High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #152 | The Silent Killer (Part 1)

Episode Date: July 6, 2022

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Welcome Welcome back to High Rollers. Having survived the seemingly endless hordes at the Guardian's abandoned outpost, the party have made their way deeper into the jungles of Jakesh and learned of the plight faced by the Guardians they sent here to locate Nightbloom Hold and the breach point into Calara's demiplane. Something has been stalking them, slowly whittling down their numbers, infecting them with some sort of disease and sickness. The Guardian Commander, Hotshot, returned with even more bad news.

The stalker had pursued her and her specialist team from their mission to destroy something called a Rothart and would arrive shortly. The party, low on magical energy and still wounded, only had time for a short rest before they had to press on. Choosing to send the injured scouts back, taking only a few of Hotshot's specialists with them, the party have tried to make their way through the jungles, but their poor attempts to use stealth have drawn the attention of more undead hive and more importantly, the stalker who has ambushed them.

Hidden by camouflage and talented in stealth, this marksman has pinned the party down and things don't look good. So. I would say things are heating up. Things are. Much like a cape. Was. That was left in the tree. On fire. Well, you know,

it wasn't just that. There was a lot of failed stealth rolls from lots of different people. Nice segue. Nice segue. So we are going to be jumping straight back into the scenario here. I will kind of give you a little brief

sort of overview of everything. A couple of just real quick reminders with regards to things like skills and stuff like that. Don't forget, anytime, you guys, because I know that sometimes stressful situations, you're panicking, you're thinking about stuff. At any point, you can always just be like, can I make a skill check to see if I would know how to deal with this or stuff that my character would know that I don't know. Never worry about asking stuff like that.

It's a free action to cry still, right? it's a free action to cry still right it is a free action to cry yeah absolutely and also like escaping there is that you know there is a thing you can do like if you do feel that your your your odds at winning this are not good I'm telling you you can always try I know I never I don't do hints it's like that's exactly I told you last time, but also. But he's probably going to catch us again. He's avoiding eye contact. Oh, no, there is.

It's not a hint. I just want to make sure that you guys have all the information available to you so you can make your own choices. Where are they? Huh? Well, you can't get that one for free. I tried. I tried, guys.

I tried. I thought he'd be caught off guard. You do have some stuff. So Quill currently has Locate Creature on. It does also, now that the first couple of rounds of this battle are out of the way, certain abilities that this thing have are no longer going to trigger. So you might find things differently. But we're going to pick it up.

So you guys are currently in a very dense jungle-wooded environment. Last time I had the map set out a little bit differently. was more like a road um unfortunately because of uh we did a one shot this week i had to kind of clear the map i've rebuilt it to be honest it wasn't really much of a road anyway it is meant to be this thick dense jungle um but i've tried to keep like the wall of ice that lucius created up there i've tried to keep your positions about what i think they were um but if there is anything where you're like, nope, I was here instead of there, then let me know. I was on full health. That's not true.

I think the stalker was in the wall of ice. Nope, nice try. I think I was actually further into the trees in comparison to Nova. Just to be fair on the sake of... Like off... Yeah, probably more off. Yeah, you benched me.

I went way out, just in the sake of fairness for me getting back. I'll just leave you on the edge so I, you ventured because I went way out, just in the sake of fairness for me getting back. I'll just leave you on the edge, so I know you're there, and I don't forget about you. All right, cool. The other thing to probably remember is that wall that just got blasted will have frigid air. Frigid air, yes.

So that's basically that back section, we're going to say, is that back section. If you move through it, right, Lucius? If you move through it, you're getting cold damage. How long is that up for? Lost. The wall's there forever. But they're frigidite.

Forever. Lucius will tell you how long it lasts when he looks in. I'll tell you exactly how long it lasts. So, and also don't forget that this jungle is currently covered by a supernatural gloom, which means that it is darkness. If you do not have any light, and we do know that light will conjure more of these undead minions as well,

it is basically darkness, which means you are either blinded if you can't see further in the distance. If you have dark vision, you count as being at disadvantage on perception checks and stuff like that. Yeah, but I got bird eyes on my bird eyes. Did you see the art of that? Someone did fan art of it. Bird eyes on bird eyes.

Was it Tim and Dyson? Oh, I did see that actually, yeah. It was very cool. So cool. So, we are gonna start at the top of the round, because this thing had just taken its turn. And just to, I think I said something last week, like at the end,

because it was a bit of a mess last week. They said something and the voice, the body of Tinker, this guardian that you'd been traveling with, had been killed. And then this voice sort of emanated from Tinker's body, which is now, you can see, covered in this kind of growing mould and fungus and moss, which is spreading over Tinker's body. And this voice seemed to come out of them.

And I think last week I made it sound a bit more mocking. It was just like, oh, I'm going to have to play with you. It wasn't meant to come out that way. That was just me thinking on my feet and a bit desperate. It would be more something along the lines of going to have to play with you. It wasn't meant to come out that way. That was just me thinking on my feet and a bit desperate. It would be more something along the lines of, this is all pointless, you know. You should just let me kill you,

is the actual words that kind of come out. Yeah, that's kind of. Is surrender not an option? Maybe. It could be. You can make that case to it on your turn. So that was pretty much where we ended. We're going to start with Ayla on your initiative. And because of Ayla's background as an outlander, you can make perception checks as bonus action

on your turn to try and locate this thing. One idea I had from last week as well that I wanna introduce for you guys is if you don't wanna make a perception check, because this thing is moving through the woods, it is not using invisibility, this thing is just using natural camouflage, you can attempt to try and track this thing is moving through the woods. It is, like, not using invisibility. This thing is just using natural camouflage. You can attempt to try and, like, track this thing down.

Not necessarily through perception, but if you'd like to, you can actually use a survival check as a bonus action. And what that will do is every time you're successful, it is a pretty high DC, but every time you're successful, you'll get a stacking bonus to perception checks to try and track it down. And that's you being, like, you seeing, like, oh, it broke these branches heading in this direction.

That means that maybe it's gonna, you're like gathering kind of clues or like, oh, it had like this particular plant it was using as camouflage. And that isn't there and stuff like that. So if you want to, you can either make a perception as a bonus action to try and find it, or you can make a survival check to kind of give yourself

this stacking bonus to try and find it. Cool. We like find. Cool. We like it. Yes. And the last thing I think that Quill detected was it was somewhere in this. It moved from top right to top left. You communicated that to us, didn't you?

Yeah, I've also got like the book in front of me and I'm tracking it with this book. I'm like playing with Eric. Alien motion sensor like. Yeah. We got two metal rods that are like. I'm gonna open a can just so you don't laugh at the noise okay there we go it's taking everything the stalker's over there it's just over the can he's having a break um so ayla okay that was a

lot of info but i want to just make sure we've all got it covered. It's all good. Can I move in the direction of the stalker that Quill has said, and then when I get a bit closer, can I do a perception check? So you basically want to do your move action to move 40 feet along. 45. 45, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45. Basically get you to the edge of this, a tree to the north of where this thing is. Yes, you can absolutely make a perception, just a perception check this time, right?

Not a survival check. Both are the same bonus for me, so I guess for Ayla's sake, she'd probably be more tracking it than track. Try and spot it. Yeah. So do a survival, and then this will give you a bonus

to future perception checks, basically. So it might help you locate it. I rolled a two. I got nine nine is yeah looking around it's more that i think within your rage you're kind of like plowing through the wilderness there's just not enough time to pick up on these clues um but yeah you arrive sort of in this in this area um what is your passive perception, probably. I don't think it's very high. I think it's under 20, I think. Probably 19.

17. 17. Yep, you arrive in this section, you're looking around, dark, you know, with your dark vision, all the trees and the plants, it just kind of merges in. You don't see anything moving. Very difficult to see what this thing is. You can just be like, I'm going to attack the square south of me and see if they are there. They are there. Random. You know what this thing is. You can just be like, I'm gonna attack the square south of me

and see if they are there. They are there. Random. You know what? Fuck it. Rather than waste my action, I'll just take a couple of swings nearby this tree and see what happens.

So basically, do you wanna attack like one space with each attack, like one in front of you and then one to the side? Sure, make attack rolls for me. Brain, 26. uh yep and then on the second one oh uh 21. okay uh just because i don't want to like be but you know you miss you definitely don't say that you swing both times the hammer just passes through the air smashes into like maybe some plants and bushes but doesn't seem that the stalker is there. Can I make my aura go off within 10 feet of me and see if anything... Within 10 feet of you?

Yeah. Oh, interesting. That's a good idea. You do not catch anything in the aura, but the lightning kind of blasts through and it does send these ripples through the ground, doesn't seem to strike any living creatures, kind of gets diverted into trees and stuff like that. But 10 feet, yeah, it's a pretty wide range. ground doesn't seem to strike any living creatures, kind of like gets diverted into trees and stuff like that.

But 10 feet, yeah, it's pretty wide range. I will just tuck myself in behind the tree then and try and give myself some... Sure, yeah, that's pretty much all your movement was to get up there. Yeah. Cool. Alrighty. In that case, we move down to the two minions

because they would activate after Ayla, run into the icy mist, and then die. They take cold damage, and it's probably going to be more than enough to kill them. How much cold damage would it be normally? I can't remember what level I... I think you would cast it at the base level, because you're pretty low on spell slots, right?

True. So that would be... Because I don't think you create any extra space. 5d6. All right, let's roll it, because there is a chance that it might not kill them. Also, they're meant to be doing a concede. They fail saving throws automatically,

because they're minions. So we need, what, more than 17 on 5d6? More than 17. Yeah. I mean, it's likely, but... 13. 13. Wait, not done.

18. Yeah, they're dead. So they kind of begin moving their way through these undead, plant-like skeletal creatures, all the vines and black roses covering them. And as they pass through, they're kind of like the T-1000 in Terminator,

they begin frosting up. One of their legs breaks and buckles as they just turn to ice and shatter in the mist. Nice. And yeah, that is them done. So is that all the undead gone now? That is all of the minions that currently are here. As long as they don't make light or noise, I assume.

Yeah. Yeah. Yes, don't forget. Yeah, that's very well remembered. Please, no. Any bright light or large noises will attract more of these things. So we go to Nova Vigil. No thunder.

Who is currently blinded. Blind right now. Is there any penalties to moving for that, like direction or...? As long as you're around allies, which you are, they can kind of guide you, yes. I would say that you're fine. You don't need to worry about penalties. If you were, like, stranded on your own,

I would probably, like, roll a random direction or, like, have you make a check to see if you can figure out, like, which way north is and stuff like that. So... But Sentry's right next to you. Sentry's just like, no, no, but this way, like kind of can direct you. So if I could just move myself,

just tucking back into the ice wall, I guess just tucking next to Sentry. Uh-huh. Sentry. Sentry. So you're basically next to Sentry and Hotshot at this point. Yeah, and then if Tiangong can move 30 feet,

if Tiangong can move 30 feet, if they could move, I think eastwards actually, so towards the right of the map, I want them to kind of, yeah, and then down a little bit, like just trying to skirt around the ice wall. See what they see. They can basically get to about here, I think. Can I make a perception check through Tiangong?

Cause they have dark vision. I believe so, they use your stats and stuff, I believe so. what they see. Can I make a perception check through Tiangong? Because they have dark vision. I believe so, they use your stats and stuff. My perception's not very high, but I do roll with advantage. Not right now you wouldn't. Because of the Rod of Alertness. Ah, well that will counteract the disadvantage from the Dim Light. That would be a five. Tiangong, looking around, you hear this mental message, I do not detect the creature in this vicinity, NukaFijia.

And then I'm going to bonus action second wind. Okay. Get some hit points back. And that's... With doing all of that, would an action have been used, like having Tiangong make a perception check? No, that would have been technically your bonus action so you wouldn't be able to second wind because you'd have to mentally command Tiangong

to use that skill instead. Can I hold an action that if one of my allies shouts over there How would you know which way that is? Well that's the fun of it. Right okay. Can I ask Hotshot to point my hand in the direction that they say over there, if it happens? Yeah, that just means that Hotshot won't be able to take any of that.

Don't forget, you can command any of the guardians after your turns. You can be like, guardian do this, or guardian do that. But to guide my hand so I can Eldritch Blast. Okay, so yeah, so Hotshot will be like, okay, all right, if that's what you want me to do and she'll basically grab your arms and it's good

Amy was probably better but probably still have this advantage on the attack but you will be able to potentially make an attack role I just remember you won't be able to use your second wind because you had to use your bonus action to come on Tiangong to make a perception check okay so no second one yes because that's two bonus actions um you're basically commanding tiangong mentally telling tiangong hey do this for me uh okay well there's no more undead so we just go drop down an initiative it would be century um if somebody wouldn't mind just pulling up her stats top if you can just pop us that's just to run century for me i forgot to mention

um but i think in this instance century i don't know if there's too much that Sentry herself would be able to do. But I don't have a clue. Probably go on the defensive, to be honest. Yeah, she can just take the dodge action or something like that, try and just protect anybody around her. Probably try and protect Quill more than anything. Yeah, if you want to have a look at her stats. I'd say probably move her up next to Quill. Yeah.

Sure. Because Quill got blasted pretty hard. Yes. Me. Nova and Quill. Yeah. Sure. Because Quill got blasted pretty hard. Yes. Nova and Quill both looking pretty bad. Aayla's taken some damage, but she's got no lay on hands, but she can do some cures. Yeah, or would she maybe try and cut the tether between Quill and Aayla? That's another point.

Yeah, that's a good point. That's actually very well reminded. Thank you. If you guys do try and run away, because I did mention that if you basically run from battles, it costs you an exhaustion level to basically run, certain circumstances will cost you more exhaustion levels, right? So Quill, if you can't run as long as Tinker,

you're tethered to Tinker, unless somebody carries Tinker. If they run and they carry Tinker, that character gains an extra exhaustion level because it's like they're carrying this heavy guardian with them. Okay. If you are diseased, which currently nova is um or poisoned you also will gain another exhaustion level so if you try and run because that's like you're trying to run while you've got this like sickness in you right um okay just something to be aware of if you do try and run

that might cost you extra resources but i think you're 100 right century would bring uh probably star breaker and try and like break it with a glowing green energy. Can you just make a normal Starbreaker attack for me? It's 2d12 plus her normal bonus. Oh, it does hit. Okay. So 2d12. Yeah, because it's currently enlarged.

She used her power to enlarge it. 6 plus and 6 plus 7. So 13 plus 7, 20 damage. 20 points of damage. With that, the tether snaps. And you can see that because the lance is normally piercing damage, normally the lance wouldn't have done it, but with this swirling green energy, it deals force damage

and it kind of rips through the tether and blasts it. And you are... You still have like... You can feel like this horrid, sickly wound kind of going through your body, but you can kind of pull this like gut string out now and like leave it. Oh.

Yours or mine? My gut string? This was what was actually fired through you. That's coming out of it. It keeps going. This looks like maybe animal sinew has been woven into a cord. Gross. Yeah, it's pretty gross.

That was in me. Gross. You do hear, as the tether snaps and you kind of find yourself freed, you do hear a voice come from Tinker's body just kind of just say, you may have bought yourself some time, but it won't be of much use I'm afraid that centuries ago we go to will so on my turn if I'm tracking this boy between me and the wall of ice and it like where is it you know a direction I believe I think it tells you you know You know the exact direction.

The exact direction. It is to the north. What would that be? North. East. West. To me. West. Ish.

I mean, I don't want to yell too much. No. In terms of how far Ayla is from me, how loud do I have to be shouting to get to her? Not that loud. We're talking like 30 feet, 40 feet. So not like danger loud? No, no, no.

Do this. Focus. Again, remember, with the noise thing, unless it's like an ability that says creates a loud amount of noise, or you guys are like, no, I am shouting this, like, you know, assume that you can discuss tactics with each other. It's a pretty quiet forest. Yeah. So anything like super loud will echo.

If you talk normally, I'd probably still hear it, I'm guessing. It's just if you shout... You're also all, like, super cautiously aware of each other and what's going on. You're, like, listening for this creature, so it's like you're all straining to try and figure out where this thing's coming from. Cool.

Well, yeah, I mean, I will tell Ayla that it is 15 feet that way or whatever it is. I mean, you don't know the distance. You just know the direction it's currently in. You know it's northwest of you. Well, it's probably the other side of the tree from Aayla. So, I mean, I'll just say it's in that direction. Keep going that way, and you've got a good idea.

Or it's this way from me. Aayla can't currently see you. There's a wall of ice in the way. Son of a... Well, either way, I'm going to back up and get behind the wall of ice. Still next to Sentry. Would that count as directions for Nova? No, because it wasn't like...

I think Hotshot wouldn't know that. It's not specific enough. Also, Hotshot, where you currently are, there's a wall of ice anyway. So she's like, nope, don't shoot yet. Quill's right there. Whoop! Well, in an effort to get some healing up, I won't be able to do it this turn.

However, I'm hiding at the very least. I'm going to bonus action Elder Quill, main action Aura of Vitality. So Elder Quill holding, not Aura of Vitality, sorry, Bacon of Hope. Okay. Is that Concentration? Bacon of Hope.

Yes. Bacon of Hope. It is a Concentration. But you have Elder Quill, so you've got Locate Creature and... Locate Creature, Bacon. Yeah. Crispy Bacon? So anything within 30 feet of me now has Maximized Healing

and also Advantage on Wisdom and Death Saves. Okay. So I think Aela might just be out by a little bit. Bugles. Sentry. Sentry's right next to him. Sentry's right next to us. It's now Protector.

Oh, that's Protector. Yeah. Oh yeah. But yeah, that's my entire turn for now. No healing yet, but full healing on everyone when it comes around. Except Aayla. Would you like any of the guardians to do anything?

You currently have Protector and Shade, aren't doing anything. So Shade... If you don't use their actions, they're wasted. They just take the dodge action. So you might as well make use of them while you can. Shade can, he can hide. If he attacks from being hidden, he deals extra damage. But you can also just tell them to do normal things like make perception checks or go and

walk over there and try and find them and stuff like that. Does Shade dexterous yes shade is very he shade looks like a ninja he's dressed like a ninja he looks like a ninja i'd probably encourage shade to hop the wall on your turn so apparently it's quill yeah it's kind of yeah you can just like there's a part of me was thinking that with ayla on like the right hand side of where he potentially is, where Stalker is. The Stalker. The Stalker. I almost want Shade to be the other side. So if he does decide...

So basically where Tiangong's going to the southeast, you want Shade to go to the southwest. Like a pincer attack kind of thing. If he does move, if the Stalker moves. Do you want them to go to the southwest so you're kind of covering kind of thing okay if he does home in the bar it's a store so they can basically get to like this tree line I just think it's my frigid oh that's true I mean shades pretty small they know that that that that frigidness is probably gonna do harm they can probably climb over the wall to the south and then they'll probably just get a little bit short distance, they'll get to about there. Cool.

Yeah, sort of like running through the, you know, Naruto running through the shrub lands, twin swords behind them. They are out in the open now. I mean, this person can hit us from anywhere, so. I mean, also, Quill, make a nature check for me. Nature. Or survival. Survival.

Nature or survival. Survival I'll do instead. 23. I mean, it's not that you intended this. This isn't like a callous thing of Quill, but there is this kind of realization as like, you know, having like learned a lot about the world and stuff like that. If Shade runs out and he's in the open,

if the marksman, if thealker does take an attack, at least that might help reveal where they currently are. Like, you know, having somebody try and draw out fire is a very common tactic when dealing with snipers and things like that. It's dangerous, obviously, but... So are they moving... Is Shade, sorry, moving and taking the dodge action at least? Yes, because that would be a move action,

and then, yes, they will be dodging. Not too bad. This advantage on attack rolls against them. Unless the Stalker is smart enough to be like, yes, they will be dodging. Not too bad. Disadvantage on attack rolls against them. Unless the Stalker is smart enough to be like, well, that's an obvious target. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that wasn't my intention. No, that's fine. It's not your intention, but that's something that dawns on you as you send them out. Yeah.

But I think, yeah, we should try and almost lock him in one place. Lock the Stalker in one place. Lock the stalker in one place. Okay. And that's my turn, yeah. That's me. Okay. The voice, again, sort of speaking through the body, having, you know, shade just starts moving through.

I did not think that you would send anyone out to try and die. The guardians matter very little. I don't care for them. I'm not here for them. Lucius, your turn. Lucius, hearing Quill point out a vague direction, will send out a 20-foot radius vitriolic sphere beyond Aela. Where would you like this to be placed?

Please no hate to me. Have you got the template? Do I have the template? So actually, you place it where you kind of want to strike. Boom. So you're going to strike further off the map, kind of deeper into the woods and stuff? Yeah, I'm going to do it.

Actually, I'm going to do it a bit further north, just directly north of Aela. Almost to cut off retreat back that way. Yeah. So forcing them around this way I'm gonna say one thing so even though the map itself is quite open like you know they're these open spaces between imagine that all of this is like natural terrain right it's not just that the outsides are like thick or anything like

that so they could be like it like they could be here and still be hidden like they could be in an open space on the map and still be technically hidden because it's all foliage right i guess still between between my direction and what ailer attacked and stuff like that yeah 100 i just want i don't want you guys to think that like oh if they were in these open spaces we could see the stalker right well i'm still gonna mitigate where they aren't where they well they could still be there i'm not saying that they're not there it's just that uh i didn't want you guys to think that, like, oh, it has to be off the map, otherwise we'd see them.

All right, so that's a level four Vitriolic Sphere. Level four Vitriolic Sphere. If it is there, it's a deck-saving throw. Okay. And it doesn't create light. This is an orb of acid. This isn't acid. This isn't, like, Lucius lost his life.

Okay. It does say explodes in a 20-foot... It does make noise. It's not, like, fire. It's not like fire. It's acid. The vegetation in that area is pelted with globules of orange liquid magic acid. No creature seems to stir.

They were not in that area. So the area directly north of Aela, the 20-foot radius that Lucius just coated, they were not in. And it's still a hazardous area until next turn. Okay, nice. Well, that's fine, I can see that you did that, so. Yeah, it's pretty obvious.

Would you like to have Protector do anything? Protector, I'd say start perceiving trees and things around them. Okay. On their way back to us. So you want them to come back? Just take their time, but methodically look around trees and stuff. All right.

Protector roll. I will give them a plus six bonus. Protector, as they are making their way back cautiously, kind of raising shield and blade, just their blade, when they reach the group of you inside the wall, I did not see any creatures whilst I was out there, champions. I do not, perhaps I missed them, but I could not see.

Okay. I could not see anything. That was basically an action, right? That, yeah, that's your order to them. So they moved, but they did that on their way back, yeah. They can do like one cool thing. I would have given them the help action for Nova's turn. Yeah, that was there. That was you basically using their action.

All right, okay. Top of a brand new round. So let me just get my bearings here. Okay. Ayla and Shade. You hear the whistle of something fly through the air. For the first time, all of you catch a brief glimpse of something moving.

Ayla, you get the details, the rest of them really don't uh either obscured by the ice wall um sort of only seeing like a vague shape of movement but ayla uh you definitely see this this creature and i've i don't know if i've already shown i showed quill actually um so this was very crappy drawing but this is sort of roughly what you see i don't think the camera is going to pick up on it yeah cool yeah there you go very much what you see. I don't think the camera's going to pick up on it. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. There you go. Very much what you described last time. Very much my design.

So this kind of like shaped hood where you can see the sort of tips of these elven ears and then it sort of droops and sort of covers their shoulders, covered in moss and fungus and mould. You can see stained soiled leather armour with a green cloak that's all been covered and just the very faint outlines of these emblems of this uh lantern and rose um and you just see this pair of elven eyes

kind of lock onto you you can't see their face it's covered by like a mask and you just get and then there's one towards shade um so uh attack rolls okay so you're closer to us than we necessarily thought. That is a 28 to hit you on the first one, Ayla. Yes. And a 17 on the next one. No. All right. So I've got a couple of different effects here. So for the first one,

can you make a constitution saving throw for me, please? 19. 19 just barely succeeds, I'll get to that in a minute. That is gonna be eight, 14 piercing, so half to seven for you, and then 11 poison damage. And as the arrow kind of digs into your shoulder you can see that the arrow tip itself is covered in spores and like this oozing Icarus liquid and you do feel like your arm almost goes like tingles and goes numb for a moment and weak and then you kind of just slap it and you'd kind of flex it and the

blood spurts out you can see the blood is already covered in like black glob jewels like you've just kind of like just ripped the poisoned blood out of you, kind of flexed it out. The second arrow, you manage to dodge, and it hits into the tree to the side of you. And even from this angle, some of these arrows are almost bouncing off of other trees to get that location.

You're not getting any cover from the tree you're hiding behind. As it hits, it avoids you, but around you in a sort of 10-foot area, the ground becomes thick with these kind of, like, funguses and molds and moss. Yeah, and it creates basically an area of difficult terrain that also, if you start your turn in, will poison you as well. Okay. So that grows around in the area, and then towards Shade.

That's a natural 20. Eight. Which I think is going to potentially... That's pretty much going to nail it. Oh, I rolled pretty low on the second part of the damage. That's a natural 20. Which I think is going to potentially... That's pretty much going to nail it. Rolled pretty low on the second part of the damage. Even with the dodge action? Dodge action, that's very true. Thank you.

18 to hit, not a crit. Okay. That's fair. That's much, much better. Good reminder. That's a very good reminder. Ooh. That's going to be 16.

So they take 20 points of damage total. A very bad blow. You can see Shade kind of like tries to dodge it, and it almost catches Shade in the neck. He manages to just pull it, and it scrapes along Shade's neck, and he kind of like clutches it. Also passes his con save just. So you can see that this one,

you kind of see him like stumble for a moment, clutching his chest and then he kind of froze himself to the side to try and get into the cover as after making their attacks they're gonna use a bonus action to hide and vanish you do not know what happens quill though you do get ping they are heading south okay you don't know what happens. Quill, though, you do get a ping. They are heading south. Okay. You don't know exactly where, but the direction is south. But if I have a...

I know the direction of them from me and the direction they're moving, right? Like, traveling. Yeah, you know, it tells you the direction of traveling. It tells you the direction they're traveling, yes. When you cast the spell, you get the ping, and then you know the direction they're moving in.

Okay, cool. Also, you don the ping, and then you know the direction they're moving in. Okay, cool. Also, you don't know how far south they go. You don't know how far they move. You just know they are moving south. Sure. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. But they do have a new stealth score, so obviously each time they hide, I have to roll a new stealth. So they might roll back, they might roll out.

Ayla? Ayla? stealth so they might roll back they might roll out ayla uh i guess since i've just seen them in that direction i will go in that direction okay how far do you want to go whereabouts easy you saw them like just behind just behind this tree basically Can I go to that tree and pause? 25, 30, yeah, it's 30 feet of your movement. And then do a perception check, or a survival check. Yeah, if you wanna keep stacking the bonus, yep, survival check. Oh, I rolled a nat one, are you fucking kidding me?

No. So maybe it's the sort of lingering effects of whatever's in your system, like you're just shaking your head, like unable to quite focus. But yeah, you see no sign of the creature. I will move... to the... the rest of my distance is probably going to get me roughly to the trees.

Like there. Like there. And can I just swing there? 5, 10, 15. Like there. About there. And can I just swing again? Yeah, absolutely, yeah. And 28. Thinking.

28. So which square do you swing at? You've got eight directions around you. Fuck. You've got spin. Can I spin? Can I use both of my attacks instead of just one and spin?

I mean, in theory, no. Hard rules, no. In rule of cool, yes. Just to make it easier for me, if you can just pick two squares just so I know. Unless you're not trying to attack and you're just trying to see if you can hit them. I'm trying to locate where they are.

In that case, rather than making attacks, make a athletics check. Okay. Rather than doing damage, all this will do is if they are around you within five feet, you will reveal them. That's all it will do. Unless they can dodge out of the way.

20. Which would still probably reveal them, but 20, you swing the hammer around you in a full arc, nothing within five feet of you. Can I set off my aura of 10 feet? 10 feet, not within 10 feet. Oh my god. Bargar, this is so frustrating.

Okay, I'm out. I'm out. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Either moves very quickly. I mean, you do know that wild elves are generally faster than a lot of humanoids. Could be fast on their feet. Quill, you would hear a voice like, not close enough, I'm afraid.

I'm surprised. Calera thought I would only slow you down she did not believe I could actually kill you perhaps I will prove her wrong never be Juh frustrating can I move Tiangong 30 foot so towards the wall and but kind of skirting so maybe they can just end up peeking around the wall. They can get to there, just south of it. I kind of want to blind fire Eldritch Blast again, but I think it's going to be too random. It's pretty risky.

It's like just blind firing a spell. Yeah. Especially because it's Eldritch Blast you have to target. Like what Lucius did, like an error is probably a good idea because if you catch them, you'll catch them. Here's a fun question. Uh-huh. So Echo Avatar, you can temporarily transfer your consciousness to your Echo,

see through their eyes and ears, but then I am still, Nova is still deafened and blinded. Which you're blinded in. But could I cast Eldritch Smite from Tiangong? I think it says you can make melee attacks, I don't think you can cast cantrips from it. Unless it says otherwise, I don't know the Echo Knight super well, so if it says that you can cast spells from its base, but I think it just says you can make melee attacks or weapon attacks.

The only other thing I was thinking was I have Compelled Jewel, which is locked to... In the lore of this amulet that Talia gave me, but it says... It's in the lore. It says a creature you can see within range, but I'm like, if Tiangong can see it? No.

It's not the same thing. As I said it, my brain just went, that's stupid. Tiangong's not casting the spell. Yeah. Tiangong's not casting the spell. Tiangong's like an extension of you, but they can really just make weapon attacks. They don't have any ability to cast magic themselves. In which case, can I make a perception check again from Tiangong?

Tiangong's position, yes. This will be your bonus action. Four. This creature is difficult to detect, Nova Vija. The settings, the scenario, it has been tailor-made to exist in this environment. Thanks. I think action again, I'm just gonna hold action. Maybe if Protector could guide me.

Uh-huh. Just have Protector instead. A little, I'd like to be kind of, I would like Protector to guide me, just... Have Protector instead. A little... I'd like to be kind of... I would like Protector to guide me, but can Tangon just... Can I just move so I've got a little bit of a clearer shot? Over here? Like, yeah. Sure thing.

So, I mean, you haven't moved. So, with Protector guiding you, kind of have them sort of escort you over towards it. Not just... I will say this as well with Nova, you're blinded. Whatever this creature has done to you has blinded you, but you feel terrible as well. Like this is like, as the battle is going on,

you're sweating, you feel nauseous, you actually kind of, your hearing is starting to go, like it's muffled, like you're underwater. Like you feel incredibly unwell. Like my day-to-day then. Yeah, basically. starting to go like it's muffled like you're underwater like you feel incredibly unwell it's like imagine the Nova now feels like Kim yeah yeah it's terrible great I came here to escape and then so protector is like about protector isn't as good a shot as hot shot they're gonna try and like guide you but they're not as talented that well maybe could hot shot guide me and no cuz I can't come on to them no it's fine they can still do it but it's not as good a shot yeah all

right century I leave this to Tom Hazel so I mean again if I'm guiding because with the guidance and the locate creature I still know the direction it is from me right now right right? Do you? Yeah. I have a... Let me find it again. Locate creature. You sense the direction to the creature's location, as long as that creature is within 1,000 feet of me. If it's moving, I know the direction of its movement.

Okay, so on your turn, you would then be like, right, okay. It's vaguely, I would say, southeast of you. If I'm looking at your okay, it's vaguely, I would say, south east of you. If I'm looking at your decision, it's south east of you, and it was headed in a southern direction. Those two points are not enough for you to triangulate, because you don't have a precise location. No. Just no vague direction.

What would Sentry do? This is a question to everyone. Yeah. By all means. See Nova struggling and do something about that. Yeah, but Quill has just cast Aura of Vitality to that. That's true. You currently have max healing out, so if Sentry was going to heal now is probably the right time. Sentry would know what your Beacon of Hope does. Wow, she has very few spell slots.

Yes, lots of Divine Smites. She's got first level Cure Wounds, no second. She's got one third level. Does she have anything that cures diseases? No, but her lay on the front. She has no lay of hands left. Her lay of hands are gone. Moonbeam you?

That could help, Moonbeam, to the face. Well, not on Nova, but Moonbeam's an area of effect. It is an area of effect. It's quite big and bright, though, isn't effect it's quite big and bright but it's big and bright oh shit yeah don't do that and it's concentration so every round it remained up that'd summon more undead

don't moonbeam it's the base Tom don't moonbeam at all no moonbeam? okay well now I'm gonna have to really think about what I'm doing

I mean I guess yeah she could cure wounds sentry or you? I'm not too bad sentry is okay okay. Nova, you're Garbo, aren't you? Pre-Garbo. Yeah, so for max healing, that'd be a level one cure wounds. That's 11 healing. Sentry will have to move over to do that. Do you think Sentry would help with finding it as well?

I mean, you can. It's a bonus action. If you've got no other bonus actions to do. Okay, so Perception. Or Survival, which will give you a stacking bonus towards Perception chance. It's both the same, so yeah, Survival. She gets a 17. 17 is just enough, actually. That is the DC.

So Sentry's sort of watching the battle and using her eons and like experience of all the different guardians in the matrix is beginning to sort of formulate like, okay, I think I'm beginning to recognize some of the terrain. Well, from now on, gets a plus two bonus to perception checks and that will stack

every time you succeed that check. For Sentry, it's an individual thing. So Sentry's beginning to kind of build up clues to help her. Cool, all right, great. Nice, and that would have been, yeah, bonus action, So Sentry's beginning to kind of build up clues to help her. Cool. All right. Great. Nice. And that would have been, yeah, bonus action. Tiny little move. But, yeah, that's fine.

I think that's good for Sentry. All right. Any issues? Does Sentry want to issue an order to Shade or Hotshot? Hotshot's gun is probably loud, right? No, it's a beam weapon. It's like a magic projectile. It's like a Magitek laser rifle. Maybe I should use hotshot on my turn when I'm like, stand behind me and shoot that way.

Yeah, sure. Shade is currently out in the open as well, so I could issue another order to shade. Yeah, I could try and hide. Yeah, might be good. Yeah, I guess shade to hide, just because they also just took this hit as well. Okay. Okay, yeah, shade seems to... I'll leave them on the table,

but they do seem to sort of, like, very much like the Stalker. You just watch as, like, shade drops to the ground and seems to just merge into the environment. Cool. And that's, yeah, that's sentries. In that case, we go to Quill. And then it will be Lucius, your own deck after Quill.

Son of a... So I've got an idea with Guiding Bolt. Because Guiding Bolt leaves a glittering effect on them that gives people advantage. If it hits. If it hits if it hits if something is hidden or disguised amongst something would it therefore be easier to see that glittering what do you mean well they've got like a glittering sort

of effect on them as part of the guy if it's a creature if it hits them yeah so if they are like disguised amongst trees and stuff instead of looking for oh it's just another bush it's like that thing glittering over there yes if you hit them if you hit them yeah yeah i'm not quite sure what you're saying if you hit them yes it will reveal them yeah i know absolutely chances to hit but also like any attack if you hit them with an attack it will reveal them any attack the guiding ball will just give advantage to whoever attacks next so that's what i mean if on their turn they hide with the glittering effect on them yeah does it make it easier to see them it might do okay well it's not in the hard rules but it might do it it stays until the next attack the next person to attack them gives them gives them advantage yeah still that it would disappear um yeah there's there's two things that we're

discussing there there's the hard mechanics which is you get advantage on the attack roll which counteracts the fact that you would have disadvantage if you can't see it. But then the more sort of lore stuff is like, potentially it would make them easier to find. That's the thing. Within the flavor of the spell, I think it would absolutely make it easier to find them. But if this thing is talented enough and skilled enough,

it would also know that that spell would help reveal it and would maybe find ways to mitigate it. It's got anti-glitter, glitter pockets. enough it would also know that that spell would help reveal it and would maybe find ways to mitigate it glitter glitter pocket or like you know if it's like you know if it hits the cape and it leaves this glittering trail maybe it knows a way that it can sort of reduce that in some way like i said it will make it easier to spot but it won't automatically be like oh they're there fairy fire on the other hand yeah does do that It reveals them completely. I was really hoping I had Fairy Fire, but I do not. I want to hold an action

for when it next reveals itself, and I know exactly where to look because of this locate creature. I want to fire a Guiding Bolt at it, basically. So next time I see it, Guiding Bolt at level 3

okay and that's pretty much my turn bonus action wise I guess I can make a nature check to try and

stack it survival check yes have you used a bonus action this turn no no yep

in that case you can survival so survival gives me a stack a bonus to perception could I just do a perception check yeah of course you can. Survival. So survival gives me a stack of bonus to perception. Could I just do a perception check? Yeah, of course you can. Absolutely.

Said that last time. I do have pretty good perception. 28. Holy God. 28 reveals it. Oh, shit! Right by Shade. I can blast it as well.

Phenomenal perception. His action goes off. What's that? His action goes off because it's revealed itself. His action goes off. So a couple of things happen, right? And we have to resolve them. So this is it as one. There's a phenomenal perception. What's that? His action goes off because it's revealed itself.

So a couple of things happen, right? We have to resolve them. So the first thing is the creature is revealed, well, to Quill. Quill's the only one who's seen it. So it's going to be a stacking effect, right? So Quill, you're watching this, desperately focusing, readying yourself for this thing. And then you just see, not even its movement,

you see a piece of metal just catches the stray bit of light from Shade's matrix. As you can see Shade moving through, like trying to keep stealth, but the matrix glitters. And you just see this tiny glimmer of something metallic. And you're like, that's an arrowhead and i blast it i blast this with a guiding ball yep make an attack roll you do still have to hit this creature please hit i've got plus 14. so please come on do i portent what what are your protests six no no it does put

it to a 20, though. So is 20 enough? We don't know what the rate is. I'm more likely going to roll better than a six, right? I mean, on a d20, yes, there are 13 other better numbers. But, oh, I'm rolling. I'm going to roll. Okay.

27. 27 hits. Hell yeah. And this is at third level. Okay. 27. 27 hits. Hell yeah. And this is at third level, so it's a lot of D6, I believe. Not that many, but a few. It's like six or seven. Let him have his moment.

No, no, no. 66. 66. Radiant damage, yes. Radiant. One, two, three, four, five, six. Boom. Come on. Baby yes. Radiant. One, two, three, four, five, six. Boom. Come on.

Baby damage. 20 damage. It's fine. 20 points of damage. All right. So this is the thing. So the Guiding Bolt, you watch as Cor fires this bolt of radiant energy into the woods. And to all of you, it looks like he's just going to hit nothing.

And then suddenly, the outline of this creature, of the stalker, which you can now see in more detail because of the glittering light, does appear to be a feminine-looking elven form dressed in, like, muddy, fungus-covered leathers and, like, this strange kind of, like, peaked hood does get illuminated. That then allows Nova's reaction to trigger, and the advantage from

the guiding bolt counteracts the disadvantage from being blinded so this is just a straight roll on the first eldritch blast the other beams will have will have disadvantage okay 28 to hit that hits eight points of damage on the first beam eight points force damage yes yes yep so the next three beams will have disadvantage because the guiding bolt only damage on the first beam. Eight points. Force damage, yes? Yes. Yep. So the next three beams all have disadvantage because the Guiding Bolt only helps on the first one, and you are blinded. Oh. 24.

Hits. 12. 12 points of damage. You just watch as this barrage of fire just annihilates this particular area. 20. 20 just misses, in fact. Oh, so Portent would have missed it.

Holy shit. Aisy is 21. 19. 19, so the first two, but then the second one, the creature, the stalker, she actually recovers, and now she kind of pulls herself back, throwing herself into a bit more cover as the blasts kind of echo, and Prot throwing herself into a bit more cover as the blast kind of echo.

And Protector's like holding your hands like, now Nova, now! And then the next two, he's a bit slower to react on, not quite as skilled as Hotshot. If Hotshot had done it, by the way, I would have allowed you to re-roll one of those because Hotshot is specifically a ranged sort of fighter. All right. Do I have a Guardian action to take as well?

You do. Hotshot. That's exactly it. so do you want hot shot to move because right now she's kind of behind lucius and century she can make the attack but do you want her to move up to the front or just uh yeah some way to get the get the line on it um every projector hall needs to fire at this one point well there's two things that hot shot can do i'm assuming you're going to want to just make a direct attack now that you can see it, but she can also do something called Overwatch, which is basically she readies,

and if this thing attacks, then she tries to blast it. I mean, it's revealed. It's revealed. Overwatch is useful. Plus 14 to hit. Holy shit. 22, just barely hits. Okay.

Four. 2d10. Not bad, it helps. Oh, wait. I only added 10, not 11. So one of yours would have hit. So one of mine would have hit. The third one would have hit. You only have a 10 instead of 11, what do you mean?

I have an 11 to hit, not a 10 to hit. I was adding 10, not 11. Okay, all right. So the third one would have hit. Roll the extra one. This is gonna be 13 points of force damage from hot shot. 11 points on my third hit. Another 11 points, my third thing.

Another 11 points, okay. Nice. You just see this barrage of fire light this area up, and the creature is just like, just getting slammed by it. Quill, is that the end of your turn? You just had Hot Shot act, so it technically would be. Yes, yeah. At the end of your turn, for the first time, this creature is going to use one of their legendary actions.

Oh, here we go, love! They've is going to use one of their legendary actions. Oh, here we go! They've never had to use them before. Here we go! You watch as she just throws something on the ground. Not smoke bomb, but you watch as the area within 60 feet of them, which is basically... No, sorry, not 60 feet, 30 feet of them.

So it's basically going to get to the edge of the ice wall, grows into that sort of like... Plants begin emitting spores. The plants seem to like grow and turn black and thickened. The entire area becomes difficult to rain, which means it costs double movement to move through unless you have a special ability. And moving through it, if you start your turn there

or you enter it, there may be another effect as well. Okay. But that is their legendary action. We go to Lucius. They are still visible. They have not had a chance to Lucius. They are still visible. They have not had a chance to try and hide again yet. Okay.

In which case... That was a very big turnaround. That was huge. Oh, God. I'm going to do a fifth level. So good. Vitriolic sphere. Because I don't want to risk not hitting it. I'm just going to plant it on them. Right, so as far back on them right so like as far back as far back as your allies but make

sure they're in it I mean yeah they've like that that's gonna go off so it's a deck save okay they do look very dexterous is the only thing I'm sure they have very dexterous but on a natural to and And they don't have normal legendary resistances. They do have some cool stuff but not a normal legendary. So this is gonna be full damage. Splat! Splat! Amazing. So it's 12 to four.

Here they all go. And then it does more next turn as well. 12 to four and you turn all your ones into twos. 29, 30, 31, 32 points of acid points 32 points of acid damage for the entire area melting some of this like the back half of all this kind of area that she's corrupted five foot short of dichromancy ah you could have moved before you took your attack i'll step forward next century and then squit out sure yeah sure like i might actually drop the wall of ice now because i feel like it's more and then squirt out a Tiger Manta. Sure. Yeah, sure. I might actually drop the Wall of Ice now

because I feel like it's more of a detriment to us than a benefit. Okay. It's just Frigid Ice in front of all of us right now. You want to go? It's going. Yeah. So does that cancel out the Frigid Ice as well? I believe so.

It doesn't actually fully state that. No, I'd say if you drop the spell, it drops the Frigid Ice as well. Whilst it's concentrating, yeah. So the acid explodes, engulfing the southeastern part of this area of the jungle that you're in, covering, and you just see now the cape and the camouflage that was covered is now covered. As all of you can see here, as the acid is melting the cloak

and melting the armor and stuff away, part of the cloak actually completely falls away and you now see a kind of very horrific tragic sight this is a wild elf but their body is riddled with plague and disease their hair has fallen out their skin has turned pallid yellow is crusted with growths and boils and sores, and, you know, just looks horrible. Like, it's very monstrous to sort of, like, look upon, like somebody just engulfed with plague and disease.

And just... Just starts laughing. I told you women can be assholes too. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Shade and Hotshot have taken turns, right? For this round, yes. And Protector. Protector hasn't, has he?

Protector has. Oh, helps Nova. Helps Nova, yes. Tinker? Dead. Hey, Tinker, do something. I can't take this. Do something.

Sure. I do not do that. I just end my turn. You're going to end your turn? All right. It is the stalker's turn. God, we really like... At the start of their turn, they take some acid damage from Vitriolic Sphere, I believe. 5d4, yeah.

Blasted. So many protectors. It's like, well, just the readied actions and then all of the ranged fighters basically win. It's a good, like... I wish I had lined up a hammer throw. 15 extra acid damage. Yeah. So as the acid burns away, the stalker does kind of flick the cape

and all of the remaining acid kind of spills off of her. And she just looks up and speaking from her own voice this time, just... Well, you found me. Unfortunately, it won't matter even if you kill me. She'll just grow me a new body and send me back to continue this for another day. But, and then she lines up seeing Lucius and Quill in a line.

No. And pulls out a special arrow with a long bit of sinew. Can sentry protect? Sentry can put disadvantage on the attack against Lucius. Or Quill. Who would you like her to give disadvantage on? In fact, actually, no. This is a deck-saving throw.

She can't do either of those. Which we have plus three on. You do have plus three, too. So the aura is probably better, actually. So deck-saving throws for Lucius and Quill, please. Okay. 20. 18.

It's probably not. Lucius, you managed to pull yourself to the side. You're still going to take half damage. Quill is taking the full amount. Shit. In fact, I'm going to roll this on D&D Beyond. Am I going to be tethered to Lucius? Yes, roll on D&D Beyond.

That's a lot of dice. Why? Yeah, he might go bye-bye. Cleric just got danged. Oh, and he had Beacon of... He had Boat. He had Bacon. And Elder.

52 points of poison damage. No resistance. Okay. How are you feeling, Quill? Not good. Not good? 26 to Lucius, and a concentration checks DC 26. I don't have it. Concentration checks DC 26. I can't even

do it. You can on a natural 20, I think. No, I've only got plus 2. 14 and 5. There you go, stat nerds. Both spells fade. Are you still conscious, Quill? I'm still conscious. Can you both please make

constitution saving throws for me, please? Oh, okay. Con. 19. Con save, yeah. No, not for you, Lucius. You passed. 19.

19 is just enough. As it streaks through again, coated with rot, you feel like a sort of infectious presence. You manage to fend it off with whatever divine magic is still within you. I flex it out. Yeah, flex it out. Just like any of the days.

Yeah, Lucius, because you succeeded. However, no, Lucius passed. Yeah, Quill, you feel the similar sensation, but there is nothing to tether to as it kind of doesn't hit Lucius. Oh, it was going to tether. It passes right through you. You feel like something catch, and then the line is just sort of attached to nothing.

It just connects to you and just snaps, basically. It would have been a spider web in the middle of this thing. Just latched onto everybody. You just clothesline people as they try and run places. Not gonna hide. Oh, shit. She brings her hand up, almost like waving it like a wind. And Nova...

Oh, this wind thing, yeah. Lucius, can you make another con save for me, please? And Nova... Oh, this wind thing, yeah. Lucius, can you make another con save for me, please? Me too. No. So from Nova, you feel this kind of gust of wind blow over you, Nova, and all these kind of spores and infectious things almost get pulled out of your body, or like, conjured from you. Oh yeah, because you're still diseased.

24. You're fine. Yeah, Lucius, you feel like this wave, you feel like your vision start to blur. You kind of like slap and kind of spit and try and get whatever it is. Slap and spit. Like trying to wipe your eyes and like splashing water on your face. And you managed to avoid whatever this infectious, you know, property is that she tried to transfer from Nova to you.

You want a bit of slap and spit? I love a bit of slap and spit. Slap and spit. I love a bit of slap and spit. Slap and spit. And then we'll just take a couple of steps back because this is all still difficult terrain. Still visible-ish. Yes, still visible. Hasn't taken a moment to hide here. Basically move back thick into this difficult terrain

that she has created and takes cover behind one of the trees. And we go to Ayla. So do you have freedom of movement? No, I don't. But I can use a charge. You are just in the range of the poisonous area,

by the way, Ayla, can you, I think this is just triggered at the start of your turn. Can you make a con save for me, please? 21. 21, you're gonna take half damage. Cool. 22, 11 points of poison damage, as you're just kind of stood in this area

coughing and sputtering, but you're not poisoned. Where does that area end, by the way? She's still in it. It was 30 feet around her from like here. So she was about here. She's still in it, technically. I'd say she was like slightly back so it doesn't actually catch these guys.

She is definitely still in it because it went all around her in 30 feet. Never i'm gonna use a charge from my hammer to fly over to her and smack her in the face a couple of times yeah what's the range on the flies at 60 feet 50. oh yeah 55 yeah you're gonna be with it hell yeah nice kill him kill him um 15 16 19 21 24 24 hits um I'm dead. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. 24 hits. I believe. 23 on the first hit plus six lightning. Full hammer damage and full lightning damage. That first blow breaks her leg. You hear something snap,

and she just kind of looks at it irritated. I hear you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I rolled a nat one! Fuck! That's not going to hit. Nope. Automatic miss on a nat one.

What's wrong with me today? Lightning aura, though. Dex save. 28. Yeah, deck save. 28. Yeah, that'll do it. That'll do it. 12, 34, 15, 16, 17, so half of 17. Eight.

Eight points of lightning damage. The first blow, you definitely heard something snap, not that this creature seems to be at all bothered by it. But the next one, she kind of ducks under, and then as the lightning blasts, she just looks. And you can definitely see, I mean, underneath the sores and the boils and the scabbing and the disease, very clearly a wild elf, not of a clan you recognize,

but very much a wild elf, and just says, it's fitting, fitting that you should probably be the one to finish this. I mean, I don't relish the thought of it, but you have destroyed a lot of my friends. I do not relish in that either. Nova Vija. Hmm, I'm a bit stuck.

Then don't, then, forehead. Then don't. That's a great question. Why?'t, then, forehead. That's a great question. Why? Why? Ask her why. I do. I ask her why. While Nova's having that thought, she just says, It is not my choice. I am bound, body and soul. I must do what she asks.

Well, how do we free you? I wish I knew. Defeat her, I suppose, but then there may be other ways, not that we know. But do not think that this will be the last you see of me. She'll just regrow me a new body and put me right back to spread more misery and death,

as she has with the other three. Nova. Other three? Um. Where does the difficult terrain begin? Is it right in front of us? Right in front of you guys. Like, Shade is in the middle of it.

Ayla is now sort of in it, thick as well. I'm hovering. Yeah. I'm hovering above it. If I was to have Tiangong move up the... You're still going to be in the poison effect, but you're ignoring the difficult terrain while you flew, but you're definitely going to still take poison damage

because this is like on the trees. It's like shooting spores at you and stuff if i was to move tiangong up as far as i can and swap places with them would i be in this like i mean so by default terrain as well so five ten uh we'll say that that's where it starts no i i meant 20 30. in a line this way uh yeah that's all still difficult terrain. That's walls. It's 30 feet around us. It's a big area. So basically the difficult terrain goes 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. It goes all the way up to that far edge of the tree. So trying to skirt the outside of it would be...

Yeah, it's difficult. It's tricky. It's almost become like a bog, like a swampy mire. I think given that Nona is still blinded, perhaps I'll be cautious. There was a whole bunch of stuff I was going to do if I could get within melee range, but they moved back. I think what I'm going to do is going to be cautious. I'd like to move Tiangong sort of more over this point, so if she moves this way, we've got a kind of line of sight there.

Line of defence. Yeah. Moving south. And then, again, I think I'll ask Protector to do the same thing again where if she is Well you can just attack now. Like now that you know where she is, you can just attack now. You'll just have disadvantage. She has cover and you'd have disadvantage.

So you could ready an action if she's not in there. But you already had disadvantage from being poisoned, right? So. Sorry? You already had disadvantage anyway. From being blinded, yeah. So it wouldn't actually make a difference. The cover gives them a bonus to AC.

It doesn't give disadvantage. Yeah. I could just try... Oh, that's quite high, though. 20 plus. 21 plus. She would be getting three quarters cover, which is plus five. Yeah, that's pretty hard.

Yeah. I mean, you could, if she does move round where she's no longer in cover, then you could ready an action to attack her then. That's totally fine. With Aayla engaged with her, it will be difficult for her to move at this point. Yeah. I guess I'll risk it and try.

Sure, I mean, yeah. Try and get some blasts in. So disadvantage. AC is now 26. So we're looking for a 26. Yeah, no. That's a two and a five on the first one. Just blast against the tree. She's going to be hiding behind. That's a two and a five on the first one. Just blast against the tree.

She's going to be hiding behind. That's a one and a 14. That's a 15 and a two. 15 and 11. So 11 plus 11 is 22. The tree, it would have normally hit her, but the cover is just getting in the way from your ranged barrage.

Protectors are like, I'm sorry, Nova Vija, this is not my specialty. It's okay, it's okay. Bonus action, second wind. Yes. Alrighty. We go down to Sentry now.

So Sentry can go 30 feet, but because of the thing... She can only go 50. Does she have any spell slots for Misty Step? Ooh. She can move as far into the difficult terrain as she could and then Misty Step 30 feet, which will teleport, so pick up this difficult terrain. I wanted to Dimension Door, but I can't see none.

She does not have any spell slots. She only has three first-level spell slots left. Okay. But I was thinking of getting her right up to this stalker. Dash, yeah. And then trying to use Ensnaring Strike, but that's bonus action, full action attack, and all of this stuff. Yeah, Dash is also going to be a full action.

Don't forget that it's difficult terrain, so it's half movement, basically. I think it makes sense Sentry stays back and continues on the defense, just being a shield. Just say like, woo, we're over here! Yeah, but Sentry can't get over there. Can Sentry cast any other spells to help bolster defenses or shield of faith? Heroism at level one.

I think she has shield of faith. It's level two, isn't it? Shield of faith is level one. Okay, maybe she can prepare it. If she could just cure wounds me, I guess. Or is there anyone else who'd cure wounds before I just take that for myself? Nova is pretty... No, Nova's just healed up. Yeah, you're lower.

That was way worse. So yeah, d8 plus her charisma. Plus three, yep. Because no beacon of hope. All right, eight healing to me. Okay. So it's not terrible, it's something. And bonus action, I guess, like she doesn't need to spot them anymore.

What can Sentry do as a bonus action, actually? I don't think anything is gonna help here, so we're just gonna, I think, progress unless you wanna have her command a Guardian. What could the Guardians do? Oh, because Protector, I didn't use Protector because I blasted. You did, yeah.

Oh, wait, no, they were, yeah, nevermind. What's Protector's ability again? Protectors done, can't use Protectors. Oh, right, okay, but I guess, yeah, Hotshot could... Yeah, never mind. What's Protector's ability again? Protector's done. Can't use Protector's ability. Oh, right, okay. But I guess, yeah, Hotshot could take a blast, but... Or you could move Shade up. Shade is hidden, so if they do get to an attack, they do a lot more damage.

They are in the poison as well, so they need to probably get out of that rather than... Yeah, you could also command them to come back. Otherwise, at the end of this round, they'll take damage. Yeah, I think, yeah, get Shade to move south towards Nova and get behind that tree and i guess out of the poison if possible 10 20 30 um oh is that out difficult terrain nope dash uh yeah technically yeah they can dash yeah that'll get them out fully yep keep shade safe for now i think it makes sense. And that's, yeah, that's Sentry. It's the end of your turn.

At the end of Sentry's turn. Uh-oh. Legendary. Legendary. Woo-hoo! Ayla. Yep. You watch as this thing just looks at you and says, "'Sorry, she told me to slow you down. "'I've got to do my best to do that.'"

And she pulls herself back and sort of brings her bow close to her body. And you watch as all the fetid ground that she's currently stood on, and the half-burnt cloak begins to kind of almost grow like sap as she builds a fetid cocoon around herself of filth and biomass. And almost like the tomb of La Vista,

you just watch as she becomes engulfed in this kind of like egg-like sphere of disgusting growth and bulbous biomass. Ew. That's my profile description. Quill. Your Tinder description. Future biomass.

Growth. I mean. Disgusting. Why? Ew. She's just trying to prolong it. Just leave then? Try it, yeah.

I don't know how long she's gonna be in this thing for. That's a great question. And even then, it's probably healing her up and then she'll just come out and chase us again. I wanna fly around to the northwest so I'm not inside this poison. Just sort of circling that and I get a line on the stalker. So sort of all the way over here? I suppose.

If you want to avoid the poisonous area, yeah, fine. Yeah, I can fly so it's not difficult if I have to go through it or whatever. No, but if you end in it, it can cause poison. I do not want to end in it. So that's as close as you can get without being in this field of poisonous land. Boggy, poisonous muck. Boggy. Boggy, right.

I will just, I guess, Sacred Flame it as a cantrip. Alright. Yeah, so, Dex save if it can make it. 26. Really? Oh, actually, no, yeah, she can't, but you can't target her either. Can I just target the Cocoon? You can target the Cocoon, yeah. If the Cocoon fails, just roll damage. It can't make Dex saves. Okay.

What is it going to do? 12, 13... I think it's going to be like a 13... 19 plus 6, so 25 damage. 25 points of damage. The radiant and its radiant damage burns away at this disgusting pulsing biomass. It's sort of semi-opaque. You can kind of see it curled up inside this, like a womb almost. As the sacred flame does burn it, and a significant chunk of it seems to weaken and burn, Ayla, it sort of spews out poisonous grossness at you. 1823 poison damage.

Yeah, that sucks. Anything else, Quill? You're welcome. Thanks for that. It's okay. Is poison a condition? Poison is a condition and a damage type. Okay.

It can be both. Poison, the condition, means you have disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws, I think. And poison damage is a type damage. And this is damage. That was just done as poison damage. Some of the other effects also can cause the poison condition. I will bonus action Shield of Faith myself. Okay.

Yeah, that's me. All right, Lucius. Lucius is going to seek a spell, which is going to double its range. Distance spell, you mean? Distance spell, sorry. And cast, just for fun, tash's caustic brew which is just a line we've gone over this distance spell doesn't double the line of the

doesn't double the the range of the line so it's like it's like if a spell like is like a point you can see within 60 feet it would double that to 120. if it's like a cone or a line it doesn't double that template it's not how it works i've checked that can you change where it starts the cast from i don't that's that's it the spell might say like a point within 60 feet of you emanates from you so 30 feet long five feet wide it doesn't double it to a 60 foot line line, unfortunately. I'll do a non-flavored Chromatic Orb. There we go. Of Radiance. All right. At the cocoon. Can I...

Chromatic Orb still has to roll to hit. Yeah, I know. Can I... Yes. I'm going to take more damage. ...throw it as Acid... Yes. ...and then use Chromatic Control to convert it to Radiant,

which would allow me... Actually, I'm not within range of dichromancy, so it's pointless. Never mind. There you go. I'm just going to... It would have been cool. I just not within range of Dicromancy, so it's pointless. Never mind. There you go. I'm just going to, it would have been cool. I just want you to know that. It would have been cool, but you're not doing it.

All right, here we go. Yep. Cocoon has an AC. 17. Total? Total. It's not going to hit. Seeking spell.

We roll. That's better. 18 plus 12, yeah, 30. Definitely hits. Roll damage. All right. That's better. 18 plus 12. Yeah, 30. Definitely hits. Roll damage. All right.

Well, luckily, Aayla, only seven points of poison damage I rolled very badly. This is radiant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Radiant damage definitely hurts the cocoon. 27. 27 points of damage. Almost half the cocoon burnt away by radiant energy. Being melted away.

Cool. Good. Great and as it sort of spits a little bit more poison on ayla um and i'm not going to do anything else okay top of the round end of lucius round. Where is my notes on this lady? It's not great. Still higher than my maximum. No, it's not. Those of you who are back, so not Ayla, pretty much everybody else,

the body of Tinker will sort of speak again. You don't see what the stalker is doing inside this kind of gross womb, but the body will sort of speak and just say, if you do manage to kill me and make it to the fort, if you do manage to make it past the others, I do sincerely hope you can bring this madness to an end. I don't relish being used as this carrier of death. That's it, that's all they say.

On their turn, inside the gross fetid cocoon, they are going to... Um, hmm. fetid cocoon they are going to good question uh quill can you make a con save as that wind blows actually no you're miles away what am I talking about no no it can't reach you yeah it's from Nova yeah yeah so Lucius can you make another con for me, please? Nova stank. I haven't showered in a long time. 19.

Yeah, you still succeed. Again, this kind of wind tries to blow this disease into you. No, it would still affect Nova. It doesn't transfer. It would copy its effects to you. Oh, okay. But, yeah. That is their whole turn.

They can't do anything else while they're in the cocoon. Ayla. Great. What do you want me to do? Get reckless. Whack in time. Whack. Whack, whack.

Yeah, it hurts me every time I do it, but thanks for your encouragement. Whack, whack. I'm just like dropping hit points like nothing on earth. We can heal you. You're dropping her hit points more nothing on earth. We can heal you. You're dropping her hit points more. That's all that matters.

Hit the cocoon I guess. You're destroying the cocoon, that doesn't necessarily mean you're hurting her hit points. 18 plus 15 to hit the cocoon. That will definitely hit the cocoon, yeah 100%. 22 plus six. 22 plus 28. It's going to be halved as a resistant to the bludgeoning and the lightning. So 14.

Okay. As you hit it, Ava. Yeah. That's a bad one. 18 points of poison damage. As you slam your hammer into it, You can see it's nearly broken, like it's cracked. Parts of it are broken, but not quite fully destroyed. How squelchy is it?

It's like spongy. It's organic. You know like the eggs in Aliens? Facehugger eggs? It's kind of like that, but almost translucent, and it's covered in like boulders. And also like pustules and boils cover it and fungus, it's gross. 21. 21 hits. 19. Another 19, is that with the lightning? So that's half, that'll be nine.

Still doesn't break. Hardly anything. Oh, aura. And then aura, it fails the dex save automatically, but you will take 19 poison damage from that second attack. It's okay, this is min maxing. You need to take damage to keep rage up. Not anymore, she doesn't.

Really? No, just endless rage. 18 lightning damage. I've got endless rage. That goes to nine. So I'm really chipping away hardcore at my hit points here. The barrage from Ayla and the lightning blast, the fetid cocoon does seem to absorb a considerable amount of it.

It is thinned, cracked in places, but not broken. Anything else, Aayla, on your turn? No, I can't do anything else. No, the VJ. Actually. Oh. I don't know if I should just get out of it. I've still got flight on me until the end of this turn,

is what I'm thinking. So I could fly 50 feet towards Quill. Yeah, if you wanna do that, that will actually prevent you from taking- Yeah, because I'm just standing here being a fucking damage shield for no reason, like at all. So 50 feet of flight to me all i can just go back in yep so mule nearing you fly through with the hammer in your hand fly back towards quill uh under the canopy of the thick

jungle um all right we're near break time but i do want to just quickly try and get through because we're very close to this i want to vickyicky. No, not yet. Nova Vija. If I'm guided towards where Ayla and Quill are, is that still out of this terrain thing? If you go the long way, yes. Would I have a clear sight on Cocoon Girl? Cocoon Girl. With your movement, you can only get to about here

if you want to avoid the plague area. They'll still have some cover against you if you go there. So you can kind of begin making your way, but you'll get halfway between the group and Aelor and Quill. If I come out towards, would it be a dash because of difficult terrain? If you want to get next to Aelor and Quill, you're going to have to dash it. No, I mean next to, behind the tree that the stalker is. So you would go, so from here you would go 10, 20, 30.

10, 20, 30. You wouldn't even get there with a dash. Okay. This area is like thick with growths. Unless you can fly or teleport, it slows you down immensely. I can teleport, but I need to see. Well, Dimension Door is a bit ambiguous. It says you teleport yourself from your current location to any other spot within range.

It can be a place you can see, one you can visualize, or one you can describe by stating distance. Then you don't need to see. You can just dimension door. Nice. In which case. But that is your action. That's my action, and then bonus action,

I don't think I can really do anything. No. Until my next go, unless I, bonus action something with Tiangong maybe? Swap places? Yeah, no. What if you made a dimension door where Tiangong is, and you walk through it and then swap places?

Dimension door is instantaneous, it's not like a portal. No. You just end up in the same spot. Yeah. Yeah, that would help no one. That would help no one. It's a big troll. Great use of time before the break.

Yeah, I would like to Dimension Door to about just a little bit outside of the range. So I'm not directly next to the cocoon. Okay. So 10 feet away from the cocoon. I still can't see, can I? So I can't cast Compelled Duel on them. Nope.

Currently blinded. Hex them? Can't hex them. Place a curse on a creature you see within range. You see within range. You see within range. That's me. That's you, Dom. Sentry.

Yeah, struggling to see what Sentry can do here. She's got hit points, though. She does have hit, well, as much as you had for the last wave of attacks. Yeah, that ticked me off. I think, yeah, she'll... If she can action... Oh, no, she can't even get to the cocoon.

Increased movement. Even though she's large? She's big. The difficult terrain still slows her down. Okay. I suppose it doesn't hurt her sentry running that direction. So as much as sentry can do with an Axion Dash.

So basically 10, 20, 30. I'd say max 10, 20, 30. So still about 10 feet away. 10 feet from the cocoon, same as Nova. Oh, does she have 10 feet range? Can she hit? Yeah, if she's got range, yeah. With the enhanced Starbreaker, yeah. Double stamp.

She can't. She dashed. She dashed. But she does it quickly. Nope. Anything else? She charged with the lance in front of her. Anything else? No.

She throws it. At the end of Century's turn, the cocoon breaks apart. Growing from it, as the cocoon breaks apart growing from it as it the cocoon actually explodes each creature within 10 feet of the cocoon con saves from Nova and century please okay my next action was the whole action until it did something bad I was gonna dome dome of ice on it. Uh-huh. The problem is that it literally triggers on the same turn. 18. Fail.

Nova's not within 10 feet of sentry. By the way, I wanted with my bonus action, I wanted to actually... Bonus action. Yeah, bonus action. I wanted to, because Tiangong would have de-summoned from being far away from me. I wanted to re-summon them next to me. They're immediately destroyed. Yeah.

Well, con saves. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no i have to roll a con save they'll take a minimum of one damage because this is on half on half on success so yeah could they not just be like 15 feet you wouldn't have known like you wouldn't have known like where would you have placed them behind me you would you would you that's why i was asking you to let me do it but you won't let me do it it's not i didn't let you do it i wanted tom's thing to finish and i forgot all right if you would put it behind you that's fine i'm not doing it no no i'm not doing it now well there i'm not gonna i'm not playing that game they're there you said you if you said that

you would have put them behind you they wouldn't have been in range of the exploding cocoon so i wanted century get 18 fail okay not my character that's mad what do i regret saying that 57 points poison damage that ignores resistance so century doesn't get her resistance against it i need a pen what color do you want someone write down 57 minus, well 128 minus 57. Why? Because I can't edit. Oh, I can do centuries character sheet. Oh. It's fine, I can do it. Thank you. Let me do that now because otherwise I will forget. Yeah. And then I will finish describing it

and then we will take a break. That was just under half her health. Yeah, that's pretty bad. 57. How do you spell cocoon? C-O. Q-U. O-Q-U. C-O-O-N. That's all it is.

A-R-N. C-O-O-N. C-O-O-N. C-O-O-N. So. Quack-quarn. As the cocoon bursts, exploding with filth, all of the difficult terrain rots away. The difficult terrain now goes.

I'm so frustrated! I mean, how could you have known that? rain rots away the difficult terrain now goes and the stalker emerges from it still heavily wounded doesn't look like she's healed while she's in there insectoid wings and she flies up she flies 30 feet up to the top of the canopy, so she can't get higher than 30 feet, because the canopy's 30 feet high. Reaction, then, from Sentry. No, doesn't provoke opportunity attacks

when she uses this legendary action. I mean, I've used loads of things like that. You guys have abilities that let you move without... Are you shitting on me right now? No. Well, yes, technically. I need class abilities that let you move without provoking opportunity attacks. Does she have the Sentinel feat?

I don't know. No, it's Sentinel Prime. She's got the name Sentinel. And with that being the end of Sentry's turn, because I know you want your break. Oh, I want to kill it. I want to kill it dead. No, I want to kill it.

If you want to keep going, yeah, sure. We can keep going. I really need a pee, but... Should we do the end of this round? Yeah. Sure, I mean, there's only Quill and then Lucius, and then it's the end of this round. It's Sure, I mean, there's only Quill and then Lucius, and then it's the end of this round. It's okay, it'll be dead this turn.

All right. Actually, let me take its go. Let's do Quill, Lucius, and then... That was its go. No, no, no, that was... It's had its turn. Quill. Okay.

Okay. Fuck. Shit and fuck. So annoying. And fard and shit. We've just pissed away hit points. Doesn't matter. Don't worry.

For nothing. We didn't know that was going to happen. Yeah. We got a little height thingy. Nice. How do I bring you down? How do I bring you down on my turn? I won't.

I will. How? Guiding bolt it. I can't. There's nothing I can do. I will Guiding Bolt it. I can't. There's nothing I can do, so I'll Guiding Bolt it. Okay. Again, this time at level two. So plus 14 to hit it. That's a fair amount.

And a three. 21. I whiffed it. Guiding Bolt just sails past, just these buzzing, fly, insectoid, droning wings pull her out of the way. Gross. Anything else, Cor? Bonus action, toot. Toot?

Do you want a Guardian to take an action? I want one of them to jump 30 feet in the air and grab it by the legs, and in a Hulk versus Loki, slam it into the ground a million times. They can't do that. Hot Shot can shoot it, right? Hot Shot can, however, take a range attack. Hot Shot, kill it! Mega Man Blaster, five, that's not gonna be enough,

19, roll a five. Just whiffs past. Moving too quickly. Lucius. Chromatic Orbit, eighth level. You have an eighth level spell? That's the last big spell he's got. Maybe you could roll in a tray

that isn't filled with dice. Yeah, that would be really nice. Why do you roll in that tray? You see all this table we've got here, all this space. Let Trot seeking spell. Okay, re-roll. You got enough sorcery points?

I do. It was no better. This table made me roll worse. It's cocked, actually, just looking at that. The table's cocked. I have a three plus a 12, so that's 15. 15 is not enough. You channel this great, huge, swirling magic.

What's my biggest jet? Whiff! Whiffed. Ah. Hmm. And you Seeking Spelled it as well, so you technically whiffed twice. Yeah, make sure you mark off those. No, I can kind of like curve it.

Like he misses it the first time, tries to like direct it back. Like Samuel Jackson. Okay. Mark that sorcery point off direct it back. Like Samuel Jackson. Okay. Mark that sorcery point off, by the way. Samuel Jackson isn't in Wanted. Is he in Wanted? No.

No, he's not. We had this literally last week. Is he not? Lucius. I swear I've seen him in the trailer. I've not seen the film. End of turn, Lucius. Yes. All right.

You just see she pulls a long bow, kind of skirts looking around just like, well, I suppose I must do what she commands. Oh. Why are you pointing at me? First shot at Quill for 19 to hit. I'm shielding. Okay.

Can I shield? Do I have any spell slots left? I can shield. That's my final spell slot. I'll shield. Okay, so your AC goes up to what now? I'm now at 21. Second shot at Quill.

He's gonna go. 25. Yeah, He's going to go. What's it going to be? 25. Yeah, he's gone. I mean, I... You can't double shield. I can't. I can't. I'm going to roll damage.

What are you doing? Can you do anything? Elder Quill is going to take this hit for me and it makes it miss. It's a guaranteed miss. The Elder Quill shifts into place. Slaps it out of the way. You can't use that Quill. That's one prolonged rest and now I can't double concentrate.

I mean, you lost that anyway. There's only a Titan up ahead. I've got no spell slots. We can't fight it anyway. We can't go to Titan right now. I should be expected for the Champions of Arise. One last shot. What? No! It's X.

You won't fucking believe. That's an at 20, isn't it? I mean, I put a 40. I do have the one that you didn't save. Oh my god, this is the more damaging attack as well. You got a portent? I do have portents, but I mean, I don't know if it's enough.

It wouldn't be a nat 20. I mean, you had plenty of time to tell me. It's not a nat 20! Yeah, just, yeah. Portent it. He had plenty of time to tell me he was gonna portent it, and he did not. I didn't know there was a third attack!

I said third attack, and you weren't portent. I was too busy making this face. Are you portent? No, I'm not. I'm taking the hit. You can take it. I'm not going to go down. How much damage is this going to be? 180!

19 or less! What's your max? I need to keep a note here. 131. She can't possibly do that. Can you remember 49? Don't take that as damage yet. Don't take that as damage yet.

Plus... What's that going to be? It could be 150. At least it's just one of three. Yeah? If she shot your lifeless body with two more. Do we have any more healing at all? I don't have any spells. Century's got a couple.

I think I've used my spells. Quill, you take 102 points of poison damage. Oh my god! How much would have been an outright death? 151. The arrow flies through and just right into Quill's chest, the very center, and from it, you watch as this virulent land begins to grow out, making the area around him

20-foot difficult terrain. Oh, God. As Quill drops, and that is where we're gonna take our break. Holy crap. I cannot believe that natural 20. I can, I can, I can. Facts.

Oh, even then, that would have gone through shield. So there was no block in that, unfortunately. I have inspiration. Could I have done something with that? Nope. Maybe. That's on your rolls. That's it for part one.

Make sure you don't miss the very thrilling part two. Anyhow, this very desperate scenario. It's pretty dicey. It's pretty dicey. It's pretty dicey. We'll see you in part two. See you then. Bye for now. Bye.