High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #113 | Praxis Valla (Part 1)

Episode Date: May 24, 2021

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using a unique set of teleportation runes to travel aboard the Tassadar, Calus's flagship, to seek their young friend Vala and rescue her, along with potentially the Eterna that powers the flagship and shares a name with. Dispatching a few initial guards and with the tragic news that their celestial allies had abandoned the mission, the party decided to press on, make use of this one-time opportunity, that their Celestial allies had abandoned the mission, the party decided to press on and make use of this one-time opportunity, splitting themselves into two groups, a disguised team made up of Lucius, Aayla, Moonstar, and Nova, and an ethereal team made up of Quill, Sentry, and the Daever, Rana'el. As they make their way through the corridors of the Great Astral Warship,

making their way into the crew decks, the ship is put onto alert, as it seems the infiltration team has somehow been discovered. The Ethereal team locate Valor, who is being held on the bridge under heavy guard, whilst the Disguised team make their way towards the ship heart, where the Eterna Tassadar is kept. The Disguised team bluffs their way past the initial guards, but an Ice Devil officer questions them and calls for his superior to check. As both groups nervously wait for their next move, another announcement reveals that Zarkira's ship, the Serpent Coil, has arrived and will be docking with the Tassadar. And that, my friends, is where we begin the episode today. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. With those announcements ringing true,

I believe that the sound of the Tassadar kind of connecting to another ship, a slight kind of vibration and rocking throughout the ship itself, you will kind of sense that there is some great weight that has been attached. And yeah, any offices that you happen to see or look around, this is more for the Ethereal team,

are in a desperate kind of preparation for arrival. For Aayla, Lucius, Nova, and Moonstar, the four of you are currently in a sort of antechamber outside of what is called the ship heart, the sort of main engineering block of the Tassadar itself. And the ship part seems to be a sealed section of that chamber with these two great metal doors that block the entryway inside. There are sort of scatterings of lower level kind of troopers and engineers

and things like that working on consoles doing all sorts of things but chiefly the sort of main threat in the room is this large ice devil this almost like a praying mantis with sort of white ice cold scales and chitin armor uh is kind of looming over you to make sure that you aren't going anywhere as you are waiting for this other engineer to arrive meanwhile ethereal team I believe you are still currently phased through the walls you're kind of coming

in and out of these spaces to check the bridge to make sure that Valor is still there and what is going on yeah you have a few moments at least. What do you guys want to... What's the plan?

Is there any moves or things that you would like to do, or is this just a case of waiting for... Disguise team, you're waiting for this Engineer. Ethereal team, you're just waiting for something to happen. What's the plan? So, for team not gas on a different plane of existence. Team not ghosts.

Not ghosts. Team anti-ghosts. Lucius is like folding his arms and looking as stern as possible. And in the messenger ring to the other two. We're going to die. I don't know what to do. How do we do this? I am worried. We should really get over here. This has gone too far. We shouldn't have come here. We're going to die. I don't know what to do. How do we do this? I am worried. We should really get out of here.

This has gone too far. We shouldn't have come here. We're so close. No, we need to make a distraction. Make a distraction and get me into that room so we can get Tassadar on our side. Nova, Tassadar is not the I'm going to start a fire. I'm literally going to start a fire.

Quill says he's got that under control. What else can we do? We can't get up to the bridge. This is our best option. I agree with Nova. If we can convince Tassadar, we can get Tassadar to reroute power supplies.

We can open doors. We can lock people in. We can get Tassadar to help us. As you guys are having this conversation, the great metal doors leading into this power chamber do open. And a figure

begins to step out of them. At least one set of the doors opens up anyway. I do have a map. The doors kind of hiss open. The metallic doors swing inwards The doors kind of hiss open. The metallic doors swing inwards. Crystal kind of parting ways.

This kind of resin-like crystal that seems to warp and stretch and move as the ship needs it to. The doors swing inwards. And emerging from it is a female figure. She is covered in sort of pieces of armor. You can see like a hint of a breastplate, metal gauntlets, metal greaves, but there's also Engineer's sort of uniform and things underneath it, all kind of covered in various sorts of like scorch marks

and stains and sort of things like that. But most notably, rather than hair, she appears to be sort of elven ish uh similar to an eladrin you can see a similar kind of elvish feet uh facial features her eyes are like these just pure luminous sort of yellow orbs much like lucius's are but rather than hair she seems to have kind of equipped her skull. She has these long tendrils, like these cybernetic tentacles, almost like ridged tubes and

rigid, jointed appendages like tentacles coming out the back of her head, like hair. It kind of spills down long past her shoulders, and they begin to kind of writhe up and move things. Some of them appear to be holding small tools, very sort of octopus style. She comes out with a big pair of goggles on. They begin to kind of writhe up and move things. Some of them appear to be holding small tools, very sort of Doc Octopus style.

She comes out with a big pair of goggles on. She kind of lifts them up over her head and takes a look at the assembled group, kind of calling out to the ice devil. Are these the ones that you mentioned? Yes, mistress. They claim that they are to enter the chamber they have been called upon to do work uh and she takes a long sort of look around the four of you smiles well seemingly no reaction she just reaches up and touches her ear

I have four of them here they've come straight to us well this was certainly a bold plan but did you not think that we would at least recognize some of you at that point we will

roll initiative oh okay yeah okay i mean this is like one of the chief officers callous knows you all by sight all the work yeah so um you know mark when when i kind of went oh shit he's here when you dialed in earlier i was literally saying to trot i'm just waiting for one of the officers to recognize this immediately because face it two higher why wouldn't they one egg uh egg and assy and it's also like not even just the racial not even just the races like yeah you guys are wearing the uniforms and most of the grunts won't have a physical like images or descriptions of you so like that's why you've managed to sneak around but these high

officers you know are trusted by callous he is probably gone yeah if these fuckers show up they're back like get them so yeah that's it's just gonna be a straight up initiative role you can see the door is open and

the chamber seems to lead. There is a set of stairs that head down. And then you can see these three great kind of clear resin orbs kind of shaped. They all seem to be connected. There are all sorts of like metal cables and wires all kind of connected to them leading into the black walls of the ship. The whole room has got this very bright blue light that is filling from these three oars. But you can see that there is another figure

moving around down in there. Kind of like they're silhouetted from the bright light kind of coming out from this engine room. But you can see that there is another figure in there. In terms of Quill and Century, I mean, you guys,

you can roll initiative, but you're not going to probably be here for some time. But roll initiative. Let's keep everyone in initiative together or in actual fact before that I need to add I just made sense

I'm nowhere near, I rolled a 5 also you wouldn't be aware yeah you don't know unless the officers up there are like so we'll get to that because there was clearly some sort of communication between them. Okay, Lucius, initiative.

We've got a 13. 13. Quill? Five. Five. Ayla? 22. That's good.

Sentry? 13. 13. Nova? 22 good century 13 team over 20 speedy so before we jump into the combat kind of seeing the other side of it like we kind of get the movie cut away as she kind of radios

in like I have them here bold of you to kind of come straight to us. Quill and Century, who are kind of keeping eye on the bridge, you see the dragon, the red dragon officer in this humanoid form, seems to reach up and touches one ear, sort of nods,

and then turns to the assembled, you know, they have all sorts of officers on different stations. There's the Irese and the Celestial who are guarding Valor. It seems that some of the infiltrators have been discovered down in Engineering. Make sure that we send appropriate jards. Contact Falagor and the security team.

Have them dispatched immediately. Engineering. And you just hear this kind of voice echo out, and then there's a flurry of activity as they start preparing things. Valor is looking around, and you can see that the attention is somewhat being diverted away from her um you can see the iranese and the the celestial kind of tighten their grip and are looking around but there is this you know potential that this situation may may be uh an opportunity for her

to try and escape uh rana will just look at the two of you. What are we doing? If they're on their own, they're going to very quickly be outnumbered. She can't do anything because she's ethereal with you guys. So she's just going to pose that question. And then we go to Ayla. You have the ice devil.

So most of like the inside this room, there aren't many soldiers. These were all engineers. As soon as they see this ice devil and the engineer lady beginning to get ready for combat the engineers all just begin to flee they just begin to immediately run away um the ice devil however is pulling out like this giant spear you can see this engineer woman is like lifting herself up uh these large sort of tentacle hairs kind of spraying around her. Ayla.

I will rage and go for the ice shithead first. Yes. Okay. Because he looks like he's right beside me probably. A little bit, yeah. So he's next to Moonstar and Lucius at the moment, so I've just moved you around. There is a map on roll 20.

Oh, bums. That's because I have not moved you to it. That's why. There we go. You should now be able to see. Okay, I'm right next to that dude anyway, so i just moved you there so sure okay go for it

so you can see yeah these they look like giant praying mantises uh with this kind of blue armor uh oh thank you that's not true um is that the ship heart on the right

the stairs sort of leading down yes that leads in that direction so I rolled an 18 plus 13 to hit so 28 to hit that will hit

maybe and then that's gonna be to hit, so 28, 31 to hit. That will hit. Maybe. And then that's going to be... Oh, I rolled a 10 on my damage. That's fun. Da-da-da-da-da. 18, 9, 20. 21 damage on the first

hit. Okay. Goddamn. And the tempest smashes into its side. You do hear like a crunch of this rime-covered insectoid plate crack. I can use my aura to potentially knock someone down. Okay.

So, I'm just finding it because I've never used this effect before. That's okay. Thank you, time. Oh, no. Pretty gnarly. Where are you? When you hit a creature in your aura with an attack, you can use your reaction

to knock the creature prone. Okay. So, strength check. No saving through saving through oh there is a strength saving okay uh that's only a 15. oh failure he's on the ground you're not complying so bam the first attack knocks him to the ground uh the ice devil falls to the floor you kind of take his legs out from underneath him. Do I then have advantage to hit him? You would, yeah. You do. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. That's why knocking something prone with your first attack is very good for a follow-up attack.

Or for other people's attacks as well. Oh, one less than last time, so that was a 30 to hit. Yeah, that hits. Um. Basically, unless you roll, like, like under a 10 you're probably gonna hit uh 20 damage on the second one

and a little zap little zappy boy and that's a deck saving throw isn't it plus failure uh it doesn't have any immunity to lightning damage 15 16 17 18 19 lightning damage really high on my d6 and these two that's 60 point I just want to point out that's 60 points of

damage in one round from a yeahla. That's an opening turn. Fuck yeah. Opening turn, 60 points of damage. Bam! The two heavy hammer blows swing in, one knocking them to the ground, the second coming down, and then the lightning blasts through this thing and you just hear this like... Reinforcements!

Call for reinforcements! From the creature. End of your turn. Aayla? Yeah, I'll just say in the messenger ring, oh, we could really do with the other half of the team right now. Anyone got any ideas on how to get them here?

That'll be it. Okay. Radius is half, isn't it? I always get this wrong. Diameter is the full amount, isn't it i always get this wrong diameter is the full amount isn't it okay uh in that case do do do do do do do uh so on the ice creature's turn uh the ice devil's turn i kind of just want him to attack but he does have cool things he can do he'll probably do some attacks now i'll save that for another turn so he'll just turn on ayla honestly just because you've just pummeled him with those attacks he'll stand up uh no longer prone and then he will try and lay into you with a flurry of his own attacks trying to bite you

first uh for a 20 to hit yep uh so So that's going to be 8. That's going to be 13 points of piercing damage. You're raging, so that would go half to 6. But then a biting cold

for 14 cold damage. Oh. Then the claws come out. Tries to slice you with the claws. Uh, twenty-seven to hit. Yup. Yup.

Oh, that's what it was twice. That's five. That's ten points of slashing, so five points of slashing damage. Followed by another nine cold damage and then it's great tail like a scorpion's tail tries to strike down 21 to hit uh and that's going to be 14 uh bludgeoning so it's like a hammer actually it's less of a stinger it's like a smashing crushing damage so that's going to be 14 to half to seven bludgeoning damage and uh five cold damage so kind of lays into you with all these quite a lot of damage there yeah quite a lot of damage and you halved a little bit yeah uh he just is like i will

try and deal with this one hi engineer deal with the others call for reinforcements over Fassbens. Over. Hello. Hello. So, sorry to ask you to repeat things, but looking to the room on the right, there was... So there's stairs down, and then there's like a kind of resin-y wall or something?

There's three sort of... There's three resin-y clear orbs, which are reference represented by uh uh it's not pinging hang on uh these uh things on the map you can see these kind of like three clear orbs at the far end of the room um sort of against built into the wall and you can see all sorts of uh cables and and lines and metal pipes and tubes coming out of them um would an educated guess kind of help nova ascertain what she thinks they might be that's that's entirely up to you i i i will not yeah that's that's down to you whether you think that that is an educated guess

but i can't see through to tassadar like there's there's two set like there's a it's just really bright no there's no set of doors. It's just really bright. No, there's no other doors down there. It's just you can see a chamber down there, but it's very bright. Okay. You would have to go down there and look. Can I ask... Can I ask Tiangong, like,

can you talk to Tassadar? Can you communicate? As I've mentioned before, NovaVeeja, I require visual confirmation before I am able to communicate. I was just wondering if you could say it from here. That's fine. Okay. Before Nova Vija, I require visual confirmation before I am able to communicate. I was just wondering if you could see it from here. That's fine. If you can't see them, it means Tiangong can't see them.

Yeah. I will cast Blight on the Ice Demon. So that is a con saving throw. DC 18 you are yeah she would know that you what level spells you can cast that because of the intro from thingy

three of those to avoid using her intellect, the High Engineer will attempt to counterspell that. Use her reaction to cast Counterspell. I'll Counterspell. So is it just

Counterspell? Is Chris Trott saying no as in I am also Counterspelling? No, I just don't like it. You just don't like it, right? Okay. So, yeah. She casts it at the same level you do at 5th level, so No, I just don't like it. You just don't like it. Okay. Yep. So, yeah. She casts it at the same level you do at fifth level. So, it just counters.

Okay. Counters. I would also like to bonus action Hexblade Curse the Engineer. Yes. It's not going to help me with this. She kind of just tuts her finger like, ah, ah, ah, ah, when you try and cast the spell um i'm gonna curse in deep ganassi language that if my mother was here i would be grounded for a month um yeah poo poo pee pee um and i'm to start moving towards the

door but in a way that 5, 10, I don't get her 15, 20, 25 actually Kim I'm going to stop you when you get to here the second you try and step further you think that you're out of range of opportunity attacks

but the hare snakes out with an immense reach and tries to basically slap you when you do uh that is going to be a 24. yes yep well so here's the thing is it's not just a slap this great metal kind of uh hair tentacle stretches out like a good 15 feet and smacks you but as it does you can see that at the end of the hair tubes there are these um almost like needle like uh syringe like devices and it tries to nick you in those so 24 to hit i would like to use my armor of hexes uh which means um a target caught uh cursed by your hex blade curse hits you with an attack roll you can use your reaction to roll a d6 and it can miss on a four or higher okay well do you want me to roll it or i rolled a six oh uh i don't know just because i rolled a six uh sure okay all right well in that case it misses in that case it misses and that's your reaction to use yeah that's my reaction so every reaction um i believe i can do that

yeah well you you won't get your reaction back until the start of your next turn so so the attack misses uh it kind of bounces off the the armor of hexes tian gong kind of manages to deflect the blow away can i just go uh uh yeah and then you keep moving uh and then i think i had like five more foot or yeah. Five. Sorry. Five. Yeah. Yeah.

Carry on with the next move and I'll just. That door is closed. The one that you're currently heading towards as an FYI. Only the only the one that she came out of opened. Actually, no, I want to go. Okay. Fine. That's fine.

Okay. You're all done. Yeah. Okay. On her turn. I've got five more foot i'm gonna move there she will cast uh seeing she looks around she would recognize lucius and over as both the spell casters ayla is currently tangled with the ice thing uh she will surround herself in a faintly shimmering barrier in a 10-foot radius around her. How's that? You're going to counter spell it, are you? What level?

I don't believe you have this spell, but I'd say that you have seen a similar effect before. Zarkira used this spell once. It is a Globe of Invulnerability. Sixth level. Okay. All right. In that case, you counterspell her.

She's already used her counterspell, so prevent that from going off. Bam, bam. Awesome. She just smiles. I don't. Okay. Well, that's her action yep Lucius

that's your reaction gone it's the battle of it's the reaction attrition now I'm gonna cast dominate monster on her okay she's used her reaction to counter spell she has wisdom save of 18 it has no effect piss i thought it might but it was worth a charm different charm effect yep something prevents the

spell from taking root you try and reach into a mind as you did with the mind flayer but there is this uh dogmatic sort of loyalty there's there some sort of magical interference, whatever it is. You can't get into that mind. Well, it seems that we're all trying things that aren't working today. What a wonderful little experiment. I'm going to ring

Nova and say we need to lock down this place before more reinforcements come in. Can you try the console? And I'm going to I'll give my best. nod to Moonstar in a sibling way

of can you help physically to this person? She's kind of out of her league here, but she'll try. As a note, by the way, there are no doors leading into the corridor that you're currently in. Like, the Tassadar room is sealed off by these two doors,

one of which is opened and she's come out of. But this chamber is just, like, in a section of the ship. Like, there's no doors here. Like, you can see there's two corridors. Yeah, the same way you came in there was no there's you know this is all connected to the ship okay so it is currently

sealed what do you mean sealed like you are currently in a corridor which is in the ship you are in like an open part of the ship itself it's an open corridor but the room that Nova is looking into that she came out of

seems to be the bit that can be sealed off. So we need to get in there. That's what we're trying to get to. Sure. Okay, anything else, Lucius? Oh, that's as much as I can do. My turn. Okay. Sentry and Quill,

you guys have a moment. What do you guys want to do at this point oh god um have you got any plans century i might have one but uh you go first i've just been going over my character sheet i can't yeah century just be like i don't know what we can do right now to help Valor, but Lucius, Aayla, and Nova might be in trouble. I think we need to go back to them. Okay. Okay.

Oh, so is it my turn, Eowar? It's basically, yeah, Moonstar's going to go, but I've just figured you guys can't interact with the combat, so let you guys have a moment here. I'm going to try and pray and i want to get me century rana and vala down to the engineering room i'm going to use divine intervention i need to get all of us down there um so i don't like the face you're making mark do i roll

no no here's the thing you felt this weakening power in the eye you feel that as of right now the source of your divine power you have your spells, you have all of a lot of your other powers and things like that but the ability, divine intervention is literally your praying to your god to do something

right now, that god would be Siaska who is incapable of helping you there is no divine intervention, until Siaska is awake, divine intervention until siaska is awake divine intervention is not going to work oh goody i just got nerfed hard from an ability i've used once before it also makes sense right like hesper was previously the one who would answer this call and he ain't there and siask is currently incapacitated she cannot help you um can you roll it anyway just see what we would have got sure you i mean roll it anyway

because if it comes up as a success that would really be a kick in the pants i need a 13 or less and i rolled 21 no 71 okay um it would have been no way but that That's fine. But also, I now know that that doesn't work at all. Until Siaska can help, it is not going to function fully. Simply because there isn't someone to come and help. Wordlessly give a very concerned look to Sentry if she just saw me praying. I've got nothing either

we need to get valor we need to get valor how do we get valor right now while you guys think about that moon star on her turn poor little moon star will from paradise poison prone stream stun none of those things are currently

effective she will toss it out she's going to try and help ailer because at the moment Front and Paralyzed, Poison, Prone, Strain, Restun. None of those things are currently effective. She will toss out... She's going to try and help Aayla, because at the moment that's really the only person she can really help. She's going to toss out a small mechanical device just behind the Ice Devil. He looks around to do it, and it kind of explodes with a flash of light.

She's going to use one of her bright light explosives. The creature has to make a saving throw. It's not a magical spell, so I'm not going to give him magic resistance. This is like a technological thing. So what's this, dex? I think that that's going to be a success. The creature kind of looks at it, the light,

and it manages to shield its eyes away. But Moonstar is going to try and step away. Yep. So she's going to risk an step away. Yep. So she's going to risk an attack of opportunity here. Five. That might... What have we got to beat here? Oh, it just hits, even on a low round. Unfortunately, Moonstar's

AC isn't super high. The Ice Devil does manage to catch her with an attack. So with the tail as as he spun round, that's going to be... 13 damage plus... 26, 23... 27 total.

Moonstar takes a hefty blow. The tail kind of slams into her as she tries to run away to one of these consoles to see if there's anything she can do. The tail slams into her. She kind of gets thrown forward, kind of stumbles up against the console when it does. She fumbles around and just kind of looks around in desperation,

trying to see if there's anything she could do here. Let's see if she can make an Arcana roll. Okay, that's pretty good. She quickly tries to touch a flurry of the crystals. I can delay an alarm being sounded, but that's the best I can do. If they have another way of communicating, I can't do anything else.

And kind of scrambles around on the keyboard. I can't shut anything down from here. And you can see she's holding her side, having taken a pretty nasty stab. Rano is with Century and Quill, and can't do anything. Ayla. Oh, me again.

Okay. I hit again. Like this demon. Yeah, I mean, you're doing exactly your job. Probably trying to do the same thing I did before. Sure. So I'll hit him once, try and knock him down. Can you make a strength save?

Let's see if you hit first. So that is a 13 plus 13, so 26. 26. That hits. And it's going to be 12 damage on the first one 12 points of damage okay and then

strength 3 yeah that is a fail that's 2 plus 5 7 so prone okay knock the legs out

from under him like just knocking into the ground advantage on the second attack so I've got advantage on the second one

no I didn't roll high enough my highest was a 22 advantage on the second attack so I've got advantage on the second one no I didn't roll high enough my highest was a 22 total which is going to be 17 points of damage from the hammer and then a dex save 17 points and then dex saving through

man still that's only going to be a 16 oh no 14 apologies 14 12 points 12 points of lightning damage the ice devil in two sort of in 12 seconds with this flurry

of like blow after blow from Aayla is looking pretty messed up already you can see like the frozen chitin armor is like breaking off um this kind of thick oozing demon's blood this ichor is kind of spilling onto the ground from these kind of wounds and things like that yeah it's still fighting but man it is looking pretty pretty nasty uh when it does so anything else ayla no i just moved slightly around him okay uh i'm good okay uh on the ice devil's turn then it is going to uh conjure a wall of ice uh it is not casting a spell for counter spell purposes this is just a ability it can do uh 30 feet long 10 feet high

so feet long which i believe well that's terrifying oh can't quite make it all the way across the block ailer off though i don't think i can temporarily actually, it creates a dome instead. So it's going to create a dome 20 feet radius basically around Ayla like this. You can make a dex saving throw, please, Ayla.

Okay. Okay. That is going to be a 19. Okay. That is going to be a 19. In actual fact, no, because it's not conjuring it. You don't need to make the same throw. So you're not going to take any damage from this, but you are basically sealed inside a dome of ice. Like it holds at hand and then right in front of you,

this dome of ice just kind of surrounds a section of the area around you. Stay in there! And it kind of looks around. Oh, you coward! You coward! You have just kicked the shit out of this thing. It does not care. And then he is going to basically move

away around here like this. Put Lucius and Moonstar next to him instead. He's a devil. I didn't say he's not a brave devil. He's just like, go away. And then runs around.

But that's his whole turn to do that. As a note, the ice, it does look like you can smash the ice, Ayla. That's the one thing. It does look like the ice can be broken. Nova. Can I cast a cantrip as an action and a spell as a bonus action? And it is a bonus spell.

Bonus action spell. Yes, you can cast a cantrip and then a spell as a bonus action. Yes, you can do that, yeah. Okay. So I would like to do two things. One is Eldritch Blast blast the ice devil but also cast far step on myself um and then i'm gonna do some movement stuff once i've done my blast in okay um so first things first i'm gonna blast the icy devil uh and that is a 19 to hit

uh just hits uh the the ice block it does kind of clip the ice armor breaking it but only barely 14 points of damage on the first hit engineer deal with that one

25 to hit on the second one that hits and I rolled a 10 so that's 15 on the second one. That hits. And I rolled a 10, so that's 15 on the second hit. 15. And I rolled 25 to hit on the third one.

That's a hit. And only a 4. So for 9 points of damage on the third beam. And 3 beams smash into the creature, just like... It kind of stumbles. You can see again, heavily weakened Viola's attacks.

These blows deal significant damage to it as well, stumbling back. And then I'm going to cast Far Step on myself, which means I can teleport 60 foot to an unoccupied space I can see and do this on each of my turns as a bonus action while I have this spell up. So

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. So I'm going to bamf over to this side of the, to the other side of where the unlocked thing is. Yeah, and it's teleport so you don't provoke opportunity attacks.

I'm going to start moving, so I'll still have my movement so I'm going to walk. So you teleported to here, right? Yeah, I teleported to the door, this open door that she walked through. Okay, if you move out of this spot, her hair will still be able to reach you. She'll still get an opportunity to attack.

It's a 15-foot reach. So where was I before I was there? Can I see? I'm gonna do it, because I can't quite get there, can I? From where I was. No, I don't think so. I mean, it's fine. If you've got Hexblade's thing,

like this is the start of your turn, you can always Hexblade. This is the start of a new turn so you get a new reaction back. Yeah, it's fine. I just wanted to know before you rolled. I was like, okay, I was ready to roll it, but yeah, it was just to check, but

okay, let's see if she hits. That is going to be a 20. Do you only want to use it if she hits? That's a 24 to hit. Yep. That hit. I rolled a 3, so she's got me. So she does hit you this time. Okay.

I need you to make a constitution saving throw, and you're going to take four points of force damage. A con saving throw, please. Four points of force damage. Con saving throw. 19 plus three, so 22. Okay, so when this hair tentacle strikes you, you feel this scratch of a needle against your arm as it does so,

and you feel like a toxin enter into your bloodstream, and it tries to stiffen and seize your muscles up, but you manage to shake it, and Tiangong does some magic to help purge the system, and you press forward kind of thing. But yeah, this felt like a paralyzing agent as she stepped forward and just managed to get past it. a paralyzing agent as she stepped forward and just managed to get past it.

Okay. Far Step is a concentration spell. So you will need to make a concentration check. I've got War Caster, so I get advantage on that. You get advantage, and the DC is only going to be 10, because it was very low. 15 is my highest, so I'm good. Easy. Okay.

And before we finish, Mark, I just want to say I really appreciate how much this feels like the Borg Queen, and I love this. I'm living my best Star Trek fantasy,

and I'm having the best time. Thank you. Carry on killing us. Goodbye. Thanks. Okay. On her turn. Sorry, I'm going to saunter off a little bit sorry i was still gonna move

uh like into this second room here oh yeah yeah yeah that was the other thing i was gonna do that's right because you still have some movement when you step down into the chamber um there you see these three large resin clear orbs uh like, they contain almost like a bottle of lightning. You can see energy flowing within them, almost like this kind of nebulous blue energy that occasionally pulses and crackles like lightning. It seems to be siphoning off. There is something in the central orb of these three.

You see a long staff, black, made from like a black material. It has blue gems and lines of power traced all along it. That seems to pulse and twist. The staff itself has several sections that seem to break away from itself and like hover around it. And then they sink back in almost like they're magnetized and they release,

move around. Like sections of it kind of break away and connect, break away, connect. And stood over a console, you see a kind of shimmering blue figure of a humanoid. You've seen Eterna's humanoid forms perform, so it is not a surprise to you. This is an Eterna's humanoid form. They appear in the visage of a tall, bald, older

looking elf in black and blue robes. Their colour scheme of their whole glowing visage is black and blue. And they are just kind of furrowing their brow and examining a console. They're not interacting with it, but they're just kind of like furrowing their brow and examining a console they're not interacting with it but they're just sort of looking over it

uh and at seeing kind of sensing that somebody's entered the chamber they turn around you can see that their face is withered um very plain but there are it looks worn but very plain there's no real features no eyebrows it's completely hairless and just long

pointed ears piercing piercing eyes, and a very sort of narrow, thin nose. Would you mind the disruptions outside are proving to be quite distracting? Is all they say when you enter. Okay. I'm guessing

I'm out of, like, I'm out of stuff. I mean, it's six seconds, I just want to keep moving through the combat i don't want to have too long conversations in six seconds um so i think that by the time you've moved in and looked that's like the end of the time but you'll certainly have time to do stuff uh on her turn uh it's her turn so she gets a reaction back um sensing that perhaps she doesn't maybe have as much to worry about as previously thought. The Barbarian will be released soon.

I should deal with you first. Lucius Elinasto, I believe, isn't it? I'm quite fascinated by your study of magic. Perhaps we will have an opportunity to study you later. She's going to click her fingers and is going to cast a spell. Do you have less than 150 hit points, Lucius?

You know I do. Do you wish to do anything as a reaction, Lucius? I feel like I should really try. So I'm going to try and counter spell it at I don't like this

this is not a spell you've encountered before so I don't want to give you any clues as to the level I need you to roll a d20 plus your charisma modifier please oh no 14 you send out the magic hoping that it's going to disperse whatever spell she's conjuring but it breaks away like fragile glass like like blue and orange planes of glass.

The magic is broken by force. You are stunned, Lucius. No saving throw because you are under the hit point amount. You are stunned, which basically means, yeah, no turn, basically. You can make a constitution saving throw at the end of each turn to undo it. That's going to be her action. That's better than I thought it was gonna be that's gonna be her action this time yeah i'm not gonna power word kill you come on uh not yet that's our kira's thing um she holds up another hand to her ear and just say like we are encountering resistance is falagor on his way excellent have the security team briefed I want them caught alive I do wish to study

several of them one of them has an Eterna it will prove very useful that's what you overhear Lucius you are stunned I'm afraid can you make a make a constitution saving throw please 14

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you see the red dragon touching something on the console, and a flickering image of a person you recognize fills their console. You see a dark-haired woman with bladed wings in a long red robe, kind of like a hologram and an illusion of her projected into the bridge's command.

Ah! Commander Zarkira, your request to dock has been approved. Is your team coming on board? And the projected illusion responds just like, I am already aboard, Captain. I'm making my way. Where is Emperor Valkyrian's daughter? I'm here to personally escort her aboard my ship

for extra protection. Well, I currently have her on the bridge, Commander, but this is very unregular. Emperor Valkyrian, the Emperor assured me that we would be keeping her aboard the Tassadar. No doubt you are aware of the infiltrators aboard. Do you now think

that it is advisable to keep her in such an environment? But it is... But Commander, are you questioning the Lord Emperor's orders, sir? Well, but it is... But, Commander, are you questioning the Lord Emperor's orders, sir? No, no, of course not. Of course, Her Majesty will be very well protected aboard the serpent's coil,

but the honour of looking after the lady is... Well... And then you see the dragon kind of falters and stutters, like, I will prepare for your arrival, Commander. And the image kind of dissipates. Oh, God. Hey, so I know the rules of the Wayfinder's Guide. The plane shift on the Wayfinder's Guide means I can't just use that

to teleport to the engineering room with the book. However, I do have the spell Plane Shift. Would that work? The problem with the spell Plane Shift is you need to have a rod attuned to the plane you want to travel to. You don't have a rod attuned to the material plane. Good point. The problem is also

the questioning thing is you guys are currently on the, you're currently in the ethereal plane. I think if you were to travel to the material plane you would, the etherealness would end. The etherealness spell would just end. Yeah, no, that's okay.

I was thinking of, you know, coming out of etherealness and then basically using plane shift to no plane shift isn't like a it's not like a teleport spell in that regard really you have to travel to another plane of existence okay

okay uh Rhi what were you thinking just real quick out of interest I think Sentry being Sentry after hearing that Zarkira's coming on board I think Sentry would

now want to go in there and get Valor out because who knows what Zarkira's going to do to her like we need to get Valor out we need to get in there yeah I'm following you at this point

Century don't put it on me it's either we leave Valor and go down to engineering on our own which will be very slow because we're ethereal right now or we just go

into the room so i'm like that that seems like the best option at this point somehow somehow we can we can only try what we can try right we need this yeah valor's life's in danger do you guys want to try it do you want to go in like Because I'll say I'll group you, Rana, and Sentry. You're all basically acting around the same time, so we'll just have you guys all do whatever you want to do and then potentially roll up another combat for you guys to be in, depending on how things go. But if you guys want to go in there on etherealness, we can do that.

I could totally do that. Me, Sentry Rana, and maybe Valor against a bridge of people? Well, the only ones that you think are any threat are the Irenese, the Celestial, the Captain, the Red Dragon, and wherever Maximilian decides to throw his lot in. Hmm. Hmm. You know? Yeah. and wherever Maximilian decides to throw his lot in you know

yeah this is great fun it is fun right you're having fun everyone's having fun right I'm having a great time I think yeah we let's do it I think Sentry's gonna put a big old hand on

Quill's shoulder and be like let's go let's do it let's do it i think century's gonna put a big old hand on quill's shoulder and be like let's go let's do we need to do this let's go time boom box comes out of your chest and then he stops playing music um in that case yeah we'll go up ready weapons and then I will cancel etherealness so here's the thing as well by the way right you guys as soon as you ready yourselves Rana is right there with you as soon as you ready yourselves

and you push through into the room the iranese the planetar both immediately look at you like they can see you and they're just like captain intruders on the bridge and they begin readying weapons you drop etherealness you come out of it uh you there is like chaos like

the bridge crew is immediately like there are a couple of guards and things but they're just like what the captain is like completely he's like turning around like what is this how did they get aboard like in stunned amazement but the irananis and the Planetar, she's a Celestial, are both immediately just like, they're here to kidnap Her Majesty! That's the point when Valor makes the move she's been waiting for and she sprints

out like they're not watching her and before they can grab her or do anything, she runs towards the three of you. And that's where we're going to roll initiative on that side of things everyone there yeah so what I'll do is I'll transfer

your initiatives from the other thing but have you guys go first basically as a surprise round split party combat good god yes cancelling the spell that's just is that just a free Split party combat. Good God. Yes. Cancelling the spell, is that just a free action?

Yes, completely free action to do. So hang on, I've got to track everyone's initiative from the previous one and add it into this one. Only on high rollers. Potentially have like a turn to do something, maybe. Yes, yeah, you will. You 100% will. Okay. I've got you've got three healers on your team enjoy those we've got none yeah yeah we did somehow end up with all the

healers in the ethereal team it's fine she only wants to experiment on us it's really fantastic it's going well you're gonna be kept alive you guys are fine exactly we're just gonna be It's fine, she only wants to experiment on us. It's really fantastic. You're going to be kept alive, you guys are fine. Exactly, we're just going to be turned into Borg, that's all. I might leave this room and try and get a third combat going. Yeah, why not? Do it. I'll go an event. TPK!

How's the storm chaser crew getting on are they in combat right now let's see how they're doing let me put it this way how good were you guys feel if slash when you pull this off and you rescue vela how good were you yeah it's gonna be pretty great i'm just very really excited i feel pretty fucking awesome right now i'm yeah i'm just not feeling positive about it right now because the Iranese and the Planetar could see you coming, they're still going to act on their regular initiative. The rest of the dragon, Maximilian,

everybody else doesn't get to act this turn. Rana will clock the other angel and the devil. She will just basically say get the girl and she's just going to rush into combat to try and engage them so that it's harder for them to break away.

So she flies directly forward and clashes blades with the other angel who looks at her in absolute disgust. There's a real Traitor moment from Star Wars. Okay. Because the two of these are gonna clash blades uh so uh runner makes two melee attacks first one is a hit second one is gonna be a miss uh oh that's interesting they only have resistance against a radiant so it's going to be seven plus uh so seven normal damage to the planetar and then oh no nine thirteen uh sixteen so eight points of radiant damage to the plantar

from the first attack uh and then one makes a second she missed on the second attack that was right but she's now engaging them both. So she's kind of like rushed forward. She's rushed past where Valor has run up. She's pushed past them and is now in between Valor and the Irenese and the Planeta. Valor is behind Rana, but rushing towards you, basically. Okay.

The Planeta will immediately kind of look um she doesn't want to put valor in danger that's the one thing that she's like absolutely not gonna do um but you can see she's furious with this angel in front of her how dare you betray the emperor and then she's gonna clash blades with rana um same thing i think she's just going to attack back that's going to be a hit uh followed by a miss as well same thing kind of reversed here uh this however is considerably more damage coming back she strikes a lot harder than rana does so that's going to be 12 18 19 26 points of slashing damage followed by 5d8 radiant.

Oh, that is a lot. 3, 7, 11 17 halved to 8 against Rana. So Rana takes this heavy blow. The blinding light, every time they smash together, light just kind of flaring off

against them. The next person to act out of you guys would be you century so we'll do like a round of you guys then we'll jump back to the others cool all righty so this might not work but i want to give it a try anyway and you see what happens um can i channel my divinity and cast Turn the Faithless and see who I can get to go away? Read it out to me because I never remember how this one works. Okay.

So I present my holy symbol. Each fae or fiend within 30 feet of me that can hear you must make a whiz saving throw. On a failure, the creature is turned for a minute or until it takes damage. There is at least one fiend in the room, which is the Irinese. She is a fiend.

So what saving throw and what's the DC? Oh, whiz 16. Wisdom of 16. Does she have magic resistance? She does. So I'll say that this isn't other magical effects. Yeah, okay. I'll say that this counts then.

Wisdom. Okay. I'll say that this counts then wisdom. Okay. So that would have been, that was a nine and then a 20 with the two roles. Cause she has magic resistance. So the, the effect kind of pulses out from you. She does kind of shield herself for a moment.

And it's just like, I don't know what you are, but that light is going to affect you. That is not going to help you. And then she kind of brushes it away and pulls out like this slender rapier like blade um but you sort of like try and summon this light is that an action to use turn the faithless that's an action yeah okay uh do you want to move up like there's probably about 10 feet to where uh valor is yeah i'd like to move closer to valor if possible please and uh can I bonus action cast Staggering Smite?

Okay. Yep, absolutely. So you cast that. When you get close to Valor, Valor just yells out to you and Quill, basically, just like, you just have to buy me a few seconds. Just give me a few seconds.

And you can see she is, like, holding this red, sort of purple energy in her hands that she's like, as she started to move, she's starting to summon this thing. But she she's you can see a deeply concentrating like she's trying to do something. OK. The Irinese, the devil woman, will rush to engage you, Sentry. So she flies towards you, basically, just comes in with three rapid attacks trying to strike at you uh the first one is going to be a 21 to hit that'll hit okay that is going to be excuse me i've got a lot of damage to do here uh this is uh one-handed so we are looking at eight slashing

damage and then uh do you have poison resistance sentry i do yeah okay so you're gonna take oh this is d8 uh so eight slashing damage and then uh 16 poison half to eight poison damage that's the first attack second attack is a uh 22 so that's gonna be the same thing that's gonna hit uh that's gonna be another nine slashing damage. And then... 17 poisoned half to eight poison damage again. And then the final attack is only an 18. So this one you managed to... And then the last one you managed to lock and parry away,

preventing it from striking. But she kind of sets herself into you, almost in like a duelist's pose with the rapier kind of outstretched. She just snaps back to the dragon like, don't just stand there, bring in more reinforcements. The dragon is like stunned by everything that's going on. Quill.

So with a bonus action, I want to harness divine power to get a level three spell slot back. And then I want to combo up with Sentry and put my holy symbol next to hers and also do an arcane abjuration. I want to double this up. More power.

All holy. What does it do? It's the same sort of thing? Celestials, elementals, faes, or fiends that can see or hear me. So I'm assuming you would want to exclude Rana from this because Rana is a Celestial. Oh, I don't think I can exclude.

Okay. All right. So Wisdom saving throws all round then. Is he 19? Well, luckily Rana rolls a 19, so she's going to succeed. Planets are natural 20.

Eranese, 17 plus 6, 23. The light explodes out from you, but seemingly no effect. Oh, what if it was a 19? Oh, man's that's it that's me that's uh i mean 23 so you guys have gone you and century and next to valor who you can see is trying to channel the

spell runner is kind of a little bit ahead of you fighting against the planter uh back in the in the engineering section um moonstar seeing lucius uh basically stunned against this thing uh will desperately try and uh help her bro she's going to use her grapple launcher uh she kind of points up in the ceiling fires out like a grapple and swings away from the ice devil uh not provoking opportunity attacks because of the grapple launcher um moves next to lucius um she can't really stop you from being stunned is the only problem but she can see that this woman is a spellcaster so she's going to try and uh silence her with her um little projectile uh slime thing fortunately she misses with the attack kind of just flies back but she's like

shaking like lucius lucius, come on, snap out of it. As she's shaking onto you, Lucius. We go to Ayla at the top. Hello. Can I please try and smash my way out of this? You can. So make an attack roll. This is going to be one of your attacks

against the section in front of you. Each 10 foot section has an AC and hit points. 22. That will hit. Okay. 17 damage. 17 points of damage. The first hit cracks the section in front of you,

this heavy, deep crack, but not enough to shatter it. Would my aura give out a pulse of lightning that could potentially... I was just wondering if that would... Yeah, I mean, you could try. Sure. yeah I mean you could try sure I think if bonus actions I don't know if you can

take in between attacks I think you can move in between attacks but not bonus action oh okay so you'll need to do the second attack first uh no that's uh 16 to hit that hits i mean it's a giant wall of ice it's not hard to hit yeah yep um on door etc 20 points of damage so with that the second, this section of ice wall collapses in front of you. It does leave this incredibly intense, frigid air that you would have to move through,

but you are free and open to the world to move as you wish. I will... pliz... pliz... use a charge on me hammer plizz plizz use a charge on me hammer to leap 60

feet well not quite 60 feet but just to leap across to this side of this bad boy over here okay and can I he's in my aura now Can I just give him a little zap? He is. Can you make a

con save for me? Even though you're jumping through it, that frigid air left by the wall, you just... Oh, nat 20! Nat 20? Okay, half damage. So, I think this will be that much, especially to Ayla. Four, nine, thirteen.

So, yeah, thirteen cold damage, halved is six cold damage, so just six points of cold damage as you leap through the air, and then bam, land down. And I'll say, yeah, you can absolutely make the, uh, the Cowardly Ice Devilmaker deck saving throw. Um, as a natural twenty, natural twenty plus seven, twenty-seven, um, so half

damage to him. Nineteen damage, so half of 19. Would be 9 because it would be 18. So you land behind him and you almost hear like a groan or a disappointment from this devil as you land behind him and he's like,

No! And then blast him with lightning and he's like, Nice try, buddy. End of my turn. and then blast him with lightning nice try buddy end of your turn end of your turn I need to check attacks against a stunned creature I believe

have advantage stunned creature is incapacitated see condition can't move and can speak falteringly automatically fail strength index saving throws have advantage and then incapacitated can't take actions or reactions yeah okay so it's not paralyzed uh so this thing kind of fearing that ayla is is behind him uh is going to probably uh if you disengage you're just going to follow he's going to attack lucius unfortunately this would be the devilish thing to do

attack the weaker target I'm right here he's hit you and you didn't seem that bothered so he's going for the easy target here so with advantage that is going to be a 24 to hit you Lucius 12 points of piercing damage okay eight cold damage do you have any cold resistance

naturally i think you can do it as a reaction can't you but i'm stunned not in it you're stunned yeah uh so that was the bite uh and then claw uh with. It's only a 15. That's two hits. Oh, dear. It's going to be 10 points of slashing damage. And then six more cold damage. Okay. And then tail.

23 is going to be a hit for 13 points of bludgeoning damage. Oh my god, cold damage, so bad. Seven cold damage. Oh, what a shame. Cool. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. So as you're just stood there,

you're just being knocked around um by this thing behind you that doesn't even you know you can't even see your sense you just feel your body and pain arcing through you um yeah yeah this thing is just gonna it's just it's just that's it nova Nova hello hello I think two things I'm going to do but I'm not sure of the action economy of it one is I'd like to Eldritch Blast the Ice

Devil which I believe I can do from where I am but also try and talk to Tassadar and get Tiangong to talk to Tassadar as well but I'm not sure of the like what's an action, what's a bonus action, what's any of that. Well, speaking is generally a free action,

but it's restrained to, like, about six seconds of discussion. So, yeah. So make your Eldritch Blast attacks. Let's do the mechanical stuff first. Okay. I've got a 21 on the first blast. 21 to hit. I rolled a nine. I've got a 21 on the first blast. 21 to hit.

I rolled a 9, so 9 plus 5 is 14 points of damage. Yo's. Second one is a 23 to hit. And then a 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 12 points on the second blast. And 16 to hit. Doesn't hit. You can see that the first two blasts nearly just break this ice devil apart.

You can see it's barely on its last legs, but the last attack, it just manages to kind of deflect with like one of its claws. It kind of knocks it aside and the blast goes wide. Not quite striking true. In terms of...

There is definitely communication happening between Tiangong and Tassadar, but it's not verbal. There's sort of like the figure looks around, kind of looks down at the sword, looks at you, looks at the sword, and then seems to furrow its brow, sort of

begins thinking. There's clearly some sort of communication there, just like, what are you doing here? What are you doing, humanoid? It looks at you when it's speaking. I've brought Tiangong here.

I want to reunite the Triumvirate. I want to free you. Ah, well. A noble, noble enough endeavour. The Triumvirate, however, will be difficult to reunite. In terms of freeing me, you seem to be mistaken. You seem to believe that I am some sort of prisoner here. Free me from what?

I know that you are operating under the Valkyrian Emperor's... in partnership with the Valkyrian Emperor. However, you must know his mission is doomed. He's not going to succeed in his war against Hadar, and we have proof. You are on the losing side. Well, there is no winning side, my dear. The calculations are very clear. Hadar simply cannot be defeated currently.

The best option we have is to currently keep delaying it to enable life to continue as long as possible. And Starbane's plan is only going to speed it up. That's what you get in six seconds. I'm just going to bamf a little bit. On the map, are these kind of

these things here, are they the where Tassadar is? Yeah, that's where Tassadar is. I'm just going to use a little movement just to tuck myself around so like if something you know i just cover get have a little bit of cover sure yeah sure i think that the the other two seem to be more concerned with the immediate threats at the moment they do not seem to mind that you're having a chit chat uh they are more concerned with the angry barbarian lady in their face. At the end of your turn, Nova.

I'm doing my best. Doing your best. Alright, we've used this. Still got that. Don't want to use that just yet. That could be a problem. You're all elves hmm this doesn't really have a an easier way it should probably do this uh so uh the high engineer uh will simply sort of move her way around uh leaving lucius for now um keeping herself a good 15 feet away from ayla uh, she basically three of these like hair tentacles, Ayla,

come towards you, trying to smack you as you are in fighting position. She's also going to cast, she can do that at the end of these attacks, actually. So first attack is a 28 to hit. Yup. Six points of force damage damage so no resistance on that and can you make a constitution saving throw please that is uh 18 plus nine oh i have a plus nine content very high she's hoping that enough attacks might be able to weigh you down. 17 is a miss, I believe, against you. Yes, it's a miss.

And then a 23 to hit you. That'll hit. That's another seven points of force damage and another constitution saving throw, please. Please. Please. please um that is a 9 plus 9 18 you feel your body oh fuck see you great up as you do so as this thing scratches your arm it's not too much of a blow this thing like just is a tiny scratch and for a second you kind of just feel delirious and then yeah your body's just not moving as you

want it to you you hear an audible sigh of relief from the ice devil um as it senses that you can no longer move uh uh the can you still can i still communicate via messenger ring if i'm yes you can still think you just can't take any actions you can still think but you cannot take any like physical actions or anything like that so you are paralyzed and again you do get to make a saving throw at the end of each turn uh with another constitution saving throw so you probably you got high chances of saving oh god yeah um then uh at the end of all of those attacks she will cast magic missile on moon star

which is a thing she could do there five seven ten points of damage to moon star moon star takes a pummeling of as a barrage of blasts slam into a um sending us kind of sprawling uh lucius on save yeah saving throw

con save please mate all right mate here we go natural fucking 20 so you see you know i think it's a mixture right for lucius because he stood there stunned like your mind's reeling you hear like ayla like fighting and then go silent and then you sense like moonstar like cry out in pain and that's probably gonna you know that's a thing where you and then the stun kind of snaps back in reality becomes clear your vision becomes where you can move again um but it is unfortunately at the end of your turn that that happens um meanwhile after that dramatic turn we come back to the bridge yeah uh and this time everybody seems to be uh everybody seems to be ready now. This is, you know, the stun of the events that transpired have worn off, and now everybody is preparing themselves. Oh, my God.

Hey, Mark, on saying everyone on the bridge is ready, would that be a good time to take a break? Because otherwise this turn is going to last forever. Yeah, I just realised it's half past man. When you've got lots of big epic combats going, it's easy to just be like, I don't want to stop. Let's just go. Go, go, go.

Probably should take a break. Double combat. This is so cool, but also so stressful. I'm in big stress right now. We'll be fine. We'll be fine. Don't worry. We've got this. It's going to be fine. This is exciting big old fingers crossed I'm genuinely so excited

big old fingers crossed yeah take this chance big old fingies viewers go grab a drink go to the bathroom and B

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