High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #108 | Aerosians... Assemble! (Part 2)

Episode Date: April 15, 2021

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Uber Reserve. See Uber app for details. so century uh we jump to century uh as we return the fight most of these threats most of the actual threats that were here in gust haven have been dealt with now um you can't there's maybe a couple of these electrified soldiers there's a couple of these flying creatures still looming around. The other dragon has been banished by Quill's future self. The biggest threat now

is Zarkira herself and this strange metal spider that has been conjured and is chasing down Quill. It is centuries ago. The wolf pack member next to me how how bad is he looking so i did make a saving throw you can see he's like struggling you can see it's like snarling his ears are like flat against his head he's like long uh kind of furry hair um tails down low and

he's like struggling like like he's mentally trying to resist some sort of effect um but you can see that the petrification is slowly crawling up of his arm kamara is like looking over just like ah and she's like gonna about to rush to it to their aid but you're not sure if they're going to be able to do anything okay can i use uh my where'd you go Can I use my cleansing touch ability so I can use my action to end one spell on myself or on one willing creature that you touch three times per long rest? I will say that you can absolutely do that. So you reach out, you lay your hands on the wolf pack member,

you summon the energy of the matrix and surging that kind of divine magic that's within your body through this thing. You flush out whatever spells Zarkira had and it breaks it away. You see the stone flaking off their hands and their fur and they're just like, oh, sentry, thank you, as he looks around and then he's kind of drawing his weapons. You see Zarkira just kind of shake her head, just be like,

you had the perfect opportunity to attack me. You saved this insignificant individual. Why? He's not insignificant. He's part of all of us. And this is why you will lose. And essentially, you've got a move and a bonus action left.

I'm going to move... Oh, where do I... I'm going to stay where where I am I like where I am I'm panicking because Zarkir is like right there bonus actions okay cool yeah I will bonus action cast shield of faith on myself and give myself a plus 2 AC

okay and I'll stay right where I am on myself and give myself a plus two AC. Okay. And I'll stay right where I am. Okay. Okay, at the end of your turn, Zarkir is going to take another legendary action. She can cast it to a third level. Tasha's Mind mind whip is really good it's really really good

60 feet let's see, you're too far away Sentry and Aayla are such big threats I think she would use it on you two again I need Sentry and Aayla to make another intelligent saving throw oh, boring is this a new round? I know, she just had her turn

so she got her reaction back. Counter spell. Ah. Technically her counter spells come back as well. Has it? This is on a different, yeah, reactions come back

at the start of your turn and she just took her turn on, oh no, wait, because she used it on her turn. So yeah, no, it hasn't come back. Okay. what level what level counter spell oh that's true your turn hasn't come back up lucius you don't have a reaction to counter spell well sorry you gotta wait to the start of your next turn no it's well remembered tom yeah no it's being fair um so yeah intelligence

saving throws ala and century please yeah i failed that guy fail you both take 3d6 uh psychic damage this time ayla you're still within centuries aura so it's halved so that's only seven points of psychic so half to three but the bigger thing is no reactions and you either get a move an action or a bonus action next turn that's it um yeah unfortunately that's in her mind that's the smartest thing for her to do the two flyers uh who have been doggedly pursuing quill are going to do the same thing uh they are going to fly 40 feet yes sir they are i am tanking hard hit me hit me see if you can hit me.

Hit me. Hit me. Yeah, but they're flying too. Yes, they are also flying. That's why they're flying diagonally up so they stay within range. So, Quill, you have an acid spit coming your way, followed by a javelin. First acid spit is a 16 to hit. Shit.

Oh, shield. Okay, shield activates. Javelin. 11 to hit. Misses. Bounces off the shield. Second acid spit. That's correct. It's a miss. And then the second javelin is a 19. Still miss.

Still miss. Still miss. So the shield, you conjure the shield. Bing, bing, bing, bing! As this acid sprays, you're trying to get to you as you're trying to just barely hold them off. Remember, that shield stays up until the start of your next turn as well,

so any other attacks, that still benefits you. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Great spell. Thalia still has to wait for the twin star, but you hear her shouting down like, Nova, it would be a very good idea if we could get moving now. And she's just shouting down,

carry a big cat, get ready. And that's all she can really do is ready her action to take off once enabled. Charbelin Dragon, still banished. Retriever, though. So you said, Quill, you were 50 feet up, yes? Yes. Uh-oh. Oh, it's got

60 feet of range, but I've only had 50 feet of movement, so either way. Well, it's also going to... It wasn't going to jump. It runs up to the rear mast, and it climbs 30 feet up the rear mast as well. Putting it 20 feet away,

which is annoyingly just out of range of its melee attacks. This is like the opposite of Godzilla now. No, wait. It's kind of exactly like Godzilla. I'm a plane and he's trying to swap me out of the air. And then it's going of exactly like Godzilla. I'm a plane and he's trying to swap me out of the air. Oh Godzilla, King Kong! And then it's gonna spit fine filament webs out of its mouth. Tom, I need you to make a dex saving throw. Filament webs? Uh, dex save.

Okay. Oh, 20! Okay, you, with your messenger guild flying, you manage to avoid this kind of spray of webs. It rubs out everywhere, and you see it kind of turning its head. No emotion, but you get the sense that this thing is getting frustrated, that it can't quite reach its prey. Cut the webs with your metallic wings, like the falcon.

That's its action uh they are all dead except for this one guy who is revealed from the blindness 5 10 15 20 25 30 he's gonna dash 5 10 15 20 25 30 comes running along thecks. The other one's gonna make a saving throw. Fails. Pretty much. Does he just, like, walk into the water? Uh, no. At the top of the round, the crew is a little bit

diminished and stunned by everything that's going on. Looking at the two kind of threats, I mean, they've seen Zarkira in action before. Do you want them to target the spider creature or do you want them to try and target Zarkira? Now, they've got these callous laser... Force beam rifles.

Yes, these force rifle rifles. I think Lucius might direct them at Zarkira. Okay. Yeah, so you kind of like call out a command, Arise just like, Oh, fire on the sorceress! And she points down. They all turn, Zarkira as well.

Zarkira's kind of like trying to fend off this giant spider thing that's run up past her as well. All of them fire, and you just see the bolts of force are just absorbed by some sort of barrier around Zarkira. Trying to use our own weapons against us. I appreciate the ingenuity, but they don't seem

to have any effect against Zarkira herself. That's a full-blown sphere of nothingness. Nothing gets through. Aayla! Sphere of nope. I can't do shit. Everything's... Nothing's getting through to her. There's nothing else to hit.

So you've got to move an action or a bonus action. Oh yeah, I don't even have. Can I take a couple of shots with a bow at the spider? Because I can't get to it and hit it. Sure, I'd say that part of the attack action is you pulling out the bow.

Yeah, you can kind of, even though your mind's addled by this spell, you manage to kind of pull out the bow, blink focus, and take a couple of shots towards this spider creature. That's probably not going to hit. 18, maybe? 18 will not going to hit. 18, maybe? 18 will not hit, unfortunately. The arrow pings off its metal carapace. 23.

That will hit, however. And is this... The bow is magic. Is it magic or has it got magic arrows? Magic arrows. Magic arrows. Yes. Magic arrows. Can't speak. is it magic or has it got magic arrows magic arrows magic arrows yes can't speak uh

seven points of damage woo big damage second one does manage to find some purchase doesn't seem to have a huge effect on the creature but it definitely still strikes true um anything else Ava that's pretty much it end of your time uh just messengering i can't hurt her nothing's getting through we need to help other people what's our strategy nova nova where the hell are you

just dealing with a little problem trying to board this ship. Be with you in a second. Can I... Obviously, I'm in the engine room now. Can I... I'm guessing I've probably seen this before in managing the engines, that they're just off, right? And they need a kickstart. They need, like, a burst of magical energy to kind

of... You know that the infernal engines on the Twin Star, they're literally, like, bound infernal creatures. These are like some sort of devil or demon that have been kind of bound, kind of similar to how the Eterna are bound to other ships. They're bound into these engines. They generally work because they're angry

and it's like they're asleep. You need something, you need a magical energy to like wake them up. So you can either do that by channeling like a spell slot they're asleep you need something you need a magical energy to like wake them up um so you can either do that by channeling like a spell slot in or or like channeling a spell of any damaging spell into them um and making an arcana check or you can try something else if you wish can i ask them real nicely um no i'm gonna i'm gonna um you could certainly hands would it would an eldritch blast be enough or is it like a spell slot?

This would need to be a spell slot, yeah. This needs to be a 5th level spell slot or higher. Yeah. I'm gonna put my hands on the engines and blast them with something. I don't know if it's a specific spell or just channeling. It doesn't need a specific spell, it's just the energy of the spell slot itself, which represents the magical

power of the spell energy. You place your hands on these kind of like, you know, crystalline controls and you channel the magic in and you begin to feel this intense, fiery warmth beginning to swell up. Can you make a dex save for me? Yes. 16 plus three is a 19.

You just managed to kind of like throw yourself back as the engines erupt in this like infernal flame now you see the power the lines on the gauges the switches all the crystals begin lighting up as the power surges through the twin star you hear a kind of like excellent work darling and then you just hear a and you feel like some force gonna throw you back as the whole twin star kicks off the rest of you hear a massive uh kind of cracking and breaking as the roof of the warehouse itself breaks off and the twin star comes blasting out the top of it um revealing the fine astral ship uh ready and willing cool but that's all that happens uh on nova's turn because that's going to pretty much be your action uh move and everything else to get the the twin star operational uh lucius i'm going to cast

chromatic orb on one of the little annoying fly things that are attacking quill and also the spider struck constructed creature uh twin spell it twinning it yeah okay uh and as my bonus action i'm going to consume a spell slot to regain some sorcery points as well okay uh so So, let's do the Time Warp again. Third level Chromatic Orb with... Yeah, two attack rolls. Hold. Two separate targets. Okay.

Not Acid, because I saw one of them was doing Acid, so... Ding dong. Here we go. Less than that one. Eleven. The first one, the flyer manages to kind of tuck themselves out the way as the orb goes flying past them uh you need to roll a second second attack roll for the the the spider creature the retriever i feel bad for 22 that will hit the retriever however uh so the flyer

manages to dodge out the way which is probably the least the less of the however. So the flyer manages to dodge out of the way, which is probably the least, the less of the two threats, but the spider creature is impacted greatly. And you said cold damage? Yes. Okay. How much damage? 29. Let me double check. There's no ones in there,

because I'm an adept. Nope. All good. Okay. All good. So yeah, you see the cold kind of splash against the retriever's back and it kind of parts it begins slowing down it kind of creaks as it breaks free of the rhyme and frost that's built up around its core now but yeah definitely leaving some damage on the creature's uh exoskeleton yes and then eight points of dichromancy back on the person I missed. Now, what's the range of dichromancy, Chris Drop? 2,000 feet.

I think it's 60 feet. I did actually want to move myself, but I've already cast a spell from there, so don't worry. No, you can move. You can move. 20. 30. I want to be within the aura range as well.

Ah, piss. All right, never mind. It's still out. No, you're still within range. Oh, is it 30 feet for Dicomancy? 30, yeah. Ah. I could hit, but that's not going to hit.

Never mind. Do you want to try? I'll throw it in her direction just to show that I'm angry. So here's an interesting thing. Oh. Dicomancy itself isn't a spell. so here's an interesting thing oh Dyncromancy itself isn't a spell it is an effect of the arcane chromat's magic

so I would say how much damage would this be 2000 I think is what I said can you give me serious answers please 8 points thank you as funny as you are with your hilarious damage stories you're pretty funny you watch as the the

crow the the chromatic orb spin out one of them goes wide but the other one strikes the creature and then pulling that blue energy you in a kind of thinking it futile you throw it zarkira's way whatever globe whatever sphere is around her the spell manages to penetrate it and it does kind of like skip past her arm, causing like a jagged wound. How curious. You will make an excellent specimen for my research.

She does lock eyes on you kind of, hmm, how interesting. But yeah, it does have an effect. We need to do something quick. I'm just shouting. Whether we move... It's only been like six seconds, but the messages you both received were very panicked.

They were like, we need help. When I get it. Start the storm chaser regardless. Hi, Captain. And she starts calling out orders uh this will diminish your ability to fight with the crew because the crew have to prepare the ship so this reduces it by about half so about half the crew uh start running over to prepare um their jobs and things like that. I hate playing on Chrome because it's just crashed again. But we'll get there. They start doing all of that. Next up, after

the crew, I'll have the crew do that in the background so they begin preparing to lift the storm chaser off. After that, it is Azaria Perel's go. Cool. She'll fly over. The scan move again

no not this time scan she calls out how very interesting this is not the real version of Zarkira this appears to be some sort of creation then stop it

Zarkira kind of like looks up how curiousira kind of like looks up how curious she kind of looks down would you be interested perhaps in negotiations I find your creation most fascinating uh she Zarkira turns around and says like

indeed you seem to be a woman of talent yourself come here help me against these individuals and a discussion can be made. Your offer is quite tempting. Azaria will fly next to Zarkira.

Let us have a moment of peace to talk. And she conjures a wall of force in a sphere around her and Zarkira. I mean... Come on! Or El? Come on! I mean, it kind of works in this instance.

For now. So long as that... I mean, I still... Yeah, I still need to focus on this crab thing. So how much mast is there? Like, it's 30 feet up. Yeah, I mean, the mast is going to have to be, like, 30, 40 feet, right? Or, like, you know, it's going to be quite tall for a ship.

I don't know how tall a mast on a ship is, but I imagine it's, like, at least 30, 40 feet. Yeah, it's near the be quite tall for a ship. I don't know how tall a mast on a ship is, but I imagine it's like at least 34 feet. Yeah, it's near the top for sure. All right. I want to fly down within 15 feet of this crab and I want to lightning lure it off the mast and have it fall. Okay.

So it needs to make a strength save. How strong does this thing look? So you're going 15 feet away from it. You're going 15 feet away from it, yeah? Yep. Okay. So you fly down, summon the lightning, and you're going to try and pull it off.

So strength save from me. I want to pull off this crab. Strength save from you. 23. Nah. Nah. from you 23 so you kind of the lightning tries to attach this thing you try to tug this thing does not move it just grips the mast tightly uh cool all right that's fine uh somebody's saying that the ship mast is like 170 feet or something Ah, whatever Is Sentry still under the effect

of this mind lash thing? I mean, as far as you know, she was hit by some sort of spell and does seem to be a little addled by it Yes Okay, well I'm gonna Healing Word Sentry at Are you within range?

It's 60 feet Oh, okay, yeah, I keep forgetting. It's 60 feet. Oh, okay. Yeah, I keep forgetting healing word 60 feet. I always have 30 feet in my head for healing word, but I think that's an older edition. I think it's an older edition thing. I think fourth edition it was 30 feet or something. Okay, cool.

So 44 plus 6 healing. So 16 healing. But if the spell is less than 4th, I believe that will cure it. Oh no, I can just end one spell against Sentry. So yeah, I get rid of that. So you can end the effect of Tasha's Mind Whip, yeah. So Sentry, your senses come back too.

You realize that you can act fully as the clouded kind of visions, these misty visions that Zarkira conjured dissipate, and you find your body acts as you wish once again. Nice. Thank you. Awesome. Good turn. Bam. Bam. Good turn. End of your turn, Quill. That's a bam from me. That's me. That's all my go.

All I got. That's all my go. All I got. That's all she wrote. Apparently I rolled D6s so you don't heal 16. Okay. Are they swapping jelly recipes? That's what's happening. Maybe.

It is, isn't it? I use bone mush in mine. Oh, really? Animal bones or human bones? I use bone mush in mine oh really? animal bones or human bones? I use crab bones what kind of mold do you like to use? what kind of shape mold do you like? you're gonna hate me Katie

you're gonna really hate me but I need you to make a wisdom saving throw for me, as Akira clearly cast some sort of spell. Seems that she only needs to be able to see the target. You are dominate personed. Bye, guys!

Telepathic thing. Attack Lucius, please, is the command. attack the sorcerer knock knock the sorcerer out is the actual exact quote uh so you don't have to kill her but you need to knock him out does she actually say what now or on my turn uh this would be on your turn so you have to obey its telepathic commands on your turn, basically. Yeah, good luck, guys. And then that's it. And then Sentry.

All right. It's Lucius. We're in here. Okie dokie. I would like to... Only me. Go up to Aayla and use my cleansing touch ability on Aayla and end the spell. You see Aayla's eyes become smoky purple mist as she raises the hammer and begins

walking towards Lucius under this command. Sensory turns around, runs over, plants a hand on her and you just watch as the smoke burns away by the light of the matrix. That would have been bad. I have a plus 13 to hit, so Lucius would have definitely been hit.

Yeah. But yeah, you watch asentia just burns this away. Did something almost happen? Zarkiria's eyes. Sorry, Lucius. Narrow. Hasn't taken her legendary action yet. We actually see them.

Or are they in like an opaque? No, so they're in like an invisible. No, it's not opaque. You can see them. You don't actually technically see the Wall of Force, but because you guys have seen the spell before, I think you would recognize Azaria conjuring this sphere around the both of them. And they are talking.

There's like some sort of muted conversation between the two, but you don't hear it. Muted, eh? You just see Azaria kind of thing. Oh, that's true, actually. Quill, yeah, I guess. You are being attacked byaria kind of thing. Oh, that's true, actually. Quill. Yeah, I guess. You are being attacked by a giant spider thing.

Make a perception check for me. I can look directly into it. Perception check, you say? Okay, Mark. Make a perception check. All right. I mean, you might roll a one. You might roll a one.

You might roll like trash. Don't say that. No, I won't. Watch this. 21. 21. 21. I mean, you can make out... You are being distracted by battle. You're kind of trying to make out bits of it. You definitely see Zarkira's lips say the words,

Valuable offer. Magitek power yours. Azaria says something along the lines of, Interesting. Fully funded. Unlimited resources. and there's a kind of like there's like some debate going on that's the conversation they've had so well she's lost well quill two of these creatures that have been hounding you continue their absolute rapid assault. I'm not giving up. People can't

write these things. 22. Acid spit. That'll hit regardless of shield. Wow. Finally. 2, 5, 9,

12 acid damage and a concentration check please okay uh concentration uh eight plus two ten uh you took 12 damage that's just a success yeah that's literally the DC you needed. Javelin. That's going to be a 14 to hit. Nope. Next acid. 14 to hit. Miss. Nope. Next javelin.

19 to hit. It's not worth shielding for that. Go on. Do it. Do me. Do me, Mark. If a dragon pops back into existence after you said that. And a concentration check.

If he rolls a one now, I'm going to lose my shit. You can lose your shit. You can lose it all you want. 13. I have a backup concentration, remember? Expeditious retreat. Oh, you do.

I got three of my banish. It's a concentration. Yeah, I thought you only had the one concentration up. Well, these guys are slowly trying to chip away at you, trying to annoy you the twin star launches out of the i'm not going to be able to put a miniature down uh or a token down for it but the the twin star launches out the twin star is a very very large ship uh it's turrets to be able to target like small

individuals it can do um the other option, do you want it to go and help one of your other allies? Now, the Twin Star will make a huge difference if you send it to another zone. If it goes to... Because... When that message...

When... When the message came through to Quill, it came through to Quill, but came through to Quill, but I heard a piece of talking about it. Yeah, okay. I believe Lucius and Quill both would have messenger ringed to let everyone know what was going on. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I think we did.

I've said that Nova's... Yeah. Yeah, Nova's probably still in the engine room, though, at this point, right? So she can't see, or can she see what's happening on the battlefield? You won't, still in the engine room, though, at this point, right? So she can't see, or can she see what's happening on the battlefield? You won't, not from the engine room, no. You'd have to be up in the cockpit or the turrets.

Okay. But I'll know that Zarkir is here, right? You did know that, yeah? The messenger went to that as well. The other option is Nova could tell Thalia what to do and then get out of the Twin Star. Like, you could portal out of the twin star and join your friends.

Or you can stay in the twin star. I kind of feel like staying in the twin star because it's going to need an engineer as well as guns and stuff like that. Maybe. Possibly. Possibly. Just go to space. I don't know. See ya. Can't. I possibly just go to space i don't know see ya calm just go to space

just go wherever zach here is not you know a new life uh oh shit uh I will messenger ring and say that. Do you need air support or shall I go to the prince? Go to the prince. I mean, we could do with you,

but Twinstar could go elsewhere. Glan Nova. What do I have? I used Dimension Door. I could use my portal, but that's a big spell for jumping out in it. Oh, I have a Featherfall token. I have a feather fall token.

I have a goddamn feather fall token. So I am going to instruct Thalia. Thalia, darling, could you go and help the prince? I'm going to help these guys. Bye. And then jump out on the side. I'm assuming you're saying this as you're like running to the like where the the dropout like where the door into the cockpit and stuff is so you see thalia basically like turns around on the cockpit just kind of gives you a wink and

blows a kiss and says leave it to me darling i'll deal with these dragons uh and then you jump out and you activate the feather tools again you are going to be falling for some time as the twin star obviously is like quite high you're going to to be about 80 feet up in the air, slowly descending down. But yeah, the Twin Star will blast towards... I can levitate. Technically, this is Thalia's turn, so this isn't your turn, Nova.

We'll say that this is what you're going to do on your turn. Okay? So that'll be what you do on your turn. The Nova bullet is back again. land right on zarkira so thot is preparing to head towards to help with the prince nova on her turn is going to jump out and join you guys the twin star basically gets itself positions itself um over the the airship uh i guess kairi would take a shot at something um i don't think she would know who's our kira is but she sees the giant spider thing trying to go for quill and i think she would try and blast the retriever um she misses unfortunately the blast is just goes wide the twin stars like a little

unstable the turret blast just goes uh too wide and kairi uh doesn't manage to land the hit uh so that is on thalia's turn quill on your turn the giant spider creature you're flying about 15 feet away from it uh this thing is going to jump at you and basically make two attacks midair and then use one of its beams on you. Oh, shit. Okay. First four-leg. 28. Gah!

Yeah, I'm on hit. Oh, dear. 16 points of damage and a concentration check, please. Okay. Okay, my expeditious retreat is gone expeditious retreat goes second four leg attack is a 26 to hit

yeah that's not a high amount of damage that's only going to be nine points of damage but another concentration save please uh uh a 12 of damage but another concentration save please uh-huh uh hey 12 saves and then i need you to

make a constitution saving throw as it is going to fire a paralyzing beam from its second eye um okay he's checking his portents you are paralyzed paralyzed creature is incapacitated which i believe also ends concentration you can't move or speak the creature automatically fails strength index saving throws attack rolls against the creature have advantage

any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit uh i will check. Let's find out on D&D Beyond. Concentration. I mean, you're going to take some fall damage, that's for sure. It says I can't take actions or reactions for incapacitated. That's it. I'm going to look at specifically spells.

it i'm gonna look at specifically uh spells also it's my boy future quill who's uh all in that one future quill is still you it still uh takes things from concentration concentration being incapacitated or killed you lose concentration of a spell if you are incapacitated or if you die. Now, is that incapacitated in the zero health sense or incapacitated in the... No, that's incapacitated the condition which you are. So, a couple of things happen.

Well, this is for Robin. Do you need a feather fall token? That's a very important question actually because otherwise you're going to take some fall damage why would I need one I can fly okay so 7 points of bludgeoning damage as you land from the fall

as you are incapacitated and can't grab something I'm going to roll a 50-50 percentile to see which side of the deck you bounce off of, because you are currently on the very edge of the airship. 50-49 or lower, the bad side. You watch as Quill spills down

the side of the airship, completely paralyzed, and begins plummeting to nothing. The Retriever also takes some falling damage, but lands on the very edge and is looking down towards Quill. It will use the rest of its movement

to jump after Quill. And is sailing through the air. You are paralyzed for a minute. You can repeat the saving throw at the end of each turn, ending the effect on a success. This thing is chasing after you,

like free-falling with you in a desperate attempt to try and chase after you. Yeah, and also Banish is up. Banish also ends. So those of you watch as another one of these giant dragons comes back into existence off the retrievers go this one little shocky boy he's gonna jump up here he is and attacks the wolfpack crew he misses he misses again blasting away as he tries to desperately get up was it does the other one save no the other one is still blind at this point it's just hiding in a corner

uh we go to the top of the round. Ayla. You're muted, I think. Muted, I think. No, I'm counting. Okay. Two comes after one. Can I...

Two comes up to one. Can I... Since I can't do anything in this vicinity, I'm going to run to the edge of the ship and use my jump charge to get across to this dragon boy and I'm gonna smack it a couple times. Just leap through the air. Hammer coming down. Absolutely.

Because that is the best use of my time. It's a threat. This is what Ayla's meant to do. That's a hit. For sure. That is going to be 15 from the hammer 15

And then That is a 14 plus I just lost my brain Plus 13 14 plus 13 That's 27 that hits Jesus Christ.

I was like, 4 and 3 were mixed up in my head. 13 on the hammer for that one, and then dex save. And then dex save for the big dragon. Plus 0. 14. 11 points of lightning damage. 11 points of lightning damage. With two blows and the blast of lightning, you tear chunks of this dragon's armor off,

just ripping into it as shards of its armor plating just fly off into the dock, smashing crates around you. Already, it's kind of rearing back, surprised at the violence from this threat. That's the end of your turn, right? Because that's pretty much everything Aayla's got. So Nova, this is when you jump out, Featherful Token activates.

I mean, you're 80, I'd say you're like 80 feet up in the air. You still have your action and bonus action though. You're just very slowly drifting down. So I see Quill fall, right? And he's falling off the side of the island. Yes, I would sayill fall, right? And he is falling off the side of the island. Yes, I would say the only... The problem is that he's falling,

but this giant metal spider is falling basically next to him. And it's difficult to see where... Trying to pull the two apart, because this spider is basically falling on top of him. But you can see them both falling, yes. Is there a way is there a way for me to free fall fast enough to catch up with quill um you can't you can't go faster than they're already falling you're going to be behind them unfortunately i have a second question what if i did something crazy like activate a tomb of the Vistas

to make me heavier? But then no. I mean, I know that there's going to be scientists out there who are like, ah, the terminal velocity of all objects is the same, so it doesn't matter. But I would say that it would definitely help because Quill is also a bird, so his body is kind of a bit lighter. A paralyzed bird.

The spider's kind of following behind him. Yeah, I'd say maybe you might be able to shoot. It would certainly speed you up. You probably won't be able to reach him this turn, but maybe next turn. My other option idea is, but I don't know if there's anything I can anchor this on, is creating an arcane gate,

but it says choose two points on the ground. Now last time we did this I cast it on the ocean but so I'm presuming I would say ocean and open air are a little different though. I would say casting it in the middle because otherwise you could go I put a portal beneath Zarkira and then the other one on the moon

or like you know like a hundred feet up in the air you know I'd say that it's a little bit different so. That'd be great. Let's just do that. Rule of cool. that it's a little bit different. That'd be great. Let's just do that. Rule of cool. Rule of cool. That'd be great, though. Rule of cool. That would be lush.

I'm going to have to argue that's a no for me, fam. Is Cloud... Oh, has he fallen further than the bottom of the storm chaser? Could I attach it to the side of the storm chaser when he falls through that? If you attached it to the side, he'd just go straight past it, because he's going down. The portal would be on the side.

Okay, he's going down. Yeah, he's going down like that. Okay, look, I'm trying my best here. I'm trying to save this little boy. What is... Fine. I'll just play period again he will get a saving throw at the end of his turns

at the end of his turn he does to get out of the paralysis yes can I cast levitate on him please um it is a 60 foot range he's out of range I have seen he's out of range you're 80 feet up

and he's like 30 feet down. What if I don't activate the Featherfall token because you can choose when to activate it. So I drop fast enough that he's within range, cast Levitate on him and then activate the Featherfall. I think we've always said the Featherfall tokens activate automatically when you begin calling. We've always said that.

They activate after 20 foot of Malarkey. Yeah, but he's still 30 feet down. That's why I put you at 80 feet. I get it, but unfortunately you're not going to get in range for the levitate. Okay, what if I drop?

Activate levitate on Quill as soon as I see him. Okay, Kim, you can't then the featherfall token is activating you're at 80 feet there's 80 feet and then 30 feet you can't know it we've always said it activates automatically we've always said that okay yeah you're 110 feet away at the moment dropping what if I just throw it away from me what if I just leave it on the ship I mean if you

want to throw it away and then drop down maybe you could try that because my idea would be to drop cast levitate on quill as soon as I can and then at the beginning of my next turn cast Fly on myself.

You can try. Keep in mind, Quill is currently paralyzed. Even if you levitate him, he can't, like, he can't activate that. Or is it you that activates it? It's me that activates it. It's cool. Gustaven is like

20,000 feet above the ground. It is like Gustaven is like 20,000 feet above the ground. It is like 10,000 20,000 feet above the ground. There's a lot of space to fall. I mean, sure. It says one creature of my choice will raise vertically

and stay suspended there for the duration. Okay. So it stays suspended there. And then if you get out of range you won't be able to lift him up anymore you'll have to make sure you're within range to control this movement if you throw away the featherfall token if you discard it from your inventory and then you jump out of the the twin star and you dive down towards quill i would say that you would be able to get within reach to cast levitate and then you can hopefully

Stop whatever is about to happen, but there's a lot of things that could go wrong here Also concentration spells that's a very good point levitate and fly up both concentration spells you wouldn't be able to manage them both Also, you're about to take damage landing on the ship. Yeah. Fuck a dark quill. I don't know what to do. You gotta decide. I wanna play Piri.

Stop lying. I don't. I need a turn, Quim. I need it. We've't. I don't. I need a turn, Quim. I need it. We've gone through all the possibilities. What if I just fly and catch up with him? Fly speed is still... 60 feet. 30 feet.

60 feet. So what if I drop, activate fly, and just fly to him? No, it's not going to be enough to catch him. Okay. If he gets another turn to drop, he won't. I think divert your attention to someone that's not going to catch him. If you can do another turn to drop, he won't. I think divert your attention to someone that's not me. As I drop out,

I'm going to Eldritch Blast the spider. So you're going to activate the Fennelful Token, yeah? So you're going to slow fall? Yeah, might as well. And Eldritch Blast the spider. So the first beam is a

23 to hit. 23 hits. That is a 8 points of force damage. 8? Yep, from the first one. Second beam is a 15 to hit. That doesn't hit, bounces off its carapace.

Hits me. Okay, and the third one is a... Don't you start. Quiet, you. Um, 28 to hit. That hits. Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Twelve points of damage yeah both beams hit but they strike this arm and creatures back and it still is still still going uh you can see it reaching out for quill it's trying to like grab

him into its spindly arms um so nova you are now descending at a rate of about 20 feet per round as you slow fall down to the deck of the ship. Lucius. Okay. I'm going to, quite simply, Chromatic Orb at level four, the dragon. Okay. With acid.

So here we go. Here it comes. Insane. That's a 14 to hit. what i'm gonna do is use one of my meta magics called seeking which allows me to re-roll and i have to take the roll just re-roll the attack not the damage we'll keep the first damage of 25 we we on jordan 19 hey she does hit the first one it 25. Oui, oui. Bonjour. 19. She does hit the first one. It's about to miss. And then you kind of focus

and swirl it back in, almost directing it into the side of the dragon. Bam! As you curve the chromatic orb into it. The acid splashing all over its body. 25. There it is. Yeah. It screams.

Roars in defiance. Anything else, Lucius? Yeah, Diacromancy on Zokira. So that would be nine more points. Just chip it away. Ah, now this is different because the Wall of Force is there. It splashes against the Wall of Force. And you can see that they kind of are distracted by this orange color across the globe.

Anything else? Yes. My bonus action is to regain a seventh spell slot with nine points. Oh, okay. On Azaria Perel's turn, she watches Quill and this creature go flying past. She sees the dragon reappear. She sees the twin reappear she sees

the twin star fly off uh and then she holds her hands open and the wall of force disappears and she steps back uh let's see if i can actually delete this okay i can't pretend it's not there she's gonna move all the way back uh and then she looks at Zarkir and says, A lovely offer, my dear, but I know a snake when I see one. And then she holds her hands up and she is going to attempt banishment. Oh! Oh! And that passes through a charisma saving throw.

She knows that she has Globe of Invulnerability up which is why she wanted to speak to her in the first place so she would upcast this to 6th level so she's actually going to cast banishment at 6th level to bypass the protection that she has this is a charisma saving throw for Zarkira

this is quite high but Azaria Perel doesn't necessarily know what kind of uh numbers she has that is a 26 which is enough so you watch as like here like holds up a hand as she like almost feels her form being brought like blown away but she's just like ah you dare you thought to betray me i've gotta bloody do the initiatives again um it keeps crashing i'm having real problems with my uh chrome and stuff today i'm sorry everybody uh is it 16 crazy unfortunately the banishment does not work as zarkira manages to resist its effects.

Holy crap. But, and you see Azaria does look a little bit more nervous, thinking that perhaps that might have been a way to get rid of her. But she has stepped back and allowed you all to maneuver in. I know what she should have done instead. Killed her. No, I'm not going to change it. I'm not going to change it because that would be dumb.

She would be... You know what? She's smarter than me, but I'm done. Generous pie will allow you to retcon, Mark, if you want to. I mean, if you guys are okay with me retconning, I'll do that because, you know... Of course.

Jesus, get rid of her. Well, no, because she would attempt to cast a different spell. She would not try and banish it because I think she would know that Azaria, she would understand what is kind of... Better than a failed banishment. I just want everyone to know that I am not generous,

and I do not stand by this move. Yeah. Good. No, that's good to know, Quill. I'm that dying. Rules are rules. Rules are rules. She did take her turn. I rolled the saving throw in fact you know what

I'm going to stick to what she did but next she knows what she's going to do next turn she knows what she's going to do next turn and the high rollers heal and we go to the possibly the most important round of all it's quill it's quilly boy

this is at the end of my turn this at the end of your turn so you plummet another 200 feet i don't even get a turn uh all right and what is it i need to make a constant constitution uh let me bring up the i believe it is constitution yes for its paralyzing ray constitution yes okay well I have a plus two jank ray and my portent is two so let's roll

oh fifteen still paralyzed still paralyzed shit so you just you're frozen in place quill just feeling yourself free falling through the air uh just seeing this great spider thing chasing after you through open air um oh crap crap higher than a 15 oh this is gonna be tough this is gonna be tough yeah

probably uh i think there's there's nothing I can do with incapacitated is there unfortunately not you are you can think you can send messenger ring things because that is mental so you can send messenger ring commands yeah now I'm just struggling to get out of this mess

Zarkira on her turn will look at the dangerous threats of uh you know the fact that you know she's now almost surrounded apart from this one dragon uh on the other side of things and i think she's going to try and buy herself a bit more time. She turns, and the entire upper half of the airship, she raises her hands. In fact, she would look at Azaria Perel. I thought you to be a better spellcaster than that. Allow me to show you what a true mage is capable of.

She holds her hands up, and the entire back half of the storm chaser, she just thrusts her hands up into the air and you all feel gravity shift to up. What level of counterspell? 7. You need to make a roll of d20 and add your charisma. She's casting

this at 8th level. d20 plus your charisma. The DC is 18. Yeah, 18. 14. Damn it. This magic is just too strong. You try and break this spell

but it's just too powerful. I need everybody in that half so that's Century, Lucius and pretty much most of the crew and Penny to all make strength saving throws. Dexterity saving throws, sorry. This is to try and grab something, like a

fixed object, like a part of the ship. Otherwise, you are falling up as gravity is reversed and sent up that way. Any aura, Sentry? Yeah, you get plus three. Plus three. Nineteen there. Am I in range am i in range 19 i go up no this is not targeted near you i'm afraid uh so nova quill uh ayla you're all unaffected by this ariya and at least some of the the crew are unaffected by it as well um so below 20

you you desperately try to grab a piece of the ship but you just feel yourselves just floating upwards and you fall at the same rate as everybody else so you will reach the top of this spell it's a 100 foot high cylinder

so you basically reach the top of the spell and it's like you're just suspended in mid air 100 feet up in the air on your turn. Century. Yeah, you fall up. You just whoosh. And then you're like, ah. You're about 100 feet off the deck of the Storm Chaser.

100 feet? Mm-hmm. And we can't get down? So you can act, you can move, but it's like, you know, the ground is now the sky. It's not even swimming. It's like gravity has been reversed in this sphere, this cylinder. So you are fallen up and you are now pressed up

into like the invisible layer of the spell. Okay. Right. Righty, righty, righty, righty, righty. Cool. Sunbey, righty. Cool. Sunbeam, 60 feet. I'm sure if any of you have a feather fall token, that would activate, actually.

If any of you have a feather fall token. Oh, I do. In that case, yeah, that automatically activates. It gets used. So you are both only 20 feet, but you're slowly falling higher into the air. Oh, sweet. Yeah, so you're only about 20 feet, but you're slowly falling higher into the air. Oh, sweet. Yeah, so you're only about 20 feet off the ground at this point.

All right, I'll make my way over here. Go on, Kim. It says when you fall at least 20 feet, you descend 60 feet per round. Oh, 60 feet per round. Okay. Yeah, so instead of falling like 300 feet around you go at 60 feet around instead

cool I thought it was 20 feet I'm gonna go here but I don't think even with the it activates when you fall 20 yeah it activates when you fall 20 and then you would start falling 60 feet around so you still wouldn't have been able to get to quill because it would have wouldn't you wouldn't have descended further

until the next round yeah yeah so century all right i'm gonna sunbeam zarkira yeah so just in midair you kind of turn yourself over to face the sky now and just open the chest plate and just watch this beam of light come out. What level spell is Sunbeam? Uh, level 6. Then I need to make whatever saving throw is required. It is a 16 con. Con save. Ooh, even better.

Uh, that is only gonna be uh, I mean, that's still pretty high. Yeah, that's gonna be 26. I rolled very well. Oh my god. But half damage's going to be 26. I rolled very well. Oh, my God. But half damage? Half damage, 68. 68.

We'll roll the full amount and then half it. Okay. Is it 68 normally? What's the spell say? Yes, it's a creature takes 68 radiant damage and is blinded to next turn. Yeah. Okay, all right so yeah rolled 68 and then i'll take half it's 29 halved oh wait no 20 yeah that's 78 you've rolled yeah

so uh 27 halved would be uh 13 yeah yeah throw it down yeah you watch as zarkira does manage to kind of like shield herself the like kind of holds up her arm or like kind of resists some of this radiant light burning down she does need to make a concentration check that's cocked that's a natural two so you watch as this some sort of spell

effect ends on her as she is no longer constant in fact the reverse gravity would end, because that's also the first concentration spell she has active. So, Lucius and Sentry only fall 20 feet, because you had fallen 20 feet, and then you'd slowly started descending. So you both take four points of bludgeoning damage

as you slam back down onto the ground. The rest of the crew, I'm going to probably say are knocked out by this because they're falling like a hundred feet. They're like and then they come slamming down as her concentration on the reverse gravity ends. Whether or not they're dead, that's going to be whether they get

healed or not. But yeah, they kind of will slam down onto the ground as they do so. Did all her concentration end? No, very much like Quill, she gets to pick which one of the two ends. And so she elected for the reverse gravity spell to end, not her globe of invulnerability.

But she only has one concentration spell up now. Oh my god, these two are still fucking alive. They will fly over and attack Sentry. Yep, they're still here. Sentry. Miss.

Miss. Miss. And a miss. Oh, actually, no. 20? Does 20 hit your AC? I've got a shield of faith up so I've got 22. These like spits of acid and javelins just bounce off of you as these two guys fail. Thalia flies off in... Because I took damage, I do a con save. Which I... con... Com plus six. Seven, thirteen. DC ten, you succeed.

Nope, you succeed. Okay, cool. So, yeah. That misses. Sorry, I'm just trying to look at that before. Oh, boy. A bunch of damage here. Right.

So, the dragon's turn. Ayla, it is going to... It's just going to try and attack you, I think, at this stage. I think it's just going to try and batter you with its claws and its tail and its wings as well. 20 to hit. Anything it's not trying to hit with? No.

It's buff. 16 slashing damage, so half to eight because you're raging so eight points of damage claw attack number two is a miss tail attack is a hit that's like a 30 uh 2d 10 plus 7 uh god that's awful 11 half to five uh and then it's's wings it's also a miss so it kind of like batters you a few of these attacks but you manage to like fend it off shrugging it off with your powerful blows and muscles as it dents

this is the next big one so the spider creature hit it falls next to quill it grabs you in its arms quill and then it plane shifts with one incapacitated creature, which is considered willing for the spell.

You are no longer falling, but you find yourself... I'm not willing? It doesn't matter. It says, if one incapacitated creature, which is considered willing for the spell. Oh my god. Where?

You find yourself, Quill, in a dark crystal metal room. Purple energy glowing through its chambers. No. You are still paralyzed. It's captured! The retriever will That's it's action Is to plane shift you

It's in the god damn name isn't it It's in the god damn name It's a retriever I'm in an oven It's chicken run You're jelly now I don't want to be a pie I don't like gravy

you see it scuttles away from you Quill it scuttles away from you and seems to leave and then some sort of yeah barrier erects around you oh this is not a good time it actually happened

oh I forgot by the way uh you know the little shocker guy that had survived yeah zarkira made him fly up into the sky and then he died when he crashed down onto the deck as well zarkira killed him he just he finally got there he's like i'm ready to fight and then oh my god.

Ayla. Oh. Well, shit. I don't know any of that's happened, so I'm just going to continue hitting a dragon. I think the only one who sees that is Nova. You see this spider, like, kind of fall with Quill, and then they just

vanish. Oh my god um well 18 plus 13 and the second one is uh 19 they both hit okay uh 12 on the first one Uh, 12 on the first one. Whoa! Four points of damage. Um, 16 on the second one, and a dex of... Save is a fatal. It's like three.

13 points of lightning damage. And with two more heavy blows and the blast of lightning, this thing staggers. It buckles to one of its knees. You can see the blast of lightning this thing staggers it buckles to one of its knees you can see the parts of its face plating have been ripped off the lightning has scarred it down this thing is nearly dead like with a few

of these blows and Lucius's spell you've nearly destroyed the secondary dragon um uh Nova uh I'm gonna shout at Sarkira uh nova uh i'm gonna shout at sarkira where have you taken him

where has he gone oh excellent my creatures fulfilled one of its primary missions piece of shit um i am going to is she within 30 feet of me i would say if you fall at a rate of 60 feet sure yeah she's on the top deck of the ship okay um i'm gonna hexblade curse her because I'm going to Hexblade Curse her, because why not? Yes. And then I'm going to cast Blight.

Blight is at what level? Con save. What's my max level now? Five, six, seven? Five, I believe. I don't know. What is it for warlocks? Five.

Five. Con save it. It has no effect. It has no effect. Fuck you. It's a effect. It has no effect. Fuck you. It's a spell of fifth level or lower. This just seems to erupt around her. Fuck you.

Carry on. Lucius. I'm going to... Cast Chromatic Orbs. My eye's twitching. Yep. I'm going to twin it. Yep.

Mark Humes at 6th level. Mark? 6th level. 6th. Good. Yes. Excellent. What targets?

Zarkir and the dragon. Oh, excellent. Isn't that great? Here it comes. Big boy. Where't that great? Here it comes. Big boy. Where'd it go? I lost it. I got all these dice out for nothing.

I got 98s out for nothing. Here we go. It's rolling. That is a... 27 to hit, Mark! Who would you like that one to be against chris trot zarkira and then the second attack against the dragon here we go here we go oh you 20 plus 200 12 ah ah ah normally you can only use one meta magic per spell that's a good point well

seeker might say that you can still use it though some some allow you to use more than one you can use seeking spell even if you've already used a different meta magic I've got two points left to do that, Mark Humes. So you can reroll it on the dragon? Rerolling on the dragon. 44 damage as well. 26, mother chubbers. Both hit.

So a couple of things happen. Ayla, you watch the dragon melt. Another wave of Lucius's orange acid just... This giant sphere of orange energy blasts into it, just corroding it away, turning it into nothing but slag. Zarkira seems to kind of almost... She considers something for a moment, as if raising her hand, and then the ball hits her.

And you see it just, like, sprays all over across her face. Where it melts her, there's no bone or blood. You should see that this should be a grievous wound to her that would have absolutely left like terrible scarring across her face. Instead, you see white powder or ice, blue ice, where her flesh and her bones and her blood should be. How irritating.

Zarkira Prime will have to repair me. Still, we have at least one prize. Yes, Christopher. Right at the end of that sentence, a wave of 11 points of acid hits her again. You just see parts

of her outfit melt away as the snow and the ice is left exposed once again. Ah! Ah! You just see her kind of frustrated. Anything else, Lucius, on your turn? I'm just gonna shout,

Where's Quill? Nova, what did you say? The spider! The spider took him! Azaria Perel will... She's going to have to save her big spell for that.

Azaria Perel will reach out and just look to you all and say, she's protected by a sphere of magic. It negates lower level spells. I'm going to dispel it. And then she waves her hands and you watch as the globe of invulnerability is dispelled. Azaria casts a sixth level dispel magic,

ending the effect on Zarkira. Awesome. And then she seems to ready herself for something. Quill, make a saving throw to see if you become unparalyzed. So... No, I'll save it. I'll do it, don't worry. Dexterity.

Constitution. No, not dexterity. Constitution. Same thing anyway. It's a five. I mean, no. Roll it again. Might as well.

Our constitution is plus two it's fine oh okay okay so yeah you are still paralyzed um you feel some sort of sphere of magic encapsulate you you can hear muttered voices uh from beyond your vision that you can't see that's it i can't see damn it my one weakness the zarkira simulacrum looks around, seeing her dragon gone, the damage that she's just taken. She holds her hands up to this kind of like jagged faceplate crown that she's wearing, and you can see it has gemstones,

and one of them begins to glow. She attempts to cast teleport. Azaria Perel will counterspell with her seventh level spell slot. Yes. And you just watch as the teleport fades and sorry it's like we only have i only have one chance we have to slay it now destroy her before she can do it again uh and that's it that's our kira's turn uh to attempt to count to teleport century i'm gonna move up close to the zarkira thing keep my um sunbeam concentrate on her and just say just say where is quill where did he go and keep it focused like

on her sure uh so i make a constitution saving through yeah uh that is a 15 So she fails Yes 37 damage 37 points of damage You watch as this hole Is like blasted through the simulacrum Just leaving this open space Of empty snow and ice Just blasted through her

She just looks at you Oh and she just blasted through her. Yeah. She just looked at you. Oh, and she's blinded as well. She's blinded till my next turn. Mmm. Interesting. Ooh. Okay.

Okay. Interesting. What would she do here she's still got no she's she's still got where i am no she definitely won't do that uh she can't cast that she can be cast okay uh in a desperate attempt at the end of your round century uh she just throws her hand out like clutching her eyes and a fireball is going to go off catching uh century azaria um kamara and the wolf pack and that's it she's just going to try and do that so deck saving throw from century azaria and the wolf pack azaria is going to fail wolf pack's going to succeed both wolf pack succeeds kamara succeeds 15 for me 15 that's a failure unfortunately so that's gonna be 15 20 25 29 fire damage halved because it's a spell so

that's gonna be 14 points to to century um azaria stumbles back like clearly trying to like put out her robes have set aflame the two all of the the wolf pack just leap to the side snarling uh in rage uh as this uh woman is is causing havoc amongst them uh she does not answer uh the two flying creatures are going to flee they start flying away um yep oh god dragon is dead the trooper is gone flies flee ayla Ayla. Hello. I'm going to jump back across, plus to the... Go for it. And I'm pretty sure with my movement, I can get up to this side of the ship,

and I would like to recklessly hit Zarkira in her face. That sounds advisable. Oh, I rolled like trash, though. 22 is the highest. That will hit. For the first one. That hits. Yep.

Second. Oh, 19. 19. Not quite a crit. So 19 plus 13. Both hits. Second one. Both hits.

I rolled like trash. 23 and 32. one. Both hits? Uh, I roll like trash. 23 and 32. 17. No, I mean 17 damage for the first one. It's because I rolled an eight and a nine on the dice and I had advantage and it just felt a bit trash, you know? Ah, right. My shield just can't defend herself from this.

So, yep. So the first blow like rips chunks of snow and ice, leaving, like, half a corpse of this form left. 19 damage on the second. Aayla, how would you like to finish the simulacrum off as the second blow comes down? I'll point the hammer at her and just say, it doesn't matter what you've done because we're going to find him

and then I'm going to come and end you. And then just smash. You just see like a faint smile just as you say the words before the hammer comes down. Oh, I intended it. And then you crush the rest.

The body just turns into a pile of snow and ice. Just becoming disused. This pile of nothing. Two things drop to the ground. A ring and the jagged faceplate, kind of like the gem studded faceplate that she was wearing, both drop to the ground. Everybody kind of stumbles for a second everybody looks around

we're gonna drop out of initiative we've got 10 minutes left if there's anything anybody wishes to immediately do otherwise I'm gonna jump to my boy over there and we're gonna deal with his situation other than just get this crew going and get us moving that's what i would like yeah so the ship is like yeah because this is all happening in seconds right and getting the ship out of the dock takes a bit of time i will say

that with things on retreat without zarkira with two of the dragons destroyed with farlier in the long ship you brought Felisa along as well who can easily take on these Shudderland dragons. You manage to prevent any more serious casualties from occurring in Gusthaven. If you had taken any longer, one more turn

and I would have started rolling checks to see if Aradan, Moonstar and the city took any serious casualties. Okay, okay, okay nice you cut that extremely close but you pulled it off um and yeah with all of these things in place it you you it takes like a few minutes like you know to get everything ready but the immediate battle continues meanwhile somewhere unknown to him after a minute you mean you can keep making saving throws quill but ultimately it's going to have the same effect whether you you know After a minute, I mean, you can keep making saving throws, Quill, but ultimately it's going to have the same effect

whether you, you know, after a minute or whether you save early. It doesn't really matter. I mean, yeah, I'm in a cage. I'm just going to do it anyway. Oh, my God. Five, six, twenty. Finally.

Okay. So after a few minutes, you manage to kind of like break free of this spell. And looking around, you appear to be in yeah like a dark crystalline metal chamber with a faint purple light um there is runes like just strips of purple runes all around the whole place glowing uh and could i hear people talking? Muttering. You can hear very muffled voices coming from somewhere nearby. If you start looking around, there appears to be like a, like an observational window and you can see figures out there moving around.

You can see serpentine like men and women wearing very medical looking and sort of like you know scholarly robes uh making analysis like writing notes uh kind of examining you that one of them seems to point to the other as you kind of stir away can they take more notes um yeah uh the runes around the door, can I examine those? You can make an arcana check, yes. I just want to see if it's a waste of time to cast any spells. It probably is. 25. You are pretty certain that this place is dampening magic.

This is an anti-magic field. Shit. How much that affects other abilities abilities like the Eye of the Storm or other things like that, you don't know. But certainly spellcasting is rendered immobile in this space. Don't have any charges in the Eye of the Storm. Who's in that room? Okay, who's watching me?

Which arm of the Valkyrian Empire is this? Is this Akarkira? Because that would suck. Well, they nod through the window. No, but you can tell the serpentine. I mean, you've seen serpentine mages working for Zarkira before. You encountered one in the temple. This does appear to be you guessing by the structures.

You don't think you're on a world You think you might be on like a ship you think you might be on one of like an actual ship Whether it's the Tassadar whether it's our care is you don't know but Your best guess is that you are on a ship somewhere in some sort of room some sort of containment room rap Damn it. Damn it. it damn it damn it anything you would like to try

I mean I do kind of want to try a uh I want to try divine intervention um

I think that's that would be a cool way to end it but I mean I also I also want to wait

to see who comes to see me, but I don't know how long it will take. Okay. It doesn't take that long. After about an hour, a female figure appears in the observational window, flanking her on either side

are two more copies of that same woman. She looks in, and you can see the middle one is taller and seems more imposing. The other two, almost subservient to her. She kind of examines. She taps the glass or presses a kind of long-nailed finger against it. Well, well. You hear her voice kind of echoing through it. It seems that we have caught quite

the little prize. I had to sacrifice one of my little pawns to do it, but I think that eye of yours will prove most interesting. Ah. Well, it wouldn't be of any use to you. Hesper will never join your side.

Oh, I'm certain that there's more to the titan's magic that I can unravel than you may guess. But we'll see, won't we, my little friend? She takes her finger off and it goes silent. You couldn't even... you couldn't even get your handrius don't think you can get a titan she turns to some of the other scholars and starts talking to them i'm gonna try my see you move if this fucking works i'm gonna lose my shit because I've got an idea but man it's a low chance

so wait a second you have to roll level or under cleric level or under and I am level 12 cleric and I want to return to the storm chaser 12% 12% chance here we go 12 or lower

Boom 34 It's not enough Whatever magic is dampening this place Seems that Hesper can't quite reach you Just yet And that my friends Is the best place to end an episode ever

Oh my god. Oh my god. What's the plan? Do I show up next week? I love it, but I hate it. I wanted one of them, and I got one of them. Very important. Oh, I am so glad it wasn't Sentry. She was one of the

two of them, but she suspected you'd be the easier catch, so. I put up a fight fight i put up a hell of a fight did god it was it came down to that lot that paralysis ray like if if just being in range of that and that's a recharge ability as well that was awesome yeah you're gonna dust off piri's sheet eh no i think i think that we can keep him playing quill for now there's some available to play absolutely not available to play people know here he's not not available available uh things right now definitely can't come to the phone right now because he's dead um maybe oh my god but i would say you guys still have a lot of options you might not know where

he is but you do have allies out in astral space you have things like the wings of ishtar uh you do have information that you may be able to glean quill may even be able to free himself we don't know um so i don't think i want tom to play another character it might just mean sort of a bit of back and forth thing like you guys jump the quill you guys jump the quill um yeah i don't mind that yeah so i kind of want to try and pray and boy gotta get praying i'm gonna get praying maybe we'll see if it works but holy shit something else but dealt a pretty significant blow to Azarkira that's one of her three simulacrums she had

she's only got three simulacrums it's fine guys it's totally cool she's a super powerful high level sorceress wizard she's gonna go deal with them myself she's a mega villain always have a backup. She's a mega villain. Yeah, she's got backup. Always have a backup.

Our character. Is this the first time one of our party members has actually seen the real Zarkira? Yes. Yes. Oh. So here's an interesting fact for you. Simulacrums can't regain spell slots. So when this simulacrum casts Meteor Swarm on you,

it's the same simulacrum you fought in the Valley of the Storm, which is why they didn't have a 9th spell for this battle handy dandy the other thing i forgot to mention this exclusive high rollers dnd bonus you guys level up welcome to level 15 what oh yeah that was a huge battle that was a huge battle you've saved gustaven uh yes this is crazy so is the battle like done like it's just yes so yeah that's when next week we'll jump into it and talk about the aftermath but with the allies that you have with you guys being free to fight in the other locations like i said if it if you had taken one more turn if they had bogged you down for another turn i had um basically like death saving throws and injury rolls for the npcs and uh like the citizens like i was going to make a general check for each

to see how badly they were destroyed you guys managed to so you know thalia gets to prince aradan manages to fend off the shardland dragon and then they managed to rally and kind of rally behind the the twin star the other side felisa the the blue dragon manages to help the the citizens kind of stave off for a time and then you guys come and wrap it up and basically mop up there basically but we'll cover that in next week's episode and give you like a satisfying like hey you did it well done here's some medals also where's quill um and yeah yeah oh persistent rage this is to knock me out of rage no she's always raging always raging now um this is to signify by the way this victory against zarkira simulac from this defense of gustaven this

signifies we are now in the epic tier of the game we are now in the final tier of playing dungeons and dragons from here on in the fights are going to be pretty intense we are in the this is the official fights are already pretty intense well they're gonna keep being intense so and like us and like you just witnessed there as well you're gonna fight enemies who have pretty powerful abilities like globe of invulnerability and stuff like that they're going to be using tactics yeah level nine stuff i mean she didn't have the level nine sure but yeah i feel like you find the real ones she will it's gonna be it's gonna be three level nines because both her simulacrums are going to be there too. Maybe.

Zarkira Prime with her two little chubs. Yeah, Zarkira Prime thing. That's copyrighted. It's like, you can't call yourself that. That's my name. That's me. Get your own name. I'm going to have a read of these.

I'm not going to pick it. Are you going to level up cleric tom get that extra one percent on divine intervention of course i am i'm min-macting this escape um uh but yeah thank you very much dnd beyond thanks for sponsoring the show uh we love you big love to you dnd beyond cheers and yeah what an exciting episode we'll be back next week to continue on we'll see what's going to happen to our poor sweet bird boy and how the party might be able to uh go and do a little bit of a rescue mission maybe and, yeah, figure it all out.

But, yeah, perfect. We'll see. Thanks again. Bye. Bye, everyone. Bye, bye, bye. Bye, bye, bye. Bye, bye, bye. Thank you.