High Rollers DnD - Altheya: The Dragon Empire #53 | The Gallowack Hunt (Part 2)

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

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Our heroes have journeyed deeper into the Rustwale woods in search of the Galowak. Galowak! A mythical beast of folklore in these parts, believing that perhaps Squire Pascal came this way whilst investigating Colville and mysterious disappearances. There were strange lights seen in the night time and on their journey they have uncovered

a few interesting little tidbits, perhaps, as well. But they have arrived at the base of the fangs of the Empress in the hills, the foothills, just below the mountains, on an inclined, forested hill, as they see a cave up ahead. They've seen remnants of a shredded cauldron red tabard, and are hearing whimpering and strange wailing noises

coming from a cave to the north. That is where we jump in now, my friends, and I do indeed have a map for you all. I have placed you upon said map. Post map. I'm quite pleased with this one, I think it's a nice looking, lovely map. It's very nice, it's all over over here.

Well, that is the thing. Perhaps if you get closer you will know more. But yes, so you find yourselves sort of looking up. I should point out there is an incline to this map, so where you guys are, up to myself, or if you're watching on YouTube, on Patrons, as they move further north up in towards the cave, there is an incline.

Won't necessarily matter too much for your speed right now, but just something to keep into consideration. Not so bad, could it slow us down then? Okay. No, it's not difficult terrain or anything like that, but maybe if you were, you know, moving down the other way, you would actually be able to move a little bit quicker.

Okay. Right, my friends, before we go further. Yes. There were two things that that old claw told me last night. One. Two days ago. Two days ago.

Remember, the cries for distress could be the Galawak itself trying to lure us towards it. So don't necessarily believe if you hear someone crying out for help like I can currently hear. It's quite irritating. It's kind of coming and going as well. It's you kind of hear, huh, huh.

They're like no words, it's just, just. Someone whimpering, like somebody in pain or like somebody who's like... There is like a kind of almost muttering quality to it as well, I don't know. But it's also echoing, it's distorted because it's quite quiet, it's not like shouting or loud. You also said that it's cries could make,

makes you go mad. So I don't know if that's some kind of spell or defense mechanism or something like that. You know, it shrieks and it makes you go crazy or something. Okay, I mean, I could look for signs of magic, perhaps. I might have to get closer to see it though. What if, right, we stuff our ears and then we use name and your ability to speak to each other.

There will always be one person left out, I'm sorry. That's fine. It's probably me. I can also use Saren to scout ahead, and Saren can speak to me. Will Saren now be able to resist that? I don't know, actually. Because it seems much more,

Saren is a physical creature, as a familiar. Right, yeah. They're not spirits. Yeah, she has saving throws, know, actually. Because it seems much more... Seren is a physical creature, as a familiar. Merit, yeah. Yeah. They're not spirits. Yeah, she is saving throws, right? Yeah. Yep. Actually, yeah, now that you speak about it,

I don't really know that I want to put her in that danger. Okay, well, I can try and detect any kind of magic. With detect magic. Wow. Yeah. But if it's not a magical thing, I also have to be quite close to it, 30 feet, to get any sense of magic.

But it could also just not be magic. It could just be as a thing that things can do. Yeah. But stuffing our ears isn't a bad idea. What? Okay, he's already done it. Stuffing our ears is not a bad idea. What? Okay, he's already done it. Stuffing our ears is not a bad idea. Thumbs up to Rowan.

Do any of you know sign language or anything? Well, like Rowan said, we can use Nim. It'll just be one person cut out. Well, that's what I'm saying. Do any of you know sign language? Because I do. You do? Yes.

Give us, what's help? Gruff signs for help. Right, okay, do. You do? Yes. Give us, what's help? Gruff Signs for help. Right, okay, I'll try and remember that. And what's runaway? Gruff Signs for runaway. Okay. Do you actually? Yeah, so it's-

It's one of the languages that I believe you've taken. Yeah, it's now. One of the newer languages from 2024 players. Oh cool. It's been added in 2020. Oh, no, no, no, common sign language. Yeah, common sign language. So I imagine that this is like as a taught thing

that yeah, like it is a common thing that some people pick up on, you know, depending on where they grew up and their background. I meant for make sense for like sailors in an ice heart when there's a blizzard, you know, you can sign, you can't necessarily, yeah, like you can do various signs. I don't actually know sign language. I start to try and learn it for this moment,

but it's all gone out of my head immediately, so I apologize to those of you who know sign language. All I remember is that from Arose, when we started doing that salute, someone did tell us that it's like, like an asshole or something like that if we did it from our chest. Oh, that's kind of fine.

That's all I remember. Okay, cool. That's kind of fine. Just file that away, on fax. What folks doing? chest. That's all I remember. That's kind of fine. Just follow that away. Alright, okay. What folks doing? Help. That's help. Thumbs up on a palm.

Is that American sign language or is that? Yeah, what? Because there is different types. Anyway, not getting distracted. Yeah, what's the plan? I think Ophelia would want to check the ground for any signs of blood or a scuffle struggle. Sure.

So... Just in the area where you guys currently are now, at the base of the hill. Well, if Xanthes is going forwards to have a look... Not right now. I'll go with everyone, but... Far away is the mouth of the cave from us. Ten, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, about 80. 10, I'd say if you're going as the crow flies.

Five, six, seven, eight, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45. Do you have a thing of either where you can sense blood or like... 65, 70, 75, 80. No, I've fought in one. So it's about 90, 100 feet. Like 90-ish feet. I can see 120 feet in darkness.

So you don't have any special blood sense or anything like that? Yeah, okay. So your dark vision also kicks in when you're fully in darkness. Like if you're looking into a dark hole and it's bright light outside, I would argue that actually your dark vision would kick in until you're in complete darkness. Yeah. Or at least low light, basically. Yeah.

Okay, I will activate the group chat. Who are you leaving it? Except for more Gruff, but I'll be able to sign to you. Okay. That's good. Podcast listeners, Gruff just did two thumbs up. Which is sign language for? Thumbs up.

Great. Yeah, I, with my gold side eye, can cast Detect Magic. Seven hours. At will, seven hours of this. Please. Hello, you're stuck with me. La la la la la. So concentration for 10 minutes

and anything within 30 feet of me, obviously not blocked by stone and stuff like that, I can see magic. Okay. Noted. Nothing yet? In that initial immediate area, you don't sense any magic. Okay.

I feel if you'd like to, you can give me a, if you're looking the ground for signs of battle and things like that, I think that would either be, I'd say you can either do it as a survival check or as a perception check. Okay, cool. Survival more for tracks and and like, you know, movements and then perception for like,

sight and blood and stuff like that. Don't bother. I mean, you still try. I try to make a one. But yeah, you are. Right. I don't know what this is, how this looks for Ophelia, is it being distracted or?

She's just not very good at this kind of thing yet. Yeah, so it's like focusing on the wrong things, like kind of like sees like a broken twig and spends a good minute like, is this it? No, I don't, is it? No, no. I've seen Graff do this kind of thing. It looks so easy.

It does look easy when Graff does it. I don't know what he's looking for. Daisy's in your head going, I know a song, they'll get on your nerves, get on your nerves. Just over and over again. I'm trying to concentrate, hang on. I know a song, oh my God. That grass is bent over there, it's fallen over,

that blade of grass there, it's just... Am I doing this right, Graf? Graf can't hear. Graf's got his ears plugged. Yeah, I've got my ears plugged. What are you plugging them with? I have a bag of coffee beans. Are you going to put coffee beans in your ears?

Okay, I'm going to try a variety of different sizes of coffee beans. You're gonna put coffee beans in your ears. Okay. I'm gonna try a variety of different sizes until one goes in. Oh no. Really quite big. Yep, yep. You try and stuff your ears with coffee beans.

Is that an else one, one? No, it's, am I okay? Genuine question, like if people like, Rowan is doing it with coffee beans, what is like Gruff and anybody else, what are you actually stuffing your ears with? What do we have like? Sticks and leaves, like rocks.

Oh, just conveniently. I don't mean like that, but if there's, you know, if I can make a bundle of leaves, I'm like, you know. I mean, a bundle of leaves is not gonna be a very effective way to stuff your ears. I want some cotton then. You would need something like wax or some sort of softer material to really try

and make something that's gonna do a good job. Parchment, leaves, they're not gonna properly block out sound. I've got a candle, I could light a candle and then try and melt it. Does a bedroll have any wool in it? Or is it literally just a... It would be like feathers, I think. It would be like feathers basically full of it.

I'd say the candle, but it would take you a while to get enough wax to make wax earplugs. I'd say one candle, unless you were doing this for hours, I'd say you can make enough for like, I'm gonna be generous and say two people. I'm afraid I don't have a wealth of time right now. I'm concentrating on a spell right now, so I'm just gonna block my ears with my hands.

So if you burn like a candle for like, what if Xanthe is heating up the wax? Yeah, but I'm talking about, because the candle's not gonna be a big candle. So by the time you melt off the wax and some of it burns off, I'd say you'd have enough moldable wax to do two full sets of good earplugs

that will block out sound completely. I will also point out, if you are deafened, spell casting is very difficult. Yes. Because you can't hear yourself do the verbal components. So you can still do it, but there is a check you have to make, basically. I would like to rip a bit of my sash that's around my waist

and make little earbuds out of those. Out of that. I'm gonna tell you now, it's not gonna be an effective, like, sash, like a bit of fabric stuffed in is, it might do a job, but it's not gonna completely block out sound. Okay. What have you found in your inventory?

Oh, I just had't like, did it. Oh, I know. I just get Percy to walk behind me. Yes. Yes. That, he has bony phalanges, and again, it's gonna like block it pretty, but you- He's bony, he reverberates.

That's true. Also, he's still conducting headphones. He would have a room. If anything, it's louder. Yeah. Just amplify. If I wear a pair of loops not sponsored, you can hear only certain things, but quite a lot better.

It dampens some sound, but not more. Like I said, everyone, just nine and a half minutes left on my concentration, so I need to get going if we want to see magic. Before I thought of that, I have calligraphers supplies, so can I like uncork a couple of ink vial bottles and use the corks to... Pfft.

Pfft. I mean... I will allow that. Yes! That's gonna be better than Fabric, like two big corks, like really shoved in there. You have five potion bottles. I got Theresa to do all the inking for me anyway.

You get rid of that, right, that calligraphy kit is gone because that's most of the supplies. Yeah. I'd say that, yeah, and the candle, if you want to, but it would need to be done now, like, because Amphias would need to melt the candle with fire magic, and then you could make... Yeah, yeah, yeah, fireball.

I don't, I'll do Produce Flee. Yeah, I'll do that. Well, two people can use the wax from the candle, then. I hold them out. I'm not picking. Somebody take them if you want them. I'm sorted. Can I use Sculpt Element to sculpt dirt into mud and like,

you know, like. What does Sculpt element say it can do? So it's part of elementalism and it's like, sculpt element equals dirt, sand, fire, smoke, mist, or water that can fit in a one foot cube to assume a crude shape for one hour. Can you do it for stone and rock and stuff? Dirt, sand, fire, smoke, mist, smoke.

So I'm wondering if I can make- I would say you can make some odd ones, but they will not be, they will, sand, fire, smoke, mist, smoke, so I'm wondering if I can make... I would say you can make some odd ones, but they will not be... It's not great. Yeah, there's a chance that they will fall apart because it's gonna be sodden dirt in a shape. The thing with the wax and the corks is they are fully cemented and they're not really gonna move.

I'm going with fabric for my... Yeah, so the fabric will partially work, but it's not a full seal. Okay, I'll take those better than plugging my fingers. Okay, just remember, so anybody who uses these, you now have the deafened condition. If you try and cast spells with verbal components, you have to make a check, basically.

You have to do a check to see if you can do it. Is it all of us or just the ones? Anybody who's putt... Rowan, your coffee beans are not effective as Iblix. And now there's one in your brain. I think one's gone in. You're so awake now. I'll put another one in.

For Gruff, your favorite ones, I would say, they dampen sound, so you are not fully deafened. If there is any sort of sonic attack or something like that, I will give you advantage on the saving throw. Any violent maneuver, like being thrown or knocked, will knock them out, basically. I'm deafened.

Yep, yep, and also, being deafened, you can't hear each other speak, and you can't hear any other creature speak as well. You can only do it via mental comms. Mind palace, mind WhatsApp. Sure. Sorry, I didn't invite you. I was very much invited, I can hear you.

Yeah. All right, so this is probably taken by the time it takes to like melt the candle and everything else, probably about five minutes of time have gone. So you've got five minutes left on the Detect Magic magic. Really wish I'd cast this a little bit later But okay should we move forward anything with the anything with the tracks? What did you just do?

I just told a story from a childhood Oh for fuck's sake you got something stuck in your head to go to the hospital didn't you? Close Was it coffee beans? Nose? It was a baked bean up a nose. Yeah. Well, you had to go to the hospital for it. Surely that would just disintegrate after a bit.

I think that Mark's gonna go, you can't mention the V-Works. The smell of that. Oh, boy. That's why I didn't say it out loud. Thank you, I appreciate that. It surely would have rotated and then come out the mouth again.

Oh my God. Ruff is going to make some hand gestures that he's moving forward. Okay. Okay. All right, well, how far are you moving it. Ruff is going to make some hand gestures that he's moving forward. Okay. All right, well, how far are you moving forward, Ruff? I would like to move 15, a conservative 15 foot to start with. Okay.

Just tentatively see what the kids are doing. Probably heading towards this outcropping of rocks in front of him, just to use that as a bit of cover. True. Yeah, I'm gonna move towards those, behind those big rocks there. Please? Yeah, I kinda wanna go similar.

I will stay in Gruff's vision though, so that I can assign. Well, Gruff is moving up here, like yeah, he's at the front, so you can't. I'll skirt round it then. What, to the here? No, no, no, skirt round behind Gruff. Like, that's where the front, so you can't. I'll skirt round it then. What, to the... No, no, no, skirt round behind Gruff. Like, that's where Gruff is going.

Right here? Yeah. Okay. He can't see you. If he turns around, he can. I'm not too sure. That's all, I just want it to stay so that if he turns around to look for me,

I can talk to him. I'm not turning my head. Don't look back. You're not. Also close your eyes. Always go forward. The bandana's crossing your eyes too. Yeah, I'd like to go sort of around the other side

of the rock, because I want to get a good peek at the inside of the cave from where we are. So all the way around here? Yes. Okay. What about Ophelia, Percival, and Rowan? Hmm, I think Ophelia, I don't think she'll want to stray too far from the group.

Maybe I'll skirt towards that big cluster of rocks over there. Yeah, what they're pointing at, yeah. Perfect. We'll move up behind these trees and dash over sort of here. Are you gonna have Percival come with you? Percival, yes please. Thank you.

Yeah, Rowan's seeing that, it's like, yeah. Strategy. Rowan's gonna go left and go wide on the left. Where is Rowan? Towards Xanthius? Yeah, but his aim is to go beyond and go to this rock. Okay, I'd say that you get to sort of like over behind these trees now, or maybe up to this tree.

Okay, so as you guys are making these first initial movements, Xanthius, did you wanna try and peep in and peep? So I guess it's still beyond 30 feet away. One thing though is as you move up next to these rocks, Daisy, Xanthius, and Gruffuth, and Ophelia, all of you notice that these rocky outcroppings, you'll need to check to notice this,

they are these kind of like natural rocky outcroppings, but there are weird carvings in all of these. Runes or? Rune-ick, but not a specific rune of any nature. These are almost like shapes, geometric shapes, spirals, triangles, like very deftly made, but just erratic, and the whole rock is covered in them. Does it look similar to either Rowan's arms

or what we saw in the Volant Vault? Similar. Yeah, similar. But it looks like it's been made with a jagged tool or a claw or something like that. It's just covered in them. Every surface that can be reached, even like infinitely tiny small ones

scratched into wherever it can be. No magic though. No magic. No. Any other checks or anything whilst you guys are moving up? Well from where I am, and I guess Robin as well, like do we have like a line to see sort of more into the cave or is it just darkness?

Yeah, give me a perception check. It's a little bit of a distance and it is shadowy inside. Is that all of us or just a... Those two are the only ones who have said they're doing it so far. If Gruff would like to as well. I would like to look into the cave. Say Gruff, your kind of your line of sight

is actually being blocked by this rock here. I will not look in the cave. Same with Ophelia. Whereas Xantheus and Rowan are the only two who have got like a nice clear line of sight. I got 19. 19? I got nine.

Rowan, you can see that inside the cave there is a... What appear to be a couple, maybe two or three shapes, one of which looks humanoid. Something slumped up against the wall. Red, maybe glance a little bit of red in the shadowy light. Something metal glinting on their body, just slumped up again.

The other two look like piles of something, like on the ground, like bigger, like quite big piles of something, but not humanoid in shape. Hey everybody, it's Rowan in your head. Hi Rowan. I think I see a body with a bit of red on it inside. Like the cauldron? What did you get, 19? Yeah. I think I see a body with a bit of red on it inside.

Like the cauldron. What did you get? 19. Yeah. Okay. I will tap Gruff and tell Gruff what Rowan has. Sure, yeah. Yep. Just assume I'm relaying everything that they say to Gruff.

Rowan, something deeper in the cave. Well, Hold on. You see in the darkness something move. Uh-oh. Like a... Some shape shifts. Well, that's not good. Might moves ever so slightly.

Use your words. What is it? What do you see? Uh... Ooh, what was that? What? What was it? You can actually picture things in. I give you an image. It's like a... Instinctively. Just a shape, like you see the kind of forms.

I'm quite far away. Yeah, it's like peering in and like, just something inside shifts, causing the light to move like as if something big just moved inside. I don't like this. Okay, if we're getting closer, we need to do it very, very quietly. Yeah. Yeah.

Can make stealth checks if you like. Move at half speed. And we're going uphill, aren't we, as well? You are going uphill, but that doesn't gonna affect your movement just yet. Stealth. Yeah, I'm just wondering what I can get to that's not so... Yeah, my boy. Oh. Well, either way, I'm doing it stealthily, yeah. Stealth. Yeah, I'm just wondering what I can get to that's not so... Yeah, my boy.

Oh! Well, either way, I'm doing a stealth, I think, so... I've got a 20. 20. He is the ground. 27. 27. 11.

11. Seven for Ophelia, and Percival got a 11. Me as disadvantage on his stealth, did you, because he has heavy armour. What about Xanthias? Or is Xanthias staying put? I should, but I wasn't going to. I rolled a two with my plus one, so a nat one.

So all of you have about half movement, so where are you trying to get to? Let's go round Rowan. I'm going to go to the left of that rock. OK, so like five, ten, 15 would get you to about here. Or go to the edge and peek around the corner. Well, this is where you get to with half movement. Oh, half movement, yeah, yeah, you're right.

So, Xanthius, where would you be trying to get to as you are moving up quietly? Yeah, I think I want to head over towards where Rowan is, but I guess this would end up leaving me in the open, which is, I suppose, only fitting for my rock. But you are trying to be quiet. Yeah. Gruffydd, where are you trying to get to?

You just sneeze. Xanthius is like crossing the distance between these two rocky outcroppings and a tree. I guess I'm trying to go forward towards, there's a circular rock with a, yeah, in front of me. I bet you would only get the 15. So you're out sort of in the middle here. Ophelia, what about you?

I think Ophelia will climb up on that little rocky shelf and go behind that little divot. So about here. Yeah, perfect. And then where do you want Percival to go? Percival will follow Ophelia at the bottom, so he'll skirt around the bottom. This way. Yeah, perfect. He gets to about here.

Thank you very much. And then Daisy, finally. Can I try and get to the top of the rock that's beside, the very top, but just be flat on my stomach, looking towards the... You don't have a climb speed or anything, do you? So this would require an athletics check to climb up. It's not too difficult,

because it is quite a natural craggy rock, but it is 10 feet tall. So these rocks are 10 feet, and then each set of rocks is about 10 feet. So that's 10 feet up and then 20 feet up for this tall bit. Same for this bit here, Ophelia is about 20 feet up, 10 feet up off the ground.

Same with the cave entrance. The cave entrance is about like 25-ish feet up. A 10 is just enough. You manage to climb up here, but then you're going flat on your belly. Yeah, I wanna like go along towards the other end. Well climbing is difficult, so that would be like all your movement.

Can I use a dash though? Yeah, you can use a dash. Are you still sneaking though? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you'd go 15 more feet. So when I get essentially, yeah. Where do you wanna go to, here? The other side, that little outcropping

just on the other side of it, near the end. This one? Yeah. No, you wouldn't be able to get there, because you have to go round, so you'd climb up here to the first bit, and then you'd have to climb round, so 15 feet't be able to get there. Because you have to go round, you'd climb up here to the first bit and then you'd have to climb round. So 15 feet would get you to about here. Okay.

But that's with half movement. As you guys all start stealthily moving, some of you more successful than others. As Xanthius, you do hear a loud crunch as something underfoot, you didn't notice like a loose branch. Percival makes a noise, I think Gruff, you rolled quite low as well.

You kick a stone. There is an immediate response as if something was waiting. Had already perhaps heard you come. Well, yeah. You hear this, and I wanna make sure I don't do a noise that you all laugh at.

I can't hear anything. No, but there would be this. Some of you do still hear though, because Rowan and Gruff's thing does not hear it. Does not fully block it out. You hear this kind of, woo! As this thing comes pulling itself out of this,

and it's this horrid wailing kind of whale noise almost. As this thing comes pulling itself out of this. There it is. Oh, I don't like that. Oh, that's horrible. Oh, that's crazy. Oh my God. I've been sitting looking at that wing.

Oh my God. As this creature with long, sinuous, gross wings, the miniature is not exactly right. This thing looks so much even more sickly. Oh good. It's wings. It's worse than that. Its wings are like a thin translucent membrane.

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it seems to be a very perceptive creature, with a 27, but everybody else, even the 20 Rowan, it seems to be a very perceptive creature as it becomes aware of prey entering the lair of the Galowack. So that is gonna be... Shit. Oh man, okay, all right, cool. Oh. Nice. Nice. Not nice. Nice. Nice.

Not nice. Daisy. 16. 16 for Daisy. Xanthias. Unnatural 20. 20 for Xanthias. Gruffoth.

8. 8 for Gruffoth. Rowan. I got 10. 10 for Rowan. Ophelia. 17 for Ophelia. 17 for Ophelia.

What is your dex, Ophelia? It's... Ooh, 16. Okay, all right. And then Ophelia. What is your dex, Ophelia? It's eww, 16. Okay, all right. And then Percival? Percy got a six. Six, perfect. I will have Rowan go before these guys.

Okay, Xanthius, you are the first to react to this thing. Yeah, I mean, I just stood on a stick or something that made a loud noise. You kind of wince and look over. Pantheus, you are the first to react to this thing. Yeah, I mean, I just stood on a stick or something that made a loud noise. You kind of wince and look over. Ordinarily it would be like, okay, now's the time to die, but I was like a deer in headlights and then this thing sort of emerges. It's like whip quick as well.

Oh, yeah. Big fan of that noise. Yum, yum, yum, yum. When it comes, is it now within 30 feet of me? Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 feet you are away from this thing. This thing's huge, okay, all right. It is a huge creature.

Yeah. It's a big bellow. So I still can't quite see, well, I mean, it's there now, but I don't see any signs of magic on it. What's crazy is the folklore is real. That's legit. It always comes from somewhere. What's crazy is they're all about to appear at the same time as well.

Fuck, fucking fuck. So I can't see anything special on it. I'll actually do something nasty. It's just, is it flying? This thing has just crawled out of the cave mouth. Its wings spray up into the air, but it is not currently flying. Currently.

I think, sorry about this dented jaws, it unnerves me. Right, I'm gonna test some resistances on this thing with a chromatic orb. I do have the earplugs in, however, I'm gonna spend a sorcery point because I have subtle spell. Very nice.

So I can cast it without somatic or verbal components. That will eliminate the check. So normally what it would be is it's a DC 10 plus the level of the spell. Magic check. So it's like your ability modifier. So if you would be a critical check. The graph will be a wisdom check.

So it's doable, but there is a chance you roll low and you might flub the spell. Yeah. And because I spent a sort of... If it has a verbal component. Check your components, people. Oh, that's true. Well, Chromatic is all three, but it's none.

So, subtle. With subtle. So yeah, I just need to make an attack on it. Chromatic or being slightly different to how we remember now. I can choose the damage type. Okay, so does a 25 hit this thing? It does.

Fantastic. I am going to choose, let's say, cold damage. Cold damage, okay. How much are we talking? Oh, I need to roll some dice, don't I? You do. 3d8 of damage, if there's something special about it,

if I roll two more eights, then it chains, which is a new thing. It's nothing to change to, chain two. Nothing to chain two, but I got a six, six, and a seven, so that's 19. 19 points of cold damage. The orb streaks across the mountain, kind of rocky incline towards the creature, impacts againstlike body.

Ice works. Ice works well. It's weak to ice. It's not weak to it, but it does. Ice will protect us. Ice. Ice. Ice.

Anything else on your system? Ice is nice. And I will, so because I used a sorcery point to do subtle spell, it also gives me some runic things as well. Okay. Any movement or bonus actions? Movement, I would like to back up some.

I know I want to be close to it to get the magick, but I want to just head maybe just behind that tree next to me, closer to Rowan there. Yep. Take a little bit of cover. Nice. Yes. Okay. And that's all she wrote, she being me.

Okey dokey. Your ears hurting. Ophelia. Fuck it. I'm gonna rage and run in and smack this boy. Okay. Okay. Okay. So you just basically run over

because you have climb speeds that where you just walk over it basically. So five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. What's your movement speed? 50 feet. Oh yeah. Do you want to go round this side? Can I climb up onto that stalactite?

It is too, you can technically because I'm gonna just remove it to balance your miniature on it. Stalactite might, sorry mate. Yes, I will put that. Because it might grow up to the ceiling. Yeah, I'm just gonna move that there so I can balance you on that rock.

Yeah, you absolutely can. You've got enough movement speed, and with your dampier movement abilities. Sweet. The first thing I need you to do as you get close to this thing is make a Charisma saving throw please. Of course.

16. You succeed. As you draw closer to this thing, it whips its sort of head around and in your mind, Ophelia, you begin to hear just this cacophony. It's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming,

it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming,

it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming,

it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it Good. Anyway, I will Rage and I smack this guy. Okay. 13, 19 to hit. 19 will hit it.

Sick. So that's seven for 10 plus two, 12 damage. 12 points of damage. Can I use Veratity's ability and that drain his blood? Yes. I shall like double that, please. OK. So, that's 13... 13 bloodsets by maths.

I'm hurting him on 40. Cool, innit? 43. He's got 43 now for extra T. Okay. Well, not inky eyes. And I would like to hit him again. Okay. Milky eyes.

19 to hit again. Hell yeah. And again, exactly the same damage. Seven, 11, 12, 13 again. 13 points. Solid. 13 more points same damage. Seven, 11, 12, 13 again. 13 points. 13 more points of damage. Okay. After you finish hitting it, Ophelia,

it is gonna spin its body and its tail comes whipping around to strike you as a reaction. Do it. That is a 27 to hit. Hit. Just a little bit. Okay, okay, tail. That's a 27 to hit. Hit. Just a little bit. Okay, okay, tail. That's a big yikes. That is gonna be 12 points of damage,

and I need a strength saving throw from you, please. Okay, is that like bludgeoning, or? This is, in fact, it is bludgeoning, so it would be halved, so seven reduced to three. Three damage, and strength saved. Do I have advantage, I don't know, no, stick doesn't do anything. No, you're raging, so you do have advantage. Okay, 17.

I can't remember. 21. 21. The tail hits you in the chest and almost throws you off the rock, but you manage to like dig veracity in and dig your feet in. Hell yeah. And hold on to it as you feel this force trying to knock you away, basically. Cool. Anything else on your turn?

Can I Reaction Hellish Rebuke? You can. In Reactor Reaction, you absolutely can. So that is a... Ah, this is a spell. True. Is it a verbal component spell? It is, so never mind.

No, you can cast it. What I need, because you are currently deafened, you need to make a DC, it's first level, DC 11 spellcasting check, so D20 plus your Charisma mod. D20 plus Charisma, okey dokey. See if you can pull this off. 14. That's a success, so you do cast the spell.

So, a deck save for you. That is gonna be a 15. 15, that is a success. So half damage. Nine halved. So, four. Four fire. Four four points fire damage.

The fire engulfs part of its member, its wing, it beats it very quickly, but you can see it reacts to the fear of the fire and does seem to be singed by it as well. And it now has... By a two, by a two works. I have vex, so don't worry,

I've got advantage on my next attack. You have advantage on your next attack, yeah, that's right, remember your wets. At the end of your turn, I am gonna spend a fate point to take a legendary action. Ah, shit, and it is going to use... Hmm, very curious. It is going to reposition.

So it flies up into the air, not provoking opportunity attacks. Oh, no growth. And will move here. No growth, gruffy, gruffy. That's for podcasting. Grrr, grrr, grrr. At the end of its reposition, it can also make another tail attack, which it is going to use against you, Ophelia.

Go for it. That is going to be a 16. Just hits. Just hits. That is going to be 10 points of bludgeoning damage, so half to five. And then another strength saving throw, please. Alrighty.

14. 18. 18, again you succeed. Verasti dug into the rock, she get whipped back, but hold your ground. That is at the end of your turn. The end of your turn, the creatures go is next, unfortunately. Ooh.

Okay. It is going to, the first thing it's going to do is, I can't catch you guys in a line yet. I could reposition myself to. But would the Galowak do that? Well, it's a pretty smart creature. He whack. It's a bit mad.

He smack, he whack, he do attack. The Galowak. It is going to take into the air. Oh. What'd he take into the air? Do we get a... You and Ophelia will both get an attack of opportunity. Hell yeah.

It is not gonna balance on that. No way. So it's gonna remember it. What if I do this? Oh, big base, strong base. Big base. Home base? No.

A bit more in the middle, if he's a bit more in the middle. I won't bother, I'll just remember. It's gonna fly up in the air. So yeah, Ophelia and Gruffith, you can both make opportunity attacks, melee attack. Do I get advantage on that? That's a reaction, isn't it? It is a reaction.

It was usual reaction, and you would, because it's your next advantage on your next attack against it. Natural one. Miss. 19 again. against it. Natural one. Miss. 19 again. 19 here. Turns out I'm weak for the day.

Four, can I use my blood points on reactions? Yeah. Six, so I'm gonna add an extra D6 to this attack. Okay. Four, 10, 13. 13 more points of damage. You see as Ophelia, you slash out with Veracity as this thing launches itself into the air.

It now hovers, I'm gonna say, about 40 feet in the air, but it looks down with these two bulbous eyes and looks down towards Gruff and Ophelia. And you see the air distort in a beam. There is no laser or effect, but like some rippling of magic in the air kind of cuts across in a line. I need both Ophelia and Gruff

to make dexterity saving throws, please. Righty. Yeah. Can I see this coming? Yes. You have advantage. 17. 17's a success.

Dangerous. What did Gruff get? Five. Five is a failure, I'm afraid. Feel you succeed, you will take half damage. What sort of effect is this? This is psychic damage. Gruff, you take 20 psychic damage.

And you also gain a stack, one stack of maddening whispers. As you feel your mind assailed by these like whispering, jabbering thoughts that do not go away. feel your mind assailed by these like whispering, jabbering thoughts that do not go away. A feeling you would take 10 psychic damage and no additional stacks. It's then going to use the rest of its movement to, so it flies there, that was five, 10, 15, not too much of it.

It is going to, who can it see? Oh, Xanthias is there. Hi. It's gonna fly over here. Hey there, buddy. And it just tries to rake you with its claws. It's gonna hover up 10 feet off the ground, and it's gonna rake you with its claws.

God damn. For an 18 to hit. 18 does hit. Yeah, it does. Four, that's gonna be, You've got an 18 to hit. 18 does hit. Yeah, I guess. Four, that's gonna be 18 points of slashing damage. Okie doke, okie doke, but also fucking ow, but also okie doke. And it's now hovering about 10 feet off the ground.

That is its turn. Fantastic. Oh, wait, it's my turn. Fantastic. Uh, ooh. Oh, wait, my turn. Daisy. Hello. Daisy, you start within a certain range. I need you to make a Charisma saving throw for me, please. Oh.

What's the turn order after Daisy? After Daisy, it would be Rowan, then Percival, then Gruff. You are, no sorry, Gruff, then Percival. Percival is last, you are second and last. Only an 11. Only an 11, I'm afraid that you, Daisy, also gain one stack of maddening whispers. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

That's all it is. It's kind of like that, but I'm like, I just gotta gather, I gotta pick up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's literally the worst thing that could ever happen to me. I was gonna say, yeah. It's literally, yeah. It's me slurping an ice cream, it's a lift next to you.

First time I'm using new rules, so. You always did. I want to. It used to be I could take, I can make a blade attack and then do an offhand dagger as a bonus action. But now it says that I can nick, which is part of the attack action now. Basically what it means is you save your bonus action

for other things. Yeah. So you don't get to make another attack save your bonus action for other things. Yeah. So you don't get to make another attack with a bonus action, it's like you can make an attack and then rather than using up your bonus action, you get the offhand attack as part of the attack action. Oh.

Yeah. That's correct. Yeah, so it means that your bonus action can then be used for stuff like your cutting action and stuff like that. Nice. But then there was also, I'm just clarifying. But that's only, but I think that your radiant blades

don't count as the dagger. Your radiant blades have the vex property, not the nick property. So with your radiant blades, you can't get that effect. It would still cost your bonus action to do. So it says if I attack with my radiant blade, I can make a ranged attack with a second blade as a bonus action.

Yes. So that would be, instead of a dagger blade as a bonus action. Yes. So that would be, instead of a dagger, that's a full other blade. That would be a full radiant blade, yes. So it's just your physical mundane dagger you can use as part of your attack action. Because the radiant blade has the property of vex, not nick. I see.

And if I hit a creature with undue damage to it, I have advantage on my next attack against it. With your radiant blade, yes. My radiant blade. So I'm gonna throw a blade at it. Okay, because you have one stack of Manning Whispers, as you are currently at one stack, you have minus two to attack and damage rolls.

Minus two? Mm-hmm. Fuck me. As you're like, something in your mind is like distracting you and you're having to focus extra hard for your aim, it gives you a minus penalty to your attack and damage. Shit. That's big for one thing.

21 to hit. With the minus two? Yes. Yep. That still hits. And then I have minus two on damage. You do. Also, the creature is not within five feet of an ally, because it's actually hovering 10 feet off the ground.

Oh, fuck. Or 10 feet above Xanthius, I should say. I jump up just in time. But it's not aware of me, though. That's true, it did not know you were there. So yeah, you would have had advantage on the attack roll as well. This would reveal you.

It didn't get. Okay, but yeah, so in fact, you would get the sneak attack, attack roll as well. This would reveal you. It didn't get. Okay, but yeah, so in fact you would get the sneak attack because yeah, you're right. Nice, is your sneak attack still the same? 46. Triple snorkatalk. Just makes up the vows. I am, all right.

There I go. Stitch by stitch, there I go. 21, so it'll be 19. With the... 19 points of damage. Okay, as the Radiant Blade slams into it, and you've sort of revealed yourself, it has got its reaction back, so I'm gonna make a tail attack against you

with a reaction. Oh, fuck, it's gonna fucking move. I know. Uh. We're about to, I think. This thing is a bitch. 20 to hit. Yeah.

It's a tough enemy, this is like a big elite enemy. Yeah. That is gonna be 11 points of bludgeoning damage, and I need a strength saving throw from you. I'm gonna not succeed. Well, you want it to move anyway. I will remind you, you have three points of fame. You do, now.

Yes, we're evens. Stevens. Trots are 17. Unravel is a success. You grab onto the rock, you are not thrown 15 feet backwards, which would have sent you off the rocks. That would have sucked.

So you manage to hold on. Do I know how close I would have to be to be in this aura that gives stacks of stuff? Like... I would say... Cause it's affecting me. You wouldn't know that without using some sort of check

to find out, and it would probably be an arcana check as a bonus action. Okay, well... Standard kind of like, you know, study mechanic that we've used before. Bonus action to figure stuff out. kind of like, you know, study mechanic that we've used before. Bonus action to figure stuff out. Um, I'm going to use my movement to back off,

and I want to... Do you want to stand up? Because you were prone. Yeah, and I want to scramble. And then like, jump down, basically? Yeah, and can I use my bonus action to height? You can. Yeah, you've not used your bonus action yet. Oh shit. Five, ten, fifteen, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.

Yeah. Give me the hide roll. I don't know why I checked that. I know what my slot is. Er, twenty. Twenty, okay. Which is probably not enough. But, well.

Alrighty. You back off, okay. Which is probably not enough, but. Alrighty, you back off, you scramble down and try and hide in the shadows of the little rocky outcropping. This creature, yeah, is kind of scanning, whipping its long, eel-like head around. It's huge, luminous, like, ooh, looking around.

End of turn, Daisy? Yes. At the end of your turn, Daisy? Yes. At the end of your turn, I'm gonna spend two fate. Oh my god. To take a legendary action. Shit, and it's thanks to me. How does it cost more per round? No, it depends on the ability it uses,

so different abilities. It lets out, now this is where plugging your ears, for some of you, is gonna be very beneficial. It lets out a terrible cry, this time more of a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Oh yes, I got the coffee beans. Rowan and Gruff, you have advantage on this saving throw. Do I wanna give, I will give Rowan advantage for the coffee beans until you take a hit and they fall out. I'm gonna get an ear infection, so.

But that is a, oh no, sorry, in fact, actually it's not a saving throw this effect, sorry. This is a very complicated monster. Okay. What I will do is I will instead give you resistance to some of the damage from this. Does Percy hear, does that count? Sorry, this is a very complicated monster. What I will do is I will instead give you resistance to some of the damage from this. Does Percy hear?

Does that count? He's got little eardrums. He is quite far away as well. He hears, but would it? 25. But does he hear? He does, yeah, and he does technically hear. So, and this thing does not stop making this noise.

Like it's start, like basically, it's just going. Oh, oh, oh. Like making this high-pitched, like painful sound. And Gruff and Rowan, you're both like, ah, like trying to, and Percival as well, is just staggering for a little moment. What's going on? For the two of you, it would basically mean that

you would be deafened, even now that you have this thing on. Why are you in here anymore? You have disadvantage on concentration checks, and you will take some damage at the start of your turn as long as this thing is making this noise. And it's just continuously emanating this noise currently. That is at the end of Daisy's turn. So after Daisy, we go to Rowan.

Rowan, I will say you will take five psychic damage instead of ten. Thank you. Rowan, in response to this horrifying sound, I imagine when it happens to him, the cough of a bee is just kind of, boop, boop. Okay, no more cough. Ah!

What he's going to do, however, and look, it's quite clear, we've been on the internet a while, and in terms of leaderboards, I think, Mark Humes is probably the best DM there is. I'm putting together a list here. Yeah, I've seen the whole mechanic for this, dude. You don't need to sell it on me.

Come on, what you do? I would like to make a devil's bargain. To do what? Employ my skills of creating specific residents to create a noise cancellation effect in an area around me with Sostenuto. Okay. It goes to counteract this, like, scream? Yeah. So if I play the anti-version of the song, the inverted waveform, so to speak...

It, like, nulls it out. It nullifies it in an area. Okay. Yeah. I will say you can spend a fate point to try. One fate point to try. One fate point to try. Give me a performance check if you can beat DC 20. So a high roll, but for Rowan is actually not impossible. Yeah, your performance is pretty good. I will fate it as well.

Oh, a lovely extra one for me. Three to three. Yeah. Oh, it's a natural fucking motherfucking twing. Woo! Nice. Okay. You, you, it like, struggling through the pain row

and like you pull out such a new tune. Dang, you play it, but then with your own magic you sort of amplify the sound. And after a few tries, like one, two, you find that note that just cancels out this piercing shill scream. My energy's enhanced by my energy. Yeah, fully, and there's almost like a rippling effect

as the two sound waves meet, and there's like a brrrrrooom pulse in the air, as yeah, now there is just no sound as they are both being overlaid with one another. Absolutely. Yeah, that cancels that. It's terrible Shriek effect will be null and void as long as you can, I will treat this

as you are concentrating on a spell. I'll concentrate on it, yeah. Okay, cool. Nice. Very cool. So it eliminates that ability, it cannot use that ability anymore. Now it does, its other abilities are more psychic, so it won't necessarily help with those,

but it will stop this effect. Cool. That's my action, right? Yeah, I'd say that would be your action. Bonus action, I'm going to give bardic inspiration now that that's been nullified to Xanthius. I have a question. Yeah?

Do, does bardic inspiration require them to see and hear you? Oh, great, great point. That's a wonderful great. Great point. That's a wonderful question. Wonderful question. Isn't that a great question? It's almost like I said you guys might block your ears.

You can inspire a creature within six feet that can see or hear you. So you're pointing at Xanthius' big thumbs up. Technically, no, in his mind, you could say something. So is you. Remember, it's like a switch mind, you could say something. Oh, his mind. Yeah. Remember, it's like a switchboard, but yes, absolutely. But yeah, you're like visually bardic-inspiring. Maybe it's just a process of seeing him strike this thing in his heart.

Rowan just looks so confident in his element right now. You're seeing me at the perfect angle right now. Any other bonus, oh, bonus extra was bardic, a movement for you, Rowan. I'm going to skirt round this rock, so it's blocking line of sight between me and it. 10, 15, it's around here? Yeah. Okay, I love that.

Great, yeah, you scurry away. Fantastic. At the end of your turn, Rowan, I'm gonna spend one of my fate points to use another legendary action. That's all I can use this turn. That's all my legendaries done. Xanthias, Groth, and Ophelia,

do any of you currently have any active magical effects or spells on you? Yes, I am. You have Mage Armor? Mage Armor, oh, is Mage Armor a concentration? No, it's not. I have Mage Armor and Detect Magic. But Mage Armor is obviously a protective spell, right? Yeah.

And then Ophelia, you don't have anything. No, I'm just raging. The creature is gonna look at you, Xanthius, its eyes begin to pulse and flash, and you feel Mayjama dispelled. Oh shit. Damn. What a loser.

Gruff. What a nerd. Hello. The first thing I would like to do is cast Armor of... Could you make a Charisma Saving throw for me at the start of your turn, please? Riz throw. So I'm within the... whatever. You are within... this is a psychic effect.

Dirty 20. Dirty 20 to succeed. Also the voice cancelling thing, I don't get damage from... No, Rowan is protecting you from that entirely. You are not affected by it at all. Good Rowan. Good lad. Yeah, dirty 20. From that entirely, you are not affected by it at all. Good rolling. Good lad. Yeah, dirty twig. After that, I would like to cast Armor of Ocanthorm.

So all these thorns and wood grows over my chest. Sucks in my dad Betty a little bit. And then, I've been home in an hour and I have a lot to do. Yes. I'll remind you, it is flying 10 feet above Xanthias. So it's 15 feet in the air. I'm trying to decide whether to attack or heal, but you know what? I'm going to attack. Okay.

I will hold forth a paw, a paw that holds the ring. A ring of destiny! No, a paw that holds the ring. A ring of destiny! No, it's a void star ring. And I will fire two of the three charges at it. So imagine this beam of starlight. Yes. Bamps out. Deck saving for 15.

That is gonna be a success, I'm afraid. But. 2d6. So... Can you say 2d6? Yeah, 2d6 per charge. So four, that's meh. Halfed. Six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, half?

Would be seven. Technically it doesn't say anything about feeling a save throw in this. Yeah, okay, well I'm telling you now. As the creator of that item. would be seven. Technically it doesn't say anything about bailing a save throw. Okay, well I'm telling you now, as the creator of that item. Whoever wrote this didn't put it in there! Okay.

Well does it say, well hang on, if it succeeds on the saving throw then maybe it doesn't take any damage. Doesn't say anything. Then let's go with the fair compromise that it takes half. It's just two sentences. Yeah, maybe it doesn't do anything on the face.

Maybe it blows up in my face and kills me. It does half damage. So the beam kind of cuts across it. The creature does manage to pull its body in. It scales part of its body as it scars along, but does not quite land a full solid hit. Anything else on your turn, Grapher? I would like to move for all the,

this is gonna help. I'm gonna move, I don't know which way to move. I want some cover from something, so. You have Ophelia? Rocks behind, where Percival is, maybe? Yep, or next to Daisy, or where Ophelia is. I have 35 foot movement, so maybe to where Ophelia, the rock that Ophelia is perched upon.

Five, ten, 15, 20, 25. Yeah. All the way up here. Yeah. Yep, sure. I mean, he's just gonna fly over and chop my face off, but it's quite likely. Yeah, it's quite likely. Anything else on your turn, Gruffydd? That me.

That you. From the cave. Oh. The two shapes that Rowan spotted stir as very, quite horrifyingly deformed creatures. They look like they were maybe like once like mountain cats or something like that,

but their jaws have become distended and twisted. They have mouths that have opened up on the sides of their shoulders. One of their legs has twisted completely around so it's reversed. I love this. One of its eyes is drooped down as if its face

has melted like wax as these two beasts Come running out They run for the first creatures that they country Rowan Ophelia and Gruff And they're not doing just fine. Yes, and they will attempt to slam you The first one is gonna miss you gruff Yes, and they will attempt to slam you. The first one is gonna miss you, Gruff. The one against Rowan is a 16 to hit.

No, does not hit. With his new armor protecting him. What a beefball. The new armor kind of takes the bite. You can see that as these creatures move up to you, they, the mouths that are like on their chest and on their shoulder, like these extra weird mouths are whispering and shivering.

Oh, that makes a lot of sense. And the air around them is becoming thick and twisted. They count as difficult terrain for 10 feet around them. So it is difficult terrain around them as well. Assholes. Assholes. Then it is very lost, it is Percy. Percy!

Percy needs no saving throw currently, he is A-OK thanks to Rowan as well. Can I have Percy charge forward towards these horrendous cat creatures? Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 is where he can get to with that. Would you like him to dash? Yeah. So he rushes up next to Gruff,

but that is gonna be his action to dash. Can I have him go 10 feet back so he can use his 10 foot reach on his Howlbear? Oh yeah, well it would be five feet back, so he needs to be five, yeah. So he can go, basically he can go next to Gruff on his halberd. Oh yeah, well it would be five feet back, so he needs to be five feet back. So he can go, basically he can go next to Gruff if you want to. Nice, yeah.

And then he's got his halberd out. So he loses two AC from the shield as he extends the halberd into its double handed form. So his AC is now 40. And he won't be able to attack because he had to use his action to dash. True. So he is just gonna be ready.

He's ready to go. Ready to go. All right. For Percy, good boy. True. So he's just gonna be ready to go. Ready to go. All right. For Percy. Good boy. Perfect. Incoming at 20. Good boy.

Fabius, I need you to make a Charisma saving throw. Charisma, that's okay. You have Bardic if you need it. Uh, so that's what, a D8 is it? D8. Do I have to roll it? You don't have to. You can choose what you roll it on.

You don't have to do anything. You could be whatever. Okay, it's not Rob. You just walk away. I could just leave. You can choose what you roll on. You don't have to do anything. You could be whatever, you just walk away. I could just leave. You free man. That takes his death. Whatever, fuck you guys. Okay, hey, more money for the rest of us.

Wow. I should have added stuff. You got a nine. That's what you can. I could do. I only got a nine. You can add Barlet too. You can still eat it.

No. No? Okay, I choose Barlet too. I don't want to only got a nine. You can add Barley too. You can still let you add. No. No? Okay. I choose that too. I don't want to because I don't want to give you more ammunition with which he can start whispering shit in my ear. That is a one stack of maddening whispers.

Yes. All right. It's your turn. You have a minus two to attack natural. That's a careless scare. I... That's a twice the speed. An off tone. Mm, slightly, yeah. Now this dude is up in my grill I'm a realist, I swear. I... That's a bit twice the speed. And off-tone.

Mm, slightly, yeah. Now this dude is up in my grill and within 30 feet. I did do a concentration check on my detect magic. Yes. Anything? Yeah, there is something, it's kind of grown over from scales and dirt and grime. There is a powerful magic object embedded into its chest.

Right, okay, good. You're twins! You glance at like a crystalline, like underneath all the dirt and leaves and mud there and blood, there is something crystalline in its chest. Yeah, I remember it also told me that and I forgot to tell them that. I don't know, it's just, I don't know. There you go.

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You can just piss your pants, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can shit my pants. You can shit your pants. Yeah, but do both. That's a little bit, yeah, that's an effort. I mean, six seconds. Think about that.

I can shoot it out. Please do something in the game. Oh, sorry. Would it be a con save? Shut up. Game. Okay, seeing this... One combat takes forever with you guys.

Is it, am I losing, have I got disadvantage on range spells with the range that's currently? No, he's currently 10 feet up from me, right? No, but he's within your, you are within its melee range. Yeah. So yes. You are in its melee range, so yes. You are in its threatened area, basically. Okay. Oh, do I know what school of magic is as well?

A mixture of them. A mixture. It's everything. It's a fridge. It would be everything, I think, actually. Oh, shit. Okay, well I'm gonna, because I need to get out of the way of this nasty boy.

Also, he just took away my AC. I have 11 AC now, thanks to him eating my magic armor. Oh, shit. I'm gonna have to use a Misty Step to Okay. add it here, it's a bonus action. Are you, is this verbal, does it have verbal components? It does. Do you wanna start or Do I have to? Are you, is this verbal, does it have verbal components? It does.

Do you want to spell it or? Um, no. All right, can I get a DC 12 charisma ability check please? Hi. Hi. Just ready. Do you want to add your guard to your activation? 12.

12, just barely. Stop the activation. So, you've got 30 feet of movement, where do you want to go? 30 feet of movement, I would like to go... Up here. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, oh, I can't actually get that far. I don't want to get on top of that rock

because he'll just beat me down from there. Frustratingly, I want to go to the very far corner of the map, that tree. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, yeah. He's off the map. I'm off the map, so I have therefore escaped the battle, and now I'm gonna head home. Okay.

You could Pac-Man to the top right corner. Yeah. This is not a Bay Pac-Man rule. Maybe in a Pret-A-Magic vault that would happen, but not here. And I will throw a Sorcerer's Burst at him, which is a cantrip. Okay.

With a plus six to attack, so minus two because of the one stack, but not disadvantage, yeah? Not disadvantage. Great. Ding dong, the thing is dead. Which old thing? That old thing, I wrote a thing. 20 something, three.

Natural 20 or no? No, no, no, 23. With a minus two? With, yeah. It's a hit. Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah. Can I get a hell yeah? Hell yeah.

2 to 8. Seven damage of my choosing. I will go with cold again. I can't make cold shots, can I? I wanna- Would you like to try something? I would like to aim for that magical sort of thing on its chest if possible,

but I don't know if I rolled high enough to... What did you roll? What was your AC total? I got a 23 to hit. And you aim at the crystal in its chest? Would like to aim for the crystal. It hits. Hell yeah.

And? What damage are you doing and how much damage do you do? I'm doing cold damage again, which I know worked last time. Just did damage. You really like sticking to this cold thing. How much damage am I looking at? It wasn't resistant. Oh, sorry, it was seven damage.

Just seven? Yeah. Okay. It strikes the area where it has this crystalline object. And the ice actually manages to clear some of the dirt and debris away. Debris, debris! A debris away.

And you can now see that there is, it looks very painfully like something like this crystalline sphere has been embedded surgically into this creature. And you can see like old stitch marks and things like that. And it strikes the crystal and you see just a hairline crack. Crack. And it kind of reacts to it.

Interesting. Anything else on your turn, Zef? Mm, mm, mm, mm. Yeah, I'll tell everyone about Das Orb. I'm sure people can see it now, it's clear away. And that is my turn, I've done movement, I've done everything, I've done bonus action, I've done everything.

I've done everything today. You've done everything. Okay. Ophelia. Yo. This guy's quite a way away from me. I would like to, let's deal with these kitty cats. Okay. Shall we?

Let's jump down, I'm gonna jump down on this kitty cat's back and give it a kitty cat whack. Would you wanna stay up, because you can attack it from where you are because you can stand vertically above it and stab it from the right place. You don't need to move that much from a current position. Kitty cat whack.

Oh my god, it's gone. It's on the floor, come back. Eee, ba de ba de. Uh, 13. It's a hit, the kitty cat. It hits. Woo! Yeah, this thing, as you strike it,

you can see that there is almost no self-preservation. It just sort of lets you hit it. I will, yes, I'll use a Blood Point. Yes. Wow, that's a one. One, two, four, five, six, seven, eight. 10 damage on the first strike. Yes.

And then I hit it with my thing, Vex, so I get advantage on my next attack against him. I would like to use my whip for the next attack, so I'm going to go slow. Okay, do you have advantage on this as well? Natural 20, baby! Okay. What, max the dice? So, 4 plus...

That's his name. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Damage. You watch as the whip wraps itself around the neck of this deranged creature and with a, you hear it snap. Yeah. Oh my God. The creature crumbles as it does. Ah.

Psychic energy explodes out of it. You, Gruff, and poor Percival. Oh, sorry! Take, oh, Christ. I'm out. 12 psychic damage. Oh my god. Gain a stack of Maddening Whisper.

So Gruff is now at two. Minus four. No, so the minus, it stays at minus two. Oh, okay. I'm clear. Fun now. So, it's like exhaustion. Oh, my God, my annual maths.

It adds new effects. 41, take 13. How much did you say? Sorry, 12. 12. 21, 28. 28, thank you. As yet, this creature just kind of slumps to the ground. How much did you say, sorry, 12? 12. 12, it's like 28, thank you.

As yet, this creature just kind of slumps to the ground. That was an interesting noise. And this burst of energy sort of assaults your minds as the pain, the confusion, the madness of this creature sort of infects the three of you, and you stagger back. Percival doesn't get any stacks of the effect,

but he does take the damage. Okay. Percival okay. Percival's all right. Just to check, it was 12 points of damage, one more stack, anything else? That's it. Okay. Yep. Who are you saying, oh, I'm so sorry to?

Is it to, yeah, yeah. It was the general, sorry, sorry, in the area. Just checking who. Is it, yeah, yeah. It was a general sorry, sorry in the area. Just checking who you love more, versus your brother. I love you both equally. Go baby two. Let's be honest, we know. Yeah, we know, we know.

I'm a pretty person. Um. Right, Ophelia, that was your second attack, but you still have the rest of your turn. Bonus action, I would like to use my Vitality Potion. Please. Ooh, yeah. 2d4.

2d4, please. You can roll that. Oh yeah, 2d4. 2d4 please. You can roll that. 2d4 plus two, temp hit points. I didn't get a bit of potions! Remember it's temporary hit points. What was that? Also gonna remind you guys, don't forget you have heroic inspiration so you can give yourself

advantage on a roll. You have plenty of fate dice as well. Seven temporary hit points for me. There you go, seven temporary hit points. Any movement, Ophelia? I would like to move backwards. Can I move towards the mouth of the cove, please? Mouth of the cove?

Yeah. Five, 10, five, 10. Is the mouth of the cove to the south? I don't know. 15, 20? No. Get you inside? Yeah, just have a little peeky-poop. What can I see inside? Yeah, with your dark vision, now that you're up in and you have that perfect dark vision,

you can see that slumped up against the wall, his leg torn apart, bleeding. But you can see Pascal, who is this quite handsome, dark-skinned human man. He looks a little bit like a sort of black Milo from Atlantis, Disney's Atlantis. Like he has round glasses, slightly like kind of floppy hair but shaved sides.

He's wearing not really armor per se, it's maybe a leather scouts jacket that he has on, but he looks more like a scholar, he's got a knapsack and things like that wrapped around him, but he's leaning up against the wall and he's muttering to himself. He's like, he's just, and he's holding his head, and you can see that he looks pretty malnourished as well,

like he hasn't eaten in a few days. And he doesn't look good. But he's alive. He's alive. Can I relay that back to the team, like Pascal's in the cave? He's alive, he doesn't look very good, but he's alive. That's gonna be the end of your turn.

Alrighty, so just before, well in fact I think it will be a good point to pick up next week as the Galawak will take to the air. Whoop, whoop, whoop. Even further. Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. Position itself here. With its eyes facing towards Rowan,

you will get cover from the rock gruff and Percival. with its eyes facing towards Rowan. You will get cover from the rock gruff and Percival. That's a big line, because it's gonna fly up in the air and do it sort of diagonally. As the Gallowack repositions itself, it will... I'll do this before we go to break. I'm gonna make an attack against Rowan with its rending claws. before we go to break. I'm gonna make an attack against Rome

with its rending claws. That is a 22. 25 slashing damage. Shit! I'm using my stars endurance to reduce that. 11 points for juice. Oh, nice! Okay, so 25 down to 14 slashing damage. And then I need Gruff, Rowan, and Percival

to make dexterity saving throws, as again, its eyes glow and pulse as it sends out like a beam of invisible force cutting through you all. Oh my god. Six. Percival. I'd like to use a fate.

Yes. Use a fate. Rhiannon, can you use fate? I don't think it's gonna help. Oh. I don't think it has got one. Oh. Gruff.

11. Vale, I'm afraid. Rowan, 16. Success, you can take half damage. Come on, Percy, take this. First of all, okay. That is gonna be 17 psychic damage to those who failed it, so eight to Rowan.

Those who failed, so Gruff, you gain another stack of Whispering Madness. Why not gain one then? You don't, no. At three stacks, Gruff, you are now, your speed is reduced by half. Oh shit. As you are, your mind is being overwhelmed by these voices.

And that is going to be its turn. So we will pick this back up next week. As the battle against the Galawak continues. The Galawak-er. See you next time. Oh, spicy! Bye! See you next time!

Sleep well in your house. Wee!