High Rollers DnD - Altheya: The Dragon Empire #55 | Possession of a Dragonborn (Part 1)

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

The team try to find unique new ways to break Xantheus' possession as he leads them, unwillingly, towards a proto-magi vault! _______________ 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

Pickaxe. The Last of Us Last time on High Rollers, I'll fear the Dragon Empire. I really had to think that. That's all for today. He'll get it, he'll get it. He'll get there, won't he? Where at, man? The party are searching for a proto-majorai vault

in the Rustwale Woods. Having learned of local legends, they went in search of a beast called the Galowak and a missing Squire of the Realm. This folk beast turned out to be real, and a fierce and intense battle was fought as the Galowak's infectious madness threatened to overwhelm some of the party.

With a beast slain and a curious prism of crystal ripped from its body, the heroes rescued Squire Pasquale, who was alive but magically cursed with the madness of the Galowak. A brief dispute between Xanthius and the party about if they should return to Colville or press on to find the vault ended

as the party made camp in the woods to rest. But as Xanthius remained awake on watch, a glowing lightmade camp in the woods to rest. But as Xanthias remained awake on watch, a glowing light orb appeared in the air before rushing into his body. He was taken away. I have got such a- When Radaph was bussy. I have got, I did not say bussy.

I said like, bossy. I have got such a like, my tongue is tripping over words. That does dramatically change how I role play this. Can you demonstrate how? Oh my god, I'm such a lazy mouth. Uh, yeah. That's why they say uh, yeah. I can understand why Crystal Instruction was so excited now.

Oh man, like, god, it just really takes the mood out of it, doesn't it, really? Oh, let's roll Crucible of Fate to like take out like, yep, that's how you deal with things sometimes, cristra, I learn from the best, you just steam roll through. Don't worry, the internet never forgets. Am I rolling fate?

Yeah. Yeah, okay cool. Your colored light is rolling fate. Yeah, well, cool. You're colored late. You're on fire. You're rolling fate. Yeah. Well, my colored late is working against me. Well, why don't we start with you, Tom? I rolled a two. Oh, dice for me.

So die. Oh, another dice for me. Daddy's got you, six. Six dice for you. So you don't really like that at all. One. One, dice for me. A one as well?

Am I just carrying this fucking team? I think so. Last time it was me. Hey. I won as well. I'm not just carrying this bucket team. I think so. Last time it was me. Hey! Daddy's got you. Okay, good. And he's gonna regret that in three. No, I'm not gonna regret it.

So, we find ourselves in the dead of night, pitch black, as you are under a thick canopy of an ancient woodland. Only maybe the faintest embers of a campfire still remaining. Percival has awoken Sister Ophelia. Saren would have awoken Gruffuth. As Xanthius, you feel your body moving and acting of its own power. Like you have no control.

This particular effect, you are conscious of everything that is happening. You cannot speak, you cannot do anything. I can't even drop like a... No. This is... You are just completely locked in. Your body stands up and has walked off into the woods.

And probably the time it took Saren and Percival to wake Ophelia and Gruffith, I'm gonna say you're a good 60, 90 feet out into the woods. Oh God, question. Yes. How long has it been since the Galwack fight? It would have been like, probably the remainder of your travel from there.

You start making your way through the woods. I would have given you like eight hours of travel for the day, so it's like being like nine to 10 hours, I'd say. So yeah, unfortunately your psychic connection is already down. Also, I am going to allow you to take a short rest. Okay.

As your long rest was not completed, but I will allow you to. But we need it. Well, I mean, you know. Need is such a strong word You know, who need is such a strong word in this endeavor? Rolling lots of hit dice. Yeah, rolling your hit dice, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Remember, you only get half your hit dice back on a long rest, so. 23. Uh, uh. Uh. That'll uh, uh. That'll do. 12. Okay, okay, okay, oh, not bad. So, as a reminder, those of you, things like,

I know you guys all have quite easy access to like light source and things like that, but not a lot of darkvision and all that, it's like a homebrew thing that I've changed, only a couple of people have true Darkvision, Ophelia is actually one of them. I have one. You have a Light Sources.

Since the update I have. Oh, you have Darkvision. I have Darkvision, yeah. That's true, yeah, yeah. Do the new Dragonborn do, do I have it? I will say that, because we're playing straight 2024 rules, yes. Okay.

But I might come back and change that because I do think too many races get dark, true dark vision. Yeah, that's what I was wondering. That's like one of my issues with D&D, actual official D&D rules is like way too many races just have plain old dark vision. I used to change that by giving you low light vision. I'd forgotten that they'd actually updated that.

But yes, just as a reminder that like, this is like pitch black light. There is no light source here. Ophelia and Gruff, Percival and Saren would be able to point you in the direction and be like, he went that way like 30 seconds ago. They can point you in that direction. But yeah, that is where we find ourselves right now. Daisy Snorin. She's out. Yeah, Daisy and Rowan are blast out.

Well, the last thing that happened, we ended the episode with Gruff literally shouting, Zantheas! So I don't know if that would work. Probably would. I will say, yeah, like someone bellowing something extremely loudly. Like, are we talking about you're really screaming and yelling this? He's pissed. Well, I just shouted at the end of the last episode when we ended, so yeah.

Draw some attention to me. Sure. Yeah, this echo, like, you know, the shouting cry of Xanthias just echoes through the dark woodland. Maybe you hear something scampering away in the underbrush, but Daisy and Rowan, you're sort of jolted from sleep, as yeah, this happens. I think Ophelia will jolt up, Sam, Sam, Samus is gone!

Everybody, I'm gonna go after him! Percy, follow me! Whoa, what's happening? Yeah, she's gonna go after him before he wanders off too far. Why is it, oh, is Samus? He is moving, he's like, what's happening? And at the end, he's gonna go after him before he wanders off too far. Why is it always Zephias? He is moving, he's not running, so he is moving at a very determined sort of hiking pace.

So with your faster movement, Ophelia, you'll easily catch up to him. So we'll say about, you'll catch him at sort of 120 feet away from the camp. So you quickly overtake him, like you're running, you get there in like a few seconds. Daisy tries to get up but she's tangled up in a blanket and then just falls over.

Wraps up in your sleeping bag. Or burrito, so I just trip on the blanket and fall over again. So Daisy, Rowan, Gruff and all of that, you guys are still in camp, but I feed it. You and, like, yeah, what do you do? He's just walking. Can I just grab him?

Like, if I rage, can I try and just stop him from moving? Yeah, you can try and grapple him. So this would be grapple rules. Grapple rules! Which I need to remind myself sometimes of because they've changed it. Grapple rules. I believe it is now, I make a saving throw, but I get to choose, right, I believe.

So it's you make a melee attack that involves using your body to deal one of the following effects, damage, grapple, shove. The target must succeed on strength or dex. It chooses which saving throw, which is DC eight plus Prof bonus and Strength, or it has the Grappled condition. Okay, what is your Strength bonus?

Strength bonus is plus one. Okay, so this would be, and your proficiency is three, so we're looking at DC 12. What is your Dex and Strength, Cynthia? My Dex is plus one and Strength plus one, or is this a save? It'd be, it's a saving throw. Oh yeah, plus one's on both.

Plus one's on both. Then it doesn't matter, I'll just roll. In fact, I actually know, I have Tom roll. I roll. Yeah, but I will spend a fate to add a d6. Oh, I was gonna do the same. Oh, okay, great, I'll burn the fate then. Not Zanthia's doing that.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. It's the ghost tour, it's Casper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Casper would've done that. Because it's an enemy creature, so.per. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Casper would have done it. Because it's an enemy creature. Holy fucking Christ, what'd you get?

Oh no, it's a saving throw, so it's DC 12. Oh, I got an unnatural 20. Oh my God. So you reach to grab him, but Xanthias just pulls through. But it's not fighting you back, there is just this like, as you try and grip him, he just forces himself free

and just keeps walking in this direction, heading directly east. Is it like straight line? Yeah, well like straight line, but like we'll go around. We'll just, yeah, no, we'll go around obstacles. And it's like, you know, pushing Ophelia off, but it's silent, it's just completely silent.

Is he using any spells or anything? No. So he couldn't Misty Step? Don't know, not currently. I want it to be like in the D&D movie when he just goes straight over the rock. No. So you couldn't Misty Step? Don't know, not currently. Why does he look like in the D&D movie when he just goes straight over the rock? No. Yeah. There is a very clear navigation,

but we'll avoid obstacles and things like that, shoves Zephilia off. If it does start burning my spell slots, I'm gonna be pissed. No. He's just going, what the hell? I think at this point, Rowan would have found his light helmet and put it on, lit it, and is willing to head out.

It will help you untangle the blanket. I will light up my dagger as well for some light as well. And so we're a bit behind now, I imagine. Yeah, a little bit, yeah. So yeah, I feel like you're the only one, like he carries on, you know, keeps going. Once I'm untangled, I can probably catch up pretty quick, because I could dash.

Yeah, you'll be able to get there a lot quicker than the others, yeah, for sure. So I guess I will say, thanks, Ron, sorry, burrito, blanket, it was everywhere. Oh, burrito. Then I will. Just start running. Start running.

Okay, so yeah, you'll dash, so you'll get there, 60 feet at turn, I'll say 60, because also yeah, it's like 30 feet gaining as long as he's not stopped, so it'll take you a couple of rounds to get there. That's good. But I will utilize my dash. You'll get there first, but yeah,

like he's just going off of you, like Gruff, what's Gruff doing? What have you had a bit of? I'm using my movement, my action, and my dash. Because you can only dash, you can't dash twice, I don't believe. You can like move, dash as a bonus action, but I don't think you can dash again.

You might be able to. What is this, a DS? I call it bullshit. A double dash? Oh yeah, maybe you would be able to actually. Because it's technically, it is the dash action and the rogue ability lets you take the dash action as a bonus action.

So there's nothing to stop you from dashing again. So yeah, I guess you would go 90 feet. A double dash. Yeah, it's still gonna take you to, yeah, it's gonna take you about two rounds to get there. Because also he's gaining some distance as you go. But he's walking, so he's not running or fleeing, so even in time with you guys dashing afterwards,

you're all gonna catch up to him. Are people picking up our stuff? Like rations? Didn't sound like it. Yeah. Sounds like Ophelia and Daisy are just running. I haven't had my turn yet. No, that's why I was asking you, what do you wanna do?

So yeah, I think I would grab food rations and things like that. Take your bit of time. And Squire Pascal as well. I'm just going because I'm quicker. Pascal is just muttering, just like the light, the light, the light, lights, lights, lights, sort of shaking, almost rocking back and forth, like tracing the symbol on his arm over and over.

It's actually kind of slightly scratched into his skin. How big is he? He's a medium-sized man, he's a human man. And he's quite thin, because he's not eaten and things like that. He's quite dehydrated. He's, you know, you could carry him. He's gonna be very slow if he has to walk on you.

I can stay here if you want to use Saren to find Xerathius. I'll stay with Pascal. But if you don't stop him, we'll be left behind. Here, try... Stay with me a moment. I'm going to try something. Get Pascal on my back in a moment. And as, like, I think as Gruff says that, his voice starts changing, and I'm gonna Wild Shape. I've got, like, a war horse, but I don't know if a war horse would be in this world.

Like, would it be more like a drake? This horse is just rare. But I'm like, would it be a riding drake, though? Would it be more common for him to say? Yeah, it's the same stats, effectively. But it's just a drake instead of, it's like a bipedal drake instead of a horse. I am furry.

No. Drakes are scary, yeah. They're like, gruffed up. No. They have gruss colorings, I guess. Would the octopus have been furry? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, right, that's where your sick little brain's going.

Okay. That's horrible. Yeah, you. That's the sickest thing we've said so far. How's the swimming in the water, like, anyway, as he says to Rowan, yeah, like, grab the squire, blah, blah, blah, and his voice starts changing and he turns into this.

Well, because you can speak now, I believe, in World Shape 4, so that's a new change they made. You can't cast spells, but you can speak. Okay. Great change. Very useful. So yeah, the voice lowers even further, but you can speak. Okay. Great change. Yeah, very useful. So yeah, the voice lowers even further, maybe it's quite gravity.

Raspi. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Raspi. And I turn into this huge war drake. Oh my god. Maybe like Ser Gryld's riding drake. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. Motled black and white scales.

So Ser Gryld could ride you? Yes. Ser Gryld could ride you? Yes. Interesting. So Sigreel could ride Graf. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Canonical. And yeah, put him on my back.

Okay, this is new. Grab the rations and then I ride! Ride! You can't, so the only thing I'm gonna say is you can't go at full speed because Pascal is not a rider, he's not holding on. You're almost having to start to eat. He's sat on your back but there's no saddle,

there's nothing he's strapped into. So you can go faster than Graf. Can I grab him by the mouth maybe? Not really. Can a horse grab aaph. Can I grab him by the mouth? Maybe like? Not really. Can a horse grab a rider? Can I just eat him like? No. But like I'd say that like, you know,

maybe Rowan could like, you know, literally like, like, you know, lash like a bit of rope or something around him very quickly. Maybe an extra round to do something. He's gone. Yeah. What?

It's just the, we ride and then epic music and then he just immediately falls. It's like a, it's like a game, like Happy Wheels or whatever, he just goes, whee! But yeah, unfortunately because he just, he cannot do anything by himself, so. So it's 60 foot speed, so.

I'd say that you can, you're probably gonna go faster than what you would if you were walking, but yeah. But also you can now carry Pascal a lot easier. So Rowan is kind of left behind, gathering up what you can now carry Pascal a lot easier. So Rowan is kind of left behind, gathering up what you can. Ophelia, as you are trying to grab onto Xanthius, a little slithering red shape from his arm slithers out

and begins flying around as Trouble or Borrow is like, now, ooh, what's going on? Like, starts nipping at you, like, oh, get off of him! Don't! I'm trying to help him, you, no, you freaky little thing! Does an 18 hit you?

Yes. Take one piercing damage. Oh my god. As he bites you. Can I activate my whispers to Xanthius, Ophelia, Gruff. So, after a few seconds, sort of like you're running ahead. my whispers to Xanthias, Ophelia, Gruff. After a few seconds, you're running ahead.

Well, Gruff and Rowan are behind you, so I'm gonna say that they're not gonna be here for a little bit. But I could still. You could wait, if you wanna wait for Gruff to catch up, you could then use it on him, yeah. You have to see them, I think. And you've rushed ahead.

How far away am I from Gruff? You're basically with Ophelia at this point. I'm gonna say after a few rounds, Xantheus has probably traveled about 200 feet from the camp. Ophelia's chasing after him, yeah. I will cast it before Gruff gets there then. Okay. Whilst you roll that, what is Xantheus thinking at the moment?

Well I'm wondering, does out of interest fall this thing? Is it just you can telepathically communicate with just anyone or is there like a resistance for anyone? But can the party or would the party resist it? I don't know. No I don't think so, I think it's just that I don't think it's a saving throw, I think. There's nothing.

Damn, okay. I think does it say it has's just that. I don't think it's a saving throw, I think. There's nothing. Okay, that's pretty cool. I think it does say it has to be a willing creature. Have a read through. But yeah, so Xanthius, right now, you're aware that Ophelia is like, Xanthius tugging and trying to grab you. I'll do another grapple check in a minute. But you can feel it, trouble is now biting Ophelia.

Get away from him. I mean. No, it just says, choose three creatures you can see. For a number of hours, chosen creatures can speak telepathically with you. And you can speak telepathically with them. Walk in one mile. At risk of influencing or metagaming, I suppose, for other people, for Xanthius,

I'm like, we're getting to the vault. Okay, he's like, hey great, a free ride. Obviously I'm terrified. I'm being taken where I need to go. Ideally, we'd have found it literally any other way. However, I am kind of seeing the opportunity here. Okay, nice. Oh no, it's out of my hands.

Yeah, well like. Oh, I can't do anything. Help me! It makes sense. I'm used to being an unwilling participant in some horrible corruption of some form. Why not another one? Why not another one?

Might as well make lemonade out of lemons. Yeah, great. I'm gonna, Steve. It's very strange, like, just feeling your body moving with having zero control. That's the only thing. This is a very alien, like, just feeling your body moving with having zero control. That's the only thing. This is a very alien, very sort of helpless feeling.

Yeah, I mean, there's still a very uncomfortable, like, when I'm seeing a step being taken and I'm trying to react to it, but the other thing is not doing exactly what I'm doing. It's all very, I suppose it would just be, like, sickening and just odd. So's all very, I suppose it would just be like sickening and just odd. So there is that, but. When Daisy, you get in range and you try

and form this connection, you feel that the Nym's power works. Like Nym sort of stretches out Nym's essence to try and connect them as they've done many times before. And Ophelia, you suddenly hear Daisy's voice in your head. But with Xanthias, it is like, Nim would tell you, this is odd little one, it is like there is a wall, I cannot reach his mind, something is surrounding his mind, and I cannot press through.

It is blocking my attempts to reach him. And Nim would probably say, this thing feels... I have never encountered any feeling like this before. We've connected with many minds, but this, I've never sensed anything like this. It is... Ooh, fun. I have many minds, but this, I've never sensed anything like this. It is... Oh, fun.

Yeah, unfortunately, for now, your telekinetic won't work. Your telepathic connection does not lock onto Xanthias. Something is blocking it. Is there any visible change as well? To Xanthias? Mm, okay. So it's not like rainbow eyes or? No, I think that Ophelia,

the only thing you would notice maybe is that there is a very, very faint red glow just suffused through Xantheus' body. Oh, I am holding the orb as well, but I don't imagine that is doing anything strange. Yeah. It's just being held. Can I see if we can,

if Ophelia and I both try and like, grab him together, like if we can... Sure. Sink up. Yeah, I was gonna say if I could use my whip to try and, well, because my whip has a slow feature on it anyway, so I was just gonna wonder if I could just try and wrap his legs up in it.

Yeah, I mean like the slow, I think like, cause the idea is unless you're attacking him, right? Like you're kind of like, I'm gonna do a D4 damage so I could. You, if you want to attack him, you can attack him. I was gonna do, I'm not gonna stop you guys attacking him. Can I just go down by 10 feet?

I can trip him up, potentially. Yeah, I mean, I think it's not difficult at this point. Stop getting me! Like, you can slow him. I mean, even say, like, you know, if you want to make an attack roll, you absolutely can. But like, yeah, like, you know, you are grabbing his arm and temporarily stopping him,

but he's just fighting, he fought you off and then carried on. Like, even if you trip him or like, unless you physically restrain him and stop him moving, he just gets up and carries on. Well, that was the idea, is if I could trip him and then him moving, he just gets up and carries on. Well, that was the idea, is if I could trip him and then Ophelia could try and tie him up. Yeah, if you got some rope and you wanna try and tie him up,

you can try. And, yeah. Do you have rope? I've got my whip. Whip ain't no rope. Whip ain't no rope. I mean, I'd say that you can maybe try and bind his legs with it,

but it wouldn't be the same thing as actually hog tying him or something like that. I have rope. Okay. Yeah, if you want to try, I mean, I'd say that you can maybe like try and bind his legs with it, but it wouldn't be the same thing as like actually like hog tying him or something like that. I have rope. Okay. Yeah, if you want to try, so whatever abilities you guys have, like if you want to trip him and then it would be,

I guess, a sleight of hand from Ophelia to try and tie the ropes. And then I'll give him an escape chance. This is what a mid stride as well. Yeah, well let's see if the trip works first. Yeah. Sound like a door. It did, didn't it?

It did. It did. Does a 20 hit? Does a 20 hit. I'm afraid it does. Can you make a dex saving throw? A dexterity save. Would this thing be fading, perchance?

Yeah, it would, yeah, absolutely would, because it wants to get where it needs to go, so. That is a 17. He does not trip. So yeah, you go to trip him, Daisy, you go to strike at his legs, maybe using some knowledge from Nim, but yeah, Xantheus just natural reflexes,

and also maybe something more, like almost like a third entity is almost helping him, just by just whoop and kind of pauses, or a weird angle, like he almost senses it coming before it hits, and he just whoop, and he just carries on. Can Ophelia speak in her mind to Gruff and... You can't speak to Gruff, because it's not connected yet. Only me, Gruff is not here.

He's too far away. Yeah, fair enough. They'll be here soon. Locked in number. Yeah. Can I just, can I take the rope and just run around him really quickly? You can try but...

If he's walking, can I try and use speed against it to try and then use a feel your strength? I'm gonna start jump rope. Basically trying to use my strength of being a bit more nimble. Why would you say you roll dexterity? So D20 plus Dexterity. Okay. And then Xanthius rolls D20 plus Dexterity.

See whose speed pays off. Am I failing in the battle? Yeah, absolutely. Yep. You're like an AT-AT. Yeah. Shit. I got a 19. Oh, that's nice.

20. So yeah, so Daisy, you kind of like, being smaller, being nimble, being able to like see in the dark now with Nim's help, you weave yourself amongst through these trees and it's enough where the, Xanthias' body like tries to step over the first one, but as it does, and as it pushes forward, you're already doubling back and sort of whipping it around his legs, and then that causes him to stumble. You quickly then run in

and get his arms bound together. And you do fashion a simple tie-up of him, basically. I'll probably coordinate in my head to Ophelia, so it's not out loud, so he can't hear me. I'll coordinate with you, like, my steps, so that you can then get in and like try and. Yeah, I'd say between the two of you, like, you have got him secured and tied up now.

But. Easy, well done. Every, he's gonna consistently try to like wiggle out, and like try, he's like, you know, rubbing at the ropes and things like that. Am I gonna do that now? In fact, you've got a plus one to Dex, right? Yeah.

Do you have anything extra to acrobatics? Acrobatics, no, plus one. All right, good to know. I will make these rolls, because otherwise I don't want you sitting there just rolling every time. But yeah, like- I'm not fucking talking.

No, well, that's true. But it's like, you know, just constantly trying to like, wiggle and sort of press themselves out of the ropes and. What do we do, do we knock him out? He's gonna keep doing it! He's climbing! At this point I'll say, because you have him tied up,

this has been several seconds of him now trying to get out. Gruff, you arrive. So what would arrive to these two though is an enormous gray, black, blue Drake. Comes back with Pascal sort of like, sort of hanging on or sort of like loosely there. Oh no wait, I think it's Gruff. Oh no, it's Gruff, okay.

Good luck. And then can I just, He's a squirmer, he's squirming. Can I just put a big, I guess like a claw on- Yeah, I'll do disadvantage. On Xanthius just to try and press him down. I don't know how to snap him out of it. I think, I don't know. Instead of that disadvantage, I'll use the inspiration.

Oh, thanks. Sorry. You're being such a shit. Do you need like any stats or anything? No, I gave it disadvantage, because of your basically, like you're kind of imposing disadvantage on him for it. But the inspiration just got spent,

so I rolled without the disadvantage. Yeah. Just let him go at this point, just let him have it. It's so strange. He just doesn't stop moving. He just keeps going. I can't connect to it in my brain. just doesn't stop moving. He just keeps going. I can't connect to him in my brain. It won't go through.

We need to wait for Rowan. Yes. Sorry for dashing off, I just didn't know where he was going, I didn't want him to get into danger. I didn't know what was gonna happen. Is he still squirming? When you look down at him, he has moved up, he's actually, you've got a foot on him,

but he's found some sort of rock, and it's like, his hands come free, he rolls out, I rolled a nat 20 on his escape. He rolls out and gets up, and just, but now starts running, like he knows that they're being actively pursued, so starts like, but it's like the most light, casual, there's no fear, there's no like, get away from me,

just this like. Can I whip him? Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah. Should we take him out instead? I guess you would have opportunity attacks if you. Yeah, yeah, you all get an opportunity attack. I'll say that this counts as a fearless opportunity attack. 17.

Does that hit? It hits. Yeah. Unless I shield it, but I don't think. You cannot, no, there's no spell casting. This is not you choosing to do this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you take seven damage,

and your speed is slowed by 10 feet. Okay, so you manage to like, whip him, you grab his legs, you yank him back for a second. Slow down! Wait, you guys! Gruff or Daisy, would you guys like to make any opportunity attacks as he tries to get away? I guess this is a thing of like...

Okay, I'm gonna... Tom's so sad. I'm enjoying this, I'm really enjoying this. I'm gonna drop my Whispers with Justifilia and I'm gonna do it with these three. Okay, yeah, Rowan, I'll say like Rowan arrives sort of like as this is happening. As long as I see him in the, I've got darkvision,

I can totally see him coming. You can like look behind you and see him coming. We can't take Pascal into the vault. We need, do we have to take him down? We're not ready for this. Rowan's enormous. Okay, cool. I smack.

I increase my speed by 10 feet, so I'm like, how do I get there? Clattering like Samwise Gamgee with all the pots and pans. Like, brrr. I was scooped everything out. Clattering like Samwise Gems you with all the pots and pans. I got over scooped everything up. We're not ready for a vault with Pascal. What do we do? We have to take him.

Am I still a lizard in my brain? Yeah. Yeah. No, in your brain you would be. You'd just be normal. We have to take him. We can't leave him behind. And Xanthias is probably going towards a vault right now. It is what it is. We have to take him. We can't leave him behind. And Xanthias is probably going towards the vault right now.

It is what it is. We have to do it. You wanna go to the vault now? If you guys are having a conversation, it's not gonna be an opportunity attack. This is like a full on like back and forth like. In which case, mm. Can I just grab him?

Yeah. So like you're coming up behind him. Like you can try and make another grapple attempt on him. Yeah, for sure. What's your strength? So there's an advantage on that strength. Well this is a saving throw he makes there. Very well.

This is one of the problems with the new grapple rules, it kind of sucks. It's plus one, so 13. 13, so yeah, your DC would be- Would he get disadvantage because Ruin's gigantic? I will say yes, I will give him disadvantage for that. DC would be eight plus your proficiency, which is three, plus one is DC 12.

So with plus one, I will spend the fate. But he fails. I just pick him up, his legs are still moving. Yeah, so like, yeah, well you've grappled him, so you've got him kind of like held sort of like in two hands, you're holding him. But again, he's definitely trying to break free as often as he can, basically.

Where's he going? I'm looking at him. I'm giving him a roll every minute to escape, basically. Where are you going? Is it like a chicken where you can spin around and his head just floats? Yeah, and his head's in the same direction. Literally that, yeah.

Like if you move him, his whole body like twists and turns to face a direction. Ah. Can we use him as a compass, knock him out, and then go when we're ready? I think I'm gonna injure him if I keep stopping him like this. He keeps trying to get out despite his body.

I didn't, that was like dropped it. I didn't roll it, I just dropped the dice. So unless we can get this possession out of him, we have to follow him. Well, how do we get that out? Yeah, no. Just shake him real hard. Can I investigate him whilst I've got him held,

see if there's anything rattling around in his body, which looks like there's something that... You're physically investigating his body to see if he has a way? I didn't see this. Yeah, make a medicine check for me. Is this really weird red light as well? It's glowing.

Yeah, it's a very faint, almost like the most faintest shimmer around his skin of red. I'm gonna fate. Okay. We're stacked. You were fully stacked? 16. 16, you find no physical mark or injury on Xanthias.

There is no harm, except maybe the whip lash across his ankles now. There is no physical mark of where this thing has gone in. You don't see like, there's not like a leech or any physical manifestation on his body remaining of this thing. You would determine that like, there is just absolutely no control. Like, he's completely expressionless,

he does not speak, he's just like looking in a direction and just doing everything in his power to get out of your grip. You do however find a fresh new tattoo which just says D.Va on his arm. in a direction and just doing everything in his power to get out of your grip. You do, however, find a fresh new tattoo which says D.Va on his arm. Slam go. Trouble does try and bite you. My crush is here.

It's for the best. Trouble tries to bite you, but just like bite into the leather cord of your arm brace, it's like. All right, I'll put him down. As long as he doesn't run, but he's gonna run. He. All right, I'll put him down. As long as he doesn't run, but he's gonna run. He's gonna run. He's gonna run, don't put him down.

Is there a way we can, I don't know, like keep him restrained, like let him move forward, but at a pace we can control? Put a leash on him? Have we got a leash? Oh, I don't know. Tie a rope around his waist or something, just so he can keep moving,

but we can control how far he goes. I mean, you've got some of the rope that was left, I'd say you've got like 30 foot of rope still. I'm going to use my power of creation to make a Xanthius-style perfectly formed cage, which encompasses his entire upper half, to make a Xanthius-style perfectly formed cage, which encompasses his entire upper half, but not his lower half. Okay.

It's like a kid leash. And it's got a big metal band on the back, like a loop and a rope attached to it. This is pretty fucking demeaning. So you've created basically a kiddie harness. It's like a mold shell around his upper half. With a loop and a rope. Does your, I think the thing is with your Ironman creation,

you can't create it around a creature. I think you have to make it separate, because otherwise you could be like, I create a perfect iron block around that dragon. It's dead now. Have I done this already, this rest? You did use Ironman creation that dragon. It's dead now. Have I done this already? This rest? You did use Armacretion for something. You made an armchair.

You did. You used it before you took the long rest. I can do animating performance, so I can animate an object. Okay. So I can make a rope a little bit more animated. That's really useful. He is desperately trying to get out,

but he hasn't broken free yet. You have him grapple, but also your hands are taken up by the grapple, like you can't, like, you know. Are we going into a vault? Does everyone feel okay with that right now? I do not feel okay with it. Not at all. Percy's on one HP, he's probably going to fall.

What choices do we have? We don't have a choice. We're going regardless. Xanthias is guiding us there. Does Percival receive healing? I don't know. I regenerate, my body will regenerate thanks to the heart when I rest, but I do not know if I can be healed.

Yeah, we haven't had any stress. Normally, positive energy of that nature does not mix well with undead. Yeah. We're just gonna have to roll with this because I don't want to injure Xanthius anymore. If you guys want to make checks, like to try and figure out what's going on with him,

like you can. I don't think anybody has. Can I try and use what Nim has said? If I correlate that with the stories of the lights possessing people and them going missing, is there anything that I can work out with Nim to say, if someone's possessed, how do you un-possess them, please? I'd say that for Ophelia,

I will actually make this a religion check, because it would relate to the House of Shadows, and ghosts, and spectres, and things like that. Possession is a thing that you know of. For Daisy, I would say do it as a arcana check, unfortunately. Because this is just basing it on stories and magical knowledge that maybe Nim has and things like that.

Would I make a check as my Warhorse, War Drake form? Well, I think that you keep your mental stats as well. You do, you keep your mental stats. You just have the physical stats. I only got five, so... Five on the arcana. Like, Nim is like, I'm sorry, little one, I have very little knowledge of this sort of power.

I know that it is not... It is not of the planes. Whatever this power is, it is beyond me. We had... Ophelia got possessed by the ghost of the Inn. Yes, it is beyond me. We got, we had, um, Ophelia got possessed by the ghost of the Inn. Yes, I did, yes. That's true.

What would we have... She managed to, like, there was some sort of, like... I've got loads of them. Ophelia remembers, like, you would remember the incident you had in Tyria's, almost, memories, where you had to sort of break free of it. Yes. The rest of you were, like, fighting Ophelia,

and it seemed that as she physically got weaker, Ophelia seemed to regain control. What did you get in your religion, Ophelia? A 10. A 10. I would say that's enough, because you already have the connection to the House of Shadows. I'm not going to tell you everything, but you would have been taught that the House of Shadows have ghosts and spectres that are used as spies and assassins, and that one of their powers is to possess creatures.

You don't know if this is possession. It doesn't look like a ghost. It looked like, you know, Percival described it as like a bright-colored orb. But if it works the same, then generally either the spirit has to let go of the body, or if the body is basically rendered incapable, so like knocked out or put to sleep,

then normally the spirit would abandon the body because it's useless. That would be the most basic function. So if you were to knock Xanthias out, it might force the thing out of his body. Well, we have fewer people. You can do non-lethal damage, don't forget as well. Depending on the weapon and stuff that you use, to the body. Well, we have few options. You can do non-lethal damage, don't forget, as well.

Depending on the weapon and stuff that you use, as long as it's not like a, you know, I chop him with my axe. I stab him to sleep. Can't really do non-lethal damage with an axe or with fire. But if you knock him out with something, and he just has to be the last hit, basically, as long as the last hit's non-lethal. Well, based on my experience. So you just have to be like the last hit basically, as long as the last hit's not lethal.

Well, based on my experience. So we can chop him up until the last hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can like cut him to ribbons and then just punch him. And then he's like, I'm too weak. Well, that's fine. Yeah, it's fine, yeah. That's doable.

I'll hide my HP so you can't. Oh, don't worry. Game that. Well, based on my experience with possession and what I learn about the House of Shadows, we, it doesn't, Based on my experience with possession and what I learned about the House of Shadows, we... It doesn't... I'm not 100% sure if this works the same way as, say,

uh... a human-based or a life-form-based possession, as opposed to, as what Percy would have described, maybe a object-based possession, but if Xanthias were to say, be weakened, the host might leave and move on to someone who is currently more stable. Can we tell them that? As Ophelia is explaining this, Rowan,

you sort of lose your focus for a minute as you're listening to Ophelia, and in that split second, he's wriggled out. Is it like holding a bar of soup? He's just like, he basically waits for you, you just relax your grip ever so slightly listening to Ophelia, and that's enough. He just shoves your hands, drops to the ground, and he starts.

Runs off. Oh, he's off. Oh, he's gone again. I will chase after him. You guys can keep pants. You're like, he can't physically run away from you at this point. I will chase after him as a great... You guys can keep that in mind. He can't physically run away from you at this point. It's like, what are you going to do to stop him?

I'm reluctant to. Or are you going to stop him? Are you just going to leave him to it? Can we just tell the possession thingy that we're going to go to the vault? But just, we need a little nap first, please. I'm so tired. I don't think the object cares. I think it wants Santheus, or somebody, at the vault as soon as possible. Get him to take us to the vault, and then we knock him out.

Okay. The rest of the entrance. Yeah. Good plan. All right. Okay. All right. We just keep up with him. Okay. Someone secure this squire on my back a little bit of his vault.

I'll carry him. Oh yeah, you're giant now. You can carry him. Yeah, how you're giant now, you can carry him. Yeah, how long does that last, like an hour? I think it was an hour. Yeah, it was an hour. No, he didn't eat anything. He's not that big, also I don't want vore shit

being associated with this campaign. Yeah, I was gonna say, A rose. He put like, you travel for- 10 minutes? Yeah, I was gonna say, you travel for a lot longer than like an hour or 10 minutes. Like, you, Xanthias keeps walking

till the sun starts rising. Walking or running? Walking. Like, as soon as like, as soon as your body almost becomes aware that it's no longer being like stopped, it resorts to a more relaxed pace. Okay. You, without rest, continue on.

You guys have not had a long rest yet. He travels all the way into the next day. Goes on till noon. Oh my god. You cross a river. He physically gets in the river and starts swimming across. Can we vaguely track where it is in relation to Colville and stuff?

East, east of Colville. Like he goes beyond east. Like you are traveling away from Colville. Can we hydrate and feed him? You'd have to stop him. No. Catch up and- Let him waste away!

Doesn't drink. Doesn't drink. Doesn't drink. He won't, because he's not got any control over it. And I don't think the host cares about him, other than getting him there. He does successfully manage to cross this river, but like, it's like, just in no abandon, just starts wading through. At what point do we stop?

Starts swimming, like... This is getting ridiculous now. Yes, it's been a day and a half. What is the other side of Ulthae? Do you pursue him over the river? Because if you want to cross this river, you have to know how you're going to cross. I've got to get to him, right?

Yeah. I would need athletics checks to cross the MMPC. I'm digging well. He's clipping up that mountain. He's got a horse, he's just going up. Well, your wild save doesn't last. How long does it last? I don't know, you tell me, it's past feature. I think he's just going off. Well your wild save doesn't last. How long does it last? I don't know, you tell me, it's possible.

I think it's about an hour. I think it varies, I think you can hold it, depending on, it's like an hour per proficiency, so it might be like 18. 18, yeah. Die! You stay in that form for a number of hours. I'm gonna use Harak, is it being 24 hours?

You can use Inspiration. You stay in that form for a number of hours equal to half your drooling level. So three hours at this point. Okay, so I'm gonna pop back out. So it's gone, yeah, you're back in gruff, yeah. So what was the check, sorry? Athletics, unless you have a swim speed.

I got four. Four, okay. Uh-oh. A disadvantage? That was me doing heroic. Oh my God. I rolled two twos. There's all this fate here, dude. That would have done shit.

I would have got eight. What do we get for Ophelia? I rolled fate as well. I got 14. Oh, you spent a fate? Yeah. OK, 14. Can you roll for Percival as well, please? I shall. Uh... Is he aerodynamic?

Yeah, that's it. Heart's with him. It's just all bones. It's all bones. All bones, baby. 18. 18. 16. 16. 19. 19. Well, the. 16, 17, 18, 16, 16, 19. 19. Well, the fact that all of you succeeded, so Rowan, Rowan flounders and struggles a bit,

but maybe Ophelia and Percival and Gruff, you guys help Rowan across. Like it was a group check. I could stand up in this. What? Oh, oh! It's me. You're like that scene in Robin Hood.

No, the problem is that the river is actually, surprisingly deep, this is quite a wide river, and as it gets down, even you're struggling, and also it's fast. This is not rapids, but it's from the mountains, so it's a very fast flowing river, and you're struggling to wade and keep your footing, and you're weighed down by all this gear as well.

It would've been really funny if this thing could get across the river and just go down. Yeah, that would've been really funny if Xanthius failed to get across the river and would just go into Africa. That would have been the case, right? Like you would have just... Just something like this. Just something like this. This guy. I just don't know.

Xanthius, you can feel your body just like losing energy, but this thing is not stopping. Like your bones ache. You've not sat down, you've not rested. I was going to ask, it's pretty exhausting, right? Yeah. Am I exhausted? Not yet, but like maybe soon. But it's just like physical pain. I imagine as much as us, right? The rest of you, you travel on till night.

Like Xanthius, you are at one level. In fact, no, everyone make a constitution saving throw. I'll make it a con save. Okay. Because that constitution saving throw. I'll make it a con save. Okay. Because that's, yeah, I will make it a con save. Oh, Percy. Percival doesn't have to, he's immune to exhaustion. Because he's undead.

You're mad. 17. 17, successes. I can keep going. Can I use a fate? You can spend a fate. I can do this all day and night and day and night again. 16.

16, 18. Four. Rowan, you gain a level of exhaustion, I'm afraid, and night again. 16. 16, 18. Four. Rowan, you gain a level of exhaustion, I'm afraid, as, yeah. This is a sure sign of stopping. Can we knock him out and have a nap? Yes, I think we should totally end this. I don't know how long our rations are going to last. I don't know how long this journey is going to go.

Pascal is... Zero, one. I don't even know. Wet ration. No, I'm... Salty. I don't even know. Wet ration. No, I'm... Salty. At least with Pascal, you have been, I'm guessing you've been taking moments

to feed him and water him, which is helping immensely. He's probably passed out, he's fallen asleep in whoever's carrying him, he's just passed out. And then when he wakes, he just sort of mutters and you can feed him a little bit. So he is at least like stable with you for now. We need to knock him out. I'll do it.

I'm showing no sign of slowing. No idea where the river's flowing. Do we need to knock him out? Is it time? I think it's time. We all need to rest. We need to rest so bad. Do we need to knock him out? Is it time? I think it's time. We all need to rest. We need to rest so bad. Do we want?

It could be another day before we reach the vault, at which point we're all gonna die. Is there anything, like, in terms of where we are, do we see anything coming up, like, in front of us? Like, does it seem like the direction that he's traveling, he's moving towards, like... Something visible you can see? Yeah, anything, or is it just open?

This is all like very dense woodland, and then the hills, it's kind of like sloped woodland, because you're coming up to the mountains, and he's just heading directly east, so you are just going through thick, ancient woodland. It is a gift of the gods that you have not encountered like some sort of wild beast. Like it is pure luck that you guys have managed

to go this far without being attacked or Xanthias being attacked. I don't know whether orbs in the night. Not in the night, no. I would say that like, Which night? Maybe as you've been traveling, maybe Gruff would have seen one in the distance

quite far away. Like they are prevalent in the woods, but this one was like going in a completely different direction. I'd say that Gruff would be, you're a survivalist, you've been out in the wilds and things like that. You know a creature that's almost, not hunting but looking.

And the way that it's moving around and things like that when you saw it at a distance, almost like it was searching. Luckily, it didn't spot any of you. This is like, you saw it from a fair distance and said to the party light, let's not go over there or something like that. Yes, Rowan. Can I use my survival, my knowledge of direction

to see Xanthius's current path and make a trajectory if we were to knock him out and follow that path. Yeah? Give me a survival roll. Once we've rested. Sure, give me a survival roll. Here comes a sick two.

Okay, no, natural 20, baby, here we go. My first. Two. Oh my God. Are you kidding me? No, he's not. He really isn't. What's the total? What a shit-cold roll.

Please wait. You can? And it's 10 at the moment. Oh, plus eight. That's pretty good. That's good, yeah. 14. 14.

I would say... You really crawled that back for a second. I was gonna say, if you had rolled really badly, I was gonna give you wrong info. Oh shit. But you're like, you maybe don't know exactly where he's gonna go, but you've got a fairly good idea of at least the vague direction,

but you have no way of knowing how far he's gonna go. You have no idea. There's no knowing where he's going. I think we can, I could maybe. Possessentius. Cause you know humans are. Through the mountain. If someone's blindfolded and they are told Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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Like he is very clearly right now just heading east. Yeah. Yeah. Do it. Okay. Do you want me to do it? I can, well, how do we want to do this? Do we want to hit him or? You've got to reset his brain.

I could drink his blood until he stops. Oh my god. Oh my god. It's clean. By the sirens and saints, please don't do that. It won't cause any physical damage in that sense. I won't be hitting him or punching him. The difference is...

It'd be a kindness. Regenerating his blood is gonna take some time, right? I will spit it on the ground so you know that I'm not drinking his blood. Well, don't waste it. Well, that seems like waste. Although, it's ground steel in this. Exactly, I probably can't drink it anyway.

Let's just do the old fashioned. Can I just bonk him on the head? You make an attack roll against him. Yeah. He's gonna start spitting as soon as this is gonna be over. This first attack, you have advantage because the body's not expecting it. Should I...

Yeah, are we going to plan to all attack him or what? Because he's going to run as soon as I bonk him. Okay, it's all... Do you want me to do it? Like I'm going to sneak attack it? Just get round him in a circle and just... Yeah, just... Literally, I mean, we could, like, it'd be done in one, one done, just maybe. Just make sure the last one is non-loosable.

We're still taking turns, bam bam bam bam bam. We all get one. To save us doing a lot of unnecessary dice rolls, let me tell you how this goes down. You guys plan this attack, you surround him, as soon as you start physically attacking him, and you're having to beat him. This is like a whack on the head.

As soon as you do, Xanthius stumbles, his body stumbles. He crouches into a more defensive, he takes the dodge action and starts running. So all of your attacks are disadvantaged. So this is like you are chasing after him, trying to whip him, trying to grab him, knock him out. Stop it. I mean, eventually they're gonna get ya.

I just don't wanna sit here being like, right, attack roll, attack roll for like minutes. Oh, this feels like- It's just a question of how many abilities this thing is aware of. It cannot use any of your abilities. Or even features, like racial features. He's desperate for this thing to like,

oh, your racial features there. Like his dragon breath. Cause I can think of one. I don't, I'm not saying- It's think of one. It's not a spell. It's not a spell, it's a physical body ability, isn't it? That I get at a certain level is the only thing. You do have that ability, don't you? I do. Oh, God.

So I would, if it's like a thing that I, as a dragonborn, can do. They're not grappling, this is like they are actually attacking the body. Because I'm thinking there is a way I could get out of this. You're not getting that. Everybody make an attack roll with advantage. This is gonna be the first round where you turn it.

Tom's brought up a very good point. Oh shit. We did discuss this before as well. I had forgotten that those aren't spells. They're not spells, no. This is a racial feature. This is like having physical like just traits. 23, sneak attack. Yeah,'re not spells, no. This is a racial feature. This is like having physical, like, just traits. 23, sneak attack.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yep. So the main thing is, can they do enough damage to you in a single round? Is now the question. This feels like a low point. Listen, like, I'm just, guys, like, don't worry, you avoided the baby harness.

I would have preferred that. Yeah, the baby harness would have been good. There might have been other options, like spells and things like that, but like, since we're in. I don't have any spells. Sounds like Gruff is hesitating. 22 points for damage.

22 points of damage? Okay. Do I have a chance? You tell me if you're still up when they've all finished attacking. Nine points of damage. I'm gonna do the first attack because I didn't wanna be the one to go over the throats.

Do I have time to show- Using your knife, your blade? Bitch, you gotta stop! If they would put a bit of it or something, punch me! You gotta stop. Just kick me! Anything! You're a rock! Fucking shanking me in the dead of night.

It is the dead of night as well. God damn! So shady, so not shady. He just immediately. It's been days. We come across just someone wandering the woods hunting. It's like, it's all right, it's all right. He's on his head, he's on his head.

He's like, he's dying with a bow and his dogs, he's like, murderers. We're friends with him, he's friends, he was fine. All right, drain his blood. It's fine. Bite him, bite him! Fucking dry! What do we get? So, nine points of damage from Rowan. We're helping him!

Graff? Fucking hell. You have advantage in an attack roll. I've got a... Yeah, I've got a 26 to hit. So... Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Twelve more points. Ophelia?

24 to hit. If you have multiple attacks as hit. Yeah, yeah. If you have multiple attacks as well. Okay, the first one's... Basically get a full round. I'm only gonna hit you. That's only four of damage. Four points.

Another twenty-six again for my second hit. Six, seven, eight, nine points of damage. He's out. Is that non-lethal? You still up? Non-lethal, you tell me. Yeah, I'm assuming you guys are gonna try and make it not lethal. I'm gonna try and kill him, yeah.

Just a little concussion. I mean, who hit me last? Ophelia. With? That's true. Veracity? Oh. It's a piercing weapon.

I suppose, yeah, I'd say you can use the butt of it. I'd say you can use the butt. It's a heavy weapon, like, you can, yeah. The first one you stab right through it. Oh yeah, yeah, it's the first one. And then it's done. I'd say the only thing is if you did do that, you wouldn't be able to use Veracity's ability,

which you're not using anyway. No. Are you still up? Just checking some things, you know, some features, just in case. But I believe I'm donezo. I'm downed. He's downed. That 22-point sneak attack, I think, was a big part of that. I'm downed by like 4 HP, by the way.

Not much, yeah. So yeah. He was on full health, that. I'm downed by like four HP, by the way. Not much, yeah. So yeah. He was on south, though. Let me tell you what happens. Do get bitten to shreds by Trouble. Oh yeah, Trouble is like, in desperately trying to defend, like... This is gonna be difficult to train at.

Daisy. I'm further away from him. You attack. I can throw. Oh, you can throw, that's true. So Rowan was the first one to attack him, so yeah, you take one piercing damage, just Trouble bites you. I'm sorry Tr Oh, you can throw, that's true. So Rowan was the first one to attack him, so yeah, you take one piercing damage, just Trouble Bite you.

I'm sorry Trouble, this is really traumatic. What happens is as Ophelia comes up, a blade impacts into the side of him, the flat of a longsword, the shillelagh, and then finally whack, whack, two strikes from Ophelia in the back of the head. Xanthius goes down. His body just falls unconscious.

That red glow shimmers, and a red ball of light appears above him. Can you all roll initiative, please? Ah! He's so desperately missing for that. Wait and roll, do I roll with disadvantage? Why now? You're gonna be unconscious.

You're bleeding out. You're not now. You're gonna be unconscious. Get ready. You're just gonna zero. Should I just roll initiative when I wake up? No, roll it now just to make it easier for me. Death saves me. Well I'm not dying am I? No you're not dying, you're at zero basically. Not yet.

Roll it stops. He goes for another one. He's still moving. Actually it's a good point, Percy would have had it in the bank as well. And we know what Percy's like. The road stops. He goes for another one. He's still moving. Actually, it's a good point. Percy would have had a stack as well. And we know what Percy's like. He'll kill you.

He'll kill you. You've got an 18, so. Yeah, that'll hit. Let's see, if you did a... I'm rolling that dice. Six, seven, eight, that would have been nine slashing. He just swings in with his X. Get you with a flat of the halberd.

Right, Daisy. Nine, nine, sorry. Xanthias. 15. Gruffith. 16. Rowan. 15 as well, my deck is...

Oh, it's less than... 10? Yeah, I'll say you can go first, because he's unconscious. Ophelia. Very lucky, natural 20, 23 initiative. 23. If I got that on my attack.

Percy. Shit. That's the point, there is a universe where I could have been crit today. 19 for Percy. 19. This thing is faster than Percy. Ophelia, this orb appears above Xanthias

and you see like crackle of lightning kind of surround it, but also it scans all of you still conscious, like a cone of red light. It's gonna try and get us. Ophelia, what would you like to do? Can Ophelia, she's gonna stand over Xanthias' body, just to protect him. Sure. Can she cast Spare the Dying as a cantrip?

He's already stable. He's already stable. Yeah, he's not dying. Yep, you knocked him unconscious. He is not dying. Okay, then I will rage and I will go after this Orb of Light. Okay. With Veracity. He's too fucking happy.

No, it's just funny. I think it's a funny scenario. What funny place we find ourselves in. We pummel our friends. First hit is a 24. Does hit, this thing's nippy, like it kind of. He had it coming. It's like glitching around, like.

So that is seven damage. What kind of damage? I did the same. I will do, I'll do piercing damage. Okay. The blade does strike, but this thing does not have a solid body to it. So it does seem to be affected by the strike,

but it is resistant. So I'll whip it with my whip and give it slow. Okay. 18, 24 again. So D4 and then it is slowed. So five, seven damage. So another three as it is still resistant, but its movement is reduced by 10 feet.

Anything else on your turn, Ophelia? No, that's me, I'm still gonna just, can I just call to it, just leave him alone, leave us alone, go away! Sure, you say that to it. There is not so much a noise as a feeling in your brain of, I don't know, some sort of a pulse of, not quite emotion, but a flash of something,

almost suggesting no. And a feeling it would be. A nine would not hit you. No. who's suggesting no. I have a feeling it would be. A nine would not hit you. No. Okay, can you make a charisma saving throw, please, I feel you. Thank you.

Charisma. Oh, sorry, wisdom. Wisdom save. I keep hearing. The ability that I used this from initially was charisma. Right, an eight. Oh, for fuck's sake.

Ah! What's this red light? Whoop, into. This is gonna kill us, screw it up. It's only gonna kill us if we keep knocking each other out. That's the only way we're losing health here. Yeah, but we have nothing to go into a vault, we can't go into a vault.

We have more until you pummel me to unconsciousness! Moving on, Ophelia, you feel you lose full control of your body. Shit. You just... Ophelia's face slackens from the burst of rage, it just calms, and she just looks in the direction that Xanthias was walking, and yeah, it's not your turn, but it would basically start defensively moving in that direction.

Does Percy come with me? Does he like disengage and follow me? Percy's like, oh, yeah. I think he's going, I think he's going. And he's like stood next to you. He doesn't recognize the change? No, of course he doesn't. Fuck yeah. Of course he does.

Are we still in initiative order? Yeah, so after that it would be Percy's go next, and so he like is like, oh, Sister Ophelia's going up, I'm gonna follow. It would then be Gruffith. Gruffith. And then the nurses go next, and so he like, it's like, oh, Sister Ophelia's going up, I'm gonna follow. It would then be Gruffith. Gruffith. Rhiannon's fake.

You're right there, bud. I'm good. You sure? It's okay, I'll wake up eventually. Yeah, it's my sweet boy, he's just lying on the floor. Fucking, like a family guy. Yeah. How could they do this to me? We're yumcha from Dragon Ball as well, just lying in the crater.

I feel really icky. I get it, I get it. I just feel a bit icky. I'm going to cast Entangle, Onophelia, and Percival. So can you please... Are you fucking kidding me? We're going to cast Entangle, Onophelia, and Percival. So can you please? Are you fucking kidding me? We did this to you for ages.

They did tie you up with a rope. We did everything. Also, it doesn't last very long. This is just to stop them then. We cast Old Person. Oh, that's in the repertoire, is it? I turned into a war drake and stood on you. Listen, we all used everything we had to restrain you.

What's the saving throw? Can you make a saving throw, strength 15? You are technically still, no, you are technically, your body's still raging, so with advantage, please. You just said rage andered. You said the rage andered. I said her face calms. I didn't say the raging.

12, 16. Okay, you're fine, what about Percy? Percy. He is seven, that's a 10. That's a 10. Percy is restrained. Mr. Gruff, what are you doing? We're off.

What is the matter? We have stopped Mr. Xantius. Sister Ophelia is possessed. You need to stop her. I don't think that's, no, Sister Ophelia is possessed. You need to stop her. I don't think that's, no, Sister Ophelia's fine. Fucking moron. Sister Ophelia, you're possessed? Nothing.

Anything else on your turn, Grove? Nah. All right, Rowan. Rowan combat rolls, slithers on the floor with his snake. Licks Xanthius. No, he doesn't do anything. Becomes Snake. I am become Snake. No, he's gonna Cure Wounds Xanthius.

Okay. Bring you back from the drink. I could have done that, but. Can Cure Wounds not be leveled up anymore? Yeah, it can. Yeah. Weird, just not doing it on my one for some reason. It's not on mine.

That is weird. Oh, I think it's a, indeed, Nebion, I think it's a setting to turn on level scaling. All right, seeing them in different spells, Nott. I would like it at third level, please. 68. Okay, so that's 68 plus four. Oh.

Plus your charisma. 68! They have buffed this spell. 6d8! That's huge. They have buffed this spell. 2d8 per spell level now. 2d8 per level! I can't, I mean. And 2d4 for healing word now, per level. Oh my god!

I've treated him like this so good. I have a pretty good fire campaign for the old garbage. Yep. That's cocked. I should just delete it. That's why auras were big for Sentry at the end of the last campaign. That's also why I'm massively increasing monster damage.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, not massively, but keeping it in line so that... Plus your charisma. 22 plus my Riz. 25. 25. 25 is HP. That's not bad.

Xanthias, you are sort of, you know, you were sort of conscious, well, you actually know you were specifically knocked out. You kind of, your eyes flutter open, your body aches. But one thing I will tell you is you are immune to that effect for 24 hours. Okay. You cannot be.

I still want to see this, I need to go through this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Let me help you out. Oh, it's so good to be back. Is there anything unique?

You assholes! I put war in his mouth while he's speaking. Drink, yeah, save it. For days you follow me, days! Save it, save it. Follow Ophelia, you monsters! Anything else on your turn, Rowan? Would you like a snack?

You are hungry, you're starved. Yes, yes I would! Here you go, Willis. Whole person on Ophelia. It's your turn, I was gonna say whole person. Oh! So this is wisdom saving throw. Fucking.

I don't have spells! Wisdom save. Wisdom saving throw please, Ophelia. I would have it if I had a long rest, but someone has been possessed in the night. Ophelia's body goes. Thank you. Now is that every round she gets a new saving throw?

It is. It would be, right? Repeat save at the end of each of its turns. Paralyze for the duration. It's a good thing she goes first. So. All you had to do was follow me to the vault. That's all you had to do.

We were, but it was killing us. It was not killing you, killing me was attacking me. I got stabbed, I got attacked by a whip. What the fuck? It's been days. And we could have carried on. We could have rested in that cave. We didn't need to come back to Colvell

with this guy who, oh, he's feeling wonderful now, had a nice meal on us. I'm gonna knock him out. Knock him out again, knock him out again. He's insufferable. He deserved it. He deserved it, I deserved it. We were looking for a vault.

I was taking you to it. You almost killed me. You almost killed me. You almost killed me. Hey, no. And I'm meant to be your ward, am I? Daisy, your turn, by the way. Jesus. I'm just gonna let him tire himself out, honestly.

Anything you wanna do, Daisy? We need to rest really badly. Then fucking rest. I'm following Ophelia to this vault. Well, you've held them. Ophelia, well Daisy, do you want to do anything on your turn? No. Ophelia, can you make another wisdom saving for me please?

I shall. Six. Ophelia, you're still good, you got a round. At least for as long as this lasts. You guys got a round, did you like to do anything? I would like to do anything? I would like to knock out Xander. To deal 25 damage.

Lasts for a minute by the way, hold person. So you make 10 seconds. Is there anything I can do to exhaustion that like... We thought that... Which is if these guys want to tie a failure up or anything like that or what you can do. Yeah, we should actually tie her up. That's a good point.

My speed is reduced. D20 tests tests minus two. Yeah, per level. Is it my go? Everyone basically has a turn before a failure, doesn't he? So, like, first of all, I'm going to say he's just stuck in the entangle. He's just like, what are you doing? What is going on? I don't understand.

Why is Anthony shouting? We thought that if we... Why are you is Auntie shouting? We thought that if we... Why are you upset in something this... We thought that if we had stopped you from being possessed, we could fight the orb and then we wouldn't have this again. That was the aim, is that we could fight the orb and then continue on this trajectory and rest. We were following you as long as we could follow you,

but Rowan is already exhausted. We were losing resources. We could not go that far. Also, you looked terrible. You're not rested. We followed you for a night and a day. I know, I was there the entire time. Oh, I know it was exhausting. It was exhausting being in there.

Xanthius. We were getting there. Philly, can you do another wisdom save for me, please? Xanthius. Yeah? We there. Philly, can you do another wisdom save for me, please? Xanthius. Fine. We have no idea where this vault is. No, but it has to be closed.

We sent that a day ago! Yeah. You have... unless in your possession you know where it is. Do you? I don't suppose I was fed any information. You've got the crystal on you, don't you? I do, yeah. Make a charisma roll for me.

Just straight charisma? D20 plus charisma. 15. Which I will fate. Sure. Just in case, an extra six. 21. Wow.

Big difference, getting an extra five above DC is always gonna yield better results. Rowan asks you that, and it kind of stops you in your sort of anger and this parade of frustration. Cause you think, and you can almost feel that crystal still in your grip, and god, your fingers hurt from holding it for so long but there's like a pulse to it and There was a pulse sort of in your mind

this like red pulse And now sort of focusing for a minute and thinking looking in the direction that you're heading the fact the way Ophelia is heading It's like a flash in your mind like you get like a flash almost in your mind. You see a clearing within the deep woods, a grove. The trees bent and twisted away from something that they know, the trees know grows, appears there every few years. The trees don't grow there anymore.

You see an old stump that has grown sort of branches around something that is not always there, and you see flickering light in the shape of a squat tower-like shape. It flickers through all these different colors, but sometimes focuses on red as it becomes this almost like faceted crystalline shape, there but not there. You see flashes of, or maybe you feel flashes,

of other creatures that have been led to that place. Some of them are taken inside something. They step up on the tree stump and then vanish. Others stand there for years, days, until they die of dehydration and starvation, their bodies and bones rotting away into nothing, waiting for something to return. So there's still lead there even when it's not active. But you have a feeling, yeah, from you like,

you've got a vague sense of maybe another day's travel east and then, yeah, you think you can find it. and then, yeah, you think you can find it. I don't know, I was trapped in that thing. You weren't drinking, and you can't go long without drinking before you just die. I know, I know, but I just feel like it's so close. I just know it is, it's so close. I just know it is, it has to be.

We're still going there, Xanthias, but we just, nobody can face it right now. Anyway, let's pummel Ophelia to her consciousness. Yeah, can you give me another wisdom say? It'd be the first time. Five. All right, seven more of those to go. Yep. What do we do then, Xanthias?

Ophelia's now wandering towards, do we follow Ophelia for a day? If it is active, if it is active, then Ophelia's going to wander into this thing and we're gonna follow her in, obviously. If it's not, then we've missed our opportunity and we just turn around again. I'm not saying we do this.

We were not saying we're not going in. I know, I'm just saying I'm trying to- Just look at us right now. Trying to figure out when we can take a rest here. When we can stop for a second just to recover. Well the orb is gonna eject from Ophelia when we knock Ophelia out, if we do that. And it's gonna go into one of us,

and it's gonna keep happening. Rowan can't move very fast right now. Unless you have a strong enough mind to resist it. A strong enough... Rowan can't move very fast right now. I'm fine. I fall over. I know you are, big lad.

I get the feeling that if we manage to get it out of Ophelia, it won't be able to latch on to me or her again for a while. So we just need to protect you three from it. How do you do that? It went straight in. Nothing. There's no way to get it back out that we found without beating someone up, and that's not a very good solution, and something that we don't want to do.

I'll take the opportunity. Bit of revenge. Fuck you! I know this is all of you. The best I can do is make you feel like you can bolster yourself to resist the effects. That's all I can do. Do we feel like you can bolster yourself to resist the effects.

That's all I can do. Do we try and get closer to the place where it is and then find a place to rest? Do we maybe get rid of it? It's nighttime at the moment, isn't it? Do we wait till the day? Did it feel even slightly weaker during the day or? No.

No, no. The only thing is if we go to wherever this journey's end is, there might be more of those things there. More things to do there. Because they're trying to take everyone there, right? I don't know what the solution is. All I have is a vague direction. We could, I don't want to, but we could try our luck

and get rid of this thing now and just wander in that direction, but then we're aimless at that point. I don't know if this was intending to take a turn at any point or if there's gonna be some more obstacles that this thing was prepared for that we're not. Can I get another wisdom chamber, please? 13.

Does that beat the DC? No, it doesn't. Damn. You need a 14. 14, fuck. I don't know what the solution is. My only worry is that Rowan was lagging behind. What if I become possessed?

That might be easier. Might be, but you are significantly harder to stop when you get going. Yeah, I know. I know. Oh dear. What's your bonus to your wisdom saving throws? Zero. All right, I'll't know. I don't know. Oh dear. What's your bonus to your wisdom saving throws? Zero.

All right, I'll roll one. I'll do the last six or however many it is. I'm weaker at the moment, I'm slower, so it's easier for you to keep up with me right now. It's just finding a time to rest outside of this place when we get there. Yeah, the thing with this is when you were pursuing Xanthius, it's just that he never stopped.

Like you didn't, not even to like eat or drink or like take a minute, like he just didn't stop moving. So none of you got a chance to stop moving. That was almost the harder bit is that like, you know, it wasn't necessarily hard keeping up with him. He wasn't moving particularly fast. He just didn't stop, ever. How far is it?

You've got an idea. Maybe half a day, maybe more. All right, okay. I'm honestly surprised Ophelia's still not moving. What if I've got an idea? Ha ha ha ha! Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. We get the possession onto me. That does mean significantly weakening Ophelia now.

Or we allow Ophelia to travel for an hour, allowing us to at least rest. We put Saren or something like that on them to keep track. And then we catch up. They're walking, Ophelia's walking, We put Seren or something like that on them to keep track. And then we catch up. They're walking, Ophelia's walking, they're not in danger. An hour's not gonna be enough rest for you, Rowan. I know, but what else can we do? Can't do a full long rest.

But that's what we need. This is the problem. I don't know what else to suggest. I don't know what else to suggest. I don't see a winning solution here. I could go with Ophelia. I can go with Ophelia too, it doesn't... But I'm just looking at Gruff, you and Rowan, like very, very much like you need some sleep.

I think we're all in need of a nice long rest. Very much. We just try our luck and get there. One more, yeah. As a point, the last five seconds before the spell ends, 15, I rolled a 15 on your last day. So eventually, yeah, like you guys have been having this conversation at the end of this kind of conversation, Ophelia kind of stumbles and then just begins walking.

First of all, Sister Ophelia? Oh, release the air. First of all, coming Sister Ophelia. We can carry on walking and still make a plan here. There is a benefit to it. I am gonna introduce a small complication. Ophelia moves faster than any of you. And the body is capable of keeping up with that, and Percival doesn't get exhausted,

so he can keep dashing. Oh, shit. Ophelia and Percival are, like, you move at what, 50 feet? 50 feet, yeah. Oh my god, just let... So almost double our speed, just... 100 feet dashing. So keeping up with her is gonna be significantly harder.

I'm done. I'm done. You can triple dash, you're fine. No, but I'm exhausted. Where's you out? Yeah, where's you out? I don't have any solution for this stupid, stupid problem. Oh my god. It's not a stupid problem for this stupid, stupid problem.

It's not a stupid problem. It is a stupid problem. Ophelia moves too fast, it's stupid. Why you move so fast? Go a slight climb as well. You can clip up the mountains like the Skyrim. Like the Skyrim wall. It learns that and just goes, wait,

there's a faster route straight over this way. There's a faster route straight over this way. Oh. Well, what do we do? I mean, as you're standing around thinking, like, I'm guessing. What, we're gonna walk? Yeah, okay, okay. You guys are having to like, like jog,

like almost run after Ophelia. You are dashing effectively. I think I'm definitely falling behind. Like it's, yeah, you're exhausted, this is going to make it really hard. If you keep this up, it's going to be Constitution saving throws that get steadily harder for exhaustion. Okay. I've got minus five feet to speed right now, so I'm at...

25. It says 35. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so you're actually probably the same as... You're the same as you guys at the moment, but all of you are slower. Still dashing at Ophelia's strut speed. She just has a natural life speediness to her

from her own adventure. I'm just finger cutting in the way. Squirrel, hey! Seven G. Jesus. Gonna ask what's the plan, team? I know it's a try. It's a tough one.

I've got a silly idea, but. Sure, I love silly ideas. I don't know how long it'll last. I love silly ideas. I have a silly idea that Gruff wild shapes into a little mouse, Saren flies him towards Ophelia to drop little mouse Gruff on Ophelia.

You wouldn't even need Saren. You could just, you could run up to Ophelia, transform into a mouse as you jump and just land on her shoulder. A mouse probably isn't gonna set this thing off. So at least I'm with her. But the only thing is, like, Wild Shape only lasts a few hours, so I don't know if we'd get anywhere or like... Well, Xantheus reckons it's at least half a day.

You can at least short rest in Ophelia's bag. Could I short rest as a little pocket mouse? Hell yeah. Remember, short rest does not give you an exhaustiongeted bag? Could I short rest as a little pocket mouse? Hell yeah. Remember, short rest does not give you an exhaustion bag or spell slots back or anything like that. It doesn't really help me with a lot of stuff though, to be honest. I think we all healed, did you guys all heal?

I healed, but it's my spell slots and a lot of my druid stuff is long rest. It's a tricky one. Okay. We do have these potions we got. One day of bliss, what's the worst that could happen? The respite of youth. I've forgotten what they are.

We also have spells. Wisdom of the Crone, Dreamwalker, respite of youth, true self, and mage breath's incense. The mage breath's incense isn't the worst. Mage breath's would be useful, but yeah. It's only fixed an hour as well to use. Fixed an hour, yeah. Unless we just stick the incense into like...

Oh yeah, the incense. But then I think Graff had a good point of like, yeah, well like Rowan, you could send Saren to pursue her, so that at least you can keep an eye on her, take a short rest and then carry on, but, or you could try something else. You could probably, you've got enough experience now where you could probably grapple a failure

and force feed a potion down the neck. If you have any spells, I don't know, it might be worth trying something different, or I don't know, it's up to you guys. Yes. Yep. I can do animating performance, right? Yes.

And it brings a thing to life. Yes. Can I bring Sostenuto to life and use it like a segue? Just rest on it and it kind of floats me forward. How long does it last? Good question. I don't think it'd last that long, but you could. You wouldn't be able to get rid of your exhaustion.

To get rid of the exhaustion, by the way, minimum of a long rest. Like eight hours, like ten hours rest. One hour. Yeah, one hour, it's not gonna be enough. Do we get saving throws? For what? Possession, her being possessed. Yeah, she did. Is that it?

No, no, it's just one and done. No, God no. This is proto stuff. If not, I would have. I don't know what Chat's saying, but no. You don't fucking get that. Probably, no. You would have made a million of them for Xantheus.

I would have made a million, but I still don't think I would have passed. It's not passed. I've got a minus two. Yeah, but also, I mean, with that Wisdom saving throw, you just saw there, it took nearly 10 of them. But also, no, generally with a ghost possession, you get one saving throw. If you fail it, you're possessed. That's the whole point of possession.

It's not a once per six seconds saving throw thing or anything like that. This is the challenge. It's a nice host. Can I just try, it is damage, can I try a Mind Sliver on Ophelia? What's that? It's, I mean, it's psychic damage, specifically. They do have to make an intelligence save,

but I'm just wondering if psychic damage would break down some kind of wall in there or something. Can you make an intelligence save so we can reform you too? Worst case, we're eventually gonna weaken you anyway. Did you get like a nat 20 or something? Oh my god! All right, okay. I would flavor that, I like the idea

that that is the thing protecting the mind, is like, you kind of feel like something rebound. That's fine, that was just a cantrip. Give it one second, or six seconds. I go again. Yeah, give me one I mean, son? It's not even true. Yeah.

Oh my God. It's only like default cycle damage. 16. Okay. 12 seconds later. Another one! I will break your mind! I would say after the first one,

it would trigger this thing's flight or flight, and so Ophelia starts dashing now. Oh shit. And so it's like a hundred feet around, so you're like, ugh, like, even dashing you guys are gonna struggle to keep up with her if she runs. That's the thing, my only worry with sitting still

and having Sarah and follow is for every hour we rest, it's two hours we have to catch up, and therefore three hours to get back to her. Ophelia's too fast for... I'd say that this incident with like, now triggering her to start running, you've lost some time because she moves so quickly and then you've got to like double dash to kind of catch up.

But after a while, once the orb seems to sense it's not under threat anymore, it reduces back down to like a walking speed. So you have to like chase after for like, maybe like five minutes and then you're like, oh my God, because she's just slowing down. So catch up. I'm just gonna keep up at this point.

Like, aside from just doing exactly the same again, of just knocking you out essentially, or continuously casting Horde Person, which I can only do very few more times. We made it. Would you like to make any checks to figure out, like, Ophelia was the only one who's made a check so far to figure out what you did.

I've done a check. You rolled badly, yeah, you rolled badly. I did a check when I grappled. And the Mind Sliver is just a... You did a medicine check, because you said you wanted to check and see if there was any physical injury on Xanthias. You didn't check for any magical knowledge or anything.

Yeah, I mean the Mind Sliver was sort of a probe into Ophelia's mind in order to see. I would say that with the Mind Sliver, you would have been able to like attack her mind, but you don't think it would have done anything to disrupt the possession necessarily. If like physical harm didn't break it out of you and the whole person didn't stop it,

you don't think the Mind Sliver were done? Give me an Arcana check. Yeah, yeah, I think I'm, ultimately I'm trying to figure out a way to break the possession early without just, Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. Punching the shit out of someone. Punching or stabbing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, give me an Arcana check. Or throwing knives or whips or cudgels or. Point of fate as well. I could point of fate. Our last point of fate, yeah, Arcana. Yeah. The plus three. Wow, that's three. Wow. That's just...

Seven. Sometimes dice don't lie. It's like Dice Tell Stories, man. No, like you're struck, like Xantheus, like you were possessed by this thing, you can't think of anything, like this is out of your realm of knowledge. I feel like it's almost still a sort of a flicker of remnant.

I don't want to. I want to be. No, I mean a remnant of the possession from this thing where it's like for some reason it's not letting me perceive it now. Like I've just been rejected by this energy now so I can no longer. This is definitely a type of magic

but yeah, nothing you can really glean. Can I try and make some sort of check? I don't really know. What are you trying? how would you approach it? How is Gruff approaching it? It was the same sort of idea, is there a way to break the possession without physical harm?

Yeah, are you using, is this approaching it from a magic perspective or a spiritual perspective? I'm kind of wondering if there's something from that evening in the pub where I was talking to all the locals, like if he remembers, like someone was like, oh, old Jimmy was possessed once, and like, you know.

We threw salt in his eyes and it helped. Give me a... Salt in the eyes. I've got an idea. Give me a... Pocket salt. History. It's intelligence-based, it's.

Sometimes you roll a high. I roll a three, minus one, two. Sometimes the dice rolls don't make it. There's probably so many different stories as well. Yeah, you're trying to rack your bread. There were, but none of them sound plausible. He did say throw salt in the ice. Throw salt in the ice.

Why would you do that? Oh, if you cut an onion in half and you rub onion in their ears, that breaks it. Yeah. If you make a Wicked Doll of them and then you soak the Wicked Doll in oil and then burn it, there's loads of these, but I don't think any of them are real.

That man was talking nonsense. Can we get ahead of Ophelia? Can I? Hard, you can, yeah. With some dashing, yeah, I think we can. If you do it, I'm probably gonna ask for another constitution check, because you already had to chase after her already once. Yeah, what you thinking?

It's completely pointless what I'm doing, but I like the flavor of what I'm gonna do. I mean, love it. Give me a constitution saving throw, then, but if you're gonna try and run ahead of her. This is my third two. Oh, my God. I only got four, dude.

Yeah, that's another level of exhaustion for you. Yeah, remember, because you rolled a card. Oh my god. I only saw fourth, dude. Yeah, that's another level of exhaustion for me. Yeah, remember, because you rolled a gauntlet. Like, you are, like, you've been sprinting after a, like, you know, after Xantheist did the mindset where you had to chase after it. You are already exhausted. You've been walking this whole time, talking, and like, following her.

Like, you're trying to come up with these plans, like, you have barely eaten, you've barely slept. Like, this is getting real tough now. I think I would also be keeping up as much as possible. You didn't wanna try and get ahead of it, right? You're just following? I mean. Because Rowan's, the reason I had Rowan do that

was because you do do it, by the way, you do get ahead of a failure, so whatever you wanna try, it's just in the process you've worn yourself out even further. It depends if you need an extra person for this plan, and if so, I'll join you. If not. Don't think so. Okay. So I'm gonna use...

I need an Orb of Gonging, because that's about my limit. I'm going to use a Glyph of Warding. Put a glyph on the ground. Okay. Put a spell in it. Okay. Ahead of the path of Ophelia. Okay. Ophelia walks onto it, and it's gonna be Enthral. Okay.

And I'm gonna use that to try and gain an insight to try and create a barrier between the two and figure out the possession essentially. Okay. Using that spell type. Yeah, let's have the Enthral take effect as it normally would. So what does Enthral do?

Wisdom save. Wisdom save, Ophelia please, if you're your favorite. My favorite, I'm gonna succeed. Now 20. Oh my god! The dice does not work. What am I supposed to do now? This is the story that the dice won. Are you kidding me?

I'm so, I just. I've got exhaustion for that. I'm really here. Amazing. The dice want this story to keep going. Listen, all right, but you were doing this, the idea was to, you wanted to try and figure out a bit more about the position.

Yeah, the women's thrall. So the enthrall was like an effect, yeah. So what happens is, Ophelia's body walks over that glyph, has no seen awareness or doesn't seem to care that it's walking into the glyph. Rona's like hyperventilating. And you see the flash of magic, bright swirling colors,

but just Ophelia walks straight through it and carries on going. Why is it always this stuff? What I will tell you is that there is, because you've expended like some pretty big resources, that's what, like a third level spell and a second level spell or something like that. Just let me go, just let me go guys, it's fine.

What I would say, Ronan, is. No, I've beaten the shit out of you. What you can work out. The best trauma here that's ever happened. Is you think that one of the, the thing is, is You think that one of the... The thing is, is you think that part of the reason that Enthral spell didn't work is because whatever this effect is, it's very similar to a creature being charmed or dominated

or having some sort of mind influence. You don't think this is like a ghost possession. This is like something has taken control of her body, like a magic spell or some sort of effect. So maybe something that could end like a charm spell or like a mind domination or something like that. Any sort of spell that would remove the charmed effect would work on this, you think.

I have counter charm. I think that is like when a creature is being charmed. That's when they're doing a saving throw. So it's reactive. That'd be good to know, though. Yeah, that is like when a creature is being charmed. That's when they're doing a saving throw. So it's reactive. That'd be good to know though. Yeah, that is good to know. As you guys walk past me,

I'm just gonna lie on the floor for a minute. You run up ahead, so you've got like a little bit of time as they're like coming up. Rowan, you know which way we're going, just following this. It's a charm, it's a sort of charm effect. A charm, okay, charm, okay, got it. It's been removed. That effect. A charm, okay, charm, okay, got it! It needs to be removed. That's what I figured out.

But it also, the implication- I've got nothing to deal with though! Yeah, I was gonna say, the idea of trying a charm person or a suggestion probably won't work because she's already under the effects of something like that. It needs the reverse. Yeah, it needs something that can undo a charmed effect.

I think a good bludgeon to the fucking game would do it. That will also work, as has been- Come over here, I'm gonna punch you inudgeon to the fucking game. That will also work as has been proven. Come over here, I'm gonna punch you in the back of the head. Well. It wouldn't take much. It wouldn't take much. Now you're okay with me stopping this thing.

Yeah, I mean once we get to the bolt, yeah. So why don't we take a break, let you guys have a little think, and then when we come back to it, we'll find out what happens. Fucking hilarious. All right, well, we will see you in five minutes, everybody. See you at Part Two.

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