Critical Role - Vindicta & Vale | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 18 Part 2

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

Part 2   Vaelus speaks with a deceased ally of Thaisha's while Occtis grapples with his family's plans... and what was left behind...   New Episodes Release Weekly on Thursdays. Learn more about Campaign 4 at https://critrole.com/campaign4/     GET MORE CAMPAIGN 4 WITH BEACON We're excited to bring you even MORE Campaign 4 with a Beacon membership! Get access to exclusive shows like our behind-the-scenes Critical Role Cooldown and ask the Campaign 4 cast your burning questions directly through our LIVE monthly Fireside Chats. You'll also receive NEW Beacon exclusive series, instant ad-free access to VODs & podcasts, live event pre-sales, merch discounts, & a private Discord. Start your 7-day free trial today at https://beacon.tv/join and get unparalleled access to everything Critical Role!   OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN 4 CAST GAME MASTER Brennan Lee Mulligan Laura Bailey as Thimble Luis Carazo as Azune Nayar Robbie Daymond as Kattigan Vale Aabria Iyengar as Thaisha Lloy Taliesin Jaffe as Bolaire Lathalia Ashley Johnson as Vaelus Matthew Mercer as Sir Julien Davinos Whitney Moore as Tyranny Liam O’Brien as Halandil "Hal" Fang Marisha Ray as Murray Mag’Nesson Sam Riegel as Wicander "Wick" Halovar Alexander Ward as Occtis Tachonis Travis Willingham as Teor Pridesire   CREDITS Produced by Maxwell James, Steve Failows, & Kyle Shire Set Designed by Shaun Ellis Production Designer: Noxweiler Berf Character Art by Loren Hontanilla Edited by Taylor Burke and Emily "Stevie" Stevenson Critical Role Announcement Playhouse Editor: Vinny Celesti Opening Title Editor: Paul Foyder Opening Title Colorist: Peter Koocheradis Window Effects by Christian Brown Graphic Design by Aaron Monroy & Jordyn Torrence Dol-Makjar art by Daniel Jiménez Villalba Miniatures Painted by Payton Keo Lacebal Opening Title Theme by Neal Acree Campaign 4 Key art by Hannah Friederichs Additional Art & Design by Hannah Friederichs   Episode QC by Catherine Zimmerman & Paula Flores Assistant Editor: Gianna Gencarella Post Production Coordinators: M Swing & Bryn Hubbard Closed Caption Editing by Margaret Dill, Nikki Kindelberger, Courtney Knewtson, Danielle Lackie, Eleanor Smith-Dufresne & Alice Tsoi Post Production Supervisor: Tal Levitas   HEALTH & WELL-BEING Due to the improv nature of Critical Role and other RPG content on our channels, some themes and situations that occur in-game may be difficult for some to handle. If certain episodes or scenes become uncomfortable, we strongly suggest taking a break or skipping that particular episode. Your health and well-being is important to us and Psycom has a great list of international mental health resources, in case it’s useful: http://bit.ly/PsycomResources Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello again, it's Brennan Lee Mulligan, and you're listening to Part 2 of this episode of Critical Role. If you haven't checked out part one yet, pause this now and head over there first. What are you doing? Otherwise, let's jump right back into this adventure and the world of Aramon. Hello, and welcome to the sepulchral veil at the heart of Tannis. It's fucked up out here, gang. It's bad. I'm going to need initiative from everybody. Oh, I forgot. We all just screamed.

And you guys did not take a rest. Nope, no. Great. Brennan, just, no. I don't like the way he asked perfectly cramulent question. Okay. Okay. I really am going to once again give you guys the version

of the speech that I gave at the soldiers table, which is the world is set up to be the world, and the world is set up to be the world, and this was, we really wanted to do a 100% completion run on the dungeon, and we are about to goddamn do it. So, we have to. We have to. Matt, what do we get? 18. 18, great. Tisha. 17. 17. Vailis.

13. 13. Octus. 20. 20. Wait, can Dr. Talter give that plus five to Vailis? I don't think it works on an initiative. Shut up. You don't know? We don't know. Maybe she just quiet, screams and goes, go fast. Ah!

Let's go fast. Incredible. Must go faster. Must go faster. How did I do? Is she useful in a fight? We're going down the stairs. I'm not sorry. He continues. Okay, hold on one second. Terrible. Jeff Goldblum. I want to move past it.

Wait, I want to hear it again. No. This isn't like when we're all doing Jason Statham. Okay, Bays. Don't come near me. All my Bays. It sounds like you said, I'm bees. Don't come be am bees.

Jason Statham is made of bees. I would watch that. I would actually watch that. I would watch that immediately. I like Jason Statham. Yeah. He's consistent. Yeah, he does the same thing every time.

You always know what you're gonna get. Reliable. Yeah. We love that in a man. Honestly. You do. Reliability or just follow through? Both are good.

Yeah. Okay. This is a good time to remind you, I have a tune to the Heartwood ring. Great. Cool. Lovely. Yeah, everyone check your shit that Brennan gave us so we would die less.

This massive cavern that appears more naturally formed, right? This is almost like less masonry more, this cavern was like, maybe why this site was selected, and then it was like everything all this was built out from here. From behind you, you hear and a... Talter?

Toulter? Shut. I said my voice, it's not me. Sounded like you. Beautiful, white on a skeletal freakish monstrosity. As a figure moves in from the dark, grabs Gaia's armor, lifts her off the ground, flies her through the air, she goes,

ha! And puts its scorpion tail through her chest as blood gushes out of her mouth, taking her to this far ledge right here. Well, maybe that's why you didn't quite see when I was like, what'd she get on initiative? Not higher than that. That is the creature's turn.

Octus, that is your turn. Should I remove Gaia from the board? You can put her prone in front of her. Oh. Matt. Um, Octus. First of all, how much dark vision do you have? How much what?

How much dark vision do you have? None. None. Great. So just, just all you hear is massive wings, a screech, and a gurgling shriek from Gaia. So it is fully dark in here. Fully dark.

red glow that casts about 10 feet of dim light from every source of light. Okay. Golly. Okay. Um, I don't want that to be my second level spell. So I got damn. I don't want to cast dark vision on myself as my second level spell.

No, no, no, no, no. Okay. Right. So I don't know what's happening. I cannot see the thing. I think what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna, oh. Okay. I'm gonna move, uh, I'm gonna stay

Stay where I... I'll move over to this, kind of just putting my hand on the rock here. Yeah. Because I know, I felt something fly past us, right? Like the wind would... Okay, something's in here. I understand that that's common knowledge, but I just...

No shit! Oh, really? Why is everyone so mean to me today? Tysa bitter talk, she was like, I'm being nice. Thank you for saying it, Bayless. And then I will, I'm going to, dancing lights in a radius around us that is,

so that all the 10 foot radius of the spell are touching each other, so it makes the biggest realm possible of light around us. Cool, copy that. So that myself and Julian can see. I immediately point in the direction just because like, you need a bearing for what happened and where.

Okay. And that's going to be my turn because that costs an action to do. Galley. Dancing lights is not a bonus action. Bonus action murder. I can Misty step. Tasha, at the very edge of your dark vision,

you see that scorpion tail, that skeletal scorpion tail whipping around. Octus, that is your turn? It's gonna be my turn. Julian? 120 feet. Oh, you have 120 feet? Yeah.

You see everything. You see scorpion to everything. Yeah. I will have pinned, because he does technically go. I will make him, he's gonna come over here and just kind of be on this side of the rock. Gotcha. That is going to be Julian.

All right. Hearing the screech, the sound of someone being dragged off in pitch darkness, but I, this is why we prepared. I'm going to use a bonus action to use the Harris Charm to initiate the jump spell on myself for the next minute. Hell yeah. I'm just going to go ahead and not jump anywhere,

but move forward to about here. And using my action, pull out one of the torches that I'd gotten before we entered the, the Eternal Night. Perfect. Light it and throw it. Oh, good, good. To the edge here to get some light on this side of the map. Yeah.

Hell, yes. We'll go ahead and place a little torch beacon there. So it's 20 feet of bright light, 20 feet of dim light. Go ahead and just place this where you want to scatter it on the map, just so we have a point of reference. Maybe you're about there. You could probably toss it on that rock, because it'll cast farther with a little bit of elevation. Oh, nice.

What I have known the rock was there. That's you. Yes. Because this has the crystal gleaming out there, so there's some dim illumination on that bolt. I got some green and some red. Those crystals being red, is that, considering what happened earlier upstairs,

am I noticing that those are still active or inactive because of? That is the effect of you attacking the thing upstairs. Attacking that, attacked the entire system, yeah. Yeah, okay. That'd be my turn. Hell yeah. Tasha, that's you. Great.

Well, I was gonna do like lay-a-la-law. plan things, but. Nah, when I went to point to let you know where that happened, I think we just chase it with firebolt, and I'm gonna aim for the back of this thing's head. Yeah, I think as the light kind of operates in the space, kind of shut there. There it takes!

Yep. You didn't need me. 21. 21 is a hit. Sweet. For six points of fire damage. Ha ha, you see you hit its wings in the fire damage. This thing does not seem. immune or resistant to fire, hits the wings,

and wheels back around. Any movement from you? Yeah, let's, I can get up. I always feel like I'm like, don't touch the map. Dark vision. Yeah, I'm so used to. Slide over here. What? That's blood.

Is that like, oh, the blood pool's been there? Or is it like, that's fresh blood from now? Give me, give me, I want both a nature and a religion check. I want to call the nature and a nurture check. The nature check is a natural 20. Hey. The nurture check, because I have genuinely forgot. The nerdle check, the religious check is a four plus one.

On a nature check, you look down, this thing is profane and sacred. On a Nat 20 nature check, this is filled with Orkish blood. And what you see before you is, it is filled with orkish blood because this is a stolen, holy thing of Osgras. So in other words, this is, it's a confusing thing because it's not, you would have one distinct way to feel

if they had profane something of the old path here. This is something that was sacred to Osgra, which means it started bad flogues. You know what I mean? It's a, Ew, ugh, bleh, ah. Two bad flavors that taste bad together, right? We put the peeps in the chili pot.

What you sense from this is this is a, an assumption of Tanasar, right? That if he ever died, it would be at Oscar's hand. Yeah. Oh, so they brought this here a long time ago. Brought this here a long time ago. But what you can also see on a Nat 20, You gotta reward Nat 20s.

You have to make Nat 20s count. You simply have to make them count. And it's causing you so much thing. And you know I rule a natural 20 once every three years. Help. Responsibly. No, don't listen to him.

Don't, he's not, you're not the god of this world. It's just, listen to. You got to make the God of this world. He doesn't get to be a god in this world too, all right? Echo from another world. A, there is a pass without trace spell that made its way through her a long time ago, cast by a druid of the old path. Near the foot of this well, there is a falcon's feather.

You clock out on a Nat20 Nature Check right away. The falcons feather is from a wild-shaped druid. It is not a natural, it is a form assumed by a druid that we're left here that came here in stealth. And you also see scattered on the ground a smoky, candied nut, the type of which was scattered with lovingly all around Theazi's body at his funeral.

A Dolmachiar piece of street food made its way somehow in the months or years prior to this place. At some point in time, this holy thing would have been of no interest to the Taconas. because their use for this was not to gain vengeance on Osgar, which is the only, this was here to basically be, this was a bloodhounds go get them to an angel

that was supposed to be born in this place. That is of no interest of the Taconas, and it is of no interest, therefore, but this was of interest to somebody, and you think that somebody knew Thiazi Fang. So, cool turn. Anything else from you? No, that's it. Got it, that's a Nat 20 where you really needed it.

Yes. But did the natural 20 do damage? Did it do any damage? No. It's Dame. It's Dame Guy's turn. Oh, good. Oh.

Get it, girl. She casts bleed. She casts bleed. She is going to make her attacks with, is she gonna know. She's got to try to assist. She could make up with advantage because it's close quarters combat. She's not doing it by the nearby terrain.

She's going to make an opposed athletics to get out of this grapple. It's going to take her action. I'll roll in front of the board for a maximum dramatic effect. The creature, it's a plus eight for a 23. And Gaia. Come on, Guy. Come on. Do this. Come on.

Be useful. Gaya needs a 19 on the die. Oh my God, that's... It's an 11. That's her action. Yike. As she calls out, My Lord!

The chamber! And... I'm probably a good idea. And Valas, it's going to be your turn. Goof! Okay. I don't know what that does. No, that's real.

Okay. I'm gonna just sprint towards this Celestial. Hell yeah. Which I know I won't get to it, but I will take my action to... Let's see. I can't see those. Five. I'm gonna just try to get as close as I can. Great. Here we go.

Five. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty, five, thirty. Do you want to continue moving past third? Do you want to use an action to me? Yeah, I'll do the rest of my movement to start making my way up there. Making my way. Just saying it.

Okay, Valas, you make it to the base of the stairs, gazing up at this celestial. Dr. Talter, A fireball. No, she's gonna hit Tysha, Julian and Octus with Blas. Okay. Oh.

Going, you see this, she goes, We have found so much knowledge here. Let that knowledge spread, please. And boom, each of the three of you. Nice. Nice. You know what? She's very scared.

Julian, I'm gonna retract the blast. She throws that blast on her, so. She's fucking scared. Tisha and Octa's have been really nice to her, and Julian drew a sword on her. She's going, I bless is going straight to the dock. I genuinely was surprised when you said my name. Yeah, she's like, she doesn't know she's an NPC.

She's like, fuck this guy. I'm the main character. That's what Tisha told me. I feel like getting a bless revoked is like when you're about to sneeze, but then you lose it, and you're like, What a terrible feeling. It feels bad now.

Oh, no, that's what made it bad. Yep. I feel like I took the wrong path. You see this creature over Gaia, and she goes, run! It goes, through the front of her face, and she's dead. The tail comes over the top. Yeah, spare the die.

Gaya is no more. You got to lay out hands, right? I don't think she's dying. Give her like one hand for it? Yeah. I got one. And this thing turns to see you at the base of the staircase and goes, boom, and just descends screeching.

So bad. Down to the bottom of the staircase and is going to make its attacks against you. Okay. Do we think Dame Gaia had one of those pet cemetery scars on her that make them come back around? This was, I just realized, I don't know.

Why did I get so... I don't know. We didn't take a rest. I have such a lot of influence. Why did I do this? I was trying. I know. Whatever.

Balls of the wall. All you said, all you do is convince me and everyone went, no, let's keep going. Yeah, all you got to do is convince the most difficult man that's ever existed. I was like, that's too much work. Let's just keep going. Fair?

Fair. But, hey, these choices were made, and that's exciting. Shut! I'm going to need an athletics check. from Vails. I'll let you know the DC you're trying to beat here. Okay. I rolled in that one.

You just have to, it fails automatically. It swipes to grapple, does not succeed. I mean, roll see if you get a net one, I guess. Just do it slow. Yeah. Oh my God, do you just absolutely sun missing? That was a crazy roll. That was a really weird roll.

Yeah. Yeah. Not a net one. It's going to take a, it's going to take a regular attack against you. Does a, I know that a 12 does not hit your armor. No, it doesn't. Okay. I've rolled a one and a four.

I just want to let you know how lucky that turn was. Let's keep it up. Just keep it up. Octus, that's you. All day. Okay, okay. Okay. Thinking he sees him, and knowing that having a flash to upstairs and what the ritual was and the mark that was

the ownership to House Taconas. Yeah. How long has it been since that fight upstairs? The fight upstairs with the Barrow Guard. and attacking the obelisk and everything else. The destruction of the demon statue and the- Sorry, sorry, the fight we were in with the Scorpion and- Oh, how long has it been since then?

90 minutes. You know, maybe, actually, let's actually call it, we'll call it, with all the walking, let's call it two and a half hours. Okay, great. So that orb has gone, it only lasts for an hour, so that's what I was checking for, was that blood orb only lasts for an hour. Gotcha.

Cool. So, Oxus is gonna look at the thing, now seeing it in the last, realizing what it is and what that was what he was supposed to become, like having all these complicated emotions about that, but does remember it's supposed to be owned by my family. Yeah. I would like to try and use a creative use of a spell. Yeah. I want to try and cast Cause Fear to make this thing obey me.

Okay. As a member of House Taconas. Yeah. Cool. So, and I will use my own unsettling presence ability to give it a, it's a, you want to sell- It gets, I'm- Disadvantage on the saving throw against this. Okay, it gets disadvantage on the saving throw against this. I'm going to look real quick here.

If it's immune to fear, then. Yeah. Yeah. It is not. Okay. It is not. Hey. However, I'm going to say that what you are essentially trying to do here is I'm going to set the boundaries or limits of this spell, We were going to change Cause Fear

because of the cool arcane flavor. Actually, just give me a DC-15 Archana check as you tried to alter the use of the spell. That is going to be DC-15? 15? 15. Yes. So we are going to change Cause Fear

to essentially create the charmed condition as you attempt to compel it in this way, okay? Okay. So the DC is 14, but it has disadvantage. And what type of save is this? This is wisdom. Okay. DC 15. 14. DC 14 has disadvantage.

You call out. So what is it you say to this? I will say, so seeing it, I look at it into it. As a member of House Taconas, I command you to stand down and listen to me. Bone is pressing out through degraded necrotic skin. Your cousin, Tertia, looks right at you. You're in the moment. You're in the moment.

I got really excited. are partially sort of, they have like withered and shriveled but are still twitching these sort of half empty sacks of fluid. Tasha, listen to me. Stand down, we are not your enemy. I have a very important question. Who has the harvested scorpion tail from up above?

It would be you. I do. I have it. I am going to, as she sees that scorpion tail on your person, we are going to cancel Alex. I'm going to give her advantage on this roll, and we are going to roll straight in front of the board. Oh. That's a dumb idea.

That's okay. She needs a. It was her baby. 14. She needs, so for her, she's going to need an 11 or higher on the die. It is a true coin flip over what happens now. It's a five.

Oh, yes! She looks, she has the charm condition, which means that she cannot harm you the charmer and you have advantage on any like deception or persuasion role. But essentially here in this moment, you see that whatever was supposed to happen in this ritual, your family has played

so far fucking fast and last This is supposed to work perfectly after Tonsul gets killed by Osgra to, for his loyal priest to make a soldier to enact his vengeance. And they haven't used whatever this is. They fucked with the obelisk to make it obey them. And so this thing where they said, you realize they said, Tertia, that letter said Tertia, her innate connection to the Tenebral reaches. spoiled the ritual. And you can see here essentially that it was actually her own innate necromanic sorcery

that would have been no problem if they were doing the ritual the right way, but fucked it because they were trying to do this altered version. And she looks at you, the one member of her family without any innate sorceress ability. And she screams seeing the scorpion tail on you and is going, you see, is going to continue fighting.

But it is, is, scared and hates you, but also you are part of the house and have commanded her. So she's in this weird state. You have her under the charmed condition. Great, cool. So then I will. Let me go ahead and use my movement

to just kind of get over here a little bit. And I'll have PIN follow me. Ooh, there's actual dirt here. I was like, my mat moved. And that will be my turn. Hell yeah. Julian, that's you. All right.

Seeing it briefly distracted by its blood. I don't even know what either of you have in you anymore. Even blood? You want to go right there. I'm going to use that moment to go ahead and dart alongside the torch move 10 feet up and then use 10 feet of movement to do the jump. Hell yeah.

To land on the opposite side of it. So I'm flanking it above the shares between On the other side of you, Viann. Fuck ya. It's like, run, jump in the air, blade out, clawed, armored hand in the other. It's like come down for a full strike. I'm gonna try and use my Daredevil feature Daring strike.

Hell yeah. I can risk my well-being to empower it. Hell yeah. I can make an attack roll, and if I make it, I can expend a second win feature to add D10 to the damage. If I fail on the attack, I, I, next attack gets me, has advantage. Gotcha.

So. Let's also fly in those desperate measures that may become relevant very shortly. Oh, I got them right here. We're talking about. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd say you're pretty fucking desperate. All right, Haleigh, go ahead and attack with advantage.

I yell at you and realize I put it somewhere else. I know, we do. It's okay, we can say. We got it, we're fine. 15? 15 does not hit. God! Dang!

Don't you? Where should have flip? Even with advantage. Even with advantage. Damn it. As this thing whips from back, as you go to whip around, you had to eat this reckless attack bounding through the air, and its wing just buffets back your rapier as it goes towards it,

some preternatural sense, helping it fight effectively someone behind and in front of it. As I, that's the action on that part. As I get buffeted back, I'm gonna go ahead and push off the ground with my rapier hand and using the momentum and bring the claw into a heavy backhand across its shoulders in the back of its neck with my bonus action attack with my demigotlet.

There you go. There we go. That's gonna be a 21 to hit. That is a hit. All right, so for the bonus action hit, it's only gonna be five points of bludgeoning damage to it. Gotcha. Not a great turn.

You whack into this thing, and it is like punching a stone wall. You feel, just, it absorb the blow. You, this creature, that is Julian's turn tight, so that's gonna be you. Great. I'm looking up at, that a ballista? That is a balista.

Does it look like it's got, does it look like it's got weppies? Like little bolts? Yes, these seem to be installed by House Taconas here. You recognize them from the bridge back up before. House Tacotas does two things, dead, blestas. Yes. Great.

And you see them like aiming at the Seperical veil. What they're doing is already so profane. They're like, these experiments tend not to work. Pointing the fuck. Cool. Heard, chef. Yeah, hell, yeah, go, go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know what I'm going for. Can I get there, can I get up to the ballista in a move and dash? Yes, you can. I believe you can't. So we'll go here. So, 30 of movement. 10, 15, 20, 2530.

And then I'll use my bonus action adrenaline rush. So I still, and it gives me to 10. HB. So I still have an action. action. Cool. We shooting this? Yeah. I would like to shoot the bad lady with the ballista, please. This thing is preloaded, but normally it will take another person with an action to load it. Hurd. Right? PIN!

Just so there's a huge ballastable, this teeth just like. Oh yeah. He's a little guy. You can do anything. Oh yeah. Go ahead and give me a, da-da-da, go ahead and give me a ranged attack roll. Do you say anything as you're about to load this? It's already loaded. Duck maybe. I think Julian is like, after the backing, it's like, I think we, shit!

Jump into a duck roll. I think just, like, she just cast a little, just enough light to be like, look at me, look what I'm about to do. Do you have martial weapon proficiency? Obviously not, right. So there's gonna be a dexterity check, essentially. Come on, do it. I can do anything.

90-20. I believe it myself. I got a natural one. I'm so sorry. I'm gonna need, and I am very sorry. No, no. I'm gonna be nice, I'm gonna be nice about it, but I am gonna need a DC-10 dexterity saving threat from Julian.

Should I do it too? I'm originally that's the funniest way that can go, I'm so sorry. What is you get? I've looked at it, yeah. What is it? It's 17, it's 17. 17.

Julian, you already narrated this moment. You hit the deck as this thing would have gone right through your fucking rib cage. Boom, those things do 3D10 damage. What are you doing? I had a nickel. Incredible. Okay, Tysha, you are up there, veiless.

That's gonna be you. Okay. It's so cool, it's such a cool move. It's such a cool move. It's such a cool move. It's just a good go from a natural twin to a natural one. Absolutely.

All right. I'm gonna look up at Tertia. Vow of enmity. Hey! Yeah, here we go. Or like, yeah, what is it? When you give your vow of enmity, does it visibly or audibly magical?

Do we hear any magic happening in this moment? Or are you just like your ass? I think it's just like your ass. I think every time when Vailas fights, you know, there's a dark, her eyes just go dark and sort of all of the magic. It looks very, it's like that dark energy. It feels like it's vibrating.

Cool. Yeah, it's angry. Okay. Love it. Advantage. Okay. As a reminder, also, who has not leveled up? These two, great.

That's the two of us. Ladies night. Oh, oh, there's 20. Yes. Let's go. All right. You got any spell slots left? Okay.

Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Just so many? Yes. Yeah. So you have a smite into this. Yeah. Smite in the crit is the best thing in the world. I have, I have spell slots left for sure.

Great. Okay. So that's gonna be a bonus action, divine smite. Okay. Okay. Sorry, my head is trying to figure out everything. Okay, so I get a D-10. Go. Let's do. I'm trying to pick my D-10.

Properly. Where are you? Is your birthday? Not for real real. This one. All right. So we got. This is also an undead creature.

So you will actually be adding 3D8. So this is one D. Sorry. So sorry, sorry, two D10 plus 6D8. Correct. Plus 2D6 for fire. Yep. Do you, okay.

Do you want a big handful of dice? Yeah, you want some. Well, I have some. I'm just gonna go through. Okay, so with the sensor whip, that's nine points of damage. And you rolled 2D10 plus plus, I rolled one D10, so let me roll another one. If you do this one at a time, we'll be here forever.

So that's, was that six and five? So it's 14 total. 14 total. So five, I rolled two fives and then a plus four. With the base damage of the whip. 14 damage just with the sensor whip itself. Two D six for the flame. So two D6 for the flame for the embers of Arrask?

Arras, yeah. Our ass. Your ass. Great, that's nine points of damage, fire damage. and now fucking divine some might. So this will be 6D8. Six? Because it's 2D8 for the spell, it's undead,

so that's another one, and you double all of them to six. Let's go. Do you more have, I have six? Yeah, 2D10 plus 2D6 plus 6d. So ones or threes. You can re-roll, right? So I re-roll them. No, it just becomes three.

Oh, they just become. Ones and twos or threes. So we're gonna keep those over there. Okay, so we've got, that's a one. That's a one. Okay, that kind of looks like a seven. Okay, but it's not. It's not.

It's not. Just thought I would say a seven. Okay, so there's one, eight. So we got eight plus six, which is 14. 14, 16, 17. Thank you. And then these would all be three. Yeah, 18, 18, 18, 20.

So that's nine extra points of. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. 26 divine slight. Yes. Sweet. Yeah. 49 points of damage from one attack. And that is.

I like when you have enmity. Me too. So that is taking into account this being a crit? Yes. Yes. Okay. I'm like, we didn't just do 80 points of day. No, no, no, no, no.

Unbelevable. Sexy Ganges. Levels three. Flame, light. As you catch your divine smite, vow of enmity, what is it? Because I think we've seen you divine smite before, but this is you fighting a literal profane creature.

What sense of conviction fills your body as you're attacking this thing, as you call on this magic? Ooh, okay. Hatred. I love it. Anger and just, Valis's anger, and when she starts to fight, it's ugly,

and it's scary and... This... Dark. This thing is a group of humans who betrayed their oath to their God and sacrificed. one of their daughters to make a monster. Everything about this is profane.

I hate her, but I also want to free her. Yes. Boom, um, this thing takes a mighty blow. I would not describe it as bloodied. Oh no. We just got started. We just got started. We just got started.

That's okay. That's okay. Maybe it's because it doesn't have blood. We're all full hit points. We still love it. Wait. You can't use that moment too, like. Good. I'll go back here.

We got you. We're over there. Shooting your allies with ballista over there? You dug, I'm proudy. I think it's time to level up. Okay. Yeah. That feels like a level up moment.

Let's go. Okay, what decision are you made? What are you taking at fourth level? What is your feet or ASI that you're taking? Okay. I'm gonna take a level in Bard. For a second, I was like, what? I was like, what?

Okay. Don't do it. Don't love love love. Undo. Undo, undo. I think I'm gonna do, I think I'm gonna do, fun. Hell yeah. Be good in everything, because you're 800 years old. You might as well.

Yeah, man. You need so much time for Potter. You have to get Amory there. Are you one? I think Amory is rushing up the stairs. You heard of skill. Oh, she can help you out. Oh, bless her.

She's only gonna get here. to get here, I think. The legs, the legs, the nubs, the levels. She hustling? Vailas, as you level up as well. As you level up as well, she can't do worse as that brings up, yeah.

As you level up as well, Amri rushing through the dark after Tisha's little stubby halfling legs of looks up at you and sees this mighty blow and your connection to the divine and goes. She's like vibrating. She looks up and says, all philosophies are some reflection or facet of the deeper truth.

And healing. I always say. And healing word heals you for three hit points. Oh, great. I'll take it. Nice. Great. What a cutie. Okay.

Okay. And Valas, we're gonna you go ahead and level up. We're gonna move back to the top. Great. We're not? No. It gets a turn? Is that in the 2024 rule?

This monster gets a turn every round. Is that 2024? That's crazy. The monster goes every round in 2024. Monster goes... Bullshit. Literally unplayable. Hell yes. I am going to unfortunately need Vail,

so you're in the middle of leveling up, but it is Turch's turn. That's okay. I'm gonna need another athletics check from you. This time the DC is 24. Golly. It's okay, you're athletic as shit. You're a skill expert now, right?

Yeah, I'm okay. And athletics. I was like, oh, it's going in athletics, how funny. Weird. What a crazy random happenstance. Well, it kind of did. Because you up your strength. Oh, it did. Okay.

Yeah! It didn't make it though. No. 16. I needed to make a 24 or above. You didn't make a 24 or above. Yeah. Yeah.

This. Can I guide myself? Don't worry about it. That's not even going to help. That's 20. This thing grabs you with one claw and grapples you and is going to do the same trick it did with Gaia, Flies to the top of this up here.

That was the craziest out I've ever heard. Flies to the top there. Do you like an opportunity attack on me? You do. Oh, let's go. Same, I'm gonna say no to that. Come on, ma'am. With advantage because of the flanking move

and it moved away. Oh, thank goodness. Come on after 20. Oh, no, it's still gonna be in 11. You whip out, trying to fight this massive monstrosity in the dark. It flies, Bayless to the top, and it's gonna take two attacks on you.

Okay. Shit, guys. I cannot believe how bad I'm rolling for this monster. This thing should be, you should all be dead by now. It's really crazy. That's a two on the die. That's a miss. Okay.

21 hit valis. That'll hit. Yep. That'll hit. It's massive scorpion tail wheels around. Let's kidding. Non-dark vision game. Can you see where?

Can you see where she went? No. Vales, you take, that is going to be eight, six, that's 14. You take 18 points of piercing damage. Is it half for any reason? She's fine. She's fine. Are you so scared.

Marl the sheet of paper? Maybe. Absolutely not at this point. And 18 necrotic data. No. Oh, okay, all right, all right. So hold on, let me add my, let me, what I rolled, I rolled five, I'm out for sure.

If you knock her out as she levels up, you gotta go home and think about that. I believe you, I believe you have resistance to necrotic damage, however, so that would be none. Only nine. So that would be nine. Okay, so let's see here. So manage HP, let me put my, my rolled.

Which is, if I cast cure wounds in one of the ballista and shoot her with the ballista. Does that count as a touch spell? It was five plus your Constitution bonus, which was going to be three. Three. So it's gonna up you from... How was your other HV?

I should be able to stab the blood back into a body. It's like the healing era, the classic. Yeah, right, right. What if I dunk it in? Got it. Okay, so then I would have nine points right now. You said 18? Halved to nine.

Haveed to nine. So I'm exactly zero. Exactly. Golly! You go to exactly zero HP. So that's only if I choose it. Yes, that's only if you choose it. A desperate measure.

But I would have had to have said that before. Yes. Okay, got it. All right. I'm just gonna take a quick nap, guys. Just a quick little nap. You see, yes. You're one of the healers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the goodness.

There you go. No, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine, it's fine. I can, you guys, it's fine. Just get this thing. I'll be fine. Octus.

Two, I don't see this thing anymore. Octus, that is your two. Okay, about how high up is that? Just for my own knowledge. But how high up is it? We can go ahead and measure that right now. From where you are, this thing is exactly, da-da-da-da.

This is about 70 feet away from it. 70 feet away from, okay, that's fine. But straight up and down, straight up in the air. Only about 45, about 40, 45 feet up. Okay, great. So Octus is going to move this way. It's gonna go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 35, 30, 30, you'll be here.

And then I guess I will use my, God, I don't wanna use my, action to get up there. I was trying to help you reload the ballast. That's what Dr. Oh, did. Halter's on her way. Oh yeah, she will get there before your turn.

After you. I can run and grab her. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so I think, because that was pretty much what I, okay, yeah. Pin can do this. Pin can do this.

Pin, grab a bolt. Go dip it in orc blood before. And then bring it to me. Save that second level. Just a little extra juice. Yeah. Little extra something, something. Little spice.

Hell yeah. Okay, so, 60, so from there, from there. Sorry, I'm looking at ranges of spells. Make sure I can hit someone. From where I am now on that, is that how far am I away? Yes, you're about the same distance away. So it'd be like, you said like.

You are, yeah, about 60 feet away. 60 feet away? Okay, 60 feet is fine. That's like the maximum range of a bunch of my spells. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So we're gonna go ahead, and Julian, you're on deck. Running up to there, seeing, having, because the torch light is over there,

I saw Vailas leave. Yeah. Now, can I see it up there? Give me a perception check. Okay. No. I won't, and I didn't. Great. This thing is a nasty monster, and it flies Vailas off into the dark to kill her.

So then knowing that, knowing I can't see it anymore, I will use my action to then just continue up here. So five, ten, ten. You can grab Dr. Talter as well on your way up. Just with my normal man's strength. Yeah. You're 511. Yeah, we'll get to it by here.

Great. There. Uh, uh, uh, uh. And um, I will know if that was my action. So I'm done. That's my turn. Great. Julian, that's you. All right.

Seeing it grab vales and vanish into the dark in that direction, can't remember. Fuck. Can I as my action take and light a torch and throw it to the base? like the in-between area of that tower over there. I'm gonna try and like, like, sheath the blade roll fast, pull it out, and lob it over that direction there.

Hell yeah, boom. It lands on the base, and it puts it right in, that's only 20 feet away, so this is all dim light up here. Okay, great. I just want to point out. PIN moved up there with me, and is using its action to give the help action to Tisha. Great. In what is to come, yes.

Gotcha. The way he said, it's great. As soon as it lands and I can see it, I'm like, there you go, you bastard. I'm gonna use 10 feet my movement to try and jump 30 feet onto the edge of this wall. Hell yes. Let's go.

Let's see what the distance is. Here we go. So you're gonna go like 5.10. 30 is just under the lip, so I will need acrobatics or athletics. Will Julie Foooooooooooo is absolutely crushing your great wall. It's been really up in the forest. That's going to be 18 acrobatics. Julian, you 10 feet, whew, bam, grab the top of the top of the top of the wall.

ledge with your hand. Let's go. Get up the top and then going up to the ballista, gathering it there, is it loaded? It is loaded. Yeah! Go! Go! Go! I'm gonna action surge and fire this in the... Go ahead.

It's over, hold on. I see it. Let's pick down a second Tacona, so aren't we? You should try and fire at it. Go ahead, give me, and this you will roll with proficiency, so it's just, it's like firing a ranch level for you. All right. I'm like, oh, come on.

You didn't hear that. You don't have dark hearing. So you, decks and proficiency. Like firing a short. That's gonna be a 21 to hit. 21 hits! Let's go! Go ahead and 3D10 and add your Dex modifier.

Let's go, dog. And a 10, 25 plus four, so 29 points of damage. Nine points of fucking damage. Julian, I would now describe this monster as blue. Oh my God. But you see this thing, looking down at Veilis, looks down, as you feel as making death saves,

it gets its face close to you. And you see it as your vestments show a symbol of salandry on your body. You see it goes, and seems to be conflicted as to whether to bow or snarl at the symbol of salandry on your body. As in this moment of confusion, in Tertia's gaunt skeletal torso,

a massive growth of a ballista bolt, FUDs at, and she now has, is basically fighting with a two and a half foot arrow jutting out of the back in front of her chest. Unbelievable. As it impacts, Julian kind of takes a lot of time takes a lot of time, like, hey, come here, you want vengeance? I'm waiting.

I just want to yell from me aside, I know you couldn't see it, but that was cool as hell. Get dark vision. Julian, that is your turn. It is. Tycha, Tysha, you can act, but none of the people can help you load the ballista right now. You can delay your turn because you all, there's only one monster you're fighting, so you all kind of go in a heap anyway, but you would have to delay until after Vailas, which means that she would make a death save. Golly. She's fine. She's so good at rolling everything. I feel like she's an expert at all skills, including Don't Die Yet. I'll delay my action. Okay, Valis, I need a day. death savings right. Get a natural 20.

All right, right, right, right. Wait, what do I need to roll? D20. You're gonna roll a D20? Well, I mean, what do I need to get? Oh, 10 or higher. 10 or higher. 10 or higher.

Yeah, you can do it. Just get a natural 20, then you're back up. And then I'm back up. And then you're back up with full hip point. With one hit point, but sure. I think we've both said the same thing. Seven. As a death save failure, you fall into unconsciousness.

And I believe. Woohoo! We're doing it. No. Okay. I'm sweating now. I believe there are certain, because I'm going to hand me the sheet real quick too.

I want to see there are some powers associated with while you are dying as well that require you. So you no longer can see what you. However, during your turn while dying, you can give inspiration on your turn and initiative to another character. Great.

Within line of side of view. Is there another PC that you would like to give inspiration Yes, Tysha. Cool. Tisha, Tisha. Looking down at Tysha, Vailas, how do you connect to Tysha in this moment as your soul, as you begin to die, and your soul connects to hers? I think in this moment, I'm just sort of looking up and looking around, and I think being so close to death and remembering the moment that we shared about Al-A-Gar. and my sister, and there is a part of me

that is kind of at peace a little bit, if this does come. But I'm looking down and seeing Octus and Tysha and Julian, and I can't leave yet. I wanna stay in help. So I just sort of look over at Tysha and just try to make contact so she can see me and see that I'm down. She can see that I'm down.

I'm down. Did you see? Doctor, as you catch her in that moment. Good, she ducked. Dr. Talter lifts up, lifts up, it takes a lot of her to lift one arrow up. She gets it up there. She looks to you and looks down at Penn and goes,

she just whispers to you knowing that you speak a little bit of Celestial and just goes, if this continues to go this badly, Demon Guardians? And it says, I presume they're guarding from something like this. And, and... Get nipple baby. And then immediately,

Arctus had a minor internal panic attack going, I don't know how to wake him up. I know. He's just like, I forgot something. It would have been helpful. I remember that. Tysha, that is gonna be your turn. Cool, cool, cool, cool,

inspiration. Is that just, what is, what is that? mechanically. For a 20-24. Inspiration is a re-roll. Okay, cool. I think you automatically roll 20. Yeah. I think that's what I heard. And is Pin giving me the help action?

Pin is giving you the help action. So we're already rolling with. In clarification, as a human, I got heroic inspiration every morning. Do I still get that? No. Okay, I just want it, because it doesn't specifically say, so I just wanted to double check. That's fine. I haven't taken it or used it. I just wanted to make sure that. Oh, yeah.

Sweet. Dirty 20 to hit. Dirty 20 hits. Woo! Yes! It took everything on every dive. Good God. 3D10 plus your DexMod. Let's go.

Pross my DexMod. Plus one. That could have been better. 13 points. 13 points of damage. This thing shrieks again. And any bonus action from you. Go. It's not within 10 feet.

Fuck. Yes. I'm going to cast Find Familiar. Are there stairs to get up this thing? Out of the roof of this? Yeah. I don't see any way that we can see. No stairs?

To get out onto the roof of it? Yeah. Not that I can see, no. Okay. Then we do this little-fashioned way. I don't think I've ever cast I'm familiar, not as holla. Yeah.

But I'm going to bend and break it, so it's the snake that I turned into when I was stalking Tyranny's sisters. And I'm just going to send it on a little trip to try to sneak up through the dark. To try to get to Vailas. Where can you create that within Ray? 10 feet, so off the side, yeah,

I'll just slide over here, drop a snake onto the ground, and be like, go. Do you wanna use, you could use, use your movement leaving the ballista to get closer. Yeah, I'll do that, then. Cool. So you go. I want to go over to the edge, cast this snake onto the ground.

Great. Sloat. Yeah. And then how much movement does it have? Oh my God. You look that up as we move on an initiative. Incredibly rapid. Yeah. You're going to be fine or dead by the time this happened.

Yes. One or the other. T-t-t-da. Oh! 30 feet. 30 feet. 30 feet. T-t-ta-ta, this thing is going to charge.

So it has 30 feet of movement. It can take a movement and a dash, right? Yeah. And with a climb speed, it's going to get. Ooh, I like that it bends. Very snaky. Your serpent ends right under the lip. Oh, tight. Cool.

I'm like, hold, pretend to be a gargoyle. Touch on a second. Okay, this creature's turn. Woo! Foon, thanks. Oh, shit. There we go. Okay.

It's been since my last turn, so it does not get advantage on its strike against me. It does not get it. Correct. It does not, okay. It's only on until the top of my next turn. Does, I know, an 11 does not hit. 11 does not hit.

Some truly garbage rolls over here. Does a 17 hit? 17 does hit. Okay. Julian with one of its claws. Don't. It slashes you for 11 slashing. All right. This is the one that is very likely to drop you if it hits.

For dramatic, effective, I'll roll this in front of the board. Please. What's your armor class, John? 17, oh, 16, sorry. 16. Eight or higher. Don't. Oh, I was almost a four.

Almost a four. That's fine. You take. Stop being on the roofs. I'm about to like a huck, sneak over and be like, I got! That is going to be, let's see.

Me too. 32. But it's kind of fun. Yeah. 34 points of damage. Cool, you know we're level three and four, right? I do know that. Cool, well, I'm unconscious.

As this thing thuds down. Um, uh, you drop to making death saves in this moment. Indeed. You watch as this creature here hovers over you, using its attacks, it howls out into the night,

Octus. That is going to be you. Your two warriors are fallen. Both are making death saves. You still have this creature charmed. Is this it? Charmed? Well, it doesn't, it hasn't gone for me.

Okay. Okay. Where would I need to be? Or is there any, kind of what is, I need to be, I'm trying to be within 60 feet of this thing. Yep. Is there a place on the board I could be within 60 feet of this thing

feasibly? Can you get to the middle of the air? Oh my God, I swear to God, if he tells you to get on anywhere near that veil, I'm gonna backhand both of you. I need to be around here. Yep. If you just stand right at the center.

Yeah, if you just stand in that little. So if I can get to like standing on this here. Yes. Okay. So Octus is going to run down and be on this stone pillar there. Yeah. He's gonna, looking up at the thing, it is still within the 20 feet of torchlight, I believe. And he yells out, I said to stand down. And he's gonna pull from the inside of his coat,

a branching twig, throw it, have it land in the feathers, and cast, Witchbolt up at it. Hell yeah. Doing 2D12 lightning damage. Cool. Okay. We're gonna go ahead and roll this lightning damage.

I am also going to allow you to make an intimidate roll, which will be with advantage because this creature is charmed. You will add, the DC is going to be 30, but you're going to add the witch bolt damage to this check. Okay, so we'll do the witch bolt first. Ooh, okay. That is gonna be, that is a 18 to hit. 18 hits its armor class.

Okay, great. All right. Nope, we check it in. We're gonna. Okay. Ooh, good, good, good, good, good, good. Okay, so that is 17 points of lightning damage. Amazing.

Wow. And then we'll make the intimidation check. You said with advantage. With advantage. That is a 16 intimidation check. That's 32. 32 with the damage from Winchpull. This thing.

hunkers down, covered in lightning. And that stays, that arcing continues to stay is almost like leashes I'm pulling at this thing to get it away from Julian. On a 32, this thing is going to spend, I'll let you know the mechanical effect of this. It will not make attacks on its next round, but it is still very much in combat.

It has, like, movement, it is angry, you killed the scorpion. It's a freaky-ass monster, but it is compelled by your voice to not make attacks on this following round. It is looking badly injured. Octus, that is your turn. Is that your turn concluded? Yes, the lights around me do go out.

The dancing lights blink out of existence. You see that Talter looks as Julian goes down and goes, ah, the demons? Not the demons? Yeah, yeah, sure. You want the demons? I don't feel great about the demons, but I understand that anything is at the time.

Julian. We are going to go back to back into Julian and Valis. Valis with a death save failure. I just need to set expectations for this. This was always a horrifying encounter, and you guys entered into it without a short rest. Oh, absolutely. This is no one's fault, but I know.

This is what some people might say was dumb. No. What? In character. In character. In character. But I want to set expectations for us that it is possible for Ashley to roll a natural one on her turn,

which would be- I don't think anyone could do that on that save. Also, something I realized. Yes. I didn't roll a five for hit points. I rolled 10. You rolled a 10. Do you not add your con modifier to it?

No, I did, but I- We rolled it before, right? When we rolled it before. I rolled a 10 out of five. A number of days ago. So I actually would- Would have had five hit points left. Yes.

Copy that. But because I'm gonna rule, normally I would say, it's in the past, we moved on in combat. However, leveling up, you didn't get the advantage of, you didn't get any of your level up advantages on your turn. You initiated your smite all with powers you already had access to. So I'm gonna say that you could level up here

in your dying turn, if that makes sense. Okay. So in other words, it wouldn't have done enough damage to kill you outright. Nothing by rules as written. In other words, nothing by rules is written has been contradicted by you just saying, I would like to level up on my turn

as I make death saving throws. Does that make sense? Yes. Okay, copy that. That feels completely above board and even too many. Cool? Okay. Great. In that case, Julian, I need a death saving throw from you. Let's go.

Cocked. Cocked. Cot. 17. That is a success. With a success, with a success, Julian, you can choose to auto-stabilize right now or dying on your turn. You can give inspiration to another PC on the battlefield.

This is as part of the- As part of desperate measures, yes. I ain't gonna auto-stabilize. I'm gonna give inspiration. God damn you. I will tell you, I am going to still ask, just in order to keep everything above board, because we moved forward in combat thinking

that you had dropped and we're dying. I am going to ask Ashley for a death-saving throw. prior to her leveling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So then I give you... I don't know if the inspiration that would be granted would help

with your death saving throw at all by any means. It would. I think inspiration can be rolled. A death saving throw is still a saving throw. You can re-roll a death save. So yeah, it's give you a little chance to not. So I think like as this terrifying weekend entity is like still over top of me

as I'm like slipping into unconsciousness and kind of barely, coming in and out, my gauntlet gloves kind of clutching onto its bleeding midsection. I kind of glance across the way with a little bit of you kind of crawling on the opposite rooftop and just go like, let's finish this.

That's my turn. Go ahead and give me a death save. So we're gonna roll just a straight T20. This is your death save? Six. Six is a failure, but not a one. That was the one we were looking for. Two failures, you can choose to level up

in this moment in which case you will gain five hit points. You love to see it. Yes. You begin your turn with five hit points and are no longer dying. Great. What does it feel like to get up in this moment? Okay, so.

Stranded on the roof. Yeah, I just get up and realize I'm on the roof. Sort of. And you can see a huge arcing lightning bolt that is streaking across and wrapping around this angel coming out of Octus's hands. Okay.

Can I do anything or that's that. Yes, no, no, you have to use half your movement to stand up from prone. Okay. You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna lay in some hands of myself. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, great. Great.

You have left. Let's see. Four. Four. No, only one point. Well, does it go up with the level of. You have one. So in that case, you might, like, is that one might also be the thing

that could save Julian's life potentially, but. You see a little snake face. Just, uh-da-da. Oh yeah. Hello. He'll just call me in a second. Um.

There's also a universe, just to give you more options, so also a universe where you ready and action if this angel flies back in your direction. Great. Yeah. I just have my sensor prepared for that moment to happen. Cool. And sort of out of the side of my eye, seeing this little snake.

It's like the little tiny in you. Yeah. Gotcha. Um, oof. Uh, Bales, that's you. Uh, Dr. Taltor loads the Belista one last time. Uh, let the Blista one last time. And, um, uh, is going to give, that's like an object interaction to do that.

Um, and she's going to, um, uh, give the help action to Tisha and just run a B-line out of here. She just leaves the board rushing, rushing for the demons as fast as she can. Uh, well, we record. require assistance, serve your purpose, will we presume to have been your purpose? Great. And then, that is going to be

ta-ta-ta-ta. Vailis, that was your turn. We are going to go back to Tysha, that's you. Cool. I would love to go fire this ballast. However, we spent money for a snake, and we have to use the snake. From where I stand, I reach forward

and I cast cure wounds into the air in front of me. And the snake's little eyes light up as it slithers over to you and is gonna deliver the touch spell on my behalf. I'll just put my hand down so it can sort of slither up. Yeah. Sweet. And you're gonna take 17 points. Hell yes.

Oh, thank you. Awesome. And then it's gonna push past you for the rest, because that's all I can do on my turn. It's gonna, and that was just this reaction, so 60 more feet of movement. I guess it's headed to the other fucking roof now. I wonder if I can chuck it.

Yeah, you wanna throw this snake? It's already 15 points. Paws a gently. Your serpent gets to the base of the other tower. Yeah, sweet. Just whipping over the battlefield. Doing great, sweetie. It is Tertia's turn.

She's going to, bound by the witch bolt and cannot leave this tethered, shrieking at you, knowing that you mean her harm or something, but she also can't disobey you. She wants to finish Julian off so badly. Instead, grabs the ballista, hurls it off the root. Has a tantrum. Has a tantrum?

No, absolutely not. and flies here and he's going to fly here right near Tysha, and that's a, and she is preparing to destroy the second polista. I will say in a direct line from one tower to the other. Would you, might have gotten in your range of attack opportunity? She leaves your threatened range. With a reach weapon, you have the ability to use your

Ready to action. Okay, let's go. Yes. Right, right, right, right, right. Advantage because vow of enmity is still on her. Okay, that would be, hold on. Okay, great. 21.

21 hits. Great, okay. So we've got 1D10. Her ass. All right, so that's 11 points of damage with the sensor. 11 points of bludgeoning. Plus 6 fire. Plus D6 fire, which is four points of damage, four points of fire, and then divine smite.

Hell yeah. Put a smite on it. This will be 3D8. Oh, that's right. Okay, so we've got 16 points of damage. Ashley Johnson, how do you want to do this? So as I'm sort of getting after, after snakey time, I sort of look up,

see her flying across, and I just whip out the sensor around her neck. And then I wanna just yank so that she just, I just wanna crack her neck. Go ahead and stay here. Yeah, I want to stacier, yeah. And you see the lightning from Octus's tether around her chest, your flaming sensor around her neck.

She flies and under her, the power of her own wings. Each of you pull at the same moment and decapitate her as her bones and wings scatter directly into the stairs beneath Tysha. Boom! As she falls to her death, you have freed her from this abominable state.

So the body lands right at the base there. Yes. Most of it. Well, where specifically does the head go? Head clatters to the ground beneath. Octus is gonna go down, head down towards her at this minute, and kind of just look at this body and what his future was possibly going to be. And in this state, considering this is not a human being

or a mortal anymore, is the head still conscious? Consciousness is fading rapidly from this. Octus like bends down, grabs the head, looks at it and says to it, find who you were on the other side. As the body is broken and specifically as the head is separated from the wings, dying here, Tertia looks back. The sort of ridge of bones retreating back into her skull,

a few little wisps of what used to be, that sort of platinum white hair. She looks up at you. And you look down, and you look down, down Octus at your cousin and realize that you are both failed experiments. Octus is going to take, open up his side satchel sort of pack, pull out the clothing that he took from Castle Clippendlick. Gonna wrap the head in the shirt.

Yeah. And put it in his bag. You take that with you. The body destroyed. Julian, I'm gonna need a death saving throw from you. Snake in the intervening time was making its way up. 14. 14, two successes.

On your turn, Tysha, the snake makes it up to the top. And you can go ahead and cast cure wounds. Octus is going to use a second level spell on a spider climb to start going up to help Valus get down. Yes. Great. You guys watch as Octus begins to Hey.

Are you okay? I'm okay. Eighteen points of here. Are you okay? Are you okay? You come to. Just a snake, just staring me dead in the eyes. Check's out.

Do you smell rich moss and living life around you as you come to we exit initiative? Okay. Are you okay? I'm fine. I'm fine. They didn't hurt me. No, no, no. I mean other than like,

The other parts of me that are bleeding from earlier, it's fine. Okay. We need to get you down from here. Okay. Here, and he sort of like, look, this might be a little embarrassing. Get on my back. Okay. And just gives a piggyback ride to then repel down the side of the building, a la Spider-Man.

Right, when we land? While you're doing that, you just hear Tisha screaming across. Julian, bring my snake! Julian sits up and you see a snake just go, just flung through the air. Okay, my bullets is still loaded, yeah? Yes, correct, it is. I shoot the wall as he starts to come down.

Julian just sits up at the edge and goes, Is it dead? It's dead. Good. He throws back his cloak and puts a second knot. Oh my God, he's gonna go wake up the demons. Or she's gonna wake up the demons. So you put a notch on your belt? Yeah.

Second notch. Yeah, as you guys leave initiative, Dr. Toulter has run up the stairs. Taltar, come back. You don't hear it. I don't hear it, yeah. Okay. Well.

We have to go deal with that. With what? Is my snake dead? No, you guys are fine. Why would your snake? He threw my snake. He threw my snake off the roof. How many of these snake have?

Did you want to go. I said bring. I said bring my snake. Not fling. 13. 13 hit points? Yeah. Your snake is badly injured, but okay. It's fine. I'll kill you. I'll fucking kill you and put a notch in my belt. I think you earn all the notches if you take me enough if that works. You guys reconvene back here at the bottom of the sepulchral veil. Okay. Hustling?

Thank you. You're welcome, don't throw my snake. We have to go. Someone's resurrecting demons. What? Why are you saying it like it's my fault? No, I'm just yelling in the direction of Dr. Talter. Who's doing what? Tolter went to wake up the Guardian Dealer.

Why? Two of you, two. We were fine. Neither of you were fine. You had a giant celestial monster on top of you. You both went on the roofs too. Neither of us can fly. I'm running.

I don't want to go up there. You're running. Okay, I'll say give me full, Britney's We'll leave it. You're chasing after a very tiny little halfling who's running up the long staircase. Give me a DC20 athletics check to catch her before she gets there.

Not gonna. No, no. Hoping it up the stairs. You go as fast as you can. Pull a hammy. You ran off specifically back. Great. And we'll keep this all very fair.

She adds a plus nine to her religion check, but she doesn't know how this place works. So I'm gonna say for her to have completed whatever she's gonna do to try to invoke that help of this religious stock. She needs a 16 or higher on the die. So we'll roll in front of the board here. Seven.

You guys make it to the top of the stairs to see her in front of the guardian demons continuing to, trying to like decipher the text, being like, we're in an emergency, there's something back. No, it's good, it's good, we got it, we got it. Okay. All right.

Thank you. Got it. I would like to say that I specifically did not run upstairs, and I'm just standing in this room, just kind of looking at what this place is and was, and having just having been, not touching anything, not doing, just examining the room while they go upstairs and just kind of just be here. You know what, honestly?

I think Julian would have stayed back as well to keep an eye on you. Yeah, that's fair. Gotcha. So just Phelis and Tysha head up. I'll also let you guys know above table that we are very close to our time here for today. You both Tysha and Vales arrive back up. Dr. Talter stops, looks out. Okay, nothing, it's all fine.

Is the thing dead down there? Yes. Okay. Got it. Got it. Octus, down below, you gather your cousin's head. Is there any part of the body that has any sort of like, of the sort of prosthesis or the modifications they were doing to them? I would like to try and remove those to study them, to know what's.

You open up the scar on her abdomen, reach in, and you find a, what looks like a carved shadow piece of like white alabaster within, that you realize it's a piece of, like, angelic remains. Okay. Having my gloves still on, I'm gonna take that. I'm gonna take that as well to study. Just kind of look and be like, okay, you figure this out.

Try and stop this. And I turn and I realize at that moment that Julian is still in the room with me. Just trying to understand this. Had a different piece inside of her. No art, same as me. But I don't think there's anything. I think we can go and just leave this.

Not, not, they weren't, they were using it wrong, I think. They either didn't know or didn't think it was important to do it correctly. How much of this body is still intact here? It looks to be withering pretty rapidly within this space. But the, yeah, not much. It was already pretty desiccated by the time you guys were fighting her. And it had transformed quite a bit.

It looks like separating it from the wings and torso let her kind of decapitated head revert somewhat from this sort of like halfway transformation. The fact that you guys were able to kill this thing, means this was not the God-killing angel promised in prophecy, right? I think if we want to destroy this place later, fine. I don't think we have the equipment or the ability to do this now. We do not.

So I think we just go, seal this door again. Where do we go? If we know, at least can be fairly confident that the remains of the Barrow Guard are alive and on their own journey. I don't think we have any indication as to where they went. To be honest, I think what we've learned here, at least the pieces that we've uncovered, are more useful if we can gather whatever allies we have

to share what we've learned. I agree, also. Did you share the information about that druid you heard about? No. No, okay. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. If we could pass back through a castle torch to let them know of what came of our unit.

And maybe they went back there. But beyond that, he kind of gives you a very keen look like he's studying as the words leave his lips. Who do you trust this information with? Of everything that happened here? Yes.

I don't know most of the people that are in our tentative group, but out of the ones I do trust with this information, I would trust Murray and Thimble. Murray doesn't, and has alter your motives. As you say-

He's as he says, Thimble, and is, Murray, I could talk to him. I can talk to Thimble. You think about those scattered jewels back in the obelisk chamber. Yes. Emerging up the staircase, you guys get back to the Apotheon Vindicta. Do you want to go back downstairs?

I'm so sorry. It's okay, go for it. Hold on. And now that we're out of combat, it wouldn't have had time to explain while we were fighting. I'm gonna explain that I saw all the druidic stuff I saw around the black pool. Okay.

When I was looking at it, did it look like it was noted by that druid or thwarted by that druid in some way? On that Nat 20 from earlier, something was stolen from this. This ancient thing of blood, it started to scab over. It smells like just old iron at this point, but it's not supposed to scab over.

This is supposed to be like an ever-bubbling cauldron or wellspring of blood. The druids that came here, or the druid that came here, stole something from the heart of this, and you think maybe either destroyed it or profaned it, but the thing that is hateful about this has been taken. Cool.

and all I wanted to do was run back down, scan for any like message left in Druidic in case there was something there and I'd have a second to look. And then I guess yelling up the stairs, are we just leaving the veil as is or can we kill the veil? What do you mean the, what, what?

There's like a big thing on the back of it. We could shoot it with a ballista. Probably not me shoot it. Looking at that altar, is there anything that looks like anything that could be damaged or, or is this all of it? just a single stone, like.

I think you guys can, on your way out from here, destroy as much stuff as possible. You guys can't punch the buildings down. Yeah, yeah, but... Swinging. But, ruins can be defaced, important, expensive, material objects can be taken. You can grinch every little gemstone

that's supposed to... Thank you. That's all I want. Yeah. You guys... I'm gonna use the shit out of it. Yes, you guys fucking... Not a can of who hash remains. This is lighting to Grinchbys.

We're shooting this in December. Yes, the Seprical Vale, destroying this place permanently would take a crew of 100 over a couple months or a year. Just disabling the ritual. But, yes, what you can do is if they need to come back and try to do this again, you can deeply prevent that. But what you've learned here as well is,

who's a Taconas without sorceress ability who's alive? there's a certain degree of, I think Octus and Tasha looking at this, yes, you guys profane it, you steal it, veil broken. Whatever that thing of blood was that the Taconas already didn't care about, some druid beat them to the punch and also profaned and stole something from that.

You don't know what they stole, but something left that place. And on top of that, you also know they did too much shit to this ritual. They got greedy. This was a monkey's hand in the jar of cookies trying to go, could we make the super angel loyal to us?

And you're like, kind of no, right? In other words, you can, but you needed, it needed to be Octus unless they can find another Tacitus without Sorosaurus ability. And you are able to leave this place. Go back to the Apotheon Vindicta. If you want to deface some of the incredibly significant runes there, you can do that as well.

Julie and I are talking. We don't know where the battle regard went from here. Yeah, okay. But they're alive. Tillies to the best of our knowledge. And maybe they went back to Castle Torch. And we missed him on the way. Sure.

Unlikely, but okay. I mean, or they have some piece of information that we don't have and they've gone somewhere to deal with that. I am. So what do you want to do? Do you want to go back to Dolmachiar? Do you want to go back to Dolmachiar?

It's bad for me there, but I think it is important that we do. When I was asking about the Druid stuff, did you mention the Druid that went back to Dolmachiar? Yeah, I would have fully given. Yeah, yeah, I just wanted to admit that's what I was like. Yeah, sorry, yes, that yes. Also, that druid then went back to Dolmaciar. Mara.

Might have information that we could use. If they can go to the realm of the dead, that's an incredible piece of information they might have. Question, wait. Mara was the one? No, different. That's a different. Well, we don't know.

We don't know. We don't know, we don't know. I wonder if that's... So maybe they have something we could use. Yeah. But also just giving this information to some other people that could work on it. Yes.

But we don't go through Castle Clippin' Blick. No. No, we just do you clear. Yes. Dr. Tysha, feeling the pain of not finding your son here, but knowing from Pascar that your son left under his own power to do something, maybe foolhardy or heroic. Apples don't tend to fall far from the tree,

but it doesn't feel good. But I think you know, you got the information that he is not in direct peril, but he might be going into peril, but also who are you to tell him not to do that? There may be a chance when you get back out of here to search and see if there's some piece of information. Dr. Talter, seeing

you guys defacing what you can on the way out, looks over and says, the, um, demon statues, we wish to smash, not smash. I mean, I don't think, oh, I don't know. It's, but if they're not part, they're not part of what my family was doing. Got it, okay. All right. So we leave it, leave?

I guess it's just, I don't know. I have no answers. Uh, she goes, okay, understood. I, I did, I did start talking. To one of them, maybe, okay. Which one? Did it move? Was that? Did it respond in any way? She looks at the old, the old man one.

He started talking to that one. He seemed kindly. What? Didn't move. Sorry, did he seem kindly just because he looked that way? Or did he do anything? No, no, just the statues carved that way. Oh, sure, sure.

Okay, okay. Okay, okay. Yeah, understood. And she says, all right, we'll go. We'll go. We'll go. She, you guys leave this place. Do you on your way leaving stop by the barracks at all,

or do you just move out of here? I think taking a quick look inside is not a bad idea. Give me a quick, anyone who wants to do investigation or insight. Yes. Okay. No. I'm just walking.

24. Talter will give the same. Good God. So then 29. 29. I think you grab letters, books. Everything here, you see that there was a cage here, and you see some weird stony residue.

A basilisk was being kept here, but they took it when they left, right? Yeah, to grab any papers, we can go over them later and just like to put them in a bag. You guys get back to the chamber. You go back to the obelisk, scoop up all those. gems and everything like that. Three gems. And you guys have made the determination

to return to Dolmachyar. Yeah. Last thing I'll ask for here is an insight check from Julian with Advantage. It's a 17. You've been hunting the Tacanus. On a 17, Primus Tacitus said tonight, the houses of Royce and de Vinos fall.

You look in there, the ghouls didn't even really pursue Aranesa. He was so certain, why did he say the house of Royce and Venus would fall? And I think you look over at Octus and the shrieking angel thing down there. I think the blood of your family was supposed to pave the way

for a weapon that would make that true. And I think your companions daring in the Palazzo de Vinos, the choices that were made both in the palace and in the tenbral reaches just beyond it, thwarted something happening hundreds of leagues away in this place, Tanasar. You dig deep

and realize he was trying to destroy your family that night, but he wasn't trying to do it in Dolmachyar. He was doing it here. And what you did in your family home stopped them. The sand and wind call for you as you leave this place. Yeah. Sorry. It's not important. Narrative, I don't need to have a I want to have gone and taken something, identifying, marking from Dame Saramai. Yes.

Like anything to just have with me to, like if it was necessary to prove that they died or just to take a piece of them with me. They were also a relatively good person in regards to Octus, like in protected. I think that you can actually carry her remains back to the horse, and that's completely doable. Dame Saramai carried with you, Dr. Talter looking shocked.

The wind's calling. All of you, behold Tannasar, mount your horses, and make for the city of Shields, Dolmachiar, where these strange events began. And that's all for this episode. Oh, my God. That was crazy. Shoot.

Hey, baby. Hey. I'll tell you what. There's so much shit to go over and that stuff you took from the barracks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we got our cold opens for the schemer's table, folks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you for watching, and as always, is it Thursday yet?

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