High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #146 | All That We Are (Part 2)

Episode Date: May 19, 2022

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Valor has sort of adjusted things to make it a bit easier, but there is still a danger of threat. And we are going to come in with a fresh new round i believe i don't did anybody else still have a turn left uh-huh everyone had to change i think everybody did actually yeah no i think because it was a brand new one was there and then nova basically went straight in so um yeah so you guys have a turn to move around prep any spells get yourselves ready cast any buffs or do anything that you guys want to do so So with my one turn of concentration, is that at the beginning or end of my turn? So you cast a spell. It would last until the end of your next turn.

Okay, so if I took a turn now, I've still got a turn with this Celestial to do something before he vanishes. Yes. I know that we need to get... I mean, we have got portals from Valor, but we need to get sentries. I could also, if sentry was smaller, probably use a charge to fly her up.

I also have Fly and Dimension Door and Gravity. Basically, how's Sentry getting to the... How do you want to travel? Same restrictions on Nova, by the way. Now that you've attuned, disadvantage on any ability checks, and you can't concentrate on the spell, it will go at the end of your next turn. So Fly is a concentration, but you could could cast it and they could get out there but then it will go basically however we still have another challenge to uh deal with you do have

another task to do yes one more task to uh basically the forging of the star seed itself um so do we want to move about and try and get sentry closer to that balloon now because she's quite far i was just trying to figure out how best to use the Celestial Brow while he's still about, but not sure. He could be useful for the next task, to be honest. He's going to vanish now. He's going to vanish at the end of the course. Oh, now?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What would be a hopeful pose to inspire Sentry? He does a Stormchaser salute to Century. That's pretty hopeful. So hopeful. And then vanishes. Right. In glitter.

There's Quill's turn. Yeah, that's my... Wow. Yeah. I mean, obviously, if you still want to move Quill, you can move, fine. I think I'll move towards the center again with everyone just so I can be in range for

something that might happen. Sure. Sure. Yeah. All right. Anybody else? Yeah, I think I'm going to move a bit back as well. Just sort of... Centralise yourself a little bit.

Yeah. Okay. I'm just going to pop back in and shout, I just want you guys to all know that I love you! You've had your turn. You can say that as a free action. That's my free action. I know. Lover's free action. Lover's free action can say that's a free action. That's my free action. I know.

Lover's free action. Lover's free action. Lover's a free action. Probably a bonus action, though. Lucius, sentry? We've had fire from the forge. We've had ice. Ice.

We've had lightning and thunder. Yeah, we've had lightning as well. And radiant. I'm already resistant to acid. Okay. So I'm'm gonna do absorb elements it's a reaction you do this every time when you get hit by the damage i'm gonna do okay that's fine for something every time we've been playing for like three four years four years he's had that spell from level one i don't use it He's had that spell from level one.

Why don't you use it? Because I don't know it. Four years for Aurora is six years. All right, so century? I'll probably just move more central. I've still got my Bless up. I haven't used that yet. Yeah, you've got no other concentration spells on.

Still big. Still moving. Do you want to go to the front of the anvil, or do you want to stay to the side next to Quill? Yeah, I'll go to the front. Go next to Quill. There. Yeah go to the front. Go to Quill. There. Yeah, that is actually above here.

So on the map, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's above the forge itself. Ah, okay, cool. It is like 90 feet above the forge. Oh. Yeah, but I think we know how to get you up there. There's many ways. Just how do you want to get up there? And don't forget, you've got a task beforehand as well.

Yeah, cool. All right, if everyone's done, I will move to Valena's turn and a new task. Hell yeah. All right. I actually don't need to roll for this one because I've picked it. So, Valena, you see to your eyes this star seed, which almost looks like a sort of large opal-shaped sort of sphere and laid with these coils of runic magic,

gold and silver, adamantine, mithril, all kind of blended in. You can see that there are huge diamonds inlaid into its base. Beautiful, almost like a Fabergé egg, but made of magic and runic power. And memories and history. And it's immense as well, yeah. In fact, actually, that's a good point.

Each of the diamonds on the base, five of them are lit with, like, an inner light. Cool. But it's massive. It's, like, you know, huge. As big as, like, one of you as a medium creature kind of thing. And to your eyes, it looks done, in a sense. But

Valena kind of holds her hands out. Her hammer is still hovering in the air above this metal statue of Aela that's basically acting as, like, a target for one of these infusings. And she says, We are so close now, champions. The Starseed is almost finished. This shall be its last step if we can complete it.

And then the last foci will remain. But to do so, I must retrieve my hammer, which will give us precious little time left. We must act quickly. If we do not succeed, this will fail. You must all now aid me in whatever way you can. We must work the metal, the magic that is inherent into it. Strike it with spell, with sword, with fist, whatever you can muster. We must use as much power and strength as we can.

And she holds her hand out, very much like Aayla. The metal hammer that's hovering above the statue flies into Valena's hand, and then twenty more appear around her. And they begin slamming into this

seed at high speed, each one resounding with a blow, sparks of magic. She continues working, all these hammers sweeping in to do this thing. The metal statue of Aayla begins to crumble apart. It's still there, but it's like slowly dissolving, right? Mm-hmm.

For this task, I'm not going to tell you the target. You have to deal as much damage to the anvil as you possibly can. Oh, yes! Okay. All right. So those of you who are infused, the disadvantage is only on ability checks. So attack rolls are completely fine. And again, remember, you get to pick the order here.

So if you want to do some clever tactics of setting people up and giving people advantages and extra damage, all of that good stuff, now is the time to think about that. But yeah, you've basically got, I'm not going to tell you the target, you've got to do as much damage as you can to the anvil itself. Don't worry about air roof effect spells. Both Velaena and Valor are immune to damage at this point. You cannot harm them with your attacks.

This is just... But you can harm each other. So fireballs and things like that can still hit each other. So again, you might want to think about your positioning and stuff like that. All right? So I hand it over to you guys. You get to pick. Okay. Go on.

I would like to go first because I want to do a Guiding Bolt. Okay. Nice. To give the next person advantage, I want to cast this Guiding Bolt at 9th level. Oh my god! Jesus! Which turns it into... So it's 4d6 at level 1. Mm-hmm. So... Which turns it into... So it's 4d6 at level 1. So... Now I will say, whilst this is an immobile anvil on the seed itself, you're striking the anvil.

You can strike the star seed or the anvil, it doesn't matter. The anvil on the map is the target, right? It does have an AC because there is an inherent toughness to this that you have to overcome. And that's the AC roll, right? Okay. So it's an attack roll first, I think, for going bolt. Well, I've got plus 14. all right 18 plus 14 so 22 32. you succeed in striking it and infusing it

with power four plus nine i've got uh i've got 12 d6 you're gonna physically you're gonna roll these around manually i love it no i, I'm happy for you two. That's what D&D is about, rolling loads of dice. We're 17th level. If I don't give you guys a chance to roll lots of dice and just go... What's the point? D12. D6.

I need... I've got six at the moment. No, seven at the moment. Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. That's all of them. Here we go. Big math time. Boom!

2, 5, 7, 9, 15, 17, 20, 23, 27, 30, 34, 38, 43. 43 damage. I'm going to have to dispense all of these dice back to the right people. Sure. So 43 points of raining damage from Quill. Yeah, and advantage to the next person. Come on, do anything else? Bonus actions? Anything? That is what I would do. That's all I got. Get your full turn, so like, like, anything you can do.

If you want, your bonus actions help you out, do that stuff as well. No, I've only really got bonus action spells, so that would be... All right, that's Quill done. Are you going to fly? Do you want to stay where you are, Quill, or do you want to move away? I want to fly... Well, before the attack, I fly to get a good target on it and just launch this...

Sort of up in the direction, sort of over here. Just launch this giant Guiding Bolt. It's a beam of radiance. Cool, yeah. So you see... Is it just like a beam, like a kind of like Hadouken Kamehameha? I mean, it's huge. Whatever it is, it's big.

It's ninth level. It's like... I mean, yeah, this is like intense power. You know, almost I think the similar sensation. You've been like Quill has cast like 9th level spells before as well, but like there is just this intense blinding light and this sensation of wind and air that combines with this golden blast

that emerges from Quill. Does it come from the eyes? Does it come from the hands? It comes from the hand. I want to imagine it's almost like nine guiding bolts all at the same time just sort of spinning around and then just blasting into this thing. You know how to touch my heart with anime missiles. And I yell, guiding bolts!

I love it. You're joking but i love it um all right so that's cool so whoever goes next has advantage whoever makes an attack crawl the next attack crawl has advantage yes please all right well you talk with your team don't look at me yes please you can have it go on yeah okay kim's like you can have it it's fine i'd first like to use my bonus action yes for the Prismatic Alternator Gauntlet's ability to expend a level 5 spell slot to give me 5 charges in the gauntlet. I've already got 2 in there, which maxes it out at 7. Yep.

So, Aracocra Lucius, the metal feather, like, yeah, you focus and you watch as this prismatic color, like almost like rainbow iridescent metal, kind of shines and it becomes powered up as all these different elements weave through it. Is it like a duel deck? Like a duel deck. Yeah.

So seven charges as a bonus action. From that, he's going to raise his little clawed hand, and a Chromatic Orb that everyone knows and loves starts forming. Lucius is classic. But he's going to spiral it with all these charges. All this power starts pulling off the metal wing into it. And he's going to cast that at 9th level. Oh, no!

Seven D6 extra on top of the normal spell. Yeah. And he's got Dicromancy afterwards. And Advantage. And I've got Advantage. And he's got Seeking Spell even if he misses as well. So fingers crossed, man. I hope for a 20 here. It's 3d8 plus an extra d8 for his spell.

No, it's 9th level. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 12d8. It's 12d8 plus another 76 on top, I think. Bloody hell. I can't remember the alternate. Go on, exactly. 18.

That's the first roll. You got advantage, so... Is that the total, 18? 21. Is that the total? Yeah. Yeah? The 21 will hit.

Okay. Just the advantage. As a point, 21 just hits. Easy. Oh, man, if you whip that spell. Oh, I missed. So, 12d8. Here we bloody go.

Ninth level. I think it's 13d8. You think so? Yeah, just 3d8 base and then all the way to plus 9. No. Yeah, it'd be plus 8 because you don't get the first level again. I might have added an extra d8. I think it's 12d8. It might actually be 11d8.

It should say on there. I'm rolling the button that's on it. It's 11. Yeah, it's 11d8. OK, here we go. And all 1s are 2s. I see 1, 2. So that's 118. Okay, here we go. And all ones are twos. I see one, two, so that's 44 points. That's from the base spell. From the base spell, acidic damage. And then I'm rolling 76.

Yeah. That is... a whopping 32 on top of that from my gauntlet alone. 70-ish. And Dicromancy, ninth level plus my charisma of a number I totally know, 13. Another 13 on top as well. That would put you at 76, 86, 89.

89, nice. It's a nice number. Nice. So yeah, you watch as Peacock Lucius, like this thing builds up, you have the orb spinning as it channels, and as you sweep your wing, the orb flies through and impacts,

and the acid doesn't splash over it, it's almost like it's absorbed into the seed itself, but you almost feel like a shockwave of magic afterwards. So, like, Quill's like this big, flashy thing. Lucius's orb hits it. There's no splash of acid, but then there's almost, like, boom, and the rest of you kind of stagger back for a second.

It's like, yeah, it's clearly hit and impacted into the thing. It's drained. Yes, yeah. It's like, it just completely goes dull metal. Well, that's Lucius's turn. We just softened him on, let's drain. Yes, yes. It completely goes dull metal. Well, that's Lucius' turn. We just softened him up. It's up to you guys now. You want Century to go?

I'll give it a go. Again, do you want to... Are you guys okay? Mine's going to be real complicated. Okay, yeah. Oh, no. You're going to cast a war crime on the anvil, aren't you? I'm going to raise up Starbreaker

and thrust it towards the anvil. You had Starbreaker active, didn't you? Starbreaker's active, ready to go. I'm going to use Dri Starbreaker and thrust it towards the anvil. You had Starbreaker active, didn't you? Starbreaker's active, ready to go. I'm going to use Driven to Purpose as a reaction to make sure that I hit this thing. Get an extra 2d4. I'm probably just going to miss a lot. Okay.

Also, you're large still, right? I am still large. That's an extra d4 on the damage roll. You still have Bless Up as well, don't you? Yeah. 17, 18. 18 plus 13. Yeah, that hits. you? Yeah. Yeah. 17, 18, plus 13. 18 plus 13.

Yeah, that hits. 35? You definitely hit. You hit. Yes. As AC is 21, as Trot found out. Cool. So bonus action, I'm going to cast Staggering Smite to give myself an extra.

Just remember, you have to do that first. So you would have to do that before you attack roll. That's fine. It's fine. There's no pressure. I'm not going to say no, but just for future, remember you have to do it before you attack roll. That's fine. It's fine. There's no pressure. I'm not going to say no, but just for future, remember you have to do it first.

Okie dokie. Because it's the next time you hit with it, and then your smite is you activate on hit. Okie dokie. So I will Staggering Smite and give myself four extra D6. What are we at now? I'm going to level six Divine Smite.

I'm just going to let Rhiannon figure this out. This is going to be a hell of a lot of dice. 89 is like the top of the leaderboard on the Pac-Man arcade machine. Just so you know, she's going to beat that. She's easily going to beat that. I gave you that. The only way, if this had been a crit, this would be disgusting. 2, 3, 4, 5.

I mean, it's disgusting already, and it's not not crit so 4d6 2d12 68 wait hang on are you doing crit for starbreaker because it's 2d12 right normally 2d12 normally and then how much 4d6 4d6 for staggering smite and then 6 68 for the uh divine plus another d8 because you have improved divine smile you always add another another d8 it's a 7d8 and then 6d8 for the divine smite plus another d8 because you have improved divine smite you always add another d8 it's a 7d8 and then a d4 for enlarge d4 for enlarge yeah i think it's already in there yeah yeah i'll be here a while also second attack yeah this is just one of them holy moly that's what i do no d don't know D&D Beyond Ross dies for you. Unfortunately, not when it gets complicated like this. No, I mean, yeah.

Her iPad would blow up. Can't render. While Rhi's working this out, can I ask, am I allowed to cast Hexblade Curse on the Starseed? Yes. Okay. Go on. Treat it like a creature in combat 50 56 plus seven 63 three attack one that already beats me cool so that but the staggering smite is now expended you don't get that on the second

yeah that's gone and then my next one will be a slightly lower uh divine smite because my fourth level spell slots have gone so let's do this see if i hit again 19 plus 13 yeah we've had so many close crits like 18 to 19 cool so i going to do a level three Divine Smite. So that's 68. What's she on so far? 63. Put it through your face. Let's do this first.

I like the little competition it's going to be. Oh, we can't beat Rhiannon. If you get crits, you can. Yeah, but... Mine was line them up and Lucius knocks them down. You're a support guy. Uh-oh, that's gone. That's a three.

It's all right. The nice thing is we can lean over now. We have no lav mics to worry about. Yeah. 10, 13, 15... Fuck me. Where is that? 15, 17... I would probably just give it to you at... 27.

You'd look at... 32. Well, yeah. I mean, you've still got your attacks to go. 38. 56. No, but they're still going to be huge. 53. 53.

Oh my god. A hundred and, I believe, 17 damage. That's a nice number. Was that attack one? That was both attacks. That was both attacks. Well, by the way never just like John Hale so for Rihanna if the century sent no crime I imagine so you take a step back and like you

remember like Starbreaker is like a one-handed launch right but in centuries in large form this launch is probably as tall as Lucius and as wide it's enormous which form the human sorry green energy spiraling around the lance What's the name of the monster? Elf, sorry. Elf, Lucius. Old news. The green energy spiraling around the lance as you like, star break, and you kind of throw it forwards. And then, yeah, you see the matrix flare to life, kind of adding extra power. And so this lance, the green is infused with yellow and orange from the matrix, and it slams into this thing.

And very much like Lucius' spell, the tip hits the star seed but you can't push it through but instead all that force is driven into it you see velena who's also like smacking this thing with hammer and you're on the opposite side of the anvil so when you strike the shock wave catches her and you nova and like you have to like grab onto the thing as this shock wave like nearly like the titan herself is like nearly blown back by the force of it. And then she kind of recovers after a brief moment as these two strikes slam into the seed. I accidentally destroy it.

Yeah, too much power. So we have Ayla and Nova next. Who wants to go? Do we have to do it? Yeah, I mean, mine's going to be really complicated because I'm going to do attack, attack, attack, more attacks, a few more attacks, action surge, Tiang mine's going to be really complicated, because I'm going to do attack, attack, attack, more attacks. A few more attacks. Action Surge.

Tiangong's going to attack. You've still got Action Surge. Yeah. And I've got three Unleashing Carnets, and some Smites, and it's going to hurt my brain. Mine's going to be very simple. And yours is going to be, I hit twice. I preview.

I recklessly attack. Oh, here we go. I rolled a nat one. And a two! No! I fail on that one. No way to anybody know nothing, like no reactions or no poor reaction.

No. Yeah, that's shit. Oh my god. Oh, that is a shame. 14. Would haste help? 14 plus 15. No. Yeah, that's shit. Oh my god. Oh, that is a shame. 14. Would haste help? 14 plus 15, so I hit on the second one, but it's not crit.

Oh, this is trash. I do no damage. Oh, you'll still do some damage. Fart broken. That is sad. That's very sad. Sad now. 15 with the hammer plus five lightning plus my aura yeah just do the aura damage it doesn't make a

sense oh god oh no 15 lightning 15. i'm gutted oh i mean you used all your strength smashing yeah i think like that's like i think that the canon law, right, it's not that like Aayla fucks up in any way. Aayla's an awesome kick-ass warrior. But I think it's like you've been attuned to the foci the longest, right? Like you were the first one. And you were technically, you've been attuned to two of these foci. And I think that that's just worn your strength down.

You know, the chain, the gate, like that's just like you've used so much of your strength. You managed to strike it. The first one just didn't have enough oomph and you managed to muster that last bit of strength and lightning into that final blow I think it's of all the challenges that we go that way, you know? Dice do that, though. All right. A one and two. No, but did you touch my dice? Dude, I'm stupid.

Yeah, okay. So just to clarify on something, before you start doing your thing, just because I wanted to check it for my own benefit, unleash Incarnation. So when you take the attack action, the first time you take it, you can unleash Unkick Incarnate, and then if you Action Sur action surge and take it again you can do it again that's why i

wanted to check make sure you can get the two out you can't get all three in one turn but you can get two um and if i'm correct you have three base attacks like with attack action so you attack three times unleash incarnate action surge you attack again three times as base and another Unleash Incarnation. Do you want me to really make your day? You haven't used Haste yet. I was going to say can I use Haste? Haste only ever gives you one extra attack but it is another attack action

which means another Unleash. Or Unleash. You can Unleash Unincarnate. I believe that's 11 attacks. What? It's fine. I might roll garbage. What is Unleash Incarnate? Unleash Incarnate is where Tiangong attacks. He gets, like, Tiangong gets to make an attack. Oh, okay.

However, however, unless you're using Eldritch Blast, you are all, you and Tiangong are both up here. You will need to get down to the angle, which you can just jump out. 11 attacks in six seconds. This is like, this is Nova's anime moment, like where it's like you know,

it's like JoJo. And we're attacking together. Yeah, so it's like they're crossing over like That's cool. But let's see how the dice rolls go. Yeah, I could just roll. Yeah, I mean yeah, you gotta do the dice rolls as fast as the attack. So I would say, Kim, for this, let's do all the attack rolls, and then've got to do the damage rolls as fast as the attack. So I would say, Kim, for this, let's do all the attack rolls, and then we'll do all the damage rolls as one big damage roll.

I have Bless as well. Yep, so you get the d4 on attack rolls. What's your plus? Bless is only two attack rolls. So as a bonus action, I Maddening Hex the thing, so I get crits on a 20 or a... 19 or something. Not Maddening Hex a Hexblade Curse.

So let's begin then. What's your plus to your attack roll? 13, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. 21's the... Let me check this. So one attack hits. That was 14 plus. This is... I'll count the amount of attacks she's doing.

Thank you. 18, 19, 20, 21. So two attacks hit so far. Just. 13 plus 13 plus 4 is enough. 20 plus 2. Just? Just to get over with the bless.

What does that roll? 14 plus 13 plus 1. That's five hits. 11 plus 13 plus 1. Six. Six hits. Important to roll these individually because if there's a crit, we have to make sure we end it.

16 plus 13 plus 1. Roll eight. 17 plus 13 just let Tom tell you just like let Tom look at the play I'll put a podcast as well there's also the stats on the reddit as well 15 plus 13 plus 4

that's another 9 that's 9 10 an ultimate 14 plus 13 plus 1 yep the last one ooh might not 13 plus 6 is 19.

Plus 1. Plus 1, 20! 20 or 21? 20. 20 doesn't hit. 20 doesn't hit! So it's not a perfect round. So that's the last one.

No crits. No crits. No crits. Imagine if she had advantage on all of those. Disgusting. So 10 attacks. So what is your normal damage for when you hit? 1d8 plus 9 plus 1d4 plus 15.

Hang on, hang on. Let me do it. So 1d8. 1d8 plus 9. So that becomes 10d8. Plus 90. Plus 9. Plus 1d4. Plus 10d4.

Plus 6 from... Plus another 60. Plus 10d4. Plus 6 from... Plus another 60. Hex played curse. So I need you to roll 10d8s and 10d4s. All right. And... I've already got, like, the numbers here, but this is pretty nice.

No, but it'll smash. 6, 7, 8. Very unique circumstances, but yes. So this is 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8d8. So this is 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 d8. You need 2 more. 2 more d8. 10 d8.

Because you got 10 attacks. You hit 10 times. Alright, we got them. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10. Oh my god, it's disgusting. Oh my god. Look at these big numbies. Oh my god.

There's only 1, 2 in there. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god, it's disgusting. Oh my god. Look at these big numbies. Oh my god. There's only one or two in there, the rest are six and sevens.

Yeah, so let me just line them up by eight. Oh, there's a lot of sevens. Fighters. Don't sleep on fighters, everyone. Oh god, that was a seven. I just knocked it over. What's it one? Oh god, that was a 7, I just knocked it over. So there's... it's... 5 plus 2 plus 7 plus 7 plus 7 plus 7 plus 8 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6. 61. I did it wrong. Alright, now 10d4. This is Tiangong's force damage that it does on each hit one two three

another three annan i think you've been replaced seven eight nine ten oh one's on the floor roll a new one just roll a new one Oh, it's a four! So four plus two plus one plus four plus two plus three plus four plus one plus one plus two... 24. Now this is better than a calculator. Add that up for us? I'm working on it, Tom, don't you worry. What are we going to be doing next?

That is... I'm pretty sure that's your whole turn I don't think you get anything else everyone's guys collection you have a bonus action I think oh yeah that's right you man yeah which bonus act I want one hex play curse yep and then ten attacks. You made it left, but you missed one. Okay. I don't think you've got anything left. I unleashed three times. You unleashed three times. Can I do Eldritch Smite? No, I unleashed three times. Okay.

Yeah, I mean, unleash is different to Eldritch Smite, though, because Eldritch Smite is spending your spell slots. Because they're two special attacks, right? No, it doesn't matter. So, okay, in that case, can I Eldritch Smite? Eldritch Smite is when you hit with an attack, you can spend spell slots to do extra damage. So can I do that? I have one spell slot.

If you've got one, you can do it, yeah. So I can do 3d8? Yeah, just roll 3d8. Is this for spell slot? Yep. So one, two, three. Seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Another 15.

No fucking way. What? An exact, perfect 250 damage. Oh, my God. Wow. 10 attacks. Exactly 250. 250. That's insane.

Very unique circumstances, because the haste basically gave her another two attacks there. Everything hit, which, you know know against some enemies it might not but you also had time to get the manning hex off no resistances it doesn't have any resistances to any of that damage so but yeah that's like pretty 22.7 I need to do some damage adding on average this little blue nugget has come such a long way. I need my countdown now. The scoreboard is now an unbeatable. It's like watching the Eurovision results.

The audience vote came in. It's all pointless, isn't it? It's not even worth it. I don't know whose dice is whose. You've got half the dice you started with. Yeah, my dice is looking very bare right now, so I'm missing a lot. So, that white one's mine, yeah. This is interesting.

Uh-oh. So, it's not enough. Nova, as we described, almost like shifting out of phase, as if her movements are not humanly possible. As if time folds around Nova and every swipe is milliseconds. It takes milliseconds

to perform. Like, Blade, carve. Then Tiangong is there carving. Then they switch places again, both carving across each other. All these diagonal sliced lines. And then eventually they both end up on either side of the anvil, like facing away. You dealt, in total, between all of you,

533 points of damage. Woo! Half of that. In one round. In one round. Hang on, is this all tests for like the Hadar fight? That's a really good point. Well, now you know.

Now I know what your damage maximum is. Actually, no, because Katie could have done a lot more. That's true. I did absolutely shit. You did not. You added to it. You added to it. I'm not going to tell you what the original target was,

but you do see as those final ten strikes land, Valena just stops. Everybody, like, she kind of holds her hands up. One more. She just, one more hammer to the very tip, the very top of the thing. Not a hard blow, but just resting it on top. And you watch as a shield of force

begins to kind of emerge. She says, one last moment. She looks up. Most important foci of all. She looks at Sentry. Christ. No pressure. Come see it done, Sentinel Prime. I will.

And Valor will turn to you and say like, just say the word Sentry. Yeah, I'll ask Valor for turn to you and say, like, just say the word Sentry. Yeah, I'll ask Valor for a teleport. Yeah, so she will throw portals down. Wherever you want. I'm not going to put the other one, it's pointless. But yeah, you can just step through. Before you do, it's like... Yeah, I'm big, I'm big.

Yeah, she's big. Does anybody want to give Sentry anything or do anything? I have nothing left. I've got nothing. Nothing left? A pat on the shoulder. A guidance. Yeah, I can guidance.

D4. I guess you got blessed, haven't you? You got blessed as well. They do stack, actually. They do stack, so 2D4 or whatever you do. I can reverse gravity around you. Nice. I mean, not even just, like, abilities.

Like, do you guys want to say anything? Do you guys want to, like, read? Lucius with a messenger ring would just say to Sentry, you don't need to worry about a thing. Hope is innate to you. Thank you, Lucius. I'll do my best. All right.

You step through. You see, and quite fitting, it is a green crystal within this stone pillar. What do you do? I take a breath, reach out and touch it. Touch it and again you feel your mind. It's strange for you because the other is it's an organic mind that connects, but for you it's like entering the Matrix. You feel that same sensation.

To you it's not a white, endless space of nothing. It is a river. A calm, green, rolling river. There's no sound, no motion, but it winds and it curves and it branches. And you feel, you hear and feel a voice. Hope. Hope. Hope is for the future.

Small hopes and large. Dreams, ambitions, children. What hope is there for Eros? And yeah, as I mentioned to the other sentry, take your time, you don't have to rush it, but this is memories of hope, things that sentry... And remember, this is all from sentry's perspective. Things that represent hope, what hope means to sentry.

These are all things you need to infuse into this foci. What do you do? So Sentry thinks back to the Sundering and the destruction around her, as her whole world is being torn apart in front of her. Everyone she loves vanishing, sentry tumbling into the ocean, that feeling of helplessness, of guilt, of grief, of not knowing what's happening next, what will come.

not knowing what's happening next, what will come. She remembers falling or tumbling in the ocean and drifting away into nothingness and eventually succumbing to that black void when her power shuts off. And for what feels like forever, she somehow manages to open her eyes again and she sees Quill looking at her. Quill saying, hi. And Quill taking Sentry's hand

and they explore Lower Erois together and Quill teaches Sentry about the new world she's found herself in and that feeling of family, of a new life filling her again and then boarding the airship to Horizon and tumbling out of the sky, winding up with a wild elf, an Ergonassi, a high elf, and once again tumbling back down to earth. And that same feeling of hopelessness leaving her as everything she's just found comes crashing down again. But they survive and they struggle through and they make it to the first settlement and they have their struggles and, again, against all the odds, in such adverse situations, with death, with the threats of their very lives being put against them,

they still make it through. And then coming back to Dwalenden and Sentry finding out that Solvyn had gone and her home had disappeared and that same feeling of hopelessness once again enveloping her and finding out that everything she once knew was gone. But still, she finds the strength to keep going with her friends around her. Anything is possible. And then, Katie's rest. And going to the cathedral and standing up for her friends, and defending them until the very end,

and feeling that same black void overtake her once more. But then, again, after what feels like an eternity, her eyes awake and her friends are with her again. Time and time again, her friends are always there for her, no matter what happens. And for Sentry, hope is her friends, the people that she cares for most. They're all still here, despite everything that's happened in the past, despite her losing so much at Solve, and her holding to that anger, that grief, that despair,

her thinking maybe it's time to let it go. Maybe it's time to really see what hope has to offer and fully commit to it 100% and let it overtake her. Let that feeling of hope overwhelm her and leave that sadness behind. That's very good. Is there the voice reaches out. When you are gone, who then do you hope for?

Who would carry this hope if you were not here Perhaps one who is not yet born one who is yet still young For they are also hope So somebody that you think of something that might fit that you know that sort of role or that position petal something that might fit that, you know, that sort of role or that position. Petal. Yeah. Everything that Sentry's learnt, she's learnt. Everything that Sentry's taught her, she knows.

Everything that's... All the values that Sentry holds dear, she knows. And she knows that she can trust Petal to carry that through. She has the legacy of Solve-In with her. Mm. Last thing, a voice, gentle, soft, fading. You face such dark odds. Hadar will not just destroy, it will end things. You have foes of great strength.

What do you seek? What is your hope, your ambition? What do you hope to achieve? A world that no longer needs heroes. A world that no longer needs people to fight for it. I would very much like you to make an ability check of whatever you damn well fucking want. Oh, my God.

You take whatever ability score you want. Yeah, just dunk on it. Strength or charisma or con. I'll take anything after that. I'll do strength. Okay. You get 2d4s, right? Bless and guidance.

You should get another, like, hope stat added on the end. Like, plus 9. What Sentry's just done is determined the DC. Okay. It's not great. 15. Oh, with a plus eight, though.

23. My plus eight, 23. More than enough. That hope resonates in this space. And that river becomes surrounded by green hills. A world that needs aliens. Sentry's mind reconnects and that pillar, that final foci, flares with vines and trees and plants and flowers. The seed glows.

All colours. Prismatic in its appearance. It flares for but a moment. The laner, her strength now finally does fade. She becomes old, like the edifice you saw outside. Clutching this like a mother holding a child. She clutches the seed in her arms. It is done.

She looks at Century. She looks at all of you. You have done it. The seed is completed. Herois has one last chance. should all things come to an end. I will place it where it needs to go. It will rest with my brother Helios aboard the Sunship, and if it should come to pass it will find its way to the well of eternity and a world beyond to take root where it can. You are done. When I leave this place my forges will no longer remain. This

demiplane will collapse. But there is one more task. You see that the seed is now gone. She's not vanished. It seems to just vanish into her. She reaches two giant hands. She's still tall, old, but almost like an old woman asking to be sort of walked across a street.

She almost holds her hands out. And she looks towards the area you came in. There's no door there, but she looks towards it as if a door was waiting for her. Yeah, I mean, I'll walk up and guide her. You know, it's a finger. Like, you wrap a hand around a finger and you can sort of take one.

And yeah, she will walk with you kind of stooped and hunched and slow. But there is still a sense of power you detect within her and she walks you to the edifice and you feel that kind of shifting of space and you find yourselves looking back out onto something no you're not wet you can breathe and you realize that that same sphere valor with you that are conjuring this shield around you like she did for the lava and encompassing Valena now as well,

as you are hovering in this space, you see the storm chaser slightly off to the side, almost beginning to now power up as if to come towards you. And then it seems to stop and you see this long strip of solvent before you. You see this long strip of solvent before you. Shhh. Velaena looks,

peers at the storm chaser, looks down. A fine ship, Captain. Well made. Such skill has been made in it. It will serve you well where you need to go. It is quick and quiet, perfect for what awaits the five of you. But it is not what Aroas needs. She looks. You begin to see that city begins to shift.

Lights.....begin to light up and the earth begins to shake. Sister, take us above. Valorite looks. She sort of nods. You teleport. You now stand hovering in the sky above a stretch of ocean. You wait for a moment, like, what is this? And then you begin to see the sea as if something has just dropped.

You begin to see towers. Towers with turrets. You see long buildings that have now formed into corridors, connected as an enormous battleship. Water pouring off the sides, the very earth shaped into its hull, connected with crystals and weapons and an almighty bridge sitting at the back,

the Grand Cathedral of Solvin, now forged into a great bridge that looks down, the symbol of Solvin directly on its side. The Astoria. Astoria. Oh, fuck. Thy gift to those who would stand against our enemy. Those who would stand against our enemy.

Kallus thinks he has all of the firepower he needs. He did not face this. Use it well. Champions. Valar guides you onto what is almost a street of solving sentry, but it's basically this, like, battle carrier, like an air shaft carrier, like this entry where like, you imagine people could stand and fight, like this open space in the very middle of like all these buildings

that looks down the length of the ship. And Valor lands you on it, and then you begin to see, very much like Zephia, Velaena begins to turn to dust. Almost like mineral dust, like steel, like that's been carved away from something stone, crumbles of chips, flakes of gold. Her body just begins to turn into earth and metal.

Mother. My mother. God. Holy shit. Fuck. Oh. I hoped it was going to be a battleship. Thank you, Mark.

That's all right. I knew that you had sort of twigged onto it. I felt like Trot had also been like, I think I know what's going on. It's when I was asking about like, Sentry's memory, like was Solvin a match for Calus back in the day? And it was.

And yeah, you can see this. This is but a sliver of Solvin. This is not the whole city, but it is bigger than Horizon. Yeah. This is enormous. This is like, you know, a strip of a city turned into a battleship like you could you could

have a fleet or like you know 10 storm chasers docking it like it has like hollowed out back like you can see you know i'm not going to go into it i haven't fully did it but it's like there are like hangars built into the side that airships can go in uh this area on top looks like smaller magitek devices like the ones that you found and fought in could be stationed here. There are guns, there are arcane turrets built into all of this stuff. And then, yeah, the cathedral has been turned into the main deck of this battleship. It's kind of, imagine a little bit of a Star Destroyer mixed in with a kind of aircraft carrier kind of turned into this kind of thing.

So cool. And a bit of a helicarrier turned into this kind of thing. So cool. And a bit of a helicarrier from S.H.I.E.L.D. as well. How the hell are we going to cruise it? Oh, my God. Well, when you say that, you hear a familiar voice. Howdy, champions! Oh, God. And emerging from a sort of white building,

you see D1, and behind D1, you see hundreds. All of those constructs that were working on the shit on the city are now here. And you still don't think that that's enough. You don't look at that and think, like, these guys can run the ship themselves. But they're like, I'm sorry that we could not

inform you of Mistress Valena's plans for the Astoria. However, I am pleased to say that we have been given one final task, to assist in the maintenance and running of this ship as it prepares for battle against Calus and Hadar. We are not fighters, however, and we will still require a large amount of crew to help maintain the Astoria. But for maintenance and repairs and the general running of the ship, the maididens of Velaena are pleased to serve the champions. And she just sort of like smiles. And they all have this identical smiley dwarven face.

But there's ones of ruby, of topaz, of sapphire, of emerald and amethyst, all sort of like stacked around. And they seem to almost be able to just meld into the floor and go to wherever they need to in the ship. They just kind of... It's truly an honor. They just kind of and then. It's truly an honor, thank you. You are welcome. I am pleased to also inform you,

your ship, the Storm Chaser, is making its way to the surface now. They're just standing there going, what the fuck? And yeah, maybe like 10 minutes, the Storm Chaser breaches the surface and flies its way up to basically be parallel. And it's like pretty small compared to the Astoria. It's nice of her to compliment the ship

before revealing her biggie ship. Yeah. And just to make a point as well, like the storm chaser will be able to, the Astoria is not fast. It is not like a, you know, this is like the Norm, like, you know, in Mass Effect, like the Normandy is like, it's a stealth ship

and it's Shepard's ship that they fly around and do all the cool stuff with, but then they have the big battleships for the big fights. This is that kind of deal. The Storm Chaser is your Normandy. I knew that, and that's why I crashed the little skiff. Because I knew the Storm Chaser is the new skiff. It's not a skiff. It's your ship. Compared to this.

It's all relative. The Storm Chaser can do things this ship can't. Tiangong and I, we're not powering that. I don't think you have to. I think you just focus on the storm chaser. Yeah. I think they have it all in hand. We might explode.

That's actually a good point, Kim. Looking at this thing, even if it has some sort of incredible power system it will probably need to recharge a lot more than the storm chaser will like this actually is like quite slow to maneuver like a like a warship right like this isn't you can't be agile with it you can't be quick with it but it is power um and it is big like it is you know this is this an immense thing um and yeah it's bigger than horizon yeah we just fly up next horizon what's up yeah it um and yeah it's bigger than horizon yeah we just fly up next horizon what's up yeah it's it's it's longer than horizon it's maybe like a little bit um not as wide as horizon horizon is quite a wide city it's quite squat and wide city yeah

this thing this thing's probably like two or three cities like like long um but it's also it's all long basically report to engineering you need to get a tube. A bus. A rough aspect, if something like Horizon has, I don't know, 10,000 people in it, this is like, yeah, 30,000. Jesus. It's just hard to find. I can't even in my head.

I need someone to do a CGI render of that. This is a Star Destroyer, basically. Oh, my God. Scale-wise, next to the Tassadar. Next to the Tassadar. This is bigger than the Tassadar.

Vivex? Yeah, bigger than... The Vivex is the dragon ship, right? I'm trying to remember my own lore. Yeah, it's bigger than all of those.

Like, those are big. Like, it's not much bigger. Like, those are about horizon size. Like, the Tassadar was probably about equal to sort of like, maybe a little bit smaller than Horizon. But this thing is massive.

And it's got a lot of guns. A lot of arcane turrets. You see stuff that you've never seen before as well on this thing. To D1? Yes, Mistress Nova. This isn't powered on a Turner, is it? No, this is not. This uses a fragment of the world engine.

Oh. Does it come with some sort of instruction manual? Us? Right, okay. In that case... Part of our duties will be to train and teach anybody who comes to work on the Astoria. Very well.

And what do you require of us? Orders of where to go? You are not our commanding... We do not know who our commanding officer is. We must be assigned one. Oh. Oh. Okay.

I've already got the Stormchaser to deal with. I mean, do you want to be Admiral, Elinaster? Ooh, that's got a good ring to it. I'm dealing with a lot at the moment, and I feel like I'm not in a leadership... I can offer some tactical advice if you would request it. I request it. It is not recommended that an individual such as Champion Lucius

is the commander of the Astoria. Mistress Velaena believes that you will go to fight Hadar and Calus in many different ways. The Astoria is not mobile enough to do so. We would recommend that you place somebody with a great tactical knowledge as well as coordination abilities who can coordinate between multiple forces.

Somebody very powerful and with great leadership abilities. All right. That is something for you to consider. We await the champions to inform us of who will command the Astoria. Well, we'll be back once we've made a decision. Of course. The Astoria will maintain its current location.

We also have functioning teleportation circles for you to travel to where you need to. Wow, okay. And how much more crew do you need? Significant. The Astoria is also designed to be a way to protect the citizens of Erois if war were to come. Many of the cities, as we witnessed in Solvin, and she gestures to Sentry, many civilians were caught out in outlying farms and places like that. Soldiers were obviously there to defend them. The Astoria has housing, that soldiers were obviously there to defend them, the Astoria has housing, functions, food,

places to grow crops. It is meant to be a shelter of sorts for those in danger. There's a lot to think about here. I think we should have a meeting on the Stormchaser. Sounds good. We'll be back. I salute. They do, they copy that salute.

Oh my god, it's happening. Lucius melts. That's not even a salute for a ship anymore. That is now like a capital city kind of gesture. As you are in the distraction of all this in D1, you realize that you're going to have to walk over to where the storm chaser can dock or come in and things like that.

As you do so, you make your way back towards the large cathedral the bridge and uh sentry you would see that out in front of the cathedral is a statue of guinevere story of the queen it's like this central piece that like almost like in a plaza that leads up to the bridge. And she's gesturing forwards, sword in one hand and a staff in the other. Regal, intelligent, this kind of, and she looks like, the rest of you would reckon it's like Petal, grown up. It looks like grown up Petal almost. Dressed, you know, elegant, big high collar behind her, trailing gown, armour, as well as like this beautiful dress and yeah, sword and staff raised as like this beautiful dress and sword

and staff raised out like a kind of warrior wizard queen. So she would kneel down in front of it and just say, you're still fighting. You're still fighting. We're going to do this. That's it. Valar will also say, I know you want to have your meeting on the Stormchaser, which is fine. I think that as Valaena has rejoined Siaska, we did see that there were some changes in the halls last time when Zephia joined her. Would you like to go back? You don't have to, I don't imagine anything, she's not like she's going to be able to speak to us, but...

Could have placed Zeni to hold a meeting amongst... We can zap there and back pretty easily, right? We can, we can use my tome, but that was something. Could have placed a Zenith to hold a meeting. We can zap there and back pretty easily, right? We can, we can use my tome, in fact. Yeah, yes. Pretty sure I'm attuned to it. Even if you don't, I probably will make my way there. We'll come with you, Valiant. Thank you.

Max is like, he is wide-eyed, and he's just looking at this place. I had heard of Solvin. I never fought here, but I heard of it. Impressive. Very impressive. He's just, yeah, he's like, from a military point, you know, there's almost a touch of fear. Like, you can see he's like... Like, he's now starting to...

You can see the battles playing in his mind of, like, how would, you know, the Tassadar match up against this and it's hard to tell suddenly feels like he's on the winning team what? maybe unless he steals all our secrets and gives them back to Callus we don't have any left do we?

hey Callus I got some juicy gossip you're losing but yeah so what would you guys like to do? We've got a little bit of time. I mean... It's a lot. I know it's a lot, you know. But in the best way.

Yes. It's a lot, but in a good way. Also, like, the whole Forge in the Starseed, I feel like that was a lot as well. There's a lot of stuff going on there. I feel like the characters have been through a lot right now. It's, like, overwhelmed. So how was it for you guys? I'll be honest, i kind of panicked in there when i had to talk about my

stuff how did you guys do yeah no i failed one of them nice to die true but but you helped each other we did so max kind of looks at you and he's like and there's like there's an immense amount of respect when he looks at you like yeah you've he's seen stuff that's like there's an immense amount of respect when he looks at you like yeah he's seen stuff that you've seen and you've seen what he's seen

it's a good fighter yeah as is Aayla which I knew anyway I'm just saying Max you should stick around you know we've got a bigger ship

we should please I my side is beside Valor beside Lady Valor but so that's on the ship. We should. Please! My side is beside Valar. Beside Lady Valar. So that's on the giant battleship. Got it, got it, got it.

Wherever she is, I will be. But I'm very interested. Some of the things I saw in your memories I had not made the connection to the elves of Alfheim truly. But also I had heard of their technology, of their magic, this regrowth chamber that they once had,

but it was spoken of in hushed tones, in whispers. I'm not a spy, I did not follow up on it. There were confusing memories you had, Aela. Memories of your life here on Aroes, but also fragments of something that almost as if you yourself did not know them. Fragments of another life of fighting in the Empire. Yeah, there... Yeah, I've been able to open some doors that were kind of weird before. Eh.

Well, I can talk to you about it if you wish, but my knowledge is limited. But I knew a little of the warriors of Alfheim. I knew a little of some things that may be connected. I do not know how you came to be here on Oroes, but I know that they once... There was talk. The elves of Alfheim were incredible warriors.

Even those who did not have their elemental powers, they were still immensely strong and talented, skilled, agile. And it was said that their collected knowledge, their memories, their training, was passed one body to another. A body like a... how do they describe it? Like a cutting of a tree that is taken from one and regrown into a new tree.

And the other one is taken down. When the other one is destroyed, the new one grows into something new. They would grow themselves a new body, and then that body would have the memories and the training and the experience of who they were before. Sometimes they would change. They may change in gender or they may change appearance,

but they would always have that same memories locked in them. Others would keep appearances. I'm almost certain that I have seen a wild elf of red hair and very similar nature before, but I never interacted. It did not strike me until we could see each other's memories. It was an old memory. But I think you may be one of these warriors, and perhaps you, like a tree,

you are a descendant of a warrior of longer past. Quill, am I a tree? Do you remember this other person you remember as a delight? No, I did not speak to them or meet them. When you pass someone in a crowd, I would not have thought of it until that strange foci linked our memories, but it came to me for a moment. So would there be one of Aela?

Yes, I believe that they... My knowledge of this is limited. I did not speak to the elves of Alfheim. They were reclusive for the most part. And whilst many of them were very loyal to the Empire, there were many who were not. And my understanding was that no, to do so would be a sacrilege to their culture, to their faith.

They believed in a tree of life that was bound to them, was connected to them. And when one life would come to an end, the new sapling would be nurtured and grown and would have the memories of their predecessor. But they would wait until the previous life reached their time, either were killed in battle or reached old age or some such. Most often, though, they were killed in battle or reached old age or some such. Most often, though, they were killed in battle. They did not live very long, the elves of Alfheim. They were warriors to the end.

Reckless, dangerous, but valiant and strong. So that may explain some of your, if you have had such encounters, it may be that those are lingering memories of your past life. I don't really remember any of it. I get those flashes where something comes to mind, but... Perhaps the ritual was not completed correctly, or that perhaps the magic was changed in some way? I spoke to someone called Thor once. Apparently, gave some power,

you know, lightning. I do not know that. That name means nothing to me, I'm afraid. Am I a tree? Kind of, is what I'm picking up here. But you said that the memories would go to the Sapling when the predecessor had reached their time. Not, think of it, I guess, we are using metaphors here.

A child. I do not know how they were created. Magic, I suppose. I know, I believe that Zarkira has spells to replicate a body in a way. But this was different to that. It was a real body, a natural grown flesh and blood body.

A real person, my understanding is. They would always have those memories, but they would not awaken that child until the previous life was ended, was destroyed. But as the child grew, my understanding was that magic was used to help them unlock these memories, but some of it was instinct. As a warrior, and he brushes over from Quill, he looks to Sentry. As a warrior, my apologies, Nova, you have received training, recent training. Perhaps Tiangong would understand this,

but there are instincts in battle that you do not forget they are part of you. They are instinctual, they are natural. You do not think about them you simply dodge you block in a certain way because that is how you have done it a thousand times those things would remain in the child but the more detailed memories places names people that would need to be encouraged in some way and i don't know the details of that i was always better at fighting than everyone i mean you definitely got the instincts there but yeah but maybe there is

some kind of magic we can try to understand to unlock those latent memories um you would need you would need to the predecessor i'm not ready yet you would need to find other wild elves on elves of alfheim that seems traumatic but i'm down for it it probably, but no more than being a lightning pole. Yeah, that wasn't great. Can you not suggest that every time that there's a situation that could even slightly be useful to help that? I know it's unkind, but I mean of anyone. I mean, all I remember is when I was younger, I was better at fighting than anyone in the clan, and then I discovered that they weren in the clan, and then I discovered that they weren't the clan, that I didn't have parents. I had a family that took care of me, but they weren't my parents. Not my real parents. And then I got really angry,

and any time I got really angry, the lightning sparks, and it freaked me out, and it freaked them out a little bit too so my understanding of the elves of Alfheim is parents in the way that perhaps I would know them or the others would know them is not the same concept there is no intimacy is not the same

a child is not born in the same way for the elves of Alfheim this process of recreating the previous version of them is done all through magic, some sort of natural druidic magic, perhaps. I'm not sure. But they are raised by friends and family

of their previous life. They are sort of raised by those who were close to them in their life. So how does the other one work? What other one? Oh, because there's the magic way and then there's the non-magic way. That is not a question I am willing to answer.

You know the answer to this. What's that? Oh, that's putting a ring on it. That's you proposing. So I thought that was only the magic way. Because I wasn't there when... I'm not telling her. I'm just going to...

Have you ever seen an egg? Yeah. That's how I know it. Oh, sorry. It's true. Of course, like, eggs? Eggs. Can I lay eggs?

You can't. Oh, you can't. You can't. You can't. He could. Do you know that? Could he? How are you feeling right now?

Like, in your tum? How are you feeling in your tum? Pretty squishy. Not very hard. Bloated? A little bloated, but I... I've had a dicky tummy for a little bit, but it's been very distracted for a while.

I think it could be Howard's cooking. But anyway, no eggy feelings feelings okay no no eggy feelings no eggy's okay i saw you fly i know hover it was kind of like a like an instinctual moment yeah like i i had to get up to the chain pretty good right it's a little difficult but we'll get used to the chain. Pretty good, right? It's a little difficult. Mm-hmm. But we'll get used to it. Guidance. I can guide you. I know. Guiding board.

And guidance. Yeah, guide. Sorry, Valor. I realised that we should be going to the... We're going to be going to see more wild elves. Ziasca's not going anywhere. Mm-hmm. So maybe when we see more wild elves, I wonder if any of them have...

We know one, right? If they served if they served in the empire they will likely know of this if they were raised here on our right I imagine they would be like you they would not know of it oh

I mean Rathro was a slave he was captured and I I don't I think his brain was a bit too fragile to have the conversation with him about it so there was something I remember

there was something I remember There was a sort of role Within their ranks again. They served in different units. I did not spend much time with them, but I remember one I encountered a Brief conversation and they they paid deference to a sort of priest of theirs But it wasn't a priest like to a god like we know it was It was like a servant of this tree that they believed in this life tree this world tree um they had a different name for them but it was basically a somebody who attended i imagine i think that rituals involved them somehow you would need to find i think one of them wouldn't have the answer we laugh we smile i'm just enjoying norse mythology and world trees

I'm just enjoying Norse mythology and roll trees. A little bit, a little bit. And Idrisil and, you know. Valar just says, he's like, well, Mother isn't going anywhere, so it's no rush. And you have just, we have been through a lot. That was a lot. It's a decompression. It was a lot for me as well.

Yeah, I think we kind of needed that. Are you okay, Sentry? I'm okay, I think. You embodied hope for a minute there. It was cathartic. And then your city came out into a ship. Yeah. Is that okay?

It's great. It's hope. It's overwhelming. It's got a lot of guns on it. It has. Yeah, it's big. A lot of guns. It does.

Was Solvin like this? No, not so much floaty in the sky airship. It was more that way round in the ground. Like, it was more vertical than horizontal. A lot of these, like, weapons and extra bits have been added. Like, the city is mostly there. And you remember Solvin had defences, like walls which had arcane turrets built into them

and things like that. You can see elements of those here and there, but you're also seeing like you guys first met like D1, like you saw a bunch of these dwarven constructs, the mains like pulling apart Solvin ruins. And it looks like they've pulled like old Solvin turrets and they've mounted them in other places. Like they've rebuilt this into the form it is now,

but a lot of it's been added. Like there's, you know, like probably what would have once been like a sort of like a lot of it's been added. Like, there's, you know, like, probably what would have once been, like, a sort of, like, a shopping plaza has been turned into, like, you know, a domed building of some kind, and then, like, other turrets and towers have been added on, and, you know, but it looks seamless. It looks like the Maidens have actually, like, built into the architecture, so it does look like a city,

but it's, like, an enclosed city that is also a big airship, like a big battleship. It's very bizarre. It's like walking through a mall if that mall was also an aircraft carrier and had loads of guns on it. It's very weird. Are there bits on the inside that look familiar?

So it's like sentry walking around, you go, oh, I know where that bit's from. Yeah, you recognise a street that you once maybe took a patrol down. There's also, like, not on the top level here, but, you recognize like a street that you, you know, you once maybe took a patrol down. There's also like, not on the top level here, but, you know, and this maybe isn't what happens now, but later on, like as you explore, if you go down below, like there are floors to this place

and like those floors have been built and with magic, they still kind of look a bit like outside, like almost like it's like an indoor sort of area that's been created. And there are parks, like, and you like remember i brought petal to this park like and it's this like just a nature park um and it looks like it's just been built as a recreational ground like somewhere for people like maybe soldiers or for civilians to come and not you know have somewhere nice to be basically um it's only a small thing like it's like a section of it but

it's you remember it uh yeah and the cathedral you definitely remember. That's where Queen Astoria would deliver proclamations to the city and everybody would go and worship Siaska there. It was a temple to Siaska. Yeah, it was a big deal. D1. She kind of comes to life. She just completely went inert for a while.

Sorry for... Champion Krelik. Oh, I like that. What's the travel capabilities of this ship? In what regard? If we were to, say, ask for it to be sent to Horizon, for example, how long would it take to get there? What sort of speed?

She doesn't make that face because she doesn't make any face. It is difficult. Under the cradle, the Astoria is not designed for, shall we say, planetary travel. The Astoria will be faster in astral space. It is possible,

but it is not the most maneuverable of ships. So it can traverse? Yes, very slowly. Hmm. Interesting, interesting, interesting. What are you thinking? Well, I was just thinking, well, I was going to ask, can this cross the Astral Sea? It can. Absolutely.

And keep all of the ships, like the storm chasers, safe while traveling through there as well? Indeed. Great. I was just wondering, do we want to let Horizon know this exists and it's ours and show them that and maybe try to gather a crew for this thing? Horizon can kind of drift towards us too. We can meet them halfway. From what I understand of the Sky City of Horizon, its travel capabilities are more,

are faster and more maneuverable than the Astoria is in planetary environments, in planar environments. This is why I think we should have an important meeting, discussion. Okay, yes. I think the capability of this ship could help a lot of people on Aroath. Yes.

That is its purpose, Champion Lucius. The instinct to salute every time. Sure. She says champion. Yeah, Valor's like, well, I know you want to go to Horizon. Would you like to... Eventually. Go to the halls.

But yes, we should... Let's go to the halls. Good. You see, there's relief. Valor's, like, hands are shaking. Like, when somebody's, like, really nervous or, like, when they've just, like, had a big burst of adrenaline, like, you know, you get the shaky hands and stuff,

like, her hands are, like, vibrant. She's, like, trying to hide it, like, hold them to her, but, like, you can see that trembling. And, like, she's sweat, like, sweat has, like, soaked her dress. Like, she is, like, feels... You think that she's gone through more exertion than you guys have um but she seems to like just be like yes and like max has kind of stood with her um and yeah she's just just for you to book yep i'll book it yeah we'll book it

the book you feel the familiar sensation that bififrost feeling of being pulled up along this prismatic wall. And you find yourselves in that strange, although maybe not as strange, you've encountered similar spaces to this, but this ever unending stone white marble that glows like it's made of light building that just seems to stretch on in all directions. Wherever you look, it just goes on forever and at the middle you see that same crystal glowing sarcophagus there are golden feathers that sort of drift around it maybe they sort of fall from the top of the sarcophagus and before they reach the floor they vanish and reappear there's that gentle wind that blows around it. Now you can also hear the faint sound of a flame, like a burning, crackling flame somewhere.

You can hear the faint sound of a hammer striking an anvil, but very distant and not annoying or sort of like distracting, but just gentle, like very far away. You can feel the sea breeze as you approach it um you can smell the salt air of the ocean and you can see that there is also parts of the sarcophagus have become gold and silver and adamantine like parts of almost the base as if somebody has reworked it in a way. And you feel the difference as well. Divine power. Much more concentrated.

Even after Zephia, like, you knew that Siaska was in there. Now, with three of the Titans rejoined, you feel a presence. You can feel someone there, like a ghost or a spectre in a haunted house, like an apparition that you know is there, but you can't see or touch, and just this sort of atmosphere of power. The actual sky above you,

normally the Halls of Infamous Friendly is just white stone arches. You begin to see a night sky is forming very faint and distant but it's forming above the sarcophagus um yeah that was just like she's coming back it's happening happening. It's really happening. I need her help now more than ever. I don't know if I can do that again. What happened in the forge... That was scary. I almost lost myself.

I don't want to risk that again. But I think if she can teach me, I can control it better. It may help one day in the future. I know it will, in fact. I don't know how I know, but I know it will. And you just hear like a very soft sort of like, well, you're back. You see this aged halfling, like Sayana looks like a grandma, like just white hair, wrinkled skin, like the braid there. But she's still got a big smile, big rosy cheeks, got a lute in her hands, just plucks a note, like a couple, almost like she's tuning it, and she's just like, I felt, I felt my sister come back. Well, two to go, I suppose, and then me,

of course. They won't have any trouble with me though. I'll go gladly, but I want to wait until they're all here. If that's OK. Of course. Good. Was it all right? Was Valina of sound mind? Was she OK? She was.

Working hard, very hard. That's like her, yes. Protecting us all, giving us a weapon for the future and hope for, well, a fallback, really. I'm worried we didn't have the time to thank her, though. Oh, you don't need to worry about that. What was it? A good craftsman doesn't require thanks, but just to see what they've made used, that's thanks enough. We'll use it. We're definitely going to use it. Oh, I have no doubt. I believe... apologies, I do like to keep an eye on things while you're away. When you return to your Sky city, Horizon, is it?

Yeah. You sent out some companions to search for Kalara's knights. I believe they found them. Oh. Okay. My sister is deep, deep in the woods. The knights, I believe, hold her demi-plane. She will probably be your next challenge, unless you wish to go and stop Atelicus's beasts. I still don't

know where he is, but his beasts will likely cause damage if they're left undisturbed. But, Calara, I think your agents have found them. Excellent. Good. Something to consider for the future. But take a moment. I know that these are, I know there are pressing matters. There are lives in the stake in the balance, but you are our champions. We need you to be of sound mind and body. She kind of looks at Lucius when she says that. You need to be prepared. So take time to rest. Take time to make sure you are ready for these next steps. Don't rush into it. I'm afraid, Captain, I do like...

This is a very fitting form, I'm afraid, and my powers are long gone. I can't help you get back your old body. Oh, um... If that was something you were thinking of, but I'm afraid I... Oh, no. Wasn't thinking that. Totally fine. I think it's dashing.

Oh, thank you. Um, not very many mirrors. Oh, would you... At least I can do is conjure a little mirror. I've still got enough power in me. Are my feathers in place? Yes, but I think you should have a look. She'll strum her lute and a kind of like a purple...

Actually, no, it'd be more like rose pink mist kind of... And this very elaborate vanity mirror, like a tall, full-length body mirror kind of emerges, little hearts carved into the corners, like very cutesy. But it kind of conjures and remains in place. Oh, well, all very sudden, there I am again. This is probably your first time properly, like, seeing you fully. Last time I was panicked.

Yeah. It was like a dash into the captain's quarters. It was like the water as well, yeah. You don't have, like, a full-length mirror kind of thing. Well. There you are. What do you think? I think the outfit looks amazing.

It transformed very nicely. I don't know how this, how it all fits, but I'm glad it did. Mm-hmm. For the forge. It's very important. And the gauntlet, too.

Can I go up to Licious and just pluck one of his feathers? You can. It's like, ow! It's like, yeah, whoa! And then I'm going to tie it into... I've got one of Quill's feathers in my hair that I've tied to beads and stuff.

And I want to add one for Peacock Lucius. It's great. It's bigger than Quill's, the feather. It's longer. Just because, you know, I don't ever want to forget how hilarious this moment is to me. I don't need the mirror anymore, thank you.

Sianna just, yeah, she plucks another note and it vanishes. We have more pressing matters. You do, but take some more. Also, you were very lucky. What was it? I wish I were a birdie? I don't want to say the W word again. Could have been very bad. Yeah, it was close.

It was close. Well, you'll be pleased to know Mother is well. She is regaining her strength. But... How are you? She kind of just gestures at herself like, I know I look bad, but, you know, halflings and my...

I'm not a halfling, but I'm sort of based on halflings, and they do tend to live a while. I've got a bit of spring in my step still, but I'm just... My magic and my divine powers are long gone. I'm sort of just a very talented bard now. I just wanted to thank you for helping me and Thalia. You're more than welcome.

She's cured now. She's no curse. She's survived. I can't think of a better end to a love story. She was small. But yeah, we will end things there. You guys can head back to Horizon. I got a lot of stuff I need to think about and plan.

But yeah, that's going to be that for that episode. Yeah, just got to go chase down Kalara next and all of her, what was it, Night of the Blackened Rose? Grief Nights. Ebon Rose, Night of the Ebon Rose. Ebon. Grief Nights? That's going to be spicy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also, we have to tell everyone about oh hey take a look at this this cocky boy yeah we're an admiral sharpish yeah that's actually something you guys probably do yeah you know don't have to be next week but like you definitely you need to so because again this is dnd we want you guys on the storm chaser doing cool adventuring stuff and hero stuff right and the storm chaser doing cool adventuring stuff and hero stuff right and the storm chaser

is going to be able to go places and be the Normandy you need to pick who is going to be in charge of the Astoria because it does need a commander

I have a suggestion but I don't know if I should bring it up next week save it for next week have a think about it and we can talk about it out of cat

like off stream but like absolutely like we can reveal that next one so thank you very much for watching us we'll see you next time take care bye bye

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