High Rollers DnD - Altheya: The Dragon Empire #26 | Battle for Ashen Rest (Part 2)

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

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that is part of this great plot, this ritual, that has captured the town in this smoky green-yellow light and is clearly enabling some great creature to come through. As this battle is going on, by the way, any of the characters who even glance back behind them, maybe as Benedicta and Daisy arrive, you see that that shape around the Pharos

is, again, now there is a giant leg and a tail and this grotesque fat kind of body, bulbous and covered in material. You can start to see more detail of this creature now that is beginning to appear almost kind of King Kong-esque, like clutching to the Pharos, looking down on everything.

But it's still made of smoke for now. Oh, God. You can see Duke Ignarius and his two draconic children fighting in the distance as well. You watch as Emberissa, his daughter, gets slammed with a mighty claw and is sent sprawling into the streets and has to quickly right herself and fly back up as the battle continues elsewhere as well.

Okay. But we return here, and it is Gruff. Daisy's just arrived with Sister Benedicta. Daisy's throwing some daggers up into the creature flying around, she's dropping these bombs and mysterious cartridges. We go to Gruff. So can I still see this mark on me? Even though there is a floating rock,

there's still a mark on me. It doesn't go away, yeah. Not until he either chooses to fire or until he picks a new target. And the house next to me, do I need to spend an action to open the door? It can be part of your movement, yeah. You can open the door as part of your movement, yeah.

Can I try a daunting roar on the minion next to me? Yeah, absolutely. So I'm just going to turn and just... What's the range? Is it ten feet around you? Ten feet around me. Yeah, unfortunately that just misses out the campion. The campion, yeah.

Yeah, okay. But I'm just going to roar. Yeah, eight. So it fails. Fails. Kids, do this! Which is corollian for off um so he is now frightened yeah you see this minion even though it's a demon it like recoils from your kind of smoky form turning away from you nice and then can i get into the house

yeah you can do the minion will still get an attack on you, but it will be disadvantaged, because it's frightened of you, so. Yeah. 17 to hit. Natural one on the disadvantage, so it misses. You bust in. I think the people inside have heard you, you've spoken to them,

so maybe they've unlatched or unbarred the door. They see you trying to get in, they throw it open, shut it down again, latch it shut, the creature is too terrified to follow. And you see this frightened... It's a mixture, it's like a family and maybe a shopkeeper that have kind of taken refuge in here. There's about five of them.

Yeah, it's about five feet of movement to get in the house. Does it look like they could barricade the door? Yeah, they were doing that. That has been done. They've kind of almost pulled some of it away so you can slip in and then they've put it and they're barade the door yeah they were they were doing that like that has been done they've kind of almost pulled some of it away so you can slip in and then they've put it and they're barring the door and putting stuff up on it again as well oh I'm tempted to tell them to go and run but there is still a mignon outside so um right we're gonna try and get you out of this but for now I

need you to barricade and hold yourself safe in here. All right, yes, okay. It's safer in here for now. But what about the fires? Are they going to... Will they spread? I'll put a stop to that, don't worry. Now, is there a way I can get out the back of your house?

I'm going to say there would be a way out the back of the house, but it's going to take you into an alleyway that is not connected to this part of the battlefield. It would be like a separate thing. What i would say is if you spend a fate point there can be a side door that leads out like uh or maybe like a cellar that they can lead you down and then you can come up into basically this corner uh behind where everything is yeah fateful dm i would like to spend a fate line a devil's's bargain. Very good, yep, very good. So I can reel my fat ass out of a window.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you move your way through. If you were a kitten. Nope. And then Gruff, you would appear basically out here on this side. You can't quite see yourself, but yeah. Am I still marked by that guy?

Yeah. Do I have enough movement to just tuck myself behind the northern building there? This one, I would say you can get cover, but you can't be fully out of line of sight. Oh, that's going to hurt real bad then. So you can kind of get here and you'll be technically off the map, but you'll sort of tuck behind this building. And he can still see me? If you tuck back here, yeah, basically you'll get cover.

You'll get half cover. Maybe three-quarters cover. What if I just stay in the house? Yeah, you could do. But then I'm not really doing anything I want to do. Yeah, you'd still be back here. I'd say you've got, by the time you come out the door, I'm going to give you about 15 feet of movement.

So you can wedge yourself back here. So I can get as much cover from bad boy as possible. Five, yeah, ten. I mean, you can go even further back, but I'm going to say, in fact, I'm actually going to say that there's a wall, sort of like another building blocking you here. Okay. So, yeah, but I'm going to give you cover. I you i'll give you three quarters cover you get closer as well that's

good kind dm um and then in terms of an action because i haven't actually no you could dash if i dashed where can i get to uh five ten fifteen twenty twenty five thirty you can get to the stairs basically oh 35 you can can get to the stairs basically. 35. Oh 35, you can get halfway up the stairs, basically to the top of the stairs. And can that bad boy still see me? If you were here, which is,

I can't actually put your mini there, yes he would still see you. Again, you would get like half cover because you'll be halfway up the stairs. If you're at the bottom of the stairs, you get three quarters cover because he's elevated. Yeah, maybe do that. So if you dash, you'll have the same amount of cover here,

but you're closer. And how firey is this building? This building is an inferno inside. It's gonna be like, you're gonna probably have to take fire damage if you go inside it and stuff. But it won't be a lot, it'll just be like, as you move through it. It's like, it is on fire and burning.

it would just be like as you move through it it's like it is on fire and burning i can't decide whether or not to move forward with a dash or to attack the cambion from my little yeah you could do yeah yeah you could do if you've got like a ranged attack yeah um i will i'll move you back if you decide yeah move me move me back and can I attack the cambion? Because I'm just very aware that I need to cast a spell or attack or be hit to keep my temp HP coming up. Yeah, sure. So... Is the...

Ooh. Is the... I missed you. So 1d2, 5 foot. The minions by the northernmost Everlight, are they within 5... Are they within 60 foot of me? Goddamn right.

15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. 55. The Everlight is 55 feet away. The actual Everlight itself. So, all of these minions, so these all are within 60 feet. Yeah. Or if I hit a minion, would it also catch the foot soldiers as well? away the actual everlight itself so all of these minions so these all are within 60 feet yeah or if i hit a minion would it also catch the foot soldiers as well further what are you trying to do

ice knife to catch as many and so i find if you choose a point you choose a creature and then it hits what everything within five feet and five feet then you could not because all of you can't hit the foot soldiers no but But if you target this minion, I would say if you target the Everlight with the Ice Knife, you'll hit all of the minions. Because you target this, and then the five feet around would hit all of these. If you target one of the minions, you're actually gonna miss out

on one of the minions, basically. I'll go for the Everlight. Okay. So that is... So ranged attack, isn't it, against... Ranged spell attack. Yep. 14 plus 6.

Yep, it's going to hit. And then it's 1d10. It's piercing damage, though, right? I'm pretty sure it is. And then it's cold damage afterwards. 1d10 piercing, and then everything needs to make a deck saving throw. So the piercing damage will be halved because it's not... Oh, no, I guess it is a magical knife.

Yeah, okay, so that's normal damage. That was... It's from a magical source. It's just a detent, so that was a seven. Okay, so seven points of damage to the Everlight. Piercing. And then minions, they fail. They're all going to die because they're going to take at least one damage.

Oh, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven points of ice damage. they fail they're all going to die because they're going to take at least one damage so oh six seven eight nine ten eleven points of ice damage does that affect the original target as well

like the thing that you throw out or just the creatures within five feet the shard explodes the target and each creature so that what another eleven

eleven points of ice that everlight is nearly destroyed that everlight is nearly destroyed. That Everlight is nearly destroyed, but all of these smoky minion demons are annihilated as the icy explosion erupts outwards. Bruh, bruh, bruh. Oh, my God.

Bruh, bruh. What? It does. Yeah. That's so much damage. It's not really. A D10 and then a... A D10 and 2D6. Yeah. It's so much damage. It's not really. A D10 and then a... A D10 and 2D6.

Yeah. It's good on minions, on AoEs. Oh, yeah. No, it's great. I love it. Yeah, great stuff. Yeah, the Everlight is coated in frost. You see it crack and, you know,

parts of it begin to bend and warp from the cold. All of the smoky minions are destroyed. But I think that's going to be your full turn, right, Gruff? Yes. Minions. My full turn. Yep, Gruff? Yes, that is my full turn. Minions. Yep, that's all I can do. Right, then in that case, it is the demonic commander, Neurosis' turn. I have a Ser Gry'old first.

Oh, that's right, yeah, Ser Gry'old, yeah, thank you. I forgot, it's just not on my initiative. Do you still wanna push this cart? So, we could, if we push the cart, we could probably block off between those two obstacles and then use the house that you've kind of opened up now, I guess. Is that usable by everyone? The barricade again.

The barricade again, I think. Yeah, the barricade, the main door, but you can just, if you convince them to let you in, Gruff already did that, so. Like, if we blocked that, it does make it more difficult for them to get towards us, and there's the acid on the floor or the smoke on the floor. I kind of just feel like we need to move, though. Here's my thought.

I would like Gry'ald to take a shot of that Everlight and try to take the Everlight out completely. Right now, you are blocked by that big cube of smoke, so you can't actually draw a line of sight to it from where he currently is. You would need to basically move round to the side and come at it from the other side, basically. Because that big cube does block

all of your line of sight as well. Yep. Block your line of sight. I think we only need to push it, what, 15 feet to sort of block that pass. They can still vault over it and whatever else, but... Yeah, it's just difficult terrain. Yeah. So it is difficult terrain. Yeah.

So it is still useful. It does use both our actions though, right? It does. Which is pretty rough, but… It's you command Sir Gryll, Kim. You decide. I would rather try and hit the Everlight. Yeah, that's cool.

If that's all right. Watch me miss. You gotta hit what? Well, he has to move first, like I said. Yeah, the range is 200, so he moves 25. The range is fine. Yeah, 200. 10, 15.

I'd say he has to get to about here to take a good maybe. And then he's got like, if you want a clear shot here, that's a clear shot for Sir Griel to be able to like. I guess he could always tuck back in when he's done. Yeah, he's only got a little bit of movement. Unless he uses the Marksman thing, right? Yeah, unless he uses Marksman. Which I am tempted to do.

I've got a bad guy, then Ophelia's up next. It's worth getting rid of the Everlight. Then it's minions, then it's Xanthias. Also, you can use Fate. How bad does the Everlight look? Bad. Bad. Bad.

Even though it will be resistant to his attack it looks really bad uh 19 plus five to hit hits uh and then six points uh six seven eight nine points of damp piercing damage halved normal attack not a marksman shot not a marksman all right yeah you watch as that bolt and just the damage of the ice that you formed previously is is solidified and burnt away some of the ice that you formed previously is solidified and burnt away some of the smoke and the bolt just shatters this Everlight. Destroying it.

Nice, two Everlights down. How bad is your health? My health is not good. About a third, let's say. So before Gry'old moved off, could he just reach out to Xanthias, say something inspirationally knight-y? Uh, he will say,

I know things look bad, but I've been in worse spots, and the people are depending on us. Your magic's the key to this. How very inspirational and knight-y of you. How very inspirational and knightly of you. Six temp hitch points. Six temporary HP. Wow. Six temp tip points. Very nice.

So he uses his knightly inspiration ability. And then, I don't know, has he got movement left to tuck back? He has five, ten, fifteen, twenty. He has five feet of movement left yeah can he tuck back a little bit uh not enough to get cover like this this little yoke does not give any cover but he can he can either move five feet forward or back basically yeah just back a little bit right next to xanthius hey my sweet boy all right nice shot by the way okay thanks bro at the end of griold's turn now you can go because i only have one Everlight left,

I am going to immediately take a villain action, and I'm going to spend one of my fate points to basically bring in reinforcements early. I'm going to create another swarm. Oh, God. Pouring out of the last remaining Everlight, you watch another swarm of these horrid, imp-bat-like, fiery creatures pour out of the last remaining ever light. You watch another swarm of these horrid, imp, bat-like, fiery creatures pour out of it. Two swarms very close to Ophelia.

Yeah, they might not go for Ophelia, but... Nah. But yeah, I'm going to do that immediately. I think it counts. Yeah. Alrighty. That is at the end of Sir Gryll's turn. Neros, the commander.

Bat rune still active. He's like, You can try it, Ide. A good test of my reflexes. And he is going to try and acquire his demonic shot. This does actually, to make the attack, I need to spend a fate point as well. He's doing an attack to hit.

Can't do anything about that. There's a saving throw. You can help. It wasn't. Oh no! It was! You for real nat 20'd it? Yep. Oh! It's been verified.

I'm sorry mate, it's just that decided. It was like, oh yeah yeah yeah, no trot's been blocking your shots for two turns, that's it, don't worry mate I've got you. Oh man, it's like a two turn charge up attack as well. No, Trot's been blocking your shots for two turns. Don't worry, mate, I've got you. Oh, man. It's like a two-turn charge-up attack as well. Well, no, I mean, it goes off basically at the start of his turn, so it's a turn to add up, but this is quite a lot of damage. Don't let me break it.

This is going to be... So I max it. So you're looking at 18 already. So it's, what, 3d6? 2d6. Plus 6. 18 plus another 7. 25 points of damage, Gruff.

No amount of cover is going to save you from that. You don't have any targets, you don't have any creatures between you and him. By the way, this draws a line. It's not just a single attack. If other creatures had been in the line, he makes an attack against everything. The first turn, I was like,

I'll block Rowan. Good thing I didn't. So the first person, so if you had done that, and I'd rolled that 20, the 20 would go against Xanthius, and then I make another attack against Rowan with a penalty, basically,

as it goes to each target. So it's this bam line, just down the stairs. You press yourself up against this piece of stone and it just tears through the building. Just slams you to the ground. From the other side of the battlefield, everyone hears this gigantic roar of pain.

Hell yeah. As the bullet pierces the armour. Oh. But he's still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On one HP. oh shit nice the armor so like it just caught enough of the bullet maybe to to stop you going down but yeah you just hear this almost um there's almost a demonic scream when it fires like Like... It's almost like that rifle is

maybe something is in it. It's got something bound to it. God damn. Still standing pray. Yes. Good.

That is all he's going to do. Ophelia? Ophelia? God. Brutal. That is all he's going to do. Ophelia? Um. Oh, my God. That's brutal. I mean, to get a nat 20 on that, that's ridiculous. Oh, man.

I'll even, I'll put this dice aside. No, it's fine. I was the one to take it. I'm going to pick up my other dice. Swap it out, swap it out. Player killer two. That's the high roller one. Yeah, it's the high roller.

These are my two dice that I use. We need to give you new dice. You can give me new dice. It won't make a fucking difference because I'm a dice roller, so. I don't know, man. All right, Ophelia, what you got cooking? Ophelia's gonna use veracity and try to hit

this group of minions and try and regain some hit points. Okay, nice. Veracinate. Just ripping things some hit points. Okay, nice. Um... Resonate. Just rip an ink tab, yeah. 19 to hit. 19 to hit. Will hit. Nice. So, 7, 8, 9...

So that'll be 11 points back. Do you want to spend any blood points on adding extra damage to that? I can, yes. I will do that as well. Uh, 9, 10, 11. 11. So that's 11 HP because it does add to the piercing damage, so you get all as well. Uh, nine, ten, eleven. Eleven, so that's eleven HP, because it does add to the piercing damage,

so you get all that back. Get that back. Yep. And that's one of your empowered bite uses, right? Yep. Yep. Okay, so also keep in mind that that's another eleven points of HP that Verastia's drank.

Yep. As it pierces several of these creatures, and it is like a swarm of these little baby size, like, you know, there's maybe eight or nine of them all swarming around in a cloud. You just pierce like three of them at once. Nice. Yeah. And you said 11 points of damage?

Yes, please. Total? Yeah. Is that with your rage damage as well? Yes. Okay. So that heals you 11 as well? Yeah.

Damn. Very good. Keep it for another thing. Cool. Yeah, they seem badly hurt by that. Over half of them are dead now. Nice. And then I'll offhand whip attack.

Okay. Try and finish them off. 19 again. Hits. Awesome. And I'll use another D6 as well, so I've got enough stack. Blood point, yeah. So that's 5789 damage, eight, nine damage.

Not really? Yeah, with my rage. Just enough to destroy the last remaining pieces of the swarm. Oh, yeah. Swarm begun. As you whip, very Castlevania, you stab several of them. Whip, whip, whip. And you finish the rest of them off as they fall from the sky.

One explosive whip crack just shatters everything around. Oh, yeah, like a sling like as you're stood on the building like just you know almost angled on the roof just fighting with your spider climb very cool and then i'll send in the raven i need to get this ever light out of here so i'm going to try oh yeah take care of this everlight it's taking a lot of damage thank you that's great i love'm right into the mic as well. That barely misses, unfortunately. 14, 15 is the AC. It's not able to, like,

the metal is just too hard for it to beak. Damn. Okay. That's all I can do for now. I'm going to, maybe I'll move. I think I'm going to feel you move across the building. Can I try and get, like, in a window and, like, inside? Into the building?

Into the building, please, for cover. so top floor yeah yeah oh look at that she's poking her little head out i'm inside you literally run down and just swing in through a window this building is on fire but it's not as bad as this building yet as you swing in ophelia that heat is beginning to rise um if you stay in this building it is gonna get very toasty in here. Okay. So it's like bottom floor, Inferno, top floor. Yeah, well, and maybe parts of the roof, like the timber's above you, but it's not quite at an Inferno stage yet.

Okay. How's Ophelia looking now? A little better. All right. Anything else, Ophelia? There's a big heal. That's all my stuff done for now. All righty.

Thank you. The only two minions I have left right now, I'm going to attack a guard. Oh, there are three guards, yeah. That is going to be enough. The last guard. And he's dead. And then they're going to

swarm the people. Taking too much enjoyment out of this. Yeah, as you hear the terrified screams, oh, God, the guard, they've killed him, oh, my God, and they are now being sort of pinned in. The sergeant is like, we need to move, we need to get out of here, and then he sees these creatures coming in behind,

but Satan's child's there, Andy! As he watches Andy torn apart. Andy, no. It's just Bolognese. Don't worry. Xanthius. Fuck's sake. Oh, that really threw me.

So, nobody. Oh, my apologies. One minion remains. Oh, he flees. He goes off to... Oh, he has to move away from the world. He was scared. He can't see you anymore, Gruff,

so he no longer doesn't have the disadvantage for being frightened. He will attack Sir Gryold. 18. Does it hit? Wow. One point of damage. Oh, shit. We need to heal.

It's a Gryold. Emergency! He's dead. He's done for. It's Atheist. Fucking thing. Yeah. Ah, it's Atheist. Ah, fucking thing. Um, right. I want to move up to where the silent image is

to the door of this house. Um... How are you gonna do that without moving past this, uh... I won't. So he's gonna get an attack of opportunity against me. And I welcome it, actually. Okay. I open up to it. Hit me. 20. Ow.

One point of damage. Ow! My temp HP! I didn't actually plan for the second part of this. The... not cambion, the debomb. Debombadier. Debombadier. Flying above. Would you call it humanoid?

Yeah. No, it's a fiend. Fucking hell. Hold person won't work. Sadly not. Person. Yeah, well, it's... You had your moment of glory with the mercenary.

Yeah, nothing humanoid. Never again shall ye fight humanides. One day. person yeah well it's it's you had your moment of glory the mercenary yeah nothing never again shall ye fight humanites one day for i am an dm big old bum hole none of the enemies in my campaign are humanoids so child person the whole person don't work on anything they're all elementals and demons thank you Doppelgangers. Changelings, yeah. No humanoids. No humanoids. Slimes. Yeah.

All right. Ghosts. I would like to use this. Because I want to win. Scorching Ray. Oh. I want to target. I have a line on the Everlight,

on the way on the other side. Do you have the rate? Is it 120? Yeah, baby. Easily in range. And I will go for the two regular shmegulas. The foot soldiers. The nearest ones.

Right in front of me. Okay. Let's do first foot soldier. Three attacks. First foot soldier. Do you want to use any fate? Nah. There's so many.

We're going to box them anyway. If anything, I want to fate that everlight. So much. All right, you'll fate the everlight. I'll fate the everlight at the end. So much! All right, you'll fade the Everlight. I'll fade the Everlight at the end. So first, regular guy is a... He is dead, actually.

I got a nat 1. Weird. Guess I don't know how this game works. Second one, nat 20. Hey, listen, that's the duality of man. Yeah, so we'll do the damage for that in a minute. Let's just do the Everlight. The final one, which I will fade to red, is a 19 plus 5, 26.

So 2d6 maxed on that second one. Plus another 2d6. Plus 4, 16 damage. 16 damage? Yeah. He four. 16 damage. 16 damage? Yeah. He's dead. Nice. You watch as this foot soldier is incinerated.

He's actually the one who threw the ichor at you and was annihilated. Nice revenge, bro. Yeah, you watch this. The first one, the first one, and you can see that these creatures have no preservation of each other. One literally throws the other one in the way,

which is why you get the critical hit. He throws it and he dodges out of the way. Wow! Oh, yeah, they are self-serving. Does he do the action movie, like... Or like a fighting game when you get a 20-hit call. As the beam passes through and then impacts on the Everlight. Yeah, the final other light.

What? Did you fake it? He's already rolled it. It's cupped in his hand. This is damage. That's seven fire damage. No? It's got eight, hasn't it? If you had rolled one more.

Yeah, it's barely hanging together, this light. Just the melted scraps of it. Just enough of the smoke is pluming off of it to leave it standing. Mm, mm-hmm. Mm, mm, mm, mm-hmm. I'm trying to remember if my crown and steel thing... Have to do it before... For a second there, I thought I hadn't revealed it,

and I was like... I haven't done it before. Dun, dun, dun! You have to say that you're going to empower it. I can't. Imagine if that's how I reveal it. Maybe I've done that in the past, but I can't remember.

I'm going to say no. I think I have to do it before. Yeah, I think so too. So I can't empower it. No. Oh, no. When I deal fire, necrotic, or radiant damage. In that case, sure.

I'll empower it. All right. I love empowering spells. So this one, that final ball. I can't heal you, by the way. Daddy's not here. You don't need to roll. It's got one hit point left the other way. You can. I did one here. You don't need to roll, it's got one hit point left, the Everlight, but you can.

I did one damage. You did one, which is just enough. Can you then roll a d6 of psychic damage, please? D6, yeah, I forgot it's a d6 now. Three. Three psychic damage that you can't resist in any way. Does that go through temp? It would, no, because I think that will fuck

with the mechanics, but yeah, it just deals three damage. Okay, okay. But yeah, you watch as that final Everlight, as the flame turns black and gold and red, as the colors merge, and you see that glow in Xanthius's chest. When you do this, Xanthius, not only do you feel that pain in your head,

every demon just looks to you, and you see Neros. Oh, a delicious thing that one carries. Bring it to me! It goes, I'm one of you. One of us, one of me. But yeah, these things, almost sensing the power in it, having not realised that you were carrying it before,

they just yeah and you just see these demons like just greed and uncontrollable like you know desire avarice takes over um yum yum yum now they know it's time to reveal my true form xanthius, end of your turn. I guess. Yeah. I fucked up, Boo-Boo. You did fuck up, Boo-Boo. What? Everyone else is allowed to say it. The Bombardier. Yeah. It's gonna go here.

The Bombardier. Oh, he's actually flying towards... Gryll. And he's gonna drop a canister. Oh, on Gryll and Rowan? Yeah. Can catch you both in this. I don't wanna put it on the mini because I don't wanna break the minis, but.

Yeah. Oh, and the wagon too, no. The wagon and the dragon. He is flying up above. Dragon! Rowan and Sir Gryll, as the bombardier drops his demonic bombs, I need you to make DC dexterity saving throw, please.

Wagon Empire. Seven. 14. 14 is a success, you're gonna take half damage, Rowan. Use me dice. I use this one. Very different campaign. I'm a wagon baller.

That is going to be... 1922 fire damage to Sir Gryold, 11 to Rowan. Yikes. Is silent image concentration Rowan? Yeah. I think so. So a DC 10 concentration check as well, please. Oh, God. How's it looking?

Bad. How bad? So, yeah, Pulsar Grill just does not see this thing coming from up above. It almost appears like a kind of scattering. It's like a kind of scatter bomb of all these little pellets that glow bright orange and then explode with flame. 12. On your concentration, DC would have been 10.

So yes, our image is still up. I'm going to also destroy this wagon. No! The wagon! No! No! Mark, you bastard! We were going to move it eventually. God damn it.

Oh, okay. The barrels are still there. Oh, thank God. Luke. The barrels are left. The barrels are still there. Oh, thank God. Luke. Scatter him around. As it just gets absolutely destroyed by these bombs. That's devastating. I'm also going to roll to see if his smoke bomb regenerates.

Rip wagon. It does. I'm all ripped, dude. That is the bombardier's turn. We then go to the various foot soldiers. Oh, yeah. Yeah, all right, come at me, chump. Chump-ass bitch.

Chump-ass loser-ass bitch. He's fucking wagon-born. Yeah, stand in line, losers. So, against you, Xanthius, he pulls out this kind of wicked, curved-looking demon blade. Oh, swords. Oh, no. It didn't.

You nat 20'd? Yeah. You need to swap that dice out again. Do you want me to grab the blue one again? I don't trust any of them. Roll the fucking geeky clean. Roll the geeky clean. Nat 20.

I rolled low on the next bit of damage damage and it's not a huge amount of damage so it's six eight points of slashing damage oh come on what just compared to my once a regular little dude

getting blown out Neros the demonic commander and his knife on the building yeah so eight points of damage as he slashes you with this kind of

wicked curved demon blade okay and then I think the other two one is going to So eight points of damage as he slashes you with this kind of wicked curved demon blade. Okay. And then I think the other two, one is going to crossbow bolt at you, and then one is going to crossbow bolt Sir Gryold. That is going to be only an 11 to hit you, Xanthius. No.

To hit Sir Gryold is going to be a 17. Yep. Oh, no. Seven points of piercing damage to old Sir Gryold. Go good. You just hear him like reloading the crossbow like, I'm not done yet, you bastard. For Northvale! We then go to, that is the foot soldiers go,

Le Cambion. Oh. He senses a threat. Is it the rock? Yeah, it's Gruff. Gruff Earth! What's his best thing to attack with? Nothing.

Um... Who's got Benedicta, sorry? Me. It's on my go. Me. What the fuck are you saying? Benedicta, sorry? Me. Ah, it's on my go. Me. Fuck you, Saint. Too far away. Me.

Leave me alone, I'm too far away. Website. Don't, please don't. Trying to think here. The cambion is going to, as a bonus action, cast Shield of Faith on itself for a plus 2 AC. What a fucking loser. That's not allowed to do that.

And then he's going to fly next to Gruff and make a melee attack against him. Oh. 16. 17. Get fucked. I know, I know. So he swings in and with your weak, you know, your injured,

you bring the staff up. It's so weak, but no, but you manage to block it with a blow, like, ah, you're not done yet. As he brings this, he's kind of got almost like a, not like a rapier, but like a saber, like a curved sword. He brings it down like a cavalry sword. But you block it. So you see him shimmering with this kind of infernal power.

That is the camera's go. Rowan. Now remember, you can have Benedict to go before or after you. Little bro-bro. Sucky. I'm sweaty. I'm going to fucking combo us. Rowan's going to turn around.

Okay. And put his, link his fingers together. Oh, I like this. I like where it's going. Benedicta and looks up at the bombardier and nods. And Benedicta's going to use that and he's going to launch her up so that she can devout smite. Okay.

I'm going to say to do this, what's your strength score? 200. It's not. 2,000? Nope. Okay. I'm going to say to do this what's your strength score? 200. It's not. 2000? Nope. 13. 13. I'm going to let you do it because you're already very tall. You're like nearly 10 feet tall. So you're cutting the distance down to about 30 feet above you.

Benedicta is also quite tall. So you're talking about 15 foot distance and you only need to get within five feet to make an attack roll. I am going to ask you to spend a fate dice to do this, though, because this is kind of beyond the realms of normal strength. So if that's cool, fate dice. A worthy trade. Yeah, a worthy trade.

This will be your action. You'll still be up to move and bonus actions. Do you want to do those before Benedicta goes? Because you could, like, Bard bardic inspiration her, for example. Why are you doing that on Gruff? It's not concentration. You can throw them out like however you want. I'm going to dish them out like candy then.

You don't have to have just one at a time. You can be like, you get bardic and you get bardic and you get bardic. Sick. Benedicta gets some bardic inspiration. Bonus action, you bardic inspiration Benedicta and then you can move. Then ding-dongers. Benedicta gets some bardic inspiration. Bonus action, you bardic inspiration Benedicta, and then... You can move. Then ding-dongers.

All right, so you're not going to move... All right, so yeah, she moves up, she kind of nods. My thanks! Let's bring this thing down! First up! Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, yeah. She kind of... there's a sort of... Bardic inspiration. Yeah, yeah, I think that that's it.

She flies up through the air, so you get to make an attack roll. Would you like to spend any fate dice on her attack? She's already got an extra d6 from Bardic, but if you wanted to... Plus, I think she's fine. All right, so you get an extra d6 to the attack. Nat 1. Oh. I mean, plus what?

Yeah. 6, 7. Okay, I mean, plus what? Yeah. Six, seven. Okay, I mean. With her bonus. Fate. What, what the, in? Oh, fate, sorry. Two.

Nine? Is this Rowan's fault or is this Benedicta's fault? It's cool though, Mark. You should just let it happen. I did let it happen. And then the dice said no. Yeah, I mean. It's D&D, baby.

It's D&D, baby. Rowan would be distracted. I reckon, right, this happens at the point where Gruff cries out in pain. I like it. I like it because it's all happening simultaneously. So he goes to throw up, but at the last minute he turns, fearing that it kind of twists, and she just goes wide, nowhere near in range.

Fractals. You did throw her up in the air. She has to come back down. I'm going to make an acrobatic, well, you make an acrobatic. Where did you throw her? She's gone. She'll land within five feet. So just plus dex? 12.

12. She will land on her feet, but she's going to take some damage. Oh, d8. I'm going to d8 and see where she goes. Helm scream. She goes right behind you. That's not good. That's a raven.

And she will take... Ten bludgeoning tactics. She rolled really high. I rolled really high. That's like basically the 20 feet fall damage. As you throw her up in the air and then she lands, she lands on like her ankle and twists her ankle. You lumbering fool! You should use this move

on the enemies. Just run up and launch them in the air. But yeah, that's everyone's move in action unfortunately. Oh my god. Holy crap.

Oh, that natural one. Oh buddy, that was it was a great effort. I loved it. I thought it was great and then the dice went nah, fuck you. Can I move Rowan up to Sir Gryold? Technically, you would have had to have done it before Benedicta moved,

so part of the thing is you couldn't really move while you were throwing her. But my action was to throw her up, right? Yeah, but then she has to take her turn after yours. Oh, is it after? Yeah, it's before or after. That's fair. So you had to be stood still when you's before or after. It was before or after. Yeah. That's fair. So you had to be stood still when you did it, unfortunately.

That is me done. All right. Okay. And Benedicta. Yeah, and they're both comboing again. No. No. These two are not comparable.

Benedicta will remember this. Ophelia, your favorite friends. They're going to try and get in, but they are limited, right? So they can't quite squeeze to get to you, but they are going to be able to make an attack against you. They can't engulf you yet. That is going to be a 14. Just hits.

Just hits, all right. This is slashing damage, so you will half it. So that would be 12, half to six points of slashing damage. As they're like squeezing through, trying to get into this house, and now you're being sort of engulfed by them all. Can I Hellish Rebuke as a... Oh, you absolutely can!

Oh! I would like to do that, please! Dex save throw. Yeah, four. Four, you are a fail. So two d10, do we have d10s? Do you want a d10? I would like one, please.

Yeah, all right. Oh. Here you go. The box of fate. It's all in German. What? What? Yes! Are German numbers different? Six.

Six. So 13. 13 points of fire damage. Is there a plus on this? No. No, and it's not an AoE, as much as it might sound like one, it's not an AoE, but it does 13 points of fire damage. That's a lot. So does that actually say FUNF on it?

Yeah, it does. It's just every number written out in German. Zechs. Zechs, sorry. Nice. That's incredible. That's quite funny. Yeah, you watch as flames.

What does it look like? Is this like from your blood, like your blood ignites as they bite into you? Not from the gauntlet hand, but from her other red hand. But it's like the fire is like thick and red and almost like magma. Like it drips and it's Icarus. Very cool. Very Elden Ming. You're right the first time. No, I like calling though that's why i call it um but yeah you watch this just goop this

fiery napalm kind of spreads over these things and they're like get grouped get gooped um the npcs yeah yeah the many still here oh yeah minute they passed their wisdom saving throw they're not gonna leave they all start to run now so don't make off the board not yet they will dash actually so they will some of them however are gonna get opportunity attacks against them. Ugh. Better dead than demons, am I right, Gabriel? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't really live. These two are killed. No!

Clarence and Nicolai. As they turn, they turn to run. They see everyone running. These minion creatures are in front of them. And as they turn their backs, the minions are like... The rest of them scatter. The rest of them are going to clear the board, however. All right.

Just Daisy. Just taking Daisy. Put her down. Put her down. She gets swept up in the crowd. She's raptured. Oh, we're going this way. Wherever you guys are going.

See ya. But yeah, they are now cleared. They start running back the way that Benedicta and Daisy came from. But two of them sadly are cut down as they go. All of the lanterns are destroyed. I cannot summon any more reinforcements. I say again, we've got plenty. So we go up to the top of the round with Daisy.

We're down to five turns, people. Yeah, this is a brand new one. Is this, are we? No, this is turn four. This is turn four. Start of turn four. Start of turn four. Daisy, I think, is gonna see that Xanthias

and Gruff are in trouble. She's gonna try and stay at range. She's got 60 foot, so five. I can't see through the, I know. Oh. 30, 35, 40, 50. So you're silent illusion. Because you need to do some concentration. Did I do a concentration?

You did. You haven't taken any damage since. Did you take damage doing your jump up? No, she did though. No, she, yeah, she did. But yeah, I've run out of time. Daisy's going to bonus action dash with cunning action, basically run all the way down and then throw a radiant blade

at the soldier near Xanthius. Oh, yeah! Unfortunately, that's not going to hit. No, it doesn't. It doesn't, I'm afraid. That is only a 10 to hit. No, it doesn't actually. So as she's running, she tries to throw one out but it

just sadly goes wide and misses um then we go to gruffith hello um can one cast spells when one is wild shaped no because you can't speak or gesture or anything it specifically says you can't cast spells when wild shaped okay unless you wellondroids can use spells to heal themselves while they're wild-shaped, but only Moondroids. It is bullshit. Am I still marked? No, you're not, no. No, when he fired, the rune went away.

Okay. Unfortunately, I had an idea, but I'm not confident in pulling it off with this cambion on me, so... I believe. Well, I was thinking of world shaping and making a move, but it would need opportunity attacks on me and stuff like that. And I only have one charge left,

so I don't really want to fuck it up. So I am going to cast a level two kill wounds on myself. We love it. Because I'm fucked. Gives you 10 HP as well. Yeah. Eight for 16 points of healing. kill wounds on myself we love it because i'm gives you a temp hp as well yeah eight four 16 points of healing 16 points of healing pretty good huge good being healed what in norm yeah age huge i look at it

Look at Edge. Edge. Edge dead. Let Kim think, guys. Please make them stop. I'm trying. I'm just trying to decide which kind of a bonus action to use. A big one.

Oh, wait. Oh, yeah, would your bardic help me with the healing? Yeah, you can add more to it. Oh, actually, I have the magical feature. So you can add a d6 to it. Oh, it's a two. Two extra hit points, Ben. I know it's two.

You use it. Two, and I'm going to cast my Flare of Haze. And is that done? Yeah, it's done. Thank you. So bonus action, take a risk, or bonus action. Risky, bisky. I am going to whistle very weakly for Saren, and Saren is going to attack the cambium.

OK, it's your bonus action, you're right. With Saren's staff of Saren. Yeah, teeth whistling. I fucking hate this. Do I want her to attack or do I want her to protect me? It's Short call. She attack and protect. She only does one.

Gryol, big demon, then you get wrecked. Nice. I'll get her to attack. Fuck it. What the fuck is it? Okay. 17 plus six to hit. It's gonna hit, yep. And then it is 1d8.

It's gone. Wow. 6 plus 4 plus 2. 12. Points of damage from Saren. Strong hit from Saren as the, almost in defence of her master the bird flies out the spiritual energy tearing at the cambion's face it manages to kind of

disperse the energy battering it away but does look worse for wear that was your bonus action that's everything for me I can't move without provoking an opportunity to attack you can circle around but yeah right now you still have at least some cover. Yeah, I'll keep my little bit of cover then. So, Gryold, what is an action or a bonus action to do with Vitality Potion? A bonus action, if he drinks it, yeah. If he feeds it to somebody else, it's an action. Okay, so I'm going to have him drink a Vitality Potion. Alrighty, I will roll that. 2d4 plus 2.

Ooh, six, eight temporary hit points. Wow, wow, yeah. Ooh, six. Eight temporary hit points. Wow, wow, wow. Eight, and then I will have him stand strong. He doesn't get any disadvantage if he shoots in melee or if he's got any creature within melee. I'm going to make a marksman aim at the tall guy, the bombardier. Ooh, up in the sky. Hell yeah.

Good, yeah. So Gryold is the perfect person to take care of him with his sniper accuracy. He does not hit. No? We should throw two melee people at him. That's what I've learned. I rolled a three plus five.

Eight is unfortunately not enough. Maybe it's being harassed or injured. He just... His aim's off. Stay still, you bastard. Anything else? Is he within the engagement zone of the minion? I think I nudged him.

I think he is. I think he was here. Yeah. He just came and attacked him, yeah. In which case, there's not much else he can do. I mean, it's only a minion. It will only do one damage if it does hit him. I was just going to get him to kind of move pivot around him yeah yeah full roti

i think being so gri old if i may yeah he would see that daisy's on her own and he might interpose himself between the minion and daisy he will rotate and interpose wait did he marksman shot yeah oh he's always zero yeah so his speed is zero could i have moved it before marksman uh i'm gonna say no because that's not what happened i didn't hit those so it doesn't matter a little crumb but now you know for next time give me a little crumbs no no crumbs for you what's this character right trying to win i'm trying to win. My goal is to kill you all. And the best and the best. I read a 20 rules for DMs thing the other day and you'll hit all of them? Yeah. Fuck your players.

You're weak and injured. I'm not interested in you. Winged. Commander Neros is interested in strong prey. I'm weak and injured. Leave me alone. No. That sorcerer boy is hidden behind that rock. Oopsie.

Don't antagonise him. That really hurt. You went so hard on that. That sweet young girl that's throwing glowing knives. No. I am going to target Daisy. She's going to get fucking obliterated. Maybe.

Just hair left. All right. So that is what he's going to do. He's going to aim it at Daisy. Ophelia, you are in a house. Yeah. The swarm has engulfed the window that you came in from. There is a stairway leading down.

Mm-hmm. The room is getting hot. Cool. Can I... Room get hot. Can I use Veracity and can I charge out of the window towards these minions? I love it.

Just launch myself out. Absolutely, you can. Is the goal to go flying out into the open or to then run down the wall? Run down the wall and I want to go where those rocks are to the north of the house. Yep. Duck in there. It's like a bit of rubble. In the rubble.

All right. So make an attack roll, because you might kill them before they get to make an opportunity attack. Sick. Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick. Six. Oh, God! Why can we not?

Anything else you'd like to do? You can use your whip if you want. Yeah, I'm trying a bonus action whip. Yeah, you never know. I never know. It's not really killing me. I'll make my opportunity yeah yeah do it also as i did describe to you before they are all on fires and moving through their space you take fire damage uh the fire damage is going to be five points of fire damage okay and then they do attack

you with a 16 to hit uh-huh they are at half health now those they do attack you with a 16 to hit. Uh-huh. They are at half health now, though, so they do less damage. Oh, okay. For only five points of slashing damage, you're raging, so it halves to two. Yeah, that's fine. And then we see Ophelia on fire, rush out of the window, run down the building, and then hop behind this rubble. Yeah. Nice.

Wait, actually on fire or just... Not, she's not ignited, but there's definitely like embers and smoke, yeah, trailing behind her. And can I send the raven after me through that, through those minions? Do you want to attack the minions but not go through them? Just remember, it will take damage if it goes through them.

Oh, the raven attacking as... And then move, yeah. Sure, sure, sure, sure, yeah. Yep, raven attacks. Eleven And then move, yeah. Sure, sure, sure, sure, yeah. Yep, raven attacks. Eleven! That's not here. Why? But it does fly round.

Come here, raven. Naughty raven! Said the raven never more. Fuck this bitch. Ah, that famous poem. Fuck this bitch. As I poem. Fuck this bitch. As I sat there, my mind all in itch. Quote the raven, fuck this bitch.

That's the second poem that I wrote in your world. The weaver's wheel did keep spinning. Twitch, twitch, twitch. Quote the raven, fuck this bitch. Sir Mortimer Graves' sequel. Sir Mortimer Graves' sequel, fuck this bitch. Anyway, unfortunately, Ophelia, I think that's you pretty much done, right?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, stellar turn. Stellar turn. Stellar turn. The minions charge. Yeah, they're going to have to dash so they don't get to attack Stellar turn. I turn 52. 30. The minions charge. Yeah, they're gonna have to dash so they don't get to attack, or they're gonna basically surround the Benedicta and ruin.

Xanthius. Come on, boy! Pull it all out, here we go! Big turn! Big boy! Yes, Polteroonie! Could you just get rid of everything, please? I'm going to disengage and hide.

You can't do both. So I don't have a breath weapon, which would have been primo perfecto amazing cool. Yeah, look at that line. However. However. However, guys. So I need to... If I...

Oh, no, it's just all ranged attacks with this dude next to me. Could you detonate? I'm going to detonate. I'm going to detonate. I'm going to Peter Petrelli this bitch. No. No? You don't like that reference? I like the reference. Okay, thank you.

I'll do it. I am going to... Nathan Peretti comes in and says no. Ah, motherfucker. I'm going to Hero Nakamura and go back in time, then? No. Tom, turn. I am going to step back from this guy. in time then? No. Tom, turn. I am going to step back from this guy.

He will have an attack of opportunity. Okay. It didn't, did it? No! Now he is just a normal dude. He's a normal dude. He Nat 20'd me twice. How are you looking?

I'll swap the dice. That's just the other Nat 20 dice. These are my two dice. What did you want from I'll swap the dice. That's just the other net 20 dice. These are my two dice. What do you want from me? Take them all. No! That's 11 slashing damage.

11. I have... Do you want to reduce it? I am going to reduce it. Oh, my God. This normal demon. He's like, I'm going to kill you. I'm going to become the boss.

I'm going to feast on your soul. I'm going to eat that steel. He's like, I'm going to kill you. I'm going to become the boss. I'm going to feast on your soul. I'm going to eat that steel. That's ambitious. I'm strong. And I'll be Baliscore's favourite. That's who's coming out. Baliscore. Baliscore the phosphorus.

Oh, I have to decide beforehand how many I expend. So I'm going to do... Balascore. Balascore the phosphorus. Oh, I have to decide beforehand how many I expend. So I'm gonna do... 11 points. I'm gonna do two of these, so 2d6 is gonna be how much I reduce this by. Eight, so I only take three damage. I'm still standing.

I'm still bending. Where do you wanna to move to? Just, uh... five feet back. I'm probably going to move back into that space in a bit, so it's fine. And I will again do another squatching away. Okay. Three rays. So this is again to just the three... Three soldiers.

Three soldiers. Alrighty. The one next to me, who has crit me twice, is going to get fated. Okay. Because he needs to go. He does. Watch it, AC.

Can you tell me what you rolled? I rolled a 16. 16 hits. Oh, come on! Against the second one. Yep, which go down the line. Not being fated, I get a 16. 16. It hits. Oh, come on! Against the second one. Yep, which go down the line. Not being fated, I get 23. Hits.

Against the third one in the line, I get... 12. Misses. Shit! Two out of three ain't bad. 2d6 on the first one. Yep. 10 damage.

10 points of damage. On the second one. Engine is still up. On the second one, it's eight damage. Eight points of damage on the second one injured but still up on the second one it's 8 damage 8 points of damage final one I whiff

and hit Ophelia they are both bloodied by that so you see that as they're burnt their scorched bodies their shields kind of warped by it yeah they are

not looking great but they are still standing and now it's on your turn Mr. Xanthius Great, but they are still standing. And now it's your turn, Mr. Xanthius. As a bonus action, I'm going to drink a vitality potion. Okay. So 2d4 plus, do you want to roll that? I roll it.

10, max. 10? 10 HP. Just kidding. When you drink these potions, you feel invigorated. Your energy restored. Any of that weariness and stamina lost from the fight is replenished. Feel capable. Temporarily.

Nice, all right. Well, that puts me at 10 temp HP. Yeah. I'm back in the fight. I'm feeling it, I'm fine, I'm fine. All done? All done. All right, I'm gonna see if the bombardier gets its bombs back.

It does not. Good. Which is a good thing. It does not. Good. Which is a good thing. Yeah. Its smoke is going to clear. Oh. And I'm not going to use it. I am going to spend a fate point.

Yeah. For it to drop knowledge. You see it kind of drop a larger, sort of rounded iron sphere, screaming faces sort of dented and emblazoned into it. And he's going to drop it where he was. In fact, I should know he's going to drop it.

Why do you have a testicle, Minnie? Looks like a cheeto. Like a cheese ball. Cheese puff. Yeah. Or a chicken Kiev. That's gonna be action.

You see this sphere as it hits the ground. It bounces and then stops in midair, like it's hovering. And it begins to glow brighter. And it's right in between... Everybody. Pretty much everyone. But mainly Gryll and Rowan. White carcass of the wagon.

That is the bombardier's turn. The foot soldiers! I'm gonna kill you, boy! I know you are. Nine, 10, 15, 20, 25. You too? Nine, 10, 15, 20, 25. You too? Nine, 10, 15, 20, 25. Bro, you've flashed the steel, bro.

It's mine, I want it. Take it. They're all gonna try and attack you. Okay. Yeah, do it, coward. 14. I'm gonna cast Shield. Okay. I'm going to cast Shield. Okay.

So my AC is 19. All of them miss you because of that. This magic shield, you're just fending them off. They're slamming on it, trying to get at you, completely consumed by their greed and avarice. Gruffeth. Thank God. Oh, it's me.

Yes. Holy God. The camb it's me. Mm, yes. Holy God. The cambion, and this is so brilliant, because Tom and I were having a conversation before we started doing this episode. No. And he is going to utter a word of befouled speech and cast Healing Word on himself. You know...

And I literally have it in my notes. NPC, enemy NPCs. This is so good. Don't heal. We had this old thing. Why can't you do this to him and not me? Characters heal. That's how it works.

He heals himself for six HP. You loser. Shielding himself and healing. That's a bonus action. And then with his saber, he's going to attack Ruff. It's only a nine to hit, though. So he blocks.

You block him. Rowan! Fuck a dog. I'm going to get Benedict to go first. Okay, yep. She's going to attack these fuckers.

So greatsword. Yep, signature attack. Just one regular attack. One regular attack for now, yep. So it's her signature attack at the top. Yeah, that hits. 24. 24. Roll damage for me because she actually has a chance of maybe killing both of them because of over damage. I'm going to do Devout Smite.

Okay. So an extra d8 as well. 2d8. Well, I'm going to tell you now, probably not worth wasting Devour's Magnet. 6. Plus. 4. 10. 10 points of damage.

You watch as... It does only unfortunately kill one. Well, the Divine Smite, do you really want to use it on minions? It's 2d8 damage. What would Benedicta do? I guess she probably would, yeah. If you want to add it, you still can.

I just, yeah, I'm like... She can only do three of them, and it's minions. But yeah, if you want to roll it, it's 2d8, because it's a fiend, so she gets an extra d8 against it. Oh, yeah. Ten. Ten, yeah, so yeah, just the Milo. With the overdamage, it would just destroy both minions.

So now it's just... She's going to move diagonally away from the chicken Kiev. Okay. Tom, can you move? Diagonally away? Like towards Ophelia's house, basically. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty. And to the cover there.

Thirty. Thirty, nice, yep. So she goes running over there, great sword out, having slayed them. Pointing at Ophelia. I think she's probably, yeah. I mean, I imagine Benedicta really wants to go and fight this guy, but yeah. You all do.

She's heading towards him. Heading towards him. Rowan. Rowan's going to catch up to her as well. 25, 30. Okay, behind cover. That's good. Behind cover.

And en route, he's going to do his very few spells that he can do arranged vicious mockery, which is going to be that piercing frequency that's going to pierce the bombardier's head. Okay. Saving three? Yeah. What do I do? Whiz 14. Whiz?

That is a fail. 13. Sick, wicked sick is a fail. 13. Sick. Wicked sick. Get ready. Here it comes. Get ready. D4, baby. Watch out. One. Eee. Tinnitus.

Bombardier's just up there. Ow. It's an airplane. It's the pressure. Yeah. No. it does do something. Is that a whole heap of something? A whole heap of something. Anything else, Rowan? I'm guessing I can't see Ophelia from here.

No. Is it like the restaurant scene from Always Sunny? Maybe you can. I mean, it is only half cover, so I'd say you can see each other, yeah. I have 10 feet. No, other, yeah. I have 10. Then you're up 30 feet range. I know, it's 60 feet.

Healing word. Yeah, you're easily within range. I'm going to heal you. Ah! Thank you. Don't worry, it's a d4. Plus charisma. Six points.

Oh, hell yeah, thank you. Six HP. Big moves. Actually, hell is a really sensitive point right now. Healing comes out. Of my nostrils. You shouldn't say hell yeah, because you. Six HP. Big moves. Actually, hell is a really sensitive point right now. A healing comes out of my nostrils. You shouldn't say hell yeah, because it's really sensitive. Anything else, Rowan, on your turn? That's it.

I spent everything. All right, okay. You've kind of moved around those rocks, and there's two people over there. But then you have a bird. I do have a bird. I'm going to roll a d4. I'm going to roll a d6.

One, two, three. Rowan and Benedicta. Four, five, six. Ophelia a bird. I do have a bird. I'm going to roll a d4. I'm going to roll a d6. One, two, three. Rowan and Benedicta. Four, five, six. Ophelia and bird. Oh, it's five. The swarms, they're basically going to come and just descend on you and the bird. They are quite injured, so they're only at half strength. So you and the raven take two fire damage.

I'm going to remove that for line of sight. Oh, okay. For camera. And then they are going to attack you, Ophelia, for a 16 to hit. Yeah. And this is half because they're at half strength. So that'd be five, half to two slashing damage.

Cool. Okay. They're at half strength, so that'd be five, half to two slashing damage. Cool. Okay. As they descend upon you. NPCs have all run away, so we go to, there's no more lanterns, it's the top of another round. Three left. Four left. Four left, including this.

Four left, yeah. Yeah, including this. Turn five. Yep. Yeah. So five, including this. Turn five. Yep. Yeah. So five, six, seven, eight. Yeah. It's more that I was just like, hang on, if it's turn five, there's only three.

But no, it's actually because you count it's the end of turn eight. Yeah, yeah. Halfway there. All right. So Daisy's turn. Daisy does not know what this rune does yet. The, what, the orb thing? No, the rune.

The guy's aiming at Daisy. Did she not see him shoot Gruff? Was she arrived by then? Yeah. She would have heard it then, yeah, yeah. So she wouldn't know. So I guess she would try and take cover, but there's a lot of bad dudes in the way. Yeah.

And there's a bomb. Yeah. Yeah, I think that the only thing. Take cover behind the dudes. Yeah, behind this. And they would all get shot. Yeah, I mean some of them are gonna get shot, 100%. The only other thing I can think of,

she would have to run all the way round, she doesn't wanna pass through this thing, she doesn't know what it does. She does have a bony actually dash yeah but that would you know even if she went round it'd be like

5, 10, 15, 20 25, 30 5, 10, 15, 20 she could get to here but then she's going to get Benedicta and Rowan shot so I think this is actually

the best place for her to hide right now yeah so she's going to move there. I'm going to use her to have cunning action to try and hide. Okay, because she can use that. Dodge? It's an action to take dodge.

Cunning action, you can't dodge it. That is going to be a 21 on her stealth. So she's going to try and hide there. Whether or not that will affect this guy, we don't know. But she's going to try and hide there. Whether or not that will affect this guy, we don't know. But she's going to try and stay hidden. I guess she could attack, actually. Attack first, don't vote any action. Yeah.

She will attack one of the foot soldiers by Xanthius. Thank you. That is going to hit. Sneak attack. Yeah, with sneak attack as well that is going to be 12. 16 points of radiant energy absolutely decimates one of these foot soldiers uh just the blade sticks in its neck and it turns to mist and smoke and evaporates and then she will duck behind the pillar and try and hide. Oh, good. Sweet. So she will do that. Hell yeah.

Gruff. Can Griold, with 25 foot of movement, can he get within line of sight of the cambion? Cambion? 5, 10, 15, 20. I can see it. 25, yeah. I mean, if he gets to here, I'll have cover and he can still see them.

And would that put him out of range of the shot that's going to go off on Daisy? No, he would then be in it. He could move to here. Yeah? And that... Yeah.

Yeah? Yeah, the cambion will have cover but he can do it. Let's do that. It's probably still quite close to the bomb but...

I guess just the minion have... Minion will get an attack of opportunity. That's going to miss. It's only a 14. And and then see agree we'll get there the camera's gonna get plus two ac from this oh okay for the cover fate i can't use it on grild uh i mean he's a pretty good shot

he's got like what plus five plus six I'm rolling like a dick well that's just dice might roll good this time don't roll like a dick this time

roll good that's what I tell my dice roll good forehead is Rowan within 30 foot of me 5, 10, 15, 20 of Gryold yeah of Gryold

bonus action I will don't shoot me nightly I'll shoot Rowan of me. 5, 10, 15, 20, 21. Of Gryll? Yeah. Of Gryll. Bonus action. I will... Don't shoot me. Nightly, I will shoot Rowan in the face. Nice. I'm going to give him a nightly inspiration as well.

Okay, great. Would you like to... Ooh. He will just say, come on, we've got to get to that tower. We've got to save Ash and rest for Northvale. No shit. It's just your motivation. It's like when you're in a,

it's like you've been in LARP battles and people just go like, charge! And you're like, I was doing it anyway! But yeah, I feel good about it! You're doing it too. Seven temp HP. Seven temp HP to Rowan. You get seven temp HP.

Awesome, thank you. Yeah, this is a nightly thing to do. He'll um. Shoot the cambion. Shoot the cambion and marksman aim it. Kind of lays the crossbow on the rubble, takes an extra shot. I just feel like this is going to go bad. He gets advantage on the attack if you use marksman's aim. Oh, does he?

It does say that, I think. I didn't roll advantage on the bombardier one then. Oh, well. That's silly. That was stupid. Fucking learn a read. Dummy. I think it does say that.

It does. Yeah. 16 points to hit. Does hit. Does hit the cambium. Just, actually. It's a new character. I would have fucked it a million times.

He'd be dead. 17 points of damage. Oh! Hell yeah. You watch as this cambion brings up its saber ready to strike its wounds healing as it is about to bring this down when something sticks out of its chest

like the alien chestburster and then it turns to smoke and flame and you see Sir Gryll across the way just, come on! There's work to be done, Gruff. He saved your life. I love him. I love him so much.

Core memory unlocked. Core memory unlocked. That's locked in. I am going to... As Gruff now? I am going to... I'm just trying to... Has Brothno? He's... he's fine. He's fragile. He's fine. I'm just trying to think what path to go.

This big Neros guy is worrying me now, so I'm just trying to think which path to take and when to activate the thing I want to activate Let's throw caution to the wind let's go let's go let's throw it all the way up in the wind Whatever you do there's gonna be effect cause and effect No one's gonna see this apart from maybe Rowan. I can't see where you are at all from where I'm sitting so Rowan uh Gruff is gonna go down on all fours and start shape changing,

sprouting multiple legs. Oh no. Turning into a fiendish giant spider. What? Spider gang, spider gang, spider gang, spider gang. CR is it? One, two. Okay, so.

Which I can't, what, half? Oh, it's half, so you can do that. I can do this. Okay, great. I've been looking at it all, so. Yeah, so... Which I can't... Half. Oh, it's half, so you can do that. I can do this. Okay, great. I've been looking at it all the time. Yeah, I was going to say, because remember, moon droids can be...

Down back. Yeah. I do not have a spider, unfortunately. I can do a quarter or a half. I can't do a one yet, I don't think. You can find a real one. So I have speed of 40 foot. Okay.

That's a climb of 40 foot as well. Whoa. Five, 10, of 40 foot as well. Whoa. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. This is 25, 35, 40. You can get up here. Or you could just pitch on the side of the wall and be out of line of sight. Yeah, is there a way to do it with the houses?

This is on fire. Yeah, this is on fire. You get on this roof, it's flaming. He's locked in on Daisy now. He is locked in on Daisy with the houses this is on fire yeah this is on fire you get on this roof it's going it's flaming he's locked in on daisy now he is locked in on daisy fire you have resistance oh that's oh because it's the fiend it's fiendish okay is that a fiend or is it a beast it's a medium beast in that case yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so yeah i mean you would still take half damage but it's up to you i'm gonna go up on roof do you want to come up here how bad would the damage be you don't know

until you take it safe now because it's not got a lot of acs okay uh hit points so okay so you're gonna like tuck yourself in you are kind of tucked in you can be like tucked in a little bit here um by the window there is a window in this building um cool i also put stealth plus zones so that was your bonus action to wild shape but no action action watch shape so then move okay right um bonus action yeah i can't do anything with the bonus action so yeah a lot of your abilities you can't use while you're wild shaped all right cool all right so we see gruff turn into this bluish white grotesque looking spider as it scuttles up. Black and white. Black and white.

There you go. All right, sure. As it scuttles up onto the side of it. Yeah, it's like a tarantula. Like a tarantula, but spindlier legs. Oh, good. Like a cross between a tarantula and a black widow. What if it wasn't?

You have power over this. Do keep in mind that we might have some people around so let's not scrub too much. That's my fault. I didn't think of that. That's my fault. That's fine think of that. That's my fault. That's fine. It's an adorable one.

It's adorable. It's like a jumping spider. It's cute. All right. Gruffarth, end of turn. Like a jump. I think that's everything, yeah. All right. In that case, Demonic Commander, at the start of his turn, takes his shot.

He does hit the minion first in the line. I mean, it's probably going to hit uh it does hit minions destroyed but it does reduce his attack bonus for the next shot which is against daisy daisy's gonna get cover um so daisy's ac is 15 she's gonna get half covered to go to 17. uh not unfortunately against this guy yeah he basically has an ability where like hidden, hidden creatures, but he's marked. He can still see them, basically. Yeah, makes sense. He's got, like, a Widowmaker.

Yeah. So, but it doesn't work against illusions. I didn't actually factor that into my notes. It was against hidden creatures, not illusions. I knew that. 17, so I need a 12 or higher to hit. With the minus I've got. Fortunately I did roll higher.

19, but it's not a crit. Not a crit. Not this time. That is gonna be 13 points of damage to Daisy. So you do hear her, the pillar is shattered and broken. Daisy kind of like cries out in pain as this shot is taken. That minion is annihilated. So now it's just two guards, the bombardier, the swarm on Ophelia, and now the sniper.

Their thing was never to try and win. They're probably just reappearing somewhere else in the town. It's just so hard to charge ahead. Yeah, it is. That was the challenge of this encounter. Do you just charge ahead and risk it, or do you try and whittle their numbers down? What do you do? That was at the start of Neiros' turn, I should point out. He is then going to move here. No.

Belia he's going to mark with his rune. Fair enough. Because he kind of sees you scurrying daisy he's lost like he's fired but you know he's taking a shot now he's going to move on uh so he's going to come and take a shot at ophelia well start aiming at ophelia uh is a few lose time cool um i'm going to i need to get rid of this swarm they are right in my face they are all around you. You do unfortunately take two points of fire damage at the start of your turn. All righty.

No problemo. As does the raven, by the way, as well. I'm going to try and do my last healing veracity strike. Okay. Against these two. I'm going to risk a reckless because I really want to. Do you want to spend a fate? Yeah, I'll spend a fate.

Sure, sure, sure. I really want to hit these you want to spend a fate? Yeah, I'll spend a fate. Sure, sure, sure. I really want to hit these guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my apologies. I should have spent a fate to fire that shot, so you would have had one for free there. Nice, okay. My apologies.

Nine, ten, eleven, twelve... You are forgiven. ...twelve. With a d6 for fate. Sixteen to hit? Hits. Oh, thank Christ. Okay.

So, I'm going to do my blood point and a d8. Add all your bonuses. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. 17. Not only do you kill the swarm, but you heal up as you finish off the last remnants of this horrid phosphorus swarm. I'm free. You're free apart from this

giant rune and this demon like ice yeah I'm great I'm Gucci how much did you feel 17 because it adds like it is quite is like adding the the damage from rage and blood point goes into the rest yeah Okay, so I'm now going to... Now he's targeting me. I'm gonna skirt around the front of this building that's to the north. Like this one? Yeah, that one, please.

The one with all the fire around it. It is, yeah. It is flaming, yep. Oh, what would be better? Or could I... We can see me everywhere. How much movement do you have? 35? 35.

Yeah, you've got loads of movement. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25 I've put you at the moment. 30 I've put you at? 30. Yeah, I've put you at 30 there, so. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25 actually, sorry. So you've got 10 feet. 25. Yeah, I'll skirt around a bit more, 10 more,

and just go a bit more. Like here? Yeah, for now. Not in the fire. Not in the fire. Yes. That fire is to represent the building is on fire it's not actually at the front sure okay cool and then can i send the raven up to um our big boy the big boy it's like a distraction like to get him to like flip around yeah demon's head absolutely yeah yeah yeah yeah do you want to do a distracting strike on him or just to just try and fuddle him. Yeah. Do you want to do a distracting strike on him or just to try and fuddle him?

Just to fuddle him. Do you want to actually attack him? Yeah, just to distract him and stop him from aiming, basically. Yeah, absolutely. He's buzzing around his head and everything else. Just to be annoying. Sure. Okay.

Cool. And that is my turn. All righty. We have no minions. Xanthius. You've got, what, two of these boys in front of you. I do, yeah. You've got, what, two of these boys in front of you? I do, yeah. But we need to start charging.

And I only have one spell slot left. And I don't want to use it on these guys. You're going to disengage? I think I might have to... Run for it. If I action dashed, they would have hit me. I know that. One, two, four. If I action dashed, they would have hit me tight, I know that. They'd get an attack opportunity.

The one that crit me is still alive. And he's going to do it again. Can't promise it, but I'll try. Let's see, what movement would I have? You have 60 feet. Can I use the house freely, or would I have to... I will... You spent a fake point on it, I will allow it. The people in there are basically trying to help you out. They'll open the door and shut it as soon as you approach,

at the risk of maybe being attacked by the creatures if they chase them. The other one couldn't because it was frightened. So I have 10 feet away from the house, if I had an action dashed, I can then do, I think it's five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, I'd be halfway up the stairs. Yeah. And I do still have two, like if they do hit me with the attack of opportunity, I do still have two shields, or two runes.

So I think I want to risk that. Confirmed. Is there a fate dice you could use somehow? I guess, like, the guards are gone. I don't know. I don't think so. Do I know that this is an illusion? Yeah. This is Brock.

I'd say that you, like Rowan, yeah, I'd say you guys can identify. Unless Rowan doesn't want you to. It's got Rowan's carvings all on the rear side. I just don't know if I can use that. I think, I don't think I can find a way to fake this. Don't attack of opportunity me. It's there for creative uses if you have ideas it's like i do

not have ideas uh so i will make a run for it try it yeah first attack opportunity yep from the foot not a natural 20 but a 19 from that guy so it's a 23 to hit yeah yeah yeah yeah that hits unshieldable as well only three points of damage. I rolled a one on the damage. That's good, that's good. Second attack opportunity. It's not. Is it?

No! Is it now 20? No, it's not! Was it this fucking guy again? It was the other guy! It was the other guy! No, let's flavour it. It was that guy.

He hit me with three crits in a row. I can't believe it. I really was like, there's no way. He hit me with three crits in a row. I can't believe it. I really was like, there's no way. I rolled a 19 as well. I was like, oh, that's quite funny. I rolled a 19. This guy needs to be promoted. Ten points of damage. Ten points. I have to...

Yeah, I'm just going to use both shields on this. I reduce it by six, so four damage. Four points of damage. I still have my ten page fee. But you then do get to make a mad run. I reduce it by six, so four damage. Four points of damage. I still have my ten page fee. But you then do get to make a mad run and go halfway up the stairs. All the way, yeah, halfway up the stairs, basically right up to the roof.

I'm just going to put you at the top, yeah. Where you see this giant spider. But we know that you're halfway up. Ah! It looks quite a demonic spider as well. If you look carefully, though, you can see Gruff's bell still on its collar. And you turn around and say...

Like that, yeah. But slightly more Welsh. I love you, buddy! Anything else, Antheus? No, that's me. I don't really have any good bonus actions. Bombardier. His bombs do not recharge. He is going to... Bonus actions. Bombardier. His bombs do not recharge.

He is going to... I am going to be such a dick, I'm sorry. Is he going to chase after you? Line of thingy. He's going to do his smoke bombs again. So he drops a smoke on... Oh, Rowan and... And Benedicta. Benedicta. Engulfing them in smoke. Resistant to poison. As he drops that down. That is his turn.

I'm going to throw her out. Yeah? Up into the cave? One more time. One more time. The two foot soldiers now are going to turn. He's run away too far.

Oh, Gryhold. Oh, whyryold. Why did I not see you there? I mean, when this thing explodes, though. It is growing brighter. In fact, the bombardier's turn. So I mark this down by one. It is growing bigger and brighter, but you don't know when it's going to go off.

But these two rush Griold that is going to be a 10 to him and another 10 to him they can't hit Griold Nat 20's all day against Xanthius but against Griold

ping ping ping can't do it plot armor what a great play plot armor yeah I'm not going to kill one of my NPCs I'll kill you guys

he's too cool I love my NPCs I'm going to kill him hungry for crown steel Cambion is dead Rowan I'll kill you guys. He's too cool. I love my NPCs. I'm going to kill him. I'm going for Crownsteel. Um... Da-da-da-da-da. Cambion is dead.

Rowan. Ugh. You're at the start of your turn. Yep. You take four, so two, poison damage. Thank you. But you are currently, yeah, difficult terrain. In smoke, can't see out.

You can just about make out Benedicta next to you and, like, the shape of the wagon and the crates and stuff. No! It's going to take me too much movement to go forward, so I'm going to have to step out backwards again. For ten feet. Ten? Are you older?

There's not much I can do against this. Old man yells at Cloud. You got any italics? I do. Vicious mockery. Sure. Here we go. Against the bombardier.

Ten. Fail. Here comes a sick, sick damage. It's a fucking four, dude you actually see in my no you don't add anything to the fishers mockery Sally I bet he does that level five you get to the highest no I can play but yeah you do that. Then Benedicta. Does Viserys Morgenthau suck ass? What the actual fuck?

It's like Mindsliver, but worse. She's going to hop back as well. And she's got a throwing knife. Yeah, she's got throwing knives. Three throwing knives. So she's going to throw one of those. Okay. What is it?

It's the same? Use the same, but it just does the damage. D4 plus four instead. Yeah, she is. And you can divide smelt with it. Oh, I will. 24 to hit. Oh, yeah.

Fine throwing knife. And then a D4 and a D8. Two D8 because it's a fiend. Bloody hell, Harry. Does your person even come on fire? 12. 16 points. Wow.

With that, you watch as she pulls out the, and her throwing knives are all engraved with all these holy symbols of the sun and the moon, and she holds it up, and it seems to shine with a black-silver edge. She throws it, and it tears through this bombardier. It just shreds its flesh as if it's unmaking it and you watch this thing oh you didn't expect us to kill all these things did you it's explosives however do remain at

least for now oh the orb the orb and the smoke. Coroan and Benedicta predator arm clasp. I'll allow it. If you spend a fair point on it. Great job. There's still more of them. Gryold! And she looks over and sees Sir Gryold and she's like, we need to help him.

The swarm, dead. Yay! NPCs. Some dead, some alive. Mostly escaped. The top of another round. Three rounds remain. And six.

Four. Three. No, it runs around six. So six, seven, and then at the end of eight is when I make my first check. Three rounds remain. So Daisy, from her hiding spot, is just going to try and take out

one of these foot soldiers next to Sir Gryold. With a sneak attack. With a sneak attack. Easily hits. I rolled like a 19. That's going to be crazy. It's fucking dead. Yeah!

There's no point. She does so much damage. You watch as this little blade flies out. Was that the one? Do you want it to be the one? No. What do you want? Leave it to me.

Okay. I don't know how I'm going to hit this thing. And then she's going to 5, 10, 15, 20. I want the guy that crit me three times to escape. And then she will dash to go in the house, and she's going to hide in the house for now. I keep my silent image up. Okay, great.

So she uses her bonus action to cunning action, dash, goes in the house, and is going to linger by the little outlet bit and then make a rush out of it later. Cool. All right. Gruff. With Sir Gryold. Do I need to get away from this guy before I shoot him,

or can I just shoot him? What guy? The foot soldier that's behind my ass. That's me. Oh, Gryll. Oh, as Sir Gryll. He will get enough... If you move, yeah, if you disengage as an action, you can move.

No, do I need to move to hit him, because I've got crossbow in? No, no, no. No, you can attack him. I can attack him, just... Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like a marks... Sir Gryll is like a really good shot. He can shoot, point blank.

19 plus 5 to hit. Hits. 9, just... Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like a marks... Sigriold is like a really good shot. He can shoot point blank. 19 plus 5 to hit. Hits. 9, 10, 11, 12 points of piercing damage. Sorry, Xanthius. Sigriold takes him out. Just kind of, like, very John Wick-esque. He, like, flips the crossbow around and shoots up on his arm. Yes!

Yes! Just takes him out. Yes, die, you bastard! Yeah, and so he's got the rest of his movement. Bonus action. You still have 10 HP left. Yeah, and so he's got the rest of his movement. And bonus action. You still have temp HP, Liam. Yeah, I'm fine. You still have temp HP? Yes, well, a tiny bit, yeah.

I'm also miles away. If I move 25 foot, can I be within 30 foot of Ophelia? I'd say so. 15, 20, 25, 30, yeah. If he moves to here. He would be standing here. And is that my full 25 foot movement? So 10, 15, 20, yeah, 25, literally to there.

I'll use my last nightly inspiration on Ophelia. Seven temp HP. Seven temp HP. Oh, nice, thank you. Very nice. Sister Ophelia, that's right above you. We need to press the attack now. He's the last thing in our way. One good push.

As you command. Quite literally. As a medium beast, can one be ridden? No. Not as a medium creature. If you were large, maybe, but I'd say medium. I was tempted to be a war horse, but they don't. There was also a riding lizard, but it was a CR one quarter.

Can't be it yet. If the opportunity arose. Oh, one quarter. I would say it's quite weak. It's quite weak, yeah. I'm going to use 80 foot of movement. So let's catch this out, because 5, 10, 15, 20. The wall is another 20 feet up, but you could go diagonally. So 5, 10, 15, 20. The wall is another 20 feet up, but you could go diagonally.

So 5, 10, 15, 20. So you can get to there with 40 feet of movement. Is that 15 feet away from the side? Am I able to get around, start climbing the tower, be around, it's between me and your ass? You will have to move. He will get an attack opportunity, because even if you come to here and then start going round, you'll be leaving his threatened area. He has a 10-foot reach. Can I take a little bit more space to go down the wall and around?

No, because you have to imagine that this is like... There's like a defensive area to the... Can I go up the wall? You can, but you're still going to be moving within his range. I'm going to say no. Unfortunately, you will take the hit. He's not currently aiming, is he? You've got 40 feet of movement if you dash.

So is that 80 foot with dashing? It's 40 foot normally. So that's where you are now. Dashing. Yeah, so if you take an action, so you can either take an action now where you are, or you can action dash and go another 40 feet. I will say that this tower is 10, 20, 30.

It's 30 feet to the top section here. Okay. Cool. Good for a spider. But then there are these defensive windows, so if you're outside, you have to get in the windows, basically, to get inside.

Oh, okay. A medium spider can do it, yeah. Oh, right. Oh, it's just that risk is whether or not he hits me, because I'm crunchy as a little spider. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Unfortunately, he's going that risk is whether or not he hits me, because I'm crunchy as a little spider. Yeah, I mean, yeah, unfortunately he's going to get an attack opportunity.

Yeah, okay. Well, he's probably going to attack me anyway, right? Like on the next go or something like that. Would the raven help? Because it's running, would it give him disadvantage? I mean, it won't necessarily give him disadvantage. I was going to have him basically focus his attacks on the raven, because he does have smaller arms. He's been using

this rifle. He also has an axe and a pistol that he's not been using. So now he's got something to fight now. But if he senses something trying to run past him, he's probably going to make a strike at it. I'm stealthy. Can I make a stealthy run? You have nothing to hide behind.

Just the wall? But you know spiders. You never see them until the last minute. You're like, huh! I'm going to risk behind. Just the wall. But you know spiders. You never see them until the last minute. You're like, huh! I'm going to risk it. Okay. Is there a fate dice I can try and use? Not to like, yeah, there's no generic use.

I mean, how would you do it? There's a huge spider web that I can crawl up. I think I'm going to have to veto the idea that there is somehow a giant spider's web already in place that hasn't been set on fire. It's also painted yellow. By all means. The smoke from the fire in front of him is actually starting to get quite,

build up quite a lot, and so his eyes can't see. It's distracting. Hot. Raven. You can only see from his belly. He's trying to shoot Ophelia. I mean, he is.

I will give him disadvantage if you spend a fate dice. However, that will mean that this whole area is covered in smoke, which means that if Ophelia or the bird or anyone else tries to attack, they will also have disadvantage. So you'll basically be creating like a fog cloud from the smoke on him. How y'all feeling about that? How much HP does your spider have? 11.

Could roll a one, I could roll a one, could roll a two, what's the AC? 13. Up to you. Of course, that's going to be my bargain. Yes, you can. The smoke kind of catches a big gout of wind, blows it all into his face,

but then this area becomes full of smoke. It's like a column of it around him. Would that affect him on future turns, though? Unless he moves out of it. If he moves out of it, then it won't affect him. Do you know what? I'm going to take the bargain. the bargain all right okay I get a fake point you spend one and then you're gonna scurry up so you'd go five ten

fifteen twenty so you'd basically be right on the cusp you'd be like here just outside just outside the window just outside the window not able to go through or attack it yet but next turn don't put me up there i'm gonna fall off and die i'm gonna put you on the the thing over here so in the face stick you on you like the bad the bad thing i could put you on this yeah all right so does he have an attack he does he will be at disadvantage you could still do I believe you got this. Disadvantage. This is going to be with his brimstone axe.

A plus 16. Disadvantage. With disadvantage, that would be a 13. It's AC 13. Let's hit it. Does it do enough damage to harm a creature? You have fire resistance, right? Yes, fire, cold, lightning. Okay, well, it does do an extra d4 of fire damage,

so that will be halved. That is going to be 8 slashing, and would be 4 fire, but it's halved to 2, so it's 10. 10 damage. You've got one HP. Oh, my God. Twice. It's enough, though.

You're still going to stay alive. You're still going. Still there. And it's in smoke, so it can't really, like... Gruff, that was your turn. That's it. All right. So Griel's gone. Yep. It's Neros, the Demon Commander's turn. That's it. All right. So Griel's gone.

Yeah. It's Neros, the Demon Commander's turn. Yeah. He is in smoke. He is in smoke. He's going to use his multi-attack. So Ophelia, you're protected. He lowers the rifle.

He can't get a shot. He's like, clever little thing, but it seems that I have better prey anyway. He twists, and half of his upper body is going to twist around to take a shot at Xanthius. He's going to aim at you so he can kind of see you on the balcony coming towards him. The smoke is disadvantaged but he can see you.

Right. He probably will just turn but then his lower half and his belly face uh is actually going to turn and take a swipe at the uh i don't know he's going to use his pistol he's going to aim it at the spider his job is to protect that tower so he's going to pull out the pistol and he's going to try it will be a disadvantage because he is still in the smoke uh his rifle doesn't like the smoke doesn't affect it, basically. Oh, so he's locked on to me.

He's locked on to you. I see. And then his little tiny body in his chest turns around and is going to fire the piss-loppet spider. With disadvantage. Fourteen. On you? That's the lowest.

No, that's on you, spider boy. Yeah, that hit me yeah I thought it might that is gonna be six points of damage yep so you revert

back to gruff you no longer have a climbing speed you were basically 25 feet up the tower so you fall you land prone

at the base and make an acrobatics check for me let's see if you can lessen some of this damage maybe yeah you can yeah I'm It's a natural one, Mark. Is it? Take full damage. Eight points of bludgeoning damage. That's okay. So did you take the extra from the spider form as well? Because you had one HP, right?

Yeah. So it would have taken another four on you. How much did I say? I can't remember. It was six. Six, so five. So five on you and then eight bludgeoning as you fall. Thirteen.

Oh, it soaks, it goes over. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, it soaks through when you take damage. When your world shape takes you to zero, you pop out and you take the rest of the damage on yourself. Yeah. But yeah, unfortunately, yeah, just even blind by that smoke, still just able to find

you clearly a better marksman than he was with the axe, and just takes you down, and then, yeah, is locked onto you, Xanthius, with this rifle. God damn. So close. So close. That is his turn. Ophelia.

Yeah, Ophelia's going to run up. Oh, shit, and we need to just realise the time as well. Oh, yeah, Ophelia's going to run up. Oh, shit, we need to just realise the time as well. Oh, yeah, Ophelia's going to run up towards the Bastion wall. So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and then I'm assuming... Dash a Spider Climb up the wall. So, yeah, you can basically get next to him with your dash. Awesome. That's my action to dash. That was your action to dash, yeah.

So I haven't got a bonus action to attack, but I'm right up against him. You're in his face, yeah. I'm in his face, ready to attack him next turn. Yep, absolutely. Can the raven do some damage against him? It's your turn. You tell me what the raven does. Raven will make a distracting strike against this guy. Okay, so let's see if you hit.

22 to hit. 22 hits. This bird is out for vengeance yeah fuck the eyes 4 piercing damage and the next attack against it has advantage 4 piercing damage

okay and advantage on whatever the next attack against him is okay do we we are already over time

do we press on or do we stop it there and wrap this up I mean it's one dude i feel like once he's gone right we're just going to go into the tower and then we just end it there again depends how long it takes he's a big boy he's a big boy i'm going to take a couple of years a big boy i'm also you know it's uh i'm appreciative of poor sam as well

do we finish this round maybe because we've got ophelia, and then we've got... No, it'll be Xanthius. I'm about to finish him off. Xanthius, and then basically Rowan, and then that's the end of the round. Should we just finish the round? Sure, let's finish the round. Xanthius. I want to spend a fate to remove that smoke,

because I can't shoot him. Well, I get disadvantage. Okay. And I want to level, second level, Scorching Ray, all three onto this guy. Okay. I imagine he's resistant to fire, but... You don't know.

Like, not all demons in that are. None of these other phosphorus demons have been. It seems like whatever their fire is is different to magical flame. Mm. Advantage. You do have advantage on the first one. The first one has advantage.

Okay. Watch this drive. Why do you say these things? You curse yourself. 14? Against Neros, Demonic Commander, just hits him. Oh! Just hits him.

Just hits him. He's a big boy, I guess. He's a big boy. No arm. And he's quick, but his armor isn't really protecting him. It's like ornamental armor. The second hit. 21.

Hits. Third hit. 12. Does not hit. Okay. All right. That. Does not hit. Okay, all right, that's 4d6 of damage. Three on the first hit. Okay. On 2d6. And 11 on the second one.

The flame thuds into the demonic commander's chest. You can see him reel as the smoke blows out of the way. The wind now having carried it further on as it dies down. He staggers for a moment. So that would have been how much damage in total? 14 points of damage plus how much damage did you do? I haven't hit him. Oh, the crow. The bird.

The bird did... Four, right? Four, four yes does that shake him so he's currently taken 18 points damage you can see it's nearly throwing his aim off as he's being attacked by all these things he's finding it harder to kind of keep his concentration and aim on you but it just barely remains for now is he is he bloodied? He's not. Okay. No. Anything else, Antheus, on your side? I don't think there's anywhere else I can go

that will stop him from having line of sight on me. Like, forward. So I'll just go... I'll basically duck behind the wall that I'm next to. Wherever would give me full cover against it. Yeah, sure. And that is me. My health is far too low to start enlarging stuff.

Enlarging? Empowering. Pretend I didn't say that. In that case. Engorging. Engorging, that's what I meant. Rowan. You and Benedicta.

Rowan is going to go... Well, Benedicta's going to dash. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. 5, 10. 15, 20, 25, 30. Yeah, she can get to about here. If that was the most efficient way, I can't tell. Yes, fine, we'll figure it out.

Rowan's going to go... I don't know which space I'm on. Yeah, I assume that. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Can I see Gruff? Can you see Gruff? Oh, he's behind him. He's very on the floor, isn't he?

I'm going to say, this is me being a bit of a pedantic asshole, this building is just because he's prone. Oh, he's killed him. Because he's prone, the lip of that roof and where you are, because you're looking up, I'm going to say you can't see him. Can I see anyone up there? You'd see the demon and the bird. Okay.

Because Ophelia is also kind of like this chimney and the roof, and you're down. Like, if I'm doing a wall hammer line of sight. Yeah, I mean, it does make sense. No. Fair enough. I'm going to use my action to move the boulder to create a wall in front of Xanthius.

Oh! He still hasn't discerned it. No, hasn't bothered. He hasn't bothered to do an action, so that's gonna give you a bit of something. Something, something. Yeah, that's your action. Bonus action.

How does Sir Griot look? How does Sir Benedict, is Benedict okay? You've got Benedictus' stats. He's on about 20 health. He got healed, right? He's got temp HP. Oh, he's got temp HP, that's right. He got quite bad and then...

I can't see Ophelia from here. I'll say no, sorry, mate. Unfortunately, I'm going to be a right arsehole about it. I'm going to... No, I mean, it makes sense. That's it. That's all I can do. Yeah?

Yeah, there's not much more I can do. Fair enough. Not even vicious mockery. I mean, I could. Well, if you don't move the boulder, you can, because it's your action. It's my action. Yeah, I'm done. All right.

With that, then, it would basically go down to a new round. Puts us on round seven. Oh, God. So we have to get past him, up the tower, and deal with Morris in two turns. Oh! Well, two minimum. Two minimum. At the end of the eighth turn, I will make

a Tinker's Tool check, which he's pretty good at, each round. The DC gets lower every subsequent round he keeps doing. So it represents that he's working on it, and at the end of the eighth round, he's close enough that he might be able to get this thing fully functional.

It seems like he maybe had to rush installing it after you guys found him, and so it isn't quite working right, and so the ritual isn't fully complete yet. But at the end of the eighth round is when I can start being like, is it ready?

And then we'll roll. As a note he would have a plus his proficiency bonus would be doubled he has a plus 8 to these checks. The DC's quite high but like I said it drops every subsequent round so potentially if I roll like

an 18, 19, 20 on that turn he could fix it then and there. This is still after two full turns as well two full turns yeah it could change but I think

we're gonna have to we have to we're gonna have to keep it there because it's already quite late thank you so much everybody

that has been it for episode 26 what a fight oh boy oh boy it's so much fun this yeah

just one guy left this damn sniper yeah beefy though yeah yeah and he's and you know you've done some great plays you've kind of kept him busy but he has kept you back which has been his job oh my god those rolls and holy shit yeah and he's not defenseless when you get up close to him he does have his axe he has like a little pistol that he can use to fight people nearby and stuff he just didn't need to up until this point. Yeah. Shit's on. Oh. Yeah. All right. Finish it off next time.

All right, with that, but what a good time as well, because you've maxed out my side of fate, but that will all be reset, ready for next episode. Oh! Interesting. That will be good, yeah. Optimized. Yeah.

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