High Rollers DnD - Altheya: The Dragon Empire #19 | Blood and Shadows (Part 2)

Episode Date: April 18, 2024

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guildmaster of the Lamplighters Guild. Gruffeth of Tremora has met with Ser Gryll, the knight, and also made some inquiries at Brightshadow Cathedral. But as Rowan, Ophelia Daisy and Xanthias make their way back to the enticing devil to meet back up with Gruff they find themselves ambushed as smoke greenish yellow sickly smoke pours out of two ever lights and forms into a number of demonic creatures. And that is, my friends, where we pick up,

once again, in combat, in initiative. As a reminder, the sign closest to you guys, the camera, the long edge, imagine it is thick with buildings, you know, it is closed off, we just have it open for the camera. It's just a road, straight road, east and west. A road kind of

going east west there are some alleyways and things like that as well um you have the the pillars with the lights that you can see on the miniature map there are these two ever lights uh it also there is also another one just off in down towards one of these alleyways as well have they both turned off now or are they still like they are still lit like normal yeah okay they're still lit like normal the smoke has finished and has coalesced okay those lights are still active uh all right uh gruffeth is not with you currently but he's making his way back unaware of what's happening um and we can only hope that gruffeth will hear the sounds of battle and come a running i'm stopping off down the pub yeah uh but uh and everything else you see is just as you see it.

We have a number of buildings. There are some wagons with crates and barrels and things like that. There are two alleyways that split off. It appears to be the small tall tower at the back of the map along with all the buildings as well. Okay. But the way we were, we were heading to the east.

Enticing Devil, yeah. But you found yourself cut off. But now there's five enemies ahead, six behind. Enticing devil, yeah. But you found yourself cut off. But now there's five enemies ahead, six behind. Yes. Yep. Okay. Good thing we weren't going that way, backwards. Yeah.

With that, we are going to jump straight in with Ophelia, who is going to be at the top of the round. Nice. Let's see. Cool. Yeah, Ophelia will take her whip and her gauntleted hand, point it towards the enemies that are facing her right now so on the right side yep she'll just say you will not keep me from my path

foul demon and she will rage yes run towards the group so we activate rage bonus action and then your speed is 35 5 10 15 25 30 35 just out of range normally but because you have a whip and 35. 5, 10, 15, 15, 25, 30, 35. Just out of range normally, but because you have a whip and you have reach. So you can see there are a number of creatures. There are four of these more bestial demons, and then one who is more armored. I'm going to tell you now the more bestial ones are minions. The armored ones are full creatures. So I'm going to refer to them as the demonic minions

and the demonic soldiers. All right. I'll take a whip towards the minion, please. Okay, the one right in front of you. Yeah. All righty. Perfect. And I'll do a reckless, please. All right, so you have advantage on the attack roll.

That's 12. The first one, 15. 19 to hit. 19 will easily hit. Roll damage. Whilst it is a minion, you might do over damage and kill the one behind it, or the one. 19 will easily hit. Roll damage. Whilst it is a minion, you might do over damage and kill the one behind it, or the one next to the other guy.

Five total damage. Five total damage. Not quite enough to do over damage, but you whip crack the one directly in front of you as the whip kind of cajoles into this thick red line of blood. Nice. As it hits the creature, it just explodes

into that kind of thick, miasmic smoke, that yellow and greenish smoke. And when it dies, Ophelia, you take one poison damage. Okay. As the noxious smoke almost rushes towards you in a final vengeful kind of burst, and you take one poison damage. Okey dokey.

But if that is you done. That's my turn, thank you. Alrighty, in that case we jump to the rear minion pack. The rear minion pack is gonna come swarming. Five, 10, 15. So all the red minis, they're just minis. They're minis, sorry. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

Rear minion pack. Rear minion. Rear minion. He's right, he's dead. 5, 10, 15, 20, 20, 30. They are going to dash. Oh! And get up on Xanthias and Daisy. I'm booger.

After the minions, the next person to act is actually going to be these two rear soldiers themselves. They are catching up quick. They beat you on the initiative, that's for sure. And they are going to do the same thing. They're actually going to move up. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 35. 35, okay. 15, 20, 20, 25, 35. 35, okay. 15, 20, 20, 30, 35.

And then they are also going to dash, I believe. Well, one is going to dash, actually. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Next to... Oh, in front of Rowan. Yeah, he's going to move up to try and block Rowan off from going to support the others and engage. to try and block Rowan off from going to support the others and engage. The one at the very rear is just going to blast towards you, Xanthius,

with a kind of poisonous dart of smoke towards you, basically. That's cool. That's cool. I like that. That is going to be a 21 to hit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't to be a 21 to hit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't matter. Yeah, no, it does. Yes, 10 higher.

So that is going to be four piercing damage and four poison damage. Eight damage? Yep. As this smoke kind of impacts into your face and you feel it like dig into your flesh, but as it returns to a smoky form, you get it all in your mouth and burns your lungs and your your eyes sting oh i just took a gig of ape the other one that's run up to uh the one that dashed up to rowan has dashed i don't get a thing but it's going to use their

bonus action points to you rowan and will just say like it's time for you to die, coward. There's no getting away. It's gonna use their fight me coward ability. Oh! You are hexed, Rowan. Whilst you are hexed by this soldier, if you try and damage a creature that isn't it, something will happen.

So it's like taunting you, basically. Right. So if you attack and do damage to any other creature, it will trigger its monk. My secret captain, I'm always scared. I'm always scared. I'm always a coward. So that is, there you go.

They are two separate groups. I've rolled initiative different, by the way. We then move to, I believe it is Gruffydd, who has not arrived just yet. So unfortunately he's not here yet. But you begin to like, as you're making your way back, you think you hear like some unusual sounds and you're getting closer

and you start sort of like looking in that direction. You see this kind of sickly green light like bouncing off the alleyways. And you've only seen that sickly green light once before. And that was when Theresa was possessed by the demon, and something, you maybe hear some sort of yell, maybe the scream of Ophelia's rage, and then you're like, oh, that's them,

and you begin to move away. I'm gonna turn around, go the other way. Okay, nice. Pop time. Yeah, pop time, pop time. For real? Classic. No. Oh, I need to check, I don't know. Graf will sigh.

Yep. Yep. And start running towards them. Perfect. All right. Well, you will arrive on your next turn, basically. Do you move faster if you run on all fours? Should we try?

Yeah. Well, if you shifted into certain animals, you can move faster, I think. I haven't actually shifted into an animal form yet. I don't you shifted into certain animals, you can faster, I think. Oh, I see. I haven't actually shifted into an animal form yet. I don't know. I don't think you can. Doesn't know how.

Oh. You should have wild shape. I do. But Gruff doesn't know how. Oh, I see. Okay, gotcha. You need someone to make an animal noise at you so you know what to replicate. It is going to be Daisy next.

Hi. I'm going to bonus action disengage. Bonus action disengage, yep. And I'm going to just go, not again, not again, and disengage and move 30 feet towards that mid, yeah, that direction. 15, 20, 25, 30.

You have slightly come off your base. I'm gonna need to fix that. I will... To super you down. Radiant blade at the one in front of Ruin. Okay, the soldier. As my action. Sure, absolutely.

That's a natural one. Oh, so the blade flies past. Just in your panic and fear, you just throw it behind you wildly, and unfortunately it's not enough to quite strike true. You've used your bonus action. So, yeah, you still... Bonus action, disengage, move, and then action.

I'm just going to show... Guys! Guys, it's happening again! That's me. All righty. The soldier A is going to step up towards you, Ophelia. We'll point in your direction. They're going to immediately use their bonus action, The soldier A is gonna step up towards you, Ophelia. Will point in your direction. They're gonna immediately use their bonus action,

just like, don't waste your time with him, you're mine. And it's gonna use fight me, coward, on you, so you are now also marked. If you damage anybody that isn't this creature, it will trigger a mark, basically. Yeah, that was a dumb idea on his part. Nice, 100%, that's what they're there for. And then it's gonna swingous Censure at you.

That's a natural 20. Oh! They do have advantage, let's just see. So this is going to be with crit rules. This is... I'm not going to crit the poison damage because it doesn't make sense that that would crit. Okay. So, but this is gonna be eight, 12, 14 bludgeoning damage. You're raging, so that would go down to eight.

Yep. Oh no, seven, because I said 14, and then on top of that, just one poison damage. Okay. So seven plus one. Eight, not bad. Eight points of damage. Good old rage.

Yeah. And just cocks you around the head. Seven plus one. Eight. Not bad. Eight points of damage. Good old rage. Yeah. And just cocks you around the head. You feel this sense of, you know, bash into your face. The poisonous fumes, like, get in your eyes, cause your eyes to sting. But just that, you know, bit of blood maybe, like, tribbling down the mouth from the blow.

You just taste your own blood in your mouth and that... Make sure you're tracking your blood for your points as well, because you just took a bunch of damage and you've already attacked a creature, so you should be at two, I think. Yeah, because that's a unique mechanic,

so we want to make sure we keep track of that. Yep. Cool. After that, soldiers go. Oh, the minions. I actually got these around the wrong way. They are going to, ah-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

Surround Ophelia, okay. They are going to unfortunately surround Ophelia. Three of them. As these are minions, I'm going to make a group attack with them. So they're basically all striking together. Nice. So this is going to be a... So they get an extra plus one, that's two extra plus ones to hit. So that is going to be like 21, 22 to hit. And then that's going to be one two three points of slashing damage so half down to one cool uh they're just kind of with claws and barbed tails and teeth they're just trying to slice at you but you're just not feeling it as you you pummel them just laughing yeah um reminder

as well you have your fake points as well yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you iron them up uh we then jump down to Xanthias. Down? And then Rowan. Well, yeah, you and Rowan are last in the instance. Yeah, that's true. Thank you, Daisy, for moving. I'm going to cast Burning Hands.

Okay. And I think I can hit three of the minions and the soldier as well. So a 15-foot cone. Then you're getting it too. I'll just put my hands either side. Yeah. You need them together for it to cast the spell. Yeah, I think you could have that. Hand of dexterous. I think I'm going to say, without a template directly,

I think you can get two of the minions and the guy because it would be sort of like this. It's a cone. It's not like that. A 15-foot cone. Yeah, but that's how long it goes, so it would go 5 10 15 out here but the actual point is narrower sure okay so i think you would catch two and then this

guy at the back so it's still good you're still hitting three creatures um in which case they need to make uh dexterity saves dexterity saving throws all right let's do the two minions first uh this is a fail yeah uh and then what what's the DC? It is a 12. 12. The second minion does succeed, but it is a minion. Podcast listeners, Tom has lifted up his... Box of Chaos. Box of Chaos. The soldier succeeds, so they're going to take half damage.

Is it half? Yeah. Yes. Okay. Well, it's 3d8 damage, or as I call it, a d18. Oh no! You know, I'll allow it because technically that's worse. Because the minimum is 3d8 on 3d8.

Oh wait, yeah, I can roll a 1. Or does that have a 1 on it? It literally has a 1. This is not 3d6 like I thought it would be. I want you to roll it. I'm not going to use it. You've got it out now. Oh, you don't wanna use your cool random

Tom's Bag of Chaos dice? Sounds like someone's not committed to the bit. I'm committed to the bit. I'm rolling a d18, even though I could theoretically roll less than 3d6. It's so easy. You're gonna roll so bad on this. He might roll an 18.

This is my dice. He might roll an 18. Three and 18. The odds of dice. He might roll an 18. Three and 18. The odds of this dice are significantly worse than three. This is a bad dice. You got this. Four. So the equivalent of two and a one.

Here's me rolling three, do six. Five, two, and a four. Yeah. You like that. Chaos. Yeah. You like that. Chaos. Yeah. So, you go to conjure this mass of flames. It's okay. But for whatever reason, the flames are not quite as potent as you think.

It does kill the two minions. There is something inside that burns so strong. Yeah. Two of the minions die. Tom, when the two minions die, they both turn into a poisonous smoke and you take two poison damage. Okay, okay.

He is looking pretty bad already. The surviving soldier gets hit by a wave of heat. He succeeded, so he only takes two fire damage. A wave of heat, or the equivalent of walking into a shop on a cold day. Yeah, yeah. So it kind of just brings, A wave of heat or the equivalent of walking into a shop on a cold day. Yeah. So the demon creature brings its arm up, expecting some inferno, and is like, ow.

It's like when you walk off a plane in a hot country, and you're like, and I know I'm home. All right, so the only dude next to me, I want to sort of cycle around him to the other side. Just so I'm, yeah. Leaving him between me and the soldier. Okay. Between soldier and, yes, that. Great.

For podcast listeners, what I just said. You've moved around to the other side of me. Yes. He's moved slightly, he did a shimmy. Rowan. Rowan is annoyed that Xanthius went out of touching range. Oh. But that's fine.

It's fine. Slap me on the way round. Booty slap? He can't move away. I know. Oh, you can. He's in... We can, but you take an opportunity. Yeah, you take an opportunity.

Because I'm so big. The hex that you have is just if you attack another creature. I've got a ten-foot reach with my arms, though, right? No. Thanks, man. I'm going to... Can I, Mark? Here we go.

I think your DMing has been exceptional recently. Here we go. It's been phenomenal. Can I, with a fate dice, pick up this soldier and just run towards Ophelia? I mean, yeah. I mean, you can... It's like rugby tackling.

That is not what I expected at all. I love it. You're coming with me. I need to get to Ophelia. You don't even need to spend a fate dice to do this because this is actually covered in the rules already. You would basically try and grapple the soldier and if you succeed,

you can then move half your speed towards Ophelia. With a fate dice, I would like to use all 30 feet with a boost of adrenaline. Um, yeah, I will, I'll let you move, maybe not the

full 30, but I'll let you move next to basically where Ophelia is. That's what I want to achieve. Yeah, I'll let you move, maybe not the full 30, but I'll let you move next to basically where Ophelia is. That's what I want to achieve. I'll let you get an extra, because you only need an extra five feet of movement. But yeah, if you want to spend a fake night to get a big... Long leggies. You basically burst some adrenaline, you can do it.

But you need to grapple first, so... Seven. Seven is not going to be enough. It would be an attack roll to try and hit him, I believe. Or is it an opposed check? It's a posed check. Yeah, it's a posed check. It's a strength check, isn't it?

Eight total with my strength. Oh, okay. Base strength. Okay. Because I know sometimes, I think maybe it's a shove. I feel like it's usually an opposed. A shove, it's an attack first, whereas I think grapple is, yeah, opposed, I think.

I'll check it in the rules later. I'm not going to worry about it now. Unfortunately, that would be a 17 on my behalf. So this creature, just its demonic strength, you move in. I'm counting the fate dice because you would spend it at the beginning. You go to grab it, but it's stronger than you think.

Although you're bigger than it, it kind of fends you off. It's got like a kind of crude shield that it's wielding, like a slab of sort of like this, you know, distorted chakitan kind of armor. And it's wielding like a slab of sort of like this you know distorted uh chakitan kind of armor um and it throws you off like as a bonus action i'm going to look to my left at xanthius yeah say while trying to struggle with picking this guy up i think that burning hands was extremely cool and very vicious. It could have been better.

Energy flows out of me, it's Bardic Inspiration. Right, okay. You also get a little mote flowing around your head, which will add to the ability checks, saving throws, or something else. Yeah, it's when you spend it, whatever you spend it on the Bardic on, it triggers a different effect, doesn't it?

It does a different extra effect. Nice. Cool, thank you. Alrighty, in that case, that is the end of the round. So we jump back up to Ophelia at the top of the round. Surrounded. Get him, girl! Ophelia will just grant this demonic swordsman request. Yeah, she'll just...

Just attack him. Attack him, yeah. Reckless? Yes, please. All right, advantage. Oh, good thing it was. Nat 1. Nat 20, boy!

Oh! Very good. Well, this is an important question because do you want to spend any blood fruit points? Because those will be affected by the crit. So you max those as well. Nice. 2d6 extra damage.

2d6? Yeah, d6 per 1. So you get your normal d4. So 6, 12, 18 for the crit. And then you roll the dice and add that. What's the point of using it? Oh my god, max, okay. 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 damage.

27 points of damage. That's a big hit. Do you have an idea of how you wanna kill this guy? I imagine she gets her whip, manages to wrap it around the guy's neck, and she just yanks as well. Snaps off. Yeah, you do that. gets her whip, manages to wrap it around the guy's neck, and she just yanks as well. Snaps off.

Yeah, you do that, the blood whip wraps around the creature's neck, and it's surprised. The speed and ferocity of it, and the blood almost seems to constrict it even tighter, and as you yank, you hear something snap and tear. As the body, as you break the body, it turns into that noxious smoke. You do take two points of poison damage

as this creature is slain. Oh, they do that as well? He's slain. Slay, girl. But yeah, you just rip. Does spend both your blood fury points, but greatly. Do you say that? Let him rip.

You Beybladed this guy. He's still spinning down the road. Spin up town, spin up town. Gonna rip it up and make it down. Anyway. Nice. Right. End of your turn, Ophelia.

I guess you still have movement if you would like to. Or bonus action. I'll be in their range. They'll get an opportunity attack if you try and move away. I'll stay where I am. I just keep tanking the hits for now yeah I mean these guys aren't particularly tough yeah all right sounds good in that case these two little remaining minions they're remainers

move round they are also gonna make a group attack against Xanthius. I wish they would leave. Yeah. That is only going to be... They've got a house to stay in, though. Nine to hit. Nine does not hit. Yeah, so you do manage to defend yourself, fending these creatures off as you go. Then we would jump into...

Squish. Gruffeth. Gruffeth! Where's your miniature, sir? Over here. No. Here he is. Here he comes.? Over here. No, no, no. Here he comes! No, no, no.

Big, big boy. Wild-shaped. Get that shit out of here. Rowan should be the big one. So you'll be coming on from this side. Thank you. So it is going to be your movement to get in. So you spend your movement action to arrive on the scene

as you basically see Ophelia tear this demonic creature's head off with her blood whip, but that is going to be your movement. Bloody hell, I can't leave you for a minute, can I? Sorry, Gruff! We didn't do it! I am going to cast Ice Knife. OK, nice. On the minions. What's the radius of Ice Knife? 60 foot ice knife so you target a creature don't you yeah so i target one creature within 60 foot and it explodes and hits everything

around it yeah can i will hit ophelia uh no no hold on a minute i'm just trying to think can i reach the um reach the one further back? The one on his own at the back? The one on his own at the back. This guy? Yeah. 60 feet, yeah, I think so. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. No, you can't, actually.

Hmm. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? Phyllis Barbarian, she's fine. She's fine. Fine. She's hungry, too. I'm hungry. Oh,phelia's barbarian. She's fine. She's fine. Fine. She's hungry, too. I'm hungry.

I probably still will, yeah. I'll go for the central one that's in front of Ophelia. Well, because, yeah, you hit it and then it explodes afterwards. So I'm going to take a fate dice to roll this. So add to your attack roll, yeah. Good thing I did. 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 to hit. 13.

Oh, against the minions is just barely a miss, unfortunately. The Ice Knife, but I think it has a secondary effect, so even if it misses, it still then explodes. Hit or miss, it explodes. The target and each creature must succeed on a dex saving throw. All right, so including Ophelia, I'll make three saving throws for these guys. The one that was hit, what's the DC? 13. 13, the first one fails, second one fails,

third one also fails. All three of the minions are pretty much gonna die to this, but Ophelia. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Dexterity saving throw. Eight points of damage. Checking if she had advantage on it. Not 20. It's Danger Sense,

so yeah, you would have had it. Danger Sense as well. Never mind, though. So Ophelia, I think it's half damage on a saving throw success? Half damage? Yes. Yeah, so you're still going to take four cold damage, Ophelia, but you leap out of the way.

All three of these creatures die. As they do, though, they once again turn into that noxious smoke, and as Gruff is out of range, the three points of poison damage go on to Ophelia as they assault Ophelia with the poisonous nature of their bodies. That's all good. I'd like to think that as he's throwing the ice knife, his body will start to be covered in that kind of the oak and the thorn as he activates his armor of oak and thorn as a bonus action.

Nice. Perfect. Well, great team. So running in from the streets, throw this ice knife, blow apart these minions and then form the green armor form. And crucially, he's admonishing the kids. Yes, nice. We can explain. Actually, we can't.

We just walked down the road. We, nice. We can explain. Actually, we can't. We just walked down a road! We're doing nothing, I swear. One nutty minute. Can't keep my eye off you. Who have you pissed off now, then? Yeah, good question. As this fight is going, as you've already begun clearing away these minions

and only, like, two of these soldiers now remain, you see that the third Everlight, closest to Daisy, you see smoke begins to billow out of it once more. Daisy, behind you. And a figure. Oh, boy. Oh, that's a different boy. That sucks. You see a demonic-looking humanoid figure. This one looks a lot, like, not quite a tiefling because they are more unnatural. Their legs actually bend the wrong way. They kind of do the digitrade kind of like

backwards bend, but they have these great curving horns. But their mouth is almost permanently emanating this like yellowy green smoke. And as they speak, it spills out of them. Their hair is like smoke as well as it pulls down their bold, kind of, kindness head. As this thing appears... Don't smoke, kids. More. More is needed. I'm going to spend two points of fate as this guy's bonus action

to summon a bunch of minions again. Okay. So I can choose a point within 30 feet. So wait, does this action cost fate to you? It does, yeah. I see. Oh, they just shoot up at him. I choose a point within 30 feet.

So he points and a kind of globule of smoke goes out and then splits into four more of these creatures. And it's four again surrounding Ophelia. Yeah. It locks Ophelia down, seeing just like... And then... I tried.

At least it's four and not seven. Yeah, true. That is going to be their action, so they can't do anything else on this turn, but they do appear out of this light here. Nice, okay. It's going to be their action, so they can't do anything else on this turn, but they do appear out of this light here. Nice, okay. I say nice. Then we go to... Just sad.

The minions in that group were all killed. Those guys won't get to go until the next turn. So we then go to the... He's dead, so they're all done. So soldier A is done, and minions one are gone. So then we jump to Daisy. Hello, I would like to smash the light behind this dude. Okay, so like throw a knife at it?

No! I'm right beside it, so can I? You would need to move five more feet to get right beside it, unfortunately. Okay, actually, no. I will throw a radiant blade at it. I will throw radiant, because radiant damage will be better. I will throw... You can use your radiant blades in melee as well.

Yeah, I know, but... I need to re-glue her. She'll come off her base. I will... All right? Yes. All right. Try.

It's stationary, but it's made of metal and stuff like that, so the AC is... It still has an AC, so you have to roll to hit it. Can I use a fate dice? You can. Because I'm rolling like rubbish. Yes, you can. That's what they're there for. Fuck me. Good job I did, because I rolled higher on the dice, the fate dice than my actual dice.

14. 14 is just barely not enough with its metal construction. Yeah, 15 AC for this thing. The radiant blade kind of just glances off the metal construction of the Everlight and just bounces to the side. Fuck my life. Bonus action. I'm going to disengage and run towards to the side. Fuck my life. Bonus action.

I'm going to disengage and run towards this other light. Basically, I'm going to try and go between lights and try and take them out. Yeah. 30. I'm going to try and run about. That's not an Everlight there, is it? No, the one in the building is just there for cool effect.

It's the ones on the pillars of the Everlights. All righty. Well, Daisy, that was your go. The one in the building is just there for cool effect. It's the ones on the pillars of the Everlights. Alrighty. Well, Daisy, that was your go. We then go to Xanthias. I've got two boys next to me. I ranged attacks will be at disadvantage next. It would be, yeah. Ranged attack.

Obviously a spell with a DC is fine, but yeah, ranged, like, plus eight to hit or whatever. The soldier, is he 15 feet away from me? He is, yeah. 15, yeah. So Burning Hands, I'll do that again. Yeah, you'd hit all three of them again. So yeah, DC 12 save.

I'm not going to use this dice because I don't know the point of it. The soldier succeeds again, unfortunately. One of the minions succeeds, but with minions and then the last minion. Minions are pretty much going to die from this anyway. Does the moat do anything for their saves? It just for stuff i do right just for your stuff so normally it's attack roll saving throw or an ability check fair enough right right that's a five eight ten uh half for those that succeeded so the six the soldier uh took five from that uh but the two minions are annihilated that It does mean I'm going to take...

You're going to take two points of poison damage, unfortunately. As, yeah, they turn into this poisonous smoke, assailing your senses as they do so. But they're completely obliterated before they can do anything. I'll use a bonus action to spend a sorcery point just to get some runes going. Okay. And I will move just to,

do I wanna run away from Rowan? I ask you, where do you want me? Right here. Okay, I will go right here, right next to Rowan. I cuddle Xanthius. Okay, this is it, this is it, we're done. Final reaction? A beautiful moment by my friend. I'll allow it, if you spend a fate point,

you can cuddle as a reaction. We get whipped like aliens. Xanth point, you can cut us a free action. We get whipped like as aliens. Xanthias, end of turn? End of turn. Rowan? Rowan is going to get out his longsword and do a straightforward attack. Okay.

That's why you wanted me close. Watch this. Document this. Natural 20! This will be your longsword. Yeah, and it's two-hand. So D10, so automatically a 10, and then we get another D10. Can he find a D10? And all those dice. You want a D10?

I got a 10. He's got a 10. Damn it. Oh, it's a 10. I have one of my own. 20 damage plus any modifiers. Do you have any modifiers? One? So 21 points of damage. Your longsword splits this creature in two. Just carves.

I didn't want you to watch that. As the sword is dragging through it, it turns into that assailing smoke, and you take two poison damage. Rowan. You basically throw Xanthius over to cover him with blood and guts. Oh, thank you. Rowan. You basically brought Xanthius over to cover him with blood and guts.

Oh, thank you. Rowan. So glad you were right next to him for that. Rowan's anatomy class. That is half. That's it. Half of the thing. That's what it looks like.

Anderson, you've got movement, you've got bonus actions. I'll move up to that fella. Behind us, the last remaining... Sure. Ghost, demon, and... I think I missed one of their turns better than that one. Probably that one. Sure, okay, great.

I mean, you probably missed that one's turn. It's fine, don't worry about it. End of turn for you, Rowan. Yep. In that case, we go to Ophelia. I would like to disengage from this group, please. Okay, so that's your action to disengage. Yeah, and I'd like to run towards the building near me

and try and get up the wall if I can, just get some distance. 15, 20, 25, 30. Yeah, you're like 30 feet up. I'll go 35. Just all the way up. Oh, 35, all right. I might be bleeding. I do have 35, just all the way up. Oh, 35, all right. I'm having a bleep time. I do have some bleep time.

But I've lost it. So you're just spider climbing. Spider climbing up that wall. Do you want a bit off the bottom of that? Yeah. Does it, when you spider climb, do you just climb up it like Spider-Man with ease? Or you just, you just 90 degrees spin to the side?

Yeah, I kind of imagine that you like have razor sharp, like claws. She does. Just like that get you. I can do it. I kind of don't. It's vampiresharp claws. She does. I can do it. It's vampire walking. I just like the drama. It's like in Celeste. Yes, it is.

Just walking like normal. So yeah, you just scurry up. Yep. And then can I spend a blood point to give my whip the throne quality, please? Yeah, yep. I'd like to do that, please. So action was to disengage. Yeah.

So you've moved, you've bonus actioned, so yeah. So next turn you'll be able to throw it. Yeah, throw the whip. But yeah, so with that, the way it works is it's not you're throwing the whip. I imagine it's almost like you crack the whip and like a spinning thing of blood comes Yes! So it's like you basically make an attack at ranged with it. Nice.

Nice. Cool. Very, very cool. All right, end of turn Ophelia. Please, please. Um, da-da-da-da-da. So, now, the minions go. So without a target,

they're gonna rush up to Gruffydd and try and pin old Gruffydd down. That's Gruff, buddy. That's Gruff, buddy. So Gruff, they're gonna make a group attack against you. That's the teacher right there. So there is four of them, so that's three. I'm never gonna forget that look that Kim just gave me.

Did it make you cold? It was 20, awful. 24 to hit. Let me just check. Yeah, go on. Ha ha ha. Yeah. Yeah. It is only check. Yeah, go on. Yeah. It is only going to be four points of damage.

This is a group attack. They sort of all lock into you and they're trying to hold you in place at this point, basically. Yeah, try. That is the minions go and then next to you, Gruff, this other Everlight, again, another plume of smoke begins to form

as another creature is going to appear. Friend? No. Not friend. Oh, he's got wings. You see... And a jabber. This one is almost...

It almost has, like, a cloak and mantle, like a cape, like that of some, like kind of hideous winged creature but the actual cloak is made out of insected looking like membranes it's very kind of great but all pale yellow and sickly green um and when it appears um, it actually kind of appears as half smoke itself. And so you don't notice it immediately. It's only when it attacks does it become really truly visible. So it does have advantage.

It's basically counting as if it was attacking from surprise, like it was hidden. And it is going to use a choking bolt on you, Gruffydd. Don't choke me. It does have advantage. Without a chance. Spoking choc. I think you're going to be okay, though. That is only 12 choke me. It does have advantage. Boking, choking. I think you're gonna be okay, though.

That is only 12 to hit. Does not hit. No, I did not think so. So this blast of, like, choking mist goes to strike you and, like, try and clog your mouth and gob your nose, but you manage to, like, defend yourself just in time. The creature is then going to become smoke. Like, it just becomes smoke itself. It becomes this creature, and then it's going to float.

So it's still visible. It is visible. Oh, pro. It's in my zone. It is going to start floating up towards Ophelia, basically. It's halfway up. I'm not going to try and stick it on. Like a fart in the wind.

Exactly. Then we go to this soldier. I'm not going to and stick it on. Like a fart in the wind. Exactly. Then we go to this soldier. I'm not going to miss him this time. So against you, Rowan, this trooper is going to do the same thing. It's going to try and hex you, like fight me, coward, so you're marked if you attack anybody else. And it's going to try and hit you with its censure. That's another natural 20 hit game.

Oh, my God. So that is gonna be. It's supposed to be wild. Ooh, yeah, these dice be very warm. 17 points of bludgeoning damage. I'm gonna use my stone's endurance. Okay. I go rock hard.

Okay. I feel it. I reduce it by 10 points. So you still take seven bludgeoning damage and you take three poison damage on top of that as it cracks you with this smoking censure. Don't do that. Unless you're allowed. But yeah, so this kind of thing comes up to engage you, really hits you badly with this

absolute vicious carnage. It was seven damage plus three poison, if you need a reminder. Looking bad? Looking pretty bad. Nice. That is, there you go. Then it's Gruff. Oh, I have a go.

Okay. I didn't realize we were here fast enough. But here we are. So what I'm going to do... I keep killing all my minions. Dude, why? They're just so squeaky actually no I shouldn't say that that's tempting bad fate um I am going that week day to you won't

only if you do on your turn okay I'll do it yeah okay what? I wasn't gonna say that. I'm going to... I'm gonna use my bonus action to do a daunting roar. Daunting roar. And basically scream at these minions and tell them to bugger off. All right, so this is a save versus fear effect, right? Yeah. DC 13. They have advantage against fear.

They're not immune to it, but they have advantage against fear. They're not immune to it, but they have advantage on saving throws against it because they are within sight of a more powerful demon. So they're kind of more scared of their other demons than they are of you. Could I use a fate dice to... You can't increase a DC with a fate dice.

No. No. Sadly not. You can make add to your saving throws, but to your versus effects. Where are these guys' stats? There they are. So plus one, but I have advantage. First one is an 18.

Second one is a 14. Third one is a 20. Fourth one is a... Oh, fourth one is only a six. Okay. One of them... Ah! One of them is frightened.

But yeah, unfortunately, these things, with the presence of other demons nearby, they are more scared of their senior demons than they are of you. I get it. One of them, however, is terrified. Yeah, when the boss is watching. Yeah, you see this, like, bestial creature,

like... And it looks like it's afraid. And you see, like, the mage and the smoke creature and this other one, like, pointing in its direction, angry that it's abandoning its post. Can you just remind me, with my staff of the ice diver, is it just an other action to send Seran out to do something uh because it just says in addition once per day you can command the spirit of the ice diver to either this or that

oh wait no it says there's a bonus action i was gonna say it's probably a bonus action i'm just i guess i'm just gonna have to be sure what was it your action to daunting raw uh i'm tempted to do another ice knife but i'll be at disadvantage and the way i'm rolling yes you will be because it's a ranged attack it would also but it also it would also explode and hit you yes that's fine maybe that's okay there's a lot of them though and they stink yeah i'm gonna try it anyway um okay how would a fate dice work on this? For the initial attack roll, yes. I'm gonna do that then.

Okay, all right, you spend a fate dice, so you get to add a d6 to the attack roll. That means I've got four in my pool. I rolled a 17 and a 13. So 13 plus three, six plus two, sorry, 13, 16, 17, 18 to hit. 18 hits. So one of them is going to take the piercing damage,

and then the rest will have to do the saving throw. I put my tip in the way. Why did I do that? Five points of piercing damage to one of them. Yep. That minion's going to die. All the minions are going to die. I don't even know why I've gone on the saving throw,

because they're minions. I need you to make a saving throw. Because you are in the range of causing it to explode. Nine, so I'm... So you're going to take the cold damage. The cold damage is going to finish off the rest of these minions as well. I already rolled the saving throws. I take four points of cold damage,

but do i get my plus four hp so what's the order of it well that is at the end it ends from thing but you're also going to take four poison damage you take four cold damage and then when these things all die they turn into noxious smoke and go into you you take another full poison damage um and then you did make an attack roll so you get to add your temporary hit points now. It's temporary hit points, it's not heal. Yeah, it's temporary hit points. It stacks like a... It doesn't stack, it adds temporary hit points every time you do stuff.

But yeah, you watch as these things all turn to smoke around your gruff. The cold kind of bites into your flesh. But you're from Iceheart, you're used to cold. Like, it hurts, but you can deal with it. You've fallen into the cold rivers and seas. Bloody cold. But then the smoke kind of goes into your lungs. You feel it burning inside you.

And then you find yourself invigorated once more. Bloody hell. Can I just move up to the lantern next to you? Yes, you can. Move up next to the lantern. All righty. End of turn? Right.

That was the end of turn. Gruff's turn. The demonic mage I've got a Rowan and a Xanthius Right next to each other there Yeah, no, but we're No The mage is going to

I'm going to kind of get this in the right order though That's the thing Would you be big spoon or little spoon? Would I be big spoon or little spoon? I want to kind of get this in the right order, though. That's the thing. Would you be big spoon or little spoon? Would I be big spoon or little spoon? For you? Guys, I know you've been funny. He raises up a hand and causes a rain of burning yellow and green phosphorus

down on top of you, hitting both of you together. It's not going to hit the creature. He's going to aim it so it only sits on top of you, hitting both of you together. It's not going to hit the creature. He's going to aim it, so it only sits on the side of you. I need you both to make dexterity saving throws, please. Oh, our dexterity is higher right now, isn't it? You can use your moat. Oh, can I?

Yes. So a d6. You can. There's two points of fate as well if you want to spend them. You can gain temporary hit points with this as well if you use that Bardic Inspiration. I'm using it for the saving throw. No, that's it.

Oh, I see. Okay. Whatever it is, plus three. Eight. Oh, seven. I got a 14. 14 is just a success, barely. Seven? Seven is not a success. Just, seven. I got a 14. 14 is just a success, barely. Seven. Seven is not a success. Just a success.

I'm going to spend a fate point to add a decent damage. All day. So, Xanthius, this is fire and poison damage, so your natural resistance isn't going to take into account. No, because it's fire and poison. Right. So you would need resistance to both. Okay. So it doesn't separate out and poison. Right. So you would need resistance to both. Okay.

So it doesn't separate out? No. It's like combined. You would need resistance to both. Does my nine temp HP from the Bardic Inspiration happen first? No. It happens afterwards.

So I take how much damage, sorry? Actually, no, because it's when you use the Bardic Inspiration. So you would get the temporary hit points first in this case. Okay, so I got nine temporary HP. Right, okay. You're taking half of this because you succeeded the Bardic Inspiration, so you would get the temporary hit points first in this case. Okay, so I got nine temporary HP. Right, okay. You're taking half of this

because you succeeded the saving throw anyway. Great. So that is gonna be, it would normally be 15, so Rowan, you take 15 damage. I do. And then you would take eight. That would have killed me. Well, killed me, would have downed me.

Well, that is, it's action. Oh, god. It just reaches up and it's like, Balgoros, the Phosera's grant me your strength. May them shove up. And it rains down this yellow Phosera upon you. Roni, to help, Roni, to help. I like this now.

That is the War Mage's turn. So then we come into Daisy. Hello. Hello. I really want to take out these lights so that nothing else... Sure. AC 15, we now know. Is it AC?

Yeah, because you missed it by what I said. You nearly got it. Anyone's got a fate though? You got this part? Oh, I should give you one back because I spent one yeah i want to use one all right because i haven't done anything this show i mean i want to try and die sometimes i sometimes suck throw it at this one that's the one that you're close to yeah the one that you were moving to i'm like in the middle of them yeah okay thank god 15 plus four plus five and

it's radiant damage right yes yeah Yes. Enough to destroy the lantern. Nice. That lantern is out of commission now. Can I bonus action a radiant blade at the one where that mage is? That light. Yeah, you can try to, yeah. Because I'm still halfway between them both.

Yeah, you've got range, I think. It's 30 foot range. Is it 60 or 30? 60. Yeah, you're in perfect human range then. 30, 40, 50, 60, 17. Hits. You don't need to worry about damage

as long as it's radiant damage the second attack. It's radiant damage. Yep, in that case, because it's not resistant to radiant damage. Okay, so two lights are. So two of those lights now taken out of commission. The creatures don't disappear though when you take out the lights.

They are still remaining, all right, anything else you want to say? You got some movement, Daisy? I will... No, because I don't want to create a bigger target over there for that mage. You're down on the wrath. So I'll stay where I am for now. Okay.

Because I can move pretty much anywhere I need to next turn. Great. So after Daisy, I'm just checking with my stuff that I need to next turn. Great. So after Daisy, I'm just checking with all of my stuff that I've got going on. It would then go to Xanthias. Okay. How bad does this soldier

that was next to Rowan look? Not, I mean... Untouched? Yeah, not bloodied. I'm going to say not bloodied. Sure. Not half, yeah. Might be close to being half,

but you don't know. He's not right next to you anymore, though. Well, up against you. He's close to being dead as hell. I want to cast a Scorching Ray. Wow, you get multiple rays. So the first... Through me.

As Rowan falls, I'm still standing behind him, blasting with some fire. Okay. The guard, not Rowan. The soldier. No, all on Rowan. Yep. Right. So this is on the guard, so yeah.

I'm going to use a reaction. It doesn't affect your spell, but it will happen after the spell. Even if it dies? I'm not counter-spelling it. Even if this creature dies, yeah, it doesn't matter. The mage is doing something. Ah. But your custom spell, you would no until you've done it so all right well the first is a 16 on this guy that hits that guy just but does him so that's 2d6 of damage 2 and a 6 8 damage 8 points of damage that bloodies him and he's looking pretty bad okay I will do another one on this soldier okay a

natural 20 you can roll it if you want to for your own sake, but he is dead. Eight on the dice, another 2d6. Yeah, he is smote. Eight 20 on him. He is smote. Smote. Oh, unfortunately, he's not in range to do poison damage to you. He is within poison range damage,

so that is a death-saving throw. It's not two, because it's not a melee attack, but it is one death-saving throw to Rowan automatically. You still want one Scorching Ray left. I jump over Rowan and start sucking in the air. Sadly not. The final one I want to direct towards the mage. Yep.

I don't know what he's about to do. Natural 20. Oh my god! This is where they work! I found it! It was inside me all along. Can I enhance this? You would have had to do it when you first cast a spell. It would have enhanced all of them.

Oh, that's true. No, it would have probably been on one damage roll. So yeah, I guess in theory you could say I'm gonna enhance this one now. I would take... I'm gonna max the psychic damage 100%. 100%, I'm gonna get the same crit effect. Yeah, I'll do it.

All right, okay. It's your choice. Yeah, I want to crit this guy too. Okay. 2d6. He just took down my boy. So 12 plus 2d6. 22.

22. And then we get another d12, is it? Or d10? d10. d10, that's right. d10? 10, I believe. Yeah, it is. Don't look at my... Don't look.

From your special thing. Don't look! I'm not looking at that. Don't look at my special thing! It is a d10, I'm sure. It's an extra d10. So that's 10 plus another d10. So 14, including...

Another 14. And then I take... And you take 4 plus another d4. Oh, I see. Yeah, I'm cr creating that as well seven seven damage oh it's exactly enough so as a point so as you do this you feel this surge of fire in your chest and you add it and the flame of your scorching ray that last one becomes now tinged with gold and black as it surges forward. You feel your mind snap and break as something in you.

As the creature uses its reaction spell Siphon, and it was gonna reflect some of this damage back at you, you would have had to have made a dexterity saving throw. Holy shit. Or take, it's a second level spell, right? Okay. So either way, you would have taken 2d6 force damage as it would have gone back at you with damage,

but you're down. But that means, Tom, you take an automatic... No, no, they're still up. But it means that Xanthius takes a death saving throw because he still takes that damage. He automatically fails the next saving throw because he's unconscious. There is an unnatural... There's an unnatural, not barbarian-like,

but seeing Rowan go down right next to me, knowing who did it, an unnatural rage takes over Xanthius as that fire is way stronger than that spell should reasonably be able to put out. But that, yeah, that snaps. So as you go unconscious, you see that mage who takes a heavy blow,

right, by the way. It is a significant blow. They are actually bloodied in one hit as they get struck by this blow. But then they pull some of that fire, launch it back, and as you fall unconscious from the psychic damage, your body gets, like, ragdolled by this blast of force,

like, sending you back. Into a unconscious hug again. Oh, they're spooning well they're technically five feet apart so they're not spooning just yet

Rowan's arms are five feet long five feet apart but yeah unfortunately so that was on Xanthius' turn Rowan it is

your turn at the start of your turn can I use I can't use the death saves, can I? No, you can. It is a saving throw. You may indeed spend them on death saving throws.

Use one. All right. Save it for Xanthius. Is there two? There's two. No, but he's just had his turn as well. All right, sure. I'll use it.

Gives me a lot of faith to spend, guys. It's still a fail. Really? It's nine. Oh, no. I'll use it. Gives me a lot of fate to spend, guys. It's still a fail. Really? It's nine. Seven plus two. Seven plus two. It wasn't a one, though. It wasn't a one.

I thought it was a one for a second there. It was a one. If you spend a fate point and it's a one, you still get the two death saving throws. Like a one is going to be an automatic. Doesn't matter what it adds up to, it's going to be an automatic. Two death saves.

So that is one more death saving throw for Rowan. You are on your last death saving throw. Oh, shit me. Who has the potion, by the way? Sam, Piers, and I. We have potion of vitality. Who has the potion? Oh, the potion?

I think Ophelia does because she took the box from Clifford. Oh, no, not this again. Oh, no, not this again. Well, no, just because you can use it as a reaction if you go down, so I want to make sure I know who has it. Remember, you've got to keep track of that stuff. The big one. The potion of vitality.

It gives us temp HP. I cannot remember. Well, sure, that's not the point. You have to drink it before you go down. If it's not, then you should put it in your inventory. A potion that Xanthius has won't heal. No, potions of vitality don't. It needs to be a healing spell or a rare potion of healing.

This is the thing. That's why I'm like, I'm cool with you guys adding Fate dice to their saving throws because you're not going to have things like potions that are going to be so readily available to get people up who are down. You really need to, like, if people go down, it's going to be a real risk.

I mean, adding Fate to death saves removes ones, right? No. No. If you roll a one, it's still two. It's always going to be a big risk. Okay. Sorry. There's a lot going on. Yeah. Right, that was Rowan's one, it's still two. It's always going to be a big risk. Okay. Sorry. There's a lot going on.

Yeah. Right. That was Rowan's turn, who's at the end of the turn. Unfortunately, you're still unconscious, Rowan. We jump back up, and it's Ophelia. This smoke creature is basically halfway between you and the building. It's kind of floated up. It can still be attacked.

It is amorphous, but it is still a creature can still be attacked. It is amorphous, but it is still a creature that can be attacked. I can't. I'm just... Oh, my God. There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. I'm just trying to see if I can dash

and get there in time. Can I get there in 70 feet? To Rowan and Xanthias. 60 feet. Oh wait, no. I've got 35. Oh, you don't. So five, you have to go down. I mean, I'll give you a choice here,

because you could jump off, right? This building is gonna be, it's like two stories. If I go down as well. I'd say it's gonna be 2d6 of falling damage if you jump off. That could be 12. So if you, but she's a barbarian. You didn't attack anyone last turn.

My rage did go. Your rage is gone, so you're not raging right now. But you could rage first. I could rage first and jump off. So if you jump down, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, you can get there within 70 feet, but you'll have to use your action. So you would just be there and that would be your end of your turn.

And you might knock yourself out. Yeah. But it could also be if she rolls low in a Barbarian Rage, she could take two damage or three or four damage. Oh, hell no. It's still another turn to give them the potion. Yeah, potentially. So...

The mage will be right between. Yeah. I'll just take out the mage. I'll do that again. So you want to go down and fight this mage down here? Yeah, I'm going to rage and fight the mage. All righty. Rage.

Rage against the mage. Rage against the mage. So you would do... You're doing your best, Dan. Five, ten, fifteen... Although I've ranged, so I don't need to get... I've got my range. Oh yeah, you're ranged. Oh, that's right. Although I'm ranged, so I don't need to get, I've got my ranged.

Oh, yeah, you're ranged. Oh, that's right, so you're gonna just stay up here. Yeah. Yeah. And then can I spend another blood point from last turn to make that a d6? If you've got blood points, you can spend what you want. I have one to spend?

Yeah, so you've got an, if you can add a d6 to damage. You've got to see if you hit first. All right. You've got one fight point left. Do you want to spend it? Yes. I'm gonna rage go reckless. All right, so advantage plus an extra d6 to the attack roll.

Nat 20! Let's go. What the fuck is going on? This is weird. Very good. So we've got four. You've added a d6. This mage.

So we're at ten. Some dirt. Plus your mod. What's your mod? Four. No, two. But I'm raging, so I have four. So 14 plus another d4 and another d6.

Yeah. So... So this is pretty big. 14 plus another d6 and another d6. Yeah. So... So this is pretty big. 14 plus another d6 and another d4. Yeah. This could be big. This could be big. Could be big, people. Four and five total. So it's 19.

So 19 points of damage. So that is going to be... Where were you all this time? The d20s. The nat 20s even. There's been a lot of that 20s this session. There's been a ton. The mage looks rough, but it is still rough. So you watch as this spinning wheel of blood

cracks out of the end of the whip, slams into this creature's chest, and rips into its body. You see that billowing smoke beginning to spread out as it looks in your direction, Ophelia, but yeah, it looks hurt. Anything else on your turn? I'll just watch the nigger.

I'll just stay here to try and attract its attention. Okay, all righty. We've got no minions on the field. So we then go to the smoke being. The smoke being is going to... I need you, Ophelia, to make a perception check for me. Oh, nice. As it's going to use its smoky form to try and become darker,

and it kind of goes in amongst the roofing tiles, yeah, to hide. 19. That is going gonna be a, I think I've still beaten you, unfortunately. Hide stuff, yeah, 24 for me. It uses bonus action, it goes into these thing and hides, and then springing up from out of the rooftops, it's gonna attack from surprise.

And it's gonna use its toxic touch. With advantage, oh, natural one on the first one. 18, 23 on the hit. I've got a lot of fate to spend, unfortunately, so I'm gonna add another d6 of damage. I'm gonna add another d6 of damage. This is, and this is all poison damage, so no resistance to this, I'm gonna add another d6 of damage. This is, and this is all poison damage,

so no resistance to this, I'm afraid. Yeah, no worries, don't hold back. That is gonna be 10, 13 points of poison. I'm already down, don't worry about it. All right, you are down. You are down on top of a building. So you're gonna take the d6. Yay!

Fuck me! Wait, are you falling? Yeah, she's falling. She's unconscious. She's on a sloped roof, her spider climbed. Oh, I see, for some reason I thought you were on a stick. I am gonna have you, I'm gonna roll a D. In fact, you roll a D6 for me, Rhianna. Oh, sick.

One, two, three, you go down on the left-hand side towards the center of the map. Four, five, six, you go down to the side on the other side of the street building. Cool. Can I catch? Six. Maybe. Six, so it would be this way. Yep.

I'd spend a fate to do it. I'd say if you spend a fate, I'll let you use your reaction to move and try and grab her. But you would need to move, so that'd be 15. She's going to land off the map slightly. You don't have a fate.

You do, you do. I spend one. I go out of the world and I fall in. It does put you further away from Xanthius and Rowan. It's not loaded. It's not loaded in. The world's not loaded. But then I can't get back to her.

You can. Like, it's just slightly off the map. You can run back this way. Run the back. But yeah, what's the plan? I land in a bin. I need to know now. She's weighing it up.

Kim's doing the math. It's really... Hey, what did we talk about with Sir Gryold earlier? Sometimes knights have to make tough choices. See, I've just started, so don't worry. I'd say, yeah, well, you're going to take some fall damage, which would be one saving throw, but Rowan's on two. He's on two, so, you know, we've got time.

And then there's Xanthius as well. Yeah, I'm sure. I've got a 20 cooking. He's ready for a 20. You should see 18. I can't get one. I've got a nat 18. I need a cool mate.

I'm going to go for Ophelia. You're going to go for Ophelia? All right, so I'm going to spend the fate. I've taken a dice from somewhere. So I get another one back. So you run, gonna use your reaction. I'm gonna say no checks, you spend a fate dice, you just catch her, she takes no falling damage, right?

So you manage to catch her, she is unconscious. I'm gonna knock her down, but the two of you are now five feet off the side of the map. Right, that was your reaction as well, so you don't, until your turn, you won't have another reaction. No, I'm not okay. Um, that was your reaction as well, so you don't... Until your turn, you won't have another reaction. That was Smoke Creature.

It returns back to... I'm just wondering if I use mine. A being. If I can use mine. Can you use reactions while you're downed? No. You can't do anything. Unless it's the special Potion of Healing reaction. That's the only one.

Okay, sorry. I've got a lot going on now. Gruff, it is your turn. I will cure Wyrn's Ophelia. Okay. You are out of sight, so I can't, and it's not been, the War Mage hasn't had his turn yet, so I can't reaction do anything with this. Oh, fuck.

Second level cure Wyrn's Ophelia. Yeah, but I can... Yeah, that's the only fucking way I can help you guys. Uh... Seven, eight, nine, ten points. But that's not a spell. Ten points of... Oh wait, no, sorry.

I did it at second level. Okay. Uh... So, uh... It'd be 2d8. I've rolled a... Sorry, I'm just freaking out. That's alright, you're freaking out.

Calm down. It's a game. There's only two for Shaman. Fourteen points of healing. Oh, thanks, man. I'm just freaking out. That's all right, you're freaking out. Calm down, it's just a game. There's only two for that. 14 points of healing. 14 points of healing. 14 points of healing, so Ophelia, you feel your life surge back into you as Gruff is holding you in his arms, basically, as he uses his healing energy to flow into you and heal you.

I'm a hero. That is your action, Gruff. You still have movement. We need to get to the boyos. Now. Yes. And then... So you can drop Ophelia off, and then you can move your full movement,

or you can carry Ophelia with you, but you go half speed. Yeet! I'm going to move full movement. So you kind of drop Ophelia off. Five. So that's 35. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 gets you to here.

I feel it's just off my head. Back in the bin. Yeah, I'm actually gonna have you stand up because you were caught before you could fall, Crain. Pat on the head, close the bin lid. Good night. End of turn. So that was my action, movement, bonus action.

You've maxed out, right? Yeah. I haven't done my bonus action, lads. I am going to... I'm going to activate Saren. And I'm going to have Saren hover over Daisy. Okay. So you're going to use Saren to protect Daisy.

Okay, so you're gonna use Saren to protect Daisy. Yeah. Okay. End of turn. Yeah, attack me, Daddy. The War Mage. It is gonna point to you, Gruff, seeing that you are some sort of spellcaster, you have the ability to heal allies, and it's- You didn't see what I did back there.

He didn't see, but- You didn't see it! He knows. I didn't do anything. I didn't do nothing. Seems to there. He didn't see, but... You didn't see it! He knows. I didn't do it. I didn't do nothing. Seems to sense the primal energy within you. Doesn't... No, Daisy can heal, though.

And... Ooh, this is a melee spell attack. Ooh, yeah, I'm going to do it. Get close, nerd. Get close. He moves towards you and is going to try and use Infernal Teleport. I need to make a melee spell attack.

16. Does not hit. Oh! And I can't use these for attack rolls. They only apply to damage, which I absolutely would have done. He swings this gnarled, corrupted-looking, sort of like smoking staff,

and you kind of, just because I don't think I'm going to get a chance to use this again, you get this premonition of if it hit you, not only would it deal damage, and if you then fail the saving throw, you are going to be teleported up here. Oh, that's very

far away. In his face, which is still good. That's the top of the tower for podcasting. No, no, no. Gruff would go up to the top of the tower that's nearby and the mage would be left well alone. But the armour of Oak and Thorns, like a shield of green, just blocks the blow. The creature startled by this sudden display of primal energy,

and that is its action, so it takes no more. Not today, boy-o. Daisy. Oh my god, it's my turn finally! I run up to Rowan and I cast Healing Hands. Yeah, so 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. And because that's a feature, not a spell. It's not a spell.

What's your movement speed? 30. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Yeah, he's down in this space. I was just checking. I've already calculated. Exactly 30 away. And sometimes when they're knocked down, I'm like, uh. Yeah, yeah.

Do it. So he gets four hit points back. It's enough to get him up. He's up. I'm not making death saving throws. Like someone. Sorry, but he was on two. Yeah, he's on two.

And he can heal. He can also heal. Except I'm first. So is that a bonus action or is it an action? That was an action. So my bonus action... Can I... Loss? It will be.

Can you... There's going to be big regrets. Throw a knife at the last light. At the last light, you absolutely can. Yeah, I'm going to do that. Yeah, absolutely. You can see that the mage definitely has, like... He's, like, now, like, seeing that it's alone,

is looking towards that light and almost thinking about summoning help. Ah, it's only a 14, it fucking misses. Just glances off the light. Yeah, me! Ah, it's, yeah, it's the, the radiant light bounces off, you're so close, but just the panic and seeing Rowan and your friends down just

throws off your aim. That's all I can do. We then go to, well the minions are currently down xanthius uh i'm on one death save right now you are on one failed there's no bait to spend i've been cooking a 12. oh it's not 20 like i asked it to be but it's a success it's one success a one. It's a success. One up, one down. Don't do one-liners again. Just full throat. Yeah, yeah, no. Just been cooking.

I won. Every time. That is, unfortunately, your whole turn. Yeah, that's my turn. You are conscious on four hit points. Boy! My blurry eyes open to see Xanthius down next to me. Healing word bonus action.

Healing word bonus action. Those of you who have lifts, by the way way we might ever so slightly go on a bit later if you want to let people know that you might be 10 10 minutes late or he's on bus and it's a door okay nice um but yeah rowan so bonus action healing word uh what level level two level two two d four plus three, he's gonna fucking counter spell it. Look at his face. It's not a counter spell, but it will do damage to Ro. Seven. Seven? All right.

Oh, it's the siphoning thing, right? I'm forcing the mage, having had its turn again, gets its reaction back and sees you. Just is like, no! I need Rowan to make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. 10. You are gonna take, what level spell was it saving throw. Ten. You are going to take, what level spell was it? Two.

2d6 per points. Oh, 2d6. Oh, my God. That's right. It's going to be true. Hey, use my... Seven points again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you heal him for seven,

but that same energy is then thrown into you as this force of whack the heart. This fucking fight. Loof. As you unfortunately fall unconscious again, Rowan. I'm stressed. I'm very stressed. This is not a relaxing time.

This is bullshit. That is end of Rowan's turn. It's not bullshit. Ophelia. Thanks, I'm intrigued. Ophelia's going to run her full movement, so 70 feet, towards Rowan and Xanthius. Okay. And then she's going to run her full movement, so 70 feet, towards Rowan and Xanthias. Okay.

And then she's going to... I'm pretty sure you can get that. Ranthias or Zoan, please. Ranthias. Zoan. I like Zoan. Zoan's cool. They're pretty sick.

Do you just want to get them so that they're both within five feet of you? Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, can I give a potion to Rowan, please? Use the potion? The potion? We only have one. We're doing, right? give a potion to Rowan, please? Use the potion? We only have one. What are we doing, right? It's up to you.

It's your turn. It's your turn, Ophelia. You've got the potion. This is if... Do you have the card with it on? Where's the card with it all on? I make cards for you. I wasn't here.

I have it. You have it. I have it in my cup. Went all the way out of the trash. Yeah. It's just sort of like, because these aren't normal potions of healing, right? This isn't like 2D4 hit points.

It's a bonus action slash reaction before you make a death save. Or you can pour it into somebody else's mouth as an action. Or I can pour it into somebody's mouth. The potion for Rowan? Rowan's potion? Or I could stabilize Rowan? You could make a medicine check, yeah?

You absolutely could. Just because, like, with that potion, use it. You should use it if you think that it's bad enough. But because, like, with that potion, it's, use it, you should use it if you think that it's bad enough, but it is like a, Rowan will be back in the fight 100%. I will do a medicine check for now,

and then if shit hits the fan real bad. If shit hits the fan, okay. When? I have a healer's kit. Uh, 12. That is a stabilise. You are stabilised, Rowan. You are not making death saving throws,

but you are at zero hit points and unconscious. As a point as well, I like the idea that you're not necessarily unconscious. You can still role play. You just can't do anything, basically. You can't cast spells. You can't take actions. You're just like,

what's happening? Yeah, because otherwise you can't role play and it's not fun. So Ophelia, that was dash. That was my action. Oh, that was also, you wouldn't have been able to do that because you dashed

oh shit good point so you are still dying Rowan Rowan's still dying but you've moved up and you are in place to try and help them you have a bonus action right

I'm a barbarian I don't do this rage double rage but then I'll lose it again anyway if you don't attack yeah alright end of turn

yeah I'll just stay I'll protect Rowan and Xanth yes okay the smoke being is gonna turn back into smoke as a bonus action Yeah, I'll just stay. I'll protect Rowan and Xanth. Okay. The smoke being is going to turn back into smoke as a bonus action. And it's going to float down here next to Gruff. But as a smoke being, it cannot do anything.

Then we go to Gruff's turn. I am going to cast Shalala on myself. Making a track. I am going to cast Shalala on myself. Mm-mm. Oh my god. Make an attack. Oh, but I hope this is good. It's not good. No. Fuck me. How bad? Three. Oh, that's, yeah, that's not, you're right, that's not good. That's not enough. I'm assuming you were trying to attack the mage. Yeah. The creature blocks it with its staff,

like kind of two wizards battling like Gandalf and Sauron, all the bit in Robin Hood Men in Tights. But yeah, unfortunately, the creature blocks your attack, Gruff, and has engaged you fully. Now you see this being of smoke beginning to kind of attack you as well. That's okay. They're attacking me, not the boyos. I'll turn on this bit.

This will be turn... Hopefully. Four or five, I think. Okay. All right, that is end of Gruff's turn. The mage. I'm just happy to be here. Yeah, me too.

There's like four of you all grouped up. Yeah, there's four of us fucking grouped up. Mess me up, daddy. I'm right here. Oh, it's not you. No, mess me. Mess me. Go with me. Hit up. Mess me up, daddy. I'm right here. Oh, it's not you. No, mess me. Mess me. Go with me.

Hit me. Hit me! If the attempt's arranged, that is with disadvantage. If it requires an attack roll. If it, yeah, yeah. Oh, but don't, don't do it. Don't do, don't do it.

Here's the thing, guys. If these were human creatures, there may be a chance for, like, mercy or diplomacy. Yeah, that's fair. These are demons. They're demons. They've specifically been sent here to kill you yeah if i was that guy i'd be disappointed if i didn't i am going to use their

rain uh phosphorus phosphorus okay i need everybody around that area so daisy and ophelia um are you both on no xanthius is up now yeah i've got it's dexterity saving throws from everybody rowan unfortunately you automatically fail this um so it's dexterity saving throws from everybody. Rowan, unfortunately, you automatically fail this. So it's another death saving throw. It's automatically... I've been up and down, so... Back to zero. Would Saren protect?

I think Saren is in a direct attack role for Saren, if that's the wording on the item, I believe. It doesn't say direct. It says the first successful attack against the creature. Okay, so this isn't an attack. It's a failed saving throw against an effect. I got a natural 20. Is there any way that I can sacrifice my success to protect rowan oh the devil's bargain

that would be a straight one i would say that this is normally where yeah like i would say like spend a fate and yeah absolutely you can do that but you guys this is like this and this is the representation of like this is like a fated ill thing against you right maybe this is the representation of like this is like a fated ill thing against you right maybe this is the turning point where something bad's gonna happen um and specifically that but it means you dodge out the way so you're gonna take half damage daisy xanthius what do we get oh i got a uh 18. 18 is the success you're gonna take half damage nice ophelia 19. you did use your dangerous fence because you see this coming great okay so 19 the success you all got a success. I am going to spend a point of fate to add another d6 of damage. Okay.

Rock and roll, buckaroo. Let's go. Oh. That's pretty good. Fuck. 16 halved to 8. Okay. Okay.

I am going to use... That 16 would have downed me. I've got... You've got your runic... You've got your runes. I've got two runes charged. This would down me if I didn't have this. Yeah.

I'm going to roll a d6 and reduce it a six so you only take two points of poison damage you need to take two and then daisy and ophelia you both take eight but that should be so i'm still up that's fine so you watch as this mage is just like why would you die already so that's one death save on you again. And reset. It's reset, so it's one fail on Rowan. Okay. Pulls the fire, this yellow sickly flame and poisonous kind of gas falls down on you guys, but you are still on.

I've already just ragdolled around. Taking hits. Daisy. It's my go. I've been hiding on the coat. I have a healer's kit. I'm going to stabilize Rowan. Okay, you spend a deuce on the healer's kit.

You don't have to make the roll. You are stabilized, Rowan. That's just guaranteed. Yep. Okay. Hell yeah. That is on the healer's kit. You don't have to make the roll. You are stabilized, Rowan. That's guaranteed. Yep. Okay. Hell yeah. That is your action, though, Daisy. It's got ten uses, so that's one of them.

That is your action, Daisy. Yes. So can I bonus action again? Try and take out the light? Absolutely. Take out the mage. I'll try. Sounds good.

That's a two. I fucking fail again. Okay. Just in a panic. And it makes sense that Daisy right now is freaking out, and you're just trying to attack, but you're trying to save your friends, and it's just not working.

After Daisy, we then go to Xanthius. I want to stand up for half my movement. Much so I like being next to this group of people, improving the back. Probably a good idea. I want to move 15 north. This way? The other way, sorry, behind Ophelia. Oh, I didn't move.

I should have probably moved. Can I straight myself out a bit? Yeah, you can retroactively. I'll go that. Like, up here? Like, towards, actually, towards that way. Yep. How far?

Like, 15 feet. Like'll go that way. Like up here? Towards, actually, towards that way. How far? Like 15 feet. Right here? One more. There! Just splitting up a little bit. Um, and I would like to ask this guy to counter this, and he has had his

turn again, so he does have his reaction. Yeah, he has a reaction, so don't fucking dab into it. But, if he doesn't die, if he dies, he can does have his reaction. Yeah, he has a reaction, so don't fucking dab into it. He needs to die. If he dies, he can't use his reaction. Great. Use your action if you're dead. Scorching Ray, once again. First one on this guy.

I know there is a shadow demon thing as well. Let's see. First one is... I don't mind you rolling them sequentially. Ten. Is unfortunately a miss. Second is 19. Is a hit.

Four. Six damage. He's so close. He looks like his form is breaking apart. The smoke leaking out of him. There's barely anything

of this creature remaining. But he is still up. Hmm. You're going to do it again, aren't you? I'd like to enhance that one. Okay. You're going to make a dine, aren't you? D10.

He's got to go. And it's an extra D10 of damage. He might be within D10 range. I'm all about it. This guy sucks. How many times is it? So this will be the second time. Does it increase damage? I haven't tried it twice in one fight before. This guy sucks. How many times is it? So this will be the second time. Does it increase damage?

I haven't tried it twice in one fight before. You haven't. Six damage. So, you watch as the mage erupts the last bit, and again we see Xanthius. This time, that glove you were wearing ignites and burns away. And you all now see a very demonic black scarred hand with flaming fingertips and claws, cracks like veins of molten lava down Xanthius's hand as he launches this bolt of crackling gold light and fire and blackness all streaked

together it hits the creature the creature explodes gruff you will take five points of poison damage as it dies xanthius roll a d6 psyche Okey dokey, okey dokey. And this is unruinable, unblockable, right? Yep. I have five HP. I'm down. You rolled five. I rolled five. And that was your...

Come to my arms. You're stable, though. Yeah, I'm unconscious. I stumble back, I fall into Rowan's arms. You're not dying. Do I take bludgeoning damage? Just falling on each other. We're like a two-person domino.

That's what it sounds like. Sounds just like that. Oh, I've lost my place now. I am down again. Just slap on each other. All right, but I melt that guy. You melt that war mage. The smoke mage is destroyed.

I did have a third scorching ray. You're down. You're unconscious. Nothing happens. You did it. You lose it. Oh, I see. I allow you to do it sequentially so you can pick,

but the trade-off of that is that if you go down on that second one, then you can't make that third attack, right? I'm going to recover one third of a spell slot then. Yeah. Sure. No. Alrighty. So that was Xanthus' turn.

Rowan, you're down, but you're stable. So no turn. You don't have to make a roll. You're just, you're like weakly looking around. You're kind of like, your wounds are being bandaged and things like that, but you're just too weak to be able to do anything at this point. I swear, I saved him.

You did, but then he did a very fiery thing. We then come to... Can I go right? You're stabilized, you can't do anything, you're at zero HP, you don't have a 10, so you get healed. Okay. Okay, sorry. You're conscious enough to roleplay,

but not to do anything, unfortunately. Ophelia. There is the smoke creature left. Yeah, I'm gonna go up to the smoke creature and destroy him! Whoa! Rage? I'd like to rage, please, yeah.

And reckless. Okay. Let it rip. My last rage charge. 16. 20. 20. 20 will hit. 6, 6, 6.

It is in its smoke form, so it takes half damage from any normal weapon attack, so like bludgeoning and slashing. And I don't have any blood for you points, because I wasn't... So it's just a d4. Just a d4. Oh, 4.

4, 6 total. Well, it'll be 8, because you're raging. 8 total. But it means it takes 4, basically. Yep. So the whip does pass through, but you can see that there's some resistance there as the creature you will fall not before we finish some of you off and we will be back uh end of turnophilia oh yeah demons don't really die. They just go back to their plane. That's why I'm not worried.

The smoke creature is going to just reform back into its full form so it can attack. But that means we can hit it back. That does mean you can hit it a lot harder now. It's bonus action to change back. It is going to use Toxic Touch. Gruff and Ophelia. Ophelia's looking still pretty bad, right?

You're looking pretty rough. How's Gruff looking? All right. Yeah, so he'd probably go for Ophelia, unfortunately. They've got, like, a killer instinct in them. That is a two. Hell yeah. So only a seven to hit.

You get a advantage. I'm very reckless. Reckless. Thank you very much. That is still only going to be an 11. Yeah, I missed. So this time, like, the grace of a dancer, you just kind of dodge around this creature

as it tries to grab you with these kind of toxic-like claws of that yellow cycla green light. The warm-age is down. I want to keep you going because we do have some death saving throws and things like that, you know, in process. Cool, we've got time. I forgot that. Yeah, knock me down.

Knock you down, Daddy. Thank you. What? Gruffydd. So Rowan is not actively dying. Knock you down, daddy. Thank you. What? Gruffydd. He likes you lying. So, Rowan is not actively dying. He's not actively dying. He's unconscious.

That one is actually dying. He's actively dying. Right. I am going to... Which one to save? I am going to... If you move away, I'll get an attack. Yeah, so you're going to attack me, so just attack me.

I'll do that because there might be some effects that affect this. That I think is still going to miss, though. That's really bad. 13. Miss. Yeah, misses. I'm going to go towards Xanthius and cast Cure Wounds,

grumbling all the time while I'm doing it. You will heal 9, 10, 11, 12 points. Oh, my God. There is a moment, Gruffydd, because your magic comes from the primal source of magic, from Ulthae and the land and things like that, nature. There is almost a moment where you see the healing energy pass over Xanthias, and there's almost a moment where you see the healing energy pass over Xanthius and there's almost a moment where the healing energy

almost is rebuffed by the flame like pouring down his arm as if the two as if your magic and his magic are kind of colliding but it does eventually settle in and knit the wounds back together why would it do that? I think as I think in that moment does eventually settle in and knit the wounds back together. Why would it do that?

I think in that moment, as the magic is almost, my magic is almost being rebuffed, I think Gruff would almost like a compression, like when you do CPR, start pushing down on Xanthias as just, not today, boyo. I have to. I know you do. You press down, Gruffydd, and your paw hits something hard

and sharp and metallic. And your paw, as you bring your paw up, and you probably would naturally part the shirt to see, because thinking, would you, like, that's the choice I'm gonna give you. No. All right, well, you feel something hot and metallic, and it's not just on top of the chest,

it is something in Xanthius's chest. And when you touch it, there is an intense spark of heat, and you see some of that runic magic of Xanthius's push you away. All right. Anything else on your turn, Gruff? see some of that runic magic of Xanthius's push you away. Alright. Anything else on your turn, Gruff? Oh, you're so fucked up. You had to touch the chest, didn't you? I actually even didn't think about it. I know.

That's the best way of doing it. Literally just think of CPR. The healing does take effect. Yeah, pushing the magic. You have to die. There was action, movement. Action, movement. I haven't done a bonus action, but I think I'm kind of, there's little I can do with that,

so yeah, that's me. All righty. All right, well, Xanthius is now up. How much healing, sorry? 12? 11? Daisy. Oh, hi. Yeah, it's only one enemy now.

Thank you. I will move towards the light on the far side, but I'm going to send my blade towards the enemy. Okay. Yep. I'm not going to move your miniature, just because it's a bit unstable, but we know where you are.

Still no luck. I rolled a fucking three! Bonus action! I rolled a one! To be fair, you have the highest kill count of every character so far. You do, you really do. So I feel like this is the universe balancing it out. It is absurd.

This is actually making me want to learn something. This is Rhiannon and Kim at the end of Eros. When Kim had 17 attacks and it was miss, miss, miss, miss. This is making me furious i am fucking i feel like that 20 quote for the next six months yeah you're all right xanthius followed by rowan who is unfortunately still asleep oh my god i did not actually think about a turn um i i will try and stand up uh no more silly buggers now you'd be fucking tall i'm gonna uh i'm gonna do this now. You'd be fucking told. I'm gonna... I'm gonna...

You're banned forever, you piece of shit. So he's tangible now. He is tangible. Shadow guy. Yeah, this creature came out of it to try and attack and take down Ophelia. Okay, I think I'll just play it safe and do a firebolt. Good.

Fire? I'll enhance it. No, I won't. Oh my god, if you go down again, I'm just gonna leave you. I feel like if he did, Ruffy's just gonna slap him. Like, if he sees that magic, he's just, no! If you go down again, I'm just going to leave you. I feel like if he did, Ruffy's just going to slap him. Like, if he sees that magic, he's just, no.

If you go down again, I'm just going to leave you. I'm going to be like, he clearly wants to be there. Hey, if that's what you want to do, I'll spend this last point of faith. No.

No. No. No. Okay. No. I'll save that for my next death save. Yeah, just a classic firebolt.

We love it. Which is a 12. 12 against the smoke creature is not unfortunate enough. It's quite agile, it seems. No. All righty. End of turn? End of turn.

Roman, it'll be your turn, but you are still at zero, so nothing happened for now. We jump straight back up to Ophelia. Yeah, I'm just going to try and take this guy out. All righty. Let's go. Let's tango. Where so advantage uh four let's get another nat 20 21 21 will hit though hell yeah and it's tangible so it takes full damage this time full damage and you've got our blood point because you didn't do it so i'm gonna add a d6 so that is seven damage, two plus four,

so 11 total damage. Nice. Does bloody the smoke creature as the whip kind of passes, you know, not passes through, but lashes against its body, that smoke beginning to ooze out as it does so. Anything else on your turn, Ophelia? No, I'm good.

All right. Let's keep tanking this boy. At this point, the creature looking around... I mean, actually, no, it doesn't have any need to preserve itself. It's just going to reform. So it's going to attack Ophelia. Go for it. It's a natural 20.

Is it really? Oh, my God. It's about time. It's about time. We have been rolling so many 20s today. It's nuts. Where's mine? That's nice.

That's fucking nice, isn't it? Where's mine? Your one is right here. Oh, this is a natural 20. 12. Oh, don't worry about it, I've got a 6 HP. Well, I might need to know your max HP. Oh, cool, 26.

12, 24. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. It needs to be double that, right? 38. Yeah. It needs to be minus that total HP, I think. Or is it double?

I will check that, because that's very important to know. And we've not ever had that happen, so I want to check it. I think maybe we had it happen once, didn't we? I don't know. Yeah, this is it. It comes up so rarely. What's happening? So there's a thing called massive damage.

Yeah, like, you know. Your full hit points, then it... It's either 52 or 26. Oh, right, death. Yeah. I have a feeling it's minus 26. I think it is, but I need to check it. So you were on six.

So this would do it. When damage reduces you to zero hit points and there is damage remaining, you die if the remaining damage equals or exceeds your hit point maximum. So it's six, what's your max HP? 26. 26, so it'd be 32. i got 38 38.

you need a reaction to use it mate oh she does she not she would this kills you instantly but what there's no death saving throws it's the reaction when you go to make a death saving throw if you read it it says on when you make a death saving throw, you can choose to drink the potion instead. Because you wouldn't have enough time. Like this attack, you wouldn't have enough time to drink the potion. Seriously?

Well, it does kind of make sense, right? We just did minis for her in a minute. She's like, are you serious? Let's double check the math real quick on the crit. No, it's great. I don't like fudging that shit. No, not fudging. I'm not saying like, if it's a death, you leave 38.

It's 46, max 46 is 24, plus what I rolled. What kind of damage is it? Poison. So she can't produce it. I think it is. You can't use the potion? No, no. Where's Percy?

It's when you make a death saving throw. But, because there's no time. Like this thing would do this. It was like an instant, yeah. It was an instant thing, yeah. Could I spend a fate dice, or the remaining fate dice, to send Saren to protect Ophelia?

Saren is out. But it's protecting Daisy. Yeah. If it was in the staff, I might say, you could do it as a reaction, but I But it's protecting Daisy. Yeah. If it was in the staff, I might say you could do it as a reaction, but I think it's protecting Daisy. But can I not send it? Here's what I'm going to say. Death is not always the end.

No. Ophelia has a connection specifically to a very powerful dead creature. For the sake of narrative, if Rhiannon... I'm cool, man, then the dice. That's, if that's cool with you. 100%. Because if you weren't okay with this, we can engineer a solution.

Because one thing I wanted to introduce, and it's not come up, I didn't even think to talk about it, was this idea of like, when you fail three death saving throws, or if you're gonna die, if you were like, really like, nope, we can have some other complication come up so you would still suffer some sort of great consequence like a major injury or something like that cool but you would survive yeah or you can risk it in the chance that

maybe your allies can resurrect you or and i think specifically in ophelia's case maybe ophelia has to petition her god to let her return. Yeah. But that's Rhiannon's choice. So I leave it to you, Rhiannon. You can either, Ophelia can die, or you can take a severe consequence, and it would be severe. Man, I do like consequences.

I do like them. Oh, this do like consequences. I do like them. This is so tough. Don't have to, you know, we can move on for now. What a fucking time to get in that 20. That was awesome. I won't say we just knocked you down. That's crazy. That was awesome.

God. Have a think. I'm having a think. Have a think. Because I feel it would be like my work is not fucking done. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. But at the same time, like, maybe like my work is not fucking done. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely Like I'm at the same time like maybe that's what you say to the grapevine Yeah, you know true if you want to risk that like it might be a case of like, you know

Maybe next week maybe a feel is not here and Rhiannon and I do a little solo thing or something like that, you know What's like that? That's the case or like I said, but have a think. Have a think. We'll decide before the end of the episode, but we've got to crack on a little bit. Blimey. I mean, that's what damage do... This thing is also, like, bloodied. It's nearly close to death. I know, I know.

This has happened twice. Gruffith. Yeah. Especially you. Like, me and that... Zan going up and down like a fucking yo-yo. I can't heal her. She is dead. I'm dead, Dad.

Outright is a thing in the rules. They kill you instantly. Fight demons, get dead. There is no healing, there's no death saving throws. The reason that potion is there is like, if you're taking death saving throws, you can be like, I'm weakly going to pull this potion, and then you get back in the fight. But no, this is, you were one shot. I think in terms of the visuals, the smoke creature goes,

like, its touch becomes smoke and goes into Ophelia's body. Oh. And, like, the smoke, like, pours out of her eyes and mouth. Oh, yeah. And, like, all of her wounds. And the damage is so severe

that she just drops instantly. Oh. Like, you would all know that she is dead. Like, there is no healing in what just happened to her. Um... Or maybe not. Maybe it's a case of somehow

she's going to pull through this with some sort of severe consequence. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to run over and attack. Yeah. Just rage. It's not even finesse. It's just going to barrel over

and attack this thing. Would you like to spend a fate point? And I'm spending a fate point. Okay. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 to hit. Hits, hits. Eight points of damage. Eight points of damage.

Very close, so close. One or two more hits will finish this thing off. But you grow off with the shillelagh, you bring it down as you see, like, Ophelia's body maybe still ever so slightly convulsing from the smoke leaving it. It might not do it, but I feel like roleplay as well. He's got a daunting roar. Sure, yeah.

You just kind of bell out this roar. Scream at this thing. Are you actually using the ability? Yeah, so DC 13. Unfortunately, that's going to be a success. This thing is, you know, this demonic otherworldly entity is not afraid, unfortunately. At the end of Gruff's turn, we go straight to Daisy. I'd like it.

Yeah. Maybe. I'll use a Fate Point. Yeah, I mean, this is the time to use it, for sure. Good job. 16. 16. 16 will just hit, yeah. Just over. AC was 15. Sneak attack damage.

Sneak attack damage, yeah, you have an ally within five feet. 15 damage. The radiant energy cuts through this thing as you watch as it just goes, Got one! Four to go! As it pulls apart. Gruffydd, you will unfortunately take three points of poison damage. Doesn't even scratch my temp HP.

Yeah, temp HP. With't extra. Yeah, yeah. Temp HP. With that... Oh, boy! The last of these things go. What a rollercoaster. But... Can I radiant strike that?

Absolutely. Can I just, out of initiative, go and destroy that last lamp? Absolutely, yeah. No problem. There's no threat to it. You destroy it. As the last thing we see

is the rest of you, except Rowan, who is still sort of rolling around the floor. Maybe you can lean over Rowan and you just see Ophelia's body down through blinking eyes. We see Ophelia's body on the ground. Just that last bit of smoke trailing out.

The eyes, the area around the dye is all darkened and discolored from the poison. The wounds on the arms becoming sort of like from black veins and things like that. And that's the last thing we see as we're gonna end today's episode. God damn, what a fight. Hell yeah, bro. Nice job. Thank you for going with it as well.

I know it's a scary thing. I mean, it was a cool way to die as well. I don't like fudging dice. Especially, I was rolling them in the open as well. I don't like fudging dice. Especially when I was rolling them in the open as well. I was just making sure that it was actually like 38 for the crit. Well, that's it. I genuinely couldn't remember if it was double negative, but if you go in one hit, it takes you to zero,

and then it's minus your max. So it is quite a lot. Like I said, it had to be 32. And yeah, I rolled pretty well and like a crit like that's crazy we were all just going full ham on that yeah well yeah

and those that was like you know that was basically well that was basically a day's worth of fights in one because like you guys

you know you guys aren't doing like multiple encounters per day so it was on par with what you should face but just sort of

in one go there is some good news and that is that you all will level up oh yes with what you should face, but just sort of in one go. There is some good news, and that is that you all will level up. Oh! Yes. No! You will level up. You don't get the XP.

Because, well, it is... Let's level up Ophelia anyway, just in case. Oh, okay. I mean, bittersweet. Yeah, Rhiannon and I will have a chat and a think about what's going to happen. Figure out what that will look like, yeah. Like I said, definitely, you know,

death is a thing in D&D, and this might be the end of Ophelia's journey. It might not be, but there are ways around it. But that character is always going to live on. Get your mini. Your commemorative, limited edition mini. I will remember you. I'll put R.I.P. underneath the base.

Well. Little tombstone. That's what you would have wanted. I think as an episode name, Blood and Shadows might be applicable. Yeah, that fits, that fits, that fits. And that is going to be it for today's episode. Thank you that fits. That fits. And that is going to be it for today's episode. Thank you so much for joining us. We'll see you for more of Thayer the Dragon Empire.

See you next time. See you next time. Goodbye.