High Rollers DnD - Altheya: The Dragon Empire #45 | The Curse of Crownsteel (Part 1)

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

Ser Eldrak has broken free from his bonds as the battle continues in the Heart of Dharuunax! The battle-map for this encounter is available for free on our Patreon! Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116726161 High Rollers x Jingle Jam! Get a ton of awesome games by donating just £35 for charity! Check out the collection here: https://tiltify.com/@highrollersdnd/high-rollers-against-living-miserably ... and check out Calm, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, here: https://www.thecalmzone.net/ _______________ Boost your Charisma with some HR merch! https://highrollersdnd.teemill.com/ Add official High Rollers Minis to your TTRPG collection here: https://only-games.co/collections/high-rollers Bless your table with the Clever Toad Dice Set: https://dispeldice.com/collections/high-rollers Enhance your bath time experience with the official Altheya themed DiceBombs at https://geekyclean.com/! Check out https://www.highrollersdnd.com/ for all the latest HR News! Love the podcast? Give us a glittering 5 star review! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/high-rollers-dnd/id1401508198?see-all=reviews Support the High Rollers on Patreon and get early access to Podcast episodes, vods and more: www.patreon.com/HighRollers Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound, TCT Adventures (Solasta: Crown of the Magisters), Monument Studios and Jolene Khor! Check out Jolene Khor and all her wonderful work on High Rollers on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1WX3ICiTmf4GpHwImnQMs6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As a FIS member, you can look forward to free data, big savings on plans, and having your unused data roll over to the following month, every month. At FIS, you always get more for your money. Terms and conditions for our different programs and policies apply. Details at FIS.ca. Think about something you're good at. Now think about how you got there. Chances are you had someone to help you get started. If you're thinking about starting to invest, Questrade's award-winning support team is here to

help you learn how to become a better investor. From placing your first trade to setting up customized stock alerts, we're always by your side. Just a few of the reasons why we are Canada's number one rated online broker by Money Sense. Get started today at Questrade.com. I wanna wish you a merry creamer, and a baby day! Hello everybody! It's December 1st. Yeah! And more important than Grismoz, it means it's Jingle Jam season.

Woo! Wow! And I know, you might be asking, some of you who are brand new to High Rollers, especially if you've joined us in the last year, What the Jingle Jam? What a jangle gym? What a jungle draw?

What's a jungle gym? Well, Thomas Hazel, my sweet little Elven boy. That's a real nightmare. Yeah, that is, yeah. The Jingle Jam is here. It is a, basically it's a big charity effort started by our friends over at the Yolkscast and extended to many creators over the years

and fundraising elements over the years where you get a great collection of vidya games. You basically donate a certain amount and if you donate over a certain amount you get access to the collection. This collection this year has got a bunch of awesome, awesome games in it. There are some bangers.

Yeah. Real bangers in there. I think like For the King 2, Orcs Must Die 3's in there. I don't want to say too much just in case I'm saying stuff that I shouldn't be saying yet. There's a load of great games. Half Life 3's in there? Shut up, no it's not.

Elder Scrolls 6? Shut up, shut up, we can't say these things. Final Fantasy VII, the third bit? Shut up, none of these we can't say these things. Final Fantasy 7, the third bit? Shut up, none of these are in it, but good games are in it. There are great games in the collection, but also most importantly, by donating and getting the collection of games,

you're gonna be supporting an amazing bunch of different charities. We have decided to support Calm this year. We love the team at Calm. Calm's mission is to make sure that no one feels like suicide is their only option, but right now too many people are struggling to see a way forward.

And the money that we raise will go towards supporting their life-saving services. The collection should be live now, but keep your eye on our chat, keep your eye on social media and all of that good stuff for our donation page. So the idea is that if you go through our link and our page, it will support Calm. You can just go through Jingle Jam pages and stuff like that good stuff for our donation page. So the idea is that if you go through our link and our page, it will support Calm.

You can just go through Jingle Jam pages and stuff like that and you can choose which charities you want to support and all that kind of good stuff. Last year, we hit a, we managed to raise 18,000 pund for Calm. We would love to hit 20,000 pounds this year. Now obviously that's a lot, we know things are tight in time and everything else,

but that would be amazing to hit. The collection is available throughout December, so if you can't get the collection or donate today, no worries, you can always do it later on in December. This week is just gonna be a regular Althea episode because we do only have Kim here for this week, so we wanna make sure that we try and wrap up this little arc that we've been doing.

This chapter, yes? Chapter. Yeah, seriously, Jingle Jam, it's an amazing cause, it's an amazing time of year, we would love to see you support. A few of us are gonna be appearing in different streams on Jingle Jam with the Oxcast and with other stuff. I know Chris Trot, the Hat Films boys

are gonna be doing their music stream and game shows. Farming Sim Tournament. Farming Sim Tournament. I'm gonna be popping up in, I think, the Games Night stream, and also I'm gonna be doing a special thing in the second week, which hasn't been announced yet, so I'm not gonna say it yet. But if you like me doing TTRPG things,

and Laapy things, and playing a detective maybe, oh, just tune in. And yeah, there's a lot of fun stuff to come. So that is Jingle Jam. Right, anyway, with that in the way, if there's nothing else, make sure you go and grab your collection on Jingle Jam. But yeah, let's run the intro

and crack on with today's episode. Ding, ding, ding. TPK. Welcome back to Arthea, the Dragon Empire. Our heroes entered the Reclaimer Stronghold, the heart of Darunax, seeking to rescue Ser Eldrach Ignis, a Dragonborn Knight of Kaldra, as well as Lady Verethera, Green Dragon Noble of the Mistwald. What started as a quest to recover the shield Heart Warden has developed into something far more intense,

as the Reclaimers have been hoarding a pile of the corrupting metal called Crownsteel, which has been polluting the waters beneath the Ash Hills and has caused Sir Eldrach to become corrupted and mutated. A partially successful infiltration mission has now developed into a full blown battle against the odds. Sir Eldrach is free of his chains, but Lady Verithera remains trapped within a magical field. The reclaimers chosen, their leaders, have now also joined the battle. The fate of the Ash Hills, of Sir Eldrake, of Lady Verethira, and perhaps more,

is in the hands of the heroes. Yikes. Eww. Ripper-oony. Those hands are very sweaty. Before we jump into it, there is an important roll that must be made. For you will surely need all the help you can get.

Therefore it is time to determine the crucible. F-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f- I rolled a five on our new clever toe dice. A dice for you! Available now. I got a six. A dice for you! Oh man. A five. Oh! A dice for you. Oh, the glass for you.

And Mark's public roll is out of the tray, bro. Bounce out of the tray, I'll reroll again. A one. You rolled a one twice. I don't think it dice for you. That dice for me. That's fake. That's five A one. You rolled a one twice. I think it dies for you. That dies for me. That's fake.

That's five and one. Hey, luck's on our side. Your tray is wobbly in case you need future rolls. It's on a dice. Yeah, thank you. Nice. Well remembered. Right, a couple of things.

We're gonna start in a brand new round. We are mid-combat. I think we had like two or three rounds of combat previously. I've, we're at the top of a brand new round. We are mid-combat. I think we had like two or three rounds of combat previously. We're at the top of a brand new round of initiative. Reminder, Rhiannon currently has control of Penelope. Penelope will go after Ophelia. You have, Sir Eldrake has been freed of his chains. You are not quite sure what is happening with him yet.

Wasn't he attacking some reclaimers or no? He has attacked some reclaimers, but you still don't know really. They've attacked him. Yeah, they've attacked him, they've shot the ballista at him. Yeah. There is a big square of like arcane fiery ruins

in the pool around the Crown still, currently affecting Gruffydd and Ser Eldrach. There are magical lights around the place. You know that the magical field containing Lady Verethira is disabled or activated by, or perhaps there are other means as well, but you do know that there are control wands carried by the two chosen, the leaders of the Reclaimers.

If you have those two wands and you touch the field, it will disable the field, right? The other thing as well, and I do think that this was sort of forgotten about in the lengthy quest, one of the objectives of your quest is to try and recover Heart Warden, the shield that Lady Ambrisa initially sent to her Eldritch gear for.

Right. The shield is on the map. Oh, it's just sat there. I had it is placed. I have not been- There's a spotlight on it. There's arrows pointing at it. It is on there. In the crown steel pile?

It's literally a physical, there is a physical shield on there. At least that was when I built the map. Oh, I see it, I see it. Is it the crown steel pile? It is just below the wall where Ophelia shouted to the crowd. It is.

Oh no, I can't see it. It's a little tiny wall. There's an actual physical wall between us. So like, Trott I think has a slight line of sight to her, but you don't. I'm amazing! Yeah. There it is.

Fair enough, no, we just, I guess for us, we just, as characters, I mean, we just never would have seen. Right now, yeah, up until this point, I'd say, yeah. Is this a shield for ants? For podcasts. This shield is useless! For podcast listeners, for your benefit,

if you head over to our Patreon with the link in the episode description, the map, at least from the start of the last episode, is available for free. You don't even have to be a supporter to see the map. And you'll be able to follow the battle more accurately. I will try and be more descriptive. There is a lot of moving parts.

Apologies for our previous episode if I was not as descriptive as I normally am. There's a lot of moving parts. Let's just try to avoid... It's also, yeah, I normally am. That's great, it happens. There's a lot of moving parts. There's a lot going on, let's just try to avoid. It's also, yeah, I move here, or like, yeah, also things like barrels, there's a lot of barrels.

Like, you know, if you imagine that this is the north of the map where the pool is, and then we can use those directions of like, I'm gonna head south from Soreldrak, I'm gonna move east from there, and stuff like that. So north, east, south, west, going in a clockwise direction with the pool being at the northern end.

Perfect for me. Yes, yeah. If you think you're from Trot, this is north for Trot. Yeah, and for podcast listeners. Well, that's why I'm saying, north is where the pool of Crown Steel is, like at the top of the map.

Yeah, lots of moving parts, so do apologies. You guys, if you guys can just keep track of your abilities and stuff as best as you can, that would be marvelous. Same with conditions and effects and stuff like that, that would be marvelous. Are we following the same initiative order? We are following the same initiative order.

I've got it written out here. I've categorized it so I've got it better organized for myself. You have done a pretty good job of you've thinned out many of the sort of standard guards. Daisy particularly has been like sneaking around, sniping them with metal Gear and Assassination skills. Has revealed herself by attacking,

but there's only a few of these regular soldiers left. You do have, to point things out, over by the stairs leading up to the walls on the western side, we have the archer, who seems to be a pretty skilled archer. There is one guard up on the ballista, which is in the southwestern tower. Rowan and Penelope are currently in the water,

facing down at least one of the guards, and they were underwater, with Penelope's Aura of Healing currently going off. We have Xanthias and Ophelia right in the sort of southern middle of the map surrounded by guards and one of the chosen warriors, the leaders. I am currently flying on the map, I don't believe I am. You are not, you are not, you landed.

It was just like- So I'm just right next to Ophelia after thunderstepping her away from a crowd. Just north of them is Lady Verathera in the magical field, in the magical circle that she's trapped in. Close to her is the other chosen, High Prophetess Amalyn, who's there. And then north of them is the Crownsteel Pool, which is currently Ser Eldranc Gruff,

a number of normal soldiers. And then just to the northeast of them is Daisy and another soldier as well. Yes. All right. So both the control rods are currently very close to this field. They are, yes.

So we might be able to do some work there. Yep. Interesting. We are jumping in to give you an idea of the initiative order. It is Daisy, Gruff, and Ophelia. Like you guys are literally Daisy, Gruff, Ophelia, then it's monsters and NPCs,

then it's Xanthias, then Rowan. So it's like three of you go, and then it's a long delay, and then the boys go. Ooh, you got it, big boy. So Daisy, you are. Oh my god. Never do that again.

I think the studio's haunted. I got possessed by a horny teenager. Maybe, maybe you just have unresolved sexual frustrations for me. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Fuck you. Please?

Please? Please? Right, with that, Daisy. Does the bomb have suppressed? Um, sorry. That's all right. It is certain. Thanks, Clever Toad Paul.

How far am I from the Dome? From the Dome? The Dome. So you're, you're technically just off the map, so you're about five feet above here. So that'd be five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 feet from the Dome. Okay. What's the yellow field around the crime steal as well, sorry?

That's the AoE that's about to fall off. Well, Lady, so the High Prophetess Amaline did some sort of spell that has created this fiery kind of like sigil of glowing golden runes. Okay. It's in the water, on the stone, in the air, in that field. Sure. Is it an AOE? We'll find out. Looks like it. It sure could be.

There's a red glow that's slowly filling up on the ground. It's Christmas! What? What? A Christmas bomb is about to go off. If I stay there, I'm going to end up with tinsel in my beard. Can I? Yes. Can I? Yes. Come on.

Hit this. Guard. Guard beside me. Yes. Please. Absolutely. Yes. I have just two.

Quiet. Kill and die. Verily. Verily. 14 to hit. A 14 to hit is not enough. These guys do have like a bit of chain mail, they've got a bit of armor on themselves.

You go to strike, he parries it with his blade. Do do do do do do do. Go nitro mode on this sicko, I don't know what that means. You are in the wrong place, child. You should flee while you can, before the vessel awakens truly. You saying that? The guard. The guard.

Saying that to me. I'm going to... Yes. This whole cavern is kind of filling with sound of battle. I'm gonna... Ah, it's so difficult. I've got so many things I wanna do.

I'm trying to work out spacing and stuff. Oh, and once you have a think, as a reminder, Tom did have to make a mysterious saving throw. Yes. I rolled it behind my screen. Yes. I've not told anyone the results, I passed throw. Yes. I rolled it behind my screen. Yes. I've not told anyone of the results, I passed him a note.

I have a note. And it says, oh! I forget. That's it. It just says, oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Okay, boggles! Can I... Yes. Run to this pillar. This pillar here? Yes. So are you gonna use your bonus action to disengage or are you just gonna risk an opportunity? I'm gonna risk. Fisky, fisky. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. So you can get to here. That's right. Is that where you wanna be? Basically I wanna hide. To the north of the pillar. Okay, yeah. I'm gonna use my bonus action to hide. Yeah, sure, you probably could actually make it around here.

I've probably not been super efficient with your movement. So you can get to there and make a bonus action hide attempt. I do get an attack of opportunity. Very edge of the map. Very edge of the map, but just south of the temple, which is right close to the crown still pool.

This would not be with advantage, this is a normal strike. That is gonna be a 24 to hit. Wow. That is gonna be four points of damage. Okay. As this guy does. What kind of damage, Mark?

Slashing. This guy has like a kind of wicked looking jagged short sword. As you dash past, he just gets a swipe on your arm. Okay, and I would like to hide. All right, bonus section, so if you can make a stealth check for me, please. 30.

All right. This is a five. So the thing is, is like, I like, can technically like, they can go and search for you and look in that area. But I'm gonna keep that same rule of like, if he moves over that pillar, like, I'm assuming you're like pressed up against it moving around.

If he moves within five feet of you, it's probably gonna be very obvious where you are. I'm basically trying to use the field to my advantage. My one advantage is being a stealthy little thing. I will say this stone column as well, it provides you with cover, so you have half cover. So it's a plus two AC, plus two to deck saving throws as well from effects outside of the cover basically.

Yeah, so basically I'm trying to move towards and what I wanna do is say in my head, is that the guy with the wings and stuff? Does he have one of those rods on him? Because if he does, can you grab that and I'll try and get the other one? Is it obvious, can I see? Yeah, so it's tucked into his belt.

You can see this golden wand that he's carrying. It looks very ornate and quite expensive. It doesn't look like, the rest of their equipment, actually no, the chosen, all of their equipment is very lustrous. It's polished and well-kept, gold and red fabrics and blacks, it's very like, lustrous. It's like polished and well kept gold and red fabrics and like blacks, you know, it's very well kept.

All of the other reclaimers, their equipment is quite, like not shoddy but like, rough around the edges, weathered. But this stuff looks pristine. Okay. Yep, I think I see the rods are talking about, want me to distract them? Daisy? She's disconnected.

Yeah. She disconnected disconnected. Yeah. She disconnected from the call. What, disconnect? What, no. I heard a boop, boop. Distract who? The, these two guys with the rods. The-

Daisy said get the rod. I said get the rod. I said to you to get the one that's next to you. Put your hand on it. The one that's near you is the guy with the wings. Yeah, and then the captain. Then I was gonna go for the other one. I don't have sneaky hands.

You don't need sneaky hands. I can melt him. You have burning hands. I can melt him, you're right, I'll melt him. You don't need sneaky hands, he knows you're sneaky. Permission to murder a man. Permission granted! Daisy, turn over. Yes.

Gruff. Hello, I would like to move my moonbeam onto the, is she the captain? No, the, what do you call that? The prophetess. The prophetess. Yep. So move it right onto her head.

Sure. So can. I am gonna spend my one point of fate to activate one of her reactions. Your fate's on the wrong side of the table today, Mark. Yeah. Is it normally? Yeah, normally ours is over here.

All right, I won't move it. They feel far from me. How confusing. How very confusing. She's gonna activate one of her abilities to cast one of her spells as a reaction, and she's gonna cast Dispel Magic. No!

Moonbeam is a second level spell. It will automatically cancel out the moonbeam, I'm afraid. So she's going to do that. Who said this? How does that make you feel? I'm feeling a complex feeling of emotions. To be fair, you did pick out her.

I'm thinking about the fact that I have therapy on Wednesday, and I think this is gonna be on top of the list. Okay, okay. Of course that's the top, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna bump down everything else, and I'm gonna try and trommel that. The reaction trigger, by the way, is a spell effect entering within a certain radius of her.

She can use a reaction to cast a Dispel Magic. Oh, cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. So you can see that she is very magically orientated. She's covered in sigils of runes, she's concentrating on this thing. This thing comes into range, and she whips her hand up and was like, whoosh, cancels it out with a gesture.

Can I bonus action? Mm. Uh, I'm gonna just, yeah, I'm gonna channel that anger and turn around on the two goons that are kind of trying to oppress me. Sure. And I'm gonna daunting roll them both. Okay, with some saving throws, right? Yes, DC 14.

First one fails. What's the range on it? Second one fails. 10 foot. They both fail. So they both fail. I'll frighten to view until the end of your next turn or stop.

End of my next turn. Great. And then I'm going to, oh god. I would like to get out of this AOE, which probably means that I am going to... get an opportunity to attack on one of them, I think. Depends on which way you move. So I was thinking of moving north.

So skirting around the guy that's... Right here? If you do that, yeah, only this one guy will get the open. Although, actually, now that I don't have a moonbeam to give a crap about, do I give a crap? I don't know. I mean, they're frightened of me, so what does that mean again?

Disadvantage. Disadvantage, so they do have disadvantage on it. Yep. They're pretty tanky, yeah. In which case, I'm just gonna move, I mean, they'll probably catch up with me in the next turn, but I just wanna get some distance. So, how many feet did I move doing that?

That would be five, 10. You got two. Don't move, because I'm a Lianan. But then when do you- No, you only have two legs, you have two hands. Yeah, but fuck it. Do you ever think about that with cats? Like, you know, do they have four feet or two hands?

They have four legs, Cats have four legs. You are a lion man. You have two legs and two hands. And then is a tail a hand or is it a foot? No, it's a tail. What's the pokeball that has a hand on? What's my head? I don't know. It's something I want.

Screw it. Let me move a little bit further away. So, towards the west. Okay. 15, 20, 25. Let me move a little bit further away, so towards the west. Okay. And this pillar that's on the map, the northwest, can I hide behind it? 35. Yeah, just touch myself a little bit there. Right here?

Yeah. So that will give you cover from anything on this side, on the eastern side of the map. Yep, that's all good. All right. They will both get a tax opportunity with disadvantage. First one, lowest roll is a one, so that's a fail. Wow. Second one, lowest roll is a 14,

so that's a 20 to hit total. Oh, what? Jesus Christ. That's so big. Plus six. Yeah, that'll tickle me a little bit. Yeah. Wait, 14, oh sorry, 18.

I did math wrong. I was about to say, hit for a good. Unfortunately it's 17. So it's a hit. That is gonna be seven points of bludgeoning damage. This guy has like a mace. All my 10-pHP. Oh, perfect.

You'll get that back. But I have Armor of Revoke and Thorn Art. You haven't attacked or healed anybody. Okay. And you didn't cast. I was trying to attack with... You got dispelled, bro. It has to be a physical spell attack or melee attack basically.

So you don't get your armor invoked the whole time around. Anything else on your turn, Gruff? Yes. Pretty much the full thing, isn't it? So great stuff. In that case, we go to Ophelia. Ophelia is going to engage the Dragonborn captain.

Oh yes, the chosen. The chosen. This is Neris. The Dragonborn. She's gonna turn up and end this. This is Neris the Flamesworn. Roll that character, buddy. Is his Dark Souls name.

Amazing. Yes. Gold? Goldclay? Yes, she will raise up veracity towards this captain. I think I have nudged you over, but yeah, you are basically next to him because he attacked you.

Okay, great. She'll say, death by basically next to him see a tattoo. Okay, great Just say death by any other blade would be a gift to you and she will form of dread Yes, the sun for skin Yeah, like that do we get like the jagged bloody crystal crown Yep, nice and that's that's 1d10 plus one temp hit points. Look at me go. Two tempi hit points. Oh, holy.

It's gonna save my life. It's gonna save my life. I'm gonna reckless attack with Corruptity. Love it. Let's go. Natural 20! Oh! There it is!

Do it, do it! After all of the complaints, that's two and that's two and then the last one and the last one, and then the last one. So I was gonna use, I've been stacking up blood points. So I have three to use. Oh shit.

So three D6 max. Oh my god. D8 max. Six, 12, 18. Only 26. 26. 19, 20, 22 max. This is a good person to put it on.

22 max? It's... No, we just worked it out. 6, 12, 18, plus 8, it's 26. 26. 26, and then the actual roll. And then the actual roll. And then you add your modifier as well.

10, 15... Is that a seven? Yeah. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. So 26 plus 26 is? 52. Oh my god! Yeah.

Wait, you add your modifier to it? Yeah. Oh yeah, that's where you added to it. 52 points of damage. 52. Oh my god. Who won? This guy, yes!

Who? This goes right down his throat. I wanna know. Loads of little hits. And there's a point, this is why, when people are like, oh my God, how are they gonna win this combat? All it takes is a fucking crit like this,

and that turns it around. I wanna hear this guy's death noise. Oh, that's death noise. Wait, he's not dead. He's not dead. No, just, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Don't do it. Don't do it.

Don't do that. He's taken 69 points, damn it. Hell yeah. Oh, I know it. Yeah, let this guy live. So, what does this critter look like for Amophilia? This is, you say the cool line, but is this like... It's like her faith, she almost closes her eyes

and lets the Grey Father guide her blade forward. She has pure faith in the Grey Father. I love it. But you hear the heartbeats, right? Yeah. You've got your rage going on as well, and you feel those blood points that you've been building, all the wounds that you've taken,

all the blood that you can smell in the air from the battle. I imagine that it's almost like you close your eyes and you can almost sense the blood moving around and from these previous wounds, and you almost, it's like a scent, and you catch it, and with like a scent, and you like catch it, and with that it gives you the thing,

and he goes to parry, but then the last second in this kind of very graceful dancer's maneuver, you like lean back and move under his guard, just completely taking him by surprise, and you watch as Verasity goes through his entire body, like comes out the other side of his body. You pull it free as this huge burst of blood spatters onto the ground.

He looks down in total shock of this grievous wound he's just taken. How's he looking? Pretty bad. Oh boy. He's bloodied, that's all I will tell you. He's under half his hit points left, but he is not looking good. Bugger. Nice, and that's all I will tell you. He's under half his hit points left, but he is not looking good.

Bugger. Nice, and that's my full turn. Alrighty. So Penelope next. Oh yeah. Yes, sweet little Penelope. So I believe she is like five feet underwater with Rowan. She has her current Vitality Bloom special ability in effect.

There is one guard who is 15 feet away. Okay. So how far is Pinnett, how far is Pinnettly distance-wise to the guy on the Ballista? Oh, that would be quite far, yeah. So he's 30 feet up in the air. So even if we were to go diagonally.

30 plus 20, I think. Yeah. 50. Well, yeah, so, yeah, so it's like five, 10, 15, 20. I'd say he's about 20 feet, because I just do diagonally, it's the same distance basically. Maybe 25 feet.

So I'm wondering if, say like, Penelope can get up onto Rowan's shoulders, just for a little bit of extra height, I know he's swimming, but just for a smidge, could she use her form whip to 30 feet? What's the range on it? 15 feet? 30 feet. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. She whip the guy off the...

She can do that from where she is now. Yeah. Yeah. Can I do that? Yeah, absolutely. Is it just a normal attack? So all the stats on this, it's her signature attack, Thorn Whip at the top.

Okay, cool. Plus five to hit. Nice. Yep, so it's a spell attack. Plus five to hit. And nine probably won't hit. 14 is not enough. Unfortunately, this guy manages to, at the last minute,

see this vine of kelp and seaweed, or not I suppose seaweed, this is an underground freshwater, like it's like underwater moss and things like that, that she's turned into this lasso. He sees it at the last minute and just manages to get an axe and swipes at it before it reaches him, cuts it short, but sadly does not have an effect. Okay, yeah, then I'll have a,

I think I'll just have a stay close to Rowan for the time being, just to keep on keeping that vitality. That 10-feet aura going, nice, alrighty. Everything done on Penelope's turn? I think so, so do you get healing from? Not yet, it's on Rowan's turn. Yeah, so if there were any enemies, it would be on the start of their turn

and any allies that's healing on their turn. Alright, so you get healing right on the turn. Cool. Yes, so Lady get Leeroy's turn. Alrighty. Cool. Yes, so Lady Verithera, who is still currently trapped in the circle, she was sort of like, she's looking around at everything that's going on, her sort of, very sort of, very innocent looking face,

but you know, she's a bit of a fuller figure, she has these antlers, you can see a few little touches of green scales along her cheeks and things like that, she has the draconic eyes, kind of amber-y, amber-y yellow, and she's like glancing around, just in that sort of like, there's nothing I can do, like, I don't know how to help at this point.

She would probably say in the mind of those she's connected to via Daisy's telepathy, um... I am very worried about Sir Eldrack. Why has he moved closer to the Crownsteel? I am worried. I do not think he's well. And that's all she says on her turn. Sir Eldrack. Uh-oh.

Oh, hello. At the start of Sir Eldrke. Oh. Oh, hello. At the start of Sir Eldrake's turn... I'm going to say this effect is going to trigger. Even though he's not necessarily fighting you guys directly, this is kind of an ongoing effect. In fact, actually, first thing I've got to do, I have to make a wisdom saving throw for him. I don't have any fate to spend on his saving.

Oh. So first things, yeah, we make the saving throw, okay? The second thing is he has an ability called Sovereign's Fate, which if the heroes have four or more fate in their pool at the start of his turn, Oh. two of it goes to me.

Okay. As this is the will of a greater being, perhaps, at work. Interesting. I see, I see. And then he also, because of that, you can see that the golden veins and the black lines and the red markings on his mutated arm

almost seem to flare as Gruff and all of you are sort of in the area, and there is almost a feeling in the air that is not perceptible, nothing that you guys, you can feel that something changes, as if the shifts of some forces, perhaps beyond mortal knowing, shift. And as those two points of fate go over to Settledrake, he also gains a stack of something called

Auric Empowerment. So he gains that effect. He is going to turn around. He took a nasty blow from that Ballista and he is gonna turn on these two frightened guards that are within range of him and he is going to bring down his Halberd with one hand on one, and then his enormous corrupted claw against the other one.

And yeah, he's gonna make an attack against them. That's a natural 20 on the first one. Oh my god. Good lord. And the second one is only a three, so he misses on the second one, but you watch as his halberd splits one of these guards in half.

Oh! I mean, wish that were me. It flayed the head, erupts in flames, and just cleaving through metal and flesh and bone, just with immense strength. And the guy just splits in half. That was so fast. That was a good sound effect. Yeah, that was great. Put him in a museum. just with immense strength. And the guy just splits in half. Holy shit. That was a good sound effect.

Yeah, that was great. Put him in a museum. I don't think that guy's frightened anymore. No. Fuck me. Sorry, your poor podcast. This is like a knock over my damn computer. But yeah, he just turns.

Now this does mean that when he goes to strike with the other one, the other guard, who's already terrified of Gruff, is like leaping away and manages to defend himself before the corrupted claw manages to strike him. But you just, you would hear Sireldrax say like, get away from it as he splits this guy in half. Oh, nice.

And he just like shoves this guy away. That is going to be, I'm not gonna use any of his other abilities just yet, but that is gonna be. Not fully turns on us fully. You hold his tent. Hold them for us. If we go near the crown still. Ooh. That smile.

That damn smile. Ooh. Ahoy. The archer who is over by the wall is going to five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. And then bonus action, we'll use their ability to dash. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. He's gonna move up over here to get a full line of sight

on pretty much everybody around. Over here, on top of the wall? On top of the wall. He's gonna look down on the entire field of battle. Graphth. Hello. He's going to look down on the entire field of battle. And then there's... Gruffoth! Hello! I think he's going to take a shot at you, I think.

Go! As you will not get cover against this attack because it's on the other side to where the cover is being provided. I don't need to use this Ricochet shot. I will, however, use one of his... He's got two left, his exploit opening to gain advantage on the attack roll.

Because I'm fishing for a crit. Didn't get one. That is only gonna be a 14 to hit. Does not hit. Yeah, so you manage to bring the shield up, like you hear the whistle, like the, and you, block the arrow as it flies in past you. That is his one attack, he gets. B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b which does have a lovely AOE, yes.

But she currently has that concentrating there. Oh, shame. Ew. She is going to, seeing the other chosen Neris, be horribly injured by Ophelia. She is going to use her multi-attack. She's actually gonna use one of her normally attacking ability on an enemy. She's gonna use it on Nerys,

choose not to do any damage, but she's gonna teleport him 15 feet. Ah. God damn. Into the air. Five, 10, 15. Okay. Just tucking him away from Ophelia. He's not healed.

He's not healed, she just teleports him like behind her a little bit. And then with the other hand, now that he is away from the area, she looks up and brings forth a rain of fire. Oh yes. I need Ophelia and Xantheus to please make dexterity saving throws please.

And the goons? She's gonna angle it so it doesn't strike him. No. She can angle it so it doesn't strike him. She can angle it so it just misses them. I prefer all. Do I see this coming? You do, you get advantage Danger Sense. I'm over that 20 anyway, so.

Why did you ask me? I don't know. That's two in a row. In a row. Someone insults your god and you are switched on. I fully committed this. He's here. I got an unnatural 20.

Unnatural 20, you both succeed, you can take half damage. This is fire damage, so it won't be halved again unless you have resistance. I do. You do, so you get halved again. What the hell, Harry? That is gonna be...

So it'd be 13, so half to six for Ophelia, three for Xanthias. Nice. Shut up, watch. Oh, shut up, Xanthias. Shut up, shut up, watch. Shut the fuck up. So yeah, she pulls this fire down, striking Ophelia, Zanthias. Shut up, shut up, watch. Shut the fuck up. So yeah, she pulls this fire down,

striking Ophelia and Zanthias a little bit. It's like snowflakes to me, I open my mouth to catch some. Yeah, it's not a big deal. Do either of you still have any spell effects currently on you? You've got Fly. I need to make a concentration.

You do, yes, yeah, DC 10. It doesn't break it, I got 30, or I got an actual 20. You have Fly on, don't you? I do. She's 10. DC 10. Oh boy. It doesn't break it. I got 30, or I got, I'm natural 20. You have Flyon, don't you? I do. She wouldn't care about Flyon. It was from a spell scroll, so it might be slightly higher level to...

Oh no, it's just three, but she doesn't care about Flyon, so I'm not gonna use her. She doesn't right now. Huh? It technically does, but again, she wouldn't care about that. It's more like if you have an Armor of Agathys or something else.

Wait until we start drowning her. Yeah, that's fine. That is, yep, that's all of her, oh, as a bonus action actually, Ophelia, you're in range of, so she, when I described it, she has this flowing hair that is red, black, and gold shifting hues, but it's like Medusa, like she can control it, it's like moving around her, and she uses it like a whip,

and whish, whips against you as a bonus action with a hair stripe. Oh, I know that one. You reckless, right? I did, yeah. What a vantage. That is gonna be a 16 to hit. Alrighty, this is, only not a lot of damage, but there's another effect on it. So that's gonna be six points of slashing damage,

so three points for you. And then I think I'm going to, I'm gonna knock you prone with it. So she swipes the leg and you're like, get thrown to the ground, basically. Okay. Very good, very good. So she kind of swipes your leg and knocks you to the ground.

But that is hopefully out of actions now. Leading to the captain, who is over here by the wood pile. What if his abilities, again, I've got so many bad guys on this field. Can't use that anymore. All right, so the first thing, before I do anything else with him, he is gonna use his Blessing of Steel,

and he's gonna grant some temporary hit points to Champion Neris, who was the one who took the brutal hit from Ophelia. That is gonna be seven temporary hit points to Neris. Okay. As he calls out, he's like, my chosen, do not falter, we will succeed for the golden emperor, please,

we need you to lead us. And he feels himself invigorated by it, as he does so. Big simp. And then, I need to get this guy in combat, he's a real beast. Who does he want to go fight? How about no? Who is it?

No. The captain. He gets his antios though. You can go. Can he? Five, 10. He's flying. You're not. You can go five, ten. You're not flying, 15, 20, 25. I think he would decide again.

You're on the floor. So he's going to move up to the thing and he is going to make two attacks towards Antheus. Okay. 25 to hit. Yeah, that one will. Second attack is only a 10 to hit. That doesn't. Well, the first one does.

Yeah, but the second one didn't, so. That is 13 points of slashing damage. Yeah, yeah, I'll reduce it. Yep. I'll reduce that with 2d6. Love it. You have two charges of my runes, and I get, reduce it by five, so.

Eight. Eight. Not bad, not bad, not bad, not bad. Could be worse. Yes. Could be better. That's his bone section, that's his multi-attack. That guy is done. Xanthius, followed by Rowan. At the start of my turn, do I need to do anything?

At the start of your turn, yes please. I'm going to make a saving throw for you. Would you like to do anything? At the start of your turn, yes please. I'm going to make a saving throw for you. Would you like to spend fate? Yes. If I'm gaming it slightly, his ability was to do with us having four, so I will absolutely spend it. So we go down to three, but yes.

Very good. Do you have a minus one modifier? Yes I do, to my wisdom. Would you like to pass me a slip of paper or? I'm going to check my notes. Okay, okay. I can't remember. I need to remember the DC I sent last week.

Okay. DC for this. Doesn't matter, because I rolled really well, right? Really high? Super high? Minus one? I'm not fucking putting the notes. I'm trying to fucking find it.

I have to say I passed. While Mark is finding that, remember to donate to the Jingle Chat. Invite our link in chat. I am gonna pass you a note, but remember I did say that some of these say you succeeded the saving throw. Like this one did.

Like that one did. Yeah. Did it? Yeah. Oh no. Oh he's shuffling, shuffling. Oh there's options here. He's shuffling the notes, podcast listeners. He's shuffling, shuffling. Oh there's options here.

He's shuffling the notes, podcast listeners. Shall we test him? The note is being passed. Okey doke. To Tom. Alright, let's have a lookie here. Tom has the note, he's looking. It was very close, I'll tell you that Thomas.

Right, okay. Okay. Easy, easy dub. Easy dub. Oh no. Just put that right there, just to slip that one right underneath that. Your turn. It's my turn. Right, I want to get away from these guys, so I've got the captain next to me and these two goons. Did the two goons go?

No, they go at the very end. All the basic guards go at the very end of the round. I see. You are a bit surrounded. I am a bit surrounded, but I need to get away from them, and I can't get away from all three unless I disengage,

but if I disengage, I can't really take a turn. I am a bit surrounded, but I need to get away from them, and I can't get away from all three unless I disengage, but if I disengage, I can't really take a turn. And I like moonwalking away, and I'm flying right now. So I can moonwalk in the air away. That's a lot of attacks there. So I'd like to move up. Oh, God.

OK. I'd like to go vertically. I'm going. Okay. I'd like to go vertically. I'm going to basically proc three. Maybe it's just two, actually. It's three. I think the captain, I'm next to the captain. I think that goon is... Yeah, that far goon, I'm going to say it was next to Ophelia,

but because of the flying base, I kind of shuffled them around a little bit. I'm going to say two. Cool. One of which is the captain. One of which is the captain, who hits pretty hard. But he did miss last time. He did.

Let's see if he hits again. 16. And then the regular mook is a 17. Great. I'm going to cast as a reaction, I'm going to cast shield. So both miss. So both miss puts my AC up to 19. Your reaction is spent and you've gone to the spell slot.

Yes. Okay, so I shield. So you watch as Xantius, these strikes coming towards him, throws up these like, you know, Doctor Strange barriers. Much larger runes than the ones that normally appear on my body and blocks attacks. Steel strikes into them golden sparks flying everywhere. Beneath these magical shields, you see me moonwalking.

Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Am I good at it? I'm in the air right now. I should make a performance check. It looks legit right now, because I'm flying, but I want to fly over the head, over 10 feet away, over the heads of... Yep, all these guys.

Which direction? Towards the north side. I guess I want to be just away from this crowd. You've got 60 feet. North. North. Towards the Crown Steel Pool. How much movement do you have?

I'm flying right now, so I have 60. You have to go here. I have to go here. I believe it says yes. Let me just read this. I don't have to go all the way. That's my bad for not... My intention was that you would have to go all the way. That's my bad for not, my intention was that you would have to go all the way, but that's my bad for not

putting it on the note. It's up to you, if you wanna read this note again. That's what my note says, that's what my note says. Okay, well, hey, I move there, which is, yeah, it's north. How high up are you? I went, I'm about 10 feet up, which is I guess, 10 feet would be out of the range of melee attacks, right? Depends on that.

What height are you flying at, Tom? You've seen what you've seen? I'm 15 up. 15. You narrowly, it looks like that hair whip, that would have been able to reach you if you'd been 10 feet. I see. Now, remind me, if I use a reaction to cast a spell, can I cast a spell?

You've already used a reaction to cast a spell. Right, but if I, can I still cast a spell as next? So annoyingly, because you've done it on your turn, fuck, the rule comes into effect. For real? Which is very annoying. I'm gonna say, what spell did you want to cast? Chaos Ball. I'll allow it. Great.

Fuck it, I'll allow it. It's a shield spell, it's meant to be done quickly. I'm cool with it. I want to cast a Chaos Bolt. It's such a niche situation that this comes up, I'm like, I don't care. Now that I've flown to this position, I've also flown sort of around the guard that Neris had, I want to cast a Chaos Bolt on Neris,

and I'm twinning it as well. Okay. So I'm twinning a Chaos Bolt. Make the use of this while you can do it, because in 2024 rules, this doesn't work as well. That's true, I'm also twinning a Chaos Ball. Make the use of this while you can do it, because in 2024 rules this doesn't work as well. That's true. I'm also twinning the Chaos Ball,

so it also hits the prophetess as well. Okay, so you're going after both chosen. All right, let's get the Chaos Ball against Nerys first. Okay, so this is a, say it with me. Natural 20. Plus six to hit this guy. Nat 20. Fake.

Oh, he's away. Should've rolled fake, got 19 anyway. Remember, you can add it afterwards now. Oh, that's true. I got 24 to hit this nerd. 24 hits. Should I do the second attack against Prophetess before I do damage?

One second. I need to check her other reaction. Ain't no way we're high enough level for counter spell. I'm gonna spend a fate point to allow Prophetess Amalyn to use her ability Spell Siphon. When Amalyn sees a creature cast a spell within 60 feet, the caster must make a dexterity saving throw

or you're going to take damage. Does she have a reaction? She got it back at the start of her turn and she didn't use it since. Well remembered though. I admire the hustle. So I need to make a dexterity saving throw. Because what level, oh actually what level

are you casting this at? This is, this was at first level. You're not gonna upcast it. I pressed first. Alright, sure. So it is at first level. She wouldn't know what level you're casting this at, so I'm just gonna go.

Inside the cast I say, Chaos Boltium, first level, Lymium. First tier Chaos Bolt. Tribeam! Right, a dexterity save by a plus one with which I will spend a fate. Okay. And I get seven.

On the deck saving throw. Yeah. It's all right, it's only a first level spell, right? Yeah, yeah. You take five force damage, as some of the energy of your spell is reflected back at you. The spell still goes off, though? Spell still goes off, yeah.

Oh, okay. It's not a counter spell. Oh, okay, that's not as bad. It's just I take some little... Little chip damage. A little boopy. Yeah. Should I go for the attack on the prophetess, or should I see the... Let's do the damage,

let's resolve the first counter spell entirely first. Okay, so again, we'll roll the second one. It's a snare, it's a sniffing. Because if you ricochet this one, and then you do more damage to her again, it like, let's just do it all one at a time. Yeah. If you get it.

You've not had a Ricochet yet. I haven't had a Ricochet. I've had it once. Oh, you've had it once, okay. So I need to roll two D8s. If it's the same number on the D8s, it bounces. It doesn't bounce. I got a five and a seven,

which lets me choose between lightning or psychic. I'm gonna go with psychic. I'm gonna check this motherfucker's mind. Four, 10, 15 damage. 15 points. 15 psychic damage. That's pretty good, damage. You see Nerus like clenching his mind like,

ah, no, they're inside my mind, Abelian, and he's holding his head, you can see the wings kind of stretching, reflecting, but he's still up. Still up. Oh, this nerd. He's quite not, he's very much not a nerd. He's a nerd.

He's a nerd, he's gonna be strong. He's a jock. I hate this mess. If I, as a part of double casting this, do I have to make the save again for her siphon? No, because it's technically, you'll cast the spell once, but you'll do it effecting two targets, which is why you roll a second time.

Okay, I wanna fate this one as well. Okay. On, on, prophetess. Smiling that smile podcast business. He's got a lot of hate. Yum, yum, yum. Oh, Yikers.

Yikers and piss, and also shit and balls. Is her AC 14? Oh, Yikers. Yikers and Piss, and also Shit and Balls. Is her AC 14? Her AC is not 14. Is it less? No, it's higher. Oh. But like you, she is emblazoned with what appears to be mage armor.

Coward. Says the guy doing the same thing. Yeah, no, sadly this time she blocks it with like a shield similar of her own, not the shield spell, but just the Mage Armor, as it is absorbed by that as your second spell. Shiter and pison. Twin spell.

All right, anything else then, Kielsen? No. Okay, Rowan. Thank you very much. You'd have maximized that, though. That was quite a lot going on. That was quite a lot going on. Underwater.

So at the start of your turn, you do get 10 hit points back, because you're next to an LB. Oh, thank God. You're in the aura. And that's just regular heal, not temp. It's not temp, it's full on heal. You're in the aura.

You can see this, like, and it, I think for Rowan especially, because there is a feeling of the stone and the earth and nature to this healing, so it's very soothing soothing and it's like, you can see like the life-spreading storm, like little green dots. Xanthias wants to get there before Aurigon.

God save you. Oh, no. Stop that. I veto my go. In lieu of Tom's toke, I surrender. All of us just leave. I join the reclaimers. I will now kill Xanthias. Yeah.

He's so pleased to have some of this. That's good, right? That's pretty good. That's Felix Ravvys dad. Carry on, Tron. Don't even stop saying that name. It's a terrible character. Looking at this person here.

Yes, this guard, yes. They were previously entangled, right? They're not. They freed the water. Yes, this guard, yes. They were previously entangled, right? Not anymore. They're not. But not anymore. They freed the archer. What are they, what's their situation? Do they look panicked? Yeah, they look pretty panicked.

Is that the one who just fell off a fucking tower on fire? Yeah, yeah, the one who jumped off the tower and then sprang around. They are looking a little bit scared, definitely, and they're bloody and stuff like that. Yeah, absolutely. I'm gonna look big-er than I usually am by like just looking strong.

Posture. And make eye contact with this guy. Okay. And just point away from the island. It's like a, cause I'm underwater, I can't speak. I'm just like. And your intent is you wanna sort of like. I want him to just retrieve.

Give me an intimidation roll. They're pretty weak. They're far from their leaders. So I'm gonna have it go against their... I'll make a check for them. What the fuck is that? Get dice that you guys can read, please. 18!

Like how clever, toad dice, they're so readable! Wait, wait. Wow! 15. 15. 15, I'm going to roll a contested check. I'm gonna use their wisdom as the modifier. No skill, just pure, straight wisdom. This is just a normal guard.

Actually, it would be their charisma, actually. This is a normal guard, which means they have a modifier of zero. So I have to roll a 15 or higher on this d20. Can they have disadvantage because Penelope's on my shoulders. No. That's pretty intimidating.

Is the door intimidating? She's very cute. She's not intimidating. 15 or higher. It's very, very unlikely odds I'm gonna make this, but we'll see. Yeah. 16.

Ah! And I think that we put that down to, is like, that probably would have worked if this guy was like a mercenary or like a normal guard. This is a zealot. Can he get disadvantaged because he fell off a fucking tower? No.

It's all right, I have a backup plan. So this guard, like, all of these reclaimers, they are zealots. They believe that what they're doing is 100%, not just the right thing, but like they are gonna be rewarded for serving the golden emperor, whoever that is. Can they do an int save, please, at 15?

An int saving throw, what are you doing? Phantasmal Force. Okay. I will allow the intimidation to not be an action. I will allow that. Intelligent saving throw, 13. Good, they fail. In which case, I turn into a demon of the Hellion pits

in his mind, and I say, in his mind, I said, leave. And then more like rushes towards him or something. Yeah, my eyes are like fiery red. Nice, and they take second damage on their turn. Yeah. Cool, shit. Nice. This is a spell, by the way, again, in 2024.

This is a lot better in 2024. It does a lot more damage and it's a bit more effective. But yeah, very good. On their turn, so it's like a D6 second image. Oh, he tried on my turn. Oh, he was writing on your turn. Deal 1d6 psychic. Please roll high.

Please roll high. I really want you to roll high because it'd be really funny. One. Oh my God. One. I'm worried he has five HP left. Remember when we rolled the fate today?

That was the high point. Oh no! Big double-crush. 52 damage? You fucking wiped out my cool guy! This is why I gave him a name! Still still there! Named man!

Named man! Still there! He is still there. He is still there. That's the only one I'll get this year. Speaking of, if Rowan's done. I'm going to grab Penelope's little feet like this and just put her onto the land.

I'll allow it. I'll allow it. Like a crane, like a forklift. You have to kind of, I'd say you'd have to like throw it over this like little wall basically, because it's like a little defensive barricade. Can I also try and climb up over with my movement?

Yeah, you should. And shall I do a roll for it? You can get to here. Don't need to roll. I'm just gonna reduce your movement because you're carrying Penelope and you sort of throw and stuff, so. But if you're happy with that, I'm happy with roll. I'm just gonna reduce your movement because you're carrying Penelope and you sort of throw her and stuff. But if you're happy with that, I'm happy with that.

I'm happy with that. Great. That's the end of my great turn. There is the flame sworn. He's fucked up. Owie. He's fucked, he's fucked up. Oh, my bones.

My bones and my brain. My big bones. I'm fucked up. He's going to dig, I did say that this guy has wings, by the way. I know. He's gonna fly 15 feet up in the air.

He's like, come back here, little mage. Da da da da da da. That counts, that counts, he's dead. That does not count. He's immediately fucked up. That does not count. He is going to. He fell on his own sword.

There's just a banana peel right there which tries to take off and a whoo. As he's flying towards you, Xanthius, he's gonna look around and with his multi-attack he's gonna replace one of his attacks with his Voice of Gold. Does cost me a fate to use this. Oh!

Voice of Gold. He turns around to one of just the... Oh actually no, he can totally... No, it'd be on one of just the regular guards next to you because you're prone, so he's gonna have advantage anyway. He's gonna be like, you, deal with this fake worshiper of some false god. He just almost killed you.

You're like, point 10. And as he does, you see that that guard's hammer becomes engulfed in flame. Oh, sick. So he gets to make an immediate weapon attack, this guard, against you. He has advantage because you're prone and you reckless anyway.

Dublin. Natural 20. Oh, shit. You currently have a stack of something, don't you? You have an effect. You were affected by Auric Fire, I believe. Yeah, I believe so. I have written that down on the orange flame.

Every stack of this, because it's going to come into effect. I can't even remember. Oh, yeah, there it is. Hello. So every stack of this effect, which probably isn't going to be into effect. I can't remember. Oh yeah, there it is. Hello. So every stack of this effect, which probably isn't going to be many more because this guy is soon to be dead, you basically increase any fire damage you take by two for each stack. So if you take fire damage, you take another two fire damage. Okay, I think I have one stack. Yeah, so you're going to take an extra two fire damage on this.

1d6 of fire damage, 1d6 of regular damage. It's a crit, so we max that. It's 12. Okay. In fact, I have to roll this separately. I literally just rolled two sixes. I literally just rolled two sixes. Which is 24 damage. But remember, raging.

So actually, 12 of that is bludgeoning damage, which you would halve to six. Then you take 12, 14 fire damage. So it's 20 damage overall. Oh my god. That's tight. Did your two temporary hit points. No, they took, I went off last. Oh my god. That's tiny. Did your two temporary hit points. No, they took, I went off last.

Oh, they went off last time. Were you still up? It was the rage, just. The rage literally just saved, because don't forget bludgeoning damage is half, so only half of that was bludgeoning damage. That was it. So this guy, while you're on the ground,

brings this flaming hammer down. God. And you feel that, like, Auric fire. That stack doesn't go away, by the way. Yeah. So it remains in place. But you feel that, like, whatever this golden. That stack doesn't go away, by the way. So it remains in place. But you feel that whatever this golden aura that's around you almost seems to draw more heat

and fire into it, burning your body as the hammer slams down. That was part one of his attack. The other one is he makes an attack against you, Xanthius. Okay-doke. That is an 18 to hit. You've got your shield. It's still active.

Yeah, so I got 19. It's still active. Yeah. Is it 19? I've got 19. The shield still deflects it off. He's on a... No, I can't add it to the attack rolls. I don't want to change that. So that is that.

That is all done. He has got his bonus action left. I'm laughing at him. Don't do that. You're gonna immediately regret that. No, no. He's like strikes this shield, protects you from everything.

What's in your notes? What's in your notes? Nothing to do with me laughing at a weak ass bitch. The only person in range, he's flown up next to you, so you're not even that far away, so his bonus action he can't do anything with, so that's his turn. All of the regular soldiers, there go.

This guy's frightened, he can't move any closer to you. This guy is going to, I mean, he probably would chase after Daisy. He doesn't know where I am, I'm going to hurry! He saw which way you ran, he knows you're around there somewhere. He's gonna go five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. He's gonna move up and he's gonna make an action

to try and search for you. So he can't beat a 30. So he's like, where did she go? And you're like pinned up against the thing. He's like, where did she go? So that's his move, that's his action. He can't do anything else. This guy's gonna try and attack Sir Eldrack.

Oh dear. I'll do these slowly as I go, so I'll just do this guy attack Sir Eldrake. Oh my. Oh dear. I'll do these slowly as I go, so I'll just do this guy again. Bye. He does hit. Oh. Oh. He's gonna regret it.

21, yeah, he does hit. Brave boy. Four, ooh, four points of damage. Good job, pal, well done. Is that the mace guy? Yeah, this one had a little mace, yeah. Oh, this is a non-magical weapon, so it's actually a two-pointer damage.

Yeah. So he does that. Moving down the line, Ophelia. These guys are gonna wait on you. You look bloody and injured. They're gonna try and take down a threat while they can. She's out. First guy's gonna attack you while you're down.

Does he still have fire? With advantage. He does not for this attack, it's only for that extra attack you got. 12 to hit. Doesn't hit. You roll to the side, first low, smashes down, second guy.

Two fours, man. Yeah! Bam, you roll to the side. You bring up Barassi, like block the strike while you're on the ground. Like, yeah, you're bending these guys off. 3 HP in a dream, baby. 3 HP in a dream.

Let's go! This guy is terrified of this demon that Rowan seems to be. But he's still breathing, like he's gonna basically skirt around. He's like five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Then he's gonna dash, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Then he's got a dash, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. That's his whole turn.

Ballista Boy. Ballista Boy. Oh, does he want to shoot at Zareldrak again? Does he have to? Ballista Boy. Oh, he has to reload. He has to reload, yeah. Normally if there's two crew, they can shoot every turn.

Right. But because there's only one, it takes him an action to reload the Ballista. I was going to say, I'm pretty sure he shot last turn. Yes, he did. Well remembered, thank you very much. So yeah, he basically starts reloading the Ballista. So that is all of the basic enemies done. You do have the opportunity to do an investigation check. If you like. On the Phantasmal.

I've used their action to dash. I'm just gonna say on this turn, he just ran away. Okay. It was like a reaction like, fucking demon, ah, and then ran, that's it. Right, we go right back up to the top in a brand new round. Hell yeah.

We begin with Daisy. Hello. So, what I would like to do is, maybe, might not work. I want to run south. Yes. I want to. Where on earth do you wanna go?

So I wanna basically, on this side of the wall that I came up before. And what I wanted to do was, as I was, like, before I peek out, shoot a knife over at the one that just attacked Ophelia. Okay, let's go. The guard over there. Which I will have advantage and see if I can click on. He doesn't know you're there.

And then I want to run that way and then hide. Sure. Yeah, you can do that. So keep running south. See if I can take him out... Back towards where you guys first infiltrated in. Yeah. I want to see if I can... Will you have advantage on the attack?

Maybe. Please try and take him out. I rolled a three and a two! Are you shitting me? It's gonna be rough. Even fate's probably not gonna boost it enough. So I think it's just in your panic to run to the cover and hide again. The shot just goes wide. The guard does look over, and they do seem to see you when you move to the next area,

but then you jump down behind the wall, you give the stealth check. God damn. 36. Oh my god. That's still with the Pass Without a Trace, right? Pass Without a Trace plus 10. My stealth's plus 10.

So it's pretty crazy. So I get plus 20. So yeah, you are well and truly hidden. Nothing I can do about that. Anything else? I try to use this to my, I don't know if it's the right tactic, but I'm moving in that direction towards things.

But I'm gonna try. You're basically giving yourself advantage every turn you go. I'm gonna try. This is 100% how rogues play. Yeah, yeah. You are playing what rogues should do. That was such a shitty roll.

Yeah, it's a bad roll. It happens. If that had hit, you wouldn't wipe this guy out. Doing as long as everyone's okay with that. Especially if you can move closer and get one of these rods or do some damage to some of these higher targets and stuff. Yeah, I'm gonna try and sneaky sneak sneak

as much as I can. We have Gruffa. How powerful you'd be with Crownsteel. Oh, do you think the voice in my head would let that happen? I would like to cast Moonbeam. Okay. I can cast it up to 120 foot. I'm trying to decide who to cast it on though.

There's Nerus, but then I'm also looking at the guys that are trying to... Beat up Ophelia. I mean these guys are weak, like you've seen this, the Moonbeam wipes these guys out, right? The tougher targets. Obviously Nerus is very injured, you might be able to take him out this turn, which would be great, he does do a lot of damage, he's quite utility, but like if these guys surround Ophelia, they can beat her up, potentially. But also at the same time, like yeah, you've now seen that like if you try and put this near Amalyn, she can get rid of it, but it's within a radius, like she can can't do it. But it's reaction though, and she's taken her reaction.

She has taken her reaction this turn, yes. But if she moves within the effect of it on a future turn, she can do it on that turn as well. Am I allowed to group think? Yeah, of course you are. What do you guys think? I'd say Ophelia is in much more trouble than I am. In which case...

And Nerus is like one sneak attack or one big spell from Xantheus. It's fine, it happens, but Xantheus might be able to blast him with a spell next turn. I think put it on the minions. Let's do it on the little minions. So also, because you can put it basically like here, and it will hit these two guys here, and if this one moves closer, it will affect them as well. So consaving throw 15, please.

Blip, fail. affect them as well. So consaving throw 15, please. Fail. And 15 consave. The other one succeeds, but they both look pretty weak. So if you roll high enough, this might take them both out. 11 points of radiant damage. That is enough, because even with the half, this guy only had five.

They both had really low. Both of these, not minions, but regular guards. Just looking up at these two as they melt in the moonlight. Bam! A silvery well of light. She's like... Swirling ice dive of birds within it, kind of... Gruff.

So that's your action gruff. That is my action. Bonus action, just because there's not a great deal else. I'm going to cast Shalalae, because I still haven't done that yet. So does that count as casting? No, both cast as casting, so I'm going to cast Shalalae, because I still haven't done that yet. So does that count as casting? No, both counts as casting, so I can't... So yeah, you cast Moonbeam, but I've said that I don't care about the bonus cost.

Shalalae is like... Oh, it was more to get my 4 or 10-page P. So remember, it has to be a healing spell, or you attack. It isn't just any spell. Was it not an attack spell? If you attack, Moonbeam isn't an attack spell, right it not an attack spell? If you attack spell, but Moonbeam isn't an attack spell, right, it's a spell that deals damage, and attack is when you roll the D20 and add your bonus to it.

So it's a very distinctive definition in this. So it encourages Gruff, like, Gruff really should be in melee to like be bolstering that or healing. Yeah, but I'm taking out minions. Yeah, that's fine, but I'm just saying for Armor-Evoking Thorn, it is a, designed to be a urine the flow of combat, or you're like healing your buddies.

You said urine? You said urine. Urine buddies. Um, can I, I've got 35 foot of movement. Yeah. Can I move closest, um, I'm kind of thinking to get out of the range of the archer, but sort of closer to the houses on the west side of the wall. Can I do that with 35 foot of movement?

What, like here? Yeah. Yeah, it would kind of block the archer's access. She'll be quite far away from everybody. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. You can get here with 30 feet of movement. Yeah, isn't there a little alleyway there? No, they're next to each other, yeah.

That would be so annoying for visuals on the map and stuff, so assume that it is just all blocked off there. But the archer can't shoot you from here, like there's no line of sight, so. Tis me. Same with the Ballista, the Ballista won't be able to like really, actually the Ballista probably can.

Do we all know the shield is there? No, I would say that right now, Gruff is probably as he moves this way, Gruff would be the first one to see that on the table just below the archer is this beautiful red and it would be red and it would be primarily red colored, but it has this silvery,

it looks like a star constellation that almost forms like a heart shape, but it's not like a goofy heart shape. It's like dots that could be then made into a heart shape on the front. But it's like red polished metal. It looks almost like a dragon scale and it's kind of shape and things like that. And you see it just is on the table, just sort of put there. I mean, do you want me to make any kind of role to see?

Because we were told to look for Heart Warden. Would Lady Embaristo have shown us the diagram? I think she would have described it to you. Like, this is very much now that you've seen it, and you're like, what's that shield? Like, yeah, you can be like, that's Heart Warden. Oh, yeah. We were going to do that.

That's why we're here. Yeah. It's one of those things as well. Obviously, the way magic items work, even if you pick it up, it will work as a shield, but until you know its magical properties, you don't get any benefits from it basically, so. I will say, over the group call that is still up,

I think I found the shield. That's not Welsh. Hello, I'm Welsh. Sorry, take a minute. Who's joined the call? My name is... Who the hell is that? You were not invited! Hang up immediately! You've been hacked.

It's me, Gruff. I found the shield, hard warden. Okay, what happened? Did you just get a bit scared there? Anyway, okay, where is it? Is it closed? I don't know if I can say further. I'd say that that's probably enough in six seconds.

Anything else in your sand graph? That me. That's you, dumb. Ophelia. You are prone. Yes. There is a big moonbeam. Just be aware if you move.

Do not move to me. Don't move, don't move. In the moonbeam. Pretty light. That just saved your ass. But then you're like, where did I? Ophelia will stand up. And I think she will point a red hand towards Nerys,

and the sound of a bell will ring. Somewhere in the distance she casts Toll the Dead. Oh, shit. Time to die. What kind of saving throw? It is a whiz saving throw. 13. That's got 13.

12. This is a D12, because he's missing hit points. Well, your fifth level. It's a cantrip. Yeah, cantrips do more damage as you level up. Oh shit. And it's your total level, not individual class level.

Yeah, fifth level 2d8 or 2d12. It's 2d12, cause it's hit points. Oh my god. Yeah, remember cantrips are based on your total level, so any cantrips deal more damage as you get stronger. 17. Oh! Okay then.

Time to do it. You watch as, yeah, this Dolorous, doong, doong, it's the Anor Londo Bell. Ah, great. And you just watch as Nerys in midair clutches at his chest, blood starts pouring out of his eyes, out of his ears, out of his mouth. You see his skin begin to shrivel and age,

like the end of Indiana Jones, where he just seems to age massively. The wings crumble into dust as he just plop, plop, plop, falls out of the sky dead. Yeah, I love the idea that these guys have been shouting about their true gods, and Ophelia's god won out. Yeah, that's true.

Ophelia, he was mine! He's the Grey Father's now. Ha ha ha, very good. God. His body slumps to the ground. You see, yeah, he just kind of lies there. The golden rod probably falls just out of his belt loop and is by his body, basically.

Ophelia, great turn. That was your action. You've used half your movement to stand. Yeah, I think he's going to try and get some cover because she's low, low, low. I think he's going to go where that training zone is, towards the east. Five, ten, fifteen. How much movement do you have? Thirty-five.

I'll give you another five. Duck in there and I'll get some cover for a minute and Sure, sure, sure. Just have a moment. Free coop. Yeah, cover will only be, so say Amelie moves up next to you, you won't get cover necessarily, because she's right next to you,

but any other ranged attacks and stuff probably will. Alrighty, everything done? That's me done, right, Penelope. Oh yes, Penelope, yeah, Penelope's good. So Vitality Bloom is gone. That's done now. Yeah. Let's see. What do anyone want Penelope to do anything in particular?

What has she got left? She's got a... She's got Entangle left. She has one Spell slot left. So she can do either Entangle, Sanctuary, Speak of Animals or Speak of Plants. She could do Dispel Magic, Mass Healing Word. She can do one of those once. Druidcraft, Elementalism. She can use those spells, it's like her,

so she can cast Dispel Magic once, she can cast Mass Healing Word once, she can cast Sanctuary once, Entangle once, et cetera. She could always just, because of the position she's in at the moment, it might be worth Thornwhipping the guy up top. The god of the tower again. Just because you guys might not be familiar,

obviously I've said that there are these two ones that disable the field. That is a unique mechanic. That is a spell that's holding Lady Verithera. I'm not saying it would be an easy roll, but Penelope could try to dispel it. I will tell you now it will be a high roll, because it's basically just Penelope adding plus three. So it's a d20 plus three.

Did you add fate to that? I'm going to say Penelope can't, because she's not a hero. She's not a hero like you guys, and she's not like a major NPC, like villain or something like that. But yeah, it's just something you could try. This is like a high level version of the Force Cage spell, like a special version of it. You've got 21 left, fair amount.

I'm either like get her near you to heal you, or try to use the spell. The other thing is the Ballista up there has just been reloaded. Yeah. That's true. That's what that has, yeah. So do Ballista? Yeah. I think so.

Even if you pull him off it, even if you don't necessarily kill this guy, he's then gonna spend a whole turn to get back up there. He's gonna get past Penelope and Rowan again to do it. Yeah, let's do that. Alrighty. Might take some damage if he falls on the concrete. Oh, absolutely, yeah.

Because it's pulled towards Penelope. No, no. A total. A total. Okay, so you just fell with it. You've saved the general's familiar today. Well, the thing is as well, on Penelope, you can tell that she is just in a panic.

She's never been in a fight really like this before. So she's clinging to Rowan's leg, closing her eyes, gesturing with a staff. And it's like, the Thorn Whip is not, she's not a combatant really. She's slapping this guy with Kelp though. Yeah. It's like, oh it stinks.

And then can I move Penelope just under the tower, just so she's out of range of anybody else? Just keep her nice and safe. Like here? Yeah, that's perfect. Sure, sure, she moves just for herself. She moves west underneath the Ballista Tower. Magic, well done.

All right, perfect, everything there? That's all good for her. All righty, Lady Verithera, unfortunately there's just nothing she can do right now. We're trying. She's like looking like, I wanna help. So Eldrake, first things first. Oh no.

He has to make a wisdom saving three. Yes. You don't have forefate, so Sovereign's fate does not trigger this turn. But you watch as like, this whole time, like you've been seeing he's been fighting these guys, but he's not moved from that crown steel. And he now, like, looks, and you can see his helm,

you don't see his face, because it's covered by this face plate, but the face plate turns to the pile of crown steel, and he, like, holds his head, he's like, I can't, I need it. And he reaches out with the claw, plucks like a chunk of it, lifts up the faceplate.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. He watches his body explodes with these golden flames around him. Yes! Pfft.

Pfft. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah. Oh. Oh boy. That is his action though, to do that. Oh man. He is going to, yeah, that's it. He's gonna spend his action to consume,

I have to roll to see how much crown steel he consumes in terms of gold. Okay. That wasn't it. Oh, it's always good when the DM cuts off his own sentence with a, Why can't I hold all this crown steel? It is like, you watch as,

and I think Xantheus, you can see him, he reaches in and he pulls out this, it's like a beautiful, it probably would have once been a shield made of crown steel, but only half of it's left. But it is, I think there's some part of you Xantheus that just knows this is made from very high quality crown steel, this isn't cheap, like, you know,

trace amounts crown steel, this is good, this is the good stuff. This is good shit. And he like, plucks it up, and he just, with that enormous clawed hand, he crushes it, and then just lifts up the faceplate, and swallows it down down as he consumes it. Tight, tight, tight, tight.

Tight, tight, tight. Right, the big list of NPCs goes, the archer spies Rowan out in the open, losing his previous target Gruff, he pulls back his bow. Oh, Penelope's round the corner. I'm gonna use his Ricochet Shot. No way. I have it, he hasn't used it yet.

He's gonna- He can curve arrows. He can curve arrows. So he can make a, he makes a shoot attack, then he can make another shoot attack at a target within 30 feet, even if it's out of line of sight, as long as it's within line of sight

of the original target. So he's gonna bounce the arrow off of Rowan. So cool. It's really dumb that he's doing it. Does the first one have to hit? No, it doesn't have to hit. It's fine. Against Rowan, that is a 17 to hit.

Yeah. Against Penelope, that is only a 10 to hit. Mrs. Penelope. Mrs. Penelope, so Rowan, I like to think that Rowan sort of manages to stop it from deflecting into Penelope. Mrs. Penelope. So Rowan, I like to think that Rowan sort of manages to like, you know, stop it from deflecting into Penelope or something. What, you going? Yeah.

Get back here. You get back here. I stab it back in myself. D10, D10, D10. So, oh, and he can't use his flaming arrows because you soaked him in the water. He's wet. So that's like an extra D4 of damage I can't do.

That's seven points of piercing damage to you, Rowan. And you can tell that, yeah, these arrows, he basically has a way of lighting them before he fires them, but isn't able to do that. So a little bit of damage prevented there, nice. That is his ricochet shot done. That's everything done for this turn. Great.

You are not within 30 feet, so he doesn't get his extra 2d6 of damage. So that's the archer's turn. Profites, profites. Copy 2. Her friend just died. 2d6 of damage, so that's the archer's turn. Profites, profites. Coup de te. Her friend just died. Her friend did just die. No, he's just gone to sleep.

Coup de te time. And he's pretty mad about that. She is gonna, oh, Ophelia, sorry Ophelia, but. That's all right. Five, 10, 15, yeah, 20, she's gonna Ruvan right next to you, negating your cover. She reaches out with her hand, and she, you can see it's like glowing with these runes

as she reaches out to touch you with her malign teleport. That is a 24 to hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have resistance to necrotic damage? I believe I do not, no. That's weird. How much health do you have again? Just the three.

Just the three. Well, you take 10 necrotic damage, I'm afraid. And then, even though you're unconscious, you still can make this, because it's a mental saving throw. Can you make a Charisma saving throw for me, please? Ooh, okay. Mm, nom nom nom nom nom nom nom.

That's a seven. A seven. You fail, so she touches you, you feel this life draining force as your eyes begin to flutter. You don't fall unconscious, because I know I'm not doing that in my rules, but you are at zero hit points,

and she teleports you 15 feet. Oh. Where to? Oh, I can't get you in the water. Oh my god, that would have been rough. She's got water breathing. Not if she's died, but alright. In the moonbeam!

That's cool, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's gonna teleport you into the moonbeam. Yes! Yes! That's cool. She's gonna teleport you into the moonbeam. Right where that guard that got annihilated is, she's like, and throws her hand back and you become this little ball of fire, shoots over, and yeah, off of your body. Now in theory you would take damage as soon as you enter it, I believe, when a creature enters the area, so that is a failed death safety. It's not a melee attack, so it's not two.

That's cool. So doesn't she get to make, no, okay, yeah. She is unconscious. Even if she fails the saving throw, she still takes half damage. So she would still take damage, which would trigger the death saving throw. So one failed death saving throw,

as she throws you into the moonbeam. That's cool as hell, I can't do that. Slightly mad, but it's cool. I'll tell you what, actually, I will say, because technically you can cease concentration on spells at any time. I would let Gruff as a reaction cancel the spell before you go in it.

Okay. But it would cost Gruff's reaction to do it. Because you can see it, right? Yeah, you can see through these buildings, you see her do this and throw Ophelia back towards it. So I would absolutely let you do, cease the concentration as a reaction. As a reaction, sorry.

Do it. Okay, great, so you don't take the extra death saving throw as the moonbeam is canceled, as Gruff, you see this little bead of light as Ophelia's teleporting into your light, she's going for the moonbeam. Vroom, and you bring a claw across. You have seen her do it before. going for the moonbeams. And you bring a claw across. Do you have feet or do it before? You're like, I feel like I have moonbeams.

Great stuff. You didn't get the fail then. No fail, so yeah, still fresh. And you see the Prof. Test looks back in Gruff's direction now, just like, you are gonna be a bit of a problem. So she used, that was a couple of mine teleport. Staring each other down.

His lip crawls up, you see the fangs. A fang on one side, yeah. Five, 10. I'm coming for you. She basically starts walking towards Gruff. She moves over, does that to Ophelia, who's like, hmm, you're a problem, and then starts making her way to you. You have meddled in our affairs far too long.

First you kill one of our Ch chosen, now you shall suffer. The captain's turn, she will call out, Captain, with me, the Leonin, or the Wild Heart. Oh, you're gonna be a little wuss about this and get your friends involved? 25, 30, he's gonna use his Defiant Charge to dash as a bonus action. Five, I say 10, 15.

Me too, one on one, coward. 25, 30. The captain charges in, bringing his greatsword just manages to reach you, Gruffith, as he runs forward with his Defiant Charge ability. Two attacks with his blade. That is a 21 to hit you on the first. Correct.

Correct. 13 points of damage. Slashing, boy. Second attack is only a 13. Incorrect. This time you manage to bring up the staff with a shield blocking the strike after his first attack lands.

30 world properties. That is the captain's go. the staff with a shield blocking the strike after his first attack lands. Very well, prophetess. That is the captain's go. Xanthias, then Rowan. Hello. For it's a long time between turns, everybody. I'd like to spend fate, please. Oh, on a saving throw. Yes, please.

Wisdom minus one, reminder. Thank you. I'm gonna re-roll that, because it did hit my keyboard. Okay. Remember, anything that you previously had doesn't go away. I know. Yeah, I'm aware. Not that I have anything, these are both new parts to check. Love a note, Ghost of Tom.

And you are free to roleplay these as you want. Like you are probably somewhat aware of this, but I'll leave it to you to decide how Xanthias would best roleplay all of this. Would there, provided any of these are failures, which they're not, would there be any physical change? No. No.

Can there be? No. Okay. Just what there is like that, if there were anything on there, you would feel the effects as a sort of mental drive. And you can rationalize that as much as you want to. If Xantheus figures that it is an external thing that he's being manipulated or whether it's an internal desire, it's up to you.

If any of them were to say anything about such a thing. Okay. Which they don't. They all say you succeeded. You did it, thing. Okay. Which they don't, they all say. You succeeded. You did it, King. Yep. Your turn. Oh, that's nice.

It's really nice of you to put so many heartwarming messages on him. We'll get to the end of this round, by the way, and then we'll take our break. Cool. I am kind of pissed. The guy I wanted to kill has been killed. That sucks.

You should kill Ophelia for it. I think sucks. You should kill Ophelia for it. I think I might have to kill Ophelia for it. No, I won't, that's not. These all say you succeed. I'm fine. I would like to... She's right there. She's right there.

She's right there. That prophetess sucks full ball. Mm-hmm. Just a singular? Just one? And out of my shield, which is finally broken away, I will pierce a hand through it, shattering the shield, and cast a Scorching Ray, second level spell. I don't know, I believe she might have a reaction.

She's gonna use her reaction to use her spell siphon, which is a fate point for me. Okay. So you get a fate point back, which means thatiphon, which is a fate point for me. Okay. So you get a fate point back, which means that, yeah, this is a second level spell. Second level spell. So can you make a Dexterity saving throw for me please, before you do your spell?

Um, 12. 12, you take two to six points of damage. Force damage. Seven points of force damage. Seven, okay. Some of the energy is reflected back at you. The golden emperor knows far more of magic, little mage. But if you wish to become our third vessel,

you would be most welcome. Fucking way ahead of you. So the first scorching ray, I've got plus six to hit. That is a 21 to hit. Hits. That is 2 21 to hit. Hits. That is 2d6 of damage. Should I just go for all the, oh, I'll see. Yeah, do all the attacks, do all the attacks.

And then you control all the damage together. I see. Yep, second one is a natural one. Miss. Third one is a 17. Hits. Hell yeah. So 46 of fire damage.

46. I'd like to add on the first one, a D10 please. Oh yeah, you do. Yeah I do. I wanna enhance one of them at least. So that's 46 and a D10. Yep. Which is, oh baby, oh baby!

15, 19. Oh my god! 25, 29 fire damage. This is the first damage she's properly taken as these, zanthus just launches these streaking blasts of fiery magic towards her and she brings up her hands,

trying to deflect some of it, but scorches into her. And I take a d6 of damage, right? Yeah, a D6 of psychic damage, yeah. Which I've done, I take three damage. Okay, marvelous. But yeah, very badly hurt by that. Not quite bloodied, but slams into her.

She does manage to shield herself with a little bit of her own magic. Believe you got a move action, though. I do, yeah, so with the empowered one, it's almost enough power in my flight to almost not be enough force to push me backwards, but there's something about my flying now that is much more drifting almost.

Like I'm almost floating back and reclining as I fly, and I'm slowly sort of just moving closer, ever closer. To north, north I'll say. North, yeah, yeah, yeah. You hover 15 feet above where Sir Eldrack is. Hey Eldrack. Do you actually say that to him? No.

Okay. I do kind of, I'm kind of watching him. There's almost, in the midst of this chaos, there's suddenly like this carefree, listless drifting as I fly towards this thing. Great. And you're here, you just hear, Xanthias, the rod!

What's wrong? Rod's on the floor! Yeah, go get it then. Xanthias, there's two! Rowan. Bloody hell. Last night, I mean. Bloody hell.

Bloody hell. Rowan is going. Bloody hell. Bloody hell. Rowan is going to Healing Word Ophelia. Love it. Make that easy. Bone section. Has to be a third level. So I'm out of second and third now. Okay. 3d4.

I mean she needs a bit of fuel. 3d4. Plus your modifier. Plus my modifier. Where's my little rocky triangle? Where are you? I rolled it. Three, four, seven, 11.

Thank you! It's been nothing. Yeah. There is a little squint of healing word. And then Rowan is going to run up the stairs towards the archer. Okay. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

I'd say you can jump over there or like get to there, 30. Yah! Yeah, so then you've still got stairs to go to get to this archer though. Hey! Stop shooting at them, all right? Just cut it out. And the phantasmal force is still going on.

Yeah, so you can do D6. Six. Six. They're head in place. Wow. They're like, you just watch as their eyes go wide as this fake demon that's been chasing them down. They just throw their hands up, they're like, no!

And then you just watch as they just, Can I point back and say, otherwise this will happen to you. I am ready to die for the golden emperor. Anything else on your turn, Ron? I know, that's bonus and action. Alrighty. He dead, Nerys is dead. Cross him off the list.

Soldiers, how many normal soldiers are left? One Frightened Guy fighting Sereldrak, and then the Ballista Man. Oh, Ballista Man. Da da da. Ballista Man. Oh, Ballista Man. Da da da! Ballista Man. He's the man. Oh, and then the guy desperately trying to find

where Daisy went. I'm gone. I never existed. I was a figment of your imagination. I'm gonna have Ballista Man shoot at Seldrak. I don't think that's gonna work for any of us. Ballista Man shoot at Seldrak. I don't think that's gonna work for any of us. Ballista Man, he only has a plus one to hit with this because he's not a normal guy for it.

One. Wow. I'm gonna say, on a one, Does it jank? I'm gonna spend a point of my fate to have it that it breaks the mechanism. Like this guy's so inept at using it. Because he rolled a one, it's completely humble.

Like he's loaded it incorrectly, he goes to fire it, the bolt gets jammed and it splits the crosshair string and it shatters a part of the frame, rendering the ballista now unusable. For both them and you guys. Means you guys can't use it, but means they can't use it anymore. But that means that guy's done.

We can't use it. That was our whole plan. We need to flee. You've had your turn, Gruff, so this guy's no longer frightened, right? Yes. Yeah, so he's no longer frightened. He should be standing on that stone.

I mean, yeah, he should be. I think he's just like, so Railjack is now currently just munching the Crownsteel. So he's like, oh, okay, I don't have to worry about that. But there's a flying man who I can't really do anything about. So he's gonna disengage. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25. So you can see the captain has charged gruff.

He's just gonna walk past the object, he's gonna disengage with him and where will he get past him? The guy's searching for Daisy's like, she went around this pillar, I'm sure she did. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Goes around the pillar. Goes around the pillar.

And he's just like, she's vanished. I don't know where she's gone. And he's gonna give up looking for Daisy. Was there ever anyone in the pool? Yeah, was there? I think I could have been. Am I real? Am I real?

But he's gonna give up and then he's just gonna spend his action to dash over towards the other fighters, basically. Five, six, seven, 15. Interesting note, it takes 30 feet to fully go around a pillar. Yeah, that pettilar in particular. So he's just gonna leave that point and go over there.

With that, that brings us to the top of a new round, and with that we're also gonna take our break. Yeah, hell yeah. It is spicing up. You've only got a couple of these big hits left, but Siren Old Drak is still there. Is he friend, is he foe? We don't know.

I don't think he's anything. What's up with Xanthias? What is up with Xanthius? What is up with Xanthius? He's being suspicious. No I'm not, I'm just making tactical decisions and I think the best tactical position to be in right now is right next to that steel. With that, thank you very much everybody,

we will see you in part two. Just before you go break, don't forget, go and check out, as it is now in December, go check out the Jingle Jam, you can go check out our page and support Calm. See you in part two everybody, bye bye. See ya, bye now. Bye.

Bye. Bye.