High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #177 | The Seed of Rage (Part 2)

Episode Date: March 16, 2023

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Hello and welcome back to part two of High Rollers. Our champions of Aurois have been battling the Titan Atelicus, a giant 500 foot tall monstrosity. And to do so, they've been using the power of Calus Valkyrian's 300 foot tall magical construct Megamech, Project Vanguard Alpha. And despite their initial kind of struggles to get used to controls and maybe uh stumbling with some of its systems our champions have come back full swing and rallying together they've managed to use many of vanguard systems to finally enrage atelicus forcing the seed of hadar that has secretly been dwelling within atellicus to emerge

and take full control of the uh titan themselves and we jump back in uh with you guys having just seen this kind of fleshy pustule emerge from atellicus's back carapace, almost on top of it, but so small, only through Vanguard's adapted systems and sensors and quills, burgeoning perception. Have you been able to really see this creature manifest and see what it's been doing, kind of plunging its long tendril-like arms,

this vaguely humanoid shape, but very amorphous with tentacles and just this kind of round bulbous head and a distended open smiling rictus grin with a single red eye um as it takes position uh so what do you guys do it's puppet controlling italicus to what purpose to attack us or um i mean it certainly it is looking to you that like it knows that you're going to get in its way but it is still looking to it and this whole time as you've been fighting even though you've kind of been moving around and stopping inside there has been movement towards the halls

of infinite resplendence and you can now see um although you had like gone out several miles you can now see that purple triangular platform that vala had created and she stood on almost ready as like this last line of defense um in front of the entrance to the halls and you see quill you see the hadar seed of hadar look delicious and it is it is you've been making your way towards the halls like you've been sort of fighting italicus you know these aren't like six seconds combat rounds these were like have been going on and it's been like you know maybe an hour hour and a half you've been fighting in this thing like traveling to it like it's been this big slow lumbering kind of fight yeah um so you are getting

closer and it is still make its way there but it knows it has to kind of deal with you as well. Okay. What do you guys do? What options do we have to eject? And have the mech on autopilot just thousand punches while we... The Project Vanguard Alpha Nova's like, it won't work on its own, it has to have pilots. We can say that, like, maybe there's's like, it won't work on its own. It has to have pilots. We can say that maybe you're still throwing punches and attacking with the beam sabers and stuff like that, and the telekis is kind of fending them off.

You can still see that although you wounded the telekis and you cut off one of its arms, which is still missing, it's rapidly beginning to regrow and regenerate. This is a very powerful creature that is constantly evolving. And as it's growing back, that arm almost now seems to be made of black and red material, like obsidian, mixed in with these lines of red magic.

And it's growing back even bigger and more tentacles and more spikes and more armor on it. This was the plan, was it not? Expose. Maybe. This was the plan, was it not? Expose. Maybe we can use the cannon or we could use

the big beam weapon attack. I mean, it's there. We should attack that now, right? Get the torso. Yes. Let's try that. All right, what do you guys want to do? So it's on like

the very top to his back, right? Ridge back, yeah. I mean, yeah. It's like sort of, imagine he's sort of like, you can see it like in here, in like the little wedge of the gaps, like you can just about see it.

Short blades. Yeah, basically in the middle of its armored carapace. Cool. Just hanging. I mean, maybe, yeah, if we, should I make a sort of leg movement to try and fly up above so that we get a good shot on this target.

Maybe we can Magisite Missiles it or something. Yeah. Magisite Missiles. All right, yeah. I mean, you don't need to worry about making checks.

You pull away, fly up, the propulsion wings kind of keeping you aloft. You feel the energy returning to the Vanguard mech. Nova's like, okay, here we go,

and plunges her hands onto the crystals. You feel it charge up. All these blasts of magic kind of ray down, and you just see the seed of Hadar on the thing's back look up. And its jaw begins opening, and then it just,

and you watch as all of that energy is pulled. And then it just... And you watch as all of that energy is pulled. And it sucks in the power of the Magisite Missile as you attack with it. And then it just lifts a hand. You should know, Kallus's little toys are very vulnerable to entropy. And you watch as all of that power absorbed forks out of it like chaotic erratic

lightning black lightning and it launches up into the air and you try and pull vanguard out of the way but bolts of it kind of catch the legs and catch the arms in like little places and they don't seem like they're going to be that powerful or that damaging but as the bolts strike the metal the crystal the magitek erodes rusts corrupts breaks down at an incredibly rapid rate and you can feel vanguard breaking apart around you as you're like kind of trying to fight through this thing No, we aim for a telekis. He hasn't got a puppet to control. He can't get anywhere, right? It keeps regenerating though.

It's regenerating with his power. No idea what to do. I think we need to fight it. We can't use a core cannon on it. It's going to just suck that up. And that's going to be a ton of energy that it's going to use. The Vanguard's power is useless. Let's fight it ourselves. Yeah, I'm willing to try that.

As you sort of, Lucius, as you're coming to this thing, sentry the leg that, you know, where you're in, you basically see all these runic flashing signals as that black lightning it seemed to strike your leg the most out of everybody as you kind of pulled away in the flight and you just watch as the energy just depletes and parts of the leg break away and your section becomes exposed as the entire leg just rusts and breaks away like disintegrates into nothing. It's just... And you're like looking down onto open, blazing sky,

seeing Atelicus's armored carapace down below. You're still in the chair, but you can begin to see that around you, this black rust, this entropic magic is just eating the magitek away around you. And you begin to see it crawling up the cockpit chair, getting dangerously close to you at this point. Okay.

I might cast Find Greatest Deed and summon Alnissix. Remember, it does take 10 minutes. It does take 10 minutes, so I don't have time. Shit. Land it. Nova, land it. Are you sure? We're all...

The thing's not flying for much longer. We need to get down. Okay. All right, well, I'll try and get us as close. Then I guess we jump? Yes. All right, here we go. And, yeah, Nova will basically...

and begin to plunge it down. Century, what do you do as this stuff is crawling up into your chair? What do you do? You're, like, strapped in. You can get out of it, but you'll have to, like, crawl up into the rest of it. Yeah, so you're, like... Century, you're pulling up this, strapped in. You can get out of it, but you'll have to, like, crawl up into the rest of it. Yeah, so I'm just going to start trying to crawl up. Yeah. So you're, like, you, Sentry, you're pulling up, like, this metal ladder. Yeah. And this thing is getting quicker.

Like, this black rust is, like, you're outpacing it, but it's, like, chasing you. Like, you almost feel like it's, like, hungry. It's like, yeah. Oh, shit. And it's, like, crawling towards you. It's, like, almost like hands. Like, this pattern of, like, black lightning. And then you almost like hands, like this pattern of like black lightning. And then you almost see like in the frame,

like the ladder in front of you, the lightning kind of, and it forms almost like a laughing face. And it's like looking at you and then it just melts away, breaking. You see air and you're like, like scrabbling to get up. As you do, Nova basically flies down

towards Atelicus's back and you watch as the seed plunges its hands in. It grabs the body. You guys are in the torso. If you wanted to, you could jump out at this point, but it's got the main body. And Nova's trying to position the cannon and the things, but she's like, it's got me.

What do you guys do? Yeah, I'm going to crawl out of my seat. Jump onto the armored back of Atelicus. Yeah, the moment it lands, just get out of there. Yeah, jump out. I appreciate you going along with what I'm clearly saying. Yeah, you guys do. Lucius, I'm sorry your mini broke.

I've had to replace you with another shirt. No, Hadar. I've had to replace you with a shirtless man. Oh, Hadar got his clothes. You can place yourself on the far edge of the map there. So do we come falling, stumbling out of this crashing mech? Well, you get out of it just as Italicus rips it in two with this immense strength.

Actually saying that, he's only got one arm, so he's holding it in one place and then bites it and then rips it apart as the broken pieces. There's still enough of it left, but you can see it being eaten away by this entropic magic. As you guys land, you're close enough to this thing. You can see maybe 100 feet, 120 feet ahead of you, the seed. And you can see that it's kind of got this framing around it.

Apologies that this mini is the best representative I have. I couldn't finish. I was trying to make a custom mini, and it didn't go the way I wanted it to. I was trying to make one out of clay and it didn't work. But it almost has like a kind of shell around it, like a kind of piranha mouth, like around it, like holding it in place,

protecting it almost like an armored shell. And it's in the middle of these like lashing tentacles and things around it. You can also see that like these giant spines of italicus almost like mountains like they rise up on either side and then there are smaller ones there are like ridges on the armored back um that's what these kind of rocks and things represent i didn't again uh manage to paint the spines but yeah you can kind of see two smaller ones either side of it and then you've got like ridges and like lumpy patches that almost form

like rocks and things like that um as it's looking towards you um and then you've got ridges and lumpy patches that almost form rocks and things like that as it's looking towards you. And then you just feel a telekis begin to make its way towards the hall. Oh, crap. Whoa. You do, however, a piece of good news. Quill, you get a sending spell. Okay.

I'm trying to remember how Diamond One... Did Diamond One have like a Texan accent? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, it was. It'd be like, contacting Mr. Keelik Adkalar of the Storm Chasers. Contacting Mr. Keelik Adkalar of the Storm Chasers. Okay.

So it's like nine, right? That's eight gone. All right. This is Diamond One. Okay. Astoria, nearby, inbound now. Have you on sensors? Goodbye.

Goodbye. Okay, it's really good that she used a lot of double-barreled words there. I just got a message from Diamond One. The Astoria's nearby. I say quietly and not loud enough for her to hear. Oh, more delicious. Have you come to surrender?

Of course not. Good. It is better that life struggles against its undoubtable end. We're gonna roll initiative, guys. No! Yeah, not a head dart, seed. It's okay, it's just his seed.

He's probably garbage. 20. Not one. All right, Sentry, what'd you get total? 25. 25, big, what, Lucius, total? Three. Three you get total? 25. 25. Big work. Lucius, total? Three. Three.

Key, like, add color. 22. Ayla? 19. Can someone roll a d20 for Nova Vija, please? 18 plus... Plus three, 21. I imagine Lucius is pretty shaken seeing a form of Hadar.

Yeah, and for Sentry and Lucius, this is the first time since when, you remember you tried to connect with the Matrix, the Guardian, the corrupted Guardian. The first time seeing something. But you can tell that this is like an imitation. This is clearly like a replica. It's powerful,

but it's feeding off Italicus's power. Probably something that only began as a small thing, maybe just a splinter of a thought, of an idea, of a fear, maybe. And it's grown and grown and fed and fed, like a symbiote or a virus, and it's infected. Is there a clear connection between it and a telekis, or is it everywhere? At the base, I mean, it's kind of formed out of the carapace.

Like, it's almost taken form out of it. But it is a form. You can see it is a creature. But it's kind of like its legs blend into the carapace. Right. So it doesn't feel like severing this would do anything. I mean, you think that this is clearly a thing. This is a creature.

It's amalgamated here. And if you destroy... I'll say this. I happily tell you the objective. If you can destroy the Seed of Hadar, you will probably be able to free Italicus from its control and its infection. I will tell you that if you do not destroy this thing

within a certain time limit, it will reach the Halls of Infinite Resplendence. Okay. And Valor will be at risk. First game over. Okay. I mean, it might not be game over. If you can really weaken it by the time it gets there,

Valor or Calus or whoever might be able to stop it. Starve and save us! But, yeah. You also, and as Quill said, you do know that your story is close to inbound, so that might be able to stop it. Starving Tevas! But, yeah. You also, and as Quill said, you do know that your story is close to inbound, so that might be able to provide you some fire support and weaken the telekis or something like that later. Yeah, we need it to attack a telekis.

Yeah. Yeah, it's the only thing it can attack. But you imagine that if that can attack a telekis, it's probably going to affect this thing as well, right? So we start at the top of the round. The initiative warrior is going to go Sentry, Quill, Nova, Aayla the top of the round. The initiative warrior is going to go Sentry, Quill, Nova, Ayla, and then Lucius, and then in between that, enemy.

But I'm not going to tell you where. Sure, fair enough. Nice. So Sentry, you are up first. All right, I'm going to do my usual power-up turn. Bonus action Starbreaker and get big. Starbreaker! Do you want to replace?

I'm assuming you're going to move forward as well. I'm going to get Trot to help you with that. Mama. Mama bear. So you want to move 30 feet forwards? Yes, please. And then take Sentry off for me, please. Oh.

That was good. Nice, thank you. So you just watch like Starbreaker. It's worth noting Starbreaker has an additional property. When it attacks an aberration, it deals extra damage. Hadar and Hadar spawn, and then I think related to Hadar, count as aberrations. Hell yeah. So I believe it's an extra D8 of damage.

It is. That's two D8s. Yeah. That is on top of all your Divine Smite stuff. Yeah, your dice rolls are going to be nuts. Starbreaker was forged to fight Hadar. Like, it was forged to fight aberrations of Hadar. Cool. Don't go get the treasure in the middle of a war, Tom.

Look. It was at the time. All right, poor timing. Can you just shift Sentry over just once? It's in four squares. Yeah, that's it. Perfect. All right, Sentry, that's it perfect all right century that's it you're done um you know you know i hate to do it to you it's legendary action time

i don't know how many legendary actions this thing has do you not so basically um i believe he's going to create it right where the group of you except century are he's going to create right at the edge of the map, kind of seeing you guys ahead of him. Creates a 10-foot radius of black tentacles. I need each creature to make a strength saving throw, please. That's everybody in Nova. I will roll for Nova.

Oh, good. I presume Bless is long gone. Bless and stuff is all long gone. Any effects that you had from the Telekos fight are all gone. That's a definitive fail. Oh, wait. Do we have your... Wait, was that Strength saving?

Strength saving throw, yes. We have your boost. You should... Is it 30 feet or double check? Yeah, you moved 30 feet, but we should still be... You should technically still be... 30 feet, yes. You still get it.

You still get plus three. All right, Strength. 34. You succeed. 12. rich. Yes, you still get it. You still get plus three. All right, strength. 34. You succeed. 12. Fail. 10. Fail.

Nova also fails. So, failure. I'll do it on the failure's base first. So you guys are going to take six points of cold and ten points of acid damage. Aayla, you would take, well you don't have resistance to either of those, so you would take half of that. acid damage um ala you would take well you don't have resistance to either of those so you would take uh that uh half of that so three acid and five cold so eight yeah and as this kind of swirling mass of tentacles like you know slams into your bodies and you can feel this freezing

um astral space kind of touch but also it burns and eats away at your skin and your armor and things like that as it kind of... Does it count as a spell? No, because this is innately using... If another person used this, it would be the Arms of Hadar spell, but from Hadar himself or a visage of Hadar, it technically isn't a spell, it's just his power. It is a magical effect. Okay, so I can't absorb it. You could absorb elements because it's just his power it is a magical effect okay so I can't absorb it

you could absorb elements because it's just a type of damage but you can't use the gauntlets for example okay yeah I'm going to leave as is for now okay

nice alright that's going to be the legendary action we go to Quill I was really confused then I thought my channel divinity affected abjurations but

wait what type is he? abjuration abinity affected abjurations, but wait, what type is he? Abjuration. Abberation. Abberation. Abjuration. I've got arcane abjuration. He is an abberation. I will also tell you that you can't banish this creature.

It is infused into a titan and titans cannot be banished. Well, it's power upturn. I'm gonna move just two century. That's fine. But I'm gonna do my Bacon of Hope. Bacon! Everybody. Also, because I feel like this guy is gonna punish our minds.

So everyone gets maximum healing and advantage on wisdom saves. Nice. Cool. And death saves. End of turn. That wisdom saves. Nice. Cool. And death saves. End of turn. That's useful. End of turn.

Tom, or Keelakad Kalar, as you cast your spell as a legendary action, the seed is like, yes, delicious divine magic. I need you to make a constitution saving throw as if you were concentrating on a spell. Oh, crap. Oh, boy. He got your spells. So is that what i need to be 10 nope there's a set dc oh god okay i would have failed if it was a 10. so as you come to the magic and you fill your friends with this beacon of hope shining light out of you it just descends its mouth and absorbs the spell energy

and you lose concentration on the spell. Son of a bitch. Okay. Delicious. Does that look like something, well, I guess from Lucius... It was a legendary action. Yeah, but from Lucius' perspective, does he think now that all spells are just absorbed?

No, this is something he has to do. This is like a legendary action, so it's on as a legendary action. You know that, I don't mind telling you, they can only do a certain amount of legendary actions per turn. Okay, so. Also, he didn't absorb the spell, just the continued effect of it, I suppose. I mean, the spell is no longer in effect. Yeah.

The spell has ended. That is pretty much... It was also the other thing I would point out. In fact, make an Arcana check for Lucius for me. Let's see if Lucius can figure this out. Come on, smart Lucius. Arcana is a solid... 18.

18. That's not bad. You would imagine that, like, if you were to, say, fire a Chromatic Orb, it's very quick, it's instantaneous. It travels and strikes the creature. It strikes, yeah, the meat. You didn't think that there was enough time.

The way it had to distend its mouth and absorb the energy, a spell like that, you don't think it would have the time to necessarily do that, but because Beacon of Hope is this ongoing, continual effect, he was able to suck it in. So we're looking for non-concentration spells. Or at least more concentration spells than he can potentially absorb with his legendary actions. But anyway.

Does it look like it empowered him? Nova would be next up. No, it just looked like he ended the spell. What would you like Nova to do? I will make all the rolls, but you need to tell me what Nova's going to do. I'm trying to remember what, like... See if Kim's in Discord yelling at you

what to do she can't see anything she can't see us she didn't know what buff moves does Nova have like power up moves she can bring out

her echo but that's only really for swapping location she can make attacks from it as well so if the echo is out she can make an extra attack with it a certain number of times per day.

I don't think Nova would be keen on getting that much closer. I feel like she'd probably go behind some rocks. Yeah, she can hexblade curse, which is a bonus action. Hmm, she'll probably do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that 30 range though? Within 30, so she would need to move closer, yeah.

Can echo do it? She can't manifest the echo that far away. It has to be within 15 feet of her anyway. So how about this? If we move Nova 30 feet towards some cover or something. Do you want to move her there? 15, 20. She'd probably do that.

Do you want her to dash? Yeah. So if you dash, you get 60 feet forward. Is that within 30 feet? You're going to have to tell me. I can't see. Like that. 25, 30, 45, 40, 45, 50.

So this one. And then bonus action, He see. 15, 20, 25, 30, 45, 45, 50. So this one. And then bonus action hex. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. It's still just at range. But she's still behind there. All right. But she could manifest the echo if you would like her to.

I think get it ready for an attack. Unless it's something that he can eat. It is not. I don't think there's anything he can't eat. And he is everything. Except a monster drawbreaker. As... You struggle with that. Troc, can you roll a d10 for me?

No. I need you to roll a d10. As Nova manifests her... Two. Two? Yep. Tiangong comes out. What? Wait, what? As in like the egg echo. Oh, right.

We did it. We got it back. That was easy. So it's an echo. It's not Tiangong, isn't it? It's the echo. The thing as we know it. Yes, this is the kind of faded, wispy form, shadowy form of Tiangong

that you've seen. Pulling on some sort of energy. You've seen her do this before. Like, she's still, it's the echo, the memory of tiangong that you've seen some sort of you've seen you've seen you've seen her do this before like she's still it's the the echo the memory of tiangong okay um but yeah don't worry about the rest it just happens and that's fine yeah as if as if nothing happened as if nothing else could have happened great that was the only thing that was going to happen um all right end of nova's turn uh yep Just need to get closer to this boy. Okay. The Seed of Hadar.

Again! Will use, not a legendary action this time, but a lair action. He's getting lairy. Artelicus. Time to vent some of that powerful magic. Oh, shit. I need... In fact, I'm going to have to come around.

Uh-oh, uh-oh. He's going to start shooting out fire again i mean when he was doing this while we were in a mech it was enough to really badly hit a mech and now we're on its back yeah we forgot about this what he's got to do is just put his arm up and just just scratch it oh yeah yeah so So... That's fine. Something started falling. So I need Quill, Ayla and Lucius.

You watch as ridges all along Atelicus' back, starting at his head and moving backwards, so moving towards the seed of Hadar. You begin to see the cracks in the carapace and the armour begin to glow and vent this primordial magic, and it seems to be going in sequence, moving closer towards the seed. You guys are at the head of the column in this regard. I need you all to make dexterity saving throws, please, as you are within 10 feet of a vent.

Ooh, I don't think I am. Ooh, I think you are, Ultimus. Oh, you're 15 feet. Yeah, how about that, motherfucker? Well. I only got an 11. how about that, motherfucker? Well. I only got an 11. That was terrible. 11.

17. 17. You both fail, unfortunately. Eye level all the time. I just looked at the telescope bag down there, and it says PP. What? Rhiannon!

Oh, my God. How does it say PP? It's like folded, so it looks... That's probably the best. Oh that's a lot of dice. It is a lot of dice, I'm not done. I'll take a picture. Yeah please.

PP. For Brandy it sounds like... It smells like Pepe. Use PP. Yeah we failed. Oh shit. Lucius and Ayla you both take 33 acid damage. That's not good.

As the primordial magic seems to have more orange, kind of acidic-looking energy into it. I wish elemental adept was resistant to me. But it's not. It's not. Would you like to use absorb elements, use your reaction? I think I might this time, so I might half it. Okay.

Spend that first level spell slot and you can half that damage. So I'll add... Ayla, you're next. Oh, I will rage first. Then I will, are you still laughing at that? As it comes to you. Sorry, reset the picture, it says use PP. Oh, okay. Yeah, the fold in it is perfect um

um what i will do is i want to move i've worked this out okay that i think this out okay that i think it's within 60 feet of me now okay so i'm gonna throw the hammer so you can basically like run run across the battlefield run past sentry i'm just gonna throw the hammer at it all righty wicked go for it please hit uh 15 plus 15 30 30 to hit. 30 does hit.

You hurl the Howling Tempest. So, 15 damage plus six. So 15 bludgeoning, six lightning. Okay, 21. And then an additional four lightning. It's not that funny. These little giggles coming from Tom.

You know what it is. It's because Ree's laughing, Tom laughs. It says he's breathing. Ree's crying. That's not unusual. 12 more lightning. 12 more lightning. And then it comes back to me.

All right, I will say, for the purposes in the future, it has no resistance to lightning damage, so feel free to just add it all up together for me. Yes, I was just getting it in my head. No, it's fine. But yeah, you watch as the hammer kind of like, and it slams into this kind of amorphous, carapace-like shell.

Do we need a minute? No, carry on. No, you sure? You're good. I love running combat and having people laugh in the back. I'm really enjoying the combat. I'm really enjoying it, Mark. I'm really immersed.

I'm really immersed. Yeah, clearly. Use people. All right, so Ayla, anything else on your turn? No, I've done everything, though. All right, okay. In that case, at the end of your turn, it has nothing else.

It's going to use its last legendary action of the round before its turn again. And it is going to create Aayla, Sentry, and Quill. It's going to create that pool of tentacles again. I need the strength saving throws from all three of you, please. I really slapped that dice. Holy shit. Nat'm gonna pitch this.

Nat 20! Woo! Ding fucking dong. Hell yeah, boys. I feel like it's a real thing. All right, so total sentry? 24. 24, success.

I got a... 15. Failure? 30. 30. 30. Success. Those of you who succeed take half damage. That's going to be 10 points of cold and 10 points of acid. So half to five for those who succeed.

Didn't affect me, right? I see. You are not in range. It's in that little middle area around Quill, Aayla, and Sentry. And it does seem to appear, kind of whack you with a bunch of tentacles, and then it just appears. Blah! Blah!

God! Hey! I haven't told you, Hadar. You can't just say, That's it, she's done now, by the way. Next time you do that, Hadar, I'm going to punch you in the stomach and swear to God.

Blah! I can't not get that image out of my head now. Right. That's also, well. out of my head now. Right. Sol's Hadar. Well. Is it my go now? No. It's actual.

Seed of Hadar's turn. Oh. It's actually Seed's turn. None of you have gotten close yet, so what it's going to do is it's going to look around. Ooh, Ayla's right out in the open, and you did hit it. Yeah, I thought so. I need you, Ayla, to make a, you're going to be angry at me,

a wisdom saving throw. It's not as bad as intelligence. A wisdom save. Yes. No advantage, because he sucked me off. Ten! You do get plus, oh, ten. I'm at 1213, yeah.

You watch as he just looks, and you see that eye pulse red, and it's just like, just let your mind break with reality. As the world to Ayla, the barriers between realities and timelines and universes collapses, as he casts a spell Reality Break. You cannot take reactions until the spell ends.

At the start of your turn, I need you to roll a D10 for me. So you are currently affected by Reality Break. It's at the start of your turn. So somebody might be able to free you before that happens. So you're like Doctor Strange going through different realities. Don't move!

Ayla's eyes almost roll up into her head and her body is almost surrounded by you see almost like a heat haze around Ayla's body as she's just held there for a second. You're still aware of what's going around you, Ayla, but you can feel your body sluggish to move,

and your mind is kind of beginning to unravel and twist, not quite having a full effect yet. But none of the rest of you are currently in range, so it is going to just use its Entropic Blast Sentry to attack against you. Ooh, pretty bad rolls. 21 and 16. 21 hits. 21 is going to hit.

All righty. Ooh, terrible damage rolls. Good. That is going to be 14 points of necrotic damage. Spicy. And you cannot regain hit points until the start of your next turn. Okay. Oh, boy.

A lot of that stuff going on, eh? Makes sense. Lucius. Lucius is going to move between this gap, right? Yeah, there's not actually a gap so imagine that like I've put the walls of flame there so imagine there's like a line on the floor and that's just pulsating magic but you've already

been blasted by it. You can technically move through it as long as you actually no I would say that when you start your turn in it you'd probably have to make another saving throw. So I'm in it right now. Yeah. Six. It won't in it right now. Yeah. Six.

It won't be as much damage. That was acid, I believe. So that's going to be 11 points of acid damage. And then you just take your turn normally. All right. I think I should have done that for eight. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Okay.

About there. I think I'm in range, 90 feet. I was in 60 feet, so you should be okay. Yeah, 90 feet, you should be fine. So, can I quicken a spell? I'm going to quicken Chromatic Orb

and follow it up with a Firebolt. Oh, he's off. Oh. What's he doing? What did you get? Take your movement back. I forgot that there's enough turns have passed. What? Oh, for the next wall? Yes. Oh, cool. Take your movement back, Lucius. I apologise. I forgot it triggers on turns, not rounds.

Okay. Wait, so there's now two walls of fire? Two lines. So imagine the first line is like… Well, you wouldn't have known this until now. So that gap in the arm of the carapace is venting this magic, and then after a few moments, the next line closer towards the seed begins to vent and blast heat up as well.

So I need Aayla, Sentry, Nova, and Quill. I think you're just out. Just out again. Yeah, you're out. Metal spot. I'm exactly in the gap. I'm hammered by this one. Yeah, that's bad guys, bad guys, bad guy.

BG, BG. I've taken like 100 points of damage. So Dex already. Dex already. You're dead as hell. I'm not even gonna heal you. Oh. What was it, Dex?

Sorry, Dex? Yeah. Yeah, you will keep that. So you still take that damage, the ass damage, but you're obviously going to move into a different location, I imagine. I will be. Yeah, because this would have happened before your turn. I'm going to line up with Cor.

21. Nova, I believe, has got fail. 21 still fails, unfortunately. Nova fails. What did we get, Century? Yeah, I failed on 10. 10? I think that's everybody there, isn't it? Yeah. So 25 instead of 30 movement there, isn't it? Yeah. So 25 instead of 30 movement there. Lovely. Does it look like where we're standing...

Give me a second just so I'm doing this. Answer this question. Answer it right fucking now. Yes or no? Well, I think it's like a continuous sort of wall that's pushing towards him. Yes, it is. If anything, the one behind us is going to vanish in a bit. I'm wondering if it's going to... Oh, well, it's good for you actually because it's lightning damage.

34 lightning damage. So resistance, you'll half that to 16. Who is sentry within 10 feet of me? She is, yeah. She gets half then. Nice. Yeah, nice. All right. So yeah, 34 34 half if you

have resistance i will do novas so no more moving not within range it's uh so they're multiple they're not it's not one wall right that flame wall i'm gonna have to unfortunately move them in a minute but that's still blasting and then the next one is lasting and you can see uh it should be if i'm if i've measured correctly it should be, if I've measured correctly, it should be 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, about 30 feet gaps. You can see there's another ridge now in the floor. Now that you've seen the second one, you can see that 30 feet ahead of the second line, there's another gap in the carapace armor,

and that's beginning to, like, glow, and then so on and so on. That was my question, was, is there any sign of a gap where me and Quill are standing? No. For, like, future future rounds if it were to start i would i would say that you can now that you've seen both of these things activate you can see that it is a 30 foot gap between these carapace plates uh of which nova is not in the space of the next one oh wait well she's but remember if you start your turn within 10 feet of one, you have to repeat for a lesser damage save.

She's going to have to move. It's almost like a rolling wave, but not like a wave. It's like blast, blast, blast, blast, blast sequence. Okay. So you've moved into a safe position. I believe you're still within 90 feet. Padding down the smoke from the fire and the acid. Yeah.

That's acid, mostly, isn't it, right? Yeah, it is acid. That one was acid. The next one was... You can do a level four chromatic orb quickened. Okay. So it's like mega fast.

Okay. Go for it. Attack roll, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Huh. 17. Total? I'm going to use

seeking spell. Not seeking spell. Yeah. Whatever the two... Seeking spell? Is iteking Spell. Not Seeking Spell. Yeah. Whatever the two sort of- Seeking Spell? Is it that? Yep. It's been a while.

It's been a while, folks. Yeah, that's like 31. Is it going to be a hit? What type of damage? This is ice, I think I said. Okay. So 68. I'll roll it on here because that's a lot of D8.

I presume the first one did miss before the Seeking spell. Yeah. 37. 37 points of cold damage. So you watch as the Chromatic Orb strikes and you can see the creature, you can see the seed is like,

wants to extend its mouth to absorb the energy but it's too fast. Slams against it, shards of ice embedding into its body. And it just kind of flexes and then muscle tissue against it. Shards of ice embedding into its body. And it just kind of flexes and then muscle tissue pushes out the shards of ice. But it does strike. Whilst that's happening, I quickened that one

so I could throw a cantrip firebolt. Go for it. Just like while he's... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. So one hand does that, the other hand does firebolt. Nice.

20 to hit. 20 is not enough. You see that the other hand does fireball nice um it's 20. 20 is not enough you see that the creature doesn't look like it can move or dodge but this kind of amorphous carapace around it a part of it like ex extends and like blocks the firebolt and then retracts back into like the shell like it's protecting the creature inside and i'll just pull out we need to stay between the ridges at roughly this distance, otherwise we'll get hit. Good job. Just so it's in character. Century. Yeah. Cool. I would like to move up my-

At the start of your turn, I do need to make another dexterity saving throw, please. No problem. 15. 15 is not enough, I'm afraid. 18 lightning damage. Nice. That's right, it's large sentry. That is half because you're near Ayla, so I guess that would be nine lightning damage.

Yeah, nice. Large sentry can't possibly avoid or sit nicely in this gap. No. You're too big. It's the game I play. Being big. Being big. Being big. I'd like to use my full movement to go 30 feet.

I can get you from here. So, 5, 10, 15, 16, 25, 30. And then bonus action. Misty, step in another 30 feet. All right up in there. Right up in his grill. Yeah. He attacks against him. Ah, finally.

Someone brave. Two turns, dude. I couldn't move further. Give us six seconds, bro. Jeez! Finally. Nine plus 30. It's been long since I have consumed guardian energy.

Oh, what'd you roll? It screws him more. Uh-oh. It screws him more. 22 plus nine, 22. 22 is not enough. That Armored Carapace kind of pushes Starbreaker It scores in one. 22. 22 is not enough. That Armored Carapace kind of pushes Starbreaker out the way.

You have to bring back for a second strike. Fuck. Yep, that's an eight that time, so no hits. Unfortunately, Sentry, you're like... And then just it's using the shell like it's controlling it, like a tentacle or a piece of its body to block and deflect these attacks. Hard armor. Hard armor. Hard armor. like a tentacle or a piece of its body to like block and deflect these attacks hard hard armor for a rough as well yeah yep yep yep yeah hard armor uh keelik and kala well at the end of your turn center i'm gonna use a legendary action oh do it uh and i'm gonna attack you with a

flashing tentacle uh 28. great actually i've got an idea of how to reduce this AC. Yeah? 17 points of bludgeoning damage. 17. Okey-dokey. Kill him. We'll lower the AC. Nice. And then we go to Kilikek.

Okay, so if I move 5, 10, 15, yeah, I can basically go in between the next gap. 5, 10, 15, yeah, I can basically go in between the next gap. 5, 10, 15, 20, 20. That noise! So that should be, if the last two walls are exactly like the next wall, should be in the gap. And I will. I really want bacon. He's going to eat the bacon.

He could eat the bacon, but he might not eat the bacon. He's gonna eat the bacon. He hasn't used enough actions. Century, because you took your turn, you can now be healed again as well. Okay, cool. So that my slogan is, can you feed him concentration spells?

Or, alternatively, help! I've already taken my go. Help? I fucking tried to help. That would be next turn. He sucked up my spell. Tom, what would you like to do? I'm currently taken my go. Help? I fucking tried to help. That would be next. He sucked up my spell. Tom, what would you like to do? I'm currently losing my brain. Oh, fine.

Maybe. Help. Maybe. Do I know the level of the spell? This is not a spell. You can try and make an Arcana check to determine, but it will be a high DC because this is not a commonly known spell. This is a special make an Arcana check to determine, but it will be a high DC because this is not a commonly known spell. This is a special spell.

Arcana. Let's just say I'll never know. This is magic. This is entropic magic. This is not magic you are super familiar with. Twelve. All right. I will do a... My mind is also unraveling. I will do a...

My mind is also unraveling. What? I'll do a 6th level, mask your wounds. So anyone within 60, which is everyone. Okay. 48 plus 6 healing. What? Oh, okay. I'm saying okay. 27 healing to everyone.

27 healing. Nice. Spellbreaker does not help. Oh, cool. At 6th level, okay. Yeah, I imagine it was higher than that, but I mean still 27 is 27. I'm getting out of here.

24? 27. You might do. Yeah, you will. I'd have to roll a natural 20, I think. We'll find out. I think I would have to roll a natural 20, I think. We'll find out. I think I would have to roll a natural 20. No, there's other stuff I can potentially do.

If it's a wisdom save. Yeah, but there's other things your friends can do. I'm going to banish you. Cool, I'll just kill. I will. The non-existent health home. Yeah. That is...

I'll do a BIM and just float around. Where's that next wall? Please be where I hoped it would be. Oh, he's basing it on me, so I must be right. Yeah, you were right. I'm in the gap. Do you want to leave one there so we know what the... I've got a spare one, don't worry.

Oh, okay. The next one will be a line that way, right through you. Right in the middle. He's basing it on Quill. Oh, God, he's going to crisscross. The next one will be a line that way, right through you. Right in the middle. He's basing it on Quill. Oh, God, he's going to crisscross. The only one that's going to take any damage, and they take damage regardless, is the Echo.

So the Echo is vaporized. And that is going to be... That's the lair action. At the end of your turn, Quill, Seed of a Tarl is going to take another legendary action. Oh, yeah. Uh, at the end of your turn, Quill, Seed of Hadar's gonna take another Legendary Action. Oh, yeah. He should. Is going to treat himself. That'd be good for him.

Yeah. Yep, he can hit Nova, Aayla, and Quill with an Arms of Hadar. I need you all to make a Strength saving throw. Can I do, I can't do it, can I? You can, yeah, you're not incapacitated. Oh, right, okay. You just can't take Reactions, Karen. Right. Can he do something? At't do it. You can, yeah. You're not incapacitated. You just can't take reactions, Karen.

Right. Then at the start of your turn, a thing will happen. Nope. It's just a normal saving throw. Well, I rolled a 19. I got a 50-50 on that dice. 19 plus 13. You are going to be fine. Yeah, you're going to take half damage at least anyway.

Quill, what'd you get? 14. Quill and Nova are going to take 10 acid, 10 cold. Aelide, take 5 acid, 5 cold. Are you monitoring her HP? Yeah, I got it. She's dead. She's dead? She's okay.

One with Hadar. She got the healing as well, right? Yeah. Oh, sorry, I didn't do that. How much was that? 27. 27, I will do that now. I think it was 47. It wasn't. 27. I will do that now. I think it was 47. It wasn't.

Weird. That interaction's still active, so that won't trigger yet. I think I healed her so much, she ascended to gold. Aayla, I need you at the start of your turn to roll 1d10. Two. Two. Vision of the Far Rel. Your mind reels, and suddenly you are not looking at the

back of a telekiseimu, you are not looking at the Seed of Adar, you are being flung through astral space far beyond the realms of Ero. It's like almost rushing far too quickly for you to process where you are but you know you're speeding through space going out to the furthest reaches of astral space that looming endless void of darkness where there are no stars and you fly towards it and you begin to see as you begin to slow broken planets that have been like cracked open the life the energy sucked out of them turning into gray dust husks and then eventually you come to a tear in space and you go through that tear into a realm

of endless mouths and eyes and twisting unknowable helixes of energy your very body seems to spiral out very wandavision kind of like you know multiverse of madness doctor strange like your mind breaks uh a little bit yeah you're gonna take some psychic damage and you will be stunned until the end of your next time do i get to save that is the effect because you failed to save for the this is the first time the spell has had its own so i just get nothing at the end of it this time unfortunately no you are it has taken you out of the equation it's okay though if you go through the vision frame by frame you see some banging easter eggs cool just like multiverse of madness

at 30 points of psychic damage that's not fun the rest of you see Ayla blood starts coming out of Ayla's nose

out of her ears and her body's like vibrating like she's in some sort of horrible trance not having so much fun right now guys

no and unfortunately that is your stun to the end you do however get to make another wisdom saving throw. Now?

Yep. Oh. Watch this. You don't have centuries, so... 20. Unnatural. Unnatural 20 is still not enough, I'm afraid. Yep. See, I literally... I don't think I can save. What was that? 18 plus?

That was a 19 plus 1. Oh. I don't think I can save out of this. I can pop you out of that weird funk you're in. Yep. Drag you back down to earth. But unfortunately, that is the end of your turn. One, two.

I think I can. I've got no idea. And then... The last thing to do is, at the end of your turn, a lot of the seeded fatales can take their legendary action. Just kind of whack Sentry with a little lashing tentacle. What? Whack.

29 to hit. That is going to be 18 points of bludgeoning damage. Please, Sentry. Okie dokie, thank you. And then the Seed is going to take its go. And as you are now within melee range, you see that big carapace around itself. It kind of turns black,

and that carapace itself tries it kind of turns black and that carapace itself tries to bite you it like it's not surround you and engulf you this is against you I don't think you can protect yourself unless you have another way of giving me disadvantage but I don't believe you can protect And tropic more. Oh, no. Oh, no. Do it. No. Uh-oh. Is it that bad? No.

Is that bad? I mean... Hang on. I need to work this out. You saw how many dice he rolled earlier. This is a different type. You've not seen this attack yet. Oh, okay.

I mean, he rolled a ton of dice earlier. New beans. New beans. What beans? New beans. What is the new beans? Yeah, new beans. This guy's never had new beans. Clearly. Oh, no.

If you want, just ask Siri. What's 400d8 maxed? Oh, no. 81 points of force damage. Oh, it's close. And I need you to make a charisma saving throw, Sentry. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Holy fuck.

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Dice, don't be dickheads today, please. Let's not do this. That's a real dickhead dice. What's the total? 14. So you watch. For those of you who can see, Sentry, this thing engulfs Sentry.

Sentry's completely surrounded by this black carapace that surrounds the seed. It then opens, and Sentry is missing. Oh! Sentry. Hello. You, it all goes black. You feel this force kind of like knock into you. Like you feel your kind of matrix flicker.

And then when you kind of like realize where you are, you're in almost like a red chamber. You think it's like a red, almost like a cathedral, like a kind of dome of a cathedral. But you realize that it's not red because it's painted red. It's like muscle tissue and bone as the structure. And there are mouths on the wall and eyes. And you've seen a place like this before.

This is Hadar's realm. And there is, you are not alone there is no exits you see no doors no windows floating in the middle of the room you see almost like a deep-sea squid but instead of a jellyfish like or like a squid's body it has a single lidless eye and just these long drooping tentacles and speaks to you in this unknowing maddening language but you know that this creature that you have been transported to some sort of demi-plane and this is its keeper. This is like the warden of this realm. That's what you want. What?

No! What is that spell? Is that a thing? It's not a spell. Okay. Me? Yep. I mean, if anyone's gonna duel with the keeper

of Hadar's demi-plane. Send it round? Yeah. You're at the end of the initiative. I've got it here. I like Hadar's Debbie play. Is this a new round? Yeah. You're at the end of the initiative. Huh. I've got it here. I know when you go. Fuck.

I guess I just keep blasting for now. Sure. So, I'm, yeah. How do we get Sentry back? I mean, as far as the rest of you are concerned, Sentry was there, this thing bit her, and now she is not there. You unwell, everyone's always free to make one free Arcana check

if you want to try and figure out what happened. I'm busy losing my mind. Ten plus six, so 16. Oh, I just realized Nova didn't go, I don't think, so I need to do Nova's turn. Oh, yeah. I'll do that in a minute. 21?

What'd you get? 16. 16, 21. This will count for your next turn then, Quill. So you won't be able to do this on your turn. Lucius, you're not sure. Like, maybe it's the panic, the fear of seeing Sentry, this amazing warrior that you admire just vanish.

You're not sure. Quillill you've seen playing our transportation magic you've seen demi plane magic you've seen valor's magic this is very similar okay century has been sent like a banishment spell like she has been banished or sent to a another plane or a demi plane or something that is what you know. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. What'd you get, 21?

Yes. I'd say with a 21, you have a feeling that this is connected to the seed itself. Maybe damaging it might be able to bring her back, almost like breaking concentration maybe. Okay. Or something like that, but you're not sure. You don't think it's hopeless,

but you suspect that if this were you, you would have an easy you would maybe be able to use the book to transport yourself back or something like that. Sentry doesn't have any powers like that, as far as you know. I'm going to reactively blast then on my go. sure go for it tell me what you're gonna do quickened chromatic orb to make sure he doesn't suck it up okay you don't

i will say this by the way you don't necessarily need to quicken it every time i'm gonna do the fireball yeah if you want to yeah if you want to do the combo that's fine but the instantaneous spell you can't absorb again i think i got a nat one just then. That'd be very bad. That rolled pretty bad. You want a nat 20. I don't think you should roll that dice. I think that dice needs to go. Send it away. We've got the dice gel.

Where is it? There he is. Look, he's getting full. You've got a scrungly in there, by the way. A scrungly's over here. Oh, okay. He's over here. Good.

Nice. Well, Lucius, I'm afraid that, yeah, the Chromatic Orb, it almost seems to be ready for this combo. It's seen you do it once before, and the creature doesn't even try and absorb it this time. That kind of carapace, like the teeth that bit Sentry away, just grabs the orb out of nowhere and just... Nothing happens. I will still try and...

Throw the Firebolt. Throw the Firebolt. Sure, sure, sure. Better than nothing, eh? Mm-hmm. You're right, bud. No. What, eh? Mm-hmm. You're right there, bud. No. What was that?

A six. Oh, my God. That's 13. 19. 19 is not enough. Blocked the firebolt as well. I mean, that was a bad roll. It was.

Yeah, but unfortunately, your magic just has no effect against the seed. Yeah, I'm just panicking. Makes sense. That they've taken sentry. We jump back up to the very top of the round, sentry. What do you do? This creature is, and I will tell you now, it's not friendly.

Send me back! I mean, you can make a persuasion check if you would like. Are you intimidated? Or it's like, this is more intimidating. I'm intimidated, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'll let you do this as a free action. 21.

21. If this were a sentient mortal creature, you think your words might have had at least some effect. Whether or not it would actually do what you said, you might be able to see that it was scared or intimidated or even angry. There's no human intelligence here. This is mad. This creature is insane.

And your words are literally meaningless to it. It just doesn't even register them. It sees you as life to be consumed. Oh, shit. It is not going to be pleasant. Okay. Yep. That was a free action.

That won't take up your action or anything like that. I will use all of my lay on hands points on myself. Okay. Yeah. How many is that? 95. 95. I mean, when you're on 15 hit points and completely on your own,

that's probably a good idea. You're on 15? Yeah. I'm 15 going, that's probably a good idea. You're on 15? Yeah. I'm 15 going to this Hadar realm. She just took 80-something points of damage before she went. I crit on that attack, and it does 86 points of damage. And she was hit by the things before then. 189.

We've actually been hit by quite a lot along the way. It's really chipped away. Yeah. Oh, you also got hit by two walls as well. Yep. And the mech stuff. Yeah. And the, yeah. Yep. Yep. And the mech stuff. Yeah. And the, yeah.

Yep. All right, so let's lay on hands. I think that's your action. Any bonus actions or move actions? This room, by the way, is big enough. It's only maybe like 30 feet across. So, like, you don't have to worry about being in range. You can just move up to it and get in range of this thing.

Do you want to fight it? I don't know if you want to... I kind of do, though, but... Would you like to do anything else? You mean, like, a move and a bonus action? I'd let you, like, Would you like to do anything else? You mean like a move and a bonus action? I'd let you like, if you want to do like a perception check or if you want to do like a, like try and figure out what this thing is

or like if you want to do any of that stuff, I'd let you make a check for the bonus action. Yeah, I'll try and figure out what this thing is. Yeah, sure. This would be a, I would say religion or arcana check. Both of those are... Oh, religion's all right. Or an insight check.

Insight? Yeah. Whichever bonus is higher. Religion. I've got 21 with religion. 21. You don't know what this thing is, but you hear a voice coming from the Matrix.

You hear Root. Sentry, that is a mind witness, one of Hadar's minions. You will not be able to leave this place while it still lives. Many guardians have been sent to these prison realms before. Okay. I will focus on getting rid of it. All right.

Oh shit. All right. I will focus on getting rid of it all right all right uh but Nova because we didn't actually do Nova's turn last time and I don't want to miss it I forgot to do it last time can we just do Eldritch blasts at the bad boy it's probably what she would so this is four beams. Tommy, roll me four attacks, plus 11 each. What? Dice. D20. Oh, attacks.

Sorry. First one is 13 plus. 11. 24 is a hit. 24. 25. Hit. 28.

Hit. 18. Last one doesn't, so that's three hits. They're 1d10 plus. She does have Hexblade Curse. Uh... Gotta find out what that does. Hexblade Curse adds six, well any of those 19s by the way. No. Okay, adds an extra six, so this is plus 11 damage.

So D10 plus 11 for each one, and that the way. No. Okay. Adds an extra six, so this is plus 11 damage. So D10 plus 11 for each one. And there was three. 12. Oh, Tom. That dice is gone. 12. Wow. Yep.

16. So that's 24. 40 points of damage, though, across all three beams. Oh, shit. Yeah, I mean, you say that you rolled those ones, but 40 points of damage.

Yeah. Century. Yep. Because technically this would have happened whilst you're in the prison realm, because I fucked up

on the initiative, so you watch as that mind witness seems to almost shudder for a moment, and you do see parts of it, like it's been struck by something that

you can't see. Oh, cool. Okay. Great. So that was that. So then we go to Quill. Oh. Okay.

Do that next time. I am going to... This is a new round now. This is a brand new round, Jess. Technically, Sentry is at the top of the initiative. Whenever Sentry goes, it's a new round. But I'd just forgotten over last time, so I thought I'd quickly throw in those Aldrich Blasts.

I would miss out on potentially 40 points of damage. When I did the Arcane check on Aayla, is this a charm thing? You didn't do an Arcana check on Aayla. Failed it. Oh,la. You failed it. Oh, yeah, I failed it. I never knew. I mean, it looks charming.

Charmy. It looks cursey. I want a greater restoration. Okay. What does greater restoration do? Read out the spell specifically for me, please. One effect that charms or petrifies the target. One curse, including the target's attunement to a cursed magic item.

Any reduction to ability scores or one effect reducing hit point max. So it's basically curses or charms or petrification. I'm afraid to say, Quill, as you lay your little hands on Ayla and channel this magic through, trying to purge whatever this effect is. And what level is Great Restoration? Fifth. There is... She is still trapped in whatever has been done to her, I'm afraid.

It's not a charmed effect. It is not. Shit. Not little hands. I will tell you now, it is not a charm effect. It is not a remove... It is not a curse. It is a spell.

It is a magical effect. I will tell you it can be dispelled, but it is not necessarily a curse or an enchantment. Her mind has literally been driven mad and she's being shown things beyond this realm. This is not

an enchantment necessarily. Does Nova have Dispel? I don't know. Maybe. Okay, that's uh it does not have to spell magic from what i can see have you got it i do yeah um but i figured the greater restoration would have been the better option no unfortunately is the greater restoration is specific to what it can remove and this is not any of those things. Okay. And I can't bring out Elder Quill, because that was in the Titan fight. So I am going to stay in the gap of the wall again.

At the end of your turn, the next line would appear, but nobody's there. At this point, the Vented Magic is no longer going to be relevant. So I'm just going to... I'll include the ones at the back. Oh, is that to just shove shove us all forward? Or... Or separate us. Just put us in the gaps. So it's just not up at all just now?

Yeah, it all goes, it's kind of like... Oh. You need to remember where these spaces are if it happens again. Who says it'll go the same way? Don't make it go vertical. That's why I was asking about if there's any potential. I've been playing lots of MMOs.

So, we go to Nova Vija. This is properly Nova's turn. What would you like Nova to do? I'd like Nova to help Ayla in some fashion. I don't know what Nova would smartly think of being smart. Nova can make a check. She'll do an arcana probably. Yeah, she'll make an arcana check.

19 plus nine, 28. Yeah. Oh, Hadar's realm, the Far Realm, he can inflict like madness and things like that. It's some sort of spell, but I can't dispel it. I can't dispel magic. But I think if, I mean, Quill, you've seen you remove effects before.

I think this spell might be maybe eighth sort of circle, eighth power level. Ah, nice. Eight, okay. Jesus Christ. But I do think that once, if we can get her out of it, I don't think he'll be able to use it against Aayla again. Oh.

Against Aayla. And then I guess she would move and blast. Blast? Or blast from there. She'd probably blast from there. Blast. She just wanted to blast from there. She did last time.

Knowing Kim. All right. Can you make these for this is plus 11, four Eldritch Blasters. Or she'd step out and then step back in again. That's what Kim would do. You're going to roll all four at once. I love it. Plus 11 to each.

Or any and 19. Yeah, any 19s are crits. Duh-y. 30 hits? 24. Wait, is that 19? Yeah, it's a crit. And then next one?

24 hits. What's this? Another 19. Oh, she got two crits. And a six there, so that's... Holy crap. One normal hit and then two crits. Oh, she got two crits. And a six there, so that's... Holy crap. So one normal hit and then two crits. Oh, shit. So the crits are going to be

21 plus a d10 each. So roll two d10s. You're about to get bombed up, Century. Just do them individually, just because it's going to make this a lot easier for me. Five. So 21, so 26 for the first crit. 25 for the second.

25 for the second, 25 for the second. And then the last attack is 1d10 plus 11. 14. 14. So that gives us a total of... That was a pretty good burst. 65 total damage across all three beams. Two crits.

That hexblade curse, man. Like, holy crap. Yeah, that helps. So 65 points of damage to the Seed of Hadal. That hexblade curse, man. Like, holy crap. Yeah, that helps. So 65 points of damage to the Seed of Hadal. That's great. Sentry. Hello. Again, as you're kind of preparing to fight this thing,

you watch as it's almost being struck by three blows. Do I know what they, having seen Nova fight, do I know? No, because you're just seeing it react. You're not actually seeing the blows, but you're seeing its flesh undulate as it's being blasted by something invisible. So that would be two. And it looks bad.

It looks like whatever it's hitting it on the outside is affecting it pretty badly. Bad. Right. Is that it for Nova's go? Oh, no. D&D Beyond, no. No crash. Arcana check.

No, no, no, no, no. Come back. She'd stay behind cover, right? She'd stay behind cover. Yeah, I think she'd, and also it makes it a lot simpler for us. Like we can just kind of focus on that. Oh, also I would have had to have moved up to you to do that. Piss. Restoration.

That will resume. Oh, I fell. Oh, thank god. I'm back up. So, as the seed looks at you all, it's looking in Nova's direction like, yes, Callus's little whelp. Whelp.

Whelp. Well, you're all very capable. Let's see how we fare in a different environment. Oh, no. Dive, Atelicus. As Atelicus plunges and- Oh! You should control the whole battleground.

Yeah. I can breathe underwater, this is okay. Me and Nova are fine. I need everybody to immediately make a strength saving throw. Everyone on the battlefield. Oh, I wanna go to that realm. That's a little red box. Everyone on the battlefield. Oh, I want to go to that realm. That's a little red box, I'm alright.

I was looking for my dice and I realised it's in jail. You're going to be fine. Well, you're going to be pushed a little bit, but not as much. I would offer you mine, but I don't think it'd be much better. I got a 19. 19, still not a success.

I got a natural six. Six! Nova gets a 15. Everybody but Ayla, you are basically... Atelika, so when he dives, he kind of rolls into the seat to the side. All of you are going to be pushed to one side, except Ayla, who's only pushed a little bit. She's going mad, but she's still holding on.

Oh, we're just basically all the way to the edge. Yeah. Oh, shit. Is it waterlogged? Oh, you are. So, everybody, you are now underwater. All the rules for underwater combat affect you. You have enough time to grab a minute's worth of air.

So you each have, which is 10 rounds, so you've got a long time. Keep in mind, if you try to cast spells with a somatic component or speak verbally, you immediately begin to suffocate or choke. At the start, creatures with a swimming speed don't have to worry about disadvantages on attacks or things like that. Everybody else is basically difficult terrain to try and swim. If you are not uh if you are not able to anchor yourself you will be pushed back uh towards the star spawn because the current

will be pushing you uh in the direct towards the spawn yeah right um so it's going to drag you towards it in fact um if you uh use certain types of, you have disadvantage on attacks, unless you have a swimming speed. Aayla, you're fine, but everybody else needs to remember that. Ranged weapons, if it's a physical weapon, also has disadvantage if it's beyond a certain realm, and you have fire resistance whilst you're underwater. But you are underwater at this point.

Does Nova have a swimming speed? I think she does, because she can breathe underwater. She can hold her breath for basically an infinite amount of time. Okay, but she doesn't, so she can blast. But if she speaks, she still begins to suffocate. Like, she can hold, as long as she has a breath, Nova doesn't, can hold that forever. But if she speaks, that goes.

Right. Like, she begins choking as well. And she doesn't have a swimming speed of it. So no verbal spells. I was just checking for her. Huh? No verbal spells, basically, unless we want to start suffocating. Yeah, I mean, you basically, you'll have time to get one spell off, and then you would begin to choke. I'm looking for her spells. No verbal spells, basically, unless we want to start suffocating. Yeah, I mean, you basically,

you'll have time to give one spell off, and then you would begin to choke. I'm out. I've got, yeah, nothing is not verbal. I was just going through my list, like V, V, V, V, V, V, V, V, V, V, V, V. Like I said, you can cast one, and then you'll be like, you've gone out of oxygen,

unless you have another way of giving yourself oxygen or allowing yourself to breathe underwater or gust into my own mouth yeah i think nova used to have water breathing as a spell but i don't think she has that anymore i think we've had to get a scroll every time we've had it yeah do i still have that scroll oh we'll find out a couple um but yeah that is the state of affairs by the way for, for everyone. So you are now underwater. Remember FF10, kind of like on the back of Sin? Stop playing MMOs!

You've been dragged underwater. I do remember vividly. Ayla is next up. And because you played it through recently. Yeah. At the start of your turn, I do need you to roll a D10. Yes, please. Six.

Six. Ah, interesting. W. Six. Ah, interesting. Wormhole. So, whilst you are in this realm of madness and you begin to feel your mind breaking, just agonizing pain and sights that you can't even comprehend, something seems to open up in front of you and pulls you through it. You are physically teleported in the physical realm.

You're going to take some damage, but this will end the maddening reality break. It is, however, a lot of damage. Oh, great. I don't think I have enough dice. I'm going to have to roll this. That's always a good sign. Fantastic.

I'm having a real good time. Hey, you're out of it, though. He only has two dice. Right? Yeah. That's why he doesn't have enough. It's got to be it. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah? He's still counting. I'm not even done, mate. Yeah, this is going to be real shit. And I'm not going to be able to be with you guys either. You've got 170 million HP, you're fine. 170 million?

Man, that's a lot of health. No, I'm reading that right. Million. Ayla. Take 75 force damage. Yep, that sucks a bunch. Okay, you are teleported. I am now now not pleased.

Wait, what? You are teleported 30 feet closer towards the seed, and you are kind of knocked prone, irrelevant because you're swimming. But it kind of... And you feel your mind come free of this maddening reality break effect. You are now immune to that effect for 24 hours. That spell can never affect you again for the next 24 hours.

Okay, I just don't want to have too much hit points. Yeah, but you kind of come out of it and you feel like your body's been stretched and ripped and pulled as you are yanked through this portal. Did you enjoy a visit to my home? I am assuming my turn is over. That is at the start of your turn Oh good I'm going to hit that thing then

Yeah so you want to swim up Yeah I have a swim speed So you're kind of like yanked out of this portal And immediately like 22 22 Yeah Misses but it's close 22 22 yeah misses but

it's close uh 50 30 to hit that will hit however uh hit that nasty boy 22

bludgeoning 6 lightning 28 plus a deck save uh yes that's a failure oh actually I don't know uh 21 Six lightning. 28. Plus a dex save. Yes. That's a failure. Oh, actually, I don't know.

21. I think you're going to recognize... 18 lightning. You take half the dex. So nine points of lightning damage. You watch as, like, the hammer blow crunches into the carapace around it, and you watch as it cracks and splits, and there is a moment of, like, a wince from the seed of Hadar. And then the lightning kind of dissipated

a little bit from the water, but it does kind of shock through the creature. Strong, aren't you? I will enjoy feeding on your strength. Anything else, Ayla, on your turn? I'm out of everything now. You're out of everything. Okay.

In that case, I'm just gonna jump to the Seed of Hadarsgo. And it is going to... Now that... All right, it does not refresh its Intrepid C'more, so it's gonna make two lashing tentacle attacks against you, Ayla. Fantastic. That is gonna be a

22 and a 28 both hit uh that is 18 points of bludgeoning damage each half that so nine points of bludgeoning from both uh so 18 total whack whack and then it's gonna look around and quilly boy hey what up he looks at. Perhaps you would enjoy your mind being awoken. I need you to make a spell. This is a spell. I want to count a spell. Well, it's technically a power. But I will allow it.

Count a spell at level fucking eight. Okay. All right. I will say for the purposes of this, it is a magical effect. It is basically a spell. You watch as it looks towards Quill and it begins to,

and you see it is the same thing it did to Aayla. Its eye glows and you watch as Quill's eyes begin to roll back as some dark force takes presence. What does this look like for Lucius? Because this isn't like a spell like on its way to Quill. It's already beginning to affect him. So how does your counterspell,

this powerful eighth level counterspell protect Quill? I imagine there'll be a flicker of the prismatic mastery, like true sight. And I can see like through Quill. Well, you see that now, like with the true scene kind of like that, kind of beyond the realms of magic, you see that that black lightning is almost like wrapping around him like around his face and hands and like

reaching into his eyes yeah i can just feel my innate energy just rip that energy out quill you can feel your mind was about to break and then lucius you feel this warmth and cooling breeze and the the smell of lucius's kind of home in this in the storm chasers cabin and then suddenly you are like underwater still holding your breath but yeah this thing had gripped you and was about to take you with it nice well you are now immune to that effect for 24 hours fuck yeah good shit when i hit the madude the Doody What's It, did Sentry. That is a very good point, thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You did 22 plus a bunch of other damage.

Let me just check this thing as well. Yeah, Sentry, you do see almost this time like it was being electrocuted, like it just kind of shudders for a moment. But still up. I'm just not having a good day. No. You're just going to stand there and gloat at this thing, aren't you? You're right.

That's all right. You kept me in here, but you forgot about those guys, huh? Alrighty. After the Seed of Adazgo, the Mind Witness. Hello. Hello. It looks pretty injured, Sentry. Honestly, like, looking at it, like, whatever is happening,

it does look pretty weakened. It is going to shoot three eye rays at you, however. Alrighty. And I'm going to randomly determine these. Cool. Oh, what, the colour of them? What they do. Oh, okay.

Oh, cool. One, four, and two. All right, I need you to make a charisma saving throw for me first. All righty. And then a dex save. 23 for the first one. All right, you resist its effect. Dex is not great.

That's a 12. Oh, no, it's a D12. I just rolled a D12. Roll a D20. That will help. Egypt. You still got, like, quite high on the d12 yeah 21 okay you both both you dodge the photo like you resist the effect of the first one it tries to like that

on the d12 all right so the first one which is good because that last one was going to be an intelligence saving throw um so the first one you kind of it hits you and you can see like it tries to fill your mind with scary images and images of fear but you've faced far worse like you've stared into a lot worse than what this thing is showing to you and has no effect the second ray you actually managed to dodge and it kind of strikes the wall and then the last one kind of this thin purple beam goes into like the center of your mind but maybe because you're a guardian and it didn't really know how to treat you initially like it just seems to have no effect on you. It just doesn't seem to do anything at all.

Yeah, and all of its attacks fail. It does sort of, like, float up in the air, trying to move away as best it can, but it's not going to be able to get far enough. Damn. And then Lucius, and I think this is going to be our last turn of the session. Lucius,

end of turn. I'm going to cast 120 feet slow on the Hadar. Okay. Seed. All right. What kind of save do I need to make? You need to make the following save, which I have prepared for you.

Ooh. Ooh. The save will be... a wisdom save. He rolls a 3. He rolls a 3. Plus wisdom. 18. Succeed? No. 19. Legendary resistance.

Sorry guys, I didn't use them. You do see that the spell takes effect, so like you see its movements begin to form sluggish, and it sort of looks... No. And it's like glass shatters around it. And it's almost like there is a reality where that spell did work,

and then it sort of overlays itself with another version of itself where that spell didn't affect it. And it just... And it just... And it just... Lucius' head explodes. Nice. But fortunately, that is one of its Legendary Resistances used. This turn?

Yep. Dang. That was my action. And you know what? Because I do hate the whole you save, nothing happens, I'll say that rather than... Because slow means it only gets one attack and it gets a lower AC and stuff and stuff. I will will say i will lower the ac but it gets its full complement

of attacks and stuff yeah yeah it's now split between two realities yeah one where it failed and succeeded yeah it's schrodinger's hadar does it go mad um no it's already but yeah i'll say that it does maybe like minus one to its ac as like a compromise right it did save but it will it's still somewhat sluggish or distracted by the spell. Cool. And that's like for a minute until it saves, right? Yeah. I'll do it until the end of its next round.

How about that? Sure. Because I think that like when a spell is like it works or no, they save, nothing happens. Especially at that cost as well. Yeah, it sucks. All right, cool. Well, if that's you done, Lucius. I will also do a bit of sorcery point fudgery.

Okay. Do you need the specifics? No. No, I trust you. Yes, because she did the big crits. Lucius rolled them. Yes, yes. At the end of Lucius' turn, before we wrap up for today,

the Spawn of Hadar is going to use a legendary action to shoot an entropic beam at Lucius. That's going to be a 23. Lucius, you're going to take 17 points of necrotic and you cannot regain hit points

until the start of your next turn. So we have to try and remember that, because that's it for this episode of High Rollers. Tom, you're making a face. I think I healed someone. Nope, Century had already had her turn. It's fine. I was on top of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But that, my friends, is going to be the end of today's session for High Rollers. Hey, thanks for joining us. Hope you enjoyed that one. I enjoyed that one immensely. I, um, love him. Yes. Adaboy. Yeah.

Although, I am still underwater. I'd like to be upseas, please. Upseas? Well, we'll have to find out what's going to affect it. I'm dumb. Slow is a verbal. So I've used my breath. Okay, I'll note that down too.

Just write suffocating. And keep in mind... I was going to do something else. And also keep in mind, you can't regain hit points until starting your next turn. And you're the end of the turn as well. Remind me next time that you will choke and suffocate. That.

Yeah. But also... That you're going to choke and suffocate. I've got an item on me which I've had since we had a guest on. Yeah. But also... Are you going to choke and suffocate? I've got an item on me which I've had since we had a guest on. Oh. Oh. All right.

No way. Now is the time. Now you've been saving it. That's what I was going to do. I'm dumb. We've got to see if you can last. You've got to see if we can last. There is like choking.

By the way, you have like basically a round. What's Lucius's con modifier? Oh yeah, it depends on your con. That's two, I think. All right,

you might be okay for a couple of rounds then, but. All right. All right. So with that, that is going to be it. Thank you so much for joining us. That's the end of this part.

Thanks very much for joining us. We'll see you next time. I'm going to do the thing, and then live it. See you then. Thank you.