High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #136 | Must Come Down (Part 2)

Episode Date: February 3, 2022

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Pickaxe. I want to get into it. I want to get into it. I want to get into it. Let's go. Let's go get mirrors. Yeah. After desperately knowing that time is ticking out, you have been desperately trying to convince Mesmera to give up this path of vengeance,

to give Thalia at least a chance to speak and overcoming her powerful rules that she seems to be able to sort of enforce on the space um clearly not a woman who seeks to do you any harm at any point she could have probably used these opportunities to attack you or cause harm but instead simply trying to overcome uh her pain and her suffering but as part of this you attempted or lucius attempted to destroy a mirror that was had a a deceitful reflection upon it however in attempting to do so you have revealed its true nature as an actual portal that leads to the demon prince gratz, who now emerges from this place.

Mesmera, having true sight blessed upon her, sees Gratz for the first time, not just bypassing the illusion, but seeing the malevolence, seeing the grotesque magic, the aura, these horrible intentions of Gratz. And she's stunned,

completely taken back by this sudden presence. And you get the sense that she is about to speak. She is about to initiate a command. Graz holds up his hand, and you see a finger on one of his six rings glows, and Mesmera vanishes. All rules stop. All the rules that Mesmera placed stop but Grats

emerges from the mirror I mean yeah I say oh good bad trade terrible trade probably there he is I would like Mesmera back please Grats looks like well I would like Miss Meribeth, please. Well... Grats. The rules aren't there.

Looks. It's like, well, isn't this a delight for you here? Ah. It's strange how it all leads back to here. I love this city. The heart's desire. A city built on desire and lust. Ah, the perfect place for the Prince of Pleasure.

I've been here many years. Dear Thalia, you didn't even realize what was at work, did you? You see Thalia like, she is now, the curse has rapidly spread. I mean, she still doesn't have long but she's no longer in like desperate pain and she manages to mutter kind of like you fucking bastard there's no way you've been behind this the whole time how could you why would you the ring the game what was it all for? Grotzer says, My dear, you were so thoroughly wicked.

You were basically born evil here, raised on privilege and vanity. Your soul was as good as mine from the day you started debasing and indulging yourself. But you know what's sweeter? The greatest prize for any archdevil or demon prince? A corrupted soul. A pure soul turned to wickedness. And who enters the stage

but dear sweet Mesmera. And as soon as you started treating that poor girl so poorly, I knew I had a golden opportunity. I delighted in watching her curse you and see all your suffering. But then you had to go and spoil it all. I started hearing rumors that you were doing good, saving harpies and imps and all sorts of good deeds. I began to worry

about my investment. So I started putting rumors out there about a ring that grants wishes. I knew that you'd come for it. You'd wish away your curse. And then, oh dear, poor Thalia would die. And your soul would be mine.

So would Miss Mara's. She was the one who killed you in the end. But then you, and he looks at the five of you, and you all had to get involved and spoil my fun. Well, it's time for me to have some fun. He holds out a hand, and a curved, wave-bladed greatsword, a flambeuse, appears in his hand. I'm going to enjoy this. We're going to go into initiative.

I guess we've stood up now, right? Like, after the gravity is gone. Yes, yes, yes. We've all stood up. Mesmer is technically not there. Yeah, all rules are negated no rules are currently in play um okay for the sake of purposes rose meadow is rose meadow is just gonna run to thalia she's gonna run gather kairi and they are gonna fucking get the hell out of this

room like she rose meadow is like i know what this thing i don't know what this thing is i know how evil it is i'm out like she's basically like i will look after the others you have to fight this thing basically for the sake of me not having to run a million npcs um so i'm literally just gonna grab them versus grass yes even big cats are gonna be a help here um just like i Just, like, I don't know, trying to just shout Thalia's name as she's pulled out. Like, you know, just, I don't know. Yeah, I think, like, Thalia's, like, too weak to really argue, but, like, she'll just say, like,

finish him! Fucking put an end to this Nova! Like, she's just calling that out to you as she's, like, dragged away, basically. Cool. It hasn't populated your initiatives automatically for me so i'm gonna have to ask you i haven't actually rolled it sorry oh nice yeah if everyone can roll initiative this is gonna be a brand new initiative

so okay one three why am i so slow recently i'm getting getting old. Kasey, what's Aayla's? 20. 20. And then, oh, Kim, I'm going to have to get you to do yours manually because I've still got Nova rather than your new version. 10. Your rolls, unfortunately, won't show up in the thingy, Kim, just so you're aware.

But we can't fix that just right now. We'll fix it for next time. Yeah, we'll fix it for next time. Sentry, I mean, I think that that's very apt. You sense this hideously evil presence. There's no fucking around here. This is pure evil. This is

malevolence. Just emerge from the thing. It's your turn. Sentry is gonna point her spear towards Graz, say, you're disgraceful, preying on the vulnerable, hurting those who need help. She's gonna call forth

Starbreaker. Bonus action, and then there's an action. Get big, baby! Yeah, so you lift Starbreaker up. Sentry. The lance glows with that green spiral energy. It expands in size, nearly doubling in length and width. And then you watch as Sentry herself.

Grats is a large creature as well. So the two of you are basically now of equal physique as you kind of like emerge into the same muscular form. I'm moving forward towards him. Giant Sentry. Yeah, yeah, just go nuts. emerge into the same muscular form. Giant sentry. Yeah, yeah. Just go nuts. Move yourself as you need to. 25. I'm going to move up there in front of my friends.

Shield in one hand, giant lance in the other, kind of braced against it. Ready to go. I love it. Ayla. Okay, so I'm already raging because I haven't chosen to end my rage. Yep. I'm just going to look at him and say, you're not anything special.

You're just a big cheater. And I will run at him. I can get to him in my turn and I will hit him twice yeah I love it that is a 22 to hit it does hit

but kind of barely he goes to parry the blow maybe doesn't expect the amount of strength that you use and the blow does catch him but it's like that's tight 17 with the hammer and six lightning and the second attack's a natural 20. six lightning did you say oh boy yeah but second is not funny he is lightning to resistant natural 20 Natural 20, so Ruth will critical, work it all out.

30 plus He's dead. He's definitely not dead. I promise you he's not dead. Whoops, he's dead, Mark. Whoops. Whoops. 47

plus 13 is 60. Nope, that's not lightning damage at all, that's hammer damage nope that's not lightning damage at all that's hammer damage that's just hammer damage the lightning would be 6 plus 6 because I rolled another 6 so 12 lightning damage

from that one and then he will get hit by my aura which is going to be so deck save deck save oh no sorry that's actually ignore that roll it's actually this roll

28 passes so 19 halfed and then half again yeah 9 points of lightning damage so you watch as Ayla's like second blow like slams directly into his chest and there is a kind of as it hits him but you know

how much force you put behind that he just kind of that was mildly unpleasant you little wretch end of turn Ayla yep he will swing down with his great sword the wave of sorrow

fuck 26 to hit yeah that's gonna be 23 slashing damage so half that to 11 and then 10 points of acid damage which is not resisted we just like cuts downwards when you do that um Then it's Granz's go. On Granz's turn, he's going to... You called me a cheater. Well, what's the point in playing fair

when you're playing to win? And he goes invisible. He casts greater invisibility on himself. Count spell. Ah, nine rangeibility on himself. Count spell. Oh, nine range. Are you not? No. He's miles away.

All right. Great invisibility goes off. So great invisibility. You know where he is because he's moving around. He's making sound. It's kind of like active camo, right? You can see a faint shimmering of where he should be you just have disadvantage on all attacks against him and his concentration

okay um annoyingly that's his whole turn oh um but he does have legendary action so lucius um let me just check the wording with okay dark vision see him with this it's invisibility you need to see invisibility or true sight which means she's in his ring the middle of the the throne room south of the state in the middle of this great grand throne room yep and Where he went invisible. I'm going to cast slow in that area

To slow him down You will hit a la because I'm you can't like the wall You could that you'd have to target on against the wall behind him and the radius would still hit a la can I not do like a that kind of key tell me where you're putting it and then i'll tell you if it hits him or ayla just cuts through him hit me well you you have to target an actual space you can't like put it behind the wall for example yeah so um yeah can't wait there there it's 20 foot radius right there there there yeah yeah right angles 20 foot cube yeah okay yeah okay you can target if you kind of put it against the far wall um sure all right so what kind of saving throw it's a wisdom 18 to beat

um he fails our legendary resistance that that's one legendary resistance down he passes yeah i thought he might that's okay one use of it burnt right uh yeah i'm gonna do some font of magic getting some spell slots back as a as my bonus action okay at the end of your turn uh Teleports. And he appears next to Lucius and Quill. Shit. Nothing. Nothing personal, kid. As he appears. Come on.

No, he doesn't. He does. He absolutely does. He's that kind of guy. He's that kind of guy. Oh, yeah. Douche. Over Vija.

What a douche. Over Vija. So, wonderful, Mark. I took my armor plate off as part of our page that last bit. What kind of action is it to put it back on? Bonus or action? Donning armor is like, it takes like five minutes to put. You gotta buckle up. So you don't have your armor equipped at the moment

You're gonna make me take 5 Absolutely Thanks love it I'm gonna cycle around And also move Echo 5, 10, 15 Echo of the Galaxy Tiangong. So these two versions,

like one, this kind of Tiangong Nova hybrid and the Nova herself like rush in. I apologize in advance for the many mistakes I'm going to make doing this because there's a lot of... I've been reading my sheet for ages, but I'm still figuring it out. I apologize.

It's not their game, it's ours. Can I see this boy can i can i cast hexblade curse on him you can't know so he is invisible you can't see him for the purposes of like casting spells and things like that but if you you can attack his space like i'm i'm not gonna be like oh he's technically invisible like i'm not gonna do that stuff but yeah any any spell that says a creature you can see you can't see him you can vaguely see where you think he is um so i used up two spell slots when i was previous nova am i counting those as done for current over consider basically current nova was completely fresh imagine that you had everything that you could have had access to sweet oh thank you um i'm gonna just open up with this new character with a very

nice uh attack attack attack um and i'm going to also maybe have fighters get multiple extra attacks. Hang on, sorry, what are you? Fighter? What happened, Kim? I am going to... I mean, you just said fighter. Yeah. What level? You'll find out. I'll tell you later. The more you interrupt, the more this longer this takes.

I was going to try and make the echo attack as well, but I don't know if I can do that the same turn. The way it works is you can make your attacks as normal. Any of your normal attacks you can make from the echo space, and then you can use Unleash Incarnation, which is a bonus action, and you get to make an extra attack from the echo space. So you can, in theory, make up to four attacks

if you spend your bonus action, but you can only do Unleash Incarnation three times, I think, for a long rest. I'm going to do that. So four attacks. Yeah, so four attacks. And then are they at disadvantage? No Hexblade's curse, though.

Yes, they are all at disadvantage, unless you have the ability to see invisible creatures, which you do not. Well, I'm already rolling like absolute garbage. So the first one is 15 to hit hit parry's it with a great sword sparks lash off oh 28 or a 29 so a 28 will hit though um first attack is 12

but I also, and I keep forgetting to add this is an extra little 4 so 12, 13, 14 15 points of damage 15 is good when you're doing 4 attacks around because that's 60 points of damage in a turn, also that's a con save for greater invisibility

that's a pass though unfortunately I rolled a 28 and a 19 for the third hit. A 19 just barely misses him. So like the invisibility is throwing your, like you and Tengong are moving in concert, able to channel these martial skills and you strike where you think the grots should be. But the invisibility is just, he's a few inches off and misses just barely. Ugh. 18. This invisibility is like, you can't

see where he is to anticipate his blows and his parries and things like that. And just, yeah, unfortunately your attacks go wide. I believe that is four. Two done. Yep, that was the four 4 that was your bonus action

action and a bit of movement okay at the end of your turnover Grotz is going to make a melee attack he's going to use his second legendary action he's going to attack Lucius though because Lucius is casting spells and you barely hit him so he's going to attack Lucius with advantage

just check and see if it's crit,'s not crit it's definitely gonna hit though 20 points of slashing damage 11 points of acid damage 31 total lucius the great i'm gonna use my action reaction to absorb elements on the acid. Okay. So resistance to acid damage. So you take five less. So it was 11 total. 25 total.

Damage 20 plus five. No worries. Then we go to Kelek and Kalah. Son of a bitch. Okay, I want to get away from this guy. I don't like him. One bit. Can I use a reaction to his reaction if I moved away and shielded his attack on me? Yeah.

I mean, your reaction, the shielding wording is you react to being an attack made against you. Doesn't matter if it's in response to a reaction. And then would I be able to cast... His shield is a spell. Would I be able to still cast a spell even though it's my turn? No, because this is the rare instance where it would still be your turn. You'd be casting two spells in your turn. No, I've done this before.

You can still cast it because the ruling is against casting a spell as a bonus action, not a reaction. So yes, you could. Ah, okay. I always get that wrong. In that case, I wanted to move just a little bit away from him. I mean, he will take the legendary action. He'll take it.

Yeah, okay, yeah, he does. His reaction, yeah. So yeah, he gets a free attack on me. 19. Wait, is 19... If I shield, it puts me to 19. Does he still beat that? Yeah. He does. Shit, I won't cast it then.

Meet or beat. 17 slashing. 9 acid. Okay. So, 26. 9 acid. So 26. Uh... Ouch!

Ouch! Yes! It's been too long. Uh, I want to cast a beacon of hope! On everybody. So everyone gets advantage on wisdom saves and maximum healing!

Nice! And I want to say to him, we humiliated you in your own domain, Rats. We'll have no trouble destroying you here. Really? You are a dead bird. His golden eyes flick up

and he's just like, you're going to regret saying that my little birdie I fucking know bit Sentry Sentry's gonna move in between Grots and Quill smart

I'm going to as a reaction going to use my Driven to Purpose to give me an extra B4 on an attack roll. Right, yeah. So you're preemptively using it, but yeah, it's the same thing. You can roll the attack roll and then add it. Well, you might not need to use it.

Roll to hit first, then you can decide, oh, I need it. I need to use it before I know the outcome. Yeah, I just want you so you roll the attack first and if you like rolled like a 19 you'll be like i'm pretty sure that's gonna hit i'm not gonna use my driven to purpose like for example all right so i won't tell you immediately i'll let you see the roll and then decide if you want to use it all right and then i'll bonus action cast staggering smite at level four and 4. And then I'm going to have a go

at smacking this guy around the face, please. First attack coming in. 27 to hit. Do you want to use Driven Purpose? There you go. It hits. Okay, sweet. I'm going to use a level 3 Divine Smite.

This is gross because you cast the spell which boosts the damage anyway, and now you're going to divine smite on top of it. This is gross. You need to make a wisdom saving throw first. It's delicious. Wisdom saving throw? Yeah, please, for I'm staggering smite.

30. Okay. So, yeah, you succeeded that. Does it half damage to the success? I don't know. You tell me. I think it's half damage. It doesn't say it's half damage.

If you fail. I think it just stops the other effect, yeah. Yeah, the disadvantage on attack rolls and all that stuff. Cool. Okay. Don't forget, actually, Sensory, he is invisible, so that attack would mean with disadvantage. Alright, let's rescind that and let's do it again. Let's roll another attack and then we'll basically, yeah, we see.

18 plus 12. Do you want to use driven to purpose? Oh, plus 12, yeah, that would still hit. So, yeah, they both hit. Cool, okay. Yep, still goes through. But he does make the saving throw. Is this an extra D8 scenario for Grats? He is a fiend. Cool.

One, two, three, four, five, six. And then hang on. Oh my God. This is a lot. High level paladins are like. 2D 12. Handed. Right. Oh, that was loud.

That's a lot of dice. 2d12, 68, 46, 1d4. What the hell? So 60 points of damage. 60. I should have multi-classed as a paladin. Oh my god. So is that just the flat 60, right?

That's it? That's just 60, yeah. Yep, 60 points of damage. Just a flat 60. Just a flat 60. Oh, gross. And you see that as you thrust the Starbreaker forward, like spiraling with its green energy.

Grats goes to parry this invisible shifting form. It hits something and black blood sprays everywhere and you do hear like a cry of pain nice i'd like to do that again please no staggering tonight this time though yeah no way harry's it aside yeah that's 60 damage can I do that again now on my same turn yeah same thing

does he make his con save he does have to make a con save that's very true against 60 points of damage which means it's a DC of 30 he can still pass this what really and he does 31

he'll have a crazy con yeah he's a demon prince man still pass this. He can do it. What, really? And he does. 31. He does. He'll have a crazy con. Yeah, he's Demon Prince, man. Although, I will say this now, because I know people are going to complain. I personally think Grutz's official stat block, like, I haven't changed it. I think it's garbage. Like, I actually think he's really weak for his challenge rating, so

eh. But yeah, like, you hear the grumpy still stays uh no i've not changed it no i'm just running this raw so uh because i feel like i don't like to like it's about named characters i'm like i can't change that so if it's my own 31 on con he's garbage he's garbage um end of century's turn grats takes he gets a legendary action. He says, a good hit, my little paladin friend, but you do seem to have left your ally a bit isolated.

Ayla, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw. With advantage. I'm probably going to be a fail. You've got beacon of hope. Yeah, but it's probably still going to be a fail. Oh, it's a nat 20! No, no, no, but it's probably still going to be a fail. Oh, it's a nat 20! Yeah! No, no, no, but it's disadvantage.

I rolled a 19 and a 20. No, it's not disadvantage. It's advantage. So it's a nat 20. So it's 19. Are you okay? No, it's not a 21. It's 21.

What's happening? What do you roll? I've never... It's a 20. It's a've never... It's a 20. It's a nat 20. It's a 21. Nat 20s only do anything on an attack roll. They give you a critical hit.

They are not automatic successes. Let's go to the best result. The DC is 23. That's cool. Bye. The invisibility drops. Grots reappears. But dominate monster on Aayla.

Kill the bird. Somebody got to get me out of that. No. Sorry. Aayla, it's your turn. Well. Kill the bird. I can't do anything.

Destroy bird. Murder bird. Take his wing! What is it to hit? What was that? 13 plus 14, it'll hit you, Quill. It was disadvantage, because Sentry's protecting Quill. Let me just put it this way.

12 plus 14. Even if she rolls a 1, she hits me. I'm still going to hit him. 17 damage plus two lightning damage concentration check the next one i rolled a nat one but it's not with disadvantage is it nope it's just not one that is one is always a miss tom one is always a miss on attack rolls.

So it's tricky with this thing. Do I do my aura damage? Yes. Yeah, you have to basically go at Quill with everything you've got. The only way to cancel Darnay Monster is for Ayla to do wisdom saving throws after being hit. I'm never going to manage to save Ayla. No, that's not true. The other way, you can cause Grots to lose concentration, after being hit. I'm never going to manage to save it. No, that's not true.

The other way, you can cause Grots to lose concentration or things like the spell magic or spell breaker. No, if they do the next action of Dominate Monster. Dominate Monster. Oh, no, wait. No, it's still concentration, never mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where you take complete control. What was your save?

Oh, my save? My main save. My main save. Eight? Deck save. Deck save. Eight? Plus three from me. Yeah, you take 22 lightning damage, sorry. I rolled really high. Concentration check for Beacon of Hope. So, a 10 for the first one, because that was 17.

Yeah, 11 for the second. Unnatural 20. 21. Yeah, you're fine speaking of hope still up oh my god right someone else is gonna have to get me out of this because i physically if i roll in that 20 my max is 21 for a wisdom save so someone's gonna have to get rid of it i'm hoping um it i'm hoping um bum bum bum bum grats will uh he is going to and his action for his action he raises uh no that's concentration he can't do that he where he wants to keep this up do it so uh no he will just make two attacks against well let's say this Rust. Pretty mean. He'd probably go both against Lucius. He wants to try and limit the amount of attacks. That's going to hit.

That's 32 to hit on the first one. The second one is a 21 to hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All the things I said. All the things I said. It's going to be... Oh, not through my head. 28 points of damage, Lucius.

10 of which is acid. So 18 then 10 acid thank you and then the next attack is I can't see that 25 slashing damage and 12 acid damage oh wait no I didn't

I know I didn't I don't have absorb elements right now so I'm getting the full acid. You're getting the full acid. Yep. Yep. Yeah, he just cleaves down into Lucius twice, and then he gets all of his legendary actions back.

Lucius. Holy guacamole. I will teach you what it means to defy me. And he's, like, slashing down as he does this into Lucius. And I will teach you. And I to define me and he's like slashing down as he does this in interlucent i will teach you and i'm gonna disengage okay yeah just run mid-sentence run behind sentry okay yeah that's a very that's probably a safe place to be right so full action disengage and run um uh yeah at the end of your turn gruts is just like yes yes run away i'll get to soon enough he's gonna take

a swipe at nova now as a legendary action oh only 16 to hit yeah i took my arm off didn't i he did century did you say did you want to do something? No, I didn't say anything. Oh, no, sorry. 27 slashing damage, Nova. And then 10 acid, so 37 total. Lucius. No, sorry, Nova, then.

Your turn. I would like to cast Hexblade Curse on him. Yes, he is visible now. And then I'm going to... I hope you didn't hear that. We did hear Milo, yes, but it's fine. Yeah, he has awoken. I think he's got something to say about it. I think I'm going to do that thing again

where I just attack a billion times and hope that I actually do something this time. Sure. My brain still kind of hurts from all this. So, first attack is 23 to hit. Hits. Hits. Okay.

to hit? Hits. Hits. Okay. That is 12 plus 2, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 points of damage because there's plus 5 for my Hexblade Curse. You got it. You got the combo wombo.

Wombo combo. This is when Nova's new form gets much scarier when Heblade curses on a creature because she gets plus five to every attack oh god that's awesome yeah another hit also gross second one to hit it's yep uh oh 11 base 11 12 13 14 17, 18, 19, 20 points of damage on the second one. 20 points of damage. Qian Gong slashing into Graz. And you can see now thick rivulets of black blood

sliding down his limbs. You know, this perfect chiseled Herculean form. You are making me bleed my own blood. I'm going to bleed someone else's. 13 is missed. You are making me bleed my own blood And then do I get one more from unleash incarnate you've got three uses of it You've used one and it's a bonus action to use it 27 to hit it's 12 27 to hit hits 12 14, 15, 16, 17 18, yes

sorry, 18 points of damage the echo Tiangong plunges the blade in and if that's the end of your turn, which I'm assuming it is by the way Gratz will say this thing is bothering me and he's gonna swipe at the echo no don't swipe at my echo your echo still does have an ac of 19 even though you've taken your armor off however it doesn't matter he hits the echo and with its one hit point it the echo vanishes oh one hp okay right so but it's until now, he didn't really know what it was,

and he's just swiped at it in an anger, and it's like, oh, that thing's destroyed now. He didn't know what it was going to do. Quill? I don't know what level spell Dominate Monster is. However... Inside me. I think that I need

a ton of healing regardless. Everyone needs a ton of healing. I'm gonna do Mask Your Wounds at level 8! I'm gonna attempt to counterspell it. I have to roll a thing. Level 8 you said, yeah? If he didn't though, that would be real cool.

He rolls a 3. I... Oh! You ported it! be real cool. He rolls a three. I... Oh, you ported it. Nice. He's gonna port from the counter spell roll. Hell yeah. He rolls a three, plus his spellcasting ability modifier, which is eight, by the way, which means

he does fail. I needed a ten to beat that. So he... You go to cast the spell, you go to channel the healing energy he's like no um and then you just say what like no yes and then the you know the storm eye glows an old quill kind of like comes out and disperses the counter spell and the healing spell goes off uh and everyone And everyone gets max healing from this. It's 4, 5, 6, 8, plus 6. So that's 6 times 8, 48. No, yeah, 48 plus 6.

Everyone gets 54 healing. Awesome. And anyone that has an 8th or lower level spell on them is Dominate Monster. What level is that? 8th level. Fuck yeah! What a thing!

He didn't even know and I love it. I just cast it the highest level I could. No, amazing. So, Ayla, your mind, you get your own mind back. You feel your wounds heal up, those of you who are injured. Very good. And Graz is looking pretty rough. He's covered in

thick blood. And that's the end of Quill's turn I'm going to back up a bit no I'm not going to do that I'm going to stay close to sentry your ally is isolated no I don't want to go up there you know what I'm going to tweak him a little bit I'm going to do a little bit of improv tweaking You know what?

I'm going to tweak him a little bit. I'm going to do a little bit of improv tweaking. Just because this is cool. For his last legendary action, Grotz, you know, having sensed that his spell's been broken, he's just like, fine. He reaches out his hands, and you see two of the reflected mirror windows of this chamber.

All the scattered broken glass. He picks it up in a swirling storm and he's going to draw a line between basically hitting Century Quill Lucius Nova as he basically joins a line like... between them. Yeah, he'll do it between this one and this one. He's throwing shards of glass at us. us yeah he'll basically do it like that yeah so can you guys make a deck saving throw so century Nova Quill and Lucius okay we all get sentries aura you do get sentries aura

yes my aura isn't gonna help me tonight tonight. Plus three, right? It's plus three, right? Yeah. Yeah, plus three. The DC is going to be 23, though. Oh, God, no. Okay, don't worry. 25. So Nova does make it.

Nova takes half damage. The rest of you, slashing damage as this kind of tornado of glass comes scouring through. Oh, it's struggling. Hello? 35. That was 35. 35 points of slashing damage, half to Nova, so that would be

15, 17 for Nova. As this kind of whirlwind of glass as he sweeps it along like a hand. What's up? Ope's gone. Oh dear, so no beacon of Ope. But luckily you got a big heal beforehand.

Sentry. Um, I... Yeah, I'll attack this boy again. I'll do the odd one-two smack-a-roo while he's here. Just the classic. Just the classic? You can't beat it. That's not one on the first one, so it ain't happening.

Let's try again. You did do 60 points of damage to him earlier. Yeah, 25 hits. I'm going to do it again. Rock and roll, buckaroo. If you get just a little more than 60 this time, that'd be great. Please, Sentry, thank you.

You know what this point has to do this time? Just 60? You that'd be great please sentry. Yeah. You know what discipline I'm doing this time? Just 60? You need to pull your weight mate. Come on. Yeah. You could in theory. Sorry I've been letting it slide down. I'm so sorry.

Yeah I'll do a level 4 Divine Smite so I'll do 7d8. That's more like it. 1, 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And a d4 rock and roll. 42 plus seven is 49. 49 damage. Fashionable Lance rips through a chunk of Grotz's perfect muscular physique,

just tearing the muscle, and he's like, How are you doing this? of Grotz's perfect muscular physique, just tearing the muscle, and he's like, Gah! How are you doing this? This is something I haven't done before. Can I bonus action do a Shield Master shove and just push him five feet back, as I can? Sure. Does it just go off automatically?

Do I get a save? No, no, it's just a thing I can do as a Shield Master. Just nudge him back just push him back yeah so i get an opportunity attack movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks unfortunately but you're out of his are you out of his range now uh his great sword is very long unfortunately you are still century and nova are still within reach of him currently he's a prince of prince of. I can see his great sword. Yeah, you sure can.

Aayla. He's got no legs into reactions, so I go straight to Aayla. I'm mad as hell. I want to hit him. How mad is he? I'm mad as hell. Is he still invisible? Is he fine now? Nope, nope. He's not invisible anymore.

He's the Dominate Monster, which I overreact. Ah, it was a 19. It was so close to a 20. Get rid of Dominate Monster. I didn't do it like that. I did it heroically. He pulled out all the stops to get that. I rolled a 19 plus 14. That was so close to another net 20.

So that's going to be 21 on the hammer and two lightning on the first one. And my second attack is a nat 20! Are you kidding me? That's ridiculous.

That's like the third one, right? Yeah, because you got the saving throw. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, I've done that, so I can't complain. Yeah, next week I'm going to be trash. It's like bound to happen, right? Well, next week you don't have to fight Grot, so. 41 plus 13 is?

54. That many. And then 6 plus 4, so 10 lightning damage from that one, halved for his resistance. And then he needs... One knee. Clutching his chest, which is now scoured by lightning. Dex saving!

I mean, I'm going to legendary resistance it just so that I take half damage he's getting really injured here so I succeed 23 lightning damage so 11 half to 5 I mean that blast like he holds up a hand and almost seems to kind of like redirect

some of the lightning which is the only thing which you know seems to have saved him like kind of throwing the lightning to the side like it's like gasping for breath how much time have we got 15 15 minutes. I can go a little longer. Sure, okay. Well, it depends on your arena. We'll check. Grotz, it's turn, Aayla, unless you've got anything else. I've used everything that I've got.

No. No, I have to at least take one of you with me. One of you owes me a soul. He brings up his other hand where he has these six rings and you see one of them, which has two of three glowing gemstones. He clutches his wrist and he casts heal on himself by using a wish.

Oh. A wish? Yeah, you can replicate a wish. Wish? Yeah, you can replicate a spell. You can replicate any spell of 8th level or lower. Why don't you wish for more wishes? Because he can't. And if he casts it, so he gets another 8, he gets another 10.

So he gets 80 back. 80, okay, higher level wish Lucius his action to use that okay Lucius is going to forego having to hit anything and he's going to cast Vitruolic Sphere behind so it catches him

yep as it travels through the sky it's acid in the air. Can I peel off Dichromancy just to hit the throne? Use that to cast Defensive Dichromancy, resist acid on Nova, because I need to have casted an acid spell

in order to do Defensive Dichromancy. Right. And then convert chromatic control, the vitriolic sphere, to ice. Yes, you can do all of that. Yeah. Thank you. Oh, I see.

I think. So deck saving throw of 18. Deck saving throw. Meaning he succeeds. So it's only half of this it's going to be half again because he is resistant to cold damage ow fuck a piss fuck a piss

so 37 points 37 half would be 18 18 half again is 9 so you watch as like the ice explodes behind him and he just kind of like brushes the ice off of his shoulders

just take my soul fuck's sake he looks at you very well and he's going to teleport behind you as the legendary action big mouth your turn And he's going to teleport behind you as the legendary action. Nova. Big mouth.

Your turn. Bonus action. Tiangong's coming back, baby. So please can I have my echo back? Thank you. Yep. Where do you want it to appear? Next to Graz, please. Next to Lucius and Graz. A little bit closer. Go on.

They can be within 15 feet of me. So 5, 10. Yeah, that's within 15 feet. Yeah, that's in there. And then I'm going to go 5, 10, 15, 20. So again, these two Novas kind of split off and now they're kind of attacking from either side And then

So that's bonus action So I guess yeah it's going to be a whacking again Yep three attacks You can't do the extra fourth one You can't do a fourth one because you've already used your bonus action But you can do three attacks this turn Okay just the three Yep

29 to hit on the first one oh 17 18 19 20 21 22 uh 23 uh 23 24. before what did i roll on that tiangong here was it it was a 17 wasn't it? Yeah, okay. Just carry on It's fine one point of damaging. It's only if I get a 19 or whatever 24 hit one before hits. Yep 15 6 so 20 plus 2 so 22 on the second one Yeah, Nova's carving into him.

Oh my god. He's trying to fend them off. All of that healing is slowly evaporating. That is almost gone. Tip to a 3. Tip to a 3. End of your turn, Nova. He's going to attack Lucius. Um.

I protect Lucius. Yeah. Sensory does protection, so disadvantage. Nova hit. I just would yeah sentry does protection so disadvantage never hit still gonna hit him shit yeah that hits it's gonna be 18 slashing

only how much acid damage is that I can't see it 5 so 23 I'm okay quill oh god i just really don't like this guy right next to me and a lot of my stuff is ranged i'm just going to do a shocking grasp on him okay uh to stop his reactions um so it's plus nine to hit 27. uh and 3d8 lightning 13. not much six after wow resistance you kind of reach up and touch his like arm or like his leg and like send

lightning pulsing through him he just uh and i feel more than that in my pleasure palaces, boy. Oh, God. But he can't take reactions anymore, so I'm going to basically rotate around Sentry again. Okay. Yeah, you move around. He can't reach you now, but he can take a legendary action,

which is to hit Lucius. I look at it, Will, as... a legendary action which is to hit lucius i'd like to hit will as him i would like to use shadow martyr um and tiangong is going to throw themselves in front of lucius so the attack is directed at tiangong yep and it's one one point yeah hit 20. It was a 20 to hit. So, yeah, so this Tiangong Nova throws itself in front of Lucius, raises the sword up, and it destroys the Echo, but, Lucius, you are safe.

Oh! I'm confused as to what happened. He just had his hands covering his eyes. I mean, yeah, he looks like he's pretty much done. If you and Ayla can hit him hard, he's done. I'm going to move up here. So I've got a bit of a gap to him and I'm going to use Sunbeam

against him. Oh my god, okay. So you need to roll a constitution saving throw, please. He's pretty good at these. He's going to succeed 31, so he's going to take half damage and he's not blinded. Half damage 68. It is radiant which is not resistant to. We got ourselves 23.

That's literally how many hit points he had left so we watch essentially like the side throws her arms open as the the golden chest beam grots who is in the middle of like swiping down at lucius is confused by this this like tiangong nova that absorbed the blow and then you see like a golden light over his skin he looks up confused as the blast hits him. His body goes flying into the other mirrored wall, smashing against it as he just turns to smoke. His body begins turning to smoke.

He just looks up. He's like, this isn't over. This isn't done. I'll reform on Azaghrat and I will have might. And then he just becomes dust before he finishes speaking. One of his rings drops to the ground and then mesmera reforms uh in front of you gasping uh oh oh what the prince my knight she begins looking around

my prince my knight she begins looking around and I mean do you want to end it there or I feel like I think we have to I think we have to it's that time it's a good time

you see Mesmeria does look around like she kind of looks around at all of you and then she looks and you all see Thalia and Thalia's like like like rose meadows clutching and she's like i don't know something's really wrong i'm like you can see that like thalia is in a bad way but that is where we're gonna end the episode oh we didn't we didn't kill him he's frustratingly he's still demon you killed him off of his home plane. He reforms in Azagirath.

Can't kill a demon prince off of their own plane. Has to be on their home plane. Should have smashed the mirror, innit? Smashed the portal. No, even then, he still would have just gone back to Azagirath. Yeah, that's why he didn't care that you guys were doing so much damage to him, because he knows that he'll just reform on his own planet. He just wanted to try and take at least one of the people

that owes him a soul with him, Thalia, Quill, or Lucius. Fuck. Not this time. Not this time. That really came back to buy us, didn't it? Just a little bit, innit? Like I said, you guys smashed him. So much damage you can put out.

You saved Ayla from the Dominate monster. Did it. Saved the day. Sorry about that. I do a lot for a little quill. Maybe there will still be a cost. I think I missed on one of your decks. We'll see. I was very lucky.

One's when you need it. Twenty's when you need it. Hey, Nova. Who are you? What? And, huh? We are not. Are my questions.

Okay. Ah, yeah. I am a multi-class warlock echo knight fighter. Echo knight fighter? No, warlock fighter. So, a fighter, subclass, echo knight. knight right warlock fighter hybrid what what level like if you're if you're getting triple attack um 11 fighter currently it's 11 five yeah oh my god that is a massive shift yeah and it's um i want to talk a little bit about it yeah it's basically

like kim and i had a chat with a chat about Nova and like Kim had some stuff and we talked about it. And one of the ideas of like, well, you know, do you want to try changing class? And Kim thought that'd be fun. And then we thought of a cool way to incorporate it. And yeah, I thought that'd be a nice narrative moment of like this thing.

And it does, it will lead on to other stuff. There will be things and I'll leave that for Kim as it comes out. But it's a good thing in your games and this is especially for dungeon masters as players like if somebody comes to you and maybe they're not enjoying your class or maybe they want to take their character in a different direction you just find ways to say yes and say like well you know we could try this and we can try that and you work with it and uh you know we'll see how it goes and if kim doesn't enjoy this we can always change it

back like that's the nice thing the cool thing with the rp is like stuff enjoy this, we can always change it back. Like, that's the nice thing. The cool thing with the RP is, like, stuff is fluid. We can change stuff around, but, yeah. I think it's cool. It was basically I was getting very frustrated with three spell slots and the later levels of Warlock, like 17 to 20, are a bit garbo. Like, I was just watching Lucius, just like, I'm going to spend some sorcery points

to get my spell slots back, and I'm just there, like... But also, like, I i think you're already planning to multi-class into fighter for those last three levels anyway yeah um with the same kind of idea of what this would lead into but we just thought well we could accelerate that and you can swap some levels and stuff around and and yeah with and it was between this and um psi psi sonic warrior so the the the jedi basically so i could have been a jedi with lots of like push pull throw weapons around telekinesis um all that kind of thing but i really just love the image of an echo that was basically tiangong just like coming out to play um so yeah really really really enjoyed it well tiangong's always been like the one who does the sword fighting whenever nova's done

sword fighting it's tiangong who kind of takes over and is controlling the blade so this is just tiangong giving their knowledge to nova who has now learned to be a what would be a fighter be a warrior so nice um the the only thing that i was really hard for me and i wrote lots of comparisons and stuff like this to work this out my head dropping arcane gate that was a fucking heart oh that's gone now that's the last time i used it that's an epic time to use it that was the was the last time I used it. So what a way to go out. Oh, my God. So I can vent a huge tower of stuff. Now, what about gravity?

Have you still got that one? Yeah, because that's on the magic item. Because that's on the lodestone. Yeah, it's on magic. Oh, well. So very cool. Goodbye, Ardengate. Oh, you've got your own Elder Quill. We both have Elder Quill.

But, you know. Nice. Well, what a great episode. What a great episode. Yeah, was that good? Like, obviously, I appreciate it. It's always tricky when you're trying to kind of do things like the skill challenges. Like, you know, sometimes it's so different to, like,

you can just fight the problem. It's like you've got to try and be creative. Oh, it's cool. I like the way we use it. It and it's very cool yes you guys did some cool stuff think about it yeah and also yeah like not casting spells for an entire turn that kind of sucks not be able to speak for an entire turn what do i do um it's the idea is like you had to like find ways around these kind of like obstacles but she could only she could her rules had to like fulfill certain conditions like they couldn't just be like everyone dies or like nobody can move speak or

do anything like there were limitations on what she could do and stuff always had to be exceptions or things like tricky ways around it and stuff like that so yeah we're at the thing I forgot like I should mention this because I'm pretty sure we'll wrap the RP stuff out and this isn't really going to change the outcome

you guys want to do that the outcome. You guys want to do that little thing called you guys want to do a little something? A little cheeky little treat? Yeah, I could do that. How do people feel about leveling up?

Oh yeah. Level 17. It's level up time, bitch. No. I want that audio and nothing else any time that we level up. It's level up time, bitch. Yeah.

No, I had said right from the start that once the kind of Feywild stuff wrapped up, we would get a level up in. Regardless of what happens with the RP, whether or not you save Thalia, you have overcome immense kind of obstacles to get here, and that is deserving of a level up. Welcome, Chris Trott, to ninth level spells.

Oh, shit. Oh, my God. You don't get it just yet, Tommy, sadly. Chris Trot to 9th level spells oh my god you don't get it just yet Tommy sadly you've got to get it because of your wizard levels but old Lucius has got 9th level spells well well well and if it was hard to balance combat

before I just made it even harder for myself I want to point out by the way I did kind of I fiddled around with Grot's stat block at the end where I let him cast any of his spells as a legendary action and I did that weird bladestorm thing with telekinesis. He is a CR 24 encounter and you guys creamed him. Like, you fucking annihilated him.

Yes, okay, he did really put a lot of damage into Lucius and Quill, who fucking doesn't. Any melee-based enemy that gets a chance to pummel Luciusus and quill will do that but you guys creamed him um i get another meta magic as well you do really that massively helps me get like a better like now i can look at monsters and be like if it's fucking less than cr20 like it's probably just like unless you're doing lots of fights in a row kind of like you guys were, it's just not worth it. Single fights have to be like fucking crazy CR now. I just rolled a 10 on my HP dice.

So did I. Oh, yeah, that's a 30. Catching. Oh, my God. Level 9 spells. Landing darkness. Gone. Just gone.

Yeah. Yeah. That's good, though. I think that's that's good yeah war crimes was getting old so right very old very quick very old very quickly thanks everybody uh we will see you we'll be back next week continue this uh and wrap up the rp with thalia and mesmera um but yeah we'll see you then take care of all bye