High Rollers DnD - Courier of Crownsteel (Part 1) | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #91

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

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Accompanied by holy knights and warriors of the Church of the Sions, they seek to secure any crown steel pieces and defeat the emissary, Yanaria, a powerful celestial and fiendish creature that has helped call forth more crownfallen beasts. to Althea. During the battle, all but one of the crown-stil pieces have thus far been secured, but Xanthius drew too close to the remaining peace and felt a familiar hunger and obsession take over him. Daisy, fearing what would happen to him, grabbed Xanthius and used her cape of

silver mist to dimension door him 200 feet away before he was fully overtaken. Meanwhile, Ophelia and the others fought Yanaria and managed to deliver a killing blow. However, before she could finally fade, Yanaria erupted with flame and some power seemed to overtake her, transforming her into Yanaria the Embed. And the battle continues. And that, my friends, is where we pick back up today. Jumping straight into phase two, as was accurately predicted, uh, phase two of this battle against the emissary Yanaria. LFG. LFG.

LFG. Well, you've got a lovely group already. LFG, bros. No, not... Oh. Very good, well done. You've already got a group, Tom. You don't need to LFG. WTB?

A group. We have. We are going to jump straight in. We're going to keep the same initiative. Oh, shit. But to set things up, you are fighting over this impact site. There are kind of ruined stone walls.

There are fragments of rock and things like that around you. Daisy has done. just arrived on the edges of the battlefield, having zoomed in with the haste speed, a haste spell, thanks to Xanthius. Yonaria has conjured this sort of storm of crownfall-looking weaponry that seems to have almost kind of spread out from her.

We currently have... Sir Morning is in the process of sealing that last... needs to begin the ritual to seal the last crown-stil piece that has not yet begun it. Sogloria is main holding open the reliquary which is required to secure the crown steel. We have Rowan and Gruff, Ophelia,

and several of the Holy Warrior Knights basically surrounding Janaria, who is currently floating a few feet up in the air. There is a spirit dragon, a dragon spirit that has been summoned in. And then we have a few of the other holy warriors scattered around protecting the reliquaries that contain the other crown fallen pieces.

And we are going to begin with Rowan, followed by Gruff. Just to double check, I'm dazed currently. That will end at the beginning of your turn. The beginning of my turn, okay, cool. Yes, yes. Rowan taking stock of the situation is going to probably bolster his ass.

Just to say, Kim, did you, sorry. Was your last turn affected by the days? Because I think it was. It was, yeah, I thought so as well. Because that's the idea. Demention, yes. So it would have been at the end of your last turn. Yes. So I'm free. Yes. So correction, it would have been at the end of your last turn because you would have had the turn being dazed and then Rowan would have grabbed you. Yes.

And you did one thing, yeah. One thing. Yes, that's right. So that's the special condition dazed. It's a Hebrew one. So Rowan, follow by Gruff. Feeling the growing fear within Rowan seeing this creature come back. He wishes to quell someone else's fear so he casts heroism on Gruffeth. Okay. What does that do? So that gives you three temp HP and you are immune to frighten. Oh, no. Immune to frightened? Yeah.

Oh, do we need to do faith? We will do, yes. Well, we'll see. If Rowan doesn't need to make a role, then it will. Can I cast it higher level? You can do it. Yes, that's perfectly beautiful. And I already said that I did it.

Oh, yeah, that's fine. I don't know, it's fine. Sir morning is next to me, right? Yes. So morning and Sir Glory. Give them heroism as well. Okay, sure. I just do a one higher level.

And how much hit temp HB was there? Three, and they can't be frightened. Great, and they get three at the start of their turn? We, we, bomb, four. We do need to do fate because this is battle and obviously fate actions and things like that. Oh, big boy. What are we looking?

Five. A five, that's one for you. A six. Another one for you. Five. Another one for you. Three. That's one for me.

One. That's one for me. Oh, I. Even Stevens, isn't it? It is. Oh, you. Completely even Steven. Three, you.

Stephen. Fucking Steven. Fucking Steven. You're named Steven. You, I don't think you're that even. So, Rowan, action to cast heroism. Yes. So I'm going to move back.

So I'm going to move back. So I'm going to move. Five, ten, fifteen, behind that cover there. Okay. And then I'm going to... You didn't disengage. Fuck.

So I am going to get an opportunity to attack. Go, right. as you move away. Just realizing that. There, I thought they were up high enough for it to not be an issue. So you can see that they've summoned this kind of swarm of weapons around them

that seems to coalesce out. They're hovering, they're not hovering that high above you currently, they're only about 10, 15 feet above you currently. I will take the swords. It's not gonna hit anyway. It's not gonna hit. Yeah, I pre-coct this.

Okay, 20 to hit? Yeah. At least it wasn't natural to me. I've got loads of health. There's a wrench in your precog. That is going to be 13 slashing damage. The fucking God. And six necrotic damage.

So 19 total. What? You also feel, Rowan, as these weapons made of this dark, red-like ore and material, as they strike you, you feel this lingering touch of malice, almost. you can just feel like this hate radiating out from this wound and you were afflicted by a curse. Oh. Good.

That could last. We love curses. We're good at Pick and Lose Up. Until the start of her next time. Oh shit. I'm not going to tell you what it does. You'll need to use a roll on your turn to try and figure out what it does. Dragon, can you help?

And then I'll go to dragon turn. Dragon go. dragoning in, flies. Dragging in. Dragon go bur. Dragon, Deng, oh. And then he's going to do his multi-attack, so it's first of all, it's two Rends, I do believe.

Yes, using your spell attack. Rind. Spell attack, bonus. Rend. Doesn't hit first one? You don't know, I would say, do you check? Plus three, no, spell attack, four plus seven. So 11.

It does not hit. But I will say that, Yeah, things could be different. She was quite hard to hit previously, but she might be different now. Oh, he's a one. Fucking dragon. So the dragon flies in.

I think that the dragon is almost hesitant because there is this aura around her, and as it goes to strike, the dragon is going to take because it made a melee attack. Can I get a breath weapon in first? You can get the breath weapon in first, yes. Because it's probably going to die.

Okay. It's going to see DC. of 15. I'm pretty sure if a fine is gonna fail. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So can I just aim at these swords? The wall of swords are swirling around. Yeah, it's kind of, it's not like a war of swords,

it's like multiple weapons kind of flowing around for almost like a cloud, but you can strike her and the weapons at the same time. The weapons don't seem to be like a physical thing. Just, I'm gonna breast weapon that area, the lightning. That's gonna kill it three. Three points of, what kind of damage?

That lightning. Lightning damage, okay. Yeah, it does not know. Does blast Yonaria, but as the dragon goes to bite Yonaria, there is this kind of warding flare of fire and light off of her angelic form, and the dragon's can take five, five damage and four radiant damage. Nine total.

Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, it's probably dead. Maybe it did. You tell me. Maybe did what? Yeah, it was on 11. It was on 11, so it's got two HP left. Okay. So it took nine.

As he goes to bite it. What I will say is watching as it strikes at Rowan and as the dragon goes to bite it, when you fought Yanaria previously, she moved with this almost unnatural, agile grace, almost trying to predetermine where you were going to be and where she was going to strike. That grace and that quickness and that agility

seems to have gone and is just being manifested now as like raw power. So she doesn't seem as quick, but perhaps now seems strong. stronger than you've thought before. I like it. Alright, end of turn for you, Rowan. End of turn for me and my dragon.

You and your dragon says, go Fergal. Okay. It's really got Fergal thing. Do you want to legendary action here? Where is Fergal? Oh, he's amongst all the masses down there. Next to the Waller Boy. Oh yeah, he's down in there.

Gruff gone. I'll save my legendary. Save my legendary for now. Go on. I will move closer to Sir Morning and Sir Glory just so I can protect them while they're doing. You're kind of stood on top of the crown still currently, but they're in the process of about to put it in the reliquary.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just going to sit on it like an egg. Three temp topped up at the start of the time, but it's all fresh, so. Okay. And I'm going to whistle as I do that and Serran will dive up into the sky. No.

Ooioi. Oh dear. I've turned it to a bro. Just crippled a really dramatic battle, yeah. No, I'm going to use one of my summoning whistles to send Seron shooting up into the sky and a bolt of lightning will come down a ponsed Unaria phase two.

Can you make a dexte? I'm assuming you're going to aim this in a way where it doesn't hit you or your eyes. Nice bird. 16. I say natural 20 for me. So a success. Oh, 10, 14, 15, 16, halved.

16, half. Sorry, really looking over the dice there. Nice. Nice, one day. It's a good numbers. Like it's just been served food and you're like appreciated. Yeah, nice.

I appreciate good dice rolls. The lightning bolt thunders down in this flash but you watch as the ribbon-like red wings kind of pull themselves in as she dives and ducks to the side, scorching the land beside you. But unfortunately, was able to, despite having lost some of that quickness, able to just reposition herself.

I'm not, I've not got any bonus thing to do, so I'm just going to RP kind of heft my shield to get ready to protect. So morning and Sir Glory. Question on mechanics. Yes, go ahead. Three temp from Rowan, but I also will get eight from my armour. So they don't have a stack.

So you can take the highest. Yeah, you take that eight and that's it. You get the other benefit of heroism, you can't be frightened, but yeah. Heroism good if you don't have another source of temporary hip points. What if you were born? End of turn, gruff. End of my turn. At the end of your turn, I am going to use a legendary action, which, violent surge,

which I can use for free if the creature that I do. target either used a range spell or cast a spell on Yanaria. Violence Surge. So I'm just going to make a melee attack against you. It's part of Final Surge, which I believe is going to miss because that's an actual one. So again, sort of thrusts her hand out and this kind of storm of blades fly down, but you pull the shield up, bounce off of you. All right, so after, that was at the end of Gruff's turn.

Sir Morning. Sir Morning will, as a bonus action, look at you, Gruff. I'm sorry this has taken so long, my friend. Malia, spirit of the moon, mistress of secrets and beauty, guide this one, guide their weapon, strike true. As you watch as your axe becomes charged with lightning and it's going to cast elemental weapon. Which means you do an extra D6 of lightning damage

and it now counts as a magical weapon. But then we'll use his action to begin the right on the reliquary, basically with a crown steel in it. But has to maintain that. It's basically like concentrating on a spell If that's disrupted, the right is interrupted and he has to start again on his turn. All right.

Right. That is going to be someone's turn. Tennantle is Percy. He seems to have, I don't know if he's down. He's fell into the town. Is he unconscious or is he? I think he just fell down. I don't think he's taken him down.

He's like prone or anything. I think he just maybe got knocked down as a mini. Yeah, I'll have him run in an assist. Yeah. So five, 10, 15, Yeah, he can get there. Like I said, she's about... She's 10 feet up, isn't it?

She's about 15 feet up at the moment, yes. But there are, like, rocks nearby and things like that. Yeah, I'll think I'll get him... I'll get Percy to clamber up on a rock and get him to get a strike in on Unaria. Try and, like, make a jumping strike or something like that. Yeah, I've been to stand with Nerophilia as well. Yeah, if you place him next to Ophelia,

we'll say that he runs up on the rocks, jumps, makes his strikes and then lands, basically. Let's go, Pursy! LFG! WTB! 18 to hit. ASL. 18 to hit, will hit. Oh, yes.

Okay. That's what I know. So, D8 plus three. Droughton the days and lodging damage. What times. ASL. It's going to help because it's a non-magical weapon.

You don't know ASL. I don't know I was about to die. His turn. All right. Don't worry. Percy is going to take two fine damage and one radiant damage as he makes a melee attack against her.

Cool. All right. But the wind-up. on this attack was unreal. Yeah, he went around the whole boom to do it. He was a big monster, all the way around to find damage. I like to think that he had a whole way right, he's like, oh, damn.

Graff, you're very obviously protecting the two next to you, aren't you? I'm gonna spend one of my legendary actions, and I will spend a point of fate on this one, to use a light soul. Can you make a constitution saving through port for me, please, Graff? Is it a poison or disease? It is not. Can it be?

20, dirty. 20 is a success. Fulf. So you feel the air sort of around you begin to heat and sizzle and you sort of take a reflective stance and sort of, you know, not reflective stance, more like a determined stance and sort of shrug and steal your body as the air around you sort of ignites briefly.

And you feel something more spiritual try to get at you again, but it doesn't take an effect as, yeah, they try to use this, Billy, but you resist it. I will not falter. We then go to Xanthias. Oh my god, and I'm like 200 feet away. I believe you move 30 feet so you're 170 feet away. I mean, I'm also flying,

which only gives me 30 feet of movement. Hmm. Plotty cold, I'm a little bit hesitant. Hesitant to rejoin the battle, what with the Crown Steal Shard still being there. And having just relinquished control. But there is also a part of me, that is pitying sovereign.

Because I'm like, is this, if this is the gift, is this good enough? Like, all the power in the world that he has and he drops something that we are taking care of so quickly and so aptly and deftly. Or maybe the emissary isn't the gift. What are you saying this to the GM?

because the GM is sovereign. No, I'm not sovereign. They are an entity. I know of their methods and intentions, but... You're such a gift receter. You know, you're like... I'm going to use the receipt. I'm certainly not going to...

You know when people are like... I put their seat in case... I will remind, by the way, that Xanthius saw how pure one of the shards of Crown Steel was. This one, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The one that you...

That grasp your attention. But there was a hunger for it when he was enraptured. by it. Sure. Zamtheus has regained. Sure. Zanthius is piloting this fleshy Voltron

that he calls his own body. Uh-huh. He is the black line in his own brain. Okay. Shiro. Until later on when he changes. Anyway. Do you want to take your turn?

I mean, I'm just watching on this group of people that I call my bestest buds fighting so valiantly against this creature. It also feels like he's only gonna be a hindrance when he rejoins, but there is just the thought circling of, I know you can hear me, Sovereign. Is this it? Well, you know that you have closed off your chest.

That communication is not open currently. You resealed the runes. But I know that opening. So if you want to talk to Sovereign, you have to will the runes. spoken again. That's true. And there is, that's cross in my mind. It is crossing my mind.

You're trouble. But no one's around me right now, and it was only an issue when there were people around me, especially dragons. You had to give up quite a lot. Anyway, I don't know, just fucking do what you want. So, I mean, I always want to fucking belittle this dude. Like, for real.

Okay. Is that what you do? Much do you like us. Yeah. No, do it, I love it, do it. All the strength in the world, he's a god. Yes. And he drops that.

Like, yeah, it's scary, but it's not as scary as all of us. Are you done with your turn? I wanna open a connection to solve. You're doing a lot of talking. I wanna open a collection to solve room, please. Okay. I think that we've established that the thoughts and the ideas.

You can do this, how much effort it takes. to re-forge the protection, I think, is very different. I don't want to shatter the runes this. I feel like I broke a wall when I did it at that time. I want to try to focus it. And in that case, I would like a spell casting role from you. So D20 plus just your charisma. Spell casting plus my charisma.

DC4 is high, but not unbeatable. I want to fate it. Oh, thank you. No problem, maybe. Oh yeah, oh yeah, 22. 22. This time, Xanthia's focusing, rather than smashing down this barrier of ruins that your body, your subconscious, creates, this time much more delicate, much more precise, removing brick by brick as a stone mason might,

you begin to switch off the ruins in a sequence that safely removes that protection. And once again, that relief, almost like that pressure being relieved from your chest. chest, you know, that weight being taken off of you that presses down on you, to the point where for so long you didn't notice it until now, finally, realizing you can do this whenever you want, and really what difference is there to you? This doesn't affect you in any way, apart from this wonderful relief that you feel. And you feel that, yeah, that's what happens. So what do you do next?

I mean, I'm voicing those thoughts, really. I know you can hear me and I know you're listening to me and I know you're following me and I know you've seen everything that I can do that we can do. You sent me a gift, I do not accept. If this is all you can do trapped in your cage

then it is not enough for me. Yes. You've got 22 on that. I did, yeah. I sent you. What would make you strong? If you do not accept my gift, there are plenty of others

who will gladly take it for themselves. As for what I can do, I will give you this warning only once. Child of Oregonus. Do know your play, mortal. creature of my design. And we'll go on to the next time. And save you for next time,

unless you would like to move? Would you like to have been doing that whilst flying 30 feet? Yeah, let's go a little bit forward, just in case. 140 feet. Just in case that Crown Steel Shard does look a little tasty. You know, no. I also need to get closer for the spells

in case I do want to help out at all. Sure. Could you have Sir Glory? As much as I appreciate the protection from Gruff, Sir Glory is a holy knight and does not want to cower behind somebody else. Well, they are both of the terrorism. They are.

Protect us while we do the thing. Protect Sir Morning. So Glory's set the reliquary up. Glory's done. Glory can't do anything else. So Glory's going to move to the side. So maybe move like 10, like keep it within 15 feet of, yeah. So about there.

So she doesn't move out of range. The little dot can go to Sir Morning. That's the Crown Seal Shard. And then we'll just basically charge up like, Pirus, your holy light, and fire a radiant burst at their enemy for a hit. It is radiant damage, so it will be carved, but will it be high damage, no.

Five radiant damage, halved to two. And should be like, get away, and blast upwards. Yes. Yes. Yes. And then I think I'm gonna spend that lovely, in fact, actually no, I don't need to, because the MPC attacked me.

Again, we'll just make a violent storm, a legendary action to attack Sir Glory. That will be a hit against Sir Glory. So you see as Sir Glory kind of blasts with this radiant bolt, Yanariah the angel just looks down and just with a swipe of a hand, a great sword made of this crowns to light material just flies down and slashes at Sir Glory. As it does, it kind of cuts up.

across and can see similar to Rowan leaving some sort of lingering aura of like red mist, red and black mist that coils around the wound cursing Sir Glory as well, who does look pretty bad shape after that attack. We then jump up a brand new round, which means it's Yonari's turn. Yay, yay. My favorite, hello. Hello. An underwhelming gift, right Tom? Yeah. So many delicious enemies all within attack range. So I think I'm just gonna stay right where I am and make a bunch of attacks. Spinning do.

Spinning do. Daisy, you are visible on the battle. You've moved in because you shot at her last time, didn't you? Yes, but I was still, I think, 60, 50 to 60 feet away from the battle. You've just put me on. Yes, because you were attacking. you were attacking.

But I still stayed at a distance. No, I think I was 70 feet, because I could shoot with my bow at 80 feet. So I came to like, within 70 feet of her or something. I'll put a note down that you're currently 70 feet off. That is still in range for what I'm thinking. Oh, Jesus. So two, the storm of weapons is going to strike,

I think, Ophelia, because you're the one who knocked her down the last time. And then I think this would be an attack aimed at Sir Morning Gruff, if you want to intercept it. So you're going to use your reaction to use your, ability. So I'll attack you basically instead. So one at Ophelia, that's a 23 to hit. Yep. And one at Gruff, that is going to be a 20 to hit. Does not hit. Does not hit because of armour and thorns, yeah. Nice. Just being the tank that you're meant to be. But Ophelia, you are going to be struck four,

and I have to separate this out for you. So that's going to be 12 points of slashing damage, which is half to six. And are you resistant to necrotic? No, not yet. Okay, so five points of necrotic damage. And again, you have that same curse-like feeling, like this sense of malice all over your body as you are struck by it. And then towards Daisy, I have been struck at these two foes, the hooded mast just looks in your direction, and even across this distance,

you see this figure looks towards you. And where there was light, this kind of warm, sort of fiery light within the hood, this time that light almost, like an implosion sucks down into a dark void and something connects with you. I need you to roll a charisma role for me, so just D20 plus your charisma.

Not much. Can I use a fake? You absolutely can, yeah. I roll a one. I need to know exactly your total. 77. 77. What, wait, oh, you need to know my total on the dice.

I thought you meant my. Yes, no, no, no, no. One, seven. So seven total, because I have to work out the difference between what I rolled and what you rolled to determine damage. Oh, oh, Crocky. So this might take me out. Cool.

This is gonna be pretty bad. What kind of damage is it? It is gonna be psychic damage. Oh. Ech. Bless. A mega bless. You, Daisy, as this thing looks towards you, I use its hateful gaze ability.

Oh, that did cost me a bruce. point of fate, I should mention as well. You see a flash in your mind as you almost connect with this creature and you see a battlefield, not too dissimilar to this one, but everything is burnt or burning, there is screaming. You see horrors. And actually, they'd be horrors that you partially recognize because they bear the designs, the crystals, those strange automaton forms of the... proto-maggi creatures, and you see these angel demon hybrids fighting them, and it's just, and

this agony and pain and suffering, everything around you is burning, and you feel almost in your head this voice screaming in agony at you. And then it cuts, and you can, you feel this sensation of being ripped and pulled and then locked in a place where you are just burning with that screaming in your ear. for what feels like eternity. Oh my God, I'm still going. Jesus, that's so big. More dice, more dice.

47 psychic damage. Oh, Jesus, that sucks big time, that's fucking big. That is the difference between your role and theirs was 13. Oh, so it's 13, D6. Oh my God. So D6 of damage for every point. I'm quite hurt now. Between your will powers.

So that was like a contest of her hate- versus Daisy's mind. And it just overwhelms Daisy. And perhaps NIM as well, perhaps there's almost an element of here of it affecting you worse because for NIM this is almost seeing a creature that is so close to NIM and it just, your mind is just full of this horrific hatred.

That's a cool. That is, cool. That is the end of their turn. Oh, okay. It also cost a failure as well. Yeah. But don't worry guys, the Holy Warriors, for God. Fergol, Perry, Kanaar.

They're here. They, she's flying about 15 feet up in the air, so they put away their weapons and they draw out. They had like short bows and things, they've got range weapons on them. I thought they were gonna, they were just gonna go, no, oh no. They're just like, we can't reach a,

and they start drope, bows out, fire a will, and they're gonna try and fire their bows. Why will? Who would you like to go first? Do you like Fergal last or? Fergal last, yeah. Right, Harry, first two attacks. Let's go Harry.

Or a hit, second attack, a miss. Kahnar, first attack, a miss. Second attack, or a hit. Yay! I'll do their damage first. You only ever get one. Final hit. Yeah.

See, for one or none. Kanaar does okay, but it is halved again, but does manage to do three points of damage. Poor old Harry only does three points of damage. Of the one. Oh, hairy. My lad. But don't worry guys.

Here it comes. Fergal. Let's go, Fergal! My name's my favorite MPC. I'm gonna roll it publicly. I'm gonna re-roll that. Yep. Oh!

Is a hit. Oh, okay. You see his lower in this mode. No, Fergal. Another hit, two hits. Deuce is. Clearly, a former archer or hunter, perhaps better with the bone than they are.

The damage isn't great. Fog's gonna create. It's better than the others. four plus another three, seven points of damage. Shumfergal. Hell yeah. Bring her down, bring her and take. I'm still burning on the inside.

Oh, God. He is still afflicted by Brightburn. That's how I feel. But that is the Warriors, the Warriors three. Nell and the others have just basically retreated. They are just holding their position, holding the reliquaries, protecting them. So, Daisy, we do go to your turn.

Hello. I'm going to use healing hands on myself. Okay. Seems wise. I'll do that in a minute. Sure. So I have haste at the moment, so that's one action. Second action, I will shoot with Parheelian.

Okay. So just the one attack this time. Unless you use your healing hands as your haste action. I could use my healing hand. You only get one action. You only get one attack with an action. Ropes only get one attack base. Oh yeah.

No multi-attack. Got it. Yeah. Same page. I mean, also, Daisy absolutely has to heal herself. No, yeah, yeah. Just took a shit load of that.

Sorry, I thought you had multi-attack. No, I need to. No, I don't, which is why. Well, I don't with Parheelian. I can... But you can only sneak attack once a turn anyway, so one attack is more than enough if you hear. And the dragon does count as an ally,

so you do have an ally within five feet, basically, I would say. I just couldn't move the dragon to be within five feet. Okay. That is an eight. 18 to hit. That will hit. Stereo's girl. 29 points of piercing damage.

Piercing damage from a magical weapon, so it does go through. Plus I think she takes, my provisioning bonus three. Yes. She takes three radiant damage because I'm in my angel form. Which would be half. Which would be half. And then,

might just stay at a bit of a distance. We'll be harder for the others to heal you, like gruffing that to heal you if you stay far. I'm going to go that way. So I want to come in from towards where Rowan is, like, basically. And you've got 60 feet of movement? Yeah. So you'll be 10 feet off the battle.

I've got loads of dash stuff. But we basically know that Daisy is 10 feet off the side. 10 feet off the side near Rowan instead. Sure. Okay. And yeah, I'll just heal myself. Okay. Yeah.

Sounds good. 4D4. 4D4 plus 4. Oh, 4044. Yeah. 404. What's you thinking that? Whether to attack Daisy again?

No. I mean I can. I could use my legendary action to fly and attack you. But do I want to? You get an attack of opportunity from the spiritual dragon, so Yonario probably wouldn't. Lots of people. Absolutely. Well, actually a lot of people aren't in melee range because she's flying 50,000.

because she's flying 50 feet. Yeah. I'm not going to attack Daisy just yet. I've got something else I want to spend my fate on. Gigi, me. Gigi. So that is Daisy Stern. We go to Ophelia.

Yeah, Ophelia is currently standing to the left of Yonaria, and I want Ophelia to go behind Yonaria onto this cluster of rocks behind her. And can I jump up, extend my weapons reach by 10 feet of a blood point, and make two strikes against her? Technically, you don't need to do the jump with a jump that extension of the 10 feet because you can get up on five feet.

And yeah, I think, did you mean this one? Yes, that one, perfect, yeah. Oh. And can I use my sword and replacement for my vampiric bite ability? Yes, that's very much Verasti's mode. So I shall do that as well. And she's not gonna stand there. She will.

Where's my blue tech? If I, I'll make her stand there. If I use Veraceteen replacement of my bite, do I still get advantage because I'm under my heart? You get all the same benefits, it's just you use the swords attack profile instead of the bites. Thank you, Christian.

Well done. I did that. Unnatural 20s. We'll hit. Amazing, right. So, D8 plus a D6. So I'm gonna say the healing and the damage goes off first, but then you are gonna take some damage back

for attacking her in Mellie. No problem, so I'll get my D8 for the healing bonus. So full damage on the D8. 13, 14, 15 on the D8. 15 points of damage. And then one point. one point of necrotic damage. Okay, so resistance to that, but I'm gonna take one,

16. And then second strike. Well, before you do the second strike, you will take three fire damage and one radiant damage. Four, cool. And again, you strike, you almost burnt by this aura that seems to surround her. 25 on the second strike.

We'll hit. Again, D8, six, seven, nine, twelve, 13, 15 again. 15 again. Another 15. Healing and then necrotic damage. Another one. Okay.

You are unfortunately going to take that time. Six fire damage and four radiant damage. So 10 damage total. Both of these strikes with the blood plane slashing into Unaria. However, that aura seems to just radiate a wave back towards you as you are burnt and dazed and blinded by this radiant, bright aura as you strike. Can I use a bonus action to find out what the asses. malice. Yeah.

You could do an arcana check or a religion check. I will do religion, please. It is a magical effect, not a physical one, like healing. 18. 18. You believe that this is literally called the curse of malice. And you can tell, I think it makes sense for Ophelia to figure this out, because whilst you have some training in necromatic, you know, magic

and healing and life and death and those kinds of things that you've learned from Osses, this curse, it will, as long as you are cursed by it, which is until the start of her next turn, you are basically any healing that people try to apply to you, it deals half that damage instead. So you can take damage equal to half the healing instead whilst you are cursed by it.

Oh, no heals for you. Huh. Like zombie from final. Good job Ophelia figured that out, isn't it? They just took a turn at the top of the end. So your curse, I believe, and gruffs, I think. I think that cursed. You didn't get cursed, so yours and glories, that's who it was.

Your curse is gone. Yes, Ophelia is currently cursed, and I didn't hit gruff. I wouldn't know that, though. You don't know that, no. No, not yet. Actually, no, you would. You would feel the malady go at the start of her tone. I wouldn't know what the curse does.

You don't know what the curse does until Ophelia tells you. Can I relay that information? I believe you have the mind-linked. I don't speak common. Wow. Yeah, I spread the mind. strike, this malice strike against you. Oh.

And it's in fact Rowan's turn. But before Rowan's turn, to give him a little bit more time to think, I'm going to spend two of my fate points. Yeah. As you watch, as Yonaria begins to glow and radiate

with power, you can see within her hood that light is slowly growing brighter and brighter. The ribbons and the wings are beginning to glow brighter and as if she is building, as if she is erupting with power. Rowan, it is your turn. At the start of your turn, can you roll a D6 for me, please?

Yeah, check this out. Six, one. Okay, good to know. One round. Take your turn, please. Very well. I'm going to cast mass healing word on as many creatures as I can. I think I'm going to do it at level four.

So that would give me lots. I see any word. Dund dun dun dun dun dun six. Six creatures, so I'm going to opt to not heal Ophelia, unfortunately. Oh, okay. That's probably wise. So it's going to be some morning. Sir Glory, Gruff, Daisy.

Xanthius is not near, right? Can I heal my dragon? Yes. Is a creature? And myself. Okay. One, two, three, four, five. There's a fire inside his heart right now.

It's pretty hurt. Could heal Fergal. He was burning on the inside. Oh, shit. Yeah, but Dragon Cool. I'm on 7 HP. Do I forego healing myself to heal Ferg. No.

But Fergal is the future. It's up to you? No, I will heal myself. It's a mourning, it's a glory, gruff, dragon, daisy. Okay, all right, go for it. Roll your healing. And this is a bonus action. Yeah, it's just a bonus action.

So you have your action and any movement. I think your Fergal worship is erasing the past. He was dog shit in the first fire. Yeah, but he's gotten better. He took out most of those minions in the middle. He tanked those minions. I don't think people could learn. No, but he tanked them.

He had like four of them on them. They hurt him. Yeah, really badly. He didn't do that much. Quite a lot, no. But he tanked him. That's damage you guys would have taken. He's taken a lot of damage.

He should have died if he wasn't healed multiple times. 11 healing. 11 healing to referron, okay. He's burning with a furgle flame right now, so I wouldn't want to... St. Fergels fire. Yeah.

Furgle's fire. All right, is my main action then? Yes. He's not even a pun. Can I reach... Uh, Unaria with my sword? It's impossible. It's impossible. You're like... 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 feet back. He's a half giant. Yeah, I would say that you were... I would allow you to make a melee attack against. Are you enlarged? I'm not enlarged. Did I enlarge? No, you don't think you did.

I haven't bigged yet. You bigged in the previous fight to this. Yeah. Oh yeah. So I need a long rest to get it back. My bad. So I'm not going to do that. But I'd say you are just about, like you could just about reach it

with like a jumping attack. I'm bloody doing it. Yeah. Loans going in. For Fogel! Oh, gosh. Perfect. I'm still alive.

Give me your attack. Are you gonna do a normal attack or a true strike? Rest in peace, ferville. Yeah. It's really a magical weapon. Yeah. So it's enhanced already. What's happening?

It's just with true strike, you can use your charisma to attack. I can Riz it up, you're right. You can also use fate. Riz it up. You could also use fate, just to do, yeah. You got plenty of it. And again, you don't know what's changed.

I might be able to steal fate again. I'll try it. Are you allowing me that with the mass healing word? Well yeah, because it's tantric. Yeah, it's a cantrip. Alright, wicked sick. Bro, Zeph, here we go. That's a fucking 17.

Did you spend a fate? Yeah. 17. Why? No, I just wanted to know. I saw you roll a D6 and I was like, 20 hits. 20 hits. 20 hits.

And now I'm going to probably kill them. 2D8. You certainly hope so. Okay. 12 points, 13 points. Yeah. Do I get to add the stone, Razor abilities as well.

I believe you have to do a thing for that. There's a plus one to attack and damage. Yeah. But is that added onto TrueStite? Try. Yeah. Yeah. So it's an extra damage. Yeah.

14 then. Yeah. There's a plus two to the Stone Razor, but the True Strike is overriding that, right? Sure. Yeah. So yeah, that's it. All right, perfect, yeah. You swing up and Stone Razor does indeed cut through

the lower part, you know, some of the energy ribbons that do seem to be part of her body, kind of slices through them. I think we have to move quickly. You did melee strike. That's gonna be three points of fire and one point of radiant damage as you strike her. But you do manage to strike her.

And she does seem to be fairly, fairly hurt. You can see that this figure is, there is very little emotion, because there's no face, there's just this hood of light, but you can hear mutterings. Not that deeper sovereign voice that you heard. This is her voice. It's all your fault, it's all your fault.

Even now you're making me suffer. I have to make you pay. I have to make you pay all of you. Well, I didn't, we didn't do anything. Just muttering, yes, yes, mutter, you're going to pay. Watch out. Dragon. It's good.

Dragon goes. Let's go. So first attack is an eight plus my spell attack of seven, so 15. 15 hits? Oh, sick, wicked. I'll do the other one as well. No, no, no, do the damage for this one. Because you're about to take damage because you've struggling.

Yeah, worth it. And he's got two hit points left. No, he healed it. Oh, he did heal it. That's true. It's worth checking. 13. 13 hit points left.

I'll take the hit then first. So what damage you do? So, two. Six. Six points of damage. Six points of damage. Okay. You then take six points of, sorry, three fire three radiant.

Yeah. On that first attack. That's why I wanted to check because I had forgotten. Healed. Five points left then. Yeah, that hits. Okay. Six points again.

Another six points. And then breath. And then you take another seven, so four, five, three radiant. That will be the if the dragon dissipates into a cloud of lightning. Okay. The dragon dissipates as they are vanquished by the aura. The brainstorm aura. A Luke Skywalker no.

No. Where is my dragon? In her rage, you're not the Akita. No. Yeah, from the... Yeah, the prequals, yeah. That no. Yeah, he doesn't do it, like,

oh, because Luke does the no. Yeah, there's a real... That's a little. That's not true. That's impossible! I don't think Rowan would do that one. No, come and guys, spoils. All right.

So that is going to give full end of Rowan's go. Yeah. Gruffeth. At the start of your turn, Graf, can you roll a D6 for me, please? Roll a one again. I don't know what they did last time. Three. Three, plus one.

Nope, nothing happens. Four. Okay. You can see that she's building this power that's growing and growing and growing. Plus one this time. Next time I think it's plus two. I can carry. What?

Right, Gruff, what? I'm going to use... What? The power of Sir Leo and do a big old dragoon jump. Nice. And I'm going to use... because I really want to learn this. Okay, we've got lots of it, so.

Oh, I didn't need it. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 to hit. That will hit. Okay, I've got a lot of dice to roll, and there are... How many? Reasons I can do it. What? I get the weapons D8 plus four.

I get a D6 from, lightning from elemental weapon that said, morning gave me. I get one D8 thunder from primal strike, and I get one D8 from jump damage. Yep. So 3D8 and a D6 plus 4. Not great. 3, 6, 10 plus 4. 14. Not bad.

Yeah, but it's not resist. It's not resisted, yeah. So you kind of bring the axe slamming down on it from midair because she's flying above you. You land on the ground, this burst of thunder and lightning damage. She kind of looks up and again, you just hit like, no, it's all your fault you have to pay. and begins to sort of inflame with power.

Can I do that again because I get extra attack? You don't get the benefit of the SEAL Leo jump. That's only the other first. But you do get the other ones. I probably can't reach then. I would say you would need to come up with some creative way of doing that. Okay, I have a free bonus.

Coming down from the Dragoon strike, it's like two hits. Yeah, I mean, I'd say you could make two attacks on the way down, you only get the benefit of Sir Leo's abilities there. I'll take one of my D-8s out. Yeah, just take one of the D-Akes. I won't fate this, I'll regret that. 14 plus 8 to hit.

Hits. She does seem so much easier to hit now. Yeah. 8, 9, 10, 14 points of damage again. 14 points of damage. Hell yeah. She is looking pretty hard at this point. There are two swipes on the way down,

then you land superhero style, big crack of the earth and the thunderous energy kind of erupting out from you gruff. Is that the end of your turn? I almost like the idea that I harness the lightning, from Rowan's dragon. Like I just kind of called it to the axe and land it. As I land as well, I will bonus action flick my shield out

so that the extra cover extends and covers some mourning. Perfect. End of your turn? End of my turn. Let's go. Okay, I'm going to spend two fate to do both a light soul and violent response. I'm going to say, Rowan, you make a constitution saving throw for me, please,

as she attempts to alight your soul. I don't have a constitution, too. So you fail, automatically. It's not been a weak one, it's just no. You could spend a fate? Well, I rolled it. Oh, you rolled it, fair enough? 13.

Is not enough, I'm afraid. You watch, as you feel something, take hold of your chest. Sorry, did you say 13? Okay, that's good, because if you fail this saving throw by five, or more it has an additional effect, but just like the Warhammer stuff. Just avoid that.

But you do feel something tries to like get out your soul, but your whole body is set on fire. You gain the burning condition, and you are dazed until... Oh, this as well. Yes, until the end of the next thing. Is this like the same burning that's happening to Fergal? It could have been.

Oh. If you feel like if you hadn't been able to shrug off as much of this as you were able to, if it had gotten into your soul, it would have been the same effect on Fergal, but for now it is just the air around you has ignited you and you are now on fire. And dazed.

I'm a fool. I healed myself. Yes. Oh, the curse is gone. No, it was gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a trick. The curse is, yeah.

Curse is still effect on Ophelia. Yeah. All right. I knew that. So you are on fire, which means you're going to take damage at the start of your turn, and you are dazed until the end of your next turn,

all right? And days I can't move, and I can only do an action. You can do one. Move an action or a bonus action and you can't take reactions. And then I think between Ophelia and, well, I would aim the attack at Sir Morning,

would Gruff try and react to take the bone himself or rely on the cover to protect Sir Morning? I'm going to react because I need them to get their concentration. So out of, I guess like, then for me it's a question of who's more hurt Sir Morning or Ophelia? What hit points are you currently on? 41 of 91. 41 of 91.

So you're pretty bad, you're like under half. Yeah, he's not quite, actually no, he's not on the half yet. This is gonna be a melee attack against, yes against you, Afidea. That is gonna be a hit, 26. I will split this out because you have your resistance, your rage. That is gonna be, oh god, that's a bad, that's bad for you.

It's fine. 15 slashing, so half to seven, luckily it was. And then that's gonna be 14. 14 necrotic. Okay, yeah, that's fine. That's fine. Yeah, so seven plus 14. Cool.

And that curse remains on you. It doesn't stack or anything. Doesn't stack, no, no, no. So those were my fated legendary actions. That was at the end of Gruff's turn. It is Sir Morning's turn, and he will, in fact, complete the ritual. Yeah! The reliquary glows as the last of the crown steel pieces is sealed.

It does take his full action to complete the ritual, but he sort of, it's done, and then, draws the great sword, let's finish this. And he will just kind of kick the reliquary behind him sort of to the ruins and then just prepare himself to finish off this fight, but that is the end of his turn. Can I use a second to say something? Yeah, sure.

Zanthias, the crown seal is gone. Zanthius is 140 feet away. Oh, he's out of group chat. He's not in the group chat. Oh, yeah. So for coolness sakes, Gruff doesn't do that. But you can tell me, and I can be like, oh good, Because, no, he can come back and it won't affect him.

I mean, I can see it. I'm 140 feet away. Yeah, you can kind of see, you probably can't see the detail of then finishing the ritual. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, we go to Percy. Percy's going to jump up and make another strike against Janario. My dearest apologies, I need to roll a D6 for some morning's turn.

Cool. Plus two this time. Three. Three. And can, as Percy does have his own initiative, can you roll a D6 at the start of Percy's time, please? plus three. Six.

So nine total. Nine. Thanks, Ruth. Oh. It's not beautiful. The magic number that I was hoping for. You see that her power has been building and building and building. Finally erupts out of her.

All creatures within a 40-foot radius. So I believe that is everybody except Xanthius. And the two nerds. How far away from my mom? You are ten feet off the edge. so you are within 40 feet, I'm afraid. Yeah, fully. This is a constitution saving throw, please, from everybody.

I'm guessing it's not a poison or disease. It is not. Evasion only works on dexterity saving throws, but you can uncanny dodge this, I would say. I would allow uncanny dodge on this. That's what I meant I get them mixed up. That's right. 22.

22 is a success. I'm going to spend a faint. Okay. I will grab that. Thank you. Oh dear. Oh dear. 11.

11 is a failure. 16. It's a failure, I'm afraid, Daisy. But you're going to half it anyway because of uncanny dodge. I have empowering blood as an ability. Okay. I'm going to spend two blood points to increase my result by 1D6. Okay.

Free fake point. 16. It's a failure. Yay! Can I have one for Percy as well, please? Eight. Eight is a failure for Percy. Percy. Oh boy.

Then I now need to make it for Sir Morning. Failure, Sir Glory, a failure, Fergal. Oh my God. A failure. Two other warriors. All failures, so I think the only gruff and who else, was it just gruff? I'm gonna take half damage because you're on,

can you dodge. It is 15 radiant, 15 fire. So it's 15 for the people that half. I've half radiant. So for you, it would be, you'd half, the fire to from 15 to 7. And then you would half the, so it'd go 15 to 7 and then 7 half to 3.

So you take 10. 10 points. And so I'm taking half as well. You take 15. 15. Everybody else takes 30 points of damage. Joan is down. Furgle is incinerated. As he is affected by Brightburn.

No! No! Oh God. Jesus Christ. That's my Fogel. He died so horribly. Tom's gone. He didn't deserve us.

I'm afraid to say there is another casualty. Sir Glory, night-highness. The healing that she received for a run was just not enough. If it had been a couple of points higher. This is your fault. She was not afflicted by Brightburn, though. So she goes down. I'm going to say that as a semi-important MPC,

I will give her one death-saving friend. Oh, shit. At the start of her turn. She is down. Does that mean if she fails that death save, it's dead, if she succeeds, she's back to one? Yes. No, if she succeeds, she's stabilized. If I roll in that 20, she's back to one.

So it will be like one death saving throw. She's stable, but she's out the fight. Unless she gets hit again, basically. Okay, so with that, you just watch as she explodes in this sphere of fire and light that just, the ground is scorched, the rocks are blasting, thrown away. Daisy, you managed to just pull yourself out of the way, but still kind of get blasted by this fire

as she just erupts with power. That was at the beginning of Percy's turn, I should say. So Percy, is he still up? He's still up. He's good to go. Are any other, any of the other NPCs down? So, yet the two other warriors, they had not been hit this entire encounter.

They're still up. I genuinely thought that was, that was light-sight for all of the NPCs. No. So Gori is unconscious. Only the important ones are down. Agner and Fergal have been killed in this battle, I guess. It was 30 damage, right?

30 points of damage. Yeah, 30's down. Oh, okay. Oh shit, okay. It was just one. Oh no. Well, that happens at the start of his turn, so he doesn't have to make any saving throws or anything.

He's just down. But then we go to Xanthias. You just watch this like fireball explosion. Brubh-h-it- just kind of shake my thoughts a little bit. Still resolute. Yeah, you've just sassed So, Sovereign. Just sassed it. He told you, don't fucking test me, and then,

boom. How you feeling? Rowan is just smoldering on the floor. This is but a sliver, the tiniest crumb. And how much of your power did it take you to send this gift? None at all. None at all.

Does he like this? My prison is breaking. Am I a joke to you? To guide where it lands is nothing to a being like me. I chose to send you such treasures. I've tried to help you. I even saved your life. And this is how you obey me.

I think you are a liar, and you embarrass me. And I'm gonna break the connection. Well. Let's see if you do, because the last thing you hear... You need a wheelbarrow from their balls. I said I would only give you one warning. Can you make a charisma role? D20 plus charisma. Oh, okay, okay.

No fate may be added. Is this even with the control of the runes I had? This is not really about that. Okay. Charisma, sorry, no fate. No fate for either of us. For either. Okay. Okay, D20 plus charisma.

This is fuck around, find out. Yeah, you should brand steel dice. Yeah, you were very lucky to win this last time. Well, no, you didn't win this, you know, but it was close. That's your cool dice. Samtheus dice. Sure.

Okay, I get Vantage, right? Nope. I get like a proficiency, right? Nope, just plus charisma. I get 11 total. You are not, you are gonna close the room. We'll roll to see how many sorcery points it cost. Actually, do you have enough sorcery points?

If I roll a six, how many sorcery points have you got? It was Rooms, wasn't it? I believe it was sorcery points to close it last time. Yeah. How many of the source you got left? I had, I'm gonna have to reset. I did my turn a little bit off. Oh, naughty boy.

I had seven because I restored it during the short rest with my boost, so I've got seven. So I will say... So you have seven? Okay. I'll roll of D6. Cost you three. But this is...

This is... You don't get to trigger it quite in time. 2,3. Bam. Yeah. How many hit points do you have? How much do I need? I need to know your current hit point total.

Uh... 666. 66. It's not, is it? It is 66. It's 66. Yeah, yeah. Oh, is it not 666?

No, it's like 666. But I feel weirdly bolstered all of a sudden, so I think I have 666. I hope that you will not see this as unfair. You have just antagonized. A god. The creator god. Probably like the god.

A ninth level spell is cast on. Is it, I wish you had 66 less health. One could call it that. Oh, God. As it is a power word kill. Oh! Oh, fuck! Hang on.

I'm gonna say... Oh, I can't sit still. Hang on. And the thing is, this goes off because you didn't seal the runes quick enough. He's quicker with his power, which was what the Klasma role was. So, okay, hang on.

Because the thing I did off-screen was managing my sorcery points to recover a spell slot. I recovered a third level now that I had to spend it. You're going to try and counter spell? I have counter spell. Uh-huh.

Does it work against... Put it this way. You'll counter spell me and I'll spend a legendary resistance to succeed. Well, I'll spend a legendary resistance to block his legendary resistance. You, Xantheus, feel this power, channeled from, you almost look up and see the crown above you and know that that is the source of this power. But what you have in your chest is an anchor. It is a transmitter that allows sovereign's power to go from there to you.

and through that channel, this vindictive, retributive strike as you feel your body, as you try desperately to close this shield of runes, this power erupts and overwhelms you and your vision goes black, as you are reduced to zero hit points. Okay, okay.

Oh my God. We'll come back and see what happens from that later. Oh my God. Is it a straight up kill? We will find out. I don't know what power word kill does. It kills, but like does it. I can choose to change that as sovereign is,

he could choose to not kill. The worst thing in D&D beyond is, but you're fucking duck. Yeah, this is, you die. Without say, what? Yeah, if you have 100,000 otherwise you take 12D-12 psychic damage. I try to count a spout.

You try to count the seller. No, I don't even know. But like I said, we don't know. Yeah. So Glory's turn. Death saving through. 13, stabilized. Nice, okay.

If she takes damage, that will trigger it again, basically. I hate to do it. I'm gonna spend a point of fate to make a melee attack against gruff, I think. That's a 30 to hit. That doesn't hit, no. Do you have any necrotic resistance or anything? Okay, I'm just gonna do this all as one big damage roll.

That is gonna be 16. 21 points of damage total. I will point out she looks pretty beaten up. You can see that her tendrils, her ribbons of light, are beginning to break and diminish. The light in the hood after that big explosion is now very dim like an ember glowing, not like a blazing flame, but a dim coal fire.

That was at the end of Glory's turn. It is then Yanari's turn. Looking at, you guys are all still up, but just barely, right? These two down. You're both down down, okay. I didn't realize that you guys were down down. You just tied us off the rocks.

In an early round. One, two, three. I will roll this to see if her hateful gaze recharges. It does, technically. But let's see who is around. So morning is still up, gruff is still up, the two warriors are still up. Daisy is still up at a distance.

I think it's gonna be two melee attacks. The two idiots really aren't much of a threat to her. So it's gonna be Gruff and So Morning for the melee attacks. And then Daisy, she's gonna try and use that hateful gaze against you again, but we'll see what happens. Against her morning, it's a natural 20. Oh, gosh. Against Gruff.

He has half cover. Does that help? No. Not against the 31, it's not, no. Do you want to take it? Because I have another attack roll to roll against you specifically. Yeah, and that's a crit. Can I see if she hits me?

I don't know. I'll allow it. Okay. It would be a 19 against you. That does not hit. Wouldn't hit you. So I imagine that this is gruff. Like, you can see that like these,

because she has this storm of weapons, right? Levy's this spear at you, and you've got your shield and you're like, I can dodge that. You know you can do that, but there is this, a sort of a swarm of daggers going to Sir Morning who has a great sword, and he does like a cloud strife goes to block it, but you know it's not gonna be enough.

And one is aimed almost right into the neck, and you have this moment where you can charge across and take that hit, but the other one, it will cause the Spear-a-Mess, you're gonna take that in that 20. Bring it. Hell yeah, grow. Come on, what hero, come on.

What, hero, come on. 16-24. Let me, the unfirm. You won. Yeah. 44 points of damage. Let's fucking go! You're still up.

I'm still up! Oh yes! Yes! I will not die! You see some morning it's like, Gruffeth, like as you kind of like shunned him out the way, as this was gonna go into like his neck, would have absolutely put him down on that or with that damage roll.

You sort of take it gruff. I imagine that this is a heavy, like, it's gonna leave a big scar. Like this is a jagged crown steel, like right across the face, tears through part of your ear, kind of like rips it across, but you grit through the pain. And there is a roar.

Like, and then just at the last second, Daisy, that hooded figure, I need a charisma roll for you. Remember, it is the dissent. You're gonna fate it? Okay, I can't fate this, so. That is, what? No, no, no, tell me your result. Okay, wait, just charisma.

Just charisma. Just charisma. D20 roll plus charisma. and the fate, of course. 20 unnatural. I rolled really bad. I rolled a five. I get a 10.

You do 15D6 psychic damage because this goes both. Oh, hell, yes. You beat, like, I beat you last time and you took that damage because you rolled lower. This time, you tell me what happens, what changes in yours and NIM's mind

as this creature tries to produce, a world of suffering and you see the world burning and you see all these mortal races, the orcs and the dwarves, these early, early life forms being protected by Althe and Pirates and Malayl. Meanwhile, the celestials and the demons like her, the ones who sovereign brought, they're suffering, they're dying, they're in pain,

and they're trying to use this, like this guilt and this hatred to hurt you. So I don't think it's, I think it's NIM. who sort of spins that and takes control, having observed all of Daisy's life and all of the joy that Daisy's life has had in it. It's like going to a latte fun for pastries with her friends and celebrating at the, like,

tournaments together and having fun. And I think she takes all of the hatred of that and what Nym's life was and projects all of the joy of Daisy and her friends straight back and uses that against. Okay. Would you like to roll this damage? 15, because you've got a 25, right?

20. 20, so 10 D6 damage. 10 D6 damage. Three. We've got any of some D6. Oh, do you want to use my 3D6? Nine, I only use three. I'm on it.

I've got, I've got. She want an edible one. Nine. I've got a D-100. Sorry, she's got it. I've got a D6. I got sneak attack. No, I don't want to use.

What the fuck is that? That's a D18. 10d6 of psychic damage, straight back at it. That's awesome. That's awesome. That is 2D6. I rolled really bad. Well, this is really cool.

It's a great mechanic. Yeah, it's cool, it's great, yeah. A little twirl. Wow, I wasn't gonna reveal it until you guys succeed. Pretty cool. 41. Fuck! Oh my God!

On 10D6, that's awesome. I rolled three sixes, two of them on your dice. You're welcome. What can I say? You hear, for the whole fight, ever since Yonari became embered, there's not been screams of pain, just this muttering, this hateful muttering.

For the first time, no, no, don't show me this, don't show me this. And you hear this like sobbing coming from the thing as whatever Daisy Nim, you sort of project this and you feel Nim sort of take over it and shield you, showcase, in this beautiful life, this friendship, this love, everything that Althea has become since then,

everything that the mortal people have made it, and that just torments this poor person, and just breaks their mind. They are barely still standing. Oh shit. That was her turn. Oh, that was on her turn. The Warriors.

Oh, my God. Don't kill Steelers. The people of Althea. Harry. First attack, a miss. A hit. Okay, coming three damage. Canar.

First attack is a miss. Second attack is a hit. All right, all right. Halfed because they're four plus two, six. Three. It's so close, like the arrows like striking at her body as she's screaming in anguish. So good.

Daisy, you're still up? Yeah. It's your turn. Um, I'm going to fly so that I'm directly in front of her. Drawback parheelian. And she, shoot. Stray into the hooded void. Yeah, hopefully.

Void. Oh, probably not though, because I rolled a two. That's 12 to hit. I think that... But... You almost sense this weakness. and then with rapid speed. Wait, I hit her with my bow previous turn.

Vex. Yes, so you have advantage. 19. That will hit. Hmm. You do not have any allies within sneak attack range. Dammit. Remember she's flying 15 feet up in the air.

Oh, damn it. It's just normal damage. If I had advantage on the roll. You did have advantage on the role. So you do get the sneak attack. Oh, great stuff to remember the rules. I can't remember all of them. I've got a lot going on.

Same. Yeah, that's why I don't remember them. There's a lot going on. 26. Oh, shit. The bow fills with magical energy. And at the last second, as the sobbing stops for a moment,

this hooded void with just this faint, tiny ember. This dying, dying flame of a campfire that's about to go out, looks up. The hood splits. The red fabric begins to disintegrate falling to tattered remnants. As the light begins to fade, Aria the emperd is no more.

Oh, yes. Does that count as reducing a powerful creature from my bow? It does. Yes. It does. And we'll come to that moments later. But right now, there are some more urgent matters. Ophelia, you are down.

Yeah. I'm going to need a death saving throw from you. So I'm still hasted. You are still hasted. You could try and fly down and try and make one medicine. I'm nearest Rowan. Yeah. So can I fly down to Rowan and try and make a medicine check?

Medicine DC-10. What's my medicine? Oh my God, probably not good. 10 exactly. 10 exactly. Rowan is stabilized. Thank you very much. Still need that death scene from Ophelia.

Gladly. Let's go. 19. Hmm. I believe that that means that gruff will have enough time to get to you and stabilize you and everything else. What is Anthias? Can I see him? Make a perception.

No, I wouldn't have haste. That's true. Wait, would I, is it a cast and then done? Oh, God. When haste ends, when haste ends, I believe the target. So I would be able to do anything. I don't think you would have been able to defeat her because you are stunned when haste ends.

Uh, hang on, hang on, hang on, hold. But I think it's a cast and done, it's not a concentration. No, it's a concentration spell haste. Because when the concentration is broken, it stuns the person. When the spell ends, the target is incapacitated and has a speed of zero. Well, you have a speed of zero, but you are incapacitated. That means you would also fall out of the air. You're only 15 feet up.

I'll say that you just land on the ground. You don't take any damage, but you are... You can still attack. Nope, incapacitated you can't. Oh, you can't take any action. Yeah, you're right. Incapitated. No.

What? No. Blib blib blib blibibibib blibibibibib. Rewin time. A little bit on that. It's a very good thing because that's a big down size of taste. That's like something we have to remember because that's a big thing. So that's what happens in another timeline.

No, she's back. But the reality, because don't forget, there are still some turns to go. But it does mean that would have been on Daisy's turn. Afeelia, you got your 19 death saving throw. Yeah. Rowan now, please make a death saving throw. Very well. Here comes a Nat 20. 11. You are saved.

It's past. No, it's one. Damn it. To gruff. Success. Success. It's not such a great. One success, yeah, same for fear. I know, that was great.

It is to gruff. It is not our future. If we keep retconning it, everyone gets the kill. Mask here wins or attack. I will tell you now, she is so incredibly weakened. Yeah. Really threat. You can see, like she's not taking legendary actions

or anything like she is extremely weakened at this point. I will do the same as my last turn. I'm gonna jump and I'm gonna take a fate with it. Okay. Natural 20. Well then, we don't need to worry about the damage, do we? I think even with that, you will see his axe crackle with lightning and there is a rumble of thunder.

He crouches. I will protect the meek, the infirm, the vulnerable. The axe embeds into the hood, and we see the same effect as the hood splits. She says those same words, I'm free, as the tatters burst. And now in this timeline, Yanari of the Embed is no more.

You land, Groth. But obviously all of this, I think that in that moment you don't get that opportunity to look. Daisy, you know something has happened to Xanthius. Like, you feel the spell end and suddenly your body locks, you fall out of the air, you kind of slam into the ground,

and you know that something's happened because otherwise this spell should have been in effect. Gruff, still your turn as you land. Am I now okay because it's been a turn for me? Please. I believe... Let me find out. It's normally to the start of your next turn, I think.

Three. I will see. See, Rowan next to me. Spin around, paw on the shoulder, healing word. Because I can bonus action healing word. At level two. That would be the end of the . Three, six, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,

fourteen, fifteen, fifteen. I will add a fate. Oh, you're at me. Thank you. To add healing. Another eight. So, 23. 15 plus eight. Hell yeah.

23. So Rowan, you feel life kind of fall back into you. I think at this point, you know, next to go, Sir Morning would run over and begin tending to wounds and things like that. Unfortunately, has no spell energy left to cast healing, but we'll begin attending to Sir Glory. But yeah, I think that,

At that point, Daisy, you've come out of the stun, you sort of are aware of something that's happened. None of you kind of see around. We'll say that the two of you both stabilize. You know, there's plenty of people here to help. But you all sort of look in the direction where you know Daisy and Xanthias teleport to. And you don't see Xanthius up in the air.

You don't see him flying. You don't see him making his way towards you. And we did before we saw him like. You would have seen him on the distance, like flying towards you. He had his draconic wings. He had his flaming, you know, magical wings. And major age. And yeah, it was clearly glowing with light.

And again, Daisy, you know that something's happened because that spell should have lasted. We cut back over, sort of as the camera pans over, as you'll realize this, looking back in that direction, to see a lifeless Xanthius lying on the grass. His body half, like, crumpled, but the run's beginning to dim around his body. And that's where we're going to take up break.

We'll see you in five minutes, everybody, as we take our first break here. Thanks for bearing with us. We'll see you in five. See you next time. See it a bit. Bye.