Critical Role - C3E107 Under the Arch Heart's Eye

Episode Date: September 19, 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. TMA, TMA! Marisha, you're up next. Oh. Yay. So this week, we dropped a bunch, like so much, so many announcements

highlighting all of the fall programming we have lined up on Beacon, Twitch, and YouTube, pretty much heading into 2025, which is gonna be our 10-year anniversary. What? You're lying. 10 years? 10 years, baby. We're old. That includes the Re-Slayers Take season two

and campaign three of the beloved D&D podcast, Tales from the Stinky Dragon. Stinky Dragon! I'm so excited for that one. We're so excited to give these storytellers a new home on Beacon. We're also bringing back Narrative Telephone. That's right, your favorite

from the pandemic, remember that? And more stories from the midst cosmos with Unend. There's so much more to come, and you can read all about all the details on KurtRoll.com and Beacon.tv, or you can check out our latest State of the Roll video over on YouTube from moi.

Is that another language? Yeah, it's German. Oh, Ford. How good. Your eyes look so good. Yeah, they look so good. We all need tiny faces so that we can get our eye makeup done first. This eyeliner that's happening right here

is a really cool touch. Sorry, crushed it. Fun fact, Sam walked into the makeup room when I was getting it done, and he was like, why do you get makeup? And I was like, for your fucking bullshit. Did you want eye makeup, Sam? Did you want to look good? I don't know. I don't say no to that. You have a Sam? Did you want to look good?

I don't know. I don't say no to that. You can put on a pretty face. I want to look good. It looks so good. You got stuff on your arm. Is someone getting attention in here? Yeah. Why is it me?

Don't you listen to them. Matt, hack hacked you. Yeah, there we go. That was the cut I was looking for. Oh. Are we quitting? You just kept talking. MATT and LAURA laugh

You just didn't shut up. It's just all of you just kept fucking going. You're right there. MATT and LAURA laugh You just kept talking. You just kept me. MATT and LAURA laugh Honey, are you listening? Honey? Yeah.

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Oh, get ready It's Thursday night And welcome back. SAM and LAURA Welcome back. So, last we left off, Bells Hells, after being... Oh no. What is happening? It wasn't happening. It's like nothing's dangerous at all

in the middle of the table. Everything's going to be fine. Bells Hells, after receiving formal titles from the Voice of the Tempest, amongst the many movers and shakers of Exandria who are gathered in the center of Vasselheim to decide how to tackle the threat of Ludinus, the Vanguard, and all that seems to be emerging dangerously

from the Red Moon Ruidus. You all heard word that one of Ludinus' simulacrum was traveling with the Sorrowlord, Zathura, to connect with the Unseelie Court for some semblance of an additional plot that hadn't been considered. Gathering your things, you all went and headed out to the Fey Realm,

meeting up with Nana Mori. There, in the Ligament Manor, you gathered your things, you all went and headed out to the Fey Realm, meeting up with Nana Mori. There, in the Ligament Manor, you gathered your thoughts, your plans, and set out to the Shrine of Gilded Gifts, an abandoned temple in the center of an abandoned Fey city, where this meeting was to take place. As you carefully infiltrated the surroundings of this temple, you caught the arrival of both the dark fey, Unseelie, emissary and its surrounding guard, and Ludinus, the Sorrowlord, and his terrifying dragon, Glomglad. After quietly, with the aid of, by the way, Ira Wendigoth, the Nightmare King, of who you called from his hiding spot on Ruidus to help you, you quietly wiped out the entirety

of the exterior guard without being noticed. And upon surrounding the exterior of the massive temple grounds, immediately brought to life the stone statue of the Archheart in the middle of this Archheart temple to distract them. In that chaos, Fearne, you rushed in and turned one of the two central pillars of this temple floor into mud, which both cracked some of the structural foundation of this temple and left two of the three emissary figures from the Unseelie currently held and with strain within the now muck-filled quicksand floor. As Glomglut,

the Sorrowlord, and Ludinus' simulacrum currently finish figuring out what is happening and turning in your direction as you spin to flee, the rest of you, just on the outskirts of this temple, either the front door or, in this case, Imogen and Laudna, who are in an upper floor looking in through a series of visual slits in the stone, we come to roll initiative. That fast, huh? Because we thought the dragon was this big,

but then it was this big. And we thought the statue was this big, but then it was this big. Much bigger, but then it was this big. We thought the statue was this big, and it turns out it's this big. Yeah. I thought it was this big. All righty. Shit roll. Okay.

Shit roll! Ooh, me too. Did you buffet? Can't roll. Shit roll! All right. All right. Discount code shitroll.

That counts. Real low. Maybe my lowest of the king. Oh, there's the Reza ones. Oh no! You critter'd yourself. All righty, so 25 to 20. Nope.

Oh. Oh, good, good, good, good. Woo-hoo, we just pack it in now. 20 to 15. 18. 17. 17. Oh good, Laudnasaur We just pack it in now. 20 to 15. 18. 17. 17. Oh good, Laudna's first. All right. Oops, Laudna.

Sorry, sorry, I got distracted by how bad that is. What, who? Laudna, two 17s. What's your dex, Brayus? It's one plus one. Oh, so I'm ahead of you, okay. I'm two. So Laudna, Chet, Brayus. And then Ashton. Oh, wait, what are you? 15. Oh, I'm ahead of you, okay? I'm two. So Laudna, Chet, Reyes, and then Ashton. Wait, what are you?

15. Oh, I'm 15, too. Rollies! Rollies. So we have Laudna, Chet, Reyes. I'm sorry, Laudna, Chet, Reyes. You're probably going to go ahead. Ashton, Fearne. Ashton, Fearne. Come on, Ashton, what was yours? What'd you guys have?

Ashton, what was your initiative? 15, 15. Yeah. Ashton. Reyes, Ashton. Ashton, what was your initiative? 15, 15. Yeah. Reyes, Ashton. Ashton, what was your initiative? 15. 15. 15, okay.

And then after you was? I was 15 as well. 15 as well, all righty. Yes. So that's an initiative. And Fearne. Sorry, I'm having to do a lot of initiatives here as well. What was the next one after Fearne? 14. 14, okay.

What's your dexterity? Plus four, 18. 18 dexterity? Well, okay. What's your dexterity? Plus four? 18? 18 dexterity? Well, yeah. Great, yeah, okay. There we go. Wait, who was after Fearne? Dorian. Dorian's after Fearne. I rolled an eight.

Something bad. Me too. Oh, rollies? Yeah, oh. Roll too. Oh, rollies? Rollies. Yeah, oh. Rollies. Dang, I got two. Jesus Christ. All right, so.

So he's, he. Is that the first time you've been last? Yes, this is the worst initiative. No, well, he's not last. I'm now last. Because of rollies, what'd you get? Because of rollies, I rolled a three. I rolled a two.

No, in rollies, you rolled a 17. I rolled that two. No, in rollies. You rolled a 17. I rolled that. That's what I rolled in rollies. That's sweet. Dead last. First in the campaign. First time in the campaign you've been last. Wow. Wow. Initiative with a plus five to my roll. Welcome to the food.

Incredible. It's going to go great, guys. It's going to go great. It's going to be fine. There is so much map on the table. To that point. Laudna. go great. It's going to be fine. There is so much map on the table. To that point. Oh man. Laudna. Oh boy. You're up first.

Fantastic. Half again. You currently, we had you out here. We had you face when we discussed our plan. I got the TLDR. Okay, okay, okay. I had you out here just for reference at the end of last episode,

but really you are on a secondary floor looking in from there, but you're over in this reference at the end of last episode, but really, you are on a secondary floor looking in from there, but you're over in this area from the outside of the temple. So you said you're trying to get in? Okay, okay, okay, okay. I still have Spider Climb up. You do. So first things first.

I'm the realest. God. I am going... Damn it. I am going to... Jenny, you're on deck. See, the Orym Seed is not fun. No, it's not.

Cast Mirror Image on myself. Okay, Mirror Image is up on you. Okay, and then... I'll go ahead and put this blue tag on you to represent Mirror Image. I'm going to bonus action. A Form of Dread. Describe to me how your Form of Dread

now appears with the current dynamic between you and Delilah. I haven't thought about this at all. Okay. It's like, it's because Laudna is super dumb right now. So it's like full,

spooky Victorian ghost realness, but her own version that's less influenced by Delilah. So it's like if Laudna was. My number one worst enemy. More creepy Victorian banshee than? Yeah, creepy Victorian banshee. Got it, awesome. Yes.

Basically what I looked like in the Travis Spooktacular. Gotcha, great, I do. It's that. All righty, so that's your bonus action. Your action, you want to stay put or you want to move? Can I just skitter inside and like, okay, can I see everything pretty clearly from here? Between the slit, you can see this area here.

But I also opened up a hole, remember. That's right, you did. So yeah, you actually have a pretty decent view from up here. If I can see anything, then I'll just stay put. How long is that going to last? Forever. She carved a hole. Oh, I thought it was like a magic.

Bloop, bloop, bloop. Okay, yeah, then I'll just stay put right here. Okay. Especially for, I'll stay put right here. You got it. Laudna finishes her go. Chetney, you're up with Brace on deck. So I'm still up. You're in your woven form

and you're just technically right outside the front of that, where that walkway ends. Yeah, I'm going to roll in and I'm going to come down the walkway as far as possible. I've got 40 feet. 40 feet of movement. That'll get you just past where Fearne is. I will actually stop right at Fearne.

Right at Fearne? Yeah. It's for an hour. The whole last is for an hour. I'm going to stop right at Fearne and I'm going to reach into the Bag of Holding. Okay. And I'm going to pull out Ludinus' notes that we snagged from his room when we found the harness,

like with the funnel, and that little thing of notes, and I'm going to hand her Ludinus' notes and say, Use this. You know what to do. I'll hand it to her, and I'm going to dip. What the fuck are you hand it to her and I'm going to dip. What the fuck are you giving me this for? I'm going to dip inside the doorway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay.

That's right, I'll mind talk stuff. Are you invisible? No. No. Are you doing the scratchy scratch? But I'm going to go inside the doorway with the remainder of the feet. No scratchy scratch? Okay, so move over the gate.

To Bran? Actually, could you move him? Oh, yes, yes, yes. I can do it? Putting a brand? Actually, could you move him? Yes. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes. I can do it. Thank you, sir. Is that a bonus action? Okay.

All right. I am going to, and as I leave her, I'm going to hit her. With my claw, I'm just going to flick. I'm going to reach around and pull down the collar on the back of her neck. Yeah. I'm going to pull the back of her dresser collar down and I'm going to slice across the back of her neck and I'm going to cast Brand of Castigation on Fearne.

Okay. What'd that do? It just happens once per long or short rest. Whenever you damage a creature with a weapon that has an active right, which I do, you can sear an arcane brand into that creature. The brand has the following features. You always know the direction of the creature,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, other stuff. So I'm going to use it, and I will roll to hit you. Sorry. Oh, that's good. One plus six for the Crimson Rites. That's seven plus six. 13 points of damage, unfortunately. 13 points of damage to you, Fearne.

And on the back of your neck, you feel this like burning brand into your back that says, CPOP Industries. Actually, no, it'll just be a rocking horse. Okay. Just a rocking horse. It sounds like pop rocks popping? Yeah. I'll tuck inside where I'm at.

13 points of damage, you said? 13. All right, you got it. Cool. That finishes your go. That brings us to Brayus. So Chetney's fast and small. Does it look like anyone saw him go in there? Can I see people?

He's a wolf. Oh. Yeah, he's wolf form. Does it look like people can see him? You're uncertain. But the dragon, at the end of the last game, the dragon did look down at her. It looked down into the hallway. Oh, so it's looking down the hall.

Yeah. So it already knows that there are other people in the hall with her. Okay, okay, okay, okay. And there's these rooms on the side, there's no other windows or anything ways in, are there? There are on the sides. There's little windows you can climb in.

Oh. Kind of wherever you see them on this. Wait, you could climb in from a window? You could climb into the outer hallway, but you don't look inside the actual central. Got it, got it, got it. I was like, gah! So there's nothing on this chamber. You don't see inside of it.

Correct, there's still the outer hallway. Got it. Shit. What nothing on this chamber. Correct, there's still that outer hallway. Got it. Shit. What you got, Raze? I mean, I didn't want to fuck anything up, but I want to do what Chetney did. Can I use my movement to dash on in, right past Fearne?

You could go into this window and you'd end up in this room. If I could go into the window and get close, but there's no door in there, is there? This one. Correct. That one does. That one, there is. You have to go around. It's actually faster to go through the front,

but if you go around the side, you go through the window and you're on the side. You can probably, I don't know. What's your movement? It's 30, but I think either way, I have to use 30 plus something else to get into that side room. Even if I went down the hall.

Correct, either way. Yeah, so I'm going to go outside. Okay. Movement 30, action dash. Okay. To climb in through the window. Okay. To get in there.

Where do you want to be placed, then? Opposite of Chetney. Opposite of Chetney, okay. And then bonus action, even closer to the door. There's a thing there. Oh. Bonus action. even closer to the door. There's a thing there. Oh. Okay. Bonus action. You're tangled in grass.

I'll, bonus action, I will inspire Fearne by just telling her, I couldn't help myself last night. I painted a painting of you. You did? I did. It's really good. Here, a painting of you. You did? I did. It's really good. Here, can I show you? Yes. To inspire you.

Oh my god! What? I was supposed to paint one for Chetney, but the brush just made you. I'm so sorry. Is that what your paintings look like? It's just so... It is so stunning. You're stunning.

Okay, go, go, go, go! Oh my god! Here, take it. Wow! Later, we'll do this later, go! Wow! What the heck? That's so cool! Wow, I feel amazing. You are definitely inspired.

I'm so inspired! Take your d6 inspiration die. Oh wow, you guys are putting so much confidence in me. Brace, that finishes your go? Yes, that's all I can do. Is there a whole frame store by your feet right now? Maybe. Okay. Okay. That is so cool.

Next up is going to be Ludmus' simulacrum. Ludmus, okay. Oh, yep, making a note. No, no, no! He's at the top. He's near the top. You guys didn't roll Crazy Initiative. You still got a few ahead of him, but. Oh no!

Oh no, oh no! He hops like that, too, when he goes. Oh no! He's Rhaegar. He knows what's up. What is he doing? He's getting up next to the dragon. Have they already called wise to us? He steps over to that space

and glances up over. After everyone shifts and turns around and sees the dragon look down, he steps around the central platform and glances in. Interesting. Hold tight and points his fingers. Go, go. Thank you, good. I got the his fingers. Go go. Don't you do it.

I'll roll it. You nice. Yep, that'll do it. I need you, Fearne, to roll a constitution. Is this who's casting? Actually, no, sorry. What's your hit points currently? Oh no. There's no save.

Hit. What's his finger up to? What's your current hit points? But they are 77. Your current hit points currently? Oh no. There's no save. Hit. What's this finger have done? What's your current hit points? But they are 77. Your current hit points are 77? Yeah. Okay. You are stunned. Oh, it's a power word, stunned. Okay, okay. He looks over to you

and just goes, and says a phrase in Elvish that you don't understand, but the minute your brain receives it, your whole body is wracked with a flash of pain. I counterspell it! You counterspell it. I can. Yeah. Oh, because she's right there.

It's our location, but maybe. What's your range? Well, theoretically. If she's stunned, 60 feet, right? The whole thing is at the window. Yeah. Woo-hoo! Oh, he is just in range.

Woo-hoo! Woo! Now, he is just in time. Ooh! It might not work, it might not work, it might not work! Now mind you, it's an 8th-level spell. Oh shit. 8th level?! Power with Stun is an 8th-level spell. He's a stunko! Go ahead and roll to see if you can. So we're rolling no matter what?

Like, if I cast it a higher level, it doesn't matter because we're still rolling, right? Well. You also didn't say it. You also didn't say it. So I assume it's space-level counterspell, unless you say it at what level still rolling, right? Well. You also didn't say it. You also didn't say it, so I assume it's space level counterspell, unless you say it at what level. Fine, fine, fine. Fine.

So yeah, so you just. There's no save on this, right? There's no save. If they're under a certain hit point threshold, they're just stunned. It's a powerful. What's the spell? What's he called? Power Word Stun. Power Word Stun. Yeah.

Well, it's under 100 points, right? Is that power? 150. Wow. 150? Oh, wow, I wouldn't have had a chance. That? Oh, wow, I wouldn't have had a chance. That's massive. Yeah, I wouldn't have had a chance. That's massive. That's just mean. Power word is mean.

All the power words are mean. Well, you have to roll to make sure. There's just enough number of years in between our and counting power words. So you roll and add your spell modifier, which is charisma, right? So you just roll and add your spell modifier, which is charisma, right? So you just roll and add your charisma. You're trying to beat an 18.

It's 10 plus the spell's level. 10 plus the spell's level? Correct. Just my charisma modifier? I'm just adding my charisma modifier? My spell? No, just your charisma modifier. Yeah, so you got to roll a 13 or higher.

A 13 or higher. Yep. You can do it. I hate this. I always hate this. You got it. Come on, come on. Let's go. Done. Come can do it. I hate this. 13 or higher. I always hate this. Come on, come on. Let's go. Done. Come on. It's done. You already did it. I've got the strength of the bow on my hands. No!

One. No! What is it? A 20 total. Yes! Yes! Oh my god. That's a 15. That's the whole plan.

It's my eye makeup. It's your eye makeup. Because he isn't aware of your presence, he does not have the ability to Counterspell. I won't let him, because normally he would Counterspell your Counterspell. But he was unaware of your presence. Yes!

He goes and releases the word as it begins to strike into you. Suddenly, the spells unravel and he goes, Don't jump. And glances up and sees both of you up through the hole immediately. I look like a Victorian ghost in a window, so I'm just like.

And someone who looks like Liliana going. In a window, perfectly tall. Yeah, exactly. Uh-oh. I look like a bad effect in a London dark history crawl. Yeah. With that, as the spell fizzles, he flicks his hand, He flicks his hand, his good hand,

and looks up and says, It seems we're being ambushed. That's going to end his turn. You are the realist. Ash, you're up first with Fearne on deck. Hey! You can call it a play. So.

You're about here underneath the ground. Watch. Psychically, I'm going to be asking about exactly how much quicksand is in this room and where it's sitting, vaguely, since I obviously can't see it yet, but how much of this floor is soft? You're uncertain. You haven't seen it.

Yeah, but I'm sure I'm getting a general... It's a 40-foot cube. A quick one. All right, well. It's a 40-foot cube. All right, 40-foot cube somewhere around here. That's fine. I'm diving in. I'm straight ahead and I'm towards the angle and I'm just going to go 40 feet to begin with. From where you are? Yeah.

Okay. I'm going going to go 40 feet to begin with. From where you are? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to see if I can, and gently I'm just going to be watching the, seeing where the break in the floor is. You glide through and then right there emerge here? Oh, I'm not emerging yet. Okay. I'm just figuring out where it is. There is just

a heavy section of muck right above you. Okay. So how far down does it go, out of curiosity? Best that you can tell here. You'd have to coast to figure out, but you've now entered, there's 10, 15 feet of this muck right above you, kind of swim through, which, from what she told you,

means there's another 25 feet before it comes. Okay, so I'm going to keep going into the edge of, I'm going to take my 40 feet and go to the edge of the muck. This is your 40 feet here. Oh, that is 40 feet right there. Uh, all right. I'm going to take a dash for my second movement, and I'm going to go to the edge of it,

just peek out and get a sense of where that column is. Okay, over here. Can I see the column? From here, yes. You peek out, and first thing you do is you just up from underneath the ground, you see the massive form of Glomglad, its tail thrashing as it's now getting low,

and you see it lowering its head in the center of the tunnel, staring towards Fearne. On its back, you see Sarlord Zathura is holding onto the reins as Ludinus shouts, looks over and follows his gaze up to see the window where your two friends currently have been made eye contact with. The two other guardians, the emissary

and one of the guardians are both restrained in the muck. So last question, I can swing my hammer underground, right? You can, yeah. All right. I'm going back under. I'm going to use the rest of my movement now that I know where the column is. I'm just going to start dashing towards that column. Back under. Mind you,

what I will say is swinging, because your hammer is not affected by this, any attacks you make are going to be with disadvantage because you're having to fight through the actual rock and stone. I'm going to do it. All right, so that's 20 feet this way. Another 20 feet, you get about there.

Straight there, yep. That'll do it. Okay. Smart room. That finishes your go. Fearne, you're up with. Straight there, yep. That'll do it. Okay. Smart room. If that finishes your go, Fearne, you're up with Dorian on deck. That was awesome. Okay. Here it is. You got this, Chet. All right, so.

Getting there, getting the papers from Chet, I'm like, okay, I guess it's now or never. I got to go talk to Dad. I'm going to turn around and I'm going to start walking back into the chamber. Okay. Fuck it. I'm going to walk through.

I'm going to scream, Daddy! We need to talk! Hand me your mini, please. Ludinus is lying to you, and he is betraying you! Get me out of here! Get me out! Make a deception check for me. Or, I mean, the context of this.

That's deception. That's persuasion. That could be persuasion. That could be. I'm not lying. Well, you know he dislikes him, but you do not know if there's ever an intent to necessarily deceive him. But he has done stuff to fake creatures.

He has. And the persuasion would be, take me, get me out of here. Take me with you. Okay, so, okay. Or could be. All right, so this is not trying to convince him that Ludinus is against him. This is just convincing him to listen to you

and take you with him. Yeah, get me out of here. Okay, I'll allow you to do persuasion. Okay, okay. But he is not, we'll see where any of this goes, because right now, this is a bit of a tangle. This is a bit of a tangle, this is a bit of a tangle. Okay. Oh god.

In a box here, it just says, spreading my legs. I said it, and I was like, I'm going to do this. Spread your legs. I'm ready to see the world. Just spread my legs. Where it belongs. You know, one of these days,

I'm just going to Homer Simpson into oblivion, and it's going to be so nice. Yep. Okay. Helps, helps. Okay. 24. Ooh!

There was a little mouth on her nose. The Korean Doll just make that noise. There's a little mouth, it's all pent up. I thought other people would celebrate with me, but they didn't. We don't know what it means! Also, to who I think is the emissary, he's betraying you two!

Ooh, Jesus. Get out of here safely! You've spent your round talking to your father. Okay, fine. Let's just see what I can throw out. No, fair enough. Oh, peace! So yeah, so you can shout out to the emissary,

but the emissary is currently trying to get out of this. Jeez, you stalked me in front. All kinds of crazy stuff's happening. All right, so your father hears this, and he's still helmeted. You don't see any physical reaction at all. What you do see is Glumglut, the head still lowered, the front of its mouth opens up,

and that dark fire energy is starting to billow within its throat. That finishes your movement and your action. Do you have a bonus action as well, or is that your turn? Oh, you should have guided yourself. Shit. Well, knowing, can I see Glomgluk getting ready?

Yeah. It's like watching a plasma cannon beginning to charge up. Okay, I'm just going to stop and I'm just going to take a knee. Okay. And just look at him. Like, no harm here. Okay. Dorian, your turn. Oh my god. Guidance yourself.

I'm still outside? All right, I got 40 feet of movement. I'll use it to get in and the most direct route to whatever's this noise going in. It's about 20 feet to get in. So you have 10 more feet. You can get into that hallway if you'd like to. Okay, I'll get into the hallway.

So where-ish? A little bit further that way. About there is where you are with 30 feet. Oh my god, you can't see anything either? You can see Fearne kneeling and see the thrashing of Glumgutt's tail as its claws get down on the ground and you see its mouth open.

The light getting brighter as Fearne is kneeling in the face of it. Oh my god. So it's clear there's an attack coming. It's about to hit you with something real hard. Maybe not. Maybe not. Maybe not. Maybe not. No, dude.

Could be like, Daddy's going to stab me from happening. I believe in Daddy. Imminent danger, smushed. Oh my god. I need your reaction. Oh, this is so stupid. I'm going to cast, I'm going to cast.

I have to make sure I can dispel it. It's scary. This is a journey. I'll cast Force Cage around Fearne immediately I have to make sure I can dispel it. It's scary! This is a journey. I'll cast Force Cage around Fearne immediately because I don't want her to get one shot and killed by the dragon. Does that protect against things? Yeah, it can't let any matter or anything in.

Force Cage is huge. I know, but I'm about to watch my friend get melted by a dragon, so it's my... You're about to be melted by a dragon. It could also act like a cork in that hallway, maybe, and protect you guys. Oh yeah. Oh, that's true. It is big. Is it that big?

Or it's a cage. It can be that big or a smaller saw. It can be smaller if you want to. I'm just saying, it looks like this strange, immaterial cage. It surrounds them. 15 feet will block the whole. It's big in latticework, or it's small, tight, and point.

So we can use this in the hallway. Yeah, that's fine. That's kind of what I'm thinking. Oh, it's a nice plug. Look at that. Save my friend. Yeah, okay. Kind of saves everybody. It's pretty cool. Okay. I like it.

I like it. Cool. Cool. Cool. If you're in trouble, just moving forward, can she see and hear things in there? Yeah. Yeah. You just can't get through. But none of us can go through. She's trapped in, and they can't get through.

Great. Right. Okay. You finish casting Force through. She's trapped in and they can't get through. Okay. Okay. You finish casting Force Cage. Is there movement? Notice action, anything? You're good? And then. You can just barely see Chetney and Brayus

along the distance of the two further hallways. They're against the side of the opening waiting. Yes. And she, yeah, and then I'll just say, I'm sorry to put you in a cage. I know you wanted to spread your legs and be free. Don't put her in a box. And I was like, but you're doing great so far, I think.

Pretty love it. And then I'll give her my bardic inspiration as well. Okay. They can... Well, she already spent his. You already spent it? I spent it. Okay, then I'll give you mine. Which is a d?

Right now it's a 10. 10, d10. You probably did that before you cast the Force Cage, right? Oh, I can't. Oh, does it count as a spell? No, no, no, I mean, it's fine. It's just, I think it can't go through the Force Cage. Oh. Well, it's not a directed,

I'd say because the inspiration comes from within. Oh, great. And also, Force Cage, since you're casting it in this scenario, I'll say because the inspiration comes from within. Oh, great. I'll, and also, Force Cage, since you're casting it in this scenario, I'll say for the purposes of permeability, because you're the one who set it, not an opponent, you're not trying to prevent your own inspiration getting through, I'll allow that to pass.

Thanks for the gift. Thanks for the gift and my poor order of operations. No worries, dude, that's how it goes. How often do you cast that Force Cage? It's a 10. Right? It's a 10. When your friends get just melted by a fucking dragon. All right.

The turn finishes. It's now Glomglet's go. The energy is forming up inside the mouth, and you watch the Sorrowlord, looking down, seeing this cage there, pulls up on the reins, and Glomglet fires dark flames that go above where the cage is and arcs across the ceiling

over to where the two of you are standing. Oh no. Well, you know. I need both of you, Imogen and Laudna, to roll a dexterity saving throw for me. Because you are both partially, you have half cover, because you're in this area here, you have plus two to your dexterity saving throw.

Okay. Plus two. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. It's actually. Ready? We got two witches in a hole and one in a box. What the fuck? No, what?

All right. Next. Natural 20. Boom! So you take 16 points of fire damage. Of stark fire. Yes. Would that hit a mirror image, or?

It is just a blast. It's not an attack roll, so I don't want to deflase it. Okay, 16. Does the fire have any other effects besides just getting burned? Like necrotic or anything? Not that you know. Not that we know of, okay. 24.

24, you also take 16 points of fire damage. We should have made it. It carves through the ceiling. You see all the beautiful carvings and artwork, the ivy and vine, somewhat cluttered and covered spaces, just get charred in a line across, and you see the stone glowing with the heat from its impact as it burns into the hole that you've made.

You both just barely get out of the way to not take the full brunt of it, but it still blasts you to the ground, and you have to pat yourself out for a second as the beam comes to a close. With that, it's going to pull up on the reins a bit, and Glumglit's going to go ahead and... Oh, it's moving.

Oh, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to turn around here and fly up to face that side. Oh god. Damn. That's hilarious. Can you use your hand to show us, how high is the roof in this joint?

It's about this tall. So he's right at the top of the peak. Yet. That's going to go ahead and finish Glumglats go. Oh, you know what? That thing looks so awesome. I take it back. It's so cool. It's so pretty, you split.

For something named Glumglats. It's instead going to, because it has its reaction, it's going to go ahead and hover. Oh! Well, okay. You got it, you got it. Okay, fine. I don't know!

I don't know if it's called Glowglit. Should we move it? I believe it. It seems fine. Believe it! God, I feel like it's going to die. If it falls from you touching it, you'll feel worse, though.

I know. It's going to go towards the center, if anything. Yeah. I'll be keeping an eye. Die for it. All righty. So, finishing that go. It flew up and it's looking at Imogen and I now? It's like onto the stone, right where the both of you are. Look at the split lower jaw.

That's so funny. That's so funny. That's cool. With that. That's terrifying, but that's cool. The Sorrowlord leaps from Glomglot's back through the hole that you've created. Jesus.

And he darts through the air and then vanishes into a plume of dark smoke before reappearing right behind both of you. Diadi's going to attack us. Yep. Diadi's going to hit us, but we're here with your daughter. He doesn't care. He immediately is going to pull out Dusk Hunger and make three strikes with it. That's going to be, against you, Imogen, 23 to hit.

Yeah. Against you, Laudna, that's going to be a 17 to hit. I already used my reaction, didn't I? I can't shield. No, but you do have Mirror Image. I do. So Mirror Image. Natural 20. Go off, though.

Ooh! Different dice, too. Go off. It would have been great, honestly, if it was for something else. But that's fine. So I'm just going to go ahead and... That's your first one. That's my first one.

All right, for against you, Imogen, you take 15 points of slashing damage plus five points of fire. It swings towards you and carves one of the mirror images away. With its final attack, spins around to try and still carve through the other versions of you floating around hoping to find

the actual, originated caster. That is going to be a 28 to hit. Me? Yeah. Woo, yeah, that hits. Woo! Mirror image. Mirror image. No. Not a natural 20. Not a natural 20.

All right, that's going to be 16 points of slashing damage, plus eight points of fire damage. 16 and then eight? Okay. As he stands there, carves into you all there, between behind the helmet, the voice rings out from within.

We don't need your influence on my daughter's true path here. That's all he says. Finishing his go, that brings us now to the adversary, who is going to try and break free of the muck that's currently in. It's transmutely rock, right? So it has to make a... Charging in there? Staying out of here.

It uses an action to end the condition, so it just pulls itself free. So it does get itself out of the muck. That's the end of the area? The end of the area. No longer restrained. Right there, you might have to hold a little. There's no hole, I just vanish. And is going to rush over out of the muck next to where Ludinus is on the side, defensively looking in the direction of Fearne

and the upward area, getting out of these two points and saddling up next to Ludinus for protection. That's their action and movement. They don't get to cast anything. Finishing their go ends with the Unsealing Guardians. This one also gets itself free and is going to move over. It can only ahead and move over. They can only move half the movement, because they're moving through the weird muck terrain. So they can only get that far.

This one's going to move up to here. This has its blade drawn and is looking down at you on the ground in the weird, shimmering magic cage that's keeping you protected and looking over for what to do. That's going to finish that one's go. This one's going to rush up as well. They're both preparing themselves to basically cut you down the minute this drops or anything gets out of hand. We're not attacking those guys yet, right?

That finishes all their go. Imogen, you're up with Orym on deck. Oh man. Jesus Christ. Actually, at the end of their turn, Glomglot's going to use a Legendary Action. Cool. To use a, I was going to use two Legendary Actions.

Ah. To use a Rend Attack against, let's see, on a one to three, it's you, on a four to six, it's Imogen. It's Imogen. That's going to put us at... Can he get to a rend attack right now? The rend attack has a 10-foot reach.

And so he's up against the wall, and she's right there. So he's reaching and striking his arm through and catches you off the side. You do have a plus two to your armor class because you're by the wall, but he did roll a total of 27. So with that, that's going to be a 3d10. What do you want? That's actually really bad.

It says 12 points of slashing damage. Cool. That's a really bad roll. And that's going to finish that legendary action. Now, Imogen, it's your go with Orym on deck. Okay. Thoughts, comments? I'm going to... I'm going to use Misty Step.

Okay. And I'm going to banf myself onto the saddle on Glow and Glot. So. Yes. He left them open! Come on, horse girl! He did, he did. Come on, horse girl! He did. Oh wow, really?

Okay. Get it, get it, get it. Wow. Wow. Sick. Love it. Actually, that has a really good look to it. Yeah. It feels very natural.

I'm mad at the standing. Oh my god. Just like an avatar, stick your tail, Dink, and it's here. Yeah, right? Are you like, is this a Western saddle? Gross.

Perfect. And I'm going to... This is... He has, he can teleport himself, your dad, right? He has... You watched him do it. Quick owl handling. Our plan is to put the mule on the ground.

It's just going to shit. Can I grab the reins? Yeah, they're right there. Yeah, I'm going to grab the reins. Can I try to take control of him? You can certainly draw. Yeah! Why not? Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it.

We didn't come this far. You're on the saddle on the back of an enemy's dragon. This is what this moment's been ready for. You're breaking a horse right here. Oh yeah. You got to break a horse. So as you try and pull on the reins here, this, oh sorry, so I'm going to consider this an animal handling check.

Okay. It is a challenging DC. Yeah, I figured. It does not know who's on its back. It did not watch who got there, so it's just reacting to the reins that are present, so it's not impossible. Yeah.

This was my job. It is. Because of your background, I'll give you advantage on it. But it is a challenging DC. Guidance? Do you have Bless? I don't have Bless. Guidance is touch. But if I see it, can I put it in?

No, it's a touch. Guidance is touch. Good try for the negotiation. Good try for the negotiation. If Bless is up, they'll bless. You know they're a touch. Guidance is touch. Good trifling negotiation. Good trifling negotiation. It blesses up, though. You know they're coming. You know they're coming. Yeah. I feel this. I feel it in my bones.

It's going to be good. 20. 20, okay. You tug on the reins, and you see the claw that just struck you is in the hallway, pulling, reaching for you and trying to go for Laudna. As you pull the reins back, it withdraws

and just holds there. Did it work? You don't know. But it definitely withdrew its arm from the hole that it attacked you on. We have a dragon. Yes! Maybe, maybe, we don't know.

It's crazy. She did disappear. She did disappear, so it may have just reacted to that. We don't know. Both her and her rider disappeared into a chamber, and then she appeared on its back. For the moment, it doesn't seem to have noticed a change. Whoa! Okay, okay.

Was that bonus action and action, then? Well, it was bonus action and misty step, and then an action to try and take control. Okay. So that's your... Would movement be, though, to move the dragon? Is that movement because I'm mounted at this point? I'll say your movement can go towards on its next turn,

telling it where to go. Okay, okay, okay. That's how it goes with mounting, is that it can go on the creature's turn. Oh, wow. Okay. All right. That finishes your go. Orym, you're up. Okay. From pirate ships

to fucking dragons. I think my turn's going to be really short because I'm outside, I can't see anything. Not a lot has been called out. I just hear tons of noise from inside. Well, everyone's talking psychically, too. Yeah, but I haven't heard anybody's. That's true.

Nuh, nuh, hmm. Yeah, so what you got? I don't know what's going on in on. I'm just hearing chaos right now in your head. I'm hearing chaos. Ira's going to do something at this point. Oh yeah. Easy, easy. Cage! Yeah, I'm hearing fuck, fuck, fuck!

So I run towards the door to follow people in. It's my gun! It's my gun! And Matt, you'll have to decide how far I get. I'm here on the map. I would run into the door, see Dorian, see Fearne through some sort of vaguely glowing light, and I will just use my movement and my action,

I think getting up to the rear of the Force Cage. Oh, you can definitely do that, yeah. But that's everything, I'm out of gas. So I'll just slam into it with my hands on the proverbial glass and, uh. You got it. Fearne! And that's the end of my turn.

I literally can't do anything else. Hey! Thank you. Like near Orym? Right behind the horse. Great. So there you stand, that's your turn. Next.

Uh, now it's Ira's turn. Ooh, Ira! Yeah. Ira is going to skitter inside through one of the windows, slipping through on the opposite end, glances over to that end, and is going to go ahead and Dimension Door.

Yes, come on. Vroom. Ira. Magic is the best. Over to where the Sorrowlord end. Yes! Yes, yes, yes! I'm going to get some of these pieces of

connecting tissue on here. So wait, I was joining the fight up here with me? Okay. What are you guys on, like a ledge? We were on the roof, basically. I had made a hole through the... Yeah, they're in an inner hallway that sits on the roof? We were on the roof, basically. I had made a hole through the... Yeah, like they're in an inner hallway that sits on the higher edge of this.

They climb through the window, and then you made a hole in the outer wall of it. He's taking swipes, and he threw the hole from the inside. Yes. Sauron stepped through that hole? Is that what's coming down? Yeah, I teleported.

Yeah, he bumped right next to us, basically. Past the hole. Yeah, past the hole. So he appears next to both of you. The Star-Lord has his blade out, with Imogen no longer present, and Laudna, now the target, gets his flaming black, dark fey blade at the ready to strike you before,

just looming behind him. Yes. It's been a while. Oh shit. And puts his hands over the shoulders. That's right, that's his hand. just looming behind him. Yes! It's been a while, Aelian. And puts his hands over the shoulders. That's right, that's his name. Sarlow goes like, fuck!

Now it's his blade and it's standing between both Laudna and Ira, blade out at the ready, unexpected this, and he's not expecting this scenario. That is going to be all of Ira's turn, though, because he did have to move through and then use his action to. Jack and Sally have just dropped.

This is full Nightmare Before Christmas. I love Ira! All righty, that's going to finish his go. Top of the round now, Laudna with Chetney on deck. No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, I mean, now, I mean. Hey, before we get into this round, Matthew, is the Force Cage completely blocking our entry,

or is there a little gap, or? You said you were making it directly around her? Yeah, that was the plan. I wish you were just standing there. So there's a slight gap there. Like enough for your person to squeeze it. Oh! I was just getting this piece of paper

to put it underneath. It's all good. No, he's fine. Oh, I don't know if I'd have more movement. DM, I'd ask if there was a gap, would I have the ability to move just around the side of it to get into the chamber, or did I use all my gasoline

to get to the Force Gauge itself? I'd say you used all your gasoline to get to the Force Gauge. That makes sense. This is crazy. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Here's a. Do you care about your dad?

I got a little crash pad for him. Am I killing your dad? He's going to be a lot easier to talk to if he's unconscious. I came in there asking him for a way to let the wish go, and he didn't. He hasn't had a chance to react. He did stop the dragon from killing you.

That's true. But he then turned to murder your friends. That's true. All things are true here. Role play-wise, it was somewhat of an accident. Just yanked the head out of the way and you guys were the ones that. No, but then he vamped us and he said,

I don't want your influence on my daughter. What was meant to be a temporary platform turned into where everybody's at. At the very least, it'll be easier to have a conversation with him if he doesn't have a sword, arm-worn, and is unconscious again. That was a good noise. Pretty please.

Sending him out is not a bad idea. Mike. Although you're in a box. What was that? I'm in a box. Oh. Can I? I personally think he'll be a lot easier to have a conversation with if he drops zero hit points.

Thank you. And all of his stuff gets taken. Thank you. All righty, so. Laudna. I really like you. Okay. You can do that, but you'll be tracking yourself.

This is complicated. You also hold an action until it drops. Right. It's not concentration. How long is the last? It lasts forever. No time, it's totally fine. It lasts like an hour.

I'm going to get you out. I'm going to get you out. I'm going to get you out. Hey, I thought I was saving your life. I thought I was just fucking up your turn. It's okay. No, no, no. It's okay. We're going to figure this out. We're going to figure this out. Wanda.

Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. You can't. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay. I... Okay. I got Ira there.

I'm feeling, we're gonna do some spooky shit. So I look at Ira and I'm like, and then from my dread form, basically like a replica of my spooky Victorian ghosts just from my body goes, poof, and pulses outwards and screams. I'm going to do Void Puppet and send a screaming spirit directly through,

through Arah. This fucking, fucking, fucking sucks. It's fine. Void Spirit is now sitting there right next to. This works. She's safe. So I got the Void Spirit, and then I am going to just wrap my hands around

the Sorrowlord and cast Blight. Yeah. So he has disadvantage on his saving throw. He does. Now, the Sorrowlord does have advantage on saving throws against magic and other effects, being a fey. Sorry, sorry. He has advantage on magic and spell effects, being a fey.

Annoying, okay. So it just becomes a standard roll. So you've negated his advantage. That's good. That's really good. All right. Your face. That's going to be an 11.

Okay. He rolls real low. He fails. The spirit screams as it vanishes, spearing into his body right as the spell takes effect. Okay. Eight, the eight. I should have been more prepared. I should have been prepared,

but also, I don't know what's happening in life in general. Okay, we'll start with the four. Chetney, you're up next. We have Reyes on deck after you. Through the first couple steps of a plan, Matt, those went off and then it all went sideways. As it was, it was going.

Isn't that just how it goes, though? It is. You get one round if you're lucky. Without a daughter's... Oh. Eight. Because I might empower this. All right.

This is actually a pretty good roll. Maybe I'll save my sorcery points. Okay, sorry. Seven, 15, 20, six, 30, 40. 40. That doesn't mean I'll always win. Heavy 40 points of necrotic damage to Sarlord Zathudda.

Ooh! A heavy chunk of his life force withers within, a little bit inside his helmet that Ira can see. As you grab him shoulder and pulse it into him, his cheeks go a little more sunken, and he gives an exhale of pain and loss of vitality before pulling away from you and begins to spin the blade in place,

getting ready to retaliate. Does that finish your turn? If I leave his radius, I'll get an attack of opportunity. You move out of it, yeah. I wonder if it's worth it so he doesn't unleash on me. He would just get one.

He also has another problem, so. He does. And as long as you stay there also, that means Ira also has advantage. Yeah, that's true. Okay. Dang. I know. We're in a tight spot.

I know. I'll say, I'll say, I'll say. Me and Ira, baby. We can, we can, yeah. I guess that's it. Okay. That finishes your go. Now it comes to Chetney with Brace on deck. Sure does.

I'm going to roll out into the hallway. Okay. And now Fearne. Roll out. Is in a box of energy. We're going to get her out of there, don't worry. Force Cage fucks you again. I will.

What are you going to do? If you know, you know. I can't go past Fearne, so I'll be back here. You can go past it this way. I can sneak past? There's enough space there to squeeze up through it. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. And Ludinus is where on the map?

Is he up in the dais? Right there. Right there. He's right there. Oh, that changes, okay. Yeah, let's go danger close. I will use... Sorry, Matt, one more thing. I'm really sorry, before we get too far. Because he was hit by a spell of mine

and I have Form of Dread, he has to make a wisdom saving throw or be feared of me? That's fine, he's immune to fear. Great, continue, sorry. Wow. But good looking out. So there is that gap to get through. However, one of the guards of the emissaries is right there.

Is right there. So you can't move past them. Unless you either take them down or we can try and make an acrobatics check to get through, but that's going to be your action to move through them. I have something that allows me to... Something allows me to disadvantage on... What is it when you move past? Opportunity.

Opportunity attacks. Correct, augmentation, I think it is. Yeah. Amazing, yes. I'm going to try and blow by the Emissary's Guard, and I'm going to take the blow. Okay, so make an acrobatics check. Okay.

Natural 19, 21. 21, 20 was what you needed to try and get past him. So I'll say as you squeeze through, he goes to swing towards you. Your woven form leaps out of the side and tries to roll past. It does get an attack of opportunity on you with disadvantage, but you do manage to not,

you manage to move past his space. Disadvantage, oh, that's not good. A five and a three. That's going to be 10. Okay, now that's... All right, so yeah, that's five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. 35, I'll say, to squeeze through there. So 40 was your movement?

Yeah, I'll use my bonus action to click my boots of speed, and I will continue up to Ludmus. And I'll make two strikes, since I used my bonus action. You got it, let's go. L claws. Killing shit! Yeah, okay. Okay, 17 claws.

A 27 on the first one. 27 hits. And... Okay. Maybe Marius Clauses. Not as good. Just a dirty 20 on the second. Okay, that hits.

It does? Lewdness? Yeah. Wow. Can he Snowdness? Oh, can he Snowdness? Okay. He's a wizard. You're a wizard. Yeah, they're very squish. Seven, six, this one.

He's not even a real wizard. 14 plus six. He's a Snow Wizard. 20 on the first one with the crimson, right? I think the blue one with the crimson, right? 20 on the first one? I think I'm full on his soul. And 18 on the second one. Okay. He has his own thoughts and hopes. Okay, as you rush forward and strike twice,

carving into the form, it seems to just look at you nonplussed as you charge through, and as you leap towards it, he's like, This seems familiar. Gets the staff ready, and the dark and withered black hand with the gold tips and abhorment on it, it looks like he's starting to cast a spell.

You rush in and strike twice and he takes it back and just shrugs it off. Takes the hit, but shrugs it off. Yeah. Cool. All right, that's your go? Yeah. Braeus, you're up. I'm doing something very similar to what Mr. Ch. All right. That's your go? Yeah. Brayus, you're up. I'm doing something very similar to what Mr. Chetney did. I'm going to run into that hall,

bonus action Misty Step, and continue all the way to Ludinus Delef. Okay. Robbie, if you could hand me that. Zoop. Zoop. You dart through and then like whereabouts over here? I mean, if I can get behind him to flank. Full movement at a speed of 30, right?

Yeah. I love how many of us can just go. 30. No, you take it on the opposite side. I'll just be right next to him. Yeah, that's fine, too. All righty. Then, my lord has commanded me to end this man,

and now my mission shall be complete. I will attack with Poison Pen. Where did it go? Just a little path. 19. No, that's my flail. I like the idea that he pulls out a tiny, like, bick and just goes for a tracheotomy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that's a 27 to hit. 27 definitely hits. I will pump in a third-level Divine Smite. So that's... Seven, 14, god, what is that? Six, 20, 23, 29, 36 points of damage.

Ooh! Do you care what kind of damage that is? No, I think you're okay. Okay. And then I will strike again. Okay, go for it. Terrible. Ew, 16.

16 will miss. Oh no! First strike cleaves in with a heavy swipe. Your flail batters into Ludinus' form, already wounded from Chetney's assault. This impact, you hear cracks. It falls to one knee, splattered with the dark magic and the ichor of poison pen.

I was wrong. There's four more points of damage. Okay, that's a total of 40 on that hit then. That's great. That's a good national code. Your second swing goes around and he puts his darkened hand up and a little field of energy

appears and deflects the blow and he. Enough of that. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. That finishes your turn? Now it's his turn. It's going to be one of those. Who are you going to make out with? Oh god.

All right. Hot or not? It's now Ludinus' turn. Actually, no, at the end of your turn, Ira's going to take a legendary action to make an attack on the Sorrowlord. Whoa. Someone roll an attack roll for me. Someone roll an attack roll?

Yeah, for Ira. I'll do it. Why not? This is fun. I'll have you guys do some fun stuff. I rolled a, what is that? 11? That's impossible to tell. 11. It's 11, yeah. That's an 11.

Okay, that does hit. That's barely. Go ahead and roll 1d12. Don't fuck this up, Regal. Nine. Nice. Nice. All right, Regal. Nine. Nice! So that's nine. That's 12 points of damage to the Sorrowlord.

All right, great. So now for Ludinus' turn. Oh boy. Ludinus sees this happening, looks over at the emissary and says, It seems our enemies are on our tail. I need you to deliver our message as soon as possible. I'll get you out safely. And is going to go ahead and begin casting a spell.

Counterspell! Counterspell! Counterspell! Okay. He's going to go ahead, because he knows you're there, he's going to counter your Counterspell. Yep, yep, yep. Anybody else? Counterspell? I think I'm the only one who has it.

Yeah. Yeah. So with that, it's going to... He's got to roll for it? Does he have to roll for it? He's the good guy. Huh? Does he have to roll? Well, no, because Counterspell's only third level, and it's fourth level or higher.

Unless you wanted to try a higher level. I mean, I could cast it at fourth level, and then it would be a roll off, right? Unless you wanted to try a higher level. I mean, I could cast it at 4th-level, and then it would be a roll-off, right? It would be. I'm going to cast it at 4th-level. Okay. Going forward, for Counterspelling, say the level spell that you use when you Counterspell,

because that situates the chain. Yep. All right, cool. That's fair. The gut reaction knowledge does the job. I know, exactly. Exactly. It's all good. gut reaction knowledge doesn't help. I know, I know, exactly. Exactly. It's all good. All right, so he's just using

a quick third-level counterspell on yours. Yours is fourth, so for yours, it's 14. He has to roll higher. He gets to add his bonus there. That's going to be, he rolled an eight. That's going to be a 14. Oh, he just hit it. He has a very high intelligence modifier.

Of course he does. So that fails, but he still continues casting this spell. He's going to go ahead. Do you have a Mage Slayer? Do either of you have Mage Slayer as a feat? No. I don't think they do. Any reaction? Anybody got a reaction?

He's got his hands. He's not making a saving throw right now, no. No, he's casting a spell. And is there so much time for us to come up with something right now? I know, I wish I had said like... So he's just... So he's just, he's casting this spell,

but he's holding it. He's on the cusp of finishing the casting, but he's staring at spell, but he's holding it. He's on the cusp of finishing the casting, but he's staring at the fact that he has these two combatants right in his face and he's not willing to step away. So he's prepping it and muttering with his breath, and you can feel this energy in his hands.

He gets the emissaries ears, it's like burn. So finishing that go as he holds that, Ash, you're up with Fearne and Dorian on deck. Okay, I hear a change of plans happening. That's fine, you're all thinking weird shit. I am going to roll right to the edge of the mud, pop out, and charge that fucking motherfucker. Ludinus? Ludinus, okay.

I'm also going to roll for my rage, which I have not done yet, so big money. Ooh, yeah. So this is going to be great. Where are we? That blue-red shift glowing in the hammer means it's time for time. Okay.

That'll be fun, that'll be fun. What am I going to do? How much is 60 feet from where I'm standing? Who of our people are within 60 feet range, would you say? Most everybody, except for- I'm sorry, you have gnat on your butt. Sure I did, sure I did. Except for Dorian, Laudna, and technically Fearne,

because she's Force-caged. So Dorian and Laudna are the two that are, will get, sorry guys. Ignored. So, I am going to, oh, I can't do it this round. Shit, nevermind. I got to wait for that one.

All right, I'm going to run up and I'm going to take, how, was it possible to get 20? It wasn't possible to get, no, nevermind, that's fine. So I'm going to run up and I'm going to take, how, was it possible to get 20? It wasn't possible to get, no, nevermind, that's fine. So I'm going to run up and I'm going to take my attacks. Okay. And I assume I have advantage because he's locked in his, that we're getting flanked. Bold of you to assume you have advantage.

I mean, I assume that I, yeah. With the movement you get at this point, yeah, you can totally do that. Oh, yeah. I just wanted to remind you. I was like, what have I done? What have I done? It's just bold to assume you have to do it. I was hoping.

Maybe, please. Sure. All right, that'll be fun. It won't be beginning his turn, that sucks. Okay, let's just take it. Here we go. First attack. A natural 20. Let's go!

Let's go! You all are crazy. So. The past couple games. I know. That's, is that 3d6, I think? Crazy Fade Dragon flushes them out. Yeah. It's going to take a lot to walk through it. 2d6.

No, that's 4d6. All righty. That also means all attack rolls against him for the rest of, for a full round of my next turn have advantage. Against who? Everybody's attack rolls? Everybody's attacks. I'm also, fuck it, I'm going to roll a Chaos Burst into this, too.

So I'm also going to pump a little bit more damage into this. And I'm going to use one of the charges on the ring, too, because fuck it. Sure. If that's okay. Sure. Yeah, let's just burn some shit. Go for it. Use all your stuff. I...

Why, why, why are you saying it like that? How are you doing like that? Love you, man. Matt, this is amazing. Flea Circus, thank you for juggling everything that's going on. Yeah, this is amazing. This is blowing my mind. But no thank you for the totally quaint

and all-knowing response just then. What do you mean, Burglar? That was really great. Why would you lift your eyebrows? He's trying to buck with us. He's trying to buck with us. All right. Oh, he's trying to do it. No, I can't use the ring.

Never mind. The fucking is happening. Okay, here we go. No, we're fine. Let's, I know I'm just trying to get all of my dice because I have a lot of them. Cool. So, it is, force damage is fine, does it change anything?

No. All right. I can reroll that, too, because that's a thing I can do. 12. 28 times two is? Before the bonus, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. 28 times two. Yeah, 56.

Plus 14. That's 70. 70 points of damage. Okay. Outside of a natural 20 on his advantage concentration check, this will break the concentration on the spell that he was holding. 13, no.

And a six, no. Oh! So the spell that he was holding, the Dimension Door that he was planning to wait for the arrival of the emissary to jump out. What? What? Without even noticing you there,

you just come up from behind and wham! You watch as the spell is pulling. He's eyeing both Chetney and Brayus and begins to turn towards the emissary and right as he does, barely sees the shadow before, like crumples to the ground. The spell vanishes out and like,

ugh! For my next attack. Oh my god. Yes! So clutch, Raymour. Yeah, it's good. Ludmus was eyeing one of us more than the other, though, right? You don't know.

Ah! Ludmus was checking out one of us more than the other. 28 to hit. 28 to hit. 28 to hit. He can't even shield because he uses Reaction to Counterspell, so. All right, and just, yeah, here we go. And that's 24 points of damage.

24 points of damage. The snow. The fucker. The snow. All right, how do you want to do this? Yeah! Okay. All right. That's good. So how do they dissipate?

Does he just turn into, does he, it's not like a body that's left, right? It's a snowman. No, it melts. It turns into melting snow. Oh, well, okay. So I take that first hit and he's down. He's getting back up and turning around towards you. The hammer starts to glow blue.

I hit him. As you're arcing with it, he goes, you learn little every time. And as you strike towards him, he leans into it. Your hammer strikes the gem on his forehead. And with that, Oh no. a massive detonation erupts

from the destruction of the simulacrum. Oh, that's right. Oh shit. I forgot that part. For god's sake. Explodeate! Are you raging? Yep. That is a 60-foot radius around him. Sorry, guys.

60-foot radius? Yeah. But guess who's safe? Shit! I mean. You saved the day. Is it 60 foot up in my head? It doesn't matter if it's magic. Sorry, no, 30, not 60.

Magic damage. 30 foot radius. Hey. That doesn't unfortunately catch the Emissary. Oh no! That helps. Yeah. Yeah. See? He couldn't hear that shit. Okay. So, roll some dice here.

All right. You saved my life today. Ooh, I just got the first. Someone saved my life. I just got the ocean. Sugar bear. I just remembered, Travis, you and me had glass. We could have been using it to attack stronger fire.

Oh well. Oh god. Okay, it's going to be a lot. Well, this one's going to be a lot. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be a lot. That's okay. Nobody said we were ever good at this. All right, so going around,

dex 30 saving throw? Oh, dex save. Ashton and Chetney both have a plus four to their saving throw. Thank you. Oh, thank you. For being next to me. That's right, yeah. I have advantage anyway on dex saving throws.

Here we go. Everybody's got wings. You're blessed. Nat 20. Jesus Christ, dude! What's happening? What the fuck? All right, good to know.

We deserve this. All right, so you take 23 points of force damage. Reduced to... Because I'm raging. Raging doesn't affect force damage. It doesn't? Oh, that's right, thank you. You can't have everything, though. No, no, I was trying to remember.

I'm not Totem of Bear, I'm well aware. It only blows you back 20 feet from the blast. Actually, it can't blow me back because of the form I'm in. That's true, yeah. So you just stay put. Bits of pebble and shale. Brayus, dexterity saving throw?

Terrible. Six. 45 points of force damage. Whoa! And you are blown back to the edge of, you actually get thrown and slam into the back wall about 10 feet up and then slide down. I do this for you, Lord of the Hells.

Chetney, Dexter, what do you say? 14 plus 10, so 24 plus four from the? Plus four. So 28. All right, so you take 23 points of force damage and you are only blown 20 feet back to there, kind of skidding on the ground, your claws digging into the stonework and stopping yourself.

12? You said 12 points? Correct. Okay. The emissary rolls really high. So that'll take 23. Dambly-dambly. Wait, 23, not 12, 23. All righty. Nope.

And I think, oh, that guy over there. Looks like a 20-foot radius. No, it does not catch the other two, so that's all of it there. This just gets blasted. The pillar takes a heavy hit from the force damage on the side there. Fearne, go ahead and roll a d20 for me.

Oh no, the ceiling's going to come down. So, so as the blast of force damage around here, I will say you are rolling to see if the pillar maintains its integrity. You're going to want to roll an 11 or higher. 19. Okay, the pillar is cracked in a heavy impact.

The whole room shifts and dust particles and bits of root fall from the ceiling and rocks fall free. The pillar itself is slightly bowed at the impact where the crack has centered throughout and you could hear every now and then a little as its integrity is slowly failing. We're going to put high priority on the emissary,

try and usher him out of here, right? We want to keep him alive. Yeah, we want to keep him alive. And offer his guards the same, right? Blocking the exit. We can sneeze, but I got to think of a file. Can the emissary see me, by the way? The emissary can see you.

Okay, so as this is all gone, the emissary watched you kill Ludinus. I'm going to look at the... And then blast it. Yeah, I'm going to Ludinus. And then blast it. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to do the. I'm going to do the bye-bye. Sure. Yeah, why not?

Yeah, go for it. I'm well aware. Oops, a murder. Yep, sorry. All right, finish the Ashton's go. Fearne, you're up at the door and on deck. All right. Come on, Fearne. Okay. Yeah. Don't worry about getting out of there.

Being put in confide spaces. Mine, mine. I'm going to banish that Mister. Okay. Get out of there. Don't worry about getting out of there. Being put in confined spaces. I'm going to bamf out Mister. Okay. Mister appears wherever you'd like him to within the area, so you can appear on the outside of the cage if you'd like. I may have him next to me. Okay, inside the cage.

Hi, baby. And then. I know, I know, I know. Let's go. And I would like to try Fiery Teleportation. Okay. To bamf out 15 feet.

Yep, to about there is where you would get 15 feet. Okay. Do I need to do anything? Roll a charisma. You, to get out of the Force Cage, you do. Yeah, I can get a roll of charisma. You do. Come on, all right, how are this? It's a charisma saving.

Oh god, and you have super high DC, don't you? But no, no, no, it's flat. It's not against. It's against your charisma saving. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So go ahead and roll a charisma saving throw. Let's go with a Riz. Come on. Come on, please.

Okay. I was already beating it, but just in case. Okay. I beat it, I beat it. That's 13 plus eight, 21. Yeah. Okay. So, okay. And where do you want to appear?

Do you want to appear next to this guard over here? I want to be as close to the emissary as I can be. That's about as close as you can get. Okay, and for... Now, when you appear from your teleport, do you damage things around you with flame? Oh. I do not. This is a fiery Oh. I do not. Because it is a fiery teleport.

You do not. I do. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Is it? Oh, it's not something you choose? It just happens? I'm going to double check. Each creature within five feet of the space that the spirit left.

Left, okay, but not where you arrived. Now succeed on a dex saving throw or take 1d6 plus five fire damage. Okay, but not where you arrive. The DC is to 18.x saving throw or take 1d6 plus five fire damage. Okay, but not where you arrive. Not where I arrive, but where I left. Okay, that's what I was checking to see here. So you're good, you're fine. Everything's fine. Okay, everything's fine.

Yeah, you're fine. Everything's fine. So you're just like, the inside of the Force Cage just fills with flame contained within as Fearne just vanishes. You erupt from the ground nearby, both you and Mister emerging from it, from one of the guardians who's standing there, who is holding its action.

As soon as you emerge out, it's going to take a swing towards you with its weapon. It was holding its attack. Okay. That's going to be a 19 to hit you? Yes, it does. Okay. Yes, it does. But once I Banff out, I just want to look up to the emissary.

Correct. As soon as you appear, he's holding his action, you appear next to him, and he gets a quick hit in as you land. Okay, fair. He's holding it for that purpose. That's going to be eight points of slashing damage. Not a big deal. Okay. Oh, stop, stop!

Ludinus is betraying you. He's been siphoning our power for years to elongate his life. He has been killing the Fae for I don't even know how long. I promise you and I have proof. I was fucking getting to it. Give me a minute.

Yelena, make a persuasion check. Okay, okay. Here's your interspiration. Okay. Guide yourself. Oh, you can't. I can't. Okay, I'm going to do this one. You guys hate this dice. That's the way I fucking roll that one.

Natural 20! Yeah! Let's go! Let's fucking go! Natural 20! Yeah! Natural 20 for 13. I'm fucking 33. You just spiked Mr.! I spiked Mr.! Sorry!

Sorry, sorry. You have to believe me. Okay, then you turn around and kick your monkey. I swear! The emissary, who has this curved longsword drawn and is panicked, looking at where to go, hears these words and gives you an intense look. You're not certain where they stand,

other than the fact that they do not run or react beyond just holding their position. Okay. I'm holding my position as well. Yeah, okay. Because that's all I can do. All right, you got it. That's your turn. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Finishing Fearne's Goat, Dorian, you're up. You're still in the hallway. I'll get there! I mean, how far is it to get me even in the chamber? It's about 40-ish feet. How's it going, everyone? To get in the front door. Or you're in the front door of the hallway, but to get into the actual chamber, it's about 40-ish feet. Yeah, that is my movement.

You do great. So I'll get as far in there as I can. Can I get close enough to engage with this guard over here? I have 15, 20, 25, 30. 30 will get you just to where the hallway kind of cross-section is. I have 40 for water. 40, and that'll get you right up to where he is there.

Okay, yeah. So you can move him right up to the edge there, which is on the other side of the force cage right there. Are we hurting these guys, or are we letting them live? I don't know. The emissary is. We're not hurting them yet. We're not hurting them yet. No, uh-uh.

You can get chilled now. But that's the emissary up there, right? You can drop your Force Cage whenever you want to, or you can keep it up if you want to. I can't. I don't think I can. Can I? It lasts an hour, but any spell that you've cast, you can drop if you want to. Oh, really?

You're the one who holds it. Usually, in Force Cage, you don't want to drop it because you're using it to hold something. Oh. But in my mind, as far as magic works. That's the rule. That's his mind. If you're, you know, any sort of like.

But I don't have to concentrate to keep it up, right? Correct, no. It just stays. It just stays. I want to keep, and we're seeing things still crumble around us. I want to keep it up if I can. I mean, it's your great shield. You got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nobody, but we won't be able to run quickly out of here with it up because of the- You don't have to dispel it on your turn, though. You can dispel it at any time if it's just a drop. Yeah. It doesn't take your action to read. You can just. Okay, nevermind. Okay.

You don't have Dimension Door in here. I do, yeah. But I've got to dash in to get anywhere. Because we could use it as a little holding cell for the emissary. Mm-hmm. Okay, okay, okay. All right, all right.

He seems to be listening. That's not Force of Durshiel. Yeah, that's true, that's true. And he has to be willing to get Dimension Dord anyway. You can't Force him with a save or something. They could fail a save and be taken. How many of us are there? There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Plus him. The whole time. No, I'm adding three. I guess I'll just use the rest of my turn. I want to get into the space. I'll dash in and get up behind Fearne and Mister. I just want to be in the mix. So you're going to have to move past one of the guardians

to make an acrobatics check for one of the guardians. You don't need players of normal size for a table. Acrobatics? Oh, good. That would be 25. 25, that's more than enough, yeah. Yeah. So you go ahead and... Can I do a cartwheel as I go past?

I can double. Whee! I'll double. I can double everybody's movement. So you dart past. It does get an attack of opportunity against you as you do, but you do manage to move past the space. That'll be a natural 20.

Ooh, I deserve it! I deserve it! I deserve to be punished. Watch out for my friends. Oh, as his gate, sorry. Protect, protecting. Ooh, that is going to be 15 points of slashing damage to you.

Okay, protect. One heavy, as you're cartwheeling through, it carves up your hip and you're like, ugh, land, keep going. So from there, you still have 10 more feet of movement if you want. Yeah, I want to be right next, shoulder to shoulder with Fearne, if I can.

Okay, yeah. So we'll say you could be about there with her. Yeah. Anticlimactic, but now I'm in the mix, so that's my turn. Okay, that finishes your go. It's all their shit. So it's now Glomglut's turn.

Oh shit. Actually, you hear. Hold on tight. Oh. Two battles going in. You hear the battle going in that way. Glomglut is beginning to charge up its, actually, let's see if it gets it back, actually.

So let's get it recharged. Yeah, no, it gets it back. Oh! Whoa! Famous last words. Who needs coffee? Yeah, that'll do it. I can smell that from you.

That was a fart. That was the last thing the redneck said when he died. Sorry, Glomglot is charging up. That was the last thing the redneck said. Sorry, Glomglas charging up? Yeah, Glomglas did not use any of its legendary actions because you had pulled on its reins. Okay. It's still taking its turn to do stuff.

Okay. What did you want to pull to make it do? Like, movement-wise. What did you want to do with it? I had wanted to, well, Ludinus was still alive when I was going to pull on it. I wanted to back away from the Shadow Lord. I wanted to be, if he did Misty Step,

I wanted to be at a distance so he wouldn't be able to just like. He's on Gloomglut. He's on Gloomglut. Get him, get him, get him, get him, get him. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Dying! Yay! Well done.

Natural tool. So, back up back here? Yeah. Okay. That's where I want him. All right. He may just fire at us, I think. He's in the muck. Ooh, he's like.

Can we do one more? Y'all, I might have just unleashed Gloomglut's attack on everybody in this room. What? What? Because you moved him? I moved him, and I don't know what he's about to do unleashed Glomglot's attack on everybody in this room. What? Why? Because you moved him? I moved him and I don't know what he's about to do. So Glomglot, you pull back this way, away from that side.

Cannot see in that chamber. As the beam is charging up, it's going to look over there and see a number of targets. Can I try to pull up on the brains like I saw him do and pull it up to where it shoots up to the ceiling instead? We can certainly try. So you pull him back out there. You manage to direct his movement.

He's still taking his action, but you can try and pull it away. Make a strength check. Strength check? Of course, you're trying to pull a dragon's head up. So it's you versus Glomglut strength. It's a contested roll. Contested roll?

Natural 20. Natural 20. Yeah, why not? Natural 20. Pretty good, though. Yeah, for against a dragon, I rolled a 13. Is not enough. Sorry, but good work, good try. So as you yank on the reins,

the dark fire beam, the dark fire gaze just burns across the ground. Oh no. Does it hit me? It hits the emissary, Dorian, Fearne, and the guardian. Oh! The fly is walking across the floor. Oh, believe it! Did it live, then?

What's his initiative? Did you get him? I got him. He's injured. Oh, he was injured? Set him free. Set him free. Set him free.

Yeah, set him free. Put him in a spider web. There is actually a spider web. So I'm going to go set him free. I hear a trash can rustle. There's got to be a spider that needs a meal. It's like off-screen gunshot. He's a mootra.

Get off my arm. Here it goes, motherfucker. All righty, so. Amber. I got nothing, so. Airburn! I got nothing. Ow. Who's it? That's a lot of dice. It's attacking everybody.

It's attacking everybody. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Not everybody, it's just attacking a few people. Who is it? Me? Yeah. Who is it? Am I? Okay, so we're going to have Fearne and Dorian both make dexterity saving throws.

Great. Bet you wish you would've stayed in that box. And, uh... 18. 18. Your dex is so high. You take 15 points of fire damage. One five. Yes. Could be worse.

Fearne? That is a seven. Seven. You take 30 points of fire damage. Okay, that's fine, that's fine, that's fine. Are you? No, you're not. Well, I have. You're resistant to fire damage. Okay, that's fine, that's fine, that's fine. Are you? No, you're not. But you're resistant to fire damage. I am not at the moment. Oh. In this form.

In this mortal form. Okay. Double-check the abilities on there, just to check. I think it's just when I transform. Yeah, it might be a later. Is there anything in your defenses box right now? On your character sheet? I have a defenses box?

Top, yeah, right. I know you have a defense box. Fire. You're resistant to fire. I am resistant to fire, actually. I put you resistant, naturally. I was looking at the wrong area. I think you become immune when you transfer. That's Laura's face.

So you still take only 15 points of fire damage. 15 points, okay. Correct. You're resistant to fucking fire. You dumbass. Emissary fails its save. It's so pretty and perfect. The emissary failed? I know It's so pretty in her head. The emissary failed. I know that.

I know. I am freaked out, and I forgot about that at the moment. I know that that box is there, and I've seen it. As it burns across, the other guardian fails its save. Oh no. This actually may make life a lot easier. Look, as far as they're concerned, a fucking dragon is attacking,

and it's the Shadowlord's dragon, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bad business. That's true, that's true. So yeah, the emissary gets blasted with this beam and falls to the ground, black flames wrapping around it. It shuts its hand out, and the flames manage to vanish. The guardian in the back half takes the brunt of it,

too puts its shield up, but it's not enough, and gets burned and falls back, and it's still standing, but very badly burned. Okay, okay. That's going to finish Glomglad's turn, movement and action there. Missy Aery's still up, you say? Missy Aery's still up. Okay.

Now it's the Sorrowlord's turn. Oh, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Sorrowlord. Sorrowlord having his own fight. I roll! Roll. I scream out. I roll! Oh, dad!

Actually, at the end of that turn, I was going to use his other legendary action to strike the Sorrow Lord. Yeah, come on. You're going to try to kill the Sorrow Lord? So go ahead and roll an attack roll with advantage against. For Ira. For Ira. Okay.

Against the Sorrow Lord. Don't fuck it up. I'm not, I'm not! I just wanted to choose the right ones. Just wanted to puppa-choose the right one. High life for Ira. That was cocked. That's cocked. That's definitely cocked. Roll a 10. I can't tell if it's a 12 or a 10.

I can't either. I can tell if it's a 10. Oh! Dice don't lie. Dice don't lie. If I'm out of luck, re-roll it. Because you're right next to her. Okay, okay. Because I am such a calming presence.

How close do you have to be there? I'm not 30 feet? I'm behind the horse cage. Yeah, you're within 30 feet. Dice still don't lie. Wait, but're within 30 feet. I still roll a one. Wait, but this is for Ira? Hang on, this is for Ira. To hit the shadows.

Ira's all the way up there. Natural one? Sorry. So that's a natural one. Oh. So Ira goes to... But does he have an advantage because I'm there? I'm there? I said roll with advantage, so it was a one and a 10.

It was a one? No, I re-rolled one. It was a one and an eight. It was a one and an eight. Because it was cucked. It was a one and an eight. It was a one and an eight. Because it was cucked. It was a one and an eight. Got it. Okay, great.

We're still shit. Not great. So after all that rigmarole, Ira goes to strike towards the Sorrowlord who takes his dark blade and slams it past Ira's hand and actually carves into it. Ira's like, pulls his hand back. Sorrowlord's got a name, too. So that was the Sorrowlord's attack on Ira pulls his hand back. That sword's got a name, too.

So that was the Sorrowlord's attack on Ira? Sorrowlord. Or Ira's attack on the short man. It's Ira's failed roll. I'm just narratively explaining it. Sorrowlord looks over and sees Gunga pulling back, looks curiously. He's going to go ahead and try and move towards where the opening is. That's a couple, okay, no opportunity attacks.

Oh no. And... I'm pulling him away, kind of fucked it up a little bit for him. Here, boy. Yeah. Be bold. He's your boy. Yeah. Be bold. You should be bold.

Huh. Okay. No, no, don't do it. Saurlord's going to put his blade down from an aggressive standpoint and go towards you, Laudna, and Eyrie, and be like, Look, I think with him gone, we should have a conversation. He's tricked.

Huh? In Sight Track? Am I allowed to do this? You are, man, in Sight Track. He's tricking you. He's tricking you. I don't know how to believe him. He's trying to sneak past.

We got a ticket, even if it's a lie? No, he's trying to sneak past so he can get to the dragon. Take the roll. I believe him. That's not great. Eight. Eight? Do you believe him? That's not great. Eight. Eight? Do you believe him? He seems pretty legit.

This is first. Dad. I'll trust him. Exactly. You've got to trust him. Drop the sword. It skips a generation. He didn't drop the sword, he put it down. No, no, no, Ashton just has it down and is like,

I think we all have a line that goes to a degree, but we have to talk it through now that we're not being watched. How do we know you're not tricking us? You don't. But I will undertake the risk of ending a possibility. Fucking Fae. Am I able to get in everyone's heads real quick and be like?

Sure. He's stepping back towards the hole that leads into the chamber. Does it look like he's about to, like, whee, get the fuck out? It could be, or he's just trying to get out of your melee range because you're both aggressively on him. All right.

And Ira's there, like. I look at Ira. I'm going to say, telepathically to everybody, Sorrow Lord is offering a chat? Question mark? Got to take it. We're looking to talk to the emissary. He's Fae, so is the emissary.

I don't trust any of them. Wait, Ira? I don't know. Ira, just wait. Sorrow Lord is going to just fall back out of the hole. Yeah, he's just trying to get close. And Ira's going to take his attack on that. So go ahead and roll an attack roll for Ira for me. All right, all right, all right.

He ain't going to get far. Okay, 10. I rolled a 10, whatever. A 10? That'll be, that's just what you need to hit, actually. So go ahead and roll for Ira. It's going to be 1d12 for me, if you don't mind. 10. 10, all right, so it's going to be 10 plus three.

That's our new priority, getting this guy out of here. So Sorrowlord. We're killing the Sorrowlord. I don't know what's going on yet. Falls back out of the hole, plummets. We can knock him unconscious. Do I get an attack of opportunity on him? If you'd like to take one.

Yeah, it's whether or not you trust him. Could your attack of opportunity be catching him? I was just thinking that. I think we're trying to persuade the emissary. I think Lord Zathuda is neither here nor there. He could've got some intel, though. Because Zathuda is separate from the emissary. I think Lord Zathuda is neither here nor there. He could have got some intel, though. Because Zathuda is separate from the emissary that represents...

I will go right down with him. Zathuda is here representing... Samanar? The emissary represents Samanar in the Unseelie Court. Yeah. Sauron Lord is from the Unseelie Court by working with Ludmus. Rogue agent, yeah.

Yeah, you know what? Yeah, can I reach out and just grab his wrist? What are you trying to do? Either hold him here or go down with him. Oh, keep yourself close to him? Yeah. Smart. Make a strength check for me. Smart.

My strong suit. Yeah, yeah. Is that a negative three? Yes. It's great. All your fingers full. Is that a negative three? Yes. It's great. Just a straight check. Just roll and add your strength modifier. That's fair, that's fair.

One. I rolled a one! Everything breaks. Tears, tears of armor. So here's what happens. You're in your mind contemplating this. You're in your mind, contemplating this. You're like, no, I won't let him. You go to reach for him, and he's already fallen,

and he's just gone, and you're like, oh, I missed him. I was like, mm. It's the latest reach of all time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before he hits, which is his bonus action, to step up onto here. Oh, that's the worst. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before he hits, which is his bonus action, to step up onto here. Oh, that's the worst.

Okay, okay, okay. Okay, but he might be waiting to talk? It's okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. And just puts his, he has the blade out at the side, but has his hand up. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Just holding it. Okay, okay. That finishes his go.

It is now the emissary's turn. The emissary says, And what is going on here? Looking over towards the Sorrowlord. The Sorrowlord goes, To be completely honest, lewdness has never been worthy of listening to. Yeah, let's go. Okay. So we continue as planned, but the Unseelie has a future without that pissant elf trying to guide him. And looks down at you and says, and my daughter might very well be the key. He says, Daughter. The emissary goes,

Huh. That's his turn, and that's the emissary's turn. The other guards, who have their blades at their ready, gather around, stand there, looking at the emissary, looking at the rest of you, looking at Fearne and Dorian standing there, ready to carve you all down, but still their blades.

It's just this standoff, just this tension that sits in the middle of this chamber. The pillar gives a little more and more rocks tumble. The chamber is like, Ooh boy, it's getting real tenuous in here. You should get out of here. Imogen, it's your turn.

Glumglet is pulling at the reins, now seeing its master on the ground and realizing that it doesn't recognize who's tugging, but that's all you can sense from it. What do you want to do? I can't move him on my turn. He moves on his turn, and I just am riding him around. Correct. I mean, you can spend your action

to try and guide him, if you want to. Can you talk into creatures? I can talk to creatures, yeah. Then they choose to listen. Exactly. I can speak into his head. Oh. What would you like to do?

I was just curious. With Orym on deck, by the way. Yes, yes. I'm not going to attack anybody. Because I'm going to use my action to try He's like so close again. I don't want him to bamf.

I'm going to try to move Glomglot that way. I want him to like be able to go out the roof if I need to. So I want to get him close to that opening. Okay. You did see him push through like a thin lizard shifting its bones. So he could get through that hole that we've created.

The hole that you made? You're not sure. But the hole that he widened, probably, because he made it bigger, right, with his attack on the ceiling? Well, he carved through. When he would. It's a dark flame. Its impact on stone is not as strong.

It's still a fair hole. He may or may not. But he did come in through a hole on the opposite side, right? Correct. Yeah. Like through a window. You saw him squeeze through a small. Or sorry, the main entryway.

He went through. He came through the main entryway. You couldn't use him as an exit, because if he slithered through, he'd just scrape you off, right? Well, look, no. She can streamline. Listen, I got abilities. And if he bursts through the roof,

that whole thing will come down. Trust me. Okay, I'm going to try to move him over to that area. Keep him up high. Okay. I want him up and away. So for this, I'm going to have you both just do contested will checks on this. This is a will power?

You've already done your animal handling and you've now dominated that space there. He's questioning it now with the Sorrowlord present. Can I use my ability to speak into his mind? Sure, what do you want to say? Hey. Hey. Come here, Asm? As a horse girl,

I totally understand how to talk to animals. Right. You always go for the dragon. Um. A little bit of the Scrooge. Shit, I don't know what to say to him. He's cute. Yeah.

I'm going to say, stand down, stay calm. I'm on your side as I try to bring him up and around. Okay. So I'll say what here is still contested, like his will versus your will in this instance. Persuasion isn't going to do anything just from a direct communication. You're almost trying to impose yourself

as his own will onto his mind. So go ahead and roll and add your wisdom. Wisdom? Yes. Not charisma. Correct. Wisdom? Yes. You don't have to exercise or anything? Do it. He rolled high. I can see it on his face. Wisdom save or wisdom mod?

Wisdom mod. Doesn't matter, it's the same. 15. 15? Okay. He rolled a natural three minus two. Uh. This is so offensive. 15. 15? Okay. He rolled a natural three minus two. Whoa! You read him wrong. I did, I did.

Not a very wise entity. Okay. And being able to push and insert your force of will into its mind without it understanding where it's coming from, for the moment, it seems to interpret it as its own intent. Okay. And so you push that thought into its head,

and it just resets itself over on this side of the chamber. Let's go ahead and move Bray as well. If you don't mind. Well, I'm okay. I was just blown against the wall. Just a little bit. I love the drama.

Oh god. Yeah! There we go. Transporting the wedding. Everything's good. I know. Whoa. Yeah. Yeah! Is it the top of the roof? As high as you see? Right above where that opening is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then latches onto the sides. And then can I? Just narrowly avoiding the central pillar. If I'm holding, oh wait, no. Can you fly still? Yeah, I can. I wanted to hold a spell if anything happened.

Can I try to do that as a bonus action? As a bonus action, yeah. Then I'll use a sorcery point to turn it into a quicken spell. You got it. So two sorcery points. And then I'm going to hold Psychic Lance for the Sorrowlord if he pulls any shit. Okay, you got it. Orange, you're up.

Okay, so through the four swalls of that spell, I'm getting 70% of what's happening from what I'm hearing, and I know that I'm seeing the emissary with that. The Sorrowlord and the emissary are both up there, like maybe five feet from each other. Sorrowlord has the blade out, hand up. The emissary's looking confused. There's just a tension in the air,

and everything's just holding tight. In the middle of it, Gloomglitch latches out of sight. So I'm not 100% certain of the vibe yet. So Orym slides through that gap and I quiet pitter-pat up between Emissary's guard and Fearne, pad up the stairs, and I'm going to dance. A little bit out of range. I'm going to dance. A little bit out of range.

I'm going to use my action and my movement to get all the way up and dance pirouette around the emissary and stand between them, and use bait and switch, and throw my shield and blade up in front of the emissary. So emissary gets an additional three to their AC. And I'm not holding the sword out like a threat, So Emissary gets an additional three to their AC. I'm not holding the sword out like a threat,

but I am holding it up with shield up. I, over my shoulder, say, We're going to get you out of here safe. We need to take the temperature down. The Fawn has evidence you need to see before you can make any decisions. And that's the end of my turn. Okay. Oh, no, it's not.

And little blue-black blossoms start to grow out of my armor and out of my hair as I hex the Sorrowlord, and he's at disadvantage on strength checks. Okay. That's the end of my turn. Got it. Nice. Good morning, Gloria. Nice. Nice, nice.

Okay. Nice. Nice. Nice. Okay. So right now, we are pausing the initiative order. Ira has clambered to the edge. There we go. What? You did it. Yay! You did one bad thing.

If that's how it worked, you lost three already this battle. Ira clambers up to the edge, through this battle. I'm just going to put it there, I'm working it. These walls are strange. Ira clambers up to the edge, where you are, peering into it, and looks over towards you. Can you trust them? Can you trust me?

Oh, don't confuse me. I'm not confusing. I'm teaching you. Can you trust them? Can you trust me? No, not really. Good. He just sits there and curls his arms over the edge of where that opening is, his large knees bent, and watches from above. Are we going to go down? Should we go down?

He's just watching. Should I go down? What do you? I'm going to go down. I'm asking Ira. Are you going to go down? Are you going to go down together? No? You're going to stay here and watch?

I'm fine here. It's always nice to be near an exit. Hey, Joe's down. All right, here's the thing, though. Don't just bamf. Don't go away, all right? It's always nice to be near an exit. He drove down. All right, here's the thing, though. Don't just bamf. Don't go away, all right? Can you just stay?

I'm going to go down. Sure, you can trust me. You literally just said the, oh my god. I saw a sweater climb up, so I'm just going to head first, skitter down the wall and take a break. And go join the conversation. Okay. So as everything stays still here,

a few moments pass of quiet before the emissary relaxes their shoulders a little bit behind you. So what is this evidence? What in all of the hills and realms beyond has brought you here now, whoever the fuck you are? This is the emissary? Emissary.

Fearne? Yes. We have a take out of my marsupial pouch. We found... Sorry. We found a journal of lewdnesses, and it talks about everything that he's done. And he's been siphoning our power for hundreds of years. Probably longer than that.

Do I give it to him? Yes. Yes, I'll tell him to do your thing. Okay. Nathalie does a quick little thumb through. If you're aware of the, if I may, your grace, if you're aware of the great city of Molaesmyr, it was ruined by Ludinus' efforts hundreds of years ago, decimated the landscape. And what Fearne says is true.

He's been absorbing your creatures, your people, your lands to stay alive all this time. His words are hollow and he will betray you. You've seen it? The evidence is there. He's using all of you. Looks over to the Sorrowlord. And you, Zathura, you've been our direct right hand to Ludinus. What do you have to say of this? What do you know of it?

The Sorrowlord's hand is down. Now the blade's still quietly burning at his side. There's been conversations at the top of the court where some of this is known, some of it's not. A necessary evil in the goals that we had aligned, but even so, part of why I was sent was to keep a close eye on his work. And while I think what he plans to achieve can and will be done, he should not be the one granted that ability. So, with their help,

my sweet daughter, and all of our destinies. We can find ourselves in the threshold of a new era and destroy Ludinus before he can even glimpse Dream to achieve what he wants and make it our own. All right. glimpse dream to achieve what he wants and make it our own. All right. So, what you see before you

are those capable of ushering in a freedom from them. He glances up towards the dome of this temple of the Archheart, patron of Beauty, Arcana, and the Fey. Sure. I realign. Can I insight check him? Yeah, go for it.

What are you trying to glean from him? I just want to know if there's some other intent there. Sure. Does that make sense? Yeah, make an insight check. I mean, of course there would be. 23.

Oh! Earlier, when we entered combat, I should have read, this combat was brought to you by WizKids and their Bells Hells unpainted mini set, which is available for pre-order today at wizkids.io slash crunpainted. There's an exclamation point at the end.

Usually they don't mean that. Is that part of the URL? Maybe that's part of the... Or unpainted? I think it's unpainted. Yeah. Unpainted. Use both. Try both.

Did you get something good? It looks like you got something really good. Yeah. Oh, good. Udineis deserves nothing. He's a brilliant mind without true vision. A brilliant slot within a damaged soul who's been tantruming for a thousand years.

But your destiny awaits as she who ate the gods. Inferno, Empress and caster of the deepest shadows. You are the future, Fearne Calloway. Lady Fearne, the future. Wait, the future of what? Looks over to the emissary. Go. Tell Samanar and the court what you heard here.

I can return to the vanguard side, play my part. We will carry our intent to the very depths of that red moon. And when the moment's right, we will slay Ludin Estaleth, and you will be the vessel of the future. Oh shit. We don't want him, I'm saying this in heads. We don't want him to bring the army. We don't want the army there. That was the whole fucking point. It might be the best we can do, though. I see, he wants to rally the army

for a little bait and switch when the going is right. But he didn't necessarily say he's going to bring the army. He just said, go and tell them what's up. They're going to keep up their part, which means we'll have to inform our forces to not slam into a wall. We're going to have to turn into finesse instruments here. Don't they have the same objective,

but just different leadership? Yeah. It just seems like they're making a deal with the devil. We'll worry about it later? Yeah. They have the same objective, but just different leadership. It just seems like we can deal with the devil. We'll worry about it later? Yeah. So we're going to let them go? Just let them go and trust them to do the right thing? It's a tomorrow problem.

A tomorrow problem? What if there is no tomorrow? And it's not a problem, is it? I thought you wanted this, Dorian. What? I thought you wanted this. No, I wanted to convince them not to come, not to fight, to side with us.

Do we let him take the journal? We're all just staring at each other for 50 seconds. Yep, as this is happening, the Saur Lord goes, gloom glucked, and raises his hand up. The dragon dislodges its hands and land, swoops across the way. Hits the ground.

I need you, if you could, to make a strength check for me to maintain holding onto it as it impacts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What are you thinking? Should I take him down? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What are you thinking? Can I knock him down? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Two.

Okay. You get flung off the side, holding onto the reins. That's okay, I'm going to use- You're dangling for a second. As you're dangling right past its face, its massive jaw, which is large enough to consume you whole, just hangs open, the two bottom parts where the jaw splits, shake and the slobber

I'm going to use one of my points, and I'm going to instantly fly instead of dropping. Okay. Catch yourself, and you indeed can be flying. How far up do you want to fly? I'm just going to look Gloomglad in the eye, and in his head, he's going to hear, Thanks for the ride.

He's creating that infighting. Okay. I'd rather fight the Sorrowlord. No, no. The Sorrowlord. Yeah, he's rather worried. Yeah. Stands there and goes,

I can escort the emissary to the court. Or if you don't trust me, then we shall let them leave and find their own path. And I'll return to the unknowing interior bosom of the Vanguard and continue tweaking and threading

and weaving as I have been. So you've been like a spy. You really don't trust Ludinus. Why would anyone trust him? He's a brilliant figure who is accomplishing incredible things and doesn't deserve the fruits of that labor. So we wait and we hate,

and then when it's time to grasp that crown, it's ours, it's time to grasp that crown, it's ours. It's yours. Don't you think he is anticipating your imminent betrayal, though? He's anticipating everybody's imminent betrayal. But something tells me he thinks I'm perhaps the least dependable.

It's taken many years to instill a lack of respect from him to the point where I don't think he... I don't think he, I don't think he cares much for my cleverness. Sure, I have as good a chance as any. You said you were going to wait for your chance and steal the crown. What will you do with it? Will you seize power and do something with it?

It was a metaphor. Oh, okay. So you would have Fearne become the vessel for Pardathos to consume the gods, wipe the slate clean, and have your kin preside over all the realms? Just be free from the uncared for and unwanted guidance of those that have meddled with our affairs since we found them existing. So you don't want to bring the Unseerly into our realm. You just want freedom here in the Fae? I want us all to be free to pursue our natures. That doesn't work for us. Why?

Well, we stopped, we're trying to stop Ludinus from doing the exact thing that it seems like you want to do. Where did you stand, sweet Verne? Well, I mean, everything you're talking about, it doesn't sound like you're giving me a say in this. What is your say? Well, I don't... I don't think we should kill the gods.

I don't know. I don't know what the right thing is to do, but I don't want to be in charge. I don't want to wear a crown. I don't even know what being a vessel means. Orym tilts his chin back towards the emissary. What's the Unseelie Court's position in this? The emissary is just watching Fearne say all this and has a look of disappointment on their face.

The reason we ever even join with Ludinus' plot is we wish to unshackle ourselves from the nature that's been thrust upon us since their creation. Am I to believe and to pass along to Samanar that the child we've invested so much time and energy and focus into at the twilight hour has no interest in our plans and goals? Is that true? I don't fully know what your plans and goals are. If you were, let's, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. Zathura puts his hand out and says, She's close. She'll learn. She's grown a bit too comfortable with some,

but she'll learn. She knows there's something in her that wants out. Something that takes what it wants. Something that wants to grab and feel unbridled, true freedom, a wild power within, a hunger for something. She'll learn. In our heads, and specifically to Fearne and Brass, I'll be like, we may have to consider playing from the inside, right?

I guess, but this might be in your head. Feels like this is the time to get these guys. Yeah. It's just us and them. That's what I was wondering. If we eliminate these two, does the army move with or without them? I was about us and them. That's what I was wondering. If we eliminate these two, does the army move with or without them? I was about to ask that.

It may move regardless of if they have heads or not. Emissary. We could go without, I think so. Yeah. Zor-O-Lord, your current plan stays in motion. You will rally your troops, but with nothing more than added knowledge. I'm just curious if we intend to face you head to head,

and if that is the gu guys we are all working under. That's a good question. Just curious, what exactly is the ruse? Just curious, what exactly is the ruse? So our lord collects himself for a minute before looking at the emissary and looking past all of you and then just looks back to Fearne. When the assaults on the Key are crushed,

we'll be there waiting. We'll take you straight to where you need to be. No, he's skirting it when the assaults are crushed. Oh no. Yeah, they're going to be there. I mind. We could all jump back in together. Say the word.

Oh, it's on a razor's edge. Holy shit, you guys. Should I go with him? Yeah, either we're playing on the inside and seeing where it goes, or we think that removing the two of them and we're going to pick up a fight with a dragon and him and two guards and an emissary. No, Blombe's in a fight right now.

That's going to suck. Blombe's also not been heard yet. Do we think his presence is going to weaken their forces? The alternative is facing Sorrowlord and his dragon alongside a fully charged in-person lewdness or fill in the blank on Mars. Well, it sounds like eventually they'll reach a point where the Sorrowlord turns on Ludinus.

Yeah. And he helps us take that fucker down. Also, it sounds like he's offering a one-way direct flight to the inside of the moon when it's time. It's a deal with the devil, for sure. If we let him go. We could help save a larger force being ambushed or smashed. We could glean what we could from the inside, but we're going to be excommunicado one way or the other

and playing to lose, which is kind of awesome. I mean, it means, right, because then it means we will be taking all the armies that we are gathering, the Ashari and the Hand and all that, knowingly throwing them in here. And people will die. Yeah. Armies, we will be knowingly throwing armies

against armies. Or not, right. And when we do that, they'll know that we're flipped. Or we could finish the job here. Create the story that Ludinus wiped everyone out here and hope that the Unseelie Court despises the vanguard. The Sorrowlord puts his hand up and Glomglot lowers its head and rubs it against his hand

as he pets the side of his fey dragon. Aw. He's humanizing him. Or Fearne could just go. We could go our separate ways. He climbs up. He's on the dragon. He climbs up onto Sauron Lord. Climbs up onto Glomglut

and gives a hand down to the emissary. Glomglut reaches down and puts a hand out to grasp the emissary. He's now climbing onto Glomglut reaches down and puts a hand out to grasp. The emissary is now climbing onto Glomglut. What are we doing? What are we doing? May I walk up? The two other guardians begin to step out through the small room.

I'm going to walk up close enough to where I can maybe get Pet Glomglot's head and to where Sorrowlord could maybe hear me. Okay. I follow her like a page. Okay. Okay. We're all probably near the platform now. I'm on the dais.

Yeah, we're all down there. Yeah. Okay, so you're both down there. Just in case this sets off. Are you all going to appear on the dais, then? Yeah, just get us together for a fire blast. Yeah, just in case. Wherever you guys want to be. I hate this, I hate this. Bless, at this point, is faded.

It's only last one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Zathudar. May I pet him? Of course. I got it. One problem now. You're still flying, right? I am. Alongside them?

Yeah, no, I'm kind of close. I wouldn't have flown away. I'd probably be alongside. Yeah, I went a little up into the side of Glumklet's face. Okay, so you want to be over here? I was picturing her on the back side. Over here? Yeah, right there. As Fearne's walking up, making this approach,

really quick, she hears in the back of her head from Dorian, a simple question, and she goes, Fearne, when you think of the word father, who do you think of? Nana Mori? Yeah. All right. He's up on his reins, clutching them. The emissary is clamoring up behind to hold on. As you put your hand out, he gives a nod, and go on the left.

You little grump. Its head lowers down towards you, its massive, milky, clouded eyes, its jaw is like. Ugh! Where does he like to be scridged? Do you ask this question? Yes. The tip of its upper face, between the eyes and above the mouth.

Okay. I'll just gently try to give him some scratch. Good boy. I'm going to Psychic Lance Sorrowlord when she does that. Oh shit. Okay. I was thinking of it. Oh, go. What are you going to do?

No, go. Do your thing. I was just going to try to reach out to Sorrowlord because I want to whisper something to him. Okay, do that first. Sure. Oh no. I'm going to follow. Just real quick, if I see her do that, I've got to follow up to it.

Okay. Oh yeah, I brought it. So when he gets, I just want to whisper something to him. I heard what you said. I have felt a fire inside. And I would like to learn. Please, show me. Okay.

Psychic Lance. I'm sorry for an- It's okay. So, intelligence saving throw? It has advantage on it. She doesn't stop. You can still stop it. It's a four. You could still stop it. Ooh, fails that.

That is 76 psychic damage. Yeah. And incapacitation. Oh man, if that's happening, Orym runs up Glomglot's tail a bit, and I'm going to, with Seedling, send out a Grasp and Bind to the emissary and get him down. I don't want

Predathos free. Two, three, four, five, six. So. I agree. I don't want Predathos free. Two, three, four, five, six. So. I agree. I know. Okay, you want a fucking surprise round? Oh god, I rolled like shit. We are. It's not a surprise round.

No. Everyone's tense and everyone's waiting for something to drop. This just sets off the flame. Do we still try and keep the emissary alive? Oh man, all right, so. As you whisper this, he nods to you and you can see him smile through his helmet. Then immediately, his eyes go wide

and his jaw slackens as a little bit of drool just drips down the chin. His body tenses and he pulls the reins, his gloam glide begins to pull back. He is incapacitated until the start of your next turn. Great. All right. You said you were waiting for that.

Knowing her abilities and seeing what she's done, I know that Imogen has popped off, and I don't want him to fly out of here with the emissary. I want to control the narrative, so I try to run up Glomglut's body a bit to get in range to Grasping Vine. Acrobatics check. To rush up a shifting and moving Glomglut.

Yeah. That is acrobatics check to rush up a shifting and moving Gloamglot. Yeah. That is acrobatics, that's a 19. 19, okay. Yeah, you're able to leap onto its knee and leap onto where its head is pulling back and you bounce off of it, release the vine towards the emissary. Right, so strength save, DC 17. DC 17 for the emissary.

Not very high. Okay, that was a natural 20, though. Oh! Okay. Sorry. That's it. Ah, ah, silvery barbs. Silvery barbs, okay. That's going to be a 12. So the emissary gets yanked off the top

and plummets off the side, arcing as you leap and land and catch yourself. The emissary falls and takes from that height. That's 30 feet, so it's 3d6 bludgeoning damage. Yeah. 11 points of bludgeoning damage. Yeah. 11 points of bludgeoning damage. Necessary, he gets rocked. Not doing great.

I'm going to use the Grasp of the Night to pull him yo-yo all the way up to my feet. All righty. Gets dragged up to your point there. All righty, so we are returning to initiative order. Are we killing your dad? Are we killing your dad? Yes.

I'm going to kill my dad. Why killing your dad? Are we killing your dad? Yes. We're killing your dad. That's why I asked. Sorry. All righty. I don't want Frendando's free. I don't want Frendando's free. What's happening? I'm going to, okay.

I will, we're back in the initiative order now. Same order? You know what? Fuck it. Let's reroll. Ah! I've been longer than a League of Her Own. Awesome. Let's do it.

All righty. Oh, okay. Orym got the Emissary at his feet. Like, yanked him off the ground in a chasm. Oh shit. So he's got the Emissary. On the ground. Yeah, okay.

And then, at least, did you say it got the Emissary? Here we go, now we're getting. I did. I did like 24 points of damage. I want Dad to be able to fly him out of here and help him. I know. No, I understand, because if we could still get the Unseelie at least to back the fuck off.

Okay, so 25 to 20. 22. Hang on, wait, wait, wait. Okay. Orym, you rolled what? 22. Okay. Oh my god. Okay, 20 to 15?

19. 19. 15. 15. Ooh. Okay, hold on. Rollies? Triple rollies. Triple rollies. Dex's?

All right, so 15, let's go. See who got it. Triple rollies. Oh, I got a 17, sorry. Oh. Sorry. Orym, Imogen, Fearne. Fearne. Okay. Orym, Imogen, Fearne. Fearne. Okay. Orym, Imogen, Fearne. Wait, what?

Orym, Imogen, Fearne, and then triple rollies. So what's the rollies at? 14. 18. Five. Triple rollies. Okay. Okay, so you have Chet. Darius. Chet. Darius. Darius.

Ashton. What you got over there, Dorian? I have 14 again. Okay. Resistance. Yeah, sex animal. And then would you get Laudna? La? I got 14 again. Okay. Resistance. Yeah, sex animal. And then would you get Laudna? Laudna?

A nine. Okay. You got it. All right, so Orym, you are up first as you just drag the emissary to the ground. They are beat to shit and like being pulled by the vine. And they look like, their eyes wide are like, this all looks shit. Yeah, for sure.

Because it did. And Ira, are you getting in on this? Can I ask a question that's taken me this long to wonder the answer to? The Grasping Vine for Seedling says, you can counter Grasping Vine per the spell Grasping Vine. Does that mean it comes with a concentration of? Correct. Okay.

But if you take damage, you have to roll to see if you maintain it. Yes, and also means Hex, which is concentration is dropped if I choose to use seedlings. It's not baked into seedlings separate. So what I'm going to do is run back 30 feet, and the vine is still active for a minute,

and I'm going to use it to drag this dude back to the column. You can move half your movement, dragging somebody else with you. Sorry. The vine unspools and grows while I run with it, and then I zipline it back in. I mean, the physics of it. They get to make a save again. So yeah. Sure.

All right, so you get to move back, and then pull on the flag a second time. Man. They fail. Do that Batman grapple. Yeah. We can go back to Plan A, bring the building down. We could. We could. It's probably going to do it on its own.

We would need to get out of it, out of here. All right, that finishes. That's the bonus action for Grasping Vine. And I'm going to non-lethal this dude, and we can decide later. Okay. With the base of Seedling on the floor. Roll for attacks.

Okay. First is a 23 to hit. 23. Yeah, that hits. Non-lethal, 11. Damage, all righty. Next one's probably not going to do it. It's a 16.

16 does not hit, I'm sure. No, no, actually, no, 16 just hits. Okay. So it's also non-lethal, 14. 14, okay. And last one was I rolled a 10, this is 23. 23, that hits. That is 10.

With that, they are unconscious and wrapped in your vine. That's it, I stand over them. Okay. And watch the scene. All righty. Sorrowlord starts his action. Is he not incapacitated? Yeah, so he can't do anything. His turn is just in the rain.

Dragon's okay, though. Clutching on. That finishes his go. It is now the emissary's turn. Emissary is unconscious, can't do anything. They rolled really high initiative, but can't do anything this round. Imogen, you're up. Is the emissary dying?

No, he's unconscious. He's unconscious. But like, he's stable. Stable. Yeah, Orym ensured to make sure he wasn't doing lethal damage, so. Well, that's good, that's good. I'll put a little black. Uh, holy shit.

I'm going to, what do I have, what do I have? I would have liked to see you go. I know, I'm sorry. No, my god, don't be sorry, don't be sorry. We're making strong choices. We're making strong choices. We're making strong choices. Yep, that's what it's about. That's what it's about.

Make movement. I'm going to do it again. I'm going to try to Psychic Lance him again, but at 6th-level. Okay. I look up a thing. All right, intelligence saving throw. He does have advantage on this, because it's a spell.

I look up a thing. I come here looking up a thing. 17's the highest he's got. Yes, okay, great. So that's nine D6 psychic damage. Okay, 318. Fearne, you're almost on deck, not after this turn. Okay, okay, okay. 29 points of psychic damage.

Okay. And he's incapacitated again. Again, until the beginning of your next turn. So he just starts to clear his head before another time, blood rushes from his nose as he doubles over and almost falls out of the saddle of Glow and Glut and holds on, barely tangling himself in one of the reins and falls out of the saddle of Glomglut and holds on barely, tangling himself in one of the reins and falls out of the saddle,

but is now dangling just a foot out of it right now. I'm going to fly up to Ira. 60 feet, right? Yeah. Okay. That's about as close as you can get there. Maybe a little bit closer. We'll see you're a little higher there. All right, cool. That finishes your go.

Now Glomglad's go. Glomglad shrieks, let's see if, it's been a few minutes of talking. Yeah, it gets its thing back. Wow. Glomglad. For a bonus action. But you don't have to be there

if that's not where you just remember. Mm. Wait. It's also going to, so it lasts a minute, right? For a bonus action on my turn? Yeah. I'm trying to, sorry, the Havoc's Embraces in really weird places.

I just gotta find it. I gotta see if it's casting. Oh, you know what? Hold on, first half. Shit, fuck it, never mind. Might just be a one. Forget me. Come back in. Yeah. Second half's going to be like 30 minutes. Oh god, oh god.

All right, all right. So Glow and Gleit. Sorry, as opposed to action, I'm going to light up my robe. I hadn't lit up yet. You got it. All the different glyphs and stuff, and the light around it.

Glow and Gleit, who, all the different glyphs and stuff and the light around it. Mm-hmm. Boneblood, who, in the middle of hearing its owner yell out in pain twice, you, rushing off and pulling the emissary from its top, is going to try and rush over to grab the emissary, flying in this direction. No, no, no, no, no. It's going to grab onto the side of the wall and the pillar.

Yep. I want to see... Fearne, roll a d20 for me. Oh god. 13. 13. Magic number. Okay. That's a good one.

More than 10. Oh, it gets more each time. Oh. So the DC good one. Oh, it gets more each time. Oh. So the DC on this is 12, and it'll just get higher with each day. So the pillar cracks even more. Okay, okay, okay, got it. More stones begin to fall,

and the watches of crack go and spider up the side of the interior here. The two guards that were rushing in to help the emissary see this and turn around. Yeah! That is correct. We're not paying enough! We're staying eventually.

Glomglot is now going to unleash a volley of attacks on you, Orym, since you're the one pulling away the emissary. Yeah, sure. So that's a rend and a tail attack. Okay. A rend attack is going to be 21 to hit. For sure hits.

All righty. You take... Here we go. Does this sound too bad? Not too bad. 21 points of slashing damage. Okay. No. But I'm immune to dragon damage.

A tail attack is going to be a 27 to hit. It's a little bit. Okay, it's good to know. It's good to know. That hits you for 15 points of bludgeoning damage. I need you to make a strength saving throw. Okay. I'm looking something up real quick before I do that. Okay. I'm with you.

Then Fearne, you're on deck with... Oh, it's Chet, after It's true, it's true. Let's check after that. Okay, so I roll. It's a natural one, so I'll reroll it. Okay. Let's just start there. You guys get ones and twos, this whole basketball. Okay, that's a nine,

but I'm going to burn a superiority die and use Zephyrn Heart. Okay. And try to increase it to make it workable. Roll high. It's a 10, so 19. 19, you are not knocked prone. As the tail slams past you,

the tail attack does hit the pillar. Oh! Because it's a spinning tail strike that whips around to try and get you. Roll another d20. Oh no. Oh god. What happens if we are buried in shit? A 14 or higher is what you want.

It's going to suck so much, dude. Well, hopefully we have reactions. A three. It slams the pillar, splatters across the side of the wall. It's a stone that goes flying off to the side immediately. Not good. Oh god. Not good, not good.

Parts of the temple begin to fall and crack. The place is begun to collapse. This was a really good idea when we were in here. We're in the third or fourth phase of this play. I've changed these times. Fearne, you're up. Okay. What are we doing? Kill him. Okay.

Kill and run, kill and run. Zathuda? Get him off that dragon. Let him get crashed in here. Are we killing him? If we stay in here, we might get crushed. What are you doing, Thelma? Okay, okay. Oh shit! Patricide. Take his sword.

Ludify. I want to do something, but I don't know if it's dumb. He's just lying there, you know? You can never do anything dumb. Matt, do it. Not true. Okay, okay. The entirety of the Temple of the Arch Heart is currently about to collapse.

What are you doing? Okay. Everybody in your heads, you're going to hear, get out of here. I love you. Chet, you know how to find me. I'm going to reach up to Papa and say, Please get me out of here. I want to come with you.

It's true. He is currently dangling and his brain is shaking. Oh, that's right, that's right. I'm going to, I'm going to, then I'm going to climb up. I'm going to climb up. I'm going to try to climb up Glomglut and just get him up there

and try to just get onto Glomglut and get out of the building. Make an animal handling check. Cool. Do it. Do it. Can you guide yourself? Yes, I love this. No, you can't. I always forget that's in my command.

Dark tone. What do I use? What do I use? I'm going to use this one. Black Forest Gate, Rich. Love Rich. Well, this changes things. That's cocky. Super cocky. Super cocky. Ooh, this changes things. That's cocky. Super cocky. Super cocky.

Ooh, that was a journey. 18. 18. In the midst of all this chaos and everything tumbling around, you try and get Glomglot's attention to try and find a way to climb. You begin to climb up a little bit

and he just thrashes and it knocks you off. So he's not helping you climb, so it's a contested roll to try and climb him. Make an athletics check for me. With advantage because of the scritches earlier. Athletics or acrobatics, your choice. You could either try and muscle your way up there or you can try and parkour your way up there, essentially.

Okay, both not awesome. It's time for a net one. It's time for another one. Acrobatics is a little better. Let's go. No, acrobatics is worse. Acrobatics is a little better. Let's go. No, acrobatics is worse. Acrobatics is a plus two, athletics is a minus two. Oh shit. Yes. Come on, let's do it. Come on. Come on.

Oh, you bitch. Five. Oh no. You try and leap up and as the wings of Glow and Glut begin to pick up up because it now senses its self-preservation is now taking over. So as you try and leap up, one of the wings bats you back and you tumble back and hit the ground,

get back up onto your hooves. Okay. So that's going to be your turn. Okay, that's my turn, that's my turn. You get pushed back a little bit here. That's okay, that's okay. You catch yourself. That's okay. Okay. Can you turn into a bird or something? Chetney, you're up with Brayas on deck,

Ashton following. What you got? We're getting the fuck out of here, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, boots of speed, I will run off the dais and try and squeeze through the door. Whence we came? Yeah, boots of speed, that's twice your speed there. It's going to be 80. 80 feet?

Yeah, you can, with that and a dash, you can get out of the temple. Okay, I'll do it. All right. You actually emerge out into the wood. Okay, I'll do it. All right. You actually emerge out into the wood out there. That finishes your go. Brayus, you're up with Ashlyn on deck. Shit.

Where is Fearne Calloway? Fearne Calloway is right here. She just got knocked back a little bit from trying to climb the wing. Okay. I will run to Fearne Calloway. Boy, I don't know what I'm doing. Let's just try this.

I'm going to run to Fearne Calloway. How damaged are you? I'm not terrible. I'm like 35 or something. I will hold her over my head and I will cast Thunder Wave on her to shoot her up 15 feet up. To get her on the roof! Oh!

That's sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. I'm going to go. All right, so you go ahead and pick her up. There's a boost. All right, you do take damage. So go ahead and roll damage for Thunder Wave.

Low, low, low, low. What's the lowest Thunder Wave I can cast? Level one is the lowest you can do. Except I don't have any. Oh wait, level one? Oh, I do, I do have a level one. Okay, good, good, good, good, good. So it's 2d8.

A two and a four, six points of damage. Six points of thunder damage to you. You're not attempting to avoid this, so you take the full brunt, there's no saving throw. But it does launch you 15 feet and arc up here. That will allow you one more contested roll to try and get onto it. Bonus action inspiration.

So what do you do to inspire her? I goose her to the little bottom as I... All righty. So you have a d6 inspiration die. Squeeze. Bam! And either athletics or acrobatics check contested once more. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Dirty 20. Dirty 20. Yes. 17 was the total that he rolled. Ooh! So you. Let's go! You are up on the side of Glomglad now.

So wait, where's the emissary? Emissary is dragged off at the base of it. Unconscious and wrapped in a vine currently by Orym. So we're trying to get the emissary out? All right, Bray, so finish your turn? Yeah. All right, Ashton, you're up. Oh, wait, do I have any movement left? To report back to the Hanse.

To get there, there would have been five, 10, 15, 20, 25. That's 25, you have five more feet. I'll start up at five feet. Oh yeah, I'll put you up there. That's fine. It's changing. They're like, came back up onto the dais. All right, finishing that.

Ashton, you're up. Victorian on deck. I'm raging, just because I know that a whole bunch of terrible shit's about to happen. Our enemy. What does that give me? Well, it's going to go one way or another. It's going to go one way or another.

He dies, he dies. Okay, that's a whole thing. The dragon has taken zero damage, right? The dragon has not had shit. The dragon has taken no damage. I'm going to, is the mud pit still here, by the way? The mud pit lasts, actually, let me see. That's my question.

What if your dad dies, but you still ride triumphantly back to the Seelie and you're like, I'm your leader now. It's fine. Yeah. It's still there. Still the gold mud pit on that side. Everyone's been sloshing through as they walk around. I'm going to...

We'll see what happens. Grab who's definitely having issues. Where's Imogen? I'm in the sky. Imogen is flying up. You're Imogen. Orym, you're over there? Yeah. Are you going to be okay to run, or are you going to need some help?

I'm fine. Are you sure? Okay. I'm where I want to be. All right, I'm going to take, fuck, we're going. I'm taking 80 feet out the door, I suppose. Okay. I'll get you most out the door, I suppose. Okay. That'll get you most of the way over there. We'll say you're near the exit.

Unless, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. That brings us to Dorian's go. All right. I'm going to use my movement. I'm going to sprint as fast as I can over to that unconscious emissary. Uh-huh.

And... This is... Yeah. Oh shit. Yeah, so I'm going to lean down to him and say, I need just a minute with you. I'm going to throw him over my shoulder and cast Dimension Door. Ooh. That a boy.

Solid move. That a boy. And the place that I visualize, right, because I can imagine it. 500 feet. 500 feet, which could get me outside for sure. Oh yeah. I want to be in that same moshy spot where I was face down, ass up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm going to take us both together and I've got him, but we're down in the field. He's unconscious. Yeah, so he's unconscious. Yeah, that's it. That's my turn. Just screwing his head. Okay. So drew, you mean draw. All right, that finishes. He's unconscious. Yeah, so we've got it. Yeah, that's it. That's my turn. Just going to be on his head.

Yeah. Okay. So dreamy. All right, that finishes Dorian's go. Yep. Ira, who's up there watching all this happen, seeing Zathuda on the edge, you up on the side, is just staring daggers at Zathuda with a smile.

He is going to... Yeah, you have to. I was first. Wait, Rhys, did you go? I went. I just helped Fearne. You did, you did. He is going to, bonus action, go into his nightmare form. His body seems to be suffused in shadow, his limbs extending a bit.

His ears get longer, his jaw extends like venom, more teeth, and his pale coloring goes to a darker shadow form. His eyes glowing amidst the darkness now, their black darkness now flipping to almost a pale white against the black skin of his body. As the shadows whip around, he gets down low and leaps through the air.

He's attempting to leap onto the back. Oh! Yeah, boy. Yeah, the natural 17, he does it. Whoa! Fucking hell. Oh my god. It's the whole family. He leaps onto the back.

He clambers over to Sauron, Saurlord Zathura. He's like, I've wanted to do this for so long. And is going to attempt to slice in him. Now, because he's incapacitated, I believe he has advantage on this? Hold on, let me check. Yeah, at the very least, yeah. Contraposited.

Checking my thing here. I just can't take actions or reactions. Okay, so you don't get it. No, he's just going to attack him twice. That's going to be, ooh, natural 18. That definitely hits. And a five is not going to hit. So he's going to hit ahead and hit now for...

There's the 12s there. Ooh, okay, that's 11. So weird. I know. This is so weird. Yeah, it's awesome. So complicated. It's awesome. Because every move we're making, I'm like- There's a bunch of different outcomes here.

I know. There is. But then he does another six necrotic damage because of his nightmare form. The second attack. Dimensions. Nenamori's like, Okay, that finishes his go. Laudna Europe.

Okay. The Sorrowlord. how's he looking? Is he looking bad? He's looking, from what you can see, you just watched him dump forward as suddenly climbing up behind him on the dragon, you see nightmare form Ira reach over and slash a big gout of his throat that sprays blood

and the Sorrowlord doubles over, grabbing it as he's starting to shake free from her scrambled mess in his brain as Ira's now just standing over him, blood on his claw like, Do you want to go back to the Unseelie? I don't know. Do you want the dragon to live?

Yes. You want the dragon to live? She's on the dragon. Dragon, yes. You want this pet dragon? I got to do. Okay. It's her birthright. It is. So wait, wait.

Attacks on the Sarlord have advantage right now? Mm-mm. No. He just can't take any actions or move. I am going to use another Void Puppet, throw it up there. It kind of like, I want it to emanate almost from Iroh as it wraps around, this screaming spirit wraps around

the Sorrowlord. And I'm going to cast Disintegrate onto the Sorrowlord. Okay. Okay. Wow. You're going to cast what? Ex-squeeze me? You have what spell? No, it's just new-ish.

It's just it hasn't been a right moment to use it. Yes, that is what it does. All right, so go ahead. It's a save. It's a dex save. And he has disadvantage. Well, he has advantage because he's a fey against magic, so he ahead. It's a save. It's a dex save, and he has disadvantage. Well, he has advantage because he's a fey against magic, so he just has a singular roll. I'm going to roll this here.

Oh, this is so determinative. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a dex save, right? Yeah. All or nothing. Shaking. All the damage or no damage? Plus one. That's a 19. Silvery Barbs? I fucking love that spell. Silvery Barbs? Fucking loves that spell.

That's sex. What does it do? What does it do? He has to reroll it. He has to reroll it. Oh, that's so mean. I don't think you meant it when you said you love it. It's universally despised by anyone who plays this game. It's a DM.

That's my reaction, though, so. But it's fine. It's in the game. That is your reaction. All right. Go ahead and roll damage. What was it? What was it? What was it? It was a seven. It was a reaction, though, so. But it's fine. It's in the game. That is your reaction. All right. Go ahead and roll damage. What was it, what was it, what was it? It was a natural damage. Seven. It was a seven.

No, I thought it was just a natural one for its. So eight. So go ahead and roll damage. You need to borrow dice. Don't crack your neck like that, Marisha. It's so bad for you. Yeah, you got the bad beast. Stop it, stop it. I'm sorry. I feel bubbling in my head.

Just crack your neck and loosen up a little bit. You want some d6s? I think you need 10 of them, right? Bunch of dice plus 40. I need 10 and loosen up a little bit. You want some D6s? I think you need 10 of them, right? Bunch of dice. Plus 40. I need 10 D6. Here's five. You need more? Five, thank you. Is this your second level?

Two, three, four, five. Is it bad if I kill your dad? We will lay. I'm not asking the question now. You're disintegrating the circle. Dad's Nana, boy! We've never even done it before. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's tried to hurt Nana, so. Okay. What's up, Sixes? That's awesome. What's up, Sixes? I'm going to use my sorcery points to, I'm shaking, I can't, to Empower spell. Jesus Christ, this got weird so fast. Extra damage.

It allows me to reroll the small ones. Oh, reroll the small numbers. What is the small numbers? To reroll the small ones. Yeah, up to your charisma modifier. So up to five of them you can reroll. I need to just see how many, whatever. I have plenty of sorcery points. I'll mark it after this. So up to five.

That is correct. So one, two, three, four. I take the threes. One of the fours. I guess one of the fours. I should keep it the fours. No, that's your sixes. Wait, wait, wait, that was a six. That was a six. Yeah, it was a six. Nothing over three.

I think you're right. I think you're right, nothing over three. I'll do these four. That's not a six. Oh! Okay, okay, okay. It went up a teeny bit. Actually, not a six.

Did it go up a teeny bit? I'm just talking. that was a one. I am shaking so bad, you guys. Six, 12, 18. Wait, sorry. Hang on, shit. Six, 12, 18, 20, 24,

30, 28. Sorry, 32. 32, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, plus 40, so 81 hit points. 81 points of damage. Fuck! Woo! Disintegrate. Plus 40. Come on, I got to do some math here.

Disintegrate. You've just been sitting on disintegrate all casual, huh? All cool in the game? Well, it's been, we haven't. Yeah, it's been. Yeah, it's been. You fire off this beam, just waiting for the right moment because of all the movement, it's hard to pinpoint it,

and it's almost like time slows, like. You feel that heartbeat from inside, but whereas previously it was a dark portent of a lack of control, it is complete control within you as you draw whatever power within her that you need. Combine it with the innate power within you that's now become stronger without her.

Together, you fire this beam forward. It strikes the side of the Sarlord Zathura, and you watch as part of his right leg just fitters away into dust. He screams out in pain. He's doing real bad. He's still up. He's still up. He's minus a leg.

He's still up. He's still up. Bonus action. Quicken spell. Eldritch Blast. Go for it. I'll say from where you're standing and him on top of this, he has...

I have Spell Sniper. Yeah, you do. Let's go! Let's go! La-di-da-di-da. Well, one of those, oh goddammit. It's all right, it's all right, it's all right. I think you did pretty good on this turn, regardless of the overkill.

Yes, yes. Disappointment. I'm probably only one of those hits, which is 16 plus 12, 28. That hits. The other one that is 12, 13, 14, I'm assuming, misses. So only one of these hits. Okay, let's go ahead and roll damage.

Natural one, which is really annoying. Wait, natural one? Can I'm assuming, misses. So only one of these hits. Okay, so roll damage. Natural one, which is really annoying. Wait, natural one? Can I reroll that because of you? You're not within range of him, unfortunately. Okay. Yeah, you're just outside of 30 BP. Okay. 1d10 plus five.

That's fucking nuts. 12 damage. 12 damage. 12 damage. Okay. Digits, single digits, I bet. That finishes your go. Oh! Single digit warning.

At the end of your turn, Glomglad is going to use all three of his legendary actions to do his wing attack. Hang on, let me move. Can I move? Yeah. You can, yeah. I'm going to move. Kim, yeah.

I'd like to run. Yeah, start running. 30 feet this way. That guy is gone, by the way. You can going to, yeah. I'm going to move. Kim, yeah. I'd like to run. Yeah, start running. 30 feet this way. That guy is gone, by the way. You can move him out. He's running sprinted out this way. He's outside. You follow the dog that ran out.

Yeah, he's like, oh shit! So you move 30 feet. Oh shit! Almost to where the edge is there. Like here? One more this way. One more this way? Yeah, there. Can I suck my body up against this force cage

like I'm in an earthquake, hoping that maybe the ceiling goes down? It'll help a little? You got it, okay. So finish that go. Finish this Laudna's go. Orym, you're up. Okay, Orym takes a 10-feet running start

and I leap into the air and seedling lashes out and the vineine glues to the top of Glomglot's neck and I yak myself up right next to Sauron Larr. Okay, Glomglot's going to try and avoid this. Okay. Wait, I thought Glomglot was going to do legendary actions. Oh, you're right, yeah.

Before she moved. You had three attacks, wing attacks. Oh yeah, you're right. Sorry, my bad. No, thank you for the reminder. I got distracted in the middle of that. So he does three for his wing attack. All creatures within 15 feet succeed on a dexterity saving throw.

So that is going to be you, Orym. That is going to be everyone on top here. Including Vell? Not including Zathuja. Oh, well. But Ira's going to have to try. And Fearne? Ira fails by one. Fuck. Legendary.

He is saving throw. Ira does not have legendary resistance. He just has legendary actions. Oh. Oh. All right, so Imogen. 14. 14, you take six points of bludgeoning damage,

and you are pushed back against the wall. Actually, no, you're just knock-prone, so you fall out of the air. You get swept out, which means you fall for an additional eight points of bludgeoning damage. Crack on the ground. Fearne, what'd you get? Six. Six, you take six points of bludgeoning damage. Crack on the ground. Oof. Fearne, what'd you get?

Six. Six, you take six points of bludgeoning damage. Okay. And you are thrown from his back. Okay. Which means you take seven points of bludgeoning damage. Great.

Yeah, that's good. Ira also takes the damage and he gets knocked back. And he falls prone for six damage. Oh no, six damage on the hit and then he falls as well for another 12 points of damage. Okay. And then, what'd you roll? I did, what's the, is it a dex save or?

It's a dex save, yeah. That is a 18. An 18, all right, you just succeed, so you don't take any damage and you are not knocked prone. All right, so now it's your turn. Buff at the wing. So what I wanted to do was leap into the air with my boots of striding and springing,

and lash out and then just hit the saddle, hit the dragon, and yank myself up. Right, so Glomglot's going to try and avoid that. Dexterity saving throw fails. I'm going to use Legendary Resistance to succeed, so it does not find purchase. So that, okay. Sometimes that's how it goes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I? I know I just. So you leap up and send out the Vine of Seedling and it glances off of the movement of Glomkla. Okay. Okay. Then I'm, so I guess... I will, that was, no, I don't want to do that.

That's 10 feet of movement used because the jump isn't, I don't want to do that. That's 10 feet of movement used, because it jumped, I didn't go anywhere. So I'm going to spring up and try to run up and try to run up its body and leap into the air again to get me anywhere within 15 to 20 feet of this dude. Okay, make an acrobatics check for me. This is contested with Glomglot. That is a 24.

27. Ooh! Yet. So as you try to leap up, just bats you back out of the way. And you just like, fall off to the side and hit the wall and catch yourself before landing.

All right, fuck, then I slash the dragon. I'm right at its feet. Okay. Oh boy. That is a 27 to hit. 27 to hit, that hits. Are we rolling back in? I guess we're rolling back in.

Are you still up there? No, I got knocked off. Because of the dead. Shit. We got to get Daddy. We got to get Daddy quick. I think he comes back. I don't want the dragon to fly away with him. Yeah. We got to get him off the dragon.

So 27 to hit. I'm going to save my juice. So that is nine points of damage. Shouldn't have run. I was on the edge. Second attack is higher. That's 28 to hit. That is 14 points of damage. That's even higher.

Yeah. That is 14 points. damage. That's even higher. Yeah. That is 14 points. 14 points, okay. I can't believe I didn't get up there. Okay, done. He rolled really high on that. Okay, that finishes that go. It's now Sarlord's turn.

Yeah. He's incapacitated. Incapacitated because of you still sits there. Wow. It ends. Lasting until the beginning of her next turn. So he's just holding on for dear life. All right. The...

Sorry, the emissary. Thank you, I was like, what the fuck is it called? Still unconscious. Brings its Imogen's Go. Then Gloam Gletz up next. Okay. I still have Telekinesis up from when we cast it, when I had it before.

Roll Concentration to see if you can maintain your fly spell, by the way. It's not a fly spell. Oh, just the ability? Just the ability. Oh, right, yeah. So roll to see if you can maintain concentration on telekinesis. What do I add to it?

Plus my charisma? Or my constitution? It's constitution saving throw. 15. 15 with the damage you took from the fall there. How much damage did you just take? Like eight points. It was six, yeah, eight. Yeah, actually it would be two concentration checks.

So one succeeds, one was from the impact of the wing, and the other was from the fall. That's higher. Yeah, you're fine. Okay, then I'm going to use my Telekinesis to grab ahold of Zathuda, and I'm going to try to rip him away from Gloomglut? Glomglut. Okay.

He cannot resist because he is incapacitated. Well, no, it's the top of your turn. He's no longer incapacitated, so he can resist. Oh. Okay, so yeah. This is a contested strength with my spell DC. Yes, or your spell ss. My spell save, yeah. My spell save DC.

We're going a little long here, but this is, I can't break in the middle. We can't take a break. We got to, we got to, we got to. All righty. Which is now 21. Whoa. Which he's probably going to get because he's-

You make an ability check with adding your spellcasting modifier. Oh, okay. You roll and then he rolls. I roll and he rolls? Yeah, so you roll and you add your charisma bonus. Okay. He's going to roll and add his strength bonus. I roll my spell attack bonus, or just charisma? You just add your charisma bonus. Okay. He's going to roll and add his strength bonus. I roll my spell attack bonus, or just charisma?

You just add your charisma bonus. It's your spell ability. Spell ability. Probably your, like... Is this the same modifier? This is an ability check. It's just an ability check. It's an ability check.

You're rolling. Yeah, an ability check with It's an ability check. You're rolling. Yeah, an ability check with your spellcasting ability. Okay, now that's 14. 14, natural five for a 10. Whoa! Yes! So you rip him free. I rip him away. I can move him 30 feet, so I'm going to pull him up and away up the ceiling.

Yep. I'm going to try to drop him down right in front of Brayus. Oh shit. So you're going to up here? Uh-huh. Please, Lord, give me a sign. Crap!

If I can aim it at all, I want him to land here so he cracks his back. 30 feet will be about there. That's as far as you can get him at an angle there. So he plummets with an additional, like 20 feet up and a 10 feet to get him that direction to drop from higher, dropping him there. That's going to be 40 feet.

So he's going to take 4d6. Roll 4d6 for me. That's how much bludgeoning damage he takes as he falls. Do you want us to kill your father or keep him alive or what? I don't know. I have a, I don't like making the decision about that. 14 points of bludgeoning damage.

Yeah, he is unconscious. He's unconscious. Okay, okay, okay. Crack! He hits the middle of the dais. As he hits, the impact blasts back all of the vines here. In the middle of the central stone piece where they get shattered at the blast of impact, you can see all these wonderful, intricate carvings

of beautiful threads weaving together. In the middle is the face of the Arch-heart, just looking upward and smiling as he lays unconscious across the dais. That's your action. Grab him and run. We're going. You have half your movement to get up. That gives you 15 feet to move.

Okay. That's interesting. And the emissary? Let's grab them all and run, we're going. Half your movement to get up. That gives you 15 feet to move. Okay. That's interesting. On the emissary? Let's grab them all and run. Okay, wait, let me. I got the emissary. Yeah. Is everybody going to be able to get out? Where are you, Laudna? I am like this, up against the force cage.

Okay. That's good. Let me see how far this goes. I'm going to Misty Step over here. Okay. 30 feet, right? 30 feet. 30 feet. I'll put you about there. And run as far as I can.

15 feet is running through the air. You get right next to where Laudna is. Okay. That finishes your go. Hi, honey. That was incredible. Glomglot's up. Glomglot is going to screech

and run out through the hole. He's going to try and squeeze through that tiny hole. Whoa! I should have gone to Glomglot. That's going to be... You would be squished now. That's going to be barely enough. You watch as this massive dragon form,

the wings fold back and the arms push through, the stone cracking as it goes and it makes the hole larger as it forces its way out of the temple and shrieking as it begins to fly. This is going to be bad. Fuck, I should have gone on that. End of Lomagut's turn.

Does it stabilize anymore with the pushing through the hole? Oh, the whole thing's coming down. That's not terrible. So everyone in the chamber right now takes eight points of bludgeoning damage from falling debris. You have one more round to come out here before the whole thing falls down.

Okay. A full round. Okay. All right. Let's get out. So there's nothing else here in initiative order except for you guys, so what are you all doing? Run. Fucking running. All right. Who's get out. So, there's nothing else here in initiative order except for you guys, so what are you all doing? Run. Fucking running.

All right. Who's grabbing Shadow Lord? Fearne, you get out. That's half your movement. I'll grab him. He's right in front of me, but yeah, if you want to, go for it. Get him, get him. No, you get him. I remember grabbing somebody slows your speed by half. It does.

Even me? I'm super buff. Yeah. What if I help? Yeah. Then you I help? Yeah. Then you'll move the slow. It's carrying a body together. I'll say you both will move, I'll say two thirds you're moving.

Okay, okay, okay. Two thirds? Like. Yeah, I like it. Breathe tight, it's going to be close. You said we're at the side of the table. Meaning everyone does a thing, and then. One move. Calling out the thing that we do.

Can I say in a split second, can I scan the whole room, including on the Sorrowlord, and do I see his blade? Is it harnessed on his side or did it fall to the ground somewhere? Well, the blade was sheathed when he got to the blade. Do we want Sorrowlord to live

or do we want him to die in here? We can decide that outside. Okay, I'm going to use my bonus action to telekinetically pull Sorrowlord five feet towards me. Okay. Oh yeah, that's right. All right. So that hopefully it gives them

a little more space to run faster. Okay, and now you're going to? Yeah. So you're running and dashing with this now? Or, okay, everyone's taking a round. What are we doing now? I'm leaving. So Fearne, you get up.

That's half your movement. Okay. Do you want your dad to leave? I will. Yeah, I'm waiting to see if they make it out. I feel like I want to decide outside. Okay. Okay.

Yep. Yeah. All right. Everyone's still inside. I better head back in. What about Ira? Ira, can you get out? I have my means, don't worry. Shit. What about Ira? Ira, can you get out? Oh, yes. I have my means, don't worry.

And Ira does dimension doors outside. I look at Imogen. Are we running? Yeah. All right, I grab her hand and we sprint out. I know, I want to make sure that everybody gets out the door, but we're going to be blocking the way. Double move at a dash.

It's going to be 30, 60 feet. That'll get you just out the front from where you both are standing. I just grabbed it. They're very capable! It's fine! So you all just barely emerge from here. Last word. Who's left? Oh, gosh.

But I could help. I could help if I'm in there. No, no, no, you're fine, you're fine. I also have telekinesis. Whatever you feel. So I can try to, I can grab, I can, I don't know why. All right. Don't worry. It's only regrets.

No, I'm not going to dash. I'm not going to dash. I'm going to use my telekinesis to try to grab the Shadowlord because I can lift a thousand fucking pounds. Yeah. I'm just going to grab him and try to pull him out with me. Okay. So you are only partly here.

And he gets dragged 30 feet over here. Okay, 30 feet. Yeah. Great. Okay. I would say, then I'll, when I felt her hand leave mine, I'll be in here-ish. No, don't take, keep going, Laudna.

Go, go. Get out the door. All right, all right. So Laudna exits, you're waiting in the middle. The. Get out the door. All right, all right. So Vahna exits. I go out. You're waiting in the middle. The tower is above your hearing. It might help. It might help, yeah.

The ceiling is now shh, shh. Move, move, dash! All right, so. Your run, dash. All right, so it's half movement. So then the other half is 15 feet. It'll get you up on the dais. Shit. And then dash.

I have 35 feet. Right, so that'll get you there. Okay. And then 35 feet will get you next to the Sorrowlord. Okay, great. Maybe a little bit there. So, oh no, I used dash, never mind. Okay, great. That's you, Brace.

Wait. Do you also have a bonus action? Yeah, you do. Yeah. Bonus action, can I, I'm going to use that extra 15 feet with Mr. and go. How far can you that extra 15 feet with Mr. and go. How far can you teleport from there?

15 feet. Bonus action as a rogue for another chunk of movement. Yeah, you are a rogue. And I'll do that as well. So you just pass the Imogen over there. You want to put her over there. Okay. Okay. Then I'll take Sorrowlord with me for that.

15 feet? 15 feet. If Mr. can't do both, can't do both of you. He can if I have a willing creature. He you can miss, you can't do both. You can't do both. He can, if I have a willing creature. He's not willing, he's unconscious. Okay, I didn't know if that would count. That's okay. Okay, never mind. No worries. So you've left him?

I've left him. Brace. And he's in the chamber still, okay. Orym, you're the two who haven't done anything yet in this chamber. Yes, so I will start off. Just for fun, as I go, I look down at that image of the Arch Heart and I just smash it with my heel I will start off. Just for fun, as I go,

I look down at that image of the Arch Heart and I just smash it with my heel and then I charge off. Okay. Oh shit. The cracks. Solid. 30 feet of movement. 25, 30, gets you right there.

And now I guess I will bonus ac- No, action dash, because I don't have bonus action dash. That gets you just up close to where- But I'd also like to carry the Sorrowlord. Then you'll get half that movement. Yeah, so will I make it to the- You'll make it just through the door

and he'll be pulled just beyond that threshold. Who else is at the door right now? Everybody except Orym is out. Orym, what are you doing? I've been waiting to watch all the chickadees leave and then I start to sprint in a direct line towards the... I'll use movement and action to go 60 feet. Then 60 feet will get you just over by where Imogen is.

Right, and then I will, grasping fine, a point on the ceiling of the hallway and yank myself even further forward. Okay, I'll show you 20 more feet that way. Who's outside with me right now? Can I throw one more thing, if possible? What do you want to do? I've still got my rage up.

You mind taking a punch? Duh. I'm going to grab Chet. You're not dying, right? You're fine. Duh. What? Okay, I'm going to grab Chet. I'm going to just walk over the door,

like right into the door. I'm going to take my fist and I'm going to, Chet. I'm going to just walk over the door, like right into the door. I'm going to take my fist and I'm going to just, the gravity well is just going to start pulsing and pulsing. And I'm going to cause a Singularity Assault. Okay. Sure. So. It's just going to hurt a bunch of people. I'm going to try and...

You could just ask them to mosh. How's the best way to do this? Are you about to do something that's going to kill the bunch of people. I'm going to try and... You could just ask Dr. Mosh. How's the best way to do this? Are you about to do something that's going to kill the Sorrowlord? Oh, yeah. No, actually, no, it won't. I just have to be really careful about it. There's nobody in there. Is there any way

to do this to actually not kill everybody? We're in the hallway. We're okay if we're in the hallway. Oh, well, the trick is I have to do it in a way where you don't end up crying. You understand, the entire building is hallway. Oh, well, the trick is I have to do it in a way where you don't end up running. You understand. The entire building is collapsing. Yeah, I know.

Yeah, but we're in the hallway. It's a safe zone. Force Cage stops everything. How much life do you have? I'm fine. Okay. What are you doing? I'm going to do 6d10 damage to you. You'll be fine.

So yeah. Did you say 6d10? It's going to be bad. Wait, what are you doing? Just tell us what the fuck you're doing! I'm going to start a big gravity well that's going to pull everybody in that fucking hallway 30 feet out.

Ooh, I like that. Push us out. Pulling her cell? No, her Chet. Oh, just Chet. Whoever's closer to you. So yeah, I'm going to hit Chet, and I'm going to tell everyone outside

to brace themselves and tell everyone inside, don't brace yourself. And I'm just going to do a fist. I'm not actually going to use my hammer, which I can do. So that is reckless, because life is short. Pill the trigger. That hits. That's just 10 damage straight.

Okay. Bludgeoning damage? 10 bludgeoning damage, yeah. It's just a piss. So, everybody outside needs to roll a strength save. So, everybody outside needs to roll a strength save. Are we trying to save? You outside, you are not outside.

Oh, I thought it was six to 10 damage. Am I far enough away to do this? What does outside mean? Outside that you just made it out right. You don't need to. Everyone in the hallway, just go limp. Okay. Wait, so outside we roll a strength save?

Yep. Well, okay. I'm going to do great. You're just going to get sucked up next to him. Yeah. No. Everyone, as you're like, you're hitting Chetney here.

Yep, everyone's going towards Chetney, who doesn't roll against a DC 16. Okay. Everyone inside, 30 feet towards Chetney. Whoa. Yeah! Okay. Great. Do we grab onto, we're holding onto Saur-Lord, though.

I am. Technically speaking, Saur-Lord is also somebody I can pull. Because he is a creature. Yeah, he'll pull. All right, so that gets Orym and Fearne out of the structure. Yep. Everyone else gets pulled. They're still within the hallway. Okay. Okay.

How many people are now directly next? How many people failed and are now directly next to Chet? That's going to be one, two, three, four, five, six. No, I mean within five feet. Yeah, it's for each creeper that ends up five feet, so I don't count. That's going to be Laudna and the guardian. So that's two.

Two, yeah. All right. So, Chet, you take an extra, oh, thank god. An extra 10 points of damage. All right. Yeah, everyone inside gets 30 more points. Okay. You all get pulled forward, yanked. Again? And catching it.

No, just from that. Just from that one. Oh, got it. Okay. Yeah, everyone resting outside. Never done that before. Brayas and Imogen there in the hallway, clutching it, looking over with that smile, that hope of the fey exterior there,

as the roof comes in and swallows both of them. The temple falls in. Me and Imogen. Brace and Imogen. What? I'm going to cover his body with mine. You cover the Sorrowlord or Imogen. The Sorrowlord. Okay.

Oh my god. You cover the Sorrowlord. Imogen. The Sorrowlord. Yeah, okay. Oh my god. You cover the Sorrowlord. I can't use Do Anything. You have Relay Reaction. The entirety of this temple falls. The din is deafening as dust billows out from all sides. You all have to brace yourself

as the entirety of the vicinity becomes just a dark gray cloud of dust and debris. Eventually, the rumbling comes to a stop. Stillness and shock washes over you as the dust slowly settles on the ruined pile of what was once the Shrine of Gilded Gifts and the two of your friends that have disappeared

within the destruction. That's where we're going to take a break. Yep, yep, yep. That did not... Plan perfectly executed Execute. Yeah. We still got it, you guys. Pretty good about it.

Still got it. I mean, it kind of worked. We talked to him. This spade guard's like, What the fuck? He is very confused. But yeah, sorry for that long run. We're going to go take a break.

We will, too. We'll return here for what transpires after this. So see you here in a few minutes. And welcome back. So here as the dust and rubble settle. Rubble roll. Two of your compatriots vanishing beneath the fallen and crumbled stone,

clutching two unconscious figures, one still dying, by the way. No! First failed save. Oh! On Zathuda. Emissary? On Zathuda? Zathuda.

Oh, but he's... So Emissary is stable, right? Emissary is stable. Zathuda's out. He made it out? He's unconscious, yeah. No, he's under me. Oh.

Oh, right, no, he's inside. He's inside. That's right. He didn't get pulled by him? Which was like a shoutout. But Brayus shielded him with his body. What are the rest of you doing? Immediately pulling rock. I'm not strong with pulling rocks. I will start pulling rocks

if someone can help me know what rock, because I assume I can't move through any of this because it's worked or? It's all worked, yeah. So I'm going to start pulling rocks because I do have double, and I am just, people help me stabilize shit. Immediately. Same.

The two emissary guards that were back there seeing all this happen rush over to you, Dorian, to try and get to the emissary and help it up. Imogen? Imogen! I'm not going to let him have them. I don't want to fight anymore.

Oh, buddy. They both rush up, and they're reaching to help them up. What do you do? You're a talker. Come on, Riz. Rizzler. Hello, boys, How are you?

He looks fine to me. I'm going to set him up like Weekend at Bernie's. I'm going to be like, he seems all right, he seems all right. And then, oh boy. I'm failing at this ruse. I've got him like this. I'm going to just...

Do I have it? Sorry. I've got it right here. I'm going to just, do I have it? Sorry, I've got it right here. Where the fuck is it? There it is. I'm going to snap my fingers and cast a hypnotic pattern as they're running toward me. It's just over my head. Okay.

It's this kaleidoscopic. Natural five and 13. Oh, okay. And I've got 16 to save, so. Oh, they have advantage five and 13. Oh, okay. And I got 16 to save, so. Oh, they have advantage because they're fey, sorry. Oh, oh, oh. Natural three. Okay. And a natural two, never mind. Okay, sweet. It didn't matter.

It didn't matter. Roll like shit. So they're transported by the thing above me and I turn around and I got my armor. I was like, he's fine. I got him out of there. I feel like I'm responsible for him now. They're both stopping their tracks, just kind of staring above you. Yeah, yeah.

Look, isn't that pretty? It's so pretty. Why don't you go watch it from over there, and I'm going to ask if they can get away from the general public. They kind of slowly sidestep while still focusing on the pattern, just kind of like walking in a daydream. You know, I feel like maybe he's bleeding somewhere and he needs a tourniquet.

And I'm going to pull the most powerful item out of my backpack, my 50 feet of hemp rope, and I'm going to start binding his arms. I was like, yes, yes, he needs this. It's a medical thing. Are they walking out into the woods? Is that what's happening? No, they're just walking a little ways off

and just standing there staring at this cat. OK. Orym has a sudden thought and stands up like a meerkat on the rubble and looks around. Do I see any of the bodies of the people that we took down on the way in? You guys hid them all. We hid them all? That's what we did?

Yeah. Like dragged them off in the bushes. Okay, I just remember striking a guy and we were in. Great. I've been out here having a light snack. Aw. Awesome. Awesome. I'll finish my nod.

I'll tide him up and I've got him tied up now. Another pattern lasts for a minute. Yeah, awesome. Awesome. I'll finish my nod. I'll tide him up, and I've got him tied up now. Okay, another pattern lasts for a minute. Yeah, he's still unconscious. So do we still have our telekinetic bond? You still have that. You would, unless it got knocked out by my concentration. As you all are pulling rocks and rubble out from this,

it's like one rock at a time in what looks like will take hours to make any real headway. The towers themselves fell in and collapsed. It's not concentration, at a time in what looks like will take hours to make any real headway. The towers themselves fell in and collapsed. Yeah, it's not a concentration show. It stays at the same level. I'm going to just say in my head, Imogen!

Imogen! Brayas? In absolute darkness, Brayas and Imogen, in the moment of accepting the end, possibly, of your life, the sound of crumbling destruction consumes all around you and then stops.

You reach around and the stone is all around you. It's just stopped. How'd you? Like a little cavity has kept you there. Is this you? I don't do this sort of thing. Does your armor? Maybe it's my lord.

All of the stones of the entire Crumpled Temple begin to shift. What? They begin to pull back. They lift and curl like the receding wave on a beach. The rubble begins to rescind. You watch as in a matter of moments, the temple begins to reconstruct itself.

The towers standing there in place. The cracks still present, but just set back. Where all the vines and leaves were, they were crushed and left to the ground, and now stands the beautiful, polished, if cracked, temple of the Archheart. Gorgeous in its imperfection.

And on the outside, we all see this as well. All of you stand agape watching this happen. And As it rises up and what dust as there settles, you see standing in that front hallway, Imogen and Brayas hunched over where they thought everything would come to an end. Fucking Fae. I just run up to Imogen. Did you do this?

This wasn't me. I'm so not all right. All of you also feel just a presence. Just the very air itself seems to fill with force. Like you're all on the cusp of something important. The faintest bit of golden light glimmers you're all on the cusp of something important. The faintest bit of golden light glimmers from the temple chamber you just fled from. The air seems to grow warm.

I get up and I grab Laudna's hand and I start walking towards the light. Walking in. Is the statue back of the archer? Is everyone walking in? Yeah. Is Fearne's dad stable? Can I stabilize him?

It's his second death save. Okay, I will stabilize him somehow. Make a medicine check for me. Well, if I only get one shot, I'll probably just give him a hit point then. Okay, fair enough. Try it out. I'm for you. For you.

Want to make a medicine check? No, I'll just give him. Why not? That'll wake him up. If I fail the medicine check, he will die forever. Yeah, but Nana will. Damn. Do you have the means? To? Give him a hit point. Of course.

Yeah, but he'll wake up. He'll wake up. Then he'll wake up. We can just conk him on the head. Just leave it. He's not having to use Spir of the Dying. That's true. He'll wake up. And he'll wake up. And we can just conk him on the head. No, just leave it. You don't have any Spur of the Dying, any Stabilize, any... Hey, let the dice decide. Yeah.

Holy shit. Okay. It's just you. Medicine check. Medicine check. I will let... What's your modifier in medicine? Plus one.

Oh! Dude! Let's go. Anybody else can do it. You want to inspire me? As Modi as you decide. Yes! Actually, Guidance? Guidance. Anybody else? You need as moody as you decide? Or actually, guidance? Guidance. I'll guide you.

Okay. As you walk up and your father is slipping away, you go ahead and guide Brayas as you attempt to now quickly bind the wounds and close things and using your Healing Touch, not to fully bring him to consciousness, but just enough to staunch the bleeding and set any bones as you use that holy power to try and instill just enough to keep him

beyond the realm of the conscious. You need to roll a 10 or higher. With a plus one, it would be a nine or higher. Am I able to assist him? If you want to. Although you're currently holding Imogen. Okay. I'll say this is all happening in the same moment.

That's fair. Yes, I'll just briefly whisper, if your eye is on me, Platinum Dragon, let this work. Oh shit. Platinum Dragon? Yes. Nine plus four from her. Oh my gosh, so it worked. You barely stabilize him, and still unconscious, the breath just slowly escapes and returns

and shallowed, inhale and exhales. As we walk by, I'm just going to take his sword right out of his fucking sheath. Throw it on my belt. Here's your father. I mean, it's not okay. Just leave him there, let's go. I take the funnel out of the bag of holding

and I just lay against her dad. Oh! No, no, no. Oh, is that not what we're doing? Are we not doing that? Okay, yeah. We can't spend it back again. That's incredible. Incredible.

Dorian, are you bringing the emissary with you, or are you staying outside? Yeah, yeah, so I don't have much time. It's all by yourself, Dorian. Yeah, I'm dealing with it. You got 30 seconds left of this spell at this point. Yeah, yeah. So you bound him quickly and be like,

Since there's no, we're not an initiative, can I cast another spell? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Bound him quickly. I mean, like. Since there's no, we're not an initiative, can I cast another spell? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay. So I'm going to, I know it's a silly question. Remember, if it's a concentration spell, it will drop the hypnotic power. Oh, it'll drop it. Okay.

Hypnotic only lasts a minute. It only lasts a minute. Yeah, but they're in range. Yeah, I'm just going to, nothing clever. I'm going to sling him over my shoulder and just book it inside with you guys. Just get him out of line of sight. Just jog him in. Yeah, I'm just going to, nothing clever. I'm going to sling him over my shoulder and just book it inside with you guys. Just get him out of line of sight. Just jog him in? Yeah.

So you all jog into the temple. Walking past, all the walls, you can see the thousands of spiderweb cracks throughout, but all it maintains its previous shape. I'm going to just touch the wall and feel the cracks as we walk through. It's interesting. Does it feel smooth? No, you feel the cracks there.

And as beautiful as the temple was, it's a different kind of beauty now. It's fallen and reforged. You, Ashton, find a very familiar and comforting pattern to that as you all begin to step through the secondary hallway in towards the center of the Core Temple, the shattered fountain itself

is reformed in the opposite side. Everything in this room, the pillars themselves have now restructured themselves. Even that was turned to mud has now been reformed back into the stone it once was and stands unscathed, if not for the intricate broken lines that just weave through everything. And it's beautiful.

As you all begin to step into the chamber, all the bits of shale and rock that was first dashed against the far wall gathers into the statue of the Arch Heart, where it once was on the opposite end of the interior. And it just stands, resolute, smiling. Its head shifts and looks down at the rest of you. What's happening right now?

Where did he go? What? No. No. No way. No fucking way. I think I know what's happening. No fucking way! No! No! No!

I feel so awesome. No! No! No! No! No! No! What is this? You are so bad! Awesome. You are so bad! No! You sneaky! Oh my god!

You are so bad! Oh my god! We're going to have work. Oh! Oh my goodness gracious. This statue looks and regards each and every one of you, taking you all in and stops at Bryce. Oh shit, I smashed your face.

You walk out of the podium. He's about eight foot tall. He looks at you. Did you really have to do that? I mean, my lord and you don't really have a great relish. From what I saw. What you saw? Oh, first off, hi, are you real?

Suddenly, they click their fingers. The roof opens, and what you begin hearing is the growing screech of something horrendous. Roll an intelligence save. All of us? Everybody? Yes. Oh! What? What?

Oh my god. On our heels. On our heels. Not sure what the fuck's happening. DM. I'm going to use Indomitable and reroll. Okay. Better. 14.

Not much better. Do you guys have a lot of save? No, not us. I know, I know. You said 14. 19. 14. 19. 20 total. 20. Not smart. You said 14. 19. 14. 19. 20 total.

20. Not smart, dirty 20. Ooh, nice. You got an at 20? I know, dirty 20. Dirty 20, okay, okay, right. 17. Okay.

16. Okay. 17, oh, and 12. 17. This sound, you've all heard it before. But from where? Surely. For a short moment, your minds are catapulted

back to the days of your birth, the moments you were literally ripped from the wombs of your bearer. As the sky begins opening, these portals begin shooting out, and these arms start snatching you and pulling you out from where you are. You find yourselves on a field.

Imagine, if you will, this vast expanse of delicate crystalline reeds swaying rhythmically in time with one another. Above you are stars, but each star looking unique and individual. They stand there proud and close. It's almost like as if you could reach them. And this air just hits you, this cool air. It's fragrant and sweet and subtle.

The smell of roses, a smell that makes you think of grace, perfection, beauty. Now you see a figure standing 30 feet away from you. Their form is outlined by this soft glow of starlight. They look naked, but their skin is not as fleshed as you'd normally see. They're a living canvas of a starry sky, a tapestry of constellations.

He beckons you, Reyes. Are we floating or standing on something? You're standing upon this field of reeds. I have nothing to fear. I step forward. What do you know of family? I know that family is the most precious thing, and if anyone challenges your family, you must destroy them. And who is your family? Well, I have none right now. But I seek, I seek a family.

Yeah. So desperately. It's rather touching. I tell you what. Let's forget the mess you did back there. You're in my domain now. I appreciate that. Let's forget the mess you did back there. You're in my domain now. I appreciate that. Swear fealty to me, and I'll let you live.

There's no option B or C? No. I feel that there are more important things than life. Who you swear your allegiance to, who you consider your family, who takes care of you in your worst times, those matter more than the fleeting life of a mortal. So no, I will not pledge myself to you, for I am already

pledged to another. And he would not be happy with me, nor you, were he to be betrayed again. So close, so close. I thought I had you, but I didn't. But it's totally fine. Totally cool. I like it. I really respect it. Welcome, all of you, to, well, I mean, is it my home? I don't know.

What is home nowadays? It's funny, I am surprised that I'm seeing this troop of, well, truthfully, I thought you'd all be more heroic, but here we are. Tell me, what did you see? DM, I have a question.

We have interfaced with the gods before on the material plane, but always through dream and vision. Are we cognizant of the fact, are we looking at divinity face to face in this moment? Do we know? Are we aware? Is it a vision or are we really there? Because this is the Archheart's realm. Yes.

There is no golden gate between. Wow. All insight. Oh, I'm not going to pass. Okay. 19. You don't know any different. The feeling you have is so powerful and potent, it's raw.

It's almost as if you are within the presence of divinity itself. Okay. We saw you in Aeor. What we hoped was her worst moment. We saw you as you sided with the Betrayer Gods and... Sided?

Well. Collaborated. We saw the city fall. You were very powerful. I saw you rain fire from the sky. Charismatic. The bar was beautiful. It was gorgeous.

It really was. Did you hear the countless screams of people? Yes. You did, didn't you? Yes. Hmm. So you saw the events of Aeorne. Fascinating.

I won't ask how, but this is good. This is really good. You know of our power. You know of what we can do. And we know of what you are all capable of, our are children. So my next question, suddenly, a table materializes in front of you with food and drink. It's gorgeous. Please, sorry, my bad. Sit down, take care to eat. Eat, you're welcome. I go, I sit.

But I look at the chair. But my next question is, what are you going to do with that knowledge of Eor? Sure. But my next question is, what are you going to do with that knowledge of Eor? What are you doing in my temple? Fighting family. Killing them, or attempting to. Good save. Family is important.

Yes. Tell me. One of your children, a mortal, saw what we saw, and wants all your children to know. They have recording devices in Aeor. They have it.

This man wants to leave childhood behind for all. And the threat that your kin has shown us, shown me, they think letting your children decide and letting that power free to do away with you. I don't know if we're completely aligned,

but we all fear the question of that action. And the balance that exists now for you and me to thrive. Well, I fear breaking that balance. I'll be honest. I fear it, too. I appreciate the honesty. But there's something inside me that tells me that perhaps, maybe, this balance needs to be broken. I mean, there's a reason why you're all here. There's a reason that there is a

burning desire for change. Things can be broken in many ways. Yes. Tift the scales. In which way are you referring to? I saw your conversation with the dark spooky lady. Hmm.

You were curious about Oblivion. Hmm, yes. Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't want to die now. Please, no, not anymore, no. I mean, I flirted with it, but the actual reality of darkness is rather dark. No, but I do feel that there needs to be a change. You see, something that I've realized, something that I keep seeing is our children continue to rebel.

All the time. Hundreds, thousands, many, many years. Continuous. We are in this perpetual cycle. And it seems that our presence, be it either here, behind a big door, isn't doing anything. There is something innate. You want us out. There is... I look at you, Fern. I go towards you. What is that? There is a fire within... What is what? Oh! I walk towards you, and I touch your chest.

I usually charge for that. You suddenly feel this feeling within you. This feeling to transform. To become primal. Uh... So you both also have... What's the matter? This changes a lot of things, doesn't it?

What does it change? Are you scared? Are you angry? No, not angry. Fascinated. You know, I actually think that... No. What? Never mind. Oh no, I've suddenly realized that I'm in a position to say something I've wanted to say to a god

my whole fucking life. Oh, okay. There you go. What is it that you want? What do you fucking want? What do you want? Really, not souls, not worship. What is this art for that you refuse to fucking abandon?

How can it be art if you don't fucking abandon it? Just rile here. No wonder we're fucking rebelling over and over and over again. You won't let go! And that is what I want. I want to let go. There is something beautiful inside of you and you.

In fact, of all of you, but there is something here, kicking, feeling, you know, I feel like I've met you before. To be honest, I'm a bit bored. I'm tired. That's what I want. I want to let go. I want my family to let go. Now, how we let go? Well, big doors don't work. Death, no, no. But there is an opportunity here. You see, while I was gazing and watching upon your little family debacle, where you decided to either side with them or not,

and then you decided to pull them off a bloody dragon and then wanted to, I don't know, kill them of sorts. I mean, you took off his leg. I did. That was... Was it? We get mixed. Right, I see. Understandable. Was it? Okay.

But the thing is, is what I'm seeing is an opportunity here. I'm seeing something. How do I say this? There's a window. It's open. However, it comes through potential sacrifice of family.

Do you know what it means to become a vessel? We have guesses. We have guesses, but I don't fully know what it means. What have you guessed? Well, they keep talking about Ludinus wants a vessel for Pardathos. Mm. Mm. Someone to take that power in and perhaps guide it.

Mm. I know a little bit. Is that right? Yes, yes. I mean, a receptacle for something else. You want to for something else. Do you want to try something else? Sometimes. Mm.

Do you think there is any other way of resolving this scenario? I'm sure looking for it. I know a little bit. Go on, please, pray tell. This is fascinating. Actually quite a lot about what it's like to be a vessel. Hmm. With something else inside of you.

Mm. And tell me, do you have control now? Or are they in control? I think I'm in control now. Ah, yes. You see, that's the magic. But it took a long time. It did take a long time, but you succeeded. Yes.

The lines, the lines that blurred on a day-to-day basis of not knowing where I began and she ended. It was exhausting. I was afraid I'd lose myself entirely. It's terrifying. Yes.

But also intoxicating. The truth is, there is a few of us who want to let go. I say a few, two. May I ask who the other one is? Oh, why ruin the fun? All right.

The rest, however, we're all doing this dance again, sitting around a table, deciding should we intervene, should we not? We are this close to another calamity because there is a fear of our death.

You see, the truth is no matter what happens there will be lives lost, all for the preservation of ourselves. It's incredibly selfish. And I'm realizing that, and I'm seeing that. And I thought we could change, but we couldn't. And so the only solution that I see is what Ludinus desires. However, Either you two can truly control this thing and chase us off. How's that sound? Just chase you away? Absolutely. If you get there before anyone else does. See, our eyes are all on Ludinus and the armies that are gathering and fighting. We're ready to jump in there, but if you're able to, maybe, I don't know, sneak in behind,

find a way in and take over, gain control. If you... If you were inside one of us, do you think we'd be able to control you? It's a good question. I've listened to Pradathos. I've heard the call.

It's powerful. It is. But Pradathos only desires one thing, and that is my family. Why? Sustenance, enjoyment. It's hungry. Very.

I truly believe that for mortality to evolve, to grow, to progress, to flourish, is with us not waiting at the gate to intervene every now and then. And the only way that we will run not waiting at the gate to intervene every now and then. And the only way that we will run is if we have something to fear. Now, what happens to the vessel? I don't know.

But, if you truly do care about family, then sacrifices need to be made. And what about the children who don't want to let go? They will learn. What if you aren't able to run fast enough? And what happens to our families on the ground? Well, it depends on how fast you move. Because if you're too slow,

then we're going to repeat the calamity all over again. Then we go back to building a gate and waiting for the next moment to happen. How many would it take to truly control Pernathos? How many, do you think? I don't know. And that's the scary part. You are in my domain and you've seen my power, but in this moment, I am powerless. And that's what's quite funny about this, is I'm looking at this troop of what don't seem like heroes having more power than what I could even ever imagine. Fate is weirdly on your side. Why? I don't know.

But this is the hand we've been dealt with. This is it. How does it feel to have the shoe on the other foot? I'm so curious. You see, we are just people. And I know you think lowly of us, because you've asked us to make sacrifices for you. And now you're getting a tiniest taste of what it is to be a person with no guarantees and fear of death that looms over us every day, and your instinct is to sacrifice your own family and run, and yet you ask us to find the courage to fight for you? It seems like a poor bargain. But what do I know? I'm just a stupid person. I don't think you're stupid. You're my children.

Our children. You are of us. Why would I think lowly of you? Just because I have seen more than you, have experienced more than you? No. Perhaps maybe some of us think lowly of mortality. But not I. Not some of my brothers, not my sisters, not my kin. That's why, in truth, I find the situation, the power that lives within both of you right now, in you. Fascinating, beautiful, incredible. That can only happen if we step back. It can only grow if we step back, so I'm simply asking

for you to make sacrifices in order for the greater good. I know what I will have to live with to answer to when it all happens, but... But in the end, you will live. That's the plan for you, to live. If you can run fast enough. Maybe he'll stop. Berdotho's long enough. Maybe he'll lend a hand

so his brothers and sisters can get away. What happens to your power when you leave? To that vacuum, does it just go away? Does it get handed to the next mortal that dares go for it? Here? This place. I don't know. You're the one who gave us these gifts? Yes. Thank you. We've all done a great many and terrible thing with that. Why did you do that?

Why? Yeah. Wanted to change things up. You see, I am no different to you. Did you try to turn over? Your carving of toys. Mm. Why do you do it? It brings me joy.

Because you never know what it's going to turn out to be. There you go. Surely we all want our children, our family to flourish. I don't have children or family. flourish. You don't have children or family, but you have friends. For now. This food is incredible, by the way. You guys are missing out.

Oh, I thought you were just eating some Werthers. I forgot about the food. I only have two questions. Is it true we were around when Pardothas first came to this world? We had heard that two of your siblings had been devoured by the creature before you encapsulated it. Is that true? Wow, you know a lot.

Yes. Been around a while. Yes, it is true. Second question. I might have died in my sleep, and this is just a crazy-ass dream before the end, or it's real. But either way, I don't think I've ever had an audience

with a god, so thank you. But I have to ask, did you also have this talk with Ludinus? Oh, no. No. His idea? No. His idea was inspiring,

but I didn't have the talk with him. You see, the problem with Ludinus, or, well, again, this is just my opinion, is that he is a bit power hungry. He kind of wants to be like us. Problem is, he'll never be like us. We've said that. We've kind of said that.

Let's see if it's funny. I mean, there have been moments in history, but Udinas is, again, from my point of view, too caught up in his own self. So to answer your question in what will happen if, you know, we leave, I don't know. But again, isn't that beautiful? I have a feeling that things will balance themselves out

because it always has. The issue, however, comes at moments where you can't balance things out, like, for example, unleashing Podathus with the aim and intention to kill us. Do you really think that we would let that happen? No. Because when mortality tried to kill us, you've seen it.

You tipped the scales. Exactly. So what I am asking for, or suggesting, is that you go a step further. Become faster than us, because we are waiting for the moment that you all arrive into this big battle. All it takes is for us to just step in.

Does your family know that, and all it takes is for us to just step in. Does your family know about this? Oh, no. I mean, I'm pretty sneaky. You're asking for our help. You are asking mortal creatures for your help, are you not? I mean... If you want to see it that way.

I want you to see it that way. I want you to see it that way. Does it make you hard? Everything has made me hard. You said step? Yes. Oh, oh, sorry. Yes, I am asking for your help, because I'm realizing now that we need your help. You were saying?

Okay. Oh, I mean, I don't want to step on anybody. I'm new to the group here, so. Bryce, just tell me. I'm pretty sure we're all dead anyway. Just a couple of questions, if you don't mind. You said, I mean, we all know that Predathos is hungry and sacrifices must be made.

Why not just feed him? Like one of you? Sacrifices must be made. Why not just feed him? Like one of you. Won't that quell his appetite? So you're asking me? To make a sacrifice. Of our own family? Well, I mean. Your family or ours.

I guess I'm just asking why that's not an option. Do you really think that if Rodothos ate one of them, that he would be satiated? I don't think he would. I don't know anything about Rodothos. I don't think it would. I mean. He ate two before.

That hunger inside. It's going to be there hunger inside is bottomless. It's all-consuming. That's... It wouldn't have trapped him in a moon if he was one and done. I feel like that's one of the reasons I'm most afraid that if we release him,

that he'll turn on humanity as well, because. He will not turn on humanity. How do you know? Because you are nothing to Predathos. You are simply specks of dust to Predathos. I step on ants every day because I don't know they're there. I'm a little worried about the same thing, Lord.

Believe me, it has a singular purpose. It always has, and that is to devour us. Humanity will never satiate it. It will chase us to the ends of what we think, It will chase us to the ends of what we think, or believe, or feel.

It will constantly come for us. So you want us to take Predathos into ourselves and end it? So he can get a head start. And if we don't, nothing bad will happen to us. Oh no, terrible things will happen to you because the fight will open itself up here. We want to get away from Thadathos.

Containing it in this makeshift moon has obviously not worked. I'm going to work for a while. For a while. Well, why don't you? I mean, not for nothing, it's kind of a stupid plan. You hid him within view of us.

We could see him. The moon was always there the whole time. You should have sent him far, far away so we could see, be curious about it. Big mistake. Hey, question. Question. When you flee with your family,

do you mean all your family? Yes. All your family? Yes. All your family? Even the one you so desperately desire? Yes. Does he know that?

Why, should I tell him? I mean, I think it would. Would you unleash Pardathos for him? If he asked me to. You suddenly see behind me the stars beginning to form what looks like a horned beast, a being. No, I'm horned. A creature. Mm-hmm. So if I asked you to free Berdothos for me,

would you do it? I mean, you're not. I know that this is a trick. Do you? Can I insight check a god? Absolutely. Maybe try.

Maybe it's like Zoom? The insight check of your life. Maybe they've been buddies for a while now. I mean, pretty high insight. What is it? 19. You have no idea. My 19 ate shit earlier.

Suddenly, the stars dissipate. No, he's not going to ask you. He's too proud. But... Look, it's really simple. I am aware that the power is in all your hands. All I can do is simply suggest, ask, and be honest.

Whether you're going to get an answer from anyone else, who knows? One of them, maybe. Why don't you leave now? Why don't you leave now? Why don't we leave now? Yeah, while he's still put away. If only it was that simple. Why leave your children to fend for themselves

when something big, dark, and scary is on their doorstep. To be fair, you're asking us to go to the front of the battle instead. I know. Try convincing my family to leave their children. They simply won't. I have said it time and time again.

We need to leave. Just let them do their own thing. Let them grow. But my children. I can't leave my children. Is that the Dawnfather? You're doing the Dawnfather. Thank you.

Just loving you, hating you. Constant fluctuation. Fear for our own lives, like animals. You see, this is the thing. We are just animals. At the end of the day, we are no different to you. Maybe a bit more powerful, but we still no different to you. Hmm. Maybe a bit more powerful. But we still fear for our lives.

We still fear for survival. The only way to get us out is the fear of our lives. Now, we have always been a step ahead. You've seen Eor. You've seen what they were seen what you were capable of and what we did. With all due respect, say we take you up on your plan.

One of them becomes a vessel for Brodathos, begins the chase. How can you assure us you still won't start that calamity? Do you promise to run? Every time that we have felt a threat, we have acted upon it. As I said, you are this close to an event happening again. The only difference is, however, is that not all of us are aligned on acting. There is a divide within the family, a moment of weakness. There has never been an opportunity like this before. Believe me, when we're on the back foot, which we have been,

we will run. Orym Jams seedling is laid into your table, and little tendrils of vine and flower grow around it and waver. Some of your kin seem pretty set to fight one way or the other. So even if we take you up on your offer,

it doesn't seem like you have a lot of sway over your brothers and sisters and what they'll do. What if they fight us? What if they start a calamity anyway, if that thing gets loose? Again, I can only speak from the experiences that I have had. We have always had the advantage. We don't have one now. So what happens? Do you really think the vessel could control Predathas?

I don't know. I think I could. I mean, for me. I feel like I could. I feel like I could. I feel like I could. Well, you know, one god tells me one thing and one god tells me another.

I don't really know what to believe. I've never had a god tell me anything. It's just about, you're very beautiful. That is true, I will second that. I really was just like... As much as I hate to admit it, you're right. It's super hot. Wow.

Suddenly I start turning gold. Look, these are all valid questions, and I simply wished to present to you my opinion, because I can, because someone allowed me to. I don't know and I don't have the answers and that's what's so exciting about this. Because every single time there has been a threat, or there's been an idea. You can see through it. I can't see what's going to happen here. However, I do know what will happen if you unleash Pradathos. When we expect it. Which is why you or simply suggesting that you get ahead of us, get ahead of everyone. Again, this is just my opinion. I don't know if it's going to work. I have a feeling, a gut feeling, Again, I am like you. I don't know what will happen.

However, what I do know is that if you move too slow, if you think for too long, we will simply make the decision for you. Dorian's been sitting super rigid-backed, away from the food, because he's disgusted by it. Like the luxury of it, the idea that it's not even real, but it's presented this way.

And then he scoots forward and begins to relax and takes a drink and partakes and says, When we first met a few moments ago, I thought, I can't believe this god is his own worst enemy, because I was prepared to serve you by serving my friends. And then we met, and everything you said made me want to resist it more.

But you've just given us the opportunity to unleash Bredathos, but control it, and also get rid of you. And that was the only block my conscience had. And if I can do both, that is a deal I'd be willing to make. I will never care for the gods. Ever. But I will make a deal with them,

if it allows me and my friends the freedom to live our lives. And this does not sound like a bad deal to me. So run, because you're scared. That would make me happy to see. You are beautiful. If we do this, how might you aid us? That was definitely a question. I knew it was going to be you, too. Ever since that vision, I knew you were going to be the one to show up. And you asked. We thought about seeking you out when we were in Vasilheim. It's honestly kismet to find you here.

So here's the conundrum. Oh. I can't aid you. So here's the conundrum. Oh. I can't aid you. Mm-hmm. Cool. Well, he got a fancy sword from his guard. Yes. I don't have a guard.

The issue here, I mean, I can aid you in some way, shape, or form, but in the moment, the idea of stepping foot or actively partaking opens the door for everyone to partake in. Sure. And that is something I don't want to allow,

because then I know what will happen. That's fair. What I can do, however, and suddenly you see me pinch into the sky, and you see a star pulsating. The cool air suddenly turns warm as I begin pulling it towards us. And as I yank it out of the sky, a star, or what looks like a star, is about 10 foot away from you. The table and food disappears. So whatever you are eating.

Boom. Did I just grab my drink? Isn't there anymore. Please. Walk towards me. Walk with me towards the star. I've always wanted to see it when I'm close. And as you step closer towards it,

those from the School of Magic can feel a sort of supreme power radiating from it. You can make out a face. It's gaunt and hollow-eyed, feminine. Their eyes are burning with an intensity. It's unyielding. This star. You can hear it whispering.

It's indecipherable, but there's a panicked mantra to it, like a wish. Can I lean forward and try to hear a little bit better? I wish the knowledge. The weapon. I wish the knowledge. Are these prayers? The weapon.

The weapon. And how much does that happen? This star, the only thing human about it is the face. Everything else, they are almost like these tendrils just coming out of it. It's a weapon. It's a weapon. I want everyone to see it. This is her? Mm-hmm.

You want your aid. At the corner of its mouth, you see a hare dancing to its breath. This was someone dear to me. dancing to its breath. This was someone dear to me. But a series of events led to a...

well, a planning of a lost resort, but now I'm seeing that maybe I... I don't need them anymore. Because you've been here this whole time? You want my help? Pluck the hair from her mouth. As you reach for the hair, it begins to wrap itself around your finger, slowly spoiling itself. And as you do, this human star lets out a hoarse groan as it begins to dissipate before you, as it slowly unthreads, a sigh of relief

escapes its lips. Suddenly, a powerful flash of light explodes from this star. Heat, energy, magic. It's forceful, and you feel this sense of weightlessness, euphoria. It pierces you. Have a lord now. The first thing that hits you isn't the light light but a smell. A smell you know very well.

The smell of winter. Then an image hits you. Something familiar, yet alien. A mask, black feathers, and then a whisper. Come find me. The last thing that you all hear is you have heard my side. You have not much time. Do what you believe is right. You have not much time.

Do what you believe is right. The first thing that you feel as you awaken is a cold stone floor pressed upon your cheeks. Oh! Come back! Come back here! Come back! Oh! Yes! Oh!

Oh! Oh! I love you, Abu! I love you! Bravo! As your eyes flutter and your senses slowly... This voice!

It's so normal. It's what you got, man. Gross. So gross. I don't want to play. No! You know what? Stop.

I love you. Brayus doesn't wake up. No! Just a pull of his own blood. No. As your senses come to you one by one, the blurry experience of being back in your body begins to become more and more familiar

as you sit up here in the cracked chamber of the Reforged Temple of the Arch Heart. And the statue stands resolute and still. A golden band wrapped around your finger. And the echoes of choices to be made in the times to come. And that's where we're going to go ahead and play the next episode.

Oh! Yeah! God! Ooh! What is it? Did you marry a god? I love it. It's called the Ring of Remembrance.

Oh boy. While wearing this ring, wait, manifested from the Archheart, this ring forms an invisible web-like weave around the wearer. That was a lot of Ws, and I almost went a-weave. While wearing this wing, you gain a plus two bonus to armor class,

as well as a plus two bonus to your spell attack rolls! And spell save DC! You also have advantage on constitution saving throws. He's a caster's best friend. Oh my god. When maintaining concentration as an action, you can activate the latent arcane power within his band. Roll a d20.

If you roll above your current hit points, oh, you immediately cast the Meteor Swarm. Jesus. Oh, because, oh, that's cool. If you roll lower or equal than your current hit points, you instead take 20d6 fire damage and 20d6 bludgeoning damage.

It's a last resort. It's a last resort. Wow. Yes, you have to roll higher than your current hit points. So it's something you use when you're in high ground. Left, yeah. All right.

Lower or equal to, so if I'm at one and I roll a're dead left, yeah. There's still a chance. Lower or equal to. So if I'm at one and I roll a one, I'm dead. That's sick. Okay. That's sick. Or you could just take the boost to your stats at all times. That's fine, too. This is fucking amazing.

But anyway, we'll pick up from here next time. What? Thank you all for joining us. We love you very much, and is it Thursday yet?