High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #169 | Daughter of Vortinssar (Part 1)

Episode Date: December 21, 2022

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Pickaxe. Hello and welcome back to High Rollers. What the fuck? Whoa! Power play. He has to cut all this out. Last time, the High Rollers crew, they raided into Shansara's place.

I wouldn't know because I wasn't there. We're joined by... Why are you doing this? We're joined by my friends, Chris Trott, Kim richards tom's back don't do this why don't you know what it's because he dm'd in our jingle jam special and now he's had a taste that's an ace of the seat he's not giving it up i think i think he just decided to do a bit and then he was like i don't have a way of getting out of it i have to commit to this

I think he just decided to do a bit and then he was like, I don't have a way of getting out of this. I have to commit to this. I'm just gonna push this. I don't want to interrupt me. That doesn't sound like Tom. Would you like me to do a full intro now that you can cut to? Do you want to give me like a second

so that you can cut all that trash out? No, that's fine. That's fine. That's a pure gold. Okay, nice, all right. The last time on Erois, the heroes of Erois were backed into a corner in their attempt to aid the city of Vortensar.

The Eladrian musician and celebrity Shenslaura, as well as the Ganassi leader of Vortensar Harmony announced that due to the PC's actions in the city, they would be accelerating their plans to transport Vortensar back to its home plane of Ganas sooner than expected. The event would take the form of a grand concert and celebration culminating in the planar transportation devices being activated. With the Valkyrian forces in the city disrupted thanks to their actions, the party have sent their allies to try and disable the teleportation devices, or at least buy them some time.

Whilst they themselves snuck into the concert and have challenged Shansara and Harmony directly. Despite an impassioned speech from Nova Vija, the city is still not entirely swayed, and Shansara refuses to let the party stop her or her performance the stage is set and the fate of vortensar will be decided one way or another and we are jumping in it is going to be one of those sessions where we jump straight into a battle of sorts uh that is to say that it's going to be one big combat there may be other

things happening but it is we are going gonna jump in because it's been two weeks and I can't find my notes I had last time and the encounter didn't save. We are going to re-roll initiative. We also have Tommy back and we're swapping over control of Ayla. Did we decide who is gonna, if somebody is running Ayla

or do you want me to just do the rolls? We're gonna take a turn each, I think. Yeah, okay, sure. One word each. Sure, all right, in that case, I think. Yeah. Okay. Sure. One word each. Sure. All right. In that case. Aayla.

Smash. Two. Well. Kill. Every. Okay. Body. Do you need me to roll things like initiative and stuff like that,

or does somebody want to? Yeah, but we don't have access to her shape. That's fine. I can do it. Yeah. I mean, if you can take a screenshot of it, send it around. Nah, it's fine. We can take that. It'll just be easier if you decide what she wants to do,

and then I'll do the rolls. Oh no. Because you shoved me in a box. I'm rolling bad initiative. We fed you. Lucius. 14. 14. Oh, thank you. Quill. That is a 14. 14 as well. Centui. 14? A 14 as well. I rolled a 14,

but it's a 17. Nice. 14? 14? 14? Annoyingly, first person up is gonna be Ayla.

So I need you to decide what you're going to do. So actually before that, before you guys decide, I'll give you some time to think, I will recap the current situation in the arena, everything else for podcast listeners, and also for Tom's benefit. Thank you. Because a few things have happened.

So you are currently in this grand concert stage at the very heart, the very centre of Vortensal, where this grand sort of plaza has been converted into this large stage, almost like a performance area. Beyond the actual stage itself, there is tiered seating, kind of in this large kind of circular dome shape. Sold out. Sold out, fully booked.

Nice. And yeah, you have stormed the front of it. There is a kind of backstage area uh to the rear uh that century and a few of the other characters you guys have moved out from there is like a lighting gantry with uh perform like um cameras you can also see there are various magitek devices for microphones and lights and things like that and cameras are positioned around uh they are represented by these kind of little balls these kind of spherical devices floating around there are also lights and cameras and also some sort of sort of control area where various pieces of magic tech are being used to control the

environment the entire stage is surrounded by illusory magic which kind of converts it to look like certain you know fields and areas it's currently set to an almost summary kind of glade, like a part of the Feywild. Okay. Shansara herself, this is for Tom's mechanical benefit, she seems to be empowered by the crowd somehow. And when she began her first turn,

she almost seemed to draw power and become enhanced by the love of the crowd who are cheering her name and calling out to her and stuff like that. when she began her first turn, she almost seemed to draw power and become enhanced by the love of the crowd who were like cheering her name and calling out to her and stuff like that. And that seems to be empowering her and enhancing her magic and sort of, you know, invigorating her as well as she flies around. She's also stood on a sort of a disc,

a piece of magitek, like a hovering platform, which is surrounded by illusory magic and devices and things like that as well. And she has two drones following around her as well, both equipped with various pieces of gear. It seemed like, because I tried to do the old oscillator move on her, but it seemed like the platform was helping her kind of resist being oscillated. Yes, and it does give her like some cover and things like that as well. So, okay.

Finally, on her turn, she began a performance. She began singing, and she's been singing this song all about summer and these kind of bright powers and things like that and kind of singing this Eladrin song. And so far, there have been no necessarily effects. She has used her sort of flying platform to knock into Lucius and knock him him down and do a few things like that but uh so far no attacks have happened um and that's where we are there's also a giant mech very similar to the one that uh that uh fuego uh is currently using that you stole for fuego in a previous mission this is like a

valkyrian um sort of armored suit and you can see that there is a pilot inside of our current pilot inside okay there is also an a Valkyrian phase Knight has also joined the battle appearing from the security area backstage cool was amazing last session he did everything right nothing wrong and rolled some and 20s he had because we used your eye yeah which was incredible thing for cool decide to decide to do. Thank you. Well done, Quill. That was all me. We knew that there was two activation switches.

One was in the microphone of Shansara. She's holding one of them. Yep. And then the other one was on the desk. And you deactivated it. Yeah. Yes. Great. You've locked it.

On your first turn. Mission complete. That's like the best thing Quill's ever done. I agree. Okay. Do you want to play Quill? Do you want to oh god can we swap no i'm gonna just hard veto that right now um you know that's if this was a one shot sure no okay um but anyway so ayla is up first katie very much expressed that she wanted Ayla to attack the mech boy and just go to town on him. Okay.

So how can we accomplish this? So she wants to, it'll be... She's got to be 50 feet of movement. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45. We'll get to here. So she can run over and past Nova. And she's still going to be five about, yeah, she's just five feet out of being able to make melee attacks.

I guess hold her action to attack until the thing's in her. Okay, so if it steps towards her, she'll take a swing at it. Okay, she'll only get the one attack, but it's better than dashing and getting no attacks. Through the snow. Okay. On one horse. All right, anything else?

Play. Is she raging? Can she rage? She can rage, yeah. She can zap, can't she? Only if she attacks, I think. I think. I don't know.

We'll say that, yeah. So she has a better rage now, where she doesn't need to stay angry. No, but I think, yeah, I should just say that she is raging. Rage plus. Yeah, rage plus. How much?

No, she actually, it yeah, I should just say that she is raging. Rage plus. Yeah, rage plus. How much? No, she actually has a 10-feet aura, so I think she can just use her storm aura. Dex save. Dex save and throw from Zemeck. How Dexy can it be? At this time, where did Harmony go? Harmony's up in the audience somewhere. They weren't on the stage.

Zemeck is going to fail the dex fail the same through so her storm aura does three d6 3d6 yep plus I can't modify so these gonna be 11 16 points of lightning damage to the mech. Sure, I'm just going to do this, and then I will worry about things later. Cool. So Aayla runs across the main central platform, swings, well, gets within range, and then blasts out with her lightning aura. The mech kind of stumbles back for a second. You see it briefly flickers the lightning arcs over its body, but it seems mostly unfazed by that.

At the end of Aayla's turn, Shansara's first performance is going to complete. Her performance of the Burning Heart of Summer, as I believe the only characters that are going to be caught by this are going to be the Aayla, Lucius, and the Tiangong Echo. All of the, as you guys are the only ones within range currently, you guys are going to take a certain amount of damage

and then wisdom saving throws. The Tiangong does not need to make the wisdom saving throw because it doesn't affect them so this is gonna be there yeah wisdom saving throw you're taking some damage regardless as you are within the range of the sphere 13 13. Just out. So this is gonna be Okey-dokey 98 did you say? Yes, I did. Yeah, I think Tiangong's going to deactivate. Can 98 do more than one damage?

I can hope. I can hope. Hmm. I'm trying to think of a way of shutting up this crowd. Stopping chanting. Show me your butt. I'm going to get my butt out. Show me your butt. I'm gonna get my butt out? It's gonna be... So to Ayla, Lucius, and Tiangong Clown, that's gonna be 46 points of fire damage.

So I think Tiangong is gonna disappear. Yes. 46. You see as she finishes this verse of her performance, this radius, about 40 foot radius of fire, erupts out from her and just engulfs across all of you. But that fire, as it washes over you, feel this kind of, you know,

almost like an influence over your mind. This is a charm effect, so you would have had advantage, because I forgot you're an elf as well, so you would have had advantage on the saving throw. That's worse. Okay, nice. What did you get total on the wisdom saving throw? 13.

13. Aayla is also going to fail. So as this kind of wash over you, the fire kind of burns, and you feel like the scorching heat across your body, but as it does, your mind almost becomes dulled to the pain to an extent and you feel your kind of heart filled with this this fervor towards the music and you are currently now charmed by Shansara which means you're under the charmed condition and whilst you are charmed in this way there will be additional effect as the as the fiery

charm of the of the singer takes over and that's the end of Ayla's turn so you could see that she was singing the whole time during her turn and then at the end once a certain amount of time had passed the song finished and this fiery eruption seems to take over and then and that was at the end of Aayla's turn, so now is Shansara's turn herself. She's going to fly back over, more towards the centre, over here. Yeah, sort of hovering over. And you see that her outfit changes now from this kind of fiery reds and oranges of summer. And it begins to take on the more sort of golden yellows and duller browns of autumn as she is going to...

I think she wants to start a new song. No, she's in fact going to use her yeah she is going to you see one of the drones flying beside her as she finishes that performance she begins um from the verse of the performance she switches to a chorus and the drone beside her one of the drones you can see amplifies the sound and she's actually going to channel it into a line of powerful chorus towards Quill and Sentry. I need you both to make constitution saving throws. Oh, God.

Cheers. As she kind of stretches out one hand, she lets out this kind of resonating aria as the chorus hits its climax. There's waves of sonic energy. How high up am I from Sentry? About 15, about 20, 15 feet. Tell me you don't go past. No, you do go, yeah, because you're 30 feet from me.

Oh yeah. I got an eight total. Eight total. I got unnatural 20. Unnatural 20, unfortunately, unnatural 20 is still not enough. God dang. As you are both gonna take 40 points of thunder damage.

Oh, good boy. And you are knocked going to take 40 points of thunder damage. And you are knocked back 30 feet. Sentry, you have nowhere to go. You slam back into the base of this kind of the scaffolding and things that you're kind of connected to. You're going to take another 12 points of bludgeoning damage as you're kind of thrown back into it. Quill, you're actually knocked off the platform

and come crashing down. I'm just going to put you down. What, I'm 30 feet away? Yeah, 30 feet back and down. So you're also going to take eight points of bludgeoning damage. You're both knocked prone when you land. Dang. Prone as well?

Yes. That is the end of Shansara's turn as she finishes her powerful chorus. And you see that the drone sort of like depowers for a second. NovaVidja. Hello. Hello. I would like to wield my new Eclipse Twin Blades. Twin Blades, yep. And I will use bonus action to activate Crescent of Darkness.

Okay. At the start of my next turn. Okay, so that doesn't do anything just yet. And then I would like to use Eldritch Blast to take out the drone that just fired. Okay. So the amplifier drone. Yeah. Yes, you can in fact target the drone. Okay.

That is 24 to hit. 24 just hits the amplifier drone. Oh, wow. Just barely. Six points of damage. 28 to hit. Will hit. Eight points of damage.

So yeah, 14 so far total. 23 to hit. 23 does not hit, it misses. So you see that the drone itself is incredibly well made and rather than avoiding it, the blasts are just hitting it and whether it's penetrating through its armor or not. 25 to hit. 25 just hits, yep.

Nine, 10, 11, 12, 13 points of damage. 13 from that last one. I rolled an eight. Nice. Cool, so these three blasts slam into the amplified drone and you can see it is now, it is not bloodied because it's not a machine, but you can see it's at half health or less, as it has been badly damaged, its armour plating kind of hanging off and broken apart,

and you can see parts of its magitek and crystalline devices inside of it are fizzling and cracking as it is badly damaged. Can I back up? So I've got 30 foot of movement. Yep. The platform that you're stood on is about 10 feet high off the sort of main central stage. Yeah, so I'm thinking, like, can I get here and get cover behind here

with this platform here? No, that's out of 30, isn't it? It's probably going to be if you want to try and get out of here with this platform here no that's out of 30 isn't it it's probably going to be if you want to try and get out of you know faith of range for sure if you just move me 30 i'm 30 foot like just away from shansara like diagonally away kind of like you can go 5 10 15 20 25 30 you go down here yeah step five feet in so that you've got a little bit of cover from up above. Yeah Big dude right there. Yes I forgot there's a big boy on a map guys

So Crescent of Darkness it's at the start of my next turn isn't it? Mm-hmm cool Yeah, I mean you read the abilities you tell me I can't there's a lot of words, man There is a lot of words, man. There is a lot of words. But yeah, this is starting my next turn, so I can't do much right now. Okie dokie. All right. Lucius. So Lucius is charmed right now. Yes, which means you cannot attack Shansara,

but you can attack other creatures. You just can't attack Shansara. And at the start of your turn, because you're currently charmed, you're going to take... In fact, I'm just going to do the average. I'm going to take seven points of fire damage and seven points of psychic for a total of 14. Really bad.

And you can repeat the same throw at the end of your turn. It does count as a magical effect. So it can be ended by spell breaker and stuff like that. The crowd. Yes. Are there like projections and screens of the stage coming from these cameras? Yes. That's how they're seeing the performances, mostly.

Mostly, yes. But the cameras you definitely think are, yeah, definitely feeding this to the audience. And also, you can see Shantara is obviously doing damage to you guys with these spells and these effects, but it's not like she's blasting you with spells. She's just singing and performing, and then these magical effects are coming from that music. So she's looking at the cameras, she's just singing and performing and then these magical effects are kind of coming from that music so she's like looking at the camera she's like posing

she's like talking about how it's gonna be amazing when you when they take the city to ganass like she's not fighting you she's doing a performance that is causing harm to you and your friends via these magical effects so like she's looking in the cameras she's got like singing into the mic and up to the crowd and stuff like that don't forget as well you guys can always make uh you get on your turn you can make one free uh check to try and figure out mechanics of the battle and stuff like that when i do a check on these cameras to see if they have an influence on the audience's influence powering so you can make either i would say for this you can either make an arcana or an insight check i'm gonna go with arcana on that one sure uh 25 25 almost certainly so with a 25

i will tell you that shansara looking at this whole scenario lucius um shansara has an ability called fan favor which means that basically she has a degree of fervor that she's gaining from her audience. The crowd is screaming her name. She's empowered by their love and their adoration for her. The more fervor she has, she gains bonus damage when she finishes her performances, and she also gains temporary hit points. She gets a stack of temporary hit points each round. These cameras, if you disable them, destroy them, or you can use them to appeal to the crowd and try and get them on your side.

I tried that. But yeah, it depends on you. Basically, you need to beat her level of performance to do so. I'm gonna try and disable the two cameras on the gantry up there. Okay. By twinning Chromatic Orb and using Lightning

to try and overpower them. All right, and this is just, all you need to worry about is hitting them, basically, because the only chance here is that you miss them. 27. So you're currently prone, so I'd say 27 is enough to hit this one. This one's gonna get nearly like,

it's gonna get a lot of cover from you, so that's gonna be a second attack to hit this one. 25. 25, I'd say just barely hits these two. So you watch as like you throw these two twinned chromatic orbs and they break the two cameras, which will lower Shansara's current fervor. She's unable to use those cameras to like,

she can't appeal to the wider audience and stuff like that from these cameras. So I think I'll stand up after that and just kind of looks in your direction angrily. Yeah, and I'm gonna gain some cover by standing behind the gantry. So you're gonna stand up. So I'm gonna break line of sight with her.

And then you move round to the back here. Yeah. I'll put you just peeking out so the audience can see you. Cause I'm in a bad way. Sure, okay. So you are currently, that does mean, just keep in mind, that things like if you break line of sight to Shansara,

like Quill and your allies will also need to get line of sight to you because currently you are like fully behind this thing. Yeah. All right. End of turn, Lucius. End of turn, Lucius. Okay. Do I want to use a legendary action? That's the question.

That is the question. That is the question. I wouldn't. If I was you. Well, you are out of line of sight currently. In that case, I will... Not. I will not use a legendary action. That's a good choice.

Quill. Well done. Well, I'm prone to 30 feet away off the map, which means I'm automatically dead if you fall off the map, right? No, you're just on the edge here. You're just behind this block here. You're 30 feet off, but yes. Well, I'll get up and I'll fly 25 feet because of half movement. So I'm basically like five feet.

I'll put you here, but we know you're about 30 feet off. And I will use A because I'm too far away to heal. Actually, how is Nova doing, health-wise? I'm fine. Sentry? Eh. Aayla? That's like 1 HP.

I'm not great. I was going to say, I think Tom took eh as like, I'm fine. I don't know if that was your intended meaning. Is it a bad eh? I'm about less than half. Century less than half is not bad, to be honest. Okay. Is Ayla?

Ayla's fine. Ayla's fine. All right, well. Ayla took a big hit, but she's still, she's over 100. Like, I'd say she's over 100, like she's, I'd say she's over 150. Oh, I actually can't technically see Sentry at the moment anyway.

No, that's true actually, yeah. She's currently tucked behind the thing anyway. Can I see Shansara? Yes, yeah, you can. You're flying up in the air, everyone can see her. I want to take a shot at the same drone that. Oh, the one that Nova hit. Nova, yes. The Amplifier drone.

Sure, sure, sure. With a Guiding Bolt. Okie dokie. But this one is at... You know? Wait, where's Guiding Bolt? Do I not have Guiding Bolt prepared? Oh, no.

Who are you? Who are you? What the fuck? I mean, she would have changed your prepared spells. Whoa. Did you equip everything back that you wanted to? I mean, yeah. Something has gone horribly wrong.

I'm going to use a Chromatic Orb then. Okay. 90 feet. I'm going to cast this. Oh, you can do that? Yeah, I can. And I'm really good at it as well. It's lightning as well, right? I've hit every time. Block to lightning. So the one you just saw Lucius use, you'll be like,

oh, great idea. Great idea. Because apparently it's my only option. Where's Guiding Bolt? I don't know. Where am I? Whoa! Couldn't tell you.

It could have been that maybe you switched it out thinking like, oh, I've got Chromatic Orb, I'm going to prepare other spells. No, that's definitely not. I think I have Chromatic Orb constantly locked in. Like when he was on your character. You ruined me. I'm ruined. All ruined all right well anyway um at what level this is a third level sorry uh

and it misses 20. when he is not enough it goes sailing past the amplifier drone it kind of bobs and weaves it's okay because uh me and uh trot swapped characters so i'm gonna use seeking nope that's where they're going characters so I'm going to use Seeking. Nope. That's why they're a guarding bolt. Because of the short characters. Anything else on your turn? That is all, I mainly just wanted to get back into the fray.

At the end of your turn, Quilek and Kalaar. Great turn though. Very good turn. Very very effective. Turn the tide. You are so fucking welcome. By the way, we can see Ila's sheet now. Great. Nice. That would be amazing if other people can handle that because I'm... Hey, DW, I'm OI, which stands for on it.

Okay, great. That's how the kids say it. You're probably going to succeed on this, but there's no harm in her trying it. Someone's overturning for Camping 3. Shansara is, at the end of your turn, going to use a legendary action to target you now, Quill. What? And is going to kind of gesture and sing some parts of a spell component and cast Polymorph. Oh yeah, I got Polymorphed.

Make a wisdom saving throw. I got Polymorphed into a cute little bunny rabbit wearing a blue jacket. Oh yeah, I got polymorphed. A wisdom saving throw. I got polymorphed into a cute little bunny rabbit wearing a blue jacket. Oh yeah. And then Ayla kicked me out of it. Wisdom save, all right. Plus three. Here is Tom's try to throw wisdom save.

I'm great at those. I have a plus 15, thanks to Sentry. I got 16. 16 is not enough. As you turn into a little red robin, little bird. Oh, this is okay. A tiny flying bird. Chicken.

You match the kind of autumnal theme of which the environment has been shaped into and matching Shiloh's outfit. And there's all these different illusory birds that are being swarmed around as well. And to keep in mind, you do have the mental stats of a bird while Polymorph is active, but not yourself. I had the mental stats of a bird before.

Well, this is like a tiny bird. Oh, a dumb bird. Yeah, you've got little brain. So that was Legendary Action, Sentry. How long does that last? I mean, until it doesn't. It's Polymorph. Well, when did you, how did you?

It was through a coin at me. A coin? And it still did a lot of damage. She took a gold coin and threw it at my head, my little bunny face. Oh, I remember when we Polymorphed that thing into a squirrel. Yeah, that was exactly it.

The Roker, yeah. He punted it and dropped it. It only affects the HP of the animal you turn into, right? What's that? It doesn't carry over the damage. It does, yeah. So if you do 20 points of damage to something that has one hit point,

you take one hit point, go back to your normal form, and then you take 19 points of damage. What 8th level spells do we have? That's a great question. Sentry. There's your little chicken face. Hello. Um...

Ah! Cool as a bird again. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, cool as a bird again. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little bird. He's a tiny bird. What shall I do to help? What other new features can I sing as well?

You can like tweet, you can be like, That's not what a rabbit- I can't make a bird sound! It whistles! There you go. That's what I was trying to do in there. You made a bird sound. It whistles. There you go. That's what I was trying to do in here. You made a turkey sound. It's like my mouth just like,

just go, we're not going to whistle, we're going to go, oh. You made an Age of Empires turkey sound. Wake me up early enough in the morning to hear the beautiful bird sound. Yeah, yeah. Famous soundscape of wintry Britain. If I'd done that, that would've been better

than the original Chis I Made. Right, enjoy the last while you can, because you're all gonna die. Good. All right, Sentry. Is there a curtain on this stage? Back area here has a big round curtain. But not in front of the stage?

No, no, no, no. Okay, okay. You can see that there are two of these cameras left. It's like a big round curtain. Okay, but not like in front of the stage. No, no, no. Okay. Okay. Cool. You can see that there are two of these cameras left. There's also the big light, which is kind of providing some of the illusory kind of stage presence that Shansara has. Oh, okay.

Oh, thank you, Tom. Yeah, I forgot to put that on. Put the light on. Ah! Okay. Oh, we had this before. Apparently it's blinding to the people on that side. See?

See, she said. It's very bright. It doesn't bother me. Point at your eyes. No, fucking... It's pretty bright. I really don't think it's that bright. Maybe it's my glasses.

All four of us. I'm going to get up and climb up onto the gangway that Khalil's on. So 15 feet of movement to stand up. Yeah. You're going to go up and climb up onto the gangway that quills on so 15 feet of movement to stand up yeah you're gonna go five ten you can get like i'd say just barely to the top all right and can i just quill a little little flick yeah i mean yeah because your lance has got 10 foot of reach as well so yeah he's like because he's technically fighting he's technically fighting oh yeah i'm not actually on the gantry no he, he's like flying around it.

With the Starbreaker lance, you can reach. You can be like bonk, but you would have to use the lance. You have to do enough damage. A little gentle bonk on it. You can't. It has to be an attack. It has to be. Starbringer.

Make it huge. Gigadrill him. To the stars. A team will hit a robin, yes. Use Divine Smite. I'm not going Divine Smite. I'm just going to go for it. I'm going to go for it. Make it huge. Giga drill him. To the stars! 18 will hit a Robin, yes.

Use Divine Smite. I'm not going to Divine Smite, I'm just going to go for regular. But this is non-enhanced Starbreaker, right? We don't have Giga. I don't have Starbreaker ready. Oh, you do. It's in the bag then, so Aayla currently has it in the habit. 15 damage. So you take one off the Robin, and then Quill takes 14 points of damage. Sorry!

That's how I feel. I will keep you aloft. You don't technically fall because you didn't fall when you got polymorphed. That's why I missed the tent blast. You're flying as a robin and then when you transfer back you're still flapping your wings and you're like, Get bonked. I was thinking you were a bonked bud. was thinking about the hololuge.

So move, action. Then I'll regain a level three spell slot, players. Okay. And that's my tauren. All right. In that case. Here he comes. So.

He's gonna step up. Ayla's attack will go off. So she gets to make one attack by whoever wants to do that. Oh, yes. Me. Yeah? I will. You got this. I've got it.

Here comes a natural 29. This is a 23. 23 will hit. Yep. Nice. And she does 1d10 plus 9 damage. d10. d10.

She's raging, so she gets another 4 to that as well. Hell yeah. Plus 4. Yeah, so she gets another 4 to that as well. Hell yeah. Plus 4. Yeah, so it'll be plus 13 damage. 1d10 plus 13. 14 damage. 14 points of damage, nice. So the hammer kind of cracks in.

I think she gets a d6 of lightning damage on that now as well, I think. Another 4. Perfect. So the hammer swings in, but the mech still comes up, and it's going to use its destructive fist, and it's going to make an attack against Ayla. Make sense? That is going to be 34 to hit.

That might hit, yeah. Let me check. Yeah. Ayla is not an object, so she does not take triple damage. Not good for me. It does D12 damage, it does several D12s damage. I rolled a 12, and I rolled another 12. Oh my god. Plus another 10.

Oh my god. Jesus. 44 points of bludgeoning damage halved to 22 because Aayla is raging. She rages. So there's 22 points. It does only get the one attack with its big fist, though. It just punches into Aayla. That's it.

It gets one attack. And then the phase knight. Just goes away. Is going to, no, phase out. Oh, hello. Teleports up here to face off against Sentry, but that is gonna be their move, their bonus action, so they do still get to make an attack, Sentry.

Rock and roll. They're gonna attack you twice with their blazing sword. All right. 20 to hit. Oh, that will hit, yes. Okay, and then the second one is gonna be missed, so I'll just do the first one. They are using two-handed. That is gonna be,

eight points of slashing damage and then 18 force damage. That's nasty boy. He carves through you. That is the end of the turn. That's the legendary. She's got some of them. She's got some of them. She's got them to spare. She doesn't need to do it, though. No, she doesn't. So, in fact, she will use a legendary action,

but she's going to use it to create more illusions to gain the crowd on her side. No. Gain one favor. Create illusions? Yeah. So she's going to use

create illusion to make the perform, enhance the performance. She's going to use her legendary action to use minor illusion, sorry, major illusion to enhance her performance gaining her a favor uh no filter yeah i think ayla's gonna attack the big guy all right go for it oh thomas hello

uh smash or huge can you use a different dice, please? Yeah, I will. 19. On the first one. 19 will not actually hit the mech. 80, 20. Oh, my God. It hits it, but it just doesn't have enough force to do damage. Watch this. That's a big move.

That's so big. She has brutal critical. She has brutal critical. She does. She has brutal critical, three additional damage die. So she uses a D10 normally, right? Oh God. So plus the normal one for crit. So it's basically going to become four D10 maxed to 40.

You roll four D10 and add that to the 40. D10. Plus 13. I got the exact same dice as you um we're cool aren't we we are so cool i'm right now okay four detail i did it again look at that uh 4d10 yeah added to the 40 because we're going to my crunchy crits max crits rule 9 12 uh 17 19. that was not a great damage roll. 19, so 59 plus 13 for her normal modifiers. Yes.

Oh, and an extra D6. Well, hang on, hang on, hang on. So 59 plus 13 gives us 69, 72. 72, yeah. Then it's going to be 6 maxed. So 68. Plus another D6. No, sorry, 78 plus D6.

82. 82 points of damage. Whilst the first one doesn't, it just dents a piece of the armor and maybe cracks it, when Aayla swings again, the muscles screaming and straining actually breaks through that piece of the armoured carapace and strikes vital components on the inside. Hell yeah.

It's a heavy blow to the battle mech. Does it have, like, damage threshold? It does. Ah. Well, it makes a dex save then, in that case. Dex save. Throw. For lightning.

Fails. It technically has advantage against this, but I don't think it can succeed, so it fails. Uh, that's not bad. it can succeed, so it fails. That's not bad. 3d6, right? 3d6 plus 5. So 1116 lightning damage. So you watch as Aayla's blow nearly cracks this thing in heart,

breaks various pieces of the armor, nearly reducing it to half HP, but not quite enough. Anything else on Ava's turn? That is action and bonus action. I think that's everything. And yeah, I guess it makes sense for her to just stay here, stare in this thing, straighten his eyes. Straighten his eyes, perfect. In that case, Shensura is going to start her turn. At the start of her brand new turn, her father sort of replenishes

and regains at the level that it's currently at. So gains a bonus you don't necessarily know what those bonuses are just yet but you can see the crowd is still very much like although the two of the cameras have been disabled there is still enough love and sort of adoration for her in the crowd that she is fully energized and kind of sensing this and seeing sort of like the injuries that some of you have sustained and she's just gonna sort of um not cut the mic off but speak just to you guys on the stage and just be like just surrender now this is going to happen with or without you you can leave we don't want any more violence and then she's gonna hold up the mic and she's gonna flip the switch on it um and she's like it's time and

then she speaks to the crowd it's like it's time We can't let these people delay us any longer. Let's begin. And she flicks the switch. And you hear the crowd kind of begin to cheer and scream. And you feel this almost rumbling in the earth. Nova Vija, what would you like to do? Just to press the switch? Yeah. I mean, you knew that she had it on the microphone.

And she's going to activate it. I mean, nothing's happened immediately. What would you do now for a VJ? Shit. Hmm. I didn't expect you to do it, though. Why? I don't know.

You knew that that's the whole point. This is so out of character for her. We had a team that was aiming to deactivate the devices, so hopefully they bought us some time. At the start of my turn, with the Crescent of Darkness, I can choose one creature to take 2d6 necrotic damage. She's taking 2d6 necrotic damage. She's going to take 2d6 necrotic.

That's an eight. Eight points of necrotic damage dealt to Shansara herself. Guaranteed damage. She just watches this kind of like, almost like a disc of darkness flies out of one of the twin blades as Nova swings it and kind of like strikes. And she kind of looks down like,

why are you attacking me? She seems almost offended. Because you just blew up my city! Oh, she's helping the city. What are you talking about? She's doing this amazing, she just told you she doesn't want to fight. And I told her she's going to blow up Vortensar. And she's doing this amazing she just told you she doesn't want to fight and i told her she's gonna blow up vorten song and she's just done that so i'm going to give her some

damage um does that knock any concentration-y things no no she just shows she didn't choose to start a performance this day um i would like to use my bonus action to activate my Crescent of Light. So now this Crescent, this Aura of Light comes out around me. Okay. She watches like, yeah, Nova's holding these two curved versions of Tiangong. One of them now kind of encroached in blackness. Now the other one encroached in light as the two begin to glow. Unfortunately, I'm not quite ready to get up to her

because that's taking up all my teleport time. So I'm going to revert to Eldritch Blasting, the drone that I was attacking in the first place. Keep in mind, you move to... You don't have line of sight to her. I'll let it go on the Eclipse thing, but remember that you've moved down, so you would have to step out.

Yeah. Like, you can move out like... Five, yeah. And then you would have line of sight, but she'll have line of sight to you, basically. Okay. Well, I still have to move it left, so. Yeah, you could move back, indeed. So I've got four blasteroos going for that drone. Same drone?

Yeah. Okey dokey. 24 to hit, no, 25 to, wait, no. What's 11 plus four? 15 doesn't hit. Okay, 11 plus four, yeah. No, no. Yeah, 15 doesn't hit. Okay, 11 plus 4, yeah.

No, no. 15 doesn't hit. That's a natural 1. Okay. Two blasts, the drone nimbly... That's another natural 1! Okay. You're cursed.

I've got one more to... I'm just going to switch this dice in. 21. Still doesn't hit. Still doesn't hit. The drone's armor plating negates the blast as it strikes. I would like to think in terms of RP. Yeah, it's Nova being flustered, right? Or panicked, swinging the blade just panically, not listening to the more guided advice, emotion running over.

Yeah, she's just blind firing. Can I tuck myself back in? You can. Yeah. Can I tuck myself back in? You certainly can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. I don't want to be that close to the bad guy. I mean, he's got big reach, so. He's like Garrus. Like, you can move here, but like.

If I was the other side of the stairs, could she still get me? You would then provoke an opportunity attack from the neck. Oh, no, no, no. So you can either stay here or you can provoke an opportunity attack and move here. Would she still,

can she see me from there? No, no, if you hide down here. I'll provoke an opportunity attack with probably the worst fucking attack in my life, so here we go. Okay. Actually, no, I don't.

No, I don't. But then he's going to hit me because he's right there. But then he's got two attacks. No, he only has one attack. This is his reaction, the mech reaction. Oh, just keep me by the,

keep me by the twat boy. Okay. I don't like it when you make that face okay sure end of ten yeah sure all right lucius so disgusted with the amount of nat ones i just rolled furious yes lucius what are you thinking? Varian, Elowen, Elanasto. Lucius stands up. You can feel that there's this deep rumbling beneath the earth. You can feel power surging beneath your feet. I don't like it. He looks from the side of the gantry where he's hiding.

And he says, And he says, I wish... ..she had never pressed that button. That's the wish? Mm-hm. OK. Can you... Come on. Come on.

Come on. So I need you to roll a d100 for me. Oh, hang on. Give me a second. Stress of casting the spell to use any effect other than different panels but weakens you after enduring that stress. Okay, after enduring that stress. Okay, after enduring that stress. Can you roll a D100 for me, please? And 0 to 33 will be the 33% chance.

Of there exceeding? No, of never being able to use Wish again. So keep in mind as well, after using this Wish spell, if you cast the spell any time now until you take a long rest, if you cast the spell and you take 1d10 necrotic damage per level of that spell, that damage cannot be prevented or reduced in any way. Your strength is now currently 3 as well.

This is when you use the Wish spell to use an effect that is not replicating another spell. And that's basically it. I had no idea. And that strength reduction is for 2icating another spell. And that's basically it. Yep. I had no idea. And that strength reduction is for 2d4 days. So can you roll 2d4 for me as well? What? Whoa.

Oh my God. I thought wish was just... Four. Just breathe. So seven days. A week. Your strength is three. Anytime you cast a spell,

remember you take 1d10 per level of the spell in necrotic damage. Yikes, dude. There is a moment where everything... Now, for everybody but Lucius, you have no memory of a Shansara flicking

the switch or Lucius casting the spell. I'm going to say Lucius is the only one who remembers that this takes place. Everything seems to stop for you lucius and it becomes almost like a colored painting your vision almost turns the world into this vibrant vivid still framed portrait and then you watch as the paint begins to pull back and it begins to merge as the world around you becomes this swirling mass of color and light until it reforms back into the moments before Shansara,

like basically we're going to reset the turn. I don't believe anybody else took damage this turn or anything else. So Nova, you didn't do those Eldritch Blasts or anything like that. And I will go back to your previous turn, I think lusus um well i've done that turn right unless i get it back because of the wish that's what i'm trying to decide your wish was i wish that she had never flipped that switch um yeah so would that mean that like ayla didn't get the career and i didn't get my crescent that's what i'm trying to decide yeah i'm trying to decide that technically the wish is i wish she never pressed that switch so what i'm trying to decide. I'm trying to decide that. Technically, the wish is I wish she never pressed that switch.

So what I'm going to do is we see Ayla get the crit. She smashes the mech. And then for the rest of you, this just resumes. But Lucius, you kind of realize that this is the moment where she was about to flip it. And she'll turn around and she looks around and she'll say the exact same things of like, we don't need to fight you

should leave this is going to happen whether you like it or not this is what the people here want you're wrong everything's gonna be she kind of like has that speech of like and she's looking and you can see that like century lucius quite a few of you are quite heavily injured and beaten up and she's just like i won't warn you again i know i have no problems with knocking you uh injuring you and harming you if this is what it means to ensure that mine and harmony's dream I won't warn you again. I have no problems with knocking you, injuring you and harming you if this is what it means to ensure that mine and Harmony's dream comes true. And then she's going to look to the crowd,

smile brightly once more, and she holds the mic and she thinks about flipping it. And then something causes her to be like, no, I don't need to do that just yet. And she's going to begin another performance. Because otherwise that would have, I could have literally just been like, well, she flips it again, but the intent of your wish

was to buy some time. So I'm going to- Create a universe in which she hasn't pressed that switch. Not yet. You can see her looking at it, and Lucius, you recognize that she might do, she might choose to. Rumbling is no longer there. Oh, boy, howdy.

All right, but that does mean that she has begun another performance, and this time it is, you can hear her singing about the lament of tragedy of autumn and saying goodbye to people that you love and things like that, and kind of singing a song all about farewells. And so we go to Keeluk Ad Kalark, so that will technically be the end of Lucius's turn

as you watch all of the last six seconds rewind And so we go to Keeluk ad Kalark, so that'll technically be the end of Lucius's turn as you watch all of the last six seconds rewind and then a new pathway spin off. I think that sheer process of time travelling is what causes my strength. Yeah, yeah. You're just like... You feel yourself completely drained of energy,

but also your bones, almost like the inside of you aches with something. It's fragile. You feel like glass. so I'm not going again no we're gonna go move straight on to key like so your turn still happened the way exactly it did before basically I mean I would have done exactly doesn't press the button and you angrily Eldritch blast her now you try to take out the drinks that was what you were doing anyway you know it was you were try to take out the drone because that was what you were doing anyway. You know, it was you were trying to take out the drone anyway. But this time I'm angry and missed because I just hate her.

Yeah. From last session, does she have any barrier or anything preventing people from going up to her that I may have missed, that I don't know about? Nobody has gotten that close to her. Yeah. You saw that she did sort of like use the disc to kind of knock into Lucius and send him flying.

She's got this other drone that you haven't seen what it does yet. And then she has this amplifier drone and she's continuing the performance basically at this point. Drone, magical. Other drone, magical. The disc she's flying around on, magical? The disc itself, yeah, it means magitek and uh just so you know as

well when the eclipse the she you struck at her with that eclipse the necrotic damage by the way um whatever energy has been infusing her from the crowd the temporary it was taken on the temporary hit points because lucius had worked out that it that's one of the things that grants her temporary hit points okay um because i have an idea but i think it's an idea that is probably just gonna be foiled by something super simple as her just moving away from me um i want to with 50 feet of flight. I want to fly right up to her and use anti-magic field. Oh, okay. That's interesting. Ten feet around me. So it says anything that's not created by deity or is an artifact. Spells and magical effects except those created by an artifact or a deity are suppressed inside the sphere um so target effects areas of magic spells magic items

become mundane magical travel doesn't work creatures and objects a creature or object summoned or created by magic temporarily winks out of existence inside the sphere um and also dispel magic doesn't work on the sphere as well. So basically nullifying. So you're five feet next to her, obviously, I think. What would happen is you cast that spell, the sphere appears around you, and you watch as Shansara, the disc, and the drones drop.

Because the disc itself is magic, and it just begins to drop until it's out of the sphere where it reactivates and because that's the thing i it's frustrating i want to basically just hook myself basically onto her and just consistently extrude this anti-magic field around her but within the movement of the game i can't well you because you said you flew next to her, activated this thing, she then drops and the ATO comes out of it. Basically follow that fall, follow the descent, but it's a game thing?

Well, I mean, because the thing is here is you're just trying to fly next to her. If you were grappling her specifically, then you would stay with her. But if you're just flying next to her, then the disc will continually drop until it's on the ground and then you would be on the ground, and then you would be on the ground. Yeah. But you've already used your movement, so you have no more movement to fly down after her.

So she flies... Currently, you've flown up next to her, you've activated this thing, her and the disc and the drones drop 10 feet or 15 feet until they're out of range, and then the drones, the disc, reactivates and they would hover because the disc has a hover hover property it just stays where it is so she kind of like drops down and then i mean my intention is to keep her inside the sphere

right right but you've used all your movement to fly next to her you've then cast your grab her i mean that's what you would have you would have had to have moved up to her instead of casting the spell it's an action to grapple somebody. Oh, okay. It's going to be something to do on your next turn, I would imagine. Because that's the thing. For me, mechanically, it's like... I'm also saying that technically your wing,

we're using it as a mechanical. It's not a magical wing. It's a mechanical wing, which is enabling you to fly. So you're currently flying. You can't cast spells. So none of your spells and equipment work. But if I'm also falling... But you're currently flying, you can't cast spells. So none of your spells and equipment work. But if I'm also falling. But you're not falling, that's what I'm saying.

I'm saying I'm counting it as a mechanical, it's not magical the wing itself. You're using like the leather strips to actually manually fly. So you are currently flying, but you've used all your movement to fly up to her. You've used your action to cast a spell, she's dropped. So she's currently still out of it,

but next turn you might be able to fly down and then use your action to grapple okay yeah yeah okay yeah no it's just a because it's the same thing as i think a while back when we tried to do the thing of like i want to use my action to follow this person like there's not really a thing for that i suppose i mean there is it's yeah it's just that but the way the initiative works it's like on she would move on her turn you would move on your turn. The difficulty, what you've got to wrap your head around here, Tom, is that you've used your movement to fly up, and because you were flying next to her, you've done all you can this turn.

Next turn, you can fly down and try and grab her and grapple her, and then you would be stuck to her specifically. And then you would just move with her as she would fall down. Cool. Well, at the very least, were any of the things, creatures or objects, created, summoned or created by magic? Not summoned or created by magic. The drones are magitex, so they are physical objects. They exude magic.

So all of the effects. In terms of singing, her voice completely cuts out. Does it sound awful for a second? No, no, because you're stood next to her. She's lip syncing. She's still a very good performer, but it's not being projected to the crowd, so I will reduce her fervor by one

because it kind of temporarily stops the song, but then as soon as she's out of the anti-magic field again, it all activates again, the magitek, and her voice is being projected again. It's like it cut out for a few seconds. Sure. All right, well, I've got it ready to go now, anti-magic, so I'm gonna, yeah, next turn,

I wanna basically just completely block out all her magical ability. Okay. So that'll be a next turn thing. All right, you do see that she recognizes what you've done and she sees this panic as her magical shuts out and all of her equipment and spells no longer function,

and she's looking you in this panic now. Sentry. Do you want me to help you grapple? Hell yeah. Yeah? Yeah, I absolutely do. Hmm, okay. Could I potentially jump off the platform,

then Misty step the rest of the distance towards Shansara, and then grapple her? So she's about 15 feet down. You could jump off the platform. I mean, Misty Step will get you there anyway. I think you're within 30 feet of her regardless. Yeah, I mean, you could teleport onto her platform with her and try and grapple her.

Yeah. For sure, yeah. I'm going to do that. Okay. So you teleport from here and sort of appear on her platform next to her like this. Yeah. All right. Strength check.

Yeah, this would be opposed strength checks. Rock and roll. Now just hold her up five feet. It's like an attack. So she's in the anti-magic field just ahead. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail against you unless you roll the one.

17. 17, yeah. No, you grab her. So one of your actions, so the way it works is you bonus action Misty Step, action, one of your attacks is to grab her and grapple her. You now have her grabbed, and you still have technically an attack if you wanted to, like, do damage to her. But otherwise, you've just got her grappled, and she is grappled, basically.

Her speed is zero. You have advantage on attack rolls against her. She has disadvantage, et cetera. If we squeeze in a little attack against her as well? Yeah, if you want to, yeah. Just for funsies. Air hug. 27. Uh we'll hit. Okay just an arm strike? Um no you can you technically you can do this with your lance it's like bashing

with the side of the lance or something. Oh sick. And you can technically Divine Smite it as well if you'd like. Alright. It's just a normal attack. Nice alright let's do that then. Okay, sick. I'm gonna do a level four Divine Smite. One, two, three, four, five d8, one d12 plus four. Oh my god. Let's go. 18, 19, 21, 23, 30, 38, 46, 50.

50. Jeez. You see that the kind of revitalization, the kind of empowering effect of the fervor towards Shanzara, you strike and it almost seems to clash with the divine power, the energy from the matrix that you smash into her. There's no physical harm to Shanzara, you strike, and it almost seems to clash with the divine power, the energy from the matrix that you smash into her. There's no physical harm to Shanzara herself, but you feel that shield, that aura of this further break,

and damage definitely kind of passes through, but there is still some of that shield remaining. Nice. End of turn? Yeah, that is my turn. Thank you. At the end of that turn, fearing that now, Sentry, you have grappled,

Shansara is gonna use her legendary action to use a part of her spell casting, and she is gonna cast Maze on you. Oh no! What's that? You are banished into a labyrinthine demiplane. You remain there until the duration or until it escapes the maze.

That was bad. Cool! Yeah, what level spell would you like to count or spell at? I would like to count. It's hard to get out. Pretty sure of yourself. Sounds nuts. What have I got left? It's a big question.

Sixth level. Sixth level. Can you roll a d20 plus your charisma, please? I certainly can. Can I portent that? You can. All the lads coming together. Hell yeah, hell yeah. I certainly can can I portent that? you can uh what do we have? all the lads coming together

hell yeah hell yeah oh god it's not well it's better than average I can portent it to a 15 plus your charisma modifier oh plus my charisma

it's plus 9 no charisma modifier not saving oh just mod just mod plus 3 then so it's only an 18 18 yeah

I don't know if that's better but I guess I've used it is that what you'd like to do? I don't get a choice Not saving. Oh, just mod. Just mod. Plus three there. So it's only an 18. It's an 18, yeah. I don't know if that's better, but I guess I've used it. Is that what you'd like to do? I don't get a choice. Are you gonna roll higher than a 15? It's higher than average, so probably not. Yeah, I'll do that.

Okay. So here's how it works. You portent it, you get an 18, which is enough to counter spell it, but you cast a sixth level spell. Yeah. Oh. Shit.

Yeah. Oh, oh fuck. Oh my god. Didn't even think. Rarely do. 36 points of necrotic damage, which I think renders you unconscious, which means the spell does not activate.

No. It's basically the casting of the spell knocks lucius out and it doesn't take effect oh really so yeah because it's like you can't pass the spell if you were knocked unconscious by it so the damage doesn't take as he's summoning casting the spell like you take the damage i mean i could i could say that the spell still goes off, but it knocks Lucius unconscious. But, like, yeah, I think that, like, I could argue that. Does the damage go before or after the spell, during or after the spell is cast?

Well, that's it. It's when you cast the spell. So I guess it's when you cast a spell, actually. The wording is when you cast the spell, so the spell does go off. So I will say it does counterspell it, but Lucius is knocked unconscious by doing so. Where are you? Behind the gantry hidden yep you can't count to spell it then because you wouldn't have line of sight so I look around to do the wish all right so you looked around so you're not actually in cover you're

actually there yeah I think you did say that yeah he was just me if you had if you were like still behind the thing, you wouldn't have been able to counter spell. So you just have line of sight. But you're not in a maze. So Lucius reaches up and you stretch out, but you feel like glass, and as you pull the power and quill, you maybe lend some of your magical strength to this spell as part of the port, whatever the port is,

or you call out the right moment for Lucius to summon it, the spell does seem to cancel as Century's being pulled away, but you feel like you break and shatter and your consciousness fades out and you fade to black immediately. As the counter spell goes off, Century, you are not mazed. That was at the end of your turn. That wasn't even an actual turn.

That was a legendary action. The battle mech will continue its fight against Ayla. 34 to hit Ayla. Yeah, just one bit. That's going to be, I'm going to say, I'm going to just use the average. 36 bludgeoning goes to 18 points of bludgeoning damage okay yep and then after them little phase night it is the

phase night who is now no longer near anyone who is no longer near anyone but can go in through faith did it dance not a phase mom does he just leave he's gonna pull out a magitek blaster and take shots at quill what loser easy yeah pretty lean because it's magitek, I'm saying that like, that's very true actually, would the bolts even affect you? Who brings a gun to a knife fight? If it is magic, does Quill have resistance from White War? Well, that's the thing is actually I would say that because of the anti-magic field,

the magic effect wouldn't penetrate it. So actually, he fires once, the blast disappears at the edge of the anti-magic field. I mean, it looked like it. And yeah, he's going to that that's not gonna work, so he's gonna take two shots at sentry. The remaining two shots at sentry. That is gonna be 22. And the next one is gonna be natural 20.

So that's gonna be... The first one, you don't have to concentrate on a grapple, you just maintain it, so it depends if they can knock you unconscious. So that's gonna be six points of force damage from the normal one and eight oops i forgot to keep grappling whoops dropped her then 18 from the crit force damage so as the two blasts hit you um and jeff they are in a position now where they can't really do much else. How magical are you, Aeneas? Shansara's got two legendary actions. Why?

She's used that. Shansara's going to use, at the end of the Phase Knight's Go, she's going to use another legendary action to use another spellcasting attempt. She's a poo. And she is going to... God, what's more dangerous? The anti-magic field or sentry grappling her? She can see the sentry's quite injured.

She's going to go for the anti-magic field. She's going to attempt to dispel magic. Doesn't work. That's true. But she doesn't know that, so she tries it. She's smart. She's unlike others. She's smart.

She's smart. She reads Wikipedia? She's smart. She's unlike others. She's smart. She's smart. She reads Wikipedia. Let me have a read of... Speaking of smart, is Sentry innately magical? Like, how comprised of magic? No, you're a living creature. Okay.

Okay, good. I'm just going to drop down on you. You just die. I just killed her! Okay, spells another magical effect. Let me have a read of this. Is there anything about like... She could come in and hit me mundanely if she wants.

Yeah, imagine if you just destroy the entire matrix. Okay, spells like... Yeah, dispel magic doesn't work against it, it specifically says. All right, in that case, she would know that. She knows magic. Goodbye. That case, she would...

Imagine if you just destroy the matrix with that. And there's us. That's what I was thinking. Like the prime's just gone, though. To be fair, it was my fault. And all those souls. And all the souls with that. That's what I was thinking. Like the Prime's just gonzo. And all those souls. And all the souls, yeah. It was my fault, I just walked into it. No, I was going to fly onto you.

That was going to be my choice. Well, not my choice, I'm not actively like... Hey Sentry, come here! Drop some magic platform on you. She's going to use her face step to teleport taking her disc with her 30 feet loser does i'm guessing century she can choose yeah this is we've used this web you've used it to escape grapples before that drone's dead so century unfortunately as she teleports away you are left wily coyoting in the air.

Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. And you are going to fall. Yep. She was dropped 15 feet down. So you're going to be about 30 feet off the ground. It's going to be 10 points of bludgeoning damage, and you're not prone. It's just enough.

Oh! Really? I'm down. Oh, you need to do some fucking heals, my son. And she's's gonna teleport away uh with her face step ayla i think she's gonna keep attacking the thing oh uh ayla yeah um just this this continual mech battle she rolls not well 19 19 for the first turn. That does not hit.

The second one. God. 19 plus. That will hit. 15. Oh, wait, I'm dying Sentinel. I don't die. One.

One. I'm on one. I'm cool. I'm cool. I don't need to heal. Yeah, don't worry. Yeah, no, you don't need to heal. That's it.

She doesn't crit with a 19, does she? She does not, no. She's not Nova. Nova with a hex. So she rolls. D10 plus D6 plus 9 plus something else. So 18 plus another 3 from raging? 4 from raging.

So... Maths! 22. 22 points. Uh-huh. Ha-ha-ha-hoo-hoo-whoop. Uh, maths. 22. 22 points. And then saving throw. Dex save. Fails. I'm pretty sure it's unless I roll a natural, yeah, it fails.

I'm just gonna roll a natural. Uh, holy shit. It takes 612. Um... My brain! 16 damage from that. 16 points of damage. You can see the mech is now sparking and smoking at points.

The pilot is trying to maintain control of it as it's fighting against Ayla, but is certainly struggling against doing so. I'm going to keep it pinned down. Yeah, as Ayla finishes her turn. As Ayla finishes her turn, however, Shansara's performance is going to complete. And she's gonna use her autumn performance. Yeah, as a filler.

Three creatures that Shansara can see within line of sight take a certain amount of damage. This is magical, I guess. So the anti-magic field, I think, will stop it, which means that the only creatures... Huh? I'm hiding. You're hiding, yeah.

But there are two down people that she can hit with this. That would be really mean. It would be. She doesn't want to, though. We're also forcing our hands, so... What about that big mech boy? No.

So, yeah. Century, Lucius, and Aayla, I guess... Oh, my God....are going to take some damage and need to make charisma saving throws. So yeah, Sentry, Lucius, and Aayla, I guess, are going to take some damage and need to make Charisma saving throws. So two fails. This is a Charisma saving throw, so yeah, I mean, you're still going to take the damage. It's not two, it's only one fail for you,

because it's not a melee attack, so you take one. Sentry, this is going to knock you unconscious because you're at one hit point anyway, and you take a certain amount of damage anyway. But I do need you... Is she not safe against it? Huh? No, the damage is the damage.

I'm at one HP, so it's still... And the damage, even if it's not a half thing, it's like unless you find a way to interrupt her singing or unless you find a way to damage her or do something, you take the damage. I still need you and you to make charisma saving throws, though, find a way to damage her or do something, you take the damage. I still need you and you to make charisma saving throws, though, even though you're technically knocked unconscious. And then Ayla is gonna be taking-

Am I just auto fail there? No, it's charisma based, so no, you don't. I got 17. I get advantage, because I'm an elf. Ayla is gonna take... No, you don't, not on this one. This is a different effect. 21.

Ayla is gonna take 36 points of psychic damage. 21. 17. 17. And then Ayla, I'm assuming, on the charisma. Four plus. Not enough. Not enough, yeah.

You are all three temporarily banished until the end of your next turn. Oh, my God. Wait, what? Yeah. Okay. You are banished to a demiplane, a sort of stadium-like kind of fey...

No, not stadium. It would be like the Feywild. It would be like a peaceful glade in the fey wild so it's not a day nice just laying there at the end of your turn he has to make a death state yeah the death in the semi-plane yeah both do yeah yeah but you're down but yours is like you're going to be back she's one high even if you roll one one, you still lie back. Eventually. But also, keep in mind, you have that... No, no, no, you're in separate demi-planes. Oh, separate?

You're not together. No, no, no. You're in separate demi-planes. Oh, we ain't hanging out, bro. Sorry. No, sorry. You're all diminished into... Also, keep in mind, Cora, you can't cast spells whilst you're in the anti-magic field. I know. Okay. Just so you know.

But she'll just say, like, I don't want to do this. Surrender now. This is as her performance finishes. And then I think in a desperation, she's gonna look around and she now holds the microphone up again and she's gonna flip switch again. Can you not?

I mean, yes. Can you let me go attack her? I mean, you have been, you missed. She's like, she can see Quill's anti-magic, you know, like. She's done a lot. Yeah, she has done a lot. Have her anti-magic you know like no no she is gonna she's like enough this is happening whether you want it to or not these people want to go home and the crowd cheers and she's gonna flip the switch you feel that deep rumbling beneath the earth once again shit Shit. Nova Vigia. I'm fucking coming for her.

I mean, yeah, sure. That's what you want to do. Right. Sure. Crescent of Light, one blade, 2d6 radiant damage. Okay. Two Shensara, right? Ten points of radiant damage.

Okay, ten points of radiant damage. I swipe with the second blade, Crescent of Darkness. That is 11 points of necrotic damage. Bonus action. I'm bringing them together and I'm activating the Eclipsed Moon. Woo! Cool, what's this do? So you see Nova spin one blade

and this kind of gash of darkness hits her again, and then an arc of light hits her, and then she crosses the blades together and almost swipes them up, and this aura just expands outwards, outwards, outwards, outwards, fills the stage. A silvery mist rolls in, and Nova disappears and reappears. Great, I'm on my own. Behind Shansara. Nothing puts your hands up. Yeah!

Big lead. Hell yeah. So there's a 60 foot aura of silvery. Covers the entire stage basically, yeah. We'll just say for the ease of this it covers most of the stage. Hell yeah. I'm gonna stop at a spot. That does end the other two

effects by the way now okay so you in the future turns you don't get the 2d6 of another fighting field now no no not a fighting field is that is 17 to hit 17 will not hit I don't believe believe. No, she does manage it. Her graceful, dancer-like movements dodges out of the way. What's 12 plus 14? 26. 26 will hit. Okay, so... I need 1dc, 8, 9, 10, 11 points of slashing damage.

And then 3 points of necr of slashing damage. And then three points of necrotic and radiant damage. Okay. You watch as like, yeah, like still, just this lingering shield of fervor is nearly broken around her. That was my second attack, wasn't it? I can't remember. Yes, it was, because you missed the first one.

That is 21 to hit. Will hit. Yeah. Again. Eight, nine, ten, eleven points of slashing damage, and then five points of the combined necrotic and radiant. So 60 total. So you watch as, yeah,

this kind of shimmering field that's been surrounding Shensara does break now. And this blow does actually strike her properly. And will do a small amount of damage to her directly. Mark Humes.

Yes. I'm going to action surge. Yes. Very good. So we begin this again. We begin again. Three more attacks. Natural 20.

Hell yes, hell yes. So how much does that do? So it's your normal weapon damage, which is what, d8? So 1d6 plus 8. So it would be 6 plus another d6 plus 8. Plus 1d4 radiant plus 1d4 necrotic. So plus another 8 plus 2d4. So...

So 6. So you basically maximizeise any dice, maximise them, and then roll them again. So you've done 14 maximised from the... So just now roll your damage normally. Roll my damage normally. Yeah, your crits aren't big, big crits, but it's still more damage, so...

Three, six, ten points of damage. On top of the 16, so... Yeah. Wait, no, sorry. Add an eight to that sorry um three eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen eighteen plus the sixteen before so twenty thirty four thirty four thirty four points of damage nice attack number one attack one next one huge crit It's a 16 to hit. 16 is not enough, she dodges out of the way.

Kind of fending for her life now. 14 plus 8? 22 will hit. Pretty good. Ooh, pretty good. That is a 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 points of damage. 18 points of damage. You watch as this blows.

You're kind of scraping her arms or forcing her to dodge, and she does look terrified, sort of panicked by this up-close personal combat. And she just looks at you like, why, why are you doing this? I'm trying to help these people you don't understand your actions are going to destroy this city you've doomed us all what what how do you know you can't know that this part like kind of shouting match kind of thing with you like and then i think she probably just says something along the lines of at the end like um she says something along the lines of like

she says something along the lines of like, Harmony and I were doing this to make something matter. We were doing so that we could mean something. You're ruining it. And like, that's kind of like, she kind of says that as the final blows kind of strike. End of your turn, Nova Vija. I think that is, I'm just pondering whether or not to teleport away.

Okay. I need that decision, I'm just pondering whether or not to teleport away. Okay. I'll need that decision before I move on. No, I'm going to stay up here with her. Stay up there. So sort of like on the platform, on the disc, kind of on the very edge. I think Nova would be too engaged and just like, yeah, and then stay there. Lucius, Vera, Nelo, and Elanasto, I require you to roll the death saving throw, please. Is it? lucius virion elo in el anasto i require you to roll the death saving throw please is it it was a one and then you're on to a seven okay

i i from my vision it looked like a one it's like a one and i was like my heart went and it went uh all right well that's a failure but not two not a bad a bad failure what you on he was on one already one he's because he took damage so he's on one failed saving throw okay he's on two or three now yeah he'll be back he'll be back he'll be back he'll be back well it's your turn he'll be back he'll be back yeah he'll be back i guess none of those attacks would have broken anything concentration II she didn't start another performance so there is no nothing to break unfortunately I mean the flight is coming from the disc she has no active spells on her now if I stood on the disc with her would I fall with her hmm

yes if you stopped flying if you chose to no longer be flying, I'd say that the disc really can only hold two people and Nova's currently on there with her. But you could try and grapple her, like I said before. I just want to keep her in the sphere and fall with her as she tumbles out. Where she would tumble out of the sphere, I'm falling with her. So she's staying in the sphere?

Question mark. Okay okay is that what you like to do yeah and that's just my move so you fly over like i mean you would have to you have to grapple her if you want to do this you have to use your action to try and grapple her otherwise you are going because the the disc is currently nova and her fighting on this disc because nova's not flying so there's no room for you to stand on the disc you would have to basically grapple her um to try and stay on this otherwise she's shoving you off kind of thing can I not just not fly what do you mean by as in you just fall with it kind of thing yeah yes but you yeah you'll take the fall damage but you would be flying but you will take fall damage when you hit the ground.

Cannot start flying again before I hit the ground? No, if you choose to stop flying, you don't have time to start flying again. That's how we've always done falling. How high are we? I think the disc she would have moved, she teleported, she'd be about 50 feet off the ground. So pretty big damage.

5d6 bludgeoning. 5d6, and I could lose the anti-magic uh you got well you've moved over to her yeah well she's i've moved over to her so she is going to start falling anyway i guess i may as well like attempt to grapple her yeah i mean there's no point not to um strength actually you make a you make an attack roll you make an alarm strike to hit her first oh uh oh god that's gonna miss regardless i think um i should have done this with century but i was pretty confident century was gonna hit her but i should have done that i don't even know what my unarmed attack is well what'd you roll on the d20 uh 18. if you got an 18 i I'd say yes, you grapple her. Cool.

Don't worry about the attack. I think you're going to have enough of a bonus. Even with your proficiency, you're going to probably still grapple her. So she rolled back. Okay. So you are grappled onto her. You, Nova, and Shansara all begin to fall.

The effect of the eclipse is temporarily halted whilst you are in the anti-magic field because it's from the magic weapon. Oh, they are artefacts. And they are, well, they're deity things. Yeah, well, it has to be an effect created directly by them. But I'd say they are artefact weapons, so they are still active, I would say. Thank God.

But all of you go flying to the ground. Flying with style. Falling with style. Falling with style. Falling, yeah. Do her drones take damage? All of you. Do her drones take damage? Yeah, the drones are gonna take damage as well.

Sorry, 11. That is gonna be 20 points of bludgeoning damage exactly. That is gonna be concentration checks for any concentration spells. DC 10. DC 10. DC 10. It's still up. 15, I rolled on that.

Cool. So yeah, I've done my action to attack and grapple her. I can't really use anything else. Can I use features? I guess I can. As long as it's not magical. I want to... Oh, I'd be doing my divine intervention thing, which I guess is magical. I want to keep her pinned, basically, inside this sphere so she can't use any magic,

can't sing, the drones can't do anything. Did the drones take any damage? Yes, the drones did take damage. The amp drone is nearly destroyed, but it's barely holding on. It's got very little hit points left. Yes, so all magic within 10 feet.

No longer working. And that will be my turn. Oh, I mean, I said it was at the end of the turn. Lucius, technically you reappeared back in the space because it was at the end of your turn. You're banished too. Sentry. Death save. Death saving throw, please, and then you'll return rock and roll that's one oh my god two death saving throws marked off please oh my god what is going on okay i'm ready

why are you like this? Oh, piss off! The battle mech is still up, and Aayla is not there to stop it, because Aayla was banished. The battle mech will come up, and seeing that Quill is currently holding onto me, or reaches down, the arm shuts down, and it just sort of looks down, and the pilot is confused for a second,

and will pull the rest of the body back, but is unable to do anything against this crew um great yeah back up back up has literally no other targets uh currently um you got enough going on yeah the mate can't do anything with this field it can't do anything to you guys in the field, but it does see people lying around. Don't think this thought. I have to. Don't. No, you don't.

He's dumb, he's a grunt. He's a grunt. He's a dumb grunt. That's all the more reason why I'm like, he's considering what to do. Shansara specifically said that they didn't wanna kill them. So he will move and heal. Away, move away.

He will position himself over Century's body and grapple Century's body, holding it like a hostage, like grappling Century's body like this. The Phase Knight. He can't see anything. His body's blocking the way. The Phase Knight is gonna attempt, looking at the control system, is gonna see,

because he saw that Quill was messing with it, and he's gonna attempt to investigate that, and he spends his turn doing nothing, basically. nothing basically good and that as we bring it ayla returns back from the demi plane that's her whole turn is being in the demi plane and then she returns at the end of her turn and at the start of the next turn would be shansaras you see even though shansara's in the distance she's like struggling against quill i'll get to her turn in a minute but you feel that rumbling deep in the earth from where she hit the microphone switch build and build over the last few seconds it's been building, and you see Nova in the distance, like looking out beyond the illusions,

beyond the stadium, and you can see the crowd now is like, there's this mixture of horror at this fight, this horrible fight which is now taking place, not long gone is this kind of beautiful concert, it's turned into this scrappy fight where people are like vanishing. You can see blood and everything on the floor. But beyond that, you look up and you see, is it Surtr, the fire statue? You see it, energy begins to flow through it as you see elemental kind of mixture of these different elemental powers kind of emerge and its hands begin to glow.

And you watch as a string of energy begins to emerge out from it, trying to link up. But there is no signal from the other statues currently. And as the crowd begins to see this, they all begin to cheer, seeing that this thing is taking place and activating. And Shara would just be like, Get off me! You can't stop stop it i've already activated the system um and that is where we're

going to take our break what no it's break time break time oh i hate everything about it real quick so you're on two fails right so it's lucius you're on two? Yeah, boy. Yeah. And just so you know, Lucius goes before you. You can do nothing. You can do nothing. Yes. He's loving it. Also, I know you're all going to be like, Mark, why?

Mark, why have you done this? Like, I am not the sole responsibility for what has happened here today. Let that be clear. This is a joint effort. This is a team effort. Any stress you feel is the result of everyone. As is Dice.

Blame this fucking Dice. So, we're going to take a quick break. Enjoy. We'll see you back in five minutes. Bye. It'll be fine, guys. Don't worry