High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #110 | Prison Break (Part 1)

Episode Date: April 26, 2021

Quill teams up with the rest of the party to stage a prison break from Xarkira's astral ship! We're sponsored by D&D Beyond! The ultimate Dungeons and Dragons toolset. Clean up your dungeon delving life and speed up your games here: http://bit.ly/HRDNDBeyond2021 Support the High Rollers and get early access to podcast episodes (and more) on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/HighRollers Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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a million times easier with D&D Beyond using the link in the episode description. Welcome back to Aroes. After battling against Zarkira's simulacrum and her strange creations in the city of Gusthaven, Quill was taken captive by a retriever and brought to Zarkira's personal ship, the Serpent's Coil in Astral Space. Stripped of his magical items and restrained by dimensional shackles, Quill has found himself unable to escape. On Erois, the rest of the party try to come up with a plan to rescue Quill, poring over spells and allies they have available to them to try and find a way to contact him or find his location. Nova checks the information she gathered from their journey into the Astral

Sea before and learns of the Serpent's Coil, but not its location. Hoping for divine guidance, they travel to the Cathedral of Gusthaven and speak with the Priestess who resurrected Quill previously, hoping she can commune with Hesper and gain some information. To the shock of the party, Hesper and gain some information. To the shock of the party, Hesper himself appears before them, revealing his fears of Zakhira obtaining the power of Quill's foresight or the Spear of Oracles he carries. He transports them all to the Halls of Infinite Resplendence, an extra-dimensional space of consecrated divine energy. Here, Hesper sends out millions of copies of himself to track down the serpent's coil and quill, with the party having to assist him in controlling the vast amounts of magical power required. The effort succeeds, but with a great cost, as all the divine

power given to him by the true goddess Siaska is spent, Hesper fades from the world, leaving behind a magical grimoire capable of transporting individuals to other planes through the barrier that protects Orois. With Hesper's final gift, the party infiltrate the Serpent's Coil and locate Quill, though not before Quill is interrogated by a mind Flayer who learns of Quill's secrets and memories, including his vision of Calus Valkyrian's failed plan to defeat Hadar. The Mind Flayer leaves Quill to report to Zarkira, and the party use this as a chance to free him. So, as things currently stand, Sentry is currently positioned, holding up this automatic kind of astral ship door, keeping it held up so that Lucius and Aayla could rush in to try and free Quill. You have also been contacted mentally by a figure calling themselves Arana VL,

who appears to be a celestial woman, an angel, who is being kept prisoner here. Quill has not seen you and doesn't seem to believe that the voices belong to his true companions. Meanwhile, Nova is dealing with a guard who has become suspicious and has seen quill escaping his bonds as we have three who are invisible uh this god does not seem to be aware that there are invisible creatures here i'm going to give you guys literally a round nova uh century and ayla uh sorry, Nova, Sentry, Lucius and Aayla. You guys have like a round to do something. Quill, I'm assuming that you are basically just running for the open door. That's kind of going to be what you're attempting to do.

Yeah, that's what I was doing. Not knowing that Sentry is right there. Right in the middle, yes. So it doesn't really matter what order uh so you guys have six seconds here what do you do um my six seconds will probably involve saying to quill whilst running get out of the door now we're here here. That's what I'm saying. Okay.

All right. Flying out, that is. Not running. Yeah, you guys are also currently under the fly spell as well. Yes. I think because Quill just shouted out to them that, like, Oh, nice try. My friends aren't here.

Aayla's going to be like, shut the fuck up, Quill. We're here. Okay. You know, just to get across that, yeah, it's actually me. It's actually you. How would Zahira know that you would say something like that? So, Settri's pretty much all she can do is hold up the door. She's got, like, three more rounds before she has to start making checks

to hold this door up. So Nova, it looks like you are the only one between this guard and the currently looking like he's about to run out quill. This guard has got a weapon out. He's got like a long bladed staff and he is coming. What do you do?

I would like to cast Blight on him okay so please can you make a con save DC 18 con save DC 18 I need dice something I need

pretty useful I've heard yeah I don't rate it that is gonna be Oh. Pretty useful, I've heard. Yeah. I kind of completely forgot you did those. I don't rate it. That is going to be... Okay. Con save, 16. 18.

Okay, so you're going to take full damage from this. And I rolled pretty well. Pretty thick. Let me just get my... I've got 8 plus 7 plus 7 plus 7 plus 1 plus 3 plus 6 plus 6 plus 2. 47 points of

damage. 47 points of damage. Good lord. That's a nice plate. Good lord. The guard, keep in mind, Nova, this makes you visible. Even though it's not concentration casting a spell will bring you out the invisibility so the others remain invisible as long as you're concentrating however you suddenly appear in this guard's way as black lightning or energy kind of

erupts from tiangong your sword striking into the guard they're covered in like black full plate armor with like these full blacks full black, you know, very Stormtrooper-esque arms, carrying this, like, bladed staff that looks like it has some sort of, uh, kind of, like, magitek element to it. They are struck by these energy, and you hear, like, this kind of, like... ...

... ...like, scream of pain coming from the individual, but they do not go down. Um, they seem to erupt in pain, but they do not go down. They seem to erupt in pain, but they do not anything else. At this point, then, just put a note,

Kim, how much damage was that? 47? 47. Thank you. At this point, that is going to be a full-on roll initiative at this point. As this guy screams out, Nova becomes visible. Right. I rolled the same thing twice on my advantage.

Nice. 21. 21. 21 for Ayla on the initiative. Okay. Century is a 7. Century is 7. Nova is 20 century is seven lucius is 17 lucius at 17 and quill 18 oh well done okay um nova you're the only one who sees this um the angel woman rana uh kind of sees you

appear kind of looks startled and like presses herself up against the glass it's kind of like shocks her a little bit and sends her back you can see she's still injured from this kind of effects that she she caused some sort of energy to disperse through her cell as a distraction um she's like looking around but there's just no way that she can currently help as she's currently incarcerated but she is in the initiative if you do manage to free her. Ayla, you see Nova

appear and you see this guard still standing. What you do? I'm going to move Quill a little bit out of the room as well. What I do? I am going to move out. Do I see

the, is the Illithid that was here still in the room as well? He's not still in the room. The Illithid left to a door to the north of the current cells. So there's like a set of bears going up there is a kind of one of these you know ship doors that kind of closes and opens when somebody

comes close to it it's magic magitex sci-fi fantasy bullshit um they left that way about six to twelve seconds ago so well ayla wouldn't know anything about it. It was more like if there was someone else in the room. If she saw another thing, yeah. So she will, first of all, going past Quill, say, We need your stuff. We can't go without that staff. And then she will fly past. What's my fly speed, actually? 60 feet, so you've got about 5 so i managed to get up to this dude then

five thirty he doesn't know i'm here he doesn't know i'm here so i will rage and smack you in the face yeah advantage on the first attack you make and then you'll become you'll become visible again um okay oh poor god and your five initiative. I don't think you're going to make it. Even though you're an elite guard of the Valkyrian Empire and you're probably still going to die. So 15 plus 13, I think that hits. 15 plus 13, I mean, add it up for me. So what's that, 28?

That does hit, yes, that does hit, yes Okay, so I rolled a 9 on my damage dice as well 20 damage from the first hit Okay, 20 points of damage it kind of connects into this black metal

plate armor that he's wearing, you do see he kind of absorb some of the blow um sure you become visible sure 23 for the second attack how are you not detected yep yep uh and that will be 17 damage on the hammer and a deck save please 17 points of damage on that that is going to be a 18 on the deck save just passes

so half of 11 in lightning damage 5 lightning damage so the blast of lightning Catches him kind of staggers back Still standing injured you can see limping Kind of favoring the side that you just impacted

With these hefty hammer blows But injured Nova Vigia Cool You're muted You're muted you're muted kim you know everybody knows the feeling can i can i move up and around ala so i can stab this no the corridor is too narrow it is too narrow there is a wall of another cell and then the

wall of force of rana's cell so currently ayla is kind of blocking can i eldritch blast or does that yep eldritch blast you can he'll get a little bit of cover um being behind ayla but not too much okay so first beam is 25 to hit. That does hit. Nine points of damage. Do you want to just roll all... Okay, just do the damage individually. Sure.

Yeah. Second one is 26 to hit. Hits. So that is seven points of damage. And the last one is 25 to hit. It is 6 plus... 6... What?

Oh, brain. 11! So these three beam, even kind of arcing them around Aayla, they still manage to connect. Still standing, but again, like his armor is now smoking from the arcane energy

that's hit against it you can see him kind of like favoring this injured side um yeah this guy doesn't look to be in a good shape uh quill unless there's anything else nova on your turn you've still got a bit of movement left you got your bonus action nope okay uh quill you see ayla and nova appear in front of you and are fighting this yeah um so i'm wondering my limitations here so i don't have any of my gear no spear and these shackles symbol yeah can i fly with the shackles you can clumsily i'd say you probably can't go particularly far you're probably like 30 feet speed can't go particularly you know fast're probably like 30 feet speed, can't go particularly fast or high.

You can just about keep yourself or you can just walk. They're not on your legs, they're on your arms. You can gesture with your hands. You could probably attack with a weapon, but it'd be at disadvantage. But anything more complicated, imagine that your arms are

bound in front of you. There's not much more you can do. Okay, I'm going to come to a stop just before I run beak first into sentry. Bonk! You hit something invisible. How are you here? How would I? What? No time! No time! Get out! I can't hold this door up forever!

Okay, speaking of time, that mind guy, he interrogated me. He knows about Starbane's plan. He's going to go tell Zarkira! Oh no, I'm quick. Lucius, you need to get out. And I will cast Beacon of Hope, unfortunately, at 5th level, because that's the only slot I can pass this level three spell at uh but everyone uh will gain uh advantage to wisdom saves and death

saves and blah blah blah um the beacon of hope does okay and that's pretty much gonna be my turn like what the hell what how all right i'll make a check here that

guard screamed out pretty loud there's all the sounds of, like, lightning and hammer blows and all of this kind of stuff. Nah, the hammer's really quiet. Yeah, it's a silence hammer, is it? Delicate weapon. Delicate weapon. Stealth Eldritch Blower as well.

I'm also a squawk. Nova, you're probably the only one who sees this, but a pair of Durgar are kind of scooby-dooing around the corner, kind of like looking around like, what the fuck is going on? They don't look like they're coming to engage. They're wearing like overalls and they have tool belts, but they're kind of perplexed at what's happening. You do, however, then see something emerging from the door to the north as a very

confused looking mind flayer comes running in like he's running at full sprint and kind of scans the room sees Quill sees just the edge of Nova around the corner like this kind of flapping coat and just seems

to be alarmed that is their full turn however is uh running into this room and then seeing what's happening lucius do i hear that i assume i'm right next to quill and century about the mind controlling yeah you have you absolutely heard that yeah i'm gonna fly past century because i kind of know where she was right or yeah yeah you know where century roughly, right? Yeah, you know where Sentry roughly is. No, no, no, you know where Sentry is. You've got the bracelets.

You've got the rings. Yes. Messenger rings. So you can just be like, I'm in the middle. Go around. I'm gonna do a quick... Is that... Is that the one that interrogated you? And point at that horrible creature?

Quill can't see you. You're invisible. I'm going to use his wing to point in that direction. Is that the Illithid? I couldn't actually see this one before. Oh, it is, yeah. Here's the thing. Not to kind of use this terminology in a bad way, but it's a Mind Flayer.

They look identical to any other Mind Flayer you've seen. Like, they don't seem to have, like, different shaped craniums or features. They all look identical to you. Sorry, for some reason I couldn't see it on my roll. But does he look as overwhelmed as the one that Quill, because the guy that Quill obviously

had questioning him was like, ugh, mind blown! I'm so confused! This one, I mean, yeah, he kind of wandered out. This one has run in some sort of panic, you see. Like, there is definitely an element of surprise to their face, is panic you see. Like, there is definitely an element of surprise

to their face, is what you read. I'm gonna translate that to common and that's gonna be... That's the one. So, what I'm gonna try and do, I know this is bad for mind flayers, I'm gonna try and do i know this is bad for mind flayers i'm gonna try a dominate monster wisdom saving throw of 18 oh he is that's interesting huh

you must be wisdom 18 yes i rolled pretty bad uh and this is dominate monster you're casting yes this is an eighth level spell lucius you feel you kind of reach out with your with your magic i guess and i guess how does this work with the the you know the uh you know the dichromantia or like the you know the colored magic is this like street ribbons of like blue and orange like go into its mind and kind of take control that way it's because its eyes change color to match yours or something like how's this look yes that's that exactly that is a combination of the acid and cold spiraling as like an energetic beam that goes into their eyes.

And then you watch the previously kind of lessened eyes. Yeah, they turn blue and orange like Lucius's. You have full mental control over this creature. I have a telepathic link. As long as we're on the same plane. And failed.

Who mind controls a mind flayer? Me! This guy. I can use this telepathic link. I would have assumed I genuinely thought they were immune to being charmed. They're not, so they can be mind controlled. Oh my god.

Yep. Now that I have a telepathic link with it, this is going to be a bit more your discretion Mark do I understand its intentions do I know what it's doing I don't believe so I believe that with dominate person you can basically give it

mental commands you could tell it like tell me what you're thinking or tell me what you were going to do you attempt to beguile a creature it must succeed in a wisdom saving throw while the creature is charmed you have a telepathic link with it as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence you can use this telepathic link to issue commands to the creature while you are conscious no action required which it does its best to obey you can specify a simple and general course of action such as attack that

creature run over there bring that object if the creature completes the order and doesn't receive further direction from you it just defends itself as best as it can you can use your action to take total and precise control of the target until the end of your next turn um the creature takes only the actions you choose and doesn't do anything that you don't allow it to do during this time you can also cause a creature to use a reaction so basically you can as a free action be like stand there don't do anything or uh tell me something you know whatever like that but if you want it to do something very precise or specific you have to spend an action to do it right so as i casted it this round what i'm going to get it to do is say are you the one that interrogated Quill? Yes

I am the interrogator master You feel this message back in your mind? And that's it that's my go. I'm just going to stay near it now. So 5, 10, 15 I'm going to be like there. Just maintaining

this control. Okay. What? What? So cool. So cool. Nice. Awesome.

You hear the doors at the far end of the cell open and something steps through. A tall, grey gray skinned creature with four arms uh quill you've seen this thing before it was what kind of dragged you here uh and it was what was kind of wandering around and guarding the cell this thing kind of is great big lumbering arms is looking around uh nova you probably see the two two dergar kind of scamper backwards when they see this thing coming um and it does definitely seem to register that something is is happening here um it will probably spend that was most of its turn was moving up hearing

the thing and then coming through the doors uh from the previous chamber so i think that that is going to be its go uh century um the only thing i'm going to say kim are you going to take control of her battle she would probably let the door drop now um because everybody is out so she that's like a no action she just lets the door drop okay um. She's still flying, right? She's flying and invisible. Wait. None of you are flying. Dominate monster is a concentration

spell and Lucius was the one that cast fly. Correct. So you're not high enough that you fall or anything like that, but you are on the ground now. She is still invisible though. She is still invisible, yes. She is still invisible, yes. And she is sentry, so any

movement is going to be very obvious where she is. Clonk, clonk, clonk. I am going to... I think what I want to do is attack the guard that Aether is attacking, but also protect Quill. No, I'm gonna

have her stay next to Quill because I think that would be her priority. In which case I would like to, and I'm a bit unsure so I may not have the action bonus action right but two things I would like to do is cast Shield of Faith on Quill

but also Lay on Hands heal him. Yeah, because Lay on hands isn't lay on hands isn't a spell so bonus action spell lay on hands action yes you can do both uh so i'll do that and i will heal him for 50 points um of health um okay and then plus two ac from shield of faith i can't her, but if you could position her so that she's between Quill and the big thing that's coming down the corridor. Okay, tactically, it's better for her to be next to Lucius and Quill

because then she can benefit both of them with protection and stuff. So I'd put her next to both of them. Where she is now, I think. Because I think that's tactically the smart thing that she would do. Yeah. Okay. All right, if that's allically the smart thing that she would do. Okay. Alright, if that's all Sentry's job, turn, turn. The guard who is still

standing hears, like, the doors opening and stuff just like that. What are you waiting for? Kill them! It's like talking to the Mind Flayer. Get them! Destroy them! But then that's it. The Mind Flayer doesn't react

because it's currently doing what it was told. And so instead, it charges up. You see kind of like this charge go into the glaive that it's wielding. The tip begins to glow. It's going to cast a spell on itself, and then it is going to attempt to attack Aayla so that it can get away, basically. Attack against Aayla.

That's a natural one. That's a miss. Second attack. That is a 19 to hit Aayla. Oh, just, yeah. Just hits, okay. That'll be it. This is going to be...

So this is magical damage, so not resistible, I'm afraid. That's going to be 13 magical slashing damage but then you take a bunch of radiant damage as as this weapon strikes you ayla uh it like bursts with bright light um blind pretending to blind you and deal radiant damage so yeah 13 magical slashing damage and then uh 20 radiant damage and i need you to make a constitution saving throw please so that is a 12 plus nine so that is what you you kind of your eyes sting for a second

as this bright light attempts to like burn your eyes out almost, but you blink it away, your eyes soar in red, but this thing does not take effect. You do take the damage, so yeah, a bunch of damage there. But he kind of grunts, thinking that, ah, that should have had a greater effect on you. And then will probably use his third and final attack because he was hoping he could blind you so he could run away.

That's only an 18. No, that wouldn't hit. That doesn't hit. So you kind of parry the first strike, the second one catches you, and the light bursts in your face, and then he goes to strike you again, but again, you can easily block it because you're not actually blinded by the effect of this stunning, this glaive, this bright

shining magitek weapon. That is his go. We go back to you. In fact, you see the celestial woman. She speaks in your mind. There should be a release on the side of this place. I can help you.

Please. Ayla. I'm going to hit the guard in the face. Please. Okay, sure. Please and thank you. 19 to hit on the first one. 19 to hit on the first one

19 to hit will just hit this guard yep yep yep only just nearly missed 25 for the second one that also hits they both hit so

18 damage on the first strike. Damn. This blow knocks him into the side of the wall on his left. He just kind of crumples against it, and then you bring the second strike down. 19 damage on the second strike. Bang on exactly his hit points. You watch as this guard crumples to the floor. Just this rage

of blows and being unable to kind of defend himself. This elite guard is just dropped. His body just collapses into the ground as you do so. Can I hit the release on the wall as a bonus action?

Sure, yeah. I'd say this guy's dead. You knock him over and dead. Yeah, if you step up and then there is this kind of series I think for thematic purposes there's this panel and it's all crystals and knobs and switches and Aayla just punches it.

You just get like a and then the wall of force drops. And yeah, you see this celestial this celestial woman no wings they've been kind of surgically removed um this metal plate over her eyes she kind of stumbles because she was leaning on on the thing um and you kind of she catches your shoulder ayla almost like steady herself um thank you thank you a weapon i should if you can get me a weapon i i can try and help fight and she's like like reaching out to like grab something um you do see the guards glaive uh there if you wanted to

pass that to her or if you've got a weapon you could give to her yeah fuck it she can take the glaive just get her to take the glaive okay so you kind of like pass that up to her and yeah she kind of takes that in her hands um you can see, like, I think that she... It's not her turn, but yeah, she seems to be aware of you and Nova, but walls and objects she's blind to. She can't see where, like, the walls and objects are, but she seems to know exactly where you and Nova are. Like, she reached out and purposely grabbed you to steady herself.

But yeah. Please help us. We need to get out of here before ideally the rest of the ship knows that we're here. I'm afraid that I've been a prisoner here. I don't know if I can help you find

your way out, but I can certainly fight. Especially if Zarkira sends any of her fiends or monstrosities at us there's one nearby i i can sense it um it's just entered and she points in the direction of the south of the cells where you heard this like large creature enter from um uh any movement left ayla you still got like 30 odd feet of movement if you wanted to go anywhere uh i think i'll probably just get into the middle again so that i'm ready to go for whatever comes next yeah you look down and you see this like giant you know large nine foot tall four-armed gray-skinned beast kind of lumbering in Nova.

Can I check the guard for any, like, keystones or, like, you know, kind of security things? Yeah, I think it would be reasonable that this guard would carry a keystone. You don't recognise the number or anything on it, but he does have a keystone, similar to the ones you've

encountered before. Okay, would that be an action bonus action? Bonus action, I'd say. Bonus action. You know what you're looking for. The guy doesn't really have pockets, so it's probably hanging on a chain around his neck

or something like that full plate armor same problem as a lot of ladies no pockets yes it's a problem you have to have bum bags really um uh can i just say are you okay do you need healing or is there anyone else here that we need to get out are you talking to Rana the angel Rana yeah there's another creature to the south of here but I've never spoken to them

they won't respond to my telepathy I don't know if they'd be an ally but they are imprisoned here there's also two of there are two dergar nearby engineers i think um okay uh i'm gonna be a bit of a useless sausage this round and i'm gonna use my action to dash so i've moved 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. You dash down, you can see more kind of cells on either side.

You're not sure which one. Unless you can see. I don't know what you can see on the map. Yeah, I can see the outline of someone in the bottom left cell. Someone. Okay, in that case, yeah, you can see like a silhouette. You can see like a silhouette in there, yeah. Yeah. Well, that was 50, 55, 60.

Okay. That's a dash. So when you kind of rush down and you catch a glimpse of like a figure and you turn and look in the thing, looking through the wall of force on the front of the prison cell, it's a very odd sight. You see Sat cross-legged hovering doesn't not flying but sort of hovering uh is a kobold with purple skin with his eyes closed and his hands kind of like in a meditative state

and around him is swirling kind of purple magic um and the little, he's just sort of like floating there, just like... Is he like a tiny Yoda? Like a little purple Yoda meets Doctor Strange, yes. No. Tom is already irritated by small things. No! by small things.

No! Hey, what are your thoughts on Zarkira? Pro, con? Do you want to get out of here? I can get you out of here. His eye is open and when they do, they are like storms of stars and magic. Like his eyes, there's no pupils or anything left. They're just like these vortexes, but then they seem

to condense down into purple irises. He kind of blinks. Ah, you are not one of Zahkira's forces. Would you be so kind as to release me? Uh, sure, of course. You're not gonna... Thank you. Oh, crap you oh crap and i'll uh what is wrong okay yeah you kind of uh press it and the the wall of force goes down ah excellent i am no longer bound by these constraints what is your name traveler uh i'm nova what's your name, Traveler? I'm Nova. What's your name?

I am Vesic. And, yes, there are many dangers. Zarkira will not be pleased that you have allowed one of her experiments to escape. Come, Nova Vija. Nova, did you call yourself Nova Vija or just Nova?

No, I didn't. No, I just said Nova. He just says Nova then. And he, like, grabs your little hand and he's, like, tugging you along. His robes are, like, big pajamas. He's, like, stepping on his own robes as he's, like, sort of, like, dragging you along. Come. Come. We have not the time to spare. There's a really bad thing down there.

Do not fear. Do not fear. Can I move with him? Like, if he's dragging me he's like drags you along i'm just being dragged by a cobalt everybody uh yeah the rest of you ayla you see this little cobalt in these oversized robes that he's kind of stepping on uh literally holding hands with nova and pulling her along as this giant grey-skinned thing looks like it's about to bear down on them. Nova, who's your friend there, buddy? I don't know!

Quill! Okay, look, he can speak common, so already this is an improvement. But I want to say to Lucius two things things that one that's the coolest thing i've ever seen and two i need you to ask him where my stuff is and then we can get out of here uh as a bonus action i want to uh use my harness divine power to gain a level three spell spot which i should have done before my last turn um okay also uh no that's that's there's no also i oh that's that's a bonus action this thing coming down is it perchance a fiend or a fey or an elemental or a celestial make a

would quill know this automatically i don't think you would know this automatically so make a either religion or arcana check for me okie dokie arcana is then uh 20 unnatural 20 20 looking at the size of the creature it's warpness um you think you've heard of these things there you know i think that, you think you've heard of these things. I think that maybe you wouldn't have heard of them because they're kind of experiments by Zarkira. You recognize fiendish energies about this creature. It looks like maybe it was once a humanoid

and it's been mutated and you can kind of feel this kind of fiendish presence off of it. Okay, in that case, I'll give it a try. Although, do I have my holy symbol? You do not. You have none of your... I will not give this a try then.

You can't do anything with... Yeah. Yeah, I'd say you can't use Arcane Abjuration without your Holy Symbol. That's fine. That would make this fight a lot quicker. In that case, I would just Sacred Flame it. Dex save from him.

Dex save. Okay. 15. Nice. 3d8 plus 5 damage. Boom. 22 Dimaggio. Nice. 3d8 plus 5 damage.

Boom. 22 Dimaggio. The flame erupts over this thing as one of its large forearms comes to block its face. Escape me! Strap! Why? Oh, I hated that. On its turn, the Mind Flayer doesn't have an order to complete

because it's already completed it. So it just waits, stands there waiting for its orders, basically. Neat. Lucius. I'm going to bonus action. Frisk the Mind Flayer for any useful objects. Oh, this is an unpleasant experience it's slimy and kind of rubbery texture you kind

of pat it down its robes are very thin you feel like a skeletal kind of bony frame it's long fingers it has it carries a keystone you don't know how you know if this is more senior or whatever on it. It doesn't seem to have much more than that, really.

Now, now. Be a dear and fetch my friend Quill's belongings. And I'm going to use my action to take total control. Okay. Keep in mind that you don't know like if you take complete control you would control its movement you would have to tell it where to go oh can i just get it to fetch then i think yeah you just say like go you know go fetch quills things um it turns and leaves north um um and be quiet about it. Thank you. Yes.

Quiet. And he just starts walking towards the north. Right. Well. Hang on. I've got to track something to my end. Cell's lower floor? Yeah. 10, 20, 30. So it gets to there. Dash action. cells lower floor yeah 10 20 30

so it gets to there dash action 5 10 15 20 25 30 gets to about there okay track where that thing goes is there a range on dominant star I don't think I think once you've got control that's it yeah I think that's it

for an hour same plane same brain same plane same brain it's a concentration so you've still got action yep it's concentration uh in which case i need to maintain concentration on this so i'm going to stay behind you if that's all right as i throw a chromatic orb at level four on that creature at the bottom of the south. That's alright. Cobalt? Why? Yeah, all on the cobalt.

Did that not come through? I don't think so. Alright, let me just do this then. Here we go. 19 to hit 19 to hit the large creature will hit it yes excellent so that is 68

so I'll roll that now woo here it comes that is 48 points what level spell 48 nice yeah what level spell was that um what damage sorry i was trying to look up something for a future round so uh fourth level is 68 of what damage of acid acid. Acid. Good choice. It doesn't have resistance to that. So you watch as the orb strikes the creature in the chest.

As the acid sprays all over its chest, it lets out this horrible howling scream as it does so. If anybody hears that. Oh, I did 88, so minus an 8 and a 6 off that, so so if anybody hears that Oh I did 8d8 so minus an 8 and a 6 off that

so 40, it's actually 34 How much damage did you take away because that's easier for me to heal than it is, 14 okay so I can just heal it 14. However I'm going to hurt it with Dicromancy for 9 more Okay

Perfect, so yeah it's still a heavy spell, it strikes with dichromancy for nine more. Okay. All right, perfect. So yeah, it's still a heavy spell. It strikes the chest. The acid sprays all over it. Howl's in rage and pain. Okay. On its go, this thing is going to... I mean, it's going to come for Lucius.

Lucius just heard it a lot. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. mean it's gonna come for lucius lucius just heard it a lot uh 5 10 15 20 25 30 as it leaves the kobolds um uh uh opportunity attack range um he's gonna cast a spell on it uh because he has warcaster um very cool sweet you watch as this little kobold... I have to make a constitution saving throw. What's it got? Plus four on this. That's a seven.

You watch as this little kobold, as he kind of watches the large creature walk past him, and when he steps out of threatened range, the kobold just claps his hands in front of him, and a condensed wave of intense gravity flies out of the kobold just claps his hands in front of him and a condensed wave of intense gravity flies out of the kobold's hands and slams into this creature, this

large, kind of lumbering beast. That's full. 66 force damage. Crazy. Alright. 22 points of force damage and it is pushed 15 feet into the

nearby wall which will cause it another d6 of points of damage as well so 22 points of damage total so and you watch as it just seems to you know kind of almost condense the the very gravity and air in front of it and it just slams into the wall and then the little kobold just looks at Nova just like, now come, come. Not much time. Must make sure that no alarm is given. Cool.

This thing continues on though stumbling forward and will attempt to make attacks against Lucius still. We get a sentry stuff. Sentry. Sentry probably protects. Sentry can use to give disadvantage.

Don't worry. I'm on it. I'm on it. I got stuff. I got protection. You're going to use protection. So there's only one attack, I believe, though, which is against the first attack.

So that is going to miss. I think that's an 11 to hit on the first attack no that doesn't hit okay the second attack with its claws so it tries to bite you with its large huge mouth full of jaws and then it's going to try and claw you that's going to be a 20 to hit

yeah got a mouth full of jaws too this is a very large strong looking creature where's my other d10 more worried about my concentration if I'm honest yeah This is a very large, strong-looking creature. Where's my other D10? I'm more worried about my concentration, if I'm honest. Yeah.

20 points of slashing damage, and that's a constitution saving throw. DC 10. You have a bonus plus 3 to saving throws. 12. Oh my god. Just passes. And then it attacks you

with its claws again. The second attack. This time it's a 24 to hit. Yeah. You take 11, 16 more slashing damage. Another constitution saving throw. DC 10.

Okey dokey. 18 plus 3. 21. Okay, yeah. So you're kind of keeping control. You take one of these heavy blow sentries, doing her best to try and get in the way and protect you from it, but a couple of these blows still come through

and just bam, bam, you know, almost knock the wind out of you, but you manage to keep that mental concentration going. Sentry. Well, you do have plus 9. Like, it's gonna be hard to break the concentration. Oh, big boy. Don't say that. Well, you do have plus nine. Like, it'd be hard to break the concentration. Oh, big boy. Don't say that.

Well, keep in mind that if he gets hit by a spell that does, like, 40 points of damage, the DC becomes 20. It's half the damage taken. Oh, I'll also be dead by that point, so... Yeah. Yeah, that breaks concentration too, so...

As does being stunned, don't forget. Being stunned also breaks concentration too. As does being stunned. Don't forget, being stunned also breaks concentration. Yeah. Century. Okay. Which is being done by Kim. If I'm missing anything. But I'm going to attack with Her Majesty's Rose and Divine Smite it as well.

You pick to Divine Smite on the hit. So if she misses it, she doesn't expend it. Okay. So to attack with her majesty's rose that is a 16 to hit it's just hits yep just barely okay um so i believe i'm rolling so 1d8 for her base damage so that's a 10 base damage and then 6 extra d8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 15 points of radiant damage and i've calculated that as two from divine strike and one from improved divine strike 1d8 i've rolled 3d8 okay okay so that was how much damage total? So, 10... And then 15, did you say? And then 1d4 from Her Majesty's Rose.

Okay, what's a d4? 25 plus d4. 25, 26, 27, 28. 28. Also, so you used a first level spell to Divine Smite, Kim? Because it expends a spell slot. This is a fiend. You add one more d8 to it. It also, so you use the first level spell to divine spike him. So it expends the spell slot. This is a fiend.

You add one more D8 to it. Oh, it is a fiend. Damn it. Yes. That's another four points of damage. Which is enough to destroy this creature. Oh my God. It was, you were two points of damage away without the fiend damage. So you watch as Sentry just steps forward and where this

thing's been battered by the acid by the you know the kobolds you know blow of force all of these different things it just kind of staggers back and then sentry just skews it with her majesty's rose pulls the blade through and it just flops to the ground

leaving a giant body in its wake um damn for now you guys drop out of initiative uh nova and your new cobalt friend uh you can see that the dergar have like moved to cower behind this kind of console um and they seem to be arguing in hushed voices with each other. You can't hear what they're saying but they're kind of like at the bottom, underneath this console whispering and arguing with themselves. Rana,

the angel, will kind of step out and the kobold will kind of move out as well. Ah, yes, yes. Most powerful. Very good, very good. good are you rana vl uh the angel woman will step forward that would be me uh keelah oh and she thank you so much for your help steadies herself against the wall uh are you still injured ke Kelek? Uh, a little bit. Yeah, a bit.

Then come, take my hand. I can see you a little, but I'm still not sure of my surroundings. And she just holds her hand out. Thank you. And I will also get max healing from this, regardless. Okay, max healing, right. So, 8, 16, 32, 34 hit points uh restored as you feel as she touches you you feel this invigorating energy kind of flow through you awesome wow i feel a hundred percent now thank you

now while i have much time for healing while everybody's here do do not fear the creature that may have hurt you in the past. I have control of it for now. It's going to reenter at any moment. Okay, hang on. Wait. Before we go anywhere, how are you here? We can explain that later, Quill. Hesper said to get the staff. We need the staff and you and we can't

leave without either. Yes. You spoke to Hesper? Okay, you spoke to Hesper. Okay, fine. Yes, so staff, bird, back, home, please. Okay, so that thing is getting our stuff, right, Lucius? Or my stuff?

Now that I have a telepathic link with this creature, can I kind of telepathically ask how far away it is and if it's got the stuff and things like that every six seconds yeah you could do yeah you could just keep that up uh you can't see through its senses or anything like that well I guess maybe if you took complete control of it you could actually um because you would need to be able to like if you're controlling it's every act I might do that then just to ensure that he is avoiding people and just skulking back to where he needs to be but i don't know where he does you know that's the only thing actually yeah if you take complete control then you have

to direct its movements and i'll take complete control once he's got quill's belongings right okay um yeah you ask how you ask where it is. It's just like, I am now proceeding. I must cross across. I will cross across the engineering pit. Now I am traveling down. It's like I am now traveling down the support corridor towards our storage area. There are several of the technicians are currently present.

Do they usually pay you any heed? They are beneath me. I am superior to them. Then confidently retrieve what you need to retrieve. You wait. Meanwhile, back in the cells, I mean, this is happening like 6 12 you know 15 30 seconds will go by the kobold is just like we do not have time

we must we must make haste quickly the screams of these creatures will attract more guards soon don't worry about it we have a way out but we have to retrieve quill's equipment it is fundamental that we do that please just patience.

A slight issue. These shackles, I can't teleport or anything with these things on. So whatever your plan is, please tell me it's not teleportation. Can I try and break the shackles? Sure. How so?

You're just going to try and grip them and rip them? I guess that's the first thing Ayla would try So this is a strength check Not athletics, just d20 plus strength Okay Can Sentry help as well? She could take the help action To give Ayla advantage, yes

A little tug of war we quill Do you want to do it with advantage As Sentry's helping you, so roll again, take the help action to give Ayla advantage, yes? A little tug-of-war with Quill. Why do you want to do it with advantage as Sentry's helping you? So roll again, take the highest. 22. Nice. The two of you grab either side of these chains and you begin pulling and straining and these shackles don't break.

And in fact, the harder you pull, they seem to almost get stronger and stronger and a faint magical glow kind of snaps across them as you try and break them. And they, they are not breaking. Oh, okay.

Can't do it. Consult our temporary friend. The shackles placed on Quill, do you know how to remove them? They cannot be easily removed. Only those that were designated when the creature was incapacitated can remove them. Zarkira simulacrums. Perhaps a powerful magic could also undo their

effect temporarily. If a creature attempts to break them through physical force and fails, they become almost unbreakable. Don't use strength anymore. They get stronger

we need magic or the original person that placed them on uh hmm does it have to be the actual person or yeah well the actual person is our hero

at the time of the placement I can try dispelling it but I don't know if it's strong enough the actual person is our hero. At the time of the placement. I can try dispelling it, but I don't know if it's strong enough. I mean, it's going to be my strongest, but it might not be strong enough. In which case, I hate to interject.

The Durgar who are present in these cells, I think that they may be planning something. They are, I can hear them whispering about whether they should summon more guards or not. Uh... Can I walk up to where the door is for them?

Yeah, I mean Nova saw them sort of in the southern area of the cells. Where was that? Like... Other side. Other side? southern area of the cells uh where was that like they're over there here uh other side yes other side over here yeah nova kind of points them to you they're all kind of currently hiding over here yeah you don't need to do that i'll move you over there oh okay yeah so you move over and you see there's these kind of like rows of crystalline consoles and things like that

um and there is a when they hear you coming there is a like a fuck see there's these kind of like rows of crystalline consoles and things like that. And there is a, when they hear you coming, there is a like a, fuck! And then they kind of start scrabbling. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're not going to hurt you. We're not here to hurt you. They're like looking at each other and they're looking at the console. How much do you like Zarkira? Not a lot, but I'm more afraid like Zarkira? Not a lot,

but I'm more afraid of Zarkira than I am of a few. You lot are gonna be dead in a few minutes. Once more guards arrive, I mean, that Dragroth was screaming its guts out. There's gonna be people on their way now. Ah. And I don't wanna be seen as a traitor. Send them away.

Send them away. We're just engineers. We don't have that authority. We can't send them away. Well, can you help us? Can you block off the room? Can you block off the room so they can't enter? They look at each other. I mean, somebody's going to have to

persuade these guys. You can always blame it on me. You can blame it on me personally. She knows me. She knows me. She hates me. It's fine. Yeah, blame's not the problem. Do you think Zarkira's the type of person that just blames one person?

She'll have us all hanged. Well, get off the ship, then. Leave. Whoops. Looking around. Nova, did you want to do something? Uh... I need to do math. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Yeah. That's just counting. No. I was just wondering how many people would be in a party if I offered them to come with us, but not enough, apparently. So, no, I'm just them to come with us, but not enough, apparently. So... No, I'm just gonna be with Ayla, just kind of looking around.

Can I... Can she shut it down with the control panels and stuff? I don't know. Shut what down? What are you trying to do? Like, lock off this area. You can try, but this isn't... I mean, this is very different to a lot of other stuff you can try like you understand the basics but it's like you know knowing how to use a computer and then trying to you know hack the the pentagon

kind of thing it's like there's a there's a level of skill difference here but you can certainly try. I'm a hacker. I'm a hacker. No. Can I ask Tiangong and ask if Tiangong senses any other Eterna here? Interesting question. Tiangong thinks for a moment. I cannot sense the presence of other Eterna. I believe that Zarkira is using other sources to power this ship. Interesting. Aayla, flex your muscles or something. That normally works.

These two are like looking like they're gonna, they're eyeing up that console and they're clearly like can I reach that in time? Don't summon more guards. The woman sort of whispers like, maybe we should just leave.

We're just trying to get out of here with our friend and just leave. We don't want any more trouble than that. We might be rewarded. We might be able to get off this stinking ship if we help catch them we think we can help catch them after what they did to that thing we can take you off the ship

actually how about that you don't have to work for her she's a bitch come on make a persuasion check for me Ayla so straight up persuasion I don't think I'm very good at persuasion check for me, Ayla. So, straight up persuasion. I don't think I'm very good at persuasion.

I don't think you are either, but... No, I only got a nine. Nine. They're just kind of... Yeah, I think that they're gonna look... I don't think they're stupid enough to try and call the arms. They kind of, they think about that for a second and then I think that

they're just gonna like slowly start backing up towards another door. Like trying to back away. If you call anyone I'm gonna blast you. And then they run. They run out the door. They just run. Go, go, go, go, go. And then they run. They run out the door. They just run.

Go, go, go, go, go. And they just flee. Little dwarven duergar legs leaving them away. Yeah. That was like zero resistance there. I mean, those just look like little engineers. They didn't look like they were fighters of any kind.

Yeah. So, what's the plan? This mind flayer still hasn't returned. Taylor, I'm going to try and... It looks like it's going to go a fair ways to go get this gear. I'm going to try and dispel this shackle. It will give you a certain amount of time to really slam this thing. Century, we're going to need your help too, okay?

But it said that not to try and break them with strength, right? Oh, yeah, but I mean, while it's dispelled, it'll be fine. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. I don't know. Ask someone who knows magic. I know nothing. I just know how to break things. I'm the one that knows magic.

The Illithid. That question. What's the question? Sorry. Dispelling the magic and then applying physical force. Will that work? Or will it only make it worse? Potentially. Although dispelling

such a powerful relic would be difficult. They were created by Zarkira herself. It's going to take a lot of magical power quill i'll give it all i've got i need to get out of these things so we can all get out of this place in that case i will dispel magic at eighth level that is the biggest brain play so far because that is the exact level you needed to do dispel

oh my god they were created they were it was eighth level kind of like creation process so you just so you focus intently knowing that you have to get these things off to get out that's weird that magic is still there you feel magic flowing through you like it always has done that connection but it's hollow this time the power's there but the connection isn't but you feel the chains kind of disconnect or like the magic fade from them the runes become dim and they just now resemble a pair of normal metal manacles. Can I break them? Yes, with advantage. Century will help.

20? Just breaks them. With you and Century both working together, gripping the sides of the chain quill, like you feel like your wings are going to break off at some point. But eventually they just... Ping! And you hear like the snap of metals,

the metal itself buckles and breaks, and your wings fly apart. With the chain broken, the wrist clamps just open and fall off your wrists and off your neck. It just kind of breaks and falls to the ground. Oh, thank you.

That's weird. The spell didn't feel like it. You said you spoke to Hesper? That's the conversation for a different time. I have a suggestion. We're against the clock, right? And there are going to be guards coming en route at any moment,

maybe as patrols. I say we hide these creatures in these cells that we've just helped escapees come from and maybe hide in there for now. At least make sure the corridors, we have a moment before they discover what's happened sure that's a good idea we have all the answers as soon as we're home right like the bodies into like Rana's cell and

like throw them in there is that the plan yeah and what about you guys are you guys gonna try and like hide in the corridors or like what's the plan here we all fit in the cell or no the problem is you wouldn't be able to reactivate the cell once you're in it so you can do we have the key for doors are on the outside the door that quill was in do we have you can go in the interrogation room you could go in there okay yeah you have the keystone to open the door You can go in the interrogation room. Yeah, you have the keystone to open that. Did it have like anti-magic though and stuff like that? No, that was the shackles.

The interrogation room didn't. The other cell I was in did. Although that is the cell they'll be looking for, right? Maybe I should go in there on my own. You remain in that seat and we'll hide around the corners perhaps sure i'll like head into the room and then sit down pretend i've got my shackles on still okay well you sit in the chair of the interrogation room? Yeah, I mean, like, in my mind, that's the only room they have any care of checking, really.

Like, that's the only thing that's new in that area. So if I'm in the same place, then maybe nothing's happened, question mark. I mean, I will say that you've moved bodies, but there's definitely, like, some bloodstains and things like that in the corridor where you were having a fight. Yeah, the dent, the smear of melted creature from the acid orb and things like that.

There's evidence that a fight has taken place. Also, there's no guard here. It's just not immediately apparent. However, through a little bit of luck and some bad perception rolls, surprisingly, I mean, seemingly not. The sound of the battle, either people weren't nearby or it has been quiet for long enough or they didn't get a chance to properly call for reinforcements.

The mind flayer eventually returns about two minutes later after you sent them off um i'll open the door with its own keystone and i mean yeah it just uh sorry i'm trying to like move it as well uh move it as well uh it reappears uh and just kind of stands there and it's holding a uh kind of uh container uh you know like a crate or something like that like a you know metal box um with the staff on top of it um thank you make sure everything's here quill grab it okay i'll uh yeah pick up everything i'm assuming it's everything um uh it it is uh in fact everything um it seems to be yeah every piece of equipment that you had awesome cool now oh my thunderstorm pistol why do i still have that your name Oh, my Thunderstone pistol. Why do I still have that? Your name.

Oh, you're asking the mind flayer? The Illithid, yeah. Uh, Zarex. Who have you informed about the information you took from Quill? I did not have the time. The Elder Brain has not been activated. Thus, my telepathic connection to the other officers is disabled. I was traveling to speak with Zarkira herself to indulge in such an important discovery.

Very important indeed. I'm going to look around everybody else and then do the throat cut gesture. Wait, hang on. I know this sounds crazy, but forgive me if I can't see the downsides of this. Zarkira finds out about his plan not working, Starbane's plan not working,

and she decides to split, and we fracture the Zarkirian Empire. Not the Zarkirian Empire, the other one. We don't know. We create another enemy with potentially even more power. Or Shadar. That too.

But who's, right now, who's the idea? Who's the bad guy? All of the above. We don't want them to have any information, Quill. No leg up. We need to deliver this information to the correct people. The correct people need to know.

Zarkirin knowing first sounds like a bad idea to me. The correct person is Starbane. Hesper said that she couldn't have the staff or your eye. And this information came from your eye. She shouldn't have it. She shouldn't have the power of the eye, but we wanted to translate this information to Starbane anyway. Doesn't this guy know about the test and the, you know, Valor?

Wouldn't that put our plans at risk? Quill didn't tell us that. He said everything, right? that put our plans at risk? Quill didn't tell us that. He said everything, right? Oh, yeah, he does know about the Tassadar plans, yeah. He knows that I have the teleportation circle sequence.

I think that's pretty much all he knows. That's pretty big. Did you tell that to us? Oh, no. I mean, I forgot. But yeah, sure, I did. No, but I thought the way you phrased it, like, this is Kim asking, I thought the way you phrased it at the beginning of the session

was like, you said he knows everything. Oh, I said he knows about Starbane's plan not working. Okay. I'll retract that then. Oh, Quill, I... I just have a bad feeling that Zarkira knowing this information and having a one-up on Starbane is only going to cause us more complications, more issues. Sure, there may be disruption between Valkyrian forces and Zarkira, but who knows what Zarkira's going to do with that sort of knowledge.

She shouldn't have any knowledge we should take him out look what she's capable of and I point at the horrible monstrosities that are here exactly I mean I'm thinking of what she's capable of and I'm thinking of turning that into a weapon

against Starbane himself the grand strategist wanted a way to diminish their forces so he would turn the tide and join us. This is exactly what he did. As you guys are having this conversation, you all... There's like a chill up your spine. You all get the sensation that

you're being followed or listened to or watched it's this kind of creeping sensation i assume i can't instruct this illithid to just walk into astral space um it's gonna have i think if you get it to do anything suicidal, it gets to save against the effect. It doesn't actually mention it in Dominate Monster. It doesn't actually. No, it doesn't. So you could, but... I mean, it would have to find some sort of way. I think you could say, like,

go find an airlock and throw yourself out kind of thing. You could say something like that, and it would do that, for sure. About six seconds after that sensation of, like, being watched and followed, the lights in the room start flashing red.

I'm gonna cast Plane Shift. I'm gonna class Plane Shift. Do the Plane Shift, but it's up to... Actually, no. It's Willing Creatures. Would he be willing if he was dominated? No, I looked into this with the Retriever thing. A Mind-Controlled Creature cannot be considered willing. I found some stuff on this, and no.

You can't make even a mind-controlled creature. Because it's not making that decision itself. So it doesn't count as willing. Can I... Two things. I wanted to ask, like, before, when we were waiting for the Illithid to return, can I attempt to tune the book to this ship?

You know, there's the ability to tune the book. You can't. You try to, but it won't register inside the ship as a location. Probably, and I think Nova would be smart enough to realise this, the ship can move, so it can't affix itself to a point. That's why

Hesper put it on the outside in the Astral Sea where the ship currently was. If this was an airship, even though an airship can move, you could probably still do it to an airship. Because this place moves amongst planes, it's different. Yeah. Okay.

We need to get out of here now. Look, kill the Mind flayer or keep it alive you know my vote but we need to leave we don't have time to deal with it now we have to go it's too late six more seconds pass

and two figures teleport into this room alright I'm gonna tell it to find anything go. Into this room. I'm going to tell it to find anything that comes into this room that is working with you. What did you say? Fight anything that comes

into this room? That's working with you. As soon as Lucius says that can I cast Plane Shift? Okay. So the last thing you see before you Plane Shift, are you taking the angel and the couple? I'll take everyone. Okay, so the last thing you see before you plane shift... Are you taking the angel and the couple? I'll take everyone.

Okay, sure. The last thing you see as this thing goes in is two Zarkiras. Slightly different dress. One is dressed all in gold, like a gold shimmering robe. Very revealing, very alluring, with an elaborate headdress uh around her long dark black hair the other one is dressed more like a researcher with like a very high collared um elegant black dress that kind of goes all the way down um you can see a pair of sort of like magical looking spectacles very you know fancy frames with crystals and things like that. They both teleport in along with six of those elite guards.

As you are fading away as the book, as Nova slams the gemstone on the book, you see them appearing and you just see the Mind Flayer, like, do something and then it kind of launches itself at one of the guards and that's the last thing you see. Right. As soon as it takes damage. Well, could have hammered it to the head.

We could have done a lot of things, but that's awesome. First saving throw it makes is a natural 20. And plane shifting also removes the effect. Will put you on a different plane, exactly. So I needed to do something in that moment so I guess is a question of how much do they wail on this thing in its first round of attack or it probably wouldn't

because he snapped okay don't know you don't know because the whole you take a break yeah okay yeah yeah attacking it cuz it's attacking them real quick where do we teleport to? You'll find out after the break. Nowhere. Nowhere. I know where. It's on the book.

It's fine. God damn it. Shh, shh. I rolled so many perception checks for guards. One, two, three, one. It was just like, nobody is hearing this fight. Nobody is hearing it apart from these dear guards. How many other guards were there? I had five random encounters, and I was rolling for each of them.

Nice. Because they're patrolling. It's like all these different groups patrolling the ship in different points. And it was just one, two, one, two, three. We did it. You got very lucky. We did a successful heist. And by way of mind, guys.

The other thing I will say,vp goes to chris trot because that dominate monster on the mind flayer just changed a hell of a lot uh a hell of a lot of that situation that i have otherwise we wouldn't have been able to get quill stuff back otherwise you could have like locate object and stuff yeah you had no but we would have had to have gone through the ship not in stealth yeah so Yeah, there's a lot of ship. So we wouldn't have managed it. I do feel bad because I remember, like, when you first got into the ship in the last episode,

you went through, like, four different maps that Mark had made up. There's probably another one for the route towards Night's Ash. Oh, I made another map. Yeah, I made another map for where your gear was. Yeah, I had another map as well for if you did go fight Zaki or I had another map for that as well. We only really did, like like a quarter of this ship if that

I can reuse these for Starbane's ship for the Tassadar so I can just reuse these maps so