High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois | #17 - The Bow (Part 1)

Episode Date: November 26, 2018

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let's restart. Hello, welcome back to High Rollers, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign in the world of Arois, run by Dungeon Master Mark Sherlock-Humes, with me, Tom, playing Keela Kad-Kalar, the bard slash cleric. I am Chris Trott, I am playing Lucius Viren, Elowin Elinastio, and I am a high elf sorcerer. Hi, I'm Rhiannon, I'm playing Sentry. I am a guardian paladin. Hi, I'm Katie. I'm playing Ayla, a wild elf barbarian. And I'm Kim. I'm playing Nova, who is an air ganassi, and she is a hexblade warlock. We're sponsored by D&D Beyond. Check them out with a link in the description and make your free account today. Wow, super long intro. Let's finally jump into the episode. The team have found a mysterious weapon, but first let's catch up with Ayla, Arvel and Vala.

Welcome back to Eromis on the High Rollers Dungeons & Dragons campaign. A little recap of what happened last time, shall we? Yes, please. Please. The party have uncovered something sinister beneath Rosewater Lake. On their journey to the city of Goldthrone, the party stopped to assist in the search for a missing girl. Having learned that something was amiss with three young women working in the local general store, several members of the party and the Beastwalker bunny lady, Sana Long Ears, discovered a tunnel that leads into a crashed starship buried beneath the lake. After engaging several guards in a desperate battle and chase throughout the ship's

crystalline hallways, the party has arrived at a large chamber where a magical bow seemed to be contained in some sort of device that speaks to them in their mind. Meanwhile, Aela, the wild elf barbarian, offered to watch over the young girl Vala, who bears a striking resemblance to the girls being kidnapped and was the target of an attempted kidnapping before. Having not heard from the rest of the party, Aela, I'll jump in straight with you. Oh, okay. You know that the rest of the party Ayla, jump in straight with you oh okay you know that the rest of the group went off to the Acorn and Bale, the name of the general store

in town to investigate these three girls that Quill had discovered had necklaces bearing the symbol of Calus Starbane this kind of mythological or legendary tyrant that tried to take over Eros he also discovered that there was some sort of magical ward

in the back room of the store itself. So the party, along with Sana, the bounty hunter, went off to investigate. Not wanting to leave Valor alone because of previous kidnapping attempts, yourself, Arval Dagus, the dwarven merchant, and Galen Sands, who is the father of the missing girl who hides Sanna, all remain behind in the lodge, which kind of overlooks the lake and is part of this town called Ironwick. It's late evening when the party left, probably about 9.30, 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock. And it's probably about 20 minutes or so.

No, I'd say longer than that. It's probably about 45 minutes when you begin to hear a crowd beginning to approach the lodge and kind of gathering outside. And you can see that a few of them are bearing torches or lanterns. And you can see leading this is a dwarven woman with gray hair um spectacles uh she appears to be wearing like a leather jerkin like a leather armor um and she has uh a kind of almost like a cane almost uh in her hand no sorry a short sword sheathed at her side um alongside her is a blacksmith and three just villagers they look like you know farmers or kind of just locals

um and they kind of you you see them kind of approaching the building and you can see that they're coming up to the lodge itself uh valor is probably kind of like not asleep but relaxing on a chair nearby arval has kind of got his crossbow loaded and has kind of also sat down um and galen is uh probably uh nearby he's probably near the back like looking reading he's probably reading Arvel has kind of got his crossbow loaded and has kind of also sat down. And Galen is probably nearby. He's probably near the back, like, looking, reading. He's probably reading a book. Yeah. And you see these people beginning to approach.

You have not heard from the rest of the party. You do not know why they've not come back. You don't know what's going on at this point. Have we interacted with this dwarven woman before? Yes. You recognize her as uh missy steel eyes she's the field warden yes she's the law she's the sheriff she's the law okay um in which case i think i will yeah they're gonna come up and knock on the door if you don't i'll just go

up and open the door so you just because you see them in the windows you can see them passing they clock you um and you have this moment where they walk up the door and wait you see them in the windows, you can see them passing, they clock you, and you have this moment where they walk up to the door and wait for you to open it up. The woman kind of peers at you for a moment, and then kind of adjusts her spectacles. Good evening. I was wondering if you

and the rest of your crew are around. Something's been happening in the town, and we just want to check in on everybody about, see if anything, anybody knows anything of what's going on. No, just been in here, sleeping. After we went to the store, looked at some weapons, came back, didn't buy anything. And the rest of your troop are all here?

Yeah. Deception check. Hello. That is a 13. 13. She kind of looks at you for a moment, and you can see she kind of adjusts her eyes, and she glances over at the window.

There's an awful lot of you in such a small place. She kind of over at the window. There's an awful lot of you in such a small place. She kind of gestures towards the window where Valerie's just kind of looking out of it on her, by herself, just kind of looking at the gathered crowd. Are you sure? I'd like to speak to Santa in particular, if she's around.

It seems a few of the folk around here certainly don't seem to believe me when I say that she's unlikely to have anything involved. And you can see the blacksmith has kind of, like, folded his arms and is looking particularly aggressive. And she kind of calls out, is she there? No, she's popped out at the moment. She's actually not with our group, though.

I don't actually know her very well. I see. That's unfortunate. But I am sure that there are things going on in this town that don't involve the people that you think. Maybe. You said you were at the store earlier? Yeah, briefly.

How long ago roughly was that? How long ago roughly was that? Probably around two, three hours ago. I'll relay that to her. And did everything seem fine? Who was there? There was little girls there.

Three girls? I think there was only two when I was there. I see. And the owner, Bodwin, was he around? No, actually. Hmm. Interesting. In case you don't know, the girls have gone missing, and Bodwin woke up in his cellar, unconscious, not remembering how he got down there. And there seems to be a break-in. Somebody broke down the door, opened up one of the windows at the back.

Is this you doing? Yes, it is. We're not there. But you don't know that. Ella doesn't even know. She doesn't know that. Whilst this conversation is going on, can you make a perception check for me? Oh, that was bad.

What did I do? Nine. What are you talking about? Oh, that was bad. What do you mean? Nine. What are you talking about? So as you're having this conversation, there's probably maybe, you barely reckon, you barely, you don't pay much attention to it.

There's like a cold breeze in the air, like a cold wind kind of blows through outside of the lodge across the lake. And it kind of has that rushing wind sound, that kind of whoosh. And you can see a few of them kind of bundle up a little bit closer. There are three villagers kind of behind Missy and the blacksmith. And you see kind of catch out the corner of your eye. One of them suddenly kind of lurches forward. And a big red stain begins spreading across the front of their shirt. As they kind of hold their hands covered in blood as they slump forward and stood behind them are two shadowy looking figures

they look like young girls maybe about 14 years old long dark hair basic looking clothes but there is something off their forms almost seem shadowy kind of semi-see-through their weapons leak this kind of black mist as they hold these kind of blades and they just point up to the window where valor is now gone sheet white and they look incredible they look almost not identical but they look very similar to her. Very similar age, similar kind of hair, similar eyes. And they just point up to her. They look very similar to her. So they're not like the girls that we've, not the shop girls at all.

Not like the shop girls, no. No, these look like Valor, but obviously different girls. But very similar looking. The villagers start to panic. They see their friend, their staunch forward dead. As he just kind of, it just clutches this wound, and you just hear them like... And at that point, we're gonna roll some initiative. For the rest of you, I would like you guys to take over some NPCs for me, so that I'm not running a million NPCs, and you have something to do.

So, I've got four here. We have Arvul, Valor, and Missy Steelye, and Galen, the father. So, who would like to take what? You can decide amongst yourselves. Could I be Arval? Sure. You're Arval now. Galen, Valor, and Missy.

Shooting time. So, somebody who's got spells. Evangelate. Yep, sure. There you go. So, you don't necessarily Have to do the full RP I can take care of that But just I'm doing the RP

You can do Sure You can do That was the whole reason She wanted Evangeline I know I know it is

I'm a dwarf It's uncanny So I'll be at the door You're at the door These two Shoes are kind kinda like that, and then you can see these other two there.

Okay, so, initiative, please. Let's get some initiative rolling. Ayla. Ten. Ten. Valor. I'm guessing if there's not a stat, there's no stuff to stack. So there's no stat

initiative, just use the dex modifier, yes. Use the dex. Dex modifier. So yours is plus three That's very cool Well Arvel's dead last Yeah

Okay Arvel Hold on His dex modifier is fourteen So that's plus Plus two Three You're in safe hands

Arvel Fourteen for Valor Who's playing Galen? I am I got seventeen Seventeen Who's playing Galen? I am. I got 17. 17. Who's playing Missy? Trot?

Eight. Eight. And then I will roll for... The Shadow Maidens. The Shadow Knows. You get that reference. You're a winner. I'm trying to remember what that is.

I wasn't listening to you. The Shadow Knows. I'm trying to remember what that's from. I'm listening to you. The shadow knows. I'm trying to remember what that's from. I'm sure I know. Is that the Alec Baldwin shadow? I fucking love that movie. It's such a good movie. Great CG.

Yeah. Right. So Galen, Galen, Tom, Quill. So playing as Galen, he sees them. I'll do some of the RP. When he sees these figures, there's this moment where Galen kind of is like, and then he kind of realizes it's not his daughter. And these girls, they, yeah, like the shadows kind of cling to them

and sort of drip off them. Okay. As if they've become infused with shadow itself. He sees them. What would Galen like to do at this point? I mean, I guess he's going to spend his bonus action just like, who's that? Yeah.

It takes some time. It takes some moments to recognize what is going on. But I think he will then, I guess he would then go to Vala, who is the next best thing to his daughter. Looks closest to her. Yeah, looks very much like her. So he'll go up to her and try and protect her and he's got he's got a

couple of spells actually so shield how does that work that's a reaction shield is a reaction yes so you can if you get hit you can use shield to increase your AC by five until

the start of your next turn I think he would I guess it's also is it it's not dark in here is it it's yeah there's like a firelight and there's some lanterns but it's it's still dim and shadowy it's also, it's not dark in here, is it? Yeah, there's like a firelight and there's some lanterns, but it's still dim and shadowy.

It's not bright light. Okay, I guess in the area where we are, I would cast light as a cantrip. Yeah, so here's like a staff. It's more of like a cane, actually. It's like a walking rod. Okay. And then he'll cast light onto the top of that.

So you cast light. Okay. The two figures in front of you they just i mean they just basically step up and almost like these people are obstructions they don't really they just coldly just stab their blades into them they you know fall to their sides um very similar they just kind of throw themselves to the side and just fall down um but yeah and then the girls just keep walking forwards um very coldly uh they probably get up to there um and it looks like the they're basically just going to try and go straight to valor they're

just they've seen her in the window and now they're just kind of almost drifting along the floor and you can see that their weapons are real but are kind of cloaked with this shadowy black ink as it slides through like Noob Saibot in Mortal Kombat yeah yeah Arvel you hear

turning around you hear this kind of whispering shadows as two more appear at the back door just behind you, this kind of lodges back door. It's at the door but not in the house. They're not in but they're at the door and you can see them like, basically they've

opened the door as their action. They're just like and they pull it open. Can I shout? Sure, yeah. You can shout that they're coming. Everyone sees them. I'll let everyone know that they're behind us. What does Arvel shout? What in tarnation? They're behind us! I knew you everyone know that they're behind us. What does Arvel shout? What in tarnation? They're behind us! I knew you'd enjoy that.

Valar, so Rhiannon. Hello. What abilities does she have? Yeah, tell us. Does it have a backstory? It doesn't have a life story, but there's some interesting abilities. Okay, interesting. Simulacrum. No, it's not that. Interesting abilities. Okay. Interesting. Simulacrum.

No, it's not. So Valis sees this coming, and there's this shocking resemblance of, yeah, different, but they very much look like her. I want to try and stop these people from coming in. So can I maybe use, like, Mage Hand and try and, like, move the table up to the door and, like, try and shore it? So the Mage Hand doesn't have and try and move the table up to the door and try and shore it? So the Mage Hand doesn't have enough strength to move the table.

So Mage Hand can only pick up small handheld items. It can't shove anything. Okay, cool. But Valor herself could try. Yeah? Yeah. So you're going to try and drag this table that she's been clutched on. Yeah.

So you kind of start dragging this over. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So you drag this behind Ayla. You can see, like, Valor, she's only, like, a 14-year-old kid, so she's not very strong, but she's, like, dragging this table towards the door itself. Yep. Perfect.

So move, and then action, and then Ayla herself. So you see these things, and they're coming in this door, and they are showing no signs of Stopping or giving mercy To anybody that's in the way If you'd like to rage, please Okay, yep

So you hear the Kind of whack him We hear the thunderous crackle As lightning against the You know, arc up and down your body Along the hammer I will also say to Missy and the blacksmith,

can really do with an extra pair of hands here. Gonna help us? Think you'd find out who your problem is? My goals. Hate everyone. She's kind of got like a deep south, like, very

Louisiana kind of one of these voices, you know what I'm saying? One of these very Red Dead Redemption kind of voices. 15 to hit? Easily. Yeah, you do feel that the hammer as it strikes, it kind of partially, some of the shadow is kind of absorbing some of the blow. Ten damage, plus make a save,

which I believe my save has now gone up to a 13. 13. Dex save. 17. So half. Oh, I rolled a six, so you take three. Wait. Three. Is it the first time the Zicky Dab's done more than one damage?

Yay! Episode 17. roll the six or you take three I'll take three is that the first time the Zippy Dab's done more than one damage yay episode 17 so you watch as the hammer kind of hits the first girl in front of you the shadow seems to absorb some of the blow

and she kind of gets shunted back but there's no reaction of pain there's no emotion just this kind of gets knocked back and then the lightning

blasts her in the chest she avoids some of it, but the lightning hits her squarely. The shadow doesn't seem to absorb that. I'm going to push Valor behind that desk that she's trying to drag. Be like, get back. So Valor gets shoved back behind the sticks next to Galen.

Try to help. I know. It ain't looking much better back here, Missy. Missy Steeleye. Where is she on this map? So she is the dwarf with the drum, because it's the only dwarf in its race.

She's outside the front door. Yeah, she was at the front door talking to Aayla, and these things have come up, and you've seen them murder the other villagers. The two other villagers do seem alive, but are bleeding out, basically. They're clutching their stomachs. They don't look like they're going to be much use in a fight.

The blacksmith guy has turned around. He's got a hammer in his hand, but he's looking pretty scared. He's dead next. You're kind and welcome in Hamwick. I'm going to do an insightful fighting thing, which is a bonus action to make an insight check against Opposed by Charisma. Okay, so you make an insight check.

I'm guessing you're going to target this one next to Ayla. Yes. Okay. Is that cocked? Yeah, sure. It was. 14. Plus her insight, which I think is plus 4.

18. 18. Yeah, so you kind of read these creatures, and there's almost no regard for you. It's not really protecting itself very well, apart from what it has to, so you can easily feint the creature, and yeah, you have advantage on the next attack roll. Couple of hucksters. Yep.

I will short sword attack! 14 to hit! Hits! And you will get sneak attack because you have advantage and you had advantage by the way so you could have rolled to see if you got crete. Nah. Nah. Nah. You gotta have faith. 3 plus 2, 5 plus 6, 6 that's 11. Nah. Me. Uh, three, plus two, five, plus two, six, six. That's eleven. Eleven. Like with Aayla's hammer, part of the blow is kind of absorbed by whatever is this kind of shadowy, inky, insubstantialness to it. And the blow kind of glances off, but you can see it reacts, and then it's this girl. And you're literally fighting fourteen-year-old girls in this kind of shadow shadowy form it kind of turns its head to you and seems to regard you as

a threat. I'll regard this group and be like what have y'all brought to my town? Wait is your goal to be against us? Your go Galen. What does Galen sound like again? He just has a very normal American accent but he's very kind of tired and very sad, and he's very tragic. Sorry, Paul. I'm so tired. I'm so sad. Channel you're in a tall.

It's quite tragic. It's just so depressing, you know? The people behind me, the ones coming through the door. Yes. Do they look like his daughter? They all have this similar thing. It's not like these are twins or anything like that.

These are all just 14-year-old girls with the same kind of length, dark hair. But none of them are like... Same, similar looking face. None of them are... So far, he doesn't recognize any of them as Estella, his girl. Man, I just don't know if he would even want to attack these. Sure, you play him whatever you think. We'll make it into the cannon.

You kill us all, Tom. You kill us all. I love how Tom is just committed to the RP above all else. Oh yeah. Good boy. So I'm going to Firebolt Misty. No, I'm not. In that case, I will actually cast Sleep on however many I can. Okay. Yeah, so if you target this group, you'd hit everybody around it.

Please no. You could target this group and try and sleep these ones behind. Galen is intelligent. Yeah. He's going to go for those two in the back. Okay, sure. So that's 5d8 you roll, and you have to beat over their hit points. It's like a pool of hit points that you put creatures to sleep with.

Okay, so 12, 13, 16, 24. 24. So although these creatures seem to have this undead form, one of them, probably the one at the back, does begin to drift. And you can see her eyes kind of close and the blade kind of falls out of her hand and then she just slumps down to the ground.

So that's one of his spell slots gone. Bam. Galen. Would you like to move anywhere as Galen? Could I... Hmm. I mean, I'm safe enough here, I think. Yeah, sure, you can stay there. Stay right next to Vala. Okay. Oh, sorry, Arvel.

He's so slow, I almost forgot about him. I was wondering when you were going to get to me, son. Go now. I would like to... Would it be a bonus action to flip that table? Like, so it just provides... For coolness? Yes.

He just kicks it over like a dwarf, a little stout. Get over there! Stands underneath it and jumps. Can I just move a little bit so that I'm between Vala and it? See if you might do like that. So he kicks over this little table, gets Evangeline on it. And I'll go to fire. Okay.

Somehow. Gotta love this guy. Somehow. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. Hits. To hit. 3, 4, 5. 5 points of damage.

And then do I have two attack? Because it says can fire twice before needing reloading. No, it means that with crossbows, you have to spend a whole action reloading. So he gets one shot and then he has to like, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, So after Arvla, so then it would go to Galen. Right, now it's their go. So this one will drift in and it will see Arvla as a bit of a threat. This one will... I mean, it's not going to roll.

They're not raised light, they're just close. Yeah, they look almost like... They're not like the spectres you guys fought in the Rose Palace. They are real girls, but it's like they've been infused with some sort of shadow power or some sort of necrotic energy. Can you see their faces? Yeah, you can see their faces, you can see their hair, but there's this shadowy...

I'd say their eyes are completely black. Like, their eyes have gone completely black over them. So, Ayla, one's going to attack you, and then one's going to attack Missy. Missy? Missy. Missy, Missy, Missy.

Okay, so this is with advantage because they're still in shadows. So Ayla, that is going to be a 21. No, sorry, 20... It will hit. 20-something is going to hit. And then that was only a 10 to hit Missy. No, it does not hit. So, Aayla, now you are raging.

So you'll take eight half to four as the blade kind of, the shadowy knife pierces into you. But then you take two necrotic, which you don't half. And can you make a constitution saving throw for me, please? Not this again. As you feel like, as the blade kind of hits your skin, you feel this burning liquid as the blade kind of hits your skin, you feel this burning liquid coating the blade. 18.

Whatever this poison is, your adrenaline is burning it off faster than it can take effect. You manage to kind of keep your system going as the poison doesn't quite take hold. And then Arvor. The one attack on that, when it walked into my light, did that have any effect? So the light is radius, so it's bright light around you, I think, within 20 feet.

Yeah. Or something like that. It seems that it would normally get some sort of advantage, like it seems to be more adept in darkness, but the light is preventing it from being able to use its shadowy form to hide its movements. Okay, so that one, I have seen some sort of effect from. Yes, and in fact the one attacking Arvel,

you can see that with this bright light coming from Galen's staff, it can't quite blur its movements, and you manage to just deflect it, roll like an 8 to hit or something like that. Do I get cover as well? It's kind of moved round the cover, yeah. But it kind of had to move it sideways a little bit um valor cool uh i want a magic missile this one so you turn around yeah absolutely so 3d4 plus three three do you have enough d4s oh yeah i do i have 3d4 you have three

perfect so 3d4 plus three cool um you don't need to roll to hit. Magic missile. Best thing about it, you just do damage. One, three, and two. So that's... Six plus three, nine. And that's against this one, yes? This one, yeah, please. Okay. So you can see the magic missile has the energy,

this purple energy that Valor kind of summons from her hands. You watch her eyes pulse for a second and then these three energy blasts come out each one that hits hits with full force it's not resisting this like it is the weapon damage just knocks it back and you can see it's now you know staggered and is is slowed down somewhat. Ayla, you are still rushing. I'm going to hit, I'm also going to shout, I don't think

these girls need to be killed. I don't know if we can bring them back somehow. These are someone's daughter's tooth.

Galen, can you help? And I'll hit one again. I'm so tired. So yeah, that's going to easily hit.

So. Is this what you think Emo5 does to like? Just time, sad all the time. Eleven? Eleven, I've failed to save. What is my life? Three. Okay, so the one that you've been fighting, this one here, as you hit it, now are you trying to...

Can I try and knock it out? Yep. So the lightning kind of blasts her first, and then the hammer connects in. As you hit it, now are you trying to Can I try and knock it out? Yep So the lightning kind of blasts her first And then the hammer connects in And you kind of just You purposely hold back on some of the blow You do knock it unconscious But as soon as her body kind of hits the floor

The blackness begins pooling off of her And it kind of seeps into the shadows of the ground And the earth It fliesps into the shadows of the ground and the earth. It flies up into the night sky, and her skin suddenly turns deathly pale, and you can see that her body just becomes lifeless. So she's dead already. Seems to be.

Okay. Never mind, Galen. Nope, it's fine. Seems to be. Is that what you are? Dead. Dead and sad. Sad. Got my life. Dead inside. Sad.

Got my life in your pieces. Wow. This is my last resort. Missy. Suffocation. I'm going to spin around. There's going to be an anime glint on my glasses. I'm going to insight.

Sure. This one. So, insight check. Yeah. Does that bore from a beer? 13. It does, yeah. That's the only mini I had, okay.

How much? 13. 13, enough. Yeah, again, you read this thing's movements. It looks like this one's going to kind of try and dodge the side. You get advantage on the attack roll. What evil sorcery is this? 13 plus 4 hits.

D6. I get sneak attack steal? Yes. 3, 6, 8, so 4 with the resistance. So again, the short sword kind of pierces in but doesn't take hold, and this one, the girl kind of is like,

give the guy. You just hear this kind of whispered. I didn't hear y'all. But I want you out of my town. Arval Dagus. Well, well, well. Is this thing, can I move backwards without an attack of opportunity, or is it in my...

No, and what a great opportunity for me to announce that I've been doing disengage wrong for the last three years. So no, it's next to you, so if you wanted to move away without an opportunity attack, you would spend an action to disengage and then for the rest of your turn, any movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

You don't automatically get to move like I thought you did. Yep, been doing that wrong for three years. I'm pretty sure we did it right in Rogue... No! Uncharted territory? We did not do it right in Rogue Gambit. Three years, Katie. three years. I'm pretty sure we did it right in Uncharted Territory. We did not do it right in Rogue's Gambit.

Three years, Katie. Three years. Maybe we've got to remember that we did this for Fia and discovered it a while back. maybe, yeah.

But yes. Well, can I still being in its range, can I just make, I just want to make sure I'm between her and Valor. You can keep like

that. So I don't want to provoke. And then. Now if you try and use the crossbow, you're at disadvantage with it next to you. But he's got his little axe.

If you wanted to pull that out. What would Arvold do? Is this one still at the normal date? Yes, this one is still up. It's outside, though. It is outside. So Arvold can shoot. Not in line of sight with that one.

That would be a tricky shot. He could do it, but he'd have to line of sight. Yeah, but this one's more of a present threat to Valor, so I'm gonna save my girl. Just gonna end up Aayla and Arvel backed up with Valor in the middle like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Little sandwich. What are you gonna do? Drop the crossbow?

Uh, I'm gonna get out Daphne, who's my ex. I have to make a note now. What was that called? Daphne. Daphne. Daphne. Daphne.

Daphne. Definitely Daphne. That's now canon. Seven to hit. Seven to hit. No, this time like you swing the axe, but this thing it brings its kind of short sword in with this rapid movement to the side. Damn it, Daphne.

You are always the difficult one. Galen. Nothing like Evangeline. Can you just do me a favor and in Arval's voice just say Daphne! You are always the difficult one. Galen. Nothing like Evangeline. Can you just do me a favor and in Arvel's voice just say Daphne? Daphne. Say that.

Daphne. Daphne. Why are you saying Daphne? Daphne. Daphne. Daphne. You got a problem, child? What's Galen do? Nick you got a problem child no no that's all anyway

what's Galen do I mean I don't really know he's just so sad sure you can spend a turn being sad lag on the floor cries a little bit

I mean this one is getting quite close like Arvel is the only thing between it and Valor now can you move like

you could cast again it's a cantrip but would it diminish the first yes damn it um and Valinil. Can you move light? You could cast it again. It's a cantrip. But would it diminish the first light? Damn it. And I can't just shield on Arval? Nope. Because it's a reaction on you. And I can't put sleep out there

because that'll get everybody. I think the only thing he's got is either his club or a fireball. What's this place made of? Wood. Yeah, but if you hit the first... Yeah, as long as you don't miss. I mean... Or you could sleep us all.

I could sleep everyone. Get that club. Club it. Get me the club. I guess I saw what Ayla did and I'll do that in an attempt to knock her out. Just rod. Yeah, so you kind of swing it over the table that Arvel kicked over earlier.

Yeah. So Galen moves up towards the one next to Arvel. 13. Actually hits. Yay! So whilst it's deflecting Arvel's axe, you kind of rush up and just swing this club into its head. And do four damage.

And that is... Ooh, just not enough. But does it make a loud, audible gonk? It does. It's like... Actually, no, it would have been halved as well. It's such a satisfying noise that Galen is no longer sad. Nor fine. Everything is fine.

It hits, but then the creature just kind of knocks its head, and then it kind of snaps back up. I'm sad again. It will, but then the creature just kind of knocks its head and then it kind of snaps back up. In fact, it will attack you. Why not? You just detect it. Oh, come on. So that is going to be a 19 to hit Galen. Yeah, I think that'll do it.

Yep. AC 10. Yep. Shield's going to help you there. Oh, hit points. Nine. Not good. Oh, wait.

I can reaction the shield, can't I? You could, but it would only boost your AC to 15. Oh. So wasteful. Whatever. So that would be seven piercing damage followed by three necrotic damage. I'm down, yeah, I'm gone.

So you watch as this thing just turns and just slashes Galen's throat with this shadowy blade. Can you make a constitution saving throw for Galen as well, please? Nine. Okay. You just watch this kind of black-veined substance begin to protrude through his veins. Guess what? Ain't nobody a healer.

Here. Sure. Yeah. Nine again. Yep, that's a fail. Pass me that, Kim. Injury. Sure. Yep. Nine again. Yep, that's a fail. Pass me that, Kim. Injury. Sure. He's an NPC, so this is a persistent NPC.

So yeah, roll a d20 for me please, Tom. What? Cool. Almost caught it! Just leave that. So you watch as this deep gash kind of tears through most of his neck. You just killed Galen! Yep. Dead.

He's dead! I'm going to rule it because he's not a player. This would normally be what I call a grievous injury, which is a significant injury. He has nine hit points. Like losing an eye or something like that. As he's an NPC and is so low level, it just kills him. He's dead now.

This poor father, this father who all he wanted was to get his daughter back, is dead now. Cut my life into pieces. Thanks Tom Hazel. That's that one's go. Holy crap. This one. Can I have your character sheet?

Do you want to hand that in? Yeah, here's my character sheet. Hand me your character sheet. Oh, sure. Great, yeah. Thank you. So Missy, a 10 to hit you, although it is more shadowy. Now, oh, Galen's light disappears.

That's an 11 to hit Missy. No. Miss failed, so you kind of block it with your own short sword as this thing comes up. You played D&D wrong, Tom. Your pun is wrong. This one wakes up. Oh, no.

At least you're the ultimate goth now. Wait. Yeah, that's true. Is he going to come back? Valor. How? He's dead. You watch this the ultimate goth now. Wait. Yeah, that's true. Is he going to come back? Valor. How? He's dead. You watch this poor man.

You just turn around as you see the throat get ripped out. Yeah. And then this thing, like, looks directly towards you. Oh, no. I'm going to be, like, really scared. Oh, no. You got it. You got this.

Roll five on the damage. If you kill Valor, that's even worse. Yeah. I'm going to try not to There's not pressure Can I move Valor like here So you move past the dead body Yes get that out of my way In the corner please I was going to pass magic missile again

At this one That's easily going to do enough damage to destroy this one Good I don't think Valor would try and hold back and knock it out. I think Valor would just, seeing this death, go panic, and it just

tears the creature apart, and the Inky Mist just dissipates up into the atmosphere. Does her body take a hit? Her body's dead. It kind of gets ripped up and torn up. So there is a body that drops. Yeah, but it's almost like the body was already kind of dead and this shadow magic was keeping it alive. So that's Valor's go.

I want to be taken again. Ayla. Okay. So you can just... Yeah, I'm going to... Step up next to Missy. Bring the hammer down. I'll make a dex save already.

Nine, ten, nine, ten, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Hits,. I'll make a dex save already. Nine, ten, eleven, ten, fifteen. Hits, but it succeeds on the dex saving throw. Okay. So five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Eleven damage on the hammer, and three is halved. I rolled a six on my dex. Do you know what that is? Yeah!

Oh, three. You rolled a six. Yeah, I rolled a six, so three halved. Nice. Oh, man. Lightning today. Okay, so you can see this one is just about holding on, but

barely. You can see it's kind of staggering. It doesn't show any pain. There's no emotion. It doesn't care that the others have been killed. It's just this dark black-eyed featureless girl, basically. Brutal. Coming after you. Missy. I will

assess the situation and try and... You've seen Galen die. You probably would have heard. Missy. I will assess the situation and try and... You've seen Galen die. You probably would have heard... Horribly. Natural one. Natural one. So this time, the distraction of you kind of glance around, you see Galen fall.

What? You don't have advantage. A tourist dead in my town? So glad I gave you ownership of these NPCs to take them so seriously. Seven. Seven. Seven? No, you swing, but this time the miss goes wide.

What? The swing goes wide. Horrible daggers. Why do you sound like the Abe's Odyssey? What? Eat him. Okay. Heal.

Heal. He's got another shot before he needs to reload. Damn it, Val. Don't panic now. I've got you girl And I can't again you can pick up across but you're like look I want to get this done between Yeah, yeah, and then I would like to get sweet Evangeline okay, so if you want to shoot with this one, it will have some cover against you Because it's currently not it's kind of like halfway in the doorway. It's technically.

If he did it before moving, would she? Can I hold my action? Yeah, you can do that. Or yeah, can I shoot before I move? Yeah, sure. So I'll shoot before I move. Okay. Shoot and move, like a badass.

Yeah, slow motion. Then roll, combat roll. Combat roll. It's lower. Ooh. Oh. Oh. Got a dwarf turn. Oh god, Jeroen. It's not very ac It's the floor. It's the floor. It's the floor. It's the floor. It's the floor. It's the floor. It's the floor. It's the floor.

But a dwarf turn. But a dwarf turn. Oh god, Jeroen! Oh god, Jeroen! It's not very acrobatic. 18. It's not very acrobatic. 18.

Hits. Nice. Hits. Hits. Nice. 5. 5. 5.

5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5.

5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5.

5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5., which takes an action. Yeah. Okay. So back up to the top.

Galen's dead. Yep. Oh, God. Ooh. This one's going to take another swing at Missy. God, I can't hit you to save my life. Like a 13. Just hits the guard. It does have advantage.

So this time it's actually a 23 to hit Missy. And then Arvel also has advantage still. That is going to be an 18 to hit Arvel. Yeah. Why has he only got 11 AC? Because he doesn't wear armor. Why do you hate your NPCs? He doesn't have any of his resources.

He's got to set some. So Missy, ooh, that is nine points of piercing damage. And then one necrotic, so ten damage for Missy. Still up? Five. You got five, okay, and then Arvel, that's nine piercing damage and one necrotic. I rolled the exact same thing, so ten. Was this thing- oh and constitution saving throws from both of you, please. Oh no!

Arvel and Missy both have advantage on this because it's poison, and you are both dwarves. 16 is plus three, right? Yes. Nine. You have advantage because you're a dwarf, and it's poison. It's not that.

15, so that's like what, plus two? Plus two. Oh, well, 11. Yeah. 12, nine, 10, 11, yeah. Okay. 11 and nine. 11 and nine. 11 and 9.

Arvel, you are poisoned, which means you have disadvantage on attack roll, skill checks, and everything else. Missy, the poison gets into your bloodstream, and her eyes flutter, and she falls unconscious, asleep. Like, knocked out. The poison has knocked her out, basically.

But not on death's door. No. It looks like she's been kind of rendered unconscious by this poison as it kind of burns through her system. The creature now turns on Ayla. Valor! You can see

Arvel kind of spot as this black, you know, you can see this kind of black poison going through his veins from the arm where it cuts his arm. Don't worry about me, child! Just a little bit of dribble. Bit of my life. Bloody dribble.

I'm going to throw one of my daggers at the dude. Yeah, make the attack roll. So, d20 plus one is a roll. Don't worry about me, child. Five, ten. Ten is not enough. So he kind of dodges to the side as the dagger goes spinning past, and you just kind of back up as it's looming towards you.

Ayla. Oh no. I take another swing. Another swing. Same again, so that'll hit. Yep. I'll make a saving throw. Fails this time.

Ten on the hammer. And three on the lightning. Just three. Shut up! You slam it in the head and you just watch it crumple to the ground. The shadowy magic begins to leak out and dissipate into the world as the girl'sple to the ground. The shadowy magic begins to leak out and dissipate into the world as the girl's body hits the ground.

Then go here. Yeah, is that movement? Yeah. Get in the sandwich. I want to get... So you just charge in, basically. Yeah, I want to get... You probably stood over Galen's body

just with this hammer, like in a rage. Just like... Yeah. She's right in front of Valor. Everyone just surrounding Valor. Missy's unconscious, Arvel. Yep. Can I use Daphne to hit this thing?

Daphne? You're a disabrainant. I'm it. Poison. Poison! Running through my... Oh, one of them was a natural 20! Why you do this to me

8, 9, 10, 11 to hit Oh not enough So I guess he Sways a little bit Come here you And then can I use second wind please Yeah bonus action to roll d-twin D-twin

Roll d-twin Roll your d-Twin. D-Twin? D-Twin. Roll D-Twin. D-Twanny? Roll your D-Twin. Roll your D-Twin. What's a one? Two hit points back. Two hit points back. Way.

The lowest roll. Seeing you on death's door, it's going to attack you, and in the shadows clinging around the lodge now, just this firelight behind it kind of giving these flickering long shadows. Its form distorts and shifts. That's going to be a 23 to hit Arvel. That doesn't hurt. He's magic.

He's protected by blood. So that's seven piercing plus three necrotic. That's another ten. I'm still up, you damn child! Another constitution saving throw, please. You have advantage because you are dwarf. But you have disadvantage because you're poison, so just roll it. Just straight roll.

Nine. He's unconscious. I'm unconscious, though. How am I the only one not surviving? Vala, you're up! Vala, come on! I've got the big guns! I think he'll not... Valor, you're up. Valor, come on. I've got the big guns. I think he'll just go,

I got you, Valor. It's down to Aayla and Valor, the only ones still up. Oh my goodness. It's okay. I've got a hit point. Just get the big spell out. Is there not one written on there that just says the big spell?

Yeah. The big guns. The big boy. No. No big spell? No. Magic missile. She's used them.

All of them. I've got cantrips left, but... Have you got the cantrip that's just called big spell? I've got a sword burst, but that's got a radius. And shocking grass as well. Shocking grass. Valor, run! Shocking grass can do it. Or you could run, yeah. But I don't think Valor would but that's got a radius. And shocking grass as well. Shocking grass. Valar, run! Shocking grass can do it.

Or you could run. Yeah. But I don't think Valar would run. I don't know. What do you think? Valar is a fighter. She'll be like, I want to get these guys. Yep.

She's feisty. She's tenacious. Shocking grass? I might do shocking grass. I have to touch it, though. Yeah. You step over Arval's body. Unconscious body, please. Let us define this.

So you kind of like move up onto Arvel. She reaches out her hand. So you make an attack roll with a spell attack bonus. Okay. Which is... What's your spell card? D5. So plus five to hit.

So it's a D20 plus five. Nice. 22. That's a hit. Nice. So it's a D8. D8. Of damage. Diamond. a hit. It's a d8. D8. Of damage.

Nice! And that doesn't seem to be resisted in any form. So she reaches out, touches the girl's chest, and you watch as lightning arcs over her body. She kind of shudders for a minute, but she doesn't go down. Okay. Ayla. Smack her in the head!

Give her the biggest whacking. Yeah. Oh, eight, nine, eight, nine, nine, nine, nine. Smack her in the head! Give her the biggest working. Yeah. 13? Just. Holy crap. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 with the hammer. And then, does she fail? Yes. 5.

Lightning. The most damaged lightning has ever done. The most damaged lightning has ever done. You reach over in this rage, you see Arvold kind of falling down, you watch as Valor reaches over, blasts it with the lightning in the chest, which stuns it long enough for you to get a real swing in with the hammer. Wham! You slap it into the side, you see it flying back into the fireplace, as you watch the fire kind of overwhelm it as it erupts and you probably hear just the faint sort of like peace

as the necrotic energy flies off of this beer. I'm sorry. I didn't mean peace like that. God damn it. See your bitches?

Sorry. Ruined! See your pictures Sorry Oh god Ruined So is Arvel on zero Unconscious or is he like 4 HP But he's been sleeping 4 HP you've been sleep to you The poison has rendered you unconscious Same with Missy Steel Eye as well

That lasts for an hour Yeah What do Ayla and Valor want to do Can I have a hug Same with Missy Steel Eye as well. So we don't need to make it. That lasts for an hour. Yeah. What do Ayla and Vala want to do? I want a hug. Can I have a hug? Hug Ayla. Yes, please. Yeah, Vala just like rushes over

and like throws her arms around Ayla. Just probably like... Just don't step on my corpse, please. Thank you. Jumping over. Sorry. The body of Galen Sands just lies there. You can see that the throat has been pretty much torn out by this blade.

And the others outside seem to be injured. Are they still alive? You don't know. Maybe. Can I... Do you want to try and help them? Yeah, can I say to Valor, take care of Arvel. See if he's okay.

I'm just going to check everyone else. Okay. Don't go near that body. Look away. Look away, Valor. See if he's okay. I'm just going to check everyone else. Okay. Don't go near that body. Look away. Look away, Val. Look away. We're looking away. She's seen the dead body of her guardians

that looked after her for years, so I don't think some random guy that she barely knows is okay. So you run outside. Whose body do you want to check? So there's the villagers, the blacksmith, and then Missy. So Missy is in the same state as Arvel, right?

A brief glance seems to be in the same state as you look at a brief glance seems to be in the same state not bleeding to death but unconscious okay medicine check i keep running nine today ten um so he is bleeding uh let's see how well if he's dead yep dead let's see how dead he is. Okay, so he is dying, but you can stabilize him with that ten if you want. Yes. He is neither... I will stabilize. He is not stabilized, nor has he bled to death yet.

So you stabilize the blacksmith. You move up to one of the villagers. Let's see how they did. I rolled a twenty for a medicine. Nice. Oh, that's very good. Oh, that's very good. It means shit off.

No, it doesn't mean shit off because this one, it looks like, was unconscious, but the bleeding had managed, the bleeding stopped. It was at a vital location. Okay. So don't roll the medicine

until I tell you that you need to. Oh, okay. I thought I needed to roll them. Okay, that one rolled a natural 20. So they're alive. You actually go up to them and you can see that they're crying like they're whimpering it's the woman you can see this woman is just like

crying but whimpering but she's alive but she's badly injured okay right um can I don't crumple up Galen also can I just ask was he named after the guy from Battlestar?

No. I don't generally name people after shows, but if they have similar names, maybe I heard it and thought that's a cool name. Galen and Galen Tyrrell. Sure, but I didn't think of it. I killed Galen. All characters in the show are fictitious.

It's purely coincidental. Yeah. So at this point, yeah, everybody's either stable. Everybody who's dead is dead, and anybody who's alive is going to survive. All right, Mark, I get it. If you're dead, you're dead. Okay.

And yeah, and you can, yeah. Have a song about it. You don't know where these girls came from or anything. Okay, can I have a look around? You know that the last place they went was the Acorn Vale. Can I have a look around, just in general in the streets and around the house and just sort of perimeter check and see what's going on. Sure, yeah.

Perception check, I think. 19. 19. So looking around, you don't get the sense that there's any more creatures around. You don't get the sense that there's any more of these things, but also you don't get the sense that there's any more trouble going on in the town. The town is

quiet. It looks like Missy's probably gathered up a few people and sent everybody else away to investigate what happened at the store. You don't see anything else, and you don't hear anything else either. It's relatively quiet. Too quiet. Oh, good.

Is there anything new changing on the lake? No. So, oh, in the lake no so oh in the lake you just see the lights at this point I don't think that enough time has passed that you would see anything change and we'll find out if there will be anything yeah so what do you want to do as Ayla now do you want to try and find the others

or do you want to just try and secure Valor well I want to make sure that Arvel and Missy are stabilized and okay I don I want to make sure that Arvel and Missy are stabilized and okay. Okay, so that would be at least an hour. So I don't want to leave these guys in this state. Okay. So that would be about an hour. We need to take care of them. Okay. And then, as long

as they're okay... You're going to go look for the others. Then, I'll probably... Yeah, but I'll probably try and take... If Arvel's well enough to come with us, take Arvel and Valor too. Okay. Because I don't want them left on there. I don't want to leave Vala. Sure. No, that makes perfect sense. She's not leaving my sight!

Arvel! He's just dribbling on the floor. That's what I said. I said I'm staying here. You're being all protective about her. What about little Arvel? Because Arvel is trying to run who's about to be kidnapped. Arvel is an adult dwarf. He needs love too! He does need love. But anyway, so... Yeah, but Vala's the one being kidnapped. So that is an hour, so you'll have a short rest.

If you want to take a short rest as Aayla, I don't know if you even need one. It doesn't really make a difference. Yeah, you took a little bit of damage, but not a lot. So that's a short rest. By the end of an hour, Arvel and Missy wake up. But whilst that goes on... Does that count as a short rest for Arvel?

It does count as a short rest for Arvel, yes. So any of his hit dice, Kim, if you want to spend any of his hit dice, which are in a bracket next to his name, does the ship part get a long rest? No. This was going on while we were going through the tunnels, I guess. We had a whole day of sleeping.

We cut back as we see Ayla kind of tending to the others, making sure that Arvel and everybody else is fine. We kind of, if you wanted to see this, if you picture it in a cinematic way, the kind of camera pans down through the ground. Well, I think it helps. Like, I see everything like in a movie in my head, so this is a nice way to describe it. We see the camera kind of pan down through the ground, and then the terrain shifts from the earth into the tunnels this crystalline green glowed ship's hallway as we see the doors kind of slide open and one of these remnant masked knights kind of look out as he looks down this corridor and sees everybody except

century century is the only one he didn't see with his perception check. Because you all attempted to hide. But the rest of you, he either hears or sees you. And is like, sir, we haven't... Sir, we haven't seen this. And you see another figure. A man with black and white hair. Remnant looking armor. You can see there is a thunderstorm pistol at his side.

And he wears these elaborate braces and he kind of looks up slowly and kind of regards it like then we best deal with them knight and kind of gestures towards it it's going to be another initiative for everybody here because

I mean this is literally jumping straight in I know it's a lot of time back Nat 20! Nat 20! let. Nat 20! What the hell? Let me go round. So what does Sanne get? 12.

12. Quill. Nat 20. No, I got it. Nova. 23. Lucius. 22.

Sentry. Six. Six. And now I need to roll for Demos and his knights. What? Sorry? Who? Who?

What's that name? He did actually call out the name last time. Oh yeah, on the speakerphone. Walkie talkie. So just in case no one wrote that down. Demos. I did actually. Or did I? I never doubt that you write it down. Take them to Demos. Kim.

Okay. So Nova, you're inside the room. The guard seems to know you're there or has heard you conversing or called out or something like that but he hasn't seen you yet you've not seen the room itself open what do you want to do can I

commune with Tiangong so you try and focus on Tiangong itself and ask if it knows if it heard commune with Tiangong. So you try and focus on Tiangong itself. And ask if it knows, if it heard... Ask about the bow, if we can... Yeah, so I'll describe that. So when the doors open, we see this large chamber with these gangways leading up to a long containment thing,

sort of like a large crystal with technology kind of attached to the top and bottom and you can see that pipes are feeding in and out of the out of this crystal that the bow is housed in. Inside this crystal, floating suspended, is a bow

that seems to be made out of jagged black ice with a thin wisp of shadow as the bowstring. And as you first opened it, you hear in your heads a voice that is erratic, whispered almost. Yes, no, no, killed too many. Who? Strange. Presence. Familiar. Something. Can't be. Tiangong?

And you hear the recognition of the name so you focus nova on your mind and there is a sense of understanding there is you get the sense of familiarity um that's the best you can get out of him like you know that he can't communicate with you in that way um but he does it does seem that whatever this voice is, it recognizes it. And then I'm just, I don't know, I know that Tiangong's not necessarily going to communicate what's the word, clearly back to me,

but I'm just going to say, we need to rescue it. Please help us. There is an understanding. There is an agreement. And then I'm also going to say the last thing I'm going to say is please don't be scared. I won't let them take you. And there

is a you get the response back of of trust in you but also there is a relief. There is a sense of relief there. You know it does not want to be kept in this place. But yeah, okay, so that's your turn.

Lucius, what's your dex modifier? It is... Or your dex score, sorry. It's plus two. Okay, so it's not you. You watch as the figure that was observing the bow beforehand walks forward 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, to about here.

So to the door that we opened. Okay. He just shot it. And you see him he pulls out his he pulls out the Thunderstone pistol which you can see is different to the one Quill had. The one you had is quite utilitarian. This one is elaborate, made from sleek black and metal, silver metal.

It's engraved with runes. He pulls from his belt some sort of runic-looking object, like a bullet-shaped object, but covered in runes, opens up a six-chambered thing, slots it in, pulls it back, and you see him, he kind of focuses for a moment and probably would say, webshot, and fires the bullet into just around here.

Oh, next to me and Sana. Next to you, Sana, and I think this might hit everybody. Can somebody look up? I forgot to bring my player's handbook. Can somebody check the spell web for me and tell me the radius of it? Sure. I guess the first is the radius of it. Sure.

It's inspiration. No. You'll have my appreciation. 60 foot nine. Yeah, 60 foot. 20 foot cube. 20 foot cube. Okay.

So if he aims it here, it would be 5, 10, 15, 20. Okay. So it would actually, if he'd aim it here then, and it would go, it would hit the four of you, but not Sentry. So basically everything in that room you watch as the bullet

hits the ground there is a flash of arcane energy and these stringy thick webs of almost like silvery metallic thread just erupt everywhere.

That's a dex save I believe from everybody. Oh. Not Sentry. 17. 17 for Santa. 13. Not sentry. 17. 17 for Santa. 13.

14. 14. 8. 8. So most of you managed to kind of, like, duck out the way, leap into cover as these webs kind of explode around you. But Lucius, you are, like, pinned to the wall by these webs. Like, oh!

Not the first time. And you just hear the man, like, you can see the empty runic chamber Like And he just calls out One of them is trapped Capture him We need to get information out of him How does he know?

You might have been there Very much so And then he just he just continues aiming down the corridor basically with this with this weapon

Lucius so you can attempt to break free of the webs if you want so do you want it you can try and rip yourself free

he's gonna try and rip himself free yeah okay what is that so it is a strength or dexterity saving throw I believe I'll use dex okay natural one it just keeps So it is a strength or dexterity saving throw, I believe.

I'll use dex. Okay. Natural one. It just keeps coming in more. It's just your arms are stuck to the wall. You can't really wiggle through. I've got my hand stuck to my face. You have your hand stuck to your face. So you are currently restrained.

You can still take other actions, but yeah, your movement is, you can't move. You're currently move zero. You have disadvantage on attack rolls. You have disadvantage on... I can cast a spell there. You can try and cast a spell, yeah?

Cantrip Blade Ward. Blade Ward on yourself. That's your shirt. If we get the I'm a Delight shirt, it's I cast Blade Ward on myself. Duddy. Would you want a shirt that says I'm a Delight because I am a Delight.

10 out of 10. Santa's goat. What would Santa like to do? Give him a kicking. She's a big kicking bunny lady. She is a big kicking bunny lady, but Katie is a bit confused as to what we should do in this situation. So I'm gonna hold my action.

I'm gonna hold my action and step back and if they attack me then I will okay so you're readying an action if you get already an action okay quill cuz I'm confused with my shield thing yeah is that maneuverable like can I have it works like a shield it literally just you just... You can vaguely, but... I mean, what are you trying to do with it is the main question. I kind of want to blackbeard it and have it in front of my pistol so it's covering my face. Oh, nice.

That would provide no more additional benefit to what it normally would. For visuals, you can absolutely do it because it's cool, but it doesn't provide you any additional benefit. I'll swing out my barrier ring. And then get my thunderstone pistol and I'm just going to sort of stand

pointing down the corridor back at him okay not with my two hands so you're going to move okay

so you need if you want a clear shot you need to move out into the corridor can you not can you hold something while you have a shield up no you can't

barrier ring so like shield yes he can hold basically he can still use that hand but he yeah you can still hold yeah it's like hovering above the point of the shield yes he can hold it basically he can still use that hand but he yeah you can still hold yeah it's like hovering at the point of the ring yes and yes uh and i'm just gonna point it at him and i guess i'm gonna hold again and just like wait for them to come down i

so if they approach you'll take a shot yeah Yeah. Okay. Whichever one approaches. Okay. Okay. So at this point, this one starts approaching. 5, 10, 15, 20. In that case, this one... Shoot dead. ...kicks him in his fucking face. Five. So you can see what... It's gone.

The man, the commander, watches this, you know, with a half-raised raised eyebrow kind of like watching it interestingly So you fire? The kind of ricochet blows you back almost again this running guard You can see with this kind of purple stuff just ducks as the bullet Hits into the crystal Yes in this chamber at the back so you watch as this guard dashes towards you and he's going to make two quick strikes.

Oh, wow. Okay. So that's a 21 and a six. Is my action a thing? He's not attacking you. Ah. He's attacking Quill. I should have been more specific.

I said, I meant, but I didn't. I thought you said attack you. So nine damage. Also, you need to step closer to him, which you can't do because you I thought you said attack you. So nine damage. Also, you need to step closer to him, which you can't do because you're only ready the action, not the movement. Well, that's the way. So did you take that?

That was nine damage. As the staff whams into your arm, holding the ring and pistol, kind of staggers you to the side. Century. Hello. So you had placed the hand on this door you hear it as this is happening like this is all kind of happening at once it opens and you can see

kind of sat on a bed roll like a straw bed roll looking a little dazed uh yeah you can flip it flip it over um you can see looking a little dazed and a little bit otherworldly, you can see her skin almost has very faint black wisps of inky shadow kind of curling up it. But you can see she still kind of looks up to you. You can see a girl that looks very much like Valor just kind of looks up at you like, you're not one of them. No. How long have you been here?

And then you hear web shot and then you kind of hear this kind of go off behind you all right um as you and she kind of like looks up and you can see she kind of backs up as she sees this guard run forward okay um i'll tell her okay um stay quiet i'll come back for you and i nods. I'll shut the door. Okay. Put the dismembered hand. Yep. And then I want to... He doesn't know I'm there yet, does he? No, he doesn't. You were the only one he didn't know.

What would you like to do? It's my surprise. I kind of want a flame lance, but it's a bit risky. It is a little bit bit considering that right behind him is Santa and Nova yeah I'm

how far away is he is he like you can move towards him yeah I'm going to channel divinity okay and use it on nature's wrath okay tell us what does this do it sounds very

exciting cool so it's like uh like a spectral like purple energy vines that like spring up from the floor and entangle this dude which one this dude right here this one dude right yeah yeah and then Yeah, I am. And then do I need to save and throw? Strength or deck saving throw, your choice. DC 12. Okay, he rolled a 13, unfortunately. Rats. So these vines kind of erupt, and does it persist, or is it just once off? The vines disappear on success.

Okay, so yeah, they kind of reach up to grab him, and he looks down, but he spins the staff around, kind of knocking aside the spectral vines. God damn. Okay, and then... And then he obviously knows you're there now. He, like, looks over. He's like, oh, there's one more.

There's one more, sir. God damn. He's like... I don't remember. That's what they sound like. Okay, cool. Okay? Yep.

All right. That's me they sound like. Okay, cool. Okay? Yep. All right. That's me. Nova. Can army... Kill him? Eldritch Blast. No, I'm going to attack him with Tiangong. Okay, so you move up.

So move Nova up next to him. Move up. So you barrel past Santa, swing in the dagger, Tiangong form. 17 to hit. Hits. Hang on one second. So as you go to swing Tiangong at him, from back in the corridor, you watch as the commander with his pistol fires a shot to try and knock your blade out of like, like when you go to strike him. He can increase. Oh no, to be within a certain range so he can't do that yeah just stay back um so that was quite the throw four five six seven eight nine nine points of damage she's dead right yes right no so you watch as the green flame kind of erupts around him i don't think you've got anybody in range to do the additional damage to. Oh, I didn't say green flame. Oh, you just attacked him normally.

Oh, OK. Yeah, so you just stab him in the face. You just stab him in the, kind of lurches forward like, ah! And I say, we need to save the bow. The bow is the power supply for the ship. Oh. OK. All right. Oh, he's coming Bring it on

I feel like I've built this map And then this is all taking place in a corridor We can explore later So he begins And you just watch as he just very calmly He walks up kind of I'm almost imagining him Like reloading his gun as he just slowly Walks down this corridor.

Oh, my God. And then he will see you kind of coming out of the side. He'll take a shot at you and seems to be aiming for your vital points. No, don't. You're squishy. 21 to hit. Yeah.

Don't you try and shield me. You're out of spell slots. Yeah, that's what I was thinking so that is gonna be 8 plus 3 11 plus his sneak attack damage so that is gonna be

11 plus 9 20 points of damage as this bullet wow slams into your side as he targets like you know a vulnerable point on your side

like you feel like this bullet impact probably breaks ribs. Oh no. You gasp for air. Just like a little scream. And you just hear him like, You've clearly gotten yourselves into more than you bargained for.

Who are you? Why are you here? Uh, Lucius. I'm just gonna try and rip myself free. That's my action action 14 plus two that's enough. So you kind of like Your little strong boy body that we only found out about last turn And you pull yourself free from these web weird flex. Yeah, we're okay. Okay I'm gonna That was an action.

Yes. No, it's move. Move to escape. Was it? Okay. As a... Action then. Bonus action.

I'm going to spend my two sorcery points to gain a second level spot back. You're playing the game. I love it. Using tactics. Yay! You're doing it. You're doing it tactics you spent two sorcery points you get what one second level one second three sorry three yeah I was gonna say it's three

for to get I'm gonna cast acid arrow on this bitch which one the this one yeah you can't see the other guy you can see that the one that hit quill yeah yep yep okay so yeah you green burst of arrow like acid projectile launches forward. A little bit of, like, web residue on it from my hand.

So that's a plus five. So that is a 19 to hit. 19 to hit. Man, you've really melfed this guy. Melfed him. You've melfed him up. So you watch as the Melf's acid arrow sails through the air. It looks like it's just about to hit the guy in front of it.

And you watch as the gunslinger kind of man fires a shot. It hits the acid, which sprays it and causes it to miss. It increases his AC. So he increases his buddy's AC by firing a shot to deflect the spell effect. It kind of hits the acid in such a way that it sprays it out, giving the guy time to duck.

But does it have an effect on a miss? Let me double check. I believe it does. On a miss, the arrow splashes the target with acid for half as much. There you go. Initial damage. Oh. Alright, that's fine. And also, if he's resistant, he's not. I know.

Because you've got your new elemental adept feat. And any ones you roll counts too. Yeah, go for it. Cool. I'm sorry to put down your cool plan of spending your sorcery points, but that is his reaction. That's a really bad roll. No, it's not, because those are four. Nine. Nine points of acid. Halved. Oh, man, that is his reaction. That's a really bad roll. No it's not because those are four.

Nine. Nine points of acid. Halved. Oh wow that's really cool actually. Oh wait it's 2d4. Oh wait yeah it's 2d4 on the next turn. But you don't get that on a miss do you? Oh no damage yet. Okay so you want to similarly acid sprays the guy but your

dichromancy goes off because that's an acid spell. So you can do another, that was a second level spell. Yes. So that's five points of damage to same target? Correct. Okay. So you watch as the acid kind of sprays over him and you pull some of the orange colour from the air and I'm going to throw it out of my eye.

And then it's that colour. Pulls it out. Well, it doesn't really work that way. You have to look at something that colour. I can look at my own eye Sure Who's cross-eyed Ayla

No I'm not Ayla Sana Um Kate Can I Try and kick This dude Somehow

So you step in between Nova and Quill Um yep And she kind of raises her hands up And then she kicks with her legs three times. Yeah, she kicked. 19. Hits.

Roll all of your attacks at once and we'll see how many you hit. Oh, I'm so excited for this. 16. Hits. Misses. So two ones hit. So that's 2d8 plus...

Seven. Bam. Nine. Eight. Jesus. Plus six. 21 points of damage. So you watch as Sana just, like, bicycle kicks him.

She, like, jumps in the air. One, two, kick. Like, hit his chest. The first one, you think, breaks the armor and, like, begins crushing his ribs. The second one impales his heart with his own arm just you just watch his blood spatters out amazing just collapse and then she just lands like her hands up like a mutai like boom how come the npcs are way better i didn't roll that this time at least it's not me controlling it this time. I think you killed like three of the people.

I did better as her than I did as it. It's because she has multiple attacks. Yeah, she's got a lot of attacks. Next level, damn it. Next level. Next level. Okay, Quill. Right, okay.

We'll go to the end of this combat, then we'll take the break. The end of this round, I should say. Quill would know this. The gun has a explosive thing inside it, doesn't it?

Your gun does. My gun. The bullets do. So it's the bullets themselves have a thing called a thunderstone, which when it's struck,

it basically creates like a thunderous force in the barrel, which projects like the tip of the bullet forward. Oh, so the gun itself, all it is,

is just something that impacts that. Damn it. Can I retrospectively move a little bit? Sure, you can continue your movement, yeah. Okay. I'll spread out. Yeah, that makes sense.

I'm gonna... I guess he still has his pistol pointed at us all, doesn't he? He's kind of like holding it in one hand, yeah. And he's kind of looking, watching this like seven foot tall bunny woman decimate his guard.

He's like, seems to be like impressive. Impressive. Damn. Now release your anger. Wait, which one is my...

Would you like to take your turn at any point? Yeah, no, I was looking for my big heels, my cure wounds. I'm going to cure wounds myself. Okay, so just level one cure wounds.

Although actually, I was looking for my big heals, my Cure Wounds. I'm going to Cure Wounds myself. Okay, so just level one Cure Wounds. Although, actually, I've had some over. I mean, you might be worse than me. I don't know, though. I'm 14. You're better than me. I'm going to Cure Wounds myself. Okay, so level one spell slot. You're so squishy.

I'm in a squishy position. Oh! Three hit points. Roll a one. Four. At the end of your turn, he's going to take his dynamic combat action, his legendary action.

Sorry, I wanted to also move towards Sentry. Sure, you can move wherever you want. Sentry. Come hither. He sees you kind of heal yourself. Ah, a priest. Oh, what the hell? He doesn't have an ally next to you anymore.

So that's going to be... Oh, not very much. That's only a 10. Doesn't hit. So this time the bullet... I thought you meant 10 damage per second. I was like, whoa! Okay. That was the end of Quill's

turn. Oh, God. The other guard. Oh, no. I forgot about him. Oh, I forgot there was another one. What's he doing? No. You don't know what he's doing.

He's doing something in the room. Just going to get the box and hide. I'm out. Sentry. Cool. I'm going to combat roll style out of my little hidey hole thing. Like a transformer. Yeah.

Where do you want to go? You run up to him? Yeah, and I'm going to Flame Lance this dude Oh you just like Come out And just aim the laser Yeah Okay so What do I do for this?

So it's a DC 13 deck saving throw Oh he's going to do He's going to resist Let's do it He gets a reroll He gets one reroll per combat. I'm debating whether I want to use it now. I mean...

I used it, but that wasn't much better. So we get ten. Oh, yes! Three D10 fire damage. Three D10, and you take six cold. I take six cold. That's cool. So cool.

So cool. Ice cold. Where are all my D10s at? Here's one. Thank you. And then I need one more. Have a flashy new one. This one? That one. There it is. I got three. Thank you. And then I need one more. Have a flashy new one. This one?

That one, there he is. Oh, thank you. Out of my way. Oh, that's not very good. That's a 10. That's a 10. That's a 10. You're working.

14. 14 damage. Yes, please. So you kind of aim this wrist-mounted device, like this arcane device with this wand-like shape. The flame, the line of flame launches out. You can see he tries to duck and roll,

but you just, like, kind of blast the room, leaving this scorch mark along the black crystalline halls. He comes out of it, and you can see that his armor is blasted and scorched. His arm is kind of, like, smoldering a little bit. He just is like, Impressive guardian, I wonder.

And then he begins raising up his pistol to do something. But that's where we're going to take a break. If Aayla was here, she would appreciate that a lot. We'll see you in five to finish off this pretty dramatic combat encounter. Hopefully get everyone back together. Hey, thanks for listening to this episode. As I said in the intro, we're going to be part of a month-long event

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