D&D is For Nerds - Return to Grace #8 Horns

Episode Date: November 30, 2024

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But these things cannot last. As an evil army led by a villainous man came into what was and is. But these things too cannot last. As one day, a brave girl wearing glass slippers snuck into the villainous man's castle and took back what was and is. For her bravery, the village made her their leader. For her grace, They gave her a name You can see there is a sarcophagus of sorts. It's lady and Elle your mother

Don't disturb the dead you fool No good can come of it I just want to make sure she's in there and not lurching around in a tomb somewhere. All the elegance of House Grace is absent here. This is a place of dark business. You see a podium and upon it is a leather bound tome. Everything about this book screams no bad evil. Additionally, on a sort of rack, almost, is the desiccated, kind of bulbous head of an alhoon.

I did not realize your father had taken that one. Wasn't so scary after all. Mmm, who was I to... Why did you say that? You didn't have to say that, you could have said... Blood. Cinder. Son of a bitch The Alhoon head slowly raises Ha ha Yeah yeah yeah

No no no no no Absolutely not The three of you are bathed in darkness I cannot have my revenge on your father But I will take it out on you The sarcophagi have been broken open I have my revenge on your father, but I will take it out on you. The sarcophagi have been broken open and the corpses of your ancestors fight you now. One of them, the furthest away from you, your mother, wears only just fine clothes.

No weapon or arms or armour. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff. I'm gonna have to kill my mother again. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff. I'm gonna have to kill my mother again. Good stuff. Dudu swings with her hammer, trying to get as high up as possible on one of your great great great grandfather.

Karatekus Grace. Karatekus Grace. As in from the song The Court of King Karatekus. Karatekus Grace. Man, it's too late because he just passed by Who do deals 39 points of damage to the creature? Yes Karateka's graces head soars clear off his shoulders Both head and corpse for lifeless you're down to seven as the head hits the ground his many gold teeth scab

lifeless you're down to seven as the head hits the ground his many gold teeth scatter pop brain goes 32 pop it's your turn um so something I've remembered Adam mm-hmm on the first turn of any combat I get three attacks you are held down by hands yeah I like an attack of times. Not with the sword, you can't. No, but I can with my unarmed strike! Hahahaha! Um, oh no, I have the, uh, I have Torquholtz Bane. I have that dagger. Okay, yeah. Can I get to that, or? That's too hard. You can draw and wield Torquholtz Bane while being grappled, yes.

It's meant for killing dragons, but I mean, it is a sharp thing. Yeah. I'm just trying to get loose of of the hands is really what I'm doing. You use Torkoal's Bane like a pry bar to try and help me. That's what I'm trying to do. It's an attack though, so I get to do it three times. Basically, I'm furious. Are you rude little bastards. Using Torko's Bane almost, using this ancestral, famous weapon, the one Torko's Bane in the world, you use it like a pry bar, breaking the knuckles and ligaments of the hands holding

you. Get your hands off my shit. Polkosbane now bends slightly to the right. That's alright, it's still gonna be a killer dragon, alright? Well, maybe. You gonna put this in a museum later? I haven't decided. When things like this happen, do you think you're adding to the history or destroying

the history? It's complicated. Pop, that was three attacks. You have movement and a bonus action if you want to do anything there. Am I now free of the hands? So I'm standing up as the bonus action? No, standing up is part of your movement. Okay, so I'm gonna stand up.

I just, I put the... It's all Goldsbane. I just, I try to like, sort of straighten it against my like, hip a bit. Oh, that's not gonna work. I just I try to like sort of straighten it against my like hip a bit. Oh, that's not gonna work. I put it away. That's a problem for another day. Try straightening it out a little bit and it becomes loose in the scab. I just put it away. And then I ready Holy Avenger. I sort of clock what's happening. Sulu is kind of fighting but I see that Tiffany's fighting the goo man. So I'm like, okayutu's kind of fighting, but I see that Tiffany's fighting the Goo Man.

So I'm like, okay, Tiffany's got the Goo Man. I'm gonna try and get all of the undead to come to me. Okay. Well, not all, but try to get them to go this way. Yeah, act as like a sheparding for Tiffany. I'm big, I have a big sword and I'm not in a backpack. Yeah, you know? So yeah, I'm big, I have a big sword and I'm not in a backpack. Yeah, okay. You know?

So yeah, I'm just gonna. Well, Sulu is not currently in your backpack, just as a reminder. Oh no, she's rolled away. Yeah, yeah. Because she was having a heart attack, so you set her down. Yeah, yes, I took her out like a baby.

Yeah. And put her back in. Now she's stuck. Like a baby. Oh, actually. Can my bonus act. Can my bonus action be to put Sdu back in the backpack and now we're dual wielding back-to-back I'd allow that yeah I I get down on like one knee

with like my sword here in front of sudu who's just killed somebody I'm assuming she's looking pretty pretty stressed just had a heart attack her face is bit red and puffy yeah through the band would you do me the great honour of fighting by my side? Or back? Hop in! She looks you up and down, and you can see in like a moment she assesses your combat potential. It's pretty good, Adam. Alright then.

I pick up the sword and I'm just like, you ready for some catharsis against a family that absolutely fucked you over? There's a lot to process there. We turn and face the horde. One of you turns. Well, we stand side on. When one turns, both turn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I'm so sorry.

I'm just like doing little circles. Yeah. We're pseudo. No, we're just like sideways. Yeah. You're sideways facing forward. Yeah, I know this. I can picture it.

In front of, because I don't know what happens to you. I assume you've got it under control. Who's facing the dead right now? You or Thudu? Knowing that... We both are. Oh, I see side to side. So we're side to side facing. Yeah. Okay. Cool, cool, cool, cool. So there's seven

dead left. Three attack Thudu do four attack you pop now You're not allowed to be mad Do do gets hit twice If you kill my backpack do do takes 25 points of damage, okay? That's heaps actually yeah, that's why they're like and she's not very tall. Yeah, I mean look I've got 166 And then you're not allowed to get mad 12 22

32 I could body that yeah 38 Plus I'm a bit. I'm less. I'm a bit more worried 38 have all of them doing so much math. He's doing- Did every single family member get a hit in? How could they all fit into a small corridor? They are all adept fighters. They are all famous heroes. Yeah, but Karateka's died so easy. Karateka was fighting his ancestral enemies. Who was Karateka? Hang on a second. I just remembered that because I've got a favorite enemy, I think it's-

Is it the house of grace? It could be now. No, I'm pretty sure it's Els. Pop, you- Els. Yeah, I don't know why. Pop, you take 56 points of damage. I can body that, but only just. And if it happens again, I will be fine.

But if it happens a third time, I will die. You're on 78 hit points. That's more than 60. Oh, that's the same as me. We match. House Grace comes at you from all angles with practiced precision, like they were training for this exact situation. One of them will strike at you from one angle and you defend there a little too late, only

to realize that that was an opening for a much greater blow from another one. You are stabbed in the gut twice. And I don't mean by a dagger a long sword Pierces your belly near to the hilt twice Fuck I've been through worse. I have You can hear through to is not faring better on your back and at one point she cries out in Dwarven something it's something in dwarven and then repeats, my lady, no. You look over your shoulder to see Lady Annelle's corpse driving a dagger into her chest. So the thing is, like, if I have to kill Lady Annelle that'd be fine, but it's not thematically

cool. It's the hands turn. Everyone needs to make a saving throw. Oh, the hands. I forgot about the hands. Wait, needs to make a saving throw. Oh, I forgot about the hands. Pop. Wait, can this help me? Yeah.

It's a dexterity saving throw. Oh, well what about doubling my proficiency bonus until the start of my next turn? That would be helpful because you're going to fail. I'm going to spend it. All right. You manage to save and not get grabbed by the hands. Tiffany, you're just really good at this check. Thudu gets advantage because she's off the ground. Actually, Thudu just doesn't even know.

They couldn't even grab her. If they can't grab me, they can't grab her. Yeah, they can't reach her. Yeah. All right. Well, that was the hands' turn. Tiffany, it's your turn. Okay.

Am I able to... I'm not facing behind me. No, you're not facing behind me. No, you're not facing behind you. Famously, few of us are. Yeah, I looked and it felt like you had it under control. Yeah. Could, can I hear- You're writhing in pain.

Can I hear- You're, no, no, no, you're behind, technically, cause where the spear landed, where Cinder landed, you are, if you can imagine this, it's you facing the back of the Alhoun, which beyond which you can see Thudhu and Pop fighting the corpses of your family. Jess It's clear they're not doing very well, isn't it? Jason Yeah, they're struggling. Jess Oh, but okay, how much do I know? If I kill this Alhoun, first of all, do I think that's possible? Jason The flames of Cinder have harmed this Alhoun just now, and you also know the first time

this Alhoun was killed was by your father. Okay, but then how's it alive now? Do I know that? It's uncertain. No. Okay. What if it has anything to do with the weird darkness around us everywhere? Interesting.

Do I think that by killing, with what I know, do I think that by killing this alhoon, everything else will fall down and stop? It feels heaps like the alhoon is behind this, so that wouldn't be an unrealistic assumption. In that case, I'm gonna keep mincing the guts. Okay. I'll try and, I wanna try and aim Cinder up

to go through the head. Okay. Hell yeah. Cause if I'm already in the guts, then I'm through the barrier. I just want to go up through the body You attempt to rest Wrestle the the spear upwards again, but well not again Whatever you try to force the spear up so that you can target and destroy the head of the Alhoun But that magical barrier keeps pushing Cinder down with a force that you are just not able to push Against you could keep trying and every attempt it feels like maybe you're getting closer and to be fair also

Despite the fact that you don't destroy its head you still deal 16 points of damage so you're not doing nothing. I Flareblade, yeah? Green Flareblade. Oh, yes, Green Flareblade. Oh, I hadn't accounted for that. Thank you for reminding me. You deal an extra 6, so 22 points of damage. Nice.

Very good. I mean, it's not 57 that was done to me, but it's pretty good. But that was by, you know, however many people, so. Seven. Seven people, yeah. It's the Alhoun's turn. Oh, God. Tiffany, I've got some bad news. Oh no, he's using his something's wrong voice. Quick, you might have, uh, good

boy cards. Yeah, good boy cards. One of them says- When I'm ignoring attack from damage? No, it's not attacking you. It's doing something way worse. Oh no. You feel a tendril of thought slip into your own mind. Yeah? Oh no. Tiffany, you are mind controlled by the Alhoon. Uh oh. Um. Die!

You completely withdraw cinder, lay it on the ground, put your chin on the point of cinder, and that was the Elhoon's turn. Dodo is too distracted by fighting Lady Anel and hasn't spotted this, so she's just gonna do her action. Okay. Alright. Okay. Okay.

Wow. Dodo crushes the head of another member of House of Grace. Anel's gone? No, she hasn't, she hasn't been, she can't bring herself to do that. Well, none of us. Who's this? Cinder, the original. No, it wouldn't be Cinder. No, Cinder's fighting you. That's that sword in my belly, yeah?

18, yeah. 18, 20, 26 points of damage. Another member of House Grace falls to Thudu's hammer. She's a menace. And the hammer's fine. Yeah. The hammer's fine, yeah. That's crazy.

Aloysius Grace. Aloysius Grace also died, like, not by Thudu, not that'd be crazy. No, having his head knocked into. By a Jell-O-Plover. All right, that was Thudu's turn. She destroys another rover house. Grace pop.

I'm going to need to roll for you as well. To be honest, you're pretty distracted. You are surrounded. Do I notice you can you physically? You can't see. I don't notice you don't spot it. Then I don't notice Adam. Okay.

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Yeah. Oh, that was good. That was pretty good. That was pretty good. You almost got something important there. And now it's my turn, you cadaverous fucks. Cadaverous? That's awesome.

And I'm going to I'm going to And I'm gonna do two attacks Adam, with Holy Avenger on the closest grace which I assume is Cinder. I... No, Cinder's darting in and out. She's clever. Yeah, she moves with a lightning speed. I'm sizing up one of those other gormless idiots.

Another member of House Grace is destroyed. Miranda Grace. Goodbye. Miranda? Another member of House Grace is destroyed Miranda Grace Miranda Grace died in you know they do the thing with their roll cheese down the hill With your second stroke you destroy another member of House Grace. Angus Grace. Angus Grace. I should be writing these down, probably. So just, just...

I'd like to imagine that, like, cut Miranda in half, Angus goes in for something. Is Angus like a... What's he looking like? I mean, he's a skeleton or whatever, but like a big guy. Yeah, a big guy. He comes in, I reach through his skeleton I grab onto his spinal column. Yeah, and I just slide him over the sword Just just like I'm grating cheese. I look at the remaining graces who are facing me. Come on get some

Do do manages to fend off Hell yeah. Thudu manages to fend off... Pop didn't. Yeah, Pop, you get critically hit. Oh no. That's okay. That, I can... I can live that.

Yeah. Unless this critical hit does 70... Hang on. We'll just see. Okay, we'll see how much damage it does. Adam looks like he's really scared. He's looking at me. I can't lose another is about to deal as much damage on her own that you dealt got dealt last time Cinder do we need to use that? Yeah

What if what if instead she didn't You ignore damage from one attack and I would like that one attack to be cinder Okay, do you want to quickly find out how much damage that would have been? Yes, I- Adam, I would love to know. I would love to know, cause if it was more than... Cause it was gonna be 57. Yeah, might not necessarily have been 57. Yeah, see, she didn't roll that well actually.

10. 20. Yeah, okay. 30. 34. Ten Twenty yeah, okay, yep Thirty Four you would have taken Nearly 40 points of damage. That's a lot considering. I don't have I have only 78 Yeah, yeah, and the other guy the other guy doesn't feel like he's as strong cinder Lunges at you with the tip of her sword she uses it's it's a, it would be a bastard sword, a hand

and a half sword. So it's, it's not a regular long sword. It's made for that to be adaptable. It can be used in one or two hands, but when she lunges at you with it, you see she moves like, like it's a dagger. She moves with it so lightly, so dexterously, so gracefully. Pops in love. The sword, the point of the sword is directly aiming at your heart. You are about to be skewered. But at the last moment, you turn just enough so that Thudu comes around and with her hammer, she slams it into the sword, knocking it down,

and it skips off the ground instead. Cinder sprints past the two of you without provoking attacks of opportunity, moving like a dancer. And you have only a moment to appreciate that before the other one does hit you. Is this Grays' dad? Sure. Yeah, okay. I don't know, who is this? Abnergrace.

Abner? Abner deals you 24 points of damage. That's nothing. Can I just say if I had to cop the Cinder damage and I copped that damage I would have copped about 64 points of damage. Which would have put me on a grand total of like 10 health. Yeah that's plenty. Yeah that's all you need to live. What do we got here? Tiffany, the hands don't attack you this turn, because you are no longer an enemy of the Alhoon. Oh, yes.

You manage to dodge out of the way of the hands, and Thudu is saved because you're saved. And then that was the hands' turn. Tiffany, you bring your head up and slam your head down onto Cinder. And Cinder hates that and it doesn't work, right? Because you can't kill Grace with grace. You never heard the ones you love. Yes and no. Okay.

As you're slamming your head down, you feel something gentle tuck underneath your chin, preventing you from bringing your head down upon the point of cinder. You are not mentally conscious to the world right now or in that moment you were not mentally conscious to the world. The Alhoun had control of your mind and body. But Tiffany, you blink once and your body is once again your own or it feels like you're more frozen in your body as you look into the pale ghostly eyes of a very familiar face Yeah, two Ghostly pale hands are holding you on either cheek and staring straight into your eyes

It is a very, as I said, familiar face. She slowly pushes your head back up and you slowly regain control of your body. Is it my mum? Yes. So that's okay. So is it the corpse of the mum? Is it the corpse of the mum? No, it's a ghost.

Oh, okay. Pop, at this exact moment, stepping out of the walls where each sarcophagus is, a ghostly figure appears. You recognize them immediately. Each one of them is either a corpse you have felled already. Or I'm about to. Or I'm about to. Completely silently, none of them make any noise other than the passing of air as each of them stepped out of the wall.

Each of them draws a weapon, lowers them at their own respective figure or at the alhoon if their respective figure has already been slain, and they get to work. Oh, fucking Lord of the Rings, baby! Oh my god! Pop, you were the first to spot this hang on I'm gonna write this down because Tiffany hasn't seen it yet. I'm pretty sure I know what Tiffany's staring at right now I'm gonna write this down just so that we can all bask in your reaction. Okay, okay Okay, I'm excited as hang on. Well, these corpses have come out

I take my hat off that I am wearing my big straw hat My humble apologies for desecrating your corpses But as I'm sure you can understand in a test with they were going to fuck up my shit So I put it back on my head You could not spot this because of the age and the level of decay you could not spot this But with the ghostly figures you can see this it's very obvious Okay, I'm gonna read the note that Adam just handed me. Don't read it just for myself I'll be back. He's leaving. He left. He left. He had the gold.

Oh my god what is this? He's standing through the little window into the studio. He's standing and pointing at Adam and screaming abuse. He's saying fuck you, fuck you, flipping Adam off. Really good at soundproof. I see why he left How was it outside the studio? I can't even pretty good. I can't even think of what that could be to make you do that It's pretty good. It's pretty good man Hmm. Hey, you know, it's crazy? Yeah, I kept the statue now Pops

Clocks that thing that I just learned. Yeah, it's just very quietly fuck Fucking boss That fucking bastard! Wait, you know about this too? Yeah, I know what this is. I know what's going on. Alright, Tiffany. Do you want me to eat this or...? Yeah, I'd love that actually. No, don't please.

Tiffany, you may act. I'm back in my body? Yeah, you're back in your body, you have full control. Your mother... She's still touching me? Yeah, you're back in your body. You have full control. Your mother... She's touching me? Yeah, she moves to be standing next to you, puts one hand on your back and another hand on your hands holding Cinder. There's no strength behind what she's doing.

It feels more like a gesture. Does it feel like she's ready to attack the Elhoon with me? She's following your guide. Okay, we attack the Elhoon. Alright. I'm not going after her corpse, obviously. Al who? Motherfuckers, I'm still cooking.

Like I said, there's not a lot of strength behind her movements, or there's basically no strength behind her movements, but you nonetheless feel as if an extra force, not just Cinder, but some extra force is guiding you. While this is all happening, do I notice anything? You're pretty focused on the mother-daughter activity that you're currently engaged in, I think. I will allow a roll with disadvantage. Um, actually, no. No? Okay.

I'm not noticing anything. Get a good boy card. Well done. Okay. I'm just wondering how obvious it is. Okay, we got a good boycott. Well done. Okay. I'm just wondering how obvious it is. Okay, we got a good boycott. Ironskin, you gain resistance to damage from non-magical attacks. Okay, cool.

Awesome. Would have been helpful, yeah. Non-magical attacks. Yeah, not corpses. Corpses are just weapons. Cops using weapons. That's a regular sword, I guess. You deal 25 points of damage.

Good job. Hell yeah. Just, Adam, can I ask a question? Yeah? Does she feel like a mum? You didn't really properly appreciate what it's like to have someone who loves you help you. And I can feel that now, yeah. There's no, like I said, no force, but there is a warmth to where she touches.

Hmm. That's interesting. That's interesting. And I kind of just know she's there. Yeah. And I know that she wants to help. Yeah. And I feel that if she were to vanish suddenly, I would know that that's because she, she, she would still want to help me. Yeah. So I have some sort of secure attachment to my mother.

Interesting. So I don't have to work for this love? No. You look- Where's the trick of the training exercise? So she's actually, she actually did meet me just now and she does love me. Looking over your shoulder at her behind you,

you see she cannot, whatever is allowing her to be here does not allow sound. She is completely mute without noise. But you can see that tears are rolling down her face. And when you look at her, she looks down at you. And a bitter, but nonetheless happy smile crosses her face. Oh, does it look like she's upset at how I look? No, it looks, she looks happy when she sees you.

The smile appears when she's looking at you. That's interesting. So she seems happy to even look at me. Yeah. And there's, and I, I'm taking her with me after this. All right. The Alahoon is bloodied. So you've done at least half its hit points. Oh, the Owlhoon is bloodied. So you've done at least half its hit points.

Oh, amazing! Alright, speaking of, I think it's its turn. Yep, the Owlhoon screams telepathically in all directions. It is furious that you did not kill yourself. Still screaming telepathically. Ahhhhh! Not like that. Ah Ah, not like that. Ah, more like that. Wraps one of its tendrils around your arm

and constricts it down. You feel one of your bones in your forearm break and you feel a chill to the bone that seems to banish the warmth that you have been feeling growing from within you and spreading outwards. The warmth is fighting against it, but while they fight, you will still take... 14 points of damage. Oh, for a forearm?

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She's like Abnus fighting me. Yeah. This would be Phoenix Grace. Phoenix Grace takes 96 points of damage. Jesus Christ. And is destroyed instantly. Just imagine if she could use her legs. The Ghost of Phoenix Grace wielding a staff, who quite obviously wants a powerful wizard.

I'm going to write that down. The Ghost of Phoenix Grace. The word magical grace in the family Yeah, the ghost of phoenix grace looks at thudu can't say anything but looks at thudu like why? What the fuck and Then it is pop your turn where cinder because she's the biggest threat. I don't care about it. Is fighting cinder You know what she's got it. I Was gonna be like ma'am

I apologize for this and then attack Cinder, but I feel like Ghost Cinder can handle Zombie Cinder. Sure. I look to what I assume is the ghost of Abner Grace. Yeah. And I swing Holy Avenger around and I just take my hat off again, because he's a ghost. My apologies again, my lord, but I need to do this. I hope you understand. I'll try to make it as, you know, and I sort of look to what Sulu has just done

and not not like that. And I put my hat back on, but there's a little part of me. It's like, it could be like that. And I go ham on Abner Grace. Will Barron Was Abner, maybe you don't know the answer to this right now. It was after a good man. I think Abner got maybe you don't know the answer to this right now, was Abner a good man? I think Abner got the job done. Oh yeah, that builds this. Yeah, I see that. Did what was required. Yes, absolutely.

Yeah. And say that Grace did what was required. Yeah, slightly differently, but yeah. Abner was a man who believed in meeting one's obligations. Absolutely. I imagine him looking slightly like Tywin Lannister from the Game of Thrones TV show. Yeah. Abner, well in that case, Abner's response is just a curt nod. There seems to be no emotion to this for him. Yep, fair enough.

To him, this is a dusty corpse. 24 points of damage to Abner. Abner is destroyed. Your second attack... Oh. Yeah, that was your first attack. Holy Avenger is really good at Undead. Yeah, it is. Cinder's still fighting Cinder. Mm-hmm.

How is Cinder doing against Cinder? Um... It'd be funny to say perfectly evenly matched. But no, the... The... Um... What... The ghost is a ghost.

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It is not the same. Question, could I provide some of the information that I have learned right now? You could call it out, yeah, you got a moment. I've got a time to call it out. You are outnumbering the enemies for once. So, yeah. So, Cinder is fighting Cinder.

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