High Rollers DnD - Glitter and Peridot | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #115 (Part 1)

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

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To this. For I am the Lord of Lightning and you will earn. Girls Who Don't D&D. Find them now wherever you listen to podcast. Hello and welcome back to Althea the Dragon Empire. After discussing their plans, our heroes infiltrated the Opal Lounge, a luxury, upmarket bar and hotel in the Vault Watch District of Kelskaris, as well as a front for the criminal organization called the Diadem.

With Ophelia and Xanthius in disguises thanks to the arcane gadgetry of watchtower, gruff wild-shaped into a mouse, and Daisy and Rowan Invisible. They entered the lounge to try and meet with Miss Peridou, one of the facets of the diadem in Kelskaris. After some successful scouting, shenanigans with forgotten money, and an old friend of Xanthius is showing up, the enemy were unfortunately put on high alert by a broken invisibility spell, and Rowan was forced to flee, leaving the other four to continue the mission, accompanied by Agent Darling, an agent of watchtower. Ophelia and Zanthius, with Stowe-Way-Gruff, were taken down. into the secret backrooms by Miss Peridow

and another diadem agent called Glitter. However, a zone of truth spell revealed Gruff's presence and weapons were drawn. And that is where we're gonna begin today. Yikes! Yikes! So, let's re-establish where everybody is. Please. You have a battle map as well for today.

I am sat between Kim and Rianen at the High Roller Studio. Perfect, thank you so much. That's so useful. Useful. Ophelia and Xenthias with wild-shaped gruff. You are currently in the basement secret lounge with Glitter and Peridot, this central room here on our battle map.

I'm going to let... I'll come back to this once it's all set up and ready to go. You are sat around a table. Opposite you is Miss Peridot, but behind you was Glitter who had moved there whilst you were in conversation and she has now pulled some sort of firearm on the two of you. Daisy and Agent Darling are just outside by the secret door that leads into this secret chamber.

Daisy having seen the code, the stones that need to be pressed to enter into it. So you are basically poised, ready to enter at this point. Meanwhile, Vricks and Rowan are circling around to the back of the Opel Lounge to try and prevent any potential escapees or see a third. there's another way in, and basically keeping an eye on that. So that is where you guys are. For a reference, because Daisy did do some scouting, this is the central lounge area of the back rooms.

The door off to your sort of behind Xanthiaenophilia to camera right. Yep, and podcast that way. That way. As I said, behind Xanthiafellia. There is a door that Daisy, you know, leads into that interrogation room. that you saw with some sort of prisoner in there. With a guy in there, right? Yeah, with a guy in there.

The other, on the opposite side of the room to that, there is another doorway, and you know that that is the door that leads into Peridot's office. I have got that as a separate room in case you go in there, but it's not attached to the map currently. Get in there quick. These two corridors represent the stairs that lead up into the Opel Lounge. Those are the ones that Daisy and Agent Darling have just come from. So those lead back up into the Opel Lounge.

So likely that's the only way, if we were going to run, that's probably the way to go. As far as you know and can see, that is your only exit from this place. Yikes. But there is a few important things that we must do, first of which is to roll fate. I can do that.

For eight. This is going to go. For five. Is that one for me, Kim? Yep. Thank you. Lovely. Oh, that's one for you guys.

I got a three. Oh, that's another one for me. I got a four. That's another one for you. Yes. One. Oh, perfect, another one for me. Could it be?

What's it gonna be? What's it gonna be? Oh, yay. Oh, yeah. Steven's. Steven's. Stevens. And then, whilst not necessarily that we're gonna be jumping into combat,

I would like to roll initiative now. That's interesting, isn't it? Just to save a bit of time. I still have some questions. Oh, that's a really nice match that you just call the rat. Yeah. Oh, good. Hey, I didn't see this gun coming.

Have you seen anything ever in your life? Yeah, two assassins that tried to ambush me. Good point. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. Did you see the crown steam coming? The what? The crownsteel coming.

Crownsteel? No. Get right. I've got so many people. Best friend, betrayals. It was, yeah. We don't know yet. You would do that to me in real life, would you?

What allow you to have? have crown steel. You wouldn't crown steal me, would you? If you wanted it. What did you think that trip was last year? Oh no. Oh, that's why I feel gurgling. I keep bleeding from like.

And hear the ticking. But Honeybun, if you wanna suckle on that crown steel, I'll never say no. My goodness. Wow, that's a nice. What is happening? Yeah, I'm telling you. Let's go around the table and Dacey, what was your initiative?

We just medically gas-like. Zandthus. I got a six. Griffith. 17. Oh. And let me just miss it. Make a mark you.

Honeybund does want a suckle on crime steel. Rowan. 18. Oh, that's the alternate name to the game. Ophelia. 18. Ophelia, I believe you're on Mondexas soon. You will go first before Rowan.

17. As I said, we are, this is one of those difficult in the scenarios where we're sort of going to track things initiative, but we're not necessarily in a combat immediately. Right, yeah, yeah. What has just happened is the zone of truth spell has gone off, and then Peridot has questioned, asked a few of few questions who has failed the zone of truth. And having realized that you have been desperately avoiding telling the truth,

they've realized something is up, glitter has pulled the gun and is literally, if Xanthius, you turn around, there is a gun basically in your face. You see Peridot is kind of sat there, quite calm and collected, but definitely you can sense there's tension here in this room, currently present. Daisy and darling, you have got to the secret door, and I think that you know that there's stuff going on in there, like through the Daisy chain. The question is whether or not you are going to open the door,

because that will be very obvious that the door's being opened. So we'll leave it there. But yeah, Peridot will just look to the two of you currently. Well, I think we know that something else. is going on here. So, let's stop playing games. Nothing unusual here. This is the marriage I brought in with me.

This is sad. This is desperately sad. I didn't think it was going to be a problem, and yet here we are in the basement of these headquarters. Glitter, if they don't start telling us who they are in the next six seconds, I want you to shoot this one in the back of the head. point blank

so you what's going on who are you really why in my head in the daisy chain can I can I ask

you who your character is so keep in mind this is all happening at once you can ask that but yeah I mean you can ask that but that is he did ask who we really are though

but he's trying to override it with another question if you get what I mean sure and you're answering his question yeah so you're actually answering Xanthias's question that's a battle for you

to figure out which question to answer I suppose but also keep in mind that this is happening like you can't like you asking that there's a delay she asked that question there's a long delay and then you'll you get that message

you get like that message from Zanthias we are travellers in Kalscarus you're travelling with a creature that is not what it thinks it is. We've just seen one of, well, somebody that's on our watch list vanish from our upstairs lounge. So my theory is either you are his companions in disguise

or you are working for them. Either way, this is not going to end well for you. If you tell me who you are, if you tell me what you're doing here, something can be arranged, but otherwise we're going to get the information we want one way or another. So yeah, I was going to check in. Can I just look and see if there's any other exits in this area? Because I only know the staircases down

and I haven't gone anywhere other than to this wall. Is there any other areas around me at all? None that you see immediately. It literally looks like it comes down here. There's like scattered barrels and crates. It looks like they use this kind of corny. door area is like a storage for the upstairs lounge. You do not see anything else here.

You know that there is a secret door behind this section of the wall. Can I try and see if I can identify another, having seen the secret door, identify if there's a similar thing. So is that, are you looking around? Like, what are you doing? Are you like touching? That would be investigation. Sorry, you have the spell doors.

I mean Rowan has, though. Oh, Rihanna. Yeah. Batista. Yeah. So you can make an invest. Investigation check. I think my investigation's like, oh, no.

11. You spend a few seconds, like, padding around the walls, looking for any extra seams, looking behind you, there appears to be nothing. It seems that this is, as far as you can tell, the only entrance into this room. It's not theosophilia, maybe the truth. One.

Might distract them a bit longer. Two. Three. You know who we are. Xanthus Oregon, I assume. Yes, yes, Xanthias, and, well, your guess onto that one. Too tall to be the girl with the blonde hair. Must be a sister of failure of the house of blood.

And that would make your little furry companion the night. Daisy. No. Now, although I am curious where that one is. You've never seen me ever. Pastries, I'm afraid. Loves pastries. Yes, I'm quite aware.

It's been watching our front door, as I understand it. So. But you'll know that if we suddenly vanish after entering into a diadem hideout, that's awfully suspicious. This place is... My boy, do you think that we can't make that sort of thing completely irrelevant?

Do you think that we don't have the access and the influence We can make it look like you left this place happy as a lamb only to get killed in some alleyway or lost or perhaps fled back to wherever it is you just came from Ash and rest I think, right? So you will allow us to just walk out of here? You know Fuzzy knight and the good sister here. We have no quarrel with with Osseus and the house of blood. You're more than welcome to leave but this one No, too valuable. No, I'm not leaving without him.

That is a shame. Quite a shame. So we have a problem. We do. We do. Act with anybody at this point? I was going to keep them talking, by the way, just to add up time.

Time for what is the question? Frickson Rowan to run around and Daisy to, I don't know. There's no sign that Vrix and Rome would be able to get here, by the way, like into this area. They're checking to make sure that there's no escape routes. but as far as Daisy has seen. We go in there, everyone sees us.

Well, yeah. If you go into the main upstairs lounge, yeah. Like, they've seen you flee it already. Can I try and find out if there is a way to lock one, or block one of the doors down here? Not both of them, but one of them. You could head up there. You know that they are locked anyway

because they had to use, you've used a key to, like, come in. Is there any way that I can ensure? it stays locked. Is there anything I can do with it? You could try and jam the locking system, sure. Just on one of them to sort of like, basically funnel, if anyone's going to come down, funnel them through one hour rather than the other one to delay them? Yeah.

That would, I would say like, that would basically be your whole turn. So you're talking like, you know, you're going to be up there for a little bit, like going up there. You're going to need to make a thie tool check. So using your thieves tools to basically try and sabotage the lock. Okay. Darling will just be like, what do you do?

Like, are we not busting in here? As soon as we open this door, they will know that we're here. Right. Well, I think they know you. Your friends are here already. They know that they're here, but I was going to try and block

some other people from getting down here. Oh, go on, yeah, go on then. Do that. Just to try and limit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's worth trying. You probably won't know if you've succeeded or not. Okay, well, I'll try.

How much you roll like a gold. I did not. So probably not. Not a God roll. 21. 21. Could have been, yeah, for me, that's a little roll. It was a seven.

Oh, a crazy bad roll. It was a seven. Yeah. Plus 14. Plus 13, is it not my proficiency and everything? So be double your proficiency and then your decks bonus. My dex bonus is like plus five. So it'd be eight, so plus, yeah, plus that, yeah.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. You have expertise in it, yeah, yeah. So you go up there, you jam your thieves tools in, you start trying to like, fuck with the mechanism, like maybe trying to like, you know, bash the lock-in or something like that. You think you've done it, but it's hard to tell because you know that there is some sort of trap

or magical element to these doors as well. You saw that they had to touch the doorknob with the key and then use it. Workshop. Okay, but that's going to be you out for a while. I just wanted to confirm as well, that I don't know if we necessarily did it at the end of the episode or we actively said it, but like, we will have communicated over the Daisy Chain, like, they're onto us, they found us.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We assume that. Yeah, so Rowan is also, like, aware on the outside. When Rowan was revealed, he feels like the jig is up anyway. True, yeah, yeah. So back in the room, Paradot will just raise a finger to her ear. And you hear her say like, yeah, they're down here. Come down as soon as you can.

Who is that? Oh, I was just calling for my friends upstairs. All right, okay. So, you're refusing to leave. Yes. Not without him. Not without our lives. All right. Why do you need me so much?

Because you're valuable. I have a client who is very interested in recovering what you, as I understand. understand it, um, you have failed to deliver. Father Oregon? I don't speak with... That's not a matter I would be discussing with you. We both know the answer. Do we?

I'm being open with you, you'd be open with me. Why? Just being friendly, really. Strangely enough, the diadem doesn't usually deal with friendliness. Still, and she stands up, she also, you see, She doesn't seem to have any weapon sheaths or holsters, but she sort of reaches behind her back, and she pulls out a similar firearm to the one that glitter has.

And she just sort of keeps it quite casual, kind of loose at her side. She's not like directly aiming it like glitter is, but she's kind of just got it out loose. How long did you know the two five ring agents that assaulted me? The ones I almost killed on my own. Prince,ling arm. I'm just wondering how you hold up, you two. Well, you could always try and find out.

but I can't promise it will go very well for you. No, probably not, but fucking saying stuff now. Ask but if we can cut a deal. Is Darling doing anything well? No, Darling's waiting for you. Like, Darling doesn't know how to open this door. Can I ask her if she can also help? When I go up, can I ask her if she can help to try and look

for another exit to this place? Or if she knows of one, because she's been watching this place for so long. She can tell you outright. She is not aware of another. She didn't even know that this, they knew that there was probably something, but they didn't know that this was here. So she would just be like, I didn't even know that this was here, but as far as I'm aware, there's no back entrance or anything like that,

as far as I know. Not one that we've seen. But yeah, I'll have a look around. And you see that she begins to, like, pat the walls and things like that. Ask her if you want to cut a deal. If you can cut a deal. All right, well, how about a deal then? What kind of deal?

What do you even have to offer? What kind of deal? Information on the client, you out of here. They work for you, not your father. What? If you can get them to work for you and not your father. Okay. Can I just throw you? You can just throw me as well.

I'm ready if you want to go that way. Paralladity that she kind of just backs up. She doesn't turn her back on you or anything like that. Don't let her get to her office. The thing is I know that you need me alive. Do we? Well, you know what will happen if you shoot that now, kill me now, you know what'll happen? Do I? What will happen? You must have heard stories.

Quite amazing. I've met a few gold dragon booms, red ones too, thought that their pride, that their arrogance could not be outdone. You just think you're so important, don't you? You think that actually you matter. You don't. The only thing that matters is that thing in your chest. That's the only thing that anybody cares about. Not you. Not anything you've done.

And any power you have has come from that. Oh, shut up! Have I hit a nerve? It's not the crown still that makes him valuable. I can assure you, Sister Ophelia, it is only the crown still that makes him valuable. To you? To anyone.

To be honest, you don't matter either. Before we'd even came here, we had no idea who you were. I don't need to be valuable. I'm the one who's, well, let's just say, the diadem is the one making the moves here. I know my part. But this one, the smugglers, oh, you need me alive. Do you know what happened? Have you heard the stories?

I killed two of your best by myself. Oh, he did. I'm just wondering if that's a risk you are willing to take. No, he defeated. They actually nearly had him until the country. guards came and saved him actually. And they would have died if the guards hadn't come in. No, he was really ready to be captured.

As he told you a different story. They knocked him out. They were ready to take him back and then by a sheer glimpse of luck, the guards stumbled in and caught two of our agents, about to carry him off. Well, I've lived with this valuable product for a lot longer than you know. Is that a risk you are willing to take? I know what happens when I die.

I've seen it happen. Do you really want to lose this product? I do think that our client would pay more for you alive so that they can, well, do whatever they wish. There's plenty of other people for us to threaten. I'm sure you wouldn't want your dear friend here coming to any harm, would you? To suffer? We can make them suffer, zantiness. Unless anybody's doing anything, by the way.

Yeah, yeah. To give you a break, Rick and Rowan, you've begun basically circling around. Like, the two of you did an exceptional job stealthing around, and you have come up on various buildings, and you've got to the point where you are coming up on the Oval Lounge. As far as you can see from your vantage point, there doesn't seem to be any signs of activity on the external that you can see, but you are just about to come to sort of the rear alleyways

that lead behind the building, basically. Okay, cool. I'm waiting for you guys, but I'm outside the door. So, surrendered to us. We'll take you in peacefully. And we will ensure that, if your fuzzy little knight ever appears, that the two of them do not suffer.

Daisy, we're going to need a countdown if you're going to break in. You need to tell me when. Santhius, get ready to throw me. We go in five, four, four, and Pheneas hands just tense. Two, one. one. Everyone at the same time does something.

Well, yes, however there are two held actions currently. Yeah. Yeah. Two guns pointed, two held actions. Daisy, you input the thing, the door swings open. That is going to happen regardless. But until then, two held actions. Hell yeah, let's go. As Gruff is not a viable target yet,

the two shots will be going directly against you guys. I will tell you that because these are held actions and they've had time, these are going to be made with advantage. And yeah, there's a bunch of extra effects. So that is going to be a 24 to hit Xanthias. Yeah, that does it. And a 23 to hit Ophelia. Yeah, that'll do it.

Okay, I need to do these separately because they are different damage profiles. Slight things. Just getting shot point blank. Well, probably fine. So, Xanthius, you are being hit by glitter, a fear you're being hit by Perida. So I'll do the damage on Zanthius first. It's going to bounce off your pride.

Yeah, glitter. Glitter's gun is also just an elastic band. 13 points of piercing damage plus seven points of poison damage. Now, because this is a held action, they only get one attack. No, I think if it's a held action. Did you say 13 or 37? 13 piercing damage and 7 piercing damage.

Gosh, got it, got it, got it, go, go, go, go, go. And with a held action, I think you only get the one attack, I believe. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think it's only one attack. Yeah, we'll rule it as that, because I'm pretty sure I've ruled it with you guys before. I guess this is the moment we thought kind of just move, so the bullet isn't so... It's another 10 piercing damage to that.

Oh, it's pretty bad. I made it with advantage. Yeah. And then... Oh, gosh. You're meant to, like... put your hand up and stop the bullets. Yeah, I did, but it went right.

I tried that. Ow! Five! Pints of piercing damage to it. You meant to your thing. Desiom. Oh. Yeah.

16 points of piercing damage, and then another six piercing damage. So, um. Sweet. Yeah, 21 piercing damage and then, um, the 60, uh, 60. The thing is that we're throwing gruff straight up into this evening.

Ow, like a poker ball. Yeah. So those two held actions go off. I would also say Daisy, because she did call in for backup a little earlier, Daisy, you hear the door that you blocked rattles and does not open. So you do think you successfully managed to at least block it until somebody tries to break it or something like that. Okay. However, from the other stairwell, you do hear somebody coming down these other stairs, basically.

And again, you don't have eyes inside the Opa Lounge, so you don't know what's going. to make a wall of bodies. This is the point where we basically go into initiative. I'm going to start the top of a round with Rowan and Briggs. You guys enter, you've been sort of navigating your way and you've come into a back alley behind the Opel Lounge. Maybe trying to see if there's like a rear entrance or a fire exit or something like that.

And what you find is just actually a plain stone like wall of the back of the Opal Lounge. You can see that it kind of stretches up to the terrace and the second floor. And the only really thing in this alleyway is a sort of drunken-looking vagrant who's just sort of like on the floor leaning up against the wall,

sort of murmuring to themselves. Vricks will just turn to you and just say like, I do not see another way in. It's likely if they've got a secret facility, there's got to be something that they can emergency escape from. I would not like to do. be in a place that I could not get out of. That does seem logical.

So, I'm going to walk over to the drunken vagrant. Wherever you want. Hi there. Barter inspiration. On yourself? On him. On him? How's it going?

It's like batting at the little moat that sort of floats around. Do you hang out in this alleyway often? What? You hang out here often? Sleepy. Sleepy. Have seen anyone else in this alleyway? Just sort of like grumbling and ranting.

Right. So no strange appearances of people in this alleyway? Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, okay, for Ricks, they've not seen anything. So we're going to have to look very closely. I'm going to put on my glasses.

Okay. And see if I can see. So you're going to activate the spectacles of secrets? Yes. You do, in fact. you see that a section of the wall a glowing blue line about the size of a medium door

illuminates yeah Vricks I found it yeah so Vricks because that's going to be your action it's your action to activate the things you've moved you have a little conversation

Vricks will move up and start trying to like investigate definitely might be trapped I'll make it because you've seen it I'll give Ricks advantage as well well on the investigation. Ricks is being so delicate. Ricks is like looking around. I cannot find any sort of mechanism

to open it. Could be only from the inside. I do. It seems strange that perhaps you are right, but I fear that I am just not very good at searching for these sorts of things. Here, let me look next turn. Sure. Yeah, basically. Okay. Then we jump into the actual initiative. Of which I am at Lul.

And Peridot is going first. Uh-oh. Okay. There's a whole spin-off series of Roan and Bricks, by the way, available soon. Yeah, I'd love that. Honestly, Buddy Cop of the Century. Yeah. I'd love that.

Oh, wait, what were all of our simultaneous actions? Because they did the held actions. They did their held actions. Yours was throwing Gruff. So Gruff, you are yeated. I'm assuming you're going to throw with enough force to deal the one point of damage to bust. Practically, I have 12 HP. Oh, wow.

Oh, because druids in wild shape have 11, well, my level is 11, so 11 HP plus the 1, 12. Oh, okay, so you actually have 12 hit points. So in that case, the throw is not going to knock you out of it. So where did you, where do you throw? Squeeze me a little bit. I mean, it's towards, because Glitter's directly behind me,

whereas Perrudo is heading towards her room, I will, yeah, just throw it in that direction. I don't even necessarily throw with the intent of her in gruff. It's to get Groff into a good position. Sure. Just throw me into the bullet. So just to kind of simplify it, Gruff, are you basing the great wild shape

at the start of your initiative? Yeah, I kind of want to land on her. You're not going to, yeah, because you're not going to be able to do anything on something else. I kind of want to land on her. I mean... Can I empower it with my jump, my Sir Leo jump? She is smaller.

She is just land on her heavier. Grapple. That's pretty cool. Grapple. So, I guess the thing with this is, because the thing is, you would... So as your action, so Xenthius throws you,

and then are you transforming, like, mid-thro? Yeah, why not? Just trying to land on her. So, I would say... But I really, like, over on it. Yeah, I would say you can't use your jump thing because you have to be, like, gruff in and jump, basically. So Xanthias throws you.

Even if a full gruff is thrown towards you, that's gonna suck. You know, you're also trying to throw a mouse here. Give me a ranged, like make an unarmed strike, but like a ranged on-arm strike, basically. And you're not trying to hit, if you're trying to hit her, then it's against her AC. If you're just trying to throw it in her direction,

it'll be a generic AC, and then there might be, if you get lower, it'll scatter, basically. I'm giving me, I'm aiming to get gruff behind Peridot to block the door. Okay, so you're aiming for a location, not her. Yeah. Okay, so there is a base AC of 10. If you don't hit that, gruff scatters, basically, and doesn't go where you want him to go.

I just throw it backwards. Like when you're bowling. Um, so just be an unarm strike basically. Unarm strike. But with decks. So you can use a Dex mod. Uh, okay, well I've got plus five. Yes, yeah, that tracks.

Okay. Unnatural 20. Okay, so Gruff lands exactly where you want him to. Uh, so you want him to end up behind Peridot. Behind Peridot, so blocking the door, which is pretty obviously where she was, was slowly. Keep in mind that like the space is wide enough

that she can move around Gruff. Like he's not gonna be able to completely block the doorway. Yeah. But Gruff, you transform mid thing. I didn't hear what I feel like, I feel it didn't sound like you had an action, you were just tensing. I was gonna, that was me, I was gonna rage.

Okay, well I think you have a thing where when you roll initiative, you can rage anyway, right? No, I don't have that, no, it's my, it's my, I have my pounce, my. Yeah, that's right. When you rage, you get to move. I get to move, yeah.

So, yeah, we'll say that you can rage as your sort of held action, basically. Daisy's opening the door. Your rage lets you move as well, right? Yeah, I can move 25 feet when I rage when I activate rage. Yeah. Yeah, I'll allow that. Cool. Did you want to use the move now?

Well, I'm waiting for Kim. Got it, got it. Oh, it's my turn. Well, yeah, you said that you wanted to attack her as you came out before. I didn't realize I was in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, right. But you just get the one.

It's like a held action. No, this is a hell. Hell action. An attack you can make as you are being trying, coming out your wild shape. I work. Shut. Right the back of the head. You'll see that coming.

17. It's not enough to hear her. I do nothing. She dodges, she sees you transform back into Gruff, swing the axe, and deftly and agilely. She just ducks under it as she does so. Aphelia, you rage and can move half your movement. Yes, I will stand next to Gruff as well and be a door blockade.

Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five you can go, so you can get next to her, not necessarily behind it. Not bad. I'll pull out the two daggers that Daisy gave me as well as I'm running to the door. Yeah, perfect. Not to use, but just as a flavour, just ready. Yeah, you can do it as you ready, basically. Yeah. Perfect.

All right. Finally, first time. She will see that she is, now that she's clearly being surrounded, because she did look like she was going for the office door, she will turn around and I think, first thing's first, she's going to make three attacks as her attacks. as her action. With gun? Yeah, and she seems to be able to use it point blank

without any difficulties. Oh, okay. I'll let me crossbow expert thing. Actually, yeah, it does make sense to use the leg gun. So yeah, I think that she is going to, I think she's just going to unload into gruff right now. Crazy. So that is going to be,

21. Meets it, beats it. No, I'm not even got Armoredthorn. So she gets straight out beats it. Yeah, straight out beats it. So that is going to be 12 points of piercing damage and then 15 points of poison damage. I am resistant to poison.

So that would be halved, so that would become seven points of poison damage. So still take the 12 and then seven. Yes. Same attack. That is going to be, 20. Yep.

That is gonna be, ba-pah-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. At 16 points of piercing damage, and then only 10 poison half to five. And then I think, yeah, she's gonna shoot rough again. Dang. That is gonna be a 24. Yeah. Good shot. 12 points of piercing damage again, at 18 poison half to nine.

And then, as a bonus action, she's gonna disengage, like a rogue, and she goes, five. And she goes. Five, ten, fifty, five, and it backs off. Where? The podcar, sorry, towards the stone, the secret stone door entrance, but also kind of next to glitter as well,

backing up basically. Good, run across Daisy. As, yeah, well, Daisy and Darling are about to come in on their initiative. It is not their initiative, it is somebody upstairs. Who will then need to do? Upstairs fee.

Then it is Glitters' turn. Shit. As a bonus action, The first thing Glitter is gonna do is she holds up, you just see a fist, you don't actually see anything on her fingers, but then something seems to glow as if she's wearing a ring, and a blinding flash of light that is a 20 foot radius,

she's gonna put it basically in the back corner to hit all of you guys. I need Constitution saving throws from all three of you, please. Fard! Fard! Constitution save, okay. 18, 11. That is a failure, that's the success for Graf.

Natural 20. Success. So the success is you take half damage and you are not blinded. Natural 20, I learn it. 21 radiant damage and Ophelia you are blinded until the start of her next turn,

Glitters next turn. 10 points of radiant damage to Xanthius and Grafeth. No blind. You're not blinded. That was her bonus action. I'm still holding up my hand to block the bullet. Yeah, and then. Just saw it through the hole.

And then, yeah, I think she's gonna do a similar thing. She's gonna shoot three times. But her shots are all gonna go into Xanthias as the closest target. Piyu, pio, pio. Okay. Okay. 22.

Yes. That is gonna be 12 points of piercing, plus 16 poison. Oh my god, okay. Second attack, oh, that's a two, that is not gonna hit. Great. Well, what's the bonus? Not enough. And then that is going to be a 16 on the last one.

I have to shield it. Okay, so you cast shield? Yes. So that completely blocks it. That blocks it. That is all three of her attacks and her bonus action. I think she's going to skirting around. Keeping next to Xanthius, but just taking a bit more of an aggressive stance towards all of you, basically.

So still within five feet of you? Yeah, she's still within five feet of you currently. Okay. And then we go to, there's a lot of people in this, Ophelia. Yo, okey dokey. Um, so I'm going to track down Peridose. I'm going to follow her. Mm-hmm. She went. 25. You can move here and not provoke an opportunity attack.

Right between both of them. Okay. Yeah, between both of them. And then I'm going to swing around and I'm going to vampiric bite glitter as she's. Glitter as she is right next to me and because I have half my hit points missing. I have advantage on that Okay, so all that just make that a regular attack Why would it? It wouldn't be oh because you're blinded Blinded yes so it would make it a regular attack right. Oh, okay, I think we're assuming that like you have a vague sense of where they were and stuff

So think of blood yeah, a heartbeat I'm gonna use fate on this one as well oh, you're gonna spend fake lovely Oh, I love it 14 to hit it's not enough Even with the vampiric, like your bloodlust driving you forward, kind of leading you to her, the blindness, and this is a very nimble, quick, you know, agile warrior, and she just dodges to the side.

All right, I'm going to try and bite her again. Disadvantage. Yeah. Same again. Seven. Just the blindness prevents you from being able to do anything. Anything else on your turn? I think that's all I can do for the minute, yeah. I'm going to spend a point of fate.

Give you guys a point of fate back. And Glitter is going to use her once around fate action to just make a basic attack against you. Me? No, against her. Yeah, okay. Bang, she just is gonna blast you point blank. That is gonna be 20 to hit.

Yep. Ooh, low damage, luckily. So that is gonna be eight points of piercing. So you half that to four, but then the poison damage is 10, which you don't half. No. So 14.

I mean, it sounds like Ophelia's bleeding pretty profusely. That was the end of your turn of philia. Biting the air. Roe it? Actually, no, we already did the Rowan turn. You'll jump into the initiative when you kind of get into this basically. I will come back to you. So then we go to, it's actually Agent Darling before Gruff. Daisy having opened up the secret door,

darling bursts in, I've been looking forward to this, you must be Peraday and just moves up and just starts laying. I love her. I love her so much. We'll just step up. You will see, like, Peridot looks towards the door,

probably thinking it's gonna be some sort of ally, like, where have you, who the hell are you, as this, you know, this disguised orc is gonna come in. So, two slam attacks. I think that on the way, you actually see that Darling, as she steps in, she will go over, pick up one of these chairs, and then she uses that as a weapon.

She picks up a chair, I think she probably throws it, and then she goes over to do a haymaker, basically. She's perfect. You might not love it too much, that's only a 17. You see Peridot like dodges, like kind of smashes the chair out of the air

and it does not hit. And then she tries to go in with a punch on the second attack. That will just about hit on 820. And that is gonna be eight points of damage to Peridot. She did not have advantage. She cannot use that. So there's eight points of damage to parallel. And that is going to be unfortunate it for her turn currently.

Then that brings us to gruff. Armor of rink of thorns, number one. Bonus action. Number two, masculine wounds. Oh. Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-five. Santhius, how bad are you?

Twenty-two. I will use a fate to enhance my healing, add 11 more to you, Santhius. Hell yeah. So wait. 22, and then... Plus 11, so 33 for you. No, it was more. Min, I got 22 hell.

Oh, sorry, that's what it was. The fuck did my mask go. 21 is your base. 10. 13, 14, 15, 16, 16, 17, 18. 18. 19, 20, 21. 21 is the base. Plus.

So 21 healing to you and Ophelia. Yeah. And then another 11, so 32 to Xanthias. Very good. Um, did anyone else need anything? Because I technically got space for a little bit more. The other two, no, the other two weren't in the room. Is there a man in the next room that I tickled?

I believe you need to be able to see them. Uh, masculine woe. 30 foot radius. So it's the, it's the point I have to. see, but also. Oh, if it's, you're doing it on a point. Yeah. The point can be within 60 foot,

and then it's a 30 foot radius from that point. I don't think that I could close doors. If I center it in the room. I don't think it goes through like hard surfaces. Look, I'm just. Like, if I did a fireball, I wouldn't hit you guys with a fireball through a closed door, do you know what I mean?

I don't think you can catch yourself and the guy is the thing. If you put like up, even if you knew they were there. That's fun. So I'm gonna say no. That's fun. I just, you know, I don't want to use it, or, you know, just... But that's your action bonus action.

We use... reduce... I would like to... I kind of want to guard the door, but I also... Xanthea's so weak, so feeble. Um, yeah, but I'm standing there, like, crying. The hole in his head. You're crying, oh, I'm... Show me!

Where'd you want to go to you? Um, can you... So, 35 foot of movement. Please, can you put me next to Xanthius? 5.10, 15, 20, 25, yeah. You could heal glitter. It might be the loving touch. She's got a cute name.

The loving touch she needs. She's not being hurt, so it's fine. I can change her. No, she'll take any damage. Peel her heart. Graph, that's the end of your turn? Yes. So we then go to you.

I'm just running through all the initiatives. Then it would be Daisy. Hello! I'm going to step into the room near the corner by that bookshelf. And I would like to to use a fate. I'm going to use the

radian arrow with my bow with Lumeros and take a shot at Peridow which will then also do additional damage because it will bounce onto glitter and it will also give Ophelia and Darling temporary hit points. Okay. So I probably won't hit though.

Yeah, only 17. God damn. Not enough. She just sees the arrow coming. So do I still spend the feet if it doesn't go off? What does the wording on the actual ability say? When you make an attack roll or when an attack hits? That's the key thing. Yeah.

If it's when you make an attack roll, fate's gone. When you make an attack, you can choose to spend one fate. So you make it before you make the attack roll. You spend it. Damn. Sorry, guys, I just pissed that way. I don't apologize.

I mean, if it'd hit, it would have been a great thing. It's the risk and reward. All right, so you step in, you fire the arrow, but again, Perdo looks exceptionally nimble. This is like a very highly trained. I rolled seven for like every roll today. Yeah, it sucks. That is Daisy's turn.

Almost a second. There is movement upstairs, but they are not gonna make it. They're running. They're running away. And then. Away, yeah. Yeah.

They just heard like 12 shots down here. Yes. Yes. I've got to try some spells here to see their capability to block it. I'm gonna open up, obviously, with some big ass radiant glowing as my innate sorcery bursts to light.

and I made rage. Which gives me a boost to my DC saves, which is great because I want to do a held person at a slightly higher level. We'll say, wait, what level is held person normally? Where is it, where's it gone? It's gone. Four is an eight or three?

Two. Is it? So I will cast it. But the basic one is second level. Because I'm scared of them just counter spelling. I'm gonna cast this a fourth level to count. capture two of them. Both glitter and Peridot.

Please, in a help person, please. Wisdom saving throw? Wisdom saves. Okay, glitter first. With advantage for reasons. DC7 beats 17, sorry, on my save. 17 is what was needed. Shit, and then Peridot.

Ooh, it isn't, so I will use her ability, which is to add a fate. I can spend fate to boost her sailing throw. Okay. which is enough because I only needed one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you watch as the spell tries to take hold, but these are agents who have honed their minds,

who are compelled, who do not want to fail, and be trapped here, and they manage to resist the hold person. Bulls and butts. My two favorite things. Three, if you think about it. I'm going to stay right here, then. Stay where you are?

My bonus action and action is used up, yeah. Okay. In that case, there is more movement upstairs, but also movement as somebody does finally manage to descend the stairs. One of the guards that was off to one of the side rooms. So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. And then they will dash. 510, 50. Basically, they will enter and then move up next to Darling.

Speedy. Well, it's their whole turn. They're dashing. So I don't believe that they have a bonus. that they can really do. So no, that is like literally their turn. It's just to run in, basically. Which jumps us all the way back up to top.

And we're gonna start with Rowan Friggs. So Rowan, you turn to start examining this wall. You know that there is a secret door here. So you're gonna have advantage on investigation checks to find the mechanism. And the DC is also technically Lola, because you know that something is here. So if there is something to find, it will be a lower DC. Well, I hope it's better than a five. You have advantage?

Well, that's cocked. You could have spent fate as well. I got a 12. 12? You begin sort of searching the walls. Maybe it's like a push of a rock or something. You start pushing on some of the, like, the mortared stones, trying to push it.

You and Fricks are both pushing on it. And I think it is Riggs who, Rowan, look out and shuds you as a bullet embeds into the stone and that drunk vagrant is now... Oh, you mother fuck. I gave him inspiration. You did?

Yeah, and he hasn't used it yet. Oh shit. Get away from there. And we'll do that properly. That will probably take place in your turn. I should have known. But yeah, you are currently engaged with a guard, basically. Cool.

But it does... That was very quick. You know that there is something here. So, but you'll get, you'll get like a second go because we'll now properly treat your initiative. Cool. But that was just like a nice setup of like, Rick's like, get out of me

and then this bullet buds in. Hang on the go, maybe I'll get a shotgun wedding. Peridot's turn. Sorry, there is a lot of things going on. Yeah. I'm going to do you. I'm quoting some prime time dad jokes over here. Yeah, cook them up.

You're still quite hurt, aren't you, Aphelia? Yeah. Yeah. And I'm blind. Yeah. Yeah. Is that lost at the end of your turn? As her bonus action.

Until the end of it after her turn, yes. Yeah, so she has advantage against you. I'm going to use a bonus action to use her ability, deadly aim. And this kind of represents she loads some sort of special bullet, and then she takes a shot. We'll do the first shot at Aphelia. This is the one with advantage anyway. Oh, no. With the advantage.

Nat-T-LIN. Shit. This is very bad because that ability adds a lot. adds a lot of extra damage. That's fine. This role. So, so... I don't think you're going to need a lot.

Let's do... No, you're not going to need not. I'm probably not, but I need to work this. I'm going to do this properly anyway. Just in case... I'm raging. I'm raging. So I have a resistance. What's your current and your max?

Max is 100. I'm currently on 28. Sorry, unlikely that... Unlikely it's going to... Yeah, yeah, yeah. But... I have one or well... Let's see.

And then... How low were you before the heel? Shit. How are you? I've taken a lot of big hits. I shot like three times and did quite a lot of damage. The very, is that just from this, you were full when you went into the room? Yeah.

It's been a lot of... A lot of bullets. A lot of bullets. They're still bouncing around the room as well, which is kind of scary. That's scary. That's the scene in Glorious Bastards. That one. Yeah. I'm just thinking about her film Wanted.

What with, um... Oh yeah. Samuililil Jackson. You curve the bullet. Is it wanted? Yeah. It's annoying though. It just keeps curving into anywhere I'm standing. I like think I'm getting out of the way.

It's when I'm like again. Just to check. Yeah. Yeah. What is your maxing points? 100 on the dot. 100 on the dot. What are you currently on? 28.

Oh. Oh. This is very fine. Go for it. I want to see. With that crit, you watch as this would be. I'm just double checking my math here. Yeah.

Because I've got to separate because you've got resistance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you take 22 piercing damage, which would be half to 11. Yep. But you then take, because of the critical hit, that attack adds a lot of poison damage. This bullet is like a magically poisoned bullet. 95 poison damage.

Oh my God. So you are down, but it is not enough to kill you outright. by a very small. Oh my, my God. Which is why I had to double check my math because I wanted to make sure I got that right. What was that like 13 away or? Something like that.

You need 117. Yeah. Yeah. 95 plus, well it would have been 117 if you didn't have the resistance for raging. Oh my god. As you watch, as she fires this poisonous bullet,

as it pierces into your flesh, breaking through the scarabama and everything else, you feel this intense, like, painful burning, ripping through your body, so painful that you just are on your ground. Like, Ghibi just, like, drasps ahead, just screams as she goes down. Just, ah! It just collapses. That's her first attack. Yeah.

Uh, gruff. Two shots. She's only got one more shot with a pistol. So before she has unload. It does. Yeah, she gets her so much shots. So it's going to be one shot against Gruff, and then I think she's going to do a melee against Darling.

That is going to be a 27 to hit you, DoGruff. No. Got the armor up, in it? Yeah, it is. That is going to be 13 points of piercing damage. 19 poison, that would be halved to nine. So that is, and then, you know, she basically pulls the gun aside, and then she holds her hand out and a dagger kind of manifests.

and then she strikes it darling with her dagger. That is not going to hit though. That is only going to be a 12 to hit darling. So that is Peridot's turn. The top of the stairs on the side, having making his way down, a red-skinned dragon-born, 5-10, 15, 25, 30.

Begin to make his way down as well. What's going on? I heard the commotion. You don't look like you there. He doesn't look like him, no. Next turn, glitter. This very young, pretty golden-skinned typhling is going to look to Xanthias and gruff.

One down, two to go. And you see this sadistic smile, like her fangs, like fully out, her tail, like flipping back and forth, like an excited animal, basically. And she just, you can see that she's got, I think she'd have two bullets left in her gun as well. and then she will fire those, the two of you.

Probably trying to take out Gruff first. So two shots towards Gruff. The first one's gonna miss, only a 12. Second shot is gonna be cut. That is gonna be 19, so that's gonna be 26. No. I just ignore you when you do that. I know.

That's nine piercing damage plus 10 poison. Five. Is that 10 half? Oh, sorry, so that would be five-halfed, yes. I didn't half the poison damage on that one. And then she is also going to flick her wrist and from her blouse like a dagger is gonna appear, and she's gonna try and step you with her dagger.

That's her third in front attack, that's cocked. That is gonna miss, that's a bad role. As she tries to swipe, you parry it with a shield, she gets one shot off, but the other attacks do not quite land that way. And I think she's actually gonna stay where she is, because she's kind of between you guys and Ophelia currently.

Jump to it is Sister Ophelia Delaros' death-saving folk please. First one at least. It's be fine. Natural 20. Oh! Maybe it's the dice train. Well, the start of your turn, you are at one hit point and I'll no longer dying. You are prone.

Your rage is also broken. It does. Break the range, yeah. So you will need to rage again. My rage is broken. That is awesome. Spillow. I guess Ophelia would just...

All the bullets. Stand up and just reactivate the rage and just look at glitter. Just like her fangs. Oh, maybe I spoke too soon. Yeah, he did. Yeah, you feel like it. Come on play. Come and play.

Yeah, I'm just gonna go for it again. I'm just gonna try and um... Try and vampire at her. There's so many hot women in this room. Thank you. Come on. You are no longer blinded. I'm not blinded anymore, but it's probably gonna be enough.

You have an advantage because you're under half health. It's very true. 19, we'll hit. Amazing. Oh my God, I can't pick up anything today. Right. D4 plus six, blood points, because I've been having a lot of damage done against me. So I'm going to do three D6 total.

You remember you can't spend blights on multiple damage. That's true. In a little while. You can do it all on one attack. So one D6, no, two D6, sorry, because I have one standard. So no, that's with Veracity. Yeah, remember. I have brain farts.

Well, plus. Two, 14. 14. 14 points of damage. And I get those back. Yes. Yes. Yes.

I'm so back, baby. And I'm going to do it again. Okay. Reckless this time. You don't need to. You still have advantage because you're still under half your hit points. True.

But I could give myself. What's the empowered one? Well, that's, you've used one use of your empowered bite there, right? That's true. So we can go in for 13 plus. Unuptual 20. That hits.

Great. Again, 17. 17 points of damage. Yeah, piercing damage. Might get that back too. Shit. So that's a 30 healing I've had that turn from eating people. Nice.

Love points make a big difference, get that extra 6. Yum, yum. Yeah. I think they've changed that with new dampiers and make it less good. But we're still using the old one. So end of turn. Bonus action, you used half your movement to stand up.

Yep. Okay. At the end of your turn, I'm going to spend a point of fate for glitter to make her attack. She's going to attack you. Let's go. She's going to stab you with our dagger. It's going to be fine. You didn't use reckless, so I don't have advanced against you.

I'm not blinding. 18. No. No? No. Because you have your scarabarm. Yes. Perfect.

So as she goes to thrust the armor hidden beneath your disguise, this insectoid plate deflects the blade. Try again. Oh, I will, don't worry. We've got plenty of time for this dance, darling. We do, we do. I'm like this all the time. All right.

At the top, we have Rowan and Bricks versus this drunken... The ultimate betrayal. Step away from there. No? I'm just going to go at him. Okay. What do you do? You can't just say I go at him.

I need to know. Running towards. Okay, yeah. Yeah, we don't have a map for this. This is like in a tiny, you know, ten foot out way. Dissinent whispers, wisdom saving through. Wisdom saving through. Wisdom saving through, you say, 13.

That fails. 3D6 points of psychic damage and they have to get away from me if they fail. Mm-hmm. 12 points of psychic. Psychic damage. And then on their turn they have to move away, right? They take 3D6. It takes 3D6 and must immediately use their reaction,

if available, to move as far away from me as possible. Nice. It runs 30 feet down the alleyway to the entrance to the alleyway, basically. Let's get inside, Friggs, quickly. But enemy. We're inside, they can't. You search for door, I will kill. Okay.

I will do what you want, but I think they will come back. Your job is security for our friends. Very true. That is, right? Anything else in the sentence are you actioned? Any bonus actions or anything you would like to do? I guess as a bonus action, I can't really investigate the door. I will allow you to do it, but just without the advantage, basically.

You're trying to do it quickly. You're trying to do it speedy. That's a seven, so no. So, no, yeah, I'm still trying, can't find it. You know where the door is. It's just you can't find the mechanism. Come on, door. Where's your knob? Yes.

So that was Rowan's turn. We then go to, it's a big long combat. Agent Darling. Why Fricks look for a door when Fricks can make door? Well, maybe that's what Bricks is going to do on Bricks's turn. Joggernaut. Bricks hasn't thought of that, but if Ricks was directed to do it in a house. That kind of has different.

When does Bricks as go in the initial? I'm the buggernaut. No, no. That's a very different film. Yeah, separate. Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think, darling is going to turn. to this guard that's just shown up

and try and stop them from getting too involved in the fight. Will... Yeah, I feel you just healed a bunch. I'm not going to... You're fine. You're fine. She is going to... You see, Darling runs up,

like, sucker punches this guard and then can, as a free thing, grapple him, so, like, wraps her, like, arm around his head. Great. He's your HP. What's my HP? Okay, um...

Good average part of DA. Uh, I wish I had more. 54. Okay. Um, and then I think she's got this guard, like, headlocked, and then she's just like, punches him in the head.

I wish that was me. That is... I don't know what that means. What are you punched in the head? I think so. and she will spend one of her uses of distracting strike on this as well to add some extra damage and anybody else who attacks this guard

will have advantage on their attack roll. It's pretty distracting, getting punched in the head, I'd say. Yeah, exactly. So she's just pounding on this guard, basically. I don't know why, but I just lost focus. People. Daisy. Hello, I'm going to steady aim

and I'm going to shoot. Peridot. Okay. Yeah. 19 plus 10, 29. Nice. Well hit. Sweet.

Not much I can do about that. Give up, surrender. All those. Cry. Cry. I'm gonna cry about it. 37 points of damage. 37 points of damage.

Hell yeah. Perfect. Thank you. The arrow finally strikes. And you can see that like Peridot is not wearing any armor, but the way the arrow like pierces her, blouse, it's almost like it's gone through something thicker than what the blouse is actually made of.

Like she's wearing armor, but it doesn't look like armor. Um. Um, I think I'll just move over to the near her door. So five, ten, fifteen, twenty. Twenty-five. Yeah, I just wanted to be a bit away from the door. Okay, perfect. Um, all right, Daisy, end of turn.

That was quite painful. I think I'm gonna spend a point of fate. to have Peridot. She holds up her hand that she's currently got the dagger in and you see a glowing tattoo, like a ringed tattoo. Glow for a second. Daisy, I need a wisdom saving throat. Who does that?

Man, they're diadem for life. Check out. Watch this drive. You'll die down for life. Is that a double ring then? No, two fingers. I'm going to use luck. Okay, so you get advantage? 21.

21 is enough to succeed. You feel some sort of spell tried to seize you. No, sorry, 20. 20? Still enough. You feel a spell tried to paralyze you in place, whole person, but you resist it. Thank you. That was at the end of your turn.

And so we then go to... Wait, if they're doing exactly what I'm doing, I'm gonna stop punching myself. This is what I wanted. You hear another set of footsteps as a, Bard man arrives at the top of the stairs. At the end of my turn, by the way, after a hit. Can I say in the daisy chain, is this a get out of your situation?

Because there's quite a few more people I think up there. And that's it. Okay. Perfect. Yeah, you can absolutely say that. That is his full turn to get to the top of the stairs. You just hear him, sort of you hear this voice like, come on, hurry up. They're down here.

Call out and then go to, God, there's so many. Vrix. Come on, Vrix. Rook, yeah. Do you, like, would Rowan tell Vrix to, like, break down the door? Because Vrix isn't going to think of that probably right now. Bricks is like, but man who attacked you?

It's more, you know when I said your job is to security for my friends? It sounds like desperate. Okay. Let me... Like my friends are down there. Let me make a roll. Let's see if Ricks like picks up on this, basically. Bricks is brixing again.

Rix is vixing. But Vricks doesn't have to move because this guy is 30 feet away. Vricks has a gun. That's true, yeah. Bricks will shoot twice. Wait, how loud is that, Vricks? The first one, it's a natural one.

The gun basically backfires and explodes in Vrix's hands. Oh yeah, I forgot the guns do down the natural one. Stupid. Just throws it to the site. As yeah, basically it jams. The gun just click, click, click, click, like, you hear this loud kind of crack of a gunshot as the barrel something goes wrong

the bullet gets wedged, you know, Frick's hasn't been taken care of it, and bang, and you just, Rix is like looking at it, like, this is stupid. And then I think we'll, yeah, just move 30 feet towards the man and attacking with her help, but then for the second attack. That is going to hit, though.

18 is going to hit. For 12 points of damage. She pushes him out of the alleyway. Like shoves him. them out basically. But yeah, that is going to be Rix's turn. We then go to Xanthius. We basically brought none of our like usual equipment in here, didn't we? No. You don't have, yeah, any equipment that you specified you were bringing with you?

I didn't say I was going to bring my movable rod, did I? You in fact gave it to Rowan. Yeah, it's in the bag of holding. Yeah, you're right. Rowan's not all of the useful things. Your stuff, he has all of your objects, basically. I'm assuming Daisy and Gruff have all of their equipment. There's no reason for you. Yeah, there was no reason for you to do.

reason for you need to change yours. Um, yeah, one option is I completely block people from getting in, which means blocking us from getting out. There's other exits though, because we came in a different way. Uh, no, you didn't, you came in the same way. Everybody is coming through this secret door. And I don't know of any other. There's gotta be a secret exavertis.

We haven't. You don't know that. Yeah, I mean, we probably, did you communicate? Doesn't mean it leads here. Well, but I'm on like the secret back end. You went downstairs. All, all. Roan knows is that there is a secret door on the back of the Opel lounge.

It has no idea where it leads, no idea. It probably goes right to the bar. As I was skulking around the perimeter, did I go down at all? No. You stayed at street level. It's definitely like street level entrance. Okay, look, well, I'm going to cast with careful so it doesn't hit any of my eyes. I'm still not going for big damage.

I'm trying to secure it. C.C. I want to cast confusion, please. So this will be in such a way that the edge of the circle is glitter. The three allies that are in there are Darling, Aphelia, I think that's it. No, that's it, yeah. But it is also a 90-foot, 10-foot radius sphere.

So it will hit the guard, peridone, and glitter. Yeah. If you put it in the middle. Yeah. But yes, I'm also using careful to not hearing one. So it's a wisdom saving throw from those three, please. I'll do Peridot first because she can spend the fate to boost it if I need to. Is this a charm effect that matters?

Hmm. I don't say so. It doesn't say that it caught like charm, they have the charmed condition or anything? No conditions, no, it's just a roll on the table. Okay. There's no way I can be. So yeah, Peridot is affected by the confusion. Great.

Glitter is not affected by it. We'll succeed. 18, and then the guard is also affected. So the guard of the Herod are both affected by this. So, yeah, they... Leave on their turn. They can't take a bonus action or reactions. And one of us rolls a 1D10,

and now to determine their behavior. Yeah. All right, perfect. On their turn, right? On their turn. Okay, perfect. Anything else sent here on your turn? I would like to also bonus action create even more ruins for myself

and I'm going to stay here because I don't want to move away from glitter wait glitter isn't always saved but it was safe so I still yeah I don't want to leave glitters range yeah yeah she would so yeah just a big boost of runes from this guy for podcast listeners I pointed at myself perfect I think they got that impression Oh. End of 10? End of 10.

Okay. One final figure for now enters also at the top of the stairs next to Alejandro. The guard who was on the door. I'm just going to move in an extra five feet space. The guard who was at the door has come down with him.

This one seems to be a bit more senior as a guard. And then... Got the badge. The guard who is currently confused. So roll A D-10, or do you want me to do it? Le-L-L-L-L-A-Me-me-me-me-me-me-me-me. Try. So I rolled nine, which means that they choose their behavior.

So they just act normally. What is that a fricking option? That's nine and ten. So it's a ten out of ten chance. God, do it. Garbo. Well, he is currently grappled by Darling. So all he's going to do is try and fight off Darling, basically.

Because it's only a grapple, he doesn't have. have to break it, he's not like a disadvantage or anything. He's just being sort of headlocked. So he would just stab her with his sword. That's gonna be, where is darlings? God, I've got so many things. Does not hit on the first attack. Okay.

Second attack will, however, hit. Where's my D8? I've got so many dice. Why do I get so many? Ooh, nasty. That is gonna be 20 points of damage to Darling. Successful strike. He just seemed kind of confused, like, what's happening?

Get off me! And sort of just swings around with his sword. But that is all he's able to do this turn. And with that, I believe we are pretty much on par for a break. Oh! It is the top of a branding round, so that seems like the best place to... Get a turn. Did I? Gruff hasn't added a show.

I haven't heard of time. Sorry, Gruff. I completely missed you in the initiative. Sorry, you should have gone after Rowan when Rowan took a turn. So the future you go after Ryan. Um, take it, take it.

It heals! Sorry. Okay. Okay, so Serran is just flying madly around this room and healing and healing and healing. I cast masque your wounds at level five. I'm going to use my battle medic

to re-roll one on that. So I rolled eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 28, 29, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 33, 33, points. 83 points. And then Ophelia, I would like to spend one point of fate.

Faint. And using my amulet of Saint-Tilan, you get another 11. Oh, thank you. Healing. This goes to six creatures, so I would like to heal Darling as well. One, two, three. Well, Darling would have taken the damage after your turn, but just because we missed your turn, I'll retroactively do it on this time.

Thank you, mommy. So big heel. So it's 33 as well as 11. 33, and then Ophelia gets an additional, yeah. Total 44. Wow, thank you. That's a huge, almost point you to full. And then, bonus action.

Ah, I am, because I just don't have a lot of bonus actions, but I'd like to use them, because, you know, I will roar in the direction of glitter. Okay. This is a frightening effect, so she's advantage. That is going to be 18. Yeah, that probably does it. I can't yet.

Come on, I'm pretty sure. 18 Beach or DC. Yeah, Wisdom 16. Creatures of my choice. Within 10 feet. So there are no other range. No one else? Yeah.

You can frighten Ophelia and Xenthias. Sure, why not? Uh, hell? I kind of want to start, like, moving out of the room, like maybe towards, is Peridot's door, is it stone or wood? The office? Yeah. Looks like a nice, like, well-made wooden door.

Cute. I can get us into one of these rooms because he's looking left and right and to his right is Peridot's office door. To his left is door. He doesn't know where it goes. Daisy said what's saying? Daisy told him. I gave you the visual of that. Oh, so he might have known that there was a boy in there. Yeah, 100%.

I sent you the image of the man. Yeah. Oh, I do want to investigate boy, but this other boy is antheos is we can next to me. He's fine now. I'm super fine now. Okay, in which case... Sounds rarely fine. Yeah.

But then glitter will stab me because I'm next to glitzis. Yeah. Okay. She's not affected. Uh, I'll stay where I am for now. I'll stay right now. And just say that I intend to move towards one of the rooms. The torture room, bad room, sad room.

But you're not moving there. I'm not moving now. Just to check for confusion, do I get to save at the end of my turn? Uh, ha. At the end of each of their turns, yes. Ah, he does not succeed. So with that, now we will take our break. We'll take our five minute break.

When we return, we will be at the top of a brand new round. It's getting busier. You guys are out healing their damage, which is quite high. But how long can that healing last? Not long! And there are more people coming.

But, Hats Rowan and Vrex may be soon to arrive. Reinforcement. To save the day. Yeah, maybe. Or to show us how to get out. We believe. We will see you in five minutes, everybody. See you in a bit.

Bye.