High Rollers DnD - Altheya: The Dragon Empire #41 | Deceptions in the Deep (Part 2)

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

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The tiefling, J. Soon, has lured Rowan down there and ambushed him, but using some mysterious, unknown connection and power born from Rowan down there and ambushed him. But using some mysterious unknown connection and power born from Rowan's history with the Proto-Mashai vaults, he is at least safe for now. How long this will last, we do not know. So, we jump back in. We are in sort of a kind of half combat. Some people have rushed off, racing through the mine

to reach Roman as quickly as possible, but there are still some foes and threats remaining behind. So we're gonna continue with that combat for now. I didn't realize there's still foes. Oh yeah, oh yeah, there's like a bunch of minions, Rockman is still here. Is Rockman friend or foe? Two, I'm surrounded by three. Three, four, three.

Well I wouldn't run off if there was still things. Three Belimorfs, oh I did. No, you do, you girl. You're like 10 feet into here. I'm not far. Alrighty, we will jump in at the top with the Belimorfs. They are terribly frightened, but they are still creatures that are out for their own preservation,

and so one is gonna run away, runs into Gruff, and then joins his friends in attacking Gruff. This is at disadvantage, however. Because they do be spookins. They do be spookins, because of the death of their... Disadvantage doesn't really change much when I roll two 14s. With their bonuses, there is three of them,

so this is actually going to be at 20 to hit. Yeah, just a little bit. It does hit. That is gonna be six points of bludgeon damage, and how many pheromones does Gruff have? Three. No, two. You killed an extra one, you killed two minions,

and then you killed another minion. Trez. Trez. Salvagnor minion. That means I add a bunch of extra dice to your damage. So six slashing damage currently, plus another six, plus another, so another eight. So that is 14 points of slashing damage.

But all of your pheromones are gone. Er, what are we gonna do with saving throw? Concentration, it is, this will be DC 10, Constitution saving throw. Natural 20. There you go, you maintain concentration of the Moonbeam. I don't know how I flipped you off, I'm so sorry. I used the Kremlin in me.

I'm used to it, I get it. It just went there, I just. I get it, poor Dungeon Master, he slaves away all day to make a fun adventure for his friends. I was flipping off the bellamore. It's a fun adventure for his friends, he spends all day working on work so hard.

You just slumped a bell on it. And then what happens, his good friend Kim, whom he loves dearly and he's got so much respect for, he's just like, fuck you, you stupid cunt. I was doing that to the Bellamorves. Yes, the Bellamorves. Well, the Bellamorves just hit you for a bunch of damage, so that's fine.

It's not Kim's fault that you happen to be all of the enemies. Yeah, no, absolutely. And in fact, you know what, I'm even gonna be kind and gracious and let Gruff go, like he's Gruff said. You wanna take his turn away, that's fair. No, no, I'm fine. Can I now move the moonbeam this way?

You can, it'll move on top of you, but yeah, if you wanna hit all of them. Can I hit some of them? You can hit one. What about the two that are in... Again, you would have to pass over yourself, because you can't move it through a solid wall. That's how I'm arguing it.

If anybody in the chat is like, oh, technically this has been answered and you can move it through a solid wall. That's how I'm arguing it. If anybody in the chat is like, oh, technically this has been answered and you can move it through a solid wall, let me know. If you moved it around, you could move it onto one of them. Yeah, you get around the one behind you. Can I heal?

Or onto Rockman. No. If I go with me? If you include yourself, yeah. Then you're gonna do that damage to me. Fuck it, yellow. All right, I love it. So, saving throw for you,

against your own DC. What is it, I love it. So saving throw for you against your own DC. What is it, wisdom? Cline. You're a spell dude. I can tell you all of them fail it. I failed it. So roll your damage. All of the minions are gonna die.

What's this drive? Max damage, no, nine points of damage. Nine points of damage, well you take nine radiant damage and all of the minions are dead. Nice. I also make a saving throw. All of the Belomorphs die. Failed saving throw. The concentration's in.

So there you go, so you nuke yourself with your own beam and it immediately ends. I'm like, ow! Why did I do that? But you do see the smoldering corpses. As there are no Belomorphs in this immediate area, I'm not gonna worry about any more pheromones. They are now pointless.

Can I move 35 foot? You can, yeah, absolutely. There you go, five. I'd like to think that I turn, you hear, so Ophelia's doing what Ophelia's doing. You see the moonbeam move, you hear this, oh, bloody hell, ow! And then Gruff appears and he's just steaming a little bit.

I moved you 30 feet, Gruff, because if you take another five foot step, the swirling mass of rocks around Rockman. Don't get closer to this. What the bloody hell is that? Ophelia tries to tell you as she's been swiped. I don't know what it is. Maybe don't stand there.

He came after me. All right, Gruff, anything else on your turn? No, absolutely. In that case, we go to Xanthias. I'd like to try and get this juice off me with an action. 15. Oh, with an action? Yeah.

All right, yeah, you spend your action. Wipe the goop off. Great. You would take it at the beginning of your turn. Yeah. How much, though? Four. Cool.

What? You don't want me anyway. Ah! I would say as well at this point, Yeah. How much though? Four. Cool. What? Fuck me. Fuck me. Ah! I would say as well at this point, like your clothing is not like, you're not naked but it is ruined. Like your outfit is smoking ruin.

God damn it. Like you're gonna have to like buy new clothes at some point. Mother. And we're out in the wild? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Shopping here. I'm gonna loot Roman's clothes. It's like your tabard thing is like, you are probably like shirtless at this point and like your trousers are basically like tattered remnants. Like you look like a Dark Souls when you start off in Dark Souls. Oh wow.

Like a naked little guy. No, I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking. But yes, so you spend an action and you like scraping it off with your hands and your claw and like the spare fabric is left, like wiping it off your body. Like you are blistered and skin is like raw from this acid. I'll call back to Graaf and Ophelia to ignore that rocky thing, it's helping us with the Belimorphs,

it might stop more coming from that way. We need to keep going, this way. Do do do do do. This way. I feel do, do, do, do. This way. I feel like he's probably pointing, but I can't even see the Weakroot. Yeah, I can hear it. I can hear a distant scream.

Forward! Anything else you want to say, Fadden? So that's your action. I'll walk, or I'll head down that corridor towards, I guess, where Daisy is. Sure. And try and get zoomin'. All right, great. I mean, because there's no reason you would look in that bottle, so why guess where Daisy is. And try and get Zoomin'. All right, great.

I mean, because there's no reason you would look in that pool, so why would you? No. I'll check in. Unless I mean, I guess. It's not an active thing, like, yeah. There is no pool. Well, I mean, I think that it's a,

you don't have like a magic crown still sense that will be like, there's crown still. It's not like a video game where you get the like, you think there might be crown still nearby. But I do have a low enough wisdom that I just walk right over the pool and just. I mean with your passive perception as well, yeah. I would just go straight over it.

You'd need a light because you don't have dark vision, right? Don't need a light if you just fall straight into it. Right. With that, it is Rockman's go, and I've got some bad news. He is just attacking whatever is nearby. Like you can see, I'd say Gruff, you are a druid. You have like a knowledge of primal magic, nature magic. Could you make a, is arcana or nature higher for you?

Arcana is a minus one, nature is a plus two. All right, so nature check for me then please. 17. 17, you would be able to, you can immediately see that this is an earth elemental, right? It is a force of earth and it is angry. And it's not necessarily against you, it is lashing out at anything in this place right now.

It did seem to favor hurting the Belomorphs first, like it could see them as an enemy, but now it is just lashing out at whatever is nearby. If there is a way, there might be a way to calm it or prove that you're not here, like you are not against it or something like that, but right now it is angry enough that it is going to step into the middle of you and Ophelia. You and Ophelia, I believe it's at the start of your turn and when you first move into it. Oh, if you move into it or without.

So right now you're okay, but once you start your turn you're gonna take some damage. And then it is gonna make two punches. It's just gonna punch you both. That's fair. So against Ophelia, ooh, it might be lucky, that's only a six. That is only a 30, sorry, yeah, 30 to hit.

Yeah, just misses. Just misses, and against Gruff, that is gonna be a 16 to hit. Yeah. 16 hits, oh, you don't have armor up yet, do you? No, I was reckless on my last go. Good. Thank you. It's all right. Good point now, that was cocked. You don't have armor up yet, do you? I was reckless on my last go. Thank you. That was cocked.

That is gonna be a nine, so that's a 16 to hit. I'll hit. So it does hit you both. Checked out. Honorable play. Very honorable play. Very honorable play, well done. Thank you.

Honor point. 16 bludgeoning to Ophelia, so half that to eight. This thing is strong. Ooh, very low damage roll, which is good for Gruff. Only eight bludgeoning damage to Gruff. But I've got some bad news for you both. Because as it strikes you, like the rocks around your feet sees you.

Your speed is zero until the start of its next turn. Okay. So it's just like just like locking you in place and it's just angrily just like smashing into you. Alrighty, so Ophelia, you immediately take five bloods in damage, you take two. Okay. And it shorts in.

God. Do you guys have any, how's your health? Don't worry about it. It's fine, it's fine, don't worry about it. Um, aw, what do I do about this guy? What is health? I don't wanna be mean, I don't wanna be mean to him, but he's being mean to me. The Belimoths were mean to you as well.

They were mean to me. Now they're dead. And all those people who helped us. Stop, stop it, stop attacking us, you brutes! We're being a new home. Please. Make a persuasion check for me. Fate it, fate it, fate it.

Fate, fate, fate, fate, fate, fate, fate, fate, fate, fate, add a d6. Thank you. Oh. 15. 15. 15. A 15 is enough where he's like winding up more fists and he kind of like cocks his head and looks at you. Crrrr.

And he's like holding back a punch. He's not stopping the earth spinning around, but he's like guarded. Like he brings his fists up like a boxer, but he's like a geo dude, so they're out like the side of his head. So he's like doing this like he brings his fists up like a boxer, but he's like a geo dude, so they're out like the side of his head. So he's like doing this. He's cute.

Like Graveler. Yeah, he's like Graveler, yeah, he really is. Awesome. And he's like got his hands up, so he looks like he's poised, ready to fight, but like maybe you've got through something, but he's not fully convinced yet. But yeah, you've done something.

Anything else on your turn? I guess, I'll like end my rage, I'll end all my, like, my... Just to look intimidating to him. And just chill. We're on your side. I take it you don't speak Terran. I do not, no. All right, anything else Ophelia?

That's my turn. All right, Gruff, at the start of your turn you take five points of bludgeoning damage, I, no, no. All right, anything else Ophelia, or are you just done? That's my turn. All right, Gruff, at the start of your turn, you take five points of bludgeoning damage, I'm afraid, as the swirling storm of debris and rocks is still going around this little guy, but then it's your turn. I would like to speak Druidic. That's kinda Terran.

You can try. Uh. Nah, like, if it's not a resounding yes from Mark, and Kim's like nah. I will say this in Druidic. Okay. But it would be along the lines of, now listen here my friend, we're here to help.

We're not here to hurt. Give me a persuasion check with advantage as you are speaking in Druidic. What was it, persuasion? Persuasion. Could have added fate to that. Well, yeah. Natural ones.

Oh my god. Well, it's one worse than two natural ones. It's a one and a two. Oh my god. It's pretty bad. I had a one to that. Oh, what being two? What is a three and a two. Oh my god! That's pretty bad. Add a one to that. Oh, a whopping two. What is a three?

You see this creature just doesn't seem to fully, like just doesn't understand you and just doesn't seem to be swayed by your words. In fact, seems to be eyeing you up more aggressively. Anything else on your turn? I'd say that you can do that for free, free action. Oh, thanks. Can I cast a Cure Wound on myself, please?

Yeah. Let's see. Let's do a level three, why not? All right. When you do cast a spell, this little guy gets more defensive because you obviously are like, ah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

casting a spell, but then he sees the healing energy and seems to calm down a bit again. I'm gonna do that. And then once I've healed myself, I'm gonna lay my staff down and take a peaceful nap. Okay, all righty. Then we would go to Xanthias.

So where are me and Daisy? You are currently in a tunnel, running away. You can turn back, you don't see the others following up behind you, but Daisy is ahead of you. She's flying away. Yeah, I'm following. All right. Daisy, you're gonna do the same thing,

you're just gonna keep going? Yeah, yeah. All right, you two will arrive in the next encounter first, and then a couple rounds later, depending on how long it takes these guys, they will follow behind you guys, all right? So for now you guys are just, and this, you are again, it's like winding through

these different like mace shafts. You can see that some of it's worked, some of it's been blown open. But you think you can begin to hear something echoing down ahead of you, and you're not, it's very hard to tell the exact area because it's bouncing and echoing off the walls. You can hear what sounds like real manic screaming.

Oh. Kind of just like, ah, ah, ah, just like, but it's, you can't hear the words, it's so muffled, but somebody's yelling and screaming about something. Okay. Does it sound like Rowan's deep voice or anything. No, definitely not.

Something else, yeah. You heard Rowan scream, though. It does sound exactly like that. Every day. Ah! Is it quite dark down these tunnels out of interest? Yes, Daisy's light is the only thing like... I imagine you're faster than me, right?

But either way... No, she actually flies about the same speed. I thought she flew faster. I fly at, like, walking speed. Well, either way, just in case you do get away from me, I? But either way. No, she actually flies about the same speed. I thought she flew faster. I fly at like walking speed. Well either way, just in case you do get away from me, I'll do a Produce Flame. In my manic running, do I happen to like stub my toe, shin or rock or something like that?

Because if I do, I take one damage, I'll be damned. No. I'm just imagining. It would be very sad. Just trips, hits his head on the side, alcohol. I just stub my toe. And then fails three death saving throws. And then just dead.

Just dead in the tunnel. Like one of those statue ghosts. No, no, no, you're rolling at 20. One hit point. Statue ghost. Back here. Okay, give me a back slap. Yeah.

Can't watch this drive. I stub my toe, I get back up again, motherfucker. One round, Daisy's doing the same thing. So Ophelia, I come back to you. What are you doing with this little guy? Oh, my God! He's like, We can help each other.

If you come with us, I don't know what else there might be lurking in these tunnels, but there'll be more of those horrible insects probably for you to fight. Yes, those horrible nasty things. It's like he's making the sound of rocks like rolling down a hill basically. Make another persuasion check for me. This time with advantage

because you don't have your former dread gruffs laid his staff down. The fact that the two of you are clearly non-hostile, you can have advantage. Two 13s. Interesting. 18. 18. Anything else on your turn?

I guess that would be it. I've got nothing else I could probably do, so... You would have taken five bludgeoning at the start. Your turn's like two bludgeoning for you. He will... I know because you're not raging anymore, so it would be four five this time. Right. On his turn... In fact, as you know, it's Gruff's raging anymore, so it'll be full five this time. All right.

On his turn, and in fact as you know, it's Gruff's turn first, then it's his turn. Gruff, you take five points of alleged savage. You're having this conversation, and just every now and then it's like ah, please, ah! Daddy, by the side, I, um, just. I want to point out, neither of you have stepped back. Like how?

You said we were in shit. Oh that's true, yeah. Until the start of his next turn. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you thought it was long time ago. How come he hasn't had a turn? Since those two have, they've already had two turns now. He punched him.

Yeah, but they've had two turns in that time. A very good question. Do you want him to punch us more? Do you want healing? No, I'm just saying. He wouldn't have done anything on that last turn, so actually this turn you can move. Would you give him up the zero speed?

He has to attack them to do that. Right. So you guys can move now. That's what I mean. I'd start then backing up towards the corridor where Xanthias and Jay-Z went. Oh, like move around him? Yeah.

Oh, he doesn't like that. Oh. He's like, he'll let you move away from him, but like if you move like around him or try and get behind him, he doesn't like that. I'm not, wait, just back away? We don't like that. I'm just going this way.

You can go like up here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You go in that corner, and he's kind of like, mm. So you've moved out of his spinny range now, but then Gruff at the start of your turn, you go in that corner, and he's kind of like, hmm. So you've moved out of his spinny range now, but then Gruff at the start of your turn, you would take it and then you can do what you want on your turn.

Right, so I've taken damage. You still, yes, this turn you would, because you couldn't have moved last turn, because things have happened in that order. How much? It would have been five. But did you already take five just from what I said earlier? I think you took five already. Yeah. I'll work it out in a minute.

Yeah, let's not worry about it. So yeah, so I'm just gonna like, scooch away. You're gonna scooch back? He'll let you scooch back? So these rocks don't bump me in the face anymore. Uh, and yeah, can I speak to him again? Yeah. Alright buddy, I'm gonna try this again. We really don't want to hurt you. Please, let us help you.

Our persuasion check with advantage. Would you like to, no? Natural 20! Yeah, he's done it. And a natural one! You watch as he looks at you, Gruff, and he can clearly understand you, the both of you. He just can't speak back, and you watch as he kind of like,

his little stone face kind of, and all the rocks fall out of the air, and he no longer is using that ability, and then he points in the direction that Xanthias and Daisy have gone. And you hear this rolling sound of rocks like he's trying to speak, but you don't understand him, unfortunately.

He must point in that direction. Right, I think we've done it. I think we can go, we'll go sort that out. I said it to him. There may be two others coming, a little goblin and a tree man. They're with us. Okay, you guard this place against more.

He melts into the stone. He just kind of sinks down into the rocks. Okay. Right, this way was right, let's go. Let's keep going. Good work, Gruff, good work. While we're running, can I heal Ophelia? You may cast, yeah, you've got a round, you can cast the healing spell. Oh, Come on, Gruff, good work. While we're running, can I heal Ophelia? You may cast, yeah, you've got a round,

you can cast a healing spell. Oh, thank you, Gruff. You're around the corner and I'm Peter Griffin on the ground. How long have I been there? I left him there. Then I trip over you and then I go. The fact that you go to Peter Griffin, I go to Yumcha, dead, to the Cyberman.

Alrighty. 13. Oh, thanky. Thirteen. Oh, thank you, Grog. So, let us now cut back to Rowan. The thing that you have grabbed, you can't see it, but you know it's out there. It feels like some writhing worm-like rubbery, but also bulbous and fat and grotesque. Fuck yeah. And it's...

You can feel its bite is causing you immense pain to the point of now. I need you to make a Constitution saving throw to see if you can hold on to this thing. Fete. We do have fate. Oh, and you do have plus one, two saving throws because of magic water. I will fate. Okay. Con. I will fate. Okay.

Con. Constitution saving throw. Natural fucking 20. You keep a grip on this thing and you feel it writhing intensely and it's just like, let me go, what do you want? I'll give you what you seek. Treasure, wealth, power,

all of it, let me go. I have everything I need. You have nothing. Better that than losing anything. I can tell you of the sovereign's gift and where it lies in these hills? I'm listening. You must let me go.

Swear you will let me go. Will you be disturbing these caves and this earth? I go where I hunger, but my follower has failed me. I will ignore these lands. Go where I hunger, but my follower has failed me. I will ignore these lands. They are tainted by Sovereign's blood. Where is Sovereign? You feel in your mind, maybe it's through the poison or connection, this medic physical space,

your senses seem to stretch out and you now see running throughout the ash hills are underground rivers and you connect it that is the corruption the flow of the corruption that you sensed previously it's been carried by water throughout all these lands and its source you sense is to the southeast following through the ash hills you see hills above you see forests you see all these landmarks you see broken buildings and old ruins and things like that and then eventually you dive underground and you see an immense underground lake with an island at its center. And upon the island, a crude fortress or defensive building, citadel, has been built.

And you see more of those reclaimers. And at the heart of this structure sat in a pool that connects to the lake itself, a huge pile of crown steel. Some of it refined, some of it raw, some of it pulled from broken pieces of maybe armor or something. And it sat in the water, distilling out, tainting the water, spreading it throughout the lands.

And this lake has a got a familiar golden hue to it. You also would very briefly see just before the vision ends, you see two figures, you don't see them clearly. One is nine feet tall and has horns and looks reminiscent of a dragon. And they are bound before this immense pile of crown steel. The other is about six feet tall. You can see red plate armor. But one of their arms has grown far too muscular and oversized and One Horn has become twisted and warped, and they're bound before this.

And you see one of these reclaimers bringing a piece of crown steel and forcing it into what you believe to be Knight Idris's mouth, Idris's outmouth, and forcing him to eat it. And that's where the vision ends. I imagine that vision takes Rowan back so much that he almost forgets to be holding onto Belaine.

Yeah, Belaine, yes. She who feasts. Do you let go? That's the question. Yes. Maybe in that shot. You know, Rowan is obviously encompassing this anger from the earth, but Rowan is terrified.

Yeah. And he doesn't really wanna be around this thing anymore, so he would let go. You feel it fleek. It just flees, but there is this sense of you can still feel that burning bite, and you get a sense that you left, not maybe a wound, but you choked this thing hard,

whether it was physical or not, you have left a wound of sorts there as well, and you know that Belayne will never forget you. And likely never forgive you either, as, but it flees from you, whew, gone. And in that moment, as it flees, you see, not light, because it would be dark pitch black down here,

but you suddenly feel your physical sensations come out. You feel a weight on your head as you feel the lamp helmet. You feel your grip around your sword. You feel Sosenanto on your back as you reappear back in metaphysical space. You are at full health, as you have been healed by the power of Ulfey

within the cocoon. And you see around Jason, you can see broken pieces of earth elementals. And in fact, as you awaken, you see that with a blast of Eldritch magic, she shatters like a creature of Earth that's come alive. She hasn't noticed that you're awake just yet. She's focused on attacking whatever was attacking her.

You can see there are broken remnants of these creatures all around, and she's blast one. At this point, we are gonna go back into initiative, but starting on Rowan's turn. Rowan, who I believe is actually last in the initiative, so it works out quite nicely. So I'm actually gonna knock you prone over here by this stalagmite.

J. Soon is actually gonna be over like here, and has just finished fighting something over here. About 15, yeah about 15, 20 feet away. All right, you, well, 20 feet away. All right. You, well, assuming you're coming on from a certain side. True. No, from Rowan. Oh yeah, yeah. Can I sense the exit that I came from?

I haven't been moved anywhere since. This is where you came from. I haven't been moved anywhere since. This is where you came from. Yeah, this is all hard stone. It's just empty for camera purposes. There are no exits here. This is the only way in and out. Cool. I think what I might do is opposite me,

but in eyesight of J. Soon, is create a silent image, because when I was in that vision, I thought eyesight of J. Soon, is create a silent image, because when I was in that vision, I thought it was J. Soon, then I was Cranostalic Mike IV, but I was in metaphysical space, so I would like to create a large version, a 10 foot size elemental.

Okay. Scary. Sure, I've got one. Why do you have one? Why, yeah. So about here? What the hell? Yeah, so it's enough for me to slink away

and Jason's vision is looking away, essentially. Okay, yeah, so you summon this thing and merging out of the stone, another one of these, but this enormous large sized earth elemental comes to her and she looks up and she just is like, enough of this, I will have that one for myself. And begins to try and blast it basically. But this is on your turn, so this is a bit of flavor.

So that was your action to do that. I'm gonna skulk away. Can you just check for me, Silent Image, does it have verbal or somatic components? Silente imagio, it's performance of creation, sorry, is what I was going to do. Ah, performance of creation, I can't believe you can create a creature with.

And create a non-magical item. Can I make a statue of the elemental? You could make a inanimate statue of the elemental, yes. Yes. Okay, all right. That's of the Elemental, yes. Yes. Okay, all right. That's what I'd like to do. Yeah, so it would basically appear just in a static pose, so this is probably not gonna be anywhere near

as effective as convincing her that it's an actual creature as an illusion would be, but it might be enough just to buy you a bit of time. All right, so that's your action to do. So I was gonna have you make a sleight of hand check to see if you could subtly cast a spell. But no, with this, yeah, you just create this statue. Yeah, it's not a spell or anything like that.

So it's like you just will this into existence. And then you've got your movement and bonus action. You are prone. So half movement stand up. Half movement stand up and I'm gonna, first of all, use 15 feet of movement just to get behind those rocks. Just to hide behind something. This one?

Towards the exit. Oh, this one? Five, 10, 15 gets you about here. I've hidden in rock before. Maybe. You are the stealthiest of all of us. Yes. Rowan is terrified at this point.

He's panicked, he's kind of like scrabbling back to his feet, clutching where he got stabbed, and is breathing heavily, disorientated, and is clamoring for the stone. When you touch that where you were stabbed, by the way, and that was where whatever this magic of yours healed you and protected you,

your fingertips touch something. That area of flesh has turned to stone. So that part of your chest where you were stabbed is solid, and you feel it, solid stone. Roger that. Thank you. That is your movement. Any bonus action?

I can't really do Barlick Inspiration on an elemental to give them a chance. So I'm good. That's it. All right. Ophelia and Gruff, you would both be next, but you are gonna come in on a later turn. Yep. Because you guys were slower than Daisy and Xanthias,

basically. We had things to do. You had things to do? Yeah. I'm gonna go with Ophelia and Gruff. You would both be next, but you are gonna come in on a later turn, because you guys were slower than Daisy and Xanthias, basically. We had things to do. You had things to do. Yeah, getting hit by a rock. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. All right, let me just check. I've got a lot of things going on here.

I don't need to worry about these guys anymore. They aren't here yet, they aren't here yet, they aren't here yet, they aren't here yet. What? What? Okay. A lot of people aren't here yet. Daisy.

You are actually, you and Xantheus, sorry, Xantheus, because you guys are moving at the same speed, because the initiative Xantheus is gonna go first, but then it's gonna be Daisy, basically, all right, unless somebody else goes. So Xantheus, you are gonna be the first to arrive. I'm gonna put you and Daisy on the board. Okay.

You guys are basically gonna arrive back here in this corridor. So, I can't actually see. I have Daisy up a little bit first, actually. So I can't actually see. I'll have Daisy up a little bit first, actually. So I can't actually see from where we are. I can see Rowan, right? No. I would say just barely, or running around the corner,

and you can see, because he's running this way, you can just about see him. He's up, he's, like, clutching his chest, and he's clearly running from something. In that case, I would almost make a defensive... If he's clearly running from something. In that case, I would almost make a defensive, if he's running away from something, I'd almost like try and usher him behind me and make like a defensive sort of stance to,

I guess I would shoot the first thing that I would see that comes around the corner with a Scorching Grey. So you'll do a ready action. I will do a ready action. You don't want to move further in, you're going to stay where you are. I will, yeah, I'll nudge maybe 15 feet in. Five, 10, 15 to about here.

Yeah, and if I see anything come around that corner that's not Roman, obviously, I will, yeah, Scorching Ray it. Okay, all righty, so Ready to Action. It is then Jaesoon's turn. She will, she looks up at this statue Then J. Soon's turn. She looks up at this statue and then quickly realizes it's a statue, it's not moving. So she just kind of looks at it and then will look around and look back to where you were

and it takes her a minute to realize she's looking and you're not there. And then this kind of panicked look as she turns around, she sees you running for the rocks and can behind see just coming around the corner Daisy and Xanthias and will just say, no, she had a bit of a New York accent, no, no, it's mine, it's my price.

And with these horrible mandibles, speaks this eldritch word, and a cloud of magical darkness is gonna completely block off this entrance here. So 20 foot from basically, she will move ever so slightly. In fact she will move up to Rowan, and then she will create magical darkness on Xanthius. So this is a 20 foot radius basically around you Xanthius.

Neat, so I see her before she casts it, right? I would say you just barely see her before she casts it, yes, so you can cast your spell. Is the speed with which I cast that. Okay, cool, in that case, three bolts. That is a natural 20 on the first one. Oh, we love to see it. That is a 13 on the second.

Popping off today. 13 will miss. 13 misses. And a 18 on the final. Two hit, including the crit, so. the crits are 12 plus 2d6, so let's do that first. 12 plus 4d6, I guess. Oh, unless, yeah, she's resistant,

in which case the first one, which was a crit. She is actually resistant to five, because she's a Tiefling, so we need to do this individually. Motherfuck. Okay. That is 15 damage on the first one. I rolled very low on the deal.

15 halved would be seven. Seven. And then the second one, which hits, is. 15 halved would be seven. Seven. And then the second one which hits is seven, so. Three. So you watch as the flames, it hits her golden skinned body and she shrugs off most of it, that tiefling lineage protecting her a little bit.

Oh, I was expecting a Bellamore for the darkness. And then suddenly you're in complete pitch black. I think I just killed her. So she's used some of her movement, she used her action to cast Darkness. As a bonus action, Rowan you're the only one who sees this, she pulls from her belt a small vial and she's going to drink a potion of greater vitality, which will give her 10 pier points. Oh, what? Just, it's your thing.

You don't like it when... It's not healing. Esther's flask. It's not healing. This is 10 HP. It's 10 HP, yeah. Kind of fucked up. Fuck it up.

There are so many... If you can hear them in the background, don't panic. It's not bonfire night now, though. People do it on the weekends. People do it all around... It's tomorrow, so... Not tomorrow, it's Tuesday. It's the cave explosions. So,. People do it on the weekend. People do it all around. It's tomorrow. Not tomorrow, it's Tuesday. It's the cave explosions.

13 temp HP she gets. It's just immersive sound effects for the cave. Yeah, so that's the scorching rays. Yeah. But no, she drinks this potion of vitality and you can see a little surge of vitality and yeah, she gained 14 temp HP to sit on top of the hit points.

All right, but that's her whole turn. That's her action and stuff. She doesn't have legendaries or anything just yet. So then we would go to Daisy. Daisy, you are surrounded by magical darkness. You cannot tree. Markness. Don't laugh at that.

I didn't. Can I... I guess I wanna just try and move forward, as much as towards where I saw Rowan. You can feel the wall, and then you get out here, and then that would give you a point where you can easily move. So I'd say five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. You would get to here, which gets you out of the darkness.

Five, 10, 15, 20, just about. So you emerge out of the darkness just behind Rowan. And again, this is about 20 feet high, so you can be flying up to about 20 feet up in the air. I'll fly probably a bit up. And is that like a platform there? No, that is all the way up to the ceiling. So this is basically the ceiling where this ends,

same as this and then this over here. This is like a smaller platform like here, so you can land like, there's like a little shelf on either side, but this is the top of the room, basically. I will land on the little platform and then I will shoot on the little platform and then I will shoot a radiant blade at her. Okay. Please.

That wouldn't hit. Oh, do you know what I'm doing? I rolled a two. Oh, I can't hit a two. This dice can actually fuck right off, is what it can do. You want one of mine? Nope. Prime for a nat 20.

The sauce is probably not gonna hit. 15. 15 just barely misses her, in fact, actually. I do fuck up. Like you've seen Xanthas, she seems to be protected by some sort of magical armor that just deflects it. So you throw these blades down, she deflects one or dodges one, the other one glances off her mage armor as it does not strike true, unfortunately.

Anything else on your turn, Daisy? Nope, I'm out. Alright, in that case, that would then be the top of a brand new round. So next round you guys will come in because it will be that round, this is the round where you're basically gonna arrive. I'm coming, Rowan, we're coming!

So then we would go to Xanthias. Hey, what up? So I can just walk forwards and out of this magical darkness, or do I have no idea where I am? I would say, because you don't have a wall or anything to center yourself on, I would say that for the purposes of, you can vaguely know a direction.

Like you would know, I was facing towards Rowan, I just have to walk forwards, basically. It just mainly prevents you, like, you can't cast spells because you can't see. You're technically blinded. Like same as if I was attacking in, I can't see in unless she has some means to see a magical darkness, which she does.

Spoiler. I don't know that. So you can go five, 10, 15, 20, 25. You can basically get to where Daisy, initially put Daisy, and then you're out of the darkness here. Rowan, are you okay? No.

Is this one hurting you? He looks worse than you do right now. I do. He's got one hit point. He's got like tattered clothes. Yeah. You do have one hit point. he's got like tattered clothes. Yeah. You do have one hit point. One juicy little hit point.

Yeah, that sphere of darkness, could I come out of it? Like now that I've come out of it, can I sort of nudge backwards away from this? You've got five feet of movement. Yeah, I just wanna back up just a little bit away from this nerd, this loser, this potion-treaking narc. What? Do you know that she, do we know at this point that she bit? this nerd, this loser, this potion-dreaking narc. What?

Do you know that she, do we know at this point that she bit? She's got the marbles. Yeah, okay, yeah, that bit. She does not look like she did when she was up on the surface. I also like you guys speaking as a free action, you have the telepathy, like,

it wouldn't be hard for Rowan to be like, she tried to kill me, like. Oh, that's gross, that's disgusting. Whole person. Based up to you. Whole person? Yeah. Oh, sorry, I forgot one of her abilities, which.

It very specifically says not person. Wouldn't have triggered right now. Oh. So, it's all well and good. I am going to, yep, I'm gonna roll this. Yep, which is a wisdom. Wisdom? Yes.

That is a 17. Shit! I think that just beats it, doesn't it? Yeah, 14 is a thing. Oh, 14. So you try and ensnare her mind, but something deeper and darker is already dormant there and it just rebuffs you as you try and seize her mind.

Damn it, damn it, damn it, blast. Blast and damn it, actually. Damn it, blast and shit while I'm at it too. Fuck, fourth one. Anyone can interrupt it. Is that as handy as Tom? We don't have to interrupt you. You can just stop Tom. That's it.

Yeah, yeah, you're right. You can just choose to not, you know. Right, end of turn. I've stopped. Bonus action to Glyph of Aegis. Okay, great. J.Soon's turn. So let's start for a turn.

No, she doesn't have that. I will spend a fate. Whoop. Thank you. To use her Hungering Maws. So in a 20 foot cube, which unfortunately will still hit Daisy because it's a cube, 20 foot tall, 20 foot.

She will strike all three of you. I need all of you to make dexterity saving throws. As from the stone in the air, these kind of spirit, like, ghostly mouths of like ghostly worms kind of float through the air and try and numb you basically. Oh, I love how this is a spell. Holy shit.

This is a magical ability. I'm just wondering if it knocks concentration on the darkness out. It's not a concentration spell. I tried. 23? Success. Do you have evasion yet?

No, I've got uncanny dodge. So you're still gonna take, yeah, you can use that to take half, but yeah, I just wanted to check it. I told you it was prime for an unnatural 20. You're, uh. Unnatural 20? You're the only one who has to do that.

Still gonna take half damage. 22. 22. 22, you're all gonna take half damage. Unwell wear ruled. Full of garbage. It's common. It's common. Half damage. Half an hour left. So damage. One, two. 22, you're all gonna take half damage. Unwell wear ruled, it's common. It's garbage. It's common. Half damage. Half an hour left.

So that would be, oh, max damage. That would be normally 16 acid, halved to eight. Daisy, you could half that again if you wanna spend your reaction. Sure. So you would only take four acid. Sure. Rowan takes eight, Xanthius you take eight,

which I believe will always gonna spend his Roonies. I'm gonna send my Roonies to reduce the damage. I'm gonna use three of them. So 3d6, which the average on 3d6 is obviously exactly 8. Oh, perfect. A 5 and a 2, and then one more. A 4, so way more than I needed, but. Reduce all the damage.

Reduce all that damage. You block it with these runic sigils, shields and things like that. Yes. As these mouths try and. How are you still standing? He's Xantheist, baby. I'm Alphae and Jesus.

He's Xantheist, he's Alphae and Jesus, quite literally. You throw some worms at me, I block them away. But the rest of you take that damage. Jasonne is looking a little bit more panicked now. Yeah, she is going to circle around, kind of wary of Daisy's blades, but not really able to do anything. But seeing you bloodied and injured,

she's gonna kind of draw her dagger out, holding Rowan at bay, but she's gonna start moving towards Amtheus. Oh, god. Daisy. Hello. It is your turn. Oh god. Daisy. Hello. It is your turn. Oh shit, oh, I forgot we had half the people

so I'm trying quicker. They're coming. I'm gonna try and, I'll try and hit her again. Okay. Ah, 17 plus seven. Hits. Woo. And you all get sneak attack.

It happened. It happened. 17 plus seven. Thank happened. It happened. Um, 17 plus seven. Thank you. Hits. Mit. 50. Mit. I don't know how to do math.

I need you to do math, though. Okay. 30, 40, 60, 70, 80, 90, 20, 200, 23 points of damage. 23 points of damage. Am I still in Radiant Soul? Yeah, I think so. How long has it last? How long, a minute?

Radiant Soul? A minute? I would say, I will, for this turn, it's probably gonna end this turn, because the travel time and stuff like that. My proficiency plus three, so. Yes, plus three, so another three damage. Damage.

Alrighty. But then we'll say at the end of this turn, your radiant soul's gonna end. Bonus action. Bonus action. 20. Hits. Five. Five.

Five more points. Alrighty, the Radiant Blade sinks into Jason's shot. Ah, ah, and she kind of like hisses down, very clearly badly hurt by it. She doesn't seem to be, you know, possessed of some supernatural stamina. She's still quite tough, but yeah, definitely seems injured by that,

looking around in a bit more of a panic now, and you hear her like muttering under a breath of like, oh, she who feasts, why have you forsaken me? You know, why have you forsaken me? Like, come out, you need to help me. Kind of like muttering to herself. Is the darkness concentration? It is, I will make a concentration check right now.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, this is a- 26.13. Yes, 26.13. That is a... 26, so 13. Yes, 26, so 13. That is gonna be a failure. That is only gonna be an 11. So this area is plunged back into light as she loses concentration. Alrighty, just before we get at the top of a brand new round,

a couple of things are gonna happen. First things first, a guy is gonna appear. A guy, a guy? He would barrel down. One of these guys! Oh, a rock guy. Emerging, he's gonna take his full turn to appear, but he is going to emerge from the stone,

and he looks in Jason's direction, and you can see that anger is there, as he's gonna start sort of moving towards, but it's his full turn to appear. Then I'm gonna spend a fate point to trigger an environment effect. This is a new thing I'm gonna try out. So this is not like the enemy doesn't control this,

this is gonna be randomly generated, right? this, this is going to be randomly generated. Okay. Oh, cool. So I'm going to divide this into three zones. I'm going to go up to this line here on the map, so sort of by the entrance for podcast listeners. And then we're going to have the middle section, which is where all of you guys are. And then the final section, which is going to be from Rockman onwards.

So it's going to be sort of like here, to about here, and then back. You want a D3? I'm gonna, I'll use one of my dice actually, I think Tom, I think I'll use a D6. So we're gonna call it one to two, waste of the end. Three to four, five to six.

As the earthquake, you know, that earthquake is it, and rocks begin to fall down. So this is like a thing. So one to two, three to four, five to six. Three to four hits us. Five to six, it's is like a thing. So one to two, three to four, five to six. Three to four hits us. Five to six, it's gonna hit Rockman. No! Betrayed by the rocks.

Oh, that's an entire boulder that just fell on this guy. So these rocks come falling down, filling areas for it. He does technically get a deck saving throw, but he's not very dexterous. No, he's gonna fail. As he's gonna take some damage, unfortunately. Little rock guy, little fella. He's like Abe Simpson when he walks into the brothel.

Is it brothel? Walks right back out, yeah. Walks in, walks out. 14 points of bludgeoning damage, he is resistant to it. He's a tough guy though, isn't he? Yeah, and he's resistant to bludgeoning as well. He can be bricked up. He kinda gets like slammed on, but he shrugs it off.

But yeah, as you see, one of these earth tremors causes rocks and things to fall down on top of it. Right, top of the round, Ophelia and Gruffari. Yay! Huzzah! Huzzah, you guys roughly arrive at about the same point. You would see that it was completely pitch black up ahead, and then, vwoomp, it comes back on.

You can see the faint traces of Daisy's light and Rowan's light helmet spilling out into this area, illuminating it. And you can hear the sounds of fighting. You hear the, krrr, as the whole chamber shakes and rocks fall down. Yeah, so Ophelia, you hear the as the whole chamber shakes and rocks fall down. Yeah, so Ophelia, you are up first. All right, Ophelia, hearing the sounds of fighting,

she's going to Rage, here's a bonus action. Rage. Forward. Alrighty. 35 feet. Yes, please. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. You can get just behind Xanthias here. Nice.

You are about 10 feet away. 10 feet away. 10 feet away. Then I will cast a spell. I will do... I will do, let's do Chill Touch. Alrighty. So that is a spell attack plus five. You should go at the end. I will do that now.

Technically you go after Daisy. Ten, that's gonna miss, isn't it? Ten will unfortunately miss her. No problemo. Okay, that is my turn then. Right, great, because that conveniently does remind me, yes, Rowan didn't get a turn. I have a lot of initiatives that I'm kind of tracking, so...

Rowan, yes, you would have had your turn, I'm so sorry. That's all right, mate. Before the rocks fall. Do you want to flip him off? No. You saw Harry. Trot has too much respect for me. I can't believe that.

I can't believe that. I can't believe that. Hacker! Still going. I was very amused. Mrs. Crabuple ass over here. Oh god. You look buggered, right?

Yeah, I have been. You're wrecked. I've got one HP. Covered in gauze. But, I mean. Clothes are gone. Yeah, clothes gone, singed burned.

He's just standing in front of you naked. Yeah. Help me, I've come to save you. I've come to save you. I've come to save you. This way, it's safe this way. Everything's under control. Let me carry you out of here. He's like burned, like he's all skins blistered and bulged.

But as you know, I can't die, so. He's unrecognizable. Who the fuck is that guy? Oh, it's me. All of his beautiful, it's Anakin from Return of Revenge, the set. Who are you? This way, friend.

I ignore all of it. And I'm gonna cast Healing Word, level three. Level three? Oh my God, I might get like a million HP. Seven. 11. 11's 11. Of healing wordage.

Thank you. I blow it in your face. I'm wearing a mask. No, it got burned off, you see. Mask, but for shit. That's my bonus action. It's your bonus action, Roman. And now, do you give a shit about healing word,

like Shalali? Yes, I do. Healing words are a lot more powerful. Double standards. Well, it's not that Shalali's good, but it's like, it's literally a spell of like, I make my shtick okay at fighting. Healing word is like actually good in healing,

so yeah, I do care about it. Ow. All right, how about bardic? Actually, I can't do bardic, because that's a bonus. That's a bonus action. I'm going to whip out my longsword. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Why is it?

No, we've done that one. Can't do the same short twice. I'm not doing that one. Just swinging it, Jason. Yeah, sure. 19 plus four, 23. Hits. One D, 10 plus.

Hey, you swing it two handed. Plus one, 10 plus one, 11. 11 points of damage. Wow, nice. I am gonna use her reaction to cast Hellish Rebuke. Dexterity saving throw, please. She's a tiefling. I'm not gonna use it from water.

I can't read that. 16, 17, 18, 20. 20, you can take half damage, She's a tea fling. I can't read that. 16, 17, 18, 20. 20, you can take half damage, but it's half fire damage. That was so impulsive. I saw when you were going, just don't. I almost got it right in there. Oh, it's dice time.

So it would have been 10, it's five fire damage. It's just like this lick of flame comes out as you strike her with the sword, kind of cuts her face as this sickly Yeah, greenish pale yellow flame erupts out Leave my friends and the earth alone It's mine I should be mine you see that she is like looking around clearly now becoming outnumbered and

Let me just kind of like recenter because she had a bit of a New York accent, that was right, with Kuro. She's like, you don't understand. I've been, I've made us a success. It's been all because of me. You're gonna bring my, you're gonna be my reward. I'm gonna get everything I want and if I just kill you,

all I need to do is kill you. And she's looking towards you, Rowan. All I need to do is kill you and she's looking towards you Rowan She who feasts will reward me forget for your power She who feasts has run away No, that's not true. That's impossible See it in your heart. You know it to be true Is that true No! No! No! No! No! No!

No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! I'm not sure. No, they switched. Anything else on your turn, right? I think I've maxed out there. Alrighty. So that would have been right,

so then it would have reset Grogh's turn. Hello, my name is Grogh. Hello, my name is Grogh. As I run into the room, I'd like to cast Armor of Ork and Thorn on myself. I can't actually see the back of the map, so I can't see where, like, anyone is. I don't wanna kinda crowd it. You are right behind. I don't really see the back of the map, so I can't see where anyone is. I don't wanna kinda crowd it.

You are right behind. I don't wanna form a line so that people can do liney attacks. Where would you like to be? Can I sort of, Where the first clump of rock is. I still want line of sight on. You can go here? Yeah, maybe just tuck behind the rock.

Big brave knight hiding it back. Wow. Damn it. Wow. Did anyone want healing here? Cause I don't wanna do it now. That's not our fault. Why are you taking it on them?

Who's that? Guys. Take it on me, come and fight my guy. If I'm not getting healing cause of Mark, then yeah, I agree, I'm gonna give a middle finger to Mark. Fuck you, Mark. I'm pretty sure we had homework at that same energy. I would like to, I'm gonna cast Aura of Vitality.

Okay. And like, yeah. Do some healing. Back riding. So my little Lucer Seren starts flying around in a 30 foot radius. Okay. It's sparkly, it's nice.

Who is kinda looking the worst out of everyone? You just got the good, didn't you? I mean, I still feel like, what, 3D4? Not very much. I'm not very strong at healing. Seren flies at Xanthius. Hits me in the face. I'm frozen to my brain.

Oh Christ. Two, six. Five HP. He's gone, we've lost him. That's it, he's done. Right, I'm gonna move on, because we're gonna move it on. I knew that would hit.

Such a good response. No one is gonna get it. That's just for you, little Tom. Annoyingly, it's Xanthius next. Oh. Heal for five. Heal it, heal. Heal for five. Heal for five.

Thank you. Oh, God. One day someone will get that reference, but it's gonna be a while yet. Not today. Oh, God. I'm gonna do, knowing that they are resistant to fire, I'm going to attack once again with a huge,

hold person again, fuck it, why not? Okay. Yeah, I'll just do that again. It's another wisdom saving throw, but this time they're dumb with it. What'd they roll? 18. Yeah, that's more than a 14. They're a spellcaster. What'd they roll? 18. Yeah, that's more than a 14.

They're a spellcaster. I know. So they're going to be good at wisdom. They got plus four to their wisdom. Imagine if that were them, so. I mean, yeah, it would be amazing. It'd be amazing. Everyone would have been pogging.

People would have done fan art about it. Everyone would have said, wow. The unfortunate thing with whole person, when it works, it literally changes the entire encamera. Like it's single-handedly. Most of the time it doesn't. But that's just because I roll good. If I didn't roll so good, it would be great.

That's how dice do. And how dice be. Right, anything else Thomas? Once again, I'm gonna spend another sorcery point to gain another two glyph of Vegas. Alrighty. Because I am not going down in this fight. You're not going down without a fight.

That's a guarantee. I'll tell you what. Righty. Smash cut. J. Soon's go. J. Soon is going to, at the start of her turn, I'm gonna remember it this time, her special trait, blessed by the Embered,

is gonna trigger. If the player's fate pool has more than three dice in it, she steals one, but it goes into a special Jason only pool, right? The hell? I know. She can spend this as if she was a player like you guys. So she can add it to attack rolls,

saving throws, or ability checks. Which normally I can't do. So I'm gonna put that in there. So it's, and I can't, that's like, that is now, I don't get that over here. It's not here. Once that's gone, it don't get that over here, it's not here. Once that's gone, it's gone. Okay. All right.

So once it's spent. That's at the start of the turn. She is then going to, as an action, she is going to, oh, lots of people are very scary right now. You keep healing, you did a fuck ton of damage actually. She is going to look at you, Daisy, and she is going to... No, don't look at me.

Yes, I have to look up the spell, though. It's been a while. Why'd you do it? What the hell was that? They had a tower of dice, and it was getting quite tall. She looks up at you, and she's going to cast,

she's gesturing and cast a spell. I need a Charisma saving throw from you, Daisy. Oh, cool, the one I'm worst at. I picked well then. No, actually I'm not the worst at it. The other one was well, so I'm not great. I don't know. Fade up.

Oh, fate, no, it's fail. I rolled a four, so it's six. So you are, the spell she cast was banishment. Oh, no, it's failed. I rolled a four, so it's six. So you are, the spell she cast was banishment. Oh, shit. So you are pulled into, so the theme of this is you are pulled into the stone, and you are held in like a pocket of stone, basically, temporarily.

Fearing the immense amount of pain and damage that you dealt, she imprisons you into it. I'm too powerful for her. It is concentration, so let's all remember that. Concentration on banish. Bring me back. Okey doke. I'm then gonna spend one of my normal fate dice.

Yes. And I will allow her to make a dagger attack as a bonus action. Against who, Rowan? Against Rowan. Yeah. Wow. What?, Rowan? Against Rowan. Eww! Wow. What was that?

What was that? Eww! It's like an anime sound effect. 14 to hit Rowan. What kind of anesthetics was that? I'm gonna move on, I don't wanna linger on it. What's the build, is it belting? It's a build.

Uh. What? How much did I kill? Rowan, six points of piercing damage plus, ooh, 14 acid. Oh my gosh. What? Jesus.

Dear. Ow. I'm still standing. So she lashes out at you, causing a basic finish. Oh. Oh. Oh. There must be hay fever.

Oh. You would have been better just letting it happen, Rie. Oh! There must be hay fever. Oh! You would have been better just letting it happen, Rik. It was happening, it's like halfway through the end. It just stopped. Is it possible to turn the map around? Yes. Cause I'm struggling here. Oh my god, the whole world's moving. Cool, no I can't.

Earthquake. Listen, you help each other out with visuals, right? Well I moving. Cool, now I can see. Earthquake. Listen, you help each other out with visuals, right? Well, I couldn't see on the camera as well. Okay, well, somebody will be able to see. Rockman is gonna move up, and he is going to attempt to punch. Yes. Big punch.

I punch a lot. Punch the concentration out of her. Natural 20. Natural 20. Really? Natural 20? I hate to do this guys, this guy is about to kill still. Yeah.

This guy hits fucking hard. I'm good with it. He's got a good idea. So that is 20 points of damage before I've rolled. Okay. On a crit. Jesus. 28, 32 points of damage.

Oh my God. Okay. Am I back? Well, you probably will be in a minute. Let me just work this out. So how much, I was gonna say 28, didn't I? Mm-hmm. She's still up, but badly hurt. Oh jeez, am I back?

Concentration jet, half of 28 will be 14. You said 32 damage, so I didn't know. 32, 32, that's correct, yeah. So actually, that goes up. So 16. Failed. Daisy reappears. Come back.

I didn't like it! I don't know why we won, and I didn't like it! That was also Rockman gets two attacks, by the way. Oh shit. Rockman! Second one does hit. He's the best of us. Well you convinced him, you made him friend.

Aw. I did one now. That's less damage unfortunately. That is only gonna be nine points of damage. That's a good best to recruit. You watch as this thing, like J.Sune is like, banish and then strikes it row and it's like, ah yes, finally!

And then just, wha-bam in the back of the head! Wha-bam! And she's just like, ah, yes, finally, and then just whoop-bam in the back of the head. Whoop-bam! And she's just like, ah, ah, and gets thrown around. This guy grabs her foot and smashes her into the ground like the Hulk. It's just like, and this little guy, bleh-bleh-bleh-bleh-bleh-bleh. And she's like, oh, like staggering from the blow.

Yes, my guy, yes! That was Rock Guy's go. Then it would go to, dur dur dur dur dur, she hasn't summoned that yet, so Daisy. Enjoy your, I thought I might get a turn. Yeah, all right.

Throw a knife. I throw a knife. 18 plus seven. It's... Plus sneak attack. Weird sneak attack. They're looking great. How much is sneak attack, out of interest?

Three D six at the moment. Okay, don't worry. No, I'm not using anything. How many weird dice do you have left? One more. Okay. Let me know if anyone rolls two D three. Two D three.

18. Two T three. 18 rating damage. Daisy, as you, you were like suffocating in this like stone-like prison in this banishment. You were like trapped, you couldn't move. And then suddenly you reappear back where you were. You see the rock man kind of, you know,

slam Jason in the back again. You summon the Radiant Blade and you let it loose from your hand. How does this like finish Jason off? She is dead. How do you want to do it? You summon the Radiant Blade and you let it loose from your hand. How does this finish Jason off? She is dead. How do you wanna do it? I feel like it's pure panic at this point.

She's just gone, ah! Because she was trapped in a rock. It's pure panic though. And it just catches her in the neck. She turns as this Radiant Blade just slices through, burning through the neck. Ah, ah, ah, ah. He's almost trying to reach for Rowan, one last desperate attempt to try and get him and the blade just slices through, burning through the neck. He's almost trying to reach for Rowan, like one last desperate attempt to try and get him,

and then just slams down into the ground as she is defeated. Nice. The dagger that was in her hand vanishes the second she dies, it just vanishes. You do see her body kind of slumps to the ground and her mouth goes back to a very normal looking face. Oh, we're in trouble.

Oh, what happened down here, Rowan? What is this? Rowan is looking panicked. His eyes are darting all around the place and he's kind of holding himself. I would like to leave. I'd like to leave also. We should leave here.

I hate these caves. Let's go. Let's just go. Every time we come down these things, it's gross bellimorph creatures spitting acid and blowing up in our faces. It's awful. Regroup. Regroup outside. Wait. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

We're about to go back up there without J. Soon, one of the owners of this business. As I recall, J. Soon just had a big old lizard mouth, so. Yes, but we're the only ones who've seen that. I mean, it's more likely that- You're ready to fight an entire camp of mercenaries. It's likely her brother's the same. Right?

He didn't seem like it, to be honest. She didn't seem like it until we came down here. No, she seemed weird. Rockman will look at you all, bows, and then he just melts into the stone. Oh, okay, okay, bye now. Thank you, Rockman. You convinced that thing to help us then?

Oh, it's almost the graph, yes. Okay, good. While that happens, my aura is still up. I'm gonna heal the big guy for 2d6. Sure. I believe you have like basically nine uses of that if you would like. Four. I mean you can spend every turn

as long as you're gonna stay down here. Nine uses. Well if you spend nine rounds down here, yes you have nine rounds before it runs out, I believe it lasts a minute. So, yeah. I mean is there anything, like the dagger's gone, their face has changed back, there must be something.

She got killed by a Belomorph, oh dear. Oh, whoopsie doopsie. Oh, whoopsie doopsie. I mean, do you wanna make an investigate or perception check, because you wanna, if you wanna search it. I'll take a, I'll sort of leaf through pockets and things. Investigation.

Investigation, investigation, investigation. If you're actually, like, packing the pockets. Whatever, advantage, because. If you're actually like packing the pockets. What, I have advantage because of the courts like I. You do? 18. 18. You like rummage through and you kind of, how far is like, are you going with this?

Like are you gonna like check her skin for like tattoos? Are you like, you know, pulling like her shirt open and stuff like that? You don't have to one piece of evidence. I'm looking for something that will... Sure. Yeah, if there's some weird markings or something. I mean, I'm not completely stripping this person.

No, but you're lifting up the shirt and pulling it. To take their clothes, because yours are gone. There might be some inside pockets. This is so much worse. You find two things. The first is she wears a ring, which the gold-sword eye will register as magical. Nice.

It's a magic ring. It is engraved with strange, not like Belaine symbols or anything like that. It would be like, in fact, it would have the symbol of a mask, like a theater mask, you find. Okay. And when you pull, did you take that ring?

Oh yeah. When you pull the ring off, her, no, no, no, sorry, I'm getting confused. No, yeah, nothing changes. So you pull the ring off, that's fine. Okay. The other thing you would find is you lift up her shirt and sort of, at the sort of top of her leg,

like, you know, near her stomach, like on the hip bone, is a tattoo of a spiraling worm-like creature with a big mouth. Yeah, there's nothing here. I mean, do I know Belaine? That would be a religion check. A religion.

Ruin's just seen a lot. I'm gonna heal Ruin again. True. Four more points. Thank you. Just an eight from me, but I mean, I'm like picking through this body while everyone else is having a chat, I suppose.

But yeah, I just got an eight on... Not a symbol you recognize. Okay, fair enough. What's everyone else doing? Healing Ruin again. Not a symbol you recognize. Okay, fair enough. What's everyone else doing? Healing, Roy again. Rose kind of just edging towards the exit. Seven points of healing. Clearly wants to go.

Seven. Oh. Can I make a devil's bargain with the dice? Oh. To find something Belaine related that we can take with us in this cave, something. Any evidence?

I'd say if you, you don't even need, I'll say if you spend one dice, I'll give you, because you've already kind of found something anyway. Yeah. So I'll just say one, because we're near the end of the session as well. Daisy, you, whether it's you or Nim, maybe Nim knows this more than you do,

but that tattoo that is on her, that is the A symbol of Belen. Like, the only reason somebody would have that tattooed on them is if they were a believer or a follower of one of these Embered, these ancient gods of Ulthaea who basically turned evil and became corrupted versions one of these embered, these ancient gods of Ulthaya who basically turned evil and became corrupted versions of themselves during the Equinox War, the conflict with the Protomashai.

And Nim would basically not, I don't think Nim would necessarily, she would remember, or they would, sorry, would remember that Sovereign had these different acolytes and that one was called Belaine. And that, yeah, like has probably spent enough time here on Ulthaya and with you to have picked up that, yeah, this symbol is related to them. And again, it's that kind of thing of like, it is clearly a tattoo,

it's not painted on, like she would have had to have had that done years and years ago. There's this isn't like something you've just quickly done, right? And the only reason, like, if you got caught with a tattoo like that, that is like instant heresy. You're in jail, possibly even executed. Like, only the most dedicated, loyal follower would have something like that.

Oh, okay. Oh, okay. We have to bring her up, then. Well, are we, what's the plan? Are we taking her up or are we? I don't know how much we can trust her brother, Kuro. What if we get the big bellimorph, right? And we cut open its stomach and put her inside.

That is diabolical, but it would work. You'd be like, she got eaten. Are all of you really willing to lie? Yes. Are all of you capable of lying? I mean, she lied to us. The tattoo is bad anyway, because heresy and stuff, and anyone who sees it will know.

I'm just wondering, do we just get out of here? We should take her. And just flee while we can? I think we should just take her and let them know, because the rest of them seem fine. Again, we didn't detect it in her, it could be in the rest of them. I'm not quick to mistrust everyone.

No wait, I am. I mistrust everyone. As Xanthias says that, you hear footsteps coming from the tunnel. Eight points of healing. Excuse me? Eight points of healing on Xanthias. Oh, thank you.

I say as I produce flame and hold it towards the entrance. This is just my aura going off continuously. Are you holding an action or anything, Xanthias? Are you gonna attack? It's just a flame that, depending on who comes around the corner, I might throw it at them, I might not. Okay, so you're holding an action?

No, it's just a, okay, yeah. Sure enough, as for a moment, as you guys, you know, it's been a couple of rounds, a few seconds of you doing this, and with all the fighting and everything else, you do hear a kind of soft pitter-patter, and then followed by like a weird creaking sound. Okay.

You see Penelope and Baranth. Penelope holding like a little staff with a little silvery flame in it, lighting the way. Baranth with his big silver, a sylvaran longbow out as the two of them sort of come around the corner. Penelope's just like, ah, oh boy, it's just us.

Don't worry, it's us. We're good here, we're safe, we're okay. I mean, aside from this mess here. Is everything okay? Oh, it's all gone a little bit crazy down here for poor Rowan. I think he might have been attacked. And we're all intending to leave the cave now.

Okay, you just all ran off so quickly, we thought we'd come down and help, but okay. Rowan was able to communicate to us that he was in danger. So we just thought it best to run down as quick as we could. Great. Does she see the body or? Yeah, she would totally see the body, yeah.

Yep, oh, this one is bad, bad news, attacked us. Baranth will sort of move over looking and will look to you, Rowan. Are you well? No. I need to get to the surface, please. Very well. Just puts out like a hand on your shoulder,

like kind of goes around. If this one is not well, we should return now. All of us, yes? Yes. No more splitting up, no more. No more splitting up, never again. Oh, lad, I really failed you on this one. I should have come with you. No, no, this is on me.

This is on me. No, but I meant to protect and I didn't. I let you go on your own. It's my fault. I'm never letting you go on your own again. Oh good, good, yes. Rowan's just looking distant. Yeah, can everybody here please give me a perception check?

Except Rowan. Except, is it related to Rowan? I see. Oh, 14. 14. Oh, I see. 14. 14. Oh, minus one. 10. 10.

26. 26. 10. 10. Gruff sees through me. You are the only one who notices this as you make that heartfelt apology to Rowan. You can't help but glance that where he's holding a wound,

well, actually there is no wound there, but like he's kind of got his hand on his chest. You are the only one who sees it as he pulls like his tunic back kind of covering it up, that part of his chest is completely petrified to stone. That's the last thing that you see before we end today's episode. Nice!

That's it. We did it, you lived. No player death today. I lived. No, and like I want to make something clear just before we end the episode because I'm sure that a few people will be like, ah, bullshit, he's trying to save me.

What? Trot and I, yeah, you heard me. Everyone's like, did that relate to my comment? Some people will think that like maybe that was like a scripted save or anything like that and in some ways it was. But at the same time, Trot and I talked about it, and this actually really related to stuff

in his backstory that was very specific to this, and we agreed to have a cool thing happen to give a chance. Because I think it would be more cinematic to have an opportunity to have the fight. And who knows, you guys could have taken a bit more time getting here, like anything could have happened, I could have rolled high on crits and stuff like that,

but rather than it just being a, I stab you twice, your character is now permanently dead, I wanted to make this a little bit more narrative, and that's okay, and it's our game, and that's what we like to do, and we thought would be the best, the most exciting thing. This is not a game that I am desperately trying to get player kills and TPKs.

I'm more about cool story. So if you don't like that, that's fine, but that's what we like. So just a little PSA from old DM Sherlockie Humes. Well if I was in a non-streamed game and my character was in that situation. It'd suck. I would be like, well that's,

this is a cool undead game. It really sucks, yeah, absolutely. I also have a very, very specific thing from my backstory that if it happens in game, I automatically succeed the death save. Oh, you don't. No, I do, if I get kicked in the face by a squirrel specifically, then time will pause.

Yep, yeah, cool flashback. And I'll awaken and become true Zenith. There's a cool squirrel. Yeah, and then I grab a god by the throat. Yeah. But like I said, that won't always be the case. This was a very unique circumstance. Don't expect Rowan to have an easy out next time.

No. But also, potentially a cool new power unlocked. Yeah. Pretty cool. Won't work the same way. It's kind of like, I talked a little bit about this with Trott. Like in the Stormlight game, when you first get a cool power like this

or something like that, kind of more narrative power, it will probably have a more powerful effect than later on. But there will be a cool thing for Rune. Yeah, very cool. Cool, no, I like it. And consequences. And consequences, as we have witnessed. Our favorite.

We went toe to toe with a hungry god. That was cool. Very cool. Well, that was really awesome. Well, let's talk about that in the little wrap-up thing. Thanks very much. Let's wrap up the podcast here. Yep. And yeah, answer, do some messages and stuff like that.

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