Critical Role - C3E102 Reconciliation

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to tonight's episode of Critical Role, where a bunch of us nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and play Dungeons & Dragons. We are now back in the Bell's Hells perspective of Campaign 3, after that wonderful, communally experienced interlude in the history of Aeor. We'll jump into that shortly, but before we jump into that,

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It's Thursday night. One by one we climb until we reach the top. Two by two we fall. Will we meet our end or meet our destiny? Hold your breath and roll. How do you want to do this? It's Thursday night. All ye critters come join us.

It's time to continue our fight There is magic and mystery Who knows what will happen He might But one thing's for sure We never give up on the fight From the healer to the renegade We all share the same goal

Adding more allies, taking more chances Hold your breath and roll You can certainly try It's Thursday night All ye critters come join us It's time to continue our fight There is magic and mystery from darkness, our friendship will rise But one thing's for sure, we never give up on the fight

Oh, get ready, it's Thursday night! And welcome back. So, last we left off, Bells Hells, following the path of Ludinus and the Re-Vanguard into the ruins of Aeor, accompanied by Essek Thalyss, somebody who had been there a handful of times. Pardon me. Timing is everything. You delved below and discovered the darkness that had taken the vanguard and Ludinus'

interests in the ruins, Dominox, a grand demon from Lore long ago. You had gone through and suffered terrible visions from this demon in proximity of the engine that he still has clung to, the soul anchor holding him present. You ran into and met a new figure, Braeus, a minotaur revealed to have been and is a worshiper of the Lord of Hells. Speaking of Hells, also summoned Tevin, a devilish entity that has been bound with Fearne. You played so many characters, it's a great match.

Yeah. You know, I made my bed. But after getting into battle with Dominox and Ludinus coming in at the last minute to essentially help you defeat this entity and claiming no aggression or enemas towards you. You stopped after defeating Dominox and he invited you to join him in the Chamber Beyond,

one of the goals of his excursion. And here in this domed, cracked, partially ruined chamber, you see amongst the rising stairs and statues of Aeorian mages of old, a central orb domed like deus that Ludinus pulls from it, a sphere of light blue arcane ribbons, a information-keeping device of some kind.

He tells you this is the Occultist Thalamus, a information-keeping device of some kind. He tells you this is the Occultus Thalamus, and it is indeed a record-keeping device. And what he's found with it, with the time that he spent with it, is of utmost importance to Exandria. And he invited you to look into this. As he activated it, a white light filled your vision, and you all experienced within this record,

viscerally, as if you were there, and amongst them, the tale of these gods, Pantheon members of Exandria, who during the height of the Calamity, had called a truce because the last great floating city had developed technology that could abjure the gods themselves. Scared and uncertain, they reincarnated as mortals

and infiltrated the city. Seeking information, they discovered the existence of a device, the Factor Malleus, that could, in theory, destroy the gods themselves. In this information-seeking infiltration mission, they found conflict, they found allyship, they found means to question everything about their presence there and what it is

they are doing here on this world. And when push came to shove, they all still came to agreement. The city had to die and the information with it. So you experienced, from the beginning of the arrival of these beings stepping into Aeor, to the final destruction of the city of Aeor as it crashed into Eiselcross.

That is what you are aware of through this vision. The prologue and the epilogue are more like just for our fun narrative aspect of it as the audience and players, but like, that is what you have experienced as Bells Hells. Here, as these fragments of information and moments and people and faces and screams and energy whoosh by, eventually the light fades.

And here you all stand once more in this cracked and ruined and long forgotten chamber that house the Occultist Thalamus. And there, as you all take a breath, feeling yourselves back in your bodies, feeling the sensation of your own flesh and touch the buzzing of energy of the strange, alien, wildly altered magic

of these ruins around you. Ludinus still stands, holding this orb, smiling, holding it to his chest. Fractured as it may be, the thalamus gifts us with an unintended boon, a record of divinity's true face, the face I've always known. They wade in their narcissistic fantasy

and push forth decrees for mortal lives, contradictory among their kin, an endless tapestry of guesses and punishments, harvesting their faith through reverence and fear, ultimately to redirect the natural flow of the soul to their realms and feed from them. And here, here you know what I know is true.

The living soul of Exandria, borrowed and reshaped to create us as the seeds to their eternal garden of exploitation. We are chained to a cycle of their making against the natural order of life between these realms. The Eidolons, the natural spirits of the land, they existed before the gods even arrived and will exist long after they are gone. They are the primordial spiritual life we once were. Stolen and industrialized to sustain their self-obsessed tyranny.

They funnel the very essence of the world away from it. A sentence of entropy for Exandria in ages to come. What they did not account for was the strength of our spirit, the drive of our ambition, the desire to learn and grow, make and unmake and make again, to challenge the mysteries of the universe with the brief time we have. In their arrogance, they made something more perfect than them. Us.

In the age of our canon, our enlightenment was a revolution. An age where philosophy, art, and the promise of understanding were our purpose. It was their presence, their thrones, their meddling that brought ruin upon our potential. We deserve to inherit the future, and they would not dare step aside and let us be greater than they. Were we watching the same orb. Just making sure. I understand it may take some time to truly... To truly absorb what they are.

What did you see? What do you see them as? What did you experience through this vision? I saw them as uncertain. Surprisingly changeable. Flawed, for sure, but so are we. You're not wrong. The difference is, we don't lord ourselves over everyone else and wipe them clean the minute we have a second thought. I mean, I know how old you are, so you are probably well-read in history. You know that is not true. It's quite ironic coming from the man who's caused

quite a bit of destruction with murderous intent. Murderous, no. No, Dresner. I don't disagree that it is. There have been many unfortunate necessities on this path, but don't think there weren't points in which a choice was given? If you knew the absolute cruelty and ignorance of the majority of people that hold positions of political power

in this world throughout history, you will understand that sometimes those of us of righteous mind have to do what's necessary for the good of all. You're no better than what you're fighting. She's got a point. I feel like I heard one of them make that exact same statement.

You're talking about how they lord over us, and you just said the same thing. You just rambled on about how we make, unmake, and then we'll make again. So I... We do. I guess my ultimate question is, what do you plan to make after this?

After you unmake? Unmake. I have no aspirations for leadership, lordship, decreeing of laws or ruling. Inside check. Yeah. That's real low. Can I roll, too? Sure. 19. 19.

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High quality, well designed. I got the letterman jacket still. Yeah. I love they're this sporty for the fuck, so that's great. I've lived long enough, as you say, to have watched kingdoms rise and fall, to see fools crowned. But those are our messes to make.

We learn from them, we live, we die, and we teach. We die? I am talking. Careful, I'm one of the people sitting here who probably agrees with you the most. We have lived under their shackled intent for so very long. Being told that they are everything to us, that they are our protectors, that they guide us, that they grant us all that is important in this world, and all they need in return is our prayer. But they've killed endless, endless life.

But they've killed endless, endless life. They've burned and scalded the length and breadth of this land multiple times and wiped it from history when it was inconvenient, and when they couldn't, they just tweaked the tones a bit. All that I'm saying, as I wish to be entirely clear, I do not see myself as better than them, but I do not hold the sway and power they do. When they're gone and we inherit this world, it will be ours. I'm going to change the subject for a moment,

and I'm probably one of the people who agrees with you the least in this room. You want to release a God-eater? The fuck does that mean, man? What guarantees are there that you're not about to unleash holy hell on the face of this world? Next time you wish to step on the surface of our great Moonaville omen,

I invite you to speak with him. A bit of communion with Predathos, I think, would help clarify your worries. How do you know Predathos would just stop at the gods? The natural order of nature. Our divine spirits were crafted from the divinity of this world. But what they are is something entirely alien. They are not of Exandria, nor is Predothos. Our souls are not its sustenance.

Our elements are not its continued life. We are outside of its circle, and it only wishes to feast upon what it naturally devours. The gods created us, right? The gods formed us, yes. So we are part of them. Not as much as you'd like to think.

I feel like Proudathos would eat them and lick up the crumbs. Hmm. The shark does not bother itself with the krill. But the blue whale does! It's a quick technique. It was very quick. Biggest creature in the sea. The blue whale.

You speak of communing. I think it's dragon turtles, actually. With Pardathos. Mm-hmm. You're not part of it, though, are you? I don't need to be part of it. But you want to be, don't you? You can commune all you want, I'm sorry. You can commune all you want,

and you'll never feel what I felt, will you? Insight check. Go make an insight check. Just make Ludinus cry? You made him think. Natural one, motherfucker! No! Betrayed by the dice. Fuck you, go away! You see a smile creep across his face.

Oh. I have no aspirations of anything beyond freeing us from what has held us down for all of history. Would you die for it? A thousand times over. And I may hit still. Mask, what? Why do you hate them so much that you've devoted your life to figuring out how to kill them, basically? Why are you so mad?

Because these myths, these visions, they're what I grew up with. I lived an entire human lifetime in the ashes of the world they burned and then left behind. And I watched as those that remained were told, stay faithful. Because they love you. Because they'll guide you.

And some of these societies rebuilt in their name and their honor, and then continued to wage a cycle of holy war upon each other in their name, even without their feet on this soil. Because their presence throughout all of history has led to ruin, because their presence throughout all of history has led to ruin, and everything that's beautiful

has been from us. And I am tired, so endlessly tired of us as a society living under this illusion, that we're better for it. He sounds so much like one of those gods. Yeah. Do I get the sense that he has another reason that he's not sharing with us? Make an insight check.

Come on. Come on, Brayus. Well, that's terrible. First roll. That's right. Bad. I got something. We do all the live show.

Eight. Eight. He's tough to read, but he seems forthright. To translate from absolute piece of shit, he's mad because they're all betrayer gods. All of them. Not all of them. All of them.

Not all of them. No. I saw the Everlight. Yeah. Just to put this out there, what do you think's going to happen to us when we leave this place? Aeor, or you mean like life? Both. Which, if I were one of them, I would want us to never get the fuck out of here. We are now a threat. We are now a leak in this fucking story.

When we step out of this place, if they have a hint of what we know, the Everlight would murder us all. Or let slip to somebody who wouldn't mind. If it helps, you're only the first who will see this vision. We're not the first? Is that what you said? You're just the first.

Just the first. I hope it's who you plan. You plan on taking this little gadget. When everyone in this world has seen what you've seen, they'll be able to make their own choices from a more informed position. And you know that will only seed war and discourse amongst all of us. You knew that, right?

There is war and discourse amongst all of us. Correct. All ready. Correct. This will galvanize the true position. I'm so confused by your position sometimes, because you act like there's so much war over these gods, but yet you're about to incite it over the gods.

And the gods have been gone for centuries. They will be back instantly, if you cede that information in the world. Instantly. And how many more will die? You sound just like Father Milo. So wrong, so vain, so important. I would have to object. That's fine.

Father Milo did not say anything that wasn't absolutely true. That is not what I saw. That's not what I saw. That's the, I feel this. He had a perspective and a goal and he laid it out very clearly. He wanted to get his family back and assume power. He did not set out to kill a city, to destroy a city.

He wanted to get back with his family. And the others prevented him. He gave them a choice to sit down at a table and they said, no, we'd rather kill a city. I kind of agree with Braias. Yeah, but then he took off and he left them. They banished him. The one with the glowy head said, be gone.

I don't even know who you're talking about. The glowy head, that's the Dawnfather, Fearne. You've given us a choice between mortals and the Primes, but there is a third choice. There is another set of gods who hasn't done any of the things you're talking about. If you're referring to your lord, as he looks into your breastplate and the symbol.

That's just a, that doesn't mean anything. There are few among their family that hate us more than any other, for the reasons you cite. Wait, who are you talking about? What's your third option? What do you mean? Bring the betrayers back.

The Lord of Hells. But to Echo. The Ruiner, great, great, great group. Those are just names. Monitors. Exactly. I mean, you said it yourself. You said it yourself.

If the gods found out that we knew this knowledge, they would come down and smite us, right? I've known this for years. I've known that the Primes are assholes. They betrayed me. And I found someone who won't. They betrayed me. And I found someone who won't. They betrayed you?

Yes. Would you share? Today's not about me, all right? Oh. Whatever's clever. I'm just saying that me and that Cassadar person are the same.

From what you've seen today, do you believe if the Children of the Gods, those they crafted and raised and shaped in love and light to shepherd and push forward in the greatness of their image, were just merely shown a window into their darkest hour, and your immediate reaction is to think they would come and smite us all,

does that not give you pause about who they are? This was honestly confirmation of everything I've ever fucking thought about. Good point. This changes nothing for my life. Can I ask a personal question? Just because I feel like this is a moment. You're a hard person to reach.

I had to turn into a wolf and jump on you like a fucking koala backpack just to get this close. That was good, yes. It was good. That was you, wasn't it? Yeah, but you impaled me afterwards, so fuck you a little for that. I got carried away. You also broke our skyship, which kind of sucks.

No, you threw your skyship at me and I defended myself. We did do that. We did do that. You called a hit on my family a successful one. Fuck you. Fuck you. I agree with that. Fuck you. Another thing we all agree with. That's fair.

Wait, Chetney, ask your question. The personal questions? Yes. Can I just ask how you have been alive for roughly 800, 900 years? I'm pretty old, but it pales in comparison to what you've been able to do. You said your human lives.

Are you mortal? I am mortal, though I stretch the length of my end years for this purpose, yes. Where were you when this happened? Not an accusation, I just want to know. I was a child, I watched the burning streak of the city through the sky and grew up in the smoky ruin that sat below. Have you ever tried therapy? I've tried many things, my dear.

It's just such a long time to hold onto childhood trauma. While he's talking, Hunter's Bay. Am I picking up anything fey, fiend, or undead from Ludinus? From Ludinus? No. Not at all. You know what I saw? A weird, fucked up family. Kind of like us. I would do anything to protect any one of you. At the expense of others. I have. I have killed for you all.

We all have. Which is precisely why we are just like them. Which is not why they should exist. Honestly, it's why nothing like that should exist. It's not about who's on the fucking throne. It's about the throne. Who has it?

It shouldn't exist. It should be broken. What happened in Molaesmyr? Gives you a keen side glance. Yeah, that's right. I said it was a hole, bitch. Molaesmyr was the First Communion. With Protothos? Mm-hmm. It was the first attempt at establishing

a breach. Psst. How did you even know? That's my Esme. I have no idea. It's this ruined area of the forest that we went and explored. It's spooky. It was ruined by some kind of arcane event. That's this ruined area of the forest that we went and explored. It's spooky. It was ruined by some arcane event. That's where his first- Hundreds of years ago.

It's where we found this... Harvest. This... Stab. What? It's where you found yourself. We found your old friendship. We found your old friendship. It's magic. Why did you choose to show this to us?

Because... you're all, like many of us out there, bright and strong, and open to see the truths around you. You fight for what you believe in, for each other. And that is the spirit of mortal life that we fight to preserve. To your point, it's not that the gods

are to be considered garbage. They are frail, emotionally. They are scattered. They are not unlike us, except with every step they take, they destroy Eris. And to your point, no one like us should ever have that much power. So? I don't absolve the gods of their sins, but everything you're saying about them is true of mortals. Mortals have warred since the beginning of history, killed each other in the hundreds of thousands.

So why are you stopping at the gods? Surely the world should be clean of all life of any kind, if that's the logic you are chasing. Or it's just jealousy. You have such a uniquely unfocused conviction. It's admirable. Oh, fuck you, man. I'm sorry for what happened to your family. Otohan was overzealous in her methods.

But it seems she got what was coming to her. Don't act like you didn't send her to do those things. She was a mad dog that you let off the leash. We didn't all walk away from that, did we? I own my place in that. Unfortunately, what needs to be done is larger than some things. Yeah, ends justify the means, right? Just get fucked.

The Malleus Factorum. I assume you've tried to rebuild it over the years, decades, centuries? The knowledge of it has been long lost, and even in the hopes of even uncovering its capabilities, we lack any of the technology that the H'var Canim at its height could produce, and it took them decades to develop.

You have a lot of time, Ludinus. Yeah, and you didn't come here to look for stories. You came here to look for something else. Initially, maybe, but it was finding this. He procures and holds the orb of the Falmas out a bit further. Careful, every time you hold that up, we have a three-episode break.

SAM and LAURA laugh. La la la la! Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! episode breaks. Shit, shit, shit, shit! My dear. Brennan, I know you're busy right now. While the vibe is broken for a split second, that's as big as a cantaloupe, what he's holding? Yeah, it's about this long. Does it look brittle? Yeah, does it look breakable?

Like if I'm like, spike! Like what? It looks like ribbons of arcane energy. Ribbons of arcane energy. Yeah, like multitudes swirling. No, it is. Energy? If we're white, we can tell.

No metal, no physical solids. It's got bubble gum in the middle. Yep, little thing. He's levitating, right? He's not holding hands. No, he's just got bubble gum in the middle. Yeah, little thing. Right, he's not holding hands. No, he's just got the thing with his palm. This is my fucking problem, is I can't deny that I agree

with an awful fucking lot of this, but the only way I could possibly, possibly get behind this is if it ended with you dead, too. Hold on, can we finish talking about the thing he was holding up? That's the trouble, isn't it, is I don't know if I have it in me to crush something that's true. If I don't survive this, but succeed,

my spirit will lay a very, very happy end. Insight check. It's very high for me. It is a 17, 16. A mini whisper. Ooh. Laura, tell us what else is in the shops these days. Yeah. Oh, you guys.

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Thanks, Fjord. Sure. A weapon would indeed be useful, but the time that it takes to construct and utilize, there are so many things that can go wrong. But information, truth, that can travel in an instant. And if what feeds this god is faith,

what happens if you shake it all at once? I'm no friend to the Primes, but you've shown us one story of many. Who's to say that there aren't other stories out there that contradict everything you've just shown us? This was said to be their darkest moment. Said to be by who? That we know of. That we know of.

Said the downfall teaser. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Who was it? Said the downfall teaser. I'm familiar, I'm not a Beacon subscriber yet. Yes, yes, stay in the audience. Oh god.

At the very least, now that these truths are beholden before you, I hope this lets you see a little bit of who I am, who we are, and why we do what we do. Why I give myself to this cause. I'm glad. Very thankful that you showed us this, truly. But as we saw, not all of the gods were in agreement. Not all of us are going to be in agreement. And one of the things they were attempting to do. So look for solutions, alternative solutions to this problem. I feel like we're owed a chance at that. I've lived for nearly a thousand years, spending every waking moment thinking on every possibility,

and I have failed at a number of them. I have spent lifetimes weaving intricate threads to allow this singular moment in history to be even possible. weaving intricate threads to allow this singular moment in history to be even possible. If you want to try and find an alternative, you have very little time to do so.

But regardless of what you wish to do, our gears have long been turning, and momentum has risen quite high. So I ask you, openly and with compassion, join us. Join us to be the shepherds of our true future, to free our people from this perpetual divine penance. At which point Tevin on the back goes,

This only furthers the need for your communal punishment. All of you. My lord demands vengeance, and vengeance he will have. He raises his blade and charges, at which point Ludinus raises a hand. With a natural three, Tevin is banished. In a flash of flame, he's gone. Oh man, how many uses did you have of that?

Calling him. Well, maybe it's done with and we don't have to think about it anymore. Yeah, I'm sure that's right. You know that not everyone agrees with you. There are so many people that want the gods here. No, no. That need them. Ludinus knows best.

That's right. So we should all put our faith in him. What gives you the right to decide the fate of Exandria? He just wants to be on equal ground. That's it? Yeah. I mean, what makes a god a god besides power? Sarcasm. You're doing sarcasm?

No, I'm being honest. That's what you want, right? Power to stand on equal ground with the gods? No gods, only kings. Actually, I'd like to hear the answer to that question. Yeah, me too. I have had the capability to pull the strings behind the most powerful thrones in Exandria for some time, and I've only done so towards these ends. I don't wish to control. I don't wish to be a tyrant.

I just want them gone. You want you. Can I ask one more question about Molaeus Myr? Because I think it's pretty relevant. All right. That was a whole city? Just smoked after what I assume was a failure, maybe a miscalculation on your part, that I assume at this point you have rectified

because bridge. But the natural question is, if you're wrong, and if Pardothos comes out and does blue whale us like the krill that we are, for you, is that better than being subservient to them? I wish... I wish you knew the things I knew. So tell us, Ludinus. We're here, aren't we? Plenty of private time.

Answer the question. Yeah, you've killed and hurt members of our family, and now you're asking us to just... Blindly put our faith in you? Yeah. Like a god. You look like it's just me. I might be the spearhead of this, but I am amongst many.

I know. One of which is your mother. Yeah. I know. one of which is your mother. Yeah. I know. You who holds the strongest potential in the red light of our deliverance. Daughter of Lyanna who carries the burden of our future. I hope that you will rise to meet your destiny.

I feel like we're sidestepping. This is a big question. No, but that was good. That was good. Yeah. But it seems like the answer is yes. Total destruction is better than... No.

But that is not what's going to happen. We'll just take your word for it. What happens if the Betrayers get out and take advantage of the situation? They get chopped, too. What happens if Berdothos has been lying to you? You trust Berdothos because you've talked to him? You've had lots of conversations, and you know what they're saying is the truth. She's doing sarcastic crimes.

I absolutely can hear that. You're very perceptive. They call that a stake. Yeah, that's a stink. You understand what you're capable of, but you're far from the only one. I've been amongst many, and through them, yes.

It is a unique intelligence, but one that doesn't hold any grudge, one that doesn't beget any malice towards us. It just merely wants out, and it wants them. It wants out, and it wants to take. It's so hungry. I felt that.

I felt welcome, right? Yes. Is that what you feel, too? You know how hard it was to get free? I can't believe it wouldn't want to do that to everything it comes across. was to get free? I can't believe it wouldn't want to do that to everything it comes across. Though Malleus Myr may have been a failure in the larger circumstances,

it was the beginning of a rapid, resounding success. For it was the first time that we were able to see each other. I just said it. I sought for what it was. A lost, lonely entity, hungry in darkness, sealed away and left to fade into its own shadow. Left to go insane. It's a good idea to just release that out there after all that time. Do the gods know what that thing is? Are they aware of the gravity of what you plan to throw at them?

Well, this isn't the first time they've encountered it, yes. They've encountered it before? Yeah, didn't we read that? They're two lost gods. I think it already ate some. that's why it's trapped. Who do you think put it in that moon? That's the question. Do you know who the two lost gods were?

Forgotten to time and history? I do. Oh! I mean, cool. Will you tell us? Because we've gotten so close on this one by stealing your tomes. Let's over to Fearne. You, who was forged from the convergence of many powers,

born fae fair and far, now bound to the Primordials and the devils themselves, you step between realms like a living, walking nexus. You have so much potential. Fire a dime. Are you going to go around in a circle and tell us how much potential you have? I think he just needs to warm up to the answer. Are you just doing go around in a circle and tell us how much potential you all have? Is he getting that? I think he just needs to warm up to the answer, yeah. All right. Are you just doing this for her?

You. Do me, do me. Yes, do me next. I have a familiar air about you. Mm-mm-mm-mm. You're getting warmer. You are ever tenacious, aren't you, Delilah? What did he say? I'm saying. You're ever tenacious,

aren't you, Delilah? Ooh. You could have been so very bright. Had you not fallen to selfish interests and darker faith. Even he knows. Now, do you cling to your broken shores, the far world, hungry and desperate, Delilah? Within you, you can feel something within you

like reaching, trying to will itself out and reach, like it wants to devour the magic of lewdness itself. This is good. This feels good. The focus passed to you towards Delilah focuses in on you. I can free you from your tortured binding, grant you both a second chance at life without her shadow, then looks back past and to Delilah, and you, another chance for redemption

in the eyes of history. All right. All right? Like you're saying yes? I'm just curious how we would go about it. Join me in the vanguard. See, there's always an ultimatum. Does it seem like he's lying?

Is he lying? Is he lying? Make an inside check. I'll assist. Okay. My assist, by the way. Oh, you're assisting on your own again. Is he lying? Is he lying? Make an inside check. I'll assist. Okay. Oh, are you assisting on your own again? Fucking hell, fuck! Wow. 11.

21. Oh. Whoa! Ew. More whispers. Who gets the whisper? Guys. Oh, the helper? If you haven't seen it already, Downfall, available now on all streaming platforms? On our streaming platforms. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This has been enlightening. Wait, wait, don't teleport. Don't, wait, just hold on a second. Wait, wait, wait, one more thing. Just one more. Is it about Molaesmir? Because I feel like...

We've covered it. I can't make the furniture unless I have all the pieces. By the way, did you like the chairs I made for you? You probably don't remember. It's fine. The timeline, it feels like you could do whatever you've needed to do with Pardothis this whole time. There was the weapon,

and then the guy with the black feathers, and now he's a small orb. I'm just wondering what else you need. Why haven't you kicked it off yet? Yes. Isn't that the question? Don't get prepared. You're doing a thing like you're getting really late.

No, yeah, he had a best question. Good gold star for you, Chet. That was actually my favorite question so far. He smiles when he doesn't want to answer. I believe I've been extremely forthright with you from the very beginning. And understandably, you've been... Conflicted. understandably, you've been... conflicted.

We're going to be conflicted if you're freaking killing people that we love and care about. Like, what do we? I'm not conflicted. I have taken a vow to kill you and I will. Today, if possible. I feel like that's beside the point, though.

Wait, wait, that's just a question! What are you missing? We already know. Yes, what are you missing? We already know what he's missing. He needs Imogen, he needs Liliana, he needs a Ruidusborn. Is that true? You look at Imogen every time this question comes up.

He's very pretty. His face falls a little sad. He pulls a beautiful glowing gemstone out from behind his robe and looks at it with his fingers, plucks it away so the chain drops and dangles from his hand. Pulses with a unique and palpable magical energy. So many chances. It would be a shame.

I still believe we can do great things together, but no matter, I have contingencies that do require me and don't require your assistance. Soon the world will see what we've seen. Well, they do. And I say this because I have met a lot of people like you, and I know you're about to say there's no one like me, and I've heard that from a lot of people in my life. What are you going to do when you discover that a large collection of the people who know this don't love you. I don't do this for love. Mm. I believe you believe that.

What's this down? Can I do an arcana check from a distance? Do I get a read on it? Sure, make an arcana check from a distance? Sure, make an arcana check. Cool. Natural one. Tight, tight, tight, tight, tight, tight. You're uncertain of what it is, but just looking at it, it's almost entrancing. You can feel the thrum of its power, like a.

What color is it? Green. A green-blue flickering. Does it look like the Predathos glass? Glass? It's a blue glass. It has a pretty similar tinge to it. Can I try to take it? You're about 15 feet from him, but yeah. How do you want to try it out?

Yeah, I want to try to take it. How? How? Tell us how you're going to cross those 15 feet. Just going to walk over and try to... Oh, I tripped. Oh, I tripped forward. Try to just have these backwards knees. I think you've done that a couple times.

I'm going to walk forward and take it. I want to mage hand it. Mage hand it out of his hand. From 15 feet away, while he's looking at it. No, I'm just going to walk around, taking a space, I think I'm listening. Do-do-do-do-do, and then I'd roll it. I love it.

All right, so Fearne. Oh no. I need you to make a sleight of hand check for me, please. At the most disadvantage. Okay. Deeply disadvantaged. Oh, deeply disadvantaged? Deeply disadvantaged.

Okay. It's so high. 18. 18, okay. You see him as he's looking at the stone, and his eyes. What other moment would you do it? He's like, fingers creeping.

He looks at it. He just banished a demon. And just looks up at you with a keen, what the fuck are you doing, head tilt? And he's like. What is that? I was saying I couldn't see it. I don't have my glasses on,

so I was just wanting to get closer to see what you're holding. Maybe you could just walk over there and look at it, then. Yeah. What is that? It's not for you, love. Well, what are you pulling it out for? Looks back towards you and says, I'll await your answer to my offer, for you always were a crafty one.

Here, a means to take what you seek and fill me with clarity of mind. Find me when you're free of these disappointments. No! You grab the gem. Oh fuck! Are you trying to slap that over her hand? I would try and make a swipe at it,

but I don't know if I can hear you. Make contested dexterity checks. This is not going to be campaign one. If I see it, I'm going to try and stop it. This isn't with your dexterity, though. So both of you roll a d20. Delilah's a rogue, right? Yeah, and very athletic. Yeah.ilah's a rogue, right? Yeah, and very athletic.

Yeah. Just dexterity, right? Yeah. Telekinesis, telekinesis. Can I telekinesis? 13. 19. You catch it in your hand and grab it.

The hunger inside you surges with fury and frustration as the shadow swarms and you reach over and grab onto Chetney's arm. You feel like your body is now being pulled and wrest from your grasp. What do you do? I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Come get it! It's amazing that you figured out how to get it to suck in that quick. That's really, that's some muscle control. I'm not really in control, right? I'm holding onto Chetney. I mean, your body just like, on its own. Get it, girl.

What do you do? Rip out his throat. Hunger of the Shadow. All right, go ahead and roll. I can throw out three word names. Four. Four. All right, I think that checks the audience.

Hunger of the Shadow. Hunger of Shadow. Hunger of Shadow. If it's very much Delilah provoked, which feels like what you're telling me, right? Something within you is forcing your body to do this. Hunger of Shadow. If you want to follow it up with that, then go ahead and roll an attack against...

Is this against Chetney, or is this against what he grabbed? Chetney. So you're just grabbing Chetney. Yeah. Not what he grabbed, so. Okay, so go ahead and roll an attack. While shit's happening, I try and put it

in the Bag of Holding, I'm holding the Bag of Holding. I'm really sorry. Destroy the Bag of Holding. Destroy the Bag of Holding. That's not good. Okay, I'm pretty sure, yes, he has 21. What's your AC? Oh yeah.

All right, let's go ahead and roll damage for your Hunger of the Shadow Shark. Aren't these your friends? I'm not so sure anymore. I got a crazy dead lady inside me. All right, that does eight, nine, 12. Is she single? She might be soon.

I got a crazy dead lady inside me. She needs a rebound, to be fair. Real bad. Oof. Maybe that could solve it. Oh wait, it does fight? Here, here's a new one. Oh, it does.

It went up to the dead lady. It's all she can do at this point in time. It was a pretty weak roll. 14 necrotic damage. 14 necrotic damage to you, Chetney. And I regain a warlock spell slot. Yes, you do. As that hits, this necrotic stuff,

I will take the Bag of Holding and I will throw the Bag of Holding towards Dorian. Oh! And I try to snap out of it immediately. Okay. Keep away! Keep away! She gets attracted to powerful stuff! Bitch, that fucking stuff!

Did you get it in the bag? Yeah. Oh, it's in the bag. Can you get it to throw the bag away? I threw it to Dorian. Oh. I just try to rip my hand apart and just fucking claw at my head and try to come back. It looks like you have enough to deal with

within your midst. Find me when you've decided what you need. Delilah, there is so much within these ruins that could be of help to you. Wait, I'm going to try to take the orb. He already threw it. It's in the bag. The orb. The orb!

The spinning ribbons of energy? Yeah. The factotum? Before he goes away? During the hubbub of this? All right, so you're going to rush towards him? Yes. Okay. Now we're in initiative, technically. If you're not darting towards him at this point.

I'm just saying against you and him. So go ahead and roll an initiative check just for you, and I'll keep tabs on this. Hopefully it's not like a spinning orb of death and it tears you apart in one second. It's just a VCR. It's going to be fine. You're going to get a little hit. Your fingerna You're going to get a little, your fingernails are going to get fucked up putting your hand in.

It's the top loading one. Oh boy. You got to rewind it. Yeah, you can get a pencil. Ashley Johnson, dice that are unreadable. Girl, we got to go dice shopping real bad. No, this was a gift and I really like it. No, no, this is really beautiful.

There's really no dot on it. I think it's a nine. No. I'm going to roll another one because there's no dot. Too important to think it's a nine. No, look at the 19. About to six and a nine. Look at the 16. I know, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

I looked at the 16. But now I can't remember which one it was. I saw it. I don't remember which one. No, show me. Well, six or nine, it's still lower than he got. Six or nine is still lower than he got? It was 16 or 19. How do I open my lower than he got? It was 1,609.

How do I open my email inside my email? It was 16 or 19? No, it was a six or a nine. Oh, for real. Yeah, it was a six or a nine plus two. I was going to say, yeah, yeah. So you dart towards him and you reach. Well, I don't dart.

What were you doing? I'm like, as they're going, I'm just doing a sidewalk over. Oh, okay, cool. Like, just really slow. Like a jazz walk? Yeah, just a quick little like. Are you trying to stealth? Shuffle off the buffalo? Yeah, I'm trying to stealth.

I'm trying to stealth. Awesome. That's what I was trying to do. Awesome. So roll a stealth check for me. I love stealth. Roll a stealth check. That's awesome. This dice has no numbers on it.

I just decide. Four. 16. 16, okay. 16. So as this moment happens, the chaos ensues, the dark shadows are circling Laudna. She's grasping her hand. You can see the flares of purple energy kind of rocketing out of her shoulders from each side

as Dorian reaches up and catches the bag of holding from the air that was tossed at him from Chetney. You dart around the side, just as Ludinus glances out of the corner of his eye and sees you. And there's just this circle of mist. And he's not there. Do we still feel him in the room, or is he gone? Make a perception check, if you want to.

I head towards Laudna just to steady. Can I, I mean, it's a nine perception, but can I detect thoughts? Sure. Did it look like what happens when Essek teleports us to places, or Did it look like what happens when Essek teleports us to places, or did it look different? It looked like, as soon as she approached his body,

just like, turn to mist. It looked different from any sort of teleporting. Misty step. Okay, cool. I detect the thoughts to see if I can feel them. The range on that is? A thousand miles. A thousand miles.

Three-way walk of thousand miles. Sp thousand miles. I would walk a thousand miles. It's within 30 feet of me. I head towards you and I'm definitely just trying to focus you in. Correct. So he vanishes. You realize he's vanishing. You cast Detect Thoughts.

Nothing. What you do hear is the entry door to the chamber closes shut. I close my eyes. Yes? He's haunted by my spirit. Oh, right. That's what he is. Yeah.

Oh yeah. He did, I like it. You close your eyes and focus, and you can feel him beyond the door, and then he's gone. He's gone. and feel him beyond the door, and then he's gone. He's gone. However, at this time,

as you close your eyes and pierce into that darkness, you feel yourself falling into that shadow, and you hear heavily, fuzzily, plunging into your ears. I've waited too long to bend this close and have it taken. What are you talking about? I didn't do anything. I tried. You tried.

This is on you. I'll do what I always do. What must be done. What are you doing? I'm gripping onto Ashton, by the way. Am I hearing this shit? Yeah, that's a question. You're hearing her talking.

Are you talking to the same thing out loud? Yeah, 100%. As soon as I hear her talking to herself, I'm tiptoeing slowly away, as far away from her as possible. I'm walking towards her. Her fingers are just in my rib cage. Like,.

I'm overrun. No, I let go of Chetney, but I'm gripping Ashton. And I mean, you can hear me saying this. Hey, hey. She's going to take me. She's not going to take you. You're here. She's going to take me. I say glances to you and he's like,

his hands are glowing and he's at the ready. He's like, what do we do? Is this an issue? If we have to knock her unconscious, we will, but she can pull through this. How close are you, by the way, HP-wise? I'm full. You're full? Good to know.

I'm going to look at you, straighten the eyes. What does she saying? What do I see? You see the darkness of Laudna's eyes and there, that spark, that liveliness, that beauty is receding. And where the shadow is flickering up the shoulders, you can see it flicking up the neck a little bit.

No, no, no, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. It's okay. Make a wisdom saving throw for me, please. Oh shit! Escalation! No, we can do it, no, we can do it. What is happening?

Failing's way more fun. No, it's not. Yes, it is. I'm going to use this pretty, just a straight wisdom save, right? Yeah. My wisdom is high. Yes, yes. 18.

18 total? 18 total, yep. As you're looking into her eyes, the shadow begins to subside. She doubles into her arms, grabbing herself as the tension in the room goes quiet. I am holding on. I am watching like a fucking, I actually am very quietly going to pull your head up

so I can see your fucking face. Oh! She bursts into a swirling flare of dark black and purple energy around. You watch as Laudna begins to rise up her body, extending, twisting her fingers, clawing at the end. Her jaw descends, her eyes now these open, vacant sockets, burning purple light in them.

She screams, Outward, as the purple energy swirls up around her to form the ghostly outer form of Delilah Briarwood. Oh shit. We're going to go to break. Oh! Oh shit! Oh shit!

Oh no! Oh my god. What? What? I don't know! I don't know! I don't know any of this! He just monologued at us for an hour and flipped the table! Whitestone kids, baby, woo! Thanks for throwing me that bag, bro! Oh yeah, yeah.

I got one! You're one of us now. We'll return here shortly and pick up with whatever this is going to be here in a second. I'll see you soon. Into it! And welcome back. So, let's go and roll some initiative.

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Who is that? Those are the broken statues you talked about. Wow, that's pretty. I'm assuming I roll initiative two. Was that one of the broken? No. Downfall, were they? No! Actually, you know what? Yeah, go ahead and roll for it.

I didn't have a downfall statue. Just a minute. So we have Chetney. We're about to introduce yourself. No! Actually, you know what? Yeah, go ahead and roll for it. I didn't have it down for the statue, just mad. So we have Chetney. We're about to introduce you yourself. This way, you are all keeping watch over here. No, I'm not. Oh, there was me. This was over here next to you.

Yeah, so I'll be in front of this little rubble pile to your right a little bit. Over here? Yeah, yeah, just over here. You got it. Just Feral Instinct, will that help me at all in this situation?

For which one? I'm surprised at the beginning of a combat, but not incapacitated. I can act normally on my first turn, as long as I enter a... You're not surprised. Okay, so that's it. Yeah, this is just a standard initiative.

All right, so if Chetney's there, everyone else have any preferences to their placement? I know that you were holding onto Laudna. Yeah, I was right in front. I had either side of her face and I was looking at her. Correct. So you would like him to be over here. I think Orym will be wherever Brayus is,

just because I gave him a fist bump. All right, Brayus, where would you? I'd be wherever Orym is. All right, well, there you go. Thank you, you're there. Essek comes back here, arms ready to go. Oh god. That's fucking catch!

I don't know why that came off his face, too. Where did this chair come from? It threw me so hard, I turned into a chair? There's Minnie over there. That's so funny. I had to get in to chair the whole time. You're flying some super glue here. Remember me, episode one!

Secret chair! That is so funny. Secret chair! We actually have a super glue pot over here, but it's gone. Roll for super glue. So until that shows up. You're just a circle.

I'll say, where do you want to be over here? As far away from Laudna as possible. I was tiptoeing away as soon as she started talking to herself. I did say that. Yeah. All right, we'll put you, you're taking a break. There we go. Oh, he's just doing that.

That is so scary. You're planking in the corner. Great. All righty, Fearne? I will be. You said you were scooting over this way to try and get to Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe get a little closer. There would be, this is where Ludinus was when you tried to snatch the stone from him. Oh, that's true. Okay, okay, okay.

And that metal sphere, is that where he pulled the light ball out of? Correct. Okay. You can just hand it to me off camera. No, you don't have to crawl in. Thank you. Appreciate the effort. Get down the fall.

Stealth mode. Oh, I feel so cared for. Of course, buddy, you got it. Aw. Boom. All righty. This is what touches the dragons. That's how you fix things on the fly.

This is just real live TV, guys. You like them at all? Actual play is. Actual fixes. This is AP right here. This is professional. You know what it is? It's relatable, Matt. Only the finest of superstars. Yay!

Oh! The podcast listeners must love it. For the podcast listeners, I have just placed Dorian's now-repaired mini onto the map. And then he blew on my feet. Yep. What do you mean? That's the most delving way. Can't wait for the art.

Well, not for many. Yeah. All right, and so there. That's beyond what I meant. What? There she is. What? Wait.

What? I look so cool, Lucky Bee. Oh, that's scary. You are. Look at all those teeth. Look at Laudna's face. Yeah, careful, it's a little fragile. Careful, careful.

That is so cool. Look at her. Careful, it's a little fragile. Careful, careful. That is so cool! Look at her. Oh, you're in the bottom. She's coming out your hair. Yeah. Wait, I got a game for you. It's going to be on the show! Guys, yes!

Play the game! It's for you! Sorry, podcast, sorry! The mini style! I like the notion that Laudna's trying to Instagram this while the fight's about to end. I know. Guys, check out my latest transformation. All right.

So for initiatives, 25 to 20. Oh, I didn't do it. 23. 23. Hey! You're back. Wait, who has the higher dex? Probably you. My dex is. Oh, actually, no, I missed.

No, it's Ash. I rolled 22. 22. I got a 22. Oh! Dang. Who has the higher dex is? Oh, actually, no, I missed. No, it's Ash. I rolled 22. Oh, two. I got a 22. Oh! Who's higher dex of you guys? I'm 20 dex. Rollies? Rollies? We could just do rollies.

Rollies it out. It's more fun. Well, fine, let's do it. We never rollies. One, two, three. You invented this. Oh, that'd be a two. Six. All righty. So Ash, Orym, Dorian. Okay.

20 to 15? 17. 16. Yeah, Moe. Turn. Okay, 15 to 10? Uh-huh. 10 to five?

Really? Negative numbers? Really? Five to one? I rolled a four. I rolled a one, which became a four. Oh, three fours? All three of us are on fours. All right, what's your dex? Multi-rollies. Multi-rollies.

I'm a boulder parchment shaker. You are a shaker! Okay, okay, okay. Howdy, throw a four. Throw a four. One, two, three, four. Ah! Yes! Why did you think it was a good idea? We did great at last three, four. Ah! That was it? Yes!

Why did you think it was a good idea? We did great at last time, too. Everybody wins! On Man Out goes first. Okay, roll these. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Ooh. 14. 19.

Seven. Okay. Okay. So. Greatest. Greatest. Chetney? Chetas. Chetney. Chetney. Yeah, Chetney. Delilah. That's dead for so long. Well, not Delilah.

Laudna or Delahna? Oh, wait, we don't know yet. Delahna. Gryas, Chetney. Chetney, Delahna. Yeah, Delahna. Delahna. It's Delahna, it's Delahna. Lila, we don't have time for this right now.

So we got a ton of people to smack some sense into this. Or we can get seven attacks against you. Or ask for Delilah. Maybe Laila will go before Laudna, though. I have no idea. I don't know. So. Oh boy. The beginning of this combat round,

as this transformation takes place, Ashton, you're up with Orym on deck. As you see Laudna in the process of this terrifying, banshee nightmare transformation and the spirit of Delilah swirling around and apparating, uncertain, what is friend, what is foe? What do you do?

I'm going to, first of all, I'm going to yell, sit the fuck down, bitch. If you want to get what the fuck you want to get, you're going to, first of all, I'm going to yell, sit the fuck down, bitch. If you want to get what the fuck you want to get, you're going to have to work, and I am going to rage, and I'm going to fucking... You better work! You better work, bitch! That sounded like drug rights. Yeah.

You better work! So what do I have built right now? Oh, okay. We get the rainbow sparkles, which means that Ashton starts to spark So what do I have built right now? Oh, okay. We get the rainbow sparkles, which means that Ashton starts to spark in every color possible coming out of the glass, and that'll be fun.

Everyone within 10 feet of me gets to add a d4 to all of their attack rolls and saving throws. Whenever we're there. Whenever within 10 feet of me. Not with you. Okay. So I am going to start trying to knock you the fuck out. I don't know what else to do. All righty, go ahead and roll for an attack.

All right. So, all right. Since you said watching the orb movie was a short rest. I'll allow it. Yeah? I'll allow a short rest over the process of that, yeah. Wait, a short rest? I'll allow it. Yeah? I'll allow a short rest over the process of that, yeah. Wait, we short rested? I'll allow it, sure. Awesome, thank you.

We'll take it. Yeah, but you don't get any spells. That's helpful, actually. All right, let's do this shit. 23 to hit. 23 to hit. Shield. All right. AC is now two.

Yeah, so that misses. All right. Here we go again. Oh, actually, I'm so sorry, more than 23 to hit. I forgot my bonus. 27 to hit. Okay, so not using the shield, then? Okay.

You rest. And your next, your second attack? Second attack is... We rested the tower. Nope. Second attack is a one. Natural one. Natural one. All righty, you got it.

I got one hit in. One hit in. Which is... Which is? Adorable. That's a 22 points of damage. 22 points of damage, all righty. You impact, and as the hammer strikes off,

you can see the form crumple at the hit and then pop back, the bones themselves taking place once more. Just for fun, I'm going to push her with that hit. No, I'm not going to push her, never mind. I'm good. Okay, no worries. All right, that finishes your turn. Yeah. Orym, you're up.

Actually, no, at the end of your turn, I'm just going to use legendary action to do a Wraithclaw strike against you. All right, one second. Legendary action. That's going to be a 21 to hit. That hits. All right, one second. Legendary. That's going to be a 21 to hit. That hits. All righty. So for the Wraith Claw strike, you take...

Yeah, I'm actually, you know, I think I can use Erratic Defense after you roll this, if I recall. Sure. All right. So that's going to be 24 points of necrotic damage to you. Okay, I'm going to use my Wraith Claw. I'm going to use Erratic Defense for this.

Okay, what's it do? Let's find out. Eradicator! I am going to use, I have resistance to the attack until the end of the attacker's next turn, their speed is halved, and they can't make more than one melee or ranged attack. Got it, okay, cool. So I have resistance, so it's 20.

12 points of necrotic damage. 12 points of necrotic damage. And she heals up for half of that. Awesome. So she regains 12 hit points. Six. She only got 12 points from me. Oh, sorry, 12 points from you, you're right, no. All right.

Oh yeah, also, if we had taken a short rest, I would have healed a little bit. We could use the map to our advantage. All right, does that finish your turn? Yeah, I'm going to do my short rest bullshit really quick while that's happening. Orym, you're up. So in a split second here,

they seem merged, or does it seem like there's more Delilah floating in the space above Laudna? What does it appear like? It appears like Laudna is encircled in a shadow swirl that is taking the shape of Delilah around and through her. Okay, okay. So the miniature is, it seems like, top and bottom,

but it's more mingled. It's more of a continued piece, yes. Okay, okay. All right, I'm going to roll under Ashton's legs so that I am by Imogen, so I don't leave her to Laudna's melee. Other way, sorry. Oh, over here? Yeah. You got it.

And can I see, I want to make a perception check or whatever check would be, what is Laudna's disposition in this moment? Yeah, good question. Okay, go ahead and make an insight check. Can we see her face as the tendrils of all this stuff are coming up out of her?

What about you, Asgore? Can we see Laudna's face? Oh yeah, you can see the jaws elongated and detached, almost, the massive sockets, these black, empty spaces with purple flames burning out. The teeth and the gums are stretched and separated. It's nightmarish.

Okay. I am going to spin my blade around in my hand so that the hilt is out, and I'm going to use it and try to slam her in the gut and make this a goading attack. Okay. That's real low. So that's 13 to hit.

13 misses. Misses. Second attack, 13. 13 misses. I think Orym is exhausted physically and mentally and hates doing any of this. Attacks again. That is an 18 to hit? 18 misses.

Misses. And then at the end, I'm going to keep face, my eyes on hers, and Orym's going to say, Laudna, Laudna, please. And then I'm going to throw seedling on the ground and throw my shield on the ground and just look at her and hope that she sees me.

Okay, you got it. End of your turn. She's going to use another legendary action. Does the time make it, since they can't make more than one melee or ranged attack until the end of their turn? Right, the legendary actions aren't affected by that. Okay, okay.

They have a multi-attack function. All right, hold on, rewind. There's a d4 on every one of those, wasn't there? Yep. So that was a 17, but the final was an 18, which is now a 22. 22, shield. Shield, okay.

Burn him? Same ending. Yes. Shield and sword down. All righty. She's going to go ahead and now arc back at you again, since you're the one who did the damage there. That's going to be a 20 to hit. That hits. Okay.

So this hit hits you. Yeah, you're in. That's going to be 25 points of necrotic damage. All right. She heals 13. So the impact of the hammer that you smash into her is now almost completely returned to what it was before. That's going to finish the action now.

The shadow is swirling around. The temperature of the room is getting colder by the second, and you hear amongst the horrible ghostly shrieks, layered sounds of other voices of shrieking spirits intermingled throughout. That finishes your turn, Orym? Would you allow me to use a bonus action short rest here? I don't know if that's what it's called.

Or you mean a second wind? A second wind as well. Yeah, you may. I'll let you do that. Dorian, you're up. Yep, I'll see. You're literally up on your base. Cool, cool, cool. Yeah, I'm no longer a chair.

Yeah. I see your visage pop up above and I just go and I reach behind me and I just doink one little string on my mandolin and I use one of the slots in the mandolin to cast Invisibility on myself. Ooh, okay. I'm going to pop away and then I'm going to use,

how far away is it to that little cave right there with the light in it? 20, to the little cave over there? Oh, it's about 25 feet from you. Okay, 25 feet. I'm going to dash over to that real quick, and then I'm going to take out the Bag of Holding, and I'm going to put it in that little cave

and just hastily cover it up with dirt. I'm going to try to run back as quickly as I can to where I came from, finish out my movement speed. Okay, that'll get you only five more feet there. Okay. 30 feet to get there, and then five feet out back. I have 40. Oh, 40, then you can get 10 more.

Okay. Although this is a rougher terrain with the rocks, so actually it would have been 510 to get over there. So same difference, it'll get you about there. Somewhere around there? Okay, cool. Perfect. That's where you are. Yeah, and then, I'm going to try something.

Don't do it. I am. I'm going to intentionally drop my invisibility. Okay. And then just reappear. Then for my bonus action, I want to try to give Laudna, wow, this could backfire so bad, but I want to see to give Laudna. Ah, this could backfire so bad, but I want to see if it works. I want to try to give Laudna bardic inspiration.

Okay, how do you inspire her? I sort of like, I know, I know, but I need to know if it's her or if it's them. I'm going to say, ah, a new look, you are so beautiful. The skincare regimen is working perfectly. Just compliments, that's my love language, just compliments. Okay, okay.

Love it. Yeah, so I don't know if this will work or not, but it would give Aud, or Delilah, a deep bardic inspiration. All right, cool. D10. So go ahead and put that D10 on the edge of your dice box. Great, that's good. It's going to fall.

Oh! I got to know who gets it! Let it go. We'll find out maybe some point soon. Okay. So finish your turn? That is my turn. Awesome, fantastic. That brings us to Fearne with Imogen on deck.

Okay. I'm at a fourth level, so at a fifth level, I am going to cast Aura of Life. Okay, Aura of Life. Which gives, if you're within 30 feet of me, every non-hostile creature in the aura has resistance to necrotic damage. Yay! Oh, thank god.

Are we in within 30? Who's within 30 feet? You're going to have to move. So I'm going to move in. And get at least an eye shot of Laudna. And Delilah. Yeah. I want to make sure we're all in. That's 30 feet? That'll get everybody in within 30 feet.

If you want to move elsewhere, let me know. Now's the moment. That's a good one. With that War of Life is on you, I need you to roll a d20 for me. Oh shit. Wild magic. Wild magic. Was that you? Did you just burp?

Ooh! It wasn't. Was it? Who was it? It wasn't me. It wasn't me. Eight. Okay, you're fine. Okay. Oh god. That's right, it's bad if you roll high. 17 or higher.

Okay, good. Okay, good. All right. And I'm just going to look at Laudna and Delilah. I pre-planned it that way. It was you. It was you. Delilah? Too fast. You're not getting out of there unless we help you.

So you work with us or we kill you again. Can I jump on that since I'm next? Sure, yeah. And maybe give this and say, nobody hates you more than me, but you know we want the same thing right now. And I'd give anything to separate you from her. As the shadow swirling is still congealing

through the middle of this, you can see the flickering shape of her face, the eyes a lit yellowish within the center of this magical shadow that just drifts around her. The flickering power sending out a slow whirlwind around her. All of a sudden, the attention of the shadow shifts to you. I've been so patient and you all take far too long. You can take the rest of your turn if you like. Oh. I was hoping I could roll for some reason. I don't know, me too, me too, me too.

Me too, me too. It's my dick in a box. Ooh! I don't want to fight her. I'm going to cast Calm Emotions. What level? Well, let's see what I got. I can do it at third.

A bigger one doesn't make it more powerful. It just makes more people available. Is magic still weird? Magic's weird, so I'm doing it at third level. That's what I got. That's the standard third level? All right, go ahead. It's a standard second level. I thought it was

the second level, stop. Yeah, so I'm bumping it up because I don't have any seconds left, so it's a third level. Got you, okay. So go ahead and roll a d24. 15. All right, you. Okay. So go ahead and roll a d20 for me. 15. All right, you're fine. So for her save on that, it's a natural 20. Oh jeez. Shit.

As you release the spell, you can see the drifting waves of your psychic power whiffed outward like a slight breeze of sparkles, and it just cuts down the middle and is separated and cast off. The slow-moving necrotic wind just carving through it in an instant. Do you want to move or stay put?

She going to tag me if I move away. Well, she's already used your reaction to cast Shield. I move away. Where do you want to move? Don't move in front of me. Right, fuck. I'm going to move that way towards the orb. Bing, bong, bing.

Yeah, that's good. All right. You pick up over there. At the end of your turn, Laila's going to use her last legendary action to Shadowstep. I don't get an action to Shadowstep. I don't get an opportunity to do that. Oh no, she don't.

Is she going to try to get away from us? She just went 30 feet off to the top of there. Yeah! All right. That finished in that go, now it's Essek's turn. Essek, seeing the throes of combat here, goes, Well, I will follow your lead, but don't want to hurt your friend.

I certainly don't trust that. And he's going to cast... He's going to cast Halt, Monster. Ooh. Ooh. He's going to Monster at the beach. Ooh. Ooh. She's like a monster, it's a bitch! That, she has advantage on the save. Does anybody have hold back? Okay, that is going to be 20.

That's enough. That's as far as it makes it. Low rolls, but still rolled a 20 high enough. So the spell dissipates, no effect. Esk is like, Shiza! And floats back this way. It's not an attack spell, is it?

Hmm? That spell isn't an attack roll, is it? It's a save. It's a save. However, he does still have to roll on the wild table. With a five, he's fine. Yeah. All right, he's this way.

I'll follow your lead. If we need to take her down, let me know. He's going to keep his hands out as he glides backward. Just unconscious. Just unconscious. Just unconscious, understood. That finishes Essek's go. With that, it is Brayas' turn with Chetney on deck. Let's go, Brayas. Let's go, Brayas.

She's far away now. I can't do anything. I hit things. Crip-crop, crip-crop. Unsure of what's going on because I don't know these people and still frustrated that Ludinus got away. I did notice that Ludinus seemed to create this or inspire this creature, so that's good enough for me.

I don't like it. I'm going to attack. What's your movement? 30 feet, so I'll get close. 25, 30 gets you about there. Yeah. Watch the horns. Uh-oh.

I'm sure it was the horns. It's like, what happened? What's the health? Watch the horns. I can't hit, so I will shoot a Sacred Flame at it. I guess I'll whip around my flail and then. Your balls. My balls. There we are.

And then from it comes a. Yeah. Yep. From the balls ejects a hot stream. So glad you made a palette. Right at the monster's chest. The color. And next to it. Oh my god!

I missed you, Sam. Now, Sacred Flame, it's a saving throw on the dexterity set. Dex 17. All right. That is going to be... So what color is the... It's going to be a 10.

Let's say that it's just pure black. Go ahead and roll damage. Oh wait, it worked? It's going to be a 10. Let's say that it's just pure black. Go ahead and roll damage. Oh wait, it worked? It worked, yeah. Oh shit. Oh fuck. That's, I don't know. 3d8. I hit your target. 3d8.

I have other things I should have done. I got him. Okay, that is 11 points of damage. Wait, can I do Divine? Not on that spell. That spell's melee. Okay, and then bonus action. Ooh boy.

What do I do with that? Excuse me. New toys. Thank you. Immediately attack with your horns. No, I can't do that. Okay, I will then, I will then inspire the blue one with bardic inspiration.

Okay. That's within 60 feet or 30, 60. It's been so long. How do you inspire? I say, don't sell yourself short. Whatever you've been doing is working, too. A chiseled jawline, a symmetric face. You're a hottie. I feel great.

Take your d6. Yeah! Yeah. Is it six for you? It's only six, yeah. I'm not as powerful a bard as you. Does that finish your turn, Brayus? The rest of my turn, I would like to just say, in a menacing way,

mo. Perfect. I bet you don't have a cow face, I'm confused. You'll see it later. Can I use my bonus action to click my Boots of Speed, which will make my walking speed 80 feet, and then can I arc around behind Fearne and Imogen and moving around whatever the central diocese was?

Is that what Ludinus was looking at originally? Correct, he was on this side when he pulled the device free. And just as I'm passing it, can I give it a once over? Is there anything of worth or note other than just complete ruined mechanical leftovers? Make a perception check. Okay. 15, 16, 17.

17. 17. It looks like everything was pouring into this orb that is now an empty space that he had removed from it. There are things in here that look quite technologically advanced and covered in now darkened runes, but it seemed like everything was funneling

into this device that is now gone. Got it. Can I continue that 80 feet arc and just come over here? Yep. Staying tiny behind that little thing. And I will... Can I take out the Harp of Valor? Oh yeah! Yes, you may.

I'm going to pluck three strings and send three magic missiles towards Dilodna. Cool. All right. At, I guess it's all at the same level. Yeah, it's just the same thing. Matt, did she semi-bampf to where she went? Yeah, she did.

Yeah, the shadow went and. She's at half speed right now, anyway. Yeah, shadow step specifically is what the ability is. Do you roll for Magic Missile to see if it hits? No, it's auto hits. 1d4 plus one perk. So that's 3d4 plus three. Thank you.

This is exciting, you guys. I should have had that ready. Come on, anyone want to start reading that since your turn's coming up soon? Oh boy. You are in control now. 11 points of damage. Impact just lands on the desk.

It's a loud dog. Impact off to the side, and you see the Laudna weird corpse wraith is screaming and looks over in the direction as the shadow keeps focused on the rest of the group. Then she looks back as the shadow looks over in your direction and they're both having different glances in the room.

Does that finish your turn? Yeah, yeah, that's going to be it. So Laudna, you're up first. I need you to roll a wisdom saving throw for me, please. Okay, okay. You should have given this roll a wisdom saving throw for me, please. Okay. You should have given this to me earlier. Wait, wait, okay. Wait, now you can use your bardic.

I also, so you gave us advantage on wisdom saves, right? Is that still holding? No, that's expired. Yeah, I think that should expire by now, yeah. But you do have bardic Inspiration to help with this. Kill us all. There's Bardic Inspiration. Okay.

Kill us all. How far we've pushed away from her. Like 15, 20 feet? I don't know. I don't know. It's not the Jesus story I know. So these actions are all I can do? These are actions you can do? Refill.

These are actions you can take if you manage to succeed on your save. So go ahead and make a wisdom save first. But in addition to other actions? No, you can choose those or take a natural. Those are added to your repertoire of actions you can take. It's the sandwich.

What'd you roll? What'd you roll? Yeah, that's a success. I rolled a natural 17 plus eight. Another 19. Great. 17. Without the inspiration. How do you know? Don't need it. Great, so you get to make a turn.

So you can make a turn if you pass the, okay. I see, I see, I see. Make a turn. You will yourself into the body from the sunken place. You force your way out into your form, which is still transformed, and you're barely holding on for just a moment of time. Come on.

Come on, Laudna. Okay, okay. You can use any of your powers that you want to. Shut up. Or you can take either of those actions in the card. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. Okay, I can take a full turn. So you can move, bonus action, and action.

Okay. You see for a second Laudna break free from the visage that is Delilah. I just very gently take a few steps forward and turn around and look up at Delilah, very calmly. Okay. Then I say, Please.

We both just want peace. Either work with me, or it's time for you to go. And I will use... I will use... Shit. Do we want... I will use, shit. Do we want, I will use Wrestle from within. Ooh.

What the heck is that? Until the end of Delilah's next turn, all attack rolls against her have advantage. Whoa! How come all of your spells are complete sentences? Well, this is, he just handed me this. I don't know. I then am going to Quicken a spell because this is just an action. Correct.

So I'm going to Quicken a spell. I'm going to Quicken. I'm going to. I'm going to Quicken Phantasmal Force. Delilah and I have shared a brain for an incredibly long time. I'm going to, you see my vis,

or technically only she sees, this shimmer fall from top to bottom, and I transform into Silas. Oh! Oh, sh! And I'm going to say, please, my darling, stop this.

Come be with me. What's the save on the spell, wisdom? Yeah, intellect. Intellect. Oh, good thing. That's a deep move. That's your best saving throw. That's a deep move. 25.

Oh! Oh! But the color's a deep move. 25. No! Oh, but the color! Sorry, sorry, 28. Oh, color! So as she's looking down at you, like formed in shadow, listening to the beginning of your sentence for a minute, and you see there's a moment of recognition,

and then once that form takes place, her expression goes extremely dark. How dare you mock him? Mock me! You're mine! And so you take the rest of your turn if you want. You can make sure you have a movement. Will I use Wrestle Within? You broke away from him?

No, no, no, but you can move them. Oh. Oh. I used Wrestle From Within. Correct, you used your bonus action to cast the spell and you can move. Oh shit. Okay.

I am going to, okay, I'm fighting her control, so I'm going to turn and scramble and I turn to Brayas and Ashton and Orym and my entire party standing behind me and you see me turn to everybody and just reach out. I'm going to dart, bringing Delilah with me back into the center of them. Right before I get swallowed again,

I'm going to just say, Kill her! Right here? That's it. Oh shit, okay. Okay. As they go past, any? Still in your melee range. It was force movement, so you wouldn't get rid of any of them. She had a choice.

She had a fucking choice. All right, that's your turn. Plenty of juts. Yeah, yeah. Oh no, now it goes to Fuggies. The temperature lowers within the chamber. It should have been a white streak. I don't know what you were thinking.

Off my game? Yes. the chamber now for Raktor. It should have been a white streak. I don't know what you were thinking. Of course. The ejection from your face. Should have been green and white. Should have been green and white. White and kind of translucent. Milky white. Describe it more. Like an Alfredo sauce. Alfredo sauce?

Alfredo sauce. Of the Damned. Is it standard this is? Yeah, that's a little bit. Chunky's going to roll. So. As Delilah takes her turn, furious in the sense of this, she's going to go ahead and snap control from you.

You're still wrestling from within. You can see the physical body is fighting her, but she's still remaining focused. She's going to go ahead and, as an action, she's going to cast Blade and, as an action, she's going to cast Blade of Disaster. You watch as she raises her hand up in the air and she carves a line through the middle of nothing.

As a black line carves open, it opens up and something black spills out onto the ground. From it rises a black blade that is hooked, wrapped in bandages, and just floats in the air. It has a dark, ominous, ebony skin. What is that? No fucking way, Matt Bursar! That's exactly what it is! No fucking way! That's exactly what it is! It's totally Craven Edge!

It's not fucking Craven Edge! It's not! Something from the dimension we sealed it away in? Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun! That's right! We threw it into a dimension! She's briefly summoned it here. That was the Dread Emperor dimension, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it is going to make, can only make one attack because of your ability against you. You're welcome. That's good. That's going to be... Did I do this? 24 to hit. Did I do this? Yes.

Wait, just double checking. That was the cameo. I was not expecting. 24 to hit? Yes. All right, you take... Oh! This blade sucks, yo. No, that's not good. You take 44 points of force damage.

Wow. This blade is bad. Wait. Orym's down. Wait, that was your. You're down! Whoa! Wait, no, no! You healed it with your short rest? Are you within 30 feet? I used all my hit dice on the last short rest.

Are you within 30 feet? Yeah. Of me? Yeah. Then you go to, you go to, you go... To heaven? To use your health. You go to heaven. It gets halved, right?

Where do I go? Your hit point maximum can't be reduced. Oh, in addition, a non-hostile living creature regains one hit point when it starts its turn in the aura with zero hit points. Okay, so you start your next turn with one hit point. That was. Okay. Was that spell damage?

I'm unconscious right now. It was not a damaging spell. It summons something and then it damaged with its attack. So double-checking, what kind of damage was that? Force. Oh, it was force damage. Fuck. Holy shit, Matt, what the fuck? That was her action.

Oh my god. Stop! With her bonus action, she's going to go ahead and as the sword there carves through Orym and Orym falls to the ground, I'll pluck each of your lives and feed your souls to my destined essence. We have great things ahead of us, Laudna. As you're fighting within, she raises her hands up

and from the nearby rubble, rocks shift. You watch as skeletal hands rise and pull up. Oh no! Spirits begin to emerge. She summons undead in the space around her. No clerics! No clerics! We've got no clerics! Skepletons?

Orym being cleaved by Cravenedge was not on my bingo card. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. This'll be... Cravenedge got a cameo before Grog did. Well, one of these has more personality than the other one. One is smarter than the other.

All right. It's time. This is a freaking joke. Finishing whatever you got. Yeah, smoke would be out of my hands. Finishing Delilah's turn, now the undead go. That's going to be two attacks on you, Fearne. Are you within 10 feet of me?

Oh, no, it doesn't matter. 21 to hit. That hits. And the second one is a natural one. Okay. That's one of them. Okay. But I also have resistance to necrotic. Right, so you take

about three slashing damage. Okay. The second one's going to take two attacks on you. That's going to be a six to hit. Okay you. That's going to be a six to hit. Okay. And that's going to be a 17 to hit. That just hits. That just hits.

The other one does eight points of slashing damage to you. The one that's moved behind you, Brayas, is going to attack you with two attacks. That's going to be a 19 to hit. No. That's going to be a six to hit. No. All righty.

19 to hit? No. You righty. 19 to hit? No. You big dick. Both of these specters that have swarmed in, one's going after Essek and is going to attempt to Life Drain him. That's going to be a 12, which misses. The one that's behind you, Imogen,

is going to attack you for, that's another 12. Both of them, I believe, miss. 12 misses your AC. So the undead have risen and not a great opening round. That finishes their go. That finishes Delilah's turn. Top of the round. Ashton, you are up.

Motherfucker. Oh! We had to raise skeletons this whole game, and now she's doing it. It's kind of what she does, to be fair. She's taking her joy away. I know! You brought a boat to life. I She's taking her joy away. She's taking it, I know! You brought a boat to life.

I did bring a boat to life. Good old Bodhi. Okay, yeah, it's not quite time for that particular crazy, although, nope, not yet. So those aren't, they're like spirit bombs? They're not actual skeletons? Oh no, those aren't the skeletons. There are three skeletons on the board and two specters.

Okay, so I have this one. I'm well within 30 feet for your necrotic damage issues, right? Yeah, I'm within 30 feet of Fearne. For now, yeah. Yeah, that's fair. Well, Fearne, you do take damage, so go ahead and roll each damage twice, I believe.

Yes. So roll two concentration checks for me. Yeah, that'll change my reality. Because I'm debating changing form or not, but that eats my turn. 10. And 14. 10 and 14, both fine.

You maintain your concentration. Okay, okay. Okay, I'm... concentration. Okay, okay. Okay, I'm... Okay. Cool, there we go. A little more over the top there. I'm going to sidestep just a little bit into...

God, anything I do is going to take everybody out of my fucking save range. That's okay. I'm going to take a step forward towards Delilah, and forward and to the left, just so I'm staying away from Craven. Left here? Yep. Don't cut them down. Okay.

And I'm going to take, and I believe I have advantage on this attack. You do, because she's currently messing with her. And so I'm taking that advantage. What are they? They're spectra. That's like a 25 to hit. I do?

What's that? 25 to hit? 25 does hit. Oh my gosh. Six, seven, eight, nine. Anything for this? That's a... You forgot? I haven't used it yet. 21 points of damage. 21 points of damage.

21 points of damage, you got it. And then second hit. Natural 20. Let's go! Let's go! You're doing advantage on all these attacks, correct? Oh yeah. Okay. That was a natural 20 and a one.

Phenomenally. So I get, where's my critical? Add an extra two damage dice, and all damage dice are doubled, and all attack rolls against this creature are made with advantage at the start of my next turn. Great. That's going along kind of the same as it was.

Here we go. Big damage. And I get to reroll anything that's a one or a two. Because reasons. All right. Much better. Yeah. That's 10, 15, 18 times two is...

36. 36 plus 12, so that's 46, 47, 48 points of damage. 48 points of damage, dang. Boom, whack, one heavy hit. You watch this shadow and blood and bone go flying back from the impact. And as you pull your hammer back,

you can see the entire shoulder, like Laudna's left shoulder, is broken out and is barely holding on. Wait, we're trying to kill your friend? We're trying to knock her unconscious, and I'm- We are? Well, I'm trying to hit Delilah until Delilah fucking-

I thought we were trying to hit Delilah. Yeah, which I assume is what's happening. They're interwoven. Yeah, so. It's not like the top. I would say the hammer strikes you missed before were going through her shadow form with no impact, and so now you have to go for a lot more. Yeah, it's just how it is.

And just double-checking, because actions are weird and I don't remember. Shit, fuck, piss bugger. I think that's everything I have right now. I'm just assuming, yeah, your turn's going to suck. I'm good. That finishes your turn? Yeah. All right, and if your turn is going to Legendary Action to Wraith Claw you,

that's going to be 26 to hit. That does not hit. I'm absolutely kidding, that hits real hard. You take... Yep. Not the greatest roll. That'll be 22 points of necrotic damage. Hab. Hab, so it's 12 to you.

12 or 11? 11. 22 and a half is 11. Yeah, you're right. Thank you. She pulls up a little bit there. Okay, finishes your go. Orym, is this at the beginning of his turn he gains a hit point? Yes, I believe so.

For your aura? Yes. At the top of the turn? At the beginning of the turn. So you come to consciousness. One hit point, you're still on the ground, prone, and you just hear the shifting of stone, the broken, shattered shoulder of Laudna's wraith form is popping back into place. Holy shit, I have no idea what to do.

I will stand. She told us to attack her. I will drag my shield up. You didn't get your second wind back, did you? I did hear that before I got knocked out. Drag my shield and hand sword up as I stand. As Orym stands, little vines and flowers begin to sprout out of his neck and back and out of his hair, and I cast Hex on.

Is Craven Edge a magical effect or a being that's here? It looks like she summoned it from the ether. You're uncertain, the actual nature of it? Not really a well-learned individual when it comes to odd magical summonings. I'm going to Hex Laudna, and I'm going to put her at disadvantage for... Oh jeez. Honestly, Liam and Orym don't know what to do. Let's put her at disadvantage for intelligence to knock her off her game for her main bag.

And then I'm going to... Your intelligence checks. So you're Hexed her? Yeah. Hexed Delilah. Delilah. And I'm going to start going for non-lethal. I'm going to start battering Laudna.

I'm going to try to knock her out, and I'm going to do it in an insulting way as possible and make it a goading attack. That is a 26 to hit. That hits. So goading attack. Ah! Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Five is six. It is 11 plus the d10. Boy, this is really fucking me up. That is 18 of non-lethal damage. You got it. And she has to beat, god, I should have done what I'm hitting her with, a wisdom. Wisdom.

Versus... Okay, that would be a 23. Yeah, that would be. Oh. Remember you got to d4 on the attacks because they're within 10 feet of me, I believe. Correct. So also to the damage? No, just to the attacks.

Okay, okay. So let's keep going. And I'm apologizing. Laudna, please forgive me. You suffered enough. You've been hurt enough. Please step away from it. That's a 25 to hit.

25 to hit. Another goading attack. Really should have made a good attack. Oh, I'm sorry, everything's with advantage to me. My attacks are at advantage? Yeah. Everything's at advantage? I'm going to roll twice to see if I got a d20. I did not on any of them, but they both hit. So 11 plus.

25 on the wisdom saving throw. Okay, on the second wisdom saving throw? Yeah. Okay. That is 15 points of damage. 15 points of damage. Okay. Second attack is only an eight, oh, a d4 on it. So 15 plus two is a 20.

20 hits. 20 hits. Goading attack. 12 plus, that's 16 points of damage. Another 25 on the wisdom save. Yeah. Jeez. How much damage was that? 16. 16, got it.

All righty. Three. Then I'm going to spin around and I'm going to Action Surge and I'm going to attack Craven Edge. Okay. What a sentence. What a sentence. I mean, that hasn't been said

in a table in years. That's 22 to hit. The first hit goes through it like it's material. Immaterial. Correct. Which confirms to you that whatever this weapon is, it is magically bound here, likely not as a physical object, but a manifestation of something magically. Laudna takes an, well, depends.

I forgot about Hex. That's an additional five points of necrotic damage, which probably doesn't do anything. It does nothing. Okay. Laudna's taking this damage, too? Yeah. Yeah.

But since I Action Surge, non-lethally, I'm going to continue to try to swat Laudna in the head. That is a 27 to hit. 27 hits. I'm not supposed to be keeping tabs on hit points, right? No, no. She has control of the body, and I'm keeping tabs of the Delilah body at the moment.

Okay. That's 11 points of damage. Of which you share. 11 points of damage only, because I'm not learning my lesson. I'm not doing anything. And then last is a 17 plus. Sorry, buddy. No, no, no, you're doing.

20. 20 hits? 20 hits, okay. Three plus, that's nine points of non-lethal damage. You got it. I'm just using the flat of the blade and the hilt to bludgeon my friend to try to knock her out. All right. After all the hits,

you can see the body fighting and the horrible visage of Laudna. The screaming is somewhat diminished after the fights, and you can see that little spark of life behind the eyes before the shadow almost reaches down and seems to take that light and blind her to the vision of her friend. Does that finish your turn? Yeah. And Orym, again, one hit point, just wavering in front of her. End of your turn. She can use another legendary Action to attack you with Wraith Claw.

That's going to be a 20, 21 for sure. So it warms down. Okay. Is that a, that's a melee attack. It's a melee attack, yeah. But you're still within 30 feet of me? So his next turn, he would come back with one point? Yeah, as long as you don't break your concentration.

Yeah. If I'm going, I'm going to break my concentration. So that is going to be seven, 10, 19 points of necrotic damage to you. Down. She heals up from that a little bit. Wait, it would be half necrotic anyway because you're within the 30 feet, so that 19.

You are, actually. It is resistance. She's getting less. So she heals less. Wouldn't she be able to take less necrotic if you only had one hit point to begin with? It's the amount of damage taken or dealt. Oh, okay. It works in your guys' favor when you do it.

It's just math. All right, so with that one massive shadow arc, he watches as Laudna's arm rakes upward like a whole hand claw of blades with a splash of shadow, like a liquid spray of blood that mingles with the red as Orym falls back on the ground unconscious. Tries to hold her eyes until he's unconscious.

Oh. Fearne, you're up with him in gen- Oh, sorry, Dorian's up, and then it's Fearne. Yeah, I guess in that six seconds, I- Why does it always mean you? Why does it always mean you? Yeah, I saw Orym pop up to life, right? Out of nowhere, these desperate swings,

swinging through a blade, and then he's back down immediately. So my first instinct is just to sprint toward him. Can I get there with 40 feet? Can I get there? With 40 feet? Mm-hmm. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. We'll get you either here or in contact with Delilah, which would you prefer?

But not close enough to touch him. Yeah, just close enough to touch him there. Oh, okay. You have just enough movement. It costs 10 to get over that cluster of stones. Okay. So you're just getting to him. Yeah. But it's if you want to be closest to Delilah. I'm running toward Orym.

Yeah. Right. Okay, see right there. Yeah, so I think as he's running, he pulls out his mandolin again. It's just this desperation, and he runs and he just slides under the blade as he looks. And I'm just, the only thing I can do, I just put my hand on him and I'll cast Cure Wounds.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What level are you casting it? Yeah. I use my mandolin, so it says here, I add plus 3d8 for my spell modifier, so it says I'm supposed to use 3d8 plus three? Yeah, so 3d8 plus three. All right. Wow, that's good.

I got this. Pretty good. Hey, that's pretty good. 17, three, 20, 20 points of healing. So you can immediately pop out of consciousness and amongst the flickering shadow in this lowlit space, the face you see above you is Dorian with a look of what in your face? We need you.

Are you back? That's what I do. Come on, then. And I'm going to slap him on the cheek lovingly and then boost him up to standing and then stand up behind him. Okay, grip your forearm. And that's it, I don't have anything to do.

Yeah, thank you. All right, finishing your go. Fearne, you're up with him, and you're on deck. Okay. We're in trouble? Yeah, we're in trouble. All right. Help is the good. Man. I don't worry, I don't worry. All right. Help is the good.

Man. I don't want to. All right, we can bring Laudna back. Okay, I am going to... Actually, you know what? Before your turn, we'll use the last legendary action. This is what happens when you don't go fast enough. I know, I'm sorry.

Shadowstep. He thought of something. Again? Oh no. I want to hit it. She knows that. I want to hit it. She knows that. Wreck it. He knows that.

Travis feels your pain. Yeah. Aw. Yeah. What you got, Fearne? Okay, so even though she's over there, I think I can still reach her at 60 feet for a flame strike.

Oh yeah, you can definitely flame strike. Oh yeah. You can definitely do that. Oh shit. God, I keep thinking of things I should've done. Goddamn it. So it's each creature in a 10-foot radius, which if she's over there, nobody else gets that 10-foot radius.

Maybe you could hit the specter if you maybe. I don't want to get Imogen. Can we call the column here? Yeah, let's do that. Okay. Let's do that. It's a 40-foot high cylinder, and it's 46 fire damage and 46 radiant damage on a failed save.

Correct. So those are good. So. This column. Describe to me the color and the imagery of this Fl Strikes pillar bursting out of the ground to consume it. It is just...

The base of it is just that really hot blue flame. Hot blue. Hot blue, hot blue. And then just, it's just a dancing fire around it. It swirls up like a vibrant cerulean flame tornado that just engulfs the space around it. So the specter is going to fail the 14, I believe. Okay.

Delilah is natural 20. Oh. Oh, wow. She still takes half damage. Okay. 48? Wait. 46, right? Yeah, it's 46, so it's 8d6. So, damn. But four of it is fire and four of it is radiant.

Four of it is fire. And radiant is probably... Yeah, so, okay. So I'll do... Okay, so fire. We got 19 for fire. 19 damage. All right, she takes half of that and half of that, so she takes a quarter of it.

Oh no, you only rolled, I only rolled four d8. So she's got another four. So that was just for fire. Right, so I'm saying, she's resistant to fire damage. Oh, got it. It is four, so half damage because it's a successful save, and then.

So like four? But that is, okay. And the radiant is? And 16. 16, which takes half of her eight. So she takes total of 12 points of damage of that. The specter is disintegrated, just shrieking before it is taken off the board,

immediately burned in sweet, wondrous nature, fey fire. The flame's beside, and you can see Delilah stare back at you. As she smiles, you see the lot in the face go and smile in unison with her as she's wrestled control back. Did the flame hit Delilah, too? It did, it hit Delilah.

It just didn't do as much of an impact. Yeah, okay. Do you want to move or stay put? Distant to flame. If I move, do they get a reaction on me? Okay. You chopped down the Trufflet Tree with one chop. That's true, that's true.

If she stays out of my range, I'll take care of the next round. Okay, I want to get a little closer to everybody so that they can have a little bit of the benefits, should they be. So you want to move this way? Yeah, I'll move a little bit forward. Like 10 feet this way?

Yeah. 10, okay. Yeah. Both of them get an attack of opportunity against you. Both of the dread warriors swing one strike at you. The first one is 21 to hit. Can I shield? As a reaction, you can, yeah. Yeah? Shield.

So I have a plus five now? Yeah. Yeah, so that makes your AC what? That makes my AC 22. 22. So you did 21? 21 on the first hit, and the second one misses. So I say both strike out towards you.

Ah! Screaming to flex his blade off to the side, and you go rushing over, no issue. Yes! Awesome, that finishes your go? That finishes my go. Imogen, you are up with Essek on the deck. Okay, I'm going to turn around. So I can turn around.

So I can look into the eyes of my girlfriend, baby. And I'm going to, bonus action, light up my robe. It's complicated. Activate my rune on my robe. Okay. Which is going to give me a plus two to my attack, spell attack, and plus two to my DC. Mm.

Okay. So I'm going to think back to a long time ago and I'm going to look at Laudna and I'm just going to say, I love you. I'm trusting you. And I'm going to Twin Spell Catapult at 6th-level. Okay. And I'm going to pick up two of the ruined pieces

and slam them into her at the same time. Whoa! Oh shit. I have sort of a complicated relationship, I think. The rough stuff. Nice. Sure. Okay. Go ahead and roll for the attack on each.

Okay. So that's advantage, right? And a plus four. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so that's 16 plus, Jesus, 16 plus 13 plus four. Yes, my sure. Yeah, that is correct.

So that's going to hit. That hits. 16 plus 13. 20 is Plus four. Yes, my shot. Yeah, that is correct. So that's going to hit. That hits. 16 plus 18. 20 is the minimum, as far as I know. And then the second one, 18 plus. Yeah, both of them hit. Okay.

Okay, so that's two hits of 8d8 legioning damage. Two hits of 8d8, go ahead and roll it. Wait, I should have prepared my dice. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. How's she looking? Is she looking rough or not looking rough? Why has he got the book out?

I don't know. What's he looking at? He's never a good thing. No. Hmm. Quick question. He's reading a spell. For Twin Spell.

Yeah. It says, in order for a spell to be eligible, it must be incapable of targeting more than one creature, which we got. Yeah. The spell points to spell's level to target a second creature in range with the same spell. Yeah, but you let me do this before with Catapult because I was- That's right, no, we discussed with your guild. Yeah. Correct.

It's been a bit since we did that. Yeah. Good touche. Is that two wild magic rolls or one? Oh god. No, it is not the spell twice. It is one spell that is forked. 25, 29,

29, 37. Whoa. 37 plus eight. I rolled really high. 37 plus eight is? 45. 45 for the first one. Okay, and this is bludgeoning damage? Bludgeoning. Okay, cool. This is 22 points, so it takes half damage.

On bludgeoning? Yeah, because technically it's not magical. It is bludgeoning, even though it's magic forcing them, but it's still full heavy hit. Okay. 13. Shout out to that Triceratops rolling up the floor. Yeah, now it's really.

My first time using these new machines, and I'm like, I can't really put it on the board. They're too strong, but I can go ahead and put them into distance. Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it. Yeah. 32 for the second one. It's pushed back and falls onto the ground

before the body stands back up, the whole back snapping wrong until it gets into place. As it stands up and looks, the shadow takes note of Chetney, who's been hiding off to the side. Oh! I'm not hiding. Matt. Matt. Yes?

I rolled a four. Oh wait, I only cast a spell once. Once, yeah. You only roll once, because it's the spell, but in case. Okay, then this doesn't count because it's an advantage, so I don't know which one to take. Okay, so just roll one more time. Damn it. I know.

Three! Okay, you're fine. I know that one of them was a 20, so I thought, ugh. Maybe next time. Okay, okay. All right, that finishes your go. Yeah. Essek's going to go ahead and take his turn. Essek, help me!

Where did that come from? Say, look at me! Who's yelling? Essek! Do you ask for his help? Oh, I didn't put Essek. I was joking. Okay.

I mean, I'll take it just to see what happens. Yeah, I mean, do you yell for his help? Help me, Essek! Yeah, I'll do it. The specter is whooshing around him and he's trying to fend it off and putting these arcane sigils in the air to try and protect it.

He hears that and goes, I'm coming. Glides off this direction about 30 feet till he can see you off to that side. Actually. I like to imagine that his feet under his robe go. Yeah. They just flitter. Yeah. Actually. I like to imagine that his feet under his robe go. Yeah.

They just flip. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's pretty sure, he can actually come a little closer. He's going to scoot around this way because he thinks that's within range. The specter is going to take one attack against him, which does hit.

So the specter is going to deal, or Essek takes, it's going to be 13 points of necrotic damage. And his maximum hit points may or may not be... That's bad. Yeah, his maximum hit points is reduced by 13. He did heal during the short rest, right? A little bit. Okay. He runs by and is going to cast Haste on you. So you are hasted over here.

Beautiful. I believe it's a double checking. Jeez, did that give me double my? Oh, it's a 30-foot range. So. It should. 160. He can get just about there. Which puts him a little closer to the fray, but that'll just get you with haste.

So hits you with haste and is like, make it worth my while. Incredible. You decide. Use this selfishly. Roll. He does roll a 17 for casting a third-level spell. Oh no.

Oh wow. Uh-oh. Somebody roll a d100 for me, please. I got you. Essek finally broke open the Wildhouse. D100. I know. Is that a steal? Fuck. 71. Turn him blue. 71, oh no, oh no.

71. All right. Yeah. Same white dragon, same white dragon! Is he a sheep? What is he? He's like, Make it worth my while. And there's a tiny little goat. Oh my god, if he's a fish!

He goes, That's a great idea! No, Esme! No! No! And he's cursing at you in Goat from across the way. No, Esme! That was...

Wait, question, question. Is the goat floating? It is. Yes! Because it's fun. Float Goat! Float Goat! Float Goat!

Absolutely magnificent. That's going to finish his turn, but you are indeed hasted. Thank you. All right, finishing his Goat, Brayus, you're up with Chetney Hyundai. Seeing all of this action, I have to take a sip from my Stanley cup.

Oh. Oh! What?! Ew! Gross! Damn! Love it. That's amazing. Is that your old cup that's finally just turned on you?

Yeah! Don't write that. I can't believe it. Look at that. I'm okay, believe me. Look at the eye on it. Where did that come from? That is awesome. Eww. Where did that come from?

Who did that? You had to replace the... Oh, I hate it. I love the teeth. Yeah, the teeth are pretty. Look at the eyeball. Oh, no, take it off! It reminds me of the city.

Yeah. A little bit. Yeah, it is. That's pretty awesome. Yeah, that's great. Into it. Covered in skin the city. Yeah. Yeah, it is. It's pretty awesome. Yeah, it's great. Into it. Covered in skin and teeth. God. Nox is so good. Then once I'm no longer parched, I will... It's probably better than the can. How far away? Roughly 40 feet?

Just about 40 feet, yeah. I will bonus action Misty Step. Ooh! Then close the distance. Indeed. And attack twice with Poison Pen. Go for it. Poison Pen!

Slashing with a terrible roll, 17. Give advantage. I do? Yeah, all attacks. Natural 20. Yay! That'll do it. Oh!

Get it! Okay, okay, okay. I don't know how to do this. So on the dice, it was 14. 14 damage? Plus seven, so it's 21. So it's 14 on the dice, multiplied by two, that's 28. Yes, plus another seven, so 35.

Dang, for one hit? Yep, and then I will swing again. Go for it. With advantage. That is just, oh. Yeah, she maintains concentration on that. Then for this one, I will use Divine Smite and roll with advantage, right? 27 to hit.

27 hits. And this will be? She is considered an undead, so you get to add an extra d8 to it. Oh. Awesome. Asmodeus. In addition to. Oh, in addition to. Yeah. For both of them?

Just for free. Just for the divine smite. Okay, got it. Not as good, but pretty good. 29. 29. 29 points of damage. Woo-hoo! Yeah, she maintains concentration.

Okay. And that's concentration on Craven Edge? Divine Smite. Could be. Oh! Divine Smite is 2d8. Sorry. Not scary. Plus another eight. Yeah, plus another eight, so that's 37.

All right. Ow. Ow, okay. She's streaked with black iccer from the trail. Could you even tell, really? Yeah. I know, it's our aesthetic. Yeah. It's a little shiny.

Yeah. You have an oily, glistening surface. Okay, well done. That's it. That's your turn. All righty, Chetney, you're up. I'm going to Feel Emboldened with this haste, and I'm going to take out my wood chisel, and I'm going to drag it along my quad,

and you see ice from the blade, not flame. That'll do five points, so I'll take that damage and I'll run up and make two swipes with the wood chisel. Let's go, Cheddars. Cheddars. Cheddars. We've never called them Cheddars. 27 to hit for the first one. 27 hits.

Second one is a 25 to hit for the second one. Okay. That is a couple of second one. Okay. 20 for the first hit, and... That's awesome. That's so cool. Just a little cold damage, was it? It's actually just 15 for the first hit. It's a wood chisel piercing damage. Right, and how much cold damage?

Five points. Five points, okay. Yeahcing damage. Right, and how much cold damage? Five points. Five points, okay. Yeah. For a total of? So 20, including the cold damage. Gotcha, okay. The cold doesn't do quite as much damage as you think it does. Damn, that's true. All right, all right, all right.

No cold. No fire, no cold. Six plus nine, 15, same thing. So 20 for the second one as well. Okay, gotcha. Or she's immune. She's resistant or she's immune. Resistant. She's taking half damage. 15 piercing for the second one as well. Okay, gotcha. Or she's immune. She's resistant or she's immune. Resistant. She's taking half damage. 15 piercing of the second one. Then I'll use the hasted to do another round

of wood chisel swipes. It's just one more strike for the hasted, actually. Oh, it's just one more? Okay. Then this one is 28 to hit. That hits as well. Great. Dang. Another six, so 20 points of damage, five of cold. Okay. How much damage is that?

With the resistance all to it, it was, I believe... It was like 60 total, but with resistance less 15. Yeah. So I'll go now. Resistance is half each, though, so it would have been like seven to 18. All right, that finishes your go? No, I'm going to I'm going to run, take an Attack of Opportunity.

I'm going to use my speed to run into that little enclave and hide, yep. You do take an Attack of Opportunity. She did not use her reaction at this point and is going to swipe at you with a Wraith Claw. That's going to be 23. Hits, even with the plus two from Haze. She's hitting the middle stuff.

Okay. You take... That is a lot of hits. 31 points of necrotic damage. Where is she? She heals. Are you within? No, you're going to need. 31 points of necrotic damage. Where is she? She heals. Are you within? No, you're out of 30 feet. Are you within 10 feet of me?

No. How many feet? Oh, yeah, I was when I got swiped. Oh, that's a melee attack? Yeah. Never mind. All right, so that finishes your go? Yes, it does. You dart around the corner, finishing your turn. It is now back to Delilah and Laudna.

Top of your turn, make a wisdom saving throw for me. I'm assuming I don't have any reactions throughout any of this. I'm going to use my advantage. Or my bardic inspiration, I mean. Okay, yeah, that succeeds. That's 18 plus four for bardic inspiration, so 22. Yeah, so you get to take your full round.

What do you want to do, Laudna? Yes. Okay. Taking inspiration from Imogen, I'm going to use my last 5th-level spell to do Animate Objects, baby! Yeah! I'm going to cast Animate Objects.

I'm going to, once again, claw myself out. Sorry, I'm going to quicken that spell. Quicken spell, Animate Objects, claw myself out. Sorry, I'm going to quicken that spell. Quicken spell, animate objects, claw myself out, and I'm going to say, Mages of Aeor, help a bitch out! I'm going to animate that big guy. Yes! Yes!

Oh my god. Yes! Yes! I'm going to be like, Hit me! And then that was a bonus action because I quickened that spell. Do we want to continue to have advantage on all attacks,

or do we want advantage against her spell slinging? She hasn't really started spell slinging yet. I'm going to keep with wrestle from within. I'm going to do wrestle from within again. I'm sure she's going to. Okay, wrestle within, all right. So I start, I'm going to literally, take it literally and I start

almost clawing on the inside as I'm trying to fight my way out. So once again, for another round, everyone has advantage on all attacks. Okay. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, cool. That finishes your turn. Do you want to move or stay put?

Pretty cool. Because I drag her with me, right? Yeah. Once again, I'm going to sprint towards Ashton and try and get her back into melee range with the fighters. Okay. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. It'll get you about there. Okay.

Ooh, that's very good Simogen. All right. Does that finish your turn? Yes, and when does my big boy go? My animate object? At the end of the turn. So let's have it go now. Now? Why not?

Okay. Oh, he'll pass it. Right in there. Am I doing the same thing? Speed of 30 feet, so can he get there? All right. Can I climb over there and just get in the space right there? Great. SAM and LAURA

get in the space right now. Great. He just takes this big lantern that he has and just bam! Just slams it into you. I mean. Yep. He gets a d4 advantage, because he's a creature.

D4 advantage? Technically, yeah. Yeah, d4 advantage if he's a creature. D4 advantage? Technically, yeah. Yeah. He's going to animate. D4 added to the attack roll. He's considered a construct. Oh. Construct is a creature, yeah. Okay. And I'm assuming he has advantage. Oh! Rollercoaster.

He has advantage, yeah? Yeah. But wait. I think his voice is Kermit the Frog. Okay. 25 to hit. 25 hits. And then, so he does 2d12 plus four damage. Oh, that doesn't count. Hey, ha!

I don't know if I'm thinking. Ugh, ugh, ee! Uh, uh. Yeah, pull. Yeah, it's fine. 11 damage. 11 damage, all righty. Maintains concentration.

Yeah, no issue. All right, that finishes your giant statue's go as the chaos begins to mount. The ancient Aeorian statue begins looming over and stepping in the center of the platform and slamming a massive lantern fist into the side of Laudna after coming to life. This wild perspective.

Delilah wrestles control of the form and is going to go ahead and first flick her hand as Craven Edge is going to rapidly move over to you, Ashton, and is going to go ahead and strike at you for... Nat 20? No, no, Nat 20?

Nat 20. How many 20s? Shit. Shit, there's mostly been four defenses. Oh boy. Oh boy. Okay. But still, that's three 20s in one fight.

Is it necrotic damage? She will fly. Huh? Is it necrotic damage? We'll find out. It is not. No, force damage, I believe. See, the Bladed is Ashton. I'm so sorry. I get half of my force damage, I'm pretty sure.

You do not. Well, that's, are you sure? Okay. You do have a shot. All right, so that's... Nope, never mind, that won't work either. Fuck. Do you have Silvery Bar? Can I shield him? I know, that's what I was asking

if I could have reaction. Huh? Can I reaction shield him? You can only shield yourself. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So that's 26 times two, so that's 52 points of force damage with Blade of Disaster, which it crits on an 18 plus,

and it deals an additional 80, 12 force damage on a crit. So what am I at? That's 52 points of force damage. Plus. The joy, the glee, his eyes. 16. Oh, that's true. Show off his features.

He says, I'm sorry, and then fucks you up. Yeah. It's not me. It's still happening. It's still rolling. It's the characters. It's not me. It's the characters. Somewhere a breeze, it's still rolling. It's the characters, it's not me. It's the characters. Somewhere a breeze tap dancing with joy. I know.

103 points of force damage to you. Ooh! I'm still up. Did you say 103? Correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that total or is that extra? Huh? That's total. Oh, thank god. Okay, because I just took the, I'm down.

So what's the visual on that? You're down? Oh! Okay, thank god. There's a hundred and three. I'm down. I already did the 50, so this is just adding another, because it was, what was the first roll? It was a hundred and three.

It was 52, I think. So it'd be another 51 on top of that. So I'm down. Okay. What was the visual on that? So you watch as Craven Edge, that did a swing, moves, and rushes through the air, and just carves in one fast swipe through Ashton.

Ashton grabs the back. There might be a thing, but yeah, carry on, because there might be a thing. Might be a thing? Class features, I'm a barbarian. I have Relentless Rage. You do? Yeah. Yeah, I make a saving throw.

But wait, did you cleave him in two? No, it just carved through the back and there was just a splash of blood. Relentless Rage can be cool and it climbs, right? Yeah, but each time the DC gets higher. Yeah, like five more or so? DC con saving throw, which I think I still get my, yeah,

because it's saving throw. What's the DC on it? DC, where'd it go? 10 the first time, right? 10 the first time. Yes, make a constitution saving throw. Yep, and plus I have luck right now, so yeah. My constitution is stupid, so yeah.

27, it's ridiculously high. The blade swings through, you watch as Ashton Gansetta go down and like, all the rock just tends to. Fuck you! The blade is going to then turn around because it makes two attacks on the ground. Oh! And it's going to attack you, Fearne.

Oh! What the fuck? That's going to attack you, Fearne. Oh! What the fuck? That's going to be 24 to hit. That's going to be 24 to hit. Huh? 24 to hit you? Yeah, my shield is not enough, though. Yeah, it is. What the fuck are we doing?

You take. This is bad, bad. We leave. We don't run and leave. No, we got to finish this. 33 points of force damage. Make a concentration check for me. I mean, we got to finish this. 33 points of force damage. Okay. Make a concentration check for me. I mean, if you shut the door. Need to beat a 16.

Okay. On a constitution saving throw. You're within 10 feet of me, so you have an extra d4 to your save. An extra d4, okay, great. We can't leave. Our party member is glued into the enemy. Yeah, no, he's not.

He's not. I'm going to close the door. No! Becky, we're going to have a conversation. How much did I need to make? 16. Oh, damn! 15. Even with the d4? 15. Yeah, even with the d4. Aw, your aura fades

as the blade carves the spell from your mind. That's her bonus action. Are you down? No, my aura of life is gone. So, okay. That's okay, okay. She's going to use her action to cast Horde Wilting on the ground. Horde Wilting? Horde Wilting.

To where a 30-foot burst, which she will put. Oh, look at us in a line. Fuck. Yay. That is... What's that? Around here. Around here? Everybody.

Wow. Boy, you just dated your son. Everybody, but Brayus. Actually, no, hold on. This is here. I hate all of this. And except me. Doing math. Also, that means that if we hit zero,

we don't come back up now, do we? Yeah, you're just out of the way. I'm just dodging out of it. I jumped in for the Gambit Burst. Smoke them if you got them. I have no power over them. All righty. So, in just a second.

I'm not one of the teeth, but, uh... You know, Luna said we could call him if we needed him. Should we, uh... I know, right? Just call him right back. Hey, hey, Luna! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wow, really, Matt? Don't roll those again.

Are we all going to die right now? We're all going to die right now. No. That can't happen, right? All right, so Dorian, constitution saving throw for me. Okay. Constitution saving throw. Hi-yah!

Con. Not terrible, 12. Are you within 10 feet of him? No, you're not. Here it comes. You take 54 points of necrotic damage. Oh. Wait, is she going to suck that? Yeah. 50.

Okay. Worst time for that to go down. I know, I know. Worst time. So, Brayas. Do I get my own auras? I believe so, yeah. Okay. Damn.

I mean, you get the bonus to your aura mana. Okay, great. Con? Con, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Damn. I mean, you get the bonus to your aura mana. Okay, great. Con? Con, yeah. 14, 18. 18. You take 54 points of necrotic damage. Great.

Con save? Yes. It feels good going through me. Ah, the death energy. Where does the line go in the turn, in the lineup? At the end of the turn. So she goes around Lagnesh? She goes just after Lagnesh. We can use the d4 still?

Yep. Okay. Okay, so. Then it's back up to me and Ben Orym. 23? 23, you take 27 points of necrotic damage. Oof, okay. Imogen? Wait.

Huh? How did that just happen? Yes, how can I help you? Constitution saving throw, please. I just went down a lot. Yeah, yeah. Wait. Delilah and that fucking sword. Oh no, no, I rolled a one. Okay, so you take 54 points of necrotic damage.

Fuck. Y'all, if I hadn't done that short rest, because I healed six points on that short rest, and I would be dead right now if not. Oh, okay. I mean. That versus catching Jack! Does it matter?

Fuck! I'll find out. Five, hold on. I'm going to... I'm going to ask if Delilah looks rough. You're also within 10 feet, so you have a d4, but yeah. I'm going to use Indomitable and reroll. Plus your d4.

Yeah. Oh. That's a natural one, which I'll reroll. Yeah. Oh my god. 14 all-in-one. 14, 14, 14. Oh, it's good. Indomitable's the best!

Yeah, it's good, I'm getting it. It's good, 23 total. Okay, so that succeeds. So you take only 27 points of necrotic damage. 27? Correct. I'm out. You're out. Ah!

How are you? You live for 20! Only 20? I can't. I can't. You can't party. I need you to make a constitution to take the throw. Well, I'm down, because I'm only at one point. Right, so you take it.

So roll another constitution saving throw with a 15 DC. Come on, come on, don't go down. Fuck. Oh yeah, that's, yeah, I'm fine. That's a 19, that's 28. I'm fine. Okay. So as Delilah rising up, you watch as Laudna's feet leave the ground for a second

as the shadows begin to coalesce and swirl around her hands. As they float up, she sparks downward and throws it to the center of the chamber. This blackened, weird spike goes into the ground. As it spreads outward, you see hundreds of shadowed skeletal hands bursting up out of the ground and reaching and grabbing.

Some of you try and run out of the way. As they reach for you, they don't even reach to grab you. They reach through you and pull tattered sections of your soul out for a split second. You watch as Orym just got to his feet, turns around and falls unconscious to the ground. You watch as Ashton takes the hit and just barely wills through pure anger

and whatever strange, dunamantic power in his head remains is still on his feet. The rest of you take the hit and just hear the cackle. Everybody okay out there? Just hiding. Hanging out in the phone booth. Oh my.

Ready to come out by Superman one second. She's going to use her movement to move 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 under the steps over here. And now it's going to go the rest of the creature's turn. The skeletons rush in. SAM and SAM and SAM and SAM. Whoa. The specter rushes in.

Oh! Not wrong! Actually, the skeleton's going to rush over here to catch you. Okay. This guy's going to go ahead and come in towards you. So that's two attacks. That's four attacks against you, Dorian. Oh, cool. Sorry.

She does? First attack. One misses you, the other is a natural 20. Oh, okay, great. How many is that tonight, Matt? Is that four? Was that four? tonight, Matt? Is that four? Was that four? I think so. Is that four?

It doesn't do a lot of damage. You'll only take 10 points of slashing damage from that. Okay. The other one is attacking you twice for 14. What's your AC? What'd you say? 17. 17, so one misses you, 14 misses. Then the other one is a 16.

So both attacks on the second one miss you. Against you, Fearne, the one that's attacking you twice, that's going to be a 10, which misses, and that's going to be a 24 that hits you. That hits. You take seven points of slashing damage. Even with your shield? Yeah, because my shield is 22.

You also have, yeah, okay, yeah, for hits. It only hits you, so it's a 24. The one specter that's against you, Fearne, is going to roll. Oh, that's a seven. That misses you in time. It's like, reaches out, has no impact on you.

That finishes the round. We're back at the top. Ashton makes your go. You just hear the cackling, the shadows swirling around. All the light in the chamber is growing dimmer and dimmer by the second. What do you do?

I am going to very slowly start walking towards Delilah. As I'm doing it, I'm going to start getting taller and bigger, and my arms are going to swell. The rainbow sparking in the head and in the hammer are just going to start getting really, really intense. As I get to her, I look up and I turn into diamond,

and now my whole body is filled with the fucking diamond. That's rad. With the diamond roll. That's rad. I'm just going to, that's my, actually. Yeah. Yeah, and then, yeah, that's my fucking turn. That's your turn? Yeah. Okay.

As you rush up, see the lighting's like, you realize that all gems can break, can't you? Oh boy, oh boy. Bring it. Finishing your go, Orym, I need you to make a death saving throw. That's a fail. No!

First fail death save on Orym. Dorian, you're up. Oh. Oh no. Doesn't the goat know Dune-prancy or anything? Dune- Prancy. There's your goat. I'm freezing up.

How do we change him out of the goat? We gotta hit him? I was gonna get him out, but I'm down. Oh my goodness. We gotta hit him. I was gonna get him out of goat form. Oh, I'm out. I'm out, I'm out.

Yeah, I can't get him out of there. I'm out. What do you mean? I don't have the spell slots to use it. I could do it. You get close enough. Oh shit. You could. I'm out, I'm out. Yeah, I can't get him out of there. I'm out. What do you mean? I don't have the spell slots to use it. I could do... Oh, shit. You could do a healing potion, but that's pretty much it. I have that. It's all gone.

Well, this fourth one. And it was my turn. Time to do it was my turn. Orym's still within... We're surrounded, right? We got these two guys here. You are between two figures right now. All right, I actually do.

I thought I was out of it. Would you say Delilah looks rough? You're behind a wall. Would you say Delilah looks rough? Delilah looks not present at the moment. Would you say Delilah looks rough? Delilah is a shadow cackling. Yeah, whatever. It's a shadow cackling.

Laudna looks pretty beat up. Okay. This is so cowardly, but I have to. Okay, I'm just going to reach down, grab Orym's hand, and at 4th-level, I'm going to cast Dimension Door. Oh. And I'm going to put us both as far away from,

I hate this, put as far away from danger as possible. Put us on the top. I know they can't balance, but the top of that obelisk thing. Up here? Yeah, yeah. Up and away. Because I just watched him convulse on his turn and we got two enemies around us. I just get him out of danger.

Fuck, it feels horrible. No, that's a step, that's a maneuver. And then, and then I'll, Not like this. And then I'll, He's dead. Third bite in one day.

I'll leap. Yeah. I'll leave him, and I'll use my movement to get back down in the mix as close as I can. Okay. You put him on top of a thing and then you think, never mind. So you're clicking your heels. Got him away from danger.

Are you flying with your heels from the top, then? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can fly to the ground if you want to, like over here to get closer. I got 40 feet as close into the mix as I can. Still flying? With flying? No, no, no, no, it's 30 with flying, you're right.

Right, so that'll get you about there. Okay. Gliding into space. Oh no, I'm sorry, I apologize. I fly down, but I want to be on the ground in the mix with everybody. Yeah. I'll get you right behind Brace, right there.

Okay. Okay. All right. That's my turn. Great turn. All right, finishing Dorian's go, Fearne, you're up with Imogen on deck. Yeah, you had to get him out of there. All that. You had to get him out of there. Nothing good.

You're damaging the cat. Actually, at the end of your turn, she's going to use Legendary Action to Shadow Step. Where she is. Where she's going to Snap and Sentence. Shit, shit, shit. Goddamn it. God fucking damn it.

Okay. Does she, does she, I'm behind stone. Is she pacing the door? Fearne, what you got? I'm going to look at Delilah and I'm going to cast Earthbind on her and Laudna. What are you casting?

Or I guess on Laudna. Earthbind? Earthbind, so she can't move anymore. I don't know if it'll stop Shadowstep, but. Oh. In fact, I don't know if it'll stop Shadow Step, but. Oh. In fact, I don't think it would. Did it say restraining? So Earthbind, just so you know, it makes a flying speed is reduced to zero, but her movement is still moving.

But it says, Are those words? But if a thing like Misty Step or Teleport, like physical restraining. It doesn't do anything for that? Okay. No. Sorry, sorry. That's okay, no worries. Yeah, but Earthbind is how you bringints. It doesn't do anything for that? Okay. No. Sorry, sorry, sorry. That's okay, no worries.

Yeah, but Earthbind is how you bring flying creatures to the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I was thinking of something else. That's all good. Okay, sorry about that. That's all good. Thank you so much for letting me redo. Bye. Bye, see you later.

Yeah, that was fun. See you later. Okay. Oh jeez, Louise. You can hurt her at this point. I don't think there's anything else to do. I mean, I have fire. I have so much fire and she's... She doesn't do anything.

Still damage. It does what it can, though. Okay, I'll do fire again. I will do, you know what? I'll do another six level. I will do Flame Strike again. Fucking go for it. By the way, Essek isn't longer a sheep

because his sheep form got just necrotic burst. They go good! Yay! He's back, baby. He's like, Ah! Bah! Something bad. On he goes. All right, so I will do at 6-level,

I will do Flamestrike, which is 5d6 fire, 5d6 radiant. Let's do it. You know, a lot of farm animals. A lot of the cattle. The radiant will goad them. That's the only, I think it's the only thing that I have with radiant. So that's,

it's instantaneous. Dex save, she fails. She's going to use Legendary Resistance to make it. So go ahead and, it is a radius. So yeah, you can get all of them in there. I will try, yeah. All right, so go ahead and roll that damage. Okay, so it's...

Do 5d6 first for fire. That's a failure on one of them. Natural one on the other. So both the skeletons, the Dread Warriors fail. Oh, good. Ooh. Okay. 17 points for fire. Okay.

Ugh, damn, that's bad. That's a lot of damage there. 12 points of radiant damage. Okay. Wild magic roll. Roll a d100. Oh, sorry, roll a d20 for me. Okay. 12. Yeah. Right.

Okay. The flames burn around, and you can see the skeletons now are almost reduced to dust. They're barely standing and like. What, it didn't take them? Fuck. Wait, let me check one more thing, because there's something else. Don't you do additional fire damage on a spell?

No, that's only if Mister is out or if I'm in frame. Oh, right, gotcha. But let me see. Let me check something really quick. Oh, what else do I have? Okay, never mind. Um... That's my turn.

Okay. That's my turn. You're staying put. Imogen, you're up. Yes, I am. Um, yes! I am going to. Okay, I can't, let me look at this line. Line! I feel like I can line myself up

if I do a lightning bolt to where it goes right down the middle, hits the sword, the skeletons, and Dilaudna. You could do that. It'll also hit the statue as well. It's delightful. It's delirious. She's Dilodna. If there's a way to bounce it off me, you can get two bolts.

Or a possibility, anyway, but that's... But that's if I hold it. No, no. What do you mean? I'm pretty sure, sorry. Like a prison situation? Yeah, sorry. But I'd have to bounce it off,

and if not, I would be doing a seventh-level lightning. I take no damage right now. Takes no damage. Right now, I am capable of taking damage. Yeah. Time and form? How do I do it? What do I do? That's amazing.

It would be, well, actually, that's the trouble is, the caster makes an ability check using the spell caster's modifier. The DC is six plus the spell's level. That's very high, so never mind. Okay, okay, okay. Then I'm going to do what I said. I'm going to line myself up.

You can, from where you are, throw all that. It'll also hit the statue. If I scooch you over, or get up next to the statue, though, like there, then I could hit everything and not the statue. You can hit... I'll say it this way. You can either... Yeah, I'll allow it.

Okay, I'm going to 7th-level Lightning Bolt. Okay. 7th level. Are you, and that's where you want to move there? Uh-huh. Okay. Is it an attack or a save roll? It's a save, but it's a 21 save. Oh wow.

Damn. Okay, that's great. Delilah's going to Counterspell. That's great. Wait, did she burn her Reaction or I guess she didn't burn her. She hadn't used Reaction yet. She only spends a 5th-level spell. And it's a 7th-level, you said? Yeah. Roll 8!

So she has to roll higher, so... She also has to roll a wild magic. Correct. I have to roll a wild magic. Both of you do. Yes. Now understand, so the seventh-level spell, so it's a DC 17. She has to roll, and it adds a six to this, she has to try and basically get an 11 or higher.

Natural 20. Whoa! You're on fire, Jace! You are on fire! Critical mercers. Whoa! You're on fire, Tickmice! You are on fire! Critical Mercer. Wow! Shit! Yeah!

Wow, Magic. I shouldn't be rooting for you, but I am. She does turn into a goat. As the lightning begins to apparate in front of you, she snaps and it vanishes. And she just, the shattered face just smiles back at you. Ugh. She's not yours anymore.

Whoa! Oh! Woo! Talking shit! Oh! Turn into a manatee. Turn into a manatee. This is so good.

Come on, come on. What is it? What is it? It's a natural fucking 20. No! I thought I could look at this shit! Wild magic! Wild magic! That's the effect that's on you,? It's a natural fucking 20. No! I thought I fucking looked at this shit! What? Magic! Magic! Magic! That's a magic!

It's on you, you motherfucker! Turn it to a 20. Turn it to a goat! That's crazy. Let's go! Turn it to a goat! Do you have to roll 100, or do you? Someone else wants to roll it for me, please. Shout out to Marisha. I can't believe that shit.

Marisha's doing it. Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, come on. That's crazy. What if it's something that changes the game entirely? What if she turns into a goat? 97. That's what I was going to say.

Is that good or bad? Is that good or bad? Maximize the damage of the next damaging spell they cast. No! Go home! What have you done to us? What have you done to that boar? Wait. What are you talking about?

What have you done to us? Wait, but that could be you. No. Could it be? It could be, depending on if you managed to make the save at the top of your turn. Oh! Come on, give me these back. I'm just quickening spells. I'm quickening spells, though.

I still got sorcerer points. You want yourself in your own base and knock yourself out? That's what I've been doing! Okay, wow. Oh god. I do go next, I do go next. No, you do not.

What do you mean? Oh, maybe we're legendary! Essek goes. No, Essek, then Brayus, and then Chetney. Put him in your check. Yeah, but you go before her. But I go before her. You do. Yeah. Wait, I still want to quicken a spell.

Sure. If you feel disheveled, I'm going to quicken a spell and snap it there. What are you going to do? Because it's intelligence. I'm going to Mind Sliver her. Sure, yeah. Okay, that's good, that's good.

Is it? Yeah. Anything. It's a 27. Yeah, it is. Sorry, but it's worth trying out. We will take anything we got right now. Holy shit. Smoke him if you got him. She is so hard to kill. God, I wasted my seven. Oh, that was a good maneuver. She's so powerful.

Oh, and I'm going to move to where I'm not in a straight's so powerful. Oh, and I'm going to move to where I'm not in a straight line with her. Okay, where are you going to move? Behind that fallen, oh no, that's right, with everybody else. Fuck, no, I'm not going to do that. Sorry, I can't. I'm just going to move to where,

if she looks at me, I'm behind the animated, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. So you glance through and you can see Chetney right behind the wall. Get out here! Okay. Okay, yeah. So you glance through and you can see Chetney right behind the wall. Get out here! Okay. Sounds bad. Just for future, you have to accept,

that's why I was asking if Fahriwark's the 60-foot range on... Come on, Essek, how do you do your Counterspell? If you're a little bit further back, she wouldn't be able to get you. So the thing to keep in mind against people that might have Counterspell in the future is that 60-foot range. I've never ever had a Counterspell thing before.

But yeah, now you know. And knowing. 60 feet? Yeah. 60 feet is Counterspell. And your lightning bolt is 120. All righty. I could have been out of her range. Finishing the mission's go.

It's Essek, who is now freshly transformed, and is looking around, taking in the scope of this. I've been saving something in case we have to get away. I believe maybe this is the time to use it. Wait, we can't leave her. No, we're not leaving her. We're going to get her. No, he's using the high level is what he's going to do. And she just wasted her Counterspell.

Do I get us out of here, or do I go all in against her? You go all in. You go all in, Essek. Leave him alone. Oh no. She's already burned her reaction. She would have to use a legendary action to... Which she could. Hey, Essek, get out of 60 feet range. You're going to droost back here?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Root. Root. He's going to drift over here. He says, I can't yet. He's going to drift. Drift. I hope the curse of Death Mother,

how do you want to do that? Like the green. Like the green. Closes his eyes and you see, in the middle of his hand, pulls this small bead of dark energy and blows it forward and it drifts over at this soft arc, lands through the air about 60 feet here. Right towards where Laudna and Delilah is He goes, Over about there. Right towards where Laudna and Delilah is,

as it lands, the ground around Delilah cracks open as space between dimensions and realities are suddenly torn apart. Singularity! So you cast Reality Break. Reality Break! I mean, I'm already there, let's go. Reality can be the breakthrough. She's going to make a wisdom saving throw. Reality break.

We're going to ask her. Wisdom saving throw. Fails with a two, but it's going to go ahead and use Legendary Resistance to make it. Mm-hmm. How does it? Never mind. Do-do-do. It's in her blood.

How many Legendary Resistances do they get in each? Do-do-do. It's in her blood. I just, how many legendary resistances do they get in each? Is it three in the whole fight or three each turn? Three. Three per round? Three in the whole fight. Three for the whole fight. You didn't know. Up behind a wall.

Three for the whole fight? I believe so. It'd be crazy if it was up there. You'd be able to do anything to them. I'm pretty sure. I'm deciding it's true. Yeah, that crazy if it was up there. We'd be able to do anything to them. I'm pretty sure. I'm deciding it's true. Yeah, that feels like it would make more sense. Yeah, she saves against it. I was like, gosh.

Yeah, I was seeing if the effect would continue, but the initial save trunks it, unfortunately. He's like, well, that goes. She's really... You jinxed it. It goes to my 9 ninth level, so... Oh! He's going to drift 10 feet back this way.

Just start like... Yeah, yeah. He'd be safer as a goat. Yeah. Brace, you're up. I'm just going to look over at Essek and like... Do I need to heal that guy, or should I go kill this person? Seems like you got it, so.

Honestly, in a round, it may not matter. So rhetorical. I will Misty Step again. You're going to do wonders, Marisha. This is going to be it, and you. Towards what's-her-butt. Okay. It's going to have 30.

It's right there. Good. And then close the distance. That's the reason. And maybe I have, oh, I can't do another spell. I just got a hit. You can go the distance. I swing my weapon. I get angry, and, I get angry,

and as I get angry, you can see my nostrils flare and my features start to get more bovine as the anger sears out of me. And I will strike. Go for it. You have advantage on this because of what you did last round. You do have a move phase. 27.

That hits. Ooh! Shit, I should have said before, I'm using a charge from the weapon in this. 27. That hits. Ooh! Shit, I should have said before, I'm using a charge from the weapon in this. Okay. It's a bunch. Hold on, this is... Oh shit, that's good. 27 to 32, plus...

plus 16. Jesus, that's a lot. That's 48 points of damage. Dang! Ooh! All right. And second strike. For this one, I will use Divine Smite.

Is this at advantage? Yes. Fun new guy. Yeah, 28 to hit. Ooh, that definitely hits. And so this is two. Oh, is she undead? No, she's not undead. Oh.

So I get 4d8 plus, Jesus. Welcome back, Sam. Yeah. That's good. Six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. How do you want to do that? No! Fucking go! that? No! Fucking go! Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yes, Chris! I made it! Wait, are we cheering? I'm not sure! I'm not!

Hold on! I don't know! I will swing away with my weapon and strike several times, but as I'm doing so, the black ichor that's flying off the weapon is making a splatter all across the wall behind. And after I swing and swing and swing, even after they're down, and after a moment,

you see that the splatter is forming a pattern and it's the symbol of Asmodeus. Hell yeah. Full of yarn. Oh! She falls back, crushed and battered. The shadow subsides and vanishes with a scream. Back into Laudna.

Back into the body. Is she stable? She's currently dying. What about the other? I'll finish the job. Did everything go with her? As soon as she goes down, the other undead dissipate. And Craven Edge? The sword of Craven Edge vanishes.

Stabilize, I was going to say, did we hit her to kill her, or is she just unconscious? She's dying. I always hit to kill. Okay, so we need to stabilize her. I'll send her to the Hells to be with my lord. I'm going to go over to her and cure wounds. I technically have Strength of the Grave. Oh, that's right. Do you want to use it?

Well, well, would that get Delilah back up? You know. Another spell with four words in it. Strength of the Grave? Wait, what is Strength of the Grave, Dan? If I do a charisma saving throw, I don't go down, I drop to one HP instead. All right, all right, all right, all right. But I don't know if that's like...

Choice is yours. What if this resets everything? Then you get to build your own team at the end of this. I don't really know. What is the saving throw? What is the saving throw? What do I have to roll before I do this? Strength of the Grave, Strength of the Grave.

Wind damage is, oh wait! That was radiant damage though, right? There was some in there. Wind damage that isn't radiant or from a critical. Oh. You can't do it. So yeah, I can't use it. So I can't do it. All right, I'm going to go over and I'm going to cure one of these.

I'm going to... I'm going to run over to her. And then, well, we still have an Orym issue, so I'm going to run towards Orymful. Good, because I just failed another death save. I'm running to Orymful speed while I'm still giant and fucking getting up there, and I'm just going to pour a healing potion in you.

You got it. What's happening out there? Six points. 24 points of healing. Ash, you saved me. To me? Yeah! And now I'm going to fucking fall over as the diamond form goes away,

and I am absolutely broken. Are you on the ground? No one answers, and I roll out from behind cover with my harp and just. I am so fucked. Do you have any more healing for Ashton? I'm not dead. You're not dead? I am just at one point with two points of exhaustion.

I'll heal you as well. We're all fucked right now. Oh god. I can't do a mask thing, but I can cure you. Work on it. Oh god. All right, so eight, nine, 10. Does anybody have Identify? It's a six.

You do, okay. 21 points of healing. Oh my god, thank you. Doesn't do Identify. I have Identify. Well, that was Letters. Yeah. Letters was such a great character. Oh no.

Wait, did you need to identify something? Well, we got the dragon scale cloak from the Greek live show that's just sitting in the back. That's right. We also have a weird rock we just picked up. Weird green gem, but I'm X-nay on the green gemina. I mean, we do it. Oh no, she's awake. It would have been good to do while she's asleep.

Oh. Jet comes out, just puts me right back down. Go to sleep, you don't breathe, never mind. Yeah. Fuck! I am so tired. This is our third fight of the day, right? Yeah.

Who's complaining? Are you awake? Are you kneeling? Are you kneeling? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Am I? What's happening? Somebody, yeah. She casts Heal on you. Yeah. You come to consciousness. Your eyes are bleary, and the last memories you have

are the horrible motions of watching yourself being piloted and uncertain in the moment, how much is you, how much is Delilah? But the further it goes, the more you know that you didn't want that to happen. You okay? Is it you?

Yes, I think so. Oh no. Your ex was an asshole. I give her a big hug. Yeah, it's her. We got to get her out of you. We got to get her out. That can't happen again.

I clutch my chest. Do I still feel the thrumming of Delilah? Extremely faint, but present. A tiny siddle. I'm going to come back over to where I hid the bag of holding and pull it out from under the tatters and look at it and you can go, you're right, it can't. I'm just going to pull out and hold the amulet and look at Laudna. It's not my choice to make. It was Delilah that wanted that, not Laudna. Wait, do we know what that is?

Are you sure about that? I don't know what it does. Yeah, we should figure out what it does. We also have the funnel. Yeah. We have ways of dealing with it if we need. I'm going to identify it. Yeah, we should figure out what it does. We also have the funnel. Yeah. Can I see? We have ways of dealing with it if we need. I'm going to identify. Oh! You can identify spell?

How many times can you identify? I have two, it's first level. I have three first levels left. Sweet. So I can identify a couple things that we need. The bag holding? And I'll also pull out the little scale cloak from, and toss it into the.

Okay. So you got the scale cloak and the amulet stone. Is there a, there's a doorway to this room, right? There is. Is there a door? It is, it's closed. That's from the Dominox room. Okay. That's closed.

All the way to Dominox room. Maybe keep it closed. And that's the only exit. Honestly, we're going to have to. From this chamber, yeah. We're going to have to set up here. There that's the only exit. Honestly, we're going to have to. From this chamber, yeah. We're going to have to collapse the door. Yeah. There's nothing left of us.

Yeah, let's identify them and then rest the rest. And then pass out. I'm just going to hold the amulet and try to look around. What the fuck is this? I love you, bro. I love you, identify. What the fuck? Just shake it. What the fuck is this thing?

You take the stone and... the enchantment within it is a... It's interesting. It's a roughly infused piece of Ruidian glass, a roughly infused piece of Ruidian glass, like you had seen before. But the way that this has been prepared, it is an extremely powerful,

more or less an arcane battery for a certain amount of magic, which means it's either used as a means to draw power to regain spell slots for a time, or to possibly power something, you're uncertain. But you get the sense that this has a finite amount of spell slots that can be drawn from it before it eventually breaks.

And because these are good Zenith-vice spells, I will say it has nine spell slots total that can be drawn from it before it eventually breaks. Because it's an If I spell, I will say it has nine spell slots total that you can pull from it. So you could do a ninth-level spell in it? If you had a ninth-level spell that you can learn, you could do it once, but you can use an action to essentially draw the power from it to regain spell slots. Similar to like, Ra, the sword.

Kind of like that, yeah. Caleb has one. And there's a spell in it now? No, it's just a battery of arcane power. It can fill slots. Soul stone. All that, yeah. Caleb has one. And there's a spell in it now? No, it's just a battery of arcane power. It can fill a stone. Yeah. Raw material. Yeah, check out the armor, yeah. That's nuts, are you kidding?

I know it's powerful, but like, Yeah, you have the cloak armor, you have the soul anchor. She wants powerful things. Just juice. Yeah, she wants juice. I'm going to check out the cloak as well. The cloak as well? Yeah.

Okay. What the fuck is this? What the fuck is this? This one comes with a cloak. Wow, this is gorgeous. You get the soul anchor in the bag as well, right? Present invitation, just going to clean it up. Yeah, yeah, soul anchor.

Right, do I have that? Yeah, I'm going to clean up the armor as she's looking at it, so she can get a better idea. What is it? It can get a better idea. What is it? It's like a burgundy scaled cloak of metal scales. It's pretty. Magic armor appears as a half cloak of burgundy scales.

When you attune to it, the cloak liquefies, adheres to, and contours to your skin. Contours, sorry. Contours. Contours to your skin. With a textured red scaled appearance across your torso, the armor can be worn under normal clothes and it doesn't impede bodily functions. Once you put it on, it can be-

You can pee in it. You can pee pee in it. It can't be removed unless you choose to do so or you die. At which point the armor liquefies off your body and becomes the cloak. You can't take it off? While wearing the armor, you have resistance to poison damage

and a plus two bonus to AC. Yo. The armor also doesn't impose disadvantage on dexterity stealth checks. Thank you. That feels like a cheddar. That feels like a cheddar. That feels pretty cheddar.

Well, I don't know, I mean. Cover my body in scales, why don't you? Well, I just feel like you just got here. Plus, this one doesn't have the big, as much as it wants to. No, that's just right. No. That's just right. I don't know if that's the right thing. You would rather give that to the coward than me?

What is your answer? The Soul Anchor, you haven't? Ashley, you have one more? Then if he identifies, go. I do have one more identify. We have the Soul Anchor from... Oh. I would love to take a look at that.

Okay. Tammy. I'm really going to need a nap-nap. It's low. Well, I have one more thing. It's 20. You take the Soul Anchor, and it is a gem about so large. Grass-like. It's way too large.

It doesn't weigh much. It has a number of darkened runes across it that were carved in that bound its previous entity, but Soul Anchors are designed specifically to contain and bind powerful entities to it. They've been used historically to, like you know, you've heard Thordak, the Cinder King, was bound to one of the most

impressively built soul anchors that to a time kept him at bay. This one was powerful enough to contain a grand demon for some time before that bond was broken with its death. So now it is not bound to anything. Do you know how to bind something to it? Do you learn that with identify?

No, but you learn that with a practitioner of powerful magics. You've only had a guy. Yeah, you got a guy in the back. As Essek's cleaning off his gloves. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Essek, come here, please. Of course, sorry, I'm shaking off some bad habits.

SAM and LAURA and LAURA and LAURA and LAURA and LAURA and Wow. Was it the transformation that made your 9th-level spell not hit? I would prefer us not to mention that again in the future. It is extremely impressive when it works. Please, believe you me. Sure, sure, sure. It would've been really cool.

Look, that little tiny rock looked like it was going to do a lot. Soul Anchor is extremely rare. They require quite amount of powerful magic and infusing of particular enchantments over time, yes. The materials are expensive, and depending on the nature of what is being bound, the magics required to do so are extremely well protected.

How fast can you bind something once you have that ability? I mean, it requires a lengthy ritual, but it can be done depending on what you infer. You are so clever. I just, you know, we have a Ludinus. Right. Does it have limitations? Generally, the Soul Anchors require you to

specifically bind it to an entity that is in proximity over a period of time. I was thinking of our other problem. Oh, well, I think it... Same. What are you guys talking about? I was thinking this might be a solution to our unwanted guest. If we could separate them long enough.

I don't know how we do that. Wait. How long is long? We leave her here until we figure it out. Like a minute, an hour? I'd have to do some research. I have not done these bindings before, but I can find the information for it.

This might be something that can... We tempt her out and suck her in. Yeah. Honestly, we could even put her through the funnel afterwards. Is she not destroyed? Hilarious. No.

She is just hard to kill. I haven't been back with you very long, but sorry. She, they have caused more trouble for us in this short amount of time than anything. We fought a grand demon and various creatures, dominox, and some of us didn't take a scratch. And I'm sorry, but you've hurt us worse than anyone. Yeah, that's why we need to help her.

Yeah, I think we got to figure it out before we can do anything else. Does this person inside you give you power? Mm-hmm. Don't you need power? She is powerful. She's plenty powerful. Without the thing inside her?

Yeah. Yes. You sure about that? Why can we not just excise and banish the creature, then? Say again? Why don't you what? Why can we not just excise and banish, destroy the creature? We tried it. We tried it.

We tried even killing her on her own. She's very smart. She's very clever, and she does not want to go. He takes the Solenka crystal and looks it over. Now, there are certain enchantments that bind and harness power. This is not a common Solenka. bind and harness power. This is not a common soul anchor. This is something,

this is Aeorian development. If you tell us we could have used it in that fight, I'm... No, but perhaps the ritual can be prepared and these signatures, these runes can be altered to where it is bound and still useful. You could use them together? Do you know how to do it? She could keep her powers.

I could try. I need to get back to my laboratory, though. Yeah. Is our business here complete? I think so. I'm pretty sure, although I'm tired. How do you feel about camping here for the night? Because coming here was difficult.

Correct. Leaving here isn't too bad, and actually, and you watch the Impositor's book, it's the getting here that's the challenge. Leaving within specifically bound magics is not as difficult. And I have something my partner has shown me. Impositor, a piece of chalk. It means to draw a circle on the ground,

carving a series of runes and small shapes around. Does this one massive sweep that looks like this extremely elegant filigreed S and pulls back the symbol. When I finish this circle, it will glow for a short time. Step through rapidly and in advance, know that I was not expecting company and haven't had time to clean up.

We're going to judge you so hard. Give me a second just to put myself together. And I'm going to stand up and crawl my way over to that dome, that interesting broken glass dome. I'm going to pull out of my pocket a little bit of scrap metal and just quietly place it right in front of it. MATT and MATT say, MATT and MATT sigh. Welcome home.

Welcome home, buddy. Okay, let's go. And then get up and crawl over to where y'all are standing. What the fuck was that about? I was hoping. I know you did. Chet, did you see anything

when you went around by the orb thing that used to be there? Did you see anything there? A plaque, anything? Just looks busted. There were symbols. Yeah? I mean, I could have Essek look at it,

but it seems like whatever was here, Ludinus took with him. Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter at this point. Well. To safer places, then? Well, it's been wonderful fighting with you all. I wish you good luck on your journey. What the fuck are you talking about?

Journey where? Aren't you going to kill Ludinus? I mean, where do you think you're going? To kill Ludinus? Yeah, you're coming with us. By yourself? If I must, yes. Because you are so capable? I mean, I didn't get knocked out three times.

We rescued you from a broom closet. You were stuck in a broom closet. Bleeding in a broom closet. I could have probably gotten out at any point. I think he probably could have gotten out. Extreme circumstances makes allies of the strangest fellows. I think you're with us until this is done.

Even though you serve maybe the most shady of the gods that we saw in that vision. Well, I don't know if you need to stay with us until we don't even know you. What do you want to know about me? I want to know, what do you want? What did you think of that whole thing? The fighting your friend? No, in the orb. What are your thoughts? What do you feel? What do you want? What did you think of that whole thing? The fighting your friend?

No, in the orb. Like, what are your thoughts? What do you feel? What do you want? I thought that the Prime Deities are squabbling children who don't deserve the power that they have. I have a suggestion,

which is we get in this fucking teleport circle that's about to happen, and then we have ourselves a nice couple rounds of what the fuck is up with that with our new fucking friend. Let me find out. I will cross over to the symbol I've painted on the wall and kneel before it. Oh god, another one.

And pray to the Lord of Hells for guidance. Do I trust these people? Can they serve your purpose? Yeah, we're done. Or do I go it on my own? Give me some sort of sign of guidance. Yeah, we turn around. Yeah, we're done. Shit, they're gone.

Please, hurry up. I think they're actually leaving. I think they're leaving soon, so like, so I'll just pray and look for any sort of sign. You close your eyes and try and reach out to connect your prayer with the Lord of the Hells. And after a few beats of silence, you open your eyes

onto the sprayed, inky symbol that has strewn across the wall and sigh deeply at the lack of response before your eyes catch the long tendrils, the singular blackened drips of the ichor that begin to form into bigger ones and then form into bigger ones. You count them as eight singular drips

that all eventually come together into one. It seems like too big for a party. It'd take a long time to make decisions, but if this be your will. All right, I, oh shit, they're gone. You look back, and the circle is glowing, and Essek's like, you have to come right now. Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!

Good luck. Get in! Is that a cowbell? I would have taken just a stone from this room. I wanted to do the same thing. I'm doing the same thing. You're doing what? We're both picking up a little stone.

Just a rock from the craziest place on the planet. I'm sure I have some stuck somewhere at this point. From Letters Home. I also scooped up an amulet a couple of games ago. Oh, you did. And haven't looked at it yet. Awesome. From where? We should identify that one.

When we were, when Essek was like, don't touch anything. Don't touch anything. And I scooped up a red. That's why I came out with the amulet. I very specifically do not look at any, yeah. I'm comfortable. What do we see in Essek's house? Dun dun dun.

Dude, I mean. So you arrive. Actually, you know what would be best? Leen, if you wouldn't mind describing the interior of the abode that Caleb and Essek share. Why is it so messy in here? So this is the, I don't trust anybody whose house isn't a mess.

This is the house that they live in? Correct. Wherever their shared laboratory would be, because he has not returned to his home laboratory. He has not returned to the Dynasty in a long time. I can't remember. Oh boy. Well, in Rexxentrum, I would think that Essek's partner and he have a not well-crafted, but not ostentatious home,

not small as the home that Bren grew up in, but again, not big and flashy. Simple, enough room to have guests when needed. Not too far from the school that shaped Bren into Caleb and where Caleb teaches from time to time. And there is also in their laboratory in the back, a dedicated corner of the room that leads into the tower. It's right next to the sex room. Poor, poor bitch. Every room is the sex room.

Nice. Speaking of spatter. Do not blacklight this house. Nope. Symbolize Moody's. What? We did that magical bead manifest from. God.

It is very Zemnian, but there are artifacts and mementos all about the house from their travels together and of their friends that they share. Lots of memories, lots and lots of memories. And it is a mess. Yeah, stepping into this chamber, it is cluttered. There are books pressed in haphazard piles,

some lazily open, some that are left down, their spine open, which Eskimo D rushes over and sets it straight. But it is welcoming. It is homey. There are smells of a lingering scent of herbs that are drying on one wall for various magical material component uses.

There's also smells of sulfur and other burned chemicals that are set into the stone around you and the wood around you to the point where it's always present a little bit. And small and cramped and as cluttered as it may be, it is welcoming. As you all step through Eskimo City. Please, once more,

I'm extremely embarrassed. Out of here, please, where it's more comfortable. There are seats upstairs in our study. I will make some tea, and then I will get to researching this. Looks back to you. Just revert my gaze as I'm very embarrassed. Laudna. Mm-hmm?

Are you all right? No. Good. Acknowledging these traumas is important. Sometimes you're uncertain what you're capable of until the worst people take advantage of you. I have been... I have been around long enough to see this happen

to people I care about, before I met them and after. Try and do your best not to blame yourself. And if this is something we can do, and I will try, no promises, let this be the beginning of a new path to recovery. I'd like that very much. Good. Hold on to that. You said that it would almost reverse our roles, that I could...

She would be my puppet. If I can alter the enchantment enough, I don't see why I couldn't try, yes? How bound to her are you? Do you need her to survive? I guess not. But I am scared of what I might lose, especially with the oncoming battle ahead. Well, let's see what we can do

if you can make her your puppet instead. He clasps his hands over yours Make her your puppet instead. He clasps his hands over yours and holds your eye contact. All right. Get her some tea. Yeah. There might be some stale cookies in the kitchen. You are welcome to them.

I don't know, you said she's still with you, yes? I can feel her faint. Do you know how long till she'll be back? I think that depends on me. Then we need to hurry. Talk amongst yourselves. And he goes and takes his heavy coat off and puts it on the rack, and you can see he gets a more comfortable robe

and throws it over, throws a scarf over his shoulder that he smells for a second, and then just goes down into the laboratory himself. I'm going to grab your hands and just gently lead you into the laboratory himself. I'm going to grab your hands and gently lead you into the living area. Who drew those dicks on the wall?

Let's get you some tea. How's everyone else, though? Orym and Ashton, you took quite a beating. I'm sorry. I honestly have always suspected you would get knocked out pretty quick. I am very impressed. Ow. Orym's going to weakly sit. You sat her down? I sat her down. I'm going to start telekinetically bringing over a teapot. Normally it's my job to get you water. start telekinetically bringing over a teapot. Normally it's my job to get you water.

Feels good to be able to help. I'm going to sit down next to you, except my feet are just hanging off the edge of the couch. I'm just going to lie down on the floor in front of the couch while this all goes down. A hand rests on your hand, and while I'm talking, little tiny tendrils of vine and flowers start to wrap around your hand and your forearm. I'm so sorry that the world is moving so fast that we

couldn't take the time to help you. No, no. You know, when all of that was going on, lost in the chaos and shadow, I distinctly remember having a thought. If there was anyone here who were to finish the job put me down. I remember thinking, I hope it's seedling. I hope it's Auron. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't... I don't want that.

I don't want that either. Maybe it's because I know. You have the ability to do what's right. Not a lot of my choices have panned out, Laudna. I don't know if Dorian will ever be able to trust me again. You're not as bad as you think. I'd rather kill a god than kill you. We really are quite a fucked up family. I'm going to go to the kitchen and get some stale cookies. See if they've hidden liquor.

Oh no, Jack, come on. Shit. They're terrible. They're terrible. I am going to kill you. I was going to say, you said there was. Oh, go ahead. I was going to just pull Fearne aside for a second,

if that's all right. Clop, clop. Clop, clop, clop, clop. Oh, look at these hands. Clop, clop, clop. Double claps. You fought look at these guys. Clap, clap, clap. Double claps. You fought bravely back there. Thank you.

It was impressive. Thank you very much. You did pretty good yourself with your two balls. They swing. They swing low. Yeah, they swing real low. When you asked me how I felt about what we saw, it frightened me a little bit. Yeah.

Just how much I was finding my heart agreeing with what Ludinus was saying. Hmm. No matter how this ends up, someone will become much more powerful, and we have to figure out the right person or people to give that power to. Yeah, I guess.

I guess that's one way to look at it. You trust your friends enough to make that decision with them? Yes, I do. I do. All right. You don't? I don't know them. You don't know. Listen, I've been with them for a very long time.

We've been under very different types of stress and... There's a little fly buzzing around that my tail just sort of. Sorry, go on. That's okay. It's great that you have so many different things you can flail around. Appendages? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's a great, that's, yes, they're wonderful. I love my friends, and I think they're more than that. They're family to me. Speaking of, that's what was relatable to me, of watching the gods, is they're all family, too. All of them.

All of them. Even the ones that are kind of mean. You were hurt in the fight. May I heal you? Oh, I mean, if you want to. I mean, I can always just sleep it off. But yeah, sure. I'll reach out my weird hoof hand.

No, but don't you have hand- Do you have job hands, too? Look at the art, baby. I have these three weird, anyway. Oswald Cobblepot. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, straight up. TMNT hands.

And if you'll allow me, I just brush your hair back and just cuff the back of your neck and look into your eyes. Oh, wow. I am on the ground just your neck and look into your eyes. Oh, wow. I am on the ground just going, oh, for fuck's sake. And I will lay hands and pump 30 points of. You're going to pump?

Lay hands and pump. Yeah, back into you. Sam's back at the table. So much! 30 points of healing? Mm-hmm. Oh, I feel great. Second heal. Right after he pumps, I'm going to Oh, I feel great. Second heal.

Right after he pumps, I'm going to stick a plate between you. Cookies. Oh, thank god. I don't eat sweets. What do you eat? Bitter things. Wow. I'm going to go around,

give some cookies to Dorian. Yes, please. Known for Chet, since he already ate all of them. I'm going to lean over the chair that Orym is sitting in. I'm going to lean over the back and just kiss the top of his head and hold the cookies around. How do you sit?

I bring him over to Laudna. Sit back in a chair. So do I sit. I sit in a chair, too. Oh god. Just. You think I sit in a chair with all four limbs? Could you just... Well, I don't know. Do you curl them up?

I will demonstrate how I sit in a chair. And as I do, I notice the dicks on the wall, too. Yeah. And just cock my head. There's a lot. Hmm. It's quite the armor. It's kind of strange. It's really, really great artwork, though. This just doesn't seem like it would,

it doesn't go, you know? These are okay, but if we stay here for a day, I saw a vegetable garden out on the side. Maybe we can get some roughage. Get regular again. Some roughage would be great. Do you think there are nuts in these? No.

Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh no! I got rid of all my lamb heads. Lamb head is gone. I used it all. Oh, the muscle! Definitely almonds.

Oh no! I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's okay! It's okay! Oh! Yes, please! Oh god, no! That's amazing. Oh, buddy.

Survives fighting multiple demons and is taken out by almonds. That just happened to me. Dicks on the wall that Laura created, is there any portraits or anything on these walls anywhere? Yeah, you can see there's a couple that are beautiful landscapes, like the Zemnian countryside.

You can see the rolling hills of Pride Hills and the grass fields blowing in the wind. In the distance, you can see rivers pouring across and the far-off, shadowed shape of Rexxentrum before it reaches the mountain range beyond. You see another one that's a beautiful vision of a little farmhouse. It's just very simple, just this nice little farmhouse.

It seems fuzzy, it's almost like a painted memory. You see, well, what else would we see in there, you think? I mean, I think there would be Jester sketches. There would probably also be portraits. I'm just seeing if I can finally link Widogast and Lionett to Essek. I feel like Jester would have painted them. I feel like there would would have painted them.

I feel like there would be drawings and etchings of the nine. Okay, to that point, in sitting here for a bit, preparing tea and resting, looking around the house, you do eventually see one portrait that is kept,

not out in front, but when you go and check in on Essek in the laboratory. You didn't see it at first as you were making your way in, but you can see on the stone wall to the side, there is a soft portrait of the two of them. You see the shorter hair in this image, but the same Essek who returned, went to and from Aeor with you. You see

him sitting with his hand on his shoulder, on his hand behind him, resting on his shoulder. A familiar, well-kept visage of the Celebwydogast that you had encountered not that long ago when the Malleus Key first punched through to the Moon of Illomen. We know him. the Malleus Key first punched through to the Moon of Ill-Omen. We know him. What is that? I'm sorry, I'm in the middle. This man. Oh, that is my partner. We know him.

You know him? How? When? What? At the Key. Yeah, at the Malleus Key. And he had a friend with him, Beau? Beau Regarde, yes, yes. We're quite familiar.

She's very attractive. Oh, you know her as well? Yes. Okay, does she come over also? I'm just kidding. On occasion. Sorry. She and her wife have visited a number of times, yes. Oh, does she come over also? I'm just kidding. On occasion. Sorry. She and her wife have visited a number of times, yes. Oh, okay.

Are you in touch with your wife? Are they all right? As far as I can tell, we've been keeping in contact as much as we can. They're off on their particular mission. Good, I'm glad. How recently? About a week ago.

Okay. He checks in, but also has to conserve his time and ability. Wow. He's endured a lot. He can endure far more. Nevertheless, I found the tomb I was looking for. I need to begin preparing a ritual. Are there any of you who are somewhat

inclined with knowledge of the Arcanum? I'm going to go pick some green beans. I'm going to lie here and hope someone brings me a bottle of something alcoholic. When it comes to blood, I'm, you know. Please, nothing with blood. I mean, yes, I have a little bit. I can certainly help someone know more.

I could probably help, yeah. Oh yeah? I don't know. So you say this entity is bound to you, right? Bound into your flesh and blood? Yes. And you are one of blood magic. Hemocraft.

Mm. Interesting. Do you have blood? Yes. And you have some knowledge of? She's very thick. It sounds like the, sorry, what was your name? Oh, my name is Fearne.

Fearne. Oh, wow. Do you know our names? I overheard some of you calling each other things. His name's Chetty. Cheddars. Go down the line. King. Cheddars. Go down the line. What do you think everyone's name is?

Oh, Cheddars? Delilah? Don't hurt my feelings. Dorian. Yes. Fearne. Laudna. Laudna. I overheard someone say Oprah, I believe.

Yep. That's personal. And Ash. Wow. Yes. And I am Brayus Doomsseed. Brayus, oh wow. Doomsseed? Wow.

Doomsseed's all one word? Yes. Is that a family name? No, how's Daddy Doomsseed doing? It was a name word? Yes. Is it like a family name? No, how's Daddy Doomsday doing? It was a name given to me. By yourself? Did you give yourself that name? Bestowed upon me.

You bestowed it upon yourself. By an ex-lover? No, by my oath. Okay. By himself. It's cool. And Essek, right? That is correct, yes. That was an interesting trick,

turning into a goat and then throwing a bead that did nothing. Are you a mage of some sort? No, no, no, go. I'm going to beat him. Are you a mage of some sort? No, no, no, go. I'm going to beat it. Uh, he is going to... I'm so excited. Could you have more of them, Scott?

He's going to say, I'm just a hobbyist, and tap your shoulder. Uh-oh. He goes back to his book. Oh no. Your help, obviously. Your help, maybe. I want to help.

Yes, all right. Ooh, carrots, too. You try and move, and your armor won't move from its point in space. Come on. You can't stand on that. I'm so happy. Oh. Oh.

Oh, it hurts to laugh. Oh, it hurts to laugh. Oh, it hurts to laugh so much. Oh. I'll just wait here. What can we do? You want a carrot? Shut up. Here in the late of the night.

Orobloc's back in the basket, full of preemies and carrots. Yep, go in. Here in the middle of the night. Orymwalk's back of the basket, full of preemies and carrots. Yep, go in. Here in the middle of the Rexxentrum night, the stillness here in response to the darker shades of the past days, the hint of joviality and the whisper of promise brings a rolling glimmer of hope

as a handful of you gather here into the late hours of the evening, along with Essek, to begin iterating on, rescribing, and eventually preparing a ritual that could be an opportunity to change the fortune of one Laudna. Oh my gosh. And that's where we'll pick up next.

Oh! That motherfucker! Yes! Holy heck. Don't worry, guys, we got the top vines on it. Right? Yeah, the tippy top. Tippy, tippy top.

Tippy top. Dang! That's so much to process. God, that's a lot to process. Oh my god. Or we'll make it worse. I hope it's that one. Make it, make it. No!

No! He's got it. I love a little, you know. Who is this? It's my guy. Demon Shell Armor. Anybody? I mean, Armor's cool.

She's got an AC of 14. You're going to get a deny. Are you full up on the tuner, right. Are you full up on the tune, right? Are you full up on the tune? It counts as a breastplate, I think. Yeah, it's a half plate. A half plate, sorry. I don't think sorcerers can wear it.

Somebody who can use it. I'll do it myself. Somebody else wants it. Do you have room for it in your atonement? I'll make room. Get that atonement. What does a make room mean? I think he does have room. Well, so we'll pick up here next week

and see where this takes us. So thank you all so much for joining us. We love you very much, and is it Thursday yet? We're going to bed. We're going to bed.