Critical Role - C3E61 Crisis of Faith

Episode Date: June 15, 2023

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We never give up on the fight Oh, get ready It's Thursday night! And welcome back. So last we left off this half of Bell's Hells upon discovering some other oddly scattered figures here in the midst of the apogee solstice, have come together in the wilds

in the center of the continent of Issylra. Upon trying to find a means of gathering where they are and where to go, they traverse one of the nearby roads before eventually coming to the town of Hearthdale. Here in Hearthdale, they meet some of the populace who seem to be a bit tense by a somewhat robust church appearance

of a nearby temple, of the Dawnfather on the north side of the city, as well as apparently adjudicators that have been bringing with them a larger religious presence, an ominous one, to a town that itself prides its people on a less temple-centric life. Asking some questions, finding out about

some of the events that have transpired here surrounding the Solstice, as well as the nexus of the ley lines that lies above the city. Asked some questions, made some allies, until eventually you were introduced to the city, asked some questions, made some allies, until eventually you were introduced to the elder Joan Abedina. You went ahead and spoke with her a bit,

asking for information about, possibly scrying for information on locations or people you wish to know about, and also discovered the burgeoning, boiling frustration of the townsfolk that currently continue to choke at the yoke of the temple and those within, and the figures from Vasselheimen, their wishes to pull them away

from their paganistic beliefs, especially during this time period. You are then invited to meet with a secretive town gathering beneath the local brewery, and there you saw a rising angry tide of locals who, underneath the guidance of this elder, see the opportunity of a distracted religious structure, the events that are transpiring in Marquet

pulling their eyes, ears, and interests away. And now, with the swelling power and influence of the solstice, apparently enhancing the capabilities of the local Eidolons, the spirits that protect this land at the ready, they're attempting to attack the temple, raise it, and send the people they dislike from within

far from their village to never return. Upon asking if you are with or against them, you told them you were with them. You help them plan their approach and possible assault. And after some conversation, the expression of some drinks that were a bit tampered with, and some modicum of successful and not successful banter, tensions began to reach a breaking point,

at which point the guards were assaulted. The cart in which you were driving was shattered. The alarm was sounded, and now the temple is beginning to prepare itself for some sort of a scuffle. At which point, many of you begin to prepare for your own assault on this realm. We have Prism grabbing Denise

and porting into the center of the temple. I haven't used my movement yet. Not yet. Scramble. We'll get there on your turn shortly. Start negotiating immediately. Please, that's how we scramble. Meanwhile, Bor-dor and Orym,

and let's see who else we have here. Oh, and we have Laudna. I'm in the bushes. Indeed, and Ashton on the outskirts, just as the guards are sending an alarm, and the rest of the surrounded citizenship are weapons gathered, shouting, and ready to rush in. I need you all to roll initiative, please.

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You roll one, you 20? Yeah, and then add your initiative. But then you need to add this. Oh my goodness. 20 to 15. 18. 18, ooh! You 18 as well? 18.

Your dex is probably higher than mine? 16. What's your dex? Wait, what? My dex is 16. My dex is 14, so you go first. Okay. All right. All right. All right, 15 to 10.

Lucky number 13. Lucky number 13 right there, all right. And bring it up the rear. Border! 10. 10 for your boy. Okay, we have border. Probably a good thing.

Where are you on the board right now? In front of the door. Are you on the border? Hey, I'm next to the door. Okay, I see you. As the chaos ensues, Orym, you're up first with Ashlyn on deck. Go, buddy, go! You just finished throwing one of the soldiers

into the side of the temple, who fell to the ground, on their side, clutching it. As the people begin to swarm in, you hear the voices getting louder and louder from the sides as they come rushing out of the bushes. What are you doing? Oh gosh, oh gosh. One quick question. I know what I'm going to do,

but what does the little floating globule signify next to Orym there on the map? You watch as the leather-bound tome that you've seen Prism walk around with suddenly appears in a small face. Can you guys play nice? Arrives and goes like, don't really know what the fuck I'm doing here,

but I guess continue with your business. Hey, book. And I begin to book and run five, 10, 15 feet, and I'm going to leap up to try to catch onto the stone up there, and I am going to thrust Seedling out and send out a Grasping Vine at the flame guide. Right there? Yeah.

Okay. And yank her down. Yeah! All right. Into the people. Dexterity saving throw. Yes. That is going to be a 15. Beats it. So I will Action Surge and do the same thing again. Come on! Okay!

Wait, what is he rolling? Dex check. That's a 10. Down comes Humpty Dumpty. Bye! Well, you attach to them. Yeah. Now, you pulling them is your strength versus theirs. So someone's going somewhere, you're saying?

Someone's going somewhere. Okay. So I need you to go ahead and make a strength test, a strength check, and I'm going to have them do the same. I did not know this was part of the eclation. Well, it's tug of war at this point. I rolled so high. Yes, did you? Yep. I can't tell if he's being serious or not.

So is it a save or just a check? Just a check. Just roll and add your strength modifier. I have no modifier. It's a 19. Hey! They rolled a 13. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Huzzah! Plumbing off the side, falls past you,

into the ground prone. That's going to be quite a bit of fall damage comparatively. Okay. If I have an increment of movement left, I will just hop and land in front of the doors. Okay. What's your movement?

It's 30. 30, that's about where you are. But you're also about to slide. You can let go. Okay, well, you rule above. You are a god above, but does the Boots of Striding and Springing account for the leap from the ground to the high point?

I didn't climb. Oh, that's true, you didn't leap up to there. So yeah, so I'll give you a little movement then. Thank you, sir. No worries. And you land on the ground next to them. Okay, donezo. All righty, finishing your go. Ashton, you're up.

All right, let's see what's going to happen. I'm going to start by, let's bloody rage. We're going to find out how weird this is about to get. Start the disco. Come on. That'll do. Ashton starts to go full rainbow sparkles. The sparks start coming out of the head.

The sparks start popping out of the hammer. Rainbow dash. Rainbow dash is about to happen. I'm going to run full speed, which I guess is 40 feet, directly at this asshole. Okay, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. That's full 40 there.

All right. And just because I can start this, I've got a dagger. So I'm going to throw my dagger because I'm going to keep this up for a minute. Okay. So as you're rushing, you pull back and go ahead and throw. All right.

Let's give it a little scrape against the glass so it picks up a little spark off the head. And... Mm-hmm. That is 23 to hit. That definitely hits. Go ahead and roll damage. Is it advantage because they're prone?

It's a thrown weapon. It's disadvantage technically. So I should roll again? I know. I called it out. I fucked it. Better. Okay, there you go. Yay!advantage, oh, right. So I can roll again. I called it out. I fucked it. Better. Okay, there you go. Yay! It's worth checking, though. Well, worth checking. That's, because I have to get the bonus,

because I'm raging, that's nine points of damage. Nine points of damage. Oh! And yeah, that about does it for me for the moment. and yeah, that about does it for me for the moment. All righty, finishing your go, it's now Kiro's turn. Let's go, sir. The armored figure who just got pulled off the side pushes up and starts shouting out to the rest of you,

What is this? We built this for you! Stands up, and with you there. Oh boy. Hmm. Is going to go ahead. All right, I would like both Ashton and Orym

to make wisdom saving throws for me, please. Oh goddammit. Oh, that's going to be a fail for me. Eight. Eight. 12? Both of those fail. Wait, I can, because I'm new to this level, I'm going to use Indomitable and reroll that.

Okay, go for it. Hey, come on. That's not much better. That's 11. Hey! Okay. So as Kira stands up, she reaches up and grabs the holy symbol that is emblazoned and burned into her chest,

piece of armor, and says, I asked you to stop! As she does, the symbol flares up and both of you feel your muscles get pulled to your side, and you instinctually grab your knees and your entire body locks up. You are both held, paralyzed.

I've been trying to grab my knees and I'm two feet tall. Yep. Somebody punt me and like. Which Kiro's going to rush over to the side here and shout, open the doors! Oh no. That's going to finish their turn. That brings us to Denise.

Denise! With Vodna on deck. Question, how far am I from that big baddie over there at the end? Over here? Yes. You are approximately 45, 50 feet. What? Damn it. Oh, that's okay.

I think that's okay, in my math. I would like to rage. Very well. And then I would like to use my second story work feature. Okay. I think that's okay, in my math. I would like to rage. Very well. And then I would like to use my second story work feature. Okay. To make a running jump, and it increases my distance by three feet, so that puts me at 38 feet.

So is that technically in melee range? That would be, unfortunately, a little ways out. Okay, then. You can use cunning action to dash. Well, she just used the bonus action to rage. Yeah, that's probably.. Okay, then. You can use cunning action to dash. Well, she just used the bonus action to rage. Yeah, that's probably my gender. Okay, so how about then, can I grab, I think I'll grab my whip.

Whip? My whip of warning. All righty. Right? Oh wait, where does that put me? That'll put you at about there. And my whip is 10 feet? 10 feet. Is that still, is that? Just out of range, unfortunately.

Why am I doing any of this shit? Can she hold her action to attack him when he comes by? You could, if you want to. I'll hold your action. I would love to. I would love to hold my action, thank you. So you dart, just leaping off of the pew before stopping. Landing right there. Your grates that go out to one side,

your whip at the ready, and you're holding your action to attack. I'm going to attack as soon as I can. I'd like to get into melee. Perfect, all right. Finishes your turn as you hold your action. Laudna, you're up. All right, I'm going to take my bonus action

to transform into my Form of Dread. Okay. So I start to absorb the foliage and the tree life around me, as once again, my veins explode and you start to see branches growing out where veins used to be. I'm going to skitter up to this tree in front of me

as much as I can. Right here? I know it's rough terrain. Yeah, just walk forward. Okay. Also, let me roll my d10, see what my hit points are. So you're climbing up the tree? No, just want to move forward

in that direction, towards the tower. Towards the tower. So that's five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. We'll get you just past the tree if you want to. Can I tuck in a little bit in towards the building towards you? Yes, you can do it there. That's good. Okay.

So as my, I literally skitter upwards as I twitch, my jaw unhinges, and I just go, and a bunch of bees come out of my mouth, and they swarm the guy at the top of this tower as I'm going to cast Infestation on him. On him?

Oh goodness. Okay. You might be taking a trip. The guy there with the crossbow is like, looking down, look out into the door! He just screams in the sight of you, just out towards him.

Okay, what's the DC on that? 16 con. 16 con for that fellow there. That is a failure at an eight. Okay, so he takes five poison damage. Okay.

And he has to move five feet in a random direction. Okay, I'll roll this dice here to see where it goes. It's going to be this direction. He turns and runs like, trying to get the bees off of him. Not the bees! Runs this way and full-on tumbles and gets partially wedged into the side of the rooftop there.

Okay. Falls out of view. He will take, I'll say, additional two damage. That's fine. I was hoping it'd fall into the townspeople so they could have a little pinata session. That's true, but the arrow's pointing that way, unfortunately. Yeah, I'll tell you, it's a victory. That's fine, but he's

you hear the armor clanking against the roof before it comes to a stop and. And now he's stuck. Okay, cool. That's my turn. Okay. Finishing your go, Laudna, already. So now it is the- He also has to make a wisdom saving throw or be afraid of me.

Oh, that's right. Oh, very failed. Okay, so. Very failed, very afraid and frightened. He's that's right. Oh, very failed. Okay. Very failed, very afraid and frightened. He's just over there, pissing himself in the middle of the roof there. Whoa! It is now Amadina's turn.

Oh, good grief. Amadina steps forward. You wish the door to be open? Then let us abide. She reaches her hands out, and you can feel the mists beginning to swirl as the energies of the spirits begin to come to the aid of the townspeople.

The ground begins to rumble. You watch as this crack tears open in the center here. Stones begin to jut outward, and you watch as a massive, what looks like a boulder just juts out of the center of the floor. Parts of it crack and open. As an earth elemental emerges.

Oh! You do the center of the room there. I attack it. He's on the outside, right? Go for it. She's going to step forward this way by the side of it. As it emerges, the mists swirl into it, and you watch as it's taking its form,

the energies of the spirits and the powers given by the proximity of the Ley Nexus and the Apogee Solstice, its stones begin to extend into spikes. It grows an additional five or six feet. The magic is enhanced and fed by the ritual that she presents, and Now this massive stone defender sits ready. Good morning, Arty. For the moment.

I think we're continuously on a team with Abaddina. All right. That's going to finish Abadina's turn. Abadina. Immediately going into the Guardian. Guardian. Guardian. Don't step on me. With that, the massive earth guardian

begins rushing forward. Good luck! With a massive punch of its fist, hits the doorway. It's a siege monster, so there's double damage. That definitely hits. And so with that, that saves us some time. I love it.

Most of my strategy was based around doing this. This is awesome. D&D, ow! Fucking plan. Open the doors. With one hit. Both of the doors. Whoa! Yeah! They open outward, actually.

Are they opened or shattered? Yeah, they are blasted open and broken. I'll say for the purposes of this, because they're having a hard time. There we go. I did it, I knew it would open. Nice! That's what's in the bin.

They splinter open, one of the hinges is broken and chunks of the door fall to one side. It is irreparably damaged at the moment, but with that, the interior of the temple lies exposed. The two of you who are on the inside, as you're rushing by, Denise, getting yourself ready, you hear the heavy impact and you both glance over your shoulder. Ashton? You see this massive, dark, humanoid shape that fills the entirety of the 12-foot tall arch of the central doorway,

just looming in, pulling its fist back, and it gets two slam attacks. It's going to also slam into Kiro right next to it. Ouch. Ooh! That's going to be a 20. That hits. Whoa. Orym is frozen in a tiny yoga chair pose,

just watching this happen. Just your quads are on fire. Uh-huh. Not yet. Not yet. Two rounds, maybe. Which means that Kira's going to have to make a concentration check, succeeds with a natural 17. Maintains the Hold Person spell,

but now is currently, after trying to- What is a Hold Person spell? Is a Hold Person spell. Is looking back at the massive entity that is looming over after pulling the fist back and is now that glance of fear in their eyes as the natural spirits begin to rise against them. Finishing that, that brings us to Prism, you're up.

Yes! Okay. Believe you. Okay. Mother! Good evening. Mother! Mother. Believe you. Okay. Good evening. Mother! Come on, come on. Okay, I want to get my buds out of being paralyzed.

I've got, have I, where is Kira? She's right there. Kira and the entity are right in the doorway. Okay, okay, okay. Fuck me. You know what? Fuck it. I'm going to play it safe. Let's just do...

I'm going to play it safe and just try and... How much would that even be? I've never used this. You know what? No, let's fucking go big. I am just going to do a simple chromatic orb. Okay. Going to use my book to make it force damage.

And let's see if God is good. I want this. 23? 23 hits. Hey! Go ahead and roll damage. Nice shoot. Okay. Now I'm just going to do math, so if you could just... 23? 23 hits. Hey! Go ahead and roll damage. Okay, okay. Now I'm just going to do math,

so if you could just take a look at it. Try it. For a second. Take it in. Math on the street. I'm doing math on the street. Math, math, math. 19. Do those doors open up to here?

They do. Okay, got it. All math breaks down. 25 force damage. 25 force damage. 25 force damage. Good math. Thank you. Fails the concentration check. Yes! Yes, Mr. Prism! No prism! Yes, Mr. Prism!

Old person incantation fails. The Dawnfather's anger subsides its focus on the two of you as you regain the physical capability of movement. Yes, and then I'm going to express my own movement by fucking running and hiding. Okay. In a sea of hell. I want to hide in here.

Yep, there is. You can go ahead and run into here if you'd like to. And then can I say, Mother, like ships in the night, go find Denise! And I want to dispatch Denise. Counselor. I mean, dispatch Mother to get as close to Denise as possible.

Raven is a side of 60? What was it, a turkey? A raven? What is a turkey? What is a turkey? That's right, I do imagine one of those. That is sidekick turkey. A turkey? A raven? What is a turkey? What is a turkey? That's right, I do. Imagine one of those. That is sidekick turkey.

Yeah. More or less. Hey, I might summon it tomorrow, right? Don't give me ideas. Fly speed of 50. 50, okay, cool. And then as my bonus action, I'm going to- 50 gets you right behind it.

As my bonus action, I'm just going to start moving Denios in. So Denios can move 30 feet. Denios, come to me, Daddy. Please don't ever call me that ever again. We're just going to call him Daddy from now on. I hate it. It's disgusting. Sorry, Denios is ripping off on me.

Inappropriate. It just floats past the little crack between the two fighting entities at the doorway and enters the chamber. It's so pious in here. Since he's leather bound, does that make him a leather daddy? Stop it!

I don't want it! I hate it! Does that finish your turn, Prislyn? Can I just do one last thing, though? Yes, please. I just want to look at the mural with the god fighting the demon. Isn't there a god fighting a demon on a mural in here? It is a massive art piece in the back of the demon. Isn't there a god fighting a demon on a mural in here? It is a massive art piece

in the back of the chamber, yeah. What does the demon look like that they're fighting? From what you can see, the figure looks like a massive dual-horned humanoid figure with a deep reddish dark skin. If you want to make a quick religion check. Yeah, I do. I'll make a quick religion check.

I'll keep it quick. Perfect world. Ooh! Nice. Thank god, this is a 20. Natural 20. I'm sorry. No worries. This is definitely a depiction of one of many scuffles

between the Dawnfather and the Lord of the Hells. Mm. Okay, Lord of the Hells. Devil who's hot. Okay, that's it. Thank you. All righty. Finishing your go, that brings us, ah, now the rest of the soldiers get to go. This guy back here doesn't see you,

so he's not sure where you are. He's going to attempt to climb over onto the top of the temple. Okay, not bad. He's going to move onto the top of the temple, still frightened of you until the end, until your next turn, right?

Correct. He's going to go ahead and just run. He has the rest of his turn, just run this way and trying to find another place in the temple. I don't like it! I don't like it! This soldier here sees all this happening, freaks out, climbs down the ladder.

Oh! Down to the base where you are, you hear the heavy armor behind. Let's get these guys. Doesn't even say anything. You just see him through the helmet goes, and is going to go ahead and attempt to attack you. Longsword twice. First one is, that's going to be a nine to hit.

Oh! Yeah! Oh my god! The next one is a 15. I do a really impressive, like. I do a really impressive Matrix roll right into his second hit. Oh my god, that really hurts! Oh no! So with that, you do take eight points of slashing damage.

Okay. So he pulls back with his shield at hand and just like, Get out of here! Okay, anything you say. I wink. Looks a bit, turns his head confused, like a dog that just heard something and thinks it recognizes,

but still keeps the blade at the ready. From there, that guy finishes there. This guy gets back up, sees what's happening behind him, and is going to attempt to move over. Can't get past you. He could run over me. She could run over me if she wanted to. He's going to go ahead and do that.

Wait, is that guard? That is the guard that you first threw into the side of the temple. Leaps over you, growling, and is going to attempt to take two strikes, one at you and one at the creature. It's going to try and knock it down. So towards you, it's a natural 20. Dang! Silvery Barbs!

Yay! Barbs. That is a 19. Oh, meets it, meets it. That's 19, it's my AC. 19, all right. You take 11 points of slashing damage. You get advantage on your next action. The best.

11 points slashing damage, and he's going to try with the shield in an attempt to shove attack and knock down the elemental guardian. That's real bad on his side. That's only going to be a five. Yeah, Greg hits him with the shield and the guardian's just like, ping!

Pisses his armor a little bit. Yeah, Greg hits him with the shield and the guardian's just like, ping! Vrgh! Pisses his armor a little bit. Finishing his go. Both of these soldiers, this one's going to rush out here. Oh, good grief. Thank god. Oh, fuck me. 30. Oh shit.

And is going to dash up here. I'm fucked! Can't do anything there. These both are going to dash up here. I'm fucked! Can't do anything there. These both are going to run. Damn, how many guards are there? And he's going to hold an action there. This one over here. He's going to hold an action there.

Shields at the ready, they're seeing everyone starting to storm in, they're trying to hold the line there while that one that saw you go darting down the hallway and just goes up, but that's their action saw you go darting down the hallway and just goes up, but that's their action line. Which ones drank beer? Huh? Oh, the ones that drank the beer were the two up here.

This one. Oh, so I'm in a enclosed staircase with a man who's going to shit himself. It's very possible. I stick my head out that little window. Yeah. It's like being in a parking garage in downtown LA. Oh, gosh. So these four here, the one that's running away,

that one there, that one there, and this one here have all partaken of the liquid. That's going to finish their go. Now it's Bordor's turn. Bordor! What do we need the vial of blood for? It's just if you want to, I don't know, bring an uncontrollable demon into the mix.

Fuck. It's not the most pressing. Mr. Dungeon Master, sir? Yes, yes. Where's the nearest guard? The one who's gone to the door to attack the? This one right here is the only one that you can see at the moment that's on the outside. Everyone else is either inside

or has gone down between their towers. Fuck. Okay, I want to get on the horse behind me. Okay. Then. It's technically an ox, so it's a horse miniature, but yeah. Oh, that's right. I don't want to ride an ox.

Take that back. That's okay, no worries. I still didn't have any ox minis, my apologies. Also, Border being like, I don't want to ride an ox. I will not. He will not sully himself like this. I may be a sheep hermen, my apologies. Also, Border being like, I don't want to ride a horse. I will not. He will not sully himself like this. I may be a sheep rider, but no.

Okay, I smack the ox on the butt and I say, Be free! And then, do I have to pick up my dagger that I threw last week? You have to move over to pick it up, yeah. Where's the dagger at? The dagger's about over here, if I believe,

from where you threw it. Okay, I'm going to go get the dagger. Okay, five, 10, 15, 20. You go ahead and pick it up, yeah. Where's the dagger at? The dagger's about over here, if I believe, from where you threw it. Okay, I'm going to go get the dagger. Okay, five, 10, 15, 20. You go ahead and pick it up. Can I climb up on Rockman's back? If you want to try that. Yeah. Go ahead and make an athletics check, if you'd like.

Hell yes. Eight and then. You keep getting eights. You're going to start quitting soon, I think. Where's mine? It's a sign. Just one strong wind away from it. It's happening.

Don't worry, it's happening. Athletic skill. It's happening.. Just one strong wind away from it. It's happening. Don't worry. Athletic skill. It's happening. I believe in you. Equipment. You want? Wait, I think I passed it. No, here we go. There you go. Oh god. Eight.

It's an eight. It's a total of eight. Yeah, for all that perfection. Eight. Okay, you grab on the back of it and you get about two feet up before it swings its arm back and you go, and it flies back another five feet. Sh, onto the ground.

You get yourself back up and dust yourself off, but you didn't quite grapple onto it. Shit. Can I do one more thing? You have no more movement. You still have your action because you picked up your dagger as part of it. I picked up my dagger.

Can I turn to the townsfolk and say, Storm the Gate! Yes, you can. Yes. Yes. All right, so you turn and shout that to the group and they all go, and they have their pitchforks, they have their short swords,

they have whatever tools, implements, and arms they have at the ready, and they all start rushing in the direction of the front of the temple. So I finish your turn? Yes. Okay. Happy to be of help.

Now it's the Judicator's turn. Oh fuck. Oh no! Now it's going to get bloody. But you have a hell of a chance. At the end of this temple, getting a closer look, you see this massive figure. The muscles themselves are swollen.

They're unnaturally enhanced by magic. You see a sleeveless robe that goes over the front torso that hangs almost to the ground with all sorts of symbols emblazoned along the sides of it. You see a hood that sits up, and you see the metallic mask that sits across the face with no eye holes, no expression, just a swirl of runes and ancient religious texts that are emblazoned into it. Fists covered with metallic bands across the knuckles. This looks like a religious juggernaut, if you want to imagine, who steps up towards you in the center of the temple.

Do I get my attack? You do, just as they approach. I'm going to take my sickle and I'm going to go twice, right on the stomach, right where the abdomen is, and then do it again. Go for it. Roll for that. Oh, that's cocked. That's a cocka. All right.

That's a cock-tud. Oh, natural sweat! Yay! That's a way to open it. Thank you very much. What? And now, here we go. Since Mother's there, would that count as sneak attack? Because there's a fellow combatant. Unfortunately, Mother isn't next to that

particular target. Okay, that's going to be, yeah, I don't get sneak attack or anything, but that's 16 damage. 16, you double the dice. Did you double the dice? From the damage roll? That's what the 20 does. Oh no, I did it! Also damage. If you roll again,

whatever you roll, multiply by two. Okay, so that's eight, plus eight is 16. Yeah. Plus another eight. For the others, so it's 30. So Whatever you roll, multiply by two. Okay, so that's eight plus eight is 16. Yeah. Plus another. So it's 32. So whatever you roll gets doubled, then all the modifier crap gets added up. So it's eight times two, 16, plus eight, so 24. 24.

Or 22, 22. Do you get an extra die for this or no? My brain. No, do I? Maybe not, no. No, I was raging. That's all you got. But that's once, as it rushes up,

you carve right across the front. You can see the heavy sleeveless robe that sits in tears open and there's a massive cut across the chest. It's a heavy impact, but it's just not bleeding as much as you think it should. Oh, for fuck's sake. Do it again, get another 20. Okay, here we go, here we go.

Ooh, another 20. Wow, that's an eight. No, plus 18. The mystical number. 18? 18. Right, I add this. Like he ate just one strong gust away from the other. From which weapon you're using? Yes. Yeah, 18.

Okay, 18 just misses. Cackle! It doesn't miss, it strikes, but as soon as it gets nearby, you can see there's almost a flash of some of the runic enchantments that are placed within its vestments. As it flashes, its arm catches the sickle mid-strike

and holds it there. You hear this low. Question. Yes. Do I have thunderous blows, technically? You do, if you wanted to push it away on that first try. I would have loved to have done that, I'm sorry. Can we rewind? That's okay. I'm sorry!

Can I push him away five feet? You could. Away from me? But then would you have moved in afterward? No, wouldn't it be after my first one that moved him away? Yeah, you moved him away and then you would either step in to do your second attack, which you said you wanted to do. I did say that, didn't I?

Except you wouldn't have been able to move because of the reaction. Which one? Except you wouldn't have been able to move because of the reaction. Oh, because of the hell turn, yeah. So I can't do that? So yeah. Okay, we'll been able to move because it's a reaction. Oh, because it's a halter, yeah. So I can't do that? So yeah.

Okay, we'll keep it as is. That's too good. That's right. Yep, because it's a reaction. It's okay, Denise. It's all good. We're learning as we go. Yes, thank you.

Forbearance, man. So it takes the strike, almost doesn't flinch from it, and is now going to go ahead and make three power strikes on you. Does the Judicator have Dawn Papa tattooed on his fingers? It does. ahead and make three power strikes on you. Does the Judicator have Don Papa tattooed on his fingers? It does.

Don Daddy, specifically. Don. D-A-P-A-N. That's why I went with Papa. Don Papa. Okay, so first strike is going to be 27 to hit. Yeah, fuck yeah, that hits. All right, so you take eight points of bludgeoning damage

and eight points of force damage. I got you. It punches you like a battering ram, and as you do, these runes across the middle of the metal band that sits across the knuckles just flashes and you almost get knocked down to one knee. It's going to use its bonus action to smite you.

It needs to make a constitution saving throw for you. Is force damage halved or just bludgeoning damage? Just the bludgeoning damage. Okay. So then what do I do? So that's like 16 total? So that would be a total of 12. 12, okay. And then, sorry, what did you say just now?

I need you to make a constitution saving throw as it is smiting you with a bonus action. Oh, on that? Plus that eight. Okay, here we go. Oh, yes. What's that? 60 feet. 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24. 24. You are.

You're within 50 feet of her. 24? Yeah. All right, yeah. So on that one, as it goes to smite towards you, the impact hits, but you manage to shrug off at the last minute as the secondary burst of radiant energy just cracks the ground where you would have been standing.

Second strike against you. Oh jeez. Second strike? That was the first one? Yep, 18 to hit. Yes, it just hits. Just hits. That's another 10 points of bludgeoning damage reduced to five. Great.

And another seven points of force damage from the second strike. 12. 12. Third attack. That's going to be a 22 to hit. Yes, it hits. That is 11 points of bludgeoning damage, reduced to five. And two points of force damage.

Ay-yi-yi. Oh yeah. That's a lot. Somebody come help me. Yeah, we're coming. Because it hit you with all three of its power strikes, it's going to use Condemnation. No. No! Oh, wait.

Did that spell? Make another constitution saving throw for me. I'm believing you. Just got an icon. Nine. No! Plus a natural one. Yeah, it's a natural one.

Does that mean I get to roll again? So. The third hit is an uppercut. Each one of them flashing with each impact. The third one sends you up in the air. The rest of you hear an echo in the chamber. The painful impact of the wind leaving your lungs. You get blown in an arc.

Uppercut. You barely get back up, just as you feel the symbols, the radiant runes that were parts of the armor all of a sudden burn into your shoulders and your arms won't move. You're paralyzed until the very next turn. No! No! Oh boy. Until when?

End of the next turn. Yep. And end of his next turn. Oh my goodness. End of his next turn? Yes. Oh, no! Oh my goodness. All righty. Just for future reference, was something like that a spell?

Or is that an arcane ability? That is a faith-based divine magic enchantment. Enchantment, okay. Obviously. Can't do much about enchantments. Now it's the civilians' turn. So now the civilians go ahead and charge up. They can't really get much into the doorway,

but they start to move angry. Go, go, go. Let's go. Let's see, I'll begin to rush up angrily. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Oh, can't clear. They can't quite get through, but they're starting to clog up the front.

Yay! Oh, great. Crowd crush. They're just going to die from crowd. I'm through the windows. They also are charging forward, shouting. They start throwing pots and whatever they have and brought along with them at the guard over here, as well as Ciaro.

We'll say at this point, five of them get thrown weapon shots at Ciaro. Miss, hit. Miss, miss. Ow. And hit. Oh, wow. Not bad, guys. Aw, that, and hit. Not bad, guys.

Aw, that's so cute. Good job. How did, did Chad hit or miss? Literally six inches in front of you. Oh, Chad totally hit. That's going to be eight points of bludgeoning damage to Kiro from there, and then towards the other guard, that's three attacks. Miss, miss, and miss.

All that. Chad! But they're all still swarming in and trying shouting and yelling and pulling out their massive metal-backed hoes and tridents and other implements they can utilize to just try and push through. That finishes the civilians go. Top of the round. Orym, you're up.

Okay, Orym's going to dart away from the crowd under the guard's legs. Okay. Love it. Because I'm so small. And I could go from that square that the guard's in, I could go diagonally one to the right and not get hit by the guard because I'm still adjacent to them.

Correct. And stop there. It would technically be inside the elemental's space, unfortunately. Uh, who? Oh, okay. So if you go this way, you're still in their space. Okay, I'm going to risk getting hit by the guard and move in front of Kiros.

You got it. All right, so that puts you right inside there. The guard's going to swipe at you once as you move past between the legs. That's going to be a 17 to hit. Misses. Goes and strikes the ground with the sword, ching, right as you move past between the legs. That's going to be a 17 to hit. Misses. Goes and strikes the ground with the sword, ching, right as you dart past.

And I step on and riposte and hit the guard with my reaction. Great. That is low. Maybe I'll luck out. That is a 15 to hit. 15 does not hit. Does not hit, and then I start to attack Kyros.

Okay. So I've gotten in front of Kyros, right? You have, yes. Okay, two attacks, and I'm going to try to make this a goading attack, and I'm going to slash at her holy, I'm just trying to hit her, but I'm going to hit in the area of her holy symbol.

You got it. To try to insult and cut it off. Go for it. That is a 22 to hit. 22 hits. Bang, so that is, that is nine, and it is plus 10 for the superiority die, 10.

13 total, and she has to beat a Wisdom, which she's probably pretty good at. Okay. Wisdom. 15. 15 against my 17. So she's at disadvantage against everyone but me. Also, the previous attack on the soldier

should have been an advantage because of what Laudna gave. Correct, so go ahead and roll again for that. So we'll retcon that. That second one is a 19 to hit. 19 does hit, so go ahead and roll damage on that soldier that you did hit anyway. That fool took 12 points of damage. 12 points of damage, you got it.

Ah-ha! How do you want to do it? So that was reaction, riposte to the guard, then my first attack, which successfully goaded her. And I will do another, nope, I'll just do a basic attack. So that is a, that is a 21 to hit. 21 to hit, that hits. That's eight more points of damage.

Wow. Eight more points of damage. Ooh! Struck! I didn't struck! You see her eyes going a bit wild. She's looking a little hurt. Yeah. She's looking a little hurt. And you see that look of trying to figure out

a math problem in her face. And from my low angle, I'm holding Seedling up towards her chest, blocking the way. Okay. Making a sandwich between me and the earth elemental. You got it. Done. Okay, finishing your go.

Ashton, you're up. Well, well, well, well, well, well. Here we go. First of all, I'm going to try and head into the crowd so I can take a shot at that soldier who's being a dick. I'm going to try and use some of my earth walk ability to cut through the crowd and get a little launch

off of that earth elemental there so I can take a shot at that soldier. Okay, so you're trying to rush through the crowd there and? Get here and see if I can hit the crowd there. I get here and see if I can hit him from there. Okay, got it. So you are leaping up onto the earth elemental? Yeah. Okay. Go ahead and make an athletics check for me.

Okay. Athletics or acrobatics in this one? You can do it. Yeah. Can I use athletics or acrobatics? I'd say it's not too crazy. You're just jumping and trying to get onto it. You have an advantage because you're raging. Oh, thank you. That's right. That's a thing. Yeah, it's a 20.

Without issue, you leap onto its shoulder, which gives you a position in which you can attack either of them. You can either stay on the shoulder or you could leap off into one of the unoccupied spaces. And for proximity, because it'll be a little easier to see here, I'll go ahead and remove this.

There's no way for me to get advantage attacking him from there, is there? Unfortunately, no. I would have to be where that soldier is, right? Okay, I'm going to attack the soldier. Okay, go for it. Oh. He has disadvantage on me regardless, so... Disadvantage regardless. So he would just have a normal attack against me. Just making some decisions.

Do it, do it. Oh, I get a d4 against this anyway, so yeah. I'm just going to go for it. Going for an attack. That's 23 to hit. 23 hits. Uh, that's, uh, yeah, that's like 23 to hit. 23 hits. All right. That's 18 points of damage to the soldier. 18 points to the soldier. Yeah. You, as you leap off the shoulder,

take the hammer down and wham, full on, Gallagher splat onto the top of it. The armor and helmet get shunted into the torso as they just crumple to the ground. There's the blood. And I land right in there. All right. That was a little hop, take a step, knock him down.

Getting the symbol. Is there blood on the ground? There's an armor full of blood. Can we collect it? Oh yeah, just take the card. I'm going to take a shot at our friend over there, now that I have advantage on this card. Go for it.

Here we go. Yeah, that's a... I brought this, it's a really fun one. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, yeah, that's a, I brought this, it's a really fun one. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, yeah, that's like 20. That hits, go ahead and roll damage. 59 to hit. All right.

So that variance can get extra attacks as their bonus action. Mm, 12 points of damage? 12 points of damage. All righty. Just as Nott is batting him in the back while he's staring at you. Slams into the stone wall

and catches it off the shoulder, which hits both the wall and her at the same time. Not taking as much damage as you would have hoped, but definitely taking the hit. You are so fucked. Great job! All right. Why'd you get up on that rock? Yeah, that's what I got.

Okay. Finishing your turn, that brings us to Kiro's turn. Kiro, looking at the situation here, frustratedly, is going to go ahead and just leap past you, taking a hit of attack of opportunity from you. Yeah. Is that an advantage, attack of opportunity?

No, it would not be. Great. Come on. Yeah, that's nice. That's a 22 to hit. 22 to hit. Hits. Mm-hmm. She's not going to make it. We'll see.

12. Boo. 12 points of damage. Takes the hit past, goes rushing past you. Also gets an attack opportunity from you. I used my reaction to riposte. You did indeed. So it's squandered. Continues to charge out past the book.

Take it easy, Oos. So it's squandered. It continues to charge out past the book. 25, 30. That's, I should probably be off to this side. Looking pain and rushing in, grasps the symbol and begins to speak out loud, echoing throughout the interior of the temple. Dawnfather, protect us! No. And she puts her hand up.

This shaft of light seems to apparate from the center of the chamber. I don't like it. Without any real source to it, as it comes down, it opens up this little portal of gleaming sunlight in the middle of the ground and emerging from within. Oh, fuck! No!

Can I counterspell it? Yes! I'm literally right here. You are within the dark room. Oh, fuck! No! Can I counterspell it? Yes! I'm literally right here. You are within the chamber. You do not have sight on her, unfortunately. I know how I'm not peeking through here? Through here, you don't see her, unfortunately. When you went to hide, you got out of eyesight. That's okay.

But a guardian of faith lands, and there you see, there is this spectral version of one of the soldiers you've seen, larger and where the helmet would be, there is a glowing star in the visage of the Dawnfather there. Shield on one side, massive radiant glowing sword on the other, immaterial and just made

of pure burning sunlight. That's going to finish Kiro's turn. Denise, you're up. What can I do? What can you do? Fuck you. He's just cussing and. I mean, can I do anything? Can I try to get deparalyzed,

or is there anything to do at this point? Or just wait it out? No, that's it, I'm sorry. No, I doubt it. Pew, can she sleep standing up? Can she take a short rest? I guess I'll just be like, What am I doing? Oh shit. You try and get up again,

and the runes flash again, and you're like, and she's holding you there. Cursing him out while paralyzed in her brain. It was bad. No, it's bad, it's bad, it's bad. She's dead. It's super, super bad. Finishing Denise's go.

Laudna, you're up. All right, it doesn't sound good inside, and it looks like shit outside. So I'm going to cast Spider Climb on myself. All righty. I'm going to skitter up this tower, and go with the one that I'm next to, and go in through the window to get inside.

All right. A little shortcut. And indeed, you emerge about there, which gives you perspective right there, which is five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. You do have some perspective now through that entryway into the center here. So you do see Denise, you do see the soldier, you see the very edge, though,

with half cover, the adjudicator there, as well as the glowing light and radiance of the guardian just to the left. Oh my god. Okay. Sorry, for the table, take out Kiros to get rid of the spirit guardian. Yeah, yeah. She's already hurt.

Kyros is, I don't have eyes on Kyros, right? I'm just putting it in the air. Yeah. I want to do that, but I'm also worried about Denise being paralyzed. It's fuckeredly. So I might focus on that. And Denise is, oh, but we can't.

We got people. Your paralyzation is in. Do you have Lava Restoration? No. Yeah, it's fine. It's not my thing. It's all right, guys, but we can't. Your paralyzation is in. Do you have Lava Resurrection? No. Yeah, it's fine. It's not my thing. It's all right, guys, we have zero clerics. I'm assuming that's on a concentration spell

with the Judicator. No. Okay, hang on. So I'm going to distract the Judicator. Quicken a spell. Okay. Niceen a spell. Okay. Nice. I guess.

Also, can we just say that Laudna is still stuck, spider climb stuck to the side of the wall with her head peeking through, so that I'm not just a nice, beautiful target. But I'm going to peek my head in, and I'm just going to fire two Eldritch Blasts at the Judicator, I guess. Go for it.

Wow. I guess. Okay, so that first one, Irmgard, that first one is going to be 23 to hit. 23 hits. And the next one is going to be an 18 to hit, which I think just misses. 18 just misses.

That's their AC. The first one hits and then they pull back a little bit. The second one, they reach out and grab the bolt and crush it just as it lands, just in the middle of the air. Horrible damage. Five damage.

Five damage to the Judicator. Guys, this is rough. I guess that's it. I guess that's all I got for right now, but I'm inside. That was great. I'm inside. Stay strong. All right. Now, it is Elder Abadena's go,

followed by the Earthguard. Abadena Applebomb. Abadena moves through the crowd, stepping right behind you, Ashton, and goes, Lory, finish it as soon as we can. She's going to reach out her hand, and she's going to go ahead and... She's going to cast Blight on Kiro. Yes!

Okay. Yes. Kiro fails the constitution series. Oh! Dry her up. I'm for Dina. I'm for Ross. That's bad for her. Brought your water bottle.

Dry her up. Dry her up, baby. It's a real name. What does that mean? You watch as Hephaedina reaches out and says, Give back what you've taken. As she curls her fingers inward, you watch as the mists that come out of the nearby forest begin to emerge from her eyes.

As it does, you watch as the singular line, like a small spider's thread of black, affixes to Kiro, and then she pulls on. And as she does, you watch all the skin suck in, like any sort of moisture in the body is just rapidly removed from Kiro, falls gasping for breath on the ground, alive, but definitely having a hard time.

Hey! What's my technique? I'm alive. All right. on the ground, alive, but definitely having a hard time. Hey! My janky. My janky. All right. Whoa. Kiro responds to this, saying, Your grace is a gift.

You ungrateful boars will burn your salvation in arrogance. Did she make her concentration check? That spell does not require concentration. Oh. This motherfucker doesn't require concentration? Wait a minute. That might mean that it doesn't go away. Well, we'll sign. With that, that's going to finish Abedina's turn,

which leads now to the Earth Guardian, who just leaps, steps over you. Oh, thank god. Cool, cool. Steps into this space here, nearly swatting the book out of the way. He's like, oh, jeez! Who's that? With that, the guardian of faith

immediately brings the sword up as it approaches and seems to draw it to the ground, not as an attack, but pointing to where the earth guardian stands, and another shaft of light and seems to draw it to the ground, not as an attack, but pointing to where the Earth Guardian stands. Another shaft of light strikes into it, doing 20 radiant damage immediately to the Earth Guardian. Let them fight. That's actually really rad.

Now the Earth Guardian is going to go ahead and... No, you know what? It's glaring at this, but looking around at the surroundings, it's going to go ahead and slam its fist into the ground. As it does, the whole ground quakes. The marble and stone floors of the inside shatter and crack as these massive stone pillars suddenly begin to rise up out of the ground as it uses guardian pillars on the inside of the chamber. Oh, I don't think so. We need the help. It says. Are they animate?

Just rock on. Oh, but do they do anything? They're just, and both two come up underneath these guys here, who both have to make dexterity saving throws to try and avoid it. That is going to be a failure. Yes.

And a natural one. Oh! They both get knocked off to the side and fall prone, taking a little bit of bludgeoning damage from the strikes. Both of them take seven points of bludgeoning damage. Right in the gut. Which prompts their poops. The poop comes out of the stomach.

And we result in poops. They both fall prone to the side, but each one of these stones rises, and the stone, the Earth Guardian rumbles its low voice in a language that nobody here, I believe, understands. Except for maybe you. You speak Terran? I do not. My keys in in Primordial.

Ah. Although Primordial, I guess, would probably be the closest scenario to it. The best you pick up from it, the gist of the conversation from this entity is, stand near for protection. Okay. You're the Earth Guardian? You got it, baby. You're not sure what it's referring to, necessarily. That's going to finish that action there, bringing us now to

Prism's turn. Okay, I'm looking at the situation and I don't want this guy to get attacks on, so she's going to be paralyzed till the end of this guy's turn? Next turn, yeah. Okay, if I were to hypothetically enlarge Mother, would she be big enough to carry Denise into the sky?

Certainly try. She could try. She's only 4'2", baby. Oh, it feels like too much of a gamble. It's up to you. Do you have little rulers like Brennan does? Oh, you mean? Little rollers? Little rulers? Yeah.

Like this? Yeah, yeah. Can I see one of those? Sure, sure. What's that? I'm just trying to get a feel for what kind of range of... So I guess I'm asking, would it look like I could really only hit, only, could I hit this guy and this guy

and this guy with a fireball? Oh yeah, oh yeah. So a fireball. The challenge is where are you going to place it? Yeah, I think I will place it here and then try and hit these three. Okay. Fuck.

It feels like too much of a gamble to just enlarge Mother and have her pick you up into the sky. But also, I'm the main scene. I don't think I'm going to, because I'm not going to hit Laudna. I just focus it around here. And Orym, you're not here, are you?

I was going to say, dead Bonnie? He's right on the other side. Do you see him? That would be the size of the fireball. That's the size of the fireball? That's incredible. I could make it. Do it. Do you see him? That would be the size of the fireball. That's the size of the fireball? That's incredible. I could make it.

Do it! Can I do it so that I edge out and I get, wow, that's a big fireball! I didn't know it was this big! In order to hit Kiro, you're either going to hit yourself in the radius or you're going to hit Laudna, because it does go around corners.

What if I Shadow Elf Step to here? You can certainly try. Or Shadow Elf Step to right behind this pillar. You can do that. So then I would be out of the way, and then could I basically do it? Can I get this guy in on the action? Do you want to get Fireball? In order to hit him, you'd probably hit the... Yeah, okay, so I'll do this then.

Right there? Yeah. Don't be careful! So you go ahead and... And I'm going to do... I'm saving my 4th-levels for Counterspells. Let's keep it classic. And I'm going to make it force damage. You got it, okay.

So with the person who's behind you, the guard has already struck at you twice as you're bearing, he's bearing down on you, getting ready to unleash another round. I'm like, you're right, I sh, look, this tryst has been wonderful, but you're right, I should get out of here. And then I just disappear.

Hey, Jynnefraven! You appear in the next room, next to the stone pillar, and you unleash the fireball. Go ahead and roll your damage. Okay, okay. Do you have any d6s? I don't know what they are, but they're here. The cubes.

Oh my god, I rolled really poorly. No. Okay, that's nine for the first half. Good job. Stay positive. Oh my god, I rolled poorly again. Nine, 20. 22 damage.

22 damage, all right. So the card's in the ground over there. Unprone, so it's a disadvantage on its dexterity save. That's a failure, so it's 22 to him. To the fire guy? That guy there, and the guy on the left-hand side. Disadvantage as well, because he's prone. That is still an 18.

Um, that saves. Okay, so he takes half damage, he takes 11 there. So that's minus 12 and minus 22. So it explodes in the center. The pillars rock and shake. The inside of the entire temple seems to amplify the echo of the explosion as everyone instinctually ducks for a second, seeing the flash of light from the inside of the entire temple seems to amplify the echo of the explosion as everyone instinctually ducks for a second,

seeing the flash of light from the inside. As the flames subside, both the soldiers on the ground go, They're looking really, really hurt. The one on the right more than the one on the left. This one's barely holding on. The one that's closest to you, the strange spectral guardian seems unfazed. Unfazed by force damage?

Unfazed. Sweet. By fire? By any damage at all. Unfazed by force damage? Unfazed. Sweet. By fire? By any damage at all. No, I made it force. I made it force because of my book, but it was unfazed by force damage. Sure.

However, as you take this in for a second, you feel almost like a tickle under your lungs. There's something about the surrounding energy that empowers you a bit, and you sense that the proximity to this pillar next to you is in some way, shape, or form protecting you. Oh, the pillars. I heard that.

Hello, pillars. Let's just, save me, save me. Okay, that finish your turn? That's my turn. All right, how'd the soldiers go? All right, here we go. Okay, great. I am, so the soldiers go. All right, here he goes. So. Okay, great. Holy circle. And I am not hiding in a way.

I would like to have line of sight on her, line of sight on, I want to have line of sight on her and him. Probably right about there is what you want. Yeah. All righty. Failed save. Failed save. Failed save.

This guy's no longer frightened of you, right? No. Okay. All right. All the soldiers all of a sudden at once go like, Yes, finally. Ooki time! Oh!

Oh god, I got out of that staircase. There's this low grunt as they all begin to shit their armor. Prolapse, you took too long! Is it heavy armor? It takes 10 minutes to shoot their armor. Prolapse, you took too long! Is it heavy armor? It takes 10 minutes to doff that. It does, it does.

Oh god. That's a little rough here. No more hiding the sneak attack for them. Is it? It takes a minute to get that snowsuit off. 100%. Oh god. 10, apparently.

So pull all these forward. 10 minutes. Where's the squire when you need one? All of Hot and Spicy. All of the soldiers that are currently visible are considered poisoned. Yes! Yeah! Good job!

You can say it, covered in shit. Terrible diarrhea. You can say it. They are poisoned and covered. Well, not covered, filled. Oh! Filled, they are. Like a vile gogurt.

Brr! Oh! Filled. They are. Like vile gogurt. Yes. I'm trying to lock it. It's got a little bit of reverb on it. Yeah, it's like dropping a handful of pennies in a bucket. It's just. Wow. Oh my god. Making sound effects into your coffee mug. Yeah. Oh my god.

Now, Poison, this spell is going to go ahead and move over this way. He's going to go ahead and climb down somewhere. You're uncertain where he is at the moment. He's just dealing with his shame. Somewhere. Also, Matt, the Judicator was also supposed to roll a wisdom saving throw for my fear.

Fear, fear? I move first. You'll probably be okay. Oh, I rolled a natural 19. He's fine. Okay. I figured as much. I'm right next to one of the pillars, Matt. Don't forget.

Oh, and he's immune to being frightened, so no worries. He's immune to being frightened. You are next to one of the pillars. I'm next to one of the pillars. This soldier's going to move over towards this way. Oh shit, it's on me. He's going to try and cut off your exit,

kind of to cut you off on this side. This guy's going to get back up. Shit's on me. We're going to try and cut off your exit, to cut you off on this side. Okay. This guy's going to get back up. Oh, feeling a little rough. This guy, too. He's going to turn around, seeing the source of the fireball, and is going to move over past the side here

to cut you off. I just keep walking around the pillar as he tries to fight me. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's funny. This guy's going to move forward here. Can't see me. Can't get into the room to where you are.

You do have half cover on the side there, but he can still try and strike you. This guy's going to go out after where he thinks you went, sees what's happening. Hey, where'd you go? He's going to run around to catch you here. Hey, take a hand. This is a poopy garden. I said it's not going to happen, Kai.

It's going to get here. Try and get you on both sides of you. So that's two attacks against you on that side, with disadvantage because he's poisoned. That's going to be a 14 to hit. 14 just hits. But you have plus two to your AC because you have half power, so 16 misses.

Second attack against you. Oh, natural one, misses. He's trying to swing out you with a sword. He drops his shield to the ground and is clutching his abdomen with the other and is like, oh no, not again. Well, that's turned behind you. He's trying so hard to stay stoic,

but he's walking with that tight walk. Oh no! Is there such thing as stink damage? You might get there. Natural one and a 16 to hit. It misses! Wow. It's like. Both just go wide, no impact. Attacking you because they do have you pincered, they get advantage on the attack, but they're poisoned,

so there's only a straight roll each. So two attacks on you. Immediately pincered. About an ounce comes out on every swing. Oh god! 15 to hit. It hits. Okay, and then same thing, 15 to hit.

Hits. Okay. So I do have resistance to all damage until the start of my next turn. That's good to know. Okay. So the first attack is going to be a 10 points of slashing damage reduced to five.

Yeah! And the next one is going to be six points reduced to three. Yeah! Could have been worse. Yeah. Could have been a lot worse. Decided to save my reaction just so that's not too bad. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Indeed. I mean Could have been a lot worse. Decided to save my reaction, just so that's not too bad. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Indeed. I mean, we got a lot of problems. We got a lot of problems. We got a lot of problems. All right, so finishing with that go, Fjordor, you're up. Fjordor! Fjordor! Oh, you're up. Yeah, I'm there. Can I get from where I am to right in front of this lady?

The sun lady? Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. It'll get you right into the cusp, right next to where Kiro is. Okay, and I'm behind her, right? As you step in, I need you to make a dexterity saving throw for me, please. Mother of pearl.

16. Oh, that's not too bad. Oh, that's good! How close is this warder to me, by the way? How close would heow to me, by the way? Hmm? How close would he be to me? Right now, he would be 25, 30 feet from you. Okay, 25, 30. Oh, yeah, never mind. There you go. Yeah.

Dex save plus four. 20. 20? Oh yeah, so as the massive special entity tries to call down another shaft of light to burn you, you duck out of the way as it hits the ground. No impact, you step back into the area. Now what are you doing for your turn? That's good. Well, that worked out well. I'm going to take my crossbow. Wait, what do I want to do

first? If this all works out well, I have a dagger and a crossbow. I'd like the dagger. Is her back facing me? Her back is facing you, yeah. Well, I'd like to stab her right in the neck. In the neck, okay. And then I also want to shoot her with the crossbow at the same time. I'm wondering what's...

I'd probably shoot her in the back with the crossbow. Oh, dirty. Okay. And then I'd stab her in the neck. Okay. Dirty! Red roll. So we'll say probably, you'll probably want to shoot the crossbow while approaching,

because if you're right up next to her, it's disadvantage. So just go ahead and roll an attack with the crossbow as you're stepping into it. As right as you dodge out of the blast of the guardian, you step back in. I'm going to use luck and go again. Go for it. Okay. My man.

20. Yeah! Natural 20 on that. All right, so go ahead and. You. Go for it. Okay. My man. 20. Yeah! Natural 20 on that. All right, so go ahead and. You start going around at 20. Hell yeah. You get to double that damage. I'm sorry, Sam Riegel is wrong. Lucky. He's just wrong.

Yeah, Lucky's great. Fight me in the parking lot. This is eight. There you go, yeah. Also, a lucky sheepherder makes total sense. That one's cocked. You get to roll it again. It's a seven!

Oh, sure, seven, so it's 14. I'll allow it. So it's cocked. You have to roll it again. It's a seven! Sure, seven, so it's 14. I'll allow it. So it's 14 plus. Wait, no, but there's this, 12. Wait, what do I do? You double the amount because you crit. I had him roll 2d8. Oh, gotcha, gotcha. That works fine, too. Maybe you guys do a different here.

We usually roll one dice and then multiply by two, but we can do that, too. Tell me what's going on. Tell me what he said. It's a 12. You got it, so it's 12. Plus three. Plus three. 15 damage. 15 that, too. Tell me what's going on. Tell him what he said. It's a 12. You got it. So it's 12. Plus three. Plus three. Okay. 15 damage. 15 damage, okay.

Pass the first. Yeah. Okay, so you go ahead and shoot. Gosh! Takes the hit and falls down. She's almost doubled over. As you approach and step into the space, go ahead and attack with your dagger. Dagger is?

Just rolling another d20. D4. D4 damage, sorry, but it. Yeah, but roll the hit first. Yeah, so. Oh god. D4. D4 damage, sorry. But roll to hit first. Yeah. Oh god. Oh god. 20. Yeah! Holy shit! Two in a row, holy shit!

So stressful. Yes, you're bringing it. So stressful. All right, so roll your d4. Then go ahead and double that number and add your, so that's four damage plus. Four plus three, seven. Seven points of damage. Oh, your eights went.

How do you want to do this? Oh my god! I just want to hold up, like, I don't have a vial. I guess a palm, hold up my palm so that the blood pours into my hand like this. And I want to just start vomiting. Is this what you do? Just try not to mix the vomit with the blood

because spells are really particular. After stabbing the blade in the back of the neck, a gout of blood pours out and you capture it. Kira tries to staunch the flow, but it's a rapid descent into darkness as she stumbles forward a few feet. Oh my god! Mutters a prayer under her lips

before collapsing onto the ground. Where is your god now? God's in prayers. What happens to her freaking sun creature? Where is your god now? I hear Orym say that and I go, fuck, I should have said that. You know, you could have said,

Dawnfather, more like Gonefather. That's pretty good. You can have that one. That's so good. No, I'm just vomiting. This is a lot of violence. Okay, does that finish your turn, Bordor? This is an action bonus and movement cashed.

All right, so now it is the Judicator's turn. Oh shit. Here we go. Rage is still up, technically. Rage is still up, technically. Rage is still up. Because you're taking damage. Because you took damage. Sure did.

He walks forward, seeing you over on the side of this pillar, doesn't even look towards you, just walks aside and is going to make a heavy haymaker swing towards you there. It does have advantage because you are paralyzed. Fuck. But I don't take half? You might, for some of it.

So there's going to be a 23 to hit. Yeah, it hits. All right, that is 10 points of bludgeoning damage reduced to five. Sure. And then three points of force damage. Okay. The haymaker's swing goes wide, and then the other fist comes into the side

and slams you into the pillar. If it hits, which it would advantage, it's a crit. No! 20. Silvery Barbs. Thank you! Just all the shadows crushing down on top of me. I see exactly what you should have done. Hold on, let me look at the word for Silvery Barbs.

Must roll and use the lower roll. That's a two, that's a miss. Whoa! Thank you. So as it goes to the second punch to try and slam you into the pillar, there's this sudden flash of dark silvery energy that just deflects the fist off the side

and it hits the pillar, cracking the stone. Bits of it fall onto the ground, missing you by a centimeter. You see that flash reverse and suck into you just a little bit, and you have advantage on whatever your next attack or saving throw you want. Ring girl and pull it up. Yeah, okay.

After this happens, glances over and clocks you, Laudna, over there. And while still staring at you, pulls up a fist for a final punchdown onto your head. With advantage. That's going to be 17 to hit. No. Doesn't hit.

Yes! So as the fist comes down for the next swing, you just barely start getting your movement back and just pull out of the way as it slams into the ground. You feel the large section of the floor marble that's already partially cracked give in as the impact actually leaves a small crater in the ground.

That would have fucking sucked. Goes and kicks over this pew, shattering it, and continues to step forward a bit. Oh wait, he's walking away? I can't hit him, right? He's not walking fully away. He's just there within you, just stepping into the chamber a bit

and clocking in everyone else who's present. That's going to finish his turn. You are no longer paralyzed. Thank god. What's this guy's movement been for the last, has it been slow or? He's just been walking. All right.

He's doing the Mike Myers slow and steady thing. All right. Scary Terminator. All right. Pushing his go, it's now the civilians' turn. Many of them start rushing in. Oh no, they're going to get torched. Behind the...

Behind the elemental. Oh no. None of them are going to be anywhere near me, are they? Nope. Nope. Shit. All just swarming in. Oh, I led them to their deaths. They were going in with or without you. The first two that come charging in,

they begin to move past the elemental on the side, charging in. Ah! Weapons out. Nope. Fails a dexterity save. Yep. And fails a dexterity save. Fuck. Two columns. Both of them burst into radiant flame.

They scream out as their skin blackens and cracks, and they both tumble to the ground, charred, no longer living bodies, just curled in the ground. Was Chad in there? No, Chad's fine. Chad's okay. Chad was nearby. Chad's like,

Oh fuck! And pulls back a bit. Yeah, run! The guardian vanishes. Vanishes? What? Wait, if that was casting a spell, if that was casting Invisibility, I'm going to Counterspell it.

Was it casting a spell? You just watch it dissipate. All right. Was that the one responsible for the beams? It seemed to be, yes. Okay. That brings us to the top of the round. Orym, you're up.

Okay. Vashlin on deck. I'm going to climb on the table because I can't see. If I take a step forward as Orym, is my first step on this square? No, you need to take two. It would be four steps, we'll get you there. Oh man, okay. Four squares, that's 20 feet.

All right, so. Okay. So this is my fourth bit of movement right here? Yeah, that's your 20 feet right there. Okay, so then I'll go five, I'll go forward another one, five, then diagonally, which will go six. Okay, that's put you right about there, tucked alongside the wall on the outskirts of the tower.

Yeah, then I'm going to use my action to, I can't see here. I know. Oh wow, look at that. Okay, so I will go five, 10, 15, 20, 25, through his legs, 30 to here. So you're dashing?

Yes. Scooting through, skidding to the other side. And I will then use Bait and Switch, and I will grab Prism's sash and spin her backwards and trade places with her. Whoa! She will have an additional eight points on your AC until the end of my next turn.

You know magic, right? Make with the magic! And that's the end of my turn. Prism blushes. I should have given you the blood on the way. All right, finishes your go, Orym. Ashton, you're up. I'm running full speed into this bloody place.

Okay. Coming in on the left-hand side. 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 is your movement? 40 is my movement. You're right there just past the Earth Guardian. Nothing for me to hit at the moment. Nope, you have a soldier to the immediate right, and you have a number of soldiers to your left.

Then towards the center of the chamber, there is a soldier and adjudicator that is currently now looking at Laudna as it's stepping away. Yeah. Okay, I can't do anything about that right now that I can think of, but I'll find out how far he can move.

You're okay. I'm all right. that I can think of, but I'll find out how far he can move. You're okay. I'm all right. I'm going to spend a little more movement getting into combat with those two little soldiers who are bothering all my friends over there. Over here? Yeah. Bothering all my friends.

Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 could get you there if you want to. Yeah, that's good. I'm about to run into my fern. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 could get you there if you want to. Yeah, that's fine. I feel like vaulting over and getting into the fray. Yeah, do I have advantage on any of those motherfuckers? Well, I can get that later, that'll be fine. Yeah, I'm into it. At the moment, you do not.

I'm fine. Actually, if you wanted to get here, just back to back, you can go ahead and do that. As long as both of them are within 10 feet of me. No, the other one is 15 feet. Okay, then I'll go back to where that was. Okay. and. As long as both of them are within 10 feet of me. No, the other one is 15 feet. I'll go back to where that was. Okay.

Especially, actually, if there's that corner, so I can get Denise also within 10 feet of me. To do that, you can get, here you get Denise within 10 feet, and Orym within 10 feet, but only two of these guys here within 10 feet as well, and the adjudicator. Do you want that?

Uh, yeah. The only one I, yeah, it's only friends I need within 10 feet as well, and the adjudicator. Do you want that? Uh, yeah. The only one I, yeah, it's only friends I need within 10 feet. Okay, then yeah, you get both Orym and Denise within 10 feet by standing there. Okay, that'll do for now. Okay, thank you. And should Ashton's go?

Denise, you're up with Laudna on deck. Okay, so I'm going to turn around to this guy that's pooping himself, and he's within melee, I assume. Oh, very much so. And I'm still raging, right? Yeah guy that's pooping himself. Yep. And he's within melee, I assume. Oh, very much so. And I'm still raging, right? Yeah, because you've been hit multiple times. They never dropped. Okay, great. So then I'm going to take my sickle and I'm going to,

he's heavily armored, right? He's pretty armored. Can I just find that one little exposed part of the neck and just with my sickle ones. Yeah, go for it. Oh boy. Oh, is that cocked? It's cocked. Okay, sorry.

So close. Oh fuck, that's a natural one. This is nice. Damn it. Oh wait, you still have advantage. I have advantage. On the three. Fuck this dice. All right, here we go. Oh, not much.

That's a 16. Does a 16 hit this motherfucker? 16, unfortunately, does not hit. Okay. Well, I can do it again, right? Because I have two strikes. That was the first attack. That was the first attack, so I'll try again.

Okay, this one does not have advantage, though. It's just a single roll. Yes. Well, mine, oh wait, you're right, yeah. 15 doesn't, 15. Unfortunately, as you're shaking off the runes, mine, oh wait, right, yay. 15, doesn't, 15. Unfortunately, as you're shaking off the runes, they're sparking off your shoulders from the impacts and the bludgeons you've taken from the Judicator. You're still a little woozy and you go wide,

streaking off its armor. What do I look right now? I was talking about it from Silvery Barbs. No, I know, it's from Silvery Barbs. Okay, okay, okay. You still have your bonus action if you want to whip. Oh, she's still pretty. Okay, I think that's all I can, well, I guess I could use my whip if I if you want to whip. Oh, you're pretty good. Okay, I think that's all I can.

Well, I guess I could use my whip if I don't want to move. What would I do with my whip for him? It's up to you. You can sneak attack with your whip, too, if you do hit something. Okay. Because it is a finesse weapon. He's not prone, right?

Nope. Okay. So I suppose I could just, with my whip, try to go around its neck, pull him down. Okay, the soldier that's in front of you? Yes. Go for it. Roll for an attack. Okay, 22. Oh shit, I totally forgot. No, sorry, not a 22.

Could've been adding a d4 to all of these fucking attacks. I could've? I could've. Oh, it's going to be a 21. 21 hits. Okay, great. Remember that. But you add a d4 to the? All the attacks. All the attacks.

All the attacks and all the saves of anybody. So yeah, then roll both of those. Oh. Roll again. 10 points of... That was four. 10 points of damage on the whip. And two. And two soldier. All right.

So the first hit turned into a 19 and the second one turned into an 18. Right, so both of those do hit. So in the realm of this one timeline of probability, you miss the two strikes and hit with the whip, and then the proximity of you towards the strange, oddly dunamantic energy that is operating up the side of his head, the timeline reverses

and you have additional focus as you try again, striking both your first two attacks. Fabulous. Yeah! I'm looking for a better timeline. Yeah! A better timeline. Okay, so I do eight plus eight. 11 points of sloshing, I guess?

Yeah. Oh, and then 16 points. Yeah. 16 points on that. Rewind. So the guy's like, doubling over. You slice him, wrap the whip around his neck, pull him forward, and he's like,

his neck snaps and he crumples to the ground. Yes! Yeah, yeah. All right, thank you. Doodymancy. Doodymancy. Doodymancy. All righty. You have your movement. If you'd like to go anywhere,

there is the Judicator still in melee with you. Oh, he's still in melee? I think I'm going to wait and see if he gets out of my melee and then do an attack of opportune. Okay, okay. All right, that finishes your go. Then, Denise, Laudna, you're up. I don't know.

I think it's good. So as the Judicator turns and looks at Laudna, and she has this moment of fear, and the compartmentalization that she's been maintaining over the past day and a half starts to crack, and everything starts to flash from seeing the gallows, taking her back to her time at Whitestone,

being in this small, creepy town, being oppressed by an outside force, seeing these zealots attempting to completely overrun this town, and she starts to revert and go internal and think about Delilah again, this force that she's pushed out for a long time. And as she twitches and starts to crack in her brain,

she remembers the hounds, the undead hounds of the Briarwoods. Her ribcage fractures and opens, and from the black darkness of her soul, a hound of ill omen sprouts forth. Oh shit! Good doggy. Within 30 feet, right?

She starts to cry. Black tears start to run down her face in her form of dread, and she just goes, Sick him! And she sicks him on the Judicator. Anywhere within 30 feet? I can summon him within 30 feet, yeah. Okay, so you want him in front?

I want him... Where did the other guy go? This guy just got slaughtered. That guy just got slaughtered. That guy just got slaughtered. Right, okay. Then, yeah, he just bursts forth of my chest and you see he runs through the pews and he stops and he ends his turn, I guess, right here.

You got it. He's got to get to the pews. He technically has his own initiative, or should he just go on mine? We'll just go the end of years, make it easy. Yeah, okay. That's what I was thinking as well. This is good for saves. So with that,

the dark tears streaming from Laudna's face as she's having a really stressful time, the shadows push from her fingertips, and she's going to cast Bane on the Judicator, this guard, and this fucker in front of me. Okay. What does Bane do?

They have to take- Harder for them to hit, harder for them to save. Yeah, they take a negative. A negative. A negative lamb. Concentrating on that. Wow. Bane's a great little spell. Okay. Fine.

Yeah. Damn, you guys. Give me a hug. Okay. Actually, you know what, too? There's another guard over here, right? Yeah. This guy? I'm going to cast Bane at...

Second level? Second level. To get him as well? So I can get him as well. Why not? All the guards you can see have anything. Or Beautifully Horrific. And a little bit of both. I love it all. Black Tears, beautiful.

And then the My Hound of Ill Omen snaps at this guy's feet, and he is going to attack with his Bite Attack. Natural 20. Yes! Yes! Well, that hits. Go ahead and roll damage for the Judicator.

Come on, big money. Okay. 10 plus, so 13 piercing damage to the Judicator. 10 plus, so 13 piercing damage to the Judicator. And he has to make a strength saving throw or be knocked prone. Gotcha. Which I'm sure he's going to be fine.

That is an 18? He's fine. Okay. Bites, grabs onto the knee, and kicks it off. Oh. Every day is leg day. No! What? Every day is leg day. And then I think, can my hound move?

Or? You summoned it, so yeah, I think it can still move if it wants. I mean, it's kind of fun where it is right now, but yeah. New ability. I do want. We fine over with us right now. I just want him to,

because you guys get advantage when flanked and stuff like that, right? But we're fine. We have three people on two soldiers. This is going to be, they're all going to be gone by next round, and you just baned them. Can I just have him go

to back here? Sure. He just crosses through him, this spectral undead hound. Does he count as a creature, by the way, or no? Technically, yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, does he get advantage on shit? Okay. Once I'm in range, yeah. Wow. You rolled a natural 20,

so it doesn't matter. Oh no, for sure. All right, and then I'll take my movement to tuck back up against the wall. Hey! The soldier does get an attack of opportunity on you. As you move away, sweeping wide, it does have bane on it. That's okay.

You get plus two to your AC because of half cover as you move away. So, natural 20. Damn it. Man, that Essek D20 has been in my favor. So even with the penalty, it still comes to a 24 to hit. Mirror image. That's right.

I'm good. One of your images vanish as the blade strikes through and one of the shimmering Laudna images dissipates. It goes, shit! Correct. All righty. That's my turn. Whoa. All right. Finishing your turn.

Pretty good turn. It is now going to be Abedina's turn. Abedina now begins to step in closer. Abedina, Abedina. Walks past you to the body of Hiro and goes, Take them prisoner! Do not kill them! Aw, shit. Oh.

The guards? Abedina says that? Abedina says that. Abedina says that. Oh, well. She should have clarified that. We had a whole meeting. We had a whole meeting. This could have come up.

This really could have come up. You watch, she goes, then so it must be. Frustrated, gutters under her breath. What about that big Judicator? You want him prisoner? Yeah, yeah. I don't think she realized the Judicator

was there until now, and glances up in that direction. It's going to go ahead and use another Blight on him. It's going to use another Blight on him. The second only one. Judicator's going to go ahead and has advantage on the save. Yes. It could have run. Very much saves. That's true. But it's going to take half and has advantage on the save. Yes. They could have run. Very much saves.

That's true. But it's going to take half damage on the Blight. It could have not. Yeah. I don't take damage on that. Whoa. Ooh. That's a nasty roll. That sounded like a lot.

That's 45 points of corruption damage reduced in half because of the save, so 22 points to the Judicator. You watch as she throws that thread out once more and it sticks onto the now partially exposed chest of the Judicator with the gash that's torn open the front of its robe. As it begins to settle in and you see the black veins separate, The Judicator flexes angrily. The runes on the side of the armor glow, and the thread snaps between the two of them. He just steps back, stepping aside to let the guardian pass.

Oh, did the Judicator take the negative four for the bane on that? Oh yeah, he did. Hey, I remembered a rule. Caduceus. That's a minus three, which brings it to. Hey, I remembered a rule. Caduceus. That's a minus three, which brings it to a 17, I think. No, 16. Yeah, still just barely makes it, but good looking out.

I remembered. But good looking out. What was that for? That was for the Blight that Abedinna casts on. It's going to step back to the side here to get out of the way. You see her looking nervously about. Who killed her? Yuck, jeez.

I think there was some infighting amongst the guards, if I saw. The earth guardian steps in and is going to make a slam attack against the soldier to its right. Natural 20, Jesus Christ! Jeez Louise! This is nuts! Okay, so I'm not the only one

having a natural 20. No, apparently, this is like, oh yeah, yeah. This is against that guard. You got a magnet. Come on. That is... Where's that other d4? I want to try the 20. These are the last to see.

Plus... 30 points. The guard that just tried to strike you turns around and goes, goes to run, and the guardian just grabs him as it's moving forward and just slams him into the side of the stone exterior of the tower. You, hiding on the inside, watch the wall crack

and dust settle as the guy justumples to the ground, unconscious. Poor guy. That's rough. He continues to, now without his muscle control, leak into his armor. Oh! Oh boy. Oh, it's like the blood and the shit.

So you continue stepping forward? Yeah. Oh, don't touch your face. Whatever you do, you all get hit, guys. We're not careful. Okay, that's the real danger of this battle. 30 is going to get here, which then puts it within its 10-foot melee range

with Adjudicator, and is going to come out with its other arm and massive battering ram. Punch forward. With a d4. With a d4? 10 feet. Oh, that's within you, yeah, that's whatever. All righty.

Love the rainbow sparkles. That's going to be 12 plus 22 hits. Oh yeah. All right. 21 points of bludgeoning damage to the Judicator. Ooh! Okay. Big, heavy. Finally, dude. The Judicator. Ooh! Oh my god. Big, heavy. Finally, dude.

The Judicator slides back about almost five feet, skidding, holding its ground before it stops. Oh wait, does that mean I get an attack? No, it does not get pushed. Dang it! But good looking out. Good question. Good looking out. I was waiting for it. That's going to end the Earth Guardian's attack. That brings us to...

At this point, where Kiro has fallen, blood pooled out in the middle of the temple, the soldiers are looking about nervously. The top of the temple begins to glow. No fucking way. A light begins to fill and permeate the interior of the area, and a voice seems to echo from above.

No fucking way. Count your spells, just kidding. You don't want to hear it! Leave or be judged. And in the center of the dome that hits the center of this temple, you watch as this singular light form descends. Wings emerge as feathers of gold drift off.

As the light begins to pull away, you see a beautiful, celestial being descend. Long, fiery longsword in one hand float down as you see an angelic entity of the Dawnfather descend from the middle of the chamber. No! Oh wow, that's beautiful.

Oh yeah. It then... Wow. Swoops down. Right between the two of you, guards the blade in its hand, and then rapidly, let's see, yep, makes two attacks. Strikes twice, once at you, Ashton,

and once at you, Prism. Plus eight to your ATK. Prism. Prism. I cling to Orym. So against Ashton. I'm brave. That's going to be a 20 to hit. A hit. All right, and then against you,

that's going to be a 22 to hit. Oh shit. But it hasn't been my turn yet, right? So aren't I still resistant to all damage? Against you, that's going to be a 22 to hit. That hit. But it hasn't been my turn yet, right? So aren't I still resistant to all damage? You are, technically. Okay. Okay. Technically?

Yeah. Excuse me. Yeah. So there he goes. Both of these strikes here with a longsword. Against you, you take six points of slashing damage. Oh, I thought it was an ash. Sorry, ash prism? Yeah. Six points of slashing damage reduced to three. Then 13 points of radiant damage.

Fuck right off. Then against you, that is eight points of slashing damage. Reduced to four. Reduced to four, and nine points of radiant damage reduced to four, so eight points total. Okay. Oh boy.

All right, Prism. Oh boy. We got this. Then as part of that, is going to use Fiery Castigation. What the fuck? After it strikes both of you, it looks down at you and goes,

Repent! The voice echoes throughout the room. The actual stained glass on the wall seems to have reverberated its voice as it fills the chamber. I need you to make a dexterity saving throw for me, please. You got this. Are you within four feet of me?

To ten feet of me? Probably. I just rolled ass. You're within ten feet of the spell. It's not a spell, unfortunately. It is a magical ability. I'm sorry, you ran. Did you roll a d4 on me? I did.

What is it? Two. So I got a total of 11. I rolled a four. 11. Such high dex. Fiery golden chains emerge out of the ground around Orym and wrap onto you and seem to pull you to the ground, burning your skin. You are restrained.

Cool. No, again? Cool. Oh man. You can't catch a break, huh? And you take... Two, three, four, five, six. I don't know. 14 points of radiant damage. Cool.

Cool. That's going to finish the Dawnborn Angel's turn. Prism, you're up. Okay. Could I send Mother, have Mother take a dash action to get to border, collect the vial of blood,

and just swing it to me? Mother could put it in her mouth. 35, 45, 50? Yeah, 50 is her speed. That gets spring it to me. Mother could put it in her mouth. 35, 40, 45, 50? Yeah, 50 is her speed. That gets you right to board or from the door. So then if she takes the dash, that's two movements, right? Correct.

So she would basically take it. So rush over. Just take a beakful of blood, like a pelican diving for a fish. Okay, okay. And then bring it to me? Ironically, blood is one of many very powerful tools in the worship of the Mation of Ravens,

and viably, effective, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, gets over behind you. Don't swallow, Mother. To then land on your shoulder. Okay. And I'm going to put the, there's like, I make a little circle with the blood, and then I'm going to cast Summon Greater Demon. Yep. Why not?

And can I, when you summon something, can you just summon it in the air to just fall on someone's head? I genuinely don't know. Or does it come from below? You can. It will take fall damage. Yeah, I'm fine with him taking fall damage. I want to summon him on top of this guy,

on top of this flying guy. If there's an ironclad space, you can see within range. Yep. All right. So what kind of demon are you summoning? A Barlgura. All right. Barlgura.

Barlgura? Barlgura. Barlgura. Barlgura. Hold for just a second. I do have a menu for this. I'll be right back. Oh, yay! Barlgura. Ladies and gentlemen, tune in next week when Heroclix.io gets all of your best toys.

When Heroclix.io gets alloclix. All of your best toys. It's a burner, burner. Who needs the other guy when you've got Heroclix? What the fuck is a Heroclix? What are they called? It's a subsection of WizKids. Oh, WizKids. We have some WizKids here.

When you've got WizKids.io.org. When you got the kids, you got the Wiz. She's Wiz. Pretty good, pretty good. You could take Sam Riegel's job. Yeah, exactly! Watch out! Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Man, this shit is.

What about bringing him up from under the guy and grabbing his foot and slamming him down? Oh, like grabbing him down? Or eating his freaking balls? I think I'm just like, let's find out if. Let's find out what happens. I think so. Okay, well, he's not here. What do we, so the Judicator's not great.

The Angel of Tears back, nevermind. I found one that'll be fun, given the means in which you summoned it. So where would you like to summon this? That's the picture. Hideous. I want to have it right as far. I don't know how tall this is, but like. The chamber itself stands about 50 feet tall.

50 feet tall, let me see. Oh, okay, so I can only do it. Okay, so I'm just going to summon it. I just want to actually summon it like 10 feet above the angel and then to actually summon it 10 feet above the angel and then just have it fall 10 feet onto the angel. That's going to also affect you. Just punch in recklessly.

Okay. So it falls. Jotha! So describe to me how you summon this. As you grab the handful of blood from your raven. I grab the handful, I baby bird the handful. Oh! Mother, mother, mother.

And I think as I'm doing it, I'm engaging in this blood magic, and I think I'm quietly like, okay, Matron of Ravens, I know that we have a complicated relationship, and we are going to work on that, and maybe, we'll talk about it later, but if there was ever a time to show up

for your prodigal daughter, it'd be right now. And then I just squeeze the blood in a circle of safety around myself and then with it, I toss the blood into the air and like an ink splat it into a huge demon. Wow. It like slowly drips out of the ink spot portal the blood into the air and an ink splat it into a huge demon. It slowly drips out of the ink spot portal. As it tumbles outward, it falls.

I'm going to give it a dexterity saving to try and avoid the impact. Natural one. Yes! So I'll say, tough at fall. Okay, yeah, it takes five points of blood healing damage from the impact. Mwah, mwah.

And then we see if he enters the- Five points of irony. The demon takes two. Five points of bludgeoning damage from the impact. Womp, womp. And then let me see if he enters the... Five points of irony. The demon takes two. Five points of irony. Okay, demon takes two. Two damage for the demon as it does landing in the space here off to its side. And then let me see, oh, I roll initiative for him.

And he enters. He has a... His initiative is going to be a 11. 11. Oh, so he's coming off next! Indeed. Or he's next! Oh. Yep. All right, so.

And you know what, just for fun, I am going to say, Denius, get in on this! And just move him. Pretty deep, more. Before it hurts. He's like, I will admit that I'm impressed. Quite impressed.

Finally, a compliment. Wow. Yeah, and then I'll tell the Barlgur. Barlgur. I'm going to say, shout your name as you attack recklessly, thank you. And hopefully he'll just tell us his true name, because that would be really harmful,

but he doesn't have to do that. Yeah. Steve. So that's what, yeah. All right, so on its turn, as it begins its turn, as you shout this out towards it, you can see there's rage in its eyes as it looks towards you. Like it's about to lash out towards you,

and then the spell fits in and chains it to the will that you're binding it. Good baby. What would you like to do? I'm going to have it attack recklessly three times on this angel. Go for it, three attacks with advantage, go for it. Okay, gorgeous.

Come on. Okay. Oh, within 10 feet of me? No. We're in the sky. 24 to hit for the first one. That hits. Okay. Oh, within 10 feet of me? No. We're in the sky. 24 to hit for the first one. That hits. Okay. 17 to hit for the second one.

17 misses. 17 misses. A one and a two, no thank you. Okay, so he hits once, though. Okay. We'll take that. At least 19, I think. And that's 11 damage, and then I just want him on there,

basically being heavy, like grabbing on. Just holding on, trying to reach for the wings. Yeah, yeah. Just harrying it in the middle of the air. You got it. Yeah. Okay, finishing that go, it is now the soldier's turn. This soldier tries to step down and emerges from a side door over here.

What's going on? Runs out, holding his waist. He's going, Oh my god! Is going to go ahead and step back over here. And fail to hide terribly. You hear the armor shaking as he's currently shitting himself in the corner of the room. This is brutal.

He's shaking and shitting. Both of these guards who are banged and holding down, they both look at each other. Run the fuck away. Run the fuck away! Listen to them! They drop their weapons and just go running out towards the front.

Oh, bad news for them. Full charge. Okay. Right into the crowd of angry townspeople. If they're running, maybe they'll be okay. They both go running, and the townsfolk indeed grab and throw them to the ground and start just full-on wrestling them to the floor. Oof, until they get a nice whiff.

Oh yeah. Yeah. You do hear some people like, Hold them down! Go be gotam now! Is that you? What? Who? But they have rushed out and are now being held in that space.

Pink eye is a serious concern here. All righty. Finishes their go. Fjordur, you're up. Okay. Well, shit is, I've seen things in the last 30 seconds that I've never seen in my life before. Can I get to here?

Over here? Can I get behind this pew with a line of sight on the adjudicator? You do indeed. And then I'm going to point at him and say, You hurt my friend! I'm going to shoot... I'm going to cast,

let's use the right verbiage. That's okay. Voidage. I'm going to cast a lightning bolt. Yeah, lightning bolt. Okay. That will carve a straight line through the Judicator.

Nice! It does, hitting nobody else, it does get advantage on the saving throw because of its magic resistance. No. Minus a d4. Minus a d4 on it, so that's a 19. Minus three, so it's a 16.

What's your spell DC? Is that this? Save it. It is exactly 16. 16, okay, so it takes half damage, but you still roll damage on the lightning bolt. Okay. So close. That was very close.

One more. One more and then we have to land. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. No way. Bro. Awful. And two more. Magic is real. Oh my god! Just wrap it. What level were you casting it at?

14. Okay, 14 damage, all right. 15, sorry, 15. Half of that, okay. It's going to put us at seven points of lightning damage. Intruder Cater, the blast hits it, and it seems to almost try and catch the lightning. As it does, it impacts, it strikes through,

and as the lightning energy travels through its body, eventually it subsides and it opens its hands and smoke goes out of its grip and it looks over towards you and flexes extremely hard and you watch as the rest of the smoke that's on its fist dissipates. Oh boy. I'm going to go.

Can I get back in here? It's five, 10, 15, 20. You can get 25, 30 to get up inside. You'll be in the doorway, but you can indeed do that. Okay. Are you all right? Are you all right? I don't know.

You're mutating. Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! I don't know, I don't know, Haida. Who are you with? Is that dog yours? I'm not sure.

Oh my god. Kind of. Yes, it came from me, but it's complicated. All right, that finishes your go. I guess so. All righty. Can I also have used my turn to move away? Or? If you'd like to, you will probably get

attack opportunity from the angel. I simply can't sustain it. Okay. I'll stay. Fair enough. I'll stay. So all the guards went running. All of them, and this one went trying to hide. He was just like, behind the pillar. It is now the Judicator's turn.

Oh boy. Officer Moffat. The Judicator is going to step into this side here, and is going to make one strike out towards you, Ashton. D4. That's right, D4 on that. Okay, minus three, that'll put it at a 20. Fuck.

Yikes. With that. Oh, he moved out of my range of my hound. That's true. So your hound, go for it. Give her. Come on. Yeah. That's good. 23.

23 hits? Yes! Yeah! Eight damage from my hound. Eight damage from your hound, okay. And he has to make a strength saving throw. Is he a solid black court guy? Minus a d4. Minus two, and then that'll put it at 16.

Okay, yeah. Shit. Fuck. Okay. He's got to roll so astronomically low, but it happens. Okay. Actually, Ganymede Strand's going to use a bonus action to cast Branding Smite on itself. So as it begins to rear back to punch you, it goes and draws in a move. I'm going to counterspell it.

You're going to counterspell it? Yeah, bitch. Okay. Thank you. So you You don't do any extra damage on my friends. As he pulls back to punch, the runes that were glowing fizzle out.

Still goes for the impact on you for six points of bludgeoning damage reduced to three, and eight points of force damage. That doesn't get reduced. No. No. That's just meanness. Okay. This thing is going to go ahead and do,

as it punches you, it's going to do a heavy backward kick right towards you in the back of it. Oh no. Remove that d4. Natural 20. That wasn't as a go. Denise is getting it. So yeah, minus two, that's still going to hit.

No silvery barbs. So for you. Is it the new round? Did I do silvery barbs at the top of this round? You already did it this round, I think. He's at the end of the round, which sucks. Yeah. So that's going to be...

Such a long round. 19 points of bludgeoning damage. Halved. Halved to nine points of bludgeoning damage. Halved. Halved to nine points of bludgeoning damage. Great. And 16 points of force damage. Sorry? 16 points of force damage. And I take that, that's a full?

That's full, yeah. Oh boy. How's everyone looking? Yeah, how are we doing over there, Denise? I feel like Denise in prison might be a little... I'm actually okay. Okay. It's more if I take a huge hit. Fuck, wait. Okay. I can't add it, so I'll just do it here.

I'm good, just don't touch me. Uh-huh, uh-huh. There's a lot of things that can really hurt me around me, but that's okay. Wanting to begin to reduce the amount of threats that are in the space here, even with the elemental right there. It's going to go ahead and...

Shit. It's going to whip around into a full backward back fist towards you, Denise, once more. What the hell? Negative four, oh god, it didn't end. I'm not even joking. Natural 20, we believe you. Okay, this honestly makes me look like that.

This is really creepy. Like, this is really creepy. Fucking me at the table. We'll take a picture of that shit. This is really creepy. This is really creepy. Fucking me at the table. Let me take a picture of that shit. This is a man who could sell MacBooks to anybody. Goddamn it. That's insane. I'm so sorry.

What is it? What'd I get? Well, the first roll wasn't great. That's four damage. 10 points of bludgeoning damage reduced to five. Okay. Then for the force damage, that's not great. That's going to be 14 points of force damage to you. That does not happen.

Fuck. Fuck, I just did a bad thing. Wait, hold on. Fuck me, dude. This is not working. Okay. WizKids, don't use that kind of language at all. Sorry, so it was five,

and then what was the other one? 14. 14, okay. All right. How are you doing over there? I got 31. I pranked that. And it does get its condemnation back. Oh, good. Okay, good to know.

Great, great, great, great, great. All right, that's going to finish its go. Now it is the civilians' turn. The civilians immediately swarm these individuals and force them to the ground, begin binding them, and closing off the exit of the temple here. Okay, so that's what I get.

Yeah, yep. All righty, top of the round. Orym, you're up with Ashton on deck. Oh man, well, I'm in golden chains, right? You're restrained, which means you can't move. You can still take actions, but they're at disadvantage in any of your actions. Okay, well, first thing I'm going to do is use my bonus.

I'm going to just center myself and take a deep breath and think of home and do Second Wind. Love it. Get back 14 points for me. Ooh! Okay. And could I try to break out of these or I just fight with them on?

It's until the end of the next turn, so you have to fight with them on. Okay. Who is here with us? Is there anybody left? And I can't walk, can I? No. No. The angel's not in range with you.

Oh, that's okay. I can use Seedling at disadvantage. That's true. To slice the air. Unless you've got advantage, unless someone's, there's no one who is a- Is the Judicator within 15 feet of me? Judicator is 15 feet from you. All right, I'm going to slice twice.

All right. Disadvantage on each strike. Okay. Here we go. So nine or six, so that is a 16. Plus two. Plus two is 18. Misses still. Misses, okay.

Just barely misses. That time, it is a 25. Plus two. 27 to misses. That time it is a 25. Plus two. 27 to hit. That hits. Go ahead and roll damage from the second strike. Let's make that a goading attack. Okay.

And I say, sorry, but your god fucking sucks right now. And I will, 11 plus, this is 12 points. Yes! Slides through the air and then has to be to wisdom. Which it, I believe, failed with a 14.

Or does fail. All right. So anything he does is a disadvantage unless it's against you. You got it. Ooh. Oh boy. This is the adjudicator?

Correct. Yeah. All right, Orym, does that finish your turn? It does. All right, and Torrinsoom, Ashton, you're up. All right, who's within range of me? Both the angel and the adjudicator are within range of you. God fucking damn it.

I think the adjudicator could become, go away faster, so I'm going to start there. I'm going to attack the adjudicator. Go for it. I think the adjudicator could go away faster, so I'm going to start there. I'm going to attack the adjudicator. Go for it. Fuck it, and turn around and spin. Okay. And no one's, yeah, just straight roll, right?

Angel of Rivalry. Yeah. Angel of the demons. Yes, stand proud. I don't have advantage. Be so proud. No, unless you want to reckless, but. Fuck, not right now, no. Okay. Yeah, fuck.

Nargh. Not where I am right now. That's okay, because that's 30 to hit. That definitely hits. Go ahead and roll damage. Come on. Ah, god. 13 damage.

13 damage. All right. Judicator's starting to show some real wear and tear. You're starting to see the gashes and bludgeons. There's blood on the wounds, and it's starting to look a little worn. I take that full swing. I use the back of the hammer, stop myself, and pull back up again

with a two-handed roll to see how this goes. Nope, that was a one. The first hit impacts the second one. It just slaps the hammer out of the way, almost knocking it out of your grip before you catch it, looking back at it angrily. Does that finish your turn? You want to move? Anywhere I move, I'm going to be leaving combat

with one of these fucks, aren't I? Five feet that way. That's about it. That's Honor Pew. That doesn't help anybody, though. I'm not a good... Not particularly. No. All right. Staying put? Yeah, I'm just fucking staying put. That's Honor Pew. That doesn't help anybody, though. I'm not a good... Not particularly. No. All right. Staying put? Yeah, I'm just fucking staying put.

Finishing your go. Denise, you're up with Laudna on deck. All right, I'm going to take, am I still in melee with the Adjudicator? You are. Okay, I'm going to take my sickle and I'm going to try to strike his ass. Do it.

And that is a... Now, an interesting point of order. One, you can go reckless, or if you wanted to move over to this side, you would have him flanked by Ashton, which would give you advantage automatically. Oh, can I do that? But that's how much of my movement, because I...

That would be 15 feet. Ah, okay, that's fine. You don't have to. No, no, no, I'll do that. And then I'll get a what? I'll get advantage? Advantage on all of your attacks. Okay, great. So I get to roll that again, because that was trash. Oh, okay, much better. 24.

24 hits. Okay. And do I have to add that d4? No, I'm the fat. That's okay, but you do get your sneak attack damage on this because you're right. Oh, sure. So do I roll this twice? No. You roll that

and then add as many d6s as you have for your sneak attack, so I think it's 2d6. Shit, okay, so that's going to be a six, and then 2d6. Ah, okay, so that's going to be a six, and then 2d6. Ah, fuck me. It's all good, it's all good. Okay, fuck, that's a two. So wait, so that's a six, an eight.

Okay, so eight damage plus whatever your additional damage is on your sickle. That die is gone. Oh yeah, so another eight, so 16. 16 points of damage on that strike, nice. So that's one, and then can I try again? Yes, you can. With advantage. With advantage, okay.

Oh, better. 27? Yes! 27 hits. So I only get sneak attack on the one. Correct. Fuck, fuck, fuck, where's my d8? So d8 plus eight. Where is that? Where is that?

Where the fuck is it? Here. There it is. Oh. Okay, so that's six plus eight is what? 14. 14. 14! Nice. 30 points of damage this round already. All right, great.

And then, if I may, as a cunning action, may I hide as a bonus action? You have nothing to hide. Behind the dog! Behind right now, but you can disengage and move away. Okay, I think. And it won't get an attack of opportunity. I can disengage or I can dash,

but no, I'll disengage. You disengage. I'll disengage. Okay, and you still have 15 feet of movement, right? Okay, yeah, so. 20, right, because your speed is 35? 35. Yeah. So you have 20 more feet of movement. I hate to do that, but I just don't know.

I'm like so, I'm looking pretty bad, so I guess don't know. I'm looking pretty bad. So I guess towards that pillar over there. Okay. So five, 10, 15, 20 can get you right there. Nice. That's great. That'll do. You can still run in and run out if you need to. Sorry. Okay, so that's 15 feet.

No, no, no. You are making good decisions there. Good, thank you. All righty. That finishes your go, Denise. Yes. Laudna, you're up. Laudna! Okay.

Hey, don't make me cry. I just want to talk about it later. I leak oil sometimes. Oh no. I threw up all over myself, so. I can see that. Yeah. I'm just going to pump some Eldritch Blasts

into this adjudicator. All righty. Pump, pump, pump it up. Uh-huh. You have to move. You don't see him right now. So you'd have to move into a space where you can actually see him. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll shift forward. After you. Which? Move behind to see him, like behind Bordor, if you want. Okay, I got a 19 on one. That just hits. And other misses. Okay, so you got one hit on him. One hit, which, bleh.

Okay, 10 damage. Okay. And then... Can I enhance ability, or is it too late for that? On your next turn, you can if you want to. But it only improves ability checks, though, not combat rolls. Ah, damn. What your next turn, you can if you want to. But it only improves ability checks, though, not combat rolls. Ah, damn.

What's the point, then? Out of combat rolls. Oh. My puppy will move up. Good puppy. Pup-pup! Which, so he counts as an ally, which means would Ashton get?

Indeed. Okay, great. In fact, does he get the advantage now? Unfortunately, because of the width of the Judicator, he's 15 feet. Or at least advantage in the attack. Yes. He gets advantage? Yeah. Okay, great.

I don't know. Natural, a 20. Yay! All right. Rock is doing better than me. Hot table. Hot table. God, wouldn't it be amazing if your issues ended that? Ooh.

This is not good for her. Eight. 12 damage from my doggo. 12 damage, all righty. It's a heavy bite out of the side of the... 13 damage from my doggo. 13 damage. Additional one. Great. Takes a big chunk out of the hindquarters,

the Judicator, that seems to shake off. Strength saving throw. I'll go. Additional one. Great. Takes a big chunk out of the hindquarters, the Judicator, that seems to shake off. Strength saving throw. Minus four. Minus four. D4, that's minus four. That'll bring it to a 13. 13 is the AC.

13 is the AC, or the DC? The DC. Okay. It just knocks him prone, but that'd be just fine. That would just be fine. Yeah, totally. All right. Okay. I guess that's it. I feel like I should save everything else in case shit hits the fan.

Okay, fair enough. Finishing. Why, because you only have a few slots or something? Yeah. Use them all! Reactions and stuff like that. I don't know if I can use them right now. Okay.

Finishing your go, that brings us to Elder Abedina. Elder Abedina, seeing this angelic entity of the Dawnfather descend from the top, goes, This wasn't part of the plan. Oh, thank god. Oh boy. She is going to... Run?

I hope fucking that. I know! No, is going to cast Mask Cure Wounds. Oh! Oh! Oh! Is that a wound? My girl! That's my girl! I haven't taken any hits,

but maybe it does cure my tummy. Feel free to not heal the bulgaragraor. Just six creatures? It is a demon, an uncontrollable one. One, two, three. Shit, it doesn't reach me, does it? No! Oh no! It's at the knees!

It does not. No! But. But. Oh no. With her bonus action. Orym, Ashton, and Prism, you all heal. That's not great. 17 hit points.

Oh, that's pretty, that's not, that's not that big. I could have used that. Oh no. Back up to full. I'm not complaining. Oh. She's going to nervously shift back into this chamber. Oh no. If that bitch is scared.

No, she's in here. Yeah, you're all in this room now. What? It's getting very crowded in here. You're big and strong. I do not want to be near that thing. I don't know what that is. The Judicator? No, the angel.

Oh. Oh. He's about to fight a demon. It's fine. All righty. That finishes there. The earth entity is going to move forward and just go into a double slam against the Judicator. Just. I know.

Plus a d4. Plus a d4. That's a three, so 15 misses, unfortunately. Rolled a two. That's a 15 misses, unfortunately. Rolled a two. That's an 18, which still misses. The Earth Guardian is not doing great on the rolls that round. Dang it.

Snab it. Angrily. So finishing its go, it's now the angel's turn. Seeing the demon there, flies up to the height of the chamber. So cool. Does the demon get an attack of opportunity? It does. Yes!

Yeah! Go, demon! As does you. I take a note. That's right, okay. I'm saving my reaction for other issues. Got it. Demon does 15 damage. 15 damage, you got it. other issues. Got it. Demon does 15 damage. 15 damage, you got it.

All right. Piercing. Heist? Piercing damage. Piercing. Flesh wound, mortal. As it stands up, flies up, its voice once rings out, Be judged as castigation fills your spirits.

It pulls its sword up and the flames on its blade begin to burn brighter. It takes and points it over on the far end as a beam. Is this a spell? It is a spell. Where is it? It's hitting where? It aims right down into the entryway to there. As you watch a beam go.

Counterspell. You do not have sight. It is flying. It is too high up in the chamber. But it can beam me? It's shooting the floor right there. I should have saved my Counterspell. Oh no, I'm so scared. I'm going to warn you.

God, fuck it. I need everyone within that chamber to make a dexterity saving throw for me, please. I don't want to. Yeah, go board or not. I refuse. Ugh. I need it. I refuse. Ew. Oh, I don't like that sound.

That's a lot. Can my mirror image work with this? I got trigger happy. I don't remember. Not if it's AoE. I don't think so, right? Which one? Mirror image.

Mirror image, no. This just hits everything in the room. All right, so that brings us to... Fuck. Do I have anything for this? What is your roll? Eight. Eight?

34 points of fire damage. Oh! Bordor, what did you roll? A one? No, I rolled a 14. 14? 34 points of fire damage to you. And then against the elder.

You got this, that's not good. Elder fails, 34 points of fire damage. To that point, I need you, Laudna, to make a constitution saving throw, as well as the elder, which fails. The earth guardian. No! We need this elder to do this fucking whatever later, if we want to do this.

Scrying? Scrying. Wow. So that bitch needs to be protected. We also need to be alive. That's definitely a... And my spell. Oh, doesn't disappear. It just maintains, but like some summoned creatures,

it is no longer under her control. It's a free agent. No, no, no, no. What did you roll? I have my spell modifier, right? No, you add your constitution saving throw. Right, okay, 19. That is more than half. That is more than half. So yeah, you maintain your bane.

Ooh! Yeah! Fantastic. All right, that's going to finish the angel's go. It stays up there flying. It spins its flaming sword around into great motion and gets it at the ready, staring down upon the rest of you. Finishing its turn, Prism, you're up.

Hurry up, buddy. The demon on deck. Okay, how high is it? 50 feet up. I'm okay. So the demon, I think, can't even get up to it. He can only jump. How would any of us even get up to it? There's a column. There's a column.

Would the column get the demon up enough to jump up to it? It could try. Yeah, he is going to try, but it's not his turn yet. So these pillars rise up to the top. If they protect these, I don't know. Up here, technically. Yeah, he is going to try, but it's not his turn yet. So these pillars rise up to the top. If they protect him, I don't know. Up here, technically. So he could try and climb the pillar or jump and leap.

He's going to do that because he's a crazy bitch. I love that. I think the question is, I think the question is if I try to do something here. I'm feeling like I should save this final fifth level spell. Let's go wizard. Or this fifth level spell. Let's do it, okay. Denial!

I'm going to have him fly so that he's 30 feet, fly 30 feet here so that he can get range on him and him. Okay. Let's go, daddy. This is sad for now. Then do we want to attack the earth elemental, too? I think we're probably fine for them. I feel like the earth elemental is not a problem.

Nobody's around him, either. Elementals are spinning top now. Yeah. It's going to do anything. And we're doing Steel Wind Strike. So it's going to take a strike on each of these guys. Are there any other combatants within the 30? Honestly, it's just the angel, the Judicator, and the Earth Elemental.

Those are the three technical combatants in the range. But we're leaving the Earth Elemental? If you're at the recall. I got a soft spot for summons, so I'm going to leave him. Okay. Blades emerge from the sides of the leather-bound book as it begins to spin,

Krull style, and then begins to teleport multiple times between the two entities of your specific ire, striking at each of them. I'll be back. Wait, is that a? Does a 21 hit the angel? 21 hits the angel. Yes! Yes! specific ire striking at each of them. Wait, is that a? 21 hit the angel. 21 hits the angel? Yes! Thank god!

I was going to say, are you within 10 feet of me? Yeah. All right. I think so. So just in case. You are. Okay. Play for the next one. And then here's for the adjudicator. That is a 17. Plus two.

Plus two, 19. 19, exactly. Yes! Oh my god. Oh. 19, exactly. Yes! Oh my god. Oh! Oh, I feel good! I feel good! Okay, that's one, two, three.

Do you have a, do you have a, oh, I have one, okay. All right, all right. All right. Oh my god, board rolls again. That's a bunch of 10s. 16. No, it was only one 10. 16, 20, two, three, four, five.

25 force damage to each. Ooh! Nice! Do something! Do something. Oh, let me double check that it's force damage for this. Yeah, it's force damage. Force damage. Both the Judicator and the angel suffer the blows of the spinning arcane blades

out of the book as it Both of them The angel drops about a foot and a half from the air and grasps its chest for a second. In Fatale! The Judicator on the ground takes the hit, grabs its chest, and from underneath the mask, you watch blood just pour from where its mouth would be

as it glances over in your direction. Should I send the Burlgurl after the Judicator, actually? Do we like that? How much longer do we have before, well? You're no longer restrained, by the way. The chains have faded. Oh, they faded? Oh, good.

Only until the end of its next turn, and it finishes its turn, Um, I don't know. I'm going to send the Burlgurl over to this guy, because then at least maybe he'll be another target for the earth elemental if he's unpredictable. You got it, okay. And he's going to, I'm going to say, attack recklessly.

Do it. So I lead him over with my little kid leash made of blood. Go play with your friends. A little monkey backpack on. Looks a little cute. Perfect. Perfect. Going to school on the subway. Yeah. Okay, that is a 21 to hit.

That hits. That's it. That is a, that's going to hit again. 23 to hit for the second hit. And that is a 22 to hit. Three hits, come on. Yes! Go at it, my love. Seven piercing damage plus another set,

so 14 piercing damage. And 14 bludgeoning damage. Woo! Nice! And he's going to square up with that guy. Okay, so on the ground, one fist holding it up as it looks over its shoulder towards the bulgura that's just slamming it in the side

and gorilla pounding its chest. Big old tusks in the bottom of its jaws. Now let's see if he stays faithful to me. He does! Oh! Still in our control. Is that a check or a save, by the way? of its jaws. Now let's see if he stays faithful to me. He does! Oh! Still in our control. Is that a check or a save, by the way?

He makes a save, but he has a minus one to charisma. Oh, okay, okay. So it's like, safe-ish. Okay. Safe-ish. All right. Finishing the demon's go, it is now the soldier's go. He's going to go ahead.

Check. I owe him. Hiding in the corner, seeing you looking as hurt as you can, goes and gets his crossbow that he still has from his pillar at the top of the tower, loads it, and is going to quietly, grabs his stomach, fires it. Disadvantage.

Disadvantage on the strike. Shit disadvantage! Shit! Shit advantage! Shit advantage. That would have been a natural 18 and then a natural one. Oh, thank the lord. He goes to fire it and then just like,

like the crossbow snaps, essentially, in his hand. He goes, drops it and then runs back. Yes! Thank you. Back to the doorway where he came from and vanishes. All right. Thanks, Bordor. Bordor, you're up. What about the townsfolk?

Did they go already? They go at the end. They rolled a three on their initiative. I'm all fucked up from that firebolt. I don't know what to do. How much damage did you take, Alla? Same as you. I don't know what to do. How much damage did you take, Alla? Same as you, 30-some odd points, but I'm okay. Don't worry about me.

I'm not. Can you do Cure Wounds on yourself? Yeah, you can. No, not today. Just a hypothetical. Theoret theoretical center. Do these pillars enhance your abilities? You get the sense that standing near them

might be beneficial. Okay. I'm going to stand next to it. Okay. Then I'm going to... Do I go for the angel or do I go for the adjudicator? You probably have something ranged that you can go for the angel.

We don't know how the adjudicator's looking yet. Adjudicator's got to be fucking rough. Almost done, right? He's looking real rough. Okay, I'm going to go for the angel then. I think... What? Nope, whatever you feel. Yep, sorry. What? the angel then. I think, what? No, whatever you feel.

Yep, sorry. What? What are you doing? What, what? Nothing, nothing. No, no, no. Somebody tell me what that up, up, up was. What was your up, up, up? It was live your life, you're good.

No, no, no. Up and away, can't wait to see your turn. No, no, no, no, no, no. Fire a spell. Let's see what you got. What strategy? Yeah. You follow your strategy. If you feel whatever target is best beneficial to what you want to do, do it.

Don't listen to them. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. That's not how teams work. I don't know what you have. Do something crazy. Unless one of you shouted something. I couldn't tell what he would be doing. Yeah, I couldn't see him. What do you want to do?

Well, now I'm, fuck it, just go. I'm going to. Border says to himself. Just do it. Fuck it, just go. I think I will. See, I was very confident. Now.

This is so fitting. No, I did it, No. I believe in you. This is so fitting. It feels so bad. No, I did it, too. I know. But why did you do it? Because I'm a fucking idiot. Because the angel's going to fight back? No, just go do your thing. Have fun! Everything's going to fight back.

Do what you would do in the moment as the guy, as the farmer. There is nothing you could do that would disappoint me ever. I'm going to try and do another... I'm going to do a lightning bolt at the alien. At the angel. At the angel? At the alien. Okay.

Same thing. Same thing. Basically. Basic third level? Fourth level. Okay. 15 and a 13 dexterity saving throw. Oh! Spell DC is a 16? So full damage, go ahead and roll out.

Yes! No, Porter, come on. Fourth level damage, so more. Fourth level is 96. Whoa! It takes more than 96. Get in. I wanted to get in on this. Wait, how many do you have right now?

One, two, three, four, five, six. Here, just roll all nine because it's very satisfying. Yeah. There we go. We got some pretty good ones. Add it up. Add it up. Yeah.

16, 18, 24, 25. 25. Yes. The bolt strikes through and hits the top of the chamber, and you watch as it ricochets. It's grounding into the stone around it. The angel's wings fold in and it begins to plummet for a second

before its wings open up again and it catches itself. As the wings, the energy dissipates. It does not look plussed. And then I'm going to just boop-boop-boop-boop-boop. I'm going to go in. Pew-pew-pew! It's not plussed as in like...

Doesn't look happy that it got shot with a lightning. And I'm crouching, and he can't see me until it's next turn. He can see some of you. Did it seem like it was chill with the lightning? It seemed like it hurt. Yeah, good, okay. Good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good, good. Good, good, good. Awesome, does that finish your turn, Bordor? Yeah, I think that's pretty much all I can do, yeah. Okay. This indicator does not back down, does not feel fear, and is... It notices, actually, let me see. Damn it.

Yeah, no. Being an entity trained to hunt those of arcane persuasions, it notices that the elemental is no longer, is driven in its form. The demon's a bit frustrating. You have the squishiest target nearby. That's true. It's going to attack. Coward.

You advantage. Coward! Because it's not you. And minus d4. Wait, why does it do that? Sorry, I used it. Technique right. Minus a two. Insulted as god. And minus d4. Wait, wait. Technique guy. Minus a two. Insulted his god. Oof. Even with disadvantage, that puts it at 19. What's your AC?

It's 17. 17 still hits you. All right, second hit. Minus four on that one. With disadvantage, that puts it at 16. 16 misses, Dreadful Misfortune. Okay. Whatever that does.

I remember this one, right? Where it hits itself? Yeah, I'm using a Chaos Burst to, yeah. Attacks against its own AC. Okay, so first it does to you. Yeah. That is 14 points of bludgeoning damage, reduced to seven. And seven points of force damage.

So 14 points. 14 points. The second attack, it has to make against itself, its own AC, which at natural 18, it does. Disadvantage, because it's not you, technically. That's going to be an eight plus 10, it's going to be 18 minus plus 10, so 18 minus two. It misses itself. Fuck! One of the things, this is where Vane actually...

Oh! It punches you, swings wide, and then goes to punch itself and dodges his own strike. I was going to say, does it keep its disadvantage? Because technically, yeah, because it's... Oh yeah, no, okay. Any target that's not him.

Yeah, that's fair, that's fair. Playing stuff is fine. It's going to go for a third strike against you with disadvantage, minus one. Oh yeah, that's going to be a 22. Yeah, that hits. That's the tank. How are you looking?

That is going to be nine, reduced to four. Mm-hmm. And eight points of force damage. 12. And it is in a bad place. It's going to attempt to jump and leap off of the elemental. My doggie. Off the side.

Wait, won't we get an opportunity attack? My doggie gets an opportunity attack. The dog does, the demon does, and Ashton does in the elemental list. I don't, because I refuse my reaction. That's true, so do that. Okay, 19 to hit. 19 just hits.

20 to hit. That hits. Finish him. Ooh, that's a 14 piercing damage. Yes. Elemental does not hit. 14 points piercing damage? 14 piercing damage.

16 piercing damage. And he has to make a strength saving throw. Well, how about the two of you tell me how you want to do this? Yeah! Yeah! Yay! I think the Barlgurl recognizes

a fellow spirit of summonry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's just like, let's fucking do this. Let's fucking do this. Yeah, my dog is like, . Come on, Kyle, I'm fucking in! I'm fucking in!

So. It's the dog. And then they just chest bump him back and forth. Yeah. Go, go, go! Go jump away and it's like. I think it's Night at the Roxbury to death. Is that what happens?

Yeah. Oh my god, yeah. Wow. That's great. That's so good. It's the dog and the demon? That's amazing. That's like a rock in a hard place. Between a dog and a demon? That's amazing. That's like a rock and a hard place. Between a dog and a demon.

Yes! That's D&D. The Judicator, one of the most feared creations of the temples of Vasselheim crumbles beneath the bro chest-bumping power of two summoned entities here in the middle of the Temple of the Dawnfather. Perfect.

And then as he dies, my dog looks at the demon, holds out his paw and gives him a little fist bump. And then the demon would know, but my dog is just like, I have renewed purpose today. Then he looks up and he just evaporates. What?

Because that's it. When the person he's hunting dies, he goes away. Okay, the Barlgura, I know I'm not technically allowed to say this, a single tear falls from the Barlgura as he pops pecks. It just falls. It splashes. It splashes from one pop and pecks the other. Just ping-pongs it a little bit.

In memory of Top Gun's volleyball scene. Perfect. I love it. He's seeing Mimic. Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom. All right, cool. That's going to finish the kitchen. Again, everything I just did is fully within the realm of the spell and I'm allowed to narrate how he boom. All right, cool. That's going to finish the kitchen. Again, everything I just did is fully within the realm of the spell,

and I'm allowed to narrate how he feels. Why not? All right. Some of the civilians charge in and begin to retrieve the body of the now-dead Kiro and pull it out of the way, not wanting to get in the middle of this chaos here. That brings us to the top of the round.

Orym, you're up. Oh, jeez. So the only dude we got of the round. Orym, you're up. Oh jeez. So the only dude we got left is the angel? The angel, yep. And the two potential summons that might turn on us. Right. But for now, the angel. Man.

Man, there's not much I can do. Tell you what, it's been a little over two hours. Yeah. Let's go ahead and take a mid combat break here and we'll start the top of the round. Ooh! We did! So that people can use the restrooms.

Whoa! I actually have had to pee for a while. Everybody has. I just had a good one, now. I'm deep thrilled. Roll for bladder control. We'll come back here at the top of the round here shortly. Just hang tight and we'll pick up

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through the shop tab at critrole.com and see if anything catches your eye. Okay, back to the show. And welcome back. So, top of the combat round. You're up, Orym. No! Orym looks at the chaos of this church right now,

looks over and sees an angel, a representative of the Dawnfather shining above them. There is a giant rock creature representing all the spirits of Exandria and the earth. There is a honking devil in the center of the church. This is chaos. Orym just says, Shit.

He books it towards the devil. Okay. That was good. Aw. I have to vault over the, or actually move through, or have to move. Yeah, I'll go under anyone's legs if I have to. Orym, Orym, Orym!

Where'd he go? I say, hey, my name's Orym, what's yours? And I scamper up his back and squat like I'm mounting a horse for battle. I'm gypsy. I'm gypsy. I say, I think we got to go up, big guy. I'm going to hold my action

in case my mount gets me anywhere near the angel. It's great. As you climb it, it brings its hand up, its claws, these long daggers pull up like it's ready to dig in you and just like. You crawl up onto its back and its musculature of its shoulders is massive and fur-covered, but bits of the flesh

come through like a blubbery rubber texture as you grab onto the fur. You smell its atrocious mixture of sulfur and rotting vegetation. It just growls at you as you climb up its back, but it allows you to for the time being. What's your name? Is it Doug or Aloysius?

It's really hard to pronounce. Tootie? Tootie. That's his name, too. Get to it, Tootie. Okay, and I hold my action. Hold your action, you got it. All right, that finishes Orym's go.

Ashton, you're up with Denise on deck. How's that elemental looking right now? Elemental has taken a little bit of damage, but it's still standing strong. The vibe, though. I'm just talking about a general emotional vibe. Oh, cool, I'm so excited for this. This is everything I ever wanted.

Vibe check. Vibe check. Come wanted. Vibe check. Vibe check. Come on. Vibe check. Eight. Eight. Nothing's really changed. He's high. Just because I want to see where the fuck everything is. All right, an attempt to maintain as many people as I can.

Oh, I'm close enough to him that I can. Oh, I'm close enough to him that I can stick around everybody. I'm going to get his attention. Okay. I don't know if there's anybody in there. But we got to get these people out of your home. We're saving everything. Can you toss me up there?

Wow! Are you speaking in Primordial? I am. Amazing. Yes! Amazeballs. He's going to Wolverine you. This is hot. I'm going to hold my action for whatever the fuck happens.

The elemental, which, unbeknownst to you at this point, the chains of magic that have brought it to this world and bound it have since faded. And where you saw once this crystal cerulean blue glow in its eyes upon its arrival, now has gone to a dull, storm-born gray. As it looks at you with this intense glance,

it brings its fist back like a massive battering ram. And as the mist begins to pour from its eyes like you saw, that once poured from the sides of the forest, it reaches out and grabs you. All right. And attempts to throw you. Yeah! Four rolls! All right.

Best for a special! The spirits of the forest maintaining the connection where the spell was lost. So it's going to need a strength check. Plus a d4. Oh, no, that's a save rate attack. 20? 20? What is it?

That's a 20. That's a 20. 20 or a one. I think it should be a one. I vote one. There's too many 20s. Whatever! Too many 20s. This is ridiculous. Wait, but that's good. We like that.

That's great. That's good for you. That's good for you. Too many 20s. Between these two d20s tonight, I've just been rolling them constantly. Oh my god. I mean, it's good on you, that's good for you. Too many 20s. Between these two new 20s tonight, I've just been rolling them constantly. Oh my god. I mean, it's good on the way up. I don't know about on the way down.

I don't give a fuck on the way down. Chucks you up, full-on speedball special, just your lips in the air behind you. Hey! Flying in the air towards the angel. You will be able to get, I'll put it this way. You can take one attack and have advantage on trying to land,

or take both your attacks and have no roll and just take the full falling damage. Take the fall! I was going to go reckless anyway, so I'll take the two attacks. All righty. Go ahead. Up, up, up, up, up. Take your two strikes with advantage. I also, I was take the two attacks. Yeah! All righty. Go ahead. Up, up, up, up, up, up. Take your two strikes with advantage.

I also, I was hoping my first strike, I want to try and specifically fuck the wings up. I want to drain them down. Wow. Okay. Yes. So trying to hit right in the back. Okay. Flipping up,

spinning around, taking that hit. Go for it. How far up is he? Natural 20. Yeah! All right, let's roll some dice. We don't need the fucking Dawnfather! Dawnfather? More like Donfather!

Yeah, look at that! There's two in the chamber! That's also a brutal critical, which means I get one additional d6 when I actually damage. You do indeed. More damage. So the extra d6 isn't doubled, but you add that at the end. I add that and then, oh, the d6 is doubled or not?

No, no, it's not. You roll, double, and then add the d6. Go for it. Okay. Come on, come on, let's really do something. You built a custom Barbarian subclass. Okay, nice! Fuck me. Okay, eight times two is 16.

Plus eight is 24. Come on! Plus six is 30 points of damage. Double dice. Oh my gosh. Yeah, is that double? A heavy, that was with the double dice. As on the way up,

you slam it as you're going for the back. There's a heavy crack sound, and you see its wings go rigid for a second from the impact. You arc up and the momentum stops, and now you're coming for the descent strike. All right. A murder rainbow. Coming straight down.

Murder rainbow! Murder rainbow! All right. A murder rainbow. Coming straight down. Murder rainbow! Murder rainbow! All right, here we go. It's like a bowl of death beer. Oh boy. It's the time and space barber. Oh my god. That'll do, that is a 26 to hit. That hits, go ahead, roll damage. I'm in love with the ash man for the war.

That's 15 points of damage. 15 points of damage. That's so cool. You fall from its range as it takes the second hit. It spins around with its blade and strikes down to try and give an attack of opportunity against you as you leave its combat range. What? Mm-hmm.

It does have advantage because of Reckless. That's going to put it at a 23 to hit. Sure. All right, so with that, its longsword strikes you for... Mm-hmm. Whoa, is it just a longsword attack? Or is it just a... It's a flaming longsword.

Oh, in that case, let's... Oh, it did hit, never mind. Let's keep rolling. Okay. Never mind. That's okay, it's going to be 11 points of slashing damage reduced to five. Five? And then... Couldn't you just trap it in your store?

14 points of radiant damage. Okay, so that's 19 points of damage. Oye. Mm-hmm. Then you continue your plumb line. Wait, take the hole and... Not against it. Slamming down 50 feet into the ground. 50 feet? Wham!

Cracking the ground with a heavy. I rolled a... Do you want to get an athletics check to see if I can? I said you can take one attack and get a check, or you can do both attacks and get none. Okay, I misread that, but fine. So that was the thing, you get two strikes, and then you.

All right, all right, all right. Barby Barbs. Let's do the Barby Strike. If you guys do not go unconscious, that would really suck. It'll be hard. It's not like that. It'll be hard. No, that brings us to 16 points of bludgeoning damage reduced to eight.

That'll do it. Yay! That's fine. I'm going to spend the rest of my... Where does that leave me? Prone on the ground right there. Like, full on those little cracks around your body. I haven't spent much of my movement,

so I'm going to get the fuck up. Okay. Where is everybody? I'll say 15 more feet, you can move. Yeah, as long as I'm within 10 feet of a few people. There's Orym. There's Prism, and there's Denise. I'll be 10 feet away from Prism.

Okay, so you move right there. All right. You got it? Did that fuck him up and bring him down at all, or no? It took a heavy hit off of him and probably brought him down about 5, 10 feet. All right, I'll take it, I'll take it. Okay, so finish your turn. Oh yeah! Fuck.

Denise, you're up. Laudna, you're on deck. Okay. I don't know what the fuck to do as a melee fighter with 31 hit points left. Get creative. I think there's room on the barlgra. Well, yes. I think, how far am I from the barlgra?

The barlgra? Yes. You are 20 feet from it, 25 feet. 25, oh god. Okay, well, what if I use... Okay, I'm going to use my movement to get, this is going to hopefully go well, but you know a seesaw when you jump on the one and then someone's on the other side? Yeah. Hopefully it'll shoot you up.

The crotch breaker? Yeah. Wow. Can I try that on the tail of the Schmarger Schmarch? The barbara, I don't believe it has a long tail. Oh, try that? On the tail of the Shemarger Shmurks? The barbara, I don't believe it has a long tail. Oh, it doesn't have a tail? No, you can actually look at him. Here he is. He's pretty cute.

He's like a dragon. Oh, there's no tail! And Orym is on his shoulders, on his back. Okay, well, I mean, there's really nothing for me to do, but get on behind Orym and then. You're going to climb it as well? Yeah, and then I guess I'll just hold my action because what is there to do?

All right, so from that point. It's too high up, the angel. So with that, you are both now grappled onto the edges, like both holding onto each shoulder of the Barlgura. Does it have horns? No, just huge tusks, though. You could grab onto those tusks if you need to. We'll just hold onto the hair.

If I took my whip. Hellcore this shit. If I took my whip and just horseyed it, you think it would just turn against me? Probably. Well, only one way to find out. No, I'm not. I was just thinking out loud.

I'll hold my action. I understand, okay. So finishing that go, holding your action, that brings us to Laudna. All right, I see what they're setting up. I'm going to skitter forward. As I pass Abracadabra, I'm going to look at her and just go,

if you're not going to help, then heal. Yeah, fucking use it. And I'm going to crouch and stick my head out, looking at the angel. I'm going to use my bonus action to hex. So still using the blood, the prism set up that splattered against the wall, I'm going to have that reach out

and you see a haloed shackle form around the angel. Okay. Yes. And with that, I'm going to give him disadvantage on strength checks. You got it. Yeah. Oh. And then. His fur is too greasy.

I know. For my action, while he's up there, all by his lonesome, I'm going to full rage, as Laudna is starting to crack, send a fireball up into the ceiling. Fireball into the ceiling, okay. Just a fireball, just for him.

Got it. His own custom fire experience. So cute. Whose birthday is it? It is! A 22 on the save. Fuck! He saved. You're on. Damn.

This guy cannot stay on. Weirdly, this mini was not designed to have multiple other minis on it. It's Sinisa's heels. I'll just put it right there. That'll work. Oh no. He takes half damage, right? He takes half damage, yeah.

Okay. Nice. That'll work fine. I'm just dedicated to making this one. Yeah. That looks really good. 11, 16, 17, 18, 22 damage halved.

11. A little weak sauce for a throw spell. It's all good. For a throw spell, but. The entire upper region of this temple A little weak sauce for a little smell. The entire upper region of this temple is immersed in flames as the explosion surrounds the flying entity. The flames disperse.

It shakes off a little bit. No way. No, it doesn't care about fire? It took a little bit of damage, but it's strange. An angel of the god of the sun seemed to be a little less ready to take the full brunt of a fireball. No! Makes sense. Damn, it's getting cheeky.

I'm going to keep my eyes on him, though, just in case he's after I learned my lesson with the last Counterspell situation. That's my turn. No worries, you're going to stay there looking out, peering through the side? I want to make sure I have eyes on him. You got it. Okay, cool.

Finishing your go, it is now the elemental's turn. Oh my. Oh my, be nice to us. I am elemental. I never missed my past caster status as much as I have in this encounter. This encounter has just... Where's Opal? Yeah.

The elemental is going to attempt to leap and clamber onto this pillar. Yeah! Try and climb up. Within 10 feet of me. I thought it was a big figure. No, it wouldn't matter. No, it doesn't.

Leaps and starts trying to climb up the side of the pillar. Manages to do so, but it takes his full movement to get up towards where it is, so he doesn't get an actual attack. Is that his Earthglide? Earthglide is unworked. Unworked stone. Yeah. You're right.

So it does climb to the top of the pillar and is now holding up to that upper area, but that's its turn. Finishing that go, it is now the angel's go. Fuck. Oh god. I'm scared. Bye-bye. Guys, this was fun. The angel, extremely frustrated with the circumstance,

is going to go ahead and float, fly, over to this side, up to the top, and bring it, sword up once more, ignite the blade, aim it downward, and. Counterspell. Yes! Yes! Okay, what's the range on that? 60 feet, right? Correct.

Let me see the, oh yeah, you're within the range. You are within the range. My nails! All right. This shit. Still early. Yeah, you said you were peering through. 60-foot range on that.

What do you say? Oh yeah, you're definitely within the range. Okay, yeah, with that, the fireball is dispelled. Oh! It scatters out of the air. That would've gone real bad. Denise would've been sad. Sad, sad, sad.

She went up on the side. That was awesome. That would've been rough. That was awesome. Finishing its go. Prism, you're up. Okay. I'm going to say to the barrel girl, you climb up that shimmy up that,

use your long jump or your big old jump and you shimmy up that pole and if you use all your movement, if you have to get them up there, but I think you can get up there and what I want you to do is I want you to use your attacks to grab them and grapple them and hold them so we can't fly away.

Yes. Because you are a demon, and in this fight, in this ancient age-old rivalry of demons versus angels, you're going to fucking win. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Win!

And then I'm going to also throw a Chromatic Orb because, uh. Okay. Plus a Chromatic Orb. Yeah, so I'm just going to try. For you guys who are going to try a second-level Chromatic Orb. That's a nat one. Oh!

Oh no! It was fantastic conversation. Fantastic conversation, I go, Eee! And then I'm going to also just move him closer, move Denios closer. I'm going to hide behind a pillar, and then it's the Baroldaro's turn, which is actually more important than my turn right now. All righty.

So I want him to, he's got, if he's got a running start, he can jump up to 20 feet. He's got 40 feet of climb speed. Whoa. Climb speed, he can go 40 feet up the side. I'll say probably running start up the side of the pillar and then leap this way. Go ahead and just make an athletics check for me.

Come on. You want this one? Athletics, athletics. Okay, you just got me a one, but. You want this one? I'm interested if you gave me a one. All right. Athletics. He has a nine. He's at a strength bonus.

It's a nine. It lands on us. It's a nine. It's a nine, all right, climbs up. Manages to get up to its space, but the leap is a challenging one for you both to hold on to. I need both of you to make strength saving throws to see if you can hold on to the bulgur.

For athletics, athletics would be the physicality on this one. Okay, so d20. Can I just try to surf and hold? No. Oh, good. Hold on. 22. 22? Wait! Go.

16. 16, okay. 15 was the DC on the fall on that one. So both you hold on, even though the force of it pushing off, the extremely volatile means of its movement becomes very challenging to hold onto, but you both keep your grip clean. As it bounce off the pillar,

leaps up towards the creature. Both of you can take your attacks on it, if you'd like. Yeah! Come on. He takes an extra four points of damage from my hex that I forgot to count. Yeah. Good to know. I'm going to the wing. One of the wings looks injured,

and I'm super conflicted about it, but I'm going to slash away at that wing. Here we go, first one. Slash away. Is it 22? 22 hits. Okay. I'm not sure how good this is. I'm just going to make it a basic.

So that is 11. Okay. And the second slash, miss, no, that's a, well, probably misses. 17. Okay, 17 does not hit, unfortunately. Great. I had no right to hit anything. Okay, I'm going to take my sickle

and hook onto that injured wing. Okay. Or I'm going to try to. That's going to be a 20 to hit. 20 to 20 hits. Right? 10 plus, yeah. 20 to hit, okay, and then I roll a d8. Technically, because you are in melee with an ally, you do get sneak attack on this.

Ooh, yeah. Okay, so d8 plus eight and this, yeah? Yeah. Okay. Perfect! Oh my gosh! Wait, that's a, wait. Guerrero. That's a 12 plus, oh, six, so that's an 18. It's 2d8 for your sneak attack.

2d8. Yeah. That's 18 plus? Come on. Seven. 25. 25. Are you rolling d6s or d8s? This is a d8, and I rolled a d6. I thought the d6 was for sneak attack. So I'm saying the sneak attack

is what you roll 2d6 on. Oh, I rolled two. Okay, so the first d8 was an eight, plus my, plus eight, so the first d8 was an eight, plus my, plus eight, so that's 16. And then I had a six for my d6. Correct, and you roll an additional d6 because it's two d6. Gotcha.

28, so this is a three, so that would be 28. So it's 16, I know, 16. See, plus six. Plus six. So that's 22. Plus three. Plus three is 25. 25, my bad. Got it. No worries. 25 and that strike, and you have one more attack.

I have one more attack. Here we go. 17. 17, unfortunately, does not hit. Damn! You both strike once and you both hit the side of its armor and it shrieks off as the arc comes to full height. What is the Velgur doing?

So he has an action. Could he cast Entangle? He has Entangle for some reason. Could he cast Entangle to entangle them onto? Does his chest tear? Does his chest tear grow out? Just so that they're all entangled to? Weeds and vines sprout from the ground, unfortunately.

This is one of those instances where that will not specifically have an effect, unfortunately. With a range of 90 feet? Once he's down, that'll help. Once he's down, yes. If that is the case, would it be possible to just grapple us to him?

Like use all of my actions to try and grapple the angel. Yes, you may. So that he can't fly away from us. Contested strength rolls. Yeah. We can see you and the creature. And he has disadvantage. What a smarty pants.

Indeed. So go ahead and roll a strength check. Can he do it recklessly? It's an attack technically, but it's a strength check. It's an attack roll. So just go ahead and roll a strength check. Come's supposed to be an attack roll. So just roll a strength check. Come on. Come on, girl. Come on, honey. Okay!

30, 20. 30, 20. Grapples on. Oh! And just like that, just like that. Later, I got to thinking. Grabs the side, and with the full weight of it,

the angel comes crashing to the ground with all of you on its back. Yeah. You both fall off the sides, falling prone from the impact of a fall. Oh wait, I don't think I can be prone. My mountain reach, mountain-ness. Yeah, you can't be prone.

Have mountain something. While you're raging, right? Yes. So you land. Spirit of the Mountain. Full on three-point landing, like on the ground. You still take the fall damage. That's fine.

Okay, so that is 12 points of bludgeoning damage to each of you, as well as to the angel and the bulgura. All in all, angel. Okay. All right, all right. This doesn't work. And the angel's still grappled, right? Correct. Okay. The angel's moving to zero unless it breaks the grapple.

When angels deserve to die. Now that grasping mind is going to be full. Booker is going to grab a little angel! The drop on the ground is going to make him! Hold him on the bottom of the table! Hey, did you hear him take a step? Oh. Oh.

Just brought down the fucking moon. Really? Everyone has a disadvantage now. Our generation has a disadvantage. Hey, tell us what we have to do. Oh man. That's what the Barlgurus sings. Okay.

I'll go back to my neck. All right, cool. Oh, and now we have to find out if he turns on us. Oh yeah. Oh god. That ain't working. That's the way you do it. Shout out to the two crew, he does not!

Yeah, all righty. That's his charisma save to fight me. Yeah. Love it. But he failed, so we good. So we like him. So fail is good. We want the guy to fail. All right, so finishing the bugler's turn, it's going to be the soldiers, which have all fled.

And that brings us to Bor-dor. You scared me, Cadence. What am I going to do? Shitty page. Okay. Is the angel prone? Angel is currently prone. Angel's prone, you have advantage on the angel.

On attack rolls, yeah. A dagger and a crossbow. No, actually, the crossbow would be disadvantage. That's correct. And Tom's spells is... And random crazy magic? And random magic. Okay, fuck it. I'm going to go... I'm going to go...

Dagger. I think I should go... No. Wait, are you supposed to move it, or can I move it? Who ordered the barbecue wings? Sorry. I don't know if I should help Denise. Guys, I don't give a shit.

I'm going right up to him. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to grab both sides of the angel's head because I've never felt one before. Oh boy. He was herding goats 48 hours ago. both sides of the angel's head, because I've never felt one before. He was herding goats 48 hours ago. Yeah, truly. Now he's here. How does that feel,

herding a goat? Touching an actual angel. And I'll do, oops, fifth-level Inflict Wounds. Yes! Ew! Yes, you will! Well, go ahead and roll with advantage because it is prone. Oh, what does this plus eight mean?

That's what you add to it. Roll that twice, take the higher of the two. Where am I? One more, one more. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 18 plus eight, 24 that hits. Go ahead and roll your damage on that. So fifth level, so it's 3d10 at first level.

That's 7d10 points of necrotic damage. I have enough ore to get that hardy-dirty-dirty. I got some d10. Beautiful savant goat herder. Is that what that is? Wow, an angel. Just roll all these? I think you need more than that. How many do you need?

One, two, three, four, five, six. One more. One more. 70 10s. That's what you need. Here we go. Oh boy. That's a fifth of the way across that pile. So if you had to roll one out of 100. Okay, that's a 10. 10. That's a 10, right?

That's a one. That's a one. Yeah, I told you. What's this, one? Four, 12. 400. Okay. Thank you for helping. 12. 19, 28, plus eight, 36. 36.

36 points of necrotic damage. How do you want to go? Oh my god! What? Oh god. Hurt him to hell, Border! Two in one battle. My boy!

The angel on the ground, you can see, it's glowing light, it's almost blinding in the proximity. Its wings are flailing about, the demon's clutching on, holding to the ground as you step up to it, and it looks up at you. Its eyes, these bright white stars. It has this look of pity as it looks upon you. I hold its head and I kiss its forehead

and I say, Enough. As the energy leaves your hands, you watch as the light begins to diminish, blackness beginning to seep into the sides of its head. Its bright white eyes go jet black as it screams silently, staring at Bordor until eventually its skin goes to a pale gray

and begins to crack and crumble into ash and dust, leaving the armor on the ground before it begins to immediately rust, the rest of its body just burning away into ash, the wings dissipating into space. I did not expect that to happen. We are king! Wow. Yeah, but that was... What do we think about the... as dissipating into space. I did not expect that to happen. The upkeep! Wow.

Yeah, but that was... What do we say about the, well, the demon? Technically, I still control them. I say, that was way cooler than throwing up. It was. Oh. Yeah, that went this way. Well done. Thank you.

Okay. We'll say for the purposes of narrative here, as opposed to going to a slogfest of you all, this demon, and the elemental all going together. Can I see what Border just did and try and do it with the demon? With his head. Enough. The demon punches you in the face.

Shit, I lost my concentration! Oh my god. In this instance, we'll say in the next few minutes or so, the rest of the civilians gather around, gathering, shackling, and bringing outside of the temple the remaining surviving members of the body of worshipers, of the Dawnfather that came to defend.

A brief moment hits as one of them warns that another Judicator is arriving, the second one that was watching the city. But as it begins to reach the outskirts of the temple, it turns around and leaves. As your hold, tenuous as it is on this demon, begins to slip in time, you watch as the elder Abedinna

gestures to the elemental that now seems even further empowered and emboldened by the Dolans that have now begun to fill the space, the mist now surrounding densely the exterior of the temple. The elemental reaches forth, grabs the demon, and you watch as its stone form surrounds it and begins to crush it down into a sphere until the two of them crumble into a pile of shale, ending your tether to it and the elemental's existence.

It's going to be super awkward next time I summon it. Not hogged to death. What is Abedinna doing? She's currently concentrating, looking upward, and as you look at her hands out there, you can see the nearby windows and glass. The glass is starting to crack. You see heavy vines are wrapping in through the windows

and grabbing hold. You watch as the temple itself is starting to. Before I totally, can I just run through and see if there are any religious texts or accounting books or a pile of letters or a spell book? I don't know, whatever. It would do you well to hurry. The spirits demand justice.

What are we looking for? Just anything, if you see a piece of paper. Nothing left of the angel right now. Just ash and a rusted suit of armor. What about the Judicator? Is the Judicator's body still here? Judicator's body's still here. Orym's going to walk over and bend over

and pull the mask away. Whoa. You pull the mask away, and as you go forwards, it doesn't move. Do you want to try and force the mask off? Yes. A little strength check for me. I'm so small.

Can I send Mother to give him the help action? Yeah, Denise, you want to help me? I can help. Raven starts pecking at the sides of the mask. How can I help? I'm actually going to help you. Okay. Because your strength is sick, and mine is nonexistent. Okay.

We're going to pull together, so you roll a dash. Okay. Oh. One. Or? Or? Or three. It's fucking jizz Can I try it? I can't help it.

This is a trash dice. You get the sense that this mask has actually fused the face of the Judicator. It is not worn, but it is a permanent part of their head. You could pull it free, but who knows what remains beneath? Does it have a feeling of an undead sort of construct? You can make a religion check if you'd like.

Can I give her an advantage on that? Sure, go ahead. As someone who is of that ilk? Certainly. Ooh. What a crazy roll. That was. It's on a little ledge. That is a 22.

22. There is a 22. 22. There is no necrosis, there is no sign of dark magic or necromancy in its creation. Though it is in some ways abhorrent to those who aren't aware of the purpose they serve and the long tangled history of their existence, everything about them says that there was life,

vibrance, or at the very least, divine power infused, instilled, and maintained within this Vessel of Judgment. What is this person wearing? Is armor to them, or is it all just robes? There is no armor on the Judicaen. There is just a number of runic tattoos that have what look to be psalms

and various religious rites written across its skin of its exposed arms. With my magical quill, I want to copy as many of these runes as possible. Okay. Just so we can look at them later and try and decipher. Certainly. While Abedinna is doing her thing,

While Abedinna is doing her thing, I'm just going to walk in front of her, like three to five feet from her face. Can I just? I just stare at her as my form of dread starts to fade. I can still see you. I'll just yell over, Don't forget our scry! Do not worry, we made a deal.

You can see her smiling as the mists pour in stronger and she herself, you can see she's being empowered and emboldened by them. She's connecting to the land and the powers that exist here. And in doing so, there is a jubilance to her, both in the victory and the eventual crumbling of this symbol of their oppression.

Knowing that I'm in her periphery, I'm just staring at her right in front of her. She's like, lifting up her cage, she's like, Can I put the angel's armor on? Or is it too big? It's quite large. Could you go ahead and grab it. It's for a torso about this big around.

It's not going to fit. This one for us. Can I make a floating disk to carry the armor if you wanted? Oh no, I just thought if we were the same size, I have no armor, I could use it. But no. Okay.

Thank you, though. Orym looks out the doors of the church. What's going on with the people? A number of the civilians have come in and looked at the space and then backed out when they saw the imminent state of the temples crumbling about to happen. They pull the remainder of the soldiers

and you hear some yelps outside as they grab some of the other fleeing soldiers. There were others that didn't actually join the battle that were fleeing at the first sign of conflict that were other members of, you come to find out through conversation with the civilians nearby, were members of the village who had essentially converted.

And any sign of conflict began to just flee. It takes a good solid hour or so since this moment has struck for them to bring all the accounted members of the temple that they can find. They're all gathered, tied up, and brought out to the outskirts of the village to the north side

at the edge of the forest before the trees and possibly the road beyond might await. As they're doing this, is there anything you're searching for more in the temple? I mean, if there's just a desk or anything with what they've been up to. There are chambers as well. Make an investigation check for me.

I'll help. I was also going to do a little walk around. Valuable, interesting, whatever. Investigation becomes 21. 21, okay. There are tithe coffers here within the temple. There is quite a bit of money that has been taken and maintained.

The three chests that you pull from the inner chambers in the time before it starts getting too dangerous to stay probably contain thousands of coins. You're uncertain as to what denomination they might be, what metal. There are all manner of religious texts. There are books, there are scrolls. You have to take time to really study.

If I'm with you, I could open a hole. I got the hole. Yeah, open a hole. Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. I'm going to search the, what was her name, Caius? Kira. Kira, thank you. Her body.

Okay. For anything. For her gear, but also information, any kind of letters, instructions. The flame guard? Flame guard? Flame guide. Okay, make an investigation check. Laudna takes a step closer to Abedina. She just keeps creeping closer and closer to her face

as time goes on. I think I'm going to help you do that. I think Denise is also going to limp over her. Okay, as you do, Cersei. It would do you well to step outside shortly. Is the angel's sword gone? There is a longsword present. It's about the size of a long, two-handed

cavalry-based sword for a normal person. It is rusted over like the armor. Can we throw it in the hole? Yeah, anything y'all want. I can carry that out. Okay. I'll just take one hymnal, too. One what?

Hymnal. Hymnal. Grab what you like. But did we get the cash, too? The coins? Yeah, we got it. She has a blade, though? Does she have a sword? She has a metal quarterstaff, essentially,

as well as a blade that was fixed to the side, but the quarterstaff, essentially, as well as a blade that was fixed to the side. But the quarterstaff, she just used as a walking symbol of her station. What about that chest? I'm going to grab the blade. Okay. And carry it out. All right. What are you saying? Is her chest plate thing still there?

The symbol of the Dawnfather is still present, yeah. That's not a magical thing, is it? Do you want to walk around wearing the Dawnfather is still present, yeah. That's not a magical thing, is it? Do you want to walk around wearing a dawn? I want to get that big fire guy again. Wait, what? The tall guy who was shooting everyone when they go in the building. The Judicate?

No, no, no, the big one from an hour and a half ago. What was that? That's a thing. That was Kiro. That's the one that he used. Oh, no, no, the big one from an hour and a half ago. What was that? That's a thing. That was Kiro. That's the one that he used. Oh, okay, got it. Will not be helpful to us, we just, yeah. I think Prism feels like we threw everything into the hole, and I'm just going to walk out.

I think I'm ready to be out of here. Let's go. Gordor, let's go. We're okay. Are you leaving? Yeah. If you're staying, I'm ready to be out of here. Let's go. Mordor, let's go. Okay. Are you leaving? Yeah. If you're staying, I'm staying. I'll stay with Denise and just eyes fixed on Abedina. Okay.

Eventually, the cracks in the foundations of the building begin to grow precarious. Stones begin to fall from the ceiling as the final bits of dome-inlaid colored glass shatter and fall, scattering to the center of the chamber. With that, you watch as the elder turns, the mist still in her eyes.

The choice is yours, and she exits the temple. As she does, she lifts her hands. Yeah, I follow. Yeah, we follow. You follow. As she brings her hands in the air and puts them together, you watch as all the roots and the trees that have leaned on it all begin to push through and crash

the final bits of the stonework. The temple falling into a pile of rubble, broken marble, stone, glass, and the memories of the Dawnfather's influence on this hill. falling into a pile of rubble, broken marble, stone, glass, and the memories of the Dawnfather's influence on this hill. As the dust settles and the cracking echoes

through this valley of the final bits of crumbling structure come to rest, the silence is broken by the sound of cheers. The civilians whooping and hollering and raising their fists in the air and hugging each other. Right as you see dozens and dozens more of those who weren't part of the fight begin to rush up, keeping a distance safely, but watching, hoping, or at least praying

that the ones that they knew went into this are still alive. And you watch the reunions. You watch the families come together, the children who've been woken up in the middle of their sleep to ensure that their father, their mother, their brothers made it back from this dangerous endeavor, but one they felt was necessary.

One that the elder told them there was only but a moment to seize. As they gather and smile, they all turn back and look to you, as you all step out from the remnants of this temple, the elder at your side. Prism's swept up in this. Can I reach into the hole

and just start tossing money out to the ground? I would stop you at that. That's how you? No, no, no. You see me get swept up. You're going for the hole. I'm like, I know, I know. You might get a finger in there.

Let's see. I get so swept up, and I got totally swept up. It's a good idea. Let's just not start anything. Someone, yeah. Make it quiet. It'll be okay. And at this point, what is Abedina doing? Abedina, right now, is just

closing out her meditation that she held while within the temple. I think. Wordlessly, Orym is taking in the aftermath and seeing all of the relief and the joy on all these people's faces in this town and just trying to process the complexity of the moment where this place obviously feels like

they're in a better place. Yeah. And to do so, we had to stand in defiance of one of the seemingly better gods of this world in an effort to learn more and get back to stopping a person who wants to destroy all the gods.

And for the first time, Orym feels like his prime directive is muddied and confused, and it just doesn't matter. I'd say Laudna clocks this, and just give you a look. And you're just pissed off. Oh. The cheers come to a brief rest

as the multitude of soldiers of the temple are pushed onto the ground, rope and chains binding them as the elder steps before them. A number of the most armed and experienced people within the Hearthdale township flanking her. You have either come here as strangers uninvited, or you have chosen to abandon where you were raised to join that which seeks to take from us our heritage.

The choice is yours to flee or pay your debts." At which point, the civilians untie their hands, pull back the chains, but have their weapons at their ready. You watch as they all stand up one by one. Some of them pretty young, not in the middle of the fray,

but you see one of them's a young man, no more than probably 19, 20 years old, looks scared shitless, literally, because he filled his armor. I'm sorry that was you. Sorry. You see some older, hardened members of this temple. People that look with disdain and judgment,

that already belies that they probably didn't grow up here. And it's that older one, that older man with his graying hair and his square, clenched jaw that takes the first step north and into the forest. And then another, and then another. And one by one, these remaining captives, now left to choose their path,

all begin to follow and exit the township. Except for the youngest, that one scared child who falls prostrate to the feet in front of the elder. He says, I am so sorry. I just wanted to feel I am, I am, I just wanted to feel like I belonged to something, you know? And the elder just shushes him and says, there will be talking chances to make this up, but you do understand now why this was wrong.

And he nods and keeps his eyes down, unable to make eye contact. You see other people nearby looking at him, some with concern, some with sadness, some with a glimmer of hope. It's a complicated weave of reactions. You can sense the history here, the tangled choices that have led to this moment.

But with that there, you almost feel the final weight lifted, the final tether of Vasselheim and the built temple here's influence on this hillside, now free. Laudan just leans in to Abedinna after her words to the youngest and just whispers, Be careful not to become what you despise.

Mm. She leans her head towards you, looking back with a genuine look of honesty and expression. looking back with a genuine look of honesty and expression. Sometimes you must do things you wish weren't yours to do for the betterment of your people.

I'm not proud of everything I've done, but don't think your words are lost on me. There's a thin line between being a savior and an oppressor. Well, thank you for being our savior. She steps with a smile, puts her hands out, and you watch as the mists that have surrounded whirl into an image of a small, mist-filled dust devil that seems to take the image of a small mist-filled dust devil

that seems to take the form of a bear that drifts off into the horizon. He watches another bit of the mist swirls and gives the image of horns for a second before it vanishes amongst the trees. She steps back amongst you and the others who stood up to this temple.

We hear of the loam and the leaf, thank you. For whatever we can do for what you've aided us with, you have it. I got something. Anyone got Cure Wounds? She immediately steps forward and goes, Of course, of course. I'm just going to go ahead and do a third-level Cure Wounds

to you for, that's going to be 18 hit points. And to you for, that's going to be a 20 hit points. Thank god, thank you. Where's the elder? This is the elder. Oh, this is the elder. Speaking out to everybody. Number two, our scry. Indeed.

I'm a bit spent for the evening. No way. But with a night's rest, we can talk tomorrow morning. All right, we're sleeping on your couch tonight. We're sleeping in your house. In your house. Very well.

I will make what arrangements I can. Thank you. If you have a second, I'd love to bend your ear in private for a second. If that's, oh god, it hurts. If that's okay. Ashton, you are touched by strange magics. Perhaps maybe I have a word to ask of you as well.

I'd be all right with that in the morning, but just a moment, if that's okay. Then come. But for now, here in this night, we raise our lanterns to the Stone Circle. Tonight, we celebrate the first in a long, long time that we are free to give our thanks to the Eidolons and to each other.

Orym is going to step out. And the whole crowd is still here, right? The crowd is all here, but at this point, they all cheer and they all begin to shift and move towards the city center. He's going to s- As they raise their lanterns, I'm just going to press to Digitation

and make them glow brighter. Just being a little bit. Sure enough. With the bright lights and the glowing event, the celebratory decorations that were still mostly up from the previous night to mark the apogee solstice, still here beneath the tangled rainbow colors of the Nexus above,

the village comes to vibrant life. And where you had felt it a strange, kind of Midsommar-type festival at seeing it, now it has a life and a joy that dispels those concerns. The children laugh. Meals are rapidly cooked. Music begins to fill here in the middle of the evening.

While families likely would be bed at this time, children set to sleep far hours before, now the people look up to the dark, star-filled sky beneath this wondrous weave of mysterious arcana, and they sing. Is Prolief there? Prolief is amongst them, yes. So I go up to Prolief and I'm like,

Are we even? I would say so, yes. We are very even. Great. I think Bor-Dar can't stop seeing the face of the angel as he died, the look of sadness on his face. I think he can't really. That has messed him up.

He doesn't know if he did the right thing. He's like, something's happening. Faith is shaking a little bit. You say this out loud or to Purrluff? Or internally? It's an internal monologue. No internal monologue, it just happened. I'm saying it out loud.

I'm like, yeah, I killed that angel, and it's not really me. I feel that. Pretend I said it all out loud. Not pretend, a retcon. I say it all out loud. Is it all A retcon. I say it all out loud. You say it all out loud? Full-on Ferris Bueller self-narration?

Yeah. Yep. It happened. You killed an angel. I feel weird about it. Years of therapy. Yeah. Do you want to do this?

Yeah. I'm just going to give my thought, which is that I'm really trying to view all this with a skeptical, academic mind, but it just kind of feels like a net good, whatever just happened. Right? Yeah.

Am I crazy for feeling that way? No. I feel like it's a party, but everyone's really sad, right? So I'm second guessing my subjective experience. I am. And again, I don't know, because reality has been shifting really, really hard lately, so I even hesitate to have an opinion

about anything anymore. I like having a sense of what's around me and what I can see, and ignoring everything out of view right now, this was a net good. Yeah. Right here. Yeah, I think, I kind of think so.

I wonder. But it feels good. I thought I was just getting caught up in some sort of righteous whirlwind that I was going to regret, but this looks good. But did you want to talk to Abedina? Yeah, I figured you want to give some money away. You had the vibe.

Yeah. Unless you guys could use it, I can't buy my way out of my apprenticeship, so I'm not like, I don't know. I guess I just thought we could give them. Money comes and goes, and it's entirely possible it's theirs. Yeah. So?

So yeah, that's a good idea. Abedina? Yes, child? Hi. Can Ashton and I talk to you behind a tree? Sure, let's go to this one. Yeah. She leads you over there. Yeah, once again, like.

Our group's going to get sexy now. It's our turn. All foot and a half or more higher than both of you. Walks behind one of the nearby trees and turns around. Turns five feet taller on the front of our ears. We found some stuff in there that might be yours. Were they taking tithes or? They were.

Well, I'm going to throw it out and let you. I have a minus two to strength. Okay, here, I'm going to have to throw it out and let you. I have a minus two to strength. Okay, here, I'll help you. That's okay, that's okay. We found this in there. It's your tithes. I'm certain that some of this belongs to the Valley Coalition of Villagers,

but a majority of this was taken by our townsfolk, taken from our townsfolk. They're rich enough in their temples. These were not, these were not given by those who ascribe to this faith enough to live in the fates of squalor that it brought them to. She reaches down and grabs one edge,

begins dragging it out from behind the tree, leaving this groove and the dirt like rocks behind it. Pulls it out to the center of the stone circle in the middle of the town. As people look over what she's doing, she drags it into the center. Looks to Prolief. Distribute as you see fit.

You know the hard work and the loss of those more than most. She opens the chest and there's the coins and other piles of copper and silver and the occasional gold coin are seen throughout. People begin to suddenly react in hushed excitement or a sense of wonder suddenly react in hushed excitement or a sense of wonder and calm and relief begins to spill

as Pro-Left begins to reach out and count and gather and distribute it amongst people of the town. They begin to line up. Some people are still celebrating and laughing, but other people begin to gather around and a redistribution of the wealth, once taken by the temple begins to unfold. I like that. With that granting, you can see the elder

is leaning and huffing a little bit before turning around. I believe I am a bit spent from my connection with the spirits for the evening. I will likely retire if you are wishing to come and indeed stay within my homestead for the night. You are welcome. We'll tuck you in.

She smiles and begins to walk. And she's always walked with a strength and a presence. When she addresses the people of the village, she very much maintains that. But you can watch as she steps out of the visual range of the majority of the town, she lets herself curl a bit. She lets herself show the age, show the weight, show the exhaustion.

I think we all do. I grok that. Yeah. While that exchange was happening, can I rewind three minutes just to find you? Yeah. Sure. Okay, so finding you in this crowd off to the side and looking up. No, I'm not looking at the sky, I'm looking up at you.

Because you're tall. Did you just say that? I was looking up. Now I'm looking at you. Everybody here seems really happy. They're ignorant. I want them to have it. Ignorance is bliss. Let to have it. Ignorance is bliss.

Let them have it. Just enjoying the view as the ship sinks. Certainly feels that way. They don't have to bear the burden that we hold and the knowledge that we are weighed down with. But it doesn't mean I can't be any less frustrated and jealous

Yeah. of their bliss. Gotta get back, Laudna. Gotta get back. I'm so angry and I can't even fully articulate why. Feels like we just, we just put ourselves in great danger when there's so much more at stake.

And we are in this pissant town dealing with their pissant squabbles. I don't know why I'm so angry about it. You've had more than your fair share of shit. I don't even think... I'm having trouble believing there's anything we can do. I just keep stepping forward, because it's what I've always done.

But I don't know that there's anything we can do. Ashton said something quite profound to me the other night when we were taking our watch around the campfire. Profound, especially for them. Right now, if we try to change the world, it's just going to seem like an impossible task. It's just too much.

But we can try and change that which we do have control over, our immediate surroundings. Save our friends. I don't know how much time we have left on this planet. It feels like it could all go soon in a week. But I just want to make do with the time that I have with the people that I care about,

and I want to find them. I want to find them again. Then let's find them. It's the only directive we have at the moment. He reaches, Oko. The only thing we can control. Reaches up and grabs your dead, withered hand. I reach down.

It's cold and clammy. I don't understand why you bounced down through history to be here with me right now, but I sure as hell am glad you are here. We've seen a lot of shit, Orym. That's why we're still here. A little more coming. We've shown we can take it.

Let's just get the fuck out of this town. As you all gather up behind the elder, she walks you back to the outskirts of the farmlands, to the exterior of her quaint, creepy, overgrown, mossy cottage of a homestead, leading you within the warm firelit interior, and immediately begins to gather what blankets and cushions she can to essentially throw together

a makeshift slumber party near the hearth, best she can. Bastard. Get out of our bedrolls. Yep. Anyone care for some tea? I would love some. I actually was thinking I might like to do some reading.

She's like, if there's something to spike it with, was thinking I might like to do some reading. She's like, if there's something to spike it with, I think I have something to spike it with. I'm going to go into the hallway. Do you still have some jerky? Make a perception check. You have jerky, right? Yeah, I have a jerky.

Yeah, I've got jerky. Oh god. Thank you. Yeah. It's very gross, jerky. Oh, this is my first one. A gentle, flowery, somewhat citrusy tea is prepared and heated by the elder. She passes it around to everybody

and sits across from you in this small, fur and leather-tanned stool. She sits back, aching a bit. She rests it and looks to you all with that initial intensity upon your meeting and upon the march to the temple now fallen away, whether it be just from exhaustion or the lack of a need. But she smiles.

Call me Joan. Joan. Joan? Joan. Joan. Joan? Joan. Joan. You all look at me like you are uncertain if you can trust me or if you wish to kill me, and I understand that. But whatever you may decide,

I still thank you for at least trusting us. No more killing, please. Just want to go home. Well, let us indeed try to help you on that path come the morrow. Do you have concerns, questions, things about me, this, something that'll help you sleep a little easier tonight?

What will you do if they come back? Well, I do not think we are the only ones rising up here. We have a coalition. It has kept many of our various townships safe and prosperous away from the influence of Vassenheim and Orthansia. Word travels fast,

especially on the lips of the wind and the animals who carry them for us. May I ask a question? Mm-hmm. May I ask a question? Be brave, Prism. Okay. I think I'm just taking everything in. I was wondering if you've ever speculated on the nature of Prodathos, because I guess when I sort of, the way you were talking in the meeting, I felt almost as if there was a antagonism between the elemental powers and the divine powers.

And I was wondering if perhaps, what if Prodathos was sort of an elemental weapon against the divine when they arrived here? Do you feel an antagonism because of that? I'm just trying to understand and not jump to conclusions. Of course. I know nothing of this Prodathos beyond what you've said in the insinuations of this voice that came to us this previous night.

But the confidence in which it spoke and the inspiration it brought to our people could not be left to wither much longer. The opportunity would fade. Now, we do not worship the spirits and powers that surround us as pious cattle, but as our neighbors in our community. The Eidolons are those who live in these lands,

just as such as we. It is a symbiotic way of life. And it has been for those who were here before the gods founded and co-opted this world. That's kind of what I was wondering. The, to answer your question, the lands of Exandria all hold to them innumerable guardian eidolons

that are tied to the natural elements of this world. Children of the titans that first shaped it. But the titans long gone. They persist however they can. Often within the laws and rules of the gods that now reign. So they are echoes, shades, the remnants and the memory of the Titans, of the great elemental kings and queens of this world,

the ones that originally crafted and sculpted it. Would Predathos be a threat to them, too? Because I guess I feel like everyone talks about Predathos like it's going to be this big vacuum, a black hole that sucks everything into it, but what if it's more vengeful? What if it's more intelligent? What if it's not going to just be world destruction

and just bad for some? I'm not weighing in in any direction. I'm just trying to consider different options while I consider my teeny tiny place in this situation. I think that, and I'm turning away from the elder because there's no reason for anyone to know about or believe in this, what seems like a cockamamie conspiracy theory to most.

I don't think we know anything. Okay. But I think that's why I'm here, because I'm really good at learning stuff. So I'm trying to help that way. The only thing that I have to go on is the track record of the people trying to bring Predathos out.

Yeah. And that track record is not very good. It's really damning. But do you second-guess it, though, when you hear the way she talks about the echoes of the elemental kings that were squashed by these divine founders who didn't even create this world.

Prism, I don't understand the gods. I don't know anything about the Titans. I don't know an Eidolon from Eyeliner. From Eyeliner, I can show you. You look fantastic. I believe you. You look fantastic. I believe it. You look fantastic. I believe it.

Okay, yeah. A little bit later. But I'm a widower. Because of the people who want to bring this about. I'm so sorry. So it's hard for me to wrangle with the other side. I understand now. Yeah.

That makes an interesting point, though. Perhaps we need to be asking more questions as opposed to resigning. Of who? Well, I took all these religious texts from the temple, and any texts I find, I can go through them. I can comb them with a fine-tooth comb

and just find if there's any information. I really think the information is out there. I don't want to stop. I absolutely want to know anything that is written in whatever you just took from the temple. I would love to know what their church is doing in response to what's happening right now. Yeah.

I don't think I can sleep tonight, so I'll help you comb through them. I don't think I can sleep tonight, so I'll help you come through then. I don't know. This was fun. Okay. Listen, I don't mean to break the party up, but I don't believe in the gods with respect. I don't believe in anything but what I can do.

And I know that what I can do right now is go to sleep, because tomorrow, Joanie Abby over here is going to scry for us. And that's what I know today, and that's what I know tomorrow. Indeed. Yeah, I can barely keep my eyes open. I'm exhausted. Are you all right, Hodor? Yeah, are you okay,

Hodor? You look, quite frankly, horrible. Yeah, I got pretty, I got fucked up. You're saying a lot coming from Hodor. I got pretty fucked up. You're saying a lot coming from the world. It is 100%. Absolutely. You fully saved all of our lives in there. I don't think so.

I don't understand what's going on because we killed a god. Well, we might have known of an angel. Well, I don't know. Her angel? It's not an angel. A messenger of God. All I know is, it didn't seem evil. He didn't seem evil. What if there's no good in evil? What if it's just a spectrum of behavior?

The elder grins and chuckles under her breath. Now that is wisdom. I lived a long time. We, the mortal creations of the gods, began as, and in many ways are still invasive to this world. The Titans made space for us, and the gods left no space for the Titans. All that remain are the small spirits.

And we merely wish to bring this world to a new and natural state once more, that people can live with the spirits of their home bring this world to a new, natural state once more, where people can live with the spirits of their home and decide for themselves how to live and pray. Cohabitate, not endure servitude. What? It's not going to make a big deal about it, but Orym is just going to leave. He's just going to sneak out

and go think about his dead husband and his dead father. He can't. He's gone. I'm going to lie down and close my eyes. She leans in a bit. Morality is innate. We are born feeling what is right to not harm,

to work to be happy, to help our fellows. It is when morality is written to work to be happy, to help our fellows. It is when morality is written and pressed and imposed that those instincts become twisted and used to control. Hey, he's preaching to the choir over here. You want to go to bed?

I said I would tuck you in. Maybe that's not a bad idea. She finishes her tea and gets up a bit. Thank you for the tea. Yeah. Indeed. And he sleeps in the foot of her bed, just waiting for the morning.

Falls asleep, but is like, every 30 minutes, checking to see if it's morning. She stops and turns and watches as you exit. I know nothing of this god-eater or ruidus, but our Eidolons do not quake at its mention. I do not sense they feel a threat. Perhaps this is the change of fate.

And strange that the goddess of fate marks no claim or warning. She doesn't? The Matron of Ravens you referred to? If she knew this was to come and pass. She's kept it to herself. Yeah, yes. She always says one thing and does another. It's why I have a complicated relationship with her.

Please come duck me in. And I'm like, just zip off. Just burrito rolling her. Making sure she doesn't disappear in the middle of the night. Hey, thank you. Totally swaddled. Yeah, just a little.

I'm so strong. It's quite impressive. Goes straight into a deep snore. Thank god. Ashton. Hey. You look good. Really?

Yeah. Maybe better than Bodor. That poor kid. What do you want to talk to her about? Offhand comment. You think she knows something about your origins? Could be. Does this have to do with that mask you've been carrying? That?

I don't know. I don't think so. That is going to be a thing I'm going to be asking of all you once things quiet down. I... Well, I thought I knew what angry was, but I think I've just been in it decades of self-pity. I am so angry right now. I am so angry right now. Simone was just having a similar conversation with Orym,

saying the same thing. That was literally my worst nightmare. What? Pick a thing from the evening, the shit in armor, the demon from floods. It's not my first shit in armor, let's be honest. My very first

divine intervention. The gods divine intervention. The gods saw me. A god saw me. I was not invisible. And it was not hungry, it wasn't fearful, it wasn't... It wasn't a god, was it an angel? It was a messenger. It was sent. And it told me what I really didn't want to hear.

She does not fucking care. That I might as well be fucking gone. That I'm a mistake. You mean the whole consecration, leave or you will be judged situation? I have been judged by better shit than that. Fuck him. Fuck him and my whole fucking life.

I may have given away all the money. Our prison helped. It's her idea. I'm not apologizing. It wasn't our money. It's fine. It's not even a currency that we can use. If we're trying to get back to Marquet,

I don't know if they take a cilir and whatever their, it's weird, the exchange. Exactly. Wooden coins. Who cares? Let them play with their Monopoly money. It's such a snob, I love it. It's all arcade tokens, it's just a.

Yeah, arcade tokens. Russell Carter. Oh my god, if it was Ashley, I would've hung on to it. Yeah, seriously. Pelor Park. Wow. Thank you. would've hung on to. Yeah, seriously. Hellor Park. Wow, thank you. How long is a short rest?

Class action lawsuit. Short rest is about an hour. Are we getting a long rest? So can I wake up after short rest and go looking for Orym? Yeah. Have you been out there for about an hour? Orym found a tree, climbed it.

Like a high tree. He does not want to be found, so you'd have to get real lucky with a tree, climbed it. Aw. Like a high tree. He does not want to be found, so you'd have to get real lucky with a roll to find him. Okay, so while the rest of you go off to rest, go ahead and make a perception check for me. I might be just going right back to bed. Let's see. Wakes up and going, nah.

I think about going to look for Orym. Or sleep in your bed. Fall back asleep. What would you roll? I rolled a four. Okay. I'll say with a four, how do you go look for Orym? I rolled a six. Okay, a six. How do you go look for Orym?

I look out the window, and I don't see him. You just glance out the window. I'm not going to find him, right? I don't know, you don't know. Okay, I go out into the cold night air. Orym, hey, Orym, are you out here? I see a... You're up in your tree, being his perception.

You do see a boar-dwarf wandering and whispering into the wind alone amongst the exterior field. Oh, that's sad. Don't leave a man wandering in these balls in the cold air. I got pants on. See Winnie the Poo-ing in? Yeah.

Ah. At some point, I took my pants off during the battle. Is Bordor a human? Half elven? Half elf. Half elf, okay. I thought they were the boss. Okay, that's probably a reminder. The other half is...

You just did it. Yeah. It's awesome. It's not written on any of my cards. What? That is so cute. You okay? I've had better days.

You want to talk about it? How good are you at climbing trees? I'm great at climbing trees, I think. Well, I found a really good spot, and I'm not leaving. Okay, I'll come up to you. Roll an athletics check for me. That's it. I'll stay right down here.

Play telephone. 19. Oh! Okay! Impressively climbs the tree with rapidity. Country boy. Zares, you're both now up in the boughs of the Evening Tree. Do you believe in God? I mean, it's beyond question.

Gods have shaped the history of this world. They have dropped miracles from their seats on high and caused irreparable damage. An unmistakable good. I don't know that I care. I care about you and me, and I care about my family across an ocean. My life is very small. I wake up, I work, I go to sleep.

My beliefs have been black and white. These people told us to go into a church and fight something that I can't fathom. And in the moment where I felt victory, I didn't see divinity or radiance or whatever the fuck you call it.

I just felt sadness and compassion. Did you see the way it looked? Why did we have to do that? Why is that what happened? Then I'm wondering also, that woman, Abedema, has no fucking clue what you guys are talking about. No.

She's talking about elementals beating gods. And what's his face? What's his name? What's the what's-his-face we're talking about? There's the goblin that comes out of the moon. That's Predathos. Predathos. A little bigger than a goblin that comes out of the moon. That's Prodathos. Prodathos. A little bigger than a goblin. And then there's the one that controls the giant,

the bigger, the monster. Then there's a really old guy who is trying to. Ludinus. Yes. Part of the government in Wildemount who wants to open up whatever's in there. Do we see Ruidus? Up from the tree from where you are right now, you could still see Ruidus in the far southern horizon,

still locked in place above Marquette. So I know, I think, barely any more than you do, but I know that there are people out there who are so intent on busting something, supposedly, out of our moon, that it's worth killing a lot of people to get there. Do I believe in the gods? Yes. Do they have a ton of bearing in my life?

Have they? Yes. Do they have a ton of bearing in my life? Have they? No. So you get to Ludinus, and then what? We just killed an angel. You saved a woman who has no idea about the fight that she's fighting. The village has no clue. They're fucked either way.

What are we doing here? Yeah. My life is very small. What are we doing here? I think Ashton and Laudna and I have friends that we were with and got pulled away from. I think we got a one in a 2,000 chance, maybe, of stopping

more people I care about getting killed. Okay, let's do that then. The beer thing was pretty cool, right? It was pretty cool. So it was, I'm not going to lie, the circumstances sucked, but it was funny to see a bunch of guys shit themselves. It was really almost exactly what I was hoping for to happen. That's what happened.

So I was really, thanks for acknowledging it. Exandria is very old, but when I read a good amount, poop jokes have been good for eons. You were so close to talking to that lady, too. You were this close, but you're very charming. You've got, you, uh, I really thought we were going to avoid the whole thing. Yeah, I'm unassuming.

I've used it to my advantage most of my life. Okay, well, thanks for the talk. I shake his hand, extend my hand out, and I go, I go where you go. Little tiny hand grabs two of your fingers. Oh, cutie. But did you all wash your hands since the fire? You better fucking not.

Oh! Pink eye damage! Pink eye! Pink eye! Disadvantage on all perception checks. They all wake up like, why am I always losing? 31 goes. My eyes are literal stone. How is this possible?

I jump down from the tree, which was six feet off the ground the whole time. No, it wasn't. I was 30 feet up. Okay. And Orym stays. 30 feet to you. Okay. We go back to bed. Okay. 30 feet to you. Okay. We go back to bed. Okay. Woo!

This is tough, guys. This is a tough one. It's very tough. It's a richer state. All right. Unless anyone else has any business for the evening, a long rest is at your disposal. Yes. Go ahead and mark yourselves. Oh, hell yeah.

I think maybe I stay up with Prism for a little bit, reading through some books. Yes. Go ahead and rock yourselves. Oh, hell yeah. I think maybe I'd stay up with Prism for a little bit, reading through some books. Yeah. I left the hole open. Okay. But eventually get a long rest. Okay. I'm going to say that Orym took a short rest,

that he never, couldn't sleep. Girl, take a long rest. No. Okay. Mm-hmm. We do take a point of exhaustion without getting a full night nice rest, so. Wait, as I go long rest, where are my hit points? Oh, you have to tell them.

You have to double tap. Long rest. You have to confirm it. Take long rest. I did! Confirm. Confir- Oh, there it is. There it is, you got it. All right, glancing through, I mean, there's a lot of text here.

A lot of it is religious pamphlets. It is things to be left under people's doors to try and really try and get them to come to some of the worship. But no, a lot of it is sermons. They are different means of worship. A lot of them are also tithing ledgers. There are conversations between the...

Where was it? It's the Silvercall Mill. Oh, right. Those guys. And both you see plans of buying out portions of the neighborhood buying out portions of the neighborhood to expand into. There was discussion and waiting approval from other individuals in the network

of the Dawnfather's Temple to begin constructing other temples. Not just within the town here, but buying up parts of nearby landscape and putting a Wildmother worship this far west. And there's a lot of discussion about the challenges in finding land that isn't already staked by the Valley Coalition.

It all seems to be code, in a way. They're not being overt about it. It's not like, you know, ha ha, we're going to battle the land. But you gather through an evening of looking at it. There's a lot of conversation about calculated expansion. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.

Yeah, beyond offense, yeah. I'm just going to write down the addresses. Yeah. I'm going to write down the addresses of the people that they correspond with. Can I also look at these runes that were on the adjudicator that I copied down? Oh yeah, make an arcana check.

Okay. Come on. Holy shit. That was a roll. What a roll. It's a natural one. That's an 18. Hey! 18, all righty.

These aren't the standard arcana spell glyphs that you're used to. These have an old, original draconic base. These have arcana script that is divine in nature, protective in nature, and in some cases, near anti-magic. You get the sense that it didn't seem to present itself in the battle,

but there are means of the dispelling and dispersal of existing arcana within the enchantments that these Judicators wear. Oh shit. That's not good, right? I mean, that's not like... Old magic. Old magic. And sad magic. Guess who eats old magic for breakfast?

Old and sad jokes. Bartholomew! Yeah. You also do note that within some of the papers that are in the correspondence that have come here, there is discussion of the coming solstice. There's discussion of the dispersal of more powers from Vasselheim and Althansia temples

to hold up points of interest. And what are those points of interest? You assume they probably refer to nexus points or places of power. Oh, okay. I wasn't sure if they listed them. There was no list. There's just references to them. Okay.

Is there anything in it about opening or closing the Nexus Points? Do they have? Is there anything about opening or closing? Not necessarily, but you've studied arcana for quite some time, being a practitioner yourself. Historically, the ley lines that work across the land, the threads of magical energy that grow stronger at places that are both considered boundaries

between the realms as they overlap, especially the Inner Planes, but also where many ritualistic magic is considered stronger at these cross points. The ley lines are stationary, except for during major celestial events, such as solstices, the apogee being the largest. So there isn't necessarily a closure of the Nexus.

The Nexus, if it follows the historical path of previous apogee solstices, the Nexus remains where it sits until the next apogee solstice. So this area above Hearthdale is going to be a place of magical interest to a lot of people for a very long time. Whoa.

The vultures. It's, you gather this place. Zombies. This is the beginning of its woes. Yeah. And you begin to see the thread, possibly of the elders' understanding of that. Yeah.

They're sitting on natural resources. It's a silver mine that are there. Speaking about that. Yeah, that makes sense. They're sitting on natural resources. It's a silver mine that are there. Speaking about the Valley Coalition, speaking about the people of the center of Issylra seizing this opportunity is because they know that if they don't do it soon, they're going to be overrun. Yep.

I think that I look over all this information. I think of everything I've done. I see that my compatriots are deeply, deeply conflicted, but I have been away from home for 10 years, desperate for anything to make that decision worth it, and I think the past two days feels like the best use of my skills and talents in the entire 10 years,

and so I stifle a private smile. Yes, girl. Oh, yes. That's good. That's good luck. Yes, girl. Oh yes. It's good luck. Yes, very solemn. This is very solemn and not rad. All right. An evening's rest comes to completion,

and in the following morning, you are greeted with the smell of welcoming cooking, of meats and breads, and it seems that Elder Joan Abedinna has been up before the majority of your troop preparing a gentle breakfast for you. I'm right next to her.

Just helping her out. If you don't mind, could you hand me the towel over that way? Sure, yeah, anything that'll get us to the Scry Pastor. Speaking of the Scry, could you hand me the towel over there? Sure, yeah, anything that'll get us to the Scry Pastor. Speaking of the Scry, do you have a Scry scroll that I could copy? I do not have a scroll,

but I could create one for you, if you'd like. That would be amazing. Of course, you have done a great service to the people of Hearthdan and myself. It would be the least I could do. Salting the eggs a lot. I'm garlic, too. Let's do lots of fucking garlic. That's a hard attack right there.

Hey, hey. Got cake down the side of your head. So much cake. Yeah, you can share breakfast, and unless there's any conversation you wish to have over breakfast, we can move to the next scene, if you'd like. I was hoping you mentioned something about my condition.

I don't know, something that you saw? I don't know. Oh, I'm curious as to what this here is. I have not seen. I don't really know. Mystery to us both, then. It's... It seems to bend the world, I guess.

I have dreams. They're strange and inhuman. And sometimes I'm other people, but I'm not. And the few people who've decided to go looking in there, it was not fun for them. You ever seen anything like this?

I don't know. Like this, I have not at all. However, if indeed you are going to continue to travel, maybe speak with the spirits. Mm-hmm. Maybe things that are older than all of us combined have better insight than this frail form

and experience would. Well, speak with the spirits. Okay. You already hold a very strong connection to the elements, given. She gestures to your mostly stone form. You know, I've genuinely never thought about it. Marisha and Laudna chuckles at that. This was done to me.

This was not, or I don't know. Done to you? By life. I don't know. Done to you? By life. I understand that. I mean, it's who I am, but who knows who I was? I don't know. I hope you'll find it out.

Thank you. You have a stout heart beneath that wall-like exterior. Appreciate that, and please never say that again. I will never. So, come with me. She finishes her breakfast, wipes her chin. Brings you into the chamber she had once presented before,

where there sits this risen, natural birdbath-like pool. Orym only slips in now, quietly, unannounced, and stands and does a thing where he pretends that he's not tired when he's really tired and yawns with his mouth shut. Okay. Glad you could join us, little one. You're right.

Very well. She starts reaching her hands up and pulling a bunch of ground minerals and taking bits of dried leaf and tossing them into the water. You watch as she raises her hand and the water level fills up from what was a low, dredged, dried out basin

is now filled to a crystal water. She pulls a stool up and sits on the opposite side, her large, half-giant form almost cradling it from the sides as she looks up. She glances and winks at a bauble, and you see this small flower above unfurls, and with it a glow that lights from above the surrounding bits of the chamber

as you encircle the exterior of this. What is it you wish to look for, if I might ask? I think I'm lowest on the priority, so I think I'm going to Yeah, you first. I think I'm lowest on the priority, so I think I'm going to get you first. I think that we, and then Orym pulls out a little box with the moon etched on it. We could start with this. Ooh. What is that? A gift from a friend, from the friends that were lost.

Not even. and from the friends that were lost. Nottie, go ahead. I answer that to her. She takes it and sets it upon the water where it gently floats. The wood that it's constructed from, rather buoyant. So interesting. She closes her eyes and breathes in deep. You watch as she inhales.

It's almost like that mist that you saw once surrounded the forest to form those strange images of natural creatures. The heavy moisture and the fog that crumpled the temple seems to almost apparate from around and fill her nostrils. Then you begin to see the low mist rise within the chamber. It's not frightening. it's almost welcoming.

The temperature doesn't chill. It still feels warm, if a bit more. Sultry. She exhales and opens her eyes and you see that gray coloration, the tinge of blue within that mist curls out from her eyes. As she does, she puts her hands out and turns her hands,

and a circular motion begins to mutter under her breath. As she does, the water begins to naturally swirl, like a slow-forming whirlpool on its own. The box that you gave her begins to turn faster and faster and faster. At a certain point, it looks like it's about to spill over the sides as the displacement of the whirlpool

begins to glide up on the edges. You can hear the rushing of water. Then at once, she stops and holds her hands. As it does, the whirlpool seems to freeze in place. Then slowly it fills up as the box sinks beneath the water, vanishing from sight. Now this glass-like mirror surface that comes to the very, very top of this basin shows

snow. Snow falling across a mountain range. You glance across and you can see as the snow comes through, you see a small gnomish woman, beautiful brown skin, hair dark pulled up into almost like a bun-like thing, a knitted shawl across her shoulders and a cloak holding what looks to be

a long stick of some kind, wearing a very prominent symbol of the Dawnfather on her shoulder. Walking up the side of this, as she glances behind, and you see another figure in a greenish long cloak, skin metallic, like a rose gold brass coloration. Reminds you of FCG, but bipedal, tall, thin,

holding their cloak together as they continue looking around. Behind them, you see the familiar image of a small, crotchety-looking gnomish man. You see Chetney trekking behind also, glancing about with a bit of an excited energy, but also a bit odd in his distance from these unfamiliar figures that walk with them.

Behind, quickly, there you see Imogen looking towards Fearne as they both follow behind. You can see the gathering of these compatriots as FCG wheels up alongside Imogen and Fearne, and they all continue trekking through the snow as the perspective seems to shift behind, guiding the point of image as the elder changes her arms around the basin,

and we see them climbing through this mountain range towards what looks to be a series of towers, almost like the exterior of a mountain city, about a mile or two off. Are you recognizable? Those are our friends. Where are they? What are they? Can I do a history check?

Indeed you can, if you would like to. Anybody who is, I'll say a decent history. As a dwarf, as a mountain dwarf, would I know about mountains? I'll do a history check. I look at it, and it almost looks. What would I add to that? Add your history. Give me a zero on that. I got a 26. Oh! That's to that? Add your history.

Give me a zero on that. I got a 26. Oh! That's good. I got a 25. Well done. That's better. Okay.

You did it better. I got an eight. Perfect. I have spent many nights in the map room. I think I know this. With some of the perspective in the weather and the location, it's hard to pick out, but what you both pick out is in the middle of this snow-covered mountain range,

which there are many, many throughout Exandria, there is also a column of black and gray smoke that rises from one dark mountain that absconds from the snowfall in this region, which you recognize as Kravirad. This is the one volcano that sits within the center of the Flatket Alps, and itfall in this region, which you recognize as Kravirad. This is the one volcano that sits within the center of the Flatket Alps, and it's in this moment that you know that they are not far

from the city of Uthodurn. They are on the north side of Wildemount. They're in Kravirad. They're alive, they're on this plane. Really far away. As you watch them stepping away from this vision, as it begins to go a bit cloudy, you can't help but watch as they are all trudging

towards this city, Imogen stops, holding this cloak close and looks back, almost like she's making eye contact with the basin, with you. You see that look of worry and concern across her face. I just lean forward and instinctually shout her name. She turns around. And with that, the image comes to rest.

But they didn't look injured or anything like that? No, they looked cold. They looked a bit frazzled. I would say, I would say you're certainly caught off guard by another automaton-like figure, another construct like FCG, though their coat was a bit tattered. They had just been through some shit.

But they look safe. They're alive. Something. And within reach. Reach. How far? We're on a different continent. We're in the same... It's the same.

This stupid square. We didn't... How do we get there? I don't know. Is there anyone here? Or close that we can go? They can send us? How about Vasselheim?

I mean, there are those in Vasselheim that I'm certain could, if you garner their favor. I myself do not quite have the knowledge and experience to grant what you wish, but just going to think for a second. I know of one who might. Should you be up for the journey, four or five days north of here, northward,

following the peak towards the Ascendant Bridge until you reach the Irium Canyon. If you delve into this canyon, along the northern depths of it, there lies a shrine embedded in the rock, surrounded in blue flora. The shrine is kept by Hevestral, Hierophant of the Emerald Tree.

A powerful archdruid. One I once trained under. Hmm. Now, the choice is yours. You might trek to this possibility, or you might choose the safety of the city, the Dawngryll. How far is the city, the Dawncradle. How far is the city?

The city's along the road. It's a few hundred miles. It's a bit of a longer trek. A longer trek. It's on a road, so it's a safer trek, and everyone I would know in that city would be a raging piece of shit, but you know. That's fine.

Is that what we're talking about? Well, I'm just going to point it out that we do have all these documents from this, what would we call it, temple, so we could send ahead a false message with a seal that we didn't earn and say that we're coming, sort of being like, hey, will you help out these people?

Oh. I don't know, it's just a really random thought. Deception. But... You little fucker. Yes, well, the pursuit of knowledge sometimes knows no morals. It worked with the beer.

If you could, in your own right. I thought it was a good idea. Get everyone in Vasselheim to shit their britches. There is no amount of gold we could make up for such an endeavor. Prolapse. We're going to need more oxygen. We're going to need a lot more oxygen. Could I, I think Denise, hoping that

the elder could, hoping, she pulls a tuft of hair from between her boobs and says, could you do me a favor? Of course, I have, she thinks to a second of concentrates. I think I can do, with some help, two more.

Two more? Sightings. You should go. No. You should go, you have a sick brother. Are you sure? You're my brother. Honestly, all I would do is probably just look at the Shadow Realm because I haven't been seeing it in so long.

Or I could try to scry on Ludinus because I do have this trading card with his likeness on it. Trading card? It's been canonically established. Brother. I may have a thing if no one else does, but. I'd rather, yeah, you should just do that.

You should for sure check in on your brother. There's no way that my brother's still alive. I have to go. You should know that. I have to go to the Krakow. What did you say that big tall black small thing was? Krakow? Krabberad. Krabberad. Got to go to the Krabberad.

I think, Denise, you go, and then I'm going to Strongarm Border into checking on his brother. I think you're right. I agree with that. You guys don't want to see where Ludinus is? That's what I'm saying. We might as well see where this person you're chasing. I'm learning the spell.

You are? Yes. I'm currently copying it. My quill moves without me. Okay. She gives you little pieces of hair. Hoping she'll get them back. You helped us, we'll help you. Yes, absolutely, I agree.

She settles in and once more conducts a ritual, a mirror of what you just watched, to create its own mirror once more. As the hair is placed within the waters and it swirls, then swallowed to the depths of the swirl before she pulls forth the surface once more. There you see, kind of frazzled,

chewing on his nails, a young dwarven man with a bit of a flop of brown-red auburn hair, chin, beard that's been unkept and a little heavily grown. You see a dirty, scarred face, sweat on his brow, and a look of concern in his eyes. As he sits huddled in a dark space

you can't quite make out. He sits and plays absentmindedly with the compass that hangs around his neck and thinks for a second, licks his lips. First time you've seen his face in a little bit. You almost don't register the tension because you're just so excited to see it. So excited.

But also, she just wants to fucking punch him. She's got a little teeny tiny tear just comes down her cheek. Oh. You can assist her for a second, looking off in the distance, and you watch as his tension freezes and he just gets lost in a thought or a moment

or a memory or a worry. You're uncertain, but it's like watching a dog suddenly stare at a plate of cupcakes and can't eat. Oh! Just sitting there before a hand catches his shoulder, a blue hand, and he glances up, gives a nod, grabs a spear and stands up, and you see on the periphery of the vision,

a man standing familiar to the three of you. Blue of skin, long, dark hair that fades to a white. Indeed, next to this dwarven man is your friend, Dorian. Also looking a bit worse for wear. Next to this dwarven man is your friend Dorian. Also looking a bit worse for wear. What the fuck? What the fuck? Who the fuck are you? That's the Bag of Dicks!

That's our Bag of Dicks. The dwarf? No, the other one. Oh, I don't know him. He's our Bag of Dicks. Well, there you go. The vision fades. A fucker. Thank, there you go. Division faith.

A fucker. Thank you. Of course. Boredom. Okay, how does this work? Do you have something that you would wish to grant me that connects you to this individual? I don't have anything on me that I have. What do I have on me?

Do you have anything of your brother's? No. He's never given you a friendship bracelet? Any keepsakes, anything that would be tethered to them personally. Piece of clothing they made. Fied his sibling, maybe they could. Can I put my hands in the water?

Just put your balls in the water. Where have they been? Okay, like, you know, tea bag, the scrywells. They're twins, like, on this rock. I do not have a means of knowing this individual. Without an item, unfortunately, I cannot look upon them. I don't have an item of his. I haven't, he's...

I think he gave. You guys have never shared clothing. What about your crossbow or your dagger? No, that's not going to work, but did he give you the crossbow or the dagger? Make your cloak? No. No. What about a memory?

Can I use a memory? Did he make you the jerky? The jerky? Did you know? Sure, I give you the... No, he didn't make the fucking jerky. He didn't make the jerky? I'm kind of lazy.

I'm sorry, but how close are you guys actually? I mean, he's been sick for a long time. Older or younger? Younger. Younger. I mean, he's been sick for a long time. Older or younger? Younger. Younger. I never wrote you a note. It would... Draw you a picture. Your friends are probably going to find Ludinus, right? We'll find out.

They were in Marquet, now they're in Wildemount. Let's go find him. We know where he is. It's not really... Don't you want to go back to your brother? I mean, we're going there regardless. I have to go to the Sirius Mountains, which are within the Dwendalian Empire,

which, as far as I can tell, is near Wildemount, right? What about your home? Can you scry on your home? Oh yeah, how do I do that? Do you have something from your home? I mean, I guess all of this will work. Fuck it. Your clothing is from your home, right? Take it off.

Slowly. Take it off. I'll give you my dagger. Can you speak for the group? No, I'm sorry, excuse me. Have you seen his art? He's hot. Yes. Let it happen. He's unassuming and hot. Just let it happen.

Takes and places the dagger within the basin. The water begins to gather. This is from your home. As it swirls and the blade begins to sink within the water and descend, the glass surface fills up to the top. There you see a vision of a homestead.

Modest, but well-furnished. Not quite the home of, I'd say, a farmer or a person who keeps cattle or sheep. It's an unfamiliar space to you. You're not certain if this dagger is calling a connection to a place of import or particular answer to your question, unfortunately.

Is that your house? My apologies. The dagger swirls back up and she pulls it and hands it back to you. Can I give you something else? I've concluded my capabilities for the day, but allow me to copy this over for you. Yes.

You will then be able to do this on your own as you travel. Yeah, you guys can spam Scries on me. Going on my newsletter. She goes ahead and gathers some materials and begins to copy over the incantation for the Scry spell in a way that she thinks will be best transferred from the nature-based magic

she practiced and can be understood and conveyed into a more expanded, academy-based arcana. Cool. You gather your supplies and prepare yourselves for the coming journey. Is there anything else you wish to do or discuss before you head out from the cottage? I guess the question would be, I know everyone's dealing with

some pretty heavy revelations, but especially Porter, who basically got a ring jammed to someone else's home. Literally. Who's that? We're here for you. Doesn't look like a farmer's house. Do you guys feel called to the shrine in the canyon?

Do you guys feel called to the shrine in the canyon? Do you feel called to Vasselheim or some sort of trickery in that? I mean... Was the canyon closer than the road to Vasselheim? The canyon is closer, about four to five days travel, but it is a dangerous journey. And Vasselheim comes with trying to convince

the established power system there to cut us a deal. After we just raised hell here. Yeah. I don't know if they would, especially if we just raised hell here. Yeah. I don't know if they would, especially if we have all this shit. Yeah, we could go just grab a couple insignia and pop off a letter that says,

hey, we're fleeing from this town. We need to get here. It's always worth a try. Small potatoes, I don't think. I wonder if this Hevestral, is that the name? Hevestro. Hevestro. Do they seem like, who would,

where would be, would he be powerful enough to send us back? What they're describing is. He's made out of rocks. What did you say, a mage? Is that what you said? No. What did you say? A hierophant.

The hierophant that can maybe teleport us. What's that? It's almost like a holy person, but I'm guessing that for them, it's sort of like a natural shamanic. Gotcha. Or a dwarf. Shamamana.

Did make an excellent point that normally holy people who respect the passage of life into the beyond tend to not take kindly to this. Well, that's their loss, but it's also a good point. Could you send Mother and or Pate ahead? Does it go that far?

Deanimates if she gets too far. Yeah. It's like those grocery shopping carts that just like. Stop. How does it work? Do not steal this cart! I feel like the shrine might be the easiest way for us to move further.

Okay. My gut says Hevestro. My gut says Hevestro. My gut says Hevestro. Mm-hmm. And just out of curiosity, tabletop, would it be a crazy thing to take a boat? I mean, a ship? How do people go usually from continent to continent?

Would it take months? To take from Issylra to Wildemount, Yeah, I wanted it. You'd probably gone to go west to complete to the opposite side, but the waters between there are, well, you probably wouldn't know too much about it, but it would take a while. It would take a number of weeks by normal ship.

A skyship would go faster, but you'd have to go to somewhere where a skyship port is present. Oh, that's not nice. You're not even certain where the nearest sky port would be. Magic is instant. Going toward the Menagerie Coast is better.

Don't you have a dimension in your head? We can't just hop in your bed? Well, you could actually go to the Miscath Strand. There's only two people in there, and they almost didn't get out. But that area is all sorts of nasty. Druid? Let's go. Let's do it.

The elder returns a short time later, presents to you a thick piece of heavy blanched parchment where you can see across it. It's almost like the entire inscription of the spell is in watercolor. It's beautiful. This is more than a scroll, it's a keepsake. It's art.

I have a minus two to strike, so I can't even hold it up. It's so heavy. If you require a guide, we can send an Eidolon to perhaps show you the way. That'd be great. Oh, yes, definitely. Where's your destination, then?

The Eirium Canyon. Eiram Canyon. Fire, wind, or earth? What? Fire, wind, or earth? Yes, wind. As she steps out of her cottage, she raises her hand up for a second,

closes her eyes and mutters something, and the wind picks up a bit around. Dust picks up a bit, and you watch as this dust cloud swirls and begins to take the form of this semi-ethereal cougar. It sits there, this perpetual shifting form of a wind cat stops and turns around and looks back at you, these pale,

gold-glowing eyes within as it looks at the rest of you. As the rest of the wind dies down, this entity just stays, and this little radius of about two or three feet around this elemental wind cat remains, awaiting when you're ready to go. Wow. Wow. Wind cougar. Wind cougar.

That's my nickname. There's got to be a second one. Because I like young romance. And that's a lot of gay. I mean, I'm ready. I'm mean, I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. Let's go. Let's go. Where your journeys take you,

may luck be at your back. May you be safe. And should you find others of the Valley Coalition, tell them what has been done here. And know that we are at the ready to help them as well. Stay safe. I'm going to finish my tea. She takes us back into her cottage and closes the door. Nice.

As the now morning sun is slowly giving into the beautiful blue skies dappled with broken clouds, the recent gray skies fading into the day's journey you see ahead of you, the grass of the nearby farmland swaying as the forest beyond that turns into the perpetually gliding

and rolling carpet of greens and grays. You can see the Ascendant Bridge peak far to the north. As you take your first step, your Windcooker turns around and begins to mark the guiding path to your journey ahead. We'll go ahead and close it out there. Knew it! Woo!

I couldn't be happier! I feel like that worked out pretty well, all things considered. We're going to get messed up in the woods. I didn't even know I always wanted a winged cougar. I can't imagine life without one. Remember, whizkids.io. All in your needs.

Big and small. I hope that goes to a porn site now. Is that what it is? Thanks, Joan. Thanks, Joanie. Joan, Joan. Thank you Joanie. Joan, Joan. Thank you all so much for joining us. We'll pick up where this journey goes next time.

You killed an angel. I hated it. Celestial's heck. Yeah, yeah. Celestial, you know. He looks like an angel, smells like an angel. Looks like an angel. Throws fireballs down like an angel. Angel, yeah, smites people up a reunion. Throws fire, shoots fire bolts down. Yen'jul smites people up the air.

We had it coming. Well, we'll continue forward next time as we slowly close the gap of knowledge and possible future reunion. Learn more about each other as we go and what dangers lay ahead here in the center of Isilra. Thank you all so much for joining us. We love you very much.

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