see if there's any, true to their name, any sort of organic webbing or mycelium that's in the walls that could be interwoven with the glass. Make a perception or investigation check. Okay. I appreciate the time being spent on this. I feel like I could do it.

Oh! Oh! Yes, yes, yes! Natural 20. Let's go! What is happening? With a perception, it's not great. 21. That's great, though. Okay.

So as they're having this gathering of mycete that are swarming Orym and the odd mixture of like, they're cute and I'm unsettled, that has fallen over the troop, you step past them into the entryway and you see other mycete that are coming out of the walls. You look and the walls are porous in places.

There are small tunnels, little entryways throughout where they're emerging from. And you get close to one of the sides there, and amongst the rock that's in this space and the occasional little veins of the Ruidian glass, you do see some sort of a soft, sticky texture on it. And you follow it, and there is the faintest bit of mycelium material,

almost like a thin skin membrane that's stretched from place to place that seems to embed itself in the rock in places. You go towards one of these openings where one of the myceliids runs by, and you look in, and it looks like a tunnel that descends out of sight. We can use that tunnel instead! Straight to the pathos. Good job, Dorian!

Yes! They're tiny though, right? These tunnels are super tiny? They're small. They're about maybe three foot high, about two and a half feet wide. At least the one that you're looking at now. And also they're all over the different walls coming from different locations.

So you get the sense that there is a mass network of these little tunnels, and a mass network where these mysites communicate or maneuver throughout these cavernous spaces. Can I try to communicate with one of them in their head? Sure. Ask about the tunnel? Yeah. Is there a bigger one that leads down?

Down to the cage. Is there a bigger one that leads down? Down to the cage. Predathos, the heart. You put the image in its mind of Predathos being a Ruidus-born, being an entity that has a connection with the very core of this world. And the mysete, as it looks towards you, its head shoots up straight. Oh.

And it grabs your hand and starts pulling you towards the room. Uh-oh, I think these are part of Predathos. No, no, maybe he's joining us. Others begin to gather and look at each other like they're all quietly communicating in an instant. And all of them begin to swarm up around Imogen. They get behind her. Does it feel threatening?

Make an insight check. Insight the fungal. What are you going to say? I'm going to say. Oh, wait, wait. Ooh! I got so excited, I broke the chair. Let's go. It's half a book. Oh, it's half a book.

Is that it? I broke it. Yeah, it's not you. I'm doing it. It's not you. Oh no, it's a side trip. Oh boy, some whispers are happening. Whispers? Fertilizer? As he whispers, why don't you take this opportunity

to buy some shit in our store? Fucking holidays! Enjoy the end of the year! Enjoy the end of the year. Eggnog! Make some New Year's resolutions. Dear Santa, can I have a chair for Christmas? Oh, it's so gross.

I can support that cake. It's close. Oh yeah, you snapped it down the fucking leg. I'm holding it. I'm not going to die. Oh, it's so cool. I can support that cake. It's close. Oh yeah. You snapped it down the fucking leg. I'm holding it. I'm not going to die. Don't let it pinch your butt. Did he have a... Get up right now. Yeah. Oh boy, that's broken.

It's okay. It's just a chair. We have a whole chair. You got excited. I got excited. I think Ashley broke the last one. Thank you, Santa! Thank you, Chaos! I'll give you a two-inch shirt.

This one's going ahead of us, because I always go back like this. Don't do that. I know. I know, these chairs need, maybe at the start of the new year, we can get new chairs. So the rest of you are watching these, my seat, have all shifted their attention,

their scattered curiosity, to all focus on Imogen. They're all pulling her hands and getting behind and pushing her towards the tunnel they emerged from. The chamber. It's definitely taken in. Wait, they're pushing her back? Down to the place where we can't see the tunnel. They're pushing her towards the network of caverns

that they emerged from. You've got to get it out. I'm dying to know what you're about to say. No, it's okay. We're all talking together. Robbie, what is it? Sorry, I can't. I've got a cushion on the way. As they're pulling her,

Dorian's going to try to make his way to her and be like, You know, my father's favorite tutor always had a strange theory. He told me that he thought all of the mushrooms were connected. Under the ground, they spoke to the trees. I think they might be speaking to someone other than the trees.

No, yeah, I got that. Are you okay with this? Well, it'll get there faster. Okey-dokey. But. Oh boy. The hole's three by two. I mean, that's fine for me and Orym. Can you make the hole bigger for all of us?

Well, that's the one hole that you saw. There are dozens and dozens. It looks like a porous rock cavern. We'll know if this is bad when he marks the red box. We'll do it, we'll do it, let's go. I'm just saying there's a non-zero chance that someone else is listening. Hang on.

Fibration the entire time. These guys look good. Is the my seat pulling her into where Pate went to go figure out what the stench was? You did the invisible thing. Pate has flown into this cavern beyond them, and there are numerous under my seat, and the caverns sprawl out.

You can see hundreds of feet into the shadow, but beyond his perception, where the cavern breaks off into two different other caverns that branch off into other caverns, he could spend hours in here exploring these. There's no moon glabrazu sitting 50 feet from the cavern. Yeah, I told him to look for the rotten. For the rotten.

I'm looking. I smell. Jesus. Is it my perception? I forget. Are you starting the downward trend? It's his. It is me starting the downward trend. Oh no. Don't, don't, don't. Don't, don't, don't. Eight.

Familiars always suck. It's a natural one? No, no, no, no. That's a seven. That's a seven. That's a seven. With their rolls. So eight. Yeah, okay.

Familiars cannot roll. Smells ever-present. It's not super strong, but it's definitely ever-present. But he doesn't see shit. I don't know, this is all the big caverns. Yeah, that tracks. Smelly honeycomb. One day. One day. Yeah, yeah.

One day. I'm going to focus and use Divine Sense just to see if there's any good, evil, fiend, undead things. Don't pick up any fiend, undead, celestial presence here. You don't pick up anything that marks your personal sense of morality. These are mushroom people. Yep.

They continue to push you further back into the cavern. You see it branches off into two larger places. You can hear a distant drip of water. It echoes every few seconds off to the right-hand side, but they're pushing you to the left. Eventually, are you lighting up in front as this goes? Are you leading your, are you letting the shadows take you?

No, I want light. Okay. The chamber that it leads you into descends downward. It's a small, compared to the massive room you were in, a small 40-foot wide descending turn that leads to a round-ish sphere-like alcove where there are five other door-like tunnel entrances. As you walk inside with the lights, you can see

there's that stretched bits of thin fungal film that seems to emerge from some of the holes. And they all, there's one that will likely fit you, and they all go and start pushing you towards the hole. The one's tugging you, pulling you into it. Go down the water slide! It's like they're smiling.

It's fine. It's fine. Y'all are coming, too. Yeah, we're coming. We could draw follow on your lead. I can always go a different way. No, Fearne, you're coming. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, are we doing this? Are we doing this?

We're doing this. This just dumps us out right into the... This could shoot some ladders at us, like right to the place. Easily eight out of 10 times when I listen to a mushroom, it goes very well. I'm going to go to one of the little mushrooms. Is there one for my stats?

I don't want to get stuck. I get really nervous in small, confined spaces. Big, big. Big hole. I think this is as big as it is. So I probably shouldn't go. I should stay. You should be able to shine under your chest.

Be a mouse. Imogen. You have been pushed towards the entry wave here. It's about a little over 3 1⁄2 feet tall, about Orym's height-ish, and standing, and about three feet wide, mostly circular oval. The smell is strong of that fungal smell, and they're all like. I'm going to use a sorcery point,

and my eyes, as I look down, are just going to flare up white, and white smoke is going to pour out of them. And I can see invisibility. I can see anything now that is in front of me. As the area lights within, the entryway is the size of the tunnel and it progresses into a downward slope.

And what you notice is that strange fungal film is all across it. It's almost like it's a slime. It glistens ever so faintly. Slime. Let's go. Slime. Let's go. Slime, slime, The penguin is there. All right, I'm going to look back at the...

Slide. Yeah. Slide. I'm going to turn back to the group. Let's do it. Slide. Let's slide, baby. And hop in. Okay.

You lean down a bit, and before you can even get a moment, the one that's pulling your hand pulls you in and vanishes ahead of you, and the other one's going to give you a push from behind. And. Yes. Oh god.

You are now cruising, sliding around, luging through this lightless space. Just going in by yourself? Your flicker of lights cannot keep up with the speed you're going, and pretty soon, you are just rocketing towards shadow. Nothing but the sense of hot wind. I can see, I can see.

You can see, it's like having headlights at the front of a black descent into nothing. You are on the auto. You all just watch Imogen vanish into darkness. No, we're going in after her! We're going in goonies, baby! Yes, we're going in. It's our time down here. We're going in Goonies, baby! Yes, we're going in! All right. It's our time down here.

We're going in after! It's our time! All right, all of you, one by one, begin to push in. I'd say the two that would have the hardest, if anybody, would be the two of you. It can fit you. Sorry, did I say that out loud? We do have a potion for this.

Do you have a Slippery Potion? We have Slippery Potion. It takes one minute to apply. Oh. Oh, you have to butter yourself up? It's fine, I'm totally in a fit. So the two of you, the ones left. Is one of you helping the other? I take a little bit of the slime and I shimmy it around my cake.

As I get through. And I got my Tom Tom and my cake. Do you want to shove? Oh, you're just going to go? Yeah. I was going to go last. Is that like water slime? I was like and my cake. Do you want to shove? Oh, you're just going to go? Yeah. I was going to go last as a clearing marble. It's my life! Now, feet first or head first?

I'm going to go head first. Oh! Oh, jeez. Action park type thing. Smart streamline. All right, Brayeth. I'm looking to see what I have. I take out my canteen of water

and just pour it all over me. Maybe that'll help? I don't know how things work. Ah! You dive in. It flew. Hurry up. It was me.

You all, one after another, are shooting through this black, slick, lightless tube into wherever the depths of Ruidus it'll take you. I need a gulm. Okay, this is actually not a poem! Shhh! It's in my mouth, it's in my mouth! Was there a 16-year-old my seat being like,

Next. Next. Next. There is a moment, Imogen, where it curves and comes to a bit of a slightly narrower space and it evens out and you slow slightly. Get taken out from behind by Laudna

as you both now are sliding together, going over a steeper ridge. Oh shit! Just shooting down at a very extreme decline. The rest of you continue through. I need a group athletics or acrobatics check. Your choice for the first leg of this slide journey. Oh no!

Acrobatics or ath- okay. Ew. You've still got inspiration. I know I used that one. Oh, you did? I was about to say, no, I was going to say rage doesn't help with this at all. Nope.

Athletics, sorry. Nat 20, so that's 29. All righty. Nat 20. 18, and Orym's using gusts to go like air hockey all the way down. You got it. Imogen? 11. All righty. Fearne? It distracts.

Four. All righty. Oh! Reyes? 15. 15, okay. Robbie? 22. 22, all right. Six.

Six. And? Yeah, 20. 19. 19, all right. These tunnels are slick at first, and then elements of the walls and ceilings begin to grow more ragged. Bits of exposed rock shooting by,

and you're all having to adjust as you go. At a certain point, the bottom of the tunnel, you have such an intense speed, and then just air. Oh! And then. You didn't even see what happened, but you left the tunnel for the moment

and caught another one. Oh my god, that's terrible. Is that my seat still in front of me that pulled me in? You haven't seen it. Oh my gosh, that's shit. That's terrible. Is that my seat still in front of me that pulled me in? You haven't seen it. Oh my gosh, that was shit. That's us! However, the process does bang up a number of you

and knock you around, throw you off course for a bit. You end up getting stuck and lodged in at one point, having to push through. The expediency of this slide ride does unfortunately slow things down a little bit. Oh! We thought it was so fast! The expediency of this slide ride does unfortunately slow things down a little bit. Oh!

We went the wrong way! We thought it was the fast way! The dark wheel. Now we know. The dark timer. Bad wheel. Eventually, a faint bit of light seems to appear below you when you are traveling

at one of your fastest speeds below. As you feel the air rushing past and you see the light get larger and larger, and you look like you're about to impact what looks like hard floor. Oh. Ugh. Ooh. I want to use

a sorcery point. A ki point. A ki point. And fly. Okay. You emerge and arrive into a fairly decently sized subterranean opening, a cavern with stalagmites hanging from below it. The area where you have impacted,

you can see the ground itself has a spongy growth where it would be. The rest of you, like, impact. Feather Fall. Feather Fall. Whoever needs it. You gently tumble into it and bounce before you land onto the rock beyond. Whoever else would have been in vision, in sight to you,

would have been the next person. Five falling creatures and Kaluna. That you can see, right? We know these two were last. Yeah, you can skip me if you need to. You can skip me if you need to. I'll, no. I'm good. Well, then I'll give it to Chet.

No, no, no, no. I'll maybe give it to Brayas and these two, because they'll be coming in last, then I'll give it to Chet. No, no, no, no. We'll give it to us. I'll maybe give it to Brayus and these two, because they'll be coming in last, so I can turn and look at them. Okay, so I'll say that you should try and do that. All of you begin to slowly impact this spongy cushion of fungus material that takes the brunt of your impact

and bounces you about 10, 15 feet before you land on your feet if you catch yourself in time. This is awesome. That was sick. That was great. That was so fun. I light up my orbs

so we can see what's around us. Your orbs light up, and you can see there are the handful of my seat that had probably gone in before you went down, the one that pulled you in, and then a number begin emerging from behind where you were, like a distribution tunnel that is filling a factory floor,

you just watch as dozens of my seat are now following suit behind. They're piling up at the bottom, almost filling it up before they begin to disperse a bit and follow, but you now have a small cluster of my seat that are following you here. The smell, that smell that you picked up in the cavern earlier when you began to step over to the side is extremely strong here. The smell, that smell that you picked up in the cavern earlier when you began to step over to the side is extremely strong here.

Is Locate Object still up by any chance, or has it been 10 minutes? I'd say it's probably been 10 minutes from now since you've cast it last time, with all the conversation and investigation with the Micey tunnel. You do also see that stretched bit of fungal film. It's much denser here and covers probably about 40 to 50%

of the exposed rock and glass that exists. You can see pulsing bits of the Ruidian glass in proximity, not actually part of the prime pillar you know of, but pulsing at the same pattern, but are obscured slightly with this film, giving it a faintly opaqueness to its glow. And the cavern opens below. You can see there's a little bit of a pool

of some sort of liquid that sits about 20 feet beyond where you all landed. What would you like to do? Think this is the place to do it. Yeah, do that. Do I pool or, yeah, pool or the weird spongy bit, does Orym see or hear anything lurking?

Make a perception check. I'd like to moisten it. That is a, it's real high. That is a 20, 32. 32. As they're having this conversation, you see these thin tendrils of, looks like dangling fungal strips

that seem to be swaying and shifting as they slowly snake from the ceiling above you. Oh no, are these my seed? Why come with us? Did it pull us? Do the seed, do the seed. I'm doing the seed, yeah. I'm planting the seed. Just drop it in. Yeah, we put the seed. It's moist down here. I put the seed, do the seed. I'm doing the seed, yeah. Drop it in. Just drop it in. Yeah, we put the seed into the water.

It's moist down here. And place the seed into the water. You put it towards the edge of the water and place it in there as it settles in. The tendrils suddenly strengthen at an incredible speed, darting towards your hand. And as the seed leaves your grip into the water, the now-it-looks-like-12-different, long, thin,

somewhat tattered-looking tethers of fungus all converge and pull the seed from the water where it was, and it just dangles, all of them holding it in the middle of the air there. You watch it turn, almost like it's inspecting it or shifting it in the air. If it didn't grab, Ashton grabbed the seed because it went into the water? Maybe the water's holy or special or something.

How do these tendrils work? Are these tendrils? Yeah, are they coming out of goo in the ceiling or is there an entity? Do you expand your light in the chamber? Yeah. Darkvision, 60 feet. I look up. I rage. You look up. There's no singular entity,

but you see the entire ceiling is just clusters of this similarly colored fungus as to the mycete, though less solid and quadrupedal, I guess, or bipedal. Just all shifting and moving, solid and quadrupedal, I guess, or bipedal. Just all shifting and moving. You can see elements of it, like the strips are coming free, like it's unfurling slowly, like vines that are going to dangle down,

like feelers, but you don't see a singular source. It continues, like these little clusters of fungus all across the ceiling that are all connected by these long stretched tethers. We're lit up and they're not extending towards us in any way. Not at the moment. Okay.

Yeah. And you move. Is there an exit to this cavern? Do you see an exit to the cavern? Maybe. Maybe it's like a zipline system. Yeah, can you help me, Orym? I'm going to go over to the water and just dip my toe in

just to see what will happen. Okay. You dip your toe into the water. It's my hook. Oh! Ooh! Natural 20. What? What? Who doesn't have one? You guys are rolling Absurd tonight.

Except this is all in the cooler. Useless rolls. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the thing. That's happened before, and then when we got to the fight, it went. You don't have to say that. You don't have to say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You dip your toe into the water,

and it feels cold, like same general temperature as the air here, which is warmer than just outside the cavern. There's the presence of this fungus gives a bit of a warmth to the air. What if Predathos is just a big bunch of mushrooms? This is Predathos. Nice. But nothing seems to react to you touching the water at all.

Tethers don't shoot down and prevent me from touching it? No. Okay. So it's specific to the seed. But as the seed's held up, you can see the tethers are almost, I wouldn't say caressing it, but feeling it, touching it, learning it through touch, almost like it's turning it in its hand.

Where it touched the water, the seed, which had been a solid, hard object, there's one little expansion where it touched the water, like the tiniest bit of a root or something that had broken through. I am going to, since I am going to try something, I am going to attempt to take a little bit of water. What am I going to? Yeah. I'm going to try and splash it up and see what happens.

Splash it up? Onto the seat? Yeah. Okay. Make just an initiative roll for me. You're going to fuck us! I also might add that I am raging and I have a probability rage right now. So I've got that.

So that means that I'm a little luckier than I should be. You also have advantage on initiative. I have advantage on initiative. 18. 18. Okay. You watch this happening, and all the mysete that have gathered around that are all now focused on whatever it was

that is now being held, this seed, but they don't fully understand. It's being held from this 20, 30 feet of extended, stretched, vine-like tethers of fungus holding it and turning it in space. You reach down, take the water and splash it just as the mycetes see you move in that direction

and shift almost to reach for you as you do. Water splashes in the sea and you watch as these odd capillary-like yellow-green roots begin to emerge from it, and some begin to reach up into the tethers. Imogen, use some telekinetic water here. What are you talking about? What am I supposed to do?

Pick up some water and put it on the seed. What if it is angry about that? Well, a little late now. While this is happening, can I take out a bottle of slick shimmer oil? And I'm going to start, I'm going to hand it to Brayus and be like, Time to lube up, big boy.

My body. Shut up and take it! Not just to go right now, boy. Okay, you're putting it on me? I'll help you put it on yourself. Okay. Mostly the boobs. The udders.

How does this relationship between the seed and my CM seem to be going right now? Make an insight or nature check. Yeah, I'm going to hold off on splashing more water until I know if it's impressive. I am bad for both of these, so I'm going to just let you know how that goes. Fun. 19. Fun.

19. Wow. Okay. It seems more of a curiosity. Okay. A foreign body has been introduced to a long, balanced ecosystem, and it is inspecting it as it is suddenly moving in erratic and unexpected ways.

It is cautiously investigating what you've brought to its home. Okay, I'll slow down, although I have a little while longer, while I've got my wonderful little rainbow sparkle happening. I have a natural 20 for looking for an exit. Correct. I have one more of these. One more of the slippery slipper.

You can see there are a number of other tunnel escapes from here, much like the one that you took. At the moment, as the masses of ceiling fungus are inspecting the seed, you watch the holes slowly grow over with fungus. It's currently closing the exits. Are we in something's stomach? Are we being eaten?

I think it just doesn't like the seed. Totally. Mushrooms are less of a stomach. My mom dies because he splashed water on it. Ashton. Wait, what's in the pool? I mean, that would be ridiculous. What's in the pool?

Just water. How deep is it? Want me to go down there? Can Khaoswim? I'll dive in and see. Khaoswim. Fearne got the other Slick a slick Shimmer of Oil. Okay, got it.

What does that do again? Makes you feel real slippery? You get 10 temporary hit points, which would wipe out your other ones and replace them, if it was less than 10. Okay. And it gives you advantage if you get grappled to break free of it,

as long as the temporary hit points are still there. Brace, you step into the water and get about waist deep. Your feet, it's like stepping into a very thick, like a pond sludge at the edges where the mud itself is very sticky and your boots, especially with your armor, sink in. And you find a point where your feet aren't really moving.

And then you feel the ground crawling around your boots and up your armor. The rest of you watch as Brayas all of a sudden starts lifting out of the water. You watch as the water begins to overflow and spill out into the chamber as a core pillar of this odd, purple, red, black fungus

seems to invert out of the center of this pool and is like, Brayus is now almost thigh deep in whatever this is. Gricksand? You're now lifted about eight feet in the air at this point before it stops, and it just holds you there with little fungus tethers reaching and slowly crawling, but no exponential rage,

just feeling. This whole room is shellacked and living organism. fungus tethers reaching and slowly crawling, but no exponential rage, just feeling. This whole room is shellacked in living organism. The seed is still turning in. Okay. And you... The best I can say is right now, whatever's happening, there is judgment being decided. Okay. What do you wish to do? What are the my my seat doing?

Right now, they're all just quietly watching. They're all still and watching. We should just get the seed back and take it with us. How big has the seed grown to? It might not let us have it by offering. Yeah. The seed's about that big, but now it has all these splintered out.

Do you think it would want one of those, the angry void dogs? Should we give it some? I feel like that's aggressive. Let's just let this roll. Well, they're dead. Does it maybe want food? I don't think it's been 10 minutes since we went slip and sliding.

Where do we go from here? Because maybe we can just, maybe it'll just let us go. All of the exits are closed. Oh. I'm trying really hard to just breathe slowly and stay very still. Judgment.

Yeah, are we grappled or just being held? I mean, you can't move your legs. Okay, great. Dorian, are you singing? Can I? I can't sing emotions, because they don't have emotions. Let's just, yeah.

Speak? Does it have a mind? Can I try to sense a mind on it? You want to open mind? Could be super dangerous to do here. We got a mind on it. What you got? What you got? I have to speak with plants.

Talk to the plants! I have to speak with plants. I don't think fungus has plants. I don't know. I know. Let's find out. Let's find out. Technical in... Crows from the soil! In the broad spectrum of D&D categories,

you can certainly try. I'll try. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll try. I mean, we're sick and happy. It doesn't work. Okay. All right, Sam can make another one. I'm just going to

try to step forward to where some of the tendrils are, a little bit closer to Brayas and just hold my hand out. Okay. You hold your hand out to where Brayas is locked in, the seed being turned over in front of you, the occasional bits of exposed Udian glass pulsing and glowing, giving light to the space

beyond what you've used to light it from within. You reach your hand out, and you watch as that pillar of matter, a pseudopod of it emerges and wraps around your wrist and up your forearm a bit. Maybe that was a good idea. And you are connected.

You feel a consciousness touch yours. In a different way than how Imogen has spoken into your mind, but you feel like suddenly you can sense the chamber. You can sense all the mysete around. I know kung fu. And you can sense the, whatever you're speaking to isn't here.

It's here. Hello. How are you? I'm fine. We're just passing through. We don't mean any harm. We just, my seats are our friends, and we were just sliding through.

The colors in your mind shift. Oh. From the blues and pinks of curious welcoming to a questioning yellow, and the seed has descended slightly towards you, and you get the sense, it wants to know why and what.

About the seed? Do you like the seed? Do you want the seed? I can take the seed and we can go away forever. Why? What? Pitch it to him. Ashton. It wants to know why you wanted to plant the seed here. It's a friend who wanted to explore.

Oh. It was lonely. A new home. Oh. I love all those things. He was a friend who wanted to explore and see something else. Yeah, I'll say that. This is just a friend that's lonely

and wants a home to explore. Would love to have a new home. Okay, from the dream. Make a persuasion check. Persuade the mushrooms. Aren't you really persuasive? Or is that deceptive? Persuasive. Don't make that face.

Crush it. Okay, crush it. Yeah, yeah. That's a 20. Get your 20. Oh, you did! But that's a 20! That's a 20. It's a 20, dude! Yeah. So that would mean 33.

Jesus Christ. What? I mean. That's a 20. You can read it as it's written. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, we're all right. Come on. Okay. Good omen battle.

One of the numerous alien consciousnesses that call Ruidus home, an entity that you can't begin to understand or grasp its history, its longevity, its true capacity for knowledge and communication. But in this moment, this interconnected moment, you just speak from the mind of something that has known loneliness

and convey that memory of your own as the bridge of understanding to this entity. And it seems that it understands very well what it means to be lonely. Aw. I'll just also try, with my fingers, just try to twirl some of the tendrils with the tanner. As you do, all of them, I see and you just then go,

Yeah. I love that. It offers back a sense of emotion as well. You, it offers back a sense of emotion as well. A series of dark expanses, of misuse, of being taken from its children. of being taken from its children.

of being taken from its children. You see flashes of the Weavemind. You see flashes of an odd limbo that exists between what is above and what is below. It is aware of what's below. You're uncertain if it has any opinion on it, but it acknowledges what it is you ask

and what it is you offer. And as its tendril pulls away from you, the seed is lifted up and embraced within the fungal tethers. Slowly, you watch as the expansion of the seeds, green and yellow, root-like, reaching pseudopods begin to intertwine and weave with the core of

the immediately visible cluster. And then it just comes to a moment of equilibrium. All the other tunnels that had closed off earlier open up. Oh. Oh! Color in that blue wheel, baby! Come on, blue wheel! Sexy fucking legend.

Oh my god. I apologize. That was smart. That was smart, that was smart. It was dumb, it just worked out well. Justy's going to owe us us fucking much when we get home. Okay. I'll take Lucky. Let's go.

Well, we'll chase it, do we go? Guys, guys, guys, I'm still stuck in here. Are you still stuck in the red rocket in the foam thing? The minute you start moving, it's like, almost in an apologetic way, like, oh, right. I'm so sorry. Okay, okay, okay, I'm okay, I'm okay.

All right, are there any more slip and slides? My seat, the my seat. The my, at this point, the rest of my seat continue to grab your arms and fingers and pull you along to the far end of this chamber. And as you move, you can watch the floor, the spreading aspects of the fungus almost seems to pull away to offer

a nicer walking path before, leading you to one particular larger exit tunnel than the one that you had previously pushed towards. As we're moving, is it water that was in this pool, or is it some other kind of viscous liquid? Make a nature or an investigation check. Natural 19 for a 27. It has the consistency of water,

if only slightly thicker, best you can tell. It has probably a combination of either condensation or liquid that has been funneled from elsewhere in this cavern network that has been gathered here to maintain a part of this network, a level of moisture that it prefers. Oh, you're going to lick it? Just a little taste. Just a little taste?

It tastes a little bit? No. It has a metallic taste, not like in a penny or copper, but almost like a... Mineral-y? Very mineral-y. Like water that's been left out a couple of nights? Yeah, hard water. It tastes like the Pirates of the Caribbean.

A little bit, a little bit. And he's out. Nothing survives. That seed is going to turn into something we meet in campaign five. I'm hoping so. Let's go check out the holes. To the bagsies?

Mm-hmm. Oh, then my seed might re- Yeah, they sent us to one specifically. Okay. They were pointing us the direction while you were licking water. Okay. Imagine he tried.

You're the one at the front. I keep going. How much farther can I communicate with them and try to see how much farther it is along the tunnels? You can extend your consciousness to it. The best you can ascertain is this tunnel actually divides a couple of times.

You get the sense to go truly down. Stay to the left. Okay. Glad I asked. Let's go to the left. Okay. This one is gradual.

You get in and you have to scoot yourself a little bit, you know, before it begins to descend. And as you do, that similar sort of liquid that you had just tasted, almost seems to, I don't want to say excrete, but it is funneled into this chamber to make it a little easier to traverse,

right as you into an extreme drop. Oh my god. Into darkness. It's a pressure! Action! Action! It widens a little bit and you feel yourself, normally you use your hands and the sides to keep yourself going.

Now it's getting harder to reach the edges. It's a much wider slide. I just keep my body leaning left so that if it goes, then it'll go that direction. I knew it, I knew it. I have to draw here, I have to draw. I would like another group athletics or acrobatics check. and then they don't go that direction. I knew it, I knew it. I knew it. I have to draw here, I have to draw here. I would like another group athletics or acrobatics check.

Oh man, let me not biff it this time, please. Natural 20. Yes! Woo! Why? Why? We're good, we're good. Why? Have you collected them all yet?

I don't like it. All right. 29. Ooh, je like it. All right. 29. Ooh, jeez. 25. Four. 21. Is it a nick? 22. I do have a, I... 12.

No, I rolled a two, and I rolled a plus two. Rocks! Same roll as last time. Oh, rocks! Oh, what matters? You guys have rolled so good. Mm-hmm. This is an entire set. This makes up for the zipline, right? Yeah, no joke.

You scoot back and forth along it, and at one point, it seems to even out, and as it flattens a bit, the slight shoot-like shape of it becomes a little harder to guide your position. You're just sliding in a direction. With a brief moment of recognition, you see a divide coming your position, you're sliding in a direction. With a brief moment of recognition, you see a divide coming your way

where it splits off into two different paths. Oh jeez. You push off to the left, the rest of you following her lead and utilizing what light you have trailing behind you and communicating verbally, one by one, you all manage to get over to the side. A couple of you wig it and like,

going to spin off and slide for a second before you have to catch yourself, scooting at an angle a little bit. But you continue down the pathway. It turns into a large corkscrew. Oh, jeez. Oh yeah. Oh my god.

This is awesome. You leave the path again into the air. You were the one up front. What do you have to set the light? I have my light, my glow bees. My glow bees, can I light them up as soon as I hit the air and see what's around us? You can see the path

just basically descended quickly below you, and you're about to meet it again, but there is also a massive chasm below that is just empty darkness that this shoots over and across. And you can see there are stretched, thin tethers of fungus that reach like tightropes, but they are spread out below

and you just see an abyss below you. You, using that light, in a little bit of your psychic power, to push yourself to the left and hit what is a wide portion of that without careening off into the chasm to the right. Oh my god, jeez. The rest of you follow suit, and hit what is a wide portion of that without careening off into the chasm to the right. Jeez.

The rest of you follow suit, catching off that point. I would like one more acrobatics. Let's check it again. Here we go. This is the other one, right? Acrobatics or athletics? Yep, your choice. Acrobatics or either one?

Okay. Starting over here, Ashton. Oh my god. That's, where'd it go? 17. 17? Okay. Starting over here, Ashton. Oh my god. That's, where'd it go? 17. 17? 14. 14, roll that.

Nine. Okay. Same, four. Same, four? Four? Nine. Wow. 17. Okay. Dirty, 20. Okay.

27. Okay. A couple good ones. Yes, the last time that happened, we got some bankies. As you all begin to clear this chasm, and thankfully you all do, but the process of trying to not fall

into endless darkness and what horrible death awaits you below, you all scatter on what is now not a chute, but a smoothed plain of just slightly damp rock. It's like, you're skidding a bit across it, but you're also spreading out a little bit. It takes a moment for you to realize

that you're all separating in different points. You can see other tunnel entries coming your way rapidly, and you all begin to try and arrange it before you all continue your path on different slides. Oh no! Oh no! No! What did he do so good?

No! This feels like, what are the rooms? Jaren Byrd! I know! Liminal spaces. Liminal spaces. She got those hooves. Subterranean Ruin is very much its own.

SAM and LAURA, all together, Eventually, the slide comes to a close. No cons there. You all are in a darkened cavern space with no light and no doors. No. Yeah. Who rolled lower than a 10?

Is this, what do you mean? On our last roll? Last roll. The three of you emerge together. Okay. But it's only you three. Okay. Where's everyone? The other four of you all end up gathering in another. Those guys failed.

Lights. Populate the moon. Where are we? Lights. You see you are at what looks to be some sort of a platform top, almost like where the slide came to an end. There is a somewhat oval-like shaped, natural rock pillar top that has

that long mineral deposit buildup on it, where it has the edges almost wrinkled as they move. But you can sense moisture in the air, but a lot of this looks dry where you sit at the moment. You lead Barandia and there are other platforms around and you step to the edge and you can see the faintest glimmer of a fairly massive, distant, pulsing part of prime pillar glass, but it's a number of platforms below.

Oh man, like we're going to have to leave that? The other four of you, as you begin to take in your surroundings, you can see that as well down there. You also see on another platform about four different points off, you can direct where it is, you can see Imogen's globules emerge and glow,

giving you at least a little bit of a visual beacon to where your friends are, though definitely in a different part of this massive castle. How long has it been since that other chamber? Since the previous one? Since the... A couple minutes. Okay, so I still have Fly. Yeah.

So I can float up. Well, here, I'll tell you what. Roll a concentration check for me. Oh yeah. This is some mini-gag. This is not casting Fly, though, so this is Havoc's Embrace. Okay, well then yeah, then you still have Fly. It's not a spell.

And maybe how long- long since the previous cavern when we first met our little friends? Not the scary cavern? Since then? 15 minutes or so. Okay, cool. And failed roll group is higher than successful roll group? Correct. All right. So we're up, we have to get down?

So we didn't get down as far. Yeah, we have to make it to that. You have to meet up with your other friends. I can fly, and you can hop on my back. Can you carry me? I'm sort of heavy. Yes, I can carry you. All right. Great. Shoebill. And Shoebill.

Are they closer in proximity to the faint glow of the pillar? Down low or further? Or you're further? You're further. What does that slippery oil do that you put on me? Sleek Shimmer gives you 10 temporary hit points. As long as the hit points are there, you have advantage against being grappled.

You have advantage on any attempt to escape being grappled or restrained as long as the hit points are up. Okay. How long does it last? As long as it has 10 temporary hit points there. Oh. So does that replace the seven temporary hit points that we had?

Yes, they are. It doesn't stack, yeah. So the troops of those three are, sorry, specify, the troops of those three are further up in the Darkened Cavern. The rest of you are closer to this exposed part of the prime pillar glass. So we have a better view of it?

You do. Do we see anything? Does it look like there's a platform? Does it look like we're getting close to Predathos? We can help with some of this. So let's get a little visual range here. Just reaches down next to his chair and grabs some fucking awesome little set pieces.

Whoa it. Just down by the Chair of Mercy. Yeah. So did you two just take off? We're about to. Yeah. Whatever lies below the DM screen. Fucking hourglass? We can see you down there. It always makes me nervous.

So this might help for a visual perspective. So while they get over to us, we got to figure out the best way to get over there. So you are all up on top of here, we'll say. Then the rest of the group is down there below. And we're trying to get where? Down over this space. Oh, so we're closer to it.

Yeah. Our fail got us further. Sorry, I'm sorry. You guys are up top here. Oh, so we're closer to it. Yeah. Our fail got us further. Sorry, I'm sorry. You guys are up top here. Oh, we are. The other group is down here. It's about, as you take a little bit to move the light globules around

to get a better sense of space and gap here, it's about 60 or so feet from that platform to this one at a downward angle. All right. And? We'll fly. Yeah, we'll fly. Sail. Yeah, we fly.

Yeah, you'll just roll another 20. We just fly, the three of us. How do you all get down? Well, we fly down to the other group. You fly down and meet up with the other group? Yeah. And then how far is it to get to the other light source? To where the pillar light is, about 200 feet.

Before we do that, into darkness, 60 feet, looking around, anything above us? Any tendrils, any creatures? Make a perception check. Great. You have disadvantage. You have darkvision, actually, so you're fine. We're just regular roll? Yeah. At 21.

11. 11. Don't really see a ceiling in here. It's just an open space from what you can make out. Can I try the, since I can't see, can I give anything familiar or totally new? So with the same roll? You know, they're like,

it smells like the intensity of that fungus smell is mostly left at this point. It still lingers faintly, but it looks like you've probably moved through the layer of the Vruidus' levels where it was most dense, where it would probably have called it its home. 200 feet.

That prime pillar, does it have a surrounding platform? Do we see any movement? How close? Make a perception check for me. Figuring out how to get about 200 feet across the job. This one's been doing really good. All of us are all over,

and we're trying to get all the way over. Is that a lot? We already did it on the night. 15. 15. This one's been doing me good. All of us are all over it, and we're trying to get all the way over. I said it all. I'm trying to get to the bottom of it. 15. 15. You get a pretty decent view of where the glass glow is, and you can see what looks like just a sheet, but as it pulses, you can see some variation to texture

to where it looks like there are branches that push out of the glass, almost like a broken tree branch that pushes outward this way. At first, you didn't notice it, it just looked like a solid bit, but as you move side to side, you can make out that it's stretched loosely in your direction. That's about as much as you can make out.

Are there any bridges from these platforms to each other, or are they just singular outcroppings? No, they're just singular outcroppings. And if you look down over the edge of it, it's just down in the darkness as well? Yep. Fucking shit. That's creepy. So we got to fly.

Have we joined the two groups? Yes. Okay, thank you. As we fly, I'm going to, as I hold onto your back, I'm going to pump in 17 points of healing with Lay on Hand. That's exactly what I need. How do we fly? Well, we can cast it.

On enough people? Do we have enough people? Can we get everybody across this thing? Can't Fearne here just ferry people back and forth? Yeah. Well, that and forth? Yeah. Well, that's true. Yeah. If we can save Spell Slots. How long does it last?

All right, it might take some time. I can carry you. I mean, I can carry somebody small. Yeah. Dorian can fly, right? Five hours. So you have to cast. Yeah, and I got one cast to fly on my mandolin, too. But she could just ferry people over.

I can ferry people. I have five hours. Whoever needs a ride. All right, cool. Let's go back and forth. Okay. I'll save it. It's only 200 feet. That's not too bad. I'll ferry people. I have five hours. Whoever needs a ride. All right, cool. Let's go back and forth. Okay, I'll save it. It's only two energy, that's not too bad. I'll grab more. Not too bad. So cruising around, it takes a few minutes to get everybody over to that point.

Go ahead and roll a d20 for me. Uh-oh. One of the good ones. I don't like the way that you said that. I don't appreciate your tone. I don't appreciate your tone, sir. Okay. It's just for how tasty your snacks are.

But I love you. And I hate you. 19. Jeez! Yeah. Navigating the space, even as dark as it is with your friend's light, it goes pretty quickly. And indeed, you find this outstretched,

now that you get closer to it, it is stretched a good 30 feet out from the side of the glass, and it has almost a hand-like look to its protrusion, made of that solid, jagged-looking, Ruidian glass. As it merges in with the wall, the pillar, as you get next to it, you can see parts of the, the reason only this part is glowing is because a lot of it is still embedded in the wall, and there's almost a marbling to it, where this section of it, the rock or the glass is slightly more porous,

or maybe it's not as strong as others, where the prime pillar is solid mass. Here, it looks like some of the rock is merged with it, and it looks like some of it has crumbled away. You do see some nearby tunnel openings where it looks like a continuation of a burrowed tunnel has come to an abrupt end

and fallen into nothing. A burrowed tunnel. Meaning the size of the tunnel that you guys entered here from. Okay. Okay. So a carved tunnel. Some, whatever burrowed the original tunnel through seems to have burrowed out.

And dropped. And dropped, or at least just ends into nothing. Wow. So are we just on the edge of a singular pillar with nothing around us? Looks like a little bit. We're still trying to make our way to your mom. But here's a question.

Does anybody who has an innate sense of direction, I would think Chetney, would know that we're going? Because when we had Hwydda Hough, we had an idea of a direction, at least. Yeah. Now we've been, I mean. I have Labyrinthine Recall. I always know which direction is north

and I have advantage on any survival check to navigate or track. Make a survival check for me with advantage. Okay. Okay. Yes. Come on. 19 plus survival plus one. For Dirty 20. 20.

As you're all looking out into the darkness and looking at this class, from where you are at the end of this, you look at the wall, the solid wall, like the weird texture of where that marbling of stone blends in in places, and you step to the right, step to the left, and you can see there's, it's almost like an illusion, where what looks like would be striations of cracked glass,

there's actually gaps that are overlapping. There are parts that are closer, parts that are further, parts that are further. Don't go that way. Yeah, not just like that. And you begin to walk along the rest of this glass branch, kind of glowing and pulsing beneath you. At this point, at this depth, too,

there's like this, every time it pulses, there's this faint, like, this, like, bassy buzz in your mind. Yeah, I was wondering, does it give us a weird feeling or something? Not yet. Not yet. Yes. Okay, great. You're not burfy yet. I'm not burfy yet.

But following Brayas along this branch of Rodian glass, you eventually come to the exterior of it, and indeed, there is a cavern, a cleft part of it where glass is either broken or it's been broken, and it looks like it continues inward. At a quick glance, too, there are traces of dirt and rock inside

that you're like, someone's been here. Uh-oh. Okay. Does it look like we can go down, or? Looks like it goes straight in at the moment, but you can only see about 15 or so feet before it winds off. It's reversible at this point.

I will say, if he is trying to absorb your mom, we're about to really, really make him want to leave. Yeah. Let's go. Let's go down. Okay. Does it feel, I mean, like, there's no way to know.

Like, will we know when we're up there, when we're getting there? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are you there, Pardathos? It's me, Imogen. Following Brayus' natural instinct to weave through broken and difficult pathways.

There are parts where these glass pads branch off, almost like a hall of mirrors, and it's pulsing around you in all directions, and it's very hard to grasp what's up and down at certain points. It's an odd funhouse that is not fun at all. Some branched paths you look over and begin to follow if you want to,

just inspect it and it eventually comes to an end, like a pincer point where you would be stuck if you were to push any further and you pull back. But Brayas feels strongly of a position eventually emerging from the glass out of the center of the prime pillar and back into a cavern. You can hear voices muttering

and a soft, faint weeping. Oh. Mama. Can I tell the rough distance how far away we are? Make a perception check. This is just the echoing of the sounds and the noise in here. That is a 29. I love it. Can't be more than a couple hundred feet from where you are right now,

as he's echoing through the halls. What's our play here? Attack. Fast, quick. We're going to jump on it. Let's take a look at it, and then when we're ready. I could see in the eye. Go look, fast. It's a good idea.

I'll cast Vast with some invisible. I'll cast Trace on us, too, just to have it up in case we want to start walking. I'll pull out the Monocle of True Essence and Mr. Peanut that shit, and I'll cast Arcane Eye to move towards the direction, towards the sound. Towards the sound.

It's invisible and has no limit on its distance. Maybe you should have this pipe. It would really go with the aesthetic. Oh! The Arcane eye apparates, and your vision pushes into it as it begins to, rapid as it can, glide through this weaving rock cavern

that emerges from this exterior of the glass pillar and seems to coast around the base exterior of it on the far left, following the same spiral pattern you first entered this cavern from. It doesn't take too long for it to come around the bend. And you can see there is a fractured tunnel

that looks like it pushes directly into the prime pillar. Around it, various platforms of broken red and dark rock. The exposed 30, 40 feet of this cavern space of the erudite glass itself pulsing, its jagged bits pushed up onto it. On this platform, you see a very faint field,

like a spherical shell that is encasing a familiar Ludinus Delef who stands there with his hands together and floating above him, slowly turning, catatonic, it seems, just quietly whimpering, is the Lyanna Timmelt. You see figures standing around it. Make a perception check for me.

Come on, baby. Do I have a better check for me. Come on, baby. Does the eye have a better modifier than me? 13. 13. At a quick glance, you see four figures that are standing around, that are focused on the two of them, wearing vanguard attire.

And they themselves, from what you can see along their arms that are exposed from the robes, reddish-purple, jagged designs, faintly glowing up their arms, denoting these likely-to-be exultants, helping enable this process. Liliana, her hair white, her skin pale, her fingertips crumbling.

There's at least 10 of them in there. We got to go. Your mom does not look good. Let's go, then. I start moving forward. The rest of you follow suit? Well, well, you said we're about 200. And someone said pass without a trace. I put up pass without a trace.

Mirror image. I take off the monocle and quietly Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wolf out. And I will also go ahead and Form of Dread. All righty. Yeah, right as I get close, I'm going to activate my robe.

Okay. You should have. Can you say, like, a little Luke's Rage? Gary T. Roof? Some kind of protective sphere. But I mean, we have a staff that can... Should we, wait, should we have used that short rest thing? That's mid-fight.

That's a mid-fight sort of situation. Yeah. As you make your preparations and charge in behind Imogen towards... I'm going to bring up Mister as well. Bring up Mister as well. I'm going to inspire Imogen. Oh.

How do you inspire her? I inspire her by quickly taking out my paintbrush and doodling a smiley face on my armor right here. Nice. Take your d6. From behind us, there's just a faint yellow glow

and no sound as Coriolis walks down the path up behind me, and I'll go to Orym and say, it's up to you. Do you want to be a mounted fighter? Oh. Oh shit, that's dope. It's hard to pass up. Put my hands down like this,

even though you've got a 30-foot vertical. Yeah. Oh, right, as we're getting close to it, I'm also going to touch Chet and cast Jump on him. Oh. Ooh. Jump. That gives you...

Probably a quick kiss on the cheek as he passes up and over and onto Coriolis. Once on each of his turns until the spell ends. You can jump up to 30 feet by spending 10 feet of movement, so if something's in the sky, you might be able to get to it. Anybody got some intelligence resistance shit?

Because that's definitely a place where I will become a problem. Intelligence resistance? Didn't somebody give you that? Did somebody give you that before? I'll double check, but I feel like we did, maybe. As we're making these preparations, Matt said. And he can understand you.

I'll double check. As you finish these preparations and go charging into the chamber to face the exultants that Ludinus Delef himself in what could very well be the final moments

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So as you all come charging in from the far hallway, this is the rapid visual of what you see from that perspective. These four and one fifth member, concentrating that was not seen from the perspective of the eye, from behind here, while the rest of you come charging through that side.

Holy smokes. So what order are you all entering? I feel like I'd be leading the charge. Flying, of course? Yeah. If it's a trap, can I go in front of you? You can go in front of me. Okay. Age before beauty, back off! All right.

Oh, yeah. That's all I want in the middle there. Yeah. Crunch it. I've been doing it the whole game. I'm nervous eating now. I got gum on these chips for God. So we have the rest of you

all entering from this back tunnel entryway. Yeah. We'll say those who move the slowest. Put me 10 in front. Yeah. Is it 10 in front? Yeah, 10 in front. I'll say again.

Does this smoke them if you got them? Oh, no. I don't know. Oh, that's right, yeah. The E-train's going to hold. So I'm going back for now. Let's go. Yeah. So 10 in the front there. I don't know. Oh, that's right, yeah. You should be able to hold something. Let's go.

So 10 in the front there. The rest of you, imagine to the front entering as well. Yeah. Yeah. Laudna, probably behind folks. Yeah, I'll be behind. Okay. And Imogen, she must be flying probably up

a little closer than other folks. And then Coriolis, who can also fly, right? Same thing! Yeah, baby! Hi, hi, Pookie. I think I would help lead the charge as well. Yes. Let's go ahead and make that so.

Pennant flag in the wind. Whoa, and you can fly, too? You can fly, too, for all I care. Oh! Zuntalis. Oh! That was a dad sneeze. Sorry about that. There we are.

I just wanted attention. You got it, you got it. Okay. As you all begin to rush into the chamber, Orym, you also glance out of sight on this side. It looks to be another exultant right there with a glass blade that I have at the ready. As you all come running through,

the sound of footsteps does reverberate into the chamber enough where everyone who's concentrating glances over in your direction. You hear Ludinus speak out. Let them not interrupt her judgment. Her gift shall remain key to freeing us from the tyranny of the divine. I need everyone to roll initiative.

Oh! Her judgment. Yeah, because she fucking was betraying him. Whoa. This combat is brought to you by WizKids and their baby trinket life-size figure. Okay. Life-size?

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Yeah, I rolled a two and a four. No! You never do that. Jett, you're first. This is so unlikely. I used all my 20s. 20 to 15? Don't say that. 15. 16.

19. Okay. Fearne, Brayas. Fearne, Brayas. Fearne Brayas. Dead one. Laudna. Laudna, your dexterity is?

Ooh, my dexterity is 16. All righty. 15 to 10. 10. 14. 14. Uh-oh. Rollies. Triple rollies. 14 and Ashen and... You got 14 as well? Yep. 14. 14. Uh-oh. Rollies. Triple rollies. 14 and, Ashton and,

you got 14 as well? Yep, 14. Let's rollies, let's go. Ooh! Triple rollies. Ready? No, I'm not a rollie. Two. Let's do it anyway. Three. Oh yeah. Make eye contact. Oh shit!

And three. Seven. Wow, okay. So Vodna, Ash. Dorian. Dorian. Imogen. Orym. Oh, sorry. Imogen. Orym. Wait. Imogen. Orym. Oh, sorry. Imogen. Orym. Wait, Imogen, Orym?

Imogen, Orym. Pause. But I've got so much deck. Pause. Okay. You get on the horse and you're like,. Stop it, you can pass. Pull up, pull up. Me and a horse. Come on! All right.

So as the field still slightly shimmers and surrounds Ludinus, who is towards the end of completing this devouring ritual. I got so many blues. You did, you did. And that will come into play somehow. But the two that you failed means you have three rounds to set her free.

Whoa! Oh my god! Whoa! Set her free! Damn! That's it? Three rounds and then she's dead? Well, that's 4.3 hours. Okay. And we assume that he's trying to kill her.

Yeah, he's sucking her up. And then he will be more powerful. Okay, well that changes things, actually. What is the vibe of that dome, by the way? Yeah. The vibe of it? Yeah. How does it work? Who's casting it? You see, these five figures are,

they're all turned towards it and concentrating on it. Okay. What you can see around them is this shimmering field. Yeah, so it's not like a psychic, psychic. Kind of like that. All right. Technical term. Yeah, technical term.

Technical term. You know, he's a little, he's a little, he's a little. Chetney it up first. Okay, I'm going to run him with 40 feet of movement. I'll head that way. 15, 20, 25, 30. Great. Now, remember,

you have jump, so you can get another 30 out of a 10-foot. I'm okay that way. 15, 20, 25, 30. Great. Now, remember, you have jump, so you can get another 30 out of a 10-foot. I'm okay for here. I'm going to use, I'm going to check this with the DM real quick. Yeah. A Blood Curse of the Muddled Mind is a bonus action. You curse a creature you can see within 30 feet

that is concentrating on a spell or a feature that requires concentration. The curse target is disadvantaged. The next con saving throw makes you maintain concentration. Would that work for this Mr. Fantastic in front of me? This guy right there? Yeah. Oh yeah.

I'll do a bonus action on him. Okay, so as you explain to me, or describe how you curse him with your blood, a human magic. Yeah, I'll run forward, and as I head up, I'll say, Hey, heads up, it's a full moon. Just get those dulcet tones in his ear as you see my claws come out.

Okay. You see, as you do that, his nose bleeds a little bit, and he's just looking at you. Keeps his concentration while staring at you. All right, so that's your movement. That's your bonus. You still have an action. I will...

Can I hit him from here? With Fearne on deck. How high is the roof of this chamber? Oh, and Fearne, you do have Mr. Abathur. The roof of this chamber is about 40 feet up. Okay, so as high as these guys? Yeah, that's about as tall as it is. Got it.

I'm stuck out in the middle of nowhere here. That was the priority. I do have a base chisel. I could just try and throw at him from here. I could pull from my belt and just try and chunk it at him. Yeah, you want it? Yeah, I'll try it. Let's go, roll an attack. Would that just be plus my strength mod?

Yeah, it would be your strength mod and your proficiency mod. Okay. Okay. Okay, okay, okay. 17 plus five is 22, plus four, 26. That hits. Okay, great.

Throwing a wood chisel, what do you think? Usually the wood chisel, when I swing with it, is a plus 10 and a 1d6 plus nine, so what do you think throwing it might be? 1d6 plus, or just 1d6? No, it's the same. Oh, it is? Because it's a thrown weapon, you can use strength or dex as a...

Killer. That's, sorry, 12 points of slashing damage. 12 points of slashing damage to him. Takes the chisel, it's stuck in the side, and you see it keeping focused, is now dividing the focus from that and you, and is now definitely taking you as an immediate threat. And because of the muddled mind,

does he have to make a check to maintain his concentration on the spell with disadvantage now because of the curse? Mm-hmm. Awesome. That's the whole point, hopefully. Dual 14s. It's a con save. Sorry, that's natural 14.

Gotcha, so he probably saves. It would be a 16. Yeah, he does. Awesome. Cool. Good deal. What is the con save? Um, okay. Your DC on your Hemocraft.

It should be under your Blood Curses. I'll find it. I'm sure. Your Hemocraft DC. Okay. All right, so that finishes Chetney's go. Fearne's up with Brace on deck. Jeez. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Okay.

I have something that I have to spell magic, but can that, is that what? This isn't magic. This isn't magic. We don't know. I mean, it might be. I don't know. Oh, sorry, just making that up. The orb?

That'd be very surprising. It's magic of some sort. I mean, you're actively doing a spell, I think, to concentrate on it. It's a concentration check. Half the damage you do and DC 10 is the minimum. So you would have made it. Literally.

I'm sorry, I was thinking of the DC of the ability. But for concentration, it's half the damage, or 10, whichever is highest. It's probably a high-leveling. Like, four is our fast, but I don't have anything higher. Okay, you know what? At least we got answers.

Correct. Okay. But they throw a roll for each of you. Got it. All right. What I'm going to do is, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, where'd it go? Scorching Ray.

Scorching Ray? I'm Scorching Ray at the nearest... There's a guy down. There are these two here that are concentrating, these three concentrating. This one just was noticed and has a big glass blade. Okay. So who are you going to import? I'm going to go to the one that's

kind of standing, that I can see. Right there? Yes, right there. The one that Chetney just threw a chisel into? Hell yeah. Yes, yes. Go for it. So that's three. Level two, you're doing it? I am doing it at? I've got to do my blood count. I So that's three. Level two, you're doing it? I am doing it at?

Gotta do my blood math. Level three. I love level three. Oh yeah. So that's... That's right. First one doesn't hit. Another one. Second one is...

28. 28 hits. Okay. And that was higher, that was 19. 29. That's another 29. Yep. Or 30. Woo! You roll three times, or sorry, four times if it's a third level, right?

Yes. Okay. 17 again, so that's right. Okay, so three hits. So that's 6d6 fire damage. Yeah! Okay. Okay, so 22, plus because Mistra's out, I get an additional d8.

Mm-hmm. That's an extra three. That's 31 points of fire damage. So gets hit, he has to make three concentration checks. It's a success, early. Success. Come on. Failure.

So he takes the hit and like, drops for a second and the sphere, the sphere itself seems to slightly shake and vibrate. It still maintains itself, but currently there is one less person concentrating on it at the moment. Okay. Okay. Okay.

I'll stay where I am and Mister will flame, will shoot some flame seed at the guy to our left. Oh, to, or sorry, your right. This guy right there? Yes. The one that we just noticed. Oh, right there. Yes. Okay, have Mister go ahead and roll an attack against them.

Okay. Come on, Mister. Take him out. 17. 17. As he, is this through his flaming shit gun? Yeah. Yeah, so. I don't think I'm going to say it.

Fires. It comes arcing towards this figure, kind of like in a Wanted-style half arc. It shouldn't quite do that, but it's magical monkey poo. What are you going to do? What do you do? This figure moves to the side

and puts its arm up, and you see this psychic shield apparate on its arm, and it scatters across it. This one looks like it's dressed a little differently than the other exaltants that are present. Which one? This one over here.

It has the glass blade in one hand and it just created a psychic shield, like a buckler on the other hand. Is he concentrating or is he there like? He's not concentrating. Okay, that's my turn. All right, finishing burns go. Brace, you're up with Laudna on deck.

I will run towards the beefy guy. Okay. What's your movement? 30. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. We'll get you right there. Then I will Misty Step to the guy up there. Up there? Yeah. Oh yeah. Nice.

Then I will swing away with my poison pen. Let's go. Let's see what we can do. I'll swing twice. Do I attack twice? I attack twice. Yeah. I love it. Okay, one is a natural 20.

Oh! That's yours. Uh-huh. Wow. And the other was a 19. Wow. 19 total? 19 to hit, yeah. That hits, both hit. Both hit.

Okay, first one, I'm going to pump in a Divine Smite and also a charge from Poison Pen, which sprays black ichor all over the place as it swipes through. You got it. This will be... Ah! This was the nat 20, so what do I double?

You double all the dice that you roll for, the pen and the Divine Smite, which was at a first level. Yeah. Yeah. So you roll your first level Divine Smite, which is an additional 2d8? Yeah. Yep, plus your poison pen, plus your weapon. Oh my god. And then double those dice.

So double everything. Yeah. Okay, okay, here it goes. Let me do some math. That's all really good. It's 37 plus, Jesus, another 14 is? 51. 51 doubled. Whoa! Plus seven. One of eight plus seven, 109?

What? Yo. Okay, so what dice are you rolling for the smite? So the smite is 2d8. What? Yo. Okay, so what dice are you rolling for the smite? So the smite is 2d8. Correct, yeah. The weapon is 2d8. Right, because of your- And then I did a charge, which is another 3d8. That's true, yeah, but you just spent the charge.

Yeah, that's nasty, and you rolled really well for that. Uh-huh. Yeah, you just... No! Reyes, don't say that! You teleport up. As I swipe in, I say, heads up, it's a full moo. Amazing.

So as you teleport up, you splatter them, and as you do, their body breaks in half, and where it is bisected, the what would have been blood instead now sprays this black against the rocks. Changed by the enchantment of your weapon. Yeah, yeah. Cool. But that finishes your turn, right?

I mean, I have a second attack, but no one to attack. Yeah. So I just swipe it around and I make cooler shapes. Hell yeah, I love it. Yeah, yeah. Sam's door is touched, Blake. It's about there that you notice another one. and I make cooler shapes. Hell yeah, I love it. Yeah. It's a sandstorm-spud's play. It's about there that you notice

another one of these figures. No! No! Right there. Now that you're within eye shot of it, both of you check off to the right and you see another one with a psionic bracer that appears, or a buckler that appears in their arm and a glass blade to the side.

Shit. All right, that finishes Brayus' go. Laudna, you're up. Okay. So as we ended break and as we entered this battlefield, Laudna starts to crack her bones and her head flies back and then she leaps onto all fours as she goes into her form of dread and starts like a skeletal dog galloping forward.

Horrifying. As her mouth is agape with a black void. Five, ten, so I'm going to jump. Mouth is agape with a black void. Five, ten, it's getting, honey. I'm going to go here. Okay. Can I see these two fuckers far from here? Are they in my line of sight?

These two, they are indeed. Okay, and then as I gallop forward and my jaw opens, the bottom of my jaw unhinges, and I summon forth my Hound of Ill Omen that also leaps from my jaw. How far does it leap? 120 feet is what I can summon it by. So I want to put it right between those two fucks.

You got it. Whoa! Yes, baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should he just go on my initiative? He's technically supposed to roll initiative. I'll just go on your initiative. I'll have him go after me. I got eight players.

Comes a hairless cat. Comes a hound. And that jumps across another hundred feet. Simplification. And then, so I'll do him after me, and then I am going to stand up and form a flaming bead right over top of him and do a fireball

right on top of those guys. Fireball right on top of them? And because they're both next to the Hound of Ill-Omen, they get disadvantage. Nice. Nice. Smart. So you can get those two right there.

Scary shit. Okay. The fireball can get. Can I get him? You can get. Oh, that one's gone. Never mind. Can I get him? You can play by those rules. You can get, with this explosion,

either these two or these two. I'll get the two in the back since we already have. Maybe you can get these three back here if you want to. Can I? Actually, no, because the angle you're at, you would strike the shield. So yeah, because you're down below. I would strike the shield.

Meaning it would strike here and explode and it would get that far. Okay. Whatever you think. These two? That meme of us looking away from Hamilton. Yeah, because if you get that one there, it's not going to get the other one.

So you can shoot out of these two or the two that are next to that one. I'll do two in the back because we already have Chet up front to those guys. Those guys are hard to reach. And once again, my... And I will do this fireball. All right. Fireball.

And... And I will do this fireball. All right. Fireball. And... Sorry, sorry. Okay. Let me remember. What level you doing? What level is my fireball? And base level three is eight d6. And then it's initial d6 each level thereafter. An initial, an extra d6.

I'll just stick with third level for now. Yeah, I'll stick with, mm. Your mom's not worth anything more than third level. When you're third, wow. Future mother-in-law may have mixed up. I'm just trying to look and see. I'll do fourth level, I'll do fourth. Now I'm doing third.

Third level. All right, so 8d6 fire damage. Go ahead and roll that up. I mean, pretty great. Soldiers, I think. SAM and LAURA make a sound. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Should've prepped this. Four, five, six, seven, eight. Come on, big money.

Nowhere. Okay, okay, okay. Come on, big money. No where else. Okay, okay, okay. It's perfectly mid. Three, six, nine, 12, 14, 16, 25. 25 points of fire damage, and they have disadvantage on their saving throws

because of your howl. Nice! With the disadvantage, one of them gets a four. Okay. And the other gets a five. Great. They both fail. That's 25 points of fire damage to each. Boom boom. All righty.

And now my doggo goes. Yes, he does. Good boy. He's a good boy! A lot of animals out here. We got a steed, a cow, a wolf, a dog. It doesn't happen.

Technically, there's such a thing as a bedrock. A fawn. He can move. Do you need him to move? I don't know. A monkey. You should have heard it. We got a monkey. We got a horse. We got a dog. We got a dog. We got a dog. We got a dog.

I'll just do a bite attack to the far guy. Right there? Yeah, that one, yes. Okay, let's go. No. Eight to hit? That's going to miss him, sorry. Okay.

Worth a shot. That finish your go, Laudna? Yeah, he technically... Do you need him to move? Are you going to go there or something? I was going to do something there, but I don't want to hurt him. Don't worry about it. He's a ghost dog. Okay. Don't worry about him.

Okay, that finishes your go? Yeah. All right. The Exalted Knights are going to go first. This one's going to go ahead and run the corner. No, no. Oh no! To what? Well, got my teach on me.

This one here is going to leap up and try and avenge the slaughter of my friend. So it's going to be two attacks against you, Laudna. Okay. With its glass blade. So the first attack is going to be a 21 to hit. Hit. Let me see if it hits my mirror image.

It's Caleb all over again. No, I take it. Okay. That's going to be 10 points of slashing damage. Okay. That's a spell. Oh, wait, wait, before we move on too far, both of those fucks in the back have to roll a wisdom save to see if they're afeard of me.

That's true, and they have to roll to see if they can make a concentration. Afeard. Was it a disadvantage part of that? Now, they had disadvantage on all saving throws while they're in five feet of it? Yeah. Okay. Well, or just the next one.

Just spells, I think. Just spells? Oh, then yeah, a little bit. I don't think it's all saving throws that would be broken. But also, who knows? What's it say? Land of the Spade, the Hound. Five feet of the target. The target has disadvantage on saving throws against any spells you cast.

Got it. You cast. I cast. All right. So. These are my puppies. That's going to be 19 on the first one. Cool. That's going to be 19 on the first one. Cool. That, sorry, that saves. Okay, the other is not going to make it.

So that one is Frightened of You. Hold on, here. Right turn. Missed jump? 30. Missed job? 30. Oh. 30. 30.

What kind of damage did he do to you? Fire. That dude did fire damage, okay. Wait, who, what? The guy who's slashing at you. I don't know yet. Okay. I'll say that this guy here is frightened of you,

right there. Okay. Okay. Make him fly. And now, concentration checks. They both have advantage on them. Right. Okay. Okay. And now concentration checks. They both have advantage on them. Maintains. And maintains, okay. For the fireball.

Now I'll come back onto your turn. Thank you for that reminder there. That first attack was a 21 to hit you. Yes, and it hits. And the next one is going to be a 22, which is one over. See if that one hits my mirror image. That one does, so just one attack.

All right, so with that, you take 10 points of slashing damage. Slashing damage, actually. And you have disadvantage on intelligent saving throws until your next turn from the glass blade cutting through you with psychic resonance. It's causing this part of your brain to sliver open. Well, shit.

The one that's attacking you, Brayas. Bring it on. Oh, that's going to be a 27 to hit? Oh! 27? Rolls really high. A natural 20. Oh! Vengeance!

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That was his brother's kill. Wait, the walk sign. How far? Silvery barbs, 60 feet. I think it's in range. Just against snow. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 45. I just make him reroll.

It's on the edge of glory. I didn't say he is. It's that guy, yeah. Just out of range. He's 65 feet from you. That's right on the edge of glory. Okay. Okay, so the first strike against you,

Rys, it is a... Hang on, I got to save my friend. 10, again, 10 points of slashing damage. And the crit, that's going to be 22 points of slashing damage. Double? No, that was with the double. It does crit you. I'm going to roll to see

if its glass blade shatters. It's at the 20. It does not shatter, okay. But you do have disadvantage on intelligence saving throws until Invis next turn. Okay. That's going to finish their go. Ashton, you're up with Dorian on deck. Okay. Oh, you know what? At the end of that, Okay. That's going to finish their go. Ashton, you're up with Dorian on deck.

Okay. All right, that changes. Oh, you know what? At the end of that, guys, he uses bonus action to pick up concentration from the one that died. Oh! Who it is? It's now that one. You can do it! They can fill in for each other.

Okay. That ticks. Okay, okay. So my little cosmic shining head with my little pocket universe and my hammer being strangely translucent, I'm going to take 35 feet just straight towards me. Okay.

It's going to be 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. I'll put you there. Did I have to go around a thing? No, that was just straight. Really? Yep. So you're right next to Fearne. Okay. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35.

All right. For safety, I'll take that one last 40. And while I'm running by, I'm just going to make a little. Come on, over here! And I am going to attack with a, where did we go? Wormhole strike.

To which one? To the one that's bothering Laudna. Let's go. So that is, and I'm going to, in advantage, I'm going to make it, so. There you go. He's behind. So.

Over there. Sneak. That's a, I didn't do that well. That's behind. So. Over there. Sneak. That's a, I didn't do that well, that's a 19 to hit. It's a 19 to hit. That just hits. It's going to use its Psychic Buckler reaction to add five to its AC against the attack

and other attacks this turn, so no. So you go to strike and it deflects it off of its Psychic Buckler on the side and then gets itself ready with the shield at the ready. That's what I heard. Psychic buckler. Oh. I mean, that's what I heard.

Fuck it, I'm burning another. Psychic butthole. Might as well. I don't like them being there. It's like, Podbeast. So. Don't hit me, master. Jesus, again.

19 to hit. Maintains until the end of the turn. I have... nothing else fun to do. My god, that totally killed my theory. Theory, I'm so sorry. Never mind. That's okay. That finishes your turn, Ashton.

Dorian, you're up with Imogen on deck. Goddamn it. Sure. I'll engage my winged boots and I'll fly with the homies. Yeah! I got 40 feet of movement. Then you're up with Imogen on deck. Goddamn it. Sure. I'll engage my winged boots and I'll fly with the homies. Yeah! I'll use, I got 40 feet of movement. Can I get to that rock to the right of Orym by any chance? Right here? Can I fly up there with 40 feet?

This technically is the ceiling. Well, it's a ceiling! Yeah, so you can get next to it. I could say you can get more or less, I'll say, what is it this? Turn around, turn. Okay, cool. And what is it this? Turn around. Turn. Okay. Cool. Yeah.

And what is it you're hoping to do? In the sky, out of my pocket, I'll pull out a little tube and I'll crack it, and it's a little iridescent glow stick. Then I'll just start dancing. Oh, perfect. Love it. I'll cast Hypnotic Pattern. I think I got 120 feet.

They're all locked in, looking on that ridge toward Ludinus. I'll try to put it in front of that bubble. Ooh. Try to catch as many of them looking that way as I can. Maybe those three or? A 30-foot cube within range. Oh, I thought it was 120.

The range is 120 feet, but it weaves through a space of 30 foot by 30 feet. Got it, got it, got it. So you can pretty much put it anywhere you want to. Just maximum visibility for those three concentrators on the ridge. Right. You can get these two up here. These two are 35 feet apart.

Oh, I got you. Okay, I'll take the two on the top then. I guess if you were to do a cube like this. Yeah, if you were to turn to the side, you could probably get all three, now that I think about it, because if you do diagonals, edge to edge. Oh yeah, that makes 30 feet.

It's 30 feet cube, so. Yeah, okay. So that'll work. Okay. Cool. I dig it. Wisdom 16 save for all of them. You got it. All right. So for these here. Come on. Probably three.

Yeah, but. Oh no, you guys still got it. It might be charisma for sorcerers. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All righty. So. Get all three. Three for three.

So it's wisdom you said? Wisdom 16. You got it. This one here. It's going to be a 15. Okay. He fails. He's charmed. For the purposes of this. I'm going to go ahead and put the... Charm drops when attacked, right?

This charm means they become incapacitated. Okay. Yeah, they can't move. Doesn't mean they break their concentration. They can't make dex saves, they can't? Correct. On their turn, they don't make any actions. Awesome. That's great. That one there. Natural one.

Whoa! This is not going in their favor. He's scared and charmed. Yep. They're pretty sick dancers. That one there. That's going to be a 19. That's what I get for gloating.

Yeah. But those two, as the beast is there, nipping at them, they're still focusing and looking to the rest of you, and you see them, while one part of their mind is focused here, they begin to prepare something else. Red glow begins to emanate from their bodies, and then both of them get lost in this weird shifting pattern of colors and magic in the air.

It's like a 2008 visualizer for LimeWire. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1 AM, visualizer plugin, yep. LimeWire reference for y'all. Mama's ass. For the kids. We're doing great. We're doing great. All righty. And appealing to a younger audience.

That's great. And I think, is Laudna within 30 feet, probably? I'm far a little further than her. Yeah, yeah, okay, and then I'm donezo. Okay, that finishes your go. Imogen, you're up. Ooh. Okay.

I am going to focus my energy towards those two on the ridge as well. And right where our beautiful puppy is, a storm is going to start swirling, and I'm going to cast Whirlwind right in between the two of them. Whirlwind. Which howls down to a point.

You can see on the ground within range, it's a 10-foot radius, 30-foot high cylinder. Heck yeah. 30-foot radius. 30-foot high cylinder, 10-foot radius. 10-foot radius. I'll place this bobble. 10-foot radius is about this distance.

So we'll say this here is the- And I'm using a quicken spell on this to cast it as a bonus action. You got it, so. Whirlwind picks up from that point. So they have to make dexterity saving throws when they enter it, which I don't know if they can because they're incapacitated.

They're incapacitated. What? Indeed. Just double check on team attacks. Inadvertent combo. Incapacitate means they can't take reactions or actions, but they still technically make the dex saves. Okay.

Double checking that. Stunned, I think, the automatic. Got it. That's what it was. Okay, so that is a dex save, you said? Yes. Okay. Fail and succeed. What is a 23? Because I have my robe activated.

That's right, so yeah. That would be both failure. Oh my god. They both take 10d6 bludgeoning damage. Oh! Yes! Do you have to roll for the dog, too? Yeah, does the dog have to roll? He would, yeah, because he's technically in this space.

Yeah. Maru? Seven. Signal. Do you have to roll? He would, yeah, because he's technically in this space. Seven. Signal. Is he a wolf or a dog? He's a dire wolf. My brethren. Yes. Okay. Little cousin. I don't think he can actually.

You said 22? I don't know if that's our answer. No, he fails. Okay, so he takes full damage on this, too. Huh? So he takes the full damage on this. Nine. 33. Okay, so he takes full damage on this, too. Huh? So he takes the full damage on this. Nine, 30,

30, 39 points of bludgeoning damage. Oh, he's dead. Each of them. All right. Both of them are being battered around and they're restrained if they fail a strength save, correct? Dexterity save, creature save, da-da-da-da-da.

In addition, yeah, they must make a strength saving throw or become restrained. Both fail. They are both restrained. Now I'm going to use my action. So they're restrained and they're pulled five feet higher inside of the whirlwind. Right, so they're lifted up a little bit. I'm going to use my action to move the whirlwind

and try to move it 30 feet and try to capture this guy right here. Oh my god. As well. Cool. Baby Twister. Are they down? They borked with their concentration? We're going to find out in a second.

They have the advantage in their concentration. So that'd be 30. That would be... 39? No, that would be 19. 19. Yeah. Come on. Natural 20 and a natural 17.

Oh my god. Okay. So first guy succeeds. Okay. The other one, a 19. Okay. So yeah. So they're getting around, but they're concentrating.

They're getting focused on it. Okay, and I'm going to try to move my whirlwind with my action and try to gather up this guy right here. Okay. Unless, Chet, you want me to aim for the other one? I think I can get this one with my 30 feet, because they were 35 feet away from each other. Correct, so this one here?

Yeah. Yeah. So you go ahead and now all three of them are dragged and lifted up inside this whirlwind. That's sick. So they're closer. And incapacitated. Yeah, they're just like, .

Okay, so now he has to make a dex save. We got cows! As well. Another good one. Yeah. From the original! As well. Another good one. Yeah. From the original. Oh, yes. No, you got it. 1990.

Speaking to his youth. Okay. 15, 20. Tarf. How bad'd you fuck that guy up? 25. Not at all. 30, 36, 38 points of bludgeoning damage. All right. That is going to be a 24, so yeah, he succeeds as well.

He succeeds on the sales. What about his concentration? No, that was his concentration. Okay, for his strength save. Strength? He got picked up. He got picked up? Okay. Excellent work. Oh, so up? Okay. Excellent work. Oh, so he's restrained.

Yes. That's a single roll. No, he fails that. Okay. All three of them are restrained and. This psychic whirlwind that's been summoned and dragged across the stonework. It's filled with bits of rock and stone,

like shredded glass that's also spinning and tearing through them. Hell yeah. Does that finish your turn? She killed the dog. You want to stay put or you want to move? I'm going to... To do that.

I saw. She's bloodthirsty. I'm going to shift, so I'm not stacking up with everybody else. If I can move to where I'm... There? Yeah. Okay, you got it. She definitely killed the dog.

All right, that finishes your turn. It is now the regular exaltant's turn. The one that's next to you, Chet, is going to go ahead. Love my brother in tattoos. RTA. Of my brother in tattoos. Hmm? Okay, okay. RTA. Respect the Asmodeus.

It's going to release a blast of Somnatic Static. Right there. That is a different radius. Somnatic Static. That's going to be, it'll get everyone below here. Actually, no, I can get all three of them right there. So it'll get Laudna, it'll get Fearne,

it'll get Mister, and it'll get Orym, and it'll get your... Steed. Your steed. Yep, I need you all to make intelligence saving throws. Oh! I knew he was to make intelligence saving throws. Oh boy. I knew he was setting us up for something. Do any of you have disadvantage for that?

Laudna does, right? On what? Intelligence saving throws. Is this a spell or other magicals? It is. Oh no, this certainly is a spell, yes. Okay. Ooh, that's a seven. No, wait, no, Hmm. Good enough. I failed. That's a practice point. Ooh, that's a seven.

No, wait. No, it's a seven. I mean, it's not an actual one, but it's still pretty bad. Okay, so Laudna? Uh, nine. It's going to be 32 points of psychic damage. Yikes. Okay. And... 32, you said?

Yes. For the next minute, any rolls that you make this attack roll or ability check, as well as a constitution saving throw to maintain concentration, you subtract a d6 from it. Whoa! D6, damn. So minus d6 to? Each time, roll a d6 once and keep that number.

I think it's each time, just to keep it part of the roll. So attacks, saving throws. Not everything? Pretty much anything. Not saving throws. Ability checks. Attacks, ability checks, and constitution saving throw to maintain concentration. Got it. And cons.

Gotcha. All right, Fearne? I rolled a 23, Mister rolled a 14. So Mister takes 32 points of psychic damage. You take 16. Okay. And Orym? I failed, 10. Okay, so you take 32 points of psychic damage.

And also your attack rolls have disadvantage. Sorry, minus a d6, not disadvantage. And Coriolis? I gave you the sheet. Oh, Coriolis. It's low. Six, maybe? That is a minus four. 11.

11's a failure, so you take 32 points of psychic damage. Is he alive? Who is this? It is. Who was this that hit me, by the way? This one right here. Mr. Fantastic. The one that got stabbed by Chetney. Is he looking rough? No. He's looking like he's taking a hit or two,

but he's not looking terrible. I will dump a Hellish Rebuke into him. Let's go. I can do that. And I never do that. Okay, and his save. Oh, he fails with a four. Great, that's 3d10. Damage to him. Go.

What are dice? What's a 10? Here's a 10. That's also a 10. That's a 10. Okay. Ooh. Okay, okay. 10, 15.

Okay, wait. 19, 24. 24 Hellish Rebuke damage. Yeah, let's go. I got a nine, a 10, and a five. Now he's starting to look a little hurt. As you, describe how you rebuke him. I think it's like,

as I feel this intellectual ping in my brain, I get this tingling jolt of trauma from feeling that way by Delilah all the time. And I just, in my form of dread, I instinctually just lash out and scream at him. As you scream, he screams in reaction and grabs the sides of his head and bends forward. He's going to see if he has to make

a concentration check as well. Come on. Natural 17, so he makes it. Damn, they're rolling pretty good. They're rolling pretty good. They also have advantage on their concentration. Joke. Ah. Except for that guy, because he has disadvantage now, because you cursed him.

On concentration checks. Disadvantage on concentration checks until the end of Max's turn. That's right. That's true. So let me roll for one dice. Come on. Good, good, good, good. Nope, that'll fail. Yay!

Clean shit. Thanks for playing my character better than I am. What? A plus students. So now there's one less concentrating. One guy picked up the others. There's still five concentrating on it, but now there's four at the moment.

All right, that finishes your turn. Oh, sorry, the exultants are still going. That was that one there. So exultants go after me? Correct. I am the full caboose. And when did those bladey guys go? When did those bladey guys go? Did those go after Laudna?

After Laudna. Bladey guys. After Laudna and right before me. Blade. All right. Okay. One of the ones inside the twister, angrily, is going to, still focusing best he can, release Phantasmal Killer in your direction.

Uh-oh. I need you to make an intelligent, sorry, a wisdom save. Wisdom save. You have advantage on those. I have advantage on those. We do? Yeah, because of our feast. We have a hero's feast? Yeah, we had a wisdom saving throw. Wisdom saving throw. You have advantage on those. I have advantage on those. We do? Yeah, because of our feast. We have a hero's feast?

Yeah, we had a hero's feast. That's what gave us our... All right, roll again for, oh, you got two dice. Yeah, there's two dice in here. That freaks me out. That's a low, that's a 13. You have inspiration. I don't know if it's going to beat it, though,

if that's a 13. Okay, right on. Then forget it. 14. Garbage. Garbage, garbage. What a fucking waste. You're the one that, with a 13. Okay, right on the cusp. Then forget it. 14. Garbage. Garbage. Garbage, what a fucking waste. You're the one that made me do it. That was so intense.

Here, when it comes out, the dragon. Just a casual game of one's fucking friends. There you go, I found him, I found him. All right, so you are now considered frightened. Oh no. Can't be. Wait, she's frightened? Can't be, she can't be frightened. Oh, that's right.

He has a hearsay. So you're immune to it. Yay! Locked! Mm-hmm. It's your brain. You're a hero. Mm-hmm. Yeah, the GM's mind.

However, you are still affected by this. Okay, no. Let's see. Failed to save time, and was frightened for the duration of the end of each of the target's see. Failed to save time, and was frightened for the duration of the end of each of the target's turns. I'm going to say that completely negates that spell, because the whole point of it is it makes you fearful of the illusion that it creates

and doing damage imagining it, but you're immune to that. So that's going to ignore that ability on him. Oh no. That's going to change their tactics, though. So the other two in there are instead... One's going to Dissonant Whispers. Dissonant whispers.

Third level. Oof. So you make a wisdom saving throw. I really should not have pulled these guys close to me. That was maybe not the smartest move advantage, because of hair spaced. Just because. Sorry, yeah, Jester came out.

So Tess, he'll come out. He'll come out. He'll come out. He will come out of the movies and kick my ass. Nine. That's a failure, unfortunately. You take 16 points of psychic damage. I'm resistant to psychic damage. Okay, so you take eight.

You have to use your reaction immediately to move as far away from the target as possible. What's your speed while flying? 60 feet? I don't know if it's 60. Let me check. Is it in the Fly spell? I don't know. Is it in the Fly spell

or would it be in Havoc's Embrace? Havoc's Embrace is where it would be. Okay. Wait for me. Wait for me! No, wait, no, no, no, that's my Fly speed. I mean, that's not what I'm saying. It just says gain flying speed equal to walking speed.

Okay, so 30 feet. Okay. You move over to there. Yes. From Hamilton to Hades. All right, and then the other one. Calling up my feet and the sounds like drumming.

That's a concentration spell. Mm-hmm. Concentration. No, you're right, that is. Do it. Do it. How's that? No, it's fine. Maybe they can double concentration.

Because they're super smart. Then they would have to roll with no advantage Do double concentration. Then they would have to roll with no advantage for their concentration save. That actually, I think, even dis- like some other penalty, if I recall. You know what? It's going to report with a hypnotic pattern. Using the same tactic against where you are and Laudna at the 30-foot, we'll say at the fair.

That'll be enough between the two of you. I'd like both Laudna and Imogen to make wisdom saving throws. I might really. You have advantage on wisdom saving throws. Advantage on what? I know, I know. I really need to beef my Wins with abilities and cons. Okay.

Plenty of time in the campaign left to do it. 19. 19, you succeed. You guys. 19. You both succeed. Ooh! Good for heroes.

What'd you have us try to do? What'd you have us try to do, that? Oh, the one down below, next to Laudna. No, that was all three of those right there. All right. And then... That guy. I know he's really old.

Because he's mad at us. Yeah. I'm going to ride the bike under his table. I've got three and a half miles, no problem. His legs are just pumping. Turn one's about to be over. Duk-a-duk-a-duk-a-duk-a-duk. Okay.

Now they're still caught up in the whirlwind. However, I do need you to make a concentration check for me. For that nine points of damage I took? Correct. Shouldn't be too hard. Yes, that's what we say. Don't blow it. Hold on, I'm looking for a specific dice. Oh my god.

There. Just a concentration check. Which I get advantage on, which is a 15 plus constitution. You're fine. All right, that's going to finish the Exaltments. Go, Orym, you're up. Okay, Orym surveilling the chaos. He wants to get and help with the main objective.

He sees Laudna in the thick of it. He's torn and then starts to gallop this way, but as he goes, he thrusts seedling out towards the enemy facing Laudna and I send Grasping Vine out of it and I'm going to try to grab, fisherman grab that character. Okay.

It's a DC 17. Dex save? Uh... Just a golden fisherman. Yes, dex save. That's going to be a 21. Oh jeez, that's super saves. Okay, well, then I continue on.

I'm going to, it can fly 90 feet. That guy's been weak. To here. I want to fly right down next to. Next to that guy? Yeah. Okay. Equal to, so flanking with Brayas. Put you.

This guy. Couldn't you be helping your boyfriend? I don't need you. I don't need anyone. Look at him ride. I lean in, finally having gotten this equine dragon to fly, I lean in close and say, Fuck him up, Areolas.

And, uh. Areolas? Yes! God, it doesn't even know my name. So first, Coriolis will attack, gets one beak, one dragon bite, and then two hooves. Let's go.

That is a miss with a mouth, unless it, 11. Nah. Yeah. Okay, now for the hooves, that is 17. 17 misses. Oh! Come on! Woo, 20, that is, this is going to miss, too. That's 16. I start swinging from Coriolis' back.

Coriolis! As the hooves come down, they're hitting like a buckler. At one point, the buckler doesn't hit, and as the hook comes down, just looks at it, and a field knocks it off. These exultant skills and techniques have variability beyond what you've seen before.

Shit. Going for a, so attacking, three attacks. First one is a tripping attack, flanked. So that is, come on, come on, come on, 27 to hit. 27 does hit. So that is a strength save. Okay, listen. Natural 18.

Natural 18, okay. Yeah, that's okay, 21. Drink your fucking water. Okay, so that is two plus one is 11 plus. So just 13 points of damage for that. Second attack is also a tripping attack. That is a 25 to hit. That hits. Same DC.

That's going to be a 12. 12, so he, I, so Orym's sword slashes. I lean holding onto the webbing of Coriolis' wing and lean down and cut along the back of his leg, sending him sprawling onto his back. How much damage was that? That is 10, 16 points of damage. 16 points of damage, all right.

Making two con saves. This would be maintenance concentration, yep. And yeah. Okay. 15 natural ATK. And then we'll make the last attack, Goading. I'll reroll the one. Mm-hmm.

That's another one. So that is, that's going to miss it. No, that's a... 11, 20, 25. 25? Yeah, that hits. Yeah, that hits. Can't even use the Psychic Butler against that. Oh, really? Psychic Butler? That's what they were joking about earlier.

Because of Otohan's- I said Butler that time as a joke. Because of Otohan's blade that I record, thrown characters take a d6 of force damage as well. What? So that is five plus nine is 14. The superiority die is 18. 20 points of damage from that.

20 points of damage on save. Yeah, natural 16. He succeeds. He does? Yep. And we need to get her out of there. Action search. Okay. Reroll a one. That is a 24 to hit.

Yeah. Prone, so I'm not going to use any more superiority die. Roll a one on something. Four plus nine is 13. 19 for the first. That's true. There's sadness around me. I get my inspiration. Yeah, yeah.

You've got some bard in you. He got that bard in him? 19 points of damage? Yeah. All right. Just like... Yeah, natural 17. Literally pressing with my feet against the side of this creature

with holding onto the edge of its wing, just sword fighting like Errol Flynn. That's a 25 to hit. Yeah. Uh, six. Another choice reference for the youth. That was like 100 years ago. 14 for that.

14. Maintains concentration. Motherfuckers! A lot of natural 15s, though, Vanduul. That's high, that is 29, 33 to hit. That'll hit. There we go. Let's make it a goading attack. All righty, wisdom save? Yes, three.

That's going to be an 18. Okay. Three, six is nine. That's 14. Come on. Take this guy out. Yep. And one more. 19 points of damage. 19 points of damage. Nice.

Concentration check. Concentration check. Dang, he's a beefy boy. Natural 16 and a natural 19. Yeah, they're rolling pretty good on that save. He's looking to hurt. He's definitely looking to hurt. Wait, so he's advantage and he got a 19?

That's what that was? Yes. Okay. Okay, then I am donezo. All right, that finishes Orym's go. End of the round is going to be, he's still left. He gets to go? Perspective Vessel.

No. Well, he rolled like shit, gets to go? Perspective. No. Well, he rolled like shit, huh, Matt? He rolled really bad initially. Oh! Let's see. Luda! From behind there. Okay, okay.

Mm. Just lower the dome, dude. I thought. Lower the dome. You can't do anything from inside an Ota Luke's Resilient Spear. Unless it's not. Wait, wait, wait.

He went outside the manual. I mean, it's like a force wall, but made into a dome. Now, here's the interesting point. He can't cast any spells through it. Oh. So it's great. He can do stuff to-

But he will. To do all your actions. He will attempt to use his Crush Will ability. Oh! What's that? That was once a Liliana ability. Crush Will. Oh no! He's already gotten an ability from her!

Belferda! Matthew! I mean, you drain the power after just a short time. It's the hour that takes it permanently. If he drains her permanently, do you have to call him mom? I think that legally he does have to. No!

I mean, technically he'll be your mom. Don't say that! Maybe he makes excellent cookies now. She never makes cookies for you. I've got two rounds. On his turn, he's going to be like, I hope you get to watch each other crumble this day.

He puts his hand out and closes his fist towards you. I need you to take an intelligent saving throw, please. You have disadvantage on those, or you're okay? No, I'm okay, I'm okay. I just have no intelligence at all. I'm real stupid. You're not. Don't talk about Imogen like that.

No, you're simple, you're sweet, you're emotional. Maminous or luden-y? I'm sure I'm emotional. I'm so underhanded. No, you're luden-y. Can't see it, but I don't look great. Four. Ooh.

30 points of psychic damage. Reduced to 15. Reduced to 15, indeed. And you are stunned until the end. Fuck! Stunned! Of his next turn. Stunned! Oh my god. You and feel just like he crushes

the core of your mind for the moment and you just hear that that endless breaking of his death. Until the end of my next turn? The end of his next turn. Oh, that's a whole round. Took a whole turn away from you. All right. Does the whirlwind go away?

No. It stays. But you still have to roll concentration. Look, if they're fucking up in there. Up in here? So that was, what was I saying again? It was 30? 15 points of damage is what I took. Yeah, 15 points of damage, yeah.

So I rolled a 12 plus seven. Yeah, you're fine. Maintain concentration. So he finishes that and watches you in the air, barely holding yourself up. The sheer force of the exalted power that courses through you. That's going to finish his turn.

Chetney, you're up. Yeah, I'm going to. That's a whole turn. Look, they're caught up in there. You can still send spells into my whirlwind. I'll use 10 feet of movement to move up towards Mr. Incredible. He really looks like Mr. Incredible.

I'm just wearing a black hair. I don't know what he's wearing, but I just see black and red. I love it. I'll take unarmed strikes, bonus action. I'm going to rake my claws against my titties. Hell yeah. And draw blood, and I will...

Two points of... First one is... Where the hell did it go? 20 to hit. 20 to hit. He's going to cast Shield. And deflect that. It's all right, it's all right. This one definitely hit. 29 to hit. He's going to cast Shield. And deflects that. It's all right. It's all right.

This one will definitely hit. 29 to hit. That hits. Great. And the third one is 28 to hit. Yeah, both of those. Natural and 18, and 19, and 18. Great, okay. Well, that was three attacks, but you used your bonus action to use your...

I did it, so it'd just be two. It'd just be the one. So one hits. Yeah, thank you. No worries. And 1d8, eight plus six. 14 plus four is 18 points of slashing damage. 18 points of slashing damage. And that's it. Boy, I was going to use that fucking bonus action.

Goddamn. He's looking real hurt. Also, as a note, the first round has completed. You watch as the tips of Liliana's feet begin to crack and begin to crumble into a powder. Finishing Chetney's go, Fearne, you're up. We're going to do another Scorching Ray. Scorching Ray. Wait a minute. Do I want to do that?

Every way you turn, it's a Scorching Ray. Wait, let me see what level this is. Hold on one second, I'm sorry. I'm not going to do that. Okay, Scorching Ray. Okay. And third level again. Okay, so that's four rays. Who are you aiming them at?

I'm going to aim them into Imogen's Whirlwind. Okay, so which one? So it's just like. All right, so one at each guy, and then one hits twice? Yeah. Okay. Exciting. Go for it.

So they are restrained, so technically you have advantage on the attack rolls. Ooh, okay. You're clumped up in there. Yeah, we're going to get this all clumpy. Okay. Okay. 27 for the first hit.

That hits. 16 for the second. Misses. Okay. 28 for the third. Misses. Okay. 28 for the third. That hits. And yeah. 27. 27 for the fourth. Great, yeah, so three hits.

So that's 2d6, 2d6, and 2d6, since they're different targets. Where are my teeth? There. Teeth? Teeth? So funny. And 3d8 against one of them, I recall. Okay, so how many? Oh, sorry, an additional 1d8 against one of them.

So it's 2d6, 2d6, and 2d6. Let me know what those numbers are. Okay. Ooh. Okay, so we've got, we've got, and then 1d8 against one of those rolls. Oh, I thought that was a seven. I did, too. Ah, damn. Okay, so we've got 10, 17.

Shit. No, it's 2d6 against each, right? Yeah. So there you go. This is one of them is 10 on one, 10 on another, and seven on another. Okay. Okay, there you go. Because there's three in there.

So I thought there was two in there. Did you add your extra d8 against one of them? Because you missed yourself. I did. Okay, cool. All right, so for that, each of them has to make a concentration check. Okay. Let's double check something here. Come on.

Let's double check. Correct. All right, so first one fails. Ooh! And with advantage, so that's now two of them that currently don't have concentration. I'm going to mark that here. All right, all right, all right. I'm going to mark these screens.

I'm so sorry, did you roll the... I don't. Con say. Just a skinny, skinny one. Oh, and Matt. Hi. Yeah, he's fine. Just so you know, on their future turns,

they can make strength saves to get out of it. It's an action to get out of it to do it. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Okay, so yeah, I'll say that one of them to get out of it. It's an action to get out of it, to do it. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Okay, so yeah, I'll say that one of them has lost concentration there. Was it this one that lost? No, this one lost concentration

when you were fighting it, right? I don't think he did. Which one was it? He kept saving the whole time. That's right. Yeah, it was one in the maelstrom. I think it was, yeah. So there's two in the maelstrom that lost concentration. Great. Double check that. That guy rolls concentration checks like a champ.

So we have two people concentrating on it right now? You have one, two at the moment concentrating, yes. And the other two have lost their concentration, or three have lost concentration? This one still has it. Okay, that one's still on. This one still has it. Two in there have lost,

so actually there's three that have concentration currently. Yeah. Okay. All right, so finishing Chetney's go. I'm sorry, Fearne, is that the end of your turn? Do you want to move? I'm also going to roll for Mister to throw some flame and shit. You want to move it all or you want to stay put? I think...

I think I'm okay there. Okay. D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, All right, roll for Mister. I don't think that works. 18. Against? Against the one near Chet. One near Chetney? He still has shield on, I think. Never mind, wait. I'm going to go for this guy right here,

for Flaming Shit. Which guy? The guy that's on the ground? Yeah. Could that be a disadvantage because it's a ranged attack against somebody who's prone? 17. 17 misses, unfortunately. Good try. Yeah? Behind, yeah. Okay, that'd be a disadvantage because it's a ranged attack against somebody who's prone. 17. 17 misses, unfortunately. Good, good, good chart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, I'm done. All right, finishing your go.

Brace is up with Laudna on the back. Oh, that was your whole turn? That was my turn. Okay, come up, beefcake. Okay, I will finish what you started, little warrior. And I will, with the hilt of my, the handle of my flail, which has a sharp tip, I will stab down.

Hell yeah, let's go. Do I get advantage because he's prone? Yes, you do. Okay. Ooh, that's better than that. Was it a one? No, it wasn't. Okay. Not great. Was it a one? 17. 17 wasn't. Okay. Not great. Was it a one? 17.

17 misses. He rolls out of the way, slams into the rock. I will try again with my second attack. Second attack. Yeah. I wonder if I want to do a bonus action first. Can I do a bonus action in the middle of the two actions? If you want to, yeah.

Yeah, I'll do... He's going to die if I hit him, but whatever. I'll pump in some, I'll do Wrathful Smite at level three. Okay, let's go. No, I'm sorry, Matt. I'm just going to do a level two Divine Smite. Okay, let's go. No, I'm sorry, Matt. I'm just going to do a level two Divine Smite. Okay, let's go. If I fail, sorry. One of them is a one.

But is it the lower one? It is the lower one. Fuck that. Okay. No, no. Oh. Yeah, reroll the one. You can, but it's a reaction, so I've used my reaction to hit.

Oh, well then I don't need to, because the top one was an 11 plus 12 is 23 to hit. That will hit. Okay, so that's just 4d8 damage. Let's see. Well, he's still. They're all bad. No, it's this turn, not this. Yeah, so he doesn't have the shield ability.

It's his parry ability, only lasts that turn. Oh great, okay. 18 points. I said Divine Spine at level one or two? Two. He's level two. Okay, then one more. Another seven. Another seven? Yeah, 25. How do you want to do it? Yes!

Oh, nice! I will stab down with my flail, but I will never leave eye contact with Orym. Oh! Just twisting and twisting and making sure that blood and ichor spray on my face in a hot way. Orym is hypnotically held.

Ooh! Come on, pick up! Oh! All right, Frizz. Do you want to stay where you are, Bray? I can't do anything else? There is a massive whirlwind just filling the space up here. I don't want to go in there.

I don't want to go in there, so I guess I'll just stay put, right? Okay. I don't know what else to do. I've heard an ass from the side. Could you just swing from the edge? There are three enemies in the whirlwind, one here and then one over there.

There's three in the Whirlwind? Yeah, I got something. If I go in, do I get hurt? Is it a hurt? Yes, you do. Yeah, you'll take bludgeoning damage, right? I don't want to, right? No, you can take a lot.

Oh wait. You can cast a spell. That won't help me. Wisdom fails, it is drawn to you, compels you to find a vampire. Would that help? That doesn't help. Does anyone need a healing word? I wouldn't say no to it,

but I don't know if I'm close enough to you. Wait, no, at 60 feet? I think it's 30. 30 feet. You haven't used your move yet, though. I haven't. I could get closer. Oh, it's 60 feet. It is 60 feet, right? Yeah. I think you're further than 60 feet

because you tried to do Silvery Barbs before. You're too far. I did try to do Silvery Barbs. So you would have to move. 65 feet. I'll get within 60 feet of her. That would be, you just need to move. It's like one. There. Great.

And I will Healing Words her. What level? Just do it basically. I'll do it basically. You got it, so 1d4 plus your wisdom. Okay, great. Or charisma, sorry. I mean. It's your charisma.

I went in. Okay, six points. You get six points, Laudna. Finishing braces go, Laudna, you're up. I am uppity up. The guy in front of me, does he have metallic armor on? I think you said earlier that he does. There are metallic.

There are elements of metal, yeah, but the armor, it's interesting. When they're attacked, psychic fields tend to block and protect, but they're wearing metal-wise that's more ornamental. Hmm. In terms of them taking advantage because they have metal on them for a shocking grasp.

I'll allow wow. Okay. So I'm going to reach forward and just grab his metallic bracers with my fucked up face right in front of him to Shocking Grasp. Let's go. I have advantage. And then this is intact, so I have to minus a de-sex, correct?

Correct. Roll low. Okay, that's good. So that is going to be... Roll low! Just fucking... 17 plus 12 is going to be 29? That definitely hits. Yeah, okay, 29. 3d8 damage.

I'll just, meh, shit, shit. Okay, okay. Okay, okay. Let's just not fuck this up. Okay, 17 damage. 17 electric damage. All righty. He cannot take reactions. All righty. And he cannot take reactions.

All righty. So I'm going to move away from him. I'm going to go one, two, three, wait, five, 10, 15, 20. Can I tuck on this side? Yeah, you can do that. Okay, so I'll go there. Okay. I'm going to...

Yeah. I'm going to quicken a spell. Uh-huh. I'm going to quicken just some Eldritch Blasts and start popping some people off. Let's go. You said this guy in front of Chetney is looking real rough, right? Yeah, he's looking pretty gnarled.

Should've been more if I wasn't fucking it up. Nah. So there's three people concentrating right now? Correct. Oh no, there's two crew. And theor- Can I ask a question? Yeah. Like, theoretically, if it's a spell

and they've lost their concentration, potentially when it comes back around, they could choose to spend their action to re-engage. Their bonus action to re-engage concentration. Their bonus action. Yeah. Got to kill them. All right, this guy in front of chat. Oh god, that misses.

With what? First one, I rolled a two. Okay. That has a chance. It does not. What the fuck? That's better, that's better. Jeez Louise. That's three. That's all that two and a three. 28 to hit.

That hits. That's a little bit of something, 15 points of damage. How do you want to do that? Yeah! That's something, that's something. I points of damage. How do you want to do that? Yeah! That's something, that's something. I'm applauding for my shirt, not the mouth. Yay! Because my mouth is still unhinged

from my jaw, I just go like, Gah, gah, gah, gah, gah! And shoot Eldritch Blast for my mouth. He's concentrating and looking at Chetney, hears that noise and goes, What in the? You know those Halloween skits?

Yep, yep. And just blasts it against the rock and crumples into a pile. Okay. Have you guys heard my Beneful Five cover band? Yeah, you will. Yeah, no kidding. Yes, that finishes my turn. Okay.

The Exultant Knight that's still standing is going to go ahead and start by taking his glass blade and he throws it and psychically it fires up towards you. Oh. Imogen? To me.

40-foot range. 40-foot range, yes. He gets advantage? He does. Okay, that's going to be 25 to hit. That hits. All right, and another hit can hit you with advantage, a natural one and a natural two.

Oh, wow. That's going to be a 12.'s only going to be a 12. So only one of them hits you. Okay. You take eight points of slashing damage. Okay. And you have disadvantage on intelligence saving throws

until it's an extra. Geebees. Then it's going to run 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. It's going to use its bonus action to begin concentrating to hold the shield. No! Finishing their go, Ashton, you're up, Dorian on deck.

How far away is that fucking ninja motherfucker from me? Is it within 40 feet or no? This one here? Yeah, the one that just ran away. That little bit. 50. He's about 50 or so feet from you, through the rock. I'm going to walk out to the other side of the rock.

Okay. Just that far, yeah. Actually, I'll be able to get that. That's okay. Gesundheit. Is that as little as I can move right there, or is that? That is 10 feet there. Okay, so five feet wouldn't do it,

if you get a visual on him. You can, but he'll be considered half cover. Okay, never mind, that's it. All right, I'm giving this another go. Motherfucker, get over here, and I'm doing another goddamn, I'm burning another Chaos Burst and taking my advantage, and it's a Wormhole Strike.

All right. Come on, don't's a wormhole strike. All right. Come on, don't be a dick. Let's go. That's 24 to hit. 24, yeah, that'll hit. Okay, he takes... It's been a while. Let's see.

It's been a while. Okay, let's see. Chaos Burk's going to range attack. Okay, let's see. Chaos Burks makes range attack. Okay, so that's 19 points of damage. Okay. And. Natural 16, maintains concentration.

That's okay, because as that happens, as the hammer comes and smacks him from the side of the rock, he suddenly falls through a portal and is now directly behind that rock over there. 15, I'm just tossing him over there using the Scattering Blow. Okay.

So he just finds himself suddenly tumbling out of it. Over here? All the way in the back, 15 feet away from me. Okay, so like over here? Yep. Is that break his visual? Hmm? No, he's still concentrating. Then I'm just going to walk up and,

perhaps I didn't fucking make myself clear, and I'm taking another shot. Come on, Ash. Come on. Lay him in the face. 21. Break his face. 21. He is face. 21. He is going to use his reaction to Psychic Buckler and add five to his AC, so I miss it.

All right, that's okay. I'm right up in front of it. I'm also, that will push him five feet away from me, too, is just the shove. No, I have to do damage, never mind. Okay, fair. All right, that finishes your turn, Ashton. Oh yeah, I'm pretty good.

All right, Dorian, you're up with Imogen. It's not on deck. Since I flew straight finishes your turn, Ashton. Oh, yeah, I'm pretty good. All right, Dorian, you're up with Imogen. Stand on back. Since I flew straight up with her, I think, right next to her, I'd like to fly directly over to Imogen, if I can. Use my move to get to her. I want to try to reach out for her, and I know it, but I want to shake her

and see how she's doing, put hands on her. And she's just out of it, right? Yeah, her eyes are rolling back, and you can see there's a little bit of blood from the ears. But she's upright, too, right? I'm up, I'm just stunned. Yeah, her flying is erratic and hovering more than anything.

Throw a mustache on her face. I'm going to grab her hand and hold it tight and just say, I love my mom, too. Then I'm going to cast a 5th-level lightning bolt straight down the chute at all those guys. Oh, these guys here? 100 feet. Yeah. It's five feet wide, so I think I should

catch all three of them. You can get all three. The way they sit right there, yeah. Billiards. As I do it, Imogen's got this beautiful purple lightning and mine's just yellow like the sky. As he sends it out to them, there's just a little purple sparkle to it. Through my stun, you just feel

a little bit of squeeze on your hand. Yeah. Come on. It's all right. Come on, it's 1213. 10, better. 12, 19, 21, 23. Could be better, 24.

24. They do have disadvantage on dexterity saves because they are restrained within the tornado. So 24, you said? 24. Okay. Some of them have already been hurt, right? Yeah. That one's going to fail.

These look real bad. This guy right here succeeds. Takes 12. To half. Yep, and the last guy. Natural one, no, fails. Yes! Okay, that's good. One of them is deeply wrecked.

The other two look pretty hurt. That's awesome. Sweet. That finish your turn? Yeah, and then for my bonus action, I'll say, get up, and I'll give her Bardic Inspiration. Okay. His is a d10.

Yep. Whoa. You see all this through the fugue, haze, and the static. You hear his voice. You see the flash of light and hear the distant psychic screams of the other exalted connected to you via the tethers of Pardothos.

And you begin to call yourself back. So you turn stunned, but you're starting to bring your consciousness back. Finishing that go, it's now the exultant's turn. As a bonus action, they're all going to maintain concentration. Got to kill them all. Got to kill them all.

Yeah, roll around until they're about to kill them all. I was just going to say, am I yelled loud enough that you know I got one back here, by the way? Yeah. Yeah. Beep-bop-ba-doo! All right. Okay, so they don't keep taking damage when they're in it, it's just for the initial pickup.

Okay. So with that... One of them is going to cast Hypnotic Pattern on both an Orym, Coriolis, and Brayus. I need you three to make wisdom saving throws, please. At advantage because of our hero's feast? Correct. Oh, goddammit.

10. Are you within? Yeah, I'm real close to you. Five feet of me? Five feet. Still probably not going to help you get a plus four. Five feet? Are you within five feet?

No, no, I don't think so. That's real tight. Oops. Ooh, I rolled two. That was a wisdom save you just did? They're no longer. I'm going to use Indomitable and roll again. Okay, let's go.

Uh, where is it, where is it? I'm not sure this is good enough. 17 for me. 17 succeeds. Oh! Come on. Better, way better. 20.

20, okay. The next one, just going to try it again. Okay. Oh man. Both roll again. Okay, wisdom. They're shouting to each other in the middle of the war. Hold it, hold it, they're close! 21. 21.

21? 16. 16 just fails. Oh! Caius is charmed and currently just standing there. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait. He moved closer, too.

Oh, he moved away. How does that, has the joke never died? It's so old. No. Oh, it died. We just keep going. Just keep going there. Don't know how to stop. No, I didn't pop it off.

Nevermind, nope, sorry, Brayus. This is purgatory. It's fine. Okay. I know you don't really like me. I was praying. No one respects me. Help you! Jesus, a pity party over here. No one respects me. Help you! Jesus, Katie Party over here. No one respects me.

Does Coriolis have to make a save? I respect your alpha, Bray. He has to make two of those saves, right? Yes. You're the only one He did not eat the Hero's Feast. First one is, it's minus stuff. That's an 11 on the first and a one. Which he can reroll because he's within five feet.

I could give my reaction to him, but the first one already ate shit. Yeah, so Coriolis is now no longer moving and it's just in place floating and looking at this beautiful light. Don't you have to be above a certain intelligence level to have Hivnana Gaze? Or horse.

Him and your dog are just hanging out. Above a certain intelligence level for Hivnana Gaze to work. How intelligent is Cori just hanging out. Above a certain intelligence level for a not-a-gay horse. How intelligent is Coriolis? Coriolis has an intelligence of two. Two, let me see. Coriolis plummets to the ground. Arrgh!

No, that's only on Smiley Thanks. But no, good looking out, though. Good looking out. All right. All right. All right. He's a sweet boy. So, the last one is going to go ahead and cast you motherfucker,

Phantasmal Killer on you. Oh, cool. What? So I need you to make another wisdom save. Uh-huh. Oh, fuck. You're immune to fear, too, because of our Heroes Feast. That's right, no, we agreed to that. Never mind, I'm going to hold that back, then. Instead, Heroes Feast. That's right, no, we agreed to that. Nevermind, I'm going to hold that back then. Instead, Heroes Feast, man.

I have it in mind and then I forget it when I build some of these things. But that's how it would work, too. It's not like I want to build to try and get around what you guys prepared for, so this is working out great for you. No, it's okay. I'm going to be honest.

We forgot, too, for a little bit. Is that worth it? You know what? One of them is going to go honest. We forgot, too, for a little bit. Is that worth it? You know what? One of them is going to go ahead and drop Concentration to cast Telekinesis. Whoa. Okay. Yeah.

Whoa. And it's going to... It's going to cast it on you. No? Mm-hmm. Wolfie! I need you to make it on you. No! Mm-hmm. Wolfie! So I need you to make a strength check.

Okay. Yeah, a lot of saving throw, but just a strength check, right? Yep, so just roll a d20 and add your strength. Roll high. That was fucking balls. No! Double fives, nine. Nine.

As you're there in wolf form, suddenly, you feel yourself bound by an invisible force that pushes you 30 feet back and holds you aloft in the air. Holy shit. That is unbelievable. Let's do that again. That would have been better. You are now...

That's my emotional support, wolf. Being held up in the air right there. Ooh! Restrained and unable to pull free. On your turn, you can try and break free if you'd like to. But now you are currently held there. All right, that's going to finish their turn. Finish the exultants. Orym, you're up. I scooch the side of Coriolis' head

and say, I'll be back, boy. And I am going to leap and pinball off of this rock I scooch the side of Coriolis' head and say, I'll be back, boy. I am going to leap and pinball off of this rock down to where I hear Ashton yelling. Mm-hmm. Live, Coriolis! Okay, you leap down to where? And look at that.

It's almost as if I tried to set it up. Set him up, knock him down. Let's go. Okay, attack! That is a, that's good. That is a 29 to hit. Yeah. Let's make it, nope, I'm just going to save it.

I'm going to save it. So it's not going to be a huge hit. That is nine points of damage. Okay. Second is a 26 to hit. That hits. That is 14 points of damage. Okay.

Last one, I reroll my own one. That is a 24 to hit. Okay, that hits. And that is 13 points of damage. So I just crisscross really fast across this character's back. You got it. Before they can turn around. First one succeeds.

I'm hitting Concentration. Second one, a natural 20. Jesus Christ. Third one, yeah, so it succeeds. Each hit, their DC is 10. Yeah, yeah. They get to add their Concentration saving 30 to these. Master Psychics, yes.

Yeah. We'll take him down. But he's starting to these? Yes, they're master psychics. Yes. Yeah. We'll take him down. But he's starting to look a little hurt. Oh, a little hurt. That finishes your go, Orym. One good crit was going to that. Yeah, that's it. Okay. Keep him locked in.

Damn, we have one more turn. It's now Ludinus' turn. See if he gets that back. He does not. Is the ninja the only one holding concentration? So he is. No. There's two now, because one dropped. There's two in there that have concentration up.

Yeah, the bubble. And this guy that you guys are attacking. So there's three. He is going to Mind Sliver. What? Yeah, we need him to just end in range. So I'm just retracting this here. No. We need him just under range. He's going to sit there. Go like, you would have been so useful.

Maybe there's still a chance. Show me how well you can endure. Oh, fuck. We'll see who's right this is. He's going to do Mind Sliver on you. So you make an intelligent saving throw. At disadvantage. At disadvantage, because you were hit with the blade last time.

I gave you Guidance earlier. So that's good shit to help you in this moment. I did, I did use it. You did? I did use it. Four. Okay. That's going to be 15 points of psychic damage. Okay.

Reduced to seven since you're resistant. That's not so bad. And your next saving throw, before the end of the next turn, subtracts a d4. Okay. As he does this to you, he reaches up and pats the side of Ulyana's face as she's gasping for breath.

Oh my god. Soon you'll rest, yeah. If I'm stunned, can I say anything? At the end of the turn, you're no longer stunned, you can. Oh, no longer stunned? It's the end of his turn. Fuck you. Yeah.

You're going to die here. I know. But not before I finish everything I've wanted to do for so long. Top of the round, check your air up. I love him. Uh, yes. Fearne, you're on deck.

I'm going to, I'm restrained, right? Correct. So I can try and break free of it? You can, yeah. I'm going to. No, you don't have slippery juice. No slippery juice for me. I'm going to try and? Correct. So I can try and break free of it? You can, yeah. I am going. No, you don't have Slippery Juice. No Slippery Juice for me. I'm going to try and Misty Step out of it. Yeah, that'll work. Oh, yes.

Pat, pat, pat, pat. Aw. Peck-a-peck. All right, all right. Yes, you can spend an action to try and break free of the thing. So you want to do that? Should I use my bonus action to do Misty Step? Yeah, you can spend an action to try and break free of the thing. So you want to do that? Can I use my bonus action to do Misty Step?

Yeah, you can totally do that. Great, Misty Step 30 feet. 30 feet. Towards the horrible bubble. That'll put you pretty much right back on where you were. So back there. Amazing. And then can I spend 30 more feet of movement to run towards the boobble? 30 more feet?

You going to the bobble? 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Don't they all need to die? They all need to die. That'll get you right there. Did you want to go into the bubble? Well, I have claws and sharp things. Then you should have Misty-stepped towards the orange bubble.

I think he Misty-stepped you towards the blue bubble. Oh, I misunderstood. So you could have gotten with it further. That would have been there. And then 30 feet of movement would get you into the bobble. Yeah, I misunderstood. So you could have gotten further. There. And then 30 feet of movement would get you into the blue bubble. Yeah, you would be there. And five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30

would get you within range of one of them. Yeah, and then I'll use jump with the last 10 feet of my movement to jump in and start swinging. I'm going to jump into the bounce house with a bunch of knives. You go, you enter it. I need you to make a dexterity saving throw as you jump into the bounce house with a bunch of knives. You go, you enter it. I need you to make a dexterity saving throw

as you leap into the whirlwind, picked up with it and spinning. Who cares? This is great. Hell yes. Good time. Dexterity. Dex 27. Okay, good, you resist it.

So you'll take half damage. And you take half of that because it is bludgeoning. Oh, it's 20 damage. Yeah. Yeah, that rolled real well, too. Yeah, yeah. See, this is the fun bit. You're like, what can I endure?

Yeah, we're not here to come out of this squeaky quick. 22, 26, 30. The terms for saving you were three full rounds, correct? Yeah. 34, 39 points of bludgeoning. We've got a half. Half, half. Step down the psychics.

So 40 to 20, 19, 19... 10? Eight. No, I think you'd go down, or nine, because 19 half is not. 19 would be, half that would be nine. Nine points of bludgeoning damage, and... Then make a strength saving throw. Okay. Do I have advantage of that?

You do in wolf form, yeah. Natural 20. Fuck yeah. Oh yeah. Fuck yeah. Yes. So you are not restrained. Your attacks go through fine. They are, so you have advantage on your attacks

against your friends. Yes! Get them, Chet! I'll take three swings. Oh no, just two swings at one of them. You got it. 27 to hit. That hits. That's six plus 12.

16, 17 points of slashing damage. Six points of lightning for the, bleh, bleh, bleh, what's it called? Crimson, crimson, crimson, crimson, crimson. Thank you. You got it. So nice is rolling in arcs of lightning as this wolf is spinning up into it and slashing into one of them. Sick. Wolfstorm.

25 to hit. That hits. And... Nine, 10, 11, plus five. 16 points of slashing, five of which are lightning. How do you want to do this? Yeah! I literally run in, jump, I hit the fucking typhoon. It spins me all around, I just go,

Ha! My fingers go. That's awesome. So you guys watch the whirlwind spins and these arcs of lightning. You watch as blood just sprays out across bits of it. And you watch as an arm hits the ground with a vanguard sleeve on it.

Ooh! Do we have more attacks still? No, because you used my bug section to miss you, Steve. So that should be it. All right, finishing Chetney's go. Fearne, you're up. Okay, so you're in that bubble now. That's right, rocket.

The one he just killed wasn't the one. Danger close, danger close. Concentrating on me. Two of them are still concentrating in there. You know what? Go ahead and roll a d6 for me. On a one or two, you killed one of the ones that was concentrating. Oh, on a one or two? One!

Yay! There we go. So now there's currently one concentrating there. And the other is concentrating on me. Or on the? Hypnotic. Yeah, who's got the hammer. Correct, yeah. So we have two is concentrating on me. Or on the hypnotic pattern. Correct, yeah.

Okay. So we have two dudes concentrating on the sphere? Oh wait, so one was concentrating on hypnotic pattern and one was concentrating on telekinesis. So there's only one guy concentrating on the- Right, so telekinesis guy would have been killed then. And that's how, yeah, you're right. So the one that was,

you don't know which one's concentrating, so the one that you killed was the one that was holding you then. Cool. Okay. So we've got one of the guys pinned down here, so they won't want to fuck with them. So there's currently two people concentrating? The charmer was holding you then. Cool. Okay. So we've got one of the guys pinned down here, so they won't want to fuck with that. So there's currently two people concentrating? The charmer and the shield holder?

Correct, yeah. Yes. Okay. Two dudes are concentrating. What does the shield look like? Is it like? I mean, it's still holding, but with each death, each lack of concentration you watch, it shrinks slightly.

Shrinks slightly. And we've got to incapacitate Luda or kill him before he ever takes a turn. Because when he takes his next turn. We've got to get the bubble down. Round three is over. Yeah. When he can never take a turn

or it's over for your mom. Yeah. This is it. We haven't even taken a shot at the bubble, right? We're just assuming it's about to happen. I won't have a turn unless you disable the guy who's... We need our motherfucker, too, in the back. The two in the bubble. Are they looking pretty rough?

I mean, it's hard to tell. They're being thrown through a whirlwind. Because I'm like, do this. Okay. It's nice in here. What I'm going to do is... I don't know what we're going to do in our chat, though. Do it. Fuck up. We're going to do it. It doesn't matter.

Okay, I was thinking. Go big, go big. I want to shoot Wall of Fire, but you can do it as a ring. Yeah. Okay? Yeah. Yeah. So I was thinking of making the ring, it's a 20-foot radius. Uh-huh. Is there any way I can do it and not

just have Chet right on the end of it? Unfortunately, in the Whirlwind? Because they're all being rolled around, I'll say it'll hit all of them. Make it a fire funnel. Just kind of cool. It's kind of cool. Which you can totally do. Just know Chetney is in a line of fire.

So if that's what you want to do, you can't concentrate it when they're all being dragged through a whirlwind. I'll say it. I can do that, or I can try to Scorching Ray them and try to get them down. Drop the big hammer. Okay, okay. They are both restrained,

so if you Scorching Ray, you do have advantage on the attacks Drop the big hammer. Okay, okay. They are both restrained. So if you Scorching Ray, you do have advantage on the attacks because they're restrained in there. So it's up to you. I feel like this is not a final. What's the damage? Whatever does more damage. Okay, so Wall of Fire just happens and it's 5d8.

And it's dexterity. Scorching Rays. Scorching Rays are 2d6. Get the fuck out of here. But you do three Scorching Rays. Three Scorching Rays. At level two. So you can hit the Wall of Fire, you can. Technically.

6d6 versus 5d8, could hit two. But Wall of Fire, you could. Technically. 66 versus 5d8, right? But also, Wall of Fire, can't you control what side the fire comes off of? Couldn't you put it between them and him? You can, yeah. It's 20 feet tall. It's a whirlwind. They're all in a whirlwind. Okay.

You got to do the Wall of Fire. Okay, okay. We'll do the Wall of Fire. All right. It becomes like a 20. We'll make it a ring, a Ring of Fire, if you will. A Sc of fire. Okay, okay. We'll do the wall of fire. All right. We'll make it, it becomes like a 20, we'll make it a ring. A ring of fire, if you will. A scorching ring of fire. It just happens, Dexterity saving throws of 19. A whirlwind of fire.

Which they have disadvantage on because they have restraint. Which they have disadvantage on. But Chet has not, yeah, he's not restrained. Fire away. Okay. Ringed wall to 20 feet in diameter, yeah. So you can go ahead and make the ring go through here, essentially. So it just tears through that edge there.

So the whirlwind. You watch as the spiral of wind and debris now becomes a spiral of burning red and orange flame. It was just the shadows of figures screaming as the world up within. So go ahead and roll your damage, 5d8 fire damage. Okay. Come on.

This is too much shit. Let's go. This is what's happening. No, really. Too much shit on me. Okay, so it's 5d8 and then one additional d8 because of Mistor. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so you've got it. Okay, seven plus five is 12. 12.

12. How many did I just roll? Four. Plus additional seven. That's 19. But this is six eights. Shit. Okay, that's fine, that's fine. So 19 points of damage, that's it? I thought you said you got 5d8. 5d8 plus an additional d8, so 6d8, yeah.

Six. 19. 19 points of damage. That's really shitty. Same thing. Did you roll just super low? Shitty, really low. All right, so over here, dex save. God.

That's going to be a 20. 19 points. What's your DC? 19. Okay, so it's going to take nine points of fire damage on that. Me too. I rolled a 26. Fuck. Nine points of fire damage. It's a good. I rolled a 26. Fuck. Nine points of fire damage.

It's a good roll. Another one fails. How do you want to do this? Whoa! Yes! All right, okay. They were both on the edge. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay.

That's our responsibility. Okay, I'm just going to look up at Imogen and I'm going to say, we're going to get her, Imogen! It's okay, we got this! Then I'm going to step forward and try to just make it happen. Oh shit. As that massive flame tornado

consumes those inside, you hear the screams of the invulnents within that are then silenced as a flaming werewolf is now just being lobbed around on the outside of the building. With that, the charm fades from Brayus. Good, good, good. Ooh, perfect Mugger's timing. Okay, good timing, because he's next.

Fuck. We need people to remember where we are. So that finishes Fearne's turn. Brayus, you're up and Laudna, I'm down. Dude, take him down, Brayus. Can you get there? Take him down. There's this one last spot. We got the last one, man. Oh my goodness!

One last spot. Oh my god. I can't. You're a long way. I'm a long way away. Do you have any distance? Do you want to get right up on Luda and hold? I could. Oh, what a good idea. But I can't do that either because he's surrounded by a bubble.

But as soon as it drops. You can get close enough that once it goes down, you could hit him. Next to him? I mean, that thing is... You can get next to the bubble. You said the bubble has been slowly decreasing. Yeah, I mean, it's like, you know, you can get probably within five feet of him there. Yeah. And then I can hit him.

If you want to. When the bubble goes down? Okay, I will move to him and... I can hold one attack or both attacks? It's an action. Rules as written, it's a single attack. I think it's bullshit, so I just do, if you hold an action, you can do both of your attacks, but enemies can do it.

Okay, we got a while. This is the final. But first, we got to figure out how to get there. Right. Final thing on the ground. There's only one guy holding it back behind there. So you guys can take him out. On Ash, well, we really need it. He's hard to hit.

I need him. Yeah, absolutely. How do I get on your horse? His spectral horse! He's our homie. Does he move on my turn? Or on your turn? Or how does this work? I forgot to go for Mister.

Can Mister take two flame seeds at the guy right here? Sure. Mister would have to move to see him. How? What? I could just say that he, well, Matt could say that he doesn't go on my turn anymore as soon as he has a new mount. Whatever rider. He's mounted, Matt. He'll do whatever I say.

I'd say because we were going your turn, it's still your turn. So if you wanted to get hold of an action on him, have him move it somewhere in position. Just jump over and stand on something else. I can get over there. Yeah, jump over there. It depends on what you're trying to do. If you want to get next to Ludinus,

you've got to figure out a way to get there. But we're shooting a flame seed over here. Can you leap leap? Get to the nine points of damage. Hold on, did it hit? It did hit. It was 16 plus, where's the thingy? Yeah, and that'll hit. Okay.

So nine points of damage? Yarr. Okay. So are you going to hold it until the shield drops? Yeah, yeah. Pretty badass. Yeah, do it. What'd you do, Embrace? I got to get over there and, it's more than 30 feet of movement, right?

I mean, you can try and jump it. Can you jump down there and do an acrobatics check and jump from the crystal to the? It would be an athletics check to try and do a full jump from this point. Is that my action? No, but if you fail, it's going to cut your movement down.

Sure. And you'll stumble onto the ground. So it's a little risky, but. Okay, I will try it. I will jump and hopefully try to use the speed of the whirlwind to propel me over. Yeah, that's good. I love it. All right, go ahead and roll an athletics check for me.

Even if it hurts. Here's what I'll say. Okay. If you want to take the damage from the Whirlwind, I'll give you advantage in that roll. I will take that, yes. Okay. Awful. What is this, athletics?

Athletics. Ugh, 14. That's not terrible. 14's not terrible. So go ahead and roll the damage from your whirlwind. Oh god, the whole thing? He said he wanted to use it. Yeah, man. Yeah, get over there. It's a rocket jump. Ah.

Okay, I rolled low on that. 11, 15, 16, 18. Make a dex save, guys. 20, 25. I'm not sure it's going to work. Oh no, 27. What? Oh! So yeah. So how much is that? 27.

27, so you take 13 points of bludgeoning damage. Great. And the extra whiff shoves you over to this side and you stop landing right in front of the field where Ludinus is now just staring at you through it. And may I do a bonus action and then hold action, or the bonus action is holding my action? No, your action's held.

You can bonus action, do something else. Okay, the bonus action I will do is Shining Smite at level three. Okay. And then I'll hold my action to strike. Okay. And that's it. All right, so as you stand there at that weight brace,

he finishes his go, Laudna, you're up. How the fuck does this guy look over here? He's looking like he's taken a few hits. He's not on death's door. Okay, that answers my question. I'm going to move. My full move, five, 10, 15, 20, 25. 30, I think that should be fine. Yeah,, 15, 20, 25.

30, I think that should be fine. 30's about there, yeah. Five, 10, yeah, that should be good. I'm going to... God, my heart is racing right now. Let me double check something real quick. Actually, I should be, I know, hang on, hang on. Void Puppet, Void Puppet. I think Void Puppet is a bonus action.

Bonus action, okay. I'm going to bonus action Void Puppet right next to that guy. It's going to take the form of his fucking friend that I just killed, one of your Exaltants. And he comes out of the rock face and goes like, We have cursed the world! And then,

so he gets disadvantage on saving throws. Correct. I am then going to, because hopefully we can get it back with our little sphere that Caleb gave us. Six-level spell, Disintegrate. Yo. Okay.

Okay. Okay. That shining spell, I'm going to do it at level four, by the way. Okay. Okay. I tell Ashton and just say, Duck! And just a drip, all the dripping black void from my fingertips congeals into a straight fucking ray.

With a disadvantage on that saving throw, it was a natural 19, and then a five. Yeah! So go ahead and roll damage as you barely duck out of the way of this odd, pale beam. For five, I'll do this twice. As you barely duck out of the way of this odd, pale beam. Four, five, I'll do this twice. It's 10d6. Come on, big money.

10d6 plus 40. Actually, I'm going to do something. It is 10d6 plus 40. That's amazing. I lied. Wow! That's an all or nothing spell. Seven, eight, nine. If he succeeds, nothing, nothing. 10, 11.

12, 13. Actually, hang on. Two. Nine. One. Five. I don't know how this goes here. Okay, okay, hang on a second, sorry.

12, 14, hang on a second, sorry. 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, plus four is 32, plus 40, what is that? 72. 72. Jesus. I can, before you call this, spend a point to empower the spell

and reroll some of these ones. Why fuck around? Just because we still have a lot of shit to do. I know, that's fair. He said he's taken some hits. Not as many as we'd like. Leave no doubt. Okay.

Spinning a sorcery point. Since you're here. To empower the spell. Luckily, it's just one sorcery point to do that, so I'm going to reroll. I can reroll up to one, two, three, four, five. So I'm going to reroll these ones and twos. Keep these off the side.

I'm sorry. Yep, love it. Hell yeah, great call. Yeah, better. Okay. So six, 12, 18. 21, 18, right? 19, 20, 21. Plus four is 29. Plus four is 29.

Plus three is 32. 36. Sure. 37, 38, 39. Plus four is 43. Plus 40, so that's 83 points of necrotic damage, I think. Nice. Please kill him.

Please. How do you want to do that? Yes! That's all of them? Is that all of them? That should be all of them, baby. And I think it's four. Okay. Yeah, like I said, my void puppet that I just made reaches out from the rock and grabs him by the head and slams it up against the rock

and keeps him there as I just beam him with a black and black beam. He's like, No! And just atomizes into dark dust onto the ground. Yes! Yeah! That's my turn. I swing for her mom. What?

We knew it was coming! We knew that would have been a betrayal. My heel turn. The shield drops, and Ludinus is still staring at you. As it drops, he goes, Hmm. Take your attacks. Okay. The Herald of Asmodeus brings word from the Hells.

Oh no. A two. Oh no! For a total of? 14. That's going to miss. Okay. Second attack. A five! No way! For a total of? 17.

That's going to miss. Oh my god! You strike towards him, and each time you strike, you bring your weapon back. These little lightning-like veins up his neck, not unlike those you've seen on Imogen. Your brain blurs for a second and you swing and your swing went wider than it ever should have.

Angrily, you swing with the other one and he focuses in once more. They flash and in your mind and you swing, completely missing him again. He's like, what's wrong? Having a hard time concentrating. Oh, Jesus. Oh no.

Now she's still floating up there and is still being pulled in, just the field's down. That's going to finish Laudna's go. There's no more enemies left. Oh no. Ashton, you're up with Dorian on deck. How close can I get to the fucking yellow bubble? I want to run as fast as I can,

as close as I can get to the yellow bubble. I'm not sure which is the best way to go. And I can ignore difficult Earth turns. Imogen's bad. I know. Okay, okay, okay. So it's up to you. 75. Because I don't think anyone's going to be able to. I'm only going 40 feet, so I'm going to go 40 feet

towards it as far as I can go. Okay. You can't get anywhere there. I don't think Ashton can't be there. 35, 35, 40 is right there. 40 is right there? Mm-hmm. All right, hold on, sorry.

I'm figuring out my shit. F me a Dorian Imogen Oram. If only someone had inspired me. SAM and LAURA, LAURA, and SAM, I want to, wow. I want to keep a little tighter towards, because I want to curl around that way, if that's okay. Okay, yeah.

Let me do there. All right. That'll do. Okay, I'm taking one of my Chaos Bursts, and I'm making attack on Ludinus. Okay, you can do this. From where you're standing. That's 60 feet, right? I thought while I was rolling by.

That's 40 feet is what you wanted to do? Yeah, I might have to go around the other way, actually, the way I was trying to figure out the... Okay. The other way might be easier. Yeah, you'll be able to see it. Yeah, that'll be easier. 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 will be there. Yeah, that's much better.

Okay. All right, he does have half cover because of where the angle is and Brayus and the way that whole thing right there, he has half cover, so it just gives plus two to his AC. Yeah. There we go. Are you rolling with advantage?

Yeah, I'm rolling with advantage. We don't have time for this shit. 26 to hit? 26 hits? Okay. Okay, that's something. So, oh, this is better than something. You know what? He's going to... No. He's his butler?

No. Alfred. Get him in his butler. That's Alfred! Get him in his butler! It's too bad, yeah. Go ahead and roll. What were your rolls? Who? What were your rolls? It was a three, and then what did you roll

for the actual one? No, I think it was a seven and a... It would have been seven and a... Seven and a 16, I want to say. Okay. He's going to Silver Rebar. Let's roll one more dice. Roll one more die, yes. He gets to pick which one he wants.

11, which would have been 22. He's going to pick the seven. Obvious, of the three? Yeah. Okay, so he would have picked that. Okay, it didn't matter, unless it went lower. So that's a miss no matter what. Well, no, what's your bonus onto the seven? Oh, that would have been 11.

So that would have been 18. 18 misses. So he silvery barbs you, and your miss just goes wide. Okay, so it keeps my lowest roll no matter what. Well, he gets to pick which one. What a bullshit spell. I know, I know.

You rolled an advantage. I rolled an advantage. Do I get to reroll both of those then? No, you just roll an additional die and he picks one. Okay, that makes sense now. Well, shit. Wait, you rolled at advantage, so it would've gone with the higher number.

Then you roll a second one. And then he gets the lower roll as the spell. Of the two, but. Of the three. Of the three? Yeah. Or you re-roll one, essentially. Oh, I would've re-rolled the seven then. All right. One plus one plus two plus one. This does work differently than the 11.

Sorry, I don't get to use silvery barbs very often, you guys. It's a great spell. It is a great spell. I was curious of like, why am I rerolling? Because you just picked the low one. No, so 11 was the other one you rolled then, right? Then no, it would have been 11, and the higher one would have been,

I want to say 16, yeah. Well, a Serbian creature must reroll the d20. He would have you reroll the high one, which would have been 11, so you keep the seven. So it's still a miss. Okay, that works. So yeah, so you swing it wide to go ahead and portal the attack through the hammer. As it apparates next to him.

He casts something with his fingers. Now that the shield is down and now his spells are not being kept at bay from the field, he just does a mark through the air and you watch a rune appear and it strikes the rune and the hammer just stops before returning through the hold back to you. That got rid of his reaction, though.

It did, and I'm also, just for weirdness, I'm going to, I have to use a bonus action to drop rage, right? I can't just drop it at this point? No, you can drop it. Okay, I'm going to wait then for, all right. I'm going to use my bonus action to shift rage. Okay, so you drop it and then re-rage.

Yep. Go for it. Come on, do it for me. Nope, nothing changed. Oh well. Okay for it. Come on, do it for me. Nope, nothing changed. Oh well. Okay. Fate. That finishes your go, actually. Yeah. Dorian, you're up with Imogen on deck.

Shit. I'm going to turn to Imogen. Fuck him up. This has to be your choice. I have an idea. Can you get your mom? I can try. All right, I'll use all of my movement.

I'll fly over to the right. 60 feet? No, only 40, because it's my walking speed with the threats. And, uh... I'll put you over here. Fuck, it's never worked, this entire fucking campaign. Come on. I don't care. I'm going to try to cast Force Cage on Ludinus.

Force Cage. No magic can get in or out. And as I'm pro- Is it separating them? It's not going to include her in it? It is separating them. There's a way to do it. If you just think of the box and Lute is in the corner.

I think it's up to, yeah. 10 by 10? It's up to 10 by 10, yeah. Or is it just 10 by 10? I mean, there's two different versions of it. The smaller, tighter, wizard-proof one is 10 by 10. He could still teleport out, but it's a chance. A prison in the shape of a box

can be up to 10 feet on the side, creating a separate barrier. Up to, okay. So where are you placing your Force Cage? I want to try to put him directly in the corner. Yeah, get him in there. Where it splits up. Up to 10 feet, so it can be smaller. As tight as humanly possible.

You got to move me up. You sure don't want to trap me in there with him? It's an hour and I can't drop it. He will, I need to go. All right, so you are trying this, essentially. That is the goal. Okay. But I mean, yeah, a five-foot.

There is no save on this. It just happened. I'm preparing it. I'm pulling the ruby. He just used his reaction. He did. So he cannot counter-smash. Yeah, that's right!

That's right! Oh my god! You're just Force-Case Lugna! Okay. As the Force-Cage appears, the tether from his harness is severed, and Liliana. Oh my god. Yeah, you still have to get her! harness is severed and Liliana. Oh my god. Oh! Oh my god. Yeah, you still have to get her.

You still have to get her because he can get out. He can roll to get out. Yeah, yeah. It's never worked except when it mattered. It's because last time I've always been doing this. This time I did it like LeBron. Ah! Yeah! As it appears around him, he goes,

and just simmers. He goes, That's the best. Save your mommy. Oh no! Oh man, all right. That's a move and an action. Bone attack, all right. Imogen, you're up.

Okay, I'm going to fly forward 30 feet. That was 30 feet. I'm going to drop my, I like that Laudna was coming with me, drop the Whirlwind. Okay. I'm going to cast Telekinesis and pull my mom to me. Yes.

Let's go. Do I get an attack of opportunity? Oh shit. You're going to pull him! It was instinct. Oh. Oh my god. You pull your mother out of the grasp on the top,

and as you drift, pull her forward. She is fragile, made of paper. She's waifish and gaunt and on the cusp of expiration, but still here. Can I use my bonus action to pour my Cure Wounds into her, to my healing potion into her? If you want to.

The Chalky Boy? That's what I got. It's small. That makes sense. Let's go. Of course. She could be killed now. Fish brothers. That's a lot of force.

Great. Wow. Ooh, yeah. That resin is so cool-looking. I'm so happy for how it turned out. What? When you do stuff like that, man, is that in your kitchen? Are you in your kitchen doing that? Well, for resin, I do outside,

because it has fumes. Yeah. But a lot of things I just do on our game table. Four, eight, 30, 32, 35. Jeez, this is a huge potion.

Shaped like a heart. 40, 45 plus. Plus one for every die that's there. Plus 16. Yeah. 40 plus 16. 61. 61 points of healing. Wow, that's a big healing spell.

Yeah, that's a... That was a great thing. That's a... It's a power of love. She like, yeah. comes to and coughs. Now, you're in the air still. Yeah, I'm holding her. I have her telekinetically up at me.

You pull her up and she's like, In the chat. She just looks back at you. How? You're okay now. You're okay. She puts her arms over your shoulders and can barely feel the strength as they do, but she just holds you there for a second

and hangs in your grip. She gets close to your ear and just whispers, I don't deserve you, but I'm so glad you're here. Does that finish your turn? I'm a little nervous about it for some reason. I feel weird about this. I just feel like you're trying to trick me. No.

You're trying to trick me. That's called trauma. It's called trauma. Yeah. With my Essence of the Red Moon, can I feel a red tether to her? At the moment, no. Ooh.

Okay. Mm, daddy. Okay. Mm. That's your mom, right? Yeah, so if I tried to give her some of my essence. You can certainly try. You guys feel weird about it?

No! That's your mom. That's your mom. What do you mean you're going to give her some of your essence? We're just, we're still not going to def- We've just been playing this game too long. I know, I'm going to try to give her three of my sorcery points.

Okay. Does it work? It does not work. Okay. Oh boy. She just holds over and pulls you in as tight as she can, but that exultant connection is gone.

Yeah, and he had to complete it for it to become permanent, right? Correct. But it's still, he's going to be like, he's going to be nasty from it. Yeah. Not that he wasn't like it already. But was that taken from her forever?

Or just for a duration? He prevented it from being forever and prevented it from destroying her. But if it's anywhere near the Quintessence Array that you have that you know of its abilities, 24 hours. How long does Force Cage last? One hour. Too bad. 23 to go.

How many times can you cast Force Cage? One time. That's my seventh slot, it's gone. Yeah. So it's pretty high-level one, too. It's your turn. Yeah. Orym comes running out onto the movement. Five, 10, 15, he's going to vine up onto Coriolis. Mm-hmm.

Oh, he's got the gooey on him. Oh gosh, I'm scared to do it. That's okay. I'm going to do it. So I'm now responsible. That's good. Merge has got those doctor's hands. Yeah. Responding. Here they are got it, that's good. Merge has got those doctor's hands. Yeah. I'm responsible.

Here they are. Surge and sails. I'm going to fly Coriolis up and hover directly in front of the Temmels so that I'm within striking range if any wizards or anything were to suddenly appear. I will attack anything that comes within either melee range or seedlings' air slicing range,

which is 15 feet. You got it. If any threat comes that close, I will attack them. And I want... I think I know the answer to this already, but I'm going to check anyway. If staring at lewdness, this is definitely not a snow cone, right?

Make a perception check. Or make an insight check, I mean, sorry. Insight? Those are shitty rolls. No, I had to drop it to get it. Had to make it insight. It is just a 10. You were already on the ground.

10. It hadn't restrained you. Thembesta can tell there's no gem in the forehead. Yeah, and he wouldn't be putting the power into a snowman, but since it was a free action, I'm poised, ready to protect the Temmels. You got it. Finishing your turn, Orym, it comes to Ludinus. Just puts his right hand in front

and plays with his fingers for a second while his black withered hand with its golden tips clicks at his side and he goes, and it seems for the time being, we have a moment to chat. Oh. I figure why not take a bit of time and pontificate amongst ourselves before the end, huh?

And that's where we'll pick up. Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Yeah, dragon! Yeah, dragon! Dragon! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah! Come on! Oh! Oh! Oh my god! My precious man! Oh my god! That was terrible.

I peed a little. That was disrespectful. I may have farted. I may have dropped the nugget, it's good. There's a slow-mo camera that is. Ashley, careful. No! My god!

That was terrifying. All right, so we'll pick up here from this fascinating little breath. Yeah. Forced age match. In 2025. It's creating little breath. Yeah. Forge Cage. In 2025. Whoa! Y'all got to wait for this chatty chat.

This little tiki. It's the year of Cage. Oh my goodness. Okay. Nicholas Forge Cage. But of course, don't forget to watch the Daggerheart Curtainmas show. Yay!

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