High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #156 | The Living Dead

Episode Date: August 18, 2022

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Welcome Welcome back to High Rollers. Last time, having stormed Nightbloom Hold and through a tough series of battle and obstacles, the heroes have managed to defeat all but one of the Knight Commanders of the Blackened Rose. Once a holy order of good, their bodies and their wills have been forced into servitude for some other purpose directed by the Titan, Killara.

Now before our champions, guarding the breach point into Killara's demi-plane is Sir Godric Graves, the Death Knight and final champion. And that is where we are literally jumping straight into this very short recap, because it's been trucking on for some time to set the scene. You are currently in the main temple of this sort of fortress monastery that the knights have been occupying that you have stormed. It is a, perhaps last night, there may have been some perception of it being sort of a more narrow corridor-like temple, but it's much wider than perhaps it once seemed, as this stone temple is lined on the sides

by sort of alcoves and statues with lots of dozens and hundreds of candles lit to provide a very ominous yellow glow, a pallid yellow glow throughout the chamber. A couple of columns hold up the arch supports that lead to the upper sections um and a large uh altar sarcophagus a large altar is at one far end surrounded by dozens and dozens of broken lanterns as well as the shattered glass of epic stained windows that once occupied there um that is where we jump in i believe we are at the top of a

brand new round we currently have quill and lucius are both semi their souls had been separated from their bodies um and they had had to spend their turns kind of making their way back to try and rejoin with their physical forms uh we have a number of undead that have been slain and then reanimated and then slain again. And that is where we begin. And we're going to kick things off with Quill. So I am trying to get back into my bod. It's a bonus action.

How do I do that? Do I just lay in the same position? Yeah, you basically, it's kind of like a mystical process and a physical one. You sort of crouch down, begin to sort of like lay down, kind of align yourself with your body, and then using your bonus action to will yourself to sort of rejoin. I would like to will myself to rejoin as a bonus action then. Okay, in that case you find yourself re-merged with your body nice so am i am i roamed and my other any new up right you are you

are prone your body was unconscious it fell unconscious if you're taking any damage that would have been in effect but I think that that was all that none that was all fine you didn't take any. Great. So yeah, you're just prone, but that is it. And there are seven skelly boys ahead of us now. There is like a line of skeletons, yes. It seems that Godric, you've seen this, has the ability to animate and manifest the dead, that also seem to grow stronger under their command as well.

Okay, and unfortunately I am exhausted at level 2 as well, so I've got half movement speed, so half my movement to stand up, and then I've only got like 7 feet of movement, so I'm just going to not really do much. But within 30 feet of me, I would like to use my Channel Divinity to eliminate these skelly boys actually didn't say of me as well you might know no he's 60 away but I would like to yeah just break these undead destroy them now unlike minions these guys don't automatically fail

their saving throws say what they make a wisdom save at 20 I do however because they are within 30 feet of Godric they actually use God Rick's wisdom saving throw not how wise you look pretty wise so DC 20 yeah yeah all right all Yeah, we'll go left to right. Is a fail on the first one? Dead. Success on the second one? Damn it.

Third one is another success. Shit. Five. Fourth one is a 16, so that's a fail. Hell yeah. Third one is a two, that's a fail. Okay. Natural 20 on the next one no and then 28 on I believe the last one so three of them sort of just are

obliterated by the holy light that you project forward. Okay, that's good. I'll take that. There's only four left. For now. Yeah, that's my entire turn. Remerge, blast, five feet of movement. Hell yeah. Enchanted Divinity's in action, right? Yes.

I presume they are lower than three CR. They are. These are regular Skelemens. But there is also, I should point out, at the very back of the room, I haven't labeled them, there are still the bodies of about six undead friars as well, as well as the various broken bones of the wights

and other skeletons that were previously destroyed. And you've seen Godric able to sort of assemble these creatures with magic. Okay. Yeah. All right. So Quill done. That's me. Okay.

So Lucius, you are up next because all of the other enemies are defeated and then the skeletons will go. Then we have Nova Aayla Sentry. So Nova Aayla Sentry goes next after Lucius. I will simply try. I need to get back to my body first, so I'll do that. Yeah, so you are already stood there,

so you can use a bonus action to reform with your self-awakening prone on the ground next to Sentry and two of these skeletons. Okay, and I'm within Sentry and two of these skeletons. Okay, and I'm within melee range of two of them, so what I'll probably do is just put Armor of Agathys on

myself. Okay. In anticipation of getting hit. Okay. And I'll just gasp, make it very audible for Sentry that I am back in the room. And then the huge pauldrons of ice grow on my shoulders. What level are you casting?

I'm going to cast that at level three. So my final slot, level three. So that's 15, I think, temporary HP. Yes. All right. Double check. Okay, correct. Okay. Okay. Okay. Alright. Double check. Okay, correct. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Alrighty. That's me done. I will walk up from Purrprone. Purrpoo. Yep, stand up. Yeah, it's very hot. There's going to be a lot of that today. Right, so you stand up, you've got the armour of Agathys, these giant ice pauldrons.

End of turn? End of turn. Yeah, I just, I barely get back onto my feet. I'm just going to go back to the back of the ship. I'm going to go back to the back of the ship. I'm going to go back to the back of the ship. I'm going to go back to the back of the ship. I'm going to go back to the back of the ship.

I'm going to go back to the back of the ship. I'm going to go back to the back of the ship. I'm going to go back to the back of the ship. I'm going to go back to the back of the ship. I'm going to go back to the back of the ship. I'm going to go back to the lot of that today. Right, so you stand up, you've got the armor of Agathys, these giant ice pauldrons. End of turn? End of turn. Yeah, I just, I barely get back onto my feet after having a literal out of body experience. Oh! And I look really out of it. Like that was weird.

Yeah. So the undead, the skeletons go next and they are going to, they do look like they have some intelligence, but mainly they have some intelligence but mainly they have just been commanded to act so one of them will try and strike Lucius one will try and strike sentry and then two are gonna go for Nova because actually no one will go for a la one will go for Nova because they can reach

over so they're just basically divide their attacks you can yes a disadvantage on the attack roll against Lucius and then No right, so in century that is Welcome back to digital dice everybody. That's a natural 20 Little it's only from a little Skelemon it so that is gonna be 1d6 max, so 6 plus... I think it's 6, 12, and then 1d6. Give it to me. This is to Sentry. It's going to be 15 points of damage to Sentry. As this one, as you reach over

to protect Lucius,'s blade almost guided you know with far more skill than you've seen other undead attack you with and with far more force and strength and she's to find a chink in in between your armored plates and strikes true then it 17 to hit Lucius. I believe it will. It's 17 exactly, yep. All right, in that case it is going to be 12 points of damage, but then it takes 15, right?

Because of the armor of Agathys. And my Polten Swalls chipped away. Still barely hold on for another round. Breaking around. But yeah, it does destroy the skeleton as it kind of strikes it and blasts it with the icy magic, rendering it destroyed. Then we have against Aayla. That is going to be a 20 to hit Aayla.

Just. Just. You are raging, so it's going to be a 20 to hit Aayla. Just. Just. You are raging, so it's going to be half damage anyway. So it's going to be nine halved to four points of slashing damage as its blade lashes out towards you. And then against Nova, that is only going to be a 16 against Nova. It does not hit. So with Tiangong in your shield, you manage to deflect

it. And that is all of the Skelemons gone. Nova Vija. Hello. I would like to 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. I'm actually going to move up to Godric the Butthole, which means

you're going to get an attack of opportunity on me again. Oh, yeah. Skill-a-bums. Absolutely. They will... How many would you provoke from me? Which way are you going to move? I was thinking moving where the dead one was. So the dead one, and then... Yes. So that's 5, 10, 15,

20. So you would get two attacks of opportunity then because the one to your side would get it and then the other one would also get it. Okay. Okay, in that case the first one is a miss. It's only a 13. And then the next one

is a that is going to be a 23, the next one. Yeah, that'll hit. I've got a Potion of Necrotic Resistance on me as well. This is just slashing. This is just slashing damage from their sword. That's going to be seven points of damage as you run past the next one.

But yeah, you run past and you are the first one to fully kind of step up and engage Godric. Who is this? I've had to use the normal Death Knight token, but Godric appears like a man in his sort of late 50s, early 60s, graying hair, very sort of thin mustache, but gaunt, sallow cheeks. His eyes blaze like a blue glow.

He has like one skeletal hand, still clad in his like very ornate knightly armor, and he's wielding this giant sort of black scythe. I'm gonna start hitting. All right. I'm going to start hitting. So first is 21 to hit. Will hit. That is 13 points of damage plus three, so 16 points of damage.

Okay. Let me just check. And that's all slashing and then force damage and stuff, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, no worries. 18 to hit. 18 will not hit.

Godric parries it with the scythe, kind of knocking the blade aside with a curved edge. 26 to hit. Swords. That will hit. Swords. That will hit. 11 points of regular damage and 3 points of force damage. Alrighty. That's another good blow, kind of like scraping along Godric's armor. Sparks flying as the blades clash.

Do I want to do anything else? Wondering whether now it's time for a tasty little action surge. No, I'm not gonna this time. So that is my action, bonus action. Well, it's not actually technically a bonus action, but I'll move Tiangong around. If you want to carry on, I'll just move him.

Sure, sounds good. You should have control over them as well. Yeah. All right. In that case, we've got Ayla, followed by Sentry. At all, I'm going to take a crack at getting these last two skelebobs out the way mm-hmm so shift over five feet both sure that is nine plus sixteen to hit yeah you're gonna hit unless you roll a one these guys have an AC of 13, these Skelemons.

So, um... 17 damage on the hammer, plus 6 fire. The first hammer blow comes shattering down, breaking apart the skeletons into tiny- into their constituent bones and pieces of scrapped armor. Smash. What's the first one? Uh, just the first one. These aren't minions, so the damage doesn't carry over. These are individual skeletons.

Then the second one is gonna be a 18 plus 16. Easily hits. Because I've got, um, 13 on the hammer plus 7 fire. With a second blow, the next one falls beside it, just piles of bones in a line as you've been tearing these Skelemen apart. Fab. And then can I use my movement to speed up here and then blast my aura of lightning as my bonus action up here? You absolutely can. This is a deck save, right?

Yes, please. Nope, that's a failure. Godric does not seem particularly nimble um doesn't even really you know tries to dodge but it you know is clearly hampered by the armor and and their age definitely not as quick as uh as some of the other foes you've faced 17 lightning damage it is half they are resistant to lightning damage so it's going to be eight points of lightning damage. As the lightning kind of crackles through their body, they do seem to be not as affected by it, not as pained from it as you would expect.

Anything else, Ada, on your turn? That's all I got. All right. Sentry. I'm going to take care of the last skeleton guy in front of us. Get rid of him. Okay. I'm gonna take care of the last skeleton guy in front of us. Get rid of him. 23 to hit. That's gonna hit. Starbreaker.

It is undead, yep. I will do just a level one Divine Smite just to make sure it goes. Okay. So that'll be E12 plus 2d8. Plus one extra d8 because it is undead. So... 3... 25 plus 7.

It is incredibly dead. As you smash Starbreaker, this one-handed sort of lance into its chest, it just again clatters to the floor a pile of bones and broken armor. Cool, and then I'll move up to Godric. Okay. Use my next attack against him. 25. I'll go 25 and I'll use Starbreaker's Reach to get him from there.

Yeah, great. I'll go again. 28 to hit him this time. 28 were hit as you begin surrounding him. These three warrior women surrounding Godric just pummeling into him with attacks and lightning blasts um absolutely all right i'll do a level two divine smite you're muted Rock and roll! 32 again. 32 points of damage as Starbreaker slams in.

You kind of hear like a grunt, but still looking more than capable of continuing the battle. As Starbreaker slams into their side, Godric sort of looks around, just nodding, as if assessing the situation. Alrighty. I'm good. Are you good?

All right. Yeah. Then we go to Sir Godric Graves. I'm actually going to hold using their legendary action that they have. The first thing they're going to do is they are going to raise up their hand, clutch it, and you watch as tiny black flames appear in the bodies of the three defeated whites

that you had fought earlier, raising them back from the dead. Ah. As the three whites sort of emerge back into the battle, he just points, Deal with the ones at the back. They are the warriors to me. And then he will make two life-stealing scythe attacks, one against Aayla and one against Nova.

Actually, no. One against... He will step in to the middle of all three of you and he will make one against Century and one against Ayla, sensing that the two of them are the more weakened of the pair. Yeah, my HP not doing so good. That is a 23 to hit Ayla.

Yep. I'll just roll to see if I hit Sentry and then we'll do the two damage rolls separately. And a 22 to hit Sentry. Yeah. Okay. Ruh roh. Ruh roh. So slashing this is going to be to Ayla. This is going to be 16 slashing damage to Ayla, so reduced to eight slashing.

And then... Oh, not very good. Eleven necrotic. And you see some of Godric's wounds heal as the scythe slices across, kind of drawing forth Aayla's blood. And then against Sentry. I member. I members.

That's going to be 21 slashing damage against you, Sentry. Okay. And then 11 points of necrotic. Do either of you have necrotic resistance, by the way? Everyone has it except me. Does Century have it? I don't think I... Some people have death wards.

I have two death wards, three necrotics. No, I gave all mine away. Okay, all right. In that case, yeah, it's 11 points of necrotic. And you see, again, some of Godric's wounds begin to heal. And then as a bonus action on his turn, he is going to order one of the whites to rush towards... Let's see.

I thought you were going to say a delivery. A delivery. He's going to bonus order a delivery. He's going to get a latte. I've had a lot of soup delivered this week he's gonna order one of the whites to rush towards Maximilian and quill at the very edge edge of the battle and he's gonna have white make an attack against quill no no it doesn't need to do that actually does he

get his full attack so you just get one let me check something let me check something here make one attack yes only the one on this turn so it's gonna be oh very lucky only a 12 to hit you quill so matches this sorry as it stumbles up you mentioned to kind of throw yourself back just at the last second avoiding the attack And then let me just check so that is bonus action full action No need to worry about all of that right the very end of the round We have Maximilian who I will say the token art has been lovely provided by failed drawers

Fail for let me use your arms of sexy shirtless max you yeah And max who has been previously he was guarding quill Will turn his great sword and make two attacks against this white that's just rushed up. Oh my heart's a flutter 21 on the first one which is gonna hit and a Oh, my heart's a-flutter. 21 on the first one, which is going to hit. And a 27 on the second one, so he hits both times. It's Greatsword slashing down. A total of 12 points of damage, followed by 7 points of damage.

So 19 points of damage total to that white. Is it hot in here or is it just Max? No, it's hot. It's pretty hot. That's why we're playing at home today, Tom, because we can't play in the sea. It's too hot. And so the round, we go to Mr. Quill.

Mr. Quill, that's my name. That name again is Mr. Quill. I'm trying to remember. Do I have concentrate? Am I concentrating on Beacon of Hope? You are not because you were incapacitated. Oh no, we ruled it, didn't we? We said it as a special thing. So normally you would have, but yeah, you do still have Beacon of Hope.

And I'm trying to remember for Ree's benefit, were we concentrating on... Were you concentrating on Aura of Vitality as well? Yes. If you are, can you make a concept? Because you did just take uh quite a lot of damage yes um 17 for that would it be uh how much damage did you take i'm trying to remember 15. well that was and then there was necrotic it was 11 necrotic which is all 11

26 13 so yeah you succeed So you still currently have it. Cool. Okay. I was just making sure because I remember I was concentrating on something. It was probably bacon. Bacon. Okay, this thing. So the floor attack

that knocked me and Lucius into the spirit realm, did it seem like it was something that was only on the floor, or was it like a wave that passed through the entire room? I mean, a golden path illuminated along the floor, but there was definitely some sort of wave of energy.

Hard to tell. You can make a check for me. Arcana? This would be religion. Religion. Only, Religion. Only a plus two on this. 19! Hell yeah, Religious.

You have a feeling that flying probably... Yeah, you have a feeling that whilst it was an illuminated path, the wave of energy had some height to it. It was like a vertical, like a wall of power that sort of washed over you. Okay. All right. Fair enough. This white... But not exclusively on the floor.

I want to shocking grasp the white next to me. It is not wearing metal armor. It is only wearing sort of studded leather. So just a normal... Well... That is not a hit.. It is only wearing studded leather. So just a normal... 12. That is not a hit. You reach out and it pulls itself back. In that case, I want to Shield of Faith myself?

No, I don't. I've got Death Ward. I will Shield of Faith Nova. Okay. The concentration on Death Ward still ends because it is a concentration spell. Oh, no, it's not. It's a Death Ward. And I'm holding Shield in Elder Quill. Okay.

No, I'm not. This is a bonus action to call him. I'm not Shield of Facing. I'm not doing anything on my turn. That's my entire turn. A long time ago. That's your turn? All right.

Lovely. You're welcome, everyone. You're welcome. In that case... Am I shield of faced or not? You are not. You are not shield of faced. No, I literally did nothing on my turn.

Two whites surround Lucius. The other white is going to attack Quill because that's who it was told to attack. That's a white. Let's do Quill first. It's going to reach out with its hand to try and grab you and then it's going to swing its sword. No. No.

13 to hit on its hand. No. Slap its hand away. No. As you slap it... Oh, jeez. A three. I rolled like a two, three, and four against Cor.

Fourteen on its sword attack. Ooh, that is enough, but I'm not going to shield it. Okay. So you take the attack? Yes. Okay. I do not have the spell slots.

You get, say, 12 points of slashing damage as you slap its hand away and then it plunges its blade trying to catch you as much as it can. No! And then it gets Lucius. The two on either side of Lucius are doing the same thing with one

chilling necrotic hand. They're going to reach out and then they swipe their sword. So on their chilling necrotic hand. That's a 28 on their hand. Yeah. hand that's a 28 on the on their hand yeah so this is gonna be do do do do do that is gonna be seven points of necrotic damage can you make a con save please lucius they also take 15 points of cold damage noted uh are No, they're not resistant. Who says that these are normal whites?

You can't tell me that. I looked at your notes. Ten! Ten? Well, you also... your hit point maximum is reduced by seven. As the chilling grip of the white strikes you, it reduces your hit points. And then 18 on its long sword attack okay yeah yeah that hits that hits as well that's gonna be nine points of slashing damage that follows it and then the one on the other side of you especially now that you do not have any more armor of Agathys is gonna do the

same thing yeah Q 20 to hit yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's going to be another con save, please. That's going to be 10 points of necrotic damage and another con save. What was 16 on that con save? 16, you're fine. That one you managed to shrug off the sort of draining, life draining effect of that white. But you still take the 10 necrotic damage. And then a 15 on its long sword attack

that won't hit finally managed to parry it or block it on the stormcaller's chain excellent as the whites finish their chain of attacks uh then we go to lucius all right um i'm going to quicken my spell so it's a bonus action. Take my main action as a disengage. I'm going to move 5, 10, just behind the corpse of the skeletons in front of the lich. And I'm going to cast Cone of Cold, trying to catch these three, but not Max. If it's not possible, I'll just aim for two.

Yeah, so this is a 60-foot cone yeah oh god I never remember how I like figure this out cuz it's massive um 64 little template you roll T 420 I have like a 20-foot cone but I don't think I've got a Spears from that No, it's not a cone. It's a sphere. So the thing is is I never know like it's like 60 feet Because it's 60 feet such a pain. Yes. It's like it'll go that wide and then I guess it's like 60 feet this way So you can you would hit Tiangong is the only problem if you want to hit these guys but not hit max You will unfortunately hit Tiangong is the only problem. If you want to hit these guys but not hit Max, you will unfortunately hit Tiangong. What I will do then is move here. Just barely clipping Tiangong.

And aim the cone south-east to just get those two in a line there. So if I do that, yeah, so like that, and then 60 feet. Oh yeah! So if I do that, yeah, so like that, and then 60 feet. Oh, yeah! Okay, yep. Easily done. All right, kind of cold on these two whites. Con 18.

Save, please. Okay, very much like the skeletons, these, because they are undead, they also use Godric's Saving Throws. And so... It can't be resistant to this, though, because I'm an Elemental Adept. It's nothing to do with resistance. It's just their Saving Throws. 19 on the first one. And then 23 on the next one. So I think that's half damage.

As they do manage to... Some sort of presence of godric makes them more resistant 44 points of cold damage each so 22 what? because they saved yeah

22 so you watch as the cold kind of coats these whites in rime and frost. They do manage to avoid some of it shrugging off with supernatural resilience, but they are both still standing, unfortunately. One closest to Quill and Max. Actually.

25 feet away. We'll get an extra nine points of Dicromancy cold damage. The one closest to Quill and Max is enough to destroy it. Or Quacks. Or Quill. He was. The Dicromancy manages to

break apart that white that was killing Max and Quill. Quacks! Max had hit it. Max had hit it twice on his turn so it was already weakened. And I did tons. Yep. What a name. Max had hit it. Max had hit it twice on his turn, so it was already weakened. And I did tons. Yep. You were there.

You were there. You were present. Anything else, Lucius, on your turn? That's me. That's you done. All right. All of the Skelemons are dead. So we go to Nova Vigia.

Hello. I would like to move Tiangong up so they are next to Godric, the other side of the Godrics. And then I'm going to do a lot. I'm going to do some attacks, unleash Kana, and an action surge. So we're going to be here a while.

Okay. Natural 20. Kill him. Kill him dead. So that is... How do we do that again? I always forget. So what is what?

D8 for the weapon normally? D8 plus 9. So it'd be 8 plus 9. Which is... So 17. 17. Do you want to get a plus 4 on that as well with the force damage?

Let's do it in stages. So it's max the weapon diet. So a plus 9 is 17 roll 1d 8 1d 8 5 So that go to Anything to say 22 and then 4 did you say from what is it from? From my Tiangong's force damage Okay So and that's the d4 right?

Yeah. And then you get another d4 on top of that 26 plus another d4 3 So 29 points of damage. Nice. First strike, cleave through, dealing a scathing blow. That's the first of many, because I believe this is eight attacks.

Yeah, we're going to be here a while. 31 to hit the next one. Hits, yep. That is 12 slash and one force, 13 damage to him so the next strike through as Novus is with incredible speed strikes multiple times next one hits 22 16 slashes and Two force. Another 18 points. Third strike. So that is my first thing. So Unleash Incarnate. So this is Tiangong going 19.

32 to hit. Yep. 15 damage. Does Tiangong get the plus D4? Plus 1 D4 extra damage. It's as if you made the attack. So so yep. Yeah. 15 plus 3, so... 18. 18. So that's the Unleashing Incarnate.

That's your full action at this point, because you've done your 3 attacks plus Unleashing Incarnate. I'm assuming you would then like to action surge and do it all again. Yes, sir, I would like to action surge, please. Thank you. There we go. Another would like to action search. Please. Thank you. Yes, there we go Three base attacks. Did you do 25 this guy? No, I don't think you would hexblade cursed him yet. Have you I've used my hexblade curse on the night War yeah. No. Yeah, I figured yeah. No, I'm very low on stuff I can do that is a 25 to hit, 14 points of regular damage,

and four points of force damage. Another 18, like 18, 18, 18. Oh my God. You see Godric for the first time really, 15 misses. The first one, this is the first one that missed, but you see Godric is now sort of looking wounded. Oh. 29 to hit.

Hit. That's the last of the base attacks. No, that was the first of my... So no, because you did, after your action surge, you did one, you hit, you missed the next one, so this is the third of your action surge attacks yes yes yeah that was a 29 to hit 14 points of damage plus three so seven 17 and then do you have enough only chunk on its to be one now I only had one unleashleashed. That's all of it, basically. That's me.

Yeah, I mean, you have taken them down, like these, what was that, like six of the strikes successfully hit, and you can see just rents and dents and tears in Godric's armor and clothing, chips of bone taken from the skeletal arm, and yeah, the Death knight is looking injured. Holy crap.

How much damage was that total? I've got no idea. Somebody's worked it out. 104. Yeah. 104. Nice. Very good.

Yay. And that's your full turn, Nova? That's pretty much... I was going to maybe cast Compelled Jewel, but I'm not feeling it right now. So carry on Alright Ayla Just gonna hit twice again. Hey, yeah Yeah, you hit bigger. Yeah That's a nat 20

This is where like you're probably gonna do half that damage in one attack, so We're having a competition here the ladies are having a competition boys if you could just 12 times 4 is 48 plus another 12 times 4 is 48 plus another 8d6. Yep. So the damage that I've got now is 2d6 for the hammer and then 1d8 fire. Yeah. The easy way to break it down is we take the 2d6 of the base hammer

because that gets maxed, right, to start with, so that we know that that's 12 per thing, and because of Brutal Critical, that becomes 48. So it's 48 plus your modifier, plus your modifier. Which is 9, because I'm raging. So 48 plus 9 is 57. And then roll it again?

And then, yeah again. And then then yeah, roll 8d6. So it's 57 plus 8d6. That was two. So I rolled two. That was an additional 10. That's another 10. So that was four dice, plus three, plus seven. That's the d6s. Another 30, was that Tom?

Yeah. All right, so currently up to 87. D8? Yep, so now, yep, D8, 48. 6 plus 6 plus 7 plus 5. 24? 87 plus 24 brings us to... 111.

112? 111, I think so. 111, yep. Sounds right to me. 111 points of damage in one hit. What was that, Katie? You were complaining there. I might need to look at my crit rules and check I'm doing that. No. No.

Because with brute critical. Jesus Christ. It adds three additional. It adds a die of dice. But it's different if I'm doing D10 because it's whatever the hammer does, right? It's not that. It's like the way that like the way I normally do crits is like, the reason that we max the dice is that,

cause it sucks to roll a one. Yeah, so you don't get a crappy damage die. But then when Brutical Critical comes in, it kind of gets ski-whiffed and it becomes incredibly strong, but we're going to keep it as is. Like that's the rules that we've said for this campaign. It's Aayla. I mean, yeah, that's it.

It's just like, it's just- It doesn't happen that often. Yeah. I like the idea that Nova and Tiangong went to town and Ayla was like mostly proud, but also looked at that and just went, hold on a minute. So yeah, with that one strike, you see him probably from the fact that Nova,

you know, carves them up and is striking and sort of almost distracting Godric, right? Like as they're trying to fend off all these multiple blows. I'm just winding up the hammer. Yeah. And then just from the side, you just hear this sickening crunch, um, as Godric is probably reeled backwards. Like we won't move them on the map, but there is definitely like a, they are kind of like staggered and have to catch themselves yeah so yeah I mean yeah night of wars 15 plus 16 so 15 plus 16 hit then we go another one Seven. Uh, nine talent, plus thirty-fourty-fifteen.

Sixteen on the hammer, plus two fire. Then a dex save. Okay, and then dex. Uh, that's an eighteen base on the dex save. Fifteen. So it's 16 lightning damage, but let me just check, because I have a feeling it might be 19. Yeah, check the DC.

Shit, where is it? Which section are you in? It's features and traits normally. Why? I think it was 19. I think it was 19. 19 sounds right. I mean, we'll just, we'll go with a 19. I don't want to slow the game down anymore. We'll go with 19. Yeah, my apologies. I'll double check. I'm sure it was 19. I mean, they're resistant to lightning anyways, so they're going to take, so they're going to take A. Um, all right. So you watch as the lightning blast hits Godric

and he kind of crumples to one knee, like clutching his chest. And then you just hear almost this, the wail of, it sounds like somebody far away like in a well deep deep beneath the earth

like something distant yet close at the same time this echoing woman's scream just resonates through this temple and Godric as an immediate reaction will regain a certain amount of hit points and becomes a translucent spectral figure

and they rush through Tiangong, Sentry and Lucius to arrive on the other side of Lucius just kind of rushing forward like a specter. Pretty cool. Lucius, Sentry, and Tiangong, you guys both, you all take 15 points of damage, which will destroy Tiangong, unfortunately, the Echo.

And also, Sentry and Lucius, you cannot regain hit points until the end of your next turn. Oh shit. Yep. And you see as Godric has basically restored some of his strength, I cannot fall here. I must for my lady. And then he rushes forward as this spectral form.

And yeah, you can see that they are still somewhat spectral. They are physical, And yeah, you can see that they are still somewhat spectral. They are physical, but there is this kind of green ghostly glow to them now. As we move to, if that was the end of... I mean, Aelid, technically you still have movement, but that was a reaction to you delivering that blow. I'm good for now. I'll catch up with him later.

Sentry. I might move slightly. I'm gonna pull forth Starbreaker again as a bonus action. Starbreaker! I'm gonna charge forward, A, to protect Lucius and also to hit Bodrick as well. Okay. I'll do some attack against this war. Okay. Oh, that was almost a natural 20, but it rolled to a 14. I don't know if I could have taken two.

I don't know if, like, as a DM, I think I would have just closed the stream if I had had two crits from the team. Natural 20, ladies club. And then you just rolled down. Oh my god. I think I would have just closed the stream if I had had two crits from the team. 20 ladies club, come on. Yeah, we'll just roll down. Yeah.

Oh my God. Just warrior ladies over here. We have to hit high sometimes. You get some fuck off with sometimes. You guys hit big all the fucking time. Like you three are the damage. It fuels me. It fuels me, Mark.

I know it does. I just don't want to hear any complaints when I hit with my... I crit on my enemies that do like a bajillion damage. Right. Anyway, Starbreaker definitely hits Sentry. I'm going to unleash my Divine Smite at level three for the final time. That's 5d8, I believe. Two, three, four, 5. He's undead.

Yep, he is undead. Can you just make sure, whether you roll for it separately or if it comes up in the D&D Beyond, just tell me what the physical damage is. So Starbreaker plus your modifier. Keep that separate from the radiant damage for me. Cool, no worries. Starbreaker so total of 12 for Starbreaker yeah and then the rest would be

50 35 is radiant yeah yeah so Yeah. So the Starbreaker, the impact of Starbreaker, almost as if that green spectral element, that energy you can see, is now sort of protecting Godric's physical form, but the burning radiant light sears the ghostly kind of energy around him and definitely strikes a solid blow against Godric. Nice.

Ah! Ah! How does your light still function? I should do con as well for the last one when Godric went through me. Yeah, 15. That is going to be a fail. Okay, so that's gone. DC 10. All right, I'll do a second attack.

So Orc Natal is gone. Okay. But just standard, I've got no Divine Smite to lay off. 20 to hit. 20 to hit. Will just hit, yeah, still hits. 2d12 for this one then. You do get one d8 base because he is undead okay so 12 for star breaker and then the eight is a two plus seven twenty four seven thirty

one the okay hang on I'll add the I'll add the extra two to the physical. So the physical damage, again, the same thing. That ghostly energy, even though Starbreaker is a magical weapon, the physical strike does not seem to be as effective as you would hope, but that little bit of radiant energy does manage to just burn through, causing some harm. Okay. I'm going to stand just protective against Lucius, and that'll be my turn. Okay, in that case, if you are all done,

we go to Godric. No. Godric is going to use a couple of things. The first thing it's gonna do is, the first thing he's gonna do, sorry, is he's gonna order one of the whites to rush and make an attack against Lucius. Just do this real quick.

I'll protect that. That's your reaction to use. Yeah. All right. So disadvantage against Lucius. So the lowest one is a... To do. 24 is the lowest attack jeez I rolled the same number twice

are 12 points of damage against you Lucius okay and then Godric is technically Lucius you will get an attack of opportunity against him if you would like to take it yeah Yeah, would you use your reaction? All right Malay attack when II to hit 20 a captain's command sword He does my sword I'll do that one-handed because I imagine it's quite quick You are you also need to you need your spare hand to make a spell to cusp 11 points of slashing damage

All right. Even though a magical weapon like Century Starbreaker, the ghostly energy does seem to protect him. And then you watch as Godric, wounded, clearly sort of like lingering, holds his scythe, and then in his free hand, a spectral version of the same scythe appears.

And he sweeps it like a pendulum, both hands, in two 30-foot cones on either side of him. Oh no! Oh boy! One that will hit Endrian Lucius, one that will hit Max and Quill. Does it hit just liches? He can angle it so that he does not hit them, I believe. Wow.

Oh boy. So, that is a dexterity saving throw this is not a spell this is a physical unique strike I was scared of this move oh god okay max rolled a one right so let's do it. Lucius, what did you get? I failed. We got 7. I got 7. You got 7, Sentry. 12. 12, Quill.

12. Well, okay, everyone did fail. Right. Okay. In that case... I meet my fate. I'm ready. You may very well be. So that's 35 slashing damage to everyone. 35?! I'm not done. That's 35 slashing damage to everyone.

Yeah, def though. I'm down on that. Yep. Oh really? 36 necrotic damage to everyone. Okay. I've got resistance to that, so... That's not more than my max. 18.

And it was just one attack, right? That was one attack that, yeah, it was just different damage types. So it was in case you had any resistance. So yeah, 35 slashing, 36 necrotic. That's a... One! Oh my god. Does your thingy trigger sentry? Undying sentinel triggers.

Undying sentinel. 36, 18, 44, 54. There's no way I can save against this for my spells. My concentration, 20, but no. No. Yeah, so Bacon's gone, and I suppose Aura of Vitality for Sentry is gone as well. Yep.

Yes, I mean, I don't think you can physically succeed, Sentry. No. I went last time anyway. So unfortunately, Aura of Vitality is gone. You see Max takes a pretty brutal blow himself, and he's looking pretty injured as well, but not as bad as perhaps Sentry and quill at this well entry and Lucius can't be healed until the end of their next turn as well next turn

this is action to use that it's used as bonus action actually barely needed to use his legendary resistance because he's not being hit by stuff that needed a salary just got he got pummeled it's got pummeled by three people and I think that's it so we will go to Maximilian who doesn't really have much left? He's got no spells No healing can there yeah, so max will just be like quill. We'll be all right. I have nothing left I'm thinking I'm thinking I Don't know All right max will

I don't know All right, max will Because max knows that he probably can see that his weapon isn't having much effect So he's just gonna step up and try and deal with this white for now Just because they're gonna be a problem if they start hitting people as well first one's gonna hit Second one is just barely gonna hit 10 plus 11 and 21 points of damage to that one which I think is unfortunately the least damaged one and then we go to Kila cad color at Uh... Uh... Um... Uh...

This move that Godric did, you said it was Pendulum, and he's lifted his scythes up. Yeah, that Spectral Scythe has gone. Well, he did it. He kind of swung the pendulums like that. The Spectral Scythe is now gone, he's just holding the one again now. Okay, so okay, not going

for round two on that attack. Yeah, there's no telegraph on the ground saying, move now. Good. Knowing that I can't heal Lucius, I don't know how I'd identify this as a held action. So you can see that there was a residue, like a magical aura left by Godric's passing through them,

similar to you've seen other creatures use it, like the Chill Touch spell and things like that before. It's a necrotic energy. Right. So with my 50 feet of flying down to 25, I can land next to Sentry and also next to Lucius. And yeah, I'll wait for this residue to dissipate before I heal wounds on Lucius at level...

four. So you're gonna hold action to heal Lucius. Okay. Um, so he will have to make a death save and all the other things that happen before the end of his turn, but at the end of his turn, I will kill his wounds. Okay. All right, thank you.

You done? That's me. That's... Uh, yeah. Yeah. I'll bonus action summon Elder Quill, not to do anything, just so he's there. Alright. Back up. Mark's making a face.

I know he is! Look, I don't... You know? Yeah. Think about it. So just check, Tom, done, end of turn. Done, done, done, done, done. The white, next to Luci Lucius stabs Lucius. You're gonna protect Lucius against that?

That was the last order. Yes, he does still technically have to make the attack roll. He has advantage on it because Lucius is currently prone. You would give him disadvantage, which makes it a straight roll. He is still within Godric's aura, which means he gets a bonus to attack Rhaast. Although, how often do you get that protection reaction? One reaction per round. Like, Sentry's turn she'll get that reaction again.

I think you used it last time. It's a new round. It's a new round. No, but Sentry hasn't had a go yet. Sentry used it after her turn. She hasn't got her reaction back. Fair enough. Okay. Snow, Tom's right. Is it a double fail or is it a single? Well, I have to still hit you,

which I think I'm going to even with... You know, I think I'm going to. I'm very light. Yeah, 25. So it's two because it's a melee attack within. It's automatically a crit, which means two failed death saving throws Lucius Okay The other one is

Going to attack max like it's not intelligent enough to step up and attack the weak and century Because it was kind of ordered actually the whites aren't the skeletons. They're a lot more intelligent actually Yeah, this one is gonna risk an attack of opportunity from max who will get to strike it I mean he did just hit that one yeah he did he hits for 13 points of damage which weakens it nearly destroys it but not enough and then this one is gonna step up and it will make No, I've moved on I'm gonna like that that's a big change I forgot these guys have two attacks It's a bloody good job. I did because I forgot that it could have attacked Lucius twice

We're gonna carry on this one is gonna move up Sentry and it's gonna use its life drain on Sentry. It used both of its attacks to stab down. It's harder to stab down. He stabbed and then stabbed a bit more. Stabbed a bit more and that's why it's two. Yeah, that's why. Yeah. Sentry, that is gonna be a 22 to hit. That'll hit. Uh, you take, uh, so, roll this.

So you would take 12 points of necrotic, and can you make a constitution saving throw, please? Well, I'm down, so it's fine. Oh! No, you still make the con save. You'll still make the con save for me. Oh, it could linger in. 21 on the con save? You're fine. All right. Now I're fine and then with it

second attack oh no come on oh shit I forgot it on Lucius I'm not gonna forget it now so sentry that's two failed death saves I'm afraid two failures shit I hate it but like you guys

knew going into this that this was a fight against Godric and like these guys who are like they are their goal is to kill people Like to send them on like they're not gonna be they're not gonna show any mercy and whites are smarter than normal Skeletons like the whites would sense that century is closer to death than max and would absolutely Do any of you have death ward on? I do I think I have it. Quill and Ayla have got it. Why are we giving it to Ayla?

Why? I mean, I'll take the graphic resistance. And also, I'll put my point, Ayla is like, pretty low on HP as well. I'm not doing bad. This is tough for everyone. This is bad for everyone. This is tough for everyone. This is bad for everyone. I'm afraid that the ultimate thing, because Quill, your held action doesn't come in

until the end of Lucius's turn. Before that, he has to make a death saving throw. Ah! All right. So at the start of your turn, Lucius, a death saving throw. No, you don't. You do not have to make a death saving throw

because Elder Quill is going to do the ability that I rarely use. He's going to rush forward to a creature within 50 feet and automatically succeed a saving throw. If that is the wording. Oh, my God. As a reaction to another creature within 50 feet failing a saving throw or being hit by a weapon attack. So if Lucius fails it., so he has to roll it.

If he fails it, you can use it to make it a success instead. Now, and a success in this is not a natural 20. It will just be the 10. Like, they don't get any worse. It will just be the normal sort of, like, standard roll. And death saving throws are saving throws. They do count as saving throws. All right.

I succeed. You succeed. One success. You then get to the end of your turn because you're still unconscious, and then Quill's held action goes off. Yeah, which was… I think it was… Quill wins fourth level.

So that's one, two, three, four, eight, I think? Plus six? Yeah, so you get 23 healing. Wowee. That's a good point. That's a good point, Tom. You wouldn't have been able to use that Elder Quill, because you used your held action, which uses your reaction to then

cast the healing spell. So if you'd used Elder Quill, you wouldn't have been able to heal him afterwards. Reaction stacking. But luckily, doesn't matter, you wouldn't have been able to heal him afterwards. Reaction stacking. But luckily, it doesn't matter. You didn't need to. So, Lucius, you feel like life come back to you.

Wait until Sentry's turn. That's a very good point. And up next, we have Nova Vija. Currently the healthiest warrior amongst you all. I mean, this is just payback for like, not payback, but I was on three health the last fight. You were. And on your own. Yeah.

5, 10, 15, 20. I'm going to try something that's probably not going to work, but let's do it. I love it. I'm going to move up to Godric. I'd like to try and cast Compelled Jewel, which is a wisdom saving throw. He's probably gonna pass, but wisdom 19. Wisdom 19. Well, it's a 13, but I'm gonna use, because he he had no reason to use them yet one of his

legendary resistances if the death knight fails a saving throw they can choose to succeed instead and so you reach out and you're trying to channel Godric into a duel and he will look behind you in another life I would have accepted your honourable

challenge alas my lady will not allow it. And he's instead, you can see him raising his scythe towards Sentry and Lucius and like, but the compelled duel fails. What a poopy bum face. Could you tell him he's a poopy bum face, please, Mark? Acknowledged.

Okay. I'm just going to straight up attack him then. We're just gonna... So, Compel Jewels bonus action, isn't it? Bonus action, yes. Yeah, nice. So, that's a 25 to hit on the first one. 25 hits.

12 points of regular sword damage and one point of force, so 13 title. 30, well, the regular regular damage very much like the other attacks are being are being resisted but the force the force damage does its full amount the force damage strikes whatever ethereal kind of protections does not seem to resist the force damage okay I'll just have to keep going because I don't know how much else I can do. 29 to hit. Hits. 14 regular damage and a little tickle of two force damage. Two points of force damage.

That's the second attack. You can see, like, desperately trying to fend off these attacks. Still looking heavily injured, but this ghostly energy almost protecting him. 31 to hit 15 points of regular damage and four points of force damage alrighty again the the strikes like a death by a thousand cuts every time Tiangong strikes although it's not as powerful or as you know as devastating many of them all in quick succession quickly whittled down Godric's energy and defenses, but still standing.

I think even though Compelled Jewel failed, Nova's just going to keep shouting at him and being like, if you have any remains of honor, you'll fight me! Fight me! Not people who are down! Fight me! Just, you know, she's gone a bit of a rage chicken, you know. You just see the saddest look on this guy's face. Like there's no joy in what they're doing. Like there is just this sad, stoic acceptance and almost like they're trying to ignore you, but they're hearing every word.

They're just unable to do anything about it. We go to Ayla. Fuck. I have no potions on me whatsoever, so I can't even do anything to get Sentry. Sentry is still affected by the same problem Lucius had. She cannot regain hit points until the end of her turn. I guess... Can I... I guess, can I run over to Sentry?

I don't know if this would work, but if I pulled out my other hammer, could I use a charge to cast fly and pick Sentry up and take her out of it uh i mean get her out of like away from godric's like you know attack range attacking her yeah i mean you could you move over so hang on let me have a look here so you are currently how far away are you? So you're about 30 feet away. The hammer gives you a fly speed of 50 or 60? 50.

50, so you could then go about 20 feet away again, because it does like still use up your movement speed. So you'd use 30 to get her. I mean, you would, you, Ayla, would take attacks of opportunity from both the white, both whites and Godric, if you did that. But they wouldn't be able to, I'd say, cause you'd be like holding Sentry's body.

You'd obviously be trying to make sure they can't attack her, so. The only way I can see around this, I might go down there doing this. So if I go down, please fucking save me. I'll do that. Sure. I'll do that. Sure. I'll do that.

So you move over, you grab Sentry, and then you're going to move about 20 feet. Carrying Sentry with you. I'll say with your high strength, you don't have to worry about half speed and stuff, but this is going gonna be three attacks opportunity coming your way So Godric with his scythe that is only gonna be a 14

Probably actually yeah, we use that 14. All right first white dead life drain It's natural 20 on the first white. Oh, no. Second white. There's only a 15, so that's going to be a miss, but that first white is going to be a hit. So this is with their life drain. Isn't there a con save?

There will be a con save at the end of this as well, yes. So 12, 16. So con save for me, please. It's 16 necrotic regardless. 16? 16 necrotic damage regardless, yeah. Okay, I rolled a 19 on my con plus 11. Yeah, you're fine.

You still take the 16 necrotic damage, but there's no additional effect. You can get reduced to a point. Good. All right, so you fly away, carrying Century's body with you. End of turn. That's literally all I can do I don't have any does any of that count isn't it that's movement right I would say my century up would probably be your action

to try and grab her she's so big and heavy like you know it's like a medicine check or anything um you medicine check medicine check doesn't restore hit points no maybe yeah stay yeah yeah i'd say you could make a medicine yeah sure you can try a medicine check dc10 straight up medicine medicine oh Medicine. Oh, hmm. That's wisdom based, so I imagine you're not proficient. Eight. I rolled a seven. Eight. No! So we move to sentry, sentry at the start of your round. I need that death saving throw please, my good chum.

Alrighty. I've got, um, driven to purpose to get an extra d4. That works while you're... I'm gonna use that. It does, yeah. Yeah, it does, yeah. It does work on things like death saving throws and stuff, yeah. I kinda don't wanna roll this dice because I know what my dice rolls are like.

Scream! It's fine. I'm not gonna look. I succeeded! Is that- oh, it's a 19. I thought that was a nat 20. No. Very good roll. That's a success. I live for another round.

You live for another round, and the chilling necrotic aura of Godric's spectral form fades, and you can now regain hit points Hear my heartbeat right now. He's crushed Okay Chris crop can you roll a d6 for me, please? Is this for the one that everyone can see this is to see if an ability recharges Who all right ability does not recharge they hand however something you just check the range on this Uh oh. He's got his ruler out. He's wanging it around.

Here he comes. Does Mercy have? And has mercy? you can have mercy you can have mercy I'm thinking about it do your worst no this is actually

this will be more interesting the first thing Godric will do is look towards Lucius and Quill and the area around Sentry. And he will just speak a word, but you don't hear a word come out. And the area around Lucius, Quill, Aayla and Sentry, you can no longer hear sound. So it goes silent and then

he will step, he does actually have reach on his scythes as well so from his position he will make one attack against, who's looking the worst out of everyone Quill and Lucius no

I look the worst in real life I look the worst in real life out of everyone. Quill and Lucius. No! What? I look the worst in real life. I look the worst in real life. You do look the worst in real life, you do. With his scythes, he will swing once at Lucius. I tried last. I tried. Insane AC, it won't hit. 19.30 to hit. I think that's gross, but yeah. And then Quill, that is a 16 to hit. I think that's great. And then Quill, that is a 16 to hit. Uh, God, I have to shield this.

Does shield have a verbal component? Oh. Oh, no. Probably does. Yeah. Yeah. I'm chilled. I'm chilled. Sorry.

Oh my god. Jesus Christ. Damage roll. We don't have healing. Let's have a look. I can't believe that damage roll. You can do it, boys. That's 23 slashing damage, Lucius. That was Let's have a look. I can't believe that damage roll. You can do it, boys. That's 23 slashing damage, Lucius.

That was 9, 9, 10. Zach, are you down? That's exactly enough to go down. All right. I don't need to worry about the necrotic damage then. No, Godric. Because that already puts you down. Actually, I do need to worry about necrotic because Godric heals off of it.

Oh, luckily it was pretty crap. Uh... So you watch as Lucius is felled by a sweep of the scythe, and then against Quill. That is going to be 20 points of slashing damage, Quill. Okay. Yeah? How much Necr how much more than two 60 necrotic okay how we're this is cheap my my death war

TPK stop stressing Nova and centuries online I've got one your death would go so you're on one HP bam death Ward scroll. Alright. Now see what I do with this 1 HP! I will also, uh, draw... Make it cute. I'm gonna do a little butt wiggle while I do what I do. Before you butt in his face and just go, NEEEH! No, don't taunt him.

Don't taunt him. You're gonna kill me. I'm too powerful. Look at me, I'm gonna say. Excuse me, what the hell is that? This is the silence. Okay, I can deal with that. I'm just putting it down so that we know the borders and stuff of it, even if your characters don't.

Okay, Maximilian seeing Lucius and Quill desperately injured, is going to move himself into the middle, planting himself in front of Lucius and Quill, and he will, as a free action, he will cast a Warding Bond on Quill. Oh. And then he will also designate Quill as his Royal Guard, which grants Quill the benefits of half cover.

And that is basically Max's entire turn. He is just going to act as a shield between one of these Whites and Godric against Quill and Lucius. Quill, you currently have the benefits of half cover. And also... Is this my body? Yeah, no. Yeah, it is.

Quill, you have the benefits of half cover, and you also have resistance to all damage whilst... Wow. Okay. ...with Max. Max, however, takes any damage you take, Max takes the same amount. Oh, God. I mean...

Quill, it's your turn. Oh, shit. the same amount. Oh god, I mean… Quill, it's your turn. Oh shit! I don't… Um, okay, so I need to heal both Ventry and Lucius, and myself, and Max, and Aayla, and Nova, you're probably fine, right? Yeah, I'm fine. Cool, you're good. And I have at max a level 4 spell slot to do it with.

I can't... I can't do this! It's not doable! It's impossible! I... can Lucius be cured? He hasn't got any like... yeah? No, no, yeah, everyone can be cured now. Nobody's got any necrotic effect or anything like that I mean he keep in mind you are in silence No, no the scythe doesn't cause that effect there was a the site doesn't the site heals Godric when he hits you with it, right?

I Will I mean I have to come out of the silence to heal Lucius in some way, but then I'll be further than touch range, so it's going to have to be a bonus action heal, which is fine. So yeah, I'll… wait, if I leave this position, I'll lose the half cover and stuff, right? Uh... They'll be next. Um... Any attack against you, like a reactionary attack, you would still have it, but then once you move away, you lose it.

Right. So for any opportunity attack. South, you'd be fine. You'd be fine. South one space. Okay, so I'm next to the white, but still next to Max and Atlas of the silence. I will bonus action Cure Wounds, not Cure Wounds, the other one, on Lucius at third level. So you're going to get Lucius, Healing Word, that's what it is, 3d4 plus 6.

1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 Yes, I'm putting you back I deleted myself You got 14 healing Lucius Thank you, amazing As an action I will

I will use sacred flame on Godric. On Godric? So a dex save of 22. He's not very dexy. He's definitely not. That is though.

Three fail. Perfect. 48 plus six radiant damage. Oh my God, 27 damage with a cantrip. I'd love to see that. And the spectral form doesn't help against any of that. You watch as the sacred flame washes over Godric and almost as if being physically burned by real fire. Kind of like, you know, in pain as if seared and burnt by actual fire.

Cool, okay. Sacred flame did a ton. Yeah. That did a lot of damage. Yes. And that's my turn. Lucius is back up. I'm still next to Max.

And yeah, I'm done. Okay. All right. The white remaining one will attempt to swing at Quill, but you will gain the benefits of plus two AC. And Max is also technically within 5 feet, so he can use his parry on you as well. Natural 1 on the first one.

Great. The next one? 12. What total? Yep. Sorry, 14 total. I've got 16 with the half cover so max kind of reaches over and just sort of puts the broken great sword in the way deflecting it at the last second and then the one against lucius

uh two so 12 lucius on the first one hell no and then on the next one uh that would be a 15 miss both miss as they get deflected away as these whites like a rebellious child swear i know the way he said that uh lucius lucius is going to you healed yourself ofaring. I know the way he said that. Lucius. Lucius is going to... Have you healed yourself of those hit points, by the way, Lucius? Yeah, have you? Whilst I'm still on the floor, I'm going to reach out a clawed hand at the lich right next to me

and you'll see icicles form on the lich and it's frostbite cantrip. Does it have a verbal component? Uh, it absolutely does. So what I'm gonna do is disengage and run away. Well, if you didn't want to dis... you could move next to Godric. You could shift by foot. Yeah, you could do that as well. Yeah, that would get you out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That gets you out.

I just poked my head out. Frostbite. And yes, crossbite is a con save of 18 on the Lich. Con save... That is gonna be... we've got Rix. That's gonna be 17. So I think that fails if it's DC 18. It does. 46, because of my level level 17 points of cold. Destroys that white.

And because I cast that, it doesn't count as a cantrip, does it? I can't decrement. Can't decrement, it's a cantrip. Yep. That's me then. That is you. I get up, brush myself off, and await the next fall. Yeah, I mean, you actually still got, so you moved five feet, you crawled like, well

I guess you would have gotten up so. I got bonus action right. You've got ten feet of movement left, you've got ten feet of movement left as well if you want to use that. But it's Nova VG next, so while you do that ten feet of movement, Nova's good. My bonus action is just going to be some meta magic, I'm going to use a seventh level spell to get seven sorcery points. Okay.

Just so everyone knows. Okay, all right. Nova. Seventh level spells. I have one. Kim Brain, dumb right now. That's fine. Godric is still in ghosty form, right?

And it's only... There's like a ghostly energy to him, yeah, that seems to be protecting him against physical harm. And so the physical attacks weren't doing much, but it was the force damage. Did it seem to be any magical damage? Not any, but force and radiance so far have been unaffected. But like the physical like strikes of weapons are resistant.

So for example, Eldritch Blast, I would say, yeah, you would know Eldritch Blast, I would say, yeah, you would know Eldritch Blast would probably have full effect against them. But if you're within five feet, you get a disadvantage. I'm going to try something that may or may not work.

I'm going to attack with Tiangong, but with Green Flame Blade. Green Flame... That. You can't fly through it. Tiangong but with green flame blade. Green flame that. You can't follow through it. Sure. This means instead of making multiple attacks, you just make one attack. I can make one, but...

And if it hits, it does. And the second one, I'd like it to attack the white. But didn't Godric just get sacred flamed? Does that not light him up? Or no, that's guiding bolt. I'm an idiot. Guiding bolt. I'm an idiot. No, Guiding Bolt.

Wait, does that do something? So, 21 a hit? Does hit, yep. Does hit. Okay, so this is the regular damage. It is a mere 12 points of regular damage. Six. damage, two points of force damage, and then green flame is 3d8 fire to Godric, which is 13 points of damage. Fire damage affects him normally. He watches the fire, the green flame washes over, maybe like a purpley blue flame in Nova's case, washes over him and does like burn him and

scorch him as well. And then I believe the white also takes 3d8? 3d8 plus 5 so 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 points of damage. Destroys the other white as well which was barely hanging on. This other white is also destroyed. That was the one next to me as well. I was scared of that one.

It was, yeah. And then bonus action, I'm going to summon Tiangong. I'll plonk them somewhere if you want to carry on for me, but that is my move. Don't worry, I've got a second Tiangong. I moved them down in the corner if you want to delete that. I just moved them down the corner. So carry on. Aayla and then Sentry. Can I search Sentry for potions

of healing? Sentry, do you have any potions? None of healing, no You like bonus action rummage through Sentry's pocket so like spend a few moments and you don't find anything I'm going to use another charge Actually no, I'm still flying for this turn

so I've got 50 feet of movement I'm taking Sent use another charge. Actually, no, I'm still flying for this turn. So I've got 50 feet of movement. I'm taking Sentry to Quill. Okay. I'm moving myself and Sentry down here to Quill. Bump. For my movement, I guess. For my action, I know it's not going to hurt him that much, but I'm just going to say to Quill,

I can't help her. I can't help her. I can't do anything. Save her. I'm on it. I will attack him. Godric. Yep.

Go for it. I mean, half of the lot is still some. Yeah. Half of the lot is still some, you're correct. So I'm switching back to the other hammer again, the flamey boy. So 12 plus 16 to hit. Hit.

17 damage on the hammer. Yep. And then six fire damage. Okay, the fire damage has full effect, but the hammer, as I said. But you can see now, like, just even this ghostly energy is beginning to fade, leaving Godric's body this broken mess

that you had, you know, nearly killed before being held together by this ghostly spectral energy. I'll hit again. So that is going to be a 17 plus 16. Hits. I just knocked all of my dice everywhere. That's helpful. Oh, that was a terrible damage roll. I only rolled three on the dice, so nine total and 12 damage. Okay. And then fire damage. Two fire damage. That was terrible.

Two points. Dex save. Yes, dex save. Where is he? There he is. That's a 15 total. So, full damage. 19 lightning damage. So 19 gets halved down to 9 because of the lightning resistance. You watch as Godric is barely standing at this point. Extremely close. As we go to Sentry. No! It goes round.

It's all good, it's all good, don't worry, don't worry about it, it's fine. Still got that driven to purpose. Yeah. Well, I couldn't use it once, that's... Oh, that's true, you used it, didn't you? Oh, you've used it, okay. Yeah. Sentry's matrix is just sparking. I believe. Okay. Yeah. Go on, Treece. Matrix is just sparking.

I believe. Here we go. Okay. Elder Quill. I have my reactions back. He does. Let's go. There is this moment.

It was a two. There is this moment where the rest of the team is just like, oh, I'm Let's go. There is this moment. It was a two. There is this moment where the rest of you look over as you see the Prime Matrix flashing, pulsing, sparking, and then it begins to rapidly dim to the point where its light nearly goes out. Quill, you reach out and you send this energy conjured

by the staff of oracles, by the spear of oracles, and as it floods in, it is enough as you watch as the Elder Quill reaches and just lightly places your wing, or its wing, his wing, against the matrix, it flares to life just enough to keep that spark there. Just an ember, a glowing tiny mote of light. Oh, yeah. Incredible. I like to imagine the Matrix also flares up. It counts as a success entry. It looks like the eye of the storm for a second as well, the Matrix.

Oh, cool, yeah. As you see this this as this happens Godric will look at quill look at century and all of you never before have I seen one resist death as much as you have perhaps there is a hope that you can stop my lady and bring her peace. This last ounce of strength, I can only enforce her will. He will look around. He's surrounded by low-health people. He will, as you see that green spectral scythe,

as he swings spectral scythe as he swings his scythes in two pendulums, striking Ayla, Nova, Max and Lucius. Oh, not me? No, not you. Uh, okay. So that's a dex save. Ayla, Nova, Lucius and Max. That's a nat 1. Oh no!

I walk towards the scythe. 18. 18 for Aayla. I rolled a 15, but I'm trying to decide whether or not to use Indomitable. Indomitable. Indomitable. Because I feel like a 15 is a fail, right?

I don't believe I can tell you. Yeah. I'm going to roll again anyway. Yeah, I'm going to do it. So do this. Godric's pretty damn close this fight snow it was worse the role was worse it was a nine so yeah you're all you're all taking full damage from this so yeah y'all 18 damage Ailey you're gonna take half of this anyway cuz it's slashing damage so 34 points of slashing damage um damn

have to so that would be 17 for you ayla okay and then 35 points of necrotic damage max goes down i'm on exactly 0 but I'm relentlessly raging oh yeah so death ward would probably trigger first because it's consumable so death ward will trigger and you're on 1 Max goes down let's have a 35

would be 15 17 as well cool thank you. Are you still good, Nova? I'm fine, don't worry about me. Okay. Alright. That is, with no one dead to command,

that is all Godric can do. He needs to do more. That's all he can do, he's just down two people. He's just down two people. That's he's just down two people. Yeah. Quill. That's all he can do. Oh god! Why? What am I meant to do? Too much healing, not enough spell slot. So I'm going to... Scream, basically. Fair, that's fair. Is scream your good action?

No, you're valid. Scream is a free action but only once per turn. Okay, a single really quick loud scream. Hm? Um... I need to heal but I need to kill. He's so close. He's, like, you can see the energy, like, on one knee, like, as the

scythes fade, he just collapses to, like, one knee, barely able to stand. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Sentry's only got one save left. Heal. Yeah, heal. Nova and I are up. I'm gonna bonus action

the healing word on Sentry at 4th level. So again, 1, 2, 3, 4, plus 6, I think. Oh, that's garbage. 8 plus 6. Yeah, so 14 healing to Sentry. Action cantrip Sacred Flame again, because that didn't work last time. So dex save from Godric. 22. 22, he can't physically succeed, because even on a natural 20 he can't beat that, so fail.

Heh! 48 plus 6, 32! Hell yeah! Nice. Tom Hazel. I love this I love this what does it look like what does it look like when Quill defeats Godric it looks like just the brightest

flame just engulfs his his head that spreads down to his body his arms he just becomes

radiant flame you hear a horrible scream, but in that, as that scream begins to fade, you're like, ah, ah, freedom, at last, at last. I am released. My lady, I am sorry for all that you have suffered. And then there is just a charred, broken body that remains.

But sadly we cannot drop out of initiative just yet, for there are still death saves to be made. The silence will end. Oh yeah. Oh, nice. We go done Lucius can I please have a death saving throw from you please you certainly can

here it comes natural 20 coming in that's a 5 it's a failure no VJ I'm so sorry I'm confused as to who's down at the moment

Max and Lucius Max and Lucius okay yeah century's okay well I'm sorry Maxie but my sweet Max and Lucius. Max and Lucius. Okay. Sentry's okay. Undo sentry. Sentry's okay. Okay. Well, I'm sorry, Maxie, but my sweet, happy boy comes first.

I run over to Lucius and bamf my very last potion into his dribbly little mouth. It is a potion of healing. So just a teeny tiny... Amazing's enough to it's enough to stop the yeah the thing that we 2d4 plus two that's fine we i'm not gonna just give yourself one hit point for now try it's fine uh ayla i got absolutely nothing on me so i guess i'll try and do a medicine check on max sure Sure. Yep. Wisdom. If you don't have-

I rolled a 10 on the, 11. 11 is a success. This bloodied, muscular torso of shirtless Max as Aayla is like wrapping bandages around Max. You hear like a, like stabilizing him. He doesn't come to consciousness, but he is no longer getting worse and with that

We come out of initiative and the combat is over Run over to max and ailer and just like you're doing it wrong slap the hands away. I'm gonna put a hand on on his chest Yeah, and for some reason it's really like stroking keep that fire burning i am on a solid one hit point right now so am i yeah i'm on one as well yeah all right i'm on 43 i'll actually do you had more hit boys going in than anyone I had under a hundred five going in you're on five yeah so oh my there was nothing but

silence the flickering maybe the slight crackle of flame from the candles the hundreds and hundreds of candles on either side but Godric is defeated and because I know it is very hot and trots PC it may be struggling I think that we can if you wish to call it there as this is a bit of a short episode or like if trot thinks that we can still keep going for a bit we need to do a little bit of wrap up and then pick up things next week we can do a little bit more I want to see this room I want to see the effects of the day being killed all the

Knights are gone some RP give me some RP sure well you there is just this silent moment the the flickering of the candles there is nothing else there is in fact no that's not true. There is one other thing in this room. The whole fight was mentioned at the beginning, but was not the focus point of this. On the altar, sort of restrained and broken, is the sort of bleeding, dying body of,

or maybe bleeding, not dying necessarily, because I believe Godric was interrupted, is a celestial with black feathered wings a Full iron mask completely engulfing their head their hands bound in sort of thick iron Almost like mittens but melt welded together the same with their feet As they are sort of left On the on the pedestal, although they don't make any noise, maybe just the faintest hint of breathing. I mean, I am drained of spells and exhausted.

I will slowly clamber over there to do another heal on the Celestial, I think. I mean, I look to everyone else first and see what they think about me healing the Celestial. Heal some other people, man! I mean... Most of us are only one! But everyone else is up. The Celestial is...

They're not dying. Sorry, that was a misdemeanor. They are not dying sorry that was a that was a misdemeanor they are not dying they are breathing they're you know they show signs of being restrained they definitely are injured but they are not dying I can give um Aayla a level 1 cure wounds so I can give you a

d8 plus 3 healing not a lot but it'll help you get a full eight. You get eleven healing. Nice. I just grip Nova's, like, sleeve. Thank you. Thanks for the

potion. And he wipes his mouth. La la la. No worries, buddy. Anytime. Could you stop doing this, though? That was a lot that time. Yeah. You guys, all three of you ladies, you really, really didn't like Godric, huh? He was killing you a lot. I tend not to like people who kill you a lot.

Yes, I suppose. I want to get him out of the way as fast as possible. Lucius will slowly, like, shakily get to his feet. I'll help him up. Sure. Well, Nova and Tiangong will help him up. Yeah, I think Aayla will make sure that Sentry's okay. I'd love to dish out more healing more healing but uh I've got this potion

that fight really took it out of me I've got a couple potions as well but what do we do about uh that celestial over there well they could be primed with lots of knowledge let's see if they're alright first uh

I'll wait for someone to go over there I mean I guess as the healthiest person here Nova will probably lead the way like I'll leave yeah I'll leave Lucius kind of Tiangong helping Lucius along and I'll go up to the altar and

hi are you okay over there? altar and Hi, are you okay over there? There is a physical response a slight twitch of the body the wings Sort of a tensing of musculature You don't hear anything said this sort of very featureless sort of metal helmet is sort of wrapped around their body

and clamped around the neck and things like that. Is it the helmet? Does it prevent you from speaking? There is another twitch of body language, although it's hard to tell if that is an affirmative or a negative. As if the creature can hear you, but you don't know, like, what you- it's hard to tell how they might be interpreting the response. Um... I do not speak celestial

as well yeah should I try and unbind them I can't do the helmet but I can maybe at least do the chains seems like a good idea take it steady we don't know anything about anyone who's been here. We don't know whose side anyone's on here.

True. Let's be careful. Well they're definitely not on Godric's, and uh, I mean, hopefully they'll see that first. There's more sides than Godric's and ours. Who knows? They were clearly at the mercy of Godric, though. I think we should give them a chance. Uh. I mean, Nova being Nova,

can I try and cut the hand restraints? It's almost like, you know, thick metal, trying to think of the best way, like bands, but like almost like gloves that are like bound with wraps around the rim. You don't actually see like any clasps or like bindings that can be cut.

It's all metal. Like the metal itself was sort of built or like you know almost you know attached to whilst you know it was it was heated and then used to seal these sort of containers around the wrists you can see that some of the celestial flesh is actually burnt and scarred from heat around their sort of forearms where the this has been sealed around their hands you would need something that could break metal, basically. Tiangong alone probably isn't going to be enough

to cut it on its own, on their own. I'm guessing Eldritch Blast is probably quite inelegant. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you could do it. This would require tools and time. Yeah, this would require somebody who knows what they're doing, really.

I mean, I have gloves of thievery, which helps with sleight of hand check. You could certainly try and make some sort of sleight of hand or thievery tool check to try and prize them open. If you have a tool like a crowbar or something like that, you could try and leverage them at their weak points, their joints, to try and break it. I have a small knife. That's probably the most tool-y thing I have.

Flint and steel. Does anyone have any thieves' tools or a crossbow or something? Crossbow? Did I just say crossbow? Crowbar. Crowbar. Crossbow. Put them out there,bow? Crowbar! No, I meant crowbar! Crossbow, put him out of the misery. Easily solution. No, I don't, I'm afraid she's... Sorry.

Sorry, I don't have anything. I have a hammer, but I would just be hitting them with that. That doesn't seem useful. They seem pretty injured as it is. Tell you what, if they're bad, they turn out to be bad. I could always use this and I hold

up the binding sphere. That's true. I mean, they already seem pretty bound. True. I'm just saying if things go south, we'll bind them. Yeah. I mean they already seem pretty bound true I'm just saying if things go south we'll bind them

yeah I'm really sorry to the still-life she'll be like I'm really sorry we we don't have any magic we don't have any tools I can't break you out twitch of the muscles twitch of the wings

acid attacks on it, but it seeps. It's difficult to get accurate. A gentle sort of shrugging of the body, as if it wants to move, but it doesn't have the strength. Is there anything around here that could help? Anything on the bodies? Looking around this chamber, the only real thing you can see in this chamber,

most of it's been stripped out. You can see marks on the floor where there would have once been pews and lecterns for books to be held on. All of that's been removed from here. The only thing that remains is the altar itself with a single, still-functionable but unlit lantern that's set at the base of it. Behind that, a pile of broken, discarded lanterns, the broken stained glass, which now looks out onto the broken remnants of the Rot Heart behind it.

Nothing really else. This chamber has sort of been, a lot of things have been taken away from it. But this is, you know, the monastery and the keep had living quarters and other places. It could be possible that searching on a wider scale. Could I try and see if I can break the helmet apart? You can certainly try, yeah.

Like, this would be a pure, like, this would be a very difficult, even for somebody as strong as you, to, like, tear the metal enough that you can remove it. Yeah, this would be just straight strength, I think. No, I'd say athletics. This would be athletics, but the DC is going to be extremely high. I don't know if I... Hang on.

17 plus... If it's athletics, it's plus 13. If it's strength, it's plus 13 if it's strength it's plus 7 I said athletics so yeah 17 plus 13 you dig your hands in and kind of finding this strip that's

been used to kind of seal this metal helmet and then sort of like rigid plates down you can again see burn marks of around the neck down um you can again see burn marks of around the neck and things you dig your hands worn covered in in blood and soot from wielding the hammer your skin kind of broken and cracked and it hurts but you dig your hands in and you begin to like pull and you see ayla like for the first time in a long time Aayla's strength really tested the muscles bulge sweat drips down her arms and face the veins almost popping out from the scar scarification

of the lightning but after a few moments of like Aayla's just like gritted teeth the grunting and the pain you begin to hear the screeching sound of tested metal of metal being literally torn apart by just brute force and strength and eventually you hear a snap um as this singular piece that had been sort of like locking the mask in place is broken um a feat of incredible strength to just do this with our bare hands, as it breaks. And you can see now that, like, with this kind of sort of collar almost removed, the rest of the helmet can be sort of opened and then removed. And very weakly, the body kind of shifts

as if trying to loose it from their head. Do they react to that? I'm gonna sit down, I'm tired. Yeah, you're done. Nice work. Yeah, what does, uh, do they seem to... How do they look, like... I mean, the helmet's still on, it's not, it's like loosened, so somebody could remove it,

but it looks like they're trying to almost shake it off, their body, their hands and legs are still bound, they're rolling, almost like they're trying to almost shake it off. Their body, their hands and legs are still bound. They're rolling, almost like they're trying to, like, dislodge it from their head, having sense that this pressure is now relieved. I mean, their hands are bound as well, right? Yeah, yeah, currently. Yeah. I think if no one else is going up, I'll, uh, slowly...

I'll do it, Quill. Yeah, I'm a bit stronger thing not stronger fitter healthier that's the word not in real life you can lift it up from the back lifting you know almost like it's hinged at the top you kind of pull it open what you see is a celestial figure their hair cut incredibly roughly short at the back but still long enough at the front that it kind of sticks to their face through gross sweat the hair is thin worn their face incredibly gaunt that their skin coloration extremely pale uh and their eyes that once probably would have glowed um and been a brilliant golden light are now just a sickly yellow ember

that glimmers um and uh thin lips all broken and cracked from heat and thirst um their nose you know bloodied and broken almost like it was fitted into the helmet itself. Hari, please. Kill me. Send me back to Celestia. Do not let me linger here. Do not let them use me. She is mad. She has gone mad with grief

what happened how long have you been here questions i do not know months years it is hard to tell. Summoned, called forth by champions I once knew, they captured me. Calara bade me, told me to relinquish, to surrender myself to them. They encased me to use my power to open the gates, to conjure the gateways, to send forth our knights. That was the last thing I saw. I mean, the knights that you once knew, we've dealt with them. I believe the tree has been destroyed and the knights taken care of.

You must kill me. Is this the only way? There are. Have you destroyed all of the trees? Have you stopped Kalara? Kalara's next. And it looks like they're not looking at you. They're speaking, but they're just staring up into the ceiling.

If Calara still is not defeated, then it will only be a matter of time until another tree grows, until another one rebirths her champions. You have time, but not long. If they stop you they if they defeat you then they will use me again if you kill me you will banish me back to the celestial realms I will return it will slow them please

Grant me mercy. Uh... I don't want to do that. Nova will do it, but kind of looking around everyone else... Yeah, just give a... What else can we do kind of expression. Because we know for a fact that they will will be returned right it's not you know this is a release it's not they are so i don't know if the cholera might have done something to

prevent that but yeah yeah i mean yeah playing our knowledge i mean i think you you guys have had enough increased encounters with playing our creatures if a planar creature is killed on a plane that it's not its plane, generally they go back. So, yeah, in theory. But, like, you know, Lucius makes the point, or Trott makes the point, that Clara could have done something.

Yeah. I mean, if we had a rest and a long one at that, I could banish, which would take them back properly. But... We have eight hours. Yeah. I'll put a hand on Lucius's shoulder and say,

gotta catch them all. I hate you. I hate you so much. If this is what you want, but I'm worried that Kalara may have done something that means you can't you won't be returned properly it would be better than this

if what if we go and defeat Kalara and then once we rest Quill can cast Banish on you. I'm gonna step up and just gently put a hand on Nova's shoulder and just shake his head. We've done everything we can. I am powerless. Let me do this. You will do what you decide.

I can do it. It's just, I just worry that Kalara might have pulled one more trick Kalara does not she is not trying to trick anyone she acts in desperation in grief

in anger but she is not she is no trickster. Even these knights, they swore themselves to her long ago, body and soul. She merely calls upon them to answer that creed in a way that perhaps they do not want

or did not realize. But it is not Calara's wish to mislead them. She merely asks them to fulfill their oath, binds them by it. Okay. Give me release. I will. What's your name?

Name? I am Tavoniel. Thank you for asking. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything. Why? Why do you apologize, Ganassi of Eroes? You have done nothing wrong, have you not?

No, but I can feel sorry for your suffering. Your sympathy is... Your sympathy is a sign of a good heart. But you can ease my suffering now by sending me home. Do not apologize. Be strong in your conviction. Grant me the peace I seek. Okay.

I wish, I wish you well. And with that, I'll raise the sword yeah is it like a quick chop or is this like a you know plunge as quick as possible yeah so you probably place it over their chest sort of right by their heart and a quick thrust uh there is a brief kind of and then you watch as the celestial's body turns to glittering golden light it just fades away uh leaving behind the mask and the bands but disappearing entirely as strong as lucius was when he put the hand on the shoulder saying that he'll do it he definitely looks away in an instant when he sees that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Celestial is no more. Well done, Nath. Okay. Sentry will nod her head and bow it and say a quiet prayer. Okay. Prayer to who for century it's just like

I just a general so okay see that's good nice um how how is everyone that that was the worst half hour hour ten minutes of my Half hour? Hour? Ten minutes? Of my life? So far? It wasn't even five minutes, Nova. Oh no, I mean everything since we've started attacking Nightbloom Hold. From the running, to the running, to the knights, to the tree exploding, to the death, to this death? Yeah, the tree exploding. We never actually caught up on that one, really.

I mean, you were there alone to destroy that thing. How did you possibly get out of there? I fell a lot. Okay. I, yeah. Messed up my timings a little bit, but it's fine. And Hotshot and Shade were there and it was

fine I had the faith did it help? yes definitely really did good good I'm sorry about Hotshot's entry I really tried.

No, don't be, don't apologize. Don't be sorry. She did what she had to do. She saved us both. If she hadn't sacrificed herself, I think all three of us would have died. We've seen a lot of good people on our side, allies that have fallen, and we're at the very, very last stage. We just need to gather whatever strength we have left and end this. If I look outside the broken stained glass, how much brighter is it now? Considerably brighter. As if dawn has come.

That sort of hazy red-yellow light is filtering through. Beams of sunlight now kind of dapple through the broken boughs of the enormous tree that was once the Rot Heart as a dawn arrives. Okay. No, just wondering. Yeah. Uh, yeah. I mean, I think we want to rest up, right? We can't go after Calara now, but also, the longer we wait,

there'll be more trees apparently, uh, sprouting up and ready to reanimate these knights again. I pose this to you. If we wait eight hours and a tree is regrown and the champions are reborn. Even at our fullest capacity, we have to do all of that again and face Calara? Or we take the fight to her now? We've got nothing left, Lucius. Nothing.

We'll have nothing if they are reborn again. Could we talk to Valor? Maybe Valor can help. Is Could we talk to Valor? Maybe Valor can help. Is this time to bring Valor down? You'll need Valor to open the breach point anyway. You can't go any further without Valor. I will call into the storm chaser, Oriah,

and just say, hello? Captain, is everything all right? We've ceased firing. It seems that we destroyed most of... We didn't get any more signals. Is everything finished? Yes. We've defeated the champions. The tree has fallen. The hive are dead. The gloom is dispersing as you could probably tell. Yes, we can... we can't quite see down there, but it is getting lighter. I think it won't be too much longer at this rate. Good.

We just have Kalara to face now, which I believe we need Valor for. All right, I will let her know, and I'm sure that she will make her way down to you. Thank you. Do you need anything else? Potions. Time.

Sending her to you now. Thank you. The message goes quiet. It doesn't take long. It takes like maybe a few minutes. Then there is a crackle of energy and you see a very faintly, but sort of erratic purple triangle kind of energy and you see a very faintly but sort of erratic purple triangle kind of

of energy open in the air near Lucius and you see valor sort of step through concentrating as she teleports in using the items given by Lucius and the connection as a focus and she will arrive and sort of look around. Where's Max? Is Max okay? You all look very injured. We are all very injured, but I think we're all

standing. Max is fine somewhere. He's like unconscious still because he was only stabilized. He's like over by a pile of dead bodies Oh that's right you did heal him Sorry I still thought he was unconscious I forgot you did the cure wounds on him

Should have got some armour for Max from the ship He doesn't need it I'm here my lady and he kind of hobbles over But yeah, we need well, a little bit of help before we decide to go after Kalara. Unfortunately, I think all of us...

Clearly, I mean, looking at you all, I mean, do you have spells? I mean, you all look terrible. You're in no state to fight Kalara. I mean, we also

I've never looked better thank you very much a true warrior I'm dying yes you can see that you're covered in cuts and there's marks of necrotic energy all over you like I fell out of a tree yeah and also you might want to mine the bones

and also that burnt pile over there. That was one of the knights. So ignore those. It's been a day, Vala. It's been a day. How long have we been here, Vala? It feels like ages. Oh, I mean, since your communication,

less than ten minutes? Even joking. Since you began the attack probably, since you began the attack, like five, six minutes or something? Well it's been ten minutes, Valor. This has felt like the longest day. It's felt like the longest day we've ever had. Six seconds around.

It's felt like about five weeks. Yeah. Well, certainly hasn't been. I didn't see a lot of it either. I was on the floor for a good chunk of that. Vala, we don't have time. The tree may be down now, but Calara is planning to grow a new one, and with that, the power to bring back the...

And what do you think will happen, Lucius, if you go to Calara as you are now? Do you think that you can defeat Calara, one of the Titans? One of the eldest Titans? She's as strong as a Telekis. I'm just asking for advice. Yuan, you cannot go and face her as you are. You cannot. It would be throwing away everything you have done. She would destroy you as you are now. Okay, well how long would it take you to create a door to Laura's domain you our few hours perhaps for me to make the

breach point but hey we could maybe we could have the storm chaser watch the rothart and and if it's so shows sign of regrowing they keep firing on it how forgive me I'm not familiar with the exactly what's happened here you're worried about this tree coming back the one that we've just destroyed does it just does it regenerate on its own do you have information on how it comes back do you know how it can be restored? Well, thinking about it, Godric, didn't he say he's going to regrow the tree? And then when we came here,

he was doing something to the celestial with all these, oh God, these fires. Oh, I just stood on one. So maybe it needs a ritual. So since we've lightly killed everyone here, it may take time for Calara to, you know, find new friars and celestials and rituals. I mean, even if there was, even, I mean,

from the looks of things, this tree here, I sent, there's no, whatever this, this Rothart was, the, the, the necromantic energies here is gone. I mean, there's still plenty of necromantic energy out there in the valley. There may be another one of these trees elsewhere, even from the storm chaser, the darkness isn't completely receding. It's getting lighter, but there's still patches where the darkness is incredibly thick and strong, but they're hours away by foot. They're, you know, as you yourself experienced, you have to travel through quite thick terrain to get anywhere.

So even if there is another one of these trees, I imagine it will take some time. I mean, you defeated another one of these champions. How long did it take for them to be sort of reborn? I don't think they were reborn. They were. They were. That's what attacked me and Hotshot and Shade.

When the tree blew, she was at the base of the tree and she was ejected, but she was not complete. She was maybe halfway through her regrowth cycle. Okay, and how long from then? I honestly don't know, my head really hurts. Yeah, I don't know how long it was since we killed her and then she came back. We had a long rest.

What is time? I'll tell you, it was about 12 hours. It took you about 12 hours from the point you defeated Cerise, you took a long rest, it took you about four hours to reach Nightbloomhold. So it was about 12 hours. So to be completely regrown, probably a 24 hour period for someone. But the Celestial said that killing them would slow down Calara. So maybe use that slowed down time to just have a little nap.

I'm informed that the Celestial was used as like, creating the gates to send grief knights everywhere. That makes sense. Powerful Celestials do have the ability to create, to teleport and create gates. I've never heard of one of the Titans using them in this. This sounds torturous. Calara is either truly, has truly gone beyond who she was, or there is another influence here, but it certainly is.

Whatever has happened to Kallara, I think that if they're doing things like that, if they're torturing celestial beings, they're using their own champions in this way, I wouldn't hold any hopes on being able to talk or convince her of anything. And that's hoping that at least it's her and not some other influence. I'm afraid that it could be something, I mean, what if Hadar's gotten to her? What if another force, another influence? I don't know. We need to be damn sure that that influence doesn't remain in Calara when she reunites with Siaska. Exactly.

Very true. Even more reason, I think you just need to be at your best. You need to go into this fight with everything you have. I can cast some cantrips. Okay, look, we know that we're safe here. The Rathard here is gone. It's getting light outside, and we're in the keep. We can probably, if we need to, barricade the door maybe

and stay safe here for long enough for us all to regain our full strength, and Valor can open the gate. I think if you were to take too much longer yes i think it's probably long enough for you to regain your energy regain your strength i mean if we were talking about you spending two days here i think that that would be you would be waiting far too long and that would give them a chance to regroup and attack you but if we're talking about you resting getting back your energy as soon as possible and then breaching the demi plane as quickly as we can then breaching the demiplane as quickly as we can,

then yes, I think we can move forwards. We need armor for Max and a weapon. Max, do you need a weapon? I do need to still find a weapon, but there was a barracks here and I'm not as injured as the rest of you. I will heal quite quickly. I can go and search their barracks, see if I can find weapons and armor for myself.

Potions. Do we have any potions on the storm chaser? Has Dr. Grey Lano done anything? Did I tell her to do anything? Quill, you're the quartermaster. I told no one to do nothing. Yeah. Also, yeah, making potions is not what Grey Lano does.

She attends to the... Spooky spooks. to do nothing. Yeah. Also, yeah, making potions is not what Grey Lama does. She attends to the old crew. Spooky spooks. I have a few potions, but even then, Spooky spooks have all our money. Spooky spooks? We put a big deposit.

Bizarre. Peral. Hand cream. Bizarre. Potion. Oh, she does. Oh, I just looked at my gold count.

What? She is Peral. She is. Yeah, I forgot I did that. No. You were the one who did it. I know. You were very insistent. I know what's wrong with me. Alright, let's...

Let's barricade the door. Is here good, Vala, to create a door? I mean, this is— Well, I don't know about the barricade. That's not my business. I can create the breach point here. Yes. I did this is this is where Calara's energy is anchored This is the point where it's I will breach into but Anything else that's that's really your prerogative I I'm merely giving you my opinion that I by looking at you now and knowing how strong

Calara will be I would not advise against you going as you are now like i i think that you should get what rest you can even if that means risking that these creatures come back keep in mind that if you defeat killara hopefully even if these knights do reform you'll be able that that once killara is defeated there will be nothing left to power them they they should their powers should go whatever powers she grants them should fade and vanish well more her influence all of them

seem to hate this direction she's taken them in all of them Lucius will go around and press the digitate to everybody there you go there's that clean them up will go around and press the digitate to everybody. There you go. There's that. Clean them up.

Wipe away the dirt. I'll just stand over here Valor and I'll do first watch. And then he goes into a trance like second later. So yeah, I would suggest you all take a long rest. What? What's one of those? I know.

Where's that on the sheet? Honestly, the amount of people thinking that I was going to make you guys go and fight Kalara and not have a long rest. Like this guy. This guy starts being like, whoa, we should just go now. And I'm like, you're insane.

You're absolutely insane. Yeah. All right. Yeah, that's fine. He's passionate. He's ready to go. Rare and go. This is funny. Funny to me. To recover one level of exhaustion, it requires food and drink. Does anyone have any

snacks on them? Ooh. I have some. Did Vala bring like a Kit Kat or something? Nope. I have a bag of sand. That's like food to you, right? A level 17 character brought down by not having food

and drink because he couldn't be bothered tracking food and drink in his inventory. I'm sure there would be some in the barracks here or something, right? Katie, your rations have been there since level fucking one. I didn't say they were good rations have been there since level one there's no really true i didn't think they were good rations they're still there ayla wouldn't have thrown them out we're in the land of the dead there's going to be worms and maggots all over the place will food

sure do you make a survival check for me see if you can forage up some tasty absolutely i do 30. oh my god you fight you find loads of really tasty maggots and grubs it's a it's a banquet bodies anyone else want some can i have some yeah i've never tried quill food before you've never really tried human food either, but absolutely. I like cake. At least I think I do. You probably would. The grubs do not taste like cake. That's what Sentry gets out of it. You can decide what. As Sentry tastes.

I'll leave that to Rhiannon. Sentry can taste like really strong flavors. Like if something's very sweet or very sour, like they're quite, they're good to her. But if something's quite mild, she won't taste it. But I imagine like the worm... I imagine this is more of a texture thing. This is more like, it's bland, but there's like this chewy,

like crunchy... Yeah. Yeah. Right. Interesting interesting it's like dirt it kind of is yeah but you know what I love it

if it does the job then I can understand the appeal the trick is to slurp it whole whole? I'll have to try that next time you can lose one level of exhaustion tom thank you has a dawn happened is did you say dawn was happening no no because it's just the light

returning you have not had a dawn so magic items that replenish on dawn do not replenish only on long rest long rest items only plus can i um attune back to my helm of teleportation with this because i lost my rod of alertness okay i mean it's you know where it is it's just in the pile of broken tree somewhere it's probably in pieces by now that's a magic item for a future campaign. Yeah. Somebody else out there can- What happened here? Yeah.

Right. Yeah. Long rest, everybody. Get stuff back and we're going to wrap it up there. Done. Because this has basically been a full episode without a break in the end. Yeah. It was meant to be a two hour episode.

End up going on and going on. It would have been. Yeah. The extra half hour that we added on top. But there we go. Nice. You know what it's time for? Cool, cool on top. But there we go. Nice. You know what it's time for? A clean professional outro.

That's right. It is time for a clean professional outro, Tom Hazel. You're correct. And this is where it is. Thanks for watching this part of Keyrollers. We'll see you next time. Take care. Bye-bye now.

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