High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #155 | The Fall of War (Part 2)

Episode Date: August 11, 2022

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Pickaxe. Welcome back to part two of High Rollers as we are in battle. Having just defeated the War Knight once and for all, the party are now facing off against the Famine Knight as Godric, the Death Knight, the leader of the Knight Commanders of the Black and Rose, has made their way back into their temple. In another part of the battle, Nova Vija was trying to do battle with Cerise, the Plague Knight. However, having been heavily injured, it fell to Hotshot the Guardian to sacrifice themselves

with a powerful explosion to destroy the Plague Knight once and for all as well. R.I.P. Live in our hearts, Hotshot. RSVP. RSVP. Press F to pay respects. They're not going to RSVP. Press F. RSVP. Press F to pay respect. They're not gonna RSVP. All right. So we jump back in and I think that we're gonna be hopefully finishing stuff

up. I believe that was, so it was Sentry. Max just had his go. I think I went through everybody else. So yeah, we go back up to the top with Sentry. It's Sentry's turn. I'm gonna take this opportunity to get a little healing. Okay. I'm going to give myself some lay on hands points. I'm going to go 40. Bring myself up to a hundo. Lovely. Love to see it. Nice. End of turn? That'll be my end of turn, please.

Alright, Nova Vija, your turn is basically making your way to that entrance way into the plaza, because you are a fair distance away, so if you and Shade are just basically invisibly moving, trying to sneak your way through. Oh, Rhiannon, why are you making that face? Sorry, I'm trying to do maths.

That's right. I mean, you've got 65 and 40. So unless you want to do anything else, I'm going to assume that your whole turn is basically maneuvering your way through the monastery, through the temple, to try and get back out into this courtyard. So your turn is basically just spent moving unless there's anything else you want to do invisibly anything else you want to do like you don't have

messenger ring or anything do you so you're basically on your own you and shade really good hammering right now but you did we should say that you got 10 points of hp back because elwynn died and that's right i just didn't want to like after that cinematic moment, be like, ah, I just healed for 10. We have Quill, then Lucius. Is anyone missing me? Is anyone in the party? Lucius misses Nova. Nice.

So your turn, it's Quill's turn. Yeah, on my turn, I'd like to spend an entire action missing Nova. Yay! I am going to Guiding, what's the range on Guiding Bolt? Guiding Book. Well, I can say that they are probably 60 feet

from this circular tower, and you're about 20 feet on the outside of that, so they're about 90 feet. It's 120 feet Guiding Bolt, so I will third, fourth level Guiding Bolt. You are targeting the Famine knight with a spell, yes? Oh. Yep.

Okay, cast a spell. Go ahead, press cast. It all goes off as normal. Make my day. Let me check my notes. Yeah, I forgot about that. About the famine knight. Okay, plus 14 to hit.

With that? Oh god, 19. Will just hit. Prepare. Oh, God, 19. Will just hit. Just. And it's 46, 5, 6, 7. Point six. No, the spell will trigger, but then I've got Quill has to do something at the end of it.

Oh, okay. Do you remember all the notes that we got about these knights? Yeah. That Quill himself was the one who saw? Damage, please. 21. 21 points of radiant damage, and the next attack against them has advantage, correct?

Yes. All right. Can you make a charisma saving throw for me, please? Okay. That's not... Okay. That's okay. 18.

That's not enough. Ah! Luckily, I rolled very low. You lose. Do you have any second level spell slots left? I do. All right, can you lose one please? As you cast the spell, it drains magic from you. As you target the creature, they open their mouth, almost unhinging it,

and they suck in magic power. I think I was aiming for her mouth. His mouth. His mouth. His mouth. All right. End of turn? Any movement? I am happy where I am.

All right. Behind this wall. Lucius flickers to life a chromatic orb, sees that, and then dismisses it. Okay. He's going to cast Fly on himself. Okay. And he's going to quicken that with two sorcery points, okay Which leaves him to be able to move at fly speed which is 60 feet 60 feet

Can I can I get to them you want to get as close as possible? I think you would end up 20 feet away. Oh I'm gonna get you But it's Oh, I'm gonna get you. You're flying towards them. But it's captain's command first. Okay, love it. So you're 20 feet away from them. All right, end of turn, nothing else? Nothing else.

All right, then we go to Ayla. Save my reaction. Excellent, I think I can reach them. I would like to fly 50 feet up towards them. 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, you can. And... When you get within 15 feet of them, you immediately take 15 necrotic damage.

As you get close to them, again, something that Quint saw in the vision. I wasn't here. No, no, no. I didn't know. Well, yeah, that's it. I mean, you've got to get close anyway. I mean, I didn't have to, but... You got it.

This is the one that's strong against spellcasters. What? This is the one that's very strong against spellcasters. Okay. What is the damage that the Flaming Hammer does? The Flaming Hammer. So it's 46 bludgeoning, and then it deals an extra 2d8 fire damage.

But you take five fire point damage at the start of your turn as well, when you're holding it. Oh, cold and hot. That will be nine plus... Wait, no. Nine plus... How much to hit? Because it's a plus three weapon. Yes, so it'll be 16. Plus 30, wait, no, nine plus...

How much to hit? Because it'll be, it's a plus three weapon. Yes, so it'll be 16, I think. If your normal base, yeah. Plus 16 to hit. So nine plus is definitely gonna hit. So 46 base damage, and then 2d6, 2d8, sorry, fire. Nine, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 plus modifier? Yeah, plus rage as well.

So 20 with rage plus... Nine, so 29 damage on the hammer first strike, and then... 2d8 fire. 2d8 fire. Which I rolled a 5 and a 6 on. So another 11, so that puts us to 40 damage total. That's one hit. Like you hear bones snap as this huge mace. I hit again.

I'm going to say now, we'll take that first hit. There's something, because Elwynn has now died, there's a change that happens with the mace. Oh, is there? We'll say that for the first attack, it remains this giant-sized shape, and it still has a flaming effect. When Elwynn dies dies the mace shrinks uh down to like a more human-sized like two-handed maul so it's

only 2d6 damage and it's 1d85 damage instead um so it's like it was enlarged when she was using it and then as she dies like we'll say that as like you're flying away that's when her life finally ends and then it shrinks down. So it becomes like a normal flaming maul, basically. But plus three. Yes, it is still a plus three weapon. And you no longer take the five fire damage when you're holding it.

It just becomes like a magic weapon. Okay. So 12 plus 16. It's... Forget it. So now it's just 2d6 plus 1d8. 2d6. I forgot that when she dies, all of her weapons become mundane, basically.

Or, like, not mundane. Where's the barrel? It wasn't a barrel that she had. It had, like, an extra dimensional space that she could open from. 15 on the hammer, and then 11 fire 26 then Dexing and then a deck save yes that's that's exactly what it's it's based on 23 so I think this is half 16 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. So 8. 30 damage. In two blows, Lamelies is looking very injured as he's looking at you like angry and a little bit afraid.

Stay mad. End of turn? Yeah. All right. On Lamelies' turn, first thing they're going to use is a bonus action to teleport 15 feet away from you. Have ya, that's fair. Bye!

So I don't get a hit against them. And basically you can move them to the very far corner trough, because that's basically where they are. There? Yeah, I think that's pretty much where they are. Now we can just... And then they will look at Lucius and Lucius can you make a constitution saving throw for me please? It is a spell. They're casting a spell. It is the blight spell. You've seen this one before so that's why I'm just going to tell you what it is.

Natural one. Oh. That's a full damage then. Double damage. Triple damage. This is going to be its base level though. Quadra damage. You're dead.

Eight. I feel quadra damage. No, it's not. I don't have quadra. No, you used it, didn't you? Yeah. Quadra, who is that? I can't remember. I Yeah, you used it, didn't you?

Yeah. What did you use it on? I can't remember. I had a 12 and an 8. That's cool. 28 necrotic damage to you, Lucius. It's not too terrible for a blight, actually. And then against Ayla, so they cast Blight, and then they turn with a black ray.

They're going to point at you, Ayla, for a 27 to hit. Yep. So you're going to take... Cuts. for a 27 to hit. So you're going to take... that's going to be 10 cold damage, and your strength is reduced by 2. Reduced by 2? Is that a temporary thing? You would certainly hope so. I sure hope it does.

Yes, Lucius? Can I use my Chromatic Control in my reaction to change that to acid, and then absorb it into my gauntlet? The necrotic damage, no, because you can't use it on necrotic damage. You can only use it on elemental types of damage, your Chromatic Control. Oh, elemental. Yeah, you can't do Radiant, Psychic, Necrotic, or Force, either. Okay, I take it like a champ. All right, nice. Actually, I'm just gonna say that for now, I might be wrong, but just because my brain is there,

I'm pretty sure that's how it works. It kinda makes sense. I think that's how it works. I might be wrong, because I do remember I changed it. There's a magical effect, such as a spell or supernatural ability. Is this under chromatic control? This is...

Or is this your gauntlet? You can attempt to draw the energy of the spell into your gauntlet's prism. Yeah, but it has to be cold or acid damage, doesn't it? That deals acid or cold damage, yeah. Okay, we'll check it. I might have changed it. This is a chromatic sorcerer thing

because this is chromatic control. What I was going to do was change it and then... Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know I'm not saying that, but for chromatic control, I'm trying to remember if it only can...

Let's just rule it as you've done it. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to just rule it for that for now. Who is on the ground? Sentry, you're still on the ground, aren't you, with Max?

Everybody else is up above or flying. Oh, he's down. That's a good question. Nice, chillin'. Does it say? I think I might have gotten it wrong. It's fine. It's fine.

Let's just say Lucius was like, I could have controlled that. Oh, well. The only thing Max can really do at this stage, he's kind of a bit limited, without his weapon and his spells mainly used, is he will just touch you century and give you a shield of faith plus two ac nice thanks max you can't expose chest

yeah i'm afraid there's not much i can do against a flying mate so i'm going to take cover try and provide support where i can each pet is pulsing oh my god his eyes glance like a comedian yeah Like a chameleon. And is in fact, we go up to Sentry's Turn? I can't remember, is the Ballista on that tower? It's not, is it? It's on this one. Technically it is. It did get hit by a lot of things like ice storms and other spells. It might be usable. Remember when I suggested that was maybe an idea that we had? The thing is you could have it all the way up to a teeny tiny room.

I mean, I'm big. But she's big. That's true. How high is the tower? 20 feet. Can I Misty Step up onto the top of the tower? Yeah, you can. And then pull the Ballistae off.

It was going to happen eventually. Do you want to basically hold it like a big gun? Yeah. Oh no, she's got a gun. She has a big gun. I would say bonus action, Misty Step up, action to pull the ballista off. You don't need to make a check because you're big.

It is pretty battered, and there's like a couple of, there's maybe like three, in fact, actually, I'll roll. There's three bolts left that survived all of the destruction and the flames and everything else but you're not sure how many attacks this ballista has before it's gonna break uh it's like oh it's burned it's like cracked it's been smashed by ice like it's sturdy but it's not that sturdy um all right i'll just face it down just get ready just point it towards the all right nova vija uh this is where you would enter into the plaza, right?

So on your turn, we'll probably say at the end of your turn, you emerge into the plaza. You can put these guys basically under the mage. Oh. Oh, his mouth's shaved dead. He's gone. He's gone. But yeah, so you basically emerge.

You're still further away, like we're just not on the map. The cloister exit is quite far ahead, but you emerge seeing Aayla, like, having flown up and, like, smacked the sky in the face. Lucius flying towards this mage. You see Sentry in the distance, like, pulling this ballista off. But that's pretty much going to be at the end of your turn

by the time you get there, because I'm thinking like 60 feet each turn dashing would get you to about here at this point. So I can't Eldritch Blast him. Afraid not this turn. Is Eldritch Blast technically a spell? Yes. Yeah, okay. I'll tell Shade

as we get in, kind of whispering to him like... You're also still invisible. You and Shade are both invisible. Yeah, I'll be trying to whisper, hopefully whispering to Sh also still invisible. You and Shade are both invisible. Yeah. I'll be trying to whisper, hopefully whispering to Shade or just myself, and just like, you stay out of this.

You hide. You should as well until you're more healed. The others have this. All right. Quill. Got that immediately. I mean, I...

I can't see... I just got it. I can't see Nova, so I can't heal you. I'm invisible. And if I cast spells on the Ember Elf, I lose spells. Assuming that you can do it an unlimited amount of times, yes. Yay.

That's bait. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark bait. Is it? Mark bait. Maybe. Mark bait. Maybe. So yeah, I'm not... Mark bait. Come see, come sir. I'll tell you at the end of this battle if it was bait or not.

It was bait, if we survived. If we survived. Quirrelec and then Lucius afterwards to get ready. Trot. How high up is this big boy? He would have been flying, I think, 40 feet up. It's about 40 feet above. Interesting. I am going to fly to... Wait, is it still silent there? Yes, technically.

It's sort of a... Okay, I'm not going to go to Sentry. Yeah, it is. The awkward silence is still there, yeah. So Sentry's like written in pure silence. Just in pure silence. Just in your head. All right, I will fly. Sentry stop, sentry stop.

I'll fly down next to Max and I will cast guidance on him. Okay, on Max. Yeah, he just said he can't do it. I think like, yeah, Quill, he would probably be like, Quill, there's nothing I can do. I've got a touch range on Guidance, and I don't want to... There's literally nothing I can do. I can do nothing.

Apart from flex my magnificent pecs. I'm unarmored. I have no weapon. I'm reaching forward. You want to do it, but like, I can tell you now, on his turn, he's not attacking. He has nothing to attack with. I cast resistance on him. That's probably a bit better.

Yeah, all right, sure. He could crush the Ember Elf with his pecs. All right, end of turn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lucius is continuing to storm forward, even though he's moved back. 60 feet, I actually think you can still get in range. I think I can make it, yeah. If you can get 30-foot range. Yeah. If you want to just move yourself next to him. Oh, he's been back. 60 feet, I actually think you can still get in range. I think I can make it, yeah. If you can get 30-foot range.

Yeah. If you want to just move yourself next to him. Oh, he's dead. I died. Oh, he's really dead. When you get within 15 feet, you take 15 product damage. So, Mark, en route, I'm going to quicken Armor of Agathys on myself.

So you see the ice emerge, two pauldrons. And I continue forward. I'm gonna do that at level three. Sure. Just so you know, this life drain effect won't trigger the Armour of Agathys. It won't cause the cold damage back. Does it not?

It has to be an attack. It has to be a proper attack. This is just like being near this guy, you take 15 as like your life force is being drained. Oh, it is a melee attack. You're right. Well, thank you. I won't do that then.

In which case, I'll tank the damage and just swipe at him. Okay. You still technically have a D6 of fire damage as well because you used absorbed elements. Oh, there's only one turn. Yeah, there's only for the next turn. That's two for a 12. He brings up a...

You see like a coiling whip of black and ice kind of knock the blade away. That's Lucius' turn. All right. You're not going to armor of Agathys anyway? No. Okay. I was just wondering if he was still doing it.

All right, Hela. I'm still flying until the end of this turn. So I will hit again. I mean, just put me at the bottom of the tower because I will drop down after that anyway. How much necrotic was it? 15, and that's same same for you as well. Another 15.

Just being near this creature, like you feel it feeding off your life force. As I'm swinging my sword, I say to Aayla, I'm not good at this. It's my first time. Really? No, I haven't noticed. It's confidence. That's a nat one, so that will miss.

Same thing, like the whip knocks the blade to the side. That's a 19 though, so 19 plus 16. Yep, that's a hit. Two d6, so five, eight, 19, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. 21 total points of damage. With the hammer. Even though it knocks the first blow to the side,

the second clocks him on the face, unhinging that distended jaw. Then 10. Is it still fire damage here? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's 1d8 fire damage. Oh, 5 then.

5 points of fire damage. And then a dex save. That's a natural one. Perfect. 30, 40, 15, 16 lightning damage. As the hammer blow cracks down, you just reach out with a hand as lightning, almost like a serpent,

coiling down your arm, blasts in, catches the ember elf, passes through him, and you just see their eyes completely glaze over um and again you just hear this faint sort of like release whoa okay they were they had didn't weren't as sturdily built as the others they definitely were more sort of like lucius and quill a bit more sort of uh fragile in their he got blown up by the storm chaser. Yeah. Oh, yeah, true.

Yeah. As they are destroyed, their last eight hit points are taken away. Three down, one to go. Nice. For now, we will take you out of initiative. Okay. There is no immediate threat in this area. Oh, I forgot to take, if there was any strength things minus, but I think I still did enough damage.

Yes, you would have. One less damage was not going to change that. Okay. Things like your weapon damages, your strength being reduced, and your exhaustion do not go away yet. Okay. But yeah, we drop out of battle momentarily perhaps, but there is no immediate danger.

Okay, is Nova visible or still just? Loitering. After about a few seconds, the silence ends. Are we done? Are we ready to go? I'm ready. That one's gone, and so is the other two, I think. Other one that I know of. Is he dead? That one's gone, and so is the other two, I think. Other one that I know of.

Good job. I think Sentry will just sling the ballistae over her back. Sure. Yes. Yep, we killed this one. Nice job. Thank you. Wait, do you want to see where the...

Wait, Godric went. I mean, you all saw him go into the main keep. The double doors are just off the map. You can see the huge doors leading into the temple where this now broken, burning tree exists. One person heard it, but I don't know who it was. Because one person knows. You heard it.

I know where Godric went. Nerfy, you're right, because I'm flying above. I think as you were all having this conversation, you just hear this babbling like, hey, everybody, I went into the dream with a bat. But you can't see Nova, but she's just like word vomiting like everything that she's done in the last however long this is. Am I far enough away that, yeah, I think I am just far enough away

because I would land down there and Nova's not in five feet of me, but I would take a swing as a natural instinct. Oh, you really, okay. No, but you're outside of my reach, just. 13 HP, Katie! Yeah, but you're outside of my reach, but you started talking and you're invisible. She would take a swing.

Sorry, Shade. Sorry, Shade. Shade's dead. Yeah, for the sake of ease, you can all, yeah, like, Century, you can make your way down the stairs, She would take a swing. Sorry, Shade. Sorry, Shade. Shade's dead. Yeah. Yeah. For the sake of ease, you can all, yeah, like, Century, you can make your way down the stairs. You join up with Max and Quill.

Look what I've got. That's, Max will actually go back into the tower you're coming from and he will pull one of the greatswords from one of the knight errants.

Oh, nice. And he'll, like, grab that. It's a mundane greatsword. It's not a magical one, but he'll grab that and he'll look at the armor and, like, measure it and he's like, that's's only it's a mundane great sword it's not a magical one but he'll grab that um he'll look at the armor and like measure it and he's like that's not gonna fit ah it and he just puts like he's kind of still got like his tattered cloak so he kind of like slides like into like the back of it he's but yeah he's still top no he's still topless okay good

hey why is maximilian naked nova nova you're invisible, sorry. I guess now I can see how very bad. Like, she's still got, like, the sinew of the Plague Knight sticking out of her body, like, cuts and bruises and blood. I blew up a tree while I was still in it. Wait, that was you? You've been fighting Cerise. You've got the thing, the yucky thing. Yeah.

Where's she? Go on. Hotshot gave her life to destroy the other one, the Plague Knight. We were gonna die otherwise, all of us. She nearly killed all three of us, but Hotshot gave her life. Shade just bows his head, his little.

I am the only one left. Sentry put her hand on Shade's shoulder. I'm really sorry, Sentry, but her matrix is gone. It's okay. She did what she had to do to protect you. I couldn't stop her. I tried. It's okay. It's okay. I mean, look at what you've done. The tree is destroyed. That's never coming back. That helped us. Did it? What happened?

Wait, hang on. before Godric left, I don't know if you could hear it, he was talking about going back into the keep to try and restore the Rot Heart. What? Yeah, so I mean, we can, I don't think we have time to rest, I think we need to go and stop him now.

Okay. Not use hotshot sacrifice in vain. Nova? Level nine, Level nine heal. Holy crap. It's the only level I can do it at. Oh my god. So you recover 70, 80, 90, 100 HP.

Jesus. What? Incredible. She's officially got more hit points than me now. I have a big heal. Okay, you're all good now. Oh man, I feel so, Can you get this out of me? Cedric.

Okay, okay, okay, I'll help. I'm big. Tiny. Just flick it out. Max will walk over with having recovered a greatsword and trying to find pieces of armour. He's got a shoulder piece that he's managed to strap and maybe one arm that he's pulled off some of the knight errants, and maybe a couple of tacits hanging off his belt,

but he's still mainly naked. He looks very much like a warrior in an anime where he's got one armored shoulder and then no other armor on, and just a burnt cape. Was it like Titus's dad, Jecht? Yeah, Jecht, yeah, kind of like that, or like Raoban from Final Fantasy XIV. He's got that kind of look, and he just walks up, yeah, kind of like that, or like Raoban from Final Fantasy XIV. He's kind of got that kind of look,

and he just walks up, and he's just like... It's not much, but I've recovered at least something. You're naked. I'm not naked. I just don't have a shirt. My underarm was destroyed when she ripped my chest piece off. Can I give one maximum of hands points? No, please, Sentry, it's fine.

I insist. No, no, no, it's fine. I insist. No, no, no, I'm looking at the rest of you, I am actually, Quill's heel restored me to full, I am fine.

Lucius ducks in. I think I'm the most healed out of all of you. Okay. Yeah. Lucius ducks in and puts his head in Century's hand.

Oh, okay. Yes. Heal the others. Yes. I have, I can restore a little bit. Ayla, he'll give you ten hit points. That's all he's got left. That's all he's got. Ayla, how is your hammer? I saw you were swinging at the War Knight constantly.

How stupid. Tom Hazel, do you want to live? No. No, you don't. Okay, then keep going. How's your hammer? Is there any way we can repair it? Also, Century Starbreaker. Do you want to take a closer look? Snack! Guys, you really must press this attack. Godric is out there trying to repair the rot.

I can't do it now, but if we can defeat Godric and we have some time, I'm a blacksmith. I can try. That would be wonderful. Hopefully. Many things, but my father was a particularly skilled artisan and blacksmith. There must be a forge here. If this is a keep, if they're isolated, they must have somewhere to maintain their weapons and armor. I suspect they have a forge here somewhere. But we should deal with,

as Lucius says, I think that we should deal with this god drink first. Sorry, I keep getting distracted. Has everyone got enough? What's the same words? Has everyone got enough in them to keep going? Potions! Potions!

Who has all the death wards and necrotic resistances? Why didn't we drink those? Because you're going to fight Mr. Undead himself? Yeah. I have one Necrotic Resistance potion left. Me too. Do not forget, you must also still face Kalara as well. This is only one step.

Yeah, I don't know how we're going to do two fights. This does last an hour. I have one Scroll of Death Ward. Who would like a Scroll of Death Ward? I think it's an hour. Okay. Yeah, they're all an hour. I mean, we are pretty much gonna back to back this, right?

Yes. We don't have much time. You don't know. Like if you defeat Godric, you might not have to go and rush into facing Calara immediately. Possibly. With the Rot Heart destroyed, like,

I mean, Nova had seen that, like, without the Rot Heart, they can't regenerate bodies. They can't make the knights again because that's why it kind of ejected Cerise out early. Yeah. Oh, I also have a Death Ward scroll. Which one has got... What's Godric's powers?

Remind me. Everything. Godric. He's basically death. He has a skeletal steed. He could summon spirits and undead. He's got a scythe. He's got a big old scythe-y boy. He strengthens and undead he's got a scythe um he's got a big big old scythe boy

he strengthens the undead horde around him uh he can command the undead to charge forward to explode and then restrain with shattered bone okay uh the scythe crackles with necrotic energy replenishing the night with each strike the skelet skeletal hand harms the living and leaves wounds festering, unable to be healed magically. Just off the top of the dome. Okay. Areas of silence, Rey's dead. Yeah, he's never been defeated before. Yeah. Who's the other one?

Well, let's be his first time. He's the highest commander of the Iron. First and last. Probably second person. Let's be the first. Yes. He's the highest commander of the Horde. First and last. Probably second person. Let's be the first. Yes. Given what we've already accomplished here, I think he will be hard pressed.

We can do it. Is sentry still massive? Yes. Okay, let's do the sentry. That lasts a minute, right? The enlarge? I think so. Was the necromancy potion, was that the time we intended to use them?

Yeah, I mean, by the time this conversation ends, by the time you get into the next fight, I would just say it's gone. Like any spells or effects that last a minute or less, just remove them. Like they're not gonna continue, they're gonna remain in effect. How long does it take to attune to something again?

One hour. Yeah. But yeah, I'll chug a necrotic resistance potion. Gives you one hour of necrotic resistance. Yeah, a man in. All right. I have one left on me if anybody wants it. Has anyone else taken one?

The Nerva should have it. I've got one. I guess maybe I should have it. Okay, I'll give mine to you. If someone can do Death Ward for me then, and I won't have resistance. I can give you a Death Ward. Okay. Well, won't one of these two need to cast it on you?

They'd cast it on you, since it's a scroll. But both Sentry and Quill can both cast it. Because I don't have resistance, if someone can cast that. So what Death Ward does is when you, well, you might want to reconsider casting it on you, because basically what it does is when you go to zero, you go to one HP instead, which you already get. I thought you said that I didn't if it was like something that would outright kill me. Oh, yes, that's true. Yeah, that's the only difference, actually.

So, yeah, if it's something that would outright kill you, like Disintegrate or Finger of Death or stuff like that, that does counter it. He's probably got Finger of Death. And he did try and use it on me once before. Yeah, he did have Finger of Death. So Aela's death warded and Lucius is a potion of health resistance. And I'm less than half health now, so just as I. Okay, well I can give you my last 20 Lay on Hands as well. Wait, what are you at though?

I'm at 100. Yeah, we're about the same then. 10 each? Sure. Yeah, yeah. What about the final death ward? Does anyone else want it? You should have it.

You. Yeah, because you're the healer. Thank you. You're the healer. I will. Shug it. Yeah, I will death ward myself. Yeah. Cool, and yeah, in terms of spell slots, I'm not terrible.

I have none. I'm at level one, but I'm a warlock. Yeah. Cool. You've only got one? I'm at level one, but I can divine power and regain a few. Lucius? Yeah, do you want to do that now, Sentry? Anything that you can do on your turn, you can just do now.

But this is not going to be enough time for a short rest. All right. Lucius is greedily downing the necrotic resistance and didn't hear you. What did you say? How are you, magically? Magically, I'm pretty famished, but I've got a little bit in me to keep going. Good enough to fight an undefeated?

We don't have time. Okay, okay. We'll have to work around it. In that case... We've always got cantrips. Yeah, true. We've always got cantrips. Like, create a bonfire that doesn't create light.

Doesn't... I mean, look. Make it up with wizards, man. Like... I've found a workaround. Okay, sure. Okay. Gonna wait.

Put dancing lights on a bonfire. I'm gonna wait until I show you. All right. It's gonna come up. Can't wait. It's gonna to come up. Can't wait. It's going to be so useful. Okay. Okay, we ready?

Yes. Let's head into the keep, which is where he went, right? Where he's expecting us. I will summon Tiangong as well and chug a necrotic resistant potion and tell Shade to go and hide somewhere. Make sure you mark off all these necrotic potions. This poor, precious bean. Yeah, Shade is like, I can't help now at this point.

I'm done. And you never did. How dare you? Oh, wow. He's not wrong. No, he healed me. If he hadn't have healed me, I would have died. That's true, that's true.

How dare you? And he did do some damage at one point. Jesus. How dare you? All right, so, I've got to think here because i want to describe this so we can do it for you if you want ah no he's not there no no no no no no no no no no when you the double doors still slightly open from when so godric entered them before uh you begin to pull them apart.

Looking in there is an antechamber where once there would have been a great font, like a fountain would have sat, now dry, empty. There are spaces that you can see lanterns would have once hung from the ceiling from great chains. All the lanterns are missing, just the chains remain. There is a spiral staircase that leads up to the side of this antechamber and corridors that lead off to the cloister and various other parts but ahead of you is another set of huge ornate double doors engraved with symbols of giant iron fences covered in flowers with gravestones and mausoleums behind them and standing watch over all of it is a woman in a black veil,

her hands outstretched, tending to a garden, it seems. A garden, a mortuary. Those doors are closed. But beyond, you hear the sounds of Gregorian chanting, as if a great prayer is being conducted, a muffled voice offering some sort of ritual is being undertaken. Is it like a lot of voices or...? It's a fair few, yeah. OK, maybe a dozen, half a dozen.

That's all the friars in there. I'm going to step to the side of the door and look at Ayla and Century. Okay, ready for them to just... If you want to. Personally, as Katie, I'm feeling like I've missed a couple of sessions. I'm not 100% in the setting of what this part is. This is a separate place.

This is a separate place. And there's fires. So imagine that this... Where you've been fighting is like the plaza, the courtyard of this keep. Imagine like going up to the main hall of a castle that's inside the walls. And this is like a grand cathedral,

like a huge temple. If you've been to Bristol Cathedral, you kind of know that. You are currently in the antechamber where there's normally like a fountain and like side rooms split off. And then ahead of you is like a huge pair of double doors that leads into the main um the main area like the main section of the of the temple and monastery have we seen the friars before or yes they have

seen them they've seen them they are basically dressed in black robes they look like monks um and uh you i don't think if you saw what they did i can't remember no we know that they took down where they were instructed to take down the lanterns like previously because we were talking about because one thing the roth heart did was make everything pitch black and they took down the lanterns and there's something about that no the light is still dark like this area is still dark but it's getting lighter slowly as if and And you can see that the black pollen and petal that was falling from the Rot Heart has stopped. And now light is beginning to...

It's like it's dawning, as if the night is ending. Huh, okay. It's like the end of Curse of Stride, isn't it? Maybe. But yeah, in terms of this area, we haven't actually been here before. Okay, cool. Nobody's been into the main...

Just checking on the friar situation, you know? There's also Celestial somewhere. Oh! That teleported them in. Oh! The knights. Yeah. Oh!

Where did we see that light come from? The teleport light above. So in this building, but above. Directly above here. Okay. Looks like there must be a chamber above this antechamber that you're currently in. Oh. That's not great.

Do you want to open these doors? Not really. I mean, I don't want to, but I think we have to. I don't think there's any time for caution or stealth. Would he be here, or would he be by the tree? This way leads to the base of the tree. Oh, it leads to the tree, okay. I can send you going in and see.

They're chanting, they're probably trying to pray the tree back or something. Let's interrupt it. Yep. Let's go. All right. Who's opening these doors? I can open them, I've got a Starbreaker.

Sentry. These huge doors. You look into a barren looking chamber. The temple, the pews have all been cleared away. Where this once would have been a place of worship has been cleared out. You now see many, many hundreds, thousands of lit candles now lying the edges, all lit, burning away, different heights and sizes, that leads towards the end that would have once looked out onto the plaza, the sort of grand plaza through a stained glass window. That window has been destroyed by the resulting explosions and now looks out onto the burnt, broken remains of the tree that is once there. There is once, probably would have, there's an altar at the end of the chamber and you can see that there are many,

you can imagine sort of like, you know, the secondary platforms of like, you know, a church. You've been in like big cathedrals kind of things before, these big archways kind of covering it. But you're basically staring down like a long, thin stone chamber. The end of which you see Sir Godric, plate armor, graying hair pushed back, holding up in one hand a celestial, but their face is completely engulfed in like a metal black helmet. Their hands are like bound behind their back. Their legs are chained together. They still have these black feathery wings, both still like curled up around them, but they're just lifeless.

They're just kind of like, and he's holding it up by the neck as about six friars all in black robes on their knees are praying and chanting as Godric is holding this up and godric himself is singing it's like a prayer like a mournful song prayer to kalara as he's holding them up um you also see at that far end gathered around the altar gathered around where the stained glass window would have been thousands of broken lanterns like iron lanterns that have been bent and buckled and broken so they can no longer project light and they just are scattered everywhere the only non-broken lantern is one set onto the altar beautiful made of a silvery metal

engraved you can quill you can see the detail with your excellent perception. You see like the engraved detail on it, a holy relic, like this thing. Whether or not it's magical, it is beautiful in its construction. This very elaborate, multi-tiered, multi-chambered sort of lantern, octagonal, you know, in shape kind of thing. It's the only one that's not broken and the rest are all just scattered around it, almost in a sort of semicircular around the edge of the room. Very Dark Souls vibes. Yeah, I'm thinking that.

I'm seeing it. Yummy, yummy, yummy. As you enter Godric, you can see he has the scythe in one hand, and he just looks in your direction. He seems to stop for a moment and he releases the celestial who just like falls onto the altar uh in front of this lantern just lays there completely still godric turns you can see i forgot again too many things trying to remember there are also the undead that he had with him the seven skeletal warriors and these three wights.

They are both all on the edges, almost like they were waiting, like swords clutched between their breasts. The three wights in prayer with the monks, they all rise with Godric as he turns. The others are dead then. He looks towards you. Let this darkness end, Sir Godric.

I wish I could. I am glad that they can at least know peace before the end. No more reborn. That is at least something I am grateful for. But I am afraid I cannot end this myself. My body, my soul, is sworn to my lady, and even if I wish to, she will not allow me to deviate from the path she has set.

But this is her choice. This is her. This is her choice. And if there is one thing I do before my end, I will enforce it even if I hate it. Come let us finish this." He just steps out, grips the scythe in one hand, and just gestures to this open battlefield. If you would see this business done, I am your last obstacle. And he starts spinning the scythe around him.

Yes! Can he like join us as an ally? And he starts spinning the scythe around him. Yes! Can he join us as an ally? He's really cool. He's really cool. Godric in the past would have. Godric in the past would have, without a second hesitation. Yeah.

I'm also just imagining the echoing footsteps of all of us walking forward and just. Let me just add Max into this encounter as well. Godric and Max? It's too hot. Too much. Godax. One second here, chums.

If you want to roll your initiatives and just keep them in your head while I do this. I know you're focusing on a lot, but how hot? Huh? How hot? Godric, if you're into your older dudes, because he's got great hair. Oh, come on. This is me. He's in his 60s.

He's kind of in his 60s. Silver Foxy. No, he doesn't have Lich King vibes. He's more like, what was his, the old guy, Uther. He's kind of like Uther, the older paladin from World of Warcraft. He kind of has a bit of a revolver ocelot as well, like the long grey hair, like slight tash going on. But he looks like hollow.

He's got like one skeletal arm. Yeah, I do like my silver foxes. Yeah, he's like, is it Gilf? He's a Gilf. No. No. No. No.

That word has been heard on stream. You can have the one for free, Twitch. Here. No. No. I'm just saying how it is. That word is denied on stream. You can have the one for free, Twitch. Here you go, this is initiative. Where are the daddies in chat? 16. Where are the daddies? Yeah.

Sorry, unnatural 20. All right, Ayla. Nine. With advantage. I rolled a two and a four. A massive seven. Seven. Over.

12. 12. This is going to unfortunately have to be Theatre of the Mind, because I don't have a button-up ready to go. How far away are we from him? So, this... This room... I'm trying to think, like... It's quite long. It's probably like a hundred and... A hundred feet long.

Like it's a hundred feet long chamber. You guys are at one end, he's at the other. He's really slowly walking me in the middle. Yeah, I mean basically it's like badass time. It means that ranged attacks, you can get a few ranged attacks off and stuff like that. And they're all like the skeletal... Yeah, the skeletal is three and four on each side, and then three whites down by the friars. The friars are all around Godric as well.

Um... yeah. I suppose he has the, any indication of, uh, an honorable 1v5? 6? Do the right thing, Godric. You don't think so. No, this is, this is a battle. Like, he's trying to enforce, he's trying to enforce his lady's will.

He's not going to hold back. He's using the skeletons as well, then. Yeah. Cool. Um, all right. So, wait, what's's our is it my turn it's your turn oh that's why I said well yeah yeah it's doing it for fun so is there any particular position I can get in where I'd be within 30 feet of a lot

of these I'd say it's like a hundred feet long and maybe about 40 feet wide so like 20 feet on either side from the middle okay well yeah I'd say it's like 100 feet long and maybe about 40 feet wide, so like 20 feet on either side from the middle. Okay. Well, yeah, I'd like to get into a place where I can hit as many of these as possible in a 30-feet radius out from me. What's your movement speed? It is halfed. So 20 feet at the moment.

15 flying or 22-ish flying. 20. So whatever I can do there. 20 feet, you're still 100 feet away from him, dude. Away from him, but what about the… The undead are all at the far end, yeah. They're all clustered around him. I'm trying to make it look cool, a slow walk towards him, but it's actually…

It's because you're tired. I'm just exhausted. But I will cast Beacon of Hope to capture everyone for wisdom saves and maximum healing. So I'll concentrate on that. Okay. And that is my turn. All right, the three whites will leap up and you can see that they basically will have

long swords in their hand, these kind of undead looking creatures, very gray, hallowed skin, just much more, these aren't, they are undead creatures. These, very grey, hallowed skin, just much more... These aren't... Like, they are undead creatures. These aren't, like, soldiers. These, like, leap up... And then they just rush.

They're just going to 60-foot dash, 30 feet, and then 30 feet, they just dash in a line towards all of you. Get 60 feet down the corridor. Cool. The friars will begin a death chant. Oh! When they take their turn, choose one friendly creature that can see and hear the friars will begin a death chant. When they take their turn, choose one friendly creature that can see and hear the friars. That creature gains three temporary hit points and a plus one bonus to damage rolls for each friar within 60 feet of them. And they're going to target Godric.

Yep. So six, twelve, eighteen temporary hit points and a plus 6 to his damage rolls. That's really cool. So these Friars are like, Morgul, Kalarub, blah blah blah. Kind of this Gregorian chant and you see this aura of shadow build around Godric. I can't sing the Gregorian chant, fuck you. Lucius.

Lucius seeing this is going to fling a ball that's one foot diameter in length, 100 feet towards the friars, and then it's going to explode in a 20-foot radius. So it goes 100 feet, and it's a 20-foot radius, so it's... Well, it can go up to 150 feet. Oh, okay. 100 feet's the length of the... 100 feet is the length of the...

120 feet is the length of the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it goes the length and then explodes on the friars. You won't hit as many... Friars. Well, the friars, if you hit the friars, you'll also hit Godric, and you'll also hit the skeletons around it.

Oh, no. Oh, shame. Yeah, so deck saves for 18. Deck save 18, and this is Acid. Acid, Acid. Which they can't be resistant to because of my elemental adept. Well the friars automatically fail because they are minions. They're just going to automatically fail.

The skeletons are not minions though. And they use Godric's bonus. Makes no sense for us to fail. Basically they're going to fail unless I roll a 14. What was your DC, sorry? 18. 18. One saves.

Okay. So the skeletons all get hit as well. And then Godric finally as well. Godric fails as well. Oh. Everybody fails. 23 points of acid. So 23 points of acid to Godric fails as well. Everybody fails. 23 points of acid. So 23 points of acid to Godric. That is enough to destroy all of the skeletons and all of the friars as well. Sorry, me and Kate have just been watching Rhi try to delicately grab a pretzel with a pen.

With a pen! This entire time. She still hasn't managed it. It might be better if you use them like chopsticks. Yeah. Just go for it. It was a lot of patience, though. Just go for it, yeah.

Okay, so you watch as the skeletons are just, like, destroyed by this blast of acid. The fryers all collapse to the ground. As they just melt away. Better. Is anything within 30 As they just melt away. Better. Is anything within 30 feet of me? No. Dicromancy the wall.

Or, yeah, yeah, just the wall. Okay. All right. I think if you walked forward... Are you staying at the far edge? Are you not moving any closer? Oh, yeah, if I moved closer whilst I was... If you moved closer, the whites would be in range.

I'll hit a white. Okay. So that's seven points of Dicromancy. Seven points of Dicromancy of acid damage. But you are now 30 feet within the room. So you are 90 feet from Godric and the others and 30 feet from the whites. Yeah.

All right. So the end of your turn. The end of my turn. All of the skeletons are dead. Nova Vija. Great. Then Aayla, then Sentry. Perfect. I'm just making your life easier. Yeah. The friars rolled in. I the end of your turn. The end of my turn. All of the skeletons are dead. Nova Vija. Great. Then Aayla, then Sentry. Perfect.

I'm just making your life easier. Yeah. The friars are all dead. I'm going to make my life more fun. Yeah, the friars are dead. The friars are all dead. Skeletons are dead. That aura is still on Godric

because even though they died, that aura still went off, but yeah, they're dead now. The skeletons are dead, so it's Godric and the three whites remaining. Three whites. Can I start Eldritch Blasting a previously damaged white?

Yes, absolutely. So you're all gonna stay at that far end of the room, right? Yeah. Okay. And Tiangong is with me. I would have summoned them as we were approaching. First one is a 29 to hit. 12 points of damage. 12 points of force.

Strikes that damaged one. That is 16 to hit. 22. What? No. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 12 points. First two, not destroyed yet, but heavily injured. 30 to hit.

Hits. 9 points of damage. 9 points of damage. Still standing, but nearly torn apart by these blasts. 30 to hit. Hits. Nine points of damage. Nine points of damage. Still standing, but nearly torn apart by these blasts. 16 to hit. 16 hits. Seven points of damage.

With that, the four Eldritch Blasts, the one that Lucius has already weakened, these kind of sweeping Eldritch Blades that fly through the air tear one of these wights apart, killing him. Brilliant. I will move... I kind of want to get away from the pack of us, just in case of AoEs and stuff like that. You would either have to leave this and go outside, or move 30 feet up with Lucius. I'll move 30 feet up with Lucius, but kind of opposite to him.

So the two of you on the far edges. Skirting. Yeah, okay. Yeah, makes sense. I'm going to leave Tiangong by the door, though. Okay, sure. All right, Nova. Ayla, sorry. Me. I will rage first. Okay.

If I run 45 feet towards them... You would be 15 feet away from the nearest wights. Oh, that's annoying. Yep. Okay. I'll walk up to where Lucius and Nova are. I'll pull out my bow, which I still have some magic arrows for, and I will shoot some of the whites. It's not ideal, but it's great. There's two whites left. 17 plus 11, two plus, actually 13 because they're plus thingy.

These guys have an AC of 14. 11 damage. 11 points of damage. First arrow. 7 plus 11. Still hits. 14. Seven plus 11. Still hits. 14. 14 points.

Second arrow slams in. Still standing, but two arrows deeply bedded in, kind of hampering some of its movement. No one's in my aura, so I'll just crackle a little bit. So you are 45. So you're actually ahead of Nova and Lucius if you move 45 up. Or do you want to move up next to these people? I'll move up with them because... Okay, we'll say that we've got Lucius on one side,

Ayla in the middle, Nova on the other side. Sure. So you're spread out as equally as you can be. All right, Sentry. I'm going to move up, so I'm with Ayla, Nova, and Lucius. Okay. Can I use the Ballistae if I'm normal size? Yes, you'll have disadvantage with it, and it counts as an improvised weapon, so it's disadvantage,

and it's not going to be easy to shoot with this thing, so it's just d20 plus your dex. Fair ado. Okay, I will then cast Protection from Energy on myself and give myself resistance to necrotic. Shit. Hmm. Aura of Vitality, maybe? I will do... Sure, I'll do Aura of Vitality. Okay.

And I'll get that going, so I can give 2d6 healing to anyone who wants it as a bonus action. Maxed because of my... Hope. Bacon. Oh! Let's get that ready to go. Yeah, the wombo combo.

It's back again, baby. Yeah! You do it on every turn? Yeah. You can use it as bonus action, yeah. As long as I've as i've got it active and just go 2d6 2d6 bonus action it's pretty spicy it's pretty good yeah end of turn yeah so just to check we have in a line yep we have yeah you already said where you are yeah we have nova ayla century lucius have all moved up and you're 30 feet from the entrance so 30 feet from the whites and 90 feet from Godric. And then we have Quill and Tiangong and Max still at the back of the room. I came in 20 feet.

That's right, you came in 20 feet. My apologies. I'm still at the back, but not at the door. I just wanted to be next to them if there's anything happening to them. How, uh... So, Godric. Oh, there we go. Yeah, because I was about to say, could I do a quick reminder on something I've got

in my notes? What would you like to do? I just wanted to remind everyone of a thing that's in my notes about Godric. Sure. Godric's turnout. I was just sending out waves of energy to hit anyone in a line. Oh. That's fine. Yep. Well, if I'd known that, I wouldn't have done that. So as Godric gets straight, he just begins moving forward. I did say I wanted to move out in a line. Oh. That's fine. Yep.

Well, if I'd known that, I wouldn't have done that. I did say I wanted to move out of the pack. You did, and then everyone joined you. We're in a long line anyway. It's fine. I would have gone 45 if I'd known that. You didn't know that, because Tom didn't tell you. No, even then, we're in a line from him.

I don't think... You're in a line across the room, like a horizontal one. We're hooking up a big chamber. You're not in a vertical line the room, like a horizontal one. We're walking up a big chamber. You're not in a vertical line, you're in a horizontal one. Yeah, yeah. And you've moved forward, so you're 20 feet away.

Yeah, okay. Which side are you on? Are you on the side that currently has Sentry and Lucius, or are you on the side that has Aayla and Nova? Sentry. Sentry and Lucius. Did I say Sentry and Lucius?

Okay. So, Godric strides forward. And he's going to move 30 feet up. So he's now 30 feet from his wights and 60 feet from you guys. Let the pathways show your souls their true nature. And he yanks forward. And from behind you, the floor streaks outwards towards Godric in a light, a golden light forming like a pathway

underneath sentry Lucius Quill as a 10 foot pathway of light projects from under you. I need you guys to all make charisma saving throws. Oh, cool. You do not get sentry's aura against this. Oh, great. Ah, I would've been out of the range of it anyway. This is very close.

Charisma, yeah. Charisma. I've got a decent charisma save. That's garbage. 12. 10. 10. 29. So, Stentory, I like this.

This is perfect, actually. The Matrix is what protects you here because whatever is summoned, you watch as Quill and Lucius's body just slaps to the ground as Quill and Lucius's body just slaps to the ground. Quill and Lucius, your souls are pulled out of your body and pulled 60 feet towards Godric. And you feel like this spectral version of yourself yanked forward and you are translucent ghostly shapes.

You are now untethered souls on the ethereal plane. Oh. And you are 60 feet towards Godric. I will tell you now, you cannot affect any living creature as a soul. Is he untethered? You have a 30 feet flying speed. Having been kind of like this before, in some sense, when I was dead, is there a tether? There is no tether, no.

But you do think that if you were to make your way back to your body, you would be able to re-enter your body. Is it like when he's cast etherealness before? No. This is a bit different. My body is still ethereal. Oh, yeah, yeah. But the two of you, their bodies, by the way, count as incapacitated.

So they're basically like unconscious creatures. If anything hits them, that's it. Count like it's going to be crits and stuff if creatures hit them while they're down. Oh, ethereal plane, you move super slow there as well. And I'm currently exhausted. Oh, fuck. It's going to take so long for me to get back there. Basically taking the healer out.

Maybe. We'll find out. Maybe exhaustion doesn't affect you on the ethereal plane. As a soul. Remember, this is your soul, not your body. I actually... Find out on your turn. When I was dead, I worked out a ton. Sure.

So my soul is ripped. Ripped, yeah. Super buffo. For the rest of Godric's turn. This is at long range, but he will. Oh, actually no, for his action, he looks at all of his dead skeletons, and he's just like, I wish you had not done that.

And he'll raise a fist and he will cast animate dead at city level and restore the seven skeletons to life. Disappointing. And then he will use his bonus action to order them to march forward. And so they all 60 feet rush forward along with the wights. Oh shit. I'm not going to bother healing all of them.

I will just remember that they have those hit points. Maximillian Taldross will probably, his first instinct will be to rush to Quill and be like, Quill! Quill! I don't know what's wrong with him. And he will just... He'll take guard position over Quill's body. He'll basically be like... If anything comes close,

he will try and protect Quill's body, basically. Can we see their... No, you can't see their souls. Unless you can see the ethereal plane. As far as you guys are concerned, Lucius and Quill just died. They just went... Yeah.

Just fell flat face. Quill, I have some good news. Okay. You are not exhausted as a soul. Like, you can move. You don't have your normal movement speed. You have a 30-feet flying speed. That is it.

Like, you have a 30... Even in the ethereal plane. In the ethereal plane. And how far is he from his body? He is 60 feet. You are technically closer to Lucius's body. Oh! Body swap.

It's like Freaky Friday! Yeah! But I mean... Do I know that's a thing that can happen? No, but you could... If you wanted to try, you could try. You don't know if that's even possible. That's very funny.

But is Lucius ahead of me? You and Lucius can see each other. Fucking pretzel man. Is he even closer to Godric than I am? Yes, because he was

30 feet ahead. He then got pulled and now, so his body is closer. You also, as a point, you don't think that anything can affect your souls.

Like what? You don't think that like they can attack your You don't think that they can attack your souls But they could attack your unconscious bodies Yeah But yeah, so you are 60 feet from your body And you're 50 feet from Lucius' body I mean, can I dash as well? Or is it just 30 feet of movement?

You can dash, I believe But it is an action to re-enter your body Right Oh, it's a bonus action, sorry, to re-enter your body right well in that case it's a bonus action sorry to re-enter your body okay so i could just so you basically spend a whole turn getting to your body and then next turn bonus action get back in and then you get back to life but if it's at this turn you're you're out i mean i i will if i have any indication that flying back to my body will bring you back then then I will dash over to my body. Begin trying to merge.

Yeah, basically. But I get really close to Lucius's body. Just brush it. I'm just wondering if I get vacuumed in. I'm going in your body too. You don't get vacuumed in. You have to willingly go back. What if we both shared your body?

Want to come in? I'm coming in. Come on down. We'll see what happens. End of turn? End of turn. All right. Come on down. We'll see what happens. End of turn? End of turn. All right, the whites on their go. That was really worded wrong.

I just played that back in my head. Yeah? I enjoyed it. It's fine. I said Godric Fingered me earlier. The two whites. I regret it. Okay, so the two whites.

I regret nothing. Are going to rush. One is going to go towards Sentry and Lucius's unconscious body. The other one is going to go towards Ayla and Nova and basically engage you both, like stand in between you both and try and engage you both. It gets two attacks. It's going to make one attack against you.

It's going to make one attack against Lucius's unconscious body. Okay, that's good to know. Because it would have advantage because he's unconscious. So it's going to be a flat roll. All right, I'll do the first one against Lucius because that's the most important. I'm going to flat roll. If it had advantage, it would have hit. So you block it with Starbreaker as this thing tries to...

It looks up and it's... In fact, it's going to try and grab you with its hand. Give it a try. It's within 60 feet of Godric. She's really riled up now. 19 to hit. No. No, even with your reduced AC, that's not enough, is it?

Reduced AC is minus one. So it goes to 20, yeah. So it nearly grabs you and you can feel this cold energy. It's going to grab its hand and just throw it off. And then it whips round once again. What about Max's Shield of Faith, is that? That would have gone. Yeah.

The next one's going to wrap one attack against Ayla, one attack against Nova. So we'll do a Nova. This is going to be a 28 to hit. Just a little bit. With its hand, it's going to reach out and grab you for... Reach out and touch face. 11 necrotic damage. Did you take a necrotic potion? I took a resistance. So that touch face necrotic damage did you take resistance so that's five necrotic damage and can you make a constitution saving throw please

21 21 okay it tries to suck away some of your life force but it resists against ayla it's just gonna use its normal long sword that's gonna be a 26 to hit yep it's gonna use this two-handed for a total of Wow 11 points of slashing damage so yep you're half so yeah five points of slashing damage that is the whites go all the friars are dead Lucius Lucius is gonna dash towards his body And then begin the same thing, trying to re-merge. And then end his quills. Okay, nice. Skeletons go. There's room for two.

The skeletons are going to use their action to just dash, getting within 30 feet of the party. So they're going to rush up. They're now 30 feet. They're basically next to Godric. Oh, sorry, 30 feet ahead of Godric, in between the wights and Godric, but rushing up all together.

Cool. You can also see that, yeah, when struck by the way their accuracy and their strength was enhanced by this being around godric like he's physically making them stronger and faster uh ayla no sorry nova then ayla then century how far am i from god boy uh so godrick moved 30 feet up to you. He's 60 feet away from you currently. And you could also have a white next to you. Stinky. I'll attack the white then, please. Sure. I'm going to start Miscellaneous.

This is the heavily injured one. I'm getting really good at this. 13 plus 13 is 26. Hits. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 points of damage. 14 points of damage. The first light swipes through, nearly breaking it. Rending its limbs, but not quite.

18 to hit? 18 hits. Whoa. 12 points of damage. Is enough to destroy this one next to you and Ayla. Cut through it. Anyone else around me that I can whack? Nope, nope. One more that's the same.

You can move over to the one next to the sentry. That's only like 10 feet away. You just need to take a short step up and engage that one. Godric is 60 feet away. Or there are skeletons 30 feet away from you. Seven skeletons charging down the middle of the chamber. I'm probably going to get swarmed by those dickheads, aren't I? I'll start on the other white.

So you move 10 feet and you start attacking the other white. Go for it. 13 plus 13 is 26. Hits. 10, number 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 points of dama 16 points of damage third strike of the blade cutting through yeah almost a double kill almost almost no no i will have tiangong move up 30. yeah so just about 10 feet ahead of Quill. Yep. Okay.

All right, Sentry. All right, I'm going to attack this skeleton boy that's trying to get Lucius. Yep, the white. Yeah, that ain't happening on my watch, sir. 19 for the first one. 19 hits. Awesome. All right.

It is undead. Cool. So I'm going to do a standard attack with a free d8. Yeah. Well, you also get one d8 all the time, I think, because you have improved the Divine Smite. Yeah, I think I'll do two as standard and then a third one. Sure.

Rock and roll, buckaroo. Rock and roll. Eight, ten, eighteen plus seven. Twenty-five. Yeah. Twenty-five nearly destroys it, but leaves it just barely hanging on. This is so cool. All of us just using movement speed, just smashing through everything as we go.

15 to hit, hits. Oh, sick. Don't worry about it. You can roll for the stats, but it's dead. It had 400 points left. So the second strike, you rip the second white apart, leaving these scattered bodies on the ground. Nice. Clearing the way.

Now just a wall of skeletons between you and Godric. Awesome. All right. Can I bonus action, like... You absolutely can. Try and use my healing thing on Lucius just to see if that would help? Yeah, sure.

Yep. You don't... Yeah, you use your bonus action. It does nothing. Unless Lucius has damage to heal on his body, do you still have lost hit points? Yeah, sure, yep. You don't, yeah, you use your bonus action, it does nothing. Unless Lucius has damage to heal on his body, do you still have lost hit points? Yeah, then it heals those. 2d6.

It just doesn't help you re-merge with your body. Lucius! Lucius! 2d6 maxed. 2d6 maxed, so it's 12. Am I still concentrating? I would say that you are unable to influence the material world, so no. The beacon of hope, it's still concentrating, so when you come back, it will be active right now.

Because it's using you as a channel to enhance the healing, right? I should have held it in Elder Quill. You get eight healing. That's right, cool. Thank you. That's all right. I'm just freaking out. I'm going to say that you have to be present, and you're currently not present. Sure, yeah. Because actually, also, you're incapacitated, so you would lose concentration. Because actually also you're incapacitated so you would lose concentration.

But my soul is not incapacitated. It's not incapacitated, he's just on another plane. Make a constitution saving throw for me. Okay, it's gone. Oh look, there's like a concentration. 15. 15 total? I would say you maintain concentration

but you can't use it when you're incapacitated. Sure. All right, Century, done? I'm done, thank you. All right, Godry, done? I'm done, thank you. All right. Godric's turn. He will. Oh, God.

You've got like half and half split down the room, haven't you? That's great, Godric. It's only me on the other side now. Nova moved to the other side, so it's Aayla on one side, and then we've got Nova, Sentry, Lucius's unconscious body, and then you've got Quill about 10 feet behind him, haven't you? You're about 30 feet behind, aren't you? Is he gonna do that?

He moved 20 feet up, so... But I think you guys might have marched forward a bit. Oh, okay. I see. Yeah, he can't do it. He can't do it, you're right. He actually can't do it. Don't bother do it. You're right. He actually can't do it. Don't bother me.

That's a shame. What a shame. You can cast that, though. Yeah? Sorry, I need to look it up. I didn't properly tag my spells on my custom monsters, so I have to look it up like a pleb. What a loser.

Okay, he will move 30 feet. He's now 30 feet away from you, just behind his army of skeletons. Okay. And he will swing his scythe in the air, and a circle of death will appear. A sphere of negative energy ripples out in a 60-foot radius from a point within range.

He will hit all of you, including Max. 60 feet, jeez. Each creature in the region must make a constitution saving throw. Bodies, I need to check how that affects you. I think you automatically fail. I feel like we would. Incapacitate.

Natural 20. Hang on, don't just hold onto it. Keep it in your head. I'm just doing it. There's a lot of things going on. An incapacitated creature can't take actions or reactions. So you can make, you still make the saving throw. Unconscious bodies. Okay. I rolled a five.

I was going squad squad. Constitution was it? Yeah constitution. That wasn't great. Not bad. Why are you rolling? You're not unconscious. Oh yeah.

Yeah you're just normal. Well you still roll. I still roll. Yeah still roll. I just roll. I roll. Hot blood body. 31.

31. 17. Fail. Oh. 7. 17. Fail. Oh. 7. Fail. Fail. 11. Fail.

So Aayla, you're the only one who succeeds. Everybody else is taking 8d6 necrotic damage. Oh, Jesus. Oh, wait, I'm resistant. How are we doing? I'm also resistant, yeah. I'm not. Oh, that was terrible.

Oh, I'm resistant. Oh, my god. I rolled 5. You gave one. Yeah! Good. 15 necrotic damage! Woah!

What, from a sixth level spell? You'll get that twenty against me now. If you have resistance against necrotic. It'll fucking destroy me. Alright. So, 15 to the failed, if you have resistance, both of seven. Sixth level spell. I rolled five ones.

I wanna see how much I could have done. That was a bit better. Yeah, there's three sixes there. 18, 20, 25, 31 on that roll. So yeah, considerably better. What a shame. Them's the dice. Spell casting.

Hang on, I'm destroying. Oh, sorry. So he casts that, and then he's gonna throw his scythe. Okay. He does. He casts that and then he's gonna throw his scythe. He's gonna throw at Ayla and Sentry. I'm gonna throw some of my hands just like this. 22 to hit Ayla. Oh sorry, 21. Sorry. Actually, sorry, he has disadvantage. 20 to hit.

Just. Just hits. Sentry. This is long range. That is gonna be 19. No, I'm at 22. Just hits. Century. This is long range. That is gonna be 19. No, I'm at my own. Misses, okay. So he, and as he throws the scythe, it spins and it returns and then he throws the second one. Damn, that's cool. Manages to hit Ayla.

He turns. You gotta respect it. I can't respect it. I just, I can't hate this guy. 19 slashing, halved 9 for you, Ayla. And then necrotic. Necrotic. For 17 necrotic damage.

Oh my god, that does a lot. This is a lot of damage. I'm under 100 again. Oh. I'm under 100 again. Oh. I know. Yeah, but we don't have much left in us.

Norsby! Damn it. Maximilian will lift his blade, and he will let out a rallying cry. Let not this darkness take our light! Flames of Gideon, let us do battle. He will cast Crusader's Mantle, which means everybody does one D4 radiant damage on any attack.

Oh, I love him. I think ranged attack, as long as there is an attack roll. So like dexterity spells and stuff, it won't affect. But any ranged attack roll. D4, okay. D4 extra damage. Crusader's Mantle, within 30 feet of him damage crusaders man pull uh within 30 feet of him as long as you're within thanks cheers my body right and i think we that is a brand new round

that's going to be where we have to end it no no i mean i've got a new bullet point this is one of those situations where i wish we could do like five hour episodes, but we can't. Well, we're gonna have to fight this boy, the undefeated knight of bitchin'. I don't know which one he is. Calara of the Black and Rose. Calara, but the Order of the Black and Rose. Knight of Death. Knight of Death.

We'll find a custom death knight. Yeah, stay tuned. He's still doing his slow, bad-ass walk up. He's not serious yet. Oh, so are we. We're slowly walking. Not being malicious. Yeah.

I mean, I'm standing over you, so you don't see him. Thank you so much for joining us. That is it for this episode. Thank you very much. We will see you next time for more High Rollers and Rellers. Take care. Bye-bye. Bye.

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