High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #187 | The Entropis Warfront (Part 2)

Episode Date: June 8, 2023

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Pickaxe. Hello, welcome back to part two. Our champions of Eros are currently on the plain of Entropis and they are attempting to make their way to the Tassadar to launch the final assault. But to do so, they have to traverse a ruined city and valley and in doing so, offer many different opportunities and objectives. There are NPCs that need to be rescued there are war allies that need to be brought along and there are weapons that need to be destroyed speaking of as we left things last lucius is currently leading a team of ayla max and azaria against one of these kind of bio-cannons that Hadar has created

as planetary defenses, which is currently preventing you receiving support from the Valkyrian fleet above. So, you see the scene before you, you see this giant biological thing built into, kind of looks like it's taken over an observatory and sort of turned it into some sort of magical cannon. What are you guys gonna do how many like we can't count how many there are what as in the weapons or the cultists there's a lot not an uncountable a number but

there are a lot but you fought these things before and you know that you know you guys are epic heroes um nice try reet uh wow um that was a that was a curse of stride level of can opening there i tried really hard to make this stealth it's fine um sorry there is and you know that like for example like ayla and lucius you guys could probably just destroy 20 you know dozens of these things at a time right there is enough that they are a not a threat to you individually, but if they swarm you, they will be. But the cannon is your priority. The cannon...

Can I... I'll probably say to Lucius and Azaria... The enemies haven't spotted you as well. Is this more magical, or is this more smash the cannon? Because if it's more magical to disable this thing and I can take out the rest of them, Max and I can do that, then we can clear a path for you and Azaria.

Well, it appears to be biological. I do not think I have any ability to control it, but certainly it would be easy for my magic to sort of wither it. I feel capable that perhaps myself and the captain would be able to magically destroy it, but I do not presume. Would it help if we also help destroy that? Or would it help if we destroy the other? It's hard to say. I don't know. I don't know how difficult this thing will be to destroy. We won't know until we try.

Let's just go in there. I think Max will say, Max will say, I think you should help the others. I think I can at least buy you time enough to destroy this thing from this horde. They don't seem to be particularly powerful. I just need to prevent them reaching the three of you whilst you're destroying the cannon, yes? Okay, I'll help out, but if you start to get overwhelmed, I'm coming back. Yes, yes, that sounds reasonable.

All right, let's go for it. Plan? All right. Okay, so we're gonna do this really quickly again. I'm not gonna run a full combat with this. What I would like is for Lucius and Azaria to make a spell attack, as if you were using a spell attack. So it should be listed under actions.

It will just be her basic action, which I believe is bone spear. Bone prison? No, bone spear. Bone spear. It's above. Use those eyes. So overall it's plus eight.

So well, you can roll both because it's a spell attack for you and Azaria. So Lucius will do one. And then for Ayla, this would be a physical attack. Oh my god. The curse has passed him to Cristron. I cursed you, sorry Bob. A physical attack. Oh my god. Would you? Oh. The curse has passed him to Chris Tron. I cursed you, sorry Bob. A physical attack.

Yep, as if you were attacking with your hammer. Just like the attack roll. 10 and 12. Oh god. No wait. My spell attack as well. Yeah.

Uh, brain. 27. 27. Oof. Success. 12 and 12. 12 and 12. 12 and 12.

And then for Max, I need you to roll just a d20 plus. Let's say Max is con because he's not actively, he's just trying to withstand the enemies, right? 15. 15's enough. 15's enough. The dc's slightly lower because it's only using a stat. So Max is holding off, right?

At this point, he's swinging this axe and shield bashing, and he's basically using a stat. So Max is holding off, right? At this point, he's like swinging this axe and shield bashing, and he's basically funneled them. You guys have like pushed through, probably blasting them. Ayla with a hammer kind of carving a path up this kind of narrow winding cliff staircase to reach this observatory, to get Ayla and Azaria, sorry, and Lucius in range, and in range for Ayla to start breaking this bio component apart.

Meanwhile, on the cliff itself, Max has basically created a little Spartan 300 funnel, and he's just holding off the hordes, and these creatures are crawling on the walls. He sees them. He uses his Valkyrian tech to blast them or magic. He does all this stuff, and he's holding them off, and he can hold them off for a while.

But Ayla, you are wrecking house with your hammer, just kind of tearing chunks of this bio weapon apart. Lucius, I mean, you tell me, but Azaria is like struggling. It's like it's resistant to her necromancy. And so like her spells just aren't having as much of an effect as she thought they would. But what does this look like for Lucius? Is this like being too in distress from the news he had before?

Is this his rage getting the better of him and not being precise with his attacks? Like, what does this look like for Lucius? Like, is this like being too in distress from the news he had before? Is this his rage getting the better of him and not being precise with his attacks? Like, what does this kind of look like? So Lucius starts off next to Zarya, just blasting, trying to match what she's doing, because she seems to have a clue, like, how it's made up and therefore how to destroy it and what the important parts are.

But he starts to become like Kylo Ren attacking the console. Like his anger starts to build up and then he starts to divert his attention to attacking minions and taking them down as well. Gets distracted, like seeing a couple make it past Max and then just turning the rage on them kind of thing. Nice. So unfortunately, it is a failure on the objective.

So you have a choice. You can remain here and spend another time unit to try and destroy this thing again. Did we have spare units? I think we had spare ones, right? It depends if we go to the magical anomaly, the next. It is going to be the team leader's decision. It will either be you remain here, spend time unit and attempt it again and basically try and destroy this thing or you can abandon the objective or you if you have a creative

idea you can tell me there's something like interesting that I'm not anticipating but those are gonna be my two options at the moment is either abandon this objective and move on if you you stay longer, it is harder for Max to hold the enemy back. Lucius is too angry to stop. So he's gonna tell the team to keep blasting. All right. I'm gonna say, get it together, Lucius.

Focus on the cannon. You're not taking the minions out. He blasts louder. Okay. In that case, we will. That is a time unit for everybody spent. So I believe, Nova, you are just making your way down south before you turn around.

Yep. Sentry's team, you're heading to the lost signal. Yes, to the west. To the west. All right. For this, the only one I need to make a check is Nova. How is your team moving? Cautiously, quietly, or quickly?

Cautiously. All right. Can you make a roll of d20 for me? Just a straight up d20. 18. 18. You're fine. There are enemies, but you are avoiding them.

You kind of see them coming. What is this like? Yeah. Perhaps it is a mixture of Protector and Danica. Danica kind of flying ahead and sort of scouting out, but you determine where there are big pockets of enemies and you avoid them, making your way without any difficulty. Sentry, your team, you have a problem here.

You arrive to the edge of a large ravine, a big kind of chasm. Looks like the ground itself, like an earthquake, a terrible earthquake opened up. Do you need to get something to wipe up your spill? I didn't spill. No, no, no, no. Carry on. A giant chasm, like an earthquake, has torn the ground asunder and pieces of this city have fallen in

and it's created this just chasm of broken ruins. And you can see down in the chasm, and we're going to determine exactly now who it is. Can you roll a d4 for me, please? All righty. We'll determine which of your allies is within this place. A four. A four.

That is going to be the wild elves. Whee! You can see the wild elves who, there weren't that many of them. They're skilled hunters. They're skilled, like, you know, guerrilla fighters. But there aren't that many of them. They're skilled hunters. They're skilled, like, you know, guerrilla fighters. But there aren't that many of them. They are currently in the bottom. You can see a crashed Valkyrian ship that they were on.

There is lots of dead Valkyrian soldiers around. And the wild elves are currently trapped down there in the bottom. And they are being suppressed. You can see that there are these cultists wearing Hadar robes. And they've conjured, like, a barrier, kind of trapping the wild elves into this place. And then they're sending, they're kind of teleporting lesser minions in

and the wild elves are fighting and they're holding them off but they can't get to the mages who have trapped them in with these shields. However, you and your team have approached, the mages do not know you are there and they are currently sealing the wild elves in. What is your team gonna do take out their majors take out those majors take out those mage i think we're taking out the major

okay uh so in that case if you're just gonna direct attack then it is basically an attack roll or a spell attack uh as if you were just using the stats don't worry about the actual weapons and stuff okay uh and that's the NPCs as well right uh yeah so we need rethra and scout uh my spell attack is oh my god that was good but rethra was uh uh poor god and uh scouts what is his uh oh plus nine kim's taking all the luck today yeah yeah you're sucking out all our luck uh i mean to be fair out out of everybody, Kim actually deserves it after the few weeks she's had. She does.

She does. But I mean, transferring the curse to one person is sufficient. So what we got? So I got, Quill got a 19.

19 for Quill. Success. Karen got a 12. That is a failure for Scout. What about Sentry and Rethra? Rethra got a 13 century got 30 all right so two successes and two failures um you turn your attention uh to the mages and uh you know quill and century being the more expert warriors and things that you guys are

more practiced heroes very quickly starbreaker impaling one of these mages quill blasting them with your cantrips and stuff rethrara and Scout, Scout takes aim and fires, but his shots go wide, bouncing off the mages. Rethra jumps down, but he just doesn't kill the mage in a single blow. He ends up having to engage in a bit of a melee, and that is enough time for the rest of the other mages and the minions that are around them

to basically realize what's going on, and they are gonna turn on you guys. And it's unfortunate because over half of you failed. The event is a failure. Now, you do free the wild elves, who are going to rush up to aid you, but in the process, I'm going to say that you guys are going to take some damage.

Two failures to occur. Woohoo! Yeah, yeah. So that's to, essentially, for the entire plan to go flawlessly, we are two time units down. Yeah, already. I'm doing fine.

So that is gonna be 12 points of damage to each member of the team. So that's Retha and Skrout included as well. Skrout. Skrout. The wild elves are still trapped down in the bottom of the chasm, but you have kind of broken the shields and they kind of surge up and together

the combined force of you manage to swipe out these kind of like cultists of hadar and then the forces of adala are around um but it does leave you sort of like in this chasm trying to help these guys up and bring them up but you do take some injuries and sustain some injuries on on the way okay all right so we'd have used an extra time yeah and i'd say that the wild elves themselves it takes you longer to free them, so they are more injured as well. So not just you guys take those injuries, but quite a few of the elves are walking wounded.

They're not in a state that they can really fight and stuff like that right now. That sucks. That would have been great for the Hadar Cannon. Yeah. Maybe the escape pods. Okay. Yeah, exactly.

All right. So we jump back to our team who are attempting the same thing. Lucius and the team trying to destroy the Sadaar cannon. It's gonna be the same thing. Spell attacks for the two mages. And then Ada, are you still gonna try and destroy the cannon? I'm gonna carry your success over. I would like to assist Max in holding back. All right. In that case, it will be a con check for you and a con check for Max.

It landed, but then that one has case, it will be a con check for you and a con check for Max. It landed, but then that one has caught it. Just a regular... D20 plus con. Yep. And then the same thing for Max as well. 17 plus five is plus seven for me. Yep, you're fine.

Nice. I forgot my mod is plus seven now. Max 16 plus four. Yep, yep. The two of you are holding off this horde. And not really sustaining any injuries as well. Like the two of you just ripping these cultists apart. I'm pretty much beginning to thin that herd out now.

There's probably not, you know, they're just throwing bodies at you at this point and it's not going to last too much longer. I'm hoping that that has, because I'm helping Max, it will have made Lucius focus. I'm gonna carry your success over as well this time. So, Lucius and Azaria. Azaria, 22.

22, success. Lucius, 21. 21, success. With the one that was carried over, that is gonna be a success on the objective. So, you watch as Azaria kind of figuring this creature out and she's like, oh, it's Natu, it's quite strange. And she begins like seeing just the flesh dissolving

under her necromancy, the bones breaking apart as she rips them out of the bioform. Lucius, you're acid and cold. Whatever Azaria's necromancy doesn't touch, you incinerate with your magics and just eventually you trigger something, maybe plasma stored in the creature's body or some sort of magical source of its power.

The magic hits it and this whole thing just goes up like a Christmas, just like, as it erupts in magical flame as the cannon is destroyed. Nice. You're just screaming at this point, like anger is coming out in spell form. And you just see the reflection of the explosion in his two different colored eyes.

And he smiles. Yeah. Azaria, calm and sort of unfazed by any of this, just sort of doesn't respond to it. But Aayla and Max may be casting worried glances. I'm going to go up to Lucius and be like, do not let this consume you, Lucius. You can't.

You did good, but don't get sloppy about this now. We're doing it for her. For her. We're wasting time. All right. Okay, with that, where's everyone going? So I know we know where Nova's going. I'm going for my girlfriend.

Lucius team, are you going to attempt to jump straight over to the masked enemy, or do you wish to go somewhere else? There's a magical anomaly nearby. So we've done two time units. This will be your third time unit for everyone. I'm not leader. I'm willing to take on board.

Maybe masked enemy, because we lost a unit. That's a magical anomaly there, isn't it? It is. It's up to you. It isn't it? It is. It's up to you. It could be the source of the storm. It's going to be something. Whatever you want. Max and Azaria are going to say something, unless you ask their opinion.

Well, we know what Azaria wants to do. I think we should look at this anomaly and see if it's the source of the storm. So, we're gonna head there. All right. And then, sentry team, are you heading to the escape pods? Yes. We are, yeah. South one.

Okay, Nova, I just need you, the only one, because again, they're all going to specific objectives. I need you to cautiously, quietly, or quickly. Cautiously. All right, roll a d20 for me, please. Watch me roll a one. Don't! I'm ready for it.

12. 12, okay. No effect for me, please. Watch me roll a one. I'm ready for it. 12. 12, okay. No effect, travel without issue. I just felt my luck just... She just took it, yeah. There goes my next nat 20. I need you to roll a d3 for me, please, to determine which of the magical anomalies is here.

So that's three, rounded down. So that's three rounded down. So that'd be two. Two. So exploring this place, when you arrive, you can see that this must have once been, you almost get the impression that maybe this was a school. And you, exploring the ruins for a brief moment, you find no traces of Hadar's spawn.

There is traces of Hadar's corruption, but it's mainly just empty halls and stone until you come across what would have once been it almost would appear to be like a meeting hall like a round circular building and the roof's collapsed and ruined but there are still stone pillars and benches where it almost feels like students would have come to sit and maybe converse or relax around what would have once been an enormous pool. And that pool is filled with a soft, and it's the only color that you've seen this entire place so far, but a soft blue, slightly glowing liquid. And it's very thin. There's puddles of it left in the pool.

But you and Azaria can immediately tell there is raw magic here. Azaria is like, I can sense an immense amount of arcane energy from this water. Whoever these people that lived here once were, they were in tune with powerful magic. What can we do with it? You can make an arcana check. What can we do with it? You can make an arcana check.

You can also have Azaria make it. Azaria has a plus 15 to her arcana. Oh, I might make her. Roll it. It is her specialty, is magical knowledge. Oh, yeah, that's a 16, so that's 31. Azaria goes down.

She pours some of it into a little vial. She kind of tastes it a little bit. She kind of casts spells on it and stuff. Yeah, of course she does. And then she pours it onto a little skull that she has and she kind of examines it and watches it. And her eyes kind of light up and she's like, very powerful.

This is almost raw manna in a liquid form. It will replenish the spell energy of a body. There is not much of it left, but enough for you and I. And I think it will increase our arcane power significantly. Do I ingest it? Drink it. Drink it. And she'll gather up what is left. And it's puddles, so she gathers up and there's enough for basically like two potions. She hands you one. And if you drink it, she drinks hers. Oh, she drinks hers.

Oh, yeah. Zarya is just like straight away. Will this last? Yes, it's permanent. I cork it. Okay. Very well. Keep it as you wish.

So what this will do is this will restore a sixth, a seventh, and an eighth level slot. It will also... And? And. As in sixth, seventh, and eighth? It restores a sixth, seventh, and eighth level slot. So if you've expended it, it gives you those back. It will also permanently give you an additional seventh level slot.

Chug it. Chug slot. Chug it. Chug it. Drink the blue juice. Give it to Ayla. I don't have magic! For those who do not have magic, it has no effect. What if it was this level 2 warlock? It would probably give you

it would restore whatever your highest level spell slot is. I'm assuming it would work best for Quill. Dream of the blue veil, baby! Very cool. All right. Nice, worth it. All right.

That's a good find. Yeah. That was a good find. Damn it, Azaria, we could've gone to Quill. There is random things. No, Azaria is absolutely like, I'm bad now. Chug, chug, chug. For note, Azaria gets another use of her Bone prison and another use of her once a day spells.

So she gets another use of those each as well. Nice. Escape pod team. Sentry. Yes. You guys, there's actually no roll needed for this one. You guys arrive and you can see, I just need you to roll a d4 to determine whom is here.

Whom's is amongst us? Mm-hmm. A one. Century. It's perfect. Okay. When you arrive, you see them. You feel them long before you see them.

Aww. Because when you stand, having gathered, it seems that it's taken them some time to recover to figure out where they are. All the escape pods have been opened and now standing, and they've probably been fighting off some lesser Hadassborn, but you see the gleaming, glimmering ranks of the Guardian Army. Yes!

And as you arrive, they see you and they all turn and immediately stand to attention, snap a salute, and you just hear a great cry of like, hail Sentinel Prime! As you arrive, we stand ready and you see them approach um and i think if i remember people rook and hadar were still uh healing weren't they inside the matrix and herald rook and herald were that's right um so who would be like a second in command, like for Sentry?

If you can't think of one, then we can make up one. But if there's a particular one you want, not Quill, of the Guardians. Have you ever tried like alchemically combining matrices? So they're like hybrid. Hybrid Guardians. No, question for another time. Hook. I don't know. That's fine. You don't have to. Yeah, it's fine. so they're like hybrid hybrid guardian no question for an overall time okay um

hook I don't know that's fine you don't have to yeah it's fine in that case it'll just be a guardian called bastion

oh bastion yeah it's like a big chunky kind of like protector type and he'll just be like kind of come up and be like send more prime the guardian army

stands ready we fended off a few we managed to escape from the valkyrian ship before it was destroyed but uh we've stand ready we weren't exactly sure where we were. We lost all of our navigational equipment and magitek, but now that we've found you, I'm sure we can head in the right direction.

Good work, Bastion. We're heading towards the Tassadar, so if you stay with us, we'll hopefully make a clear path for safety. Do the elves need assistance? We only have a few medics with us, but we can attend to them if need be. Oh yes, please. All right. Before we get to the Zastadar, though, we do intend to assault the Hadar cannon over there, so...

You need not worry about that, Master Gwyll. The Guardians are ready for such a dev endeavor. And he'll call up, he'll say, a demolitions mission. Yes, I, I, yes, yeah, absolutely. We'll call up our best engineers and sappers. And he just nods, and he starts calling out, he's like calling out names for guardians

who are specialized in destruction and demolition and stuff like that. And they begin assembling like a team to come and specifically. I think Lucius would also communicate that we successfully destroyed the cannon and how we did it in case it helps. Okay, yeah.

Just keep hitting it real hard. It'll work. Yeah, yeah. Just keep hitting it real hard. It'll work. Yeah. Unfortunately, you guys use magic. This team might not necessarily have those kind of specialties, so it's going to depend. It's simple. You use Tone of Cold.

Send the wild elves out. They'll do it. All right. One of them's, like, juggling a C4 right now. It is C4. So, team. Yeah. Next one. Lucius, team. Next one. Lucius, team, where are you heading?

We are heading to... I think we're going to fly from here, actually. So you're going to spend one of your spell slots to give the whole team flight, yes? Yes. In that case, the masked enemy, which is to the south. Why are we going there?

To take out the mast enemy and then join us and join their complication uh mark off the spell uh yeah you don't have to worry about anything uh you say you had to cast it at so that's one of your six level spots six it's a big resource no role needed you cast fly you guys fly over the ravine the canyon avoiding all the hazards that they're within and you are going to land ready to engage this mass enemy meanwhile nova team girlfriend make your way to the tassadar century team where are you heading cannon cannon boys you're the leader you tell me yeah we're going canada all right central team heads the cannon three things for everybody watching i'm gonna jump to nova team first and for this i'm gonna need to do a little bit of this. Oh no.

Wait, we've got a new map, have we? We've got a map-y map. We mapping it? Oh shit. We map it about? Watch me now screw this up and roll ones. Watch me nay nay. Oh, you know, you're actually just building. Okay. Oh, here it comes.

Oh, cool. A map is being assembled before our very eyes and it's all grey. What is that? Is that a giant half robot on the ground? Oh, there's a big statue. This is probably the best opportunity to have unpainted terrain, right? Because it's gray.

It's not unpainted, I dry brushed it. It's... I dry brushed it! Thematically correct. It's a gray planet. It does just look like a... I love that statue. Yeah, it's cool as hell.

I want that. What is that? It's like a skull face. I wanted, I'm gonna use face? For podcast listeners, Mark is assembling very quickly a map of some very scary looking statues that are scattered about the place. Big skull face

from another giant statue. Humanoids in robes and skeletal faces. Big shields, big swords. He's now destroying a shell. That one's got a huge dingus. It's all right, it's all right. It's lit up.

Oh, that's the twin star. Okay, so he's placed what is the crashed twin star. Oh, it's really crashed. Bad sports commentary. And he's placed the twin star on the map right next to the statue. Well, I'm sorry for trying to include podcast listeners. There it is. There's Daya!

I'm sorry, podcast listeners. There seems to be someone else in the commentary box. I'll have him injected immediately. No! Get out of here! No, no, no! He always does this. Oh, no.

Oh, we also have some Hadar forces assembling near Tassadar. Mark basically has just palmed a load of glass form on him. He basically, he took his hands, he scooped as many minis as he could, and he just poured them. He just upended a bucket. Yeah.

Oh, shit. There's a lot there. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight mini boys. Is this a proper full combat round? Two large lads. Do we need to play NPCs? Yes. Okay, who wants to be Danica, Protector, and Hope?

Ooh. Danica! Danica. I want to be Danica. I got the right hair for Danica. Leave me be. Oh, I'm Hope. That works.

Can I be the forces of Fadar? Yeah. Go for it. Only if you lie down and just let him die. Okay, so... Actually, you know what, here you go. That's Hope. Oh, who else have we got? Wait, who's in this battle? Protector, Hope, and Danica. Are you playing Protector? And me.

Do you want to play Danica? No, that's alright. We can both... We'll double brain it. I have the hair. I need initiative from... No, I'm not going to have you roll initiative. You are basically coming in. You are going to act on the top of the round. I'm just going to have you guys all go first, and then all of the enemies and NPCs are going to go afterwards.

And then Thalia and Tassadar are going to go at the very end of the initiative. Tassadar, immediately, so Nova, as you approach, you make your way and you can see the great kind of crater that's been left by the Twin Star as it crashed amidst ruins of this world, this Entropis. You can see fallen statues, ruined buildings. Thalia is basically leaning out of the crashed Twin Star,

what's left of it, using it as cover as she's firing best as she can one of her legs is covered in blood you can see like like the other one looks badly broken you can see that it juts at the wrong angle and she's kind of leaning she's not even stood up she's just on the ground like leaning out of the doorway tacidar is on the ground but their form is incredibly thin and wispy um as if it is low on power you do know that tassadar is still connected to the ship like if tassadar tassadar can't be destroyed here um but they can fade away and would no longer be able to assist with whatever is going on um so i'm gonna let you guys i mean you tell me the rough order you guys want to act in and then we'll just go in that.

I feel like Nova's going to go first and go for the big boy closest to her. Okay, so Nova, then who? I think Protector will follow Nova and stay close to her. We'll have Protector go next. Danica can go the other way towards. Danica. I think, well, I was going to say she could fly over. All right, Nova, I was gonna say she could fly over.

All right, Nova, your turn. Okay, so bonus action, I will shout Heaven's Word and activate my sword. Okay. And I'm just gonna attack, attack, and attack some more. And which one are you going for? The big guy nearest to me.

15, 20, you rush in, your sword glimmering in your hand, and you just hear, that's my girl! 16 plus 13, 29 to hit. 16 plus 13 will hit. That is a 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 12 points of slashing damage and 5 points of radiant damage. You can add the radiant. If you just add the radiant to me for next time, because it is all the same thing for these guys.

18 to hit. 18 will hit. Six, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,

17, 18 points of damage. 18 points of damage. Two sword strikes ripping into this creature. 22 to hit. 22 hits. Oh, I rolled an 8, and I rolled a 1. 8 plus 8 is 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 23.

23 points of damage. Fantastic stuff. It is still standing, but it is heavily injured as the three strikes come out of it. I should have said deal. Fantastic stuff. It is still standing, but it is heavily injured. The three strikes can't have anything to it. I'm also going to... I should have said this at the beginning, by the way. You don't know... There are other sounds that there are more creatures out there. Like, you do not think that this is just the only force that's in the area.

This is just the force that was here when you arrived. The objective of this mission, of this combat encounter, is to get Thalia back to where you came in. Basically, to extract Thalia. You don't necessarily have to kill everything. You just have to get Thalia out. If you do that, the combat's over. You win. Extra attack.

Let's go. Let's go. As in action surge? Yes, sorry, action surge. 17 plus 13 is really high. Jesus, what is going on with 17 plus 13 is really high. Jesus, what is going on with me? 11 points of damage. 11 points of damage.

You see as that strike does hit how this creature, you've seen similar ones to this before on the ship, but this is slightly different. It's bigger. It looks angrier. And as you strike that last blow, it does bellow in rage, and it is going to get a reaction attack against you, as it does so. That is gonna be to hit you, Nova.

25 to hit. Does action search not allow me to do three, like the full three more attacks? It will, but this is a reaction. It is a reaction. This is a reaction to it being injured. It will hit me, yeah. That is gonna to be...

I'm just going to use its... Can I use Protectors Reaction? You can. Oh. That would go after I resolve this. So after I resolve my attack, before Nova makes more attacks, you get your thing.

So give me a second. This is going to be... Sorry. 23 psychic damage to you, Nova, and I need you to make a constitution saving throw oh fuck that dice it's gone roll another one

roll another one it's a little bit cocked but it's 11 just re-roll it if it's a bit cocked might as well just re-roll it it's worse 15

15 unfortunately you are stunned until the end of your next turn as this creature turns around you injure it you see that it's heavily bleeding, super injured, and then it turns around and bellows this psychic scream into your face

and tears at you with its claws, leaving you reeling. Unfortunately, because you are stunned, you lose any remaining attacks. So I don't get my action skills back? You don't get, you get the one, you don't get it back. Then, Protector. Yep. Reaction, 30 feet, yes?

30 feet, yep. So, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. And then I'll make an attack. So Protector sees you get stunned by this creature and is like, Nova! And then dashes forward and plunges their blade in as they use their Driven Purpose. 17 to hit. 17 hits. Nice. D8 plus 4, 7 damage.

7 points of damage. And it is marked. It is marked. So Protector kind of almost like putting their arm in front of you, the shield, is like, Beast Face Man is trying to fight this thing and defend it, basically keep it away from you. While it's marked, it has disadvantage on any attacks that aren't against

Protector. Unfortunately, though, because you did fail the same throw, you're stunned, and you lose any of your other attacks. That was very unfortunate that it was on the first one that you did, but it is under half health, I will tell you that. Damn, nice. So Nova, that is unfortunately the rest of your turn. Protectors go now happens. Yep, I'm going to attack it. Yep.

16 to hit. 16 just barely hits. Oh, nice. All right. 11 to hit. 11 points of damage. Cool. Protector can attack twice. Yep, then again. That is a 1, so that's gonna miss. That is gonna unfortunately miss, so he's kind of keeping this thing marked in its face, but yeah, Protector is, that's what they need to do. 50 baby, every time. Danica.

So, our thoughts here, she's got Wall of Fire, and the intention being if we're trying to make a path back maybe trying to I'm thinking a line I don't have the line thing but yes there basically like that yeah so it's a 60 foot line maybe place it slightly so that it's not cutting off Danica and Hope from Nova right now okay but yeah like it can go that way because the combat field stretches out, right? This is just this section. True, yeah, yeah. So it could still... Just for ease of use, I'm just going to cut it like this.

So that does use up her one-time use of Wall of Fire. Which way would you like the damaging flames? This side facing the most enemies? Yeah, facing the enemies. So you have to choose which side does damage on Wall of Fire. The side towards all most enemies. Yeah, facing the enemies. So you have to choose which side does damage on Wall of Fire. The side towards all the enemies. Because there are enemies on this side as well.

All right, in that case, I believe one of the minions is basically within range for this thing to basically get incinerated straight away. So this should force everyone to the south before they can even get to Tassadar. And well, there are two enemies still in the middle there, but yeah, that could be Danica's turn. And then she can move. She can move.

And she got a fly speed of 50 feet. I wonder, does she hold this point so that I mean, she doesn't actually want to get engaged with any of these things, right? So maybe these guys could swing round for her. Yeah, she could. I think she she could fly so that she's out of reach of enemies and she can basically assess the battlefield. She's basically doing her best Phoenix from the X-Men.

She flies up in the air, creates this line of fire cutting the battlefield in half, and then next turn she can start blasting. All righty. Okay, so that's going to be Danica's go. Hope. Okay. She's going to clop her way up this side of the fire, 40 feet of movement, and is going

to cast… I'm coming Talia. Very good, you don't have to do the RP, but I love it. Yay. That's it, she's beelining, so she might even dash. Okay. And get straight to Thalia. She's not going to take an action.

Five, ten, twelve, three, four. There you go, she can basically get right next to her. And Thalia is just like... Healing touch. Okay, yeah. I can't do that with dash. No, she's dashed already, but she's ready. I'm going to heal you.

Yeah, Thalia's like, my legs, I don't know if I can walk. And it does look like she has basically sustained a old injury rule, like full injury, like not just hit points, like she cannot walk. I feel like she'll be strong enough to get on her back. Hope does look like she can put her onto her back, but that's going to be Hope's next turn to put her onto her back.

And Hope's a great one to do this because she's one of the few people that can fully just pass. That's what I'm hoping for. Tassadar just looks behind and it's just, to put her onto her back. And Hope's a great one to do this because she's one of the few people that can fully just pass. Tassadar just looks behind and you see this wispy Tassadar just like, ah, the archfey is here. The fey being is here.

And it just kind of turns its attention back to everything else that's going on. And then, unfortunately, enemies now are going to go. A couple of things are going to happen here. These two minions are going to swarm for Tassadar. These guys are sensing a more immediate threat, are going to pile around onto Protector. These things are not clever enough. They are going to basically run into

the wall of fire. They're going to attempt to, yeah. I'm going to make them pass through because they can pass through. Close. But, so, the DC on Danica's spells, I believe, is 17. 18. 18, yeah. Nice. I am going to make some throws. The two minions at the bottom are incinerated.

Yay! The one at the top makes it through. I'm going to have them so that they do take some damage, but because they're a minion, they're going to take damage, but they're not destroyed because he's a normal minion. The big boy has failed, so can you roll Wall of Fire's damage for me, please? 5d8.

Have you got some dates there? Dates? Isn't it 9d8? No, it's Wall of Fire. That's the explosion. On her sheath. Oh, that's the fireball. That's the fireball. Yeah.

So that is, good lord, 10, 18, 22. 22 points of fire damage. You can see this thing's now on fire as it charges through, but it is still standing as it does so. Then I have a lot of attacks against poor Protector. Who's got Protector stats? Get ready. First one is going to be a natural one. That's a miss. The next one is going to be pretty bad. That's only a 12. That's a miss. Next one is also a terrible, terrible roll. I rolled a one, two, and a three. Those are all three misses from the big boy.

She's like, I have earned this! Harnessing from around the table. The two minions are going to make a group attack. Still going to miss 19, which is a miss against Protector. Protector just fending them off. Because there are two minions, Protector is going to take eight points of damage right away just from the minions' presence.

What's Protector's AC? 21. 21. It's a tank. The psychic emanation of the minions kind of is affecting Protector's mind, but protecting the stunned Nova Veeja, just like fending these things off as they do so.

Thalia and Tassadar. Thalia is going to... She can't move, but she can attack. She's going to shoot at the minions because father is gonna she can't move but she can attack she's gonna shoot at the minions cuz she thinks that she can probably whittle those off her first act is unfortunately miss the second tack is also gonna miss the dice rolling went from a six up to a six and a four tacit are is gonna attempt to use magical missiles like an arcane burst basically cool that is going to be a hit against the first minion and that's

gonna be a miss against the second minion and that going to be a hit against the first minion. And that is going to be a miss against the second minion. And that is going to be a hit against the third minion. So two more minions. Tassadar just blast them down with two blasts. But you see, every time Tassadar attacks, that form is getting thinner and wispier as their power is being drained. So now there's a mini boy and a big boy against Tassadar.

There is, yeah. Two mini boys and a big boy against Protector. The big boys do look like they're pretty beefy, they're pretty chunky, but we go back up to the top with NovaVidja. What can I do being stunned? Is it a one-and-done? Roll a thing for me, roll a con save for me, just to see if you can shake out of it before the turn ends, because I do hate stunned as a condition.

20? 20? I'd say yeah, you can shake it off at the start of your turn. I just hate stunned, it's like two turns that you lose out on cool stuff. So I can, I can. I'd say you can act, yeah, but because I did, I also feel bad that like it hit you as your reaction surge went off, because it was a reaction, it was like when it gets to half health it does this attack. Bless you, Messer. Bless you. I would like to, yeah, I can't leave Protector on their own. I would like to keep attacking the big boy.

Yeah, you put some major hurt on that thing. It is looking messed up. I'm also gonna use my bonus action to summon Tiangong next to Tassadar. Can you go that far on the summoning? Oh, probably 15 foot, so... Yeah, so 5, 10, 15. Yeah. In fact, I'd say because you would want them out. Yeah. So they are just in the middle of the battlefield kind of thing.

15 to hit. 15 against the big lad. Does not hit, unfortunately. Just bounces off one of its bony protrusions. 22 to hit. 22 hits. 22 to hit. 22 hits. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Sorry, 14. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. 19 points of damage. The sword just carving through the abominant material of this creature. 24 to hit. Hits. 13 damage. 13 more points of damage.

Leaving this thing barely hanging on its tendon, its flesh just marked by these dozens of crisscrossing scars caused by Nova's blade and protector strikes. It is looking heavily injured. Don't think there's anything else I can do, because that was three attacks, wasn't it? I think that's pretty much it for me right now. If you use your manifest echo, they're too far away to attack.

They're too far away, yep. But they're up, and that means I can do Shadow Mastery if I need to. Protector. Get this big boy, try and take him down. Blip. Blip. Blip. Blip.

Protector's thrown up. 13 is miss. And a 2 again. So you sort of, again, still try and protect, but no longer able to keep that mark going. The beast now seeing Nova turns all of its fury towards Nova. That's okay, keep hitting me. After Protect, we have Danica. Fireburst on the big lad by Tassadar.

Yes. Okay, all right. Has a 120-foot range, so it's a plus eight to hit. Do you want to do that? A 15 plus eight. All right, it's going to be a hit. Hell yeah, I'll do the damage. 4d10 plus four fire. Uh...

Ooh! Ooh! Faster. 26 plus four, 30 damage. 30 points of damage. You watch for Zonhai, just beams of fire launch out of her hands, incinerating the creature next to Tassadar. It kind of looks up, looking at this thing in the sky. Still up. Still up. Okay. It's tough. They're tough. They're beasts. It's fine. That was a good chunk of damage.

But she would be bursting this thing while flying forward in a cool way. In that case, we've got Hope up next. What does Hope want to do? Hope wants to heal Thalia. All right. Use your healing light. Well, you can talk up to two creatures oh i'm gonna hit first i was thinking of protective i'll do tacit arc as a little proximity okay sure yes all right so that is with my healing light the healing light all right roll it for me so that's 3d8 plus All right, roll it for me. So that's 3d8. Plus.

Plus other numbers. One, two, eight, nine, 10. Plus other numbers. Five, plus five, 15 points. So Thalia's wounds do knit up. She can see she's badly injured. Unfortunately, her legs are like still things, but she, you know, Hope kind of lifts out

and like picks her up and puts her on her back, holding her in place, almost wrapping like Thalia's hugging around her body and Hope's holding her on. And yeah, she's now on. So there's action and movement. I move? Yeah, you still got movement left. I'm going to start heading back.

So to avoid this thing, it would be five, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 this thing, it'd be final turn. 40. Yeah, I'm gonna say a little bit of difficult terrain going over the debris. And also, I guess, putting Thal'ra back. Yeah, that's fair. Halfway to the extraction. Yeah, so Hope's just like, come on, and starts rushing out as best as she can.

Okay, we gotta get out of here. Enemies. I shouldn't roleplay her. Enemies go. This thing, angry with hope and fire. No. It's gonna step up, not actually moving out of Tassadar's range either. This thing is gonna turn around. These enemies are gonna scoot around to make sure that they can attack the enemy as well.

The big lad is- Shadow Martyr. Hang on. The big lad makes- That's my girlfriend! Thalia and Hope is gonna use its reaping arms. It makes a separate slam attack against each creature within 10 feet of it.

So it's gonna hit Hope and Thalia. Wait, within 10 feet of it? Is that Tassadar as well? And Tassadar, yes. Oh, thanks. Thank you, Tom. That's all right, no problem. Against Thalia, that is going to be... I'm shadow martyring it.

21. Shadow, shadow martyr. Echo jumps in front of Thalia, takes the hit, and is destroyed. Against Hope, natural 20. No! Against Tassadar. Against Tassadar, that is going to be a hit, unfortunately.

Just a regular one. Okay. So, against Hope. Hope is going to take 16... 21... 30 points of psychic damage to Hope. That's going to be... 15 points of psychic damage to Tassadar. As you watch as Tassadar's form... Three, four, five, six,

15 points of psychic damage to Tassadar as you watch as Tassadar's form. No! Oh shit, not destroyed permanently, but you just see, power failing. He got healed 15. That's true, he did get healed 15. Exactly 15.

That's right, I forgot he got healed. Not quite, not quite, still here. Yes, seems as though I'm lingering around a little bit longer. Oh, ouch. Iading. He got healed. Not quite. Not quite. Still here. Yes, seems as though I'm lingering around a little bit longer. Oh, ouch. I forgot that they got healed.

Thank you. Light miscalculation on my part there. No, he's never wrong. Never wrong. Yeah, he's just like, hmm, how strange. The two, then the big lad next to Sentry and Nova is going to do the same thing, reaping arms. Protect her. That wasn't, reaping arms. Protector.

That wasn't, was it? No, it wasn't. Oh! Oh, God. So Nova's on that 20 against Nova, and then that is a 21 to hit Protector. Wait, I have a thing you can't do crit hits on me. Oh, your Mithril Armor. Because of my adamantine armor.

Woo! It's a normal hit then. Does he have disadvantage because of my mark? No. You failed to hit him last time. It's a normal hit then. Does he have disadvantage because of my mark? No? You failed to hit him last time. Nova's also got half cover because he's within five feet of me.

It's a natural 20, so it's still gonna hit, unfortunately. Oh! But a good echo. Can't be crit anyway, so she can't be crit. In that case, I'm just gonna do one damage roll for both of them. That is gonna be 20 points of psychic damage to both. Just a little bit of note keeping,

because I'm level whatever fighter, I have reclaimed potential, which means when Echo was destroyed, I got some hit points back, but obviously they're gone now. The two minions are gonna attack, probably Protector at this point, and they are just gonna hit,

they are gonna hit, they're gonna miss, sorry, but their automatic psychic damage is gonna go for eight psychic damage to Protector. Okay. That is all the enemies done. So we go to Thalia and Tassadar. Thalia is gonna shoot behind her. Blast the two shots.

Natural 20. Oh! Yes! My girl! It was like 20 normal roll, 20, 20. Yeah. Nuts. And then an 11 plus her bonus,

like 20 she's gonna hit with both the first their natural 20 she's gonna do 20 points of damage and then the next one wants to you I'll just do 30 points down so blast this thing she does hit it enough to injure it which causes a reaction which is going to hit her, for seven, 16 points of psychic damage. So injured, but still up. Basically just take out the healing. Yeah, Hope's healing saved Dahlia, basically, in a way, and Tassadar. So she kind of gets shocked by the psychic bellow of this creature as it reacts,

but then Tassadar will go, and Tassadar, kind of using his strength, will use his basically like a lightning bolt spell. So the big creature has to make a dexterity saving throw. Fails. I'm just going to do default damage here. 35 points of damage.

Tassadar just launches a lightning bolt through this creature and into the ruins. Still standing but looking just as injured as the one that Nova and Protector have been fighting. They are tanky. Nova. Yeah, okay. Bonus action, I'm going to resummon Echo next to me. And I'm going to start whaling on this guy again. That is 21 to hit. 21 will hit. Oh, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 points of damage.

With one strike, you cut the thing's throat and you watch as the black Icarus worm-fueled blood spills out as the large creature is killed. Oh yeah. Get dead. At the very top of the turn, I should have said that. You begin to see a group of these things. On the other side of the Wall of Fire, though. Of course, yeah. Can I get to large lad?

Oh, they'd have to attack a target. They would get an attack opportunity against you. But you easily could. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, yeah. Fuck it, hit me. I'm going to go. They will. The highest there is going to be a 20. 18.

So they will hit, so you're going to take 8 psychic damage. 2 more attacks, so 2 attacks on this big lag. Go for it. 14 plus 13 is 27 to hit. Hits. Nice. Eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 points of damage. Close, but still up just barely.

One more. One more attack. 19 plus 13 to hit. Woo! Hell yeah. Yeah. Plunging the blade in, running past, kind of taking a swipe of these slashing,

you know, red energy claws of these minions. You run past next to Thalion and just plunge the sword in, ripping this thing down, causing it to fall to the ground. Can I unleash incarnation? It's special, so it's not a move. Yep, yep, yep. One attack against the minion? Yeah, one attack on a minion.

Absolutely. Go for it. Unfortunately, if you over- yep. One attack against the minion. Yeah, one attack on a minion. Absolutely. Go for it. Unfortunately, if you over-damage... That's the natural one! There it is. Hey, it's fine. But that's 14 to hit? It's a natural one.

Always a man who misses. All right. I feel lucky. Protector. All right, Protector, just don't re-clear a path. Get these two minions out of the way. Yeah, we love it. Hope we can get out.

These are easy to hit, but we'll see. 15? 15 hits. Nice. So, four, eight, nine, 10. Oh, that's a lot. We love it. Hope we can get out. These are easy to hit. But we'll see. 15? 15 hits.

Nice. So, four, eight total damage. Eight points of damage. It might not have been a minion. All right. Oh, look. There's more of them. They're coming this way now.

Weird. Let's just let that go. Yeah, weird. Look, there's a big guy this way as well. Jeff? This guy, he's over here. Whoa, no. He's coming over the building.

I missed the other one. I got two. All right. Okay. Jeff? This guy, he's over here. Whoa, no, he's coming over the building. I missed the other one. I got two. All right, okay. So Protector trying to clear this path, but unable to just yet. I'll just call them to try and come through. Yep, Danica.

Doesn't have much. She has a spell called Comet's Tail. What is that? It's a special spell. It's a Danica spell. Does Danica know what Danica's spell do? Yeah, it does. I couldn't write it on there

because I didn't have enough space. Basically, she can teleport up to 60 feet in a line. Anything in the line, she can do fire damage to. That's pretty funny. But it is any creature. She will affect allies with it as well. That's fine. Just fire burst?

Another fire burst. Yeah, probably... Get Tassadar out. The minion next to Tassadar just to get him out. Roll it for me. Go for it. 18 plus 8. Roar!

What? That was so sudden. Burn to crisp. And finally, Hope. Hope is going to dart behind Echo and Protector out of there. Yep. Hope runs. And with that, we're going to end the combat

because you have achieved the objective. Mission complete. You are able to get out. Thank you, everyone. Awesome XP. I think Tassadar technically would come with you, but their form is so weakened that they'll come with you, but they're probably not going to be too much more use. Same as Thalia. Thalia

is too injured to basically be a combatant. She won't be able to join you in fights and stuff, but you have saved them. With that, we are going to wrap that little fight. Successful escape. Successful rescue. Thank you, everyone. Bring back the main map. That's cool, yeah. I'll play this out in a little bit. Meanwhile. Did he take any damage?

Yeah, I've written it down on here. He's probably got 124. So, the massed enemies. I'll clear it, it's fine. We'll leave it for now. The massed enemies. Just as a note, everybody at home, we may be going a little bit longer today. We did kind of warn the team and Sam so we might be a little bit of a longer stream today

just because I want to make sure we get through as much as we can more content more content more stream the mass enemies so Lucius Aayla

Max and Azaria flying under Lucius' power you make your way across the ravine and land amidst again more portions

of this ruined city this maybe appears to be as best as you can tell some sort of um not like residential area like recreation like maybe would have once been a park what looks like a stadium like a fighting arena or something like that um but when you were flying over you can see that this place is just filled, filled with these lesser Hadar spawn, these scuttling minions, these abominant creations, warped and twisted humanoids

that have had their flesh and bones partially consumed, but then remade with red energy and things like that and dark matter. And there's just swarms of them. There's just like, I mean, if this were to attack you as you were preparing for the final assault, it would be bad.

What are you guys going to do? We need to thin these numbers. But I think just the three of us is going to be... Four. Oh, there you are. Four of us. It's overwhelming, but we do have the height advantage right now. Yeah.

What? Just the height advantage right now. Yeah. What? Just the height advantage. I mean, you are flying over them, yeah. And these things do not, like, I think you do see some creatures down there with wings, but definitely not the majority of them. Me and Azara could fly past and do some spread damage. Yeah, and then we can drop down and attack.

In the holes that we create. Yeah. All right, I'm going to tell Nova's crew that we're about to do this. Don't drop fly. Oh yes, yes, that's right. Nova, how's it going? We have Thalia and we have Tassadar.

We're all safe. Amazing, we're very close to you. We're at roughly one time unit away. What does that mean? And we're about to engage with the enemy near. You don't have to say in universe. It's an abstracted mechanic. But yeah, you're at some point.

There's a green line on the map that the DM gave us. Quill wrote. So, yeah, are you gonna wait? Do you wanna wait for Nova's team to join you? I'd say that if you're willing to wait a time unit, you could just hold off on doing anything until they join you. Take out more. It will certainly be easier with more of you.

All right. But it's possible. Let's hold off. Yeah, because it's going to suck if this force is there when we're doing this all. We're doing mechanics at the same time, basically, yeah. Sure, okay. In that case, it will basically, you guys will waste a time unit or spend a time unit not moving.

Nova will join you and then the two of you will act together. Can they short rest? No, because they're in a dangerous position, I would say. This is not a short rest time. They are literally making sure they're avoiding some of these minions and stuff like that. They're just holding off on committing an attack. Sentry team. You see something very similar to what Lucia, so you guys didn't see this as much,

but yeah, up in the mountains, this maybe looked like an old monastery that was built into the mountains, like some sort of religious place of religion or contemplation. There is this winding staircase, and it looks like there would have settlements and buildings leading up, but at the top you see a very similar thing, this organic mixed in with corrupted magitek this time um as opposed to just being purely biological there are parts of like power like old valkyrian ship

power generators have been brought down and these gross organic tentacle like umbilical cords have hooked up to the power and are drawing magical energy out of the magitek into this bio creature um and then firing up into the sky and again similar thing you can see hordes of these hadar enemies and cultists operating the thing um what do you guys want to do investigate it see what it's now because you guys have a significant war assets with you you can choose to send a war asset to accomplish this mission instead. If you do so, there is a risk that that war asset will be injured. There is a risk that war asset will be destroyed.

It's a small chance. We can bring them if we go in, though, as well, right? Yeah, you can do that. They'll give you just a flat bonus, basically. They'll make the DC easier. Just go in together as well, right? Yeah, you can do that. They'll give you just a flat bonus basically. That'll make the DC easier. Just go in together as one and just flatten it. Yeah, just march on the Hadar cannon. Yeah.

I'll fly. Because the other thing is I would say is if you wanted to, you could move somewhere else. Or if you send the guardians, you could- Save a time unit. You could save a time unit. If you send the guardians to do it without your support, you and your team and the wild elves

can go off and try and do something else. You could go to the lost signal below. It is a bit of a time crisis. So, okay, well, I mean, I guess it's the Sentry decision, really, of how you command your army. Yeah, Sentry's the team leader. Obviously, you can ask for advice, you can speak to whoever you want.

Yeah. I think, well personally, Quill thinks that given our progression across the map, we have time to wait for Lucius and Nova anyway. But if the Guardian Army does take it, then we use that to go to the magical artifact, instead of straight down to the lost signal. Maybe? Ooh. Nami? Yeah. That would be interesting.

That would be two units. It would, but if we're saving a unit, sending in the Guardian Army, then we'll basically... I think that will give us time to then go for both. They're going to the Corsade, aren't they? No, we're going... Mast Enemy and then down to Corsade. Yeah, they're going Corsade and then to the Anomaly off to the east.

Which is still two units, actually. Yeah. One, two, three... So it's either, if we don't go for that middle one, that middle artifact, then I don't think anyone will. No. So... If we don't go for that middle one, that middle artifact, then I don't think anyone will. No.

No. So... It's a Guardian's Cannon, then we artifact. Or we flatten the cannon, then artifact. No, Guardian's Cannon, you artifact, right? Is that what you're saying? Should we just go for the artifact anyway? I do like loot boxes. Well, you can save a unit. I'm sure it's all beneficial.

Tom, as much as Quill has spoken, what is Sentry's decision? It's a tough one. Let's just flatten the cannon and just get it out of the way. Go together. All right, team leader. Guardians of Light, to law one. All right, you guys make your attack.

I'm assuming that this is just an outright attack. In that case, I need attack rolls from those who use melee, so Scout and Sentry. And then who else have you got in the team? It's Quill and Rethra. So Rethra would make a physical attack as well using Rethra's stats. And then Quill, you're going to make a spell attack. The DC is going to be lower because the Guardians are supporting you.

The Wild Elves are a bit too injured to help in this. They're going to take some time to heal up and help for the final assault. So, for Scout, if he hits the next target against the target. Don't apply any special rules, just using the attack bonus on this one. So basically like a skill challenge, but using their attack bonus instead of skills.

Okay, Scout got a 25. 25, success. Quill got a 30. Success. Refra got a 30. Success. Refra got a 22. Success. And Sentry got 16 plus 13. Wow.

Oh, no. A resounding success. Woo, total of one. With all the guardians, the wild elves, and yourselves, you basically launch an all-out assault. The cultists kind of looking down are like, defended for the master! I'm defended for the master! And they send their swarms,

but the guardians just charge in and you watch wreckers there with a big ball and chain just swinging around, knocking them apart. You see all of these, you see like a collection and like some of them look like they maybe once construction workers, but they've been loaded up with like their arms have got like hammers and jacks and pliers on them um combined with ones who are strapped with bandoliers of explosives alchemists and bombers and and sappers and the the military force and you guys kind of punch a hole for them and then they are just like

scrambling over this thing the the construction workers like soaring tearing drilling ripping it apart and then the sappers are planting these alchemical explosions of magitek explosives and then they scramble all back retreating back behind your lines and then you just see one of them uh probably called sapper who's kind of like leading them he's almost got like a fake little metal mustache and goggles, and he's like, here we go! And then he just slaps a thing on his arm, like an arcane enchantment, and you just watch as one little explosion triggers a chain,

and then the next, and then the next, and the next, and it kind of works around like a spiral, just ripping this thing apart, and you just watch as the whole thing comes down in this kind of wet, organic, explosive kind of... And the whole thing comes down in this kind of wet, organic, explosive kind of... And the whole cannon collapses down. A resounding victory. Oh, my God.

I'm just imagining we start the charge, but they surge in front of me and Century, and we're just sort of standing there watching them just... No, no, you guys are all in it as well. I mean, Century, you're leading the Guardians, especially the military arm, just Starbreaker tearing these radar apart, like Quill with spells from on high,

Scouts kind of sniping where he can, Rathren's just in there with a whirling chain axe, just spinning it around, ripping these dudes apart as they go. All right, so next time units, where is everyone going? Time units. Masked enemies. So you're gonna join these guys, they're gonna wait.

Sentry team, where are you heading? Resounding success, let's go for that magical join these guys, they're going to wait. Sentry team, where are you heading? Resounding success. Let's go for that magical artifact. Yeah, let's go for it. How many units is it going to add overall? It's going to add, like, four. Well, two. We also have to get back to that lost signal.

Yeah, you have to get back. We're going to be in a time penalty anyway. Yeah, we've got time. We've got time. All right, we've got time. No check needed for you guys. So, because I want to speed it along, and also you're not in a major threat, you just had this massive victory. I'm not going to worry about it. we've got time we've got all right we've got time uh no check needed for you guys um so because i want to speed it along and also you're not in a major threat you just had this massive victory

i'm not gonna worry about it uh so set uh lucius and nova team you have met up nova you're on the ground you can see lucius and the team flying up spells probably ending about now look up for a second we're coming down i mean you can still launch the attack from up above, but it will end with this basically segment. Just trying to be cool. Yeah, no, absolutely, you can be cool. So, you guys are all just gonna attack en masse, just. I'm gonna come in hard.

Oh yeah. And a cone of cold on the way down to blast an area. What level are you gonna cast that? I'm gonna cast that at level six. All right. I'm going to count that as an auto success. Danica is going to fly up and fireball wherever there's the most people. Yep.

You can mark off a use of that ability. I think that she has the same amount of uses. She hasn't got much in the ways of splash damage. So she's got bone prison, so she could- She has some spells as well, but yeah. She's got like bone prison so she could just some spells as well but yeah she's got yeah bone spear actually more single target oh blindness deafness dispel magic misty step yeah so mainly single target so she can't do a mass but she can still contribute um so anybody who's not using like aoe things like cone of coal and stuff like that i can throw the hammer in a

line if you want to spend the charges yeah i'd say absolutely actually no i'm going to save the charges for the okay um so you've marked off, those are gonna count as automatic successes. So Danica's one success, Lucius, you're gonna provide a success automatically. Anybody else, I need you to make either an attack roll with your attack bonus or a spell attack as if you were making a spell attack.

I'll do that for Azaria. And for the NPCs as well? Yes, please, any NPCs that are present. 30 for Ayla. So this is, yeah, 30 is a success. Max. 17 for Nova. 17 is not a success, unfortunately.

I was going to suggest for Hope to do Wall of Thorns. Yep, that would absolutely work, so don't need to make a check. Automatic success, but mark use off. I think that's a one to use. 22 for Max. Well, Asari is Junker and a cold, right? No, Lucius is Junk to make a check. Automatic success, but mark use off. I think that's a one to use. 22 for Max. Well, Azaria's Junker and a cold, right? No, Lucius and Junker and a cold. So Max succeeds. Or just a general attack, yeah?

Yep, yep. Max succeeds, Ayla succeeds. Azaria failed. Nova failed. But then we have three automatic successes. 26, no, sorry. 23 for Protector. 23 for Protector. 23 for Protector.

Yeah, I've already got Danica's success in there. All right, yeah, I think that that's over half. This is going to be a success. Oh, I had a few fail, but no, I'd say it's only a couple of fails, yeah. So with this, like with the Combine Might, especially with like Danica and Lucius and Hope as well with the Wall of Thorns, almost using the Wall of Thorns to lock off one of their escape routes, at which point, Lucius, you just come sweeping in with this blast of Cone of Cold.

And then as soon as you're finished with that, whatever is left of the frozen enemies is the rest swarm. Danica just launches this meteor-like fireballball erupting through the streets. They try and flee, they get into the Wall of Thorns, get torn apart by that, and then any that are left, Ayla, Max, the rest of the melee fighters are all down there with Protector just clearing up, mopping up as best as they can. Hell yeah.

Yeah, a massive success for everybody all around. Yes. But that was a time unit spent. That's a time unit. So, where are we going next? Towards the Corsari. Towards the Corsari. That's going to be one down.

So you guys going together, yeah? Yeah. All right. Makes sense. I was wondering, actually, slightly, I was going back a time unit, but are we going back on time units?

So we're wandering with the Guardian Army, right? Yeah. Yeah, you're taking everyone with you. Yeah. Unless you send them somewhere else. Right now they're with you. You could send them to the Lost, I don't know. I should have done that earlier.

You could do it now before I move you to the next one. Do you want to send the Guardian Army back to the Lost Signal while we go and investigate this thing? Can do, and then they can go to the Tataga. Again, remember, if while we go and investigate this thing. Can do. And then they can go to the Tassadar. Again, remember, if a war asset does do a thing on their own, there are obviously chances they can be injured. They won't have your leadership there.

True. But they will be meeting up with a Lost Signal, which is probably another asset. They could have hordes. Yeah, it could also be bad. But that would be... Yeah. Keep them with us for now, I think.

At least safety in numbers. So, Nova and Lucius team, no check needed for you guys for now, I think. At least safety and numbers. So Nova and Lucius team, no check needed for you guys. You're just moving through pretty much cleared out space. You've already wiped out the masked enemy in this area. But Sentry and Quill, I need Sentry, can you roll a D4 for me, please? Evens and odds.

Six. One. One. You come across. I'm not sure. Oh no, the map is coming back. The map is back. I think we might have gotten really lucky.

I feel lucky. It's just a map of treasure chests. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And you can gleefully skip through and open all these chests and have all this lovely treasure. You have to roll initiative, but the entire game is to just see how many treasures you can get in four turns.

Come on down! Okay, not immediately scared. Not immediately scared, no. This is just buildings. Wait until he scoops. It's just architecture. It's just Sakhira. It's just Sakhira, yeah. You guys are just gonna solo her, right?

It's as nice as it is. I don't think anything needs to change. I think this is good. Just keep it as terrain. Yeah, just keep it like this. What is our team? It's me, Sentry... Guardians, Rathra. Scout and Rathra. And also the Guardian army.

And the Wild Elves. You want to distribute the team? Who wants Scout? Is this a fight? Is this an encounter? He's grabbing stuff. Do you want me to play Rathrob? Can I do it if you want? You're playing Sentry, so...

I'll play Sentry. You want me to play Sentry? I think I'm all right. I think I'm fine without you doing that. He's got 150. You play Scout, which means, Lucius, you're playing the Guardian Army? Yes. But you have to do individual voices for every character.

I don't know. Okay. There's just two people in this army so far. Yeah. We should keep looking. You're right. Or, Kim, do you want to play? Have you got someone to play?

I got Scout. Okay, cool. That's the conversation. Has everyone got someone? That's fucking rad role play. Do you want to play a breath run? Lucia, do it. Oh, okay, here we go.

No, I'm okay. You sure? What the hell is that? Oh, hang on, yeah, who is that on that pillar, right? Who is that? That is... Cultist? Cult leader?

I think it's Helen Mirren. I think she's Helen Mirren. Nothing else to use for a special guest for today. Oh, come on in! Hello! Hello! Hello! I love D&D.

Big fan of high rollers. Yeah, I always do. You are Mirren. Mirren. Mirren us. Okay, give me a second. Mirren in here, team. Oh no, I got it.

Rhiannon, are you using sparkly gel pens? They should start with sparkly gel pens. They should start with sparkly gel pens. I think they're sparkly. I think they're sparkly. I think they're sparkly. I think they got it rihanna are you using sparkly gel pens they should smell as well okay justice so can i get initiative uh for the npcs it's just their dex mod uh so rhetoric and scout i'm gonna need that and then centering quill this time you guys are not catching this these These guys are slightly more aware. They've heard the explosions nearby.

16. Six. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Keep those heads in your, keep those numbers. Keep those heads in your numbers. Keep those heads on your necks. Century, total. 12.

I'm fell off. 16. 16, Scout. 16. Rethra. Six. I'm listening. I'm gonna have Scout go before Quill

because he's a bit quicker. Fucking... is he? Get wings! That's Scout. What's his dex? Your eyes or legs, Tom? I'm a Scout. I'm both. I've got wings.

Scout. I'm a Scout. What's your dex? Plus four. I said plus four. I wasn't listening, was I? I've only got plus three. That's your problem. He's actually quicker.

Yeah. It's very quick. He is actually quicker. Yeah. It's very quick. This guy's really antsy. I didn't realize. Born for speed. This guy's a jerk. You know who else is a jerk? Is it me?

Let me describe what you guys see as you guys are making your way. As you enter again, you can see that I'd say probably all around the corners of what our map is. You can see this giant ravine, this chasm that leads down deep deep uh this big earthquake this big fissure that opened up however there is still enough of a what would have once been a very rich looking area maybe a place where multiple temples would have once been or very rich luxurious merchant merchant stores and shops. And there is a kind of raised-up platform between these two large statues,

these hooded, shrouded figures, both looking like powerful figures equipped with technology and armour and weapons, but one is shrouded to look like death. And atop a large dais, like a stone platform, you can see a ritual circle and two hooded and shrouded

cultists are channeling a powerful red ritual. Hell yeah! However, between them is a large squirming horde of Hadar beasts and they are not alone you can hear cries of more out in the distance and that is going to be initiative and unfortunately for you guys uh one of the cultists kind of like snaps to and like looks down we have company have come. She promised us they would.

Destroy them, minions. And they're gonna call down, and they are gonna attack. I'm assuming Sentry, you and Rethra would be out front. If you guys would like to position yourselves, don't go further than the statue there. Sure. You are, you wanna be. Forward.

Forward? Just forward. Central forward. Yeah, but this is far. Scout's probably going to hide behind cover. Hey, I'm hiding behind Sentry. Okay, Rethra. Sure. They are going to, the two Seers are both going to launch orbs of psychic energy towards

Sentry and Rethra, one each. That is going to be an 18 to hit Rethra. Yep. That is going to be a 12 to hit Sentry. Does not hit. Rethra is going to be an 18 to hit Rethra. That is going to be a 12 to hit Sentry. Rethra is going to take 27 psychic damage. As this boar hits him, he just clutches it. Get out of my head! As he cries out in pain.

And yeah, that is going to be the two seers turn. We are then going to go to scout. I will use my guardian crossbow and aim at one of the cultists. That is a 15 to hit. 15. Wait, no, hold on. What the fuck did I just roll? Yeah, no, 15. 15. It looks like it would be a solid strike into this creature's shoulder, but it just catches cloak and it tears the robe off of the figure. And you can see they have a kind of embroidered ritual pattern skirt,

but they're kind of not wearing anything from above. And you can see they're just topless. But the arm, the shoulder it would have hit, is missing. And there's just one of these red, like dark red, like glowing lights where their shoulder joint would be, and a writhing black tentacle of energy where an arm should be instead.

And the bomb just passes through it. Okay, okay. I'm guessing I just talked to him. You see that their face, like their eyes have been stitched shut, but their mouth has been extended, like all the way up to like their cheekbones. That's brilliant, I love that. I'm guess he just has the one attack this has one attack

unfortunately he's not super combatant but he does provide covering fire i'm literally just gonna hide like can i hide behind this thing so i still cover yep absolutely that's it for me all righty uh in that case quill these. These things, what are they? They are like the Hadar minions you've fought before. They are like these little red humanoids. Well, not little. They're like people size, but they're all gaunt and emaciated red human. Undead?

Maybe, sort of, but not. Elemental? Fae? They're closer to undead and aberrations. Okay. Now, well, if I used my channel divinity. Turn undead and Aberrations. Okay. Well, if I used my Channel Divinity... Turn Undead will not work. What about Arcane Absurrection?

Does that affect Aberrations? Nah. No. It's worth a try. All right, I'm going to cast on myself. This is Spirit Guardians. Okay. So, within 15 feet of me,

Okay. So within 15 feet of me, flittering, feathery shards of radiant badassery. Love it. And I want to fly into this horde. Yeah. And... 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. How far are we? Are we talking right in the middle?

So I've got... 50? 50 feet of flight, yeah. You can literally get smack bang in the middle of them. Just to catch all of these things in Spirit Guardians. Nice. How's that trigger on their turn? Infected creature is hard when it enters the area for the first time on a turn.

So if I cast it and then move into that region... It would say it would count, but it won't and it will trigger again on their turn. They make a wisdom saving throw. I'm just going to make one roll because I can't be bothered to roll it for all of them. They all fail. They all take 3d8 of damage. Minions. Yeah, I love it when he has to grab a fistful of minions to destroy.

That's satisfying. Oh yeah, to destroy, that's satisfying. That's fine, but this central area with me... You watch as Quill superhero landings just into the middle of these things, and these shards and feathers just rip the Hadar creatures apart. For the stats, that was 16 damage nice anything else cool to all of those things um and that is my action and uh movement so i'll just yeah call it a century um i will just dash as close to that plinth as i can get and um bonus action call for starbreaker as i do so. 30, and then dash. Dash again, please. Five, ten, 11, 12, 13. The plinth is about 15 feet tall, by the way. Long pole for Starbreaker.

Starbreaker is like 20 foot long. No, sorry, minions. No, they're coming for sweet boys. Oh, I'm not feeling good about Scarlet. You're wearing a red coat. Oh yeah? You want to get within 15 feet of me, you little nerd? It's within 15 feet. Wisdom save.

Two of them are. These things don't really understand. One of them, this furthest onethest one does succeed but this one dies so it would take 12 damage but what happens on a save actually I know I'm just for minions it saves I'm just gonna say because it normally would take half damage it's just yeah it does take half time it's just gonna survive because they go down one hit normally all right in that case that is the minions have moved, they will make the three that are remaining around sentry are going to attack. They have advantage because they've got pack. That is going to be 22.

It does do justice. It's going to be 4, 8, 12 points of slashing damage as these things are like tearing into you from all sides. Then it's Rathra's go. Oh. I will move him towards this pack of... Yeah. Yeah, he could stand a bit back from them, actually. So he's got 15 feet reach on his axe. So if he goes here, he can still hit all of them?

I actually might place him more between Quill, just I feel like Rathra would want to also I want to get closer to Sentry in case she needs a chain. So this is he can hit all of them from here with his chains. So uh yeah chain axe. Two attacks, plus nine to hit. 16 plus nine. That will hit one. Just roll the next attack, because these things are- Two plus nine.

That is not gonna miss. Which one would you like to destroy? The one that's closest to Scout. Cool. He comes back. Yeah, they basically, it's just imagine that you're, just more of these things are coming every time. Just constant.

Yeah, there's just constant swarms of them. Nice. But the two, the cultists, the seers are on top and they are definitely the ones powering this ritual. All right, Rethra, anything else? No. All right. In that case, we jump back up to the top

and the two seers are going to... Oh, this is mean. Sentry, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw for me, please. As the first one is going to look down. Be gone! Sorry, I like mean. 24. 24 is a success.

You're going to take 19 psychic damage anyway, but it tries to basically wrap space around you and fling you back far away from them. But planting kind of, maybe like holding Starbreaker up, the aberrant magic of this thing, it's like Starbreaker is breaking the magic itself. Even if it can't physically hurt the creatures, you kind of thrust it up and it breaks the warped space,

kind of shattering around you like a mirror. And the creature is like, what is this weapon? As it calls out. So the other one is gonna target Quilly Boy with a psychic orb for a 27 to hit. Oh yeah. 27 psychic damage. Is it a spell?

This is a, no, it is a spell attack, but it's not a spell. Okie dokie. It's just their ranged attack, basically. DC that for that would have been... 10, 13. Oh, I got... 13? Does that still fail? It succeeds.

Meet it or beat it. Alright, nice. My spirit guardian is still up. Nice. Yeah, fuck it, I'm not going to do that. That is going to then go to Scout. Can Scout zipline to the top of the building where he's safe? Like over here?

More like, yeah, that one. I want to keep the boy safe. Yeah, he can use one of his little equipments. And he's got climbing speed, so he can just hang on to it. He fires a little Spider-Man, kind of like, and then zip-lines his way up there. Cool. He's like, and then he hits into the wall. I know I'm not attacking, but I just want him to be safe.

Yeah, he's pretty safe up there for now. That's good. And bless these things can climb. All right, after Scout, we have Cooleyboy. I am going to cast... Guiding Bolt on one of the cultists, the one closest to Sentry, I'd say, so the one on the left of the plinth. So it's a plus 14 to hit that one.

Natural one, 15. Natural one, 15. Natural one's the most automatic miss, I'm afraid. Cool. The bolt of light goes streaking past, does not collect for the creature. And I want to use my 50 feet of movement to get within 15 feet.

I basically want to do like a rotation and just hit all of the minions. Okay, oh, like these guys? Yeah, so I want to fly south a bit. Five, oh, like these guys? Yeah, so I wanna fly south a bit. Five, 10, 15. Then north a bit. So you wanna go there and then there, okay, sure. Yeah, and just hit them all with my...

So I'm gonna have half of them die, because I did succeed on the second throw, but I'm gonna make it fourth, so I'm gonna go one, two, three, yeah, I'm gonna kill these three. Okay,'m gonna go one, two, three. Yeah, I'm gonna kill these three. Okay, so there's two on sentry, one on the south. Just gonna swoop round. Some of them are kind of caught by the shards,

but not all of them, as you swoop round. Cool, and yeah, that is me. All right, you're tidy. Sentry. I'd actually Misty step up into the top of the plinth and then get the first cultist. Yeah, we'll go for it. Sure. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

Here goes number time. Here it comes. Six plus 13. 19 to hit. It's a hit. When you hit them, you're still going to do the damage. Oh no, it doesn't. It's going to use its reaction to bend space. And this is going to swap places with this minion down here. And you target

the minion instead, destroying the minion. Nice. However, when it uses this ability, the minion you destroy does not come back. It's permanently out of the fight. I'm not gonna have that one replenish. Otherwise they could do this infinitely. But yeah, so you strike that one

and it teleports itself away just before you strike it. Can I jump down and try and attack him again? Yeah, absolutely. Not getting away from me. You are gonna take five points of bludgeoning damage as you jump down. And then keep landing on them. Land on them. A few of them.

18 plus 13 to hit. That's going to hit. All righty. Level three divine smite with 2d12. Here we go. These guys count as aberrations. Oh my. Are you sure? These guys count as aberrations. Oh my.

Are you sure? Cool beans. 9, 10 and 12. The number math. How many dice did she roll? Lots. Don't throw her off. 36. 36 points of damage.

36 dice. Wow. Starbreaker rips into one of it. Plus another seven. 43. Oh my god. Ah! Nearly tearing this cultist in half, doing a hefty, hefty blow to it. You can see the ritual circle above flickers. Oh!

All right. Nice. That's your full turn done. You can see the ritual circle above flickers. All right. That's your full turn, Dern. We go to Le Mignon. Le Mignon. Le Mignon. This one's going to start its turn in Quill's thing. It dies. Nice.

What's the radius on that? 15 feet. The minions are moving if you wonder what that sound effect is. They're coming in from the sides. Oh no. Oh, he's going after the scouts. They look like they start digging their claws in and he's like, as they start climbing up. But not enough to get within an attack range just yet. It does take that full movement to get to him.

In that case, that is minions. We go to Rethra last. Hello, I hit the boy in front of me. Sure. I rolled a two again, for fuck's sake. First attack goes wide. 11 plus nine. Thank you.

And then can I move? I kind of just want to be around there-ish. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or one more in towards Quill. Oh, one more in towards Quill. One more in. There. So I'm kind of like, I feel like I'm able to be in 15 feet of people to- Swing them around. Yeah, nice. Because I could use that. Yeah.

In that case, they're not too worried about Rathra. I think the other one, I'm going to see if they're Warp Space. I actually might just ask. The other one is going to attempt to do the same thing to you, Sentry. I need you to make another wisdom saving throw. They're seeing you, like, nearly tearing their companion in part, they try and desperately walk you away. 28.

28. Again, the same thing. You're going to take 19 psychic damage, but Starbreaker, again, shielding you from this aberrant magic. The other one that is closest, right in front of you, in fact, is going to try and just whack you with this, like, staff.

They kind of conjure their tactical, and they conjure this black staff. They're going to try and whack you with it. For 27 to hit. Yeah, that hits. Oh, wow. That's going to be 10 bludgeoning damage plus 18 psychic damage, and I need you to make a constitution saving throw.

Oh, damn. Oh, entry. Oh, double damage. Entry's not looking good. Oh, shit, really? Rhiannon doesn't tell you when she's injured. No, entry. Oh, double damage. Entry's not looking good. Oh shit, really? Rhiannon doesn't tell you when she's in. No, she doesn't. You're gonna be on top of that shit.

24. 24, you feel this thing trying to like, like this heavy darkness filling your mind, like almost trying to send you to sleep or like knock you out, almost dragging you into this nightmarish vision, but you kind of shake your head, you feel the power of the matrix

and you hear Root Prime and the other guardians kind of willing you to go on, and you break the effect unaffected by it. In that case, we go to— that was the Sys' go— we go to Scout. I don't know if this will work, but can he zipline into the mage that is still on the cliff and try and barrel him off? Sure. Yeah. Make a roll. Roll a d20 plus dex.

Plus four, okay. Perfect. 16. Natural one. Let's go, go! Yes! I'm going to have this guy full prone. He's going to take 2d6 bludgeoning damage. Takes 12 from 2d6.

Wow! No scout. Yeah, he just kicks him off. Takes 12 from two to six. Wow! Scout. Yeah, he just kicks him off. And just like sends him flying, yeah, take that! Just throws him off. As he kind of like this major, like lands on the ground and then Scout lands up on the plinth on safety.

That's probably gonna be his action. Yeah. That's nice. Very cool. Good move. Quill. So once again, I want to do a quick swerve past the cultist. That's the only way to this cultist?

Yeah, swerve past the hat. Swerve past the minions. Anything within range. You make skidding noises as you go. No, he goes... Drifting, yeah. Holding around in this... Drifting, yeah. I'm floating around in this world. The cultist is going to pass and take half. The minions are all going to be destroyed.

Okay, so that's half of 15, so I guess it takes seven. Seven. Looking pretty rough, though. The sentry here and this is weakening them heavily down. All right. And then your actual action. And then my actual action, I'm gonna do another Guiding Bolt. Okay, against the one Sentry's fighting?

Against the one Sentry's fighting. Would he technically get advantage against the one that's prone? Not with a ranged attack, actually. Actually gives them disadvantage, yeah. I think, I can't remember. Does it? I think it's more because I think that's an old rule.

I can't remember. Doesn't matter. Anyway, I'm not going for that one anyway. This is a 21. Hits. Which is 1, 2, 3, 46 damage. Your cantrips are probably. 6, 12 damage. Cantrips are better, but it gives Sentry advantage. I'd say it gives advantage for the next attack.

Yep. All right, yeah. They're still standing, but you can see the radiant light burns away some of the darkness. They're staggering around, still badly injured. Destroy them! Destroy him! And it is, in fact, Sentry's turn next. Rock and roll buckaroo!

Advantage. They both got 15. I rolled 15 on 2D20, so it's the same amount. 28. Is in fact Sentry's turn next. Rock and roll, buckaroo! Advantage. They both got 15. I rolled 15 on 2d20. 28. That's a hit. No. Sorry, I thought that you were just like, yeah, I need to say that that's a hit. I just rolled two, that was mesmerising.

Okay, so 5d8. I'm doing a level one Divine Strike. Yep. Out of everything else. That's actually not good. Did you add the extra for the aberration? Yeah. Yeah.

16, 23, 28, 730 something. Starbreaker just... And you just punch her a hole in the middle of this cultist, this woman, you know, her body just collapses apart as the... You see that little dark orb pulls the rest of her body in and just vanishes. Just completely consumes her.

But yeah, he's dead. That is just your first action. Would you like to move and make another attack? I'll move around and go for the other cultist. Oh, this guy's prone. You're in advantage. Oh, no! Step on him. Look who I found. Wealth plus 30, 25. Is that with This guy's prone, you have advantage! Oh no! Step on him. Look who I found. 12 plus 30, 25. Was that with advantage as your roll?

Yes. Okay, yep, that is a hit. Awesome, right, same again. Level one Divine Smite. Come back here. That one's cocked. Come back here. Cool, okay.

She's gonna be padding for a second. Yeah, was that a lot of high numbers? We got some high numbers, okay. She's going to be padding for a second. Yeah, it was a lot of high numbers. We got some high numbers, yeah. I'm just going to move things. Ah, they're surrounding me. 40 damage on that one. They're going to die. Sorry, how much?

40. Oh, 40 points of damage. Oh, God. It's nearly dead. Plunge, start breaking down. What is built for? Yeah, yeah, yeah. End of turn century.

That is... The minions run up. How many of them die to Quill? All of them. This Spirit Guardian. That's so very sad. To be honest, I'm not doing my proper minion rules. I want this to be just a quick kind of like, this is your high level. This is epic. You guys are killing minions. I'm so embarrassed. To be honest, I'm not doing my proper minion rules. I want this to be just a quick,

this is your high level, this is epic, you guys are killing minions. It's just such a cool spell. It's great, it's perfect. The other minions do rush Rethra though, and they are gonna attack with advantage, because they have a pack tactics. That is gonna be 24 to hit,

it's gonna be 12 points of damage to Rethra, as they just shred him with claws. Then we go up to, oh, it'shaetra. Rhaetra's turn. Oh hello. I'll attack the ones that are near me. Okay, yep. I was going to say, did you want to attack the minions or did you want to take an opportunity to attack the guy who's still prone? Can I reach him? Yeah, you've got reach, right?

I've got 15 feet. Yeah, well from here, 5, 15. Do I take a step? You need to take one attack opportunity. I'll do that. It misses anyway. 19 plus 9. Or with advantage.

Oh yeah. 19 plus 9. It hits. 219? No, I got a 9, I think. Okay, right. So that hits. Normal damage, please, for Rethrow on this one.

1d6 plus four and then another d6. 2d6 plus four. Six plus seven. That many? 13. I think it's going to be close. I hit again. Yep, swing it in. Two attacks with advantage. 13. Close. I hit again. Yep, swing it in, two attacks with advantage.

15 plus 9. 17 total. Spinning the axe, the first blade digs in, sets on fire, burning away the rodents. You see the guy reaching up desperately, trying to conjure psychic energy, and then Rethra just flicks the axe and then spins it, and the second blade whips out and just cuts through the throat,

and the head just detaches. This time, though, you can see that they had, like, the hole in the pit in their stomach, but the head remains because it was cut free. The body's consumed, but the head remains because it was cut free. The body's consumed, but the head remains. There. But with the two Seers destroyed, the ritual circle breaks apart, and we're going to end this combat as the objective is complete. You guys can easily clear the minions out as you make your way, as you guys successfully disable the psychic storm

that was conjured around. What a great day. I'm really proud of Scout. Scout did great. He did great. For a non-combat you can't, he did awesome. He had a cool little spider web. That prone thing.

Right, he'll be here. Okay, so jumping in from that, congratulations. That is the storm destroyed. We're gonna just keep going. I know we're going long, but I wanna try and route through as much as we can. So, yes, if you need a drink, just go when you need to. Team leaders, I need to know where you would like to go next.

Have we done six time units now? I think we have. You are on, this will be your sixth. This will be the sixth, okay. I have you down as doing five time units. So I feel like we're all gonna go Corsati, right? We're going Corsati. Yeah, we're all team Corsari. Because it's the most direct path to the

start anyway. Yep. What about team Sentry? We go in back west and then down. Alright, okay, so let me just tell on this because there's not going to be any checks here. The team that goes to the Corsari, I'm not going to have you both roll a check with this because there is so many of you.

There is no problem. You can see that they are being assailed. The Corsali crashed in the deepest part of this ravine, and the dragon ship itself is broken up. You can see it's been split into three pieces. The dragon soul ship is completely destroyed, and the dragons that remained, the actual full dragons, there's something wrong with them. They're sluggish.

They're trying to fly, but they can't seem that they can fly very high. The dragonborn and the sort of more human, you know, dragons who seem to take humanoid shape seem unaffected. So a few of them who seem to be in their humanoid form when the ship crashed, they're fighting, and they're as powerful nearly as you guys and your allies. But the actual dragonborn soldiers are fending off and they are fighting off more of these Hadar creatures

and things like that. With your guys' aid, you are able to rescue them and help basically pull them into your forces. They're a good, strong force to have. Yes. The dragons themselves, they are gonna leave a small contingent basically with the Tassadar to basically try and get their dragons

who are, yeah, there's something odd. Like they speak in riddles and gibberish, but they're seemingly cognizant, but they are just like their minds are elsewhere or like they're dealing with something going on in their heads, but nobody's really able to understand it. So quite a lot of the dragonborn forces are shepherding and heralding them around. But those who are free, once they have leadership

and allies to support them, are able to support you. So no check needed there. No check needed for Team Century as they are moving there. So that was your... Obviously, we'll communicate with the other side of the team that we've dissipated the storm. Hey, we've dissipated the storm. Hey, we've got dragons.

I'm assuming you are all in communication. So this will be your seventh time unit you're about to spend. So now it's a question of like, so me and Team Sentry. We have to go south, yeah. There's no other way, we have to go south. One Sentry, Team Sentry. Do we go for the lost signal? If it's bad, I've not got the health to make it that. That's a point. Can I just use a spell slot to heal you on route? What is your health?

31. Okay. Fucking hell. Communication sometimes is key. I know. With your healer. Roll the dice sometimes, you know? Yeah, that's true. I won't heal that's true we'll see what happens no

I'm gonna tell me to do here see what I can do but everyone I'll figure this out okay see what I think it matters because sent you will change what century does fine I'll do a third level cure wound, fourth level cure wound. Do you not have heal prepared? Are you saving that? I do, yeah, but yeah. It's big boy's time. So that is 48 plus six, I think. That is six, seven, 13, 18, 20, 26, I believe. Yeah, 26 HP.

26 healing. But given the route that the other guys are going to take... We have to go to Magical Anomaly and Blast Signal. There's not another way. You can skip the encounter by saying we're going that way, but we're not going that way. We've already had seven turns already. I think we're going to wait for them anyway, right?

Yeah. Where are you waiting for us? Well, if we go to the Tassadar now, we're gonna be sat here for four turns while you guys are doing that, or we could use our four turns going to the Lost Signal on the west. It's not gonna be four turns.

It's not gonna be four turns. Three. One, two, three. One, two, three. So provided we don't lose time on the Lost Signal, we could get there exactly the same time. Whilst we are moving, we are lose time on Lost Signal. Can I, um... We could get that exactly at the same time. Whilst we are moving, we are going to go Lost Signal. Yep, so you're going to go this way?

Yeah. No, it's Magical Anomaly, that one. Then Lost Signal. But you're not going to engage with it? We're not going to engage with it. Would you like me to describe it, or are you just avoiding it entirely? Or do you want to get close enough to see what it might be? I could... I would say if you risk it, there is a chance that whatever it is,

you might not be able to escape it, depending on what it is. Well, that's true. Maybe it's a distant look at what the ruins are. It's one or the other. It's either you gain information or you gain nothing. We're skipping it. You're going to skip it? All right. In that case, you just spend the time. I really want to know what it is. Can I contact the Stormchaser?

I'll look over from the. From the distance. Oriah, how's it going? Captain, we're making progress, but, I mean, I think maybe a few more, maybe ten more minutes, we might be able to get something working. Maybe an hour? You don't have time. Are you sure?

Like, you have less time than I thought. Okay. It's up to you. You know that ship. You're leaving it with me? This is your decision. You know the Stormchaser. Captain, we're gonna stay with the ship. We're gonna try and fix it up.

You're gonna need a lift, but you're gonna need a ride out of here, if nothing else. I believe in you. I believe in you all. Thank you. Clear skies. Clear skies. Shh. Communication goes. Fair enough. Yeah. That's cool.

I rolled a dice. I will keep a note of what that result was. So, I've got, so sentry team, I need to know what you guys are going to do. Okay, we'll do the lost signal. All right. So, you will go back here. Yeah. But we know that there's not a problem at the Hadar Kang because you've already dealt with that. Yeah.

So, that's going to be your seventh time unit. So, in that case, we move on. So, lost signal for both. Now, I need both of you for these ones. I need checks. How are you proceeding? Cautious you for these ones. I need checks. How are you proceeding? Cautious, quiet, quick.

Cautious. Well, who is the, I guess, who's the captain of that entire team on the side? Lucius Nova. We're co-captains. Okay, you're co-captains. Cautious. So, cautious.

Team. Cautious, Sentry. Cautious. All right, roll a d20 each for me, please. Me as well? 20! Oh, never mind. No, no, I still need it from you as well.

Because this is a special check. 20! It's not a seven. Good job that 20 comes in, then. Where have you been? So, in this case, for Lucius and Nova, what you guys find is... And Ayla. And Ayla, sorry, but they're the two... Jeez! And Quill. That's true, and Quill. Literally just don't mean them. No, you're not with them. You're not with us. Piss off. Yeah, I almost got you.

Elder Quill's been with us this whole time. I'm trying to think what could be the difficulty here. There is none. Well, what you find, there is no... You don't have any necessary problems, but there is... When you arrive, for you, it there is no, you don't have any necessary problems, but there is, when you arrive, for you it would be the Eterna. Woo!

Oh! So the Eterna war assets, the soldiers and various figures that came down with the Eterna to help fight. And I think that in the position that they are, you find, so we've had a lot of enemies, like you can find lots of enemies. I think with this one is the magical storm, the psychic storm, which is beginning to dissipate now, having the ritual disabled. But you can see the Eterna, all of the Eterna, almost like they're sick or injured or they've been battered by it.

And it's been affecting them. This psychic ritual has almost drained some of their power. So how do your two teams want to kind of resolve this problem? And if they're Eterna, you found them, but they are drained, they're weakened, they need medical care in the way that an Eterna can be sort of healed and fixed. Not necessarily through like spells and hit points, but like they need provisions, energy, food, that sort of stuff. So it's going to be medicine checks and other creative ways of helping to invigorate the Eterna.

So I have one remaining spell slot. Could I use it to try and channel energy into them? Sure, absolutely, I'd let you do that. Zarya, Masked Corvians. Great, yeah, perfect. Two automatic successes. You could also use medicine checks, you can use just encouragement, try and lift their spirits. Nova, you know the eternal way.

I can physically pick some of them up and assist them in moving around and stuff, basically so that they're not expending energy moving. Sure, yeah. I'd say athletics for Ayla. Oh, do you want me to make that? Yeah, please. I'm trying to make out what is my athletic point.

Is it the same? I mean, if you roll less than 25, it's 25, so I'm not too worried about this one. 25. 25, okay, success. What's the range of surprise? Maybe Max. Yeah, I know, yeah.

Would Max know anything about Eterna from being on the Tastar or anything? Yeah, I'd say he knows a little bit about them. Enough that he,

I would say that he could make a D20 plus charisma. Like, it's enough that he knows that he can channel some of his, because Max doesn't

necessarily cast spells, but he has magical energy because it is. That's a natural 20. That's what I'm saying. So like, Max helps generate some of the heat from his body, and he channels that heat into the Eterna,

like, giving them a fuel source, basically. He finds, like, some fire-attuned Eterna, and is, like, helping to let them regain their strength and stuff. Cool. Two successes, four successes. Healing touch from Hope, help? Azaria was... Oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah, I'd say if you want to use off one of Hope's charges,

I'd say that's going to be enough because that's over half the group. So together, using your resources, using your spells, you manage to rejuvenate the Eterna, reinvigorate them, and they are at fighting capacity, or at least to the point where they can assist you in this final assault. Which leaves Sentry and Quill, your team,

you find, I think this is kind of fitting, which leaves Sentry and Quill, your team. Don't fuck with me. You find... I think this is kind of fitting. You kind of journey into these dusty dunes and hills where you can find that maybe there was a remnant of some sort of park or resort here. You don't find any trees, but you find markings of maybe where parks and grasses and rivers would have once been.

And you find the Fey Knights, the Heartspire Knights, led by, and you see that the reason that they've like, you arrive and they've been trying to have like a picnic.

But they're like, Armador is like this little dandelion and he's just like, I don't understand, where are the flowers? There should be flowers here. And they're trying, Armador is like this little dandelion. He's just like, I don't understand. There's, where are the flowers? There should be flowers here. And they're like, they're trying to like grow the plants and flowers. And they've just lost track of time and like what's going on. They've just become completely enamored by it.

Doing this the entire time? Yes, well, we sort of landed out of the sky. And we can sense that there was once life here, but it's all gone. So we thought maybe a picnic would cheer up the flowers and things but they haven't come. And you weren't ever under attack? Oh yes, oh yes, yes, the horrible beasts came but we killed them all. Incredible, alright.

They vanished when we killed them, they get sucked up. Okay, amazing, yes. My beloved would be amazed by these stories. I can't remember them, I know I had the voice. You had the voice. You had the voice. It was excellent. Well, I mean, do you want to come with us?

Oh, yes. Is it time for the battle? It's time for the battle. We're heading back to the desktop. Have a long night. They just summoned the rest. And yes, they were just lost. They were just lost and got distracted.

I love them. With that, and then I believe... Easy. Just a whole army just behind us. We got our guardians and the wild elves. We got some dragons. And the Eterna. So, clean sweep.

I'm assuming you will spend another time unit to head towards the Tassadar. Yes. This puts you at eight time units. Does it now? And we estimated that we could, within ten, right? That's pretty good going. The only thing we've missed is the Magical Anomaly in the east. Which we, but we dealt with the storm already. Yeah, we dealt with a major one.

You arrive, and you can see the Tassadar, when you arrive, they have been fending off waves and waves of attacks. For all the fights that you guys have been having and fighting off these hordes of enemies, you have had an easy time of it because everything has been thrown at the Tassadar here. As if Hadar's rage was channeled at this one individual standing on the battlements,

one of those massive underslung cannons in hand, like ripped from the Tassadar itself. Yes, boy. All of his army, his infantry, his soldiers, his allies stood around him on these, you can see that they've erected these temporary kind of like barrier walls. They're all like over there with Magitek rifles and weapons,

but Calus just laying down covering fire. Fight now at the Empire! This is the end! Just like blasting away, occasionally kind of swooping past. You do see Siaska, but it looks like she kind of attacks in a burst and then she pulls back and she can see she's needing to rest.

She looks drained, like she has expended an enormous amount of power helping fight to get here. And so she looks quite weakened, but occasionally when she has enough strength, launches up pushes back the force and then lands to recuperate vala kind of alongside her doing what she can to assist with her own spells but callus just looking like the emperor looking like a leader just on top of the the ship itself just raining down fire lifting up the banner of the valkyrian empire when he has a chance inspiring his troops and you arrive and you see callous like champions and he kind of

tosses the cannon to the side and he jumps down um and you can see that he's like valkyrians push on buy us enough time to set up for the final assault this is it this is the end uh and you see them like yes my emperor and they charge and like basically are gonna hold ground here for you to set up this final assault. Calus will kind of come up to you all, nod. You can see like he's like injured, parts of his armor are broken, he's sweating. But he's like, I see that you are all unharmed, mostly.

And he kind of looks at Sentry and some of the rest of you who are taken heavily injured, Aayla as well. I'm afraid that we may not have too much time for you to recuperate, but we have healers on hand. I can replenish at least some of your energy and fighting strength, but not much. Are you ready for the final assault? Are you prepared? I see you've brought allies.

We've brought all the allies. Good, excellent work. You've done very well. Well, see to the healers. Grab whatever rest you can. It will not be much. I will get everything set up for the final assault. We push on.

As soon as the storm has finished disbating, we push on to the breach point. Then we will take the fight to Adar. Okay, we'll be as fast as we can. For this point, the healers that you brought with you and Valkyrians are medics. They cannot replenish spell slots. They cannot replenish any of your abilities,

like items or special abilities, but hit points, you are restored to full. Oh. That's those spell slots. Blessed be. Is that NPCs as well, or are we done with... At this point, so, your gathered ally NPCs will approach you

sort of individually. That's right. No, I punched Kim. You punched me. At this point, so, your gathered ally NPCs will approach you sort of individually. Sorry. That's all right. No, I punched Kimmy. You punched me. I'm sorry. I think Danica would probably take the charge here. Champions, getting here has expended a lot of our power and strength,

and we know that you're pushing on to the final breach point. We will help you get there, but we can't help you once you go through. Okay. We'll hold the line. We'll make sure that you've got somewhere to escape to when you're done kicking that thing's ass. But this is probably it. Until we see you again. Thank you for everything. You all did so well. We couldn't have made it here without you protector and scout probably like come up to you on their knees like knights uh danica kind of

comes around shakes each of your hands uh max you can see like you can see probably like a sizzling in the corner of his eye where the heat of his body is literally like steaming any tears um it's just kind of like steaming away uh yeah he's not he's not trying to hide it like he can't help it um he's probably going and saying that he's probably speaking to valor like he and then he'll come over to see see all of you guys um but rethra hope all of them basically at this point wish you luck basically at this point wish you luck and is that Thalia as well Thalia is taken by the medics

that leg is pretty badly broken and it's going to take time to heal even with magic she's not going to be able to really come with you at this point Tassadar's form vanishes and you just hear this booming voice coming from the ship itself

of like I appreciate your opportunity to learn more of your kind uh just this kind of tacic voice uh attack turn voice coming out but thalia were kind of like once she's kind of like healed like she'll take a moment to kind of kind of grab you nova and just be like hey come back one year one year one year it's a promise she just pulls you in big kiss big kiss Come back. One year. One year. One year. It's a promise. She just pulls you in.

Big kiss. Big kiss. Love it. Just kind of like as she's lying down, so it kind of pulls you in. But maybe it's longer than it normally would be. And she just squeezes your arm, like your bicep, not wanting to let go.

It does. I think no words no i think everything is just passes between them they know i think ayla will rip off a little bit of her not all of it but a bit of her tartan and just go up to rethra and put it in his hand and say if i don't come back put it in his hand and say, if I don't come back, you gotta keep this alive. Keep our clans alive. Find more of us, teach them, have epic adventures, but just remember, remember that I was here.

You're assuming I'm gonna make it out of this. If you don't make it out, what kind of chance do I have? But he'll take it, and you can see that he's got two other pieces of tartan that he's tied onto his own, and he ties it with that. I'm still learning a lot about how the wild elves of Erois do things. From what I understand, when you join a family, you take on their tartan. And if two families join together, they mix the tartans together.

He holds up up this is mine keep it alive you too i'll see you soon see you soon make sure you uh just teach that big glowing a lesson that's what us aroah selves do he just nods That's what us Aroah's elves do. He just nods. So, with that, there is one last thing to do. The final assault. I need each of you to take one d6. Okay.

Ooh, which one? I'm taking my Nova one. Prime fun. I'm going to give you guys the choice. One of you can take a d6 for Calus Valkyrian. Yeah. One of you can take a d6 for Siaska. Yeah, I want that one. All right.

So I want Calus. One of you can take a d6 for the Valkyrian forces that are assembled here. What else is there? There's a bunch more, but I'm going to do it in all their places. And then you guys, I believe, rescued all five of your war assets, right? Five more d6, you can choose who has the... Eterna. You get the Eterna.

Guardians. Guardians. Fainoids? Five more d6, you can choose who has the dragons. You get the one. What else? You get the Eterna. Guardians. Guardians. Faenoids. And then I've got the... Why the Apador for me? Dragons.

Dragons. Yeah, right. Yeah. Okay, so yeah. And then you dealt with both Hadar Cannons, so I don't take any dice away. Oh shit. You dealt with the Ritual Storm, so I don't take any dice away. Oh. Oh, shit.

You dealt with the ritual storm, so I don't take any dice away. Oh, my God. You dealt with the masked enemy. I don't take any dice away. But there was one other problem. That magical anomaly was a creature that was summoning more Hadar spawn,

so I'm going to take 2d6 away. You can decide who gets that up. I've got three. I have three. I have two. I can give one up. I can, well, I mean. Set, yeah, every animal.

As in we are removing like that force or? Not that force, you'd still have that force, but like it represents that they are summoning extra power against you. I'll just take, I'll take one of mine away. I'll take one of mine away. All right, Lucius and Quill. So is that two or three? That's just so you. I'll just take one of mine away. I'll take one of mine away. Alright, Lucius and Quill. That's just so you keep yours.

These two have done it already. And then my question is, is there anything you guys are doing to prepare for this final assault? Before you roll these d6, is there anything else you want to do? Anything you want to go for it? You guys have the floor. Lucius, very simply, because whilst everyone's embracing and stuff, he just takes out Moonstar's mask and then slowly farts a lot.

The sound of Tasselard's engine. Hopefully that was actually caught on mic. He just slowly slips on Moonstar's mask. You may add plus one to your dice when you roll them. Sick. I think Sentry will spend some time in the matrix, which I thought would be her last time. Anything in particular?

I think she just wants to sit in the peace and the calm for a bit. Like, let Root just like talk to her. Okay. Just... In that case, roll wisdom for me. Just d20 plus wisdom. See if you can glean insights or have that calming presence of Root assist you in the battle to come.

17? 17, take a plus one to your dice rolls. Let those d6. Okay. Anything else from anyone else? Oh, my turn. Okay. I would, I guess I would like to talk to Tiangong, and I don't have any words particularly,

but just the kind of, I don't even know if it'd be words, it would just be a mutual kind of sharing of what is going on, and scared, like they would feel that nova is scared for what is to come but also determined for a resolution can you also roll wisdom for me i'll be 20 plus wisdom because this is overcoming a fear oh i don't have wisdom so it's 11 and Unfortunately, you spend that time, but that fear lingers in your chest. You don't gain any extra bonus in freight.

Aayla, I would say take a plus one for the time, because I know that that's very important to Aayla and having that support for Rethra. And I know that that also, there's a power, kind of like the Moonstone's Mask, it's giving you that personal kind of power. It's a bit different to seeking wisdom or guidance from the others. What about Quill?

Yeah, I haven't got anything major, because I feel like I've recently resolved all the stuff with your hand, Jius. But I would want to check in with Siaska. I don't have to do it, but I want to talk to her and just see how things are going and everything. Make a wisdom check for me then as well, please. Because again, it's the same kind of getting advice and spiritual spiritual guidance uh wisdom 20 plus wisdom d20 plus wisdom uh that is oh my god eight unfortunately i brought two

perhaps you know distracted seeing her d power does not fill you with as much confidence as you hoped but uh yeah no extra bonus i'm looking into where the storm was I presume. I'm going to describe that in a minute. I'll describe that in a minute. I'll describe that in a minute. I'll describe that in a minute. I'm going to take her eye. Your forces, there's no grand speech. They know what they're going to do but without a grand speech or anything like that they are nervous. You can see that there is little bits of concern as they are focused inward as you all take those moments for your own personal things. They too, and there is fear.

But we're gonna see how well this battle goes. I need all of you to roll those D6, add any bonuses I gave you, and then add the total up. And I will tell you this, I have thresholds here. If you beat a certain score, that is gonna determine how well this final battle goes a low total means it goes badly that will mean that there is potentially greater harm to you before we go into this next step it also will mean that there is a higher chance that

your npc allies will fall i want to do these roles one by one. Yeah, we need to know all the individuals. No. Contribute. Yeah. No. Not to know what individual, I want to see it add up as time goes on. Okay. Well.

I'll start. Three. I thought you were going to roll all of yours together. Yeah, roll them all. No, no, no. I'm doing it one by one. No, it's going to take so long. It's not going to take so long.

One. There. Four for my 2d6. That's not gonna take so long. One, four for my 2D6. So that's not great. All right, who's going next? I've got four. Five, six, seven, eight. So eight total? Eight total.

So 12 currently. Six total. I just got a one. I want to have Century go last. Sorry, Rhianna. It's just too good. Ten. Oh, okay. But you've got three D6, Rhi.

Are you fucking kidding me? Did you roll three ones? Six total. Two ones and a three. I'm a plus one. We did so well Six total. Six total. Two ones and a three. I'm a plus one. We did so well, going and sweeping across the map. Well, here's the thing, and here's the thing. Yeah.

Because you did so well, you had a higher dice pool. Well, that's true, yeah. So. Did I get a plus one, or did I, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Lude, but did you add your plus one? Yeah. And did you add your, okay.

So, the battle begins. As that storm, that psychic red storm fades, you see, built onto the edge, facing this expanse of just nothing that would look up into the black void of the astral void where the red star hangs most prominently. There's a single temple-like structure. Stairs leading up to a big flat base, and what

almost is a broken archway on top of it. But what was hidden within that storm was a vast, vast army of Hadar's forces. With the storm dissipated, your forces, your allies, surge forward and are able to clash without the exposure to the psychic storm. They are able to fight at their full strength without any injuries. You watch as all of your combined might, the dragons, the heart-spy knights, kind of leading that charge, knowing that they are perhaps mightier, stronger, more strong of heart than the other mortal soldiers. They lead that vanguard charge, smashing into the

most brutal part of the strike. You see many of the fainites killed, evaporated, dispersed of energy. Dragons are plunged out of the sky and stabbed repeatedly by these horrid like Hadar creatures. But then a second wave. The guardians, the wild elves, you see the Eterna now surging along with Valkyrian's own troops. And now with that initial hammerhead strike able to break through, it becomes a massive melee. There are losses on your side, but the tide of battle swings in your favor. With your own exceptional strength, the strength of your allies, with K Calus, with Siaska leading the way, you fight and you begin making ground,

pushing closer and closer towards that final structure. You achieved a result of good. This means that it is a hard fought victory, but the odds are in your favor and the risk of death is low. You do take some damage. Each of you is gonna take 25 points of damage. Non-resistable, it's just straight flat damage. I am going to roll for each of the NPCs.

Oh, god, okay. It's a big deal, oh my god. Because you did so well, they are only going to die on a roll of a one on a big deal. Because you did so well, they are only going to die on a roll of a one on a d6. Oh. We rolled a lot of ones. So, well, I'm gonna roll it. Shots of death.

So, give me the name of an NPC that's currently in your... Azaria. Azaria survives. Scout. Survives. I'm not saying name right. I don't wanna say any name. Survives. I'm not saying name. I don't want to say any name. Danica.

Survives. Rethra. Survives. Protector. Survives. Hope. Survives. Max.

Max, yeah. Survive. Is that everyone? That's all of them, right? Is it? Scout, we did Scout. Yeah, Wraith Lord. We've done Wraith Lord. They all survived. What about the Storm Chasers? I'm not rolling for them. Because they didn't join.

They didn't join the battle. Did we not see them? Don't know anything yet. Did they all? Ah! Did we miss any? All of your allies. Oh, my God. You see them at different points.

Danica flying over the air, just a storm of fire, just cackling like she's having fun. Just... She's at one point struck by what you think is a mortal blow. She lands in amongst all these Hadassborn that almost seem to pounce, ready to feed on the body. And then you just watch as she explodes in flame with fiery wings rising up into the end like,

I am the Phoenix reborn! Just incinerates those around her. You see Max fighting, basically does not leave Valor's side. Just charging. Yes, Max! Smashing stuff out of the way. Calls down a pillar of fire and light.

Yes. Breaking his way. Scout and Protector back to back. Scout almost like Rocket Raccoon on top of a bigger one. As Protector like kicking and punching and stabbing their way through. You watch Rethru with the spinning chain blades

just carving their way alongside Varnia and the wild elves. Just letting out this howling battle cry as all of them in their, you know, their colors painted on their faces with the spinning chain blades just carving their way alongside Varnia and the wild elves, just letting out this howling battle cry as all of them in their, you know, their colors painted on their faces just charging forward, smashing stuff to pieces as all of your allies push forward. Oh my God.

Hell yeah. I can't believe it. You eventually get to the point where the temple rises up before you. Your forces form a defensive perimeter, a ring around it holding back these rest of these forces callous and siaskia who have been kind of fighting their way and valor find their way to champions now is the time we make for the breach point come on uh and they

were one and you can see that there's a couple of uh callous soldiers like with him kind of acting as bodyguards kind of fending off and shooting kind of giving you support fire as you make your way up as you make your way up you begin to make your way up, you begin to see more of these statues, these tall cloaked figures with halos and visages of death and weapons and shields with strange writing on it, marking this way, leading up to what you can assume was where Terminus Keep once was. But now it's just this open expanse of nothing, with this single of big raised platform, stairs leading up to it and an archway. Calus will call out, Vava, begin making it to the breach point now!

And he turns round and he begins giving covering fire with sort of his magitek rifles and stuff like that into the crowds. Champions go with her, protect her and Siaska's with him at the same time. Bodyguards make your way up with the storm chasers as you all begin racing up to the top. Quill, I would like you to make a perception check. Oh, do whatever. No, we don't know who it's gonna be!

We know. Well, I mean, hey, we don't know that for sure. Oh my actual god, unnatural 20. I've got plus 18. Even you don't see this. Oh no! You guys are making your way up to the top, kind of checking back.

You're looking to see if your allies are still safe, seeing if they're still fighting, and they are, helping fend off this horde of forces. More is coming from the ruin city. This is not over. They are going to have to hold out while you go and defeat Hadar.

And as you race up, Valor rushes ahead. She's ready to begin the breach point. And then you watch as a purple kind of sphere, geometric shape appears around her. And that purple begins to turn red. She tries to teleport, doesn't work. And you see, as you kind of whip around,

you see one of those bodyguards of Kallus's stood next to Siaska, just plunges a blade that seems to be coated with some sort of venom. Siaska kind of clutches her side and you just watch as all the color begins to drain out of her. Not dead, but she just falls almost paralyzed as the form of that guard melts away.

No. She kind of pushes the helmet off as it grows into this metallic crown, as metallic wings begin to sprout these spikes. And she takes a form as Zahkira looks. Hello. And that is where we're going end and that my friends is where we're gonna end today yeah extended episode you're... This is for the podcast.

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