High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #123 | Zephyr's Domain (Part 2)

Episode Date: September 9, 2021

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Everyone excited while we wait for Tombus? I'm scared. Is everyone ready? I'm scared. Anne's making a face. I'm scared. It's going to be totally land of the wall eater fine. Land of the wall eater.

Wall eater fine. Oh, wall eater fine. I see. wall eater wall eater fine well wall eater fine i see you think that you think that i would just rip off mechanics from popular mmorpg final fantasy 14 because we've been playing it and doing all the cool raids and dungeons and stuff and you did a tweet that said it's final fantasy 14's fault i mean i'm just saying when you did that tweet I immediately panic Kind of went through all the dungeons and trials We've done together and I was like Which one? He's done more than us

I have done more than you He's done more than you Can you just reassure us What Tom said that it's not Titan Please So Everyone's back. Let's get back into it.

Let's kill a god. Valor brings you to what to you guys just seems to be open water. Open blue sky, ocean as far as the eye can see. But Valor starts growing more and more serious. And she goes like, this is it. We're here. I can see but valor starts growing more and more serious and she goes like This is it. We're here. I Can sense it Okay, do you just

Hair a hole like you normally do what's the plan? You don't need to do anything stay away from the edges Get yourselves ready and just leave this to me this is this is as much a test for me as it is for you if I can't do this I don't know I feel like I feel like if I fail in this then there's no hope for Aroas not anymore

you won't we know you won't thank you lucius and she goes to the back of the ship you see like max kind of moves up and keeps his distance though for the first time max isn't right next to he's actually holding back he stood next to lucius at the mid deck vala goes to sort of back where the captain's wheel and things is. And she closes her eyes and you begin to see around her just

almost like just this very faint purple light coming off of her skin. Like a kind of aura. Like steam rising from something too hot. And this purple light begins kind of coalescing off of her body. When she opens her eyes, they are like black infinity. It's kind of almost like black and white reflected

that go on forever in her eyes. And it just... And then she plunges her hands down, slaps them against the wood of the ship, and the whole ship is covered in this like purple energy aura it just kind of spreads out from her hands coalesces all over the ship down into the waves and then it begins to form a bubble around the ship itself and it's peaceful. The wind dies down. It's a strange, almost familiar sensation. It's almost like you can hear the crackle of a fireplace.

You can smell a woman's perfume. You can feel a soft bed and a cushion. What sounds like song from a music box. As this domain, this sphere sphere completely encapsulates the ship and valor just not roars but kind of lets out this scream of power just this kind of like and then the ocean drops away for a moment there's just blackness For a moment, there's just blackness. Strange sense of movement, as if the ship is still sailing,

but you can't see where or how or why. Those familiar, comforting sensations remain. Valor just grits her teeth and you see the ship continue, you know, surrounded by this energy. And then eventually, the dome breaks the ship remains covered in this kind of purple glow valor is now kind of covered by a dome of this light that covers over just her and the back of the ship but the whole of the ship is covered in this energy. And now you find yourselves in not still waters. The ship is in the middle of a furious storm. The wind is threatening to blow you off the ship as is.

Like you're fighting the wind immediately. It like nearly throws you to the ground. The rain is so thick. You can barely see more than sort of, you know, 30 feet in front of you. Like, you can vaguely make out the shapes of your allies, but the rain is just hammering down. As a note, in this space, ranged attacks with things like bows and arrows and things like that have disadvantage. Doesn't affect spells. If you use a bow or an arrow or anything like that it will have disadvantage because of the wind perception checks sight and hearing disadvantage the wind is so loud it deafens it nearly deafens

you the rain is so hard to see through disadvantage open flames immediately extinguished if you try and like light a torch it would just be blown out immediately um flying by non-magical means and quill would know this quill is you know an arakokra he understands it you can't fly in this quill not naturally you there's just no way it would it would just break you to try and fly in this if you fly magically you must land at the end of your turn or you fall out of the sky and you will just fall wherever you are so magical flight will give you like a burst of flight but you better land or you're in trouble um yeah and that's that's kind of the the effects of this space this kind of like storming sea that you find yourselves in uh valor you don't see you're really here.

She's just kind of protected by this purple dome and you see the energy armor stretch out. Maximilian is stood with you and he just grips the great sword, kind of slams it down. We are in it now. Prepare yourselves. And he like puts himself, you know,

in front of Valor's dome. I would like you guys to uh you should be able to now see a map uh of the front of the ship okay um i got like some spell effects for like the mist and the roiling flames and things like that um and yeah i would like you guys just to position yourselves and yeah Maybe make a note on where you would like this kind of network of ropes for to be placed Nova How how big can I have it I would say that you can basically cover

with the rigging that you have say that you can basically cover with the rigging that you have um sort of 5 10 15 like two 20 foot cubes um that would cover like a side so not in like the middle but you could like cover let me give you an example um so you could cover like 5 10 15 so you So you could cover this side. So if anybody was going to be thrown over, then they can grab the ropes on that side. Or you could do it like, you know, there, for example. I think pretty much those two spaces that you've drawn on are perfect. They're pretty much what I had in mind anyway.

So you basically like dangle over and tie thick ropes to these sections to try and create spaces Sweet yeah, I'm gonna start pretty much just in the center of the ship is there like a Thing for me to grab on to if I'm like here, I guess No, the ship I've had to just use the the ship on the map is is kind of think of it as a placeholder There's not like that big anchor wheel. There's not steps or anything like that This is like a pretty flat plain deck apart from the masts

Okay, I think I'll stand you near a mast then relatively close to the center of everyone Cool. I just keep in mind anybody more than 30 feet away from you, you can see them, but it's, like, obscured. Like, the rain is so thick and heavy that it's quite hard to see everyone. Okay. Yeah, that's where I want to be.

Okay. The ship, I mean, immediately, the ship is being thrown all over the place, right? Like, but you don't get the sense that you need somebody to steer the ship, right? Valor is somehow controlling this and keeping it not on course, but like keeping it afloat. Like these waves crashing down, you should be feeling the ship rock and royal, but it's being relatively stable as it is. stable as it is.

As you are traveling, the water in front of the ship begins to rise and a voice begins calling out. So, I see that my little brother's

champion and his friends have decided to come to my little home one last adventure before everything comes crumbling down um uh as you're here restore siaska in full grace, and we need your cooperation on this. Cooperation? No, you need my life, little bird. I am not my mad brother. I know what you are asking me. We all know what you want from us. She gave us life.

I'm not going to give it up. Not for anyone. It's my freedom. You don't get to take this from me. And if I'm going to go, I'm going to have one bloody good last adventure for it. And with that, you see emerging in front of the ship a titanic woman dressed kind of in this uh kind of pirate's garb with two arcing sparking scimitars larger than anything you've seen in each hand she emerges you will those of you who can see roll 20 please

forgive me for the artwork this is the only thing that i could find in the tokens map she is not as scantily dressed as this i promise you this is the only thing that i could find all right um nice one roll 20 jesus uh Nice one, Roll20. Jesus. Uh... I could see nips! No, you can't! No, you can't! No, no, don't say that, because then people go looking for it. It's not there. Alright.

Uh, sure. This is the only thing that actually was the right angle that i could find that was like a woman standing up all of the rest of them were like fucking just weird elemental creatures um anyway she's huge that's the main takeaway from this that's the correct thing to focus on tom thank you um very big very big so with that that going to be initiative. Nice. For some reason, I was like, ah, she's not going to be an actual, you know, giant, giant, giant, giant.

But we're in her domain. She can just do what she wants. Yeah, she appears, like, huge. This isn't just gargantuan. She is colossal. Like, this is enormous. The world. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. So, Lucius. I got a 21. Yeah. Okay. So, Lucius. I got a 21. 21. Oh. Helicad Calar. 16. 16.

Aayla. 19. 19. Sentry. 16. 16. Very good all around. Nova?

17. 17. Oh. Yeah, you guys are very, very good all around Nova 17 17 yeah you guys are nice very very good cool cool cool let me just adjust this there we go okay all right well Lucius Varian Eloin Elowen, Elinasto. Looking around me, are the waters stirring? Is the winds picking up? Is there crackles of lightning?

There's a lot of wind right now, I know that. There's a lot of wind and a lot of rain. The waves are already very high and things like that. You don't see them growing any more significant at this point. Do bear with me during this fight. I have a lot of things to remember and do. So I will maybe take my time. Just carry some of them.

No. Just, you know, delete them. Absolutely not. Nope. Nope, nope, nope. I'm going to cast Absorb. Oh wait, Absorb. Oh, wait. Absorb Elements is a reaction, so never mind that.

Reaction to when you take damage, yeah. It's a way to give yourself resistance. Indeed. I guess I would just... throw a little Chromatic Orb out there. A little Seeking Bolt to see how this goes i don't know if lucius would kick it off though but she is very much going to be the aggressor here so i i mean yeah like i'm gonna make it very clear to you this is a fight like

this is this is boss time like uh you know I think it's okay to like sometimes be like, oh, maybe you can talk to them. Maybe you can convince them. This is not one of those times. Yeah, this is a big epic cool fight. Okay. In which case, Chromatic Orb, fifth level with my extra plus two, I believe, from

my Storm's Command. So here we go. This is going to be acid as well giving it a go 22 to hit 22 will hit uh the acid however is not as effective as you would like she does have resistance so i will tell you she does have acid resistance so when the acid strikes her you actually see that her form like the clothing the skin it breaks away and it's water like you can see that as the acid hits and that's why it's not as effective it's kind of diffused by the water as it hits it kind of like melts away 32 points down to 16 32 points um i will also die cromancy

because why not please just give me one second i'm just going to get myself a notepad up so I can track how much damage you do not because D&D Beyond only tracks the hit points you take away so that was 32 yes indeed sorry so that's 16 actually as I have

looking at my class features I've been reminded Elemental Adept. Yep. What's that do? I'm just trying to find the specific wording. So spells I cast ignore resistance. Okay. All right.

In the case it does the full damage. So even though the water tries to diffuse this acid, the water still, there is like a sizzling sensation and there is a reaction there more than so being, but then it just kind of forms back and it kind of forms back into the kind of sailor's clothing. Yeah, and then I throw like a bolt of acid for 10 damage at her as well okay another 10 points damage so 42 in total points of damage

um okay uh after yeah i think that when you do that Lucius she looks down at you is that the end of your turn by the way sorry I'm jumping together yeah yeah yeah she looks down at you and you just kind of like see her grin and that's enough of that and you watch

as from underneath the ship like from the moisture around you, Lucius, you are lifted up into the air, and a sphere of water completely engulfs you. You are trapped within a watery prison. Oh. Okay. Now, I've got water breathing, right?

So, yeah, I'm okay yeah you yeah you can breathe you don't you don't know what other limits this has but yeah you're not in any danger of suffocating however it is icy cold in here in that freezing freezing temperatures in here all right that is a legendary action. Then we go to something else. So can somebody... Let's have Lucius, in fact. Can you roll a d6 for me, please? A d3.

So d6 and then turn it in. So convert it to a d3, basically. It's a three. Three. Three spheres of sea green. I'm going to have to move you for being. Three spheres of sea green appear on the deck of the ship. They almost seem to be formed by the rolling moisture, the salt spray, the wind seems to coalesce,

and they form three sea green spheres. And it looks like something's inside each one um and they come into being uh ayla hello i will uh rage and i would like to go up to the woman and hit her. Yeah. Please. Yeah, she is big enough, by the way. Like, you don't need to fly or anything like that.

Like, her limbs are like, she's kind of like on either side of the boat. And she's really just from the waist up. So, like, her arms are easily still within striking distance. You can melee attack her. As long as you get within sort of like the five feet of the edge of the boat, you can strike. Oh, so close. A 19 19 i rolled so 19 oh you rolled 19 plus 40 that's going to hit i 16 damage with the hammer. And an additional...

So I will tell you this now, Katie. Never roll lightning damage. Yeah, I thought as much. So 16 hammer damage, yeah? Yep. And then 17 plus 14 to hit. That will also hit. Which will... To speed this up, because this is going to be quite a long fight. That will also hit. Which will...

To speed this up, because this is going to be quite a long fight, Horace is 20. So, like, you've hit her enough times. I'm just going to tell you because it's going to help speed the fight up. So, I trust you guys to just be like, yeah, now I missed. Cool, cool, cool, cool. What's her HP?

What's she doing to you? I'm not going to tell you that. Just to speed things up, cool. What's her HP? What's she doing to? I'm not going to tell you that. Just to speed things up, Mark. Very good try. Don't worry, Tom will run this like 50 times. No, I didn't. Sorry, KT. How much damage? All right, 16 damage.

16 more damage yeah so you swing the hammer the lightning just passes through the water and zephyr looks down i remember you i remember you when you came seeking answers well i hope you found them because siaska won't tell you anything actually i found better answers they're not you nice no damn at the end of your turn ayla she is going to make an attack against you. She brings one of her scimitars and she's just going to try and clobber. In fact, no, she's not going to do that.

She can do something else first. She points to you and then she looks and she points at Quill. And you watch as a chain of lightning springs to life, connecting you and Quill together. Ah crap. So I would just like if you can just make a note that you are you two are tethered together and I'll tell you when that happens. Shall I make a line? Yeah if you don't mind it will have to move around so don't get too... I don't mind. Yeah. There it is. Ayla, that was the end of your turn, right?

Because I just took the legendary action, so... Yep. Well, then it's Zephir's go. Zephir is going to make... Well, she does have that active, but I want to get some stuff going first. She's going to strike you, Ayla, with her first attack.

She brings one of her big scimitars down. I'm going to have to do the rolls a little bit differently because I didn't have time to add all of this stuff together. It's going to be a 30 to hit. So damage, two, three. And then this is going to be... So this is only going to be 13 points of damage halved. So you will take six points of damage.

But both you and Quill gain a stack of something called Gathering Storm. Okay. And then she goes to hit you again, Ayla. How many stacks can we get to? You'll find out. That's going to be a 28 to hit. So this time, Ayla, you're going to take... Ooh, that's much better.

You're going to take 23. Half would be 11 points of slashing damage but then you and quill both take uh you both take six lightning damage and six thunder damage so for you that would be three lightning damage but for quill um that's going to be the full six and you gain another stack of gathering storm oh no okay okay okay nova vegia i'm so scared and confused um i'm next to a a sea green orb right yes you are would you like to inspect it what's oh i don't know is that an action no i'd say there's free action like yeah i want you guys to understand some of the mechanics of the fight so like i'm

not gonna make you waste actions and stuff like that um yeah if you just glance at it nova yeah when you glance at it looking you can see that there is a scene inside this orb um it is a beautiful still calm sea um if you'd like you can make an arcana check for free this won't cost you an action this is just a free arcana action i love free arcana checks are all 13 plus 8 so 21 21 you have a feeling that if you touch this orb and use your action you will be teleported inside that space for a short period of time but it will use up the orb the orb will vanish you will teleport inside it and then you will vanish and then the orb will vanish okay so now you can take your turn and meanwhile lucius is um floating around and yeah and and this bubble is like a bubble of water and it looks, you know, dense. Like.

Hmm. I am going to while I am using my bonus action to place a hex blade curse on the giant lady. Zephyr. I'm going to look at Quill and shout. Quill, I think I think the calm is accessible inside this orb. Maybe it will break this chain. And then I am going to... What am I going to do? I'm actually going to...

Can I Eldritch Blast the orb that is surrounding Lucius? So the water that Lucius is in. I don't know if this is allowed, but can I do like one blast and then see what happens? Because if it... That's how attacks work. Yeah, you can divide up

the attacks how you like. Sure. Okay. What's your attack bonus, Kim? Plus 10. All right, don't roll a 1. If you roll a 1, you miss. If you roll anything else, you hit.

Okay, I rolled a 10, so it's 20. You hit. Okay, I hit. And then I do 5, 6, 7, 8 points of force damage. The orb definitely diminishes. Lucius, you don't take any damage. You don't feel any harm. You can vaguely see your friends. You can see Nova blast the sphere,

and you feel, yeah, the sphere definitely diminishes. Still in place, but Lucius didn't take any damage from it. I'm gonna keep blasting. Okay. Second hit is a 25, eight points of force damage. Eight more points. Last one is a 23, 79, 10 points of force damage. So you can see this sphere around Lucius is close to breaking.

It almost kind of looks like a glass bauble. You can see cracks around it and water is dripping out onto the deck from it um still trapped in there but very very weakened at this point okay i'm just going to use my movement to move uh away from quill and up next to the me um okay yeah that's cool uh at the end of your turn nova i'm going to use her last legendary action to do a storm cool strike against quill this is a ranged spell attack um her eyes crackle with lightning and she shoots a blast of lightning at you from her eyes oh can i protect against this you can yeah so disadvantage on the attack row yeah twice so i'll take the lesser one it's a natural one so it's gonna miss so yeah essentially you dive

in front of quill and with your shield you just knock the blast up into the air as this blast of lightning kind of just echoes into the sky. And you see Zephir just like, very good, very good. And next we have Kila Kadkala. Thank you. Thank you for protect. Can I do one of those? You're dealing out free Arcana checks to people?

Yeah. If you want to. What on? Uh, the lightning check, please. The lightning chain between. I want to figure out how to break it. Or just something. I got a 24. I'll tell you more about it.

I'll tell you more about it. I won't necessarily tell you how to, like, overcome it. Um, yeah, this is... First of all, you can gather what you've already guessed, which is if Ayla gets hit and this... And the thing is, this gathering storm thing that I'm talking about is as she of all you can gather what you've already guessed which is if ayla gets hit and this and the thing is this gathering storm thing i'm talking about is as she's hitting you it's like you are now drawing lightning and thunder to you like every time there's like a boom of lightning it's like being drawn directly to you you can feel this energy kind of gathering

around you like a maelstrom um with this tether anytime either of you is hit it will apply a stack and you'll both suffer the effects of that bonus damage um not the base damage of the attack but the the gathering storm damage which will go up and up and up uh you test the tether and i would say that quill with that you you get a sense if you get closer to ayayla, it becomes weaker. Ah, okay. So going to a different realm entirely, that's as far away as I can go. Or into the safety bubble. So I will do just that. I will move...

Well, no, you misunderstood. So when you get closer to Aayla, the tether weakens, not when you get further away. That's what I mean. So going into the safety bubble sounds like a bad idea. Oh, right. I see. I understand. Yeah, so I will get close to Ayla, as close as I can get, like five feet away.

So as soon as you get within five feet of Ayla, I'll tell you now, you can end the tether by... I've got to look up my legendary actions. You have to use your reaction. So if you both sacrifice your reaction, you'll cancel the tether between you. Oh. Yeah, I'll use mine, yeah.

So Ayla, you're going to use yours as well? Yep, okay. So you both basically... I mean, what that is, is you touch Ayla. You're going to use yours as well? I think. Yep, okay. So you both basically, I mean, what that is, is, like, you touch Ayla, like, you're kind of using that, like, moment to, like, you know, you and Ayla, like, press your palms against each other, and there is a kind of spark,

and the tether breaks away. Ooh, what about the gathering? I mean, do I know my stacks of gathering? The stacks are still there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can feel this pressure building up, and it's still there,

but the tether is broken. Okay, I'll move back a little bit more with the rest of my movement and i want to just uh do a oh god where's it gone uh my beacon of hope so uh everyone will be affected by this advantage lucius is not affected oh yeah the spell cannot reach reach Lucius while he's in the sphere. So as you cast the spell, Beacon of Hope hits everybody but Lucius. Okay, that's fine. Well everyone else has got it, I'll remind them when stuff happens. And that is pretty much going to be my turn. All right.

Any good bonus actions to do? Sure. Sentry. Okay, I'm gonna move over to Lucius and use Starbreaker just to pierce through the bubble, try and pop it. Sure, yeah. You can just make an attack for this

if you want to try and break it. Or do you want to try and use Starbreaker's special... Yeah. I'll just do standard attack roll for now. Sure, yeah. 19. Yeah, that's... Again, if you don't roll a one you hit nice cool beans earlier damage

i mean how much damage yeah i mean i'm pretty sure you will i'm pretty sure your bonus is gonna beat this anyway so yeah so as soon as you you like plunge star breaker forward not in its expanded form still in just the base lance form, but you kind of thrust it forward, and yeah, you watch the glass, the water sphere break like glass, the water splashes all over the deck, and Lucius just kind of lands, you know, on his feet. Thank you! He kind of like, yeah,

breaks out of it. Awesome. And then I'll bonus action Misty step over to Zephia, and then do another attack against her and do a level 3 Divine Smite against her. Okay.

So I believe that's 6d8 if I'm remembering that correctly. 2... I mean, yeah. You've got a roll to hit as well. 5d8. So here we go. If I get it to hit, which I probably won't, 16, so that's probably a no. Do you want to use anything before I tell you the answer?

I can't. I don't mind you using driven to purpose. As long as you don't know the outcome, I don't mind you still using it. I could use my matrix reaction. Let me see how. I know I've used my reaction this turn, so I can't. Driven to purpose i'll save it sure yeah i've used my reaction anyway plunge this forward and she just deflects

it with her scimitar just like blocks the blocks of strike um okay okay and that's my turn. All done. That's my movement. Yeah. Okay. Maximilian at the back is going to... Those are all touch spells. 30-foot radius is not going to hit anything. He will cast... Because he's still in the fight.

He's going to cast Scorching Ray. And he's just going to try and get some damage off on Zephir, basically. His first attack is a miss. The first Scorching Ray is deflected away. The second one is also a miss. And the third one. So she's just like knocking these blasts of fire as he reaches up a hand and Zephir just knocks them away.

We go to the top of the round. Lucius, Varian, Iloin, Elanasto. Lucius is going to pull all the water from his clothing and his hair into a small ball. It's grammatical, but I'm doing it for effect. Nice. I like it. Freeze it. Freeze it and sling it like a shot put. Yeah, absolutely. All right.

That is a 23, so that hits. I'm going to do it fourth level this time, so that's 68. I've got elemental adept ice as well, just so you know. 21 damage. What was the roll to hit? 12 oh 23 to hit uh yep that will hit yeah 21 points of ice 21 points thank you and hang on so when that chromatic orb hits lucius um you you see like parts of zephyr's body freeze and as it hits it kind of turns to water and the water freezes and she kind of breaks it goes back to the ice and then she is

going to as a reaction um let's roll a d4 evens odds you watch as she raises up her watch which hand is this This would be her left. Trying to judge it from her perspective. She raises up one of the scimitars and she's holding it aloft in the air and it begins crackling with storm energy. Continue.

Oh god. I've got Dicremency. Sure. Can I throw that at this hand? Is that what you want to do? Yes. It's her hand. It's her arm.

So I'm just using that little icon as like that's the arm that she's lifting up. Yes. It's not like a spectral arm or anything like that. It's just her arm. Yeah. Yeah, you just do damage to them. All right. So that's nine points of ice.

Nine more points of cold damage. Yeah. It doesn't do anything. Like her arm is still up in the air, but like do damage to them. All right, so that's nine points of ice. Nine more points of cold damage, yeah. Doesn't do anything, like, her arm is still up in the air, but, like, you strike against it. Uh, that's going to be... Ooh, this doesn't look good. I don't know what she's planning. Uh, is that your... Is that... You done? Yeah.

All right, Ayla. Ayla. Can I... Do I get a sense of this this gathering storm what i could way to get rid of it but you don't you not while you're here not like in front of zafir like this not with the weather like this you know this is like infused into the very air itself like you need to get away somehow okay noted noted that's free no no action to do that that was just like a thought in your head um can i

so where's the nearest can I try and shoot through the little orb? So you're gonna run up to the orb like with what Nova said, you reach out, touch it. So it's your action to do this. Do you want to do it? You get the sense when you place your hand on this, you can use your action to transport yourself into this into this gemstone sure you watch everyone watches as ayla reaches out touches this this sea green orb and she and the orb both vanish ayla you suddenly find yourself on almost a replica of the ship you're unable to move but it is completely calm serene it's beautiful you look out on the open ocean you can see little distant islands maybe

a shipwreck and you know the call of gulls the sea music it's peaceful and beautiful here you can remove all stacks of gathering storm but you are stunned until the start of your next turn so you're basically but you are not in that space uh you cannot be affected by anything in the battle nothing on the battle can affect you you're basically out of that zone you're out of that plane for the time being right decks sorry but i've cleared my stacks of you've you've cleared your stacks of gathering storm cool zephyr's go marvelous uh zephyr will it seems your little storm warrior has disappeared good she's's gonna bring up her remaining scimitar and she sweeps in front of her in a wide arc and a

15 like foot wide Column of air like she cuts the air and it blasts 15 she's gonna blast everybody but century so quill Nova Lucius I need you all to make dexterity saving throws, please. No, in fact, Lucius, I'm going to have Sentry, Quill, and Nova, not Lucius, in fact. This is immediate. This isn't like a telegraph. This is like she does this and it...

I mean, the telegraph is her left hand right now. Oh, a natural 20. Oh, very good. Love to see it. I'm just trying to check something with my armor of hexes. This is a saving throw, isn't it? It's not an attack roll. It's a saving throw.

This isn't an attack. Okay. 12. 12. So, Quill, you actually managed to buffet the storm on this, like knowing how to move between winds and things like that. Maybe you kind of do like a cool jump in the air and spin over the wind blade as this wind cutlass drives forward.

So this is going to be Sentry and Nova. You're both going to take 35 thunder damage and you are pushed back 20 feet uh cool you take half damage so that's going to be uh 15 17 for you 5 10 15 20 5 10 15 20 you're actually pushed through the mast sentry um it kind of smashes you through the mast uh and then you see like the mast begins tipping and then that purple energy covering the mast you watch as the mast rewinds and it oh gets sent back to what it was and you kind of glance around and you see valor like the the shield valazin pulse with power that's awesome how much also i got got a 35 thunder damage.

Awesome. I got a natural 20 on intuition against Maximilian and a natural 20 on concentration. So, hey, I mean, you keep that spell up, though. Yeah, I do. I do. Yeah, that's her full thing, but she does get all of her legendary actions back.

Ah, I forgot about this last time. As a bonus action, she is going to summon a Storm Sprite. Oh, hello. One, two, three, four. Someone roll a D8 for me, please. No, a mob. A mob. Tom.

DPS. A D8. Give me a D8. For sure, for sure, for sure. No, don't, don't, don't, don't. Kill the adds. D8 gives us a 7. That's going to be this one back here.

You see at the back of the ship near Maximilian and Nova this kind of ball of lightning kind of... come into being. Oh. That was her bonus action. It doesn't do anything it just kind of appears uh that was her action to use wind cutlass bonus action to summon that um she gets her legendary actions back and nothing has triggered her reaction just yet nova vija hello hello um i would like to move forward so hold on a minute um i want to be within 30 oh god i've got the wrong bloody thing uh i want to move forward so i'm 30 foot uh close to her so i'm back

up to where lucius is next to lucius yeah so you come barreling forward are you okay that's quite the ghost i'm so scared right now lucius i am like i i really need the bathroom frankly lucius are you okay you're a bit damp fight yes aye aye captain um and i'll salute and as, I point forward, and I'm going to blight Zephir. So can you make a constitution saving throw of 18? I certainly can. Constitution, you say? Yeah, I know. I know. She's a giant giant. 21. 21.

Yeah, okay. This is also half again it's gonna be halved again she has resistance against necrotic damage being a titan the energies of death and life have little effect oh i rolled kind of goodly though um goodly i rolled yeah three sevens I rolled, yeah, three sevens. Eight. Okay. So, calculator. I rolled eight plus seven plus seven plus seven plus six plus four plus four plus four plus three. 50 points of Dimangios.

So, half to 25 and then halved again to 25 is going to be 12. 12, sadly. Oh, plus five points from Hexblade Curse. Just give me one second. What was the extra damage? Don't add it. Just tell me the extra damage because I've already applied it. Plus five. Another five.

What type of damage? Emotional. another five uh what type of damage uh emotional um psychological hexblade sounds necrotic doesn't it it just says a plus five bonus to damage rolls it doesn't say it doesn't specify now does hexblade curse trigger on spells because then basically what that's saying is it does the same damage type as what triggered it so it'd be necrotic it's oh sorry it does you gain a bonus to damage rolls against the curse okay so it would be the same type of damage so this would be more necrotic damage basically so i'm just gonna hop off it okay uh cool yeah yeah the blight i mean yeah it's she's heavily resistant like you, you try and twist this kind of warping, deathly energy, and it just doesn't really have enough to purchase.

Like, she kind of rebuffs it, and then she looks down at you and says, ah, let's put you away for some time. And she's going to use a legendary action, and this watery sphere is going to come around you instead this time, Nova. Bye. Bye. I'm going to come around you instead this time nova bye bye and you're kind of thrown up into the air and yeah you're encased in this watery prison before we carry on with the episode we should hear from our sponsor for today manscaped autumn is on the way and while leaves fall from trees naturally you don't have such a luxury with your body hair. The best way to do that is with the leaders in male grooming, Manscaped, and their brand new

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because she's in a prism. I'm going to do it to Sentry. Thank you. At second level, but it's maxed. So 1d4, 2d4, 8 plus 6, 14 healing. Well, thank you. On Sentry. And with my action, I want to Sacred Flame this bub, this bubble.

Can it make a dex save save probably not uh the bubble yeah yeah it takes the damage automatically it can't make deck saves 19 radiant damage on that then 19 points of damage you see again you see the same thing like there's almost like a glass ball you see cracks um you see like scorch marks but doesn't break the bubble around nova unfortunately that's cool uh and yeah i'll just nudge to closer to sentry and that is my turn that's your turn is it well you know what that means the end of your turn means it's her turn means it's her turn and she is going to use her legendary action too. Ooh. Yeah, I'm going to wait. I'm going to wait to use it.

Sentry. Okay. I think Sentry's just going to stagger up after getting pushed back, and she's going to cast an action enlarge. And while she's doing that, she's going to call out Starbreaker's name as a bonus action. so this is using the prime matrix rather than casting the spell enlarge so there's no concentration cool

and then yeah you lift up uh starbreaker what do you say starbreaker she watches the green kind of energy swirls around in a spiral pattern and extends the lance into this energy lance nice nice move up a little closer to my buds and just yeah take a defense okay yeah you're gonna take the defensive defensive position okay nice um all right oh man uh in that case she is going to use a legendary action to use do do do do do uh her storm cool strike she's going to shoot lightning out of her eyes at you century bring it all out of her eyes seeing that you have clearly taken up a position to defend your friend uh your friends she's just going to try and target the one in the middle. That is going to be a 21 just, I think.

Just hits, yeah. Just hits, yeah. So this is going to be one, two, three of these. 11, 15 points of lightning damage. Now, do you have any stacks of Gathering i do not you have one now uh as yeah you get you feel this like energy coalescing around you as this lightning kind of blasts you um but yeah that's at the end of your turn uh maximilian taldros um he is going to try and help free nova uh He's got plenty of Scorching Rays to go around. Let's see how good a job he does.

All right, his first one is going to hit. Let's just see how many he hits with. Second one's a natural 20. Hell yeah! That's going to be 12 plus max. And then his last one is a hit. I think with the damage that was previously done, these three Scorching Rays blast the sphere around Nova,

and Nova, you are released. Max, Max! As you fall to the ground. Focus on fighting! Enough time for pleasantries later. All right. And then after Max, this little fucker at the very back of the boat is going to take a turn. Rhiannon, roll a d8 for me, please. Let's see which direction this little fella goes in. Doki. Oh, it's a little moving static orb thing. It's a five.

So one, two, three, four, five. He just kind of like moves south and like bumps up against the shield next to Valor. You can see that like it kind of pulses with lightning, but doesn't seem to do anything immediately. And then at the end of the round, Zephir's left hand that was holding the scimitar comes crashing down. And as it slams into the ship, it does it with enough force that you guys are all going to go for a little slide.

So this is Rock the Boat. Every character, each creature is slid 15 feet towards that side of the ship. So we go five, 10, 15. You go five, 10, 15. Oh, I think we're all okay. 15, five, 10, 15, 5, 10, 15. You all kind of slide as the whole ship twists on its side.

You kind of go sliding towards the edge, but you manage to keep your feet as the boat is quickly righted by Valor's magic. Cool. Remaining in place for the time being. Awesome. But then... Actually worked out pretty nicely.

Pretty nicely. Good job. So far. Lucius. I'm going to cast, unsurprisingly, Chromatic Orb, but I'm going to twin it this time. One to hit this little boy down here, and the other one at Zephia.'re asking I'm gonna cast that fourth level again

okay so first one to hit the orb at the bottom 26 yes that hits and it destroys it immediately brilliant this damage will be for the next one then. That's 26. We have to roll to hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Roll to hit now. That's 29 to hit. Ding dong. It's going to hit. 26 damage to save time.

26 more points of damage. Ignore resistance. And nine points of dichromancy. Pings off in her direction. Just give me a hold off on the dichromancy just for a second. I've got to do maths. It's 26, yes 26 okay yeah so another ice kind of shard smashes against zephyr's body um spreads against it but yeah that's it uh

okay cool uh anything else? I might... You know what? Staying in the middle of the boat sounds like a good idea. So I'm going to do that. Maybe. Okay. At the end of your turn, Zephira's going to use her last legendary action

to create a tether between you and Quill, Lucius. Oh! So you see this lightning chain. And it kind of arcs through Sentry but Sentry you don't feel like any pain or anything like that. It just creates this like bond between Lucius and Quill.

Ayla, at the start of your turn you reappear back in the world. You are no longer stunned and you have no stacks of Gathering Storm. You may take your turn as normal. I hit the lady twice, please. Sure, yeah. Makes sense. That is going to be a 16 plus 14.

13? 13. As long as it's above 20. 30. Yeah. As long as it's above 20. Uh... 22 damage. 22 points. And then a... So, give me a second.

As you hit her, evens odds. She raises her hand up again. Same left-handed left hand this time. Oh, crap. And you can move to the middle. Continue.

And the second one is a 25 to hit. That's a hit. Oh, same damage. What did I just say? 22, I believe. 22. is three oh same damage um what did i just say 22 i believe 22 damage so when you do this attack she's gonna spend uh her other reaction uh to do rebuking wind um all creatures within melee range, which is currently just you, I think, Ayla, are pushed back for 40 feet. Wow.

10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. As you hit her twice, the energy that you impact into her body, she unleashes in this torrent of wind, and it just pushes you back to the middle of the boat. That's it. No damage. Just pushes you back. Cool. That's me.

She's dumb. Because I can't do any lightning damage to her. Unfortunately, this is where your lightning damage or your lightning powers kind of semi-come from. It's channeled through Zephyr into her yeah so see quill and lucius both have things on it she's gonna blast both of you with lightning um so she's gonna do one attack against against Lucius and one attack against Quill. I'm going to use my reaction

to absorb Elements' lightning. Okay. So you'll get resistance. Resistance to it, yeah. Okay. Century, do you want to use your reaction? Yes, please. So you're going to protect Quill, yeah? Let's do the attack against Quill first then.

So far a 14. Or a 17. So that's going to be a 26. Quill is the lowest. Yeah, that'll do it. Unshieldable damage. How many stacks of Gathering Storm do you have? Two.

And you don't have resistance to Lightning or Thunder, do you? No. So that's going to be... Oh, God. That's one, two, three. One, two, three, four. That's a lot of damage, Quill. Seven, D8.

Oh, my God. Okay. 40 points of Lightning and Thunder damage all kind of mixed in together. As all of that energy that's been gathered around you explodes when the lightning hits you. It like, cooks you. And you get another stack of Gathering Storm, and because you're attached to Lucius,

Lucius, you gain a stack of Gathering Storm. Now, you didn't have one before, did you? This is the first time, yeah. It's the first one you've got, so you've got one now. Okay. And then she does the same thing to lucius but this time with just no disadvantage just a normal role so i don't take the same amount of damage no because you you didn't have any stacks when the attack hit and you don't take the same damage you there's uh gathering storm basically does 1d8 of thunder damage and 1d8 of lightning damage per stack so you you would take that bit of it but this is going to be

a 18 to hit lucius i think it still hits yeah well i don't know you might have like shield or something like that i don't know um so this time it's going to be 3d8 plus another two for the lightning and thunder but you're going to half this because it's uh well you're gonna half some of it um we'll say this so you're gonna half that's gonna be uh 8 15 16 you take 20 lightning damage to half that to 10 and then 4 thunder damage you take 14 damage total thank you i don't want to thank you for that and then you gain another stack of gathering storm and so does quill uh you are now at four then you gain another stack of Gathering Storm, and so does Quill. You are now at four. Yeah, you're tethered.

You're tethered. Yep, that makes sense. I've also lost my concentration on thingy, by the way, Beacon of Hope. Okay. I got hit with 50 damage, so... Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah.

It's going to happen, my dude. And as a bonus action, she's going to summon another Storm Sprite. One, two, three. This time it's this one down here. A little ball of lightning comes into existence. Is that close to us? Oh, wait, where is it? It's in the middle of the deck.

It's next to Ayla. Oh, right, okay. Yes. Podcast listeners, it is in the mid-deck. Nova Vija. We are not going to finish this fight this week. As you can tell. No.

I am going to... Yeah, it's war crime time. I am going to raise up Tiangong and summon a storm cloud of maddening darkness um i figured out that if because it's a 60 foot radius if i cast it sort of back you can also just cast it like up in the air and behind her yeah exactly yeah okay yeah yeah so um she's all up in there yeah i'm not gonna put a thing on the map just because it's gonna be annoying yeah the blindness doesn't affect her like she calls out

she's just like i can feel you this is my realm you cannot hide you cannot blind me i am going to rip you apart as one final salutation to arois. But the things like the damage will still affect her, and she doesn't show any signs of, like, moving out of the way or anything like that. It's basically just, like, her form is now covered by this black sphere. Yeah. Kind of makes it slow.

So it's on her turn she takes that, doesn't it? It's slightly worse. Yeah, when she starts her turn, she makes a wisdom saving throw. Yeah, sure. And then I'm just going to move a little bit, so I'm a bit more central. Sure. Yeah.

Okay. She's going to use her Legendary Action and create a tether between Aayla and Nova. Aw, Buds. Bud time. Quill. Um, okay. I am going to bonus action cast a

uh, what's it called? All of a sudden. Shield. Shield on myself. Shield of Faith. Shield is a reaction. Oh, Shield of Faith. So I've got plus two AC. And I would go over and touch Lucius as much as I'd love to,

but he used his reaction. So I'm going to use an action to go into this orb. I need to get rid of these stacks. Okay. You enter the sphere, just as Ayla did. The sphere vanishes, as does Quill. The same thing's going to happen. You're going to be stunned until the start of your next turn you clear your gathering storm stacks but you are still tethered whilst you are uh you're still tethered okay okay there's a specific

way to remove the tethers um so the the tether just seems to vanish into nothing um but you can still feel lucious now you don't know if that means you can still take damage while you're in this space. You don't know. But you certainly can't do anything, so... I had to get rid of the stacks. I had to. Yeah, no, absolutely you did.

At the end of your turn, Zephir's going to take a legendary action to blast Nova with Lightning Eyes. Protect Nova, please. I believe you've already protected. You protected Quill with lightning eyes. Protect Nova, please. I believe you've already protected. You protected Quill with your reaction. I have, yes. I'm sorry.

That's a natural 20, Kim. This is... I can't do my Armor of Hexes on this, can I? I know I keep asking. Armor of Hexes, is that the one where you can basically say an attack misses? I have to roll a d6 and see. I'm just panicked trying to find it now. Yeah, I think you can do it, yeah.

I think you can do it. Armour of Hexes, where did you go? If the target cursed is hit with an attack roll, you can use your reaction to roll a d6. Yeah, so yeah, you can. But I reaction to roll a d6 yeah so yeah you can but i have to roll a four or higher i rolled a five okay so you see as nova is about to be incinerated by this like blast of lightning tiangong almost pulls her arm up and just is like in the middle of the blast and it splits the lightning like tiangongong just cuts the lightning in half as it evaporates around her uh sentry that was at

the end of quill's turn walkie-talkie i'm gonna move up if i go here cool can i reach her if i'm here yeah yeah you can yeah. So I'm going to make two attacks against her with Starbreaker. First one coming in hot. 25 to hit. That's a hit. That's a hit. Incredible. I'm going to do a level three Divine Smite,

so bear with me while I roll a lot of dice. Sure. Don't forget you missed on that other one, so hopefully you didn't spend the spell slot, right? Because you missed on that other one. No, I didn't, no. Nice. One, two, three, four, five.

And then two D12 as well. Bam, bam. And a D4 for big. And a D4. Here I go. First attack coming in. 51 for the first hit. Fucking Christ.

Holy crap. I mean, the thing is you say that. Ayla did that with two normal attacks, by way, like Ayla did like 48 points of damage like, I mean, yeah, not to diminish it but like, yeah, it's just, that's fucking your damage dealers, so 51 so we go 189, oh plus 7

so it's 58 oh god, hold that, hold that 7, hold that 7 for me I've got to do math so then I would add, so that would go to 2 Hold that. Hold that seven. Hold that seven for me. Okay, hold seven. I've got to do math. So then I would add, so that would go to two. Yeah, okay. That goes to that.

51 points of damage plus another seven. Seven. You can see that her form is beginning to break away. You can see that the water is beginning to coalesce uh as you do all of that damage she's going to use her reaction to do um what's it called rebuking wind um she's going to push you back 50 feet century she just all that damage you just dealt she blasts you with so you're gonna go 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 she just sends you like flying across the deck as all that force is blasted back at you um sends you flying understandable all right i'll move i'll move can i use the rest of my movement just to move back up to friendos 5 10 15 15 i think i've got left so i'll move up to there. All right. Sure. Okay.

Yeah. Big hit. You can see her like almost clutching. Like, I actually know she went because she's made of water, but like you can see that kind of demeanor is beginning to break. Like she can see her face like twisting into anger now. And yeah, she definitely is looking injured. Like the way she's kind of holding herself.

She definitely looks injured at this point. Maximilian will just kind of call out, like, yes, you can do it! Who looks particularly injured out of Sentry and Aayla? Like, are you guys, like, super injured at this point? No, not too bad. 26 down. 26? Okay, he'll cast, like...

Yeah, he'll use a third- healing word on you, Ayla. Two, three. That's... Ooh, three ones max. Jesus. Six points of healing. Six HPs. Is your beacon of hope still active? No, you lost it, didn't you, Tom? No, it's your beacon of hope still like no you lost it didn't you tom no it's gone too yeah and then he's just going to move back into the middle um and position himself defensively uh and then that is going to be his go um the storm sprite is going to move in a random direction direction. So that's six, one, two, three, four, five, six, annoyingly just bonks itself against

the side of the ship. Uh, just kind of like hovers in a weird direction. Um, but then at the end of the round, Saphir's scimitar comes crashing down once more and everybody's going to go for a slide. 5, 10, 15. Century, can you make me a, let's say acrobatics, because you're right on the edge there. 5, 10, 15. Oh, okie dokie. 5, 10, 15. 5, 10, 15. 5, 10, 15.

So six. Six. So you don't fall into the ocean, you do fall prone and you're like hanging onto the edge of the ship like you're just the netting is just out of reach that nova set up and you're like gripping onto the side of the boat basically having smashed through um but yeah you're gonna count as prone okay okay um all right i think we've got enough time for one last round Lucius, Viren, Elowen, Elinasto I'm going to rush over to Sentry and offer a hand

Whilst doing that She's giant Oh, she is big I can just get crushed I mean, this would be a strength check Use my belly! is my belly. My belly. Yeah.

So... I mean, she is huge. She's large and she's heavy. It's going to be a strength check if you want to try and pull her up. And it's probably going to be an action. All right. Okay. All you can do it.

Natural 20. 22. It's a lot of work. Captain America helicopter scene. It's your whole turn, but you managed to, like, lift your action. Not your whole turn, but, like, you lift Century up and you managed to, like, basically, yeah, get her up, you know, so that she's not going to fall off.

So, can I use quicken spell to cast and i think chromatic control is a reaction right no i think we changed it so it's not anymore because yeah or did we change the gauntlet we changed something i think chromatic control is still a reaction but the gauntlet isn't i only stole my reaction because i know this tether is a problem so what i'll do is quicken a chromatic orb of third level at okay okay and can i twin it as well i know i've quickened no quickens you can't do to yeah you can't do both with that uh elven seeking you can but not with quickening we're trying to push this around okay no it's good you guys need to like this is not an easy fight that's a 13 to hit that one so

i will it's a natural one unfortunately it's an auto miss no matter what seeking seeking seeking oh yeah if you want to seeking yeah you can use that you know i do all sorcery points burn them spend them you've nearly won natural 20 this time ding dong crap yeah um so that is well don't forget it's so... So how much damage... Wait, third level? Is it 10d8 on third level? No, no, no, it's 5d8 at third. Yeah. So that is...

Wait, there's so many dice rolled, why'd it do that? Maybe because it's doing crit. It might be D&D Beyond trying to do the crit but we do crits differently, so... I'll take the first five then. Okay, yeah, you can do that. 13.

Is there any ones? Do you want to make sure you got... Yeah, that's with ones to twos. All right, well, 5d8 maxed is 40. So whatever you just rolled, add 40 points to it. 13. So 53. 53 points of damage. For a third level spell, that's not bad. That's pretty good So 53. 53 points of damage. For a third level spell, that's not bad.

That's pretty good. 53. And a Dicromancy just ping away as well. Actually, can I ping the Dicromancy away? I'm too far away. Just give me one second. I'm trying to track a lot of stuff.

You screamed past a threshold. I have to see which of her hands. You screamed past a threshold. I have to see which of her hands she's going to lift up. One odds this time. So you see the hand on the other side this time. Raise up her scimitar.

Now Dicromancy goes off. Which is... How much? Eight. Eight points. But I can't reach anybody, so it doesn't actually go anywhere. Unless her hand is suddenly in reach.

No, it's not. That hand is just an indicator. It's not actually there. Okay. All right. Do that. Okay. Alright. Do that. At the end of your turn, Lucia, she's gonna use her legendary action to put you in a bloody water bubble. It's just like...

Fair. On a naughty step. That was a bananas turn. Also, it's funny, because Tom is incredibly annoyed that he now has tether again. He's still got tether. Still tethered, and now I can't get rid of it because he's in a damn problem. Now you can't get rid of it.

No, exactly. There's still a moat, so that doesn't trigger. Ayla. Hello. Hello. I like to shimmy on up to Nova, grab her hand, do a little high-five for you. Reaction. Yep, you both have to use your reaction.

Is that good? You good with that, Nova? Okay. I'm good with that. I'm getting you on up here. Did Nova use a reaction? Did Nova use a reaction on Hex? You did. You've not had your turn yet. No, it's your turn.

Start of your turn, you get reactions back. It's not your turn. So you are still tethered, unfortunately, Ayla. Which means you don't spend your reaction. Yeah. No, Nova used hers. She's just like, no. It's more that she was so busy doing the Tiangong thing that as Ayla runs by to do the high five, Nova like still dealing with like the lightning blasting around her and stuff like that i just i

just miss i'm just like yeah 31 hits yeah christ uh 23 damage 23 points of damage geez louise uh 23 points of damage jeez louise 29 to hit yep and 20 damage so same thing

you dealt over 7 points of damage so you are thrown back another 40 feet annoying I know I have 45 feet of movement 25, 30 small back another 40 feet annoying I know well if you were dealing more damage she'd throw you back further but because you're dealing a certain amount of damage can I so I smell her wait no I use cool for me yeah and then she's gonna use her last legendary action i think she's got one left if i'm mistaken i'm sorry but i'm just going to do it uh she's going to blast nova with lightning ice has she had her turn by the way oh yeah like since i can't turn next darkness no it's next

okay it's next yeah there's a lot of legendary actions and a lot of stuff happening yeah it's her turn is next so natural one natural one so yeah blast Nova Oh completely misses just go now is her turn manning darkness so is this wisdom so can you make a wisdom saving throw of 18? No, 14. Cute. I rolled 3, 7, 7. Oh, God, wait, no. 3 plus 7 plus 7 plus 4 plus 1 plus 5 plus...

Oh, another 7, plus two. 36 points of damage. 36 points of damage. So, let me tell you what happens. Don't worry about doing anything else. Don't worry about it. Okay. Don't worry about it.

So, the man in darkness, you see the darkness kind of swim swim and you can hear, you hear for the first time like an actual cry of pain come from Zephir from inside this like sphere of blackness. And as it does so, you, something changes. Something in the air physically shifts and the darkness just rips apart and the spell of maddening darkness breaks away and you see zephir just lean down no no i won't go back you won't take me and she grabs the boat and she drags it down into the water. And you feel like you should suddenly be surrounded by water

and you should be, you know, underwater. But instead, as the ship is dragged beneath the surface, it almost seems to bob up as if it was underwater in the first place. And it now emerges into a dark, stormy sea. Lightning in the distance thunder clouds roll overhead you can see great geysers of water kind of all around the edges of this space

churning roiling Zephir is nowhere to be seen but you do see dozens of these balls of lightning do begin to emerge across the deck. God, we haven't seen what these things do yet. They've just been bobbing about on the ship.

I think I just put one on the map layer by accident. Yeah, come back to this, come back to the correct layer, you. yeah come back to this come back to the correct layer you I can't see any of this because I'm in a different realm entirely yeah yeah you are sir am I able just to retcon a little bit and do my movement and reaction to high-five Ayla just in that last movement before she... I mean, would you have moved anywhere dramatically different? I would have moved next to Ayla and high-fived her to get rid of this tether.

Oh, to get rid of the tether. Yeah, I mean, you can still do it now. It's still your turn, so you can just do it now. Oh, okay. Okay, in which case I will do it. Yeah, so you move next to Ayla and spend your reaction. Good, good. Spend your reactions um

leave her hey no uh so that was on zafir's turn oh wait yeah sorry it wasn't my turn was it it? No, that was Zephia's turn, so yeah. That was Wandering Madness. Yeah, that was Hungry Madness, so you draw that Taylor back on. It kind of doesn't matter, because it's going to be your turn next. I'm just checking something. So this is the Fury Unleashed.

Oh. My brain just went a bit funny then. Oh, leave them there. Sonic Unleashed. There went a bit funny then. Oh, he's in there. Sonic unleashed. There's a lot going on. This will be... It's a werehog! There it is!

Oh my god. What's that doing? No one is asked for this. It's so stretchy. OK, Nova, your turn. So Maddening Darkness is Kaputzen. It's gone. This is a completely different space.

So that spell, it was in the previous version of this space. You are now in a different space. So that spell is not there anymore. Okay. I'll run up to Aayla and high five and use my reaction to dismiss this tether. And then we're surrounded by little lightning balls, right? Yes, you see there is about eight,

maybe nine of them have just kind of come into being on the deck and they're all glowing. Sparking. Yes, I'm gonna start blasting an Eldritch Blast. I will start with the one closest to me,

so sort of northwest. Yeah. Yeah. So one beam for that. Okay. And that is a 22 to hit. Okay. Yeah, that hits.

Roll damage for this one. 11 points of damage. Okay. 11 points of damage. Okay, 11 points of damage. It doesn't destroy it, but it looks heavily weakened. Okay, second one, 22 to hit. Seven points of damage. Still standing, but this thing is faded. It looks almost destroyed.

It's like hanging on by the edge. You can just see it flickering and pulsing. 29 to hit. Yeah, you kill it. You were like two points of damage away. So yeah, you just watch as Nova blasts and one of these spheres kind of dissipates into a burst of energy. But nothing harmful so far.

All good? You done? That is it for me, yes. into a burst of energy but nothing harmful so far all good you done that is it for me yes okay you have to kind of quill when you come back you're actually gonna take what can a d10 of damage as you kind of emerge back into Nova and the the effect kind of shunts you to the side because you were in the same space. You're going to take nine points of force damage. No, just you. Oh. Oh.

It's like you were incorporeal and then you are shunted to the side a little bit. And then I appear from inside Nova and I take the damage. Yeah. Okay, so it's my turn. Yes, and it's the start of your turn. You unstun and you clear all of your gathering storm stacks. Wonderful.

I am going to use my wand of magic missiles. I want to use every charge on this bastard and I want to basically just spin around like a Gatling gun and just nail all of these things, or as many as I can. Well, how many missiles do you get? So I get

seven charges, so I'm basically casting this at sixth level, which would be... Sixth level. Oh, no, yeah, you're right, seventh level, so three plus one for everyone, so nine missiles will come out. Okay.

And they are 1d6... No, sorry. 1d4. 1. And they are 1d6. No, sorry. 1d4. 1d4. 1d4 plus one each. Yeah. One each. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

So, yeah, my intention is to hit one until it dies, then hit another one until it dies, hit another one until it dies. You've got roll damage. So with... No, don't. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you can dies. You've got roll damage. So with... Yeah. Oh, yeah, you can do it that way. 22 damage, and I guess just take it along around the circle.

Okay, you destroy one. One? Oh, my God, okay. That was not as effective as I thought it was going to be. Which one would you like to destroy? Get one. I don't know what you were expecting. What do you mean?

It took Nova 3 less to get enough damage to one. Northwest? Yeah, Northwest one. Excuse me, I'm just being a scrub here. My wand of magic missiles also doesn't explode in the process of doing this incredibly powerful and cool-looking move. You brandish the wand. I will bonus action heal myself. Nine missiles streak out.

Sure. I'll let you heal yourself while I move onto sentry. Alrighty. Can I move... Let's see. Oh, and in my... I'll move a little bit onto the boat. Up on there.

And can I cast Sunbeam in a straight line, hitting Lucius's bubble, hitting this little dude, and then hitting Zephir as well? Zephir is not there. Zephir is not there. Oh, she's gone. She is not there. Zephir is not there. Oh, she's gone. Oh.

She is not there. You can't... She's vanished. Bye. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, then I'll just hit the bubble and the lightning dude. Sure.

Well, the bubble will fail its saving throw, so just assume it takes max damage. The little ball... The little ball technically does have a pretty decent de saving throw actually so is it dexterity saving throw or constitution save oh con con 16 oh okay well it still passes got 20 somehow this little ball manages to absorb it but so it's going to be half damage cool beans all righty damage incoming 37 points of damage.

So the bubble breaks around Lucius immediately. Lucius, you are deposited a bit soggy on the floor. That needs to stop happening. And then 37 halved doesn't quite destroy this little ball. Because that's going to be 15,

16, 17 points of damage. Nice. Weakened, heavily weakened. Can I move with Lucius and move us more into the middle of the ship? You can grab Lucius. Well, you've used your action to cast Sunbeam. I'd say you probably won't be able to grab Lucius because you've used your action already it's all right i'll grab you

if you want to use your reaction to grab century and have century just like carry you forwards you can do that i'm good just like grip onto a leg alright sounds like a reaction okay I'll move into the middle sure oh yeah middle tasty we're still tethered aren't we Quill you are yes we are yeah you are

Maximilian he kind of looks back at the sphere and you hear Valor's voice like Max help them and he will basically yeah he's going to take a swing at this little no in fact actually you know what he's going to do he's going to cast flame strike and catch two of them um 10 foot radius yeah he can catch two of these storm what things so he reaches up and he just pulls down this column of uh fire and light uh down from the air they did to make

dexterity saving throws they're very good at these so they're probably gonna pass but they'll take half damage yes they both pass but they take half damage uh so this is 8d6 that's a lot of damage which is oh man so he because they save they take half damage both of them uh these orbs of of lightning that seem to crackle and pulse they seem diminished but still standing even though this giant column fire kind of erupts around them and then he is going to take a leaf out centuries book. Oh, in fact, he's actually going to gather because he's next to one. You see that same energy begin to coalesce around Maximilian and he gains a stack of gathering storm.

Oh, I see. I see. You can see five, ten. It's going to move up to the middle. You can see these orbs. They all kind of spring to life and they move in erratic patterns. They also start getting bigger and more erratic. They start swelling in size and they begin flashing violently, pulsing with energy.

But all of them are going to move erratically. So we'll start on the top. We'll be eight five one two three four five ten okay nobody around that one next one we'll do this very close one straight up okay one two three four max gets another stack One It's one of the bottom one two, three, four five six just kind of bonks against the ships for the the valor's field

Uh the one in the south east field uh the one in the south east two moves there god the movement on these things i shouldn't have made it random i should have just decided it myself two three four five six seven oh this one though century and max you both gain a stack of gatheringing Storm. Okay. How many are you up to now, Century? Two. Two, okay. Oh, and there's one more I missed. I didn't put it onto the correct layer. So Max is on like three now?

So in fact, actually, Lucius, I didn't see this one because it was hidden on another layer. When you popped back in, you gain another stack of Gathering Storm, which means as does Quill. I've got three. And then this little guy is going to go four. One, two, three, four. He kind of just goes there.

But you've already taken a stack, so it doesn't do anything to you. Okay. Then we go to the top of a brand new round, Lucius. In fact, actually, we've got four minutes to wrap up yep that is where we're gonna call it this week uh at the top of a brand new round i'm gonna use the brand new save encounter feature on D&D Beyond to keep a record of that to save where that was. Amazing. It's okay. And I'm going to use this video as my raid guide, how to beat Zephyr

in Xtreme. In Herois 14. Yeah. Is this an extreme trial? I'd say so. We're going gonna pick this up next week as the party finish their battle against the

titans of fear I think like you know like Aayla's not really taking any damage Sentry's like okay I think like Lucius and Quill have taken a fair bit not really I'm on almost half now so I've had a pretty raw go of this one I'm worried about next time though

three stacks I've got three stacks that's 68 extra damage you'll take if you get hit or if Quill gets hit it's spicy anyway see you later thanks very much bye see you later thanks very much bye