High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #121 | Call of the Herald (Part 1)

Episode Date: August 2, 2021

A titan Dominator is attacking the tower and Overlord Voracitor challenged Sentinel Prime to a duel! We're sponsored by D&D Beyond! The ultimate Dungeons and Dragons toolset. Clean up your dungeon delving life and speed up your games here: http://bit.ly/HRDNDBeyond2021 Support the High Rollers and get early access to podcast episodes (and more) on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/HighRollers Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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No? Then yeah, this Reese's Extreme Blizzard is real. And for a limited time at DQ, happy tastes good. Hello, welcome back to High Rollers, a Dungeons & Dragons podcast in the world of Erois. We're sponsored by D&D Beyond, the ultimate online D&D toolset for both players and DMs. Make your dungeon-delving life a million times easier with D&D Beyond using the link in the episode description. Welcome back to Erois. Seeking to aid Sentry in her quest to rescue the Guardian race, the party have reached the Conduit Tower in the City of Glass.

Outside, above the transmuted city streets, the party faced off against a flying war machine controlled by Overlord Verasator, leader of the Hadar- Corrupted Guardians, who now call themselves the Dominators. Destroying the airborne construct, the party rush down and into the tower itself, where they find Herald and two other Guardian allies defending the tower. Herald explains that the magical devices used to power the conduit were damaged since she was last here and she needs their help to repair it.

Working together, the party restore the ancient solvent enchantments, but as they took the final steps to do so, a giant construct smashed sections of the tower to assault them, and as the battle goes on, Sentry is called to the conduit above to begin the ritual whilst the others must defend the power crystals as it goes on. And we are going to be jumping into combat, but do you want to cut to the big group shot trot? I do want to make a quick note because people that follow this along and people that like focusing on the mechanics and design, especially the homebrew stuff, I have made a balance

tweak to something which would have made a big impact last week. I've actually tweaked some of Lucius's abilities and his magic item, his prismatic gauntlet, because there was a lot of debate last week about the concept of like what counts as a spell and does like a magical energy blast from a magitek thing

count as a spell? Should he be able to control it? Should it be able to be affected by spell breaker? And I've made some tweaks to that. Lucius's abilities will now be able to kind of alter magitek and maybe things like dragon's breath and tweaks to that. Lucius's abilities will now be able to kind of alter Magitek

and maybe things like Dragon's Breath and stuff like that. Spellbreaker is still going to be a little bit more limited, but just wanted to let people know that I have changed that. And that's still for acid and cold. So as long as whatever's casting it. Although your chromatic control, you can turn any energy form into acid and cold, and then your gauntlet can combo

with it um but it's just like a little bit of stuff because it was kind of going against the design of a something fun for trot to do that was really cool but also it just wasn't getting used because the wording of it was so specific and it's going to be a little bit changed um spell breaker i think is fine i'm not going to change it yeah so a little bit of housekeeping i just want to let people know about that stuff um this is one of those issues with having a lot of homebrew monsters and items and especially working in a world which has magitech where it's magic but it's not a spell it kind of gets a bit loosey-goosey so i just wanted people to know and also it's a good sign

that as a dm it's okay to change stuff like you don't just have to commit to it and be like well that's how i wrote it that's how it's okay to change stuff. Like you don't just have to commit to it and be like, well, that's how I wrote it. That's how it's going to be forever. Absolutely. Especially when you beef up my character. I'm all for it. Well, it will also affect other people as well. Because like, I think like it's just a general kind of overview of like certain things.

So like, I think it will come into a play for a bit of other people as well. However, today we are starting in the middle of a combat uh we are currently in this glass tower most of the glass so thick it becomes fogged and clouded like ice uh as we have most of the party stood around a kind of central area with this kind of joint these four crystal lenses diverting magical energy up into the tower of the root, the ceiling of the tower, where the conduit is being charged. We have these giant arms, these construct Titan arms have reached through and are punching and shooting cannons

and doing all of this crazy stuff as everything is being prepared to fight. But the last thing we had was Century, you heard Herald calling to you from above, basically saying, you need to come up here now. We need to begin the process. You kind of hear Herald speaking down like,

Sentinel Prime, we must perform it now. I fear that if we leave it longer, this is our one chance to activate the conduit before it's destroyed, before more of these things arrive. There are guardians, feral guardians swarming everywhere. We must do this now this now and she calls down to you impressing that this is urgent but you also as she calls it out you hear some sort of smashing sound like a section of wall

breaking above you as well um and you as you hear that the rest of you you see that the the conduits are still channeling this power up into the ceiling and these giant robot-like arms um are protruding through and we are going to kick things off uh with ala uh starting off the top of the bat hello hello um cool so whilst that's going on um the big face is gone now yes yes you destroyed the the titan's head you destroyed the this giant dominator called destructor you destroyed the head of destructor um and now you just have the two giant hands and arms to deal with cool can i um just uh shout to harold do i still need to hold this power? Are you good? Do you need more juice?

No, you must continue the power. We must continue it until the ritual is completed. So I can't really do too much without... Can I stand in this place and channel the power whilst also giving the hand next to me a bit of a smack? Absolutely you can. Oh, okay, I'll do that then. That's fine.

I just didn't want to disrupt. Yeah, like, the idea is that you're kind of holding onto these kind of, um, almost like, uh, like chains, like these magically charged chains. You can let go of one briefly to kind of whack, and then you can grab it again, you know, whilst you're doing that.

I only rolled a 2 so that's a 15. It's not enough rare for Ayla but yeah this one actually kind of... Being able to try to kind of focus on channeling the arcane energy and attacking distracts you enough that it doesn't quite have the force you were hoping it would. The next one's a 26. That does hit. Okay. This is the right hand.

I'm just going to write this down on my diary. Aayla missed an attack. Yeah, I know. On a giant hand. That is rare. 20 points of damage. I just slipped, okay? I slipped. 20 points of damage.

You've got a lot going on. And then a dex save. 15. Ooh, fail. 19 lightning damage. 19 points of lightning damage. The hammer. The hand. Remember when I could only get one?

Yeah. Every hand. Remember when I could only get one? Every time. One. You feel it dents the side of this armor and the lightning arcs up the hand and into the arm and out of the tower down to whatever body this thing may be part of. And yeah, you definitely feel like you've dealt a heavy blow there, Ayla. End of turn. All right, we have Lucius followed by Nova. So Nova, you're on deck after Lucius.

Lucius is going to cast Chromatic Orb at fourth level, and he's going to twin it to hit both. Oh, very nice. Go for both hands at the same time. This last bit of juice. Yep. So two attack rolls, one damage roll. First one's probably not going to hit.

It's a 14. That does not hit, unfortunately. Second one is a 20, though it's a 14 that does not happen is a 20 though to hit that does hit uh so is the second one the right or left i'll say the right okay uh 34 points of acid let me just double check for ones yep 34 points 34 so the the cannon hand and you centuries currently holding this giant cannon arm up in the air. That one you miss. Sentry kind of pushes it up to kind of avoid it shooting everybody. The orb just strikes a section of the tower, melting through sections of the glass.

The second one, though, the one that Aayla just hit, this orb of orange light splashes against it. And again, this kind of globjool acid spreads all over it, sizzling it away. Nine points for the one I missed. To the left hand, nine points. Marvelous. It's more like he tuts and throws it because he missed. Yeah, you pull off like a section of orange, you know,

light and color and throw it up there. You can see that that right hand now is quite heavily damaged. You can see that it has absolutely taken some nasty blows to cause it significant damage. Lucius, do you want to move any movement or anything? No, I think I'm all right where I am. I'm just going to shout. It's like, hold strong.

We haven't got too long to go, I'm sure. NovaVeja. Oh, it's up to Sentry. Sentry's got to long to go, I'm sure. Nova Vija. Oh, it's up to Sentry. Sentry's got to get up there and use this conduit. I am going to channel the Wall of Light to shoot a beam of radiance out at the hand that is attacking Aayla. How much of the... Did you use the beam before, Kim, last week? I can't remember. Once. I've tracked it.

So this will be 20 feet is out. Perfect. You're tracking it. That's all I need to know. Because it's currently vertical. It's like a big vertical column, isn't it? Yeah, it's up because I tried to block the big head. Yeah, the head.

Oh, I rolled three sixes. So six, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21 points of radiant damage. 21 points. The beam kind of burns a radiant hole through, you know, a laser beam through parts of the hand, like maybe severing one of the fingers. Kind of cuts through it like a laser. It's fingies.

Excellent. Any movement, Nova? No, I'm going to stay where I am, challenging the Condolence. Alrighty. Yep. Okay. The right hand, kind of sensing that Ayla is not the best target, but not really having any other choice, is going to attempt to punch and then grab Ayla once more that is a

28 to hit so that is going to be 25 points of damage half that to 12 because you're raging but you are grappled and whilst you are grappled you are

restrained as it grips onto you and you can feel these kind of red crystals in the palms and fingers beginning to try and drain your life away, as it does so. Sentry. Okay. I'm torn in twain. Is there any information you would like to help make a decision? There's a smash coming through the ceiling, Herald needs me.

From above, you hear some sort of smash from above and Herald is calling for you to begin this ritual. The arm that I'm holding isn't that badly damaged, is it? I don't think. This fight is going to continue for a while longer. Yeah.

Okay. I'll just nod at Sentry. It's okay. We've got this. We got this. I think Sentry's going to cast... She's going to... Yeah, she's going to drop the hand.

Cast Protection from Energy on Nova, and give her Protection from Fire, because she's right in the direct line of that fist where she is. Yeah, sure. So I'm gonna give her that. Fire resistance. Yeah, and then I'm gonna say, Good luck, everyone everyone let me know if

you need me and I'll start making my way upstairs okay century goes upstairs I'm actually gonna move the map there is no secondary map I'm afraid just because I didn't want it it's too confusing visually century it doesn't take an opportunity attack the fist kind of lets you go it doesn't make an opportunity attack against you as you step up to this you kind of bound your way up the stairs as you reach the top you can see trying to remember their name Scout and what was the other Guardian's name? Ruff? Chipper. Tracker. Oh, Chipper, yeah.

Tracker was the other one. So Chipper and Scout are both kind of huddled up against the wall, kind of pressed up against it in fear, and Herald is holding herself up defensively in front of the conduit. And standing, you can see that there is a giant hole that's been kind of smashed and broken through the ceiling. And standing in front of Herald, you see a Dominator. you can see that there is a giant hole that's been kind of smashed and broken through the ceiling and standing in front of Herald

You see a Dominator powerful large Similar in build to you now in your kind of improved form Black metal blackened stone and where the vines and trees and organic parts of the Guardian would have once been, it's now replaced by this red, muscular-like material. And they turn to you. He's finding the voice. And I'm going to make sure that I don't do the chipmunk voice this time. Yeah, I was going to say. Ah, Sentinel Prime.

I have been waiting for this. This sort of thing should be handled between the true successors of our people's future. He turns and Verasator, and you can tell that this is Breeze, you can see little hints of the guardian that was once there, a guardian you met what felt, what feels like years ago back in Kaylie's rest, a guardian that was desperate to try and help but was going about it in such a terrible way, looks to you. You see that same element of that,

that being that was there, but now thoroughly twisted and his form changed, glutted on the power of Hadar. You and I, Sentinel Prime, let us finish this one against one. That's the end of your turn, Century. And Verasator is going to let that be the end of his turn. Verasator looks to Herald and like his whole, like Herald is protecting the conduit,

but Verasator is basically saying one-on-one, this is it. This is between you and him now. Meanwhile, downstairs, the giant left-handed cannon. I would like Nova to roll a D3 for me, please. So D6, and then we basically half the result. I was going to say, what's a D3? Two. Okay, so one one yeah one this cannon is just gonna go for the nearest thing it can kind of swing to

which is unfortunately poor Lucius being the closest viable target it kind of swings round and just tries to punch him basically for 16 to hit Lucius. Yeah. It's going to be 12 points of damage. Nothing. Okay. Kilik Adkala. Can I get a recap on people's health now? We've had a week long break. How's people looking on a scale of, let's say, one to ten?

Eight. Eight, okay. No of that? About an eight. About an eight? I think you guys haven't taken— If one is bad, yeah, I'd say a seven or an eight. Wow, all right. You know what? I ain't gonna need to heal.

It's DPS time, Quill. It's DPS time? Quill. It's DPS time? I switched deeps. I am just gonna drop a... What is it? A Sacred Flame on the most injured hand. So I need to make a dex save. How dexterous can a giant hand be? They're not very dexterous,

but I did get... Oh, that was nearly a natural 20. It's a seven total. Nearly a natural... Oh, okay. I was confused by that. Well, it takes 3d8 plus six. It takes 23 damage from that. And...

Oh! Okay. Yeah, big cantrip. Is this wall of light still up, by the way? It is. Yes. Nice. I might just... You can go through it, but don't might just go through it for the time being.

Oh, do you, Quill? Oh, well, Quill, because of your big boy perception and now that you're the first person to get close enough to this opening where their head is, you see outside for the first time. Oh. And you can see this titanic

body of this destruct or this construct is still fighting. You can see its body kind of looming down below you. Crawling up the body, 100, 200, 300 feral guardians. Lucius's call and the sound of the fighting and the giant mech have drawn hundreds. And there's probably more coming this way. And they're crawling up like a, like a swarming surf, kind of pulling its way up the thing's body,

you know, ripping into it, but coming into the tower, like coming up to the conduit. Uh, how far away are they? You've got some time before they arrive. You've got like, you know, maybe like 12, 18 12 18 seconds you're not sure but they're gonna be here soon with this being like the end of my turn i'm kind of like i see that and i'm too like stunned to even call it out to everyone else yeah well that's even better because whilst you're stunned uh at the very end of the round lucius and Ayla, you hear a hideous cracking and then an eruption

as one of the lens crystals explodes. The power coursing through it. I would say, Nova, you would know immediately that it's the one that Lucius was fixing. I'm really fucking this one up, guys. I mean, you know what you rolled. You know what you rolled. Everyone, come fight!

Also. You see it erupt. The crystal is broken into fat millions of pieces. Like, it's not recoverable. Like, the crystal is broken into fat millions of pieces like it's not recoverable like the crystal is gone um and you see that the power coursing up into the conduit basically fades to nothing it's it's like there's not enough channel being channeled up into it um man i love the idea you with your majesty go on ask a question i don't want to tell you the answer if you've got a cool question i was just just going to ask exactly that.

Would Nova know of a way to last-ditch Chandler, even if it's with her own body? No, so your body won't suffice. This is a focusing lens. You will need to either find something to replace the crystal to focus the energy, or make something that can focus the energy. Like, as in, quickly craft or use magic to make something. Would my goggles? So obviously I adapted them to have scrying focuses on them and stuff like that. Would that work?

You'd need to be looking at something about, you know, not quite five feet, but like two feet wide, kind of like two feet square kind of thing. Like this would need to be a big crystal Would Tiangong be big enough? Tiangong could work it Tiangong is a powerful relic might be able to converge the power But then somebody would need to take your place

Where you currently are because you're currently using Tiangong to channel the power connections. This is like a... This is like a... This is like creating like a prism lens, right? Like to focus the magic through and drive the necessary magic there. Tiangong might be able to do it, but then you wouldn't have a conduit to channel the energy through. Yes. More questions on yours or anybody else's turn. Ayla, we go to you.

Yes, please. I want to check something. Is it at the start? Don't forget, everybody, by the way, that that Rod of Alertness is still up. on yours or anybody else's turn. Ayla, we go to you. I want to check something. Is it at the start? Don't forget, everybody, by the way, that that Rod of Alertness is still up, so you're getting a plus one to AC and saving throws. And saving throws.

That's very true. Can I try and get out of my grapple, please? You absolutely can. Strength check. Just d20 plus strength, But you do have advantage. Well, it's just a strength check, not a strength saving throw, so it's only plus seven.

25. That's true. Okay. That's still enough. You pry the things apart and step out. I added the plus one. It's all good. I got 24.

It's not a saving throw. It's not a saving throw. No, that was a strength check. I rolled a 17. It's just a strength throw. No, that was a strength check. I rolled a 17. Yeah, it's just a strength check. I'm saying the plus one, you wouldn't get the plus one. Oh, look, is that extra AC as well?

I forgot about the roll of alert. Plus one AC, plus one saving throw. Amazing. It is your action to break free of the grapple, though, Ayla. Okay. So you're holding this thing off while you're like, Ah! Nova! I got this Onyx skull!

Is that okay? That's all I've got. It's an Onyx skull that's worth 500 gold. Maybe. Oh yeah, we got it from, uh... Ayla, that was your action. Do you have any bonus actions or move you would like to do? I'm just going to throw that at Nova. Just reach into your bag, thrust, and to Nova.

Sure. Thank you for a skull. Yeah. Nova, it's like being hit by a cannonball being thrown at you. You're like... Right in the gut. Can I still bonus action, give him a little jolt? I think you have to take the attack action for that.

You tell me. I know you tell me. That's what I'm checking. Or is it just a bonus action? As a bonus action on each of your turns when activated. In that case you can? A creature in my area, yes. So can you make a dex save?

I certainly can. That is a total of 18 19 minus one so half half damage this this right hand is looking really actually at this 12 damage the blast of lightning blows off a few more armor plates and you can see like the weird red musculature inside it and it is like this hand is beginning to shake and visibly looks very badly damaged at this point. Lucius, so you've seen all this, you've been hit by this cannon, you see this lens

just kind of shatter. What would you like to do? I'd hate to stop the min-maxing on my part but Lucius is going to see that explosion and he's just going to hold his hands up to his head and just wide-eyed say over and over again, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to, I tried. And that's his whole turn. Sure. You know what, Lucius, take inspiration for me. That's a cool thing. You're playing to the character and you're not min-maxing it. Take inspiration. I've already got it.

So when you do do something, well no, but when you do do something, when Lucius has that moment where Lucius comes back and is like, no, I'm going to do something, you have a higher chance of being cool with it. Okay. Nova. Thank you. okay nova thank you uh can i yeah i'll see lucius because i think with the explosion going off nova will know but she's just looking at lucius to be like how's he taking this and you see that i'm gonna call out yeah i'm gonna call out and kind of just stood here with this energy just

crackling through this i'm gonna say lucius Lucius, listen to me. It's not your fault. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again. So begin again. And then with this crystal that's just been thrown into my fucking being, this Onyx head, would that work? You can certainly try.

The broken crystal is the one at the north point, so it's the one furthest on the map at the moment. Okay. So you would need to move over and try and place it in. You're going to have to angle it and place it into the settings and stuff like that. I'm going to hold out the Onyx head because I still need to channel the

the energy right or can I it's not active at the moment but you will need to yeah I will need to okay I'll start moving over then and um how much movement do I have

I forgot um 5 10 15 20 25 How much do I have? Oh, I forgot. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. That's like 20, 30 feet away. Yeah. I'll be next. So I'll put the Onyx skull in. The Onyx skull's not going to do it. Like, the Onyx isn't reflective enough,

and the way it's sitting, it's like a giant skull. This is not meant to do it. Like, you're thinking that either looking around Nova, I'd say'd say with nova's like knowledge of magic and stuff like that you're going to need something like maybe a piece of glass like from the tower if you could find one big enough and use and find some way to carve it into the correct shape you might be able to jury rig something it would be rough but if if you could find somebody who could cut the glass you might be able to do it the other way would be to create something something clear reflective and that could channel the energy like light almost like creating a prism like if you could make something with magic or a piece of glass might be able to do it if you can cut it in the

right way um but the onyx skull not gonna do it yeah would the rod of alertness work it you know because it has a crystal no yeah no this is like you don't think that there's an item you guys possess except maybe tiangong because he is tiangong is well they are like an intelligent artifact of magic that you don't think any of the items you currently carry would probably work like this is this is like creating like um like it's like a custom lens like a glasses lens right like it's gonna have its own unique properties and stuff is the golem head the big guardian head is it still like in the hole like no or has it kind of rolled back yeah

yeah it fell back it got like ripped off basically it got smashed to pieces cool okay um can i still do an action or is like thinking all of this stuff through is that my action i'd say using the onyx skull was the action you got bonus action though i'd say if you have any bonus actions um do you know what bonus, because why not? I'm going to Hexblade Curse the left fist, so the one that's nearer to Lucius. So I'm going to Hexblade Curse that bad boy. Okay, perfect. And then I'll call out and I'll just be like,

this isn't going to do. We either need a chunk of glass that we can carve or somebody needs to create something magically. All right, perfect. The big right hand nova um seeing you kind of move up there is gonna try and smash you as best as it can it kind of reaches past the crystals coming dangerously close to like you know knocking some of them aside um but it's gonna make an attack against you for a 25 to hit yes that's gonna be 17 points of damage and it grabs you and it's gonna start it basically it's gonna saving throw constitution okay

17 and you have warcaster so you have advantage yeah i did the advantage i rolled two 14s uh so that's a 17 okay 17 the dc would have been 10 because it's 10 or half the damage whichever is higher so you pass okay so wall of light is maintained, but you are now grabbed. You're grabbed and restrained by this giant hand as it reaches over, picks you up, and then pulls you back. Oh, he's squishing me. Meanwhile, whilst this desperate, like, fix the magical engine is going on,

up above, in the floor above, you know, reverberation shaking through the glass, this kind of big column-like device, like this enchanted column of metal. We see these two guardians, these giant sort of like eight foot tall guardian figures looming over each other as we see Sentry and Overlord Verasator.

And Sentry, it's your initiative. see Sentry and Overlord Verasator and Sentry it's your initiative. Sentry's gonna she's gonna pull up her sword the purple visor's gonna come down and she's gonna say to Overlord Verasator you are no successor to the prime you are a vessel of vanity and greed that only serves to consume you and everything around you. You have no legacy here. And I'm going to just launch straight at him.

No. No, you will fall here, false prime. Die. Die. The two come clashing together! Go for it! Give me those attacks! Awesome! First attack roll coming in!

Ooh, 29 for the first one! 29's a big hit. Now, I forgot to say this, Sentry, before you rolled the attack roll. Because this is a bit of a one-on-one duel, I don't normally do, like, the whole called shots and things like that, but, like like you can see

verasil to describe him by the way his weaponry he has like a giant sort of um like your flame lance but this looks like more like an energy cannon on one arm and then he has this like wicked looking flail with a big kind of like barbed headed end like sauron's mace from lord of the rings he's got these two things together if you want to try and do more like I'm going to try and like not disarm him or I want to try and like cut him in the side to cause like a bleeding wound or something like that if you want to do like cool jewel stuff in a 1v1 that's fine because it doesn't upset as much of the balance as if this was like a big group fight right so like or if you want to try and be like, I want to try and jam this in his eye,

that's the kind of stuff we can definitely go for. Awesome, nice. Okay. If you just want to do normal hits, you can just do normal hits too. You can just do normal combats. Alrighty, I'll start with a normal hit. But I'll do a level 3 Divine Smite. So I'll do 5d8.

2d4 damage. Bam, bam. Let's rock and roll. Ooh, 24 for the first one. Heavy blows. You see him kind of stagger to the side like, ah! Nice. Second one incoming. Oh, so that one. Of course it is. Nice Second one incoming Oh So nat 1

So this time he like parries it With the flail he like knocks your He knocks your majesties In fact I mean if you don't want this to happen Century but on a natural one What if he like knocked her majesties rose Out of your hand and it like skids across the floor Or something like that

And it's like Foolish prime rose out of your hand and it skids across the floor or something like that. Yeah. Like, and it's like, ha! Foolish Brime, clearly you have not been working on your warrior skills, hanging around with your fleshy friends. Too much time homemaking, not enough time war making. Ugh. And yeah, like, it kind of scatters across the floor. On Verasitor's turn, he is going to, well, I think it's only fair that I do a normal

attack against you to start things off. He's going to bring up his flail, the Fist of Avarice, and try and smash it against you. That's going to be a 27 to hit sentinel orcine. And he is going to do a corrupting smite in revenge. So I'm gonna roll his normal damage and then two, three, four, five d8s. So this is 16 plus 15 so 31 points of damage you deliver this heavy blow to him and then he does the exact same thing back to you kind of slamming into you and then he's gonna point his force cannon right into your chest and he's

gonna try and fire point blank his force can Eldritch cannon but that's only gonna be a 13 to hit so you managed to kind of like buckle at the last moment and like throw it to the side and the blast smashes into one of the walls causing like debris and glass to kind of rain down as he's now kind of like you've got his arm up in the air and he's like trying to bash you in the side wrestling in front of the conduit together nice uh then we go to we're going to jump back down to the bigger fight the destructors left hand little Trotty can you roll a d6 for me this will be the d3 for its round okay that is a five five that's gonna be three on a d6 which is four total charges which means his unstable

cannon is going to go off so I need everyone in the room to make a dexterity saving throw please add your plus one okay am i in range of the... This hits everyone in the room. Okay. Okay. 23. Who got below 18? Me. I got a five.

So Quill and Nova then. That's going to be 66 fire damage. So it's 23. If you have fire resistance, that'll be halved, Kim, to 11. And if you saved, it's an 11 as well. I forgot to roll concentration for my spell. That's okay. Do you want to roll that now? I'll do that now.

DC would be 15. While Rhi's doing that, I want y'all to know that my current HP is 69. Nice. Nice. I. Nice. I got 13. That's not enough. So unfortunately, fire resistance is gone, Kimberus.

So 23 total. It's no longer 69. So you've got a bit more damage there, I guess. Yeah, another 11. All right, but that's it. It literally uses all of its charges to fire the cannon filling the room with flame um as it was on it did not take enough damage to disrupt its firing mechanism quill uh the only question i had is whether or not the wayfinders guide which is

covered in gems would be enough uh for this thing so it's not that it's covered it's not that you need like the gems on the car the wayfinders guide are tiny they're like little gems like infinity stone size right like they're little jewelry gems like this thing needs like a dinner plates or like a big two foot by two foot like lens okay so what would it take to create, if I wanted to create some magical things? I've got, like, a magic weapon as a spell. It does make a weapon magical, but I didn't know if I could just enchant

some piece of glass, maybe if I find it that's big enough. It doesn't even need to necessarily be like that. Like, the glass, from what Nova said, you'd need to cut it in some way to like make it the right shape. If you tell me like you throw me a creative idea, I'll tell you if it works or if there's a chance of it working or not. Yes, I was thinking just doing a magic weapon to do it, but I don't think like magic weapon. You normally have to enchant a weapon that exists right yeah so i was just as a way to sort of input magic no that won't work unfortunately

if you could have if magic weapon was like you create a weapon like you make a weapon out of thin air and you're like i'm gonna make a shield that's like in the shape of a giant glass prism i'd be like yeah that's fucking awesome you can do that um yeah i am running desperately low on spell slots though uh and i don't think any of them will help in any way magic missile i'll just blast a piece of glass until i get the right sized one no instead i am going to sacred flame the heavily damaged arm again. I mean, yeah, like, these arms are still, like, one's got Nova, one's holding Nova as well. Yeah, that's the one I want to hit.

Sure. So another dex save from him. Or it, the hand. Six. Perfect. 3d8 plus six. Oh, that's pretty nice. 24 damage. This thing is barely holding itself together. It still has a grip on Nova, but just barely.

Most of its armor plating has been blown off as these golden feathers rip through it, tearing away the armor. And yeah, seeing what's coming up behind me in this hole in the wall. I kind of want to get away from that. And I'll go over some of the shattered glass and things or fly over the shattered glass. I know I've used an action, but is there anything? If I had a... There's definitely something big enough. Yeah, you could pick up one big enough

and try and get somebody to cut it. Yeah. All right. Well, I'll just hold that for the time being. That's pretty much my entire turn. Okay. We go to Ayla then. I am going to try and take out the hand that's holding Nova, please. Sounds good. That sounds like what a barbarian should be doing.

Oh, so close. 19 plus 13. That's going to hit. It's going to hit, but it's not. You can kill this thing with your strength bonus alone. It has five hit points left. If you want to roll the damage, you can, but you kind of rush up to it.

And where Quill rips away the armor plating, one swift blow from the hammer causes this thing to just let go of Nova, crumple to the ground, and just slump completely flat. Okay. So with my the remainder of my

movement, I move like 10 feet. I'm going to leave it there as the arm is still kind of like reaching through the hole and creates difficult terrain. Can I go to the other arm and give that the other hit, please? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So you kind of run up one big swing and then you kind of just burst with a single like leaping bound fly towards the other one. That's only an 18th hit.

Just barely hits this thing. Like it just manages to punch it through the armor 13 points of damage and a dex save points of damage deck save not it's strong suit 15 11 points of damage then failure 11 more points of lightning damage Seems to You see that the cannon kind of stuns for a moment. Okay. I was just going to say out loud as well. Lucius, Quill, help Nova. I'll try and keep this thing busy.

Trying to find what I can. Lucius, you see all of this happening around you. You hear the cries. What are you doing, my man? He's going to stagger back from the fist, taking in Nova's words. He kind of sees some resolve. If anyone looks at him, he just kind of nods to himself

and starts looking around. Same as Quill for anything. He's going to look around the window area. Okay. That wasn't really a window, it was a wall. Wall exposure. It's a window now. Make a...

Make a... Not necessarily perception check here. Make a... Just roll me a d20 plus charisma, Lucius. Okay. Just regular charisma. Seven, eighteen. Like, looking at the shards of glass, I mean, they're all

broken and you can, I think with Lucius, like, there's almost, because we've talked about how Lucius sees things in colour, like, you see the magic of colour and things like that. The glass here, it's all just clear and lifeless. Like when you look at the three prisms, like the three lenses that are channeling this magic, they're not clear. They're prismatic, like they have all sorts of different hues, but the glass here, it's wrong. It's too, too pure. It has no light to it. It's all just like a clear, invisible color. Whereas the gems that are channeling the power have this prismatic element to them.

It's similar. Like, you've seen patterns of light like this before. Like, there's been a couple of times you've used your magic to almost create stuff like this, like this kind of shifting thing of magic. Like, maybe you could make something out of ice like you can use cold magic to create ice or something that might be something you could try but the glass you don't think the glass is gonna work the glass like

to your eyes doesn't look like it will work because you can see the magic coursing through this stuff I'll call out to Quill and tell him to stop looking. I'll work on the thing. I'll work on the lens. Focus on something else. Okay. Okay. Will do. Alright. Anything else, Lucius?

I guess he's going to start, but he's done his action to look. Well, yeah. That's action to look so you could down well yeah it's action to look actually yeah all right cool Nova just two bits of housekeeping I rolled a 14 on my con check from getting the big cannon blast so it was 23 points of damage she'd be fun roller for TC 10 that's fine I also rolled my armor of hexes um and i failed on that so i wouldn't have missed it um just for those who are keeping tabs well is that

only on attack rolls because it was a saving throw ability armor of hexes you are correct so it wouldn't have worked anyway uh so i'm no longer grappled and the hand that was grappling me is defunct now? Yeah, it's just laying there, a useless pile of metal now. Okay. I am going to... I don't know, would I have heard Lucius saying to Cole to stop looking? Yeah, you weren't grappling. He's showing it across the room, yeah.

Okay, okay. In which case, I will move back towards my place in the conduit, and I'm going to summon another beam from the Wall of Light to hit the big boy arm. I rolled 26 to hit. 26 hits. Ooh, eight and a seven, so that's 15,

16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and then 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 points of damage. 26 points of damage. Another cutting laser from the wall just rips apart pieces

of its armor plating, shedding them as it does so. And as I retake my place, I guess, where I'm meant to stand for the thing, I'll be like Yeah, you kind of hold Tiengong up and it becomes a wad. If I'm going to have to

conduct this energy again, I could do a little pick me up, please. Cool. And then that's it for me. All right. Sentry, we go up to the top into the desperate battle. Can I do a little combat roll on the ground to get my sword? And then while I'm on the ground, try and swipe at the leg of Rasta. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right, so you kind of drop to the ground, roll, pick up Her Majesty's Rose, and then try and swipe. And you want to go for his leg specifically? Yeah. Okay, cool. So the way this is going to work is I'm going to boost his AC, but if you hit, I'll make a con save. It will basically be like an injury check

where I have to make a con save against the damage dealt, or 10, depending on which is higher. If I fail, you'll basically do a leg-based injury to Veracitor. Like you're like, you know, maybe it will just be a light maim. It might be like you tear off like the bottom part of his leg or something like that, but we'll go for something cool. Nice. Alrighty.

First one coming in that is a 16 it's not gonna be enough he actually reaches down and just parries it away with his with his arm just kind of deflects the attack and if my second one can I try and like use that momentum and push myself forward and try and barrel into him with the sword just try and like yeah we'll just say like you knock him prone if you hit lip yeah if you hit we'll just have him fall prone and then you'll both be on the ground tussling yeah 17 you got anything to add to it that's just my stance you don't need to because it hits. He's not as heavily armoured as Sentry.

So he's actually not as heavily armoured as you. You can see that there's areas where all of his... Because you've got wood as well as stone and metal, and wood is pretty resistant, things like that. He doesn't have that, so you slip the blade in and kind of shove it through one of these red membranes and you barrel into him and knock him down to the ground. Nice.

So yeah, give me the damage and then we knock him prone. Awesome. I'll do a level two Divine Smite for this one. kind of shove it through one of these like red membranes and you barrel into him and knock him down to the ground um yeah give me the damage and then we knock him awesome i'll do a level two divine smite for this one so 4d8 and the 2d4 that's d20 let's get rid of that because that's gonna be ridiculous here it comes 26 26 points. Like, you must rip through some internal, like, whatever this membrane is, like, you hear Verastor just... Ah!

As you, like, rip through and you land on top of him, and now, like, you're wrestling in these close quarters, you know, trying to knock each other away, but you can see, like, the deep pain kind of tearing through him. Nice. Okay. Awesome. Uh, on his turn, uh, for his first attack, uh, he's gonna have to, um, he's gonna kind

of like grip you on the side and he's gonna try and suck out some of the life force from you. Uh, so he needs to hit you with a melee spell attack first 25 to hit yep and then this is gonna be 36 to 56 damage and he heals that amount so you're gonna take 19 points of damage century andry, and he's going to heal my team. Sentry's looking pretty tired. Because he's doing this while you've got him prone, so he's reaching up and you feel him sucking the life force out of you. You denied me your power once, Prime,

and I will take it from you if I must. I will rip out your optics. And he's going to go for your eyes. He's going to reach in and he's going to try and eyes he's gonna like reach in he's gonna try and like smash one of your eyes in um oh shit uh your ac is 21 right it is yeah he has to get a 26 or higher to be able to like do an actual injury to you no 21 he does hit you but it's not enough to cause an injury this time uh oh my god that's gonna be another 12 points of damage is like he uses like the butt of his mace to kind of like try and smash your eye you turn your head and it like hits the armor

plating instead and like the both of you are kind of wrestling around on the ground you hear like herald calling out like sternal prime i let me help you like she's like calling out to like you know try and aid you and stuff like that okay you say anything back look what do I need to do tell me no let me help you against him you don't have to fight him alone then yes yes please do what you can coward you would call upon others I thought you were a worthy warrior sentinel prime now you hide behind these pathetic minions we're gonna go down to the giant cannon hand it seems that the firing mechanism doesn't go so it's just gonna try and smack Ayla in the face

19 and nearly a crit that's a 30 to hit though yeah that'll hit I'm just rolling I'm rolling the damage it wasn't actually checking if I 15 points or half that to 8 yeah there's this thing just kind of clunks you and tries to smash you, and you reach up and knock it away. Quill. Cool. I want to do a second level healing word, which is 2d4 plus 6 onto Nova, which is 11 healing. Not terrible, not amazing.

As a bonus action, and with my full action, I want to go to Lucius and give him Guidance. Oh, very nice. Extra D4. Extra D4 to ability checks, which is what I assume is what's going to be happening soon. Could be. I want to bolster Lucius, give him some reserve, while a screaming horde of feral guardians

are climbing up behind us. And that, Dick Quill, on that very note, at the end of the turn on the last initiative, you begin to see this just screaming horde of guardians beginning to pull themselves up where their head was. These feral guardians climbing against the lake, digging their claws into the glass itself, calling up

the neck and the body of this thing. No. He didn't tell anyone. He didn't. Nope. I panicked and then I blasted a hand and then I came back and it's like, I didn't have a lot of time to tell people. They, basically, their turn is they pull themselves up and you can see

that it's just a swirling mass of bodies. This is a swarm of feral guardians, the biggest swarm of feral guardians you've ever seen. And they're squeezing in through this gap left by the head. About four of them can fit in at a time and they're just pushing forward, like trying to find any crevice in. And you just hear like, as they try and burst their way through Ayla so I'm gonna take a couple swings at the hand first please which is going

to be 25 to hit on the first one which is 12 points of damage points damage oh that was so close to not 20 it rolled back and that's still 27 to hit yeah that hits I thought was damaged then 15 points of damage and then a deck save. 15 more points of damage and then a deck save. It's probably going to fail it. 11 fails. Wait, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 lightning damage. 18 points of lightning damage.

With those three strikes, you have basically torn off half of what was left of this hand. Like most of the armor plating is gone. At least one of the fingers is like crippled beneath the blow of the hammer. Not fingers, it's the giant cannon. Like part of the cannon is bent inwards. Lightning is arcing up and down it. You can see it smoking and smoldering.

Heavily, heavily damaged. Still functional, but very close to being destroyed. Lucius. Seeing this swarm, he had a plan in his mind of what he was going to do but this seems like the immediate threat you see him grit his teeth and get angry uh and he basically shouts at this swarm you're not welcome here and he's going to cast eighth level prismatic spray at them uh is what he's going to do 8th level Prismatic Spray at them. That's what he's going to do. Oh, my God.

It's a big pog. That's a big move. The biggest of pogs. Let's see. 8th level. I mean, Prismatic Spray is an 8th level spell. It's a big spell. Yeah. So what this does, 8 multicolored rays of light come out of my hand.

Each ray is a different color, different powers and purposes. Each creature in a 60-foot cone must make a deck-saving throw. So the swarm deck save. So because this is a swarm, I've counted it as a single creature, but it would make no sense for Prismatic Spray to only hit it once as if it was. So what I'm going to do is is how many rays come out of it trot does it say eight can you roll um a d6 plus two roll one d6 plus two for me five five i'm gonna have it basically make five saving throws as if five rays had hit the one swarm because this

is like creatures like trying to pull in and like it would make no sense if only one thing got hit because it only counts as one creature um what's yours dc for the saving throw uh 18 18 okay i have the roll 18 19 or 20 oh no that doesn't count for that does it yeah that's for the d that's for your saving throws. First one fails. Second one fails. Third one fails. Fourth one fails. Fifth one fails. They all fail. So now you have to roll five rays.

Five d8s. Still only counts as one. All right, so I got two ones. Those ones are red. The target takes 10d6 fire damage, so I'll resolve that now. 10d6, right? Was it?

Yes. If you can roll them separately because there is going to be resistances at play in here. Because again, because it's a swarm. I've got all the individual numbers here. So there are one two three four ones there uh it's fire damage you don't get to reroll ones on fire damage remember yeah no i'm just telling you the individuals because it doesn't show them all here

oh no that's fine i'm gonna basically count it so that was the first red ray right so it did 32 fire damage yes i'm gonna have it do 16 fire damage. That's the first fire ray. Second fire ray. Oh shit. Okay. Yeah. Can I re-roll? No. That's fine. We can take our time. That's 36. That's 15.

That's 18 points of fire damage for the resistance. What was the next one? 32. Man. What type of damage is this? This is all... Did I do two fire? Yeah, I'm getting confused now. So this is the third

number three I rolled, which is a yellow. That's 10d6 lightning damage. So that's 32 lightning damage. That one. So that's another 16. And then I rolled a 7 and an 8. So the

7 is... These are the special ones. Violet. On a failed save, the target is blinded. It must then make a wisdom saving throw at the start of my next turn. A successful save ends the blindness. If it fails, the creature is transported to another plane of existence of the GM's choosing and is no longer blinded.

And then eight. A target is struck by two rays. Roll twice more, re-rolling any eight. Oh, my God. All right, there you go. Oh, my God. Two more eights. So I got a seven and a four.

That's another transportation. Another blinded. Yep. And then the other one is a four and that four I believe is a green. 10d6 poison damage. Okay. Yep. So I'll roll that real quick.

Uh, 41 poison damage. Jesus Christ. Even with resistance. What? do the banishment. 41 poison damage. Jesus Christ. Even with resistance. You just watch as Lucius, and I kind of imagine Lucius aiming this down, because you're looking at a surging, like an anthill of around this giant titan.

The guardians are swarming up it and kind of crawling their way in. Lucius looks out the window, points his hand down, and just this rainbow of magic just crashes down over these guardians. Several of them are incinerated. Some of them are electrified. Several of them kind of choke and gag on this poison.

And at least, you know, maybe a huge chunk of them clutching their eyes and seemingly going transparent as he does this. And the whole swarm seems to almost stop for a moment, completely taken aback by this incredible display of magic. Cool. Cool. Are you done? I'm going to just nod at Quill

and start walking towards the north area. Badass. So you just come over here, you just blast these dudes in rainbow light, and then you just nod and walk off, and I'm just stood there like... You are not welcome here. Lucius walks backward and starts curling his hands into a sphere,

and you can see just cold emanating from his hands as he's running to the north. Well, here's the other here's the other thing useless that was a prismatic spell you just cast wasn't it indeed so lucius when he nods at you quill lucius's eyes aren't orange and blue they're pure prisms you can see every spectrum of color in them they're like they're like glittering prisms of a diamond like you know they know, every single hue throughout them. And you've seen that flash in Lucius's eyes before. It takes root. And as he turns away, they're still prismatic as he walks away.

Nova Vija. Hell yeah. It's going to be a bit of a calm down after that, but I'm just going to Eldritch Blast the big hand. I mean, that big hand's still here. Nice. Love it. Cool. Imagine rolling initiative after that.

How do you follow that? 28 to hit the first one. 28 to hit, yep. 18 or higher will hit. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 points of damage. Come. 17 to hit the second one. That doesn't hit.

OK, that's fine. I only rolled a one on the damage anyway. 24 to hit on the second one hits uh third one you mean 18 sorry yeah third one uh 18 19 20 20 wait hold on my brain brain brain hello brain d10 plus your bonus okay 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 points of damage because if hex blades curse right you're 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 points of damage. Because of Hexblade's curse, right? You're doing the extra damage. With that,

the two blasts, so as you swipe Tiangong in the air, creating these kind of like pulsing crescent beams of energy, they cleave the giant hand in twain and it just collapses. It just... And a wave of energy goes back to uh nova as she regains 20 hit points i love it huge fan exactly what you wanted

tasty you see the arm kind of again it kind of collapses and slams into the ground um and at that point is probably when you do see some more of these feral guardians are clawing up the side of it, trying to get past. Swarming inside. That's what the boys were firing at. Sentry. You and Verasator threatening with each other. He's just kind of called you out for like, you know, having Herald help you, you coward.

Without my friends, I'm nothing. I'm going to do my Harness Divine Power, regain a level three spell slot. That's right, Prime. Without these pathetic individuals holding you up, you are nothing. I am the true inheritor of our race. My friends make me

strong. Your greed makes you weak. And then I'm gonna chug a health potion. Because I really... What kind of potion is it? Just a potion of healing. Just a standard one of had a break. Just a regular normal one.

Oh. You're, like holding a potion like a beer and like glugging it and then still having liquid in your mouth as you're doing that speech. What's up, friend? It's like 5 HP. Smash it on the floor. I'm on 15 HP.

This ain't looking good for me. Oh my god. Well, I'll tell you this. Veracitor ain't looking like a- He healed himself from that move, but like those two blows when you hit him, he was hurt. Like, he was definitely hurt. That's- he

drained you because he was clearly injured. Okay. That's my bonus action. Right, so five hit points from the potion, and then your channel divinity, right? Yep. That's you done? That's me done, that's my turn.

Okay. Yeah, I think he's gonna fire his cannon point blank at you again. See if he... I think he's actually... Oh, man. Yeah, this is an example. He's going to try and target your leg. He wants to try and stop you running away. He thinks you're going to run away,

so he's going to try and blow your leg out. He needs to get a 26 to actually do anything fancy. Otherwise, it will just be a normal hit. It's not going to be enough. 22. It's a normal hit. can i use my prime reaction thing you tell me uh as a reaction when you're a creature you can see within 60 feet misses of an attack roll or fails an ability check or saving throw you may spend any number of

charges from the matrix for each charge you increase the roll by one. Uh, this is his attack roll against you. A creature you can see within 60 feet misses an attack roll. An allied creature. It was an allied. Well yeah, because you'd be boosting the roll, you don't want to make his roll higher. Oh, my fault, I misread it. Carry on. No, that's fine, but it's good for you to know when on your attacks,

like you can boost your own attacks that way. I can boost mine. Yes. Yeah. Well, okay. Well, this attack is still going to hit you. 15 points of damage. It's a good bloody job you drank that potion. And it's going to blast you back 10 feet. He's going to blast you to the edge of the tower

where he like blew out this hole. You skid along the glass floor and you managed to just catch yourself before like going over the edge as he is gonna stand up and in true villain fashion, he's gonna gloat. Ah, I thought you would be more of a challenge, Prime, to see you so pathetic before me.

It seems that Root failed in his successor. Still, perhaps Hadar will find a place for you after I'm done. He's going to raise up his cannon with you hanging on the edge. He's going to charge and fire it um 14 would you well how does that how does he miss you this point blank range like he's like aiming this cannon down to try and throw you off of this roof but he misses what is this something sentry does? Like, do you like knock the, like, like punch him in the face that it throws his aim off?

Or like, do you throw something at him? I think maybe like, maybe like the impact of Sentry hitting the wall, like knock something off the ceiling and like gets in the way. It's like a piece of like glass or something like ricochet. Like knocks his aim off yeah yeah like hits him on the shoulder and his aim goes wide yeah i love it perfect um after veracitor herald uh like still standing in the way of this conduit like looking around

um she's gonna reach out with her hand and she's gonna use her last bit of energy to cast Healing Word at 5th level. This is the last thing she can do. Like, you wanted help, this is the last help Herald can give you. It's gonna be a total of 18 hit points. It's not a lot, but that's what she's got. It's great. It's so lovely. You gotta use it though. got to take him out. Quill. I mean, Lucius just walked away, and for a little while there, I was looking at him in pure amazement of these spectral eyes.

And I want Lucius to know that I was looking at him in pure amazement. What he just did was incredible and he's just then he just was like, nods at me and walks off and I'm like, oh my god. But then I look back and I suppose every space has now been filled by even more feral guardians,

right? More is about to pour in. They are about to like try and surge forward towards you, yes. Thunder wave! Oh, okay. Yeah. A 15-foot cube. They make a constitution save, 2d8 thunder damage, and they are pushed 10 feet away from me.

I'm going to launch as many feral guardians as I can. They fail. Okay, well, 2d8 thunder damage to all of them, and they're pushed 10 feet. 10 damage. 10 damage. 10 points of damage. Yeah, it's enough to basically halt their advance. They don't get any closer.

So you throw a bunch off, and then the ones who are lower claw back up, but that's their whole turn is to just fill that space. Ayla, you look over. And they basically are going to start moving in on this side as well now. And that's their turn. You can see these Feral Guardians all surging forward. Great. That's a lot of Guardians.

Holy crap. Yeah. 1, 2, 3, 4. Oh yeah. Just 12. Just 12. How's that lot of guardians. Holy crap. Yeah. Oh yeah. Just twelve. How's that crystal looking, guys? Working on it. I can fire them off for now. Aayla, your turn. This is one creature, you don't have to target them individually, I'm just using many of them to represent this horde. I am going to take a big old swipe. Sure. You've also, like, just as a point, if you don't want to just make regular attacks, like, that giant arm, they're crawling over it.

If you wanted to try and, like, lift that up and block the hole, you could try and do that and, like, just use strength to hold them, like, you know, push them out, basically. Like, don't just feel like you have to make attacks. Yeah, fuck it, let's try that. Sure. Let's do that sure let's try straight away athletics athletics i've got advantage from raging 18 plus 12 18 plus 12 18 plus 12 you mean 30 yeah. You mean 30. Yeah. So you grip, and you saw Century do this, right,

when she deflected the giant cannon. You grip under the cannon. You lift it up, and all these guardians go spilling down, flying back outside, and you just push it, and you're holding it up against the hole. And they're scrabbling around it, reaching around it, scratching at your arms, but you're just holding it in place and keeping these Guardians out stopping their advance for now but this is gonna become tiring. I'm just gonna stay here guys but if you could just make that crystal real quick that'd be great

I'll just stay here for night. Lucius. Alright on that note I have vitriolic sphere and what that can do is create a one-foot sphere, which usually is thrown and smashed. But can I use a charge in my gauntlet to kind of encase it in energy to hold it together and without exploding? Do you mean vitriolic sphere is acid, though? Or do you mean to do chromatic orb? Vitriolic sphere.

Oh, it is acid, isn't it? Yeah. Can I do chromatic control and change it? Yeah, you could do that as well. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So as my reaction I'll do that as that and then also I've got a charge to kind of just contain the power and not let it explode.

So you see the gauntlet kind of all the the silver chrome flaps of the gauntlet kind of open up and begin humming and venting power as you channel energy through it and we see this kind of like block of ice beginning to form inside this sphere of energy that you're creating and it begins spreading out to create like a disc i need you to make a r this is going to be a just straight up charisma check you can add the d4 from guidance um and you do have inspiration if you'd like to use that as well but just a d20 plus charisma i will use the guidance so 19 plus 23 23 you try and picture that crystal that you remembered from before but it was flawed and

you remember it with all the fixes you made to it and instead what you create is this beautiful lens that seems almost perfect for the fittings and the creation of what its purpose and yeah it's it's exactly the right size you think that this will provide the the crystal lens as required i will need to attach it okay restart and then just nod and then get ready to remember is this this this crystal over here i'm ready to either hand it over to nova or go there myself whoever's next nova. Nova? Yeah. Do you want? Okay. Nova. Yeah. Okay.

I'll take the crystal from Lucius. Give him a nod. I knew you had it in you. And then I'll move over to the empty podium and place it in. You place it in. You place it in. You adjust a few things, slide some of the brass rims of this strange arcane device

and you hear that and again, all the chains begin to crackle with arcane energy. Two of them are still broken. They're going to need conduits, but the energy is once again running and it begins to project up towards the ceiling. Herald, Sentry, you look over and Herald turns around as the conduit lights up.

Verastor. Well, at least your little friends are worth something. And we're going to take our five-minute break right there. Whoa! What's he planning? What do you mean? Wow. Ah!

Nice. Oh, that was so cool holy crap the duel was amazing so many scenes yeah hell yeah this is a big one right this is a big one AAA top budget MCU style movie going on right now.