High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #120 | The Tower of Glass (Part 1)

Episode Date: July 28, 2021

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Make your dungeon-delving life a million times easier with D&D Beyond using the both players and DMs. Make your dungeon delving life a million times easier with D&D Beyond using the link in the episode description. Hello, and welcome back to Erois. Fuck's sake. I was trying to do you a clean one, Thomas. I was trying to do you a clean one. He's only harming himself. Just bust out a clean one real quick. Welcome back to Erois. The party have arrived

in the City of Glass, so they can rescue Herald and many Guardians before the allies of Kallus Valkyrian can take the city. With battles raging in the air and outside the city, our champions move through in search of Herald. En route, they encounter groups

of feral Guardians, individuals who have lived past their normal limits and become animalistic creatures. Sentry stops and uses the power of the Matrix to attempt to help several of them, taking in their near-dead spirits into the Genesis relic and replacing them with brand new souls. Three such guardians are restored, Archer, Pumpkin, and Barrier. With these three in tow, the heroes return to the Temple of Siaska, where they had

once fought against Herald when she was nearly corrupted by Hadar. Hoping to find Herald there, but they instead find in their place, the party comes across a group of Dominators, Guardians who have fully embraced Hadar's corruption, and after a battle, rescue two Guardian allies, Smasher and Sweep. Sweep reveals that they remained at the temple to pass on a message if Sentry arrived. Herald has travelled to a huge tower to recover an old Solvin relic called the Conduit, which allows certain guardians to connect over great distances, once used to lure in guardians to the city for Herald to control and use. Under a fly spell, the party make haste for the tower and as they arrive,

they are confronted by another corrupted guardian, a dominator they had encountered long ago, who now calls themselves Overlord Verasator. And that is where we are picking up today. My friends, you are all currently flying at, you know, I've put you at a 60 foot above the ground kind of limit. You have made your way through these. And again, to describe the city of glass, especially for our podcast listeners, it is a city, a great grand metropolis with tall rising buildings, multi-story buildings on either side, great towers,

once a kind of pinnacle of magitek and enchantment uh completely transmuted to glass the glass is thick and cloudy in many places so it's not completely see-through um almost appearing like ice in many places you have flown through and in between these kind of buildings you see this grand tall spire rising up. But sweeping in from buildings to the side comes a great vehicle made of metal and other sort of strange substances mashed and melded together. Seemingly looking like it was created from multiple guardians bodies with Ethereum engines attached to it. Almost very similar to an airship is a what is best described as a fantasy fighter jet a kind of uh vtol hovercraft like device with magitek weapons and cannons and inside it a booming voice did call out in a challenging manner and if you are

watching the stream and if you are on roll 20 you may need to do some zooming out and scrolling around. But I have a map for you. Hey, cow! Hey, what's that? That is a lot more futuristic VTOL jet than I expected. Well, listen, I can't get an exact token for the Magitek kind of vibe of Varroas, which is a lot more crystals

and things like that. I basically had to use a sci-fi fighter jet. But it gives you the right idea. It's big. But it is a similar session. It is a huge creature. It's not as big as the warship you faced earlier, but this one definitely looks a lot more high-tech.

There is clearly Ethereum technology in the works here, but also other strange magitek that you've not encountered before. You can see the red glow of Hadar energy kind of pulsing through it. And yeah, it appears almost like a great bird of prey with these Ethereum engines kind of tucked away into it. And we're not going to waste any time because this particular enemy is not going to waste any time. We're going to jump straight into it with everyone rolling initiative. Nice.

All right. What can roll? Hey, is it kind of like Bioshock Infinite, the big bird in that? I don't remember it. Then I will say yes. Sure. Well, it's a mash of Guardians, right? Yeah, well, it's kind of like, because Guardians are made of metal as well,

it looks like the metal parts of Guardians have been ripped apart and then melded together. So you occasionally see what is like the outline of a skull or like the outline of an arm, but it's all been sort of melded and meshed together. Yeah. Stretched and melted, you know. Melded? Combined down. Welded.

Both. A little bit of both. Yep. All right. Lucius, initiative. That's a three. I rolled a one. Three.

Lovely. Quill. That's a six. I rolled a one. Three. Lovely. Quill. That's a six. I rolled a two. Aayla. Four, sorry. Fifteen, which is low for Aayla, to be fair. Is low for Aayla. Sentry. One.

Nova. I rolled with advantage and got eleven. Eleven, lovely. How do we not see this dude coming? Lovely. Well, you did seem confident. Right there! That doesn't necessarily mean it changes. Um, almost like, I guess it's up to you how your character, why is your character reacting so

slowly? Is it because they're trying to formulate a plan are they in awe of this this strange magitek device that has been that has come screeching in uh flying as quickly as you can to the side um but yeah we are going to start with pretty much as always ayla followed by nova and then this thing you can see that it is flying it's probably you guys are all about 60 feet off the ground this thing is maybe sort about 60 feet off the ground. This thing is maybe 80 feet off the ground, so it's a little bit above you. But it is pointing down at you, and you can see that it has all sorts of crystals

and magical-looking devices and engines. It definitely looks like it has weapons and that sort of thing. And are we all flying right now? You are, and I believe that it is Nova and Lucius who are holding the concentration on those fly spells. So what's the ground? Like, how high off the ground are we? 60 feet.

60 feet. So I better not drop that then. Cool, okay. Yeah, I wouldn't advise it. I don't know if you guys can see the bars I've attached. Oh, no. Okay okay i've got to actually do this these are some fat bars uh sorry so i've what i've done is i've just put little notes on your tokens um that kind of indicate how high off the ground you are fancy

so i forgot that i need to enable the... For you to see them. So just as a quick little note, so you can see roughly how high you are. If you want to change your elevation, we can change that. And then we've got a quick reference for whereabouts you are positioned because it's hard to do three-dimensional combat necessarily. So try and picture in your mind as well. Don't just use the map.

Try and describe what you want to do. You can see that around you, there are many kind of broken buildings and statues um there is some open space and then behind the the the verasitor jet uh you can see that there is this tall glass tower um completely you know cloudy and foggy like it was made of thick ice um you can't see inside it but it does seem to rise up up into the air But you don't see any obvious entrances except the main entrance down below. He's

blocking. Yeah. And yeah, so we go with Ayla. This is so annoying. I got 15 and I was like, oh, good. I kind of don't want to go first because it's not really my combat such as sentries. And then I was like, oh, I got 15. I won't be going first. And then you all sucked at your rolls. as sentries and then i was like oh i got 15 i won't be going first and then you all sucked at your roles whoa and sensory random jobs the opposite end of the initiative century

is going lost yeah okay so because of that i really don't know what i'm doing uh quite honestly you can always I will rage as a bonus action and I will you have 60 feet of flight whilst the spell is active I'm gonna I'm gonna get on top of the

ship please okay so like fly up and on top of it is okay yeah you can do that it's 80 feet so how much higher above do you want to go no I want to be like physically on it like standing on it right okay I see. Damn, tokens overlapping each other. So just turn one. I want to ride the thing. Yeah.

Do I see a way to get into the ship from here? No, no. It's all sealed inside, you can see. Is there any weapons up here? You can see in terms of weapons, they all seem to be built into the machine it's not like an airship where it has like these big kind of like chunky ballistas and things like that to strike um these all seem to be hidden underneath its armor plating and things like that like this is one construct um there's no external systems to necessarily attack but you can attack this

this device this machine machine. Okay. I guess I want to try and disable whatever weapons it has anyway, so I'm going to take a couple of hits at it. Sure. I need to move yourself to go on top of it, I think, as well. 21. 21.

I can only go underneath. That's fine. That will hit. Yeah, so the hammer does strike against the kind of thick armor plating that it has. 19 damage with the hammer. Okay. 19 points of damage. Yep. The second one is 28 to hit. 28 hits. 17 points of damage with the hammer.

17 points of damage. And then I guess I do lightning damage to the thing? Yep, so you let your lightning surge out. It's a deck save, right? Yes. That's an 18. That passes. 14, so 7 lightning damage. 7, and then actually it also seems to be partially resistant to lightning.

As the lightning energy surges into the kind of metal shell of this Aether jet, this kind of Magitek plane vehicle thing, you see that its weapons begin to hum and grow, begin to crackle with lightning energy as well. You can see that whatever the lightning energy that Aayla blasts into it, it seems to absorb it and almost seems to channel it into its weapons. Cool. Anything else? Nope.

Okay. In that case, at the end of your turn, Aayla, it's going to use a legendary action. Oh, but... Yeah, it's gonna use its legendary action to perform a surging storm, a storm assault! So I would like... who can... can I do this? Yeah, I can do this. Storm me. Surging storm me. Luckily you see it kind of surges forward. This does not provoke any attacks of opportunity. But it seems to stop her. It doesn't go very far.

It seems to surge with its engines, but it kind of just does a little short shunt forwards and doesn't do anything. However, Aayla, you were on top of it, right? Yep. So you've got a choice. You can either spend your reaction to basically, because as it comes surging forward,

you get blasted by sort of like the engine wash and the energy all around it. You can either use your movement to get out of its path or you can make a dexterity saving throw as it tries to kind of blast you with energy. Is that my movement for my next turn or my reaction? This would be your reaction. It doesn't spend any of your movement for next turn. It would just be your reaction to then just basically fly sort of like 10 feet or something up in the air.

Yeah, I'll do that. I'll do that. Okay. All right. Sure. So you're just a little bit out of melee range now, but just so you know. Okay. Ayla. I'm done. Sorry, done uh sorry nova my brain today um i would like to gun and run um i'm gonna get away from the pack because i don't like us being all squidged up uh five are these like five foot squares they are five foot squares yeah okay so you can use the ruler if you need to.

You can see that there is a few broken buildings and things like that around you. Yeah, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five, sixty. I'm going to hover counterclockwise over a broken building. And because I need to concentrate on everyone flapping and not drop them, it's going to be a nice and simple Eldritch Blast. Sure. First one is a 19 to hit. 19 will just barely hit, yeah.

And that is seven points of damage. So as the force damage impacts against the hull of this thing, again, you see the energy of the Eldritch Blast seems resisted, and you do see it sort of like the engines glow slightly brighter. Its weapons glow the same coloured energy. Oh, no. Oh. Can I choose not to

shoot? Yeah, you can choose not to do the others. You definitely see it's like it has had some impact, like it's not that the whole damage has been absorbed. It just is resistant to it and then yeah, it seems to almost be fuelling itself. Whatever damage it resists it seems to almost be fuelling itself whatever damage it resists it seems to almost be fueling itself on so it's still taking damage so on the map there's a statue nearby

is that like above i'm kind of thinking can i shoot the statue to fall on the um the statues by the staircase no they're on the ground pretty much everything you can see is on the ground nothing's really above is where this thing's flying just yeah okay it's all open buildings i'm probably gonna regret saying this but i'm gonna keep blasting oh well um i hurt everyone with maddening darkness what's the logic blast powering up some energy weapons it's gonna blow everyone into next week um 24 to hit on my next one it's 12 points of force damage okay see it just kind of rock ever so slightly uh 17 to hit on the last one so i don't think that's gonna hit 17 does not hit no the second one does i mean you see the same thing does take some damage but it does also resist a ton of it as well that me okay that you let's see uh at the end of your

turn nova vija the aether jet is going to uh no let's do that later. It's gonna reposition. It's gonna use a legendary action to do a reposition And it just ever so slightly begins to pivot so it's directly facing towards quill century and Lucius Pivots in the air and then on its turn as it's now its go You see its main gun, this kind of like central kind of nose crystalline thing at the front of the jet itself, channels up, powers up with a large kind of crackling and lightning and force energy, and a beam 10 foot wide and 60 foot long projects from the front of it, which will catch Century, Quill and Lucius. Yes, Lucius.

Could I try? Is this like casting a spell? This is not casting a spell. So I wouldn't be able to chromatically change it into a, say, acid and try and absorb it into my gauntlet. It's a reaction. i don't think so because this is this isn't casting a spell this isn't this is is elemental damage but it's not magical it's not a spell being conjured okay does it say does it say it has to be a spell on the gauntlet

that you that you have to do it a spell? Ask the spell, yes. Yeah, okay. So no, unfortunately, this is not going to be a spell. But if there's anything else, like any other reactions you want to do? Cry? Would a protection work? This is a deck save, so no, but your aura will.

Okay, cool. So deck save through, yeah. Deck save from the three of you, please. Plus threes, aura from sentry. Oh, not bad. Okay okay i've got a 19. i might switch to physical dice uh please do uh just for uh last week was did lucius cast fly as as well? Yes. Okay. Um. Okay. Cool. I think he cast it on himself and me. Yeah.

That's right. And Nova got the rest. Quill's flying himself. Because I've got... Well, with my Spear of Oracles, I've currently got Elder Quill summoned. I can, as a reaction, send it forward to make another person

automatically succeed on their saving throw if they fail it. Pretty cool, huh? Had this for a while. So I'm going to do that to Lucius. I'm going to send Elder Quill forward to push him out of the way of this. That's so fancy. Yeah. So it does mean that Elder Quill now cannot be summoned

until he completes a long rest, so he doesn't get double concentration anymore. That's cool. So what do we get? Sentry. So Lucius succeeds. It doesn't matter what Lucius rolled. Elder Quill basically shoves him out of the way.

He's still going to take half damage, but succeeds on the saving throw. Sentry. Yeah, I got an 8 total. 8 total. Quill? 19. 19th total with Sentry's bonus, yeah? With Sentry's bonus, yeah. Quill, you just managed to kind of

arc and kind of fold your wings up and dive down, but it's still going to take half damage again as you do this. So, this is gonna be uh or re two three four five yeah re you're taking full damage on this um it's 56 lightning and 56 uh force damage holy crap 13 lightning damage and then it's not bad for those dice 18 force damage so that's going to be a total if you don't have resistance to any of those that's going to be 31 um so 15 to lucius and quill

geez okay so this kind of arcing crackling beam of mixture of lightning and pure magical energy kind of i actually forgot it's an extra d6 of both because of the damage it absorbed so i'm just gonna do another 2d6 oh goody gumdrops took damage you're welcome so it's another two to quill and lucius and four to sentry so it kind of cuts this beam carving a part of the glass building aside that you've been kind of flying beside it cuts through it and you guys you know lucius you're thrown out of the glass building aside that you've been kind of flying beside. It cuts through it, and you guys, you know, Lucius, you're thrown out of the way by this spectral older quill.

Quill, you manage to duck and flee, but Sentry, you're kind of caught in the middle of it as it blasts over you. Yeah, you take the damage. Yep. That's that on that turn. Damn, okay. And then it gets going to try and use

its storm assault once more oh yeah and your concentration drop or fly that's the main reason i didn't want you plummeting 60 feet down does the immediate save not oh counter there no you have to do a concentration check separate as you know yeah it's very good con save dc will only be 10 though 24 okay so you maintain fly um and then actually it's not going to do a storm assault it's going to do scatter fire so it's going to target each creature in a 60 foot cone uh which is just going to be century quill and lucius again um it seems that it can't pivot to turn and face the others um so it's just going to rain Century Quill and Lucius again. It seems that they can't pivot to turn and face the others.

So it's just going to rain an attack. This is three attack rolls against each target. Would protection work here? It would work this time? Yes, it would. Yes. Then I shall protect Quill, please. Okay. So against Lucius, that's going to be a 17 to hit.

Yep. Quill with disadvantage. Oh, that's probably going to miss a 17 to hit. Yep. Quill with disadvantage. Oh, that's probably going to miss, actually. 14. Just hits. Got to get that AC back up somehow. And then Sentry, that's a 22 to hit. That hits.

Oh, my God. So I'll just do one damage roll for all four of you. Woo! That is going to be another 12 points of force damage. You just see a scattering of all these little pieces of magic, like bullets and blasts. Fire out of the various crystal tips and wings and things like that as it just shoots forward.

Oh, it's just the crystal tips. Yeah. just shoots forward. Oh, it's just the crystal tips. Yeah. For its move action, it is going to basically move in a straight line and then it will make one 93 pivot. Wait, where's it gone? I just...

It just vanished. It soars over the head of you, so it kind of buzzes over the top of you guys, and then it begins to turn around, kind of spins aside. However, you can see it's not completely turned all the way around yet. It can only do a 90-degree pivot. Kilik Adkalar.

I would like to, as a bonus action, cast Shield of Faith on Lucius. Okay. of Faith on Lucius. Okay. Plus 2 AC Lucius. Need to keep that fly going, and if anyone's going to get destroyed, it's Lucius.

Well, that's a good point. Can I have another con save from Lucius, actually, for the damage you just took? DC 10. Yeah, 21. Nice. You're right. Well, you've got an extra plus 2 AC, and I want to fly kind of in between where Sentry and Aayla are now, and I also want to go directly upwards by, like, 30 feet.

So you want to be at 90 feet elevation. 90 feet up and just kind of away from the group, but vertically. And as a cantrip, I'll try a Sacred Flame on this thing. So far it's absorbing lightning and it's absorbing whatever Eldritch Blast is. Force. Force damage. Force damage. So I'll try Radiant. Hadar hates Radiant. It needs to make a dex save. Cool. All right, dex save.

Yeah. This thing is quite nimble, despite its size, but it's not amazing. It's probably still going to succeed. It's a 22, because it was... Oh, it's 21. Okay. It just, like, banks its kind of metal wings, and the flame kind of passes over. Yeah, that's 21. Okay. It just like banks its kind of metal wings

and the flame kind of passes over. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. That's my full turn. Cool. All right. Boom. At the end of your turn,

considering it's had its turn, it gets its legendary actions back. Sure. It is going to fire a life-seeking missile. Hang on. I have a missile ready. What? It's okay.

It won't go after Nova. After the war crimes, she's dead inside. Wow. He's got a missile. Out of all of you guys, who has the most hit points 234 25 274 25 can anybody beat 175 no going once 62 okay ayla a small kind of red aura begins to glow around you and you see this kind of red projector like a red shard of crystal kind of red aura begins to glow around you, and you see this kind of red projector,

like a red shard of crystal, kind of drops and begins flying out, and it is homing directly towards you. It moves 20 feet when it's launched. Oh, no, 30 feet, sorry. So where's my little ruler? It starts in its location. So it basically gets next to Quill.

And Quill, you watch as this thing just flies by Heading right and well under me. Yeah Yeah, it's That's the end of quills turn. Holy shit. How long is this gonna be chasing a la for? You know a la just sees flying in the air, you see this red crystal shard flying directly for you. Lucius. I kind of want to do something unorthodox and relatively

reckless. As my bonus action, I would like to hold aloft my captain's sword. Okay. And use its ability to shout really loud to the surrounding area. Sentinel Prime is here in the City of Glass

to offer all guardians salvation. Any able fighters, seek out the tower. Do not give in to the influence of Hadar. The voice echoes, bouncing off the glass towers and glass buildings, shaking several of the nearby structures. You can see maybe some cracks, things like that from the glass. A wine glass shatters.

But yeah, and I do a mariah carey okay seven octaves high um so that was my bonus action you waste your time pathetic flesh thing it will not matter if reinforcements arrive if I have claimed the matrix. Interesting. I'm going to Chromatic Orb while he's saying that. At seventh level. Jesus. What kind of damage? Acid.

Okay. Interesting. That's a 22 to hit. I am going to use a reaction. I've only got three of these. I'm going to use Magical Chaff. So as you fire the spell, the jet begins sending out all these different kind of like puffs

of metallic strips and things like that. Can you make the attack as if you had disadvantage? So roll again and take the lowest. Wow. Fearing this projectile. Oh. Can I use my font of magic to do a seeking spell, please,

and roll that again? You can. And I might be getting this wrong. I believe that there's a rule. Basically, if you re-oll a roll that has disadvantage, basically you just roll now and that's the roll. Like it doesn't matter. The two previous rolls are ignored

and it's just you get whatever this is. If I make an attack roll for a spell and miss, I can spend two sorcery points to reroll and I must use it again. There you go. May as well try. Yeah, absolutely. Here we go uh ding dong it's a natural 20 here we go i'd love that 24 you've done firebolt there but we'll take the attack roll uh yeah all the the the chaff tries to like disperse the orb, right? It tries to kind of, like, disrupt the magic of the orb,

but through your own chromatic control and mastery of this spell, the colour of it becoming clear in your mind, you send it and it streaks to its target, striking true. Give me that damage. That's a 98. Holy shit, I love spell combat where it's like, I cast a spell, I magical chaff.

Will I counter spell? Will I counter spell? Back to back. 40 points of acid damage. I was going to say you checked for your thing as well. 40 points of damage. The orb smacks into the side of the aether jet. This great globule of orange energy spreading over,

beginning to sizzle away parts of it. And you can see that it shudders and and shakes as if uh the pilot is losing some of the control um and then a wisp extra orange that i appeal off of one of my gems yeah for 12 points another 12 points of dichroency because it's seventh level are you you are in range indeed. The secondary strike, bam, strikes against the jet as well, causing even more damage. I'm going to move away from Sentry

because we are in a straight line right now. I'm going to move 5, 10. Yeah, you know he can just go lower and shoot it like in a diagonal. I'm trying to sprint. There you know, he can just go lower and shoot it like in a diagonal There you go about there I moved away from century spreading out All right, I'm gonna use the last legendary action I can for this turn to reposition which is I get to make This turn being until he gets to go again. I'm just going to... He continues his kind of pivoting turn, basically,

to turn as much as he wants to. Sentry. Can I go 510 feet towards the missile? Can I take the missile, go back, and then go back 5, 10 and then bonus action misty step onto

an Overlord Brassaur and shove the missile into the thing. Good luck saying no to this, Mark. Yeah, please say yes, Mark. I'm not going to say I'm never going to say no uh unless there's like hard mechanics where like is this a spell well no it's not that's a no this is a case of

you absolutely can do that you're gonna need to do to to grab the missile you have to basically make a melee attack to grapple it you're this is an object you are it has a speed as an ac you have to grab this thing and it's moving quick quick, Sentry. It's like, you know, it's this tiny shape, it's kind of moving really fast, you're gonna have to grab it, basically. So it's a melee attack, using your normal like, whatever you, Her Majesty's Rose attack bonus. I actually know it would be your

unarmed strike. It'd be an unarmed strike attack bonus. Alright, I'm gonna use my Drill of the Perfect. Okay, so an extra D4. Lord knows I need it today. Sure. It's a diamond!

You grab this red crystal that's pulling away, and you feel it trying to drag you away as it has some sort of magical force or propulsion heading towards the century. You wrap your arms around it it and you yank it. You've grappled it now. So now you want to, you can move half speed and then misty step is what you wanted to do, right?

I can misty step 13 feet. Yeah. So I'm just going to make sure you're on the front. So you're on top of this thing. Oh my God, what is happening right now? And then what you do is you use one attack to grab the missile you move misty step as a bonus action you have one attack left is that to slam the missile

slam it into yeah like into the cockpit god just dunk this dude okay so you do this it is going to affect you because as the missile slams into it it explodes in an air radius it's a 10 foot radius when this thing goes off going to affect you because as the missile slams into it, it explodes in an air radius. It's a 10 foot radius when this thing goes off. So it catches you in its entry, but you slam the red crystal on top of the, uh, on top of the chair and yeah, uh, explodes. Uh, this is going to take you and the jet are both going to take damage from this. Um, my plan was to make it hit the jet as well.

Just as I was going to just go, ha-ha! Fuck you! You were a baseball bat at it. Hell yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, my dice took a long time to roll there. So this is 27 necrotic damage, Sentry. It's going to take that damage as well. And neither you nor the Aether jet can regain hit points until the start

of your turns as this necro this red crystal explodes in hadar necrotic energy you kind of feel it but you also hear a like what are you doing no is it that voice is it that voice because that's great i don't know why it did the hard. I don't know why Trucks gone that's it. He's done. I I push the button that I have the profile saved on and it added hard tune Maybe maybe unleash some helium in the cockpit where Verasator is. Yeah. Yeah, it's distorted through the necrotic magic.

Well, Sentry, I'm pretty sure that's a cool turn. Anything else? That's it, that's my movement, everything, yeah. Thank you. Okay, Aayla. cool, cool. That's a cool turn. Anything else? That's everything, yeah. That's it. That's my movement, everything. Yeah. Thank you all. Okay. Ayla.

Oh, hello. So I've just seen Sandry take this missile away. Just snatch this missile, teleport back, and slam it into the jet. Lining up the hammer. No. Okay. Okay, in that case, I am going to head back over to the ship, I think. Which I can get on the snoot. I'm just making sure I can get there.

Next century when you do that. Yeah, can I get on the snoot of the rocket and give it a couple of whacks? But seeing that it used my lightning, I'm not going to do that. Sure, yeah, you can choose not to. 25 to hit. Hits. 14 damage for that one.

14 points. And then a... Crack and scrape of metal. 29 to hit. Hits. 15 points of damage. 15 points. Whack, whack.

Both heavy impacts. You know, you dent and scrape the metal. Still flying. You can see the engines are beginning to kind of plume with smoke and energy. points. Whack whack. Both heavy impacts, you know, you dent and scrape the metal. Still flying, you can see the engines are beginning to kind of plume with smoke and energy. You can see that the ship has been, you know, dented and destroyed. Am I close to like- Get rid of that pole. Don't worry.

Is that close to like breaking into the, like, is there enough dents to break through to the cockpit or anything? There's no you don't see a cockpit. There's it's like there's no glass. It's just metal. Like it's just like a big metal bug. Like there's no hinges. You don't you don't even really see how whoever is inside is controlling this thing. It's just like a big metal bird-shaped thing to you guys.

Okay. Thank you. It is the plane. That's Aayla's turn. It doesn't have any Legendary Actions left, so we go to Nova. I am also going to fly over onto the snoot I can just about get to the snoot with my with my 60 feet okay and I'm going to attack with Tiangong and just see what a little green flame blade

does. I said it correctly there. So I rolled 13 plus 12 is 25 to hit? Hits, yep. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10,

11, 12. 12 points of tiang gong damage slashing damage and then eleven eleven points of um fire damage eleven points of fire damage the fire damage does affect it it does seem to be resistant but it doesn't seem to power up the engines in the same way so the fire damage is less effective but it seems to be mainly because of the way it's constructed and it doesn't absorb that magical energy as it did with the lightning and the force damage um this just seems to kind of scorch it but leaves as not as much of a trail as you do so um cool anything else else, Nova? That's all I've got. Okay. The Aetherjet's

turn. The Aetherjet is going to, with three of you basically on top of it, it is going to use its Storm Assault to move up, catching all three of you as it's going to try and slam its great body from underneath you, basically. This is a decent turn.

But we're on it physically. Yeah. Yeah, it's going to, like... You're hovering, you're standing on it, but it's going to throw upwards with force, and it's covered in, like, you know, magical energy. It's cracked, like, its engines are blasting and things like that.

Even if you stood on it, it's not necessarily trying to, like, smash into you. The force of this thing propelling you upwards and coating you with energy is still going to be... You'd have to make a decision on whether you want to go up with it as well because it might potentially take you up quite high. It's going to go up 60 feet, so it's kind of washing you with engine fire

and lightning energy and magical power as it kind of soars up into the air. You guys can choose to. You can either use your reactions to get out of its way, or you can make a dexterity save to try and just half the damage as you're about to take. I'll get out of its way. Okay, so you kind of like shuffle off to the sides if you want to.

Yeah, I'll do the same. All right. Kind of was thinking of staying on okay we'll stay on then fuck it i'm gonna stay on uh deck seven throw deck seven throw please uh 16 16 not enough unfortunately so as you are lifted up into the air, Nova, you are kind of blasted by lightning and force damage. This is going to be 24 points of lightning damage. And then it flew up 60 feet.

Is she still in my range when she takes the lightning damage? No, because you would have moved what's the range on it is it 10 feet around 10 feet not are you because you moved use your reaction to move away yeah unfortunately not um and then 27 force damage nova is this thing throws you up into the air almost like the force of it kind of propels you up and like the engine wash and the power of this thing kind of just blasts you as it flies upwards, surrounding itself with energy. As you go up 60, so this thing is now,

it was at 80, it goes to 140, and you never get to have some free movement and go with it. I'm going to do a concentration check first. Okay. Yep. The total damage, the DC for this is going to be 40, 51, so 25 DC.

And I can't add anything to this, can I? It's constitution saving throw, so it's just your constitution saving throw. Plus three. I rolled a 19, 20, 21, 22. 22, unfortunately not. So concentration, so who are you flying? Yourself and...

It was... Century, right? I can't remember. Century. It must have been Century, I think, yeah. Did Century definitely go a separate direction to me? Oh, that's up to you guys. I'm just wondering if I can potentially catch Sentry.

Well, Sentry, I think you did have it on Quill, but Quill can fly naturally, so you were just giving him a speed boost, I think. There's also, yeah, no Feather Falls. Yeah. We got rid of them for the dive you did no feather fall tokens uh so nobody you are currently like the spell uh goes but you are on top of this thing but you are now you know clutch pressed almost against it by force as it's lifted you up um you feel the the magic fade uh century yeah you guys could have moved off in the same direction if you wanted to

uh i just moved you in opposite directions because it was made more sense so um if sentry's gonna drop could i try and catch her yeah sure i mean we'll say that if century moved over in your direction i'll let you guys take that back i should have really let you guys move where you wanted to rather than moving you that's on me no i was just wondering yeah so it'd be a strength check i think uh to try and probably a dex actually to try and grab her so just straight decks 21 yeah i'd say that you can grab century with your strength you're holding her up, but you know, it's going to be hard to move. You're basically at half speed while you're holding Century.

But Century, yeah, Aayla manages to grab you before you completely fall as the Fly magic spell begins to go. Nice. Thank you! Okay. That was just its Storm Assault move. It is then going to...

Quill! Roll a d6 for me, and then I'm going to shoot you with some magic guns. Okay. A 6. 6. Excellent. The Magitek cannon recharges. Now I'm going to shoot you. You're welcome, Gamers.

As the thing kind of angles itself down and he's just gonna spray a cone of fire nova you're like slipping and sliding along this thing's like top edge uh as it's gonna shoot quill that's only a 13. hey perfect miss with your wings your natural flying you managed to dip and weave in amongst all of this fire. And it's your turn. Cool. All right. So I've probably asked this before. So I have the spellbreaker thing.

When I restore HP, I can end a spell effect on a person as well. Century, who now has the no healing, is that a spell effect that I can remove and also still heal her? It's not. The thing is, this is where it gets complicated, right? Because a spell effect would be something like hold person. And then this is an effect from... I would say yes.

I would say basically because this is replicating the effect of a chill touch spell, I would say yes, it can remove this. But it's not technically a spell. I'd say it can remove the effect okay um you wouldn't be able to spell it but i'd say let's say this kind of works okay well if i move 5 10 15 well but then if i do that i feel that that's cheating lucius out of earlier when i said that he couldn't use his Aether Gormit because it's not a spell. Rules as written, this isn't a spell effect.

It literally says I can remove... What does it say? I can end one spell of your choice on that creature. No, you can't. It's not a spell. Otherwise, I'm being unfair to Lucius. That's fine. In that case, it hasn't been Sentry's turn yet,

so I can't heal Sentry just yet. But I can at least catch... You can heal Lucius, who also looks very injured. Yes. I mean, I'm currently, like, 90 feet up, so in terms of radius, I'm guessing Ayla's not in my range here, if I have 30 feet of range. Don't worry about me.

I'm guessing, like, in terms of vertical healing, it's a little bit awkward. She's 80 feet up Ayla so she's only 10 feet below you. She's only missing three hit points don't worry. Oh don't worry I've got 60 feet range I can catch everyone. I'm gonna do a Mask Cure Wounds. So 3d8 plus 6 on everyone but Sentry. And Nova.

Nova's 140 feet up in the air. I'm very high. Good point. I don't know if it's... Wait, hang on. What's the range? 60 feet? 60 feet and I'm 90 up. Then you can catch Nova. You can catch Nova because it's within 50. Perfect.

Well, in that case, 22 healing to all but Sentry. Nice. Nice. And I don't have any amazing bonus features. Bonus action, sorry. So that's me. That's me. This is me.

Okay. All right. Do you hear that jet sound effect then? It's pretty impressive. At the end of your turn, Quill... Mark's getting really good at it. I'm going to be a butthole here. No! At the end of your turn, Quill,

the jet is going to use reposition to move 30 feet. 10, 15... Into me. 30. Can you make a I guess this would be you don't really have your reaction left

make a deck saving throw to see if you can grab onto this thing before it basically tries to turn and shoot ahead did you use your reaction oh no she didn't that's why she's yeah you're right yeah because that's why you stayed on top of it yeah so just make a dick

save yeah okay uh 15 15 yeah i'd say you can stay on with that uh so this thing tries to shake you off like it spins and and you're like gripping on like holding on to like some old guardian's metal arm that's been sort of like welded into the carapace of this thing and you're like holding on to like some old guardian's metal arm that's been sort of like welded into the carapace of this thing and you're like holding on to it as you do take my strong arm uh yeah and then lucius

uh it didn't seem to be resisting the acid last time, right? No, no, the acid worked perfectly. So I think I might just continue that at a slightly lower level. Because of the slots. So another Chromatic Orb at 5th level this time.

Okay. I believe I'm in range. So, oh, that's only an 18 to hit, though. 18 just barely hits. Like, on the cusp of hitting and it's a single so i'm actually gonna i'm gonna use the magical chaff again sorry uh so it's a disadvantage all right let's see what happens first yeah because you still might hit, right? There you go. So you still hit. Still hit.

So it tries to deflect the orb, but strikes through. Push on through. Ooh. Whoa. 37. Nice. 37, okay. I was going to say check for the ones.

So again, like almost striking the back end of it now where you can see these aetherium engines have been crudely attached. The orb smashes against them one of them begins to cough and sputter and spark and flash with magic um as this thing does yeah it looks like it's in trouble and 10 decremency as well 10 more decremency sure thing so we um yeah is that is that the end of your turn um i'm going to how uh we're on a building we're hovering over a building right now yeah you guys are hovering over a building and that's higher than 60 well 60 feet off the floor so i assume how how much would i have to say you're 60 feet

over the building over the building right yeah um building, right. Yeah. I might touch down. Yeah. Yeah, just go land on the top of the building. I'm just going to land on that building. Sure. That makes sense. All right, so you just straight down. Cool.

I will adjust my height accordingly. All right. At the end of your turn, I'm going to have the Aetherjet perform another stormy, a surging storm, a storm assault. It shrouds itself with lightning and force energy, and then it is going to try and blast forward in the direction it is facing 1d6 nova you're going to be on top of this you still have your reaction uh this thing's about to blast forward do you want to make

a deck safe yeah sure i made uh 17 18 19 20 20 okay so you're gonna take half damage this time as again this thing surges forward and it's heading towards the tower now um you can see it almost like trying to like charge towards the tower again it kind of becomes covered in lightning and force energy that washes over you you manage to kind of tuck and roll and sort of hide behind a section like a little flap of metal but it still catches you on the blast um one two three four five this is lightning damage it's gonna be 23 points of lightning damage oh is that half and then so half that would be um jesus christ so that'd be 11 lightning damage and then it would normally be 46 force but that's's half to 23. You just got 46 on 5d10.

I rolled three 10s, a nine and a seven. Christ. We can see it in the chat there. That's nuts. But yeah, so 23 instead. You managed to half that by like bracing yourself up against this section of the jet. It's then going to go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. It collides with the jet. It's then going to go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35.

It collides with the tower. Great! So when it collides with the tower, a collision has occurred. It takes 1d10 per 10 feet of movement, so it's going to take 5d10 damage. The tower is also going to take 5d10 damage.

So it rams into the tower. 1 three four five wait what's going on in the tower i guess that makes me roll like a bunch of ones this time yep there we go uh so eight so on the same roll 5d 10 i got 46 and 18 um oh my god the swing is slammed into the side of the tower. A great, a big kind of crack begins to form, but not, you know, it seems to be mostly cosmetic to the tower. This tower is a big, thick-looking tower. But the jet definitely scrapes along it. Parts of it break away and stuff like that.

And then, am I still on it? You're still on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just kind of surges forward, but you tucked away. I'm not going to have you take the 5d10 damage for that. And then Sentry. That was at the end of Lucius's turn. My god.

I'm going to heal. I'm going to do 25. It's your turn, so you may heal now. 25 Leonhands points for moi, please. Sure. That's all I have left. Ayla's like holding you up like, I think Sentry's just gonna look at the jet slamming into the tower and just scream, the tower! Quick! Tell me where you want to go! I'll take you! Put me on the ground, put me on the ground! Okay.

End of your turn, Century? Yeah, that's the end of my turn. Alright, Jet's going to use its last reposition to basically pull itself back 30 feet. Nova, you go with it. Ayla? Cool. I'm going to push Century on the ground.

Okay, so you just fly straight down. You're 90 feet up, so it's going to take you a bit of time. You could put Sentry on top of this building, in fact, actually. If you flew over here, you could put Sentry on the top of the building, which is a bit higher up than the ground. Sure, I'll do that. Sure? Yeah.

Okay. So you pop Sentry down. That would be 90 feet. So that's 30 feet of your movement so far, Ayla. So you pop sentry down. That would be you were 90 feet. So that's 30 feet of your movement so far, Ayla. So you've got 30 feet left. It's in whacking range. It's in whacking range. It wouldn't have been if I hadn't moved it back.

I would like to hit it, please. Yep, you go and whack. And then Nova, you'll turn after this. You also, as you fly over to Aayla, you see a very, probably singe-looking Nova, like, holding on. I don't know why I'm here. Mark, I rolled an F20.

Did you? Nice. I rolled an F20. Cool. You know the criticals. Brutal critical. Brutal critical. So, 30 damage straight up. Yep. nice I rolled a nat 20 cool you know the crit rules so brutal critical so 30 damage

straight up yep plus 30 for anybody who's new to the stream we use custom crit rules if you're new to the stream it's max the damage die

then roll the damage die again if you roll a 20 the enemy dies instantly it's not how it works no would you like that sorry Tom would you like that to be the rule against you guys if i roll on that 20 wait i would have been dead a long time ago you all would have been dead a long time yeah out of 20s i roll

50 points of damage 50 50 points! Oh my god. One whack. Slams into the back of the jet. Nova, you feel the whole thing shake as probably you tear an engine out, Ayla. And a whole engine just rips free of the whole thing and now

it's like... Second attack. Pathetic flesh thing? What are you doing back there? 22 to hit. 22 hits? That is 12 points of damage. I rolled

crap on that one, but that's okay. And you know what? I'm gonna do the lightning damage anyway, because he's still blasting with lightning. Okay. So deck save. Failure. But halved anyway, because of resistance. 16 lightning damage.

As you smack it, the second strike ripping out part of the thing, you channel the lightning. It goes inside this metal carapace, this device, and you begin to hear explosions. You begin to hear aetherium gas and engine erupting. The whole thing explodes. Oh, cool.

I need you and Nova to make deck saves. Oh. S, cool. I need you and Nova to make deck saves. Oh. Sawsburn. Theorem explosions. 10. 24. All right, Aayla's taking half damage. Nova, you're taking full.

Shit. 28 points of damage force damage this thing erupts with magic uh it kind of assails you both uh i believe that it is 140 feet up in the air um nova and nova begins to fall like with with this thing, the wreck just screams, comes screaming down. Can I grab her? Can I like lunge forward and grab her? Cause I'm still flying. Don't worry about it.

Don't worry about it. If you use your reaction, you have your reaction, right? Ayla? Yeah. If you use your reaction, I'll let you make it. I'll let you make an attempt to grab her.

Yeah, I can attempt. Yeah. I'm happy to make it I'll let you make an attempt to grab her. Yeah, I can attempt Yeah, I'm happy to attempt Yeah dexterity just a straight dexterity check d20 plus dex DC 15 just to try and grab her 16 ha 16 You kind of see the explosions you fly over reach out a hand to Nova reach out you kind of see the explosions you fly over reach out a hand to nova uh who you know you guys grip each other's forearms and then as and then the whole ship just begins to cream down smashing into the glass at the base of the tower right just plumes of smoke rising up there's definitely nothing more happening not some more coming

There's definitely nothing more happening. Nothing more coming. Jet down. You're out of initiative. That's my turn. Oh, are we? Okay. I'll lower Nova to the ground then. Sure. Yeah, you guys begin floating your way down to the ground.

You two being the closest now, you can see that there is a kind of broken section up at the base of the tower that leads inside. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. And so the jet's just done, right? It's just...

It is a smouldering wreck. Smoking. You can see, like, all the lightning is crackling over it from its engines and things like that. But, yeah, just smashed into the glass. Maybe parts of the tower have collapsed on top of it now as well kind of covering it in debris does anything come out of it or does it no i mean i guess like you watch it for a time nova sits there and watches and waits nothing comes out of it it does not transform this this tower does it have like an is it i'm imagining like a lighthouse thing where it has an open thing at the top it's not open at the top no it does

have it looks like it maybe it looks like it had some like maybe you know a lattice work or something like that at the top but it's completely um glass now so there is no opening at the top okay so we have to go in like up in the center yes it does look like that um yeah i mean i'll i'll head down to where uh sentry and lucius now are i guess to the top of this building um uh i think i think i think it's done i I mean, it exploded and it's crashed, but we should get to the top of the tower as soon as we can. Is everyone happy and willing and healthy and good to go? Yes, we shouldn't waste any time.

I don't think that's the end of Breeze. That was too quick. Just saying. Lord Rasta's still here somewhere. He must be. Quick. Just saying. Lord Rastor's still here somewhere. He must be. I mean, he did blow out one of its wings in one hit. That was insane. Okay, how's everyone looking? Between one and their health level.

We're fine, Quill. Let's keep moving. Okay. How are you going to get sent sentries current sentry and lucius are currently on the roof lucius still has fly i think i still have fly so i can help people get down as well okay so alo kind of ferries sentry down yeah perfect

okay yeah you guys make your way down you escort everyone down and together you as a group make your way into the tower amazing i i don't know why i called for aid uh but i thought it might be easier uh century maybe once we've dealt with the tower that everyone's in the right place you to uh you know do your sentinel prime thing that's a really good idea or maybe I've just drawn all the feral guardians to us I don't know we'll see

there is definitely sound in the city many many things moving echoing bouncing Echoing, bouncing off the glass. Something's coming. When you guys make your way up the steps, go on, Tom. Sorry, I was just going to do a level four cure wounds on Nova. Thank you, my love. It's 26 healing to that one. There you go, 26, bam. Thank you, my love. Oh, I'm on exactly 69 health points.

Nice. Carry on with your dramatic storytelling. All part of the plan. Is there a way I can move one of these statues to block the entrance? I think you and Ayla together could. I think you on your own, it would still be quite hard. These are big statues. These are sort of like, you know, know nine ten foot solid thick glass statues um but you and ayla together could

definitely definitely pull it down once everyone's inside when you guys go to initially enter the doorway though um two crossbow bolts and a beam of light kind of kind of impact against the the side of things um you hear hererald's voice kind of call out, just like, if you're with the Dominators, you'll find no easy victory here. It's me, it's Sentry. Herald, we're here.

Sentinel Prime. And then you see kind of emerging from, looking inside all of the furniture here, transformed to glass but some of it's been broken and formed basic barricades in what appears to be like the lower floor of a uh very ornate researcher's tower you can see that there was once sort of bookshelves and things like that they've all been since turned to glass um but you see herald chipper who was a woods working guardian that you met in callie's rest, and Scout, which was a smaller,

who was a friend of Tracker's when you were going all through Kali's Rest. The two of them accompany Herald, the two normal guardians with crossbows, and then Herald with her kind of magical abilities seem to have been trying to hold off this place. When they see you, they all kind of came out and look relieved.

Oh, Sentinel Prime. thank goodness you're here did did sweep and the and smasher did they manage to contact you did you get their message are they safe we did yes they're safe what what are you doing where's where's rook i heard that you had rook yes his um his form is uh at the top of the tower next to the conduit. I needed somebody who had the correct, who had royal authorization to activate parts of it. I used Rook. I used Rook previously when he was under my command. I needed his, I needed his imprint.

I needed an imprint from his gauntlets to activate it this time. So we brought him with us. Okay. I wasn't sure if you would get here in time. Well, I'm glad we got here. Are you okay? Is everybody okay? We are as well as can be. It's been harrowing.

I didn't want to bring any other guardians into this, but these ones mentioned that they knew you and that they wanted to help. You see Chipper kind of like a little nod of his head and scout kind of looks up it's just like ah you look very different sentry it's been it's been a long time since i last saw you both kaylee's rest feels like a whole other lifetime ago now i'm sure herald's told us of some of the things that have happened. It doesn't seem that long to us, but I'm guessing to you it's been a lifetime or so. But yes, we wanted to help.

When we heard of everything, when we heard Herald's message, when we heard about Guardians gathering here for you, well, we knew we had to come. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much. After the last time we met, Thank you for coming, thank you so much. After the last time we met, I was hoping I'd get a chance to set things right with all of you. There was nothing ever to fix with us, Sentry. We understood you did what you could. It was that breeze took us all in, and nowald tells us that this breeze has transformed himself into something else

something even worse yeah seems like hadar's fully taken control uh quill you definitely noticed that herald did like physically pulls away from centuring the others when they start talking about the dominators and her and hadar and stuff like that. Sort of pulls herself away. That makes sense. The Herald turns around to all of you. I in fact, well, I take it that that fighting we heard outside, you must have been battling whatever that airship, that air device was. It's been hounding us for a few hours now.

Yeah, it's down for now. I don't know. I don't fully trust it. Something doesn't seem right with me. I don't know. We need to hurry. The sooner that we can get the conduit active. I'm glad that you are all here, however. I need your assistance. I think that this battle around the city, the airships firing upon us, an airship crashed recently and it's damaged the devices which power the conduit. I can't repair it on my own, I don't have the knowledge. I was hoping that perhaps you and your companions will be able to assist. It's on the floor above in the midsection of the tower. It seems that it's the only part of the city that survived the transmutation effect.

Well, we're happy to help any way we can. Well, this is Sentinel Prime. This will be, if we can fix this, I believe that the conduit can help us. It can help everyone. All guardians. At least the ones here. Of course. Come with me.

And Harold just begins to make her way up cracked, broken glass stairs, gesturing for you to follow. Yeah, I'll follow. I said you got a messenger ring. Yeah, I do I think Lucius would say in the messenger ring does Harold seem okay to you

completely herself she seems just to be sure she seems okay to me what have you noticed nothing I'm just Just to be sure. She seems okay to me. What have you noticed? Nothing. I'm just making sure.

The conduit sounds like a powerful device. We call out to all guardians. I just want to make sure that we're doing the right thing and that it's going to go okay without any other influence. Lord of Rast has already been here. We don't know. Okay. Well, let's keep our eyes open. If anything looks weird, let's let each other know. Okay, great. Anybody with a messenger ring heard that? Not Quill, though. Not Nova. No.

So if you guys follow, you make your way up the broken stairs as soon as the group of you especially when sentry begins making their way up the stairs you can see that the inside of this tower is a lot more fragile than you thought like the stairs crack and break away you kind of have to be really cautious making your way up but eventually they lead you to a midsection of the tower which is the first place you've seen in the city of glass where not all of it has been transmuted in fact it looks like there is a perfect spherical chamber which has been protected somehow oh and you see uh resembling a sort of a magitek laboratory you can see devices and consoles built around a kind of central circular dais. You can see that there is another set of staircases that leads up that again looks

very broken and damaged. It goes up to the higher sections of the floor. You can see that there are four crystal lenses with crystals built into them most of them are broken into many pieces you can see that there are magitek devices attached to each one and then there are these almost vine like connections they connect pairs of the crystals two of them are broken and they look like they've been shattered there's all sorts of glass debris sections of the ceiling have collapsed the staircase has fallen down and that looks like it's the fallen staircase looks like it's the reason that this device in the center seems to have been damaged um herald points at it go on so is it meant to the four

gems around the circle they're meant to be connected by these gems and two of them are not connected? The four gemstones are built into kind of like lenses and all four gemstones have cracks and are broken. Then there are connections between each two. So imagine like chains or like lines going between sets of two. Two of them are intact and then two of them have got their chains broken.

So kind of difficult. You can see a little bit easier on the map. Obviously, podcast listeners, hopefully you can kind of follow along. But they all seem to... Totally disconnected. Yeah, the two at the south are completely disconnected. The lenses also look like they should be pointing up

towards the ceiling. They are misaligned. They are all twisted and broken or out of sequence, basically. Herald points, we were trying to secure downstairs when whatever caused this damage occurred. When I came up, this was all broken. When I last used the conduit, this was in fully working order. I don't know how to repair this um

what is supposed to happen is the four crystals focus magical energy up into the conduit itself the conduit can then allow certain guardians those with special royal designations to reach out connect with other guardian matrices within a certain distance. It was used to help coordinate the Guardians of each city in Solvin, here in Kamina City, and many other places. We need to repair this, and I don't know how. The conduit itself, I can work. The conduit, I know how it functions. Rook's body is currently laying upstairs with it,

giving access to its control systems but this i can't fix the staircase i guess is like completely destroyed and inaccessible it's not inaccessible you can go upstairs yeah you can see it's sections of it are broken which will make it difficult especially for the non-athletic and non-flies like quill you could just fly up but for people that aren't maybe you know maybe lucius and nova who are a bit less athletic this would be like jumping and climbing up there basically um is the fly still active the fly spell or has it been too long now 10 minutes 10 minutes 10 minutes so it's vaguely still active yeah um, with conversation. But you also have wings now. No, I meant for getting other people up there as well

because I can't carry people. Lucius and Aayla can technically still fly. But this is, it looks like whatever needs to be fixed needs to be fixed here. And then the upper level is where, assuming the Herald and Sentry will actually activate what they do. Yes, Nova? Can I make an Arcana check or a similar check

to kind of look around and be like, this is what might need to be done? Sure, you don't even need to make a check for that, just because there's no chance of failing. If you want to do it quickly, make a check. If you want to take time, you could spend five, ten minutes looking at everything, examining it and figuring out the problem. If you want to take time, like you could spend like, you know, sort of like five, 10 minutes, like looking at everything, examining it and figuring out the problem. If you want to try and make a quick rough guess, then you can make a check for it.

I'll take five minutes to have a proper look-see. Yeah. So Nova begins looking around and looking at this Nova. Yeah. There's, there's clearly some problems that need to be fixed each of the gemstones needs to be repaired they need to be put back together um probably something like a mending cantrip can do that but it would just take time and somebody with careful arcane focus uh concentration um into intelligence to do um that needs to be fixed they all of the lenses need to be realigned as well that will take precision somebody who has a keen eye um who can you know who has uh dexterity and maybe a bit of strength as well to kind of reposition them the more concerning uh fix is the two broken power cables we'll call them they're ruined to the point where they won't stretch they won't

meet each other and they can't be repaired you will need to find a way to replace the the con like something to act as a as a connector something will need to take the place of the cable and channel energy from one crystal to the other um could it could it be something like um like say i cast wall of light and put the walls between the broken like could that channel it or do is it more like a con like wall of light like it would need to be something that can conduct the energy the wall of light energy if it passes into the wall of light it doesn't pass the energy along. This would need to be something like a material, like some sort of object. I mean, at a case, you've seen one of your allies do something similar. When Aayla was on the Stormchaser ship,

she channeled energy from the storm into the ship itself. Just a lightning rod for many, many times here. Not just Aayla though. You've also seen Lucius and Sentry act as conduits for power as well. Tiangong, in theory, could be as well. Tiangong is a conduit of magical energy. The Spear

of Oracles could be. The risk here is how much energy is this going to take and will it have any consequences would something like the rod of alertness that i have would that be too low level to i think that would be too low level that's like a it's a cool item um it certainly might help in other ways but it's not it's also not long enough like this is like a span of like 15 feet you're gonna have to like stretch um between each one so an individual can

do it if they stretch out their arms and stand in the middle they can kind of reach the two ends um but something otherwise you need something you know more substantial or maybe like you know 10 feet maybe 10 feet gap okay so just imagine that nova's been tinkering measuring thinking she stands up and holds up a hastily scratched parchment. Okay, team, I have a plan. The gems need this, the lenses need this, and the power cables. Hey, Ayla, how do you want to be a lightning rod again? Yes, thank you!

Go. And go. And go what? Ayla becomes a lightning rod? Now? Well, first of all, we need to fix the gems. Okay, so something like mendingending or a little bit of precision. Someone's super clever, like me. And then the lenses, as you can see, they're all out of alignment.

We need to align them. Sentry, Ayla, perfect. I think you'd be amazing at realigning these so they point upwards. And then, yes, unfortunately, the main problem is that there are no power cables between this crystal here and this crystal here. So we are probably going to have to use our bodies.

Our bodies? There's no other method of energy transference other than frying us again. That could be. If we can find something, a material that stretches between the two that is strong enough to conduct the magical energy,

then yes. Lucius, on that, the first thing that comes to your mind would be Ethereum. That's what Ethereum does. I was going to say. Yeah. Could we salvage parts of Lord of Erastor's ship from the outside

and use that? That would mean lifting the statue again It did explode I can come help And we would have to cart it into here but that could be an option Should we also check upstairs as well?

Yeah I was going to say I was going to fly up and have a check of the situation upstairs. Sure. Harold will say, the upstairs has not been damaged but if you do wish to see the conduit it is not active is the only issue.

I think you should check it out, Quill. Can I grab Century? Actually, can I grab Nova? Harold sees Lucius winking. Is something wrong, Lord Elanastor? There's something in my eye. Sorry.

You're flying very fast out there. I might have a bit of glass or something. You have doubts about me. I understand that. I know how close I became to like them, and she gestures outside the tower. I have not forgotten. I have not forgotten what I did in this place. What I did to Rook and many other guardians. I have not forgotten how close I came. Sentinel Prime gave me a chance to prove myself. To undo the evil that I've done here. Please trust me. I want to make good on what I did here. And before

the day is done I will. You've more than proved yourself, Harold. I was a 24 on insight, by the way. I mean, I was going to say, like, I'm going to insight what she just said, too. Sure, yeah. So, actually, you wanted to say something. So, while you make that roll, like Rhiannon's speaking,

I'm sorry to cut you off. You've more than proved yourself, Harold. You've done so much you don't have to keep pushing yourself so hard it's not a matter of proving myself, Sentinel Prime I understand that I've earned your earned your faith

but that doesn't undo the things I did here I nearly this the things I did here. I nearly... this Verasator, I was one step away, one step from becoming just like them. You saved me from that, you stopped it before I made that final deal with Hadar. But I... I killed a lot of guardians here. I controlled them. I used them like puppets. I need to make that right. I need to give them back the life that I stole from them,

by helping you. By fixing this conduit. You were so close and yet you didn't give into what Lord Verasitas given into. You're a far stronger guardian than they will ever be. Thank you, Saint Mabro. I hope that I will prove your statement correct and that your faith in me will be... Your faith in me will be returned now come i'll show you the conduit and yeah herald will lead you upstairs nice one lucius you had to wink it's cool say that no no no no no but i got a 19 on my insight uh if that helps since guardians are guardians are tricky ones because all of your

normal understanding of body language and facial expression doesn't really apply um but you've spent enough time with century that you recognize like the way that their their matrixes and their lights blink under different emotional states um and i mean you you remember what herald did here you remember how she nearly took her own life before Sentry stepped in. She was willing to kind of end it all, and Sentry stopped her. You think that in this case, she's probably telling the truth.

Like, you don't get any idea of manipulation or misdirection. Okay. Yeah. I mean, yeah, when I saw her backing away from the Hadar speech and the Dominator speech, I didn't see that necessarily as like, oh, she's working with them as much as just like, she knows what she did.

It was her part. Exactly. Your insight check affirms your own suspicions, Tom Hazel. How about that? Yeah. Hey, BT Dubs, everyone's talking about my throbbing perception, but they haven't seen my gorging insight. Huge.

Huge. Can we just phrase it like that? No one said that. On that note. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We'll leave Thomas to go on. A couple of hours ago before the episode you were

you were telling us about this cool encounter that you came up with and you can never predict what we're gonna do could you have predicted century home run duncan a bomb into the thing i did not predict home run dunk uh but i did predict that there would be some shenanigans which is why I gave the missiles like AC and hit points. So like, I'm going to try and knock it away. I'm going to try and use gust of wind to blow it back. I'm going to try and absorb it. You know, I, yeah, I expected something like that. I teleport slam dunk. No, but there is one thing Tom unexpected, expect the unexpected. Now, Tom. Expect the unexpected now.

That's the motto. God kept us off the cloud. Brienne's got it. But yeah. Amazing. Cool. Cool fight, though. And then we got to get puzzling.

You think that was a cool fight, Tom Hazel? I know there's more. I know there's more. Yeah, we're not. We're not we're not this isn't the last episode what I hate that

I hate that the Rassaton has given his big speech so yeah and he's going to have to do it in the chipmunk voice no Thank you.