High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #178 | The Fury of Hadar (Part 1)

Episode Date: March 21, 2023

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Hello, welcome back to Erois. Our champions were in the midst of a battle with the titan Atelicus, who charges towards the Halls of Infinite Resplendence to devour the essence of Siaska, Goddess of the Stars. Using a magitek giant construct called Vanguard Alpha, the heroes have managed to enrage Italicus to the point of drawing out the Seed of Hadar that had infected his mind and body. The Seed used entropic magic to destroy Vanguard Alpha, forcing the party to fight on the back of Italicus to defeat the Seed and hopefully free the Titan's mind during the battle however the seed forces the telekis to dive underwater uh forcing a change in our battles situation alongside that we also have sentry having been bitten almost swallowed it seemed like by this creature vanished entirely and it has used strange powers to break the reality around individuals minds minds, one of which was counterspelled by Lucius

before it could afflict Quill. Yeah. And that, my friends, we are jumping straight back in, and it's right back into the fray as we are... That mini's gross as hell. Yeah, so I did change the mini. Again, this one isn't perfect,

but the last one I had was like a temporary one. This is a little bit closer, so it's kind of this humanoid shape um with a mouth on his stomach it has a mouth on its stomach several rows of teeth yeah which kind of it's more fitting for the hadar thing yeah um i hate him yeah i hate it just mid-sneeze sorry you look like you were like i'm so hot like oh my god yeah no i was worried. Yeah, so for Kim's benefit and for the benefit of everyone back home, I watched the pod.

I know you did, but just filling in. It's good, isn't it? You are on the back of a telekis. So you are actually on the Titan itself back. So the battlefield, whilst it may look like rocks and things like that, it is actually kind of ridge plates of, you know, growths of like bone and chitin and armor and carapace.

These two large spines kind of represent these big sort of spikes that protrude from the back. And you're actually fighting on its back, on Italicus' back itself. The seed is kind of grown out of the armor. It's like it's kind of like a fleshy pustule. It's kind of emerged from the back, from the chitin itself. Yeah.

And you are now currently several hundred feet, maybe, beneath the ocean. You've been dragged down. Yeah, yeah, no, it went. Oh, it went! It went. It fucking went. And we are kicking it off at the top of the round. And I'll remind you of the initiative.

We have Sentry, who is currently in a different plane of existence. He's currently in a prison plane. It goes Sentry, Quill, Nova. Then things may happen. Then Ayla. Then the monster. Then Lucius. So just to remind you of the initiative order,

because we've done multiple rounds now. We've got so much thinking time. Being underwater, no verbal spells. Oh yeah, like use my breath. Yeah. Oh yeah. Doing that counter spell. That's right, yes. So currently Lucius is in the process of suffocating.

How's that going down? Two rounds. Two rounds. It's one plus your constitution modifier. I suffocate real quick. Yep. I cannot regain HP until my next turn either. No. And as a point, if you suffocate, you immediately fall to zero hit points, and you can't regain

hit points until you can breathe. Maybe I'll finally die. On that good news century! All right. So you are currently trapped in almost like a kind of fleshy dome cathedral space. It's like a kind of like flesh dome that you are in the middle of. It's all muscle fibers, mouths, tentacles, teeth. What do you mean what? He just put the words flesh, dome, and cathedral together.

Fleshy dome cathedral. Fleshy dome cathedral. It's like a story, and cathedral together. Fleshy dome cathedral. Fleshy dome cathedral. It's like a story. Oh, sorry. Fleshy cathedral dome. Oh, okay. It's the dome of a cathedral made of flesh. And sentries inside. Sorry, serious now.

And there is a mind witness, a beholder-like creature that has tentacles and eyes and mouths and awful things. It's generally not a good time. It's not a good time. But it is heavily injured. I'm going to charge into this guy then and try and end this confrontation. Okey-dokey.

I'm going to charge head-on with Starbreaker and do a couple of lance attacks against it. Oh, so let's see. 5, 13, 18 to hit. 18 18 to hit we'll hit nice starbreaker smashes into the mind witness rock and roll and i believe starbreaker is still big i believe it is beak awesome you are not big yet i don't think i think i know i think i am oh you were yeah you were you were swallowed you were swallowed beak i'm gonna do a let's do a level I'm just gonna go all out. Level 5 Divine Smite on this guy. I wanna get back.

I love when Rhea does... Let's get all these. Please. Yep. Here she goes. She's digging through the pile of dice. It's been very fun watching Rhi and Sentry do this to people that aren't used to it. Oh, are they?

They lose their minds when it's damage. Six. The first time she did like an 80 point smite, they were like, their minds were blown. Johnny and Ellen were like, whoa! Oh dear, it's not great. One, two, five, ten. We used it with Jaden.

Is that it? Is that all? You would have liked to move on. 21. Can we do the smite damage? You can add it all together. Against this creature, you can add it all together. All right.

Well, it's only 25 on that. 25 36 41 for the first one. All right. 41. You do not need to worry about doing any more damage because as Starbreaker plunges through this creature, bursting through the central eye,

the green spiraling drilling energy kind of rips this thing apart. And as it dies, you watch as the kind of prison that you found yourself in breaks away and you are basically thrown back into the real realm, into the material plane. However, I do get to place you... Nice. ...60 feet away from the...

Oh, so you might not get a second attack. That's fine. I just want to get back. Yeah. Welcome to underwater. Yeah, you basically... Yeah. So here's the other... Yeah, so essentially, as you're kind of thrown out,

you almost... It's almost like water breaks into this space, and then eventually the barriers between the realms shatter and you find yourself underwater. You quickly have to grab onto a piece of the carapace as you feel, yeah, you are deep underwater and a telekis is currently swimming underwater. But yeah, you still have your movement,

you still have your second attack, but you are placed away. Yeah, too far away. I imagine Sentry's gonna be a bit shell-shocked by what just happened. Now she's suddenly underwater, so I think she's gonna try and move five, 10, bonus action Misty Step behind that tall rock.

On the... This one? Right, yes please, yeah. Well you could just use your movement, because you're gonna be going at half speed, because you're swimming, so that'd be five, ten, fifteen will get you to about here. If you'd still like to Misty Step, I mean, you can Misty Step 30 feet wherever you'd like to go. Yeah, I'll just make sure I'm behind that rock for now.

So you want to Misty Step? Yeah, Misty Step behind there. Thank you. Okay, you are sentry, you don't need to breathe, so you can cast spells with verbal components. Fine. Nice. Alrighty. Nice thing with being a construct. So yeah, you just speak the command word, and appear behind the rock.

Nice. Alright, end of turn? Yes, thank you. Alrighty, in that case, we come to Kilokad Kalah. Verbal, verbal, verbal, verbal, verbal, verbal, verbal, verbal. What's your con modifier? My con modifier is plus two. Oh, so you could get three rounds of suffocation.

That's not bad. Not bad. Six. But if I use an item that has a spell on it and I use the charges to cast that spell, does that use verbal components? What item is it? It depends on if the item requires a command word.

It's the wand of magic missiles. Well, if you click on the actual item itself, it should tell you if it has like speak, if it says speak the command word. I use an action. That's all it says. Just says while holding it. Yeah, in that case,

you do not need to speak while you use it. I mean, it's not amazing, but fuck it. I'll spaff everything I've got from this wand. I've had this for so long. Don't say that, it's going to break now. So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight... It thinks something came. Nine charges.

So you're going to spend all nine charges. Not nine, nine magic missiles is what I'm throwing out at this thing. You're spending all the charges not nine magic missiles is what i'm okay throwing out at this thing you're spending all the charges on it uh yeah one two three four five six seven eight nine that's what 94 plus nine 94 plus nine i do 20 not 30 damage 30 points of damage to the seed to the seed 30 points of damage force Force damage as well. Does that have... He doesn't try and suck it up like Kirby? No.

Cool. And for my movement, I think I'd like to... He watches like... You do have to roll to see if the wand breaks, I believe. Oh, yeah, but no,

don't worry. It's fine. Because it's bought on a one, it blows up. I believe so, yeah. I'd like to move to pretty much where Lucius is. Hiding behind... Do you have half speed?

You can't fly whilst you're underwater. Do I have half flying speed? No, it's half normal speed. You can't fly underwater. Well, 15 feet of movement. So, 5, 10, 15. I'll go there, yeah. And if this starts to wriggle around, I. I'll go there, yeah.

If this starts to wriggle around, I'll try and hold onto this column. Okay. And hope it doesn't kill me. All right, at the end of your turn, Kila, Kad, Kalah, I'm going to use Legendary Action to use Arms of Hadar. Nova, Lucius, and Quell. Son of a bitch. You make strength saving throws. Oh, i'm really good at those me too yeah

oh the wand would have blown up was on the wand uh i rolled a 17 minus 2 is 15. 15 17 17. all three of you fail two uh you take 10 points of cold damage and 10 acid damage and you cannot take reactions until the start of your next turn. I can't take reactions. If I was to absorb elements, would it remove the can't take actions? No, it wouldn't, but you'd be using your reaction before they get taken away. Yeah, I'll use it. Okay, so you want to cast absorb elements on acid.

So it's just five on cold, right? It's cold and acid, so there's 10 cold and then 10 acid. It's cacid. Coacid. I'll take the... Yeah, I'll resist the cold. All right, so 5 cold, 10 acid. And then you can't take any more reactions,

but you've already spent one. It's poopy. Okay. Azorbelemons. All right, Nova Vija. Hello. Hello. So you guys hexbladeblade Cursed this freak.

Yes. They are Hexblade Cursed. Can I swim up to this rock? Yeah, I might need Trot to move you a little bit. So you don't have a swimming speed, do you? No, but I do have a Ring of Free Action, so Difficult Terrain doesn't cost extra movement. That was 15.

It's not technically Difficult Terrain. It's like you're swimming, so it halves your movement because you're swimming. Yeah, I guess swimming speed is 15. Yeah. I would like to manifest Echo. Okay. Can you...

Roll a d10. You'll need to do the thing as per your feat, yes. Nine. I believe you need to check that because I... Let me bring this up because I need to check it. Oh, that's all you wrote on my thing. You haven't put any other information. I believe you need to check that because I... Let me bring this up because I need to check it. Oh, that's all you wrote on my thing. You haven't put any other information.

Have I not put the other information? No. Let me see what I did. Unless it's hidden somewhere. I think it might be hidden somewhere. I think if you click on it, it might expand it. Give me a second. So it goes.

I don't know about this feat. Basically, it's an insta-kill, I'm close. Yeah. Really? And it's nine, the worst result? One to nine is, yeah. It's the same one. Oh, okay. Hang on, I've got it. I've got it. I've got it. I've got it.

Just because I need to know who, what happens. And ten is like, leave you with like, permanent damage, but you're still alive. Right. And you'd rather die. Okay. Yeah, so it's nine, yeah? Yep. All right. Would you'd rather die. Okay. Yeah, so it's nine, yeah? Yeah.

All right. Would you like to point, place the echo and then I'll describe what the others will see? Oh, God, you guys might have to do it. So 15 feet in front of me. Where would you like it? Just as close to Hadar or whatever that is. All right. No, no, no, it'll be...

One more. So you go five, 10, 15. Oh, really? Yeah. Can we get those like. So if you go five, ten, fifteen. Fifteen. Oh, really? Yeah. Can we get those like pushy things on the wall? Yeah, yeah. So the only person that can really see this is Nova themselves and Ayla, because Quill

and Lucius... Just for the camera. Just for the camera. Quill and Lucius, the echo appears behind a rock or like an armor plate, Sorry, not a rock, but a piece of armor plate. Sentry can probably see them as well. You've seen Nova manifest the echo of Tiangong before, even before Tiangong was destroyed. This kind of nebulous, phantasm-like figure

that looks like Nova, but made of stars and space and things like that. This does not look like that. This Echo has the appearance of a Ganassi, a young Ganassi person but made of all four elements of earth, of fire, of wind and of water as they appear in very formal looking robes and they almost look behind to look at Nova and just nod their head. And you gain the additional features as mentioned in the Echoes of Sacrifice feat. That's gotta be harmony. Why would you say that, Kachar? Cause they're all four elements.

But yeah. Oh yeah. Turns out if you throw yourself into a vortex of indiscriminate power... You got the flied! You were the flied. I'm flied, yeah. She was flied? I'm flied.

She's our fly now. What's flied? You ever seen The Fly? Oh, The Fly. With Jeff Goldblum? I really had to think. It's like, what are you talking about? The Fly?

What's The Fly? Jeff Goldblum or the episode of the simpsons as i know it more accurately i've never seen the fly i have seen the episode of the simpsons with bart scientist goes in thing with fly comes out is human fly yeah science or if the simpsons episode it's bart with head of a fly and the body of a fly with Bart's head. Yeah. That's not the only one. But no, this one is just the echo has the appearance of harmony

and does seem to have some sort of elemental nature to them. Big old ball of energy. Could have and you didn't. Can you imagine if she was a baby? So that was bonus action to manifest? Bonus action to manifest. Does the half speed thing affect the echo? It does because the echo is they are technically still a creature kind of moving through the

space so they have to swim. They don't have a swimming speed. Okay, so I can't really do much this turn apart from move them closer. So it's moving 15 to 15. Yep. Swimming along. Unfortunately, that's all I can do. I can't, action-wise, I can't really do much,

because I can't get there and give them a tickle. You can Eldritch Glast. It's verbal. It is. Oh. And I've got three, well, because she doesn't need to breathe underwater, but you have that whole thing of like,

oh, but it's a breath of the wild. It's not that you, I mean, because the ruling specifically says that you can hold your breath indefinitely, right? It's not that you can mean because the ruling specifically says that you can hold your breath indefinitely right it's not that you can breathe underwater it's just like you can hold your breath for as long as you like so if you speak then you would still be suffocating you cast through it not into you create the component verbal yeah still follows all the normal rules for spell casting it just originates from the from the other point yeah could could could could echo could the echo it's not casting the spell you're casting the spell you it just originates from the from the other point yeah could could could could echo could the echo it's not casting the spell you're casting the

spell you're just manifesting it through their space it's originating from them so if I do cast eldritch blast you mm-hmm you would begin to suffocate and I would suffocate in three rounds so what's your common fire plus two plus three so you'd be four rounds it's one plus your con modifier? Plus two? Plus three? So you'd be four rounds. It's one plus your con modifier of rounds. Mine specifically says you can breathe underwater. Yep. And my swimming speed is 30 feet, but it's because of my-

Storm aura. Storm aura. If you start suffocating, do you know how to breathe in to regain your breath? What? Mm-hmm. I mean, us, obviously, we do. But someone who doesn't need to breathe, or can hold their breath indefinitely.

Nova knows how to breathe, she can just choose to hold her breath indefinitely. Just a thought. Right, anyway. That's all I can do. Right, so you're done? Alright, in that case, we jump to... Just think about it. I've thought about it. Okay.

I put that to bed very quick. Ayla. Oh, hi. I'm going to hit the thing. Oh, I could be really mean. Don't be. Yeah. You've already been very mean to me.

I've been so mean to you, hitting you with attacks. I was taken out for like were yeah just do it to me quills in the background no it would mean it would be do it to me no wait go on you wait yeah wait probably a ranged attack that would kill Echo? No. Go on, take your turn. I don't think he'd care at this point. I'm just going to hit the thing. Sure. You're doing that thing that I don't like. That face.

I rolled really low though, so 18 doesn't hit. 18 does not hit. No, you've encountered this. The Seed's body is constructed from the same tough carapace as Atelika's, who you know is very difficult to injure. 16 plus 15. 31. That will hit.

I'm trying to remember what it was. It was around 25, I think. Around there. 18. 18 damage on the hammer, plus two lightning. Okay. So you watch as the hammer does strike. Being a magical hammer as well,

it does leave this kind of crack along its carapace, but yeah, still very tough creature. It's so moist underwater right now with the lightning. A dex, say? Yeah. You know, it's how everyone's just ignoring you and moving on real fast. I know.

It's weird. Am I muted? 17. You're not muted, no. No, no, we can hear you. We're just choosing to ignore you. Guys! So you watch as the hammer slams in.

It bursts with lightning. And the lightning underwater does kind of radiate across the creature, but it does seem to have some natural kind of resistances to lightning anyway. All done? Yeah. At the end of your turn, it is going to move itself. So it sinks down into the creature's body. Oh, fuck!

It doesn't sink. and no attack of opportunity hey how's it going it's effectively a teleport it kind of sinks into the creature's body it kind of looks at you like you learn just now i'm chasing things again and it reappears right next to me at least you're the only one who can move their full speed. Well, I can. 30. Got less than I usually do. Oh, because your swimming speed is... 45 is my usual, so...

It's going to reappear, and then it's going to take its turn. Oh, shit. Yes. Oh, I think I'm about to get hungered. So the first thing it's going to do, it's going to lash out with its tentacles. It's slapping. Because it can attack multiple times.

And its tentacles, it can hit one, two, or three targets within 15 feet of each other, which means I think Nova is just out. So it can hit Quill and Lucius. No, Nova's right next to it. Yes. Between 15 feet of each other. It chooses a target,

and then it can hit another target within 15 feet of that target. So it's hitting you both with one attack. So its first attack against Lucius is an 18. Yeah. And then against Quill, 17. It's quite a low roll for me. I wish I could shield this. No reactions, though.

Oh, that's right. Oh, shit. No reactions. So you're both going to take 18 points of bludgeoning damage. And then it's going to do the same thing again. Oh. That's gonna be a 30 to hit Quill and a 20 to hit Lucius.

Yeah, that's another 18 points of bludgeoning damage each. Okay. And then Nova, it's gonna try and, and you weren't here, but it is basically gonna try and bite its giant mouth. It's gonna try and engulf Nova like it did Sentry. It needs to hit you first though. I think I might miss though, 18. That is exactly what you need.

No! I thought you hit. You were going to take a bunch of damage, I'm afraid. This is where you got a mega crit. I did. This is not a mega crit. This is just a normal hit, but it's still going to be a good thing. Did you re-equip your shield?

In D&D Beyond? Yeah. Okay. I mean, since you lost it all. This is just a normal hit, but it's still going to be... Did you re-equip your shield? Indy and Ebeon? Yeah. Okay. I mean, since you lost it all. I'm just wondering, because... Everything's different. So that's going to be... I used to have Adamantine Armors.

Anova. 25 necrotic damage. Sorry, not Adamantine. I now have Adamantine Armor, which is different to the ethforged armor. Right. Okay. And 29 force damage.

Holy crap. Jesus. Big boy, big boy time. I'm on 69 hit points. I need you to make a charisma saving throw, please. Oh, please. Plus 11. So 17 please. Plus 11. So 17 plus 11 is 28.

It's a success. Nice! Yes, Nova! So if it bites down, you feel it trying to transport you away to take you to this demiplane. Maybe it's your experience with transportation magic. Maybe it's that faint echo of harmony or of Tiangong or something, but something just,

I'd say maybe you get the image, almost like a spectral image of like a stone shield kind of protecting you from this transportation thing that blocks off and you kind of focus your will, no, and then you are not transported to a demi-plane. Good. Plus 11, god damn. That's good.

Good shit. Just one saving. Nobody is trapped in a demi-plane, so we go to Lucius. I have a slight issue with my plan. One is not attuned to a certain trident that I've been carrying this whole time. Oh dear, that'd be very useful right now, wouldn't it?

Wouldn't it just? And you are like, like you feel that like life force beginning to leave you as you do suffocate. There's not much I can do. Nope. Other than... Go big, go home. I'm going to...

You got your movement, you got an action, bone slash. I was thinking of that, like, if I made a wall of ice that's just like a big block, and then I started chiselling into it, that's just going to leak water into it. If I made a dome on a telekis's back, and I'm in it... Yep. It would still be filled with water because you're currently underwater. This is what I thought about. So, none of those things uh i've got two options

let's get a group consensus on this i don't know well that means he's gonna try something dumb drone is option one i have a yes three options i have a ninth level dominate monster i don't think it's gonna work on Italicus. Currently, he's a titan. And he's already dominated. I will tell you this, you've fought titans before, you know that they are pretty much immune to a lot of things, like you can't mind control them and things like that.

But normally when you try and do that, it deals psychic damage to them instead. But you know that like, yeah, like the titans cannot be, the Titans cannot be, their form cannot be polymorphed, they cannot be charmed, they cannot be frightened. You have fought enough Titans

to know that that will not work against the Telekis. I have no problem with Meta telling you that. We know Titans so well. You fought three of them. Also, we needed the Vanguard to do anything to it. Okay.

In which case, I wish. I will also tell you that Dominate Monster won't work on Hadar, just in case you're ever thinking of trying that. It's fine, I'm not doing that. I am not wishing. Okay, all right. No! You got wish.

I wish for, this is using my last breath, the party here of Varroas to be... above the water safe. I'm trying to keep it simple and not like I'm asking for the world here. Okay. First things first, I believe that there's various effects from Wish. There certainly is. Let's have a look at those first because I've kind of figured out what's going to happen.

Yeah. All right. So first of all, when you use the Wish spell to do anything that is not on that list, do you ask Chris to drop? Can I change it? No, I can't. No, that's not fair. Okay, I'll do that. I just saw one of my bullet points.

What would you have changed it? I would have changed it to, because you can grant up to 10 creatures, you can see immunities to a single spell or other magical effect for eight hours. I would have kind of granted them the ability to breathe underwater, resist non-breath. Suffocation.

Non-breath. Non-breath. That's how the song goes. Non-breath. I think you made your wish very specifically. You worded a very specific thing to change it now, I think would be distrustful, would be dishonest to the the

drama of the game um i feel like lucius would have wished for that exactly to take you above and be safe first things first the stress of custom spell to produce any effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you after enduring that stress each time you cast a spell until you finish a long rest you take 1d10 aquatic damage per level of the spell that cannot be reduced or prevented in any way so if you cast any more spells in this fight or until you take a long rest you're taking d10 damage your strength also drops to three if it isn't three or lower already for 2d4 days so roll up 2d4 let's see how many days you've got three strength. Think before you wish, everybody. Five.

Five. So five days. Lastly, there is a 33% chance that you are unable to cast wish ever again. 33. So roll the d10. Yeah, d100. And we're looking for 33 or lower. Wait, what?

Yeah. You mean 34 or higher? 34 or higher. Yeah. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I'm saying 33 or lower. Wait, what? Yeah. You mean 34 or higher? 34 or higher. Yeah, sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I'm saying 33 or lower would be bad. Which it won't be. No, don't say that.

Oh. That's two. Oh no. So. Is it? Yeah. Oh my god. Two, yeah.

What, don't say that. So. The rest of you, Oh my god! We're two. Yep. What does it say there? So, the rest of you, Quill is the only one probably close enough, especially being underwater, even knowing that you can't quite hear this. Also, just to add to the imagery, I'm on 6 HP, I'm like gasping for my life. Oh my god. Yep, he's on 6 HP. Quill, you're the only one who hears him.

With your great perception, also being so close, you hear that wish. I wish that the party here, the champions of Eros, were above the water and safe. And then you feel it. All of you feel this kind of swirl of prismatic magic flow out of Lucius's mouth and eyes, and it engulfs each of you. It kind of wraps itself around you like tendrils. And you see the seed of Hadar like,

and it grows angry and it goes to snatch Lucius as you all suddenly are pulled away. You arrive and a flash, like a blinding flash of prismatic light, you would find yourselves, closest point would be... You find yourselves standing in maybe what was once a great open plaza of a sky city, but it's empty. There are no people, there are no shops, there are no items.

It's a ghost town. Just an empty, stone, ruined city. As you find yourselves in the sky city of Kassotaurus that had crash-landed in the ocean after summoning Project Vanguard. Perhaps not far away from you, you can see the platform where Valor and the Halls of Infinite Resplendence are. In the distance, you can see a telekos once again moving towards you. form where Valar and the horse of infinite resplendence are in the distance you can see a telekis once again moving towards you but they're coming towards us sorry no they're going towards the horse of infinite resplendence you're just in the way direction yeah at this point we will

drop out of initiative but you are's, I will tell you this, there's not an hour for a long rest or anything like that. You've got, I would say at most, you have a minute before a telekis gets here. So if you want to fly out to them, you're talking about 600, 700, 800 feet, maybe, away. I don't got arcane gear or anything. You see Lucius just like, like literally water comes out of his lungs like as he lands like on all fours.

Yeah, you can see he's badly injured. Quill, quite a few of you I think are suffering from pretty bad wounds. I mean, how very, very low is everyone? I'm not too bad. I'm on 110 of 189. I'm on 110 of 189. I'm on 77 of 286. 69.

Nice. And you had, what, six? Six. We've all had a fair chunk. The only reason Sentry's up high is you put like 90 Lay on Hands into yourself. Yeah, you literally healed yourself, but you've got nothing left.

Did Echo come as well? Yes, yes. Yeah, the Echo of Harmony would be with you as well. Silent, doesn't speak, but just kind of stands there looking worryingly at the party. And now turns almost to look at Atelicus coming this way. I mean, now is a perfect time. Sometimes you're just like, okay, right, I will just... All right, okay, yeah, let's figure this out. Yeah.

But yeah, no, I think that that would make the most sense. This would be the closest safe point to where you cast the wish. It makes sense. It's not just above water just floating. Yeah, you said safe. You guys are... And like, you're like maybe... Like on a Sky City, like this would have once been like this large open plaza. Not quite like a coliseum or an amphitheater, but like you're on like an area where

there's like a small stone railing that looks out. This would have been at the edge of the Sky City to look out on the clouds, but you're there. You can see all the streets and the city extending away from you. We're just like, oh look, there's a giant monster coming our way. Cool.

Nice view today. I mean, while Hadar isn't sucking up all my concentration spells, I'll do a Beacon of Hope. I can. And hit everyone in prep for a heal. All right. So basically, if you're a minute, you've got nine more actions, if you wanted to cast spells and stuff, Gwil.

Yeah. So that's at least what i'm doing very initially to stop him from stealing that again um if i did um i'd say as well like italics technically underwater so you would see italicus come up like out of the water and then start making his way towards you if i did cleansing touch on lucius would that end the wish effects on him what does does Cleansing Touch do? You can end one spell on yourself or on one willing creature that you touch three times per long rest.

No, because this isn't an ongoing spell. This is a reduction in his ability score. Things like Greater Restoration, I think, can reduce ability score reduction. But the other thing, Lucius, as you land, But the other thing, Lucius, as you land, there is... You feel that with that desperate use of magic, the most powerful magic you can imagine,

basically bending reality, achieving something that no other spell can really do, that effect is gone. That effect is gone. That effect is lost. You can never cast Wish ever again. But Lucius, are you okay? What happened? No.

Define no. Lucius looks like beaten up, like real beaten up. I'm not good. And he's like probably still coughing up water. What do you need? Maybe we should draw a telekinesis to this island and fight above water. That'd be a good idea.

Quill, heal! Yeah, I'm getting ready for it, but maybe we should all prepare. He's coming closer. Medic! I'm not going anywhere, Lucius. Stay here. I know I can't go anywhere.

Aayla's just standing with the hammer, watching him come closer, going, I'm ready! Is he dead yet? No. Okay. Can I cast Death Ward on Lucius? Sure can.

So that's gonna be one of your actions. Basically, you guys have got like 10 actions each to like do something. If you wanna wait for him to get to you, keep in mind, you are maybe 30 seconds away from the Halls of Infiniteferno Resplendence. Like, if he gets to you here, you will have to finish him very quickly to stop him reaching the halls.

Okay. I'll go Death Ward, Lucius. So any rounds that you save by being like, let's fly out and get back in the fight, that's going to save you time. I mean, this is still round one, I guess, right? Yep, yep, yep. I'll keep a time. I mean, this is still round one, I guess, right? Yep, yep, yep, yep. I'll keep a note.

I mean, what's everyone else? When Lucius feels death ward on him, he casts Fly at level five, which is an extra one person, right? I can do Fly on people. All right, I'll do level five, I can do five other people. All right, I'll do level five, and I'll do...

Sentry, Ava, and yourself, and Nova. And yourself. No. How many people? I think you have to include yourself. Do I? Actually, no. No, it just says touch a willing creature.

Okay. All right. I do that, and then Death Ward offends the damage, or do I still get the damage? Go to zero? Go back to one? It grants a measure from death, so you drop to one hit point instead of zero. Down to one.

Can you start making magic, please? So basically you would take, probably like 16, 17, 18, 19, 25, take like 27 necrotic damage, and then the Death Ward kicks in. So Sentry's magic almost absorbs the like as you feel your body. That's what I say. Wait, is now Death Ward not active anymore now?

No, it's gone. It's a one-time thing. Oh my God. If he casts any spells, you could cast cantrips, I think, and you don't take damage. Can you do anything with all that? Because it's per spell level, I believe. Yeah, so you can cast cantrips. You got any cantrips? I got cantrips, I think, and you don't take damage. Can you do anything with all that? Because it's per spell level, I believe. Yeah, so you can cast Cantrips.

You got any Cantrips? I've got Cantrips. You've got good ones, yeah. And keep in mind, you are level 19. Your Cantrips are quite a good chunk of damage. They are pretty strong. You can still contribute to this fight. Lucius is like, go.

He's done. As in, like, save time, go. I've given you a fly. I mean, I'm doing a 7th level Mask Cure Wounds, which is 5d8 max plus 6, so you're getting 46 healing, everybody. Everybody gets 46 healing. Thank you. And then Nova, is there anything you want to do on this first six seconds?

That would be my second. I mean, the only thing I can do is cast fly on people as well. So if you wanna come along, I can bring you along. I'm better now, so yeah. Yeah? So I think, yeah, we just have a hearty conversation. Like, I can bring you if you want.

Okay. You need to be in this though, Lucius. If you can't do this, then stay. Oh, I'm ready now. I feel much better. I think you just coughed your lung up over there. Do I need that? That'll bring us to, this'll be the third round.

You got about, you know, 30, 40 seconds. Okay. I think we'll reset this. You guys have a think what you guys want to do i think at the last second i would like to cast uh the heaven's word ability on my sword so as but it's a bonus action so can i do that yeah yeah so as a bonus action you speak the command word and cause the blade to glitter in starlight. Sparkly. You have a spell that makes your... My sword sparkly.

Your sword sparkly. Yeah. Does it do anything else? It does plenty of things. If that was a bonus action, you could have done that on the second round. It only lasts a minute, so I want it to... Oh, do you want to trigger it? Like at the last second.

Before, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, that's fine. I don't mind. Warbone set. So yeah, so I mean, like, yeah, that's fine. I don't mind that. War Worms it. So yeah, so I mean, like, yeah, you've got like, that was, you're on round three. Like any more healing, any more like preparation you guys want to do? I stopped playing. I've got bacon.

You've got bacon up. Everyone has bacon right now. Everyone has bacon. It might be a good opportunity. You've got potions, don't forget, it applies to potions as well. I got nothing, I got no inventory. I got no potions.

I can Greater Restoration. All right. I mean... A little Pair of Spirit Shroud as a bonus action. I'm flying. How long does it take to Greater Restoration? An action. Do it.

Do you have the components for it as well? I do. Yeah. I have one left. What's this for? Lucius' Strength, I imagine. Because the Wish spell... Oh, does that negate it?

It will restore some of it. How much does it say? It restores, it negates. It just says any reduction. So do you just have, you didn't know that, a 9th level, like a dud 9th level spell now? Until he learns a new 9th level spell, yes. Oh, you can, okay.

Yeah, and I'm not a cruel enough DM that I'm gonna be like, no, you can't learn more 9th level spells. Now that that magic has left Lucius, it will? Okay. Yeah, and I'm not a cruel enough DM that I'm going to be like, no, you can't learn more 9th level spells. Now that that magic has left Lucius, it will maybe take him time, but he can learn a new 9th level spell. And also when he levels up, he'll get to learn a new one as well. My last level up. All right, well...

Let's start flying out, and I guess as we're heading towards him, great restoration on Lucius. Like, I'm happy to do stuff on the move. All right, Lucius, your strength returns to its normal score as Quill's magic kind of purges that weakness from you, restoring your strength. Thank you. You see his biceps pop and his butt cheeks pop.

Oh. Back into strength. The buttons on your jacket. Does your outfit, like, rip at the sleeves so it's like a vest? No, it fills it like it should. Okay. I will say you have basically, you have two more actions worth

as you are flying before you arrive. Like you've got effectively enough time, or Quill has one, the rest of you have two. If there's any spells you want to cast on yourself just before you land or anything else. Could Tiangong echo flying? Yeah, I'd also just say that you just take them into yourself and reappear them. I'm not going to worry about that.

Well, it's just whether or not we want to do the whole bonus action to summon again. No, I'm not worried about that. I'd like to hang on to Harmony for a bit, if that's alright. We're all just flying out to this Hadassi on the back of a monster that's swimming towards us right now. Can we all be doing the classic super red Superman- Oh yeah, we're in formation. Yeah. A little bit of colored smoke coming out. I'm in the middle.

Just one. I don't want to be that DM. Do you want to do another heal on everyone? Because you've seen how hard this seed hits and you didn't heal everybody up that much. Lucius'us is low. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, KGM.

I have been holding on to... Yeah, I mean, hold on to your big spell, like your big heal and stuff if you've got that, but like... Any little ticklers. But like I'd say, if you want to get even like another... While bacon is on anyway. You've got one more spell, it might be worth doing it whilst you've got bacon up.

While we're fat and full of bacon, it makes sense. So let's do 48. Just because, again, you've seen how hard this thing hits. I've regained a 6th level spell by using pretty much the rest of my sorcery points. Another 38 healing to everyone. Wow, I'm so cool. Yeah, I was thinking about doing another heal,

and I have saved some good boys. I just didn't want you to get lost in the confusion of like, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God. But I just know that I'm many spells ahead of everyone and many actions ahead of everyone else if everyone else wants to do some Shrep spells. I can't do Shrep spells. All I can do is fly in that direction in an angry manner.

Swing the hammer. I'm real mad about it. Spin it around, roar at Hadar, do intimidate checks every single turn until you wear him down. I don't'm real mad about it. Roar at Hadar. Do intimidate checks every single turn until you wear him down. I don't think he cares about me. He certainly does. I would.

Was it the Hadar manifestation that did the acid and cold? Yes. You scared the shit out of me. It was. I don't like that. As it should be. Okay, sorry.

Okay. Yeah, I mean, well, because you guys are flying, we can, so the way this is gonna work is we're gonna re-roll initiative. Because you are rejoining this fight after having an extended enough break

that it would reset the initiative. He's not surprised. The other thing I'd say is though, is you are still all currently flying, so even though I've put your miniatures down there, that is basically where you are gonna be flying in from. Assume you all still have the fly spell active, and you can land you can act as normal right you currently all have the fly spell just remember it's just like lucius and nova is concentrating in fact concentration goes for as

long as we can so i'm concentrating lucius and lucius is concentrating on the rest of us he is known to suck up concentration around 60 60. yeah just checking oh you are actually faster than me yeah you're you're fast well you've got fly on you as well oh do i no oh no you only cast it on suck up concentration around 60 60. yeah just checking oh you are actually faster than me yeah you're fast well you've got fly on you as well oh do i no oh no you only cast it on century nova and ayla i'd like to say nova cast it on you yeah and then he's flying yeah yeah um yeah as we're flying i'm like keep fly as long as possible in case he tries to plunge again we have it for 10 minutes okay all right all right in that case let's get a fresh rounds of initiative in i guess tries to plunge again. We have it for 10 minutes. Okay. Okay. Good plan. All right, in that case,

let's get a fresh rounds of initiative in, I guess. Yeah. Oh boy. Rolling very well. Mine's way better this time. Neither am I recently. Yeah, mine's pretty. Trot's lying.

That's his lying voice. All right, sentry. Nine. Quill. 22. same as last time yeah nova vijay 22 oh you have the high decks you'll be going first uh ayla 19 no same as last time was it yep uh lucius i've got seven slightly better last time, but still last in the initiative order. So we've rerolled for nothing. I wish we'd have a better initiative. I've got to reroll for any future money.

Me and Nova have the same decks. Yeah, we have the same decks actually. Well, D&D Beyond has put Nova first, so... Hell yeah! It's alphabetical. Probably alphabetical. Probably is alphabetical. Why don't I name my character Quill? Call it Albericus Albumum. My next character.

A-A-A-A-B-U-M-U-M-U-M. Arakokra bird. Arakokra aerosol. Arakokra. Oh, fuck. Okay, well, rejoining the fight for the second time, Nova and Quill. We'll just have nova go first but you guys can you guys can choose but it might just be easier to have kim go first um i would like to fly up into this nerd's face with uh echo harmony so you go 60.

Echo harmony. So you go 60. That's moody. That's extremely moody. It's so moody. We got too red there for a second. So we can't... That is your movement. If we could just be apart, like, come on now.

Well, then that means that it goes slightly less. Oh no, there's flanking. It's bullshit. I can bonus action Misty Step. Okay, yeah, so more like that. No, to Hadar Butz. 15, 15, 15, 13. And I'm going to start hitting. Yeah! Okay. Damn straight. Hadar butts. 30. And I'm going to start hitting.

Yeah! Okay. You return. I thought you had fled like cowards. I rolled a 19, which is a crit. Ah! Nice, good job. Yeah!

Dope. I rolled a plus. Old man Hazel's loving that one. Whoa! Oh shit! So that is 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. So that's with the Hexblade, so that's 21 crit damage. So, yep.

Do the d8s stack on that too? Well hang on. Did you roll for the damage? It would be d8 damage. It's 1d8 plus 7, but also plus 6 from Hexblade Curse. So it would be 8 plus 7, 15, 21. Plus 1d8 radiant damage from the sword, because I activated Heaven's Wood. That's right.

So 29. Okay. And then you roll the d8 and then uh that is uh six plus six is now oh now i do have to work some stuff out separately uh is any of this force damage no all right this is just my sword stabbing him. So that is... So 29 plus 2d8. So 7, 8, 9, 10, 11... No, you don't add the plus 7, we've already added that. Okay, so d6 stabbing damage, as in 6 stabbing damage, 2 radiant damage, and then 6 hexblade curse damage. We already added that. So 37 total from that first hit.

37 points of damage. So it's like, I thought that you had fled as... As you kind of cut into it as it's mid-speech. 17 plus 13. That will hit. Will hit. So that is 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

Hit. Point. 20 points of damage. Second cut. Lancers across its body. 12 plus 13 is 25 to hit. Does hit. 7 plus 7 is 14,

15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. 23 points of damage. Three strikes. Cutting through this creature. Definitely wounding it. You can see it striking, ripping through the armour, looking angry. You know, looking at you

with this baleful, single red eye. I would like to action surge. Yep. She can't omni-echo because echo's too far away. That was a good dice. That rolled so well. Got it. Yep.

Action surge, three more attacks. Ooh, bad. 13, 19 to hit. 19 does not hit. Ugh! What's 7 plus 13? 20. Not enough. This time, almost now seeing your style of attacking, changing, morphing the armor around it to block the blades.

25 to hit? 25 does hit. Okay, so what's eight plus seven is 15. Oh, and another seven. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. 28 points of damage. So you watch as even though the first two, and now the second barrage of attacks,

it blocks the first two, you manage to slide the blade. This kind of curling starlight mist trailing behind it, cuts through it again. Ah! Little ending creature, you will suffer for this insult. Ooh, I probably am gonna. I just wanna check if I can teleport.

So you have- No, it's a bonus action to swap with Harmony. And you bonus action to Misty Step Closer. So I am done. I'm probably going to die now. Goodbye. You're certainly... I mean, it certainly doesn't like you very much. So as a legendary action, it's immediately going to use Arms of Hadar right behind you. I need you to make a Strength saving throw, please, Nova Vija. Yes.

I rolled a two. Minus two. Ten is not enough. But I also have Indomitable, so I'm going to be Indomitable and roll again. Okay. Just in case. Sure. Natural 20!

Minus 218. Is not enough. Okay. Remember, natural 20s aren't auto successes. Mine is 218. It's not enough. Okay. Remember, natural 20s aren't auto-successes. Unfortunately, this writhing mass of tentacles kind of appears in space behind you, even though you're flying up in the air, almost like unfold space,

and this lashing thing. You take 10 points of cold damage and 10 points of acid damage. As this kind of swirling mass just opens up in space behind you. We then go to Kilakad Kalah. Remember friends, we fight with friendship on our side. I think we will.

Oh, God. Immediately. I'm dead. I'm gonna cast, because it's got 90 feet of range, a Chromatic Orb, which so far, so far I've hit, I think zero times. This is the one. This is the one. You have to technically quill, you have to nudge five feet forward.

I refuse. Oh, misses. Fine, that's my turn. Can I say quill? All right. Fuck you, demon. No, I will, I turn. All right. Fuck you, demon. No, I will, I will. All right.

Yeah, so at, so it's 3d8 plus a million, right? 1d8 for every, so three, four, five, it will be 68. All right. But first. You need to hit. Natural 20. Motherfucker! That's one.

That's going to be pretty big. So what was it, 68? Yeah. So that's 16, 32, 48, plus another 68. Lock to lightning. Okay. Just going to resist some of it. Boom! lightning okay it's gonna resist some of it boom another 27 so that's gonna bring us to 27 75 i believe it's not bad how much 75 i think 75 48 plus plus the tears up. 48. Yeah, 75. 75.

But it does resist some of that. This one's for you, my friends! When did this happen? We all flew together, and now I feel like the Storm Chasers are one, and one for a roll. Because Nova's an enemy. No. I'm retconning this.

Prasar is glittering. No. Prasar is glittering. I believe that's how the fight in Vanguard Alpha went, right? Nova was like, Yeah! We can do it! I just saw you do, like, eight attacks.

That's very anime. To be honest, yeah, you did an all-might. And a glittery sword. You did a might hero. So, Quill, you conjure this spinning ball of lightning, this Rasengan. You throw it forwards. I say Kamehameha.

Yeah. And it does, like, as the seed of atara is distracted fighting off nova this ball slams into its side and just erupts it does absorb some of the lightning but it does overpower the creature and you can see it properly like ah uh wince in pain um angrily looking in your direction now. Thank you. Nice. And I look away from him and go, huh. At the end of your turn,

seeing that you were all flying in formation and you are still somewhat grouped together, Sentry, Ayla, Quill, Lucius, strength saving throws for me please, as it's gonna conjure another kind of, open a portal to the far realm. Oh, these are just in the air, not from the ground. Yep, it's going to do it in the air.

It doesn't have to do it on the ground. It just chooses a point of space, you can see. You get a plus three score from me. Six, seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine. You succeed. Plus three. Yep. Oh, balls.

Twenty. I think the plus three saves me. Eleven. Fail. Fifteen. Fail. Everybody but Ayla takes ten cold, ten acid. 20. I think the plus 3 saves me. 11. Fail. 15. Fail. Everybody but Aayla takes 10 cold, 10 acid.

Is this a spell? This is not a spell, no. It would be a spell if anybody else cast it, but this is Hadar literally just using its own power to open up a portal for the Far Realm. I can't absorb that into my gauntlet. No. Do I take half or? You don't take anything. You just resist these 10.

10 per. 10 cold, 10 acid. So 20 damage total. Unless you have resistance. Then it is the seeds turn. Uh oh. The first thing it's going to do is it's going to try and chomp Nova Veatch. Goodbye everybody. If this is the same

save your fingers crossed. Don't say it. 19 to hit. Yeah, it's gonna hit me. All right, first thing first. Well, roll your charisma save now, because then I'll do the damage off. That is a 21.

That is a failure. I would like to use Indomitable. All right. How often do you get that? That's the last one I got. Just a re-roll. That was worse. So first things first.

Goodbye everybody. You love visiting different planes. 24 necrotic. You got 27 force. Good health though, right? And Nova Vija, you and... Would your echo... No, I don't think it would.

You and your... Well, you, your echo remains. You are transported to a fleshy cathedral dome. Ah! It's a round chamber, spherical almost, with flesh, kind of sinewy walls, teeth, mouths, tentacles, and floating in the middle is this strange squid, octopus-like creature with a single eye

and multiple tentacles and a big mouth. And it speaks at you in just gibberish nonsense language. Like, this isn't a language, even if you had a spell that lets you understand, this is just just speaking like a thousand different words at once, using a thousand different mouths, even though it only appears to have one. And it's almost like it's trying to break your brain by speaking at you. I've got primordial offense. But you are, nope, this is a, not a sane language.

Not wanting to rules lawyer myself, but I'm gonna. Okay. Because I'm 30 foot away from Echo, they dissipate. Thank you very much. That was well played.

Good rules lawyering. I love that shit. Love that shit. Very well done. That's just, it's bite attack. It's entropic more. It is going to, it's going to remain where it is.

It doesn't let you quill, so it's going to shoot two beams of force at you. Yeah. 17 to hit. I'll shield it. Yeah. So you're going to Elder Quill that Concentration? Oh, no, it's not Concentration. No, it's a Reaction.

The second one then is going to be a 30 to hit. No, that does still get past that dang old shield there. It does get past that dang old shield. Ding, dang, diddly shield. Ding, dang, damn it. And that's going to be... 13, 15. 20 points of force damage.

Oh, God. Can you make a concentration check, please? Oh, yeah. DC 10. DC 10. That's two. I'm glad I got that. Can you make a concentration check, please? Oh, yeah. DC 10. DC 10. Oh. Hey, you've done it. Yeah.

11 plus. Can you make concentration checks for me, please? Fine. How many do I need? Through a demi-tour. No, it would be one, because it was one attack. You just split the damage. That would have been...

He tentacle arms a Hadadmi before as well. Oh, yeah. So that would have been DC 10. So let's do it for the arms of Hadad me before as well. And me. So that would have been DC 10. So let's do it for the arms of Hadad first. So I've got advantage because of thingy. So 14 plus anything? That would have succeeded anyway. Then the next one, though,

that is going to be, because it was like 20, I'm going to say DC 25. I think it was about 25, 26. Do I add anything to this? Constitution. It's a constitution saving throw. 16, 17, 18, 19.

The fly goes. Lucius will fall out of the sky. Landing on a door. So does everyone else. Why? Because you lost concentration? All right. I will say you guys were flying about 30 feet up.

A sensible 30. A sensible 30. But at an incredible speed. Still going to be 15 points of bludgeoning damage to everybody but Nova. And Quill. And Quill. You can half that, Ayla, because you're raging. So that's going to be...

Yes, because it's rounded down. Bacon is still up from the first attack as well. But Sentry and Lucius both take 15 as you guys fall out of the sky. Sorry about it. And you fall prone, technically, as well. That's the other thing, is you will fall prone. So even you set, Aayla, you are prone. Prone. Oh, no.

Um, that is the seeds' turn. The lair action. Oh. Yeah. Three. Ooh! Is it doing the harrow post again. The Harapus again? Yeah.

No, wait! However, this time it shows. Oh, it starts at the front. Into the salt. Or the back. Oui. Oui, oui. So, every 15...

We don't know what it's going to do. Well, I mean, based on the last one, 15 feet away from that wall is safe. It will hit me regardless. In between. I'm big. That's true. Oh, it's me. It is your turn, Chiam.

So I guess I only have 20 feet of movement because of Le... Pron. Pron. So... So... I can't even throw a hammer at that. If I used a charge on my hammer, would I get the full fly speed? Yeah, you would, because you just fly from where you're currently prone.

You're like Thor, you just... I will do that, which will take me to this line. Or can you grab me? Yeah. Take me to that line. There. Is that right? Yeah.

Am I going to be safe there? I don't. Okay. Nowhere. Where's better? Back one? Four tiles forward. Okay. If you can do that. Like six tiles back.

One hop this time. Two hops this time. Two squares this time. Freeze. Die! Die. I can't do it. I can't do it. So you're flying through the air. You can still be up in the air at this point.

It's true. I will be up in the air. These things do go quite high, though. You're not going to avoid the damage from this, but you are technically still flying. And I don't get my movement on top of the fly. No, I think it replaces your movement. You can dash. No, I think it replaces your move. Because I have 20 feet. You can dash.

No. I... You can move two tiles forward with 60 feet. You would be a little closer. I'll move a bit, yeah. I'll move a little bit closer. And... I'll be flying. Is that right?

Yeah, that was 60 feet. That was 60. Okay, I can't do anything other than move. Is it, what, 30 feet range on your throw? No, but I used my charge on flying, so. Yeah, but you are. How high in the air would you like to be close if you're flying? Like 10 feet.

Just 10 feet off the ground. Like not far, not far. Okay. All right, after Aela Nova, the creature that you are currently in the chamber with is going to turn on you and is going to attempt to blast you with its rays. First thing I need you to do

is make a dexterity saving throw, please. 17. 17, you succeed. Next, eye ray. I need you to make a wisdom saving throw, please. 17. You succeed. Lastly, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw, please. 17. You succeed. Lastly, I need you to make a intelligence saving throw, please.

20. 20. You're going to take half damage. Damn. Good shit. 13 points of psychic damage as this beam of light strikes your mind and fills it with madness.

69 again. Not really. Ah, baby. All that healing just gone in the last two turns. It takes such heavy hits. I'm going to get up from my prone. Okay. And then I'd like to use all of my movement to go as far forward as I can.

So 15. And then take a dash and go forward again. This is 30 now because you've gotten up. I mean, that was only 15, yeah. That was only 15. 15 more feet. Basically where I am. There's two more. No. Yeah, feet. Two more. Basically where I am. There's two more. No. Yeah, no, it is.

I don't know how to count. 5, 10, 15, 20. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Misty Step would get you next one. I can't take an action, can I? You've dashed. You would be next one. I would, but then he'd be next to me.

I'm going to stay there for now. Okay. I'm going to stay there for now. Okay. I'm going to stay there for now. Okay. I'm going to stay there for now. Okay.

I'm going to stay there for now. Okay. I'm going to stay there for now. I'm going to stay there for now. I'm going to stay there for him. I would, but then he'd be next to me. I'm going to stay there for now. I'm going to use the rest of my movement next turn and get in range of him. I'm just going to hold fire for now. All right, any other bonus actions you want to do? No, I think I'm good for now. All right. Lucius.

Lucius will get up and stand here next to Quill. Well, underneath Quill. Yeah, and 30 feet up. He'll wink. You see it. I see it, yeah. Chromatic Orb. Fourth level.

Okay. Fourth. Where did you do it at? Fifth. I do it at fifth level. Okay. Just as you roll, because it's not used its reaction to try and absorb a spell this turn yet, you watch as the Chromatic Orb, kind of fearing the one that it was struck by, it sees you channeling a similar spell, and as you launch it towards it, Lucius, it just consumes the spell.

You cast it forth, right? Oh my god, Tom. I mean, your senses when you walk home tonight. You've seen it do that, like, what do you want from me? What do you want from me? Threatening. Anything else on your set? Actual threat.

Anything else? No. He's pissed. Mark. Anything else? Next line. He comes with his little play. Yeah, it's right on me. You fucked it, Tom.

It's changed. No, it hasn't. It has. No, this looks very similar to what I saw on the VOD, available on YouTube. It's gotta be in between the 15. I thought... So, Cintrii and Ayla. No, you fucked it. I blame you for this damage.

Cintrii and Ayla, can you make a... Ayblee. ...Dix's Dirty, I think. Ayla gets an extra plus three from my... Why did I waste that on that? One space forward. We are safe. I'm so good for a crit.

Do this now. I'm 30 feet up. This thing goes up like 60 feet. 60. I'm gonna go 30 feet up. It's a failure. Sorry, I need to skip my lair actions up here. So yeah, what'd you get?

16. 16, that's a failure unfortunately, Sentry. Nat 20 for a 24. 24, a success. So you're? 16. 16, that's a failure, unfortunately, Sentry. Nat 20 for a 24. 24, a success. So you're gonna take half damage, Sentry. This is your fault. This is your fault. It's fucking, hang on.

He does have a point in that you listened to him. Yeah. Did you remember? Well, you worked online last time. You meticulously told us where to us. I'm just saying. Never listen to Thomas, what I'm saying. 25, oh, I've got a Determinant Witch tight. I'm just here to tell a good story.

And Rolls Lawyer. And Aayla getting blasted by magic. Coal damage, 25 coal damage, so Sentry would take 12. Nice. And you see this line in between the cracks of the gaps of the carapace, this time in a reverse order, these lines of primal magic just being blasted out

of Telegus's body. That is the end of the round. We go up to the top of the round. Nova Vija, trapped inside the Mind Prison. Does this thing, is this thing technically hexed by crows to me? Interesting. No, it's a different creature.

That's a poopy thing. Sorry. That's super poops. Yep, I'm a poopy guy. Ruining Trot's day, I'm ruining your day. You took my wish from me. I took your wish from you. Nice.

Yep, yep. No, I believe it was the like, what are the chances of that happening? Two. I ain't got such an anchor reaction. Oh my god. So lifelike at that moment. You got the mark of swapped places.

I have a big car. I'm gonna manifest. I'm gonna go across the rooftop, so I'm gonna Batman my way. Shit. I'll manifest big car. I'm going to go across the rooftops. I'm going to Batman my way home. Shit. I'll manifest my echo. Okay. I rolled an eight, which I believe... And if it's an eight, nobody but you sees this.

But it is the form of a female Eladrin performer as swirling with butterflies and other fey-like creatures singing a song is the form of shansara appears and you gain the benefit of the shansara ability i love that you both when we would when there was those hints of fey magic and all that you two were just like we went to the fey wild is it thalia like is is it the princess that we met? Like, no. No. No. Oh, no. Logical thought.

It's shit on game. All right. So, yeah, you and your Echo are now in this chamber. Keep your sense of the night. With the mind. Oh, no. It's a destruction derby out there. It's going to be cute.

It'd be a real shame if something happened to that Steam Deck tonight, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah. No more games for you. Nice Steam Deck, bro. It's like Kim leans over, picks it up, and breaks it, and it does a rest thing, and you're like,

Oh, I'm sorry, did you want to play Diablo tonight? Yeah. Remember, we can defeat him with a power of friendship. All right, Nova, what are you doing? Yeah, I'm smashing, I'm going in. I'm going in. Let's go. All right. So first is natural 20. oh my god that's them glitter dice now not actually cursed not sex with curse so it's a d8 plus seven so 15. and then another d8 uh and just sorry does the radiant

damage from the heavens so sword's still active so does the d8 from that go so that would be yeah so Sword's still active. So does the d8 from that go to the damage as well? Yeah, so base sword 8 plus the 8 from the Radiance, 16, plus 5, 21, and now 2d8. Roll 2d8. Just 2d8, you don't need to add anything to it. 5. So 21 plus 26. 26 points of damage. Yes. On the first attack.

So you watch as you cut into the Mind Witness and it kind of. 21. 21 will hit. So that is a D8 plus eight. Eight. The Mind Witness. Nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Twelve points of damage on the second one.

Logical knock. Yeah. Points of damage. Second attack cuts into it looking heavily wounded already. 27. 12 points of damage on the second one. Points of damage. Second attack cuts into it, looking heavily wounded already. 27. Hits. Oh, eight. So seven plus eight is 15, 16, 17 points of damage,

and I will unleash Incarnate. Seven points, yeah, this thing is, you can see you've cut it to ribbons. It's barely holding onto life. So unleash Incarnate for Shansara is 2d6 bonus psychic damage. So if you hit with it. Oh, if I hit with it? Yeah. It's basically, it adds it on top of your Unleash Incarnate attack,

which is you get to make an attack from the echo space. It follows the same rules as your unleash incarnate ability it's just if you hit you do an extra 2d6 of uh 15 plus 13. all right we'll hit as i hit do i do the sword damage with that yeah it's your standard unleashing So, fuck me. 1d8 plus 7, so 6 plus 7 is 13? Mm-hmm. 14. So that's 14 sword damage and 11 psychic damage from Shanzara. You watch the psychic damage.

It doesn't actually affect it, unfortunately. From Shanzara. You watch the psychic damage. It doesn't actually affect it, unfortunately. But you watch as this creature is nearly, like on its last breath, like it is nearly completely ruined. Bleeding this thick, too red,

like somebody's turned saturation up on its blood as it oozes out of its body. And it kind of is weakly like trying to whisper this madness into your mind why are you describing tom hazel that is all i see when he's so hard what did i do it's like we've been giving him he just puts it straight into you all over the place anything else on your turn? I don't think I deserve that. Okay.

It's weak. Actually, it's actually not immune. I thought it was immune psychic. It's not. Nova VJ, you watch as this thing's brain is inside it. One turn. Melts, and you are returned to the battlefield. Yes!

Woo! Didn't miss a thing. Unfortunately, Echo didn't. Yeah, Echo will not. Okay. So no one sees. Shazara! I think I'm going to put you...

Sure, Dover. Sure, put me in the fire. Yep. Right next to it so you can start your turn there. Okay, I'm not in it though. No, but you'll still take damage. Okay. I'll take another space away.

Kilo-Kev-Kalar. Hello. I'll move forward five feet. Okay. So hopefully in prep for this, these walls are coming. Okay. Actually, if I move one, two, three, four, another wall. One, two. Oh my God.

I hope you missed that because I did. Three. Hang on. One, two, wall. One, two, three. One wall. How about you just move your movement speed? One wall, one, two.

Okay, you'll move there now. It's like chess, you took your hand off of it. Movement speed. One wall, one two. Okay. You'll move there now. It's like chess. You took your hand off of it. Okay. One, two, wall. One, two. Why are you not printing from the wall?

I just did and it's wrong. Oh, it's a shame. You've moved. Let's have a look there. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five. That's good. I'm good there, I think.'s have a look there. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. That's good. I'm good there, I think. All right.

Please put a space out. Just for fun, please. I have the rules of where it goes. Now I need to think about what I'm actually doing on my turn. It's not a gap. They eventually go away. Yeah. But, yeah, it's like a rolling. It's like one, two, three, four.

It kind of bursts up each gap in the armor. How long does the wall last? It technically lasts until it rolls away. The whole thing. Yeah, until it's completely done. Last time we just didn't do it because nobody was down this end of the map. I just didn't continue it.

Oh, you had to reuse the things. I'll do a... They don't block line of sight. They don't prevent you from attacking or anything like that. It's just like blasts of energy. I'll just do a Sacred Flame on him. So he makes a dex save. Dex save and throw.

Fail. Nice. Very good at dex. Not very agile. Very tough, but not very agile. It's because he's kind of merged in with the body. Yeah, exactly that. He can shape tentacles and shielding around him,

but that relies on his reactions. 27 damage. 27 points of radiant damage. So you watch his quill, you launch out, and you can see the white hot flames. Foul divine magic. The seam. He's weak to divine fire?

No, he just doesn't like it. Oh. I would tell you if a creature was vulnerable to it. It was just the reaction. To my one weakness! I'm being dramatic! Anything else on your turn, Keelah? Nah, boy. You good?

Annoyingly, you have positioned yourselves in a way that I can't use the arms of a daaar. So, it's going to do that thing where it merges with its arm. How tall is this guy? He's big. He's nearly as big as what the miniature suggests. Oh. So he can reach me even on 30 up. He's actually going to put himself there.

As it is his turn next. So that was at the end of your turn, legendary action morphs in where the ground reappears. Right. And then on his turn, he's going to use his... He's going to use his lashing tentacles. Unfortunately, you guys are spread out, so he can hit sentry and Aayla with one attack.

So he's going to do basically two attacks against sentry and Aayla. Can I protect Aayla? You can, yes. So disadvantage on the first attack against Aayla. You can't protect Aayla. That's going to do basically two attacks against century and ayla you can yes so disadvantage on the first attack against ayla it's going to be a 23 still to hit you ayla and then uh century natural one to hit century in in trying to protect ayla you actually cause him to miss because he expects you to be selfish and protect yourself so he doesn't expect you to like go and protect ayla does manage manage to strike her, but misses you. That's the first attack.

That's gonna be 18 bludgeoning damage, or nine bludgeoning damage to you, Ayla. And then on the second attack, which you can't protection against, that is gonna be a 21 against Ayla, and a natural 20 against you. Oh, bring it! A one and a 20.

So in this case, because there's a crit, I will roll it. I won't just do it for speed. So Aayla, you're going to take another 18, so nine bludgeoning damage. Let's go. And then Sentry, you are taking... Okay. Oh, no.

You had quite a lot before I even healed you. Yeah, yeah. I was pretty much nearly full. How much did the wall do? 20, I think. Okay. It cost like 40 total, so... 49 bludgeoning damage. That's fine.

As he slams these two lashing tentacles, he forms out of the carapace around you, and then he will turn on Sentry, having already tried to break your mind. Having already tried to break your mind. Oh, yeah, he can't do it to me again. He's going to turn to you, Sentry. Oh, let me show you what you've been missing out on.

You're missing out on nothing! To make a, I believe, a, now, hopefully this is going to be good for you. It's a wisdom saving throw. Count the spell. Oh! Okay, what level? Seventh.

Seventh level. I need you to roll a d20. Oh no. Plus also, the spell will go off. So, because I forgot to do this for your Chromatic Orb as well. So we'll count the Chromatic Orb that you got that one for free. This is d20 plus your Charisma modifier, because it is not high enough level spell to automatically count spell it.

I believe it's plus five. It should be plus five, yeah, Charisma. Natural 20. So you watch as Lucius, kind of sensing the same thing, having done this once already to protect quill you turn and whatever spell whatever effect is about to have on on centuries mind you use that prismatic magic of your own to kind of shield her from it however in doing so great agony spreads through your body. Shit. Can't we spell? No, this is the...

I know. Yeah, okay, good. So you've canceled two of those, no? Yeah. Pretty fucking cool. Canceling. The heart. The canceling Hadar.

It's 24 points of necrotic damage. And I forgot the Chromatic Orb orb so we'll just remember it because you missed with it and i agree oh i see um but yeah the uh so it's 29 yeah uh but yeah you just watch as this creature the seed of hadar just snaps its eye on you no like here i've had quite enough No, no, no, no. The feeling is mutual. That is, yep, that's its entire go. So you go to Ayla. I will step up to it and hit him in the face, please.

Okay, at the start of your turn, I do need you to make another dexterity saving throw, please. Bums. Another plus three. 21. Even with the plus three from sentry? Okay, that's gonna be 14 points of cold damage.

That's not as bad. Is that from the wow? Wow. That's from the wow. We're not gonna win. Okay, I heat him, please. Go for it. Gonna use different dice,

because that one is not being my friend today. We'll get to the bottom of this round then. 26. 26 will hit. 15 on the hammer plus two lightning. Okie dokie. Some of the lightning is slightly resisted, but the hammer blow still strikes true. Whack.

A crunch. That's a two, it's not gonna hit. Unfortunately, no, this time again, kind of shielding itself, anticipating these big, slow, heavy blows that it protects itself against them as it brings the shield up. Maybe you should use the glitter dice. 16, that was the glitter dice.

It wasn't, it wasn't. 16. 16 on the deck, so we're good. 21, 21 damage, it's not. All right, 21 Glare of Dice. 16. 16 on the deck saving throw. 21, 21 damage. All right, 21 more points of lightning damage. So the lightning damage blasts through and you can see even with it resisting some of it, kind of tears a chunk of this creature's body away,

blackening it and it's like, it's beginning to hold its side now, looking heavily injured. Anything else, Aelora, on your turn? That's me. In that case, we go to sentry. I just need to check, however, though, because... Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It's so musical. Okay, I am still good. Oh, I panicked. This is gonna kill the Hadar seed, right? Maybe. The Hadar seed will take damage from this. Oh, really? Yeah, it's positioned itself poorly.

How high is this wall? Oh, 60 feet tall. Massive. So now you've got to go over. He fails the saving throw. What a loser. I don't believe anybody else is within range. I can't quite see.

What range? That next wall. Oh no, everyone's in the gaps. In that case, it's just the creature. How many of these walls are there? They're every 15 feet gap, then a wall, 15 feet gap wall. But how many more walls are being made? However much goes to them.

Oh, okay. So there's no one moving on the map. This is fire. Fire damage. Oh, I land at the end of that turn, by the way. I was like 10 feet off the ground. I land. Takes 22 points of fire damage from that.

I think the last one's going to be here. Okay. Yep. That's going to take the 22 points of fire damage and then sentry. At the start of your turn, I need you to make another dex saving throw. That wasn't that 20. 16. 16. That is going to be 16 more points of cold damage.

Okay. Nice. Can I move just five feet towards the creature? Yeah, we'll be fine there. And then I'd like to... If it's within five feet of the wall. I'd like to hit this boy, but I'd like to ready a bonus action and do a level five spirit shroud. Get that ready. Is that a bonus action to cast Spirit Shroud? It's um...

Or you channel divine... Uh... Just bonus action. So it's a bonus action to cast it? I guess so, yeah. Okay. I think so, yeah. Spirit Shroud.

What does Spirit Shroud do? I don't know if we've seen this one so often. It calls forth the spirits of the dead and i in tune i just attune their magical energy to give me an extra d8 attack damage okay so i give myself if you're passing at fifth level does that increase the effect as well yeah so it's an extra 2d8 on top of everything else everything else oh my god so this is like the spirits of the guardians right like channeling into star break so it's like when when sentry has the um when she does the normal divine smite it's the green and gold helix around the spear but with their spirit shroud the gold energy takes on a more humanoid guardian form so it's like dope cool so it's like almost like swirling souls around

the the lance that's cool let's do level let's see if Fuck me. 15. 15 is not enough. It brings up this carapace to try and shield itself. Second attack. Come on. Oh. That's gone. That dice is forfeit. Check the result first, but then forfeit it.

Come back. What was the result, though? It's a 15 on that. 15 on that again. 15 plus 13. 28 is a hit. Yep. Sick.

Right, let's rock and roll. So I'm going to do a level four Divine Slayer. 15 on that again. 15 plus 13. 28 is a hit. Sick. Right, let's rock and roll. So I'm going to do a level four Divine Smite. So hang on. So it's like the normal Lance damage plus 2d8 from the Spirit Shroud. Yep.

Plus, I think, 2d8 normally, right? Yep. Because it's an Aberration and improved Divine Smite. Then you're going to do a what? A fourth level Divine Smite? Fourth level Divine Smite. Which is how many? I've written them down. Fourth level is... Do you want more dice? Because I think you're going to do a fourth level Divine Smite. Fourth level Divine Smite. Which is how many? I've written them down.

Fourth level is... Do you want more dice? Because I think you're going to need them. One, two, six, D8, four. So we're already at like 10 extra D8 on top of the Lance Damage. Oh my God. This is Lance Damage plus 10 D8. I've got enough D8.

Imagine if that was crit. Oh my God. I was hoping for a crit so bad i mean this is still gonna be so painful paladins are the favorite broken they're very broken i mean especially with my crit rules my crit rules don't help for me it's a lot of ones no this isn't a crit even yeah i mean this is still nuts i mean this is good combination of spells and abilities yeah and also circumstances. There's an extra DA because of the magic item.

There's an extra, you know, but it's still nuts. Oh, it's cool, yeah. This is a character with the most health and the highest AC. Not the most health. Oh, okay. Bar way outclasses it. Yeah, I think it's Aayla essentially. 286.

And considering you half pretty much most damage as well. Oh, yeah. You've basically got... 61. 5 million. All right. 61 points of damage. Let me tell you what happens.

Oh, my God. Oh! As Starbreaker, swirling with the spirits of the Guardians. And those Guardians, these are the warrior spirits. They know what this is. Nice. They have fought this being eons ago. Oh, shit.

And they sense that. You feel their courage, their spirit, that almost like a warrior's scream coming from the lance. As Starbreaker itself, a weapon forged to slay creatures made of Hadar's magic, slams into the creature, and you watch as it drills a hole right through its chest, through this gaping mouth that it's been spawning and it just rips through it. And you just watch as the energy punches through

and kind of leaves you in place, the tip of the spear touching its creatures. It's like, no, no, wretched living. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, in and instead of reappearing in its form, a kind of shell appears. You begin to see other sections of Italicus's body almost opening up like wounds where you see pustules, growths of entropic magic. As that triggers its mythic action

and initiates the second phase. Woo! Phase two. It regains a certain number of hit points. Woo! Phase two. It regains a certain number of hit points. Of course he does. We're so low. I will tell you this.

Whilst it is in its cocooned form, it is immune to all damage. It cannot be targeted by spells or abilities. And Atelicus is still... Still being controlled. However, you watch as these postules open and they seem to contain the same red magic that was spawned. Almost like by retreating into itself,

it's forced these other wounds to open that seem to connect to the same life form. But with that, we're going to take our break. Oh, my God. Good timing on that last tip. Yeah. We will see you in part two. Bye, everybody.

Bye.