High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #138 | Enemy of my Enemy (Part 1)

Episode Date: February 8, 2022

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Pickaxe. Hello, welcome back to High Rollers, a Dungeons & Dragons podcast in the world of Erois. We're sponsored by D&D Beyond, the ultimate online D&D toolset for both players and DMs. Make your dungeon-delving life a million times easier with D&D Beyond using the link in the episode description. Welcome back to Erois. After defeating the Prince of Pleasure, Graz, the party pleaded with the Archfey Mesmera, speaking harsh truths, but offering empathic comforts as well, and with the specters of justice and death hovering around the dying Thalia. Through their words and actions,

the party convinced Mesmera to allow Thalia to live, ending the curse. Whilst there remains much resentment and pain for Mesmera, Rosemallow, now calling herself Hope, chooses to stay behind and help her whilst the party returns to Erois. However, on activating the Wayfinder's Guide to return to Horizon, the party struggle to return, and it takes all of the artifact's power to break through some sort of barrier. Initially a little puzzled, the party return to their apartment in Horizon seemingly unharmed.

Though Quill quickly hears the sound of battle outside, and gathering at the window, the heroes see that Valkyrian troops are currently assaulting Horizon. Arvel and Petal burst into the room, fearing intruders, and quickly speak with the party before Quill receives sending spells from both Commander Rain of the Horizon Guard and Valar Valkyrian, the latter being pursued by Zarkira, the former trying to fight off a number of powerful foes in the city, including Construct Dragons. Racing to their aid, the party quickly vanquish some Naga and Constructs, but are ambushed by a

huge dragon that smashes through the citadel walls to attack them as nova is grabbed by the creature and pulled away quill uses the eye of the storm to check on vala and sees her unconscious surrounded by spider-like constructs before the door bursts open and a figure in tall black armored boots enters And that is where we begin the session. Quill, just having had these visions, I believe that was on your turn as well, Quill. That was

your action on your turn. It was. It was a scry action, I think. We basically made it so you could just do it as an action rather than 10 minutes or whatever it is. Oh, shit. Guys, I need to go now. We do have a map as well,

if people want to just check where they are and stuff. To re-describe the scene, there is currently, especially for podcast listeners, they were running down one of the outer corridors of the Citadel. The dragon has burst open, breaking the section of the wall revealing it's spilling out onto the city streets below um and the dragon has flown away from the wall currently gripping nova uh whose echo is also currently on the dragon uh away while the rest of you are on the edge of this now crumbling broken open corridor um that is open now open to the elements um and that i now hand over to you tom sorry so uh

i saw valet in the council room right as well in the war room yes where you had the large meeting the the sort of uh the treaties with many of the leaders of arois um she was in there she was unconscious i think you i might have also described you saw unconscious Maximilian as well. And you saw the same constructs quill that you know captured you and took you to Zarkira. Teleport you. They're called again. I don't know what they're called.

Retrievers they are called. Retrievers. Golden Retrievers. You saw about maybe two, three of them in the vision we need to go right now, Valor and a load of retrievers and

Starbane too in the council room, we need to go now what? any move or bonus actions, Quill? yeah, I'm going to move straight to the council room in one turn well, you can certainly try you can make your best effort, which is to go Any move or bonus actions, Quill? Yeah, I'm going to move straight to the council room in one turn. Okay.

Well, you can certainly try. You can make your best effort, which is to go 30 feet down the corridor. I will stay within eyesight of this dragon and of Grappled Nova. I've used an action, so I can't do anything to help. Nope. Yeah, whichever direction is the way. It's still in eyesight, Earth's Dragon.

To the west. The weest. Weest. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Sentry. Did I cast Fly on a couple of people? I'm pretty sure I did. You did. You have it on Sentry, Aayla

and yourself, I believe. sure i did you did you have it on sentry ala and yourself i believe um can okay so there's bales of hay on the map down beneath the dragon there are a few yes there's like uh just behind the dragon for you know can i cast plant growth on those bales of hay try and get them to spring up and trap the dragon. You can certainly try. Can I try? Sure, yeah. So what's your spell save DC?

What's your spell save for your spell? 17. Alright, I'm just going to do a flat strength save against this. So the plants the bales of hay do kind of explode the straw becoming these impossibly large i guess they would almost become like wheat or something like that like i don't know what what straw growth i don't really know yeah here's a week so like all this kind of wheat explodes outwards and then these vines and the roots of the the plant kind of spread out well. And it does manage to catch onto, like, the dangling claws and back legs of the dragon,

but with one kind of swift tearing motion, the dragon just pulls itself free. It's not quite strong enough to hold this thing down. It does look immensely strong. All right. I'll bonus action, harness divine power, restore level three spell slot. Okay. And then I'll bonus action Harness Divine Power, restore level 3 spell slot. Okay.

And then I'll start following Quill after hearing that Starbane might be here. Yeah, that's kind of a big deal. So I think you've got 60 foot of fly at the moment because of Lucius' spell. Alright, I'm going to stay close to Quill. Alright, Ayla. I'm going to show you to the will. Alright, Ayla. I'm going to shout over at Nova and be like, do you need me? Have you got a plan? We gotta go.

I see a weak little thumbs up. Sticking out from in between the claws that's wrapped around Nova. Like a little blue arm. If Nova is okay, I will use one of my is okay, I will use one of my hammer charges. I will throw the hammer at the dragon

and then I will follow Quill. Yeah, I love it. Give me that attack. So that is going to be 24 to hit. That will hit, yes. That is a 22 damage on the hammer. That will hit, yes. That is a...

22 damage on the hammer. Two points on the hammer. Oh, wait, no, sorry. Yeah, 22 plus three. Nine. 14 lightning damage. I forgot I wasn't doing my normal attack. Hammock kind of smashes into the side

of the dragon, denting some of its kind of armor. And you can see, I described these before, it is metallic. It's not an actual dragon. It's like a construct. So it's made from metal. Its head, torso, and wings and tail are all one piece. But then it has two arms and two legs, all of which are separated by this kind

of pulsing magic material, right? Like it doesn't have like muscles and joints. So the hammer kind of smashes into the chest, dents like a piece of the metal, and then flies back to your hand. Cool. And which way is Quill going? To the left? Yes.

West. West. Okay, I'll move. If you're done, Ayla, it's Lucius. Then we have Nova. Pretty much all of you guys guys then the dragon takes it uh i also glance at nova and i think what i'm going to do is hold my action to when nova is a safe distance away from the dragon at which point i will cast lucius's luscious light and try and blind and distract the dragon from where we're going.

Okay, nice. I too will head in this direction, but I'll do like a I'm darting this way, but then I go the other way. 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 42, 45, 48, 49, 42, 49, 42, 43, 43, 44, 45, 49, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 47, 48, 49, 42, 48, 49, 42, 49, 42, 49, 42, 49, 42, 43, 43, 43, 44, 45, 49, 42, 45, 49, 42, 45, 50, 51, 51, 52, 51, 52, 52, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, Aayla. Oh, shit, yeah. We've got flight on us, don't we? Yeah, so it's only an extra 15 feet for you, Aayla, because you've already got 45. Yeah, but 15 feet is 15 feet.

I'm going to take them. Nova. Hello. Hello. How damaged is the dragon boy feeling? I mean, yeah, like it's hard to tell because it's a construct and it has all this magical energy, but it's got dents. You can see

power fluctuating. It seems to be sort of flickering in its energy. I will say that it's under half health. If this was fourth edition D&D, I would confirm that it is bloodied, which means that it's below half its hit points. Its max hit points. It's a good mechanic.

I want to bring it back. I guess I'm going to use one of my spell slots, I suppose. I've only got two. You've only got two. I'm going to take myself out of spell slots. Yeah, I'm going to take myself out of spell slots. And I will cast Thunderstep. I have a question for you, NovaVidya.

Is Thunderstep specifically a teleport? It is, isn't it? You go to cast the spell and it does not function. Can I keep my spell slot? You can keep your spell slot. Thank you. So the action's wasted. So you go to cast the spell as the action, that's wasted,

but you keep the magical energy because just nothing happens, right? Like you can't expend the energy to complete the spell. The teleport is being blocked. And that does remind and does refresh your memory of when you first arrived here in Horizon. It took everything the Wayfinder's Guide had to bring you back to this spot in the city.

Does that mean that my teleport with the echo would have not worked then? The reason I'm- the echo does work because the- I'm clarifying that as like, because of your position with the echo itself, it's more like a kind of like your symbiosis rather than like a magical teleport because it's only like 15 foot range, right? So. In which case, can I use the echo to teleport

and switch places with the echo? So. Yes, you'd be on top of the dragon and the echo would be grappled basically yeah yeah is that an action or is that a bonus action to do it's a bonus action to do you can do that yeah yeah and i'd say that that works a little differently because it's like a localized like um like it's the symbiosis between you and tiangong is like you're kind of swapping places with each other rather than it's like a distortion of like tiangong's power rather than like the teleport spell right so so yeah um and that's all i've currently got

then if i'm out of action and i'm out of um thingy action uh how how far below me is the the square like the house the ground i think i i think i said it was like 80 feet last round uh last last time 70 80 feet okay okay um that's all i've got for now really um okay yeah if i could maybe i don't know where tiangong was on the back of the dragon but if i could maybe try and move to like maybe where the neck is um on the back of the dragon it's a good point actually no but can you also just make a wisdom saving throw for me? This was at the start of your turn to see if its sapping presence has any effect on you.

Oh, that was a 19. That was a 19. So it's a 6. Your speed is currently halved by the way, and you have disadvantage on attack rolls until the end of your next turn, just because you can feel this thing draining your energy as you're like nearby it it's like pulling all of your magical energy into it um if that is you done pretty much yeah okay the dragon

gets its turn back i'm gonna see if its radiant breath recharges it does not that's very good uh so the first thing it's going to do is basically try and crush the echo currently in its hand because it doesn't know that that's not a real thing. So it will try and smoosh. That's a 30 to hit, which is going to do more than one point of damage. It's 11 points of damage, so it does kind of poof, and the echo vanishes. And then I think it would, yeah, try and sort of just swipe at the thing that's on it. It's going to swipe at Nova once and probably just pull away a little bit more. Get away from that nasty hammer that just bonked it on the face.

But we're all running away. It wants to chase us, right? It might do once it gets its laser beam breath back. Yeah, no, then. And it will try and swipe at you, Nova. That's a 29. Yes, that hits. Yes, 14 points of slashing damage as it does reach up with a claw.

I'm going to say it can't use its bite against you because you're on its back, so it's just going to swipe to you with one of its things. And then that's going to be it. Quill? Oh, God. I mean, I... I'm going to try and banish this thing,

but I think now it's too far away. And also, Nova's 80 feet from the ground still. I'm over a roof. I'd say, Quill, you would have noticed that Nova did try and cast a spell like you saw her trying to cast fast step and it just didn't work

oh is banish among I guess banish is a teleport an offensive teleport spell yeah what does the wording say does it say it teleports it hmm I think it just says it banishes them.

It banishes. That might work. I attempt to send them to another plane of existence. It might at least put them in a demiplane because demiplanes can overlap the material plane. How far above the roof is Nova? I'd say that roof is like probably, you know, a big building is probably like 20 foot off the ground.

That roof is like 25. So it'd be, she was 80. So she'd be 60, 55, 60 feet from that roof. Oh, God. Well, Nova, get ready to jump. Do it. Get ready to jump. Do it.

I will fly above the ground here, just off the edge of this walkway. And within 60 feet of it, I will cast Banishment on the Dargon. It needs to make a charisma save against 22. 22, all right. Plus 11 to this. Jesus, how charismatic is this thing?

It's based on a dragon. It's enchanted with incredibly potent arcane power. And as you cast the spell, the body seems to flare to life and it does rebuff the banishment spell. Oh my God, I didn't think it was that charismatic. Okay. You would have no way of knowing that. I move 20. I will go basically back to where I was next to Sentry.

I do a little loop and a banish halfway, and then that fails. Swing back. Okay. That's my turn. As a reminder as well, I think that you did find out that this thing does have legendary resistances.

It's usually one as well i think that you did find out that this thing does have legendary resistances it's usually one as well yeah um i'm gonna move 5 10 15 20 25 30. um up to the dragon can i use sunbeam on the dragon please certainly can you got the charges and everything to go go for it all ready to go um yeah con save civil play sure con save uh again very much like it being sort of powered by in trying to think it's only a 16 5 plus 11. It fails. So it's 68 radiant damage, and it's blinded, I believe. Blinded. Okay. Nice. Awesome.

Yeah, blinded until my next turn. Okay. Unless it's got crazy mecha sight. Could do. Could do. 30 damage. 30 points is radiant damage, you said? Yeah. So the energy of the sunbeam, as it strikes, 30 points is radiant damage you said yeah

so the energy of the sunbeam as it strikes it does seem to be blinded by the light that kind of pierces across it but the actual damage doesn't seem to have any effect against this thing the energy that's kind of swirling between its limbs and things like that seems to be almost of the same type and it just kind of

sprays across its chest but it does seem to be distracted of the same type and it just kind of sprays across its chest. But it does seem to be distracted. You get the sense that Nova still knows where you are, but that definitely did affect it in some way. And it's sort of tossing its head around.

Sentry's just going to be nervously starting from one foot to the other, looking around yeah so that will confirm by the way this is immune to radiant damage you saw it just had no effect on it

whatsoever I'll use a bonus action and we gain another spell slot at level 2 sure yeah because Quill said level two. Sure. Yeah. Um, because Quill said what was happening

and knowing that Sentry is trying to help, I think Ayla's just going to run, basically, towards Valor. Okay. Uh, because at least somebody needs to get there. Sure.

Yeah, all right. It's going to take you out of this fight for a while, but that means that you will be the first to arrive, and however long it takes for the rest to kind of follow you will arrive, will jump to you in a bit then, Aayla, if you're just basically going to use your action to just run down to the war room as quickly as possible. Or I don't think I'm in with enough range to...

I could... to keep myself in this fight move slightly closer so that I can... So I have 60 feet of movement. You currently have 60 feet of movement because of Fly. And then you can use your action to dash if you would like. I'll throw the hammer one more time while I'm here.

Okay, so extend a charge, throw the hammer, go for it. 15 plus 11 to hit. Rolled an 11. 26. So that is going to be rolled rubbish damage, though. 14 points on the hammer plus... Yes. 17 lightning. 17 points of lightning the hammer flies through the air

it smashes into the creature's disjointed claw it breaks some of the clawed fingers on it so it does reel it back you would have had advantage on that do you want to see if you get a crit it is technically blinded because you're outside

of it's blind sight. Nah. I got 13 as the highest. That's fine. Just worth checking. Alright. Anything else, Ayla? If not Lucius, then Nova. Alright, Lucius. Unfortunately, your requested action

did not come up. Yeah. Lucius looks a little concerned, and he's looking at Nova and how she's handling the situation. Can I read her face at the moment? She's pretty far. I mean, maybe. Quill probably can. Quill, is Nova looking okay?

I look over at Nova, and I can see straight into her eyes. She zooms in. She's got a very confused look and, you know, it's kind of like, yeah, just confused. Confused. She just looks confused. I don't think that's good. Nova's confused is a bad thing. Throw a chromatic orb at level 4

at the dragon. Acid. Acid. Noted. Why'd you say that like that? at the dragon acid acid noted why'd you say that you tell me what the role is did that not go no it might be if you've got

if you've got extensions enabled still that can fuck with it sometimes if you've got like beyond 20 extension enabled just tell me it sometimes. If you've got, like, B on 20 extension enabled. Just tell me what the roll is, like, even if it didn't show up. I don't even have dice rolls at the moment, so I will do it via roll 20, if that's okay. Okay. Yeah.

Roll that D20. Plus. Plus 45. Five. Wait, 13. Spill attack. So old so old score got 20. 20 just barely hits this thing still hits it but only just barely um roll 68 of acid providing it has no downsides that is a 34 downsides. That is a 34 with my augments.

34 points. The acid sprays over the creature's chest. You see it kind of coat one of the wings and you do see the metal begin to pit and corrode and it does buckle sort of like its wing kind of drops it maybe drops like 5-10 feet in the air as it's sprayed by the acid.

Well, acid works. It does. Oh, good. Anything else lucius um i'm going to take the initiative and go to the council so you're just going to fly off screen basically leave this fight together as soon as possible yeah nice uh just for the dnd beyond thing maybe check and make sure you haven't got the extensions and then refresh it that should work i think something i had the same problem with shady for evening star all right nova vija hi i've been forgetting about this thing's legendary actions um never mind i just want

to tell you that you're a really awesome person. I am. I think you're a great DM. I am. Yeah, that's true. I like it. I really appreciate your friendship. What kind of an action would it be for me to activate my Magitek grenade that I have three of? I think it'd be like a spell.

We said it was like a spell scroll, right? So it's an action it's an action to activate it okay okay cool um i was hoping you'd say bonus no that's that's not how the rules work well that's why the flattery was there you know yeah the fire is lovely but it never makes you change the rules of the game like are the rules of the game are the rules of the game i'd like to cast fly please and then fly off this dragon thank you okay that's what i'd like to do i mean if the plan there was like try and throw the grenade in its mouth and then jump off dramatically you could always just be like i'm gonna move ready in action and then keep moving and i'd be like yeah that'd be. Isn't fly on that magic item a bonus action?

But it's still a gravity thing. Yeah. The amethyst loads it up. Oh, it is a bonus action. I'm sure I read it was a bonus action. Thing is, though, I've only got three charges left and I wanted to save that for another reverse gravity and do that on Starbane because that would be really funny.

Okay, what I'm going to gonna do then in which case is gonna can i please expend a charge on my anathis lodestone um as a bonus action to fly um gives me the power of flight for 10 minutons um and as i fly off i would like to jam a Magitek fireball grenade into this thing's neck and fly away. I mean, with the fly, you can move 60 feet away and then throw the grenade. But yeah, for the rule of cool, we'll say that this is you kind of throwing it into its mouth and then you flying off, basically.

Yeah, so give me the... What's the DC on the grenade? Because it's basically a fireball spell. Should be on the item, I think item there's a lot of text on it uh it's oh god it's a level three spell the spell saving throw is dc 15 and attack bonus is plus seven yeah 15 was the thing i was looking for. So that is a 20. So it succeeds. It's going to take half damage.

It managed to kind of pull its mouth back just before the grenade, but it does go off underneath its jaw. So it's going to take half damage. So what do I need to roll? Because I don't actually have like the details of the spell. It's a viable spell at third level. So it's 8d6. 8d6.

Okay. Two, three. Oh, wait three oh wait no d6 not d8 um one two three four five six seven eight roll it 26 points of uh fireball damageos 26 points so half that would be 13 um the explosion kind of rockets and you can see now the the armor is scorched its mouth like parts of its jaw are hanging loose teeth kind of broken by the explosion still up but badly badly damaged at this point um and then you wanted to move how far 60 60 feet yeah towards the gang yeah so it basically gets you next to ala cool hiya hiya uh so at the end of your turnover i will remember to use its legendary actions um and it will ah but you've also it's blinded isn't it? How long does the blind last until it saves?

Until my turn. So it's still blinded so it can't actually do any of its legendary actions. So it just goes to its go. It just goes to its go. Go on. I was wondering if I would have had advantage on that.

But no. You did make an attack roll it was the same yeah yeah yeah um yeah it's uh it is blinded it knows vaguely wait oh let me see if it's radiant breath regenerates that's a big one it does oh no Oh, no. Oh, and look. A lovely, lovely line. Yeah. Can it see us, though?

Well, it doesn't need to necessarily see you. It needs to basically project a line out from its position. It doesn't say it has to see you. I will make a perception check for it to see if it can, like, listen to, like, where Nova's just flown. Less than six seconds ago, it saw Nova fly off in that direction. It didn't. It heard her. It heard me.

It has blind spot out to 60 feet. It does kind of have a vague element. I'm going to make a perception check. 16. I think that's probably still going to be enough. This is going to be Ayla Nova Century Quill making dexterity saving throws.

Oh god, dexterity! Or you get a plus 3 bonus. Oh good, I'm going to need it. I get advantages of dangerous turns. You do. Oh nice and that won, well done. Well done me. I got 3 so that's a 6. Unnatural 20. Well done, me. I got three, so that's a six.

Unnatural 20. So Ayla succeeds. Quill, what did you get? Lo? I got a 14. 14. Unfortunately, everybody but Ayla fails. So that's full damage to everybody.

Half damage to Ayla. I'm in a really bad way. A completely average damage. 54 points of damage. It fires a beam out of its mouth. It opens its jaw and this beam of light cuts through. More of the creep explodes above you as it

kind of carves an arc, thrashing around, desperately trying to, you know, having sensed where Nova had flown to, it just targeted in that region. When the smoke and debris clears you can see that quill is down oh no quill yeah we've been taking a lot of damage actually i've taken that low you've taken like three of these beams as well this is dangerous yeah yeah it's but it

looks like i will say for like century nova and ayla like this thing is like barely keeping itself together it's like limbs are kind of likeayla, like this thing is like barely keeping itself together. It's like limbs are kind of like breaking apart. You know, it's energy is like barely fluctuating constantly. Like it looks really hurt. Well, it would be Quill's go, which means it's a death saving throw time. Death save!

Just before he rolls for a death save, the Amethyst lodestone, it doesn't say whether or not I need to make a concentration check on flight. It just says I gain the power of flight for 10 minutes. And you don't have to. Yeah, you didn't have to. Zarkira didn't have to when she used it.

So the Simulacrum, I should say. No, it's just you gain a flying speed. It's not the spell fly. Okay. Damn, well, I rolled a three. So that's one failure. One failure. Yeah.

It's to sentry. I'm going to move over to Will and give him 40 lay of hands points. 40 hit points. Nice. Can I pick him up and scoop him behind this pile of debris behind us to get him out of harm's way? Yeah, I mean, yeah, you can sort of... I mean, you've got how much movement left?

You only moved like 10 feet. Oh, I've got a fly on still. Yeah, so you can actually... You've still got like 50 feet of movement and you can move him half that. So 25 feet you can move him up to. So you can actually get him sort of all the way over to the wall. I'll get him behind the wall, yeah.

Oh, nice. Come with me. You guys can move over there. I don't have a choice. Anything else, Century? Because that was action, flay on hands, movement. Anything else? No, that's me. I'm done, thank you.

And then the blindness ends on Sunbeam? That'll be, yeah, he'll be able to see now. Okay. And then, so at the end of centuries go, Nova Vija, you look injured, don't you? Oh, you look very injured. The

construct dragon will kind of let out this metallic whine, and these kind of force-like bands of energy are going to try and appear around you. I need you to make a strength saving throw. Oh, I'm really good at these. Like, so good.

Like, the best. Yeah, I rolled a four. That's two. Anything I can do to grab her? You can try. I'd say, yeah, you want to make a deck saving throw. Right next to her. She becomes restrained, which means, yeah. Yeah, you to make a deck saving throw she becomes restrained

which means yeah you can make a deck saving throw to grab her it's more the reaction speed to grab her that was 14 I'd say it's enough to grab her 14 is enough to grab her and you stop her falling

because you're restrained, Nova, like, your speed becomes zero, you can't fly, you begin to drop, but Aayla manages to grab you as you are currently restrained by these bands. That's until the end of the dragon's next turn. That was at the end of centuries ago, so now it's Aayla. You've got one hand holding Nova, which means you're half speed,

and then you've got Hammer. In other hand. Okay, that changes all of my plans. I'm just gonna carry Nova to here. Okay. Don't tell the elf. Can I just carry Nova as far as I can? So wait, how much is that? It was like 10 feet, right? Yeah, you went like 10 feet there. So you can carry her up to 30, because it's half your movement while you're carrying someone.

3, 2, 5, 30. So I can carry Nova over to like here. What if I use the rest of my turn to move as well? You could dash. Yeah, you could dash again. So I'll dash instead. So you could go another 30. If you want to carry Nova, you could carry her

another 30 feet, or you could go 60. I'll carry Nova here. Nice. So you're all kind of tucked behind this remaining part of the wall now. Alright. End of turn? Yeah. I don't have anything else.

Lucius is running down the corridors towards the war room, just like... Flying. Flying, zooming down the corridors. So we go to Nova. Hi. Can I still Eldritch Blast this sucker? So, restrain creature speed becomes zero.

You attack rolls against the creature have advantage, and your attacks have disadvantage. So you can, but just at disadvantage. Also, am I right in understanding that because I have three attacks for action... Oh, you are currently behind a wall. Oh, can I ask

Ayla to lift me up? So I can... On Ayla's turn, yeah. i could have left nova where i first dropped her and not use the extra movement if that's what you want to do if you want to wreck on it just put me on it brick yeah oh no tom's like no tom says no it happened if it happened not allowed if it's no it happened if it happened it happened yep um well I just don't like

moving technically I just moved her without her permission so she can't she can't I mean her speed is zero

so there's no way that she can stop you um she could call out she could say no she could have said like drop me here

if that's what you were planning maybe like she dropped you that's what you were planning. Maybe like she dropped you. That's what I'm saying. I kind of took away Nova's decision, so it's up to you guys. I will move where I have moved.

That's fine. I can get blasted again. Yeah, you can do that. I'm going to run towards Lucius with breath. Sure. So with Eldritch Blast, do I now get, because I have three attacks, do I get

three rounds of Eldritch Blast? No, no. Casting Eldritch Blast is casting a spell. Attack action is an attack. There's very different things. You get three beams, or I can't remember how many beams it is at whatever level you are. Four. Four beams. Four. If you action surge,

you could cast... Well, in fact, I actually think action surge, you can only do certain things, but yeah. You can't... You don't get four... You don't get three casts of Eldritch Blast, because you can attack three times. You get one spell or three attacks. And it's at disadvantage,

because I'm... Every single one is at disadvantage because you're currently like... Your hands are bound by these beams of purple energy. So the first one was 13. Miss. Bounces off the creature's enchanted metal body. 16. 16 misses.

Bounces off its metal plates. 13 again. You just can't quite bring your aim to bear down as you are. 25 and... Oh, 25 or a 26. Yeah, the 25 will hit. That is 14 points of damage on one beam.

Nice. Its four remaining hit points are diminished. So you watch it crash into the roof of the building below it. It does kind of like... It's all the energy that was kind of connected to its arms and legs dissipates and its arms and legs kind of scatter down onto either the street below or on top of the roof um and yeah it remains there uh motionless i'm gonna keep you guys in initiative though um okay can i move now

um uh yes you can you are no longer restrained okay'm going to move. So Lucius is at least 60 feet away right now, right? He is, yeah. He's currently ahead. I mean, if this is multiple rounds... In fact, he'd be 120 feet because he can dash on his turn. He's definitely going to arrive before you guys. I mean, if you've got a way to message him or something. I do. I almost wanted got a way to message him or something. I do. I almost wanted to tell everyone to group up

so that I can do a beacon of hope in this journey to the council room and then a big heal. But how bad was Lucius looking last I saw him before I lost consciousness? He looked fine. A bit dusty, scrapes, and maybe some scrapes and things like that but nothing major, he wasn't bleeding

he wasn't bloody you were looking at Nova at the time I think yeah yeah but my perception is enormous he sees all he does see all while all but Lucius are within 30 feet of me

I will beaconacon of Hope and then move 50 feet, flying down the hallway. Or at least, you know, whenever people are within 30 feet of me. So yeah, I want to dip down and do a Beacon of Hope on the first turn. Okay. Boop.

And that's my turn. At this point, shall I assume that Century and those of you who are in the corridor, you're basically just going to be chasing after Lucius to try and catch up as quickly as possible, right? Yeah. Okay. So we'll move on. However, Quill, as you guys are running down the corner

and you start, like, taking a turn to, like, head down some steps, you distinctly hear the sound of, like, sk-dunk, sk-dunk, and you see just on the edge as you're making your way down like the sign of something outside moving again as you definitely hear

like yeah so behind us where we were from just where you were yeah you hear like sk-dunk sk-dunk no always off time as if something was powering up From just where you were, yeah. You hear like... Oh, good. No. Oh, wait.

Off time. As if something was powering up. Okay. I don't know what's happening back there, but something is coming back again. I think the dragon. So unless you guys want to do anything different, if you want to do your heal spell, Lucius,

and, sorry, Quill, and then you basically, it will take you about two minutes in fact maybe not even that long uh maybe like sort of 30 seconds to reach the war room from where you currently are is there any ways that i'm just wondering on this um just first setting scene we were on a walkway that had a lot of like windows. It was like a tunnel, right? You were initially. You've now sort of ran down that. That was where the dragon attacked you. You've now kind of moved into a stairway and you're heading down into the sort of like

middle of the citadel. So you're kind of making your way down the stairs and then down a corridor. Is it more sheltered? My theory is that we should take routes where the dragon can't just be like, huh, through the window. You are now sort of of inside the interior of the keep. It would have to smash

through multiple walls to try and reach you at this point. Okay, cool. Yeah. Well, I wanted to do... I guess Lucius is way ahead, so anyone that's within 60 feet... Still 120, but he did stop, right? did stop right so yeah i mean even still like the

the range of mass healing i don't think it's 100 yeah it's 60 feet um so you can hit everybody but lucius yeah well everyone has got a beacon of hope i'm doing this at eighth level uh masculine everyone is getting mass healing from this which which is 54 healing. That's a shame because I'm really hurt. Nice! How much, like, 51 did you say? 54. 54. Also, you guys do have, like, I would say four rounds,

so if you have potions, like, you can drink those. You do not come under threat. It's basically like you are just full fucking sprinting, like, skidding round the stone corridors Throwing open doors and like running as fast as you can down into this war And Lucius opened all the doors on the way. Yeah, all of us are flying currently so we all have 60 feet So 120 feet back. Quill doesn't quite have 60 feet of flying He's like a little bit behind everybody but yes

of flying okay he's like a little bit behind everybody but yes all right the way that i'm going to do this is lucius is going to arrive first and then the rest of you basically turn up around later basically i'm just gonna uh use my bonus action to summon tiangong again so okay yeah that's certainly fine with us you can do that no problem any potions or scrolls that you guys, or healing, more healing spells you want to cast? Why are you asking that? Because you guys have got the time, right? And I know that

some of you were like, Nova's still under half health. I can give Nova some more lay on hands and run. Nova can have, I'll give Nova the rest. You get 45 from me. Oh, shit. I was dead and I got 40?

Yeah. And you've got less hit points in total. I can't be 2.5. I'm joking. Yeah, you know what? I'll do... I could do a little bit better. I'll do another Masked Kill Wounds, but 5th level. 3, 8, 16, 24 plus 6

another 30 for anyone within 60 feet what? Jesus! Beacon of Hope Tom has found the healing combo it would only be worse if he was a life cleric but Beacon of Hope yeah he can basically maximise all of his healing spells

so good nice great that put me back but it takes nice great i put that put me back over a hundred so nice i mean summon star break it's relative you you can so as you so as you're running century you kind of call out star breaker and the lance extends but you now begin to really feel like a drain on your system like you are tired like you can feel this thing drawing energy from you um just remember that you have disadvantage you have a level of one level of exhaustion currently so um what does it do if you is does that just get more per combat if every time she uses it it gives her a level of exhaustion yes oh my god yeah that's one of the

downsides to starbreaker it's very powerful but it does slowly drain you if you use it too much um so you guys run uh lucius you are ahead of everybody and in fact you will be the first to sort of witness everything you make your way kind of following these these patterns that you once walked in ease and comfort when you were attending the meetings of Horizon, when you have been making plans with Valor to defeat the Titans. Now you rush them with your heart pounding, worrying about this vision that Quill has seen.

You eventually arrive, turning a corner deep in the heart of the Citadel of the Reborn, and you see a great pair of double doors opened wide before you, leading into a large chamber. Ahead of you, you can see it kind of splits in that there are staircases that lead to an upper balcony that looks down, but beyond you can see the large round table that you once held the council on. Stood in front of it, you see a few things. You see a number of constructs, two enormous sort of nine foot tall metal warriors, completely clad in armor with huge swords bearing down.

You see two of these mechanical spiders that once stole Quill away, and they are currently sort of maneuvering themselves and pacing around a figure who has got Valor clutched against them. He's like holding Valor, who is unconscious, clutching her to his chest, and he is stood over the unconscious body of maximilian there is a large magitek blade in one hand and thick black magitek armor glowing with purple energy and he is currently you see him swipe as he's fending off these four constructs around him to the far side side, there is an open gateway, a portal that seems to lead into some sort

of mechanical construction facility. And you can see more of these constructs are like beginning to like come alive and come out of the portal. At the very far back of the room against the series of stained glass windows, you can see in a sort of domed bubble, which is being sort of covered with debris and dust, you see the Simulacrum Zarkira. One of her arms completely severed,

just the snowy ice lump kind of remaining. The other one holding a hand in the gesture of a concentrated spell as she's you know profusely you can see like cuts and scrapes and bruises as she's maintaining concentration but protected in what seems to be an invisible dome around her um and uh yeah with with that i'm just gonna get another encounter up. Oh, but hang on. Oh, my God. This is tasty. I put this on the wrong party. I don't think the Evening Star guys want to fight this.

Let them do it. Let's let them take care of it. No, this would be bad. A massive left turn in that campaign, it would be. You're in Horizon horizon now and you're fighting these guys what solutions if you if if everybody could roll initiative for me just so i know but we will basically start with wherever lucius is um oh damn my initiative rolls are so bad every single time. Mine are awful. I've got a plus five to mine.

They're still bad. What did you get, Katie? 17 total. Didn't roll great. Troy, are you still having issues with D&D Beyond? Yeah, one second. Yeah, that's all right. I've got 20.

You can ruminate on... Yeah, I've got yours. It auto-populates if you do it from your character sheet i just never sure if it does the advantage on it because i roll it it did it did i saw it pop up twice yeah it did the 19 and then it did the 20 it went to the higher value you got advantage too hey initiative advantage baby great well i got eight oh same oh me you were behind you were healing us a lot like you had other focuses it's fine it's like okay i can see everything but i've got slow eyes like it all goes in slowly horrible reaction times but i see it all so yeah lucius as you arrive you arrive, you see the kind of last kind of skirmish

between one of these large spider-like creatures attempts to sort of like rush in and it's trying to get its pincers on Valor, but you see Calus, Emperor Valkyrian, literally holding her against him. Like as it reaches for, he plunges this magitek blade into its face twists the blade and like kicks it away and he's now like spinning because he's

surrounded by four of these constructs and he has max on the floor and like underneath him unconscious as well um he he doesn't seem to have noticed you completely yet you have like flown in like as this has all happened what do you do You have flown in as this has all happened. What do you do? Lucha's taking in this scene like something's wrong instinctively about it. Yep. Why is Starbane fighting the thing that he thought he was working with?

Yep. And Zarkira's in the corner concentrating on a spell inside some sort of dome, right? Yep. And there is a gate that leads to some sort of... What you could only assume is some sort of Valkyrian or, like, Zarkira facility where you can see, like, more of these constructs, like a kind of warehouse of machines.

How many constructs are attacking Starbane right now? Two iron golems and two retrievers. And they look formidable. Like these things look like these are tough enemies. And you don't see him sweating, but like he's clearly concentrating on protecting Valor and Maximilian currently. Or maybe he's killed Maximilian, right? The scene you see is he is holding Valor against him.

He has his sword out and Max is unconscious beneath him, right? Maybe he's the one who attacked him and is trying to take Valor away. You don't know. I don't know. I think I'm going to remove the thing that can take Valor away. You don't know. I don't know. I think I'm going to remove the thing that can take Valor away. The only thing we know is that Valor said that... Zarkira was there.

Valor said that Zarkira was trying to take her, so we don't know anything about it. But for now, Chris Trott. This is a Chris Trott decision. The rest of you are like, you know, a few seconds behind, but Lucius just gets there ahead of you. He's the one who sees all of this.

I'm going to send a level 8 chromatic orb at the portal. Okay. Sealing off any escape for whoever wants to take Valor away and more constructs entering into Baal. That's what I'm going to do. So,

if I was to do an attack roll against an inanimate object, you've got that in your head, right? The DC? You don't need to roll. The orb, like, it flies towards the gate, but it doesn't strike anything.

It's just like a doorway. It just passes through and smashes into something on the other side. Like, this is a direct, like, gateway portal. There's nothing for the spell to actually attack here. It just passes through. Oh, so it's not a constructed frame. No, no, no so so if you want to change that that's fine this is like a just like a magic port like a spell portal like a doctor strange portal this is like a constructed thing you were thinking of some sort of like the archways yes you're thinking of the archways and the gate the star gates no this is like a doctor strange portal in the air. So if you want to change that, that's totally fine.

That was my bad for not explaining that clearly. That's all right. No, I made an assumption. I'm just going to attack Zarkira. That's what I'm going to do. Okay. I know it's probably going to deflect off, but... Sure.

What do you want to attack it with? Again, with a Chromatic Orb, I'm going to twin it and attack the biggest thing attacking Starvein, or Valor, swinging at Valor, the closest thing to Valor. Okay. Yeah, sure. Well, you've got two choices. There's two equal distance things,

the Iron Golem or the Retriever. And you know what the Retriever does. Retriever. That's good. So you're going to send... And what level are you casting Chromatic Orbat? That'll be a level eight still. I'm not going to change that.

The one that flies towards Zarkira impacts on the dome with no effect. Okay. But the one that does hit the Retriever, roll to attack. Piss in my mouth. I'm going to seeking that. Okay.

So that's two. Sorry. I mean, listen, man. It's a big decision. It's a big moment. Okay. That's better. 31.

Is it acid or cold? Acid. Acid hits. God damn. Thank God. All right. 10d8. Big dice go place any ones yes uh that is is what it is so that's 47 points of acid damage and i twinned that so that's quite a lot of

fonts of magic points sorcery points would you like to dichromancy as well yes I would I'll hit the iron golem I guess so I'll say Lucius that you've kind of moved a little bit inside just as you arrived and then the rest of you are all gonna

pop in the back and ten that's quite a lot of points there okay doke so you will be at 13 points for the high team more points so you see this orange or two of them spin around one flies to the very back of the room impacting on this dome to seemingly no effect and you see the zarkira simulacrum just kind of grin um the other one slams into this metallic spider and you

see it like kind of carve through its metallic body revealing all this magitek crystal components and cogs underneath as it melts through its armor it kind of like spins and at you and then you just see callus his head kind of slowly turns as he looks up he sees you lucius before everybody else just before they arrive and he just kind of looks at you ah storm chasers i was wondering when you would arrive the rest of you you all succumb so you see lucius cast a spell you then surge into the room turn succumb. So you see Lucius cast a spell. You then surge into the room, turn in the corner, and you see the same scene. You see Kallus holding Valor against him.

Valor completely unconscious, standing over Max's unconscious body, this giant magitek blade in one hand as he's fending off these four constructs. Lucius has just attacked, and we pretty much move into initiative now um okay the iron golem uh that is uh further away uh seems to register some sort of command um and then it kind of turns its head and it begins slowly moving towards some of you guys it's moving yeah

it just comes moving towards the doorway ceased assist as it just repeats these kind of basic commands um it kind of readies its blade and it just stands there for a moment uh what's its range here no that's gonna be it uh from the back of the room uh those of you who are can see uh will just see uh the the little simulacrum of zarkira she will kind of like looking around at what's happening um and she will she's not gonna say anything she will conjure mirror image she will kind of like looking around at what's happening um and she will she's not gonna say anything she will conjure mirror image she will cast mirror image on herself and then finally the next iron golem will attempt to grab valor from callus uh so that is a natural one from the iron golem.

Good, good. That's a three from Calus, but it's higher. So he goes to, the iron golem goes to grab Valor. It probably says something sort of like, target acquired. And then you just see Calus like grip its iron hand with his, like with the hand that's holding, probably he would...

He gets the sword in between and just thrusts it away, ripping the arm away from Valor. Not today, you machine, as he says. And then Calus, on his turn, will attack four times three times sorry with his magitek blade against the iron golem so three

to hit for 21 that's a hit I'll just roll and see wait what second attack hits and the last attack is a natural 20 he's got a Second attack hits. And the last attack is a natural 20. He's got a plus 18.

18? Plus 18. And he's got a natural 20, did he? He did, yeah. So 23 points of damage to this for the first attack. I mean, I got a plus 15. I kind of expected him to beat that. And then... But he's also hitting, like, what, 31 points of damage on the second attack.

And then his last one was a natural 20, which means it's going to be 3D turns. It's going to be 20, 30, 46. Plus. plus uh 566 70 something I say 72 fuck it

okay can't be bothered to do the maths so you watch as with three strikes he just carves this magitek blade through this iron golem

three times leaving this kind of hot streaking blurred line across it. And every time he strikes the Iron Golem, you see the blade seems to be charging up some sort of energy or power. And then when he finishes it, he spins towards the retriever that Lucius has just attacked. He swipes his blade through the air. And you hear him kind of briefly say

like plasma sweep and then it this this arc this crescent green energy flows out um and the the the creature has to like jump up in the air to avoid it kind of avoiding the attack um nova vegia this magitek blade it It's not Tiangong. Yeah, I was going to say. It's not Tiangong. Is there any essence of Tiangong coming from him? Tiangong even would say to you, like, I do not detect my partner.

I do not detect the other Tiangong. Unusual. Do I still have fly on? It's 10 minutes for minutes for my it's only been like 45 seconds so say like in which case um i would like to move up to the retriever um next to um callus and uh yeah i'm gonna start attacking yeah i should the other point i should make as well there are like several cut like dead constructs in the room as well i've left them on the map but like looking around there's one dead iron golem and two other dead retrievers that are just in the room like that they've and they look like they have been cut apart by a hot knife like they

just has torn them apart and they're scattered all over the place. Yeah, go for it. I'd also like my Tiangong to come up with me as well. But yeah, I'm going to start attacking. I'll make you one. So that is a 25 to hit on the first attack. 25 will hit the Retriever. 15 points of damage on the first slice cool just give me a second

I'm just making your echo here we go so this is against the retriever that Lucius takes so 15 points of damage I rolled a natural 20 on the second attack okay 33 to hit yeah I mean yeah it's gonna hit

let's just work out the damage so oh so that's why D&D Beyond has done this thing where if I get a natural 28 it doubles it automatically rolls damage yeah just yeah just ignore the damage roll and just work it out and roll it manually so that would be 1d8 and then 1d4. So 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 is the roll damage. And then I guess that's plus the crit damage. Yep. So what's the, is it just 1d8 normally?

1d8 plus 4? 1d8 plus 9. It'd be 12 plus to whatever the other roll was. So 12 to whatever you just said was the roll damage. 16. So 28 points of damage. Yep. Okay.

So you watch as Tiangong, the kind of like now symbiosis blade, kind of carves through the retriever as well. You see Calus kind of like now symbiosis blade kind of carves through uh the retriever as well um you see callus kind of like looks at you and there is a kind of like moment where he's like is she gonna attack me or not like as you're like slicing into this thing um um 25 to hit on Hits. And that is... 13, 14, 15, 16 points of damage on the third one. More points. And a bonus action to...

Unleash. Unleash Incarnate. Mm-hmm. Which is... Final attack. Probably not going to hit. 17 to hit. Against the Retriever does not hit.

No. It's covered in thick metal, much like the Construct Dragon outside. The blade scrapes along it. Not quite fully striking it. And can I turn to Cal? It's risky, but hey, I'll think about it. How do I take the portal down?

He gestures with his head towards the back of the room. The simulacrum has conjured the gate. She has hid herself behind a wall of force. I am unable to get to her and defend Valor and Maximilian. That's it. Ayla. I will run in and go straight to the Retriever that is the other one, that Nova's not fighting, and just engage that one. Give me one second here.

I just need to check something. So... Oh, no, you're still technically right yeah that's fine yep okay okay that is a you left callus's uh you left callus's uh opportunity attack range i did but i'm hoping that he's not going to hit me because if he does I'll go mental. I mean, maybe. 13 plus 15 to hit. That will hit. Yep. That will be 20 with the hammer plus 6 lightning.

20 plus 6. Is there a munix of lightning on any condition? No, so 26. Well, 15, so 30 to hit. I hit. 18 damage on the hammer plus one lightning and then Dex save Stepping through from the retriever

It's only a 15 That's a fail For the monsters 19 lightning damage 19 points of lightning damage The hammer comes slamming in an arc, kind of lightning arcs through its body, kind of shuddering it as it goes through.

Cool. End of turn, Ayla? I think she'll just look at Calus and the sparks of lightning will just kind of spark a little bit more, but she'll continue to fight the Retriever. Sure. Okay. You maybe get like a raised eyebrow.

Okay, the one that you just attacked, Ayla, is going to basically attack you back with everything that it can. It's going to attack you twice with its armored forelegs, and then it shoots a beam out of its spider-like mouth. The first two attacks, though, is going to be a 23 on the first one.

You've got to beat 20, so yes. Yep. Cool. That's 21 points of slashing damage for half that to 10, because you're raging. Are you 23 on the first one? You've got to beat 20, so yes. Yeah, cool. That's 21 points of slashing damage for half that to 10 because you're raging. And then the next one misses. Only a 15. So its first four-leg kind of slams into you. Its second one misses. And then I think it would...

I mean, it wouldn't necessarily know that you're going to be good at this. So it will try a paralyzing beam. So I need you to make a constitution saving throw that shoots this kind of like ray beam out of its mouth. That is a 21. You succeed. I rolled a 10.

It seems to like cock its head, register that you managed to resist the effect. But that's the end of its turn. From the portal that I described earlier, another machine appears. A long, slender, sort of tiger-like creature, an apex predator. Looks around. What's this thing's movement? 40 feet. It's going to come straight towards Aayla and Kallus.

And it's going to lash out. It's going to do two attacks against you, Aayla, and one against Kallus. It's going to try to bite you and then claw you once, Ayla. That's going to be 18, so the bite misses. And then the 28 on its claw will hit for 18, so nine points of slashing damage. And then it attempts to hit Calus as well for a 25, which misses Quill.

Oh, my go? Yep. Can I look at Sentry and try and determine which way she's about to train charge into this room? I mean, I think that's a discussion for you and Rhiannon to have.

I think that like Sentry, I mean, I guess like if you... Sentry's not particularly deceptive, so I don't know, like, would Sentry be disguising? I don't think you know which way you're going to go, but you can tell if she's pissed, and I'm assuming that Sentry

is mad. Sentry is pissed. Is she locked eyes on Kalos right now? If you want to know what Sentry's going to do, I don't think none of you get to know that, even with, like, insight checks and stuff. Like, that's going to ruin the fun. So... But if you think...

Like, here's the thing, Tom. You as Tom obviously have a thought of what Sentry's about to do. You can react to that thought. Like, that is Quill thinking, I think she's going to go ballistic and I need to speak to her and try and stop her. Like, you can do that. But you have to make that assumption.

You can't make a check to know. I think regardless of what Sentry does, I'm going to help her. Okay. And I will hold an action, a Guiding Bolt to hit whoever Sentry charges at. Charges for. I want to cast a Guiding Bolt

Guiding Bolt first to try and give her like the advantage. Yeah, yeah. I love that plan. Lovely Quill-Sentry combo that. And I will do this at third level, a guiding bolt. Okay. And that's my turn. Well, guess what? It's sentry's turn.

I know it is. I know we rolled the same initiative. Sentry. Yeah, sentry's staring down Starbane pretty hard right now. She's not smart. No, she's not the smartest person, but there's... Oh, it's so difficult. Starbane is here,

and he is, like, Sentry's number one biggest threat. Him being here on a rowis is bad news. Yeah. Especially since, like, as well, we were, like, it was the things of, like, as you were running through Horizon, remember, like, Sentry was having flashbacks of Solvin and the city being attacked and stuff as well. So I think it's very reasonable that right now

Sentry probably isn't thinking very straight. But yeah, at the same time, I mean, he's holding, Valor's unconscious slumped and he's got her in one arm pressed against him and then he's fighting with the other free hand. So Sentry's still up for fly. Sentry's going to move down to this construct

in front of Starbane about here. And she's going to shout across to Starbane, put her down! You are not welcome here! And then she's going to launch two javelin attacks.

One through the golem in front of them, and then one behind them. Oh, you don't need to use a javelin. Remember, your lance has reach, so you have 10 foot of reach. You can hit pretty much everybody around you. But when you say that, Kallus just says, like, if I put her down,

so Akira takes her, I'm not letting her go until she's safe. And he, like, stares you down when he says it. Like, he's not afraid of you. Then she's just gonna, yeah, she's gonna thrust her spear into the golem in front of her. Okay, cool. Let me line this shot up for you real quick. With a 32 to hit. Oh my god.

Yeah, I mean this is against the iron golem, right? Against the iron golem. Next to Calus. Yes. I shoot a Guiding Bolt down the very edge of the spear and do 66 damage. Wow, that sucks. 14. But you get advantage on this one.

14 points radiant damage. This is the one that Calus had already carved up as well, so it looks pretty beaten up. Yeah, you have advantage on the attack roll century against this one. All right. Rock and roll. First one is an 8, so that's 21 to hit. Second one is a 26 to hit.

Yeah, that will hit. Awesome. All right, let's do some Divine Smites. One, two. Let's go for level... What have I got left? Not a lot. I'll do a level 1 um so that'll be 2 3d8 start with

2d12 and a 0d4 37 for the first one 37 points of damage the starbreaker slams into it carving a huge chunk but this iron golem is thick it's armor tough for the first one. 37 points of damage. The Starbreaker slams into it, carving a huge chunk, but this Iron Golem is thick.

Its armor, tough, you know, layers and layers of metal plating seem to absorb the blow. The Sentry's going to pivot round and then go for the one behind. Okay, nice. Right, no advantage on this one. 21. Hits.

Cool. I'll do the same again. 1, 2. 1, 2, 3. Rock and roll. That's not great. 16. Plus 8.

16 points of damage. Plus 7. 23. 23. 16 points of damage. Plus seven. Twenty... Three. Twenty-three. Twenty-three points. Starbreaker slams into this one, kind of denting a part of the chest,

and it kind of looks down and turns on you. Its held reaction's going to go off. Like, when you struck it, it's going to strike back at you, the Iron Golem, with its sword, which has got reach. That is a 27 to hit, unfortunately, Sentry. Yep. That's all good. That's going to be 20 points of damage as its sword kind of comes crashing down onto

your shoulder. Roll. Cool. Alright. Sentry. End of turn. Let's see. How much movement have I got left? How do I... Ah! Can I... No. Actually, no, I'm not. Yeah, that's my turn.

Okay. All right. The Retriever B, which I believe is the one next to Nova, that Nova was attacking. This one is going to attack you, Nova, as you've moved up to engage it. Two four-leg attacks, and it's going to fire a beam

at you with its mouth. That's an 18 to hit. That does not hit. Not hit. Was it 19 on you? 18 again. Rolled two sevens. Lame. And then it fires its paralyzing beam. Can you make a constitution saving throw, please, Nova Vija?

It's a natural one. You are paralyzed for one minute. You can repeat the save at the end of each turn. Paralyze. Lucius. He's on it. He's clapping. I'm so curious.

Lucius is going to fly past. He's got a plan. A man with a plan. Basically halfway into the room. Looking at Zarkira. Yeah, the simulacrum. You know it's the simulacrum, by the way, because you can see the ice where the wound

and the arm has been severed. There's no foolish, no trickery here. I'm going to cast Wish. Oh. Okay. As my 9th level spell. Yes.

I'm going to use it at its base to replicate an 8th level spell, and that is going to be to disintegrate that wall of force. Okay. So you watch, and what does this look like? Because this is the first time you're casting Wish, man. This is like a big deal say when Quill looked at me with true sight all the times when he saw me at my full potential the prismatic

look it's always if a Shimmer of his entire body looks prismatic and it then coalesces to his eyes which are just shimmering all different colours and from the gauntlet just a beam of brilliant white light just pierces

and fires instantaneously and you watch as this beam flies out and the wall of force collapses leaving the simulacrum exposed does it have a mirror image? and she looks around just like and the wall of force collapses, leaving the simulacrum exposed. She does have a mirror image. But yeah, you watch this, and she looks around just like,

wow, somebody's certainly gotten more powerful in recent times. She kind of smiles. Quickie. Yes. Can I quicken that spell so it was a bonus action I did do it after the fact I'm not going to do that I'm going to be harsh on that one

I have made her vulnerable you have absolutely opened her up so that somebody else can maybe go and and I think like when you do that Calus is just like excellent work Lucius defeat her and she should break concentration on the gate. Shut up.

Once she's dead, the gate will fall. Okay. All right. And he's just staring directly at Zarkira's simulacrum. The iron golem is going to kind of like edge itself around you, Sentry, not ever kind of breaking attack opportunity range. And it's going to swing its huge sword. Actually, no. You know what? what it's gonna move to here and then from its mouth from its oh no once they

wants to get an over as well no it's gonna move'm never gonna forget lucius just telling callus to shut up piss off so good okay this is my body this iron golem is just gonna make two attacks it's gonna swing its huge sword one at century one at nova century yep that is a 21 to hit. Exactly. That's going to be not much. 18 points of damage to you. Nova. Nearly a natural 20, but a 2. That is a 15 to hit. You kind of leap back.

Oh, no, you're paralyzed. I'm paralyzed, yeah. What does paralyzed do? I can't remember. Is this an automatic hit? I can't remember. It says any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attacker is within

five foot of the creature. I think you're also counted as incapacitated, which means I get advantage, I think. Well, if it's not a crit, it doesn't matter anyway. I can't take actions or reactions. If it hits. I guess if it hits.

If it hits, yeah, so that's the thing. Attack rolls have... Oh, no, sorry, that's the other thing. It's incapacitated. It is. Can't take actions or reactions. Attack rolls have oh no sorry that's the other thing it's incapacitated it is can't take actions or reactions attack rolls have advantage it says on the second bullet point so i will roll again i don't have a second so it's 17 i rolled rolled rolled bad rolled uh really bad uh i'm confused paralyzed the creature automatically fails strengthened dexterity saving throws attack

rolls against the creature have advantage oh there is any attack yeah so it's still didn't hit is a critical hit oh i see okay if it hits yeah and i rolled really bad um so i think that the way that probably is is that the the echo forcibly stops the blade rather than like nova can't move but the tiangong echo has enough control to try and parry the blade basically i mean i guess the other way would be your armor stops it um but yeah doesn't have enough force to quite strike through uh the zarkira simulacra complicated fight sensing that she is now somewhat uh debilitated. She will. She's going to do two things.

She's going to use her Mistress of Magic to cast two spells in a turn. The first thing she's going to do is target Lucius. And Lucius thing she's going to do is target lucius uh and lucius needs to make an intelligent saving throw as a beam of light projects from her forehead and strikes lucius out of spell uh what level seventh level okay you counter the the psychic glance that she was about to project into you um as you count on that spell away my gauntlet just comes up and just blocks it sure he hasn't blinked yet ah you really are something of an irritation my little prismatic friend and she cast power word stun with her second uh with

as a bonus action uh do you have less than 150 hit points lucius yep you are stunned shit the second iron golem uh will now it's going to divide it's in fact this one is the one that's going to breathe poison yeah so it's going to so ayla callus nova uh the the iron golem that callus has been attacking breathes this

noxious mist i need you all to make constitution saving throws. Can I? Yeah. 19. I think you can, yeah. 19. That saves.

It's a success. 16. Maximilian is unconscious, so he takes an automatic death save. Kalos doesn't seem to be affected. Nova. 16. Nova. 16. 16. Full damage to you, half damage to Aayla, unfortunately.

As this noxious cloud breathes out, that's 41 to Nova, poison damage, and 20 to Aayla. As it breathes out this noxious fumes, all these vents opening up on the golem's body and spewing out this toxic gas. All right. fumes or like all these vents opening up on the golem's body and spewing out this toxic gas all right callous's turn he will say uh before he takes his action hate me all you wish but we must work together now if we want to protect valor take down the simulacrum and i will deal with these golems um and then on his turn he will use his uh the one next to him he's going to kick it kind of like a spartan kick uh for a 30 to hit it's gonna take 18 points of damage

it's pushed back 20 feet Damage. It's pushed back 20 feet. And then he's going to step in. And try and finish off this Retriever that is currently threatening Nova. And he will make two attacks with his Magitek weapon. He's going to hit. And he's going to's gonna hit i mean i don't really need to roll unless i get one uh that's gonna be he's only got like a plus 57. yeah he's very very strong

like ayla said like ayla's already got like plus 15 or whatever so it kind of makes sense um and then he's going to carve into this one next to you nova again uh i already did i just need to roll the damage i already want to hit 17 plus 623 he carves into it not quite enough to destroy it but he's trying to kind of lure it away from attacking uh nova who is currently injured um And that's going to be his turn. Nova, at the end of your turn, you get to make another con save against the paralysis.

Unless there's anything else you want to try and do. I believe I can make bonus actions, right? Because it says I can't do actions or reactions. Can't move or speak. But could I mentally command my echo to move away? Yeah, you could command it to move. Yeah, you can mentally command it to move away for sure. In which case, I will command it,

command Tiangong to move away from the retriever so it might get an attack of opportunity. Yeah, the retriever does think it's a living creature um doesn't have i don't think it has true sight or anything so yeah it would it would make an attack against it pretty smart only if you move the only if you move more than five feet away from it though oh yeah you did okay uh 18 make a roll it's a 19 so no 19 so it misses so the echo moves past it tiangong echo kind of slides out the way and then i would like to bonus action teleport uh so a bonus action to move your echo it's an act it's not even if it just says like you can mentally command it okay you can

mentally command the echo to move up to uh 30 foot no action required and as a bonus action you can mentally command it okay um you can mentally command the echo to move up to uh 30 foot no action required and as a bonus action you can tell them you can swap place with swapping hell yeah okay yeah so nice yeah so you watch as like even though you're kind of held firm the echo runs the side and then again you see this kind of like swirling and you seem to kind of exchange places um the simulacrum looks at you doing this like of, like, swirling, and you seem to kind of exchange places. The simulacrum looks at you doing this like, that should not be possible with my generators in place. How are you doing this?

But you are currently paralyzed. And then is it a con saving throw? Con saving throw at the end of your turn, yes. Natural one. Damn it. Unfortunately, still stuck there. We go to ayla okay i want to hang on i've got the wrong thing on my roll 20 just move around to the other side

of these guys um can i if you move around one of them the other one will get an attack opportunity to you you could also just push through them both like because it's difficult terrain you've got enough movement you can just like kool-aid man through the middle of these i was just gonna do that yeah yeah yeah yeah cool so you kind of climb up onto the broken uh council table the war table that's now kind of broken in pieces around you kind, climb up through the debris pushing between them. How symbolic. I kind of wanted to...

I kind of wanted to take some shots at her mirror image, try to take them down. Sure. So... So like pulling the longbow out as you move? Sure. Okay. Yeah. 11 plus 11 to hit 22? So like pulling the longbow out As you move Sure okay 11 plus 11 to hit

22 That will hit Let me roll Where's my image So it's going to be for the first one 6 or higher on a d20 It does hit the mirror image So one of the mirror images is destroyed

two left I'll shoot again that is 19 plus 11 so it will hit this one I think needs to be an 11 or something I'll check it in a second 8 or higher

yes two duplicates only one duplicate of the memory image is still remaining can i bonus action aura for the retriever beside me you can absolutely that's retriever a oh sorry there should be another five to that not that it's going to matter 16 total that it's going to matter. 16 total. 17 lightning damage if it fails. 17, it did.

Yeah, 17 lightning damage. I got a 16. So yeah, you kind of like fire twice and then this bolt of lightning just shoots out from you into the retriever next to you. As it does so. Nice, end of turn. Yeah.

All right, that retriever is going to try and retaliate onto you, Ayla. It. End of turn. Yeah. All right. That Retriever is going to try and retaliate onto you, Ayla. It's going to attack you twice. 27 to hit on the first one for 12 points of damage, so half to six. And then 20 to hit. Is your AC 20 or 19? Yeah, 20.

So it hits. And that's going to be for 14, half to 7 points of damage, and then it fires a force beam at you. Can you make a deck saving throw, please? Seeing that the paralysis did not seem to affect you very much. 16 plus 5, so

21. Half damage then, as you kind of leap to the side as this beam flies out from its mouth so 28 half to 14 force damage so as it fires this beam at you um the large steel predator i mean it's right next to you as well unfortunately that is also going to go for you uh as it tries to is also gonna go for you uh as it tries to oh it's gonna turn around actually rather than uh attacking you ayla um century and callus it lets out this like kind of uh pulsating roar like a kind of um sonic vibration that kind of um i need

you and callus to make constitution saving throws. All right, all right, all right. Legendary resist. Let's see if he fails. He got a 26. So he does have them. He does, yes. What did you get, Century? I got 12.

12. On a failed save, you take 5d10 thunder damage. You drop your weapon and you are stunned. So Starbreaker kind of falls out of your hands. 29 thunder damage and you're like... as you are stunned by this thing. Damn. Quill, we'll finish this round and then we'll take a break.

How many of these stunned effects or paralyzed or anything are magical effects? The only one you saw was from a spell was the one on Lucius from Zarkira. The rest of them all seem to just be effects from these constructs. They look like magitek effects. Spellbreak will not work against them.

I also need to heal up Max as well. I mean, Lesser Restoration will remove the stun condition anyway, I think. Does it? I don't think I have Lesser. Just Greater. I'm too damn good. Greater would probably work.

Yeah, but it's expensive. No, it doesn't. Lesser doesn't work against stunned anyway. I thought it did. Stun's free. Stun's bad, yeah. Pretty bad. You can see that the Predator and the Retrievers

are clearly designed to capture living things like they did with Quill, and they're designed to paralyze and stun and do all these awful things. Yeah. Okay, I... How powerful? When she clicked her fingers,

did that look like 5th level finger click? Or was it like 7th level finger click? Howards Sun is an 8th level spell. Is it? Oh my god. Really? Yep. Oh, Jesus. Lucius was like fucking up her plans

hardcore and she was like, I'm not having that. No. Stop. The counter spell, the removing the wall of force, like, he's messed with her day. Well, among healing up everyone and in an effort to get rid of the spell, which I

feel like I need to do, I'm gonna cast a 9th level Mask Cure Wounds. Jesus. That's awesome, though. That's cool. Yeah. I come in, like, Mercy. I come in like mercy. I'm glowing as well because I've got this beacon of light. So 3d8.

Lucius doesn't have beacon of hope on him. So what's 7d8, Matt? 64 minus 8. So 56. Yeah, 56. Plus 6, 62. so 56 yeah 56 plus 6, 62 so anyone with beacon of hope gets 62 healing

nice you have to roll I will roll Lucius I'm also healing Maximilian what's the range on mass kill wounds? 60 yeah so that's everyone nice

it doesn't do anything to stun though i assume uh it will for your stun lucius because it is a spell on you but not on uh not on uh that's awesome well to lucius and to maximilian who is currently dying you get 31 healing. 31 points. Alright. Maximilian's wounds heal up. He was on higher.

Max doesn't come to consciousness. Same with Valor. You heal them but they are not awake. Okay. Alright. But they are not dying. is not dying huh yeah yeah right fine fair enough but still anything else that's my entire ass turn uh you know what bonus action i'll recover a third level spell okay all right century uh so at the end of your turn century unless you have another thing you can do uh Stun, you can repeat the

saving throw. Okay. I don't think I have anything to do against Stun because it's not a spell, so I can't get rid of it for the time being. But I can make an attack, and it does have advantage. So, is that at the end

of my turn? That has to be at the end of your turn, the saving throw against the star. Cool beans. All right. Sentry will just, like, look over at Starbane and just struggle, and she'll just say, You do not have the power to command us here. You murderer.

Save that for your warships. I am not commanding. I am simply trying to make sure my daughter is protected. If you can take her, if you can protect her I will deal with Zarkira but I won't leave her until the retrievers are destroyed the sentry will yeah, she'll attack the golem in front

of her a stunned creature you can't take actions at the moment sentry, because of the stun a stunned creature is incapacitated incapacitated means you can't take actions at the moment, because of the stun. Stunned creature is... Incapacitated means you can't take actions or reactions. Oh, incapacitated. You also get incapacitated, yes.

Oh. As part of stun, yeah. As part of stun. It's a bit confusing. It's like two conditions in one. It's incapacitated and stunned. And it's stunned. Yes.

Alrighty. So you're currently just like reeling, like falteringly being able to speak. Yeah, just like desperately say something or do something, anything. For RP reasons, that's fine. You weren't casting a spell or anything like that. So yeah, constitution save at the end of your turn.

Oh. Oh, you're saving for as a garbage today, 13. Just this sonic noise has like the magical influence in you, and it's just like your ears are piercing, or your mind is just clouded with visions of solving, unfortunately unable to break free of it. Retriever B is very happy. Quill, are you flying up in the air?

Did you say? No, I moved a full 50 horizontally so I guess I wouldn't have been able to go upy Alright, this thing is going to you know what, it's going to risk an opportunity attack from old Callie to come and get you, Quill, seeing you do that big heal.

Oh, not this thing again! Will it get an opportunity attack off of Echo, off of Tiangong? You can't take reactions, and the Echo is you, remember. The Echo is not a separate creature, it is you and you can't take reactions. Calus does hit this thing. Yeah. For another 28 points

for this thing. Enough to kill it. Amazing. Nearly does. Nearly destroys it, but it is going to come up on you, Quill. And it is going to try and strike you twice and then shoot you with a beam. 21 to hit on the first attack. Even if I shielded,

it doesn't do anything. That's going to be 16 points of slashing damage from its foreleg. Next one's another 23. For 19 points of slashing damage. Oof. And then it's a con saving throw as it paralyzes beams.

Paralyze beams. Shit. Plus two. Ten. You are paralyzed. Join the club. Oh my god, the entire party is just... Lucius. Not all of us.

Just most. Me? Lucius. Not all of us. Just most. Me? Lucius. Oh, good. It's Lucius before me. Quickie you. You are, like, at the top of the round, dude. Like, you're after Kalos. You failed your saving throw against being stunned, remember? You swapped places.

That was your turn. So, Lucius. Rule clarification. Yes. Cantrip. You can cast. Vicious. Rule clarification. Yes. Cantrip. You can cast, if you cast a spell, unless you're a cool NPC like Zarkira,

you can cast the spell as a bonus action and then your only other spell you can cast that turn must be a cantrip. So if you cast like a full spell as a bonus action, the only other spell you can cast is a cantrip. I wish to. And even if you're a cool NPC, you can only do it three times a day, apparently. You said wish.

I've already used it. I've already used it. I would like to try and deceive Zarkira into counterspelling my cantrip by saying... This is... Time to die. Essentially. I'm going to make it I'm going to build an acid splash in my hand and go to

throw it and you look like I'm mustering all my energy and really I'm quickening that spell as a bonus action and I'm going to unleash fury after the counter spell well if if you manage to deceive if i manage to deceive make a deception check all right do you know what actually i think is the deception i this is kind of deceptional performance not bad my performance is the same it doesn't matter then so it's either one of those but

this is deceptional performance at best because this is like you making a big like i'm going to destroy you like using your magic kamehameha yeah exactly i love it well yeah give me a deception all right that's a 22 okay uh i didn't set her up for skill checks, so I'm going to use her Wisdom Saving Throw. She would be proficient in Insight. I'm just going to use her Wisdom Saving Throw. Nine, natural two. So, yeah, you launch this spell,

and, yeah, she completely buys that it's going to be a big deal, and she will counterspell it at... She's used that she's saving that she so she would counter spell it but she she would uh roll um but because it's a cantrip uh she's gonna automatically succeed because of her bonuses um actually no she wouldn't because it's yeah she would do it with a plus six so she might fail to counter spell it she doesn't she does counter spell the acid splash and then she realizes what's happened right you conjure this thing you surge this thing she counts spells and sees like the magic fall apart before she even does it and she's like no and then she looks up as the real spell

is launched in my direction already flying at her and it's going to be a cone of cold so that i don't miss it so you fly like 60 feet like how far do you want to get pretty close right in the face i'm just gonna go yeah i love it big deal nice so that's 98 oh what level are you casting this at that's 6th level 39 points of cold damage check for dichro mancy well I can't go on her oh for elemental adept 40 then thank you

and then you ignore cold resistance right because you took elemental adept she normally has cold resistance, right? Because you took elemental adept. Yep, and acid, yeah. She normally has cold resistance, but yeah. It bypasses that. It bypasses it. So you watch as Lucius just engulfs her with this blizzard snowstorm of ice.

And she's still alive. She's not killed by it. She's like, ah! And you see the frost kind of building up all around her and stuff like that. She's like, ow! I just tapped my forehead. Nice. Right, a couple more things, and then we will take a break.

I mean, I don't want to take a break, but I feel like we need to. I need to. Yeah, I figured. Right, Iron Golem A, which is this one. Oh, Sentry, unfortunately unfortunately it sees that you are stunned and it's going to come chopping this iron golem so as advantage if it hits it's a crit nice yep yep i mean this is the first attack i'm rolling both there's gonna be a crit so that's 30 plus uh 25 55 points of damage as this thing like brings the sword down

on you and then it does the same thing again oh whoops sorry that was the damage ignore that uh so that's gonna be 20 it's gonna hit either way yeah so it's another crit so it's gonna be 30 plus 55 to 55 damage twice as it just brings this sword are you down? no still stood there like as this thing pulls its sword out as this giant golem just brings this heavy blade down on you

twice no effect so angry you gain a level in barbarian Well, in effect. So angry. Gain a level in barbarian. For this fight alone. Zark here is turning. Well, it seems you're a bit of a master of color. Why don't you take a look at one of my creations?

And she projects a cone in Lucius, who's right next to us. This battle of spellcasters. A prismatic spray. Oh, shit. Each creature must make a deck-saving throw. Lucius. Can I do anything with this?

Can you? You got a fourth in there, baby? It's a bad... I've got a lot of there baby it's a bad 12 is a failure so can you roll a d8 for me please Lucius certainly can 6

on a failed save you are restrained which means you fall out from flying and uh you begin to see your hand slowly turning to stone oh god and then she is going to basically trying to abandon you to your fate uh that's it and then lastly this this struggling iron golem is gonna try and uh it's gonna go for callus it's gonna try and grab valor uh yeah it's just gonna make a strength check against callus here it's not gonna work three seven ten nope uh again this like injured golem stumbles forward reaching out to try and grab Valor one more time but

Kallus pulls her away and resists and with that we're also going to take a break, that's a brand new round who's still standing? who is still standing? I think I'm the only one who can move I'm literally the only one who can move Lucius is restrained, he can still do stuff but he is restrained so his speed is zero and he has disadvantage and all that stuff um

but yeah okay okay good so let's say 110 damage in one goal yeah yes yeah yeah it's bad yeah uh does the um does the portal um go down when she got hit by um no it looks like yeah well that's the point actually how much damage did she take is a concentration spell oh yeah is mirror image concentration uh no mirror image is not specifically um 40 points of damage she took so the dc is 20. That's a good point, Lauren McKim. It does have advantage, but I don't think it's going to be enough for DC 20. She needs to roll a 19. No, the portal does close.

Nice. That's big. Nice. Good news, everyone. Good news, everyone. Some good news. Break time. I got a piss. Some good news. Yeah. All right. Break time. Try and be quick.

Oh, I got a piss. Wunderbar. Hey. See you in a bit. Yeah, Wunderbar. We're just taking a quick break. We're going to take like five minutes. Everyone's going to go bathroom break,

but this is a pretty intense fight, so I want to try and get back to it ASAP. I want to see how this goes, because it's looking pretty bad. But I trust these guys. They'll pull it out. They'll pull it out. They'll pull it out.