Critical Role - C3 E118 The Hallowed Cage

Episode Date: January 9, 2025

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We never give up on the fight Oh, get ready It's Thursday night Good night! And welcome back. So, last we left off, Bell's Hells, with the aid of two other disparate groups of heroes, have managed to head towards the depths of Ruidus, trying to follow the footprints and current aspirations

of the Ruby Vanguard and Ludinus D'leth. After discovering through a vision that your mother was seemingly captured by Ludinus and being transferred, her abilities and possibly her physical being being transferred and destroyed into Ludinus through a newly constructed quintessence array. You raced through the subterranean tunnels, befriended a number of the mycetes

and the strange fungal culture that exists within the lower layers of Ruedis itself, interfaced with the core of that mycelium network and the hive mind of the mycete culture, in which you also granted the seed of the All Minds Burn to whatever end that might be. Trekking further on, bypassing some challenges, stumbling past others, Trekking further on, bypassing some challenges,

stumbling past others, eventually you came to the outer depths of the prime pillar, whereupon a fissure in the thick glass led you deeper within. The tree trunk-like ringed layers of stone and glass revealing themselves as you began to wind deeper into the central pillar that represents, it seems to be, a path to the deeper into the central pillar that represents, it seems to be, a path to the core of the moon.

There, you came upon a troop of exultant that had surrounded Ludinus, keeping him contained within some sort of a psychic shell while he was on the cusp of absorbing the remnants of your mother. You then quickly sprang into action, was on the cusp of absorbing the remnants of your mother. You then quickly sprang into action, defeating and dispelling and disrupting the concentration of these exaltants

until one by one they fell, with the last one crumbling. The shield was absolved and destroyed. A rapid series of actions pulled your mother, Liana, from the jaws of destruction and ash. And your resident blue bard here immediately locked Ludinus within a dense Force Cage spell. Let's go! Sorry, sorry.

In this moment, here within the outer layers of the Prime Pillar, Ludinus seems to nod with a moment, here within the outer layers of the Prime Pillar, Ludinus seems to nod with a strange bit of approval to what has just transpired, as you see the arching, flaring veins of purplish, exultant energy crawling up around his neck and his arms, his hair beginning to float and flow around him, the essence of Liliana's exultant,

Ruidus-born gift being transferred, albeit temporarily, to Martinet Ludinus De Leth. And here, as you all stand at the immediate end of an intense conflict, you catch your breath and look face to face with what looks to be a very calm and smug villain. As you all stand there, Ludinus paces back and forth within the cage like a calm lion, tiger,

just looking about the rest of your troop. A liger, if you will. A liger, if you will. Awesome. Very well. I suppose you have your mother back. That's one thing before the end, I suppose you have your mother back. That's one thing before the end, I suppose. If it is to be an end. What do you think?

I thought that's not what you wanted. Well, it's an end of something. End of an age. But there's so much potential, so much possibility for what's to come. Wouldn't you agree? You all wear the weathered scars of experience and challenge disaster on your faces

since even the last time we met. There's a dark wisdom in being more worldly. With each step you take, I deign to take a guess that perhaps you see things a little bit closer to the way I do. DM, while he's starting to talk, can I start to slink to the right? Maybe stealthily, but not entirely concerned.

I want to try and... There seems to be a tunnel over here. Right, there is another one. Can I try and just not draw his eye and go explore that tunnel while he chats? Sure, go ahead and make a stealth check for me, if you don't mind. 16, 28, 28.

Okay. As everyone's having this moment of listening to what seems to be his opening to a conversation, you quietly delve out of the edge of his periphery and begin to ever so carefully head down this little pathway. So we'll come to you in a little bit. I also have a question. Yes.

He's got a, the miniature at least, is holding a staff. He has a staff, yeah. Has he always had that? Yeah. Yeah, what's that look like? It is a long, thin brass and gold-looking staff. It's tightly wrapped towards the center of where he grips it,

and it separates off into two prongs with an elvish latticework that seems to weave between them, almost like a strange golden two-pronged fork of magical, attuned energy. Thank you. Great for catching fish. Yeah. Yeah. It's a big camper.

Mm-hmm. He slipped just now. What? He slipped. I don't even think he heard it. I don't think I heard it. I know, but what's the context, Ashton? Well, I mean, there's some truth to it. We saw what we saw.

I'll admit, there are some things I have shifted around in my head a bit. But you immediately went to the end of an age. You had to be reminded about the beginning of a new one. That tells me a lot about where you're at. I love when the insolence of youth tends to believe it knows far more than it can. Read into my words what you wish.

This isn't a chess game. This is a conversation. I have nothing to hide. I never have. At every single point, I have been nothing but forthright and honest with you. And that does not change here. In my mom's head,

I want to say, how much of that is a lie? I mean, as far as I'm aware, he... Oh gosh, I can still talk to her in her head. Oh, yeah. You can, yeah. Yeah, this is her talking back to you, but she's still like, she's barely holding. She's much healthier thanks to the potion,

but she's still significantly drained. She hears, like, I mean, I had no reason to doubt him. His methods and means are obfuscated and twisted in all manner of ways, but I followed him because I believed him. The better for worse, I still do. For worse, Vava.

She kind of nods. I mean, that's the trouble, though. I mean, I believe you. I don't think you've been lying at all. I don't honestly think any of us really think you're lying. I do. Yet we all don't like you. I think you can lie by omission. I think he lied when he said

he didn't want to take Berdothos himself. I know. He proved yourself. What I was going to ask, did that plan change? Plans often change by unexpected circumstances. He looks over towards your mother, kneeling on the ground, still catching her breath. Liliana was to be the vessel from the beginning,

but as a person, as I, who survived as long as I have, you have a number of contingencies in case things don't pan out, and upon discovering a not altogether unexpected deceit, I had to resort to, um. Doing it yourself? Yeah. You're always going to be the best man for the job, Luneis.

Yeah, you're an altruist. So is this the plan? Going to make a beeline for the Core? See who gets there first? Little bit of a race. I love races. You don't have to work anymore. You can sit it out.

We can just leave now and go take the spot. I agree, the gods have to be dealt with. And do what? Just not you. That's the trouble. Never you. Would it change things? If you wanted. If you heard that

maybe we have our own plans of taking on Plodothos? And what would you do as the vessel? Either of you. The beginning of a new age, Ludinus. Yeah, it would be so amazing. I mean, I would just eat everyone. And I think Imogen, we would just have all of the snacks

and we would start with you. I do not begrudge you for being the children you are. Honestly. We grudge you for being the children you are, honestly. But here we are at the edge of destiny, and I think we'll all owe to each other a bit of openness. We're being open. Yeah. It's such a short list of people who've called me a child in the last year or so. Weirdly, most of them were gods at this point.

I think there's something wrong with you now. I think you might've lived too long. I definitely know that's what's wrong with them. I don't disagree. I have no aspirations for surviving far beyond this, especially given the context of my temporary imbuement. I think it looks cool. But I know it needs to be done, and if a sacrifice must be made,

I will make it myself. If you truly intend to align with my goals and become the vessel to the destruction of this tyrannical family. Then I would not be in your way either, but I'd walk in very strong lockstep. Then again, your bloodline has already proven duplicitous. Why should I even believe you? Maybe you shouldn't. Tell me your hardships.

What are the things that drive you to survive here to the ends of the ruddy Noonville Omen? What is it you wish to change? I want people to have a chance. To change their fates. Too often, I feel like what's been set in motion can't be undone

and I think that's in part due to the gods I do. We didn't quite get to finish our conversation last time in Aeor. I kind of ran off. But I'm curious. In this past century, have you ever thought to just ask the gods yourself? Hmm.

To what end? To what end? You might be surprised. They do answer sometimes. Sometimes. My family once long followed the path of the Lawbearer. My mother and father, the most devout followers, living in her holy light and divine protection,

marching to the decrees of guidance and the promised order and peace of Exandria. The divine law. Through all the terror and destruction of the Calamity, they never wavered in their faith. Not once. My earliest memories still ring with their words, she will protect us.

Our love and devotion is stronger than any magic, but it's brighter than any fire. The Lawbearer will see us through. Our family was collateral damage in the battle between the law bearer and the crawling king that destroyed our home city, Avazana. Words of remembrance from the lips of a foreign priest was all I was given in recompense.

The fallen forgotten, abandoned. When their gods stepped away from the smoldering ruin, they wrought. My conviction was forged that day and has remained unwavering since here ruin they wrought. My conviction was forged that day and has remained unwavering since here on the Prespice of Truth and Triumph. No, I do not care for their words, their platitudes.

They only care about them. I don't understand, Linus. You've said over and over again that sacrifices must be made. Would you have rather let the Lawbearer have the Crawling King free, loose on the world? You don't have to have faith in the gods. But what about faith in the gods, but what about faith in your mother?

What do you think she would make of all of this? You know nothing of my mother. With a gait of bottom. What did you do afterwards? Where did you go? What happened? How did this happen? I wandered. I met many survivors, others who were seeking a meaning to all of it, looking to their great and wondrous,

glorious golden guards for direction, for an apology, for comfort, for direction. And in that silence, one by one, they all walked away. So yes, sometimes sacrifices must be made. But the good remember those who made that sacrifice. I remember them when others do not. Why did the gods walk away, do you think?

Truly, you've seen it? I saw what I saw. They fear their children. They fear we have too much ambition. Maybe they feared the collateral damage they were wreaking upon the world. Some maybe.

But it's very easy for even the best to be spoiled. What happened to your family? I literally just told you. They died. They died. But did you get to say goodbye? No. Of course not. Insight check.

Make an insight check. Reacted weird. Do I believe him? 15. 15? Oh! Ooh! He's hovering over there! Whisper! Yeah, a whisper from lewdness.

Can I quickly judge so far? Mm-hmm. Pretty good. Yeah. Pretty quickly judge so far? So far, pretty good. Yeah. Pretty good speech so far. Pretty decent speech. Is that a six or a nine? Are you holding it upside down? Could go up to a seven, depending on what happens next. Got a rating system.

Oh, no, no. His villain model. Super villain. I hate this. Can I do this? Make friends like this. No, no, no, what'd you mark? Nothing.

Oh. Yeah. This is how you ruin everything. What were your parents' names? Yes, what was your mother's name? Do you remember, since it's been so long, and it's very important, as we've learned in the past, to learn the names of people's parents.

I haven't known, I didn't know the names of mine until very recently. As someone whose parents had faith and died, and I was cast into the middle of nowhere and blamed the gods and was left without anything. I cannot believe how much of your story makes sense to me. I cannot believe

how different we both came out. I'm still an asshole, don't get me wrong. It's true. Fuck. What is wrong with you? Get over it. Grow up. What began my journey

was Berespak. What began my journey was Berespak. There are many more stories to tell that have made me who I am today. But what of you, she who sits between many thrones? What would you do with the power of the God Eater? I would probably, I would probably make sure all of my friends have everything they want.

Get them all a nice house, whatever kind of food they want. I don't think it's like being a genie, though. I don't know. I've never been a god. This is what kind of god I would be, so. Okay. I would just give anybody what they wanted. When I would be. Okay. I would just give anybody what they wanted. When I want it.

So clearly, I'm the man for the job. You'd be the traitor god, wouldn't you? Probably, probably, probably. I probably shouldn't be the receptacle for the... But I'm just, I don't know what I would do. I don't know. I mean, we can get a house out of it. I don't know, it could go either way. It could go either way with this one.

And why are you here? Hmm? Why are you here? I am here. That's a great question. Great questions. Like, what am I doing? What am I doing here?

I'm here because I'm very curious. And if the world is going to burn, I would like to have a front row seat. Hmm. That I can respect. What do you want? What do I want? Yes. Well, Imogen was telling the truth.

We've talked about this. There is merit to giving a little bit more. Fate and destiny back to the people. Learned quite a lot over these journeys. The gods were not the first one here. Who speaks for them? Who speaks for the Titans? For the Elementals?

Who crafted this Earth? Someone should, even though they're long gone. But I'm here. But? I'm here. Really, just because I kept walking through open doors. As I always have. Some that have gotten me killed. Twice. Twice.

But we're here now. Someone has to speak for those who can't speak for themselves. And what of you? Small. Brave, Asshari. I don't know that there's much I need to talk about. I'd rather just shut up and do.

Your malice is predictable. People have been spilling garbage from their mouths like yours for eons. There's nothing new about you other than the scale, Daleth. Honestly, I can't wait for you to come out of that box. In your head, you hear, I love you so much, Orym. Now that is forthright honesty. And it's appreciated.

Go fuck yourself. And you, Wanderer of the Silken Sails, what's your part in all this with these strange beings of fate and destiny? What do you want? I've always just been in it for the ride. But now that I'm here,

I feel like I want to help steer a little. Can I ask you a question? Is it allowed? I feel like there are rules. I have been nothing but present. So benevolent. I know you think you're right. I don't know, maybe you are, but do you think what you're doing is good?

Do you think that what you're doing is good? Do you think that what you're doing is good? In your mind's eye, do you think you're right? Not everything I've done is good. But it's all been to serve what I know

to be right. Ha, gotcha. It's perfect. The best villains always think they're right. Damn. Wait. We think we're right, too. Don't think too hard about it.

Okay. We're the good guys. 90% sure. No. No. I don't know if that's accurate. No, I don't know. Am I a villain? Pretty messy.

At least we don't have illusions that this is a means to an end. That's what makes a villain. What makes a villain is opposing perspective. That's all it is. It's all it's ever been. And you, fiendling in training, you're a strange outlying thread in this motley crew.

What is it you want? They wish the gods to perhaps be gone. Perhaps our goals are aligned in different ways. But you, you are a conundrum. I... I must admit, I share some of your distinct history with the gods. And... distinct history with the gods and have lost faith as well.

I also, although everybody here, including me, thinks you're an asshole, I'm sorry about your family. I know that that's rough and can change a person. Frankly, I don't know what I want. And I feel like being around people who do and I feel like being around people who do

can help guide a person. But you're alone and have no one to guide you. And haven't for a long time, that must be very hard. I'm sorry. I'm going to just walk away from him and walk to a different corner of the room. Okay.

After he walks away, I've got my arms crossed, I'm going to shoot two fingers at Imogen and send a message. Whisper to myself for her, Hey, that thing doesn't last forever, and he can get out if he tries. What are we doing here? I don't know.

Should we... I feel like he's stalling. Let us look around a little bit. Where's Chet? Meanwhile. Her name was Lola. She was a showgirl. Ha!

Meanwhile, Chet, you've moved through this other, maybe at times 10-foot wide, at times maybe only six-foot wide, sometimes a little wider, this zigzagging crevasse where part of the glass is split up the top and leads to this strangely arcing point at the top,

this glass cavern with bits of rock that break through and then it transitions into more stone with the waves of glass coming, these odd marbled striations of the sedimentary layers essentially of Ruidus moving inward, deeper into the pillar. You've been following this for quite a bit, and it opens up into a smaller subchamber

that then has nowhere other real exit other than across the way where it splinters off into another path, like some sort of ancient exhaust or something pushed through here to create this opening that still remains. But about now, you come into one kind of larger, I want to say almost triangular chamber

that kind of opens up from where you are outward and then comes to a large glass wall deeper in the pillar. In this space, you can see bits of rock jutting up from it and other glass pillars and comes to a large glass wall deeper in the pillar. In this space, you can see bits of rock jutting up from it and other glass pillars that hit from the ceiling to floor. But where the glass is, the broken opening that leads deep within

is obscured with multiple layers of barely visible golden geometry, like lattice patterns of some sort of extremely detailed glyph-like barrier, multitudes of layers of it sitting densely, one beneath the next. Big red button, you guys, I'm sorry. Just jump in, yeah. 10 years, you know what's happening.

Okay, I'm happening. First of all, while you've been walking, has there been any tracks on the ground? Does it seem like treaded ground? Make an investigation check for me. Investigation or survival, your choice. I'm so excited about this. Dirty 20.

Dirty 20. Best you can tell, none. Okay. No dust disturbed. Okay. Cool, cool, cool. Can I give a smell to the air and use a little Hunter's Bane? Is there any indication of a living or undead type of creature in this room,

this cavern, this triangular? Make a perception check. That was total shit. Six. Six. Hard to tell, and the reason is because, as you step into this chamber, there's been that odd periphery buzzing sense,

that low, heavy, heavy subwoofer bass, sitting underneath the atmosphere here. Where you stand now, it is loud and it hits your senses, your sensitive, woven gnomish ears in a way where you can feel like your eardrums are perpetually flickering, like they're just twitching. Sorry, Liam. Oh yeah. In a way where you can feel like your eardrums are perpetually flickering,

like they're just twitching. Sorry, Liam. Good! It is this oppressive, general vibration that you cannot pinpoint that seems to be mucking with your senses, and it seems to just getting heavier and heavier the closer you've gotten towards this current boundary.

From the opening where I'm at to where this golden lattice work is, how about, what's the distance there? It's about 130 feet, 140 feet maybe, from where you currently are. I just want to touch it. I just want to go back and tell you. Large pieces of rock pillars

that are pushed out of the ground but at an odd angle, almost like some sort of force long ago blasted them back and caused them to arc and freeze in place. I should be a team player. I should go back and tell the others. Make it.

You say only the good die young, but I'm not good. I'm going into the room. Can I look for any sort of, in case this has been scoured before, any kind of traps or wards or anything that would ensnare somebody trying to cross to this exposed?

Sure, make a investigation check for me, that's about mine. Check for traps. don't mind. Check for traps. 21. 21. You do not see any traps. You do not see any lay glyphs. You don't see any wires or lines. Lifted his head and goes. It's just this open stretch of this chamber

that eventually comes to this opening with the boundaries there from some raised platforms, glowing pulsing glass, but that's... Can I cautiously cross the room about halfway, maybe 50, 60, 70-ish feet, and I'll take out one of the wooden discs. It's a CPOP Industries exclusive. And looking at the golden latticework,

can I stone skip, like wing it like a frisbee into the wall? Yeah, go ahead and make an athletics check for me. Did Chet invent pogs? It's been a mainstay of my toy business for decades. Make sure he dies. It comes in and out of style, but Chetney never does. I win, I get your slammer.

Natural 17. This one's already in glass. 26. You chuck it and it arcs a bit, hits it. There's a little blast of arcane spark, a subtle gold-tinted flash, and it skips off and hits the ground and comes to rest. Can I go?

I'm going to get closer and go pick it up and inspect it. Is it singed or burned or just broken? Just like it hit something hard. As I get closer, I'd like to get within 15 to 10 feet of this. Is it moving, static, solid? As you approach and you get closer look at it,

the faint golden energy and light that's emanating from it, it is an endless fractal of woven, glyph-like detail that shifts together and moves. It's like it's, you've, you saw patterns like this when Ira's telescope saw the outer barrier that had set an illusion boundary around Ruidus.

This has some semblance to the weave of the Divine Gate. And it is just, you get close and you can see the larger glyphs that shift and move and weave, semblance to the weave of the Divine Gate. It is just, you get close and you can see the larger glyphs that shift and move and weave. As you look in, they're made up of smaller glyphs that are made up of smaller glyphs. It's just this endless fractal to an infinitesimal point. The multiple layers move in different directions beneath each one.

You're not even sure how many there are. I'm going to take out the Staff of Dark Odyssey that I've been entrusted to safekeep and protect from the group, put it on the ground behind me. And fuck it, I'm going to reach out and touch it. Oh god. Your finger touches it,

and it's an immediate resistance that is warm. It's like pressing your finger against a piece of solid glass or stone that is hotter than your body temperature. So it feels not enough to burn you necessarily, but it has its own unique heat, and it just feels solid. Oh, that's not so bad.

It's not so bad. We could get through this. I'll take out a little chisel. With all my centuries of craftsmanship, can I give it just one little hit into it? You do. The hammer bounces back, almost like it seems to be repelling it

with an equal or close to equal amount of force that was put into it. Okay, fuck you. Okay, cool. Not for me. No, I've been running for a while. I'm going to turn around, grab the staff, and start heading back up the walkway

to where the rest of the room is. Okay. While you're heading back, I'm turning to the chamber. Oh yeah, you were asking me. That was just the perfect segue. It's also true, yeah. Can I, in my mom's head,

while Ludinus is monologuing, ask her, do you know? Sorry. Really? I didn't think it was going to do that. No. I did. Yeah, yeah, you did. I didn't know that was going to be the case.

Do you know how Ludin has planned on you getting through? On you becoming the Vessel? We hadn't gotten this far before, but through both of our visions, as far as I know, it requires someone carrying the mark of Predathos to press through the boundaries from this side to temporarily leave them traversable.

Okay. It was, from what he said, the true purpose of the Ruidusborn. Oh, okay. To come back to this home and usher it beyond its cage. Okay. Ludinus is looking over your troop a bit as you wander off and you're all still glaring at him.

So I've devoted my life to knowledge, patterns, control. I've studied and mastered the whims of ambition, weaving well-worn pathways of tyrants. I'm going to Misty Step to the tunnel. Misty Step to the tunnel? To the mouth of the tunnel. Okay. And take off running.

Children are so impatient. I'm listening, I'm listening. I was ready to hear the whole thing. Okay. What's the DC on your force cage? Here we go, here we go, here we go. 16. Oh, that's it? You all watch as Ludinus Delef

sighs, watching Imogen vanish and his hair begins to float up. The energy in his body begins to spark up brighter. You watch his eyes go to a bright violet-white coloration as he lifts off the ground. His very outfit seems to flicker and burn red with the energy that's glowing off of him, and then he's gone.

Vanish from sight. First try. Disappear. Take off after Imogen. Done that short rest ball. Could I, as I get to the cavern, could I turn around and use one thing? I'd like to leave an item at the front of the cavern. Okay.

And then could I also use Detect Magic just to front of the cavern. Okay. Then could I also use Detect Magic just to look in the cavern, in case there's anything I'm not seeing? Sure. So you cast Detect Magic. As you're running back down the hallway and you cast the spell as you're trekking along, your vision clarifies. As you do, the bits of glass

that are in the rock around you gives a faint magical aura, but it's not of a woven spellcraft or an enchantment, but they have an innate magical essence to them, though alien than any other magic you've encountered. Whereas normally with detect magic, you can gather a sense of which school of magic it's related to.

This sits weirdly out of it. It's like looking at ultraviolet color that's beyond the color spectrum that you're familiar with. Yeah. I mean, like, that's I recognize that that's a color, but I don't know how to describe it. You know, it's that kind of a vibe to it. It doesn't take too long before

as you're kind of rushing back, you hear footsteps and Imogen kind of apparates at the kind of early entrance to the tunnel that you had come through, running in your direction. The rest of you give a quick run behind her. Oh, hey, there's a whole latticework thing. Yeah, I'm going. Just go, go, go.

What do you mean, go? Where's Ludinus? He left. He left? He might be there, go. But he didn't come through. Can I look back at the latticework? Is he anywhere in the cavern? You've gone quite a bit into the tunnel

to catch up with them, by the time, you're almost back before they arrive. Well, shit! Don't worry, I left something waiting for him. Okay, did you? A trap of deadly magnitude, unheard of. Magic can't get through that force cage, right? No.

I'm assuming that would include a Counterspell. You think he just made himself invisible? No, we teleported out. No, I think he teleported out. I'm just wondering if I could have Counterspelled it. Unfortunately, nothing can get through the Force Cage. Yeah. Yeah. He just made himself invisible.

Orym falls in a round Imogen, and I'm looking for him. Is there any place in this chamber that he could be? Orym falls in around Imogen and I'm looking for him. Is there any place in this chamber that he could be? Well, you're not at the chamber yet. You're trekking through the tunnel on transit. I'll save him. All right. I don't know.

They just left. I didn't do that. I'm off somewhere else. What are you doing? What are you doing? Well, I was going to sit down and pray. Oh shit. Well, sorry. Everybody just left, and I don't know that they did. Well, for instance.

We'd make a clamor. We're all still there. Here's what we'll do. Because you said you're going to have to pray, and then everyone else is talking for a bit before this happens. Yeah. So you said you wanted to pray to your deity? I wanted to sit down next to a face of rock of some sort,

and I was going to take out my paints, my poison paints, and I was going to quickly splatter a symbol on the rock in poison paint, and then touch it with my hand, even if it burns a little, and ask, reach out in this moment, reach out and ask, at the cusp of the end of my mission,

I need guidance. I need renewed faith. I need inspiration. And I need to speak with you. Okay. My lord. No! You're breaking a clock call!

Who's your lord? Which lord? Which lord? Which lord? Which lord? So in a little timey-wimey here, as while all this has been happening right before it did, Bray had stepped off to attempt to reach out to a source of divine inspiration.

You know what? Let's have all the rest of you leave the table, if you don't mind. Whoa! What? No! Oh, bunsies. Did you know you were going to do that? You knew you were going to kick that off? All right. Wait, wait, wait!

We're out and leaving? Yeah. It's going to be a good night. It's going to be a good night. Oh shit. Oh my god. What's happening? The gods. What do you feel, god?

Okay. Did you know something like this was going to happen? Just step out into the kitchen. Okay, okay, okay. All right, all right. Don't listen. If he says to kill us all, don't listen to happen. Just step out into the kitchen. Okay, okay, okay. All right, all right. Don't listen. If he says to kill us all, don't listen to him. Oh boy.

I wish I had a rat right now. I'm going to ask you in a second who specifically you're praying to. Sure. I was just going to say it here. All right. Okay, okay. All right. Okay. All right, they left the room.

Brace. Who did you pray to? I'm reaching out to see if the Lord of Lies, the King of the Hells, Lord Asmodeus, will hear my plea for guidance. Hmm. Okay. As you place your hand upon this symbol and reach out to

one of the stronger sources of divine guidance in your recent years, you feel that buzzing sound at the edge of your vision begin to shake. Your vision seems to vibrate as all shapes and the painted symbol that you put upon the rock seems to change and move.

In that moment, your vision begins to tunnel until a flame burns it back. While your vision still remains imperfect and blurred and unfocused, amongst the shadows, you look in front of you, an onyx throne that curves up and focused amongst the shadows, you look in front of you, an onyx throne that curves up in all manner of horns or clawed fingers.

You can smell throughout the intense sulfur and burned bone that seems to cultivate this darkened space with a sense of horror and burned bone that seems to cultivate this darkened space with a sense of horror and belonging. Here in this black and shattered space, as this vision itself forces itself to fight through this region where divinity is kept at bay. The shadow peels away, and you see the beautiful face of your fallen angelic lord in his black and red robes

as he leans in. My child, what is it that you seek guidance for? If I'm not kneeling, I kneel and lower my head in reverence. I apologize for disturbing you in this hour of great import, but I...

signs from you have been few and far between, and I've been shown so many other paths, none of which I've taken, my lord, but in the absence of clarity, sometimes a mission can become muddled, or I fear I stand on shaky ground. I've met people who consider me their ally, who have goals aligned with ours,

but for different reasons. And now I've just spoken with our enemy, Ludinus Deleuth, whose history and story actually sounds remarkably like my own, and it shook me. I just want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing. I'm following your path,

and I'm not confusing your orders. It is good of you to check in, Bray, for indeed, through some whim of the Threaded Fate, you stand at the cusp of a choice. Ludinus may be a tragic figure, but deeply misguided. Such beings might need a new direction. Or if their goals are in opposition to our personal interests, they must be erased. He's too far gone. Destroy him. But

Podathos cannot be set free. Cannot be set okay? If you cannot do this, then perhaps No, no, I can. I can. Then perhaps. No, no, I can, I can. I've accomplished much. Who do you walk with, Brayas?

Who do I walk with? I walk with you, my lord. When I was at my lowest, when tragedy befell me, I thought about ending it all. I thought about, I thought my life was over, and you were there. You sent a guide to guide me, to tell me I had something to live for,

that I was special, that I didn't need the approval of the prime deities or a temple or anyone, that I was strong enough on my own. And when you commanded me to That I was strong enough on my own. When you commanded me to... to destroy that first guide. Stanley. I did. I did as you commanded me.

And I've done much more since. Using the knowledge you've given me and the abilities that you've granted me, I've made allies with important people. I've met the heads of churches and temples and kingdoms. I've found this group that considers me their ally and have brought me all over the world. I've even found that I've gotten this armor. This armor, this comes from the Platinum Dragon himself.

Oh, I greatly recognize it. My lord, they just gave it to me. And I have another boon, too. One that I can use to help you. But how will I know if the time is right? And what will happen if I succeed? Will I? What do you want, Brayas?

I'm in no position to ask you for anything, my lord. You're in every position to ask, Brayas. You've already done so much. You, who was abandoned by those who could not see the spark of potential within you. You who was lost and adrift because you spent a life in service to others who cared little, but now you live in service to yourself. And as such, in service to me. And I'm so proud. So, you who work so hard,

you who now represent our future, my future, what is it you want, Doomseed? Well, first and foremost, to please you, my lord. But... I wish for family. I wish for family. I wish my family discarded me

when I when I ruined their name and I've been alone for so long. I wish for a family, and a place to call my own, my home. Maybe I could, maybe I could go to where you dwell and sit with.

Sweet, sweet Brace. His clawed fingers cup your chin as he leans forward and looks into your eyes. You already have a family and a home, and it will be yours forever. You just need to protect it. Protect it. Yes.

Destroy lewdness, but do not free Predathos. And if it must be freed, do what you must to bend it to our will. I know you walk alongside vessels. I know you've ingratiated yourself to those who might very well be the crux of our time. Bend them to us. What if they won't listen to me?

Then perhaps it needs a vessel to survive. And without a vessel still remaining, your home will be protected. I understand. And you'll bring me to you? And so many more things, Brace. You've only stepped but a little into these flames and pleasures. I'm proud of you.

I must confess, these friends I'm with, I like them. I don't know if I'll be strong enough to... How will I be strong enough to betray them? Patience. Can't give me a special spell or something? I'm never far from you, Brace.

And when the moment is right, we'll strike together. I look forward to that day. It might be today, actually. Time is always of the essence, isn't it? It is. MATT and LAURA sigh. Thank you

for seeing in me what others wouldn't. Thank you for not abandoning me. He just looks over at you with a soft smile. We've always been special. Now show the rest of the world why. The flames wreath your vision and you are back inside the chamber with your hand on the symbol. As you pull away, you watch as the paint burns into ash,

leaving the rock face clean as it was before you started. In that moment, you see the rest of your friends suddenly notice Imogen vanish off elsewhere. Ludinus vanished and they all begin to charge into a tunnel. You can go ahead and call the rest of the troop in if you don't mind. I'm going to go ahead and... We should hide, you and me.

Let's do it. Just hide. Shit, they went to Glendale or something. I know, right? There they are. We're going! Nice jacket. Did you die? As one of us.

Are you alive? I'm like you now. I'm an old man! Did you already have a simple life? Brainiac's got turned into an old man! Oh no! Bray has got turned into an old geezer! I like to win! I like wood! I like wood! We got all the life sucked out of him.

Oh no, are you good? Nobody believed me. Nottie, is this yours? Robbie, is that yours? What? Oh, I'm good, thank you so much. It is, but I'm switched beverages. Okay, I'll take them both. Now I got two. Yeah, you got two. Did you open a gate to hell?

We were strategizing out there. We used the time wisely, no way talking about balls. Definitely not talking about balls. That was the most base conversation. It was one of our, for 30 minutes, it was one of our foul or conversation. It really was foul.

Orgasmic therapy. Huh? Well, dang it. We were in the wrong game. Man, when you lay it out. What a weird conversation we all just had. So, coming back to this moment, the troop of you has

begun to run into the tunnel after where Imogen had misty-stepped and began to run, where you encounter Chetney, who is returning from doing a bit of intel. Ah! You all continue onward through this winding, cavernous tunnel.

I actually hadn't taken off yet. Okay, seriously. I think I would turn around and see what Brayus, try to gather Brayas before we all run. Okay, yeah, you step up, and Breas places his hand on the rock, and is just standing there for a second.

Breas, I think it's good. At that exact moment, he put his hand on the rock for but a moment, he pulls his hand back, and you watch this splash of paint just burns into ash. Were you doing art? I was, but it doesn't seem to... I think I need canvas or paper,

so this doesn't seem to be the right surface for medium. Where is everybody? Well, people, oh, they went running off, I think, to fight lewdness. Oh god, okay. So we should go. Yes, yes, yes. Let's go. Okay. So the rest of you...

Press goes. That's what they're called, right? Oh, my god. Press goes? Yes. People paint on rock. That's good. Yeah.

Thank you. The rest of you go rushing into the entryway to this long chamber, this kind of triangular-shaped chamber, amongst the various curved rock points and pillars that rise up the columns of glass. Across the way, you can see what Chetney has already encountered, the layers and layers

of some sort of divine barrier across the chasm, or the chamber opening. There you see at it, floating and glowing red, violet with energy, Ludin is facing away with both hands on the boundary as the glyphs and golden script is alighting around his hands. I am going to psychic glance him.

Oh shit, we're just doing this. Let's fucking go. What's the range on psychic glance? 120 feet. Okay, so you step in within 120 feet. Can I do it? How soon would I be able to see it? You guys all step into the chamber.

It's probably 140 feet from where you first step in there. Oh, okay. So you move in and right as soon as you get in range, you can try to hit him with a psychic glance. Also, there is a CPOP exclusive, limited edition, one of four, on the ground.

He has to make a DC wisdom saving throw. Don't distract him. It's a 15 wisdom save, but it's something. Maybe. I want this to work so bad. That's going to be a 19. Sorry. But it was a worthy shot. Leave it on the floor 19. God! Sorry. But it was a worthy shot.

Leave it on the floor! It's not yours! But it was worth a shot. That was awesome. He's too old, there's no joy in his heart. All right, so second glance, is that a saving throw on his point? Yes, it is an intelligence saving throw. That's going to be a 26. Ugh!

Whoa! He made some. I would like to cast Earthbind on him. Sure. Okay, well, I'll be... If I could. Do the Order of Operations here. Yeah, range 300 feet, you can definitely do that. And there's a lot of distance between us,

but there's no yawning chasm or anything that's hard to cross or anything? It's just distance. It's just distance. It's just distance. So as soon as you rush in, the casters have an immediate reaction to go ahead and start. Stop!

All right, so you cast Earthbind. You've seen a strength-saving throw. That's going to be a 16? 19. All right. So his fly speed is reduced to zero for the spell's duration, so he cannot. Just fly speed. Oh, it's just fly speed. All right. So his fly speed is reduced to zero for the spell's duration, so he cannot. Oh, it's his fly speed.

God dang, I keep doing that every time. But didn't that work? It worked once. It worked with Delilah. We can see what he's doing. We can see what he's doing. He's touching the first layer of the barrier, is that right?

Correct. Does it seem, Dammit. By looking, if we layer of the barrier, is that right? Correct. Does it seem, Damn it. by looking, if we can see the effect, does it seem like there's a dissipating effect as he's trying to do what he's doing? Or is there a visual cue? Make an arcana check, if you'd like to.

Uh-oh. From this distance, it'll be your action to do this. How much distance? All of you are getting one round before he gets any sort of reaction right now. Okay. Okay, okay, okay. All right, I want that to be my thing. Okay.

Natural. Oh no. It's a natural one. Yeah, but I want to take a look. But you're close to the wall. What's he doing over there? He did so cool. He's touching some sort of magical barrier. Cool. Sorry, man.

Cool, go away. It's a dice, baby. But we just got to get there. He's two hands on, and his staff is slung somehow. The staff is just floating to the side of him. Floating next to him. I hate that.

Cool. For mine, I'm going to use my action and my movement to sprint toward him to try to get within 30-ish feet, and I'm going to thrust Seedling out and reach a vine out and try to yank that staff. Okay, your speed is? Yank that staff. 30. 30 feet.

And he is 140 feet from where you guys entered the chamber. He's just too far away. So you could move to 110 to 80 on a dash and a move. That's okay. So you're halfway across the chamber. So you move 60 feet at that point. That's great. All right, so you've closed your 80 feet from him.

We should stick with Orym, stay with Orym, stay close. Keep running, keep running. Are me and Laudna almost there? You've entered now behind a bit, so you guys don't get an action this round, but you're at the front of the chamber. It's okay, he's not going anywhere. I take care of it.

Imogen, are you moving further in the chamber after casting? Yeah, I'm running, I'm shooting it. Just keep dashing. So note these numbers. You are 60 feet into the chamber. You are 30 feet into the chamber. Both of them are at the entrance.

Are you moving closer? Yeah, I'm running with everybody else. Okay, so you're also 30 feet into the chamber. Are you moving closer? I'm running with everybody else. Okay, so you're also 30 feet into the chamber. You're moving as well? Yeah. 30 feet into the chamber. I'm moving in and activating the Shard of K'mort as well. So I'm doing that and diving underground as we go. If it's possible.

It's unworked? This in here, you can get partway down and the glass that is all throughout this chamber is preventing you from fully submerging. Gotcha. So since this is all kind of, and as soon as you get in there,

you realize it's like this, almost like a cinnamon roll type marbling of the glass and the stonework throughout. So it isn't just raw rock and stone. So you cannot quite fully immerse yourself. That's fine. We should stay close because if he does get it down, we can...

I'm sticking with the group. Chetney? Yeah. I'm just trying to stay close to the furthest person, which is Orym. Seems like a terrible god eater. Actually, a cinnamon roll. Could be. Okay, for the ease of setting up what this'll look like,

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Including the team. Come back to the table and we can go ahead and jump into this chaos here. It's Christmas! Whoa. Whoa. Whoa! How does okay, okay. Whoa!

How does the ground look like that? The miniature has changed. The miniature has changed. Wait, wait, wait! Is that Ashton? Wait, he already changed? He already changed? Yeah, he's-

Wait, who changed? Is that Ashton? Luda, yeah. No, is that him? Hey, wig boy. That's Luda. That's Luder-ness. That's the Exalt.

No! No, you son of a bitch! He's changinguda! That's Ludanus as the Exalt. No! No, you son of a bitch! He's changing back! Bitch-cat, no, he's bounding! He is. He's floating an inch off the ground. Yeah, he can't go anywhere, you guys. Oh my gosh. Look at Gaston's mini.

What the fuck? I went, I powered up. So wait, does that mean there's four, five, one, two, three? Are there all that many layers of wards we have to pick? Never mind, we can't know this yet, Cam. There are multiple wards through the hallowed cage.

Okay. Why is the ground flickering? Oh man. This is going to be so fucked up. Wait, is the ground flickering? Yeah, the ground is changing. It's the gobo. It's the gobo. It's the gobo hitting the ground.

It's magic! The ground is changing. These parts are sick. He's got an extra card in his sleeve. Red jacket is? It's a string. You can see the string. Well, friends. Let's go ahead and roll initiative.

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So Orym first? Tiny's first. You go, Tiny. Lead the way. Okay, go by height. Up from there. Fearne, you're last. 20 to 15. 16.

19. 16. 17. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, hold on. Maybe also seven and 13 and a half. With Brayus, Laudna. Rollies. There's three 16s, I think.

Who's all 16? Brayus, Laudna. Three-way 16. Let's go three-way. Three-way rolling. Three-way. One, two, three, hi-yah, Ash. Three-way, 16. Let's go. Three-way rolling. Three-way. One, two, three, hi-yah! Aw. 18. Five. One.

Get it out, get it out now! All right, so Ash. Ash? No, Brayus, Laudna, Ash. Yeah, Brayus, Laudna, Ash. Okay, Brayus, Laudna, Ash. Oh, that ruins my whole page. Dorian. Imogen.

Me, goddammit. So Ash and Dorian. Fearne? Laudna, Ash. No. You are last. Ash, Dorian. Yeah, I'mmit. So we got Ashton, Dorian, Fearne? Laudna, Ash. No. You are last. Ash, Dorian. Yeah, I'm last. I rolled a nine. This is the most classic Ash. Yes, it is.

All right, and then Fearne, what'd you get? I got a nine. Gotcha. So Orym, Chet, Brayus, Laudna, Ashton, Dorian, Imogen. Imogen. Burn. Well, top of this round, we have Orym with Chet on deck. So with Ludinus now focused

on the first boundary barrier right there. Boundary! The footsteps of you all approaching into the chamber and coordinating quickly as you rush in, just barely acknowledges you from behind. What are you doing? I think I want to honor what I said before when I thought I was closer.

Honor the honor. So I'll run 30 feet forward. Okay. What was I avoiding? A rock there? I can't step on the blue, is that not? You can step on the blue if you want to. Okay. I was just moving toward the right line.

I was trying to do something. Yeah, those are veins of the glass. Pretty. Sick, Matt. This is sick! It's really pretty. So I'm going to go another, I'm going to use my action now to move a little closer. I'll go get a little closer.

15, maybe. And with a bone, using Seedling, I will thrust the sword out and a vine will shoot out towards that staff. I'm going to attempt to yank it the fuck out of his hand. Okay. Tip of the sword. Well, it's floating in the air next to him. I will just try to grab it.

So try and grab it and pull it with air. The psychic power that is emanating from the recently, temporarily exultant Ludinus G'leth is going to attempt to hold it in place. Mama had a lot of spells. So we're going to competitively roll off. Okay. Or it's a saving throw, isn't it?

It's a save. I don't have a spell. Well, no, in this one, it would be a... I think the sword lists a spell save DC of 17. Okay, 17. So I'll roll and add his spellcasting modifier and try and get 17. His modifier's like 17. Okay, 17. So I'll roll and add his spellcasting modifier and try and get 17. His modifier's like 17. It's a six. That's going to fail.

Whoa! So the staff, you pull it back into your hand. Ooh! Oh. I know, now what? Can't you match it? I was about to say, most common. Yeah, it's done.

Well. The dog has got the car. Currently, he has 30% less options, but he could also yank it back. So that was movement, then action. Action, and then? I'm out of gas. I've got half of my movement left. I'll dance back 15 feet the direction that I came.

All right, cool. Actually, I will go on a diagonal this way instead. This way? Okay, there you go. Dance with the cane. All right, that finishes your go. Chetney, you're up. Fuck it, he just walked up and aced his fucking spear in the first move!

Shit! I ran up to protect him! Y'all remember, it's 15 feet to get that. But I think in the time that's passed, I don't think I'm a werewolf anymore, but I can do it twice a day, so I'll get to and come back out. Okay, sure, no worries.

Always a werewolf in your care. On the inside and in my pants. Yes, that's Alan. Well, I will step in front of Orym. Okay, movement of? 40 feet, please. 40 feet? Yeah, you can get up here in front of him or here if you want.

And how far away? Five, 10, 15, 20, 25. It's more than 30 feet, right? He's a little more than 30 feet from you, yeah. How much of my 40 did I use to get in front of Orym? Do I have 10 left? There would've been 35 to get there, so you can do 40 and get there. I don't think that'll put me within 30 of Luda, though.

It might, it might. That might be within 30. It's okay, I'm going to take out the turmoil, the scythe, and I'm going to use my bonus action to slice it up the side of my leg and lightning arcs up and down the side of it. Awesome. And for my attack, I will, fuck it,

I'm going to cast Shatter towards Ludinus. Shatter. Shatter. Constitution saving throw? It is, as soon as I pull it out. I'm sure it's something really high, like a... Constitution, must make a constitution saving throw. Okay. Of what?

The DC should be on the weapon. It really should. Oh, wait, constitution 14. 25, so it succeeds. It takes half damage, so you can go ahead and roll damage on that. 3d. Sorry, guys, but it's 48 now. Oh, it's so powerful.

15 feet on that thing. 15. What? 3D. Sorry, guys. 48 now. Oh, it's so powerful. 15 feet in the thing. What? Pass down our number of 15 feet and see if we can, I don't know. Seven. All right. 23 and so 29 points of thunder damage. Reduced to half.

To half. All right. So that'd be 14? Yes. For sure. All right. So what are we going to do? This massive sound of cracking air detonates in this space, and you watch as bits of nearby

frayed and jagged glass at the edges of this interior layer of the pillar splinters off and sends shards and bits of rock flying everywhere. Parts of the nearby rock columns crack at the impact, and it echoes, and you hear the sound of the blast of this arcane detonation echo down the hall behind where you came from. Ludinus takes the brunt of it

and just keeps looking straight ahead. Amazing. Any non-magical items in the area also take damage, but I don't think he has any of those. Yeah, he rolls a lot of magic items. Fair, thus returned! All right, finishing Chetney's go. It is now Ludinus' turn. Ah, fuck.

Nope, good enough. Ludinus, who is facing the edge of this, is going to turn around. Uh-oh. Come on, baby. Bright eyes. Let's go. We really could have worked together. But for now, just watch. He snaps his fingers.

Yeah. As he snaps his fingers, you. And as he snaps his fingers, you watch this faint, grayish, magical energy flicker around his hand, almost like a starscape scene of the spill. Some sort of- Is there a duty, Nancy? Fucking awesome.

I mean, Cerberus has been studying it for a very long time. What if he's open? And he goes, No, I'm not within range. Even the voids of old are still hungry. And as he snaps his finger- Wasn't that enough time for us to move out of the way of something with his talking? Okay, I'm not within reach. Even the voids of old are still hungry. And as he saps his finger. Wasn't that enough time for us to move out of the way of something

with his talking? No, we're enraptured by his words. Maybe he's opening the geometry. He casts a 9th-level Ravenous Void. What? Did you say 9th? What is that? What is a Ravenous Void? You watch as a black sphere

of lightless destruction just apparates in the back chamber and all of the air in the room starts pulling towards it. A singularity is conjured across the edge of this room and you watch as anything untethered in the area immediately gets pulled across and annihilated within its dark, lightless expanse.

It's cool, Orym and I got this, you guys. The two melee guys got this. He's kicking our ass with math! And physics! Can we roll a save? At the moment, no. No?! That's going to end his turn.

Are you in the shed? Wait, he's after Chad? Wait, nothing happens to him? Nothing happens. Not yet. He's going to do it. It opens up in that space. Oh my god. And all of you feel this extreme gravity

begin pulling you towards it. He turns back around and starts putting his energy back towards the chamber there. He's also going to run his thumb along a ring on his hand. As he does, it flashes and you watch as his exposed skin suddenly glows with a series of glyphs and runes. His skin seems to almost take a darker obsidian look for a second before it fades back into his skin

and he has some protective essence that's added to his form. God, I hate him. That's going to finish his turn. He used his action not on the barrier. Don't smirk so much, your dimples are killing him. Stop it. That's never good. That's his opening move.

That's never good. Reyes, beginning of your turn, make a strength saving throw for me. I knew it, I knew it immediately. I can't beat this. No, I'm not going to beat it either. Not with that attitude, you undead wench. 22?

22, just saying. Ooh! You feel the gravity pulling you in and you hunker down. Roll high. I've got more strength. All terrain within 100 feet of the sphere is considered rough terrain.

100 feet? The map. Yeah. The whole map. Well, most of it. Sucked into this fucking bucket. It's going to be about up to here. Maybe it accidentally takes us to the other side of the latticework.

Yeah. This is not mini-Golfman. That's so sweet! Oh, that'd be fun. Really nice. Vax Abraeus, you are, you can still take your turn. You're not moved or anything, where you basically hunker down,

but your movement is halved while you're within the radius of the sphere. Wow. Save me. This is fucking vulture sex. Okay. You don't have to do this. I'm making a beeline for y'all.

It's like how fucking happy you are. I need to make it. Okay. Oh my god. Yep. Make him squirt. Make him squirt. Am I within 120 feet of him? Yeah.

No, I was within 120 where I was, right? Before you walked in. So you are, let's see here. I'm just going by the spell range. Yeah. 85. You are about 135 feet from him. Okay.

You can move up. You can get there, you can get there. 130. 130, okay. Brutus Born are in 120. Yes. But my speed is halved. Correct.

Wow. So I can only move 15 feet. I'll do two. Wow. 10 forward, five back. If I move 10 forward, do something, and then move five back, will I be five feet within Laudna? Yes, you would. Okay.

Okay, I will move. Help? Yes. It's technically a yes. First, first. Yes? Bonus action inspiration. Ah. You've got this. Oh shit.

You've got this dead one. I am losing strength. It's my dump stat. I know it. Then I will walk 10 feet forward, because that's all I can walk, bringing within 120 feet of looness. 10. I will cast Silence, bringing me within 120 feet of Ludinus.

10. I will cast Silence around Ludinus. Okay. Because he has any verbal components of spells, right? Maybe that will take some away. You cast Silence? Silence. He's going to go ahead and Counterspell. He can't, he that will take some away. You cast Silence. Silence. He's going to go ahead and Counterspell.

He can't, he's far too far away. With Spell Sniper, it doubles the range. Oh! Look, this is the thing! Nice. So, not with, not with, it's got to be an attack spell. Not with. Let me see. Not with Counterspell.

Because you have Spell Sniper, don't you? I do, unless the base, because my Counterspell, I you have Spell Sniper, don't you? I do, unless the base, because my Counterspell, I also have Spell Sniper, is 60 feet. Ooh! But he's also Ludinus. But he's also Ludinus. Let me see here. Which means he may have a feat that already doubles his,

well, shit, fuck off. I mean, Teleport is not an attack spell. Oh my god, we're getting out the book! Yeah, yeah, yeah, but look at what a pretty book it is. This is the pretty one. Scanlan Counterspell, teleport. That's not an attack spell. No, no, no, no, but Counterspell isn't an attack spell.

I think the Spell Sniper only works. Oh, it's from the sniping. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Spell Sniper, no. Goddamn, he wants to ask for it. Just ask for it, Sam! Also, whatever, man, it's Ludinus, so whatever. I know, but I just want to clarify.

Wow, that's Crunchyroll. I thought it was comeuppance from the campaign one when Scanlan. When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell's range is doubled. Your ranged spell attacks ignore half cover and three covers quarter. The required.

Three quarters cover, fuck me. Wow. Oh boy! That seems right. The book and the phone! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's some Nick non-father talk right there. No, it's good.

I, I, I, okay. I am using my action to change it. Here's your inspiration right of lecture. Okay. Thank you. Is he going to allow it? Is he going to allow it? Did I just piss off the DM? No. Should I just let this go?

I'll make an adjustment. No, it's good. You're going to have to kill us, Vell. The DM. Your health is good. So silence goes up. Something else goes off? No, he says silence goes up.

Okay. Then I will use my remaining movement Silence goes off. Yeah, I know. Something else goes off? No, he says silence goes off. Silence goes off, okay. Then I will use my remaining movement to walk back towards Laudna so that I can be within five feet of her. Okay. And that's it. Okay, okay. Ash.

That finishes your turn, Brace? That's all I can do. Bonus action. Get away from the door. Huh? That means. Bonus action. Get away from the door. Huh? That means he's got to get away from the door. I know. Yeah. All right.

Finishing Brayus' go, Laudna, you're up. Ashla, why not make a strength saving throw for me? Well, actually, you start your turn within the radius of the sphere. So first, you immediately take 5d10 force damage. Wait, did I take, I didn't take that. You were not in the radius. She's in it.

She's right over here. She's got a D10. Fucking half his acumen. You take 22 points of force damage and make a strength saving throw for me. Hold on, wait. Spell, is this a spell? I mean, this is the radius of the spell, yeah.

Anyone within 10 feet of me is resistant to spell damage. Okay, so yeah, so you take half that. Oh! What's what? Ooh! So 11. So I would've taken 11 damage.

Correct. And that's force damage, you said? Force damage, yes. Wow, wow, wow. Good to know. Okay, and now a strength saving throw. Yes, but anyone within five feet of me has plus four to their saving throws. 1,000-year-old.

Whoa! Plus O. So it's a plus two. Roll high, bitch. Oh, that's what that was. Okay. Don't reload your apps. That's funny. It's bad.

Well, no, because I did a search to see if those would interact, and it was like, yeah, these really do. I just realized it's Google's AI that, once again, absolutely wrong. surely do. I just realized it's Google's AI that, once again, absolutely wrong, fuck AI. Always wrong. So does he Counterspell it?

No, he does not. Okay. 15. 15 fail. Wait, with the inspiration? Oh, well, with the... He just succeeded with the 22. Oh, so you can't get there. And that's with my plus four? Yeah, but make it real.

I have minus two to my strength. Make it really hurt. Just roll a six and make it really hurt. Then you're fine. No. No. 17. No, save the inspiration for later. Yeah, because it was a 22,

so then you could only get to 21. It was impossible to save. Well, he just said, you have inspiration, so I rolled it. No, don't use it. You didn't use it. You could have made it. You won't be able to use it in the abyssal void of your race. It's absolutely impossible.

Laudna is pulled into the center of the void and is restrained. Do we see her? Is she gone? You see her just, well, actually, you hear her next to you, but this blackened void space around you. Shit, fuck this bucket.

It's a... You've seen it? Yeah, for sure. Doing the McConaughey conception. No, Interstellar Cry. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah, so the sphere itself is like, the density of it, you can still see her,

but now she's pulled, it's almost like this darkened shadow sphere, and as she gets into the center, you can barely see her now being crushed into it. Oh! Laudna! Laudna! Oh, it hurts. You still take your turn.

I can still take my turn. Smoke him if you can. You just can't get out of the sphere and you take 5d10 force damage every time. Do something cool. This is magical darkness. I have darkvision. Mm-hmm. Can I see through this? Yeah. I have darkvision. Mm-hmm.

Can I see through this? Yeah. I can? Yeah. Okay, so I can see Ludinus. Yes. Which direction is he facing? Towards me, or is he facing towards the wall? He's facing towards the wall.

Towards the wall. I want to, one, I'm going to do my Form of Dread to gain back some temporary hit points here. Okay, seven. How many feet is that? What? It's a 20-foot radius.

Bubbly. Yes. Oh yeah, it's a bubbly. Okay. Form of Dread, I'm going to fire off three of my Eldritch Blasts. Can I try to aim for the back of his neck? If you'd like to, yeah. It is, he has a higher AC against that point.

You are restrained, so your attack rolls are disadvantage. They're disadvantage. Correct. Oh, I didn't think of that. You're also sucked into the bubble, so. Okay, okay. Now mind you, you can take an action to make a strength check against the DC to break free. That's your action.

My strength sucks ass. I can't get out of this. Did he just make it at a 22? Does it matter? He said he just made it at a 22? Does it matter? He said he just made it at a 22. Just made it. Yeah, there's really no way. That's a roll of natural 20.

That's a one-er. Why weren't you lifting in between sessions? I'm made of paper. Where's that way? We know this. By the way, a creature can spend its action to try and make that save to help itself or another creature break free of the gravity. Okay.

So if somebody else wanted to go next to Laudna and then use their action to try and make that strength check, you could just pull her out. I'm coming! You're so far away. God, that is such a fuckwit. I'm coming. Easy to say. Matt, because of reasons, is Ashton considered a large creature right now?

Ashton is considered a large creature, yeah. Higher DC. What to do? What to do? Do you want to aim at the back of his neck? Yeah! I said it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to see what happens here. Let's go. With disadvantage.

So this sucks, but here we go. So this is the Eldritch Blast? Huh? Yeah. So the Eldritch Blast? Eldritch Blast. Okay. Okay, so once again, first hit is going to be... Jesus, my brain tonight. 18, thank you.

First one misses. Second one. That one's cocked. Oh, that was cocked. That's going to be 21 to hit. Misses. Come on, come on. Okay, okay.

29 to hit. That hit. Hey! Nice! Damn! Let's go, sucked into the void. As he's phased away and concentrating on these barricades towards the back of where the energy is currently crawling up the back of his neck, his hair blowing in the air,

you get this momentary flash of what looks like some sort of a dark, knotted bit of flesh at the base of his neck and skull, right around the place where the quintessence array would be. Okay. He's got an extra moment. So yeah, I can feel like my bone is crushing against the gravity,

but I'm just going to try and embrace it and let it steady myself as I fire, and I will do fucking weakness. Fucking shit. Seven damage. Plus an additional 8d6 necrotic damage, if you don't mind. Go ahead and roll that. What?

8d6 necrotic damage? For hitting that spot? For hitting that spot. Oh! It's like one of those little cysts that you bust with an encyclopedia, and you're just like, whack! Who has an encyclopedia? What did you just say? A cyst? Haven't you ever seen a cyst? If I needed to,

with an encyclopedia? Can I empower this? With a big book. No, this isn't your actual spot. People get cysts on the top of their head. Okay. It's all good. It hurts. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 plus? This is not good. Roll this. Okay. Gross. It's awful. It hurts. Gross. 11, 12, 13, 15.

Plus? 15, 25, 26 damage. Necrotic damage on top of that. Seven. Seven, you should roll a two plus your five. Yes. I can't take it. I'm scared now.

I can't take it. All right, to take it. I can't take it. All right, so. So my phone is out of range. You fire it off. Whack! Hits the back of it, and with the impact, you see him slump forward against the wall, and this burning hiss of a weird arcane smoke

drifts from the back of his neck, and he like, Ooh! Rubs it for a second and looks back at you furious for a second. Let's see if he maintains concentration. He has some advantage on this. Fail it! That's more than enough.

So those were two, right? Three. That was all three? There's only one hit. You're right. All right, so that's your action. Bonus action, Form of Dread.

Can't move. Look real creepy in the dark. And I look really creepy as I get spaghettified. That's true. So I see fucking space time. So we can't see into that right now. You can see into it. It's very heavily shadowed,

but you can still see the shapes in there. And right where Laudna is currently sitting, there's this black, crushing singularity. Okay. It's very heavily shadowed, but you can still see the shapes in there. And right where Laudna is currently sitting, there's this black, crushing singularity. Okay. That finishes your turn? Yeah, man. Ashton, start your turn.

Make a strength saving throw. I'm going to sit through here. Okay. Can't even bamf out of those. Strength save. Come on, don't suck. 18? No.

Are you raging? Not yet, because I needed to have, because we started with this, but I'm about to be raging. Unfortunately, yet as a failure, you get pulled back into the center with Laudna. Cool. There, you are restrained, and you take 15.

I'm not restrained, I believe, actually, hold on. You take... Yeah, I'm going to take it. 25 points of force damage. That's fine, one second. You're not going to take it. Where's my weapon? No! I'm going to take it. Sorry, I'm trying to find a thing.

No, I'm restrained. It's not prone or grapple. Okay. But as his action on his turn, can he throw Laudna out of there or no? Or hold her while he tries to get out? Well, right now, he can't move. So he can spend his action to try and free himself

from this form and then run out, or he can use his action to try and free her from it, and on her next turn, she can try and free God. But can he free her if he's not free? He can, he just has disadvantage on the board. Free, free. Yeah. He's restrained. But he got sucked in. Was he on the edge?

You can help somebody while you're drowning, too. Yeah, that's true. So if I break free, can I grab her and run if I break it with my action? Well, no, because she is helping. Because she's helped. But I can break her and leave myself in there. You can. Okay. All right, break her and leave myself in there. You can. Okay.

All right, first of all, let's rage. Because what I don't want to have happen is he tosses my ass out, and then next round, I get sucked right back in again. I don't want to have us waste time. All right, here we got us fucked up, Matt. What do we got? Hey! Fuck yes!

He's rolling a concentration check. So, I am still stuck in here. I'm going full rainbow sparkle. I'm suddenly surrounded by all sorts of crazy-ass sparks coming off. We can't see it, but yeah. No, you can. It's like a weird, sad thing.

Your light gets sucked into black holes! I know. Debate-o. Yeah. Okay, so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to try and, is it worth ungrappling you or ungrappling me first? I'm trying to figure that out.

I'm going to un-grapple you. So that's a strength check, if I recall? Strength check to un-grapple her, to get her out of it? Correct, yeah. Okay, so that's a... No, this is a strength check. Okay, so I have advantage on strength checks. You do.

Yeah, your strength modifier. What's your mod, Dirty? My mod for my strength modifier is six. Kick ass. And then I'm just saying, okay, no, okay, T? My mod for my strength modifier is six. Kick ass. Then I'm just saying, okay, no, okay, this won't work for that yet. So rolling your check. 16? 16 shales.

And I can't move. What are you trying to do, T? I was trying to let you out, but I did not roll high enough for that to happen. No, that's not what I had. Yeah, that's higher. I think I'm fucked now. I think that's what I got.

I think that's your turn. Mm-hmm, that's my turn. Okay. Dorian, you're up with Imogen on deck. Beginning of your turn, make a strength saving throw for me, Dorian. Strength saving throw? Oh boy. Correct. Come on, dude.. Strength saving throw? Oh boy. Correct.

Come on, D. Come on, big boy! Fuck. Well. What the fuck? Okay. 11. Oh boy. Maybe. Oh boy.

You know what? Form a colony of a life raft of ants. Yes, let's float on the water. Hold on. Dorian, you take 23 points of force damage. Cool. If only Brayus had been pulled in there, we all would have been resistant.

I can go in there for you guys. No. You are restricted. I mean, Timmy's a big boy. What does your god tell you to do, Gryas? Boy, what a cute little thing. Everything's going according to plan. Yeah, anyone want to get us the fuck out of here, that'd be great.

Oh boy. All right. So when I think of it, restraint just means I can't move, right? I can still take action and stuff like that? Yeah. Okay. Man. Man, oh man. Am I within reach of Laudna?

Are we, since this is a singularity? You all got shoo-pulled in. You're all going to clam together. I'm going to just, if I can't, I'm touching her. I guess, technically, I'm touching her shoulder to shoulder. Your elbow is in my tit. This party sucks. You want to get out of here?

Yes, please. I'm going to cast Dimension Door. Okay, where are you going? Come on, baby. Let's go. Let's go. Is it just the two of you? I can't get in on that, can I?

No, it's just an inspector. He has to be his team member. That's why I asked why if you were... I'm good. Well, that's because of you. They'll let me know if you're a bigot or not. I'm all good. Yeah.

Beep, zwip, out of trouble. Up and away, I got 500 feet. Can you put us on? Get up there. But within spell range, can you put us up on that pillar within range of Luda? Can you put us up high? Tippy toppies? I think the tippy toppies is the top of the cavern. Oh, it's like that's the top?

Yeah. Oh, okay. Neither of you are restrained now. That's nice. Out of that 25. So can you just sneak us behind that back pillar right there, that glowing one? Right here?

Yeah, oh no, a little further front. Just the pillar itself, the glowing one. Here's a good question. Yeah, that works. Just make sure you're more than 20 feet out. Yeah, from silence. Yeah, because, oh, right. 20 feet out from silence.

And how far does it look like things are getting pulled into the black hole? You know what? Make a perception. Yeah, 100 feet from the outside of the radius. So you have to be 20 feet away from the silence. Yeah, you should be right straight. It's out of his range, but inside of ours. So maybe around here, you think, right?

Yeah. On those other rocks? What check did you roll? Diagon that way? Perception? If you're on the lowest step, you'd still have eyes on Ludinus. Perception check is not great. So your guess is as best as anybody as to how far the actual extension of that gravity is.

Yeah. Between the two of you, if you want to say where you want to be. Is it over here? Is it over here? Where do you want to check? Do you want to do right around here? Yeah, that's a similar angle of what I was looking at. On that side? Yeah, but when we were pulled in,

we were physically pulled in, right? Yeah, like an extreme source of gravity was right behind you and yanked you off your feet and pulled you into the center. I know it sounds crazy, but can we be like, here, so that the rock is between us and the hole? If you'd like to, yeah.

Maybe we'll be plastered to a rock, but better than plastered to a hole. Yeah, that's fair. Let's check out that radius. Oh no! I got bad perceptions! Come on. So that's 85. Eyes without a third. 90, 95, 100.

That is outside the radius. Oh my god! Close ease. That was so fucking great. Close ease is very good. Wow! Oh no, Gabe! Drop down behind, and you're like, you can feel the wind in the chamber being pulled towards that direction,

but you're not within the gravitational pull. Ha ha! Safe for now! You saved us! Ah, no! You saved the day again! We saved us! You look great, by the way. Inspiration. Oh, wow! You know, I really feel like this dry, moon, dusty air

just really does something for my complexion. So it's your action, you still have your movement. You used your bonus. Ah, that's my bonus. Oh, no, no, no thank you. No thank you, sir. I like to stay behind that pillar. I'm good to go. All right.

Yeah. At the end of your turn, let's see here. Your turn. Grapple. I can't be grappled, but I can be restrained. Okay. Silence within a... Oh god, who put silence? I did. Shmat.

Maybe. Ludinus, who, with the exultant features gained from your mother, includes silence and spell spell. So he does not need to speak to cast a spell. Oh! Hey! His turn is going to go ahead and use two of his legendary actions.

Fuck! To cast... Son of a bitch. Mother bitch. Son of a bitch. So it just means that our spell caster is not the shit you want. Can't get close. For now, I can always just drop it.

He's fine to shit it out. Yeah, if I see him casting spells, I'll just drop. It's not that of a spell. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes. Closer. I can fly. He's going to cast.

I can fly, I can fly. Hmm. He's going to cast Lightning Bolt at 6th-level. Oh, we're in a line. Oh, roll a d6 for me, please. What why? Just roll a, please. What why? Just roll a d6. What why? What why? Just do it.

What? What? What why-er? Four? Four. What, who? Can't hear you. I'm sorry, I can't. He does lose some spell levels when you hit him there. So I'm just keeping tabs on him.

Oh! Oh! Hitting the wound! Doinked it. Hit the cyst. Good to hear. I doinked it. Hit the cyst. Good to hear. I doinked it in the neck. So he's going to go ahead and from behind, now that he's focused back on it,

turns back at the two of you, Chetney and Orym, and is going to see the staff that you have clenched in. I mean, you did call it a race, didn't you? And looks, glances over in your direction, without breaking eye contact with you, releases this call it a race, didn't you? He looks, glances over in your direction, without breaking eye contact with you, releases this bolt of extremely bright, crackling lightning out that way. It's going to, from this direction here,

the range of the lightning bolt, I believe, is 100 feet? Let me double-check. So we're just out of range. Correct. So, no, you're fine. Asht're just out of range. Correct. So, no, you're fine. Ashton is out of range. However, I would like both Orym and Chetney to make dexterity saving cards for me, please. Yeah, no problem.

24 for me. Okay, okay. Dang. Natural 20. Oh! Bloody fucking go! 30. Scatterpop! Hell yeah. Scatterpop!

Scatterpop! The 52 points of lightning damage reduced to 26 to each of you. Okay. Wowzers! That was his legendary actions on that one. Whoa. Shh. Wow.

All right, and then we're finishing that turn there for Dorian. Imogen, beginning of your turn, each of you make a strength saving throw for me, please. You got this. Unless I roll a 20. Go on, Emo. 20.

Natural 20! Whoa! Holy shit! Whoa! Call it out, bitch! Natural 20! Babe Ruth has that shit. Yeah! Yes. And you resist the intense gravity of the Ravenous Void. Your turn is yours. Oh god, I fully thought I was going to get sucked in. Now I've got to think about what I'm going to do. Down here is our time!

Birthday girl smashing the bowl at the bar. Yeah. Oh my god. Okay. I should move to try to get out of this space as much as I can, so I'm going to head that way. Are you flying still? Um.

I was, I had. How long does that last for? But it lasts for an hour, I think. Let me double-check, though. Fuck. Hold on, let me loot. So you weren't talking to Ludinus for an hour. She was like, La la la la la la la la la la la la. Fuck! Hold down, let me loot. So you weren't talking to Ludinus for an hour. Not quite an hour. Oh, far less than that.

You guys talked to him for about 15, maybe, most. Oh, 10 minutes. It only lasts for 10 minutes. Okay, so that would have faded. It's gone. Well, the ground is rough terrain because of the gravitational pull. Then in that case, I'm going to

bonus action and float up in the air. Okay. And the gravity still pulls. Everything is rough terrain, even the air around it, because the gravity is pulling. Oh shit. So it's up to you. Oh. Even underground. Okay, wait, maybe I don't do that.

Hold on, hold on, hold on! Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay, so I can get 15 feet, right? So I'm going to move 15 feet that way. Okay, five, 10, 15. 15, but that's farther than 30 feet away from me. I'm going to Misty Step here so that if it pulls me towards it,

it's at least pulling me against this rock and it doesn't suck me in, right? We'll find out. Potentially. I know, we were talking about the same thing. We had the exact same idea. Yeah, that's why we're behind the rock. Who knows? Okay, well, I just used Spell, fuck. Okay, so that's the same business. The exact same idea. Yeah, that's why we're behind the rock. Who knows? Okay, well, I just used Spell Fuck.

Okay, so that's second level. I just used Spell Fuck. How do? I hate him. I hate him. This is definitely going to work on him. I am going. Yeah, you just got to neg your own rolls.

Yeah. That's the key. That's what it takes. Just neg like a knight, yeah. I'm going to use a sorcery point to double my distance of Mind Sliver. Okay. Even though I know he's very intelligent, maybe he'll roll low.

And that is an intelligence saving throw. You got it. Oh, well. 26. He succeeds. Okay. I had the feeling that was a low roll. Oh, yeah. Low roll. Was it a low roll?

It was a 12. Okay. A 12. A 12. Got him a 26. Okay. Plus 14. Is that what it does? Plus 14. Okay.

That's rough. Great, great. Okay, cool, cool. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. That's all I can do. That finishes your turn? Okay. Fearne, you can have your turn,

and please make a strength saving throw. Okay. Let's go, Fearne. It's no problem. It's no problem. I broke my pen! My magic pen! No! Wait, I have advantage against spells and other magical effects. The price must be paid. Correct. So I get advantage?

Okay. Yeah! Gravity Fissure's a bitch. Gravity broke your pen. Gravity broke my pen. No. Come on. 12. Unfortunately, that's a failure.

Wait. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. You have a negative two? I thought it was a plus. Oh no! Nah, Bea, that's a failure. Three. I'm sorry, sorry. You have a negative two? I thought it was a, oh no! Nah, Bea, that's a minus two. You're even weaker than me, too. Nah, Bea! Yeah. Okay. On your strength? So yes, a minus two.

This bitch is weak as you! Yeah, she is! Yeah, well, you know that. It's a dubstep. You take 21 points of force damage. 21? Correct. Okay. You are restrained. Ah, ah, ah! You just did force damage. 21? Correct. Okay. You are restrained.

Ah, ah, ah! Goodness. You just did 22. You just did 20, okay. What is this? I can't see! I can't see! Is anyone in here? This hurts! Fuck! You still have your actions. You pressed up to Ashton.

I still have, oh, hi. Hotten. Got an idea? Any idea? Yes, but I can't see. I can't see, right? You can see. You can see. Oh, can't see, right? You can see. Oh, I can see, never mind. It's shaded by the intensity of the gravitational pull there,

but it's more like the singularity where you're pulled to is like this sphere of intense, just rending gravity. I'm going to fart on you. Oh, God, okay. I'm going to do it. I'm going to let it rip. Here it comes.

You know what I'm going to do? I am going to try to just aim. Am I within 60 feet to be able to do do? I am going to try to just aim. Am I within 60 feet to be able to do this? 60 feet of? Of lewdness. You are about 120 feet from him. Yes, I am, I know. I figured I was going to be able to.

You have a way of getting out of this. Dimension Door. Do you have Dimension Door? Well, would Mister still be out? Because he was in the last fight. Mister was in the last fight. Mister was in the last fight. Mister is currently going around and around. Yeah. I keep trying to grab him each time.

Make a strength saving throw for Mister. Oh, okay. Him strong! How, what's his health? Oh yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right. Because if he goes in. Let me pull him up, I'm so sorry. Yeah, come on, he's got grippy toes.

Yeah, he got grip toes. He got toes. Or he's got grippy toes. Yeah, he got grip toes. He got toes. Or he's not quite. Oh. Please don't. No! No! Terrible. We're not there yet.

We're not there yet. Oh yeah, I noticed that. He's not a little bit, Matt. Not too much. Mister, come back. Okay, so roll a strength signature for Mister. All right. Oh, okay. Well, he's got...

Come on for Mister. All right. Oh, okay. Well, he's got... Come on, Mister. Oh, no. Oh, no! That's a two. Aw. Baby boy. So fast. Mister takes... Yeah.

Come on. That's a lot of math. 28 points of force damage. Oh, no! he's still up. Is he? Yeah, he is. Ah! He's next to me. I mean, is he? Yeah, he's pulled right next to you.

For Beppu. All three of us. All right, so as a bonus action, can I Dimension Door out with him? Do you have a Dimension Door spell, or are you using your ability? No, I can't go. You can't go because you're big. It's his, let me pull it up here.

Is it 30 feet? Sorry, I think it's only 15. That's okay. Let's see here. Jennifer Lopez, do. Jennifer Lopez. Hello. Why am I here?

Hello, Jennifer Lopez. Okay, the spirit and each willing creature of your choice. So technically, Ashton could go, too. I'm too big. Too big. One night. Oh my god. Okay, the spirit and each willing creature of your choice, so technically Ashton could go, too. I'm too big. Too big. Never mind. Wait, no! The spirit and each willing creature of your choice within five feet of it. Oh, yeah.

Oh, then yeah. Teleport up to 15 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see. 15 feet is as big as the beach. So you're teleporting yourself or another creature? I can do both. The spirit and each willing creature of your choice. Oh yeah, so you could teleport yourself to the edge.

Ashton, you'd be able to teleport him just out of the radius. I'm going to teleport Ashton out. And then hold on until he's thawed. So you appear there. But maybe Ashton can pull you out easier. Well, he's not restrained now, right? You are not restrained because you pull away

from the center, which holds you there. Oh, okay. You also get pushed out. Okay. Good. Okay, so he's not restrained. Which means you can run. Good. And hold on.

100 feet? Yeah, can you run now? Well, you can get far enough away. I don't think it can pull you all the way in. That's why I got fucked. Can I get out of it and get within 60 feet of him? Just put him down. Well, you can move 15 feet from where you are now

and move out of it, which would put you, five, 10, 15. That's your movement right there. Hold onto the rock. He is over here. Okay, so that's fine. Hey, nobody's in the thing. All right, so now I have my action.

Correct. Because I did my movement, my bonus with Mr. Correct. Okay, so. It's up to you, you must save us. Sure. You're the only one. This is a dumb thing, but I'm going to try it. With all my spells. I'm going to try it.

Retreat the Archmage. But this is within 60 feet as well, never mind. Fuck. What do you have that's a long range? Okay, I'm just going to do this. Yeah, I'm going to do my Scorching Ray. There were two things I wanted to do. Okay, so Scorching Ray.

I'm going to do Scorching Ray, and I'm going to try to aim for the back of the neck. For his quintessence root. Yes. Yes, you may. Now, what level are you casting it? Because remember, every level above two, you get an additional B. Yes, so I will do it at...

I'll do it at 5th-level. 5th-level, okay. So that'd be three, four, five, that's six different attacks you get with it. And you get a d4. Come on, come on. Add a d4 to that.. And you get a d4. Come on, come on. Add a d4. Why do I get a d4? Because you're right next to him.

Because you're standing next to me and I'm a probability engineer. Oh yeah, you rolled that for your rage? Yes, I did. We'll see how many hit. Okay, hit number one is? Add the d4. Roll the d4.

Great. 14. 25. 25 chest misses. Wait, no, wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on. Okay, that's a bunch of numbers. 13. What if I told you it was 26? Yeah, that's 25. Now the d4? 25 just misses. Wait, no, wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on. Okay, that's a better number. 13. What if I told you it was 26?

Yeah, that is 25. Okay, so that misses. Do I do the four again? It's a very, very small spot on the back of his neck, so it's a combination of just chaos and anything. But you got to roll the d4. Okay. No, that's lower.

You didn't make it lower. Okay, I'm going to do that one more. Yeah. He's really drunk and calm. Okay'm very level hell and heaven. You didn't mix it lower? Okay, I'm going to do that one more. Yeah. It's really drunk and cold. Okay, that hits, that hits. That's a 28. 28 hits. Yeah. That's one hit. That's out of three.

Yep, you have three more rolls to make. Great. That hits. That hits. Okay. Just, yeah, okay. That's a yeah. No. That doesn't hit. Okay, I'm going to go with that.

Well, the people, the numbers. And the last one. Yeah. That's a yeah. No. That doesn't hit. Okay, whatever. Well, for people, the numbers. And the last one. Yeah. It hits! So 18 plus two plus five. Three attacks! Let's go, bitch. Let's go. So roll 3d6. I rolled six?

Yeah, that was six. You got three attacks on him. Okay, so, all right, so. Roll the teeth. One hit will be. Here come the baby teeth. So seven. Plus. So seven. Plus.

Nice. Plus nine. So 16. Plus five. Those are the three attacks? Those are the three attacks. Okay, got you. Now roll an additional 86 necrotic damage.

Would it be 86 for each hit? If he gets hit during that turn6 necrotic damage. Would it be 8d6 for each hit? If he gets hit during that turn, he takes the damage. Oh, I love you guys, though. Get kicked in the dick. I know, I was like, my wife's not good. That's four. Ow. I just pinched my neck with it.

Just pointed? Yeah, well, I twisted myself as I was excited about it. I hope your gap is worth it. It was. No, that's not good. Okay. So Gats. Get out of there! I think I'll have one.

Why? Hmm. What can I do? So multiple attacks give you multiple opportunities. I now have 20 points of damage. An additional 20 points of damage. Makes a save on each of those. First against the first, actually, I'm going to roll these out the floor. That's an additional 20 points of damage. Makes a save on each of those.

First against the first, actually, I'm going to roll these out in front because it's fun. So that was three hits on against him, right? So that's three different rolls. We'll save the additional damages on the biggest one. Okay. So first one.

Yeah, no issue. 19. That's fine there. Last one. Yeah, no issue. 19. That's fine there. Last one. Yeah. So, same roll. Are you rolling your rudeness? Ruid-ness?

I'm rolling my Ruidus dice and my beacon dice. That deals some ruidus. Oh, and they're really treating you well. They are. Glad you made those. Yeah. He takes the hit and shrugs it off a little bit.

Just keeps focusing. That finishes the round. Up at the top, Orym, you are up. Beginning of your turn, make a strength saving throw for me. Strength save? Correct. Okay. Saving throw.

That is a 15. 15 is not a 16. Can I use Misty Step in this moment to escape the hole? Seven's at the start of your turn before anything happens. Okay. So as Orym is behind you, and almost tries to reach for you, Chetney, he gets pulled off of his feet.

Wow. All the way in. To the center? Holy what? All the way? All the way? Taking his motherfucking staff with me. Oh, that's true, that's true. That's a black hole. That's a singularity in the middle of the battle map. You are restrained, Orym, and you take...

Wow. Because he would have stayed restrained. Fucking powerless. Nobody gets an opportunity to attack. Now he's really at 8.4 damage. Okay. It's good. Bip! Shit, shit, shit, shit.

Halfling, fly! I lied, you're not the one that's going to save. Roll a d6 for me, please. See how many spell slots Ludinus leaves. Roll a six, roll a six! Roll high. Or spell levels, yeah. Nope, two.

Two, so three. Where's my? Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to use it for good reasons. Who, me? Okay. I'm going to get hit. What? Because that's not a thing. So now it's my going to use it for good reasons. Yeah, yeah. Who, me? Okay. What? So now it's my turn. Now it's your turn.

Well, technically, but then everyone was like, don't use it there. Okay. Imogen. So I'm going to, the staff, I just let drop into the center of this black hole. Yeah, so you're there in the middle and you let the staff go and like,

and it's just held there in the middle, spinning around in the space, where you're just spinning around it in the area. Also let the staff go and it's just held there in the middle, spinning around in the space where you're spinning around it in the area. Also, as he, with his high perception, flew backwards, I looked at the terrain as I flew by. I'm now going to bonus action Misty Step 30 feet to this side of this rock.

Which means you are no longer restrained. Okay, so I have that at my back at least. But this pull is still going no matter what. So if I run out in the middle, I'll just get pulled again. At the beginning of your next turn. I have no ranged attacks.

That's a good head turn, Ashley. I was like, that poor was so... I will use... So that was bonus action. And it's Trixie movement still, right? Here? Yep. Everything within 100 feet of that sphere is rough terrain.

I will, can I use Grasping Vine as an action? Since it's normally a bonus action, but use my action to use it? I'll allow it. Yeah? If you haven't used it yet. I wouldn't let you use it twice in the same round. Right, I haven't used it yet. So wouldn't let you use it twice in the same round, but you can probably spend your action and do it. So I will send out a vine to this

and drag myself forward, and then I will just end my turn by falling down with stone here, I guess, so that I can press against the rock and not get sucked backward. Okay. And I'll say that's the end of my turn. And you don't have any confirmation, right?

That finishes your go. Because we won't. Chetney, you're up. Beginning of your turn, please make a strength saving throw for me, please. He's got advantage. You do have advantage because you're in your wolf form. Wolf, you're wolf.

I was about to shut that shit. Shut the fuck up. Pretty good. 23. 23 succeeds. Yes! Yeah! Resist the gravitational pull of the Ravenous Void. Amazing.

I'm going to start walking forward as a wolf. As a wolf. And I'm going to use a curse like a wolf, like a wolf. And when I get within 30 feet of him. All right, so that's five, 10, fifteen feet of movement to get within 30 feet of him. Beautiful.

I'm going to use Blood Curse of the Muddled Mind. Okay. And I'm going to amplify it to... I'm going to drop silence damage. Dropping silence? Okay. And Curse a Creature that is concentrating on a spell or feature that requires concentration.

The curse target has disadvantage on the next constitution-saving throw it makes to maintain concentration before the end of the turn. Now he has disadvantage on all constitution-saving throws until the end of my next turn. Okay. Sweet.

Okay. Yeah. So he has advantage on concentration checks, so this just means it's a straight check. Straight roll. Until your next turn. Yeah. Ooh, that's...

Better than it was. That's nice. Pretty slick. I'll keep using the rest of my 45 to come. I'll see how close I can get to him. I love that photo. Okay, your movement is 40. 40, 40.

So that was 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. Gets you right into melee with him. Okay, I'm going to take two swings with Turmoil. Let's go. Right in his... How do melee targeted attacks work? You just tell me you want to focus on it, and then I adjust the AC accordingly. Okay, I want to try and make the first one

against the knob on the back of the neck. Okay, go ahead and roll. Is there an advantage? But if it's not disadvantage, I'm just going to do this. That was dog shit. Oh! That was only an 18 to hit. I'm going to do it for the second one, too. Okay. Let's fuck it up.

Yeah. Yeah, that's much better. 25, you're nice. 25 misses. It's 26. 26. No way. That's right. You go to strike the first time,

and you feel the gravity pull. Even though you're not quite in the radius of the spell, it pulls your arm back just slightly, and you're like, the gravity shouldn't affect me, and you realize it's because the psychic force around him is repelling you. You go to strike a second time, and you feel something invisible

grab your hand in the middle of the air and Ludinus glances over his shoulder and goes, Oh, there you are. Oh, is he hitting on you? He's a little look back. I mean, who isn't? Oh my god. That is the end of my turn.

All right, that finishes Chetney's go. It is now Ludinus' turn. It's his legendary action time. Fuck you. Sorry. You know what, actually, at the end of your turn, Chetney's going, it is now Ludinus' turn. It gets his legendary action back. Fuck you. Sorry. Actually, at the end of your turn, Chetney's going to use his last legendary action. Actually. To compliment me on my

To try to get in Chetney's hand. So I need you to make, is it an intelligence saving throw? Mind sliver? Or what? I think intelligence saving throw. Mind sliver. What, mind sliver? Yes, intelligence. This wouldn't be a charmed or frightened feature, right?

It is not. You said intelligence saving throw. What, my sliver? Yes, intelligence. This wouldn't be a charmed or frightened feature, right? It is not. You said intelligence saving throw? Correct. Wait, I rolled that with advantage. I don't think I was supposed to. Wait. It was a natural 20 for that. I don't think I have it.

Hey, I got a fire alarm. Just do it again. Just do it again. Just do it again. 20. Oh, so good. Oh, my, it almost hit! again. Just do it again. 20. Repeat. Oh, my god! It almost hit! Oh my god, it almost hit! 11. Okay, so you take 15 points of psychic damage,

and the next saving throw you make before the end of Ludinus' next turn, it's reduce it by d4. Reverse reduce by d4. Yes, which keeps that in mind. Now, at the end of your turn, it's reduce it by d4. Reduce by d4. Yes, which keeps him alive. Now, at the end of your turn, he regains his legendary actions. Ludinus is going to spend his action

ignoring you and focusing on the barrier. That's fucking insulting. That's rude. As he does, you watch as the energy flicker up his body and that heavy, buzzing static sound gets extremely strong and concentrated. Your vision up close seems to double, triple over, almost like you're seeing multiple channels on a TV overlapping for a second.

With that, you see this white flash, a smaller version of that one time that Imogen, in your first fight with Otohan, ended up annihilating a city block and teleporting everyone. As soon as the white flash outward, you come back to and you watch as the first boundaries tethers. You watch, they don't shatter, but it's almost like it becomes permeable.

The glyphs become more translucent and he steps through it. Mm? You can take an attack opportunity if you'd like. Oh, sure. Do it. All those moves. I don't have fucking damage. Ah, bugger.

Four more of them. Oh, that'll hit. 20, that's exactly a 26. So natural 17. Well, that'll hit. 20, that's exactly a 26. Is that a natural 17? Well, this is an aiming of his, because this is just a reactive strike. Yeah, just a regular strike. So.

Do you have something? Yeah, he's going to shield. I don't have a, no. I don't remember. But it was a 26, so I hit it regardless. So yeah, so go ahead and roll damage. Okay, great. Two d6 plus six, I think.

I just scrolled away from it like a tool. And the barrier is no longer there? The barrier's still present, but the area where he was touching it seems to become permeable. Like the glyphs in that area where he was standing become translucent and he just steps through it. So the boundary is broken. But can we step through it. So the boundary isn't broken.

But can we step through it? For a second. 22 points of damage, five of which is lightning. But we're not going to close it. If the creature's made of blood. It is. Okay, 22. 22 points of damage. All right, so he needs to DC of 11.

Yeah, he succeeds. Disadvantage. I only rolled one die. Don't you feel all this it's a straight roll. Matt? Yes? I forgot to roll an extra d8 for Enhanced Bond. Just had to give it to somebody. Oh, for the fire?

For the fire, so it's an extra die. I will receive, I'll take it. Of damage, sorry. Good to know. No, it's okay. That was it. All righty. That finishes your go, Chet? Yes, it does.

Oh, no, sorry, that was him moving forward. That finishes his turn. Chet? Yes, it does. Sorry, that was him moving forward. That finishes his turn. As a bonus action, he steps through it, then turns back again and goes, go play with your friends. Flicks his hand, make a strength saving throw for me. No! Oh, come on!

He's going to telekinetic shove you. Oh no, you have disadvantage on this. Now I have disadvantage? No, you have negative four. D4 on it, minus a D4 on it. And do I roll the d4 as well? You do, yeah. Okay. 10 strength.

17. 17. You get shoved 10 feet back away from him. I've not done that. Push him back. Okay, okay. Okay. Okay. Thought I was going back to bowling. Did you drop silence? You do feel. You did.

You're not quite sure yet, and we'll measure it when it comes around to it, but you are on the cusp of the tug of the distant, ravenous void. I always like being on the cusp of the tug. It's okay. That's a cusp! I walked into that.

I'm cusping! All right. Don't try so hard. Brace. Yep. You're up. Do less. How do you make a strength saving throw, please?

Strength saving throw! Two plus. What does that say? 14, that's good. 14 plus nine is 23. 23, you resist the pull of the spell and you can Fucking badass. You are such a badass.

God, it's either cast a spell or move. There's nothing to be done. If I used everything to get 60 feet, I'd still be within the pool, right? It looks like it's quite a large radius of a spell pool. Like rocks and things from up here are like... God damn it. God damn it. Goddamn it. I can't fucking breathe.

We need to hit this guy. Fucking damn, he's going to die. And our speed is halved? Your speed is halved within 100 feet, yeah. Okay. Do I get close or do I hurt him? I will hurt him. I'll move 15 feet because that's what I can move.

If you are within 10 feet of me, you get a d4 to your attack what I can move. If you are within 10 feet of me, you get a d4 to your attack, by the way. Which you are within 10 feet of me. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Then I will cast... Silence. Moonbeam.

Okay. At third level? Get it up there. Look, this guy. Fourth level. Show it in. Moonbeam is fourth level, 120-foot range. That'll definitely get him. Is it a red beam?

Yes. Yes! Oh, weirdly, on the moon, it's just called Beam. That's pretty dumb. That's pretty dumb. That's pretty dumb, I love it. Oh, he has to save against it. It's not an attack roll. It's a constitution 18. Okay, which he has disadvantage on,

but against Belzee's advantage, it was a straight roll. That would have been an, well, here, I'll roll it in front then. That would be 21. Aw. Meow. Good job. So he succeeds, but he still takes damage.

Does he? You can see here, what's it say? Half as much, so it's 2d10, but you cast it at 4th-level, so it'd be 4d10 radiant damage. Yeah. Where is my d10s? I never use these.

I use the percentile. Where's my d10s? Five and eight is 13. But he's got an arcane candy. Plus seven and two is 22. 11 points of radiant damage. He does get to save against it. So dc10.

Yeah, national 19. Jeez, it's hot. It's not hot. Hot DM tonight, hot DM. That's just the single roll, right? And bonus action, I will inspire. He's got the stank. Boy, who needs it?

Who's weaker? You're weak. I mean, we'll get her. I'll also say Laudna's about to go. I don't even know where she is. I'm on the other side of this rack. I think I'm too far from you. I will inspire you, Fearne. Okay.

I'll just show you a little bit of chest. Whoa! Look at those curls coming out the top of your shirt. Yeah, they've got curls on top of the hair. It's curly hair. Perfect. Perfectly curled. All right, so finish your turn, Brady? Yep, yep.

All right, Laudna, you're up with Ashton on deck. Okay. I need you to make, no, you are. Ha ha! They're out of it. We're going to measure now. Yep, again, just to recall. They were out of it, they were out of it. You measured already. Yep, they are.

So you're good. Put it away, stop, stop, don't look, don't look! Okay. Don't second guess yourself, Matthew! Every edge! Put the ruler away. Just double checking. Okay. Yes.

Okay. Come on. 75, 40. Let's go, Debra. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to skirt this line. Skirt, skirt, skirt! Wherever I see little pebbles and stuff getting sucked away, I'm going to skirt this line. Skirt, skirt, skirt. Wherever I see little pebbles and stuff

getting sucked away, I'm going to be like, oh god, so I'm going to move as much as I can, hugging this edge and try and get, lighting it. I'm going to edge it, I'm going to cusp it. One, two, three. Can I get up here? You can. So take all your movement to get up there.

That's okay. You can do that. I'm going to get up here. Right, is that correct there? Then I'm going to get out Pâté. Okay. Secret weapon Pâté? Yes. You're my nuke, baby.

All right. He's going to fly to me. Hey, Mace, what's going on? What are we doing? All right, here's what I need you to do. Yeah, tell me. Listen very carefully. Yeah, listen. He's got a fleshy hole in the back of his neck. Gross! It's so I need you to do. Yeah, tell me. Listen very carefully. Yeah, listen. He's got a fleshy hole in the back of his neck. Gross!

It's so gross. I love it. I need you to go and latch on to the back of his neck. Oh, cool. Just like. Oh, I got you. Boney little fingers. Latch on to his fleshy hole. You're just like.

Go, he has applied speed of force. What's that over there? No, no, no. Go, he has applied speed of force. We're set up with water. No, no, no, focus. He's right in there. Focus, okay. And Pate, stay. Stay this way so you don't get sucked into a black hole. So go this way. Stay away from a hole to get to a hole.

Yes. Double negatives make a positive. It's the rat fakers, didn't they? Yep. Tiny little bugs. All right, what's his fly speed? 40. 40. So from there. Fly into that hole.

Can you summon him farther away from you? Can you go behind the crystal? He's getting that neck meat. He can get up there. No, can he get to Ludinus? To Ludinus? Yeah, I want him to get to touch his neck. Right.

40 feet? To get around, he would not be able to. He would get most of the weight. Let's see here. He goes down. He can't fly cut across? Let me see. He flies down. No, he flies down here.

Right there. Yeah. Is that up against him? That is within melee, yes. Okay. I want him to latch onto the back of his neck. Confidence. And I want to do a touch spell.

Yeah. I think I stink. Yeah. Through him, shocking grasp, because I can cast spells through Pate. That's true, you can, yeah. Is Pate on the back of his neck? Pate is reaching for the back of his neck, yeah.

Okay. Back of his neck. Yeah, I got you. All right. So it's a roll to hit him, right? Yes, so plus 12, so 14 off. Oh, wait, wait, wait, I have an advantage for that. Or I've got inspiration.

Have an, have an, have an, have an, have an. A what? Hmm. Ooh, ooh, I rolled a 14 plus nine, so that's what I needed was a 14, because it's plus 12. What's the total? So 14, 12 is 26, plus another nine,

because I'm inspiration, so that is 35. That hits. Yeah! Yes! Fuck you. Destroy him, Lander! I did it! Oh wait, I was next.

Destroy him, Lander! So. So, Chetney. Darling. Yeah. Main case. As you're holding on, the wind's pulling back, you're on the cusp of falling back into the spell,

and you see Ludinus step through the boundary and this soft chuckle like, I've waited for this for so long. HADDAAAAY! What's that? And so it's just humping him from behind the edge. And they're like, fuck, what's this sh? What's going on?

Fucking shit! Fuck! Okay. We had tails. There was something. Oh my god mine, so there are some more. Oh my god, this is the moment. Okay, so it's three to eight for Shocking Grasp. Pretty mid roll.

Seven, 10, 12. 12 points of damage, all righty. Okay. Good boy. Roll for concentration. DC's 10. But wait, does he add a thing? Do I get my necrotic? You got a natural one!

You will spend a legendary resistance to succeed. Oh! Oh! So that's his third? But you also get to do a two-disc one. But I hit his hole. Yeah, so you do an additional 8d6 necrotic damage. So wouldn't we add that to the total

for his concentration's sake? It would, yeah, but he automatically sees auto-saved it because of rolled a one. That's fair. That's fine. Burn the legendary resistance. Goddamn it, I'm trying to knock that thing off so bad. I know, sure. Okay, three, six, nine, 14, four more.

What did I just say? 14. 15 plus eight is going to be 23. Plus another three, 26. 26, all right, additional 26 damage on that. And roll a d6 for me. To take his spells away. Oh, right, right, right. Six, roll a six.

Six! Yes! Seven spells, oh man. Yes! Whoa! Awesome! Yeah! Awesome! Awesome! Ah!

Okay, yeah. Good turn, good turn. He's going to lose a fourth and a third level spell slot on that one. Yeah, baby. Okay, okay. That was a great turn. That was a really good turn. As you cast the Shocking Grasp through,

Pate is just chuckling while humping the back of Luden' head. He's just going to town. He's like, you just, and reaches back, just like, tears him from the back and throws Pate into the rock. Oh, worth it. And he sinks down as Ludus pulls his hand back

and there's black blood and a weird, almost like a maple syrup texture, like liquid coming out of where it was. Ew! Ugh! Out of the fleshy hole? Maple syrup? Well, it's not a hole, but... It's a maple syrup. Now it is.

Now it is, yeah. Cannon. But yeah, he did not appreciate that. And so he spiked Pate against the rock, you said? Yeah, he just, I mean, narratively, just threw him against the rock. Pâté's still right there. He's still there.

Um... I... God, I can't. Technically, Pâté might take a bunch of moonbeam damage. He just moved into the radius, right? Okay, let's go ahead and roll it up. Roll it up. What's the radius of the moonbeam? It's a five-foot radius on him.

So Pate rushes in, does this, and then roll a constitution saving throw for Pate. Come on, Pate. Okay. Wait, it's a five-foot radius all around? It's just around Ludinus. And what does it do? It's like a spotlight. It burns anything around him.

Spellcasting ability, right? So anybody who's a contact fighter is a little mild. You can drop it. I think that should be good. You also move it five feet inward, too. Hmm? I can? If you, for this way, if you wanted to center it in a way

where it aimed towards where the barrier was, so that it would hit him, it wouldn't hit the radius around, I'll allow that. That would be nice, yes. I'll allow that. Since you wouldn't want to hurt your friends. I would definitely. So don't worry about that for it wouldn't hit the radius around, I'll allow that. That would be nice, yes. I'll allow that. Okay. Since you wouldn't want to hurt your friends. I would definitely. So don't worry about that for now. Okay, good, good, good.

But if you don't move it and Ludinus moves in closer, then it would become an issue. So finish your turn, Laudna. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out if I want to Quicken a spell, but. Up to you. I think I'll stay there. I'm trying to conserve points.

Okay. For better or for worse. Okay, so where you are right now standing, you cannot actually see Ludinus. He's out of range. But Pate does give you the vision. Yeah. All right. So with that finished, Ashton, you're up. Make a saving throw for me, please.

Nat 20. Yeah. Yes! Let's go, baby. You're right on the cusp of where the radius is. Gliding through the rock and glass, best you can. Let's go, baby. You're right on the cusp of where the radius is. Gliding through the rock and glass best you can. Let's go, Stone Soup. So do I feel the same pull? My legs are, if I sink them down,

do I feel the same gravitational pull underneath the ground that I do? It still pulls on you, but you're slightly better anchored. I would give you advantage if you didn't already have it on the saving throws. Okay, yeah, I just have it. Okay, but my speed is not going to be affected by this?

Because you're gliding, I will say no. You can move your normal speed because you are not affected by rough terrain and the tug on this because you are actually gliding through the ground. Fucking in. All right. In your form, I'll allow that. Awesome.

In that case, what's the best way to do this? I'm going to head 80 feet towards Laudna. You're going to head towards Laudna? You got it. So from where you are right there, and we'll move. I'll drop under the ground for that, because I think there's five feet, so can I get my whole body underneath the ground for that?

Or no. Roll a d4 for me. Done. On a four to six? Four. Four? You cannot get completely under the ground, but you can halfway get in there.

Okay, well, then no worries about it. Then I'll, well, no, I'll take it. Then I'm, yeah, I'm just going to sit. That's your move and your attack. It's a dash there. Yeah. Okay, cool. All good. That's your move and your action. So you dash there. Yeah. Okay, cool. All good. That finishes your go. All right, finishing Ashton's go.

Dorian, you're up with Imogen on deck. Can I ask you a question about how the No! The pate event unfolded? You said, did he walk forward through the first barrier? I just want to know what his relationship to the barriers are right now. Well, from where you are,

To spell the outer layer. all you saw was him step through it. You saw the edge of the boundary I just want to know what his relationship to the barriers are right now. Well, from where you are, all you saw was him step through it. You saw the edge of the boundary and he just walked through it and out of your sight. All right. Pate seemed to be able to pass through it as well. Pate is just on the outside of where he was. I denied my movement last time,

but would I be able to have Coriolis scoot me up and use his movement? Oh, Coriolis has been with you that's why. Yeah, he's still on the board, I guess. So you've been following over there. Coriolis will save his movement. Well, first off, Coriolis will make a strength saving throw. Oh my god, that's right, he's in the pits!

Oh my god. What was the scientific name, Sam? Equus Caballeros? Caballeros? Where's the saving? No, I can't. He's in the pit. Equus. He's in the pit. That's okay. That changes it. That's fine. No, no.

Got to play it. No! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got the pits! He's in the pits. He takes Coriolis' take. No, buddy boy. No. But he's your key. Seven, 12, 13. 21 points of force damage.

Ooh, he's still alive. For now. Coriolis is restrained. Okay. I hear a smoke coming out of him. Thank you so much for touching me. All right, then he's out of the picture. I'll use my movements to cut straight in,

like in front of Ashton, like 40 feet. Just be careful, don't get sucked in. Yeah, same thing. Just be careful. Don't get sucked into Ashton's beautiful blue eye. Eye. Yeah, I think you just have line of sight. Okay.

So that's 25 feet there. Okay. You can see Ludinus from where you are, and you still have more movement if you like. I want to use it all to get as close as possible, I guess. Yeah. Five, 30. Not scared. I have 40.

35, 40 gets you right there. Cool. I'm going to wing a lightning bolt at him. From where you are, to get him with a lightning bolt, you will likely also hit Pâté. Well. Is he still earthbound?

He would be. He would be because... You've maintained concentration? Well, I haven't rolled for it. Sorry, because you can't hit that up. Beep, boop, beep, boop, beep, boop. Go ahead and make a concentration check for me. Beep, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. I get advantage to maintain my concentration.

But that thing's so tiny. I'm going to do something. Can you just like? Nope. No, no, no. No, no, I'm going to leave him alive for you. What's this? Not very good. It's the cough test. No, no, no, I'm going to leave him alive for you. What's this? Not very good. That's the cock test. 12.

12. You didn't take more than 25 damage, I think, on any of those, so I think you're okay. Okay, okay, no, I didn't. Okay. Positioning's tough. All right, scratch that. I'll keep that tail alive. I'll use the rest of my turn.

I'll use another 40 feet, use my wing boots. Actually, if you want to use your wing boots as part of this, you could fly up a little bit, and then there you would have an angle to hit him. Okay. If you wanted to. That's still such a threat. Who's still in threat of the...

All of us. Everybody's still in a threat? All right, I'll do that. Okay. Let's do that. So we it, so we're putting you. Beep-bop-ba-doo. Beep-bop-ba-doo. Die, die. We'll do, yeah, fourth, no, no, no.

Fuck it, fifth level. Fifth level lightning bolt until Udyn's the left. All righty. Dexterity saving throw. 16. He succeeds. Got it. Cool. So he takes half of this?

Correct. 19, 14, how many is it? 10? 10d6? For fifth level? Fifth level? Yeah, 10d6. Yeah, okay. Let's see, 14, 24. I'm not sure. 32, 33. 33, so it takes 16 points of lightning damage. Yeah. It strikes through.

It takes the hit to roll for this. DC 10, maintain concentration. That is going to be... That's a fail. He's going to use his secondary Legendary Resistance. Ah! Damn. He's burning through those resistances.

He's so cool! Usually three? Three per turn or three per turn? Or? Usually it's three for the legendary creature. Holy crap. So the blast hits him. He just redoubles his concentration

and just keeps pushing on the barrier. He's more or less swatting you off like flies and just keeping focused on his continued march towards what lies beyond the cage. How much damage did you just do to him? 16. Matt Taliesin said he's going home, and for his turns, just to say,

I'm going to stay down. For my bonus action, I'll just turn to Lawd and I'll say, so close! Shoo-shaboy again! And I'll use Healing Word. For me? Healing Word, you can't cast two spells. Oh, two close! Shoo, shoo, shoo boy again, and I'll use Healing Word. For me? Healing Word, you can't cast two spells. Oh, two spells! It's not a cantor!

Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, never mind. I'm out, I'm out. But you can Inspiration if you want to. No, I'm good. I only got one left. You got it. All right, finishing your turn, Dorian. Imogen, you're up.

Good luck. Okay. Does that do anything for you? Well, I don't know. Does it do anything for you? Well, I don't know. Does it? Do I go? Sorry, your turn. But I'm on the other side of this big rock.

Oh, we're doing the test. You are. Make a strength saving throw. It's the rock test. You have advantage on it. And the DC is lower because you're in between. You're going to tumble it around, bitch. Like an anti-gravity jet. So based on your current, yep. So the DC is 16 right now.

Okay, okay. Come on! It's still so fucking high. Jeez. Okay. Hey! Whoa! What was that shit? Wait, wait, did you just roll this one?

You're done. No, that's not what I rolled. You didn't mean to roll. I didn't mean to roll either of those. Should it count? So if you didn't mean to roll it, re-roll it. I don't think so. Jesus Christ.

That was bad. Please give me an instant replay of that. They were both worse. But it doesn't matter. They would have failed either way, so I fail. So you are holding onto the other edge and trying to figure out what to do. Dang it.

Your feet begin to lift up off the ground and you lose your hold against it as you tumble over the top. How can I spell, man? Since I'm next, can I try to use my action to try to put my staff out or something so she doesn't go in there? That would be a reaction.

That would be to hold your action and try and do that beforehand. Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. All right. We try, we try, we try. We'll give you four points of health. That's not too bad. Take 20 points of force damage.

Okay. Every little bit. Damn. I felt so good for just a second when I didn't get in there before. Okay, so what I'm going to do, from where I am now. This is a great scene.

Yeah. I'm over 120 feet away from him now. You are currently, yes. All right, cool, awesome. Swell. Then I'm going to try and cast a level five lightning bolt. I'm going to use a distance.

I'm going to double my distance. Okay. Which will definitely hit him. I mean, definitely be far. It will be. Fern is currently between the two of you. Okay, well, I don't want to hit Fearne. I'll say what, you got pulled over this way. So the angle would put you technically about there.

It means you could aim through this rock. Right between? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd allow that. Okay. You are restrained still. She was screaming at me. I would also just, maybe. No, I get it. Sorry, sorry, just stuff me. No, I get it. Sorry, sorry, I should have.

No, it's okay. All right, so that's a dex save on his point there. National 19. So he succeeds, but go ahead and roll your damage for this. Okay. 10d6. Cool. That's going to be great.

It's going to make him drop Concentration for sure. That's the hope. This is going to be great. It's going to make him drop concentration, for sure. That's the hope. This is going to do it. But then he's going to roll a resistance again. Well. There'll be one more gone. Yeah, exactly. He's gotten rid of two? Yeah.

She's off time, dude. 17. What am I going to do? 15, 23, 25, 31, 30. Three points. Nice. That was three points of damage. That was I rolled low.

Wax, that would be 16 points lightning damage total, which strikes him for the DC. Just a straight roll. That would be enough, unfortunately. Succeeds on his concentration check. The bolt lighting strikes him, but you can see the psychic field reflexively appear behind him and the bolt hits it.

It seems to ground itself, crackle around, and still get to him and still shock him, but a lot of it's been disseminated into the nearby rock. Okay. Okay. Let me just think for a second. I think that's everything I can do. Okay.

Tough. Does that finish your turn? Okay, end of your turn. He's now getting a little more frustrated and going, I guess this will make the race more interesting. He's going to spend two of his legendary actions to do Rapid Cast. He's going to cast Chain Lightning on you.

Oh! I know. But you're just a guy. I hate this. I'm going to cast Chain Lightning on you. Oh! I know. But you're just a guy. I hate this. Just a guy. Right now? Just a little guy. Each target within 30 feet of him. Oh, fuck me. That's going to be Chetney.

Dang. Wow. It's going to be Ashton. Dang. It's going to be Laudna. Yeah. It's going to be Pâté as well. Oh, dang. Oh, my baby boy!

Sorry, guys. Eat you. What if Paté jumps aerobically in front of me? Never. No! Suffering. Please let it sound like that.

No! It's like a Schwarzenegger doing a face react. Those are some shitty-ass fucking. No! Fuck! It's like a Schwarzenegger doing a face react. Those are some shitty-ass fucking... SAM and LAURA, SAM and LAURA, and LAURA, and LAURA. See, the Schwarzenegger reacts. Make him roll shit. That's only 30 points of lightning damage.

That could have been a lot higher at 10d8. Do we get a dash? So yeah, dexterity saving throw from each of you. Okay. Dex? Yep. Dexy. Okay, for Pate. Mm-hmm. Ugh.

Nine. 30 points of lightning damage to Pate. Okay. Does he survive? He does survive. Poof. Pate's chomping. No. How many points? No, he does not survive.

I'm sorry, I was looking at his fly speed. He goes poof poofs. Oh, dog. I did it all for the new game! Vanishes into a magical burst of nothing. He tried to save you, Chetney, he tried. I just get black molasses splatter all over me. I rolled so many ones on that.

18 for me. 18 fail, so 30 points of lightning damage. Okay. Chetney on that. 18 for me. 18 fail, so 30 points of lightning damage. Okay. Chetney? 25. 25 is success, so you take 15 points of lightning damage. Fail. 30 points of lightning damage. Fuck.

23. Oh no. 23, success, so 15 points of lightning damage. There he is. All right. All righty. You're going to add the whole night? Finishing Imogen's go. A shift of nearby light.

Ashton catches Laudna and Ashton's and Dorian's eye. Reinforcements. As around the edge of this, a shimmer of light seems to emerge. No. A familiar form peeks around the corner. Why? Could be.

I manage to just watch him fail. Yeah! Wiggity, you spooky bastard! There he is. Come on! Big boy! Now you want to know what that blue thing did? Oh! That's right!

Took him a minute. Okay, okay. Yeah, could you have helped us? Other people do the work. He's a creature that bites his time. And was like, let you all go in first, see how it goes, and then cruise around best you can after dimension dooring to that side.

But you watch him, he dimension doors to the opposite side of the chamber. He's going to go ahead and, let's see, take his speed of 40. He's first going to go into his nightmare form as a bonus action. So you watch as he appears. Nightmare? And looks over towards you,

and one of his giant black eyes winks. But when it closes, it folds into itself and you watch as his skin seems to almost tear off, leaving a black shadow version of him behind. He's like, yeah! He now looks like a scattered, blackened, jagged shadow version of himself, where even his clothing and his tails

are flickering and made of black energy and darkness. And where his black eyes were now it's just these white, vacuous orbs. Almost like he turns into a negative version of himself. In my form of dread, where I have just eye sockets, no eyes, I also wink

and a little bit of black kind of splurts out. So I'm like, yeah. Okay. And then he is going to leap this way. Yeah. This way. How tall is he? He's going to get there. 12 or 15 feet, I think.

About there. Is he within 30 feet of lewdness? Yeah, he's tall. He is within 30 feet of lewdness, right at the edge. Is he within 30 feet of lewdness? Yeah, he's tall. He is within 30 feet of lewdness, right at the edge. Is he within 10 feet of me still? No, he's unfortunately at 15 feet from you. He is going to cast Steelwind Strike. Steelwind Strike.

Let's go, buddy. So he gets low, and his claws extend out into these long, black, blade-like fingers. Yes. And he leaps into the air with a spinning flourish and then vanishes. And you watch him, like Nightcrawler, teleport around Ludinus in a series of dark flashes. And then at the end of the teleport, lands right on the edge of where Ludinus is.

Ludinus has to go ahead and make a... And is Ludinus still on the inside of that first membrane layer? Yeah. So he went inside there and came back out? Yeah. Wow, cool, okay. So at first glance, he teleports in that in-between space,

so there is a permeability to it currently that's been unlocked by Ludinus. Oh, okay. So he has to make an attack roll against him with this. That's a natural fucking beacon 20. Oh my god! I'm not even joking. Yeah! Sure is, right there.

All right, yeah, Ira coming in to fucking help here at the end. Thanks, Laura. So that's 6d10 force damage doubled. 6d10. Oh, okay. So 60-ish. 12. That's a 60-ish hit. Let's go, all right. Just because it's on your end, it's a crit.

Let's see what we got. So. All right, so that's 10, 20, 30, 36 times two. Oh my god. That's going to be 72 points of force damage. Oh! Beefy. On Ludinus.

Ooh, this is not good. All these teleporting slashes before landing, and Ludinus is struck there for a second, then takes all the hits at once, and then crumples to a knee. So half of that is going to be, he has a DC of 36. He has to make on this check. Come on! How? 36?

You can't. You can't. So he'll use his last Legendary Resistance. Ugh! It's all gone now! It's all gone. Last, though. Legendary Resistance. It's held out. Okay.

Ludinus, like, Of course you'd be here. And Ira, now at this point, flickering shadow, is like, It's all I've wanted for years, than to watch you fail. Yes! As black smoke pours at the sides of his mouth. Petty-ass bullshit, let's go.

He only took half of that 72, right? Ludinus did? Ludinus only took half of the 72, or did he take all of it? No, he took all of it. It was a crit, but the DC is half the damage total damage taken. I got it, I got it. So that's going to finish Ira's turn. Fearne, you're up. Wow.

Okay. All right. Ira! Hey! Be cool, Fearne, be cool. Actually, you know what? Sorry, at the end of, sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off there. No, you're fine. At the end of Ira's turn,

as soon as his last legendary action to do Psychic Blast, all creatures within five feet of lewdness have to make a DC 22 strength saving throw. That's going to be just Ira, but he's like, no, get the fuck out of here. Ira's going to go ahead and try and make that save, which is going to be plus three. Zim, zim, zah.

That's a natural one on Ira. Oh, Ira. Natural 22, natural one, that's the way. So Ira gets pushed 30 feet back. Oh no. Yeah. So, Ludinus angrily gets up and shouts, put his arms out, and there's this bubble ripple of psychic energy. Ira gets blasted back and catches himself on the ground.

Right as he starts to stand up, you see him scooting back, slightly starting to push towards the spell in the back. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right, do I need to check to see if I go in? Strength check? Yes, you do. All right.

Vanish. Is she holding on to? Hmm? Okay. Ugh, come on. What? It's because I'm rolling diagonal dice. Landing diagonal up. I know. Just a marble. Okay, I'm going to use this.

I feel like it's a novelty joke dice. I know. We're just holding onto the rock. We didn't get the memo. Yeah. I mean, I'm holding onto the rock so hard. I'm sure. So... 15. I mean, I'm holding onto the rock so hard. I'm sure.

15. 15's not going to work. I love the optimism. I know. We're high, man. I'm trying to see if there's anything. Hold back into the void for you take... Smushed against a dinosaur. Good thing we're so useful in this.

Take 27 points of force damage. 27 points of force damage? Perhaps. I'm going to cry. Yeah, fine. Now it can be your turn. Okay. Yeah. Shit, we're over 120 feet away from him.

Do you have Spell Sniper? Narr. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, I just got to try to, I mean, can, would I have Mister with me or he would just be out there? Well, at the beginning of your turn,

make a strength save for Mister. If he takes the damage, he's going to die. Well, I'm going to leave him out there. Well, I mean, he still has to make it. It happens automatically at the start of your turn. He's a flame, though. Do flames get stuck? Natural 20! Ah!

Mister! Mister succeeds in the save. All right, all right. So if I can, if I can, so would he be with me or would he be where he was? No, he's right where he is. Okay. So if you wanted to, in theory, like...

Because you can, like, hold your action, and then, like, boat's your bonus action to teleport. Yeah. I'd allow you to, like, have him move into the radius. He'll take the damage by moving into the radius. If you think he can survive it, then he could try and teleport you out, and then you could do an action when you're teleporting out.

Wait, how does he do it? I just don't know how hurt he is. He might be able to make it. Hold on, I think he has like 28 points left. No, he's got 37 points. Oh, okay. Okay, I'm going to have him come in. Okay, so she's like,

sorry, sorry. She's like dug in the ground like, I'm going to have him take Imogen out. He can take both of us out, can't he? He can take us all out. Can he also take a Coriolis? Yeah, he can take all the creatures. He can take all the creatures that are can't he? He can take us all out. Can he also take a Coriolis? Yeah, he can take all the creatures. He can take all the creatures

that are within five feet of you or him. Stand. By your men. When does he take the damage? When he enters the radius. When he enters the radius, is he within 10 feet of me? He would be, yeah.

So he will get resistance to the damage. That's good to know. Ooh! Okay, so it's each willing creature of your choice within five feet of it, and five feet of Mister. Mister can move half movement to go, but he takes half damage because he's within 10 feet. Great.

He pushes, and he's like. Don't worry, small muggy friend, you've got this. And as all the fur on his body and the flame is being pulled inward, where every instinct in him is to try and run away, he just looks at you and Yeah. And crawls in towards,

like fighting the gravity is walking in on its own terms. Fingernails. Yeah. Poop monkey crawling into a black hole. I love this game. Poop monkey crawling into a black hole. He's crossly-eventurized. 39 points of force damage halved.

He has gone where no monkey has gone. I rolled really good on that damage roll. It's only fitting. It is okay. To have a pet with more than four hit points. I rolled really good on that damage roll. It's only fitting. It is okay. To have a pet with more than four hit points. I know, right? Oh man. Steps up into there, like,

okay, but once you get within five feet of it, then either you have to choose Coriolis or Imogen. Okay, well. Tough call. Tough call. I know, it's a rough call. You got to think about it. It's rough. Are you going to hand the luck over?

Yeah, yeah. And then, could we go towards Brayen? When we bamf out? Imogen hates horses, yeah. And then could we go towards Brayen? When we bamf out? Imogen hates horses, confirmed. Yeah, two horse girls. Fuck off, horse. You can get there, and we'll get you here. And Imogen, out of the way.

Neither of you are restrained. That was the bravest thing I've ever seen, young monkey friend. You have the strength of the way. Neither of you are restrained. That was the bravest thing I've ever seen, young monkey friend. You have the strength of a cow. All right, get this thing down before our turns are up. So. I'm trying. I still can't fucking move, right? No, you're no longer restrained.

He teleported you out of it. Okay. Well, we can't move. Well, we can't move. We can move. A little bit. It's just 15 feet. I still can't, okay. Then Scorch and Ray it is! Are you going to move beforehand, or? I am going to, yes, I am.

I would like to get somewhere where I would hopefully have a little more cover. Well, that's not really going to happen from where you're standing, unfortunately. It's fine. It doesn't matter. It is what it is. This is the puzzle of the encounter. Scorching Ray.

And I'm going to do that. Oh God, guys, I just don't think we have any spells left. Does your movement go up in the other form? What? Say again? Does your movement go up in your fire form? You haven't turned into a fire. I know I was going to wait because I have it for an hour,

but now's the time. Is it? Is it? Fighting lewdness! There's stuff after this. We still have to put Prydathos. Let her do what she wants to do. Yeah. No, it doesn't move.

It died. I don't get extra. We're going to fight Prydathos! All right, all right. Scorching Ray. What level? To lewdness, I'm going to do it at six level. Six level, okay. And I'm going to shoot it in his...

Neck? Hole in his neck. You got it. Okay. It's not a hole, but it's got many goals. So. It's a resembling one now. Sure, yeah. I guess it is a little punctured at this point.

A hole with a little bit of drainage issues. So that's... A little seepage. Or wedge shape. Sure, yeah. I guess it is a little punctured at this point. A hole with a little bit of drainage issues. So that's seven hits. Well, it's three, and then you said casting at six level, right? So that would be seven attacks, yes. Okay. Oh, that's. 16. Oh.

But you get a, oh no, you're not standing next to Ashton, so you don't get a plus four. No. Okay, so are you going for his whole? Going for his whole. 16 plus what? 27. Only one needs to. So that one hits. 27 hits. He's going to cast Shield.

I was going to say. Shield! And that's going to affect. AC the rest of his turn. Affect all of it? So his AC is even higher now. So this one is 30. That'll do it. 30 misses just now. The Shield! You're not going to hit any of them. That'll do it. 30?

Misses. Whoa! The shield! You're not going to hit any of them. So just stop aiming for the hole and just hit him. Just hit his head. Just try to break the spell. All right, so I'll just hit his body. Okay, so the first two hits miss.

The third you can go for, and this is just a 26 now because of the shield. What a jerk. Just a 26. You got this. Five more. We're actually fucking Johnson. No. You don't have to. Four more. No, 22.

Three more. No. Two more. Huh? Okay. 26. 26. One hit, guys. At one hit, I'm going to change the number of the finger. Don't say it like that. That's it. That's it. That's it.

That's it, one hit. One hit. So roll 2d6. Oh, man. This is it, you're actually fucking Johnson. Also a d8 for Mister. Right. Okay. Is that a seven?

I was going to say 15. So 15 points of fire damage on him. Okay, great. So it gets hit just in the shoulder or the back. Six fucking levels. So it's. Okay, great. Okay. So it gets hit just in the shoulder, the back. Six fucking levels. So it's a 10 DC. It's just a concentration check on the 10 DC.

He only has a straight roll. But he has a plus eight or something. He rolled a two! Two. So what does that mean? Brings it a 10. It's a plus eight on his roll. So he needed to roll a one, but he failed. Ah! Oh! Yeah! I hate lewdness. Brings it a 10. It's a plus eight on his roll. So he needed to roll a one, but he failed.

I hate lewdness. I hate it so much. Oh, he's a good wizard. Where'd you go, Bubba? He's a good wizard. I'm gone. No, he's a bad wizard. Okay. Worst wizard.

All right. That was some fucking waste. No, it wasn't. It's all worth it at this point. What's that mean? No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't. It's all worth it at this point. I love it. What's that mean? I don't know. No, meaning everything helps burn through and push towards the goal.

Yeah. Yeah. Can you do that for me? It just sounded scary, is all. No, I can't. All right, Fearne, finish your turn. That finishes my turn. Mister Does, he gets to throw some shit. No, he did the Dimension Door thing.

Oh, that was his action. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right, so finishing to throw some shit. No, he did the dimension door thing. Oh, that was his action. Yeah, yeah. Okay. All right, so finishing Fearne's go. Orym, you're up with Chetney on damage. Top of the round. That's very cool. I know, right?

I have to save or get pulled back into the hole again, right? Yes. Currently, yes. Yeah. So you have, the DC is going to be 16 on this. Take this out. But you do have advantage on the check. It's be a 16 on this. Take this out. But you do have advantage on the check.

It's not going to be the same. I'm sorry. It's dex, right? No, it's strength. Strength. Okay, I failed that. I'm going to use what I should have done before. I have one indomitable left.

You didn't roll advantage, though, did you? I did not. Why do I have advantage? Oh, because of the rock. Because you're behind the hand. Second one is barely different. So this is the indomitable roll. Because you're behind the head. Second one is barely different. So this is the Endom-a-dub-a-dub-a-dub-a roll. Endom-a-dub-a-dub-a-dub-a.

I'm going to use, I have one last superiority die. I'm going to use Zephyrn Heart and try to boost it. Okay. 18. I rolled a 10. 18 succeeds. Ooh! So as you clutch onto the side, you feel the gravity tugging at you at the side, and you hold in, you close your eyes for a second,

and imagine the calm winds of Zephra. And as you do, you bend like a reed with the gravity as it pulls towards you and glide along the outer edge and hold yourself in place. And you feel confident that you can keep your focus and strength this round. Was 18 the DC? 16. 16 was DC.

Okay, I rolled a 10 on that. Yeah, I saw that. So what I'm going to do, I can't do much still, is I'm going to use my movement to go 15 feet on a diagonal and then use my action to go another 15, so a full 30.

And then I've still got the Grasping Vine spell up, so I am going to shoot the stone next to Ludinus and yank myself past Chetney. I'm completely out of gas, but I just get low to the ground and bring the sword down, twist it in my hand, and stare at him, and that's the end of my turn.

All right. Nice. Right, so that finishes your turn. You're down, and you can feel the pull of the gravity, the ravenous void is no longer trained on you. Yeah. So you're beyond the radius of the spell. the ravenous void is no longer trained on you. Yeah. So you're beyond the radius of the spell. Great, Chetney, you're up. Do I have to make a save against the anus hole?

You. Let's see what the radius. All right, so that's 85 there. 90, 95, 100. You are just outside of that radius. Amazing. 40 feet. Can I try to walk, use my speed to reach where Ludinus is?

Yeah, you can get right up to him. Great. Can I make, I'm going to try three attacks with just my claws out. No turmoil. Yeah, yeah. Just claws my claws out. No turmoil. Yeah, yeah. Just claws. Go, Bauer. Damn it.

First one is, fuck you. Oh, really? Just forget that. That never happened. Second one. That's better. 28 to hit. 28 hits. Amazing. Sex plus. 28 hits. Amazing. Six plus.

D8. Sorry, eight. Yep, okay, that's 13 points of slashing damage with six points of... For 19 total? Yes. All righty. And the last one. Let's make a concentration check. Just total? Yes. All righty. And the last one. Let's make a concentration check.

Just a straight roll. Oh, yes. Come on. Yeah, he succeeds. Amazing. And with that hit, with one more remaining, once for short rest, I'm going to use Brand of Castigation on Ludinus. Okay.

Okay. And as I slash him, just below his neck hole, like a rear clavicle, there is going to be an amazing CPOP Industries brand that sears right on the back of the base of his neck. I can taste it. He's just focused forward. Amazing. right on the base of his neck. Shh!

I can taste it. He's just focused forward. Amazing. What does it do? And the last one, it allows me to track him, and if he tries to teleport away, he has to roll a check. Okay. Yes, yes. Natural 20. Oh! Yeah!

Tried to trick my eye. Chain you, pop-a-pop. Okay, 1d8. So that's seven. Come on, big money. Big money. Seven, 14. Plus six is 20. Oh, this just saves, so 24. Double that, 28 total.

28 damage. Nice. So with that, the DC on this is going to be 14. Okay. That's going to be a 19. God! That's a good try. Good deal. Finish your turn. That's it.

Good job. Good round. Good job, Chet. It's now back to Ludinus' go. Ludinus gets his legendary actions back. He's going to focus on the next boundary. And you watch as the next one. Fuck. Ugh.

Fuck! Oh! Dislocates. Oh, at the start of his turn? Mm-hmm. Let me look. Let me see. Oh, the moonbeam?

Yeah. Is it the start of my turn, start of his turn? Let me see here. Might be the start of his turn, I think. On each of your turns. When the creature enters the spell or starts a turn there, yeah. Constitution save. That's going to be 16.

He gets disadvantage on constitution saves? It was until the end of his turn. Too bad. Doesn't matter. He didn't pass it. Yeah, so that's a success. So go ahead and roll that damage. 4d10 radiant damage. 4d10 radiant damage.

Radiate, baby. Two, that's 10. Get a Lullapop. Oh, never mind. Get a tissue. 16. Yes! Just 16 points? That's so...

16. 16 radiant points. Take 16 points? That's so... 16. 16 radiant points. Takes 16 points of radiant damage. You will then roll to save. Natural 20. Good. Wow.

I also took four points, too. Okay. So that begins his turn. He dispels that next boundary there. He's going to move forward ever so slightly. I love this vibe. How many boundaries do we want to go? We don't know that.

I know. Three more. Hey, for Orm and Chetney, just know that there's a cylinder of flame in front of you that you might have to just walk around if you're going to follow him in there. Sure. Okay. Keeps hanging.

As a bonus action, he's going to cast a Telekinect shove on you. Chetney, go ahead and make a strength saving throw for me. Come on, Chet! Strong. Strong? Because I'm strong enough. That's not a 20. That's a 12.

Ah, they both suck! 14. 14. You get pushed back 10 feet to there. Ah. That's a bonus action that finishes his turn. Next up is Brace with Laudna undone. Oh, Jesus.

Brace. I have to save, I assume? Oh, Jesus. Brayas. I have to save, I assume? Yes, you do. Come on. This is a d10. You have question. Let's go. It's big. What was that, 15? Yeah. 15 plus nine, 24.

Yeah, you're fine. You resisted. Ooh! Wrong! Where are you? Every time. So rough. Can you just pick us up and walk? Three saves. Can you just pick us up and walk? Three saves. Can I?

If you want to try and force a move into somebody else that's an ally, it's half your movement. So your movement's already half. Seven feet? Yep. Shit. I'm going to do some kind of stupid... Oh wait.

He just keeps rolling super high and now he's got advantage again. This is so tricky because even if I used all my movement and my action to move. You still get sucked in. I'm still in, but if I stayed near you guys, at least I can help you. Mitigate our damage? Yeah.

So maybe I should just stay put. Moonbeam is a fucking concentration spell, so I can't do anything with that. Does he still have movement on him? Can you move it forward to keep him? Because he moved past it. I can move it forward, yeah. Still be good to hit him.

Boy. What a terrible turn. Yeah, I will use my action to move Moonbeam. A little further in? Five feet further in, or 10 feet, or whatever it takes to get just in front of him. Right, it'll move. You'll probably have to move it in the corner this way.

It does not move past the barrier, so it kitty corners off to the side, so it's hitting him, but leaving this arc of him open to your friends. I'll just scoot just over there, I guess, behind... Fearne or Mr.? I want to be within, in case they get sucked in again,

I want to be within 10 feet of the edge of the... I guess I'll just stay put. No, you... You want to move? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, close to there, so I'll reduce their damage if they get sucked in. Okay.

Can you put your arm around my waist? If the lady consents. In case I get sucked in, give me a little bit of a C-bump. I will put my three-fingered hand on the small of your back, and I will inspire you. Ooh. What is that?

D6. Damn. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You can still use it next time. And that's it. All right, that finishes your turn. That brings us to Laudna's go. All right. Yes.

Okay. What do I do? I'm going to keep scooting around the edge and move. Can I get down a little bit underneath where Dorian is? Five, ten, fifteen, twenty. You can get there. And we're on the edge of the hole, right? Yep.

Okay, I'm going to kind of use this to learn for cover. And kind of peek around this cover. He doesn't still have his shield up, correct? The shield lasts until the next turn. Start of his next turn. Which he lost, so yeah, it's gone. It is gone. Okay.

Yeah, I mean, I'm just going to... I'm going to do this again. I'm going to just three Eldritch Blasts. Actually, I'm going to bonus action, Hex. Is there anything that can send him out of there? I pull him out. I don't think if I can attack him, I can pull him. First-level spell.

It's hard. Okay. But I don't even know if I can get there in this round, because I didn't run correctly. He's burned all his auto, his legendary save. Yeah. I don't have it. These are just straight rolls, correct?

Correct. Yeah, but even at a double distance, I can reach him with tele't reach him. 26. With telekinesis, I've thought of it. 26 to hit the back of his neck. All right, here we go. Bread and butter. Did you just do, I'm like, I know.

He needs 21 to hit him. I'm afraid to do anything else because I want him to save. Uh, no. Yes. No, unfortunately. No. Last one. No.

Last one. Worse. Uh. All bad. All bad. It's bad in here. It's really bad in here. It is bad in here.

That was risky. If we take off all our clothes, do we get advantage? Are you bartering right now? I Hexed. I don't think he has any. I don't think he has any. What if we pretend we're shooting a porn? Ooh! Listen, guys. It's worked before.

It's worked before. Bring it back. One for one. Okay, Matt, can I use my last little bit of movement to just tuck behind this pillar and try and hide as much as I can? Sure. Go ahead. Over there.

What's it feel like to have movement? Actually, you know what? She's wedged between a rock, so probably not. I take that back. I want to use it as 3-quarters cover, but I still want to be able to see him in case I need to cover some snacks. Laura sells when she's constipated.

Okay. Best as you constipated. Okay. Best as you can get there. Okay. Good. That finishes your go. That's... Ashton, you're up. I cannot make it to him right this round, can I?

Are you within the radius? 40 feet is what I got. You are within the radius. The terrain is rough terrain up to here. Okay, so I have to make a roll to save. I'm just talking about getting to him. Go hit the squishy parts. Here we go. I don't suppose being inside the rock is going to help at all. It gives you advantage. Oh, I already have advantage.

He has a large hole in his neck. Hit it! Yes. 20, 30, two. You're fine. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Very big. Are you going for the hole? Yeah, of course. I don't think I can make it, though.

40 feet? Okay, so. 10, so 20 feet to get out of it. Okay, but I thought I could still, just because I'm trying to use the ground to not. All right, yeah, so you ignore the, so basically, so you can order that B here. Five, 10, 15, 20,

25, 30, 35. Yeah, you can get. You can hit him. I can hit him? Oh my god. Oh, well, this. Yeah, you can get. You can hit him. I can hit him? Oh my god. Oh, well, this is going to be fun. All right, I'm going to use a. See you can swing away. I'm going to use my belt and I'm making a,

I don't know if I have to do reckless or otherwise, but I'm making the shot. Here we go. Please roll well. That's 18. I would, I'm making the shot. Here we go. Please roll well. That's 18. I'm so sorry, I didn't call to the neck, did I? I meant to, but I'm not okay. You did a second ago.

Okay, that's fair. Thank you, I actually did, thank you. You said you were going to go for it. It's 20, 20, that's like 33, 34 to hit. That'll hit. Okay. Come on, baby. So I use my belt, which also means that I added D6 to this damage.

Okay. So that's 3D6. Come on, Barbie, let's go party. All right, 3D6 damage. It's gone, wherever it is. That's okay. It's got sucked into your penis! Whoa!

What? What? What? The fight is making us lose our minds. Yeah. You've got to justify that to your son at some point. 16. It got sucked into your penis!

30 points of damage. Sorry, I was distracted. No, I totally understand. What was that penis! 30 points of damage. Sorry, I was distracted. No, I totally understand. What was that again? 30 points of damage. Yes, it didn't even pee! We want to join your fucking dialogue. That's like something out of Kindergarten Cops.

Actually, it got sucked inside your penis. Still good. All right. 30 points of damage. 30 points of damage to DC 15. Yeah, 18. Well, here's some other fun stuff. Well, actually, that's double 10s,

and then you hit the neck. Yeah. So go ahead and roll 8d6 necrotic damage. No. All right. Just for you. It was just for you. Do I get to reroll ones and twos on this?

But it's not my damage, is it? So I don't get to reroll? Yeah, it's not your damage. Five, eight, 11. What's that? Ugh. 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Special advantage. So it's just making points, 21, 22, 23.

Special attack. So that's 17 points of damage. And, uh. We should add another tent that, which would be a failure on its concentration. Whoa! Oh my god! You rolled double 18s,

but because that first hit was the extra damage on that one, it brought the DC up an additional 10. Yes! Which, yeah. For the gravity roll? Yeah. Finally! Take it off! Ravenous Void. Yes! Oh my god. For the gravity roll? With that. Yeah. Finally! Take it off! Ravenous Void.

Yes! Oh! Fucker! Let's go, Ash, let's go! Pleasures, hope it's not too late. D6 for spell slots? Worst construction ever. Six, seven.

Dang, all right. It gets worse. They're going to bleed. I need a... So he's trying to get through what is a solid wall right now. More or less. So if I try to move him...

But it is definitely resisting him as if it was. Okay. So if I... Grab his skull. Also pushed him 15 feet away from me, I think it would... I don't know what that would quite do. Well, do you want to try?

15 feet away, what, back? Like he would go. It would be technically, it would be 15 feet, it would be technically directly away from me. Which would be into the wall. Guys, what if he beamed him through the last three? That'd be hilarious. But I can also move somebody five feet

in any direction I want, so that wouldn't be possible to move him and then have the throw happen. No, no, no. Okay. So the push and then, what do you want to do? I'm going to hold the shove and I'm just going to move him five feet. You can move him just a bit. Five feet to the left of me

so that he's in the middle of all that bullshit. Like he's next to you. Unfortunately, there's no room to move him more than that. Okay. Because you're big and he's big, so you're occupying the space. For my next attack. Okay. For my next attack.

That's 17, 18, 19. 19, 29. Yeah, that hits, I assume. 29? 29, yeah, that hits, I assume. 29? 29, yeah, 32 altogether. And damage on that is 2d6 plus two, yeah. I love the pre-comic.

25 points of damage. He's looking hurt. Yeah, I'm trying to. What? He's looking hurt? I only get two attacks. It's been a while. My brain is like a mushroom right now. Does he have a jewel on his forehead and look like he's made a snooker?

No. I do not get a third attack, if I recall. No. Okay. How about a fourth or fifth? I'm trying to figure out a thing to do. 17 more attacks. No, I was just. No, Laura Bailey.

Only Vax can do that. I think I should've done that. With those boots! I should've done that other thing, but that's okay. I'm good. All right, I'm finishing Ashton's go. Wait, did you do a miss? Did you hit him back in the neck?

It wouldn't have mattered for the second hit, but I did anyway, just because I rolled the same thing. You're going to stop focusing on the back in the neck? It wouldn't have mattered for the second hit, but I did anyway, just because I rolled the same thing. You're going to stop focusing on the back. Yeah. So. I'm just shooting for exactly real life. End of your turn, he's going to go ahead and angrily use two of his legendary actions to rapid cast.

Bebop! He's going to drop another chain lightning. Cool. That's your last six-level spell. So with that, It's going to drop another chain lightning. Cool. That's your last 6th-level spell. So with that, that's going to be 1d8 lightning damage. That's going to be once again targeting you, Dorian. Yeah. And it's going to just sparkle off into all of you.

Counterspell. Oh! Counterspell? Wait. 5th-level? All right. I hope this isn't a mistake. As per usual. He's going to go ahead and Counterspell at 5 level? All right. I hope this isn't a mistake. As per usual. Counterspell at fifth level as well.

So Counterspell's your Counterspell. Ugh. Wizards! Triple stamp and it's DMP. You did use his reaction and a fifth level slot. Silvery Ball. Ha! That's a much better damage roll than earlier.

Shut it. Hey! 15 left. 20. Is that the hole on the back of his neck? Yeah. The pate. Those numbers? 54 points of lightning damage. How much now?

54 points of lightning damage. To everyone in 30 feet? With dex save? So dex saves to Rue's head. Oh god. Okay, I did very well. Oh, are you within 10 feet of me? Add a d4. Okay, I am. So I roll a dex save.

That's all of us, right? Everyone who's within 30 feet of Dorian. For me, it's 24. 24, yeah, so you take 26. What's happening? All right, Dorian? Nat 1. Oh no!

That's the worst I've ever rolled. 54 points of lightning damage. Yeah. Dirty 20. Dirty 20. All right, Dorian? Nat 1. Oh no! That's the worst I've ever rolled. 54 points of lightning damage. Yeah. Dirty 20. Dirty 20? No, 54 points of lightning damage. Oh my god!

34. 33. So you take 26 points of lightning damage. Ashton? Deck save, right? Correct. 18. 18.

54 points of lightning damage. 54, okay. Correct. Then Ira is doing this. He succeeds with an action of 17. Letters! So he takes minus 26. Ow. All right. That's rough. That's his legendary action on that.

That's not a lightning attack, shit. As a frustrated retort to that. All right, that finishes. Ashton's got Dorian. You're up with a lightning attack, shit. As a frustrated retort to that. All right, that finishes. Ashton's got Dorian, you're up with a midget on deck. Shit. Oh my god. All right. He's turning around a little bit, and they're like,

If you're going to be this obnoxious, then sure, step into the chipper, We'll sit back and watch. Damn. Whoa. Pretty metal line. Yeah. I'm going to fly over him. How high can I get above? I don't know how high to get.

The ceiling here, probably get about 60 or so feet up. Okay, well, not that high up. Okay. I want to be 10 feet above him and then drop down right behind him in that space that Astryn created between the wall and that. Is there enough room? He's going into Moonbeam, though.

There's enough room to move next to him, but he got moved in a way where he's still against the wall. You would just both be against the wall now. Okay. Is that okay? All right. Are you in Moonbeam? Am I in Moonbeam? You would just both be against the wall now. Okay. That okay? All right. Are you in moonbeam? Am I in moonbeam? You would now be moving into moonbeam.

Oh boy. Don't do that. Yeah, definitely not going to do that. All right, I didn't know where the radius was. That's okay, yeah, it's right around this area here. So it's pretty much impossible to engage with melee with him right now and not get blast damage? You could move here if you want to.

If you wanted to fly up right about there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My goal was to drop in behind a safe space within melee. You can make your feet just within melee of him. Just kick him in the butt or kiss him in the head. Actually, if you want to drop into this space here, which is a little alcove, and it's hard for you to see from your perspective,

but there's a little space right there, the side, that will be outside of the moonbeam radius. Okay, great. So he's like, and I'm going to land soft on my knees and pop up behind him and put big, big, I'm hurt. Put my arm on his shoulder and go, Force Gauge, just kidding.

And I'm going to pull out my sword and take a whack at him. Great. Yeah, it's time. Add a d4. Do it! Okay. Are you using your sword ability or are you just straight attacks? This first one's going to be a straight attack. Everything comes after, depending on the success of it.

Hey, let's go. Plus a four? Come on, that's the time. Fuck you. 19 plus 12. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That hits. Sweet. Yeah, okay, yeah. Sweets. Redemption! We're getting there. First whack. Perfect. Six and seven max.

Oh my god, why am I stupid right now? Thirteen. And then, I'll take that first swing at him, and then I will do... I'm kind of moving. In the space, it's tight, but it's making it work. Was that a neck hit or a body hit? Well, he didn't specify. Yeah, I did not specify, so I'm working at him.

And then I'm going to use my Blade Flourish. Okay. But I'm going to use Master's Flourish, so instead of my 12, I'll use a 6. Okay. So I'm pretty sure that's automatic, right? Yes. Yeah, okay.

You have your Master's? I do. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just get a chance to use it, right? Yes. Yeah, okay. Are you a master? I do. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just get a chance to use it. Let's scrap. Yeah. Okay, that'd be a five,

but because I'm attacking with Gambo Cleft, I double it for 10. Dang, all righty. Yeah. That's 23 points of damage on one strike. Carving through on the one hit. Unexpected, you draw the blade, and he's taking it back by it,

and you carve across the front. The blood comes under the ground, and he's like, Hmm. Never surprising, you motley crew of bullshitters. I got more. He isn't so nervous. I have a second. I'm able to do a second strike. Yeah. So we'll do it again.

I'm going to take a swing for it. Neck or body? Let's go for the neck as exposed. He's turned to face me? I mean, he's turned to, he's still facing the wall and kind of, he's having to train on all of you. Yeah, so it's not a lot. I'll try with a little finesse

and I'll try to go for the neck. Okay, now to four. Oh, that is not great. For the four, yeah, I don't think it's going to do it. No. Six plus 12, 18. 18, unfortunately, does not't think it's going to do it. No. Six plus 12, 18. 18, unfortunately, does not hit. All right, that's good.

Maddy, question for you. The brand. Each time the branded creature deals damage to you or another creature, you can see within five feet of you, the branded creature takes six points of psychic damage. Correct. So I think that's only me and maybe Ashton, because Orm's not five feet away from me, right?

Correct. So on that last big shememere, would that have been? No, Orym is five feet from you. So yeah, so he would take six damage from that. Okay, so six for each of them? What's the wording on it? It says, each time the branded creature deals damage to you or another creature you can see

within five feet of you, the branded creature takes six psychic damage each time. Right, so. Not per round, but each time. To you or another creature. Right, to you or another creature. So I'll be like. Six, six, six.

Yeah, so we'll put that at 18. That takes psychic damage. Does he have resistance to psychic damage? I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah! I'm trying. Good to follow up on that. And then for my bonus action, I'll use two-weapon fighting.

Attack a third time? Yeah, but I got to pull out my little baby sidearm. That's okay. Let's give it a try. Going for normal attack or? Terrible, miss. Oh. I'm trying, I'm in the mix.

Hey, man, still. I will take one success this whole evening. Yeah, 23 points of damage on one hit is also pretty slight. No, you got Laudna out of there. That's huge. Yeah, you guys did. That dimension door out. That dimension door really shifted that. Seriously, you guys would have been fucked the same way

that we have been the last few years. Imogen, you're up. What's the order of this board? You're up with Ira, then Fearne on deck. Shackles off. I'm going to run forward as far as I can. Five, 10, 15, 20, 21, 22. Tom Cruise, ready. Wow. As I run forward as far as I can. Five, 10, 15, 20, 21, 22. Tom Cruise, run.

Wow. As I run. As I run. Oh god, I hope this works. Oh god. She becomes a horse. I'm going to double the distance with a sorcery point. And in Ludinus' head,

I'm going to just scream as loud as I can and say, Enough! Come on. I'm going to cast Power Word Stun. Yeah! Power Word Stun? This has to be beneath 150 HP. Okay. Oh shit.

It's auto success, if that's true. Go, go, go, go, go, go. He said he was looking rough. That doesn't usually happen. Automatic. He is not immune to sun, and he is under 150. Oh my god!

It's at this moment that you notice him reaching into his pocket for what looks to be a rather vibrant glass vial. But he doesn't get to take it. But he doesn't get to take it. But he doesn't get a chance to do it, because as you take all of the rage and loss and tattered conversations and throw it right back into the core of his psyche,

your scream resonates in his head, and he begins to scream as well and grabs at his face, his fingers drawing down across his cheeks and that dark, thick liquid that had been seeping from his quintessence root in the back of his neck, you can see it now also pouring out of his ears as he is stunned. Holy shit. This is it, this is it his ears, as he is stunned. Holy shit.

This is it, this is it. We got to fucking go ham. Go ham. Wait, we can just hit him and he won't break it? He's stunned. No. Like Stunning Strike's done. Stunning Strike, yeah. Magically stunned.

So he... So everything has advantage. Hits have advantage. Whoa. Auto-failure. Damn. Hits have advantage. Whoa. Oh, damn. Auto-failings, things like. Does it hurt? Attack rolls against it have advantage,

automatically fails strength and dexterity saving throws, and it can't move, can speak falteringly, and for how long? Incapacitated, so it doesn't get its action or bonus action. He stunned until the beginning of my next turn. End of your next turn, yeah. So we have one full-ass round here. We have a full-ass round, okay.

Okay, this is great. He's losing his turn. Okay. You got no rain? Shit. What level was that? Sitting on it, eight. Eight?

That's my spell. Yeah, baby! I just had to get fucking within 120 feet of him! I couldn't get within 120 feet of him! Can we chop the tree for less than 150? Can we do 150 in a round? Yeah, let's go. Yeah, I mean, we're got to. Leave the neck alone. We got to. Just chop the chops.

Leave the neck alone? What was the vial? What was the vial? Get the vial. Health potion. Health potion. Health potion. Maybe, or some other haste potion. Who fucking knows? Does that finish your turn? I mean, if he's stunned,

if someone's close enough, they could go up and grab that shit out of his hand. Mm-hmm. Ira. You could just pickpocket him. So wait, strength and dex checks fail automatically? Yes. Amazing. Okay. But cons do not. Cons do not.

Ira is going to spend a second 5th-level slot to do another Steel Wind Strike. Come on, Ira. As soon as he sees the scream, sees him collapsing, Ira's head cranes back over his shoulder towards you and goes, ah, good girl. Back into place, the bone snap of his head slips in, and then his shattered form vanishes again. Teleports all around Ludinus,

and then vanishes. There's this pause where nothing happens before from on top, he claws downward, striking and carving down the back of Ludinus' body in hopes of going for the back of his neck. Okay. Oh my gosh. Has advantage on the attack.

And a d4. And a d4. And a d4. Mm-hmm. I'm going to roll this in front because it's fun. Stack them up. Oh yeah. Oh! Oh yeah, that's a natural 17 plus four is 21. Plus? Plus nine. Oh yeah! That's a 30.

This changes everything! That's a 30. So with that, I did the Patience. Holy shit.! That's a 30. So, with that, we hit the patience. Holy shit. I didn't mark him. Holy shit. That's okay. Okay, that's 6d10. Come on, come on, come on.

Scammy ganky gank. All right, so that's going to be 15, 20, 37 points of force damage on him. Plus 8d6. Oh, because he hits check. Yep. 10, 20, five. 35, 37 points of necrotic damage. 37? Yeah. Twice? Whoa, shit.

That one round from Ira did 74 points of damage in that one strike. Let's go. And a d6, just for fun. Yep, and a d6. Damn. 74? I think he's probably vulnerable right now. He's six.

Because of a, he twiddled a ring at the top and skin-shredded all over and then faded. I think everything's going to have damage. Ah. Oh my god, I gave you a goosebump. I know. It lasted one time. Yeah, that changed it.

He didn't want to pull that out. I know. He had one. Second-level spell burn. Oh yeah, so his spells were starting to get eaten up. That was sick. Okay, so that finishes that go. Iris turns to Vern, you're up.

Okay. All right, so I'm going to take my... This does not bode well for... I want to take my full movement, but just a little bit that way so I can have full range of shooting him. 30? 35. 35 would be about there.

Okay, great. Am I within 60 feet of him? You are with him. I don't think so. I don't think so, girl. Unfortunately, no. I can. What if Mister was running with you? Could he bamf you another 50 feet forward?

You could hold your action and have Mister come with you. Oh, great. Let's do that. So, thank you. So can he add an extra 50 feet? You can hold your action, casting the spell, and then appear and then release it within range. And I am holding, I am about to shoot out.

Yeah, and that will get you within 60 feet. Great, great. Okay, so I'm going to do, at 5th-level, Flamestrike. Just so you know, look at the radius of Flamestrike. It's going to hit everybody. Each creature in a 10- It's grossed out.

So it is a wide column of fire and stone. I love that scroll. I'm going to cast Fireball. I'm going to cast Flame Spirit. Ashley might have forgotten, but Fern knows. Yeah. Fern knows. Okay, shit.

There's no way. Hold on, hold on. It's a 10-foot radius. There's no way I can only put that on him somehow. The flaming sphere, you're saying? The flame strike. Flame strike is a 10-foot radius, which means it's about 20 feet across.

So if you put it on him, it'll still hit Ashton, Orym. Oh, I understand what you're saying. Sorry, I thought it was a weird sound thing. It's a column that goes like. Okay. To help you visualize it, this here is a 10-foot radius, so it's like a column. Yeah, okay, I'm so sorry.

It's okay. Not a worry. Then, damn. I really wanted to do that because it's not safe. Okay, so that's all right. I am going to cast. This one down 30 feet. Shit, shit, I'm so sorry, you guys.

I really had that ready to go. No worries. Give me just a minute. No worries. We've gone to that accent. Oh my god, I can't believe it. I mean, I'm going to have to just, I'm going to have to Scorch and Grain again.

Do it. Do it. I mean, I don't really have anything much left. Let's go. Chip away at them. You've been advantaging all the hits. Chip away. Yeah, yeah. So that'll be fifth level. It's my last fifth level. All right, so let's go. All right, that's go. Chip away at them. You have advantage in all the hits. Chip away. Yeah, yeah. So that'll be fifth level. It's my last fifth level. All right, so let's go.

All right. That's six. Well, no, it's three normally at second level. So it's third, fourth, fifth. Okay. Yeah, it is sixth. It is sixth, right. I'm changing. And they're each at advantage, did you say? Yes, yes. Okay.

So. A lot of math floating in here. Yes. Yes. Okay, so. 18 plus. 29. A lot of math floating in here. Yes. Yes. Okay, so. 18 plus. 29. 29 hits. 27.

Okay, these normally hits, or are these to the? Oh wait, I get advantage on that. We didn't specify, did you? 27 was, say again? No, she didn't specify. So it's the first two hit. Okay. Do you want to hit a neck or a right arm? Oh, we're just hitting him, right?

Yeah. Hit the neck, yeah. I mean, shoot him down. Whatever you want to hit the neck or not? Oh, we're just hitting him, right? Yeah. Hit the neck, yeah. I mean, shoot him down. Whatever you want. His neck is like a 30. People are saying different things. His neck is a higher. I'm going to just do his body.

I mean, you get advantage, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, do that body. You get advantage if we do the neck? All these attacks have advantage because he stuns. It's harder to hit the neck. But the neck is going to be harder to hit. It's harder to hit, but if you hit him at least once, he takes a bunch of extra damage.

You got to get 76 points of damage more, at least. So we will do half and half? Half and half? 76. So the first three with the body and then, yeah. Okay, so you've got two so far. Advantage. Okay, so 19. I don't know.

19 does not hit. Okay. So now for the next. Okay. Okay. 25. Missing. It's going to be a 26.

26 is the magic number. So we got to roll 15 or higher if you want to hit the neck. Or just aim for the body, either one. Neck. Come on. Come on. Yes!

Okay, she'll hit it. Okay, so 27. You got two more rolls? Two more rolls? Yeah. Okay, I'll stay. Okay, so 27. You got two more rolls? Two more rolls? Yeah. Okay, I'm going to go for the neck. Oh wait, one more. One more roll. One more roll. That didn't, that was a one. Come on. 20.

Ah! Okay, so two to the body, one to the neck. But one to the neck, you just need one to the neck. So 4d6 fire damage. 4d6 fire damage. Oh, three hits, so 6d6, sorry. 6d6 fire damage, and then he takes an additional 8d6 fire damage. Oh, three hits, so 6d6, sorry. 6d6 fire damage, and then he takes an additional 8d6. Okay, and a d8, because of the stir.

Because he can only take that damage to the next point. Ooh, that's good! Right, correct. So once you hit it, then you hit the body. You just back off. 15, 16, 20. 27. 27. Okay.

Then roll 8d6 necrotic damage. 8d6 necrotic damage, okay, okay. I'm so nervous right now. I know. Okay, so we've got, that's nine. I know, they're so small and so annoying. It just helps me. I don't know why.

Okay, so nine plus nine, 18. Plus seven to 18. 25. Thank you. Two more? Yeah. Plus eight to 25, 33. All right, 33 points to go.

Okay, okay, okay. I win the d6. And a d6? For spells. For spells? Yeah, to reduce his spell. To reduce his spell. Roll a d6 plus one. Six!

Okay, seven. Seven, seven. He's going to lose a seven-level spell on that. Whoa. Okay, okay, okay, okay. That finishes Fearne's go. Yes, it does. We're at the top of the initiative order. Orym, you're up with Chetney on that. Whoa. Okay, okay, okay, okay. That finishes Fearne's go. Yes, it does. We're at the top of the initiative order. Orym, you're up with Chetney on deck.

Okay. Come on, baby. Food is yours! All right, all right, all right. Orym's going to step backward 10 feet and extend Seedling out, and Vines will shoot out and wrap around Ludinus' chest. Hopefully, I'm going to attempt to pull him toward me, away from the gates. He fails his save automatically,

because he's stunned, so he gets yanked past. Amazing. Then I'm going to, Orym's going to sprint and skid under his legs and slide so that I'm helping form a wall in front of the gates. So he's got Ash and Orym and Dorian in the way, and then I will kick off the stone so that I spring up into the air,

and I'll take three quick slashes, starting at the back of the neck. Is it advantage because he's stunned, right? Correct. That's a 24. Actually, I was going to say, are you close enough to me to get a d4 on that? Yes, I'm right next to it.

Okay, so add that d4 to that attack. Come on. By the way, the second one's going to be a crit. That's a 25. That's a miss. Oh! The second roll at advantage, I got a 20, which is a 34 to hit.

Correct. That's on the neck. Correct. Do it, do it. Then I'll just see if the last, I'll just do the last slash, which is not as good, but a d4 still. Great.

I have a 27 on the body. Okay, okay. Come on, baby. Crit first. Crit first. Wouldn't doubt. Terrible roll, two. I have no fighter stuff left,

so that is an 11 for the damage from seedling. Okay. And then is there 11 for the damage from seedling. Okay. And then is there damage for the neck hit? You double your dice. Double dice. I know that. Yeah. So there's no thing for the back of the neck.

Not for original. No, it doesn't crit double, no. It's just that the impact takes on top of that. So roll an 8d6. That's what I was asking. Yes. That's what I was asking. 8d6 to...

Okay. I just want to... I. You need some more. I just want to, I got 86. So that's six, seven, 10, 16, 20, 22, 28, 32. 32 for that.

Okay, 32 damage? Yeah. Then is it a d6 plus one for the? Well, Orym, savior blade of the Tempest, warrior of Zephrah, how do you want to do this? Yes! Yeah! Yeah!

Yes! I have to back it up. Orym was pressed and losing hope, and then saw across the field of battle, Imogen clutch her hand out and saw him lock up. Fire streak out across the cavern, slamming into him. So he took his moment, yanked him out, slid under, spinning him around and leaving his neck bare and slashes once across the neck

and it begins to spurt out the back and then he just drops around front so I can see him and I stick it up under his chin into his neck and say, so much pride. So much plotting, and I don't say another word, and I just stare at him, eyes open, until he's gone.

As a millennia of sheer will and drive comes to a single, trickling end point. He smiles. Finish what must be done. Please. His eyes drift unfocused

as his arms fall to his sides and hang limply. The bolts of energy dull. Oh shit, should we absorb him? Shove him in! Move it quick! Do you withdraw the blade? I do. Shh! Falls to the ground, lifeless, limp.

Ira curls over. Like a spider surrounding a wrapped fly, picks up his head and his hand. I needed that. Did that really just happen? I poke him a little. Is he dead? Is he dead? He's dead dead.

I go up and raid his pockets. Yes, I'm just looking through all the pockets. Lose the body, steal his vest. Yeah. I'm standing by the portal entrance and I'm keeping an eye on fucking Ira. Ira is just sitting back and just watching you elude him with a terrible grin.

His crown that he still has adorned on his brow. He's relishing in this moment of comeuppance in his face. I'm going to slowly walk forward and drop to my knees next to Orym and hug him. What happens now? I don't know. But you did it.

We did it. We did it. If I look back at this shimmering gate, what do I make of it? Like, is it, can we see through it? Does it look diminished from when we first entered? The initial boundaries that Ignis had pushed through

themselves appear to be permeable. There's an area about his shape where the runic lattice itself is almost immaterial, faintly present. There are a few boundaries beyond that, two or so that look solid still. I look around at the group over image and shoulder. I'm going to use Second Wind.

Then stand up and move my back to the barrier. Do we go? Do we keep going? I mean, this is it, right? Pardothos is through there? Yeah. This could be a good time. A little refresher.

Oh. Oh, yeah. If we're going to do this. Yeah, if we all gather up within how close do you have to be? Are we sure this is the door? Can you remind us what this does when we're tired? This Fist-Side Blur is really great. It feels cold and smelly, but it does matter.

When thrown against a hard object with enough force, the orb is shattered, encircling any creatures within 15 feet with a burst of crafted dunamis. All creatures affected by the orb regain immediately half of their expended hit dice. Rounded up, spellcasters regain 1d4

plus four spell slots of their choice and gain the benefits of a short rest. Okay. So we gain the benefits of a short rest, meaning we can spend hit dice to heal. You can spend hit dice to heal. We can spend hit dice to heal and we could...

Any abilities that recover on a short rest, you regain. Okay. 1d4 plus four. Do each of us roll individually 1d4 plus four, or do we roll 1d4 once? Individually. We regain 1d4 plus four. Spell slots.

Spell levels of slots. Spell levels. That's pretty clutch. Rested. He's dead. Who else is coming? Where's your mom? She's out there.

In the other cavern? She didn't come running after us. I'm going to say it. I'm going to call to her mentally. Are you okay out there? She weakly responds. I'm all right. Okay.

How about you? Ludinus is dead. Truly. As far as we can tell, yeah. What if we just... I don't know. What if we just cave this place in? There's got to be a way to do that, right? Cave it in and go no further?

I mean, Ludinus is gone now. Is he? Did he make copies of himself that are around? Oh, maybe. Probably. Probably. Yeah, can we drag his body out of the walkway a little bit and just search him for forehead gems, armpit ammules.

And a reminder for Lothian that his magical staff is where Coriolis is. Oh yeah. He could suck it up. Good. That's a good, definitely. That thing might have teleport on it, too. It might have something useful. Can we look at least for that vial of glowing liquid

that he was reaching for? Yeah. It was the healing potion. A good one, I bet. It was a pretty good one. What do y'all think? It feels too good to be true to just be able to sit here for an hour and wait.

I can't sit here for an hour and wait. This is it. This is all I have in one hour. I'm going to be nothing. We got to keep going. We don't have any ideas. Even without that, I'm not. We got to use that. No, that's my fear.

We got to use that ball and keep going. Yeah, we got to go. Big assumption. I have almost nothing left, but maybe with a short rest, it... To what? To a chance to do what? This man has been planning for millennia. I don't want us to rest on our laurels on this victory.

Who knows what can come around the corner at any moment? The race isn't over, in my opinion. He might have made more of himself, or... I'm sure he did. But if he didn't, we'd just be releasing Pardothos on a what if. Right. That's not good enough.

But also, we're so close, we should just take a little peek, see something? Well, we'd still have to get those membranes down. Yeah, but. Girls can do it. That's true. I think we could walk through them, Imogen. I think that was why he was trying to drain your mother. I think he couldn't walk through it.

That's exactly right. And he didn't get enough. And you don't have to trust me, and I know you don't, but he was right. This is the beginning of a new age. And a new age, it belongs to children. I am tired of thousand-year-old... I'm tired of being lorded over by people who think they know better.

And I'm not... I don't want to kill anybody. I don't want to hurt anybody. But I think things have got to change, and we have. We have a moment to change them. Chet, what if you, like, grimpsychometry the geometry? The membrane?

Yeah. Love it. I'll use grimpsychometry on one of the impenetrable membranes. Roll a history check for me, Chet. I'm wearing a bow. Ooh. 17. 17. You concentrate here,

and the history is broken and sporadic. You see civilizations collapsing within a rockfall from all sides. You see a gathering of divine fear, and you see something once grand squeezed to a point of slumber. For the first time, you feel

this pull, something beyond that boundary, you sense something, a will, present, aware, inviting. Aware. Inviting. Anything? There's something back there, but it's old. Maybe the small, super hot warrior is right. Maybe we shouldn't mess with it. We could just make sure no one else tries.

But didn't the Arch Heart and the Matron both ask us to help them? Yeah. They did. But if we listen to them instead of the others. Who? How do we keep this safe? Why does it have to be one or the other? Why can't we...

Why can't we try to do something about Predathos to... to keep it from feasting. Maybe it doesn't. We still don't know. We're still on the precipice of discovery. But in my opinion, lewdness unraveled this thread. I agree with Ashton.

How are we supposed to keep this safe? We can't stay here forever. I think it's coming one way or the other. And it's either us or someone else. Especially now that people are aware that it can be done. Yeah. If the vessel is the only form of control over it, I would rather it be one of us.

There are hundreds of people who are privy to Ludinus' plans. There's an entire planet right now of angry people on this moon who were promised something they're not going to have, and at least not yet, until we can do something. Imogen, what if we just put our hand on it and see what happens?

I don't want to do that until we've at least used that ball. Okay. Just to double check, there are several more membranes that we can see, right? Not just one. Best you can tell, there's a handful of layers, yeah. You can just test one. Is I Ira still?

What if we get sucked in, though? Well, better than get sucked in. Maybe we should do it. We got to run like the Koriolas. Ira's just sitting back and watching you all converse. Tom and Jaren. Sickly grin, fingers intertwined, knees folded up on the sides. Dorian sends out a little melodic whistle to command Coriolis to scoop up Ludin's staff.

And he gently sort of floats it through the air and drops it in Imogen's hands. Cool. It's a super awesome staff. Whoa. Anybody able to tell what the... Ira, can you tell what this is? Mm-hmm.

But also, don't lie to us. Don't take it. Ooh, well, this is a... No, no, no, I'm holding onto it. Well, it's over to him. Mm. It is a delicious artifact. Indeed. Quite the prize, really.

You don't have identified me with that. I think I do, but I'm pretty sure I do. What do you think, Ira? Like Chaos Reign? I'm certainly curious what you all decide to do. Empowered as you are to make this choice. Me? I call what I came for.

I think I'm comfortable just watching from the sidelines. So a bunch of slapdicks are going to decide the fate of Xandria right now. Well, they could, but in the other way. Let me see the staff. A bunch of slapdicks who can't decide to do anything. McCask identify the staff.

McCask identify the staff. That's a big decision. Oh, I know, but we can't agree on anything. Oh. It's odd. The staff rejects your identify spell. Oh, what? It repels your intent to learn of its enchantment. Encounter spell. Like itself is attempting to prevent you

from using what it is capable of. That's new. And also worrisome, because that means some sort of consciousness lives on. Could have been warned against such a... Yeah. Is Ludinus ever holding it, or was it just always floating there?

Jen. He held it at times in the past, but this evening he had it floating at the side while he was focusing on the boundaries. I'm scared he's going to come back. I'll cut his head off. I'm going to say, while all this is... We're really devolving now.

But I mean, it's... While all this is happening, Orym has gone the door in full shell-shock mode. He's not talking anymore, and he's going to go slumped down onto a rock and is listening to all the debating at this point. You should just use the fucking ball. Yeah, we should use it.

He doesn't know what to do. He's been so sure for so long and just doesn't know what to do. He's been so sure for so long and just doesn't know what to do, and going in feels so wrong to him, but he hears the logic that it's only a matter of time before someone or something a day from now, a year from now, six months from now,

and just lets them figure it out because he's took all his energy to make it to this point. I'm just afraid a fucking sandworm could just explode. I know, but let's just use the ball. Use the fucking ball, please. We're all about to die. But just for the record, Bray has to- A strange sulfurous smell begins to come to the air. This is what I mean.

Like- No, no, no, no. Use the ball. No, no, no. We're using the air. This is what I mean. Like. No, no, no, no. It's a ball. No, no, no. We're using this as a ball. We're using this as a fucking ball. An acidic, caustic chemical smell, and you turn back to the bubbling liquid

that was once Ludinus's corpse. It has seemingly disintegrated. Were you able to loot the body before that happened? You kept saying you were looting the body. He had a ring, he had his super potion. Do we take anything? We got the potion, for sure. We tried to take all of it.

15 silver. Ira, what the fuck was that? Got that? You turn around. Ira's not there anymore. You... Is the staff? I am the staff. She is.

Okay. We've seen this before, when something dissolves and goes away, but it was more like something from the Abyss, right? Was he a demon? Was that when Bertrand, at the very, very beginning, and the dudes? The dudes.

I know what you're talking about. That were going after Bertrand, didn't they? Have some dissolve-y situation? The boundary, the barriers that he passed through are unchanged. And the other ones have not? Beyond have not been breached. Okay.

Let's use the orb. Orb and let's get in there. It needs to be crashed against something hard, right? Do it on my pecs. And everyone is. Can you squeeze? Everybody gets close? 15 feet.

And I throw in a Brace's Crush. That should be done. Also hard! One part for the armor to come! You shout in pain and it's like, Ah! You said something wrong! Suddenly, in an instantaneous beat,

time slows to an infinite point of stretch, and then rapidly seems to jump through some, it's like being pulled through a violent portal, but you're landing right back where you were, and you feel somewhat refreshed. You feel like some of your wounds have healed. You feel like some of your wounds have healed. You feel like some of your exhaustion has faded, some of your awareness is rested.

There's just left in your mouths the slight little taste of a sweetness as this smoke that has emerged and been left to dissipate from the inside of this shattered orb dissipates in the air around you. You all gain the benefits of a short rest because you can spend hit dice to heal. The smell.

Do you automatically get half of our hit dice of healing for this, you said? Roll. No, no, no. Any hit dice you've already used, you gain back, and then you can spend hit dice to heal if you'd like. Then just to ask, Matt, with Hunter's Bane, did that disintegration seem like anything

from demonic or? Make an arcana check. For each time you roll. I have advantage on. You do? Okay. Yeah, okay. Like, as far as you can. 42 zuts.

You go and inspect the remains. You have quite some experience with fiendish entities and things that delve in that space. It doesn't seem to be fiendish in nature. It doesn't seem to be tethered, but it does appear to be an intentional self-destruction of the remains. Okay.

Meaning there's no reason why this should have been done given his means of destruction and- Unless he didn't want his body consumed like it was an asset. Or unless, yeah, he had a contingency. Kept alive and, yeah. Or there was something there that he didn't want to get into the wrong hand.

Yeah, I don't like it. That's all my head dice. Okay. 1d4. One plus two. Four, I rolled a four. Nine. 1d4. Plus two. Four, I rolled a four. There you go.

Eight levels. Great. Okay. Shit. Then I'm going to... Okay, clear. Use three. What slots to restore? What slots to restore?

So if you roll a seven, it would be one level seven spell or seven level ones, basically? Yep. Okay. Or a three, a two, and a one, and another one. Okay. Oh boy. I still have no rages, which is good. Oh, that's a good one. Oh,. I still have no rages, which is good. Mm.

Oh, that's a good one. Oh, I rolled a one. Wow. Three nines, no problem. So. Fuck. This is the best part of the show right here. Yep. Sorry. Gotta do your arm. Gotta keep going. You get back any spells? Any level? You just get back that many amount?

Like, if you, what did you roll? I rolled a one. So you get five slots worth of spells. So you can gain five first levels, or one fifth level, or a second and a third, whatever adds up to five. Fuck. Should we try to suck that staff? That's dangerous.

No, I wouldn't do that. That's dangerous. Or I sure want to. You want to? Well, yeah. I'm going to hold onto a mysterious object. Like my sorcery points, I'm going to use sorcery points to recover spells as well, and then use the vial to gain the sorcery points back.

Okay. There you go. There is no way to get a rage back because there are no stats. Yeah, that's okay. But you can maintain the rage that you had for as long as you'd like. Oh, that's okay. But you can maintain the rage that you had for as long as you'd like. Oh, that's right, because I've got the

hold it until I drop it. I believe. Oh, I believe you do. He could have been bringing it as a defensive measure against Prodathos. Sure. But even if it is, and you absorb it, you would have that innate ability. But he also could have done that at the point of he did. You can just sit there and How long does it take to suck? An hour? No, a minute? have that innate ability, but he also could have done that at the point.

You can just sit there and read. How long does it take to suck? An hour? No. A minute? Sparkling. There's a reason why. He would have sucked it down if it would have helped him already.

All right. I'm going to roll that d4. Woo! Come on. Roll high. It's okay. Mid. Mid. All right. Plus four?

Yeah. We're going to make an arcana check. Uh-oh. Me? Yeah. Okay. Good. What do I do here?

Oh. Oh! My arcana is so bad. You're an archaeologist. Okay. You just got archaeologist. Okay. You just got a whole weird pack of those, didn't you? That's awesome. I have a minus for Arcana. So roll out.

Guidance. Guide yourself. Guide yourself. You're also within Hexagons. I guess you can't do that one. No, it's Hexagons. You can't read all of it and get any signal. You can't even read your diary. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Guidance. We have inspiration. Artificial short rest, does that mean that you could have attuned to a weapon instantly? 10. So you get the benefits of a short rest? No, probably not. I would say no.

No, never mind. Curious. I'm going to bring back one metal here. Oh boy, two plus. I had six. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. You're going to do it? Yeah.

I'm stumbling a lot into it, but that's where my disintegrate is. Pray. I will say... Very low on first turn. No. No, not with a 10. Does it look like old Arcanum tech, this staff?

Or does it look just like a very fancy elven? It looks of elven make, for the most part. It just has the two forking points and the lattice between it. Two forking points! Does it feel feyish at all? Doesn't necessarily feel feyish at all? Doesn't necessarily feel fey. Does it feel like attunement,

like it's a tuning thing for a plane? Did you already ask that? Someone else would like to make an arcana check on it. You can glean anything else from it. What are we rolling arcana? I can try. I'm not proficient or anything like that. I'm proficient in Arcana.

What are we trying to go for? The staff. Figure out something about the staff. Could I go history? Give it a look-see? Yeah, do you want to assist me? Yeah, I'll assist you. We can look at it together. Inscription or?

There's no inscription on it, but there are arcane runes across it. Eyes of the Runekeeper. Ooh! Yeah. Okay. Glancing at the details of the staff, it looks like the basis behind the script upon it is...

Roll a mana for me to see if you can ascertain what the nature of it is. Because you can read the runes, and they have a Guidance. Read the rune. And she's helping me. And Guidance. And Guidance, which is plus four.

Plus four. Plus a d4. I will say it leans somewhere between Transmutation and Divination. Interesting. Okay, I rolled a 15 and a 14+. So 15. Ooh, that's good.

15, 18, plus, so 15. Ooh, that's good, 15, 18 plus six, so 24. 24. What you can learn, looking at this, beyond the enchantment, is there is a slight, like a dullness to a handful of runes that sparked when she tried to identify it that have not recharged yet. Meaning you gather that whatever prevented you

from identifying it can only do that once every period of time. Oh, so if you try again. It has a counterspell inside it or something like that. A brief way of masquerading its nature. Anyone else want to hit it? You want me to give it another go? Reveal your secrets!

Well, I mean, it's first level, but... Worth it. Forget it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Because if this thing is packed with spells? If we did this at the beginning of the... We're just using the two charges it has. Would this have been at the beginning of the?

Could we say we did this before the bubble so that we could attune to it during that short rest? Because the short rest is the benefits of it, it doesn't necessarily include spending time with the item to attune. Got it. Yeah, I was poking that. Oh, wow, wow, wow. Oh yeah. She's identified.

Very able to identify. Man, guys, I have nothing. Not a lot of spells left for a nice fight. It is a Staff of Soulbind Relay. Shit. That has been expended. Shit. Meaning it was meant to extend the range of some sort of spell. It's meant to be a relay of some sort of enchantment

that has something to do with the binding of the soul. Oh my god, he still shot his soul into a clone somewhere. Fucking. Motherfucker's still alive. So now we know we have to go because he's going to fucking come back at us. That was fucking worth it. That was fucking worth it. That gives us answers.

Okay. Motherfucker. Before we go. If Delilah has fucking clones,. That gives us answers. Okay. Motherfucker. Before we go. If Delilah has fucking clones, he definitely has fucking clones. Should we destroy it so he can't? No, it's already been used. But it can't be used again, right? Just throw it in a bag of holding or something.

Well, maybe. Because what you intimated was that it had expelled the, don't look at me, quality, not the soul shot. I mean, I don't know me, quality, not the soul shot. I mean, I don't know, but that's not what DM said. It's possible because he had it so far away from him when he died that he wasn't able to use it. Just a reminder, if it's very rare,

the wearer's hit point maximum increases by five. All attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks have advantage until they complete a long rest, or if it's legendary, one of the wearer's ability scores is permanently increased by two, depending on the item, as does your maximum But it takes an hour to suck it up. It's one minute for an item.

One minute for an item. An hour for a creature. Oh. But bodies don't just bubble into sulfur for no reason. Yeah, but if you use this for soulbinding, you can get the benefit of it being super rare or legendary for whatever's going to happen. We should suck it up. I think we should. We should suck it up. Do it right now.

But who? You've used it a few times today, too. Yes. We have. No. Fuck it. But I mean, this is the moment, right? I mean, wait, do we need the harness for Prodathos? Do we need the harness for Prodathos?

We don't know. I don't know. Do we get the harness off of Ludinus before he turned into sulfur bubbles? He didn't have one on. Yes, he did. He had one on. He had one on when he was a little girl. Would we have looted it off of him?

Where is it? He would have taken it off when you guys had force caged him. But it would have put it in his pocket, right? Or a bag of holding or something. Does he have a bag of holding? Which is gone. Do we need it for Prydathos?

I mean, that's a lot of possessing and soul swapping. I don't know if we need it for Prydathos. It's like a relay that allows you to do it at a distance. Sounds useful. You might need it for Prydathos. How else do you get it inside your body? Well, by telling him to get on in. So maybe we just have to bone him.

Maybe you got to. Wow. This is my call. You're made to be the vessel. Let's put the staff in the Bag of Holding. We'll keep the harness free, just in case we need it, and we should go. We should go. What's our roll at right now? What do we have to not roll?

What? For the harness? For the harness. Make it break? It said 40%. I think it said 40% if you do it again. Whoa! Yeah. Would we still get the, as rules, as written, do we still get the benefit even if it breaks? Or if it breaks? We do, but then it's broken.

And then we roll for it. Right, but someone, where end of day is here, someone will get our Ruidusborn Chuggernaut here. We'll get a permanent stat bump. Once a creature gains a benefit from the ray, they cannot benefit from it again until they complete a long rest. If this item is used more than once

within a 24-hour period, there's a cumulative 20% chance each additional use after that. So it would be 40% chance that it would break after this use. Okay. Pretty high. Chetney, this could be our last chance to smoke that futsaka.

Are you really going to get high before we go fight Predathos? When would be a better time than now? After. After. Fair. Convincingly made. What the fuck have you done to me? That was fun once.

Oh god. Just to logic this out one more time. Just one puff. Because I was also originally like, what if we need the cone, the sucky cone? But Ludinus was using the sucky cone to suck in Liliana. My mom.

To be an exultant. He didn't have it here when he was trying to get in. Yeah, and he didn't have, well, he would have put it up. Yeah, he did. Still, but what is he going to do? Go in front of Pardothos and then put it on? Like, come on. Does Mom have any more insight than what we have?

She didn't. She just knew that we'd be able to get through these gates. Okay. Which you still haven't touched, to see if you're back up. You left it behind in the other room? No, we figured he put it in a bag of holding or something. Should we suck up that thing into the body?

You did not find a bag of holding on his body when you looted it, but he definitely placed it somewhere. Should we run back to the fucking room where my mom is and see if he left it? Can you see invisibility or something? For an hour. As if it's a similar siphon. Which I had up when we went in.

Maybe it's invisible. We are killing time. I do not like us to have, so if we're going to do this, let's do this right. Hey! Can you run back to the other room and see? Maybe you should chill. Maybe you should smoke some Fusak. Calm your nerves a little bit.

Matt, would you say it's been an hour since we first went in the cavern where Ludinus was put in the Force Gauge? I don't know. It don't think it's been an hour. I think from then, it's probably been about all the conversation, rushing through, and you guys recovering, looting, all this stuff here. It's pretty close to an hour.

Since, uh... I could run back and try and look. 47 minutes. 47 minutes. All right, I'll run back up the tunnel, since I still see invisibility up. I got 12 minutes to find my problem. And just see if there was anything where the Force Cage was.

You do not. I return. How's my mom? Did you check on her? I killed her. Oh god. All right. There's probably a little bit more. Then I'm going to walk up to the fucking barrier. Oh, yep. It's time! Let's do this shit.

Okay. So you walk up to the next unbreached barrier. Yeah. And put my hands on it like I saw Ludinus doing. You put your hands on it, and the minute you put your hands on it like I saw Ludinus doing. You put your hands on it, and the minute you put your hands forward, nothing seems to happen. You instinctually let your consciousness expand.

Trevor Beltly. And you feel a familiar presence from the other side meet your energy, like two hands reaching across a threshold. And when they join, the boundary gives, and you just step through. I look back at Laudna.

I think he's hitting on me. Should I be jealous? Step to the next one. The next boundary. And once more, you feel the consciousness of Pardothos reach out to meet yours opposite sides of this divine barricade. It's that tether between the two of you

that causes it to weaken and give way. You push to the next one. Can we follow? With each boundary. Yeah, yeah, you can come. It's permeable, right? It's not just you that's able to go through it? It's turning permeable like it was for Ludinus. That's what I'm saying. Is it going down?

I don't know. Are you guys come with me? Yes, go! I was holding onto your belt. Each step, you all also traverse these barricades, these divine boundaries becoming permeable as Ruidus Born leads you through them. The fifth boundary gives way. as Ruidus Born leads you through them, the fifth boundary gives way. The final boundary gives way. That tether that you reached out to

to give you and your friends passage remains. Your hand holds strong. You can't tell, but feel in your proximity, it come through, image it into you. And there's just a sense of belonging. It's the strongest deja vu you've ever experienced in your life. You know you've never been here,

but you've always been working to get here. You can't help but feel butterflies of excitement, but not quite sure why. The logic conflicts with the instinct, and what you feel beyond that draws you both further in this tunnel itself feels exciting. The rest of you watch as you two friends here

smile and look to each other, and you all begin to walk into a widening core to this moon. A somewhat spherical, massive chamber where the walls themselves are all manner of crystalline spikes

and obelisks and natural structures built here at the center of the prime pillar. What rock does exist here in places seems like it's been changed or twisted, altered. To resemble structures, you see ruin and things that have essence of temples or ancient reliefs,

but they all look a bit melted or unfinished, like something affected their form over time through dreams, and they drift in and out of shape as they have. Massive columns of red rock, spires that reach up and around. In the center of this chamber, you can see, much like the last,

these massive curved spires, like the remnants of something detonating in the center of this room. In that flash, the room's given form, locked and frozen. A crystal and red stone womb. In the very center of this small chamber is a soft, glowing, teal, white light.

Just a little light? Just a little light. Floating or resting on something? From your distance here, you can't quite make out shape. It's just this unfocused moat. You don't have enough depth at the entry point, which is quite a distance of 80 or so feet from it to really see any sort of scope,

but the two of you stand at the precipice of the entry point of this chamber. What would you like to do? Can I reach my mind out, Yoyan? Mm-hmm. Is that you? You are here. The voice that was once muddled and deep

and echoing and distant, and it's almost childlike. It has an innocence and a sadness and an excitement, and it feels half awake. The rest of you, as it responds to Imogen, you hear its voice in your minds, too. The red glowing tether of energy between the two of you

is the brightest it's ever been. The faintest threads of it reach out to all of you. A very dense core of it goes towards this light, which now begins to take the form of almost a small child of glowing light. You came. Hi.

Are we free to go? We cost a lot of trouble, you know. I want to wake up. A lot of people are scaring you. I'm so hungry. I had to wake up. Did you talk to Ludinus? He was the first to reach me.

What did he promise you? He came to me in my dreams, promised to set me free. And now you're here. I'm so hungry. Can you hear him now? No. I can only hear my children. How did you get here?

Flashes of images in your mind. I was in too deep. SAM and LAURA laugh. What? I was in too deep. That was a good one. Flashes of heated rock, of volcanic cataclysmic destruction of seas boiling and mountains falling and gods encircling and titans pouncing

and being lost to darkness alone. You pull out. You look at this light, and in those images, as you pull out this little light, you really grasp for the first time that this is a shadow of its true self. And who knows how expansive its true self could be. Can we go?

What? Do you want to go? Can we go? Do you want to go where you came from? Where did you come from? I don't know. More flashes through your minds. Distant starscapes, cosmic clouds where stars are born and die. Strange celestial towers of possibility,

blackened clouds of nothing, even shape and thought, and chest. A vagrant need to feed. and just a vagrant need to feed. It's like a child reaching to suckle what's in here. It's like a child reaching to suckle what's in here. Shh, those are the only flashes of clear memory. We want to help you.

But you'll hurt people. That's what happened before, isn't it? I don't understand. Insight check. Ooh! Insight check of god. High for me, 17. Oh! Do you believe the lies to a fool?

Happy 2025, everybody. You don't want to hurt people. Oh, I didn't even realize your shirt today. I'm sorry. Oh wow. That's a classic. Just a little itty-witty baby. The fifth element is love.

Sleeveless? I remember that haircut. Listen. These strands that are connected to us, that are pulling us in, do they feel like they have a substance in the room, or does it just feel like an energy, light? You focus on them, and the color is different than the red tethers that hold them.

The faintest of gold light through them. Oh shit. We want to help you, but if we can't, what will you do? Well. I'll bring others. I can make more

of my kin. The whole room begins to quake, and you feel the essence of Ruidus begin to shift. All the crystals begin to brighten. The rock itself begins to brighten, and you realize you are in the epicenter of a Ruidian flare. The room becomes so bright,

you all have to clasp your eyes closed for fear of going blind and your eyelids do nothing. Your head burns, your consciousness burns, and here in a flash of moment, you have a thought that this might be the end. Before it descends. To Ruud Esbjorn, you both get proximity of this

24 temporary hit points. Whoa! Whoa! Okay. Whoa. Juice him. Hey, when you do that, it kind of hurts. It kind of feels good, though. Not gonna lie. It's a little, a little... What are you doing?

Making more of you. Oh. Wow. Yeah. What are you, what are you, what do you, what do you make it more for? To come find me. We're here.

We found you. Can we go? What does that pull feel like in here? Does it feel like, like I want to step forward and embrace? That's the closest way you could possibly conceive what that means.

It's odd. All of these feelings are both as natural as any impulse you've had through your life, an instinct that feels so primal and yet alien. The light steps closer. I instinctually look over my shoulder and out through the passage that we came. You see anything?

No. I'm going to mirror that step. We're in the room with something that ate the gods, and I want to get closer. I'm going to walk towards the form. Okay. Slowly, hand up. If I hold my hand out,

is there any mirroring of that gesture from this entity? You notice it's stepping towardserdinand Imogen. Do you want to step to intervene? No. SAM and LAURA say, Mm. No, I will acknowledge that it's not clocking me. I will acknowledge that it's not clocking me. Orym does, though. It's very childlike, right?

You intervene? I do. Oh! It moves forward, and you watch as it steps closer. Like the glow, you can make out a little more of its shape, and it looks kind of humanoid. Its limbs long and thin. Its head has a crest. You make the connection that the Rylorans

are definitively the physical children born in the image of what this Proudathos entity is. As you see the almost gray alien-like thin, small body just drift. It steps, but the step is the mimicking of a shape almost gray alien-like, thin, small body just drifts. It steps, but the step is the mimicking of a shape that it's trying to read off of you as its feet

don't really touch the ground. Its head crest is wide, and it seems to almost grow larger as it approaches with each mimicked pulse forward. As you intervene. My small sighs. Wait. I'm afraid

of the trouble and the pain that you leaving here might bring, would you leave? You came from somewhere else. You could go again. I mean, You could go again. I will. I must eat.

We can get you food. Do you know what you're hungry for? Hungry for. More images crash through your brain. You see visions of imagery, imagery that begins to glow into various twisted pieces of the structures that you see formed out of this chamber as they twist and move. The actual interior of this room,

almost mimicking these flashes of memory, temples, symbols. You see images of a star-headed, gold-armored entity. You see the flicker of the moon weavers flowing silks through the air. In each of these flashes, you feel a burst of that hunger. In each of these entities,

there is a spark of divine light that burns a color that doesn't exist in language to express. As you come out of it, this entity just smiles through its odd, sharpened mouth. We all saw that? Some of those are friends of ours.

Would you hold off on... Would you do us a favor and spare some of them? I need to eat. As Bray has said that, Laudna is just going to reach down and kind of run her fingers along the outline of the Matron of Raven mask. Oh, jeez, that's right. God, we still have that.

On her belt. Do I get any type of feeling? It just feels cold in your grasp. I run like a god EMP zone. Fuck. Fuck. Searching for something sort of tactile in all these images, I'm going to just slowly nick the tip of my finger with my own knife

until just a tiny little bead of blood forms on my thumb. I'm just going to touch it to the thread that's pulling me toward her and see if anything happens. You touch your thumb to it, and you do that little golden thread just flashes in proximity. You recall at this moment,

these faint little threads are very similar to the ones you saw woven through the Matron of Raven's domain. The threads of fate that bind all of you themselves, now quite visible in the presence of an entity that is the antithesis of divinity. Are you alone here? Mm-hmm. Not anymore.

Weren't there two other gods or something that disappeared? He ate them, that's what we were using. Yeah, but what if they retained the abilities after he ate them, like Ludinus retained the gifts of all the things he's been absorbing? What if Ludinus took inspiration from Prodathos and created a harness so that he could take in the gifts of magical and arcane creatures

like Predathos did with the deities, that it ate maybe even the former god of death. Oh, wow. But we just ate them. No, Matron said that the former, oh. No, Matron said the former god of death, she set free. Predathos didn't get that god. You believe her?

Yeah. I have... Yeah. I don't know, it's... Call her. It's a vacuum. It's nothing. I don't know. I remember it starts to continue to move around you, Orym,

to head towards the two of them. What do I do? Do I put this fucking mask on? Do I do it now? Do I do it later? What does it do? We don't even know what it does. We don't know what it does. What does later mean at this point? Do you continue to intervene,

or do you let it circumvent you? That's very easy. I don't know. I mean, he's not so reckless that he's going to throw himself at it, but I am, for a moment at least, will walk alongside and try to stay between Image Inferno and it. I'll mirror, too, but I will try to intervene.

Okay, so it mirrors you, continues to move, comes and cuts its head curiously at you, and you go to intervene. Slow down. Can we go? I step forward. What would you have us do? Wake me.

It takes another step towards the end. Hold on just a second. You think you need to intervene? Yeah, I'll even put a hand out if I have to. Oh boy. Okay. Make a strength saving throw real fast. Choo! I still have advantage. 16. 16. You put your hand out and you watch as Chetney

gets shunted off at an incredible speed into a pile of rubble and rock by it. It just nudges you aside. Hey! You take eight points of rubble and rock by. It nudges you aside. Hey! You take That's a god. eight points of bludgeoning damage. Okay, okay. It doesn't even bother with you.

That's our friend. You can't do that. It doesn't seem to hurt his feelings. Can we go? I'm going to hold your hand, Fearne. Listen, listen, listen. We have a choice here to let you go. Oh no.

I thought about that. Can we go? Don't let it touch you. No. No. No. Wait. So you feel that tether reaching between the two of you.

Do you allow it or do you resist it? Game on. This is a choice for both of you. I know what I want to do. I don't know, I can't wait until you finish something. I don't see another way out of this, y'all. We could fight it. Yeah,all. We could fight it. Yeah, exactly. We could fight it.

Well, the only way we can probably fight it if it's inside of you two, right? I start taking out the harness. I'm sorry. I trust you both implicitly. I'm going to hold your hand and I'm going to reach out. What are you doing, Fearne?

You allow it? Yes? Yeah. As you all acknowledge this moment, you watch as the light accelerates and just seems to dissipate. I was going to try this. Ashton!

Are you for real? Are you for real? I was thinking about it. It only needed one of you to accept. Fuck. No, no, no, no, no. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that to her. I don't know. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that to her. Erna. Erna. You feel this

churning. It's like a storm inside you. It's overwhelming. The tunnel begins to shift. The vertigo overtakes you and your friends become faceless shadows. The room itself seems to twist and bend. It becomes an enclosed space of nothing,

and then expands, but you fall backward, but you're still standing, and you're spinning, you're spinning. The rest of you watch as Imogen begins to rise. The crystals, clusters in the round, crack and shift, drifting in the air. You can see her skin now,

her body taking this deep red crimson scale form. Her limbs begin to extend and shift. You see her eyes glowing bright. Where those veins of lightning were, they now are where this crimson begins to spread throughout. You feel Pardothos begin to overtake you. Can I fight that?

Do you wish to fight it? Can I try to suppress it? Yeah. Make a wisdom saving throw. Come on. You've got advantage because of Heroes' Feast. That's true. It's like Poochie the dog just skateboarded in. And I have an inspiration from somebody.

No, I don't. Would've only lasted 10 minutes, so we would've made it. I think that was from me. Oh, that sucks. DC's probably like 10. It's fate. Probably. It's fate. 12.

12? I don't know. It's probably really low. The wisdom I love 12. I really love this fate. If it's a wisdom save, if it's a charisma save, I can help, but it's a wisdom save and I suck at it. Can I try to assist and try to resist as well? Like feeling that she's trying to resist? Your wisdom is so high that I can help. That would have been so good for you to do.

In this particular instance, the choice has been made for the vessel. Okay. The tether's still there. I thought I was going to do it together. But are you resisting it coming into her? That moment has passed. What are you trying to do, Fearne?

I am trying to keep my connection and my thread to Imogen, me, Fearne, so that she remembers who she is, who we are. And goes towards that and remembers that. Okay. It goes towards that and remembers that. Okay.

You go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw for me. I'll be on edge because of your SPs. Whenever. As this genuinely horrifying transformation of Imogen begins to swell and expand. These shards of crystal that floated in the air begin to affix themselves amongst her body, like clusters of spiked armor that pulse with psychic energy.

Fuck. Well, that's cruel. The bolts of lavender power Hey, Majin. Shucking through her hair. 28. 28. You feel yourself begin to disappear into that shadow. For a brief moment, you forget who you are

and what you're doing. In the middle of that shadow, you see a point of red light and you hear Fearne call out, Imogen! That's where it ends. Oh! Great. Now we have to wait until 2026 for the moment.

Oh! Oh shit. Phoenix? Jesus, a whole year. That's how we do it now. That's how we do it. It's is a whole year. That's how we do it, Mallory. That's how we do it, it's just one a year. Wow. Wow. Oh! Oh my god.

We'll hop into that next time. I don't know what I was thinking. I don't know what I thought was going to happen there, but. Well, if you didn't go into it, it was going to probably force it. Save it for CR cooldowns. Yeah. All right, friends. It's going to be a spicy one.

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