High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #167 | Open the Cargo Doors (Part 1)

Episode Date: December 5, 2022

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Pickaxe. Pickaxe. Last time on Erois. Carry on. Okay, I'm just checking that you don't want me to restart. No, no, no, it's fine. Last time on Erois, the champions are in the Ganassi city of Vortensar, where they've been helping a group called the Seekers

try to thwart the propaganda of the city's leader, Harmony, where they've been helping a group called the Seekers try to thwart the propaganda of the city's leader Harmony and their ally Shansara, a former member of the Valkyrian Empire. With a battalion of troops aligned with Shansara and the Ganassi's own forces, they are attempting to transport the city with planar magic. However our heroes know that such endeav endeavors will result in terrible consequences. After slowly influencing the city and completing several smaller missions, the party have decided to try and double mission.

Double mishmash. And take down a Valkyrian supply station, steal a transport vehicle, and then rescue members of the Vortensar Council all in one night. Their previous, the first part of their mission to take over the Valkyrian supply store has not gone exactly according to plan and as a Valkyrian officer and a propaganda officer from Shansara's own forces have arrived for some unknown reason, the party in a bit of a panic after unveiling a Valkyrian battle mech have sent their young companion Fuego into it

and I need to double check what their intended goal was. So that is where we are. So to set the scene, because I know Katie you went with us last time, imagine almost like a long airfield base, right? Kind of long road in the middle, kind of warehouses, like these big open arched warehouses on either side, several other smaller buildings. At the far end of this dock, this air dock, this airstrip, is this Valkyrian

transport ship, almost like a gunship helicopter, a kind of transport helicopter, like a kind of video game-y kind of hovercraft thing. Nova is currently in such a vehicle, having worked out how it operates and is fairly confident that she can pilot it. There are three engineers and or pilots kind of working on that vehicle currently. Nova is invisible. Lucius, having disguised himself as a member of the Valkyrian forces, has used dominate person on a lieutenant whose name I've forgotten and I don't know where my notes are. So Wiki team.

Lyra. Captain Lyra. Captain Lyra. Perfect, thank you very much. Captain Lyra has been- I believe that's from this book. It was, yeah. I did literally use the role of play random name generator.

Captain Lyra, you have a dominated person and you are using them to kind of give you you know kind of cover of you know why you're there and what you're doing however after you left with captain lyra this was when the rest of the party noticed this other arrival of these more superior officers um there is an inquisitor yes and a valkyrian inquisitor and an acolyte of shansara um along with various rifle troopers and you know various other forces as well um they have arrived and were making their way towards the hangar where currently ayla quill sentry and fuego were stationed um the the hangar is a mess there was like containers that were spilled everywhere there were grenades that have

been thrown everywhere and yeah a tarp has been removed from a giant mech suit, a battle mech. And the very last thing that happened was, I believe that Century, Quill... I'm not going to say Aayla, because Katie was not there to condone this course of action. But Quill and Century were like, Fuego, get in the mech.

They pulled an Evangelion, get in the mech, Fuego. Fuego is well up for it. He's very well up for it. He's not pulling a Shinji. He's very excited. But the one thing i couldn't remember was exactly what did you tell fuego to do was it like cause a distraction or was it go and fight i think it was the distraction cause chaos cause chaos that is what i've got written here yeah they plan for fuego to use the mech to cause chaos while the ships leave. He can use its basic functions.

He's somewhat protected in it. That's what I've got written down. It is. He basically has the benefits of having cover. It's kind of like a power loader from Aliens, right? Like he's in it and his head's kind of exposed and his arms are kind of like on these control droids. So you can see parts of him, but he does have some cover.

You know that it has some weapons, but you're not sure if fuego is going to activate those but it just also has these giant punching fists it's kind of like you know like being in a big uh power suit basically yeah i mean i don't think i i remember thinking it i don't remember if i actually said it i want them to tear ass is he able to tear ass in this thing potentially like i mean whose ass do you want him to tear for every ass okay if he sees an ass he tears it okay so uh that is the current scenario um the the ship is i think i said it's quite far it's like you know three four five hundred feet sort of down this this airstrip um lucius has already moved you know, three, four, 500 feet sort of down this airstrip. Lucius has already moved, you know, quite far along and is maybe about halfway between you guys in this warehouse and the ship itself. So I'd say if I kind of split the difference and say 400 feet,

you're about 200 feet away from the rest of the party. You've like moved, started moving down this airstrip. The rest of the party, you're there. This group is heading towards you and fuego is in this mech powered up and is basically gonna go and start causing chaos ass he's gonna tear ass he's gonna tear us all right um he's got a hair ass face right on there okay in that case let me just check in with Nova and Lucius. Well, Lucius is pretty obvious. Lucius is basically just walking towards the ship.

That was your intention. You don't know what's happening with this mech suit. You didn't see Tom's tear-ass face. Yeah, I didn't see it. Do it. I'm not going to do it again. I don't make sense for the podcast. TikTok will see it.

I'll do it for the podcast. TikTok will see it. They won't. TikTok will see all. So Lucius is making the way with capital iron it's not really much you do at this point you're just kind of walking on this airstrip uh you've got them completely locked down they're under the mind control yeah yeah my intention which i haven't got to yet is to remove the ship pilots yeah with sending them to the ladder because that

was my last comms with you wasn't it that there were three engineers or something yeah three pilots that you need to get rid of. So I'm just going to command them to get out. Are you just waiting over? You're just like, I sent my message. I'm not going to do anything. I'm just going to wait until... Because I feel like I haven't really been communicated much else.

I wouldn't have known anything that's happening. You don't know anything that's going on. Technically, neither does Lucius right now. Lucius did send a message, but I can't recall which one. It was light on the details. And it certainly didn't mention that you stuffed Fuego into a mech. Oh, no, that was, yeah, we sent a message before that happened.

And I think the rest of the message was all XOXO. Yeah, so as far as I know, it's all going great. Okay, just give me one second. So what is it, like three, four people coming towards us? I feel like I've woken up on an adventure I don't want to be on. Yeah. I've just been forced into this position i'm sending that three pilots are inside the ship right that need to leave that's it oh okay yeah and that's being sorted by you and i'm just going to stand here and just watch the fireworks i think yeah so i know nothing about

naked shower tussle oh that's right's right. If you see a torn ass, just don't be surprised. I think most people would be surprised. It's been torn. Ash, it's broken. I don't know about you, Tom, but in the day to day, if I see a man with a torn ass. What's going on? Everybody is screaming, my ass.

And clutching their button. Specifically my ass. What did you guys do? Okay. We goat-seated. No, John. Does that exist in this world? I hate the fact that this is, like,

I'm trying to get things done and I'm hearing snippets of this. Don't listen, don't listen. I don't want to. Right. So, to answer your question, somebody asked how many of them are, like, moving towards you kind of thing. You can see that having left a carriage by the main entrance to this supply depot,

you can see the Acolyte of Shansara, a young Eladrin woman dressed in a similar nature to Shansara, kind of flowy, pop-starry looking outfit. Along with them is a masked female Valkyrian inquisitor, along with a much more senior-looking sort of long sword, a Valkyrian pistol at their side, more elite-looking officer, and then four members of the rifle corps. You can also see that in the nearby buildings,

there are about eight Ganassi kind of guards as well who just happen to be nearby. They're just kind of like lingering nearby. Fuego will probably, knowing you guys are in this one, will charge out of this hangar onto the main airstrip and make his way towards the nearest thing that he can see that could be destroyed or like he could, you know, start fucking with,

which is the next door hanger that Lucius had been exploring and like found a bunch of supplies in. And he runs in and you begin to hear like, as he begins picking stuff up, breaking it. You can hear him like swearing as he's fumbling with controls, trying to activate other systems. He doesn't know how to do it,

so he just starts punching and breaking stuff physically. Before he goes, could I cast Protection from Energy on him? I will say yes, you can do that. What energy source would you like? Lightning Energy. From Lightning, okay. So you have to choose either the mech or fuego. On fuego, in case something goes wrong. Like lightning, okay. So you have to choose either the mech or fuego. On fuego in case something goes wrong.

Like electricity or something. Okay. Just keep in mind you're concentrating on that. Were you concentrating on any other spells? No. Okay. The reaction is immediate. The group, I need those of you,

so I need Ayla, Quill, and Sentry to basically all make stealth checks to stay hidden in this position that you're in. Because you're basically like hiding in this thing that he's just run out of. And I'm assuming that like you're trying to keep an eye on what's happening, like you're trying to peer around the corner or something like that.

Yeah. 11. 11. Stealth. Solid, solid. Not the worst overall. Not too bad. 17.

17. 13. Solid. Not the worst overall. Not too bad. 17. 17. 13. 13. That wasn't with advantage or anything, was it? No, no advantage. No, as far as I'm aware, none of you guys have anything like that to give you advantage. You do, but I'm assuming you rolled with advantage.

Yeah. You are all trying to stay hidden, but also trying to see what's going on. And it is nighttime, the sun is is setting it's not quite fully set like there is probably like that dull red glow is kind of stretching across from the mountains you can see the sun just beginning to settle behind atlas this amazing statue that occupies part of the city i mean it's casting this long glow but it's enough that the light is dimming fuego draws most of the attention um but not all uh as he charges out you see the acolyte of shansara and most of the soldiers pointing and

giving orders and like you begin to see the rifle call like kind of like lock and load and begin making their way towards fuego maybe taking some pot shots in his direction um like or like maybe not taking shots just yet, but they're yelling. They're like, soldier, what are you doing? Get down, like, blah, blah, blah. Kind of like, what's going on? Like kind of shouting like these commands and things.

You can see the elite officer with them as well, kind of like moving up with them as like a little pack of five, leaving the acolyte behind with the Inquisitor. And Quill having sort of seen one of these Inquisitors before, they're watching what's happening, but almost instinctively, they begin looking at where the mech came from and beginning to analyze the scenario, like trying to take it all in.

Makes sense. And you guys pull yourselves back, but you have this worrying, like, did they see us? What do you guys do? He's smart. For right now, the five soldiers, they're going to be basically crossing your path. You know, even if they're dashing,

they'll be crossing your path in maybe a turn. You guys have a full turn if you would like to do something. And then it's probably going to be rolling initiative just to track order of things and stuff like that. Oh, God. Lucius, you hear the commotion like you are about halfway you're about 240 feet away from the party at this point you're kind of making your way you can see the ship uh the the transport ship is yeah about 160 feet in front of you uh you've got the dominated captain behind you but you hear me and the captain is just you and the captain in the

moment but there are other guards around i couldn't see that this noise is drawing ganassi guards and valkyrian soldiers from other buildings down the airstrip and they're like what's going on like kind of looking around you hear this kind of like what's going on like shouting and if you glance behind you you see the mech and fuego smashing through this this this warehouse um just tear an ass yes can i see any of this as well or you are in the handle you were in the ship and like hiding in the ship you hear it maybe faintly kind of coming down but like you don't see anything i'm gonna speed up hurriedly now towards so start dashing basically okay yeah we'll keep in mind. So you get another sort of 60 feet. So you're about 100 feet away from the ship at this point. So crew, stealth team.

Come here. Come closer, everyone. Everyone, we're going ethereal. Okay. We are getting out of here because I think someone's coming towards us. Hold my hands. Do something.

I don't know how this works. I do should know how it works. I'm part of your etherealness at level eight. Level eight etherealness at level eight. Level eight etherealness, okay. All right, yep. Yep, so me and three others, but there's only us. Yep, okay.

You turn the three of you ethereal. You find, those of you who become ethereal, you feel this weightlessness kind of overtake you as Quill finishes casting a spell, and suddenly the world turns not black and white, but almost this purplish bluish hue. The world around you becomes wispy, almost like the world becomes a ghost around you

and you are the only real thing in it. You can still see the outlines of the shelves and the things knocked over. You can hear very muffled kind of, but it sounds like it's far and underwater to you, but you can still see the Vegas outlines you can only see about 60 feet around you though I think was yeah I think it's that but can we communicate are you can communicate with any other creature on the ethereal plane okay you guys can

communicate but you can't communicate with anybody not on the ethereal plane yeah we move slower yeah I think it's at half speed or even less than that. What do you read the spin out for, Tommy? No. If you move up or down every foot, wait, if you move up or down every foot of movement costs an extra foot, so it's half speed moving up and down. But yeah, 60 feet of vision as well.

And I will just tell these guys, okay, you can kind of float and fly now. And this guy outside who's coming towards us may be able to see us, very unlikely, but might be able to see us. Just follow me, we're gonna go towards Nova. Okay. So that's what Quill does.

What about Sentry and Aayla? Do you guys wanna do anything? I'll follow Quill, I guess, because if we're all ethereal, we can't do things. I mean, yeah, you physically can only attack stuff that is on the ethereal. I hit Quill in the face. All right, and then you just want to keep

concentrating on detection? Yeah. Okay. All right. In that case, I would like everyone to roll initiative. What? Just because it's good to keep a track of it. Sure.

Guessing that was the one. Advantage, I rolled a two and a three. Hell yeah. It's kind of less important for you to get it necessarily. Yeah, I'm just chilling in a cockpit. That's a six for me, dog. Roll initiative for these guys. Right, okay. So Lucius, what do we get?

Eight. Quill? Nineteen. Ayla? Seventeen. Century? Twenty. Oh, very good.

Nova Vija? Six. Six. All right. Don't mean to put this in the middle. No, it's okay. I'll just keep leaning. Um.

So. Okay. So. Okay. So your limited vision range. 60 feet. As far as you can see, nothing changes in the immediate 60 feet, don't you? They do this. Okay. Sentry.

At the moment, yeah. So you guys are still about 400 feet away from the ship. Fuego, the mech, is probably maybe, I would say maybe within 60 feet, maybe sort of like 70, just out of range of the vision you currently have. And you can't really hear as much here. Like, you can hear sounds,

but it's all muffled like it's underwater. It's kind of distracting to your senses. But yeah, you can, what's, you know, I'm going to take this in turn-by-turn basis because there's a lot of stuff happening and it could very much change things. So what would you like to do? Just move? I'm just going to take this in a turn-by-turn basis because there's a lot of stuff happening and it could very much change things. So what would you like to do? Just move? I'm just going to keep moving,

but is there a way I can stay around areas that are quite complicated in texture and how they look so there's less chance of me being seen if someone could see me? I mean, yeah, you can still keep yourself close to the walls of these warehouses and try and still move in a stealthy way. You can definitely try and be in a position that, yeah, you can try and keep yourself hidden as best you can.

If you wanna kind of properly stealth it, that's moving at half speed even in Ethereal, and you just make a stealth check for it. Yeah, I'll do that. All right, okay. Stealth check. A two. Okay, good. And then you're using your action to dash. You just want to get as fast as you can, basically.

Okay, so you move about 30 feet away from the group. Try to still keep it singing. You can now see the vague outline of Fuego's mech just smashing through these shelves, stomping on boxes and doing all this kind of destruction. But it's like seeing a ghost of this mech and Fuego himself. Like it's all shimmery and, you know, out of order and very bizarre. It's always like, go Fuego, go! Yeah.

Yeah! Quill. Yeah, I want to follow in the same fashion. So I'll make a... Stealth check, yeah. If you want to try and basically, even if Therial's still trying and like hide yourself and move quietly. I think until we're beyond this guy who could potentially see us.

14, and yeah, following Sentry. Okay, all right. Yeah, provided Sentry's going the right way. You see the same thing, see if we go, but... Well, Sentry, I'm assuming, is moving towards the ship, the end of the airstrip. Okay. is moving towards the ship, the end of the airstrip. Okay.

You see the more elite-looking knight kind of enters that sphere of 60 feet of vision just on the outer edge of it and is looking towards Fuego the mech. And you see them begin to cast a spell and gesture at something. And... You watch as this kind of sphere the spell and gesture at something. And you watch as this kind of sphere

encapsulates basically around Fuego's mech arm. And it just kind of locks the arm in place. And it's like... And it kind of like... This sphere of force kind of entraps the arm. And he's like

can't move it cool ayla not cool well no not good for us it's not cool uh so can i where's so sentry's moving towards the ship so it'shmm. So is Quill. Fuego is... Which is kind of in the same direction, right? They're in the same direction. So imagine you're on one end of an airstrip. The ship is at the other one. You're in the first warehouse. Fuego's in the next one. Second one. OK, so if I went out, I would still be going in the same direction.

OK, yeah. I'll do the same as Sentry and Quill, I guess. And... Just give me a quick stealth check then. So see as you're still trying to move with this new Etherealist, to change the circumstances a little. 18.

18, yeah, sure, okay, yeah. And I'll just say to Quill, we've gotta get him out. We can't just leave him here. We can't Ethereal our way down the whole way because he's not with us. I'm trying to remember the exact plan. I don't know what's planned,

so I'm just moving and telling. As you say that, Ayla, you see joining the elite looking soldier, the four members of the Valkyrian Rifle Corps kind of get up. The two of them drop to their knees and begin aiming, and then the other two stand behind them, and they basically all unleash a fusillade of shots towards the mech um and you just watch as eight of these shots just

from these four troopers and it does seem like the mech's very tough right like these bounce off the thing um and fuego's kind of in cover but they still damage it a little bit like you can see that it kind of gets blasted in places but taking a heavy degree of fire. Hard to like fully hit and damage, but those shots that do land, you know, still do something. You watch as a small squadron of regular Ganassi looking guards just basically begin pouring out of one of the buildings, like pulling out swords and clubs

and like running over to try and help, but they're miles away. You guys really wouldn't see those, but maybe Lucius does. Fuego's mech is going to attempt to break free of this kind of, like, entrapping sphere. And you watch as he rips and rips and rips, and he pulls the arm free, but it tears the hand off the mech. So now it has, like, this kind of, like, big metal stump.

But he turns around, he picks up one of these crates, and he just, like, lo he picks up one of these crates and he just like lobs it towards one of these guards it like smacks him in the chest knocking one of these rifle corps soldiers over doesn't kill him but like knocks him over and like you can see it heavily injures him and then fuego's like smashing buttons trying to do anything else trying to get to act to activate some sort of system um but no no event he just like basically lobs one of these boxes at him um and then just goes charging off towards, to cause more chaos as much as he can.

Lucius. Oh, boy. I'm going to keep dashing towards the ship, see how far in I can get. Okay, yeah, you're at 60 feet. You're like, one more round, you'll be there. So you're about 40 feet away at this point. Actually, because Nova's invisible,

you begin to see that the pilots are like, kind of like looking out and like, what's going on? Like, they're kind of calling out like, hey, what's happening? As you, they can now see you basically. They see you and this captain approaching. In this case, I'll command Captain Lyra to point at them and say, you, you've been instructed. There's been a compromise. You need it out of the ship.

Out? I suppose, yes. It has a bomb on it! Oh, my God. That was the worst insight check I've ever made. They're like, what? You begin to see them panic and, like, fleeing from the ship. They just begin running towards the captain and away from the ship. They just begin running towards the captain

and away from the ship. Job done. Nova. So you hear this commotion, you hear this female voice, because you can't see it this morning, you just hear this voice like, there's been a compromise, there's a bomb on the ship! And the engineers are like, what?

How? We need to get out of here! We checked it, didn't we? We must have missed it. Ah, like they're just like panicking. They're about to flee the ship. So with my wisdom of negative one. I think you should make an insight check for me. I think I need to make an insight check.

I'd love you to make an insight check for me. Fine. If you had got 10 or higher, I would have been like, you're pretty sure that this is maybe part of the plan. But because it's a woman. But now there's a doubt, right? There's this fragment of doubt of like, oh God, what if it isn't the plan?

Yeah. What if the other Seekers have installed a bomb? Yeah. And because it's a woman speaking and not, like, Lucius or anything, like, I'd be like, ah! So I'll let you rule it on that. You can do what you want. Well, I guess because I'm curled up somewhere, right?

Can I, like, start peeking out and being like, where did everyone go? Yeah, you can see that the engineers haven't quite left yet. They're about to flee, basically. They're in the process of fleeing the ship. Can I roll perception to see if I see a bomb? Yeah, absolutely. It might be an investigation, actually.

Investigation. Yeah. Natural 20! You find a bomb. It's my butt. My butt is the bomb. There's a certain type of DMing style where I would absolutely be like, you find a bomb. It's my butt. My butt is the bomb. There's a certain type of DMing style where I would absolutely be like, there is now a bomb.

But no, like, you go full Keanu Reeves in speed, and you're, like, lying on the ground, like, underneath the console, like, I see a red wire and a blue wire. No, this is part of the ignition system. And you're, like, scanning around, and you're like, there can't be a bomb. There's no way there's an explosive here.

You're pretty confident that, no, there isn't. And I think that maybe as you're like, oh, maybe this is part of the plan, or something like that, but it's up to you how you interpret it. I feel like that's my go. I don't know if that's what you want me to do more.

You guys want to see that happening, so I think that we just go back up. Quill. What a waste of a nat 20. You cast Ithraunus at 8th level, yes? Yep. Alright. Yeah, they've got the range.

And they can see us. Here we go. Shit. Rock and roll buckaroo, here we go. But I can't see them, right? You cannot see them. However, you feel a slight disrupt... Like, you feel something trying to dispel the etherealness.

You feel something, like, trying to influence the magic around you, but it fails. Okay, we need to keep moving faster. They can see us and they're trying to pull us out of Ethereal, we need to get to the ship right now. What about Fuego? That was kind of the plan, thinking about it.

The plan was for him to mess stuff up and then get out of here. He is definitely drawing, I mean, the vast majority of the forces but uh quill you're pretty confident that inquisitor noticed something and has probably cast true scene based on like the fact that it took them like a second like they didn't immediately try and dispel you they saw something they've gone in maybe had a look and gone hmm yeah

i'll keep moving towards his hip, but I'm going to try and keep it on fuego. Okay. Can I have my lance ready, just in case we come out? I mean, is it activated or just ready? Just ready. Yeah, of course you can. Yeah, absolutely.

So, Nod, do you want to keep stealthing, or are you going to just move full speed? I'm going to try and move faster. Okay, so about 60 feet. Yeah. That would put you about 80 feet, sorry, 90 feet from your position. You're about 310 feet away from the ship. Okay.

So you are basically just moving as quick as you can in this ethereal form towards the ship. Yep. Quill? I'm going to keep zooming. Same thing. Same thing. I think I can't see this guy,

and I can't affect him at the moment anyway. From your current position, you can't, no. I think if I get pulled out, I want to be holding on to a banished spell. So you're going to use your action to ready a spell? To ready a spell. So you can only move 30 feet this way, or your normal speed?

Oh, crap. I'm going to keep going. I want to get to the ship and get out of here before... Okay. Are you walking or are you flying? I'll fly. What's your fly speed? 50. That's what I need to check.

So you go about 100. So you're now ahead of sentry. You're about 130 feet away. So you're about 270 from the ship. Nice, I mean, keep sentry between me and the enemy. Yep. To where's the plan? Yeah.

Okay, this would be a monster bonus. Intelligence. Quill. Actually, no, because they... No, they can't do that. It can only be the Inquisitor who can do this. In that case, they will use their Gravity Charge. So you hear this kind of like...

And you see the sort of elite-looking soldier throw something towards Fuego's mech, kind of like bounces on the ground and then causes like an implosion that like Tries to draw the mech towards its center I'd say the mech is strong enough that it probably avoids it but it's gonna take some damages like pieces of its armor are pulled Off and it takes half damage basically, but you can see they're trying to basically wear this mech down and Arrest Fuego or do something

But it's it's taking a long time. The mech is very very tough Ayla. I can go 90 feet if I dash, so I will do that. So you're between Sentry and Quill at this point. All right. The Rifle Corps will continue their assault on the mech. Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. You can watch as it's-

Can I, bonus action, I will rage. Okay, yeah. In case we drop out. If we had a way to get him out. Lightning courses up and down the arms. They are going to... I still think there's a bomb on. Oh.

I need to catch up a little bit. Do you think this is gonna raise the city alert level? Might raise it a little bit. A little bit, yeah. Just a little smidge. Just a little smidge. Nah, I wouldn't, if I ran the place. That's why your city is non-existent.

I tried. Total anarchy. Did somebody have... Actually, no, I think you've got to look through your notes to get the Fuego stats. Oh, I have it. Do you have them? Tell me what his wisdom saving throw is.

Or his wisdom bonus if he doesn't have it. Plus zero. Plus zero. Those of you who can see fuego's mech watch very much though still you know perfectly fine and capable of fighting fuego becomes paralyzed oh you don't know why well we know why we don't know why um i think it's only lucius that can potentially see that, if anyone, because we're out of range. I can't see shit.

Yeah, we can only see 60 feet. That's true, and you guys moved. Sentry can, because Sentry only moved 60 feet. So Sentry can just about see Fuego, but you two have moved ahead, so you can't. So Lucius and Sentry are the only ones who can see that at this point. At the end of each of his turns,

he's got a zero. Yeah. Zero. Stays paralyzed. Ten whiz. Lucius. I guess I make it to... Yeah, I mean, you're 40 feet away.

This is me making notes, by the way. Yeah, I'd just like to point out, it looks like Trot's on his phone, but he forgot his iPad, so he's making notes on what would have been his iPad on his phone. He's not just having a long text conversation. God, I'm hanging out with some absolute losers right now.

Yeah, no, you are 40 feet to the ship. You've already called out. You can see the engineers are basically about to leave. They'll leave at the end of the round, basically. I'll basically stand either side of the exit gantry, I assume, like a flappy back. Yeah, it's got the back of it, it's down like a... So Captain Lyra and Lucius stand.

We'll take command of the ship now and make sure there's no bomb. Okay. Make a deception check for me. Deception. I should've just stayed quiet. I'm sure. I should have just stayed quiet.

10 plus 2,000. 3. 13. 13, okay. They do look a little bit quizzically, like you're not part of the engineering core, are you sure? Like they're confused,

they're still, you know, totally under orders, so they're doing it, but there's definitely, that lie has aroused some suspicion, but they're still doing it, they're still looking so they're doing it. But there's definitely, that lie has aroused some suspicion. But they're still doing it. They're still looking like they're about to leave. But they're just like, are you sure? There's no time.

You're right. Captain Vara says. Yeah. They're like, yes, Captain. They just carry on. All right, Nova Vija. Can I hear Lucius now? You hear Lucius.

Oh, my. At the back. Oh! I'm putting on a voice. I'm sounding more stern. I've been hanging out with you a lot though. Get off the ship. I guess in that case, can I start, like I'll pop out. Well, actually no, the engineers, can I stay- They're basically left at this point because they're going to leave at the end of this

turn. It's your turn. You're the last one to act. Can I start popping out in the cockpit and start actually properly looking at it? Not activating anything, just looking. Just like, yeah, because I've been looking at it from underneath. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe just going over and being like,

do, do, do. Yeah. Can I hold an action to start firing it up when everyone's on the ship. Yes, you can. I will tell you now that like when you actually sit because actually like

taking, lifting the ship off is like, it's not just like push one button, you go. When you start interacting with the console, that will break invisibility because it will be like interacting with a door

or something like that. So it's like at the moment you're just looking, but like maybe in a couple or in a round, like the next time you sit down, you're going to actually start interacting. That will break the invisibility spell. Yeah, that's fair a couple, in a round, the next time you sit down, you're gonna actually start interacting,

that will break the invisibility spell. Yeah, that's fair. All right, okay. But yeah, I guess, like, mentally. You wanna be ready to go when the crew is all here. I'm kinda looking at everything going, okay, so they did that first, then that, followed by that, and then ignition up here,

and yeah, just kind of mapping it out. Okay. This is interesting. Nah. Who you looking at? Looking at the Inquisitor. No, he's got nothing. Maybe.

I don't think so. In popping up, can I now see what's happening at the warehouses? I'd say that you look out and you can see explosions and you can see laser fire and like. Is that? Nothing good, buddy. But then you see the mech just stop.

Yeah, but I probably wouldn't know that Fuego's in there. You don't know nothing. I know shit. Sentry. I'm gonna go back for Fuego. I'm gonna tell Quill and Ayla, Fuego's in trouble. You keep going to the ship.

You're faster than me. You'll get to the ship before I can. Go to the ship. Tell them where we are. I'm going to go back for Fuego and make sure he gets out of this alive. It's up to me to get you out of Ethereal. Also, can you choose it per creature?

No, it's one. It's us or no one. It's us or no one. I was going to say, what I wanted to check is can you... I can creature or is it... No, it's us or no one. Us or no one. I was going to say, that's what I wanted to check. Can I just break it on myself? I don't believe you can. Unless you have Dispel Magic, you can dispel it on yourself. How far from the ship are we?

You guys, you're the closest. You're 270 feet. So in two, three turns, I'll be there. That's quite a lot. Yeah. So it won't be until then that I'd even think about breaking the sound of Ethereal. Nope. Ooh. So, Sentry, what would you like to do?

Sentry's turn. I'm going to start making my way back to Fuego. Okay. Yeah, it's not far. Basically, if you spend your action to dash, you will be next to the mech. Yep. But you are Ethereal. Yeah. Okay. When you get that close to the mech,

because you kind of moved, he was just on the cusp of your vision, you can see the acolyte of Shansara about 60 feet away from the mech, and she's singing. And he's just locked in place. Nerd. And she's just gently kind of singing,

closing her eyes, singing. You can see just, but you can't hear much. It's all muffled and garbled. And you can see the rest of the soldiers are beginning to now... They've stopped firing. They're advancing, looking like they're going to try and pull him out. That's what you see. Quill.

You don't see any of that. I know, but Sentry's just gone back with Super Pog. You probably see Sentry disappear from the mission. And I know how far away we are. I know that Sentry can't do anything until I break Ethereal. If I break Ethereal now, I may as well enter the fight. Aayla! Are we turning around?

We're smashing! Oh, okay. Let's fly back towards Fuego. I will actually, I'm going to cast a sending spell. Thank you. To Nova, and it's going to be 25 words. I'm still in a theory, so we'll have to roll to see if this actually gets through.

It's true, actually. I will roll. Start the, and then I'll stop and say, clear skies. Start the ship. Is it not going through? Oh, no. Well, I'm going to keep sending the message. It's a 5% chance, right?

It's 5%. 99. Oh, no! You don't know that. I don't know that. I'm going to send a message of start the ship. I should do you know that. We're going back.

Sending, sending, sending. What's your message? While Mark's working it out, what's your message? You might not get it. So, sending. Where the hell is sending? There it is. I just wanna know how many kisses I get.

I don't think I know. You can send the message across any distance and even to other planes of existence, but if the target's on a different plane than you, there is a 5% chance that the message doesn't arrive. Yeah, my reading of that is you don't know. I don't know. I send it, I don't know that it doesn't arrive.

I can't believe it. I mean, I'm not even going to say the message because you won't receive it. I want to know. I want to know how many kisses I get. All right, well, you can figure that out later because I've got a lot of things to do. All right. So, but that's your action.

And then do you move 50 feet back? I move 50 feet back and I will willingly, I guess it's a willing. Yeah, you can just drop it. You can choose to just drop it. And I will drop Etherealness. So you do drop it now. Yeah. All right.

Because I know that- You, Ayla, and Sentry pop back into existence. Ayla, you moved 90 feet, didn't you? So you were 90 feet away, which puts you about... Yeah, which would put you about 30 feet away. Yeah, okay. All right. As you pop back in, there is this kind of another cry of alarm.

Although not through complete surprise, you hear the elite knight, the tech knight, shout, there they are, like the inquisitor said, fire! And point the rifle core in your direction as if they were waiting for something to appear, as if they knew that something was there. Face more.

And they will, around, 20 foot cube, you move 50 feet back. I think I'm 50 feet away. Yeah, you're 50 feet away from the thing going on. They will... Sorry, I've got a lot of things to do. A lot of guns to fire. Yeah.

They will surround you and Ayla. I need you and Ayla to make dexterity saving throws, please, as they try and surround you in a holographic field of light. I think Ayla's 40 feet behind me. Yeah, but they're going to stretch a radius cube. Sorry, what? 20-foot radius sphere. Dexterity saving throw.

Dexterity. Oh, crap. Do I get advantage for danger sense? Yes, it's a dexterity saving throw, so let's see why not. Did she? It doesn't matter. So total, just in case?

14. 14. 10. Fortunately, both of you, this kind of like almost like chaff, like kind of holographic ribbons and light kind of like explode around you, and it kind of coats you in this kind of light. It makes it easier to see and hit. It's kind of like a around you and it kind of coats you in this um kind of light it makes it

you easier to see and hit it's kind of like a fairy fire spell right so you kind of get engulfed in this kind of thing uh attacks against you have advantage and you cannot become invisible um but it affects the two of you okay uh that's gonna be their action uh as their bonus action the tech knight will activate their drone um who will make a ranged spell attack against Quill with advantage. That's a natural 20. I mean, it's a drone. It's only a drone, so it's going to be 8 plus... That's going to be 17 points of force damage.

As you erupt out and as you're now coated in this thing, the drone seems to be like... And beep, beep, beep, beep, and kind of catches you in the shoulder. Ow. Then we go to Ayla. Ow. How far away am I from things? Your full movement, so you're about 90 feet away.

From anything at all? From any enemies at this point, yes. That's annoying. Okay. You can see that about 30 feet away from the mech are four rifle corps soldiers. About 60 feet away from the mech is the acolyte and this tech knight. And then you were about 90 feet away from the mech, front forward. It's going to be a wasted turn regardless for me.

Just charge, get in some face. I guess. Get close. Ready for next round? That's all I can do. So you just want to charge up next to the mech. Action dash. Action dash.

Wait, if I'm 90 feet from the mech. Yes. And then they're about 30 feet away from the mech. But the other side of you. Imagine like a 3D space. But there are some people 60 feet away from the mech. But the other side of you. Imagine like a 3D space. But there are some people 60 feet away from the mech. Yes. So am I within 30 feet? No, so they're all on the other side too. Imagine that like there's two sides. They're on like the further side.

They would be, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Thank you, Tom. Okay. Well, I'll just get as close as I can then. Okay. Just move up as close as you can. You are now next to Fuego and the mech. I will try, now that we're not in Ethereal, to look towards the plane, the vehicle. The transport. The transport. And I'll just do a bit of a...

Sure. Big wave. Big a big wave. Just a big old wave of not good. I mean, Lucius definitely was the... Not good! Aayla and Sentry, like, pop back into existence. And then you see, like, you know, then you see fire and laser shots. You would also then see the rifle corps,

the four members of the rifle corps, turn their shots all on Quill and Aayla. And Sentry, technically. Sentry's now popped out of it as well, right? Something seems wrong. So I'll tell you. I think they're dancing. Three, three, two.

So three shots, three shots, two shots from these Rifle Corps. They will all use their aim. This disguise is burned. I just realized another one. Yeah, they all are. Yep. Goddamn. With advantage. So three attacks against Sentry. Yeah, they all are. Yep. Goddamn. With advantage.

So three attacks against sentry. Your AC is like 21. 20 at the moment. 20. The last one will hit you. Okay. Oh, sorry. This was without advantage.

That would have been... So the second one hits you, and then the third one misses. So only one hit. Okay. This is going to be... Fool's rifle. Force will ease.

That is going to be 19 points of force damage. What? As you get shot. Ayla, this is against you. 22. That hits, right? Your AC is 20 as well. Second one misses.

Third one is a miss. So only again, one hits you. Four, oof, that's pretty bad. 22 points of force damage. Ow. And then Quill, what's your AC? 13. Oh, because I'm not wearing the Wyvern armour.

So the first one hits you. The Wyvern armour. The second one hits you. Yep. And the third one hits you. I only had two on me. You had two. That's two, you only had two.

So only two hit you. All of have two. That's two, you only have two. So only two hit you. All of them hit. That's better than three. 15 points of force damage, followed by 20 points of force damage. That is fine. Okay.

As that is that, we then go to the Acolyte. I'm just thinking about how this is going. This is going really well. The Acolyte who is focusing on keeping this spell on Fuego will use

her bonus action first to use Idol's Fervor to invigorate one of her allies to make an attack roll. She will use it on the Tech Knight who takes some damage, takes some psychic damage from her brain power. Yeah, her sort of psychic, like she's like, you fight for me, kind of like speaks on like,

on behalf of our Lady Shansara, fight, take a shot. And they will take a try at sentry, I think. Go for it. They don't have advantage against you, so. Is she literally influencing their minds? Maybe. From an out of character standpoint? Out of character standpoint, no. It's more like they're so devoted

to her that she can tell them what to do, but it causes psychic damage because they're so desperate to please her kind of thing. It's why it's called Idol's Fervor. It's not like she's controlling. Yeah, they are literally super simps, yes. They get in those boots. Yeah, basically.

But the attack, she's like, bounces off your armor basically. That was her bonus action. For her main action, she will look towards, she's pretty smart, she would look towards Ayla. I need you to make a, oh no, it's a ranged spell attack first, which is gonna miss.

So you kind of, as she's kind of singing and casting this spell, she kind of almost takes a moment to project like a sonic burst of sound, like, ah, it's like sings, and you manage to throw yourself to the side as it ripples past you, causing damage. That is her turn for now. Fuego still stays paralyzed.

Lucius. Okay, I'm going to keep Captain Lyra out of the ship, and her job is to stay outside the ship. Okay. I'm going to run into the ship. Okay. And be like, Nova, Nova, you there? Lucius, what's going on? I don't know, but it seems pretty bad.

It looks really bad. Okay. I think Nova sees it. I'm going to spend my entire action informing her of everything I know, which is... Why did you do that? Not me, first of all. And we're doing... I think we should probably

bring the ship to them. To be fair, what Lucius has done and what Lucius tells you actually sounds quite reasonable. Yeah, yeah. There's probably questions of like, then why is that happening? And Lucius is like, I don't know. I don't know what's happening now,

but Fuego really wanted the mech and we were going to cause chaos and a distraction. Did you have an evacuation plan for Fuego? This ship, oh, he was gonna get out with the mech because it's really strong. Sentry said it was really strong. I look across and see. I mean, yeah, I mean, it looks really tough. We should probably save the others.

Okay, but we need to make it look as though we're still Valkyrian because otherwise when we fly away to the next bit, they're going to be like, hey, they're taking our ship and they're going up to the thing. I mean, that's a great segue into Nova's turn. That's your speaking turn. Lucius, can you do any sending spells? No.

Oh, God, why did we not put the messenger rings back on? I'm sure I said something about putting messenger rings back on. I can send the captain. But she'd be running back. Yeah, no, we'd probably run her over. Why? but she'd be running back yeah no we'd probably run her over I will start firing up the ship so pop out it's your action to activate it and can I

can I kind of I guess it's that kind of way like you know you power up airships where it's it starts powering up but you can move it slightly so I'm going to start moving it so yeah you can

you can point it yeah exactly you can angle it so you are now piloting the vehicle. On your turn, you can control it. At the moment, with only one pilot, all you can do is move it. You can't fire any of its weapons. That needs a secondary gunner or pilot to do.

You can fly it, basically. I believe it has, like, a movement speed of something crazy, like 200 feet around or something like that. Okay, okay, okay. But I'm guessing I'm just rolling at this moment. This is hovering. Oh, it's hovering. Yeah, it's a flight vehicle,

so it's just kind of like the crystals that it uses, its elemental engines, and it takes off. It's gusting loads of dirt from the platform up above. Lucius, if there's any way you can tell them that I'm gonna fire on the mech, I think Nova's idea is to fire next. You can't fire weapons.

Oh, okay. But I could get Lucius to do it, though. Yeah, somebody else would have to fire the weapon, Dari. Lucius, if we can, I suggest that we fire near the mech, making it look like we're firing at the mech, and hopefully that can create a nice distraction for everybody to get out. Okay. We need to tell them this somehow!

All right, so that is no return. Stick a note up your ass and run! Just hold it in your hand. Do that too. There's the message. This took a whole action. That's a point. Quill, when you banished the other Inquisitor,

they didn't have true seeing, did they? Because you came out of it, then banished them. Yes. That's right. So they didn't ever see your true form. This one has, because they were using true seeing. Oh, it knows your quill. Well, this one knows your alien.

Oh. Oh. How much of our disguise is physical? For you, not much of it, remember, because you're a birdman. So how much of a mess do I look to this guy? You look like a pretty mess. I've got bits hanging off. Yeah, because I can't remember if we came up with a secondary persona.

You didn't come up with it. I did. Even then, they're seeing through the sending spell. They would see that Aayla's hair isn't really fire, or they see that you are a birdman. They see your clothing. He lasted one night. I would say that Quill is maybe easier to identify. You know, they see your clothing. He lasted one night.

I would say that Quill is maybe easier to identify. Sentry as well, because once you get past the sending spell, it's clearly a guardian. She's clearly a guardian. I don't have my hammer. You are probably okay. You could just look like an elf. They don't necessarily know that you are Aayla. Racism.

But they do see the Howling Tempest. No, I'd say I don't have it. Oh, that's right. That's right.'d say i don't have it oh that's right that's right yeah you don't have it out yet it's in my back yeah i think you should make a lot as well as strong yeah god that one elf yeah um but i think yeah so at this point i'm guessing my passive insight i'm seeing him look at me you know yeah you will she's wearing a mask she's like kylo ren right like she has like a kind of wrap around yeah she says like bird man quill it's that's that's key like and i hear that loud and clear and i know

her brain says it loud enough that you hear it she's gonna die i think we gotta kill her i've got to kill a lot of people. I think we've got to kill a lot of people. I think we've got to kill a lot of people. I think they're going to die. Bear in mind as well, you probably see this plane starting to move now. She got my message. It worked. This is all Quill.

But, oh no, that'll be back soon. It's quite a gun of me. Twice. Takes two shots at you, Quill. But, oh no, that would be black suit. It's quite a gun at me, twice. Takes two shots at you, Quill. First one is gonna be like a 22 to hit. Ouch. The second one is gonna be a four, no, 16. So it still hits. And then this is gonna be.

Oh, okay. Oh yeah, sorry, you can shield, I forget. So let's take 16. It's fine, like I'm this late into the round now. It's you can shield, I forget. No, it's fine. I'm this late into the round now. Okay. Okay. I'll save it for next time. So that is going to be eight points of force damage plus 11 points of necrotic damage,

and your maximum hit points are reduced by 11. As their disruptive pistol hits you. And then the second attack hits. Oh yeah. Here we go. That is going to be 8 points of force damage again, but this time 17 necrotic and your hit points are reduced by 17. As it hits you, feel that familiar sensation when you fought the Death Knights,

draining that life force away from you when you fought the Death Knights, draining that life force away from you when you fought Sir Godric. Kind of sapping away your stamina and your life force. How much? Sorry, how much force in Necrotic? For the second one, eight force, 17 Necrotic, and your maximum hit points are reduced by 17 as well. 25.

Okay. Ugh, that's a lot of hit points. It is them. The ones that we know of. And you hear her kind of like, it is them, Acolyte. You must report back. Let Chantara know. No.

Oh, well, in this case, the hammer's coming out. So am I, so I'm next to the mech. You are next to the fuego, next to the mech. You are about 30 feet to the rifle guys. You are, the inquisitor and the acolyte are 60 feet and the mage knight is also about 30 feet so you have like

one group of enemies at 30 feet and then another group of enemies at 60 feet the acolyte and the inquisitor are the more senior spellcaster-y kind of looking ones

okay the inquisitor is the one who just shot Quill alright okay 60 feet away I am going to sunbeam the inquisitor okay that's that cover girl 60 feet away. I am going to Sunbeam the Inquisitor.

Okay. That's that cover gun. Yep. All right. What am I doing? So that's a con saving throw. Con saving throw. It's a 20 total. Dirty 20.

You succeed. So it's half damage, no blinded. One. Two. Three. Oh, you succeed. So it's half damage, 68. One, two, three, four, five. Achoo! Ooh. Nine, ten, eleven, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty. Half fifteen. Fifteen points. Fifteen points of damage. 11, 18, 24, 30, half 15. 15 points.

15 points of damage. The Inquisitor kind of throws herself to the side, but the kind of scratches and burns up some of the leather long coat that she seems to be wearing. Cool, and that drops my concentration on protection from elements. Yeah, it does, but you do now have concentration on some being active.

Yeah. Keele, unless there's anything else you would like to do, would you like to move from your composition? I'd like to move forward towards Ayla and Quill. As long as Fuego's in the mech, I know. Ayla is next to you, Quill is about 50 feet behind. So imagine you've kind of got like two sides, right? Quill's on the behind side,

the enemies are on the other side. I move a little bit closer to Quill, maybe like 20 feet back, so I'm closer to Quill. I'm sort of in between Ayla and Quill. I know that if Fuego's still in the mech, he's okay. As long as I can see him still in the mech, he has some form of protection. If I take him out, he's at risk. Yes, he is currently paralyzed.

You can see that he is held in place, unable to move. All right, Quill. Where is the Shansara Acolytes? From you, because you were 50 feet away, she'd be 110 feet away from you. 110? I'll move i want to i want to try and break this concentration um that she's holding on fuego by i'll move 20 feet towards um because it's got 90 feet of range chromatic orb um i'm going to do this at one two three fourth level

fourth level i've always been able to do this every time i cast chromatic orb he's like Two, three. Dacious is offended. Fourth level. Fourth level. I've always been able to do this. Every time I cast Chromatic Orb, he's like stunned. Fine, I'll change it. I'll change it. I won't do a Chromatic Orb. I'll do Chromatic Orb. So at fourth level, it is a...

Here we go. 13? 13 to hit. Yeah. No. She kind of almost lets out another aria, and it just deflects it away. Just, I missed.

Sure. She doesn't even deflect it it goes wide um and that's uh that's me okay um at the end of your turn quill yes you're gonna use one of their legendary actions to compel follower and tell the Tech Knight to take a shot at you. I think I'm being targeted. Yes, you just tried to hit with a Chromatic Orb. Their Force Pistol will hit for a total of 1923 Force damage For a total of 1923 force damage, and you are pushed 10 feet back. Yes. Oh my.

Okay. You do heal. That was their reaction. She used Compel Followers, her legendary action. After your turn is the Tech Knight to go again. No way to heal you. The gravity charge does not recharge. Why are you making a corpy way out of it?

Can you make a strength check, please, Quill? A strength check? Absolutely, I can. This is just a strength check? Absolutely I can. This is just plus your strength. Here's my strength. I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Is it even worth portending to a 16? No, because it would still hit you.

Yeah, strength, I'll just roll it then. So just d20 plus your strength. 11. I rolled a one, and it's a contested check. As they cast Telekinesis, you manage to, whether it's magically or whether it's with your little bird arms or whatever it is, the telekinetic force that's trying to grab you, you manage to resist it and keep it off.

Their concentration disrupts it. It's a very weak telekinetic force, but they are maintaining concentration. They're trying to grab you with Telekinesis now. Okay. No. Ay Okay. No. Ayla. No.

I will... So you got 30 feet to the Tech Knight and the four Rifle Corps members, or 60 feet to the Acolyte and the Inquisitor. I'll try, I'll go to the Tech Knight and smash it. So basically land in the middle of this squadron of stormtroopers, basically. Hell yeah. They hit me a few times, they're not stormtroopers. No, that's true. Yeah, they did.

Just a few times. And you want to go for the tech knight? Yes, please. But I've got a shit hammer right now, don't I? Because my other one's in my backpack. I believe, yeah, you just hit a mundane maul, I believe. What does that do? It'll just be without the plus three bonus. So it'll be almost similar to how it'll be your unarmed strike attack bonus,

but it does 2d6 plus strength damage. Okay. So what's there to hit? Plus 13 to hit. 20 to hit. 20 to hit. That will hit them. They can't do anything about it.

So 2d6 plus strength plus your rage. These are smiggle pens. Strength bonus. Yeah. Sorry I killed you. 19 damage then. Is that with rage as well? Yes, with rage.

19 points of damage as the hammer smashes into their side. And I'll do it again. Sure. 17 plus 13. That will hit. I can't do anything about it. Shit damage though. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

13 damage. 13 points of damage. Feel free to add just a manual maul and it should do it all. Plus lightning. Oh, and then lightning. I need to make a dex saving throw, yes. That's going to be pretty high I think. 17? I can... 13... 17... 21 lightning damage. 21 points of lightning damage. Save us eight.

With two blows and a blast of lightning, the technite is heavily wounded, bleeding, nearly unconscious. Nice. Just as you blast and you watch them like, aah, acolyte help, like kind of calling out for aid as you smack into them. You done? Cool.

Yeah, I can't do anything else. Cool, at the end of your turn, the acolyte will use another one of their legendary actions for Encore to make another enchanting aria attack against you, Ayla. Oh, me. Yeah, so you just did that. 27 to hit. Yep.

That is gonna be, I'm just gonna use the default damage for this, because it's gonna be able to roll. 21 points of psychic damage, and can you make a wisdom saving throw, please? Ooh. I'm going to fail it, so... Oh, not 20! Oh!

I'm just going to make it that, yeah, like, I almost want to just do automatic successes on 20s for saving throws. Because otherwise, like, you get into a situation where, like, technically you can never fail them, so it will never succeed. True. I got no 20.

Yeah. So yeah, I think that would just be 20 normally, or is that 19, because you got minus one? I think it'll never succeed. True. I got that 20. Yeah. So yeah, I think that would just be 20 normally, or is that 19, because you got minus one. I think it's a 19. 19. I'm gonna say it succeeds, because natural. But yeah, you manage to, you feel yourself almost like

being lulled into this sense of like peace, like, ah, her music's so amazing, but you're like, no! Wait, wait, it was wisdom saving throw. Yeah, wisdom saving throw. I have a plus one. Oh, there you go, 21. So 21. All right, yeah, nice. You want to fuck shit up. It's wisdom saving throw. Yeah, wisdom saving throw. I have a plus one. Oh, there you go. 21.

All right, yeah, nice. You succeed. You did it. And resist this influence. I did it. This charm that kind of nearly- I hate K-pop. Don't charm me because that will not be good.

I'll just take you down. No, you won't. Easy. You have 21 hit points. It'll be easy. The Rifle Corps members are going to do the same thing. Last time, three attacks, three attacks, two attacks. He's dead. What if they didn't, though?

He's dead. He's going down. They don't have any compassion. Can they make a compassion roll? Oh, they don't have advantage against you. All three miss sentry. Sick. Because I forgot they don't have advantage against Aayla.

First one's going to hit. Second one's going to hit. On me? No, this is against Aayla at the moment. They're all hitting you. 20 just hits. All gonna hit. Second one's gonna hit. Or me. No, this isn't gonna stay there for the moment. They're all hitting each other. 20 just hits, all three hit. Perfect. This time they did not get to use their aim action,

so they don't do as much damage. That's not bad. This is going really well for us. So eight force damage from the first one, 13 force damage from the second one, 13 force damage from the second one, and eight damage from the third one. So, eight, 13, eight. Mm-hmm.

29. 25 to hit you on the first one, Quill. He's dead. 16 to hit you on the second one. I'm going to have to shield it. The first one, you are still going to take nine points of force damage i'm still take them down focus fire what about the shield yeah yeah cool all right i'm still alive uh the acolyte yeah there them. Sentry, you said you wanted to go halfway between Aayla and Quill, right?

Yeah. So are we talking like 10 feet between the two of them or like 20 feet? How close did you want to be? So I'm in the middle, so then Quill's maybe like... So you move 20 feet, so he'd be about 20 feet away from you. Yeah, 20 feet, 20 feet.

And then your neck, but keeping the mech between you as well. Yeah. Okay. Can't hit you with this then. Or could hit you with this though. Oh, God. Hit me, hit me.

Yeah, I might do. Yes. You don't want this. I want it. She will look over. This is concentration, though. Fuego's not really... Fuego is in the mech, actually.

It's probably still worth not doing anything then. In that case, she will just call down Divine Flame. Oh, Sentry! Yes! Can you make a dexterity saving throw, please, Sentry? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A column of divine fires, her belief in Transara, the ultimate pop star.

Oh, it's gone. Oh my god. I know what to ask. What do you need to ask? I just know. Oh my god. For stat nerds. This is not a spell, by the way.

It was a nat 1. Is it not? Not technically. This is not Flamestrike. This is a monster special ability called Divine Flame. It's very similar to Flamestrike. Where does it come out from? Her butt?

No, it comes from the sky. Her best hair. It's not a spell. It's magic, but it's not a spell. 29 points fire and radiant damage, but you don't have resistance to either of those, I don't believe. So 29 points of damage. But it's beautiful, right? Yeah, it's gorgeous. Like bright lights, kind of shimmering, almost holographic. Oh, cool.

And she wants to keep concentration going. So for her bonus action, that's pretty brutal. But what they would do, she would use her summon dazzling golem ability to summon. Dazzling golem? Yep. So she will pull off off a piece of jewelry, flicks it into the air and a temporary portal opens up and a crystalline golem.

Nova Lucius chillin' in the ship. It will appear next to Sentry. How fast? It'll appear where? It'll appear next to Sentry. So you're 30 feet away, you're about 20 feet away. Fuego is still paralyzed. He is rolled so badly.

To be fair, I need a natural 20 feet. His wisdom saving throw is abysmal. Lucius and Nova. Save us! How's your day going? I'm going to squeak into the chair next to Nova and grip the two sticks. So you would like to take on the role of the gunner or a co-pilot?

Yeah. Pew, pew. Yeah. This is how this works? I think stealth has gone out the window, so should we just fire indiscriminately? I'm wondering if I should keep the captain on this ship because as soon as I go 60 feet away from her, she is aware of what I've done. That's your decision.

I'm going to get her to hold onto the wheel. Like onto the bottom of it. There is no wheel. There's no wheel. There's like the troop ramp. She could like literally keep, you could keep that ramp open and she just hangs on to that. Or walks in. Well, this is the thing.

Okay. She probably shouldn't take damage. So yeah, I'll bring her in. Okay. And sit her down in the cargo part of the back. Okay, yeah, in the troop transport. You know where they would jump out and skydive. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Who's that? That's the captain. She's with me now. All right, I know you want to role play. We've got a big combat. What do you guys do? I'm all Kimovin. So are you going to fly?

So this is Lucius' turn first, and then it's Noah's turn. What's the range on his weaponry? So you're not proficient in... Actually, no, you are proficient in airship vehicles because you're trained to fly the... He's the only one. Yeah. The range on the cannon is...

Its short range is 300 feet. Its long range is 600 feet. Long range just means you have disadvantage on the attack roll. I'm going to hold my action until I'm able to... Unless the things can pivot on themselves, or does the ship have to be pointing the direction? It is pointing in the direction. I am pointing, yeah.

The other thing I was gonna say to you is there are several other weapons as well. This is its primary cannon, has that range. You use its attack bonus. It does 68 plus nine radiant damage. In what sort of radius of damage? Just to a single target. So it has to pick a single creature kind of thing. It also has magical missiles called Infernus Missiles.

And it also has a point defense system which can be used against closer targets. The primary cannon cannot shoot at any creature that is within 60 feet of it. It can't shoot at anything near or around it. So it's a long range. It can only attack a long range but then it has a point defense system for anything that's like one of these a turn you can

only uh it has multi-attack it can make two attacks with its point defense system it can replace one of those attacks with its primary cannon so you can if you it can shoot anything around it twice or you can make one long range attack or you can use its infernus missiles i think i will shoot its... Tom really wants me to do a very specific thing, and I'm wondering if I am lined up with this. I would like to use the Infernus missiles to hit all the soldiers.

So the Infernus missiles can target three creatures within 120 feet of it, so it can't shoot anything. Oh, it can't reach this? Not in range. But when you do shoot them, they have to make dexterity saving throws. They take 8d8 fire damage on a hit or half on a failed save. They also become magically marked for one minute,

and at the end of each of its turns thereafter, it repeats the saving throw. Otherwise, it takes more fire damage as it kind of shoots secondary missiles. I'll definitely do that when I'm closer. For now, I'm going to do my long range one on the Acolyte. On the Acolyte. All right. Roll a d20. I will, you know, you just roll the dice.

I will add the bonus. I'll keep it a secret for now. 13. 13 plus 16 is 29. That hits. Can you roll 68 for me, please? Why didn't you do it for me? It's a great question.

How much damage did that? 68. You got three. Four. Two more. Two more? Get through the concentration check on this one. Yeah, who are you shooting at acolyte acolyte yeah

is the music helping the addition yes 39 39 points of damage so half that would be dc19 yeah yeah was plus the plus nine oh was that plus nine? That was dice. No, that was dice. That was just the dice. Seven, so four. 24, 23 is the save. 23. 23.

Constitution's even through. Fails. Yes! So you watch as Fuego's like, comes alive as- And immediately the tear-ass face appears back on him. No, he's a bit more scared at this point, but no. Solution, that is the, because you can't make two attacks, you can only make one attack with that cannon,

so that is you done. Nova Vija. I will continue piloting. I've sped my load. So this is, you can actually now, you can actually now, wow. Wow. I'll keep moving towards. Wow. Wow. I'll keep moving towards.

Yeah. You wanna dash this thing? Yeah, why not? So I can go 200 feet if you dash, it's 100 feet around. Yeah. Uh, wrong. I'm ignoring, don't look at me.

So the transport begins flying and it's about 200 feet, moves towards you. It's about halfway between where it was and where you guys currently are. As it comes standing in, but it's about 200 feet, moves towards you. It's about halfway between where it was and where you guys currently are. As it comes sending in, but it's about halfway. All right. With that, okay. This could go very quickly now, but we'll see how it goes.

Archerian Inquisitor, seeing this happen. He's going to be remade. Well, having seen the blast that's just hit the acolyte, we'll kind of look around, kind of glare at everything. You can't actually see her face. Her face is in a mask. She's going to do something a bit more interesting. No! Be a grunt! Range on the spell.

Okay, she will actually move 30 feet towards you, so she's 30 feet away from- Can I get an opportunity attack? This is the Inquisitor, not the Mage Knight, not the Tech Knight. Oh, okay. Yeah, the Inquisitor will move 30 feet towards you, does approach into your striking area now, Ayla,

but sort of brings her hand up to her helmet and looks, and you see Fuego just be like, oh, they're doing something. And then he kind of is like, no, no, stop, stop. They're making him attack. And stops. Sentry. That's a whacking.

That's a whacking. You just asked for my attention. I need to heal Quill. I'm going to go and heal Quill. Okay. Ask for my attention. What is this? I need to heal Quill. I'm going to go and heal Quill. Okay. I'm going to do some lay on hands points for the boy. I'm going to give him like half my lay on hands points.

Okay. 45 points. Jesus. Nice. Paladins, bro. And then my sunbeam will go because I'm not concentrating on that anymore. Are you not? No, it's concentration concentration lay on hands isn't constantly playing oh yeah it's not concentration it's just playing oh it's just playing it's just special last yeah so i can i can just keep blasting yeah

you can't so i keep on black so i keep on blasting um i just love this idea since you just stood there chest open sunbeam out blasting just, just touching Quill like, meh. Yeah. All right, so I'm going to aim for the acolyte with my sunbeam. Okay. Constitution's over. Yeah, 17 to pass. Failed. Failed. Six damage.

I should have had these out ready to go. Is there anyone else in the range of their... Not in the range of it, but in the line? Because it's a line, I'd say people are like, you know, not... They don't line up, and because we're not using a grid, it's harder to track. I'd say, like, the rifle core, you could definitely catch two of those if she wanted to target the rifle core,

but the acolytes are separate creatures. Kind of shit. It's 21. 21 points, but does blind as well, right? It does... I believe it does, actually, yeah. Yeah, so you watch, she's like, like screams, like kind of clutches arise. Blind until my next turn, yep. Okay. Ooh.

Interesting to know. As a reaction to that, she's gonna use her legendary action to cast a spell. And she begins singing, kind of like, not the full song, maybe like a kind of almost like a chorus part, like a kind of backup part. But as she does, you watch as kind of in the air,

the shimmering pattern of like an illusory image of Shansara dancing and moving begins to appear as she casts Hypnotic Pattern in a cube, a 30-foot cube within range above Century Quill and Aayla and Fuego. I need you all to make wisdom saving throws. Do we have resistance on that? This is not damage, but they would get your saving throw bonus,

but I don't think they're within 10 feet of you. 30 feet. Oh, it's now 30 feet. Clustering. Yeah, I'd say that actually, yeah. I fail. All of them will. They rolled a four.

Wisdom saving throw, yes. Fuego also fails. 25. 25 succeeds. 22 for me. 22 succeeds. So Fuego and Ayla, you are both charmed. And whilst you are charmed by this spell, you are incapacitated and have a speed of zero.

Which basically is like you just stand there. This is the spell Lucius has has used you basically are like you just stand there kind of enamored by this thing as she continues to sing and cast this spell quill um if you are done cool i'm gonna do a mask your balloons do i know does Quill know, because Tom doesn't, what level a spell this Hypnotic Pattern would be? Lucius has cast it, so I think you know. It's third level, I believe. Okay.

It's not super high. No. Oh, wait, she's concentrating on it, right? She is. So can I heal, can I Spellbreaker it? Don't know. Let me look up Spe spellbreaker whilst you do all the other bits. Spellbreaker! I think so, because most spells like that are a concentration.

Spellbreaker's funny. It is, but it's funnily worded. Let's find out. I think I'm breaking a magical effect on a person, and if they are being magically hypnotized... When you restore hit points to an ally with a spell of first level or high, you can also end one spell of your choice on that creature. The level of the spell you end must be equal to or lower than the spell. You end one spell of your choice. Yeah, I'd say that this counts then.

Yeah, I'd say that this would break it. Nice. Well, I'm doing, so within 60 feet of me, I'm gonna do a Mask Cure Wounds. Okay. Which is gonna be 3d8 plus six healing. which is going to be 3d8 plus 6 healing. Healing, healing, healing. Wow!

Three 8s! So that is 8, 16, 24, 30 healing to everyone. That was an amazing roll. Mix. You are so welcome. I actually liked it. TYTY! That was so good.

I know. That's why I healer of the group. You look so good. That's why I healer the group. You look so good. That's what they say about me, I heal. I've never said that about you. Hey guys, remember Kela Kadkawa from the early rovers campaign? That guy heals. That guy heals now. Are you done?

Yeah. Are you done? I'm like, is that the end of your turn? That's my turn. Is the spell broken? It would, yeah. I'm going to say that the end of your turn? That's my turn. Am I, is the spell broken? It would, yeah. I'm gonna say that it does spell break. Cause you cast it at like, what, fourth?

Fifth level. Fifth level, yeah. It breaks it. Yeah. So you find like, you kind of snap out of it as the image no longer holds its compulsive nature to you. At the end of your turn, Chancelar, the Acolyte, sorry, will use their Compel follower

and tell the crystal golem to punch sentry oh yeah crystal golem I forgot about that guy misses 14 to hit just like

yes but like you just you know captain america it just yeah catch his arm yeah

digs in but yeah no effect now do the captain america thing where you tear that log in half except it's his ass It's like, yeah! Digs in. But yeah, no effects. Now do the Captain America thing where you tear that log in half, except it's his ass. Oh, my bum. Like, just, I just...

Oh! I love that. Oh, my God. Just cross my legs. Nope. You need to stop, sir. Okay. You need to stop, sir. You need to stop, sir. You're having quite a day.

Sir, you need to stop, please. Sir, I was also imagining Red Dead Redemption when you... No. This is a Wendy's. Stop. The tech knight is going to disengage because he's very badly hurt from Ayla. There's an action,

and then we'll move 30 feet back towards the inquisitor. Sorry, towards the acolyte. And yeah, just leaves you in combat with the inquisitor and the other four rifle corps members. And they're just going to disengage and move. Ayla.

You have the four rifle guys around you and the Inquisitor is now next to you as well. The Inquisitor that tried to cast something on Fuego. Yes. I heal him.

Okay. Hit her. Butcher. I hit M. Hit M. 15 plus 13 to hit. That will hit.

19. 19. 19 points of damage. No, 19. Oh, yeah, 19. Yeah, 19 points of damage. Sorry. Yeah, that's all right. Brain, I hit again.

Oh. Ooh. Ooh. 22 to hit. 22 will hit. 22 will hit. 17 damage and a lightning blast. That is going to be a 19 on there. Actually no, that's going to be a 22 on their saving throw. Mm. 20 points so far. So 10 points.

You do manage to hit them. They're much more agile, and they kind of like duck and weave to the side. Still almost kind of trying to concentrate on something that they're doing, but they're kind of trying to avoid you as they do so. But they do take, you know, you strike them, and they kind of like, you know,

are being worn down as you attack. Anything else on your turn over i think that's all i can do for now okay in that case uh how close am i to the mech uh you're like close to it actually no it's fine it's fine i'll stay with the four Rifle Corps members are going to back up. They're going to actually move 30 feet back towards the Acolyte and the thing, so you can make an attack of opportunity against one. All four of them are going to move. Fall back! Take up firing line! 19.

We'll hit one of them, yep. Put this on A. 13 damage. 13 points of damage. 13 points of damage. You clock one in the back as they're running, it causes them to stumble but they still manage to get away. They're going to turn around and take shots all round. Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots. Same thing, three attacks against Sentry.

I cannot hit Sentry. I've hit you now once, but it's just twos, twos, twos. I'm just really quick today. You are, very good. That's going to be eight points of force damage, Sentry. The bleeding. Take one hit and immediately... Ah! Misses. Second one is going to hit, And the third one is also gonna hit. Oh, the third one's actually a natural 20.

Oh, fuck. For God's sake. Spaghetti-o's. I'll do that first. 12, 19, 23 points of force damage from the big one. And then 10 from the next one. So 32 total. It's fine, Quill just healed by 30.

Yeah, it's true, it's true. And then Quill. Yep. With advantage. 21. Yeah, that'll do it. 19, so they both hit. Yep, yep, out of shield range.

Max damage. 16 force damage. Cool. Max damage again? Oh no. Yeah, okay. How? This is happening today. The dice hate him Oh no. Yeah, okay. How? The dice hate him today.

They hate him today. D12, I was like, 12? Oh, that's rare. Next roll, another 12. All right. So yeah, that'd be another 16. He got three eights on his heal. 32 damage, that's okay.

I just healed 30. Why not? All right, okay, I kind of want to wrap this up so we can go on break or wrap this turn up. Well, no, have heart attacks and just fall over. The blindness lasts until the end of your next turn, correct?

Okay, so the acolyte is still blinded and she kind of stumbles back and can see that her spell's not having much of an effect. I believe that she needs to see for that spell. She needs to be able to do that for that spell. So she will cast, the inquisitor's moved away. She will cast fly on herself.

She just touches herself and begins to like hover up in the air. And then we'll, yeah, fly 60 feet up into the air sort of diagonally away she's just gonna fly up so that no one can hear her uh not in melee yeah certainly she's trying to mitigate damage not no one yeah uh however fuego and fuego oh he's back He's in a mech. Fuego, fuego, fuego. He's in a mech. He will say, who?

What am I doing? What do you want me to do? Kill the soldiers. Soldiers. And he will charge into the soldiers. And he will make a destructive fist attack. Or a 20 to hit destructive fist. No.

Tom. You're filthy today. I didn't say anything. It's awful. a fist attack or a 20 to hit destructive fist. No. Tom! You're filthy today. I didn't say anything. Awful. He's awful today. I just, you didn't have to say anything. You laughed at fist. Yeah.

Destructive fist. No, I mean, I just didn't think I'd get this much distance out of Terrazz, to be honest. He's smart, he manages to figure out how to fire the arcane missiles. Oh! Yes. And he will target the soldiers around him,

and he creates within five feet of that point, which will be three of the rifle members. All of which fail, 26 points of damage each. As you watch this kind of like barrage of these like balls, little star-like blasts of magic kind of fire out of the shoulders of this battle mech. Yes.

24, 24, and 24. One of the rifle core are badly damaged by this. And then after Fuego, we have Lucius and Nova. And then the golem that was summoned goes last. Lucius will hold his action until Nova puts us in range of using Infernus missiles. Okay. Cool. And that's what you want to do for your action?

I would like to Infernus missile three of the boys. just the rifle guy the rifle guys not the acolyte flying away you're gonna dig that on the way through anyway i do have multi-tech right so i if you use the missiles that's the full action she would be 260 feet away How far away is the echo light? She would be 260 feet away. Can I ram her with a ship? No, she's 260 feet away. I want to ram her with a ship!

Yeah, I know you do. Slides down the list. This is a bim. Unfortunately, not within range. Get bimmed. Get bimmed. What was the range on the Infernus Missiles? 120 feet.

But your allies are 200 feet away at this point, basically. We're counting the mech as the central point and you're 200 feet away from the mech. Can I lean out a window and Eldritch Blast? No. Technically, you can, yes. I will keep flying the ship until it's... Yeah, you have to use

your action action dash like 200 feet yeah so this is the point the ship is now hovering above the mech as this fight is going on around oh and you can see more god like you can see ganassi guards are like running around but and they're pulling out crossbows and stuff and like trying to take shots but i'm just not going to bother like doing any damage to the time yeah exactly um at this Yeah, exactly. At this point, the squad you're fighting, but there is now an alarm blaring around. This is a full-on conflict. I'd be disappointed if there wasn't. And you can see that there are the barracks. There are more rifle corps soldiers and things like that,

which will be coming at some point. They're just in the process of getting their gear and getting equipped to come along. Lucius, you wanted to fire the missiles. All right. So you're going to want to pick the three, like three of the regular Rifle Corps soldiers, right? The ones around the group mostly, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, they're not around the group.

They moved away slightly, but they are taking shots at them. You just see them like unleash this fusillade. Just trying to clear a path. I don't think they can actually succeed this deck saving throw. Can you roll eight D8s for me, please? Okay. I guess they'll die. Some of them will.

They're not like minions, these guys. They are pretty tough. I'm trying to figure out the plan now. Yeah, that's very good. That's very important to think about that. now. Yeah, that's very good. That's very important. Yeah. Think about that. I think I've just had a moment.

Quill's kind of standing there like John Travolta. Kill everyone, get out. What do I do now? Definitely kill the Inquisitor because they know. The Inquisitors and Shansaras may need to die. Yeah. One of the Rifle Corps members has this missile. These kind of like, they're not quite like missiles, like a big metal thing.

They're like points of fire. They're like fiery stars that launch out, and then they track and follow. One of them incinerates one of these Rifle Corps guys, just completely engulfs them and just burns them away like Terminator 2. The other ones manage to dive for cover, but they still take this blast of fire. You can now see these glowing marks over them, and more of these things keep being fired out of the planetary transport,

and tracking and following them and stuff like that, as they keep burning away, and it keeps drawing more fire towards them. The very, very, very last thing to go is the giant crystal golem is going to target Aayla, Quill, and Sentry with a slow effect. Can you make a wisdom saving throw? Oh, damn it.

Slow? Mm-hmm. It's gonna suck for me. You got a plus three from Rue? You do have a plus three from Sentry. Oh, sorry. Technically, and Fuego as well. Wait, whoa, whoa.

Wisdom. Okay. And a plus three? Yeah, plus three. Fuego fails. I got a 22 because I rolled an 18. Yeah, 27. You succeed.

I've got a plus 15 and I got 17. 17, you succeed. I said that we did two wisdom saves. Only Fuego. Fuego's like, what? Fuego again? He's like, he's not even a level seven. He's like a little minion. He's in a mech.

Yes, the mech doesn't make him better at wisdom saving throws. He's a liability at this point. But if he slowly moves and enjoys it. It's almost like don't put the NPC in the giant mech suit. Maybe. Who did that? Yeah, who did that? He was so keen.

He was so keen. Can the mech stick on the ship? Yes, it can. Yes, of course he was. Can the map stick on the ship? Yes, it can. Basically, the transport can transport about 12 soldiers, or it could fit one mech and basically you guys. We should take the mech with us.

Yeah, we can. Right, with that, because it's about that time, it's time for a break. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think it is. Yeah. Was there a point when this was a good plan?

No. No. I mean, doing the mission is a good plan. I think as soon as we said stealth. I think, no, no, no. It's a century. It's as soon as you went, Fuego, get in the bed, fuck shit up. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm just trying to. We should have given him more guidance. It sounded good in my head at the time. Yeah, it did. Anyway, with that, we're going to take a break. Thanks very much for joining us for this part one. We'll see you very soon. See ya!