High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #154 | The Knights of Grief (Part 2)

Episode Date: July 28, 2022

Atop a tower in Nightbloom Hold the party face off against the Knight of War while Nova attempts something dangerous! Support the High Rollers and get early access to podcast episodes and Studio updates on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/HighRollers Grab some High Rollers merch: https://freshmerch.fm/collections/high-rollers Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound & TCT Adventures (Solasta: Crown of the Magisters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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and they have bypassed the main gates. They have managed to fend off the undead that were outside. They've destroyed many of the archers and made their way inside the keep thanks to a passable spell from Nova. And then they had a choice. They could either charge out into the plaza where there were many knights and squires

and other things waiting for them, or they could head up into one of the towers to try and use as a bottleneck and maybe try and use one of the ballistae against the wyvern creature as well they elected to go up into the tower whereupon uh the wyvern and its rider the war knight were waiting for them uh there's been a furious battle where there have been a few there have been spooky hounds that have been summoned. The wyvern was dominated by Lucius and then the war knight killed her own mount and then

has leapt down onto the tower itself as part of her movement, slamming down with a thunderous force and is now in the middle of everybody. We are beginning with a fresh new round. The other thing I was going to say is as I'm desperately trying to remember placements

and where everybody is and all this other stuff going on, you would see, from your elevated position, you would see the two Grieving Errants. So they're the mega armoured... These are the heavy armoured-wearing, greatsword-wielding folks. A long, big map. Yeah. Look how big those walls are.

With a whole retinue of squires. They had a load of monks as well, right? They had a pack of friars behind them as well. Oh, God, that's a lot of boys. And then there was even more stuff in the keep itself that did not appear to be moving. There was a blue-eyed boy, too. Boy? Blue-eyed? Blue-eyed thing?

Blue-eyed individual. Blue-orange eyes, wyvern. Dead. Dead. I didn't think of the whole sentence there. I'm missing a Skele-man. Just leave him. Oh no.

Just leave him. I played Gloomhaven. There's plenty up there, don't worry. Oh yeah, there is actually. All right, yeah. I've got to keep them all the same. I also forgot the list of witches up here. Skele-man.

Skele-man coming. Yeah, we're on a 20 foot by 20 foot. Yeah, so the map itself isn't exactly going to be measured. The actual gate tower is further away than what it is. I just wanted to have it there to frame out the corner. But you are in basically, it's like a 10 foot radius. So it's like 20 foot across, 20 foot across. And even then, I think that it probably should have been about 15 foot across. It shouldn't have been that big, but it is what it is yeah you are but you are

packed it what the main point is that it is it is packed at the top of it it's tight and the the one I has basically landed in amongst you kind of those of you who are close to the center maybe taking a step back or being pushed back for a second and that is where we're going to start at the top of a brand new round. Yeah, so Sentry. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to as an action cure wounds on Ayla and see if that helps stop her bleeding. Okay, yeah. So roll the healing. Okie dokie.

Yeah, not maxed anymore. It is 1d8. Got rid of it. Two plus my spell mod, which I believe is three. Five total. Five total is enough. It stops the bleeding wounds. Nice. Okay. So I will heal five on Ayla. Can I relay that to the team? Absolutely. Healing spells help. Yep. Yeah. If any of these kind of bleeding wounds, it seems that any amount of magical healing, whether it's from a spell or an ability, will stop the bleeding wounds.

Cool. Cool. Anything else, Cintri, on your turn? I'd like to bonus action regain a level two spell slot, please. Okay. We have Nova, then Quill, then Lucius. Thank you. That's pretty much all of you guys right away.

So I have a question. Sure. Feel free to say you don't get an answer to this. How important was it that the Rot Heart was destroyed? I know that it sucks up all the light. I don't think that has been established directly that you would have 100% answer to that. Hotshot basically said

that these Rot Hearts are what basically create the Hive Undead. The dead roots, that's all affected by those things. And you assume it has, and the darkness, you can see that the actual canopy of this giant tree, it has, and the darkness, yeah. You can see that the actual canopy of this giant tree,

it has motes of pollen or petals coming off of it, and those are sucking in the light and making it dark here. But tactically as well, if we did destroy it and it lifted the gloom, then the storm chaser would be free to do flybys. I mean, in theory, the storm chaser would certainly be able to help, yeah. Like, if you can clear the gloom, yeah. Storm Chaser would be free to do flybys. I mean, in theory, the Storm Chaser would certainly be able to help, yeah, if you can clear the gloom. Yeah, absolutely. But the thing is,

the main thing is that you needed to create a bright light so that Storm Chaser knows where to hit is the main thing. You need a target marker. Because I've said this before and Hotshot said this, no spells or weapons you guys have will destroy the Rot Heart. Like, it needs something bigger than that.

Would Nova know that a bright enough light could be created by her Rod of Alertness, which is 60-foot bright light, 60-foot dim light from the top of the tree? From the top of the tree, yes. The higher up you get, like, it does become lighter if you can get higher enough. But down here, no. High up in the tree maybe I will give you a firm 50-50 whether it works like you don't know okay with 500 foot of dimension to her would that get me to the top if you went diagonally you could get high up yeah maybe not to the top of the tree but you would be high up. Yeah, maybe not to the top of the tree, but you would be high up in the tree itself.

I'm about to do something real stupid. I don't like the sound of that. Okay, go. It's your turn. I will look around the team. No, no, no, no. Wish them all luck. Okay.

I was going to say, like, in approval, I was like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to do something that has quite dramatically terrible odds of succeeding. But if it succeeds, it will turn things in our favor. There's just six seconds of speech. Good luck. Literally, I mentioned it.

Turned. Nova. Dimension door away. All right, so your dimension door. To the top of the tree, or however far up I can get. Yeah, I mean mean I'm just thinking oh no no that that's all fine like I said I got a lot of things around let me be cool yeah Nova vanishes with a sweep of Tiangong, a portal is briefly cut through in space,

and Nova vanishes. Nova, the only thing I'm going to say here is Dimension Door, you don't need to see the space you're going, do you? So you just picture you're like, I want to go 500 feet that way. You arrive at exactly the spot you can desire. So if I can see the tree in the top of it that's the thing you remember this is pitch black outside of like 60 feet where you guys are but you can be like 500 feet diagonally that way yeah and you know that tree that's roughly three

years three what i need you to do is make a dexterity saving throw for me to see if you can grab on before you plummet. Why'd you have to use that word? Well. That's what's going to happen. Yeah, that's. 500 feet, diagonally up. No, Troll's really hot! Did you actually hit him in the face?

Oh, my God. I mean, to be fair, Troll was like, leave me. I wanted to see. I wanted to see, and she hit me. It's all right. Can't make it up. That's why we played birds. Whacked him in the face.

Hi, TikTok! Sarah's going to have a field day with that one. Podcast listener. Podcast listener. Kim just dropped in the face. I felt his gummy eye on my arm. I want to see that in slow-mo. You probably will.

Just watch you don't get a nosebleed or anything like that. I'm so sorry. What is it? I'm so sorry. It's the bean slaps. Your beautiful face. Sorry for us to have hit me. Ori's gone.

So she's gone. Just keep it together. Okay, so with that natural 20, Nova, you appear, and you immediately feel like, oh, no, you misjudged this. You go to, bop, you just dig in. Tiangong slammed into the branches of a tree and you are hanging one of the elongated branches and you look and there's maybe like a 60, 80 foot drop

before another big branch and you're like hanging over it, just kind of swinging in place. But you're, yeah, 500 feet up. You are now way higher than the tower. You can't see your friends. You can't see your friends, you can't see anything going on back there, but you are now in the tower itself. Cool.

So what's the plan? That was action. That was my action. As a movement, I would say you could probably clamber up onto the branch, like with that saving throw if you wanted to. Or you could just hang there, sword in. Bonus action, I'm gonna summon Tiangong up.

Okay, yep, so on the branch itself. Yep. And then can they help me get up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely, yeah. So the two of you are now on top of this branch. End of turn. That's it, I gotta wait a turn.

Okay, all right. Good turn. Nice turn. I could remember that one. At the end of Nova's turn, because they have had a go since, at the end of Nova's turn, the Warnite's gonna be like,

McGonassie's had the right idea of it. I suggest you all do the same. And they're gonna use their legendary action to use their next legendary action. Their legendary actions work a little bit differently than other monsters. Unleash Hell. Oh, cool.

They are gonna pick three creatures. So, Coil has already passed on this. So, Sentry, Lucius, and Maximilian. I need you all to make wisdom saving throws. Oh, boy. Give us three. Maximilian fails. Lucius?

19. 19 is a success. That was a plus three? That was a plus three. That's with the plus three, this is a success. 19. That is a success. However, Max, you watch as his eyes almost become bloodshot red.

The rest of you resist the overflowing rage coming from the Warnight, but Maximilian does not. He immediately loses the concentration on Shield of Faith. That goes. He can no longer concentrate on this spell, and the rest of the effects you will have to wait and see. That's not good. An angry Max.

Lucius. Do I notice Max? Oh, yeah. Max? You can just see him seething with rage and anger. Something's taken hold of Max. There's not much I can do to stop him. It's fine.

I'm focused. I'm gonna bring this cretin down. And he's looking at the Warnar, he's not looking at any of you. And she's like, in melee range with me right now? Oh, she's in melee range with everybody. So everything would be disadvantage unless it's... If it's a ranged attack, it has disadvantage.

Yeah, if it's anything ranged, disadvantage, and spells. If it has saving, I mean, saving throws, it's fine. Like, if it's got a saving throw, it won't be affected in any way. If you try and move, she'll get an attack opportunity. I'm gonna do... Frostbite, which is a cantrip. Okay. Ooh, which is crazy. Frostbite. is a cantrip okay which is crazy frostbite yeah

there's a numbing frost to form on one creature you can see within range um con saving throw uh 17 i rolled pretty low 18. all right all right so full damage on that it's a cantrip it would do no damage on our success damage on that. It's a cantrip, it would do no damage on a success. What? Cantrips do no damage if the creature succeeds. What does she get? She failed, but I'm just saying, don't be under the impression that it's half damage. 15. 15 points of cold. Where is my Wormite? There she is.

Which she is exceptionally weak to. Nope. Nope. The ice kind of does build up but then it quickly just becomes steam and melts away but yeah, definitely does sort of like grunt

as this ice does kind of affect her but anything else, Lucius? I'm going to use quick and spell so two sorcery points to cast mirror image

on myself. Okay. So there's four duplicates of Lucius in this. Oh, my apologies. She would have had advantage on that saving throw. I will roll it again. 23. So no damage.

I cast Mirror Image. You definitely do that, though. So, yeah, you watch as the ice kind of tries to build up over her flaming you know flaming almost like fiery body and you can see steam raise rising from like the joints between her armor her skin uh which is normally like a dark green orcish in color but you can see it's cracked with blackened uh burn marks and almost like red veins and it just almost emanates heat from her and the ice just fails to build up

but then you conjure these these mirror images to try and protect yourself yeah i just like push mars outwards and four come out either side perfect all right uh and they will go oh they don't do that uh that's it all right ayla uh ayla uh is going to hit real hard. Very hard. Please. Almost recklessly. If you roll low, just tell me. Oh, yeah.

Well, so... I mean, you said what you're doing. She's attacking recklessly, which I guess improves your odds. But I just need you to tell me if it's less than 10, tell me. Oh, wait. Wait, if I roll less than 10 on the d20? Yeah, on the d20, yeah, yeah. Okay.

The final bonus is irrelevant. It's what you roll on the dice. I see. Okay. Well, the first one. It's with advantage, so you use whichever is higher. Six plus 15. was 21 but it's less than attending on the attack itself so yeah I've just said to tell me I haven't so

what's the total 21 to hit 21 to hit yeah is just barely going to hit but you watch as the war night as a la strikes strikes with the Howling Tempest, the hammer slams into her and she kind of like takes it and she's just like clumsy and she brings her elbow down and a piece of the hammer breaks. The Howling Tempest has a minus one to attack rolls and damage rolls. Permanently?

Kate's gonna fucking hurt you. I mean, it broke off. Just super glue it back on. Who's going to tell it? I'm not. You! Maybe not like a piece, but maybe a deep crack, actually. That's worse somehow. Yeah. But just keep that in mind.

So minus one to a text, but you can roll... This didn't happen. You know how we got all that intel on how she does this. That's what Ayla do. Can we roll the damage roll and then you can have this while I'm doing other things? Just because there's a lot going on. So yeah, minus one to this damage roll.

And again, I need the physical damage separate as well. Eight plus 13. So that's 21 with the minus one. 21. So 21, that's the physical damage. That's the physical one. 21. So 21. Yeah. That's the physical damage. That's the physical damage.

No lightning yet. So half that to 10. Yeah, because of melee. Yeah, I mean, maybe. That's what my notes say. Okay. Jump his eye. Definitely like weapons, yeah.

You can see that the Warnite, even with against magical weapons, the Warnite is shrugging off some of this pain. Okay. That was the damage roll. Yeah, you can see that the Warnite, even with against magical weapons, the Warnite is shrugging off some of this pain. Oh. Oh, God. That was the damage roll, so next attack. Yeah. Minus one to the attack bonus. Oh, God, I feel so bad.

Okay, thank God. The next one is 18 on the dice plus 14 is 32. Hits. And then the damage is nine plus 12 now. So 21 again. 21, so half to 10. And then the dex save. Dex saving throw.

Now this isn't a spell, so I mean, I'm pretty sure they might pass it for a whole note. It's a failure notes failure failure nice lightning damage is five six two eleven thirteen lightning damage thirteen points of lightning damage the the walnut takes them all holy damage uh con save uh no it's not a con save it turns out it just okay is uh there is a con save i need to make. Later, if I do something. So she just gets holy radiant damage from every attack. So eight on the first attack, radiant damage,

and six on the second one. Six on the second one. With my holy weapon. These blows raining down on the Warnite kind of grunts as she's being hit by them, but yeah, takes them all in her stride um that's pretty much her turn thank you i have my memory note okay nice thank you uh that's ayla's turn done that's ayla's turn done yeah okay uh you see the squires on the ground level.

I'm not going to move them just because it's a bit too far for me. They basically surge. They reach the tower, like the passboard which leads in, and they begin filtering in. So all 12 of the minions move up. Meanwhile, elsewhere beyond your current site... It's probably fine. There's only, like, it's probably fine.

There's only like three other grief knights. And grief daddy. Yeah. Yeah, I think that this would be another ice storm because it's got the best range. That same cylinder of ice and frost rains down. I need a dex save from everybody. You cannot see who's casting this. Shit.

Like, you'll, I mean, they're not in the current present field. Shit. Oh, okay. I also, the Warnite and Max both have to make saving throws for this. They both fail. Bet the Warnite loves that. Ah. Okay, okay.

So, let's go around and get Century. 18. 18, that is a failure. Oh, okay. So let's go around and get the sentry. 18. 18, that is a failure. Oh shit. 10 for Quill and 17 for Aayla. That's a failure for Aayla, but you are, this is a spell, so sentry's resistance will get halved. You're not there. I'm gonna treat it plus three and it's halved. 20. Succeeds just.

Nice. So Lucius, you're going to take quarter of this damage. Everyone else is taking half because of Sentry's aura. Okay. I'm assuming you don't wish your aura to apply to the War Knight, however. No. No, I don't think so. So six. Thirteen cold.

So 12 cold to everybody but Lucius, 3 cold to Lucius, and then 7 bludgeoning, so 3 bludgeoning to everyone else, 1 bludgeoning to Lucius. And then that's going to be 12. It should be 69. 420 blazes. Nice. Sorry, I've got to stop waggling this arm near you.

It's dangerous. What a trauma now. So as this ice kind of cascades over you, you just hear the Warnight kind of, Lam-a-leaves, you fool! I'm here, I'm fighting! And that's you. What's that name?

Lam-a-leaves. Lam-a-leaves. Lam-a-leaves. Lam-a-leaves. Lam-a-leaves. Noted. Lam-a-leaves. Lama leaves. Lama leaves. Lama leaves. Lama leaves. Lama leaves. Noted. Lama leaves.

Skip all these dudes, because they're not going to be here for a while. Just leave them. That's potentially soon. Max, you can see this kind of rage in his eyes. He just charges. He ignores anything else, any previous action, his warding, his spells all go,

and he just makes a single melee attack against the Warnight. That is gonna be a miss. Not a clumsy hit, but he misses. She just brings up a weapon and parries the blow. As Max just, yes, this is a warrior. Would you say he's Mad Max? He's Mad Max, yeah.

War Knights go. Gold. He's going to look around. You're annoying, you're annoying. You're not there. Yeah, but what about the game? I'm in a tree. So, she is going to, against Sentry, in her hand she conjures a big heavy war hammer, and is going to try and swing it towards you.

Bring it on. 24. Bring it on a little bit less, please. You point at your cheek, like right right here and then she really does do it a bit less it wasn't a crit 29 bludgeoning damage and eight fire damage and you are and can you make a strength saving throw please yeah this is not a spell okay This is not a spell. Okay.

What's the rest of that? Oh, God. Punch. Oh, God. 18. 18. You are knocked prone, Sentry, as this Warhammer collides into you, and you are winded. Whilst you are winded, you have minus two to attack rolls and deck saving throws,

and you have to use a bonus action to try and recover your stamina. As it literally knocks the energy and the air out of you. So it's like an action to get up and a bonus action to recover. To recover from the energy. It's not an action to get up, it's half your movement to get up. So bonus action to recover from Winded, which if you wanted to do something else, you could just leave. But whilst you are Winded, it's minus two to attacks and deck saving throws.

That was her Bludgeoning weapon. She dismisses that from her hand. She's going to conjure her Slashing weapon, and this time she's going gonna go for Aayla. I'll protect Aayla. Okay, disadvantage. Still within range? Yeah, I think we said that

because everyone's grouped up, imagine that you guys are within range. I'm not gonna worry too much about distance. That is only gonna be a 17 to hit Aayla. Nice, misses. Misses. So, essentially, even though you're winded, you manage to get your shield, Nice, misses. Misses, so essentially, even though you're winded,

you manage to get your shield on. You know, just knock her off balance so that the blow goes wide. I thought I was dealing. And she kind of grunts at you. And then for her last attack, she's just gonna try and grab Lucius by the front of his shirt.

She's gonna try and grapple you. Can you make a strength check? Well, I've got mirror image, right? Ah, that's a very good point. Ice storm happened. Right. Do all my mirror images get attacked? This is the interesting thing.

I believe it has to be a directed attack at you for mirror image. Creatures, I don't know. Yeah, I don't think like an error of effect thing actually destroys them, I don't think. Each time a creature targets you with an attack during the spell's duration. So ice storm doesn't count okay so you've got three so you have to roll a d20 I think you have to roll a set amount or higher

points in fact if she knows that she wouldn't have gone for you she would have gone for quill yeah she's not stupid so she would see those mirror images. I'm sorry, I'm gonna, she would have gone for Quill then, like to grab Quill, because she would have known the mirror images are there. So Quill, can you make an opposed strength or dexterity check? Strength? Bad mistake, lady. Oh no, that's Aayla's stance. All right, this is Dex then. 50. Oh, am I within range of sentry? All right, this is Dex then.

50. Oh, am I within range of sentry? This is not a saving throw. This is just a modifier. 17 then. It does not beat the 21. Okay. But then Quill can fly. It doesn't matter. I'm going to do it.

I mean, she's grappling me. She grabs you, yeah, but she grabs you, and then she throws you over the side of the tower. Oh, okay. Yeet. She literally picks you, and then she throws you over the side of the tower. Oh, okay. She literally picks you up, and then yeets you over the side. You can fly, so I'm just gonna have you, you don't land, like, you don't. I'll fall a bit, I suppose.

But you don't take any damage, you're like, and you kind of like, yeah, buff it yourself. Boundaries. But you are sort of down at the bottom, as she just picks you up and then throws you over the edge. You're annoying. Go away. I kind of like her.

Yeah. I mean, you know what? I really like her. She's right. I was going to say something to Quill, but he's been yoted. He's been yoted. I can hear you with my incredible perception. Yeah, but it's just that.

Phenomenal. Phenomenal perception. That's the word. Thank you. Phenomenal. Phenomenal perception, that's the word, thank you. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. Go on, Quill. As you are thrown over the side, though. Something sees me, right? You see something. Oh. Those figures that were stood in the doorway,

you, with your incredible perception, hear a very... Phenomenal. A refined, husked voice. Elwynn has engaged. We must go out and meet them. Fetch me my steed. Let us advance. And you see, emerging from the front of the keep, with seven skeletal warriors and three undead-looking,

almost ghoulish-looking figures in armor with weapons. You see Sir Godric Graves, the Knight Commander, step out, and he looks over and almost tilts his head when he sees you and looks up, just impassively, no expression on his face, but he begins slowly making his way. Maybe he doesn't want to do it. Maybe he's just like...

The two grieving errants will also make their way now into the building. So that whole group of minions outside is now stepped in. I just don't want to reach over and try and move them at the moment. What did he say? Elwynn? He said Elwynn has engaged. If it's on his coffee break, he can take his full coffee break. Century.

You are prone and winded. I'm prone and winded. I would like to stand up. That's half your movement. How far down the stairs can I go? So you would take an attack opportunity from the I go? You could get... So you would take an attack of opportunity from the Warnight. You could get 5, 10, you could go...

So you've used half your movement, so you could get about 5 feet down the stairs. So if I did a destructive wave, which has a range of 30 feet, could I get her and the people that are in the tower? Does this affect all creatures or just enemies? Creatures that I can choose. Oh, okay. I haven't got to see them. They just have to be within 30 feet of me.

I would say that you can't project the wave through stone floor. I'd say you can either hit her or you can go for the group. Like, you can begin making your way downstairs and you probably want to hold your action because they're still making their way towards you. Get ready.

But you could basically wait until they fill your space, and then you just destructive wave as many of them as you can. Yeah. You want to do that? Yeah. I mean that you can't hit the walnut with the spell, though, because I think that because you can't direct it up and hit the things coming from below at the same time,

also stone floor in the way. Yeah, let's do that. All right, so you're gonna take the attack of opportunity? Yeah, rock and roll. All right, rock and roll. Rock and roll, sunshine. She will summon her slashing weapon she's against you. She summons a big serrated blade.

That is gonna be a 24 to hit. Yeah, that hits. So that is gonna be... It's a legendary action. No, this is a normal reaction. This is attack of opportunity. Ah, nice. But she this is a normal reaction. This is attack of opportunity. Ah, nice. But she can summon blades at will.

Yeah, she just... Anytime she needs a weapon, it just appears. Whatever weapon she chooses, it's the form of. Where's that barrel? 21... 21 slashing damage, Chantry. Yep. And then 11 points of fire damage. Okay.

And your armour is sundered. As the shards of the sword bite into she rips and it tears the metal itself you have a minus one penalty to your AC oh cool okay she's causing some damage but you then make your way downstairs century and you have put yourself into them to move you over here yeah you put yourself in a position'm just going to move you over here. Yeah, I'm ready. You put yourself into position. You're going to hold your action until as many of these squires basically get within position.

And I'm just going to blast them. And just blast as many as you can. All right. Meanwhile, across the way... I'm in a twee. In a twee, we have Nova Weedle. Can you make a perception check for me, Nova? Nova's grand day out.

I'm having a great day. Let's just have a Nova one-shot real quick. Yeah. Perception. Yeah, perception check. For some reason, I can roll advantage, but I also have minus one, so... I think because you have the Rod of Alertness active.

Oh! 19 and a four, so 18. 18. With the Rod of Alertness active, which is kind of, you know, giving you enough... Well, it's not active yet. It's not active yet, but I think that it gives you a passive.

That's what you're getting the advantage from. Yeah, yeah, yeah, attuned. And the dark vision and everything else, kind of, like, as you're looking around, you see, like, having snuck her way through while you've been doing this, Hot Shot entering into the base, like, you know, underneath you, like, you know,

a good few feet, like, making their way, climbing up into the tree, trying to find, like, you know, underneath you, like, you know, a good few feet, like, making their way, climbing up into the tree, trying to find, like, some section in. I would say that because of the dim light, it's only because of the Rod of Alertness that you're even seeing them. Like, you know, they are still a fair distance ways from you. But, yeah, they are attempting to enter the tree itself.

They are still here. But it's your turn. That was just, like, a thing that, you know, at the start of your turn, I wanted to see if you if you noticed guessing they're too far away from me to like shout i mean you could shout but if there's anything still in this key they're gonna know you're here hey look it's so hey i know you it's not just you know just draw attention to yourself exactly you would draw attention that there's another creature there as well um does nova feel that she is high enough for this to work oh i mean yeah you

teleported 500 feet like yeah 100 like yeah yeah yeah absolutely it's glow time hey okay you're okay and then that's it let's show you are you doing anything else on this turn you activate the rod start moving down so you move 30 feet you climb well um so um i was what i was going to do is plant the haft and and then it starts glowing. Uh-huh. And then I was going to misty step as a bonus action down, and then 30 feet down. I mean, it would be climbing, so it would go from 30 feet to 15

because you'd be physically climbing this tree down. So you go about 45 feet down. So, those of you on the tower see in the distance barely penetrating through the gloom but the first time you've seen anything really penetrate this light this dull white crystal blue beacon emerges a second two seconds later Lucius and century with the messenger ring here uh yeah hear somebody speak signal received captain storm chaser commencing fire support now there is a blast as if they've been okay they've been waiting for the signal they've just been

pointing in this direction they've just basically been like ready to shoot as soon as they have it it maybe takes a few seconds for them to adjust the the arcane cannons but a magical blast descends from above piercing through the gloom and lighting up the area as it flashes past the first is slightly off target from where the light itself is but it strikes the huge tree side nonetheless a second blast follows a second later, much more precise and strikes the center of the tree. A number of things happen. Nova Vija, I need you to make a dexterity saving throw. Yeah, this thing is, even if you're out of the range, it's shaking. And you are climbing,

so disadvantage on this, please. The other option I would give you is that you could just let go and fall. How high up am i uh you were 500 feet and you've climbed 45 feet down you are 300 and 300 and what 40 360 it was diagonal 355 yeah like this it's 500 feet dude like it's. Like, you weren't up that high to begin with. Yeah, you're like 350 feet above the ground. What if I cast Levitate? You didn't on your turn, though.

This is a reaction. You can literally let go and try and... Like, because the first blast isn't anywhere near you. Yeah. That second blast is right where you put the light, and this thing is going to... Like, you're not gonna be hit directly by the blast but you are getting pulled out from it yeah um i do have tomb of

lovistus so i was wondering if i could do my old like i mean that would be your like yeah if you take the damage the old face full like fall and then activate it well it would have to activate when you take the triggering damage yeah and i've only got 50 points of that, not like my usual 100 and a million. Well, I would say that this would be 35 D6 damage from the fall. Would there be enough time for me to get to the next round and cast Fly? No. Okay. Nope. You fall instantly. Okay.

You don't have a natural flying speed, so. But the other thing is you can make a deck saving throw to try and just like, you know, like get as much out of the way as possible. You'll still take half damage. It's not a great dex throw. It's not terrible. I mean, it might. It's 12.

12. What do you want to do? Take the dex or take the fall? Take the dex. You take the dex? Okay. This is going to be... Because can I fall 500 foot in a round?

Yes. Okay. What the hell's going on in his head? He's thinking that he falls. 42 points of force damage. From the blast? From the residual blast, yes. Oh. To Nova.

Shit. You do, you fall, like, you kind of let go. The part of the deck save is you, like, let go and you, like, kind of try and scramble on and, like, duck and weave and try and climb under branches as much as you can. But it is, you are blasted by shrapnel of wood, by residual magical force from the arcane cannons.

Remember, these weapons aren't designed to hit individual targets. They are used against other airships, against larger creatures. So when it hits you, it's like you're knocked by the shockwave. But you take that, but you still manage to hold on. You hear a screech from the whole jungle. Like the jungle kind of just like there is this echoing shriek from everywhere. The undead, the Warnight, like clutches her head as if suddenly struck by a terrible migraine or headache.

But it is only momentary. And you can see that even though the storm chaser has hit, those two blasts aren't enough to completely destroy the tree. The storm chaser is going to continue firing and it will only take a few more blasts to completely annihilate it, but it's not going to destroy it right immediately. But it's doing work. But, yeah, and you can see that, like, all of the squires, the knights, they're all kind of like, ah, ah, holding their heads like, ah, like the pain.

Like, they're calling out, screaming as if they've been injured by this attack as well. What about the... Is that just the hive? No, you can see the war knight herself is holding her head. You can see the knight errants, the squires, are all clutching their heads as well. Everybody is. Like, absolutely everybody that is under sort of Calara's,

not control, but like is connected to Calara is suffering. Like, absolutely everybody that is under sort of Kalara's, not control, but, like, is connected to Kalara is suffering. Cool. Cool. Did the right thing. Yeah. Okay. Let's see if I survive it. Yeah, that's the other question.

And there's other elements to it as well, but Nova, that's your turn. Quill. Oh, God. Well, I need to get back up onto this platform, I suppose. Yeah, do you want to fly back up? Yeah. And taking advantage of this,

I will use a Guiding Bolt on the Warnight. Okay, so are you actually flying a little bit off, so you're out of melee range? Not within melee range? Not within melee range, if I know. And I will do this at one, two, three, fifth level. Okay. So plus 14 to hit.

Boom. 26. 26 hits. 4d6, 5, 6, 7, 8d6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Holy shit. 24 plus... No, just 24 damage. 24 points of damage.

He's just grunting in pain as she's being blasted by the Guardian Bolt and still clutching her head. And advantage on the next hit against her as well. And that is... I can't beat my turn. All right, Lucius. And then Aayla.

Or summon Elder Quill. Just so he's there as a bonus action, okay? Lucius is going to try and cast Slow on the Warnight. Okay. So that is a wisdom saving throw, please. Okay. Oh, this is a concentration. That means my mirror images will drop.

I believe so. If mirror image is concentration, I can't remember if it is. I don't think it is, actually. No, they're not. Nice. Slow Wisdom saving throw. 18 to beat. 18 to beat. That's a failure.

Comes slowed. Minus two to AC and deck saving throws and can't use reactions. Nice. Can't use reactions? It can either use an action or a bonus action on its turn. Not both. But it does have legendary actions. It does have legendary actions.

That's true. Still. Very powerful. Yeah, really good. So I do that, and I just maintain my distance from the Grief Knight. Okay. Trying to blend in with my mirror images.

Alrighty. So after Lucius, it is Ayla. Um... So... Oh, God, she's... I don't know what to do with Ayla, I'm going to be honest. Um, any suggestions from anyone else? There's a courtyard full of dudes. So you ran down the stairs, right?

Yeah, I'm ready to blast people. Those guys aren't in the courtyard they're actually inside the walls about to make their way up the town i just haven't yeah and centuries they're ready to blast them so where's famine can you see famine and none of you have seen them so far you could try and look for him yeah um you can see that they're just coming out of the main keep is also Godric and his forces. Oh, God, I don't want to leave the squishies up here. Yeah.

I don't think Aayla would. Oh, yeah, leave the squishies. Leave the squishies for the night. Leave the squishy boys. She's going to attack. She's going to attack. I... She's gonna attack. Okay. The first one not recklessly, the second one recklessly, I suppose.

So advantage anyway from the Guiding Bolt. If you're gonna reckless the second one, I mean, like, recklessly gives you it to all attacks that turn. Fine, whatever then, yeah. Okay, so the first one, son of a bitch. Seven on the first roll. On the highest. Yeah, and an extra 15.

So you watch, just like, catches the hammer this time, even with the slow and the headache, just like, I told you, you fight sloppy! And cracks it, and again, another deep crack through the Howling Templest. That minus one becomes a minus two to attack and damage rolls. Oh, shit. Still the damage.

Still deals damage, but minus two damage. Still hits, yeah. And an extra 2d8 because of magic. Bam. 10, 14, 21, 29, plus now 11, 40 damage on the first hit. Because of the holy weapon. Oh, the holy weapon. I was like, nice.

40 points of damage. But how much was that was physical damage? Because I need to half it. Oh, 15 plus 11, 26 of that? 26, so that becomes 13. And then the 14 is from Lightning and Holy. Just Holy. Okay.

Yeah. That was the first attack. I want Ayla to do to the Warnight what it just did to me. Try and grab her? And throw her? Yeah, she can make that attack instead of trying to um instead of trying to use the hammer yeah just throw throw over the edge while she's in pain and struggling uh so ayla is raging so she'll have advantage so this is

basically gonna be uh yeah contested athletics uh the war knight also has advantage and also gets to add a d4 to this uh using their bond breaking strength hell no plus 13 from ayla yeah this is athletics well a 19 plus 13 32 32 that is gonna be 23. Yeah, I didn't roll as high on that. That's gonna be, so she does grapple her and does manage to kind of like, you watch as she pins her arms on the wall, and it's just like trying to flex, just like, your strength, how?

And then what, Ayla uses the rest of her movement to try and drag her to the side of the tower. Spin move. So embarrassing. Yes! And then what, Aayla uses the rest of her movement to try and drag her to the side of the tower? Spin move! So long, King Bowser! Yes! So long, King Bowser! Sure, okay, I mean, it's not maybe as graceful or as cartoonish, but Aayla does manage to spin her and just throw her. Lucius, you have to basically dodge out of the way as she gets thrown over.

Yeah, it's like passing through my mirror images and stuff. Yeah, she hits the back, and rather than being completely thrown up and over, it's just that the force of the blow actually breaks a part of the stone past it. Oh, nice. I'd say the tower's about, I'd say 30 feet, so it's going to be 3d6 fall damage.

Nine halved is four points of damage. Not much, but you know what? I'm okay with this. Sure. Good job. End of turn? End of turn. All right.

Sentry, you watch as about 12 of these squires come barreling up, like, there's one of them! Get them now! for the lady! And they begin charging towards you. Nice. You're going to catch all these dudes. How big is the radius on Destructive Wave? 30 feet.

30 foot blast or 30 foot radius? It's like a radius all the way around. I'm just going to say you catch every single one of these dudes. Waiting till the last minute with the lance ready. Just... Yeah, roll damage for me. Hell yeah. So, con 17.

I don't fail, they're minions. Awesome. So, 5d6. Huh? Yeah. 12, 17, 18, 19. That is thunder damage for the first one. I mean, you don't need to continue rolling.

Every single one of these squires is... The stones from the tower maybe get loosened and blasted into the rest of them, but those of them who charge and surround you wait for the very last second. You just wipe out these soldiers, just. Nice. Just completely wiping

every single one of the squires out. Awesome. I will then, I'll make my way up to the top of the tower again. Okay. See what's going on you do see behind the squires there are these two

grieving errands which are still coming they weren't they didn't quite get there yet so they're still on their way alright I will let them know that the grieving errands

are on their way you still want to make your way up yeah okay okay where's the war knight yeah basically

you have that that consideration. Yeah. She's down here. Yeah. Where'd she go? She's left. Nice to know.

Says Aayla. Says Quill. That makes sense. Aayla just looks at you, says yeet. Nice. Yeah. Little, little dab. She breaks your arm.

Yeah. I'm not down. And I'm unconscious. Oh no, Mark's standing up. Oh god. It's okay Godric can't get a horse up these stairs. Yeah, you ever tried to get a horse up the stairs? Oh, no. Is it cows that can't go downstairs because their knees are backwards? I think it's all four-legged, goofy boys. Oh.

You do see Max kind of like shakes his head, and that rage that was in his mind seems to diminish, and he kind of like blinks. He's just like, what just happened? He just sort of seems a bit confused for a moment, but he will take his full turn. Who is the most injured? And Max is like, who needs healing?

You're not there. I'm in a tree though. You're in a tree. 51 of 183. All right, Max will come over and he will give you 20 points of healing with his healing flames. He only has 10 left.

And then he will give you 20 points of healing with his healing flames. He only has 10 left. And then he will... Yeah, he will just ready an action, I guess. Like if anything comes up, he will attack. Yeah. That's all he can do. The Warnite, who is at the bottom of the stairs at this point, very angry. Mainly embarrassed.

No, definitely not embarrassed. There is just a sense of challenge now. 30 feet up, yeah, I mean, yeah. The tower is about 25 feet. You watch as the Warnite

summons a giant spear or ice hook and just begins climbing up the tower itself. Like ice climbing. Oh, hello. Slams back right between Lucius and Quill. He's just like, oh, that was good. She points to Aayla and is like, I like you.

I'll kill your friends first, starting with you, little mage. She attacks you three times load she's like she that slow effect ends at the start of her turn there you just see the day like it affected her but as the start of her turn the spell breaks I love that I love that for my spell Well, I mean, this wasn't something that she did. Like, you don't know why that spell doesn't affect her anymore. Oh, yeah. Okay. So, Lucius, this is going to be three attacks against you,

so we're going to do, because each of your mirror images can go through it, so bludgeoning weapon. That is going to be a 26. yeah uh so you need to roll and see if it hits your mirror image uh no it hits me it actually hits you on the first one because it's like quite isn't it quite low for the first one uh well i rolled a four oh yeah i think it has to yeah okay it has to be above the six oh okay uh do you think it says you're Zulu? Yeah, you're right. I just, yeah, I didn't realise you ruled Zulu. Zulu?

I ruled you 34. Well that's 34 bludgeoning damage, plus 15 fire damage to Lucius from the bludgeoning attack, and then I need to make a straight saving throw. He's not on 69 hit points any seven no you are not prone and winded and then she will stab you with a piercing weapon she sends a spear she'll try and hit you with that that is a 20 to hit yeah do I roll your mirror image it's still active like It's not concentration, so it triggers on its own. Six. So it does hit the mirror image. No, because you got rid of...

Actually, no. Yeah, you haven't got rid of one. Yeah, because I haven't hit it yet, so it's still the first one. So it hits the mirror image. And it hits the AC. Yep, yep. It will destroy the AC.

So that mirror image is gone. And then with her slashing weapon... Ooh, that might miss, actually. Would she have known, though, that she hit me, right? She wouldn't then be like, oh... No, because they're shifting around. The spell is the spells mechanic like the spells mechanics are you have three every time it hits you at your roller dice cool if you roll high enough it hits a mirror as soon as you're like wait on both yeah it's like

mumbling around yeah yeah 13 though on the last one doesn't it doesn't hit so like just like as you're like rolling to the side, she's trying to slam in, like, stay still, worm, just calling out to you as she does. The friars will move up behind the night-grieving knights, and they will chant. None of you are down there to see what those do. You see, on the very edge of the battlefield. I'm just waiting for the next barrage

from the storm chaser. Oh, he's flying? Oh! Oh, he's flying! Skeletal steed with blue glowing flames in its eye sockets rises up on flaming blue hooves like a flying steed and sails through the air as Godric is making his way towards you.

He points and you see seven skeletal creatures and these three ghoulish undead. I won't say ghouls because then people actually think they're ghouls. They are white, three whites. He points, and they are making their way again towards the clip. I need to clear up some of those minions. But yeah, he is mounted. His mount rises into the air.

And I just want to see if he's got what the range on his attacks are. She's real pretty. I can't be mad. This is too cool. The horse is real pretty. Yeah. Can't be mad when it's so gnarly. Exhalo. Is his range good? I have to check the range on the spell. I need to just check all my notes on Godric. Might stay on my tree. It's on fire a bit. I suppose he's holding his giant scythe high in the air. He is, but he raises his skeletal hand at you, Quill.

Oh no! Constitution saving. Leave Quill alone! I can't help you, I'm not paying for you. Sentry is, yeah, cause you were at the top of the thing. I'm too far away, bud. It's 20 foot across.

Constitution, Constitution, okie dokie. Yeah, because you were at the top of the thing. I'm too far away, bud. It's a 20-foot cross. Constitution. Constitution. Okie dokie. You can do this, I believe. I mean, my portent. I believe. Quick, quick, open him for luck. I'm not going to.

Quick. I hate him so much. He's there. No, I don't want to look at him. Channel him. No, I hate him. Okay. What is that thing?

19. I told you, he's good. I love you. 21. I mean, I only have plus two. I don't know if 21's even enough. Come on, little goblin. What about any plus?

Do it for the goblin. She's not nearby. I don't care about the goblin. I'm looking at the raw data. I'm channeling his energy to you. A beam of energy strikes out towards you, Quill, and it hits you, but you manage to kind of rebuff it

with the pure sanctity of your belief as Godric's Finger of Death has no effect. Oh, hell yeah! You beat the DDC by one. One! So I had to roll an 18, 19, or 20. Hell yeah. That was close.

That was so close. And you just watch. Thank him. He just frowns. Oh, he's disappointed. He's a disappointed dad! Sentry. I'm too sweaty for this.

This is too much On the stairs beneath you Oh yes I'm just gonna put them up here so we know that they're on the stairs I'll put them over here

and check They are directly below you They are able to strike up at you but you're gonna get some cover and stuff from these guys But yeah

These two These two grieving errants are gonna make great sword attacks against you You're gonna die son Yeah 18 is a miss Yep These two Grieving Errants are going to make great sword attacks against you. You could have died, son. 18 is a miss. Yep. 18 is a miss.

So that's the first one makes two attacks. And then you're going to get a plus five cover, so I don't think this goes unless I roll really high. They're basically striking, but the angles of trying to fight up through the defensive point and stuff like that, they just can't quite bring themselves to reach you, unfortunately, at this point. Oh uh how are we doing on time okay 50 minutes century yeah like can i force myself

oh sorry at the end of the round two more blasts from the storm chaser okay uh nova make another dexterity saving throw for me because you are still high up but this will be reduced damage as you're getting lower and lower kind of thing. You fell, like... Yeah, yeah. 19. She didn't fall.

No, she didn't fall. She made the dex saving throw instead. She chose to make the dex saving throw. 19. 19? I don't know why I'm telling you. 19. 19.

12 more points of damage, just as you take a little bit of the afterfall. More as the tree is breaking and splinters of it are erupting outwards um and you hear from below you like nova it's is that you like and you can see hot shot like peering up as the gloom is beginning to part and it is beginning to now now be dim light it's not complete darkness like you can just see the faint shape of of hot. Like, what are you doing? I thought you, and like, he's just calling out to you basically.

But yeah. The tree. The tree is exploding. Those of you who were on top of the tower, you can see by the way that more of those Hive Undead had reached the moat and they were basically climbing across it. They were climbing their way up. They all collapsed. hive undead and the dead root just melted away well the the

tree isn't destroyed but it's badly wounded and you watch as all the hive undead collapse you watch uh century the two grieving knights like ah like hold their heads again and you can actually now see like almost like black ichor kind of like oozing out their eye sockets out of like their like any wounds that they've sustained. The Warnight you just watch is like almost like gouts of fire erupting from her body like, she like screams out, and even Godric just like holds his head for a moment.

You can see that they are, yeah, like the tree is not destroyed, but now that it's been heavily weakened, the forces are beginning to break down. Is there, like, a, not to detriment Nova here, but is there, like, a spreading flame on the tree? I just want that for the imagery. Oh, no, there isn't. Like, the tree is breaking. Like, the energy blasts aren't fiery.

They're just, like, pure energy, basically. Splinters. Yeah, splinters. Shards of wood. Yeah, yeah. That is definitely happening. All in my that is definitely sorry you have these two grieving nights they are currently um you have an advantage on your attacks against them oh okay yeah yeah I'll attack them then I was gonna like I was

gonna enlarge and try and block the entrance. But I'll do that. 14 for the first one. So it's an advantage. Okay, it's 12 for the second, so 14 plus 13, 20 E seven. Yep, definitely hits. Awesome, all right, let's get out my divine smites. Right, let's do- These guys do count as undead.

Sick! Okay, incredible. Good news. Okay, I'm gonna do a level, do I have a 4? I might have a level 4. Let me just double check. I do. These things are dead. Level 4 Divine Smite on the first one. They look like pretty tough warriors. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I don't think it even sends you unless she crits and she's not killing these guys in one hit. I need one more D8. Unless she rolls like max damage somehow. Even then I don't think so.

2d12. You got Enlarged Star got enlarged starbreaker starbreaker and plus seven so many dice let's go uh 12 20 28 32, 36, 38, 43, 48, 52 for the first one, plus 7, 59. 59 points are not quite enough to kill them in one blow, but this heavy blow staggers one back, like clutching its chest where its armour has been smoked and blasted by Sentry's Starbreaker's incredible power. Nice. Again. Smorted.

11 plus 13. Still advantage. A little advantage. 11 plus 13. Still going to hit. Nice. I'm going to do another level four again. Okay.

No mucking about. No mucking around. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 38, 40. No, you're fine. You can stop. You watch as with these two, the first like stab with Starbreaker, the green spiraling energy dents its armor and you watch as the body, you can't even really see a physical form under it,

but you do see like some kind of creature like kind of sucking air. And then the second one, just the same spot just rips through and you just and leave a gaping hole as this grieving Aaron just stumbles down the stairs back from whence it came, just leaving the other one glaring. No emotion to its friend, still clutching its head. Yes, you destroy one of these in two blows. So stay back if you know what's good for you,

and then I'll... I cannot. I'll stay there and just protect the stairway. All right, Nova Vija. How injured does the tree look? You reckon one more blast, like two more blasts, so like one more round of the storm chaser shooting will bring this thing down.

If you are on this thing when it goes down, it will be bad. Because I got two ideas of what to do. One's sensible, one's real stupid but kind of cool. Stupid but cool is always the best way to go. Kind of thinking of casting Thunderstep. Okay. Which has 3d tenor damage on it, but I don't know if that's enough to really do anything.

In which case, I'll be sensible. I'm going to do second wind on myself and do a little bit of healing. Okay. And then I'm going to cast Fly. Okay. And then what, 60 feet away? Just away.

Yeah? Yeah. I'd say as long as you're getting away from the tree, if it collapses, it won't be immediate. An immediate danger. The last thing, so that's, you second wind, and you're just going to fly as quickly away as possible. But also, that would mean also I've lost the rod as well.

Okay, so you're going to leave the rod in there. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm not going back for it. Yeah, no, I love it. Yeah, I love it. Sure, sounds good. All right.

I know someone who can go get it. Don't you? Anyway. Don't you dare. Okay, so yeah, I'm going to heal. I'm going to heal and then cast Fly and get GTFO and kind of communicate with Hotshot. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Get away! Get away! You see Hotshot looking up, and as she's running away, and you see this as well whilst the tree is breaking apart you see as the light is now diminishing what you couldn't see before was almost like a like a sack of amber or sap some great tumor at its base the tree's last effort is something is birthed from this sack. Oh! You see a longbow clutching figure kind of like

staggering out and like looking around in a desperate sort of manner. Oh, cool! Oh, cool! We needed that fourth one, didn't we? But I will say this, they do not look like they've been fully regenerated. Oh, Cerise.

You see parts of them haven't been fully formed, as if they were still wounded. You can almost see the same, like, Aayla's hammer blow and the damage from spells and things like that. I just don't really need this right now. That's fine. Quill, in fact, yeah, let's try and quickly run through one last round,

and then we'll end it at the end of the turn, because that'll be easier. Okay, so is everyone within range of me? Oh, Sentry I can't see, can I? I'm downstairs. You're downstairs. I'm rocking and rolling. Fine. I'm going to do a Mass Cure.

Everybody but Nova and Sentry. I healed myself for 22, by the way. Okay. So I'm going to do this. 4, 5, 5d8, 7th level, Mass Cure Wounds. One, two, three, four, five. Plus some as well. Did that not roll?

I'll do it myself then. All right. That goes fine. Oh, that's not amazing. plus some as well. Did that not roll? I'll do it myself then. All right. That goes fine. Oh, that's not amazing. 24 healing to anyone within my range. Okay. So it's everybody but Sentry and Nova, basically.

Yeah. And then I will properly land on the platform, I suppose. So, yeah, if I can be on another side of the wall from Godric, that's where I want to be, even though if I am on the same side of the wall as War Knight. Okay. So, like, what, over here? Yeah.

Next to Aayla? Yeah, that works. Okay. End of turn? End of turn. Lucius, over here? Yeah. Next to Aela? Yeah, that works. Okay. End of turn? End of turn. Lucius, then Aela. Lucius is going to get up from his prone and look at Elwynn, the Warnight, and say, Do you not remember who you were?

Elwynn, a hero. Hmm. A tree weakened. Make a persuasion check with disadvantage. All right. All right. Persuasion. 21.

Ooh. Clutching her head, she looks at you, and for a moment, that flame dies in the eyes, and her eyes return to a pale green, like a, you know, a wire or other orcs you've seen, like, you know, normal eyes. And she kind of clutches the helmet and pulls it off and her sort of burnt blonde hair spills around her shoulders and her head

and you see, like, this very blackened and scarred face and she just looks and she's like, yes, of course I remember, but she's making us. And you see the flame starting to flicker and glow back in, as if trying to reassert, almost fill her back. And she's just like, the rage, the hate, it's all. And it's beginning to, almost like a fire is being stoked within her. I'm going to say, you can be that hero once more.

Let me in. And I'm going to cast, you can be that hero once more. Let me in. And I'm going to cast Dominate Monster on her. At ninth level. Yes. Yes! Mind Palace battle. Yes! Mind Palace Battle. So, I need you to roll...

1d20 plus 9, because that's the level of the spell you're casting at. Just the one. Here we go! d20 plus 9. Oh no! Natural 1? Here we go. D20 plus nine. Oh no. Natural one. Natural one, yeah. It's a very cool thing you're doing.

Seeking spell? It's fun. You know what, if you wanna spend sorcery points, how much is seeking spell, just one? Two. If you spend two sorcery points, I'll let you re-roll it. Hell yeah, I'm gonna spend that. Because it's the idea, right, of like, seeking spell is like you redirecting the course of the spell,

but sorcery points are like your innate source of power and magic. This is more like you can feel resistance. You can feel Calara's will driving this thing, but maybe not even Calara's will. Something deep within Elwynn herself is blocking this out and using your sorcerous energy, you're going to try and break through. You can see my gauntlet spiraling into energy and pushing through. That's a two.

Oh, my God. So I think what this is is I wanted to give you a cool thing. So what this is is because normally I would make the saving throw. Elwynn has an ability, all of the knights do, that if they fail a saving throw against an effect that caused them to be charmed, paralyzed, stunned, or otherwise controlled, they can choose, like a legendary resistance.

In this case, I'm going to allow that ability to work. So what this is, is you reach, and you can see visions and memories, and you see in Elwynn's mind, you see a lifetime before she joined. You know, this all happens in a flash. You see visions of a lifetime spent aboard orc fleet vessels, but a brutal sort of like pirate's life, you know,

constantly like raiding other ships and fleets, fighting against each other, killing other orcs and other traders, not just other orcs, but like humans and dwarves and many others, all at the behest of family members, a brother and a father it seems who constantly pushed her for her strength her great combat prowess to be this enforcer to wage this private war against the other families in order to enrich themselves and eventually she left that life and she became a knight of the order of black and she dedicated herself to to try to make up for that past but that that hatred of herself that

hatred of her father and her brother who forced her into this life is still deep there and it is it is filling this this furnace of rage and hate that is the the the root the kind of like the the thing from which this this necrotic power that kalara has bound to her has become and that is what's causing it and as you reach that almost trying desperately with your magic to snuff out those feelings you just feel this presence and you hear a soft woman's voice just say, no, they are my champion, not yours. And you're almost, like, shunted out of her presence as you feel something eject forcibly from it.

Anything else, Lucius? Sorry, that was a really cool RP, and, like, the dice rolls rolls were just like, nope. The result's still cool. Yeah. Still a cool moment. Lucius would be exhausted from that. Okay.

You wouldn't do anything else. You're done? All right, let's quickly try and just real quick, Ayla, and then I will end it here. Because I'll have a little cliffhanger and then we'll end it. WWAD. What would Ayla do?

What would Ayla do? Quack. She's like, Elwynn is discombobulated, right? Yeah, Ayla would have advantage on her, but even without Reckless. I mean, this is still clumsy attack, so right? Maybe. I don't know. She seems to be heavily confounded

by whatever is happening with the tree and also Lucius's thing definitely is throwing her off uh actually here again how much flying can she have eat here in the moat 50 feet how far away is godrick is 60 feet exactly i measured it for finger of death okay um i would say yeah he was just enraged. Yeah. I think... I think Aayla will... I don't want to just damage the weapon again, though, because I know that sucks. Just punch?

Yeah, she could just... Shoulder bodge? Headbutt? I mean, she can make unarmed strikes. Like, she can literally just be, like, fists. Headbutt. Yeah, all right. In that case, just some big punches.

Sure. Which is, I mean, it's not bad damage, to be honest. One plus a strength modifier. So it's eight. It's eight damage. Eight damage. Yeah, eight damage. And she still gets a rage bonus. So it'd actually be 12 damage.

Oh, 12 damage. What, twice? If she hits, yeah. Oh, if she hits. oh she hits yeah she's still gonna hit oh there it is only plus 13 on this as well so uh that's a 31 hits and the second one is 24 24 hits so that would be 12 24 points of damage total uh it does get halved because the one eight does uh half it so it's gonna be 12. Doesn't matter. If Hammer doesn't work.

Hammer works, it's just that whenever these kind of like more clumsy attacks the Warnite was able to kind of punish, and I may do, but yeah, Aayla just begins just like pummeling, almost like a boxer, just like into her ribs, and it kind of snaps Elwynn the Warnite out, and she's just like and she just begins screaming and bellowing with rage.

Before we end, the last thing. Sam, I'm so sorry. What else has turned up? Wait. Aboard a similar skeletal steed, you see a ember elf with dark purple skin, their heads studded with blue jewels, looking gaunt and thin.

They ride up next to Godric. As the famine knight joins. Lamelies. Lamelies. And that is where we're going to end the episode. All four knights are here now. Yes, although one of them, the war knight, is heavily wounded. I will tell you this.

Elwynn is heavily, heavily wounded. Cerise did not look to be in full health and has only just been sort of birthed and able to join. Godric and Lamelies are completely unfazed. Well, tree. I would say Lamelies definitely is holding their head but looks more together. Godric does not seem to be fazed by the tree. Godric is like holding their head but looks more together Godric does not seem to be fazed by the tree Godric is like holding his head but he seems

completely calm and composed oh yeah so whatever is going on he's not faked in that's what we're gonna end it we go we're gonna wrap this up yeah so hey thanks so much for watching we will see you next time thanks for joining us take care see you later. Bye.