High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #169 | Daughter of Vortinssar (Part 2)

Episode Date: December 22, 2022

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the threat of Sentry being in melee, grappling her, preventing her from being able to do anything, has caused Shansara to once again activate the switch and the device in a panic. And now, having temporarily banished Lucius, Sentry, and Aayla, things are not looking good as both Sentry and Lucius face two death saving throws, failed death saving throws. We now begin a brand new turn. Straight back into it.

Mark? Yes. I just realized something. What did you realize? You know the Eclipse Twinblades? Yes. And the Eclipse Moon? Yeah.

On a crit hit, you can choose one creature within the aura to regain two D8 hit points. Ah. But at the time that I did it... I think they were in the Demi Plane. They were in the Demi Plane, weren't they? Yes, I believe so.

They were indeed. I think that's easiest for us to rule. Can I retroactively heal the world? Sure, yeah. I don't care about that. Although, would healing go through the anti-magic field? Yes, because they are artifact weapons. I would say that yes, they do.

11 points of healing. Thank you. God, it's good to be healed. I've got 69 HP. Nice. You do. Today is episode 169. Nice.

Oh, nice, nice. Double nice. That's the weed number, right? Yeah. Yeah. 69, blaze it. Blaze it. Blaze.

Okay, well, that was my attempt. I tried. I tried. You did your best. Yeah. Just listen to the- Shansara, the only thing that she can really do at this point is try and fight off this bird man who is on top of her.

I'm scrappy. You're scrappy. So this is going to be an opposed grapple check. She is going to use her acrobatics, I think. She's more dexterous than she's strong. Well, I'm going to use my history. Nope. You choose athletics or acrobatics.

In fact, actually, as the grappler, you can only use athletics, I believe. I can choose. Oh, God. Plus one, baby. Plus four for me. Yeah. Total?

What'd she get? 19. Four. Okay. She's going to throw you, or can I squirm out, use her agility to maybe press her knee, push you off of her, and then she is going to try and run.

You will get an attack opportunity, Nova and Quill. Yeah, I'm going to attack her. She is just going to go one and five. So she's leaving her disc. Five, 30, she is, and then she's going to face-step. The screen! Everything is crumbling! I saw everything! She's going to face-step with a bonus action all the way to the other side of the performance stage.

Attack roll? I got a 26. You were hit. Does this include my radiant and necrotic damage? Yes, I would say that those weapons function as normal. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 points of damage. 18 points of damage. She takes the strike, but she does manage to get away

and then teleports to the far end. And then she is going to order, she's going to turn around and order the mech. She's like, pilot, if they move from their spot, finish their friend. You have been warned, do not take another step. And she points towards the two of you like. Did any of the mics pick that up?

No. Son of a. You can choose when it goes out to the audience or not. Yeah, but the people at the front row. I mean, yeah, maybe. But like, she's like, Jesus. Do not take another step towards me. And she's like looking mainly towards Quill, but towards both of you, do not take another step towards me. And she's looking mainly towards Quill,

but towards both of you. If they take another step, do what you have to, she says to the pilot. And the pilot's holding Sentry in a grip. But he's really thinking super hard, and he's like, I think I left the oven on. So his thought is like, I have to go home. Maybe.

DM out, you just want a DM. Yeah. So that was going to be that's her bonus action that was her movement uh and then she will ah the anti-magic feels really messing messing with certain plans. Good. You're welcome. You're welcome. What can I say except... You're welcome. Yeah, she's going to ready an action. She holds her hands out ready to use magic in some form. How injured does she look? Not that injured.

She's not bloody or anything yet because she was protected by that shield from the audience's fervor to begin with. Nova Vigia. Potions. Yes. To give to someone else. Bonus action.

Okay. 60 foot aura that I can teleport around in. Cause I'm guessing this eclipsed moon blade is still up. Still works, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, a fat weapon. I will... Moonblade is still up. It still works, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, artifact weapon. I will... disappear and reappear next to Lucius. That is not towards her. So, yep. And I'm going to pour a potion of Greater Healing into his mouth. Okay, Greater is 44, I believe, right?

44 plus 4. Cool. 16 hit points, Lucius. 16 hit points. How good are you? Zero to 16. This boy will probably not act on his turn, will he? Until it's his turn.

I'm thinking of doing something very stupid. Okay. I'm thinking of doing something very stupid. Okay. I'm thinking of teleporting over to him and cutting his fucking arm off so Sentry falls out of it. The mech's arm? The mech, yeah.

Okay. How damaged does he look? Damaged, but cutting an arm off is not like a specific thing. You would have to do a lot of damage in one hit. Just break grapple, right? You could try and break the grapple, but that's separate.

That's not an attack roll. That would require Nova to be strong. Yeah, I got like, what, minus two strength? You could roll a 20 and get an 18. That won't be enough. Yeah, it won't be enough. Oh, Senshi, I want to get you out of this guy's hands. Has Aayla gone?

No, because she banfed back in, didn't she? She goes just before Shansara. She's only just returned. She looks angry. Yeah, I can imagine she does. Oh, I want to attack the mech. I want to attack Shansara so bad. I want to attack Shansara so bad. I want to attack her real fucking bad.

I don't know what her held action is. Yeah. But also the statue. It's holding casting of a spell. So she said, if they move towards me, kill the friend, right? She said do what you have to do. Maybe we'll go on a nice picnic or something.

Maybe. Yeah, we'll just take Mimou and go somewhere. Sit in a field. We'll just have to take a picnic right now. Yeah. I think Nova will attack the mech. Okay. So you're gonna teleport over there

and take a swing at the mech? Is that what we're going to do? Sounds like that's what you're doing. I don't know! The fucking city is on fire! It's not on fire. The city's not on fire. The statue appears to be functioning

like the magic for the teleportation seems to be working. Also, if it teleports, it won't be on fire. Yeah, if it teleports into a freaking wall. It's inside itself. I don't know what to do. I genuinely don't know what to do.

I've got Lucius back up. That sounds to me like Nova's freaking out and in the six seconds you have on your turn, you achieve nothing. I genuinely think in terms of role play, she's watching the statue of Surtr. And it's working. What I'm saying is it doesn't look like it's breaking.

It looks like the device is activating properly. That statue. I think she's fervently watching. Do you know what? Actually, no. I would stay next to Lucius, like in front of him, and I would be watching the other statues to see what's happening. Okay. And I think just honestly in terms of RP,

she's too much into that to think what to do next. All right, sure. In that case, Lucius, you are conscious, prone, but alive. Prone bon but alive. Prone boner. What? I'm sorry. He's gonna lighten up the mood. It's a diastolic.

It's a serious trance. That literally just fell out my mouth. What does that even mean? I don't know. Prone bone, we all know what that is. Right, yeah. Prone boner. Works for free.

Anyway. So am I very, like, bleary-eyed recently? You are, like, strength of three. You have 16 hit points, and if you cast any spells, you take damage. I think as a point of survival, Lucius is going to use Prismatic Mastery. Okay. So as an action, I spend six sorcery points, Lucius is going to use Prismatic Mastery. So as an action, I spend six sorcery points, and my eyes change into brilliant prisms of shifting colors.

And when I'm transformed in this way, I gain true sight for 120 feet. So I wonder if that reveals anything for me about Shansara, any devices or anything going on here? Not really, no. I think it removes all the illusory kind of concert stage. Now you just see this plain stage beneath all the illusion, but her form doesn't change. There's no...

You can maybe see that beneath the stage, beneath the centre of the stage itself, you can almost see a source of energy far below the concert stage, but the Truesight is just picking up the edges of it where there is below here there seems to be some nexus of energy. Also, I'm actually three halflings in a coat. What else?

The most important thing is I gain resistance to fire, acid, lightning, poison, cold, thunder, force, radiant, and necrotic damage. Okay. Sounds pretty good. So you have resistance to pretty much all forms of element of typed damage. Okay. That's my action. Okay.

You're currently prone. So what's your prone bono action? I was out when she said anything, right? You were pretty much out, yeah. Yeah, you've been completely not conscious. Was I banished when she pressed the switch on the microphone so i didn't know she's done i believe so but there's rumbling there's and you see this swirling of energy you can feel the rumble you can see the statue of

serta is like the energy's beginning to form a circle like a ring around the city she's just looking confused and scared as to why this is happening and like nova is kind of stood over you just kind of mumbling to herself like no no, no, no, no, what have I missed? What have I missed? What's happened? She activated it, the statues, they're going up. How? Okay.

I'm just gonna bonus action. Cry. Cry, yeah, sure. If I get any closer. Like Nova, you could just be like, fuck, I don't know what to do, and like, and just not take a turn. I mean, you've already used your action,

so you really only have a bonus action and move left anyway, so... Quill, you're up, then unfortunately it'll be Century. What are you on? How confident are you, Quill? Me? Like, Tom or Quill? Both? Zero.

We've got to do something. Shit. I don't know how to... Yep. Yep. Yep. All right, Quill. Sorry.

Unless there's something... Unless you've got a bonus action that you're going to do something dramatic. It's just choosing whether you're going to stand up or whatever. But without your action, I don't know if there's too much you can do. There's nothing I can really do. I can quicken the spell to make it a bonus action. Oh, that's true. You could quicken the spells. Yeah, that's true, actually.

I'm going to take necrostic damage, but it's halved. It would be halved, yeah. D10 per spell level. That's how you tuck yourself behind the thing so no one can hate you. Yeah. I'm just going to bonus action drink a potion. Regular? Yeah.

Just a regular-ass potion. Ooh, eight hit points. Wowee. Thank you. Wowee. Wowee. Alright, that was your bonus action, so even if you do movement, it's not going to change too much. Quill? Yeah. I'll assume you want to stand to change too much quill. Yeah. I'll assume you want to stand up, Lucius, though. Yeah.

Anti-magic is no longer doing anything for me. You're going to end it? So I'm going to end it. Okay. So I don't know what happens with this platform. Basically, the drones will resume. They kind of hover in place. The drones will actually basically automatically begin moving towards Shansara.

Simps. They automate, so they drift over towards her. But the platform itself just stays there and just hovers like a few feet off the ground when you end the anti-magic field. Okay, I'm going to do a mask your wounds. So anything within 60 feet, which is everyone.

Everyone. Is going to get, I'm going to cast this at seventh level. Jeez. It's going to be three, four, five, D8 plus six. Count a spell. Okay. What do you think my held action will now be, Jake? Oh, shit.

Lucius is dead again. So, 5d8. Let me. Nice. Thank you. Shears in. Including Sentry. I return. She good. 30. Right.

No, 29. I was zero. Oh, you were zero? Yeah, she was dead. She was about to die. Two failed death safes. I was trying to pick what dice to use. You picked out 15 d20s here, ready to pick one to roll.

It's wired in attack. It's holding her like a baby bird in its hand. I'm going to harness divine power and get back a level three. That's my entire turn. I'm not going to move towards her. Sentry. You are conscious. Nice.

You are prone, but you basically are being held down by this giant fist. I feel like the pressure kind of pressing pressing against you can I enlarge and try and just get this fist off me yep so activating the enlarge and then you would make a athletics with the advantage and extra d4 from being enlarged and I will make a contested check for the mech. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Is it just strength? It might just be strength I get advantage on. Yes, which is, this is what it is. It's athletics, so you get advantage and you add an extra d4.

It's an athletics check. Fuck me. It's a good thing you didn't roll a death save. Holy shit. Nine plus... 19. 19. With the badly damaged mech, that's still enough to actually like...

And you push it and you are break free of the grapple. You are no longer being grappled. Two, one, two, break free. Nice, nice. Do you want to stand up? I'd like to stand up, please. Thank you. Cool. I'll move you slightly.

Um, is that my turn? Do I get a bonus action? So it would be an action to break free of the grapple Okay So you get, and you've used half your movement to stand up Cool, okay I will, yeah, I'll try and break free You've already broken free I've already broken free

So you've got bonus action and half your movement speed left Okay, I will regain a level 2 spell slot as a bonus action That's all my divine power's gone I will, if I move, do I provoke an opportunity attack? You would, yes. Okay. Oh, but I regained a level two, so I can teleport away! So I'll Misty Step away.

Misty Step, where would you like to go? Where... Can I get close to where Lucius and Nova are? 15, 20, 25, there you go. Go back to about here. Yeah, that'll be good. Thank you. Just out of the way.

So you teleport out of the way of the giant mech. Nice. Okay. End of turn? Yep, that's me good. All right. The mech's pilot will just be like, they got away.

Mistress, what do we do? And the mech, kind of believing that this combat is still going on as normal, is going to use their arcane missiles choose a point within 60 feet of the battle mech any creatures within time to take the day off yeah command command Yeah, it will use its Arcane Missiles to hit Nova and Lucius. I need you both to make dexterity saving throws please. I get a plus two to that from the Eclipse Moon. You will get plus three from me. You're

in 30 feet by the looks. Plus three, yeah. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. 18. 25 is a success, 18 is a failure. So you're going to take half damage, Lucius, but you also get resistance against force, right? Oh, yeah. I think it's on there,

because it's all of the chromatic damage types. So you're going to take half anyway. So you both take 13 points of force damage, and you are not knocked prone by these barrage of missiles. And then the mech is just going to move up and threaten Quill. 13 points of force damage and you are not knocked prone by these like barrage of missiles kind of and then the mech is just going to move up and threaten quill i'm threatened with a big fist the phase knight is going to use that oh yeah this guy

it's still hanging out he was just trying to get the buttons working before. True, true. They're basically going to come and engage Aayla. Is he now? Drawing the sword, trying to get in their way. Yeah. So that is bonus action, move action. I just read the wish spell a bit more. Oh.

I can't resist the necrotic damage. Oh, because you can't prevent it in any way. That's true. That's very, very true. But it did save you on that. You would have taken another 13 points of damage if you hadn't prevented that. So it did help a little bit. Ayla, a bunch of attacks coming Ayla's way.

First one's a miss. Second one's a miss. Christ. Third one's a hit. However, that's going to be 24 or something to hit yeah this is with two hands so it's gonna be that's gonna be ten points of slashing half the five and then eighteen force damage which she can't resist so it's gonna go to 23 and I'll take care of the damage but he's basically there to try and be in her way. And he's like, kind of stood in front of her and in between Aayla and Shansara

and is now threatening her, basically. Aayla. I mean, the threat of don't come any closer is kind of over now, right? It is. But she still hasn't done whatever she was going to do with her held. No.

But she still hasn't done whatever she was going to do with her health. Oh, no. I mean, I think Aayla would want to get the mission complete in this case. Might just rush Shansara. Mm-hmm. And just go big. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 30 35 40 yeah can get to chancella yeah if everyone else agrees so as she goes to move first things first phase like it's an attack of opportunity it's a rusty pasta that's a readied action isn't it um this is just his attack that's gonna be

yeah like 37 to hit jeez okay so she's going to take another 5 slashing and another 18 force. It's basically the same thing. She can take 23. She can take 23. I'm already doing the damage. Don't worry about that, Tom. Okay. And she rushes past.

Yeah, I healed it. Okay. Yeah, I did. As she rushes past, Jensara is going to activate her held spell, which is telekinesis. And she is going to try and telekinetically hold Ayla back. I need Ayla to make a... I believe this is a contested strength.

Don't roll a one. So, yeah. So it's just d20 plus just the strength modifier. Not the strength saving throw, just the strength modifier. Strength modifier. Which I think is plus seven. Plus seven, yeah. This is against Shansara's plus eight

because she uses her spellcasting modifier. 23. 23. 16. Okay, so as Aayla comes running forward, Shansara thrusts out her hand, lifts her up into the air, and basically slams her into the ground, is like holding her movement, basically. She's got it gripped.

So she brushes to here and then gets slammed into the ground. You're going to move the creature. If you Um, you're gonna move the creature, make an ability change. If you win the contest, you move the creature up to 30 feet in any direction, including upwards. So she's holding her currently 30 feet up in the air, basically, is what she's doing. Ow.

Bash the microphone. That's probably gonna be loud. Sorry, sorry about that. Head bashing. Yeah, she's currently holding Ayla 30 feet up the ground. Fine, Ayla's gonna throw a hammer then? Twist it back. Yes, she is. She Ayla 30 feet up off the ground. Fine. Ayla's gonna throw a hammer then. Twist it back. Yes, she is. She does have disadvantage on any attack, so she's currently restrained.

Oh, okay. So she can't... Can she still throw? She can still throw, but she has disadvantage on the attack. May as well. I don't actually know how this works, throwing the hammer. But is it... So it basically works like she makes a regular attack, yes, and then she does extra damage when she throws it. That's not good dice. Here it is. So it basically works like she makes a regular attack, yes, and then she does extra damage when she throws it. That's not good dice. Here it is.

No, it's not. Well, it's a 23 to hit. With disadvantage? It's a 23 to hit. Okay. In that case, it does normal damage, and then it does 4d6 lightning damage. Cool. Regular damage is... Does it add strength still?

Yep. 18. Okay, 18 points of damage. And 4d6. And then 4d6, I'll keep a total of this for the concentration check. 5, 8, 10 extra damage from that. So, 28. So, half of 28 would be 14.

Come on, my concentration. Yep, 19. So, the telekinesis is still in place, but the attack does hit Shansara. Uh, for 28 points of damage. And you can see that the hammer blow, it kind of strikes a staggering shansara back she lets out this kind of uh she gets knocked around um and but she does manage to keep the concentration um as ayla is being held up okay yeah and no one's in with within 10 feet because she's being held into the sky so yeah nothing else she can do but that's done better than better than nothing okay yeah absolutely telekinesis. Right.

Before Shansara takes her turn at the end of the second round, you see the second statue, Atlas, this time, the kind of lounging above the academy, the statue of Vortensar, also now activates. But now you begin to see instability. The statue cracks, begin to form the link of chained of energy kind of surrounding the city through their linked hands uh as these barriers of energy kind of form around them

begins to flicker and waver that rumbling beneath your feet grows stronger and now the entire concert hall is beginning to shake a little bit and the panic the crowd is beginning to panic uh shansara will call out and you even now hear Harmony's voice calling out from the stage like, do not panic. It is just the stability. Once the next statue is activated, it will restabilize. There is nothing to fear. Once the other statues stabilize, these effects,

you have nothing to fear. And it's like calling out, calming the crowd as the beginning begins to crack and shift and maneuver around. as the beginning begins to crack and shift and maneuver around on Shansara's go she is going to just basically she doesn't want to break the telekinesis concentration so she's gonna keep that activated she's just gonna move herself and her drones She is just gonna move herself and her drones. She's just gonna move all the way from here. Further away.

Further and further away she can get, keeping her turn and... That's concentration. She's got a lot of concentration spells, goddammit. Boo-hoo. Yeah, I know, boo hoo. So in that case, she will, to kind of help keeping up with the calm of the audience,

she will begin another performance. She begins singing another verse, the Lonely Kiss of Winter, and she will face towards all of you guys, looking towards the cameras, but kind of facing towards the sort of cone towards you guys, and she begins another performance. And that's gonna be her turn.

Nova, Vija. I'm gonna teleport towards her. So the aura is 60 foot, but it's on me. So I will teleport 60 foot. I don't know how far that takes me. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 35, 50, 55, 60. And then because the aura is centered on me, I can go another 60 foot.

Right. It's 10 foot of movement every time, and I have 30 foot of movement, so I still have one more teleport. Yep. I believe actually the thing isn't on you, the effect. I don't know, does it say it's on you? The way it's worded.

Because I think it's where you create it. It hovers above you and creates a 60-foot around you. Yeah, so that was when you created it, when you created it, which was here, so it would have been in the middle. So I'd still say you are fine, but for future reference, it's when you first create it, you create like a marker in that position, and then that's where the aura is based. Yeah, I was quite central.

For this, you're fine. Yeah, you were super central when you created it so it's fine for this but um please shansara look the statues are faltering once that it's fine it just needs stabilizing as long as the other statues remain active you can stop this please now that it's activated it's activated i don't know what you're expecting she like holds the mic out like take it i can't stop it it's activated. I don't know what you're expecting. She like holds the mic out like, take it, I can't stop it. It's been done. You have the sword.

I've done nothing of the sort. It's you, you and your, you trying to. Enough! And then with that, I just attack. Like I think just that baiting of like, it's you. I'm just like, I'm done with you. Sure. I'm gonna Hexblade Curse her.

Okay. So bonus action Hexblade Curse her. Okay. So bonus action Hexblade Curse. Okie dokie. Which ups my damage. First attack. It's not great. It's 19. 19 just barely hits her.

Okay. She tries to dodge the side, kind of pulling herself away. Crowd gasping and crying out as you strike their beloved idol. So my damage goes up to plus 14 with six from Hex and eight from Blade. So 14 plus four, plus four, plus four. 26 points of damage.

26 points of damage, sure, sure, sure. First strike cuts her deeply and you can now see bleeding her silvery golden Elandrin blood. Well... 29 to hit. 29 hits. Concentration's still up for first one. 3 plus 3.

21 points of damage. 21 more points of damage. And that is... Three plus three, 21 to hit, 21 points of damage. 21 more points of damage. And that is... Still just barely succeeds on the concentration. 18 to hit. Does not hit. She manages to dodge that third attack.

But you can see now, like, heavily injured, like, bleeding her golden silver blood. And she's, like, probably crying, like, as you strike her, like, not used to, like, being so badly physical harmed. She's like, stop, stop! Like, as she's, like crying like she's like as you strike her like not used to like being so badly physical harm she's like stop stop like as she's like trying to like defend she has no weapons she's literally like using her arms to stop you like cutting into her body like you brute you violent creature you cretin like kind of calling you all these horrible things as you're striking her like you're trying to stop me you're trying to stop harmony from being who we are you're trying to stop this city from going home. Like.

I think in retort, Nova's just over and over again while she strikes her just like, you killed us all. You killed us all. Lucius. In fact, actually, yeah, no, Lucius, yeah. I think Lucius being a frail little boy. Is gonna, is Sentry there? Yeah, Sentry's just in front of you, yeah.

Sentry, can you help me? Let's collapse this gantry on the mech. And I'm going to use my action to help Sentry if she tries to push. Push the gantry onto them. Yeah, okay, yeah, nice. All right, so you're basically gonna give the advantage to Sentry if she does that.

All right, okay, Quill. I wanna get out of to the gantry. Yeah. All right. Okay, Quill. I want to get out of the way of that. Yeah, I would. So I'm going to fly out of the range of that and I guess out of the way of this mech as well, so he'll get an attack of opportunity on me. Where do you want to go? I mean, based on where this gantry is going to fall,

I think I'll just stand on this podium where um or just up as much yeah yeah sure I will make an attack opportunity from the mech natural 20 really oh my god Tom this is gonna be really bad, his punches do like 4d12. That's 48 base plus 48, sorry, 4d12. 48 plus 4d12. That's going to be 105 points of damage. Oh my god! 40, 40, 40, because it's 4d12, so 48 base. Yeah.

Plus I rolled 47 plus 10. 47, you rolled 12, 12, 12, 11. 8, 9, 9, 11, 10. The Indie Beyond. Oh my god. That's insane. So as you fly up, this mech just slams you. The Indie Beyond. Oh my god. That's insane. So as you fly up, this mech just...

Slams you down. Oh my god. Fucking hell, there's a tiny crater. Just swats you like a fly. I mean... Oh god, that was bad! That was quite bad! I mean, you deal like...

Ayla dealt like 90 points of damage with a crit come on no i know it's just like the 48 the crit on the phone like nine nine eleven ten plus ten jesus christ it's only 95 points of damage it already just 95 points. Just 95? So are you still up? Oh, God, yeah. It already added the plus 10. It already added the plus 10. God. Oh, bud.

I just realised, I was like, there's five numbers there, but it only gets four dice. I was like, it's already added the plus 10. He's still standing. How many are you on, though? Three. Fuck me. So you take this punch and nearly you feel like your little bird bones break. Bird bones.

Pro-broners. My bird bones are breaking. But you are. My bones. Just this tiny little claw. Oh, dude. I am up and in the sky, far away, but I think he smashed my entire turn out of me.

I can't even remember what I was going to do when I got up there. Jesus. Jesus. Ayla's levitating. I'm flying barely. Yeah, I'm just going to do another... Mask your wounds. Sure.

This time at sixth level. And it's within 30? 60. Okay, so you can catch pretty much everyone. Would I be in that? Yeah. Because you teleported, so you can catch pretty much everyone. Would I be in that? Yeah. Yeah. Because you teleported, so.

Um. Oh my God. And I roll an amount that is yet to be determined because it's taking its sweet ass time. 26 healing to everybody. 26 healing, I'll do it for Aayla. Oh. Well, that's up.

Not 95 though, is it? No, I am in a bit of a deficit after that punch. End of turn quill. End of turn quill. All right, two things are going to happen. Shansara's going to use her phase step to teleport 30 feet away from Nova. Kind of moving back towards, probably further away into the corner. Basically, like, trying to run to the edge of the stage

as best as she can. But the other thing that happens is you see in the distance the air statue. Mark, it's my birthday week. You see an explosion, but not an explosion of magic, like a giant mech. Yes! There you go!

It detonates one of the statues. You see the statue break and crumble and pieces of it break and fall down, like damaging the city, having been destroyed. Nova being the closest to Shansara, you see her go like, oh no. As now, without that continuation, without that statue in place,

the magic grows even more unstable. And you see that actually without that continuation, without that statue in place, the magic grows even more unstable. And you see that actually without that next piece of the device in place, Caused it. The thing begins to crack and burst and you begin to feel that rumble. Now the entire stadium begins to shake and shift and actually Quill hovering underneath you,

you watch a piece of the stadium almost crack. As you can see this building up of power, of this elemental energy kind of shining through the floor of this built stadium building up in bright beams the crowd begins to scream in a panic um and even chansara just seems to be lost for words and you hear harmony desperately kind of calling out like please do not panic please the guards will help you get out of the building desperately kind of calling out like, please do not panic, please. The guards will help you get out of the building, like kind of calling to everyone as they begin to try and evacuate the stadium. But there is now this sense of like,

actually maybe this isn't going how we thought. And Shinsara's just looking up and she's just like, no, no, no, no. Without the devices, it's going to grow unstable. What have you done? She now looks towards Nova. What have you and your friends done? You've ruined it.

You've destroyed this place. Deactivate the machine. I can't. It's been activated. The ley line energy is already surging. It's been sent to the devices. Are you the Berenides? As they all turn around and look at everyone.

At this point, the Shansara will turn to the mech and order it be like, go, get out of here, get the rest of the forces now, get my commanders, we need to know what's happening at the fourth statue. Go and report, and she turns to the phase knight, you as well, go and report, find out what's happening. Don't care about these, whether they kill me or not, it doesn't matter. And is ordering them. So they're, at this point, unless you interfere with them,

the mech and the phase knight will go to flee. They're going to actually go to flee. So Sentry, it would be your turn next. But you see all of this happen, and then you're like, what do you do? Aww. She wants to drop a gantry. You could. Absolutely, you could.

I'd say that your turn is happening, because Shansara is all the way in the corner. Only her and Nora have ever heard that. You don't hear what Shansara's saying. Oh, drop a gantry then. All right, then in that case, let's drop a gantry. So this is a strength with advantage plus a d4. This is very much just pretending to push. I bet you gain advantage.

Yeah, she already had advantage because she's big. But it's fine. You're helping. I'm helping. With advantage. Come on! Come on! 17 plus 21 plus d4.

21, 22. 22, I'd say that is just barely enough. The scantry collapses. Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah. Having moved behind it. The mech, I would say, takes roll 6012 for me. 6012? Yeah.

As this huge kind of metal and wood structure collapses on the mech. Environmental damage. 17 plus. Big fan of it. I love an environmental play. Yeah. Gotta make it worthwhile.

Like dropping yourself as Tomb of the Vistas on someone. Or like Tomb of Annihilation just like environmentally attacked my character. The other thing I'd say is that- Did it attack you? Did it attack you? Did you just shove your head into a sphere of annihilation? It came at me, bro.

I think you came at it. 51 points of damage. Not only does the damage itself take place, but also that mech is now trapped under and will have to spend its turn pulling itself free, basically. No! As it becomes trapped under this pile

of metal and poles and stone supports and wooden pillars and platforms and things that completely engulf it. If I leave now, I might be able to save my family and children. No! It's like an Austin Powers where it looks at all the Minions' families. I laugh because I'm about to cry.

I think the Phase Knight will basically on its turn, the mech is going to try and escape. It's going to teleport over to Shansara, hear that report, but it's going to basically teleport 60 feet and then move next to Shansara, basically trying to protect her for a second. The mech on its turn will try and free itself. It does manage to kind of like pull this aside and then manages to stand up. But you can see it is badly damaged, like limping one of its arms is like short-circuiting

as it begins to move away. At this point, it's your, I mean, actually no, I'll leave it begins to move away. At this point, it's your... I mean, actually, no, I'll leave it up to you guys. It's Ayla's turn. Ayla is currently still being held aloft. Concentration on telekinesis is still active. Did you slice at her a couple of times? I did, yeah, but I think Mark did roll for concentration.

I did, yes, I did. Is there anything she can do? It's suspended in midair um the thing is um uh until the end of your next turn the creature is restrained in your telekinesis grip there is no like you can break free of it to what he hasn't had since then no uh until the concentration is broken she is basically held up there. I mean, I think she's even out of range for another throw. 60 feet. So Aayla's just going to oscillate.

She's like raging, like just mad, furiously mad. Getting angry and angry. Being held above. I don't think there's anything she reasonably can do. Levitating there, so yeah. Cool. Just levitate. All right.

Shansara, on her turn uh basically is like pulls up the headset and is like speaking into it or make you know giving orders and seems to be receiving some sort of report um i think that yeah that is what she's gonna do she's gonna basically uh she focuses basically dismissing you guys like she like turns and is like no what do you what do you mean it's being attacked by who you need to get that you need to get the statue under control what is happening there and like you can hear this no for she's like conversing with somebody um can i look to the skyline yes and make an arcana check. Yes. Now that things are happening. Yes. What do you want to know?

Would the ley lines not completing destroy the city? You can certainly make an arcana check. 13 plus 9, 22. 22. 22. Looking at what's happened, you see two outcomes. If things continue as they are, things, something bad will happen. Whether it will be what Quill saw, you're not sure, but there is a problem. The elemental energy stored within Vortensar, that Harmony was once controlled and powers the wonderful elemental devices and the statues themselves and allows the environmental energies to exist,

allows the lava flows and the air streams and the water currents to all function the way that the city relies on, that has been built up and has been diverted to these devices. Whether the devices are no longer stable or whether the circuit has been broken and now those elemental energies are out of control, if the energies are not either dispelled or the circuit is not completed, the city will ultimately be destroyed.

There will be a destruction that will invade the city. You see that there are potentially two solutions. Either the circuit needs to be stabilized, be a destruction that will invade the city you see that there are potentially two solutions either the circuit needs to be stabilized which would complete the system and transport vortensar to ganas but that might if you failed to do that correctly the city would basically be vaporized in its transportation and anybody caught inside it would probably be wiped out. The other option is to try and disperse the elemental energy and power the entire system down. That would prevent the teleportation, but the failure could mean the residual elemental

and planar energy could then affect Erois. It could create some sort of effect that could have a wider effect on other places nearby. The destruction to the city would be severe, but there is a chance there could be survivors. Oh, bad as bad either way. I mean, it seems like- So you see at this point,

and Shansara's just talking into a mic. You guys can still act in initiative, but I'm gonna assume we're out of initiative until you wanna take aggressive actions. I want to go up to Shansara. Like, hands up. Yeah, okay okay can you teleport me to the statue what are you talking about the the remaining one where the break is like i guess yeah where the break is the one the the what's the air statue's name i'm sorry um so air is um cari cari uh um and she'll look at you and say

like the destroyed one is car but there's also your friends are attacking the last one if we don't do something there they're still trying to disable it if we disable that statue now it'll be an even greater risk do you have a way of telling your friends to back off but can you teleport me there yes i can yes i can teleport you there. Quill. What's the plan? Tell the Seekers to stop. On it. What are you doing? What's your plan? What are you doing?

Where are you going? I'm going to complete the circuit. You see that also Harmony is being brought down by several flying Air Ganassi guards who are actually carrying her and flying them

down towards you. Harmony's like, Shansara, what is happening? What have you done? Nova V. Jones, like, calling out to the rest of the crew. Yeah? So my plan, Mark, is to teleport. Well, assume that you're telling your

friends this as well, like, you know. And I'm going to complete the circuit and try and discharge the energy. How? How do you... How would you intend on doing that? We're talking vast amounts of energy here, even with the Magitek, and Harmony is like, Nova Vija, I do not think you understand how much vast amounts of elemental energy...

I understand. I'm responsible for this. OK. I mean, I'm going to... Sending to... OK. Whoever is in charge of the attack on the statue... It'll probably be Tornado or Norfear. Norfear, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm gonna...sending to... Okay. Whoever is in charge of the attack on the statue.

It'll probably be Tornado or Norfear. Norfear, yeah. Can I come with you? Can I try and help in any way? We can all come. I can teleport all of you if you wish, and Harmony and myself. Okay. You will need my expertise. It is our devices that have interacted this system, even if it is just the energy itself. I don't think that we need to control this in some way. Otherwise the city is doomed regardless,

whether it teleports or not. All of our actions have contributed to this. We must all fix it. Agreed. Very good. You are all coming? Yes. Have you sent the message basically basically, like, stand down?

Stand down, stop attacking the tower. You get a message back from Norfyr. Who did you send it to, Norfyr or Tornado? Norfyr. Okay, Norfyr will respond and say, it's a good thing you messaged. Something weird is happening. Trying to disable or activate no longer seems functional. Basically, like, you get the impression that though the force is there,

the statue is activating or doing something on its own without their input, but they stand down, basically. And they're now going to basically leave it up to whatever you guys are going to do. Yeah, I'll tell everyone that the attack is stopped on that statue. All right. Shansara will kind of gather everybody up, and using her one cast of it, she will teleport all of you guys to where the device is being held in the Kairi statue.

She lets out this long kind of chained aria, and you guys feel yourself all pulled away. Unlike the teleportation spells from the Wayfinder's gun and things like this, this almost feels like you are picked up and carried on a wind, like in a rush. You feel yourself speed through the city streets and down through the floor and you eventually pull yourselves out into a very large underground almost not quite religious but ceremonial chamber um and you can see a miniature version of the Kari statue kind of uh hands

outstretched kind of almost like leaning over something. And you can see that this room is completely cracked. And as you arrive, Century, you and Ayla and a few of the others like have to grab various people. Shansara like grabs Harmony. And as you realize, there is this almost like chasm-like pit that has opened up and there is just elemental energy, fire and air and water and earth, like almost being spewed out chaotically, you know, randomly in this churn of chaos

as it just throws it up, and you can see the walls are all cracked and the statue itself is nearly bursting with this energy that's within it. And this appears to be sort of like where the device is connected. You see a, you know, the ceiling above you has all been broken and you can actually see pieces of a red painted Valkyrian mech have been sort of scattered everywhere and you do see like a glimpse of an unconscious body sort of hanging out of the mech as well.

So, do I need another Arcana check? Like, how can we... Yeah, that's a great question. What do you think you can do? Like, at this point, you know that you've got two options. You either need to disperse this energy, or you need to try and complete the circuit. I want to disperse it.

Okay, well, how would you like to try and do that? Honestly, Nova nova in her head just wants to throw herself into the middle of the conduit and try and just like balance okay all right what about everyone i mean and she's not telling this to no one okay all right is this like so you guys land and immediately that's the first thing Nova's doing, like you're just going to jump into this chasm and just throw yourself down there, basically. All right. I mean, seeing this, it's just a burst of magical energy, right? It's going everywhere. It's wild, uncontrolled, no longer contained by the Magitek devices.

It seems that the energy came in here, and where it couldn't find anything to bind it it has erupted out like without being constrained by the magitek devices it's it's run rampant and run run loose because i'm tempted to anti-magic again and you could certainly try and try to i guess make these devices mundane stop them from emitting magical energy. The thing is, though, is that that break could make it worse. I don't know. Nova's at this point. Nova's just heads down.

Yeah, I'm not. So, yeah, and, like, the rest of you guys, if you've got ideas. Ayla is just, like, I can hold people, but I don't know what I can do here. Like, she's probably, like, literally, like, holding Lucius from, like, falling into this pit. Like, she's she's like pulling you up as you land kind of thing um shantara and harmony are in in conversation as well and it looks like they're they've got a plan of what they're going to do as well but they don't say that there's a lot of binding sphere

sure but it would only bind an elemental not like just energy. I mean, you could try it. You don't know. I toss that at it. So you're just going to throw that binding sphere into the chasm. Okay. All right. Quill and Sentry, any ideas? Are you going to activate anti-magic,

kind of find a location where the magic is pouring out and try anti-magic? Yeah, I'm sort of almost speaking out my plan so that if anyone hears it and has a suggestion, I'm just saying if I go to this device and these devices and try and stop their magical energy, then maybe that will stop it. I don't know. What is everyone else doing? I can draw something to my gauntlet, but that's such a minute amount.

I can protect people from energy. So if there's any, I don't know, if there's any chance that someone might get hurt, I can protect them from a certain type of energy. I could use my lance. I could maybe use the spare lance that I have and maybe use that to channel some lightning or some energy into it,

and perhaps use that as a kind of conduit. to channel some lightning or some energy into it and perhaps use that as a kind of conduit. I mean, I... What did you do? Yeah, I... I just don't know what my thing is going to do. You don't. But that's...

It seems... If you'd like to make a check, you can be like, can I make an Arcana check to, like, if this is a good idea? You can totally do that. Can I do that with the gauntlet? Absolutely, you can. Yep. You can both make an arcana check to like if this is a good idea you can totally do that can i do that with the gauntlet absolutely you can yep you can both make any any checks you like uh arcana i got we're assuming that this is like you're having these thoughts like panically trying to figure out what everyone's doing as other things are happening 22 22 24. okay you both think that

whilst you don't think it will have you won't solve the problem that way the two of you think that combining the anti-magic if you stand in an area where this chaotic swirl of energy is is bad you might be able to slow down the process you might be able to buy everybody more time to deal with it by doing that same with the gauntlet but you run the risk trot with the gauntlet with lucius with the gauntlet drawing too much power into it can cause feedback to you, which could cause you damage. Quill, you would basically be hoping that your anti-magic is enough to hold back the energy

from harming you as well. And you're not sure how long that would last. It might overwhelm the spell the longer you stay there. As Quill's saying it, I'll say, we can at least buy someone some time, and I'm just going to start doing it. Okay. All, we can at least buy someone some time, and I'm just gonna start doing it. Okay. All right, so you start channeling the energy,

and you feel that it beginning to like pull in, and it begins to grow hot and cold, and like, you know, you can almost feel your skin almost petrifying, and like, there's this bizarre feeling, but you're channeling the energy in as you go. Quill? Yeah, I'll ninth level anti-magic all right it does prevent magical travel okay i mean i don't know what that means just this one little 10 foot bubble around me

that's not going anywhere yeah i mean maybe the spell can hold out for sure um all right so you guys are kind of using these methods to try and slow this down, like, by time. Century, what about you? I was thinking of doing protection from energy. I can protect one willing creature from either acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage. I'm going to say now that that is... The nature of this chaotic energy, it's not just going to be one energy type,

and that level of magic is probably not going to be strong enough to help in this scenario. If you'd like to make a check, you can always be like, I'd like to make a check to figure out what I'm going to do. Or like a hint. I can't check just to see if there's anything I can do? Sure, yeah. This would just be, yeah, if you just want to make a straight up intelligence

to see if there's anything you can think of. That's not great. Nine plus, well, eight minus one. Looking around, you can't think of a specific spell that you know or power that you have. The only thing that really comes to mind is if this is the feeling here, this kind of very primal nature of this elemental magic. It's not the same as the Matrix, but it is almost similar to it.

The Matrix is this ancient power, this very powerful, magical relic that you carry. And the feeling of the river of spirits within it has this similar powerful, magical sensation. I mean, there might be something you could do to try and use the Matrix somehow in the way that you connected with like the forges and you know you've done you've tried to use the matrix in the past to like tap into like you know

um other other events and like other guardians and things like that you could maybe try something like that but not you don't i'm not i can't give you a direct idea on that kind of role um or you could right now like you know ayla is also kind of like just, you know, taking up a defensive stance, trying to like make sure that if they need to, she can grab Lucius if anything happens to them and stuff like that. You could try and do something more like that, protective and thing.

But yeah, unfortunately, I mean, protection from energy, sure, you could put it on. It will help maybe a little bit, but it's probably not going to have a huge effect on the greater problem. You might be able to protect one of your friends a bit. Yeah. I'll get to you, don't worry.

Yeah, I'll get to you. I'm just thinking of, yeah, I've got an order to things. Sure, yeah, that's fine. And you're, okay, well, whilst Rhiannon's thinking then, so for Nova, Nova's plan is basically, like, as everyone's rushing off to do these other things, Nova is just walking towards this main sort of crack where this energy is spilling out from, right?

And is it like you're going to hurl yourself down there and just try and... So, while everyone's rushing around, I'm just going to slowly look at everyone. I'm going to turn to Harmony and say, I'm sorry. I got it wrong. And then I want to manifest Tiangong on the lip of the crack and cast Fly and then Fly down into where the magic is the most intense.

And you know, because I'm going to tell you this and then you can decide, but I mean, I think that Kim knows this. I mean, Nova, looking at this, that is an extreme amount of energy. And it is very unlikely Nova will survive. And it is very likely that there will not be a body for you to be resurrected with.

If you do this, this will annihilate your physical being. Does Nova understand that as she's looking down in? And as that settles in, Nova's going to hand the swords, the essence of Tiangong to Tiangong. Well, here's the thing. I need you to make a wisdom saving throw. I've got... Saving throw. Yes, please. 15. You see the spectre of Tiangong,

and you hold the blades. For the first time since you first acquired that first shard, there is a resistance. There is a resistance. We know what you are attempting, Nova Veeja. You would sacrifice your physical form to protect your town, your city. You have to let me do this, Tiangong. You are mortal. You have much life left to live.

We are eternal. We are an Eterna. We are one. You are more important than this not this time and your body doesn't respond as the tiangong shard taking your knowledge and that connection of the power will take your place don't you dare you found the saving throw will take your place. Don't you dare. You've failed the saving throw.

As you feel yourself now being controlled, not the one controlling the echo, but the one being controlled as Tiangong keeps you in place and prevents you from throwing yourself down into the chasm. You can't do this. I must. I must protect. You are more important than me. Who gets to decide that?

You have a race to lead. There are other leaders. There is only one, Nova Vija. I can't let you do this. Moves to the edge. Begins to lower themselves down. Stop. A voice just calls out.

Something, that voice, familiar voice, that kind of sweet saccharine, eladrin voice, calls out and Tiangong's image disappears. What did she do? Temporary. her in voice, calls out, and Tiangong's image disappears. What did she do? Temporary. Harmony and I, well, she looks at Harmony, Shansara kind of pulls her to the edge, well, we did want to do something

that mattered, didn't we? I don't know whose fault this was, whether this was ours or yours. Harmony will step forward and be like, this energy is linked to me. I can control it. We'll handle this. This is what we were meant for.

And the two of them will begin to descend down instead Tiangong does reappear six seconds later because it is only a temporary dispel magic and you are now free of those you feel that that connection break as the two of them begin to fly down and descend down but you can see that they are struggling you can see that they are trying to contain this energy um trying to contain it disperse it but you're not sure if it's going to succeed or not if i join them now well is there a chance maybe yeah okay i'll still do it. Okay.

This time Tiangong re-emerges just as you are, Bingham is like, Nova, Vija, do not do this. And will begin to come down with you. And like, I will not abandon you. I guess if we go, we go together. That is how it should be. Thank you.

All four of you make your way down. Nova, the way this is going to work is I need you to make a d20 plus charisma. Just d20 plus charisma. Harmony and Shansara will do the same thing. And I need at least two of the three to succeed. Otherwise, you... Otherwise, yeah, some stuff will happen. Thirteen.

Thirteen. The rest of you kind of watch as this all happens. Like, you kind of, like, you know, see the Harmony and Shinsara descend into, and then eventually Nova and Tiangong also make their way down. And you are beginning, at this point, Lucius, the gauntlet has filled up.

If you continue, you will begin to take damage, as if it was overloading the gauntlet. If that's what they're doing, I'm going to try and take a burden as much as I can. How much? I'll take it as much as you can. As much as the gauntlet will have. Okay. My body can have.

Alright. Okay. And then Quill, you can feel your anti-magic is holding back a little bit of this, but it's not enough to overwhelm the sheer amount of sheer power coming out of this. How does Quill react seeing this happen? I mean, if it is stopping, I mean, I'm ready to get everyone together and plane shift out of here, to be honest. So is that what you're going to focus on, like the withdrawal if you need to?

Yeah. Do you need to be, do they need to be in range? Do you need to be able to touch them? It needs to be touch range, yeah. So you can grab everybody but Nova at the moment. But that's what I'm planning to do. If it starts to crumble around us... You're going to teleport everyone out.

Get everyone out and back to Horizon or something. Sentry. I think Sentry's going to stay close to Quill and Lucius, just ready to provide any healing that she needs to. But she's seeing Nova descending and she's just like, Nova! Nova! Just like screaming out for Nova. Yeah.

You watch as that light from inside the chasm glows so bright it is blinding. Lucius, you are rendered unconscious you take as much as you can to the point where it you just feel your body sort of overwhelm um as you fall unconscious like sentry like grabs you you know ready to heal you if you need to core you get to the point where all the rest of you upstairs you begin taking points of debt you begin taking like 10 20 30 points of elemental damage fire cold bludgeoning uh or lightning all of it just kind of overwhelming you and there's a point but you don't see nova

reappear what do you is there a point where you're like let's go like do you wait for nova um because at that point you would all be like first round it's like 10. i mean like lucius goes unconscious you take 20 points lucius takes a death saving throw all be like first round it's like 10. Lucius goes unconscious, you take 20 points, Lucius takes a death saving throw. I'm like healing Lucius, like you just lay on hands. You just keep bringing him back up. Lay on hands, lay on hands. So it's like yeah, so like Lucius you come to

and then you're overwhelmed again like, but the next six seconds it's, you take 30 points of damage, everybody does like. I mean, Crap. Like... I mean, if it's getting to a point where it is just unbearable and impossible and it looks like there is just zero chance of anything changing,

and the longer we stay here, we're all dead, then I guess I have to, right? You don't have to do anything. I don't know. And is this Wayfinder's guide, are you going to teleport them back to Stormchaser or something like that? Yeah, like just out of the city so that we're safe, but I know that Nova's in there and not within range.

Sure. Wish I had a better spell now. Fucker. Passing me notes like that. You can't do that. If it's gone on for long enough and we're at the absolute edge of it and like... At this point, I think it's only Sentry and Aayla,

and Aayla is like raging, like trying to resist it, like probably has like a hand in the chasm. I'm gonna... Yeah, what are you gonna do? I'm gonna teleport everyone... Aayla's like, Nova, grab my hand now! Yeah, I'm gonna have to teleport everyone I can to the Storm Chaser. Everybody but Nova.

There's a start of a no from Lucius that's cut off by the support. You feel that familiar pull as the Wayfinder's Guide teleports you all the way. Nova, Vija, the three of you, Harmony, yourself, well the four of you with Tiangong, but Tiangong sort of now back under your control, kind of with you, but not able to take their own actions. The three of you like

desperately each back to back, like focusing your wills, trying to use this connection to this elemental power to try and disperse it, to send it away, to make sure that it doesn't overwhelm the city above, you begin to realize that this is a losing battle. Your hope begins to diminish, as it begins to threaten to overwhelm you.

You hear your friends screaming your name calling for you shansara singing to herself more than anything this song of her homeland harmony just i just wanted to be i wanted to make my own decisions i wanted to help my people i wanted to do what i thought was right why why are you doing this to me and she's like kind of calling out this these laments and there's this surge of power this desperation that you know that if you don't do this it's not just you but it's going to be the city itself and you feel as the last echoes as your skin blackens and burns and freezes and you feel as the last echoes, as your skin blackens and burns and freezes, and you feel the pain arch through your body, all three of you, you black out.

The rest of you, outside the city, you teleported away, say a few miles away, or like on the deck of the storm chaser, which is hovering nearby. You watch as you see the statues, the links of energy kind of like now almost out of control like you know waving around moving about on their own kind of carving great you know blasts through the city as the weight rings of energy go wild kind of destroying buildings and then with one great final... They vanish. And the city remains damaged, but nowhere near destroyed to the level that you were expecting as the energy is dispersed. But you don't see Nova.

You don't find Nova's body. She doesn't appear. You just see the city return to normal. This is different. This is different to what I saw. You just see the city return to normal. This is different. This is different to what I saw. I think she's dispelled it. We might be able to go back in. Aria, get us flying towards the city. Yep, Storm Chaser's like,

yes, of course, begins flying down. You can see people on the streets pulling themselves. And there's damage to the buildings where the magic has caused issues. You can see great cracks in the ground where the elemental energy was spewing out. But it is mostly intact, having averted most of the disaster.

It's something that Vort and Saur can easily recover from with time. But the storm chaser eventually sails down. You hear people like Ganassi like, help us, help us, kind of calling out out for aid people who are trapped under buildings and things i locate creature but use my fourth level spell slot i mean i i do have okay the range on it is not great and i don't imagine we're within like range of that just yet but it takes you like 10 20 minutes to get the storm chaser down like

where are you heading like are you heading back towards the the statue kairi the air statue and like trying to get down into the chamber you saw the last place yeah like sure i think that's where we'd be heading um when you arrive to where the kairi statue is you notice that the base of the statue the statue itself has collapsed and toppled and is now on its side, having destroyed several buildings, but the base of the statue is corrupted and there is now like a giant sort of crater where this chamber you imagine once was,

with these great cracks underneath it. Do something, Quill. Find her. Where is she? I'm trying... We can't save the world without her, Quill, find her. Where is she? I'm trying... We can't save the world without her Quill, we need her! I can't protect her if I don't know where she is! I don't know what to do! Locate creature. Nova! I'm just like screaming from the ship.

Where are you? I'm screaming and it just kind of echoes across this now silent, you know, most of the civilians having cleared out of this area is now empty. Cor, you cast locate creature. Spin through the wayfinder's guide, trying to find, yeah, casting that spell. There is no reaction. Okay. Do you feel anything? Is there anything at all? Casting that spell. There is no reaction. Um, okay, uh... Do you feel anything?

Is there anything at all? Not yet. Hang on. I can find her. Eye of the Storm. What do you ask? Where is Nova Vija? You watch as your eye turns milky and cloudy. Your vision pulls away from Aurelius, drifts up.

Where would Nova's soul go when she died? To the Astral Sea. You see a familiar path of light that you have travelled leading up into the stars, guided not by Calara but by a weaker presence, a motherly presence, to a place that you know, K'ilek Ad'Kalar, that is no longer part of the living world. And that is where, peaceful, Nova's soul rests. I mean, I guess, in response to seeing a Nova, I see her, I found her, she's... And then like I see the rest of the vision,

I recognize exactly where it is. She's, oh, uh... Where is she? We'll set the course, all right. We'll go wherever we need to go. Ready to go. We, she's, it's... Quick. It's, there's... Um... Quick!

There's no point, Lucius. What do you mean, there's no point? There's always a point. I saw her soul. Um... I saw it being taken. Uh... Where? Where did she get taken? No, no, no, Sentry.

We've been there before. Um... There's no recovering Nova. She's, no, she's not. No. It's probably, as you've been doing this, Aayla probably jumped down and has been pulling stones out of this debris, trying to like find the physical, you know, trying to get to where you were.

Aayla finds the twin blades, rusted, blackened, destroyed, just resting. The remnants of Killara's gift, where the chasm was, now sealed, but the only thing remaining. And that is what we're gonna win the episode. Oh, for fuck's sake. Oh my god. Oh! The charisma checks at the end there, the 13.

I rolled a two and a three. Do you know what sucked? It was a 20 and it rolled over. But remember, I will say this. You guys are 18th level. Yep. You are beyond the point where you need a body to return someone to life. Quill has access to spells that can restore somebody to life. has, as long as they have not died before,

Nova's soul can be called back. You may need to find a way to help call that soul back, but it is not the last. Okay. She's just swimming with the stars. Little break. Star child. Little rest. Yeah. But Vortensar, the city, was saved.

And that's what she wanted. Yeah. Shit. You can't. I'm sorry. You can't just fucking land this bombshell at the end of the year. It's our last. I think we're fine.

We just did. Listen. We just fucking did. It's like one of those things. Just went that way. I will say, as a player, the moment I decided was the moment you described Fuego destroying the statue

and realizing it was our fault. As well. Well, Nova would have interpreted it in the moment. And maybe it was. Because we laid the seeds for that with Quill's vision. She started doubting. Before we went into Sishun Sarat, she started doubting. And I think in the moment when she saw that ley line fall,

that's when she knew. Because you sent them in to disable those any way they could, destroy them. Because Nova was so hell bent on like stopping this and that way it's the it's the endless question right of like when quill sees a potential future yeah do your actions cause that future to happen or would this have happened regardless yeah you don't know and you never will know and i think it's unfortunately part of it in the minutes that we had to decide yeah she just knew. Yeah.

Hey, Rhi, can you just read this message I got off Kim? Just before I use the book? I just want a delicious Tom Tears. Just let her go. Here's the other thing. Sometimes when you're DMing, not that I want to run late, but sometimes when you're DMing, there's things that happen and things happen because of the dice. And yeah, absolutely, this was a thing that i you know if things go badly things can

happen blah blah blah and i knew i want there was certain decisions i made where i was like in the moment i was like oh but would this happen would this happen and then some you've got to remember sometimes like i don't want to take away player agency and so there was a moment where i went to nearly do something i was like actually i should have done that i should have let kim's what she wanted to do happen which is why when you came back and nearly do something, I was like, actually, I should have done that. I should have let Kim's, what she wanted to do happen, which is why when you came back and wanted to go down, I was like, actually, no, I should have let that happen in the first place.

I think Tiangong would have tried to stop you. No, it made sense. It made perfect sense. I didn't want to take that decision away from you. It made perfect player sense. Yeah, it's, yeah. Also, cool moment. Yeah, very cool.

Yeah, but, yeah. Let's never say never. Obviously it is always going to be down to Kim whether, like, Nova decides to come back. But, like, I don't want people to think that, like, yeah. Yeah. But, you know, as always, it's D&D. There are ways around it. Death is not always the end. Just, yeah, just to leave it on a happier note, I know there's a lot of tears and stuff like that.

Yeah, exactly that. But, like Mark says says all is not lost this was one outcome and the city is saved all those lives are saved Nova got what she wanted and this is D&D it's a magical world

anything could happen anything could happen counterpoint to your happy ending note Thalia there you go single now single now single now

single now think about that you want to try that but yeah unfortunately yeah this is probably going to be the last high rollers

of the year sorry sorry about it it's my birthday I'm going to make everybody cry and that's where we're going to leave it

and I think like that is where this episode of high rollers comes to an end. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for a great year of High Rollers. Hell yeah.

Amazing year. And we'll see you in 2023 for the next one. Yeah. Take care. We love you. Bye-bye. Bye. Have a good one. Thank you.